10 CONGRESSION-AL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 6, for protection of local-option laws in the vari~us States and Ter­ appointed to wait on the President and to inform him that a ritories-to the Committee on the Judiciary. quorum of the two Houses is present and ready to proceed to By 1\fr. MOON of Tennessee: Papers to accompany House bill business, report that they have discharged that duty, and in to amend an act entitled "An act to enable the Secretary of War response the President stated to the committee that he would to authorize construction of a lock and dlim in aid of navigation immediately communicate to the two Houses a message in writ· in the Tennessee River "-to the Committee on Rivers and Har­ ing. bors. SENATORS APPOINTED ·FROM MASSACHUSETTS AND PENNSYLVANIA.. Also, papers to accompany bill for relief of Jesse Walling, of .Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, I present the credentials of my Sampson, Bledsoe County, Tenn., for supplies taken and used by colleague, 1\Ir. Crane, and ask that they be read. the United States Army-to the Committee on War Claims. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The credentials will be re­ By Mr. MORRELL: Petition for the erection of a monumental ceived and read. statue in the city of Washington, D. C., to Rear-Admiral Charles The credentials of Winthrop Murray Crane, appointed by Stewart-to the Committee on the Library. the governor of the State·of Massachusetts a Senator from that By Mr. RIXEY: Papers to accompany bill for the relief of the State to fill until the next meeting of the legislature thereof Methodist Episcopal Church South, of· Jeffersonton, Va.-to the the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1907, occasioned by the Committee on War Cairns. death of Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, were read, and ordered to By Mr. RUPPERT: Resolutions of the New England Tobacco be :filed. Growers' Association, stating that they are unalterably opposed 1\fr. PENROSE. Mr. President, I present the credentials of to any change of the tobacco schedule of the Dingley tariff law­ Mr. Knox, filling by appointment of the governor of Pennsylva­ to the Committee on Ways and Means. nia the vacancy in this body caused by the death of my late Also, papers to accompany bill to pension Abram Nussbaum­ colleague. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The credentials will be re­ By Mr. SCUDDER: Petition of residents of the town of East ceived and read. Hampton, Suffolk County, N. Y., for improvement of Threemile The credentials of Philander Chase Knox, appointed by the Harbor-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. governor of the State of Pennsylvania a Senator from that State By Mr. SHER.l\I.Al~ : Papers to accompany bill granting in­ to fill until the next meeting of the legislature thereof the va­ crease of pension to Rev. R. Howard Wallace-to the Commit­ cancy occasioned by the death of Hon. Matthew Stanley Quay tee on Invalid Pensions. in the term ending March 3, 1905, were read, and ordered to be By Mr. SMITH of Kentucky : Papers to a.ccompany bill for filed. pension of Daniel W. Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ Mr. LODGE. The Senators appointed are present, and I ask sions. that the oath may be administered to them. · By Mr. SNOOK: Papers in support of House bill granting an The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If tbe Senators appointed increase of pension to Harrison Ball-to the Committee on In­ will present themselves at the desk, the Chair will administer valid Pensions. the oath required by law. . Mr. Crane and Mr. Knox were escorted to the Vice-Presi· dent's desk by 1\Ir. LoDGE and Mr. PENROSE, respectively; and the SEN.ATE. oath prescribed by law having been administered to them, they took their seats in the Senate. · TUESDAY, December 6, 1904. PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. Mr. B. F. BARNES, one of the secretaries of the President of MosEs E. CLAPP, a Senator from the State of l\finnesota; the United States, appeared and said: JAMES P. CLARKE, a Senator from the State of Arkansas; Mr. President, I am directed by the President of the United JoHN w. DANIEL, a Senator fr.om the State of Virginia; JoHN States to deliver to the Senate a message in writing. ~'. MoRGAN, a Senator from the State of Alabama, and Fmmi­ The message was received from the secretary and handed to FOLD MeL. SIMMONS, a Senator from the State of North Caro­ the President pro tempore. lina, appeared in their seats to-day. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the The Journal of yesterday's -proceedings was reap and ap­ Senate the anmml message of the President of the United proved. States, which the Secretary will read. · MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. '!'he Secretary (CHARLES G. BENNETT) read tile message, as WILLI.lll J. BROWNING, the Chief Clerk of the House of Repre­ follows: sentatives, appeared and delivered tile following message: 'l'o the Sen.ate ana House of Representatives: Mr. President, I am dil:ected by the House of Representatives The Nation continues to· enjoy noteworthy prosperity. Such to inform the Senate that a quorum of the House of Representa­ prosperity is of course primarily due to the high individual aver­ tives has assembled, and that the House is ready to proceed to age of our citizenship, taken together with our great natural business. resources ; but an important factor therein is the working of Also, that a committee of three has been appointed by the our long-continued governmental policies. The people have em­ Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives to join the phatically expressed their approval of the principles underlying committee appointed on the part of the Senate to wait on the these policie , and their de ire that these principles be kept sub­ President of the United States and to notify him that a quorum stantially unchanged, although of course applied in a progressive of each of the two Houses bas assembled and that Congress is spirit to meet changing conditions. ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make, C.A.l!TIO~ AGAINST EXTRAVAGANCE. and that Mr. BURTON of Ohio, Mr. TAWNEY of Minnesota, and Mr. WILLIA.MS of Mississippi have been appointed such commit­ The enlargement of scope of the functions of the National tee on the part of the House. Government required by our development as a nation involves, The message further announced that the House had. passed of course, increase of expense; and the period of prosperity the following bills; in which it requested the concurrence of through which the country is passing justifies expenditures for the Senate: permanent improvements far greater than would be wise in A bill (H. R. 12898) to create a new division in the eastern hard times. Battle ships and forts, public buildings, and im· judicial d.isb.·ict of the State of Missouri; and proved waterways are investments which should be made when A bill (H. R. 13355) to amend the copyright laws. we have the money; but abundant revenues and a large surplus The message also announced that the House bad passed reso­ always invite extravagance, and constant care should be taken lutions commemorative of the life and public services of Hon. to guard against unnecessary increase of the ordinary expenses Matthew Stanley Quay, late a Senator fJ:om the State of Penn­ of government The.cost of doing Government business should sylvania. be regulated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing The message further announced that the House had passed a private business. resolutions commemorative of the life and public services of CAPITAL AND LABOR. Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, late a Senator from the State of In the vast and complicated mechanism ·of ou~ modern civil· Massachusetts. ized life the dominant note is the note of industrialism ; and the NOTIFICATIO~ TO lHE PRESIDENT.· relations of capital and labor, and especially of organized capital Mr. A.LLISON and Mr. CocKRELL, the committee appointed on and organized labor, to each other and· to the public at large ~orne the part of the Senate to wait upon the President.of the.United second in importance only to the intimate questions of family life. States, appeared; and Our peculiar form of government, with its sharp division of au­ 1\Ir. ALLISON said: .1\Ir. President, the committee on the part thority between the. Nation and the several States, has been on of tbe Senate, with a like committee on the part of the House, the whole far more advantageous to our development than a 1904. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 11

... more strongly centralized government But it is undoubtedly conspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice in the saving of life in responsible for much of the difficulty of meeting with adequa~e private employments under the jurisdiction of the United States, legislation the new probleJ?S pre~ented b~ the total change ill and particularly in the land commerce of the Nation. illdush·ial conditions on thts continent durmg the last half cen­ PREVENTIO:'i OF RAILROAD ACCIDEl\'TS. tury. In actual practice it has prove~ ~xceedin%1Y di~cult, and The ever-increasing casualty list upon our railroads is a mat­ - in many cases impossible. to get unanuruty of wise act10n among ter of grave public concern, and urgently calls for action by the the various States on these subjects. From the very nature of Congress. In the matter of speed and comfort of railway travel the case this is especially h·ue of the laws affecting the employ­ our railroads give at least as good service as those of any other ment of capital in huge masses. nation, and there is no reason why this service should not also With regard to labor the problem is no less important, but it be as safe as human ingenuity can make it Many of our lead­ is simpler. As long as the States retain the primary control of ing roads have been foremost in the adoption of the most the police power the. circumstances must be altog~t?er extreme approved safeguards for the protection of travelers and employ­ which require interference by the Federal authorities, whether ees, yet the list of clearly avoidable accidents continues unduly in the "ay of safeguarding the rights of labor or in the wa~ of large. The passage of a law requiring the adoption of a seeing that wrong is not done by. unruly pers?ns w_ho sbteld block-signal system bas been proposed to the Congress. I earn­ tbemseh·es behind the name of labor. If there IS resistance to estly concur in that recommendation, and would also point out the Fed.eral courts, interference with the mails, o_r interstate to the Congress the urgent need of legislation in the interest of commerce, or molestation of Federal property, or If the State the public safety limiting the hours of labor .for railroad em­ -authorities in some crisis which they are unable to face call for ployees in train service upon railroads engaged in interstate help, tllen the Federal Government may i!l!erfere; _but th?~gh commerce, and providing that only trained-and experienced per­ such interference may be caused by a condition of tbmgs ar1smg sons be employed in positionS of responsibility connected with out of trouble connected with some question of labor, the inter­ ·the- operation of trains. Of course nothing can ever prevent ference itself simply takes the form of restoring order without accidents caused by human weakness or misconduct; and l'egard to the questions wJ;tich have caused .the br.each of ~rd:r­ there should be drastic punishment for any railroad employee, for to keep order is a pnmary d~ty ~nd ill a time of ~sorder whether officer or man, who by issuance of wrong orders or by and violence all other questions smk mto abeyance until order disobedience of orders causes disaster. The law of 1901, re­ has been restored. In the District of Columbia and in the Ter­ quiring interstate railroads to make monthly reports of all acci­ ritories the Federal law C€lvers the entire field of government; dents to passengers and employees on duty, should also be but the labor question is only acute in populous centers of GOm­ amended so as to empower the Government to make a personal merce, manufactures, or mining. Nevertheless, both in the en­ investigation, through proper officers, of all accidents involving actment nnd in the enforcement of law the Federal Government loss of life which seem to require investigation, with a require­ within its restricted sphere should set an ~xample t? the St~te ment that the results of such investigation be made public. governn;ents especially in a matter so VItal as this affecting The safety-appliance law, as amended by the act of March 2, labor I beiieve that under modern industrial conditions it is 1903 bas proved beneficial to railway employees, and in order often. necessary, and even where not necessary it is yet often that' its provisions may be properly carried out, the force of wise that there should be organization of labor in order better inspectors provided for by appropriation should be largely .in­ to s~cure the rights of the individual wage-~or~er. All encou~­ creased. This service is analogous to the Steamboat-Inspection agement should be given to any such orgaruzatwn, so lo_ng as. It Service and deals with even more important interests. It bas is conducted with a due and decent regard fo_r the r!ghts of passed the experimental stage and demonstrated its utility, and others. There are in this country some labor unwns which have should receive generous recognition by the Congress. habitually, and other labor unions 'Yhich ha:ve ofte?~ been .among the most effective agents in workmg for good . cthzenship and UNIONS OF GOVERNAIE:'iT EMPLOYEES. for uplifting the condition of those whose :welfare s~ould be There is no objection to employees of the Government forming closest to our hearts. But when any labor unwn seeks Improper or belonging to unions ; but the Government can neither dis­ ends or seeks to achieve proper ends by improper means, all criminate for nor discriminate against nonunion men who are good' citizens and more especially all honorable public servants iu its employment, or who seek to be employed under it. More­ must oppose the wrongdoing as resolut~ly as they would oppo.se over it is a very grave impropriety for Government employees the wrongdoing of any great corporation. . Of course _any VIO­ to b~d themselves together for the purpose of extorting im­ lence, brutality, or corruption, should_ not. for one mon;tent be properly high salaries from the Government Especially is this - tolerated. Wage-workers have an. entire right to orgaruze and true of those within the classified service. The letter carriers, by all peaceful and hoi10rable means to. en~eavor to persuade both municipal and rural, are as a whole an excellent body ot their fellows to join with them in orgaruzahons. They have a public servants. They should be amply paid. But their pay­ legal right, which, according to ~ircu;nstances, rna~ or may not ment must be obtained by arguing their claims fairly and honor­ be a moral right, to refuse to work m company with me~ who ably before the Congress, and not by banding together for the decline to join tbeir organizations. They have under no circ~­ defeat of those Congressmen who refuse to give promises which stances the right to commit violence upon those, whether capi­ they can not in conscience give. The Administration has al­ talists or wage-workers, who refuse to support their organiza­ ready taken steps to prevent and punish abuses of this nature; tions, or wbo side with those with whom they are at odds; for but it will be wise. for the Congress to supplement this action by mob rule is intolerable in any form. legislation. BUREAU OF LABOR. EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY LAW. Much can be done by the Government in labor matters merely The "age-workers are peculiarly entitled to the protection n~d by giving publicity to certain conditions. The Bureau of Labor the encouragement of the law. From the very nature of their bas done excellent work of this kind in. many different direc­ occupation railroad men, for instance, are liable to be maimed in tions. I shall shortly lay before you in a special message the doing the legitimate work of their profession, unles_s _the railro.~d full report of the investigation of the Bureau of Labor into the companies are required by law to make ample provtswn for tbetr Colorado mining strike, as this is a strike in which certain very safety. The Administration bas been zealous in enforcing the evil forces, which are more or less at work everywhere under the existin()' law for this purpose. That law should be amended and conditions of modern industrialism, became startlingly promJ­ strengthened. Wherever the National_ G?-yernment ~as power nent It is greatly to be wished that the Department of Com­ there should be a stringent employer's habiltty law, which should merce and Labor, through the Labor Bureau, should compile apply to the Government itself where the Government is an em­ and arrange for the Congress a list of the labor laws of the ployer of labor. various States, and should be given the means to investigate In my Message to the Fifty-seventh Congress, at its second und report to the Congress upon the labor conditions in the session, I urged the passage of an employer's liability law .for manufacturing and mining regions throughout the country, both the District of Columbia. I now renew that recommendation, as to wages, as to hours of labor, as to the labor of women and and further recommend that the Congress appoint a commission children and as to the effect in the various labor centers of im­ to make a comprehensive study of employer's liability ~it~ the migratidn from abroad. In this investigation especial attention view of extending the provisions of a great and constitutiOnal should be paid to the conditions of child labor and child-labor law to all employments within the scope of Federal power. legislation in the several States. Such an investigation must MEDALS OF HONOR. necessarily take into account many of the problems with which The Government has recognized heroism upon the water·, and this question of child labor is connected. These problems can bestows medals of honor upon those persons w~o by. extreme and be actually met, in most cases, only by the States themselves ; heroic daring have endangered their lives in saving, or endea\or­ but the lack of proper legislation in one St..

For this reason, it would be well :tor the Nation at least to en- driven,. and . I prefer to go with it and shape or modify, In a . deavor to secure comprehensive information as to the conditions measure, its opinion, rather than be swept from my bearings, • of labor of children in the different States. Such investigation with loss to myself and the interests in my charge. and pub1ication by the National Government would tend toward "Violent prejudice exists toward corporate aCtivity and cap­ the securing of approximately uniform legislation of the proper ita~ to-day, much of it founded in reason, more in apprehension, character among the several States. and a large measure is due to the personal traits of arbitrary, CORPORATIONS, unreasonable, incompetent, and offeusive men in positions of au­ When we come to deal with great corporations the need for thority. The accomplishment of results by indirection, the en­ the Government to act directly is far greater than in the case of deavor to thwart the intention, i! not the expressed letter of the labor, because great corporations can become such only by en­ law (the will of the people), a disregard of the rights of others, gaging in interstate commerce, and interstate commerce is a disposition to withhold what is due, to force by main strength peculiarly the field o:t the General Government It is an ab­ or inactivity a result not justified, depending upon the weakness surdity to expect to eliminate the abuses in great corporations of the claimant and his indisposition to become involved in liti­ by State action. It is difficult to be patient with an argument gntion, has created a sentiment harmful in the extreme and a that such matters should be left to the States becanse more disposition to consider anything fair that gives gain to the indi­ than one State pursues the policy of creating on easy terms vidual at the expense of the company. corporations which m:e never operated within that State at all, "If corporations are to continue to do the world's work, as but in other States whose laws they ignore. The National Gov­ they a.re best fitted to, these qualities in their representatives ernment alone can deal adequately with these great corpora­ that have resulted in the present prejudice against them must be tions. To try to deal with them in an intemperate, destructive, relegated to the background. T:Qe corporations must come out or demagogic spirit woul_d, in all probability, mean that nothing into the open and see and be seen. They must take the public whatever would be accomplished, and, with absolute certainty, into their confidence and ask for what they want, and no more, that if anything were accomplished it would be of a harmful and be prepared to explain satisfactorily what advantage will nature. The American people need to continue to show the accrue to the public if they are given their desires ; for they are very qualities that they have shown-that is, moderation, good permitted to exist not that they may make money solely, ut sense, the earnest desire to a void doing any damage, and yet that they may effectively serve those from whom they derive the quiet determination to proceed, step by step, without halt their power. and without hurry, in eliminating or at least in minimizing "Publicity, and not secrecy, will win hereafter, and laws be whatey-er of mischief or of evil there is to interstate commerce construed by their intent and not by their letter, otherwise pub­ in the conduct of great corporations. They are acting in no lic utilities will be owned and operated by the public which cre­ spirit of hostility to wealth, either individual or corporate. ated them, even tho·ugh the service be less efficient and the re­ '!'hey are not against the rich man any more than against the sult less satisfactory from a financial standpoint." poor man. On the contrary, they are friendly alike toward rich 'I'he Bureau of Corporations bas made careful preliminary in­ man and toward poor man, provided only that each acts in a vestigation of many important corporations. It will make a spirit of justice and decency toward his fellows. Great corpo­ special report on the beef industry. rations are necessary, and only men of great and singular men­ BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS. tal power can manage such corporations successfully, and such The policy of the Bureau is to accomplish the purposes of its men must have great rewards. But these corporations should creation by cooperation, not antagonism; by making construc­ be managed with due regard to the interest of the public as a tive legislation, not destructive prosecution, the immediate ob­ whole. Where this can be done under the present laws it must ject of its inquiries; by conservative investigation of law and be done. Where these laws come short others should be en­ fact, and by refusal . to issue incomplete and hence necessarily acted to supplement them. inaccurate reports. Its policy being thus one of open inquiry Yet we must never forget the determining factor in every kind into, and not attack upon, business, the Bureau has been able of work, of bead or band, must be the man's own good sense, to gain not only the confidence, but, better still, the cooperation courage, and kindliness. More important than any legislation of men engaged in legitimate business. is the gradual· growth o:t a feeling of responsibility and forbear­ The Bureau offers to the Congress the means of getting at the ance among capitalists and wage-workers alike; a feeling of cost of production of our various great staples of commerce. respect on the part of each man for the rights of others ; a feel­ Of nec~ssity the careful investigation of special corporations ing of broad community of interest, not merely of capitali ts will afford the Commissioner knowledge of certain busine s facts, among themselves, and of wage-workers among themselves, but the publication of which might be an improper infringement of of capitalists and wage-workers in their relations to each other, private rigbt'3. The method of making public the results of and of both in their relations to their fellows who with them these investigations affords, under the law, a means for the pro­ make up the body politic. There are many captains of indus­ tection of private rights. The Congress will have all facts ex­ try, many labor leaders, who realize this. A recent speech by cept s'uch as would give to another corporation information the president of one of our great railroad systems to the em­ which would injure the legitimate business of a competitor and ployees of that system contains sound common sense. It runs destroy the incentive for individual superiority and thrift. in part as follows: 'l'he Bureau has also made exhaustive examinations into the "It is my belief we can better serve each other, better under­ legal condition under which corporate business is carried on in stand the man as well as his business, when meeting face to the various States ; into all judicial decisions on the subject ; face, exchanging views, and realizing from personal contact we and into the various systems of corporate taxation in use. I serve but one interest, that of our mutual prosperity. call special attention to the report of the chief of the Bureau; "Serious misunderstandings can not occur where personal and I earnestly ask that the Congress carefully consider the re­ good will exists and opportunity for personal explanation is port and recommendations of the Commissioner on this subject present INSURAJij"CE. " In my early business life I had experience with men ot af­ · The business o:t insurance vitally affects the great mass of the fairs of a character to make me desire to avoid creating a like people o:t the United States and is national and not local in its feeling of resentment to myself and the interests in my charge, application. It involves a multitude of transactions among the should fortune ever place me in authority, and I am solicitous people of the different States and between American companies · of a measure of confidence on the part of the public and our and foreign governments. I urge that the Congress carefully employees that I shall hope may be warranted by the fairness consider whether the power of the Bureau of Corporations can and good fellowship I intend shall prevail in our relationship. not constitutionally be extended to cover interstate transactions "But do not feel I am disposed to grant unreasonable re­ in insurance. quests, spend the money of our company unnecessarily or with­ REBATES. out value received, nor expect the days of mistakes are disap­ Above all else, we must strive to keep the highways of com­ pearing, or that cause for complaint will not continually occur; merce open to all on equal terms; and to do this it is necessary simply to correct such abuses as may be discovered, to better to put a complete stop to all rebates. Whether the shipper or conditions as fast as reasonably may be expected, constantly the railroad is to blame makes no difference; the rebate must striving, with varying success, for that improvement we all be stopped, the abuses of the private car and private terminal­ desire, to convince you there is a force at work in the right track and side-track systems must be stopped, and the legisla­ diredion, all tbe time making progress-is the disposition with tion of the Fifty-eighth Congress which declares it to be unlaw­ which I have come among you, asking your good will and ful for any person or corporation to offer, grant, give, solicit, encouragement accept, or receive any rebate, concession, or discrimination in , " The day has gone by when a corporation can be handled respect of the transportation 9f any property in interstate or successfully in defiance o! the public will, even though that will foreign commerce whereby such property shall by any device be unreasonable and wrong. A public may be led, but not whatever be transported at a less rate than that named in the 1904. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 13

tariffs published by the carrier must be enforced. For some time healthy in body and stunted or vicious in mind, then that race after the enactment of the Act to Regulate Commerce it remained is decadent, and no heaping up of, wealth, no splendor of mo­ • a mooted question whether that act conferred upon the Inter­ mentary material prosperity, can avail in any degree as offsets. state Commerce Commission the power, after it had found a The Congress has the same power of legislation for the Dis­ challenged rate to be unreasonable, to declare what thereafter trict of Columbia which the State legislatures have for the vari­ should, prima facie, be the reasonable maximum rate for the ous States. The problems incident to our highly complex mod­ transportation in dispute. The Supreme Court finally resolved ern industrial civilization, with its manifold and perplexing that question in the negative, so that as the law now stands the tendencies both for good and for evil, are far less sharply Commission simply possess the bare power to denounce a partic­ accentuated in the city of Washington than in most other cities. ular rate as unreasonable. While I am of the opinion that at For this very reason it is easier to deal with the various phases present it would be undesirable, if it were not impracticable, of these problems in Washington, and the District of Columbia finally to clothe the Commission with general authority to fix government should be a model for the other municipal govern­ railroad rates, I do believe that, as a fair securitY to shippers, ments of the Nation, in all such matters as supervision of the the Commission should be vested with the power, where a given housing of the poor, the creation of small parks in the districts rate has been challenged and after full hearing found to be un­ inhabited by the poor, in laws a.ffecting labor, in laws providing reasonable, to decide, subject to judicial review, what shall be ·for the taking care of the children, in truant laws, and in a reasonable rate to take its place; the ruling of the Commis­ providing schools. sion to take effect immediately, and to obtain unless· and until In the vital matter of taking care of children, much a.dyan­ it is reversed by the court of review. The Governmeat must in tage could be gained by a careful study of what has been ac­ increasing degree supervise and regulate the workings of the complished in such States as Illinois and Colorado by the railways engaged in interstate commerce; and such increased juvenile courts. The work of the juvenile court is really a supervision is the only alternative to an increase of the present work of character building. It is now generally recognized evils on the one hand or a still more radical policy on the other. that young boys and young gil'ls who go wrong should not be In my judgment the most important legislative act now needed treated as criminals, not eyen necessariJy as needing reforma­ as regards the regulation of corporations is this act to confer on tion, but rather as needing to have their characters formed, the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to revise rates and for this end to have them tested and developed by a. sys­ and regulations, the revised rate to at once go into effect, and tem of probation. Much admirable work has been done in to stay in effect unless and until the court of review reverses it. many of our Commonwealths by earnest men and women who Steamship companies engaged in interstate commerce and pro­ have made a special study of the needs of those classes of tected in our coastwise trade should be held to a strict observ­ children which furnish the greate~t number of juvenile offend­ ance of the interstate-commerce act. ers, UJld therefore the greatest number of adult offenders; and CITY OF WASHINGTON. by their aid, and by profiting by the experiences of the different In pursuing the set plan to make the city of Washington an States and cities in these matters, it would be easy to provide example to other American municipalities several points should a good code for the District of Columbia. be kept in mind by the legislators. In the first place, the people Several considerations suggest the need for a systematic in­ of this country should clearly understand that no amount of in­ v:estigation into and improyement of housing conditions in dustrial prosperity, and above all no leadership in. international Washington. The hidden residential alleys are breeding industrial competition, can in any way atone for the sapping of grounds of vice and disease, and should be opened into minor the vitality of those who are usually spoken of as the working streets. For a number of years influential citizens have joined classes. The farmers, the mechanics, the skilled and unskilled with the District Commissioners in the vain endeavor to secure laborers, the small shop keepers, make up the bulk of- the popu­ laws permitting the condemnation of insanitary dwellings. The lation of . any country; and upon their well-being, generation local death rates, especially from preventable diseases, are so after generation, th~ well-being of the country and the race de- unduly high as tb suggest that the exceptional wholesomeness , pends. Rapid development in wealth and industrial leadership of Washington's better sections is offset by bad conditions in is a good thing, but only if it goes hand in hand with impro-ve­ her poorer neighborhoods. A special " Commission on Housing ment, and not deterioration, physical and moral. The over­ and Health Cenditions in the National Capital" would not only crowding of cities and the draining of country districts are un­ bring about the reformation of existing evils, but would also healthy and e-ven dangerous symptoms in ou1· modern life. We formulate an appropriate building code to protect the city from should not permit overcrowding in cities. In ceL'tain European mammoth brick 'tenements and other evils which threaten to cities it is provided by law that the population of towns shall· develop here as they have in other cities. That the Nation's not be allowed to exceed a very limited density for a given area, Capital should be made a. model for other municipalities is an so that the increase in density must be continually pushed back ideal which appeals to all patriotic citizens everywhere, and into a broad zone around the center of the to"\\TJl, this zone hav­ such a special Commission might map out and organize the ing great avenues or parks within it. The death-rate statistics city s future development in lines of civic social service, just as show a terrible increase in mortality, and especiaJly in infant l\Ia.jor L'Enfant and the recent Park Commission planned the mortality, in overcrowded tenements. Tile poorest families in arrangement of her streets and parks. tenement houses live in one room, and it appears that in these It is ~ortifying to remember that w·ashington has no com­ one-room tenements the average death rate for a number of pulsory school attendance law and that careful inquiries indicate given cities at home and abroad is about twice what it is in a the habitual absence froiQ. school of some twenty per cent of all two-room tenement, four times what it is in a three-room tene­ children between the ages of eight and fourteen. It must be ment, and eight times what it is in a tenement consisting of evident to all who consider the problems of neglected child life four rooms or over. These figures vary somewhat for different or the benefits of compulsory education in other cities that one cities, but they approximate in each city those ghren above; and of the most urgent needs of the National Capital is a. law re­ in all cases the increase of mortality, and especially of infant quiring the school attendance of all children, this law to be en­ mortality, with the decrease in the number of rooms used by forced by attendance agents directed by the board of education. the family and with the consequent overcrowding is startling. Public playgrounds are necessary means for the development The slum exacts a heayy total of death from those who dwell of wholesome citizenship in modern cities. It is important that therein ; and this is the case not merely in the great crowded the work inaugurated here through voluntary efforts should be slums of high buildings in New York and Chicago, but in the taken up and extended through Congressional appropriation of alley slums of Washington. In Washington people can not afford funds sufficient to equip and maintain numerous convenient small to ignore the harm that this causes. No Christian and civilized playgrounds upou land ·which can be secured without purchase community can afford to show a happy-go-lucky lack of concern or rental. It is also desirable that small vacant places be pur­ for the youth of to-day; for, if so, the community will have to chased and reserved as small-park playgrounds in densely set­ pay a terrible penalty of financial burden and social degrada­ tled sections of the city which now have no public open spaces tion in the to-morrow. There should be severe child-labor and and are destined soon to be built up solidly. All these needs factory-inspection laws. It is very desirable that married should be met immediately. ~ro meet them would entail ex­ women should not work in factories. The prime duty of the peiLSes ~ ~ut a corresponding saving could be made by stopping man is to work, to be the breadwinner; the prime duty of the the bmldmg of streets and leveling of ground for purposes woman is to be the mother, the housewif~ All questions of largely speculatiye in outlying parts of the city. tariff and finance sink into utter insignificance when compared There are certain offenders, whose criminality takes the shape with the tremenrlous, the vital importance of trying to shape of brutality and cruelty toward the weak, who need a special conditions so that these two duties of the man and of the type of punishment. The wife-beater, for example, is inade­ woman can be fnl.filled under reasonably favorable circum­ quately punished by imprisonment ; for imprisonment may often stances. If a race does not have plenty of children, or if the mean nothing to rum, while it may cause hunger and want to children do not grow up, or if when they grow up they are un- the wife and children who have been the victims of his brutality. 14 CONGRESSIONAL- RECORD-SENATE.- DECEMBER 6,

Probably some form of corporal punishment would be the most which has been brought to our cotton fields for observation. It adequate way of meeting this kind of crime. is hoped that it may serve a good purpose. The soils of the country are getting attention from the farm­ AGRICULTURE. er's standpoint, and interesting results are following. We have The Department of Agriculture has grown into an educational duplicates of the soils that grow the wrapper tobacro in Su­ institution with a faculty of two thousand specialists making matra and the· .filler tobacco in Cuba. It will be only a ques­ research into all the sciences of production. The Congress appro- · tion of time when the large amounts paid to these countries will priates, directly and indirectly, six millions of dollars annually be paid to om· own people. The reclamation of alkali lands is to carry on this work. It reaches every State and Territory in progressing, to give object lessons to our people in methods by the Union and the islands of the sea lately come under our flag. which worthless lands may be made productive. · Cooperation is _had with the State experiment stations, and with The insect friends and enemies of the farmer are getting at­ many other institutions and individuals. The world is carefully tention. The enemy of the San Jose scale was found near the searched fqr new varieties of grains, fruits, grasse~, vegetables, Great Wall of China, and is now cleaning up all om· orchards. trees, and shrubs, .suitable to various localities in our country; The fig-fertilizing ~sect imported from Turkey has helped to and marked benefit to our producers has resulted. establish an industry in California that amounts to from fifty The activities of our age in lines of research have reached to one hundred tons of dried .figs annually, and is extending the tillers of the soil and inspired them with ambition to know over the Pacific coast. A parasitic fly from South Africa is more of the principles that govern the forces of nature with keeping in subjection the black scale, the worst pest of the which they have to deal. Nearly half of the people of this orange and lemon industry in California. country devote their energies to growing things from the soil. Careful preliminary work is being done toward produc-ing Until a recent date little has been done to prepare these mil­ our own silk. The mulberry is being distributed in large num­ lions for their life work. In most lines of human activity bers, eggs are being imported and distributed, improved reels college-trained men are the leaders. The farmer had no oppor­ were imported from Europe last year, and two expert reelers tunity for special training until the Congress made provision for were brought to Washington to reel the crop of cocoons and it forty years ago. Dul'ing these years progress has been made teach the art to our own people. and teachers have been prepared. Over .five thousand students The crop-reporting system of the Department of Agriculture are in attendance at our State agricultural colleges. The Fed­ is being brought closer to accuracy every year. It has two hun­ eral Government expends ten millions of dollars annually to­ dred and fifty thousand reporters selected from people in eight ward this education and for research in Washington and in the vocations in life. It has arrangements with most European several States and Territories. The Department of Agriculture countries for interchange of estimates, so that our people may has given facilities for post-graduate work to .five hundred young know as nearly as possible with what they must compete. men during the last seven years, pr~paring them for advance IRRIGATION. lines of work in the Department and in the State institutions. During the two and a half years that have elapsed since the ~rhe facts concerning meteorology and its relations to plant passage of the reclamation act rapid progress has been made in and animal life are being systematically inquired into. Tem­ the surveys and examinations of the opportunities for reclama­ perature and moisture are controlling factors in all agricul­ tion in the thirteen States and three Territories of the arid tural operations. The seasons of the cyclones of the Carib­ West. Construction has already been begun on the largest and bean Sea and their paths are being forecasted with increasing most important of the irrigation works, and plans are being accuracy. The cold winds that come fl:om the north are antici­ completed for works which will utilize the funds now available. pated and their times and intensity told to farmers, gardeners, The operations are being carried on by the Reclamation Service, and fruiterers in all southern localities. a corps of engineers selected through competitive civil-service We sell two hundred and .fifty million dollars' worth of ani­ e:A'3ID.ina.tions. This corps includes experienced consulting and mals· and animal products to foreign countries every year, in constructing engineers as wel.l as various experts in mechanical addition to supplying our own people more cheaply and abun­ and legal matters, and is composed largely of men who have dantly than any other nation is able to provide for its people. spent most of their lives in practical affairs connected with irri­ Successful manufacturing · depends primarily on cheap food, gation. The larger problems have been solved and it now re­ which accounts to a considerable extent for our growth in this mains to execute with _care, economy, and thoroughness the direction. The Department of Agriculture, by careful inspec­ work which has been laid out. All important details are being tion of meats, guards the healtp of our people an~ gives clean carefully considered by boards of consulting engineers, selected bills of health to deserving exports; it is prepared to deal for their thorough knowledge and practical experience. Each promptly with imported diseases of animals, and maintain the project is taken up on the ground by competent men and viewed excellence of our flocks and herds in this respect. There should from the standpoint of the creation of prosperous homes, and of be an annual census of the live stock of the Nation. promptly refunding, to the Treasury the cost of, construction. We sell abroad about six hundred million dollars' worth of The reclamation act has been found to be remarkably complete plants and their products every year. Strenuous efforts are and effective, and so broad in its provisions that a. wide range of being made to import from foreign countries such grains as are undertakings has been possible under it. At the same time, suitable to our varying localities. Seven years ago we bought economy is guaranteed by the fact that the funds must ulti­ three-fourths of our rice; by helping the rice growers on the mately be returned to be used over again. Gulf coast to secure seeds from the Orient suited to their con­ FORESTS. dit ions and by giving them adequate protection, they now sup­ It is the cardinal principle of the forest-reserve policy of this ply ho~e demand and eA.!Jort to the islands of the Caribbean Administration that the· reserves are for use. Whatever inter­ Sea and to other rice-growing countries. Wheat and other feres with the- use of their resom·ces is to be avoided by every grains have been imported from light-rainfall countries to cur possible means. But these resources must be used in such a way lands in the ·west and Southwest that have not grown crops as to make them permanent: because of light precipitation, resulting in an extensive addition The forest policy of the Government is just now a subject ·of to our cropping area and our home-making territory that can vivid pu"Qlic interest throughout the West and to the people of not be irrigated. Ten million bushels of first-class macaroni the United States in general. The forest reserves themselves wheat were grown from · these experimental importations last are of extreme value to the present as well as to the future wel­ year. ]fruits suitable to our soils and climates are being im­ fare of all the western public-land States. They powerfully ported from all the countries of the Old World-the fig from affect the use and disposal of the public lands. They are of spe­ 'Turkey, the almond from Spain, the date from Algeria, the cial importance because they preserve the water supply and the mango from India. We are helping our fruit growers to get supply of timber for domestic purposes, anti so promote settle­ their crops into European markets by studying methods of pres­ ment under the reclamation act. Indeed, they are essential to ervation through refrigeration, packing, and handling, which· the welfru·e of every one of the grEilat interests of the West. 'bave been quite successful. We are helping our hop growers Forest reserves are created for two prinC'ipal purposes. The by importing varieties that ripen earlier and later than the first is to preserve the water supply. This is their most im­ kinds they have been raising, thereby lengthening the harvest­ portant use. The principal uses of the water thus preser,ed . ing season. The cotton crop of the country is threatened with are irrigation ranchers and settlers, cities and towns to whom root rot, the bollworm, and the boll weevil. Our pathologists their municipal water supplies are of the very .first importance, will find immune varieties that will resist the root disease, and users and furnishers of water power, and the users of water for· the bollworm can be dealt with, but the boll weevil is a. serious domestic, manufacturing, mining, and other purposes. All these menace to the cotton crop. It is a. Central American insect are directly dependent upon the forest reserves. that has become accllma.ted in Texas and has done great dam­ The second reason for which forest reserves are created is to age. A scientist of the Department of Agriculture has found preserve the timber supply for various classes of wood users. the weevil at home in Guatemala. being kept in check by an ant, Among the more important of these are settlers under the 1904. 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reclamation act and other acts, for whom a cheap and accessible become self-supporting. This is important, beeause continually supply of timber for domestic uses is absolutely necessary ; and rapidly increasing appropriations will be necessary for the miners and prospectors, who are in serious danger of losing pr.oper care of this exceedingly important interest of the Nation, their timber supply by fire or through export by lumber com­ and they can and should be offset by returns from the National panies when timber lands adjacent to their mines pass into forests. Under similar circumstances the forest possessions of prtr-ate ownership; lumbermen, transportation companies, build­ other great na.tions form an important source of revenue to ers, and commercial interests in general. their governments. · Although the wisdom of creating forest reserves is nearly Every administrative officer concerned is convinced of the everywhere heartily recognized, yet in·a few localities there has necessity for the proposed consolidation of forest work in the· been misunderstanding and complaint The following state­ Department of Agriculture, and I myself ha-re urg~d it mor.e ment is therefore desirable : than once in former messages. Again I commend it to the The forest-reserve policy can be successful only when it has early and favorable consideration of the Congress. '.L'he inter­ the full support of the people of the West. It can not safely, ests of the Nation at large and of the West in particular have. and should not in any case, be imposed upon them against their suffered greatly because of the delay. will. But neither can we accept- the views of those whose only interest in the forest is temporary; whe are anxious to reap PUBLIC IiA:~mS. what they have not sown and· then move away, leaving desola­ I call the attention {)f the Congress again to the report and tion behind them. On the contrary, it is everywhere and al­ recommendation of the Commission on the Public Lands for­ ways the interest of the permanent settler and the permanent warded by me to the second session of the present Congress. business man, the man with a stake in the country, which must The Commission has prosecuted its investigations actively dur­ be considered and which must decide. ing the past season, and a second report is now in an advanced The making of forest reserves within railroad and wagon­ stage of preparati.on. road land-grant limits will hereafter, as for the past three years, GAME PRESEnVES. be so managed as to prevent the issue, under the: act of June 4, In connection with the work of the forest reserves I desire 18!>7, of base for exchange or lieu selection (usually called again to urge upon the Congress tlle importance of authorizing scrip). In all cases where forest reserves within ar~ms cov.ered the President to set aside certain portions of these reserves or by land grants appear to be essential to the prosperity of set­ other public lands as game refuges for the preservation of the tlers, miners, or others, the Government lands within such pro­ bison, the wapiti, and other large beasts once so abundant in our posed forest reserves will, as in the recent past, be withdrawn woods and mountains and on our great plains, and now tending from sale or entry pending the completion of such negotiations toward extinction. Every support should be given to the au­ with the owners of the laud grants as will prevent the creation thorities of the Yellowstone Park in their successful efforts at of so-called scrip. preserving the large creatures therein; and at very little ex­ It was formerly the custom to make forest reserves without pense portions of the public domain in other regions which are first getting definite and detailed information as to the charac­ wholly unsuited to agricultural settlement could be similarly ter of land and timber within their boundaries. This method of utilized. We owe it to future generations to keep alive the noble adion often resulted in badly chosen boundaries and· consequent and beautiful creatures which by their presence add such dis­ injustice to settlers and others. Therefore this Administration tinctive character to the American wilderness. The limits of adopted the present method of first withdrawing the land from the Yellowstone Park should be extended southwards. The disposal, followed by careful examination on the ground an

and induced to take a more active personal interest in hls work. NATIONAL QU ARANT I Nl;l LAW, Under existing conditions an Indian agent in the distant It is desirable to enact a proper National quarantine law. · It West may be wholly out of touch with the office of the Indian is most undesirable that a State should on its own initiative en­ Bureau. He may very well feel that no one takes a personal force quarantine regulations which are in effect a restriction interest in him or his efforts. Certain routine duties in the upon interstate and international commerce. 'The question way of reports and accounts are required of him, but there is should properly be assumed by the Government alone. The no one w1th whom he may intelligently consult on matters Surgeon-General of the National Public Health and .Marine­ vital to his work, except after long delay. Such a man would Hospital Service bas repe~;ttedly and convincingly set forth the be greatly encouraged and aided by personal contact with some need for such legislation. one whose interest in Indian affairs and whose authority in the Indian Bureau were greater than his own, and such contact EXTRAVAGA~CE IN PRINTING. would be certain to arouse and constantly increase the interest I call your attention to the great extravagance in printing and he takes in hls work. binding Government publications, and especially to the fact that The distance which separates the agents-the workers in the ~!together too many of these publications are printed. There field-from the Indian Office in Washington is a chief obstacle rs a constant tendency to increase their number and their volume. to Indian progress. Whatever shall more Closely unite these It is an understatement to say that no ·appreciable harm would two branches of the Indian Service, and shall enable them to be caused by, and substantial benefit would accrue from de­ cooperate more heartily and more effectively, will be for the creasing the amount of printing now done by at least one-half. increased efficiency of the work and the betterment of the race Probably the great majority of the Government reports and the for whose improvement the Indian Bureau was established. like now printed are never read at all, and furthermore the print­ The appointment of a field assistant to the Commissioner of ing of much of the material contained in many of the remaining Indian Affairs would be certain to insure this good end. Such ones serves no useful purpose whatever. an .official, if possessed of the requisite energy and deep inter­ CURRE~CY. est in the work, would be a most efficient factor in bringing The attention of the Congress should be especially given to into closer relationship and a more direct linion of effort the the currency question, and that the standing committees on the Bureau in Washington and its agents in the field; and with the matter in the two Houses charged with the duty, take up the cooperation of its branches thus secured the Indian Bureau matter of our currency and see whether it is not possible to se­ would, in measure fuller than ever before, lift up the savage cure an agreement in the business world for bettering the sys­ toward that self-help and self-reliance which constitute the tem ; the committees should consider the question of the retire­ man. ment of the greenbacks and the problem of securing in our JAMESTOWN TRICE~TENNIA.L. ~rrency such elasticity as is consistent with safety. Every In 1907 there will be held at Hampton Roads the tricenten­ srlver do1lar should be made by law redeemable in gold at the nial celebration of the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia with option of the bolder. which the history of what bas now become the United States ME.RCHANT MA.RI NE. really begins. I commend this to your favorable consideration. I especially commend to your immediate attention the encour­ It is an event of prime historic significance, in which all the agement of our merchant marine by apJ?ropriate legislation. people of the United States should feel, and should show, great and general interest. · · - ORIE ~ T.AL MARKETS.. .POSTAL SE.RVICE. The growing importance of the Orient as a field for .American In the Post-Office Department the service has increased in exports drew from my predecessor, President .McKinley, an ur­ efficiency, and conditions as to revenue and expenditure con­ gent request for its special consideration by the Congress. In tinue satisfactory. The increase of revenue during the year his message of 1898 he stated : was $9,358,181.10, or 6.9 per cent, the total receipts amounting " In this relation, as showing the peculiar volume and value to $143,382,624.34. The expenditures were $152,362,116.70, an of our trade with China and the peculiarly favorable conditions increase of about 9 per cent over the previous year, being thus which exist for their expansion in the normal course of trade I $8,979,492.36 in excess of the current revenue. Included in refer to the communication addressed to t~ Speaker of the these expenditures was a total appropriation of $12,956,637.35 House of Representatives by the Secretary of the Treasury on for the continuation and extension-of the rural free-delivery the 14th of lust June, with its accompanying letter of the Secre­ service, which was an increase of $4,902,237.35 over the amount tary of State, recommending an appropriation for a commission expended for this purpose in the preceding fiscal year. Large to study the industrial and commercial conditions in the Chinese as this expenditure has been the beneficent results attained in Empire and to report as to the opportunities for and the ob­ extending the free distribution of mails to the residents of stacles to the enlargement of markets in China for the raw rural districts have justified the wisdom of the outlay. Statis­ products and manufactures of the United States. Action was tics brought down to the 1st of October, 1904, show that on that not taken thereon during the last session. I cordially urge that date there were 27,138 rural i.·outes established, serving approxi­ the recommendation receive at your bands the consideration mately 12,000,000 of people in rural districts remote from post­ which its importance and timeliness merit." offices~ and that there were pending at that time 3,859 petitions In his annual message of 1899 he again called attention to this for the establishment of new rural routes. Unquestionably recommendation, quoting it, and stated further: orne part of the general increase in ~·eceipts is .due to the in­ "I now renew this recommendation, as the importance of the creased postal facilities which the rural service has afforded. subject has steadily grown since it was first submitted to you, The revenues have also been aided greatly by amendments in and no time should be lost in studying for ourselves "the re­ the classification of mail mutter, and the curtailment of abuses sources of this great field for American trade and enterpri e." of the second-class mailing privilege.· The average increase In The importance of securing proper information and data with the volume of mail matter for the period beginning with 1902 a view to the enlargement of our trade with Asia is undimin­ and ending June, 1905 (that portion for 1005 being estimated) , ished. Our consular representatives in China have strongly is 40.47 per cent, as compared with 25.46 per cent for the period urged a place for permanent display of American products in immediately preceding, and 15.92 for the four-year period im­ some prominent trade center of that Empire, under Government mediately preceding that. control and management, a an effective means of advancing our export trade therein. I call the attention of the Congress to the COXSULA.R SE.RVICE. desirability of carrying out the e suggestions. Our consular system needs improvement Salaries should be sub tituted for fees, and the proper classification, grading, Bli\IIG ~T IO~ A~D NATU.RAL I ZA TIO~. and transfer of consular officers should be provided. I am not In dealing with the questions of immigration and naturaliza­ prepared to say that a competitive system of examinations for tion it is indispensable to keep certain facts ever befoi·e the minds of those who share in enacting the law . First and fore appointment would work well ; .but by law it should be pro­ most, let us remember that the question of being a good .Ameri­ vided that consuls should be familiar, according to places for can bas nothing whatever to do ·with a man's birthplace any which they apply, with the French, German, or Spanish lan­ more than it bas to do with his creed. In every generation guages, and should po sess acquaintance with the resources of from the. time this Government was founded men of foreign the Un.ited Stutes. birth have stood in the very foremost rank of good citizenship, N.A TIO ~AL GALLERY OF A.R']. and that not merely in one but in every fi eld of American ac­ 'l'he collection of objects of art contemplated in section 55~6 tivity; whlle to try to draw a distinction between the man whose of the Revised Statutes should be designated and established parents came to this country and the man who. e ancestors came . as a National Gallery of Art; and the Smithsonian Institution to it several generations back is a mere absurdity. Good Amer­ should be authorized to accept any additions to said collection icanism is a matter of heart, of conscience, of lofty aspiration, that may be recei v~d by gift, bequest, or devise. of sound common sense, but not of birthplace or of creed. Tbe 1904. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 17

medal of honor, the highest prize to be won by those who serve in port, whether any degree of protection should be extended to the Army and the Navy of the United States decorates men born one who has made the declaration of intention to become a citi­ here, and it ·also decorates men born in Great Britain and Ire­ zen of the United States but has not secured naturalization, are land in Germany, in Scandinavia, in France, and doubtless in questions of serious import, involving personal rights and often othe~ countries also. In the field of statesmanship, in the fi_eld producing friction between this Government and foreign gov­ of business, in the field of philanthropic endeavor, it is equally ernments. Yet upon these questions our laws are sil.ent. I true that among the men of whom we are most proud as Ameri­ recommend that an examination be made into the subjects of cans no distinction whatever can be drawn between those who citizenship, expatriation, and protection of Americans abroad, themselves or whose parents came over in sailing ship . or with a view to appropriate legislation. steamer from across the water and those whose ancestors stepped ashore into the wooded wilderness at Plymouth. or at PROTECTION OF ELECTIONS. the mouth of the Hudson, the Delaware, or the ·James nearly The power of the Go-rernment to protect the integrity of the three centuries ago. No fellow-citizen of ours is entitled to any elections of its own officials is inherent and has been recognized peculiar regard because of the way in which he worships his and affirmed by repeated declarations of the Supreme Court. Maker or because of the birthplace of himself or his parents, There is no enemy of free go-rernment more dangerous and none nor should he be in any way discriminated against therefo1:: so insidious as the corruption of the electorate. No one defends Each must stand on his worth as a man and each is entitled to or excuses corruption, and it would seem to follow that none be judged solely thereby. · · would oppose vigorous measures to eradicate it I recommend There is no danger of having too many immigrants of the the enactment of a law directed against bribery and corruption right kind. It makes no difference from what country th~y in Federal elections. The details of such a law may be safely come If they are sound in body and in mind, and, above all, 1f left to the wise discretion of the Congress, but it should go as they ~re of good character, so that we can .r~st assured .t~at t~eir far as under the Constitution it is possible to go, and should in­ children and grandchildren will be worthy fellow-citizens of clude severe penalties against him who gives or receives a bribe our children and grandchildren, then we should welcome them intended to influence his act or opinion as an elector ; and pro­ .with cordial hospitality. visions for the publication not only of the expenditures for But the citizenship of this country should not be debased. ~t nominations and elections of all candidates but also of all contri­ is vital. that we should keep high the standard of well-being butions received and expenditures made by political committees. among our wage-workers, and therefore we should not admit DELAYS IN CRI~INAL PROSECUTIONS. masses of men whose standards of livi.ng and whose personal No subject is better worthy the attention of the Congress than customs and habits are) such that they tend to lower the level that portion of the report of the Attorney-General dealing with of the .American wage-worker ; and above all we should not ad­ the long delays and the great obstruction to justice experienced mit any man of an unworthy type, any man. ~oncerning who~ in the cases of Beavers, Green and Gaynor, and Benson. Were we can say that he will himself be a bad citizen, or that ~1s these isolated and special cases, I should not call your attention • children and grandchildren will detract from instead of adding to them ; but the difficulties encountered as regards these men to the sum of the good citizenship of the country. Similarly we who have been indicted for criminal practices are not excep­ should take the greatest care about ·naturalization. Fraudulent tional; they are precisely similar in kind to what occurs again naturalization, the naturalization of improper ·persons, is a and again in the case of criminals who have sufficient means to curse to our Government; and it is the affair of every honest enable them to take advantage of a system of procedure which voter wherever born, to see that no fraudulent voting is allowed, has grown up in the Federal courts and which amounts in effect that ~o fraud in connection with naturalization is permitted. to making the law easy of enforcement against the man who has · In the past year the cases of false, fraudulent, and improper no money, and difficult of enforcement, even to the point of naturalization of aliens coming to the attention of the execu­ sometimes securing immunity, as regards the man who has tive branches of the Government have increased to an alarming money. In criminal cases the writ of the United States should natural~ia~on . degree. ' Exten!:live sales of forged certificates of run throughout its borders. The wheels of justi~e should not have been discovered, as well as many cases of naturalizatiOn be clogged, as they have been clogged in the cases above men­ secured by perjury and fraud; and in addition, instances have tioned, where it has proved absolutely impossible to bring the . accumulated showing that many courts issue certificates of accused to the place appointed l)y the Constitution for his trial. naturalization carelessly and upon insufficient evidence. Of recent years there has been grave and increasing complaint Under the Constitution it is in the power of the Congress " to of the difficulty of bringing to justice those criminals whose establish a uniform rule of naturalization," aild numerous laws criminality, instead of being against one person in the Republic, have from time to time been enacted for that purpose, which is against all persons in the Republic, because it is against the have been supplemented in a few States by State. laws having Reimblic itself. Under any circumstance and from the very special application. The Federal statutes permit naturaliza­ nature of the case it is often exceedingly difficult to secure tion by any court of record in the United States hav~g common­ proper punishment of those who have been guilty of wrongdoing law jurisdiction and a seal and clerk, except the pollee court of against the Government. By the time the offender can be the District of Columbia, and nearly all these courts exercise brought into court the popular wrath against him has generally this important function. It results that where so many courts subsided; and there is in most instances very slight danger in­ of such varying grades have jurisdiction, there is lack of uni­ deed of any prejudice existing in the minds of the jury against formity in the rules applied in conferring naturalization. Some him. At present the interests of the innocent man are amply coui·ts are strict · and others lax. An alien · who may secure safeguard~d; but the interests of the Government, that is, the naturalization in one place might be denied it in another, interests of honest adminish·ation, that is the interests of the and the intent of the constitutional provision is in fact defeated. people, are not recognized as they should be. No subject better Furthermore, the certificates of naturalization issued by the warrants the attention of the Congress. Indeed, no subject bet­ courts differ widely in wording and appearance, and when they ter warrants the attention of the bench and the bar throughout ·are brought into use in foreign countries, are frequently subject the United States. to suspicion. , • ALASKA. NATURALIZATION LAWS SHOULD BE REVISED, .Alaska, like all our Territorial acquisitions, has proved re­ There should be a comprehensive revision of the naturaliza­ sourceful beyond the expectations of those who made the pur­ tion laws. The courts having power to naturalize should be chase. It has become the home of many hardy, industrious, definitely named by national authority; the testimony upon and thrifty American citizens. Towns of a permanent charac­ which naturalization may be conferred should be definitely pre­ ter have been built. The extent of its wealth in minerals, scribed; publication of impending naturalization applications timber, fisheries, and agriculture, while great, is probably not should be required in advance of their hearing in court; the comprehended yet in any just measure by our people. We do form and wording of all certificate~ issued should be uniform know, however, that from a yery small beg~ing its products throughout the country, and the courts should be required to have grown until they are a steady and material contribution make returns to the Secretary of State at stated perio~ of all to the wealth of the nation. Owing to the immensity of Alaska naturalizations conferred. and its location in the far north, it is a difficult matter to pro­ LAWS CONCEit~ING CITIZENSHIP. vide .many things essential to its growth and to the happ1ness Not only are the laws relating to naturalization now defect­ and comfort of its people by private enterprise alone. It ive, but those relating to citizenship of the United States ought should, therefore, recei-re reasonable aid from the Government. also to be made the subject of scientific inquiry with a view to The Government has already done excellent work for Alaska probable further legislation. By what acts e~pa_triatio~ ~ay in laying cables and building telegraph lines. This work bas be assumed to have been accomplished, how long an Amencan been done in the most economical and efficient way by the Sig­ ·citizen may reside abroad and receive the protec~o~ of our ~ass- nal Corps .of the Army. XXXIX-2 18 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. SENATE. DECEMBER 6,

In some respects it has outgrown its present laws, while in self-support under the changed conditions in which they will others those laws have been found to be inadequate. In order have to live. to obtain information upon which I could rely I caused an offi­ The duties of the office of the governor should be extended to cial of the Department of Justice, in 'whose judgment I have include the supervision of Indian affairs, with necessary assist­ confidence, to visit Alaska during the past summer for the pur­ ants in different districts. He should be provided with the pose of ascertaining how government is administered there and means and the power to protect and advise the native people what legislation is actually needed at pre ent. A statement of to furnish medical treatment in time of epidemics, and to ex: the conditions found to exist, together with some recommenda­ tend material relief in periods of famine and extreme destitu- tions and the reasons therefor, in which I strongly concur, will tion. · be found in the annual report of the Attorney-General. In HAW Ail AND l'ORTO RICO. some instances I feel that the legislation suggested is l;o im­ peratively needed that I am moved briefly to emphasize the The Ala~kan natives should be given the right to acquire, Attorney-General's proposals. hold, and dispose of property upon the same conditions as given Under the Code of Alaska as it now stands many purely ad­ other inhabitants; .and the privilege of citizenship should be ministrative powers and duties, including ·by far the most given to such as may be able to meet certain definite require­ important, devolve up.on the district judges or· upon the clerks ments. In Hawaii Congress should give the governor power to remove all the officials appointed under him. The harbor of of the district court acting. under the direction of the judges, Honolulu should be dredged The Marine-Hospital Service while the governor, upon whom these powe~s and duties should logically fall, has nothing specific to do except to make annual should be empowered to study leprosy in the islands. I ask reports, issue Thanksgiving Day proclamations, and appoint sp~cial consideration for the report and recommendations of the Indian policemen and notaries public. I believe it essential to governor of Porto Rico. good government in Alaska, and therefore recommend, that the FOREIGN POLICY. Congress divest the district judges and the clerks of their courts In treating of our foreign policy and of the attitude that this of the administrative or executive functions that they now great Nation should assume in the world at large, it is abso· exercise and cast them upon the governor. This would not be an lutely necessary to consider the Army and the NavY, and the innovation; it would simply conform the government of Alaska Congress, through which the thought of the Nation finds 1ts ex­ to fundamental principles, making the governorship a real in­ pression, should keep ever vividly in mind the fundamental fact stead of a merely nominal office, ;md leaving the judges free to that it is impossible to treat our foreign policy, whether this give their entire attention to their judicial duties and at the policy takes· shape in the effort to secure justice for others or same time removing them from a great deal of the strife that justice for ourselves, save as conditioned upon the attitude we now embarrasses the judicial office in Alaska. ~ are willing to take toward our Army, and especially toward our I also recommend thRt the salaries of the district judges and Navy. It is not merely unwise, it is contemptible, for a nation, • district attorneys in Alaska be increased so as to make them as for an individual,. to use high-sounding language to proclaim equal to those received by corresponding officers in the United its purposes, or to take positions which are ridiculous if unsup­ States after deducting the difference in the cost of living; that ported by potential force, and then tO refuse to provide this the, district attorneys should be prohibited from engaging in force. If there is no intention of providing and of keeping the private practice;· that United States commissioners be ap­ force necessary to back up a strong attitude, then it is far pointed by the governor of _the Territory instead of by the dis­ better not to assume such an attitude. trict judges, and that a fixed salary be provided for them to The steady aim of this Nation, as of all enlightened nations, take the place of the discredited " fee system," which should be should be to strive to bring ever nearer the day when there abolished in all offices; that a mounted constabulary be created shall prevail throughout the world the peace of justice. There to police the territory outside the limits of incorporated towns­ are kinds of peace which are highly undersirable, which are in a vast section now wholly without police protection; and that the long run as destructive as any war. Tyrants and oppress­ some provision be made to at least lessen the oppressive· delays ors have many times made a wilderness and called it peace. and costs that now attend the prosecution of appeals from the Many times peoples who were slothful or timid or shortsighted, district court of Alaska. There should be a division of the ex­ who had been enervated by ease or by luxury; or misled by1 isting judicial districts, and an increase in the number of judges. false teachings, have shrunk in unmanly fashion from doing Alaska should have a Delegate in the Congress. Where possi­ duty that was stern and that needed self-sacrifice, and have ble, the Congress should aid in the construction of needed wagon sought to hide from their own minds their shortcomings, their roads. Additional light-houses should be provided .In my ignoble motives, by calling them love of peace. The peace . of judgment, it is especially important to aid in such manner as tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of seems just and feasible in the construction of a trunk line of injustice, all these should be shunned as we shun unrighteous railway to connect the Gulf of Alaska with the Yukon River war. The goal to set before us as a nation, the goal which through American territory. This would be most beneficial to should be set before all mankind, is the attainment of the peace the development of the resources of the Territory, and to the of justice, of the peace which comes when each nation is not comfort and welfare of its people. merely safe-guarded in its own rights, but scrupulously recog­ Salmon hatcheries should be established in many different nizes and performs its duty toward others. Generally peace streams, so as to secure the preservation of this valuable food tells for righteousness ; but if there is conflict between the two, fish. Salmon fisheries and canneries should be prohibited on then our fealty is due first to the cause of righteousness. Un­ certain of the rivers where the mass of those Indians dwell who righteous wars are common, and unrighteous peace is rare; but live almost exclusively on fish. both should be shunned The right of freedom and the re­ The ..Alaskan natives are kindly, intelligent, anxious to learn, sponsibility for the exercise of that right can not be divorced. fllld willing to work. Those who have come under the influ­ One of our great poets has well and finely said that freedom Is ence of civilization, even for a limited period, have proved their not a gift that tarries long in the hands of cowards. Neither capability of becoming self-supporting, self-respecting citizens, does it tarry long in the hands of those too slothful, too dis· and as& only for the jus~ enforcement of law and intelligent in­ honest, or too unintelligent to exercise it The eternal vigi­ struction and supervision. Others, living in more remote re­ lance which is the price of liberty must be exercised, some­ gions, primitive, simple hunters and fisher folk, who know only times to guard against outside foes ; although of com·se far the life of the woods and the waters, nre daily being confronted more often to guard against our own selfish or thoughtless with twentieth-century civilization with all of its complexities. shortcomings. Their country is being overrun by -strangers, the game slaugh­ If these self-evident truths are kept before us, and only If tered and driven away, the streams depleted of fish, and hith­ they are so kept before us, we shall have a clear idea of what erto unknown and fatal diseases brought to them, all of which our foreign policy in its larger aspects should be. It is our dut:YJ combine to produce a .titate of abject poverty and want which to remember that a nation has no more right to do injustice to must result in their extinction. Action in their interest is de­ another nation, strong or weak, than an individual has to do manded by every consideration of justice and humanity. injustice to another individual ; that the same moral law ap­ The needs of these people are : plies in one case as in the other. But we must also remember T.be abolition of the present fee system, whereby the native that it is as much the duty of the Nation to guard its own rights ls degraded, imposed ripon, and taught the injustice of law. and its own interests as it is the duty of tbe individual so to The establishment of hospitals at central points, so that con­ do. 'Vithin the Nation the individual has now delegatea this tagious diseases that are brought to them continually by incom­ right to the State, that is, to the representative of all the indi­ ing whites may be localized and not allowed to become epidemic, viduals, and it is a maxim of the law that for every wrong there to spread death and destitution over great areas. is a remedy. But in international law we have not advanced The development of the educational system in the form of by any means as far as we have advanced in municipal law. practical training in such industries as will assure· the Indians There is as yet no judicial way of enforcing a right in inter- 1904. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 19 national law. When one nation wrongs anoth~tr or wrongs many nations. It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether others, there is no tribunal before which the wrongdoer can be in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its brought. Either it is necessary supinely to acquiesce in the freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the wrong, and thus put a premium upon brutality and aggression, right of such independence can not be separated from the or else it is necessary for the aggrieved nation valiantly to responsibility of making good use of it. stand up for its rights. Until some method is der"ised by which In asserting the Monroe Doctrine, in taking such steps as we there shall be a degree of international control over offending have taken in regard to Cuba, Venezuela, and Panama, and in nations, it would be a wicked thing for the most civilized pow­ endeavoring to circumscribe the theater of war in the Far East, ers, for those with most sense of international obligations and and to secure the open door in China, we have acted in our own with keenest and most generous appreciation of the difference interest as well as in the interest of humanity at large. There between right and wrong, to disarm. If the great civilized na­ are, however, cases in which, while our own interests are not tions of the present day should completely disarm, the result greatly involved, strong appeal is made to our sympathies. would mean an immediate recrudescence of barbarism in one Ordinarily it is very much wiser and more useful for us to con­ form or another. Under any circumstances a sufficient arma­ cern ourselves with striving for our own moral and material ment would have to be kept up to serve the purposes of inter­ betterment here at home than to concern ourselves with trying national police; and until international cohesion and the sense to better the condition of things in other nations. We have plenty of international duties and rights are far more advanced than of sins of our own to war against, and under ordinary circum­ at present, a nation desirous both of securing respect for itself stances we can do more for the general uplifting of humanity and of doing good to others must have a force adequate for the by striving with heart and soul to put a stop to civic corruption, work which it feels is allotted to it as its part of the general to brutal lawlessness and violent race prejudices here at borne world duty. Therefore it follows that a self-respecting, just, than by passing resolutions about wrongdoing elsewhere. Nev­ and far-seeing nation should on the one hand endeavor by every ertheless there are occasional crimes committed on so vast a means to aid in the development of the various movements scale ~d of such peculiar horror as to make us doubt whether .which tend to provide substitutes for war, which tend to render it is not our manifest duty to endeavor at least to show our dis­ nations in their actions toward one another, and indeed toward approval of the deed and our sympathy with those who have their own peoples, more responsive to the general sentiment of suffered by it The cases must be extreme in which such a humane and civilized manltind; and on the other hand that it course is justifiable. There must be no effort made to remove should keep prepared, while scrupulously avoiding wrongdoing the mote from our brother's eye if we refuse to remove the beam itself, to repel any wrong, and in exceptional cases to take from our own. But in extreme cases action may be justifiable action which in a more advanced stage of international rela­ and proper. What form the action shall take must depend upon tions would come under the head of the exercise of the inter­ the circumstances of the case; that is, upon the degree of the national police. A great free people owes it to itself and to all atrocity and upon our power to remedy it The cases in which mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil. we could interfere by force of arms as we interfered to put a ARBITRATION TREATIES-SECOND HAGUE CONFERENCE. stop to intolerable conditions in Cuba are necessarily very few. Yet it is not to be expected that a people like ours, which in We are in every way endeavoring to help on, with cordial spite of certain very obv-ious shortcomings, nevertheless as a good will, every movement which will tend to bring us into whole shows by its consistent practice its belief in the principles more friendly relations with the rest of mankind. In pursu­ of civil and religious liberty and of orderly freedom; a people ance of this policy I shall shortly lay before the Senate treaties among whom even the worst crime, like the crime of lynching, is of arbitration with all powers which are willing to enter into never more than sporadic, so that individuals and not classes are these treaties with us. It is not possible at this period of the molested in their fundament:'tl rights-it is inevitable that such ;world's development to agree to arbih·ate all matters, but there a nation should desire eagerly to give expression to its horror are many matters of possible difference between us and other on an occasion like that of the massacre of the Jews in Kishenef, nations which can be thus arbitrated. Furthermore, at the or when it witnesses such systematic and long-extended cruelty . request of the Interparliamentary Union, an eminent body com­ and oppression as the cruelty and oppression of which the Ar­ posed of practical statesmen from all countries, I have asked menians have been the victims, and which have won for them the Powers to join with this Government in a second Hague the indignant pity of the civilized world. conference, at which it is hoped that the work already so hap­ pily begun at The Hague may be carried some steps further RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ABRO ..to. toward completion. This carries out the desire expressed by Even where it is not possible . to secure in other nations the the first Hague conference itself. observance of the principles which we accept as axiomatic, it POLICY TOW AnD OTHER NATIONS OF WESTERN HEMISPHERE. is necessary for us firmly to insist upon the rights of our own It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger or citizens without regard to their creed or race; without regard entertains any projects as regards the other nations of the. to whether they were born here or born abroad. It has proved 1Western Hemisphere save such as are for their welfare. All very difficult to secure from Russia the right for our Jewish that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries sta­ fellow-citizens to receive passports and travel through Russian ble, orderly, and prosperous. Any country whose people con­ territory. Such conduct is not only unjust and irritating to­ duct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If ward us, but it is difficult to see its wisdom from Russia's a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable effi­ standpoint. No conceivable good is accomplished by it. If an ciency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps American Jew or an American Christian misbehaves himself in order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from Russia he can at once be driven out; but the ordinary Ameri­ the United States. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which can Jew, like the ordinary American Christian, would behave results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, just abo~t as he behaves here, that is, behave as any good citi­ may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention z.en ought to behave; and where this is the ease it is a wrong by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the against which we are entitled to protest to refuse him his pass­ adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may port without regard to his conduct and character, merely on force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases racial and religious grounds. In Turkey our difficulties arise of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an inter­ less from the way in which our citizens are sometimes treated national police power. If every country washed by the Carib­ than from the indignation inevitably excited in seeing such bean Sea would show the progress in stable and just civiliza­ fearful misrule as has been witnessed both in Armenia and tion which with the aid of the Platt amendment Cuba has Macedonia. shown since our troops left the island, and which so many of THE NAVY. the republics in both Americas are constantly and brilliantly The strong arm of the Government in enforcing respect for showing, all question of interference by this Nation with their its just rights in int~rnational matters is the Navy of the United affairs would be at an end. Our interests and those of our States. I most earnestly recommend that there be no halt in southern neighbors are in reality identical. They have great the work of upbnilding the American Navy. There is no more natural riches, and if within their borders the reign of law and patriotic duty before us as a people than to keep the Navy ade­ justice obtains, prosperity is sure to come to them. While they quate to the needs of this country's position. We have under­ thus obey the primary laws of civilized society they may rest taken to build the Isthmian Canal. We have undertaken to assured that they will be treated by us in a spirit of cordial and secure for ourselves our just share in the trade of the Orient. helpful sympathy. We would interfere with them only in the We have undertaken to protect our citizens from improper last resort, and then only if it became evident that their ina­ treatment in foreign lands. We continue steadily to insist on bility or unwillingness to do justice at home and abroad had the application of the Monroe Doctrine to the Western Hemi­ violated the rights of the United States or had invited foreign sphere. Unless our attitude in these and all similar matters is aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American to be a mere boastful sham we can not afford to. abandon our 20 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 6,

naval programme. Our voice is now potent for peace, and is Great progress has been made in protecting our coasts by ade­ so potent because we are not afraid of war. But our protesta­ quate fortifications with sufficient guns. We should, however, tions upon behalf of peace would neither receive nor deserve the pay much more heed than at present to the development of an slightest attention if we were impotent to make them good. extensive system of floating mines for use in all our more im­ The war which now unfortunately rages in the far East has portant harbors. These mines have been proved to be a most emphasized in striking fashion the new possibilities -of naval formidable safeguard against hostile fleets. warfare. The lessons taught are both strategic and tactical, and are political as well as military. The experiences _of the MEDALS OF HONOR IN THE NAVY. war have shown in conclusive fashion that while sea-going and I earnestly call the attention of the Congress to the need of sea-keeping torpedo destroyers are indispensable, and fast lightly amending the existing law relating to the award of Con(J'res­ armed and armored cruisers very useful, yet that the main reli­ sional medals of honor in the Navy so as to provide that they ance, the main standby, in any navy worthy the name must be may be awarded to commissioned officers and warrant officers as the great battle ships, heavily armored and heavily gunned. Not well as to enlisted men. These justly prized medals are given a Russian or Japanese battle ship has been sunk by a torpedo in the Army alike to the officers and the enlisted men and it J__s boat, or by gunfire, while among the less protected ships, cruiser most unjust that the commissioned officers and warr~t officers after cruiser has been destroyed whenever the hostile squadrons of the Navy should not in this respect have the same rights as have gotten within range of one another's weapons. There will their brethr~n in the Army and as the enlisted men of the Navy. always be a large field of usefulness for cruisers, especially of THE PHILIPPINES. the more formidable type. We need to increase the number of In the Philippine Islands there has been during the past year torpedo-boat destroyers, paying less heed to their having a knot a continuation of the steady progress which has obtained ever or two extra speed than to their capacity to keep the seas for since our troops definitely got the upper hand of the insurgents. weeks, and, if necessary, for months at a time. It is wise to T~e Philippine people, or, to speak more accurately, the many build submarine torpedo boats, as under certain circumstances b·1bes, and even races, sundered from one another more or less they might be very useful. But most of all we need to continue sharply, who go to make up the people of the Philippine Islands ­ building our fleet of battle ships, or ships so powerfully armed contain many elements of good, and some elements which w~ that they can infiict the maximum of damage upon our opponents. have a right to hope stand for progress. At present they are ut· and so well protected that they can suffer a severe hammering terly incap.able of existing in independence at all or of building in return without fatal impairment of their ability to fight and up a civilization of their own. I firmly believe that we can help maneuver. Of course ample means must be provided for en­ them to rise higher and higher in the scale of civilization and o1 abling the personnel of the Navy to be brought to the highest capacity for self-government, and I most earnestly hope that in point of efficiency. Our great fighting shlps and torpedo boats the end they will be able to stand, if _not entirely alone yet in must be ceaselessly trained and maneuvered in squadrons. The some such relation to the United States as Cuba now' stands. officers and men can only learn their trade tho~oughly by cease­ This end is not yet in sight, and it may be indefinitely post­ less practice on the high seas. In the event of war it would poned if our people are foolish enough to turn· the attention of be far better to have no ships at all than to have ships of a poor the Filipinos away from the problems of achievin(J' moral and and ineffective type, or ships which, however good, were yet material prosperity, of worki_ng for a stable, ordet1y, and just manned by untrained and unskillful crews. The best officers government, and toward foolish and dangerous intrig-ues for a and men · in a poor ship could do nothing against fairly good complete independence for which they are as yet totally unfit opponents; and on the other hand a modern war ship is useless On the other hand our people must keep steadily before thelr unless the officers and men aboard her have become -adepts in minds the fact that the justification for our stay in the Philip­ their duties. The marksmanship in our Navy has improved in pines must ultimately rest chiefly upon the good we are able to an extraordinary degree during the last three years, and on the do in the islands. I do not overlook the fact that in the de­ whole the types of our battle ships are improving; but much velopment of our interests in the Pacific Ocean and along its remains to be done. Sooner or later we shall have to provide coasts, the Philippines have played and will play an important for some method by which there will be promotions for merit part, and that our interests have been served in more than one as well as for seniority, or else retirement of all those who after way by the possession of the islands. But our chief rea on a certain age have not advanced beyond a certain grade; while for continuing to hold them must be that we ought in good faith no effort must be spared to make the service attractive to the to try to do our share of the world's work, and this particular enlisted men in order that they may be kept as long as possible piece of work has been imposed upon us by the results of the in it. Reservation public schools should be provided wherever war with Spain. The problem presented to us in the Philip­ there are navy-yards. pine Islands is akin to, but not exactly like, the p-roblems -pre­ _ THE ARMY. sented to the other great civilized powers which have posses­ Within the last three years the United States has set an ex­ sions in the Orient There are points of resemblance in our ample in disarmament where disarmament was proper. By work to the work which is being done by the British in India law our Army is fixed at a maximum of one hundred thousand ·and Egy~t, by the French in Algiers, by the Dutch in Java, by and a minimum of sixty thousand men. When there was insur­ the Russians in Turkestan, by the Japanese in Formosa· but rection in the Philippines we kept the Army at the maximum. more distinctly than any of ~hese powers we are endeav~ring Peace came in the Philippines, and now our Army has been re­ to develop the natives themselves so that they shall take an duced to the minimum at which it is possible to keep it with due ever-increasing share in their own government, and as far as regard to its efficiency. The guns now mounted require twenty­ is prudent we are already admitting their representatives to a eight thousand men, if the coast fortifications are to be ade­ governmental equality with our own. There are commissioners, quately manned. Relati-rely to the Nation, it is not now so judges, and governors in the islands who are Filipinos and who large as the police force of New York or Chicago relatively to have exactly the same share in the government of the islands the population of either city. We need more officers; tb:ere are as have their colleagues who are Americans, while in the lower not enough to perform the regular army work. It is very im­ ranks, of course, the great majority of the public servants are portant that the officers .of the Army should be accustomed to Filipinos. Within two years we shall be trying the experiment handle their men in masses, as it is also important that the of an elective lower house in the Philippine legilature. It may National Guard of the several States should be accustomed to be that the Filipinos will misuse this legislature, and they · actual field maneuvering, especially in connection with the regu­ certainly will misuse it if they are misled by foolish per ons lars. For this reason we are to be congratulated upon the suc­ here at home into starting an agitation.for their own independ­ cess of the field maneuvers at Manassas last fall, maneuvers in ence or into any factious or improper action. In such· case whicli a -larger number of Regulars and National Guard took they will do themselves no good and will stop for the time be­ part than was ever before assembled together in time of peace. ing all further effort to advance them a'nd give them a greater No otper civilized nation has, relatively to its population, such share in their own government. But if they act with wi dom a diminutive Army as ours; and while the 'Army is so small we and self-restraint, if they show that they are capable of elect­ ar.e not to be excused if we fail to keep it at a very high grade ing a legislature which in its turn is capable of taking a sane of proficiency. It must be incessantly practiced; the standard and efficient part in the actual work of government, they can for the enlisted men should be kept very high, while at the same rest assured that a full and increasing measure of recognition time the service should be made as attractive as possible; and will be given them. Above all they should remember that their the standard for the officers should be kept even highet~-which, prime needs are moral and indusb·ial, not political. It is a as regards the upper ranks, can best be done by introducing good thing to try the experiment of giving them a legislature; some system of selection and rejection. into the promotions. We but it is a far better thing to give them schools, good roads, should be able, in the event of some sudden emergency, to put railroads which will enable them to get their products to into the field one first-class army corps, which should be, as a market, honest courts, an honest and efficient constabulary, and whole, at least the equal of any body of troops of like number all that tends to produce order, peace, fair dealing as between belonging to any other nation. man and man, and habits of intelligent industry and thrift. 1904. CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-SENATE.' 21

If they are safeguarded against oppression, and if their real 30, 1904 ~ which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to .wants, material and spiritual, are studied intelligently and in the Committee on Public Buildings. and Grounds, and ordered a spirit of friendly sympathy, much more good will be done to be printed. them than by any effort to give them political power, though MAJ.UTIME CANAL COMPANY OF NICARAGUA. this effort may in its own proper time and place be proper The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com­ enough. munication from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, Meanwhile our own people should remember that there is pursuant to law, the report of the Maritime Canal Company or need for the highest standard of conduct among the Americans. Nicaragua; which; with the accompanying paper, was referred sent to the Philippine Islands, not only among the public serv­ to the Committee on Interoceanic Canals, and ordered to be nnts but among the private individuals who go to them.. It printed. is because I feel this so deeply that in the admi.Ris:tration of ESTATE OF JAMES W. SCHAUMBURG. these islands I have positively refused to permit any discrimina­ tion whatsoever for political reasons and have insisted that in The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com­ ~hoosing the public servants consideration should be paid solely munication from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a to the worth of the men chosen and to- the needs of the islands. letter from the administrator of the estate of James W. Schaum­ Tllere is no higher body of men in our public service than we burg, deceased, formerly a lieutenant in the United States Army, have in the Philippine Islands under Governor \Vright and his making application for an appropriation to pay the amount due associates. So far as possible these men should be given a free the estate decreed by the courts; which, with the accompany­ hand, and their suggestions should receive the hearty backing ing paper, was r:eferred to the Committee on Claims, and or­ both of the Executive and of the C

ant in the Navy, from the 16th day of J"une, 1904, vice Lieut lieutenant in the Navy, from the 31st day of August, 1904, vice Humes H. ·Whittlesey, promoted. Lieut. William G. Miller, promnted. 12. Capt Francis W. Dickins to be a rear-admiral in the 46. Capt Charles J. Train to be a rear-admirru in the Navy, Navy, from the 17th day of June, 1904, vice Rear-Admiral John from the 13th day of September, 1004, vice Rear-Admiral Merrill 'J. Read, retired. Miller, retired. · 13. Commander Perry Garst to. be a captain in the· Navy, 47. Commander William P. Potter to be a captain in the fr.om the 17th day of June, 1904, vice Capt. Francis w. Dickins, Navy, from the 13th day of September, 1904, vice Capt Charles promoted. J. Train, promoted. 14. Lieut. Commander George M. Stoney to be a commander 48. Commander Nathan E. Niles to be a captain in the Navy, in the Navy, from the 17th day of June, 1904, vice Commander from the. 13th day of September, 1904, vice Capt. William P. Perry Garst, promoted. Potter, an additional number in grade. 15. Lieut. Albert C. Dieffenbach to be a lieutenant-commander 49. Lieut. Commander James '1.'. Smith to be ·a commander in in the Navy, from the 17th day of June, 1904, vice Lieut. Com­ the Navy, from· the 13th day of September, 1904, vice Commander mander George l\1. Stoney, promoted. William P. Potter, promoted. 16. Lieut. (Junior Grade) George C. Sweet to be a lieutenant 50. Lieut. John P. McGuinness to be a lieutenant-commander in the Navy, from the 21st day of June, 1904, vice· Lieut. Charles in the Navy, from the 13th day of September, 1904, vice Lieut. L. Poor, resigned. Commander George S. Willits, promoted. 17. Lieut. Commander Frederick W. Coffin to be a commander 51. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Allen Buchanan to be a lieutenant in the Navy, from the 1st day of July, 1904, vice Lieut. Com­ in the Navy, from the 13th day of September,'1904, vice Lieut. mander Fidelio S. Carter, retired after being due for promotion. George w. Kline, promoted. 18. Lieut. Theodore C. Fenton to be a lieutenant-commander 52. Lieut. (Junior Grade) ·charles P. Nelson to be a lieutenant in the Navy, from the 1st day of July, 1904, vice Lieut. Com­ in the Navy, from the 13th day of September, 1904, vice Lieut. mander Frederick \V. Coffin, promoted. John P:\ McGuinness, promoted. 19. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Franck T. Evans to be a lieutenant 53. Commander· Newton E. Mason to be a captain in the Navy, in the Navy, from the 1st day of July, 1904, vice Lieut. Theo- from the 30th day of September, 1904, vice Capt~ John B. Briggs, dore C. Fenton, promoted. , an additional number in grade. 20. Ensign Henry B. Soule to be a lieutenant (junior grade) 54. Commander Thomas H. Stevens to be a captain in the in the Navy, fr.om the 30th day of July, 1904, having completed Navy, from the 30th day of September, 1904, vice Capt Newton .three years' service in his present grade. E. Mason, an additional number in grade. 21. Ensign Francis Martin to be a lieutenant (junior grade) 55. Lieut. Commander Wruter F. Worthington to be a com­ in the Navy, from the 30th day of July, 1904, having completed mander in the Navy, from the 30th day of September, 1904, vice three years' service in his present grade. Commander Giles B. Harber, promoted. 22. Warrant Machinist Francis D. Burns, 5G. Lieut. Commander William N. Little to be a commander 23. Warrant Machinist Charles W. Densmore, in the Navy, from the 30th day of September, 1904, vice Com­ 24. Gunner David Lyons, mander John B. Briggs, promoted. 25. Gunner Owen Hill, 57. Lieut. Commander Frank H. Eldridge to be a commander 2G. Gunner Joseph F. Daniels, in the Navy, from the 30th day of September, 1904, vice Com­ 27. Gunner Clnrence S. Vanderbeck. mander Thomas H. Stevens, promoted. 28. Gunner Walter E. Whitehead, 58. Lieut. Joseph Strauss to be a lieutenant-commander in the 29. Gunner Gaston D. Johnstone, and Navy, from the 30th day of September, 1904, vice Lieut. Com­ 30. Gunner Frank Rorschach­ mander Walter F. Worthington, promoted. to be ensigns in the Navy. 59. Lieut. Charles S. Stanworth to be a lieutenant..:commander 31. Capt. George F. F. Wilde to be a rear-admiral in the Navy, in the Navy, from the 30th day of September, 1904, vice Lieut. from the 6th day of August, 1904, vice Rear~Admiral Philip H. Commander William N. Little, promoted. . Cooper, retired. · GO. Lieut. Robert L. Russell to be a lieutenant-commander in 32. Commander Arthur B. Speyers to be a captain in the the Navy, from the 30th day of September, 1904, vice Lieut. Navy, from the 6th day of August, 1904, vice Capt. George F. F. Commander Theodore F. Burgdorff, promoted. (Wilde, promoted. 61. Lieut. Harrison A. Bispham to be a lieutenant-commander 33. Lieut. Commander Wythe M. Parks to be a commander in in the Navy, from the 30th day of September, 1904, vice Lieut. the Navy, from the 6th day of August, 1904, vice Commander Commander Frank H. Eldridge, promoted. Arthur B. Speyers, promoted. · · 62. Lieut.. (Junior Grade) Edward B. Fenner to be a lieuten­ 34. Lieut. Volney 0. Chase to be a lieutenant-commander in ant in the Navy, from the 30th day of September, 1904, vice the Navy, from the 6th day of Augiist, 1904, vice Lieut. Com- Lieut. Joseph Strauss, promoted. mander Wythe M. Parks, promoted. · 63. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Victor A. Kimberly to be a lieuten­ 35. Lieut. (Junior Grnde) John F. Babcock to be a lieutenant ant in the Navy, from the 30th day of September1 1904, vice fn the Navy, from the 6th day of August, 1904, vice Lieut. Vol­ Lieut. Robert L. Russell, promoted. ney 0. Chase, promoted. - 64. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Paul B. Dungan to be a lieutenant 36. Capt. Charles H. Davis to be a rear-admiral in the Navy, in the Navy, from the 30th day of September, 1904, vice Lieut. front the 24th day of August, 1904, vice Rear-Admiral John C. Harrison A. Bispham, promoted. ;watson, retired. 65. Capt George W. Pigman to be a rear-admiral in the Navy, from the 3d day of October, 1904, vice Rear-Admiral Frederick 37. Commander Ebenezer S. Prime to be a captain in the Rodgers, retired. Navy, from the 24th day of August, 1904, vice Capt Charles H. 6G. Commander Charles P. Perkins to be a captain in the Davis, promoted. Navy, from the 3d day of October, 1904, vice Capt. George W. 38. Lieut. Commander Frank H. Bailey to be a commander in Pigman, promoted. the Navy, from the 24th da,y of August, 1904, vice Commander 67. Lieut. Commander Henry C. Gearing to be a commander Ebenezer S. Prime, promoted. in the Navy, from the 3d day of October, 1904, vice Commander 39. Lieut. Commander Harry U. Hodges to be a commander Charles P. Per:kins, promoted. in the Navy, from the 24th day of August, 1904, vic-e Com­ 68. Lieut. Armistead Rust to be a lieutenant-commander in mander Frank H. Bailey, an additional number in grade. tl}e Navy, from the 3d day of October, 1904, vice Lieut. Com- 40. Lieut. Patrick W. Hourigan to be a lieutenant-commander mander Henry C. Gearing, promoted. · . in ·the Navy, from the 24th day of August, 1904, vice Lieut. 69. Capt. George A. Converse to be a rear-admiral in the Commander Frank H. Bailey, promoted. · Navy, from the 8th day of November, 1904, vice Rear-Admiral 41. Lieut. (Junior Grade) John S. Graham to be a lieutenant 'Villiam C. Wise, retired. in the Navy, from the 24th day of August, 1904, vice Lieut. 70. Commander Charles G. Bowman to a captain in the Navy, Patrick W. Hourigan, promoted. from the 8th day of November, 1904, vice Capt. George A. Con· 42. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Walter G. Roper to be a lieutenant ver e, promoted. . , In the Navy, from the 24th day of August, 1004, vice Lieut. 71. Lieut. George R. Evans to be a lieutenant-commander in George R. Slocum, promoted. the Navy from the Sth. day of November, 1904, Yice Lieut. ComA 43. Lieut. Commander William B. Caperton to be a commander mander Templin .M. Potts, promoted. in the Navy, from the 31st day of August, 1904, vice Commander 72. Lieut Edward W. Eberle to be a lieutenant-commander in •James H. Perry, retired. the Navy from the 23d da:y of November, 100-1, vice Lieut. Com­ 44. Lieut. William G. Miller to be a lieutenant-commander in mander William H. Allen, promoted. the Navy, from the 31st day of August, 1904, vice Lieut. Com­ 73. Lieut. (Junio1T Grade) Henry E. Lackey tc tea lieutenant mander William B. Caperton, promoted. in the Navy, from the 23d day · of .No-rernber, 1004, vice Lieut. 45. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Herbert G. Sparrow to be a Edward W. Eberle, promoted. -

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CHAPLAIN IN THE NAVY. gunners in the Navy, from the 20th·day of July, 1904, upon the Evan W. Scott, a citizen of Ohio, to be a chaplain in the . completion of six years' service, in accor:dance with the pro­ Navy, from the 31st day of August, 1904, to fill a vacancy exist­ visions of an act of Congress approved April 27, 1904. ing in that grade on that date. Carpenters to 'be chief carpenters in the N avv, frorn the 21t1• A.SSISTAN'f CIVIL ENGINEERS IN THE NAVY. day of April, 1904. Frederick H. ' Cooke and Clinton D. Thurber, citizens of Ohio Otto Barth, and Pennsylvania, respectively, to be assistant civil engineers George Helms, in the Navy, from the 1st day of January, 1904, to fill vacancies George J. Shaw, existing in that grade on that date. Francis J. Harte, John T. S. Miller, .. PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. William P. Harding, Assistant naval constructors to 'be naval constructors in the William J. Wren, Navy, from the 1st day of J1tly, 1904, to fill vacancies existing Frank Johnson, in that grade on that d~te. Timothy E. Kiley, Holden W. Evans, Charles S. Taylor, William P. Robert, James T. Haley, Thomas G. Roberts, and William Boone, Lawrence S. Adams. John H. Gill, Joseph A. Barton, Ensigns to be assistant naval constructot·s in the Navy, ft·orn Charles Thompson, tke. 21st day of October, 1904, to fill vacancies existing in that John P. Yates, and grade on that date. Frank H. Preble. Isaac I. Yates, Carpenter Clarence L. Bennett to be a chief carpenter in the George C. Westervelt, Navy, from the 24th day of May, 1904, upon the completion of Charles ,V. Fisher, six years' service, in accordance with the provisions of an act of' Holden C. Richardson, · Congress approved April 27, 1904. John H. 'Valsh, Carpenter Thomas C. Cooney to be a chief carpenter in the Edward C. Hamner, and Navy, from the 27th day of June, 1904, upon the completion of Emory S. Land. six years' service, in accordance with the provisions of an act of Assistant szl'rgeons to be passed assistant surgeons in the Navy. Congress approved April 27,-1904. Allen E. Peck, from March 27, 1904 ;. Carpenter Franz A. Urich to be a chief carpenter in the Navy;· Charles G. Smith, from April 12, 1904; from the 29th day of September, 1904, upon the completion of John H. I den, from May 4, 1904 ; six years' service, in .accordance with the provisions of an act of William Seaman, from May 18, 1904 ; Congress approved April 27, -1904. . Royall R. Richardson, from May 18, 1904 ; To be chief 'boatswains in tl!e Navy. Frederick A. Asserson, from May 18, 1904; Boatswain William Broeks to be a chief boatswain in the Navy Alfred W. Balch, from ·June 22, 1904, and from the 27th day of April, -1904, he having completed six years' Archibald M. Fauntleroy, from September 28, 1904. service in accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress To be assistant surgeons in the N civy. approved April 27, 1904. · · Francis E. Larkin, William D. Owens, a citizen of the District of Columbia, from James Dowling, 1\Iay 17, 1904; John F. Brooks, . William A. Angwin, a citizen of California, from June 2, 1904; Samuel W. Gardner, Owen J. Mink, a citizen of Illinois, from June 7, 1904; James W. Angus, Frederick E. Porter, a citizen of Tennessee, from June 7, John J. Holden, 1904; Phillip Mullen, Norman T. McLean, a citizen of Massachusetts, from June Allen Whipkey, 28, 1904; Harry R. Brayton, Cary T. Grayson and Wrey G. Farwell, citizens of Virginia Patrick Deery, and New York, repectively, from June 28, 1904; John J. Rochfort, David C. Cather, a citizen of Virginia, from July 9, 1904; ' Pah·ick J. Kane, William N. McDonnell, a citizen of Minnesota, from Septem­ August Ohmsen, ber 19, 1904 ; George B. Moncrief, Harold w. Smith, Addison B. Clifford, and Clarence E. Strite, Hugh J. Duffy, . citizens of Massachusetts, Michigan, and Maryland, respectively, Edward J. Norcott, from September 27, 1904; Timothy Sullivan, from June 2, 1904; Howson W. Cole, jr., a citizen of Virginia, from October 5, John E. Murphy, from June 15, 1904; 1904; Emil H. Eycke, from June 23, 1904:; Eugene A. Vickery, a citizen of Massachusetts, from October Albert F. Benzon, from July 13, 1904; 11, 1904; Eugene M. Isaac, from July lG, 1904; Milton El Lando, a citizen of California, from October 26, Andrew Anderson, from August 1, 1904; 1904, and ·· Peter E. Radcliffe, from September .1, 1004; and Hugh T. Nelson, a citizen of Virginia, from November 14, 1904. August Rettig, from September 1, 1904:. Gunners to be chief gwmers in the Navy, frorn the 27th day of ' To be pa.ymasters in the Navy. April, 1904. Leonard J. G. Kuhlwein, P. A. Paymaster '.rhomas De F. Harris to be a paymaster in William A. Cable, the Navy, from the 16th day of August, 1904, vice P. A. Pay­ Franklin T. Applegate, master Athur H. Cathcart, resigned, after being due for promo­ Allan S. :Mackenzie, tion. Otto Fries, P. A. Paymaster John F. Hatch to be a paymaster in the Theodore B. Watson, and Navy, from the 18th day of October, 1904, vice Paymaster Philip Thomas J. Shuttleworth. ... V. Mohun, retired. Gunner John H. Lohman to be a chief gunner in the Navy, To 'b e assistant paymasters in the Navy. from the 13th day of June, 1004, upon the completion of six Raymond B. Westlake, a citizen of Ohio, to be an as istant years' service, in accordance with the provisions of an act of paymaster in the Navy, from the 2d day of May, 1904., to fill a Congress approved April 27; 1904. · vacancy existing in that grade on that date. - Gunners George Charrette a11d Simon Jacobs to be chief gun­ Gordon A. IIelmicks, a citizen of Wisconsin; ners in the Navy, from the 15th day of June, 1904, upon the John M. Hancock, a citizen of North Dakota; completion of six years' service, in accordance with the pro­ Graham M. Adee, a citizen of the District of Columbia; visions of an act of Congress approved April 27, 1904. Charles N. Wrenshall, a citizen of North Carolina; and Gunner Hans Johnsen to be a chief gunner in the Navy, from George R. Crapo, a citizen of Ma sacllu etts. the 27th day of June, 1904, upon the completion of six years' Thorn Williamson and William N. Huglle. , citizens of Con­ service, in accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress necticut and Kentucky, respectively, to IJe assistant paymasters approved April 27, 1904. . . . . in the Navy, from tile 12th day of September, 1904, to fill \a­ • Gunners Samuel · Chiles and George W. Phillips to be chief cancies existing in that grade on that date. 1904. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE~ 25

PROMOTIONS IN THE MARINE CORPS. August 8, 1904. Mr. Gwyn is now serving under a temporarY, Second Lieut. Richard B. Creecy to be a first lieutenant in commission issued during the recess of the Senate. the Marine Corps, from the 4th day of June, 1904, vice First Asst. Surg. Joseph Goldberger, of Pennsylvania, to l'e a Lieut. l:lat·old Colvocoresses, retired. · passed assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine­ Lieut. Col. Otway C. Berryman to be a colonel in the Marine Hospital Service of the U:p.ited States, to rank as such from Corps, from the 4th day of June, 1904, vice Col. James For:p.ey, July 27, 1904. 1\Ir. Goldberger is now serving under a temporacy, retired. commission issued during the recess of the Senate. Maj. Harry K. White to be a lieutenant-colonel in the Marine Asst. Surg. John M. Holt, of New York, to be a passed assist­ Corps, from the 4th day of June, 1904, vice Lieut. Col. Otway C. ant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service Berrymru1, promoted. of the United States, to rank as such from July 27, 1004. Mr. Holt is now serving under a temporary commission issued dur­ SECOND LIEUTENANTS IN THE MARINE CORPS. ing the recess of the Senate. Joseph A. Rossell, a citizen of Delaware; Asst. Surg. William A.· Korn, of New York, to be a passed Clayton B. Vogel, a citizen of Pennsylvania; assistant surgeon in the Public Health and l\larine-Hospital Edward II. Conger, a citizen of Iowa, and Service of the United States, to rank as such from July 27, 1904. Jeter R. Horton, a citizen of South Carolina. .Mr. Korn is now serving under a temporru-y commission issued ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES. during the recess of the Senate. Asst. Snrg. Dunlop .Moore, of Pennsylvania, to be a passed William II. Moody, of Massachusetts, lately Secretary of the assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Navy, to be Attorney-General of the United States, to which Service of the United States, to rank as such from June 4, 1904. office he was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Mr. Moore is now serving under a temporary commission issued Philander C. Knox, resigned. during the recess of the Senate. DISTRICT JUDGES. Asst. Surg. Thomas B. McClintic, of New York, to be a passed William M.· Lanning, of New Jersey, to be United States dis­ assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital trict judge for the district of New Jersey, to which position he Service of the United States, to rank as such from July 28, was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Andrew 1904. Mr. McClintic is now sel,'ving under a temporary commis­ Kirkpatrick, deceased. . . sion issued during the recess of the Senate. Royal A. Gunnison, of New York, to be judge of the district Asst. Surg. Carl Ramus, of Illinois, to be a passed assistant court of the dish·ict of Al1l-ska, division No. 1, to which position surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of be was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Mel­ the United States, to rank as such from March 11, 1904. Mr. ville C. Brown, term expired. Ramus is now serving under a temporary commission issued ' ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. during the recess of the Senate. Asst. Surg. Halstead A. Stansfield, of California, to be a Edward A. Mann, of New Mexico, to be associate justice of passed assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hos­ the supreme court of the Territory of New Me~ico, to which po­ pital Service of the United States, to rank as such from June 4, sition be was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, un­ 1904. Mr. Stansfield is now serving un·der a temporary" commis­ der the provisions of the act approved April 28, 1904. sion issued during the recess of the Senate. ·uNITED STATES ATTORNEYS. Asst. Surg. Frederick E. Trotter, of New York, to be a passed Henry M. Hoyt, of California, to be United States attorney assistant surgeon in the Public Health and l\Iarine-Hospital for the district of Alaska, and assign him to division No. 2, to Service of the United States, to rank as such from July 21, which position he was appointed during tb.e last recess of the 1904. Mr. Trotter is now serving under a temporary commis­ Senate,.vice 1.\Ielvin Grigsby, resigned. - sion issued during the recess of the Senate. Norman l\1. Ruick, of Idaho, to be United States attorney for · Asst. Surg. Charles William Vogel, of Maryland, to be a passed the district of Idaho, to which position be was appointed during assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital the last recess of the Senate, vice R. V. Cozier, deceased. Service of the United States, to rank as such from July 27, 1904. 1\lr. Vogel is·now serving under a temporary commission issued MARSHALS. during the recess of the Senate. George F. White, of Georgia, to be United States marshal for Asst. Surg. John W. Amesse, of Michigan, to be a passed the southern district of Georgia, to which position he was ap­ assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital pointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice John M. Service of the United States, to rank as such from November 28, Barnes, removed. 1004. Robert Grimmon, of Nevada, to be United States marshal for Asst. Surg. Joseph W. · Schereschewsky, of Massachusetts, to the district of Neyada, to which position he was appointed dur­ be a passed assistant sm·geon in the Public Health and Marine­ ing the last recess of the Senate, vice J. F. Emmitt, deceased. Hopital Service of the United States, to rank as such from SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CO:llMERCE AND LABOR. November 4, 1904. . Victor H. 1.\Ietcalf, of California, to be Secretary of Commerce Asst. Surg. Clarence W. ·wme, of Pennsylvania, to be a passed and Labor of the .United States, to which office be was appointed assistant smgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital dming the last recess of the Senate, vice George B. Cortelyou, Service of the United States, to rank as such from November 25, resigned. 1904. COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS. Asst. Surg. Robert L. 'Yilson, of Texas, to be a passed assist­ ~t surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service William D. Crum, of South Carolina, to be collector of cus­ of the United States, to rank as such from December 1, 1904. toms for the district of Charleston, in the State of South Caro­ lina, in place of Robert M. · Wallace, deceased. l\1r. Crum is PROMOTIONS IN THE REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE. now serving under a temporary commission issued during the First Lieut. John C. Cantwell to be a captain in the Revenue.. recess of the Senate. Cutter Service of the United States, to rank as such from Oc­ tober 11, 1904, to succeed Walstein A. Failing, retired. Mr. PROMOTIONS IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND MARINE-HOSPITAL Cantwell is serving under a temporary commission issued during SERVICE. the recess of the Senate. P. A. Surg. Alexander Condee Smith, of New York, to be a First. Lieut. John C. Moore to be a captain in the Revenue­ surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of Cutter Service of the Unite~ States, to succeed W. C. De Hart, the United States, to rank as such from October 21, 1904, in retired. 1\fr. Moore is now serving under a temporary commis­ place of George Purviance, deceased. sion issued during the recess of the Senate. . Asst. Surg. Donald H. Currie, of Missouri, to be a passed First. Lieut. Horace B. West to be a captain in the Revenue­ assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Cutter-Service of the United States, to rank as such from June Service of the United States, to rank as such from July 28, 1904. 20, 1904, to succeed J. A. Slamm, retired. Mr. West is now Mr. Currie is now serving under a temporary commission issued serving under a temporary commission issued during the recess during the recess of the Senate. of the Senate. Asst. Surg. Carroll Fox, of Pennsylvania, to be a passed Second Lieut. Frederick C. Billard, to be a first lieutenant in assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to rank as Servlce of the United States, to rank as such from July 27, 1904. such from October 11, 1904, to succeed John C. Cantwell, pro­ Mr. Fox is now serving under a temporary commission issued moted. Mr. Billard is now serving under a temporary commis­ during the recess of the Senate. · sion issued during the recess of the Senate. Asst. Surg. Matthew Kemp Gwyn, of Maryland, to be a Second Lieut. Benjamin. M. Chiswell to be a first lieutenant in passed assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine­ the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to rank as Hospital Senice of the United States, to rank as such from such from June 20, 1904, to succeed Hora~e B. West, promoted. 26 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 6,

Mr. Chiswell is now serving under a temporary commission Cutter Service of the United· States, to date from July 17,-1904, issued during the recess of the Senate. · to succeed Eugenious A. Jack, retired. Mr. Schoenborn is now Second Lieut. Bernard H. Camden to be a first lieutenant in the serving under a temporary commission issued during the recess Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to rank as such of the Senate. from October 11, 1904, to succeed P. H. Brereton, retired. Mr. Second Asst. Engineer Robert B. Adams to be a first as­ Camden is now serving under a temporary commission issued sistant engineer, with the rank of second lieutenant, in the during the recess of the Senate. Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States. to rank as such Second Lieut. Aaron L. Gamble to be a first lieutenant in the from July 17, 1904, to succeed Henry F. Schoenborn, promoted. Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed John C. Mr. Adams is now serving under a temporary commission is­ Moore, promoted. Mr. Gamble is now serving under a tempo­ sued during the recess of the Senate. rary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. Clarence J. Curtiss, of New York, to be a second assistant Third Lieut. Edward S. Addison to be a second lieutenant In engineer, with the rank of third lieutenant, in the Revenue­ the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United Stutes, to rank ·as Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed Albert E. Bon­ such from October 11, 1904, to succeed Frederick C. Billard, net, resigned. Mr. Curtiss is now serving under a temporary promoted. Mr. Addison is now serving under a temporary com­ commission issued during the recess of the Senate. mis ion issued during the recess of the Senate. ,. Albert F. Patterson, of Washington, to be a second assistant Third Lieut. Eben Barker to be a second lieutenant in the engineer, with the rank of . third lieutenant, in the Revenue­ Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed Frank Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed Henry T. Pow­ B. Goudey, resigned. Mr. Barker is now serving under a tem­ ell, promoted. Mr. Patterson is now ~erving under a temporary porary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. commission issued during the recess of the Senate. 1'hird Lieut. Leon C. Col"ell to be a second lieutenant in the Frederick H. Young, of New York, to be a second assistant Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to rank as such engineer in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, from June 20, 1004., to succeed B"enjamin M. Chiswell, promoted. with the rank of third lieutenant, to succeed Charles S. Root, Mr. Covell is now serving under a temporary commission issued promoted. Mr. Young is now serving under a temporary com­ during the recess of the Senate. mission issued during the recess of the Senate. Third Lieut. Franklin B. Harwood to be a second lieutenant APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS IN TilE CONSULAR SERVICE. in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed Thomas C. Dawson, of Iowa, lately secretary of the legation Colin S. Craig, promoted. Mr. Harwood is now serving under at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to be minister resident and consul· a temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. general of the United States to Santo Domingo, to which office · Third Lieut. Charles F. Howell to be a second lieutenant in he was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, to fill an the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed original vacancy. · · Samuel P. Edmonds, promoted. Mr. Howell is now serving un­ William Blumenthal, of New York, to be secretary of the der a temporary commission issued during the recess of the legation of ·the United States at Lisbon; Portugal, to which Senate. _ office he was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, Third Lieut. Philip W. Lauriat to be a second lieutenant in vice Heill-y W. Shoemaker, appointed third secretary of the the Revenue-Cutter Service of the , United States, to succeed embassy at Berlin, Germany. Aaron L. Gamble, promoted. Mr. Lauriat is now serving under Montgomery Schuyler, jr., of New York, lately second secre­ a temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. tary of the embassy at St Petersburg, Russia, to be secretary Third Lieut. William H. Munter to be a second lieutenant in of the legation and consul-general of the United States at the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed Bangkok, Siam, to which office he was appointed during · the John G. Berry, promoted. Mr. Munter is now serving under a last recess of the Senate, vice Paul Nash, appointed consul at temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. Venice, Italy. Third Lieut. John L. Maher to be a second lieutenant in the Charles Richardson, of Massachusetts, lately third secretary Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed Wil­ of the embassy at Berlin, Germany, to be secretary of the lega­ liam E. W. Hall, promoted. Mr. Maher is now serving under a tion of the United States at Rio· de· Janeiro, Brazi1, to which temporary commission issued dttring the recess of the Senate. office he was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, Third Lieut. William A. O'Malley to be a second lieutenant in vice Thomas C. Dawson, appointed minister resident and consul~ the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed general to Santo Domingo. Oscar G. Haines, removed. Mr. O'Malley is now serving under Francis G. Landon, of New York, to be third secretary of the a temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. embassy of the United States at Berlin, Germany, to which Third Lieut. William H. Shea to be a second lieutenant in the office he was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to rank as such vice Henry W. Shoemaker, resigned. from October ·n, 1904, to succeed B. H. Camden, promoted. Mr. Robert Woods Bliss, of New York, lately consul at Venice, Shea is now serving under a temporary commission issued dur­ Italy, to be second secretary of the embassy of the U~ted ing the recess of the Senate. . States at St. Petersburg, Russia, to which office he was ap­ Third Lieut Francis R. Shoemaker to be a second lieutenant pointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Montgomery, in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed Schuyler, jr., appointed secretary of the legation and consul­ Walter W. Joynes, promoted. Mr. Shoemaker is now serving general at Bangkok, Siam. under a temporary commission issued during the recess of the Frank Dyer Chester, of Massachusetts, lately consul at that Senate. . place, to be consul-general of the United States at Budapest, George C. Alexander, of Ohio, to be a third lieutenant in the Hungary, to which office he was appointed during the last Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed Wil­ rece s of the Senate. liam G. Blasdel, promoted. Mr. Alexander is now serving Hezekiah A. Gudger, of North Carolina, lately consul-general under a temporary commission issued during the recess of the at Panama, Colombia, to be consul-general of the United States Senate. at Panama, Panama, to which office he was appointed during Thaddeus G. Crapster, of Pennsylvania, to be a third lieu­ the last recess of the Senate, to fill an odginal vacancy. tenant in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to Julius G. Lay, of the District of Columbia, lately consul-gen­ succeed Herman H. Wolf, promoted. Mr. Crapster is now eral at Barcelona, Spain, to be consul-general of the United serving under a temporary commission issued during the recess States at Canton, China, to which office he was appointed during of the Senate. the last recess of the Senate, vice Robert M. McWade, removed. Muller S. Hay, of Pennsylvania, to be a third lieutenant in Daniel Mayer, of West Virginia, lately consul at that place, the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed to be consul-general of the United States at Buenos Ayres, ~­ Walter A. Wiley, promoted. :Mr. Hay is now serving under a gentine Republic, to. which office he was appointed during the temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. last recess of the Senate. William T. Stromberg, of Maryland, to be a third lieutenant Henry B. Miller, of Oregon, lately consul at that place, to be in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed consul-general of the United States at Niucbwang, China, to William J. Wheeler, promoted. Mr. Stromberg is now serving which office he was appointed during the last recess of the under a temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. Senate. Benjamin H. Ridgely, of Kentucky, · lately consul at Nantes, George E. Wilcox, of Pennsylvania, to be a third lieutenant in France, to be consul-general of the United States at Barcelona, the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed Spain, to which office he was appointed during the last reces o! Eugene Blake, jr., promoted. Mr. Wilcox is now serving under the Senate, vice Julius G. Lay, .appointed consul-general at Can- a temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. ton, China. · Fir t Asst. Engineer Henry F. Schoenborn to be a chief William F. Wright, of Pennsylvania, to be consul-general ot engineer, with the rank of :first lieutenant, in the Revenue- the United States at Munich, Bavaria, to which office he was 1904. ·CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 27

appointed during the· last recess of the Senate, vice James B. DISTRICT JUDGE. · Worman, appointed consul at Three Rivers, Quebec, Canada. Charles F. McKenna, of Pennsylvania, to be United States William EJ. Alger, of .Massachusetts, lately consul at Puerto district judge for the district of Porto Rico, to which PQSition Cortez, Honduras, to be consul of the United States a.t Teguci­ he was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice galpa, Honduras, to which office he was appointed during the William H. Holt, term expired. last recess of the Senate, vice Alfred K. Moe, appointed consul at Dublin, Ireland. CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF HAW All. Carl Bailey Hurst, of the District of Columbia, to be consul Walter F. Frear, of Hawaii, to be chief justice of the supreme of the United States at La Guaira, Venezuela, to which oftice he court of the Territory of Hawaii, to whicll position he was reap­ was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Louis pointed during the last recess of the Senate. Goldschmidt, appointed consul at Nantes, France. ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COUR~ OF HAW AIL Richard M. Bartleman, of Massachusetts, lately consul to Cadiz, Spain, to be consul of the United States at Seville, Spain, Alfred S. Hartwell, of Hawaii, to be associate justice of the to which office be was appointed during the last recess of the supreme ~ourt of the Territory of Hawaii, to which position he Senate to fill an original vacancy. was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Clin­ Leo Bergholz, of New York, lately consul at Three Rivers, ton A. Galbraith, term expired. Quebec, Canada, to be consul of the Unlted States at Dawson Francis l\I. ·Hatch, of Hawaii, to be associate justice of the City, Yukon Territory; to which office be was appointed during supreme court of the Territory of Hawaii, to which position the last recess of the Senate, vice Louis A. Dent, resigned. he was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Louis Goldscbmldt,. of New Hampshire, lately consul at La Antonio Perry, term expired. . Guaira, Venezuela, to be consul of the United States at Nantes, CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES OF HAW.A.II. France, to which office be was appointed during the last recess John A. 1\Iatthewman, of Hawaii, to be judge of the circuit of the Senate, vice Benjamin H. Ridgely, appointed consul­ court of the third circuit of the Territory of Hawaii, to which general at Barcelona, Spain. position he was appointed during the last recess of the· Senate, Frank S. Hannah, of Illinois, to be consul of the United States Yice W. S. Edings, term eA.-pired. _ . at Magdeburg, Germany, to which office be was appointed during Charles F. Parsons, of Hawaii, to be judge of the circuit court the last recess of the Senate, vice William A. McKellip, deceased. of the fourth circuit of the Territory of Hawaii, to which posi­ Roland J. Hemmiclt, of Pennsylvania, to be consul of the United tion he was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice States at Windsor, Ontario, Canada, to which office he was ap­ Gilbert F. Little, term expired. pointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Hugh C. .Morris, Jacob Hardy, of Hawaii, to be judge of the circuit court of resigned. the fifth circuit of the Territory of Hawaii, to which position he Oscar Malmros, of Minnesota, lately consul at Colon, Colombia, was reappointed during the last recess of the Senate. to be consul of the United .States at Colon, Panama, to which office be was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, to ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF PORTO RICO. fill an original vacancy. Adolph Grant Wolf, of the District of Columbia, to be associate Alfred K. Moe, of New Jersey, lately consul at Tegucigalpa, justice of the supreme court of Porto Rico, to which position he Honduras, to be consul of the United States at Dublin, Ireland, was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Louis to which office be was appointed during the last recess of the Sulzbacher, appointed judge of the Unlted States court for the Senate, vice Ruf-us Waterman, deceased. 'vestern dish·ict of Indian Territory. George H. Moulton, of Colorado, lately consul at Demerara, GOM:lliSSIONER OF EDUCATION OF PORTO RICO. Guiana, to be consul of the United States at Georgetown, Dem­ Roland P. Falkner, of the District of Columbia, who was erara, Guiana, .. to which office be was appointed during the appointed July 1, 1904, during the recess of the Senate, to be last recess of the Senate. This is a change in tlle designation commis ioner of education of Porto Rico, vice Samuel 1\1. Lind­ of the office. Paul Nash, of New York, lately secretary of tile legation and say, resigned. consul-general at Bangkok, Siam, to be consul of the United SUPERINTENDENT OF THE MINT AT DE ' VER, COLO. States at Venice, Italy, to which office be was appointed during Frank l'J. Downer, of Colorado, to be superintendent of the the last recess of the Senate, vice Robert ·woods Bliss, appointed mint of the United States at Denver, Colo. New office created second secretary of the embassy at St Petersburg, Russia. by act of Congress approved Marcll 18, 1004. l\Ir. Downer is Jerome B. Peterson, of New York, to be consul of the United ItOW serving under a temporary commission jssued during the States at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, to which office he was ap­ recess of the Senate. pointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Thomas J. ASSAYER. Cummins, deceased. Arthur R. Hodgson, of Colorado, to be assayer of the mint of Edward J. Sullivan, of New York, lately consul at Erzerum, the Unjted States at Denver, Colo. New office created by act of Turkey, to be consul of the Unlted States at Trebizond, Turkey, Congress approved March 18, 1904. Mr. Hodgson i~ now serv­ to which office he was appointed during the last recess of the ing under a temporary commission issued during the recess of Senate, to fill an original vacancy. the Senate. John B. Terres, of New York, to be consul of the Unlted MELTER AND REFI -ER. States at Port au Prince, Haiti, to which office be was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, to fill an original vacancy. Joseph W. Milson, .of Colorado, to be melter and refiner of the mint of the Unlted States at Denver, Colo. New office created James H. Worman1 of New York, lately consul-general at Munich, Bavaria, to be consul of the United States at Three by act of Congress approved March 18, 1904. Mr. l\lilson is now Rivers, Quebec, Canada, to which office he was appointed during serving under a temporary commission issued during the recess the last recess of the Senate, vice Leo Bergholz, appointed con­ of the Senate. · sul at Dawson City, Yukon Territory. ASSISTANT APPRAISER OF MERCHANDISE. Southard P. Warner, of Maryland, to be consur of the United Rufus A. Flanders, of Massachusetts, to be assistant appraiser States at Leipzig, Saxony, to which office he was appointed dur­ of merchandise in the dish·ict of Boston and Charlestown, in the ing the last recess of the Senate, vice Brainard H. Warner, jr., State of Massachusetts. Office created by act of Congress ap­ resigned. proved April_ 28, 1904. Mr. Flanders is now serving under a SECRETARY OF PORTO RICO. temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. Regis H. Post, of New York, to be secretary of Porto Rico, to APPRAISER OF MERCHANDISE. whjch office he was ·appointed during the last recess of the Charles F. Ordway, of Florida, to be appraiser of merchandise Senate, vice Charles Hartzell, resigned. in the district of Tampa,. in the State of Florida, in place of PURCHASING AGENT FOB POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Dwight Jarvis, deceased. Mr. Ordway is now serving under a temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. William E. Cochran, of Kansas, to be purchasing agent for the Post-Office Department, to which office he was appointed COLLECTORS OF INTERNAL REVENUE. during the last recess of the Senate, to fill an original vacancy. Frank L. Smith, of Illinois, to be collector of internal revenue for the eighth district of Illinois, in place of Isaac R. Mills, MEMBER OF BOARD OF CHABITIES. deceased. Mr. Smith is now serving under a temporary com­ George W. Cook, of the District.of Columbia, to a member of mission issued during the recess of the Senate. the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia, for the term . Charles W. Roberts, of Missouri, to be collector of internal of three years from July 1, 1904, to which office he was ap­ revenue for the sixth district of lVIiJ3ouri, in place of Frank D. pointed during the last recess of the Senate. This is a reap­ Roberts, deceased. Mr. Roberts is now serving under a tem­ pointment porary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. 28 OO~GRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEl\1BER 6,

Edgar 0. Crossman, of New Hampshire, to be collector of in­ Col. Henry IL c.' Dunwoody (since retired from active serv· ternal revenue for the district of New Hampshire, to. succeed ice), Signal Corps, July 6, 1904, vice Hains, retired from active James A. Wood, resigned. Mr. Crossman is now serving under service. a temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. Lieut. Col Peter Leary, jr. (since retired from active service), SURVEYOR-GENERAL. OF ALA..SKA. Artillery Corps, July 7, 1904, vice Dunwoody, retired from active service. William L. Distin, of Illinois, who was reappointed during the Lieut Col. Samuel L. Woodward (since retired from active recess of the Senate, to take effect June 7, 1904, at the expira­ service), Seventh Cavalry, July 8, 1904, vice Leary, retired from tion of his term, to be surveyor-general of Alaska. active service. REGISTERS OF LAND OFFICES. Lieut Col. John Mc]L Hyde (since retired from active serv­ Robert N. Dunn, of Wallace, Idaho, who was appointed :May ice), deputy quartermaster-general, July 9, 1004, vice Wood­ 20, 1004, during the recess of the Senate, to be register of the ward, retired from active service. land office at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, vice David li Budlong, re­ Lieut.. CoL Oscar F. Long (since retired from active s~rvice), signed. deputy quartermaster-general, July 10, 1904, vice Hyde, retired Egbert S. Oakley, of Bu.tialo, Minn., who was api>Ointed Au­ from active service. gust 2, 1904, during the recess of the Senate, to be register of the Maj. Theodore A. Bingham (since retired from active serv­ I:md office at Cass Lake, Minn., vice John D. Janes, resigned. ice), Corps of Engineers, July 11, 1904, vice Long, retired from John EJ. Watson, of Boonville, Mo., who was appointed Novem­ active service. ber 14, 1904, during the recess of the Senate, to be register of Col. Constant Williams, T\ enty-sixth Infantry, July 12, 1904:, the land office at Boonville, :Mo., vice William H. Martin, re­ vice Bingham, retired from active service. signed. Alexander C. 1\IcGillivray, of Dickinson, N. Dalr., who was PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY. appointed May 10 1904, during the recess of the Senate, to · be INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S DEPART ME NT. register of the land office at Dickinson, N. Dak., a newly To be inspector-general with the rank of colonel. created office. Ll~t Cot John L. Chamberlain, inspector-general, November · Dick T. Morgan, of Elreno, Okla., who was appointed Novem­ 21, 1904, vice Heyl, retired from active service. ber 23, 1904, during the recess of the Senate, to be register of the land office at Woodward, Okla., vice Frank D. Healy, de­ QUARTERMASTER'S DEPA.BTMENT. ceased. To be assistant quartermaster-general with the rank ot colonel. RECEIVERS OF PUBLIC MONEYS. Lieut. Col. John W. Pullman, deputy qu::u:termaster-general, Sidney R. De Long, of Tucson, Ariz., who was appointed July June 25, 1904, vice Jacobs, retired from active service. 30, 1904, during the recess of the Senate, to be receiver of public To be deputy quartermasters-general witlb the· rank of lieuten- moneys at Tucson, Ariz., vice John H. Bauman, deceased. ant-colonel. · JuUus H. Weiss, of Del Norte, Colo., who was appointed Au­ MaJ. Oscar F. Long (since- appO'inted brigadier-general and rust 261 1904, during the recess of the Senate, to be receiver of public moneys at Del Norte, Colo., vice Percy Hobkirk, removed. retired from active service), quartermaster, June 25, 1904, vice Mathias N. Koll, of Alexandria, ,Minn., who was appointed Pullman, promoted. August 2, 1904, during the recess of the Senate, to be receiver .Maj. Frederick Von Schrader, quartermaster, July 9, 1904, of public moneys at Cass Lake, Minn., vice Egbert S. 0-akley, vice Hyde, appointed brigadier-general. Maj. J. Estcourt Sawyer, quartermaster, July 10, 1904, vice resigned. Leslie A. Simpson, of Dickinson, N. Dak., who was appointed Long, appointed brigadier-general. May 10", 1904, during the recess of the Senate, to be receiver of To be quartermasters with the 1·ank of major. public moneys at Dickinson, N.Dak., a newly created office. Capt George McK.. Williamson, quartermaster, June 25, 1904, COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. vice Long, promoted. Francis E. Leupp, of the District of Columbia, to be COmmis­ Capt. Thomas H. Slavens, quartermaster, July, 9, 1904, vice sioner of Indian Affairs, vice William A. Jones, resigned. Von Schrader, promoted. Capt. David S. Stanley, quartermaster, July 10, 1904, ~ce INDIAN AGENTS. Sawyer, promoted. 1\IcA. Army, Capt John Webster, United States retired, of MEDICAL DEPABTM.ENT. Mackinac Island, Mich., who was appointed June 20, 1904:, dur­ ing the recess of the Senate, to be agent for the Indians of the To be deputy surgeons-general with the rank of lieutenant­ Colville Agency, in Washington., vice Albert M. Anderson, re­ colonel. moved. MaJ. Daniel M. Appel, surgeon, August 3, 1904, vice Gardner, Samuel Bellew, of Missoula, Mont, who was appointed June retired from aS!tive service. 30, 1904:, during thE! recess of the Senate,. to be agent for the In­ Maj. Harry 0. Perley, surgeon, August 14, 1904:, vice E:il· dians of the Flathead Agency, in .Montana, vice William H. bourne, retired from active service. Smead, removed.. To be surgeons with tlte rank of major. Frank Frantz, of Enid, Okla., who was appointed June 3, 1004, Capt. Francis- A. Winter,. assistant surgeon, August 3, 1904, during the recess of the Senate, to be agent for the Indians of vice AppeL promoted the Osage Agency, in Oklahoma, vice Oscar A. Mitscher, re- Capt William E. Purviance, assistant surgeon, August 14, moved. 1904, vice Perley, promoted. GOVERNOR OF .ALASKA. PAY DEPART IENT. John G. Brady, of Alaska, to be governor of Alaska, his term To be pa.umaster with the mnlv of major. having expired June 5, 1904. (Reappointment) Capt George E. Pickett, paymaster, September 6, 1904, yice "ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF Watrous, retired from active service. COLUMBIA. CORPS OF ENGI.NEERS. Wendell P. Stafford, of Vermont, to be associate justiee To be colonels. of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, to which posi­ tion he was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, Lieut. Col. William H. Heuer, Corps of Engineers, Jlme 11, 1904:, vice Raymond, retired from active service. vice Jeter C. Pritchard, appointed United States circuit judge, Lieut. Col. William S. Stanton, Corps of Engineers, September fourth judicial circuit 14, 1904:, vice Mlller, deceased. ASSOCIATE JUSTI.CE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE To be lieutenant-colonels. ISLANDS. Adam C. Carson, of Virginia, to. be an associate justice of Maj. Thomas W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, June 11, H104:, the supreme court of the Philippine Islands, to which office he vice Heuer, promoted. was appointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice J. T. Maj. Smith S. Leach, Corps of Engineers, September 14, 1904, Cooper, resigned. vice Stanton, promoted. To be majors. APPOINTMENTS IN THE .ARMY. Capt William L. Sibert, Corps of En~rs, April 23, 1!?04, GENERAL OFFICERS. vice Rossell, nromoted. To be b7igaaier-generals-. Capt Joseph E. Kuhn, Corps of Engineers, April 23, 1904:, to Col. Albert L. Mills, Superintendent United States Military fill an original vacancy. Academy (captain, Tenth Cavalry), May 7, 1904t vice Dough­ Capt. William E~ Craighilll Oorps of Engineers, April 23,1004, erty, retired from active service~ to fill an original vacancy. 1904. I CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 29

Capt. Henry C. Newcomer, Corps of Engineers, April 23, 1904, SIGNAL OOBPS. to fill an original vacancy. To be colonel. Capt Mason M. Patrick, Corps of Engineers, April 2s-, 1904, Lieut. Col. James Allen, Signal Corps, July 6, 1904, vice Dun-. to. fill an original vacancy. woody, appointed brigadier-general. Capt Charles S. Riche, Corps of Engineers, June 11, 1904, vice Symons, promoted. To be lieutenant-colonel. Capt Thomas H. Rees, Corps- of Engineers, July 11, 1904, vice Maj. George P. Scriven, Signal Corps, July 6, 1904, vice Allen, Bingham, appointed brigadier-general. promoted. Capt. Charles L. Potter, Corps ot Engineers, September 14, To be major. 1904, vice Leach, promoted. Capt~ Edgar Russel; Signal Corps, July 6, 1904; vice Scriven, To be captains. promoted. First Lieut. William D. Connor, Corps of Engineers, April 23, To be captain.. 1904, vice Gaillard, promoted. First Lieut Richard 0. Rickard, Signal Corps, July 6, 1904, First Lieut. John C. Oakes, Corps of Engineers, April 23, 1ice Russel, promoted. 1904, vice Taylor, promoted. OA V.A.LRY ARM. First Lieut. Sherwood A. Cheney, Corps of Engineers, April To be- lieutenant-colonels. 23, 1904, vice Sibert, promoted. Maj. Daniel C. Pearson, Second Cavalry, July 8, 1904, vice irst Lieut. Frederick W. Altstaetter, Corps of Engineers, Woodward, Seventh Cavah·y, appointed brigadier-general. April 23, 1904, vice Kuhn, promoted. · Maj. George A. Dodd, Third Cavalry, July 28, 1904, vice First Lieut. Harley B. Ferguson, Corps of Engineers, April Hein, Tenth Cavalry, retired from active service. 23, 1904, vice Craighill, promoted. Maj. James B. Hickey, First Cavalry, November 30, 1904, vice First Lieut. Frank C. Boggs, Corps of Engineers1 April 23, Ward, First Cavalry, detailed . as inspector-general. 1904, vice Newcomer, promoted. To be majors. First Lieut. Clarke S. Smith, Corps of Engineers, April 23, 1904, vice Patrick, promoted. Capt. William J. Nicholson, Twelfth Cavalry, May 13, 1904, First Lieut. William P. Wooten, Corps of Engineers, April 23, vice Fuller, ·seventh Cavalry, retired from active servcie. 1904, to fill an original vacancy. · Capt Fred W. Foster, Fifth Cavalry, July 8, 1904, vice Pear• First Lieut. Lytle Browri, Corps of Engineers, April 23, 1904, son, Second Cavalry, promoted. to fill an original vacancy. Capt. William C. Brown, First Cavalry, July 28, 1904, vice First Lieut. Earl I. Brown, Corps· of Engineers, April 23, 1904, Dodd, Third Cavalry, promoted. to· fill an original vacancy. Capt. Edwin P. Brewer, Seventh Cavalry, September 15, 1904, First Lieut. Amos A. Fries, Corps of Engineers, June 11, 1904, vice Bigelow, Ninth Cavalry, retired from active service. vice Riche, promoted. Capt. Oscar J. Brown, First Cavalry, November 30, 1904, vice Fii·st Lieut James A. Woodruf!, Corps of' Engineers, July 11, Hickey, First Cavalry, promoted. 1904, vice Rees, promoted. . · To be captains. First Lieut. Willia.m- Kelly, Corps of Engineers, September First Lieut. Malin Craig, Fifth Cavalry, May 7, 1904, vice 14, 1904, vice Potte_r, promoted. Mills, Tenth Cavalry, appointed brigadier-general. To be first lieutenants. First Lieut Guy V. Henry, Fourth Cavalry, May 13, 1904, Second Lieut. William L. Guthrie, Corps of Engineers, April vice Nicholson, Twelfth Cavalry, promoted. , 23, 1904, vice Connor, promoted. First Lieut. Wallace B. Scales, Fourteenth Ca.valry, July 8,.. Second Lieut. Clarence H. Knight, Corps of Engineers, April 1904, vice Foste:r, Fifth Cavalry, promoted. 23, 1904, vice Oakes, promoted. First Lieut. Conrad S. Babcock, Third Cavalry, July 28, 19()4, Second Lieut. William A. Mitchell, Corps of Engineers, April vice Brown (William C.), First Cavalry, promoted. 23, 1904, vice .Altstaetter, promoted. First Lieut. Ewing E. Booth, Seventh Cavalry, August 22,. Second Lieut. 'Varren T. Hannum, Corps of Engineers, April 1904, vice Parker, Tenth Cavalry, detailed as quartermaster. 1004, First Lieut. Percy W. Arnold, First Cavalry, September 15, 23, vice Ferguson, promoted. 1904, vice Brewer, Seventh Cavalry, promoted. Second Lieut. llobert R. Ralston, Corps of Engineers, April 23, 1904, vice Boggs, promoted. First Lieut Rush S. Wells Eighth Cavalry, September 17, Second Lieut. Mark Brooke, Corps of Engineers, April 23, 1904, vice Dixon, Ninth Cavalry, detailed as paymaster. First Lieut. Herbert J. Brees, Signal Corps, November 30, 1904, vice Smith, promoted. Second Lieut. Laurence V. Frazier, Corps of Engineers, April 1904, vice Bro.wn (Oscar J.), First Cavalry, promoted. 23, 1904, vice Wooten, promoted. To be first lieutenants. Second Lieut. James F. Bell, Corps of Engineers, April 23, Second Lieut. Rowland B. Ellis, Thirteenth Cavalry, April 4z 1904, vice Brown (Lytle), promoted. 1904, vice Sharpley, Twelfth Cavalry, dismissed. Second Lieut. Douglas MacArtbur, Corps of Engineers,· April Second Lieut. Frank I. Otis, Eighth Cavalry, May 7, 1904, vice 23, 1904, vice Brown (Earl L), promoted. Craig, Fifth Cavalry, promoted. Second Lieut. Charles T. Leeds, Corps of Engineers, April 23, Second Lieut. Selwyn D. Smith, First Cavalry, May 13, 1904, 1904, to fill an original vacancy. vice Henry, Fourth Cavalry, promoted. Second Lieut. Harold C. Fiske, Corps of Engineers, April 23, Second Lieut. Thomas H. Jennings, Seventh Cavalry, July 8, 1904, to fill an originaf vacancy. 1904, vice Scales-, Fourteenth Cavalry, promoted. · Second Lieut. Max C. Tyler, Corps of Engineers, April 23, Second Lieut Wade H. Westmoreland, Eleventh Cavalry, July 1904, to fill an original vacancy. . 28, 1904, vice B!ibcock, Third Cavalry, promoted. Second Lieut. Ulysses s. Grant, third, Corps of. Engineers, Second Lient Clarence C. Culver, Fifteenth Cavalry, July 28, June 11, 1904, vice Fries, promoted. 1904, vice Jeffers, Seventh Cavalry, retired from active service.

Second Lieut. Julian L. Schley, Corps of Engineers1 June Second Lieut. Frank B. Edwards, Fourth Cavalry, August 22, 13, 1904, vice Bowers, deceased. · 1904, vice Booth, Seventh Cavalry, promoted. Second Lieut. William H. Rose, Corps of Engineers, July Second Lieut. Anton H. Schroeter, Sixth Cavalry, September 11, 1904, vice Woodruff, promoted. 15, 1904, vice Arnold, First Cavalry; promoted. Second Lieut. Ferdinand Williams, Corps of Engineers, Sep­ Second Lieut. John T. Sayles, Second Cavalry, September. 17, tember 14, 1904, vice Kely, promoted. 1904, v-ice Wells, Eighth Cavalry, promoted. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. ABTTU.ERY COBPS. To be colonelr. To be colonel. Lieut. Col. Charles Shaler, Ordnance Department, September Lieut. Col. Walter Howe, Artillery Corps, May 20, 1904, vice 17, 1904, vice McGinness, retired from active service. Vogdes, retired from active service. To be lieutenant-colonel. To be lieutenant-colonels. Maj. James Rockwell, jr., Ordnance Department, September Maj. Joseph M. Califf, Artillery Corps, May 20, 1904, vice 17, 1904, vice Shaler, promoted. Howe, promoted. To be majors: M:aj. Charles W. Hobbs, Artillery Corps, July 7, 1904, vice Capt Edwin B. Babbitt, Ordnance Department, August 25, Leary, appointed brigadier-general. 1904, vice Borup, retired from active service. To be majors. Capt. Ormond M. Ljssak, Ordnance Department, September Capt. Samuel N. Allen, Artillery Corps, May 20, 1904, vice 17, 1904, vice Rockwell, promoted. Califf, promoted. 30 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE. DECE1\1BER 6,

Capt Edwin St. J. Greble, Artillery Corps, October 7, 1904, First Lieut. Edward Croft, Nineteenth Infantry August 7 vice Wisser, detailed as inspector-general. 1904, vice Whitman, Second Infantry, deceased. ' ' Capt Frederick S. Strong, Artillery Corps, November 28, 1904, First Lieut. Adolphe H. Huguet, Twenty-second Infantry vice Alexander, resigned. August 24, 1904, vice Cranston, Seventeenth Infantry, detailed To be captains. as quartermaster.' First Li~ut. Edgar A. Macklin, Eleventh Infantry, September First Lieut. Jesse C. Nicholls, Artillery Corps, April 7, 1904, 28, ~904 '_J-Ce Berry, Tenth Infantry, detailed as quartermaster. vice Mcintyre, detailed as paymaster. First Lteut. Raymond Sheldon, Eighteenth Infanh'Y October First Lieut. Frank C. Jewell, Artillery Corps, May 20, 1904, 20, ~904, ~ice Hatch, Eighteenth Infant17, promoted. ' vice Allen, promoted. First Lteut. James D. · Taylor, jr., Twenty-sixth Infanh·y No­ First Lieut. Fred H. Gallup, Artillery Corps, July 7, 1904, vember 5, 1904, vice Shanks, Eighteenth Infantry promoted vice Alexander, promoted. First Lieut. Frank Halstead, 'J.'wenty-fourth Infantry No~em­ First Lieut. Herman W. Schull, Ordnance Department, Sep­ ber 5, 1904, vice Allaire, Twenty-third Infanti·y, promoted. tember 16, 1904, vice Hains, detailed as quartermaster. First Lieut. Henry B. Farrar, Artillery Corps, September 27, To be first lieutenants. 1904, vice SchulJ, detailed in the Ordnance Department. Lieut. Sherman A. White, Twenty-third Infanh·y April 7, First Lieut. Clifton C. Carter, Artillery Corps, October 7, 1904, vice Barnett, Thirteenth Infanh'Y, promoted. ' 1904, vice Greble, promoted. Second Lieut. Samuel C. Orchard Third Infantry April 7 First Lieut. Hem'Y B. Clark, Artillery Corps, November 28, 1004, vice ~haffer, Thirteenth Infanh-y, promoted. ' ' 1904, vice Strong, promoted. . Second .Lteut. Sydney Sl!lith, Sixteenth Infanh'Y, April 7, 1904, To be first lieutenants. VICe Curbs, Twenty-second Infanh·y, promoted. S~cond Lieut. David Y. Beckham, Artillery Corps, January S~ond Lieu~ 'Villi~m H. Clendenin, Seventeenth Infantry, 12, 1904., vice Covington, detailed in the Signal Corps. April 7, 1904, vice Mulltken, Twenty-ninth Infanh-y promoted. Second Lieut. Richard C. Marshall, jr., Artillery Corps, Janu­ Second Lieut. John M. Craig, Twelfth Infantry April 8 1904 ary 21, 1904, vice James, retired from active service. T"ice Clark, Thirteenth Infantry, promoted. ' ' ' Second Lieut. Morris E. Locke, Artillery Corps, January 21, Second Lieut. Harold S. Pearce, Tenth Infantry April 14 1904, vice Martindale, promoted. · 1904., vice Jordan, Eighteenth Infantry, promoted. ' ' Second Lieut. John 0. Steger, Artillery Corps, April 1, 190:1:, Second Lieut. John R. Kelly, Eighth Infanh·y April 14 1904 vice Kilbreth, promoted. vice Nixon, Second Infantry, promoted. ' ' ' Second Lieut. William W. Ballard, jr., Artillery Corps, April . Second Lieu~ William G. Bal~, Third Infantry, April 29, 1904, 7, 1904, vice Coleman, promoted. VICe McCue, Ftrst Infantry, retired from active service. Second Lieut. Rex Van Den Corput, Artillery Corps, April 7, Second ~ieut. Walter E. ~unster, Seventh Infantry, April 1904, vice Nicholls, promoted. 30, 1904., viCe Beacham, Twentieth Infantry, detailed in the Sig­ ' Second Lieut. James A. Thomas, Artillery Corps, May 17,1904, nal Corps. vice Mitchell, deceased. · Second Lieut. William R. Kendrick, Seventh Infantry April Second Lieut. John C. Ohnstad, Artillery Corps, May 20,1904, 30, 1904, vice Kent, Twenty-third Infantry, detailed in the Sig­ vice Jewell, promoted. - nal Corps. Second Lieut. Clarence M. Condon, Artillery Corps, June 17, Second Lieut Gouverneur V. Packer, Twenty-fourth Infantry 1904, vice Bowman, resigned. April 30, 1904, vice Butler, Second Infanh·y, detailed in the Sig: Second Lieut. James H. Bryson, Artillery Corps, July 1, 1904, nal Corps. Second Lieut. Horace F. Sykes, Twenty-fifth Infantry May vice Hillman, detailed in the Ordnance Department. 5, 1904, vice Carr, SeT"enteenth Infantry, promoted. ' Second Lieut. Curtis G. Rorebeck, Artillery Corps, July 3, 1904, Second Lieut. Oliver P. Robinson, Thirtieth Infantry May 8 vice Garber, deceased. Second Lieut. Roger 0. Mason, Artillery Corps, July 7, 1904, 1904., vice Woodruff, Seventeenth Infantry, killed in actlon. ' Second Lieut. George K. Wilson, Fifth Infantry, May 14 vice Gallup, promoted. Second Lieut. James D. Watson, Artiliery Corps, September 1, 1904, vice Mills, Seventh Infanti'Y, dismissed. ' Second Lieut. Robert B. McConnell, Twenty-fourth Infantry 1904., vice 'l'aylor, resigned. Second Lieut. Charles L. Fisher, Artillery Corps, September June 8, 1904, vice Gibson, Ninth Infauh·y, promoted. ' Seco~d Lieut. Louis B. Chandler, Thirtieth Infantry, June 9, 27, 1904, vice Farrar, promoted. 1904! VICe Macmanus, Twenty-fifth Infanh·y, retired from active Secm~d Lieut. Charles D. Winn, Artillery Corps, October 7, service. 1904, VICe Carter, promoted. Second Lieut. Gerrit Van S. Quackenbush, Seventeenth Infan­ Second Lieut. Harrie F. Reed, Artillery Corps, November 28, h·y, July 12, 1904, vice Bonnycastle, Twenty-third Infantry, 1904., vice Clark, promoted. promoted. INFANTBY ARM. Second Lieut. Sydney H. Hopson, Twenty-fourth Infantry To be colonel. August 7, 1904, vice Croft, Nineteenth Infantr-y, promoted. ' Lieut. Col. George Le R. Brown, Fourteenth Infantry, July Second Lieut. John H. Baker, Fourth Infantry, August 24. 12, 1904, vice Williams, Twenty-sixth Infanh'y-, appointed brig­ 1904, vice Huguet, Twenty-second Infantry, promoted. ' adier-general. Second Lieut. :Willi~m E. Gillmore, Fifteenth Infantry, Sep­ To be Zieutenant-colonels. tember 8, 1904., viCe Aiken, Twenty-eighth Infantr·y, resigned. Second Lieut. John C. Murphy, Fourth Infantry, September Maj. William W. Wotherspoon, Sixth Infantry, July 12, 1904, 15, 1904, vice Collins, Twenty-eighth Infantry, dismissed. vice Brown, Fourteenth Infantry, ·promoted. Second Lieut. William E. Persons, Twenty-seventh Infantry Maj. Charles W. Mason, Fourth Infanh'Y, November 5, 1904., September 28, 1904, vice Macklin, Eleventh Infantry, promoted: vice Ballance, Twenty-ninth Infantry, retired from active Second Lieut. James G. Taylor, Thirteenth Infantry October service. 20, 1904, vice Sheldon, Eighteenth Infantry, promoted. ' To be majm·s. Second Lieut H. Clay M. Supplee, Nineteenth Infantry No­ Capt. Omar Bundy, Sixth Infantry, July 12, 1904., vice Woth­ vember 5, 1904, vice Taylor, Twenty-sixth Infantry, promot~. erspoon, Sixth Infantry, promoted. Second Lieut. Alexander 1\f. Hall, Twenty-eighth Infantry Capt. Everard E. Hatch, Eighteenth Infantry, October 20, November 5, 1904, vice Halstead, Twenty-fourth Infantry, prO: 1904, vice Abbot, Twenty-fifth Infanh·y, retired from active rooted. service. APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY. Cap. David C. Shanks, Eighteenth Infantry, November 5, 1904, vice Mason, Fourtll Infantry, promoted. TO BE SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Capt. William II. Allaire, Twenty-third Infantry, November Oorps of Engineers. 5, 1904, vice Cowles, Twenty-fourth Infantry, retired from 1. Cadet Charles Roberts Pettis. active service. 2. Cadet William Dandridge Alexander Anderson. To be captains. 3. Cadet Ralph Talbot Ward. First Lieut. Irving J. Carr, Seventeenth Infantry, May 5, 4. Cadet John J ennings Kingman. 1904, vice Barber, 'l'wenty-eighth Infanh·y, who resigns his 5. Cadet Robert Phllip Howell, jr. line commission only. . 6. Cadet Henry Harris Robert. First Lieut. Easton R. Gibson, Ninth Infantry, June 8, 1904, 7. Cadet Joseph Haynsworth Earle. vice Wild, Thirteenth Infantry, deceased. . 8. Cadet Thomas Matthew Robins. First Lieut. Henry C. Bonnyca.stle, Twenty-third Infantry, 9. Cadet Roger Derby Black.

July 12, 1904, vice Bundy, Sixth Infantry1 promoted. 10. Cadet Theodore Harwood Dillon. 1904. CONGRESSIONA_L RECORD-. SENATE. 31

aavalrv Arm. 82. Cauet ·Thomas Leslie Crystal. 14. Cadet Vaughn Washington Cooper. 86. Cadet Arthur Dryhurst Budd. 22. Cadet Robert Charlwood Richardson, ·jr. 87. Cadet Raiph Rigby Glass. 24. Cadet Robert Madison Campbell. 88. Cadet Erie Martin Wilson. 28. Cadet George Veazey Strong. 89. Cadet Merrill Ellicott Spalding. 31. Cadet George Bowditch Hunter. 90. Cadet Jo eph James Grace. 46. Cadet Stanley Koch. ·92. Cadet John Donald B~nett, jr. 49. Cadet Harry Smith Berry. 93. Cadet Joseph Alexander McAndrew. 53. Cadet Stephen Clark 'Reynolds. 94. Cadet Robert Bail~y Hewitt 54. Cadet William Vaulx Carter. 96. Cadet William Fitzhugh Lee Simpson. 57. Cadet Henry Conger Pratt. 97. Cadet :Merrill ·Dole Wheeler. 64. Cadet Arthur James Davis. 98: Cadet Bernard Philip Oswalt. 66. Cadet Kinzie Bates Edmunds. 99. Cadet Richard Rembert Pickering. 75. Cadet Charles Sherman Hoyt. 100. Cadet Lowe Abeel McClure. 80. Cadet Henry Joseph Reilly. 103. Cadet Charles Frederick Conry. 83. Cadet James Joseph O'Hara. 104. Cadet Clement Hale Wright. 84. Cadet Albert Courtney Wimberly. 105. Cadet William Ross Scott. 85. Cadet William Stuart Dowd. · 108. Cadet William Washington Harris. 91. Cadet Roy Weber Holderness. 109. Cadet Harry Lincoln Simpson. 95. Cadet Henry Rodney Adair. 110. Cadet Napoleon William Riley. 101. Cadet James Scott Greene. 111. Cadet Otto Ludwick Brunzell. 102. Cadet Gerald Clark Brant. 112. Cadet George Carson Law'rason. 106. Cadet Winn Blair. 113. Cadet Robert Pattison Harbold. 107. Cadet Eugene Victor Armstrong. 114. Cadet James Barton Woolnough. 115. Cadet Innis Palmer Swift. 116. Cadet Joseph Dodge Park. 117. Cadet Arthur Harrison .Wilson. Artt'lle-ry Oorps. 118. Cadet Walter Scott Fulton. 11. Cadet Lesley James McNair. 119. Cadet John Jay Moller. 12. Cadet Charles Russell Alley. 120. Cadet Sherburne Whipple. 15. Cadet Chauncey Lee Fenton. 121. Cadet Harry Hawley. 16. Cadet Lucian Barclay Moody. 122. Cadet Thomas Norton Gimperling. 17. Cadet George R. Allin. 123. Cadet Hugh Lawson Walthall. 18. Cadet Pelham Davis Glassford. 124. Cadet John Buchanan Richardson. 19. Cadet William Bryden. 20. Cadet Donald Cowan McDonald. APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY. 21. Cadet Fulton Quintus Cincinnatus Gardner. INFANTRY ARM. 23. Cadet Francis Webster Honeycutt. To be second lieutenants with rank from, June 9, 190!. 25. Cadet John William McKie. Edgar Zell Steever, third, of Pennsylvania. 27. Cadet Philip Henry Worcester. Hornsby Evans, at large. 29. Cadet Charles School Blakely: Harry Leonard Morse, of Massachusetts. 30. Cadet Charles Thomas Smart. Charles Bean Amory, jr., of Massachusetts. 33. Cadet .Robert Melville Danford. Walter Goodwin, jr:, of Connecticut 34. Cadet James Brownrigg Dillard. Philip Bradley Peyton, of Virginia. 35. Cadet Leo Paul Quinn. Karl Truesdell, of Vh·ginia. 37. Cadet Quincy Adams G1llmore. Frederick Brahan Terrell, of Texas. 38. Cadet James Kerr Crain. Howard Granville Sharpe, of Colorado. 39. Cadet Edmund Louis ·Gruber. Mark Lorin Ireland, of Michigan. 40. ·Cadet Carr Wilson Waller. David Hunter Scott, of New Jersey. 42. Cadet David McCandless McKell. Charles Avery Dravo, of Pennsylvania. 43. Cadet Matthew Arthur Cross. 45. Cadet Albert Howell Barkley. With ranlc from September 1, 1904. 48. Cadet Carroll Wilder Neal. William C. F. Nicholson, at large. 52. Cadet Walter Singles. With rank f'rom No'l./ember 13, 1904. 58. Cadet Donald Cameron Cubbison. 61. Cadet Rollo Fred Anderaon. Allan Rawson Williams, of Vermont. 70. Cadet Edward Ellis Farnsworth. With rank (1·om Nove-mber 14, 1904. 78. Cadet Jacob Arthur Mack. Loren Chester Grieves, of Michigan. lnfant1·y Arm,, With. rank from No-vember 15, 1904. 13. Cadet James Garfield Mcilroy. Aristides Moreno, of Alabama (late first lieutenant Porto 26. Cadet Jay Leland Benedict. Rico ~rovisional Regiment of Infantry). ' 32. Cadet Joseph Warren StilwelL W-ith rank f1'0m November 16, 1904. 36. Cadet Arthur Wood Copp. 41. Cadet Richard James Herman. Richard Daspit LaGarde, of the District of Columbia. 44. Cadet Edward Lorenzo Hooper. 'APPOINTMENTS BY TRANSFER. 47. Cadet Irving Joseph Phillipson. CAVALRY ARM. 50. Cadet Edmund Bristol Gregory. 51. Cadet Wilber Alexander Blain. Second Lieut. Joseph Dodge Park, Twenty-fourth Infantry, 13 1904 55. Cadet Robert Burns Parker. from the Infantry Arm to the Cavalry Arm September 56. Cadet Gordon Rives Catts. with rank from Jnne 15, 1904. ' ' ' 59. Cadet Christopher Jensvold. Second Lieut Arthur Harrison Wilson, Sixth Infantry, from GO. Cadet Ursa Milner Diller. the Infantry Arm to the Cavalry Arm, September ·13, 1904, with 62. Cadet Edwin Butcher. rank from June 15, 1904. • 63. Cadet Russell Vernon Venable. INFANTRY ARM. 65. Cadet Roderick Dew. Second Lieut. Charles L. Silcox, Artillery Corps from the 67. Cadet Martin Christian Wise. Artillery Corps to the. Infantry Arm, November 19, '1904, with 68. Cadet Andrew Jackson White. rank from November 19, 1904. 69. ()adet Walter Scott Drysdale. PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY. 71. Cadet Ralph Dickinson. INFANTRY ARM. 72. Cadet Riley Estel Scott. . To "be second lieu-tenant with rank from June 25, 1904. 73. Cadet Charles Andrew Meals. 74. Cadet Matthew Henry Thomlinson. Battalion Sergt Maj. Anton Cresar Cron, Twenty-seventh 76. Cadet Horatio Balch Hackett, jr. Infantry. 77. Cadet Joseph Alexander Atkins. To be second lieutenants with rank tmm October 5, 1904. 79. Cadet Charles Fullington Thompson. . Corpl. George W. Edgerly, Fifty-first Company, Coast Artil· 81. Cadet Augustus Bissell Van Wormer. Iery. 32 CONGRESSIONAL REOORD- SENATE. DECEMBER 6,

Corpl. Oscar W. Hoop, Company C, Twelfth Infantry. Edwin J. Griffith, late captain, Porto Rico Provisional Regi- Private John Clark Moore, Troop I, Fifth Cavalry. ment of Infantry. . Sergt William F. Pearson, Twenty-eighth Battery, Field Frank L. Graham, late captain, Porto Rico Provisional Regi­ Artillery. . ment of Infantry. Battalion Sergt Maj. James Alexander Ulio, Second Infantry. To be fi'rst lieutenants, with rank fro·nr, Jttly 1, 190ft.. Battalion Sergt Maj. Frank Moorman, First Infantry. Emil J. Huebscher, late first lieutenant, Porto Rico Provi- Sergt Harry H. Bissell, Forty-eighth Company, Coast Artil- sional Regiment of Infantry. . lery. . Sergt. Charles B. Elliott, Troop M, Eleventh Cavalry. Ralph E. Gambell, late first lieutenant, Porto Rico Provisional Quartermaster Sergt. John B. Corbly, Troop D, Fifth Cavalry. Regiment of Infantry. . · . ~tewart 1\~cC. Decker, late first lieutenant, Porto Rico Pro­ First Sei.·gt. Fitzhugh Lee Minnigerode, Troop F, Twelfth, Cav- VISIOnal RegiiDent of Infantry. alry. Miles K. Taulbee, late first lieutenant, Porto Rico Provisional Sergt. Joseph L. Topham, jr., Company G, Sixth Infantry. . Regiment of Infantry. Battalion Sergt. Maj. Charles L. Sampson, Si.xth Infantry. E'rank C. Wood, late first lieutenant, Porto Rico Provisional Battalion Sergt Maj. John M. True, Eleventh Infantry. Regiment of Infantry. . Private Bruce R. Campbell, Troop H, Fourth Cavalry. Aristides Moreno, late first lieutenant, Porto Rico Provisional Sergt John C. French, Troop I, Eleventh Cavalry. Regiment of Infantry. · First Sergt Benjamin B. McCroskey, Troop B, Fifteenth Cav- William L. Patterson, late first lieutenant, Porto Rico Pro­ alry. . visional Regiment of Infantry. Sergt. John W. Downer, Thirteenth Company, Coast Artil- Richard H. Poillon, jr., late first lieutenant Porto Rico Pro- lery. . visional Regiment of Infantry. ' Sergt. James H. Van Horn, Company G, Twenty-ninth Infan- . 'Jilliam S: Woodruff, late first lieutenant, Porto Rico Pro- try. VISional Regiment of Infantry. · First-Class Sergt. John B. ·De Lancey, Signal Corps. Laurance Angel, late first lieutenant, Porto Rico Provisional CorpJ. Qassius 1\I. Dowell, Company C, Seventeenth Infantry. Regiment of Infantry. First-Class Sergt. Marvin E. Malloy, Hospital Corps. Corp!. Albert B. Kaempfer, Company H, Sixteenth Infantry. To be second lieutenants, with rank from July 1, 1904. . Master Electrician Forrest E. Overholser, Artillery Corps. William H. Armstrong, late second lieutenant Porto Rico Cor11l. Charles Winder Mason, jr., Company I, Fourth Infan- Provisional Regiment of Infantry. ' try. Abram I. Miller, late second lieutenant, Porto Rico Provi­ APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY. sional Regiment of Infantry. Frank Stephenson, late second lieutenant, Porto Rico Provl· MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. sional Regiment of Infantry. To be assistant su'rgeons with 'rank of first lieutenant with rank Frank F. Harding, late second lieutenant, Porto Rico Provi· f'rom May 19, 1904. sional Regiment of Infantry. Harold William Cowper (late captain, assistant surgeon, Samuel S. Bryant, late second lieutenant, Porto Rico Provl· United States Volunteers), of New York. sional Regiment of Infantry. · William Robert Davis (late captain, assistant surgeon, United PROMOTIONS I!li THE PORTO RICO PROVISIONAL REGIMENT OF States Volunteers), of Virginia. INFANTRY. Leartus Jerauld Owen, of Indiana. Stanley Gustav Zinke, of Ohio. To be captains, 10ith ranlc ft·om July 1, 1904. Robert Martin Culler, of Pennsylvania. F~rst L!eut. Emil J. IIuebscher, vice Hamilton, discharged. Frank Watkins Weed, of Maryland. Ftrst L1eut Ralph E. Gambell, vice Kerney, discharged. .William Anderson Wickline, of Montana. F~r t L~eut St~wart .1\IcC. Decker, vice Wuttke, discharged. With rank t1·om July 8, 1904. F1rst Lieut. Miles K. Taulbee, vice Broome, discharged. Henry Levi Brown, of Illinois. . . To be first lieutenants, with rank from July 1, 1'904. Howard Houghton Baily, of the District of Columbia. Second Lieut. Willam H. Armstrong, vice Huebscher, pro· Harry Gass Humphreys, of Pennsylvania, rooted. . Paul Lamar Freeman, of the District of Columbia. Second Lieut. Abram I. Miller, vice Gambell, promoted. Second Lieut. Frank Stephenson, vice Decker, promoted. MILITARY SECRETARY'S DEPART:MENT. Second Lieut Frank F. Harding, vice Taulbee, promoted. Edward S. Fowler (late major, additional paymaster, United States Volunteers), of New York, to be Assistant Chief of the APPOINTME JTS IN THE PORTO RICO PROVISIONAL REGIMENT Oll' Record and Pension Office, with rank of major from August 1, INFANTRY. 1904, vice Barber, retired from active service. To be second lieutenant, with rank from July 1, 1904. Ohaplain. Jaime Nadal, of Porto Rico. John E. Dallam, of 1\Iinnesota, to be chaplain with the rank POSTMASTER-GENERAL. of first lieutenant from July 14, 1904. Robert J. 'Vynne, of Pennsylva.nia, . lately First Assistant PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY. Postmaster-General, to be Postmaster-General of the United States, to which office he was appointed during the last recess CHAPLAINS. of the Senate, -rice Henry C. Payne, deceased. Chaplain Allen Allensworth, Twenty-fourth Infantry, to be POSTMASTERS. chaplain with the rank of major, June 14, 1904. Chaplain Henry Swift, Thirteenth Infantry, to be chaplain ALABAMA.. with the rank of major, June 14, 1904. James A. Chambliss to be postmaster at Enterprise, in the Chaplain Charles C. Pierce, Artillery Corps, to be chaplain county of Coffee and State of Alabama. Office became Presi­ with the rank of major, June 14, 1904. . dential October 1, 1904. · Chaplain Edward J. Vattmann (since retired from active serv­ Hugh R. Duggan to be postmaster at Florala, in the county ice), Eleventh Cavalry, to be chaplain with the rank of major, of Covington and State of Al:ibama. Office became Presidential June 14, 1904. October 1, 1904. Chaplain George Robinson, Firs.t Infantry, to be chaplain l\Iay T. Fowler to be postmaster at Uniontown, in the county with the rank of major, November 19, 1904. of Perry and State of Alabama, in place of Theophilus G. Fowler, resigned. · PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AT THE MILITARY ACADEMY. Robert w. Frazier to be postmaster at Fort Payne, in the Capt. Charles P. Echols, associate professor of mathematics, county of De Kalb and Sta~e of Alabama, in place of Ella G. to be professor of mathematics at the Military Academy, with Nix. Incumbent's commission expired February 19, 1904. rank from June 29, 1904, vice Edgerton, deceased. George W. Russell to be postmaster at Eufaula, in the county of Barbour and State of Alabama, in place of Andrew J. Locke, REAPPOINTMENTS IN THE PORTO RICO PROVISIONAL REGIMENT OF deceased. INFANTRY. Sylvanus L. Sherrill to be postmaster at Hartsells, in the To be captains, tvith rank from July 1, 1904. county of 1\lorgan and State of Alabama. Office became Presi­ Orval P. Townshend, late captain, Porto Rico Provisional dential January 1, 1904. Regiment of Infantry. Thomas H. Stephens to be postmaster at Gadsden, in the John U. Field, late captain, Porto Rico Provisional Regi­ county of Etowah and State of Alabama, in place of Walter S. ment of Infantry. Standifer, removed. 1904. - I CONGRESSIONAL-REOORD-SENATE. 33

John Sutterer to. be postmaster at Cullman, 1n the county of o! Jefferson and State of Georgia. Office became Presidential Cullman and State of Alabama, in place of Lorena Hays. In­ October 1, 1904. cumbent's commission expired January 17, 1904. · Helen D. Longstreet to be postmaster at Gainesville, in the John X. Thomas to be postmaster at Pratt City, in the county county of Hall and State of Georgia, in place of Henry P. of Jefferson and State of Alabama, in place of Andrew J. Farrow, removed. Prince, resigned. Isaac A. Smith to be postmaster at Tennille, in the county of Byron Trammell to be postmaster at Dothan, in the county Washington and State of Georgia, in place of Isaac A. Smith. of Houston and State of Alabama, in place of William W. Incumbent's commission expired January 25, 1904. Mi1likin, deceased. Walter C. Terrell to be postmaster at Ocilla, in the county of ARKANSAS. Irwin and State of Georgia. Office became Presidential Octa. H. F. Butler t

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Charles Q. "\Vballon to be postmaster at Newman, in the county county of Barton and State of KaDBas, in place of John Typer, of Douglas and State of Illinois, in place of Charles Q. Whallon. deceased. Incumbent's commission expired March 16, 1904. John T. Walthall to be postmaster at Osawatomie, in the Frederick R. Young to be postmaster at Metropolis, in the county o:f Miami and State of Kansas, in place of Charles C. county of Massac and State· of Illinois, in place of William H. Clevenger. Incumbent's commission expired December 21, 1902. Kraper, deceased. KENTUCKY. INDIANA. Daniel O'Riley to be postmaster at Leitchfield, in the councy Solomon C. Dickey to be postmaster at Winona Lake, in the of Grayson and State of Kentucky, in place of Daniel O'Riley. county of Kosciusko and State _of Indiana. Office became Presi­ Incumbent's commission expired January 23, 1904. dential July 1, 1004:. Th9mas C. Taylor to be postmaster at Campbellsville, in the Charles E. Hill trom to be postmaster at Chesterton, in the county of Taylor and State of Kentucky, in place o:f William county of Porter and State of Indiana. Office became Presi­ Hobson. IncUmbent's commission expired January 23, 1904. dential October 1, 1904. Jonas Grossnickle to be postmaster at North Manchester, in LOUISIANA. the county of Wabash and State of Indiana, in place of George Edward I. Hall to be postmaster at Jenning , in the parish of R. Craft, resigned. Calcasieu and State of Louisia:ta, in place of Horace S. Ferree, James 0. Murray to be postmaster at Parker, in the county removed. of Randolph and State of Indiana. Office became Presidential Ernest Morgan to be postmaster at New Roads, in the parish October 1, 1904. · of Pointe Coupee and State of Louisiana. Office became Presi­ Mary Ann Ross to be postmaster at East Chicago, in the dential 'October 1, 1903. county of Lake and State of Indiana, in place of Robert Ross, John F. Terrio to be postmaster at Donaldsonville, in the par­ deceased. · ish of Ascension and State of Louisiana, in place of David INDIAN TERRITORY. Israel. Incumbent's commission expired May 28, 1904. Pinckney Weaks to be postmaster at l\Ionroe, in the parish o:f John B. Jones to be postmaster at Lehigh, in di trict 2-3, In­ Ouachita and State of Louisiana, in place of Hem·y C. Ray, dian Territory, in place of John B. Jones. Incumbent's com­ removed. mis: ion expires December 20, 1904. MA.h'm. F. L. Mcinnis to be postmaster at Coalgate, district 29, In­ dian Tenitory, in place of \Valter S. l\Iellor, resigned. Freeman D. Dearth to be postmaster at Dexter, in the county Olin W. Meacham to be postmaster at Henryetta, in district of Penobscot and State of Maine, in place of Freeman D. 9, Indian Territory. Office became Presidential October 1, 1904. Dearth. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. Montrose E. Hill to be postmaster at Old Orchard, in the IOWA. county of York and State of Maine, in place o:f Montrose E. Carlos G. Aldrich to be postmaster at Schaller, in the county Hill. Incumbent's commission expires December 20, 1904. of Sac and State of Iowa, in place of George S. Crandall. In­ George D. Libby to be postmaster at Gardiner, in the county cumbent's commission expired January 17, 1904. of Kennebec and State of Maine, in place of George D. Libby. Edgar 0. Beanblossom to be postmaster at Whiting, in the Incumbent's commission expired May 26, 1904. county of Monona and State of Iowa, in place of Robert Whit­ Jenny N. Paine to be postmaster at Eastport, in the county of tier, resigned. Washington and State of Maine, in place of Charles A. Paine, Edmund B. Booher to be postmaster at Anthon, in the county deceased. of Woodbury and State of Iowa • .Office became Presidential Charles F. Plumly to be postmaster at Lincoln, in' tile county October 1, 1f104. . of Penob cot and State of Maine. Office became Presidential John Buchanan to be postmaster at Eagle Grove, in the October 1, 1904. county of Wright and State of Iowa, in place of John Buchanan. MARYLAND. Incumbent's commission expires December 20, 1904. Jesse West to be postmaster at Northeast, in the county o:f George K. Covert to be postmaster at Vinton, in the county of Cecil and State of Maryland. Office became Presidential July Benton and State of Iowa, in place of George K. Covert. In­ 1, 1904. cumtent's commis ion expires December 10, 1904. MASSACHUSETTS. · Luder D. Eilers to be postmaster at George, in the county of Samuel Atwell to be postmaster at Kingston, in the county of Lyon and State of Iowa. Office became Presidential April l, Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, in place 'of George H. 1904. . Bonney, jr., removed. John ll. D. Gray to be postmaster at Wall Lake, in the county Charles E. Brady to be postmaster at Sandwich, in the' county of Sac and State of Iowa, in place of Leander N. Turner. In­ of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts, in place of Charles CU1llbent's commission expired May 4, 1904. E. Brady. Incumbent's commission expired May 26, 1904. Lincoln Hall to be postmaster at Burt, in the county of Kos­ Albert B. Dresser to be postmaster at Needham, in the county suth and State of iowa. Office became Presidential October 1, of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, in place · of Albert B! 1904. Dresser. In-cumbent's commis ion expired Jun.e 5, 1904. · Albert C. Hotchkiss to be postmaster at Adel, in the county of Asa B. Fay to be postmaster at Northboro, in the county o:f Dallas and State of Iowa, in place of Charles C. Pugh, removed. Worce ter and State of Massachusetts, in place of Asa B. Fay. Ralph M. Potter to be po tmaster at Rockford, in the county Incumbent's commission expired March 20, 1904. of Floyd and State of Iowa, in place of Ralph M. Potter. In­ Howard K. Sanderson to be postmaster at Lynn, in the county clllll.bent's commission expired May 4, 1904. of Es ex and State of :Massachusetts, in place of Hpward K. Reuben F. Plice to be postmaster at Milford, in the county of Sander on. Incumbent's commission expired May 17, 1904. • Dickinson and State of Iowa, in place of Reuben F. Price. Joseph C. Sheehan to be postmaster at East Bridgewater, in Incumbent's coDllllission expires December 20, 1904. the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, in place of Charles U. Reed to be postmaster at Cumberland, i~ the Edmund W. Nutter, deceased. county of Cass and State of Iowa. Office became Presidential Charles J. Shepard to be postmaster at Waltham, ln the January 1, 1904. county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, in place of KANSAS. Charles J. Shepard. Incumbent's commission expired June 6, Edwin J. Bookwalter to be postmaster at Halstead, in the 1904. . county of Harvey and State of Kapsas, in ·place of Scudder H. Elmer Standley to be postmaster at Beverly Farms, in the , Trego. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. county of Essex and State of Massachusetts. Office became Orlando A. Cheney to be postmaster at Fort Scott, in the Presidential July 1, 1904. county of Bourbon and State of Kansas, in place of. Eldon David D. Streeter to be postmaster at Mount Hermon, in the Lowe, resigned. ·county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts. Office became Charles W. Hawes to be postmaster at Augusta, in the Presidential October 1, 1904. county of Butler and State of Kansas, in place of Harvey D. Susan F. Twi.,s to be postmaster at Three Rivers, ln the Hill resigned. county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, in place of Frunk S. McKelvey to be postmaster at Gas, in the county of Edward F. Shaw, removed. Allen and State of Kansas. Office became Presidential April Fred D. Walker to be postmaster at Belchertown, in the 1, 1904. county of Hampshire and State (\f Massachusetts. Office became John F. Price to be postmaster at Cherokee, in tbe county of Presidential October 1, 1904. Crawford and State of Kansas, in place of Russel W. Branson, .Marie E. White to be postmaster at South Hadley, ln the resigned. county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, in place of Warren D. Vincent to be postmaster at Hoisington, in the Thomas White, deceased.

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MICHIGAN. Charles Ferguson to be postmaster at Willow Springs, in the Charles 1\f. Butler to be postmaster at Morenci, in the county county of Howell and State of Missouri, in place of David B. of Lenawee and State of Michigan, in place of -Abram Babcock, Hobson, removed. resigned. ·william R. Lewis, to be postmaster at Eiaorado Springs, in Theron D. Childs to be postmaster at Three Oaks, in the the county of Cedar and State of Missouri, in place of William county of Berrien and State of Michigan, in place of Henry L. B. Lewis, deceased. Hess, resigned. lola W. 1\forsey to be postmaster at Warrenton, in the county William T. Hosner to be postmaster at Romeo, in the county of Warren and State of Missouri, in place of Thomas 1\.I. Mor­ of Macomb and · State of Michigan, in place of William T. sey, deceased. Hosner. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. MONTANA. Frank A. Kenyon to be postmaster at East Jordan, in the Arthur G. Foster to be postm.aster at Columbia Falls, in the county of Charlevoix and State of Michigan, in place of William county of Flathead and State of 1\Iontana. Office became Presi­ Harrington, resigned. ~ dential July 1, 1904: Richard E. MacLean to be postmaster at \Veils, in the county NEBRASKA. of Delta and State of Michigan. Office became Pr~sidentiul William H. Austin to be postmaster at Franklin, in the October 1, 1904. county of Franklin and State of Nebraska, in place of William William C. Mertz to be postmaster at St. Charles, in the H. Austin. Incumbents commission expires December 20, 1904. county of Saginaw and State of Michigan, in place of William John F. Diener to be postmaster at Syracuse, in the county of C. Mertz. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. Otoe and State of Nebraska; in place of John F. Diener. In­ Maynard Palmer to be postmaster at River Rouge, in the cumbent's commission expired May 28, 1904. county of Wayne and State of Michigan. Office became Pr~si­ Augustine A. Hyers to be postmaster at Havelock, in the dential July 1, 1904. county of Lancaster and State of Nebraska. Office became Pres­ Louis H. Tovatt to be postmaster at Standish; in the county idential October 1, 1904. of Arenac and State of .Michigan, in place of Louis H. Tovatt. Fay Whitfield to be postmaster at Peru. in the county of Ne­ Incumbent's commission expired April 27, 190-1. maha and State of Nebraska, in place of Henry H. Whitfield. Herman A. Wyckoff to be postmaster at Pontiac, in the county Incumbent's commission expired March 20, 1904. of Oakland and State of Michigan, in place of Herman A. Wyc­ NEVADA. koff. Incumbent's commission expires December 20, 1904. Samuel G. Anderson to be postmaster at Winnemucca, in the MI:NNESOTA. county of Humboldt and State of Nevada, in place of Samuel G. William B. Anderson to be P.ostmaster at Hopkins, in the Anderson. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. £ounty of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, in place of William NEW HAMPSHIRE. B. Anderson. Incumbent's commission expires December 20, John H. Brown to be postmaster at Concord, in the county of 1904. . Merrimac and State of New Hampshire, in place ·of George A. Frank R. Coughran to be postmaster at Worthington, in the YOlmg, deceased. county of Nobles and State of Minnesota, in place of Frank R. Mary V. Cheney to be postmaster at Lebanon, in the county of Coughran. Incumbent's commission expired January 10, 1902. Grafton and State of New Hampshire, in place of Charles 0. Marion G. Crawford to be postmaster at Lakefield, in the Hurlbutt, deceased. county of Jackson and State of Minnesota, in place of John Leon F. Sampson to be postmaster at Hanover, in the county Crawford, deceased. of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, in place of George D. James M. Diment to be postmaster at Owatonna, in the county Smull. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. of Steele and State of Minnesota, in place of James M. Diment. NEW JERSEY. Incumbent's commission expired May 28, 1904. Richard A. Applegate to be postmaster at Alpha, in the county Fredric M. Grinnell to be postmaster at 'Vinnebago City, in of Warren and State of New Jersey. Office became Presidential the county of Faribault and State of Minnesota, in place of April 1, 1903. Lemmon G. Beebe, resigned. Frederick P. Baker to be postmaster at Millington, in the John R. James to be postmaster at Virginia, in the county county of Morris and State of New Jersey, in place of Abram of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, in place of Eva Demgen, D. Runyon. Incumbent's commission expire~ December 10, deceased. 1004. . Andrew R. McGill to be postmaster at St. Paul, in the county Thomas Graham to be postmaster at Point Pleasant, in the of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, in place of Andrew R. county of ·ocean and State of New Jersey, in place of Thomas McGill. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. Grallam. Incumbent's commission expires December 10, 1904. Elias Steenerson to be· postmaster at Crookston, in the county Guido C. Hinchman to be postmaster at Dover, in the county of Polk and State of Minnesota, in place of Andrew Eiken, of Morris and State of New Jersey, in place of Guido (-::. Hinch­ removed. man. Incumbent's commission expires December 20, 1904. Benjamin D. Underwood to be postmaster at Fergus Falls, William F. Williams to be postmaster at Cape .May, in the in the county of Ottertail and State of Minnesota, in place of county of Cape May and State of New Jersey, in place of Walter Benjamin D. Underwood. Incumbent's commission expired S. Learning, deceased. June 5, 1904. !'\EW MEXICO. MISSISSIPPI. Robert Kellahin to be postmaster at Roswell, in the county of Samuel R. Braselton to be postmaster at Gulfport, in the Chaves and Territory of New Mexico, in place of Jacob B. county of Harrison and State of Mississippi, in place of Thomas Mathews, deceased. A. Cleary, remo\ed. Edward Pennington to.be postmaster at Deming, in the county Fannie Hillerman to be postmaster at Kosciusko, in the of Luna and TerritorY: of New Mexico, in place of Rodney G. county of Attala and State of Mississippi, in place of Aaron M. Clark, resigned. Storer, resigned. NEW YORK. Samuel M. Ho"•ry to be postmaster at Oxford, in the county Arthur C. Agan to be postmaster at Fayetteville, in the county of Lafayette and State of Mississippi, in place of Elizabeth S. of Onondaga and State of New York, in place of Arthur C. Pierce. Incumbent's commission expired 1\fay 24, 1904. Agan. Incumbent's commission expires l)ecemiJer 20, 1904. A. T. Leggett to be postmaster at Magnolia, in the county of N. Austin Baker to be postmaster at Salem, in the county of Pike and State of Mississippi, in place of Sarah K. Travis, re­ Wasllington and State of New York, in place of R. A. Cruik­ moyed. shank. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. Nannie B. Richardson to be postmaster at Woodville, in the George W. Belton to be postmaster at Whitestone, in the county of Wilkinson and State of Mississippi, in place of Nannie county of Queens and State of New York, in place of George w. B. Richardson. Incumbent's commission expired May 24. 1904. Belton. Incumbent's commission expires December 20, 1904. Augustus S. Weigert to be postmaster at Grenada, in the Dana Brasted to be postmaster at Westport, in the county of Essex and State of New York. Office became Presidential July county of Grenada and State of Mississippi, in place of Jennie 1, 1904. T ..Mister, resigned. · Robert P. Brown to be postmaster at West New Brighton, in MISSOURI. the county of Richmond and State of New York, in place of Robert A. Booth to be postmaster at Buffalo, in the county of Robert P. Brown. Incumbent's commission expires December ·Dallas and State of Missouri. Office became Presidential Octo­ 20; 1904. . ber 1, 1904. William T. Chapman to be postmaster at Pawling, in the William Bostian to be postmaster at Independence, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, in place of William county of Jackson and State of Missouri, in place of William T. Chapman. Incumbent's commission expires December 10, Bostian. Incumbent's commission expires December 10, 1904. 1904. 36 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DEOE~fBER -6,

Jail'Us S. Chase to be postmaster at Windsor, in the county Tarlington B. Carson to be postmaster at New Washington, of Broome and State of New York. Office became Presidential in the county of Crawford and State of Ohio. Office became July 1, 1904. Presidential July 1, 1904. Delevan C. Ford to be postmaster at Mohawk, in the county William E. Chapple to be postmaster at Sylvania, in the of Herkimer and State of New York, in place of Delevan C. county of Lucas and State of Ohio. Office became Presidential Ford. Incumbents commission expired December 13, 1903. October 1, 1904. John J. Gethins to be postmaster at Victorhill, in the county William A. Coble to be postmaster at Delphos, in the county of Erie and State of New York, in place of Aloysius McArdle, of Allen and' State of Ohio, in place of William A. Coble. In­ removed. cumbent's commission expired March 20, 1004. Elmer A. Johnson to be postmaster at Wilson, in the county Milton B. Dickerson to be postmaster at Marion, in the county of Niagara and State of New York. Office became Presidential of Marion and State of Ohio, in place of James B. Fisher, re­ July 1, 1904. signed. Frank H. Johnson to be postmaster at lnterlakin (late Walter Elliott to be postmaster at Ada, in the county of Farmer), in the county of Seneca and State of New York, in Bardin and State of Ohio, in place of Walter Elliott. Incum­ place of Frank H. Johnson, to change name of office. bent's commission expired June 5, 1904. Kathryn C. M. McGrath to be postmaster at New Lebanon, in Hattie A. Huffman to be postmaster at Bradner, in the county the county of Columbia and State of New York, in _place of of Wood and State of Ohio. Office became Presidential October John H. McGrath, "deceased. 1, 1904. Samuel P. Poole to be postmaster at Hicksville, in the county Thomas M. Irwin to be postmaster at Fairport Harbor, in of Nassau and State of New York, in place of August Hauser, the county of Lake and State ·of Ohio. Office became Presi­ removed. • dential July 1, 1904. Herbert J. Rouse to be postmaster at Cazenovia, in the coilnty Thomas L. Knauf to be postmaster at Calla, in the county of of Madison and State of New York, in place of Herbert J. 1\lahoning and State of Ohio, in place of Wilbur W. Templin, Rouse. Incumbent's commission expired May 28, 1904. resigned. Albert P. Seaton to be postmaster at New Hartford, in the Henry M. Larkins to be postmaster at Sebring, in the county county of Oneida and State of New York, in place of Albert of Maboning and State of Ohio, _in place of Allen El. Albright, P. Seaton. Incumbent's commission expired January 10, 1002. resigned. William A. Serven to · be postmaster at Pearl River, in the William T. Marshall to be postmaster at Pleasant Hill, in the county of Rockland and State of New York. Office became county of Miami and State of Ohio. Office became Presidential Presidential July 1, 1904. January 1, 1904. Isaac W. Sherrill to be postmaster at Poughkeepsie, in the El. Calvin Miller to be postmaster at New Carlisle, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, in place of Isaac W. county of Clark and State of Ohio, in place of El. Calvin Miller. Sherrill. Incumbent's commission expires December 10, 190-1. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. Daniel Smiley to be postmaster at Mohonk Lake, in the county Ward B. Petty to be postmaster at Sycamore, in the county of Ulster and State of New York. Office became Presidential of Wyandot and State of Ohio, in place of Harry W. Hawkins, July 1, 1904. removed. Edward L. Ware to be postmaster at Lake Placid, in the county Theodore Totten to be postmaster at Findlay, in the county of Essex and State of New York. Office became Presidential of Hancock and State of Ohio, in place of Jacob H. Boger, July 1, 1904. remov-e4. Earl L. Whiting to be postmaster at Delevan, in the county OKLAHO::IIA. of Cattaraugus and State of New York. Office became Presi­ Edwin F. Korns to be postmaster at Newkirk, in the county dential July 1, 1904. of Kay and Territory of Oklahoma, in place of Marshall Lam­ 'William R. Willcox to be postmaster at New York, in the bert, resigned. county of New York and State of New York, in place of Cor­ J. Ed Van Matre to be postmaster at Altus (late Leger), in nelius Van Cott, deceased. the county of Greer and Territory of Oklahoma, in place of NORTH CAROLINA, J. Ed Van :Matre, to change name of office. Erwin Q. Houston to be postmaster at Davidson, in the county V. W. Whiting to be postmaster at Enid, in the county of of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina. Office became Garfield and Territory of Oklahoma, in place of Frank Frantz, Presidential January 1, 1904. resigned. Eugene C. Kapp to be postmaster at Mount Airy, in the OREGON. county of Surry and State of North Carolina, in place of Richard August H. Bender to be postmaster at Myrtle Point, in the K. Marshall. Incumbent's commission expired May 6, 1902. county of Coos and State of Oregon. Office became Presidential William A. Lloyd to be postmaster at Chapel Hill, in the July~ 1904. · county of Orange and State of North Carolina, in place of Her­ William M. Brown to be postmaster at Lebanon, in the bert Lloyd. Incumbent's commission expired March 31, 1904. county of Linn and State of Oregon, in place of John R. Smith. James D. Parker to be postmaster at Smithfield, in the Incumbent's commission expired January 23, 1904. county of Johnston and State of North Carolina, in place of John W. Minto to be postmaster at Portland, in the county John D. Massey, deceased. of Multnomah and State of Oregon, in place of Fred A. Ban ~ Robert P. Reinhardt to be postmaster at Newton, in the croft, resigned. county of Catawba and State of North Carolina, in place of Charles \V. Parks to be postmaster at Roseburg, in the county Robert P. Caldwell. Incumbent's commission expired February of Douglas and State of Oregon, in place of William A. Frater. Incumbent's commis ion expired March 9, 1902. 5, 1904. NORTH DAKOTA. PENNSYLVANIA. James M. Bunker to be postmaster at Ellendale, in the county Thomas D. Alexander to be postmaster at Oxford, in the of Dickey and State of North Dakota, in place of Thomas W. county of Chester and State of Pennsylvania, in place of Sam­ Millham, deceased. uel E. Worth, removed. Maggie Fox to be postmaster at Michigan, in the county of Andrew C. Allison to be postmaster at llliffiintown, In the Nel on and State of North Dakota. Office became Presidential co1mty of Juniata and State of Penruiylva.nia, in place of An­ October 1, 1904. drew C. Allison. Incumbent's commission expired January 31, Edwin Sims to be postmaster at Omemee, in the county of 1903. Bottineau and State of North Dakota. Office became Presi­ Abraham F. Berkey to be postmaster at Windber, in the dential October 1, 1904. county of Somerset and State of Pennsylvania, in place of Thomas Wilkinson to be postmaster at Mandan, in the county William 'f. Geddes, removed. of Morton and State of North Dakota, in place of Richard H. Charle "r. Bugh to be postmaster at Hughesville, in the Smith, deceased. county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, in place of OHIO. Peter M. ~ '"ewman, resigned. Charles E. Ainger to be postmaster at Andover, in the-county Elmer D. Carl to be postmaster at Greencastle, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, in place of Charles E. Ainger. of Franklin and State Df Pennsylvania, in place of Elmer D. Incumbent's commis ion expires December 10, 1904. Carl. Incumbent's commission expired May 28, 1904. Adolphus Baker to be po bnaster at North Amherst, in the Cllarles Clawson to be posbnaster at 1\Iercer, in the county or county of Lorain and State of Ohio, in place of Elias B. Aldrich. Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, in place of Charles Claw­ Incumbent's commission expires December 20, :1.904. son. Incumbent's commission expired June 6, 1904. John C. Burrow to be postmaster at Cortland, in the county Joseph B. Colcord to be po tmaster at Port Allegany, in the of Trumbull and State of Ohio. Office became Presidential July county of McKean and State of Pennsylvani~ in place of Reu­ 1, 1904. ben J. 1\Iott, deceased. 1904. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE.

• I Nelson B. Duncan to be postmaster at .Zelienople, in the county thaniel H. Brown. Incumbent's commission expires December of Butler .and State {)f Pennsylvania, in place of William G. ·. 20, 1904. Bassler. 1ncumbent's commission expired June 5, 1.904. Hulda J. Fessenden to be postmaster at Saylesville, in the William .A. "Feist to be postmaster at White Haven, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, in place of county of Luzerne and State of Penns-ylvania, in ,place of Wil- · Hulda J. Fessenden. Incumbent's commission expired April27, lirun A. Feist Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. 1904. Levi J. Foust to be postmaster at Johnstown, in the county of Alvin F. :Miller to be postmaster at Valley Falls, in the county Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, .in place of Samuel Masters. of Providence and State of Rhode Island, Jn place of Alvin F. Incumbent's commisswn expired June 5, 1904. Miller. Incumbent's commission expires December 20, 1904. Matthew P~ Frederick to be postmaster at Gallitzin, in the shUTH CAROLT:iA. county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvflllia, in place of W. Benjamin G. Collins to be postmaster at Conway, in the · · Scott Stoner. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. county of HoiTy and 'State of South Carolina. Office became Henry 0. Garber to be postmaster at Berwyn; in the county of Presidential July 1, 1904. . Chester and State of Pennsylvania, in place of George A. John­ Arthur R. Garner to be postmaster at Timmonsville, in the son. Incumbent's commission expired May 28, 1904. county of Florence and State of South Carolina. Office became Christian E. Geyer to be postmaster at Catawissa, in the Presidential October 1, 1904. county of Columbia and State of Pennsylvania, in place of Louis Jacobs to be postmaster at Kingstree, in the county of Christian E. Geyer. Incumb~nt's commission expired June 5, Williamsburg and State of South Carolina. Office became Pres- 1904. idential October 1, 1904. , Hugh W. Gilbert to be postmaster at Quarryville, in ·the :1\Iary L. Wells to be postmaster at Cheraw, ·in the county of county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania. Office became Chesterfield and State of South Carolina, in place of Ebenezer Presidential July 1, 1904. · M. Wells, resigned. William S. Gleason to be postmaster at Johnsonburg, in the SOUTH DAKOTA. county of Elk and State of Pennsylvania, in place of William Alvah T. Bridgeman to be postmaster at Springfield, in the S. Gleason. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, 1904. county of Bon Homme and State of South Dakota. Office be­ John Gowland to be postmaster at Philipsburg, in the county came Presidential October 1, 1904. of Center and State of Pennsylvania, in place of Andrew L. Thomas T. Smith to be postmaster at Canton, in the county. BoiO'er. Incumbent's commission expired April 27, 190-!. of Lincoln and State of South Dakota, in place of James Lewis, S~uel w. Hamilton to be postmaster at Vandergrift, in the resigned. county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, in place of TE~SSEE. Henry w. Nichols. Incumbent's commission expired June 5, Rufus Rutherford to be postmaster at Clinton, in the county 1904. of .Anderson and State of Tennessee. · Office became Presiden­ R. C. Keefer to be postmaster at Clairton, in .the county of tial July 1, 1904. Allegheny- and State of Pennsylvania, in place of Robert H. TEXAS. Sloan, resigned. G. W. Cash to be postmaster at Hubbard, in the county of William Krause to be postmaster at Richland Center, in the Hill and State of Texas, in place of William E. Connelly, county of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania, in place of ·william deceased. Krause. Incumbent's commission expired April 16, 1904. James C. McGregor to be postmaster at Indiana, in the county Edward H. Clark to be postmaster at 'Victoria, in the county of Victoria and State of Texas, in place of Edward H. Clark: of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania, in -place of Samuel ~· Incumbent's commission expired April 30, 1004. Smith, deceased. William P. McMasters to be postmaster at Munhall, in the Charles F. Darnall to be postmaster at Llano, in the county county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, in place of of Llano and State of Texas, in place of James L. Taylor, William P. McMastert. Incumbent's commission expired June deceased. Dallas Harbert to be postmaster at Commerce, in the county 5, 1904. . Millard F. Mecklem to be ·postmaster at Rochester, m _the of Hunt and State of Texas, in place of Obarles W. Rush. In­ county of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, in place of Albert cumbent's commission expired March 31, 1902. A. Atterholt, resigned. Prince A. Hazzard to be postmaster at Colorado, in the county of Mitchell and State of Texas, in place of Prince A. Hazzard. John w. Miller to be postmaster at South Sharon, in the county of Mercer and ·state of Pennsylvania. Office became Incumbent's commission expired April 30, 1904. Presidential July 1, 1904. J. S. McEldowney to be postmaster at Midlothian, in the county of Ellis and State of Texas. Office became Presidential Arthur H. Rider to -be _postmaster at Freedom, in the county October 1, 1904. of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, in place of William D. Hamilton, resigned. John W. Merrow to be postmaster at Kerens, in the county Perry A. Sandborn to be postmaster at Northeast, in the of Navarro and State of Texas. Office became Presidential county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, in place of Perry A. January 1, 1904. Sandborn. Incumbent's commission expired December 20, 1903. D. A. Robinson to be postmaster at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, in place of William M. O'Leary, Lyman L. Shattuck to be postmaster at Pleasantville, in the deceased. county of Venango and State of Pennsylvania. Office became Presidential October 1, 1904. Lora L. Rowell to be postmaster at Pearsall, in the county of Frio and State of Texas. ·Office became Presidential October 1, Royal A. Stratton to be postmaster at Conneaut Lake, in the 1904. county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania. Office became Presidential July 1, 1004. Thomas J. Stevens to be postmaster at Sourlake, in the county Albert H. Swing to be postmaster at Coatesville, in the county of Hardin and State of Texas. Office became Presidential July of Chester and State of 'Pennsylvania, in place of Edward H. 1, 1904. . - Graves, resigned. Anderson C. Vinson to be postmaster at Timpson, . in the James R. Underwood · to be postmaster at Roscoe, In the county of 'Shelby and .State of Texas, in place of Ella 0. Vawter, county of Washington and State 'Of Pennsylvania. Office be- . removed ; name changed by marriage. came Presidential July 1, 1904. · Otto C. Zavisch to be .Postmaster at Cameron, in the county . Uriah H. Wieand to be postmaster at Emaus, in the county of Milam and State of Texas, in ,place of Anna F. Crawford, of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania. Office became Presiden­ resigned. tial October 1, 1904. UTAH.. . ~H. P. Williams to be postmaster at McDonald, in the county James Clove' to be postmaster at Provo {late Provo City), in of WasWngton and State of Pennsylvania, in place of William the county of Utah and State of Utah, in place of James Clove, D. Williams, jr., resigned. to change name of office. PORTO 1UCO. Jonathan· S. Page, jr., to be postmaster at Payson, in the county of Uta:h and State of Utah, in place of Grant Siq:wns, Jose Carrera to be postmaster at Humacao, in the province of resigned. R. Humacao, P. Office became Presidential October 1, 1904. . VERMONT. Ramon A. Rivera to be postmaster at Arecibo, in the county of Arecibo and Territory of Porto Rico, in place of Ramon A. Lyman P. Bailey to be postmaster at Putney, in the county of Windham and State of Vermont, in place of Lyman P. Bailey. RiYera. Incumbent's commission expires December 20, 1904. Incumbent's commission .expires December 20, 1904. RHODE ISLA)ID. David K. Simonds to be postmaster at 1\Iancllester, in the Nathaniel H. Brown to be postmaster .at East Greenwich, in county of Bennington and State of Vermont. Office became the county of Kent and State of Rhode Island, in place of Na- . Presidential July 1, 1904. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. DECEMBER 6,

VIRGI!iiA. SHOSHONE INDIANS. John 1\f. Campbell to be postmaster at Warrenton, in the Mr. MONDELL. Mr. Speaker, as unfinished business I call county of Fauquier and State of Virginia, in place of Mary 1\f. up the bill (H. R. 13481) to ratify and amend an agreement Campbell, deceased. · · with the Indians residing on the Shoshone or Wind River In­ Asbury Redfern to be postmaster at Strasburg, in the county dian Reservation, in the State of Wyoming, and to make appro­ of S.henandoah and State of Virginia. Office became Presiden­ priations for carrying the same into effect,. with certain Senate. tial July 1, 1904.. amendments; and I move that the Senate amendments be John L. Thompson to be postmaster at Dayton, in the county referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. of Rockingham and State of Virginia. Office became Presiden- The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion of the gen­ tial Ap~il 1, 1904. ' · tleman from· Wyoming, that the Senate amendments be referred W.A.S..HIXGTON. to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Alonzo W. Carner to be postmaster at Castlerock, in the The question was taken ; and the motion was agreed to. county of Cowlitz and State of Washington. Office became NOTIFICATION OF THE PRESIDENT, Presidential January 1, 1903. Flora E. Cornforth to b~ postmaster at Hillyard, in the county 1\fessrs. BURTON, TAWNEY, and WILLIA.MS of Mississippi, the of Spokane and State of Washington. Office became Presiden- committee appointed on the part of the House to wait upon the tial July 1, 1904. . President and inform him that a quorum of each House is Velosco J. Knapp to be postmaster at Anacortes, in the assembled and.that Congress is ready to receive any communi­ county of Skagit aJ;id State of Washingtop., in place of Velosco cation be may be-pleased to make, appeared at the bar of tlle J. Knapp. Incumbent's commission expires December 20, 1904. House. Rosseter I. Towle to be postmaster at Newport, in the county 1\!r. BURTON. 1\lr. Speaker, the committee appointed to of Stevens and State of Washington. Office became Presiden­ wait upon the President of the United States to announre to tial July 1, 1904. him that both Houses are in session and ready to rereive any communication from him report that they have performed that WEST YIRGINIA. duty and that the President announres that he will. communi­ John E. Dana to be postmaster at Charleston, in the county cate with the Hom;;e in writing to-day. of Kanawha and State of West Virginia, in place of Obe A. Petty, resigned. LEA"VE OF A.BSE ~ GE. Edward G. Hinman to be postmaster at Fayetteville, in the By unanimous consent, leave of absence-was granted to Mr. county of Fayette and State of West Virginia. Office became DA \IDSON indefinitely, on account of illness. Presidential July 1, 1D04. RECESS. E. L . .Long to be postmaster at Welch, in the county of 1\Ic­ Then, on motion of .l\Ir. PAYNE (at 12 o'clock and 8 minutes Dowell and. State of West Virginia. Office became Presidential p. m.), the House took a recess until 12.30 p. m. ·october 1, 1903. The recess having expired, the H~use was called to order by WISCONSIN. the Speaker. Herman 1\f. Blumenthal to be postmaster at Columbus, in the MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. county of Columbia and State of Wisconsin, in place of Stephen A message, in writing, from the President of the United 1\fanning, deceased. States was communicated to the House of Representatives by Malcolm H. Douglas to be postmaster at Abbotsford, in the .Mr. BARNES one of his secretaries. county of Clark and State of Wisconsin. Office became Presi­ The SPEAKEJR laid before the House the message from the dential October 1, 1904. President; which was read by the Clerk. Anton J. Haas to be postmaster at Park Falls, in the county [For text of message see Senate proceedings, page -J.O.] of Price and State of Wisconsin. Office became Presidential 1\Ir. PAYNEJ. 1\fr. Speaker, I move that the message and ac­ October 1, 1904. . companying documents· be referred to the Committee of the William Knelling to be postmaster at Shullsburg, m the Whole House on the state of the 'Union and ordered printed. county of La Fayette and State of Wisconsin, in place of George Tlle SPEAKER. The question is on the motion of the gentle­ E. w·eatherby, jr., resigned. . . man from New York, that the message be referred to the Com­ Ernest S. 1\fottram to be postmaster at Markesan, m the· mittee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered -county of Green Lake and State of Wisconsin, in place of Ash- printed. ley S. Higgins, deceased. . The question was taken, and "the motion was agreed to. rrerrnan A. Zaclle to be postmaster at Juneau, in the county of Dodge and State of -Wisconsin, in place of Thomas H. Sex­ ADJOURNMENT. ton, removed. Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now WYOMING. adjourn. Frederick E. Davis to be postmaster at Wh~atland, in the The motion was agreed to ; and accordingly (at 2 o'clock and countv of Laramie and State of Wyoming. Office became Pres- 24 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to-morrow at 12 i

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, the following executive com­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. munications were taken from the Speaker's table. and referred as follows: TuEsDAY, December 6, 1904. A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a The House met at 12 o'clock noon. copy of a communication from the Director of the Geological Prayer by the Cllaplain, Rev HENRY N. CoUDEN, D. D . . Survey transmitting a report on examination and survey for Tbe · Journal of tlle proceedings of yesterday was read and construction of irrigation works-to the Committee on In·iga­ approved. tion of Arid Lands, and ordered to be printed. A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, trai).smitting CONTESTED-ELECTION CASE OF EDWARDS AND WHITE V. HUNTER. eopies of legislative documents of the second legislative assem­ 'l'he SPEAKER laid before the House the following communi­ bly of Porto Rico-to the Committee on Insular Affairs. cation ; whi~ll was read and referred to the Committee on Elec­ A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a tions No. 2: statement of disbursements for contingent expenses of his De­ CLERK' S OFFICE, HOUSE OF REPRESE~TM'IVES, p~rtment-to the Committee OI!_ Expenditures in the Interior Washington, D. C., December 6, WO~- Department, and ordered to be printed. Sm : I have the honor to lay before the House of R~presentatives the A letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting, contested-election case of Edwards v . Hunter and Wh1te. v . Hunter,_ of the Eleventh Contiressional district of Kentucky, not~ces of .which with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examina­ have l.Jeen filed with the Clerk of the House, and transmit herewith all tion and survey of Detroit RiYer, 1\Iichigan-to the Committee m:iginn l t estimony, pa pers, and docun:ents relating tbe1·eto. on Rivers and Harbors, and ordered to be printed. · On .Tu r: e 24, 1 904, cop:es of the prmted record we1·e se~t- to the con­ A a tes tnnts. with noti~ e s to tile brief of the facts and authontles relied on letter from the Secretary of tl1e Treasury, transmitting to establish their case. August 24, 1904, D. C. Edwards, one of the con­ copy of. a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture sub­ testants. fi led his brief, copies of which were sent. to W. <_iodfrey Hunter, mitting an estimate of appropriation for erection of building contestee and to John D. White, contestant, w1th notice to file reply brief, bu t no reply bl"i ef has been received to date. for the Department of Agriculture:-to the Committee . on Ap­ propriations, and ordered to be printed . . Very respectfully, A. MCDOWELL, A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting report Clerk House of Representatives. Hon. JosEPH G. CA~NOX, · of an examination of tlJe Unite-t States Yosemite Park-to the Speaker House of Representatives. Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed.