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citizens or .Kansas City, Kans., agau~st appropriating public remonstrating against the support of the Government in main· money for sectarian purposes-to the Committee on Indian AI- taining the present system of sectarian Indian education, etc.; fairs. which were referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. By Mr. COFFEEN (by request): Petition of 100 American Railway Union members of Uinta County, Wyo., asking for im- EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION OF ALIEN ANARCillSTS. peachment proceedings-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. HILL. I ask unanimous consent to call up for present By Mr. ENLOE: Papers to accompany the bill for the relief consideration the bill (S. 2314) to provide for the exclusion and of Daniels Cupples, Claiborne Wilson, J. B. King, and R. A. deportation of alien anarchists. Mitchell-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 'l'he VICE-PRESIDENT. The bill will be read for informa. By Mr. JOHNSON of North Dakota: Petition of Samuel Moore tion. and 54 other citizens of Grand Forks County, N. Dak., residing The Secretary proceeded to read the bill. near Turtle River, asking that John R. G. Karlen be relieved of Mr. CALL. I do not wish to interfere with the Senator from the contest now pending against his free claim, viz, the north- New York, but this seems to be a very long bill, and it will west quarter of section 8, township 154, range 51, and that he be probably occupy some time. allowed to prove up on said land-to the Committee on the Pub- Mr. HILL. I will explain it to the Senator, if he will permit lie Lands. me just a moment. By Mr. MADDOX: Petition of William Hadaway,for a claim This bill is virtually a report from a conference committee. against the Government-to the Committee on War Claims. The other House passed a bill to provide for consular ins:Qection By Mr. MEREDI1'H: Papers to accompany House bill 7966- abroad. The Senate did not like that.bill, and we substituted to the Committee on War Claims. another measure. A conference committee was appointed, and By Mr. PENCE: Resolutions of the taxpa3·ers of Rio Blanco we finally agreed upon this bill; but the conferees on the part County, Colo., urging that White River forest reservation be of the House did not wish to have their bill killed. but wanted abolished or very materially reduced-to the Committee on the the principle of consular inspection to remain open and go over Public Lands. until the next session. We consented to allow that bill to re- Also, petition o! the citizens of Colorado, for the impeach- main in conference, they in the mean time agreeing that we ment of the Attorney-General of the United States-to the should pass this bill here and send it to the House, when that Committee on th~ Judiciary. , body·would concur in it. Mr. CALL. If there is to be no debate, I will withdraw my objection. SENATE. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The reading of the bill will pro­ ceed. THURSDAY, .August 16, 1894. The Secretary resumed.and concluded the reading of the bill. The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the pres~nt Praj"er by Rev. J. H. M'CARTY, D. D., of the city of Wash­ consideration of the bill? ington.· There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. · . MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. Mr. SHERMAN. When this bill or a similar bill was before A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. T. 0. the Senate the other day, on the motion of the Senator from New TOWLES: its Chief Clerk, announced that the House had disagreed York there was a provision inserted that when any pe~son h&d to the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 4605) grant­ come into our country and had been naturalized, if it could be ing- chief justices of United States courts in Territories power to proven before the proper tribunal that he was not a man of good appoint commissioners to· take proof in land cases, etc.; agreed moral character, that he was not attached to the Constitution to the conference asked for by the Senate on the disagreeing and principles of our Government, and was not disposed to the votes of the two Houses thereon, and had appointed Mr. McRAE, good order and happiness of the same, he should be deported. Mr. SOMERS: and Mr. ELLIS of Oregon managers at the con­ That language is omitted from this bill, and I do not see why it ference on the part of the House. should not be contained in it. The message also announced that the House had agreed to the Mr. HILL. By the provisions of . this bill, in the first place, amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 7668) to authorize if an alien immigrant should be convicted of a crime and the -the St. Louis, Avoyellcs a.n:l Southwestern Railway Company to judge shouid determine upon a further hearing that the person bridge Bayou Des Glaises and Atchafalaya River, in the State had been guilty of a crime involving moral turpitude, and that of Louisiana. his presence in the country would be a menace to the Govern:. The mess1ge further announced that the House had passed ment and the peace and good order of society, he may be ordered the joint resolution (S. R. 101) proYiding"for clerical assistance deported. It was thought wise by the conference committee not in the health office of the District of Columbia. to use the words" attached to the principles of the Constitution The message atso announced that the Rouse had passed the of the United States," as it left too much open. As the man is follo\\"ing bills; in which it requested the concurrence of the an alien, of course it is not expected that he will be attached to Senate: the principles of our Constitution. An al~en who behaves him­ A bill (H. R. 7811) authorizing the El Reno Bridge Company self in this country would not and could not be touched under to construct a bridge across the South Canadian River, between this bill, and we do not propose to do it. · · Blaine County, Okta., and the Wichita Indian Reservation; Mr. SHERMAN. Idonotpropose to offer an amendment­ A bill (H. R. 7839) to bridge the Newark Bay; Mr.. HILL. The bill was very carefully considered by the A bill (H. R. 7910) to amend "An act to provide for the inspec­ committee. tion of live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products thereof, Mr. SHERMAN. But it does se~m to me that every person which are the subjects of interstate commerce, and for other who· has been admitted under our immigration laws ought to be purposes;" and requ.ir~d to stand by the declaration we require for admission; A bill (H. R. 7955) to perfect the title to a quarter section of and If It be proven afterward that he is nota man of goodmoral land in the town of Yuma, Colo. . character, that he is not attached to the principles of our Gov­ ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. ernment, and is not disposed to the good order and peace of the same, he ought to be excluded. The message furtherannounced that the Speaker of the House Mr. HILL. We do not touch the citizen who is naturalized. had signed the following enrolled bills; and they were there~ We do not think it wise to go so far as that. upon signed by the Vice-President: Mr. SHERMAN. Iseenoreason whypersonswhoarebrought A bill (H. R.387) t<;> authorize the construction of a life-saving into our country under our naturalization laws should not only station at or near Rocky Point or East Marion, Long Island, prove at the time they are admitted that they come within its New York; - provisions: but that they should maintain that condition, or else A bill (H. R. 859) for the relief of B. D. Greene; be liable to be deported. A bill (H. R. 6038) to repeal House resolution numbered 104, ~ Mr. HILL. I will simply say, as has been said heretofore in first session Fifty-first Congress, granting to Secretary of War regard to other bills, that it is a step in the right direction. a permit to license to use a pier at mouth of Chicago River; and · · Sooner or later we may adopt the idea, which is an entirely good one, of the distinguished Senator from Ohio, but it is a little too A bill (H. R. 6060) to ·amend section 4833, Revised Statutes, early to do it now. · and for other purposes. . Mr. CHANDLER. I wish to say that it was not deemed ad­ - MEMORIALS. visable by the committee to provide that every alien should be Mr. ALLISON presented the memorial o!.Robert Lipton and deported whom we would not be willing to naturalize arid make sundry other citizens of lda.County, Iowa, and the memorial of a citizen of. · . ; H. G. Harshburger and sundry other citiZens of-Woodbine, Iowa~ This bill was drawn in the Treasury Department, and bas ~en 8558 OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. A.UGUST 16,

;subjected to very careful scrutiny. It may not go so far as ~ The VICE-PRESIDENT.· The question is on agreeing to th& Senator from Ohio would like to go, but it is anexoollent bill, conc11rrent resolution. which has been carefully rewritten by the S~nator from .New The concurrent resolution was agreed to. York [Mr. HILL], the chairman of the Committee on Imm~g.ra­ JOHN FINN. tion and there h as been inserted by the committee a proVlslOn Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. I am instructed by the Commit­ in r~ference to the writ of habeas corpus, which effectually tee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (S.l066) to author· guards any alien agaii~st being de p ~ rted w~thout .all the pro­ ize the Third Auditor of the Treasury to audit certain quarter­ ceedings which result m the order 01. deporting bemg carefully masters voucheTs belonging to John Finn, of St. Louis, Mo., to reviewed by a judicial tribunal. . . . ~ . report it with amendments. The bill is st rino-ent enough for the time; It IS suffiCiently I will st'1te -that this is a very brief bill of one page, intended well guarded ana''h is of the highest importance, in the opin­ to correct certain defects in a private aot which was passed at ion of the co~mittee, that it ·should be passed without delay the last Congress. I ask unanimous consent that the bill may and sent to the House of Representatives, where·we are assured be now considered. it can be immediately acted upon. There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the Mr. PALMlDR. .Mr. President , I desire to say in reference Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. to the pending bill that, while I shall not resist its passage .in The amendments of the Committee on Claims were, in line 5, any way, th~ language is so general that I fe.ar under some cir­ after the word" Missouri," to strike outthe words" as owner" cumstances It may be greatly abused. aud insert "claimant;" in line 8, after the word "vouchers," With this remark I shall content myself with the action of where it appears the second time, to insert "it is alleged;" in the Senate· but if the yeas and nays were called on the passage line lD, after the word" now," toinsert "alleged to be;'' in line of -the bill i should not vote f-or it with its -present loose lan­ 15, after the worn" authorities,·" .toinsert "and oamerightfully guage. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or­ and for value into-the hands of said Finn," and at the end of the dered to be engrossed .for a third reading, read the third time, bill to insert: Providedfurtlur, That-all original payees who do not present claims for and passed. payment on said vouchers within thirty days from the date of the approval REPORTS OF COMl\llTTEES. of this aet shall be forever barred trom presenting such cllums, and said John Finn shall, after said thirty days, be entitled to receive the amount Mr. BATE, from the Committee on Military Aff~~rs, to whom found to be due thereon upon the conditions aforesaid. was referred the bill {H. R. 4686) to correct the military Tooord So as to make the bill read: of Alexander P. Magaan, of Battery H, Fourth Uni~d States Artillery, reported it without amendment, and submitted a ·re­ Be it ena c ~ed, etc., That the Third Auditor of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to permit John Finn, of St. Louis, Mo., port thereon. claimant of 371 quartermaster's vouchers, aggr&gating 56,363.95, more or He also from the same committee, to whom was referred the less, to sign the receipts upon the said-vouchers, which said vouchers, it is bill (S.l770) to place Maj. Robert P. Barry on .the listof alleged, were presented by the said Finn to the Quartermaster-General, and retire~ are now alleged t o be in the omce of the Third Auditor of the Tr.easury; and the Army, submitU:d an adverE!e re_Port tJ:ereon;rwhich was the receipts so signed shall be acceptable &s a sutncient compUance with the ao-reed to and the bill·was postponed ·Indeftmtely. laws and rulesregu.latingsuch.cases: Provid~d. Tlla.tit shall be found, upon 0 examin.a.tion, that the said vouchers were duly issued by the legally consti· Mr. PALMER, from the Committee on Miiitary ..Affairs, to tuted authorities, and came rightfully and for value into the hands of said whom was referred·the bill (S. 2186) for the relief -ofthe-wia.o.w Finn, a nd that they have not h eret ofore been audited and paid: Provid~d and legal representatives of the late Orsemus B. Boyd, captam f W'th-er, 'That all original payees who do not present claims for payment on Eighth United States Cavalry, renorted it ·without amend- .eaid y-ouchers within thir~y days from the do:.te or the approval of this act irr shall he forever barred from presenting such claims, a.nd said J ob.n Finn ment, ·and submitted a. report thereon. . shall, after saidthirty days, be entitled to receive the amount found to be due tb..eroon upon the conditions atoresaid. REPORT OF LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS. Mr. MILLS submitted the annual report .of the Librar.ian oi The -amendments ·were agreed to. Congress for the calendar year 1893. The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the He also from the Committee on the. Libr~ry, reported .the fol­ amendments were concurred in. lowing F~solution; which was referred to the Committee .on. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. Printing: On motion of Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon, the title was Re.solv~d That the annual- report o! the Lib1·arian of Congress for the · calendar year 1893 be prinood, and that 500 extra. copies, with paper covers, amended so as to read: "A bill to authorize the Third A'llditor be printed for distribution by the Librarian. of the Treasury to audit certain quartermaster's vouchers alleged PRINTING OF THE .REVENUE BILL. to belong to John Finn, of St. Louis, Mo." Mr. GORMAN, from the Committee on Printing, reported POWERS AND PRIVILEGES OF THE SENATE, the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous Mr. GRAY. From the Special Committee to Investigate At­ consent, _and agreed to: t empts at Bribery, etc., I beg leave to submit a report at their &solved That there be printed in pa.mphlet form, for the use of the Sen­ instance, which .I ask may be printed as a miscellaneous docu­ ate, 15,000 copies <>.f the bill (H. R. ~8641 entitled "An act to reduc.~ taxation, tOl:>l'Ovide revenue tor the Government. and for other purposes. mellt. The document will consist of decisions and precedents in the Senate and House of Representatives relating to the CIVIL SERVICE COM?tfiSSION REPORT. power~ and privileges o~ the Senate ~nd H_ous~ of Representa­ Mr. GORMAN. I am instructed by the Committee.onPrint· tives In respect to their members, mvestq·atwns, contempts, ing to whom was referred a concurrent resolution of the House libels, contumacious witnesses, and so on. It will make a very of Representatives for the printing of t:t;-e tenth report of the . valuable volume, in the opinion of the committee. It is already Civil Service Commission, to report it without amendment. I in print, and I ask by authority of the commi~tee tha~ it may b e ask unanimous consent for its present consideration. printed as a miscellaneous document. The mdex w1ll be very The Senate. by unanimous consent, proceeded to consider the full .and complete, and I think it will be a valuable documentfor concurrent resolution, which was read, as follows: reference and of much use to the public. Ruolved by the Hous~ of Repre1~ntatives (the S6nat ~ concurring) , That 23,000 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The order to print will be made, in copies of the tenth report of the United States Civil Service Commission be printed, of whlch-l ,ru

restoration and continuation of the McKinlev duties on wool. I read he will have no objection to it, and I shall have to leave the .move that the amendment lie on the table and be printed. Chamber soon on public business. The motion 'Was agreed to. Mr. CALL. I will yield for a moment. PAPERS WITHDRAWN AND REFERRED. There being no objection, tbe Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill, which had been reported On motion of Mr. FAULKNER, it was from the Committee on Military Affairs ·with an amendment, in Or~Mr•d, That leave begra~tedfor the withdrawal of the papers in the cas~ ot A. H. Herr for reference to the Treasury Department for fUrther exam1· line 7, after the word ''Volunteers," to insert "on the 26th day -nation; sul;lject to the provisions of the rules of the Senate. of April, 1864;" so as to make the bill read: CORPORATIONS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Be·it macted, ttc., That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to correct the rolls of the Adjutant-General's Office so as to Mr. CHANDLER. I ask tmanimous consent -for the ·present show Capt. Joseph H. Richards as honorably mustered out or the service of consideration of the bill (S. 2263) to amend section 553 of the the United States as an otncer of the Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volun· Revised Statutes of the United Sta;tes, relating to the District teers, on the 26th day of April, 1864. of Columbia. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. CALL. I hope the Senator from New Hampshire will 'The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, ·and the allow me to bring up for consideration a £asolution. amendment was concurred in. Mr. CHANDLER. The bill I wish considered is an important The bill was ordered to be engrossed for .a third reading, read one, as Senat-ors will understand the moment it is read,.ana one the third time, and passed. to-which there will be no objection. INVESTIGATION BY THE CO:M"MITTEE ON COMMERCE. Mr. CALL. I make no objection. Mr. RANSOM. Yesterday morning the Committee on Con:. .Mr. DOLPH. Will the Senator not let us ~et thro.ugh wit..h tingent Expenses reported back a resolution of the Committee morning business? on Commerce in reference to the latter committee sitting dur­ Xhe VICE-PRESIDENT. Does the Chair unde1•st_11nd the ing the vacation. The resolution was reported adversely, and Senator from Oregon to object? indefinitely postponed. I am desired by the chairman of the Mr. CHANDLER. Senators-will not object-when they hear committee and the member of the committee \Vho made there­ the bill read. port to aak that the indefinite postponement may be reconsid­ '!'he VICE-PRESIDENT. The bill will be read for informa­ ered, and that the resolution may be r.3committed to the Com· tion. mittee to Audit and Control the Contingent EA.t>enses o1 the The Secretary read the bill,·as follows: Senate. Bt.. it enacted, etc., That section 553- or the Revised Statutes or the United The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair States relating to the District of Columbia be, and the ssme is hereby, amended by adding to the said section ·the following provision: hears none, and it is.so ordered. "That any;corporation heretofore or hereafter organized under-the pro­ HOUSE BILLS REFERRED. visions of this section may renew its charter for any stated number of years ·not exceeding twenty, by filing in the office of the recorder of deeds of tho The following bills were severally-rea-d twice by.their titles, District of Columbia a certificate .in writing, signed by a majority of its .and referred to·the Committee on Commerce: t.rustees.and duly acknowledged, ·certifying that at th~ last regular meeting of the stockholders held prior to the date of such cert1ficate, or at a special A bill (H. R. 7811) authorizing the El Reno •Bridge Company mooting called for that purpose, the stockholders of such company, by a to construct a ·bridge across the South Canadian River, between vote o!.at leas.t two-thirds of all the shares or the-stock of the company, re­ Blaine Cou.nty, Okla., and the Wichita Indian Reservation; and solved to renew the charter thereof for a period designated by them: Pro· A bill (H. R. 7839) to bridge Newark Bay. vidtd, That the propo~ed renewal shall be approved by the Commissioners ot the Dilltrict -of Columbia in writing indorsed on said certificate: .And pro­ The bill {H. R. 7910} to amend "An act to provide for the in­ vided, That a.duly authenticated.copy of the resolution of the sto~kholders spection of live c:-tttle, hogs, and the caroasses and products in respect or such renewal shall be attached to said certificate. ''The filing of such certificat-e so approved shall be and operate as a renewal thereof, which are the subjects of interstate commerc~. and for of such charter for the time specified therein. The charter so renewed may other purposes," was read twice by its title, and referred to the afterwards be.renewed from time to time: Provided.-That no ono renewal Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. shall be for a longer period than twenty yeard, and that each renewal shall be authorized by the sto..:kholders and be subject to the approval o! the The bill (H. R. 7955) to perfect the title to a quarter section of Commissioners of the District of Columbia in the manner hereinbefore pro· land in the town of Yuma, Colo., was read twice by its title, and vided. referred to the Committee on Public Lands. "The provisions of section 533 of the Revised Statutes of the United States reL.1.ting to. the District of Columbia shall apply to the record of all certift· RECENT EL1WTION IN ALABAMA. cates of renewals of charters authorized by this act.'' The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the a resolution submitted by the Senator from New Hampshire [~fr . Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. CHJ..NDLER], coming over from a previous day, in relation to the The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or, recent election in the State of Ala.ba.ma. dared to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time­ .Mr. CHANDLER. The Senator from Alab.3.ma [Mr. MORGAN J and passed. is still absent from the city. 1: am very desirous that he shall Tlie title was amended so as to read: "A bill to amend section be present when the resolution is considered, and therefore I 553 of the Revised Statutes of the United ·States, relating to again ask the favor of allowing the resolution to go over until the organization of corporations within the District of Colum­ to-morrow, retaining i ~ s place in the morning business. bia." The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS. h~'\rs none, and it is so ordereu. Mr. GORMAN. I ask unanimous consent for the present PRESIDENTIAL APPROVALS. consideration of the bill IS. 2H2) to authorize the preparation A message from. the President of the United States, by Mr. 0. and publication of a descriptive catalogue and index of Govern­ L. PRUDEN, one of his secretaries. announced that the Presi­ ment publications, which was reported yesterday from the Com­ dent had on the 13th inst:tnt approved and signed the following mittee on Printing. acts: There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the An act (S. 1896) to provide for the payment of the 8 per cent Whole, proceeded to consider the bill; which was read, as fol­ greenback certificates of the District of Columbia, and for other lows: purposes; and Be it em:~.cted, etc., That there be prepared and published. under the dlrec· tlon or the Joint Committee on Printing, a classified, analytical, a.nd de­ An act (S. 18S2) to provide an American register for the scriptive catalogue and index of all Government publications, issued sub­ steamer S. Oteri. sequent to March 4. 1881. the date at which the Deseriptive Catalogue, by The me ·sage also announced that the President of the United Poore, prepared under act of July '1:7, 1882, tel'minates, and plior to the ·Fifty· third Congress; and upon the request or the said joint committee, the of· States had on the 15th instant approved and signed the follow­ fleers or the Senate and House or Representatives. and the heads of all the ing acts: Executive Departments and of the bureaus and offices th"Ell'eof. shall furnish An act (S. 901) for the relief of the owners of the schooner to the said joint committee all such information and assistance in reference Henry R. Tilton, and of parsonal effects thereon; to said publications as will facilitate the completion of said work; and the sum of $2,500 is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act. An act (S. 2234l to further amend section 2399 of the Revised Statutes of the United States; The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, Ol'­ dered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, An act (S.876)granting a pension to Rebecca H. Chambsrs; and and passe·d. ~n act l8.1949) for the relief of James E. North. CA.PT. JOSEPH H. RICHARDS. INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN SENATE WING OF CAPITOL. Mr. GRAY. I ask unanimous consent to call up the bill"(S. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Semite 1558) for the correction of the military record of Capt. Joseph a resolution submitted by the Senator from South Dakota [Mr. H. Richards. It is a small matter. KYLE], coming over from a previous day, which will be read. Mr. CALL. I hope the Senator ,from Delaware will not do The.Secretary read the resolution submitted.. yesterday.by Mr. that until the resolution which I desire to call up is considered. KYLE, as 'follows: Mr . .GRAY. This is a matter which will tnot take five min­ Resolv-ed. That durlng the recess of Congress no intoxicating liquors shall be sold or used f.n tbe Senate wing of the Capitol building; and the Capitol utes. I thin.ir that when the Senator from Florida. hears the bill pollee board is hereby authorized and directed to enforce this resolutio:a. 8560 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-·. SENATE. AUGUST 16;

Mr. KYLE. I do not think there c::~.n be any objection to the easy it is for Senators to pose in public and make a display of resolution. their personal virtues, or rather by introducing resolutions pre­ Mr. GORMAN. I desire to state that I interrupted the con­ vent other gentlemen from enjoying this life as they see proper. sideration of the resolution when it was up before in order to I happen to be one of the Senators who can, at all events, talk suggest that under the rules the resolution must go to the Com­ about and deal with the whisky question as one who does not mittee on Rules; but I have no objection to waiving the point understand the taste of liquor. I neither "indulge myself nor of order for the present if the Senator from South Dakota desires encourage others to indulge, but I have never yet, in public or to be heard. in private, and especially in public, imposed my tastes upon Mr. PLATT. I wish toaskwhyitis proposed to prohibit the others and posed before the country as a special reformer, and sale of liquors only during the recess of Congress. then, as reformers frequently do, slip behind the door and take Mr. KYLE. I will answer the Senator from Connecticut. two or three private drinks. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from Mar:v land makes The rules of the Senate prohibit the sale in this end of the the point of order, as the Chair understands, that the resolution Capitol of intoxicating liquors, and it is only a question of the must be referred to the Committee on Rules. Is that the point' enforcement of the rule. of order? Mr. KYLE. That is all, and that is all the resolutioncallsfor. Mr. GORMAN. Mr. President-- Mr. GORMAN. But the Senator from South Dakota. wants Mr. KYLE. I should like to know by what rule the resolu­ the sale to be winked at during the session of the Senate and tion must go to the Committee on Rules. prohibited during the recess. The rule says intoxicating . The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from South Dakota liquors shall not be sold at all. The resolution proposes a modi­ will suspend until the Chair can hear the Senator from Mary­ fication, and a bad modification, of the rule. land. Mr. KYLE. Will the SenatorfromMaryland vote to prohibit Mr. GORMAN. That is the point of order I made, but I sug­ the sale during the whole year? gested that if the Senator from South Dakota wishes to say a Mr. GORMAN. No vote is necessary. There is nothing few words I would withhold the point of order until he can be necessary in this case except an opportunity to pose before the heard. public. The rule is as perfect as it can be. If the rules are not The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair recognizes the Senator en!orced, it is the fault of those who are charged with their en­ ftom South Dakota upon the point of order. iorcement. If the Senator desires to reach the difficulty, let Mr. KYLE. I merely wish to know by what rule the resolu­ him ascertain who is the guilty party in the failure to enforce tion must go to the Committee on Rules without first being con­ the rule and bring in his resolution condemning him. If the sidered here. I supposed that any current resolution was sub­ Senator has information, which I have not, that Senators have ject to the disposition of the Senate at any time. witnessed the sale of liquor to boys and other young people, it Mr. SHERMAN. I should like to a"k the Senator from was his duty to report that fact to the Committee on Rules, who South Dakota whether there is any rule which authorizes the have charge of this matter, or to the proper officers of the body, sale of intoxicating liquors here during the recess. If not, the and try and get a reform without this public display. Senator's resolution is clearly in order, unless it seeks-- Mr. President, that ifl all there is in this case. I will c!lange Mr. KYLE. I will read the rule for the benefit of the Sena­ my motion, sir. I move that the resolution lie on the table. tor from Ohio. Rule 10, on page 181 ot the Manual, states: The VICE-PRESIDENT. The point of order is withdrawn. Mr. KYLE. On that motion I call for the yeas and nays. No spirituous liquors shall be sold, furnished, or kept in the restaurant. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on tne motion of Mr. SHERMAN. If no rule of the Senateallowsliquors to be the Senator from Maryland that the resolution lie on the table, sold during the session or during the recess, then it is clearly on which the yeas and na.ys are demanded. f . in order to prohibit their sale, because such sale would beavio­ The yeas and nays were ordered. Jation of the rule. Any change of the rules, of course, requires Mr. McPHERSON. I suggest to the Senator from Maryland a notice, etc. that it would be very proper to refer the resolution to the Com­ Mr. GRAY. Under those circumstances the resolution would mittee on Rules for some investigation of the matter and for be for the enforcement of the rule. some proper enforcement of the rules of the Senate. Mr. SHERMAN. It would befortheenforcementof the rule. Mr. GORMAN. ' Very well; I will change my motion tograt­ Mr. KYLE. The resolution merely relates to the enforce­ ifv the Senator from New Jersey, and move to refer the resolu­ ment of the rule. tion to the Committee on Rules. Mr. SHERMAN. I think it is clearly in order. Mr. PLATT. I understand the motion now is to refer the Mr. KYLE. I will state to theSenatorfromConnecticut[Mr. resolution to the Committee on Rules. PLATT] that it would be my wish to enforce the rule during the The VICE-PRESIDENT. That is the motion now made by three hundred and sixty-five days in the year. It has been tried the Senator from Maryland. heretofore, but as everybody in the Senate Chamber knows, it Mr. PLATT. I shall support that motion. I doubt whether has been an absolute and flat failure. The late Senator from there is ·any occasion for this resolution. As I understand it, Kansas, Mr. Plumb, on August 18, 1890, offered a resolution to when we go away from here the restaurant is practically closed the effect that the rule should be enforced and that no intoxica­ uo; that it is not kept open during the summer, and there is no ting liquors should be sold. It was discussed on three or four necessity for the r esolution. I think it is clearly to be seen that different days, as 1 notice in the RECORD of that date, but was there is no necessitv for it. finally passed over and was not agreed to by the Senate. I desire to say a few words further. I think that this talk Now, thera are those in the Senate Chamber, of course, who which we read in the papers, and which to some extent has been may object to the abridgment of their privileges along this line. to-day reaffirmed by the Senator from South Dakota, to the I do not wish to abridge any Senator's privileges with reference effect that we have a bar in the Senate restaurant, and that to the use of intoxicating drinks. He can usc them in his own liquors are sold over it indiscriminately, is very much exag­ private house, in his own private committee room, or whereso­ gerated, if not untrue. The Senator from South Dakota said that, ever he chooses, but I do not think it proper and I never have as all Senators know, intoxicating liquors are sold there. I do thought it proper that intoxicating liquors should be sold openlv not know it, Mr. President. I never saw it. !have never stood over the countE'r of the Senate restaurant. There is not a Sen­ about watching to see whether that is the case. I never drink ator in the Chamber to-day who does not know that liquors are liquors of any sort myself; and I do not know that a practice is sold and sold openly, not to members of this bodyalone-Imake made of selling liquors in the restaurant of the Senate wing of no chn.rge against anybody-but sold openly to visitors to the the Capitol. I know it is against the rules; and I believe if Capitol, sold to the young men-almost boys-who are occupied there had been any serious infraction of the rules, and the fact in the Capitol, and to clerks to Senators. I have seen these had been brought to the attention of the Committee on Rules, it things; you have seen them-- would have been remedied. Mr. COCKRELL. I never ha~e. Mr. KYLE. Mr. President, I wish to say just one word in an­ Mr. KYLE. I refer to some Senators who have seen the same swer. It is furthestfrommythought to pose as a reformer along thing. I do not refer to the Senator from Missouri. the line or prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks in the Mr. COCKRELL. Some Senators may, but not all. Senate wing of the Capitol. It has not been the habit of my life Mr. KYLE. I should like to see this practice stopped at to pose in any sense of the word. I never have done so, and I do O~lCe and for all time; but if we can not stop it during the ses­ not propose to do so now; but I do think that if people wish to siOn of the Senate, we certainly can stop it during the time of drink they can at least go to the nearest saloon, which is only a the recess of Congress, when no body is left here perhaps except very few hundred feet away. the clerks around the Capitol. I ask therefore for the consid­ Mr. BUTLER. Why, Mr. President-- eration of the resolution, and I hope it may be agreed to. Mr. GRAY. How does the Senator from South Dakota know' Mr. GORMAN. Instead of the point of order, I shall move -[Laughter.] · k> refer the resolution to the Committee on Rules. I know how The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senate will be in order. .------~------

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Mr. BUTLER (to Mr. KYLE). In which direction is the near­ The result was announced-yeas 30, nays 14; as follows: est saloon? YEAS-30. Mr. KYLE. The Senator from Delawarewishes to knowhow Aldrich, Cullom, Mttchell, Oregon Shoup, I know. If the Senatorfrom Delaware will walk down Pennsyl­ Bate, Faulkner, Murphy, Stewart, vania avenue, as I do very frequently for exercise, he will find Blackburn, Gibson, Pasco, Vest, Brice, Gorman, Perkins,· Vilas, that he can not pass perhaps three or four blocks from the Capi­ Butler, Gray, Piatt, Walsh, tol without running against a drunken man at 6 or 7 o'clock at Caffery, Harris, Pugh, White. night. Those are facts. Camden, Hunton, Quay, Mr. MANDERSON. Mr. President, in order to relieve the Cockrell, Manderson, Roach, mind of the Senator from South Dakota, I ask that the parts or NAYS-14. Rules X and I, which I have marked, regulating the Senate Allison, Gallinger, Lindsay, Peffer, Call, George, McLaurin, Shfi)rman, wing, be read at tliedesk. Let the partof Rule Xthat is marked Chandler, Jarvis, Palmer, be read first. Dolph, Kyle, Patton, The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read as re­ NOT VOTING-41. quested. Allen, Gordon, McMillan, Smith, The Secretary read as follows: Berry. Hale, McPherson, Squire, RULE X. Blanchard, Hansbrough, Martin, Teller, Cameron, Hawley, Mills, Turpie, .. ~ • • 0 ~ • Carey, Higgins, Mitchell, Wis. Voorhees, No spirituous liquors shall be sold, furnished, or kept 1n the restaurant. Coke, Hill Morgan, Washburn, RULE I. Daniel, Hoa~, Morrill, Wilson, Davis, Irby, Pettigrew, Wolcott...... Dixon, Jones, Ark. Power, The Sergeant-at-Arms ot the Senate, under the direction ot the Presidrng Dubois, Jones, Nev. Proctor, Officer, shall be the executive ot!lcer of the body for the enforcement of all Frye, Lodge, Ransom, rules made by the Committee on Rules, for the regulation ot the Senate wing ot the Capitol. So the resolution was referred to the Committee on Rules. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from Nebraska is en­ INVESTIGATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON PATEN'l.'S. ti tied to the floor. Mr. CALL. I ask that the resolution proposing an investiga­ Mr. MANDERSON. I simply desired to have the rule read. tion by the Committee on Patents, reported yesterday from the The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on the motion of Committee on ContingentExpensesof the Senate, be laid before the Senator from Maryland, that the pending resolution be re­ the Senate. ferred to the Committee on Rules. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolution will be read. Mr. KYLE. On that I ask for the yeas and nays. The Secretary read the resolution, as follows: The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded Resolved, That the Committee on Patents have authority to sit during the to call the roll. recess of Congress and continue their session during said recess for the in· Mr. BLANCHARD (when his name was called.) I am paired vestigation ot the proposed change ot the patent laws, to send for persons and papers and take such evidence as they may think proper and necessary, with the senior Senator from Michigan [Mr. McMILLAN]. and visit such places as they may think a.d vanta.geous for gathering infor­ Mr. CALL (when his name was called). I am paired with the mation upon the subject and report the same to Congress at the next ses­ Senator from Vermont[Mr. PROCTOR]. If he were here I should sion, and also authority to employ a stenographer and the necessary cleri­ vote "nay." cal assistance, to be paid out of. the contingent fund or the Senate. Mr. DAVIS (when his name was called). I am paired with Mr. CALL. The resolution is recommended by the Commit­ the Senator from Indiana [Mr. TURPIE]. tee on Patents unanimously. It was broug-ht forward in re­ Mr. FAULKNER (when his name was called). I am paired sponse to a request from large numbers of people in the United with the Senat.or from Connecticut [Mr. HAWLEY]. If he were States for radical changes in the patent laws. The committee present I should vote "yea." are of the opinion that no such legislation should be attempted Mr. GORDON (when his name was called). I am paired with without a full consideration of the system of patents and of the the Senator from Iowa [Mr. WILSON]. persons interested in patents throughout the country. The pe­ Mr. HIGGINS (when his name was called). I am paired with titions state that a vast amount of money is collected from the the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. JONES]. people of the United States under the existing laws relating to Mr. McLAURIN (when his name was called). I am paired patents. The Bell Telephone patent system is under consider­ with the junior Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. DIXON]. ation, and several bills have been introduced in the House of Mr. MILLS (when his name was called). I am paired with Representatives looking indirectly to a continuance of the the Senator from Maine [Mr. FRYE]. If he were present I monopolies created under those patents. In view of this pro­ should vote '' yea." posed legislation, affecting the entire system of patent laws, and Mr. MITCHELL of Wisconsin {when his name was called). the widespread feeling upon the subject, the committee are un­ Has the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. CAREY] voted? willing to undertake the investigation and to make recommenda­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. He has not voted. tion without full conference with all the interests concerned. Mr. MITCHELL of Wisconsin. I withhold my vote, being I send to the desk for the information of the Senate a· letter paired with that Senator. addressed to me from the former Commissioner of Patents, Hon. Mr. PALMER (when his name was called). I am f.aired with Mr. Butterworth, who was a member of Congress and is well the Senator from North Dakota [Mr. HANSBROUGH. known to the members of the Senate. I ask that his letter be Mr. RANSOM (when his name was called). I am paired with read for the consideration of the Senate: ~he Senator from Maine [Mr. HALE]. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read as re­ Mr. SMITH {when his name was called). I am paired with queste'd. the junior Senator from Idaho [Mr. DUBOIS]. The Secretary read as follows: The roll-call was concluded. WASHINGTON, D. C., Augu1t 11, 189l. Hon. WILKINSON CALL, Mr. BERRY. I am paired with the Senator from Colorado United States Senate, Washington, .D. C. [Mr. TELLER]. . MY DEAR SENATOR: I observe that you have asked permission of the Sen­ Mr. PALMER. By distinct reservation of my pair I am au­ ate for the Committee on Patents to sit during vacation to investigate thorized to vote if my vote is necessary to make a quorum. I alleged abuses which have grown up under the patent system. I sincerely hope the Senate will grant the leave you ask, as the investigation you pro-. vote " nay." pose is of-the first importance to the community. · Mr. MARTIN. -1 am paired with the senior Senator from The time has come when an end should be put to the opportunity of indi­ Minnesota [Mr. WASHBURN], and therefore withhold my vote. viduals and combines to use the United States courts and an old patent as agencies and the means to extort money from defenseless citizens. I say Mr. MITCHELL of Wisconsin. I transfer my pair with the defenseless, for they are practically so, since there is no alternative left to Senator ·from Wyoming [Mr. CAREY] to the Senator from In­ them under a system that is practiced by certain combines in the country, diana [Mr. VOORHEES], and vote ''yea." except to pay tribute or submit to a greater wrong in the shape ot paying ten times as much to resist the unjust exaction. The scheme adopted by Mr. FAULKNER. I will vote to make a quorum. I vote the combines is fairly set out in the resolution introduced in the Senate by . "yea." . Senator WASHBURN and in the House by the Hon. JAMEs W. COVERT, chair· Mr. McLAURIN. I have reserved the right to vote to make man of the Committee on Patents ot the House. The abuses complained of can be corrected without in anywise or to any a quorum. I vote ''nay." extent impairing the usefulness and efficiency of the patent system. Mr. CALL. I will vote to make a quorum. I vote" nay." I have, as Commissioner of Patents, and since, while engaged in the prac­ Mr. MITCHELL of Wisconsin (after havino- voted in the tice, observed these abuses grow until they have become unbearable, and are more dangerous to our patent system, unless corrected, than all the affirmative). I understand the Senator from Indiana [Mr. VooR­ otJ;ler inftuences put together that are arrayed against the patent law as it HEES] is paired with the Senator from Montana [Mr. POWER]. exists. The present Commissioner of Patents, Mr. Seymour, has taken hold I withdraw my vote. of the ofilce, as I believe, with a firm determination to correct any evils or abusesthatmaybefound to exist, in so farashecandoso, byamodifl.cationor The VICE-PRESIDENT. The vote of the Senator from Wis­ extension or existing rules. But the abuse we speak of, which has all the consin is withdrawn. elements.,.a.nd characteristics of black mail, can only be corrected by legis· XXVI---536 8562 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 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la.tion, and there ought to be no delay in providing that much needed reme­ beneficial to the country than inquiries held at the Capitol with dial measure. I will be very willing to go before your committee and give them the re­ the expense of numerous witnesses summoned here I hope the sult of my experience and observation, and render any assistance in my resolution will pass. · power in providing a thorough :tnd complete remedy tor the evils that have . Mr. CHANDLER. I move to amend the resolution by strik­ grown up under the patent system, a.nd are a source or complaint through- out the entire country. · mg out the words '' the proposed chan"e " and inserting '' pro­ Very respectfully, posed ehanrres,"and by i~erting, aft:er the words "pa~nt la:ws," BENJ. BUTTERWORTH. the words and of all bills concernmg patents pend10g in Con­ MI·. CALL. Mr. President- gress." Mr. GRAY. ~ay I ask the Senator from Flodda a question? Mr. CALL. I have no objection to that amendment. As I understood the Senator, he alluded, as one of the subjects The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the for the proposed investigation, to the matter of the issue of the amendment proposed by the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Bell telephone patents. Did I un~erstand him correctly? CHANDLER.J Mr. CALL. Yes, sir. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. GRAY. Does not the Senator know that those patents Mr. CA¥DEN. Mr. ~resident, I desire to speak in behalf of are now the subject of litigation in the United States courts at the Committee on Contmgent Expenses. The committee have the instance of the Government; that those conflicting claims no desire whatever to antagonize the wishes of the Senator from require a judicial settlement, and that nothing could be gained Florida, but the appropriation for the purpose of paying the ex­ by a.n investigation before a committee except to help one side P.el!ses. of jl!vestigations by committees is limited. The propo­ or the other in that contest? In a great deal that the Senator S1tl0n 1s to mcur a large expenditure by going over the country has said a~out the necess~ty fo_r an investigation of the patent to investigate the operation of the patent laws, when, in the laws I am m ·sympathy wtth h1m. opinion of the Committee on Contingent Expenses, the matter Mr. CALL. The Senator from Delaware is right and he is can be just as well investigated at the Capitol. Therefore the wrong, as we frequently are. What I said was that several bills contingent fund of the Senate not beina- large enough to ;n,eet had been introduced, which are referred to in the letter of Mr. all the demands upon it, the committee reported adversely on Butterworth, the former Commissioner of Patents, looking to this particular resolution. the indirect extension of those patents, and that legislation is . Mr. CHANDLER. Mr. President, this is almost the first now pending, not in reference to the original right of the paten­ t1me that I ever knew a resolution of this kind opposed on the tees, but continuing divers inventions subsidiary to the oriO'inal ground that the United States could not afford to make the in­ patents, which it is claimed by Mr. Butterworth and other;, and vestigation. The usual course has been to allow committees of by petitions now before the Committee on Patents, will have the ~his body to decide for themselves whether an investigation dur­ effect, whatever may be the legislation, of extending,those pat­ mg the recess would be advisable and beneficial, and the judg­ ents. That is the question which is presented by the proposed ment of the committee has usually been accepted by the Senate. l~gislation in part, and it is a question which requires investiga­ ~ow, the Committee on Patents state that the proposed changes tiOn. m th~ pate~t la~s require investiga~ion, and in their judgment The Senator froin Delaware may be right in reference to cer­ s~ch mv~st1gat10n as they can not g1ve during the present ses­ tain cases which are pending in litigation. and which are in­ siOn norm season for action u-pon bills to be brou"htforwardat volved in the question, and the Commissioner of Patents may the coming short session of Congress. I submit that unless we also be right in reference to the indirect effect of the bill now wish to discredit our committee we can afford to trust the com­ pending, proposing changes in the existing law. However that mittee to ~ake the proposed investigation. mn.y be, the Committee on Patents have here given an expres­ I doubt 1f the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent sion oi opinion which does not concern that inquiry. The patent Expenses of the Senate have made a careful inquiry M to the system levies a vast amount of money upon the people of the purposes of this investigation; indeed, the Senator from West United States every year. There is great discontent with it. Virginia did not say that he had. He stated that the Govern­ It has distinguished merits. It has performed a great part in the ment was too poor to make this investigation. I submit if the civilization of the country and in its progress. In view of this Committee on Patents is to be trusted as to its judgment that fact, in order that there may be no action which is too radical. the investigation ought to be made, then the investigation should that it may be conservative and just, and at the same time do go forward, and the United States and the Senate will manage away with existing abuses, the Committee on Patents, after a to find some way to pay the necessarybills. I do not know what full investigation, appreciating the magnitude of the subject, expenditures the Senator from Florida expects will be made brought in the 1·esolution which is before the Senate. necessary; I do not know whether he expects that there will be I may be permitted to say that this question is not less im­ a large expenditure for this purpose. portant than the tariff legislation which has attracted the atten­ The Senator from West Virginia did not name any particular tion of the country for so great a length of time. The annual sum, but seemed to be apprehensive that extravagant expendi­ imposition upon the people of this country by the patent laws, tures were to b~ indulged in. I am not myself afraid that such however beneficial they ma.y be, will not be greatly less in will be the case. The chairman of the Committee on Patents is amount than that levied by the tariff revenue system of the a member of the Committee on Appropriations and understands country, and the indirect effects are as great in the promotion the policr o! that commit.tee, both concerning expenditures and of monopolies and syndicates. the restriCtiOn of expenditures, and he would not propose an in­ Mr. President, this is a great interest; and yet, with the unani­ vestigation, the-expenses of which would run counter to the mous recommendation of the Committee on Patents, with the general policy of that committee. Therefore it seems to me that recommendation, as I understand from this letter, of the Com­ there ought not to be an objection to the passage of the resolu­ missioner of Patents, of the former Commissioner, a .C.istin­ tion. guished member of Congress from Ohio, and notwithstanding Mr. ALDRICH. I ask that the resolution may be read as the vast public opinion soliciting this action, the two gentlemen amended in order that we may know what it is. who compose the Committee on ContingentExpenses, while they The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolution as amended will be hold that it is sufficiently important to make a rule of five or six read. lines that permission should be given and the expense paid of The Secretary read the resolution, as follows: the Committee on Rules sitting during a vacation, hold that this .Resolved, That the Committee on Patents have authority to Sit during the recess o1 Congress and continue their session during said recess tor the in· . great public opinion concerning a question closely connected vestigation of proposed changes of the patent laws, and or all bills concern­ with the progress of civilization to-day does not demand an in­ ing patents pending in Congress, to send for persons and papers and take quiry, and that the Committee on Patents shall not have the such evidence as they may think proper and necessary, and visit such places as they may think advantageous for gathering information upon the sub­ privilege of making this investigation. ject and report the sa.me to Congress at their next se1>sion, and also author­ It.ismanifestthat it can not be made during the coming short ity to employ a stenographer and the necessary clerical assistance, to be sessiOn of Congress. It is known that a great public opinion paid out or the contingent fUnd or the Senate. th~o~ghout the co':n~ry is attacking the patent system and the Mr. ALDRICH. I should like to ask the Senator from New enstmg laws, and 1t 18 only reasonable and fair and just to pat­ Hampshire-! do not know whether or nothe isamember of the ente~s and to the system which is intended to encourage in­ Committee on Patents-as the champion of this resolution, what ventiOn that there should be a full hearing accorded to them. necessity there is for visiting places throughout the United ~ow, upon the.questionof expense, I wish to say a few words. States to ascertain the effect of patent laws? It seems to me I~ 1s less expens1ve for five or six Senators to attend at a par­ that if .the Senator from Florida and his associates desire to visit twular place than to bring to the Capitol from a distance forty the watering places or anywhere else in the United States they or ~fty or a hundred per~on~ in a. p;olonged inquiry upon this should say so frankly and plainly, and not ask for the passage sub~ectJ The resolution 18 m the mterest of economy, and it of a resolution in this form for that purpose. can not be sat down upon by saying they are to be a. peri­ It seems to me the city of Washington is the proper place to patetic and wandering committee. When such committees investigate this question, if anywhel'e, because the Patent Of­ properly discharge their dtrty they are less expensive and more fice is the place to learn the effect of the patent laws; all tho 1894. _PflN.G-RESSIONA:L ~EOORD---;SEN~"TE. 8563 eminent patent lawyers are here, and if any _place in the United Ia -perspnal examination on the ground to obtain an unde;,(tand· St~tes is the proper place it is the city of Washington~ I see il!g of the facts. no reason for that part ol the resolution, and I hope the Senator M·r. GRAY. Matters-that are local. from New Hampshire will explain why it is necessary. Mr. JONES of Arkansas. Matters that are local; but wlcy Mr. JONES oi Arkansas. Mr. President-- there could be any reason ior a committee inves.tigating the Mr. CALL. I hope the Senator .from Arkansas will allow me question of a change in the law to be sent ou.t to make the in- a moment, a.s an inquiry has been addressed to me. vestigation is absolutely beyond my .comprehension and imag- Mr. .JONES of Arkansas. Very well. ination. The-Senator iromFlm·ida has cited an instance in the .Mr. CALL. The Senator from .Rhode Island has :no right to argument he has justmade which perhaps might justeyit. -He assume nor to say that this resolution is intended-to enable the says the.re have been instances where committees have gon-e to committee to go to any watering _place. That is a pure assump- watering places to make ,such investigations. If such has been tion and imagination of his. I .remember, however, same y-ears the facti hope it will not occur again, :and I hope it will not ao-o when the Senator spent nearly a-whole-summer at a •water- occu1• -when this-Senate is in session, and I shall not be a parcy ui'o- place in .the investigation of proposed changes in the tariff_ to making it possible that any committee shall discharge any la;.., and I 1·emember many such occasionsJ one where the Com sort of duty in that way. mittee on Rules regaled ·themselves at a watering place for the The Senator lrom Florida makes some criticism of the fact pm·pose of determining what should be the rules of "the Senate, that the Committee to .Audit and Control the Contingent Ex­ and I remembe.r that the Committee on Contingent Expenses _penses of the Senate has r~orted favorably a proposition for l_ have at this session and within the last day or .two recommended the Committee .on Rules to sit in Washington in vacation. .that the Cammittee on Rules, of which I believe the Senator Mr. GALL. I beg the SenatorJs pardon. I did not say any- from Rhode Island ·is a member and has been for man_y _years, thing about that. Bhould be allowed to _sit during the recess, and a discretion given Mr. JONES of Arkansas. .Th~ resolution w.hich the Senator them as to where they should go or what they should do. from Florida introduee:dls in the following language: N.ow l will, answer the Senator's question. As to so_great an ; That the Committee on Patents have authority to sit during the re-cess of interest as that dependent upon the patent law_s, :which have .Congress and continue th.eir session during.said recess f.or the ~vestigation been of ~uch vast benefit to the civilization of the day but which ot I>T?POSed changes of the-patent laws and of au 'bills uoncernmg patents . · . ' · pendmg in Congress. levy a greater tr1bute upon the people of the U.n1ted States--to- T . ._ ...... day .than th-e Senator's pet tariff t;ystem does, before the com- here. IS no ObJeC~ to t~e ~ommittee havmg. all the - tim~ mittee undertake to recommend a radical cha~ge in the patent necessary to make thiS mvesti.,atwn, but th~ resolutiOn procee?s. laws which is demanded byexistina legislation shortening the Tosendfor-persons anKentucky [.Mr. BLACKBURN]~ the chairman of the than to plaee themselves in contact wifu ,the living thought of .Committee on Rules. That resolution•provided that" the·Com­ the people upon this -subject; and as a matter of economy itisfar mittee on Rules are authorized to sit during the coming vaca­ cheaper to go to those people than it ia to bring them here. tion." The Tesolution does .not limit the _place nor does it say, Theyconstitute thousands and tensof thousandso1 the70,.000,000 as does this resolution, "at any plac.e they ma-y see :fit." people in this country; th~ are to be found in New York, in · As one member .of the Committee on Rules,l desire to say Chicago, in Boston, and in the gr-eat centers-of manufacturing that I 13ee no necessity for that committe.e sitting anywhere ex­ industry; and it is ·the duty of this body, if they s_ympathiie cept here at-the Capitol. I do -not know that it everperformea with the progress of intellect and of - discove~y, and ;the subjec- .adutyelsewhere, butcertainlyunderiihis resolution there would tion of the mechanical forces to·the US€f8 of man-it iB :the duty be no13ession anywhere exc.eptin ,this city. of this body,ii they are up with the spiritof the_a.ge,:toseehow Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I .£tated a momen ago that tha best this inventive faculty can be encouraged and p~Gtected. resolution we reported authorizing the Committee on Rules to That is the object of this recommendation, unanimous!~ made sit during the vacation was an authorization to sit here, and I by the Committee on Patents, and not to go, as my friend has think the _provision was made that it should. I so understood done heretofore, to Bar .Harbor or some .other-J>leasant place. it. 1: have no objection to that. I-believe it is proper and right Mr. JONES of Arkansa-s. Mr. President, as a member of the that they shmild.:sitand makaanexaminationof our rules. We Committee to Audit and Control the ContingentEx_penses.of the reported that resolution favorably, and we .reported the other Senate, I agreed with the chairman in.an.adve.rsereport .on this ' adversely. resolution. I did so because I under-stood the propo13ition-was to Mr. MANDERSON. I think, unless some authority is given examine the patent law13. I do not know a better place ,to ex- in the resolution to sit elsew.here than at the Capitol, it would amine laws than in Washington City, wherethere i-s more .ready .be confined to the C.apitbl. access to all the laws that I imagine can be .fo.und anywhere Jn ' Mr. JONES of .Arkansas. l:ahould think -so. this ~ountry. ;r. can seeno .neceBBity for a committee bein_g au- ' Mr. HARRIS. Mr. President, as reference has been made-to thorized to have a stenographer and to-travel over the country , the fact -that the Committee on Rules many years ago met at a -~o find outwhatthe pa~ntlaws ar.:e . .lf-the_y oug~tto be changed I place other than the Ca__pitol, I simply .desire _to state this fact, 1t seems to me all that Is nece_ssary tp be·asceri'fl.lnedcan be done for I was then as now a member of that committee. A number in the committee room here as well a-s it can be.anywhere else o! years ago-! do not .remembe.r exactlY the date-w.hen th-e on the face of the earth. 1 honorable Senator from Maine [Mr. FRYE] was chairman of the I can understand when a matter '01 fact is to be found o.ut, when Committee on Rules, the committee undertook rto revise the rUle.s something not in the written laws of the land is .desired to be 1 of the Senate, and did revise them durino- the recess of Con­ known, that a .committee might I?e sent to. inves~igate the gress, a revision wbich is now in f~rce, -so0 -far as it was after­ facts. A co:nm1ttee was :Sent some trme ago to m:vestigate some war.:ds agreed -to by the Senate. The Senator from Florida re­ tr:oubles w?-lCh occurred at Pittsburg. I can understand why ferr.ed to the Senator from Rhode Jsland as a member of that :the CommLttee on Interstate Comme-rce might be .sent to inYes- committee. I do not think he-was at that time. tigate facts bearing upon certain questions which would come Mr. ALDRICH. I was n.ot.amember-of the committee at that "!fithin the jurisdiction o! that committee, so that itcould make tim~. 8564 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. AUGUST 16,

Mr. HARRIS. But I remember the fact that the Senator from to be entitled to the privileges of investigation and inquiry into Maine, then chairman of the committee, the committee being their ideas. authorized to sit during the recess of Congress, summoned me Mr. President, this will not do. Thisisagreatquestion. The as a member of the committee to a meeting at Bar Harbor, and patent. system is one upon which the pillars of civilizatien rest, I went there. But the Senator from Maine and myself, my rec­ and ought to be treated in reference to the character of the -peo­ ollection is, were the only members of the committee who met ple from whom these inventions and discoveries come. They there. I think I remained there a couple of days and returned are the poor people of the country, the engineers upon the loco­ to the capital. The revision of the rules was made here. That motives and the mechanics in the workshops; they are the peo­ is the whole story so far as Bar Harbor is concerned. ple whose ideas ought to be inquired into, and this committee Mr. CHANDLER. Mr. President, the Senator from Rhode should go where they are. Island alluded to me as the champion of this resolution. I dis­ Mr. President, how do these objections come from these two claim that title. He also asked me if I were a member of the gentlemen who compose this committee, opposing seven mem­ co·mmittee on Patents. I am not a member of the Committee bers of the Committee on Patents who have asked for this inves­ on Patents. I made two points in my brief remarks which caused tigation upon the request of all the Western States and many of the Senator from Rhode Island to again develop himself in this the Middle States? How much money has the Senator from Chamber. One was that the Government of the United States Arkansas expended in his tariff inquirlesi> Thousands and tens was not so poor that it could not pay the bills of this committee of thousands of dollars beyond the one or two thousand dollars if the Senate deemed it important that they should do the work which the Committee onPatentswould have expended in inves­ specified in the resplution. I still adhere to that opinion, and tigating this subject. Witness after witness has been sum­ I do not think any member of the Senate will dispute tlie truth moned, our corridors have been crowded, expense after expense of that proposition. has been incurred, and now the Senator gets up here and says Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. Will the Senator from New that this committee, charged with the revision of the entire Hampshire allow me to ask him a question? patent system and its revolution, shall not have one or two Mr. CHANDLER. Certainly. thousand dollars. Fresh from an inquiry in which the consum­ Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. Which side of this proposition ers of the whole country have been summoned to present their is the Senator on? views and opinions upon these different subjects, the Senator Mr. CHANDLER. I advocated the passage of the resolution, objects to this resolution. but I did not assume to be a champion of it. I would not have So in the tariff investigation which took place years a1JO, it said that a speech which I made in its behalf constituted me its was held at a convenient place. I do not object to it. I defend champion any more than I would say the Senator from Rhode it. lam not governed by these small ideas that to save a penny Island had championed a resolution simply because he made a and to lose a pound is wise policy. This is acountryof progress, speech in its behalf, because, instead of resulting in its passage, and it is a country where the people are to be considered, and it might, as it usually does when the Senator speaks, result in where we recognize the fact that from the brains of the poor, its defeat. {Laughter.] and not those of the rich, great ideas and inventions come. In answer to the Senator from Oregon, who interrupted me Mr. President, I have discharged my duty. I do not know when I reached my second point, I will make that point again that the committee would have found time or opportunity to and call it to his attention. All that I said in addition was that have gone to any place outside of the city of Washington. I the Senate ought to be able to trust its committee. I spoke am indifferent myself to the matter, but I believe that som!3· simply in behalf of the fair and reasonable treatment of a com­ thing is due to this committee, to the great system of patent mittee of this body. I do not know who constitute the mem­ law, to the inventors, and to public opinion, which complains of bership of that committee. I did not know at the time that the the crying monopolies of the patent system. . Senator from Florida was the chairman of the committee, al­ Mr. COCKRELL. Mr. President, the Senate will remember though I presume he is; but I simply said that when, in the that some years ago a very thorough investigation and inquiry orderly conduct of business in the Senate, a committee of the was made bv the Committee on Patents. Patent attorneys and body states that there is work before it, that there is proposed inventors from all over the country came here and made their legislation before Congress, and asks that it may have leave to arguments, and all that matter is in print. A very elaborate re­ sit in vacation and attend to that business, the Senate ought, port was pre:pared and made to the Senate, and discussed here. in common courtesy, unless it wishes to put a stigma of con­ What necess1ty can there be for the Committee on Patents go· demnation upon the committee, to grant the power a.I).d leave ing all over the country and examining this man who is an in­ it to the discretion of the committee to decide where it shall sit. ventor and that man who is an inventor? Forty thousand in­ Mr. President, if this committee can not be trusted to deter­ ventions every year are patented. Why hunt up forty thousand mine that this investigation ought to be made, let us blot the people throughout the length and breadth of the United States committee from our list of committees; if it can not be trusted and consult them as to what the patent laws ought to be? to stay where it ought to stay and go where it ought to go, and Mr. CALL. Have they not a right to be consulted? nowhere else in making the investigation, then let us strike it Mr. COCKRELL. What good would result from consulting from the list or committees. But in every case I have ever 40,000 claimants for patents scattered all over the United States known come before the Senate where a committee of this body who rely upon their attorneys for the transaction of their busi­ has deliberately decided that its duties require that it should ness? Every particle of information which is of any utility to make an investigation of this kind, the request never has been the Committee on Patents can be obtained inside of the corpo· refused. I simply say that we ought to accord to this commit­ rate limits of the District of Columbia. Ther~ is no occasion tee the same privileges and the same weight in this body as has for them to go elsewhere. heretofore been accorded to other committees. It is no discrimination against the Committe3 on Patents to Mr. CALL. Mr.President,theargumentof the Senatorfrom refuse to adopt this resolution. The Committee on Commerce Arkansas [Mr. JONES] very clearly shows, whatever may be the have had a similar resolution before the Committee to Audit vote of the Senate upon this resolution, the propriety and the and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, which has wisdom of it, and if he had addressed himself to the task of been reported adversely. showing this in his remarks, he could not have reached it more It is time for the Senate to call a halt upon these peripatetic clearly. committees going all over the country hunting up '£om, Dick, 'rhe Senator says that the resolution simply proposes to in­ and Harry to procure evidence, then presenting a report which vestigate changes in the existing patent laws, and all that it is never amountstoanything, wastingourcontingent-expensefuud, necessary to do is to read the laws. The opinions of the great and placing upon committees here the unpleasant duty of mak· body of people interested in the matter, their mind, and their ing contests before the representatives of another body as to intellect he considers to be nothing. whether such exnenses shall be allowed or not. The wishes of a g-reat body of people protesting against these I move to lay the resolution on the table. monopolies and asking for changes, and the desire of the com­ Mr. CALL. On that I ask for the yeas and nays. mittee not to make these changes without inquiry of those who The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on the motion of are directly interested in them and give them an opportunity of the Senator from Missouri to lay the pending resolution on the argument, the Senator from Arkansas does not appreciate. He table, on which the yeas and nays are demanded. does not regard the fact that the great body of the inventors of The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded this country are not literary people. He does not know that to call.the roll. · these great inventions come from the brains of the poor, of the Mr. BLANCHARD (when his name was called). I am paired energies and the manhood which live at the bottom of society. with the senior Senator from Michigan [Mr. McMILLAN]. No, they must use the mails, though they may scarcely ever have Mr. GEORGE (when his name was called). I am paired with written an essay or a treatise. Mechanics in the workshops of the Senator from Oregon [Mr. DOLPH]. If he were present I the country are not, in the opinion of the Senator from Arkansas, should vote ''nay." 1894.. -CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 8565

Mr. GIBSON (when his name was call~d). I am pair~d with MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. the junior Senator from Michigan [Mr. PATTON], and w1thhold A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. T. 0. my vote in his absence. TOWLES, its Ch~ef Clerk, announced thatthe House had agreed Mr. GRAY(when his name was called}. lam paired with the to the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing Senator from illinois [Mr. CULLOM]. votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the Mr. McLAURIN (when his name was called). I am paired bill (H. R. 7477) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in with the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. DIXON]. I transfer the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, and my pair to the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. IRBY], and for prior years, and for other purposes; insisted upon its dis­ vote ''yea." agreement to the amendments of the Senate numbered 127 and Mr. McPHERSON {when his name was called). I am paired 128 to the said bill and agreed to the further conference asked with the Senator from Vermont [Mr. MORRILL]. for by the Senate on .the disagreeing votes of the two Houses Mr. MILLS (when his name was called). I am paired with thereon, and had appointed Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Kentucky, the Senator from Maine [Mr. FRYE]. Mr. SAYERS, and Mr. CANNON of Illinois, managers at the con­ Mr. PASCO {when his name was called). I am paired for ference on the part of the House. to-day with the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. HAWLEY]. In The message also announced that the House had passed the his absence I withhold my vote. bill (S.1007) to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Mr. PUGH (when his name was called}. I am paired with Columbia to appoint a deputy coroner, and for other purposes. the senior Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. HOAR]. FREE SUGARS, ETC. Mr. SHOUP (when his name was called). I am paired with the senior Senator from California [Mr. WHITE]. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The unfinished business, being the Mr. SMITH (when his name was called). I am paired with bill (H. R. '79'71) to exempt from duty sugars, molasses, etc., is the junior Senator from Idaho [Mr. DuBOIS]. before the Senate. Mr. TURPIE (wh~n his name was called). I inquire whether Mr. ALDRICH, I send up an amendment which I intend to the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. DAVIS] has voted? offer to the pending bill, and I ask that it may be read for infor­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. He has not voted. mation, and printed. Mr. TURPIE. I withhold my vote, being paired with_the Mr. MANDERSON. Before the amendment is read, I beg senior Senator from Minnesota. leave to suggest that the unfinished business is not House bill The roll call was concluded. 7971, to exempt from duty sugars, etc., but the unfinished busi­ Mr. GEORGE. I will vote in order to make a quorum. I ness is the motion to refer the bill, after the second reading and vote'' nay." before it is placed upon the Calendar, to the Committee on Fi­ Mr. BUTLER (after having voted in the negative). I am nance. The unfinished business is the motion, and not the bill. paired with the SQnator from Pennsylvania [Mr. CAMERON]. Mr. ALDRICH. I'hat is right. I therefore withdraw my vote. Mr. GRAY. Tne oill has been read the second time. Mr. PASCO. I desire to announce that the Senator from The VICE-PRESIDENT. The pending question is upon the Indiana [Mr. VOORHEES] is paired with the Senato:r from Mon­ motion of the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. H.A.RRIS]. tana [Mr. POWER]. I make this announcement for the day. Mr. MANDERSON. That is the unfinished business. Mr. QUAY. I have a general pair with the Senator from The VICE-PRESIDENT. To refer the bill to the Committee Alabama [Mr. MORGAN], but in order to make a quorum I will on Finance. vote. I vote" nay." Mr. ALDRICH. I ask that the amendment which I have of­ Mr. DOLPH. I have agreed to pair with the junior Senator fered may be read for information. from Nebraska [Mr. ALLEN]. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The amendment proposed by the Mr. BLANCHARD. Under the terms of my pair I am per­ Senator from Rhode Island will be read for information. mitted to vote to make a quorum. I vote" nay." The SECRETARY. Amend House bill 7971 by adding as an ad­ Mr. MARTIN. I am paired generally with the junior Sen­ ditional section: ator from Minnesota [Mr. W ASHBURNl, but have reserved the SEc.-. That the act entitled "An act to reduce taxation. provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, right to vote to make a quorum. I vote" nay." repealed. . Mr. SMITH. I have authority from my pair to vote in order Mr. MANDERSON. I beg leave to send forward an amend­ to make a quorum. I vote ''nay." ment which I intend to propo~e to the bill when it is up for con­ The result was announced-yeas 20, nays 25; as follows: sideration. I ask that it may be read. YEAS-20. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read the amend­ ment intended to be proposed by the Senator from Nebraska. Aldrich, Camden, Higgins, Sherman, Berry, Cockrell, Hunton, Stewart, The SECRETARY. · At the end of the bill insert the following Blackburn, Coke, Jarvis, Vest, proviso: Brice, Gorman, Jones, Ark. Vilas, Provided, ·however, That until July 1, 1905, the provisions of the act entitled Ca.t'!ecy:, Harris, McLaurin, Walsh. "An act to reduce revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved October 1, 1890, authorizing the issue ot licenses to pro­ NAYS-25. auce sugar and tor the payment of a bounty to the producers ot sugartrom beets, sorghum, or sugar cane grown in the United States, or from maple Bate, Hansbrough, Murphy, Roach, sap produced within the United States. contained inparagraphs231,232,233, - Blanchard, Kyle, Palmer, Shoup, 234, 235, and 236 of said act, shall continue in full force and effect, and said Call, Lindsay, Petrer, Smith. sections or said act are hereby reenacted. Carey, Manderson, Perkins, White. Chandler, Martin, Pettigrew, Mr. MANDERSON. I also send forward an amendment which Gallinger, Mitchell, Oregon Platt, I intend to propose to the bill when it shall be up for consider­ Geor~e, Mitchell, Wis. Quay, ation. I ask that it may be printed and lie on the table. I do NOT VOTING-4.0. not care about its being read. - · · Allen, Faulkner, Jones, Nev. Proctor, The VICE-PRESIDENT. The amendments submitted by the Allison, Frye, Pugh, Senator from Nebraska will be printed and laid on the table. Butler, Gibson, ~~~1ian, Ransom, Mr. BERRY. Let the question be taken on themotiori. tore­ Cameron, Gordon, McPherson, Squire, Cull ow, Gray, Mills. Teller, fer. Daniel, Hale Morgan, Turpie, The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the Davis, Hawiey, Morrill, Voorhees, motion. of the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. HARRIS] to refer. Dixon, Hill, Pasco, Washburn, Dolph, Hoar, Patton, Wilson, Mr. QUAY. I ask that the motion of the Senator from Ten­ D~bois, Irby, Power, Wolcott. nessee be stated. My recollection of the motion is that it cov­ ered not only the pending bill, but the other three bills, one of So the Senate refused to lay the resolution on the.table. which places iron ore, another coal, and another barbed wire on The VICE-PRESIDENT. The hour of 2 o~clock having ar­ the free list. rived, the Chair lays before the Senate the unfinished business, Mr. HARRIS. My motion is to refer to the Committee on which will be stated. Finance the bill proposing to put sugars on the free list. I have The SECRETARY. A bill (H. R. 7971) to exempt from duty given notice .of a similar motion as to the other bills; indeed, in sugars, molasses, etc. the form in which· I first made the motion it was to refer the Mr. MANDERSON. Mr. President- four bills-- Mr. CALL. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate take a Mr. QUAY. That was my understanding. vote on agreeing to the resolution proposing an investigation Mr. HARRIS. But according to parliamentary usage the by the Committee on Patents. motion must be made in respect to each bill, and inasmuch as Mr. BERRY. I object. the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. BERRYlmade a motion with re­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. There is objection. I gard to the sugar bill, I apply my motion to ~hat bill at present. 8566 CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-SENATE. AUGUST 16,

The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the like to be informed> if anyone can tell met how he would vote if motion of the Senator from Tennessee to refer the bill to the present. Committee on Finance. Mr. ALDRICH. I will take the authority of saying that the Mr. BERRY. On that I ask for the yeas and nays. senior Senator from Massachusetts would vote "yea" if he 'vere The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded present. to call the roll. .Mrr PUGH. Then I will vote. I vote" yea." Mr. KYLE (when Mr. ALLEN'S name was called). I wish to Mr. QUAY (when his name was called). I have a general pair state that the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. ALLEN] is paired on with the Senator from Alabama [Mr. MORGAN1 but I a.m in­ this question with the Senator from Oregon [Mr. DOLPH]. formed that upon this question he would vote "yea," and I will Mr. BERRY (when his name was called). I have a general therefo-re vote. I vote '' yea." pair with the Senator from Colorado [Mr. TELLER), bu~ on the Mr. RANSOM (when his name was called). I am paired with question of free sugar the Senator from Colorado and 1 agree. the Senator from Maine [Mr. HALE]. If he were here he would I therefore vote '' nay.' vote '' yea" and I should vote ''nay." Mr. BLANCHARD (when his name was called). I have a Mr. SMITH (when his name was called). I am paired with pair with the senior Senator from Michigan [Mr. MCMILLAN}. t.he juni.or Senator from Idaho [Mr. DUBOIS]. If he were pres­ I understand that if he were present he would vote "yea." I ent he would vote" nay" and I should vote "yea." am therefore entitled to vote, as he would vote the same way. The roll call was concluded. I vot-e '' yea." Mr. CALL. I am paired with the Senator from Vermont [Mr. Mr. BUTLER (when his name was called). I have a general PROCTOR]. pair with the senior Senator from Pennsylvania(Mr,CAMERON]. Mr. DAVIS (after having voted in the affirmative). I am I am informed by his colleague [Mr. QUAY] that the senior Sen­ paired with the Senator from Indiana. [:Mr. TuRPIE], and with· ator from Pennsylvania would vote " yea" on this proposition, draw my vote. and I will therefore vote. I vot~ "yea." Mr. RANSOM. I suggest to the Senator from Minnesota that Mr. QUAY (when Mr. CAMERON's name was called). I d~sire we transfer our pairs, so that we may both vote, if that is agree­ to announce that on this question my colleague [Mr. CA~ON] able to the Senator from Minnesota. Then the Senator from is paired with the Senator from Oregon [Mr. MITCHELLJ. If Maine [Mr. HALE), with whom I am paired, will stand paired my colleague were present he would vote " yea." witb the Senator from Indiana [Mr. TURPIE], with whom the Mr. PALMER. I rise to inquire as to the state of the ques­ Senator from Minnesota [Mr. DAVIS] is paired. tion. Mr. DAVIS. All right. Mr. ALDRICH. That is not in order. Mr. RANSOM. I vote" nay." Mr. PALMER. I supposed a parliamentary inquiry was al­ Mr. DAVIS. I vote "yea." ways in order. Theresultwasannatmced-yeas 32, nays 17; as follows; Mr. ALDRICH. Nothing in the nature of debate is in order during a roll call. YEAS-3:?. Mr. PALMER. I rose to inquire whether this particula1• mo­ AldJticb, Cullom, Higgins, Pettigrew, tion supersedes the amendment offered by the Senator from Ar­ Allison, Davis, Jone.s, Ark. Platt, Blancba1·d, Faulkner, Kyle. Pugh, kansas [Mr. JONES] yesterday? Brice, Galllnger, Manderson. Quay, Mr. HARRIS. Necessarily. Butler, Gibson, Murphy, · Roach, The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the Caffery, Gorman, Patton, Sherman, to Camden, Hansbrough. Perter, Shoup, motion of the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. HARRis} refer the Chandler, Perkins, pending bill to the Committee on Finance. Harris. Stewart. Mr. PALMER. The pending bill and the amendments pro- NAYS-17. posed by the Senator from Arkansas and other Senators? Bate, George, McLaurin. Vilas, Mr. MILLS. The amendments go with the bill. Berry, Gray, Mitchell, Wis. White. Blaekburn, Hunton Palmer, Mr. MANDERSON. All the amendments go with the bill. Cockrell, Jarvis, ' Ra-nsom, Mr. HARRIS. All amendments will necessarily accompany Coke, Lindsay, Vest, the bill. NOT VOTING-36. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Secretary will proceed with Allen, Gordon, McPherson, Smith. the roll call. . Call, Hale, Ma.rtin, Squire. The Secretary resumed the call of the roll. Cameron, Hawley, Mills, Teller, Mr. DOLPH (when his name was c a.ll e d) • T he announcement Carey,Daniel, Hoar,Hill, Morgan,Mitchell, Oregon voorhees,Turpie, has already been made that on this vote I am paired with the Dixon, Irby, Morrlll, Walsh, junior Senator from Nebraska [Mr. ALLW]. Dolph, Jones, Nev. Pasco, Washburn, M r. HILL (w h en his name was c all e d) . I h ave a general pa1r· Frye,Dubois , Lodge,McMillan, Proctor,Power, Wolcott.Wilson, with the junior Senator from Ma.ssacnusetts [Mr. LODGE]. I should like to inquire of the other side how he would vote on So the bill was referred to the Committee on Finance. this question? Mr. BLANCHARD. I wish to inquire whether the amend- Mr. ALDRICH. The junior Senator from Massachusettsun- ments which have been offered will be referred with the bill to doubtedly would vote "yea" if he were present. the Committee on Finance. Mr. HILL. I should vote "nay" if he were here. I there- I The VICE-PRESIDENT. They ~ill be so refe~·red. fore withhold my vote. Mr. BLANCHARD. I merely wished to have 1t understood. Mr. McLAURIN (when his name was called). I transfer my I Mr. HARRIS. Necessarily the amendments which have been pair with the junior Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. DIXON] to read at the desk will go with the bill. tlie junior Senator from South'Carolina [Mr. IRBY], and vote The VICE-PRESID-ENT. The amendments will be referred "nay." . ' to the Committee on Finance in connection with the bill. Mr. McPHERSON (when his name was called). I am paired FREE COAL AND COKE. witll the Senator from Vermont [Mr. MORRIIiL]. -I do not know how ho woula vote, and therefore withhold my vote. If he were Mr. HARRIS. I move that the bill (H. R. 7968) to place upon present I should vote" nay." the free list bituminous coal, shale, slack, and coke, be referred Mr. MARTiN (when his name wa-s called). I have a general to the Committee on Finance. pair with the junior Senator from Minnesota [MP. WASHBURN], The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the who is not present. I do not know how he would vote, and there- motion of the Senator from Tennessee to refer the pending bill fore withhold my vote. to the Committee on Finance. Mr. MILLS (when his name was called). I am paired with Mr. MILLS. Let us have the yeas and nays on the question. the Senator from Maine [Mr. FRYE}. If he were here I should The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded vote" nay." to call the roll. Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon (when his name was called). On Mr. KYLE (when Mr. ALLEN'S name was called). I under- this question I am paired with the senior Senator from Penn- stand that the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. ALLEN] is paired sylvania [Mr. CAMERON], If he were here I should vote "nay " on this question with the Senator from Oregon [Mr. DOLPH]. and he would vote" yea." Mr. BERRY (when his name was called). I have a general Mr. PASCO (when his name was called}. I am paired with pair with the Senator from Colorado [Mr. TELLER]. If he were the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. HAWLEY]. If he were pres- present I should vote "nay.:' ent I should vote "nay." and I am told by his colleague that he Mr. BLANCHARD (when his name was called). I am paired would vote ''yea." , with the senior Senator from Michigan [Mr. McMILLAN]. I Mr. PUGH (when his name was called). I have a genelfl.l understand that if he were present he would vote "yea, ' and I pair with the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. HOAR]. I should will therefore vote. I vote" yea."

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Mr. CALL {when his name was called). I am paired with the I the junior Senator from South_Carolina [Mr. lRBY], and vote Senator from Vermont [Mr. PROCTOR]. - "nay." Mr. DAVIS (when his name was called). I am paired with Mr.-McPHERSON (when his name was called). • I am paired - the Senator fr('lm Indiana [Mr. TURPIE]. The Senator from with the Senator from Vermont [Mr. MORRILL]. If he were North Carolina [Mr. RANSOM] is paired with the Senator from present I should vote 't nay." Maine [Mr. HALE]. Our pairs have been transferred, so that Mr. MARTIN (when his name was called). I am paired with the Senator from Maine [Mr. HALE] stands paired with the the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. WASHBURN}. I do not know Senator from Indiana [Mr. TURPIE]andi will vote. I ~ote ''yea." how he would vote on this measure, and I therefore decline to Mr. HILL (when his name was called). I am paired with the vote. junior Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. LODGE]. If he were Mr. MILLS (when his name was called). I am paired with present he would vote "yea" and I should vote "nay/' the Senatodrom Maine [Mr. FRYE1. If he were present I should Mr. McLAURIN (when his name was called). I transfer my vote "nay.~' pair with the junior Senator Irom Rhode Island [l\1r. DIXON] to Mr. RANSOM (when his name was called). I am paired with the Senator from South Carolina [Mr.1RBY] and vote "nay." the Senator from Maine [M-r. HALE]. If he were present he Mr. McPHERSON (when his name was called). I am paired would vote "yea" and I should vote" nay." with the Senator from Vermont [Mr. MORRILL]. If he were The roll call was concluded. present I should vote "nay." :hfr. PLATT. Upon this vote and all the votes upon these Mr. MILLS (when his name was called}. I am paired with bills my colleagu-e [Mr. HAWLEY] is paired with the Senator the Senator from Maine [Mr. FRYE]. If he were present I from Florida [Mr. PASco]. If my colleague were present he should vote '' nav ~' and he would vote ''yea." would vote j ~ yea.. tt • _ Mr. PASCO {when his name was called}. I again announce Mr. BLANCJJARD. I am paired with the _senior Senator my pair with the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. HAWLEY]. from Michigan [Mr. McM1LLAN], but the fact that he would vote Mr. RANSOM (when his name was called}. I am paired w~th the same way I would releases me, and I vote" yea." the Senator from Maine [Mr. HALEJ. The Senator from Min- The result was announced-yeas 37, nays 17; as follows: nesota [Mr. DAVISl is paired with the Senator from Indiana YEAs-37 [Mr. TURPIE]. We have transferred our pairs. I vote "nay." Aldrich, Davis, Kyle. Quay, Mr. SMITH (when his name was called}. I am informed by Allison, Faulkner, Manderson. Roach, the senior Senatorfrom Ida_ho [Mr. SHOUP] that if his colleague Blanchard, Gallinger, Mitchell, Oregon Sherm-an, Snoup; [Mr. DUBOIS], with whom I am paired, were here he would vote :~t~~r . g~~~~. ~~· Smith, in the affirmative. I will therefore vote. I vote '-'yea.,., Ca.trery, Hansbrough, Pefiel!', Stewart, The roil call was concluded. . Camden, Harris, Perkins, Walsh. Mr. BERRY. r transfesr my pair wi thNthbre Senat[oMr froAm Colo]- g~:ciwr. ~~k. ~~i~ew, rado [Mr. TELLER1_ to the enator from e as1 m r. LLEN , Cullom, Jon-es, Nev_ Pugh, who is paired with the Senato-r from Oregon [Mr. DOLPH], so NAYS--l7. that the Senator from Oregon and I can vote. I vote" nay.'1' Bate, George, McLa.tu"in, Vila.sr Mr. DOLPH. I vote "yea." Berry, Gray, Mitchell, Wis. White. Mr. BUTLER. I have a general pair with the Senator from Blackburn, Hunton, Palmer, Pennsylvania· [Mr. CAMERON]. May I mqmre· · of the jumor· CoekrellColre, • JLindsay, arvi:s~ Turpie,Vest, Senator Irom Pennsylvania [Mr. QUAY} how his. colleague would NOT VOTING-at. vote on this proposition? Anen, Gordon, McPheroon, Ransom, :Mr. QUAY. If my colleague were present he would vote Call, Hale-, Martin. $quire, "yea" on all these motions to refer. ~~on, ~-t?,e:y, Teller. :rus· Voorhees, Mr. BUTLER. Then I will vote. I vote "yea.' Db.~,' Hoar, Mg~ - Washburn, ; I Tbe result was announced-yeas 35, nays 17; as follows: Dolph, Irby~ Pasco, vVilson., Dubois, Lodge, Powe~. Wolcot.u. YEAS45. Frye, McMillan, Proctor, Aldl'ich, Dolph, Jones, Nev. Pllltt, So the bill was referred to tlie Committee on Finance. Allison, Faulkner, Kyle. Pugh, Blanchard, Gallinger, · Mlmders..on. Quay. I FREE BARBED FENCING WIRE. Brice,. Gibson, Mitchell, oregon Roach. Butler, Gorman, Murphy, Sherman, i Mr. HARRIS. I move that the bill (H. R. 7970) to place upon Caffery. Hansbrough, Patton, Shoup, 1 the free list barbed fencing wire and wire rods for the miim- Chandler, Harris, Peffer, Smith Cullom. Higgins, Perkins. ste-wart. facture of the same be refe-rred to the Committee on Finance. Davis, Jones, Ark. Pettigrew, 1 The motion was agreed to. ~ NAY&-17. CONSIDERATION OF PRIVATE PENSION BILLS, ETC. Bate, George, McLa.Ul':in. Vilas, Mr. SHERMAN. I ask the unanimoos consent of the Senate Berry, Gray, Mitchell, Wis. White. to: dispose of a. few pension bills on the Calendar repo:r:ted favor­ Blackburn, Hunton. Palmer, ably from the Committee on Pensions, mostly House bills. It Cockrell, Jarvis, Ransom, Coke, Lindsay, Vesli, will take but a few minutes. - Mr. COCKRELL. I suggest that we first dis!}~se of the House NOT VOTING-33. pension bills favorably reported. . Allen, Gordon, Martin, Turpie, Mr. SHERMAN. I should like to have the pension bills and Cali, Hale, Mills, Voorhees, Camden, Rawley, Morgan, Walsh, also the bills correcting the military records of soldiers dis---- Cameron, Hill, Morrill, Washburn, posed of. _ Carey, Hoar, Pasco, wns.on, Mr. PALMER. The Senator from Ohio has made a reques-t Daniel, Irby, Power, Wolcott. Dixon, Lodge, Proctor, that a brief time be devoted to the consideration of bills reported Dubois, McMillan. Squire, by the Pension Committee and the Committee on Military Af- Frye, McPherson. Tell~r, fairs? _ So the bill was referred to the· Committee on Finance. ~· Mr. SHERMAN. Yes, pe-nsion bills and bills from the Com.. mittee on Military Affairs to correct military records o1 soldiers. FREE IRON ORE. There are only a few of them, and it will take but a short time. 1\1r. HARRIS. I move that the bill (H. R. 7969) to place upon Mr. PALMER. I desire to have the b-ills correcting military the free list all ores of iron be referred to the Committee on Fi- records included in the application. nance. • The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the I""equestof Mr. MILLS. On that I ask for the yeas and nays. the Senator from Ohio? The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded Mr. GALLINGER. Before consent isgiven I want to include to call the roll. a bill that has passed the House of Representatives and willnot Mr. BERRY (when his name was called). I transfer my pair properly come under the order. It is House bill 729-!req_uiring with the Senator from Colorado [Mr. TELLER] to the Senator fourth-class postmasters to administer oaths to pensioners. It from Nebraska [Mr. Al:J..EN], and I vote" nay." is in the line of pension legislation and is favorably repol'te-d Mr. CALL (when his name was called}. I am paired with the from the Committee on Pensions. · Senator from Vermont [Mr. PROCTOR]. Mr. SHERMAN. There is no objection to including that hili. Mr. HILL (when his name was called}. I am paired with the Mr. COCKRELL.. r What is the order of business? junior Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. LoDGEJ. If he were Mr. GALLl"-NGER. It is Ord'er of Business 656. The Com­ present he would vote" yea» and I should vote." nay." missioner of Pensions recommends, the bill. Mr. McLAURIN (when his name was called}~ I tra.nsier my _The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is- there. 0bjection?- The Chair , pajr- with the junior Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. DIXON] to hears none. The :first bill under the order will be announced. - 8568 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. AUGUST 16,

SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. of the Whole. It provides t-hat hereafter, in addition to theof­ ; Mr. GORMAN. Before the order is proceeded with, I desire :ficers now authorized to administer oaths in such cases, fourth­ to occupy the attention of the Senate for a few moments. class postmasters of the United S~ates are hereby required em­ Yesterday the senior Senator from Missouri [Mr. COCKRELL] po~ered, · and authorized to administer any and all oath~ re- - submitted the conference report on the sundry civil appropria­ qlllred to be made by pensioners and their witnesses in the ex­ tion bill. That report was signed by the Senator from Missouri ecution of their vouchers with like effect and force as officers [Mr. CocKRELL] and the Senator from Iowa[Mr. ALLISON] and having a seal; and such postmaster shall affix the stamp of his myself as the conferees on the part of the Senate. Among other office to his signature to such vouchers, and he is authorized to provisions in the bill was one ingrafted on it by the vote of the charge and receive for each voucher not exceeding 25 cents to Senate and the House of Representatives, donating to several be paid by the pensioner. ' States a million acres each of arid land and making provision ~r. VEST. I should like to make an inquiry. How woul

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or- The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or- dered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. dered to a third reading, raad the third time, and passed. MARLIN PARKS. , MRS. MARY A. MENEFEE. The bill (H. R. 562) for the relief of Marlin Parks was consid­ The bill (H. R. 6103)for the relief of Mrs. Mary A. Menefee ered as in Committee of the Whole. It directs the Secretary of was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to­ War to revoke the order of dismissal of Marlin Parks, late first restore to the pension roll the name of Mrs. Mary A. Menefee, lieutenant Company B, Eleventh West Virginia Volunteers, widow of Richard Menefee, captain Company E, Eighth Regi­ and issue to him an honorable discharge from the service of the ment Missouri State Militia Cavalry, in the late war, as well as United States, to date the 18th day of November, 1864. a private in Company K, Extra Battalion Missouri Volunteers,. Mr. PASCO. There is an amendment reported by the com­ in war with Mexico, and to allow her apensionof $8 per month. mittee, but further investigation showed that the name was The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or­ properly printed in the bill and in the title. So the amendment dered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. is withdrawn. PAULINE J. SMITH. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or­ The bill (H. R. 6361) to grant a pension to Pauline J. Smith · dered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to­ MARGARET A. WOODS. place on the pension roll the name of Pauline J. Smith, per­ The bill (H. R. 6050) to pension Margaret A. Woods, widow manently helpless daughter of Lewis C. Smith, late a private of William W. Woods, late of Company E, Sixteenth Illinois of Co~pany G, Eighty-fifth Illinois Volunteers, and to pay her Volunteer Infantry! was considered as in Committee of the a penswn of $12 per month. Whole. It proposes to place on the pension rolls the name of The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or­ Margaret A. Woods, widow of William W. Woods, late a mem­ dered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. ber of Company E, Sixteenth Illinois .Volunteer rnfantry, bu~ DRUZILLA J. RIGG. in the event the soldier is found to be alive this pension shall Mr. PALMER. The next bill on the Calendar is not fairly cease. within the agreement. It provides for the payment of a pension The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or­ to the legal representatives of a soldier. I ask for its present dered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. consideration, but did not feel that I was authorized to do so JOHN P. BIEHN. under the general arrangement without calling attention to it. The bill (S. 501) granting a pension to John P. Biehn was con­ By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the sidered as in Committee of the whole. It proposes to place on Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (H. R. 4290) for the relief the pension roll the name of John P. Biehn. of Druzilla J. Rigg, of Macomb, Ill. It proposes to pay to Dru­ The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or­ zilla J. Rigg, of Macomb, Ill., who is the daughter and only heir dered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, of James Depoy (who was second lieutenant in Company A in and passed. the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Ohio Infantry in the war of tke MRS. AE BY JANE WARD. rebellion, to whom pension certificate numbered 158723 was is­ sued, and who died previous to the receipt by him of said cer­ The bill (S.1996) grantiog a pension to Mrs. Abby Jane Ward tificate), the amount due upon that certificate at the time of the was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to death of James Depoy. place on the pension roll the name of Abby Jane Ward, widow The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or­ 9f James M. Ward, late of Company E, Sixty-third Ohio Vol­ dered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. unteers. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or­ JESSE DAVENPORT. dered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, The bill (H. R. 898) granting a pension to Jesse Davenport, of and passed. Company A, Second Regiment Oregon Mounted Volunteers, in GEORGE C. ABBEY. Oregon Indian wars of 1855 and 1856, was considered as in Com­ The bill (S. 890) granting an increase of pension t-o George C. mittee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension roll Abbey was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It pro­ the name of Jesse Davenport, of Roseburg, Oregon, and late of poses to increase the pension of George C. Abbey, late a private Company A, commanded by Capt. Edward Sheffield, Second of Company M, of the First Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artil­ Regiment Oregon Mounted Volunteers, commanded by Col. lery, to $30 per month. John Kelsay, in the Oregon Indian wars of 1855 and 1856, and to The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, pay him a pension of $12 per month. ordered to be engroesed for a third reading, read the third The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or­ time, and passed. dered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. RUSSEL N. REYNOLDS. CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS AT MERIDIAN, MISS. The bill (S.l383) granting a pension to Russel N. Reynolds Mr. VEST. I am instructed ·by the Committee on Public was considered as in Committee of tlre Whole. Buildings and Grounds, to whom was referred the joint resolu­ The bill was reported from the Committee on Pensions with tion (S. R. 102) authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to an amendment, in line 7, after the word " infantry," to insert provide rooms for the accommodation of the United States cir­ "at the rate of $20 per month;" so as to make the bill read: cuit and district courts and their officers at Meridian, Miss., to Be it enacte·d, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, a.nd he is hereby report it favorably and without amendment. I ask unanimous authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the pro~ visions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Russel N. Rey­ consent for its present consideration. _ nolds, late Company E, One hundred and thirtieth Regiment Ohio Volun­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the pres- • teer Infantry, at the rate of $20 per month. ent consideration of the joint resolution? The amendment was agreed to. Mr. QUAY. I move that the Senate proceed to the consider- The bill was report,ed to the ~enate as amended, and the ation of executive business. · amendment was concurred in. Mr. BERRY. I hope the Senator from Pennsylvania will The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read allow us to pass a few bills and not make that motion now. the third time, and passed. There are several private bills which should be passed. WiLLIAM T. WALKER. Mr. VEST. I did not hear the motion of the Senator from Pennsylvania. The bill (8.1970) granting an increase of pension to William Mr.QUAY. I have moved that the Senateproceed tothecon­ T. Walker was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It sideration of executive business. proposes to place on the pension roll the name of William T. Mr. VILAS. I hope the Senator will not insist on that mo­ Walker, late of Company H, Thir~enthRegimentindiana Cav­ tion for a few moments, until we dispose of a number of small alry, at $25 per month, in lieu of the pension he is now receiv­ bills on the Calendar. ing. Mr. BERRY. There area number ofsmall billswhichshould T.he bill was reported to the Senate without amendment or­ be disposed of. dered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third tlme, Mr. QUAY. I withdraw the motion, and give notice that! and passed. shall renew it at half past 3 o'clock. ADALINE J. PROPS. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is withdrawn. Is The bill (H. R. 6228) granting a pension to Adaline J. Props there objection to the present consideration of the joint resolu­ was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to tion reported by the Senator from Missouri [Mr. VEST]? place upon the pension roll the name of Adaline J. Props, widow There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the of Lewis C. Props, a soldier in the Southern or Sabine war of Whole, proceeded to consider the joint resolution. 1536,' and to allow her a pension of $8 per month. The joint resolution was reported to the Senate without 8570 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. AUGUST 16,

amendment, ordared to be engrossed for a third reading, read "three thousand" and insert" fifteen hundred;;' so as to make the third time, and passed. the bill read: . LEE. Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, HENRY W authorized and directed to pay.!_ont of any money in the Treasury not other• Mr. VILAS. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate take wise appropriated, the sum of ~U.500 to Thomas Williams. who was injured while in the discharge ot his duties as an employe of the Senate folding up the bill (H. R. 5363) for the relief of Henry W . L ee. roomin theyear1892. Mr. VEST. From what committee is that bill reported? The amendment was agreed to. Mr. VIL.AS. It is reported from the Committee on Indian The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the Affairs, an.d was passed by the Senate in the last Congress. It amendment was concurred in. has been very carefully and elaborately considered. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read Ml'. COCKRELL. What is the object oi the bill? I have the third time, and passed. not a copy o:f it before me; it was only reported yesterday, and we have had no chance to examine it. . , MILITARY TELEGRAPH OPERATORS. Mr. VILAS. I can state to the Senator from Missouri in ope Mr. MANDERSON. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate moment the object of the bill. Henry W. Lee served the Wm- now consider the bill (S. 1009) for the relief o:f telegraph opera­ nebago Indians for years astheirattorney, without having made tors during the war of the rebellion, which has been reported in the formal manner required by law a contra~t for the pur- from the Committee on. Military Affairs, and to which, I think, pose, approved by the Secretary of the .f?terior. F~r that rea- there will be no objection. son he can not be paid, althaugh the Indums are wilhng- that he Mr. COCKRELL. That bill will lead to discussion unless it should be, and the bill stipulates that the amount of ¥s com- is a different bill from what I think it is. pensation shall be settled by the Secretary of the Interwr, and Mr. MANDERSON. It is a very different bill from what the only be paid upon the consent of the Indi&ns to pay it out of Senator from Missouri thinks, because this bill gives no recog­ their money. nition in the way of discharge. It is a bill that I think the By unanimous consent , the Senate, as in Committee of the Senator from Missouri himself agreed to, and which is a sub­ Whole proceeded to consider the bill. It directs the Secretary stitute for the bill that he thinks would lead to discussion. I o:f the Interior to inquire into and determinewhatserviceswere ask that the substitute may be read. I think the Senator from rendered by Henry W. Lee, now o! Stevens Point, in the State Missouri will agree that it is correct. of Wisconsin., to the Winnebago Indians~ or to any bands o~ Mr. COCKRELL. It is a bill going back and recognizing families thereof; whether such services were renderad at the civilians who were connected with the Army during the war request oi or under any agreement with or acceptance o! such serving as civilians at from $75 to $100 a month, and they want Indians; whether such sel'"vices were of u.tilitya.nd value to such tocomeinand beplacedonanequality in some shape or form with Indians and deserving of compensation, and t-o fix upon the soldiers. You might just as well bring the teamsters and every proper measure of their value, not exceeding $10,000 and over other class of persons who never were near where the Army and above any sums which may have ~en paid on .ac.co~t marched, as to bring the telegraph operators in, unless the bill thereof; and if the Secretary shalldeter~me that the said Le?lB is guarded as we once guarded it. justly and equitably entitled to any such sum or compensation Mr. MANDERSON. That is exactly what it is. as he shall so fix, then to deduct the same from the accounts to 1 l\1r. COCKRELL. I want a little more time to look into it. be paid ~nd distributed to the stray bands of Winne?agoes in , It will not hurt to give me a little time to examine it. Wisconsm, or to such of them as he shall find were JUStly an- Mr. MANDERSON. If the bill were of the character the Sen­ swerable, in such yearly installments or portions as he shall ator from Missouri thinks it is, certainly I should not favor it. think :tit, and to pay the same to said Lee) in full discharge of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the pres­ all his claims, notwithstanding that aformal contract was never ent consideration of the bill? made in accordance with the statuteineuch cases made and pro- Mr. MANDERSON. Let it be read. vided: but said stray bands, or a. majority of the heads of fami- Mr. COCKRELL. I must object, unless it can go over by lies thereof, sha.ll giv& their consent to such payment in such unanimous consent until I examine it. I have a right to do so. manner as the Secretary shall direct. I have been so occupied with the business of the Committee on The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or- Appropriations that I have not been able to attend the meet- de red to a third read.ing, read the third timet and passed. inas of the Committee on Military Affairs. UNI.TED STATES COURT IN LITTLE ROCK, ARK. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection being made, the bill will be passed over. Mr. BERRY. I ask '!Jnanimous consent for the present con- Mr. COCKRELL subsequently said: I have examined the bill sideration of the bill {S. 2293) for the improvement of the build- towhlc.h the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. MANDERSON] referred, ings and grounds ol the United States court and post-office at and wi.th one or two words added, which I shall move, and Little Rock, Ark. which he will doubtless accept, Ihavenoobjection to it. !twill There being no objection1 the Senate, as in Committee of the then be exactly what the Committee on Military Affairs have Whole, proceeded to consider _the bill. heretofore reported. · The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or, Mr. MANDERSON. I now ask that the bill may be consid- dered te be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, ered. and passed. There being no objection~ the Senate, as in Committee of the GUNBOATS CONCORD AND BENNINGTON. Whole, proceeded to consider the bill {S.1009) for the relief of telegraph operators during the war of the rebellion. Mr. HILL.. I ask unanimous consent for the present consid- The bill was reported· from the Committee on Military Affairs eration of the bill {S. 967) to remit the penalties on gunboat with an amendment to strike out all after the enacting clause • numbered 3, the Concord, and gunboat numbrred 4, the Ben- and insert:

nington. . 'h-i. • h Se t · C 'tt f th That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to prepare a . There bemg no o..;J'ectl.on, t e na e, as m omm1 ee 0 e roll of all persons who served in the operation of military telegraph lines Whole, proceeded to considered the bill. It requires the Sec- during the late civil war, and to issue to each, upon application, unless it retary oi the Navy to remit toN. F. Palmer, jr..., & Co., of appearsthathisservicewasnotcreditablyperformed,ortotherepresenta.- · th · lti t d b th N D art- tives of those who are dead, suitable certificates of honorable service in the NewYork City, etimepena esexac e 'Y e avy ep milita.rytelegraphcorpsoftheArmyoftheUnitedStates.stattngtheserv- ment under the contracts with that compa.ny for the construe- ice rendered, the length of such service, and the dates, as near as may be, tion of gunboat numbered a., known as the Concord, and gun- between which such service was performed: Provided, That this law shall boat numbered 4, known as the Bennington, the United States not be constl'Ued to entitle the persons herein mentioned to any pay or tights not herein specifically provided f01·. having suffered no damage by the delay in their construction. Mr. COCKRELL. In line , after the word "pay," I move The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or- 13 . d the third t' to insert "pension, bounty." d ered to be engrossed f or a thir d read mg, rea 1.me, Mr. MANDERSON. That is right. The bill means that, but and passed. . . THOMAS WILLIAMS. it will do no harm to make it a little more bmdmg. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment to the amend- Mr. MITCHELL of Oregon. I ask the Senate to proceed to ment will be stated. the consideration of the bill (S.1571) for the relief of Thomas The SECRETARY. After the word "pay," atthe end of line Williams, an employe of the Senate folding room for injuries 13, it is proposed to insert "pension, bounty;" so to read: received while in the discharge of his duties in the year 1892. Provided, That this law shall not be construed to entitle the persons There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the herein mentioned to a.ny pa.y,penstonr bounty, or ·rights not herein specific· Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. allY provided for. The bill was reported from the Commi.tte.e on Claims with an The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. amendment, in line 5J after the words" sum a~," to strike out The amendment as amended waa agreed to. ,...

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The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the PROVIDING LAND SUBDIVISIONS IN THE DISTRICT. amendment was concurred in. Mr. GALLINGER. I ask unanimous consent for the present The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 1-ead consideration of thebill {S.1005)topreventtherecord~gof sub­ the third time, and passed. divisions of land in the District of Columbia in. the office of the HENRY J. HEWITT. Recorder of Deeds. Mr. COCKRELL. I ask unanimous consent for the present Mr. QUAY. I give way to the Senator fromNew Hampshire, consideration of the bill (S.l274) for the relief of Henry J. Hew­ but I give notice that at half past 3 o'clock I shall renew my itt. motion for an executive ses3ion.• The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the pres­ Mr. CULLOM. I hope the Senator from Pennsylvania will ent consideration of the bill'? allow my colleague and myself tocall up a bridge bill which will Mr. MANDERSON. I shall not object to the consideration of take no time. that bill, but I should like to know why at this late day it is Mr. GORMAN. I have no objection to the bill of the Senator necessary to pass a bill of that characteri> from New Hampshire being read, but I object to the considera­ Mr. COCKRELL. Let the report. be read. tion of imoortant bills in a thin Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The report will be read. Mr. PALMER. I have been addressing the Chair quite fre­ The Secretary read the following report, submitted by Mr. quently from a conspicuous place, and I find the Senator from PEFFERJuly 11, 1894: - Pennsylvania [Mr. QUAY]~ the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. GALLINGER], and the Senator from Maryland (Mr~ GOR· , The Committee on Claims, having had under consideration the hill (S. 1274) MAN] now get the better of me. for the relief of Henry J. Hewitt, respectfully report as follows: The facts in the case are set out in House .Report No. 268, Fifty-first Con­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator fromNewHamp­ gress, first session, when the Committee on War Claims repo1·ted favorably. shire asks unanimous consent for the considerati(}n of tha. bill That report was adopted as part of the report of the Committee on War indicated by him, which will be read for information. Claims of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-second Congres-s (see House Report No. 2157 Fifty-second Congress,. second session), and again by The Secretary read the bill. the same committee of the Fifty-third Congress, second session (see House EXECUTIVE SESSLON. Report No. 576) , all of which are hereto attached and made part of this re­ port. Mr. GORMAN. I move that the Senat-e proceed to the con­ You committee will add that there appears t-o be an equity in this case sideration of executive business. arising out of laches for which the claimant was r..ot responsible. He ap­ pears to have acted in good fai'Gh, and in view of the facts in relation to the. The motion was agreed to;. and the Senate proceeded to the status of the claimant and the nse to Which at least part of his property was consideration of executive business. After fifteen minutes spent applied, the committee see no reason why he should not have an opportunity in executive session the doors were reopened, and (at 3 o'clock and to present his case to the p:roper officers tor investigation and report. 45 minutes p.m.)' the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Fri­ Your committee therefore recommend the passage of the bill. day, August 17, 1894, at 12 o'clock m.

[House Report No. 57&, Fifty-third Congress, second session.l NOMINATIONS. The Committee· on War Claims, to whom was reterred the bill (H. R. 3337) for the relief of Henry J. Hewitt, submit the following: Executive nominations received by the Senate August 16, 189./j. This claim was presented 1n the Fifty-second Congress, and was favorably reported upon by the House Committee on War Claims, to whom it was re­ ASSAYER OF MINT AT NEW ORLEANS. ferred. Armand M. Delava.llade, of Louisiana, to be assayer of the Aftei" a careful investigation of the facts involved,. your committee adopt the report of the Fl!ty-second Congress. a copy thereof being hereto at­ : mint of the United States· at New Orleans, La-., to succeed R. L. tached and made a part of tbis repo-rt; and recommend that the bill do Schroeder, removed. pass-. \ INDIAN AGENTS. -. [HouseRepo1·t No. 2157, Fifty-second Congress, second session.] Thomas B. Tetel", of Belington,. W. Va,, to be- agent for the Indians of the Fort Hall Agency in Idaho, vice Capt. John T. The Committee on War Claims, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 4096) for the relief of Henry J. Hewitt, submit the following report: Van Orsdaie., United States Army, to be relieved of detail as The facts out of which this bill tor relief a.rtses will be found stated in acting Indian a~ent at said agency. . House report from the Committee on War Claims of the Fifty-fust Con­ Marshall Petet, of Veedersburg, Ind., to be agent for the In­ gress,. hereto annexed and made a part of th15 report. Your committee adopt the said report as their own, and report herewith dians of the Klamath Agency in Oregon, vice ·David W. Mat- - a substitute for the bill and recommend tts passage." thews, to be removed. PROMOTIO:NS IN . THE ARMY. [House Report No. 268, Fifty-first Congress, first session.] Quarte'rmaste'r' s JJepart:me.nt. The Committee on War Cl::Ums, to.whom was referred the bill (a R. 1~9) First Lieut. John B. Bellinger, Fifth Cavalry, to be assistant for the relief of Henry J. Hewitt, report as follows: quartermaster, with the rank of captain, Augl.lst 11, 1894, vice The affidavits of the claimant, Henry J. Hewitt, and ten othel' persons, several of them ex-Union officers and soldiers} and two or three Of them em­ McCauley, promoted. ploy~s of claimant in carrying the United States m:l.ils during the years lnjant1·y a1'1n. 1862,1863, 1864, and 1865, show that a large quantity or forage and severar horses and wagons bel011ging to claimant were taken by tlle United Strrtes Lieut. Col. Hamilton S. Hawkins, Twenty-third Infantry, to military authorities in Northern Missouri during the years named. It also be colonel, August 13, 1894, vice Blunt, Sixteenth Infantry, re­ appears that at the time this forage and these horses and wagons were tired from service. tal{en the claimant was a subcontractor for carrying the UIIited States malls in Northe-rn Missouri and Southern Iowa, one of these man routes be· Maj. James Henton, Twenty-third Infantry, to be lieutenant­ ing No. 10481, and it is alleged by claimant in his amd:nit that this personal colonel, August 13-, 1894, vice Hawkins, Twenty-third Infantry, property, so taken, was purchased by him for the purpose of fulfiHing his promoted. contract in carrying the United States mails over the several mail routes. The affidavits a.lso allege that the hotel, storehouse, and barn owned by Capt. Daniel W. Burke,. Fourte·enth Infantry, to be major, claimant at .l'tlacon. City, Mo., and the barn owned by him at Lancaster, Mo., August 13, 1894, vice Henton, Twenty-third Infantry, promoted. were occupied during the years above named by the United States military First Lieut. William B. ReynoldsrFourteenth Infantry, to be ~re~ , It. also appears from the evidence on file that very soon after the wa.:r: the captain, August 13, 1894, vice Burke, Fourteenth Infantry, pro­ claimant placed his claim in the hands ot A. Slfngerland, clerk of the court moted. of Adair County, Mo., for the purpose of ha.vingit tiled in the proper Depart­ Second Lieut. Samuel Seay,jr., Twenty-first Infantry, to be ment and prosecuted; that a short time subsequent thereto Mr. ~mngerland went to Colorado on a visit for the beneftt of. his impaired health, and while first lieutenant, Angust 13,. 1894, vice Kimball, Fourteenth In­ there he died; that the claima.nt supposed that his claim had been properly fantry, retired from active service. filed by .Mr. Slingerland in his lifetime, and did not learn to the contrary Second Lieut. Eugene L. Loveridge, Eleventh Infantry, to be until long after his death and too late to file the same in the proper Depart- ment. . first lieutenant, August 13, 1894, vice Reynolds, Fourteenth In­ Your committee believt} that this delay in presenting this claim was not fantry, promoted. due to any laches on the part of the claiinallt, and in view o! the allegation UNl'rED ST-ATES AGENT. that the articles taken were purchased by him for the purpose o:f ful.fill:ing his contract to carry the United Stat-es mails, he should iit all equity have Alexander Porter Morse, of the District of Columbia, to be the same opportunity as other loyal claimants: have heretofore had to es­ agent of the United States before the commission to arbitrate tablish the justice of his claim.. Your committee are therefore of the o:ptn.Ion that the claim ot Henry J. the claim bf the Venezuelan Steam T1•anspottation Company Hewitt should be investigated by the Quartermaster's Department, United against the Government O'f Venezuela. States Army, as other claims of this character have heretofore been inves­ tigated. COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS. They accordingly repor-t herewith a bill as a substitute for the bill H. R. Ed ward W. Baker, of Maine, to be collector of customs for the 1849, and recommend tba.t the same do pass. district of York, in the State of Maine, to succeed George W. By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the­ Currier, whose term of office has expired by limitation. Whole, proceeded to consider the bilL Charles C. Perkins, of Maine, to be collectoi- .of customs for The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, 91"'­ the district of Kennebunk, in the State of Maine, to succeed dered to oo engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, Parker C. Wigginr whose term of office has exp-ired by limito.­ and passed. tioD. 8572 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. AUGUST 16,

WITHDRAWAL. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Executive nomination withdrawn from the Senate August 16, 189!,.. By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows: Luther Stephenson, to be postma~ter at Togus, Me., whose To Mr. HATCH, indefinitely, on account of sickness ln his nomination was delivered to the Senate March 8, 1894. family. - To Mr. POWERS, indefinitely, on account of sickness in his family. _ CONFIRMATIONS. To Mr. GEARY, indefinitely, on account of sickness. Executive 1wminations conJi?'?ned by the Senate August 16, 189!,.. To Mr. WILSON of Washington, indefinitely, on account of INDIAN AGENTS. sickness. Louis F. Pearson, of Medicine Lodge, Kans., to be agent for To Mr. EDMUNDS, indefinitely, on account of sickness. the Indians of the Pottawatomie and Great Nemaha .Ngency in CLERKS IN HEALTH DEPARTMENT, DISTRIC'l' OF COLUMBIA. Kansas. • The SPEAKER laid. before the House the joint rewlution (S. Horace M. Rebok, of Toledo, Iowa, to be agent for the Indians R.lOl) providing for clerical assistance ·n the health depart­ of the Sac and Fox Agency in Iowa. ment of the District of Columbia; which was read the first and SUPERVISING INSPECTOR OF STEAM VESSELS. second time. Michael J. Galvin, of New York, to be supervising inspector Mr. DOCKERY. I ask unanimous consent that this resolu­ of steam vessels for the ninth district. 1 tion be now considered. It ill take but a moment. RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEYS. The ioint resolution was read. as follows: Be it resolved by t"M Senate and Bouse of ltepresentatives, etc., That the pro­ Dixon Buchanan, of Sterling, Colo., to be receiver of public visions of the act entitled "An act to provides for:clerical assistance in the moneys at Sterling, Colo. health department of the District of Columbia" approved October 2, 1893, are hereby continue1. and declared to be in full force and etrect from Jnly 1, REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE. 1894, and until the date of the approval of the act making appronriations for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia tor the fiscal John T. Joyce, of Leadville, Colo., to be register of the land year 1895. office at Leadville, Colo. Mr. DOCKERY. These clerks are already provided for; but POSTMASTERS. this resolution is made necessary by the decision of the Comp­ Emil Holl, to be postmaster at Media, in the county of Oela-­ troller, who thinks they are not entitled to pay for the time wa.re and State of Pennsylvania. mentioned. John L. Cummings, to ba postmaster at Mansfield, in the There being no objection, the resolution was considered, or­ county of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania. dered to a third reading, and being read the third time, was John H. Ossen beck! to be postmaster at Brad!ord, in the passed. county of McKean and State of Pennsylvania. ' REFERENCE OF SENATE BILLS. Gilbert F. Mver, to be postmaster at McKeesport, in the county of Allegheny and Stat~ of Pennsylvania. . The SPEAKER also laid before the House bills of the Senate Montgomery S. Longaker, to be postmaster at-Pottstown, m of the following titles; which were severally referred as indi­ the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania. cated, namely: Albrecht Kneule, to be postmaster at Norristown, in the A bill (S. 1713) to permit Commodore Louis C. Sartori, now on county of Montg-omery and State of Pennsylvania. the retired list of the Navy, to be rear-admiral on said list, in J. C. Bryant, to be postmaster at Griswold, in the county of accordance with his original position on the Navy Re~ist .: r­ Cass and State of Iowa. to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Frank Tanner, to be postmaster at Iowa City, in the county of A joint resolution (S. 99) to compile and publish all laws re­ Johnson and State of Iowa. lating t-o street railway franchises in the District of Columbia­ James E. Dougherty, to be postmaster at Haverford, in the to the Committee on Printing. county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania. DEPUTY CORONER, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, George A. Schofield, to be postmaster at Ipswich, in the county The SPEAKER also laid before the House the bill (S. 1007) to of Essex and State of Massachusetts. authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to ap­ B. W. Hero, to be postmaster at Westboro, in the county of point a deputy coroner, and for other purposes. Worcester and State of Massachusetts. Mr. COBB of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con­ C. E. Smith, to be postmaster at Correctionville, in the county sent for the -present consideration of that bill. of Woodbury and State of Iowa. Mr. SAYERS. I hope the gentleman will allow, it to remain on the table for the present until we dispose of the pending con­ ference report. The SPEAKER. In the absence of objection the bill will re­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. main on the table. THURSDAY_, August 16, 1894. There was no objection. CERTIFI6ATES OF REGISTRY. The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by Rev. W. E. PAR­ SON, D. D. Mr. FITHIAN. Before the gentleman from Texas calls up The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. the conference report I ask unanimous consent to submit are­ port from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. ST. LOUIS, AVOYELLES AND SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY. The SPEAKER. The title of the bill reported from the Com· The SPEAKER laid before the House with amendments of mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries will be read. the Senate the bill (H. R. 7668) to authorize the St. Louis, Avoy­ The Clerk read as follows: elles and Southwestern Railway Company to bridge Bayou Des A bill (S. 588) to repeal section 4145 of the Revised Statutes of the United Glaises and Atchafalaya River, in the State of Lousiana. States, and to amend sections 4146 and 4320; also section 1 of the act amend· The amendments of the Senate were read. ingsection 4214or the Revised Statutes approved March 3, 1883, and for other Mr. DAVEY. At the request of my colleague [Mr. ROBERT­ purposes. SON] I move that the House concur in these amendments. The SPEAKER. The report and the accompanying bill will The amendments were concurred in. be printed and referred to the House Calendar. COM14JSSIONERS IN LAND CASES. DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL. The SPEAKER also laid before the House with amendments Mr. SAYERS. Mr. Speaker, I nowcall up the conferencere- of the Senate the bill (H. R. 4605) granting chief justices of port on the general deficiency appropriation bill? United States courts in Territories power to appoint commis­ The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the title of the bill. sioners to take proof in land cases. The Clerk read as follows: ' The SPEAKER. This bill has been returned from the Sen­ A bill (H. R. 7•77) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the ap· ate with an amendment and with a request for a conference. propriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, and for prior years, and Mr. McRAE. I move that the House nonconcur in the amend­ for other purposes. ment of the Senate and agree to the conference requested. Mr. SAYERS. I yield four minutes of the time allowed for The motion was agreed to. debate to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. SNODGRASS]. The SPEAKER announced as the conferees on the part of the Mr. SNODGRASS. Mr. Speaker, in the short time yielded House Mr. MCRAE, Mr. J:lOMERS, and Mr. ELLIS of Oregon. to me I do not hope to be able to discuss all of the questions relative to the Senate amendment appropriating $1,800,000 to COMM.ITTEE APPOINTMENT. the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. It is important to The SPEAKER announced the appointment of Mr. MOORE of know, however, who constitutes this company, and what the Kansas as a member of the Committee on Pensions and the Com­ company is. This is the "blanketed" company. This is the mittee on Irrigation of Arid Lands. company that_for thirty years has been engaged in aconspiracy