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: # 3576 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE. MAY 1, except our own. We have no orders in society, no standing armies, no be published in full, in accordance with the leave granted by the House. traditions to which we may cling, no great vested interest, no class to The SPEAKER. 'l'he necessary correction will be made. The Chair lead us. There was a disruption in the South in which everything will cause the Journal to be corrected according to the gentleman's state went down into a chasm and beyond recall. ment. By au interposition of Divine Providence a revolution was wrought The bill introduced by ?tfr. BUCHANAN, a bill (H. R. 973!J) to abol at the very moment when we were put at the greatest stress of fortune; ish war taxes upon American shipping, was read a first and second time, and will not the people of the North, the generous and patriotic men referred to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, ordered and women of the North, who have come to our aid with such abundant to be printed, and also to be publi'lhed in the RECORD. It is as follows: • benevolence in our many trials, be persuaded that the good men and Be it enacted, etc., That the act approved :r.Iay 31, 1830, entitled "An act to re good women of the South are striving not for party conquest, not for peal the tonnage duties upon ships and vessels of the United States and upon certain foreign vessels," which was repealed by section 15 of the act approved any base and ignoble purposes, but that they are endeavoring to do all July 14,1862, entitled "An act increasing temporarily the duties on imports, and they c.o'\n according to their means to solve rightly every problem which for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, re-enacted as follows: God Almighty has committed to them, to do what they can to free society "That from and after the passage of this act nod uties upon the tonnage of the ships and vessels of the United States, of which the officers and two-thirds of from the dangers of ignorance and vice and strife? the crew shall be citizens of the United States, shall be levied or collected: and But they will never cease as long as they cherish liberty to feel that all acts or parts of acts imposing duties upon the tonnage of ships and vessels they ought to make any sacrifices to prevent this great instrument of of the United States, o:fficered and manned as aforesaid, so far as the same re late to the imposition of such duties, shall, from and after said 1st day of April - government from falling into the hands of a race marked as distinct next, be repealed. from the white race, and which has not yet the capacity because per " SEc. 2. That from and after the said 1st day of April next all acts and parts haps it has not had the 01Jportunity to fit itself for the responsibilities of acts imposing duties upon the tonnage of the ships and vessels of any foreign nation, so far as the same relate to the imposition of such duties, shall be repealed: of self-government. • Provided, That the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the dis We united with Senators from the North to exclude the Chinese from criminating or countervailing duties of such foreign vessels, so far as they oper our country because they were regarded as an element dangerous to our ate to the disadvantage of the United States, have been abolished." society, and we have read in Fronde's account of the West India Isla¥ds EXPENSES OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS. of the deplorable and blighting results of negro supremacy. The SPEAKER, by unanimous consent, laid before the House a letter Sir, I do not mean at this time to suggest that_ we should take the from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of expendi ballot away from the negroes. I trust the experiment of universal tures of the appropriation for entertaining and pro Tiding for expenses suffrage in the South may prove successful. But we owe it to ourselves of the Ninth International Medical Congress, September, 1887; which and to them to exhaust all the resources of civilization, using a phrase was referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury De- of ?tfr. Gladstone, to dissuade them from casting their ballots in favor partment, and ordered to be printed. · of men incapable of administering the government, and from banding together in secret orders, under unscrupulous and designing men, to REPAIR OF SEA-WALL, NAVAL HOSPITAL, NORFOLK, VA. make war upon all the institutions we have inherited from our ances The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary tors. oftheTreasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Navy BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. of an appropriation to be immediately available for repair of the sea Mr. HARRIS. I move that the Senate adjourn. wallatthenavalhospital, Norfolk, Va.; which was referred to the Com The PRESIDING OFFICER. Before submitting the motion, the mittee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Chair will lay before the Senate the unfinished business. The CHIFF CLERK. ''A bill {S. 2083) to provide for the establish FIRE-ESCAPES, HOWARD UNIVERSITY BUILDING. ment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, and to facilitate the exportation The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of live-stock and their products, to _extirpate contagious pleuro-pneu ofthe Treasury, transmitting anestimate from the Secretary of the In monia and other diseases among domestic animals, and for other pur- terior for the erection of fire-escapes upon the Howard Universit."" poses." . • building; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee moves and ordered to be printed. that the Senate do now adjourn. PENSION APPROPRIATIONS. ' The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 6 o'clock and 39 min The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Acting utes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Wednesday, May 2, Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Commissioner 1888, at 12 o'clock m. of Pensions requesting that the sum of $3,500,000 .be transferred from the appropriations for Mexican war pensions to the .Army pension ap propriations; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. and ordered to be printed. UNION BANK OF .AUSTRALIA. ruESDAY, May I, 1888. The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Acting The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. Secretary of the Treasury, with accompanying papers, and a letter from H. MILBURN, D. D. the Secretary of State, relative to the relief of the Union Bank of Aus The Clerk proceeded to read the Journal of yesterday. tralia, limited, for losses sustained through payment of certain drafts Mr. BURROWS. I ask by unanimous consent that the reading of drawn by the late United States commercial agent at Levnka, Fiji that portion of the Journal relating to the introduction and reference Islands; which was referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered of bills and resolutions be dispensed with. to be printed. There being no objection, it was so ordered. REFERENCE OF BILLS. The residue of the Journal was read. The SPEAKER laid before the House, under the rule, Senate bills, CORRECTION. which were severally read a first and second time, aud referred as fol Mr. BUCHAN4N. I desire to correct the Journal. I introduced lows, namely: yesterday a bill to abolish war taxes upon American shipping. Upon The bill (S. 347) to provide for the erection of a public uilding at examination I do not find that bill noticed in the Journal, and I would Youngstown, Ohio-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. like to have the proper correction made. The mistake bas arisen from The bill (S. 349) for the erection of a public building at Akron, Ohio confusing two bills-one introduced by the gentleman from AI·kansas to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. [Ur. DUNN], and the other by myself. The bill (S.l747) to authorize the sale of a tract ofland in the military The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read that part of the Journal. reservation of Fort Leavenworth, in the St;lte of Kansas-to the Com The Clerk read as follows: mittee on Military Affairs. By Mr. DUNN: A bill (H. R. 9738) providing for the organization of the Com The bill (S. 2329) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury tore-ex;-. mission on Fish and Fisheries, and defining its duties; which was read a first amine and reaudit a claim of the State of Pennsylvania for advances and second time, referred to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and ordered to be printed. made and money borrowed by said State to pay the militia called into Mr. BUCHANAN. That is the bill introduced by the gentleman the military service by the governor under the proclamation of the from Arkansas. Mine was a bill to abolish war taxes on American President of June 15, 1863-to the Committee on War Claims. shipping; and it does not appear in the Journal. • The bill (S. 68) for the relief of James H. Smith, late postmaster at The SPEAKER. The Chair will cause the correction to be made. Memphis, Tenn.-to the Committee on Claims.