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CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D-SENATE. 1871 the Accounting Officerm of the Treasury on the 20Th Day of November, a Bill (H 1876. CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D-SENATE. 1871 the accounting officerM of the Treasury on the 20th day of November, A bill (H. R. No.l345) revising and amending the various acts estab­ 1 50, to the Committee of Claims. lishing and relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia; By Mr. BANNING: Resolution of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com­ A bill (H. R. No. 1271) amendatory of the act to incorporate the merce, requesting the President and Secretary of War to have New­ Columbia Railway Company of the District of Columbia, approved port Barracks, Kentucky, again occupied as a military post, and that May 24, 1871 ; the troops' and military band be returned to said post, to the Com- A bill (H. R. No. 1652) giving the approval and san~tion of Con­ mittee on Military Affairs. · gress to the route and termini of the Citizens' Railroad, and to regu­ By Mr. ELY: The petition of Dr. P. F. Reuss, for a pension, to the late its construction and operation ; Committee on Invalid Pensions. A bill (H. R. No. 1922) providing for the recording of deeds, mort­ By Mr. FAULKNER: The petition of Francis J. Wheeler, for re­ gages, and other conveyances affecting real estate in the District of imlmr ement of money advanced on check-book to Hale Libby and Columbia; and · Charles Burton, Thirteenth Regiment Maryland Volunteers, to the A bill (H. R. No. 2157) to provide for building a market-house on Committee of Claims. square 446 in the city of Washington, District of Columbia. By Mr. HAMILTON, of New Jersey: A paper relating to a post­ route from Wertsville to Clover Hill, New Jersey, to the Committee PETITIO:NS AND MEMORIALS. on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Mr. SHERMAN presented the petition of Darwin Weaver, J. S. By ~ir. HOLMAN: Papers relating to the claim of John A. Coan, Slack, and other citizens of Ohio, praying for the prohibition of the Government lessee of certain plantations in Louisiana, for relief, to manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors in the District of Columbia. the Committee on War Claims. and the Territories; which was referred to the Committee on the Dis­ By Mr. HUNTON: The petition of Charles Kirby, for compensa­ trict of Columbia. tion for stores and supplies taken by the United States Army, to the ~ir. DAVIS presented the petition of R. Hickman, M:. E. Browse, Committee on War Claims. and other citizens of Saint Mary's, West Virginia, praying for a geu­ By Mr. KIDDER: A letter from A. J. Smith, of Dakota, relative erallaw to prohibit the traffic in intoxicating liquors to be used ru; a. to the filing of pre-emptors on public lands, to the Committee on beverage within the national jurisdiction; which was referred to the Public Lands. Committee on the District of Columbia. By Mr. KIMBALL: Memorial of the Leuislatnre of Wisconsin, ask­ He also presented the petition of George C. Wilding, D. R. Groves, ing for increased appropriations to extend the Signal Service for the and other citizens of West. Virginia, praying for a general law to pro­ benefit of the farming interests of the United States, to the Commit­ hibit the traffic in intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage within tee on Commerce. the 11ational jutisdiction; which was referred to the Committee on Also, memorial of the Legislature of ·wisconsin, for the esta.blish­ the District of Columbia. ment of a tri-weekly mail-route from Waupaca to Plainfield, Wiscon­ l\ir. CAPERTON presented the petition of David Teater, R. D. sin, to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Petty, and others, praying for a. general law prohibiting the traffic in Also, joint resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin, against build­ intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage within the national iug a bridge across the Detroit River in the State of Michigan, to the jurisdiction; which was referred to the Committee on the District of Committee on Commerce. Columbia. Also, joint resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin, relative to a Mr. BAYARD. I present a petition of the Sons of Temperance of consolidated directory of the several States and the General Govern­ Delaware, accompanied by a note from Mr. A. :U. Powell, at whose ment, to the Committee on P1·inting. request I present this petition, signed by two -persons on behalf of By Mr. McMAHON: The petition of Gideon Curtis, for a pension, themselves and other members of the society, praying for prohibitory to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. legislation in regard to the eale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors Also, the petition of numerous soldiers in the late war with Mexico, in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States. now residents of Hampton Home, for active measures for the release I move its reference to the Committee on the District of Columbia. of Edward O'M. Condon, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The motion was agreed to. By Mr. O'NEILL: Remonstrance of citizens of Philadelphia, against Mr. MERRIMON presented a petition of the Good Templars of North the reduction of the tariff, to the Committee of Ways and Means. Carolina, officially signed, praying for the prohibition of the mann­ By Mr. PAGE: The petition of H. B. Tichnor and others, that the fa-cture and sale of alcoholic liquors in the District of Columbia and United States establish a military post in Alaska Territory, and for the Territories; which was referred to the Committee on the District the granting of certain privileges to the Alaska Ship-Building and of Columbia. Lumber Company, to the Committee on Public Lands. M:r. DAWES presented the petition of· Charles M. Delano, Ezra Also, the petition of ettlers upon the Albion grant, California, that Kingman, and other citizens of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, House bill No. 321 be not passed, to the same committee. praying for the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic By Mr. PARSONS: The petition of James T. White, for compensa­ liquors in the District of Columbia and the Territories; which was tion for three hogsheads of tobacco taken from him by Colonel E. M. referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Lowe, United States Army, to the Committee of Claims. He also presented the petition of Leopold Ka.rpeles, a citizen of By Mr. PHELPS: The petition of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry A. Springfield, Massachusetts, praying that he may be paid the sum of Frink, for a pension, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. $190, which he believes to be justly due him from the United States By l\!r. SEELYE: Memorial of the Engineers Club of Saint Louis, for services rendered as a soldier; which was referred to the Com­ in behalf of the metric system of weights and measures, to the Com­ mittee on Military Affairs. mittee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. · Mr. WINDOM presented n. petition of 469 citizens of Richland Also, the memorial of the Saint Louis Academy of Sciences, of sim- County, Wisconsin, praying for an appropriation to complete the Fox ilar import, to the same committee. River improvement, and for the construction of a canal along the By Ur. TOWNSEND, of New York: The petition of Elizabeth A. Wisconsin River from Portage City to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Zears, for an adclitional pension, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. in n.ccord:111ce with the third plan recommended by General Warren; By l\ir. VANCE, of North Carolina: Papers relating to the claim of which wa.s referred to the Committee on Commerce. John Waugh, for compensation for property destroyed by the United Mr. WRIGHT presented a petition of the Temperance Brotherhood States Army, to the Committee on War Claims. of Cluistian Churches of the City of Brooklyn, New. York, officially By Mr. WILLIAMS, of Indiana: The petition of John Burke, for signed, representing 30,000 members, praying for the prohibition of additional compensation as a United States officer, to the Committee the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors in the District of Colum­ on :.Military Affairs. bia and the Territories; which was referred to the Committee on the By Mr. A. S. WILLIAMS : The petition of 23 citizens of Hammond, District of Columbia. Michigan, that authority be granted to construct a bridge across De­ He ~lso presented a petition of the Friends' First-Day School, of troit River, to the Committee on Commerce. Wiii?-LJ?~n, Delaware, signed by the superintenden~, p~aying for the proh1b1tion of the ma,nufactnre and sale of alcoholic hquors in the District of Columbia and the Territories; which wa.s referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. .Mr. BRUCE presented a petition of the Sons of Temperance of the IN SENATE. District of Columbia, officially signed, praying for prohibitory leo-is­ lation for the District of Columbia and the Tenitories, for the prohibi­ WEDNESDAY, Mat·ch 22, 1876. tion of the importation of alcoholic liquors from abroad ; that total abstinence be made a condition of the civil, military, and naval serv­ Prayer by Rev. J. 0. A. CLARK, D. D., of Macon, Georgia. ice; and for a constit.utional amendment prohibiting the traffic in TJ;le Journal of yesterday's proceedings was rea{l and approved. alcoholic beverages throughout the national domain; which was re­ HOUSE BILLS RE.FERRED. ferred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. .Mr. CHRISTIANCY presented the petition of M. B. Tower, L. S. · The fo1lowing bills from the House of Representatives were sever­ ':fower, a_ua ~ther citizens. of.
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