1910. CONGn:ESSION.AL .RECORD-HOUSE. 2405
"Byron H. Colburn, at Lawrence, 1llic11. rr'h-e communications a."l".e as fel1ows: William 'F. Crane, at "Manistique, .:Mich. lHouse "'.Document No. 271, Sixty-first ·Congress, second session,] l\fiohael H. Kern, at .. Menominee, 1\lich. U~AVAILABLE FUNDS, UNITED ST1'\..TES TREASURY. Glover E. Laird, at Mendon, .:Klich. LETTER ll'ROM '"'l'HE ACTING -8-ECRETARY OF 'THE TREASURY, TIU.rs:\IITTING A .Josia:h .C . .Richardson, at.Jackson, ~fich. C(>l!l\IUNTCATION "FROM THE TRE:ASUBER OF THE UNITED ·STATES RELATING TO ITEMS OF UNAVAILABLE 'FUNDS :REPORTED 'IN :IIIS GENERAL ACCOUNT. J"ohn .J. Saxton, .at ·:Famv-ell, .Mich. :TREASURY J>EBAB:TMENT, OFFICE OF ~HE cSECRElTARY, Thomas 'II. WlITwick, rrt 'Litchfieill, 1\Iich. -Washington, February -15, 1910 . .sm ·: I :have he lronur rto drnnsmlt herewith a communication -:from 'MTS SIS SIPPl. the TreaBUrer of ·the United :states, relating to items of una-vailable "'funds ·report-ed in his ·genei:al nccount. W. J. Price, at Meridian, 1\fiss. This communication sets forth the history of the deposits of public NEW JERSEY. moneys, ·:amounting to =-$28,101,644.91, -made with i:he -States under :the provisions of rthe act of Jun~ 23, 1836, and ·subsequent 'legislation James ::E. 13a1dwln, nt"Newton, N. "J. taking the control of 'these 'funds :trom th:e ~.rreasury Department. It seems rd:esirable and important -that the Congress should ;mact NEW YORK. legislation -that will ..finally ·dtiwose of -said deposits, an'd Jny recom mend!U:ion s made "for such ~tion. 1\fichael Gleason, at Carthage, ·N. N. Respectfully, CiilnIIBS ..D. NORTON, .Acting ·Bec1·etary • . :Joseph 0.gle, at 'Greenport, N. Y. •Hon . . JA !ES .A. TAWNEY, :W.red E. Payne, .at ·Clinton, N. -::I.. House of Represe1itatives, Wa.sliington, :n. a. Jo'hn ::r. Roehrig, at Rosebank, -N. Y. TRFlA.SURY ~Eh... T, 'NOBTH CAROLINA.. DFFICE OF TREASURER OF !rHE UNITED S'I'ATE'S, Felix M. :McKay, at Duke, N. C. Was1iingtcm, Februarv 15, 1910. "'DE.AR Srn: 1: "have the ·honor ·to submit "for your consideration ·a ~EN. N£YLV" ANIA. statement relating to the deposits of public moneys, amounting to 28,101,64.4.Ul, made vtith the .States under the provisions of "the act of "Harley J". Barns, at A1bion, Pa. June 23, 1 36, sections 13 and 14 of which are .as .follows: " SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the money -which 11hall 'be Frank TI.. Cyphers, at •East ".Fittsburg, rPa. in the •.rreasury of the United Stai:es on the 1st day of January, 1837, ·sOUTH 'CAROLINA. reserving the ·sum •of $5,000,000, .shall ·be devosited with such of the several "States, in ~ proportian to their respective representation in the F. H. "Fetzer,:1i:t 1Greenwood, S. C. Senate and House .of .Representatives .of the United States, as shall, by "law, authorize their treasurers or other rompetent authorities to receive Ira S. Pitts, at Westminster, S. D. the same .on 'the terms he~einafter .specified; .a:na the ·Secretary of i:he -:Wlllia.m F. Jlice, .at :Denmark, S. ;c. Trea:sury shall oeliver the same ·to such treasurers, or other eompeten.t authorities, on ..receiving certificates of deposit here.for, signed by such 'SOUTH DAXDT".A.. conwete.nt authorities, .ln •snch form as _may be'J)rescribed by the Secre ::tary aforesaid; which :certificates shall ~ress the usual and legril George .A. Fehlman, ·at Frankfort, :S. nak. .obligations and pledge the faith of the Stai:es receiving the srune, to:1m.y ,John D. Lyon, at Hecla, S. Dalr. .the said .moneys .and every part thereof. .from :time to time, whenever J. 'l\Ielr.oy Staley, Clear !Lake, :S . .Da.k.. the same shall 1e ..required ,by 'the Secretary of the '£reasu.ry :for the at ,purpose of defraying .any we:nts of the Public Treasury, beyond "the WY.OMING. amount of the .live millions aforesaid: J>rovided., That if any ·state ·de .clines to ..I"eceive Jts .proportion of ~e surplus .utoresaid, on the terms :F • ..E. iRounds, ·.at ·Sundance, W-yo. De.fore named, the same shall be i:leposited with .the other States agree ing to a.ccept .the ..same on Cleposit Jn the proportion afore a.id : An.cl prcn;ided ftir.ther, That wnen said money, or any part .thereuf, shall 'be wanted by the safd Secretary to meet app:ropria.tions by law, the same shall be called for, in .ratable proportions within one _year, as nearly HOUSE OF REP.RESEN'J'.ATIVES. as conveniently .may be, 'from the dill'erent States with w11.ich the same is deposited, ana shall not be called for in sums exceeding $J.O~OOO .from F'RIDAY, February £.5, 1"910.. any one State in any one month without .previous notice 'Of thirty da:vs for every additional sum of $20,000 which may at any time be required. The House met at 1.2 o'clock ·noon. "Sxc. 14. And be it further enacte
The Congress in assuming direct control of these deposits by fy.is sentenced to serve a term of years in the penitentiary. Suit has not enactment excepted them from movement under the laws governmg been entered against the sureties of Mr. Herwig (now deceased) to Rublic moneys deposited lo the general account to the credit of the recover the amount of the shortage. l'reasurer of the United States, viz : "All public moneys paid into any depository shall be subject to the Assistant treasurer of the United States, St. Louis, Mo., 1906_ $61, 500 draft of the Treasurer of the United States, drawn agreeably to appro During the month of October, 1906, an examination was made of priations made by law. (Sec. 3593, R. S.) the office and accounts of T. J. Akins, assistant treasurer of the "The Secretary of the Treasury may, except as provided in the next United States at St. Louis, and the count of the assets disclosed a section ( 3641), transfer the moneys in the hands of any depositary shortage as above stated. The deficit was located in the account of of public moneys to the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the receiving teller (David P. Dyer, jr.). Criminal proceedings were the Treasurer ; and he may transfer moneys in the hands of one de instituted against the said Dyer, and upon trial he was acquitted. positary to any other depositary, as the safety of the public moneys Suit against the sureties of Mr. Akins has not been entered for the and the convenience of the public service shall seem to bun to requJre." recovery of the amount of the shortage. (Sec. 3640, R. S.) · The Government Qas on several occasions since 1837 been very much Assistant treasurer of the United States, Boston, Mass., 1907 __ $3. 000 in need of money to pay the ordinary expenses, yet the Congress has On June 7, 1907 the assistant treasurer of the United States at never reinvested the Secretary of the Treasury with authority to recall Boston (E. M. Curds) charged in his transcript of the general account to the Treasury the public moneys deposited with the States. And now, a remittance, lot No. 2561, of $105,000 in gold certificates and for seventy-three' years after the last enactment relating to these deposits, warded the same by express to the Treasurer of the United States. it may be safely assumed that the Congress will not authorize the re The package was received at the office of the Treasurer in good condi call of these deposits to the Treasury. For many years they have been tion, and was delivered to an experienced and trustworthy counter stated as " unavailable funds" in the annual reports of the Treasurer who opened it and made an inventory of the contents. Finding the of the United States. They form a part of the general account, . and inventory correct, the counter then began opening the straps one by are so stated quarterly by the Treasurer. one and counting the certificates in each. On opening a strap marked There is no way by which these deposits, anomalous in character, "$30,000," the counter found in it but twenty-seven $1,000 certificates, can be taken out of the general account under existing law; therefore and immediately called attention to the shortage, which was verifiea I have to request that recommendation be made to the Congress, in by subsequent recounts, and no offsetting discrepancy was discovered. such manner as you may deem advisable. for legislation that will re The assistant treasurer was notified by wire of the shortage of $3,000i lieve the Treasurer of further accountability for said deposits with the and as the result of an investigation 'made by that officer, crimina States. proceedings were instituted against an employee of the subtreasury Respectfully, yours, LEE MCCLUNG, office, but upon .trial he was acquitted. Suit against the sureties of Treasurer of the United States. the assistant treasurer has not been entered for the recovery of the The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. amount of the shortage. A part of the moneys in the general account of the Treasurer of the United States is in the 1-mmediate custody of the officers in charge of TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 0'FFICE OF THE SECRETARY, the mints and assay offices!.-. and it is classified as the "bullion fund." Washington, February 15, 1910. (R. S., 3526 and 2545.) under the provisions of law governing· the Srn: I have the honor to transmit herewith a communication from administration of these institutions (Rev. Stat., Title XXXVII-Coin the Treasurer of the United States relating to items of public . moneys age, Weights, and Measures) a strict accountability is exacted of the offi- • that have been lost without fault or negligence on the part of the cials in charge of mints. In the operative departments of each mint a Treasurer. fixed allowance for wastage is made by law, reimbursable from the This letter narrates ln detail the Items of unavailnble funds repre appropriation for operative and incidental expenses. It is the duty of senting losses by deficit, by default, by failure of depository banks, the superintendent of each mint to make adjustments and to keep the etc. amounting to $1,585,154.24. In previous years the Congress has bullion fund intact. However, it appears that the bullion fund in the bee:i asked several times for legislation that will relieve the Treasurer mint at San Francisco has in former years been mismanaged, and as a from further accountability for moneys that have been lost or become result several items of deficits are reported in the accounts of that unavailable without fault or negligence on the part of the Treasurer. institution, which were described by the Director of the Mint (George Such legislation has not been enacted; therefore the attention of the E. Roberts), in his annual report for 1898, as follows : Congress is again invited to the subject, and it is recommended that provision be made for the elimination of these unavailable funds from DEFICIENCIES IN THE BULLION ACCOUNTS OF THE MINTS. the general account by authorizing a credit to the 'l'reasurer of the Mint at San Francisco.-The first item of shortage in the bullion ac United States and a corresponding charge upon the personal account counts of this mint occurred in 1856, upon the settlement of the ac books of the department against the defaulting officer or depositary counts of A. Haraszthy, melter and refiner, when it was found that in who fails to pay the money on demand. his gold operations the wastage was $150,550.70 in excess of the legal Respectfully, CHARLES D. NORTON, limit of allowances, and in his silver operations $1,776.33, making a Acting Secretary. total wastage of $152,327.03 in excess of the legal allowance. Suit was Hon. JAMES A. TAWNEY, instituted against Haraszthy and his sureties for the recovery of the House of Representatives, Washington, D. O. amount ($152,327.03) of wastage over the legal allowance, and judg ment given for the defendant. It was alleged on the trial that the chimney fiue of the refinery as constructed by the Government was de fective, permitting gold to escape by volatilization in undue quantity, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, and also that the assayer upon whose reports the value of the bullion OFFICE OF TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES, delivered to the melter and refiner was determined was of unsound mind, Washington, February 15, 191(). and his assays were not reliable. Srn: I have the honor to invite your attention to the items of un The second item arises from a difference between entries made on the available funds reported in the general account of the Treasurer of books of the coiner and the treasurer's cashier, of a delivery of coin, the United States, amounting to $1,547,877.18, which, by deficit, by December 9, 1865, the coiner charcing the treasurer with $120,000 In default by theft in various places, by neglect of administrative officers double eagles, and the cashier cred1ting the coiner with only $100,000. in the 'mints of the United States, by failure of national banks desig There is little doubt that the coiner delivered to the cashier the amount, nated as depositories of public moneys, and by shortages discovered in $120,000, claimed by him, as shortly afterwards it was discovered that transfers of public moneys between offices, have gone from the control the cashier was guilty of the embezzlement of other moneys from the of the Treasurer of the United States through no fault or negligence mint and had absconded. No suit appears to have been brought against on the part of the Treasurer, and which sums be can not, from the either the coiner or the treasurer for the recovery of this sum, $20,000. nature of the case, account for and thereby obtain credit therefor on The third item is a loss in gold in the melter and refiner's accounts the books of the department. in 1867, stated to be due to the fraudulent alteration of the assayer's The first of these items occurred at the mint of the United States report by a clerk in the office of the treasurer of the mint in increasing at San Francisco in 1856, and the other items at various dates since the fineness in gold of certain deposits. The clerk was arrested, tried, that year, as will appear in the following narrative giving the hi{ltory and acquitted. No suit was ever instituted against the melter and of each of said items of unavaHable funds. refiner, Mr. J. M. Eckfeldt, deceased, for the recovery of this loss, UNAVAILABLE FUNDS IN SUBTREASURY OFFICES. 7 3 $ ~~~- fourtb item ls the amount of the net wastage of William The reports on examinations of subtreasuries and correspondence in Schmolz, coiner, for the fiscal year 1866, and not r imbursed the bullion relation to deficits and shortages therein are filed in the office of the fund from the appropriation for contingent expenses. As the treasurer Secretary of the Treasury (Division of Public Moneys). of the mint declined to credit or acknowledge the receipt of the $20,000 Assistant treasurer of the United States, l:l1ew Orleans, La., heretofore referred to, the coiner maintained that he was entitled to 1861------$680,891.53 credit for that sum, $1,956.21. The fifth item, annual as ay coins for the years 1865, 1866, and 1867, Special agents of the Treasury Department made an examination of sent to the mint at Philadelphia for test as to their fineness by the the office and accounts of William R. Whitaker, assistant treasurer annual assay commission, being expended on the request of the superin of the United States at New Orleans, La., in May, 1867, and found him tendent of the mint at San Francisco in the purchase of supplies for the to be a defaulter for more than $1,000.000, but which has since been San Francisco mint, and the coinage accounts not reimbursed by a reduced by recoveries to the amount above stated. Proceedings were transfer from the appropriation for incidental and contingent expenses instituted in the courts against said Whitaker, and upon the trial he for this sum, $21,962.85. was acquitted. The sixth item, amounting to $195,258.81, arises from the loss on Assistant treasurer of the United States, New Orleans, La., sale of sweeps for a series of years prior to June 31, 1870, and wastage 1886------$328.80 of operative officers, though within the legal limit of allowance. The This item represents the net amount of "shorts" that were dis bullion fund should have been annualfy reimbursed for these items from covered in the count of $10,000,000 in silver dollars transferred from the appropriation for incidental and contingent expenses. New Orleans to the Treasury Department in 1886. The amount was The seventh item is the amount claimed by the coiner, William reported to the assistant treasurer of the United States at New Orleans Schmolz, to have been wasted in his gold operations from July 1 to (Mr. Samuel Flower) with the request to credit that sum ($328.80) August 14, 1869; disallowed by the accounting officers upon the ground to the Treasurer, which he refused to do, and the item has since been that the wastage claimed was not a bona fide one. No suit appears to carried in the transit account. have been brought for the recovery of this sum, $14,317. 72. The items above enumerated make the total deficit in the bullion Assistant treasurer of the United States, New Orleans, La., accounts of the mint at San Francisco $413,557.96. 1895 ------·------$20, 959. 81 Mint at PhiZadelphia.-A deficit of $13,543.82 exists in the bullion An examination of the office and accounts of P. F. Herwig, assistant accounts of the mint at Philadelphia. Of this sum $12,810.02 is the treasurer of the United States at New Orleans, was made in June. balance due on a-ccount of $113,425.85 in gold bullion embezzled in 1893 1885, and the above shortage was discovered in the cash account of by Henry Cochran, weigh clerk, not recovered, and the remainder, $733, the assorting teller (John H. Aufdemorte). It appears that he de a shortage found on recount in the number of silver dollars stored in llberately stole the funds of the office and absconded. By subst> the vaults of that institution. Suit was instituted against the late su quent recoveries the amount was reduced to that stated in the fore perintendent, Mr. 0. C. Bosbyshell, and the sureties on his bond. for going; the said Aufdemorte was apprehended, tried, found guilty, and the recovery of the amount of the deficit, and judgment was rendered )
1910. CONGRESSIONAL REOORD_:_ROUSE. 2407 in favor of the Government for the ha.lance due on account of gold DEFICITS IN THE ACCOUNT FOR SERVICE OF THE POST-OFFfCE DEP.ARTlfENT. l'lullion embezzled, but the decision of the court was adverse to the At the outbreak of the rebellion in 1861 there were balaneei:i to the United States on the loss of 733 silver dollars. Mr. Bosbyshell has credit of the Treasurer of the United States for the service of the taken an appeal from the decision o! th.e United States district and cir Post-Office Department, with officers located in States that went into the cuit courts, holding he was responsible for the balance due the Govern rebellion. These amounts have not been recovered and are carried as ment on account of gold bullion embezzled, to the Supreme Court of unavailable funds in the Post-Office Department ac:connt, viz : the United States, and the case is still pending. Action in this case was discontinued when Congress passed a bill foT Assistant treasurer 9:f the United States, New Orleans, La., the relief of l\Ir. Bosbyshell. 1861______$3~ 164.. ~ The bill for the relief of Mr. Bosbyshell became a law February 2, Depositarles of the United States: 1899, nnd was as follows : Savannah, Ga., 1861------205. 76 "Be 1.t rnacted, etc., TbAt Oliver C. Bosbyshell, late superintendent of Galveston, Tex., 1861------83. 36 the United States mint at Philadelphia, is hereby relieved and <µs• Little Rock, Ark., 1861------o, 823. 50 charged from all liability for the acts of Henry S. Cochran, late weigh clerk of said United States mint at Philadelphia, fn the embezzlement Total (Post-Office Department account)------37, 277. 06 or larceny of certain gold bullion bars, the property of the United States aforesaid, .and frrun all liabHity to account for any and all em RECAPITULATION. bezzled or stolen gold bullion bars by the said Henry S. Cochran, as Unavailable funds: aforesaid, the same having been without the default or negligence of In subtreasu:ries ------· ------$166,680. 14 the said Oliver C. Bosbyshell." In mints and assay offices------ 562,733.49 It wm be seen that the relief given Mr. Bosbyshell by this act was In depository banks ------ 214,761.38 for the balance due on account of the gold bullion embezzled by Henry In United States depositories (old)------3, 702:17 S. Cochran, amounting to $12,810.82. As this amount was included in the bullion fund and constituted a part of the balance in the general Total General Treasury ______1, 547, 877.18 acconnt of the TreaStll'er of the United States, the Treasurer has raised In post-office account 37, 277. 06 the question before the accounting officers of the department, and claims that credit should also be given him in his general account, and Aggregate of deficits, etc------1, 585, 154. 24 relense him, as well as Mr. Bosbyshell, from further acc0t1D1:ability therefor, as it was evidently the intention of Congress to clear the Many recommendations bave been made by my predecessors in office, books of this Item. The matter is still pending. with a view to relieve the Treasurer of accountability for amounts that Mint at Oarson.-A deficiency of $75,549.75 exists on the bullion b come unavailable without fault or negligence on his part. The whole accounts of this institution, due to the embezzlement of that amount in subject has been gone over time and again with the committees in the gold bullion from the melter and refiner's department by John T. Jones, Senate and Honse, and bills have been introduced in both Houses o! while occupying the position of assistm1t melter and refiner, and James Congress and reports made thereon that fully explain the matter. In Senate Report No. 371, Forty-fourth Congress, first ses ion, from Heney, silver dis olver in the refinery. ·Both of these persons were the Finance Committee, submitted by the honorable chairman, Senator arrested, tried, and convicted, being sentenced to undergo i~risonment at hard labor for a term of eight yea.rs and to pay a fine of :ji5,000. Sherman, on page 3, reference is made to this question of unavailable The embezzlement o! the last-named sum was made at various moneys, as follows : times between January 1, 1891, and June 1, 1894, and was effected by .. All moneys in the Treasury, wherever it may be deposited or placed ;tbstraction and the substitution of base silver bullion containing a for disbursement or custody, is charged to the Treasurer of the United small percentage of gold. Suit has been instituted and is pending States. It is obvious, however, that this money may be lost without against the estate and sureties of E. B. Zabriskie, deceased, who held fault on the part of the Treasurer, by robbery, accident, defalcation of the position of melter and refiner of the Carson miDt during the period a subordinate officer, misconduct of depositaries having it in charge, or the amount above named was embezzled. The recoveJ:y of any part of otherwise. Still, under the law, the Treasurer is responsible, and is the amount is very doubtful. charged with these sums. Such a deficit would, in the accounts of a To the foregoing may also be added deficits In the bullion fund in firm, be a simple plain entry in the profit and loss account by crediting cash and del>iting the defaulter. But from the :fact before stated that other offices, as reported by this office : money can not be taken from the Treasury except by an appropriation, Branch mint at Charlotte, N. C------$3.2, 000 this course can not be pursued. An account called 'unavailable ' was There Ls a balance due from Green W. Caldwell, superintendent and created, which was charged with the amounts, and the Treasurer cred treasurer, and it has been unavailable since the beginning o:f the war ited in his general account through the statement of the account by the of the rebellion, in 1861. accounting officers. This method of relieving the Treasurer is, your committee are informed, a practice which has grown up and is not Branch mint at Dahlonega, Ga------~------$27, 950. 03 authorized by law, and for some years past has been prohibited by the There Ls a balance due from George W. Kellogg, superintendent and comptroller and has been discontinued. It is plain that the Treasurer treasurer, and it has been unavailable since the beginning of the war should be relieved from this responsibility, and that Congress should in of the rebellion in 1861. some proper way provide by law for the dropping of these unavailable MifLt at New Orleans.-The vaults tn the mint at New Orleans having funds, by authorizing a cr!!dit to the Treas~rer and a correspo11ding become filled with silver dollars, it was determined to remove as many charge against the defaultrng officer who fails to pay the money on as practicable to the vault in the Treasury Department. In o:-der to demand.'' avoid the payment of a large sum for transportation, bags said to con And on page 14, as follows: tain 10,400,000 were moved by means of United States na,val -vessels "All public moneys are received into the TreasuTY and paid out upon in September, 1885, at an expense which saved the Government about wanants issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Treasurer being $40,000. However, after the arrival of the silver dollars at the Treas debited with the amounts received and credited with the amounts paid. ury Department i:hey were counted, and " shorts " to the amount of lj\54 This forms what is known as the 'Treasurer's general account,' by discovered in the shipment. These were reported to Mr. G. Montegut, which the cash in the Treasury is determin~d. When a depositary who superintendent of the mint o! the United States at New Orleans, with has public moneys in his po session for which the Treasurer is re the request to credit the Treasurer of the United States In bis bullion sponsible p.roves to be a defaulter, this amount becomes unavailable. fund account with that amount, being "shorts " in the $10,400,000 pre It has been the practice of the accounting officers in some cases to state viously charged. Considerable correspondence passed in relation to the an account, charging such defaulting officer on the books of the matter, but finally the superintendent refused to give the credit, and Treasury wij:h the amount o! the defalcation and crediting the Treas since that time the amount, $54, has been carried as an item in transit. urer but as no money can be drawn from the Treasury except on war~ants issued in accordance with the appropriations made by law, ~int at Philadelphia, recoinage accounL------$77. 93 there is no way of reconciling these unavailable amounts in the accounts On July 8, 1895, the assistant treasurer of the United States at New of th~ Treasury Department, except by crediting the Treasurer in hi!:I York was directed by transfer order No. 27849 to transfer $250,000 in general account without the issuing of a warrant for such credit. uncurrent subsidiary coin to the mint at Philadelphia for recoinage. "As the Treasurer's accounts are not adjusted until long after the In the shipment 1,100 uncurrent standard silver dollars were uninten publication of the tables contained in the finance report, these items tionally included and counted as subsidiary coin. The superintendent must be regulated subsequently; and whenever they occur, the tables of the mint verified the count when the shipment was received, and must be changed to this extent. When anything is recovered from proceeded in the usual manner to melt and determine the value of the such defaulting o.ffi.cers, the amount is charged to the Treasurer in bullion resulting therefrom, as well as the loss on the recoinage, and hls general account as •receipts from ·unnvailables,' which also neces submitted a report thereon. si.tates a further change in the tables to this extent. Thls defect in When request was made for reimbursement of the loss, it was refused the present system has long been felt, but can not be remedied without to the extent of $77.-93, the loss on the recoinage of 1,100 standard legislation authorizing these transfers to be made by warrants, and in silver dollars, because Congress had made no appropriation for the accordance with an appropriation, and Congress has several times been recoinage of uncurrent standard silver dollars; and that amount has asked for such legislation." been reported as "loss on recoinage" in the assets of the mint at Notwithstanding the necessity for such legislation, as set forth in Philadelphia since that date. (Request has been made for an appro this masterly report, Congress has failed to act in the matter, and as priation to reimburse this loss.) the items of unavailable moneys are becoming more numerous, I re spectfully request that you recommend snch legislation as wm accom DEFICITS IN NATIONAL-BANK DEPOSITOllIES. • plish the results desired. The Government has employed hundreds of the national ban.ks of the You are advised that there is precedent for such legislation in the country as depositories of the public moneys, and many of these act of March 3, 1837 (5 Stat., 178). depositories have failed with public moneyg in their possession ; but the Respectfully, yours, LEE MCCLUNG, bonds pledged as fi!ecurtty for these public deposits have protected the Treasurer of the Unitea States. Government from loss, except in two instances, viz : The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Venango National Bank, of Franklin, Pa., a. depositoTY o! the United States. failed in 1866, and the amonnt of public moneys carried as ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL, unavailable on account of the failure is $181,377.51. · First National Bank, Selma, Ala., a depository of the United States, Mr. HULL of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, r call up tlie conference re failed in 1867, and the amount of public moneys carried as unavailable port of H. R. 15384, the army appropriation bill. on account of the failure is $33,383.87. The SPEAKER. 'l'he gentleman from Iowa calls up the con DEFICITS IN DEPOSITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES. ference report of the army appropriation bill. There are some small balances charged to the lat~ depositaries of l\Ir. HULL of Iowa. I ask tmanimous consent that the state the United States, which are carried as unavailable funds, viz: ment be read in lieu of the report. Depositaries of the United States : The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The i~tie:.~r~, ~d:: i~g~::::=::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: $il~:~g Chair hears none. Pittstnrrg, Pa., 1867------~----- 2, 126_ 11 The statement was read at length. Santa ~e, ~~ A_lex., 1866---,------.. --:---. --- 249. 90 [For-conference report and statement, see Honse proceedings Total------3,702.17 of February 23.] 2408 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25,
The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the confer Mr. H.A.Y. Will the gentleman allow me to ask him a ence report. question? The question was taken, and the conference report was Mr. HULL of Iowa. Certainly. agreed to. Mr. HA.Y. Can the gentleman state how many officers there Mr. HULL of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, there is an amendment, No. are on the active list of the army below the rank of brigadier 21, that was not included in the agreement. I ask that the general who have served in the civil. war? Clerk read amendment No. 21. Mr. HULL of Iowa. I think there are a good many colonels The Clerk read as follows: and below, but there is no place where they can go into the p ,-ovided, That the President may, in his discretion, extend the position of brigadier-general and serve a year before their re proviso contained under the heading " Retired officers " in the act making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year tirement. In other words, every colonel who had civil-war ending .Tune 30, 1908, approved March 2, 1907, so as to include any service becomes a brigadier on retirement. If these men did officer who served creditably in the regular or volunteer forces of the not become brigadiers on the active list, they would become United States during the civil war, and who is now and has been for a period of not less than one year serving as a brigadier-general on the brigadiers on retirement. This is to give them one grade active list of the army, and who at date of retirement will have served higher. It costs the Government $1,500 a year for each man. in the a rmy more than forty years. l\Ir. HA.Y. If they do become brigadiers, this precedent now Mr. HULL of Iowa. l\Ir. Speaker, this proviso is virtually set, or heretofore set, will apply to the men who are now col extending to, I understand, fi"rn officers of the army now on the onels, will it not? acti>e list the same retirement privileges that were given by l\ir. HULL of Iowa. Oh, no; they become brigadiers anyhow. the Congress of the United States two or three years ago to l\fr. HAY. I do not mean this law, but I mean it will give four officers who had served as brigadier-generals on the staff in an opportunity for those gentlemen who have served in the civil Washington. I am informed that this closes up all of the war, and who are now on the active list below the rank of civil-war men who could have been brigadier-generals and brigadier-general, to come to Congress hereafter and ask to· be served one year before retirement. This matter was never .dis made major-generals. cussed in the House. It was a proposition that, though we Mr. HULL of Iowa. They are not in the same class with the had a precedent for it, the committee of conference did not be four whom we.have promoted and these five here, for the reason lieve it should bring in any agreement on that would estop that the old law provided that they would have to serve at the House from expressing itself fully upon the matter. I do least a year as brigadier-generals and have had so long a serv not know that I can call the names of all who are affected. ice in the army. It can not apply to them, because they can One of them is General Marshall. Chief of Engineers, and Gen not be brigadiers for a year; but as to the equity of the matter, eral Morton, commander of the Department of the Missouri; the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. HAY] is as able to pass on another General Thomas, now in command of the Department that as I am. of the Colorado, and there are two others that I can not now l\Ir. H.A.Y. I am just stating the proposition. recall. Mr. HULL of Iowa. Those that are now colonels will un I can only say this, that it has been claimed that these five questionably become brigadiers on retirement. will close up all who could have had civil-war service and who Mr. HA.Y. There are others who will be seeking the benefit have served a year as brigadier-general. of this precedent. Mr. SLAYDEN. Will the gentleman yield to a question? l\Ir. HULJ, of Iowa. There are very few, but possibly some, Mr. HULL of Iowa. I will. who may claim they should have it~ l\1r. SLAYDEN. I would like to ask the gentleman if, in l\1r. HAY. Congress could not very well refuse them, could it? recognizing civil-war service, they count the period for which .Mr. HULL of Iowa. That is a question. There are many these gentlemen were cadets? men on the retired list as to whom, in my judgment, it would Mr. HULL of Iowa. It would in the way that the language not be any great violen<;e to the equities and the justice of the is drawn. If we were to leave those words out, "other than as matter if they were made major-generals on the ·retired list, in a cadet," and were to provide the same as in the matter of Gen view of the past action of Congress. T ake General Carr, of Illi eral Humphrey, then Quartermaster-General; General O'Reilly, nois, for instance, who was a major-general of volunteers and then Surgeon-General; General Mackenzie, then Chief of Engi served continuously for forty-four years. Take General neers; and General Davis, then Judge-Advocate-General; those Schwann, who was in the Utah expedition in 1856, a most ac words were not in the act. complished officer. But that case is not before us, and I doubt Mr. SLAYDEN. Did these gentlemen have military service whether it eyer will get before us. This is a proposition that aside from that at the academy as cadets? the e men claim puts them on an equality with what we did Mr. HULL of Iowa. Ob, yes; all of these men have served in over two years ago for four staff officers. I am glad to say that the ranks during the civil war. only one of these five men is a staff officer. If it ought to be Mr. SLAYDEN. All of them had served in the ccyil wnr? done for any man, it ought to be for the man that is out fighting Mr. HULL of Iowa. Yes; outside of the cadetship; that is my all the time, in place of working in an office, in the staff. understanding. I know it is true as to General Thomas and l\Ir. SLAYDEN. Have we now practically exhausted t:Q.e ma General Morton. They sen·ed two or three years and carried terial from which we can draw in order to continue following guns in the civil war as lads, and then went to the academy and the bad precedent heretofore established? graduated after the close of the civil war. Mr. HULL of Iowa. That is my information from The Adju l\Ir. SLAYDEN. That, I understand, is true as to General tant-General of the Army, and I have never found him mistaken Marshall, except as to the length of time. ·in his statements. Mr. HULL of I owa. General Marshall served as a private in Mr. SLAYDEN. Every colonel on the active list who becomes a· Kentucky cavalry regiment during the civil war, and then a brigadier will unquestionably ask us-- was appointed a cadet at West Point after the war. 1\Ir. HULL of Iowa. Oh, he does not become a brigadier until Mr. SLAYDEN. Can the gentleman recall the names of the he is retired. others? l\fr. HULL of Iowa. I do not at this time. l\Ir. SLAYDEN. He may become a brigadier before he re- · Mr. SLAYDEN. Would General Hall be one of them? tires. _ Mr. HULL of Iowa. My understanding is the other two men l\Ir. HULL of Iowa. No; because there are no vacancies. had actual civil-war service. They all i'etire in a very short time. I think all the civil-war l\Ir. SULZER. With the permission of my colleague, I can officers will retire within the next year or a little over that. I say that the officers who will be affected, provided this proviso have not looked into that to learn the exact situation. should become law, are General Thomas, General Morton, 1\Ir. SLAYDEN. The gentleman is mistaken. General Hodges, General Brush, and General Marshall, and Mr. HULL of Iowa. I have not looked into that, because I none others. am sure that none of them could be on the basis of these gentle Mr. HULL of Iowa. I will say that The Adjutant-General men; but I will say to the gentleman from Texas, with entire of the Army, whom I have always-found exactly correct in all frankness, that if any of the civil-war men are promoted to be information he ever gave me, claims that that is all who can brigadiers and do serve a year and have had forty years' service po sibly come in. in the army, this Congress can hardly refuse to give them the Mr. SLAYDEN. Who does that? same recognition if they come before it. l\Ir. HULL of Iowa. The Adjutant-General. l\fr. SLAYDEN. If they serve a year or less? I will say this: As an .original proposition I assume that the l\fr. KEIFER. I should like to ask the gentleman whether House should have hesitated as to the adoption of this pro this proposition involves an extension of the retired list? vision; but having set the example, there is no more reason Mr. HULL of Iowa. It does not extend it, except that it why it should not be adopted than any .other legislation where places these men on the retired list with the rank of major a precedent has been so clearly established. general. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2409
Mr. KEIFER. Is the conference report an agreement upon the Union. Some of them afterwards went to West Point and this matter? graduated, and all of them have been in the Regular Army Mr. HULL of Iowa. Not at all. ever since the close of the civil war. They have been on the Mr. KEIFER. This is outside of it? firing line in the Indian wars. Most of them did heroic service Mr. HULL of Iowa. Outside of agreeing to the conference for years on the frontier. They went all through the Spanlsh report. American war and did gallant service for the Government. In Mr. KEIFER. One question further: Is the gentleman able the opinion of the best men in the army, in the judgment of to state the names and the number of persons who would be those familiar with the great services they have rendered, they eligible to be put upon the retired list in the discretion of the should have this recognition. To do otherwise would tie an President if this proviso is put in the bill? unjust discrimination against them. We retired recently at Mr. HULL of Iowa. Yes; there will be five of them-Gen one grade higher, rinder the act referred to in this proviso, sev eral Morton, commanding the Department of the Missouri ; eral brigadier-generals on the staff who never performed the General Thomas, commanding the Department of the Colorado ; services that these officers have rendered for more than forty General Marshall, the Chief of Engineers, who occupies exactly years. We should be fair and just in this matter to all, and it the same position on this proposition as did General Mackenzie, is believed that we would be recreant to now discriminate to whom Congress gave this; and two other men mentioned by against these officers whose names I have mentioned. They the gentleman from New York [Mr. SULZER], whose names I are the last of the brigadier-generals now in the army who can not now recall. served gallantly during the civil war. They should be treated Mr. KEIFER. This will exhaust the list? the same as the others that were retired as major-generals. I Mr. HULL of Iowa. This exhausts the list. do not believe in making invidious distinctions. No better Mr. PARKER rose. soldiers than these heroic men ever served in our army. They, Mr. HULL of Iowa. I will yield to the gentleman from New too, should be retired, as well as their predecessors, as major Jersey. generals; and when this bill becomes a law and these officers Mr. PARKER. I want to ask whether the retirement of these are retired in accordance with this provision, that will forever gentlemen would not make vacancies which would be filled from close the doors to any more of these retirements. As I said, the list of other colonels? they are the last of the brigadier-generals who served in the Mr. HULL of Iowa. No; because they could not be brigadiers civil war. Hence the Senate unanimously adopted this provi for one year. sion, and the conferees on the part of the Senate were unani .Mr. PARKER. I understand, but they might be retired right mous in insisting upon its adoption, and I, for one, as a conferee away. of this House, believe that it is just, believe it is right, and I Mr. HULL of Iowa. No; because there is no vacancy. Mr. believe that we should agree to it, and give these grizzled war Speaker, I now yield ten minutes to the gentleman from New riors and battle-scarred veterans the rank to which they are York [Mr. SULZER]. justly entitled when retired for age. Mr. SULZER. Mr. Speaker, all matters in controversy be Mr. Speaker, I have in my hand a number of letters and tween the two Houses on the army appropriation bill have been several petitions from all over the country and from leading amicably settled by the conferees, and this conference report citizens, asking that this be done, and I shall, with the consent is unanimous with the exception of amendment No. 21, which of the House, incorporate some of them in the RECORD as part the Senate incorporated in the bill. I will read that amendment of my speech. I move. that the House recede and concur in for the benefit of the House: the Senate amendment. P ro-i;ided, That the President may, in his discretion, extend the pro Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia. Will the gentleman yieia? viso contained under the heading " Retired officers " in the act making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending Mr. SULZER. Yes . . J"une 30, 1908, approved March 2, 1907, so as to include any officer Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia. I understand that this amend who served creditably in the regular or volunteer forces of the United ment of the Senate simply puts these five remaining brigadier States during the civil war, and who is now and has been for a period generals upon the same plane and status where we have placed of not less than one year serving as a brigadier-~eneral on the active list of the army, and who at date of retirement will have served in the all the others. army more than forty years. · l\Ir. SULZER. The gentleman is correct. • Now, sir, if this proviso should be adopted it will affect the Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia. And not to do it is to discrimi following officers : Generals Thomas, Morton, Hodges, Brush, nate against equally meritorious officers. and Marshall, now brigadier-generals, and retire them as major Mr. SULZER. Quite so. That is what I said. generals. I will give briefly their records in the Army of the The data referred to by Mr. SULZER are as follows: United States. NEW YORK, Februat·y 21, 1910. Fir 't, Gen. Earle D. Thomas. He has been in the service, Hon. WILLIAM SULZER, volunteer and regular, for over forty-seven and one-half years. House of Representatives, Washington, D . 0. MY DEAR MR. SULZER : The Senate has adopted an amendment to the He has been a brigadier-general for two years and ten months. military appropriation bill, which I understand is amendment No. 21, He will be retired January 4, 1911, and when retired will have and which has the effect of promoting Gen. William L. Marshall to tile served forty-eight and one-half years. He is now the com rank and pay of major-general on retirement on .June 24 next. mander of the Department of Colorado. General Marshall has been so efficient in promoting the interests of New York Harbor when in charge of the operations of the construction The next officer is Gen. Charles Morton. He has been in the of Ambrose Channel, which is now approaching completion, that I wish volunteer and regular service for over forty-eight years. He particularly to commend this amendment to your kind and favorable has been a brigadier-general two years and ten months. He attention, and am sure that New York's gratitude to him can not be evinced in a better way than by the adoption of the amendment in will be retired on account of age March 18, 1910. When retired question. he will have been in the service over forty-eight years. He is Yours, very truly, GUSTAV H. SCHWAB. now commander of the Department of Missouri. The next officer is Gen. Charles L. Hodges. He has been in WAR DEPARTMENT, the volunteer and regular service forty-four years and- two THE ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, months. He has been a origadier-general two years and nine Washington, January 20, 1910. Hon. F. E. WARRE~, months. He will be retired on account of age on March 13, United States Senate. 1911. He will have served continuously forty-five years and DEAR Sm : In compliance with your telegraphic request of the 19th three months. He is now commander of the Department of instant, addressed to the Secretary of War, I have the honor to trans· mit herewith, by the Secretary's direction, a statement of the military Dakota. service of Brig. Gen. William L. Marshall, Chief of Engineers, and The next officer is Gen. Daniel L. Brush. He has been in copies of such letters and indorsements commending him as have been the volunteer and regular service forty-two years and nine found upon the files of this office. months. He has been a brigadier-general for two years. He Very respectfully, F. C. AINSWORTH, will be retired on account of -the age limit .May 9, 1912, and The Adjutant-General. when retired will have served continuously over forty-five years. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Ile is now in command of a department in the Philippines. (Founded A. D. 1768.) The next officer is Gen. William L. Marshall. He has been At the monthly meeting of the chamber of commerce, held Thursday, in the service, volunteer and regular, forty-six years and nine November 7, 1907, the following resolutions, reported by the committee months. He has been a brigadier-general one year and seven of the chamber on the harbor and shipping, was unanimously adopted : "Resolved, That the chamber of commerce recognizes with great sat months. He will be retired on account of age limit June 11, isfaction the .report of its committee on the harbor and shipping that 1910, and when retired will have served continuously over forty one-half of the adopted plan of the United States Government for the excavation and widening of the east channel, now named the 'Ambro e sev~n years. He is now on the General Staff and Chief of the Channel,' has been accomplished and perfected so that ves. els of the Corps of Engineers of the Army. hu!fe dimensions of the Lusitania can enter and leave with safety. · Briefly, these are the records of these brave men. All of • Resolved, That the chamber recognizes hew very much this great these officers did hard and glorious service during the war for work is due to the skill, energy, and persistence of Col. William L. 2410- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25,
Marshall, United States engineer in eharge thereof, anCI in view of the whole eoun~ which bas ever been undertaken as a harbor Improve work still to be done in excavating the other half so that a channel of ment. 2,000 feet will be afforded, expresses its earnest wish and desire -that It is hardly necessary to call your attention to the fact that the the same efficient officer may be retained in that work, and that the vast proportion of the foreign commerce of the United St~tes and a Government wtll considerately not permit the diversion of his time and large proportion of the coastwise commerce of the country passes in talent to any other object until the same is completed." and out of New York Harbor. You are also doubtless aware that the A true copy. old ship channel, with its aeute angle near the southwest spit and [SEAL.] J. EDWARD SIMMONS, Preside-nt. with its inadequate width and depth of water, continues to be a con.: GEO. WILSON, Secretary. stant menace to the navigation of the larger steamships, which, be- cause of their very size, have been able to reduce, and with the in- ~ U creased depth of the Ambrose Channel will be able still further tO' Statement of the miUtarv Be1"1.lice of Brig. Gen. WiUia11~ L. M arsruz , , reduce, the rate of transportation upon commodities. Ollie/ af E1~ginee1·s. This improvement was authorized by Congress only after a vigorous WAR. DEPARTl-m~T. fight, which was led by Mr. John W. Ambrose, a director and repre THE AnJ"UT~NT-GENERA.Lis OFFICE. sentative of this association, to whom was given the hearty coopera He served as a private in Company A., Tenth Ken.tue'ky Cavalry, from tion of practically all the other trade and steamship ol.'"ganizatioIIS' Aug1l.St 16, 1862, to September 17, 1863.. in and around this port. He was a cadet at the United States Military Aeademy. from July 1. The appropriatfon provided for this work was at that time con 1864, to June 15, 1868, when graduated and appointed brevet Stcond sidered by most experts to be entirely inadequate. There was seriouS' lieutenant, Corps of Engineers. He became a second lieutenant in th t doubt as to the possibility of obtalning bids which would permit the· corps February 22, 1869 ; was pr<>nlo.ted first lieutenant June 21, 1871 ; completion of the work within. the appropriation, but after considerable captain (on account of four-teen years' -servlce) June 15, 1882; majoi: trouble, including the rejection of the first set of bids because of the Ma.y 10, 1805 ; lieutenant-colonel April 23, 1904; and colonel August excess of cost over the amount fixed by Congress, acceptable bi-ds 27, 1907. He was appointed -chief of Engineers with the rank of briga were finally obtained and contracts were let. The exceedingly low dit>r·general to rank from July 2, urns, and accepted the appointm-ent · contract price necessitated the most careful and vigilant supervision on the part of the Government to insure proper execution and comple July 6, 1908. 1 SERVICE. tion of the work in accordance with the specifications. Shortly atter · the execution of the contracts and before the actual work of construc- With engineer battalion at Willetts Point, New York, from October 1, 1 tio.n began Lieut. Col. W. L. Marsh.all, Corps of Engineers, United 1868, to Auimst 28, 1870; on duty at the Military Academy to August States Army, was assigned to the port of New York and was J?Ut in 31, 1871; with engineer battallon at Willetts Point, New York, to July charge of the supervision of this work. and from the very beginnmg ef 5, 1872; assistant engineer on western explorations under Lieutenant the actual constructien, as SUJh,«>.rvising engineer on behalf of the Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, to August, 1876; on engineer duty at Go-vern.ment, he has been in constant touch with its p:rogress. The Chattanooga, Tenn., to June, 1877; at Rome, Ga., to May, 1881; on execution of his duties in this capacity has been highly satisfactory works of improvement of Vicksburg Harbor and in the third: engineer to the mercantile and steamship iuterests in tbis port, who are th~ district, Mississippi River Commission, to April,. 1884 ; in charge of parties directly affected and are in a position . to be cognizant of his harbor improvements in southeastern Wlsconsin and of improvement of · ability. Fox and Wisconsin rivers to September, 1 888; in charge of various We suggest that in this particular. instance it would be eminently harbor improveme:nts in Michigan and Wisccmsin to May, 18 6 ; in proper and, we believe, most beneficial to the commeree of the whole char~e of improvement of Chicago and Calumet harbors and Dlinois country to have Colonel l\Iarshall retained in his present office tu and calumet rivers and of the construction of the Hennepin Canal and charg-e of this most Important. work until its ultimate completion. various otner engineering works to December, 1899., during which time We therefore respectfully request that if any proposed action would he was. also engineer officer of the division and department of the Mis result in Colonel Marshall's retirement an exception be made in hls souri from 1892 to 1897, and member of various boards pertaining to case, in order that the vast interests of this port, the commerce of bridges, harbors, locks, surveys, etc., from 189-0 to 1899. He was a the country and the Federal Govemment may have the benefit of his member of the Missouri River Commission from November, 1897, to peculiar knowledge, experience, and ability ln completing the im Jun.e, 1902. provement. General Marshall was on duty in New York City from January, 1900, For ycmr information we attach hereto a copy of letter to the Secre to July, 1908, during which period he was in charge of the defensive tary of War relative to this subject. works of New York Harbor and of river and harbor improvements, Very respectfully, yours, especially the deep channels entering New, York Harbor, and was a EXECUTIVE Co M MIT'l'EE MERCHA.."""rs' member of various boards on fortifications and improvements. Since ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK, July 1908., he has been in charge of the office of Chi.et of Engineers and By CLARENCE WHITMAN, Presiden:t. of efigineering works under the control of that office, and has been a member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification and the Inland Waterways Commission. NEW YO.RX PRODUCE EXCH.A.NGE. F. C. AINSWORTH. Deeenioer 19, 1907. The .Adjutant-(}enerai. To Hon. WILLU..M H. TAFT, JANUARY 20, 1910. Secretarg of War, Washingtmi, D. 0. Srn : We have been given to understand that the -retiring board • W AB DEPARTME..lli:T, have under consideration the question of retiring Lieut. CoL W. L. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS., Marshall, who has been in charge of the harbor works in New York. lVashingto-n, December 24, 1907. This gentleman, with energy and judgment, has supervised the im· port.wt work of the harbor and the construction of Ambrose Cb.aim-el. (Memorandum for General Duvall) The members of o-u:r exchange who are conversant with his work AMBROSE CHA.J."'i'NEL. believe it is of importance to our city and the whole country that the Referring to memorandum of the 21st instant, the Chief of Engineers important work of onr harbor should be carried along on the same lines would say that he now has good reasons to expect the completion of and under the supervision heretofore employed until the work is com Ambrose Channel in New York Harbor during the year 1910. pleted. We therefore consider the retention of the gentleman named is most An important element of Colonel Marshall's e.tficiency in the proseea desirable, so he may be at the bead of this enterprise, pushing it along tion of this work flows from the fact that he has been in charge of for the benefit of ou.r commercial community. · the work almo t from the inception of the project and has the advan Trusting yon may see your way to favorably consider this appeal to taae of an intimate knowledge of all its aspects, including so.me which you, I am, ar~ not wholly of an engineering character. Respectfully, yours, WM. HARRIS Dou~As, Colonel Marshall is personally known to the maritime interests most PreBident. deeply concerned in the success of the project and enjoys their unre served confidence. He can best conserve the interests of the United THE MERCHANTS' ABSOCIATION OF NEW YO.RK, States in the execution of this work, because those who are concerned December 17, 19(!1. in the matter and whose influence must be reckoned with will be guided Ilon. WiLLIAM H. TAFT, by Colonel Marshall's opinion and judgment as they would not be Secretary of Wa·r, Wash-1'ngton, D. 0. guided by the opinion and judgment of his successor, howsoever capable. DP.AR Srn : The Merchants' Association of New York respectfully In these important particulars candor compels the Chief of Engineers represent that the important work of the deepening of the Ambrose to admit that he ca.n not replace Colonel Marshall without a temporary Channel, leading from the harbor of New York to the sea, has been lowering of the efficiency and vigor of administration of the work, for since its inception under the charge of Lieut. Col. W. L. Marshall, this reason, and the sole reason, that he can not supply a man for the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, and has been continuously place whose familiarity with local conditions will equal that of Colonel supervised by this officer. Marshall. The shipplng and business interests of New York, and, in a widP.r 'In the Corps of Engineers changes of station are ordinarily accom sense, the commerce of the whole counh~y, await the early completion panied by changes of duty, and it is only men who are unsatisfactory of this impruvement, which will result in far-reaching beneiits not who can be replaced with advantage. Changes of station are made o.niy to the city of New York but to the whole country in an increase from considerations of policy and justice which can not be ignored, and rendered possible in the size of the carrier and a decrease in the rate ordinarily in spite of some sacrifice of the interests of the work. of transportation; and will, furthermore, contribute very largely to As to whether the conditions which make for Colonel Marshall's safe navigation in the approaches of this harbor, now restricted to a present retirement outweigh the disadvantage to the works now in his narrow and difficult channel. charge and that to the Corps of Engineers which will result from such The Merchants' Association of New York, in view of the vast interests retirement the Chief of Engineers is not in position to express an involved, strongly urge the retention of Lieutenant-Colonel Marshall in op.inion. charge of this work until the ultimate completion o1 the improvement, Very respectfully, and deprecate strongly any change in the supervision of the work in A. MACKENZIE, question at the present time. Brigadier-General, Ohief of Engineei·s, U11it£d States Army. Very respectfully, yours, · THE MllCHA.NTS' ASSOCIA.TION OF NEW YORK, By CLARENCE WHITMAN, President. THE MERCHANTS' ASSOCIA'l'ION OF NEW YORK, December 11, 1907. THE M.A.RITIME AssOCJ:ATION OF THE PORT OF NEW YonK, Hon. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, ]few York, Deoom:ber 1(), J!Wt. Pre8ide1Jt of the United States, White Hou.se, Hon. WILLIAll H. TAFT, Wruillington, D. 0. Secretary of War, Washington, D. 0. MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: In 1899 Congress took action p-rovid.lng Sm: It is OUT understanding that the army retiring board has under for the construction of the .Ambrose Channel in the port of New York consideration the -retirement from the service of Lieut. Col. W. L. to a depth of 40 feet and a width of 2,000 feet. The creation and Marshall, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, 1 wno has been in successful completion of the channel is, in our opinlon, one of the charge of the harbor works of'New York, including the construction of most important pieces of work for the trade and commerce of the the Ambrose Channel, which, a.s you are of course aware, is much needed 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2411· at this port to accommodate the rapidly increasing size of our modern UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, steamships, and the congested condition of the main ship channel makes New York Ci ty, March B4, 1908. it hazardous for these giants to maneuver~ and relief by the Ambrose The An.ruTANT-GENERAL, Channel becomes imperative and at the ear1iest date possible. Uni t ed States Army, Washington, D. a. The work carried on by Colonel Marshall in planning and supervising Srn : The Chief of Engineers will be retired for age May 25, 1908. the construction of this channel to its present state can not be too If, preparatory to filling the vacancy thus caused, the President highly commended and is heartily approved by all who are familiar should consider the records of any engineer officers of rank junior to with this project. His retirement at the present time, depriving the that of my seniors in the Corps of Engineers, I have the honor to re project of the knowledge and ripe experience gained by his many years quest and recommend that be consider the record of Col. W. L. of association with this great work would, to our minds, be a great Marshall, who, in my opinion, is of all engineer officers best entitled to detriment to its prompt and efficient completion. . In view of the above, promotion to Chief of Engineers by reason of his exceptional t a lents, therefore, the Maritime Association of the Port of New York, com bis use of these for the best interests of the Government, his application prising in its membership of nearly 1,000 the leading steamship and to duty, and his integrity. ship owners and agents, importers and exporters, and so forth, at this He does not retire for age until June 11, 1910. port, most earnestly and respectfully request that Colonel Marshall be Very respectfully, retained in his present position at this port until the completion of the JOHN G.D. KNIGHT, Ambrose Channel. It is our prayer that in view of the great impor Colonel, Corps of Engineers. tance of this work, not only to New York City but the country at large, that you will see fit to grant this most urgent request and, in conse quence, confer a great favor upon this association and the commercial NEW YORK, November 6, 1901. interests of our city and country. To the honorable THE SECRETARY Oll' w AR, We have the honor to remain, Washington, D. 0. Very respectfully, yours, C. R. NoRMA."'i, Presi dent. Sm: The undersigned, controlling and representing steamships em ployed in the transportation of hundreds of thousands of lives and of many millions in value of cargo, and interested in insurance on cargo THE 1i!An1T1ME Assocu.TION OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK, and on vessels, respectfully represent- New York, December 10, 1.901. Tha t the improvements in the approaches to the harbor of New York, Hon. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, now under way, which will render this harbor one of the safest and Presidw,t of the United State8, Washington, D. 0. finest in the world, were begun and have been most efficiently prosecuted Srn: We understand that Lieut. Col. W. L. Marshall, Corps of Engi under the direction of Lieut. Col. W. L. Marshall, Corps of Engineers, neers, United States Army, who has been in charge of harbor works at United States Army; this port, including the construction of ·the Ambrose Channel, is about That the interests represented by the undersigned require the con to be retired. If this be so, this last-named project, which was planned tinued supervision by Colonel Marshall of this important improvement and supervised up to its present stage by Colonel Marshall, will of until its final completion, to the end that the work, which calls for necessity be intrusted to bis successor, who, notwithstanding whatever constant careful attention and which demands the accumulated knowl attainments and qualifications he may have as an engineer, will not edge and experience of years, may be carried through at an early date be possessed of the experience and knowledge regarding this particular and on the same lines as heretofore pursued. work that Colonel Marshall bas secured through bis long connection The undersigned, therefore. respectfully urge the retention in bis with it. A change, therefore, at this time would without doubt result pre ent position of Lieutenant-Colonel Marshall until the Ambrose in delays and greatly deter the completion of this important improve Channel improvement to its entire extent shall have been finished, and ment. beg leave to remain, The main ship channel to-day, owing to the enormous size of the Your very obedient servants, trans-Atlantic steamers and the increased size of our coastwise steam American Line ; Atlantic Transport Line ; Red Star Line ; ers, is so congested that the maneuvering of these vessels is extremely White Star Line; National Line; Leyland Line, P. A. hazardous. Franklin, vice-president; North German Lloyd, by We pray, therefore, on behalf of our association, comprising in its Oelrichs & Co., agents; The Cunard Steamship Com membership of nearly 1,000 the leading steamship and ship owners pany, per Vernon H. Broom; Hamburg-American Line, and agents at this port, that Colonel Marshall's retirement from his E. t. Boas, resident director and general manager; work at this port be deferred until such time as the Ambrose Channel Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, Fugen, general can be completed and the main ship channel relieved of the crowded agent for United States and Canada ; Wilson Line condition which now prevails. The benefits that will accrue to our steamers ; The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ; shipping generally through the early completion of this important P hoenix Line, Sanderson & Son, agents ; Hansa Lines, improvement can not be overestimated and will extend throughout our Un ited Tyser Line; Brazil Line; Scandinavian Ameri entire country. can Line; United States and China-Japan Line; Bor We trust, Mr. President, that you will give this matter your prompt deaux Line; Union Line, by French Engel, a~ent; attention, as we understand that the Secretary of War will act upon A.ustro-Americana Stea mship Company, Phelps Broth the findings of the retiring board upon his arrival home. ers & Co., agents; Anchor Line, Henderson Brothers, I have the honor to remain, general agents; Holland-America Line, A Sipe, gen Your obedient servant, C. R. NORM.AN, President. eral agent; La Veloce, Navigazione Generale Italiana, Harefield Solari Company, agents ; Fabre Steamsh ip Company, J. Pen Knile, general passenger agent; Rus WAR DEPARTMENT, sian Volunteer Fleet; Lloyd Italiano Steamship Com OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, pany ; Sicola American Steamship Company ; Prince Washington, December B, W01. Line (Limited), by C. B. Richard & Co., general Col. W. L. MARSHALL, agents; Quebec Steamship Company (Limited) ; Ber Got·ps of Enginee1·s, New York City. muda and West India Lines, A.. E. Outerbrid"'e & Co., COLONEL: In reply to your letter of the 27th ultimo, I have the agents; Lamport & Holt Line, Busko Jevons, agents; honor to furnish the Information requested, as follows : Barber & Co. (Incorporated), J. Barber, vice-presi The records of. the office of the Chief of Engineers show that Colonel dent ; Red Cross Line ; English and American Ship· Marshall, since 1877, has been absent on leave a total of one hundred ping Company, Bowring & Co., agents, L. B. Stodrla rt, and forty days, as per statement herewith. director; Old Dominion Steamship Company, by N. B. The records of the office of the Chief of Engineers seem to show that Walker, president; Clyde SteamsMp Company, H. H. during all of these leaves Colonel Marshall remained in charge of his Raymond, vice-president and general manager ; The works, supervising them, however, while absent from bis regular station. New York and Porto Rico St eamship Company, There ls no record in the office of the Chief of Engineers of Colonel Franklin D. Mooney, president and general mana ~e r ; Marshall having been absent on account of sickness at any period of The New York and Pacific Steamship Company, W. R. his service. Grace & Co.,. agents, per A. D. Snow; New York and '.rhe conditions of Colonel Marshall's service have been quite inti Cuba Mail Steamship Company, Alfred Gilbert Smith, mately known to the present Chief of Engineers during almost bis entire vice-president and general manager; l\lalJnry Steam service in the army, and the reputation in which he is held by. this ship Company, C. D. Mallory, secretary; Red D Line office is that of relieving his superiors of responsibility for details in of St eamships, by Banton ( ?) , Bliss & Da vis ( ?), all cases which come within his province to decide, his actions, however, ~e n e ral managers; The Atlantic Mutual Insu rance at all times being governed by the fullest subordination to superior au Company, by A. A. Raven, president; Mannheim In thority. He possesses the qualifications, in addition to great ability as surance Company; Fireman's Fund rnsura nce Com an engineer, of a good soldier. pany; The Union Marine Insurance Company (Lim Very respectfully, ited ), per F. Heumann, manager, Arthur Hadley ; A. MACKENZIE. F ederal Insurance Company ; The Sea Insurance Com· Brigadier-GetieraZ, Chief of Engineers, United States Army. pa ny (Limited) ; The Marine Insurance Company (Limited) ; The London Assurance (marine); T he New York Marine Underwriters; General Ma rine In surance Company of Dresden, C. Nupp & Son ( ?) , COPY OF INDORSElIENT ON APPLICATION MADE BY COL. W. L. MAllSHALL, agents ; Boston Insurance Company (signature can CORPS OF ENGINEERS, FOR RELIEF FROM THE TEST OF SKILL AND EN· not be read). DURANCE IN HORSEMANSHIP. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE EA.ST, Mr. KAHN. Will the gentleman from Iowa yield? Governors Island, New York, October 5, 1.907. Mr. HULL of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I yield for a question. Respectfully forwarded to The Adjutant-General of the Army. Mr. KAHN. Will the gentleman inform me what disposition Colonel Marshall has been physically examined, and no reason for his has been made of amendment No. 30, which provides- not undergoing the test for horsemanship has been found other than that herein stated by him. That the Secretary of War is authorized, under requisition of the This is, in my opinion, sufficient to justify him being excused from governor of a State or Territory, or the commanding general of t he the test, and I have accordingly excused him. militia of the District of Columbia, to pay to the quartermaster-general, Colonel Marshall has been and is an exceptionally efficient officer. I or such other officer of the militia as may be duly designated and ap know of no engineer officers of superior ability and few of equal. pointed for the purpose, so much of the allotment under t be annual It is highly improbable that he will be assigned to mounted duty dur appropriation authorized by section 1661, Revised Statutes, as amended, ing his remaining two years and eight months of service on the active as shall be necessary for the payment of subsistence, transportation, list. and other expenses of such portion of the organized militia as may be For the above reasons, I recommend that no further action, because engaged in encampments, etc. · of his not undergoing the test of horsemanship, be taken in his case. F. D. GRANT, Mr. HULL of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, as to that amendment, the Major-General, United States Army, Gomnian the adoption of the conference report. I think, as there has Mr. CLARK of Mis ouri. ~obody .cares what the schools been lrneh an immense number of telegrams showered upon want. "The business of .a Congressman is to do the best he ·can Congress, it is only fair for me to extend my answer ·to the '.for the country, and I .am in favor of having a thoroughly gentleman enough to say that section 1.6£1 .of the Revised drilled militia 1n the United States of a million :men, so that if Statutes ls the one that provides for arms, ammunition., cloth- we ever ha-ve .'.3.Il.other war we will haYe an army, and the e re ing, lCam.p .and garrison -equipage nf he militia rof the 'Several . tti:red officers might as well be drilling these boys as sitting States. .ft is a .specific filld. annual 1rppro.prlation fun.t goes 'OD 'a.round .and s11cldng their thumbs. from year to year for the ma.lntenance Mr. 1\1.ADDEN. I am opposed to rewarding anybody as· a in an envelope and asked this young man to take it over to the matter of favor. If any man has performed distinguished serv War Department to the Secretary of War. He carried it over ice for his country and is deserving of reward because of that as requested, and he said as soon as he handed the envelope distinguished service, I will be one of the first men on this floor to the Secretary,. the Secretary was very polite to him, asked to vote to reward him. him to take a seat, paid him great respect, and immediately :Mr. SULZER. Then the gentleman will vote for this amend made out an appointment for him as a second lieutenant in the ment. army of the United States. He is to-day the senior colonel in l\Ir.. l\IADDEN. I am opposed to rewarding men merely be the Quartermaster's Department of the United States Army cause they think they have influence. Let them stand upon John L. Clem. [Applause.] He has served all along the line their own merits. Let them secure their promotion in accord with distinction; chief quartermaster at Porto Rico, chief quar ance with the rules of the army; let Congress keep its hands off termaster for a number of years in the Philippines. He has all questions of this kind, and give every man who has the honor been a military instructor at a great university. He acquired to serve as an officer in the army equal opportunity for promo- an education and became an accomplished officer. I saw him tion. [Loud applause.] . . last when he was chief quartermaster on the Pacific slope, Mr. HULL of Iowa. Just one correction of the gentleman's and he is now serving in the line of his duty with great dis remarks, where he says this gives the men more on the retired tinction. He might be retired as a brigadier-general or a list than when on the active list. That is not quite correct. major-general and do credit to this conntry; but we can not Mr. MADDEN. How near to it? do justice to all the deserving officers and soldiers of the great Mr. HULL of Iowa. It would be the same pay pr<>per, but civil war and all along the line. According to my habit and the allowances are not given any longer, and that amounts to the precedent of my past votes, I shall be obliged to vote for several hundred dollars. this amendment, notwithstanding it works out inequality in I now yield ten minutes to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. particular cases. KEIFER]. Mr. HULL of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I ask the gentleman from Mr. KEIFER. .Ur. Speaker, I think there is some misappre New York if. he desires to move to recede and concur? hension on the part of some gentlemen who have recently spoken Mr. SULZER. Mr. Speaker, I move to recede and concur. on this amendment as to the retirement provision of this bill. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York [Mr. SuLzER] The amendment provides for officers going upon the retired liPt, moves that the House recede from its disagreement to the Sen and does not undertake to make up an army of officers for actl ve ate amendment and concur in the sam~ which motion takes service at all. These men are to be promoted and retired, and precedence. the proposed proviso applies simply to a few officers and gives The question was taken, and on a division [demanded by Mr. them the right to be retired with the honor of the increased SULZER] there were-ayes 52, noes 43. rank and with the increased retired pay, if you please. The Mr. MANN and Mr. l\IADDEN demanded tellers. latter is a very important part to a man who has served all his Tellers wei:e ordered, and the Speaker appointed Mr. MANN life in the army, who has a wife and family to provide for, an and Mr. SULZER. officer who is getting old and frail and feeble, and with a family The House a-gain divided, and the tellers reported-ayes 51, dependent upon him, who has not accumulated anything during noes 70. that period, even though he has lived with great economy all l\Ir. SULZER. The yeas and nays, Mr. Speaker. his life. The yeas and nays were refused, not a sufficient number sec It is not a question of preference, because to retire officers onding the demand. with an increased rank will make way for somebody else to Accordingly the motion to recede and concnr was rejected. come up to the rank which the retired officer formerly held. Mr. HULL of Iowa. I move that the House insist on its dis So it is not unjust to those who remain on the active list in agreement and agree to the conference asked by the Senate. the army. The motion was agreed to, and the Speaker appointed a.s con Having said that much, I feel it to be my duty to vote for ferees on the part of the House, l\Ir. HULL of Iowa., Mr. PRINCE, this provision, not because I think it works out equitably and and Mr. SULZER. justly all around in the matter of retiring officers of the army, PENSIONS, for there are very many officers on the retired list who are just l\fr. SULLOWAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent as worthy by reason of active field service during the civil that bills on the Private Calenda1• in order to-day may be con war as the men who will be promoted if this provision becomes sidered in the House as in Committee of the Whole. a law; but as we all know it is impossible to work out justice The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New Hampshire asks in e>ery case. unanimous consent that bills on the Private Calendar in order There are men on the active list in the army now who to-day may be considered in the House as in Committee of the sened long in the civil war and with credit. If th-ey were not Whole. Is there objection? officers in all cases they still served with distinguished credit. There was no objection. I know a man in the United States Army now who ought to be . a brigadier-general, and should have been long ago, who served WILLIAM KEYES • in the civil war when almost a child. He was in the battle The first bill on the calendar was the bill ( S. 4672) to correct of Chickamauga, and other battles in 1863, when 12 years of the military record of William Keyes. age. Ile was small for his age then. He served to the end of The Clerk read the bill, as follows : the war without having any chance to get a good education. Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, He afterwards aspired to go to West Point, and I will tell you authorized and directed to remove the charge of desertion now standing on the records of the War Department against the name of William bow he went through that institution. He solicited, shortly Keyes, late private in Company B, One hundred and forty-second Regi after the civil war, of General Grant, when President of the ment New York Volunteer Inf:mtry, and to grant him an honorable dis4 charge from said organization: Provided That no pay, bounty, or other United States, an appointment as a cadet at West Point. Pres~ emoluments shall become due or payable1 by virtue of the passage o! ident Grant promised it to him as soon as he was old enough this act~ and felt ready to take the required examination. When later The following committee amendment was read: he notified President Grant that he was ready to try to get Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: - into the Military Academy as a cadet, General Grant nominated "That in the administration of the pension laws William Keyes him as a cadet as he had promised. This young man started shall hereafter be held and considered to have been honorably dis from his western home and went to West Point, where he un charged from the military service of the United States as a private of Company B, One hundred and forty-second Regiment New York Volun derwent the ex51mination, physical and mental, and the old teer Infantry, on the 30th day of October, 1864 : Provided, That no board up there passed upon it and rejected him on every pension shall accrue prior to the passage of this act." known ground. He was too short, he did not weigh enough, and The amendment was agreed to. he failed in mathematics and literature, and in everything else. The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the On his way homeward he came to this city, called on President third time, and passed. Grant, and succeeded in getting into the cabinet room, found On motion of Mr. BRADLEY, the title was amended so as to Grant there alone, thanked him for the opportunity that had read: "An act for the relief of William Keyes." been given him to get into the United States Army as an officer, and told the President that he had been unfortunate and had PETER FLEMING. failed in his examination and must go home and resume some The next business on the Private Calendar was tI1e bill other occupation than that of a soldier. Grant, in an assumedr ( S. 2445) an act for the relief of Peter Fleming. cold, stern way, told this ambitious young man and soldier that The Clerk read the bill, as follows: he was glad he had failed in his examination. That was not Be it enacted, etc., '£hat Peter Fleming, late prl:va.te ln Battery El, Third United States Artillery, be. and iie is hereby, declared to be. very consoling to a broken-hearted, ambitious, patriotic soldier entitled to adm.1ss1on to the National Rome t.or Disabled Volunteer boy; but before he left, Grant wrote a little card and put it Soldiers, or any branch thereof. 2414 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, The committee amendment was read, as follows: Mr.. MANN. Mr. Speaker, I raise the point of order that this Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: bill can not be considered to-day for the purpose of getting a "That in the administration of the pension laws and the laws gov ruling upon this class of bills. The rules provide : erning the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, or any branch thereof, Peter Fleming, now a resident of Colorado, shall here The second and fourth Friday in each month, after disposal of such after be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from business on the Speaker's table as requires reference only, shall be set the military service of the United States as a private of Battery E, apart for the consideration of private pension bills, bills for the removal Third Regiment U. S. Artillery, on the 8th day of May, 1864: Provided, of political disabilities, and bills to remove charges of desertion. That no pension shall accrue prior to the passage of this act." This bill is a bill providing that in the administration of the The amendment was agreed to. pension laws George W. Flack shall be deemed and taken to The bill as amended was ordered to be read a third time, have been honorably discharged from the military service. Of was read the third time, and passed. course, it is in order to-day only on one of two grounds-either JAMES J. ELLIOTT. that this bill removes the charge of desertion, or it is a bill The next business on the Private Calendar was the bill granting a pension. (H. R. 1324) for the relief of James.J. Elliott. The Committee on Military Affairs, I notice, has adopted this The Clerk read the bill. as follows: form of bill in preference to the form of bill that used generally Be it enactea, etc., That James J. Elliott shall be held and considered to be used directly removing the charge of desertion. to have been mustered into the service of the United States on Sep Personally, I think the present form is much superior to the tember 15, 1864, as of Company E, Seventh Regiment Tennessee old form. Of course if this bill is in order to-day it would not Mounted Infantry Volunteers, and to have been honorably discharged from said service on January 25, 1865, and that the Secretary of War be in order on the day that claims or war claims are in order. is hereby authorized and directed to place his name on the rolls of said If it is not in order to-day it would be in order on those days. organization and to grant him an honorable discharge therefrom. I raise the question solely for the purpose of having a ruling, in The following committee amendment was read: order that the House and Clerk may know what day these bills Add at the end of the bill the following: shall be considered. Plainly, they are in order on one of the "PrO"Vided, That no pay, bounty, or other emoluments shall become Fridnys. due or payable by virtue of the passage of this act." The SPEAKER. The Chair is inclined to hold that this bill The amendment was agreed to. · and amendment would substantially be entitled to consideration The bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed and read a to-day as a pension bill. It provides-- third time, was read the third time, and passed. That in the administration of the pension laws and the laws govern ing the Soldiers' Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, or any branch JAMES M'KENZIE. thereof, George W. Flack, now a resident of Pennsylvania, shall here The next business on the Private Calendar was the bill (H. R. after be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the military service of the United States as a private of Company I, 3348) for the relief of James McKenzie. Fifth Regiment U. S. Veteran Volunteer Infantry, on the 16th day of The Clerk read the bill, as follows: June, 1866 : Providea1 That no pension shall accrue prior to the passage Be it enacted, etc., That James McKenzie be held and considered to of this act. · have been honorably discharged from Company D, First Battalion, Now, that does not change the record. The greater includes Eleventh United States Infantry, as of date of August 26, 1865: Pro- 11ided, That no pay, bounty, or other emoluments shall become due or the less, and the effect, in the opinion of the Chair, of this bill, payable by virtue of the passage of this act. if enacted into law, would be to give the soldier a pensionable The following committee amendment was read : status under the general law. The Chair, therefore, overrules Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: the point of order. " That in the administration of the pension laws and the laws gov The question is on agreeing to the amendment. erning the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, or any The amendment was agreed to. branch thereof, James McKenzie, now a resident of Iowa, shall hereafter The bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed and read a be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the military service of the United States as a private of Company D, First third time, was read the third time, and passed. Battalion, Eleventh Regiment United States Infantry, on the 26th day of August, 1865: Pt·ovided, That no pension shal accrue prior to the MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. passage of this act." A message from the Senate, by Mr. Crockett, one of its clerks, The amendment was agreed to. announced that the Senate had insisted upon its amendments The bill as amended -was ordered to be engrossed and read a to the bill (H. R. 5702) to supplement an act entitled ''An act third time, was read the third time, and passed. to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon rail roads," disagreed to by the House of Representatives, had DANIEL H. WIGGIN. agreed to the conference asked by the House on the disagree The next business on the Private Calendar was the bill (H. R. ing votes of the two Houses thereon, and had appointed Mr. 16824) for the relief of Daniel H. Wiggin. ELKINS, Mr. CRANE, and Mr. TAYLOR as the conferees on the The Clerk read the bill, as follows: part of the Senate. Be it enacted, etc., That Daniel H. Wiggin shall hereafter be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the military service PATRICK SHIELDS. of the United States as private of Company B, Third Regiment New The next business was the bill (H. R. 20180) for the relief Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, on the 23d day of August, 1864: Pro vided, That no pay, bounty, or other emoluments shall become due or of Patrick Shields. payable by virtue of the passage of this act. The Clerk read as follows: Be it enacted, etc., That in the administration of the pension laws The following committee amendment was read: and the laws governing the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: Soldiers, or any branch thereof, Patrick Shields, now a resident of New "'!'hat in the administration of the pension laws and the laws gov York, shall hereafter be held and considered to have been honorably erning the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, or any discharged from the military service of the United States as a first branch thereof, Daniel II. Wiggin, now a resident of New Hampshire, sergeant of Company B, Sixty-second Regiment New York Veteran Vol shall hereafter be held and considered to have been honorably dis unteer Infantry, on the 5th day of January, 1865 : Provi The name of .James L. Mayers, late of Company E, Sixth Regiment The name of Harrison Davis, late of Companies D and B, One hun Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of dred and fourteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of .Jane K. Hall, widow of .James Hall, late of Company B, receiving. Thirty-ninth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a The name of .John Stallard, late of Company K, Forty-sixth Regiment pension at the rate of $12 per month. Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of William B. Britton, late major Eighth Regiment Wis per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. consin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 per The name of Alvin Eckley, late of Company E, Eleventh Regiment month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of William H. Edie, late of Company L, First Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Ohio Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of George H. Young, late of Company H, One hundred and $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. sixty-ninth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of Allen Patrick, late of Company C, One hundred and pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Marlon Vandiver, late of Company B, Third Regiment the rate of 50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a penslon at the rate of $30 The name of Robert Carlton, late of U. S. B. Conestoga and Black per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Hawk, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of Roswell B. Gotham late of Company G, Tenth Regiment per month in Lieu of that he ls now receiving. New York Volunteer Heavy Artniery and pay him a pension at the The name of Edwin Cowell, late of Company M, First Regiment Ohio rate of $24 per month in lieu of that ne1 ls now receiving. Volunteer Heavy Artlllery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of Philip S. Fletcher, late of Battery D, West Virginia per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of Rachel Turner, widow of .John L. Turner, late of Com per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pany I One hundred and twenty-sixth Re!?iment Ohio Voh•eer Infan try and pay her a pension at the rate of $24 per month in 1ieu of that The name of .James P. Hill late of Company B, One hundred and she' is now receiving: Provided, That in the event of the death of fifty-fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Freddie Turner, helpless and dependent son of said .John L. Turner, the at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. additional pension herein granted shall cease and determine: And pro The name ot Reuben G. Kingsland, late of Seventh Independent Bat vided further, That in the event of the death of Rachel Turner, the tery Wisconsin Volunteer Light Artillery, and first lieutenant Battery name of said Freddie Turner shall be placed on the pension roll, sub I, Second Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Light Artillery, ject to the provisions and limitations ot the pension laws, at the rate of and pay him a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of tillj.t he is $12 per month from and after the date of death of said Rachel Turner. now receiving, The name of Barbara A. Bacon, former widow of Clark W. Dewell, The name of .James C. Boyle late of Company A, Twellth Regiment late of Company D, Sixty-eighth Re_glment Ohl9 Volunteer Infantry, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 and pay her a pension at the rate of it2 per month. per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. The name of Thomas Henderson, late of Company K, Nineteenth The name of Catherine L. Willis, widow of Robert M. Willis, late of Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Company G, Seventieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay of 30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. her a pension at the rate of $20 per month ln lieu o! that she is now The name of Thomas S. Coley, late of Company H, Twenty-second receiving. Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Santford S. Liller, late of Company K, Fourth Regiment rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of William R. Strawn, late of Company B, Sixteenth Regi $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the The name of .James M. Pulver, late of Twelfth Independent Battery rate of $24 per month in Heu of that he is now receiving. Ohio Volunteer Light ArtUlery1 and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of .John W. Hughes, late of Company F, Thirteenth Regi $24 per month In lieu of that ne is now receiving. ment, and Company D, First Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry, and The name of Silas A. Lambert, late of Company C, Fiftieth Regiment pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month ln lieu of that he is Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. no~h~e~~~gof Elwood W. Coleman, late of Inde endent Battery A, The name of Henry C. King, late of Company A, El~hty-second Regi Pennsylvania Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay h&:i a pension at the ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of rate of 24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Herman Ecke, late of Company EJ, Thirty-seventh Regi The name of William W. Blachly, late of Company H, Ninth Regiment ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension-at the rate of $24 of 36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving-. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of George G. Morrison, late of Company D, Seventh Regiment The name of .Jacob B. Davis, late of Company C, Twenty-sixth Regi Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, ~nd pay him ~ pension at the rate of $24 ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate per month in lieu of that he is now reeeivmg. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of George H. V. Kelly, late of Company G, Thirty-third The name of .Joseph A. Brown, late of Company B, Third Regiment Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he 1s now receiving. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Sumner Cu.mmings1 late of Nineteenth unattached com The name of William Pack, late of Company B, Forty-fifth Regiment pany, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Frederick W. Verk:ins, late of Company F, Sixth Regi The name of William R. Pruette, late of Company C, Thirteenth ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the of 30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Amos W. Littlejohn, late of Company H, Sixth Regi The name of David Detty, late of Company H, One hundred and ment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and Company G, One hundred and seventy-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantryh and pay him a pen fifteenth Regiment Company F, Eighty-fifth Regiment, and Company sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that e is now receiving. F Thirty-third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of Darwin S. Curtl.s, late of Company E, One hundred and pension at the rate of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. twenty-ninth Regiment, and Company G, One hundred and seventy The name of Edward K. Chapman, late of Company E, Twentieth fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Re!?iment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of .John R. Lemon, late of Company EJ, Forty-fifth Regi The name of Eliab Averill, late of Company G, Twelfth Regiment ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Thomas R. Harris, late of U. S. S. Princeton, Linda, The name of .Joseph T. Daffy, late of Company EJ, Twelfth Regiment and Delta, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $20 $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of .Jacob Zirkle, late of Company F, Fifteenth Regiment The name of Haniet L. Burwell, former widow of Prescott B. Bur West Virginia Volunteer Intantry, and pay him a pension at the rate well, captain Company F, Thirty-sixth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Infantry and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 _per month. The name of .Jerome T. Richter, late of Company D, Fifty-seventh The name of Carlton D. Hays, late of Company K, One hundred and Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the sixty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania _Drafted Militia, and pay him a pen rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he Is now receiving. sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of .James Campbell, late of Company L, Fourteenth Regi The name of Sarah D. Drew widow of .John Drew, late of Company ment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate B, Thirteenth Regiment New iiampshire Volunteer Infantry, and Com of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pany A, Sixth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay her a pension The name of Martha R. Griswold, widow of .John M. Griswold, late at the rate of $12 per month. captain Company B, Forty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer The name of Wllliam McMannis, late of Company E, Ninety-eighth Infantry, and pay her a · pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of that she is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · The name of McKager Lowhorn, late of Company C, First Regiment The name of Nelson Haggerty, late of Company K, First Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 New .Jersey Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of per month in lleu of that he ls now receiving, $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of George Henderson, late of Company F, Seventh Regi The name of Charles Russett, late of Company G, One hundred and ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the of $30 per month 1n lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. The name of William A. Smith, late of Companies B and M, Sixth The name of George Laws, late of. Company K, Twelfth Regiment Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate New .Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of. of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James H. Doty, late of Company B, First Regiment The name of William A. Mallonee, late of Company I, First Regi Oregon Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 ment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Levi E. Eames, late of Company G, Eleventh Regiment The name of Albert N. Barnes, late of Company B, Thirty-sixth Regi Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry1 and pay him a pension at the rate of per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu ot that ne is now receiving. The name of Anton Wolf, late of Company D, Ninth Regiment, and The name of John L. G. Thompson, late of Company G, Second Regi Company I, Eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at th.e rate of pension at the rate of $24 per month 1n lieu of that he lS now receiving. $24 per month ln lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of .James Huffman, late of Company A, One hundred and The name -of Alexander Bollinger, late of Company E, Seventy-sixth second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the rate of i24 per m.onth ln lieu of that he is now receiving. 2416 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, The name of William M. Holton, late second lieutenant Company B, The name of William H. Hawkins, late of Company C, One hundred Sixtieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension and. twenty-eighth Regiment, and Company F, One hundred and fiftieth at the rate of $30 per month In lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The ·name of William B. Whitcomb, late of Company B, Eighty-second rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Indiana. Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Reuben T. Putney, late of Company C, One hundred rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now i:eceiving. and .fifty-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of Eliza A. Elliott, widow of Jonathan Elliott, late second pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. lieutenant Company I, One hundred and thirty-second Regiment Indiana The name of John Strickland, late of Company I, Second Regiment Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of 20 per month New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 in lieu of that she is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Solomon M. Price, late of Company M, Second Regiment The name of Charles H. Berry, late of Company H, Sixteenth Regi Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 men.t New ~ork .Volunteer Infantry, and Company F, Twenty-fifth per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment WISconsrn Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of William H. Stultz, late of Company C, First Regiment rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ' Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and Companr C, Thirty-eighth Regi The name of William H. Johnson, late of Company B, Ninth Re~ ment Pennsylvania Militia Infantry, and pay bun a pension at the rate ment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin~. The name of Oscar N. Greer, late of Company G, Thirteenth Regi The name of Henry Turner, late of Company F, Thirteenth Regiment ment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John McGowen, late of ComEany H, One hundred and The name of William H. Whitaker, late first lieutenant and captain twenty-eighth Regiment Illinois Volunteer nfantry, and pay him a Company C, One hundred and seventeenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now re- Infantry, •d pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu ceivin"'. , of that he is now receivin"'. The name of Alonzo C. Grout, late of Company G, Sixth Regiment The name of August Siederman, late of Company D, Second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and Company A, Second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Mass~llusetts Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James S. Hilberry, late of Company B, Seventy-eighth The name of Henry Billmyer, late of Company K, Eighty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at Regiment P~n n sylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $BO per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the rate of :;524 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William V. 'l'hompson, late of Battery L, First Regiment Tfi"e name of Robert O. Whitten, late of Company I, Sixty-sixth Regi United States .Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu .of that be is now receiving. 'l'he name of Ellen E. Webb, former widow of George H. Webb. late The name of George W. Schachleiter, late of Company G, Seventy of Company I, Thirt y-first Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen her a pension at the rate of $12 per. month. sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. '£he name of Jacob F . Rea.mer, late of Company D, Two hundred and The name of Alexander Miller, late of Company G, Eighty-first Regi nint h Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William G. Mitzel, late of Company .A., Twenty-first The name of John Jones, late of Company F, Seventy-fourth Regi Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Hiram Gray, late of Company F, One hundred and The name of Zacheus B. Fifield, late first lieutenant and adjutant, twenty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infanb·y, and pay him a pension at at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. T he name of James H. Larimer, late first .lieutenant Company C, '.rhe name ')f Baker Mote, late of Fourteenth Battery Indiana Volun Tenth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the teer Ll~ht Artillery, and pay him a J?ension at the rate of $24 per rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. month m lieu of that he is now receivmg. The name of Orlando Wood, late of Company H, Fifteenth Regiment The name of Harrison Pangburn, late of Company H, One hundred Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 and seventeenth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of Calvin Young, late of Company G, One hundred and receiving. twenty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of Martin Burns, late of Company G, Thirteenth Regiment at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per The name of Mary A. Tucker, widow of Ezra Tucker, late chaplain, month in lieu of that he is now receiving. One hundred and eighth Regiment United States Colored Volunteer In The name of Charles G. Cochran, late of Company G, Sixty-third fantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the that she is now receiving. rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Michael Campion, late of Company G, One hundred and The name of William Rosenbarger, helpless and dependent child of thirty-seventh Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay .him a Philip Rosenbarger, late of Company A, Eighty-first Regiment Indiana pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now re Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per ceiving. month. The name of Francis M. Steves, late of Company I, Sixty-fifth Regi The name of Hiram M. Waltman, late of Company D, Eighty-second ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay hlm a pension at the rate of Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him' a pension at the $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Hamilton Lyon, late of Company F, One hundred and The name of Thomas Johnson, late of Company G, One hundred and thirty-sixth Regiment Ohio National Guard Infantry, and pay him a seventy-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is novr re sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ceiving. The name of Thomas Terwilliger, late of Company E, Eightieth The name of Charles G. Fisher, late of Company G, Second Regi Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now r eceiving. The name of William Lewis, late of Company B, Seventh Regiment The na me of Charles W. Wilson, late of Company M, Second Regi Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 ment Ohio Volunteer H eavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John D. Moore, late second lieutenant Company A, The name of James Russell, late of Company G, Second Regiment Eighty-third Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ' Tile name of James Flynn, late of Company K, Eighteenth Regiment The name of George W. Noyes, late of Company B, Sixth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of New Hampsh_ire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $30 pei· month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John W. B. Trowbridge, late of Company C, Sixth Regi The name of John E. Meglemire, late of Company D, Twenty-third ment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Samuel Woodbury, second, late of Company H, Tenth The name of William Schiesl, late of Company A, Fifth Regiment Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the r ate of at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Charles H. Thompson, late of Company B, Eleventh The name of John C. Hammond, late of Company G, One hundred Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension and fifty-seventh Regiment Ohio National Guard Infantry, and pay him at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. a pension at the · rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is · now The name of Edgar Chyle, late of Companies C and H, Fifty-fourth r eceiving. Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of John Rogers, late of Company B, Tenth Regiment Ken the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. tucky Volunter Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 30 per The name of William A .. Begley, late of Company M, Fourteenth month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Regiment Kent ucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Thomas Doyle, late of U. S. S. North Carolina, Wabash, rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and Princeton, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Edmund Jones, late of Company H, Forty-seventh Regi of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Almon Herrick, late of Company I, Twenty-ninth Regi rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of August H. Strains, late of Company G, One hundred of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. , and thirty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him The name of Albert F. Aylsworth, late of Company B, One hundred a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now and eighty-fourth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him receiving. a pension at the rate of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now re The name of John Bush, late of Company I, One hundred and sixty ceiving. eighth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of Davis Brooks, late of Company F, Fifty-second Regiment at the rate of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin~. Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Jennie Benjamin, widow of William H. Benjamm, late $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. first lieutenant Company E, One hundred and twenty-fourth Regiment The name of James T. Gothard, late of Company E, Sixth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate ol $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. $36 per month in lleu of that he is now receiving. The name of Christian S. Hulshizer, late of Company C, Thirty-first The name of Edward S. Kennedy, late of Company B, Forty-seventh Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at Regiment Indiana Volunteer lnfantryh and pay him a pension at the the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. rate of $40 per month in lieu of that e is now receiving. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. 2417 The name of Danlel Martin, late of Company C, Ninth Regiment The name of Daniel M. Maxson, late of Company B, Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and Company C. Eighth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 United States Veteran Volunteei· Infantry, and pay him a pension at per month in lieu of that he is now receiving.· the rate of. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Hiram McKim, late of Company B, Fifteenth Regiment The name of Conrad Baker, late of Company M, First Reaiment Ohio Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Hollis L. Rich, late of Company D, Second Regiment The name of. John Cary, late of. Company G, Third Regiment Ohio Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. in lieu of that he is now receivina. The name of John Avery, late of Twenty-fourth Independent Battery The name of Samuel Boyer, fate of Company I, Sixth Regiment New York Volunteer Light Artillery and Battery L, Th.ird Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of New York Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate $24 pe1· month in lieu of. that he is now receiving. of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. • The name of William A. McHenry, late of Captain Weaver's Inde The name of Mathias Bressler, late of Company H, Seventh Regiment pendent Company, Pennsylvania Volunteer Mounted Infantry, and pay · Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension .at the rate of $24 him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . receiving. The name of George W. Hillyard, late of Company I , Seventeenth The name of Thomas J. Johnson, late of Company K, Sixteenth Regi Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ·. $24 per month in lieu of. that be is now receiving. The name of William Kohler, late of Company E, One hundred and The name of Fletcher M. Baldwin, late of Company D, Third Regi third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . The name of Jonathan Purvis, late of Company I, Fortieth Regiment The ·name of Job Ingram, late of Company I, One hundred and th1rty Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of seventb Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $24 per month 1n lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Nathan P. Eckles, late of Company G, Fourteenth Regi The name of Josiah T. McKee, late of Company E, Forty-third Regi ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Jonathan M. Rime, late of Company B, Tenth Regi The name of John S. Sloan, late of Company E, Thirty-third Regi ment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Francis L. French, late of Company H, Second Regi The name of Lewis H. Crist, late of Company C, Third Regiment ment Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension Pennsylvania Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and Company I, One hundred at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now recei.ving. and eighty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infanh·y, and pay The name of George G. Robertson, late of Company A, Forty-eighth him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the receiving. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John G. Mitchell, late of Company G, Fifteenth Regi The name of Henry Lemke, late of Company C, Twenty-sixth Regi ment, and Company G, Tenth Regiment West Virginia Volunteer In .nient New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. that he is now receiving. The name of William Snyder, late of Company F, One hundred and The name of George W. Mullin, late of Company I, One hundred and twenty-eighth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a thirty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James Valentine, late of Company A, Third Regiment The name of John Wareham, late of Captain Tompkins's battery, Rhode Island Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the Rhode Island Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a peneion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Thomas C. Dunaway, late of Company F, Thlrd Regi The name of Anna M. Benner, widow of Adam Benner, late of Com ment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the pany D, Ninety-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is The name of Christopher Clarkson, late of Company I, Second Regi now receiving. ment Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the 1.'be name of J ackson Painter, late of Captain Ford's independent rate of $36 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. cavalry company attached to the Fifty-thlrd Regiment Illinois Vol The name of William W. Sturch, late of Company H, Twenty-fourth unteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $20 per month Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and Battery D, Second Regiment in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mis ouri Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Albin Irey, late of Company I, One hundred and seventy of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at 'l'he name of Mary McNally, widow of Pah·ick McNally, late major, the rate of '$30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Second Regiment Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at The name of Ebenezer Pruden, late of Company F, Seventy-second the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Davia H. Ebbert, late of Company I, Fourteenth Regi rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Herbert A. York, late of Company D, One hundred and $20 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. forty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of Samuel Vernum, late of Company C, Eleventh Regiment pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Missouri State Militia Cavalry, and pay hlm a pension at the rate of The name of Simon Smith, late of Company F, Forty-fifth Regiment $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Thomas Swartwood, late of Company I, Twenty-fifth $24 per month in lieu of that he' is now receiving. Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of William Armon, late of Company D, Fiftieth Regiment of 40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay hlm a pension at the rate of The name of Charles W. Gandy, late of Company_ G, Fourth Regiment $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of George C. Platt, late of Troop H, Sixth Regiment United per month in lieu of that he is now r eceiving. States Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in The name of Anna Quinn, widow of Timothy Quinn, late major, First Heu of that he is now receiving. Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay her a pension at the The name of William Gardner, late of Company G, Thirteenth Regi rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. ment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Thomas McClure, late of Company F, Sixty-seventh rate·of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Thomas H. Shillito, late of Company A, Twenty-third the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the The name of John Phelan, late of Company H, First Re!!iment Wis rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receivina. consin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ~rate of $24 The name of Osborn Sheely, late of Company A, Hafi•s independent per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. battalion, Michigan Volunteer Sharpshooters, and Company A, First The name of Moses Frazar, late of Company H, Twelfth Regiment In Regiment Michigan Volunteer Sharpshooters, and pay him a pension at diana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 per the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. month in lieu of t hat be is now receiving. . The name of Henry A. Keve, late of Company E, Seventh Regiment The name of Enos D. Delong, late of Company G, Tenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. . per month in Ueu of that be is now receiving. ·The name of William R. Wolbert, late of First Battery, Minnesota The name of Alfred F. Stier, helpless and dependent child of Charles Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Stier, late of Company- E, Twenty-sixth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 12 per month. The name of Charles Dimmler, late of Company B, Tenth Regiment The name of D~can Croy, late of Company G, Ninety-second Regi New York Volunteer Cavalry, and Company B, First Regiment New York ment Ohio Volunt eer Infanh·y, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 Provisional Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of per month in lieu of that be is now receiv.tng. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Levi S. Blasdell, late of Company D, Fiftieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of William H. Allard, late of Company I, First Regiment $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. New Hampshire Volunteer Cavaky, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Richard Phillips, late of Company E, Seventh Regiment of $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of John H. Spear, late of Company H, Twenty-ninth Regi per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Noah S. Jones, late of Company I, Twenty-first Regi rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of William C. Gardner, ·late of Company .A., Ninth Regiment $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. :Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 1.1be name of Eugene Dwight, late of U. S. S. Black Hawk and $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Tempest, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 1.'he name of Oscar Law, late of Company A, First Regiment Indiana per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of Victor M. Jones, now known as Victor M. Hawley, late per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of Company C, Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay The name of Benjamin F. Spencer, late of Company E, Ninth Regi him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Jacob Gatchell, late of Company F, Fifty-fifth Regiment The name of Isaac N. Johnson, late captain Company H, Sixth Regi Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at the rate month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. XLV-152 2418 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, The name of Charles: J. Smith,. late of Company F, Thirty-eighth Regi H. R. !1830_ Henry Blllmyer , ment Wisconsin Voluntee1~ Inf antry, and pay him a pension at the rate H. R 11886. Robert O. Whitten; of 24 per month in lieu of tbnt he ls now receivln,g~ H. R. 11950. George W. Schachleiter • The name of John J_ Hiatt, late of Company A, Second Regiment Ohio H. R. 11953. Alexandeii Miller,· " Volunteer Heavy Artillerlt, and pay him. a pension at the rate of $24 H. R.12007. John Jones; '· per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. R R. 12210. Zacheus B. Fifield ; The nanie of James S~ Sines, late of Company F, Fourth Regiment H. R. 12236. Baker Mote ; Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $-"24 per H. R. 12444. Harrison Pangburn ; mont h in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 12526. Madin. Burns ; The name. o:f William Mitchell, late sergeant-major. Fifth Re~ment H. R. 12586. Charles G. Cochran; United States Artillery, and pay him_ a pension at the rate of $60 per H. R. 12614. William Rosenberger; month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. H.. R. 12656. Hiram M. Waltman; The name of Augustus Hubbell, late ftrst lieutenant and regimental H- R. 12669. Thomas Johnson ; quartermaster. Fifty-ninth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and H. R..12681. Thomas Terwilliger; pay him a. pension. at the rate of $50 per. month in. lieu of that he is H. R. 12785. William Lewis ; • now receiving. H . R. 12839. John D. Moore; The name of John L. Abbott, late of Company Dr Twenty-sixth Regi H. K 12863. James Flynn; ment Indiana.. Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ot H. R. 12920. John W. B. Trowbridge:. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 12929~ Samuel Woodbury, 2d; The name of Mary C~ Opdyke, widow of Geor"'e W. Opdyke, late of H. R. 12939. Charles H. Thompson; Company I. Thirt y-eighth Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Iniantry, and H. R. 1314L Edgar Chyle; pay her a. pension at the rate of $20 per month. in lieu of that she is now H. R. 13570. William A. Begley ; receiving. H. R. 13571. Edmund Jones; The name of Calvin B. Holbrook,, late of Company G, Eleven.th Regi H. R. 13825. August H. Strains ; ment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of. $30 H. R. 14008. John Bush; per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 14012. Jennie BeJ!jamin ~ The name of John G. Baker, late of Company B, Seventh Regiment H. R. l...4014. Christian s. Hnlshizer: New York Militia Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 H. R. 14025. William H. Hawkins; per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. H. R. 14053. Reuben T. Putney; The name of Wilson S. Lenhart~ late of Company E, Forty-sixth Regi H. R. 14075. John Strickland; ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him: a. pension at the rate of H. R. 14156. Charles H. Berry; $24 per month in lieu of. that he is now receiving H. R. 14240. William H. Johnson; This bill is a substitute for the following House bills referred to said H. R. 14300. Henry Turner ; committee: H. R. 14327. William H. Whitaker: H. R. 14332~ .August Slederman ; H. R. 141. William Henry- Wright; H. R. 14404. James S. Hllberry;. H. R. 377. W. H. Guy~ H. R. 14460. William V. Thompson : H . R. 460. Jllliles L. Ma-ye.rs; H. R. 14819. Ellen EJ. Webb ; H. R. 562. Jane K Hall; H. R. 14905. Jacob F. Reamer: H. R. 589. William B. Britton ; H_ R. 14990. William G. Mitzel;. H. R. 823. William H. Edie ;. H. R. 1273. Allen Patrick; R R.14991. Hiram Gray; H. R. 1289. Robert Carlton ; H. R. 15033. James H. Larimer; H. R. 1520. Edwin Cowell ; H. R- 15-062.. Orlando Wood; H. R. 15102~ Calvin Young; H. R. 1539. Rachel Turner ; H. R...15500 . ..Mary A. Tucker ; H. R. 1560. Barbara A. Bacon; H. R. 15.50'I. Michael Campion;, H. R. 1577. Thomas Henderson; H. R. 15512- Francis M. Steves; H. R. 1591. Thomas S. Coley ; H. R. 15528. Hamilton Lyon ; H. R. 1599. William R. Strawn; H. R. 15708. Charle:s G. Fisher; H. R.1626. John W. Hughes; H. R. 15745. Charles W. Wilson; .H. R. 1750. Elwood W. Coleman; H.. R_ 15774. James Russell; H. R. 1800. Herman Ecke ; H_ R. 15927. George W. Noyes; H. R. 1938. George G. Morrison;. H. R. 16124-. John EJ. Meglemire; H. R. 2034. Geo1·ge H. V. Kelly ; RR. 16171. William Schiesl; H. R. 2077. Sumner Cummings; H. R. 1G269'. John C. Hammond; H. R. 2317. Frederick W. Verkins; H. R. 16435. John Rogers, II. R. 2415. Amos W. Littlejohn; RR. 16689. Thomas Doyle; H. R. 2599. Edward K. Chapman; H_ R.16707. Almon Herrick; H. R. 2t>09. Eliab Averill; H. R. 2804.. Joseph T. Du.try; H. R. 16745. Albert F. Aylesworth: H. R. 2903. Harriet L. Burwell ; H_ R. 16761. Davis- Brooks ; H. R. 2941. Canalton D. Hays ;, H. R. 17037. James T. Gothard; H. R. 3028. Sarah D. Drew ; H. R. 17043. Edward S. Kennedy : H. R. 3242. William McMannis; H. R. 17112. Daniel Martin; H- R. 3377. Nelson Haggerty; H. R. 17146. Conrad Baker; H. R. 3685. Charles Russet ; H. R. 171.91. John Cary ; H. R. 3812. George LaWB; H. R. 17348. Samuel Boyer ; H. R. 3972. James H. Doty; H. R. 17354:. William A. McHenry ; H. R. 4105. Levi El. Eames ; H. R. 17667. Thomas J. Johnson; H. R. 4216. Anton Wolf; H. R.17677. Fletcher M. Baldwin; H. R. 4579. James Hutrman; R R. 176 4. Job Ingram ; H. R. 4593. Harrison Davis; H. R.177 2. Josiah T. McKee; H. R. 4848. John Stallard; H. R. 17809. John 8- Sloan; H . R. 4990. Alvin Eckley ; H_ R. 17 22. Lewis H. Crist ; H. R_ 5740 George H. Young; H. R. 17912:. John G. Mitchell; H. R. 6028. Marion Vandiver; H. R. 17933. George W. Mullen; H. R. 6086. Roswell B. Gotham ; H. R. 18038. James. Valentine; H. R. 6094. Philip S. Fletcher ; H. R. 18084. Thomas C. Dunnaway; H. R. 6197. James P. Hill; H. R. 18104. Christopher Clarkson; H. R. 6248. Reuben G. Kingsland; H. R. 18117. William W. Sturch; H. R. 6722. James C. Boyle; H. R.18141. Marr McNally; . H. R. 6979. Catherine L. Willis; H. R. 18184. David H. Ebbert; H. R- 7070. Sa.ntford S Liller; H. R. 18191. Samuel Vernum; H. R. 7128. J a mes M. Pulver; H. R. 18322. Thomas Swartwood; H. R. 7210- Sila s A. Lambert; H. R. 18499. Charles W. Gandy;, H. R. 7219. H enry C. King ; H. R. 18520. Anna Quinn ; H. R. 7987. William W. Blackley: H. R. 18545. Thomas McClure; H. R. 8088. Jacob B. Davis; H. R.18579. John Phelan; H. R. 8786. Joseph A. Brown; H. R. 18648. Moses Frazar ; H. R. 8994. William Pack ; H. R. 18651. Enos D. De Long; H. R. 9343. William R. Pruette ; H. R. 18754. Alfred F. Stier ; H. R. 9378. David Detty; H. R. 18771. Duncan Croy ; H- R. 9385. Darwin S. Curtis ; H. R. 18787. Levi S. Blasdell; H. R. 9551. John R. Lemon; H. R. 18799. Richard Phillips ; · H. R. 9677. Thomas R. Harris; H. R.18801. Noah S. Jones; H. R. 10015. Jacob Zirkle; H. R. 18820. Eugene B. Dwight ; H. R. 10119. Jerome T. Richter; H. R. 18821. Victor M. Hawley; H. R. 10161. James Campbell; H. R. 18910. Jacob Gatchell; H. R. 10306. Martha R. Griswold ; H. R. 18982. Daniel M. Max.son; II. R. 10477. McKager Lawhorn; H. R- 18995. Hiram McKtm ; H. R. 10526. George Henderson ; H. R. 18998. Hollis L. Rich; H. R. 10535. William A. Smith ; H. R.1 999. John Avery; H. R. 10598- William A. Mallonee; H. R. 19114. Mathias Bressler; H. R. 10i3 99. Albert N. Barnes; H. R. 19158. George W. Hilliard; H. R. 10614. John L. G. Thompson; H. R. 19190. William Kohler; H. R 11042. Alexander Bollinger; · H. R. 19300. Jonathan Purvis; H- R. 11146. William M. Holton. H. R. 19315. Nathan P. Eckles~ H- R. 11167. William B. Whitcomb; H. R. 19332. Jonathan M. RUHe; H. R. 11369. Elliza A. Elliott; H. R. 19346. Francis L. French ;, H. R. 11372. Solomon M. Price~ H. R. 19371. George G. Robertson; H. R. 11483. William H. Stultz;, H. R. 19433. Henry Lemke ; H. R. 11544. Oscar N. Greer ; H. R. 19474. William Snyder; H. R. 11722. John McGowen; H. R. 19519. John Wareham; H. R. 11784. Alonzo C. Grout; H. R. 19573. Anna M. Benner; 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2419 H. R.19584. Jackson Painter; The name of Millard F. Lash, helpless and dependent son of Jacob H. R. 19594. Albin Irey.; S. Lash, late of Company H, One hundred and fifty-fifth Regiment Penn· H. R.19722. Ebenezer Pruden ; sylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12- H. R.19743. Herbert A. York; per month. H. R.19768. Simon Smith; The name of Francis M. Linn late of Company A, One hundred and H. R.19769. William Armon; twenty-fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and Companies H H. R.19801. George C. Platt; and I, Mississippi Marine Brigade, Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a H. R.19820. William Gardner ; pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R.19858. Thomas A. Shillito ; The name of Charles H. Mallo, late of Company B, One hundred and H. R.19980. Osborn Sheely ; twenty-fourth Regime.nt Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a H. R.19981. Henry A. Keve; pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R.19982. William R. Wolbert; The name of James l. Moss, late of Company D, Fifteenth Regiment H. R.19990. Charles _Dimmler ; Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 H. R.19!l97. William H. Allard ; per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R.19998. John H. Spear ; The name of Oliver F. Pettibone, late of Company G, First Regiment H. R.19999. William C. Gardiner ; Wisconsin Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the H. R. 20064. Oscar Law; rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 20067. Benjamin F. Spencer; The name of Samuel W. Hart, late of Company H, Twenty-ninth H. R. 20121. Isaac N. Johnston; Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate H. R. 20301. Charles J. Smith; of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. - H. R. 20315. John J. Hiatt; The name of Charles W. Hoskin, late of Company F, Seventh Regi H. R. 20335. James S. Sines ; ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Company I, Twenty-eighth Regiment H. R. 20341. William Mitchell ; Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of H. R. 20342. Augustus Hubbell; $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. H. R. 20350. John L. Abbott; The name of Kate Gorham, widow of James Gorham, late of Com H. R. 20388. Mary C. Opdyke; pany A, Tenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay her H. R. 20424. Calvin B. Holbrook ; a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now re- H. R. 20513. John G. Baker; and ceiving. · H. R. 20534. Wilson S. Lenhart. The name of Edward Waltemeyer, late of Company D, First Regiment Maryland Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate The SPEAKER. The question is on the engrossment and of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. third- reading of the bill. The name of Joseph B. Driesbach, late of Company F, One hundred The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and thirty-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him. a. pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now was read the third time, and passed. rece1vmg. The next business was the bill (S. 6072) granting pensions The name of James Congdon, late of Company E, Eighth Regiment and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of civil war and certain widows and dependent relatives of such $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James Walter Smith, late of Company M, Eighteenth soldiers and sailors. Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the The Clerk read as follows : rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Thomas H. Brown, late of Company F, First Regiment Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he Is Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at. the rate of hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the provisions and limitations of the pension laws- The name of Moses Ashenfelter, late of Company I, Seventy-fourth The name of William C. Shute, late of Company A, Fourteenth Regi Reg-iment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · The name of Anthony L. Bledsoe, late of Company H, Eighty-third The name of Robert Stewart, late of Company E, Fifth Regiment Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Dewitt C. Gardner, late of Company K, Fifth Regiment The name of Cassie Thompson, late of Company K, Forty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 Regiment Ohlo Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month In lieu of that he is now receiving. · The name of Simon Jenson, late of Company G, Fifth Regiment Min· The name of Charles W. Sager, late· of Company L, First Regiment nesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 Vermont Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Alexander Kinney, late of Company F, One hundred and The name of Charles J. Decker, late of Company G, Thirtieth Regi tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Robert Moore, late of Company I, One hundred and The name ot Harrison Sloggy, late of Company B, Forty-sixth Regi· fortieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $30 per month In lieu of that he ls now receiving. The name of John R. Clegg, helpless and dependent son of John The name of Daniel W. Ingersoll, late of Company B, Eighth Regi ' Clegg, sr., late of Company C, Ninety-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per month. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Peter Vandyke, late of Company G, Seventy-eighth Regi The name of Thomas E. Stanley, late of Twentieth Battery Indiana ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 $30 per month in _lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William P. Lovejoy, jr. late of Company G, Seventh The name of Charles H. Enos, late of Company D, One hundred and Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at twenty-second Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a the rate of $24 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Carr Nicholas, late of Company B, Fifteenth Regiment The name of Charles H. Golden, late of Company H, Sixteenth Rea-1. West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ra'"te of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William F. Rodgers, late of Company F, One_ hundred The name of Harrison L. McGinnis, late of Company D, Ninth Regi and fiftieth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a ment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of pensicn · at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now re- $24 per month in lien of that he ls now receiving. ceiving. . The name of Elol J. Hotton, late of Company K, Seventy-sixth Regi The name of Willlam H. Lewis, late of Company F, Seventeenth Reg ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of iment Michigan Volu·nteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $15 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Hiram D. Brown, late of Company F, Fifteenth Regi The name of Benjamin S. Wilbur, late of Company I, Fifteenth Regl. ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of i24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. The name of Charles Wllliauer, late of Company EJ, Fourteenth Regi The name of George W. Edson, late of -Company C, Tenth Regiment ment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Michigan Volunteer Cavalry~ and pay him a lJension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receivmg. The name of James M. Stanley, late of Company K, Ninth Regiment The name of Samuel H. Parker, late of Company I, Eleventh Regl· Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month In lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Alfred Hemmant, late second lieutenant Company A, The name of Thomas W. Knight, late of Company M, First Regi One hundred and twenty-first Regiment United States Colored Volunteer ment Maine Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lleu $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. of that he is now receiving. The name of Joseph B. Fearon, late of Company A, First Regiment The name of Jesse F. Snow, late of Company D, Seventieth Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Samuel W. Upright, late of Companies A and L, Second The name of George W. Muncy, late of Company G, Forty.eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pen Regiment Ilinols Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate sion at the rate of $30 per month In lieu of tllat he is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of George W. Mann, late of Company G, One hundred and The name of Edwin Kerns, late of Company F, Seventy-sixth Regi eighty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of at the rate of ~30 per r;ionth in lieu of that he ls now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. The name of 'l'homas A. Crouch, late of Company A, Third Regiment The name of Albert SlSltes, late of Company A, One hundred and Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 eighty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantryl and pay him a pension per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he s now receiving. The name of Jesse Hiner, late of Company D, Thirty-third Regi The name of William S. Woodford, late of Company F, Twenty-eighth ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John H. Flier, late of Company E, Second Regiment The name of John Fagan, late of Company A, Thirteenth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now ~eceiving. 2420 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25,, T he nam e of Asa B, H enry, late- of- Campany A, Seeond. lli!gime:nt fantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $2Q per month in. liell' of Rh.OOe Island Vol unteeu Infantry, and pa:y him a. p.ension at the rat:e· that she is now receiving. of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now reeeiving_ The na me of Jacob H. Wolcott, late ot Company D, Twenty-third The name of Gus D. Robison. late of Company K, Fffty-fomth Regl- Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him ~ [le.nfilon at the ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry,_ and. pay him a neo.sian. at. the rate. of rate of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now: receiving. $24' per month in lie u of tbat he. is· no-w· reeei-ving; The name of James B. Andrews, late of Company I, econd' Regiment The name of Henry G. Piclrensr rate of' Company F. Nl'n1:h Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the- rate of West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. and Comp.a:rcy- F ,, First Regiment: West $30 per month in lieu of that he is no rec;:ehing. Virginia Veteran Voiunteel." Infantry, and pa;y hfm a pension at the The name of William H. Johnson. j.r., late: of. Compllll'Y B. Fourteenth ra-te of 2..4 per month. in lieu o:f that he is now receivmg: Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and Company B-, Third Regi- The name of WDJ.iam C. Bishop late of Company G, Tlrlrty-second ment Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pens-iGn at. the ra-te: of Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate $24 per month in lieu of that he is no.w receiving. of 24 peF month in lie-u of that he ier now receiving. The name of Napoleon B. Neal, late of Company, G~ Sirleenth Re-gi- The name of John Fi:eneh, late of Compans :B, Fourth Regiment Ken- ment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a. pension at the tucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $'2.f. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is n.ow receiTI.ng. per month inJ lieu of that he ts now reccivfng. The name of David S. Green, late o:f Company A, Sixtm Reg:iment The rutIIIB ot Gates Saxton, late o1 Company H, Fomteentlr Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and" pay him a pen ion at the- rate New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay: hlm pension at. the rate o:tr of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now rece:ivin"'. $30 per month in lieu of that b:e is now reeeiving.. The name of James Olds, late of Company D, Forty-second- Regiment The- name of Tilman P. Edgerton. late of Com11anfus. D and B, Thirty- Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and One hanruecl and fifty- ixth Company1 fourth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, an pa~ him a pension at Second Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him [lension a-i; the rate o.f $3(} per month fn lieu at that he i no receivmg_ the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that h.e is now receiving.. The- name of Alfred- H. Li.vingstonp late> of. Company- E, Twenty-fifth The name of John McGlone lat e of Company D,. Ninety-sixth R~gi- Regimen t Mis ourl Volunteer Infantry, and Companies. G and C, Fir t ment P ennsylvania Volunteer infantry, and pay him a. pension a..t the R egiment Missouri Vollll'tteer Engineers,, and pay him a:. pension a.t th.e rate of 24 per month in lieu of that fie is now receiving. rate o-f $24 per month in lil'u oi tlra..t. he i now receiving_. The name of Joseph L . .Kitch en, late musician, band, Thirty-third The name of Tho.mas J. Vinyard, late of Compimy- G Thirty-thlrd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a. pension at lbe Regiment Iowa Voluntee-1!' Infantry,, and pay; him a._ pension a~ th-e rate rate of $30 per month in lieu of t hat he is now receiving_. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now r eceiving. The name of John S. Taylor, late of Company C, 'l'wenty-thfid Re i- The name of Hubert Steimel, late of Company H, Cole. County, Mo., ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Ilome Guar~ and pay him a. pension at the rate of $24 per m<>:nth in rate of 30 per month in lieu of th.at. he is now receivin(7_ Iieu of that h e is now r eceiving_. The name of Martin W. Frisbie, late of- Company E, Twentieth .R~~i- The name- of George W. Hamiltan late of Battery K,. Second Regi· ment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at. mei ment ffiinois Volunt eer Light Artillery, and pay him ai pension at the rate of 30 per roenth: in lieu of that he is now receiving. i-ate of $24 [>er month in lieu of tha.t he is now reee-iving. The na me of :Ma rcus M. Chatfield, late of Company B, First Re.,.i- The name of Charles A. Hinman, late of Company I, Eighteenth Regi- 1 ment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the- rate of $S() ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the. rate of per month in lien of that he is now recetving. $30 per month in tieu of that he is now receiving. The name of ~orge Auld, la.te of Company B, Seventieth_ Regiment. The name of Thomas. Ilewson, late ot Company ~ Fiftieth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, n.nd captain. Company K, First Reaim.ent. Illinois. Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension. at the i:ate ot 3G North Daltota Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a ~ per month in lieu of that h~ is now recei-vfng. sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiring~ The name of Hannah J_ Dinsmore, widow o-f Marquis. D. L. Dins.- The name of Thomas Kerr, late of Company B, Eleventh Regim t more, late acting third assistant englneel', United States Navy, and" New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ~O pay her a pension at the rate oL $20 per month in. Iieu of th t she is per month in lieu: ot that- he is now- reeeiving.. now receiving-. The name of George L- Duston. late of. Company G. First Rei:;_im.ent- '.rhe name of_ J"ohn "1L Johnson, !ate oJ Company E, Seventh Regilnent Maine Volunteer Cavalryp and i:ay him a pension. a.t the. rate. of $~4- pel'" Pennsylvania: Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension. at the rate of month in lien of that he is now recetving-_ $24 per month in Heu ot that h.e is now receiving_ The: name of- Fredericll: D . Reed, late of Cnmpany K, Seventeen:t.h. The name of William H. McCormick, la.te acting ensign, u. s. s. Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay- hlxn a pension.at the rata Ottawa, Unite.d States Navy, and pay him a pension. at the. rate of $24 of ~24- per month' in lieu of that he i no"'Wl re-cei.ving. per month in lieu or- that he ts now receiving. The name of James E:irly late of Comp3.1ly K, Fourth Re~iment: The name of Volney J. Shipman, late. captain Sixth Company, First United States Infantry. and! pay hilllJ a pension at the rate: of aO p-er- -" N y k v r tee Sha sh t d h" --• mo11tb in. lieUi of that h.e is now r~iving. Batt The name of Gillis J. McBane, late of Company G, and serge!ll?-t Tbe name of Stillman P. Cannon, late of Company C, Tenth Regi major Seventy-third Hegiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him ment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and One hundred and sixty a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now re- .eighth Company, Second Battalion Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate o! $30 per month in lieu of that he is now cei;th~g.name of Aaron Richardson, late of Company F, Eleventh Regi receiving. . ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of .John H. Cole, late of Company C, Second Regiment, and $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Company D, Eighteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, The name of Charles M. Catlin, late commissary-sergeant, One h~ and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he dred and eleventh Regiment New York Volunteer In.fa.ntry, and pay him is now receiving. a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now re- The name of Nathaniel W. Davis, late of Company F, Fourth Regi ment United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 ce~gname of Geor e :P. Price, late of Company F, Fourth Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. • Michigan Volunteer ~fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of Patrick Dowd, late of Company G, Fourth Reglment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of James F. Iarshall, late of Company D, Twelfth Regi of $30 per month in lieu of th1lt he is now receiving. ment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Matthew B. White, late of Company C, First Regiment rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . New Hampshire Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at The name of Henry Roberts, late of Battery C, First Regiment Ohio the rate of $24 per month in Heu of that he is now receiving. Volunteer Light Artillery, and Company B, One hundred and ninety Tbe name of Robert P. Murray, late of Company C, Third Regiment elghth Relriment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and. pay him a pension at the rate rate of $f2 per month. of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Jeremiah Thomas, late of Company A, One hundred and The name of Pope Catlin, late of Company C, Forty-eighth Regiment first Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay bim a pension at the rate of $24 the rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Alfred M. Buttolph, late of Company D, Twenty-eighth The name of Lawrence Usher, late of U. S. S. Florida, Catskill, and · Recriment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate North Carolina, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Harrison T. Wilson, late of Company A, First Regiment The name of Hiram H. Heath, late of Company A, Thirty-ninth Regi~ Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month in ·lieu of that he ls now receiving. The name of Richard Davis, late of Company I, Fifty-second Regi The name of William W. Townley, late of Company D, Ninety-sixth ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. '.fhe name of James W. Gunnels, late of Company K, Thirteenth Regl The :t;tame of George Tyson, late of Company D, Thirty-second Regi ment Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of John T. Ream, late of Company C, Thirty-third and The name of Henry C. Jordan, late of Company C, First Regiment Thirty-fourth Regiments Iowa Volunteer Infantry and pay him a pen Maine Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of sion at the rate of $24 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. $30 per month ln lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Charles J. Jenner, late of Company F, Seventh Regi The name of Henry R. Millett, late first lieutenant Company G, and ment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, and Company D, Fifth Regiment captam Company E, Twenty-ninth Regiment Maine Veteran Volunteer Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Infantry, and pay him a. pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receivlng. of that he ls now receiving. The name of Augustus Parish, late of Company C, Eighth Regim.ent The name of Alonzo J. Nevers, late of Company B, Seventeenth Regi Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate o! 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Theodore Hardeland, late of Company L, First Regiment The name of William 0. Needham late of Company G, Thirty-second New York (Lincoln) Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the and Thirty-first Regiments Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of John D. Harris.:... late of Company ID, One hundred and The name of Joseph H. Holbrook, late of Company I, Thirtieth Regi forty.first Regiment New York volunteer Infantry, and pay bim a pen ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Ursula Dickinson, widow of Hiram L. Dickinson, late The name of Parker J. Rhoades, late of Company H, Fifteenth Regt.. of Company G, One hund1-ed and seventh Regiment New York Volunteer ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Company D, Seventeenth Regiment, Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate. of $12 per month. United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per The name of Milton Nourse, late of Company G, Forty-seventh Regi month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Charles S. Davis, late of Company D, Eleventh Regi rate of 24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. ment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Nellie A. Farrell, widow of John EJ. Farrell, late of the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Thirtieth Unassigned Company Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay her The name of John W. Snow, late of Company H, Twenty-third Regi a pension at the rate of $12 per month. ment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and Company H, Twenty-first The name of Mary E. McKeen, widow of Salmon McKeen, late of Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate of Company B, Fifty-fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. The name of Henry C. Campbell, late of Company A, One hundred The name of Joseph Dudley, late of Company F, Thirty-second and and fifth Regiment, and first lieutenant Company B, Two hundred and Thirty-first Regiments Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay hlln a pen gixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay bim a pen sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Anna P. Daggett, widow of Converse R. Daggett, late The name of Thomas Crayon, late of Com_pany A, Seventh Rel{iment of Company G, Twenty-third Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and Company K, Tenth Regiment Illinois pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month ln lieu of that be is now receiving. . no~h~~~~gof Cecilla E. Griffith, widow of David D. Griffith, late of The name of Michael Reynolds, late of Company I, Fourth Regiment Company H, Twenty-first Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalr;rt and pay him a pension at the rate of her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Charles H. Ellis, late of U. S. S. Supply, Savannah, and The name of Nathan W. Haskell, late of Company I, Forty-ninth Wachusett, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of Regiment Massachusetts Militia Infantry, and Company D, Second $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Reo-iment Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at The name of James Plunkett, late of Company D, Fourth Regiment the rate of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. California Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of William Sharp, late of Company A, Third Regiment In $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. diana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay hilI}- a pension at the rate of $30 per The name of Lewis T. Pierce, late of Company K, Fifty-sixth Regi month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and Two hundred and forty The name of John W. Kitchell, No. 1, late of Company I, Thir sixth Company, First Battalion Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a teenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. '!'he name of Charles Hanthorn, late of Company B, Seventy-seventh The name of Harrison C. Wells, late of Company F, Sixteenth Regi Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of 24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Tlie name of John W. Rowe, late of Company I, Seventh Regiment The name of George R. Knapp, late of Company K, Tenth Re"'iment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Ohio Voluntetr Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of '30 per 30 per month in lieu of that he !s now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Thomas Mills, late of Captain Walker's company, One The name of Eli E. Peck, late of Company B, Seventy-sixth Regiment hundred and third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 1 The name of Frederick 0. McPherson, late of Company E, Fourth re;~b~ nf8.me of Edward L. Allen, late of Company H, Thirteenth Regi Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer InL'lntry, and pay him a pension ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the.rate at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . of 36 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. The name of John Carrigan, late of Battery A, Second Regiment The name of Henry A. Van Dalsem, late of Company A, One hundr.ed United States Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per and fifty-eighth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him month in lieu of that he ·is now receiving. a R~nsion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now re- The name of John R. James, late of Company D, First Regiment Con necticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate ce ~g.name of Judson N. Willis, late of Company H, Ninety-second of 30 per month in lieu of that he iS now receiving. Re~imcnt Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a penslon at the rate The name of Amasa S. Condon, late of Company E, Sixth Regiment of $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $3() The name of William C. l\larkwa.rd. late of Company C, Fifteenth per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Re,:?"iment Ohio Volunteer lniantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of John W. Grissom, late of Company F, One hundred and of '36 i;er month in lien of that be is now receiving. fifty-fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension ~'he name of 11~rederick Basford, late of Company I, Sixth Regiment at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of Sarah A. Musgrave:. widow of Job Musgrave, late o.f per month iil lieu of that he is now receiving. Company F, Twelfth Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and The name of Cornelius V. Vansyckel, late of Company C, Sixth Regi pay her a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that she is ment Iowa Volu.oteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of now receiving: Prcw-ided~ That, in the event of the death of Mont. ;J. $30 per month in lieu cf that he is now receiving. Musgrave, helpless and dependent child of Job Musgrave, the ad.di- 2422 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, ttonlll pension herein granted shall cease and determine: And prov ided The name of Jacob C. Cumins, late of Company H, Twentieth Regi further, That in the event or the death of Sarah A. Musgrave the name ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of of said Mont. J. Musgrave shall be placed on the pension roll, subject. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws.I at the rate of The name of Edwin N. Josselyn, late of Company E, Second Regi $12 per month, from and after the date of death o:r said Sarah A. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ot Musgrave. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Joseph F. Healey, late of Company D, Sixteenth Regi The name of Joseph Reither, alias Charles Debeau, late of Company I, ment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at F!rst Regim.ent Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now The name of Richard Dobson, late of Company G, First Regiment receiving. Michigan Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay bun a pension at the rate The name of Isabella Morrison, widow of William Morrison, late of of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Volunteer Light Artillery, and The name of Corwin F. Camp, late of Company B, Fifteenth Regi pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of now receiving. . $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Elizabeth A. Burritt, widow of Ira N. Burritt, late The name of Leicester P. Riley, late of Company F, One hundred and second lieutenant Company K, Fifty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Vol twenty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and of U. S. S. Fort unteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $30 per month in Hindman, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of lieu of that she is now receiving. $24 per month in .lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Whipple B. Bradley, late of Company A, First Regiment The name of William H. McKinley, late of Company H, Fifth Regi Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Byron C. Barrows, late of Company C, First Regiment The name of James M. Merritt, late of Company K, Ninety-second Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Ellen C. Brown, widow of James G. Brown, late of Com The name of James W. Hester, late of Company C, Twenty-ninth pany A, Eleventh Regiment Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and pay Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate her a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that she is now of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving: Provided, That in the event of the death of Frank Howard The name of Foster D. McKibben, late of Company D, Ninety-third Brown, helpless and dependent child of said James G. Brown, the addi Reo-iment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the tional pension herein granted shall cease and determine : And provided rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. further, That in the event of the death of Ellen G. Brown the name of The name of James Pierce, late of Company A, One hundred and the said Frank Howard Brown shall be placed on the pension roll, sub fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at ject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, at the rate the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $12 per month from and after date of death of said Ellen G. Brown. The name of Richard Cullen, alias George Farrand, late of Com The name of Charles H. Schuler, late of Company I, Tenth Regiment pany G Fifty-second Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving. The name of Andrew J. Madden, late of Company El, Forty-eighth The name of Haymond J. Powers, late of Company H, Seventeenth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of George Carpenter, late of Company B, Fifteenth Regi The name of Charles H. O'Harnett, late of Company D, Fifteenth ment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Marcellus F. Cushman, late of Company K, Seventh The name of George H. Bishop, late of Company G, Fifty-second Regi Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of David A. Jordan, late of Company C Twenty-third The name of Joseph· Douglass, late of Company D, Thirteenth Regi Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a petision at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 'l'he name of John C. Allendorph, late of Company A, Second Regi The name of Andrew J. Getchel, late of Company D, Seventeenth ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, also of Company L, Eleventh Regiment Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William Burroughs, late of Company B, Seventeenth The name of Allen N. Perry, late of Company C, Fourteenth Regiment Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Joseph P. Redman, late of Company H, Fifty-ninth Regi The name of Joseph R. Paradise, late of Captain G. W. Smith's inde ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of pendent company Maryland Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. The name of John D. Harker, late of Company B, Sixth Regiment The name of Harvey Mccaskey, late of Company K, One hundred and Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per thirtieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of thirty-six dollars per month in Ueu of that he is now The name of Nebet Hickman, late of Company E, First Regiment receiving. Delaware Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of George P. Sanborn, late of Company B, Fifteenfu Regi $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of William McCoy, late of Company D. First Regiment of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Delaware Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of Carlton M. Rhoades, late of Company I, Forty-seventh per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the 'The name of John C. S. Weills, late of Company F, First Regiment rate of $30 per month in Heu of that he is now receiving. United States Veteran Volunteer Engineers, and pay him a pension at The name of Mary J. Hennessy, widow of William Hennessy, late ot the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Company B, Seventy-seventh Regiment New York National Guard In T he name of Charles H. Henshaw, late captain Company K, One fantry and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. hundredth Regiment New York Volunt1!er Infantry, and pay him a pen The' name of Sylvanus F. Westlake, late of Company H, Thirtieth sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Re"'iment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Austin B. Wells, late of Company D, Eleventh Regiment the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Calvin P. Jefferi.s, late of Company E, One hundred and $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ninety-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him The name of James Crooks, late acting third assistant engineer, a pension at the. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now: United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month receiving. in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William J. R. Waters, late of Company G, Twenty-sixth The name of John W. Christie, late of Company H Tenth Regiment Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James R. Caudle late of Company C, Thirtieth Regiment The name of Samuel Elliott, late of Company D, Second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, ana1 pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and ComJ?any A, Independent Battalion per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of Newell Coburn, late of Company F, First Regiment N~w per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. York Volunteer Mounted Rifles, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Frederick Frankhouse, late of Company F, Second Regi $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Minnesota Volunteer Infanh·y, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Edrick Adams, late of Companies L and C, First Regi of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Vermont Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the The name of Joseph Carl, late of Cavalry Company A, Thirty-sixth rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry; Company I, Fifteenth Regiment, The name of John T. Martin, late of Company B, Tenth Regiment In and Company M, Tenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay diana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now month in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving. The name of John W. Dyson late of Company A, One hundred and The name of Maurice Crlmmings, late of Third Battery, Wisconsin forty-fifth Regiment Indiana Voiunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Jane Moore, widow of Robert Moore, late of Company The name of Frank W. Richards, late of Company I, Sixtieth Regi D, First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension ment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving: rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Provided, That in the event of the death of Mabel Moore, helpless and The name of Martha J. Bussell, widow of John B. Bussell, late of dependent daughter of said Robert Moore, the additional pension hereby_ Company B, Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and granted shall cease and determine. pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. The name of Libbie B. Smith, widow of Charles A. Smith, late lieu The name of Edward W. Thomas, late of Company C, Fifth Regiment tenant-colonel '.rhlrty-fifth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and United States Veteran Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month ln lieu of that she is rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. now receiving. The name of Thoma~ Lloyd, late of Company C, Seventy-sixth Re"'i The name of Edward A. Campbell, late of Company A, One hundred ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the and forty-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of David Price, late of Company E, Fifth Regiment Penn The name of Henry F. Royce, late of Company B, Twenty-sixth Regi sylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 ment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2423 1 The name of David E. Stevens, alia.B David E. Tripp, late of Com S. 1700. Elias H. Funk ; , • panies B and K, Twentieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infant-ry, and S. 1733. Charles Allen ; pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is S. 1735. Thomas Johnson; now receiving. S. 1739. Margaret J. Davis; The name of Aime M. Golay, late second lieutenant Company G, S. 1741. William H. Hasty; One hundred and thirty-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, S. 1800. Ozen B. Nichols; and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month 1n lieu of that he S. 1847. Wilson Carter; is now receiving. S. 1850. Crisley G. Ragan ; The name of Harriet A. Wheeler, former widow of Henry Barnes, S. 1887. Charles Heathfield; late of Company C, Second Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Ar S. 1 91. George H. Wheeler; tillery, and pay her a pension at the rate ot $12 per month. S. 1935. Andrew Alyea ; The name of Joseph Robinson, late of Company A, Sixty-third Regi S. 2014. William D. W. Pringle; ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 2018. William O'Brien ; 24 per month in lieu of that he ls r.ow receiving. S. 2026. Gertrude Smith ; The name of William Franklin Stotts, late of Company E, Fiftieth S. 2035. Jacob H. Wolcott; Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and Company A, Thirteenth S. 2273. James B. Andrews ; Regiment United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 2295. William H. Johnson, jr.; $24 per month in lieu of that lie is now receiving. S. 2296. Napoleon B. Neal; The name of Harriet V. Wheeler, widow of Daniel Edson, jr., late S. 2307. David S. Green; first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster Seventh Regiment Massa S. 2315. James Olds; chusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 S. 2333. John McGlone; per month. · S. 2352. Joseph L. Kitchen; The name of Thomas F. Ilowley, late of Company A, Twelfth Regi S. 2355. John S. Taylor; ment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the S. 2364. Martin W. Frisbie; rate of $30 per month 1n lleu of that he is now receiving. S. 2380. Marcus M. Chatfield: The name of Susan C. Schroeder, widow of Henry T. Schroeder, late S. 2383. George Auld; of Company A, Twenty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer In S. 2384. Thomas Kerr ; fantry, and fir t lieutenant Company B, First Regiment North Caro S. 2435. George L. Duston ; lina Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per S. 2436. Frederick D. Reed ; month in lieu of that she ls now receiving. S. 2438. James Early; The name of Jessie Green, widow of Edmund Green, late of Second S. 2449. George R. '.reagarden ; Battery, Vermont Volunteer Light Artlllery, and pay her a pension at S. 2454. Alfred N. Scott ; the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she ls now receiving. S. 2456. Charles H. Bartlett; This blll is a substitute for the following Senate bllls referred to S. 2500. James C. Watson; said committee: S. 2511. James A. Edsall; S. 17. Moses Ashenfelter; S. 2512. Ella F. Laverty; S. 19. Anthony L. Bledsoe; S. 2522. Allen Osborn ; S. 29. Dewitt C. Gardner ; S. 2535. Eli Estridge ; S. 32. Simon Jenson; s. 2555. William R. Stephens ; S. 36. Robert Moore ; S. 2557. Margaret Dempsey; . 54. John R. Clegg; S. 2559. Leonard Briggs ; S. 57. Peter Vandyke; S. 2625. John H. Kimmel; S. 61. William P. Lovejoy, jr.; S. 2725. John Wharton; S. 0. Carr Nicholas ; S. 2789. Catharine O'Keeffe; . 139. William F. Rodgers; s. 2796. Joseph Thomas ; S. 141. William H. Lewis ; S. 2812. William Thomas; S. 142. Benjamin S. Wilbur; S. 2814. Andrew J. Leonard; S. 144. George W. Edson ; S. 2816. Wilson Hoag; . S. 200. Samuel H. Parke1· ; S. 2819. Addison L. Ewmg; S. 202. Thomas W. Knight; s 2821. Gillis J. McBane ; S. 203. Joseph B. Fearon; s· 2 23. Aaron Richardson; S. 239. Samuel W. Upright ; s: 2830. Charles M. Catlin; S. 242. George W. Mann ; S. 2831. George P. Price; S. 253. Thomn.s A. Crouch ; S. 2845. James F. Marshall; S. 265. Jesse Hiner; S 2850. Henry Roberts ; S. 298. John H. Flier ; s: 2871. Jeremiah Thomas; S. 340. Millard F. Lash; S. 2874. Alfred M. Buttolph; S. 342. Francis M. Linn; S. 2875. Harrison T . .Wilson ; S. 344. Charles H. Mallo ; S. 2876. Richard DavIS; S. 348. James I. Mos ; S. 2877. James W. Gunnels; S. 349. Oliver F. Pettibone; S. 2879. John T. Ream; S. 385. Samuel W. Har~ j . S 2972. Charles J. Jenner; S. 394. Charles W. HoslUD : s: 2973. Augustus Parish ; 8. 421. Kate Gorham; S. 2992. Theodore Har?eland ; S. 444. Edward Waltemeyer; S 2995. John D. Harris; S. 454. Joseph B. Driesbach; s: 3034. Ursula Dickinscn; S. 457. James Congdon; S. 3211. Milton Nourse; S. 460. James Walter Smith; S. 3263. Nellie A. Farrell ; . 470. Thomas H. Brown; S. 3268. Mary E. McKeen ; S. 474. William C. Shute; S. 3270. Joseph Dudley; S. 480. Robert Stewart; S. 3280. Anna P. Daggett; S. 570. Cassle Thom_pson : s 3293. Cecilia E. Griffith; S. 591. Charles W. Sager ; s: 3302. Charles H. Ellis; S. 632. Charle J. Decker ; s. 3303. James Plunkett; S. 633. Harrison Sloggy ; S. 3304. Lewis T. Pierce; S. 634. Daniel W. Inger oll ; s. 3307. Charles Hanthorn; S. 643. Thomas El Stanley ; S 3309. John W. Rowe; S. 668. Charles H. Enos ; s: 3345. Thomas Mills ; S. 679. Charles H. Golden; S. 3346. Edward L. Allen ; S. 680. Harrison L. McGinnis; s. 3355. Henry A. Van Dalsem; S. 691. Eloi J. Hotton ; S. 3356. Judson N. Willis; . S. 692. Hiram D. Brown ; S. 3357. William C. Markward; S. 718. Charles Wfllaner; S. 3358. Frederick Basford ; S. 722. James M. Stanley; S. 3359. Cornelius V. Vansyckel; S. 728. Alfred Remmant ; S. 3361. Stillman P. Cannon ; S. 729. Jesse F. Snow; S. 3362. John H. Cole ; . 756. George W. Muncy ; S. 3363. Nathaniel W. Davis; S. 757. Edwin Kerns; S. 3364. Patrick Dowd; S. 782. Albert Slates; S. 3366. Matthew B. White; . 790. William S. Woodford ; S. 3371. Robert P. Murray; S. 859. John Fa~an; S. 3375. Pope Catlin; S. 969. Asa B. Henry ; S. 3383. Lawrence Usher; S. 990. Gus D. Robison ; S. 3392. Hiram H. Heath ; S. 1048. Henry G. Pkkens; S. 3444. William W. '.rownley; S. 1098. William C. Bishop; S. 3461. George Tyson ; S. 1248. John French; S. 3470. Henry C. Jordan; S. 1252. Gates Saxton ; S. 3471. Henry R. Millett; S. 1253. Tilman P. Edgerton; S. 3473. Alonzo J. Nevers; S. 1274. Alfred H. Livingston; S. 3474. William O. Needham; S. 1279. Thomas J. Vinyard ; S. 3475. Joseph H. Holbrook; S. 1288. Hubert Steimel; S. 3479. Parker J. Rhoades; S. 1289. George W. Hamilton; S. 3533. Charles S. Davis; S. 1295. Charles A. Hinman ; S. 3534. John W. Snow; S. 1303. Thomas Hewson ; S. 3714. Henry C. Campbell; S.1363. Hannah J. Dinsmore; S. 3745. Thomas Crayon; S. 1366. John M. Johnson; S. 3809. Michael Reynolds ; S. 1409. William H. McCormLck ; S. 3810. Nathan W. Haskell; S. 1412. Volney J. Sb1pman; S. 3856. William Sharp ; S. 1428. Christian R. Shirey; S. 3881. .John W. Kitchell, No. 1; S. 1449. John Robertson; S. 3936. Harrison C. Wells ; S. 1457. Thomas R. Buxton; S. 3941. George R. Knapp ; S. 1473. Stephen Thrasher; S. 3954. Eli E, Peck ; S. 1476. George F. Shoemaker; S. 3981. Frederick O. llcPllerson; 2424 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. . F EBRUARY 25, S. 3985. John Carrigan ; of the civil war and certain widows and dependent relatives of S. 3995. John R. James; S. 4000. Amasa S. Condon ; such soldiers and sailors. · S. 4007. John W. Grissom; The Clerk read as follows : S. 4027. Sarah A. Musgrave ; S. 4103. Joseph F. Healey ; Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is S. 4126. Richard Dobson ; hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to S. 4157. Corwin F. Camp; the provisions and limitations of the pension laws- S. 4223. Leicester P. Riley; The name of John w .. Lowry, late of Company F, Fourteenth Regi S. 4224. William H. McKinley ; ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 4229. James M. Merritt; $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4231. James W. Hester; The name of Cornelius Chamberlain, late of Company B, Tenth Regi S. 4232. Foster D. McKibben ; ment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the S. 4233. James Pierce; rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4243. Richard Cullen, alias George Farrand ; 'l'he name of Robert C. Watson, late of Company G, Seventh Regi · S. 4373. Haymond J. Powers; ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 4374. Charles H. O'Harnett ; $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4390. George H. Bishop ; '£.he name of James C. Ayers, late of Company II, One hundred and S. 4392. Joseph Douglass; ninety-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension S. 4395. Andrew J. Getchel; at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4426. William Burroughs ; The name of Nathan Goodman, late of Company I, Forty-ninth Regi S. 4434. Joseph P. Redman; ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the S. 4435. John B. Harker; rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4449. Nebet Hickman ; The name of Cyrus Payne, late first lieutenant Company I, Eight S. 4451. William McCoy ; eenth Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension S. 4491. John C. S. Weills; at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4523. Charles H. Henshaw; '.rhe name of George W. Bowen, late of Company E, Twenty-second S. 4552. Austin B. Wells; Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and Company M, Thtrd Regi S. 4584. James Crooks; ment Pennsylvania Provisional Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pen S. 4591. John W. Christle; sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4593. Samuel Elliott; 'l'he name of Leonard Lawrence, late of Company D, One hundred S. 4596. Frederick Frankhouse ; and eighty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay S. 4598. Joseph Carl; him a pension at the rate $24 per month in lieu of that he is now S. 4612. Maurice Crimmings; receiving. S. 4634. Frank W. Richards; The name of Joshua F. Whipps, late of Company D, Thirty-first Regi S. 4636. Martha J. Bussell; · ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 4657. Edward W. Thomas; $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4716. Thomas Lloyd; The name of Levi Williams, late of Company A, Seventeenth Regi S. 4717. David Price; ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay hini a pension at the rate S. 4727. Jacob C. Cumins; of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. S. 4734. Edwin N. Josselyn; The name of David Bennett, late of Company C, One hundredth S. 4736. Joseph Reither (alias Charles Debeau) ; Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the S. 4739. Isabella Morrison; rate of 36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4859. Elizabeth A. Burritt; The name of John E. Drohan, late ·second lieutenant Company A, S. 4864. Whipple B. Bradley ; Fourth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen S. 4867. Byron C. Barrows; sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4868. Ellen G. Brown ; Tbe name of William Tucker, late of Company F, Seventh Regiment S. 4870. Charles H. Schuler; West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate S. 4879. Andrew J. Madden; of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4894. George Carpenter; The name of David M. Hull, late of Company F, Fourth Regiment S. 4895. Marcellus F. Cushman; Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 4897. David A. Jordan; $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4924. John C. Allendorph; The name of James H. Smith, late of Company C, Fo rteenth Regi S. 4926. Allen N. Perry ; ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and Company C, Sixth Re~iment S. 4927. Joseph R. Paradise; United States Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $is0 per s. 4939. Harvey Mccaskey; month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 4987. George P. Sanborn ; The name of Joseph Gilmore, late of Company I, One hundred and S. 5068. Carlton M. Rhoades ; f~rtieth R.egiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and Co.mpany C, S. 5083. Mary J. Hennessy ; Sixth Regunent Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at t he S. 5088. Sylvanus F. Westlake; rac of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 5100. Calvin P. Jelieris ; The name of James H. Bowles, late of Company A, One hundred and S. 5124. William J. R. Waters; thirty·ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a S. 5136.. Tames . R. Caudle; pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 5168. Newell Coburn ; The name of John Harvey, jr., late of Company H, Forty-fifth Regi S. 5170. Edrick Adams ; ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate S. 5190. John T. Martin; of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 5194. John W. Dyson; The name of Charles B. Strout, late of Company B, Twenty-fifth S. 5221. Jane Moore; Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the S. 5226. Libbie B. Smith ; rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 5297. Edward A. Campbell ; The name of Jonathan Wells, late of Company G, Third Regiment S. 5361. Henry F. Royce; Iowa Volllll:teer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 s. 5431. David E. Stevens (alias Da'Vid E. Tripp) ; per month rn lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 5442. Annie M. Golay ; The name of Alonzo W. Harrington, late of Twenty-fifth Independent S. 5448. Harriet A. Wheeler ; Battery Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the S. 5461. Joseph Robinson; rate of $24 per month in lieu of tbat he is now receiving. s. 5464. William Franklin Stotts ; The name of Frederic B. Nevins, late of Company A, Sixth Regiment S. 5540. Harriet V. Wheeler ; Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $20 S. 5542. Thomas F . Rowley ; per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. s. fifi14. Susan C. Schroeder; and The name of Henry Robison, late of Company K, Sixty-first Regi S. 5740. Jessie Green. . ment, and Company I, Eighty-second Ilegiment, Ohio Volunteer In fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu With the following amendment : Olf that be is now receiving. Page 2, strike out lines 11 to 14, inclusiVe, as follows: The name of Andrew A. Stewart, late of Company I, Eighth Regi " T-be name of Alexander Kinney, late of Company F, One hundred ment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension and tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a at the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that. he is now re The name of William Watson, late of Company I, Eighty-fourth Regi ceiving." ment, and Company K, Fifty-seventh Regiment. Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the amend of that he is now receiving. ment. The name of Harmon Varner, late of Company D, Thirty-sixth Reo-i The question was taken, and the amendment was agreed to. ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate "'of Mr. SULLOW.AY. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following amend- $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ~e name .of Herman R. Ferguson, late o~ Company G, Fifty-fifth ments, which I send to tbe desk and ask to have read. Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The Clerk read as follows : of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William H. Northrup, late of U. S. S. Josco, United Page 7, strike out lines 9 to 12, as follows: "The name of James Walter Smith, late of Company M, Eighteenth States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving." T~e name of Michael A. Arthur, late of Company A, Fifth Regiment Page 25, strike out lines 18 to 21, inclusive, as follows : Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 " The name of Ursula Dickinson, widow of Hiram L. Dickinson, late per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of Company G, One hundred and seventh Regiment New York Volun The name of Charles J. Whitsel, late of Company I, Ninth Regiment teer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month." Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the amend The na?J-e of Albert P. Murray, late of Company K. Nineteenth Regi ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ments. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The question was taken, and the amendments were agreed to. The name of George B. Henderson, late of Company I, Thirty-first The bill as amended was ordered to be read a third time, was Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the read the third time, and passed. rate of $45 per month In lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of David H. Goyen, late first lieutenant Companies n and The next business was the bill (H. R. 21580) granting pen I, Eighteenth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a sions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 1910.. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2425 The name of Ellas W. Routson, late of Company G, One hundred and The name of Charles P. Borden, late of Battery B, First Regiment tenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the New York Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate rate of $24 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month In lieu of that he fs now receiving. · The name of Bradford J. Peasley, late of Company M, Ninth Regi The name of Sarah El. Woodall, widow · of S. P. Woodall, late of ment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Capt. John B. Kennamer's independent company, Alabama Scouts and $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Guides, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. The name of Luther 1!"". Heath, late of Company D, One hundred and The name of George W. Coultas, late of Company C, Thirty-first Regi seventy-seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Fate sion at the rate of $24 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. · The name of Herman F. W. Fisher, late of Company El, Twenty-fourth The name of Charles Frederick Troescher, late of Company E, Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Twenty-second Re~iment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and Com rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pany D, Ringgold s battalion, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and The name of Alvey P. Howard, late of Company I, Sixty-fourth pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per mmaJh in lieu of that he is Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Wells Knapp, late of <;ompany K, F~rst Reg~ent Mich The name of William T. Martin, late of Company D, Fifty-third igan Volunteer Engineers :i.nd Mecb:i.mcs, fU!d pay him !!- pension -at the Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he 1s now rece1vmg. rate of 50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Warren D. Stafford, late second lie-qtenant C~mpany C, The name of Benjamin F. Hedrick, late of Company D, Fourth Regi Sixth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the ment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. • · of , 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Frederic H. Norton, late acting third assistant engineer, The name of Nathan N. Coy, late of Company B, Ninety-first Regi United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $aO per ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Joseph Douglass, late of Company K, Forty-fifth Regi The name of Albert Sanders, late of Company C~ Seventy-sixth Regi ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and Company K, Fourteenth ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay htm a pension at the Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate of r ate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. d $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Samuel F. Smith, late of Company D, One hundr~ an The name of Robert Hefley, late of Company K. Thirty-second Regi thirty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay hrm a ment, and Company E, Eighth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now re- pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is ceivin"".0 · now receiving. The name of John Mead late of Company C, Fiftieth Regiment Massa chusetts Militia Infantry, 'and pay hi:U. a pension at the rate of $24 per The name of Harvey S. Stone, late of Company B, First Regiment month in lieu of that be is now rece1vmg. . New Hampshire Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at The name of Nancy S. Simmons, widow of Benjamin F. Sllillilons, late the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Norman C. Smith, late of Company D, Ninth Regiment, first lieutenant Company D, Sixtieth Regiment Massachusetts yot~teer and Company D, Sixth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, Infantry and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month m lieu of and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he that she' is now receiving. . is now receiving. The name of Josephine Brown, widow of John G. Brown, late. first The name of James A. Loar, late of Company B, One hundred and lieutenant and captain Company I, One hundred and forty-first Regiment thh"ty-eighth Regiment Ohio National Guard Infantry, and pay him a Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay her. a. pension at the rate of pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $20 per month in lieu of that she is now rece1vmg.. . The name of Peter F. Myers, late of Company F, First Regiment The name of Edwin Loosley, late of Company A, Eighty-first Regiment Missouri State Militia Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Elisha M. Root, late of Company F, Second Regiment The name of Columbus Hill, late of Company D, Fou~th Battalion Dis New York Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the trict of Columbia Militia Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now ·receiving. $12 per month. The name of Samuel Mottinger, late first lieutenant Company E, The name of John Devine late of Company I, Twelfth Regiment Iowa. Sixty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Volunteer Infantry, and pay hi~ .a pension at the rate of $30 per month at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. in lieu of that he is now rece1vmg. The name of Asbury J. Stewart, late of Company D, Sixteenth Regi The name of William Sylvia, late of U. S. S. Brandywine, Granite, ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the and Hetzel, United States Navy, and pay hi~ ~ pension at the rate of rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now rece1vmg. The name of Charles W. Price, late of Company D, Seventh Regi The name of Warren D. Robbins, late of Company B, One hundred ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and U. S. S. Colorado, United States and fifty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. that be is now receiving. The name of Samuel D. R. Weaverling, late of Company H, Forty-fifth The name of John Snyder, late of Company K, Tenth Regiment, and Reaiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Company I. Third Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay of.,. 30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of Nelson Petry, late of Company A, Eighth Regiment Ken receiving. tucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per The name of George F. Deming, late of Company I, Forty-seventh month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of John Hermon, late of Company I, Sixty-fourth Regiment rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per The name of Joseph Oneal, late of Company F, Fortieth Regiment month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per The name of Mary A. Brady, former widow of Daniel L. Echternach, month in lieu of that he is now receiving. late of Company G, Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, ~ 'l.'be name of Jacob Nyce, late of Company A, Twenty-seventh Regi and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. ment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William K. French, late of Company D, Thirty-seventh The name of William G. Gyles, late of Company C, One hundred and Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. twenty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him The name of Holver Helgeson, late of Company E, Seventh Regiment a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate-of $24 receiving. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Augustus B. Farnham, late lieutenant-colonel Sixteenth Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Edgar A. Richards, late of Company C, Tenth Regiment of 40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Peter L. Rork, late of Company C, Eleventh Regiment of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of Thomas F. Leahy, late unassigned substitute, Vermont per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu The name of Francis S. Shirk, late of Company A, Twelfth Regiment of that be is now receiving. Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of Emma Bero, helpless and dependent child of William per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Bero, late of Company D, First Regiment New York Volunteer Light The name of James B. Smith, late of U. S. S. Rhode Island, United Artillery, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in The name of George F. Gill, late of Company D, Fifty-first Regiment lieu of that be is now r eceiving. Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Edmund B. Pullen, late of Company L, Third Regiment of 24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. l\Iissouri State Militia Cavalry, and Company C, Fourteenth Regiment The name of John W. Hickman, late of Company H, Ninth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at tbe rate of $30 Delaware Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ot $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that be is now r eceiving. The name of Daniel J. Carper, late of Companies A and G, Fh"st The name of Charles F. Woodley, late of Company F, First Regiment Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at Delaware Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James A. Thomas, late of Company F, Twenty-first Regi The name of Addie B. Thomas, widow of Joseph R. Thomas, late of ment ·Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Company H, Fifteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and of $12 per month, the same to be paid to him under the rules of the pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is Pension Bureau as to mode and times of payment, without any deduc now receiving. · tion or rebate on account of former alleged overpayments or erroneous The name of Alexander McCormick, late of Company F, One hundred payments of pension. and twenty-seventh Regiment, and captain Company I, Two hundred The name of Coleman Lewellen, late of Company F, Seventh Regi and first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a ment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now re rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. ceiving. The name of Ezra Rodgers, late of Company L, Fourteenth Regi The name of Stephen G. Averitt, late second lieutenant Company B, ment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of First Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the rate of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Morris L. Thomas, late of Company E, Ninety-ninth The name of George H. Berstler, late of Company H, Sixty-fifth Regi Regiment Indiana. Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 rate of $24 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Charles A. Leach, late of Company B, Ninety-seventh The name of .Tames F. Griffin, late unassigned, Fifteenth Regiment Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. 2426 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, The name of Peter C. Woodruff, late of Company B, Thirty-first Regi ment Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artlllery, and pay him a pension ment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the at the rate of $80 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name '?f Vernal F. Prewett, late of Company D, One hundred and The name of Charles G. Dixon, late o! Company E, Eighth Regiment eleventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Illinoi Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Agnes Luyster, widow of Theodore Luyster, late of Com The name of Phineas Allen, late of Company D, Sixteenth Regiment pany B, Tenth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and Company C, First Regiment Vermont pension at the rate of 20 per month in lieu of that she is now re Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of 24 ceiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John B. A. Foln, late o! Company A, One hundred and The name of Warren W. Dodge, late of Company II, Sixty-seventh thirty-~econd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay hlm Regiment, an,d Company D, Sixty-fifth Regiment, New York Volunteer a pension at the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he iS now re Infantry, and pay him a pen ion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu ceiving. of that he is now recelv1ng. 'l'he name o! John F. Wilkinson, late of Company I, Seventh Regi The name of Lemuel E. Sinsabaugh, late of Company H, Forty-sixth ment Ma sachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at rate of 50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Mary A. Brown, widow of Oscar Brown, late of Com The name of ~orge W. Lyons, helpless and dependent child of Wil pany B, Sixth Re"'iment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery and pay liam W. Lyons, late of Company F, Eleventh Regiment West Virginia her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per receiving. month. The name of William E. Earl, late o! Company I, Twentieth Regiment The name of -William D. Sparks, late of Company L, Seventeenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $BO per Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of George L. Maltz, late of Company I, and first lieutenn.nt The name of Eliza L. Davis, widow of Charles C. Davis, late major, Company ~. Fourth Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay Seventh Regiment Penn ylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay her a pen hlm a. pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he ts now sion at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. receivrng. The name of Starling Chandler, late of Company A, Eleventh Regi The n~me of Edmond Haynes, late of C,ompany D, Seventy-ninth Re<>i ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the ment Oh10 Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of '24 rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month ln lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Adam M. Kerns, late of Company I Third Regiment The name of Richard Bla.ine, late of Company F, Twenty-eighth Regi West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Edward Ga.ines, late of Company F, One hundred and The name of John M. C. Rentfro, late of Company K', Ninety-eighth eighty-fourth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin~. rate of • 24 per month Ln lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William H. Carson, late of Company F, Twenty-fiftn The name of William Simpson, late of Company A, One hundred and Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at twenty-third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a the rate of $12 per month. pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of George N. Shillinger, late of Company C, Tenth Regi The name of Jeptha D. Newman, late of Company I, Forty-ninth ment Michlgan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. The name <>f Ella Welch, widow of James Welch, late of Company A, The name of George N. McMahan, late of Company l3, Fifth Red Twenty-first Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension ment Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia, and pay him a pensi~n at the rate of 12 per month. at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. . The name of Susan Bedell, helpless and dependent chlld of David E. The name of Charles F. Schnelder, late of Company K, One hundred Bedell, late of Company E, Twenty-second Regiment Iowa Volunteer and seventy-third Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of William McKinley, late of Comp::rny C, Eighth Regiment, receiving. and Company K, First Regiment..t Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and pay The name of William G. Holden, late captain Company C, Twenty him a pension at the rate of $~4 per month in lieu of that he is now third Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension receiving. at the rn.te of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Isaac P. l\fetcalf, late of Company K, One hundred and The name of Henry B. Hawes, late of Compan~ I, Twentieth Regi fifty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry and pay him a pen ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the sion at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of 36 per month in lieu of that he is now receivinoo. The name of Horatio G. Carr, late of C-0mpany F, Thirtieth Regiment The name of Christopher Houser, late of Company G, Ninety-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. , rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John R. Kirby, late of Company I, One hundred and for The name of Rowland N. Evans, late major Twentieth Regiment tieth Regiment Ohio National Guard Infantry, and pay him a pension Illinots Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of at the rate of $24 per month Ln lieu of that be is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Nancy O. Mills, widow of William T. Mllls, late of Com The name of John W. Ryan, late of Company EJ, Twenty-first Regi pany C, Sixty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay her ment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate a pension at the rate of $12 per month. of $30 per month in lieu o! that he is now receiving. The name of Geor H. R.12241. Brad!ord J. Peasley ; H. R. 20858. Jeptha D. Newman; H. R. 12248. Luther F. Heath ; H. R. 20868. George N. McMaban: H. R.12553. Herman F. W. Fisher; H. R. 20908. Charles F. Schneider; H. R.12595. Alvey P. Howard ; H. R. 20913. William G. Holden ; H. R.12612. William T. Martin; H. R. 20940. Henry B. Hawes; H. R.12654. Benjamin F. Hedrick; H. R. 20943. · Christopher Houser ; H. R.12667. Nathan N. Coy; H. R. 20961. Rowland N. Evans; H. R.12753. Joseph Douglass ; H. R. 21067. John W. Ryan; H. R.12777. Robert Hafley ; H. R. 21068. Benjamin N. Trout; H. R.12934. Harvey S. Stone; H. R. 21141. George Stone; H. R.12943. Norman C. Smith ; H. R. 21264. James Wilson; and H. R.13184. James A. Loar; H. R. 21414. George W. Brown. II. R. 13208. Peter F. Myers ; Mr. SULLOWAY. :Mr. Speaker, on page 21 I move to amend H. R.13252. Elisha M. Root ; H. R.13378. Samuel Mottinger ; by striking out lines 7 to 10, inclusive, the beneficiary (George H. R.13580. Asbury J. Stewart; N. Chillinger) being dead. H. R.13788. Charles W. Price; 1.'he SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the amendment. H. R.13814. John Snyder; H. R.13826. George ll'. Deming; The Clerk read as follows: H. R.13962. Joseph Oneal ; Page 21, strike out lines 7, 8, 9, and 10. H. R.14010. Jacob Nyce; H. R.14151. William G. Gyles; The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the amend H. R.14219. Augustus B. Farnham ; ment. H. R.14295. Peter L. Rork ; H. R.14426. Francis S. Shirk ; The question was taken, and the amendment was agreed to. H. R.14726. James B. Smith; The bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed and read a H. R.14877. Edmund B. Pullen ; third time, was read the third time, and passed. H. R.14928. Daniel J. Carper; H. R. 15246. James A. Thomas; JAMES O'BRIEN. H. R.15475. Coleman Lewellen ; H. R.15481. Ezra Rodgers ; The next business was the bill (H. R. 20658) to remove the H. R.15495. Morris L. Thomas ; charge of desertion from the military record of James O'Brien. H. R.15502. Charles A. Leach ; The bill was read, as follows : H. R.15513. Charles P. Borden; H. R.15638. Sarah El. Woodall ; A bill (H. R. 20658) to remove the charge of desertion from the mili H. R.15743. George W. Coultas; tary record of James O'Brien. H. R.15883. Charles Frederick Troescher; Be i.t enacted, etc., That the Secretary of War be, and be is hereby, H. R.16093. Wells Knapp; an tborized and directed to remove the charge of desertion now standing H. R.16102. Warren D. Statl'ord; against the military record of James O'Brien, late private in Company H. R.16131. Frederic H. Norton ; D, Tenth United States Infantry, and grant him a:n honorable discharge; H. R.16147. Albert Sanders ; H. R. 16250. Samuel F. Smith; Also the following committee amendment : H. R.16254. John Mead; H. R.16258. Nancy S. Simmons; Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: H. R.16760. Josephine Brown; "That in the administration of the pension laws James O'Brien shall H. R.16838. Edwin Loosley; hereafter be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from H. R.16965. Columbus Hill ; the military service of the United States as private in Company D, H. R.16974. John Devine ; Tenth Regiment United States Infantry, on the 7th day of January, H. R.16989. William Sylvia; fg~6 ~cl;,ovided, That no pension shall accrue prior to the pa!lsage of H. R.17198. Warren D. Robbins; H. R.17199. Samuel D. R. Weaverling; The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the commit H. R.17306. Nelson Petry ; H. R.17350. John Hermon; tee amendment. H. R. 17653. Mary A. Brady ; The question was taken, and the amendment was agreed to. H. R.17966. William K. French ; The bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed and read a H. R.17991. Holver Helgeson; H. R.18049. Edgar A. Richards ; third time, was read the third time, and passed. . H. R.18064. Thomas F. Leahy ; The title was amended to read as follows: "A bill for the re H. R.18111. Emma Bero; H. R.18239. George F. Gill; lief of James O'Brien." H. R. 18241. John W. Hickman; LAFAYETTE L. M'KNIGHT. H. R.18242. Charles F. Woodley; H. R.18243. Addie B. Thomas ; The next business was House joint resolution (H. J. Res. 98) H. R.18273. Alexander McCormick ; for the relief of Lafayette L. McKnight. H. R.18313. Stephen G. Averitt; H. R.18323. George H. Berstler ; The Clerk read as follows : H. R.18523. James Griffin; House joint resolution 98. H. R.18534. Peter C. Woodrutl'; H. R.18634. Charles G. Dixon ; Resolved, etc., That the Commissioner of Pensions is authorized and H. R.18640. Phineas Allen ; directed to consider Lafayette L. McKnight to have been in the military H. R.18713. Warren W. Dodge ; service of the United States over the period specified in an act aoproved H . R. 18731. Lemuel ID. Sinsabaugh; February 9, 1909, entitled "An act for the relief of Lafayette ·L. Mc H. It. 19020. George W. Lyons ; Knight." H. R.19200. William D. Sparks ; The SP.IDA.KER. The question is on agreeing to the reso~u H. R.19224. Eliza Davis ; H. R.19238. Starling Chandler ; tion. H. R.19333. Adam M. Kerns ; The resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third H. R.19348. Edward Gaines; time, was read the third time, and passed. H. R.19365. William H. Carson; H. R.19377. George N. Chillinger; JOHN REED, ALIAS MICHAEL FLANAGAN. H. R.19484. Ella Welch; H. R.19489. Susan Bedell ; The next business was the bill ( S. 2072) to remove the H. R. 19524. William McKinley ; charge of desertion from the military record of John Reed, H. R.19525. Isaac P. Metcalf; alias Michael Flanagan. H. R.19585. Horatio G. Carr ; H. R.19649. John R. Kirby; The Clerk read as follows: H. R.19688. Nancy 0. Mills; A bill (S. 2072) to remove the charge of desertion from the military H. R.19742. George C. Rogers ; record of John Reed, alias Michael Flanagan. H. R.19802. Robert Marshall; H. R. 19819. Henry Wedig; Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of War be, and be is hereby, H. R.19935. Joseph Gray; authorized and directed to remove the charge of desertion now standing H. R. 20038. Charles A. Dahl; on the rolls and records of the War Department against the name of H. R. 20282. Joseph B. Spence; John Reed, alias Michael Flanagan, late of Company E, Fifth Regi H. R. 20290. Benjamin F. Carter ; ment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and Company D, Second Regi H. R. 20391. Elisha K. Cady ; ment United States Cavalry, and grant him a certificate of honorable H. R. 20423. Gerhard Ferber ; discharge therefrom: Provided, That no pay, bounty, or other emolu H. R. 20432. Samuel D. Kingsbury ; ments shall accrue or become· payable by virtue of the passage of H. R. 20441. John S. McCoy; this act. H. R. 20450. Newell B. Clark ; H. R. 20453. William Jones; Also the following committee amendment: H. R. 20503. Charles T. Rogers; Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the H. R. 20510. William Davis ; following: H. R. 20516. Charles S. Dow ; "That in the administration of the pension laws and the laws gov H. R. 20517. Vernal F. Prewett; erning the Soldiers' Home for Disabfod Volunteer Soldiers, or any H. R. 20525. Agnes Luyster ; branch thereof, .Tohn Reed, alias Michael Flanagan, shall hereafter be H. R. 20538. John B. A. Foin; held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the mili H. R. 20566. John W. Wilkinson; tary s'ervice of the United States as a private of Company D, Second H. R. 20595. Mary A. Brown ; Regiment United States Cavalry, on .July 25, 1865: Provided, That H. R. 20617. William E. Earl ; no pension shall accrue prior to the passage of this act." H. R. 20620. George L. Maltz; H. R. 20622. Edmond Haynes ; The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the amend H. R. 20672. Richard Blaine ; H. R. 20673. John M. C. Rentfro; ment H. R. 20787. William Simpson; The question was taken, and the amendment was agreed to. 2428 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, The bill as amended was ordered to be read a third time, was The name of Robert H. Clark late of Company B First Regiment read the third time, and passed. Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay hlm 'a pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving 0 The title was amended to read as follows: " For the relief of The name of William J. R. Beach, late of Lieutenant Sheldon's com John Reed, alias Michael Flanagan." pany, Sturges Rifles, Illinois Volunteer Infantry and pay hlm a pen~ sion at the rate of $?4 per month in lieu of that 'he is now receiving. CIVIL W AB PENSIONS. The name of Melvm L. Colman, late of Company G, Sixth Regiment Minnesota Voll~nteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The next business was the bill (S. 6271) granting pensions $30 per month m lieu of that he is now receiving. and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the T!ie name of William Dollman, late of Company I, Twenty-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the civil war and certain widows and dependent relatives of such rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving.· soldiers and sailors. The name of Joseph Luckman, late of Company C, One hundred and The Clerk read as follows:- twelfth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen sion at the rate of $30 per month in lien of that he is now receivin"' Be it enacted, eto., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is The name of Elijah H. Bean, late of Company C, One hundred 'and hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subjeet to forty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the provisions and limitations of the pensions laws- the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Maria H. Amsden, former widow of. William D. Wrighter, The name of David Detty, late of Company H, One hundred and late second lieutenant Company K, Sixty-second Regiment Pennsylvania seventy-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen· Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu ot that he is now receiving. The name of David Chapman, late of Company H, Forty-sixth Regi T!J.e name of Ashley R. Williams, late of Company B, li'ifty-sixth ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Re~1ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate $30 per month in lieu of. that he is now receiving. of. ~30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Allen D. Maurer, late first lieutenant and captain Com '!:he n~e. of Joseph L. Buckley, late of Company E, First Regiment pany C, Twelfth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a West Virg1ma Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate· of pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving . The name of Jacob 0. Passage, late of Company D, Seventeenth Regi The name of Mortimer L. Milledge late of Company C, Fiftieth Regi ment, and Company F, Eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of and pay hlm a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. is now receiving. The name of Milton Yeager, late of Company D, Thirty-sixth Regi The name of La Fayette Piatt, late of Company H, One hundred and ment Ohio Volunteer Infantryt and pay him a pension at the rate of twelfth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at $24 per month in lieu of that ne is now receiving. the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. T~e name of Amos H. Hampton, late of Company C, Fifty--second The name of William E. Cornwell, late of Company B, Seventeenth Regunent Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay hlm a pension at of 12 per month. the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Mary E. Barker, widow of William H. Barker, late first The name of Loron G. Robinson, late of Company I, Thirteenth Regi lieutenant Company G, Sixth Regiment United States Colored Volunteer ment Iowa Volunteer lnfantryh and pay him a pension at the rate of Cavalry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. $24 per month in lieu of that e is now receh-ing. The name of Albert Kalt, late of Company A, Brackett's battalion The name of Henry B. Rose, late of Company F, Fifth Regiment Iowa Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry, and pay ·him a pension at the rate of 24 Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate oi $-30 per per month in lieu of thnt he is now receiving. month in lieu of that be ls now receiving. The name of Edwin L. Rood, late o.t Second Battery Ohio Volunteer Light .Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of ~24 per month in The name of Duane E. Simons, late ot Company C, Thirty-fifth Regi lieu of that he is now receiving. ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and Company F, Twentieth Regi The name of William H. Dodge, late of Company L, Second Regiment ment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate Michigan Volunteer Cavnlry, and second lieutenant Company F, Thlrty of $30 per mo.nth in lieu of that he is now receiving. seventh Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of Charles Rogers, late of Company A, Ninety-ninth Regi at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment lllinoi-s Volunteer Infantry, and pay hllD a pension at the rate of The name of David H. Hill, late of Company E One hundred and $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. seventy-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of Edward F. Parker, alias Edward Franklin, late of Com at the rate of $24 per month in lieu o! that he ls now receiving. pany I, First Regiment Mississippi Marine Brigade Volunteer Infantry, The name of George P. Clark, late of Battery B, First Regiment and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he Rhode Island Volunteer Li~ht Artillery, and pay him a pension at the is now receiving. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Tbe name of Phillip Sutton, late of Company G, Seventeenth Regi The name of Josephine Amsden, former widow of Martin N. Slocum, ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of late second lieutenant Company El, Sixty-fifth Regiment United States $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Colored Volunteer Infantry, and pay h.er a pension at the rate of $15 The name of Nellie .A. Getchell, helpless and dependent daughter of per montb. Charles O. Getchell, late of Company F, First Regiment Minnesota Vol Tbe name of Judson Spofford, late of Company K, Tenth Regiment unteer Heavy .Artillery, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 24 month. per month in lieu of tbat ne is now receiving. The name of George W. Board, late of Company B1 Eleventh Regi The name of Peter Harman, late of Vaughn's battery, Illinois Volun ment, and Company H, Tenth Regiment, West Virginia. Volunteer In teer Light Artlllery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of month in lieu of that be is now receiving. that he is now receiving. 'fhe name of Mary Cannon, widow of Moses Cannon, late of Company The name of Henry K. Carson, late of Company G, Seventh Regiment G, Forty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ot pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now re $30 per month in lleu of that he is now receiving. ceiving. The name ot James M. Nicholas, late of Company B, Tenth Regiment, The name of Cushing Nichols, late of Company L, First Regiment and Company BJ, Twenty-fOurth Reglment1 Missouri Volunteer Infantry, Vermont Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate and pay him a pension at the rate of $2~ per mon.th in lieu of that he of 40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 1s now receiving. The name of George E. Worcester, late of Company D, Fourteenth' The name of Levi J. Smith, late of Company D, Fifteenth Regiment Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen ion at the Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 30 rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin"'. per month in lieu or tbat be is now receiving. The name ot Henry M. Whiteman, late of Company M, First Regi The name of Lewis W. Graham, late of Companies I and C, Second ment New Hampshire Volunteer Heavy Artillery. and pay hlm a pen Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ot ~30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Henry Moore, late of Company G. Second Reg"iment Tbe name of John J. Swett, late of Company E, First Regiment Ore Maine Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per gon Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Albert P. Given, late of Company El, First Regiment The name of Woodbury Blocksom, alias Ralph Wood, late hospital 1\Iaine Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per steward, United States Army, and pay him a pension at the rate of month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Alice P. Anderson, widow of William H. And r on. late The name of Benjamin T. Simpson, late of. Company D, Forty-second acting assistant paymaster, assistant paymaster, and paymaster, United Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension a1: the States Navy, and pay her a pension at the rate of 25 per month in rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. lieu of that she is now receiving. Tbe name ot Luther W. Whitbeck, late of Company H, Eighth Regi The name of Christa .A. Hoge, widow of John Hoge, late of Company ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Sixth Independent Battery, Ohio N, Sixth Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 pension at the rate of $12 per month. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Joanna Williams, widow of Peter S. Williams, Ia te bos The name of Joseph Sharpney, late of Company I, Twenty-second pltal steward, United States Army, and pay her a pension at the rate Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 'fhe name of Samuel T. Thomas, late of Company G, First Regiment, The name of Franklin T. Noel, late ot Company El, Nineteenth Regi and second lieutenant Company D, Seventh Regiment, Delaware Volun ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate teer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the, rate of $30 per month in of $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Jervis E. Barber, late of Company El, Forty-first Regi The name of. David Thompson, late of Compan,y C, Fifty-seventh ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay hlm a pension at the rate of Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at $24 per month in lieu of tbat be is now receiving. the rate ot $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of David F. Ragsdale, late of Company M, Fifth Regi The name of Edwin L. Thrasher, late of Company B, Eighteenth ment Missouri State Militia Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension rate of 30 per month in lieu of that be is now recelving. at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of" that he is now reeeivin"'. The name of William T . .Adkins, late of Company K, Thirty-third The name of David A. Paige, late of Company H, Third Regiment Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the New Ham8shire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving~ rate of $4 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of George P. Sargent, late of Company H, Twenty-fifth 'l'he name of William E. Shepherd, late of Company G, One hundred Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the and fifteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen rate of $30 per- month in lieu of that he is now. receiving. sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. '.rhe name of William L. Creasman, late of Company A, Third Regi The name of John Rice, late of Company C, Third Regiment Rhode ment Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Infantry, and pay him a pension at Island Volunteer Heavy .Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL: RECORD-HOUSE. 2429 The name of Nellie· A. Sanborn, widow of Augustus D- Sanborn.. late The name of Florence Van Etta, former widow of. John H. Purcell, eaptam Company G, Fifth Regiment N.ew Hru:ni;>shire Volnntee~ ill late first lieutenant, First Regiment- United States Infantry, an.d IJay !antry, and. pay her. ai pension, at. the. rate of $20 _ge:r mouth in. lieu o1l her a pension at the rate of $20 per_ month- that she is now receiving. ' The name of George E. Guthrie, late of" Company A, Twenty-ninth The name of James Minot, la.te of Company .&,. One. hundred and Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and ~ay him a pension at the fortieth Regiment New York Vol~r- Infantry, and. yay him a pen.. rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving_ sion at the rate of" $24 per month in lieu of that· he is now receiving_ The name of George W. Dunn, late of com.g,ar;~ F, One hundred and The name· of. Charles G. Engli&h late of CoIIll)a.IlY G, First. Regiment thirty-fifth Regiment Ohio National Guard try, a.nd pas- him a United States Cavafry, and pay hfui: a pension a.L the rate of: $30, (lei! pension at the rate of $30 per month ih IlelL of that he is.. now re month in lieu of tliat he is now receivfug. ceiving. The· name of John H. Bushman,.. late of- Warren's independent eom.. The name of Nathaniel T. Smith, late of Company F, First Regiment pany, Eenns:ylvan.ia Voln.nteer. Cavalryr and pay him a pension at the Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pens.ion at the xate of $2.4 per rate of $30 per month in Ileu of that lie is now receivfng. month In lieu of that he is now receiving_ The name of James. Ormiston, late. of Compnn31 C,, Sixth. Regiment The name of William H. Dixon, late of Company D, Ninth Regiment Ne.w York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay film a. gensfon at the Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension. at the rate oi $30 rate of: $30 per month in. lieu- of that.. ha is now. reeeivJng. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Albert. C. Little, late. of Company A, One hundred and The name of John L. Kain, late principal musician, Seventh Regi fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Iilf.a.ntry, an.d pay: him. a pen: ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him_ a. yension at the rate. o! sfon at the rate- o-r $24 per- montli in lteu at· that he. is DOWi receiving. $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The. name of Greenough D. Sanborn, late of Coml!a:n:y; F,, Fifteenth The name of William W. Aspinwall, late of Company R,. Forty Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer fufantry,. and Company B, Reach seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, antl pay him a pension quarters Troops, Louisiana Volunteers; and pay- him a pension. at the. at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he· is now receiving.. rate of $3Q per month in lieu of that he.. is now re.c.eiving. The name of Mary Kean Maull.. widow o! DavJd. W~ l\fau.ll,_ fate The name of John Mc.Keever, late of Company, D, Thirty-fifth. Regi surgeon, First Regiment Delaware Volunteer. Infantry, and pay he.r a ment United· States Infantry; Company Dr Fifteenth R.egiment Unit.ed pension at the rate of $25 per month in lien of:. that she is now re States Infantry; Company D, Seventeenth Regiment United States- In ceiving. fantry, and pay him a pension. at' the rate of $30 i;>er month. in. lieu of The· name of Annie S. Shay, widow of' James Shay, late of C.Ompany that he is now receiving. A, Thirteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volnntee1r Cavalry; and. pay her Tlie name of Lester Knight, late (If C-0mpany B~ Eighteenth Re.gt. a pension at the rate of $12 per month. ment llissouxl Volunteer ·In.fan.try, and. pay him_ a. pension. at. tlie rate The name of Ellen J. Mcintire, helpless and dependent daughter- of of $24 per month i.ni lieu. of that he is now receiving. John Mcintire, late of Company H, Seventh. Regiment Vermont Volun The name of 1J'tanklin Walk&; late of Company~ First Regiment teer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate ot $12 per month. Wisconsin Volunteer. Heavy Artillery, and: pay him. a pension, at tlie The name of Charles C. Whitmore, late of Company G,. Tenth Regi rate of $30 per month in lieu. of. that lie is now receiving. ment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension. at- the: rntec of Tfie name of Jolin A. Spencer, late of Company- D, Twelfth Regiment $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; and pay him a. pension. aL the rate of. $24.. per month in· lieu of that he ls now: receiving. This. bill is a substitute for the following_ Senate bills. referred to the Tlie name of Catherine E. Sperry, widow of Ne.Ison D~ Sperry, late of C01:nmfttee on Invalid Pensions: Company D, Sixty-fourth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and S. 18. Maria H. Amsden ; pay her. a pension. at the- rate at· $20 per month in lieu of: that she. is S. 22. David Chapman ; now receiving. S. 37. Allen D. Maurer ;. The- nan:re of Alamanda B. Richardson, late of Company B, Elghtli S. 39; Jacob D. Passage; Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Infantry,. and pas- film a pen S. 40. La Fayette Piatt; s-ion. at the rate of $24 per. month in neu. of that he is now receiving. S. 73. William. E. Corn.well ;: The name of Robert Emery, late of' Company D, Fifth Regiment S. 352. Loron G.. · Robinson :. Vermont Volunteer. Infant.cy~ and pay him a pension. at the. rate of $46 S:. 353. Henry· B. Rose ; per month in lieu of that he is now receiving.. S .• 358. Duan~ E. Simons ~ The name of Joseph Copler, rate of ComJ?any r; Ninth Regiment rowa S. 463. Charles Rogers ; Volunteer. Infantry,. and. pay him a pension at the: r.ate.. o! $2.-1 per S. 477. Edward F. Parker, alias··Erdward Franklin; month in lien_ of that he is now receiving. S. 666. Phillip Sutton ; The name of Edwin F. Brilf~i;an1f,!; of· Company C, Thlrty-sec-ond S .. 989. Nellie A. Getchell ,.. Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer , and pay him a pension at the S. 1049. George W. Board;: rate of $24: per month In lieu of that he IS nnw receiving. S-.1131. Henry K. Canson ; The name ot Lucinda A- Hoyt, widow of. Hiram L Hoyt,.. late of. Com S .. 1I9L James- M. Nicholas,. pany H;, Tenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer lilfantry, and 118.S' s. 1203. Levi J. Smith; · her a pension at the rate of $20 per month m lieu o! that she.. is now S:~1214.. Lewis W. Graham;-· receiving. S-~1254. John. J~ Swett; The name of Byron J. Stockwell,. late of Company B, Tlili:teenth S. 1368. Woodbury Blocksom, alias' Ralph Wcrod.; Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at. tlie S. 14U. Benjamin T: Siml.>son..;· rate of. $2.4 per month in lieu of that he· is now receiving. S. 1475. Lntner W. Whitbeck; The name of Jacob C. Neff, late of Company D, Seventy-eighth Regi S. 1616:. Jose:ph:.. Sharpney;. ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry,, and pay him. a pension at the S. 1737. Franklin T. Noel; rate of $24 per- month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S--1-'142. Jei-vis. E. Barber; The name- of Margaret Mack, widow of Alexander Mack, late: captain S. L-'171. David F •. Ragsdale; of top, U. S. S. North Carolina,.. Brooklyn,. and Ohio, United States S.1786. William T. Adkins;- Navy, and pay Iler- a pension at the rate of... $2.0 per month in lieu of S. 1795. George. P~ Sargent ;:- that she. is now recei'1.ng. S 1849. William L~ Creasman:; The name of Susan L. Brown, widow-of Henry S. Brown. late; second S. 1863. Robert H. Clark ; lieutenant eompany l!l,, Sixth Regiment. Conne.cticut Vorunteer Infantry, s. 1945.~ William J. R. Beach;. and pal'l he.r a pension, at the rate of.. $16 per month in lien of that she S. 2269. Melvin L. Colman; is now receiving. S. 2320. William Dollm:an ; The name of Edmund Moore - late of U. S. S_ Oliio, Hrrron, and S .. 2377. Joseph Luckman.;. Nahant, United. States Navy, aruf. pay him. a pension. at. the rate of. $24 s. 2382. Elijah H. Bean;: per month in lieu of that. he is. now receiving. S. 2387. David Detty;:. The name- of Thomas A. Cncrau,.. late of. Company I, Ninth Regiment S. 2392. Ashley R. Williams: Rliode Tula.ndl Volunteer Infantz:y, and pay him a pensimr at' the rate s._2455. J o:seph L.. Buckle.y ; of. $24. per- month in lieu. of tliat ha is now r-eceiving. S. 2483. Mortimer L.. Milledge ; s-. 2494. Milton.c Yeager; The name of Charles A- Place, late o-f: Company. A, Twelfth. Regiment S- 2561. Amos H. Hampton ; New Hampshire Volunteer Infantr~ . and pay him a. i;>ensian at the rate of $30 per month in lieu. ot that he is. now rec.eiviiig: S. 2649. Mary E Barlrer; The name of Thomas Powers, late of Company G, Tenth Regiment S. 2817. Albert Kalt; Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a \')ensian. at the rate of· $24 S. 2.881. Edwin L_ Rood~ S. 2882. William- H. Dt1dge ;:. per man.th in lieu ot that he is now receiving. S. 2.883. David H. Hill ;. The name of Franc.es M: Richardson, widow of Wentworth R. Rlch S. 2905. George P. Clark ; ardson, late passed assistant. surgeon United· States Navy, and pay her S. 2906. Josephine Amsderr; a. pensi.on at the. rate of $35 per· month. in lieu of that" she is now re S.. 2929: Judson Spoff.o!!d; ceiving. S. 2953. Peter Harman ; The name of Joel M: Sawyer, late o.t Company- D,, Seventeenth Regi him S .. 3055- Many Ca:rrnon ~ ment Maine Volunteer Infantry,. and pay a pension a.t the rate S-~3080. Cushing Ni.cbols ; of $24· per month in lieu of that he is" now receiYing_ E. S. 3100. George E. Worcester; The name of Ida Thomas Hobson, widow of William Hobson,. late S. 3262. Henry M. Whiteman.~ colonel Thirteen.th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry; and pay S. 3269. Henry M.oor.e ; her: a pension at the m.te of $30 i;>er mon.th in lieu ot that she: is_ now S. 3275. Albert P. Given; rec-eiving. S 3279. Alice P. Anderson; The name of .Astoria A. Austill, late of Company G, Eignth Regilnent s~ 3295. Christa: A. Hoge ; Indiana_ Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of'_ $30 S. 3306. Joanna Williams; per month in lieu of that he is now receiving_ · S. 3308. Samuel T. Thomas; The name of Andrew J. Arnold, late of Company C,. Nfuety-elghth S. 3344.. David Thompson; Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension. a.t the S. 3368. Edwin. L. Thrasher ; rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 3370. David A. Pai~e; The name of Lewis 0. Hills, late of Company G, One hundred and s. 3407. William E. Snepherd ;o thirty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and. pay him a. pen S. 3467. John. Rice; sion at the rate of $24 per month- in lie.a ot that he is now r-ecelving. S. 3531. Nellie A. Sanborn ; '1.'he. name of Lewis M. Stron°', late of Company K, Third Regiment s• .3532. James Minot; Vermont Volunteer Infanb:y, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 S. 3541. Charles G. English ;. per mQnth in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 3554. Joh.n R Bushman~ '.flhe name of. Romulus M. S. Hutchins, late of Company, F, Sixty S. 3747. James Ormiston; third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension. at s. 3761. Albert C. Little ;. the rate of $4-0 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 377 4. Greenough D. Sanborn; The n..'lllle of William R. Brabazon, late of Company D, 'l'wenty-s:econd S. 3802. John McKeever ; Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a. pension at the s. 3942. Leste Kilight-; rate oi ll!36 per month in lieu oi that ha is now rec..e.ivl:ng.. S. 3945. Franklin. Walker; .2430 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, S. 4161. John A. Spencer; The name of Benjamin F. Cotton, late of Captain McCown's company, S. 4244. Catherine E. Sperry ; Texas Mounted Rangers, Texas and New Mexico Indian war, and pay S. 4371. Alamanda B. Richardson; him a pension at the rate of $16 per month in lieu of that he ls now S. 4391. Robert Emery ; receiving. · S. 4485. Joseph Copier ; The name of William SchaJfer late of Troop I, Third Regiment S. 4614. Edwin F. Briggs; United States Cavalry, and pay him: a pension at the rate of $24 per S. 4635. Lucinda A. Hoyt ; month. S. 4668. Byron J. Stockwell ; The name of Frederick A. Emery, late of Company K, Twenty-third S. 4718 .•Jacob C. Neff; Regiment United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 4764. Margaret MaCk; $14 per month. S. 4765. Susan L. Brown; The name of Robert W. Lee, late of the U. S. S. Yosemite, United S. 4862. Edmund Moore ; States Navy, war with Spain, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 S. 4869. Thomas A. Curran ; per month. S. 4871. Charles A. Place; The name of Michael J. Tully, dependent father of Frank A. Tully, S. 4900. Thomas Powers ; late of Company H, Eighteenth Regiment United States Infantry, war S. 4901. Frances M. Richardson ; with Spain, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per month. S. 4902. Joel M. Sawyer; The name of Flemon Boles, late of Company H, Fourth Rea-iment S. 5030. Ida Thomas Hobson ; Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a pension S. 5099. Astoria A. Austill ; at the rate of $10 per month. S. 5104. Andrew J. Arnold; The name of Patrick Fahey, late of Company H, Twenty-eighth Regi S. 5127. Lewis 0. Hills ; ment United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 S. 5169. Lewis M. Strong; per month. . S. 5193. Romulus M. S. Hutchins; The name of Lillie B. Dieterich, widow of Richard F. Dieterich, late S. 5220. William R. Brabazon ; of Seventy-fourth Company, United States Coast Artillery, and pay 8. 5234. Florence Van Etta ; her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. S. 5530. George E. Guthrie ; The name of Duncan Mccraney, late of Capt. W. H. Kendrick's inde S. 5640. George W. Dunn ; pendent company, Florida Mounted Volunteers, Florida Seminole Indian S. 5735. Nathaniel T. Smith; war, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per month in lie~ of S. 5739. William H. Dixon ; that he is now receiving. S. 5777. John L. Kain; The name of Hattie R. Fisher, widow of Henry C. Fisher, late first S. 5801. William W. Aspinwall ; lieutenant, United States Marine Corps, and pay her a pension at the S. 5830. Mary Kean Maull ; rate of $25 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. S. 5849. Annie S. Shay ; The name of Edwin R. Mears, late of Fifty-eighth Company, United S. 5936. Ellen J. Mcintire; and States Coast Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per S. 5985. Charles C. Whitmore. month. The name of Margaret Kuhlwein, widow of Leonard J. G. Kuhlwein, The bill was ordered to a third reading, read the third -time, late chief gunner (relative rank of ensign), United States Navy, and and passed. . · pay her a pension at the rate of $25 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving, and $2 per month additional on account of each of the OTHER THAN CIVIL W AB PENSIONS. two minor children of said Leonard J. G. Kuhlwein, until they reach The next pension business on the Private Calendar was the the a.ge of 16 years. · The name of Louisa H. Highley, dependent mother of Robert A. bill (H. R. 21754) granting pensions and increase of pensions Highley, late of Company M, First Regiment Missouri Volunteer In to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, fantry, war with Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per and certain soldiers of wars other than the civil war, and to month. The name of Herbert P. De Lano, late of Company B, Thirty-first widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors. Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him The bill was read, as follows.: a pension at the rate of $12 per month. Be it enacted, eto., That the Secretary of 'the Interior be, and he ls The name of Thomas N. Hopkins, late captain Company A, First hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a the provisions and limitations of the pension laws~ pension at the rate of $15 per month. The name of George F. Willard, late of Troop C, First Regiment The name of Martha Jones, widow of Frank F. Jones, late of Com !;.~~tii?. States Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per pany F, Thirteenth Regiment United States Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month, and $2 per month additional on The name of Robert C. Foster, late of Company K, Forty-fifth Regi account of each of the five minor children of said Frank F. Jones until ment United States Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a they reach the age of 16 years. pension at the rate of $15 per month. The name of John W. Tilly,. late of Company D, Santa Fe Battalion, The name of Mary Walsh, dependent mother of William S. Walsh, Mounted Volunteers, war with Mexico, and pay him a pension at the late of Company C, First Regiment United States Volunteer Engineers, rate of $12 per month. ~~~\1~ States Army, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per The name of Jesse W. Dabbs, late of Company K, Ninth Regiment United States Infantry, Oregon and Washington Territory Indian war, The name of Dewey C. Shaw, late of Company H, Third Regiment and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per month in lieu of that be Nebraska Volunteer Infantry, war with Mexico and Indian war, and is now receiving. pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per month. The name of Lewis W. Culter, late of Company I, Thirty-fourth Regi The name of James C. Burwell, late of Company K, Tenth Regiment ment United States Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per pension at the rate of $12 per month. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Emma C. Wiese, widow of Frank J. Wiese, late of Com The name of Adolph Weil, late of Troop E, Third Regiment United pany C, Tenth Regiment United States Infantry, and pay her a pen sion States Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per month. at the rate of $12 per month, and $2 per month additional on account The name of William L. Williams, late of Capt. John H. Conner's of each of the four minor children of said Frank J. Wiese until they company, Texas Rangers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 reach the age of 16 years. · per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Sarah E. Kerns, widow of Moses E. Kerns, alias Edward The name of William B. Reagan, late of Capt. W. A. A. Wallace's Kerns, late of Company M, Second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, company, Texas Mounted Volunteers, Texas and New Mexico Indian war with Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of 12 per month, war, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per month in lieu of and $2 per month additional on account of each of the two minor chil that he iS' now receiving. dren of said Moses E. Kerns until they reach the age of 16 year". The name of William W. Parker, late of Captain Blackwell's company, The name of John H. Border, late of Company A of In truction, Texas Mounted Volunteers, Texas and New Mexico Indian war, and pay General Service, United States Army, ·and pay him a pension at the him a pension at the rate of $16 per month in lieu of that he ls now rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. receiving. The name of Michael Morris, late of Company B, Seventh Regiment The name of Charles H. Nimitz, late of Captain McCulloch's company, United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per Texas Mounted Volunteers, Texas and New Mexico Indian war, and pay month in lieu of that he is now receiving. him a pension at the rate of $16 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of William J. Birge, late first lieutenant, Company D, receiving. First Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay The name of James M. Low, late of Capt. J. H. Conner's company, him a pension at the rate of $24 per month. Texas Rangers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per month in The name of William Cunningham, late of Companies K and A, Third lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of George W. Light; late of Captain Ford's company, Texas $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mounted Volunteers, Texas and New Mexico Indian war, and pay him a The name of Robert D. Risley, late of Company G, Ninth Regiment pension at the rate of $16 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Illinois Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a pension at The name of Anton L. Berger, late of Capt. G. H. Nelson's company, the rate of $12 per month. Texas Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per month The name of George Brough, late of Capt. Lyman L. Stevens's com in lieu of that be ls now receiving. pany, Col. George A. Smith's Regiment of Cavalry, Nauvoo Legion, Utah The name of Joseph H: Harris,. late of Capt. J. H. Conner's company, Indian disturbances, and pay him a pension at the rate of $8 p~r month. Texas Rangers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per month in The name of Phillip Smith, late of Capt. Lyman L. Stevens's com lieu of that he is now receiving. . pany, Col. George A. Smith's Regiment of Cavalry, Nauvoo Legion, Utah The name of John H. Hutchinson, lat~ of Capt. P. H. Rogers's com Indian disturbances, and pay him a pension at the rate of $ per month. pany, Texas Volunteers, Texas and New Mexico Indian war, and pay The name of James Carlile, late of Capt. William M. Alfred's com him a pension at the rate of $16 per month in lieu of that he is uow pany of infantry, Nauvoo Legion, Utah Indian disturbances, and pay receiving. him a pension at the rate of $8 per month. The name of Henry T. Hill, late of Captain Bourland's first company, The name of Alexander Robertson, late of Capt. William M. Allred's Texas Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per month company of infantry, Nauvoo Legion, Utah Indian disturbances, and in lieu of that he is now receiving. pay him a pension at the rate of $8 per month. · The name of John R. Gibbons, late of Capt. John S. Ford's company, The name of Richard H. Humphries, late of Company E, Fourth Regi Texas Mounted Volunteers, Texas and New Mexico Indian war, and pay ment Virginia Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a pen- him a pension at the rate of $16 per month in lieu of that he is now sion at the rate of $12 per month. · • receiving. The name of Louisa B. Macconnell, widow of Charles J. Macconnell, The name of Emory Gibbons late of Capt. John S. Ford's comfany, late captain (with relative rank of chief engineer), United States Navy, Texas Mounted Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate o $16 and pay her a pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that she per month in lleu of that he is now receiving. is now receiving. The name of John Campbell, late of Capt. John S. Hodges's company, The name of Clarence W. Davis, late of Twenty-eighth Company Texas Rangers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per month in United States Coast Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 lieu of that be la now receiving. per month. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2431 The name of Morgan J. Treadway, late capta.ln Company G, Fourth H. R. 13771. Michael Morris ; Regiment Kentucky Volunteer ln:fantry, war with Spain, and pay him a H. R. 14003. William J. Birge ; pension at the rate of $20 per month. H. R. 14133. William Cunningham; The name of L. Place Bostwick, late of Company· r, Fiftieth Reglment H. R. 14176. Robert D. lisle~; Iowa Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a pension at the H. R. 14267. Geor~e Brough ; rate of_ 30 per month. H. R. 14268. Phillip Smith; The name of Green A. Settl. e, late of Troop D, Seventh Regiment H. R. 14269. James Carlile; United States Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per H. R. 142'70. Alexander Robertson · month In lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 14339. Richard H. Humphries; The name of Katherine S. Finlayson, widow of John L. Finlayson, H. R. 14734. Louisa B. MacConnel1; late captain Philippine Scouts, United States Army, and pay her a pen H. R. 14795. Clarence W. Davis ; sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving H. R. 15059. Morgan J. Treadway; and $2 per month additional on account of the minor child of said John H. R. 16564. L. Place Bostwick; L. Finlayson until he reaches the age ot 16 years. H. R. 16587. Green A. Settle; The name of William J. Hemby, late of Battery H, Fourth Regiment H. R. 17133. Katherine S. Finlayson; United States Artillery, war with Spain, and pay him a pension at the H. ~ 17990. William J. Hemby; rate of $12 per month. H. R. 18043. Peter Walsh ; The name of Peter Walsh, late of Company C, Twelfth Regiment H. R. 18302. Mary McGuire ; United States Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a pension at the H. R. 19241. Robert G. Clark; rate of 12 per month. H. R. 19682. Mary D. Cooley ; The name of Mary McGnlre widow of Mike J. McGuire, late of Com H. R. 20175. Josephene L. Whitt; pany D, Fifth Regiment United States Volunteer Infantry, war with H. R. 20807. Alexander B. Davis; and Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month and $2 I?.er H. R. 21088. William M. Cordwell. month additional on account of the min.or child of said Mike J'. McGuire until she reaches the age of 16 years. The bill was ordered. to be engrossed for a third reading; and The name of Robert G. Clark, late of Company E, Third Regiment being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and New York Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a pension passed. at the rate of $24 per month. The name of Mary B. Cooley,- widow of Darius Cooley, late of Com The title was amended in line 2 by inserting, after the word pany G, Fourth Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry~ and pay her a " soldiers" the words " and sailors." pension at the rate of 12 per month. On motion of Mr. LOUDENSLAGER, a motion to reconsider the The name of Josephine L. Whitt, widow of Jonas R. Whitt; late of Company I, Second Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, war with several votes by which the- various bills were passed was laid on Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month and $2 addi the table. tional on account of each of the two minor children of said Jonas R. WILLIAM H. HAWLEY, DECEASED. Whitt until they reach the age of 16 years. The name of Alexander B. Davis, late of Capt. P. H. Rogers's Com The next business on the Private caiendar was the- bill (H. R. pany F, Mounted Battalion, Texas Volunteers, Texas and New Mexico 21693) to correct the military record of William H. Hawley, de Indian war, and pay him a pension of $16 per month in lieu of that he ceased. is now receiving. The name of William M. Cordwell, late of Company D, Third Regi The bill was read, as follows: ment United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Be it enacted, etc., That in the administration of the pension laws per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. William H. Hawley, alias Henry Hawley, shall hereafter be held and Mr. LOUDENSLAGER. Mr. Speaker, I desire to ofl'er the consiliered to have been honorably discharged from the mUitary service o! th~ United States as private in Company E, Twenty-first Regiment Illi following amendment: Page 2, line 3, after the word "en no1s Vo~unteer Infantry, OJ?. the 6th day of April, 1863: Provided, That gineers," insert " war with Spain." no pension shall accrue pl.'.lor to the passage of this act. The question was taken, and the amendment was agreed to. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading; and Mr. LOUDEl'lSLAGER. Mr. Speaker, I move an amendment being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and to page 2. line 7: Strike out the words " Mexico Indian war " and passed. insert the word "Spain;" and in line 7, strike out "six" and POST-OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL, insert " twelve dollars." The Clerk read as follows : Mr. WEJEJKS. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House resolve Page 2, line 7, strike out " Mexico Indian war"- and insert " Spain· " itself into Committee of the Whole House on. the state of the strike out "six" and insert "twelve dollars." ' Union for the further consideration of the bill H. R. 21419, the The question was taken, and the amendment was agreed to. post-office appropriation bill. Mr. LOUDENSLAGER. Mr Speaker, I move to amend on The S:PEAKER. The gentleman from Massachusetts moves page 2, line 11, by striking out after the word "month," an' the that the House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole rest of the line and line 12. House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of The Clerk read as follows : the post-office appropriation bill. Page 2, lines.., 11 and 12, strike out the words "in lieu o! that be is The question was taken, and the motion was agreed to. now receiving." · The House accordingly resolved itself into Committee of .the The question was taken, and the amendment was agreed to. Whole House on the state of the Union; Mr. LAWHENCE in the This bill is a substitute for the following House bills referred to the chair. Committee on Pensions : The CHAIRMAN. The House is in Committee of the Whole H. R. 773. George F. Willard ; House on the state of the Union for the further consideration H. R. 1143. Robert C. Foster; of the bill H. R. 21419, the post-office appropriation bill. H. R. 1407. Mary Walsh; H. R. 2002. Dewey Shaw; Mr. WEEKS. Mr. Chairman, I will ask the gentleman from H. R. 2030. James C. Burwell; Tennessee to use some of his time. H. R. 2667. Adolph Weil ; l\fr. MOON of Tennessee. Mr. Chairman, I yield twenty min H. R. 3102. William L. Williams; H. R. 3125. William B. Reagan ; utes to the gentleman from New York. H. R. 313L William W. Parker; Mr. GOULD&'l. Mr. Chairman, in the post-office appropria H. R. 3138. Charles H. Nimitz ; tion bill, now unde.r consideration, an effort ]).as been made, as H. R. 3150. James l\f. Low; H. R. 3151. George W. Light; in all the fiscal and appropriation bills already presented here, H. R. 3170. Anton L. Berger ; to effect the economy so earnestly requested by the President. H. R. 3183. Joseph H. Harris; But, with all due respect to the President and the appropriation H. R. 3185. John H. Hutchinson; H. R. 3187. Henry T. Hill ; committees, the Post-Office Department is the one place, in my ll. R. 3192. John R. Gibbons; judgment, where economy is misplaced. The one department Il. R. 3194. Emory Gibbons; producing revenue of almost sufficient volume to maintain itself H. R. 3213. John Campbell; H. R. 3219. Benjamin F. Cotton ; should receive encouragement, and not be subjected to tile H. R. 3734. William Schaffer; - strong hand at a time of stringency in revenues. H . ..R. 4651. Frederick A. Emery; H ."R. 5732'. Robert Wetmore Lee; . ~ot only is this department practically self-supporting, but H. R. 5750. Michael J. Tully; it is of such extreme usefulness to the people in every way, its H. R. 6235.• Flemon Boles ; functions have grown to be such an inseparable part of every H. R. 6658. Patrick Fahey ; life, in this H. R. 6956. Lillie B. Dieterich ; day that economy question is altogether out of place, H. R. 7493. Duncan Mccraney; when it can be effected in so many other departments of not H. R. 8072. Hattie R. Fisher ; such equal usefulness and importance. H. R. 9937. Edwin R. Mears; H. R. 105 8. Margaret Kuhlwein-; The cry for economy in this particular department is excused H. R. 10590. Louisa H. Highley ; at present, on the ground that there is a large deficit in the H. R. 10929. Herbert P. De Lano ; postal revenues, amounting to $17,000,000, not enough to build H. R. 11026. Thomas N. Hopkins; H. R. 11077. Martha Jones: two modern battle ships. It has come to be such an expected H. R. 11186. John Wesley Tllley • thing in the post-office for it to maintain itself and not look for H. R.11476. Jesse W. Dabbs; financial help, that a deficit is looked upon as a defect, to be H. R. 11661. Lewis W. Culter; H. R. 11768. Emma C. Wiese; punished by enforcing economy. Thus~ from all points of view, H. R. 12534. Sarah E. Kerns; this useful branch of the Government is being attacked, instead H. R. 12959. John H. Border; of praised and helped. 2432 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, An analysis of the situation seems to show that t'he present seems a cruel hardship to the cities of the first and second class, deficit in postal revenues is due largely to the rapid extension which produce the profits of the department, to have them ex of the rural free-delivery system and to the low rates on second penµed in rural districts in an almost charitable fashion. class mail. If economies are to be effected, it would seem that As a farmer. myself I am in thorough sympathy with all these are the items which need attention. While not admitting projects for the so-called " uplift" of rural communities and that the Post-Office Department needs compression of appropria farms, but if such sums of money are to be expended, it would tions, yet I am willing that ·these items should be so amended seem to me that they should come from the General Treasury, as to enable it to catch up with the decreased revenues, if that is and be directly expended on agricultural education, as contem deemed necessary. plated in several bills now pending before this House, rather Mr. FORNES. Will the gentleman yield to a question? than that the money should come .from post-~ffice profits and be Mr. GOULDEN. Certainly. expended on a post .system that only indirectly helps the Mr. FORNES. Is not the large deficit on account of the large farmers. · . expenditures in the rural delivery, which show, I believe, a loss The worst feature of the whole matter is that the deficit of $34,000,000? produced in these two items alone, second-class rates and rural Mr. GOULDEN. It is. free delivery, has to be made up from the profits of the large Mr. FORNES. And then. the second-class mail, which shows cities and post-offices; it looks like an unjust perversion of funds a loss of $63,000,000. Is it not a fact that since the establish to divert these profits from the cities which produce them into ment of the second-class rate the magazines and the papers have the rural communities which give no adequate return, and largely increased their advertising in place of its devotion to which do not show much disposition to help themselves. literature as was intended when the rate was made? Mr. LLOYD. Is it not true that the second-class mall that Mr. GOULDEN. No doubt about that, so far as the second causes this deficit goes out from these large cities·! . part of your question is concerned. The second-class matter is Mr. GOULDEN. True; but that is no justification of the responsible, more than any other cause, for the present deficit, other claim which I have just referred to, and I am sorry that · and in my judgment there will be some remedy necessary in the Committee on ·the Post-Office and Post-Roads, for all of order to correct it. It is well settled that the large magazines whose members I have the greatest admiration and in whom I and periodicals now J:iave space taken up by advertising that have great confidence, did not take up the matter more seriously runs up as high as $2,000 a page per issue, and they are re and do something to remedy the evil in that direction. garded in my own city as one of the best-paying activities in And now, adding insult almost to injury, not only are the which men can engage. cities and large offices to be deprived of their revenues, but As to .the rural free delivery, I am heartily in favor of that, when the cry for economy goes forth these same cities are told because I believe it has been one of the best things introduced that they must submit to reduced allowances for salaries and into the postal service, and benefits more people than any other expenses out of their own earnings. item in this bill. However, I believe that the rapid extension of the system, perhaps, has grown faster than intended origi The Postmaster-General has .stated that the natural increase nally when this magnificent service· was placed in the law giv of the business requires the services of some 2,000 additional clerks each year; and if the department is to be kept up to its ing to the people generally rural free delivery. I have heard proper efficiency and the normal producing capacity maintained, some questions in regard to the rural free-delivery carriers, these additional clerks should be provided for. But for the year and while I voted for the increase a few years ago, I still do beginning July 1 next only some 47 new clerks are provided for not believe that they are overpaid. I have in mind two car in the bill now under consideration. Tllis is a shortsighted riers, tenants of mine, one who owns a farm of 100-odd acres, policy, for if a sufficient working force is not provided, the usual and he devotes the afternoons of each day to the cultivation of capacity of the department will be crippled and a larger deficit that farm. Another who has a plot of ground, and gives his afternoons to the cultivation of that. So that they are differ may be looked for in the next fiscal year. ent from the carriers in the cities. Their expenses, so far as The committee should by all means make allowance for .at living are concerned, are lighter, and they have opportunities least 1,500 extra clerks in the bill H. R. 21419 (1,750 extra of doing something that will enable them to add to their in was the exact number requested by the Postmaster-General in comes, which the city carriers have hot. the estimates of the department for 1911). Their employment All students of the subject admit that the extension of the will amply justify itself in the increased efficiency of the entire second-class mailing privilege has been so enormous as to stag service. ger the ideas of the original promoters; it has made possible Another matter which needs attention is an increase in the the present widespread publication of newspapers and maga appropriation for salaries to clerks, permitting a larger num zines, and of the periodical literature of which, in most cases, ber to be placed in the $1,200 class. Only half the number we are so justly proud. It has given our people the opportunity eligible for this class received the compensation last year be to show what a real freedom of the press means; it has enabled cause of the small appropriation; yet every man eligible should the people to be educated in every possible way that printed receive this $1,200 salary. The present bill will increase the matter can achieve. As a good friend of mine has stated, this $1,200 men from 7,000 to over 10,000, the number requested by second-class mail privilege has been the means by which Con the Postmaster-General, but as the number of supervisory gress has spread education and enlightenment among the peo officials has not been increased, a large number of such men ple, as pro1'ided for in the Constitution. will have to be carried in the $1,200 class, thus shutting out a At the same time, many of the periodicals, especially the corresponding number of men from their $1,200 salary. larger and more cultured of the magazines, have not had an The clerks in the larger cities are especially entitled to this altogether educational or philanthropic intention in their mo consideration. In the first place, as their working hours are tives of publication; they have been, and are, inspired more by not fixed by law, they are obliged to work from ten to twelve business ends than otherwise. Even the la test race of " re and even fifteen hours a day ; the day of the letter carrier is form" magazines, those whose purpose, according to themselves, limited by law to eight hours; other employees of the Govern· is to show Congress how it should behave, to teach Senators and ment have their time regulated by law, but the postal clerks, Representatives how they should legislate, to show the Gov as hard a worked body of men as exists in the government ernment how it should govern-even these keepers of our con service, are obliged to work any old number of hours they inay sciences are not averse to the cent-a-pound rate for mailing, be ordered. That they do it willingly is a magnificent tribute and not opposed to accepting from $200 to $500 a page for to their loyalty, and they should be properly rewarded. [Ap advertisements each month. plause.] Such publications, run on strictly business lines, and paying The bill of my friend from Illinois [Mr. WILSON] now pend handsome profits to their owners and editors, are well able to ing, as it has been for several sessions, should be taken up and pay a higher rate of mailing than a cent a pound. Even if _not receive the favorable action of Congress, fixing the working obliged to pay the usual rate for printed matter, or third-class hours of postal clerks at eight per day for six days a week ; rates, at least some increase in the rate should be made. I do any overtime to -be paid for. It should also be remembered not believe it would hurt the American people any, and yet it that most of the work of these clerks is done at night, which would correct some of the deficiencies of revenue. makes their places particularly harsh and disagreeable; and The rural free-delivery system has also grown beyond all in thus giving up the time usually allotted to other men for original bounds and estimates. In the comparatively few years home life and recreation they should be rewarded by at least it has been -in existence it has grown into a gigantic system, having their working time fixed at eight hours a day for six and is now responsible for some $28,000,000 of a yearly deficit. days a week. This, with their compensation fixed at $1,200 While not opposed to the system, because of the great good it whenever eligible, would make these men happy and contented, bas been tG the farmers and the rural communities, yet I believe and the Government would reap the benefit in a better and more that too· much money is being expended on it at present; and it highly efficient service. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2433 the Postmaster-General should require all railroads carrying the mails The $1,200 salary rate for carriers should also be given to to maintain their regular train schedules as to the time of arrival and them as soon as they have been long enough in the service to departure of said mails, and to impose and collect reasonable fines for qualify; it should not be dependent upon favor or recommenda delay when such delay was not caused by unavoidable accidents or con ditions. This provision has not since been incorporated in the law. tion or any other consideration· whatsoever; it should be given Yours, very truly, them for length of service and good behavior only, and not F. H. HITCHCOCK> Postmaster-General.. taken away by any local authority, subjecting them to the per sonal whims or peculiarities or dislikes of small officials or Mr. LLOYD. Will the gentleman state how it would reduce politicians. - the deficit to have a more expeditious train service? In. view of the increased cost of living, which 1s no joke to Mr. GOULDEN. If you enforce the- fines and collect them men with incomes of only $1,200, nothing but a very serious as you did, three-quarters of a million dollars or more a year matter should deprive them of this salary. -With families to and if properly enforced I have no doubt it ought to be $2,000,- support, and at least a decent show made at living, the cost of 000 or $3,000,000 a year-it will reduce the deficit that much. living, in our larger cities especially, makes it impossible tor the The Postmaster-General in his letter says : men to get along properly on less than $1,200; and if the govern For the first half of the present fiscal year, .July 1 to December 31, 1909, inclusive, on account of failure of service, late operations of ment service is to be properly maintained, the men must be mail trains, and other delinquencies, which covers all deductions, fides, decently paid. Therefore the whole service of carriers and and remissions ordered in the railroad service during ,that time. clerks should be put on n $1,200 basis, or higher, at the earliest After giving the amounts, he says: possible moment, and the men will be made strong, loyal civil The heavy deductions made during the fiscal years ended .June 30, officials and willing employees ot a considerate Government. 1907 1908, and 1909, were largely due to the enforcement of the [Applause.] In addition, a retirement fund should be speedily provision1 of the acts of Congress of June 28, 1906, and March 2, 1907, that the Postmaster-General should require all railroads carry enacted into law for both clerks and carriers. ing the mails to maintain their regular train schedules as to the time The increased cost in the appropriations for this $1,200 salary of arrival and departure of said mails, and to impose and collect to all eligible clerks and carriers would not be enough to hurt rea,sonable fines for such delay when such delay was not caused by unavoidable accidents or conditions. This provision has not since anybody; even if it does produce a deficit in the postal revenues, been incorporated in the law. it will be produced in a worthy cause. Decent pay for these men is surely as good a cause for a postal deficit as cent-a I should· like to ask the chairman of the committee why has J)ound me.11 to rich and prosperous periodicals, or free delivery not that provision been in the law since 1908? to rural communities; and, with all respect to the literary and Mr. WEEKS. I presume the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. farmer folk, I believe the carriers and clerks come first, as they LLOYD] might answer that more definitely than I; but my un actually help us to produce postal revenues, and not merely help derstanding is that the department recommended that it be not to spend them. continued in the last year's appropriation bill. .And even if we do not make an effort to supply the deficiency Mr. GOULDEN. Does not the gentleman think that if the. by increasing the second-class rates or by cutting otr some of law produced large fines, amounting to upward of a milllo'-. th'e free-deli very routes, it would be well to make additional dollars, it ought to be continued? Will the gentleman from appropriations for the $1,200 clerks and carriers; it is no crime Missouri [Mr. LLoYD] answer that question? for the Post-Office Department to be additionally short that Mr. LLOYD. The Assistant Postmaster-General, who was be amount, ·or for a total deficit ot $30,000,000 or $35,000,000. If fore the committee last year when this subject was discussed, other departments can expend hundreds of millions without a took the position that as a rule the trains were unavoidably de cent of direct return, wby can not the Post-Office Department be layed and it was no fault of the train service that the trains indulged to a little extent? If there is to be economy, let it did not fill out their schedules; that the railways were just as commence elsewhere than in a department doing its single anxious to have their .schedules complied with as the Post-Office handed share to support itself. Department was, and that as a rule the delay was not properly I would like to make part of my remarks a letter from the chargeable to the railway service, and that it would be a hard Postmaster-General concerning a falling off in the fines imposed ship on the railroads to charge against them any fine on account on railroads for late deliveries and other reasons. In the fiscal of the delay. -- years 1907 and 1908 the net fines collected were some two Mr. GOULDEN. Does not the gentleman think, however, that thirds of a million dollars; in 1909 and 1910 the net fines ba ve in ·many cases i.t the trains were made up with a respectable shrunk to very small proportions, explained by the Postmaster number of cars they would be able to get the mails through in General as being due to the lack of such laws as compelled the time, and that frequently even the best roads in the country railroads to live . up to their time-tables and schedules. This haul such immense trains that it is impossible to make the time? ]aw should be rigidly enforced. If this was done, it would ma Mr. LLOYD. I hardly think there are any trains now with terially help reduce the deficit. any fixed schedules that can not comply with the schedule under OFFICJl 01' TH1!1 PO!'lTMASTER-GENEKAL, ordinary conditions. Even the fastest trains between New York WaaM-noton, D. 0., Febr"ar11 7> 1910. and Chicago can comply with the schedule time if normal condi Hon. JOSllPH A. GOULDEN, House of Represent5tiVe8. tions prevail. MY DEA.It Sui: In compliance with your telegraphte request of the 4th Mr. O'CONNELL. Do I understand that the gentleman is instant that you be furnished with a detailed statement of fines imposed opposed to the extension of the rural free-delivery system? upon railroads for delinquencies, and what were collected and what Mr. GOULDEN. No; I am not opposed to it, providing we remitted, with causes, during the past ten yea,rs, I have the honor to submit the following statement, which shows the gross amounts of de go at it in a conservative manner and do not extend the rural ductions and fines, amounts of remissions, and the net amounts of free-delivery service to such an extent that instead of a deficit such fines and deductions, for the fisclll years ended .June 30, from 1900 of $26,000,000 it may be $40,000,000 or $50,000,000. I believe the to 1909, inclusive, and for the first half of the present fiscal year, July 1 to December 31, 1909, inclusive, on account of failures of service system to be a good one, but I do not want to see it extended late operation of mail trains, and other delinquencies, which covers ali quite so rapidly, at the expense of the first and second class city r:~~cg~~s;' fines, and remissions ordered in the railroad service during clerks and carriers. Mr. O'CONNELL. I think the gentleman is quite right. Deductions Without wishing to be considered hostile to the rural tree-deliv- Fiscal year. and fines. Remissions. Ne~gdd~;1~ns ery system, I, too, believe that the efforts ot this House ought to be directed to the inequalities, handicaps, and disadvantages under which our carriers, clerks, and railway mail clerks have 1900. ------$138' 564. 50 $3,093.35 $135,471.15 been and are now obliged to work, rather than to increase ap 1001 ___ ------98,917.20 8,654.61 90,262.59 propriations for the development of new branches of the service. 1902.1003 ______------_ 94,064.M 1,005.(3 00,059.11 122,106.66 575. 76 121,530.90 The railway mail clerks have been patient and long sufferers lOOi. ------178,116.19 2,066, 77 176,059.42 at the hands of this Government on the utterly far-fetched and 1905. ------146,169.30 2,678.47 143,490.~ strained argument of economy, and this House should not plead 1906. ------172,004.91 12,854.59 159,150.32 1907 ------624,183.66 16,184.88 607,998.78 economy to deprive them of their just merit of due, while at 1908. ------008,372.81 263,203.98 675,168.83 the same moment vast sums are spent on new ideas not nearly 1909. ------100,~.43 159,557. 74 33,931.69 so worthy of our attention. [Applause.] 1910 (first half)------46,0'25.77 11,291.8() 34,733.97 Mr. FORNES. I wish to correct the amount that I obtained TotaL------2, 752,014.97 481,157.38 2,270,857.50 in the committee report. They stated in the report, for rural ------'------carriers, $37,645,000. I inferred there was a saving on total The heavy deductions made during the fiscal years ended .Tune 30 cost of about 10 per cent; and that is the way I reached the 1907, 1908, and 1909, were largely due to the enforcement of the provi: amount of $34,000,000. I am told now that there is a saving sion of the rcts of Congress of June 26, 1906, and March 2, 1907, mak- of at least per cent on total outlay, which would leave a 6 20 :S~aiPj;~F: :irded §~~ih3o s19J7e ~~Jhjuii~s~o~~9of,efe~p~~ti~~I~~r t~:t net loss of f28,000,000. XLV-153 2434 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, In discussing remedies for the deficit, why not put back the your record and at the same time be entirely parliamentary. laws rorapelling the railroads to deliver their mails promptly, [Laughter.] The older we grow the more softened becomes our and thus get back part of the money they receive for carrying partisan feeling. I reckon I used to have as much of it as the malls, which ls regarded by many as excessive? This would anybody, but since my service here I have met so many good give some $600,000 or more a year extra, just enough to enable Republicans that I have long ago reached the conclusion that the department to increase the salaries of 3,000 clerks and car- a Republican is never dangerous to a Democrat except in elec rlers from $1,000 to $1,200, without extra appropriations and tions and ls never harmful to the public except in office. without making further deficit. I offer this as a suggestion, [Laughter.] . _ showing just ·what might be done, and I hope it wlll be taken I have said during this session that there is not a Republican under consideration by the committee and so arranged that the in this House that had the ·nerve to defend boldly and openly present bill will take care of the matter. upon this floor the Aldrich-Payne Act, but when I heard that I have frequently heard it claimed on the floor of this House the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. GARD· that the amounts paid the railroads for carrying the mail were NEB] was going to make a speech, I said to my comrades here, too high, and that the weights were padded during the limited "There is one man, an insurgent at that, the regulars are going pedod required to weigh the mails. Be that as it may, I have no to 'gold brick' into undertaking the hopeless task." Imagine doubt that considerable sums could be saved if proper measures my disappointment when out of the hour and ten minutes speech were adopted. I hope that the rommittee will take up these on the tariff and high prices not one single reference was made various suggestions, not made in a captious spirit, but for the to the unfortunate act Yet it was said that he was going to benefit of the department, and investigate them thoroughly, to defend the Aldrich-Payne Act. He did defend ·it in the only the end that justice may be done a most deserving class of hard- way that any Republican can defend it. The entire strength working people. [Applause.] of his defense lay not only in the failure to say one good word Consequently the gentleman from New York will excuse me for it, but in the absolute failure to even mention it. [A.p for having misled him by stating that it was thirty-four mil- plause on the Democratic side.] But there is one man on that lions. Now, will the gentleman indulge me still further? side of the House who has had the courage, or rather audacity, Mr. GOULDEN. Certainly. to attempt a defense of it, as I recollect now, and that was the Mr. FORNES. In this actual loss of 80 per cent in carrying distinguished gentleman from Illinois, my friend Mr. BoUTELL. out the work of the rural delivery, I believe the loss is well At the very time he . was delivering his speech every newspaper repaid from the very fact that the Post-Office Department is was burdened and every telegraphic wire was trembling with doing one of its best works in that direction. the deplorable news that the laboring people and others by the Mr. O'OO:NNELL. Will the gentleman from New York yield hundreds of thousands throughout the protected sections of the for a question? country were entering into solemn agreements to half starve Mr. GOULDEN. Certainly. themselves and their wives and children in order to get relief Mr. 0 1CONNELL. Does not the gentleman think that the from the results of Republican legislation and the failure to carriers and clerks and railway mail ought to be better attended enforce the antitrust laws by a Republican administration. to before there is any more extension of rural free delivery? [Applause on the Democratic side.] · Mr. GOULDEN. Before there is much extension of the rural As my friend was speaking I was in a quandary whether free delivery r want to see the-people who produce the revenue more to admire his daring audacity or to pity his poor judg taken care of in a proper way. [Applause.] ment in reminding the House and the country afresh, with Now, Mr. Chairman, I have frequently heard it claimed on commending praise, of the Payne Act, when every other Repub the fioor of the House that the amount paid the railroads for lican inside of the Capitol was trying to forget that there ever was such a _thing as a Payne Act [applause on the Democratic carrying the mails is too high and that' it is padded. That side], and was praying that every Republican outside of the rumor has gone around the House; I have heard it in speech, Capitol would forget that one of them ever participated in the in prose, in poetry for four or five years, and I should be glad passage of such an act. [Applause on the Democratic side.] 1f the chairman of the committee could enlighten us on this I wish to acknowledge my debt of gratitude and thanks to subject. the gentleman from Illinois for paying the splendid tribute to Mr. WEEKS. If the gentleman from New York. can furnish the South, in unfolding here the story of her marvelous growth. the committee any evidence whatever on that subject to sub- As he attributed that growth and prosperity to protection, let stantiate the remarks he is repeating the committee would be me remind him and the House that the products on which rests greatly obliged to him:. her prosperity go out by land and sea into the marts of the Mr. GOULDEN. I think the gentleman ts aware of the world, unaffected by .the tariff except by its burdens, and meet rumor, and that he has heard statements made on the floor by the competition of all the nations. In spite of a mistaken view, Members of Congress in good standing, as they all are. as I believe, of some of her patriotic people, in my judgment the For, after all, Mr. Chairman, the post-office appropriation best thought, · the best integrity, the best sense of fairness in bill is one in which every Member of Congress, in fact, the the South demand for her industries, whether of mine or field' whole country, is interested; and I know of no bill, I · know or factory, no tariff protection. of no issue of the RECORD that is more carefully read than that She does not seek to place burdens upon the backs of any of dealing with the bill now under ronsideration, and I am sure, the American people for her profit and benefit. [Applause on Mr. Chairman, that the Post-Office Committee has given care- the Democratic side.] Subject only to revenue, limited to the ful attention to all the details; but they, like others, are not necessities of ·government, she is content, sir, that Congress infallible, and may have made mistakes. I trust therefore in leave her to the laws of trade and the mer~y of God, and then, the future a deserving class of men for whom I am speaking relying upon her own resources and industry, she is ready and to-day, namely, the carriers ~d clerks in the first and second willing to . work out her commercial destiny in the contest ot class cities, may receive their just dues. [Applause.] trade against a competing world. [Applause on the Demo- .Mr. KITCHIN. Mr. Chairman, it was indeed a beautiful cratic side.] With this policy to the forefront, with her state sight yesterday afternoon to see the patriotic band of stalwart governments in the hands of men of integrity, of prudence and "regulars" hanging upon the lips of the eloquent speech of the economy, knowing neither favoritism nor greed nor gra.ft, every distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts. It was a more southern heart thrills with conscious pride as he points to that beautiful sight to behold the distinguished Speaker of the House young commercial empire lying south of the Potomac as the melting at the pathos, chuckling at the wit, and held absolutely fairest and the happiest portion of the globe. [Applause on the 1mtra.nced and captivated by the eloquence and logic of the Democratic side.] fIB.me distinguished gentleman, the illustrious insurgent from Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Illin-0is charged that the State of MasSa.chusetts, the Hon. AuaiJsTus PEABODY GARD- Democrats always applauded distress, and complained that, as NER. [Laughter.] - · the gentleman from Texas [l\lr. HENBY], in his admirable Let us hope that this presages the dawn of a happier and speech some days ago, described the pitiable conditions of the brighter. day for the reign of peace on that side of the Chamber. school children in the city of Chicago, applause came from this I trust that I shall not say one word to mar even the beginning side of the C4amber. He .assumes to mistake a demonstration o! the loving harmony which will hereafter prevail over there. of protest for an applause of approval. As we listened with pain [Laughter.] to the heartrending story revealed in the report of the ~ublic- The membership of the House is to be commended for the school officials in Chicago of the thousands of little childr~n good nature and courtesy that have marked its discussions dnr-· daily going to school breakfastless and o.ften to bed .supperless; ing. this session. I hope I shall not disturb the amenities of of their going about the, streets hunting for the fallen crumbs debate; but, of course, .my friends .of the majority, you appre- of food and fishing th.rough the garbage P.iles for scraps ?l elate how difficult it is for one to discuss with the whole truth refuse meat to keep their little souls and bodies together, rt', s1r, 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE .. 2435 I had failed to join with my colleagues on this side in a storm The dispatches of a few days thereafter brought .the still of protest against those distressing conditions, I would have more cheering news that Armour & Co., head of the meat trust, been less than human. [Applause on the Democratic side.] for the last year, according to its report, had made 35 per cent My only regret is that the storm of protest was not loud dividend. enough and strong enough to reach with quickening effect the And yet the very laboring men· that helped them make these heart and conscience of every man in civil or official ·life respon immense profits must take their little children out of school to sible for such horrible conditions. [Applause on the Democratic supplement their wages and must apply to charitable institu side.] My surprise was that as I looked across this Chamber I tions in order to keep the wolf of want and hunger from the saw more than a hundred of you Members sitting there un door. And this under the Payne-Aldrich Act, that no Repub moved and untouched, with an indifference as stoic as marble. lican on that side has got the courage to openly defend. [Ap.. But the gentleman from Illinois said that it was denied that plause on the Democratic side.] those conditions existed in 1908 or that they exist now. How I was a little amused at the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. ever, I understand the superintendent of schools wrote here BoUTELL] persisting, in his two speeches, in calling this act the after Mr. HENRY'S speech and gave out an interview in the "Payne Act." And I wondered what he must have had against Chicago papers declaring that the pity of it was that this tale the gentleman from New York [Mr. PAYNE] that caused him to of woe was too true. The very day, the very moment that my shoulder upon him the sole responsibility for this legislative friend l\ir. BouTELL was making his speech the papers of his curse. I had supposed that its mime was the "Aldrich-Payne city were bringing the news that not only among the chHdren Act." And I believe the gentleman from New York [Mr. PAYNE] but among the laboring people there was actual suffering. I is willing for somebody else to help him shoulder the responsi read from the Chicago Record-Herald: bility of that act [Applause on the Democratic side.] Alderman Thomas F. Scully announced yesterday that on next Mon Mr. PAYNE. I want to say that "the gentleman from New day night he will introduce an order in the city council asking that York" will be very happy to shoulder the entire responsibility body to take official cognizance of the prevailing high prices of food products, and to grant permission to investigate. " Something must be for the recent tariff bill. [Applause on the Republican side.] done," said Alderman Scully; " out in my ward and in many of the Mr. KITCHIN. Then I can only say to the gentleman that sections of the city the working people are actually suft'.ering." · he is willing to tote more than any man I have ever seen. The prices of food products are so high in the protected city [Laughter.] of Chicago that according to the report of the food commissioner Now, if he will permit me, I will say further that if the "near the poor people and laboring people are being fed on old, maimed, insurgents" are successful in the plot to which I shall hereafter worn-out horses. I read the other day in the papers that the allude, they are not going to let him have a chance to shoulder children in New York City were hunting through the streets ancl any more responsibility in this House. [Laughter and applause garbage piles, picking up scraps of everything they could get, on the Democratic side.] even to cigar bands, and making soup out of them-and this Well, now, gentlemen, the country has understood the act was under the Aldrich-Payne bill! [Laughter.] the Aldrich-Payne Act. I can not see why any man in the world And I read, too, that the food commissioners of some of the in the face of present conditions should want to be proud to States in the protected section were discussing whether or not have that offspring named after him. [Laughter on the Demo they should allow the poor people to buy billy-goat meat as mut cratic side.] The newspapers, the periodicals, and the people o:t ton. My friends, you may talk about the hard times under the the country know it as the Aldrich-Payne Act. When we con· Wilson-Gorman Act, but I will be blessed if the people ever got template the actual suffering of the laboring people and the down to eating old worn-out horses and billy goats and making hungered condition of their children throughout the protected soup out of cigar bands in order to keep from perishing. sections on the one hand, and the immense profits and dividends [Laughter.] of the steel trust and the meat trust on the other, all must Relative to the present conditions in Chicago, I find in another admit that its name is most appropriate-the "All-rich-Pain Republican paper, the Chicago Tribune, of January 28, 1910, the Act." [Laughter and applause on the Democratic side.] It day after the first speech of the gentleman, the following: bears the right name. It has brought what the Democrats CHILDREN FORCED TO WORK. predicted: Blessings to the all-rich, and the pain of hunger to mil High cost of living is blamed by Superintendent Robert L. White, of lions of the ppor. [Applause on the Democratic side.] The the Elgin public schools, for a noticeable increase in the number of present conditions of the country stamp that name upon it. [.A.p children under 16 years of age who have left the schools and gone into factories and shops. Seventy-five students, between the ages of 14 and pla use on the Democratic side.] 16, left the schools at the opening of the second semester this week. The gentleman from Massachusetts attempted to relieve the Of this number 22 are girls. Each case was investigated, and it was gloom of the present situation by a discussion of conditions in foun the hunger and suffering produced by the existing hard times other trust-made articles were soaring sky high, not a Repub and high prices in this country, and to seek a remedy for relief. lican in this Nation suggested an investigation of their high I want to ask my friend seriously what consolation is it to a prices, but just as soon as they thought the farmers' products poor fellow in Boston, who . is now hungry and half-starved were too high then resolution after re olution, at both ends of ·because of high prices put upon meat products by the meat the Capitol, are introduced to investigate the cause of these trust under the tariff, to produce charts and statistics to prove high prices and find a remedy to lower them? The beef trust to him that in July, 1908, he could buy beef in Boston at 9 first raised the cry that t.he farmer, the producer, was respon cents, but would have to pay 11 cents in Stockholm, Sweden? sible. It declared that the farmer was in a trust to put up the What he wants to know is how about beef and bacon in this price of cattle, hogs, and sheep. Then every defender and counh7 in January and February, 1910. apologist of the trusts began to declare that the present suffer My friend reads with approval something from Mr. Gompers. ing was to be attributed to the high prices demanded by the rbelieve he has not heretofore entertained a very high regard farmer for his product. Members of this House and Republicans for this gentleman. He says that Mr. Gompers found when in elsewhere in this Capitol are now taking up the complaint Europe that meat was from 25 to 100 per cent higher than in started by the beef trust that the farmers in this country are America. Is that what he said? responsible for the deplorable conditions of suffering and hun· Mr. GARDNER of Massachusetts. Does the gentleman want ger prevailing amo.ng the laboring people and the children in what Mr. Gompers did say?· our cities. In the name of the farmers of this country I protest Mr. KITCHIN. Yes. against this outrageous libel upon them. The farmer, the cattle - Mr. GARDNER of .Massachusetts. Mr. Gompers says: producer, is not getting the benefit of the high prices. How often do these people eat meat is a question the American Mr. Wallace, the president of the Association of Meat Pro· 1n Europe finds bimsel! askin"' when looking among th;e wage-ea:rners. ducers in the West, declared the other day that the farmer was Meat is usually from 25 to 100 per cent higher in price than in the United States. not getting the benefit of these high prices. A good Republican paper in the city of Pittsburg declares: Mr. KITCHIN. The statistics you produced yesterday, if While in the course of a decade the market value of live stock bas· re correct, condemn the figures of Mr. Gompers as untrue. There mained almost unchanged, the price of meat bas been arbitrarily forced seems to be a conflict between you and Mr. Gompers as to meat up to the present standard, under which positive suJiering is inflicted prices. According to the statistics contained in the speech of apon the people in this country. the Senator referred to, the poor man can buy in Europe for Mr. BATES. .May I ask the gentleman a question? 10 or 12 cents as much loaf bread as he can get here for 20 or Mr. KITCHIN.· I will yield to the gentleman from Penn 25 cents. sylvania. Perhaps, you will find some places in Europe where meat may Mr. BATES. Does the gentleman undertake to inform this be a little higher than in some places here, but Mr. Gompers House and the country that the farmers' products are bringing did not tell you what kind of meat it was. I notice that st~ them no higher prices to-day than they were ten years ago? tistics show that horse meat is twice as high in some places m Mr. KITCHIN. I do not know-- Europe as it is in Chicago and Boston. [Applause and laughter Mr. BATES. I understood the gentleman to make that state on the Democratic side.] ment. l\lr. GARDNER of Massachusetts. Does the gentleman mean Mr. KITCHIN. I do not know ot my own knowledge. I did the House to infer that Mr. Gompers made any report on the not raise beef ten years ago, and we are talking about beef cost of horse meat? products; but I want to tell the gentleman one thing, the highest Mr. KITCIDN. He must do it, if the figures that you gave Republican authority in this country says they are not, and that yesterday are correct. I believe it is the first time in ~everal is James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. years that any Republican has quoted or applauded with ap Mr. BATES. I ask the gentleman-I am not going to bother proval anything that Mr. Gompers has said or done. [Laughter him, and I apologize for interrupting him-- and applause on the Democratic side.] And I believe you are 1\ir. KITCHIN. The gentleman does not interrupt me. trying now to atone for his jail sentence, for which, in the ~nal [Laughter.] · analysis, the policies of you standpatters a.re responsible. l\1r. BATES. Is it not a fact that fifteen or sixteen years [Applause on the Democratic side.] ago-- But you must take your choice between Mr. Gompers and a Mr. KITCHIN. The gentleman said" ten years ago." Republican. . I do not know what Mr. Gompers said or what Mr. BATES. Or ten years ago that the price of live hogs he meant, but I do know that there is one distinguished Repub was only about one-half of what it is to-day? They sold yester lican in this country who, as an authority on the subject, no day for 9! and 10 cents, live weight. Did the gentleman ever Republican will dispute. He is at the head of a great depart know farmers to obtain such prices as that ten or fifteen or ment in this Government, twelve years a member of a Repub twenty years ago? lican -Cabinet, hailing from the great agricultural State of Iowa, Mr. KITCHIN. We were discussing cattle and beef products Mr. Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. I do know that after prices. But about live hogs; statistics show that in 1893, under Mr. Gompers wrote that article Mr. Wilson testified here before Cleveland's administration, the farmer of the West got more the District of Columbia Committee, on January 24 of this year, for his live hogs than he has since. But let us get back to beef that the beef trust were selling meats to Europe and the for and meat. eigners cheaper . than they were selling meat to the starving Mr. ROBINSON. Will the gentleman yield for a question? people in this country. [Applause on the Democratic side.] I Mr. KITCHIN. I will yield to the gentleman. am going to read what Mr. Wilson testified to just a few days Mr. ROBINSON. I want to ask the gentleman from North ago, and then I want to see whether you Republicans will con Carolina if it is not a fact that Secretary Wilson stated in his tinue to applaud our friend Mr. Gompers and sit in silent con testimony that the price of stock cattle, the cattle that the tempt of what Mr. Wilson said. You may take your choice. farmer sells to the feeders, is no higher now than it was ten [Applause on the Democratic side.] I hold in my hand his yeras ago? · · testimony. He said: · 1\Ir. KITCHIN. The gentleman is correct. I have Secretary The food products of the American farmer are being sold in foreign Wilson's testimony right here, and I will read it for the benefit -countries to the consumers abroad for less than they are being sold to consumers at home. of the gentleman from· Pennsylvania. Mr. BATES. If the prices are no higher now than they were, Being asked what products he was talking about, he an- what is the gentleman complaining about? swered: Mr. KITCHIN. We say that the beef on the hoof, the Meat products. farmer's product, is no higher now than it was then, but after [Applause.] it gets into the hands of the Beef trust, with the cent and half Now, whom are you going to believe, and whom are you going and 2-cent tariff, they control- the price of the dressed product to applaud? Who do you believe knew more about it? The absolutely, and they have put up the price to the consumer until gentleman from ]llinois and the two gentlemen from 1\Iassachu now it is 50 per cent higher than it was ten years ago. That is setts who spoke yesterday asked, "How can you have low our complaint against you; you have not divided the spoils with price beef when you have high-price cattle?" Why, they want the farmer; you have taken it all for the trust. [Applause on us to believe that the · farmer is getting the benefit of these the Democratic side.] Now, let me read what Secretary \V'J.lson prices. They want us to believe that the farmer has created said on January -24, in his testimony: these distres ing conditions by demanding high prices for his We inquired Into the prices that the farmer gets on the farm to as product. If it be true, as you claim, and I deny, that the farmer, certain whether the farmer was getting all the money of the country the producer, is responsible for the high cost of living and is for the sale of his meat. We found that the stock steer on the farm, a 2-year-old steer, Js not a particle dearer now than 1t was twelve getting the benefit of the high prices, is it not mighty strange years ago. You can buy them just as cheap now as you could twelte ·that when the steel-trust goods; the woolen-trust goods, and all years ago. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE-. 2437 But the product of the steer after it gets into the bands . of , ifs a blessing, why did :you not increase the protection .in order to the Armour, Swift, and Morris combine has been increased J.ncrease the blessing and thereby more easily relieve the dis neu.r1y 50 ,per cerrt. The vecy ground of the :present ]Jrose.cution .tress·? [Anplanse ·on the Democratic •side.] The Harrisburg Star, Republican, of January 26, 1910, says: And in another issue: Let the Government " bust " one of the mammoth trusts and prices will drop, because the big fellows are keeping them up. Let the Gov While those regulars In the House who place their wishes for the ernment take every cent of protection off such products as are sold success of the Republican party above their desire to gratify Mr. CAN more cheaply to the foreign than the domestic consumer, and prices NON still hope that the Speaker will soon announce his withdrawal from will fall. the field, preparations are being made to eliminate him from the pres ent dangerous situation- But however great may be the demand, the people need not expect relief by removal or reduction of the tariff on food [La ughter.] products. Not a Republican member of the Ways and Means if necessary, by compulsion. Each day the ranks of those who admit Committee will dare move to report out any such bill, though that " Cannonism " and the high cost of living are the only two issues which the Republicans need fear in the next campaign are increasing. many are now pending before it, unless the meat trust consents. To-day, for the first time, definite plans for the removal of the former With the permission of the House, I now desire to advert to issue were discussed by regular Republicans. Several plans are talked the distress which prevails among our friends across the way. of, which may not be carried out for several weeks, but it is practically assured that before the close of the present Congress a great number If a high protective tariff is a blessing producer and a su~eri~g of Republicans wm put themselves on record as opposed to Mr. CAN reliever, the Aldrich-Payne Act surely ought to be puttmg m NON ' S reelection to his present position. its good work over on that side. If it is really a measure of relief the Speaker's room ought to be plastered all over with [Laughter on the Democratic side.] Aldri~h-Payne acts. [Laughter.] Much has been said here pro l\Ir. Chairman, for eight years I have seen in this House a and con about the groanings of the people under this blessed strong man, an intellectual giant, riding the very whirlwinds act. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. BOUTELL] declared that and directing the storms for his party. I have seen this re there were no groanings down in Texas, and the gentleman from markable man, who is called a "king," a "czar," an "autocrat," wield more power than the President. I have seen his party Texas [l\fr. HENRY] said there were lots of groaning out in Chicago. I do not know about this, but I believe I know where in the House erect for him a throne, and he has sat as its undis there has been some groaning since the recent passage of the puted ruler. He has controlled his party. He has controlled Norris resolution, which no man will dispute. They tell me legislation. He has stood here for nearly forty years a bulwark that in the Speaker's room the groanings have been so loud of sti·ength for his party. He has been the very god of the and so long as to find expression in such emphatic nouns and standpatters' idolatry. For Republican policies he has behind adjectives that to repeat them here would be most unparlia him a proud record and a great service, and to them he has mentarv. [Laughter and applause on Democratic side.] I see given active loyalty. For long years he has been the central in the Republican press that the Speaker is inclined to questi?n figure of the Nation's Capitol. But, alas, no more! a man's Republicanism if he groans any under the recent tariff I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory act. When the Republican congressional committee met here I haste now to my setting. some time ago the latter part of January, it is said that one • • • • of my near-in~urgent friends-the term " near-insurgent," gen Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness. • tlemen, describes that class of Republican Members who are always talking against Cannonism and the rules and always This sad retrospect is being pressed to hi.s lips. voting for Cannonism and the rules [laughter and _applause on My friends, my heart is crushed with grief as I contemplate Democratic side]-my good friend from Michigan [Mr. HAMIL this powerful man writhing, helpless and hopeless, in the hands TON], so goes the report, arose in the meeting. (and, gentlemen, of the conspirators, his former friends and followers. I see him I am just quoting, you know, from Repubhcan sources-the driven from the throne, repudiated and condemned. I see his Republican organs of the country-and, of course, you under head falling from the block and dangling at their belt. Let us read on : stand, I can not vouch for their character for exact trut~ ) [laughter] and looking around to see that the doors were shut That these men have not gone about openly expressing their opinions is due not only to their desi.re that no impression of discord should go and all the windows down-he did not want it to get out abroad, but to their extreme regard and loyalty to 1\-fr. CANNON, whom said: . they feel to be more the victim of unfortunate circumstances and fre Gentlemen, you can say just what you please, but there are two quent misrepresentation than of deserved and intelligent criticism. In things that we have got to go up against out in Michigan. a personal way it is probable that Speaker CANNON Ls more popular and respected at the Capitol to-day than at any other time in hls career. Being asked what they were, he answered: First Cannonism; second, high prices of living among t.he poor people Now they are letting him down easy, bending his head for a.nd the laboring people under this here Aldrich-Payne tariff. the ax, just as tenderly and lovingly as possible. [Laughter [Laughter.] · , . ,, . and applause.] The Speaker did not mind the ' Cann~msm suggest10n, but No friends are more unsparing in their praise and more lenient in their criticism than the men who now feel compelled to a dmit that Mr. that any Republican-and a Representative at ~at-should be CANNON'S present determination will be a detriment to the party in the groaning under the Aldrich-Payne Act aroused him, and he up coming congressional campaign. and said: I do not see, to save my life, with such pathetic appeals for This Aldrich-Payne Act Ls the best tariff act ever put upon the statute books. It is a party measure, a.nd it is the duty of every good the grand old party, how any · man who has been Speaker for Republican to stand by it- seven or eight years and a Member of the House for thirty-six And he did not want any groaning around here under it, either. years can help making the sacrifice and get out of the way, in [Laughter.] Whereupon the gentleman from Michigan meekly order to give the Republicans a majority in the next House. arose and said : . [Laughter.] . Well Mr Speaker I am just as good a Republica.n as you are, but Again I read, and just listen at the wooings o:t the conspira I did xi.ot mean to groan; I did not go to do it, but the people. out in tors: my district have been groaning so loud under this here tariff act, All possible deference will be pald to the feelings of the Spea ker, and that I was just bound to groan a little through sympathy. it will be made clear that the Republican party has ent ire confidence in [Loud laughter and applause.] . his sincerity and honesty of purpose and a grateful appreciation of his After the Speaker was assured that it was only a sympathetic efforts in the past. and not a personal groan, it is sa~d that he ~as ~illing to leave [Laughter.] the staunchrress of their respective Repubhcamsm to an um "Oh, yes, Mr. Speaker," they say, "we are willing to concede pire, who decided it was a tie between them. [Laughter.] you every virtue and write for you a most splendid epitaph. With much pain and sorrow, I proceed now to reveal to the In your execution we are going to be just as gentle and tender House the horrible conspiracy which ~s slowly but surely ad and loving as possible; but you, of course, un~e rstand that, in vancing here against the head of the king. order to keep our heads on, it is necessary to lop your head off." I read from the New York Tribune, the great ~epublican [Laughter and applause on the Democratic side.] organ: I will now read from the Republican papers the honor roll of A number of the regulars In the House of Representatives, conserva these conspirators [laughter], men by whom the Speaker has tive men, and little prone to political hysteria, ha~e arrived at the con clusion that not only must Speaker CANN ON abdicate his throne, but always stood, and who, by his grace and strong right arm, have that there must be a change in the leadership of the lower body. These been lifted into· favor and prominence. Here is the list of the regulars are all part of the so-called Cannon machine in the House, honor-roll men, who are going to help assassinate the great and have been for years earnest laborers for the success of the Repub lican party, and men who concern themselves deeply lest it should make Cresar [laughter] : a mista ke at a crucial moment. FOSTER of Vermont [laughter], AMES, BARCLAY, BARNARD, CASSIDY, ...... COCKS of New York, COLE, CRUMPACKER, DAVIDSON, DIEKEl\-IA.- They feel that in order to assure an increase in the Re ~uJ;>hcru;i ma jority in the House they will have to announce their unw1llmgn~ss to [Laughter.] vote again for Speaker CANNON. They fe~l that it . would be wise to .And here I am reminded of a little incident I saw in a Re announce his withdrawal before the campaign begins. publican paper the other day, which is too good to keep. As [Laughter.] · the story goes, the whip for the majority, the popular gentle- 19100 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2439 man from New York [Mr. DWIGHT], approached his fioor leader this body that they did not advocate. [Loud applause on the and said: Democratic side.} Let them name one measure the Speaker ever :Ur. PAYNE, they are going to try to get Mr. CANNON to decline to be opposed that they did not oppose. Let them mention one single a candidate for the Speakership in the next Congress, and I understand policy the Speaker has ever pursued that they did not indorse. that if he does decline, DIEKEMA. is going to be a candidate to succeed I challenge them to get up before us, who know their record and him. votes, and tell their constituents and the people of the country The serene gentleman from New York, with a frown of the what rule or rules has CANNON or Cannonism ever presented to forehead and a scratch of the head. replied: the House that they did not vociferously advocate and vote for'l DIEKEMA, DIEKEMA I Why, who is DIEKEMA, an~ where did he come [Loud applause on the Democratic side.] 'These good Re from? publican friends from Ohio and Vermont and Michigan and else [Great laughter.] where can play MURDOCK and CooPEB and NORRIS and other pro The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. gressive Republicans back home among their people, but they :Mr. DIEKEMA.. .May I ask that the gentleman's time be ex- can not play their parts before us who know their records. tended indefinitely? [Great laughter and applause.] [Laughter and applause on the Democratic side.] You can not The CHAIRMAN. The time is under the control of the gen powder and wig up like the MURDOCKS and the COOPERS and the tleman from Tennessee. NoRRISES and the LmDBEBGHS and come out and make your .Mr. MOON of Tennessee. I yiel.d the gentleman fifteen min speeches before us. [Laughter.] utes more. We see you behind the curtains making up. You can not strut .1\fr. KITCIDN. I am certainly under obligations to my friend the stage with such indignant reforming air here before us with Mr. DIEKEMA, in asking that I have unlimited time. straight faces. We know you, and you know that we know you Mr. DIEKEMA. The gentleman is under obligation to the are playing. [Laughter and applause on the Democratic side.} gentleman for his free advertising. [Laughter.] You may be able to fool the folks at home, but in justice to the l\fr. KITCIDN. I would advise the gentleman never to take Speaker, in justice to your constituents, in justice to the coun the advertising of an adversary. [Laughter.] try, you ought to rise in your seats here, before these gentlemen I return to the list of honor men : who know your records and your votes, and specify on what HA~A, HENRY, GILLETT, Hu:ruuRD of West Virginia, J"o~so~ of particular measure or policy or method or rule you have ever Ohio, LAFE.AN, LoUD, McKINLEY of Illinois, McLAUGHLIN of Michigan, differed with the Speaker since you have been a Member of this MOON, MOORE, NYE, PRINCE and ScOTT- House and when and where you have ever failed to follow or And my good friend TOWNSEND they get him in twice. indorse him [Applause on the Democratic side.] [Laughter.] Oh, yes; Uncle JoE has ju.St got to go, for the good of the When and how will the " deep damnation o! his taking off'' grand old party. Now, let me ask you, suppose the Speaker occur? does go, what are you willing to promise your constituents at I quote again from the Tribune: home? Are you willing to pledge them that you will elect aa The plan now talked of is to call a caucus within a few weeks, or Speaker one of these 25 or 30 real, progressive insurgents who when a majority of the Republicans in the House have approved the have been against-Cannonism and the rules for years and, at idea, to make some minor changes in the rules and in some diplomatic times, too, when it meant ostracism by their colleagues, or will m nner to put the caucus on record as opposed to Speaker CANNON'S re election. Several of the regulars. to-day made the prediction that a you help put in somebody just as near like Uncle JoE as pos majority of the Republicans were now ready to take some such action, but sible? Unless you promise your constituents that if you are that It might require several weeks of persuasion before they would be will willing to enter such a caucus. elected you not only not vote for the Speaker to succeed The plan will be prepared by the regulars, and the insurgents will be himself, but that you will not vote for any one of the 185 Can merely auxiliaries. nonites over there, you will do nothing to promote legislative. • * • • • • • reform. They do not believe that such a moment .bas arrived. If you are sincerely opposed to Cannon.ism and its system; if Not ready for the blow yet. Careful preparation must be you desire to see the one-man power destroyed in this House; if ""' made for the successflil execution of the awful deed. Why post you wish to put beyond the power of the Speaker the naming pone the tragedy? Gentlemen, you ought, like bold assas of the Rules Committee; if you wish to prevent him from sinators, strike the fatal blow .at once. It is cruel to torture packing committees to keep in or bring out such measures as him with this long, hard, writhing, lingering death. [Laughter.] he wills; if you wish the majority of the House to have power Why, even the cruel Macbeth, in pondering the murder of to legislate when and on what it desires, then, sirs, you should Duncan, felt compassion for his victim: be willing to pledge your constituents that, if elected, you will vote neither for CANNON nor a Cannonite either in the caucus If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly. or in the House for Speaker; that you will vote only for one [Laughter.] who by his record here has proven his earnest opposition to I commend to you· conspirators, you near-insurgents and de Cannonism. serting regulars, the humanity of murderous Macbeth. · But, Uncle JoE has got to go! l\Iy friends, I do not know how (La. ughter.] he feels about it, but when I see gentlemen who have always History tells us that the men who caused the execution of been regulars and who have always received the Speaker's Louis of France ordered that he be hurried to the block and smiles deserting him now one by one, there comes to my mind that the ax fall quickly, to save him pain and humiliation. l\Iy the thought of the poet: friends, if it must be done, let it be done quickly. Permit me The wretch whom. gratitude onee fails to bind, to read a few head lines in different Republican papers: To truth, to honor, to virtue let him lay no claim, CANNON has got to go ! But stand confessed before the world the brute disguised in man. No more of Cannonism. Don't want any more of Uncle JoE. I commend it to the Speaker. [Laughter.] I can seen how a Republican Member, who is simply a humble And here comes the Ohio State Journal headlining my friend subject, can desert his king under stress of circumstances for TAYLOR thus: the good of the grand old party, but how gentlemen whom he TAYLOR of Ohio says he is done with Uncle Jo:m ! has lifted out of the ordinary into prominence and given chair [Laughter and applause.] manships of committees can turn their backs upon him I can And my good young friend COLE shouts : " Me, too ! " [Loud not understand. laughter and applause.] I have forgotten which one of .Milton's works this is in, but It is said that the whole Ohio Republican delegation has I bet the Speaker can tell me: [Laughter.] prayerfully come to the conclusion that it is best for the coun Swinish gluttony ne'er looks to heaven try, best for legislative reform, best for the promotion of Re Amidst his gorgeous feast ; publican politics. best for the success of the grand old party But with besotted, base ingratitude that we have no more of Uncle JoE ! [Laughter on the Demo CramB and era.ms, then turns to blaspheme his feeder. cratic side.] I need not remind gentlemen that no delegation in [Laughter and applause.] Congre s for the last eight years has done more to fasten Can After feasting at the hands of the Speaker's generosity, now non.ism and the system on the House and the country than the they turn to condemn him. I will not "Venture eY-en to guess Republican membership from Ohio. how often of late he has repeated these words. As I said, the Let me ask my Ohio friends and my friend from l\Iichigan Speaker can refer you to the page. [Applause and laughter.] and my friend from Vermont and my other friends of the It is but fair to the distinguished gentleman from New York '.'honor roll" to get up in this House and point out one single [Mr. PAYNE] to notify him that this terrible plot encompasses measure the Speaker has ever advocated since they entered his overthrow as fioor leader. In the closed-door meeting of the 2440 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, Republican congressional committee, according to the Repub into my pocket. Then I sat there and knew it was Joe Jeffer lican organ, one of my near-insurgent friends- son playing instead of Rip Van Winkle living. Intimated also that the floor leader, Representative SERENO PAYNE, When I think, Mr. . Chairman, of how these militant gentle of New York, should relinquish that position at the end of this Congress, men are going to vote against Uncle JoE, how they are going to so that a younger and more agile man might take his place. repudiate him, how they are going to send him out of the [Laughter.] Capitol, drive him out of the city back to Danville, a political Let me read further : outcast, and picture him as he sits at the car window on his Some of them, however, agreed that Mr. PAYNE should relinquish way homeward, peering into space, repudiated, "unwept, un the floor leadership to a younger man. It bas not been suggested that he withdraw from the inner councils of the organization, for on all honored, and unsung," murmuring to himself:· sides he is recognized as a most sagacious and sane of advisers- • • • My way of life - Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; Oh- And that which should accompany old age, Thou cutt'st my head oft' with a golden ax ! As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have, but in their stead [Laughter.] Curses, deep-mouthed curses- but it is believed by a nllillber of his frtends that he should be sup planted by a man who is more in touch with the Republican Members, when I see him stepping off the train at Danville, stretching who comes into contact with the entire majority. out his hand to his people, pleading with the pathos of the faUen He keeps himself, they say, too much in cold storage. cardinal: [Laughter.] He does not mix with "the boys,'' and smoke and An old man broken with the storms of state joke and pat them on the back enough. He does not jolly them Is come to lay his weary bones among ye- like my good friend, Hon. JoE GAINES [laughter]- 0 Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate this pitiable picture and whose perspective has not, perhaps, been blurred by viewing for I am overwhelmed with saddest emotion, my heart melts, my many years the Republican membership from a niche in the Speaker's eyes fill with tears, and-I catch myself again and say: "What anteroom- . a fool I am! Why, FOSTER and HAMILTON and COLE and TAYLOR [Laughter.] and the whole hosts of near-insurgents -are acting, acting, Oh, just listen, if you please: simply acting! " -[Prolonged appfause and laughter on the Democratic side.] In the opinion of. those who desire some change he should be reserved as a piece of heavy artillery which can be brought into the legislative Yes, Mr. Chairman, they are coming back to fight mightily fight after the more modern and sprightly sharpshooters have found the against Uncle JoE. What are you going to do? "Oh, I am enemy. · · - coming back here to Washington and I am going to fight him." [Much laughter and applause.] Where? "I am going to fight him in the caucus." How? I The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from North will tell you. They are going into the caucus, as they always Carolina has again expired. have, but this time with blood in their eye, until the door is Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent shut, and then they are going to stretch out their hands, with that the gentleman from North Carolina may have time to con a knowing wink, to the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. - elude his remarks. DALZELL] and the gentleman from New York [Mr. DWIGHT] · Mr. l\IOON of Tennessee. Of course, Mr. Chairman, the Com and the gentleman from New Hampshire [Mr. CURRIER], and . mittee of the Whole can not give unanimous consent, but I will others of the House machine, and say, "Tie tight; tie good." )ield fifteen minutes more to the gentleman. '- [Laughter.] And while they are being tied, I know them so Mr. KITCHIN. Mr. Chairman, I am certainly gratified to well, I fancy I can hear them say, "You are tickling; you are lmow that these gentlemen who desire to get rid of my dis tickling." [Prolonged laughter.] Then after it is all over and tinguished friend from New York and reserve him as a piece Uncle JoE is the caucus nominee and again Speaker by their of " heavy artillery " are giving a very fine excuse for him to vote in the House, they will sob and say, "I could not help it; I voluntarily retire under fire. [Laughter.] They say the gen had to stand by my party; it made me do· it." [Applause on the tlemfill from New York-and in my opinion he physically and Democratic side.] Yes, :f' see them tying my :friends from Ohio intellectually is one of the most vigorous and strongest men and Vermont and Michigan and all of these other near insur here-is too ·old, and that when forced out he can console his gents, tying them good; and then I see them sitting there voting pride with this explanation. My friends, I do not believe the against Uncle JoE, when they lmew at the very time they gentleman from New York is much older than he was when entered the caucus that three-fourths of the Republicans. in that you passed the act now called by you the Payne Act. I do caucus were for Uncle JoE. [Loud applause on the Democratic not believe it is the age of the gentleman from New York that side.] When their constituents ask, "What did you do that is troubling Members who want to behead him, but it is the for?" they are going to say, " Oh, I could not help it; see age of the act, of which he is half father, that is getting too how they bound me; I had to be a Republican or a Democrat; old for the judgment a.nd consciences of your constituency and but you just serid me back one more ti.ine and I will go into the the people. [Applause on the Democratic side.] caucus and fight him again in the same old way." [Laughter.] Another gentleman comes out, saying that he thinks more of Now, gentlemen, they are not fooling me; they are not fooling the Speaker than 'anybody else in the world, but. the only rea anybody on this side; and· I know that there is one man in this son he has for being against him is that "Uncle JoE is getting House that they can not fool, and that is the Speaker himself. too old." Now, gentlemen, i! you have ever seen a. younger man [Laughter.] There never was a more complacent countenance in all your life-well, I never have. [Laughter.] . I want . to upon any man than the Speaker, although the papers have been tell these men who are putting up that excuse that he is but a full of abuse and criticism, and, I may say, sometimes of slander few days older than· when you stood loyally by. hiJ:!i on the against him. I knew they ·were playing and the regulars knew Norris resolution and tried tp fasten with a tighter hold Can they were playing, or else they were the biggest cowards in the nonism on· the House. [Applause on the Democratic side.] He world. For two months and a half the papers and periodicals is only a few months older than when he, with your aid and in this country have raked in most scathing terms the Speaker, consent, named the Rules Committee, with himself as chair his rules,- and his system, and yet not one single Republican on man, and-I do not want to say " packed,'' but I do not know that side has had the nerve or the gratitude to. say one defend any better 'word-he is not much older than when he fixed up ing word for the Speaker, except the Speaker himself. [Laugh the committees of this House so that legislation could be kept ter and applause on the Democratic side.] in or brought out according to his will. It is not the age of Gentlemen, let us be honest and candid. You know and we know the Speaker, gentlemen, but it is the constituency back yonder that the Speaker represents and typifies the political sentiments at home that is worrying you. [Applause on the Democratic and principles of more than three-fourths of the Republican mem side.] bership in this House and in the Senate. He stood with you But Uncle JoE has got to go! on the passage of the Aldrich-Payne Act. He stands, and so do And you are asking your people to send you back to fight and four-fifths of you, for a tariff wall behind which to shelter the destroy the Speaker and his system. trusts in plundering the people. He is in favor, and so are l\Ir. Chairman, some years ago I was in New York and I went four-fifths of you, of the protected barons writing the· schedules to hear Joe Jefferson play Rip Van. Winkle. As I saw him in of the tariff, instead of the representatives of the people. He rags and tatters and heard him tell his pathetic story, a piti favors, as do four-fifths of you, ship subsidy-granting to the less, friendless, helpless, hopeless wreclr, I found myself with ship syndicate the right to plunge its hands into the Federal my handkerchief to my face wiping away the tears. I looked Treasury and take the people's conh·ibutions to satisfy its pas about me al;ld saw 5,000 others doing the same thing. Then I sion for. profits. He favors, as do four-fifths of you, power in caught myself and said: "What a fool I am, crying here over the Speaker to name the Rules Committee, with himself as chair that miserable fellow of the stage, when the man behind those man. He favors, as do four-fifths of you, packing committees rags is a millionaire and never felt the want of a luxury! He to defeat or enact measures as the Speaker wills. He ·favors, is acting, simply acting! " And back went the handkerchief as do four-fifths of you, making the Speaker the autocrat of the / ( 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2441 House. He represents the policies of the Republican party as majority so long as it remains the majority. But while this is interpreted by a vast majority of its membership in Congress for true, it is equally true that I, -as a member of my party and the last ten years. These policies, with the fundamental idea still an American citizen, have the right and the privilege and of protection and favoritism to the few at the expense of the the duty, if I believe that I am right and the majority of my many, demand Cannonism at the Capitol. Organized privilege party wrong; to use my best endeavors to see to it that my could not exist twenty-four hours unless it had the system minority within my party to-day becomes the majority of to which prevails and has prevailed in this House. [Applause on morrow. It is this that gives vitality and virility to parties the Democratic side.] and preserves them from stagnation. Old ocean itself would The system outside of the Capitol must have a system inside stagnate into rottenness but for the ceaseless action of the of it. Let us not mistake the situation. The Speaker is no remorseless waves and tides. better and no worse than the 185 Cannonites here. Cannonism Having said this much it is unnecessary to add that I am not is no better and no worse than the Republicanism that has held entitled to the compliment which the gentleman from North sway in Congi·ess for a decade. The way to destroy Cannonism Carolina [Mr. KITCHIN] would bestow upon me by calling me in the House is to defeat the men responsible for Cannonism. an insurgent or a near insurgent. I never have been an insur Brutus, when he assassinated Cresar, promised the Roman gent. It has been my steadfast faith that the problems which people a better than a Cresar. I remind the people that his confront us as a party could be worked out to better and more conspiring friends, in the contemplated assassination of the lasting advantage within our party lines. So during the last Speaker, make no promise of a better, but only of a weaker, Congress, while I insisted that there should be a change in the than a CANNON. rules of the House I set about to secure the change through the If the people in the coming election shall again return to party organization. The result was the adoption of the rule Washington a Republican House, and we must ·have a one-man providing for calendar Wednesday, which has ·wrought a veri power; if the Republican who occupies that chair must be an table revolution in the procedure of the House. When we autocrat; if we must have a Cannonite as Speaker, then, sir, organized the House at the opening of the extra session last having some pride in the intellectuality and the courage of this March I had no sympathy with the movement which resulted in body, I would prefer to see Mr. CANNON in the chair. I had a combination with the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. rather see a giant there than a weakling. I would rather have KITCHIN] and his Democratic friends to humiliate the Speaker a lion there than a fox. [Loud and prolonged applause on the of the House. I resent the implication that a Republican who Democratic side.] shows the least inclination toward independence is an insurgent. Mr. WEEKS. Mr. Chairman, I yield twenty minutes to the Lincoln expressed the true doctrine of Republicanism in the gentleman from Vermont [Mr. FosTER]. phrase: " In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; in ~.11 Mr. FOSTER of Vermont. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the things, charity." I stand for party unity as to all essentials, fact that one exposes himself to criticism and to misrepresenta and I insist that I shall not be called opprobrious names when tion if in this House he shows the least tendency toward inde I stand for individual freedom as to nonessentials. pendence. For many centuries the members of the human race In four successive Congresses I have supported for the have been surrendering their independence. In fact, there never Speakership the gentleman .who now occupies the Speaker's chair. was but one absolutely independent man, and that was Adam But because I have supported him four times I shall not be in the early days of his experience in the Garden of Eden. charged with ingratitude or with insurgency or with forgetful Adam was the original czar. Why, the Speaker of the House of ness if, as a Member of the next Congress, acting upon my Representatives in his most halcyon days was never in the same judgment and conscience, I determine that the best interests class with him. There were no insurgents, redheaded or bald of the Republican party and the best interests of the American headed, in those days to say him nay. · Even the animals that people require me to support some other good Republican for came to him to be christened could register no appeal. A cow the Speakership. I recognize the long public services of the became a cow for all time, and the donkey became a donkey for present Speaker of the House. I yield him the loyal support all time. · · that is due his official position. But, as an American citizen and as the personal representative of the people who sent me But all that_came to an end. You remember the morning here, and as a Member of this House and as a member of the when it happened. It was that morning when he got up feeling Republican party, I have my duties and my responsibilities, and a stitch in h_is side, as though something had been interfering it will continue to be my purpose to discharge those duties and with his ribs. As he stalked down the avenue lined with those responsibilities according to the best light that is given me. beautiful flowers which he had just named "American beauty " It is true that when the Republican congressional committee, roses he met Eve. Then it was all up with Mr; Czar Adam. of which I am a member, met a few weeks ago to organize for She did not take any stock in his talk about how the majority the work of the campaign upon which we are about to enter for must rule and . how the majority had its responsibilities and the reelection of a Republican House, I was called upon by the how the majority must move forward, and how he was that acting chairman to tell . what - the people of New England majority. From that moment he was just plam Mr. Adam. wanted. My reply was that the people of New England, in my - I said that Adam was the only man who was absolutely in judgment, desired, :first .. of all, a Republican House to enact dependent The moment he met Eve he surrendered more into law the legislative programme of President Taft; and, than half of that independence. And from that day to this, secondly, a new Speaker of the House of Representatives. In as the family has expanded into the tribe and as the tribe making that statement I declared that I had not the least per bas expanded into the nation, and as the nation has expanded sonal feeling toward the present Speaker of the House. . And I into the civilized world, the sons of Adam continued. to sur say now that if there is anything personal in all this between render their independence in order to secure and enjoy the the gentleman who occupies the chair and myself, it is on his benefits of advancing civilization. We Americans boast of side, not on mine. But I submit that if I am a Member of the our independence, and our orators tell us on the Fourth of July next House, the fact that I have voted for him four times for bow we are a land of liberty, a land of freedom, a land of Speaker should not preclude me from voting for the gentleman independence, and yet it is an unquestioned fact that whenever from Massachu.setts [Mr. LA WREN CE] if, in my judgment, he le a man becomes a citizen. of the United States he must neces the best man for the place; or for the gentleman from Pennsyl aarily surrender a very large portion of the'independence which vania [Mr. DALZELL] if I think that, under all the circum was given to him by his Creator. It is an axiomatic ·fact that stances, his selection would be the best; or for that other dis in popular government, wherever situated, the majority must tinguished son of Massachusetts [Mr. WEEKS] if I decided that rule. It is the fundamental principle of popular government his selection would be the best for the party and for the coun that the minority must submit to the rule of the majority so try: or for the distinguished gentleman from Iowa [Mr. SMITH] long as it· remains the majority. So I, as an American citizen, if I believed him the best man for the place. Nor am I limited am bound to yield peacefully to the will of the majority so long to these men. We are no one-man party. We have many men as that majority remains. But while this is true, it is also in this House amply qualified and well equipped to fill the true that it is my right and privilege as an American citizen Speaker's chair. and my duty as an American citizen, if I believe that the ma The gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. KITCHIN] says, in jority is wrong and that I am right, to use my best endeavors effect, that in taking this position I am representing my con to see that the minority of to-day becomes the majority of stituents. I plead guilty to the charge. It is a question in to-morrow. which my constituents have a deep interest and in which they So it is with parties. Political parties are necessary in this have the right to be deeply interested. ·The selection of a country. We are governed by political parties. And in order Speaker is a matter in which they have the right to have a to ~ecure party solidarity, and therefore. party efficiency, it is voice through their Representative. And so long as I continue equally necessary: that the majority should rule within the to be their Representative I shall continue to endeavor to voice parcy; that the minority yield peacefully to the will of the their wishes in this behalf. 2442 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE. . FEBRUARY 25, So I say again that the gentle.man gfves me an undeserved liberal application only because no other seems available to compliment in classing me with the insurgents. I have differed effectuate what ought to be the national purpose, to render as with the Speaker from time to time as to measures and methods. comfortable and happy as possible the declining years of every But I have thrashed out those differences within the party. I member of those invincible battalions who followed Grant and voted for the tariff bill which we passed last .August and which Shermnn and Sheridan and Logan and .McPherson in their President Taft says is the best Republican tariff law ever put incomparable campaigns against the armed enemies of their upon the statute books. I did not vote for it because it was what country. I wanted, but because it was the best I could get. President I venture at this moment to invite the attention of the House Taft told the .American. people it was the best tariff law the to the matter of pensions, because it is a subject of paramotmt Republicans ever put upon the statute books. concern to every patriotic citizen of the Republic. Our existing But If he had not been the perfect gentleman he is, he might laws are so con'.flicting and confusing; so much formality has have gone further and declared. that while this statement was been required in the.ir execution; so many extravagances have true, it was also true that he was d.isapp'ointed in not being been tolerated in their administration; such a variety of tech able to secure a better tariff law for them. If he had not been nical defenses has been invented to defeat just· applications; and possessed of a keen sense of the proprieties, he could bave gone such tedious delays have characterized the adjudication of further and insisted that Congress and not he was answerable honest claims that the old soldier, weary and perplexed and for the fact that a better law was not enacted. .And if he had disappointed, is fast driven to doubt the good faith and :rair not been thus posse;ssed of a keen sense of the proprieties, he intention of the Government whose perpetuity his :fidelity and .could have added that perhaps after all his mistake was that valor assured. Nearly half a million of the Union's defenders he did not follow the example of his distinguished. predecessor are on the pension rolls, and yet, forty-five years after the civil and club Congress into submissiveness. Had he said this, the war terminated in a blaze of glory at Appomattox, the average chances are that the .American people, with genuine Methodist value of each pension is only $14.58 per month. In the mean fervor, would have cried ".A.men and amen!" But he said none time we are annually expending for incidental charges vast of these things; he shared the responsibility with Congress. sums that ought to go directly to the veteran. I undertake to Since his inauguration he has fulfilled, so far as within him lay, enumerate some of these charges: the pledges of the party. We Republican Members of the For medical examinations------$500, 000 House were elected upon the same platform. Our work is yet For attorneys' fees------322, 000. to be done. His recommendations are before us and it is our ~~~ ~!~~~infg:ii'~fe~O~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~:8&& duty before the adjournment of the session to enact these rec For special examiners ------380, 000 ommendations into laws. These· are the essentials on which For salaries in the bureau------1, 650, 000 there must be unity of action within our party. I stand for For soldiers' homes------2, 200, 000 that unity. .And I shaU continue to stand as I have stood in Here is an aggregate of about $6,000,000 which ought to be the past for the dignity of the House. With unity there should disbursed to the pensioners themselves. Both the principal be within the membership of the House an independence of spirit political parties declared in their last national platforms for commensurate with the dignity of our positions. more liberal pensions for our surviving soldiers. The great So our good friend from North Carolina [Mr. KITCHIN] may party with which I am affiliated said': get all the enjoyment possible out of the situation. But let him Another Republican policy which must be ever maintained is that of generous appreciation for those who have fought in the country's bat not be deceived. Before this session closes, the Republican tles and for the widows and orphans of those who have fallen. We majority will ha·rn placed upon the statute books the substantia1 commend the increase in the widows' pension made by the pres.ent Con part of President Taft's legislative programme. This is what the gress and declare for a liberal administration of all pensi-0ns laws, to the end that the people's gratitude may grow deeper as the memories .American people want :first of all. Then, when November rolls of the heroic sacrifices grow more sacred with the passing years. · around and the congressional elections are held it will be found that the Republican party has its old-time majority in the The Democratic party said : House. We will move forward. We will regain the confidence We favor a generous pension policy, both as a matter of justice to of the public. We will reestablish the prestige of the House. the surviving veterans and their dependents and because it tends to relieve the country of the necessity of maintaining a large standing We will vindicate its right to the title of a great deliberate leg army. islative body. . Thus the seasons will come and go until the fateful year of It must be assumed that these declarations were made hon 1912 rolls around. Then the peerless leader from the shoals estly, to be redeemed faithfully. .Accordingly, on the 12th day and shallows of the Platte will again return and put the hook of .April, 1909, I introduced and had referred to the appropriate into the nose of my genial uiend from North Carolina and of committee the following bill: all those like-minded with him. Gently but :firmly he will lead A bill to provide for service pensions for surviving volunteer soldiers them to the national convention of the relic of the party of Jef of the Army of the United States. ferson and Jackson and Cleveland, whieh has become the de Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the passage of this act every surviving volunteer soldier of the Army of the United States who served spair of its political friends, the butt of its political opponents, in the field for a period of three months, between the 1st day of April, and the laughingstock of the .American people. There he will 1861, and the 1st day of August, 1866, and who has been honorably renominate himself for the Presidency amid uncontrolled enthu discharged from said army, shall be entitled, from and after the date of his application therefor, and during his natural life, to a pension of siasm. Then my friend from North Carolina and all those like $1 per day, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury appropriated minded with him will be permitted to return home to pursue for pensions. the even tenor of their way while the great .American electorate, SEC. 2. That applications for pensions under this act shall be accom panied by evidence identifying the applicant as the person whose name the peace army·of the Republic, marches to the polls to reelect appears in the reeords of the organization to which said applicant as President of the United States the distinguished statesman, claims to have belonged, and shall be verified as the law requires in the high-minded patriot, the beloved fellow-citizen, William other applications for pensions. SEC. 3. That any person who shall receive a pension under the pro Howard Taft. [.Applause.] visions of this act shall be held to have relin Mr. HINSHAW. The gentleman means $6,000,000 in addi inseparable, indivisible, perpetual Out of this disparity of tion to the amount now appropriated? belief, earnestly entertained and energetically defended, there Mr. KENDALL. I mean $6,000,000 in addition to the amount arose, a:s the years elapsed, heated discussion, bitter contro now appropriated, but it must be remembered that that appro versy, crimination and recrimination; all to be adjudicated irre priation will gradually decline as the veterans pass on, and they vocably, to be adjudicated forever, to be adjudicated right by are now passing on with great rapidity. . the arbitrament of the sword. Mr. WEISSE. Is it not a fact that from 1893 to 1897, the When the surrender of Sumter was demanded. ci viliza tion four Democratic years, the total pensions paid to soldiers was waited with breathless anxiety for an answer to the question, $614,972,794.85, and in the last four years it amounted to only Can the only government ever instituted deriving its just pow $610,349,500, while all the other appropriations have increased ers from the consent of the governed, and dedicated to the from 50 to 350 per cent? proposition that all men are created equal, preserve its . own Mr. KENDALL. I will say it is always disagreeable to me integrity among the peoples of the earth when assailed by to remember those Democratic years, but I doubt if the figures domestic insurrection? The inquiry was immediate and it of the gentleman are correct. [AppJause on the Republican would not be postponed. The hour for argument in the ·forum side.] had expired and the time for action in the field had arrived. Mr. WEISSE. They are absolutely correct, according to the It was a supreme crisis in the Wstory of humanity-that crisis statement of the Commissioner of Pensions, and I hope the which wrenched and almost wrecked the American Republic. gentleman will take the trouble to verify them. But men appeared in response to the imperative summons of Mr. KENDALL. In any event, whatever money was paid duty, men with muscles of iron and nerves of steel. They came was paid as the result of Republican legislation; [Applause on from every city, from every town, from every village, from the Republican side.] every hamlet; from the farm, from the factory, from the mine, If the proposition embraced in the measure I have offered from the store, from the school, from the bank ; and they offered could be submitted to the American people to-day it would be all that they were and all that they hoped to be freely to their approved almost without division-East as well as West, North country in its awful extremity. No hope of conquest, no ambi as well as South. Since the introduction of this bill it has been tion of office influenced their enlistment in the great army of indorsed in letters received by me from every section of the freedom; nothing but the most ideal patriotism, nothing but country. Some of these letters come from men who were with the most devoted loyalty inspired their unfaltering endeavor. Grant in the decisive battle of Shiloh; some come froin men They discounted all difficulties which interposed, they laughed who were with Sherman in his memorable march to the sea; at all dangers which menaced, and the paltry compensation they some come from men who compelled the evacuation of Vicks were promised they considered not at all. The authority of burg; some come from men who were with Meade when the in their Government had been challenged, the flag of their country vasion of Pennsylvania was repulsed; and some come from men had been insulted, the perpetuity of their Union had been threat~ who were present when the colors of the confederacy were ened ; and without a thought of personal consequences, they hur finally furled at Appomattox. · ried a way to the wild, grand music of the war, I believe the soldiers of the country are unanimous in the hope Theirs not to reason why, that the principle embodied in this bill may be speedily enacted Theirs but to do and die. into law. I know there is powerful opposition, some of it They were the very flower of the finest manhood of the North, captious and some of it sincere, .to the measure I have proposed. and upon a thousand battlefields the valor, the endurance, the But the conviction is general throughout the country that if bravery they exhibited communicated a new and illustrious the Government of the United States is ever to allow further glory to the warfare of the world. On every tedious march, in benefits to the men who maintained its emblems from the Ohio every sweltering trench, at every deadly charge, always and to the Gulf, that provision must be adopted now. The veterans everywhere, they achieved imperishable renown and rendered are disappearing with a mortality which is amazing, and which forever incomparable the heroism of the volunteer soldier. And must increase appallingly in the coming years. Since January they confronted an antagonist as brave, as determined, as valor 1, 1909, more than 52,000 have crossed the dark river to a re ous as themselves. Wherever the fearless daring of the South ward more certain and more commensurate than any dispensed encountered the superb courage of the North there was blood by human governments. The generation now entering upon the and death and immortality. After four years of unequaled car scene of action will witness the utter dissolution of the Grand nage they triumphed over a foe who would have been invincible Army of the Republic and the complete extinguishment of its against any other adversary, and the Union was preserved as membership. The surviving soldiers of the civil war are all old, the most priceless inheritance ever bestowed upon the sons of many of them are physically infirm, and some of them are men. And when the cause of freedom had finally prevailed, financially needy. It is asserted that the cost of living has when the spirit of the rebellion was completely subdued, when advanced 35 per cent in recent years, and whether that state the indivisibility of the States was irrevocably established, they ment be fortified by fact or not, it is undeniable that the pension modestly discarded the uniforms they had made immortal, of the private soldier, which often constitutes his only income, silently substituted the implements of peace for the armaments has not been augmented to correspond with changed conditions. of war, and quietly resumed the employments of civil citizenship. We will appropriate for the current year for the support and That was over forty years ago. The more than four decades expansion of our navy $135,000,000 ; for the maintenance and which have intervened since that April afternoon when Lee sur equipment of our army, $96,000,000. These enormous sums stag rendered his shining sword to Grant haYe been busy with these ger the imagination, but they are granted without effective or cherished veterans. Th~ brow has wrinkled with increasing considerable protest from any quarter. No war is imminent, for years, the hair has whitened with advancing time, the body is a profound peace prevails throughout the world, and all our bent with the burden of life. Their ranks have been disabled mighty preparation seems wickedly wasteful when we reflect by disease and decimated by death. The departed are en that the enlightened conscience of mankind will never tolerate shrined in a Nation's reverence. The surviving are embraced another international conflict. The increase of expenditure in a country's love. which would be rendered necessary by the enactment of the bill And what was the proximate result of their historic heroism? I have introduced would be so modest as to be nominal when A single commonwealth with a single flag and a single destiny; compared with the magnitude of our outlay for forts and fleets one common country extending from ocean to ocean and from and battlements and battle ships. It could be provided for Superior to the Keys, without ·a master and without a slave; without detriment to the public service by a negligible reduction peaceful, united, prosperous; the most powerful, the most en for the army or the navy, or both-a reduction which ought to lightened, the most progressive people on the globe; a country be insisted upon in any event. in which life is secure, liberty guaranteed, property protected, l\fr. Chairman, more than two score years have elapsed since labor rewarded, justice established, equity maintained; a coun the last gun was fired in that fratricidal misund~rstanding be try of schools and churches and homes, in which education is tween the people of the North and the people of the South. It free, the Bible open, and the fireside sacred; a country which at was a conflict unparalleled in the written records of the world. this moment enjoys the most perfect civilization ever attained Whether estimated by the principles involved or by the sacri in the history of mankind. And who is responsible for this fices suffered or by the results achieved, it was unprecedented beneficent condition? I canonize the private soldier who bat in the annals of humanity. It was a calamity unspeakably tled in the great war for the Union. Thls is Ws contribution to sorrowful, but inevitable as destiny. From the inauguration the happiness of ·humanity, to the welfare of the world. And of Washlngton radical differences of opinion had existed as to shall the Government for which he rendered such inestimable the character of the Nation. One school of thought maintained service now hesitate to reward him suitably as he approaches that it was a voluntary association of sovereign States, subject_ the twilight of life, decrepit with years and enfeebled with dis to be dissolved at the election of any one or number of its mem ease? Every pecuniary obligation incurred in the overthrow bership. Another school of thought insisted that it was a union of the rebellion has been fully redeemed. Every financial de- OONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25,, mand ihas he.en .£atisfied. ·q'here l!'emains bn±41 Single Debt :which The .Postmaster-General s.ays in this letter that .s.tam_ped en ll.a.s illOt l>een ;paid~ .J:t J.s '.one whic1l .never ;can .be ·1IDtine1y dis ve1opes pre-sent IDimy actva.nta-ges. In _passing, I want to .ma'k.e Cha:rged-the debt :wlliCh orrr :countcy c0wes to the .gallant men this statement, that the enactment into 1aw of the filllendment who pr.eserved .'.its J.ife in .the .aW.!fill years bom JF--0rt :Sumter pra_posed by the committee or The one l: 'Shall _pro.pose will ruJt do to .Appoma.Uox. .They .sqppressed an Jns.urre.ctinn ·without ..a away wlth stam_ped envelopes ·at ·aJI. precedent and wifhout a parallel. Xh~y saved a Government We shou1d not get the idea That if ihe Government is Jll'e wJ:l:ich is tich eE..Ough .and .strong ,enough and i)ns.t enough now vented from printing the .return card .on stanu>ed envelop.es that to render unto them the.:re.ward to wmch they .axe so abundanOy it will necessatily foTiow that fhe:r.e will be no .stamped envelopes entitled. [L0ua !3.P:Plau-s.e~J issued. .As .a ·matter of tact, I :think if this pro_posea change in .•Mr. WEEKS. Mr. Gha..ixma:n, .I ·yie.J.d it.en .minutes to the the law should be enacted there wm be gl'eater .conv.enience on gentleman .frem Nebraska ;[.Mr:. Nomus3. the part of the public who use stamped envelo:pes than there is .Mr. .NORRIS. .1\f:r. ·Ohair.main, Z wan± r.to cengra.tulate the .now. .I± .is .a well-known .fact that ~en fillY business firm, c.or Committee .on the Post-Offine :a:nd ..Post-Roads !fer .one tamendment p.orafion, or :indiviilual orders stamped envelopes ;from the Gov contained dn ct:his hlll ·tD the present law. .li ·s the proviso found e:rrunent it regutres in :Some instances .months 'before fhe order on ,page 26 af the bill, .and .@l'DY'ides i:hat ·after the b:eginning .ef can be filled. lt would l>e true also that the Government loses some money on a portion I have heard many able Members of this House say this Gov of this business. ernment pays too much to the railroads for carrying the mails. A great many orders for stamped envelopes with return card I have heard just as able Members say that the railroads are thereon are orders for 500 envelopes. When they are fur not paid too much for carrying the mails. I have not heard any nished in small lots like this, my understanding is that the Member give definite proof that the railroads are paid too much envelopes are sent under the frank of the Post-Office Depart nor have I heard any Member give definite proof that they are ment through the mails. Inasmucll as the actual work is done not paid too much. without profit to the Government, it necessarily follows that the I unhesitatingly say they are paid too much, and I intend to hauling of this material through the mails increases to an ap give what I believe is definite proof that this is a fact. I am preciable· degree the deficit now existing in the Post-Office De going to go a step further and say that if the roads were paid partment. It is time that this injustice that has too long a fair and only a fair price for their services in carrying the existed should be remedied. It is time that the Government, mails there would be no loss to the Government in that servicet especially where there is no profit in the transaction to the but that the deficit now found in the Post-Office Department Government, should discontinue its interference with the legiti would be wiped out and a surplus appear instead. I realize mate and honest occupations of many of its most worthy citizens. fully that this is . a broad assertion, but I shall endeavor to It is but an act of common justice and fairness, and only the prove it, at least to my own satisfaction, and I shall propose enforcement of a square deal to the great army of editors and a method of having the mails hauled wl:Uch will be just to both publishers in all the towns and cities of our land that I ask .the Government and to the railroads and at the same time save Congress to enact this provision into law. this Government at least $25,000,000 a year. Mr. WEEKS. Mr. Chairman, I yield one minute to the gen I shall read to you a part of a circular sent out by a com tleman from Iowa [Mr. HUBBARD]. mittee of railroads called "the committee on railway-mail pay," MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. which attempts to prove that the railways are not paid enough The committee informally rose; and the Speaker having taken for the cars in which the mall is hauled: the chair, a message from the Senate, by Mr. Crockett, one of IMPR.OYIDENT RAILWAY MAIL CONTR.ACTS. its clerks, announced that the Senate had passed without RAILWAY POST-OFll'ICl!l PAY. (A) It is the popular impression that the compensation paid the amendment bills of the following titles: railroads for railway post-office cars is a rental simply. Nothing could H. R. 10106. An act authorizing the acceptance by the United be more erroneous. The pay covers not only the exclusive use--a very States Government from the Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary small part, indeed, of the expense to the carrier-but the very burden some and expensive duty of hauling the car-a fully equipped post-office to the Grand Army of the Republic, of a proposed gift of land on wheels-in fast passenger trains in which mail is assorted and dis contiguous to the Andersonville National Cemetery, in the State tributed en route by a corps of clerks to expedite Its delivery at inter of Georgia; mediate points and terminals. These cars are hauled in trains, next tD baggage cars, with ample cubic capacity to carry all mail tendered, and H. R.19967. An act to authorize Thomas J. Ewing, George B. to earn all transportation charges. prescribed by law, but for public Patton, Otto Burger, William Cecil, and l\Iilton E. Foster to con convenience the department provides these moving post-offices, weighing struct a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River; 12.4 per cent of the average passenger train. For the use and cost of hauling this car, ridiculously inadequate railway post-office pay is H. R.171-60. An act to authorize the Oregon Trunk Railway, of allowed.. the State of Washington, to construct a bridge acros.s the Co Exhibit C shows that for a 60-foot railway postal car the carriers lumbia River and Celilo Canal; . receive 5.5 cents per mile hauled, according to the scheduled railway H. R. 16364. An act to amend in part section 658 of the Re post-office car rates. These cars weigh about 50 tons. vised Statutes; and You will notice that this statement says thei;;e cars are both H. R. 970. An ad for the relief of Edward C. Kittle. furnished and hauled by the railroads at the present rate per POST-OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL. car per mile, and that a _60-foot car weighs 50 tons, or about 100,000 pounds. I have no reason to deny that a 60-foot car The committee resumed its session. weighs 50 tons, but I believe that is more than it weighs. There Mr. HUBBARD of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, in line with the are not many 60-foot cars used anywayt and I believe the weight remarks ot the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. NORRIS], I send of the average car in which mail is hauled is about 40,000 to the Clerk's desk a letter to be read. pounds, although it would make my argument stronger should The CHAIR.MAN. Without objection~ the letter will be read I place the average at twice that amount. in the time of the gentleman. Assuming that 40,000 pounds is the average weight of all The Clerk read as follows : the cars used by the roads, I am informed that we pay only a ALTON DEMOCRAT, Alton, Iowa, January 31, 1910. little m·ore than $5,000,000 a year for having that 40,000-pound Hon. E. H. HUBBABD, car furnished and hauled. I am also informed that we pay Washington, D. 0. about $43.000,000 per year for the hauling of the mails in those DEAR SIR: If Congress hasn't passed a law prnhlbiting the Goyern 40,000-pound cars, and that the average amount of mall hauled ment from printing envelopes, you tell it I want one passed right away. I have a job of printin~ 500 envelopes in sight, and if the Government in these cars is about 5,000 pounds. Thus we pay less than will keep hands off I w1U land i.t sure as fate, and make 30 cents on it. $6,000,000 per year for the hauling of 40,000-pound cars and If the Government butts in and does the job for n!'.)tbing I lose the 30 more than $40,000,000 for hauling 5,000 pounds of mail in them cents on that job, and the next duffer who comes alo-ng and gets en 1 velopes will want me to print him a batch of S-Oap wrappers for noth at the rate per hundred pounds. ing, because he could have gotten the envelopes " cheaper from the Mr. ELVINS. Will the gentleman yield, Mr. Chairman '1 Government," and so on, ad infinitum to Gehenna and back. See how Mr. CROW. I yield. It works? Tell Congress I'm a lone Democrat in a county that's lousy with Republican editors, and I need the money. Tell it the surplus in Mr. ELVINS. Do we pay more, proportionately, for haullng the Postal Department can be applied on the Panama Canal, if it mail-by the pound or hundred pounds than we do by the car · doesn't know what else to do with it. Tell it anything-just so you en load? tertain it till I get that job or envelopes. Besides, I object to having thls great and glorious Government squander its resources competing l\Ir. CROW. Yes. with my shop. If it should go broke, I would get the blame. Tell the Mr. ELVINS. Why is that, if the gentleman knows? Government if it has a stock of trust-made envelopes on hand that are Mr. CROW. The rate per car, as I would suppose, is easily going to be a dead loss when it stops its job press that I will mortgage my plant and take a couple of boxes. Give my regards to the' President figured. The rate per hundred pounds I have never yet found and Uncle JOE CANNO and Brothers PAYNE and ALDRICH. anyone who can tell whether that is right or wrong, but in Very respectfully, making a comparison of the rate of mail hauled as compared CHAS. B. WOLF. with the rate of the car it seems to me to prove it is a great [Laughter and applause.] deal too much. Mr. WEEKS. Mr. Chairman, I yield ten minutes to the gen Now, if any member of the Post-Office Committee or anybody tleman from Missouri [Mr. CROW]. else can give me any reason why we should pay seven times as Mr. CROW. Mr. Chairman, I desire to call the attention of much for having 5,000 pounds of mail hauled as for having the this House to what seems to me to be a great and expensive 40,000-pound car hauled, I would be glad to hear him. It may mistake. . It is not my desire to make play to the galleries by be difficult to see that the larger weight I refer to is of the car abusing any corporation, but in view of the fact that the Presi itself and not of the mail hauled in the car. Can you not see dent has recently recommended that the postage on newspapers that it would cost the railroads about the same to pull the car and magazines be increased, because of the loss this Govern empty as it does to pull it with the mail in it? ment sustains in carrying them in the mail at the 1-cent-per But granting that we pay the railroads as much for hauling pound rate, it seems proper to me that I make a few remarks on the 5,000 pounds of mail as for hauling the 40,0007pound car, the subject. we would then only pay about .$11,000,000 per year for having I fully a.gree with the President that there is a great loss in the mails hauled, instead of the fifty millions per year which we carrying that class of mai1 at the present rate, especially when are now paying. it is hauled any great .distance, but I am sorry to say that I Now, the remedy which I propose is that the railroads be must disagree with him in the remedy he offers. . paid at the rate per car only and not anything at the rate per i 2446 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 251 hundred pounds. In justice to the railroads, I believe it would Mr. SULZER. Yes; that is just what I mean. I am receiv be necessary if paid per car only that the present rate per car ing letters from rural carriers almost daily complaining about be increased very largely, possibly doubled, and that a just the poor pay they are now receiving, and I will read two or and equitable rate be made for the space used when a whole three of them as samples. car is not used; but even then we would cut the amount down Mr. FASSETT. .A.re they from the gentleman's district? to between ten and fifteen million dollars per year instead of Mr. SULZER. No; I have no rural carriers in my district, fifty millions, which we now pay. There is another argument but I think I have received some from the district of my col in favor of this method of remuneration, and that is that we league. would not have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars Mr. FASSETT. Those letters ha"\Te been in the RECORD three every year weighing the mails, with the risk of having them times already. padded by the railroads during the weighing periods. Should my proposition become a law, we would not have to Mr. SULZER. I think not; but reiteration in the cause of worry about the loss in carrying second-class matter, for justice may hasten justice. I am talking for the good of the there would be no loss, nor would we have to worry about any country generally, and I wish others would do the same. any deficit, for we would have none; nor would we need to fear I now send to the Clerk's desk, and ask to have read in my raising the salaries of the rural carriers and the letter carriers, time, the statement and the letters to which I have referred. nor would we need to fear raising the salaries of railway posta1 The Clerk read as follows: clerks and passing a law allowing them half pay while sick or Statement show ing the a,v erage net earnings of 1·ural lettet· carriers, after providing and maintai ni ng the equipment n ecessary for the crippled to such an extent as to render them unable to work performance of their duties, for siai m.onths en ding D ecember S1, 1909. temporarily. Compiled frnm expense statements furnished by car riers in practically I have no desire to criticise the railroads for accepting all everv congressional district in which Rural DeZiv erv Service is in this Government will give them for any service which they op e ratiot~. may ·perform, but I can see no reason why we should needlessly waste money by giving them three or four times as much as Net earn Average State. ings for six per it is worth to carry the mails, and then stint ourselves and months. month. finally be forced to discontinue establishing rural routes alto gether. I think the railroads have been a great blessing to this country, and they have certainly done their share in the Alabama------$188.00 '32.00 development of the country, but so have the pioneer farmers Arkansns------· ----·------·-· ------·---· 177 .08 29.51 California---·---- __ ---·---·---·------·--·------· 234,. 76 39.13 and lumbermen and factory men. I do not wish to be under Colorado------·--· 258.28 43.05 stood as standing in the way of the development of this great Connecticut __ -·------137 .85 22. 97 Florida______.-----._ ---_------_------39.69 6. 62 country, but our President has correctly said that we should Georgia------· l!W. 79 30. 79 economize, and I believe in taking him at his word. I do not Idaho __ --·-·-- ___ .·------· 230.30 38.38 believe, however, in building up the railroads nor any other Illinois------·-----·------·---·------· 220.00 36.00 Indiana------·------· . 207 .oo 34.50 kind of corporations at the expense of the rural routes, rural Iowa------__ ----. ------. --- 185 .00 31.00 carriers, letter carriers, railway mail clerks, nor even the news Kent ucky·- _____ ------·-·------·----· ------_·- · 206.33 84.39 papers, for I believe in a higher education of the people, instead Kansns------204.00 84.00 of checking the present progress made by them in enlightening LouisianaM.ississippL ______---·------·------: ______------·--- 169.0011>0.10 25.0228.l!t the people along all lines. Montana ______--·-·------237 .50 39.59 Digressing a moment from my main line of argument, I would Maine __ __------·-----·--·------195.20 33 .00 Maryland------=------·------· 1(3.00 24.00 recall a statement of a prominent Democrat in my district who Massachusetts-----·-----·------·------163.25 27 .20 not long ago gave as his opinion on recent Republican victories Michigan _____ ------·------190.40 32.00 in Missouri that the establishment of rural routes and other Minnesota------·------207 .40 35.00 MissourL ______------176.17 29.36 modern mail facilities which bring information to all classes of New Hampshire-----~------·------188.80 31.47 residents there was responsible. Unconsciously he admitted New JerseY------175.49 29.25 that general education brought about Republicanism. And so North Carolina------·------·------· 167.00 28.00 it is my opinion that since under Republican administration North Dakota------·_.,______166.00 Z7.68 Nebraska------·------254.80 42.46 this country has seen its greatest and most wonderful devel Ne'v York------·------203. 74 33.95 opment, and that since the Republican party is responsible for OhiO-- ---· ------·-· ------· ------·------2«. 70 4-0. 78 all the facilities in postal and other services which have tended Oklahoma __ ·------·------··------181.86 30.31 Oregon ______-·------··------·------171.06 28.51 to bring about that wonderful development, we should curtail Pennsylvania ______-----·------·------211.56 35.26 - in no wise these facilities, but rather build them up still fur South Oarollna------·------·------·---·---·-·- l'rT.lil 29.58 ther. We certainly should not raise the rates of postage on South Dakota------·------·------·------167.00 28.00 Tennessee-·------·-----·--·------·-· 180.00 30.00 newspapers. If that deficit must be wiped out, let us remove Texas------·------· 177. 90 29.65 the chief cause of it-the exorbitant pay to railways. News Utah------·--··------··----·------·--·------i~~:~ 40.05 papers certainly do their share toward educating the people. ~={!.~--_-_::::::-_::::::::-_-_-_::::::::::=.=.:::::::=.:::::~: 178.34 ~~:~ Eduyation and Democracy do not go together, but, on the con Wisconsin------·------·------·------205 .08 34.16 trary, education and Republicanism go hand in hand. Washington __ -·------136.42 22. 74 Ignorance breeds Democrats, but education breeds Repub West Virginia. _____ ------·-·--·------· 223.25 37 .20 1--~--~-1-~~~- licans. Average ___ ------. ------.. ------189.00 fil.50 [Mr. SMALL addressed the committee. See .Appendix.] HATTIESBURG, MISS., January BS, 1910. Mr. MOON of Tennessee. Mr. Chairman, I now yield fifteen MY DEAR ~IR: My sympathy goes out to every rural carrier in the minutes to the gentleman from New York [Mr. SULZER]. land. I have been through the mill. 'rhree years is enoufh for me. I commenced to carry mail on route 1, March 1, 1907, and am going Mr. SULZER. Mr. Chairman, I am in accord with much to quit when I have served three years. I hate to be a quitter, but I that has been so well said by my friend who has just taken his can't afl'ord the job any longer. Meat, 25 cents per pound; corn, $1 seat. I believe that the Rural Free Delivery Service is meeting per bushel; lard, 18 cents per pound. If I hire a carpenter, I must pay him 3.50 per day. The doctor charges $2.50 for a visit; a little the expectations of the people and doing a great deal of good sick spell in the family means about 50. To have my fireplace fixed throughout the country. The Congress made no mistake when I must pay 50 cents per hour. If I hire a negro for common labor, it adopted the rural free-deli>ery policy. I would not curtail it is $2 per day. There are only three in my family. How the boys live that have five and six in the family, I can't see. the service. I am in favor of extending it. I am with the Waiting for Congress to do something for us is like looking for gold farmers of the country in this matter, and I am in the fight to at the end of the rainbow. The army, navy, and Panama Canal, etc., the end. need too much money. Congr ess seems to go on the principle that anything is good enough for the farmel'S. However, I want to say again what I have frequently said Just so long as the people are willing for army and navy officers to before, and that is that the rural carriers are not paid suffi live in luxury, just so long as vast sums are fooled away in Panama cient wages to live on decently, especially the carriers who have and elsewhere., why, just that long will the rural carriers have to patch up old harness with tacks and strings. families to support. I have here a statement which shows that After three years' service as a rural carrier, I can not lma.gine how the average net earnings of the rural carrier is only $31.50 u any young man who wants to do something for himself or family can month. Now, in my judgment, with the increased cost of .living stay in the service. I visited one of Uncle Sam's war ships at New Orleans, and when I mounting higher and higher all the time, it is absolutely im saw how lavish your Uncle Samuel was with his naval officers and possible for these carriers to live on the little stipend they are men, I naturally thought of the boys in the Rural Service who have receiving. · a close shave to make both ends meet. · Farewell, boys ! I hope to meet you all in a better world, where Mr. SHEPPARD. Does the gentleman mean that the average you will have a better show for comfort than you have here below. net earnings after deducting the cost of the rural carl'ier's W. E. OLDHAM, equiJ>ment is only $31.50 a month? .Rural Ft·ee DeUvery No. L 1910. CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-HOUSE. 2447 NEW AUGUS~ .IND., .1 Before the Telepost stops competing and goes into the combine the of the fact that we will be confronted with the statement that, country bas a chance- to learn its lesson. And the public service com mission of the future should make their legal applications of that lesson. even if it was found to be feasible, there is a deficit in the Sixty-seven years ago--on February 21, 1843-Representative John P. Post-Office Department and that the revenues of the Govern:. Kennedy, of Maryland, arose in Congress and moved for the appro ment will not permit of the Government engaging in the work priation of $30,000 for a government test of the merits of the Morse system of telegraphy. Peals of derisive laughter greeted the motion. of postal telegraphing. But I beg to remind the gentlemen of But the world bas moved since then. And if cheap telegraph service the committee that if Australia, with an area practically as can not be got from private corporations, the people have a great public large as that of the United States, and with only about one~ corporation that will provide it. sixteenth of the population of the United States, can establish :Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I feel that the a postal-telegraph system and.·make it profitable with the very Western Union Telegraph Company ought to be congratulated low rates which exist in Australia, then no good reason can be for imitating its young rival-the Telepost-in adopting this, assigned why a similar system should not be adopted in this its new feature, for the convenience of the public. But it is to country. Just for a moment let us look at the rates in Australia. be regretted that they could not have seen their way clear to If Washington were Jocated in Australia, we could send a have made this and other concessions to the public before they 16-word message, in addition to the address and signature, for were practically forced to do so by the entrance of the Telepost 12 cents in the city of Washington, and for .a radius of 10 miles into the city of Chicago. around. Have we anything in this country to compare with The "night letter " referred to in the article which has just this? Australia has six States, three of which are two and one been read by the Clerk will be transmitted between midnight half times as large as Texas. South Australia has a greater and morning, and 50 words will be sent at the rate charged for area than all the 26 States east of the Mississippi River. . 10 words during the day. These " night letters " will be de West Australia has an area even greater than all of these livered at the post-office at their destination in time to go out 26 States with any one of the States of Minnesota, Iowa, Arkan- by the first carrier deliveries. The company announces that the sas, or Louisiana added. . messenger-boy delivery, which is costly, is to be done away with West Australia is more than one and one-half times larger by the use of the post-office. The system is to be tried first in than North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla Chicago, and, if successful there, it will be established in other homa, and Texas. · cities. Larger than Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New l\Iexico, Compare this service in this respect with the service of the Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Washington, and Oregon. Telepost Company, and you will at once see that the Telepost Three and one-half times larger than Texas. ought to be encouraged in every reasonable way to extend its Six times larger than California. lines to every part and portion of the country. Here are the Nine times larger than Colorado. Telepost rates : Ten times larger than either Idaho, Utah, or Oregon. Fourteen times larger than either Washington or Missouri. In addition to the address and signature: ~wenty-five-word tele grams, any distance, 25 cents; 10-word telecards, any distance, 10 Sixteen times larger than either Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, cents; 100-word teletapes, any distance, 25 cents; 50-word telepost, any Arkansas, North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, distance, 25 cents. Georgia, or Florida. Compare this last proposition with the proposal of the West Almost twenty times larger than New York. ern Union Telegraph Company, and you will observe that the Twenty-one and one-half times larger than either Pennsyl Western Union Company is not able to cope with the Telepost. vania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, or South Take, for illustration, the proposition of the Western Union Carolina. Telegraph Company to send a "night letter " of 50 words at Twenty-nine and one-half ·times larger than Maine. the same price as the customary 10-word day message. This Notwithstanding the area of this and other States, you can would mean that this "night letter" from New York to San send a telegram in any one of the States ~f Australia, in addi Francisco would cost $1 as compared with 25 cents-the price tion to the address and signature, of 16 words for 18 cents, fixed by the Telepost-and many such comparisons could be and it will be delivered within a radius of 1 mile from the re made in all sections of the country showing the decided ad ceiving office, and for this there is no extra charge. vantage that the Telepost has now and always will have over No one will contend for a moment that we have anything the slow hand methods of the Western Union Company, and it comparable to this in the United States. I have only to call never will be possible for the Western Union Company to com your attention to the fact that in the smallest States we pay, in pete succ'essfully with the Telepost. We no longer rake hay addition to the address and signature, 25 cents for 10 words, with the old wooden rake,_nor cut our meadows with a scythe, and in some of the larger States as high as 40 cents. nor reap our grain with the old-fashioned cradle. We use the Let me cite just one case: In New York the population is up-to-date methods of machinery in rakes, mowers, and binders, 39 times that of West Australia; yet, in area, it is not one and why should we not pursue the same methods in telegraph twentieth as large. Why should not the people in the State ing and use machinery in sending our telegrams, and thus en of New York enjoy even cheaper rates than they do in Aus courage and adopt the Telepost system, which can send a 'thou tralia? sand words in a single minute over a single wire? Remembering, as I have said before, that Australia is prac You will also note that the proposition of the Western tically as large as the United States, Jacking in round numbers Union Telegraph Compan;r limits the sending of the 50 word only about 14,000 square miles, in addition to the address and so-called "night letter" to the time between midnight and the signature you can send a telegram of 16 words for 24 cents morning, whereas by the Telepost you can send these letters anywhere in Australia. In all cases the charge for extra any time during the day or night, which is another decided ad words beyond the 16 is a uniform rate of 2 cents a word, while vantage of the Telepost over the concession of the Western in the United States it is from 2 to 7 cents. For a moment Union Telegraph Company. compare these rates with the extortionate rates of either the I can not conclude this brief statement without calling atten Western Union or Postal Telegraph companies, and what other tion to the fact that it. seems almost a pity that the great conclusion can we honestly come to than that there ought to journal in which this article appears prominently on its front be a very substantial reduction in telegraph rates in this page has not long since seen fit to give a like space in as promi country. nent a place to Its readers describing the advantages to be se When it is remembered that Australia, as a whole, is a coun cured through the Telepost. It is to be further regretted also try of the same area as the United States, and that the dis that the leading newspapers of the country do not take the same tances actually traversed are very much greater than those keen interest in the establishment ·of postal telegraph, -or at between any points of telegraph communication in America., it least in the reduction of telegraph rates, that they did some will be seen that the charge of 24 cents for a 16-word message years ago when men like Greeley, Storey, Prentice, Forney, is very much less than one-half, and would probably work out Childs, l\fedill, Abell, McCullough, Bennett, Raymond, and Wil at about one-third, the amount charged in America. liam Cullen Bryant, a.nd other great editors wrote the editorials Australia borrowed $18,000,000 at 3 per cent interest and in the newspapers, and I can account for it only in one way, established. its system of telegraph lines, and I have no hesi and that is, then the editors wrote their convictions, while now, tancy in saying that if this country so desires it could bor in many cases, they write what they are told to write. row the money at 2 or 2! per cent interest with which to pur-' l will be glad if the chairman or some member of the Com chase the lines of either the Western Union or Postal Tele mittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads' will ill.form us as to graph Company, or build a line of its own, and could still in whether any steps have been taken on.the part of the committee crease the Australian prices to the people of this country and looking to the establishment of a postal-telegraph sysem in in two years wipe out the entire cost, in addition to the annual this country, or a reduction in the telegraph rates. I am aware expense, · and in the third year and for each succeedillg year XLV--154 2450 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, could pay any reasonable annual de1icit 1n the Post-Office De Third. ~n you give any good rea8on-why both of these cor partment. porations should not be under the supervision and control of the The telegraph lines now owned and operated by the federal Interstate Commerce Commission? government for the people of Australia have a length of fully Fourth. You speak ·Of competition between the Western Union 48,000 miles, while the length of the wires is considerably more and Postal Telegraph companies. Will you kindly suggest than 100,000 miles. Thus it will be seen the people of Australia where it exists? For illustration: Is it possible to send a tele and their government have a considerable experience in the cost gram by either of these companies from Washington, D. C., to both of constructing and operating a telegraph system. The any villag~. city, or hamlet in the Union where there is the mileage of their lines is actually greater than that of any Euro slightest competition; or, on the other hand, is not the rate pean country, with the exception of Russia, Germany, and France, exactly the same In every case? And if the same is not true while in proportion to the number of inhabitants it is pi:obably of other eities and villages throughout the country, I would nearly six times as great as that of any other country in the most respectfully thank you to call my attention to the same. world, with the single exception of its near neighbor, New Zea Fifth. Will you kindly tell me when it was that, by reason land. There are upward of S,000 telegraph stations kept open of competition or otherwise, telegraph rates were reduced from for the convenience of a J>Opulation which does not exceed 20 to 50 per cent? I understand that, whether by competition 4,000,000, and the revenue derived from messages ls shown to or otherwise, rates have been increased and not decreased. be sufficient to defray the cost of o.Perating and maintaining the Just a word to ·an those w:ho are in no way interested or ~n lines, as well as defraying the interest charges on the cost of con nected with the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies struction at the annual rate of 3 per cent. and their allied influences, which are many. If we are to suc In Australia the telegraph and telephone .services :are both ceed in seeuring this further right and blessing to the people., incorporated with the post-office, and as such they require few, then we must unite all our efforts, for, as was and is to be if any, separate offices. There are fully 3,000 telegraph sta expected, these great corporate influences are being exerted to tions in the country for the convenience of the public, and the end that they may crush out any and all attempts to en· neady every one of these is also the district post-office. There croach upon the exorbitant rates which they are charging the are in the United States about 27,000 telegraph stations, but people. there are not less than 70,000 post-offices for the use of the In conclusion I want to say, however much we may wish that peopl~that is to say, there is a post-office for every thousand, it were otherwise, we must n-0t lose sight of the fact that th re but a telegraph station for every three thousand. In the newer, is an ever increasing and growing demand in this country for poorer, and far less thickly settled country of Australia. there a substantial reduction in telegraph rates, a marked reduction are.fully 6,000 post-offices to meet the requirements of 4,000,000 in express rates, and for the establishment of postal savings people, or one to every 666 people, and more than 3,000 of these banks and a parcels post. [Applause.] are also telegraph stations, being 1 to about 1,300 persons. The Mr. WEEK.SJ Mr. Chairman, I move that the committee do contrast is suggestive, but it is most suggestive of all in its now rise. · financial aspect. If eve1·y second post-office in this country The motion was agreed to. were also a telegraph station, the public would be nearly as The committee accordingly rose; and the Speaker having re well supplied with the means of rapid communication as the sumed the -chair, Mr. LAWRENCE, Chairman of the Committee of settlers in Australia now are, instead of one-third as well, and the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that th t they would also be saved a great deal of money. In America it committee had had under consideration the bill H. R. 21419, would then be, as it now is in the commonwealth of the s~mth the post-office appropriation bill, and had come to no resolution Pacific, each telegraph station would be at the natural center thereon. of population, where it would require no separate offices and no LEAVE TO PRINT ILLUSTRATTO~S. separate staff of cler.1...---s and operators, except in cities of con siderable size. Every country postmaster or clerk would in The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the that case be required also to be a competent telegraph operator, Acting Secretary of War, transmitting~ with a letter from the and thus an endless duplication, both of offices and officials, Chief of Ordnance, a report of tests of iron and steel at the would be a voided. Watertown Arsenal. I give it as my deliberate judgment that from this time on no The SPEAKER. There are illustrations with this letter. If public building known as a "post-office building," should be there be no objection, the same will be printed. built in this country that does not make ample provision for Mr. CLARK of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, what is it? ' caring for the necessary amount of h~lp and other facilities that The SPIDA..KER. The Clerk will read : may be needed when a postal-telegraph system is adopted in this The Clerk read as follows : country, for I am more and more convinced that unless the Letter from the Acting Secretary ·of War, transmitting, with a letter people can get the relief which they feel they are justly entitled from the Chief of Ordnance, a report of tests of iron and steel at Water to, that it will only hasten the time when the Government will town Arsenal. be compelled to adopt a system that is enjoyed by every civilized Mr. FINLEY. What will be the cost of printing with the nation on earth. illush·ations? I desire to call your attention to a recent Associated Press dis Mr. SULZER. No matter what the cost is, it ought to be patch, sent out from New York on January 21, which reads as printed. It is a very important document. follows in the Washington Post of .January 22. The SPEAKER. The Chair is not informed as to the cost. The Postal Telegraph Company will be the la-st eompetltor in teleg Is there objection? raphy, and when that competition ceases there will be a choice only be There was no objection. twgen monopoly and government ownership. • • • This is Clarence IL :Mackay's view of the telegraph situation in the United States, as ADJOURNMENT. expressed to-day before a committee of the state legislature which is trying to determine the advisability of placin"' telegraph and telephone Mr. WEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now un Also, a bill (H. R. 21825) authorizing the Territory of New REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS AND Mexico to sell and transfer certain school lands to the city of RESOLUTIONS. Tucumcari, N. Mex.-to the Committee on the Territories. Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, private bills and resolutions Also, a bill (H. R. 21826) authorizing the Territory of New were severally reported from: committees, delivered to the Mexico to sell and transfer certain school lands to the city of Clerk, and referred to the Committee of the Whole House, as Roswell, N. Mex.-to the Committee on the Territories. follows: Also, a bill (H. R. 21827) authorizing the Territory of New Mr. BRADLEY, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to Mexico to sell and transfer certain school lands to the town of which was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 16684) grant Melrose, Curry County, N. Mex.-to the Committee on the Ter ing an honorable discharge to James Ovens, reported the same ritories. with amendment, accompanied by a report (No. 554), which By Mr. SPIGHT: A bill (H. R. 21828) to encourage the de said bill and report were referred to the Private Calendar. velopment of the American merchant marine, and for other pur Mr. GORDON, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to poses-to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fish- which was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 8699) author eries. . izing the Secretary of War to recognize William Mitchell, de By Mr. STEENERSON (by request): A bill (H. R. 21829) ceased, as having been a member of Company C, First Regi to amend section 1661, Revised Statutes of the United States, ment Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Infantry, civil war, re as amended-to the Committee on Militia. ported the same with amendment, accompanied by a report By Mr. BORLAND: A bill (H. R. 21830) to authorize the (No. 555), which said bill and report were referred to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railw&y Company to construct Private Calendar. and maintain a bridge across the Missouri River, in the neigh Mr. PRINCE, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to which borhood of Sibley, Mo., and to remove the existing structure- was referred the bill of the House ( H. R. 13936) for the relief to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. of William P. Drummon, reported the same without amendment, By l\fr. KAHN: A bill (H. R: 21831) to increase the efficiency accompanied by a report (No. 556), which said bill and report of the Quartermaster's Department of the United States were referred to the Private Calendar. Army-to the Committee on Military Affairs. He also, from the same committee, to which was referred the By Mr. KALANIANAOLE: A bill (H. R. 21832) to provide bill of the House (H. R. 19243) to correct the military record for the construction of a revenue cutter for service in the Ha of John B. Ford, reported the same with amendment, accom waiian Islands-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign panied by a report (No. 557), which said bill and report were Commerce. referred to the Private Calendar. By Mr. STURGISS: A bill (H. R. 21833) to authorize the Mr. BR.illLEY, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to Secretary of War to donate two condemned brass or bronze which was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 19747) to cannon or field pieces to the county court of Preston County, remove the charge of desertion against William C. Rich, re W. Va.-to the Committee on Military Affairs. ported the same with amendment, accompanied by a report By Mr. BATES: A bill (H. R. 21834) ·to equalize navy pay (No. 558), which said bill and report were referred to the with that of the army-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Private Calendar. By Mr. WEEKS: A bill (H. R. 21835) to provide for the Mr. HAY, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to which transmission free of postage of certain reading matter for the was referred the bill of the Senate (S. 863) to correct the mili blind-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. tary record of John M. Miller, reported the same with amend By Mr. GOULDEN: A bill (H. R. 21836) to amend section ment, accompanied by a report (No. 559), which said bill and 4488, Revised Statutes, for the greater safety and protection of report were referred to the Private Calendar. passengers on steam vessels of the United States-to the Com He also, from the same committee, to which was referred mittee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. the bill of the Senate ( S. 864) to correct the military record By Mr. FERRIS: A bill (H. R. 21837) providing for the erec of John Oates, reported the same with amendment, accom tion of a public building at Shawnee, Okla.-to the Committee panied by a report (No. 560), which said bill and report were on Public Buildings and Grounds. referred to the Private Calendar. By Mr. McGUIRE of Oklahoma: A bill (H. R. 21838) to establish a fish-cultural station in the State of Oklahoma-to the Committee on the Merchant l\Iarine and Fisheries. .ADVERSE REPORTS. By Mr. TAWNEY: A bill (H. R. 21839) authorizing the erec tion of a public building at Owatonna, Minn.-to the Committee Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, adverse reports were delivered on Public Buildings and Grounds. to the Clerk and laid on the table, as follows : Also, a bill (H. R. 21840) authorizing the erection of a post Mr. PRINCE, from the Committee on Claims, to which was office building at Lake City, Minn.-to the Committee on Public referred the bill of the House (H. R. 4514) for the relief of Buildings and Grounds. William Murray and David Murray, reported the same ad By Mr. FERRIS: A bill (H. R. 21841) providing for the versely, accompanied by a report (No. 551), which said bill and erection of a public building at Lawton, Okla.-to the Committee report were laid on the table. on Public Buildings and Grounds. Mr. SHACKLEFORD, from the Committee on Claims, to Also, a bill (H. R. 21842) to provide for the erection of a which was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 6337) for the public building at Chickasha, Okla.-to the Committee on Pub relief of Theophilus L. Keen, reported the same adversely, ac lic Buildings and Grounds. companied by a report (No. 552), which said bill and report By Mr. CARLIN: A bill (H. R. 21843) authorizing the Secre were laid on the table. tary of War to have constructed a highway bridge across the Mr. KITCHIN, from the Committee on Claims, to which was referred the bill of the House ( H. R. 11007) for the relief of Potomac River from or. near Point of Rocks or Brunswick, l\ld.. Pacific Pearl Mullett, administratrix of the estate of the late to some point on the Virginia shore opposite-to the Committee Alfred B. Mullett, reported the same adversely, accompanied on Military Affairs. By Mr. OLMSTED: Resolution (H. Res. 411) to pay to R. B. by a report (No. 553), which said bill and report were laid on Horton a certain sum of money-to the Committee on Accounts. the table. By Mr. FINLEY: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 158) extending the time within which returns may be made under section 38 of PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMORIALS. the tariff act of August 5, 1909, for the year 1910-to the Com Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolutions, and memo mittee on Ways and Means. rials of the following titles were introduced and severally re ferred as follows : PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. By Mr. COUDREY: A bill (H. R. 21822) to investigate the Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions of agreement or combination that appears to exist between the the following titles were introduced and severally referred as leading laundries in the District of Columbia-to the Commit- follows: tee on Rules. · By Mr. BATES: A bill (H. R. 21844) granting a pension to By Mr. ANDREWS: A bill (H. R. 21823) authorizing a bond Gertrude Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. issue of the city of Gallup, N. Mex., for reservoir purposes-to By Mr. BROWNLOW: A bill (H. R. 21845) granting; an in the Committee on the Territories. crease of pension to Samuel F. Stanley-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 21824) authorizing the Territory of New Invalid Pensions. Mexico to sell and transfer certain school lands to the town of By Mr. BURGESS: A bill (H. R. 21846) granting an incrense Artesia., Eddy County, N. Mex.-to the Committee on the Ter of pension to Andres Johnson-to the. Committee on lm'alid rltol"ies. Pensions. 2452 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, By Mr. CAMPBELL: A bill (H. R. 21847) granting an in · B~ Mr. RAUCH: ·A bil1 (H. R. 21883) granting an increase of crease of pension to C. W. Pool-to the Committee on Invalid pension to Bennoah Kellogg-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Pensions. sions. By Mr. CARLIN: A bill (H. R. 21848) for the relief of the A~so, a bill ( H. R. 21884) granting an increase of pension to estate of William W. Monroe, deceased, of Prince William Loms E. Parsons-to the Committee on Pensions. County, Ya.-to the Committee on War Claims~ ~so, a bill (H. R. 21885) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill ( H. R. 21849) for the relief of the estate of John Felix G. Buck-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Milburn, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. SLEMP: A bill (H. R. 21886) granting an increase of - Also, a bill (H. R. 21850) for the relief of William Knight pension to Patrick Costin-to the Committee on In-rnlid Pen to the Committee on War Claims. sions. By Mr. CULLOP: A bill (H. R. 21851) granting an increase By Mr. THOl\fAS of Kentucky: A bill (H. R. 21887) to carry of pension to Andrew L. Hale-to the Committee on Invalid out the findings of the Court of Claims in the case of the trus Pensions. "" tees of the Glasgow graded common schools, of Glasgow, Ky. Also, a bill ( H. · R. 21852) granting an increase of pension to to the Committee on War Claims. William Houston-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. WOODYARD: A bill (H. R. 21888) to pay the trus Also, a bill ( H. R. 21853) granting an increase of pension to tees of the Baptist Church at Sutton, W. Ya., for material taken .William H. Edwards-to the Committee on Pensions. and used for the Federal Army-to the Committee on War By 1\lr. DALZELL: A bill (H. R. 21854) for the relief of the Claims. legal representatives of Thomas Fawcett, deceased-to the Com . By l\fr._ PATTERSON: A bill (H. R. 21889) granting a pen mittee on War Claims. sion to Mike Murray-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. EDWARDS of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 21855) for the Also, a bill (H. R. 21890) granting a pension to l\Iike Mur relief of the First Presbyterian. Church of Darien, Ga.-to the ray-to the Committee on Pensions. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 21891) for the relief of Mike Murray-to By Mr. FLOYD of Arkansas: A bill (H. R. 21856) granting the Committee on Military Affairs. an increase of pension to Joseph S. Looney-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\fr. FORDNEY: A bill (H. R. 21857) granting a pension PETITIONS, ETC. to Philena Huffman-to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. FOSTER of Illinois: A bill (H. R. 21858) granting an Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid increase of pension to Schuyler B. Bascom-to the Committee on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: on Invalid Pensions. By the SPEAKER: Petition of James B. Angell, president Also, a bill (H. R. 21859) granting an increase of pension to emeritus of the University of Michigan, and 35 other presidents Chl'istopher Shafer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of state universities; Charles C. Thatch and 15 other presidents Also, a bill (H. R. 21860) granting an increase of pension to of independent colleges; E. M. Shackelford and 95 other presi Daniel Ward-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. dents of public state normal schools from all parts of the coun Also, a bill (H. R. 21861) granting an increase of pension to try, protesting against the passage of bills now before Congress Josiah Piles-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to appropriate money from the Federal Treasury for a private By Mr. GRONNA: A bill (H. R. 2186~) granting an increase institution in the District of Columbia, known as the " George -0f pension to Lyman K. Raymond-to the Committee on Invalid Washington University "-to the Committee on Appropriations. Pensions. By Mr. AJ\TDERSON: Petition of Clyde Council, No. 1175 Also, a bill (H. Il. 21863) granting an increase of pension to Knights of Columbus, for House bill 17543-to the Committee o~ Isaac Coles-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. IIOWELL of New Jersey: A bill (H. R. 21864) grant By Mr. ASHBROOK: Petition of Council No. 994, Knights of ing an increase of pension to Augustus E. Zeitler-to the Com Columbus, of Coshocton, Ohio, favoring House bill 17543-to the mittee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. HULL of Iowa: A bill (H. R. 21865) granting an in Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of William Wince-to crease of pension to William M. Hervey-to the Committee on the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BARCHFELD: Petition of Booker T. Washington By Mr. HULL of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 21866) fo;r the re Hospital and Nurse Training School, of Pittsburg, Pa., for a lief of Charles G. Jones-to the Committee on War Claims. celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation proc By l\1r. JOYCE: A bill (H. R. 21867) granting a pension to lamation-to the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions. Sal'ah McClellan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of Milit;ary Order of Loyal Legion of Pennsylva Also, a bill (H. R. 21868) granting a pension to Zella E. nia, for a volunteer officers' retired list (S. 4183)-to the Com. Bowles-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Naval Affairs. Also, a bill ( H. R. 21869) granting an increase of pension to Also, petition of Pittsburg Association of Credit Men, against Hosea Sarchett-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. repeal of bankruptcy law-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, a bill (H. R. 21870) granting an increase of pension to Also, petition of Monongahela Council, No. 491, Knights of Thomas Blazer-to the Committee OU" Invalid Pensions. Columbus, of Pittsburg, Pa., for House bill 17543-to the Com Also, a bill ( H. R. 21871) granting an increase of pension to mittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Jesse O. Hillegas-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BARTLETT of Nevada: Petition of certain citizens of Also, a bill (H. R. 21872) granting an increase of pension to Nevada, against increase in second-class postage rates-to the Robert J. Hanlin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, a bill ( H. R. 21873) to correct the military record of By Mr. BATES: Petition of Marine Engineers' Beneficial As William T. Carpenter-to the Committee on Military Affairs. sociation of Erie, Pa., for the Goulden bill ( H. R. 10082) for . Also, a bill (II. R. 21874) to correct the military record of security of lives of passengers and crews of vessels-to the Dennett F. Jackson-to the Committee on M.ilitary Affairs. Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. By 1\fr. KOPP: A bill (H. R. 21875) granting an increase of Also, petition of Central Labor Union of Erie, Pa., for the })ension to William H. Batchelor-to the Committee on Invalid eight-hour law on government works-to the Committee on Pensions. Labor. By Mr. LIVINGSTON: A bill (H. R. 21876) for the relief of Also, petition of Grove Cattre11, of Corry, Pa., and Interna T. J. McGrath-to the Committee on Claims. tional Association of Mechanics, of Erie, Pa., against increase o.f By l\1r. LOWDEN: A bill (H. R. 21877) to amend the mili postal rate on second-class periodicals-to the Committee on the tary record of George W. Rand-to the Committee on Military Post-Office and Post-Roads. Affairs. . Also, petition of George A. Eisaman, of ·East Springfield, Pa., By Mr. l\icMORRAN: A bill (H. R. 21878) granting a pension for a parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office and to Jemina Grigg-to the Committee on Pensions. Post-Roads. Also, a bill (H. R. 21879) granting a pension to Sumner Also; petition of Bishop of Pittsburg, Pa., for a proposed bill Starks-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. relating to the obser·rance of Sunday in the District of Colum By Mr. MOXLEY : A bill (H. R. 21880) granting an increase bia-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. o-f. pension to Leonard S. Van Vliet-to the Committee on In Also, petition of .J. T. Campbell. of Hartstown, Pa., for im valid Pensions. provement of the oleomargarine law-to the Committee on Agri- By Mr. PAYNE: A bill (H. R. 21881) granting an increase of culture. pension to Isaac Leroy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the Also, a bill (H. R. 21882) to correct the military record of State of Pennsylvania, for a Vl)lunteer officers' retired list-to Horace D. Bennett-to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on Military Affairs, 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE.: 2453 By Mr. BURLEIGH: Petition of Savings -Bank .Association By Mr. ESCH: Petition of citizens of Wisconsin, against any of Maine, favoring authorization of a State to levy n. tax on change in the oleomargarine law-to the Committee on Agri deposits in national banks at such rates and under such con culture. ditions as shall not discriminate in favor of similar deposits in By Mr. FASSETT: Petition of citizens of. New York State, state banking institutions-to the Committee on Banking and against a law favoring Sunday observance in the District of Currency. Columbia (S. 404)-to the Committee on the District of Co By Mr. CALDER. Petition of Union League Club, of New lumbia. York City, favoring attitude of the administration and com By Mr. FITZGERALD : Petition of American Business missioner of immigration of the port of New York, relative to League~ for publication by Department of Commerce and Labor of immigration laws-to the Committee on Immigration and a trade directory of the world-to the Committee on Interstate Naturalization. and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. CALDERHEAD: Petition of H. R. Bayton Company, Also, petition of Union League Club of New York City, for of Los Angeles, Cal., and W. F. Potts Son & Co., of Philadel an amendment to the immigration laws, requiring an educa phia, Pa., in favor of repeal of the corporation-tax law-ta the tional test-to the Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza Committee on Ways and Means. tion. Also, petition of Salina Council, No. 23, and C. S. Crawford Also, petition of the Maritime Association of the Port of New and other citizens of Abilene, Kans., in opposition to proposed York, against features of Senate bill 5106 and House bill 17536, increased rate of postage on periodicals-to the Committee on relative to rail and water differential basis-to the Committee the Post-Office and Post-Roads. on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. CARLIN: Paper to accompany bill for relief of estate Also, petition of Union League Club of New York, for rigid of John Milburn-to the Committee on War Clnims. enforcement of present immigration laws-to the Committee on By Mr. CONRY: Petition of National Business League of Immigration and Naturalization. - America fo1· a government publication of a trade directory of By Mr. FLOYD of Arkansas: Paper to accompany bill for the world-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com relief of Garfield Lay-to the Committee on Pensions. merce. By Mr, FORNES~ Petition of Produce Exchange of New Also, petition of W. Cales Cabell, of Washington, D. C., for York, for the Burleson bill-to the Committee on Agriculture. postponement of returns relative to business of corporations re Also, petition of New York Zoological Society, of New York quired under section 38 of the Payne tariff bill until rendering City, for the Carter Rocky Mountain Park bill-to the Commit of decision by the Supreme Court-to the Committee on Ways tee on the Public Lands. and Means. Also, petition of Merchants' Association of New York City, Also, petition of Produce Exchange of New York City for repeal favoring House bill 14530, preventing pollution of navigable of the oleomargarine law-to the Committee on Agriculture. rivers-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Also, petition of William Green, of New York City, favoring Also, petition of Merchants' Association of New York City, House bill 3075-to the Committee on the Post-Office and favoring House bill 5864, relative to consular buildings--to the Post-Roads. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also, petition of Merchants' Association of New York,. for Also, petition of Chilton Paint Company,, for. the Humphrey Houes bill 15864, relative to legation buildings-to the Com ocean mail bill-to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and mittee on Foreign Affairs. Fisheries. Also petition of Merchants' Association of New York, for Also, petition of William Green, of New York City, for House House bill 14530, against pollution of navigable rivers-to the bill 3075, prohibiting printing of. advertisements and cards on Committee on Rivers and Harbors. stamped envelopes-to the Committee on the Post~Offic:e and .Also, petition of Spanish War Veterans, for appropriation to Post-Roads. raise the wrecked battle ship Jfaine--to the Committee on Naval Also, petition of Maritime Association of New York, against Affairs. House bill 17536 and Senate bill 5106, concerning rail and water Also, petition of United Shirt and Coliar Company, of_Troy, differential basis-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign N. Y., against the publicity feature of the corporation-tax law- Commerce. to the Commfttee on Ways and Means. . By 1\1.r. FULLER: Petition ot legislative committee of the Also, petition of Posts Nos. 40~ 51, and 271, Grand Army of National Association of State Universities, against proposed the Republic, and citizens of Fort Wayne, Ind., for a memorial appropdation in favor of George Washington. University, a pri building to Gen. Anthony Wayne-to the Committee on the vate institution in the District of Columbia-to the Committee Library. on Appropriations. :By Mr. COOPER of Wisconsin : Petition of Group No. 713, Also, petition of numerous citizens. of Oglesby, Ill., for an Polish National Alliance of America, against House bill 20729, eight-hour workday on all government work-to the Commit the Hayes immigration bill-to the Committee on Immigration tee on Labor. and Naturalization. Also, petition of the national joint committee of the National By Mr. DALZELL: Paper to accompany bill for relief of the Editorial Association and other kindred organizations~ against . legal representatives of Thomas Fawcett, deceased-to the the printing of. advertisements on government stamped en Committee on War Claims. velopes-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. ' Also, petition of Monongahela Council, No. 491, Knights of Also,. petition of T. B. Westbrook, secretary of religious Columbus, favoring Hollile bill 17543-to the Committee on the bureau, ot Buffalo, N. Y., in opposition to the passage of the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Johnston Sunday bill ( S. 404 }-to the Committee on the Dis By Mr. DAWSON: Petition of Commercial Club of Davenport, trict of Columbia. Iowa, and corporations, against publicity requirement o:f the By Mi:. GOULDEN: Petition of Anthony Wayne Memorial corporation-tax feature of the Payne tariff law-to the Com Committee, of Fort Wayne, Ind"f and Grand Army of the Re mittee on Ways- and Means. public posts Nos. 40, 51, and 271, favoring a memorial building Also, petition of Tri-City Typographical Union, No. 107, for Gen. Anthony Wayne-to the Committee on the Library. against increase of postal rate on periodicals, and for a postal Also, petition of 0. O. Cowan,. of New York City, for a semi savings bank-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post centennial exposition in 1913, commemorative of. the emancipa RoadS'. tion proclamation of 1863-to the Committee on Industrial By Mr. DRAPER: Petition of National Editorial Association .Arts an Expositions. and other printing associations of the United States, favoring .Also, petition of Herman Oelrichs. of New York City, favoring the Tou Veile bill (H. R. 3075) relative to printed cards and promotion of Gen. William Marshall to major-general, United advertisements on stamped envelopes-to the Committee on the States Army, on retirement-to the Committee on Military Post-Office and Post-Roads. Aff'airs. · AJso, petition of G. H. McBride and 178 others, against pres By .Mr. GRAFF: Petition of Local No. 707, United Mine ent law governing manufacture and sale of oleomargarine-to Workers of America, of Peoria, Ill., in opposition to proposed the Committee on Agriculture. increased rate of postage on periodicals-to the Committee on Also, petition of Union League Club of New York City, favor the Post-Office and Post-Roads. ing rigid enforcement of immigration laws-to the Committee By l\1r. GRONNA: Petition of citizens of Weaver and Bot~ on Immigration and Naturalization. tineau. N. Dak., in opposition to the proposed rate of postage on Also, petition of George E. McLean and others, against ap second-class mail matter-to the Committee on the Post-Office propriation for the George Washington University-to the Com and Post-Roads. mittee on Agriculture. By Mr. HA.YES: Petitions of J. Grignol, James F. Breen, By Mr. MICHAEL E. DRISCOLL: Petition of citizens of E. A. Brown,. James T~ Bailey, and James J. Beatty, citizens of New York State, for an eight-hour law on government works San Francisco; San Franci co Lodge, No. 68, Inte1·national As to the Committee on Labor. sociation of Machinists; United Garment Workers' Union, No. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. JIOUSE. FEBRUARY 25, 131, of San Francisco, Cal.; Division No. 265, Amalgamated Valley as a water tank for San Francisco-to the Committee on Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of Amer the Public Lands. ica, of San Jose, Cal., favoring an eight-hour workday on all Also, petition of San Francisco Labor Council, against the in work done for the Government by contract or subcontract-to crease of rate of postage on periodicals and not to restrict rural 11le Committee on Labor. delivery-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, petition of Farmers' Educational Cooperative Union of By 1\Ir. NYE : Petition of citizens of Minneapolis, Minn., for America, for legislation to stop gambling in farm products-to Senate bill 1614 and House bill 3035, against printing free gov the Committee on Agriculture. ernment stamped envelopes-to the Committee on the Post Also, petition of. James Hallett, Thomas H. Dowd, G. E. Bit Office and Post-Roads. terlin, C. J. Paise, Frank Moss, A. T. Wynn, J. A. Wynn, John By Mr. PAYNE: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Lo J. Malone, James de Succa, A . Windrow, and 1\1. J. Roche, all renzo C. McDougall, son of Samuel Nelson McDougall-to the of San ],rancisco, Cal., favoring House bill 15441, providing for Committee on Invalid Pensions. an eight-hour workday on work done for the Government by By Mr. PETERS: Petition of Jamaica Plain (Mass.) Indian contract or subcontract-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Association, favoring an Indian medical service and other Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Mrs. F. M. Samp measures-to the Committee on Indian Affairs. son-to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. PLUMLEY: Petition of P. J. Cowles and 39 other members of Champlain Lodge, No. 7, Knights of Pythias, Also, petition of J. L. Mosher, N. Barton, M. B. Sears, B. G. against Senate bill 1712, wearing of the United States uniform Sears, Thomas Hardie, William T. Turner, W. C. Turner, N. P. by unauthorized persons-to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. Johnson, and A. C. Nicholson, citizens of Campbell, Cal., urging By Mr. PRAY: Petition of veterans of civil war of Flathead legislation to eliminate gambling in farm products by boards County, Mont., favoring amendment of act of June 27, 1 90-to of trade, exchanges, and other speculators-to the Committee the Committee on Invalid Pensions. on Agriculture. Also, petition of citizens of Clyde Park, Mills City, and Bel By Mr. HOBSON: Petition of W. W. Beasley and 120 other grade, Mont., against establishment of postal savings banks-to citizens of Reform, Ala., against gambling in futures-to the the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Committee on Agriculture. . Also, petition of Retail .Merchants' Association of 1\Iontana, By Mr. HOWELL of New Jersey: Paper to accompany bill for increase of salaries of letter carriers-to the Committee on for r~lief of John McElmeel-to the Committee on Invalid the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Pensions. Also, petition of Typographical Union No. 95, of H elena, By Mr. HULL of Iowa: Petition of Young People's Society Mont., against increasing postage on second-class mail matter---,, of Missionary Volunteers of Polk County, Iowa, against S. 404, to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. relative· to Sunday observance in the District of Columbia-to By Mr. RAUCH: Petition of Marion (Ind.) Chapter, No. 429, the Committee on the District of Columbia. American Insurance Union, favoring support of Hou e bill By Mr. JOHNSON of Kentucky: Petition of Ashland (Ky.) 17543-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Business Men's Association, favoring repe.al of corporation-tax By Mr. REEDER: Petition of citizens of Kansas, favoring clause of the Payne tariff bill-to the Committee on Ways and House bill 17509-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post Means. Roads. By Mr. KELIHER: Petition of Pilgrim Publicity Association, Also, petition of James B. Angell and others, against an ap of Boston, against increase of rates on second and third class propriation for the George Washington University-to the matter-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Committee on Appropriations. Also, petition of New England Manufacturing Jewelers and By 1\fr. SHEFFIELD: Petition of Newport (R. I.) Council, Silversmiths' Association, against publicity paragraph of the No. 256, Knights of Columbus, for House bill 17543-to the Com corporation tax-to the Committee on Ways and Means. mittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. KENNEDY of Ohio: Petition of Methodist Church Also, petition of Rhode Island Business Men's Association, of and Friends' Church of Damascus, Ohio, against the Johnston Providence, R. I., for Senate bill 290, for a revenue cutter to and Curtis bill-to the Committee on the Territories. replace the cutter D ea; ter in Narragansett Bay-to the Com- Also, petition of citizens of Ohio, against modification of the mittee o Interstate and Foreign Commerce. • oleomargarine law-to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, petition of Providence ( R. I.) Chapter, No. 2, Sons of By Mr. KINKEAD of New Jersey: Petition of Paulus Hook the American Revolution, for retention of the Bureau of In Council, No. 9, Loyal Association, favoring House bill 17543- formation in the Department of Commerce and Labor-to the to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. By Mr. LAFEAN: Petition of residents of York, Pa., against Also, petition of Newport ( R. I.) Social Union, No. 268, of the the establishment of postal savings banks, etc.-to the Com International Brotherhood of Electrical Worlrnrs, against in mittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. creasing the postage on second-class mail matter-to the Com By Mr. McMORRAN: Papers to accompany House bill for mittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. relief of Sumner Starks, late of Companies E and H, Fifth By Mr. SMITH of 1\Iichigan: Petition of Lansing Chapter, Michigan Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee on Invalid National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, for retention of the Bureau of Information in the Department of Pensions. Commerce and Labor-to the Committee on Immigration and Also, petition of the East Huron Grange, No. 1097, of Harbor Na turaliza tion. Beach, Mich., protesting against any change in the present oleo By l\Ir. SMITH of Texas: Petition of citizens of Runnels margarine law-to the Committee on Agriculture. County, Tex., against increasing postage on second-class mall Also, papers to accompany House bill for the relief of J emina matter-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Grigg, mother of George G. Grigg, late of Company F, Thirty By Mr. SPERRY: Petition of Nathan Hale Memorial Chap third Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry-to the Committee ter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of East Haddam, on Pensions. Conn., for retention of Bureau of Immigrant Information-to By Mr. MAGUIRE of Nebraska: Petition of Foresters' Insti the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. tute School, for House bill 15422, for agricultural extension Also, protests of manufacturers and stock companies of the work-to the Committee on Agriculture. State of Connecticut, against the corporation tax-to the Com By Mr. MILLINGTON: Petition of Union League Club, of mittee on Ways and Means. New York City, for certain amendments to the immigration By Mr. WANGER: Petition of Edwin E. Sparks and others, laws-to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. presidents of state colleges and universities and of public nor By Mr. MURDOCK: Petitions of citizens of Arkansas City, mal schools, against any appropriation from the Federal Treas Cherokee County, Leeds County, Inmann, Macksville, Eldorado, ury to George Washington University-to the Committee on Iola, Genda Springs, Pittsburg, Webster County, Concordia, Agriculture. Coffee County, Allen County, Blue Mound, Fort Scott, Sedg Also, protest of the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce against wick County, Neosho Falls, Smith County, Green, Emporia, the section of Senate bill 5106 which subjects independent water all in the State of Kansas; Ventura, Cal.; and Logan county, lines to the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commis Okla., against postage increase on second-class mail matter sion-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. · By Mr. WEEKS: Petition of Massachusetts State Boar51 of Also, petition of business firms and citizens of Wichita, Kans., Trade, against enforcement of clause 38 of the Payne law until against enforcement of clause 38 of the Payne law until decision decision by the Supreme Court-to the Committee on Ways and by the Supreme Court-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Means. By Mr. NEEDHAM: Petitions of Elk Grove Friday Club By Mr. WILSON of Pennsylvania : Petition of A. P. Heuell and Mrs. H. ·c. Bates, president of the Woman's Improvement and others, against postal savings banks-to the Committee on Club of Modesto City, Cal., against the use of Hetch Hetchy the Post-Office and Post-Roads.