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OHIO. POSTMASTERS. William A. Coble to be postmaster at Delphos, Ohio, in place CALIFORNIA. of William A. Coble. Incumbent's commission expired Decem­ Obarles W. Beatty, at Maricopa, Cal ber 13, 1908. Salmon H. Loomis, at Kingsburg, Cal. John F. Outcalt to be postmaster at Wauseon, Ohio, in place of John F. Outcalt. Incumbent's commission expires January COLORADO. 31, 1910. William T. Brumbaugh, at Fruita, Colo. OKLAHOMA.. GlOORGIA. Nolia B. Dore to be postmaster at Westville, Okla. Office Willie 0. Goodson, at Union City, Ga. became presidential January 1, 1910. ILLINOIS. PENNSYLVANIA. William G. Baie, at Hinckley, m William W. McClelland to be postmaster at Polk, Pa. Office Harry L. Frier, at Benton, Ill. became presidential July 1, 1909. Peter McDonald, at Cicero (late Hawthorne), Ill. Clayton O. Slater to be postmaster at Latrobe, Pa., in place I James W. Prouty, at Roseville, Ill. of Clayton. 0. Slater. Incumbent's commission expires Febru- IOWA• . ary 1, 1910. • I Isador Sobel to be postmaster at Erie, Pa., in place of Isador Ralph A. Dunkle, at Gilman, Iowa. Sobel. Incumbent's commission expires March 29, 1910. John H. Kolthoff, at New Hampton, Iowa. Starling W. Waters to be postmaster at Warren, Pa., in place MARYLAND. of Starling W. Waters. Incumbent's commission expired Jan­ Walter R Rudy, at Mount Airy, Md. uary 23, 1910. Charles W. Zook to be postmaster at Roaring Spring, Pa., MINNESOTA. in place of Charles W. Zook. Incumbent's commission expires Dennis F. McGrath, at Barnesville, Minn. February 6, 1910. Henry H. Neuenburg, at Olivia, Minn. SOUTH CAROLINA. Theodore Oachs, at Kerkhoven, Minn. William F. Rice to be postmaster at Denmark, S. C., in place of MISSISSIPPI. WilliamF.Rice. Incumbent's commission expiresFebruary5,1910. Henry C• .Majure, at Newton, Miss. SOUTH DAKOTA.. Fred H. Powers, at Starkville, Miss. Abram E. Van Camp to be postmaster at Highmore, S. Dak., NEW JERSEY. in place of Abram E. Van Camp. Incumbent's commission ex­ pired February 1, 1908. George L. Clarke, at Morristown, N. J. UTAH. George W. Hope, .at Raritan, N. J. Jl)va C. Wilcox to be postmaster at Garland, Uta.h. Office be­ John H. Nunn, at Glen Gardner, N. J. came presidential January 1, 1910. NEW MEXICO. VERMONT. Robert S. Fisher, at Fort Bayard, N. Mex. Frederick Chapman to be postmaster at Woodstock, Vt., in NORTH DAKOTA. place of Frederick Chapman. Incumbent's commission expires Thomas S. Farr, at Hillsboro, N. Dak. February 7, 1910. Orrin H. Jones to be postmaster at Wilmington, Vt., in place of OREGON. Orrin H.Jones. Incumbent's commission expires January 30,1910. William Ledford, at Prineville, Oreg. WASHINGTON. Jesse E. Tulley, at Wallowa, Oreg. William F. Case to be postmaster at Northport, Wash., in PENNSYLVANIA. place of William F. Case. Incumbent's commission expires John C. Burden, at St. Marys, Pa. January 31, 1910. E. Wesley Keeler, at Doylestown, Pa. . WEST VIRGINIA. Samuel S. Lewis, at York, Pa. .Harry E. Munday to be postmaster at Shepherdstown, W. Va., Thomas R. Williams, at Mount Carmel, Pa• in place of Harry E. Munday. Incumbent's commission expires WYOMING. February 7, 1910. Ivor Christen.sen, at Hanna, Wyo. WISCONSIN. John M. Tompkins to be postmaster at Granton, Wis. Office became presidential January 1, 1910. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. James T. Webb to be postmaster at Lancaster, Wis., in place of James T. Webb~ Incumbent's commission expires February FRIDAY, January 28, 1910. 19, 1910. WYOMING. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D. George W. Hoyt to be postmaster at Cheyenne, Wyo., in place The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and of George W. Royt. Incumbent's commission expires February approved. ~lEQ . PENSION BILLS. Mr. SULLOWAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent CONFIR1\IATIONS. that bills on the Private Calendar in order for to-day may be llJa:ecutive nominations confirmed by the Senate January 28, 1910. considered in the House as in Committee of the Whole House AsSISTANT ATTORNEY-GENERAL. on the state of the Union. Winfred TJ Denison to be Assistant Attorney-GeneraL The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New Hampshire asks unanimous consent that bills on the Private Calendar in order CoLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS. for to--Oay may be considered in the House as in Committee of George W. Allen to be collector of customs for the district of the Whole. Is there objection? [After a pa.use.] The Cha.ir Key West, Fla. hears none. RECEIVER OF PuBLIC MONEYS. The first business on the Private Calendar was the bill (H. R. Robert W. Elwell to be receiver of public moneys at Olympia, 18681) granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain :Wash. soldiers and sailors of the civil war, and certain widows and APPOINTMENT IN THE ARMY. dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors. MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS. The Clerk read as follows: Be it enacted., etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he ls Jam€S Jehu Robert to be first lieutenant. bereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to PROMOTION IN THE ARMY. the provisions and limitations of the pension laws- The name of John Goins, late of Company H, Twenty-fourth Regi­ INFAN TRY ARM. ment, and Company F, Fifty-fifth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer In­ fantry, and pay him a ~ension at the rate of $24 per month in Ueu Second Lieut. John F. Franklin to be first lieutenant. of that he is now receivmg. REAPPOINTMENT IN THE ARMY. The name of John Fleming, late of Company A, Fourth Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ~24 SIGNAL CORPS. per month in lieu of tha.t he ls now receiving. · The name of David P. Boyd, late of Company K, Eighth Regiment Brig. Gen. James Allen to be Chief Signal Officer with the Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate -of rank of brigadier-general. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. fll84 CONGRESSIONAL . RECORD-HOUSE . .. JANUARY 28,

The name of Henry M. Warren, late of First Battery, Massachusetts The name of William Bair, late of Company A, First Regiment Penn­ Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 sylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and Company E, Second Regiment Penn­ per month in lieu of that be now receiving. sylvania Provisional Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Sa.rah J. Sherman, widow of Thomas Sherman, late first rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. lieutenant Company D, Twenty-seventh Regiment Maine Volunteer In­ The name of Arab C. Kimball, late of Company B, Third Regiment fantc·y, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Josephus C. Dine, late of Company B, Forty-ninth Regi­ $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of James H. Murphy, late of Tenth Battery Wisconsin per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per The name of Perry C. Brake, late of Company A, One hundred and month in lieu of that be is now receiving. twenty-second Regiment Ohio. Volunteer Infantry, and Company C, The name of James Hamrick, lat of Company F, Seventy-eighth Fout"th Independent Battalion, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now re­ of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . ceiving. The name of Ralph M. Musser, late of Company F, Fifty-sixth Regi­ The name of John T. Beem, late of Company G, Ninety-seventh ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Illinois 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 Matthew N. Chappell, late first lieutenant and adju­ The name of John McGuire, late of Company K, Eighteenth Regi­ tant, Twelfth Regiment Rhode Island Yolunteer Infantry, and pay him ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate a pen ion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving. The name of George W. Davis, late of Company C, Thirty-second The name of Lewis G. Hughes, late of Company A, Fourth Regi­ Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Twelfth Independent Battery ment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of 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 Fillmore M. Brist, late of Company M, First Regiment The name of William A. Hill, late of Company C, One hundred and Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of twenty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at t~e rate of $24 per month in lieu of that.he is now receiving. . The name of Isaac Kibler, late of Company EJ, Ninety-seventh Regi­ Tlie name of Mathias Hicks, late of Company B, Forty-first Regiment, ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of and Company G, Fifty-third Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · pay him a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is The name of Samuel C. Burkholder late of Company H, One hun­ now receiving. . dred and third Regiment Pennsylvania. 'volunteer Infantry, and pay him The name of John Love, late of Company B, One hundred and a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now eighty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a.nd pay him a pen­ receiving. - sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John H. Sutton, late second lieutenant Company C, '.rhe name of Morris McGlasson, late of Company C, Forty-eighth Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Infantry, and pay Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the him a pension at the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that be is now rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving. · · The name of Nathan Kaseman, late of Company F, Fiftieth Regi­ The name of Robert Hart, late of Company A, Third Regiment Wis­ ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the consin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 24 rate 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 John Franklin Hobbs, alias John Franklin, late of The name of James Lee, late ·of Company L, Eighth Regiment New U. S. S. Ohio and Acacia, United States Navy, and pay him a pension York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per at the 1·ate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John T. Young, late of Company EJ, Thirteenth Regi­ month. ment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of James Emmens, late of Company F, Tenth Regiment New the rate of $30 per .month in lieu of that .he is now receiving. York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of '$30 The name of Catharine Brill, former widow of John Bagley, late of per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · Company C, Second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery, and The name of Frederick Smith. late of Company L, Second Regiment pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the The name of Jeremiah D. Woodard, late of Company F, One hun­ rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. dred and thirty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay The name of Simeon Flory, late of Company C, One hundred and him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now seventy-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Drafted Militia Infantry, and pay r eceiving. him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of Charles L. Stevenson, late of Company B, One hundred receiving. and thirtieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of Richard C. Swainston, aUas Richard C. Irons, late of pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiv­ Company I, Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Infantry, in"' and Company K, One hundred and ninety-first Regiment Pennsylvania The name of William Bivens, late second lieutenant, Company L, Yolunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Rudolph Giesin, late of Company C, Tenth Regiment The name of John W. Carmony, late of Company D, One hundred New York Volunteer Cavalry, and Company C, First Regiment New and fburth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ York Provisional Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate sion 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 Jasper N. Johnson, late of Company I, Ninety-sixth The name of Levi W. Bevis, late of Company F, Twenty-second Regi­ Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him 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 is now receiving. · · $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. . The name of Clay Doolittle, late of Company F, Seventh Regiment The name of Allen Hall, late of Company F, First Regiment Ten­ Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 nessee Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William I. Milligan, late acting second assistant engi­ The name of William Ray, late of Company B, First Battalion Minne­ neer, nited States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 sota -Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Michael Fetter, late of Company D, Forty-ninth Regi­ · The name of Berintha L. Barnes, former widow of Clark Da.vis, late ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Company B, Thirty-fifth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. The name of J ames Wardwell Newton, alias· James Wardwell, late The name of Albert S. Kinsloe, late first lieutenant Company D, of Company A, One hundredth Regiment New York Volunteer In­ Fifty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of .that be is now receiving. . that he is now receiving. · · The name of John T. Starkey, late unassigned, Seventh Regiment 'I'he name of Joseph Lapham, late of Company F, Tenth Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of l\Iaine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Miles P. Cook, late of Twentieth Independent Battery, The name of Forrest M. Lentz, late of Company B, Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $24 per month in lieu· of that be is now receiving. The name of Morgan Gulick, late of Company H, Eleventh Regiment The name of Robert P. Marsh, late of Company G, One hundred and Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 thirty-sixth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a per month in lien of that he is now receiving. pension at the rate of $30 pe1· month in lien of that he is now receivin~. The name of Julius Lane, late of Company C, Seventh Regiment In­ The name of James R. Austin, late of Company I, Seventeenth Regi­ diana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 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. · · The name of Samuel T. Cole, late of Company G, One hundred and The name of Noble Butler, late of Company F, Second Regiment twenty-third Regiment Indiana Voluntee 1· Infantry, and pay him a Missouri State Militia Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now re­ $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · ceiving. The name of H elen E. Wilcox, formerly Helen El. Greene, late nurse, The name of Newton W. Botts, late of Company A, twenty-third Regi­ Medical Department, United States Volunteers, and pay her a pension ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate at the rate of $12 per month. of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James H. Shafer, late of Company A, Twelfth Regiment, The name of Alexander Ward, late of Company I, First Regiment In­ and Company E, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and diana Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is of $20 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. now receiving. The name of Samuel McKeague, late of Company E, One hundred The name of Sidney Windecker, late of Company H, Fifth Regiment and eighty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of him a pension at the· rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Perry Shaffer, late of Company II, Seventy- ixth Regi­ receiving. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Lewis C. Edmonds, late second lieutenant Company D, $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. · One hundred and forty-eighth Regiment, and captain Company I, One The name of George A. · Rutter, late of Company E, Forty-second hundred and eighty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. - ls now receiving. The name of Christian Voelker; late of Company I, First Regiment The name of George A. Earle, late of Company F, First Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 Rhode Island Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of per month in: lieu of that he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1185

The name of Samuel V. Bocook, late of Company H Sixty-fifth Regi­ The name of Charles H. Trumble, late of Company H, One hundred ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of and fourth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ $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 William H. Bentley, late of Company I, Seventy-seventh The name of .John N. Bingham, late of Company G, Sixth Ilegiment - Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and first lieutenant Company D, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and One hundred and seventy-second Seventy-seventh Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, Company, Second Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pen­ and Company H, Tenth Regiment United States Colored Volunteer sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month The name of James N. McClellan, late first lieutenant Company K, in lieu of that he is now receiving. Forty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ The name of James L. Prouty, late of Company D, Forty-second sion at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of Henry Basewitz, late of Company G, Foi·ty-first Regi­ at the rate of 20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Hannah M. Batt, former widow of Hiram B. Johnson, of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. late of Company M, Fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and The name of Joseph W. Jenkins. late of Company I, One hundred pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. and thirty-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of Jabez Goodman, late of Company A, Forty-eighth Regi­ pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receivini. ment 1\1issouri Voluntee1· Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of .Ambrose L. Babcock, late of Companies I aud E, Eighth of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Thomas W. Hall, late of Company I, Forty-fourth Regi­ rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Gilbert A. Sackett, late of United States ships Susque­ of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. hanna Wabash, and Miami, United States Navy, and pay him a pen­ The name of Ezra R. Moore, late of Company .A, Seventy-sixth Regi­ sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate 'rhe name of William W. Cral!e, late first lieutenant Company K, of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Seventh Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavall'y, and pay him a pension at The name of James H. Thomas, late of Company E, Sixth Regiment the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Hannah A. Canfield, now Arnett, dependent mother of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Edward M. Canfield. late of Company C. Sixty-seventh Ref!iment, and The name of John Sears, late of Company F, Eleventh Regiment Ken­ Company C, Sixty-fifth Regiment, New York Volunt~er Infantry, an_d tucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is per month in lieu of that he is now receivini:t. now receiving. . The name of Benjamin F. Mossgrove, late of Company F, Eighty­ The name of George S. Mann, late of Company D, Fourth Regiment third Regiment, and Company B, 1''orty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volun­ Michigan Volu°:teer Infantry, and pay h~ q. pension at the rate of $20 teer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month per month in heu of that he ls now rece1vmg. in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Henry C. Walbridge, late of Company E, One hundred The name of John Flanigan, late of Company A, Twenty-second Regi­ and forty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and P!!Y him ment New York Vohtnteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate a pension at the rate of $60 per month in lieu of that he is now of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving. 'l'he name of John McLane, late of Company E, Fifth Regiment Rhode '.rhe name of Cornelius F. Shoemaker, late of Company B, Forty­ Island Volunteer Heavy .Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of seventh Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Hamilton A. Anderson, late captain Company K, Forty­ The name of Franklin Koontz, late of Company E, One hundred and third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of thirty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him $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 Leander Snell, late of Company .A, One hund1·ed and fifteenth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ receiving. sion at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. '.rhe name of John C. Brown, late of Company K, Eighty-fifth Regi­ The name of James L. Dungan, late captain Company H, Fifth Re.gi­ ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, 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. 'l'he name of James N. Hyatt, late of Company B. Ninth Regiment 'l'he name of Alonzo G. Akers, late of Company E, Sixty-fourth Re"'i­ New York Volunteer Infantry, and Companies C and L, Sixteenth Regi­ 0 ment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and Company F, Third Regiment ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of New York Provisional Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the $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 Adam M .. Working, late of Company I, One hundred and The name of Isuac N. Campbell, late of Company G, One hundred and nineteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension thirty-third Regiment New York Voluntee~ 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 receiving. 'l'he name of Mary C. Lloyd, former widow of George H. Zeigler, late The name of S:imuel H. Fergurson, late of U. S. S. North Carolinu. of Company A, Second Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalr7, and pay her and Savannah, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate a pension at the rate of $12 per month. · of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Sarah H. Lieb, widow of Hermann Lieb, late major The name of Weller Bishopp, late of Company A, Seventy-Rixth Regi­ Eighth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and colonel Fifth Regi~ ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment United States Colored Volunteer Heavy .Artillery, and pay her a $20 pct· month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pension at the rat~ of $30 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. The name of Daniel Chamberlin, late of Company B, Ninety-fifth The name of Nick Muench, late of Company A, Fifth Regiment Mis­ Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the souri 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 Philip Setzer, late of Company K, Fifty-second Regi­ The name of Amos H. Stevenson, · late of Company E, Forty-second ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of thnt he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William G. Hickel, late of Company K, Eleventh Regi­ The name of George K. Redmond, late of Company F, Twentieth ment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of David G. Foose, late of Company E, First Bat.talion The name of Jacob L. Kennamer, late of Capt. John B. Kennamer's Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate company. .Alabama Scouts and Guides, and pay him a pension at the of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $12 per month. The name of Sidney C. Early, late of Fourth Battery, Wisconsin · The name of Samuel E. Norris, late of Company B, Sixteenth Regi­ Volunteer Light .Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 ment Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and _pay him a pension at the rate per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. '.rhe name of Edward Durand, late of Company B, One hundred and The name of Nelson Labarge, late of Company D, Twelfth Regiment eighth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and Company G, Eight­ Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 eenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the 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 Metzger, late principal musician and sergeant­ The name of John Woodruff, late of Company H, Fifteenth Regiment major, Fifty-first Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. is now receiving. The name of Griffith Nelson, late of Company C, Eighty-ninth Regi­ The name of Elbridge H. Benham, late of Company I, Thirty-eighth ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $24 pei" month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Abner C. Arnold, late of Company D, Seventh Regiment, The name of Thomas .J. Abbott, late first lieutenant Company I and Company E, One hundred and sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Forty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now ·re­ of that he is now receiving. ceiving. The name of Owen C. Morris, late of Company E, Second Regiment The name of William Pearce, late of Comnany K, Sixth Regiment, Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteer Infantry, ·and pay him a pension at and Company K, Fourth Regiment.i. Kentucky- Volunteer Infantry, an.d the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pay him a pension at the rate of '1>30 per month in lieu of that he is The name of James L. B. Auten, late of Company C, Fifteenth Regi­ now receiving. ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Henry Gunderman, late of Company H, Twenty-third $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Regiment Illinois 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 John A. Black, late captain Company B, Fifty-sixth The name of George R. Church, late of Company G, Twenty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen.siori at Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin~. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John C. Kinley, late unassigned, Twenty-sc::'.ond Regi­ '!'he name of Simeon E. Foust, late of Company D, One hundred and ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate fiftieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. sioa at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 'l'be name of James Dodds, late captain Company D, One hundred The name of Abraham C. Brady, late of Company B, Sixty-fourth and seventy-seventh Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now of $3\> per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving. 'Ibe name of Maurice L. Whiteside, late first lieutenant Companies I The name of Sarah Brown, widow of Sbadrack W. Brown, late of anli D, Fifty-second Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Infantry Company D, One hundred and seventy-sixth Regiment New York Volun­ and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he teer Infantry, and pay her n pension at the rate of $20 per month in is now receiving. . lieu of that she is now receiving. XLV--75 ill86 CONGRESSIONAL "REOORD-ROUSEr JANUAR"Y 28,

Tbe name of John M. Young, late' of Company F, One hundred a-nd The name of. Ripley C. Whitcomb1 Ia.te of Comp:rny F, First Regiment twenty-fourth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him' a. Ma:ine Volunteer: Cavalry, and pay him a pension 8t the rate of $30 per pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu: of that he is now l'eccivlng. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James J. Decker, late of Company K., Fifteenth Regi­ The name- of- Martin; Lawler, late of Company K, One hundred and ment New Jer.sey Volunteer Infantry, and pay-him a pension at the· rate eighty-fifth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that be is now receiv­ 'l'he name of Theodore Van Etten, late ot Company H; · Sixty-first - ing. Regiment New Yorlt Volunteer Infantry, :md pay him a pension at the The name of William Ir. Ship, late of Company G, Eighth Regiment rate of 30 per mon-th in lieu of that he is now receiving. New York Heavy Volunteer Artillery, and pay him a pension at the The name of William H. Blackburn, late of Company F ,. Third· Regi­ rate of $30 per·month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment North Carolina Volunt eer Mounted Infantry, and pay him a pen­ The name of Edward N. Durning, late of eompany D, Forty-seventh' sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now· l'eceiv1ng. Regiment Illlnois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Henry Ransford, late of Company I, Eleventh Regiment. rate of 30 pev month in lieu of that he is' now recelvtng_ and Company E, Forty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volun~er Infantry, a~d The name of Hugh Thompson, late of Company A_,, Thirty-first Regl~ pay him a pension at the rate of 40 per month in lleU" of that be lS ment, and Company F, One hundred and ninety-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension. at the rate of $30 per noTh~e~i~~gof Oliver Cross, late of Company F, One hundred and month in Ileu of that he is now receiving. ninety-fifth Recriment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay- him a pension The name of 'l'homas W. Baily late of Company G, One hundred and at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receivl~g. . thirty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ The name of Willis E. Brown, late of Company El, Twenty-1nxth Regi­ sfon at the- rate of $24-"per month in lieu of that he is now receiving-. ment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the :i;ate Tbe name of Benjamin F. Laughlin1 late of Company B, •.rwenty-fifth of ~ 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of J ohn S. Edgar., late of Company B, Thirty-first Regi­ of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment, and Company A, Eighty-second Regiment, Pennsylvarua Volunt~er · The name of Peter Latimer, late of Company D, Elghtleth Regiment Infantry, and pay him. a. pension at the rate ot $24· per month in lieu New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 0 $30 per month in· lie~ of that he is now receiving. of ~:!tn~!s· 0~ r0~cc~~torn, late of Company H, One hundred. and The name of Geo r ~e- F. Derr, fote of Company I, First Regiment forty-fourth Regiment New: York Vo~un~er Infantry, and pay ~1~ a Potomac Home Brigade Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24. per month m heu of that be is.now rece1vmg. pension at tbe rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now recP.iving. The name of John Bain, late of Company F, First Regiment Po~omac The name of George W. Clark, jr., late of Jrourtb Regiment Michigan Home Brigade Maryland Volunteer Infantr , .and pay hii;n .a. pens1on at Volunteer Cavalry, and first lieutenant Com:iany M, Fourth Regiment the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he 1s now receiving. · Michigan Volunteer Cavalry~ and pay him ~ '.Pension at the rate of $24 The name of Loren Phillips, late of Company D, One hundred. and per· montli in lieu of tlrat he is now receiving. fifty-fourth Reo-iment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay brm a The name of Perry G. Russell, late of Company- H, First l\eglment pension at the ~ate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now rece.iving. Alabam:r. and Tennessee Independent Regiment. Vidette Volunteer Cav­ 'l'he name of Edward A. O'Connor, la.:te of Company A, Eighty­ alry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 24 per month in lieu of fourth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and Company A, Four­ that be is now receiving. teenth Regiment New York State ~~ia Infa~try, a?-d pay hi~ ~ pc.n­ The name of William. T. McGowan, late of Company H, Sixth Regi­ sion :tt the rate of $30 per month· m lieu of. tliat he is- now rece1v1?g· ment, ancL Company H, Fourth· Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, The name of Hiram Ho.,.ge, late of Company El, Sixtieth RegIIDent and pay him a pension at the ra'te of 24. per month in lieu of that he Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay hiJ? a pension a.t the· rnte of :30 per is- now receiVing. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name o! Clarence S. Sawtell, late of Company H, Third Regi­ The name of A.Iva C. Bristow, late of Comp~y D, One h~ndred an? ment Wisconsin , Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a. vension at the twenty-seventh Regiment, and Co~pany B, .Fifty-fifth: Regiment, llll­ rate of $24 per month in lieu of that lie is now receiving, nois Volunteer Infantry, and pay hii;n a pens1on at the rate of $24 per The name of Benjamin G. Ashcraft, late of Company F; Fifty-second' month in lieu of that he is now receiving; •Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, ana pay him a... pension at the The name of William S. Proctor, late of Company A, lirlg~ty-sevent:h rate of $30· per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Re.,.iment IUinols Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension. at tlie The name of Henry E. Hubble, late of Company F, Nlnety-seventn rate of $30 per month In lieu of that he is now receiving. . Regiment Indiana Volunteer InfantFy, and One hundred and eighty­ The name of Rhesa G. Van Cleef, late oi Company A, Twenty-eighth seventh Company, First Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, lihd pay h~ a pension at the rate a pension at the rate of $24 per month in· lieu of· that lle is now re• of 24 per month in ti.en of that he is now receiving-. The name of Allen Foster, late of Company :ID, Fourth Regiment ceiving. The name of Robert B~ Rhodes, late of Company D, Twelfth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, ~nd pay hi.J;n .a pension at the rate of Missouri Volnnteer ea-vafry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 30 per month in lieu of tha"t he l.S now rece1vmg. per month in. lieu of that he is now receiving. · · The name of Adam Turnbull, late of Company E, Seventy-fourth The na:me of Cliristlan P. Bechtel, late of Company L, Fifteenth Regi­ Reaiment Illinois Volunteer l.nL'tntry, and pay him a pension at the ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, 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 receiving. The name of David D. Mcllbattan, late of Company_G, One hundred The name of Levi" Boswell, late of Company A, Eighth Regiment· Cali­ and forty-eighth Regiment Penpsylvania Volunte~r Infantry, and pay f-0rnia V-olunteer' Infantry, and pay hlm a pension at the rate of $24 him a pension at the rate of 24 per. month in lleu of that he is n.ow per month in lien of. that he is now receiving. : receiving. The name of John Becker, late of Company G, One hundred' and sev-­ The name of Thomas T. Tuxford, helpless: and dependent child of enty-third Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, a.tld pay him a pen· John Tuxford late of Companies F and .A;-. Seventy_-eigh,th' Regiment sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of. that he is now receiving. Pennsylvania 'volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Isaac Hust, late of Company F, One hundred and forty­ $12 per month. . third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry~ and pay him a. pension The name of Adam Hetrick, late of Compn.ny C, ::;eventy-eighth Regi- at the rate of $24 per month in lieu o! that he is now- receiving. ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, a~d pay him. a. pension at the The name of: Alfred R. Tomlinson, late of Company H, One bnndr rate of $30 per month in lieu of thftt he 1s now rece1vmg. . and eighteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay The name of David Williams, late of Compn.ny L, Elleventh. B.eg1ment him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him n pension at the rate receiving. of $24- per month in Lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Joseph H. Kent late of Company K, Eleventh Regiment The name of Frederick Shady, late unassigned, Two hundred and Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pa-y him a pen~ion at the rate . third Regiment, and Company B, Seventy-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Volunteer Infantry, and pay him ~ .Pension at the rate of $24 per The name of James L. Strain, late of Company A, Eighty-third Regi­ month in lieu of that he is now receivmg: ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Frank S. Kelley, late ot Company D,. Twenty-l:!econd $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. Reo-iment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Hiram Stutllebean, late of Company F, Forty-second the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Reaiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him n. pension n.t the The name of Gertrude ID. Snook, widow of Dunbar Snook, late of rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Company E Second Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry, and The name of Abram G• . Anderson, late of Company K, Twentieth pay her a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that. she is Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him !1- pen.slon at the now receiving: Provided, That in the event of the death of Elizabeth rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receivmg. Snook helpless and dependent daughter of said Dunbar Snook, the ad­ The name of Andrew Love, late of Company F, Forty-fourth Regi­ ditional pension herein granted shall cease and determine. The name of Gersbom C. Hires, late of Company D, Tenth Regiment ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay hJm a pension at the rate ot $30 p-er month in lieu o~ that he is now recefvino-. New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and hospital steward, United States The name of Edwin B. Sanford, late of Company B, Thirteenth Regi­ ·Army, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of ment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension a.t the that he is now receiving. The name of James V. D. Ten Eyck, late of Company A, Thirtieth· rate ot $30 per month. in lleu of thn.t he is now receiving. Reaiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a: pension at the '.rhe name of Louisa D. Smith, widow of Leslie Smith, late captain, rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. First Regiment United States Infantry, and lieutenant-colonel Twen­ The name of James Wolfe, late of Company F, Second Regimen·t tieth Regiment United States Infantry, and pay her a pension at the Pennsylvania Volunteer I.nfantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of rate- of $30 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu ot that he is now receiving. The no.me of Margaret S. Merritt, widow of Robert B. Merrittt late The name of Albert A. Corliss, late ot Compan;v E, Eighth Regiment colonel Seventy-fifth Regiment New York Volunteer In!antryi ana PIIY Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension: at the rate of $24 her a pension at the. rafe of $30 per month in lieu of that SJle is nqw per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving. The name of Alexander J. Souden late of Company F, Forty-ninth The name of N. Raymond Griffith, late of Company F,- Seventeenth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the rate o! $24 per month in lieu of that lie is now receiving. The name of Mahlon F. Downing, Iate of Company B, Seventh Regi­ The name of Robert McPhillamey, late of Company H, One hundred ment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the i:ate and forty-third Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of WiUiam J. Hfckg, late of Company D, Slxteenth Regi­ The name of James Ligget, late of Company A, Eleventh Regiment ment New York: Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Ohlo Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension, at the rate of $30 per ot $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. month in lleu ot that he ls now receiving. The name of Martin Edwards, late of Company K, Fourteentli· Regi­ The name of James R. Midcap, late of Company ID, Twenty-second­ ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and· pay· him a pension at the rate Regiment Indiana. Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the of $30 per month in lieu of that he is- now receiving. rate of $24 per month In lleu o! that he ls now receiving. The name of Slluble Barton, late of· Company C, Eighteenth Regi~ Tlie name of. Esther Lake,. widow of Nicholas Lake, late unas11lgned, ment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him n. pension at' the. rate; Sixth Regiment Michigan Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay her a o! $30 per month "in lieu of that be is now receiving. pension at the rate of $12 per month. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1187

The name of isaac Ditrendarter, late of · company · H, One hundred H. R. 11762. Elbridge H. Benham ; and seventy-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Drafted Militia, and pay him H. R. 11892. Thomas J. Abbott; a pension at the rate of $24 per month In lieu of that be ls now re­ B. R. 11970. William Pearce ; ceiving. H. R. 12071. Henry Gunderman ; The name of i;harles A. l\Iurray, alias Lewis E. Murray, late of Com­ H. R. 12252. George R. Church ; pany A, Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him H. R. 12501. Simeon E. Foust ; a _p~nsion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now re­ H. R. 12509. Abraham C. Brady ; ce1vmg. H. R. 12585. Maurice L. Whiteside; The name of William Harris, late of Company H, One hundred and H. R. 12671. Charles H. Trumble; fi_rst Reirlment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ H. R. 12751. John N. Bingham; sion at the rate of $:.:!4 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 12773. James N. McClellan; The name of Joseph M. Kifer, late of Company H, One hundred and H. R. 12789. Henry Basewitz ; fifty.fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a H. R. 128!Jl. Joseph W. J enkins; pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. H. R. 12914. Ambrose D. Babcock; This bill ls a substitute for the following House hills referred to the H. R. 12944. Gilbert A. Sackett; Committee on Invalid Pensions : H. R. 12982. William W. Crane; H. R. 13010. Hannah A. Canfield, now Arnett; II. R. 378. John Goins; H. R. 13046. George S. Mann ; H. R. 3 7. John Fleming; H. R. 13120. Carl H. Walbridge; H. R. 412. David P . Iloyd; H. R. 13131. Cornelius F. Shoemaker ; H. Il. 786. Henry M. Warren; H. R. 13139. Franklin Koontz ; H. Il. 939. Sarah J. Sherman; H. R. 13142. John C. Brown; II. R. 9!J3. Josephus C. Dine; H. R. 13199. James N. Hyatt; H. R. 112G. Pel'ry C. Brake; H. R. 13200. Isaac N. Campbell ; H. R. 1247. John T. Beem; H. R. 13201. Samuel H. Fergurson; H. R. 1306. John McGuire; H. R. 13222. Weller Bishopp; H. R. 1518. George W. Davis; H. R. 13223. Daniel Chamberlin; B. R. 1522. William A. Hill; H. R. 13235. Philip Setzer ; H. R. 1523. Mathias Hicks; H. R. 13399. William G. Hickel ; H. R. 1524. John Love; H. R. 13G28. David G. Foose; H. R. 1606. Morris McGlasson; H. R. 13631. Sidney C. Early ; H. R. 1748. Nathan Kaseman; H. R. 13663. Edward Durand ; H. R. 1770. John Franklin Hobbs; H. R. 13689. John Woodrutl'; H. R.1771. John T. Young; H. R. 13700. Griffith Nelson; H. R. 1786. Catherine Brill ; H. R. 13776. Abner C. Arnold; H. R.1848. Jeremiah D. Woodard; H. R. 13794. Owen C. Morris; H. R. 186!). Charles L. Stevenson; H. R.13801. ' James L. B. Anten; B. R. 1904. William Bivens; II. R. 13!)56. John A. Black; H. R. l!Jll. John W. Carmony; H. R. 13!)57. John C. Kinley; H. R. 203G. Jasper N. Johnson; I-I. R. 13971. James Dodds; H. R. 2313. Clay Doolittle; H . R. 14013. Sarah Brown ; H. R. 2346. William I. Milligan; H. R. 14024. John M. Young; H. R. 2355. Michael Fetter ; H. R . 14028. James J. Decker; H. R. 2465. James Wardwell Newton; II. R. 1402!J. Theodore Van Etten; H. R. 2604. Joseph Lapham; H. R. 14112. William H. Blackburn; H. k. 26G4. Forrest M. Lentz ; H. R. 14128. Henry Ransford; H. R. 2866. Robert R. Marsh ; H. R. 14132. Oliver Cross ; H. R. 3368. James R. Austin; H. R. 14184. Willis E. Brown; H. R. 3392. Noble Butler; H. R. 14208. John S. Edgar; H. R. 3462. Helen E. Green ; H. R. 3487. James H. Shafer; H. R.14340. John C. Thorn; H. R. 3519. Sidney Windecker; H. R. 14369. John Bnin; H. R. 3693. Perry W. Shaffer ; H. R. 14459. Loren Phillips; H. R. 3705. George A. Rutter; H. R. 14462. Edward A. O'Connor; H. R. 3722. Christian Voelker; H. R.14694. Hiram Hogge; H. R. 3779. William Bair ; H. R. 14738. Alva C. Bristow; H. R. 4104. Arab C. Kimball; H. R. 14742. William S. Proctor; H. R. 4164. James II. Murphy; II. R. 14898. Rhesa G. Vansley; H. R. 4202. James Hamrick; H. R. 14970: Allen Foster ; H. R. 4255. Ralph M. Musser; H. R. 14974. Adam Turnbull; H. R. 4352. Matthew N. Chappell, H. R. 15054. David D. Mcllbattan; H. R. 4903. Lewis G. Hughes; H. R. 15056. Thomas T. Tuxford; H. R. 4904. Fillmore M. Brist ; H. R. 15057. Adam Hetrick ; H. R. 4975. Isaac Kibler; H. R. 15058. David Williams ; H. R. 528!J. Samuel C. Burkholder; H. R. 15118. Frederick Shady ; H. R. 5329. John H. Sutton; H. R. 15125. Frank S. Kelley ; H. R. 5459. Robert Hart ; H. R. 15377. Gertrude E. Snook; H. R. 5479. James Lee; H. R. 15378. Gershom C. Hires: H. R. 5753. James Emmens; H. R. 15380. James V. D. Ten Eyck; H. R. 5755. Frederick Smith; H. R. 155G5. James Wolfe; H. R. 58fl0. Simeon Flory; H. R. 15573. Albert A. Corliss; H. R. 6088. Richard C. Swainston; H. R. 15719. Alexander J. Souden; H. R. 6116. Rudolph Geisiu; H. R. 15750. Mahlon F. Downing; H. R. 6173. Levi W. Bevis; H. R. 15913. William J. Hick&; H. R. 6613. Allen Hall ; H. R. 15926. Martin Edwards; H. R. 6634. William Ray; H. R. 15984. Shuble Barton ; H. R. 6661. Berintha L. Barnes; H. R. 16062. Ripley C. Whitcomb ; H. R. 6723. Albert S. Kinsloe ; H. R. 16077. Martin Lawler; H. R. 6833. John T. Starkey; H. R. 16092. William H. Ship: H. R. 6990. Miles P. Cook ; H. R. 16117. Edward N. Durning; H. R. 7042. Morgan Gulick; H. R. 16118. Hugh Thompson; H. R. 7209. Julius Lane ; H. R. 16122. Thomas W. Baily ; H. R. 7258. Samuel T. Cole; H. R. 16123. Benjamin F. Laughlin; H. R. 726!). Newton W. Botts; H. R. 16140. Peter Lattimer; H. R. 7290. Alexander Ward; H. R. 16232. George F. Derr; H. R. 7413. Samuel McKeague; H. R. 16252. George W. Clark, jr. ; H. R. 7447. Lewis C. Edmonds; H. R. 16272. Perry G. Russell ; H. R. 7486. George A. Earle; H. R. 16285. William T. McGowan; H. R. 7893. Samuel V. Bocook; H. R. 16290. Clarence S. Sawtell; H. R. 7958. William H. Bentley~ H. R. 16487. Benjamin G. Ashcraft ; H. R. 79!J3. James L. Prouty; H. R. 16510. Henry E. Hubble ; II. R. 81:l9. Hannah M. Batt; H. R. 16521. Robert B. Rhodes ; H. R. 8171. .Jabez Goodman; H. R. "16627. Christian P. Bechtel; H. R. 83G7. Thomas W. Hall; H. R. 16667. Levi Boswell; H. R. 8608. Ezra R. l\Ioore ; H. R.16672. John Becker; H. R. 86:'J5 ..Tames H. Thomas; H. R.16697. Isaac Hust; H. R. 8734. .T ohn Sears ; H. R. 16709. Alfred R. Tomlinson; H. R. 8!J44. Benjamin F. Mossgrove; H. R. 16740. Joseph H. Kent; H. R. 9001. John Flanigan; II. R. 16767. James L. Strain ; H. R. 9266. John McLane; II. R. 16785. Hiram Stufilebeau ; Il. R. 9268. Hamilton A: Anderson; H. R. 16 11. Abram G. Anderson; H. R. 9338. Leander Snell ; H. R. 16869. Andrew Love : H. R. 9683. James L. Dungan; H. R. 16994. Edwin B. Sanford ; H. R. 9788. Alonzo G. Akers ; H. R. 16995. Louisa D. Smith: H. R. 9924. Adam l\f. Working; H. R.17313. Margaret Fowler Merritt; H. R. 10246. Mary C. Lloyd ; H. R. 17325. N. Raymond Griffith; H. R. 10379. Sarah H. Lieb ; H. R. 17357. Robert :McPhillamy; Il. R. 10410. Nick Muench; H. R. 17382. James Ligget; H. R. 10625. Amos H. Stevenson; H. R. 17463. James R. Midcap; H. R. 10838. George K. Redmond ; H. R. 17490. Esther Lake; H. R. 10981. Jacob L. Kennamer; H. R. 17496. Isaac Dift'endarfer; H. R. 11315. Samuel E. Norris ; H. R. 17555. Charles A. Murray ; H. R. 11569. Nelson La Barge ; H. R. 17556. William Harris; and H. R. 11652. William Metzger; H. R. 17652. Joseph M. Kifer. 1-188 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 28_,

l\Ir. SULLOW.A.Y. Mr. Speaker, on page 6, line 20~ I moye to The name of James A. Lindsay, late of Company C, Seventy-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the strike out the initial "P" and insert the initial ".R," so that rate of $24 per month ln lieu of that he is now rec iving. it will read " Robert R. :Marsh." The name of Albert Haneke, late of Company D, F'ifty-fitth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at tho rate of $2-! 'l'he question was taken, nnd the amendment was agreed to. per month in Ueu of that he is now rece1ving. Mr. SULLOW.A.Y. l\fr. Speaker, -0n page 17, line 24, I move The name of George W. Welsh, late of Company K, Eighty-seventh to strike out "twenty-four" and insert" thirty" in lieu thereof Re.,.iment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now L'eceiviur.r. the beneficiary being Nelson Latn1rge. ' The name -0f William H. Shields, lnte of Company B, Twelfth Regi­ The question was taken, and the amendment was agreed to. ment Kansas V<>lunteer Infu.ntry, and pay him a pension at the rate to be of 30 per month in lieu of thnt he is now receiving. The bill as amended was ordered engrossed and read The nnme of John N. Ifanna, late of Companies E and D, One hun­ a third time, was read the third time, and passed. dred and seventeenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pn.y The next business on the Private Calendar was the bill (H. It. him a pension at tlte rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now 19278) receiving. · granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain The name of Georgia A. Brooks, widow of Edwin H. Brooks, late soldiers and sailors of the civil war, and certain widows and of Eleventh Independent Battery, New York Volunteer Light Artillery, dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors. and pay her a pension at the rate of 12 per month. The name of Phoebe Miller. helpless n.Dd dependf?nt child of Abraham The Clerk read as follows : Miller, late of Company E, Thirty-sixth Regiment Ohlo Volunteer In­ Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the '.Interior be and he is fantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of 12 per month. hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll' subject to The ntlme of Howard Haworth, late of Company C, Sixth Regiment the provisions and limitations of the pension laws- ' Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of Janette Talcott Keese, former widow of Russell Talcott per month "in lieu of that he is now receiving. late of Company G, Forty-fourth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer In: The name of Edwin R. Hill, late of Company E, Twelfth Regiment fan try, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and Company A, Forty-fourth Regiment The name of William S. Shupe. late of Company H, First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James T. Foster, late of Company E, Fourteenth Regi­ The name of George W. Hayden, late of Company B, First Regiment ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pen ion at the rate of Oregon Volunteer Cavalry, 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 Alton E. Cobb, late of Company E, Ninth Re"'iment, and The D;ame 9f Edward Pfrang, late of ComP!llY D, Thirteenth Regi­ Company K, Second Regiment, New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, ment Wisconsm Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he of $24 peL' month in lieu of that he is now receiving. is now receiving. The name of Milton B. Bishop, late of Company A, Seventieth Regi­ The name of Nathan R. Mathis, late of Company M, Seventeenth ment, and Company C, Thirty-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer In­ Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of that he is now receiving. The name of Charles T. Jacobs, late of Company F, Eleventh Regi­ The name of Charles W. Clark, late of Company El, Fifth Rea-iment ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of 20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Charles W. Merriam, late of Company D, Eighteenth The name of Henry Wegner, late of Company C, Thirty-fifth Regi­ Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment :Massachusetts 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 George C. Presley, late of Company D, Twentieth Regi­ The name of James H. Robeson, late of Company K, Fourteenth Re""i­ ment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and Company B, Fourteenth Re"'i­ ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate "'of ment Veteran Reserve Corps, 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 Alvin Galley, late of Company F, One hundred and The name of Nancy Sipe, widow of Martin V. Sipe, late of <:!ompany twenty-fourth Regiment, and Company B, Thirty-third Regiment Illi­ C, Fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry. and pay her a pension nois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $20 per at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving: Pro­ month in lieu of that he is now receiving. -i:ided, That in the event of the death of Amanda Sipe, helpless nnd de­ pendent daughter of said Martin V. Sipe, the additional pen ion herein The name of Sarah E. Averill, former widow of .Joseph Averill late granted shall cease and determine : And proi:irlell 11'rther, That in the of Company H, Twenty-first Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry' and event of the death of Nancy Sipe the name of said ...:\manda Sipe shall pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. ' be placed on the pension roll, subject to the pro>i ions and limitations The ~ame of :Samuel J. Miller,_ late of Company G, First Regiment of the pension laws. at the rate of $12 per month from ruid after the Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the date of death of said Nancy Sipe. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of :Michael Carney, late o! U. S. S. Freeborn, United States T~e name of Joseph Conlon, late captain Company K, Eighty-ninth 1 avy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a he that he is now receiving. pen ion at the rate of 24 per month in lieu of that is now receivin.-r The name of Elisha Stearns, late of Company A., Seventh Regiment The n3:me of Jo.hn L. Young, late first lieutenant Company G, Sixty~ Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the per month in lieu of that he is Dow recehing. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James A. Butt, late of Company K. Eighty-first Regi­ T ~'he name o.f William 0. Daniels, late of Company E, Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension .at the ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin"'. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Madison J. Morgan, late of Company D, Forty-seventh The name of Henr~ Bossler, late of Company I, One hundred and Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infanh·y, and pay him a pension at the eleventh Reg:iment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the rate of :i;36 per month in lieu of that he is now receivino- The name of John H. Kimmel, late of Company Sixty-seventh Regi­ T!J.e name .of William Green, late of Company F, Tw~ty-fourth n, Reglillent Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen ion 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 Edward Condon, late of Company A Fourth Re .. iment 'l'he name of Dwight N. Wright, late of Company D, First Regiment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him' a pension at the New York (Lincoln) Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $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 Isaac M. Martz, late of Com:i;iany D, Twenty-sixth Regi­ The name of Enoch W. Lawrence, la.te of Twenty-eighth Independent ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Battery, New York Volunteer Light Artillery, 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 be is now receiving. The name of Wµitam Ward, late of Company C, Third Regiment New The name of Alexander Hanchett, late of Company D, Ninth Regiment York Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of Michigan 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 John Lees, late of Company G. First Regiment Wisconsin The nam.e of John Jones, late of Com~any H, Seventh Regiment Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 Pennsylvama Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of per month in lieu of that he is now receiv:ing. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of George Radell late of Companies I and A, Thirtieth The name of H~nry S. Walls, late of Company H, Third Regiment Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Poto~ac Home Brigade Maryland V

The name of Washington W. Gardner, late captain Companies A and pension at the rate of $24 per month In lieu of that he ls now re· D, One hundredth Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, ceiving. and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is The name of William Harton, late of Company F, One hundred and now receiving. forty-fourth Regiment Ohio National Guard Infantry, and pay him a The Il!lme 0f Thomas N. E~therton, late. of Company B, Twenty­ pension at the rate o! $24 per month in lieu of that he is now re­ fourth Ucy;imcnt Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a: pension at ceiving. the rate of . 30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Barney Warrell, late of Company C, Twenty-second The name of James De Laney, late of Company B, One hundred and Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate thirty-second Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and Slgn.al Corps, of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. United States Army, and pa.y him a penslon at the rate of $24 per The name of Henry S. Rotes) late of Company A, Fifty-third Regi­ month in lieu of that he i"S now receiving.. ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of John S. weet, late of Company El, Forty-sixth Regi­ rate of 30· per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment New York -Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension. at the rate The name of James M. Steel, late of Company A, Eighty-seventh of . 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ReiP,ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and Company A, First Regiment The name of Elroy L. Kemp, helpless and dependent child of Austin Umted States Veteran Volunteer Engineers, and pay him a pension Kemp, late of Second Independent Battery Vermont Volunteer Light at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Artillery, and Fir'St Independent Company Vermont Volunteer Heavy The name of John 0. Perry, late of Company D, Eighth Regiment Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per month. Alaine Volunteer Infantry/ and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of Richard H. O'Neale, late of Company A, Second Regi­ per mQnth in lieu of that ne is now receiving. ment United States · Sharpshooters, and unassigned battalion, First The name of Thomas Burgess, late of Company A, Seventy-sixth Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that 11e is now receivin"". rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Frederika Schimanski, widow of 1'"'rederick W. Schi­ The name of Clark Kimball, late o:f Company H, First Regiment New manski, late of Company D, :B'orty-sirth Regiment New York Volunteer Hampshire Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu rate of 24 per mQnth in lieu of that he is now receiving. ot that she is now receiving. The name of Guilford D. Tayloi·, late of Company C, Third Regiment The name of Samuel Johnson, late of Company D, One hundred and Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24' fifty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ 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 Peter F. Baker, late of Company H, Thirty-second Regi­ The name of George Ilutchi on, late of Company F, Sixth Regiment ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of David C. Brewer, late second lieutenant Company H, The name of Samuel Hamilton late of Company I, Fifth Regiment Fifty.first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of William J. Elliott, late of Company r, Fifty-ninth Regi­ The name of Abia C. Miller, late of Company H, Ninety-seyenth Regi­ ment Massachusetts Volunteer Infanh·y, and pay him a pension at the ment Pennsylva.nla. 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 be is now receiving_ The name of Charles W. Stroud, late of Ninth Independent Battery, The name of Jeremiah Robbins, late of Company E, Fiftieth Regi­ Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment New York Volunteer Engineers, and pay him a pension at the $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of • 24 per month in lleu of that he is now receiving_ The name of William J'. Spurlock, late of Company K, Seventh The name of George A. Mallory, late of Company A, One hundred Regiment West Virginia ¥olunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension and fourteenth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pension at the rate- of 40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving-. The name of Neil Cartwright, late of Company H, Ninth Regiment The name of Marvin A. Smith, late of Companies H and K, Eighth Indiana Volunteer- Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry, 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 Julia M. Farr, former widow of John LL Banks late '11le name of John N. Bonness, late of Company A, Ninth Regiment, of Company G, Fifty-second Regiment Iassachusetts Militia Infantry and Company A, Third Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. ' pay him a pension at the rate o! $24 per month in lieu of that he is The name of Benjamin P. Behm, late of Company L, Ninth Recriment now receiving. Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of John Kroell, late of Company B, Fifty-fourth Regiment of ~ 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Charles H. Stanton, late of First Battery, New York 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of John Shaw, late of Company I, Thirty-sixth Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Charles H. Smith, late unassigned, Seventh Regiment $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Maine Volunteer Infantry, and First Regiment Maine Veteran Volunteer The name of Benjamin Woodney, lu.te of Company D, One hundred Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu and ninety-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Ipfantry, and pay of that he is now receiving. him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of Eliezer P. Dickey, late of Company K, Fortieth Regi­ receiving. ment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Albert A. Stowe, late of Company A, Eighth Regiment of $20 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 James P. Woods, late of Company H, One hundred and per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. fifteenth, and Company I, One hundred and eighty-eighth Reo-iment, The name of James A. Betts, late captain of Company A, and lieu­ Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $'24 per tenant-colonel Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is The na.me of George W. White, late of Company K, One hundred now receiving. and eighty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay hiln a pen­ The name of Mark Whiteaker, late captain Company G, One hundred sfon at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and Twentieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of Leverett A. Fox, late of Company I, One hundred and pen ion at the rate of $66 per month in lieu of that he is now re­ tenth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension ceiving. at the rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Calvin Warren, late of Company B, Seventh Regiment The name of Laura E. Narbis, widow of Edward Narbis, late ot Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of U. S. S. Virginia and Princess Royal, United States Navy, .and pay her $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. a pension at the rate of $12 per month: Provided, however, That such The name of Joseph W. Snave, late of Company El, Seventy-sixth pension shall cease upon proof that the sailor is living. Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, :md pay him a pension at The name of Charles F. Reed, late of Company C, One hundred and' the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. twenty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, u~d pay him The name of Charles A. Morse, late of Company B, Captain South­ a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now er's Marine battalion, Missouri Home Guards, and pay him a pension receiving. at the rate of $24 per month in lieu o! that he is now receiving. The name of Abraham McVay, late of Company H Seventy-third The name of John Wallace Webb, late of Company A, Forty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now reeeiving. The name of. Ross M. Stephens, late of Company E, Fifty-fifth Regi­ The name of John B. Graham, late of Battery C, First Battalion ment Pennsylvania Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 (Knapp's) Pennsylvania Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a 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 Martin Scott, late of Company A, First Regiment Maine The name of llilton Spry, late of Company D, Fifty-seventh Regi­ Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 ment Indiana 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 Lewis B. Witter, late of Company C, One hundred and The name of John Whitaker, late of Company A, Twenty-seventh forty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the sion 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 Marion D. Printz, late of Company C, Thirty-sixth The name of Martin Minster, late of Company A, Third Regiment Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate o! 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 Zachary T. Miller late of Company G, One hundred The name of Charles Cleveland, late of Company G, Thirty-ninth and ninety-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the pension at the rate of 40 per month in lieu of that he is now re­ rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ceiving. The name of Christopher Jacobi, late of Company G, Twenty-eightlt The name o! Combs Hendrickson, alias George Hankin, late of Com­ Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at: pany K, Fifty-ninth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, 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 is now The name of U!vi Morris, late of Company I One hundredth Regi­ receiving. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Company i', Twenty-second Regi­ The name of George Kearnes, late of Company F, Fifteenth Regi­ ment Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate ot ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry.. and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. :irno per month in lieu of that ne is now reeefving. The name of James M. Beiler, late second lieutenant Company B, The name of Edward P. Porter, late of Company C, One hundred One hundred and ninety-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and and eighty-eighth Regiment New York Volunteer In.1'antry, and pay pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be ls now now receiving. receiving. The name of Walilo J. Medearis, late of Company G, Second Regi­ The name of Francis T. Corbet, late of Company F, Second Regfment m~nt Iowa Volunteer Infantryh and pay him a pension at the rate of Potomac Home Brigade Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a .$24 per month in lieu of that e is now receiving. 1190 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 28,

The name of Stephen P. Petteys, late of Company C, Ninth Regiment The name of Francis Durbin, late of Company A, Eighty-second Regi­ Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John Larock, late of Company G, Twelfth Regiment New The name of William H . H. Wright, late of Company H, One hun­ York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 dred and sixty-seventh Regiment Ohio National Guard Infantry. and per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is The name of Alfred T. Feay, late of Company F, Forty-eighth Regi­ now receiving. ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Alexander McLane, late of Company D, Eighth Regiment of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 The name of William II. Foster, alias William Erwin late of Com­ per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pany F, Second Regiment Colorado Volunteer Infantry, 'and Company The name of A. Sidney Alden, late major and assistant adjutant­ D, Second Regiment Colorado Volunteer Cavah·y, and pay him a pen­ ~eneral, United States Volunteers, 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 ls now receiving. The name of John T. Wright, late of Company H, Fourth Regiment The name of John M. Swaim, late of Company A, Thirty-sixth Regi­ Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 24 ment, and Company H, Thirtieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he The name of Simon P. Dotson, late of Company E, Thirty-ninth Regi­ is now r eceiving. ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Margaret Perry, widow of William Perry, late of Com­ of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pany D, Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay 'l'he name of William R. Harpet', late of Company D, One hundred her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now and ninety-sixth Regiment Ohio Yolunteer Infantry, and pay him a receiving. pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Joseph W. Gale, late of Company F, Eighth Regiment The name of Dora K Flaherty, widow of James Flaherty, late of Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $20 per Company K, Twenty-1'ourth Regiment Connecticut Volunteet· Infantry month, the same to be paid him under the rules of the Pension Bureau and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lien of that she as to mode and times of payment without any deduction or rebate on is now receiving. account of former alleged overpayments or erroneous payments of The name of Lyman M. Sherwood, late of U. S. S. Saranac, United pension. • States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate o.1' $30 per month in The name of Edwin M. Locke, late of Company E, Twenty-ninth Regi· lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ot 'l'he name of Alfred Mason, late of Company K, Sixtieth Regiment $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Chauncey P. Rogers, late first lieutenant Company D, the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and colonel Eighty-third Regiment P ennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, The name of George W. Norton, late of Company B, Thirty-eighth and pay him a pension at the rate of ·30 per month in lieu of that he Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 'l'he name of William A. Mallory, late of Companies C and E, Eleventh The name of William W. Kibbe, alias William Kiblin. late of Com­ Regiment Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the pany B, Twenty-second Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia, and pay rate of $30 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 is now The name of Robert Kepner, late of Company G, Seventh Regiment receiving. Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per The name of John P. Tucker, late of Company C, Sixteenth Re"'i­ month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the r;te The name of David C. Miller, late of Company K, Sixth Regiment 01' 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Albert J. Simonds, late of Company F, Ninth Regiment $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate o.1' $30 'l'he name of George F . Goodell, late of Company I, Twenty-second per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Robert D. Burns, late of U. S. S. Ohio and Mercedita rate of . 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 pe~ The name of Charles E. Brown, late of Company C, li'iftieth Regiment month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Samuel R. Mahor, late of Company C, Fortieth Re"'i­ of S-HO per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate "of The !lame of Samuel P. Beck, late of Company B, Eleventh Regiment $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of Charles G. Manchester, late of Company D, Twenty­ per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. fifth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of William R. Hodgson, late of U. S. S. North Carolina, at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of 24 per The name of Mortimer 0. Rowe, late of Company I, Thirteenth Re"'i­ month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the r;te The name of Thomas J. Good, late of Company A, T enth Regiment of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of James Scott, late of Company L, Twenty-first Regi­ per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Thomas Greer, late of Company B, Fourth Regiment of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Hiram Brown, late of Company I, Eighth Regiment ·24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 The name of Van Stewart, late of Company C, Fifth Regiment Ten­ per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. nessee Volunteer Mounted Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Julius Fox, late of Company C, One hundred and ninth rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of Jacob Whitlock, late of Company B, First Regiment pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now re­ New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and unassigned, First Battalion Vet­ ceiving. eran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per The name of Joseph I. Mahar, late of Company F, Thirteenth Regi­ month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Franklin R. Rhoads, late of Company B, Two hundred $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. and fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of Giles Holt, late of Company E, Eighth Regiment Ten­ pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receh-ing. nessee Volunteer Mounted Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Francis Leffler, late of U. S. S. Princeton and Flag, of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $20 per The name of William F. Hinkle, late of Company F, Third Regiment month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Pennsylvania Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the The name of Lawrence Zimmer, late of Company D, Tenth Regiment, rate of 1$24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and Company F, Sixth Regiment, New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, The name of Charles F. Stark, late of Company B, First Regiment and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he Illinois Volunteer Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 is now r eceiving. . per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Mary Walls, widow of John W: Walls, late of Captain The name of George Allen, late of Company C, Third Regiment New Kennamer's Independent Company Alabama Scouts and Guides, and Hampshfre Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of George T. Kennamer, late of Captain Kennamer's In­ The name of George H. Follett, late of Company I, Seventh Regiment dependent Company Alabama Scouts and Guides, and pay him a pen­ Mas achusetts Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at the rate sion at the rate of $12 per month. of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Elijah McGinnis, late of Company F, Seventeenth Regi­ The name of Etta A. Richardson, widow of Irving Richardson, late ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him u pension at the rate of Company E, Fiftieth Regiment Massactusetts Volunteer Infantry, of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and pay bet• a pension at the rate of $12 per month. The name of Amos Penn, late of Company C, Thirty-eighth Regiment The name of James Thomas, lute of Company K, First Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of George S. Richardson, late of Company I, Eleventh The name of George Powelson, late of Company G, One hundred and Regiment Michigan Volunteer avalry, and pay him a pension at the tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. sion at the rate of 12 per month. The name of Thomas W. Dee, late acting third assistant en~lneer, 'l'he name of George Page, late of Company A, Fifty-second Regi­ nited States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per ment Wisconsin VolunteP.r Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate month in lieu of that he is now rec0iving. of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. T!Je name .of Horace C. Brintnall, !ate of Company G, Fifty-second The name of li'rank L. Stark, helpless and dependent child of Wesley Regiment Illmois Volunteer Infantry; and pay him a pension at the Stark, late of Company G, One hundred mid fiftieth Regiment Penn­ rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now rec:.> iving. sylvania VolunteP.r Infanh·y, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of William Hobbs, late of Company F, Forty-seventh Regi­ $12 per month. ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at the rate The nam~ of Robert McNabb, late of Company K, Twenty-third Regi­ of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Connecticut Volunte.er Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of William A. Smith, late of Company B, One hundred and rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. and pay ]Jim u The name of Ann E. :B'arley, widow of William C. Farley, late of pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. U. S. S. North Carolina and Shawsheen, United States Navy, and pay This bill is a substitute for the following House bills referred to her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now the Committee on Invalid Pensions : receiving. H. R. 559. Jannette Talcott Keese; The name of Henry C. Graham, late of Company C, Forty-sixth H. R. 867. William S. Shoupe; Regiment Indiana \olunteet• Infantry, and Sixteenth Independen t Bat­ H . R. 999. George W. Hayden ; tery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension a t the H . R . 1839. Edward Pfrang; rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now re~eiving. H. R. 1928. Milton B. Bishop ; --:::-_::-2 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. ill9I1

H. R. 2081. Charles W. Clark; H. R. 15539. Laura F. Narbis;: H. R. 2310. H nry Wegner; H. R. 15549. Charles F. Reed; H. R. 2399. James H. Robeson; H. R. 15610. Abraham McVay; H. R. 2532. Alvin Galley; H. R. 15732. Ross M. Stephens; H. R. 2615. Sarah E. Averill ; H. R. 15744. Martin Scott; H. R. 2911. Samuel J. Miller; H. R. 15746. John Whitaker; H. R. 3742. Joseph Conlon; H. R. 15750. Martin Minster ; H. R. 4195. John L. Young; H. R. 15788. Charles 0. Cleveland: H. R. 4410. William 0. Daniels;. H. R. 15789. Christopher Jacobi; H. R. 4613. Henry Bossler ; H. R. 15870. Levi Morris ; H . R. 4996. William Green ; H. R. 15893. James M. Beiler; H. R. 5201. Edward Condon ; H. R. 15894. Waldo J. Medearis; H. R. 5554. Isaac M. Martz ; H. R. 15980. Stephen P. Pettys;. H. R. 5664. William Ward ; H. R. 16130. John Larock; H. R. 6083. John Jones ; H. R. 16135. Alfred T. Feay; H. R. 6123. Henry S. Walls ; H. R. 16136. William H. Foster ; H. R. 6199. Aaron Elgin ; H. R. 16153. John T. Wright; H. R. 6206. John Purkapile; H. R. 16162. Simon P. Dotson ; H. R. 6210. David F. Hodges; H. R. 16180. William R. Harper ; H. R. 6489. James Mosier ; H. R. 16181. Dora K - Flaherty; H. R. 6581. Marcus- S. Burros; H. R. 16282. Lyman M. Sherwood; H. R. 6726. George W. Jenkins; H. R.16284 Alfred Mason; H. R. 7032. Frank Chase ; H. R. 16289. George W. Norton ; H. R. 7448. James A. Lindsay; H. R. 16419. William W. Klbby; H. R. 7878. Albert Haucke; H. R. 16496. John P. Tucker; H. R. 8722. George W. Welsh: H. R. 16626. Alfred J. Simonds; H. R. 8742. William H. Shields; H. R. 16628. Robert D. Burns ; H. R. 8877. John N. Hanna; H. R. 16696. Samuel R. Mahar; H. R. 9025. Georgia A. Brooks ; H. R. 16723. Charles G. Manchester; H. R. 9271. Phoebe Miller; H. R.16744. Mortimer P. Rowe; H. R. 9498. Howard Haworth; H. R. 16746. James Seott; H. R. 9598. Edwin R. Hill ; H. R. 16779. Hiram Brown ; H. R. 9688. James T. Foster; H. R.16783. Julius Fox; H. R. 9753. Alton E. Cobb: H. R. 16794. Joseph I. Mahar ; H. R. 9762. Nathan R. Mathis; H. R. 16795. Giles Holt; H. R. 9796. Charles T. Jacobs; H. R.16797. William F. Hinkle; H. R. 10043-. Charles W. Merriam: H. R. 16816. Charles F. Stark; H. R. 10051. George C. Presley ; · H. R. 16849. George Allen : H. R. 10117. Nancy Sipe ; H. R. 16850. George H. Follett ; H. R. 10224. Michael Carney ; H. R. 16940. Etta A. Richardson ; H. R. 10289. Elisha Stearns ; H. R. 16941. James Thomas; H. R. 10291. James A. Butt; H. R. 16950. George Powelson; H. R. 10361. Madison J. Morgan; H. R. 17011. George Page ; H. R. 10385. John H. Kimmel; H. R. 17041. Frank L. Stark; H. R. 10505. Dwight N. Wright; H. R. 17044. Robert McNabb; H. R.10593. Enoch W. Lawrence;­ H. R. 17127. Ann E. Farley; H. R. 10786. Alexander C. Hanchett; H. R. 17194. Henry C. Gr~ham; H. R.108611. John Lees: H. R. 17214.. Francis Durbm: H. R. 10898. George Radell; H. It. 17229. William H. H. Wright; H. R. 10932. Abraham Fairman ; H. R. 17311. Alexander McLa.ne i, H. R. 11023- Patrick S. Doig; H. R. 17318. A.. Sidney Al~en ;, H. R. 11803. William H. Tullock;­ H. R. 17443. John M. Swa.un; H. R. 11948. William S. Merrill; H. R. 17453. Margaret Perry ; H. R. 12054. John Wissler; H. R.17485. Joseph W. Gale; H. R. 12198. David P. Baker; H. R. 17547. Edwin M. Loeke; H. R. 12209. David M. Boyles : H. R. 17554. Chauncey P. Rogers; H. R.12242. Washington W. Gardner; H. R.17633. William A... Mallory; H. R. 12244. Thomas N. Eath.erton; H R. 17637. Robert Kepner; H. R. 12677. James De Laney; H: R. 17705. David C. Miller ; H. R. 12685. John S. Sweet; H. R. 17830. George F. Goodell; H. R. 12716. Elroy L. Kemp ; H. R. 17934. Charles ID. Brown; H. R. 12750. Richard H. O'Neale ; H. R. 17981. Samuel P. Beck; H. R. 12822. Frederika Schmans.ld ; H. R. 18000. Wlllin.m B. Hod:zsdon ; H. R. 12906. Samuel Johnson: H. R. 18033. Thomas I. Good ; H. R. 13097. George Hutchinson; H. R. 18045. Thomas Greer ; H. R. 13098. Samuel Hamilton; H. R. 18060. Van Stewart : H. R. 13136. "Abia.h C. Miller ; H. R. 18070. John Whitlock. H. R.13160. Jeremiah Robbins;­ JiL R. 18071.. Franklin Il. Rhoods; H. R. 13161.. George A. Mallory; H. R. 18072. Francis Lefl!er ; H. R. 13163. Marvin A. Smith;: H. R.18074. Lawrence Zimmer; H. R.13202. John N. Bonness: H. R. 18187. Mary Walls; H. R.13203. John Kroell ; R. R. 18188. George T. Kennamer; H. R.13204. John Shaw; H. R. 18205. Elijah McGinnis ; H. R. 13234. Benjamin Woodney: H. R. 18218. Amos Penn ; H. R. 13245. Albert A. Stowe;. H. R. 18270. George S. Richfil'dson ; H. R. 13497. James A. Betts; H. R. 18335. Thomas W. Dee; H. R. 13548. Mark Whiteaker ; H. R. 18354. Horace C. Brintnall ;_ H. R. 13566. Calvin Warren ; H. R. 18580. William Hobbs ; and H. R. 13627. Joseph W. Snave ;­ H. R. 18956. William A. Smith. H. R. 13657. Charles A. Morse ; H. R. 13690. John Wallace Webb: The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a.. third time,, H. R. 13759. J"ohn B. Graham; · was read the third time, and passed. H. R. 14055. Milton. Spry ; H. R. 14081. Lewis B. Witter;: WILLIAM MARTINSON'. H. R. 14153. Marion D. Prinns ; H. R. 14250. Zachary T. Miller; The next business on the Private Calendar was the bill H. R. 14256. Combs Hendrickson;­ (H. R. 2828) for the relief of William Martinson. H. R. 14296. George Kearnes ; . The Clerk read as follows: H. R.14361. Edward P. Porter; H. R. 14363. Francis T. Corbet; Be it enacted That the Secretary of War be, and he ls hereby, H. R. 14414. William Barton; authorized and directed to amend and correct the military record of H. R. 14419. Barney Warrell; William MartiDS-On, late of Company G, Twelfth Regiment Illinois H. R. 14452. Henry S. Rotes; Volunteer Cavalry, so as to show him honorably discharged from the H. R. 14696. James M. Steel; service of the United States on the 28th day of March, 1866, without H. R.14727. John 0. Perry; complications or reflection, as contemplated by an order from the War H. R.14748. Thomas W. Burgess; Department through the Adjutant-General's Office. H. R. 14812. Clark Kimball; The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, H. R. 14823. Gu.ll!ord D. Taylor;. was read the third time, and passed. . H . R. 14843. Peter F. Baker ; H. R. 14906. David C. Brewer; The next business on the Private Calendar was the bill ( S. H. R. 14968. William J. Elliott ; 5236) granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain H. R. 14094. Charles W. Stroud ;­ soldiers and sailors of the civil war and' to certain widows and H. R. 15000. William G. Spurlock;­ H. R. 15064. Nell Cartwright; dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors. H. Il. 15067. Julia. M. Fan; The Clerk read as follows: H. R. 15119. Benjamin P. Behm; Be it enacted, eto., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is H . R. 15122. Charles H. Stanton ; hereby, authorized and directed to .place on the pension roll, subject H. R. 15367. Charles H. Smith; to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws- H. R. 15383. Ellezer P. Dickey; The name of Alonzo Conklin, late of Company H, Eighty-eighth H. R. 15472. James P. Woods; Regiment, and Company F, Thirty-eighth Regiment, Indiana. Volunteer H. R. 15484. George W. White;: :{nfantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu H. R. 15510. Leverett A. Fox; of that he is now receiving. 11192 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 28;

The name of William L. Naftzger, l~te of Company G, One hundred The name of Hiram Statia, late of Company F, Third Regiment Wis­ and ninety-seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a consin Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 pension at the rate of $12 per month. · · per montli in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of l\Iichael Savage, late of Company C, First Battalion The name of George W. Peters, late captain Company A, Twelfth Nevada Volunteer Infanh·y, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, 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 S. Kenney, late of Company K, Fifth Regiment ·The name of George Pierce, late of Company I,- One hundred and West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate twenty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a of $24 pe1· 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. 'l'he name of Thomas G. Harper, late of Company A and first lieu­ The .name of Merton Stancliff', late of Company A, Ninety-eiglltb tenant Company D, Forty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. is now receiving. 'l'he name of .Joseph Robichaud, late of Company F, Fifth Regiment The name of Henry Newhouse, late of Company K, Seventy-fourth Minnesota Volunteer Infant."y, and pay him a pension at the rate of Regiment I'ennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension $30 per mQnth in lieu of that he is now receiving. · at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Samuel Radcliff, late of Company G, First Regiment The name of Charles R. Davis, late of Company C, Twenty-sixth Ohio Yolunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the 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 Ira T. Beldin, late of Company I, Twenty-second Regi­ Tte name of Ann Sterns, former widow of Gideon R. Hewitt, late ment and unassigned detachment Third Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer of Company K, Sixteenth Regiment. New York Volunteer Infantry, and Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu pay lle1· a pension at the rate of $12 per month. of that he is now receiving. , · The name of John W. Angell, late second lieutenant Company I, and The name of Parley S. McCracken, late of Company A, Fifth Regi­ captain Company D, One hundred and eighteenth Regiment New York ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin"'. month in lieu of that be is now rec~iving. The name of Henry Mott, late of Company H, Forty-fourth Regi­ The name of Jesse M. Moore, late of Company M, First Regiment' ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is pow receiving. The name of William H. Jones, late major and additional paymaster, The name of Albert Bornstein, late of Twenty-third Regiment Ken­ United States Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 tucky Volunteer Infantry, and Company D, Tenth Regiment Tennessee per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per The name of Joshua B. Shumate, late of Company K, FDrty-fifth month in lieu of that he is now receiving, Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Martin V. Benkert, late of Company B, Thirteenth rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Hosea Q. 1\Ia.son, late of Company K, First Regiment of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Rhode Island Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Gilman Stevens, late of Company El, First Battalion of $30 pe1· month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. . Thirteenth Regiment United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Henry Pel'ry, late of Company E, Fifteenth Regiment the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now reeeiving. New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Lynus J. Kibbe, late of Company E, Ninth Regiment rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per The name of Henry W. Charter, late of Company K, Seventh Regi­ month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment l\Iichigan Volunteer Infanb·y, and pay him a pension at the 'rhe name of George W. Davenport, late of Company G, Second Re"'i­ rate of $30 pe1· month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Samuel R. Shfrley, ·late of Company E, Thil'ty-elghth of $24 per month hi lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of William Sherman, late of Company H, Eighth Regiment rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per The name of George E. Ward, late of Company I, One hundred and month in lieu of that he is now receiving. first Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of James McDonald, late of Battery G, First Regiment at the rate of $30 per month jn lieu of that he is now receiving. Rhode Island Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the The name of Arthur Mahar, late of Company C, One · hundred and rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. fifty-eighth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay , him a The name of .Tames K. Pritchard, late of Company A, Third Re"'iment pension at the rate of $24 per moQth in lieu of that he is now re- Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at th0e rate ceiving. · · . of $24 pe1· month -in lieu of that he is now receiving. . The name of Edward Shattuck, late of Company F, Eighteenth Regi­ The name of Andrew J'. Bass, late of Company D, Thfrty-third Re"'i­ ment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate 0of rate of $40 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. · $30 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. The name of Penton Belville, .late of U. S. S. Princeton and Keystone The name of Wilson S. Bell, late of Company E, One hundred and State, United States Navy, and· pay him a pension at the rate of $24 sixtieth Regiment Ohio National Guard Infantry, and pay him a pen­ per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. sion at the rate cl.. $24 per month in lieu of that lie is now receiving. The name of Mary A. Kerr, widow of George Kerr, late of Company The name of .Tames C. Betts, late of Company B, Twenty-fourth Regi­ {;', Fifth Regiment, and first lieutenant Company A, Elighty-third Regi­ ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $20 per month in lieu of that she i.s now receiving. . The name of Francis W. Hibbatd, late of Company H, One hundred The name of Richard M . .Johnson, late of Company A, Eighth Regi­ and seventieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry,- and pay him a pen­ mc.nt, and Company I, Fourth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that The name of Virginia Yard, widow of William Yard late first lieu­ he is now receiving. . tenant Company K, Second Regiment West Virg-inla Vofunteer Cavalry The name of Daniel M. Shaw, late of Company I, Thirty-ninth Regi­ and corporal, Company E, Eleventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Company B, First Regiment Ohio and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 The name of Charles H- Gladding, late of Company H, Twenty-sixth per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. . Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and. pay him · a pension at The name of Alice Rugan, widow of James Rugan, late of Company the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. E, First Regiment Maine Volunteer Cavalry, and pay her a pension at The name of Thomas B. Fish, late of Company C, Twenty-first Regi­ the rate of $12 per month. ' . ment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Oscar F. Gammon, late of Company E, Twenty-third of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and Captain Cobb, jr.'s, company, The name · of Hiram S. Stevens, late of Company C, First Regiment State Guards, Maine Militia Infantry, and pay him a pension at the New York Volunteer Marine Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin"'. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Esther A. Field, widow of Barton A. t'ield, late of The name of Zaphna L. King, late of Company G, Twenty-second Company A, .Twenty-third Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now rate· of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving. The name of William H. Gifford, late of Company I, Eighth Regi­ The name of John Chatham, late of Company G, Fifty-eighth Regi­ ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of th:i.t he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Josephine A. Barnard, widow of John C. Barnard, late The name of Rose A. Rowell, widow of Martin P. Rowell, late or of Company E, Fourteenth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and Company E, Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay her ~ pension at the rate of $20 p~r month in lieu of that she is pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. now rece1vmg. The name of William F. Hodges, late of Company I, Second Regiment The name of Charles E. Wellman, late of U. S. S. Macedonian and 'Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 Mercedlta, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Otis B. Smith, late of Company E, Seventy-seventh Regi­ The name of Henry F. Gieseke, late of Captain Becker's company. ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Boonville (Mo.) Home Guards, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $12 per month. The name of William Kelly, late first lieutenant Company B, Twenty­ The name of Charles H. Miner, late of Company E, Thirteenth Regi­ fourtb Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at ment Vermont 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 is now receiving. The name of .John M. Bayley, late of Company E, One hundred and The name of Margaret L. Graham, widow of Isaiah H. Graham, late seventy-ninth Regiment PennsylvF,ia Drafted Militia Infantry, and pay captain Company I, First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer him a pension at the rate of $2-x per month in lieu of that he is now Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu· receiving. of that she is now receiving. . The name of Otis T. Simonds, late of U. S. S. W. G. Anderson, The name of David B. Todd, late of Company G, Sixth Regiment United States Navy, and pay h.im a pension· at the rate of $24. per Missouri State Militia 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 Snyder D. Freeland, late of Company I, Sixteenth Regi­ The name of Benjamin F. Estes, late of Company A, · First Regiment ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Dakota Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $3{) $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Charles T. Shepard, late of Company E, Seventeenth The name of .John Duke, late of Battery C, Second Regiment, ancl Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him . a pension at the Battery K, First Regiment, United States Artmery, 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 .Joel N. Shelton, late. of Company I, One hundred and Tile name of Philander C. Burch, late of Company C, Twenty-ninth eighteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the sion 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. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. [1193

The name of John V. Nelson, late of the Fifth Battery, Wisconsin Vol­ Maine Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate ot unteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Lewis Bullock, late of Company E, Fifth Regiment Dela­ The name of Mary A. Hubbell, widow of William R. Hubbell, late of ware Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per Company K, Thirty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and moo th · · pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. The· name of Charles A. Riddle, late of Company C, Eleventh Regi­ The name of WilHam N. Furman, late of Company D, Eleventh Regi­ ment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and Company K, Fifth Regi­ ment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment Veteran Reserve Corps, 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 r eceiving. The name of Frederick J. Garbanati, late second lieutenant Company The name of Jacob 1\1. Zartman, late of Fifth Independent Battery, B, Second Regiment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pen!lion at the rate of a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. • . receiving. The name of William W. Olmsted, late of Company K, Twenty-first The name of Michael E. Long, late of Company K, Second Regiment Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate New Hampshire 'Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension .at the of :ji24 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 W. Edwards, late of Company H, One hundred 'l'he name of Charles A. Gray, late of U. S. S. Vandalia, San Jacinto, and twenty-fourth Regiment Indiana Yolunteer· Infantry, and Comp~ny and Bibb, nited States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 D, Eighteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, 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 is now receiving. · The name of Sophrona Austin, widow of John Austin, late of Com­ The name of Charles N. Taylor, late of Company E, Eighty-fourth pany H, '.fwenty-ninth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now The name of John Charles, late of Company F, First Regiment New receiving. Jersey Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of Wilson M. Mayo, late of Company D, Thir"ty-first Regi­ per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. · ment Maine Volunteer Infanti·y, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Samuel W. Townsend, late of Company B, Thirteenth $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at '.fhe name of Isaiah r. Watts, late of Company H, ~ighty-fourth the 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 William Strehlow, late of Company K, Third Regiment rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Addie A. Robinson, widow of Henry L. Robinson, late $30 per month in lie11 of that he is now receiving. . of Company G, Eighth Regiment, and Company G, Fifteenth Regiment, The name of Matthew M. Salisbury, late of.Company K, Second Regi­ New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate ment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and Twenty-fourth Independent Bat­ of $12 per month. · · tery Indiana Volunteer Light Artiller·y, and pay him a pension at the The name of Lucv A. Graves, widow of Almon P. Graves, late of rate' of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Company G, Third Regiment United States Artillery, and pay her a The name of Isaac N. Waldrip, late of Company E, Fortieth Regiment pension at the rate of $16 per month. in lieu of that she is now receiving. Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 'l'he name of Susan J. Tukey, widow of George W. Tnkey, late cap­ per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. tain Company A, First Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay The name of Sylvester Hill, late of Company F, One hundred and her a pension at the rate ot $30 per month in lieu of that she is now forty-first Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ receiving. sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now recei>ing. The name of Francis G. Bourasaw, late of Company F, Fourteenth The name of Barbara Downer, widow of Charles H. Downer, alias Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Charles Kemp, late of Company A, Seventh Regiment New Hampshire rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pen.sion at the rate of $20 per The name of Silas Wright, late of Company E, Tenth Regiment Mich­ month in lieu of that she is now receiving. igan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per The name of William G. Brady, late of Company G, Eighty-sixth month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. · : Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Lyman G. Willcox, late captain Company B, Third Regi­ rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of William Fritz, late of Company H, One hundred and of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. thirty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him 'l'he name of George Wolf, late of Company E, Seventh Regiment a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now re- Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. cei~~~g.name of Thomas H. Rogers, late of Company E, Eighth Regi­ The name of Lucius H. Hancock, late principal musician, Third Regi­ ment New Ha~pshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at ment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, nnd pay him a pension at the rate the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of !!::!4 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Daniel M. Keigwin, late of Company I, Eighteenth Regi­ '1.'he name of Thomas B. Pulsifer, late of Company D, First Regiment ment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Maine Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Buel Chidester, late of Company K, One hundred and The name of Hugh McDonald, late of Company C, Fortieth Regiment fiftieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at New York 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 Elizabeth Herder, widow of John N. D. Herder, late '1.'he name of Charles S. Crowell, late of Company M, Second Regiment first lieutenant Company I, Forty-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Maine Volunteer Cavah"y, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of that she is now receiving. 'l'he name of Wallace W. Sears, late of Company H, One hundred and The name of Kemp Murphy, late of Company B. Fourth Regiment seventh Regiment, and Company B, Sixtieth Regiment, New York Vol­ Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of unteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. in lieu of that he is now receiving. . The name of Thomas Levens, late of Battery A, Fifth Regiment The name of Joseph R. Snyder, late of Company A, Ninety-seventh nited States Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at month in lieu of that he is now r eceiving. the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Ira H. Andrews, late of Company H, Eleventh Regiment The name of Alfred Larkins, late of Company F, Twenty-first Regi­ New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Aaron E. Machamer, late of Company D, Forty-sixth The name of James Kenyon, late of Company K, Sixth Regiment Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. month. The name of George D. Blackinton, late of Company E, Fifth Regiment The name of Charles R. Gentner, late of Company D, Sixth Regi­ Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment Pennsylvania -Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Joseph B. Holmes, late second lieutenant Coinpany E. The name of Charles L. D. Sawyer, late of Company E, Fifth Regi­ Twenty-first Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, and ment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. now receiving. The name of Archibald H. McMurphy, late of Company G, 'l'enth Regi­ The name of Samuel C. McKay, late of Company I, Seventh Regimenl ment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay· him a pension at the rate of $30 of $24 per month in Ueu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Henry W. Thieman, late of Company E, Forty-fifth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Roswell Thomas, late of Company G, Fourteenth Regi­ rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at The name of Miels Goforth, late of Company B, Third Regiment North the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Carolina Volunteer Mounted Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Charles l\f. Carr, late of Company L, Eighth Regiment rate of . 24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 The name of Charles W. Sizer, late of Company K, Thirty-second per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of William I. Mathews, late captain Company H, Thir­ rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. teenth Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of George W. Yan Tassel, late of Company F, Tenth Regi­ pension at the rate of $50 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. ment New York Volunteer Ileavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at The name of Louise G. Townsend, widow of Joseph G. Townsend, the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. late lieutenant-colonel One hundred and ei~hty-ninth Regiment New The name of .James McNeil, late of Company A, Sixty-sixth Regiment York Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $3t> per Ohio Volunteee Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. month in lien of that he is now receiving. The name of Rane C. Carter, late of Company F, One hundred and The name of Charles Kisow, late of Company F, Twenty-ninth Regi­ thirty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a ment Wisconsin Yolunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now re­ of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ceiving. The name of David Sutherland, late of Company D, Thirty-sixth Regi­ The name of Ira B. Gould, late of Company G, Eleventh Regiment ment Illino!s Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and Company F, Thirteenth Regi­ $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of Amos W. Melugin, ..late of Company E, Fifth Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Iowa Yolunteet· Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per The name of Andrew T. Moonert, alias WilliaIIJ. Mayfield, late of month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Company I, Eightieth Regiment Ohio . Volunteer Infantry, and pay The name of Shepard D. Edwards, late of Company C, Seventeenth him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and Company C, First Regiment receiving. (1194 CONGRESSIONAL; RECORD--HOUSE JANUARY 28,

Tlie name of Allen W. Cross·, late> trrst lieutenant Company c;, Thlrty­ s. 2.348. Wallace w. Sears;; sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, nnd pay him a S. 2.362-. J ose:ph R .. Snyd~r 5 pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu- of that he is. now re­ S. 2375. Alfred Larkins; ceiving. S. 2:381. James Kenyon~ The name of George L. Harvey, late of Company D, Thirty-second S. 2510. Charles R. Gentner~ Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay hint a pension at the S. 2527. Charles L . D. Sa yer-; rate 11f $30 per month in lieu o:f that he is now receiving, S.. 2528. Archibald. H. Mc.Murphy ; The naa& of· Mary A. Kollock, wido-w of James P. W. Kollock, late S. 2619. Hemyi W. Thieman~ of Capt. John Kollock's company, Delaware Militia, war of. 1812,. and S. 2663. Miels Sofrn:tb; pay her a pension at the rate of 24 per month in lieu at that she is S. 2726. Cha:ries W. Sizer ; now reeeiving. . S. 2727. G.eorge W. Van Tassel; The name of. George A. Griswold, late of Company L, Eighth Regi­ S. 2'130.. James McNeil; ment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the S. 2783. Charles Kisow; rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 2 08. David Sutherland; The name of Edwin L. Hunt, late captain Company E, Seyenth Regi­ S. 2 0.9-. Amos W. Melugin ; ment Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the S. 2820. Shepard D. Edwards; rate of 30 per month. . 2 42... Lewis Bullgck ; The name of Francis Mosena, late of C'om12any A, Seyenty-seventh S. 2 44. Charles A. Riddie; Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate S. 2 52. Jacob M. Zartman; of. 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 2868. William W. Olmsted; This bill is a suhsritnte for the following Senate bills referred ta S. 2870. John W. Edwards; the Committee on Invalid Pens.ions~ S. 2954. Charles N. 'l'ayloi:;. S. 25. Alonzo- Conklin ; S. 2957. John Charles; S. 38. William L. Naftzger; S. 2959. Samuel W. Townsend; S. 45. Michael Savage ; S. 2960. William Strehlow ; S. iro. John S. Kenney; S. 2961. Matthew M. Salisbury;; S. 5~. 'I.'bomas G. Harper; S. 2963. Isaac. N. Waldrfp ~ Hill ;· S. 63. Henry Newhouse~ S. 2983. Sylvester S. H6. Charles R. Davis ; S. 2986'. Barbara Downe!' ; S. 147. .Ann Sterns ; S. 2991. William G. Brady ;; , . 151. John W. Angell; S. 3043. William Fritz ; S. 167. .Tesse M. Moore; S. 3064. Thomas: H. Rogers ;; S:. 170. Albert Bornstein; S. 3212. Daniel M. Keigwin; S. 195. Martin V. Benkert; S. 33 9. Buel Chidester ; S. 198. Gilman Steyens; S. 3294. Elizabeth Herder , S. 201. Lynns- J. Kibbe • S.. 37(}7. . Kemp Murphy ; S. 255. George W. Davenport;. S. 3 03'. Thomas Leyem; ; S. 2 1. William Sherman~ S. 3804. Ira H. Andrews ;- S. 296. James McDonald; S. 3 05. Aaron E. Machamer~­ S. 300. James K. Pritchard ; S. 3 23-. George D. Btackinton; S. 308. .Andrew J". Bass ; S. 3 24. Joseph B. Holmes; S. 309. Wllson S. Bell ; S. 3 2o. Samuel C. McKay ;.. S. 311. J"ames C. Betts ; S. 3911. Roswell Thomas ~ S. 377. Francis W. Hibbard; S. 3913. Charles M:: Carr : s. 318. Virginia Yard; S. 402 William I. Mathews;­ S. 40 • Charles H. Giadding; S. 4032'. Louise- G. Townsend.; S. 416. Thomas B. Flsh ;- S. 4-034. . Rane C. Carter ; S. 4G4.. Hiram S. Stevens ;. S. 4226. Andrew T. Moonert, alias William MayfielcI·;­ s. 466. Zaphna Ir. King-; S. 4228. AJ!len W. Cross; S. 4.79. William H. Gil!ord'; S. 4436. ~orge L. Harvey ; S. 536. Ro e A. Rowell ; S. 4450. Mary A. Kollock ; S. 541. William F. Hodges; S. 4465. ~orge · A. Griswold ; S 554. Otis R. Smith; S. 4518. Edwin L. Hunt;- and S. 556. William Kelly ; S. 4549. Francis Mosena. 8. 557 John M. Bayley·· S. 568. Otis T: Simonds ; The committee amendments were reacl, as follows~ S. 5. 7. Snyder D. Freeland;­ Amend by striking out all of lines· 1 to 4, both inclusive, on page 15. S. 5 . Charles T. Shepard; Strike out all of lines 10 to 14, both inclusive, on page 25. . S. 602.. Joel N. SM>ltcm; S. 603. Hiram Statia ; The questfon was taken, and the committee amendments were S. 64&. George W. Peters; agreed to. S. 649. George Pierce ; S. 65 • .Joseph. RohlcbaucI; The bill as amended was orderecJJ to be read a third timel' was S. 663". Merton Sthllclif'l' ; read the- third time, and passed. S. 669. Samuel Ra pension: laws S. 755. Henry W. Charte:r: • the authorization of the Secretary of Wa.r. permitting- Edwrurd C. Kittle, S. 96 . Samuel R. Shirley ; formerly captainl Company. D, Sixty-first New York Volnnteers, to re­ S. 978. George- E. Ward ; enter the service shall be held and: considered a;s an. honorable discharge S. 1040. Arthur Mahar-; from his service with that: command:. S. 1099. Edward Shattuck; The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. S.1217. Penton Belville:; S. 1242. Mary A. Kerr ; was read the third time,.. and passed. S.1243. Richard M. Johnson; The next business on the-Private Calendar-was the bill (Hi. R. S. 1302. Daniel M. Shaw ; 19403} granting. pep:sions and increase of pensions to certain S. 135 • .Alice Rugan; S. 1361. Oscar F. Gammon ; soldiers and sailors ot the Regular Army and Navy and cer­ S. 1362. ;Esther A. Field ; tain soldiers and sailors of wru.-s other than the civil war. anti S. 1367. .Tohn Chatham; to widows and dependent rel'ati:ves of such soldiers and sailors S. 1478. Josephine A. Barnard;­ S. 1529. Charles E. Wellman;: The bill was read, as follows : S. 154 . Henry F. Gieseke ; Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is. S. 1599. Charles H. Miner · hereby, authorized and directed to pla.ce: on the pension roll,. s.ubject. ta S. 1610. Margaret L. Graham ; the provisions and limitations- of the pension laws- S.1615. David R Todd; The name of John Howard, late of TFoop li', Sixth Regiment United S. 1617 .. Benjamin F. Estes; State Ca-valry. and: pay him a pension. at the rate. of $12 per month in· S.162~ John Duke: lieu of. that b e is now receiving; S. 1623. Philander C. Burch~ The- name of Walter S. Hall, alias Walter- McLaughlin, late of Com­ S. 1625.. John V. Nelson; pany D, Twelfth Regiment United States Volunteer Infanh-y, war with S. 1701. Mary .A.. Hub 11 ; , Spain. S. 1710 William N. Furman~ The name of Sophie M:. Guard, widow of Alexand r Uc . Guard, late S. 1711. Frede.rick J. Garbanatl; first lieutenant,. Nineteenth Re~ent United States Infantry, and pay S. 1753-. Michael El. Lon ; · her a pension. a.t the rate- of $<::5 per month in Heu f that sbe is now S. 1784. Sophrona Austin; receiving. S. 1819. I aiab P. Wa~ ; The name of August Pfefferle, late of Company C, Eleventh Regi-­ S. 1 85. Wilson M. Layo ; ment United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 1 90. Addie A. Robinson;­ $12" per· month. S. 2001. r.,ucy A. Graves; The name ot: .Toe.I W. Adkins, late of Cap-t. Patrick II. Roger's Com­ S. 2010. Susan J. Tukey ; . pan:y F, Texas Voluntee:ra, and pay him a pension at the rate of 1.6 S. 20 7. . Franci G_ Bomasaw; per month m lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 2092.. Silas Wright : The name of Anthony L. Houston, late of Capt. John Wllllams's: S. 2134. Lyman G. Willcox;. first company, Texas Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate S. 2:1!)7. George Wolf; of 16 {)€.r' month in. lieu of that he i now receiving. S. 22 1. Lucius H. Hancock; The- na:me ~ J"ohn C. Bonner, late of Capt. C. El. Travis's Comp.an:y; S. 2289. Tncmas B. Pulsifer ; E, Mounted Battalion Texas Voiunteers, Texas and New Mexico Indian S. 2331. Hugh McDonald~ wam>,. and pa:y. him ai pension a:t tll.e rate. of $I6 pel: month in lieu. of S. 2337. Charles S. Crowell; that lie is now: r~eiYin~ 1910. CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD- .HOUSE. 1195

The name of Jacob Burleson, late of Capt. John S. Ford's second H. R. 8163. Welcome N. Bender ; company, Texas Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 H. R. 8744. Sarah F. McKee; per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 9388. John Hiet ; The name of James Conner, late of John S. Ford's second company, H. R. 9820. Schofield Henderson ; 'l'exas Volunteers, a nd pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per month H. R. 9945. Sarah A. S:ilter; i.n lieu of that he is n ow receiving. H. R. 10087. Louisa Jacobs ; The nnme of Nannie C. Potter, widow of J"oseph A. Potter, l~te H. R. 10646. Hannah Kelley ; majot· and quartermaster, United States Army, and pay her- a ~ens1on H. R. 10866. Celia Cornell ; at the rate of $35 per month in lieu of that she is now receivrug. H. R. 11952. Charles E. Woodward; The name of Helen W. Wilson, widow of Van C. Wilson, late of H. R. 12557. Mary Ryan ; Company B, Third Regiment Ohio VC'h.nteer Infantry, war with H. R. 12613. Thomas J. D. Pinnick ; Spa in, a nd pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month, and $~ per H. R. 12774. Jennie M. Huntington; month addit ional on a ccount of the minor child of said Van C. Wilson H. R. 13149. Walter P. Chatham; until he r eaches the age of 16 years. H. R. 13219. Frank MaCulley ; _ The na me of Louis H . Pennington. late of band, Fourth Regiment H. R. 14284. Katherlne Lawrence; Virginia Volunteer Infantry, war wi.th Spain, and pay him a pension H. R. 14338. Sarah E. Hooper; at the rate of . 12 per month. H. R. 15928. Thomas J. Seay ; The name of Margaret C. Fury, widow of William O. Fury, late of H. R.16095. Lewis W. Avaut; Company L, Third Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, war with H. R.16096. John H. Alexander; Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of ~12 per month, and- $2 per H. R. 16459. Robert T. Himes, aRd month additional on a ccount of each of the four minor children of H. R. 16691. Jeddie E. Rabidoux. said William O. Fury unt il they reach the age of 16 years. The name of Al bert Steinhauser, late captain Company B, Forty­ The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, fifth Regiment Unit ed States Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, :rnd was read the time, and passed. pay him a pension at the rate of $46 per month in lieu of that he is On motion of Mr. SULLOWAY, a motion to reconsider the \Otes now receiving. The na me of James O'Rourke, late of Troop D, Fourth Regiment by which the several preceding bills were passed was laid on Unit ed States Cava lry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $17 per the table. month. The name of Stephen A. Kennedy, late of Company E, Third Regi­ AGRICULTURAL APPB~PRIATION BILL. ment Indiana Volunteers, war with Mexico, and pay him a pension at Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House resolve the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The n:uue of Welcome N. Bender, late of Company F, Twentieth itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a Union for the further consideration of the agricultural appro­ pension at the rate of $12 per month. priation bill. 'rile na me of Sa rah F. McKee, widow of Warren M. McKee, late of Thirteenth Company, Signal Corps, United States Volunteers, and pay The motion was agreed to. her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. Accordingly the House resolved itself into the Committee of The name of John Hiet, late of Troop G, Fifth Regiment United the Whole Rouse on the state of the Union for the further con­ States Cavalry. The name of Schofield Henderson, late of Company K, Second Regi­ sideration of the bill H. R. 18162, the agricultural appropria­ ment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain. tion bill, with Mr. CAMPBELL in the chair. The name of Sarah A. Salter, widow of Horace Salter, late of Mor­ Mr. LAMB. Mr. Chairman, I yield five minutes to the gen­ gan's independent company, Iowa Mounted Volunteers, war with M e~ico, and pay her a pension at the rate of 12 per month. tleman from Texas [Mr. lIABDY]. The na me of Louisa Jacobs, widow of Martin Jacobs, late of Capt. Mr. HARDY. Mr. Chairman, the country is not yet done with B. W. Ballard's company, Kentut!ky Militia, war of 1812, and pay her the tariff question. Last year Congress met and passed a tariff a pen ion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. bill after a campaign in which all parties had promised a down­ The 'name of Hannah Kelley, dependent mother of John D. Kelley, ward revision of the tariff to the people. How well Congress kept late of Company L, Eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer In­ that promise is clearly shown by one conclusive fact, namely. fantry, war with Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. that every ship on the ocean bound from foreign ports to ours 'l'he name of Cella Cornell, widow of Francis Cornell, late of Com­ crowded all sail and steam in order tO reach our ports and pany I, Fourteenth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, war with have entry made before the new law adopted by the last Con­ Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. The name of Charles E. Woodward, late of Hospital Corps, United gress should go into operation, so as to escape, if possible, the States Army, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in higher duties levied under the new law than were levied under lieu of that he is now receiving. the old one. The name of Mary Ryan, dependent mother of Peter Ryan, late of Company I, Second Regiment United States Infantry, war with Spain, Somebody deceived the people and the people know it. I any pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. wish to read what was said by the gentleman from Missouri, The name of Thomas J. D. Pinnick, late unassigned recruit, Third Mr. CHAMP CLARK, at Kansas City on the 9th of this month. Regiment United Stat es Dragoons, war with Mexico, and pay him a pernd on at the rate of $12 pe1· month. . It is as follows : 'l'he name of J ennie M. Huntington, widow of Henry D. Huntington, The people asked for bread, and the ALDRICH-CANNON crowd gave late first lieutenant, Second Regiment United States Cavalry, and pay them a stone. They asked for a fish, and were requested to regale her a pension at the rate of $25 per month in lieu of that she is now themselves with a serpent. receiving. In the congressional campaign of 1910 the overshadowing question The name of Walter P. Chatham, late of Company I, Sixth Regiment will be whether public men are under any sort of obliga tion to tell the :Mi. souri Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain. truth, and unless the public conscience is absolutely dead-which I do The name of Frank l\faCulley, late of Battery C, Pennsylvania Vol­ not believe-the Republicans will receive the bloodiest licking they unteer Light Artillery, war with Spain, and pay him a pension at tile have bad since 1890. Are ante-election promises things to be depended rate of $12 per month. upon and lived up to, or are they merely tricks with which to de­ The na me of Katherine Lawrence, widow of Harry B. Lawrence, late ceive the unwary, enticing baits with which to catch gudgeons? If the of Company E, Fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, war with latter, then politics has fallen to a low estate and a contemptible Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month, and '.! per condition. month additional to each of the two minor children of said Han·y B. Lawrence until they reach the age of 16 years. 1\fr. Chairman, in September of last year Mr. W. J. Bryan 'l'he na me of Sarah E. Hooper, widow of James Hooper, late of made, in Dallas, Tex., a speech concerning the binding force of U. S. S. Comet, United States Navy, war of 1812, and pay her a pen­ sion at the rate of 24 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. platform promises and pledges and giving forth his v~ews on The n ame of Thomas J. Seay, late of Company M, Second Regiment Democratic doctrines and teachings as to the tariff. At a later Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, and Company K, Third Regiment United date the junior Senator from Texas replied to that speech. On States Engineers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $17 per month. The name of Lewis W. Avant, late of Capt. G. H. Nelson's company, the 18th day of October of the same year I was requested by Texas Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per month citizens of the city of Cameron, in my district, to make for them ln lieu of that he is now receiving. a speech discussing the issues raised by the speech of .1\lr. Bryan The name of John H. Alexander, late of Capt. G. H. Nelson's com­ pany, Texas Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $16 per and the reply of the junior Senator from Texas. That speech month in lien of that be is now receiving. has been circulated within my State, and for its wider circula­ The name of Robert T. Himes, late of Company C, Third Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain. tion, because I believe the questions discussed are Nation­ Tile name of Jeddle E. Rabidoux, late of Hospital Corps, United wide in importance and interest, I wish to extend my remarks States Army, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per month in by including it in the RECORD by the consent of the com­ lieu of that be is now receiving. - Thi bill is a substitute for the following House bllls referred to the mittee. Committee on Pensions: The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. lIABDY] H. R. 2045. John Howard; asks unanimous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD. H . R. 20 6. Walter S. Hall, alias Walter McLaughlin; H. R. 2 47. Sophie i\f. Guard; Is there objection? H. R. 3030. August Pfefferle; There was no objection. H. R. 3099. Joel W. Adkins; [Mr. Hardy's remarks were withdrawn by consent of the H. R. 3159. Anthony L. Houston; H. R. 3165. John C. Bonner; House.] H. R. 3168. Jacob Burleson ; Mr. DICKSON of Mississippi. Mr. Chairman, obedient to H . R. 3216. James Conner ; a memorial that was sent. to the Representatives in Congress H. R. 3848. Nannie C. Potter; H. R. 4600. Helen W. Wilson; from the State of Mississippi, I hold in my hands a resolution H. R. 5258. Louis H. Pennington ; passed in December last by an organization of citizens of my H . R. 6019. Ma1·garet C. Fury ; State, numbering more than 30,000 of as progressive, patriotic H. R. 6139. Albert Steinhauser; H. R. 6713. James O'Rourke ; men as inhabit any portion of the Republic, the Farmers' Co- H. R. 7218. Stephen A. Kennedy: , operative and Educational Union of Mississippi. 1196 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-ROUSE. JANUARY 28,

Unknown to gentlemen, possibly, on this side and on the economy. Figuring upon a basis of 13.07 cents per pound on other, that section of our country has been visited by a scourge November 1, and $25 per ton for the seed it stands valued by the extent of which can not be realized in the fullness thereof this distinguished official at $850,000,000. ' by those who have not been brought in contact with it. To the By reason of market enhancement subsequently of both items casual observer the importance of the cotton crop in America, this amount is subject to estimation at a figure near or quit~ economically considered, is a question not local. It is a ques­ $925,000,000, an amount approximating the entire cost of the tion governmental in its importance. It enters into. our com­ conduct of the Government in all its departments. We are mercial relationship with all nations of the earth. to-day producing, according to statistics, 66.4 per cent of the A few days since it was my privilege to read an address that entire world's production. England, with all the commercial was submitted by Doctor Knapp, of the farmers' cooperative prowess characteristic of her people, with lands in every quarter demonstration work. He has made a tour of that section of of the globe, with India's plains, with the valley of the Nile, the country in which that fabric is the chief item in our agri­ fabulous in fertility, and an inexhaustible treasury upon which cultural economy. to draw, has as yet succeeded in producing only 21.4 per cent He states clearly, as was suggested by my colleague from of the world's supply. Russia, with the incentive of indus­ Louisiana [Mr. WICKLIFFE], that the pace of production h as not trial necessity, actuated by imperial power, and a treasury more than, if quite, kept up with that of consumption, and that practically limitl&..

its attention upon the problems which are truly national in Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Chairman, I shall occupy part of that time, scope, or are of such magnitude as to be beyond the reach of not in discussing further the details of the bill, deferring that, local institutions. with the consent of the committee, until we take the bill up Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. Chairman, I want to ask the gentleman under the five-minute rule, but in referring briefly to some of from Kansns a question at his own convenience. the more interesting features of the work of the department Mr. SCOTT. It would perhaps make my statement a little during the past year. This work has proceeded along the usual ' . more connected and coherent if the gentleman would wait until lines and with the usual success. I have finished the statement I have it in mind to make. In the line of its regular activity, the most striking accom­ .Mr. DOUGLAS. I am quite willing to do so. plishment, perhaps, of the Weather Bureau was the prediction .Mr. SCOTT. This condition of self-reliance on the part of of the terrific hurricane which swept over Florida and other por­ the States and consequent freedom on the part of the depart­ tions of the Gulf coast last October. I have before me a letter ment at Washington to devote its attention to the big problems, from an official of the Florida East Coast Railway Company, which all must concede to be desirable, would be retarded, we which is building an extension from Jacksonville, Fla., almost all believe, rather than promoted by too liberal grants to the de­ the way out to Key West, in which he sends his thanks to the partment. We are willing to appropriate liberally in order to chief of the bureau for the timely warning that was given, help others to help themselves, but it would be mistaken gen­ by means of which he was enabled to withdraw the men who erosity and would weaken the state institutions to continue wer.e at work on that extension from their dangerous posi­ indefinitely to do through federal agencies work which these in­ tion, resulting, as he believed, in saving the liYes of not less stitutions are able to do, and in the absence of federal aid than 3,000 men. would do themselves. l\fr. COOPER of Wisconsin. Does the gentleman remember In the long run it would defeat the very object which it is how long that warning was given? sought to gain, and we believe it is in the interest of agricul­ Mr. SCOTT. The warning was sent out some twelrn hours ture in the broadest sense to throw upon the States all the in a.d-vance of the height of the storm. burdens of local work which their means will enable them to In a purely scientific way the most interesting work of the carry. Weather Bureau has been in connection with the exploration So much in answer to the anticipated criticism that the com­ of the upper air. This was done by means of kites flown from mittee has not been sufficiently liberal in the sums recommended the station at Mount Weather, in Virginia, and by means of in this bill. balloons that were sent, equipped with automatically registering instruments, from -various parts of the country. The kites at­ To those, on the other hand, who are disposed to take the tained an elevation of from 1 to H miles every day, and opposite view and to hold that the committee has b~en more the observations thus obtained ha>e been found very use­ liberal than the condition of the Treasury warrants, we beg to ful in forecasting the weather for this section of the United suggest ttat the character of the Department of Agriculture, States. The records secured by the balloons eem to have estab­ the scope and nature of the work it does, differentiates it so lished the fact, which Professor Moore regards as " the most completely from the other departments of the Government that wonderful thing in meteorology," that after a certain altitude different treatment of it may well be justified. - is reached there is an actual gain in temperature instead of a All the other governmental departments have certain fixed gradual loss. It has been the theory of scientists always that charges which must, of course, be met; but nearly all of them are the temperature gradually lowered as we ascended from the doing additional outside work which may be postponed for a earth, until among the interstellar spaces it faded away entirely, year, or two.or three years, without serious detriment to the pub­ and we reached what is called "absolute zero;" but these lic service. The Department of Agriculture, on the other hand, balloons, which attained the astounding height of 16 to 18 miles, bears a relation to the chief industry of our people so direct seem to have demonstrated a different condition to exist. Com­ and vital that to withdraw from any field which it now occu­ menting upon this singular fact, Professor Moore said: pies for so long a time as a year would inflict a money loss upon All onr physics and our mechanics of the air have been based on the our people immeasurably greater in the aggregate than the assumption that the temperature gradually decreases with elevation small sum which the most rigid economist would argue should until in outer space there is no temperature. We sent up balloons from Omaha and Indianapolis to above the storm strata, which is be deducted from this bill. about 6 miles deep, the upper limit of which in summer rises and in The statistics of our exports, as well as the continually in­ winter falls. From the equator it falls toward the poles. '!'here, then, creasing prices which are just now the subject of so much com­ is what we call the "storm stratum " below 6 miles depth, on the aver­ age. It rises and falrs with the seasons. From the surface of the ment, show that our home consumption of farm products is ground up the temperature gradually falls from a normal temperature rapidly overtaking production. With the exception of the lim­ of 50 above zero to a normal temperature of 50 below zero at G miles. ited areas that may be brought under cultivation by the exten­ Now, then, by sending up these balloons we find that from the moment you pass above this storm stratum, from that up to an altitude of 16 sion of dry farming and the development of irrigation our and sometimes 18 miles, instead of the temperature continuing to acreage of farm land can not be increased. The conclusion fol­ fall it actually slightly rises. There is a positive gain, and · the ob­ lows that if the demand of our rapidly growing population for servations have been so long continued as to leave no shadow of doubt of the fact that above the storm stratum there is a new world, an food products is to be met without import~tion from abroad it entit·ely different condition of atmosphere, a second a tmosphere floating must be by increasing our crop yield. upon the storm element, like oil floating upon wa ter. And this upper It is precisely to this problem that the energies of the De­ air has an easterly velocity o! only one-half of what the lower air has. Heretofore we have assumed that the higher you go the swifter is partment of Agriculture are directed. It is the only federal the easterly velocity, but the lower air runs eastward at a velocity of agency that is thus engaged, and it is doing its work with from 80 to 100 miles an hour, while up here in this upper stratum only about half as fast does it "'O eastward ; and we call it the isothermal marked and almost spectacular success. The warnings that are stratum-that Is, the equal-heated stratum-because from the storm sent out by the Weather Bureau which enable our farmers and stratum upward there is no fall in temperature, but a slight rise, and fruit growers in large measure to protect their crops and fruits the rise is so slight that; wP, call it an equal-heated stratum. from frost and flood, the activity of the Bureau of Animal In­ The Bureau of Animal Industry reports very gratifying dustry in safeguarding the health of our domestic animals, the progress in the work of tick eradication, which has be scab and treeing 1910-. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-KOUSFt [1199

BO many States- from quarantine orr account of tho-se diseases made up that the Secretary asked, and the eom:mittee has rec­ will be realized when the committee remembers. that for sev'­ ommended, an increase of $25,000 in the appropriation, to eral years this bureau has been expending about $300,000 to which I called attention in my openin~ remarks. As gentlemen $325,000 annually in that work. doubtless know, there is now a great diversity-of grades in the In the Bureau of Plant Industry some work which the chief different cotton markets. of the country, ranging in nu:ml)er of the bureau, Doctor Galloway, described as "epoch making" from 18 to 60-. It is the opinien ()f me-n in all branches of the has been done in the way ot controlling plant diseases-. After cotton trade that when these standards are issued they will be :fifteen or twenty years of the stud-y o:t plant pathology, some universally aecep.t.ed, pro-bably by foreign exchanges as well as new fl1Ilgicides or sprays bave been hit upon which seem to our own, to the very great advantage of the cotton industry. promise absolute control ot certain- fruit diseases, which have The small box in front of the large!"' three illustrates the size heretofore baffled the efforts of all the seientists and have of the commercial samples which have heretofore been and are inflicted heavy losses upon the growers. This discovery alone at the present time being used in the cotton bus-iness. The will be worth to the orchardists of the country: every-year many samples in the large boxes- are- those that have been prepared times the entire cost of maintaining the bureau. by the department and by the· committee- of experts, whose The work of the bureau in combating the cotton bol1 weevil, names I have just read. In the full set there is one box show­ for which large appropriations have been made for- several years ing a sample for each of the nine grades provided in the law. past, is reported to be progressing with very favo.rnble results. The samples which appear in the boxes on the table represent­ In Texas, where the work was first begun, the methods devel­ the highest grade, the lowest grade, and the middling cotton. oped by the bureau have. proven so successful and have been so Gentlemen. will notice there are- photographs of the package · generally adopted that there does not seem to be much furthe1~ on the lids ot· the boxes. Tho-se photographs are made so that need for government assistance. During the current year-, in case the cotton should discolor or there should be trash acci­ therefore, the efforts of' the bureau have been confined chiefly to dentally thrown over it in: the course of use the change would Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. In these States, be detected by comparison with the photographs. The law particularly in -Louisiana, climatic and other conditions are so provides that those sets of samples may be supplied by the d

an early producer and intended to be used in those sections appropriation of several thousand.dollars. I would like to know that the boll weevil has infested? if that decrease was made upon the recommendation of the De­ Mr. SCOTT. . The cotton seed distributed by the department partment of Agriculture. throughout the boll-weevil section are such as have been se­ Mr. SCOTT. The ~entleman is mistaken in thinking that lected especially for their early maturing qualities. It is one there is a decrease in this paragraph. As a matter of fact the of the ways in which they hope to escape the ravages of the appropriation last year for this work was $225,000, of which boll weevil. $50,000 was immediately available. That is to say, $175,000 Mr. COLLIER. I have had a great many inquiries along is all that is available for this work during the current fiscal that line. year, whereas in this bill .the department will have $21G,155 Mr. SCOTT. The work of grain standardization, which has to expend. In answer specifically to the gentleman's lust ques­ also been carried on by the Bureau of Plant Industry, I regret tion, I will say that it is precisely the amount recommended by to say, does not seem to show very encouraging progress. They the Secretary. · ha rn succeeded in de\eloping an electric device for testing the Mr. LEVER. Mr. Chairman, I should like to ask the chair­ moisture in grain very rapidly, which is being introduced to man of the committee if it is his understanding that in addi­ some extent, and, of course, will be useful, because the moisture tion to the $215,155 recommended for the study of the boll of grain determines largely what its grade will be. And the weevil, we are to have available, out of another appropriation, experts are still at work on the problem, hoping to discover the sum of $9,845. Is that the understanding of the chairman some fundamental principles upon which they can base sugges­ of the committee? tions that will aid in the standardization of grain grading, bnt l\Ir. SCOTT. The gentleman refers to the approp.riation for . up to tlle present time they have reached no result that they the Bureau of Entomology. I do not remember the exact sum, · thought worthy of publishing. but there is a considerable sum in the appropriation for the The Forest Service expended during the last fiscal year support of the Bureau of Entomology, which will be used in $4,646,200. Through the sale of timber, the lease of grazing the boll-weevil work. lands, and other uses, it returned to the Treasury $1,807,270, Mr. LEVER. The impression has gone out that the appro­ so that the net cost of the service was $2,838,930. The greater priation in this bill will be equal to $255,000, although $215,000 part of this sum was expended, of course, in administering the comes out of one appropriation and $9,000 out of another appro­ forests and protecting them from fire, work in this latter respect priation. · Is that the fact, as you understand it? having been particularly successful during the past year. But Mr. SCOTT. I will say that the amount carried in this bill _ the Forest Service is carrying on all the time a great deal of will fully equal the amount that was available for the use of very valuable scientific work-the purpose of which is to in­ the department during the present fiscal yea1·. crease the resources and reduce the waste of our forests. The Mr. MANN. A good deal more. · preservative treatment of railroad ties, teJephone and telegraph Mr. SCOTT. And a good deal more, as I explained to the poles, mine timbers, and so on, which has now become almost gentleman from Louisiana. universal, and which extends the life of all such timbers many Mr. LEVER. I do not concede the increase, but admit there fold, was worked out and generally introduced by the Forest is no decrease. Service, and it undoubtedly results in a saving of many millions l\Ir. SCOTT. There is another thing in regard to this mat­ of dollars annually. The researches the service has been mak­ ter. Fifty thousand dollars of the amount carried in the last ing into the possibility of making an economic use of the waste bill was made immediately available, and, as a matter of fact, product of the sawmills have also attracted a great deal of was used prior to June 30, 1909, so that left for the current attention. It has shown that the yellow-pine waste of the fiscal year only $175,000. southern sawmills would be sufficient, if saved and distilled, to Mr. LEVER. I understand that. produce .as much rosin and turpentine as is now produced from lllr. SCOTT. In the Bureau of Entomology the most gratify­ the southern pine forests by bleeding. It is simply a question ing achieYement reported is the complete control of the pear of finding a commercially possible method of distillation. This thrips, a minute insect which a year ago threatened absolutely to seems already to have been accomplished, as there are now a destroy the orchard industry of the Pacific coast. So widespread considerable number of plants engaged in the manufacture of was the infestation and so complete the desh·uction in some turpentine, tar, and other products from material which has parts of California that the fruit growers were in despair. heretofore been entirely wasted or used only for fuel. One man in the Santa Clara Valley had actually begun cutting •Mr. MANN. Will the gentleman yield for one question? down an orchard worth $250,000. The scientists of this bureau Mr. SCOTT. With pleasure. discovered by their studies of the life and history of the insect Mr. ])lA.NN. I notice in the bill you change the method of that fTom 70 to 75 per cent of them could be destroyed by plow­ appropriating for the Forest Service, a change which adds a ing at a certain time of the year, and that 00 to 95 per cent great deal, in my judgment, to the efficiency of the appropria­ of those that escape the plow can be k'illed by proper methods of tion. Was there any difficulty in making these specific appro­ spraying. The victory is so complete that the fruit growers priations on the part of the committee instead of by the old have entirely regained confidence and the problem is regarded lump-sum method? as solved. Mr. SCOTT. The gentleman will doubtless remember that The campaign against the gypsy moth in New England has when the appropriation for the Forestry Bureau was criti­ proceeded along the same lines as last year, with conditions cised on the floor last year on the ground that it carried too said to be steadily but very slowly improving. In this, as in much money in a lump sum, the committee stated that there the fight against the boll weevil, the chief ground of hope for had been recently a change made in the policy whereby district the ultimate control of the pest lies in the activity of its natural headquarters were established in the field, instead of concen­ enemies. A number of parasites have been successfully inh·o­ trating all the work here in Washington, and until that policy duced, and one species has been found spread over an area of bad been worked out a little further it did not seem practicable 500 s-quare miles. :B'ortunately it attacks both the gypsy and to more closely itemize the bilL This year the chief of the the brown-tail moths, and it is hoped that it will multiply rap­ service was able to report that the policy had worked well, idly enough to act as a decided check upon both of them. It and it was upon his recommendation that the committee item­ is worthy of remark, in passing, that the States in which this ized the appropriation as it appears in the bill. The chief of work is being done show their appreciation of it by contributing ·the service said to us that he had given the matter a very large sums from their own funds to help carry it on, the amount great deal of thought and attention, having been notified by thus contributed last year aggregating $!341,400, as against the committee last year that it would expect this year's esti­ $300,000 expended by the department. mates to be itemized, and it was his judgment that the best way In commenting on the work of the biological service-- to itemize the appropriation was to segregate the forests, making Mr. LEVER. Before the gentleman leaves the subject of the a specific appropriation for each individual forest, and then gypsy moth and the boll weevil, I fear he has unwittingly given divide the remainder of the appropriation among the different an impression that the hope of the department to control t~e groups of scientific work that is being carried on in the bureau. cotton boll weevil Js through the parasite. My information, It seemed to the committee that this was a logical and would from the statement made by gentlemen in charue of this work, })robably prove to be a satisfactory arrangement. is that their hope of controlling the weevil lies in their being Mr. l\fANN. I think the committee is very much to be com­ able to make crops in spite of the weevil, and that the depart­ mended for what they have done. ment does not have much faith in the parasita theory. Mr. WICKLIFFE. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield Mr. SCOTT. That was the expression they used with refer­ to me for a question? I notice on page 18 of the present bill ence to "the control" of the boll weevil, and the impression that for the study and demonstration of the best methods of I have gained from the scientists who appeared before our meeting the ravages of the cotton boll weevil the sum of $215,- committee justified the use of that expression. They declared, 155 iD appropriated. That is a decrease in the bill from the last without any qualification, that the methods adopted had been 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. il20f very satisfactory in Texas and in other sections where the l\Ir. SCOTT. I believe the gentleman from Virginia yielded· climate was dry and very warm; but they stated that in a por·· to me what time remained to him. I will ask the attention of tion of. the. country where the climate was not only warm, but the committee but a few minutes longer. moist, and cotton fields were surrounded by forests, affording The work that has been done in cooperation with the Bureau shelter for the boll weevils, that they had not yet been able by of Forestry has resulted in discovering a number of trees which any cultural methods to overcome them. The gentleman from have heretofore not been used for the purpose that make a very South Carolina, a member of the committee, will remember the excellent quality of wood pulp. At the present time, however, case of one particular plantation about which the statement was none of these trees can be procured any more cheaply than the made that two :rears ago it had produced l,GOO bales of cotton, spruce and fir, which now constitute our principal sources of last year 750, and this year not one bale, although 700 acres supply for wood pulp, ·and I think there has been no practical had been planted to cotton this year. The difficulty, of course, result. is in the number of boll weevils that are able to live through In the matter of the work of the Bureau of Plant Indush·y, the winter and come out actively in the spring; and this diffi-. about the only plant they have found which seems to be very culty, the scientists believe, it will be extremely hard to combat. promising is the common cornstalk. They have experimented in. They do not hold out any hope-and I am sure the gentleman two ways. They have tried growing the corn for no other ·pur­ from South Carolina will bear me out in this statement-that pose than for manufacturing fiber, and they have tried taking within a year or two the problem can be met. 1\Ir. Hunter, the the cornstalks from the fields after the ears have been har­ gentleman in direct charge of the work, declared, in his judg­ vested, and with Yery excellent results in both cases. While ment, that it would mean a wide change in the locality of cot­ there is no doubt of the fact that high-grade paper can be made ton growing; thnt there were some fields on nearly every from cornstalks, still, under present economic conditions, as plantation where the methods which they now advised would be long as spruce pulp can be obtained · at present rates, it is not successful in combating the boll weevil, but that there are likely that a great industry will be built up in the manufacture great areas, differently located, where the present methods were of paper from cornstalks. unable to meet the emergency, and that they would have to The bill recommends the continuation of the appropriation of meet it in other ways. $10,000, however, to' carr.y on the work, because it is obvious Mr. BATES. Mr. Chairman, I ask the chairman of the that if some substitute for wood pulp ·could be found it would committee if the appropriation for the investigation of insects be worth many millions of dollars to the people of this country. affecting grape vineyards is as large as last year, or large 1\fr. Chairman, I regret very much that I overlooked a request enough to warrant the continuation of the present investigation on the part of the gentleman from Oregon [Mr. HAWLEY], a along those lines? I know that in Chautauqua County, N. Y., member of the committee, for a few minutes' time during the and in Erie County, Pa., a grape worm has threatened the general debate; and before relinquishing the floor I ask unani­ industry, and they have been yery anxious to obtain the serv­ mous consent that he be permitted to print such remarks as he ices of a certain specialist who-has seemed to be reaching or would have made in this debate if time had been allotted to about to find a cure or some help, at least, in the direction of him. the extermination of that insect. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Kansas asks unani­ Mr. SCOTT. There has been no reduction in the appropria­ mous consent that the gentleman from Oregon [Mr. HAWLEY] tions for the Bureau of Entomology. There has been a little may extend remarks in the RECORD. Is there objection? shifting of the sums under the various paragraphs, but I feel There was no objection. sure that the work' to which the gentleman alludes can be car­ Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Chairman, I believe I have concluded what ried forward as efficiently as it has been in the past year. I had in mind to say by way of comment on the bill and upon In commenting upon the work of the Bureau of Biological the work of the department, and I shall now be glad to answer Survey, Doctor Merriam, the chief of the bureau, niade the any questions that Members wish to ask me, if I can. I will rather startling report that a large number of the ground yield first to the gentleman from Ohio, who first addressed me. squirrels infesting great areas in California are found to be 1\lr. DOUGLAS. I want to ask the gentleman, in the first infected with the bubonic plague. Nine cases are known in place, if I understood him correctly in saying that this bill sub­ which the disease has been communicated to human beings, stantially follows the bill in amount and distribution that we and in seven of them the patient died. had a year ago from his committee? The serious feature of' the situation- Mr. SCOTT. Substantially the same. There is a net in­ To quote from Doctor Merriam's statement to the com­ crease, as I remember it, of $422,100. mittee-- Ur. DOUGLAS. I also understood the gentleman to say that is that for the first time in the history of the United States we now the committee has substantially followed in this bill the re­ have plague in an endemic form, propagated and continued by means quests of the Secretary. of fleas on native rodents, just as is the case in India. In India plague ls endemic; that is. it exists all the time-perpetuated by fleas on a l\Ir. SCOTT. I made that statement. native squirrel (Sciurus palmm·-um), and a certain number of people Mr. DOUGLAS. I also understood him further to say that die from it every year, but every few years it assumes an acute, malig· in this bill the Secretary had stated to the committee that he nant type and spreads with great rapidity, killing hundreds of thou­ sands of people. So far as I am aware we have not yet had an out­ had been governed in his estimates or requests more perhaps by break of the malignant type of plague in California, but who will the request of the Executive that this year's appropriations in venture to say that such an outbreak may not occur in hot weather'/ the department generally ought not to be increased. It is exceedingly important to ascertain as soon as possible the south­ ernmost limit of plague-infested ground squirrels, and to isolate them l\Ir. SCOTT. I do not think I said just that. I said I pre­ from those of the rest of the States by cutting a swath around them to sumed that the Secretary had recognized the necessity of econ­ the south, and then to work backward and kill them off, exterminating omy when ·he made up his estin1ates, and that he was willing to them throughout the area of known infestation. bear his share of the responsibility for economy in presenting And that is what the Bureau of Biological Survey, in co­ the estimates in the shape in which he did. operation with the Marine-Hospital Service and with the local Mr. DOUGLAS. I would also like to ask the gentleman if he authorities, is undertaking to do. and the committee do not recognize the fact that whatever may There is only one other line of work that the department has be the effect of the present agitation and boycott against the been doing in which I think members of the committee may eating of meat, and other efforts of that kind, either instigated ha·rn a special interest, and that is the matter of testing ma­ by the newspapers or by some one else, that, after all, the un­ terials for paper making. . For the past two· or three years we derlying cause for the condition which confronts us is due, as have been appropriating $10,000 a year for carrying on that I understood the gentleman to say, in part, at least, to the work, and the committee, and I think the country, have been lessening of the cultivated area, or rather the lessening of the very much interested in it. The work during the_past year has area which may be brought into cultivation from lands which been in two directions. In collaboration with the Forest Seryice ha•e not been heretofore culUrated, the lessening of production, experiments ha·rn been made with different varieties of wood, and yarious cognate causes; and that, after all, the ultimate and under the direction of the Bureau of Plant Industry ex­ thing the country must look to for relief is the improvement in periments have been made with deciduous plants in the hope of the agricultural conditions, an increase of the amount that may finding some annual that could be profitably grown for this be raised on the land, and the restoration of the old and partly purpose. worn lands of the country? Although I have badly stated it, is The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Kansas has occupied not that the view of the gentleman, in a general way? _ one hour of his time. There yet remain fifteen minutes of his l\fr. SCOTT. The gentleman state~ it very well, and I think time and twenty minutes released by the gentleman from Vir­ we all agree that if the demands of our increased population are giniv. [l\Ir. LAMB]. to be met, -it must be chiefly by an increase in the crop yields. XLV-76

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That, of course, can only be obtained by better farming and the for these largely increased appropriations, or else have the introduction of more prolific seed. House itself on the floor increase these appropTiations, doing Mr. DOUGLAS. I understood the gentleman to say, in speak­ it upon the theory that we are to cut down expenses in some ing of the work of the Agricultural Department in that regard, other direction? especially the Bureau of Plant Industry, that its success in its Mr. SCOTT. Suppose the Committee on Agriculture had efforts in this direction were "startling," or " unparalleled," or brought in a bill recommending $10,000,000 more than it would " phenomenaJ," or some such adjective--that the :vork which have felt warranted in recommending, if it knew that the Com­ this department has been carrying on has been emmently suc­ mittee on Naval Affairs was to bring in an estimate for an cessful. additional battle ship, upon the theory that the battle ship .Mr. SCOTT. I certainly intended to give that impression. would be eliminated and the House should pass the bill as re­ Mr. DOUGLAS. Does the gentleman doubt that, instead of ported by the Committee. on Agriculture. Then the Commit­ building mo battle ships this year, if we added $5,000,000 to tee on Naval Affairs would bring in its bill, containing a provi­ the appropriation for the various useful bureaus of the Depart­ sion for this extra battle ship, the money for which we under ment of Agriculture, that Secretary Wilson would be able to stood we had already expended. Now, does the gentleman be­ spend the money wisely and judiciously? lieve that any Member on this floor would be influenced in his l\Ir. SCOTT. Let me say to the gentleman from Ohio that, in vote upon the naval bill by the suggestion that the money pro­ the first place, under our present system of appropriations, as vided by the naval appropriation bill for a battle ship had the gentleman knows very well, there is no way by which we already been carried in an appropriation bill of the Depart­ could make that kind of a trade. We might appropriate ment of Agriculture? $10 000 000 here with the understanding in the minds of the Mr. DOUGLAS. I think there are some of us who would. Co~ttee on Agriculture that the Department of Agriculture Mr. SCOTT. But not enough to make a majority of the would have $10,000,000 more to spend, and that we would not House. ha·rn a new battle ship; but, unfortunately, or fortunately, de­ Mr. DOUGLAS. I think all of us ought to be influenced by pending upon the point of view, that would not influence the it. In other words, it all goes back to a principle that I have Committee on Naval Affairs or the House or the Senate, and contended for here, as the gentleman knows, namely, we ought after our increased appropriation had been made we might still to have some general committee in this House to supervise esti­ have the battle ship. mates, expenditures, and appropriations generally, and to make Mr. DOUGLAS. Is the gentleman sure that it would not some sort of a report, from which the House can gather what influence the House? Is the gentleman sure that if the Com­ it can do and thereby determine what it should do with refer­ mittee on A~riculture, with full consciousness of the conditions ence to appropriations. I certainly believe that if, in insisting and our duty to the country, had come in here and, instead of upon an increase of appropriations to the Agricultural Depart­ asking for a million and a half for this bmeau, had asked for ment, it were admitted that the increase-in these appropriations $3 000 000 that the House would not give it to them? might necessitate less expenditure upon some fortification at Mr.' SCOTT. I trust that the House has great confidence in Subic Bay or Pearl Harbor or some less amount for battle the Committee on Agriculture, but I doubt if the House would ships, the Members of the House ha e sufficient intelligence to have justified the committee in doubling the estimates of the appreciate this fact and to carry it in their minds, and when the Secretary for any bureau of this department. If the gentleman time comes make the reduction in that appropriation bill, from will permit me to speak for a moment-- whatever committee it comes. I certainly think so. Mr. DOUGLAS. Certainly; it is a matter .in which I take l\fr. SCOTT. Mr. Chairman, I sympathize heartily with the a great deal of interest. gentleman's wish that we might haye a budget all before us at Mr. SCOTT. I want to say in reference to the point the once, so that the House could, as it were, trade one item for gentleman is obviously making, that the Committee on Agri­ another in the way the gentleman has suggested. But we have culfure appreciates as fully as the gentleman from Ohio or any not that sort of a system. I am not able to extemporize a sug­ other gentleman does, the work of the department and the gestion as to how we might get it. For the present, therefore, value of that work to the country, and it is more anxious than I think that each appropriation committee must simply exercise the average committee is to promote that work. the best judgment it has and submit its recommendations to the It has kept in close touch with it. It calls before it every House. year the Secretary of Agriculture and the chiefs of his vari­ ous bureaus and interrogates them about the work they are Mr. DOUGLAS. In connection, I want to say this to the gen­ doing the work they intend to do, and the amount of money tleman and to the House on my own responsibility, that I know they think will be needed to carry forward their projects. The from the Secretary himself with reference to the Office of Roads, Committee on Agriculture therefore is in very close and very the Bureau of Plant Industry, the Bureau of Entomology, or sympathetic touch with the department. If it has failed to any of these bureaus which are doing such a tremendously suc­ recommend in this bill increases which the gentleman thinks cessful work to make farm life more profitable and attractive in ought to have been recommended, it has been for two reasons; every way-I say that I know of my own knowledge that if first because the committee thinks the condition of the Treas­ this House gives him the money the Secretary knows how to ury 'calls for economy, and, second, because it believes there is spend it advisedly, and I shall appeal to the House earnestly a limit to the amount of money that can be efficiently and when the time comes to increase one or more of these appropri­ economically expended, even in the best of work. I quoted ations carried in this bill. during my remal'ks the observations of Doctor Galloway, in Mr. SCOTT. I now yield to the gentleman from Nebraska which he declared with emphasis that he believed it would be a [Mr. Non.&rs], who desired to ask me a question. good thing for them to have a breathing spell, in order that l\Ir. NORRIS. Mr. Chairman, if I may be permitted, before asking the question I contemplated asking the gentleman I they might adjust the "loose joints" that m~ght have resul~ed from too rapid growth, and work out thar problems with would like to suggest to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Doua­ greater ca.re, with greater attention to detail than they had LAS] that the chairman of the committee has not given all the been able to do during this period of very rapid growth, and reasons why the plan proposed by the gentleman from Ohio Doctor Galloway's remark appealed to me as having a basis in would not be successful. I am rather inclined personally to good common sense. _ favor the plan of the gentleman from Ohio, but the chairman of Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. Chairman, I have listened with inter­ the committee has omitted to state to him that we always have est to what the gentleman has said, but I want to go back now a war scare at the .time the Committee on Naval Affairs report to the gentleman's statement, that it is not possible for the an appropriation for the building of a couple of extra battle Committee on Agriculture to make a trade with the Committee ships. on Naval Affairs and secure in place of an extra battle ship Mr. DOUGLAS. I know we have each year I have been here; another $5,000,000 for the Agricultural Department., that there I hate noticed that. is no provision in our proceedings in Congress made for that l\Ir. NORRIS. The question I desire to ask of the chairman llOrt of a trade. Is that what the gentleman meant? of the committee is whether he would not continue the Yery Mr. SCOTT. That is what I meant to say. interesting explanation of the work of these different bureaus Mr. DOUGLAS. Admitting we have only so much to spend, by giving us an idea of the work that has been done and that is if it be the opinion of the House that it is more advisable to contemplated to be done by the Office of Roads. I think the spend three or four million dollars more in one direction, say chairman did not refer to that in any way in making the expla­ in the direction of improving our agricultural conditions, and nation he has already made. three or :tour million dollars less in some other direction, is not Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman-- the only way that we can under present conditions accom­ The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Kansas yield? plish that result for the gentlemen ·of the Committee on Agri­ Mr. SCOTT. I would rather answer the gentleman from Ne- culture to bring in a bill and submit it to the House asking braska, if I may, for just a moment. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 11203

Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. I beg the gentleman's pardon; paragraph to which-he alludes under the Office of Experiment I thought the gentleman had finished. Stations carries the only appropriation available for this work. Mr. NORRIS. No; he has not answered my question. There are appropriations all through the bill for the traveling Mr. SCOTT. The work of the Office of Roads has been carried expenses of agents of the department that can be used in this forward during the past year along the usual lines, with par­ lecturing work. we· regard it as a part of the demonstration ticular attention, perhaps, to experiments looking to the dis­ work, the publicity work, of the department-a very valuable covery of some sort of surface for roads that will keep down the part of it-and at the proper time I expect to be able to show dust and will protect the roads from the wear of high-speed that there is available for demonstration work, part of which vehicles. The best results they have obtained, according to the can be used for defraying expenses of lecturers, nearly $500,000 report of the director, were from the use of a certain prepara­ in this bill. tion in which Portland cement was a large ingredient. They Mr. HOUSTON. Does the chairman mean by that that thei'c have also obtained excellent results by the use of the waste will be ample provision made to meet the demands for this sort from molasses and sugar mills. of work in this bill? One thing which was particularly gratifying to the committee Mr. SCOTT. I do not believe that the demand could be met was a statement made by the director that the work of his by the appropriations in this bill even if they were multiplied office had been facilitated rather than hindered by the provision fourfold. inserted in the last bill prohibiting the further use of road­ Mr. HOUSTON. Would it not be well to increase the ~p­ making material. Gentlemen will remember that there was an propriation in that line? That is the question I want to get at. earnest protest against that provision when the committee re­ l\lr. LllIB. I would suggest that under the five-minute rule ported the bill last year, the argument being that it would pre­ the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. HousToN] will have ample vent the Office of Public Roads from doing a great deal of very opportunity to present that matter. -valuable work. The attention of the director of the office was l\lr. SCOTT. That is my individual judgment, of course; and called to that matter when he was before the committee, and .he as the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. LAMB] suggests, we can made this statement: discuss it further under the five-minute rule. When this provision was put in, Mr. Page felt rather anxious as to Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. I want to direct the gentle­ the outcome of the work, and a great many people who were interested man's attention to the provision on page 62 authorizing the In the work of the Office of Public Roads felt that the work had been to a considerable extent crippled. We have now learned by experience Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the cost of food supplies that this is not the case, and the figures showing the extension of our at the farms and to the consumer, and to ask him in that con­ object-lesson road work throughout the country are very significant in nection whether, in his judgment, sufficient provision is now this respect. The report shows that in 1907 we constructed something like 200,000 square yards of object-lesson roads; the following year, made for inspection by the Secretary of Agriculture of goods when we still had some road-building machinery on hand, 223,000 that go into cold storage, as, for instance, meats, butter, and square yards of object-lesson roads were consti·ucted ; in 1909, without eggs? any machinery which belonged to the Office of Public Roads, we con­ structed 690,000 square yards. These results, therefore, justil'y the Mr. SCOTT. The committee has no information either from wisdom of the committee in putting the provision into the bill. - the Secretary of Agriculture or anyone connected with his de­ That is, they were able to secure the construction of more partment that the appropriation made for enforcing the pure­ than three times as much model road as they had been able to food law is not sufficient. construct when they owned and operated the machinery. The Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. Before a subcommittee of the difference in that result, bearing out the judgment of the com­ Committee on the District of Columbia now investigating the mittee, was due to the fact that instead of spending their time question of cold storage it appeared, from statements by the and money in the actual manual operation of machines they Secretary and tlie chief chemist of the Government, that they could expend it in expert advice, and that is the most Yaluable are without power to properly inspect eggs that are placed in work which the Office of Public Roads is now doing. In yarious cold storage; that the number of inspectors is so scant that parts of the co'untry, when the good-roads movement gets an they are practically dependent upon one or two men to super:­ impetus and communities wish to build roads on a large scale, vise the entry into the storage warehouses of the country of all the bureau is amply able, with the appropriation we now au­ the great quantity of eggs that go there. thorize, to send an expert to that community-an engineer­ l\lr. SCOTT. The gentleman probably understands that there who can go over the roads, indicate the best variety of mate­ is one appropriation for the meat-inspection work of the Bu­ rial to be used and the best system of construction, and assist reau of Animal Industry and an entirely different appropria­ the local authorities in making plans for the roads and in de· tion for the enforcement of the pure-food act, which is under termining all the problems relating to them. The committee the Bureau of Chemistry. I doubt very much whether the feels, therefore, as if the House had done well in making the Bureau of Chemistry would have authority to appoint any~ change that was made last year in the language of this para­ body to inspect cold-storage plants unless it could be shown that graph. such inspection was in direct connection with interstate com­ l\Ir. COLLIER. I listened with a great deal of pleasure and merce. profit to your remarks this morning, but there is one matter Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. Is it not a fact that provision concerning which I have an indistinct reco).lection. I simply was made some time ago for inspection of cold-storage ware­ want to know if the amount of money appropriated for the houses under the direction of the Bureau of Chemistry, which destruction of the boll weevil in this bill is sufficient for that appropriation was subsequently withdrawn? purpose in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture? Mr. SCOTT. I do not remember that there was eyer such a Mr. SCOTT. We did not question the Secretary of Agricul­ provision. There was a provision carried for several years in ture on that particular item, and we did not question Doctor the bill authorizing the chief of the Bureau of Chemistry to . Knapp. The committee consulted with Doctor Galloway, as inyestigate the results and the effect of cold storage upon the the chief of the bureau under which most of the work is done, quality of different classes of food, which provision was carried and with Doctor Howard, the Chief of the Bureau of Entomol­ as long as the work was going on. When the chief of the ogy, who also does some of the work. Doctor Galloway de­ bureau reported that this investigation had been satisfactorily clared, with a good deal of emphasis, that he had not asked for concluded of course it was omitted. any increase, because he believed the amounts appropriated Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. The point has been made that were sufficient, and Doctor Howard was of the opinion, so far, the bureau was without power to properly inspect those articles at least, as anything he said to the committee would indicate, in the nature of food products which enter into cold storage tha.t with the appropriation carried in this bill he would be able and which are held there for long periods of time before de­ to go forward with the part of the work which he was doing. livery to the consumer. Mr. HOUSTON. I believe that this provision here in regard Mr. SCOTT. Would the gentleman belieYe that the Bureau to the expei"iment-station work is the authority under which of Chemistry under any proyision of an appropriation bill the Secretary of Agriculture sends out expert lecturers to do would have authority to go to Philadelphia and inspect cold­ institute work? storage warehous~s? Mr. SCOTT. Yes, sir. Mr. MOORE of Pennsylrnnia. If the commodity were inter­ Mr. HOUS'rON. I want to ask the chairman if the appro­ state commerce I would think so. priation that can be utilized for that purpose is the same as it Mr. SCOTT. Could an inspection be made until the com­ was in the last bill? modity had entered into interstate commerce? Mr. SCOTT. Exactly the same. Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. The charge is made that there l\Ir. HOUSTON. Now, is there not a very large increase in are 1,800,000,000 eggs in cold storage. Whether this is true or the demand for this work all over the country? not, many of these eggs come out of the Western States and into Mr. SCOTT. I think the demand for it is increasing, and I the Eastern States, where they are placed in cold storage. was partially in error in stating to the gentleman that the That is interstate commerce. (f20~ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 28,

Mr. SCOTT. .Are not the Eastern States able to take care bill, with benefit to the American people. [Applause.] Yet of that situation? how are you going to do it under the present system? Just Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania.. They are,. and in most in­ look at the situation in which we find ourselves here as legis­ stances do. lators in this House, which has charge of the money of this Mr. SCOTT. They are live eggs when they leave our State. Nation. Where and when and how can you and I in this House Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. That is interstate commerce. intelligently and effectively declare that "We do not want But we are advised that the eggs enter into the storage ware­ two battle ships; that economy is necessary; that therefore house in the interior of the country, in another State, and then, we will have one battle ship, and instead of spending $10,000,000 after being there for a period of time, are sent to the Eastern for that extra battle ship we will a.dd $5,000,000 to the agricul­ States and the extreme Western States, and there remain for tural appropriation bill, to the benefit of every man, woman, an indefinite period before they are sold to the consumer. and child in the United States.'~ Mr. GARNER of Texas. Would not that take a law author­ Mr. HUGHES of West Virginia. I make the point of order izing the inspection of these eggs which would have to come that the gentleman from Ohio is not talking to the bill that is from the Interstate Commerce Committee before you could before the House. appropriate money for that purpose? Mr. DOUGLAS. I am most emphatically talking to the bill Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. I was trying to get from the now before the House committee whether or not it was enabled through an appropria­ The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Ohio, the Chn.ir tion to make a provision which would preserve the public thinks, is within the rule. [Applause.] health of this country. While I heartily approve of this pro-­ Mr. DOUGLAS. Now, gentleman, I hold in my hand a reso­ vision, which directs and authorizes the Secretary to make an lution that I am going to offer, and I am going to offer it in investigation and report, there seems to be no appropriation that every Congress as long as I am here, and I am going to stand would enable him in any way to operate upon his own findings. on this fioor and advocate it as long as I have opportunity to Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Chairman, I think there is some confusion do so ; and if anybody is going to get tired of it, I am sorry,. in the mind of the gentleman, due to a misunderstanding of the but it shall not deter me. To my mind the method under which work that has heretofore been done under authority of an ap­ we appropriate money in this House is unworthy of the propriation bill by the Bureau of Chemistry in the matter of American Congress. .As I have said before, and as I shall re­ studying the effect of_cold storage. That appropriation was peat, we have no sort of method by which we can overlook not made to permit the department to inspect cold-storage the whole field of American activity, no way of distributing products. It was made, as I stated a moment ago, to enable according to the will of this House the money of this Govern­ the Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry to investigate the results ment to those objects whieh this House itself wants to see fos­ of cold storage. He put up a cold-storage plant in his own tered and promoted. bureau, in which he placed various articles of food and kept The resolution that I am going to read and which I pro­ them, taking them out and testing them at different times, in pose to introduce has exact relation to this very situation. We order to determine the length of time after cold storage began are told that economy is necessary; that the President himsel:t when the articles commenced to deteriorate in quality. There has insisted that the difrerent departments shall cut down never was any authority in this bffi to enable him to inspect every appropriation; and, consequently, that the Agricultural cold-storage warehouses in this or any othe:c city; and I do not Department can not have anything more than it had a year believe the bill could properly carry such an appropriation. ago; and this in face of the fact that this countcy from one As to the paragraph to which the gentleman has called at­ end to the other is in a perfect blaze of revolution against the tention, authorizing the Secretary to inquire .into the cost of high price of foodstuffs, which high prices are principally due various articles of farm products, and so forth, that is a para­ to the decrease in our food supply raised upon the farms of graph which was inserted by the committee merely in order this country. that there could be no question of the authority of the Secre­ Is not that ludicrous, if it is not worse? Now, I do not tary to conduct this investigation. He had already begun work mean that this plan which I propose is a panacea for all of under what he believed to be sufficient authority, and what our ills, but I do submit that this or something like it should he had done attracted the favorable attention of the entire be adopted. If the distinguished gentleman, chairman of the country. The committee believed that the House would desire Committee on Appropriations, had introduced it, it would get the work to go on, and we wanted to insert a provision in this more attention than it will from me. If the distinguished chair­ bill which would eliminate any possible criticism. The Secre­ man of the Committee on Ways and Means, who, I think, ought tary was very glad to have the paragraph inserted and did not to have long since attended to it, had introduced it,. it would get ask for any additional appropriation in order to carry it into far more consideration than when introduced by me. But if it effect, because he believed he had sufficient funds already. commends itself ultimately to the good sense and business judg­ Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. The paragraph as it now reads ment of the men of this House, regardless of politics, we will simply contemplates investigation and publicity. get it some day, and then I submit that we will have a dif­ Mr. SCOTT. Exactly. ferent system of maldng appropriations. I hope if any gen­ Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. No action based upon the tleman can improve it he will do so, either on the fioor of the facts found. House or in any way or at any time. I shall welcome any sug­ Mr. SCOTT. No action can be taken under this paragraph. gestions for its improvement. Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. It is evident, so far as our The resolution is as follows: inquiries have gone, that there undoubtedly is an unnatural Resolved, That the following be a rule of the House, to be num­ rise in the price of foodstuffs, as between the producer in the bered paragraph 63 of Rule XI- gentleman's section of the country and the consumer in my Rule XI is that rule of the House which in paragraph 62 section of the country. I thought, possibly, in a paragraph of states the duty of each committee of the House- this kind some provision might be made for removing those ob­ The Committee on Ways and Means, together with the chairmen of structions when found by the Secretary of Agriculture. the committees of the House empowered under the roles and practice Mr. SCOTT. The membership of the House, I am sure, are to report appropriations from the National Treasury, shall constitute a Committee on Estimates and Expenditures; which committee shnll, all awaiting with the greatest interest a report which the gen­ as soon after the convening of each regular session of Congress a may tleman's committee will make, and which I trust; will recom­ be, report to· the House the amount of revenue probably available for mend legislation to meet the conditions he describes. appropriation for the next fiscal year, and apportion this amount to the several appropriation bUls within the jurisdiction of the com­ The CHAIRMAN. The time for general debate has expired. mittees empowered by the rules and practice of the House to report The Clerk will report the bill. appropriations. This report may be made at any time, and when The Clerk, proceeding with the reading of the bill, read as agreed to by the House shall limit the appropriations of the several follows : committees. Total for office of the Secretary, $198, 770. Now, what is the Committee on Ways and Means doino- to­ .Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the last day in this House? Look at the situation. The tarifr bill was word. I do not propose to weary the House by the reiteration passed last year. .We may not have another for ten years, of one song ; but I do propose, if I stay in Congress, to keep and meanwhile we have segregated some twenty of the most up an agitation for a different system of making appropria­ valuable Members of this House. on both sides, and put them tions here than that which we are now pursuing. Just look on a shelf and given them a room where they may ·hang up at the situation that you and I and all of us here have before their coats and hats, and doing nothing of very great moment us in this House with reference to this matter of appropria­ as a committee in the life and business of this House. Is it tions. I do not believe there is a man within.. the sound of my not a fact? voice who does not heartily agree with me that we might cut Please understand me. off appropriations for the army and navy somewhere and I am not talking about the individual influence of these add to the amount carried in this agricultural appropriation Members upon the legislation that goes on here, but so far 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 11205 as committee work is concerned there are ten or twenty com­ from Ohio in his statement that we could reduce our war mittees in this House that have far more to do to-day than the expenditures so- far as those expenditures relate to the prepara­ Committee on Ways and Means. tion for war, and expend the excess am-Ount we are to-day Now, let that great commtttee add to itself the ehairman of expending for that purpose on internal improvements of various the Committee on Appropriations, the chairman of the Com­ kind~ inclUding agriculture nnd the improvement of our rivers mittee. on Agriculture, the chairman of the Committee on Naval and harbors. If this House would exercise its legitimate fune­ Affairs, the chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, tion and refuse to appropriate the amount asked for by these the chairmen of all of those committees that are authorized to departments unless necessity therefor was clearly shown, no make ap,Propriations, and let them at the beginning of th~ matter what was recommended by the committees that repre­ session look over the field of national activity, an :tet them sent these two great departments-the army and navy-we make an estimate of what the revenues are to be, and make would then have more money in the Treasury which we some sort of an apportionment of how the money is to be spent. could appropriate and expend for other activities along In that way this House can act upon that report, and if we peaceful and more beneficial Jines than we are to-d.ay e~­ choose to take one or two or three million dollars from the pending. The remedy the- gentleman proposes for the evil Committee on Naval Affairs, or from any other appropriation would not be effective, because the committees that make committee, and add it to agriculture, internal improvements, these appropriations must of necessity analyze all of the esti­ Indian affairs, or whatever object, we have an opportunity to mates submitted.. for appropriations, including supplemental ·do it. You may call it a "Committee on the Budget," if you estimates, and th€y would be governed by the necessities of the please, or what you please; but I submit that it will supply a service for which they are authorized to appropriate, regardless deficiency in the procedure of this House-it will supply a of their allotm~nt. As long as we have in this House seven place where that can be done which it is essent ial for this or eight committees clothed with the jurisdiction and power House to do and which we do not now have any opportunity of making appropriations independent of each other and with­ to do. out any reference to the aggregate estimated revenues, just so When I asked the distinguished chairman of the Agricultural long will we have seven or eight committees that are the repre­ Committee whether or not the Committee on Agriculture could sentatives of the departments submitting their estimates, and mpend more money in these beneficent ways than is appro­ for which they make appropriations, instead of these committees ' ~ priated here, he said that doubtless they could. Why not give representing the House in the matter of public expenditures. it to them? Because we must exercise economy. Why? Simply This, Mr. Chairman, will be true whether we hnve the general because we have only so much to spend, vast as it may be, and committee proposed by the gentleman from Ohio to allot the first we, of course, must make appropriations f01.· those great total appropriati-0ns, or whether we eontinue the present purposes of Government upon which the life of the Govemm~t system. depends, such. as the army, navy, and the rest. But we do not l\Ir. DOUGLAS. Will the gentleman yield? necessarily have to appropriate as we have been doing. In The CHAffiMAN. The time of the gentleman from l\Iinne­ the language of the distinguished gentleman from :Minnesota, sota has expired. chairman of the Committee on Approprfations, 7l per cent of Mr. DOUGLAS. I ask unanimous consent that his time be our revenues is for preparation for war and payment for past extended for five minutes. wars, and then we appropriate only 2 per ceut to the great agri­ The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection 'l cultural interests of this country. I submit to Members of this There was no objection. House that that was a startling statement which the chairman Mr. DOUGLAS. Was the gentleman ill the Forty-ninth of the committee made at Chicago last spring, although not Congress? new, perhaps, t<> many of us. And s<>, in this connection, I Mr. TAWNEY. No. simply wan.t to- call attention <>f the House to the fact that we Mr. DOUGLAS. The gentleman has read the debate which have no place and no means by which, as the chairman of this took place, which Mr. Randall, of Pensylvania, led upon the committee must admit, where we can exchange a battle ship one side and Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, on the other? for an agricultural appropriation, or any means by which we Mr. TAWNEY. I am familiar with that debate. can say we will lessen. an appropriation here and increase it Mr. DOUGLAS. Would th~ gentleman advocate the consolida­ there. [Applause.] tion of all the appropriations in one committee, as was done at Mr. TAWNEY. l\fr. Chairman, if I may be indulg~ by the that time? ' committee for a few minutes, I would like to- say a few words Mr. TAWNEY. I would. in respect to the suggestion of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. l\fr. DOUGLAS. Woulcl the gentleman in that connection DouGLAS] abQut our system of making appropriations, a sug­ advocate the system that then prevailed in this House, under gestion that is not new, for it has been made several times be­ which substantially the only way to get any legislation of any fore~ When. he made ·the statement, at the beginning of his kind through th~ House was by attaching it to one of the remarks, expressing regret that his proposition was not fathered appropriation bills? by the chairman of the Committee on App1·opriations, because Mr. TAWNEY. No. That does not follow necessarily, and that person has more influence than he has in this House, he I would not advocate that. forgot what transpired here last Tuesday, when he, through Mr. DOUGLAS. Was it not almost the universal practice as his influence, succeeded. in increasing· appropriations while I a result of that? failed, notwithstanding u very strenuous effort to keep them Mr. TAWNEY. · That was the practice, but it did not follow down. [Laughter.] because of the fact that one committee at that time had ex­ His criticism of the system under which general appropria­ clusive jurisdiction over all appropriations. It was because of tions are made for public expenditures is to a large extent the role of the House expressly permitting legislation on appro­ just, but the adoption of the one he suggests, which he says priation bills, if on its face such legislation. retrenched expendi­ would enable this House to take several million dollars from tures. Much of the legislation referred to was formulated uy one department and appropriate it for the activities of another committee.snot having jurisdiction over appropriations and was department, would be no improvement over our present sys­ offered by them as amendments to general appropriation bills. tem. If his plan for a committee, composed of the members of It waB the rule in question that made the mischief complained the Ways and l\leans Committee of"the House and of the chair­ of, and not the fact that all appropriation bills were formulated men of the several committees having jurisdiction of appropri­ in one committee. ations, were adopted, all that committee could possibly do Mr. HENRY W. PA.LMIDR. What is the gentleman's plrui? would be to apportion the aggregate of the revenues to the sev­ l\!r. TAWNEY. I have not considered offering a plan, but if eral committees, leaving the committees to which this apvor­ I did, my plan would be this.: Create under the rules of this tionment had been made to prepare the details of the appropri­ House one committee of sufficient size to take jurisdiction of ations for the activities of the departments for which they re­ and prepare all of the a.pptopriation bills, leaving that commit­ spectively appropriate. tee to create subcommittees, and having each subcommittee This general committee would deal only with the regular under the control of the general committee. In that way you annual estimates. It could not consider supplemental esti­ would have a co-relation of the various activities of the Gov­ mates, nor deficiency estimates, nor could it control appropri­ ernment with the estimated revenues of the Government for ations authorized at each session of Congress for which no each coming fiscal year. estimates were submitted. There would be no chance to modify Until 1865 all approp:i.·iation bills were reported by the Com­ or change this apvortionment as a whole when once made, mittee on Ways and l\feans. In that year the Committee on either on the floor of the House or by this general committee. Appropriations was created, and until 1880 that committee had It would have to be done by each committee according to its initial control over all appropriations. In 1880 the Agricultural best judgment. I am in entire sympathy with the gentleman Committee was given control over all appropriations for the ;

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Agricultural Department, and the river and harbor bill was Mr. TAWNEY. No; I never contemplated· anything of the given the status of a general appropriation bill under control kind, and it would not have happened if the Members of this of the Committee on Commerce and subsequently the Committee House would have reduced the appropriations for the army on Rivers and Harbors. In 1885 there was taken from control and other appropriation bills, keeping them within the esti­ of the Committee on Appropriations six more of the general mates of the departments. But that is not the only danger. I appropriation bills, and since then we have bad eight different said the other day, whether the gentleman from Missouri was committees, to say nothing of the Committee on Rivers and on the floor or not, and warned the House that if we con­ Harbors, in this House exercising jurisdiction, independent of tinued to make appropriations for which there were no esti­ each other, over the general appropriation bills, with the result mates and increased the appropriations for which estimates are that some branches of the puplic service seem to have grown made this House, more than any other branch of the legisla­ quite fat while others are lean, according to the activities of tive department of the Government, will have to take the re­ their foster parents, the respective committees clothed with sponsibility before the people of the charge of extravagance. power to look after their welfare and growth. In this connection We are to-day, in this House, increasing the appropriations the knowledge comes with startling force that during the first not only beyond the estimates, but we are appropriating money decade following the present general dish·ibution of the appro- for new projects for which there have been no estimates. priation bills in 1885 the total of the money bills, excepting And another thing to which I want to call the attention of the pen ions, increased on a per capita basis of population nearly House is that the regular annual estimates are being supple- ._ $700,000,000 over the decade preceding, or more than 46 per mented every day by supplemental estimates that of neces ity cent. increases the approp1·iations. It is, therefore, of the utmost Now, Mr. Chairman, I am glad that the gentleman from Ohio necessity that every Member of this House should see to it has brought this matter up. While I have little or no hope of that new appropriations are not authorized beyond the actual ever creating or having this House create one committee, how- necessities of the public service, and that appropriations made ever large that committee may be, and clothing it with exclu- upon estimates regularly submitted should not be in excess of sive jurisdiction over all appropriations, nevertheless it is a those estimates. fact that if that were done we would materially reduce the Mr. CLARK of llissouri. Now, Mr. Chairman, I have helped appropriations. Why? You would then have one committee of the gentleman to make a good many fights in this House for this House responsible for the aggregate of all appropriations. economy, and we have generally got licked-- That committee would be responsible not only to this House, Mr. TAWNEY. Generally got licked. but it would be responsible to the country for the aggregate of Mr. CLARK of Missouri Yes; we did. Now, I want to the appropriations of . each session of Congress. You would ask another question, and that is, Does the reduction in the not then have divided responsibility, as now. You would then amount of estimates you are talking about include the $100 000,- have a committe~ 000 that Senator HALE, of Maine, and the President cut down Mr. COOPER of Wisconsin. Will the gentleman yield? in the appropriation bills one day in fifteen minutes over in the Mr. TAWNEY. Not now-that would. be confronted at all White House? times with the aggregate expenditures and the aggregate rev- Mr. TAWNEY. I think the gentleman from Missouri is now enues of the previous year and the estimated expenditures and either speaking from his recollection of what he has read, or estimated revenues for the coming fiscal year. Its responsibil- from his imagination, because I never heard of anything of ity to this House and to the country would of necessity prompt the kind. that committee to keep the appropriations recommended to the Mr. CLARK of Missouri. I will tell you what I am reading · House within the estimated revenues. Now I yield to the gen- from. Senator HALE went over there to see the President and tleman from Wisconsin. Jk d t, d th b h f t th Mr. COOPER of Wisconsin. And the chairman of that com- wa e ou an at unc 0 repor ers at stay over there tackled him, and he said, with a great deal of pomposity, that mittee would be the most powerful man in the United States, he and the President had just cut down the appropriations for woMruld Th~WnoNEt?Y W ll M Ch . I t fr "d f th this year $100,000,000. That is what the newspaper fellows • n.. • e , r. al.l'man, am no a ai o e said power of any man in this House so long as the exercise of that ' , · . . . po er is under the control of a majority of this House as it 'Ihe CHAIRMAN. The tii:ie of the gentleman from Mmne- wo:ld be in this and has been in all other cases. The' chair- sota [Mr. T.A WNEY] has ex~ir~d.. . man of that committee when the committee had jurisdiction of Mr. HUGHES ~f West VIrg1ma. I want to ask unan1i:ious all appropriations was no more powerful than was the Speaker consent f?r two mm~1tes more-that the gentlemal?- from M~ne­ of the House or the chairman of the Committee on Ways and sota be ~1ven two mmutes more. I want to ask him: a .q1;1estion. Means. This is proven by the fact that while he was chairman Th~ CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from West ,Vll'g1ma asks of that committee, the Speaker of the House and the chairman unammous consent that ~e gentleman from Mmn~sot:i- \Mr. of the Committee on Ways and Means were sufficiently power- T.AWNF.Y] may hav~ ~o mmutes more. Is there obJechon. ful to divide the jurisdiction of his committee and place it There was no obJection. among the other committees of the House. l\fr. H:tJGHES o.f West Virginia. I want to.ask the gentleman The CHAIRMAN. The additional time allotted to the gen- from Mmnesota. if the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. DouoLA:s] tleman from Minnesota has expired. stated ti;ie question p~oper1~, that h~, the gentleman frol? ~Im- Mr. CLARK of Missouri. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous nesota, rn a speech rn Chicago said th~t the appropriations consent that the gentleman's time may be extended for five now for the current fiscal year fo~ takrn~ care of the army minutes, as I desire to ask him one question. would amount to 72 per cent, while agriculture only got. 2 The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Missouri asks unani- per cent? mous consent that the time of the gentleman from Minnesota Mr. DOUGLAS. The current fiscal ye.ar. may be extended for five minutes. Is there objection? [After Mr. TAWNEY. I did not say anything about agriculture I a pause.] The Chair hears none. intend to pay my respects to the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Mr. CLARK of Missouri. What became of that scheme you HULL], the ch.airman of. the Com.m.ittee on Military Affairs, bad, and which you got through here-my recollection is it f~rther along rn the session, by g1vmg the exac~ statement I went through last year-to require the President of the United did make, and also exact figures as to our expenditures. What States and the Cabinet to send in a budget here, and we were I. said at .Chicago on the 5th of last May was that up to this all going to be happy as soon as we got that budget? tune, durmg that fiscal year, we had been expending on ac- Mr. TAW1'TEY. I am glad, Mr. Chairman, the gentleman count of wars ~e are preparing .for and wars we have, of our from Missouri has asked me that question. The plan proposed revenue~, exclusive of postal receipts, at the rate of 72 per cent, by section 7 of the last sundry civil bill has had the result of and I cited the statement of the Treasury of the day before to reducing the estimates below the appropriations for the current prove my statement. fiscal year about $58,000,000. [Applause on the RepubliC'an Mr. MORSE. Mr. Chairman, I move to sh·ike out the last side.] Now, wait a minute; but notwithstanding that, it was two words for the purpose of asking some questions of the this House which proposed to increase the appropriations be- chairman of the committee. I wan~ to know about these cabi­ yond the amount of the estimates. The army appropriation netmakers, what they are, and what they are used for in the bill, which has already passed the House, passed at an increase Department of Agriculture. of some $600,000 or $700,000 above the annual estimates. l\fr. SCOTT. Mr. Chairman, the Department of Agriculture Mr. CLARK of Missouri. Well, did not you know that wa~ occupies a number of buildings, and repairs are frequently, exactly what would happen-- necessary. Cases for the accommodation of specimens in the l\fr. TAWNEY. No, sir-- museum or for the use of laboratories need frequently either l\fr. CLARK of Missouri. Wait a minute-when you got to be made or be repaired, and the provision is therefore made your budget proposition through the House? for carpenters and cabinetmakers, painters, and other me- 1~10. OONGRESSIONAL 11E001tD-HOUSE. tl207

' 'Clmnics on 'the :roll of rthe 'depaTtment in order that that work · ten or twelve------·Cl>mmittees that have the right to report 'a:ppro- may be done promptly and ·well. priations to the HotIBe, every one 'Of ·them, trom top to bottom, l\1r. 1\IORSE. And these carpenters are alsD used 11n .keeping . and .all their membership, will rise :up .b.-e-re :in opposition to bl repair 'the buildings? There seems to ·be ;quite a number of any such plan. Now., :according to ·my ·plan you avoid that ·pa-r- lthem, some 13 ur 14, I believe. ; liamentary difficulty. l\fr. SCOTT. There are quite a number of them. It is a big { Mr~ 'J.'A WNEY. Will the gentleman -allow :me :to interrupt i'lepaTtment. .him there? ~fr. TAWNEY. I would Ilke to :ask -the ·gentleman in ctm.rg-e Mr. DOUGLAS. Surely, I will; the more we talk ·ab-out this of the bill if it is not a :fact that you .:have -provided here for : matter the b·etter. ll new carpenters? Mr. TAWNEY. ·Wher€in ·t:an you d-raw the distinction be- Mr. SCOTT. It appears so on the 'face of the provision, but 'tween taking .from ithe committee jurisdiction of making appro­ they a-re not new men, ·because they are ·simply transferred from priations, and taking away from them the aggregate of. the the different bureaus. Let me say i:o the gentleman ­ could be concentrated and all put under the directlon of the propriations, so that instead of the ~entleman from Minnesota Secretary or his chief clerk, it would work for economy, be- standing here al

Resen-ation, in the State of South Dakota, and make appro­ Mr. SCOTT. This bill does not include or provide for any priation and provision to carry the same into effect. establishment of new Weather Bureau stations. It is the policy The message also announced that the Senate had agreed to the of the bureau to establish stations when and where the commer­ amendment of the House of Representatives to the bills and cial interests of the country seem to demand it, or where the joint resolution of the following titles: station is needed in order to promote the accuracy of the S. 5040. An act to authorize Bonners Ferry Bridge Commission weather forecasts. to construct a bridge a<;ross the Kootenai River at Bonners Mr. THOMAS of North Carolina. May I ask, are these Ferry, Idaho. Weather Bureau stations appropriated for separately, or are S. 4891. An act to extend the time for the commencement and the appropriations made in a lump sum? completion of a railroad bridge across the Kansas River at or Mr. SCOTT. It has been the custom always to carry the near Kansas City, Kans., in the county of Wyandotte, State of appropriation for new bureau stations in this bill. Kansas. Mr. THOMAS of North Carolina. In a lump sum or for the . S. 3318. An act to legalize a bridge across the Snake River stations separately specified? between the States of Idaho and Oregon. · Mr. SCOTT. The stations are separately specified; for in­ S. J. Res. 55. Joint resolution authorizing the postponement stance, in the appropriation bill of two years ago we made of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demog­ appropriations for a new station at Richmond, Va., and two or raphy. three other places. The message also announced that the Senate had passed the l\Ir. THOMAS of North Carolina. But no provision is made following resolution, in which the concurrence of the House of for any new Weather Bureau stations in this bill? Representatives was requested: .l\Ir. SCOTT. No. . Senate concurrent resolution 23. Mr. THOMAS of North Carolina. Why has no provision been Resolved, etc., That there be printed and bound in one volume 16,500 made in this bill for the establishment of new Weather Bureau copies ot the proceedings in Congress upon the acceptance ot the statue stations? . of the late Georg-e Laird Shoup, 01' which 5,000 shall be for the use ot the Senate, 10,000 for the use ot the House 01' Representatives, and the l\fr. SCOTT. The principal reason, perhaps, was becaP..se the remaining 1,500 shall be for the use and distribution by the Senators estimates did not provide for it. The committee did not feel ) and Representatives in Congress from the State of Idaho. The joint itself warranted in recommending an appropriation for a new Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy prepared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable copper-process plate station for which there was no estimate. Another reason is of the statue to be bound with these memorials. that even if such an estimate had been made the chances are that the committee would have thought it better to wait until AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL. the emergency of the Treasury is a little less acute. The committee resumed its session. Mr. THOMAS of North Carolina. So the policy of economy The-Clerk read as follows : had something to do with not making any appropriation for For telephone rentals and for telegraphing, telephoning, and cabling new Weather Bureau stations this year? reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of .Agriculture by agreements with the companies performing the service, $265,200. Mr. SCOTT. It undoubtedly had a great deal to do with it. l\Ir. MORSE. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the last Mr. THOMAS of North Carolina. I withdraw the proforma word for the purpose of asking the chairman of the Committee amendment. on .Agriculture two or three questions. I notice in lines 12, 13, Mr. BUTLER. l\Ir. Chairman, I move to strike out the last and 14 there is an appropriation for telephoning and telegraph­ word in ol11er to ask the chairman of the c.ommittee a ques­ ing. I wish to. know what rate, as compared with the commer­ tion. I notice that you are providing for the payment of $40,000 cial rate, the Government pays for telegraphing. to maintain a printing office for the Weather Bureau. Do the Mr. SCOTT. The Weather Bureau pays a very low rate, in­ copies of bulletins and circulars included in this item contain deed, compared with the ordinary commercial rate. My recol­ the predictions of the weather? lection, offhand, is that it pays at the rate of 1 cent a word for Mr. SCOTT. Some of them contain predictions. There are messages of 10 words not exceeding a distance of 200 miles, a number of publications issued from the printing office of the and perhaps a slight increase when the distance is increased; Weather Bureau. but it uses a code in the transmission of its messages, whereby l\!r. BUTLER. I do not criticize the gentleman because he words are saved and a whole phrase is put in one code word, can not answer my question. so that the enormous amount of telegraphing which the Weather Mr. TAWNEY. l\Ir. Chairman, I do not think the gentleman Bureau does really costs the Government very little. from Kansas understood the question. The charts do not con­ Mr. MORSE. If I recall, there has been a recent rule tain the predictions, they contain the actual results-the m~ adopted by the telegraph companies with regard to the rates for teorological data that is furnished the bureau. code messages. Does the gentleman know whether the rate has l\lr. SCOTT. Will the gentleman from Pennsylvania allow. been increased to the Government as it has been to private me to make a statement? individuals? · Mr. BUTLER. I will try to make my question plain. Can Mr. SCOTT. I can only answer for the Weather Bureau; the gentleman tell me what proportion of this appropri::!tion is but that question was asked the Chief of the Weather Bureau used to distribute the forecasts of the department? Is that and he said that his contract continues for a number of years plain? yet, so that any changes which the companies may have made Mr. SCOTT. I think the gentleman's question is plain and do not affect the rates of this bureau. the former question was plain enough. I am not able to say l\fr. MORSE. Would it be proper to incorporate into the what amount of the appropriation is used in scattering the RECORD a copy of the contract between the companies and the predictions. In a general way I am able to say that in the Weather Bureau for- the Government? main the predictions are published through the Associated l\fr. SCOTT. I do not see any objection to it. Press and through the news agency without any cost to the .Mr. MORSE. I ask the chairman of the committee to place bureau. in to-morrow's RECORD, if possible, a copy of the contracts be­ l\fr. BUTLER. It is gratifying to me to know that distribu­ tween the telephone and telegraph companies· and the Govern­ tion of the predictions costs but little. Has the gentleman ever ment, showing the charges made for the service rendered. been able to ascertain what proportion of these weather predic­ . Mr. SCOTT. Does the gentleman refer to the Government tions are verified? generally, or to the Weather Bureau? l\Ir. SCOTT. The chief of the bureau in answer to a question Mr. MORSE. I refer to the Weather Bureau. replied that 85 per cent, on an average, of the predictions are Mr. SCOTT. If I can obtain that contract, I will be glad to verified. · accede to the gentleman's request. Mr. BUTLER. That is all. I am obliged to the gentleman. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. SCOTT. I have evidence before me that one successful Total for Weather Bureau, $1,523,260. prediction in a single instance resulted in the saving of 3,000 Mr. TIIO~IAS of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I move to lives. mrike out the last word. A number of my people are inter­ 1\.fr. BUTLER. I am not complaining at all; if they saved ested in the-establishment of a Weather Bureau station at New­ one-third of a life it is worth all the money they cost. The bern, N. C. I have introduced a bill for that purpose. We are reason I made the inquiry was to know whether or not the in the midst of a great trucking section of the country. I want department could applaud itself for accuracy. to ask the chairman of the committee if this bill includes any Mr. SCOT'".r. I would like to say that it is not the dep.'lrt­ amount for the establishment of Weather Bureau stations, and ment alone that applauds the department. I hold in my ha.nd w~at is being doi;ie in that direction, and what is the policy a pamphlet of some 50 pages, filled with complimentary r'1.so­ of the Weather Bureau and the Department of Agriculture with lutions adopted by different boards of trade and other o·rganiza­ refere!J.ce to the establishment of Weather Bureau stations? tions. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL ,RECORD-HOUSE. ·1209

Mr. BUTLER. I will be pleased to read it some day. The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the pro forma amend­ Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina. I hope I may be allowed ment will be withdrawn, and the Clerk will read. a little while longer, as my time was taken up by others. The Clerk read as follows : The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the gentleman will be BUREAU OF ANIM.A.L INDUSTRY. recognized for five minutes. Salaries, Bureau of Animal Industry: One chief of bureau, $5,000; There was no objection. 1 chief clerk, $2,000 ; 1 editor and compiler, $2,000 ; 4 clerks, class 4 ; 5 clerks, class 3 ; 17 clerks, class 2 ; 1 clerk, $1,300 ; 15 clerks, class 1 ; Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina. So, Mr. Chairman, it 14 clerks, at $1,000 each; 6 clerks, at $900 each; 3 clerks, at $840 seems to me that if a cow was diseased it was no longer fit each; 5 clerks, at $720 each; 1 clerk, $700; 1 instrument maker, for beef, and no longer fit to be a part of a dairy herd, and the $1,200; 1 architect, $1,400; 1 messenger and custodian, $1,000; 3 mes­ sengers, at $840 each; 4 messengers, at $720 each; 2 messenger boys, owner ought to be thankful if that fact is brought to his atten­ at $480 each; 1 messenger boy, $360 ; 1 skilled laborrer, $840; 1 tion and gladly slaughter the cow in the interests of humanity. skilled laborer, $720; 2 skilled laborers, at $600 each; 1 skilled laborer, I am sure that if a government expert would come upon my $660 each; 1 illustrator, $1,400; 4 laborers, at $600 each; 2 laborers, at $480 each ; 1 charwoman, $540 ; 6 charwomen, at $480 each ; 2 char­ place and point out to me cows that were infected with tuber­ women, at $240 each ; in all, $115,920. culosis, I would slaughter them and thank the Government for Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I move to the service that it had performed, and ask no compensation strike out the last word. I want to find out from the chairman whatever. of the committee if this bill carries ~my money for compensating What is the cow worth, and why should we appropriate people whose cattle are killed because infected with tubercu­ money to pay for it? The only thing of any value is the hide, losis. and that the owner gets when the animal is slaughtered. Mr. SCOTT. The bill does not in terms carry any such Mr. MOSS. Is it not a fact that a few of those herds slaugh­ provision. It does, however, provide sums out of which a fair tered in the District of Columbia under the inspection of the proportion of the cost growing out of the slaughter of animals Government they afterwards sell the carcass with the con­ in order to stamp out some contagious disease may be paid. For sent of the Government-- instance, when we had the outbreak of the foot-and-mouth dis­ Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina. I hope not. ease in four or five States a year ago several herds ·were Mr. MOSS. I can state that is true. slaughtered upon the order of the Secretary of Agriculture, and Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina. Then I will join the anti­ the department bore about one-third of the expense, the local meat league if that is the fact. communities bearing the other two-thirds. The chairman of Mr. MOSS. That is true; there is no question; and not the Committee on Appropriations, the gentleman from Minne­ only that, but I have it on the authority of some gentleman sota [Mr. TAWNEY], remarked to me just now that there was a from the Agricultural Department that in some cases of those deficiency brought in for the consideration of his committee slaughtered they only condemn part of the animal and allow to provide for the payment of losses growing out of tuberculosis. the parts not condemned to be sold. Mr. TAWNEY. If the gentleman from Kansas will permit, I Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina. Certainly we ought not will call his attention to lines 19 and 20, on page 11. Six hun­ to pay for that which is condemned. I withdraw the proforma dred and twenty-three thousand dollars are appropriated, and amendment. a part of that may be expended for that purpose.' Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the last l\fr. SCOTT. No; I do not thiilk any part of it could be two words. It seems to me this question as to whether the expended for that purpose. I will call the attention of the Government should pay a large sum of money for diseased gentleman to lines 5 and 7, on the same page, where there is a cattle that certainly are worthless deserves a reply from the provision " to purchase or destroy diseased or exposed animals chairman of the committee.. or quarantine the same," and it is under that provision that I Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Chairman, I made no reply because the think a fair proportion of the expense may be borne. remarks of the gentleman from South Carolina did not seem to Mr. TAWNEY. Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the gentle­ call for one particularly, and because no amendment was of­ man in charge of the bill-- fered to the bill. There is a reply which seems to me to be The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from South Carolina has adequate. It is not strictly true to say that these cows which the floor. are affected with tuberculosis are worthless. It has been pretty Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina. I yield to the gentleman clearly shown that the tubercle bacilli are not carried in the from Minnesota. milk of these cows. It has been shown with clearness that the Mr. TAWNEY. I would ask if the words he has read, " to calves coming from these cows do not inherit the disease. The purchase and destroy dis~sed or exposed animals," and so milk is only contaminated after it leaves the cow, and it may forth, followed by the words " as follows," and then following be kept pure with proper safeguards. The calf from a tubercu­ the next paragraph, which makes the appropriation, would not lous cow may be taken a way from her and surrounded by make the appropriation, or as much thereof as may be neces­ healthful influences and live to maturity, so that it is not true sary, available for the payment for animals that were slaugh­ to say that the herds are worthless. In the second place, it is tered on account of disease? My attention has been called to true, as I believe was just suggested by the gentleman from this before, when a deficiency estimate· was before the Com­ Indiana, that tuberculous cattle are slaughtered and they pass mittee on Appropriations at the extra session of this Congress. a part of the carcass ~cause it may not be infected in the Mr. HULL of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, has this section been least with the bacilli, and they condemn that which is so read yet? infected. Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina. Yes; and I have moved to strike out the last word. Mr. CARLIN. Will the gentleman yield for a question? Mr. HULL of Iowa. I understood they had not reached Mr. SCOTT. Yes. that part on page 10. Mr. CARLIN. Is there any statute authorizing this appro­ The CHAIRMAN. The last section read is the one ending in priation? line 14 on page 9. Mr. SCOTT. Unless it might be the general statute creating Mr. HULL of Iowa. Then, this is not before the House as the Bureau of Animal Industry, which I have not read for a yet. year or two-and I would not be able to state from recollec­ Mr. LJUIB. No. tion-but I am disposed to think that the language of the stat­ l\Ir. JOHNSON of South Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I hope ute is broad enough to authorize the Secretary to take such ac­ now that I may be allowed to say what I want to say. Just tion as he deems best to eradicate these contagious diseases. about the time that Congress convened, it was published in Mr. CARLIN. Have you the statute before you? · the Washington newspapers that the dairy herds in and around Mr. SCOTT. I believe I have. the District of Columbia were infected with tuberculosis, but Mr. CARLIN. I would like you to read that portion which that the tuberculosis herds had not been killed because there you claim justifies this appropriation. was not appropriation out of which the owners could be com­ l\Ir. SCOTT. I dislike to keep the House waiting, and if I pensated. It was discovered, however, about that time that can have unanimous consent to do so I will ask to pass this there wns some appropriation, a small appropriation, which matter for the present, with the understanding that we can could be made available for this purpose, and hence as far as go back to it when the gentleman from Virginia desires to do so. the appropriation would hold out they proceeded to exterminate Mr. CARLIN. I very much prefer to determine it now, be­ the infected cattle. What occurred to me was this, Why should cause I want to raise the point of order-- the Government pay for killing an infected, diseased cow? If Mr. HULL of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I desire to call a tten­ the cow ls infected with tuberculosis, no man with any milk of tion to the fact that thil:? part of ·the bill we are discussing hns human kindness in him would offer her to a butcher or would not been read, it is not open to an amendtnent or the point ef s~ll milk from her. order or anything, except questions have been · asked-- 1210 OONGEESSIONAL 'RECORD-HOlJSE. JANUARY 28,

:Mr. COTT. :r -crmfess my .attention :has 'been rdtVetted, and MESSAGE FROM ' THE -PRESIDENT OF 'THE UNITED STATES. I :have not be.en able :to follo:w the ,reading of the bill -carefully, ·The commjttee :informally rose; 1and Mr. l\IooRE of .Pennsyl- and I a sumed- vania having taken the Chair as Speaker JlTO tempore, a message fr. HULL -of .Iowtl. This m:mtter is •on page ll. in writing from the President of the United.S.tates, by Mr. Latta, l\Ir. SCOTT. I assumed that the ·gentlemen who were ·talk- one of his secretaries, who also informed the ..Hou e that the ing were directing their remarks to ;the 'subject immediately Presiilent ha.d approved and signed bills of the ;following titles: under consideration. January 26, "lfilO : .l\fr. JOHNSON of South Carolina. Will '.the -g~tleman yi-eld? H . .R. 9570. An act to ·authorize 'the Secretary of the Treasury fr. SCOTT. I ha\e no time myself, ·but I will be -glad to to convey certa:in .lands to the city of Biloxi, 1\Iiss., for street yield to =the ..gentleman :from -South -Carolina. purposes. ru:r. JOHNSON of South -Carolina. iI ·_desire to say I offered January ·27, 1910: an amendment to ·strike out ·une word dn ±he first ·section of 'the n. :R.13S32. An act ~granting _pensions .and -increacSe of pensions bill relating to the Bu,reau ·.of.Animal Industry. il do not know to certain ·t3oldiers and =sailors of the •Civil war and certain just where this app;optiation is fa ~e bill, ·bi;it ~ 'Wllnte.d t~ widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers -and sailors; call .it ·to the attention of the cornnnttee at ·this time so that H. "R. ll2140. An ·act to extend ·the time for Ashley County, when we did reach it Members would know something ·about it. Ark., to construct n bridge across 'Bayou Bartholomew at a point Now, r want to ask the ,gentleman -this quesf;io1:1: How much near Morrell; money .has been ·expended under that ·.approprurtion, WJlerever H. R.-12288. .An act •to authorize the city of l\Imneapolis, -in it is and wlilltever it is, ·in :paying for diseased-cattle? the State of Minnesota to construct a bridge across the l\Iissis- Mr. SCOTT. .During :the fiscal year ·8;niling 1909 -there was sippl River Jn saitl cify; something like $400,000, as l: now recall :it-~d 1he , gentle~an I H. R.""13872. An act to authodze the counties of Bradley :incl will appreciate I am ·speaking ,from .a ::recollec~ion of s~met~ McMinn, Tenn., .by authority df ttheh" county courts, ·to construct that happened over a year ago-under ..a~rity of ~ JJi'OTI- a bridge across the Hiwa-ssee Jliver at ·Charle-ston :and Calhoun, sion, to pay part of .the expense of ·:slaughtenng 'herds rm Penn- in said ·counties; sylvania, New York, and 'J~sconsin and -One or two other States .H. R.14496 . .An ·act ·to u.nthorize t:1re 1city -of Iinneapolis,. in where there :had b~en . a .v:1c10us outbreak .-0f ·the ,foat-and-mouth the State of Minnesota, :to •Construct a 'bTidge :across ·the Miss- disease. . = issippi .River in said city; The CHAIRMAN. The time of .the gentleman from Kansas iH. IR.1581:5 . .An act authorizing the construction .of a rail· {Mr. Sc-OTT] .has expired. . . road bridge across the 'Rio -Grande River between Lareilo, Tex., Mr. SCOTT~ I would like to .have five mmutes more. and uevo Ln:redo, ..Republic of · Iexico; and The QHADlM.AN. 'The gentleman_from .Kansas [Mr. ScoTT] tH. R. 16388. An act to ·authorize the Monongahela T ..ailroad asks unanimous consent to proceed 1.or .fITe minutes more. Is Company to construct a 'bridge aero s the 1\Ionongaheln River there objection? between 1Fayette and •Greene-counties, .Pa. There was no objection. . January 28, 1910 : · Mr. SCOTT. There has been no rep~rt mad~ .to the c:omnnt- H. R.16223. A.n 1 act ·extending the time for certain homestead- tee of the amount expended under this _p~ovunon fiurmg the ers to establish "residence upon their lands; present fiscal year, and we do ·.not 'lmow whether R!1Y amount R.R. 5463. ·.An act to provide for a ,change fa the bTiOge au­ has been e:wcnded, because reports ·are .not made unfil the close thorized by an .act entitled ".An act tto .authorize the building of ·the year. of a bridge at Dardanelle, Ark.," approved September 30, "1890~ '11Ir. MOSS. ·wm the gentleman yield ;for .a .moment?. H.n.12138. .An ·act -to extend the itime "for '.A.shley Oounty, Mr. SCOTT. I will yield to the gentleman .from . 1na1.nn~. . Ark., to construct a 'bridge across 'Bayou '.Bartholomew at Mr. MOSS. -is it not a fact 'that so :far as tubercul?sis ~s Portland; . concerned ·the spending of the money at ·the -present time is H. .R. 12139. An ·.act to extend the ·time for Ashl.ey ·county, just going on here in the District o'f Columbia? Ark., to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew at Yr SOO'l'T. There has been :some work in other parts of Wilmot; the ~ountry. The gentleman !Day ..remem?~ that fo~· _two .or H. R. 153 7. An act authoriz.in~ t?e .t_o'Yn o~ Bass Brook to three years -the bill has contamea a pro-r.is10n authonzm¥ tJ:ie construct ·a bridge a.cross the Mississippi iR1ver m Itasca County~ department to inv.estiga:te the _preval~ce of. tu?erculos1s .m Minn.; and . . . various parts ·of ·the country, and that mvestigahon has been H. It.13831. An .ac.t grmrting ]Jens1ons and .mcrease of ·pen­ ~rried on, but I think no " her~s :have ·been slaughtered; at sions to certain ·soldiers and sailor~ ·of the chiil war .and _cer; least the department has not ,paid.:the expen~e or ::my p~'t .of ta:in widows and -dependent -relatives af . suCh .soldiers and the expense of ·slaughtering any anrmals, outsiae of the .District sailors. of Columbia. AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. MOSS. 1: .made a personal investigation at fue depart- The committee ·again resumed its session. ment and was Jnformed by the officials there that, so .far us The Olerk read as ·fdllow : tuberculosis was coneerned, we have been conducting ·the e~- General expenses, lJUTeau of Animal Industry: FO! ·c::a-rrying ont the ination only in ,the District of Columhia, because here alone.did I pro.visions of the act approved May 29, _18 4, estabhshmg a bureau Cf!- . ht d • th 1 to ct. :l.Ilironl industry, nnd the provisions of .the net apprnved .March ..,, Congress ha.ye th.e rig , nn er e aw,. .a l891- providincr for the safe transport and humane treatment of export 1\lr. SCOTT. I think that statement is correct. cattle from th~ United States to foreign countries, and for. other P?r- Mr MOORE of .Pennsylvania. Following up. the interroga- po es ; -the act approveCl :tt.ugust 30, ·1 90, pro-viaing far the ur:vortat1on · s th c l" roses, 11nd the tory Of the gentleman ·from Ou aro ma L ..':r. · OHNSON. • a?1\lli3 of the net of .May n J.902 extending the inspection of meats I would like to ask the chairman of the Committee on Agn- f~0;~~cess butter, and providi~g for' ~h~ inspection of factories, mark~ culture if he eun differentiate between -the amount u ed -for ing of packars, etc. ; and the provIB1ons of ~he act approved Feb- purchasing :ind the amount used for slaughtering cattle? How ~~{y ~~P1;r~ss ~:n~~~;e~et:i~~~~;~ °off ~~~t~~\~ii ~dmi~~~~~ much is paia ·to the owner of the cattle that are :i1aughtered, diseases of live stock and for other purposes; and also the proVIS1o~s as differing from the amount pliid ·for the l)la:ughtermg process? of the . ct approved 1M!irch 3, 1905, to enable the Secretary of Agr1d 'M SCOTT i: think these words are ·construed ·ton, rent rrice paid by the department? and to enable the · Secre~ary of Agriculture to collec~ and ~ISSe~ate ~ci • 11 ti if th t · th t ·h 1•t h s inf- amomrt agreed upon - Y ese ~ppraisers 18 ~ amou 1 ous roducts, of foreign or dom stic manufacture, which are sold m ...Mr. MOORE of Penrrsylvama. To a certain e:x:tent, then~ it fhe u~ted States; ·for the detection, prevention, •treatmc_nt, or cure of is n. matter of ba:rter 'and £n.le ns between :the ·department nnd diseases of domestic animals, i:o te t the ame and to dis minate the b ....4!, th l gh~ tu 11 takes nlace? results :of said ests in .such manner -as he may deem best; to -purchase the owner =.ore e ·S nu Ler ac a Y · r c • • and destroy ·lliseas d or exposed animals or quatantine the sam when- 1\Ir. SCOTT. To

Mr. PERKINS. The Government of the United States would The CHAIRMAN. If the gentleman from Virginia reserved have jurisdiction in the Territories or in Alaska, where there the point of order, the Chair will entertain it now. may not be many cattle now, but where there may be at some Mr. BOOHER. Mr. Chairmmi, 1 would like to ask the chair­ future time. If the principle is wrong, it does not seem to me man of the committee for some information on one part of this we should authorize it. I have endeavored to draw this amend- paragraph. ment with care, because I can see that cattle that have been The OH.AIRMAN. The· gentleman from Virginia has- the floor exposed to contagion may be entirely sound to-day. on a point ot order. A cow or ox which h.as been exposed may yet be sound, and l\li:. BOOHER. I would be· glad it the gentleman from Vir- if the Government comes in and destroys a sound animal in glnia would withhold his point of order for a moment. order to prevent the possibility that it may develop the disease Mr. CARLIN. I will withhold it for a moment. later that animal should be paid for. The amendment pro- Mr. BOOHER. I want to call the attention of the chairman vides that those cattle that are actually diseased and that cer- of the committee to a part of this paragraph, on page 10, line ta.inly can have no value shall be destroyed. In reference to 24, which says: exposed cattle which it may be necessary to destroy to prevent To purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin serums, the possibility of the extension of the disease, the amendment antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, rovides that the Government may purchase and destroy them. which are sold In the United States,. for the detection, prevention, treat­ P ment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same and to That is entirely just to the owner of any herd if he is paid for disseminate the results of said tests in such manner as he may deem the cattle that may be exposed but still unaffected by the dis- best. ease and is not paid for those that are already diseased. I want to ask the gentleman if that covers the case where a Mr. WEISSE. I would like to ask the gentleman from New man has invented or manufactured a medicine for the cure of York if this bill covers the States or just the Territories anll scabies Ol' the killing of ticks on sheep and the Government the District of Columbia. takes charge of this medicine, goes to the stock yards in differ­ Mr. PERKINS. The gentleman from Wisconsin will have to ent parts of the countDy, and experiments with the medicine ask the gentleman in charge of the bill. and kills a great number of sheep. Is the Government respon- Mr. WEISSE. I mean the gentleman's amendment. sible for the value of the sheep thus killed? The whole business l\Ir. PERKINS. Oh, my amendment strikes out the words is in charge of the government experts; they are there dipping that I find in the bill which authorizes the purchase of dis- the sheep, and the sheep die from the effects of the medicine. eased cattle. It gives the Government the power to destroy Is th.ere any provision in this bill for paying them anything? them, but not to purchase. . Mr. SCOTT. I am not a lawyer; but I presume that if the l\Ir. WEISSE. In Wisconsin we have a state law that allows Government took posseSSion of a number of sheep, in order to us to destroy the cattle wfiich we test and find diseased, and the make an experiment with them, and the sheep died, the owner State pays two-thirds of the value of the cattle that are dis- would undoubtedly have a good cause of action. eased, and by that means we have got ridi of tuberculosis. Mr. BOOHER. I am not talldng about the cause of action. Mr. PERKINS. May I ask the gentleman what in his State I want to state the facts o:f a particular case as I understand it is regarded as the value of an animal which is afHicted with and get the opinion of the chairman, in whose- fairness and tuberculosis? judgment I have implicit confidence. llr. WEISSE. They place a limit to the amount" that ca.n Mr. SCOTT. And I think, as a matter of fact, that the de- be paid for any one animal. This refers to registered stock, partment, under the authority given in this billy could com­ which is very high in price. I have a Holstein cow worth pensate the owner without any act. $10,000. In my district-the-state would pay about $70 fot this Mr. BOOHER. If it does not come under thiS' section, is cow if killed, but the average value is taken up by a board of there any provision of the bill that would cover it? three disinterested persons, who appraise the value of the cow. Mr. SCOTT. It would come under the general provisions of Mr. PERKINS. Let me ask the gentleman, would the gen- the paragraph authorizing the Secretary to make investlga­ tleman himself buy an animal atmcted with tuberculosis for 5. tions looking to the extermination of contagious diseases and to t ~ the protection. of the cattle of the country. cen s · · .Mr. BOOHER. L want to say to the chairman of the com- Mr. WEISSE. This test is made by the state veterinarian. mittee that I know that has been done at one of the stock I can not tell just exactly how the test is made, but they inject yards of this country, at least. The government experts went into these cattle antitoxin. Mr. FOSTER of Indiana. Tuberculin. to the stock yards and took charge of the sheep. The farmers Mr. WEISSE. Tuberculin, as the gentleman from Indiana and the feeders go to the stock yards and buy numbers of says; and as soon as they discover that the cattle are diseased sheep. They are taken in charge by the government experts. a board composed of three persons appraise the value, and tho They are put through this dipping process and then are shipped State pays two~thirds of the value of the cattle. After killed out, and I know one gentleman who lost nearly 25 per cent of they are then taken to the slaughterhouse and the farmer is the sheep that he bought-something like 600. The government allowed the hide and other offal, so to speak, and what is left experts were notified that the sheep were dyina. They went to is burned up or destroyed. the farm of the purchaser and ~a.mined them and told the farmer-- Mr. PERKINS. I have bought cows myself, but I never Th Id ith uld have been willing to pay 10 cents for a cow that was Mr. TAWNEY. ey cou not experiment w the sheep Wo without the consent of the owner. diseased. Mr. BOOHER. Yes; but they did without his consent, I beg Mr. WEISSE. Our State will not allow a cow to come into it to state to the gentleman. When a man goes to the stock yards without being tested, and that is one thing that has made us the and buys sheep, under the law, if they have been shipped from leading dairy State in the West. If you buy cheese or butter another State, they have to go through this process. The man made in Wisconsin you know you get it free from tubercuiosis, has nothing to say about it. The Government takes charge of for you get it from cows that have been tested. The Holstein the sheep and dips them. The purchaser may not be there und cow that holds the world's record for milk giving is owned in may know nothing whatever about it. The purchaser can not my district by W. L. Gillette, Rosendale, Wis. get them out of the stock yards until they are dipped. Now, Mr. CARLIN. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order that the Government uses a new remedy that has never been used in this appropriation is not authorized by law. the place before. The commission man who sells the sheep is The CHAIRMAN. The point of order comes too late. The not liable and the owner who ships them is not liable, and yet question has been debated for some time. Debate having been I find no provision in the bill to take care of this kind of a had on the merits, the Chair will overrule the point of order. case, unless it comes within the paragraph we are now dis~ Mr. CARLIN. But I made the point of order at the first, and cussing. the gentleman in charge of the bill said that he wished I would Mr. SCOTT. Does the gentleman know what procedure has reserve it until later. been followed in the matter? . Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Virginia is Mr. BOOHER. I only know that the farmers, so I have been correct; he did call my attention to the fact that he desired to informed, when they asked the government expert who would make a point of order, and the Chair will remember that I pay them for this loss, were told that he did not think that they asked him if he would be willing to let the matter rest until could get any pay at all. The commission man is not re pon­ we could look up the law. As far as the committee is con- sible; the stock-yard company deny responsibility; the shipper cerned I would be willing to waive that. is not responsible. The new remedy is used, an entirely new The CHAIRMAN. The Chair's attention was not called to remedy; it is- an experiment; the government e~pert is there the point of order until the gentleman just now raised it. making the experiment; the sheep are shipped after they go Mr. CARLIN. Lask unanimous consent to make the point of through this. process; and when they are delivered they: are order. ~ing; and, as I say, one gentleman lost nearly 25 per cent of 1910. ) CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE.- 1213

~ a number of sheep that he purehased-something like 60~L It Mr. SOOTr. I sh-0uld like to call the attentt-0n of the Ohair is a. great loss, and if the:re is no provision In this' bill to pr~ to the language- in section 2 of the act. from which he has just vide- fo:r it, I would like the chaiFma.n of the committee. if. he, read, on page 99, where- conld, to call the attention o-f this bll'eau to the fact and\ see: ~ The- Commissioner of Agrfculfturei is authorized to- appoint two com­ wbat could be done in regard to it. 1 µetent agents who shall. under the insti:uetions of ~he comm.lssiener" Mr SCOTT Ji would be- very glad to inquire what is dolle m examine. and rep1>~ upon. the best methods of treatmg, transporting,. • · · and carmg f'or- anuna;ls~ and the means to be adopted for the suppres- sach cases. 11 sfon and Bfupation: Qf contagiOUS' pleuro-pnemrumia, and to. provide Mr. BOOHER. Whether any report has been made in re- against ~spread of o.the.I! da.ngerou.s,. contagious, infectious, and com­ sp.ect to it. This experiment was ma:de at the' &tock ym'ds' in munieable diseases. St. Joseph, Mo. I do not object to the Government making. Now~ if in order to, prrovide against the spread of those other these experimentsr but I think when loss occurs th~e sh0:nld. be diseases it becomes: necessary in the judgment of the Secretary compensation to owners of the stock. to pUNhase and destroy animals, it rather seems to me that The CHAIR.i.UA.N. The time of the gentleman has expired. this paragraph gives him authority tO' do so. The· Chai:r will hear the gentleman from Virginia on. his point Mr. TAWNEY Mr. Chairman,. I wish to say when before of order. · the Committee on Appropriations the- last session of Congress. Mr. CARL!J.'+. Mr. Chairman,. the .Point of order is against in support of the deficiency items on this appropriation the that part beginning on line 5r beginning with the woros. ••to question arose as to what authority the department had for 0 pnrc-hase and destroy and from there down to the words " as. the destruction of the animals. supposed to be diseased o~

foHow.., 1 " the point of order being that it is not authorized by animals supposed to be exposed to disease, and the Secretary existing law. of Agriculture, the head of the department, put it squarely The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman make the point af upon the authority under the general quarantine power of the order to the paragraph as it reads before the amendment offered Agricultnral Department; and that power; he saysr has never by the gentleman from New York [Mr~ PERKINS]?. been questioned, even by the courts or by anyone elSe. I hnve :Mr. CARLIN. Either hefore or after. it does not make any the statement made before tile committee. difference. The CHAIRMAN. Can the gentieman from Minnesota cite The OHAlR..i\IAN. To: that portion of the parag:raph? the Ohafr to. that authority? .l\Ir. CARLIN. The Chair understands the point of order. Mr. '11AWNEJY. ::r can not cite it, as I have not got anything Mr. SCOTT. I would suggest that the point of order should relating to that, but the general quarantine power tile depnrt- be disposed of before voting upon too amendment offered by the ment has under the general Iaw is the authority which the gentleman from New York, because if the Chair holds with the Secretary of Agrieulture claims they possess that authorizes gentleman from Virginia, the amendment will have nothing them to exercise the functions they did with respect to the upon which to rest~ purchase and destruction of animals. They do not attempt to Mr. PERKINS. Yes; the amendment woulcl go out also-. destroy until they purchase. They have no power to do that; Mr. HULL of Iowa. I would suggest also to the gentleman because you can not take property of a private individual for that he would not include the words "as follows" in his point. government aceount without compensation, but the power to of order. purchase for the prevention of the spread o:f disease is one that' Mr. CARLIN. I did not. I said down to those words. he recognizes as being within the general quarantine power of' The- CHAIRMAN. The Chair will ask the chairman of the the department. Here is what was said: committee for the statute authorizing the purchase and des1:1'uc- .." of diseased cattle. Mr. LrvINGSTON. Supl)osing you were to quarantine New York, Michf- tiocu. gan, Maryland and Pennsylv:utla, and you said to those States: "Unless Mr. CARLINr If the Chair will permity I was going t<> state you do something to help us check this. disease we will just keep your that the chairman of the committee holds that is authorized line guarded and will not let a cow out o:r: in for the next ten years · 2 .,, th t at M 20 1884 t 99. M or until your cattle die 'l" under section Oi e ac ay .,., • a page Y Secretary WILSON. You could do that. but 1'f you let that disease point is that that section simply creates and directs the Com- get a real hold on any one State, then the birds, the: d-0gs, the 1:ramps,. missioner of Agriculture to appoint two competent agents, and and the Lord kn.~ws what all will carry lt all over the United States the duties of those agents with reference to certain in less than five years. That is where the trouble is. You have never defines had it down South. Tbey have had it west of Chleago, and' thi& investigations. It does not authorize the purchase or destruc- prompt won is what savea yon and the. West both. tion of any animal, though it does authorize the employment of The ClumMA.N. Your powers of quarantine, however, would admit' . of your doing what Mr. LIVINGSTON suggests? those agents. Secretary WILSON. Sure; that is aH we could do for them. If they The CHAIRMAN. Is there any statute othm: than the section should say, "We will not do a thing to aid the Federal Government." referred to authorizing the purchase and destruction of. dis- then we would say, "All right, gentlemen, we wm shut you up, and animals. Section 3 has been referred to. It reads: you shall not ship out a single thing to carry that con.ta.glon," but it eased would ger out 1ust the sa:me. SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the Commission~ of Agticultnre to prepare such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary tor 1\Ir. CARLIN. Mr. Chairman, there seems to be no question the speedy and effectual suppression and ex:tipation of said diseases, that there is authority of law directing the Commissioner of and to certify such rules and regulations ta the executive authority ot . . . . each State and Territory, and invite said authorities to cooperate in Agriculture to. adopt regulations and rules f?:r the quarantimng th~ execution and enforcement of. tbJs act. Whenever the plans and . of animals and to prevent the spread of disease by the treat­ mefhods ot th~ Commissioner ·of Agnculture shall he accepted by .any 11 ment of animals thFough quarantine methods. But no one has State of Territory in wb.ich pleuro-pneumonia or other· contagious, . . . _ infectious or communicable dlsease is- declared to exist, or sueh. State or yet pomted out any statute which gives the power to the Com­ TerLitory 'shall have adopted plans and methods for the suppression · missioner of Agriculture to take the_property itself, na.mely,. ~~d a~X:;~~ug; t~e s~igm~~~~r ~d fl~~uft~~ ~~ :~~~~r ~~ the animals. governor of a State or other properly constituted authorities signify Mr. TAWNEY. By purchase? their readiness to co.operate for the ertinctio~ of any contagious,~ in- Mr. CARLIN. Either by purchase or otherwise unless we fectious, or commurucable disease in conformity with the provisions . · th . ,. ti t Th · tat t ' hi of this act the Commissioner of Agriculture ls hereby authOO"ized to find it m e approp.Eia on ac • ere is no s u e W ch per- expend so 'much of the money appropriated by this act as may be · mits the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase animals for any nec~ssary in such investigati<>ns, and 1n such disinfection and quar- purpose either to maintain them or to destroy them. And the: antine measures as may be necessary to prevent the spread of the ' ,.,.~ch •t uld b · stifi d ld be th · disease from one State or Territory into another. , only law by WilJ! i · co e JU e wou e appropr1a- Mr. CARLIN. I call the Chair's attention to the fact that · tion ~ill which is now pending. If he has !11e right to purchase, this refers to the treatment and the elimination of the disease then it would be unnecessary to add the right to destroy. and not of the animal. Mr. TAWNEY. Not at ~l. • Mr. SCOTT. 1\Ir. Chairman, does 11: not often happen that · l\Ir. O~LIN.. Under his own rules and regulations he could the only way you can eliminate a disease is to eliminate the ' destroy it when it became his own property. animal? ' l\1:r. TA.WNE.Y. It would not become the property of the Mr. CARLIN. Not at all. we have laws regulating and Secretary, but the- property of the. United Stat~s, and he co1:1d governing the treatment of tuberculosis in human beings, and I not destroy the property of the United Sta.tes without authority have never yet had the idea that it involved the elimination of of law. the individuaL l\!r. CARLIN. If your construction be correct, he would have l\Ir. SCOTT. The gentleman will hardly insist the cases are the right, under quarantine regulations, to purchase the prop- parallel-- erty, and then, under his own quarantine, if necessary to stop Mr. TAWNEY. The gentleman sees no distinction between the spread of the disease, to destroy the property. individuals and animals. 1\Ir. TAWNEY. That may be true. Mr. CARLIN. I think there is a distinction between the Mr. CARLIN. There is no .statute that permits him to pur- treatment of disease and extermination and I see: a distinc- chase tfr:e animal for any purpose, either to maintain i:t, quaran­ tion-- ' 1 tine it, or destroy it. He can quara.ntme- it without destruction. 1214 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JJANUARY 2S,

Mr. TAWNEY. If his regulations authorize him to destroy Section 2 provides that the Commissioner of Agriculture is it, that would have the fort!e and effect of law, provided it does authorized to appoint two competent agents "whose duties not controvort the law. shall be" to do certain things. They are authorized under the The CHAIRMAN: The Chair will hear the chairman of the instructions of the commissioner " to examine and report " upon committee and will ask for the authority of the Commissioner certain things, " and whose duty shall be," if the Chair will of Agriculture to purchase and destroy diseased cattle. repeat the language, " to provide against the spread of certain Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Chairman, the language of the act creating contagious diseases." If the Chair will eliminate that portion the Department of ·Agriculture is extremely broad. It author­ of the section which enumerates as part of their duties the izes the Secretary in terms to practically do everything that examination and report, and will read it so as to see the exact may be necessary in his judgment for the promotion of agricul­ powers given, ·"whose duty shall be to provide against the ture, and· undoubtedly the extirpation of dangerous and con­ spread of other contagious, infectious, and communicable dis­ tagious diseases among dome tic animals would be a work in eases," the statute is much clearer. How can the Department the promotion of agriculture. of Agriculture provide against the spread of these contagious The CHAIRMAN. Will the gentleman cite the paragraph in diseases, so as to effect in a practical way the prevention of the law creating the Department of Agriculture that has within the spread of contagious disease, if it be not to destroy the it the scope that he refers to? infected animal which has the disease and may communicate it? Mr. SCO'l"'T. I cite the first section of the compilation, which Mr. NORRIS. I concede all that the gentleman says of the I think the Chair has, as follows: power there, but I insist that would still exist if these worda' were stricken out; that the right to purchase means nothing. There shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Agricul­ ture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to That is legislation without any doubt. I do not deny the con­ diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on struction that the gentleman puts upon it, that the right. to subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and compre­ prevent the spread of a disease might include the right to go hensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute on and destroy, and then the payment of whatever of value was among the people new and valuable seeds and plants. destroyed would follow as a matter of law; but to insist that Passing from that, I will call the attention of the Chair to the purchase of this stock is necessary in order to carry out the lines of section 2, on page 99, to which I think I referred, that provision of the law it seems to me is illogical, and does making it the duty of the agents of the Secretary to provide not follow, because you can not make a man sell unless he against the spread of dangerous, contagious, infectious, and wants to. communicable diseases, and I would like to have that read in l\fr. FITZGERALD. Whether a man can be rompelled to ·sell connection with the language of section 3 imme

-priation bill as a llmitatlon upon their power, so as to compel S. 3318. An act to legalize a bridge across the Snake River, them to exercise tbat power in this particular manner. between the States of Idaho and Oregon. The CHAIRUA.N. The statute clearly intended that there S. 5040. An act to authorize Bonners Ferry Bridge Commis­ should be an investigation and report on the best manner of sion to construct a bridge across the Kootenai River at Bonners treating pleuro-pneumonia. Ferry, Idaho. Mt. SCOTT. What does the Chair think of the provision re­ S. J. R. 55. Joint resolution authorizing the postponement of lating to rules and regulations in section 3 of the same statute? the Fifteenth International Congrevs on Hygiene and Demog­ The CHAIRMAN. Section 3 does not seem to the Chair to raphy. have a direct bearing upon the question now before the House, ADJOURNMENT. the authorization of the purchase and destruction of cattle with Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now the disease of° pleuro-pneumonia. The Chair therefore sustains adjourn. the point of order as to that portion of the paragraph-that is, The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 4 o'clock and 34 to the language beginning : minutes p. m.) th~ .House adjourned. To purchase and destroy dlseased or exposed animals or ·quarantine the same whenever, in his judgment, essential to prevent the sp-read of pleuro-pneumonia, tuberculosis, or othel' diseases of anlmals from EXECUTIVE COUMUNICATI-ONS, ETC. one State to another- ·Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, executive communications were That being clearly no auth-0rization of law for that part of · taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: the paragraph. 1. A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a Mr. PERKINS. The striking -0ut of those words .makes my letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination and amendment unnecessary. survey of Onronagon Harbor, Michigan (H. Doc. No. G02)­ The CHAIRl\fAN. Wholly so. to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and order,ed to be Mr. SCOTT. I move that the committee do now rise. printed. with mustrations. The motion was agreed to. 2. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, The committee accordingly rose; and the Speaker having re­ transmitting a copy of the .findings filed 'by the court in the case sumed the chair, Mr. CAMPBELL, Chairman of the Committee of of Charles W. Munn, administrator of estate of 1\Irs. E. S. the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that that Munn, against The United States (H. Doc. No. 604}-to the committee had had under consideration the bill H. R. 18162, Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. the agricultural appropriation bill, and had come to no resolu­ 3. A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a tion thereon. letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination and INTERNATIONAL FIELDS SPOBTS EXPOSITION AT VIENNA. survey of Broad Creek River, Delaware (H. Doc. No. 601)­ to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be The Speaker laid before . ~e House the following message 'from the President of the United States, which, with the ac­ printed, with illustrations. -companying papers, was referred to the Committee on Foreign 4. A letter from the Postmaster-General, transmitting the Affairs and ordered to be printed : claim of the Philadelphia Supply Company for payment for cer­ tain post-office supplies (H. Doc. No. 603)-to the Committee To the Senate and. House of Representati'IJes: on Claims and ordered to be printed. I transmit a report by the Secretary of State, with accom­ panying papers, recommending that the sum of $50,000 be ap­ REPORTS OF 001\IMITTEES ()N PUBLIC BILLS AND propriated by the Congress to enable the United Stat~ to par­ RESOLUTIONS. ticipate in the First International Sporting and FieldS Sports Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, bills and resolutions were sev­ Exposition, which will open at Vienna in May, 1910, to take part erally reported from committees, delivered to th.e Clerk, and in which a cordial invitation to the United States was extended by the Government of Austria-Hungary. referred to the several calendars therein named, as follows : Mr. HA.l~~ from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to which For the purpose of such participation, my predecessor recom­ was referred the bill of the House ( H. R. 48) granting to the mended an appropriati'On of $250,000, based on an estimate of Siletz Power and Manufacturing Company a right of way for exhibits which it would have been at that time possible to col­ a water ditch or canal through the Siletz Indian Reservation, lect and prepare for the exposition. Inasmuch as the near ap· in Oregon, reported the same without amendment, accompanied proach of the time for the opening of the exposition does not by a report (No. 336), which said bill and report were referred now admit of an exhibit by the United States so elaborate and to the Committee of the Whole House on the state pf the extensive as was at first contemplated, this amount is reduced Union. by the Secretary of State to $5-0,000, and his recommendation Mr. HUBBARD of West Virginia, from the Committee on that this sum be appropriated has my approvaL Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to which was referred the WM. H. TAFT. bill of the House (H. R. 1.8411) to authorize the Thacker Coal THE WHITE HOUSE, January 27, 1910. Mining Company to construct a footbridge across the Tug SENATE BILLS AND RESOLUTION REFERRED. River at Thacker, Mingo County, W. Va., reported the same Under clause 2 of Rule XXIY, Senate hills and resolution of without amendment, accompanied by a report (No. 334). which the following titles were taken from the Speaker's table .and said bill and report were referred to the House Calendar. referred to their appropriate committees, as indicated below~ S.183. An act to authorize the sale and disposition of a por­ REPORTS OF COM~fiTTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS AND tion of the surplus and unallotted lands in the Rosebud Indian RESOLUTIONS. Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, and making appro­ Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, priation and prsvision to carry the same into effect-to the Mr. HINSHAW, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to Committee on Indian Affairs. which was referred the bill of the Senate (S. 3788) for the re­ S. 404. An act for the proper observance of Sunday as a day lief of Horace C. Dale, administrator of the estate of Antoine of rest in the District of Columbia-to the Committee on the Janis, sr..., deceased, of Pine Ridge, S. Dak., reported the same District of Columbia. without amendment, accompanied by a report (No. 335), which Senate concurrent resolutlon 23. said bill and report were referred to the Private Calendar. Resolved 1Jy the Senate (the House -of RepresentaUves concurring), That there be printed and bound in one volume 16,500 copies of the proceedings in Congress upon the acceptance of the statue of the late CHANGE OF REFERENCE. George Laird Shoup, of which 5,000 shall be for the use of the Senate, Under clause 2 of Rule XXII, committees were discharged 10,000 for the use of the House of Representatives, and the remaining 1,500 shall be for the use and distribution by the Senators and Repre­ from the consideration of the following bills, which were re­ sentatives in Congress from the State <>f Idaho. The Joint Committee ferred as follows: on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy prepared for the A bill (H. R. 7402) for the relief of William H. Howard and Public Printer, who shall P~rocure a suitable eopper-process plate of the statue, to be bound with these memorials- Oliver D. Lewis-Committee on Claims discharged, and re­ ferred to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Printing. A bill (H. R. 19518) granting a pension to John A. Ott­ ENROLLED BILLS AND JOINT .RESOLUTION SIGNED. Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred to the The SPEAKER announced his signature to enrolled bills and Committee on Pensions. · joint resolution of the following titles: A bill· (H. R. 19587) granting an · increase of pension to S. 4801. An act to extend the time for the commencement and Frederick C. Hammetter-Committee on Invalid Pensions dis­ completion of a railroad bridge across the Kansas River at <>r charged, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. near Kansas City, Kans., in the county of Wyandotte, State ot A bill (H. R. 5266) to reimburse the estate of Gen. George Kansas. Washington for certain lands of his in the State of Ohio lost CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- HOUSE. JANUARY 28,

by conflicting grants made under the authority of the United­ Also, resolution (H. Res. 336) to continue the compilation of States-Committee on the Public Lands discharged, and re­ laws, decisions, and practice relative to employees, and the con­ ferred to the Committee on Private Land_Claims. tingent fund of the House-to the Committee on Accounts. , By Mr. MACON: Joint resolution (H.J. 'Res. 132) creating a joint committee to investigate the expenditures of the Immigra­ PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMOR~LS. tion Commission in making investigations, in accordance· with Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolutions, and memo­ the provisions of the act creating said commission-to the Com­ rials of the following titles were introduced and severally· re- mittee on Rules. f erred as follows : - By Mr. FULLER: Memorial of the legislature of Illinois, By Mr. FAIRCHILD: A bill {H. R. 19629) to establish a favoring the establishment of a national- bureau of mines-t~ light-house and fog-signal station in Rondout Creek, Hudson the Committee on ·1\Iines and Mining. River, State of New York-to the Committee on Interstate and By the SPEAKER; Memorial of the legislature of Illinois, Foreign Commerce. praying for legislation for the establishment of a bureau of · By Mr. RUCKER of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 19621) provid­ mines-to the Committee on 1\Iines and Mining. ing for the erection of a public building in the city of Greeley, By Mr. CHAPMAN: Memorial of the legislature of Illinois, Colo.-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. favoring the establishment ·of a national bureau of mines-to .Also, a bill (H. R 19622) to provide for the purchase of a the Committee on Mines and Mining. site and the erection of a public building thereon at Fort Mor­ By Mr. McKUrNEY: Memorial of the legislature of Illinois, gan, in the State of Colorado-to the Committee on Public fayoring the creation of a national bureau of mines-to the Buildings and Grounds. Committee on Mines and Mining. . Also, a bill (H. R. 19623) to provide for tbe purchase of a By Mr. SABATH: Memorial of the legislature of IUinois~ site and the erection of a public building thereon at Sterling, fayoring the establishment of a national bureau of min'es-to in the State of Colorado-to the Committee on Public Buildings the Committee on l\!ines and ·Mining. and Grounds. By Mr. FOSS: Memorial of the legislature of Illinois, favor­ Also, a bill (H. R. 19624) authorizing the resurvey of town­ ing the establishment of a national bureau of mines-to the ship 1 north, range 76 west, sixth principal meridian, and to-wn­ Committee on Mines and Mining. ship 1 north, range 76! west, sixth principal meridian, of the By Mr. LOWDEN: Memorial of the legislature of Illlnois, public lands-to the Committee on the Public Lands. favoring the creation of a national bureau of mines-to the By Mr. PUJO: A bill (H. R. 19?25) for removal of drift Committee on Mines and Mining: - and bar at the mouth of Bayou Cortableau, St. Landry Parish, . 1La., for the maintenance of navigation, and appropriating $100,000 therefor-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIQNS. By Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 10026) for the Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions of construction of a national road from Wagon Wheel Gap to the following titles were inh'oduced and severally referred as the Wheeler national monument, Colorado-to the Committee follows: on .Agriculture. . By Mr. ALEXANDER of .Missouri: A bill (H. R. 19639) .Also, a bill (H. R. 19627) to provide for the purchase of a granting an increase of pension to James B. Ormsby-to the site and the erection of a public building thereon at Fort Mor­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. gan, in the State of Colorado-to the Committee on Public · By Mr. ANTHONY: A bill {H. R. 19640) granting an in­ Buildings and Grounds. crease of pension· to Edwin Snyder-to the Committee on In- By Mr. FERRIS: A bill (H. R. 19628) to authorize the Law­ valid Pensions. · ton and Fort Sill Electric Railway Company to construct and By Mr. ASHBROOK: A bill (H. R. 19641) granting a pen­ operate a railway through the Fort Sill Military Reservation, sion to Wesley Shaw-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. and for other purposes-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. BARCHFELD: A bill (H. R. 19642) for the relief of By Mr. WOODS of Iowa: A bill {H. R. 19629) to amend the Frederick J. Ernest-to the Committee on Claims. act of February 6, 1907, of the pension laws so as to include By Mr. BORLAND: A bill (H. R. 19643) for the relief of artisans and members of the construction corps of the United Robert G. Wilson, sr.-to the co·mmittee on War Claims. States Army-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. BRADLEY: A bill ·(H. R. 19644) granting a pension By Mr. WHEELER: A bill (H. R. 19630) for· the erection of to Edward Forrest-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. an addition to the public building at Oil City, Venango County; .Also, a bill (H. R. 19645) granting a pension to John Arm­ Pa.-ro the Gommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds. strong-to the Committee on Pensions. By l\fr. ANTHONY: A bill (H. R. 19631) to authorize the By Mr. BROWNLOW: A bill (H. R. 19646) granting an in­ enlargement of the public building at Atchison, Kans.-to the crease of pension to Maj. R. H. M. Donnelly-to the Committee Committee on Public Buildings and Gi:ounds. on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BARCHFELD: A bill (H. R. 19632) allowing credit By Mr. BURKE of South Dakota: A bill (H. R. 19647) in computing the pay of any officer of the Army, Navy, or granting an increase of pension to John Lampke-to the Com- Marine Corps for service while in the Revenue-Cutter Service­ mittee on Invalid Pensions. . _ to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. CAMPBELL': A bill {H. R. 19648) granting a pen­ By Mr. GARNER of Texas: A bill (H. R. 19633) to authorize sion to Catherine Killian-to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ Aransas Pass Channel and Dock Company to consh·uct a sions. bridge across Morris and Cumming Channel-to the Committee By Mr. CANNON: A bill (H. R. 19649) granting an increase on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. of pension to John R. Kirby-to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ By Mr. ROBINSON: A bill (H. R. 19634) forbidding the sions. maintenance of a press agent or press bureau by the Census By Mr. COX of Ohio: A bill (H. R. 19650) granting an in­ Bureau, and forbidding the expenditure of any money for that crease of pension to Michael T. Dwyer-to the Committee on purpose-to the Committee on the Census. Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 19635) making it unlawful to falsify any Also, a bill {H. R. 19651) granting an increase of pension memorandum, enumeration, report, or tabulation relating to the to L. P. Huston-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. census-to the Committee on the Census. Also, a bill (H. R. 19652) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. AIKE.l"'f: A. bill {H. R. 19636) authorizing the exten­ Dillard Martin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . sion of Princeton place NW., in the district of Columbia-to .Also, a bill (H. R. 19653) granting an increase of pension to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Patrick O'Neil-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. OLDFIELD (by request) : A bill (H. R. 19637) to .Also, a bill (H. R. 19654) granting an increase of pension to quiet and confirm the title to certain so-called "sunk lands," Silas Williams-to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. swamp lands, and overflowed lands situated in the State of .Also, a bill (H. R. 19655) granting an inc1·ease of pension to Arkansas-to the Committee on the Public Lands. Jesse Nye-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. ANDREWS: A bill (H. R: 19638) conveying to the .Also, a bill (H. R. 19656) granting a pension to Elihu Thomp­ Territory of New Mexico certain lands upon which are located son-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Palomas Hot Springs-to the Committee on the Public Also, a bill (H. R. 19657) granting a pension to Daniel Lands. Leigh-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HUGHES of West Virginia: Resolution (H. Res. Also, a bill (H. R. 19658) granting a pension to John F. 335) for the relief of Dorretta F. Talcott, widow of A. B. Tal­ Benson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. cott, late an employee of the House-to the Committee on .Also, a bill (H. R. 19659) granting a pension to James w. Accounts. / -.... Kearns-to the Committee on Pensions. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1217

By Mr. DODDS·: A bill (H. R. 19660) granting nn increase By Mr. REY~OLDS : A bill (H. · R. 19691) granting an in­ of pension to Elisha Hoag-to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ crease of pension to John B. Hammer-to the Committee on sions. Invalid Pensions. · By l\fr. ESTOPINAL: A bill (H. R. 19661) granting an in­ Also, a bill (H. R. 19692) granting an increase of pension crease of pension to Celia W. Boothby-to the Committee on to Americus Enfield-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 19693) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. FAIRCHILD: A bill (H. R. 19662) for the relief of H. C. Allen-to-the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the heirs of the estate of Orson A. Dimmick-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 19694) granting an increase of pension to on Claims. Sarah A. Michaels-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. -19663) to correct the military record of By Mr. RHINOCK: A bill (H. R. 19695) gran-ting an in­ David Van Dervort-to the Committee on Military Affairs. crease of pension to W. S. Hardin-to the Committee on In~ By Mr. :E'LOYD of Arkansas: A bill (H. R. 19664) to correct valid Pensions. the military record of John B.- Heff:ly-to the Committee on -By Mr. RODENBERG: A bill (H. R. 19696) granting a pen: Military Affairs. sion to Henry L. Karns-to the Committee on Pensions. - By l\fr. FULLER: ·A bill (H. R. 19665) granting an increase By Mr. ROTHERMEL: A bill (H. R. 19697) granting a pen­ of pension to Thomas Mowbray-to the Committee on Invalid sion to Moses H. Enochs-to the Committee on Pensions. Pensions. By Mr. RUCKER of Missouri: 'A bill (H. R. 19698) granting By Mr. GALLAGHER: A bill (H. R. 19666) granting an in­ ~n increase of pension to Vincent Thar~to the Committee on crease of pension to George W. Snead-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · . Jn,alid Pensions. By Mr. SABA.TH: A bill (H. R. 19699) granting an increase By Mr. GILL of Maryland: A bill (H. R. 19667) granting a of pension to Henry Stephan-to the Committee on Invalid pension to l\Iary Elizabeth Wannall-to the Committee on Pen­ Pensions. sions. By Mr. SMITH of Michigan: .A bill (H. R. 19700) granting By Mr. GREGG: A bill (H. R. 19668) granting an increase an increase of pension to Oscar Van ~very~to the Committee of pension to Macy l\Icl\Ianus-to the Committee on Invalid on Invalid Pensions. · Pensions. · By Mr. STERLING: A bill (H. R. 19701) granting an in­ ·By Mr. HAWLEY: A bill (H. R. 19669) granting an increase crease of pe~sion to James Wef?ley Barron-to the Committee of pension to Leonard Briggs-to the Committee on Invalid on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. . By Mr. TAWNEY: ~ bill (H. R. 19702) for the relief of By l\fr. HAYES: A bill (H. R. 19670) for the relief of cer­ James Healy-to the Committee on Claims. tain officers of the Second Louisiana Volunteer Cavalry-to the By Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado· A bill (H. R. 19703) to grant Committee on Military Affairs. public land to the city of Durango, Colo., for public-park pur­ By Mr. HOWARD: A bill (H. R. 19671) granting a pension poses-to the Committee on the Public Lands. to Albert Baker-to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. By Mr. THOM.AS of North Carolina: .A bill (H. R. 19704) Also, a bill ( H. R. 19672) for the relief of the heirs of Turner for the relief of the estate of Thomas W. Maides, deceased-to and Nancy· Brown, de\!eased-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on War .Claims. By Mr. _HOWELI.i of New Jersey: A bill (H. R. 19673) grant­ By Mr. THOMAS of Ohio: A bill (H. R. 19705) to correct the ing a pension to Alfred W. Jewett Cook-to the Committee on military record of Benjamin F. Lovett-to the Committee on InYalid Pensions. Milita_ry Affairs. By Mr. HUGHES of West Virginia: A bill (H. R. 19674) By Mr. TILSON: A bill (H. R. 19706) granting an increase granting an increase of pension to Isaac H. Moore-to the Com­ of pension to George Robbins-to the Committee on In-rnlid mittee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. . By l\Ir. JOHNSON of Kentuc1.JT: A bill (H. R. 19675) for the By Mr. WEBB: A bill (H. R. 19707) granting a pension to relief of the estate of Peter C. Brashear, deceased-to the Com­ William J. Baker-to the Committee on Pensions. mittee on War Claims. By Mr. WHEELER: A bill (H. R. 19703) granting an in­ Also, a bill (H. R. 19676) for the relief of the estate of crease of pension to Henry Fielding-to the Committee on Samuel A. Spencer=-to the Committee on War Claims. Invalid Pensions. By Mr. KRONMILLER: A bill ( H. R. 19677) granting an in­ By Mr. WICKLIFFE: A bill (H. R. 19709) granting an in­ crease of pension to Hannah V. Neale-to the Committee on In­ crease of pension to Hulda E. Bickham-to the Committee on valid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 19678) to restore the name of William H. Also, a bill (H. R. 19710) granting an increase of pension to Billmire, alias William H. Billmeyer; to the military records of Mary Ann Foil-to the Committee on Pensions. , the United States-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. WOOD of New Jersey: A bill (H. R. 19711) to correct By Mr. LINDBERGH: A bill (H. R. 19679) granting an in­ the military record of John J. Flynn-to the Committee on crease of pension to Ellen T. Mounts-to the Committee on In­ Military Affairs. valid Pensions. By Mr. McHTu~RY: A bill (H. R. 19680) granting a pension to Alfred Dressler-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. PETITIONS, ETC. By Mr. McKINNEY: A bill (H. R. 19681) granting an in­ Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid crease of pension to John Dougan-to the Committee on Invalid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: . Pensions. By · the SPEAKER: Petition of legislature of Illinois, for a By Mr. l\!cMORRA.N: A bill (H. R. 19682) granting a pen­ national bureau of mines and mining-to the Committee on sion to Mary D. Cooley-to the Committee on Pensions. Mines and Mining. By l\fr. MACON: A bill (H. R. 19683) for the relief of Henry Also, petition of Georgetown Citizens' Association, for the ex­ Shenep-to the Committee on Military Affairs. tension of Rock Creek Park-to the Committee on Public Build­ By Mr. MALBY: A bill (H. R. 19684) granting a pension to ings and Grounds. Orpha A. Coonley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of Roosevelt Camp, No. 9, Spanish War Vet­ By ~:fr. MANN: A. bill (H. R. 19685) to compensate William erans of California, for legislation for travel pay and sub­ P. Williams for losses sustained by him while assistant treas­ sistence in certain case ·-to t:!:le Committee on War Claims. urer of the United States at Chicago, Ill.-to the Committee on Also, petition of Twelfth Ward Democratic Club, of Jersey Claims. City, N. J., for legislation to establish prices of the necessities By :Mr. MOORE of Texas (by request) : A bill (H. R. 19686) of life-to the Committee on the Judiciary. for the relief of the estate of Joseph Brogan, deceased-to the Also, petition of Justice Je se Lae1m and 25 other citizens of Oo~ittee on Wnr Claims. Vermilion County, 111., for pensions for helpless children and By Mr. NEEDHAM. A bill (H. R. 19687) granting a pension war veterans-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to Patrick Boland-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, Jletition of l\Irs. James .A. Glassford and 20 other citi­ Also, a bill (H. n. 19688) granting a vension to Nancy 0. zens of Deerfield, Mich., against S. 404, Sunday observance in Mills-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the District of Columbia-to the Committee on the District of By Mr. O'CONNELL: A bill (H. R. 196 9) granting a pen­ Columbia. sion to George A. King-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\Ir. AD.A.IR : Petition of citizens of Salamonia, Ind, By Mr. PETERS: A bill (H. R. 19690) for the relief of against increase of postal rate on peri.odicals~-to the Committee John Daniel-to the Committee on Claims. on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. XLV-77 iJ2i8 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. J ANU.ARY 28, By Mr. ALEXANDER of Missouri: Paper to accompany bill I By ~Ir. DOUGLAS: Petition of Farmers' Institute of Wllkes­ for relief of James B. Ormsby-to the Committee on Invalid ville, Ohio, favoring parcels post-to the Committee on the Post- Pensions. Office and Post-Roads. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of John W. Hart-to By l\Ir. DRAPER: Petition of Roosevelt Camp, No. 9, Spanish the Committee on Pensions. War Veterans, of California, for additional travel pay and sus­ Also, paper to accompany bill for ·relief of Joseph 'Shook­ tenance from the Philippines to the United States-to the Com­ to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Military Affairs. By Mr. ANDERSON: Petition of A. T. Redd -and others, R. F. By Mr. ESCH: Petition of headquarters Roosevelt Camp, D. No. 1, Prospect, Ohio, against increase of postal rate on No. 9, Department of California, Spanish War Veterans, favor­ periodicals-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. ing travel pay -and commutation of subsistence from Philip­ By Mr. ANTHONY: Petition of Will Wendell Post, No. 46, pines to the United States-to the Committee on Military Holton, Kans., against the statue of Lee in Statuary Hall-to Affairs. the Committee on the Library. Also, petition of Licensed Tugmen's Protective Association By 1'fr. ASHBROOK : Petition of Roosevelt Camp, No. 9, and International Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Dredge­ Spanish War Veterans, of California, for additional allowances men, a "'ainst purchase of a government dredge for west coast of for trm·el and subsistence from Philippines to the United Lake Michigan and Lake Huron-to the Committee on Rivers State -to the Committee on Military Affairs. and Harbors. By Ir. BATES: Petition ·of Phoenix Iron Works Company, By Mr. FOCHT: Petition of B. F . . Welty and 19 other citi­ of Meadville, Pa., against publicity feature of tb.e corporation zens of Waynesboro, Pa., against increasing postage on second­ tax-to i:he Committee on Ways and Means. class mail matter-to tJ:ie Committee on the Post-Office and Post­ Also, petition of Elmer White, H. J. Patterson, :and A. Did­ Roads. rick, of Hydetown, Pa., against increase of postal rate on Also, . paper to accompany -bill for relief -0f John. Weil-to the periodicals-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post­ Committee on Military Affairs. Roads. By lli. FLOYD of Arkansas : Paper to accompany bill for Also, petition of Reid Manufacturing Company, of Erie, Pa., relief of Robert Lea.ne-to the Committee .on.Invalid Pensions. favoring certain amendments of the corporation-tax clause in By l\fr. FULL.ER: Petition of the legislature of the. State of the Payne tariff bill-to the Conimittee on Ways and l\Ieans. Illinois, favoring the establishment of a national bureau of By Mr. BARCHFELD: Petition of citizens of Dravosburg mines-;--to the Committee on Mines and Mining. and Buguesne, against increase of rates of postage on second­ By Mr. GILLETT: Petition of citizens of Brookfi.eld, .Mass., class matter-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post­ and citizens of Ware, 1\Iass., against increasing postage on sec­ Roads. ond-class mail matter-to the Committee on the Post-Office and _By l\Ir. BEALL of Texas: · Petition of citizens of Texas, Post-Roads. _ against the destruction of the greenhacks, and melting into Also,. petition of. Horace :Mann and others, of Athol, Orange, bullion the 600,000,000 silver doll~ now in circulation-to the New Salem, and Royalston, Mass., against sectarian legislatiop. Committee on Banking and Currency. and a proposed bill relating to the observance of Sunday in the By 1\Ir. CALDER: Petition of Roosevelt Camp, No. 9, Span­ District of Columbia-to the Committee on the District of ish ·war Veterans, of California, .for additional travel _pay and Columbia. . subsistence from the Philippines to the United States-to the By 1\Ir. GREE1'TE: Petition of masters, mates, pilots, man­ Committee on Military Affairs. agers, and engineers of merchant vessels, for a light-vessel on By Mr. CALPERHEAD : Petition of F. A. Stickle, for a volun­ Peake's Hill, Cape Cod, Massachusetts-to the Committee ori teer officers' retired list (S. 4183)-to the Committee on Mili­ Interstate and Foreign Commerce. tary Affairs. By :\Ir. GARNER of Texas: Petition of Farmers' Union of Also, petition of Giesecke-Doench-Hays Shoe Company, .fa­ l\lediun. County, Tex., against gambling in farm products-to voring bill relative to excess baggage-to the Committee on the Committee on Agriculture. Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. ~ITLTON: Petition of citizens of Barry County., .Al o, petition of Roosevelt Camp, No. 9, Spanish War Vet­ Mich., against S. 404 and H. J. Res. 17, relative to Sunday ob­ erans, for additional travel pay and subsistence from the serrnnce in the District of Columbia-to the Committee on the Philippines to the United States-to the Committee on Military District of Columbia. Affairs. By Mr. HANNA: Petition of citizens of Williston, N. Dn.k., Also, petition of Will Wendell Post, Grand Army of the Re­ protesting against the parcels-post bill-to the Committee on public, against the statue of Lee in Statuary Hall-to the the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Committee on the Library. By l\Ir. HAYES: Petition of San Francisco Lodge, No. 68, and Vallejo Lodge, No. 25, International Association of Mechanics, By :Mr. CANTRILL: Petition of Kentuclcy legislature, favor­ favoring organization and support of navy-yards as per policy ing amenfunent to an .act to protect trade and commerce against of Secretary Meyer-to the Committee on Naval Affair . unlawful restraints and monopolies-to the Committee on In­ By Mr. HOWARD: Paper to accompany bill for relief of terstate and Foreign Commerce. heirs of Nancy Brown-to the Committee on War Claims. By l\Ir. CARY: Petition of Local Union No. 12, International By Mr. HOWELL of New Jersey: Petition of Outdoors News Brotherhood of Steam-shovel and Dredgemen, of Milwaukee, Company, of New York, against increase of postage rates on Wis., against purchasing of a government dredge for Lakes periodicals-to the Committee on fhe Post-Office and Post-Roads. Michigan and Huron-to the Committee on Ilivers and Har­ Also, petition of Atlas Mineral and Machine Company, of ·Lin­ bors. coln, N. J., against the corporation-tax clause in the Payne Also, petition of ·Local Union No. 341, Cigar l\Iakers of Amer­ tariff bill-to the Committee on Ways and Means. ica, protesting against the purchase of a government dredge for Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Benjamin F. Lake .Michigan; also, protest against discontinuance of harbor Vaughn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. at Arcadia and other Michigan towns-to the Committee on Also, petition of Board of Trade of Newark, N. J., for modi­ Rivers and Harbors. fication of the publicity clause of the corporation-tax law-to Also, petition -0f Roosevelt Camp, No. 9, Spanish War Vet­ the Committee on Ways and Mea.ns. erans, of California, for additional travel pay and subsistence, By Mr. HOWELL of Utah: Petition of Benjamin Scriven, as per Senate bill 4033-to the Committee on Military Affairs. L. L. Dalton, Geise Brothers, C. E .. Bennett, and others, citizens Al o, petition of Licensed Tugmen's Protective Association, of Utah, against increase of postal rate on periodicals-to -the No. 8, of the Great Lakes, Milwaukee, Wis., against bill for Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. appropriation of $2u0,000 for a government dredge for the By Mr. FULLER : Paper to accompany bill for relief of .west shore of Lakes Michigan and Huron-to the Committee on Thomas Mowbray-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Rivers and Harbors. Also, petition of Chicago Mill and Lumber Compal\y, of Chi­ By Mr. CHAPMAN: Petition of general assembly of Illinois, cago, Ill., in favor of amending the corporation-tax clau8e in. by joint resolution No. 3, for a bureau of mines and mining­ the P~yne tariff bill-to the Committee on Ways and l\Ieans. .. to the Committee on Mines and Mining. By Mr. KRONMILLER: Petition of Woman's . Missionary By Mr. DAWSON: Petition of . Muscatine 'Xypographica1 Union and other organizations, of Baltimore, Md., favoring an Union, against increase of postal rate on periodicals-to the adequate detention house .:for immigrants (H. R. 1G374)-to the COmmittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By.Mr. .DENT: Petition of Fai:mers' Uni<>n, Locals Nos. 1647, .Also, ,petition oj: Baltimore Chrunber of Commerce, for House 1495, and 1995, against gambling in futures-:-to th_e Committee bill 16362, relative to. toIDlage incr~a_se._ etc.:-to. the Committee on: Agriculture. on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. 1910. CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-HOUSE. 1219

Also, petition of National Lumber Exporters' Association, for By Mr. SPERRY: Resolutions of Merriam Post, No. 8, Grand repeal of clause 6 of sectoin 38 of the corporation-tax law-to Army of the Republic, of Meriden, Conn., protesting against the Committee on Ways and Means. placing the statue of General Lee in Statuary Hall-to the Com­ Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of Charles Jones mittee on the Library. and William H. Billmyer-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By l\!r.-TAYLOR of C6lorado: Petition of citizens of Yampa, By Mr. LIJ\'DBERGH: Petition of United Commercial Trav­ ColQ., against increase of postage on second-class mail matter­ elers, against a postal savings-bank law-to the Committee on to the Committee on the Post-Office and .Post-Roads. the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. THOMAS of North Carolina: Paper to accompany By Mr. LOWDEN: Petition of citizens of Chicago, Ill., bill for relief of estate of Thomas W. Maides-to the Committee against increasing postage on second-class mail matter-to the on War Claims. Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. THO.MAS of Ohio: Petition of citizens of Cuyahoga· By .Mr. l\fcKINNEY : Petition of legislature of Illinois, for Falls, Ohio, favoring postal · savings-banks and parcels-post a national bureau of mines and mining-to the Committee on laws-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Mines and Mining. By Mr. TOWNSEND: Petition of volunteer officers of the By Mr. Mcl\fORRAN: Paper to accompany bil\ for relief of civil war throughout the United States, favoring House bill Mary D. Cooley-to the Committee on Pensions. 18899-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, petition of citizens of Mount Clemens, l\Iich., favoring Also, petition of citizens of Jackson, Mich., favoring the Na­ legislation ad>ocated by the Fraternal Press Association-to the tional Fraternal Press Association bill (H. R. 17543)-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. MANN: Petition of Publishing and Printing Trade Also, petition of civil war veterans of Blissfield, Mich., favor­ of Chicago, against increasing postage on second-class mail ing the Sherwood pension bill-to the Coll1Il1ittee on Invalid matter-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Pensions. By Mr. l\IOORE of Pennsylvania: Petition of Cortland Lan­ By l\Ir. STERLING: Petition of citizens of McLean County, ders Post, No. 21, Department of Pennsylvania, Grund Army of Ill., favoring the so-called "National Tribune pension bill "-to the Republic, against statue of Lee remaining in Statuary the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Ha11-to the Committee on the Library. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of George Hollman­ Also, petition of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, fa>oring to the Committee on Claims. participation by the United States in the Italian exposition of By Mr. STURGISS: Petition of the Miller Supply Company, 1911-to the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions. of Huntington, W. Va., against the publicity-clause require­ By Mr. MOORE of Texas: Paper to accompany bill for relief ment of the corporation tax embodied in the Payne tariff bill­ of heirs of Joseph Brogan-to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Ways and Means. By l\Ir. NEEDHAM: Petition of citizens of Stockton, Turlock, By Mr. WEISSE: Petition of citizens of the United States Watsonville, Sanger, Selma, Salinas, Reedley, Madera, Monterey, over 21 years of age, against removal of stamps on butterine-to Oakdale, Modesto, Merced, Hanford, Lodi, Lemoore, Kingsburg, the Committee on Agriculture. Fresno, Dinuba, Coalinga, and Clovis, Cal., against the passage Also, petition of Licensed Tugmen's Protective Association and of the proposed parcels-post law.,..-to the Committee on the others, against appropriation for a seagoing dredge for the Post-Office and Post-Roads. west shore of Lake Michigan-to the Committee on the Mer­ By Mr. PAYNE: Petition of Conquest (N. Y.) Grange; No. chant Marine and Fisheries. 1027, against change in oleomargarine law.-to the Committee Also, petition of Roosevelt Camp, No. 9, Department of Cali­ on Agriculture. fornia, Spanish War Veterans, for additional travel pay and sub­ Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of George H. Brill­ sistence from the Philippines to the United States-to the Com­ to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Military Affairs. Also, petition of citizens of Shortsville, N. Y., against postal By Mr. WICKLIFFE: Papers to accompany bills for relief of savings banks-to tile Committee on the Post-Office and Post­ Mrs. Mary Ann Toil and Mrs. Hulda Bickham-to the Commit- Roads. tee on Pensions. · By Mr. PRAY: Petition of 27 veterans of the civil war, of By Mr. WOOD of New Jersey: Petition of Presbytery of Butte, Mont., favoring the National Tribune pension bill-lo the Elizabeth, N. J., relative to interstate shipment of alcoholic Committee on Invalid Pensions. beverages-to the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. Also, petition of Captain Charles French Camp of Spanish Also, petition of E. C. Hutchinson and others, of Trenton War Veterans, Ko. 4, of Great Falls, Mont., against Senate joint N. J., against postal savings banks-to the Committee on th~ resolution 13-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, petitions of 9 merchants of Whitehall, 15 merchants of Also, petition of Board of Trade of Newark, N. J., favoring Livingston, 12 merchants of Big Timber, and 36 merchants of the repeal of the publicity feature in the corporation-tax clause Missoula, all in the State of Montana, against a parcels-post of the Payne tariff bill-to the Committee on Ways and 1\feans. law-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, paper ·to accompany bill for relief of John T. Flynn- By Mr. REEDER: Petition of citizens of Kansas, against to the Committee on Military Affairs. · sectarian legislation and a proposed bill relating to the observ­ By Mr. VREELAND: Petition of bankers of Westfield, N. Y., ance of Sunday in the District of Columbia-to the Committee and residents of Silver Creek, N. Y., against postal savings on the District of Columbia. _ banks-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, petition of Will Wendell Post, No. 46, Department of Kansas, Grand Army of the Republic, against placing the Lee HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. statue in Statuary Hall-to the Committee on the Library. By Mr. REYNOLDS: Paper to accompany bill for relief of SATURDAY, January ~9, 1910. John B. Hammer-to th ~ Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. RUCKER of .Missouri: Petition of citizens of Ran­ The House met at 12 o'clock noon. dolph County and citizens of Carroll County, both in the State Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D. of Missouri, against postal savings banks-to the Committee on The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and the Post-Office and Post-Roads. _ approved. By Mr. SABATH: Joint resolution 3, assembly of Tilinois, for QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE. a bureau of mines and mining-to the Committee on Mines and Mr. SIMS. Mr. Speaker, has the Journal been approved? Minin~ _ The SPEAKER. It has. Also, petition of citizens of Cook County, Ill., against increase Mr. SIMS. If the Journal has been approved, I rise to a of postal rate on periodicals-to the Committee on the Post­ question of privilege. Office and Post-Roads. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Also, petition of Roosevelt Camp, No. 9, Department of Cali­ Mr. Sil\fS. Mr. Speaker, I will read an editorial which ap­ fornia, Spanish War Veterans, for additional travel pay and peared in the Nashville Banner, a newspaper published at subsistence from the Philippines to the United States-to the Nashville, Tenn., in its issue of January 20, 1910, as follows: Committee on Military Affairs. ABUSE OF THE FRA:!'IK. By Mr. SHARP: Petition of Clinton Grange, No. 387, of Congressman KORBLY, of Indiana, who recently sent nearly a car­ load of bags of seed to his constituents through the mails on his co•• Mount Vernon, Ohio, favoring a parcels post-to the Committee gressional frank, admits that he abused the franking privilege and on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. that be opposes the continuance of such abuses; but be says that as By Mr. Sll\fS: Petition of citizens of .Jackson, Tenn., against long as they continue he intends to see that his share of government seeds are distributed. This is equivalent to saying that although he the passage of the proposed parcels-post law-to the Committee condemns the wrong he pl'oposes to continue to do the wrong as long on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. as the opportunity is afforded and other Members do it.