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1042 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. M '.AY 5,

PETITIONS, ETC. The Chief Clerk read as follows: The following petitions, &c., were presented at the Clerk's desk, The Senate proceeded to consfder the resolution reported yesterday by Mr. SAULSBURY, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, instructing Etaid com under the rule, anc1 referred as stated : mittee to inquire into the matter alleged in the petition of Henry M. Spofford, By Mr. ACKLEN: Papers relating to the war claim of Lizzie Rog relating to the right of Hon. WILLIAM PITT KELLOGG to a. seat in the Senate; and, ers, of Saint Mary's Parish, Louisiana-to the Committee on War On motion by Mr. Ho.AR, t.o a.mend the resolution by striking ont ruJ of said res Claims. olution- . By Mr. CARLISLE : The petition of Eliza A. Scott, widow of Cap l\Ir. EDMUNDS. Pass that and come down to what the Senate tain Joseph Scott, deceased, for a pension-to the Committee on In :finally ordered. valid Pensions. The Chief Clerk read as follows: Also, the petition of Calvin Bronson, of Toledo, Ohio, for the re funding of internal-revenue taxes alleged to have been illegally col Pending debate. The PRESIDE..'\T pro tempore announcecl that the mornin~ hour hau expired, and lected from him-to the Committee of Ways and Means. called up the unfinished business of the Senate ab its adjournment yesterday, By Mr. CLARK, of Missouri: The memorial of the Legislature of viz: The bill (S. No. 108) to prevent the introduction of contagions and infections Misseuri, for the repeal of certain statutes and the modification of diseases into the United States; and the Senate resumed, as in Committeo of the existing laws relating to the "removal of causes" from the Stat.e Whole, the consideration of the said bill. courts to the circuit courts of the United States-to the Oommittee l\Ir. EDMUNDS. That is right, Mr. President; I thought I hea,rd @n the Revisien of the Laws. it read that the resolution was made a special order. By Mr. GOODE : Papers relating to the war claim of Anna Perry- The PRESIDENT p1·0 tenipore. The Journal is approved. Peti to the Committee on War Claims. · tions and memorials are now in order. By Mr. HENRY: The petition of citizens of Queen Anne, Talbot, Mr. HOUSTON. I waa endeavoring to get the attention of the and Caroline Counties, Maryland, for an appropriation for the improve Chair in relation to the amendment of the Journal. ment of Tuckahoe Creek-to the Committee on Commerce. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. No amendment has been moved to Also, the petition of citizens of Caroline CAlabama that the Journal is made up in strict pursuance of a law authorizing a new issue of full legal-tender paper money, and of the facts as the Chair understands th.em. Of course, if a motion instructing the Secretary of the Trea-sury to buy and cancel United is made to correot the Journal it must Ile submitted to the Senate. States loonds with the same-to the Committee on Banking and Cur The Chair did not decide t.hat the resolution reported from the Com rency. mittee on Privileges and Elections took precedence of the business Also, the petition of the Greenback Club, of Newark, New Jersey, that would come up at the expiration of the morning hour. Tilat for t.be enactment of a law expanding the currency-to the sn.me com was a question upon which the Chair ma.de no i·uling at all one way mittee. or the other; but after considerable discussion as to whether it was By Mr. O'NEILL: Papers relating to the pension claim of Annie a question of privilege that took precedence, the 8en:i.tor from Dela Gibson Yates-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ware, the chairman of the committee, suggested that he did not wish Also, the petition of Margaret Dickson, for a pension-to the s:t.me the resolution pressed until next Tuesday and nothing fnrtller was committee. said about it, and the Chair laid before the Senate the unfinished busi Also, the petition and affidavit of Thomas Toomey, formerly a pri nsss. The Chair would state to the Senator from Alabama that the vate of Company A, Sixty-Ninth. Regiment Tennessee Volunteers, for resolution is the first business in order after the routine morning busi a removal of the record of desertion-to the Committee on Military ness, and by unanimous consent oon be laid over until to-morrnw, in Affairs. a-0corda.nce with the suggestion made by tho Senator from Delaware Also, papers relating to the claim for bounty of Robert M. Barr, on Fridav. father of William B. Barr, deceased, late a private of Company E, .Mr HOUSTON. No sir I do not a.sk that th resolution be ta.ken Seventy-TWrd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers-to the same com up to-day; I do not want to vfalate the arrangement made by the mittee. chairman of the committee with the unanimous consent of the Sen By Mr. RANDALL: The petition of J.C. Pemberton, of PhiJa.del ate. But the reading of the Journal as it now stands would seem to phia, Pennsylvania., (accompanied by draught of bill,) for the removal indicate that that particular course was taken with the bnsiness be of his political disabilities-to the Committee on the Judiciary. cause of the superiority over the privileged question of the unfin By Mr. RYAN, of Kansas: The petition of citizens of Kansas, for n. ished besiness at the expiration of the morning hour. I make no mail-route from Hill Grove to Dodge City, in that State-to the Com motion to amend the Journal, but I suggest to the Chair whether it mit.tee on the Post-0.ffioe and Post-Roads. is not the province of the Journal to record the ll'.lotion of the chair By Mr. SPRINGER: 'l'ho petition of T. E. Chambliss, for expenses man of the Committ.ee on Privileges and Elections, tha Senator from of contesting a seat in Congress from the fourth congressional dis Delaware, to postpone the resolution until Tuesday, and to state that trict of Virginia-to the Committee of Elections. by unanimous oonseat it was so postponed 't ' By Mr. WRIGHT: The petition of Adelaide Koons and 81 other The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Tile Chair is not aware that any women of the twelfth congressional district of Pennsylvania, of the such motion was made. The Chair, as he ha11 said, made no ruling Woman's National Christian Temperance Union, against any change upon the subject. If the Chair had been compelled to rule, he would in the revenue laws that will promote t.he interestli of dealers in have felt constrained to rule in accordance with the previous decision spirituous liquors-to the Committee on the Judiciary. of the Vice-President, which he would not assume to overrule unless the Senate se ordered, that precedence was given to the yellow fever bill. Mr. HOUSTON. The report of the Committee on Privileges and IN SENATE. Elections was postponed until Tuesday, to-morrow. There is n9 doubt about that. Having been postponed 11.Dtil to-morrow, it now MONDAY, May 5, 1879. stands for to-morrow to be taken up then. The Jom-nal ought to show that. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. J. BULLOCK, D. D. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair is not aware of any such THE JOUR..~AL. vote. The Journal of the pHceedings of Friday last was read. Mr. HOUSTON. There w:i-s no particular vote, but it was done by lfr. EDMUNDS. Mr. Preside.nt, I shouJd like to hear that part 11nanimous consent. <>f the JourBal read agaie, which refers to the resolution about the Mr. CONKLING. Not at all. Spofford case, as to the action on the resolution, not the resolntio:e. Mr. HOUSTON. The chairman of the committee rose and said he and the amendmen~, but what the Qrder of the Senalte was; I did not was willing the resolution should be postponed until that time, anGeorgia. I think there is no practical difference in 1879. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 1043

:regard to the matter. There was no vote; there was simply a gen REPORTS OF COMIIITTrEES. eral understanding. I do not think as my friend from Alabama does, Mr. McDONALD. The Committee on the Ju.diciary have directed 'that it is necessary the action of the Senate should go on the J onrna.l me to report the bill (S. No. 141) for the removal of the political dis at all; it was simply a sort of acquiescence in the suggestion made by abilities of John S. Saunders, of Baltimore, :Maryland, and: recom -ahe Chair, !hat if the resolution was not pressed the unfinished busi mend that it pass. ness would be taken up; and there was also an acquiescence in the The PRESIDENT pro tempo-re. The bill will be placed on the Cal :response of the chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elec endar. tions, that he had no objection to the resolution going over until Mr. McDONALD. If there is no objection, as it is simply a bill to Tuesday. There was a general understanding that the matter should remove disabilities, I ask that it be put on its pa.ssage. go over until Tuesday ; that was aU ; no vote was taken. Mr. EDMUNDS. Let it stay on the Calendar, Mr. President. Mr. KERNAN. If the Sena.tor will allow me, I think he will remem The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is made. ber that the chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections said he had to be away until tliis evening, and, therefore, there was, B: LL ~RODUCED. as I supposed~ unanimous consent, without any motion, that the res _Mr. VOORHEES asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave •lution should not be taken up until to-morrow. to introduce a. bill (S. No. 548) to amend certain sections of the Re Mr. HILL, of Georgia. Is there any wish to bring it up this morn vised Statutes of the United States relating to coinage and coin and ing Y bullion cer tificates, and for other purposes; which was read twice The PRESIDENT p1·0 tempore. Not a.s the Chair underatands, and by its title, and referred to the Committee on Finance. there is nothing before the Senate unless a motion be made to amend Mr. HILL1 of.Georgia, a-sked, and by unanimous consent obt8.ined, the Journal. No such motion has been made. leave to introduce a bill (S. No. 549) for the relief of -Samuel I. Gus Mr. HOAR. I ask the Senator from Georgia if he will yield to me tin; which wa rea-d twice by its title, and referred to the Committee amomentf on Claims. Mr. HThL, of Georgia. Certainly. :;\fr. SAUNDERS asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave Mr. HOAR. I desire to make a statement in connection with \his to introduce a. bill (S. No. 550) to extend the northern boundary of matter. I have seen very extensively the statement made in some of the State of Nebraska; which wa-sread twice by its title, and referred the northern newspapers that thl' majority of the Committee on Privi to the Committee on Territories. leges ood Elections had a meeting in the absence of the republican Mr. COCKRELL asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave members and pa.ssed upon this question and ordered the resolution to to introduce a bill (S. No. 551)granting a.pension to James O'Connor; be reported to the Senate. I \hink it is proper I should state that, which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on 80 far from that being true, the chairman of the committee, the hon Pensions. erable Senator from Delaware, delayed a meeting on this subject for !tfr· INGALLS (by request) asked, and by unanimous consent ob ten days in consequence .of an absence of mine which wa rendered tamed, leave to introduce a bill (S. No. 552) granting a pension to :necessary by some professional engagements, ai11d that after my re Marshall D. Ellis; which was read twice by its title, and referred to turn the Senator called on me and consulted me as to the time when the Committee on Pensions. it would be convenient to the minority to have a meeting of the com Mr. TELLER asked, aml by unanimous consented obtained, leave mittee on this subject; and when the committee acted on it all the to introduce a bill (S. No. 553) for the relief of Elisha Bass; which members of the committee were present. I think it is just to the was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Claims. Jaonorable chairman to make that statement. Mr. WHYTE asked, and by unanimous consent obtained leave to Mr. HILL, of Georgia. I do not propose to amend the Journal. I introduce a joint resolution (S. R. No. 25) authorizing ti:ie Public will state that I had not seen the statement to which the Senator Printer to bind in cloth two volumes of Sailing Directions for the from Massachusetts refers, but the statement he himself makes is cor United States Hydrographic Office; which was read twice by its title, :rect, and I am glad that he has made it. The entire committee was and referrecl to the Committee on Printing. present when this matter was passed upon and the resolution was MILITARY ~TERFERE~CE AT ELECTIONS. ordered to be reported. Mr. EATON asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to Mr. CONKLING. Mr. PreSident- introduce a bill (S. No. 554) to prohibit military interference at elec The PRESIDENT P"'O tempore. This discussion proceeds by unani tions; which was read the first time by its title. mous consent. Mr. EA.TON. Let the bill be read at length. Mr. CONKLING. I rise to present a memorial. The bill was read the seoond time at length, as follows : . The PRESIDENT 1n·o tempore. Fetitions and memorials are in order. Whereas the presence of troops at the polls is con~ to the spirit of our in· of our people, anc.l tends to destroy the freedom of PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. !~}~~~ ;h~;!1f~:iditions Mr. CONKLING. I present a memorial of the Chamber of Com-· Be it enacted, etc., That it shall not be lawful to brin,Jt to or employ at any place where a. general or special election is be~ held in a 1::>tate, any part of the Armv merce of the State of New York calling attention to the fact that or N~vy of the UI!ited States, unless sucn force be necessary to repel the armed since 1875 a naval training school for boys has been maintained on enennes of the Umted States, or to enforce section 4, azti.cle 4, of the <:::onstitution the frigate Minnesota at the port of New York; that there is danger ot the United S?ttes, and the laws m~de in pursuance thereof, upon the applica ef the training-school system languishing or perishing for lack of leg tion of the Legislature or the executive of the State where such force is to be islation; that a bill adequate to the end indic'a.ted passed the last used; and so much of all laws as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed. House of Representatives; came to the Senate and failed in the Sen The PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. bl-GALLS in the chair.) To what ate; that the bill is here now; and the Chamber of Commerce indi committee does the Senator desire the bill to be referred 1 eates a strong judgment that that bill should receive early action. I lli. EATON. The measure is so manifestly just thatJ wa:s in hopes move the reference of the memorial to the Committee on Naval Affairs. there would be no objection to the bill being immediately considered, The moti()l[l was agreed to. although I agree that that is not the ordinary course pursued. I ask, Mr. CONKLING. I present also a memorial of the Chamber of if there be no objection: that we now take the bill up. Commerce of the State of New York, calling attent.ion to an obstruc Mr. CONKLING. "Manifestly" what, may I ask the Sena~r fo tion, being a bank of sand, located mid way between Governor's Island repeatf and .Brooklyn, in the harbor of New York, and further attention to Mr. EATON. "Manifestly just." the fact that considerable disasters have occurred in conseqmmce of Mr. CONKLL.'fG. I never supposed that could l>e the word the this o bstrnction, and directing the attention of Congress to the neces Se_nator employed, and, therefore, I wished him to repeat what he aity of its removal. I movethatthememorial bereferred to the Com said. mittee on Commerce. Mr. EATON. If the bill must go to a. committee, I move that it go The motion was agreed to. to the Committee on the Judiciary. I would rather have it consid llr. FERRY presented the memorial ef Mrs. 0. R. Hat.ch and other ered now. ["No!"] members of the Woma».'s Christian Temperance Union, remonstrat The bill was referred to the Committee on the Judif contagious which was referred to the Committee on Patents. or infectious diseases into the United States, the pending question He also present.ed the peti"-i.on of Martin J. Deponai, late private being on the motion of the Senator from Maine, [Mr. HAMLIN,] to tiompany E, Eightieth Regiment New York Volunteers, praying for recommit· the bill to the select committee to investigate and report U1e passage of a law granting him an increase of pension; which was the best means of preventing ~he introduction and spread of epidemia refeued to the Committee on Pensions. diseases, with instructions to report a code of regulations. 1044 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. MAY 5,

Mr. PLUMB. Mr. President, before the question is taken on the I had supposed that as the matter had received some attention else motion of the Senator from Alaine, and without anticipating what where, in the other branch of Congress, the result would perha.ps be the fate of the bill may be, I desire to say something on the proposi a bill which would cover this plan; but I discover that it has not tion that I submitted on Friday in the form of an amendment for the been done, and that following the suggestions that have been made purpose of having it printied. This mattier bearing on an essential here, the legislation is to be directed solely toward the stamping out part of this bill in my view, I should like to present a few considera of th{\ diseases within the United States and not to the preveution tions before the motion to recommit is submitted. of their introduction. I hope that if the bill shall be recommitted Sections 9 and 10 of the bill are designed to cover a subject which and go again into the hands of the committee, the committee will is of very great interest to the people of the Westiern States and I consider whether or not an amendment similar to the one which I think to the people of the entire country, to wit, what may be called have offered may properly be added to the bill for the purposo of giv practically a. quarantine concerning diseases of cattle, or rather, dis ing to this National Board of Health, the only board now constituted eases of all animals. If that subject had not made its appearance in for any such purpose, the .authority which will be nece sary to the 1'ill in this shape, I shonld not have suggested an amendment to prevent the introduction of cattle diseases; and if not, that they may give the National Hoard of Health jurisdiction of that subject, be consider the question whether this may not be made the subject of a lieving as I do that it would be much better to have it made the sub separate bill embracing the same general purpose and giving either ject of a separate bill or to give some other department jurisdiction to the Commissioner of Agriculture, or the Secretary of the Treasury, of the question, but it has been inserted here, and as I understand by or to some other official the power which now seems to be lack~!Jg, or request of the Committee on Agriculture. The objection that I make, if not lacking has been so far very improperly and improvidently however, is not so much to the fact that the bill embraces any pro exercised. viRion upon this subject, as that the provision which it does embrace I do not mean to anticipate what the fate of the bill will be upon is absolutely and wholly without any effect; that is to say, it would the motion to recommit, but accepting the urgency as expressed by have no effect upon what I consider to be the real merits of the mat Senators who are within the range of the yellow fever, I should be ter which it is supposed to touch. very much inclined to give to the National Board of Health at this The country ha.a been aroused during the past year considerably time extraordinary power, trusting to the future to determine what by investigations which have disclosed the fact that pleuro-pneu modification, if any, might be necessary; but if they are to have this nionia has existed among the domestic cattle of this country and to all-pervading jurisdiction, covering not merely southern ports but a degree which has created very grave and I think well-founded northern ports, then I imagine that that jurisdiction may properly alarm ·among all producers of cattle and all persons interested in that be, as it ought to be, exercised for the· purpose of preventing the very large, extensive, and profitable branch of business or interest. introduction of diseases among cattle which imperil that very large The cattle of this country are estimated to be of ·the value of about and important interest in this country. ·28,000,000; and yet among all the legislation which has been passed Mr. MAXEY. Mr. President, the bill pending before the Senate i~ and which has been proposed there bas been nothing practically the resnlt of au investigation made by a committee appointed by Con which has had the effect to keep out these much-dreaded diseases. gress to consider the best meane of preventing the introduction of It is a fact well attested in the experience not merely of scientific contagious and infectious diseases into the United States. The report p~rsons but in the observation of all persons connected with the cat of that committee shows that their entire attention was directed to tle bnsiness, veterinary surgeons and others, that the two diseases ward that subject, the prevention of the introduction of il!lfectious which have occasioned very great loss heretofore and which are a or contagious diseases among human beings into the United States, subject of a great deal of consideration now all over the country ar.e and not at all to "an investigation of the contagious or infectious -the result of importation practically; that is to say, the diseases do diseases of domestic animals in the United States intended for inter not orio'inate in this country hut come with cattle brought from state transportation.." .abroad.0 The Revised Statutes prohibit the introduction of foreign Sections 9 and 10 of the bill relate to diseases of cattle, &c., and cattle, but permit the President ·to afford relief against that pro have no sort of connection, so far as I am able to perceive, with the sub hibition. The only barrier to-day against the introduction of dis ject of prevention of the introduction into or spread within the United ,ease.d cattle is a consular cerU.ficate given by the consu 1 of the United States of contagious and infections diseases among human beings. .States at the point where the cattle are embarked. That covers, as They relate to diseases among cattle, and direct the National Hoard it neces arily can only cover practically, the condition of the cattle of Health to investigate them. That is wholly a separate and dis .at the time of shipment. Admitting tha.t the consul might be a tinct subject, in. no wise connected with the introduction of yellow proper person to give ~nch a certiJ?.cate, thltt J;ie might be qu'.l'lifie_d fever and cholera into the United States. It wonld be an extremely to determine the question of the existence of disease at that time, it remote thing to say that as cattle are food for man an investigation,. ·still fails wholly to meet the point, because the period of incubation of the diseases of cattle would lie germane to the bill now pending -0f a disease of this kind is usually abont sixty days, so that the dis- before the Senate. The rearing and shipment of cattle are matters -en.se may not have developed itself for that period of time after the cat- of great importance to many Stares of this Union. The State which tle had left the foreign port and long after they had been deposited I in part represent is the largest cattle growing and shipping State on our shores. There is, therefore, absolutely no protection against in the Union, raises more and sends more to market than any other the introduction of cattle diseases. While the Legislatures of vari State in the Union, and I cannot see that the National Board of Health ous States and Congress have been see~ingly quite diligent in de has anything in the world to do with this great cattle trade. They vismg measures to stamp out the cattle disease there has been abso may be experts on the subjects of yellow fever and of oholera; and if lutely nothing done to prevent its introduction. they have been faithful in acquiring the information necessary to The amendment which I offered on Friday wa.s designed to cover become experts in yellow fever and cholera they have had no time to this point. As I said before, I should not have thought of introduc know anything about the diseases of cattle. My judgment is that ing it in this connection if I had not found in the bill a cognate pro the testimony of a board of cow doctors, or1 perhaps more elegantly, vision, so to speak. Assuming that the National Board of Health is veterinary surgeons, would be far more important in throwing light to be clothed with the large powers mentioned in the preceding sec on this subject than the testimony of the gentlemen organized as a tiollf of the bill in regard to matters that concern the public health, National Board of Health. and are to have any power whatever in regard to the spread of dis I shall, if it be proper at this time, move to strike out sections 9 and ease among domestic animals, they ought to have the;power conferred 10 of the pending bill as having nothing w:Ratever to do with the by the amendment which I have offered. I do not say that this is subject-matter of the bill and as being more appropriate to come in, t!J~ best that can be done, but I do think it would be a step at least if at alJ, as a separate mattier, because when that subject comes up it in tbe right direction. When I mentioned the matter to the Senator is of such great importance that it will necessarily be very much dis :from Tennessee [Mr. HARRIS] who has the bill in charge, and he told cus ed, and it ought to be; and those interested in protecting this me that the two sections of the bill to which I referred came from the great cattle interest have a right to know by thorough investigation Committee on Agriculture of this body, I was very much surprised that there is a necessity for any legislation on that subject. I do not that they had so far overlooked the origin of these diseases, and there believe any such necessity exists. fore the source of the greatest trouble and danger. It would be of no The PRESIDING 01',.1!,ICER, (Mr. INGALLS in the chair.) The avail whatever to expend money to stamp out the diseases existing Chair holds that a motion to commit takes precedence of a motion to now among the cat~le in the cou.ntry if at the same time every port amend. of the United States is open to the introduction of these diseases with Mr. HARRIS. Mr. President, in order to define a little more sharply out any restriction of any kind or description. whatever; and it is to the scope, objects, and purpose of the bill under consideration, I send prevent the introduction of these diseases, to give Lhe National Board to the desk an amendment as an additional section, which I shall offer of Healt,h the jurisdiction which it ought to have for the purpose, at the proper time, and ask that it be read for information. :that my amendment has been offered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The proposed amendment will be The organization of this board is not, perhaps, what it had better read. be for the purpose of ta.king jurisdiction of the question of cattle dis The Secret.ary read as follows: .eases. It ought to be so constituted as to inclilde not only the physi SEO. 13. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to supersede or impair ieians who are already members of the l>oard, but some person who by the operations of the sanitary or quarantine laws of any State within the territorial l'e&SOn of his qualifications and experience might be supposed to be limits of such State, the object of this aot being to so regulate commerce as to pre vent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases from foreign countries specially qualified to treat of or to discover and era-0.icate the imported int-0 the United States and from one State into another. diseases of cattle. At the proper time, if this question should come again before the Senate, I should be inclined to move a reconstruction Mr. HARRIS. I give notice that at the proper time if this bill shall of the National Board of Health for that purpose. not be recommitted I shall offer that as an addition.al section to the 1879. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE. 1045 bill. And while I am upon my feet I desire to say that on Friday last infections and epidemic diseases as there is now. One feature of the what is known as the Sanitary Council of the Valley of the Missis- bill seems to supersede and will destroy the regulations established s:ippi, in which were represented the State health associations of Min- for years in the ports of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. My nesota, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Arkansas; Tennessee, Louisiana, wish is to aid in the direction the friends of this bill desire to go. I Texas, Mississippi, Wisconsin, and Colorado, adopted jnst before its am solicitous that the Federal Government sooll aid in excluding adjournment the resolutions which I send to the Clerk's desk and ask contagious and epidemic disea-ses; and where there is no quarantine to have read. established by a State by law, of course the Federal law should take The PHESIDING OFFICER. 'fhe resolutions referred to will be effect, and there it will not be injurious probably to the State; but read. to apply this to States where we have tried systems of qun.rantine The Chief Clerk read as follows: which do not needlessly interfere with commerce, but do interfere Resolved, That the Sanitary Council of Mississippi Valley heartil~ indorses the wherever there is danger of disease, I think will be very injurious. bill now pending beforeCongre s "to increase the efficiency of theNationalBoard In 1799 there was an act passed which the committee should ex of Health, and to pre>ent the introduction into or spread within the United States amine, and I think they should legislate in accordance with this of contagions diseases," and would respectfully recommend its speedy passage by statute, which is "an act respecting quarantine and health laws," Congress, so as to clothe the hoard with executive as well as advisory powers. Resolved, That this council is in hearty sympathy ·with the :National Board of and it is now in the Revised Statutes at page 931. I wish to call at Health in its object of securing the restraint of pestilential epidemics in tho whole tention to it that the Senate may see how wisely the men of that day f:U:;;:b'1~ ~;~~'~s itself to hearty co-operation with the Nationa.lBoard of Health supplemented the national authority to the State systems and the Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the State delegations in Con- State authority. The first section provides: gress of e.ach of the States repre anted in this sanitary council, respectfully request- The quarantines and other restraints established by the health la.ws of any State, ing their assistance in securing legislation which shall protect our people from for- respecting any vessels arriving in, or bound to, any port or diBtri~t thereof, hall be eign pestilence and domestic danger. dulv observed by the officers of the cust-0ms revenue of the Umted States, by the- masters and crews of the several revenue-cutters, and by the military officers com Mr. HARRIS. I simply desire to say in rnference to the matter dis- man din~ in any fort or station upon the sea-coast; and all such officers of the United cussed by the Senators from Kansas and Texas a few moments since, States mall faithfully aid in the execution of such quarantines and health law , that the two sections in the bill, 9 and 10, which provide for an according to their respective powers and within their respective precincts, and as · · d t f l d. d b they shall be directed. from time to time, by the Secretary of the Treasury But investigation an repor o catt e tSeases, were suggeste Ya mern- nothing in this title shall enable any State to collect a duty of tonnage 01· impost ber of the Committee on Agriculture as proper to be incorporated into ,rithout the consent of Congress. this bill, the Committee on Epidemic Diseases being satisfied that if The second section is in this language: the inve~tigalt1B·on o~ thfaHt sulbjhect be neche sary and llproperl.tfio dbeifmadet Whenever, by the health laws of any State, or by the regulations made i>ursn· the Nat10n~ oarcl o eat W~ per. ap~ as we qua 1 e no ant thereto, any vessel arriviug witlr.n a collection district of such St.ate is pro better qualified to conduct that mvestigat1on and to make a report hibited from coming to the port of entry or delivery by law established for such of whatever recommendation may be necessary as any other board or Idistrict, and such health la~vs !eqnire or permit t~e c:irgo of the vessel t-0 be un any other pliysicians to whom that power could be delegated. and laden at so!lle other place within or near to such distJ;1ct, the collector, ~fter due · · · d d · 'k f report to bun of the whole of so ch cargo, may grant his warrant or pel'Illlt for the the Nat1.onal. Boar~ of. Health be_mg orgamze an in the 'Yor .o unlading and discharge thereof, under the care of the surveyor. or of one or more conductrng mvest1gat10ns of a krndred character, can certainly in- inspectors, at some other place where such health htws permit, and upon the con vestigate and make its report at very much less expense than a new dition;; and restrictions which hall b<: directed by the-_Secretary of the ';l'reasury, commission can do. or w~ch such collector may, for the time, d~m expedient for the security of the That much only I desire to say on the subject, and I shall be per- public rev~nne. . . fectly content for the Senate to keep those sections in or vote them The third section of the act is: out of the bill, as they do not affect in one way or the other the main There shall be purchased or erected, under the orders of the President, suitable ,iect thi· s 1.ill 'has 1· 11 VI. ew. · warehou:ies, with wharves and inclosures, where merchandise may be nnlaer may be introducecl from abroad into any port or place that the committee may examine the spirit of the old law, may con within the United States, or spread from State to State within the same, and m his ult t th d fr l th t h 11 t · d f 11 t· f .iudgment the existing quarantine or health regulations at such exposed places are s oge er, an ame a aw a s a ge ri o a ques ions o insufficient, be may autJiorize the Board of Health to make further rules and reiru- either the State laws being unconstitutional or of their being in an lations in the premises, which being submitted to and approved by him shall be tagonism to the national laws, and that we shall in that way get a. valid and in force. bill that we can all unite in passing, which shall aid in protecting That bill, with the addition of the penalties contained in the exist- the pub1ic health by the :F'ederal Government, but shall not attempt ing bill on vessels that violate the rules, will in my judgment accom- to do that by sweeping away the quarantine and health laws and plish all that is necessary. I desire to send that to the Chair and regulations which have existed for fifty or seventy-five years, and have it printed and go to the committee if the bill shall be committed have been perfected by experience, and have prvtected wonderfully to them again. the cities around our great sea-ports upon the Atlantic in the North. The PRESIDING OFFICER. That oruer will be made. The ques- Therefore I shall vote for this motion in a spirit of friendliness to the tion recurs on the motion to recommit. bill, in a desire to aid the quarantines that are now in existt-.nce, and Mr. KERNAN. Before the motion is put I desire to call the atten- not to destroy them, but to supplement this board's duties to theirs, tion of the Senate, rather in aid of the motion, to the legislation had so that it can act in harmony with them, and leaving it where the at an early day on this subject. I have expressed before my appre- States do not act to arrange as it shall believe is best. There is fear hension that, with the best intentions, there will be a serious inter- that a board sitting here will l>e likely to needlessly interfern with ference by the proposed law, and a needless interference, with com- commerce. While I will protect life against commerce, yet I desire merce to the great detriment of that interest, and I fear there will that there shall be no needless interference with the business of the not be, certainly in the sea-ports of the North, as much safety against country by an experiment, when it gets along n"Ow without complaint

• 1046 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. :MAY 5, and without daAtlanta~ in Georgia, and of Health here would h:we entire and perfect control over the sani will remain there in session I do not know how long; but certainly it tary regufatioJ;ls of New York. I am opposed to that. I am in favor will be many days, and perhaps weeks, before the committee cau avail of the amendment to a certain extent; but it does not cover th.a itself of the means of consulting with the Board of Health. gronnd, and therefore the necessity of a. recommittal of this bill, so Mr. KERNAN, I think there is force in the suggestion. I would, tha,t it may be properly considered and properly guarded, and then if it ue necessary, move to strike out the part instructing the com I shall be ready to support it; but I am not ready now. I never will mittee to report rules and regulations; but the Cb air bolds the ques a(Tree that a board of men sitting here in Washington. shall under tion is on recommittal. I propose to leave it to the committee gen- t~ke to control tho commerce of the North entirely. u~ . Mr. CONKLING. Mr. President, I must think the committee meana Mr. HARRIS. The committee has considered the whole matter tho Senate to think thn.t the purpose of this measure is to provide just. as fully as it is within its power to consider it, and if the bill is sanitary regulations and establishments where they are needed, and recommitted I do not see that it is possible for the oommi ttee to make to aid such establishments where they exist. I am not sure tha.t, 1879. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. '1047 thus briefly, I have not given a just statement of all the defensible Mr. HARRIS. Will my honorable friend allow me to call his atten purpose, and probably the whole purpose, of this bill. If I have, tion to the fact that the language he reads from the bill is verbatim meaniag certainly no discourtesy to the committee and claiming cer the language of the Federal Constitution that delegates to Congress tainly no special instruction in this regard myse~, I cannot see t~e the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the difficulty of such a measure, not complex but simply and readily several States The language of the bill and the language of the clrawn, as· will authorize the national authority to act as auxiliary to Constitution appears to be word for word the same. The Supreme tho Stat-a authorities where such establishments exist, and to take in Court of the United States in a number of decisions, that I will not whole, where the ground has not been occupied, mea-sures necessary now undertake to count, has held that that language referred to com to baffle the :ipproach of cholera, yellow fever, and plague. merce affecting more States than one. The ameudmcnt proposed to be offered by the Sena.tor from Ten Mr. ·CONKLING. Mr. Pre ident, it is quite likely that I should nessee is in the direction in which I now speak; and yet I submit, have made the rnmark now made by the honorable Senator from and I submit with some confidence to that Senator knowing his legal Tennessee but for the fatlt that-only a day or two ago I uwelt upon attainments, that it is not the mode to answer objections ma.de to the it in the hearing of the Senate. It was then that I ventured tu call bill as it stands now. The section would be repugnant to the fore attention to the fact th::tt, proceeding under the commercial cl:rnsa O'OiDO' sections of the bill. The whole bill, consisting of this section of the Constitution which tbe Sena.tor has read, the cormnittee found ~nd those now in it, would be a confused piece of legislation. What itself managing ap. inappropriate power, a power extanding every is it to mean V Twelve sections proceeding upon the theory of para where for its purpose, a. power by a.nothee provision of the Constitu mount national authority and paramount national administration, tion required to be applied sbaro and share alike to all ports when. and then culminating in a thirteenth section which says that nothing exerted at aU, and therefore a powe:- cumbrons, iu:i,pplicuole, incon herein shall be understood to override State quarantine regulations yenient for sanitary purposes, exactiug as they .a.ir to a practical application of this language it is untrue that it is con tho operations of the sanitary or quarantine laws of any State within the tern t-o fined anywhere in a considerable number of instances. rial limits of such State. 1048 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. }\f.AY 5,

Broad enough in all consoience ; not only it shall not impair the The Secretary proceeded to call the roll. laws of the St:tte, but it shall not impair their operations, it shall be Mr. DAVIS, of Illinois, (when his name was called.) On this l]_ues neither let nor hinderance, but they shall proceed just as if this statute tion I am paired with the Senator from Iowa, [Mr. ALLISON.] He had not been ena.cted. That is what it means. How can that be, I would vote "yea," if he were, and I should vote " nay." ask the Senator, if any validity and force whatever is to be given to Mr.VANCE, (when :Mr. RANSOM'S name was called.) I· desire to these preceding ~eotions and their exeoution in the State where the say that my colleague [Mr. RA...~SOM] is necessarily absent n.nd is question may arise. Now I read the residue of the proposed amend paired on this question. ment: The roll-call was conoluded. The object of this act being to so regulate commerce as to prevent the introduc Mr. TELLER. The Senator from Iowa [Mr. KIRKWOOD] is paired tion of contagious or infectious diseases from foreign countries into the United with the Senator from Maine, [Mr. HAMLIN.] States and from one State into another. The result was announced-yeas 30, nays 19; as follows: That is it, that is the gravamen of the act; that is its purpose and genius, to lay the national hand upon these vehicles and prevent the YEAS-30. .Anthony, Chandler, Grover, Morrill, carrying of disease across State lines. That is what it is for. It says Bayard, Coke, Hampton, Pendleton, so in the title; it says so throughout the bill; it says so in the con Beil, Conklin~, Hoar, Rollins, cluding lines of this amendment; and sandwiched between these con Booth, Davisof W. Va., Ingalls, Saunders, Burnside, Dawes, Kernan, Slater, cluding lines and the twelfth section is to be a statement that "nothing Butler, Eaton, Teller. in this act shall be so construed as to supersede or impair the opera Cameron of Wis., Farley, Mcr.ornn· onald, tions of the sanitary or quarantine laws of any State within the ter Carpenter, Ferry, .Maxey, ritorial limits of such States." The more I think of that, the more it NAYS-19. seems to me it would require great disoernment to see in a hundred Bailey, Garland, Jonas, Vance, cases which might be put as all likely to arise under it what it would Beck, Groome, Kellogg, Voorhees, be the duty of a court to do. Bruce, Harris, Lamar, Walker, I believe the true way is for the committee availing itself of the Call, Hill of Georgia, :Morgan, Williams. suggestions which have been elicited by this bill, some of them I think Cameron of Pa., Houston, Plumb, of some value, none of them likely to darken or becloud the commit ABSENT-27. tee, to take this bill and reduce it, simplify it, and make it like the Allison, Hereford, McPherson, Thurman, laws now on the statute-book mere auxiliary legislation, clothing, Blaine, Hill of Colorado, Paddock, Vest, Cockrell, Johnston, Platt, Wa.llace, if it be necessary to clothe, the Executive Department or the Board Davis of Illinois, Jones of Florida, Randolph, Whyte, of Health, or both, to proceed where they find unoccupied ground and Edmunds, Jones of Nevada, Ransom, Windom, to give such assistance a.a they can where they find the ground already Gordon. Kirkwood, Saulsbury, Withers. occupied, in the attempt to baffle the approach of plague or pestilence. Hamlin, McMillan, Slillron, For such a bill we can all vote. For this bill as it stands I cannot So the motion to recommit was agreed to. vote. As I said the other day, I cannot vote for it looking at the san itary view of the subject alone, saying nothing about commerce. We PAPERS WITHDRAWN A.l."'U> REFERRED. appropriated some time ago $250,000 to hire or build a ship and put On motion of Mr. ROLLINS, it was into it appamtus with which, dealing with gases, to produce ice chem Ordered, That the papers in the case of Sidney P. Luther be taken from the files ically in a very high temperature. It was said to be an experiment. and referred to the Committee on Finance. It w:.i.s indeed an experiment. Whoever sets up and attempts to ad On motion of Mr. BUTLER, it was just so nicely as to make it a success on the firmest ground he can Ordered, That the petition of Samuel Lord, jr., be taken from the files and re find any apparatus yet known for producing ice in high temperature ferred to the Committee on Finance. by chemical means, essays a very difficult and very nice feat of me chanics and of science. He who puts this machinery afloat in any SPECIAL POSTAL SERVICE, vessel where it is subject to the oscillation and motion of water and Mr. MA.XEY. I ask consent to take up and put on its passage Sen produces the effect, will be indeed the hero of a remarkable experi ate bill No. 516. The reasons for it are fully set forth in the report. ment. However, we voted $250,000 for that. Now this bill propose~ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the request of to vote $550,000 more for purposes not experimental in the same sense the Senator from Texas ? · but still experimental. I say nothing grudging of the money, but I Mr. WHYTE. Let the bill be read for information. do say that it seems to me we ought to go sure-footed, not to tread on Mr. MAXEY. The report of the Committee on Post-Offices and the lines of the Constitution, n,nd not needlessly to imperil the com Post-Roads is unanimous. · merce of the country, and n,bove all not to overlook ready and palpa The Chief Clerk read the bill (S. No. 516) to extend the time of ble modes of giving early and efficient succor during this almost special postal service until service can be obtained by advertisement, already mid-season, for the sake of contriving a complex, and as I as follows: have ventured to say before coufused set of provisions which I be Be it enacted, cl:c., That in cases where special service has already been placed on new routes, the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion, extend such service until lieve will not work well, which I believe will not be in season for the the time when service can be obtained by advertisement. And whenever an ac emergency, and which I think as precedents may be dangerous, to sa.y cepted bidder shall fail to enter into contract, or a contractor on any mail-route the least, if they :find their way on the statute-book. shall fail or refuse to perform the service on said route according to his contra.et, The PRESIDING OFFICER. On the motion to commit the yeas or when a new route shall be established or now service required, or when, from any other ca.use, there shall not be a contractor legally bound or required to per and nays have been ordered. form such service, the Postmaster-General may make a temporary contract for Mr. BAYARD. Mr. President, without detaining the Senate I de carrying the mail on such route, without advertisement, for such period as may ba sire simply to give my rnason for voting in favor of the recommittal necessary, not in any case exceeding one year, until the service shall have com . of this bill. menced unrler a contract made aoooriling to law. And any pronaion of statute in It is, I am sure, the unanimous feeling of the Senate that every step conflict with this provision is hereby repealed. that judiciously can be taken to avert the progress of pestilence in Mr. MA.XEY. This bill simply brings the law back to what it is in any quarter of this country shall not fail to be taken by those in the Revised Statutes, and the exigency is fully set forth in the report charge of the Nn.tional Government; but it is evident that this is for which is there, and I ask that it be read. the first time an embarkation upon a sphere of action heretofore oc The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the present con cupied wholly by State power. I do not propose to discuss the border sideration of the bill f The Chair hears none. The bill is before the line between the State and the Federal power over this subject of local Senate as in Committee of the Whole and the report will be read. health or of national health. Suffice it to say that heretofore the The Chief Clerk read the following report, submitted by Mr. MAXEY ground has been wholly occupied by the agents of the States in pre Mayl: venting the spread of disease. The experiment of framing :1 faw The Committ.ee on Post-Offices aud Post-Roads, to whom was referred S. No. 516 which shall not dislodge all the benefits of experience which local present session, respectfully submit the following report: self-government has so far furnished, is very difficult. The act approved August 11, 1876, volume 1!>, on page 130, contains the follow ing provi ion : Being therefore in favor of doing anything that practically and '' Whenever an accept.ad bidder shall fail to enter into contract, or a-contractor on justly can be done in the line of fending off the very approach of dis any mail-route shall fail or refuse to perform the service on said route according to ease from our country, and desiring to seen. bill so framed in this body his contract, or when a new route shall be established or new service required, or that it shall challenge the acceptance of the other House of Congress when, from any other cause, there shall not be a. contractor legally bound or re quired to perform such service, the Postmaster-General may make a temporary :ls well as a majority of the Senate, I shall vote that this bill in the contract for carrying the mail on sue h route without advertisement for sue h period light of the very intelligent, able, and earnest discussion to which it as may be necessary, not in any case exceedin~. six months, until the service shall has been subjected, shall go back to the same committee in order that ha>e commenced under a contract made accorarng to law." they may simplify in their expression and in the frame-work of the The Revised Sta.tut.es, section 3951, provides that the Postmaster-General may contract without advertisement for a. period not exceeding twelve months in such proposed law the objects and intents which the measure is to accom cases. plish. I merely say this much that my vote may not be misappre The inconvenience resnltine: from tho reduction from twelve to six: months was hended or misunderstood by those gentlemen who have given so much before the Committee on Post-Ofiices and Post-Roads at tho last ession, and a sec of earnest attention and ability to the preparation of this measure. tion " 'n.'I a-OEP ARTMR~T, the general principle of the bill, a1·e compelled to object to many of Washington, D. 0., April~. 1879. ita features. Srn: I beg to call the attention of your committ~e to a. paragraph in my la.st a.a- 1379. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. 1049

nua' report, page 11, relative to "temporary contracts" for carrying the mails, as between myself and the Senator from Kentucky; but as I understand follows: "The present law limiting the period for which temporary contracts may be the case it was sent as an amendment to the Committee on Appro made without advertisement to six months has occasioned much embarrassment priations, and when it came up for discussion there they thought it t.o the Department, and rendered it necessary to issue two miscellaneous advertise ought to come properly from the Committee on Public Buildings and ments each;year instead of one as formerly. The expense of establishing service Grounds, and therefore the Senator from Kentucky was asked to send is thereby considerably increased, and much additional labor is imposed upon the Department, with no advantage t.o the Government or the public. If temporar:r, it back to that committee for their action and not for the action of contracts could be made for one year, as formerly, the service would be benetitted. ' the Committee on Appropriations. The practical workings of this law have been specially inconvenient and expen Mr. ANTHONY. But the Committee on Public Buildings and sive during the current year and since the a~ove recc;>mmenda.tic;>n. ~rvi.ce of great Grounds have approved it. importance became necessary on the frontier and m the mrnmg districts of the West which could not wait the delay of an advertisement. The short limit of a Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia. That I have nothing to say about. temporary contract made the se.rvice more expensive than it would. haYe 1?ee;n Mr . ANTHONY. That appears on the records of the Senate. The ot herwise, and, owing to a delay m the passa"'e of the last po~t- route bill, the J!mit Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds approved it and recom of a temporary contract {six months) was rea-0hed before service could be obtatned under advertisement. As the result the service on several very important routeR mended the amendment and had it referred to the Committee on Ap had to be suspended and to remain so for from three t.o six months, to the great propriations. It has ~lready the approbation of both committees. inconvenience and loss of large communities. Mr. COCKRELL. This matter has been slumbering for ninety-odd I therefore beg to renew my recommendation that the law of August 11, 1876, be years and it will not be hurt by a little delay. Io bject to its present so amended as to permit the making of a temporary contract in the emergencies therein specified for the period of one year or until a contract can be secured by consideration and move its reference to the Committee on Public the succeeding advertisement. Buildings and Grounds. Very respectfully, The bill was referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and D. M. KEY, Grounds. Postmaste;--General. EXECUTIVE SESSIOX. Hon. S. B. MAxEY, Chairman Committee on Post-Offices and Post.Roads, Mr. VOORHEES. I move tllat the Senate proceed to the consid United States Senate. eration of executive business. The inconvenience proposed to be remedied by the bill needs, in the estimation The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the con of the committee, prompt a-0tion; wherefore the committee report the bill back "Without amendment and recommend it.s passage at the present session. sideration of executive business. After seven minutes spent in execu tive session the doors were reopened, and (at two o'cl_eck and ten The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered minut.es p. m.) the Senate adjourned. to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. Mr. HOAR. I desire that the amendment to the bill of which I ga.ve notice be referred to the committee with the bill itsolf. The PRESIDING OFFICER. That order will be made. THE GREENE STATUE. HOUSE OF REPRES&~ATIVES. Mr. ANTHONY asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave MONDAY, Jllay 5, 1879. to introduce a bill (S. No. 555) to secure the equestrian statue of Gen eral Nathaniel Greene upon the pedestal and to improve the square The House met at twelve o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. in which it is situated; which was read twice by its title. W . P. HARRISON, D. D. Mr. ANTHONY. As a similar bill has passed the Senat.e once, and The Journal of Sataruay last was read and approved. as this bill has the unanimous assent of the Committee on Appropria ORDER OF BUSINESS. tions, and is also reported from the Committee on Public Buildings The SPEAKER. The morning hour begins at nine minutes past and Grounds, I take the liberty to ask for its present consideration. twelve o'clock. This being Monday, the first business in order is th& Mr. COCKRELL. I understand that a similar bill was reporteu call of States and Territories, commencing with the State of Maine, from the committee at a former Congress favorably 'I for the introduction of bills and joint resolutions for reference to ap Mr. ANTHONY. It was. propriate committees, not to be brought back on a motion to recon Mr. COCKRELL. I think it is a very bad precedent to set, because sider. Under this call joint re olutions and memorials of State and a bill shall have been reported favorably, therefore the Senate shall territorial Legislatures are in order. Under this call, also, in aecord take it up and consider it at a subsequent Congress without further ance with the recent amendment of the rules, resolutions calling upon investigation. There have been a great many bills reported from the Executive Departments for information will be in order for ref various other committees favorably, and a number of them which erence to appropriate committees. passed the Senate at a former Congress have been reintroduced, and Mr. KELLEY. I ask unanimous consent that i.his call may be con the rule has been to refer them. I presume there will be no delay by tinued, without reference to the expiration of the morning horn·, until a reference in this case. all t.he States and Territories have been called. Mr. ANTHO:NY. This bill was referred as an amendment to the There being no objection, it was ordered accordingly. legislative appropriation bill to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and was reported by them and referretl to the Com :IIILITARY L.~TERFEUEN"CE AT ELECTIONS. mittee on Appropriations, and I have the authority of the Senator Mr. LADD introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1:3"2) to prohibit military from Kentucky [Mr. BECK] to state that the Committee on Appro interfence at elections; which was read a first and second time. priations are unanimously in favor of it. It is merely to secure upon Mr. COX. I call for the reading of the bill in fall. the pedestal the equestrian statue of Major-General Greene, which The bill, having been re::i.d, w:.i.s i·eferred to the Committee on th& was erected in accordance with a decree of the continental congress. Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. It is put upon a barren spot which is entirely unimproved, and it is so insecure upon its pedestal that it is in danger of being blown off by BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. every gale. I think the Senator from Kentucky will testify to the Mr. MURCH introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1383) to establish a bureau· fact that tha bill has received the unanimous approval of the Com of labor statistics; which was read a first and second time, referred mittee on .A.!Jpropriations. to the Committee on Education and Labor, and ordered to be printed. Mr. BECK. I have only this to say: the matter was sent to the BREAKWATER OS COAST OF MAINE. Committee on Appropriations, and we, feeling that we had not l?erhaps entire jurisdiction over it, after hearing the facts in regard to it, were Mr. MURCH also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1384) to provide for unanimo:!gly of the opinion that this bill ought to pass, but that it the construction of a breakwater at Rockland Harbor, in the State of ought to come from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Maine; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com and therefore I was instructed to refer the matter back to that com mittee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. mittee, which I did. Everything seemed to indicate that unless some LIGHT-HOUSES O.N COAST OF l\I~"E . thing was done the statue was in great danger of being destroyed, Mr. MURCH also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1385) to provide for and that it ought to be made secure at once or that perhaps great loss the construction of a light-house on Two Bash Islaml near l\fosclo might be sustained; and, therefore, there was no time for delay. Ridge plantation, on the con.st of Maine; which was read a first and Under these circumstances the committee thought such a bill ought second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and onlercd to to pass at once, but it ought to come from the Committee on Public be printed. Buildings and Grounds, with our recommendation, for what it was Mr. MURCH also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1386) to provide for worth. the construction of a light-house on 'Vidow's Island, at the eastern Mr. ANTHONY. It was reported from the Committee on Public entrance of Fox Island Thoroughfare, on the coast of Maine; which Buildings and Grounds and referred to the Committee on .Appropria was read a first and secoml time, referred to the Committee on Com tions, and has received the approbation of both committees. merce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. BECK. I t came from that committee to us, and so far had the approbation of both committees. DUTY O:X CRUDE INDIA-RUBBER. Mr. COCKRELL. I understand the Committee on Appropriations Mr. MURCH also (by request) introdnc~d a bill (H. R. No. 1387) i·eferred it back to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. fixing a duty on crude India-rubber; which was read a first and Mr. ANTHONY. No, the Committee on Public Buildings aml second time, referred to the Committee of Ways and .Means, and Grounds referred it to the Committee on Appropriations, and the ordered to be printed. CommitteeonAppropriations unanimouslyrecommend its pa~sage. GRA..."

LIEUTENANT FRA:?I.~ BAKER. JAMES A. BATES. Mr. CRAPO also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1::393) for the relief of Mr. WAIT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1409) for the relief of Lieutenant Frank Baker; whieh was read a first and second time, James A. Bates ; which was read a first a ud second time, and referred and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Military Affairs. SHIP-BUILDL.~G :MATERIALS. RICH.ARD F. LOPER. Mr. CRAPO also introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 1394) regulating the Mr. WAIT also introduced a bill (H. R . No. 1410) for the relief of importation of raw materials to be manufactured in the United States Richard F. Loper; which was read a first and second time, and re and used in the construction and repairs of vessels employed in the ferred to the Committee on Patents. foreign trade; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. l\IARY SHAY. Mr. WAIT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1411) grantin~ a pen F.A...~ry DIMM.ICK. sion to Mrs. Mary Shay, mot.her of Miles Shay, late a. private m Com Mr. CRAPO also introduced n. bill (H. R. No. 1395) granting a pen pany H, Seventh Regiment Connecticut Volunteers; which was read sion to Fanny Dimmick; which was read a first and second time, and a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. Pensions. OPHELIA E. SIMMO:YS. NEW LONDON NAVY-YARD. Mr. CRAPO also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1396) granting a pen ~fr.WAIT also introdnced a bill (H. R. No. 1412) making an appro siou to Ophelia E . Simmons; which was read a first and second time, priation for continuing the work on the New London navy-yard, in. and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the State of Connecticut; which was read a first and second time, re SOLDIERS AND SAILORS TOTALLY DI ABLED. ferred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed.. Mr. CRAPO also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1397) extending the EDWARD EUGK11."'E WILCOX.. provisions of the act approved June ld, 187 4, increasing the pensions Mr. WAIT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1413) authorizing n.nd of soldiers and sailors totally disabled; which was read a first and directing the Secretary of the Interior to restore to the pension-roll second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and the name of Edward Eugene Wilcox, a demented chilcl of Leonard ordered to be printed. Wilcox, late a private in Company E, Twenty-first Regiment Con COMPULSORY PILOT FEES. nec.ticut Volunteers; which was read a first and second time, and re ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. CRAPO also introduced a Lill (H. R. No. 1398) ~o relieve cer tain ships and vessels from compulsory pilot fees; which was read a GEORGE W. HUBBARD AND WILLIAM E. CONA..."'IT. first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and Mr. WAIT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1414) for the relief of ordered to be printed. George W. Hubbard and William E. Conant; which was read a first TREATY OF WASHINGTOK. and second time, and ref~rred to the Committee on Patents. 1\fr. CRAPO also presented resolves of the Commonwealth of Mas EDWARD K. WINSilIP. sachusetts concerning the fishery clauses of the treaty of Washing Mr.WAIT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1415) to authorize th& ton; which were referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. settlement of the accounts of Acting Assistant Payma8ter Edward K. Winship, United States Navy; which was read a first and second ti.me, SHIPMENT AND DI CHARGE OF SEAil!E:Y. and referred to the Cgmmittee on Naval Affairs. ?\fr. CLAFLIN introduced a bill (H. R. No.1399) to repeal and amend certain acts pertaining to the shipment and discharge of sea.men; G-EORGE T. MARSHALL. which was read a first and second time, :referred to the Committee on Mr. WAIT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1416) for the relief of Commerce, and ordered to be printed. George T. Marshall, late collector of customs at Stonington, Connecti cut; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the DO:N"ATION OF CONDE.."\e\ltD CANNOX. Committee on Commerce. Mr. CLAFLIN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1400) donating con demned cannon to each of the towns of Woburn, Wincbest.tir, and SOLDIERS' l\IONUMEXT AT KILLIXGLY, C03NECTICUT. Wakefield, in the State of Massachusetts; which was read a first and ~Ir. WAIT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1417) donating cannmt second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and or and cannon-balls for tibe construction of a suitable fence around tha dered to be printed. soldiers' monument at Killingly, Connecticut; which was read a first J.Ai'1ES GLAl\"IGA...~. and second time, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. CLAFLIN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1401) granting a · PUBLIC BUILDING, NORWICH, COIDmCTICUT. pension to James Gla.nigan; which was read a first and second time, Mr. WAIT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1418) for the erectioa. n.nd referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of a publio building at Norwich, Connecticut; which was read a first 1879. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1051

and second time, and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings SCHOONER-YACHT SEA DRIFT. and Grounds. Mr. COVERT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1430) to change the YERBA BUENA ISLAND. name of the schooner yacht Sea Drift; which was read a firat and 11-Ir. WAIT also iutrOlluced a bill (H. R. No. 1419) to quiet the title second time, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. ro the island of Yerba Buena; which was read a iirst and second STEAM-VESSELS. tim~ and referrc,d to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. BLISS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 14.31) to amend section 4400 CENTRAL FREE DISPENSARY; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. of title 52 of the Revised Statutes of the United States concerning Mr. WAIT also introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 33) appro the regulation of steam-vessels; which was read a first and second J>riating money to the Central Free Dispensary of the District of time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to ~ Columbia; which was read a first and second time, and referred to printed. the Committee on Appropriations. CAPTAIN E. M. REYNOLDS. SA.RAH RIPLEY. Mr. BLISS also introrluced a bill (H.R. No.1432) to restore Edward Mr. HAWLEY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1420) granting a pension McDonald Reynolds to the Marine Corps; which was read a first and to Sarah Ripley, widow of James W. Ripley, late brigadier-general second time, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affurs. and Chief of Ordnance United States Army; which was read a first EXT.EJ.."fSIO~ OF WINDER'S BUILDING. and second time, and referred to the Committee on In valid Pensions. Mr. BLISS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 14~3) to extend Wind HAnRIET E. EDWARDS. er's building, for the use of the War Department; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildin~ Mr. HAWLEY also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1421) granting a . and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. pension to Harriet E. Edwards, widow of David S. Edwards, late surgeon in the United States Navy; which was read a first and sec CLAD! OF JAMES E. KELSEY A.."'ID OTHERS. ond t.ime, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. BLISS also introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 37) refer ring to the Court of Claims the claim of James E. Kelsey, John Lough REPORT OF U~TJTED STATES CENTENNIAL CO:'IL'1IS8ION. lin, Theron Kelsey, and others, against the UnitedStatesfordamages Mr. HAWLEY also intro.doced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 34) to done to the schooner C. & C. Brooks; which was read a first and sec print 5,000 copies of the final report of the United States centennial ond time, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. commisssion upon the international exhibition and centennial cele bration of 1876; which was read a first and second time, and referred CHARLES SLAWSON. to the Committee on Printing. Mr. MASON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1434) to aniend an act granting a pension to Charles Slawson; which was read a first and ELECTORAL COUNT. second time, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. Mr. LOUNSBERY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 142"2) to regulate BENTON C. BARNES. the counting of the votes for President and Vice-President and to Mr. .MASON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1435} granting an prescribe the manner of declaring the resn1t; which was read a first increase of pension to Benton C. Barne~; which was read a first a.nd and second time, referred to the Committee on the state of the Law re second time, a.nd referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. • specting Ascertainment and Declaration of Result of Election of Pres ident and Vice-PrQsident, and ordered to be printed. GEORGE H"GGURIN. Mr. MASON also introduced a "hill (H. R. No. 14.36) granting an. AME:y]}:\IB..i.~T OF THE REVISED STATUTES. increa.ae of pension to George Hagurin; which wa.s .read a first and lfr. LOUNSBERY also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1423) to repeal second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sections 35&!, 3589, and 3590 of the Revised Statutes; which was read a fu·st and second time, referred to the Committee on Banking LEGISLATION ON APPROPRIATION" BILLS. and Currency, and ordered to be printed. Mr. VAN AERNAM presented a joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of New York declaring that "the refusal by a partisan SCH001'.""ER ISLE OF PCTES. majority in Congress to appropriate for the support of the National Mr. LOUNSBERY also introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 35) Government the moneys raised by the people for that purpose except authorizing the name of the schooner Isle of Pines to be changed to upon condition of the repeal or amendment of existing laws is a George S. Sleight; which wa-s read a. first and second time, and re dangerous violation of the Constitution, amoantiag practically to ferred to the Committee on Commerce. revolution," &c.; which was referred to the Committee on the Jadi ciary, and ordered to be printed. AlUENDME.i.~ OF REVISED STAT~JTES. Mr. VAN AERNAM called for the reading of the j oint resolution; Mr. FERNANDO WOOD introduced a bill (H. R. No.1424) to amend and it was read. section 2874 of the Revised Statutes; which was read a first and sec m.d time, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered RECORDS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITIO~. to be printed. ~Ir. MORTON (by request of the American Geographical Society) NATIOXAL ACADE)IY OF SCIE~CES. introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1437) authorizing the Secretary of War Mr. COX introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 1425) to authorize the Na to detail an officer of t,he Army to take command of the expedition U.ooal Academy of Sciences to receive and hold trust funds for the fitted out by Messrs. Morison & Brown, citizens of New York, to promotion of science, and for other purposes; which was read a first search for the records of Sir John Franklin's expedition, and to issue and second time, and referred to the Committee on the Library. to such officer Army equipments; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be REMOVAL OF POLITICAL DISABILITIES. printed. Mr. COX also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1426) to remove the dis CAN"CELIXG Im( FOR POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. abilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of the 1\1r. MORTON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1438) to amend a amendmenls to the Constitution of the United States; which was certain section of an act approved Jone 20, 1878, entitled" An act read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judi making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government ciary, and ordered to be printed. for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, and for other purposes; " TREATY WITH NORTH GERM~ CO]l."'FEDERATIOX. which was rea.d a fin~t and second time, referred to the Committee o• Mr. COX also introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 36) as to giving the Post-Office andPost-Roads, and ordered to be print~d. netice to the North German Confederation to terminate the treaty of ENGINEER OFFICERS L~ THE . NAVY. "February 22, 1868; which was read a first and second time, referred l\Ir. l\IORTON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1439) to amend sec to tho Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. tion 1484, Revised Statutes, in order to Jlreserve the meaning of the TRANSPORTATIO~ OF .ll."D1ALS. original law from which it was taken with reference to the rank of en Mr. COVERT int-rodaced a bill(H. R. No.1427)re1ativetothe trans gineer officers, graduates of the Naval Academy; which was read a portation of animals; which was read a first a,nd second time, re first and second time, referred to the Committee on Na val Affairs, and ferred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. ordered to be printed. RICHARD CARPENTER. STORM A~D FLOOD SIGNALS. Mr. COVERT also introduced a bill (.H. R. No. 1428) to test a plan Mr. FERDON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1440) granting a pension of storm and flood signals by the telegraph and cannon for the benefit to Richard Carpenter; which was read a first and second time, and of commerce and agriculture and to give warning of sudden- floods in referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. rapid rivers; which was read a first and second time, referred t;o the JOHN" HOPPER. Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Mr. FERDON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1441) granting a pensio• BENJAMIN" WALKER ATKINSON. to John Hopper; which was read a first and second time, a.nd re ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. COVERT also introduced u. bill (H. R. No. 1429) to authorize thePresidentof the United St&tes to appoint Benjamin Walker Atkin JOHN" COUDLL~ . son to a cadetship at large int.he United States Military Academy; Mr. VOORIDS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1442) granting arreal'S which ·was read a. first and second time, and referred to the Commit of pension to John Coudlin; which was reaa a first and second time, "000 on l\Iilitary Affairs. and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensio.!ls.

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JOHN ROSE. JA..1\!ES P. SAYER. Mr. SMITH, of New Jersey, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1443) grant Mr. SHALLENBERGER introduced a bill (H. R . No. 1460) grant mg a pension to John Rose, of Budd Town, Burlington County, New ing an increase of pension to James P . Sayer; which was read a first Jersey; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Committee on Invalid Pensions. MARIA.J.~ F. HAYNIE. WILLIAM HUGHES. Mr. SHALLE:NBERGER also (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. Mr. SMITH, of New Jersey, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1444) No. 1461) for the relief of Marian F. Haynie; which was read a first for the relief of William Hughes; which was read a first and second and second time, and referred to the Committee on Na.val Aff;.lirs. time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. SP.Al\~SH-AMERICAN co:mrnRCIAL COMPANY. AG~"'"ES FAIRLY. Mr. SHALLENBERGER also (by request) introduced a bill (II. R. Mr. ROBESON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1445) granting a pen- No. 1462) to incorporate the Spanish-American Commercial Company; sion to Agnes Fairly, widow of David Fairly; which was read a first which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. on Commerce. GIFTS, DEVISES, A.J..~ BEQUESTS TO UNITED STATES. EDWARD H. LEIB. Mr. CLYMER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1446) in relation to gifts, Mr. COFFROTH introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1463) granting a pen devises, and bequests to the United States; which was read a first sion to Edward H. Leib ; which was read a first and second time, and and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. o.rdered to be printed. ED1\!1Th"D EASTIIA.J..~. WILLLUI L. CURRY POST. Mr. COFFROTH also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1464) granting Mr. O'NEILL introduced a bill (H. R. No.1447) donating condemned a pension to Edmund Eastman, Two hundred and second Regiment of cannon and cannon balls or field-pieces to the William L. Corry Post, Pennsylvania Volunteers; which was read a first and second time, No. 18, Grand Army of the Republic, for their place of ourial; which and refeITed to the Committee on Invalid Pensione. was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on LEVI LEIDll!. Military Affairs. J.\Ir. COFFROTH also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1465) granting a GEORGE EYSTER. pension to Levi Leidam, Company E, One hundred and twenty-fifth Mr. O'NEILL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1448) for the relief Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; which was read a first and sec of George Eyster, assistant treasurer of the United States at Phila ond time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. delphia, Pennsylvania; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. lllRS. :M:ARY KENNEDY. Mr. COFFROTH also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1466) granting a. COLUMBIA SA.i.~TA.RY COMPANY. pension to Mrs. Mary Kennedy, reinstating her name on the pen Mr. O'NEILL also (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1449) sion-roll; which waa read a first and second time, and referred to the to incorporate the Columbia Sanitary Company; which was read a Committee on Invalid Pensions. :fir8t and second time, referred to the Committee on Epidemic Dis eases, and ordere·d to be printed. MA.RY A.. CASTERWELLER. Mr. WISE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1467) granting a pension to STEPHEN W . ALVORD. Mary A. Casterweller, widow of John Casterweller, a soldier of the Mr. OVERTON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1450) for the relief of late war; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Stephen W. Alvord, late postmaster at Towanda, Pennsylvania; Committee on Invalid Pensions. which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Commit tee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. MRS. GEORGE LOSE. Mr. WISE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1468) granting a pen RAILWAY CHAIRS. sion to Mrs. George Lose; which was read a first and second time, l\Ir. OVERTON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1451) empowering and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Commissioner of Patents to extend the letters-patent granted to D. W. Crocker, of Deposit, New York, for railway chairs; which was MA.RY ANN M'CARROL. read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Pat Mr. BAYNE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1469) granting a pension ents. to Mary Ann McCarrol; which was read a first and second time, and JAMES B. FUIDIA..i..~. referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. OVERTON also introduced a bill(H. R. No. 1452) for the relief FRANCIS H. BIRD. of James B. Forman, of Austinville, Bradford County, Pennsylvania; Mr. BAYNE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1470) granting a pen which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee sion to Francis H . Bird; which was read a first and second time, and on Invalid Pensions. referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. JAMES R. GORDON. FABRICATION OF GUNS, ETC. Mr. OVERTON also introduced a bill (H. R.No.1453) for the relief J.\Ir. BAThTE also introduced a resolution requesting the Secretary of James R. Gordon, of Columbia Cross Roads, Bradford County, of War to furnish information regarding the fabrication, conversion, Pennsylvania; which was read a first and second time, and referred &c., of guns, &c.; which was referred to the Committee on Military to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Affairs. J. CLINTON DE WITT. H. K. RANDALL AND OTHERS. l\Ir. OVERTON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1454) for the relief Mr. HENKLE (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1471) for of J. Clinton De Witt, of Canton, Bradford County, Pennsylvania; the 1·elief of the estate of H . K. Randall and others; which was read which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee a first and second time, and referred to the Committee for the Dis on Invalid Pensions. trict of Columbia. ALBERT O. MILLER. LABORERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Mr. OVERTON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 14-55) granting a Mr. HENKLE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1472) amenda.tory of pension to Albert 0 . Miller, late seaman in the United States Navy; the act of June 20, 1878, to pay the laboring-men of the District of which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee Columbia; which was read a first and second time, referred to the on Invalid Pensions. Committee for the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. A:NDREW J. HORTON. PUBLIC BUILDIXGS, ETC. Mr. OVERTON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1456) granting a Mr. HENKLE also (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1473) pension to Andrew J . Horton; which was read a first and second time, for more effectually protecting the public bmldings, property, and and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. records from destruction by fire; which was read a first and second FRANCIS O'CLEARY. time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. OVERTON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1457) granting a pension to Francis O'Cleary; which was read a first and seeond time, CAPTAL.~ ROBERT C. BAMFORD. and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. URNER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1474) grantiag a pension RETIRING TRADE-DOLLAR. to Captain Robert-C. Bamford; which was rea

Carolina; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of Committee of Claims. on Coinage, Weights amd Measures, and ardered to be printed. PAYMENT OF EMPLOYES IN TOBACCO OR CIGARS. SAMUEL. I. GUSTIN. Mr. KITCHIN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1505) to allow employ Jilr. STEPHENS also introduced a bill (II. R. No.1520) for the relisf ers to pay their employes in tobacco or cigars without being sub of Samuel I. Gustin; which was read a first :rad seconci time, and re ject to a license tax as wholesale or retail dealers; which was read a ferred to the Committee of Claims. first and second time, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, JAMES BUCHANAN. and ordered to be printed. Mr. SMITH, of Georgia, introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 1521) for the E.MILE LEPAGE. relief of James :Ruchana.n, of Georgia; which was read a :first and Mr. MARTIN, of North Carolina, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1506) second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. for the relief of Emile Lepage, of Virginia; which was read a first SULPHATE OF QUININE. and second time, and referred to the Committee on ~ar Claims. Mr. SPEER introduced a bill (II. R. No.152~) to repeal the dut.yon THOMAS W. KNIGHT. importation of sulphate of quinine; which was read a first and sec l.fr. MARTIN, of North Carelina, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. ond time, referred to the Committee of Way.s and Means, and ordered 1507) for the relief of Thomas W. Knight, administrator of R. B. to be printed. · Knight, of North Carolina; which was read a first and second time, EMILY W. OGDEN. and referred to the Committee of Claims. Mr. HERNDON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1523) granting a pen JA.Mll:S RID'FIN WOOD. sion toEmilyW. Ogden; which was read a first and second time, a.nd referred to the Committee on Invalid Pe:nsions. Mr. MARTIN, of North Carolina, also introduced a bill {H. R. No. 1508) granting a pension to James Ruffin Wood; which was read a MOBILE All"'D OHIO RAILROAD CO:MPA..."IT". :first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pen Mr. HERNDON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1524) to nnthori.ze sions. the Secretary of the Treasury to refund certain internal-revenue taxes THOMAS K. FEOGA.N. erroneously collected from the .Mobile ·and Ohio Railroad Company; Mr. MARTIN, of North Carolina, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of 1509) for the relief of Thomas K. Feogan, of North Carolina; whiclt Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. was read a first and second time, and referred to the eommittee on CHOCTAWHATCHEE AND PEA RIVERS. War Claims. Mr. SAMFORD introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1525) for the improve ASSISTANT TREASURER Oli' THE UNITED STA.TES, CHARLESTON. ment 4ilf the Choctawhatchie and Pea Rivers; which was read a first Mr. O'CONNOR introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1510) to re-establish and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered the office of assistant treasurer of the United States, at Charleston, to be printed. South Carolina; which was read a first and second time, referred to U1'"'ITED STA TES TIMBER LANDS. the Qommittee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. HERBERT introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1526) to put into mar

MARION ARTILLERY, CHA.RLES~N, SOUTH CAROLIN.A. ket certain timbered lands of the UnitQd States, and for other pur poses; which was read a. first and second time, referred to the Com Mr. O'CONNOR also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1511) to authorize mittee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. the Secretary of War to deliver to A. B. Rhett, T. Pinckney Lowndes, and others, four Napoleon guns, with caissons and harness, now at HOMESTEAD SETTLERS. Greensborough, North Carolina, for the use of the Marion Artillery, Mr. HERBERT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1527) for the relief CharlestQn, South Carolina; which wa.s read a :first and second time, &f homestead settlers; which was read a first and second time, re referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and oroored to be ferred to the Committee on Public Ln.nds, and ordered to be printed. printed. FOURTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. JULIA A. ~UTT. Mr. O'CONNOR alao introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1312) to alter and Mr. SINGLETON, of Mississippi, introduced a bill (H. It. No.1528) appoint the times for holding the cirooit court of the Uitlt.ed States for the relief of Julia A. Nutt, widow and executrix of Haller Nutt, for the fourth jYdicial circuit, and for otm.er purposes; which was deceased; which was read a first and seoond time, and referred to read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee om. the Judi the Committee on ~ar Claims. ciary, ainti. ordered to be printed. A. KARPE. CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. Mr. SINGLETON, of Mississippi, also introduced a bill (H R. No. Mr. O'CONNOR also introduced a bill(H.R. No.1513)providingfor 1529) for the relief of .A.. Karpe; which was read a first and second the judicial ascertainment of claims against the United S1mtes; which time, and referred to the Committee on War Claims. was read a :first and seeond time, referred to the Committee on Reform W.W. WELSH. in the Civil Service~ and ordered to be printed. Mr. SINGLETON, of ltississippi, al.80 introduced a bill (H. R. No. SAMUEL LORD, JR. 1530) for the relief of W.W. Welsh; which was read a first and see Mr. EVINS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1514) for the delivery to ond time, and referred to the Committee on War Claims. Samuel Lord, jr., receiver, of certaiin bonds now in the. Treasury of DRURY BYNUM. the United States; which was read a first and second time, referred Mr. SINGLETON, of Mississippi, a,lso introduced a. bill (H. R. No. to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 1531) for the relief of Drury Bynum; which was read a firs"G and sec EDUCATIONAL FUND. ond tiB'.le, and referred to the Committ.ee on Public Lands. Mr. RICHARDSON, of South Carolina, introduced a bill (H. R. LOYAL CLAIM~"'"TS. No.1515) to establish an educational fund and apply a portion of the Mr. MANNING (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1532) for proceeds of the public lands to public education, and to provide for the relief of certain citi11ens claiming to be loyal, and whose claims the more complete endowment aifd support of national eolleges for are now pending before Ccmgress; which was read a :first and secon.d the advancement of scientific and industrial educatio.a; which was time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ardered to be read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Education printed. and Labor, and ordered to be printed. DELIVERY AXD RETUIL~ Oli' LETTERS. MA.CON, GEORQLL. Mr. MONEY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1533) to facilitate the de Mr. BLOUNT introduGed a bill (H. R. No. 1516) for the relief of livery of letters, and the speedy return to the writers thereof of snob Macon, Georgia; which was read a first and second time, ::i.nd referred as are refused or cannot be delivered; which was read a first and ts the Committee of Claims. second time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Past SECOND GEOROIA. BATTALION. Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. BLOUNT also in'troduced a bill (H. R. No. 1517) authorizing POSTAL E!\IPLOYES. the Secretary of War to furnish to the Second Georgia Battalion Mr. MONEY also introducea a bill (H. R. lfo. 1534) to exempt pos tents, &c.; which was read a first and second time, referred to the tal employes from serving 1ipon juries; which was read a first aml Committee on Military .AJfairs, aml ordered to be printed. second time, referred to the Committee on th.e Post-Offioo and Pesti Roads, and ordered to lte printed. ADDITIONAL JUDICIAL DiiDTRICT1 GEORGIA. Mr. BLOUNT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1518) to create an Q:OMBIGBEE RIVER. addHtional judicial district of the State of Georg}Q, and for other pur Mr. MULDROW introc;luced a bill (H. R. No. 1535) making a'l1 ap posee; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com propriation for the improvement of the Tombigbee River; whieh was mittee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. read a first and imcond time, referred to the Commi11tee on Commerce, INGOTS OF GOLD AND SILVER, ETC. and ordered to be lrinted. Mr. STEPHENS introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 1519) to anthorire the CORA. A. SLOCUMB ilD OTHERS. making of ingots o-f fine gold and ingots of fine silv~r of the value of Mr. ELLIS introduced a bill (IL R. No.1536) for the relief of Cora lOO each for exportation, manufactures, and ior other purposes; A. Slocamb, Ida.A.. Richard.Bon, and Caroline.A,. Urqu1Lart; whi1ih w~ . • 1879. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1055

read a first and second time, ancl referred to the Committee on War Mr. GIBSON. I wish merely to say that this joint resolution does Claims. not propose to authorize the President to appoint commmissioners for GREAT SOUTHER~ RAILROAD C0:\1PANY• . the establishment of a treaty in the ordinary sense of the word. It Mr. ELLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1537) to aid the Great proposes to authorize the appointment of commissionerl!I on behalf of Southern Railway Company (consolidated) to construct a line of Congress, who may recommend a revision of the tariff policy bet.ween railway in the States. of Georgia and Florida; which wa.s read a first the government of .Mexico and that of the United States. Inasmuch a.nd second time, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroads, a.s, therefore, the scope of this joint resolution relates entirely to the and ordered to be printed. question of taxation, I think it should be referred to the commitwe having charge of that subject. 1\IAIL TEAM.SHIP ERVICE. Mr. REAGAN. Allow me to say one word. Mr. ROBERTSON (by request) introduced a bill !H. R. No. 1538) to The SPEAKER. The Chair really cannot allow debate, that-not authorize the esta\lishment of mail-steamship service between the being strictly in order. The Chair has allowed the three gentle United States and Central America; which was read a first and sec men who have manifested an interest in this matt.er to make a state ond time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post ment. Roads, and ordered to be printed. Mr. REAGAN. Only a single word. The object of this joint reso Il\IPROVE.}IE...'TT OF THE l\IISSISSIPPI RIVER. lution is to promote commercial relations and intercourse between Mexico and the United States. It relates entirely to commerce. Be Mr. GIBSON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1539) to provide for the cause something about the machinery of that commerce is put into appointment of a Mississippi River commission for the improvement the joint resolution, it is proposed to refer it to the Committee of Ways ef said river from the head of the passes near its mouth to its head and Means. waters; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. GmsoN] mittee on Levees and Improvement of the Mississippi River, and moves to refer the joint resolution to the Committee of Ways alild ordered to be printed. .Means. The gentleman from New York [Mr. Cox] moves to amend PUBLIC 1\1ARINE SCHOOLS. that motion so as to refer it to the Committee on Foreign Affairs ; and Mr. GIBSON also introduced a, bill (H. R. No. 1540) to amend an the gentleman from Texas [Mr. REAGAN] moves to further amend so act entitled "An act to encourage the establishment of public marine a.s to refer it to the Committee on Commerce. schools," approved June 20, 1874, so as to extend it to the ports of Mr. COX. The Committee on Foreign Affairs already have bills of Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, and Gal a similar nature before them. veston; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com The question was ta.ken upon the motion of Mr. REAGAN; and it mittee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. was not agreed to. The question was then taken upon the motion of Mr. Cox; and . PORTS FOR UNA.PPRAISED MERCHA.!.~ISE. upon a division there were-ayes 63, noes 23. Mr. GIBSON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1541) to make the No further count being called for, the joint resolution was accord ports of Brownsville, Galveston, aml Houston, Texas, ports to which ingly referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to nnappraised merchandise may be transported; which was read a be printed. :first a.nd second time, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH BRAZIL. }Ir. GIBSON also iptroduced a joint resolution (H. R . N@. 44) author CHARLES CLTh"'TON. izing the appointment of commissioners to ascertain on what terms a Mr. GIBSON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1542) for the relief of mutually beneficial treaty of commerce with Brazil can be arranged; Charles Clinton, of New Orleans, late assistant i!reasurer at New Or which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of leans ; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Committee of Ways and Means. COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH CANADA. TREATY OF CO:\BIERCE WITH FRANCE. Mr. GIBSON also introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 45) auth8r Mr. GIBSON also introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 42) au izing the appointment of commissioners to ascertain on what terms a thorizing the appointment of commissioners to ascertain on what mutually bebeficial treaty of commerce with Canada can be arranged ; terms a mutually beneficial treaty of commerce with France ean be which was read a first and second time, ref~rred to the Committee of arranged; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. • COIDIERCIAL TREATY WITH )IEXICO. CO::.\t:MERCIAL TREATY WITH l-IEXICO. Mr. GIBSON also introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 46) author Mr. GIBSON also introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 43) au izing the appointment of commliisioners to ascertain on what terms a thorizing the appointment of commissioners to ascertain on what mutually be11 eficial treaty of commerce with Mexico can be arranged;. terms a mutually beneficial treaty of commerce with Mexico can. be which was read a first anIndiana, and to pay any arrearsof annuities due to them under trea John Dwyer, of the city of Wa-!:!hington, District of Columbia; which ties of the United St.ates; which was read a first and second time, was read a first ~nd second time, and referred to the Committee on referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. War Claims. REPORTS OF CLARENCE KING. ACT I:NDE:.\INIFYING STATES. Mr. BUTTERWORTH (for 1\fr. NEAL) introduced a joint resolution Mr. THOMPSON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1563) to declare tlle {H. R. No. 50) providing for the printing of 1,200 copies of the reports intent and meaning of an act approved July '27, 1661, entitled'' Au ·of Clarence King; which was read a first and second time. referred act to indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in defonse to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. ' of the United States;" which was read a first and second time, re PURITY OF ELECTIONS. ferred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. BUTfERWORTH also (for Mr. NEAL) introduced a bill (H. R. R. H. 1\IARTIN. No.1547) to punish bribery and treating atelectfons; which was read Mr. THOMPSON also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1564) for the ben a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, efit of R. H. Martin, of Campbellsville, Kentucky ; which was read a • and ordered to be printed. first and second time, and referred to the Committee on the Post-Office Mr. BUTTERWORTH also (for Mr. NEAL) introduced a bill (H. R. and Post-Roads. No. 1548) to further preserve the purity of elections; which was read JOHN C. HERNDO~. a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, Mr. PHISTER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1565) for the benefit of and ordered to be printed. John C. Herndon, formerly of Mason County, Kentucky; which was 1879. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1057· read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on War FANNY S. CONWAY. Claims. Mr. WILLIS also introduced a. bill (H. R. No.1583) for the relief of S.A.LE OF LEAF-TOBACCO. Mrs. Fanny S. Conway, of Louisville, Kentucky ; which was read a. Mr. KNOTT introduced a bill (H. R.No. 1566) to repeal so muchof first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. the sixth clause of section 3244 of the Revised Statutes of the United J. R. MIDDLETON. States as prohibits farmers and planters from selling leaf-tobacco at l'etail directly to consumers without the payment of a special tax ; Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1584) for the relief of which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of J. R. Middleton, of Louisville, of the State of Kentucky; which was Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on War Claims. PIUS A. COOMES. WILLIAM GEISSEL. Mr. KNOTT also introduced a bill (H. R. N o.1567) granting a pen Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R: No. 158!>) for the relief of sion to Pius A. Coomes; which was read a. first and second time, and William Geissel, late a second lieutenant of the Sixth Regiment of .referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Kentucky Volunteer Infantry; which was read a. first and second CONGRESSIONAL PRINTER. time, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. KNOTT a.lso introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1568) to provide for RIVERS AND HARBORS. the election of a Congressional Printer, and for otherpurposee; which Mr. THOMAS TURNER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1586) to a.mead was r~::id a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Print an act entitled" An act making appropriations for the construc~ion, ~ng_ and ordered to be printed. repair, preservation, and completion of certain works on rivers and WILLIAM H. WALKER. harbors, and for other purposes," approved March 4, 1879 ; which was Mr. CALDWELL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1569) granting a pen read a first and second time, referred to the Committoo on Commerce, sion to William H. Walker, of Fentress County, Tennessee, late of and ordered to be printed. Company C, First Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Ca.valry; which MASONIC LODGE, CYNTHIANA, KENTUCKY. , was read a :tirst and second time, and referred to the Committee on Mr. CARLISLE introduced a. bill (H. R. No. lfi87) for the relief of Invalid Pensions. Saint Andrew's Lodge, No. 18, Free and .Accepted Masons, C_ynthiana, SALE OF TOBACCO. Kentucky-; which was read a first and second time, and referred to Mr. OSCAR TURNER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1570) to permit the Committee on War Claims. farmers and planters to sell tobacco of their own production without special t ax, and for other purposes; which was read a first and eec ESTATE OF THOMAS V. STIRMAN. -0ml time, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered Mr. CARLISLE also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1588) for the relief to be printed. of the estate of Thomas V. Stirman, deceased, late of Harrison County, TAX ON BRANDY. Kentucky; which was read a first and second time, and referred to Mr. OSCAR TURNER also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1571) to the Committee on War Claims. .abolish all taxes on brandy made of apples and peaches in the United ISAAC N. WEBB • States; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com Mr. CARLISLE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1589) for the relief mittee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be pri~ted. of Isaac N. Webb, of Harrison County, Kentucky; which was read a WILLIAM GREGORY. first and second time, and referred to the Committee on War Claims. Mr. McKENZIE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1572) restoring the THOMAS C. ISGRIG. name of William Gregory, of Mnhlenburgh County, Kentucky, to the Mr. CARLISLE also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1590) for the relief pension roll; which was read a first and second time, and referred to of Thomas C. Isgrig, of Pike County, Missouri; which was read a first the Committee on Invalid Pensions. and second time, and referred to the Committee on War Claims. JOHN GAULT, JR. WILLIAM W. A.i.""il>ERSON. Mr. WILLIS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1573) for the relief of John Mr. CARLISLE also introduced a bill (H.R. No. 1591) for the relief Gault, jr., late a.-major of the Twenty-eighth Regiment of Kentucky of William W. Anderson, of Harrison County, Kentucky; which was Volunteer Infantry; which was read a first and second time, and read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on War referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Claims. KATE WILHARLITZ. JAMES S. FRIZELL. Mr. WILLIS also introduced a. bill (H. R. No.1574) granting a pen Mr. CARLISLE also introduced a bill (H. R.No.1592) for the relief sion to Kate Wilharlitz; which wa-B read a first and second time, and of James S. Frizell, of Dayton, Ohio, and late of Harrison County, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Kentucky; which was read a first n.nd second time, and referred to JAMES HOPWOOD. the Committee on War Claims. Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1575) for the relief of MARCUS L. BROADWELL. J'ames Hopwood ; which was read a first and second time, and referred Mr. CARLISLE also introduced a bill (H.R.No.1593) for the relief -to the Committee of Claims of the estate of Marcus L. Broadwell, deceased, late of Harrison HEms OF EDWARD B. CLARK. County, Kentucky; which was read a first and second time, and re ferred to the Committee on War Claims. Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1576) for the relief of the heirs of Ed ward B. Clark; which was read a first and eecond time, JOSEPH B. M'CLINTOCK. .and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Mr. CARLISLE also introduced a bill (H.R.No.1594) for \he relief F. STITZEL & BROTHER. of Joseph B. McClintock, of Harrison County, Kentucky; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on War Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1577) for the relief Claims. cf F. Stitzel & Brother; which was read a first and second time, and Ieferred to the Committee of Ways and Means. MRS. ANNA J. GUEST. Mr. WHITTHORNE introduced a bill (H. R. No. l!l95) granting a GILBERT A. PHILLIPS. pension to Mrs. Anna J. Guest, widow of Commodore John Guest, late Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1578) granting a. pen- of the United States Navy; which was read a first and second time, sion to Gilbert A. Phillips; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .and referred the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to BERRY H. VAUGHN. MRS. SALLIE T. WARD. Mr. TAYLOR introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1596) granting a pension Mr. WILLIS 2lso introduced a bill (H. R. No.1579) granting a pen- to Berry H. Vaughn; which waa read a first and second time, and sion to Mrs. Sallie T. Ward; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. -and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. PATSY DAVENPORT. MRS. ANN SHEFFIELD. Mr. TAYLOR also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1597) granting a pen.- Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1580) granting a pension to Patsy Davenport; which was read a first and second time, and sion to l'rlrs. Ann Sheffield; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .and referred to tho Committee on Invalid Pensio11s. ASSISTANT UNITED STATES DISTRICT .A.TIORNEYS. KETURAH A. COLLINS. Mr. TAYLOR also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 159'3) to abolish the Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1581) granting a pen office of assistant Unitecl States district attorney for the various dis sion to Keturah A. Collins; which was read a first and second time, tricts and circuits in the United Sta.tes; which was read a. first and ·and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. second time, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, JOHN B. l'.>IARTIN. and ordered to be printed. Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1582) granting a pen AMENDMENT OF REVISED STATUTES. • sion to John B. Martin, of Louisville, Kentucky; which was read a Mr. DIBRELL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1599) to repeal part o! first and second time, and referred t o the Committee on Invalid Pen section 643 of the Revised Statutes; also a bill (H. R. No. 1600) to tSions. repeal section 3412 of the Revised Statutes; which were read a. finlL IX-67 1058 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MAY 5,

and second time, referred to the Committee on the Revision of the MRS. SALLIE JARRATT. Laws, and ordered to be printed. Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1612)\ COLLECTION OF CUSTOMS. for the relief of Mrs. Sallie J a.rratt, executrix of Gregory J arra.tt, de Mr. DIBRELL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1601) to reduce the cea-sed, late of Hardeman County, Tennessee; which, waa read a first expenees of collecting customs; which waa read a first and second and second time, and referred to the Committee on War Claims. time, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to MARY DONELLOS. be printed. SMALL DISTILLERS. Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1613) granting a pension to Mary Donellon ; which was read n. :first and Mr. DIBRELL also introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 1602) for the relief second time, and referred to the Commit_tee on Invaµd Pensions. of distillers of small capacity; which was read a. :first and second time, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to CESSION OF LAND TO MEMPms, TENNESSEE. be printed. Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1614} PENSION FOR WAR OF 1812· to cede to the city of Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, a certain Mr. DIBRELL also submitted a resolution calling on the Secretary lot of land situated in said city; which was read a :first and second of the Interior for information in relation to pensions withheld from time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, soldiers of the war of 1812; which was referred to the Committee on and ordered to be printed. Revolutionary Pensions. JOHN ALLEN. NATIONAL :MEMORIAL ORPHAN ASSOCIATION. Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1615) for the relief of John Allen, of Hardeman County, Tennessee; which Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1603) estab was read a first and second tirue, and referred to the Committee on lishing a national memorial orphan association ; which was read a War Claims. first and second time, referred to the Committee on Epidemic Dis J. D. BOND & BROTHER. eases, and ordered to be printed. Mr. MCMILLIN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1616) for the relief of NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH. J. D. Bond & Brother, of Wilson County, Tennessee; which was Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1604) read a first and second time, and referred t-0 the Committee of Ways to increase the efficiency of the National Board of Health and to pre and Means. vent the introduction into or spread within the United States of con NATHANIEL HALBEltT. tagious and infectious diseases ; which was read a first and second Mr. MCMILLIN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1617) granting a. time, referred to the Committee on the Origin, Introduction, and Pre pension to Nathaniel Halbert; which was read a :first and second vention of Epidemic Diseases in the United States, a.nd ordered to be time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. printed. GEORGE N. BARBER. IMPROVEl\.IBNT OF CANEY FORK RIVER. Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1605) Mr. MCMILLIN also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1618) making ap for the relief of the widow and children of George N. Barber, late a propriations to improve the Caney Fork River; which was read a. pensioner of the United States; which waa read a first and second first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and time, and referred to the Committee on Inva.lid Pensions. ordered to be printed. JOHN B. PEYTON. TEXAS PACIFIC RAILWAY. Mr. MCMILLIN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1619) authorizing Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, (by request,) also introduced a bill (H. the appointment of John B. Peyton to the office of paymaster in the R. No. 1606) to provide for the construction of a railway from the Army; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Mississippi waters to the Pacific Ocean, and amendatory of and sup Committee on Military Affairs. plemental to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company and to aid in the construction of its road, and for IMPROVEMENT OF OBEDS RIVER. ot.her purposes," approved March3, 1871, and the several act.a amend Mr. McMILLIN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1620) making an atory thereof and supplemental thereto ; which was read a first and appropriation to improve the Obeds River; which was read a first second time, referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered ordered, to be printed. to be printed. MARINE HOSPITAL, MEMPms, TENNESSEE. TRIBUTARY STREAMS OF TE.NNESSEE RIVER. Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1607) to Mr. HOUK introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1621) making appropria provide :for the construction of a marine hospital in the city of Mem tions to improve the navigation of tributary streams of the Tennessee phis, Tennessee; which was read a :first and second time, referred to River; which was read a first and second t.ime, referred to the Com the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. mittee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. MRS. MARGARET WOODWORTH. THOMAS L. DUNCAN. Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 1608) Mr. HOUK also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1622) for the relief of for the relief of Mrs. Margaret Woodworth, widow of the late John M. Thomas L. Duncan, of Anderson County, Tennessee; which was read Woodworth, Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service; which a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee of Pensions. Claims. JOHN HENRY. MOLLIE B. WALDO. Mr. HOUK also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1623) for the relief of Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1609) John Henry, of Jefferson County, Tennessee; which was read a :first for the relief of Mollie B. Waldo, widow of the late Assistant Surgeon and second time, and referred to the Committee on War Claims. Roswell Waldo, of the Marine Hospital Service; which was read a :first HARDIER. BROWN. and second time, and referred to the Committee of Claims. Mr. HOUK also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 16'24) for the relief of

GENERAL QUARA.l.~TTh"'E LAW. Hardie R. Brown, late a second lieutenant of Company G, Sixth Ten nessee Volunteer Infantry ; which was read a :first and second time,. Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also presented a joint resolution of the and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, requesting the enactment of a general quarantine law; which was referred to the Committee DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BUSINESS. on the Origin, Introduction, and Prevention of Epidemic Diseases in Mr. HUNTON. Mr. Speaker, the hour of two o'clock has arrived, the United States, and ordered to be printed. at which time we are entitled to take the :floor for the District of Columbia business. DUTY ON QUINTh"'E. Mr. CLARK, of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, was not unanimous consent Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also presented a joint resolution of the given to complete the call of States for introduction of bill.a 7 General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, asking the reduction of The SPEAKER. The Chair will stat.e the present situation. The the duty on quinine; which was referred to the Committee of Ways Committee for the District of Columbia was given to-day at two o'clock, and Means, and ordered to be printed. with all the privileges granted by Rules 74 and 82. Among those MRS. MARY SPEED. privileges to-day after two o'clock was to be devoted exclusively to Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1610) the business reported from that committee. At a subsequent period for the relief of Mrs. Mary Speed, of Memphis, Shelby County, Ten unanimous consent was given that the call of the States should be nessee; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the gone through with to-day under the call provided for in Role 130. Committee on War Clalms. Under such circumstances the Chair thinks that the condition made 1 in favor of the District of Columbia would be operative at two o'clock. • LUCINDA M GUIRE. He is willing, however, to submit the question to the House so the Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1611) House may determine which order it shall proceed with at this time. for the relief of Lucinda McGuire, of Memphis, Tennessee; which Mr. COX. Does the District Committee claim it f was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on The SPEAKER. The chairman of that committee is on the floor War Claims claiming it. 1879. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1059

Mr. COX. It has been always ruled when the District Committee GEORGE W. LOWE. claimed it nothing could stand in the way of that committ.ee. Mr. BRO~'E also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 16a.5) granting a The SPEAKER. This is not the regubr District of Columbia day pension to George W. Lowe, late captain Eighty-third Regiment not the regular day granted to that committee under the role. Indiana Volunteers; which was read a .first and second time, refeued Mr. COX. I do not know how it is about such an exceptional case. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. . . 1rlr. SPARKS. Let the call be proceeded with if t here be no objec tion. FRANCIS M. MAY. The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks under strict const ruction the Mr. BROWNE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1636) for the relief Committee for the District of Columbia would be entitled to this day of Francis M. May, nostmaster at Winchester, Indiana; which was after two o'clock. read a first and second time, and referred to t he Committee of Claims. Mr. HUNTON. I do not wish to be obstinate about this. What is JOHN W. STEVE...~S. the opinion of the Chair 7 · Mr. BROWNE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1637) restoring the The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks it would take half an hour yet name of John W. Stevens, a soldier of the Mexican war, to the pen to complete the call of States. sion-roll; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the :Mr. HUNTON. Will it not take more than half an hour Y Committee on Invalid Pensions. The SPEAKER. The Chairthinks that it will not take more than a half hour. W ASHI.NGTON L. COLGROVE. Mr. HUNTON. I am perfectly willing to accommodate members Mr. BROWNE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 16::JS) ·for the relief around me, and will yield for a half hour with the distinct under of Washington L. Colgrove, of Winchester, Indiana; which was read standing, however, that at the expiration of that time we shall have a :first and second time, and referred to the Committee of Claims. the floor for the District business. FREDERICK VOGEL. GEORGE L. KEY. Mr. BROWNE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1639) for the relief Mr. BICKNELL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1625) for the relief of of Frederick Vogel, of Franklin County, Indiana; which was read a George L. Key, late first lieutenant of the Twenty-fifth Battery first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pen Indiana Voliinteers; which was read a first and second time, and sions. referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. CHARLES S. HAYES. ALABAMA CLAIMS. Mr. BROWNE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1640) for the relief Mr. COBB intr6duced a bill (H. R. No. 1626) for reviving and con of Charles S. Hayes, of Lawrenceburgh, Indiana; which was read a tinuing the court of commissioners of Alabama claims and for the first and second time, and referred to the Committee on War Claims. distribution of the unappropriated moneys of the Geneva award ; JAMES L. PEARCE. which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. BROWNE also introduced a bill (H. R. No • .1641) for the relief of James L. Pearce, postmaster at Williamsbnrgh, Indiana; which BRIDGE ACROSS WABASH RIVER. was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee of :Mr. COBB also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1627) to authorizo the Claims. construction of a railroad bridge across the Wabash River; which J.Al\IES L. RIGOR. waa read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Com Mr. BROWNE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1642) granting a merce, and ordered to be printed. pension to James L. Rigor, late a private in Company G, Sixty-Ninth DALTON IDNCHMAN. Indiana Volunteers; which was read a :first and second time, and Mr. NEW introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1628) granting a pension to referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Dalton Hinchman, late a private in Company G, Second Michigan FRANCIS C. BUFFINGTON. Cavalry; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Mr. BROWNE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1643) for the relief Committee on Invalid Pensions. of Francis C. Buffingt on; which was read a first and second tim~ IMPROVEMENT OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER. and referred to the Committee on War Claims. · · Mr. DE LA. MAT.YR (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1629) MAJOR JACOB E. BURBANK. for the improvement of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers; which was Mr. BROWNE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1644) for the relief· read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, of Major Jacob E. Burbank; which was read a first and second time and ordered to be printed. and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Fill\"'DING MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS. JAMES CUNNINGHAM. Mr. DE LA MATYR also (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. Mr. SPARKS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1645) for the relief of' 1630) to provide for funding municipal indebtedness with United James Cunningham, of Centralia, lliinois; which was rerA a first and States paper money; which was read a first and second time, re second time, and referred to the Committee on the Poat-Office and ferred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be Post-Roads. printed. HATTIE BOWMAN, RELlEF OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS. Mr. STEVENSON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 164~) granting a pen Mr. DE LA MA.TYR also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1631) to pro sion to Mrs. Hattie Bowman; which was read a firot and second time, vide for a greenback currency and to relieve financial distress by and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensic,ns. granting aid to certain companies incorporated by State authority for works of internal improvements; which was read a first and sec SWAMP A.i.'ID OVERFLOWED LIANDS. ond time, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and Mr. .ALDRICH, of Dlinois, presented a joiu.t resolution of the Leg ordered to be printed. i2lature of Illinois, in favor of a bill to provj,de for indemnity doe the U~-:ITED STATES DEBT. several States under acts of Congress apr1roved March 2, 1855; and Mr. DE LA MA.TYR also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1632) to pro March 3, 1857, relating to swamp and ovei:Aowed lands; a1so, in favor vide for the payment of the interest on the debt of the United States of a bill to authorize the Commissioner c,f the General Land Office to and for funding said debt in United States paper money; which was adjust and settle the claims of the Sta4.;e of Illinois and. other States read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Banking for indemnity for swamp lands sold by the United States; whi~h was and Currency, and ordered to be printed. referred to the Committee on Public Lands. · · WALTER D. PLOWDE.N. MRS. MA.RY w:'dITIINGTON. Mr. DE LA. MATYR also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1633) for the Mr. "TOWNSHEND, of Illinois, ~ntroduced a bill (H. R. No. 1647) relief of Walter D. Plowden; which was rea.d a first and second time, granting a pension to Mrs. Mary ...vhlttington; which was read.a first and referred to the Committee on War Claims. and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensfons. LAW CONCERNING NATIONAL BANKS. PE~SIONS FOR MEXICAN W .AR. 11Ir. DE LA. MATYR also presented a concurrent resolution of the Mr. TOWNSHEND, of Illi..aois, also introduced a. bill (H. R. No; Legislature of Indiana, asking a change in a law concerning national 1648) granting pensions to ,the surviving officers an~ enlisted ~eµ, banks; which was referred to the Committee on Banking and Cur including militia and the volunteers in the military and naval sery rency, and ordered to be printed. ices of the United States, who served in the Mexican and other wars therein named; which "VM read a :first and second time, referred to ARRE.A.RAGES OF PENSIONS. the Committee on Invalld Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. HOSTETLER introduced a resolution requesting the Secretary of the Treasury to report what fort.her action of Congress is needed GEORGE W. CHURCH. to enable him to meet with more promptness than$1,500,000 per month Mr. HA.WK introd.aced a bill (H. R. No. 1649) granting a pension arrearages of pensions; which was referred to the Committee on the to George W. Churc.b; which was read a first and second time, and Judiciary. referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. CAPTAIN LEWIS STODDARD. EDWARD T. BROWNELL. Mr. BROWNE (for Mr. CALKINS) introduced a bill (H. R. No.1634) Mr. HA.WK al.so introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1650) for the relief.of for the relief of Captain Lewis Stoddard; which was read a first and Edward T. Brownell; which was read a first and second time, and second time, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. referred to tho Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1060 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MAY 5,

CAPTAIN JOHN SLAUGHTER. pension to William D. Cowan; which was read a first and second Mr. HAWK also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1651) granting a pen time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sion to the children (heirs at law) of Captain John Slaughter, late of MORRIS C. SEAMAN. Company I!', Thirty-fourth Illinois Volunteers; which was read a first Mr. SPRINGER also introduced a bill(H. R. No.1670)fortherelief and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of Morris C. Seaman, late a private in Company E, Eighty-fifth Illi AARON MILEY . . nois Infantry; which was read a :first and second time, and referred Mr. FORSYTHE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1652) for the relief of to the Committee on Military Affairs. Aaron Miley; which was read a first and second time, and referred CONSTITUTIONAL PROHIBITION OF SPECIAL LEGISLATION. to the Com.mitt.ea on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Mr. SPRINGER also introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 51) FREDERICK WITHNER. proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States Mr. CANNON, of Illinois, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1653) grant prohibiting special legislation·; which was read a first and second ing a pension to Frederick Witbner; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be time, and reierred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. printed. GEORGE W. WATSON. DEPOSIT OF UNITED STATES FUNDS. Mr. SPRINGER also submittecl a resolution calling on the Secre ~.HAYES introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1654) granting a pension to George W .•Watson; which was read a first and second time, and tary of the Treasury for information as to places of deposit of referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. $448,467,156.81 reported in the Treasury April 30, 1879; which was referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency. JAMES T. CHRISTIAN. Mr. THOMAS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1655) granting a pension EXTENSIO:N" OF PATENT OF HENRY VOELTER. to James T. Christian; which was read a first and second time, and Mr. SPRINGER also submitted a resolution calling upon the Secre referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tary of the Interior for information relative to the extension of the HUGH WORTHINGTON. patent of Henry Voelter for making wood paper pulp; which was referred to the Committee on Patents. Mr. THOMAS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1656) for the relief of the legal heirs of Hugh Worthington, of Metropolis, lliinois, owners of EXTRA PAY TO OFFICERS OF ARMY AND NAVY. the steamer Eastport; which was read a first and second time, and Mr. SINGLETON, of Illinois, (for Mr. HOOKER,) introduced n. bill referred to the Committee on War Claims. (H. R. No. 1671) supplemental to an act approved February 19, 1879, KANKAKEE RIVER. . granting three months' extra pay to officers and soldiers of the Army, Mr. FORT introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1657) for an appropriation and officers and petty officers, seamen, and marines of the United for the improvement of the navigation of the Kankakee River, in the States Navy and United States revenue marine; which waa read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, States of Illinois and Indiana; which W38 read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. and ordered to be printed. CYRUS THOMAS. RALPH P. FORD. Mr. FORT also i.11.troduced a bill (H. R. No. 1658) authorizing the Mr. DAVIS, of Missouri, (by request,) introduced a bill (H. R. No. Treasury Department to pass the accounts of Cyrus Thomas; which 1672) for the relief of Ralph P. Ford, Jate private Companies Kand was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee of B Third Regiment Missouri State .Militia; which was read a first and Claims. second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ALLEN HARPER. IRON MOUNT.A.IN RAILROAD. Mr. FORT also introduced a ~ill (H. R. No. 1659) for the relief of Mr. DAVIS, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1673) to µen Harper, of Illinois; which was read a first and second time, and declare forfeited to the United States lands granted to the State of mferred to the Committee on War Claims. Missouri in aid of the construction and extension of the Iron Mount STATUE OF CHIEF-JUSTICE l\IARSHALL. ain Railroad from Pilot Knob, by act of Congress approved July 4, 1866; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com Mr. FORT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1660) to authorize the mittee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. ereot\on of a statue in honor of Chief-Justice Marshall, late of the Supreme Court of the United States; which was read a first and sec- TAX O:N" MEDICINES, ETC. ond tin~. and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. . Mr. FROST introduced a bill (H. R. No.1674) to repeal so much of section 3437 of the Revised Statutes as imposes a tax on medicines W. L. PARVIN AND H. H. GREENE. or medicinal preparations; which was rea-d a first and second time, Kr. FORT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1661) for the relief o~ referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be Washington L. Parvin and Henry H. Greene, late California. volun printed. teers; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com mittee en Inn.lid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. JACOB D. FELTHOUSEN AND HEIRS OF WILLIAM H. AKINS. CHARLES H. FOX. Mr. FROST also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1675) for the relief of Jacob D. Felthousenand the heirs ofWilliamH. Akins,deceaaed; which _.Mr. SPRINGER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1662) granting a pen was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee of sion to Charles H. Fox; which was read a first and second time, and Claims. re.ferred to .the Committee on Invalid Pensions. JANE CONLIN. ALEXANDER WHITLOCK. Mr. FROST also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1676) granting a pen- Mr. SPRINGER also introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 1663) granting a sion to Jane Conlin; which was read a first and second time, and pension to Alexander "Whitlock; which was read a first and second referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. CONRAD BLATl'NER. HENRY CLINE. Mr. FROST also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1677) granting a pen- Mr~ SPRINGER also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1664) granting a sion toConradBlattner; which was read a first and second time, and poosion to Henry Cline; which was read a. first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. JOHN RUST. WILLIAM l\L J. PATTERSON. Mr. FROST also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1678) granting a pen- Mr. SPRINGER also introdncl'

l\IARY A. SILVEY. JOUN P. PLATT. Mr. CLARK, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1680) for Mr. FORD introduced a bill (H. R. No. 16~8) granting a pension to the relief of Mary A. Silvey; which wa.a read a first and second time, John P. Platt; which was read a first and second time, and referred and referred to the Committee on Milita~y Affairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF ALELU.'DER BARCLAY. EDWARD D. JOHNSON. 1\Ir. CLARK, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1681) for Mr. FORD also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1699) granting a pension the relief of the legal representatives of Alexander Barclay, deceased; to Edward D. Johnson; which was read a first and second time, apd which WM read a first and second time, and referred to the Commit referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tee on Military Affairs. AMENDME:NT OF PENSION LAWS. REL"'nIART BREINNEioS AND OTHERS. Mr. FORD also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1700) to amend an act Mr. CLARK, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1682) for entitled '' A.n. act granting pensions to the widow~, children, depend therelief of Reinhart Breill)leiss, John H. Moas, Henry W. Kolkmeyer, ent mothers and fathers or orphan brothers and sisters t>f those sol Frank Breinness, and Louis Tompkins, of :Missouri, for services ren diers who were killed by guerrillas at Centralia, Missouri, in 1864; dered to the United States during the war; which was read a first which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on and second time, and referred to the Committee on War Claims. Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. JOSEPH DIBHL. ANDREW J. BOWZER. Mr., CLARK, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1683)for Mr. FORD also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1701) to authorize the the relief of Joseph Diehl; which was read a first and second time, Secretary of the Interior to remove the charge of desertion from An nd referred to the Committee on War Claims. drew J. Bowzer, late a private in Company G, Twelfth Regiment of R. l\I. WYRICK AND OTHERS. Missouri Cavalry Volunteers, and to grant him an honorable dis charge; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Mr. CLARK, of Missonri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1684) for Committee on Military Affairs. the relief of R. M. Wyrick, and others, loyal citizens of Missouri; NAPOLEON B. GIDDINGS. which WM read a first and second time, and referred to the Commit tee on War Claims. Mr. FORD also introduced a bill (H. R. N.o. 1702) for the relief of GEORGE M. D. TOURS. Napoleon B. Giddings, of Savannah, Missodri; which \TAS read a first Mr. CLARK, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1685) for and second time, and referred to the Committe~ on .Mmta:cy Aft'ai:rs. the relief of George M. D. Tours; which was read a first and second "VIJ..iIAM LETr. time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. FORD also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1703) grant.Y.ag a pen BUILDING AT JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI. sion to William Let'lf, late a private in qompany C, ?'irot Regiment Tennessee Volunteers; which was read a first and second ~ime, and Mr. CLA.RK, of Missotiri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1686) pro referred to the Con;imittee on Invalid Pe!lsions. vidiog for the erection of a building at Jefferson City, Missouri, for the use and accommodation of United States courts and other Gov JOHN W. DELAY. ernment offices; which wa.a read a first aud second time, referred to Mr. FORD also iotroduced a bill (H. R. No. 1704) granting a pen the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be sion to John W. Delay, late a private in Company A, Forty-third ' printed. Regiment Missouri Volunteers; which was i·ead a. first and second H. H. HOFFMAN. time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. CLARK, of Missouri, also introuuced a bill (H. R. No. 1687) for THO)IA.8 DOAK • tho relief of H. H. Hoffman; which was rea

Mr. SPRINGER. I had a bill upon my desk, which was not quite BRIDGE ACROSS THE POTOMAC NEAR GEORGETOWN. completed. Mr. HUNTON. I am instructed by the Committee for the District The SPEAKER. That is not the fault of the Chair. of Columbia to report back with amendments the bill (H. R. No. 1381) Mr. SPRINGER. I ask leave to ofter it now. to authorize the construction of a bridge· across the Potomac River The SPEAKER. The Chair will recognize the gentleman after the at or near Georgetown, iu the District of Columbia, and for other call of States has been completed. purposes. As this bill is subject to a point of order, I shn.ll, after the ELLEN S. HARDING AND MARY LONG. bill has been read, ask that it may be considered in the House as in Mr. GUNTER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1712) for the relief of Committee of the Whole. Ellen S. Harding and Mary Lon~; which was re_a?- a first and second The bill was read, as follows: . time, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Be it ernwted, &e., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed across the Potomac River at or near George MONROE DONOHO. town in the District of Colnmbia, at such point as he may select, a. eubstantial iron and masonry bridge, with approaches; and the sum of $140,000 be, and the same is Mr. GUNTER also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1713) for the relief hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri of Monroe Donoho ; which was read a :first and second time, and ated, for the construction of said'. bridge.and approaches, the same to be mamtamed referred to the Committee on Public Lands. as a free bridge for travel: Provided, That the said Secretary of War shall con struct a bridge upon such plan as shall cost no more than the amount herein ARGENTINE BATES. appropriated, and which cost shall include the construction of a. substantial bridge Mr. CRAVENS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1714) for the relief of over the canal, and any and all approaches to the said iron bridge; and no part of this appropriation shall be paid out of fue Treasury until contracUI shall have been Argentine Bates; which was read a first and second time, and referred entered into with responsible parties, and with good and sufficient sureties to be to the Committee on War Claims. approved by the Secretary of War, for the construction and completion of said ORDER OF BUSINESS. bridge, including the masonry, iron-work, and approaches, at a cost not to exceed 140,000: And provided also, That a draw of sufficient width to permit the free pas Mr. HUNTON. I think I shall have to interrupt the call of States sage of vessels navigating that part of the Potomac River shall be constructed in said now. bridge, unless said bridge shall be constructed by the side of, or up the river from, The SPEAKER. The Chair would suggest that if those gentlemen the present aqueduct and at the same or greater elevation above the water: .And provided also, That the sum which may be expended nnderthis act shall be treated whose States and Territories have not yet been called will remain and reiarded as a part of the general expenses of the District of Columbia, and the here to-day Wltil the bUBiness from the Committee for the District of Unitea States shall be credited with the amonnt which it may pay under this act Columbia kae been disposed or, the Chair will then resume the call for the erection of said bridge upon its 50 per cent. of the expenses of the Dis trict of Columbia, as p rovided in the act of June 11, 1878, entitled" An act provid where it now leaves off and proceed with it till it is concluded. ing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia:" Provided fur Mr. CONGER. It wa8 agreed by unanimous consent that all the ther, That t.he Secretary of War shall, as soon as may be, fix and determine the States should be now called. location of said brid_ge, and cause a survey of the river to be made at such place of The SPEAKER. The Chair is aware of that. But it was also location, determine the length. width, and height of said bridge, and the length of draw, if one is required and thereupon advertise for plans and price for the con agreed by unanimous consent that the Committee for the District of struction o.f such bridge ; such advertisement to be inserted in one or more daily Columbia should have the right at two o'clock to-day to take the newspapers published in Washington, District of Columbia, New York, and Cle>e· floor for the consideration of its business, with all the rights which land, Ohio, for the space of one week. that committee haa under the rule. SEC. 2. That if the Alexandria Canal Railroad and Bridge Company will lease to the Unit.ed Stat.es their bridge over the Potomac River at Georgetown for so The chairman of the Committee for the District of Columbia, the long as ea.id bridge shall be maintained upon the terms, conditions, and price as gentleman from Virginia, [Mr. HUNTON,] bas giv~n way for half ::i;n hereinafter specified, the Secret.ary t)f War is hereby authorized and directed to . hour in order to allow the call of States to be earned on. T4e Chalr enter into such lease in behalf of the United States, and refrain from erecting a now proposes that after the business from the District of Columbia bridge as in the first section of this act provided.. Said lease must contain the following provisions and conditions: The rent as specified at --thousand dol· Committee shall have been concluded to-day the call of States shall la.rs per annum, payable quarterly by the United States, less any deductions for 'then proceed, so that all members may have an opportunity to pre not complying Wlth the terms of said lease as therein provided; that said lease sent their bills to-day. shall continue as long as said bridge shall be kept np for nae, but the lessee may :Mr. CONGER. There are but three or four States yet to be called, at its option declare said lease forfeited in case the lessor fails for a period of thirty days after notice to keep said bridge in a safe and proper condition for f.ub and I presume that we can get through with the call in a few minutes. lic travel; that if said bridge at any time becomes unsafe for public trove , on The SPEAKER. That is a matter for the members of the District notice from the commissioners of the District of Columbia, the rent under said of Columbia Committee to determine. lease shall cease, and not recommence until said bridge shall be made safe for pub Mr. HUNTON. I would be very glad to yield, and I have yielded lic tra>el, and notice thereof given to said commissioners, and the amount from any suspension of rent to be dooQcted from the r ent thereafter to become due ; tor half an hour. If I should yield any further I am afraid that the that said bridge company shall not, during the continuance of said lease, u se upon business of the District Committee would be cut out for to-day. said bridge structure any locomotive or steam-propelling power; that anring the · The SPEAKER. The Chair would suggest that the House do not continuance of said lease the use of said bridge shall be free to the public and the adjooril to-night until all the States have been called. After all the Government. SEC- 3. That to enable the United St.'l:tes to fnlfill such lease, if made, the sum business of the District Committee is through with (which the Chair of --dollars is hereby appropriat.ed. yearly, out of any moneys in the Treasury is advised will take but little more than an hour) the call of States not otherwise appropriated, for paying such of said rent as may become due, and can 'be resumed. the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authori.zed and directed to pay the same; and the sums thus paid shall be treated and held as a part of the general expenses Mr. CONGER. If that is so, then the Committee for the District of the District of Columbia, and the United States shall be credited with the of Columbia will have time enough for its business should the ca,ll amonnt which it shall pay under this act upon its 50 per cent. of the expenses of of States be now concluded. said District of Colnmbia as provided in the act of June 11, 1878, entitled "An act The SPEAKER. That may be so; but the committee have a right providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia.'' I .. to the floor at this time under the rule. 'l'he amendments reported by the committee were read, as follows: Ml'. BREWER. Would not the later unanimous consent supersede On page 3 strike out section 2. and do away with the former Y On page 4 strike out section 3. The SPEAKER. The Chair has thought of that. The Chair thinks Mr. HUNTON. Mr. Speaker, the bill just read is subject to a point that the right given to the Committee for the District of Columbia of order if any gentleman on the floor wishes to raise such a point. to report at two o'clock to-day is a right under the provisions of the I hope, however, that in order to avoid any difficulty on that sc.ore it rule, wbicli states that itlishall be to the exclusion of all other busi will be the pleasure of the House to consider this bill in the House as ness. in Committee of the Whole. Mr. BREWER. That is true; but that right for to-day was given The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Virginia asks unanimous by unanimous consent. consent that this bill be considered in the House as in Committee of ·'11le SPEAKER. The Chair supposes that when the Honse gave the Whole. The Chair hears no objection. unanimous consent for to-day members did not think that the call of Mr. HUNTON. This bill as amended by the committee and now States for bills would go beyond two o'clock. At two o'clock the reported is substantially, if not entirely, the bill which was passed Chair sobmitted the question to the House, and the House came to by this House in, the last Congress without :l division. The only ob an underatanding with the Committee for the District of Columbia jection then arising in this Hoose resulted from a desire on the part ·that half an hour longer time should be granted. That time has of members to get in proper shape t wo portions of the bill. One was been occupied in the introduction of bills; and the business from the in regard to dividing between the District of Columbia and the Fed Committee :for the District of Columbia will now be proceeded with. eral Government the expense of erecting this free bridge, so as to Mr. HUNTON. I think I showed a der.ided spirit of liberality in bring the expenditure within the operation of the act known as the giving an additional half-hour for the introJ.nction of bills. act creating a permanent government for the District of Columbia. The SPEAKER. The Chair suggests that after the business of the The provision of the present bill on that subject is in these words: Committee for the District of Columbia is concluded the call of States That the sum which may be expended under this act shall be treated and re for the introduction of Li~, &c., shall be resumed. He is willing to j?arded as a part of the general expenses of the District of Columbia, and the United stay here himself as long as may be necessary to conclude the busi States 11hall be credited with the amount which it may pay under this act for the ness, aa he did on a former Monday when the introduction of bills erection of said bridge upon its 50 per cent. of the expenses of the Disti?-ct of Co occupied more than six hours. lumbia, as provided in the act of June 11, 1878, e11titled "An act providing a per Mr. BREWER. I ask unanimous consent that the call of States manent form of government for the District of Columbia." and Territories for the introduction of bills, &c., may be resumed and This was the amendment :finally agreed upon in the last Honse, concluded to-morrow morning, immediately after the reading of the and it was entirely satisfactory to members on both sides. Journal. The other matter in regard to which some difficulty arose was as There being no objec , the motion of Mr. BREWER was 31greed to. to obtaining the consent of the State of Virginia to the building of 1879. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1063 an abutment on the other side of the river, which would be within If there is any reason why this local bridge, for the benefit of a neigh the territory of that State. The House is aware that the General borhood and local convenience only, should be paid for by tho Gov Government has jurisdiction over the entire river Potomac along the ernment of the United States, which would not apply to the rivers I borders of the District of Columbia, and the jurisdiction of the State have named, or any other rivers in the United States, I should like -0f Virginia extends only to low-water mark on the other side. But to hea.r it. -0ne of the abutments of this bridge would of necessity be upon the Mr. SAMFORD. Mr. Speaker, there is another objection, it seems soil of Virginia.. Consequently, in. the bill passed by the House at to me, to this bill which comes in by virtue of the law referred to by the la.st session a provision was inserted th!l.t the act should not go the gentleman from Texas, and that is this: in that law it was pro into operation until the consent of Virginia. had been given to the vided that all matters, not only of this character, but all expenses of erection of that abutment on her soil. After the passage of the bill the District of Columbia, should be first sug~ested by the District by the House the State of Virginia, whose Legislature was then in commissioners, and by them submitted to the :::secretary of the Treas session, paased an act giving consent to the erection of this bridge, ury, and by him transmitted to Congress, after he had scrutinized the authorizing the Government of the United States to acquire ten acres proposition of the District commissioners. I find, in looking at that of land for the purpose, and giving concurrent jurisdiction to the law passed barely a year ago-not quite a year ago-" that such com United States over the land thus acquired. Hence, the provision with missioners shall submit to the Secretary of the Trea~ury, for the fis reference to obtaining the consent of Virginia has been omitted in cal year ending June 30, 1879, and annually thereafter, for his exam this bill because such consent has n.lready been granted. ination and approval, a statement showing in detail the work proposed In regard to the necessity for a bridge a.cross the Potomac at the to be undertaken by them during the fiscal year next ensuing and point contemplated by this bill I desire to state that at or near this the estimated cost thereof; also the cost of constructing, repairing, point there is now a toll-bridge erected over the aqueduct which con and maintaining all bridges authorized by law across the Potomac ducts the canal across the Potomac. That is the only toll-bridge lead River within the District of Columbia, and also all streams in said ing into the District of Columbia. All the bridges leading into the District." District from the State of Maryland are free, and all the bridges from There is a provision in that law which seems to me to be a salutary the State of Virginia are free except the one to which I have just re one, requiring the District commissioners first to make the proposi ferred. The object of this bill is to afford to the people who now have tion. They are then to be submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury to use that toll-bridge the same facilities enjoyed by people coming and to come under his scrutiny. It is required by that faw first to-be into the District by other bridges. The expense of constructing this submitted by the commissioners, for the reason, I apprehend, that the bridge, .$140,000, is to be divided equally between the Federal Gov commissioners know best the state of the revenues and .assets of the ernment and the District of Columbia, in accordance with the pro District and can say whether the :finances of the District will or oot vision which I have read. permit the work to be undertaken. But in the face of that this propo I will add a word in regard to the two sections which the commit sition, without having been suggested by the commissioners of the tee have instructed me to move to strike out. It was supposed that District and without being submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, possibly it might be best for the Federal Government to lease the asks us to appropriate $140,000 by Congress in the first instance, with present Aqueduct Bridge, paying for its use such sums as the company out ever having a single estimate made in any legal form. now receive in tolls; and when this bill was reported to the House Therefore I think it is contrary t_o the law as it is now established and recommitted, two sections looking to that end were embraced in for the government of this District. The Secretary of the Treasury the bill. Upon consideration this mornino-, the Committee for the is required to- . District of Columbia., I believe unanimously, instructed me to offer Carefully consider all estimates submitted to him as above provided. and shall an amendment striking out these two sections, leaving the free-bridge approve, disapprove, or suggest such changes in the same, or any item thereof, as bill pure :hlld simple as this House passed it at the last session of Con he may think the public interest demands; and after he shall have considered. and passed upon such estiimat.es submitt.ed t.o him he shall cause to be made a state gress. So, if the amendments of the committee are adopted and the ment of the amount approved by him and the fund or purpose to which each item bill is passed, there will be a free bridge erected, under the direction belongs, which statement shall be certified by him and delivered, toget1J.er with of the Secretary of War, at or near Georgetown, at a price not to the estimates as orignally submitted, to the commissioners of the District-of Co exceed $140,000. And the only difference between the bill passed by lumbia., who shall transmit tho same t.o Congress. this House at the fast session of Congress and the present one is that Now, my objection to this mainly is that we cannot at this tim~ act this provides for specifications, advertisements, &c. advisedly on this subject. I do not desire to be understood as com If there is any objection to the bill it will give me great pleasure bating the idea of a free bridge for Georgetown. Notwithstanding if I can to explain it still further to gentlemen. there is force in the utterances of the gentleman from Texas, [M.r. Mr. WRIGHT. I observe that it appropriates $140,000. Now, why REAGAN,] I do not propose to commit myself on that propo ition at is it necessary, if the District of Columbia. is to pay half the cost, that all. Bat what I am contending against now is that we should con the whole amount should be appropriated out of the Treasury of the sider a bill that comes here in this shn.pe without hn.ving run the United States 7 gauntlet which is required by law. Mr. HUNTON. That is done in every such case. The Federal Gov At this very time the citizens of Georgetown are beseeching and ernment pays the money and when the settlement takes place between beflieging the District Committee, and through them Congress, in the Federal Government and the District of Columbia under the per order to have certain taxes remitted. The commissioners themselves manent form of government bill, then the Federal Government is are asking for a loan of $25,000 to enable them to complete or perfect credited with this amount. the water-works here. And yet without consulting the commissioners Mr. REAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I am at a loss to understand why it is at all, Congress, it is proposed, shall require them to assume an addi that the people of the United 8tates should be taxed to build a bridge tional indebtedness of 70,000 or one-half of the $140,000 to be appro- for the local convenience of the people of Georgetown !l.nd its neigh priated for this bridge. . borhood. I am at a loss to understand why any reason which could I say that the law which took effect July 1, 1878, was passed for the be ur~ed for the passage of such a bill could not as well be used for special purpose of having the commissioners report to Congress what bridgmg n.t the Government expense any other river in a.ny other improvements the state of the :finances of the District of Columbia pa.rt of the United States for the benefit of the local community would permit to be undertaken. And, in addition, I say that I see no interested in any such bridge. necessity for any undue haste. It is contended that if we pot this I $1,m aware, sir, that generally when it Is proposed to do anything off it goes over to another year. That is true; it does go over for in the way of expending money in the District of Columbia it is hardly another year for the estiruates to be made by these authorities who .considered in order to raise objections to it. We passed a bill here are authorized by the law to make them. There is a provision in this in June, 1878, for a permanent government of the Distrfot, and one, very law which says that the taxes of the District shall not be .antici I venture to say, most marvelous in its effect and character in taxing pated, and yet we anticipate them by this bill without ever asking the people of the United Sta.tea in large degree for local expenses of the commissioners ono single question in reference to it. the people here; and beyond, it seems to me, all necessity. But I do These are my objections to this bill as it stands now without any not propose to rediscuss that subject now. reference to what my po ition may be when the question comes up of Here we are now asked to build :i. free bridge across the Potom::i.c a free bridge in the right way. · River, not within the District of Columbia, bot across the river con MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. necting the District of Columbia with the State of Virginia. A message from the Senate, by Mr. BURCH, its Secr~tary, informed Mr. BRAGG. Let me ask the gentleman from Texas whether the the House that the Senate had passed a bill (S. No. 516) to extend the -Government does not own a bridge now known as the Chain Bridge, tirue of special postal service unt il service can be obtained by adver about two miles above this Y tisement; in which the concurrence of the House was requested. Mr. REAGAN. I understand there is a free bridge, but I have BRIDGE ACROSS THE POTO:UAC. never investigated it-wha.t is c'tlled the Chain Bridge; and that the 1 Government owns another bridge below t.his at Georgetown. How l\ir. HUNTON. I do not understand my friend fr~m Alabama [Mr. many bridges there are I do not know. Experience has taught me, SAl\IFORD l as opposing a free bridge. · Mr. Speaker, the difficulty of preventing the passage of any of these Mr. SA~lFORD. Not at this time. appropriations for purposes in and about the District of Columbia, Mr. HUNTON. No; you only oppose an appropriation because yoa. and I do not hope to succeed in defeating this unnecessary proposi maintain t!.ie necessary preliminaries have not been gone through. tion; but I do rise to protest that we have no more right to appro Mr. SAMFORD. Yes; I do not think the matter is in a proper shape prfate this money out of the Federal Treasury to build a free bridge to vote upon at this time. ·. across the Potomac River than we have to build a free bridg• across Mr. HUNTON. But I understood the gentleman to say, and I have the Delaware, or the Schuylkill, or the James, or any other river. understootl him heretofore to say, that if,.these necessary prelimin:t- 1064 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MAY 5,

:ries, according to his opinion, be complied with, he favors a free bridge Mr. HUNTON. Very well. as provided for by the bill. Mr. McMILLIN. What is the object of providing that the Gov Mr. SAMFORD. Allow me to say that I do not commit myself on ernment shall build this bridge f Why not let the parties interested that question at all. in it build it f Mr. HUNTON. Very well; the gentleman does not commit him Mr. HUNTON. Who are the parties interested in it f self against it. Mr. BRAGG. The State of Virginia for one. Now I say my friend from Alabama is entirely mistaken about the Mr. McMILLIN. I cannot see that the Government is sufficiently necessity of a report from the commissioners of the District of Co interested in this bridge to justify its building it. lumbia to the Secretary of the Treasury and of a report from the Sec Mr. HUNTON. I will endeavor to show that verv clearly ; anri I retary of the Treasury to this House. I am aware, sir, that the bill propose along with that to adclress myself to the remarkable protf..st to which he alludes, called a bill providing a permanent form of gov of my friend from Texas, [Mr. RE.A.GAN.] He says he does not ae ernment for the District of Columbia, does provide that cert:.in mat why the people of the United States should be taxed to make a f1 ee ters shall be estimated for by the District commissioners, reported bridge for the purpose of ingress into and egress from the city of to the Secretary of the Treasury, and by him transmitted to the House, Washington. It has not been very long since my friend who mal.:es and so far as approved by the Appropriations Committee the appro tb.!s I?rotest br~ught into this House a bill making much larger appro priation shall be made, and not otherwise. But this is not an im pr1at1ons for his own State, which the people of the United Sta tbl5 provement belonging to that class of matters. The same question had to pay. I have that bill before me, and it appropriates aliout was raised when this bridge bill passed the House at the last session, $200,000 for the State of Texas mainly. and upon reading the act, as I understood, the gentleman who raised Mr. REAGAN. Allow me to say that those appropriations relate the objection to the bill now raised by the gentleman from Alabama to the general improvement of the commerce of the United States. abandoned it. I desire to call the attention of the House to the pro Mr. HUNTON. Yes, and this bridge is for the general good of the vision upon that subject, and they will see upon the reading of the people of the District of Columbia. One-half of the property of this law that this is not one of those appropriations that have to pass District is owned by the United States. Now, sir, if the people of the. through the commissioners to the Secretary of the Treasury before United States can pay $200,000 for the benefit of the State of Texas, they can be granted by this House. I think my friend ought not to complain when a bill is brought in Mr. BRAGG. I desire to ask the gentleman whether this is not here to improve the capital of the country, the people of which are within the spirit of the law in order that the party who is to pay the called upon to pay 200,000 for the improvement of little rivers and tax may know that the amount levied is within the means of pay harbors in the State of Texas, some of which I have no uoubt are ment! down upon the map. [Laughter.] Mr. HUNTON. It is not within either the letter or the spirit of the !fr. HARRIS, of Virginia. Read them over. law. Mr. HUNTON. I will do so. "For deepening the channel of Sa Mr. BRAGG. May not the effect of this bill be to levy a tax on the bine Pass at Blue Buck Bar, Texas, $25,000." Now, I have my doubts people here, wko it is said n.re already taxed more than they are able whether there is any such place in Texas. [Laughter.] "For im to bear proving entrance to Galveston Harbor, Texas, $100,000." "For im Mr. HUNTON. That is for the people of the District to complain proving Narrows of Sabine River above Orange, Texas, and to deepen of rather than for the gentleman from Wisconsin. I wish now to call the channel at the mouth of the Sabine River, $6,000." "For im the attention of the Honse to the language of the law referred to by proving mouth of Trinity River, Texai, $2,500." ' ·For improving the gentleman from Alabam:t to show that it has no reference to this mouth of "-some name I cannot pronounce. bill: Mr. REAGAN. Neches River. The said commissioners shall submit to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Mr. HUNTON. There is no such river as that ir. •rexas, is there'? ft.seal year ending .June 30, 1879, and annually thereafter, for his examination and [Laughter.] For that is appropriated $5,000. "For improving Paaso approval, a statement showing in detail the work proposed t.o be undertaken by them during the fiscal yoor next ensuing, and the estimated cost thereof; also, the Cavallo Inlet into Matagorda Bay, Texa.s, $25,000." eostof constructing, repairing, a.nd maintainin$ all bridges authorized by la.w across Nearly 200,000 was appropriated by the la.st Congress, upon the the Potomac River within the District of Columbia, and also all other streams in report of my friend himself as the chairman of the committee that said District. brought in the bill, for the improvement of these little rivers in Texas. Now, this is a provision that the statement shall include the cost The people of the United States are obliged to pay that sum; yet the of all bridges authorized by law; and the commissioners of the Dis very moment that an appropriation is asked to improve the capital trict of Columbia had no more right, no more authority under that of the country my friend raises his voice in earnest protest against it. provision of law establishing a permanent form of government to esti Now let me tell you why the bill which he says was the most mon mate the cost of this bridge than they had to estimate the cost of strous which ever paesed the House-I take issue with him on that. anything else that the wit of man can conceive of. The point of monstrosity in that bill, in his opinion, was that the Mr. SAMFORD. Then I understa.nQ. this is not a bridge authorized Federal Government was to pn.y one-half of the expenses of the Dis by law! trict of Columbia in these six miles square under the exclusive con Mr. HUNTON. Certainly not. trol of the United States Government. Why i Because the evidence Mr. SAMFORD. Let me ask the gentlema.n one other question. before the Congress of the United States was that the Government of Then the object of this bill is to authorize it by law and provide for the United States owned half the property here, and every dollar its building in the same bill f spent in the city of Washington was spent one-half for the Govern Mr. HUNTON. Unquestion::i.bly; and I presume nobody under ment of the United States and one-half for the people of the District. Btoocl it otherwise. This bridge is not now authorized by law; this Mr. BLOUNT. All the streets and avenues are included in that bill is to authorize its construction. That being the object of this calculation of the property owned by the United State!:! in this Dis bill the District commissioners could not have estimated its cost. trict. They would not have known, of course, where this bridge was to be Mr. HUNTON. Yes, and the Government owns all the streets and located. They could not tell whother this Congress meant to pa..ss avenues in this District, every square yard of them. I do not think, a bill authorizing the construction of an expensive or an economical I never did think, and the majority of both Houses of Congress d°' bridge. They did not know the width of the river where the briqge not think1 that that provision in the bill was a monstrosity. The was to be located. And in the name of common sense how could the gentleman asks why the people of the United States should be taxed District commissioners have estimated for its cost f to help build a bridge across the Potomac for the benefit of the peo Mr. BLOUNT. I wish to inquire of the gentleman from Virginia ple of the State of Virginia.. I will tell you why in my opinion they [Mr. HUNTON] if I understood him correctly 3.8 stating that this bill ought, an1l why in the opinion of the last House, without a division, was passed by the House in the last Congress t it was thought prop&r. The Federal Government owns half the prop Mr. HUNTON. Yes, q,nd withoutn.division. The only controversy erty in this District and bas exclusive jurisdiction over the District was in regard to the amendments to which I called the attention of of Columbia. !fore than tLat, it has exclusive jurisdiction over the the House a moment ago. Thos& amendments were made and they Potomac River clear to the Virginia shore; and when the Federal 1atisfied the entire House, so that the bill wa.s passed without an Government undertakes to bridge the Potomac in the directiou of objection. the State of Virginia it briuges its own stream and not a stream be Mr. McMILLAN. Does the committeerepoctingthis bill take into louging to the State of Virginia. If Virginia were n.Lle and desirous ealcu1atiou the fact that there ure already two bridges a-0ross the to undertake this· work she could not put a single pier in that stream Potomac¥ without the consent of the United States. Mr.-HUNTON. There are two bridges across the Potomac leading But, asks the gentleman, why should the Federal Government build into Virginia. One is known as tbe Long Bridge, four miles below this bridge Y I ask him, why should the Federal Government have where it is proposed to build this bridge. The constant passing of built and made free every bridge leading into the Di trict of Colum railroad trains across the Long Bridge renders it almost useless for bia except one f Is there to be one rule adopted for Maryland and the purposes of the farmers who desire to bring their products to the another rule for Virginia¥ I trust not. The same rule which h~ markets in this city. The other bridge is four miles above where it governed our legislation in re;prd to bridges leading from the Dis is proposed to locate this one, not two miles as my friend from Ala trict of Columbia toward the State of Ma.r.vland should be adminis bama [Mr. SAMFORD] ha.a stated. The people who will use this bridge, tered as to those leading into tlJe State of Virginia. if it is constructed, cannot without great inconvenience go to the Mr. CONGER. Is not the bridge aero s the Eastern Branch, near bridge four miles above. Now, in regard to the very remarkable pro the navy-yard, entirely withiu the District of Columbia f test of my friend from Texas [Mr. REAGAN] I desire to say a word. Mr. .IIUNTON. Possibly it may be. But I was going to call the Mr. McMJLLIN. One other question. attention of the Honse to some expenditures made by the Federal 1879. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1065

Goverr:lllent in order to provide free bridges for the District of Colum because he moved to pass it, including appropriations for $8,000,000, bia. The Little-Falla bridge was made free by an act of Congress, and including also what I have referred to, under the suspensiou of March 3, 1853, and $30,000 was appropriated for that purpose. July the rules, and it was the suspension of the rules to pass an appropri 20, 1868, $26,000 was appropriated for repairs of that bridge. An act ation bill of $8,000,000 which I opposed, because I wanted it discus ed, was passed .June 30, 1872, appropriating $100,000 to erect an iron so that if any of these appropriations needed for the benefit of the bridge upon the piers of the Chain Bridge, so called. An appropria gentleman's own State were improper they could be stricken out. I tion of $147 ,000 for the repair of the Navy-Yard Bridge waa made June wished to have opportunity to debate the bill, and not to have it 2-2, 1874. Every bridge leading into this District, whether from the passed without debate and.without amendment under a suspeusion State of Maryland or the State of Virginia, with the one exception of the rules. already mentioned, has been erected or made free by appropriations Mr. REAGAN. Perhaps that is the motive which controlleu the from the Federal Treasury. gentleman's vote, but in the remark which I made I was influenced I am aware that there are already bridges leading into the State of by the fact that the gentleman al ways has voted against bills for the Virginia. But, as I said awhile ago, one is useless for general pur improvement of rivers and harbors, and always speaks against them. poses on account of the passage of railroad trains, three different Mr. HUNTON. I voted against the suspension of the rulei. companies I believe using that bridge. The other is so far up the Mr. REAGAN. Gentlemen who desire the improvement of our com river that it does not accommodate the people who would use the merce manage to vote and speak for these bills. But that is a.'Jide bridge provided for in this bill. from what I wish to say. I wish to call the attention of the House I cannot for my life see why, when an appropriation of this sort is to the gentleman's opposition and vote against these bills for the im asked, my friend from Texas [Mr. REAGAN] should rise in his seat provement of the commerce of the country, improvements under the and say that it is impossible to oppose successfully any appropriation authority of the Constitution and in pursuance of a well-settled pol proposed for the District of Columbia. My experience is just the icy, and yet, while he votes against those bills which are based upon reverse. The hardship is that we do not make such appropriations and propounded by the Constitution, scruples not to awn, or of of the city and the public buildings of the city and the streets and any part of the District of Columbia appeared before our committee avenues and alleys of the city, so as to make out that the property and protested against the people of the District being taxed for this owned by the Government wa.s equal to the property owned by the bridge, or made any objection of any kind to the establishment of a citizens of the District of Columbia. free bridge at this point. Why, sir, from the beginning the Government has improved its own These embarrassments and these hinderances to public travel are property exclusively at its own expense. It did so before that law far behind the civilization of the age. The progress of the nine was passed and it does so since that law passed. But it is to be fur teenth century and the advances that we hope we are making all ther charged with the streets and avenues and alleys as its property over the country demand that there shall be no longer such obstruc as contradistingnished from the property of private owners. That tion; demand that we shall have free highways, free bridges, and was the basis on which that bill was passed; and hence I said it was untrammeled travel, and that the gates of our city shall be thrown a monstrous bill. No fair man can say that the portion set apart for open to the people from every direction who may choose to come the nae of the Government is anything like one-half or one-third of here. the property of the city. Leaving out the public grounds and the · Besides, the Government has a direct interest in the construction of streets, the avenues and alleys, the Government's proportion of the this bridge. The Government owns property outside of this District. property of this city resting upon the realty alone is so small that The gentleman from Texas [Mr. REAGAN] has ridiculed the illustra. the arrangement is calculated to make any one feel the astonishment tion made by my friend from Virginia [Mr. HUNTON] who referred to I expressed at the passage of the bill. Decoration Day. There are extensive property interests over there But besides that the personal, worth infinitely more than the real which belong to the Government and which are resorted to every day property in this city, was all left oat to be untaxed so far as this by the employes and attaches of the Government. The Go vernment apportionment of indebtedness was concerned in order to make the to-day pays $400 or '500 a year toll for travel which would be free people of the United States pay the local taxes of the people of the across this bridge if it was constructed. District. That was the reason I had for expressing astonishment. I Mr. BLOUNT. Would there be any saving if the Government repeat it again, that my friend may not forget it, that was the rea should pay 150,000 to construct this bridge f son I had for expressing astonishment. And the reason I had for Mr. HENKLE. Of conrse the interest on '150,000 would exceed that saying we could only protest and could not hope for success in de amount. But I say that the General Government bas an interest there feating the bill was that when that monstrous bill waa before the beyond the general equities of the case. The Government has a ma Honse I could not get even the yeas and nays to arrest its passage or terial interest in the matter, and every day citizens here are taxed to uut gentlemen on the record as votinO' yea or nay. for the toll which is charged for crossing the bridge now there. A MEMBER. Was it not the same with the river and harbor bill T These are the general reasons upon which we have based this bill. ?tfr. REAGAN. In answer to that suggestion, I will say that that We think it is fair and equitable; we think it is absolutely necessary, bill was to provide facilities for the commerce of the United States in order to do justice to the citizens of those portions of the District under authority of the Constitution and in pursuance of a great pub who have contributed by their taxes toward the maintenance of free lic policy, while this is for a purely local benefit-a gift that is to bridges and highways in other sections of the District, that they a neighborhood at the expense of the whole United States. And should now have the assistance of the Government in affor9,ing relief when the country is in the distressed condition it now is, it seems to to their portions of the District. me we should put our hands lightly into the public Treasury, when Mr. SPARKS. I understand the argument of the gentleman from the people are unable to pay the taxes, when marshals' sales, sheriffii' Maryland [Mr. HENKLE] to be about this: that because the people sales, tax sales, and trustees' sales are so frequent, and the advertise of Georgetown pay taxes for improvements in the District of Columbia ments of them fill the newspapers all over the land. Half the people elsewhere than at Georgetown, therefore a free bridge at or about the are unable to pay their taxes and their debts; and it seems to me we neighborhood of the Aqueduct Bridge should be constructed for their had better hold our hands in making appropriations wherever we can, benefit. Now, it is a correct principle doubtless that the people of this a.nd especially where they are not warranted by the Constitnti<>n or District should all of them be taxed to pay for improvements made any just or proper public policy. anywhere in the District. But what is this bridge across the Potomac! :Mr. HENKLE. This debate has already traveled far beyond its That bridge if built will certainly be as beneficial to the State of Vir legitimate sphere. In that respect it is in accord with the debates ginia as it is to the District of Columbia. Then, looking at it as a that generally take place in the consideration of District business. matter of right and common honesty, the question arises, should this On such ocaasions a great deal of time is consumed in irrelevant District be called upon to pay for the whole of that improvement, argument and illustration. In this debate we have traveled to Texas. one-half of the benefits of which accrue to the people of Virginia. Y We have had the merits of the river and harbor bill discussed and That is the question, the answer to which must necessarily be m the we have had the merits of the bill authorizing the permanent form neaative. -0f government for the District of Columbia discussed. Now, all these Of course, under the law passed in the last Congress u.nd referred matters are irrelevant to the bill at present pending before the Honse. to by the gentleman from Texas, [Mr. REAGAN,] whatever amount is I propose to make a few practical remarks, and will attempt to con expended for improvements in this District is, under the Ia.w, to ue fine myself to the precise question before us. shared equally between the tax-payers of the District and the Gov The gentleman from Texas has asked us why should the people of ernment of the United States. That objectionable law is strongly the United States be taxed and why should the people of the District condemned by my friend from Texas, [Mr. REAGAN.] That, however, be taxed to build a bridge to accommodate one particular neighbor I understand, is not pertinent to this discussion. It is so :fixed, it is hood'? In answer to that question I would state that it is for the "so nominated in the bond" if you please; wrongfully of course, and very same reason that the United States is taxed equally with the yet it is done; it is the law. My friend from Texas justly complains District of Columbia to maintain all the highways and all the bridges that when it was passed he was unable to get a" yea-anu-nay" voto and all the thoroughfares of public travel within the limits of this on it, so persistent and well fortified were tbe friends of the measure. District, and the people of the District are also taxed for the same I remember that I heartily concurred with my friend in his efforts to purpose. Tho citizens of Georget<>wn pay taxes for the support of arrest its passage; but we were unsuccessful. That the people of all these other tboronghfares and bridges, ancl is it fair that they this whole country should be paying one-half of the expenses of this 1879. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSEo 1067

-city and of this District is, in my judgment, an outrage upon the tax when the further inquiry,~' Does she propose to contrihuto anything payers of the country. I have protested against it as well as I could to the building Y" was answered in the negative, be was naturally ever since it was broached in this House. But this bill goes further, very much surprised. and demands that we should add to that burden the expense of build Now, Mr. Speaker, this is not a question of the power of the Gen ing a free bridge which will cost $140,000, reaching into Virginia., and eral Government. Just for argument's sake admit that the Govern in which that State is as much interested as the people of this Dis ment has power to build as many bridges as it may be disposed to trict; and that we shoulcl tax the tax-payers all over the country to build across the Potomac. The practical question at last is, onght we pay for one-half of the whole cost of it is, in my judgment, intensi to build this bridge Y With two free bridges within sight of this Cap fying a great wrong. itol, with two means of exit from this capital toward the State of I am glad, however, that my friend from Virginia, [Mr. HUNTON,] Virginia, is it expedient to go still further and expend $140,000 in the to use a common expression, "went for" the gentleman from Texas construction of another highway across the Potomac Y I say t hat it {Mr. REAGAN] on his weak point; for this bill, bacl as I conceive it to is not. One argument used in favor of the proposition is that the be, is no greater outrage than, in fact not a quarter so bad as, the river Government now expends money directly or indirectly in paying tolls .and harbor bill, which was got up and put through under suspension for the transportation of troops and supplies. My friend from Mary of the rules, without amendment or the power of amendment, and by land [Mr. HENKLE] has just given us an insight as to how much which, in my judgment, the tax-payers of this country were abso the Govei:nment expends in this manner. He says that we expend lutely robbed of many millions of dollars. The gentleman from Texas $400 or $500 a year in that way. .Now, let us set\ what the Govern is now, and was then, chairman of the Committee on Commerce that ment will have to pay for this bridge. Its first cost to the Govern reported that bill, and was its manager in the House when it passed. ment will be $70,000, the other portion of the expense being paid by I am also glad that my friend from Virginia directed the attention the District. Six per cent. on this expenditure would be bow much f -0f the gentleman 3'om Texas to the appropriations made in that bill Between $4,000 and $5,000. According to my calculation, we can bet for the " Sabine Pass" and " Blue Buck Bar" and various other use ter afford to go on as we have been doing, and pay tolls for Govern less improvements in Texas; but I am also equally pleased that my ment transportation, than build this bridge. :friend from Texas comes back at him about the appropriation for It is further insisted that across the Potomac there is a cemetery, ~' Aquia Creek," in Virginia, which he says contains hardly water to which annually are made those patriotic pilgrimages which are an enough to "wreck a canoe on." Yet for that kind of so-called im honor to our people. It is argued that we ought to have a free bridge provements a bill is brought in here and put through without oppor in order to give greater facilities for crossing the river for such pur tunity for amendment or discussion. It is that sort of legislation, poses. I happen to remember, Mr. Speaker, that six miles beyond the Mr. Speaker, that is aroUBing the indignation of the people of this capital of my own State and across a river there is a national ceme country, and ought to arouse it. tery where many of the dead of the nation sleep. It is proposed to Mr. BLOUNT. Does the gentleman desire to stir up strife between go there and build a bridge which shall be free to the flower-bearers the gentleman from Texas [Mr. REAGAN] and the gentleman from who may visit that cemetery. Why not appropriate for a bridge there Virginia, [Mr. HUNTONY] as well as here if the cemetery argument is to be conclusive f Mr. SPARKS. Yes; a wordy strife, for by that means we expose I say that in the first place the Government ought not to be re the wrong of both bills. quired to keep up the various improvements in this city, as it seems Mr. REAGAN. In case of any difficulty, the gentleman, from Illi to be expected to do ; a,nd in the second place if we have shouldered nois [Mr. SPARKS] may do all the fighting himself. that responsibility we at least ought to show a due regard to the Mr. HUNTON. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. SPA.RKS] will not rights of the people. How are the people of the United States con succeed in "stirring up strife" between the gentleman from Texas cerned in this matter t In what way are the masses of the people and myself. interested in this bridge to the extent of $70,000 'I I admit that the Mr. SPARKS. The gentleman from Texas and the gentleman from people at the end of the bridge and those within sight of it on the Virginia mutually attack the bills of each, a.nd are both right in their other side would be greatly benefited. If the bridge should be attacks. The gentleman from Texas, in addition to his just opposition erected, probably an occasional visit from the District that is not to the bill now before us, also hits the '' Aquia Creek" appropriation now made would be made. But I do insist that there is no public because it is in Virginia. Of course he is right in that, for there exigency demanding an expenditme from the National Treasury for ought to have been no appropriation for that little creek; and if the this bridge. It is not the duty of the Government t.o build bridges proposition had been submitted separately to the House whether the across rivers, although they be within sight of the Capitol. Prox people's money should be voted for that improvement, of course it imity signifies nothing. The people are interested in the matter. It would not have been done. But that and other items of the same is their money which is to be expended, and their servants will not kind were put all together in an omnibus bill which could not be be jUBtified, or justifiable, if they make the expenditure demanded .amended, and by that system of vicious legislation it was adopted. here. I do hope the bill will not pass. The gentleman from Virginia was quite right in arraigning the gen Mr. WRIGHT. I remember, Mr. Speaker, when the first bridge, tleman from Texas for taking money out of the Treasury for the im called the Long Bridge, was built over the Potomac, during the time provement of the "Sabine Pass," "Buck Bar," and other little things of General Jackson's administration. A member of this House, Phi of that kind in Texas. lander Stephens, who represented the Susquehanna district, who had Mr. REAG~. I have already stated that the Sabine Pass, as well been a member of the House, received the .contract under the Gov as every river in that locality for the improvement of which we have ernment to build that bridge. It &et the nation crazy, the idea that made appropriations, has been extensively navigated by steamers for a member of Congress who had assisted in passing the bill should _years. afterward become the contractor to put up the bridge. And it some Mr. SPARKS. I take it from the argument of the gentleman from what alarmed General Jackson, and he was not alarmed at ordinary Virginia that those appropriations o~~ht not to have been made; circumstances. I know it ran along for a year or two before the that they were extravagant and neeruess; and I think he is right bridge was built. about it. Mr. Speaker, this whole business is wrong. By this sys But what I wish to inquire about now, and what I regard as very tem money is taken out of the Treasury of the United States belong material, is that that bridge, built at the cost of the Government, ing to the whole people and appropriated for needless improvements should now be occupied by railroad companies to the exclusion of which are not national and are never intended to be so. This kind ordinary travel and the commerce between both sides of this river. I of legislation, so palpably vicious in its character, ought to be stopped; have heard in debate here that that bridge, the Long Bridge as it is -though I do confess that the prospect of arresting it now is by no called, could not.be occupied in consequence of the railroad tracks _means :flattering, yet it shall receive my earnest efforts to do so. which are laid upon it and which exclude ordinary traveL By what Mr. McMILLAN. Mr. Speaker, I have been surprised at the readi authority do ra,ilroads occupy a bridge built at the cost of the Gov ness with which it is assumed that this measure ought to pass, and ernment for the accommodation of the people of the city of Wash with the tone of complaint that meets the objections made to its pas ington and the parts adjacent thereto 'I Are those railroad companies sage. \Ve are told that the Government is not expending enough the owners of that bridge f Are they the proprietors Y If those rail .money in the District of Columbia. Now let any man go into any road companies are the proprietors of that bridge their title has not city of the United States where the citizens appropriate directly to been obtained by payment of money, has it7 the improvement of their city and observe how the streets of such A MEMBER. How has it been obtained Y cities are improved, and he will, I think, conclude that this is at least Mr. WRIGHT. That is the inquiry I make, and I should like to an average city in respect to such improvements. So much have the have an answer. streets of this city been improved that when the least shower falls, A MEMBER. By act of Congress, of course. when there is the least dampening of these beautiful streets, you see Mr. WRIGHT. But how V horses falling as if they trod on ice. Pedestrianism would be vastly Mr. HUNTON. Congress authorized these railroad companies to more in vogue if the streets were a little more improved in the same build that bridge and required them to build a wagon-way on one way. They have been improved all over the city at an expense of side of it. from $1.45 per square yard to $3.50 per square yard. Yet we aretold Mr. WRIGHT. The railroad companies may have made additions that the march of improvement does not go on with sufficient rapidity. to it, but the original bridge was constructed at the time I have What more Y Not content with improving the land of the District, stated. we are proposing to span the waters adjacent to the District. I was Mr. HUNTON. I beg leave to state to the gentleman from Penn struck with the interrogatory of my friend from New York [Mr. Cox] sylvania that the original bridge is not now there. ·As he bas said, when he asked whether the State of Virginia was to get any benefit it was built at a period so long ago it must have rotted away. The from this bridge, to which an affirmative answer was given, and present bridge has bln built by the railroad companies, and the

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wagon-way alongside of it is so interrupted by the passage of trains it. The nse that is required of that bridge, !f it be required at all,. · over the bridge, as it is occupied by three railroad companies, that it is for the people of the District and the people of the State of Vir is comparatively useless as a highway. ginia; and it is as much for the benefit of the people of tho State of Mr. WRIGHT. lfitistruetheserailroadcompanieshaveconstructed V~rgi!l1n. in that lo~ality as it is for the benefit of the peoP.le of tlle the bridge upon which they have laid their tracks, and built it in the D1str1ct of Columbia; and therefore if the burdens aro to be borne vicinity of the old bridge built by the Government, then there is no by the people who are to be benefited by it the burden should be. complaint to be made unless it may be that it was an oversight to per distributed among those who are to receive tho benefit. And if the mit them to get into such close proximity to the highway of ordinary people of the District of Columbin. receive a certain proportion of the travel. benefit and the people of tho State of Virginia receive a "Portion of Mr. HUNTON. You and I were not here. the benefit, those across the river ought to participate in tho expense Mr. WRIGHT. Wby, how old are you f [Laughter.] 'l'he gentle which is to result in a benefit to them. man says he is thirty years of age. Now I appeal in all sober ear I am opposed to the bill also in another point of view, ant the State of Virginia is interested, but it is a matter in which this may be sought, or a ked, or required by the District Committee. We Government is interested, as it concerne this capital. are assuming first the pa,yment of the debt aud then taking the Di - I know it is said we own one-half of the city, and I suppose in process trict to be our debtor for one-half of it. Repudiation has not yet of time we will own the whole of it, so far as regards the assessment of come; but in the first place we are asked for legislation to permit taxes. But take it all in all it is our capital, a.nd it is a city to which we the funding of the District debt, and we funcl the District deLt a.ml ought to have access-to which the people ought to have access, to issue bonds for the payment of that y which the Governi'nent of And as regards the State of Virginia, I do not think we ought to the United States a sume to pay the interest on the bonds of that levy a contribution on it, as it owes more money now than it is able debt, charging the District one-half. to pay. Now, it seems to mo that that is but a stepping-stone to what is to Mr. CONGER. May I ask the gentleman a question t come; that after we have voted money under the pretense of pa.y i.ng Mr. WRIGHT. Certainly. one-half of all the improvements that the District of Columbia. a: ks Mr. CONGER. Has the gentleman become the advocate of capital through this committee, there must be repudiation by the District ; so soon f Ho says, ''our capital." and in the end the Government of the United States will have to Mr. WRIGHT. I mean the capital that is designated by the big assume the payment of all this debt a.nd 'Of all these improvorncmts. dome upon this building, and the Goddess of Liberty upon the top, It is for that reason that I object to going any further in making pro put there by Jefferson Davis when he was Secretary of War. The vision for levying additional taxes upon the people of this District device was his, and be did a good day's work when he made that until we know whether their capacity to pay is equal to the taxation device. . we imposo. If not, then it is all nonsense to tell us that they arc to J\.lr. MCMILLIN. Will the gentleman permit me to ask him one pay their half. question? · .Mr. FORT. I notice, in line 41 of this bill, that there is a hiut of Mr. WRIGHT. Yes, sir. a draw in this bridge. I hardly ca.n see why the gentleman from Vir Mr. Mcl\llLLIN. It has been asserted that the Gove:t:nment owns ginia [Mr. HIDITON'] should suggest a draw. I do not understand one-half the property in the city. Will the gentleman litate if it is that the Potomac is navigable for many feet above this bridge. not the fact that the Government is a renter in this city to the amount Mr. HUNTON. That clraw only applies to the bridge if it shall be of many thousands of dollars a year for places to keep its records f located below the present Aqueduct Bridge. Mr. WRIGHT. As bas been suggested, the Government does not Mr. FORT. Even then, I can har(Uy see why a draw would be own enough of the city. We have got to own more o.f it. We have necessary. got to run the establishment; and it has been the system for the last Mr. HUNTON. Because below the present Aqueduct Briugo t.he thirty years to make annual appropriations with this object in view. river is navigable. AJJ.d we have uecome used to it like an eel to bein~ skinned, and I Mr. FORT. We considered this bill once before in this House; and, suppose wo may as well go on with it. [Laughter.] I say it is our if I do not forget, the gentleman from Virginia [.Mr. HUNTON'] con capital, although the gentleman from Michigan who addressed the sented that some provisions might be placed iu it that woulu suspend qnestion to me just now seems to doubt whether it is our capital or its operations until the State of Virginia did certain things. Those not. And. it is a l,.YTand capital and the capital of a gra.nd country, provisions are not in this bill. notwithstanding what the gentleman from Michigan may a:1y to the Mr. HUNTON. I explained that i1:l the commencement of my re contrary. marks, if the gentleman had listened to what I said. I said that since Mr. BRAGG. I am opposed to the passage of this bill. There are that time the Legislature of Virg'inia. has passed an act giving its. now three bridges which cross the Potomac in this District, two of consent to and authorizing the Government of the United Sta.tea to which the Government maintains, both of which are free, and one is acquire ten acres of land on the Virginia shore, and giving it exclu- a toll bridge belonging to a private corporation. One of these Gov sive jurisdiction over that territory. · ernment bridges is used by certain railroad companies. And in that Mr. FORT. If the gentleman had waited only a moment to hear connection I am obliged· to say that I suspect the paternity of thi what I bad to say. It seems to be very distasteful to him for any ooe bridge originated with a certain other railroad company that desire to make mention of the State of Virginia, and if so, I will pass over to use it. My suspicions grow out of this fact that when this bridge that. I suppose tba.t this bridge if built will extend into Virginia t<> bill :first saw the light in the last Congress, it had a section in it pro some extent; and if built it will be for the use and benefit of the peo vidin~ for the use of its piers by a narrow-gauge railroad in order to ple of his district especially. take its tra~k across the river. Taking a rido in that neighborhood Now if it is necessary to have a free bridge-and I will sa.y that I recently I discovered a grade coming down opposite the Three S!s am in f::i.vor of free bridges generally, yet I know at least one very ters Island.a, where it. was originally proposed to locate this br· jge. flourishing city in this couutry, the city of Louisville, which I uelieve That, I believe, explams the paternity of this bill. is surrounded by toll-gates so that it is impossible to get out of that I am opposed to this bill, first, because I do not think it is neces city in any direction without payiug toll; still the city of Louis sary or requisite for the Government to invest this money in another ville pro13pers to a greate1· extent tha.n this city ever wonld, if it bridge on this river by re&Bon of any pu:lic fe that is ••_quired of were not fol the appropriations made by the General Governmeut for 1879. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1069

its benefit-now if it is neceBSary to have a free bridge here, why Also, papers relating to the war claim of Mrs. Ann M. Elliott-to ·does not the gentleman propose either to lease the Aqueduct Bridge, the Committee on War Claims. · -orto purchase it, or t? c~ndemn it and _make ~ta free b_ridgeY. He By Mr. CALKINS: Papers relating to the claim of James Timmons, has stricken out of this bill the only section which really m my Judg for bounty and back pay-to the Committee on Military Affairs. ment ought to be passed. I believe he stated that that bridge was By Mr. CARPENTER: Papers relating to the pension claim of -dangerous and unfit for public use. Why is it dangerous T Eliza Meekins.:.....to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. McLANE. If the gentleman will yield to me, I will move that Also, a paper relating to the pension claim of Cornelius Wessels ,the House now adjourn. to the same committee. lfr. FORT. I will yield for that purpose. By Mr. CHITTENDEN: The petition of Isabella J. Ramsdell, for Mr. McLANE. Then I move that the House now adjourn. a pension-to the sa.me committee. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Also, the petition of Mary A. Prescott, for a pension-to the same committee. Pending the motion to adjourn, leave of absence was granted, by By Mr. COX: The petition of John L. Shaw, for compensation for 'Unanimous consent, as follows: information furnished and services rendered to a committee of Con To Mr. BAKER, for two weeks from the 5th instant, in consequence gress during the investigation of the whisky frauds-to the Commit -of the serious illness of his wife ; tee of Accounts. To Mr. TOWNSEND, of Ohio, for one week, on account of important By Mr. CRAVENS: The petition of Angeline Bates, for compensa ~usiness ; and · tion for services as a laundress to United States forces in 1864-to the To Mr. TALBOTT, until J!,riday next. Committee on War Claims. WITHDRAW.AL OF PAPERS. By Mr. FERDON: The petition of the officers and :qi.embers of the By unanimous consent, leave to withdraw papers was granted as Woman's National Christian Temperance Union and others, against follows: any change in the internal-revenue laws that will promote the inter To Mr. NEWBERRY, the papers in the case of Walter F. Halleck; no ests of dealers in spirituous liquors-to the Committee of Ways and ..adverse report ; and Means. To Mr. AINSLIE, the papers relating to certain land titles in Idaho ; Also, the petition of women of Rockland County, New York, for no adverse report. legislation. that will make effective the anti-polygamy law of 1862- REMOVAL OF CAUSES FROM STATE COURTS. to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. FIELD: The petition of Benjamin Hawkes, for a pension Mr. TOWNSHEND, of Illinois, by unanimous consent, from the to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. -Committee on the Revision of the Laws, reported, as a substitute for By Mr. FORD: The petition of Samuel Westhimer and 5 others, House bill No. 815, to repeal certain sections of the Revised Statutes for the repeal of section 7 of the law relating to wine, distilled and and to amend certain sections of the Statutes at Large relating to the fermented liquors-to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws. removal of ca.uses from State courts, a bill (H. R. No. 1715) to repeal By Mr. FRYE: The petition of William P. Frye, for the appoint

. tecay to Blairsville, Georgia-to the Committee on the Post-Office Smith, late a quartermaster in the Army of the Potomac, praying for and Post-Roads. an increase of pension. It is accompanied by twelve exhibits in the By Mr. SPRINGER : The petition of Mrs. Eliza Dunne, of Chicago, form of affidavits sustaining the allegations of the petition. I move Illinois, for pro rata. of the Virginia indemnity fund-to the Com the reference of the petition to the Committee on Pensions. mittee on Foreign Affairs. The motion was agreed to. By Mr. STEPHENS: The memorial of the Young Men's Christian :M.r. WITHERS presented a memorial of the mayor and common Association of Savannah, Georgia, for permission to occupy tempora council of West Point, Virginia, in favor of the passage of a law by rily the military barracks in that city-to the Committee on Military Congress detaching that town from the Yorktown collection district Affairs. and attaching it to the Richmond district ; which was referred to the By Mr. STONE: A joint resolution of the Legisl::i.ture of Michigan, Committee on Commerce. for the due protection of settlers under the general homestead law in MILITARY L"ITERFER"E.""'fCE AT ELECTIONS. the counties of Oceana! Mason, Charlevoix, and Emmet in that State to the Committee on Public Lands. Mr. McDONALD, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom Also, the memorial of M. E. Pengelly and 80 others, citizens of was referred the bill (S. No. 554) to prohibit military interference at Plainwell, Michigan, against any change in the internal-revenue elections, reported it with amendments. laws that will promote the interests of dealers in spirituous liquors The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will go on the Calendar. to the Committee of Ways and Means. lfr. EATON. Let the bill be reported with the amendments. Also, a concurrent resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, ask The PRESIDENT pro ternpore. The report of the committee will be read. ing Congress to auth?rize the b!1ilding of a bri~ge across Detroit River at or near the city of Detroit-to the Committee on Commerce. The Secretary read as follows : The Judiciary Committee, to whom was referred the bill (S. No. 554) entitled By Mr. TAYLOR: Pap~rs relating to the claim of. T. A. Mid~~ton, "A bill to prohibit military interference at elections," report said bill to the Senat& for services as a recruiting officer-to the Comtnlttee on Military a.nd recommend the following amendments thereto, to wit: Affairs. Between the word " or" and the words "to enforce," in line 7 in the printed copy, By Mr. THOMPSON: Papers relating to the war claim of Wm. D. insert" to protect a. State against inYasion or." Strike out the words "where such force is to be used," line 10, printed copy, and Wolford, of Kentucky-to the Co111mittee on War Claims. in lien thereof insert "when the Legislature cannot be convened." Also, papers relating to the pension claim o.f the minor ~eirs of Thus amended, the committee recommend the passage of the bill. Benjamin F. McGuire, deceased-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Mr. EATON. I desire to give notice to the Senate that at the con sions. clusion of the morning hour to-morrow I shall ask that this bill be By Mr. VANCE : The petition of Albert Fuller, for extension of ta.ken up and be considered, and that all other business be laid aside letters-pat.ent-to the Committee on Patents. so thait this bill may receive the attention of the Senate. Also, the petition of John Develin, for compensation for clerical Mr. EDMUNDS. I hope the Senator does not mean to give that services rendered in the office of the Fifth Auditor in 1837-to the notice against appropriation bills. Committee of Claims. Mr. EATON. I mean to give just that notice without making any Also, the petition of Moses Marshall, for an extension of patent-to exception whatever, that I shall ask to take up this bill at that time. the Committee on Patents. Mr. EDMUNDS. I regret that extremely, if we cannot go on with Also, the petition of William C. Dodge, of similar import-to the the appropriation bills; but we shall see. same committee. Mr. EATON. I do not know that there are any appropriation bills By Mr.WAIT: The petition of Mrs. L. Goodwill and 45 others, citi here. zens of Connecticut and members of the Woman's National Christian Mr. EDMUNDS. There are some here or hereabouts, as the say- Temperance Union, against any change in the revenue laws that will ing is. promote the interests of dealers in spirituous liquors-to the Com Mr. EATON. This bill is more than hereabouts. mittee of Ways and Means. Mr. EDMUNDS. I should think this was thereabouts. By Mr. WASHBURN: Memorial of citizens of Dakota Territory, Mr. FERRY. Will the Senator from Connecticut state the hour to for the opening of certain reservations, and that the same be sub morrow at which he proposes to call up the bill! jected to homestead and pre-emption-to the Committee on Public Mr. EATON. I said immediately after the conclusion of the morn Lands. ing hour. By Mr. WHITTHORNE : Memorial of Henry S. Chubb, of Phila Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia. Say "after the morning business." delphia, Pennsylvania., for change in naval regulations as to t~e ex Mr. EATON. Very well; I will say at the conclusion of the morn amination of carpenters, &c.-to the Commit~ee on Naval Affairs. ing business. Also the memorial of Thomas S. Brandon, for compensation for sup Mr. LOGAN. Let the Clerk read the amendments again. plies f~rnished troops in Oregon during Indian hostilities-to the Mr. CARPENTER. Let the bill be reported as it would read if' Committee of Claims. amended. By Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee: The petiti?n of Mrs. Mary Speed, of The PRESIDENT p1·0 tempore. The bill is not now before the Sen-. Memphis, Tennessee, for payment of war claim-to the Committee on ate; the bill ha.a gone upon the Calendar. War Claims. Mr. WITHERS. Is there anything before the Senate T Also, the petition of Earl D. Bardon, of Providence, Rhode Island, The PRESIDENT pro te1npore. Reports of committees are still in of similar import-to the same committee. order. Also, the petition of Melrose Grange, No. 80, of Shelby County, Ten Mr. LOGAN. I desire to know how I can get at the amendments, nessee, favoring the Reagan interstate-commerce bill-to the Com if they cannot be read at the Clerk's desk T mittee on Commerce. Mr. CARPENTER. I presume there is no objection to the reading of the bill as it is proposed to be amended. It hn-s not been printed yet as reported from the committee; we are not informed of it. Let it be reacl as proposed to be amended by the Judiciary Committee: IN SENATE. The PRESIDENT p1·0 tempore. If there is no objection, the bill will be read as proposed to be amended. . TUESDAY, May 6, 1879. The Secretary read the bill as proposed to be amended by the Com-. mittee on the Judiciary, as follows: Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. J. BULLOCK, D. D. That it shall not be lawful to bring to or employ a.t a.ny place where a. general o~ The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. special election is being held in a. State a.nypa.rt of the Army or Navy of the United EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION. States, unless such force be necessary to repel the armed enemies of the United States, or to protect a. State against invasion, or to enforce section 4, article 4 of The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communi the Constitution of the United States and the laws made in pursuance thereof, cation from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter from upon the application of the Legislature, or the executive of the State when the the Superintendent of the Census, calling attention to the necessity Legislature cannot be convenoo; and so much of all laws as is inconsistent here of an appropriation for the payment of certain claims for services in with is hereby repealed. taking the eighth and ninth censuses of the United States. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Indiana wish The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The communication and accom this bill printed as proposed to be amended T panying letter will be referred to the Committee on Appropriations. ~fr. McDONALD. Yes, sir. Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia.. I suggest that the communication Mr. EDMUNDS. Let it be printed with the amendments in the should go to the Committee to make provision for taking the Tenth regular way. Census for examination. The PRESIDENT pro tenip01·e. Yes, in the regular way. That is Mr. EDMUNDS. I think that is r~ht. what is proposed. Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia. As it is a question solely whether Mr. EDMUNDS. I understood the Chair to mean to have it printed the amount claimed is due I hope it may go to that committee, so that in sequence as a new bill. To that I object. they may examine it and report upon it. The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. It will be print.ed in the usual way. The PRESIDENT pro tenipore. The communication will be referred Mr. McDONALD. With the amendments suggested by the Judi to the Committee to make provision for taking the Tenth Census if ciary Committee. there be no objection. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Certainly. PETITIONS AND M:EMORliLS. LEGISLATIVE, ETC., APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. CARPENTER. I present the petition of Captain Thornton. - Mr. BECK. I am directed by the Committee on Appropriations,