188 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER-13,
By Mr. ERDMAN: A bill (H. R. 4672) for the relief of John SENATE. A. Haas-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4673J for the relief of the Berks County Agri WEDNESDAY_, December 13, 1893. cultural Society, of Berks County, Pa.-to the Committee on Claims. Prayer by the Chaplam, Rev. W. H. MILBURN, D. D. By Mr. HOLMAN: A bill (H. R. 4674) to increase the pension M. C. BuTLER, a Senator from the State of South Carolma, of David T. Stonebraker-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. appeared in his seat to-day. Also, a bill (H. R. 4675) to increasa the pension of Wells John The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. son-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. By Mr. HOUK of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 4676) for the re- lief of T. J. Wear-to the Committee on War Claims. . Mr. SHERMAN presented petitions of soldiers of the Jate war, Also, a bill (H. R. 4677) for the relief of Alexander L. Taylor citizens of Mount Victory, South Ridgeville, Edinburg. Ross to the Committee on Military Affairs. Co ll nty, Othwa County, and of J. C. Irwin Post, Grand 'Armv Also,_a bill (H. R. 4678) granting a pension to Thomas P. A. of the Republic, all in the State of Ohio, praving for an investi Leonard, of Sweetwater, Tenn.-to the Committee on Invalid gation of the Pension Bure:1u; which were referred to the Com Pensions. mittee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4679) for the relief of Mrs. Sarah E. Cox-to Mr. CAMERON presented a petition or citizens of Pennsylva the Committee on War Claims. nia, praying for the enactment of such legislation as wilt secure Also, a bill (H. R. 4680) for 'the relief of James Currier-to the the enforcement of laws passed to carry into effect Articles XIV Committee on Military Affairs. and XV of the Constitution of the United States; which was re Also, a bill {H. R. 4681) for the relief or Joseph Lowe-to the ferred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. COCKRELL. I present the affidavit of Dr. H. W. La By Mr. POST: A bill (H. R. 4682) for the relief of Nancy E. tham, of Latham, Mo., in support of Senate bill No. 255, grant Day, administratrix of the estate of James L. Day, deceased-to ing a pension to John G. Hanna, private Company A, Forty-third the Committee on Claims. · Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia. I move that the affidavit By Mr. RANDALL: A bill (H. R. 4683) for the relief of Com be referred to the Committee on Pensions, to accompany that modore Oscar C. Badger, United States Navy-to the Commit bill . tee on Naval Affairs. The motion was agreed to. By Mr. ROBBINS: A bill (H. R. 4684) for ·the relief of Flora REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. A. Darling-to the Committee on·-vrar Claims. By Mr. SMITH of Illinois (by request): A bill (H. R. 4685) for Mr. PEFFER, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was the relief of 'rhomas J. Spencer, late a captain Tenth United referred the bill (S. 901) for the relief of the owners of the States Cavalry-to the Committee on Military Affairs. schooner Henry R. rilton and of personal effects thereon, re By Mr. STRONG: A bill (H.4686J to correct the military rec ported it without amendment, and submitted a report thereon. ord of Alexander P. Magaan, of Battery H, Fourth United States Mr. STEWART, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was Artillery-to the Committee on Military Affairs. referred the bill IS. 223) for the relief of Isham T. Owen, of Mis By Mr. STORER: A bill (H. R. 4687)' granting a pension to souri reported it without amendment, and submitted a report Mrs. Catherine Elliott-to the Committee on Pensions. thereon. Also, a bill (H. R. 4688) authorizing the removal of the charge Mr. COCKRELL, from the Joint Commission of Congress to of desertion from the record of Hugh F. Elliott-to the Commit Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive De tee on Military Affairs. pac> tments, to whom the subject was referred, submitted a report By Mr. WELLS: A bill (H. R. 4690) for the relief of Maurice thereon, accompanied by a bill (S.1260) to improve the methods Moriarty and grant him a pension-to the Committee on Invalid of accounting in the Post-Office Department, -and for other pur Pensions. poses; which was read twice by its title. By. Mr. DOCKERY: A bill (H. R. 4691) granting a pension to The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be placed on the Thomas J. Reid-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ' Calendar. Mr. COCKRELL. It is the same as House bill4610, reported in the other House. . • - PETITIONS, ETC. Mr. PALMER, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S.1051) for the relief ·of Jean Louis Legare, of Under clause 1 of Rule XXIT, the following petitions and pa the Dominion of C mada, asked to be discharged from its further pers were laid on the Clerk's desk, and referred as follows: comideration and th:1t it be referred to the Committee on Claims; By .Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas: Memorial of William which was agreed to. H. Cayce, asking for thA passage of a bill relieving him from un Mr. PROCTOR, from the Committee on the District of Co lawful treatment of the St. Louis, Iron Mount':l,in and Southern lumbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 444) making the sur Railway Company-to the Committee on Private Land Claims. veyor of the District of Qolumbia a salaried officer, and to pro By .Mr. BLACK of Georgia (by request): Petition, p:1pers and vide for more efficient service in the surveyor's office, reported summary report in the claim of John M. Boone, of Wilkinson it with amendments, and submitted a report thereon. County, Ga., against the United States-to the Committee on Mr. PASCO, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was re· War Claims. ferred the bill (S.326) for the relief of C. B. Bryan & Co., re By Mr. DALZELL: P etition of plate-glass worker.:; of Charle ported it without amendment. and submitted a report thereon. roi, P a., against change of duties on plate gla~s-to the Commit He also, feom the same committee, to whom was refe rred the t9e on Ways and Me:1ns. bill {S. 58) for the relief -of William Clift, reported it without Also, resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburg, amendment, and submitted a report thereon. Pa., relative to creation of artificial-freshet navigation in the upper Ohio River-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. GROSVENOR: Memorhl of the session of the Pres Mr. STOCKBRIDGE introduced a bill (S.l261)for the erection byterian Church of Arnesville, Ohio. favoring the repe:tl of the of a public building at Menominee, Mich.; which was re:1d twice Geary law; second to p .1ss the Sabb9.th-rest bill; third, to pass by its title. and referred to the Committee on Public Building3 a law respecting religion in the public schools; fourth, against an:l Grounds. the admission of Utah as a State; fifth to pass a law creating a Mr. POWER introduced a bill (S. 1262) for the relief of, Paul commission to investigate the liquor traffic: sixth. to pass a more McCormick: which was read twice by its title, and referred to stringent law prohibiting pauper and criminal immigration-to the Committee on Claims. the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. VILAS introduced a bill (S.1263) to provide for the further By Mr. HARMER: Memorial of workingmen and other citi distribution of reports of the Supreme Court; which was read zens of Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa., protesting against the t wice by its title, and referred to the Comruittee on the Judi passage of the Wilson tariff bill-to the Committee on Ways ciwy. and Means. , He also introduced a bill (8.1264) to provide for the distribu· By Mr. RANDALL (by request): Proposal and plan of John tion of reports of the United States courts of appeals; which was C. McGowan for relieving the sewers 1md for disposing of the read twice by its-title, and referred to the Committee on the Ju- sewage of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, D. C. diciary. . _ to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Mr. CAMERON introduced a bill (S.1265) for the rel~ef of J ohn By Mr. W iSE: Certified copy of findings of fact and conclu Millen; which was read twice by its title, anc'l with the accompa· sions of law, Court of Claims, No. 15,607, William B. Isaacs et nying paper, referred to the Committea on Military Affairs. al against the United States-to the Committee on the Judici Mr. JONES of Arkansas introduced a bill (S.1266) to extend -ary. and amend an act entitled "An ac~ to authorize the Kansas and 1893 . . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 189
Arkansas Valley Railway to construct and operate additional A bill (H. R. 213) to pay for alley condemned in square num- lines of railway throug-h the Indian Territory, and for other bered 493, in the city of Washington, D. C.; · purposes," approved l!,ebruary 24, A. D. 1891; which was re:td A bill (H. R. 3 i29 ) to close alleys in square numbered 751, in twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Indian Af the city of Washington, D. C.; fairs. A billlH. R. 401~) to release and turn over to Mrs. Mary 0. · Mr. BUNTON introduced a bill (S. 1267) authorizing- the at Augusta certain property in the District of Columbia; and tor ney for the District of Columbia and his assistants to admin A bill (H. R. 4571) to make service connections with water ister os.ths and -affirmations; which was read twice by its title, mains and sewers in the District of Columbia, and for other pur and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. poses. Mr. COCKRELL (by request) introduced a bill (S.1268) grant The following bills were severally read twice by their titles, ing a pension to Calvin K. Bynum; which was read twice by its and referred to the Committee on Commerce: title, and w1th the accompanying paper, referred to the Com A bill (H. R. 156) for the establishment of a light and fOO"·sig- mittee on Pensions. nal station near Butler Flats, New Bedford, Mass.; o · He also (by request) introduced a bill (S. 1269) granting a pen A bill (H. R. 411) to require steam ve~sels of tbe United States, sion to Christ Bueltemann; which was read twice by its title, of 1,000 tons or more, to have one engineer and helper on watch and. with the accompanying paper, referred to the Committee in tbeir engine rooms while under way, and to require all steam ori P1:3nsions. vessels of the United States, under steam for more than ten He also (by request) introduced a bill (S. 1270) granting an in hours, to carry two licensed engineers; and crease of pension to Benjamin F. Catlett; which was re.-t d twice A bill (H. R. 4;414) to amend an act approved Septemb3r 4, -by its title, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the 1890, authorizing the New Orleans, Natchez and Fort Scott Rail Committee on Pensh,ns. ro:td Company to construct two bridges across Boouf River, in Mr. COCKRELL. I ask unanimous consent that the Com Louisiana. mittee on Pensions may be discharged from the further consid , The bill (H. R. 108) to fix the times and places for holding the eration of the bill (S. 249) for the restoration of Zerelda Cobbs Federal courts in the State and district of Nebrask::t was read to the pension roll, and that the bill be indefinitely. postponed, twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on the as I desire to introduce a new bill on the subject. Judiciary. The PRESIDENT p'tO tempm·e. Tbe Committee on Pensions The bill (H. R. 894) for the relief of Robert Travila for loss will l:::e discharged, and the bill indefinitely postponed, in the of carbine in the late war was read twice by its title, and re absence of objection. ferred to the Committee on Claims. Mr. COCKRELL (by request) introduced a bill (S. 1271) for The bill (H. R. 356) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior the relief of Zerelda Cobb; which was read twice by its title, and to reserve from sale certain land in the abandoned Fort Cum referred to the Committee on Pensions. mings military reservation, and for other purposes, was read He also (by request) introduced a bill (S.1272) granting a pen twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Public sion to Gabrilla P. Moody; w hicb was read twice by its title, and Lands. referred to the Committee on Pensions. - MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. He also (by request) introduced a bill (S.1273) for the relief of Bernard J.D. Irwin; which was read twice by its title, andre A. message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. T. 0. ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs. TowLES, its Chief Clerk, announced that the House had p::tSsed He also (by request) introduced a bill (S.1274) for the relief of a bill (H. R. 3246) for the anpointment of a sealer and assistant Henry J. Hewitt; which was read twice by its title, and referred ses.ler of weights and measures in the District of Columbia, and to the Committee on Claims. for other purposes; in which it requested the concurrence of the He also (by request) introduced a bill (S.1275) for the relief of Senate. Michael Dittlinger· which was read twice by its title, andre ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. ferred to the Committee on Claims. The messZLge also announced that the Speaker of the House · He also (by request) introduced a bill (8.1276) to refer the had signed the enrolled'joint resolution (H. Res. 31) for the pro claim of David C. Allen to the Court of Claims; which was read tection of those parties who have heretofore been allowed to twice by its title, and, with the accompanying paper, referred to make entr~es for lands within the former Mille L a-e Indian Res the Committee on Claims. ervation in Minnesota; and it was thereupon signed by the Pres He also (by request) introduced a bill (S.1277) for the payment ident pro temp ewe. of arre::trs of interest on Chickasaw trust funds; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Indian Af DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION IN HAW Ali. fairs. The PRESIDENT pro tempo1·e. The Chair lays before the He also (by request) introduced a bill (S.1278) granting a pen Senate a resolution coming over from a former day, which will sion tolsaac Gann; which was read twice by its title, and, with be read: the accomp3.nying papers, referred to the Committee on Pen The Secretary read the resolution submitted by Mr. HoAR on sions. the 11th instant, as follows: . He also (by request) introduced a joint r~~olution (S. R. 45) Resolved, That the President be requested to inform the Senate, if 'in his granting a medal to Bvt. First Lieut. A. Liebschutz; which opinion it be not inconsistent with the public interest, whether any person was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on whose name has not been submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent, Military Affairs. and if so, what person, has been appointe-d since the 4th day of March, 1893, to represent the United States in the Hawaiian Islands; and HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE. Whether such person ha-s been accreditEd to the President of the Execu tive and Advisory Council of the Hawaiian Islands; and Mr. GORMAN. I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate the Whether such person has been presented to the head of the Government action of the House of RepreEentatives upon the Hudson Rive1· of the Hawaiian Islands; and bridge bill. · Whether any, and if so what, authority has been given to such person touching the relations of this Government to the then existing or other gov Tbe PRESIDENT p 'tO tempore laid before the Senate the ac ernment of the Hawaiian Islands and the protection of American citizens tion of the House of Representatives on the bill (H. R. 3289 ) to therein; and . a,uthorize the New York and New Jersey Bridge Companies to Whether any discretion or power has been committed to such person to determine when the naval forces of the United States should be landed therein const :· uct and maintain a bridge across the Hudson River be or withdrawn therefrom; and tween New York City and the State of New Jersey, further in W!lether any authority has been committed to such person to use physical sisting on its disagreement to the amendments of the Senate to force in the territory of said Government, or to land an armed force there; and the bill and requesting-a further conference with the Senate on Whether such person has been authorized to, or has in fact corresponded the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon. in regard to the public affairs of the Government of the Hawaiian Islands Mr. GORMAN. I submit the conference report showing the with any private person, newspaper, or otherperiodical: or has been author ized-to, or has in fact undertaken to receive in said Hawaiian Islands the disagreement. _I move that the further conference requested testimony of any private person, or has requested or received writ-ten com by the House of Representatives be agreed to by the Senate. munications from any private person in regard to the lawful and existing The motion was agreed to._ . Government there. or the circumstances under which said existing Govern ment was established; or any other matt-er relating to the public affairs By unanimous consent, the President p1·o tempore was author thereof; and - ized to appoint the conferees on the part of the Senate, and Mr. . If any such appointment or authority has been made or given, further to VEST, Mr. GORMAN, and Mr. FRYE were appointed. mform the ~enate whether the same was made or given at a. time when the Senate was m session, or has continued in force during any session of the HOUSE BILLS REFERRED. Senate, or of Congress, or of any part thereof; and further Whether such appointment or authority was communicated to the Senate The following bills received yesterday from the House of Rep during ary session thereof; and fnrther resentatives were severally read twice by their titles, and re Whe.th~r any person has a'..ed, or undertaken to accept, the office of ~ ferred to the Committee on the District of Columbia: commissioner or public minister with the power aforesaid, or any of them, A bill (H. R.146) to extend North Capitol street to the Sol or has undertaken in any correspondence with the Government of Hawaii, or with any private person, to describe hiinseU as commissioner o:t tha diers' Home; United Stat.es. ·190 GONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 13,
:Mr. GRAY. I do notsee the Senator ft·om Massachusetts[Mr. Mr. FRYE. But the message of the President was, of course, HoA.R] in his seat. As I understood from h1m yesterday, he is founded upon the documents to which the Senator refers. called away to-d ::> y by asocill engagement of some importance and Now, I do not know how far Blount·s report is before the Sen interest, and he then repeated his assent to an agreement that we ate. I do know it is before the country and before the House of hlld yesterday th::tt this matter should go to the Committee on Representatives in its entirety, and I do not sea that th9re is or Foreign Relations. I underotOt"d that it had been referred yes ought to be any delicacy about a reference to it. terday, but I see that was not the c •se. I was not in the ChJ.m I wish to s.1y, in relation to thatreport. thatinm:v judgment it ber. But as th'lt is the understwding, I move that the resolu is a most dangerous one on which any United St.1tes SenJ.tor can tion be rererred to that committee. afford to ro tke a f'erious attack upon the character of any private Mr. FRYE. The Senator will pardon me; it was postponed citizen of the United States. I affirm without hesitation that until this morning, because I desired to make a few remarks in Me. Blount in that reporthusnotwrittenone single unvarnished relation to the -resolution before it was referre~ to the commit line of truth, nor given one unprejudiced opinion, nor rendered tee. one impartial judgment. Mt•. GRAY. The .Senator understood the general agreement? 1\1r .. President, I as.:5ume that this is an attack upon our former Mr. FRYE. Yes, sir. minister, M.r. Stevens, that he has dishonored the flag, that he Ml'. GRAY. I have no objection, of course, and I withhold the has committed an act of piracy. Mr. Stevens was born in the / motion for the present. - · State of Mainesomethingoverseventy years ago. For more than Tile PRESIDENT pro tempore. The ~otion iB debatable. The forty years he h 3.S been a p ominent figure in our State. For Senator can make it or withhold it. more than forty years I have been intimately acquainted with Mr. GRAY. I withhold it for the present. him. For more than forty years the public eye of Maine has The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Maine is necessarily rested upon him. He has been during that period recognized by thA Chair. many times a member of both of our legislative bodies. Mr. FRYE. Mr. President, I do not ta.ke the floor for the For many ye 1rs he was the editor of the Kenn·e bee Journal, our purpose of discus ing th"E} Hawaiian question. It s~ems to me State p pee formerly edited for awhile by our late Seceetary of that we are not in a proper preparation for such discussion; th t State, Mr. Blaine. For more than thirteen years h e has repre for an intelligent one it is absolutely necessary there shall be a sented the United StJ.tes Government as a minister abroad, at thorough and complete ~nvestiga tion of the facts and a report Paraguay and Uruguay, at Sweden. and in the Hawaii 1nlslands. made to thls body. I am hoping that theCommitteeonFo ign He m:lde internatwnallaw a careful study, and for th:e under Reln.tions will make such investigation, and that after that is standing of it h e was prepa.red by a thorough education in early done I shall have an opportunity to address myself to the Senate life. He was f-tm.iliar with all the usages and requil'ements of -on til.e general subject. diplomacy. He was an antislavery Whig, and when the Re In the discussion that took olace day before yesterday the Sen pu blic.m party was born he neces3arily united his fortunes to that ator from Deld.ware [Mr. GRAY] made use of the following·lan party· and from that d y w this he h ts been an earnest, zealous gua~e: ad vocate of the principles of that party with his pen and on tbe H&- stump. Indeed, I know of no man who has hadomore to do with the atfairs of Maine publicly in the sa.me length of time than Mr. Referring to Mr. Bayard- Stevens. He is a man whose moral char.1.cter is without a stain. He merely gives voice to what rises na.turally in his patriotic heart, as it He is slow to m ~ke up his judgments and zealous in maintaining wou!d rise naturally, I believe, in the patriotic hea.rt (}f every American, that when the fiaa of the count.ryhas been used for the purposes of dishonor, them when made up. He is remarkable for his accuracy of state an.:i when the auchority and power and prestige of the United States have ment, a characteristic, I suppose, acquired largely as an editor; been made to covljr an act of piracy that th& wrong should in some way at and when Mr. Stevens m
Queen and the lottery and opium ring around her would obtain the assist "While we a.bstain from interfering with the!domestica.ftairs of Hawaii. in ance of tbe Japanese and other foreigners to rest<>re her to tbe throne, she accordance with the policy and practice ofthis Govern.ment, yet obstruction compensating them by granting them the right or suffrage and other favors, to the channels of legitime~ commerce under eA.L:!ting law must not be al whit.:h the Queen in her desperation readily would have promised to grant. lowed, and American citizens in Hawaii must b<> protected in their persons Fear and pJ.D.ic began to gain headway in the city. A riot was feared. Mil and property by the repr sentatives or their country's law ariel power, and lions or American PI operty and life and order were in peril. In these cir no internal discord must be su1l'ered to impair them." cumstances the only sure hope of safety was in the American naval force at These were the latest instructions to tne Unit~ ::ltates minister at Hono hand. Should the American reJ)resentative run the risk of anarchy and lulu, on fi.le at the lega.tion, for guidance iD. case of circlllllSta.nces precisely bloodshed when lt was certain he would be held rigidly responsible if ca like these which arose when the Hawaiian monar chy fell in January last. tastrophe and calamity should come? It was this pressure of necessity which It was the language of this dispatch which Capt. Wiltsao! the Boston had compelled the American representative to act with promptness and vigor. for his instruction.. _ Tbese were the reasons wntch led the ProviSional Government to ask our l'he essential objects to be accomplished by raising the flag were gained assistance, and these rea ons are known to the American public. But there during the seventy-five days its bright, s r.a.rry folds were before the p eople were other potemial reasons which pressed upon me. For nearly half a of Hawaii. The Provisional Government had secured the necessary time century our Government h ad claimed righ~ and interests in the Hawaiian to or !>anize an efficient police and military !orce, to substitute reliable o.lll islands superior to any other foreign nations. Repeatedly there have been cialsm place of the unreliable, and toconsolidaMthenewGovernment,with attempts to induce our Government to agree to dual or tripartite responsi tht' approval or the best and responsible man of aJl the islands. That coun bilities at Honolulu. John M. Clayton, Secretary under President Taylor, try now has the best Government it h.a.~ ever had, administered by men of repelled this forty-three years ago, and such has been our policy stnce. It intelligence, education, and e:harac:ter, a.nd as thoroughly American in sym was well known to me that this idea of joint action had not been given up, pathv and in interest as we have at the head o::t any ol our American States but was still insist~d on by one. if not two foreign representatives at Hono and Territories. lulu. There was one Japanese warve sel in the harbor. and another power ful ironclad-larger than the Bo ·ton-had been telegraphed !or. I knew the So much for the charge of dishonoring · the flag. I thank En.~lish war ship was soon expected. I had reason to think, and the Pro IIeaven that no citizen of Maine ordered it hauled down, and I Visional Government had reason to fear, that these foreign representatives compliment the admiral who did that in his dispatoh he says: would insist on the same right to land their naval forces which we had ex ercised. We were five thousa-nd miles from Washington. with no cable I do it in obedience to the orders of Commissioner Blount. from Honolulu to San Francisco, and the long space be.wuen mad stea.mers I have no doubt that it may become necessary to drag Minis would not ~rmit commnnica.tlng with our Government and onr receiving an answer in less tban three weeks. ter Stevens down. I have had reliable informatic:1 since I came We knew not theu that .Ashmead Bartlett, in the English House of Com into the Senate this morning which says that- mons. had asked the Gladstone Ministry whas it had done or would do rela The purpose of the Administration is to eharge that Stevens was a party tive to Em~lli h interes at Honolulu, and that Lord Grey.in behalf or the to corruption, employed to drag down the Queen's government and estab English ministry had answered thatit would trust tne American Government lish the revolutionary government. to protect English life and prope, ty in Hawaii. We didknowthatthe atti· tude of the Engli hminister at Honolulu was qUite otberw1sefrom this-that That does not amaze me. he till wishe..t to have joint responsibility with the American minister as Mr. GRAY. Will the Senator read that again? to the landing of troop and the maintenallce ot public order a.t Honolulu. Iwa.s therefore compelled to decide whether I would risk the danger of a. Mr. FRYE. It reada: practical abandonment o! the long-ma.intainedAmericanpolicy of nonjoint The purpose of th~ Administration is to charge that Stevens was a party responsibility in Hawaiian aJ'ra.irs. To thus sm·render in practice what we to corruption, employed to drag down the Queen's government and estab had long claim~ d I knew well. would prove me unfit to be an American rep lish the reYolution.ary government. ...__ reE-entatlve. Here were dimculties which could be e1l'ectively and conclu sively overcome only in one way; that was by raising the fl.ag over the Mr. GRAY. Mr. President, does the Senator make that Government building as a. symbr>l of om superior right to protect the charge? Hawaiian Government. This would net only pTevent all the danger of · Mr. FRYE. I say I am informed upon what I regard as reli riot and bloodshed, but would shut out the lan ding of any other naval force except olll' own. Capt. Wiltse saw this as -soon and as clearly as I did. able authority that that is the purpose. That is what I said. I With an America.n heart loyal to the core, con.t~cientious, firm, self-possessed did not make the charge myself. · fully aware of the grave responsibility of the act. he was prompt to rto hi Mr. GRAY. Will the Senator give 'his authority,or is he not duty. The officers under his comm and were as intelligent and loyal as the•r own veteran commander. The following are the words read by Lieut. Rush at liberty to do so:' of the Boston, on the steps of the government building simultaneously with Mr. Fl:<.YE. I am not at libert-y to give the authority. I will raising the fiag, which was immediately published by post-ers and in the s-ay for mys-elf th.a.t I am fully prepared to see any method re newspapers; "'1:0 THE liAW AllAN PEOPLE. sorted to to drag- Mr. Stevens down. I will say that tor myself. _ Whether money was or was not expended by the revolutionists uAt the request of the ProVisional Government or the Hawailan Islands! hereby, in the name of the Umtetl Stat es of America, assume protectwn ·of I do not know, but as to any ch ... rge that M i'. Stevens, our min the Hawaiian I slands !lJr the protection of life and property and occupation iste t', had any participation in corrupt practices to remove one of public buildings and H awaiian soil, so ta.r as may be necessary :for the govemmen t and cr ea.t~ another, I feel able to say I do know that purpose :specified, out not interfering with the administration of public af· !airs by the Provisional Government. there is not one word of truth in it, and it would require an im "This action is taken pending and subject to negotiations at Washington. mense amount of evide :ce. infinitely bett.et• than any that has yet "JOHN L. STEVENS, been sent from Hawaii to the Secretary of St.!te, to convince the "Envoy E::drao1·dinary and Minister Pten£potentiary of the Umtea states. people of Maine t.hat such a cha:·ge can be sustained. "UNITED STATES LEGATION, Fel»'uat•y 1, 1893. "Approved and executed by As to the pir-acy, I wish to put in the R ECORD in reference to "G. C. WILTSE, that a statement of our late minister M-r. Stevens, prepared with " Captain, United States Navy, great care. I regard it as important "that it shall be in the "Commanding the United b't atu ship Boston." RECORD, so that in .future discussions we may have his state It. will oo observed that the plain intent or this little document is nonin ments to which reference may be made. Mr. Stevens says: • t&!erence with the sovereignty of Hawaii-that it claimed to establish only a qualitled and limited protect<>rate. ana instead of infringing on the sover A deep sense or obligation to my ,c.ountry and an American's duty to de· eignty of the country, it was a. response to tbe onlv government or the f~nd an in ult-e.d. threatened, and struggling American colony, planted as islands to aid in maintaining its own sovereignty. The salutary effect of nghteously and firmly on the North Pacific isles as onr Pilgrim Fathers es thus raising the flag was imme
It is well to state here that this landing of American forces in Honolulu In a report to the Navy Department, dated January 16, Capt. Wiltse, after bad repeatedly taken place in a period running over many years. This hap announcing the fact that the forces had been landed, says: pened in 1!rt4, in 1887, in 1889, and was on the eve of being done on several "While there has been no demonstration so far, there can be no doubt that ot.her occasions. Several times prior to the events of J-anuary last I had the prompt landing of the battalion has saved life and property." been notified by the representatives of the Queen to be in readiness to re The request of Minister Stevens, upon which the captain act-ed, read as ceive a request to land our na.val force. Repeatedly had our naval com followe: manders during my o.ffi.cial residence in Honolulu got everything in readi "UNITED STATES LEGATION,Janua?'Y 16,1893. ness to land, on information as to signs of danger which they and theiro.ffi.cers "In view of the existing critical circumstances in Honolula, indicating an bad gat.hered by being in close touch with the then existing state of things. inadequate legal force, I request you to land marines and sailors from the The elements and forces of Hawaii in play in 1887, 1889, and in 1893 were ship under your command for the protection of the United States legation and are essentially the same, the breadth and strength of the prevailing and the United States consulate and to secure the safety of American life elements and forces in 1893 being more decisive than in the former periods. and property. · - Those who assert to the contrary are not honest, else they do not understand " JOHN L. STEVENS_ what they have written about. To say that the overturn of the Hawaiian "To Capt.. WILTSE, U.S.N." monarchy was bogus, a mere scare, is as absurd as would be the claim of those who might assert that the fall of Louis Phillipe in 1818 and of Louis The order of Capt. Wiltse to Lieut. Commander Swinburne, who com Napoleon in 1!:!71 was an illusion and a fraud. manded the naval battalion on shore, reads as follows, under the same date: Blount squarely asserts that !promised to aid the committee on safety by "You will take command of the battalion, a.nd land in Honolulu for the force. This is emphatically and categorically untn1e. In reply to rival par purpose of protecting our legation and the lives aad property of American ties at di!rerent times, whether the representatives of the Queen or her op citizens, and to assist in the preservation of public order. Great prudence ponents, my answer was always the same, that the force would not land must be exercised by both officers and men, and no actlon taken that is not until danger should be plainly imminent. and then only to protect American fully warranted by t.he condition of affairs, and by the conduct of those who life and property, and to no one did I ever hint that I could, or would, recog may be inimical to the treaty rights of American citizens. You will inform nize any but the rte facto government, whether monarchical or republican, me at the earliest practicable moment of any change in the situatiou." and as I said in my letter to Secretary Gresham, I here reaffirm that royal Mr. Blount's shamefully unfair attempt to cast suspicion on myself in the ists and their opponents had equal access to the legation and to its o.ffi.cial matter of the hall for the men of the Boston, on the first evening: of their head. The best answer to the baseless charge that I promised to use for~ landing, I have answered in my letter to Secretary Gresham. I will repeat against the Queen is the order of Capt. Wiltse to his o.ffi.cers and his men, my language here. " To remain passive," and that no force was used, though the Queen, After I had made my request to Capt. Wiltse to land his men as a precau through her ministers, strongly requested it hours before the Provisional tionary safeguard to American life and property, he and his omcers informed Government was recognized by me and all the other diplomatic representa me that their.men must have shelter for t~e night. Without special infor tives in Honolulu. mation in that regard, I had supposed that the ship's marines had tents of One of the most striking evidences of Blount's prejudiced, ex parte, and un their own for their customary use in case of emergency on shore. I at once warranted statements is the following: "A meeting of the committee of wrote a note and sent it by messenger to secure a large hall that was sup safety held that night, January 16, at the house of Henry Waterhouse, next posed to be available. Themaninchargeof the hall was several miles away. door to Minister Stevens's house, determined on the dethronement of the I had not known of the existence of the Arion Hall until that evening. when Queen, and selected omcers." a messenger with my note was sent to the supposed agent of the Arion Hall, The intent of the author of this language is obvious on its face. He wished who was a royalist. He returned me a courteous answer, saying he would it to be understood that this meeting was held near my residence for the be pleased to let the hall for the specified purpose, but he had ceased to be the purpose of easy access to, and in collusion with, the United States minister. agent, informing me who had then charge of the hall. · This required a third What are tile facts? Henry Waterhouse is an English merchant of wealth, note and a third effort of the messenger, which proved successful. So much of recognized character tor integrity, intelligence, _and of the most exem time had been thus consumed that the Boston's marines and sailors were plary life. He has resided in the islands since early childhood, and is now a obliged to stand weary hours in the streets before they were able to go to member of the Provisional Government. Though living so near me, he their night quarters. All of them would have been lodged at t·he legation rarely talked Ha.waiian political affairs with me, though he could but sup· and consulate but for want of room, where as many as possible were re pose that my private convictions must be in harmony with the prevailing ceived, these localities being several street:: and squares !rom the palace and views of all respectable .\.m.ericans as to what had been going on in the is Government building. For the occupation of Arion Hall by the men of the lands for months. Of this meeting atthehouseo!Henry Waterhouse, speci Boston the committee of public safety and supporters of the Provisional fied by Blount, I had no hint or knowledge at the time it was held, knew not Government had no more responsibility than Secretary Gresham himself. of whom the meeting was composed, nor what was its action, and my first information as to the persons assembled at that meeting I obtained from Now, let me say right here, there is elsewhere an intimation Blount's report. · that the Arion Hall, occupied by the marines, was very close to It is proper for me to say here that for three years prior to the Queen's coup d'etat and fall, I had kept myself as thoroughly informed as possible as the palace of the Queen, and that their guns were literally to the views, plans, and purposes of the several factions and parties that trained on the palace. In relation to that, I wish to say that the contended for controlinHawaiianpolitical affairs. This was my imperative opera house is the house occupied in the former revolution by duty as a minister, and it was equally my duty to keep the State Depart ment at Washington well informed as to all facts bearing on the actual sit our troops, and that fa~es the palace, the palace being a consid uation. This necessarily compelled me to hold conversations with the best erable distance off; that at that time it was fired into, and con informed persons of the reform party, the Queen's party, and with the Wil sequently the owners would not allow the troops to ba placed in cox and native Hawaiian party whose organized efforts for months was to induce or compel the Queen to break with her paramour, Marshal Wilson, that building at the recent revolution. The hall Arion is in the whom they regarded a foreigner, who was born in Tabiti, of native mother rear, some distance from the large opera house, and the palace and an English father, and who was veryobjectionabletothenative Hawaii is not in sight of the hall at all. The guns could not be trained ans, who believed Wilson stood between them and their sovereign, and who they well knew largely dictated at the palace. I was certainly as well in from there on the palace by any possibility. formed of the views and plans of the royalists as I was of tho
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markable address by.-saying that he and his colleagueB-weretheTe with a reommittee d the Ann.exati-on Club, -organized to ·annex to Christianize the Hawaiian people. They have Christianized those is-lands to the United States., with -that distinct and .only them out of their country; they have 1mrsu.ed the old New Eng- purpose, and "tendered ~ Mr1 Blount, a furnished house, with - la.nd fashion 1:>f t:tking possession in the name -oi God, and then servants and equipage~ :at any cost, from · ~thing up. That is dividing out under laws made by themselv·es. [L1.ughter.] the -distinct -charge, and I quote i'l~ h.rec vetba. It is not a .question between Mr. Bloan t and Mr. Stevens; it is Mr. President, that was not only unseemly and undignified minimizing the issue to bring here any such -personal question. conduct, but -ou-trageous conduct on the part of the minister ·oi I do not know Mr. Stevens; he may be -all his friend the Sen the United St!ttes. He says that he was neutral between these ator from Maine paints him to be, a godly, saintly, unexception f ctions, ·that he simp~y represented the people of .the United a.ble1 Christian gentlemau. Irl.o not question it, nor do I care any Statesandoar n3.tional glor_y and honor. W i:is that consistent thing about it. I propose to -treat him as I should any .other with the idea of his going out with a committee from the An witneES who brought .himseJl into court and demanded my vote nexation Club, the .head o£ ·one of these factions,·and attempting upon his evidence. to take possession -of the agent of the United States, the com I do know Mr. Blount. While I am not here flo defend him missioner who came there upon this specific and identical busi for I should treat him in the s.<1Ille way :as 1\fr. . Stevens-almost ness? What ordinary jw·or trying :a case of ?neum et t·uum in a twenty years oiintimate knowledge of James H. Blount author circuit court would doubt the animus of a witness, even in a izes me to state in the most public-and emphatic manner that a matter of dollars and cents, with this testimony before him? purer man, .publlcly and privately, never has appeared_upon the But Mr. Stevens undertakes to answer that specifically, and I arena of American politics. For twenty years he was the hon want to hold him now to his answer, not technically-for I am ored representative of one of the great States of the South; the dealing with him in the most liberal and catholic spirit, giving calcium iight of public opinion and partisan maliee shone upon him the benefit of every doubt. What is his answer? I will him by day and night, and I defy any man living to bring here ask the Secretary to read it, and I will ask the Senate, as these one shadow upon his~ha-racter. He has his ·opinions; like every words .come from the desk, to recollect Mr~ Blount·s charge, and .affirmative man and every man who..is worthy of the name, but see what Mr. Stev-ens says to Mr. Blount's statement. that anything h.e says is deliberately false, that anything in Jlis The PRESIDINGOFFICER(M .PLATT in the chair). With career justifies the Senator from M:rine to 'Stand here and with out objection the Secretary will read -as requested. his aggressive voice declare that there is not one word of ·.truth The Secretary :read as follows.: in his report, I distinctly .and emphatically deny. Ul\"'DE:& ROYAL ESPIONAG-E . .He needs no de..eense from me. The .Americ-m -people, ::md A .total stranger, it was impossible for Mr. Blount to know how unfitting especially the Southern people., .know James H.. Blount. If he had it was for him to take up ·his quarters where 'he was certain to be surrounded been :a dishonest mm, long .ag-o would .his reputation have b .2 en byToya.lists, and where the_:mpporters or the .Previsional Government would torn t::> tatws, fo.r he ha:s oce.upied the most p-rominent commit be reluctant to go. The hot-el was kept by one who had served as Kalakana.'s chamberlain, who was one of the princi.Pal .Persons in a syndicate that had tee positions in the .Ronse.o£ Represe.nt3..tives.; ~in and again cheated the Hawaiian Government aut ·m nearly $100,000, a transaction his people have returned him, and ev-en the partisan press found v.hich ..M.inister Merrill .had o.lficially re-por: ed ·to Secretary Bayard, .a.n.d no flaw in his .record, and he left ·public life voluntar-..i1y, and not this mam was-the leading member o1 a :firm that sought to do its chief b:.lSi ness with England, a thoroughly unprincipled ·opponent or the Provisional coerced into :retirement~ Government and of American predominance in the islands. He emplqyed My friend from South Ca-rolina [.M::r. BUTLER] suggests in -that as his :active assi.s:tll.ntin manag:ing:the hotel allighly educat-ed Englishman, eonnection-andit is..sirnply uustk!e to Mr~ Bl-ount and hls Sta:te oi .disrevutable charactel; who had written ill the H-awaiian British news· pape:-. under anonymous signature, articles abusive or the United States that in the .article which the Senator from M.alne was kind and grossly Ialsifying our Government's treatm-ent a! the Indians. enough to read us fr-om his fr..i-en.d .Mr. Stevens .he cllarges .Mr. Residing at-t-hat hotel, Mr. Blount was under the constant espionage or Blaun..t with being a diplomatic :neophyte. who kn-ew nothing the -pa.lace advent.ur.ers. .As .a. precantiomn:y·sa.tegard against "thus ·shutting out the Americans 'from ready access to "Commissioner Blount, a w,ealt.hy about the relation.c; of this Government with foreign nations. and a highly respectable widow lady of ·the America.n·oolony was cr-eady to Mr. .Blount w.as chairman :Of the -committee nn Foreign ..Rela grant the use of her house to Mr. and 'Mrs. Bloun:t, the com:mi.ssioner toJ)ay tions in the pDl>ular branch rii Congresa., and dischm'ged his the same a.mountJt would costhim tolive.a.t theroya.listhotel. Thisptlva.te hous.e was sttuatea. ne-a;r the 'Oni'ted States legation, jn thB JJ:Uarter of the dnties,so:far.as I know, with the greatest ance-p.tability to his city whe-re annexationists ana reyal:is't:s -could ha.ve unobstructed .access t.o constituents and to the .country at lar-ge~ and for this :Saintly gen the commissioner, zna. h~ co.uld .conv-eni.Bntl.Y .a.v.all llimsetl or the legation tleman from New Engbtnd., i\V ho has been cano.nired here by the records TJris polite·olfeT oi "SJl :A.m.mi.c3.n:resiil.e1It to an American commis sioner .did no:t originate-w.i:th the Prov.i!::ional G.ovemm.ent., 1l.OT .did 'the .Pro Senator from Maine, to denounce a. Represen~ative who for v:islonal Government hav.e :an;ythlng wha.tever to :do w.ith the ;proposed :a-r twenty years has served ii11 the Congress of the United States as rangement. a neophyte in diplomaey is sim:ply another ·specimen -of that The etrort il!t his report lio cast im-putation nnllie Provisionl:il Government .and myself as to the otrer d1' the American house 'to an Amencan .commis godly arrogance which we have always heard from that quarter sioner will be est.ima.ted at its true value by the American public. of this country. '[Laughter.] N-ow, tm the testimony of M:r~ S+..e-vens. Frmnthe beginning Mr. VEST. Y.es, Mr1 President, i:t will be estimated at its to the end ·Of it you ca.n see but one animus, and that is .his de t~ue -value. I undertake .to ·say now i.ha:t Mr. Stevens has not teTmined effort to annex the Hawaiian Islands to the United denied tb.e statement of Mr. Blount, and lle knows that he n:as States. Every l.ine, every word, and every syllable is alive with n-ot deni-ed it. Wh:rtis bis ans~rnrto -:the specific :allegati
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whole number of persons appointed or recognized by the President, with min E. GreQn, June 13, 1849, appointed by the President as out the concurrence or advice of the Senate, or the express authority of CongreEs, as agents to conduct negotiations and conclude treaties, is 438. special agent in Haiti ann the Dominican Republic, to conclude Three have been appointed by the Secretary of State and 32 have been ap a treaty of commerce with Haiti and the Dominican Republic. pointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate . . The PRESIDING OFFICER. The hourof 2o'clock having ar •It will be seen that an interval of 53 years, between 1827 and 1880, occurred during which the President did not ask the consent of the Senate to any rived, the morning hour has expired. such appointment. Mr. MILLS. I ask unanimous consent that the Senator from ~ The following important appointments and many others were made when Missouri be permitted to conclude his remarks. the Senate was in session: , March 2, 1793.-David Humphries, By Washington. Commissioned pleni Mr. VEST. I desire to occupy only a few minutes more. I potentiary to treat with Algiers. Congress adjourned on that day. beg- pardon of the Senator from Vermont [Mr. MORRILL]. January 26, 1832.-Edmund Roberts. By Jackson. Commissioner to treat Mr. MORRILL. Very well. with Cochin China and Siam. Congress in session. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair hears no objection. May 3, 1~.-Nathaniel Niles. By Van Buren. Special agent to negotiate treaty with Sardinia. Congress in session. The Calendar will be considered as having been laid before the March 28, 1846.-A. Dudley Mann. By Polk. Special agent to treat with Senate, and the Senator from Missouri will proceed by un3.nimous sundry states of Germany. Congress in session. The constitutional power or the President to select the agents through consent. whom he will conduct such business is not affected by the fact that the Mr. VEST. June 15, 1850, A. Dudley Mann was appointed Senate is or is not in session at the time of such appointment, or while the special agent to the Swiss Confederation, to conclude with the negotiation is being conducted; or the fact that he may prefer to withhold, even from the Senate, or from other countries, the fact that he is treating Swiss Confederation a treaty "concerning all matters and sub with a particular _power, or on a special subject. jects interesting to both nations." Mr. Mann, as well as these The ::.ecretrservice fund that Congress votes to the Department of State other gentlemen, let it be understood, occupied no diplomatic annually is that from which such agents are usually paid. That is the most important reason for such appropriations. position, but were appointed by the President and Secretg,ry of The following is a summary of Appendix C: State from private life in order to perform these delicate func Persons appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate: tions. 1792. William Carmichael, William Shott, to treat with Spain. 1794. John Jay, to treat with Great Britain. Again, James B. Bowlin was appointed by the President, wit.h 1794. Thomas Pinckney, to treat with Spain. out the consent of the Senate, to conclude a tre3.ty with New 1796. Rufus King, to treat with Great Britain. Granada with reference to a transit across the Isthmus of Pan 1797. John Q. Adams, to treat with Prussia. . 1797. John Q. Adams, to treat with Sweden. ama. 1797. C. C. Pinckney, John Marshall, Elbridge Gerry, to treat with France. I have read out of this list of over three hundred and eighty 1798. John Q. Adams, to treat with Sweden. only those who at the time of their appointment held no diplo 17!!9. Rufus King, to treat with Russia. 1799. Oliver Ellsworth, Patrick Henry, and William Van Murray, to treat matic .or offici raising your rille against the Government, no personal abuse of The Secretary read as follows: , the Pre~ident or anybody else will suffice on this issue. We The United States na-ve regarded the existing atrtllorities in the Sandwich 'intend to know whether you mean that the Government of the Islands as a. Government suited to the conditi-on or the people, and resting United States shall trample underfoot its traditions, its history, on their own choice; a.nd the President is o! opmion that the interests of all the teachings of its greatest men, and go out upon diplomatic commercial nations require that that Government should not be interfered with by foreign powers. Of the ve sels which vMt the islands, it is known raids throughout the world for the purpose of interfering with that the great majority belon~ to the United States. The United States, the internal and domestic affairs of other people. therefore, are more interested m the fate oi the islands and of their Govern Mr. President, I deal with this matter in entire frankness, ment than anyotbernatlon can be; and this consideration induces the Pres· ident to be quite willing t-o declare, as the sense or the Government ot the and I have no disposition to conceal my dissent from one ex United States, that the Government of the SandWich Islands ought to be re· pression which has been published .in the press as coming from spected; that no power ought either to take po session of the islands as a the Secretary of State in regard to the policy of this Govern conquest or for the purpose o.l' colonlza.tion. and that no power ought to seek for any undue control over the existing Government, or any exclusive priv ment as to Liliuokalani. ileges or preferences with ltin matters of comm e r~ . (Mr. Webster, Secre· As I understand the condition of affairs in Hawaii to-day, the tary of Stat-e, to Messrs. Haalilio and Richards, December 19, 184t; 6 Web Provisional Government is a dejacto government. As I under ster's Works, 478.) Owing to their loca.lity and to the course or the winds which :prevail in this stand international law, adejactogovernment has all the rights, quarter of the world, the SandwiC'.h Islands are the stopplUg pla.ce for so far as other nations are concerned, of a de}ure government. almost all vessels passing from continent to continent across the Pacific Whether that Government ba established rightfully or wrong Ocean. They are especially resorted t.o by th.e great number s of vessels of the United States which are engaged in the wb.ale fishery in those seas. The fully it is to-day a de facto government, and any assault upon it number of vessels of all sorts and the amount of propel'ty owned by citizens by armed force on the part of the United States or any other or the United Stat-es which a.re tound in those islands 1n the course of a year country must be an act of war which can alone be brought about are stated. probably with sutll.cient accuracy, in th.e letter of thfl agents. "Just emerging from a. state of barbarism, the Government of th.e islands by J;he action of Congress. is as yet feeble; but its dis:positions appear to be just and pacific, and it I do not understand that Mr. Gresham, the Secretary of State, seems anxious to improve the condition of its people by the introduction of meant that armed force would be employed. He is an eminent k-nowledge, of religious and moraJ.inst1tutions, means or education, and the jurist. He has just come from the bench. arts of civilized lite." · After sta.ting his pr.ofound conviction, in which I share, that Mr. HOAR. I have been absent on a private engagement dur the Provisional Government is the result_of a mercenary con ing a great part-of the Senator's speech, very much to my re spiracy on the part of~ few adventurers and that a majority of gret. As I came in I understood he was reading from what pur the people of the Hawaiian Islands do not participate in it, he ported to be the instructions to Mr. Blount. May I ask him simply puts a hypothetical question, whether under the plainest from what source he obtained the instructions.? principles of equitable jurisdiction it would be our duty as a Mr. VEST. As t~ey were published in the newspapers and great people to redress the wrong, if it had been committed, and as Mr. Stevens rephed to them. restore the status q-u,o. Mr. President, if the Senate will indulge me for a single min When the papers come in answer to the resolutionofthe Sen ute I will give a summ ry for what it is worth, based upou a ator from Massachus ~tts we shall know, I trust, what instruc careful examination of the testimony, in so far as I could obtain tions were given to Mr. Willis. If it shall turn out that those it, in regard to the Hawaiian controversy. It is a summary of instruction-3 were to restore the Queen by armed force, no one my conclusion, whether from a nonpartisan standpoint or not will deprecate it and no one will resist the doctrine to any ex I shall leave others to determine. If I had the power I would tremity more than myself. withdraw every shadow of U.aited States authority from the I repeat that it would be an act of war; a;nd it seems to me im Hawaiian Islands, except in so far as it was necessary to protect possible that the Secretary of State and the President of the under international law the property and persons ol American United States should have come to the conclusion that without citizens legitimately residing there. I would leave the oppos the action of Congress they coultfdo any such thing. But as I ing factions to settle the question of sovereignty for themselves. understand the position of the Administration now as given in There can be no solution oi this question so absolute and de the instructions to Mr. Blount, which I have read, it is simply terminate as that which would then be had between the adher a. repetition and affirmation of the time-honored doctrine of our ents of Queen Liliuokalani and the Provisional -Government. country in eve y Admini ·tration, that we &hoold not interfere in The doctrine of the United States through all our history has the domestic affairs of other peopleJ but content ourselves with been that the people sh-ould determine their own government the plain right of every nation to protect the property and per not the educated J?eople, not the titled people, not the opulent sons of its citizens who are residing in a 1oreign country for people, but, under God, the people, rich and poor, high and low. legitimate ends. I would leave it to the people of those islands of all classes who Now, Mr# President, in conclusion I do not think that under are legitimate residents there and citizens to determine this any possible circumsts.nces, under any contingency, could I be question for themsel ve.s. For our Government now to put back induced to chmge my sat tled conviction that the people of the this woman upon the throne if the Provisional Government be Hawaiianlslandshavenot been consulted in-regard to this move- de tact{) is an act of war, and.I will not believe that the Presi· , ment. I h a.ve no doubt tb.s.t the presence of the United States dent has contemplated it. For us to take part with the Provi marint3s in Honolulu is a sufficient military argument to bring sional Government is to give proof that the military authority of about anything. I have no cpuestion th~t the large majority of this Government is to be used in a doubtful issue by turning the the n formation that was conveyed in the minoriiy report of the Com- the session of the Senate a special agent to Japan, Muscat, and mittee on Foreign R~lations made by the distinguished Senator Siam to negotiate concerning all matters relating to navigation from Alabtrna[Mr.MORGAN] in 1883 in ree-ard to what was then and commerce. called the fisheries treaty, and as to the negotiation of which In 1~20, February 22, Charles S. Todd was appointed _during the same ob ootion was strenuously made that is made now-that the session of the Senate confidential a~ent to obtain informa the commissioners associated by President Cleveland with th-e tion concerning the condition of affairs 1n Venezuela and New Secretary of State to negotiate that treaty were appointed dur- Granada and their relations w!th Spain. All these a-ppoint ing the sefsion of the Senate without its advice and consent. ments were made of course without the advice and consent of The draitsm:m of that minority report, the distinguished Sen- the Senate. All the persons so appointed were agents to obtain a tor from Alabama. in l'eferring to the contention of the majority information~ and I need not say, of course, to any intelligent per of the committee that that was an unlawful and unconstitution:U son that information is not usually obtained without communi aet, cited 438 precedents of the appointment of diplomati{} .agents cation with those capable of giving it. to negotiate treaties, some of whom. most of whom, perhaps, In 182!, April21, Thomas N. Mann was sent during the Ees were appointed d~·ing the re?ess of the Senat-e, many ol whom sion of the Senate, without the advice and consent of the Senate, we1-eappointeddurmg the session of the Senate, and some of those an agent to Guatemala, "to obtain information relative to the who were appo~nted during th~ recess of ~he Senate continued state and prospe-cts of the country situated in South America to ~xercise the1r powers long after a sess10n of the Senate had which -appears to have established the separate Government of occurred without any new appointment being sent in. Guatemala, whether they promise the establishment of its sepa- l wish met'ely to add to that liat then reported to the Senate rate independent existence." and contained ill one of the Senate documents a list I have made In 1812, April 10, D. B. Mitchell, who was then govel'nor of of diplomatic agents for oth-er '(>urpo5es than for those oi nego- Georgia, was an agent appointed by the President, without the tiating treaties appointed by the President without the advice advice and consent of the Senate, and during the session of the and consent of th-e Senate. Some of these were appointed du.r- Senate"' "to restore to Spain Amelia Island and other parts of ing the session. Some of them, as I said in regard to the other East Florida taken by Gen. Matthews, contrary to the spirit of list1 we. e appointed during the recess but continued to exercis-e instructions; but to defeat any attempt of the British forces to their functions after the Senate met, no new appointment being enter said territory." I have not consulted the records of that sent in., their appointment not being treated as among those time, .and I Q.o not know wheth-er there was then any suggestion which under the Constitution, when made during the recess of of the impeachment ol President Madison for that appointment . . the Senate, require a new appointment. I will refer now to the In 1818, February 1, William Taylor was appointed during the list, and that is all I wish to do, in ordel' that itmay go into the session of the Senate special agent to obtain redress for the -con REcoRD for th-e inspection of Senators who are interested in this fisc.1tion of property of American citizens in Hayti. mattet·. In 1190, August 11-- In 18"21, January 30, Edward Wyer was appointed, during the Mr. HOAR~ I desire to say to the Senator from Delaware session of the Senate, diplomatic agent to obtain indemnity for that if this matter is going into the RECORD I think I ought to all lawful claims against the Dominican Government. talre a minute or two at le3. st, although I do not know how ab- In 18'22, December 13, William McRee was appointed, durino· solutely_ applicable it is to the sabject of the resolu1;i-on. H-ow- · the session of the Senate, agent and commissary to Japan. o ever, I dislik-e ·very much to interf-ere with the Senator from In 1811, January ~ George Matthews and· J ohn M-cKee were Vermont fMr. MORRILL]. I suggest to the Senator from Dela- appointed commissioners under the act ol' January 15, 1811, to ware to -postpone the conc1usion of his rem-arks until the Senator take tempm·ary possession amicably, if possible, forcibly if any from VeTIIlont has spoken. Oth-erwise it will leave us in an suspicion -existed of armed interference by some other power, awkward position. ofEa.st and West .Florida. Mr. MORRILL. Let the resolution go -Qver until to-m-orrow. I merely wish to add (and I shall not detain the Senator from Mr. GRAY. I wish to put this matter in the REcoRD) because Vermont longer in order to read them) there will be found in I think it is due to the Senateaud due to the publie that these the list a number of appointments of special diplomatic agents pl'eeedents should go for wh~t they are worth after the state- made during the .recess -of the Senate) and as I said before their m-ent made by the Senator from Massachusetts as a serious cause functions were continued after the Senate came in session, nota-. of criticism of the President. blythe appointment of Mr. N. P. Trist as a .special agent of the 1\Ir. HOAR. I want them to go for what they are wm·th. President to go to Mexico, where he continued for more than· Mr. GRAY. Very well; that is what I suppose they will go one year under an appointm ~ nt without the advice and consent for. I think they will be scrutinized by intelligent people! and of the Senate, continuing long after the Senate came in session, I think they -are worth a gt-oeat deal. I am not asking to add to and his powers were paramount to those of Gen. Scott, he having them any emphasis of my own. power to m :1.ke a treaty and order a withdrawal o! troops and the Mt• . HOAR. If th~ Senator will pardon me, I -do not wish to cessation of "hostilities. &ay anything th-at by any possibility can give rise to any differ- That is all I wish w add now, because I can not detain _the enceofopinionbetweentheSenatorand myself. Atthismoment Senator from Vermontlonger. I wish to avoid anything of the kind:- I merely wish to -call the Mr . .MORRILL. 1 as_k that the resolution introduced by me attention 'Of the Senator to the fact that the venerable Senator Thursday last be read. from V-ermont gav-e notice last week that at 2 o'clock to-day h-e Mr. GORDON. Will the Senator from Vermont give me one would address the Senate and he is here waiting. moment to say a word in reference to a constituent of mine? Mr. GRAY. I willnotdetainhimfiveminutes. Mr. MORRILL. Iwi.sh the Senator would wait until I get Mr. HOAR. And I can not reply to the Senator now if he through. I have been waiting here above an hour and expected puts in that matter. to take the floor long ago. ' Mr. GRAY. The Senator knows I have given way and have Mr. GORDON. CerWnly, Mr. President;l will wait. always a disposition to give way 'On every occasion when cour~ PROPOSED FINANCIAL LEGISLATION. tesy or consideration for so distinguished a Senator as the Sen- PRESIDENT ator from Vermont requires that I should do so·, but I insist that The pro tempore. The resolution indicated by I shall go on now for two or three minutes, which I told the Sen- the Senat.or from Vermont will be read. ator from Vermont I would take in giving the matters to which The Secretary re11.d the resolution submitted by Mr. MOR- ~ I have referred, and tb.at I think is pertinent to the present issue. RILL on the 7th instant, as follows~ ·d H h · ted d - .Resolved, That an parts or the President's me.ssa.ge:relatlng to the tartit, I n 1790 , A ugust 11 , D aVl ump reys was app01n ur1ng· internal revenue, and income tax, together with that relating to those who the session of the Senate a diplomatic agent to establish rela-· it is said, after a hard struggle for taritl' reform, are solemnly pledged to it tions with Portugal. be, and hereby are, referred to the Committee on Fin-ance. In 1836, June 23, Henry 1\L Morfit was appointed during the Mr. MORRILL. :Mr. President, it might have been wiser to session of tbe Senate a diploma.tic -agent to obtain information have allowed some remarks on the general subject of the tariff, relative t-0 the civil, military, and political "COndition and char- made by me a dozen years ago, to sta.nd as my completed record acter of the people of Texas. rather than to incumber it by further discussion. But some In 1816, January 12, Joseph Devereaux was appointed special contribution from me to'' the campaign of educ.1tion "·may be diplomatic agent to obtain information of the various occurrences due, and, while I hope to m'1ke it not so lengthy .or so ponderous in South America interesting in a political point of view to the as to seem the tired'' wisdom of the ages,·' it may abridge my United Shk s of all military movements in that quarter and the contributions here::Uter to the literature of the tariff. It being disposition ms.nifested toward theUnitedStates. I su.ppose that a subject always of national import:mce and paramount to all in order to obtain that information he had to communicate with political parties, my inclination in earlier days was to avoid all informed persons in the oommunitics in which he happened to p:trtisan reflections, and, if unable to ao so now, it is because the be. That appointment was made during the session ofthe Sen- Democratic party, forgetting the orbitwhich was .early and long ate.. illuminated by their most illustrious representatives, has made 1n 1832, Janual'y 26, Edmund Roberti was appointed during it the foremost of party questions, by denouncing with tragio 200 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECE¥BER 13, vehemence the American doctrine of a protective tariff, as well • The economy of nations is studied by their statesmen as spe as by ringing all their arguments against it on the same set of cialists, always seeking the higher dignity and greater prosper bells with those of f~ee trade. ity of their own people; and whatever contributes to these ends DEMOCRATIC PLATFORMS. , they would, if possible, persuade mankind to believe equally ad During all the present generation modern Democracy has been vantageous to the world at large. Russia has no doubt that by prolific in 9.ueer tariff platforms, never right even by mistake, wresting Constantinople from the Turks, the condition of the and eacli one dying unloved before the birth of its quadrennial world would be largely bettered. successo.r, It gives me pleasure to rescue from oblivion, as a France, ambitious to cut as big a colonial figure as her neigh· specimen, their platfor~ of 1 72, decorated with the champion bors, believes that civilization of Darkest Africa and India will be of protection, Horace Greeley, as their Presidential candidate, sadly retarded unless her tricolored flag, with sound of trumpet, which declared, on account of honest differences of opinion with is pushed to the front. Whether or not a great Republic will give regard to the systems of protection and free trade, that " we a fra.il monarch a paramount boost is a blunt question in Hawaii. remit the discussion of the subject to the people in their Con Canada insists that her natural -products, agricultural and min gressiomu districts and the decision of Congress thereon, wholly eral, might enjoy free markets in the United States without in· free from Executive interference or dictation." The tariff plat jury to our people and with great benefit to Canadians. It1.ly is form bantling- of 1892, whether to be nursed or strangled by Ex profoundly impressed that it is grotesque and absurd ~or any ecutive interference, seems fated to become not less moribund people to impose duties upon works of the fine arts. Greece and unsavory in 1896 than any other of the Democratic platforms thinks it quite wrong that her exports of dried currants should now mouldering in the tomb of the Capulets. anywhere meet customs duties. Germa ny and Russi:1 boldly Some radic:ll change of the tariff is supposed to be imminent, seek to rival each other in the altitude of tariff walls on their not because the prosperity of the country demands it or can thus frontier boundaries. Great Britain is sure that the general wel· be promoted, but because the rhapsodies of "revenue reform" fare of mankind and world-wide religion would be consummated pads and inflates the Chicago Damocratic platform. Ruskin if the United Sts.tes would merely limit their enterprise to the once said of a sermon, '' that it was either a human composition or production of wheat, cotton, and small potatoes, and allow the aDivinemessage." Manyobsequiouspartisans, fearful of being British, from their longer experience and free-trade scale of cs.lled heretics or of being excluded from the party patronage labor, to supply all Ameri0an wants in manufacture~ and skilled pasture, ha.stily accepted_the platform without a why or a where industries. Free-trade condescension here creeps out with pan fore as' 'a Divine message," but the sundry juvenile earthly Demo ther-like loveliness. cratic claimants of its authorship conclusively prove that the pro STATESMANSHIP OF LILLIPUT NOT APPLICABLE TO .AMERICA. -posed' 'tariff for revenue only"was not only a square-toed synonym These diversities and rivalries in the march of nations only of British free trade, but wholly a" human composition," and serve to indicate that differences of climate, of locality, and of put forth. at a time when the gospel of the earliest Democratic race. and possibly of patriotism, may require, with perhaps equal inspiration was surrendered to the idols of the uncircumcised. human wisdom, differences in their national economy, and that No Democratic aspirants, however, for the Presidential succes measures ever so proper in one country, if transferred to an sion have yet left their footprints on or claim relationship to this other involving changes of habit or of occupations, will always wonderfully and fearfully made platform. It is true there has be maladroit and unstatesmanlike. Those who now have the been an unlocated suspicion that the audacity to cs.rry out the honor to govern the Democratic party without the virility of platform would be found lacking and that it would have some ori~inality appear eager to borrow and pet a foreign revenue deft and slippery modifications in order that the party might se measure, and learn by sore experience whether free trade shall cure forgiveness for its wrongdoings through a deathbed repent first re:10h aristocratic or democratic ''innocuous desuetude;" ance. But this will be discredited as obviously too late and a whether under Victoria or under Cleveland it shall meet its perfo1'mance not clever enough to win absolution for a. blunder final death struggle. wC~rse than a crime. · Adam Smith's great free-trade work on the Wealth of Na The Democratic p:1rty, in its platform of 1892, denounced pro tions was first printed in 1776, and received more attention'from tection, with trombone epithets,- as a -" fraud and robbery," as its pure and felicitous use of the English language than for the well as ,; an atrocity," and, louder·yet, as "unconstitutional;" economical principles promulgated. England continued to ad and proposed to su:persede and reform··it-py "a tariff for reve here to the most rigorous doctrine of protective tariffs for sev nue only," or a tar1ff wholly based . ~n the British example of enty years thereafter, and it was not until 1846, under the pre· free trade, with protection utterly emasculated. Such a meas miership of Sir Robert Peel, that even the corn laws were re ure wiil hot be a leap in the dark from which any party can pealed. The Adam Smith theory of free trade was then applied shirk its responsibilities. The example of a protective tariff in to the changed conditions of one people-it then apparently · America. for many years presents an indelible picture before the suited the British-to whom it had become pertinent, perhaps world of the great American industrial age, and in figures so a necessity, for the reason that their b:1ttle of life, from increas large as to make it memorable forever. British free trade has ing population, was to obtain }:>read and meat for their people; also been on trial long enough to minimize the profits of agri but no other p e-ople accept or tolerate the isolated and forlorn culture in their whole United Kingdom. Their silk industries British example. And yet it was admitted by some of its pro have also vanished; those of iron bend and gros.n under repeated jectors that it would be a failure unless it should be adopted by antagonistic invasions from Germany and Belgium; and the fre other nations. It was a b:llt for silly foreign gudgeons, to which q il.entcryfor "Fair trade" exhibits the popular discontent with we are expected to give the first nibble. free trade. The great contest of our American R-epublic, on the contrary, FREE TRADE. is to find consumers for its annual surplus of food products. The practical merits of the respective systems of raising na Great Britain with its incre3Sed population must either export • tional revenue, therefore, invite critical examins.tion by Con men or import their food, and generally does both. Our Re gress, which ID:ust spe.edily determine whether or not the fr.ee public, however, receives the surplus population of the world, trade policy, d1rectly 1mported from England, has such umm but yet, as the new Egypt of Joseph, has enough and to spare, peachable goodness as will justify our hurried acceptance, or the and, when famine appears among British subjects, sends them total ab.IDdonment of protection to all labor here employed, and corn by the ship-load with money in the mouth of the sacks. to the great multitude of our fixed investments. These are some In the career of nations, England, unable from home-grown of the salient points to which I shall invite considerate atten production to supply her people with wheat and flour fo r more. tion. than one week in four, is doomed to daily labor for daily bread; It .may be true that President Cleveland would like to be a but, at great cost of indirect protection, as mistress of the ocean, little better than his party on the tariff, as well as on silver, and arid being the quondam leader of machine-made manufactures, that he ought to abide by his early and solemn declaration that she would still be able to main bin her power and increased pop "we wage no exterminating war against any American inter ulation, provided there could be found free trade in foreign ests;" but even those more anxious to speak well of the Presi markets for her exportable manufactures. That is now her per dent than some highly valued members of his party are deplor manent and mo3t perplexing want, which we, as their first and ably weak in the faith touching any revelation of an executive last hope, are called upon to furnish, and which the Democratic veto against tariff bills when tipped with "revenue reform" and pa.rty appear most anxious to offer. triumphantiy enacted by a Democratic Congress. Those who are prolific in panegyrics on a " tariff for revenue JEFFERSONIAN PROTECTION. only," the name now given to sweeten free trade, can not object As colonies of Great Brit:linl according to the Declaration of to having the question of its excellence brought to the test of Independence, "our trade with all parts of the world" was cut facts from the only place where such a tariff has been on trial, off and t a,xes were imposed without our con_ent. We could sell and which, as I believe, conclusively prove that the Democratic or buy nothing anywhere but to or from Great Brits.in, and under architects have built their platform on a sandy and most unsat taxes levied bv the British Parlb ment. The final test was the isfactory foundation. demand for 3 pence per pound on tea. All British machin- I ~93. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN .ATE. 201 ··. ery was forbidden to be exported, and, as then urged by Adam who personally come within the domain of our light local tax- · Smith every measure that might define a tyrant was taken for ation, and are proud to hold the valid title of an American our sJbjugation, as well as for the obstruction of infant manu citizen. factures. "The colonies have no right,'' one of their leaders The free trade or "tariff-for-ravenue-only" theory is without declared, " to manufacture as much as a horseshoe nail." It was, honor in America, save that of very equivocal value from having therefora, no wonder that the foremost act of Congress signed been brought forth by a Cresarian operation upon the national by President Washington should have been for ''.the encow·aqe Democratic party at Chicago in 1892. The history of anything ment and p'rotection of manufactures." All part1es favored 1t: like it here furnishes no basis of commendation, and .it really Jefferson as much as Hamilton. It is hardly too much to say would not seem to be the legitimate offspring of the Democracy, that Jefferr:;on remained one of the most pronounced-protection .certainly not that of the blood of Madison, the father of our Con ists w.e ever had, as his embargo act of 1808 sufficiently demon stitution, nor of any Presidents from Virginia, but rather a come strates. by-chance cross with some high-stepping Mugwump of British After the war of 1812, had any American statesman qppos~d origin. Though to stand here for one season only, the wonder protective tariff he would have been regarded as a foe to h1s is why the Democratic party should venture to copy the British country. Mr. Calhoun, in 1816, as a friend of American tariff example of stifling our manufactures to restore our colonial griev protection, hardly lagged behind Henry Clay; and Gen. Jackson, ances of one hundred years ago. in 1824, was not less its champion than John Quincy Adams. Free trade will offer free raw materials without power to use There was then but little more than one party, and that was them, which is no more than to give a man ruffles who wants a unanimouslv for" a tariff that would protect." Both Houses of shirt. Congress were Democratic in 1828, and among the eminent Sen HEAD AND TAIL OF THE BRITIBH SYSTEM. ators who voted for the ultra-protective t::Lriff of 1828, and who sub The revenue obtained by. Great Britain from its free-trade sequentlybecameDemocraticPresidents, will be found the names tariff is less than one-fourth part of the annual amount there re of Martin Van Buren andJa.mesBuchanan. Suchdistingujshed quired, and consequently they are compelled to resort to many supporters of protection, I fear, would now be drummed out of desperate schemes of taxation, which here under a republican the Democratic camp by some self-elected drum-majors. In 1800 form of government are odious and endurable only in an over the votes of Virginia and Tennessee were given to Bell and mastering exigency of a great national war. Americans have an Everett, both of whom favored tariff protection. The tariff of inherited hatred of such taxes as are most prominent in Great 1861, undeniably blessed with the virtues of protection, was ap Britain for the collection of the chief part of their revenue, cer proved by a Democratic President, a veteran long in the highest tified by stout swearing, increased at every revolt in India, Egypt, services of his party. or South Africa, and ending by unfolding the veritable ''tail TERRITORY. which wags the dog" of free trade. It will, of course, be under England and- Wales have a territory of only 58,186 square stood that these words point to the motley procession of British miles, or 948 square miles less than Florida, one of our smallest, excise, license, and stamp taxes, for marriage, for lawyers, dog~, vet very attractive States; and the total area of the United King mortgages, and all of their kin, income, land, house, servant, dom, including Ireland, Scotland, and adjacent islands, is but carriage, and gun taxes, and :finally taxes on the dead. This is 120,849 square miles, being less than half that of the State of the perennial banquet, and these are the grizzly measures for Texas. I would not belittle the greatness of the English people extorting revenue to which we are invited by the President, al because of the insignificance of the territory inhabited, but it ready looming :UP and which cohere to British free trade or a must necess:trily circumscribe their natural products and leave "tariff for revenue only." They are exotics, and whoever seeks _ to trade and to their intercourse among nations little or nothing to cultivate them on the American continent will find them but •heir manufactures. Prior to the American Revolution we plants of slow-growth and bearing bitter fruit. shared their glory and shame; and, it should be acknowledged Hamilton stated that he would not have resorted to such taxes without reluct9.nce, there was more of the former than of the but for a threatened foreign war. Jefferson in 1798 w_rote to latter. Liberty and human rights were our heritage, but aheri Madison as follows: ~ tage from our Creator, from which we refused to part, and The excise law is an in!ernal one. The first _error was to admit it by the though we refused allegiance to George III, our loyalty to Mil Constitution; the second, to act on the ~ission. ton and Shakespeare, Burke and Pitt remains unbroken. As soon as Jefferson became President the "infernal" law was The territory of the United States is incomparably greater, repealed. But in spite of the high prestige of Jefferson as a and, including Alaska., covers 3,501,409 square miles, with a cli Democrat, it will soon be found that the Latter Day Saints will !Ilate that invites all products, and with minerals, timber, agri propose to replace all briff reductions by the "infernal" excise t3ulture, and manufactures somewhat commensurate with its system of the British. vast extent. A policy, therefore, which might cover and blanket The United States produces spirits and tobacco more abun the small sea-girt territory of the so-called Great Britain, would dantly and at cheaper prices than any other country, yet both be inadequate and most inappropriate patchwork if applied t0 a are rigidly subjected by the British free-trade tariff to extraor country so great as the United States, with all of its multifarious dinary duties amounting often to more than ten times their first products and many millions more of men. The vain idea that cost. Nor is there any British constitutional scruple against the free-trade policy would open the doors to any new America.n protection when it can be made serviceable, and accordingly a advantages is unten:1ble and preposterous, for the reason that it higher protective duty is imposed upon manufactured tob:1cco would be an unreciprocated surrender of our home markets, the than upon tobacco in the leaf. Unlike the British, who utter greatest theworldnowaffords, withoutany possible equivalents. unceasing jeremiads against American tariffs~ we neitheT growl Clip protection from our tariff, and Americans, like Samson, at nor dispute the prerogative of Great Britain to make Hs own would te in the hands of the Philistines. tariff, although made knowingly to apply to our country with CONSTITUTION. greater severity than to any other. They may be contented or not, but we have not outgrown some The Constitution of the United States is a written one, so per early repugnance to British tariffs, nor to such as may be adver fect that it has been amended bu~ twice in one hundred years; tised and adroitly prescribed for Americans by foreigners; and and the power of Congress to raise revenue "to pay the debts we brand as a blow belo\V the belt financial contributions of Brit and provide for the common defense and general welfare " re ish exporters and American consignees of British merchandise mains untouched and unchanged. for partisan use here in a free-trade campaign urged to exter The British form of government is unwritten and wholly minate every vestige of tariff protectio~. Even the London within the power of Parliament, which is said to be omnipotent, "Punch," as an umpire, would hold this to be foul. except that it can not make a man a woman. From t;he reign of Elizabeth to the ninth year of Victoria, British prot-ective tariffs EMIGRANTS FROM GREAT BRITAIN. were constitutional; and from that time to the present, British Great Britain has many colonies~ greater in extent than her free trade has been constitutional. Formerly Great Britain self, where cheap and fertile land abounds, and where British :fixed and limited -the wages of laboring men by direct statute trade with political and old-home affinities ordinarily would be laws, and now unflinchingly does the same thing indirectly by so dominant as to monopolize the utmost output of British emi · free trade; that is to say, the British people must work for lower gra,tion; but from 1853-after the ad vent of free trade or "a tariff wages than we or others accept, or they could neither supplant for revenue only "-to October, 1893, the number of British and us or anybody else in trade, nor obtain their regular daily sup Irish emigrants to the United States, not including those from ply of foreign food. Canada, amounted to 5,149,890. Free trade among the States of our Union is a horse of another This extraordinary exodus, largely of adult workingmen, from color, being a legitimate and precious privilege, and by no Great Brihin to the United Stg_tes, of more people than now meaiU a privilege to be invaded by foreign states without let or dwell in the Canadian Dominion, or in Australia or in Ireland, hincr_'"9.nce, or without equivalents. It is enough that its use c ~n not be ascribed to anything else than either the home oppres and free possession are and should be obtainable only by those sions o~ free trade, or to the attractions emanating from a pro- 202 OONGRESSION AL ·REOORD--SENA:TE. DECE:MBER 13, ' . tective ta.riff1 .and the joy or determining which .has been most forever from the owne~ship of any hom.es, but with the dreadful flO'tential in the movement .may be left ta the thick-and-thin certainty that ·their children will be left in dest::tu:tion. philosophers of a'' tariff for revenue only." It m ay help them ~he pa.upers of the Unlted States in '1890 .nlliD.bered 66,578 to ramember that no tracks of returning _homesick emigrants wh1te, and 6,467 colorerl.. Of the white 21~6-16 were foreign fr.omAmericab.ave ever been discovered. born, of 10,608 one or beth of the ps.rents wru·e Joreign born~ DECADENCE 'Oli' BRITIBH AGRICULTURE. and there were al.so -24,220 outdoor paupera. Thus British Th.e great deterioratiGn of Brhish -agriculture, irom the in p~upe~lsm, notwithstanding our naU'l~ twice the population., is herent friction of free trade, lS not an idle tale, butits·decad.ence mne .times greater than that o1 tne Umted St :Ltes. This is our is admitted and corrobar.Lted by incontestable facts. Their peT modest contrast wlth the chronic paunerism of Grea,t Brftain, ms.nan t !tcreage of pasture land in 187-! was 13,17 4,490 acres, but in whleh has been graphically described by a member of Mr. Glad 1892 h:ad lnerea.sed to 16,358,100 acres, 'Showing an :abandonment ·stone s cabinet as follows : to eultivate 3,119,738acres, with little increase of cattle or horses, It is an awful fact-it is really not short of awful-that in this country and a-positive decrease in the stock of sheep of over 2,000,000. with all its wealth, all itu·esources, all its power,40 per cent, that is to ·say: nearly one-half of the persons who reach the age of 6.0 are, or have been The -acreage of whe:1 t in 1814 was 3, 630,300 a.cres, and in1892 only :paupers. ' 2,219,8 9 acres, Gr ·a loss in their l.eading -crop o11,410,411 acres. The acre 1ge of flax in 187 4 was 9,394 acres,and in 189""" bad a windled Is there any party .het'e .ambitio-us to follow this ill-starred to 1,42.1 acres. The -acreage oi permanent corn et•ops in1874 was track which marks the homes arnd highw.ays of free trai1e? 9,431,490 acres, but in 18!:12 was only 7 ,8~8,0i:n ·acres, or less by British strikes often occm· wh.en .reductions of wages are pro 1,626,459 acres. These facts as to the decadence and deplorable posed to wage-Teceivers, who have .no other answer save that condition oi British -agTicultnre, from-which the -attention of our wages are practically irreducible, as humanity can not live on farme.rs can .not be diver:tea, are taken .!from their own 1·ecords less. tbathave nG word of :comfort ior this great industry. WEALTH. -The follGwin.g ·extract fr.nm the liondGn Bpect&tor shows also One hundred years ago the United States were -poor, few m the decrease in then.umber of males andlem:BJ.es in .England and numbeTs, w~th :only stinted household manufactures, and no in Wales engaged in :ag.I±mlture from .1811 :to 1B91; dustries of any notable acconnt save in agr.ioutture. Great lt woul:l app9al" .trom the 'third \Volume ,of the CenSUB or England a.nd Brit...'lin, drawing well-relished .nu'tritionfrom the ·breasts of he:r W.ales that the total number ill .both -sexes employed on the la'l.d, wllich in colonies, was then already conspicuous in its n :ttional pmver, its 1811 was 1.153,M4, anlin t&!l, l,on.ou, w-~.s in :lSJl DS0,21S, showing a. decrea.se accumulated wealth. 11.nd its expor:ta... le .m.anufan·tures. It ha.d ofl73,2711or thetwentyyea.rs,liLspiteD!the general increase of population. .u v Thetotalfigure-s-eerta.inlyooruirm tnelmp:ressian that'thepeeple arereeen· conquered India, and had been, with our .help, victariou.o n-ver ingt:rom agriculture. France in Canada. After a century of commercial progress the :But, if the :Spectator ·h!l.a loo'"ked back fol" thirty-yea.rs instead wealth of Great Britain has been ·estimated at $~0,000,000,000 oft\venty, -a mom astounding dec ease might h::~.ve been cexbib- less than that -of .the United .Shtes. which our cljnsus of J.890 ited. it belng stated in the Statesman's Ye::tr Book that the num- states at $62,610,000,000. Th-e inferiority of our .public debt will ber employed i-n ag-riculture in J.8 il wa.s 2,010,-!54, which would be admitted, .howev-er, notwithst:mding our enormous-expendi show alossinthl.:rtyye&I'Soimore-than<6ne-halfof'thosesoem- 1 tura in the recent ·grea:t war of the rebellion. The British plosed, notwithstanding an increase of over s,·ooo,:OOO of -populn.- national debt in 189:l was six times gre!l.ter than at the co.m ti.on. mencement o1 the American Revolution, .or, reckoning $5 to the The soil of England :mnd W:ales has 'been generously treated pound sterling., -$3,333,397,855, while the interest-bearing debt and 'is supposed to have lost 'DOthing of its-old time fertility. of the United States-was only $585,029,330, or only .about one Guano, ·phosphates, ami .other modarn fertilizers are abundant, sixth of the British .debt. Their annual interest p6r capita is and have been abundantly -applied. Wha.t then is it that _b.n.s $3~33, .and ours 39 cents. blighted the vocation of more than. one-half of those formerly Do these facts indicate any economic blunder.on our _part lliat employed in agricultare in England -and Wales, and compelled should suddenly teach us to relorm Gar national .revenue policy them to flee from theii· homes to other countries, or to seek by an exchange :for that i>f th£ .country we have left:so far be- othoroccu.pa;ti<:ms? Ifthose left behind may .answer, all, whether hind in the.nati-onal race? . owners of the soil or laborers, with one-accord would straigh way P.ARTY SLOGAN. deelare rthlt their sufferings have be.en imposed by a "tariff for revenue only.1' Among English fftrmers free trade has nota rag Prior ·to our tariff revision of 18901 the ~reat cry of tariff re- oi reput3.ti.on to cling to. Only a few persons Dwn land in Great formers appeared to be agains.t a Treasury surplus, and for are Britain, and these chiefly by :primogeniture inhe-rita.nce. The duction of the revenue annually -collected. The surplus, how glory of America is that nearly all.the land .is heldiniee simple ever, promptly disappeared, during the Administration of Presi by th-ose who hold cthe plow_ ' dent Harrison, in payment of the interest-bearing-public debtJ On agrietrl.tnrein Englan-d I will ask my friend, Senator FRYE, t-o the exten.t of $305,2'25,395, tbereby reducing the annual inter- to road some very late testimony. est charge of the Government to $.26,771,60:1. Sixty million .Mr. FRYE xead -as follows: dollars of revenue we-re also cut .off by enlarging the tariff free list. and by reduction of rates on dutiable articles. AGRICULTURE IN .ENGLAND-2\. GLOOMY VIEW TAKEN 'IlY Tim EARL OF Neitherthecomplaintof asurplusnoroftoomuch revenue sur- 'WINCHELSEA. LoNDoN, JJecember 7. vive, but unfortunately the new AdminL«tration must have more A con.,aress opene:l in St. .James Hall to-day under the auspices or the Na- revenue. Certainly, however, a free·-'trade tariff -curtailment tional.Agrieulttu::al Union. The Earl or Wi:n.chelsea presided. Among those would not seem t o be a ·safe and -proper -tonic -to increase rave present were 'the Earl o.f .Harrow by, the Ear-l pr Denbigh, Lord Nonh, and nue, or to stimulate business enterprise, and could not fail to se- ~members - of the House Dt Commons. · 1 t th t fina · a1 d~ N 'The Earl-QfWinehel ea-sa.id trhat'the resnlntions tha.twonld be submitted rwus Y augmen e -p resen nm · 1Scouragements. 01' to the con~ress embodie:l a large number ot suggestions that had lJeen re- will a Democratic Administration ba iikely to excite our admi ceived from representative a.gricuJ:tnrists all over the world sine~ the last ration by any diminution of the public debt. congress was hdd. Re was unable 'to congr;a.t.Ulate the congress upon any Th f mil' a· t that t h t -un1 ·th material improvement in the agricultural-situation. Landlords were losing e a lar lC 1IDl, we can no ave expor s ass ey their rents and 'tenant-s were lJe.ing denuded of their prolits. Thousands of are balanced by an equal.amount of imports, was promin en t in laborers were without. work and the towns were -su!'rering !rom n.n influx of 1899, and thow;h constantly refuted by the trade of all nations, pauper labm·ers. The question was rapidly sum:ing the 'Proportions or a has found its quietus in the operation of our too-much slandered na;tional dis&s~~er. ·The nation was becoming mer~ and more dependent u;pan food brought tromtoreigncountries. Tlleconsensu.sofexpert opinion tariff of 1890, under which our exports for 1 9~ exceed those of was that the navy was inadequate to protect the rood supply in the event 1890 by over $17.2,000,000., and our imports from Great Britian ofo":rcause of the distress was the fall in priees due to roreigncompetition. the :fi.J.•st year were $38,423,381 less, and our exports '$52,417 r981 England, the earl declared, was the only country in. tne world wnere the more than the year prior to the new tariff. The tariff of 1890, home producer was trea.te.d as a. public enemy and was taxed, rated, and de- therefore, did no h!'.Ll'm to our export trade! but considerably frauded out of existenCI3. lt was necessary ror the producers to combine fortified the country ag.-1.inst an unp.r·ecedented export of gold, and ask, not forprotectio:n,lmt lor fair play~ which otherwise might bave proved more dangerous and ram- PAUPERISM AND FREE "TRADE. pant. ' - ·hlr. MORRILL. The number of British paupersba.s"been pe.r- ThB Btale assertions are still repeated, though deprived for harps underotated at 945,6 6. There a1·e so many descriptions of many years O:f any leg of truth to stand on, that "a reduction o1 their paupers-registered, dependents., vagrants, casual poor, our-t11rill will give our.industries employment :to more people, able-bodied indoor and outdoor-_regulated by various laws, that not a portion ol the time b ut .all the year/' this beinH seriously it may be difficult for them to tabulate the tot9.l numbers; but, suggested even by the President, "ana though our manufactur as thus stated, it is enormously greater than that of the United ers pay higher wagesj they get more work ior tbe same .amount s _t&tes, whe.ve a protective tariff has long prevailed. Beyond of mOnE'lY·.,, q:u.cv.atlen British -pauperism has be.en greatly f)romoted :by the Obviously, by .a reduction -of the t:tdff, a l-arger importation pinehing conditions~£ free trade, which 1eave to their working- oi foreign merchandise is .intended and .must ensue, and thereby me.n no .annual :sur.plus to deposit in savings bank, .and ba:rs them displace to an equal '6xtent :the .products wnich ·otherwise -wonl~ 1893. OONGltESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE. 'have been made by the employment of our own people, but this welfare~ as is the ease in my own Shte, the greater is the is the- legitil:ru te effect of a.' tariff for revenue only/' Here the necessity that more should be established, and tha.t the great loss working day is curtailed by a less number ol hours for a week's of producers in reaching far-off consumers in the transportation work1 and here a.le8s number of young children and women are of their products should be speedily remedied. Those who are employed at low wages than abro.ld. M 1 ~e work instead of less not for protection from the highest p·ttriotic convictions, are is, therefore, more likely to be demanded abroad for a day's likely to have a foot easily out of j int in every emergency. wages th1n in Americ.t. .thd.t a fre~ trade tariff might, could, or would be the order of Any claim of superi01' stamina on the p~rt of Americana, or of the day, with protection wholly eliminated, was grimly pro doing more work in a day than any other people, is a vainglori claimed by the refus:ll of the majorit-y of the Ways and Means ous assumption. The British are of the same stock, and bred in Committee to allow the minority any participation or knowledge an equally healthy_clim1.te-thoughSoutheythoughtitonlyfitto as to its construction, presumablY~ for· the reason that the mi hibernate in during half the yeM-but their wage-earners grow nority of five would have outvoted the majodty of twelve, or old earlier from work and ruder fare. A Briton, so long as able that contact with them in the committee room might introduce to get full p 3.y, without doubt. is about as athletic and physically some dangerous germs of protection, now supposed to be unusu as good as an American, and prob'tbly no bette-r. We have WI·estled ally c whatever differences of opinion therl) may be about this ques they clearly came within the constitutional power conferred tion, there is no reason and no excuse for assailing the reputar upon the President. tion for truth of a man of Mr. Blount's record, and I challenge There are a few cases in regard to which the person employed this Chamber and the country to produce one of superior white by the Senator from Alabama had made a mistake in carelessly ness or purity. making the list. For instance, the joint high commission he This much, sir, I felt bound to say in discharge of my duty to specifies as an instance of persons appointed without the send this honorable and honored citizen, and to the great State he ing of the names to the Senate, when in fact those names were has faithfully and ably and for so long a period represented. sent into the Senate and confirmed by the Senate. So, in the Mr. FRYE. · Mr. President, I think the Senator from Georgia case of Mr. Trescott, if I heard the Senator correctly-! have does not correctly estimate the language I used when he just been shown the original document-his name was sent to charges me with making an attack upon the integrity of Mr. the Senate immediately after his commission was made, he went" Blount. I used the words "unvarnished truth," meaning pur out, and we confirmed him.· posely, and understanding that the language meant nothing There are a few cases-! can not recall the number now. but I more than that his report was a prejudiced report. I know Mr. presume there may be twenty or thirty-to which thi!S ·state Blount well and served with him in the other House. In my ment does not apply, but they are ca.ses where the person had opinion he is a good man, in this matter appropriated to an ex nothing to do but ·to ascertain and report the sense or willing ceedingly bad purpose, and in my judgment was acting under ness of the foreign government to the Presi:lent or to the Sec instructions. · I intended nothing more by what I said than that retary of State, the whole official action in regard to the entire his report was a prejudiced report. subject baing theirs. I conceive that the President might send - The Senator has overlooked the only words in the remarks I his private secretary or his valet de chambre to inquire whether, made which might be conceived to be an attaqk on Mr. Blount. if he were disposed to take a certain action, tha.t action would In drawing a parallel practically between Mr. Stevens and Mr. be taken by another government,- and the other government Blount, in which I intended to confine myself to mental quali might through any instrumentality it chose send back another; tiesandnottomoral, I accidentally inserted the words ''integrity but the action then is the action of the President. of character,"and then asserted thatM-r.Stevenswasparamount There will not be found in all these precedents, I venture to to Mr. Blount in that respect. I will say to the Senator that a affirm, a single case which gives the least countenance to this moment or two ago, when my speech was brought in to me, I transaction: or which touches upon the class of powers which struck that out, because I did not mean to attack the integrity have been given to this gentleman here-powers to command the of Mr. Blount, and the only comparison I purposed to make .was. naval officers, which he did; powers to represent the purposes of between the mental qualifications of the two gentlemen. this Government formally and officially to a foreign court, which Mr. GORDON. Mr. Pre.sident, I am very glad to have heard he did; powers of a commissioner, who was enumerated a diplo these words from the distin~uished Senator, and I .had no doubt matic commissioner-not a commissioner to make postal arrange he would utter them. I sa1d in the beginning of my remarks ments, but a diplomatic commissioner, a functionary expressly that I could not believe that the language as reported conveyed asserted in the act of Congress itself to be a diplomatic repre his meaning. I knew that be was acquainted with Mr. Blount sentative of the Government. and his high character. The words which the Senator has just I expect hereafter, when the information comes from the Presi quoted from his own speech were those·which appeared to me dent, to go fully into these questions and to answer the sugges least defensible of all the remarks which fell from him and tions of the Senator from Missouri and the Senator from Dela which he has now, to his own honor and to my relief, stricken ware very fully indeed, but I shall not ask the Senate now to wait from the record. while I go into the discussion. Mr. BERRY. I move that the Senate proceed to the con Mr. VEST. Mr. President~ will the Senate indulge me in one sideration of executive husiness. statement? As a matter of course, I do not pretend to be re Mr. PASCO. I ask the Senator from Arkansas to withdraw sponsible for the accuracy of the table annexed to the minority his motion for the present? report or the Commfttee on Foreign Relations which I read this The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. Does the Senator from Arkan morning, but that table comes officially from the office of the sas withdraw his motion? Secretary_of State. The executive document from which I read Mr. BERRY. I do. is in the bands of the Reporter, but I looked over it as carefully Mr. PASCO. I wish to inquire if the order has been made as I could. As a matter of course, the question is susceptible of with reference to the pending resolution which was agreed upon, accurate solution. that it should be referred to the Committee on Foreign Rela- Mr. HOAR. The Senator from Missouri will pardon me. He ~ns. . was not here probably quite so long ago, but he knows very well The PRESIDENT pro tempore. No order has been made in the names of the high joint commissioners who made the treaty respect to the resolution. with Great Britain in 1871 were sent in to the Senate and con Mr. PASCO. I ask now, if there be no objection, that that firmed, and there are five cases put down as if they were not sent order be made, unless there is to be further debate on the reso· in. lution. Mr. VEST. No; I came into the Senate in 1879. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Florida Mr. HOAR. The case of Mr. Trescott I have just seen. The asks that the resolution submitted by the Senator from Massa appointment was sent in to the Senate. He is put down as a per chusetts [Mr. HoAR] be referred to the Committee on Foreign Eon whosa name was not sent in. R-elations. Mr. VEST. I now recollect one instance particularly, from Mr. HOAR. The Senator from Delaware [Mr. GRAY] sug memory. It was the case of A. Dudley Mann, taken from private gested that reference. life and appointed by the President during the session of the Mr. PASCO. I will state that the Senator from Delaware Senate, with power to negotiate a treaty. has been called out of the Chamber, and asked me to attend to Mr. HOAR. Let me state a stronger one than that-M1·. the matter in his absence. Trist. That will help the Senator's argument, but it does not Mr. HOAR. I was about to say that the Senator from Dela affect this case. ware suggested to me a day or two ago that it might be as well Mr. VEST. Yes, Mr. Trist. As a matt.erof course, the issue to have the resolution go to the Committee on Foreign Rela between the Senator from Massachusetts and myself as to the tions, to which I acceded on the ground that, while it calls for accuracy of the State Department table can be settled; and if information which is not embraced in the previous resolution that table is accurate, then unquestionably from the beginning on the subject adopted by the Senate, still it is quite likely when of the Government it has been the custom of the President and the answer to that previous resolution comes in that it will con of the Secretary of State to appoint persons not holding then any tain, in connection withother matter, the information for which official position to negotiate treaties, and the treaties when made this resolution calls. So I acceded to that suggestion, but since ·were sent to the Senate for its action. that time there has been a considerable speech by the Senator Mr. HOAR. I think that will turn out to be true; but it does from Delaware, a speech by the Senator from Missouri [Mr. not affect this case. VEST], and a speech bv the Senator from Maine [Mr. FRYE]. Mr. CHANDLER. Mr. President, the statement made by the Therefore, I do not think this resolution ought to go to the Senator from Missouri leads me to take a moment {and I will Committee on Foreign Relations without my making one single take but a moment) to state that there certaJnly is a serious in observation, which I will make now if the Senate will permit, accuracy in the list of persons appointed by the President with and that is that nearly all the precedents which those Senators out the consent of the Senate to negotiate treaties. I refer to _have referred to-three or four hundred-as furnishing a prece the statementonpage130of Senate Miscellaneous Document No. dent for theappointme~t of this gentleman to go to Hawaii, are 109, Jriftieth Congress, first session, the list which was alluded to precedents of persons appointed in the vacation and whose names by the Senator from Delaware this morning. On that page are were either sent into the Senate at the next session thereof, or given the names of the members of the high joint commission, whose function expired before the end of the next session. So Hamilton Fish, Robert C. Schenck, Samuel Nelson, EbenezerR. CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD- II.OUSE. D ECEMBER 13, Hoar,·and·Geor.g-e H. ·williams; Messrs. Roar and Williams be 'HOUSE ·OF .REPR-ESENTATIV-ES. ing put down as holding no other office at the s:une time. '_The Be:na:tor from Miss.ouri will please take notice that those W.ED:NESDA,Y, December 13, 1.893. names are given as thoseol sppointments made by the President The House met at12o'clook m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Re:v. alone, and stan.dingas at>pointmen:tsm.1.de by thePr.esidentalone E. B. BAGBY. they cert:.tinly constitute,·a -very s-trong arg.umentin favor of sev The Journal of the prooeedings-uf yesterday was ,read and a_p eral o t"heT acts that · b~tve been -perfocrned by President Cleve· proved. lRlla. The trouble is that·tnestatement is erroneous; that these high joint commissioners were not appointed by the President DEFICIENCIES IN APP~OPRIATIONS FOR THE INTERIOR .DE alone, but we-re n.onfirmed by the Senate ·on the lOth day of Feb - p .A'RTMENT. mary' 1811, -as 'tbe..rec.ords will show. The SPEAKERlaid-beforetlm House a letter1rom the Acting So the statement of the Senatorfrom Massachusetts is strictly Secretary oi the Tr.easury., -transmitting .e.stimateB or deficiencies accurate,-that:tbe exceptionsto the rule by which the President in the appropriations submitted by the Secretary of tbe Inted or; appnints only ·ad i11.te?'im 1io .fill vacancies, and by and with the whioh was referred .to-the Committee -.onAppropriations, and or consent of the Senate :to importantdiplomaticfunctions, are in dered to be printed. significant; and theTe can not he found in the whole .record of TESTS UF MATERIALS -A'T W.ATERTOWN ARSENAL. the diploma.tio.ano:coDBulara;ppointmentsof the Government any The BPEAKER laid beiore the iHous-e a Jettedrom the Sem·e case that corresponds with the appomtment of Mr. Blount, as I tary oi War, transmitting the report of the commanding officer shall take occasion to -show if this ..subject is further discUBsed. of the Watertown Arsenal of tests of materials for industrial and The PRESIDENT 'IJTO'tfmtpore. The question is on .the motion rother purposes made at said 'arsenal during the :fiscal ·year end of the Senator from Florida [Mr. P ASOO ].that the -resolution be ing June ~0, 1 93; ;which ~vas referred to .the Committee on Man referred to-the Committee on Foreign Relations. ·ufactm·es, and-ordered to be·printea. Mr. HOAR. 1 understs.nd the £enator from Florida deems himself poss3ssed of the desire oi .the Senator lrom .Delaware CONTRACT'S 'ENTERED INTO BY THE WAR TIEPAliTMENT. [Mr. GRAY] in this respect. The SPEAKER also laid before the ROll.Be a letter irom the Mr. ·PASCO. .I .wilLstate -that the -Senator from Delaware tol.d Secreta:ry·of W.ar, transmitting n. state.ment-of ·contra.ctso:enterea me there:was-Bomeunderstg,nding with theBelmtor from Massa into b_y the War Departme.nt.dnring theliscal-:yea.I.' encllng .Tune chusetts in .reference to this m.1tter, :and .ii 'there was no o bjec· ;30, 18H3; w.hrch -was -referred to·the·Dommittee-on EAJ)endltures tion he would .llke-to1Hre itnaiTied_outthiB ai.ternoon . in t~e War De_partment, anfl ,ordePe.d t.o be printed. ..M-r. HOAR. There is no objection. .REGULATIUNB "FaR 'T.RE !SOLDIERS' JH01dE ~' iW.ASHINGTON, Mr. PASCO. ..It-was in 'accordance 'With :that r.equest that I .D. c. made ·the motion. ~ The SPEAKER also laid 'i:lefow the 'House -a 'letter, ~ trnnsmit The motion -was agreed to. -ting a draft·of'11 bill,·submitted by the fujoJLIGenera.l Command- HOUSE IDLE REFERRED. ing the Arm_y, .:Ee1Kt1ve to ireCtiOilfl ll821, ~8 22 , mia 4823 ..of the .The bill (H. R.Jl24.B)fur ±he appointmen:t .of a sealer and as- Revised Statutes; -whicn "WaB l'eierrea to -the .:Committee ·on siEtant.seJJ.e:r·ufweights_mrd·meaaures·.in :the ..District of Colum- Military Affairs, ana ordered iio oe printed. bia, and for ather purpo-ses, -was:r.ea.d ':twJc·e :by its iitle, ~and re- "FINDINGS .OF cmm.T UF DLATMS. -ferred-to·the'Committee:on-theJlistrictcof'.Golumbia. The SPEA.KER-laidiheforetth-e J;ro.u-se--a communioatian.from MESSAGE FROM THE 'ROUSE. the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the .findings uf .the . .com·.t in·the cases·af the ,follmving..na:me.d :PexBOnS rt:\.gltinSt ihe A messag-e.from"the House :of 'Repr.es.en.tatives, by Mr~ .T. 0. United States: Tenor Brabay, aecease.d; W . .J~ .Bishop; T. . 0. TOWLES, its Chie'f ·.Clerk, amwnnc:ed :tb::ttthe.House hadtpaBBed · Da viE, dece .1sed; Jno. Ferguson, ·:de.aerurell; .:E. A . .P. lmer., ne the.bill (S.102l) ·.to ~grant~ .:r~o-ht of-:w~"to the Kansas, Okla- ceased; B. H. Thompson, deceased. · homa Central and Southw.eRte:r.n Railway ·Gomp.any throug.h :the Also,Jn .the· case of J'oshua Beck, .deceased, ~ agains:t':fu.e Unlten Indian Tex.rito.ry ::ana Qklah:om·a 'Territacy, and •for .other tp.ur- . States: which were referred to the Committee .an W.Rr Claims, poses. and ordered to ba printed . .The message lhlso mrnuunnefi that .:the .House had :ps.ssea·a ·bill LEAVE .oF ~ABSENCE. (H. R. 434:0) to amend section 407 of the Revised Statutes, :So as By nnariimous consent,1ea-ve 'OI ·aosence was fgrantea -to .Mr. to.:r.equire tOcigin.u -:receipts :for ·:de:positsroi poStmasters to be H.ARTER, indeftriitely,,en accm.mt ohrickness'in'hisiumily. sent to-th.e..Anditor•oi -the .Treasury for :the ~nst:rOJlice..Depart- men.t; in whlchi:tTequesmd:.th:enanmn:Tencre-of .the Benaia. MESS AGE .F.ROM .THE BENA:rE. , Th-e message l1;1rthe-r:announce.d .:that "the ..Rouse :had passed -a A messag'e from the Senate, by Mr. PLA.TT,·one Df 'tsclerks, a;n concurrerr:t resolution -providing :for th:e-prin.ting nf 8,000 copies ·nounced that the .Sen.,...te further inBists - ~pon ·its -anrenfunents of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the Han. J. Logan to .the bill.(H. R. 3289) "~o author.ize the New York and .New Jer Chipman, late a Rep:·esentative from the State oi Mi