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1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 5071 tion of the House of Representatives, disagreeing to the a.mend CORRECTION. mentsof the Senate to the bill(H. R. '7093)makingappropriations Mr. DICKERSON. Mr. Speaker, I am recorded as notvoting for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June ~0, 1893, and on page 5046 of the RECORD. I wish to state that I was at that for other purposes, and asking a conference with the Senate on time engaged by order of the House in the Committee on Bank the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon. ing and Currency in pursuance of an investigation proceeding Mr. COCKRELL. I move that the Senateinsistonitsamend before that committee, it having permission to hold its sessions ments and agree to the conference asked by the House. during the sittings of the House. If I had been present I should The motion was agreed to. have voted "no" on the several motions for recess and to ad By unanimous consent, the President pro tempore was author journ. ized to appoint the conferees on the part of the Senate; and Mr. ANTIOPTION BILL. HALE, Mr. ALLISON, and GORMAN were appointed. Mr. HATCH. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and REPORT OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. 21 pass the bill (H. R. 7845) defining "options'~ and "futures, im The PRESIDENT pro temp(Yre laid before the Senate a. com posing special taxes on dealers therein, and requiring such deal munication from the secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, ers and persons engaged in selling certain products to obtain transmitting, in accordance with the act of incorporation of the license, and for other purposes. ~ American Historical Association, the annual report of that as Mr. TAYLOR of illinois. I rise fo r the pur pose of demanding sociation for the year 1891; which, with the accompanying pa a second to the motion. per ~, was ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. That can not be done now I COAHUILLA MISSION INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA. think. He also laid before the Senate a communication from the Sec The SPEAKER. The bill will be read first , after which the retary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a resolution Chair will ask for a second. of the Senate of the 26th ultimo, a communication of the 2d instant The bill was read, as follows: from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and its inclosures; Be it enacted, etc., That for the purposes of this act the word " options •· which, on motion of Mr. VEST, was ordered to lie on the table shall be understood to mean any contract or agreement whereby a party thereto, or any party for whom or in whose behalf such contract or agree and be printed. ment 1s made, acquires the right or privilege, but is not thereby obligated, CO:MMITTEE SERVICE. to deliver to another or others, at a future time or within a designated pe. riod, any of the articles mentioned in section 3 of this act. Mr. BRICE. I respectfully ask that the Senate relieve me SEc. 2. That for the purposes o! this act the word "futures" sha.ll. be under from further service upon the Committee on Post-Offices and stood to mean any contract or agreement where by a party contracts or agrees Post-Roads. to sell and deliver to another or others at a future time, or within a desig nated period, any o! the articles mentioned in section 3 of this act, when at The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Ohio asks the time of making such contract or agreement the party so contracting or that the Senate excuse him from further service upon the Com agreeing to sell and make such delivery, or the party for whom he acts as mittee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Is there objection? The agent, broker, or employ6 in making such contract or agreement, is not the owner of the article or articles so contracted ox agreed to be sold and deliv Chair hears none, and the request is ~ranted. ered, or has not theretofore acquired by purchase, and is not then entitled to Mr. HARRIS. I ask that the Cha1r fill the vacancies on the the right to the future possession o! such article or articles under and by various committees occasioned by the death of the Senator from virtue of a contract or agreement for the sale and future delivery thereof previously made by the owner thereof: Provided, however, That no pro-vision Virginia, Mr. Barbour, and also the- vacancy occasioned by ex or requirement of this act shall apply to any contract or agreement for the cusing the S:mator from Ohio [Mr. BRICE} from service upon the future delivery of any of said art1cles made for and in behalf of the United Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. States, or of any State, Territory, county, or municipa.lity, with the duly authorized o:tncers or agents thereof, nor to any contract or agreement made The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the re by any farmer or plante:r: for the sale aM. delivery at a fUture time, or within quest of the Senator 'from Tennessee? The Chair hears none. a designated period, of any o:l' said articles belonging to said farmer or planter The ChairappointstheSenator fromOhio [Mr. BRICE]asamem at the time of making such contract or agreement, and which have been grown or produced, or at said time are in actual course of growth or pro· b er of the Committee on InterstateCommerce, to fill the vacancy duction, on land owned or occupied by such farmer or planter; nor to any caused by the death of Mr. Barbour, late a Senator from Vir- contract or agreement made with any farmer or planter to fUrnish and de liver to such farmer or planter at a future time, or within a designited. period, any of said articles which are required as food, forage, or set>d by such g~~~ Chair appoints the Senator from Virginia [Mr. HUNTON] farmer or planter, his tenants, or employes. as a member of the following committees: District of Columbia, SEC. 3. That the articles to which the foregoing sections relate are raw EducationandLabor, SelectCommittee toinvestigate Condition or unmanufactured cotton, hops, wheat, corn, oats, ry6, barley, grass seeds, flaxseed, pork, lard, bacon, and other edible product of swine. of PotomacRiverFrontofWashington;and to Establish the Uni SEC. 4. That special taxes are imposed as foliows: Every dealer in "op· ver.:;ity of the United States, to fill vacancies caused by the death tions ,. or "futures," as hereinbefore defined in this act, shall pay annually of Mr. Barbour, lat9 a Senator from Virginia. the sum of $1,000 as a. license fee for conducting such business, and shall also pay the further sum of 5 cents per pound for each and every pound of The Chair aDpoints the Senator from Virginia [Mr. HUNTON] raw or unmanufactured cotton, hops, pork, lard, bacon, or other edible as a member of the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to product of swine, and the sum of 20 cents per bushel for each and eveu fill the v.acancy caused by the resignation from said committee bushel of any of the other articles mentioned in section 3 of this act, the right or privilege of delivering which to another or others at a future time, I- of the Senator from Ohio [Mr. BRICE]. or within a designated period, m.a.y be acquired by such dealer in his own Mr. MITCHELL. I move that the Senate do now adjourn. behalf or in behalf of another or othel'S under any «options " contract or The motion was agreed to; and (at 4 o'clock and 25 minutes p. agreement as defined by section 1 of this act, or under any "futures" con tract or agreement as defined in section 2 of this act, or under any transfer I m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, June 7,1892, or a.s&ignment of any such "options" or "futures" contract or agreement: at 12 o'clock m. which said amount or amounts shall be paid to the collector of internal revenue, as hereinbefore provided, and by him accounted for as required in respect to other special taxes collected by him. EYery person, association. copartnership, or corporation who shall in their own behalf, or as agent, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. broker, or employ6 ol another or others, deal in "options .. or make any "options" contract or agreement as hereinbefore defined, or make any 1\IOND.A.Y, June 6, 1892. transfer or assign:m.ent of any such "futures" contract or agreement, shall be deemed a dealer in "options ; " and every person. association, copartner The House met at 11 o'clock a. m. Prayer by the Chaplain, ship, or corporation who shall in their own behalf, or as agent, broker, or Rev. W. H. MILBURN, D. D. employ6 of another or others, deal in "futures" or make any "futures •· contract or agreement as hereinbefore defined, or make any transfer or as The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the Journal of the pro signment of any such "futures" contract or ag1·eement, shall be deemed a ceedings of Saturday. dealer in "futures." Mr. COOPER. I raise the point of order that there is no SEQ. 5. That ev-ery person. association, copartnel'Ship, or corpm-ation en gaged in, or proposing to engage in, the business of dealer in •·options" or quorum present, M1·. Speaker. ot dealer in ·• futures" as hereinbefore defined shall, before commencing The SPEAKER. The Clerk will call the roll for the purpose such business or making any such " options" or " futures " contract or of ascertaining the presence of a quorum. agreement, or any transfer or assignment of any such contract or a.gl·ee ment, make application in writing to the collector of internal revenue for The Clerk proceeded to call the roll. the district in which he or any of them proposes to engage in such business After the conclusion of the first call or make such contract or agreement, or make a transfer or an assignment .Mr. TUCKER said: Mr. Speaker, my colleague [M~. BucH of any such contract or agreement, setting forth the name of such person. association, copartnership, or corporation, place of residence of the appli· ANAN of Virginia] was unexpectedly called home last night. I cant, the business to be en~ged in, where such ~usiness 1s to be carried on, ask unanimous consent that he be excused from the session of and, in case o! an associatiOn, copartnership, or corporation, the names and the House to-day. places of residence of the several persons constituting such association, co partnership, or corp. oration, and shall thereupon pay to such collector, as a The SPEAKER. The Chair will submit the request of the license fee for conduetin~ such business, the sum aforesaid, of $1.000. and gentleman after the Journal is read. shall also execute apd deliv-er to such collector a bond in the penal sum of The Chair will state that this call was merely ordered by the $40,000, with two or more sureties satisfactory to said collector, conditioned that the obligor therein shall pay, or cause to be paid, the tax or taxes as Chair for the purpose of ascertaining the presence oi a quorum. herein provided, and for the full and faithful compliance, by such obligor, Two hundred and six members having answered to their names, with all the requirements of this act; and thereupon the collector shall issue more than a quorum, the Clerk will read the Jobrnal. to such applicant a certificate, in such form as the Commissioner o:1' Internal Revenue shall prescribe, thatsuch applicant is authorized, for the period of The Journal cf the proceedings of Saturday was then read and one year from the date of such certificate and within such district, to be a approved. dealer in "options " and "futures " and to make, within such district, "op- 5072 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JUNE 6, tions" and" futures" contracts or agreements, as hereinbefore defined, and a certificate of authority from the collector of internal revenue, as herein· transfers and assignments of such contracts and agreements, and for the before provided, and covering the time at which such contractor agreement, period specified in such certificate the party to whom it is issued may con or such transfer or assignment shall be made, or who shall fail or refuse to duct and transact the business of dealer as aforesaid. Such certificate may keep any book or make any record, return, or report hereinbefore required, be renewed annually upon compliance with the provisions of this act: Pro or in lieu of any record, return, or report hereinbefore required shall make tJided, however, That so long as any tax provided in this act shall remain a false, fraudulent, or partial record, return, or report, or shall make or due and unpaid, the person, association, copartnership, or corporation from enter into any "options'' or "futures" contractor agreement, or make any which such tax shall be due shall not, during the time such tax remains due transfer or assignment ot such, in form or manner other than as prescribed and unpaid, conduct or transact the business of a. dealer in "options," or by this act, or shall tail or refuse to pay any of the taxes reqUired by this act conduct or transact the business ·of a dealer in "futures," and every person, to be paid, or shall in any other respect violate any of the provisions of this association, copartnership, or corporation making, transferring, or assign act, shall, besides being liable for the amotmt of the tax or taxes prescribed ing any such" options" or "futures" contract or agreement while any tax in this act, for each and every such offense pay a fine of not less than $1,000, herein provided shall remain due from such party shall be subject to the nor more than $20,COO, or be imprisoned not less than six months nor more fines and penalties hereinafter provided. than ten years, or be subject to both such 1lne and imprisonment. SEc. 6. That it shall be the duty of the collector of internal revenue to keep SEC.ll. That neither the payment of the ~a.xes herembetore provided nor in his offi.ce a book in which shall be registered a copy of each and every ap the certificate issued by the collector of internal revenue under this act shall plication made to him under the foregoing sections, and a statement in con be held to exempt any person, association, copartnership, or corporation nection therewith as to whether a certificate has been issued thereon, and from any penalty or punishment now or hereafter provided by the laws of for what period, which book or register shall be a public record and be sub any State or Territory tor making, transferrin~, or assigning contracts or ject to the inspection of any and all persons. agreements such as are hereinbefore defined as • o~tions "or "futures" con SEC. 7. That every "options" or "futures" contract or agreement, as tracts or agreements, or in any manner to authorize the making, transfer· hereinbefore defined, and all transfers or assignments thereof, shall be in writ ring, or assigning of such contracts or agreements within any State, Terri· ing and signed in duplicate by the parties thereto, and every such" options" tory, or locality contrary to the laws ot such State, Territory, or locality; contract shall state in explicit terms the time when the right or privilege of nor shall the payment ot the taxes imposed by this act be held to prohiba delivering the article or articles therein named shall expire; and every such any State, Territory, or municipality from placing a tax or duty on the same "futures" contract shall state in explicit terms the day upon which or the trade, transaction, or business tor State, Territorial, municipal, or other last day of the period within which the article or articles therein contracted purposes. or agreed to be sold shall be delivered; and any such contract or agreement SEc. 12. That every person, association, copartnership, or corporation who not inclu;ling such statement, and not so made and signed, shall, as between shall make any contract or agreement for the sale or any of the articles men the parties thereto and their respective assigns, be absolutely void. tioned in section 3 of this act and requiringthe deliveryofsucharticlesubse· SEC. 8. That it shall be the duty of every :person, association, copartner quent to the date on which such contract or agreement is made, and who, at ship, or corporation conducting or transactmg the business of a dealer in the time of making thereof, is the owner and entitled to the possession of the ''options" or" futures,"as defined by this act, and they are herebyrequh·ed, article or articles which are the subject of, embraced in, or covered by such to keep a book in which shall be recorded, on the day or its execution, the c~m tract or agreement, or has theretofore acquired by purchase, and, at the date or each and every" options" or "futures" contract or agreement made t1me of making such contract or agreement is entitled to, the right to the or entered into, or which may be transferred or assigned, by such person, future possession of such article or articles under and by virtue ot a contra<'fi association, copartnership, or corporation in their own behalf, or in behall or agreement for the sale and future deliverythereof previously made by tho of another or others, and setting forth the name and place of business of the owner thereof, shall, before making any such·contract or agreement, or any person, association, copru:tnership, or corporation in whose behalf, as vendor, transfer or assignment of any such contract or agreement, apply in writing such contract or agreement shall have been made, the n3.me and place ot ~to the collector of internal revenue tor the district in which such person, as- business of the party or parties, as vendee, with whom such contract or sociation, copartnership, or corporation shall reside or have a place of busi agreement shall have been made, the kind and amount of the article or ar ness, setting forth the same facts as mentioned and required in the applica ticles which are the subject of, embraced in, or covered by each such contract tion referred to and provided for in section 5 of this act, and shall thereupon or agreement, the time when the right orprivilegeof delivering such article pay to such collector the sum of $2 as a license fee for making, transferrin ("I' or articles as are the subject of, embraced in, or covered by any "options" or ~ssi~ng, or for conducting the business ot making, transferring, anCl contTact or agreement shall expire, and the time when or the designated pe asSlgnmg such contracts or agreements, and thereupon the collector shall riod within which delivery shall be made of the article or articles which are issue t-o such applicant a certificate, in such form as the Commissioner the subject of, em braced in, or covered by any "futures" contract or agree of Internal Revenue shall prescribe, that such applicant is authorized, tor ment; and on making a transfer or assignment ot any" options" or ·•fu• the period of one year from the date of such certificate, to make, transfer, tures" contract or agreement, shall, in addition to the facts or items above and assign contracts or agreements ~or the sale and subsequent delivery of mentioned, also record in such book the names and places of residence or any of the articles mentioned in section 3 of this act, of which such licensee at business of the assignor and assignee and the date of such transfer or as the time of making any such contract or agreement is the owner, or is then en signment; and such book shall at all times be_subject to inspection by the titled to the future possession of under and by virtue of a contract or agree collector, deputy collector, and inspector of inter'nal revenue, or any duly ment tor the sale and future delivery ofs~ch article or articles previously made authorized agent of the Internal Revenue Department, who may make by the owner thereof. And any person, association, copartnership, or corpor· memoranda. or transcripts therefrom. - ation who shall make, transfer, or assign any such contta.ct or agrE(ement wil!ll· SEC. 9. That it shall be the duty or every person, association, copartnership, out having paid the license fee herein required, and Wlthout havmg a certifi• or corporation, and they are hereby required, on the Tuesday ofthe week next ca.te from thecollectorotinternal revenue authorizing the making, transfer succeeding the date of the certificate issued to them, as hereinbefore pro ring, and assigning of such contracts and agreements, shall be subject to, p.nd vided, and on the Tuesday of each and every week thereafter, to make to be required to pay, a fine of not !ess than $1,000 nor more than $5,000. Such, the collector of internal revenue for the district in which any ''options'' or certificate may be renewed annually on compliance with the provisions of "futures'' contract or agreement shall have been made, transferred, or as this section. And such licensee shall keep a book in which shall be entered the signed, by such person, association, copartnership, or corporation, full and the date of, the names and places ot residence or business of the parties to, the complete return and report, under oath and in such form as the Commis kind and amount of the articles the subject of, embraced in or covered by sioner of Internal Revenue shall prescribe, of any and all such contracts or any contracts or agreements forsaleandfuturedeliverywh1chmay be made, agreements made or entered into or transferred or assigned by such person, tranferred, or assigned by such licensee under authority of the certificate association, copartnership, or corporation during the preceding week, to provided for in this section, and the time at which delivery thereof is to be gether with a statement of the article or articles embraced in, or covered by made; and in case of th3 transfer or assignment of contracts or agreements each such contract or agreement, and the amounts, respectively, of each for sale and future delivery of any of said articles previoUsly made by the such article, and the name or names or the party or parties with whom each owner thereof, or made by a party who has theretofore acquired by pur ~ch contract or agreement, and any transfer or assignment of any such chase and at the time or making such transfer or assignment is entitled to contract or agreement, shall ha. ve been made, and at the same time the party the right of the future possession of such article or articles under and by whose duty it shall be to make such return or report shall pay to such col virtue of a contract or agreement for the sale and future delivery thereof, lector, upon and for each such contract or agreement which such party shall previously made by the owner thereof, the names and places of business oi have so made as vendor, and upon and for each and every transfer or assign residence of transferer and transferee or of the assignol' and assignee; whlch ment of any such contract or agreement which such party shall have made book shall at all times be subject to inspection by the collector or deputy as transferrer or assignor, the amount of tax as specified in section 4 of this collector of internal revenue, or by any duly authorized agent ot the Internal act, of 5 cents par pound on each and every pound of cotton, hops, and of Revenue Department. Such licensee shall also make on Tuesday or each pork, lard, bacon, or other edible product of swine, of 20 cents per bushel on and every week, to the collector of internal revenue by whom the certificate each and every bushel of any of the other articles mentioned in section 3 of herein provided for may have been issued, a weekly report of all such contracts this act which are the subject of, embraced in, or covered by su~h contracts or agreements or transfers or assignments thereof that shall have been made or agreements, or any of them, for which sums such collector shall give his by such licensee during the previous week, which report shall contain all receipts to the party so paying. And such collector shall, upon the making the facts and items hereinbefore required to be entered in the book to be of such return or report, enter in a book to be kept for that purpose the date kept by such licensee; and such report shall be entered by said collector in a. of each such "options" or "futures" contract or agreement, or transfer, or book to be kept by him in his offi.ce for that purpose. And any such license9 assignment thereof, included in such return or report, the name, residence, who shall fail or refuse to keep the book and enter therein the faf!ts ani? and place of business of each party thereto, and whether they appear as items as by this section required, or shall fail or refuse to submit such book vendor or vendee, the kind and amount ot each article which is the subject to the 'inspection of the collector, deputy collector, or duly authorized agent ot, embraced in, or covered by such contracts or agreements, the amount of the Interual Revenue Department, or who shall fail or refuse to make re ot tax charged and collected thereon, and the date upon which such "op port to the collector of internal revenue as by this section required, shall tions" or "futures" contract or agreement shall, by its express terms, ex for each and every such failure or refusal be required to pay to such collec pire or mature; which book or register shall be a public record, subject to tor a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $5,000. And it shall be the duty the inspection of any and all persons. That the person, association, co or the collector of internal revenue to keep in his ofllce a book in which shall partnership, or corporation making or entering into any •· options" or "fu be registered a copy o.t each and every application made to him under this tures" contract or agreement, as defined in this act, or making any trans section, and a statement in connection therewith as to whether a certificate fer or assignment or any such contract or agreement, either in their own has been issued and for what period, which book or register shall be a pub behalf, or in behalf of another or others, shall, upon filing with the collector lic record and be subject to the inspection ot any and all persons. ot intern.al revenue the return or report aforesaid, in addition to the taxes SE . 13. Whenever any contract or agreemenUorthe sale and future delivery hereinbefore provided, pay to such collector the sum of $2 as a registry fee of any of the articles mentioned in section 3 of this act shall be made, trans for each and every such "options" or "futures" contract or agreement so ferred, or assigned, and the making, transfer,or assignment thereotshallnot be made, transferred, or assigned an1 included in such return or report, and it reported to the collector of internal revenue, either as required by section 9 or shall be the duty of the collector of internal revenue, on the first secular as required by section 12 of this act, or if it shall have been reported to the day of each calendar month, to make a report to the C.:>mmissioner of In said collector as a contract or agreement of the nature and character men ternal Revenue setting forth the number of "options" and '• futures" con tioned in and authorized to be made under a certificate issued pursuant to tracts and agreements, as shown by such book, which had not expired or the provisions of section 12 of this act, and it shall come to the knowledge of matured on the last day or the preceding month, the kind and t.he amount of such collector, or he shall have reasonable cause to believe that the party by the articles which are the subject of, embraced in, or
contract or agreement as vendor or who shall have made a transfer or an The SPEAKER. Objection is made. The gentleman from assignment of any such contra(:t or agreement as transferer or assignor to forthwith furnish to such collector proof of such vendor's, transferer's, or Missouri [Mr. HATCH] will proceed. assignor's ownership or right or title to the future possession of the article Mr. HATCH. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate, as fully as any mem or a.rticles so embraced in or covered by such contract or agreement, a.nd ber of this House can, the importance of the bill that has just said party shall thereupon mak~ and file with such collector an affidavit stat been read and upon which I have asked the House to suspend ing by whom the said article or articles were owned at the time said contract or agreement was made, and, if amant was not at that time such owner, the rules and pass. This bill was reported to the House by the whether at the time of making, transferring, or assigning such contract or Committee on Agriculture on April4, with a very exhaustive agreement amant was entitled to the right to the future possession of said report by that committee, and it has been upon the Calendar article or articles and how such right was acquired. Such amdavit shall also state th3 warehouse, elevator, or other place where said article or ar now for more than two months .. As soon as I thought it was at ticles are stored, or, if the same be then in the possession of a vessel, rail all in order, !asked the House to resolve itself into the Commit road, or other carrier for transportation, the name of such vessel, railroad tee of the Whole for the purpose of bringing up this bill for dis or carrier, and the number and date of each separate bill of lading or receipt issued by such vessel, railroad, or carrier therefor, and the amount or quan Cllssion. By a tie vote of the House that motion was lost. tity or such article or articles called for by such bill or lading or receipt; and On Saturday last, when there was no antagonism on the part such amdavit shall further state the amount or quantity of other articles of of the Committee on Appropriations, I again appealed to the the kind eru braced in and covered by such contract or agreement which said amant is then the owner of, or entitled to the future possession or, and any House to go into Committee of the Whole and discuss this bill. and all contracts or agreements which amant may have made, and-which The RECORD of Saturday's proceedings shows why that discus· are then outstanding and remaining uncanceled, for the sale and future de sion was not had. It has been no fault of the Committee on Ag· livery of any such article or articles of such kind. And said party is further required if demanded by such collector, to exhibit to the collector the orig riculture that ample time has not been given to the Hoi2 se to inal receipt of the warehouse or elevator where the aforesaid article or ar discuss this bill; but it has been upon the Calendar for two ticles are then stored, or the bill of lading or receipt of the vessel, railroad, months, with a full and complete raport, and no gentleman upon or other carrier having possession of said article or articles for transporta tion. And in case said party shall fail or refuse to make and file with t~e the floor can plead ignorance as to its provisions, or the reasons collector the said amdavit when so required, or shall fail or refuse to exhibit given by that committee why in their judgment this bill ought the said warehouse or elevator receipt or said bill of lading, when so de to pass. manded, such failure or refusal shall constitute and be deemed and held to beprimafacie e>idence that the contract or agreementsomade, transferred, Mr. TAYLOR of Illinois. Will the gentleman yield for a or assigned by said party was a "futures" contract or agreement as described question? and defined in section 2 of this act, and said party shall thereupon become M1·. HATCH. The gentleman will please not take up my time. liable and be required to pay to said collector upon the article or articles which are the subject of, embraced in, or covered by such contract or agree The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Missouri declin ~ s to ment, the amount or amounts of special taxes imposed and required by sec yield. tion 4 of this act to be paid for and upon an article or articles of the same Mr. HATCH. Now, Mr. Speaker, theCommitteeon Agricul kind when sold under any "futures" contract or agreement; and if when such contract was made, transferred, or assigning the party making, trans ture, who spent weeks and weeks of earnest and conscientious ferring, or as:,;igning the same was not authorized, by a certificate issued to work in the preparation of this bill, were forcad by the action him under the provisions of sectionS o! this act, to make "futures" contracts of the opponents of it to resort to one of two propositions in or agreements, then said party shall also become liable and be required to pay the further sum ot $1,000 prescribed by said section 5 ot this act as a license o ~·der to bring it before the House; and of those two propositions fee for conducting the business o! dealer in "futures." And said party shall that committee determined that they preferred a motion to sus be!urther subject to fine and imprisonment as provided bysection 10 of this pend the rules rather than to ask the Committee on Rules to act. SEC. 14. That all provisions of the law now in force relating to the collec bring in what is known as an iron-clad or a cloture rule to force tion, recovery, and enforcement of taxes, fines, and penalties imposed under a vote upon it. the laws concerning internal revenue, and not inconsistent with the provi Acting under the instructions of the Committee on Agricul· sions of this act, are hereby made to extend and apply to the recovery and enforcewent of the taxes, fines, and penalties imposed by this act. ture, I have asked the House to suspend the rules and pass this SEc. 15. That the Commissioner or Internal Revenue shall prescribe such bill to-day. Now, I can not only state .briefly, in the few min rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions utes allowed to me under the rule, what every gentleman knows of this act, iiDd when such rules and regulations shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury they shall have the force and eftect of law. as to the main provisions of this bill. They are embodied in the first three sections of it. All the remainder of the sections of Mr. CUMMINGS. I demand a second on the motion of the this bill-- gentleman from Missouri. Mr.BLOUNT. Mr.Speaker. Irisetoapointoforder. There Mr. HATCH. Pending that, Mr. Spaaker, I ask unanimous is so much confusion on the floor that we can not hear what is consent that the report of the Committee onAgriculture accom being said. panying this bill may be read for the information of the House, The SPEAKER. The gentleman will suspend for a moment. not to come out of the time of either side. The Sergeant-at-Arms will go around and request members to Mr. RAYNER. I object. resume their seats. Gentlemen who wish to converse will please Mr. LANHAM. Why not let it be printed in the RECORD? retire. Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker, I am compelled to object Mr. HATCH. Mr. Speaker, I am satisfied that nothing on to the request of the gentleman from Missouri. earth will open the ea.:-s of tho3e gentlemen who do not want to Mr. LANHAM. Would there be objection to having it printed hear. in the RECORD? The SPEAKER. The House must be in order. Mr. HATCH. I ask unanimous consent that a second may be Mr. HATCH. Some gentlemen do not want to hear the rea:. considered as ordered. sons, even briefly stated. There are gentlemen on the floor who Mr. CUMMINGS. To that !object. desire to hear, and they will hear what I havetosay. Theprin· The SPEAKER. The Chair will appoint telle1·s. cipal provisions of the bill are in the first three sections of it. Mr. CUMMINGS and Mr. HATCH were appointed tellers. All the remaining provisions of the bill are simply to provide for The House divided; and the tellera reported-ayes 156, noes 11. its execution, to put this law into successful oueration, if passed. So a second was ordered. The definition of "options," "puts," and It calls," in the first The SPEAKER. The Chair will recognize the gentleman section of the bill, was not criticised or objected to by a sin~:de from Missouri [Mr. HATCH] to control the time in favor of the board of tr2.de representative in the United States who came motion, and the gentleman from New York [Mr. CUMMINGS] the before the Committee on Agriculture while the bill wag under time in opposition. . consideration. Mr. CULBERSON. This being a very important proposition, Every single one of them said that as far as these wind sales I ask unanimous consent that two hours on a side may be allowed n.re concerned, they are opposed by the rules of the boards of for debate on this bHl. trade of the United States; and the most remarkable statement Mr. BLANCHARD. In view of the fact that there are many that occurs in this entire printed volume of testimony taken be important propositions to come up to-day under a suspension of fore that committee comes from the president of the Chicago the rules, amongst them being the river and harbor bill, I am Board of Trade, the largest body dealing in futures in the world. constrained to object. He stated that under the rules of the Board of Trade all the op Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. Then I ask unanimous consent erations defined in that first section of tha bill wera under the that all gentlemen yvho desire to do so may be allowed to print ban of that organization, and were not permitted upon its floor; remarks in the RECORD upon this bill_. and yet upon cross-examination he stated that that board, meet Mr HATCH. I hope that will be done. ing at 9:30 every day, closed its doors at 1:15; and immediately Mr. BACON, Mr. SNODGRASS, and others objected. upon the closing of that board, another board was opened in the Mr. HOPKINS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con same building! on the ground floor of the building belonging to sent that an hour's debate be allowed, thirty minutes on each the Board of Trade of Chicago, that only members of the Board side. of Trade of Chicago and their clerks were permitted to enter, The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. HOPKINSl that it was guarded at each door by a policeman, and from 1:15 asks unanimous consent that one hour's debate be allowed on to 4 o'clock in the afternoon millions and millions of wind prod this bill, thirty minutes on a side. Is there objection? ucts were sold by the members of the Board of Trade of Chicago. Mr. WASHINGTON. I object. Mr. TAYLOR of Illinois. And also bought, were they not? xxm---318
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Mr. HATCH. Holding out to the country and to the world at The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gen· large a banner on which was inscribed ''Honest dealings," the ~leman from Louisiana and the gentleman from Alabama? Board of Trade of Chicago closed their doors at 1:15 and from Mr. KILGORE. Yes, sir; I object. that time until4 o'clock its members were engaged in hammer Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield two minutes to the ing down the products raised by the farmers of the UnH.edStates, gentleman from Maryland [M.r. RAYNER]. as long as wind would sell, for a bid. Why, Mr. Speaker, let me Mr. RAYNER. Mr. Speaker, it is a shame, I think, that a g·ive this House one single object lesson-and I have only time bill so important as this should be rushed through this House to give one. under a suspension of the rules, giving gentlemen who are op On Thursday, the 21st day of. April, 1892, cotton had sprung posed to it one or two minutes to express their convictions upon from its lowest price cf this crop, and had raised in value thrae the subject. I think that this is one of the most dangerous meas quarters of a cent a pound, meaning $3.75 per bale to the pro ures that ever yet made its appearance in the parliamentary ducers of cotton in the United States. On that day the brokers proceedings of this body. It ignores and destroys every concep on the Cotton Exchange Board in New York, without selling one tion of State eovereignty, and ii carried to its legitimate conclu single bale of cotton, sold 264,000 bales of phantom cotton-wind sions will gradually extinguish all the well~defined distinctions and broke the price off 50 cents a bale. These sales aggregated that exist between the power of the General Government and the $10,000,000, the brokers receiving the same commission upon ten rights of every State to legislate within the doma.in of its own millions of wind sold in one day against the cotton crop of the jurisdiction. rt~announces that flagrant maxim of usurpation, South that they would have had if they had sold $10,000,000 that whenever we find an industry or enterprise, or an occupa worth of rea;l cotton, and they called that commerce. They call tion in any State that is objectionable to the Federal Government that business. that Congress can, by an exercise of the power of taxation, an Now, the purpose of this bill, throughout, from the beginning nihilate and drive it out of existence. I appeal to you to tell to the end, is simply to break up that syst-em of trade and deal me where is the limit and boundary of your power, where is the ing that is not based upon the ownership of property or the right subject-matter, where is the vocation, where is the branch or de derived from the owner to sell for delivery. partment of trade or business that you can not ta:x beyond the I reserve the remainder of my time. possibility of its continuance. Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield three minutes to the But, Mr. Speaker, there is another ground stronger than this gentleman from Alabama [Mr. HERBERT]. on which I am opposed to this bill. It manifests the spirit of Mr. HERBERT. Mr. Speaker, in three minutes I can only cent-ralization in its most malignant form and tendencies. I ap state, not argue, the objections to this bill to the House. In peal to every member of my profession within this House to tell the first place, in section 13, if a collector have reason to believe me-l appeal to the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. HATCH] to that any person has violated this law, and charges him with it, t ell me-under what provision of the Federal Constitution he that person is held p1·imajacie guilty of a crime and of a viola proposes to invest Congress with the power to legislate upon a tion of this law unless he shows to the collector certain docu bill of this sort. ments, as provided in the section, that will exonerate himself. You rely upon the celebrated case in which Lhe Supreme Court Th:1.t is a direct violation of the fifth amendment to the Consti held that Congress had the right to tax the circulation of the tution of the United States, which provides that no person shall currency of the States. be compelled to criminate himself. It was clearly so decided in [Here tho hammer fell.] the case of Councilman V. Hitchcock, in January last, by the Mr. CUMMINGS. I yield one minute more to the gentleman Supreme Court of the United States. The member who votes from Maryland [Mr. RAYNER]. for this bill and votes for that thirteenth section directly vio· 1\fe. RAYNER. You rely upon that case. All I want to say lates the Constitution of the country. upon that point is that when the !::3upreme Court decided that Secondly, this bill proceeds upon the idea, as I gather from question, they held that because Congress had the right to coin the report, that not only is the dealing in futures an evil that money and to regulate the value thereof, therefore it had the ought to be corrected, but that it will be corrected by the pro right to tax the circulation of the States, because the coinage visions of this bill, because the result of it will be that while the of the States came in conflict with the coining power of the number of buyers will be just the same as now, the number of United States. sellers will be decreased. That is the proposition in the report, Mr. BOATNER. And if the gentleman will permit a sugges which is to me an absurdity, because every sale implies a pur tion, the court held that Congress had the power to prohibit the chase. For every seller there will be a buyer, and if the number State coinage without the use of the taxing power. of sellers is reduced, the number of buyers will also ba reduced. Mr. RAYNER. Yes; the court so held. But, Mr. Speaker, Thirdly, the bill itself is, in my opinion, a violation of the you have a bill before you which declares upon the face of the Constitution, and sets the most dangerous precedent that can report of the committee that the taxation which it contemplates possibly be conceived. Under the taxing power of the Consti is to be levied, not for the purpose of revenue, but for the pur tution as a cloak, it invades the rights reserved by the Stat3s, pose of destroying the particular contracts upon which it is in one of which was to regulat-e contracts between their own citi tended to operate. zens. That is what this bill doas directly. It reaches every 'Fhe bill does not come under the power to regulate commerce contract of the class denounced in thE, bill. whether made be between the States, because the ve!iy theory of this bill is that tween citizens of the same State or citizens of different States. there is no C)mmerce to regulate; tliat, for instance, two people The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expired. living in the city of Chicago make a contract for the future de Mr. CUMMINGS. I yield one minute t.o the gentleman from livery of corn or of cotton when they do not intend to deliver any Louisiana [Mr. BOATNER]. corn or cotton. The very theory of the bill is founded upon the Mr. BOATNER. Mr. Speaker, this bill, in my judgment, is proposition that there is no commerce which the law intends to more vicious in principle than any ever before reported by a Demo regulate. cratic committee in the history of the Government. It is a [He::.-e the hammer fell.] vicious prostitution of the taxing power to accomplish a purpose Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gen admittedly beyond the lawful jurisdiction of Congress. It is false tleman from Missouri [Mr. COBB]. hood upon its face, and if the object of the law were expressed Mr. COBB of Missouri Mr. Speaker, I regard this as one of in the title or body of the bill, it would not be worth the paper the most dangerous measures ever introduced into an American it is written on. If it receives the indorsement of this Demo Congress. It not only completely revolutionizes the old methods cratic House and the Democratic party, it will be an indorse of doing business that have existed from time immemorial in this ment by the Democratic party of the most flagrant violation3 of and everv other civilized country, but will necessarily destroy the Constitution ever committed by the Republican party, and our export trade and paralyze our home and foreign commerce. an adoption of the Republican construction of the Constitution. I can assure my colleague [Mr. HATCH] that the Merchants' Ex By means of a similar pr03titution of the taxing power the pro change of St. Louis, and the people of that city also, with a few tective tariff has been maintained, by which tribute has been exceptions (for we can not control outside gamblers), are as much levied upon one class of citizens for the benefit of others. The oppos3d to the speculative abuses which this bill is intended to right of the States to authorize banks of issue has been destroyed, prevent as the gentleman himself or any advocate of the bill; and-- but in your effort to regulate gambling, you strike a fatal blow The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expireJ.. at leCTitimate bu iness. I hold in my hand the rules of the Mer : Mr. BOATNER {to Mr. CUlillUNGS). I ask the gentleman to chants' Exchange, and also a statement of my own views upon give me one minute more. this measure from an export and business standpoint, and I trust Mr. CUMMINGS. I am sorry to say that I have not got the that I may have leave to extend them in the REOORD, as it is time to spare. impossible within the time allotted me to present nny argument Mr. BOATNER. Then I ask permission to extend my re· in support of my position or give the views of my constituents, marks in the RECORD. who are deeply interested in this measure. Mr. OATES. I ask unanimous consent to make that request [Here the hammer fell.] general. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Missouri [Mr. COUB] ·- ·.
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asks unanimous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD. It is an utter perversion of it; and having stood upon this floor Is there objection? against protection for protectjon's sake, having protested against Mr. HATCH. Mr. Speaker, I again appeal to the House to the unconstitutionality of such a system, I must vote against this extend the time of all gentlemen who desire to discuss this bill. bill in its present form, though if it were modified so as to bring rev The SPEAKER. The Chair will first submit the request of enue and not merely prohibit, I should support it. We must look the gentleman from l'lfissouri [Mr. COBB] for unanimous consent upon this measure not as one merely of policy or to please some to extend his remarks in the RECORD. Is there objection? constituency. It involves a .question of right, a question of con Mr. HATCH. I mustobjectunlessunanimousconsentisgiven stitutional law, a question of conscience, which no man on this to extend remarks generally. I want everybody to be treated floor can ignore. alike. [Here the hammer fell.] Mr. Mc::r-.ULLIN. Mr. Speaker, no more important measure Mr. CUMMINGS. I yield one minute to the gentleman from can come before the House than that which is here presented, Minnesota [Mr. CASTLE]. and I ask unanimous consent that the discussion be extended Mr. CASTLE. Mr. Speaker, in addition to the title suggest~d twenty minutes on a side. for this bill by one of the gentlemen who has preceded me, I Mr. RAYNER. I must object to that now. suggest this: ''A bUl for the purpose of depreciating all the prod # •• / Mr. COBB of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent ucts raised by the farmer." That this will b3 the inevitable ef that gentlemen who have spoken may have leave to extend theil· fect of the bill there is no doubt. The more purchasers and remarks. sellers of any commodity, the more dealers there are, and the The SPEAKER. Objection is made. The Chair has already more readily it finds a market. Cut off your purchasers, cut off submitted a requestforunanimousconsentand can not interrupt your dealers, and you {}Ut o.fi your market. This bill will depre · the debate by submitting another at this time. ciate the value of every bushel of wheat, bale of cotton, barrel Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield three-quarters of a of flour, pork, or bee! produced in this country. minute to my colleague [Mr. WARNERJ. [Laughter.] The men who are undertaking to pass this measure :are simply ,. Mr. WARNER. Mr. Speaker, we object to this bill because, the cat's-paws of a syndicate of mill-owners, a syndicate of ele in the first place, it is unconstitutional in its interference with vator men, and the object is to confine the markets for the prod the liberty of contract guaranteed by the Constitution of the ucts of the country to themselves. They do not wish to have United States. In the next place we object to it because upon outside parties interfering in their "deals;" they propose to its face it is a bald proposition to license gambling. The only have the farmers where they can handle them; they propose to consolation against which is that the report admits that such prop have things as they had them eight years ago when three or osition is a lie upon its face. Again, sir, it is a sham prop the prostitution of sons to express their objections to the measure-alittle more than the taxing power of this Government. [Applause on the Demo a. minute to each. cratic side. J Mr. Speaker, I deny the right of Congress to exercise the tax Mr. CUMMINGS. I yield half a minute to my colleague, the ing })Ower in order simply to impose a prohibition on commerce. gentleman from New York [Mr. COVERT]. This bill proposes to prohibit, not to regulate by taxation. It Mr. COVERT. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Missouri embodies no recognition of the taxing power in any proper sense. [Mr. HATCH] was right when he said that no Representative on 5076 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JUNE 6,
this floor can plead ignorance of the provisions of this bill. Its interests of the country. Why, a few years ago when a man watt every section proclaims it to be an unconstitutional measure in ginning his cotton the cotton-buyer came onto the plantation to restraint of trade. While not perhaps absolutely prohibitive, it buy it. A few years ago the wheat-buyer came to the farmer; is nevertheless so in effect. Commerce is as old almost as the but now all is changed, and self-constituted agents sell out world, and speculation, legitimate speculation, goes hand in hand both-- with c?mmerce and is part and parcel of it. Mr. Speaker, that The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expired. country is governed best which is governed least. The most Mr. FUNSTON. I also ask unanimous consent to extend my dangerous of allleglslative enactments are tho3e whose effect is remarks. . to weaken trade and shackle commerce. I for one can not let Mr. HATCH. I yield one minute to the gentleman from this occasion go -by without entering an emphatic prot3st SO'.lth Carolina [Mr. T!LLMAN]. against this iconoclastic attempt to tear down the temples of in Mr. TILLMAN. Mr. Speaker,likethegentlemanfrom Texas dustry of this country. [Mr. CULBERSON], I would like very much to discuss this bill. I [Here the hammer fell.] shall vote for it; but it has some features that I should have pre Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, •.roM REED'S Congress gave ferred to see modified. I could wish that it were confined to in six days' discussion to the force bill; a Democratic Congress re terstate commerce and that actual deliveries should not be taxed fuses more than fifteen minutes on a side for the discussion of a or controlled by vexatious regulations. But the people of the bill more grossly unconstitutional than was even the force bill. country demand it. The farmers of the South and West are [Applause.] · b3gging us to protect them against themselves-against the It is fit, sir, that this bill should be put through not only swiftly, temptations to engage in wind gambling, just as the constitutional but in the darkness. It ought to be passed at the dead hour of drankards and prohibitionists beg the lawmakers to protect them night-at mid.night-"when churchyards -yawn, and hell itself ag:1instthetemptation to use whisky. Isballnotvote for the bill breathes out contagion to this world." [Prolonged applause.] with any hope that it will raise or lower the price of spot prod [Here the hammer fell.] - ucts bought or sold for a,ctualdelivery, but, as just remarked, I The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Missouri has sev.en will support it simply to try to break up the present universal minutes remaining. and organized system of swindling small farmers and poor peo Mr. HATCH. Of that time I yield two minutes to the gen~ ple by alluring· them into making "wind c ~mtracts" with rich -tleman from Texas [Mr. CULBERSON] . men about agricultural products that result nearly always in the Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, Ishouldhaveliked verymuch strong wolves devouringtbeweak lambs. To a large ext9ntour to debate this bill, and had made some preparation to show my rea cotton and produceexchanges by dabbling so much in options sons for supporting the measure. But I believe it will be unjust and futures have degenerated into mere lotteries. They have to the House as well as unjust to the principles involved in the done more harm to the country than half a dozen Louisiana lot- measure itself for me to att9mpt the impossibility of making an teries. . argument upon it in the spac3 of two minutes. I there!ore re The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expired. spectfully ask leave of the House to withhold these remarks for Mr. TILLMAN. I will ask the liberty of extending my re revision, and to extend them in the RECORD. marks'in the RECORD . . The SPEAKER. The Chair will submit the request after the Mr. HATCH. I yield one minute to the gentleman from debate is concluded. Georgia [Mr. MOSESJ. · Mr. HATCH. Will the gentleman from Texas yield back the Mr. MOSES. Mr. Chairman, this is nottba first time that the time to me? world has heard the cry of ':Great is Diana of the Eph.esians!" Mr. CULBERSON. I yield it to my colleague [Mr. LANHAM]. Here Chicago, New York, and New Orleans are crying out Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Speaker, I only have time to say that I against that which they know will destroy this black-hearted shall give this bill my earnest support. It seems to me that' business; but we say to you representatives of these pirates of somewhere among the powers of Government, in the presenca of eommerce that the people intend that the farmers shall be re a universally recognized. evil, extending its pernicious influence lieved from the toll you levy upon their products. throughout the land, there must be and ought to be some a·.lthor You make a prohibitory tax to protect the manufacturers; you ity in legislation which may b3 appropriately employed for the levy a prohibitory tax to protect national ba'1.ks; but when we relief of our languishing agricultural indus'try. lt se9ms to me ask you to protect the farmers from these vultures of trade, you that the equities of good government, the proprieties oi life, the cry out" unconstitutional." ethics of civilization, and the conscience of mankind all combine Not a producer, not a manufacturer, not one of the people to forbid that the farmer should be despoiled of the legitimate comes before the committee to protest against the bill. No one rewards coming from his honest toil or embarrassed by artificial opposed it excapt the great b~ards of trade, which reap a golden compassings and arbitrary methods in the prospero:.1s pur3uit harvest out of this method of multiplying commissions. Now of his useful and worthy avocation. you are crying for time for discussion. We begged you all day J, like my colleague, ask consent to extend these remarks in last Saturday to quit filibustering and aHow the House to di::~ the RECORD. cuss it. The SPEAKER. The Chair will submit the request after the [Here the hammer fell.] . discussion bas terminated. Mr. HATCH. Mr. Chairman, I yield one minute to the gen Mr. HATCH. I yield two minutes to the gentleman from tleman from Iowa [Mr. HENDERSONl. Kansas [Mr. FUNSTON 1. Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. Me. Speaker, this is a battle be Mr. FUNSTON. Mr. Speaker, it is indeed remarkable to tween the great moneyed centers and the great fields of produc witness the appeals which come up here to-day in behalf of gen tion. [Applause.] tlemen whose local interests are directly involved in the decision We hear the old cry of'' unconstitutional." This conflict about to be made upon this question. Whenever they want to protect the Constitution was fought out on the oleomargarina bill. The themselves from the passage of something, the~ endeavor to bill now under consideration presents no n-ow element, ani tba.t hide behind the provisions of the Constitution. They never question has been settled. think of calling the Constitution to their aid to defeat a measure It is also charged that this bill confl.icts with Democratic pol for the protection of national banks, of which I am in favor. icy. It gives revenue "with incidental protection;" a"2d that is They never think of calling in the Constitution ta protect them broad enough to take yo".! all in. Besides, it raises revenue from selves against a tariff, of which I am in favor; they never think :'wind.'1 Be glad of that. It is aimei at a great evil. of calling in the Constitution to protect themselves against rail Yon struck down in Congress the Louisiana lottery, whose vic road measures, of which I am in favor when right and proper tims were voluntary. [Applaus3.] Will you refuse to strike ' · [laughter and applausel; but when it comes to attacking an i!n down a greater evil, whose victims are involuntary and who pro portantinterest of their ownlocalities and protecting the farmer test against these crimes? it is entirely against the Constitution of the country. I appeal to those who talk about their friendship for agrieul Mr. Chairman, a gentleman who spoke on the other side a few ture to lay aside yo ~r talk. Thirty minutes is too lon&" a time moments ago referred to an instance where it.was held to be a for this measure of justice. Vote your convictions hke men, violation of the Constitution to adopt such a measure as this, and showing that you mean business in your friendship fo::- the \ that there was no power in the Constitution to destroy anything farmer. [Applause.] through the taxing power. My memory does not serve me as t-:> fHere the hammer fell.] dates pr8cisely, nor exactly as to the language used, but it seems The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Missouri bas one min to me "that in a case of some sixty years :1go, between the city of ute. Balti.mot'e and the United States Bank, Chief Justice Marshall Mr. HATCH. Mr. Spe:1.ker, in that one minute I can only say said that the power of taxing meant the power to destroy, and that, having discharged my duty earnestly and conscientiously almost in these identical words. Now, weare endeavoring to de in this matter, this bill now goes to the Congress of the United stroy something. I do not disguise the fact that all we want is States for a vote. The gentleman from Iowa [Mr. HENDERSON] to destroy this system, which has been ruining the agricultural has said all that it is necessary to say, so far as this discussion is ...
1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 5077 concerned. It is a conflict between the farmers and the boards Blanchard, Dungan, Kendall, Robertson, La. Bland, Edmunds. Kribbs, Rockwell, of trade, and the gentleman from New York [Mr. Cu'MMINGS] Blount, Ellis, Kyle, Sayers, knows very well that when he made his first motion on Saturday BoWinan, Enloe, Lane, Scott, j to obstruct all discussion upon this bill he was acting then in Branch, Enochs, Lanham, Scull, Bretz, Everett, Layton, Seer ley, the interest of the boards of trade of the United States. Broderick, Fithian, Lester, Ga. Shell, Mr. CUMMINGS. How about the poor people whose bread it Brookshire, Flick, Lind, Simpson, raises the price of? Brown, Forman, Livingston, Smith, Bryan. Forney, Long, Snodgrass, Mr. HATCH. Oh, well, i1 the gentleman wanted discussion Bullock, Funston, Lynch, Snow, upon this bill, be had it in his power to allow discussion on Sat Bunting, Fyan, Mallory, Stackhouse, urday, and long before that time. [Applause.] But the gentle Busey, Gillespie, Martin, Steward, m Butler, Goodnight, McCreary, Stewart, Tex. man and his friends denied the opportunity for discussion. I Byrns, Gorman, McKaig, Stone, C. W. stood here and asked and pleaded for it. Gentlemen did not Caminetti, Grady, McKeighan, Stone, W. A. want this bill discussed, because they knew-- Capehart, Grout, McKinney, Stone, Ky. Cate, Hallowell, McRae, Taylor, E. B. The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expired. Clark, Wyo. Halvorson, Meredith, Taylor, J. D. Debate is exhausted, and the question is upon the motion of Cobb, Ala. Hamilton, Montgomery, Terry, the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. HATCH] to suspend the rules Coburn, Hare, Moore, T'..llman, Compton, Harries, Moses, Turpin, and pass the bill. · Coolidge, Hatch. Oates, VanHorn, Mr. HATCH. Now, l\l{r. Speaker, b3fore the question is put, Cooper, Haynes, Ohio o·Donnen, Watson, I again appeal to the House, and ask that gentlemen who have Cowles, Heard, Otis, Waugh, Cox, N.Y. Hemphill, Owens, Weadock, spoken may extend their remarks in the RECORD. Cox. Tenn. Henderson, Iowa Pattison, Ohio Wheeler, Mich. Mr. HEARD. Let the p armis3ion go further, so as to include Cra.ig.Pa. Henderson, N. C. Patton, White, every one. Crawford, Henderson, ill. Paynter, Whiting, Crosby, Hermann, Pearson, Wik:e, Mr. HATCH. With this addition, tbatallothermembersmay Culberson, Holman, Peel, Willcox, print remarks in the RECORD upon this subject. Curtis, Hopkins, Pa. Perkins, Williams, N.C. Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. I hope there will be no objection Daniell, Hopkins, Ill. Pierce, Williams, lll. Davis, Houk,Ohio Post, Wilson, Ky. to this request. DeArmond, Johnson, Ind. Price, Win.n, The SPEAKER. The Chair will again submit the request. De Forest, Johnstone, S.C. Raines, Wise, The gentleman from Missouri asks unanimous consent that all Dickerson, Jolley, Reilly, Wolve!'ton, Dingley, JoneR, Richardson, Youmans. gentlemen who desire to do so may be permitted to print re Dockery, Kem, Rife. marks in the RECORD upon the subject of the pending bill. Is there objection? NAYS-46. Mr. KILGORE. I object. Andrew, Durborow, McAleer, Randall, Bacon, English, McDonald, Rayner, Mr. HATCH. Let us have a vote. Boatner, Fellows, McGann, Stephenson, Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit are Brawley, Greenleaf, Meyer, Stevens, quest for unanimous consent-- Bushnell, Griswold, Mitchell, Storer, Caldwell, Harter, Mutchler, Stout, The SPEAKER. The Chair has repeatedly submitted re Campbell, Herbert, Newberry, Tarsney, quests upon this subject, and they have been objected to. Caruth, Johnson, Ohio O'Neil, Mass. Taylor, ill. Mr. LANHAM. I simply wish to ask that those who have Cobb, Mo. Lagan, O'Neill, Pa. Tracey, Covert, Lapham, Page, R.I. Warner. spoken upon the bill may be permitted to extend their remarks. Cummings, Lockwood, Page, Md. The SPEAKER. That has already been submitted; but the Dixon, Loud, Patterson, Tenn. Chair will again submit the request. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. LANHAM] asks unanimous consent that gentlemen who have NOT VOTING-116. submitted remarks upon the pending bill may be permitted to Allen, Clarke, Ala.. Hull, Reyburn, Amerman, Clover, Johnson, N.Dak. Robinson, Pa. extend them in the RECORD. Is there objection? Bartine, Cockran, Ketcham, Rusk, Mr. WAUGH and Mr. STONE of Kentucky objected. Barwig, Cogswell, Kilgore, Russell, The SPEAKER. The question is upon themotionof thegen Belden, Coombs, Lawson, Va. Sanford, Beltzhoover, Crain, Tex. Lawson, Ga. Shively, tleman from Missouri [Mr. HATCH] to suspend the rules and put Bergen, Cutting, Lester, Va. Shonk, this bill upon its passage. Bingham, Dalzell, Lewis, Sperry, Mr. HATCH. And upon that I demand the yeas and nays. Boutelle, Doan, Little, Springer, Bowers, Dolliver, Lodge, Stahlnecker, Mr. CUMMINGS. I move that the House do now adjourn. Breckinridge, Ark. Donovan, Magner, Stockdale, The SPEAKER. The Chair will state the motion. The gen- Breckinridge,Ky. Dunphy, Mansur, Stump, tleman from Missouri moves to suspend the rules and pas3 the Brickner, Elliott, McClellan, Sweet, Brosius, Epes, McMillin, Taylor, Tenn. bill, and upon that he demands the yeas and nays. Pending that Brunner, Fitch, Miller, Taylor, V. A. motion, the gentleman from New York [Mr. CUMMINGS] moves Buchanan, N. J. Fowler, Milliken, Townsend, that the House do now adjourn. Buchanan, Va. Gantz, Morse, Tucker, Bunn, Geary, Norton, Turner, Mr. WARNER. I move thatwhen theJHouse adjourns itad Burrows, Geissenhainer, O'Ferrall, W a.dsworth, journ to meet to-morrow at 12 o'clock noon. Bynum, Hall, O'Neill, Mo. Walker, The SPEAKER. The Chair will state to the gentleman from Cable, Harmer, Outhwaite, Warwick, Cadmus, Haugen, Pan·ett, Washington, New York [Mr. WARNER] that that motion is not in order. Castle, Hayes, Iowa Payne, Wever, Mr. HATCH. The gentleman had better get his rules and Catchings, Bitt, Pendleton, Wheeler, Ala. read them. Causey, Hoar, Pickler, Williams, Mass. Cheatham, Hooker, Miss. Powers, \Vilson, Wash. The SPEAKER. This being a motion to suspend the rules, Chapin, Hooker, N.Y. Quackenbush. Wilson, Mo. the motion of the gentleman from New York [Mr. WARNER] is Chipman, Houk, Tenn. Ray. Wilson, W.Va. not in order. Clancy, Huff, Reed, Wright. Mr. WARNER. I respectfully call attention to the point of During the roll call order, that under a motion to suspend the rules motions are not Mr. HATCH said: Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of order. cut off until after a motion to adjourn shall have been passed The SPEAKER. For what purpose does the gentleman rise? upon, and that this motion which I make is a motion which, under Mr. HATCH. I desire that the rule in regard to members be- the rules, takes precedence of a motion to adjourn. I respect in()' around the Clerk's desk may be obsarved during the con fully submit that it is in order, and must be passed upon before tit~uance of this roll call. Th3re is so much cohfusion that the the motion to adjourn can be put to the House. clerks complain that they can not get the roll complete. The SPEAKER. The Chair will cause the rule upon the sub- Sub3equently, Mr. HATCH again called for an observance of the ject to be read. sama rule. Mr. DOCKERY. Rule XXVIII settle3 that question. Mr. McMILLIN. Mr. Speaker, I do not know whether I am Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker- entitled to voteornot. I was detained from the Hall partof the The SPEAKER. The Chair will cause the rule to be read. time. I did not hear my name called. I was in the Hall a part Mr. CUMMINGS. I withdraw the motion to adjourn, Mr. of toth calls, but was called out on business in connection with Speaker. the river and harbor bill, and whether my name was called Mr. HATCH. Now, Mr. Speaker, I demand the yeas and nays during that time I do not know. If I am entitled to vote, I de upon my motion. sire to do so. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER. The Chair em only ask if the gentleman The question was taken; and there were-yeas 167, nays 46, not was in the Hall during the roll call and failed to hear his name voting 116; as follows: called'? YEAS-167. . Mr. McMILLIN. I was in the Hall during most of the call, and Abbott, Arnold, Bailey, Beeman, Alderson, Atkinson, Baker, Belknap, was on legislative business while oat, but I have made the only - Alexander, Babbitt, Bankhead, Bentley, statement that I can truthfully make. I desire to vote......
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The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks the gentleman would not Mr. MCKAIG ·with Mr. RUSK. Mr. McKAIG would vote for be entitled to vote under the rule. and Mr. RUSK against its consideration. Mr. McMILLIN. Then, I will state that I favor the suppres• Mr. FITOH with Mr. SWEET. All questions p~r1aining to the sion, so far as it can be done, of gambling in farm products, and antiaption bill. Mr. FITOH would vote against and Mr. SWEET voted on Saturday for the consideration of this bill, hoping by for it. amendment to take out an unconstitutional clause which it con Mr. SPERRY with Mr. MaCLELLAN. If present Mr. SPERRY tains. OI course I could not conscientiously vote for a bill that would vote against and Mr. MaCLELLAN would vote for consid in my judgment contains an unconstitutional clause. eration. Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, I desire to say that my colleagues, Mr. CADMUS with Mr. BROSIUS. Mr. BROSIDS would vote for Mr. LAWSON of Virginia and Mr. EPES, are absent and excused the bill and Mr. CADMUS would vote against it. on accomi t of sickness, and my colleague, Mr. O'FERRALL, is Mr. DuNPHY with Mr. BUNN. Antioption bill and all qu.es paired. If these three gentlemen were present they would have tions pertaining thereto. If pre ent Mr. DUNPHY would vote voted in the affirmative. against it and Mr. BUNN for it. Mr. BUNN. Mr. Speaker, I am paired with the gentleman Mr. HITT with Mr. COCKRAN. Antioption bill and all ques from 1':&ew York, Mr. DUNPHY, who is opposed to the bill. I tions pertaining thereto. Mr. HITT would vote in favor of the would have voted for it and he would have voted against it. As bill and Mr. COCKRAN would vote against it. a quorum ha voted, I desire to withdraw my vote. . Mr. BOATNER. Mr. Speaker, I d esire to ask if I am paired Mr. PEEL. Mr. Speaker, I am paired with the gentleman with the gentleman from Vermont [Mr. POWERS]. I voted in from Washington [Mr. WILSON], who is in _favor of the bill, and advertently, and ask to withdraw my voie. would have voted ''yea," I voted, and Wlll, therefore, let my The SPEAKER. The gentletn.an i not paired. vote stand. Mr. BOATNER. I transferred the pair to the gentleman Mr. HOLMAN. I call for a recapitulation of the vote. from Arkansas [Mr. CATE]. He is present. I, therefore, desire The vot3 was recapitulated. . to withdraw my Yote. The following pairs were announced: : Mr. TURPIN. Mr. Speaker, I am paired with the gentleman Until further notice: from South Dakota [Mr. PIOK!..:ER]; but lain credibly informed, Mr. CATCHINGS with Mr. HARMER. and am satisfied, that if he were present he would vote for the Mr. CLARKE of Alabama with Mr. QUAOKEN'BUSH. bill, and I ha.v0- therefore voted. Mr. STOCKDALE with Mr. CURTIS. The SPEAKER. On this question the yeas are 167, noes 46; Mr. WHEELER of Alabama with Mr. REYBURN. two-thirds have voted in favor thereof, the rules are suspended, Mr. NORTON with Mr. SANFORD. and the bill is passed. Mr. ALLEN with Mr. WEVER. ORDER OF BUSL."'fESS. Mr. CRAIN of Texas with Mr. RUSSELL. Mr; SHIVELY with Mr. BELDEN. Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker. I move that the House do now Mr. GANTZ with Mr. CUTTING. adjourn. . Mr. GESSENHAINER with Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker-- Mr. PENDLETON with Mr. LODGE. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Loui lana. Mr. LEwis with Mr. HoUK of Tennessee. Mr. COOPER. I insist upon my motion. I tnove that the Mr. COCKRAN with Mr. BINGHAM. House adjourn. Mr. O'NEILL of Missouri with Mr. KETCHAM. The SPEAKER. The Chair recognized the gentleman from Mr. WILSON of Missouri with Mr. HUFF. Louisiana.. Mr. PARRETT with Mr. WAUGH. Mr. COOPER. I rise to a point of order<. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas with Mr. COGSWELL. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Mr. TURPIN with 1\Ir. PICKLER. Mr. COOPER. I rose in my place and addressed the Speaker, Mr. OUTHWAITE ·with Mr. HULL. and I moved that the House adjourn~ I understand that that Mr. LAWSON of Virginia with Mr. MORSE. motion is always in m•der. Mr. TUCKER with Mr. TOWNSEND. The SPEAKER. The Chair will recognize the gentleman Mr. TURNER with Mr. BARTINE. after submitting the motion of the gentleman from Louisiana. Mr. CABLE with Mr. DOLLIVER. Because a gentleman rises in his place and addresses the Chair Mr. AMERMAN with Mr. POWERS. it does not follow that he is recognized. Half a dozen gentle Mr. CAUSEY ·with Mr. PAYNE. men may rise and address the Chair at the same time. !Great Mr. SPRINGER with Mr. REED. applause on the Democratic side.] The Ohair must exercise the Mr. PEEL with Mr. WILSON Of Washington, except river and right of recognition; but on the question of the propriety oi a harbor bill. motion, that is another question, and the Chair will rule upon Mr. LAwsoN of Georgia with Mr. :MILLIKEN, except river and it. The gentleman from Louisiana submits a motion, which the harbor bill. Clerk will report to the House. Mr. BRUNNER with Mr. BROSIUS, and river and harbor bill. Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speakert I move to suspend tho Mr. BRICKNER with Mr. BRODERICK, and river and harbor rules and pass the resolution which I send up to the Clerk's bill. desk. Mr. BYNUM with Mr. BURRows, including river and harbor The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: If Resolved, That the Rouse nonconcur in the Senate ame-ndment$ to House bill. present! Mr. BURROWS would vote for the bill, and Mr. blll 7820, entitled '"An act makin~ appropriation for the construction, repair, BY1<4lTh1 against it. · and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbor·, and for Mr. BERG:&'!' with Mr. HOAR, except on silver bill. othe-r purposes, 11 and agree to the Senate's request for a conference thereon. On this vote: Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now Mr. SHONK with Mr. WILSON of West Virginia. adjourn. Mr. WASHINGTON with Mr. VINCENT A. TAYLOR. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. CooPER] Mr. EPES with Mr. RAY. - movas that the House do now adjourn. That motion is in order. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Kentucky with Mr. DALZELLt from The question was takenr and the Speaker declared that the this day 1orone week. noes seemed to have it. Mr. O'FERRALL with Mr. CLARK of Wyoming, except the Mr. COOPER. I ask for a division. dver and harbor bill (Monday and Tuesday). The Hou e divided; and there were~ayes 15, noes 1U. Mr. HOOKER of Mississippi with Mr. DOAN, for ten days from Mr. COOPER. I call for the yea9 and nays. Monday, June 6, except river and harbor bill. The question was taken on ordering !he yeas and nays, and 16 Mr. EARWIG with Mr. HAUGEN, until otherwise ordered, ex members voted in the affirmative. cept the silver question. Mr. COOPER. I call ror the other side. Mr. MANSUR with Mr. TAYLOR of Tennessee, from April 2, The other side was countedr and on the demand for the yeas 1892, until further notice. Not to be changed in the absence of and nays, there were-ayes 16, noes 139. either. So the yeas and nays were refused, and the motion of Mr. Antioption bill: COOPER to adjourn was rejected. Mr. MAGNER with Mr. CHEATHAM. Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker, !demand a second on the pend Mr. ELLIOT'l' with Mr. BOUTELLE. ing proposition. Mr. GEARY with Mr. HAYES of Iowa. The SPEAKER. Asecond is demanded. The Chair will ap Mr. WILLIAMS of Ma sachus9tts with Mr. BOWERS. point to act as tellers thegentlemanfromindiana[Mr.ROLMAN] Mr. COOMBS with Mr. HOOKER of Mississippi. If present Mr. and the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. BLANCHARD]. H08KER \vould vote for and Mr. COOMBS against its consideration. The House divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 155, noes Mr. COJ\fi>TON with Mr. RAYNER. Mr. COMPTON would vote 13. for and M1·. RAYNER against its consideration. So a second was ordered. 1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 5079
The SPEAKER. The Chair will recognize the gentleman The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HOLMAN] has to-day made from Louisiana [Mr. BLANCHARD] to control the time in favor the same speech in opposition to river and harbor improvements of his r esolution, and the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HOLMAN] which he has been making on this floor for the past twenty-odd to control the time against. it. years; but in spite of the fact that he has made that spv~ch for that Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the commit number of years the sentiment in the country favorable to river tee I will r eserve the fiiteen minutes to which we are entitled. and harborimprovemen ts has been growing stronger and s tronger [Mr. HOLMAN withholds his remarks for revision. See Ap- each year, until to-day we find more than t wo-thirds of the Rep re pendix.] · sentativesof the American people on this floor, representing both great political parties, sustaining a river and harbor bill by praf Mr. BUTLER. Mr. Chairman, I had desired to say a few erence over any other bill. Even since the last river and hal' words on this question, but I find it vractically impossible to do bor bill became a law the sentiment of this country favorable to so. I had felt there was a possibility that this House might re the improvement of rivers and harbors has increased more than alize the enormity of the expenditures that some of us have ad it has m reference to any other subject of legislation. vocl ted and voted for here. I had felt that at least the new The gentleman may talk here until his voice becomes hoarse, members of this House who came here as the result of the ver and declare that this bill is going to result in harm to the Dam dict of the people of the country against the extravagance of a ocratic party. But I, with equal in~istence, tell him that the former Congress-I had felt there was a possibility of rousing failure of this Damccra.tic House to continue the great public the new m3n a t least to a feeling that their duty here to-day is to works of river and harbor improvement would ba visited upon oppos 3 the extravagant legislation on which we are now called the head of the Demccratic party in the elections this fall. to vote. But when a second on this motion was ordered I was The gentleman from Indiana is pursuing an adroit policy to practicallj- convinced that it was almost impossible to stem the defeat any river and harbor appropriation at this session oE tido. Th:.\t vote took away almost all the hope I had of s:peak Congress. And let me tell him, and tell the House, and tell the ing in defell3e of those things which I believe to be right and countt·y, that if that were to happen, as he hopes in his soal it aga. ~ n st those which I believe to be wrong; because I know to will happen, the Government of the United States would lose begin. with -I can feel it in the air-that any talk will simply millions by the deterioration of public works on rivers and har amount to talk, and that the votes are not to ba given in har bors now under way. Stop these great works, as he propGses, mony with the views we have been expressing and in harmony and what results? You lose the many millions of dollars that with the idea of economy of administration in public affairs. have been already appropriated for the construction of works But I say hera and now, that no man can prophesy the evil to now in part completed. Left in an incomplete state they S!-"'Cedily the Dcrnccratic party that will follow as a result from the ex go to waste and ruin. He talks t-o us about extravagance and is travagant appropriations of this House. A man may explain it on his feet with alacrity to -protest against this bill, and yet, sir, awaJ to his constituents with all the skill that he may choose to this bill is nearly four millions less than the river and harbor apply to it and yet not one of them can prophesy results as se bill of the last Congress. "Extravagant," he says. And yet, ver..; a3 those whiCh are sure to fall u:pon this House if we vote in even as it comes from the Senat.e it is but $21,335,000 as against favor of such extravagant appropriatw:ris as are embodied in this $25,000,000 which the bill two yeara ago carried. Is not that a. bill. Besides that, sir, no man can justify the appropriations at substantial decrease in appropriations on this line? It seems to all excapt on the idea that" you help me and I will help you." me, sir, that it is so understood by everyone here excapt the Me. BOATNER. The gentleman is wholly mistaken on that. gentleman from Indiana. Mr. BUTLER. The gentleman says that I am wholly mistaken. Mr. Speaker, this talk about the pa3sage of this river and har That may be. I cartainly feel exactly what I say on this sub bor bill bringing upon the country another attempt topas3 a force ject bill is a proposition which, bafore an intelligent audience liJre I have never seen the time in the House that I could justify this, needs no argument to refute. That is but a scarecrow that mys31f for keeping silent and failing to respond to my name when the ~entleman from Indiana . [Mr. HOLMAN] hoists with a view the roll was called. There has been no roll call in this House of fr1ghtening somebody. Th3 paople of this country, all over which has OC->{}n taken since I have been a member where my the United States-even where the great metropolitan journals name is not recorded, and I have not been absent from the House are printed that attack the river and harb:>r bill-the masses of a. day or an hour. But on such an occasion as this I do feel as if the people, whether they be Democrats or Republicans, are fo ~· I could almost justify refraining from voting at all, for the pur a continuation of a liberal policy of river and harbor improve· pose of preventing a quorum taking such action as we propose. ments. I feel, Mr. Sp2aker, that the prosperity and the future of our The contra{}t or continuing work system in this bill, which the party depend upon economy in the administration of the Govern gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HOLMAN) denounces in such un ment inst.ead of extravagance. These are the pledges that we measured terms, is by far the most important and most meritor have made t:> the people, and if we do not keep the pledges to ious feature of the bill. When the Chief of Engineers com3s day all the talk which we may undertake to give to the people, before your Committee on Rivers and Harbors and t3lls th ~ to explain away this action, when we go home, will be as idle committee that the step taken in that direction in th9last river wind, accomplishing nothing. and harbor bill, which placed four of the large projects of rivar The man who promises economy can not fulfill that promise and harbor improvement under that syst3m, would result in a with extravagance. Local interest can not justify national ex saving of 33t per cent to the Government of the amount that it penditure; and in this bill the portions of local importance are would otherwise cost to complete these improvaments-I say carried upon the strength of the few national water ways. You when be makes that statement before the C:>mmittee on Rive r.:> whcse localities are favored in the bill may escape the crash of and Harbors, and furnishes the figures to sustain his statement, national indignation, but the people will demand a proper ac it is a bold man who rises in his place here and challenges the counting oi the moneys appropriated, and will overthrow any contract projects in this bill as being essentially b3.d and per billion-dollar Congress, whether it be Democratic or R-epublican. nicious. The contract projects in this bill ara nothing less than Let us be warned in time. Economy was the heart of our the application of sound business principles to river and harbor pledges, and those pledges must be redeemed. improvement. Mr. HOLMAN. Has the gentleman from Iowa occupied all When a man undertakes to construct a house he does not do it the time? by installments. He makes a contract for its completion; and The CHAIRMAN. There is one minute remaining. thatis all thecontractprojects in this bill do. We authorize the Mr. BLANCHARD. I hope the gentleman will use that now. Secretary of War to contract for the completion of certain works Mr. HOLMAN. I will yield that. of river and harborimprovement. Therewere tenof those nroj Mr. BLANCHARD. I am certainly entitled to the closing. ects in the bill as it left this House, and the Senate has added Mr. HOLMAN. The affirmative should certainly be heard five, and not six, as the gentleman from Indiana states. from on this question. Mr. HOLMAN. I have the figures before me. Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker, I was entitled to the open Mr. BLANCHARD. Now, Mr. Speaker, this proposition is ing of this discussion. Having waived the opening, I am cer not for the passage of the river and harbor bill at this time- tainly entitled to the closing. Mr. HOLMAN. It is the final vote. For years past the Government of the United States has been Mr. BLANCHARD. This is merely a resolution nonconcur engaged in an extensive system of river and harbor improve ring in the Senate amendments to the bill and agreeing to the ments. Both of the great political parties are :pledged to a con Senat3's request for a conference. tinuation of this system. It is directly in the mterest of one of Mr. HOLMAN. That passes the bill. the great questions affecting the industrial world to-day, the Mr. BLANCHARD. By no means. The adoption of the con question of transportation; and a liberal river and harbor appro ference report passes the bill. Heretofore, in all my experience priation bill, such as this one is, will do more to regulate the jn this House until this session of Congress, it has always b3en railway rates in the United States than a dozen Interstate Com the rule that whenever a river and harbor bill came back from merce Commissions will do. the Senate with Senate amendments, coupled with a request from -: 5080 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JUNE 6,
the Senate that the House agree t:> a conference with the Senate Now I yield to the gentleman from Kentucky to ask a question. upon the amendments, unanimous consent to agree to the Sen The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expired. ate's request for a conference has always been given until this The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HOLMAN] has one minute. time, when it was denied. Mr. HOLMAN. I yield that to the gentleman from Missouri Mr. BLOUNT. Will the gentleman yield for a question? [Mr. O'NEILL). Mr. BLANCHARD. I will yield to the gentleman from Mr. O'NEILL of Missouri. Mr. Speaker there are three prop Georgia. ositions well observed in the passage of this bill-addition, di Mr. BLOUNT. I wish to know f>'r information how the river vision, and silence. The bill was obnoxious enough when it and harbor bill for the fiscal year 1893, when there is added to passed the House, and the provisions incorporated by the Senate it the amount in the sundry civil bill, compares with the amount are simply discreditable, and you can not do justice to this bill that was taken out of the Treasury by th 9 bill for the fiscal year by referring it to a committee of conference. It should be con 1891? sidered in the open House, and this House should put its heel Mr. HOLMAN. Without the contracts? emphatically upon many featuras that have been engrafted on Mr. BLOUNT. The gentleman from Louisiana understands this bill by the Senate. my question. The Senate posed before the country as the special guardian Mr. BLANCHARD. I do not know the exact amount appro of the Treasury by adopting a resolution providing for a cut of priated in the sundry civil bill to meet payments under the con 2-5 per cent in the amotmt fixed by the House for the improve tracts authorized in the last river and harbor bill. ment of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Mr. CATCHINGS. Eight hundred a!ld fourteen thousand They made the cut, but what has become of the money? As dollars. you will observe, the t'Jtal is ab:>ut the same as the bill that Mr. BLANCHARD. I am informed that the amount is $814,000 passed the House. only. Wby, the Senate committee, seen from the localities to be Mr. BLOUNT. Adding that to the amount that the bill car benefited, divided this amount among themselves in lavish ap ries-- propriations for unimportant straams, ship railways, canals, and Mr. BLANCHARD. The bill for 1892 carded about $25,000,- special points that were fortunate enough to be represented on 000 as it became a law. The Treasury officials state that it was the committees. a little over $25,000,000. This bill with the Senate amendments The principal obstruction to the commerce of the Mississippi is $21,335,000. Valley exists between the Missouri and Ohio Rivers. The Sen Mr. HOLMAN. Without the contracts. ate cuts down this appropriation over $200,000, and yet increases Mr. BLANCHARD. And in the sundry civil bill there is by over a million the appropriation for the Kanawha River, carried $814,000 for river and harbor improvement. and over one million and a half for a ship railway on the Co Mr. BLOUNT. Reference has been made to these contracts. lumbia River. Do these contracts add anything to the amount to bs taken out The appropriation for the Upper Mississippi was small enough, of the bill for 1893, or is the amount to be distributed through a and yet they take fifty thousand of that appropriation to quarry series of years? out a road between St. Paul and Minneapolis. The entire bill Mr. BLANCHARD. It is distributed through a series of bears the impress of special jobs, at the expense of keeping from years. the veople the benefits of the improvement of the great rivers, Mr. HOLMAN. Row can you tell? the rmprovement of which serve as a pretext for the passage -of Mr. BLANCHARD. I will state to my friend from Georgia. bills of this kind. [Mr. BLOUNT] that thereis noappropriation for any year in this Mr. McRAE. Is it not a good thing t,o nonconcur in such bill beyond the next fiscal year. The money for the remaining amendments? contract years is to be appropriated for from time to time by law. Mr. O'NEILL of Missouri. It is a good thing to bring it into Mr.DOCKERY. Whatistheamountof the contracts carried this House and put your heel on it. in the bill as it comes from the Senate? Mr. DOCKERY. And discuss it. Mr. BLANCHARD. The number of contracts? Mr. O'NEILL of Missouri. And to discuss it ina proper way. Mr. DOCKERY. The amount of the contracts carried in the I am not in favor of a confer.:-nce of this kind, where unfortu bill as it comes from the Senate. The aggregate amount. nately we do not have disinterested parties admitted to the con Mr. BLANCHARD. There were added by the Senate five ference. contract provisions, one for the harbor of New York, called The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expired. Gowanus Bay, for which an appropriation of $100,000 is recom The question is on the motion of the gentleman from Louisiana., mended in the bill, and it is put under the contract system for to suspend the rules and pass the resolution nonconcurring in an expenditure not exceeding $574,400 more. the Senate amendments and agreeing to the conference asked Mr. BLOUNT. But only $100,000 of that, if adopted, will be by the Sen~te on the river and haebor bill. expended in the year 1893? Mr. DOCKERY. L3t us have the yeas and nays. Mr. BLANCHARD. That is all. The yeas and nays we ~· e ordered. Mr. HOLMAN. The whole thing depends upon the Chief of The question was taken; and there were-yeas 150, nays 60, not Engineers. voting 119; as follows: Mr. BLANCHARD. I do not yield to the gentleman from In YEAS-lao. diana. The next is the Great Kanawha. Abbott, Enloe. Layton, Randall, Mr. STONE oi Kentucky. I would like to ask the gentleman Alderson, Enochs, Lester, Ga. Ray, a question-- . Alexander, Everett, Lind, Rayner, Arnold, Fellows, Livingston, Reyburn, Mr. BLANCHARD. I would rather not yield tmtil I get Babbitt, Forman, Lockwood, RUe, through with this question that has been asked me by the gen Bankhead, Forney, Long, Robertson, La. tleman from Georgia. The Great Kanawha was placed under Beeman, Funston, Loud. Scull, Belknap, Geary, Lynch, Shell, the contract system in the Senate. It carries an appropriation Blanchard, Gillespie, Mallory, Smith, in the bill of $225,000, and the bill authorizes a further expendi Bland, Goodnight, McAleer, Snodgrass, ture to complete that work of $1,080,700. Blount, Gorman, McCreary, Stackhouse, Boatner, Greenleaf, McDonald, Stephenson, The St. John's River is placed under the contract system. It Bowman, Gric;wold, McKinney, Stewart, Tex. was in our bill for $150,000. It was reduced to $112,500 in the Brawley, Halvorson, McMillin, Stone, C. W. Senate, but placed under the contract system for an additional Broderick, Hare, McRa.e, Stone, W. A. Bullock, Harries, Meredith, Stone, Ky. expenditure of $284,500 in subsequent years to complete it. The Bunting, Harter, Meyer, Storer, Missouri River was reduced from $800,000, as we had. it in the Byrns, Hatch, Miller, Tarsney, bill, $600,ooo- Caldwell, Hayes, Iowa Mitchell, Taylor, TIL to Caminetti, Haynes _
-· 1892. CONGRESSION·AL RECORD-HOUSE.- 5081 -. NAY8-00. NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL. Bacon, Cooper, Ha.milton, Richardson, Mr. HERBERT. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules Bailey, Cowles, Heard, Rockwell, Baker, Cox,N. Y. Henderson, N. C. Sayers, and pass the resolution which I send to the Clerk's desk. Bentley, Cox, Tenn. Holman, Seer ley, The Clerk read as follows: Bretz, Craig, Pa. Kem, Shonk, .Resolved, That the House of Representatives hereby nonconcurs in all the Brookshlre, Crawford, Kribbs, Snow, amendments by the Senate to H. R. 7093, entitled, "A bill making appropria Brown, Crosby, Lane, Steward, lll. tions for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, and for Bryan, DeArmond, Martin, Stout, other purposes;" that it ask of the Senate a conference thereon, and that Bunn, Dixon, McKeighan, VanHorn, Busey, Dockery, Mutchler, Warner, the Speaker of the House be authorized to appoint conferees to confer with Bushnell, Edmunds, Newberry, Watson, such as may be appointed by the Senate. Butler, Fithian, O'Neil, Mass. White, The SPEAKER. Is a second demanded? · Campbell, Fowler, O'Neill, Mo. Williams, N.C. Mr. DINGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a second. I ask Oa.ruth, Grady, Patton, Williams, lll. Coolidge, Hallowell, Reilly, Wilson, Ky. unanimous consent that a second may be considered as ordered. The SPEAKER. Without objection a second will be consid NOT VOTING-119. ered as ordered. Allen, Cogswell, Houk, Tenn. Robinson, Pa. There was no objection. Amerman, Compton, Hutr, Rusk, The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Alabama [Mr. HER . Andrew, Coombs, Hull, Russell, Atkinson, Crain. Tex. Johnson, N. Dak Sanford, BERT] will be recognized to control the time in favor of the prop Bartine, Cummings, Kendall, Scott, osition, and the gentleman from Maine [Mr. DINGLEY1 against it. Ba.rwig, Cutting, Ketcham, Shively, Mr. DINGLEY. I would like to ask the gentleman fro::n Al Belden, Dalzell, Lawson, Va. Simpson, Beltzhoover, Daniell, Lawson, Ga. Sperry, abama, especially in the absence of gentlemen who are members. Bergen, De Forest, Lester, Va. Springer, of that committee on this side, if this matter has been considered Bingham, Dingley, Lewis, Stahlnecker, in committee and if the gentlemen representing this side have Boutelle, Doan, Little, Stevens, Bowers, Dolliver, Lodge, Stockdale, agreed to this request? Branch, Donovan, Magner, Stump, Mr. HERBERT. It was the unanimous request of the com Breckinridge, Ark.Dunphy. Mansur, Sweet, mittee. Breckinridge, Ky. Elliott, McClellan, Taylor, Tenn. Brickner, Ellis, McGann, Taylor, V. A. Mr. DINGLEY. Then I have no further objection. [Cries of Brosius, Epes, McKaig, Townsend, "Vote!" ';Vote! "J Brunner, Fitch, Milliken, Tucker, The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu Buchanan, N. J. Flick, Morse, Turner, Buchanan, Va. Fyan, Norton, Wadsworth, tion offered by the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. HERBERT]. Burrows, Gantz, O'Ferrall, Warwick, The question was taken. Bynum, Geissenhainer, OUthwaite, Waugh, The SPEAKER.. In the opinion of the Chair, two-thirds hav Cable, Grout, Parrett, Wever, ca.dmus, Hall, Pendleton, Wheeler, Ala. ing voted in favor thereof, the rules are suspended, the House Causey, Harmer, Pickler, Williams, Mass. nonconcurs in the Senate amendments and asks for a conference, Cheatham, Haugen, Post, Wilson, Wash. and the Chair will appoint as conferees on the part of the House Chapin, Hitt, Powers, Wilson, Mo. Clancy, Hoar, Quackenbush, Wolverton, Mr. HERBERT, Mr. ELLIOTT, and Mr. BOUTELLE. Clover, Hooker, Miss. Raines. Wright. REMOVAL OF TAX ON CIRCULATION OF STATE BANKS. Cockran, Hooker, N.Y. Reed, Mr. RICHARDSON.' Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker, I am paired with the gentleman rules and pass the bill which I send to the Clerk's desk. from New York [Mr. HOOKER]. If he were present he would The Clerk read the title of the bill, as follows: vote " yea " and I would " nay." A bill (H. R. 8502) to repeal section 3412 of ·the Revised Stat Mr. PEEL. Mr. Speaker, I am paired with the gentleman utes of the United States, which imposes a tax of 10 per centum from Washington [Mr. WILSON]. If he were present he would on the circulating notes of State banks and State banking asso vote ''yea." I have voted'' yea;" and by agreement I will let ciations. the vote stand. The bill was read, as follows: Mr. DINGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I was out of the House and Be it enacted, etc., That section 3412 of the Revised Statutes of the United came in just after my name had been called. I suppose under the States, which imposes a tax of 10 per cent on the circulation of St-ate banks or State banking associations, and which imposes a· tax on all banks rule I would not be entitled to vote. and banking associations which receive or pay out the notes or circulation The SPEAKER. No, sir. If the gentleman was not in the ·of State banks and State banking associations, be, and the same are hereby, Hall and failed to hear his name called he would not be allowed repealed. to vote under the rule. The SPEAKER. Is a second demanded? Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, am I recorded? Mr. BACON. A second is demanded, Mr. Speaker. The SPEAKER. The gentleman is not recorded. Mr. RICHARDSON. I ask unanimous consent that a second Mr. CUMMINGS. I am paired with the gentleman from North be considered as ordered. Carolina [Mr. CHEATHAM]. Mr. BACON. I can not agree to that. The following additiona! pairs were announced: The SPEAKER. A second being demanded, the Chair will Until further notice: appoint to act as tellers the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Mr. DUNPHY with Mr. QUACKENBUSH. RICHARDSON] and the gentleman from New York [Mr. BACON]. Mr. ANDREW with Mr. BOWERS. The House divided; and the tellersreported-ayesl04, noes 63. For the rest of the day: So a second was ordered. Mr. CADMUS with Mr. ATKINSON. The SPEAKER. The Chair will recognize the gentleman Mr. WILLIAMS of Massachusetts with Mr. KETCHAM. from Tennessee [Mr. RICHARDSON] to control the time in favor On this vote: of his motion, and the gentleman from New York [Mr. BACON] Mr. ELLIOTT with Mr. BOUTELLE. to coatrol the time in opposition. On the river and harbor bill: Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, this bill repeals section Mr. SCOTT with Mr. HOOKER of New York. 3412 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which imposes Mr. KRIBBS with Mr. JOHNSON of North Dakota. a tax on the circulation of State banks and State banking associ- Mr. STEVENS with Mr. VINCENT A. TAYLOR. ations. ' Mr. MAGNER with Mr. WILSON of Washington. The tax now imposed by this section is 10 per cent per annum. Mr. CUMMINGS with Mr. CHEATHAM. The effect of a tax so high is to absolutely prohibit all banks and Mr. BRICKNER withMr.HlTT. Mr. BRICKNER would votefor banking associations other than national banks from issuing cir and Mr. HITT against the bill. culating notes. There is not to-day in the Union a bank qr bank· Mr. LAWSON of Georgia with Mr. SIMPSON. ·If present Mr. ing association other than a national bank which has in circul&-· LAWSONof Georgiawouldforand Mr. SIMPSON against the bill. tion one dollar. Mr. HOOKER of Mississippi with Mr. GROUT. Mr. HOOKER National banks alone enjoy this privilege of issuing their notes of Mississippi would vote for and Mr. GROUT against the bill. as a circulating medium. This, perhaps, might not be com Mr. SPERRY with Mr. McCLELLAN. If present Mr. SPERRY plained at if these favorites would avail themselves of the privi would vote for and Mr. MCCLELLAN against the bill. lege thus accorded them, but this they fail and refuse t9 do. The SPEAKER. On the motion of the gentleman from Lou There is a tax of 1 per cent imposed on their circulation. For isiana the yeas are 148, the nays 61; two-thirds having voted in this reason they say it is not profitable for them to avail them favor of the motion, the rules are suspended, the Senate amend selves of the privilege of issumg notes for circulation. Under men ts are nonconcurred in, the request of the Senate for a confer the national banking law they have the right to issue an ainount ence is agreed to, and the following conferees are appointed on ol notes equal to 90 per cent of their capital stock. If they the part of the House: Mr. BLANCHARD, Mr. CATCHINGS, and availed themselves of this privilege it may be that the demand Mr. HENDERSON of illinois. of the country for increased circulation might be met. In this 5082 OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JUNE 6, connection I refer to the situation in Nashville, Tenn., to illus whether half that amount ia in active circulation; and we find it t:rat3 the argument I desire tomake. In thatcitytheyhave four to be true that while there is thatamoun't of money issued under national banks with a capital in the aggregate of $3,500~000. authority of the Federal Government, it is wncentrated in th e. T hese banks under the law could have in circulation 90 per hands of t.he bankePS"and capitalists; it h M .ffoa.ted into what are cent of their capital, or $3,150,000. They have in fact a circula known as the money cent:3 rs-the manufa.cturing and c ~ mmer tion in the aggregate of $180',000. These banks are prosperous cial parts o.fi the cotmtry-and has left the agricultueal districts institutionsr but they only fairly illustrate the financial situa almost destitute of money. While the money in the country, tio-n~ not only in Nashville, but elsewhere throughout the Union. including deposits and reserves, amounts to nearly $25 per capita, They are required under the law to keep a certain amount of bonds. there is not in active cireulation in the Southern States $0 per This they do and have only the smallest amount of circulation capita. A most unequal distribution. they can get along with. Thus it will ba seen that national Many schemes have been devised and presented for the r elief banks alone ean have circulating notes under the law, and they of th.is anomalous condition of things. The exigency has given wHl not do it. This bill is not intended to injure national banks. rise to the suggestion of a great many mea'3ures which are un It does not create or charter banks anywhere. The effect of it constitutional or wild and impracticable. W e have before us a will be simply to permit any State that desires to do so to pass constitutional amendment, and a bill to carry it into effect, pro a bank.ing law and put into operation banking associations which viding for the issue of $2(} p:e1• capita of Treasury notes, which may issUie' circulating notes~ The cry has come up from every would gran11. relief temporarily- but so long as the money :p ower quarter or this broad land, except from a few money centers, is centralized in the hands of the Federal Government you will that the chcuiation is woolly insufficient to meet the demands find in the cuurse of time the same re nits to flow from it that of t rade·. are realized at present, becausa the ca:xses operating are the This bill wilt give relief to that cry in a perfectly sound and safe same; that is to say, this m~ ey will ba cr:m.centrated in the m:m way. It WI1! not add to the legal-tender ciYculMion~ or impos-e ufacturt!lg and commercial centers, while the agricultm:al peo the slightes-t bur·aen upon the Government. If this law shal1 pass ple, especially during the seasons of the year when they so much States ma.y charter banks oi issue, which under weU-gu:a.r"ded laws need money will be left without it. will be able to supply the largest lom1,! demands for a sound cur If the law which now imposes this tax on the issue. o.f State rency. In the brief time allotted me it is not possible for me to can ks weTe repealed it would aJlow the charte-ring o! State banks bring forwar·d the many r easons which exist fo-r this legislation. and the issue of money by them, and I doubt not that witb tho It would add, to the solvent bankable fund of the country a. sup experience of the past, e-very State, taking advantage of this re ply equa.l to any fair demand. It would give smaller cities and peal, would provide for the security and redemption of its cir towns way in the interior banking facilities equal to those in. the culating notes so as to make them as good a.s greenbacks. Thus lal'ge cities. It would create a legitimate demand for State and there would be' given to the people a localcu~rrency which would municipal securities where the State laws provided that their relieve them from this stringency. Some gentlemen object that bank circulation should be based on such securities. It would while this currency would be good at home, it. would be at a dis lessen the pm~er of speculators andcapitalistsin the great finan count if camed into other States of the Union. Sir, I think if cial centers to control the money markets of the whole country. that were trne, and I do not 'believe that it would occur in many It would atonceincreasethevolume of curreucyinthecountry cases, :lt would constit~ no objection. I want to decent.raliz until aJl just demands were met. It would answer in a far better the money power; and if this money, issued in any State, were and :i.n a perfectly constitutioual manner the demands in some at a discount in other States, while good at home, the tendency quarters for the subtreasury and the land-loan scheme. This would be to bring it back and keep it within the borders of the legitimate increase in the volume of currency means prosperity Statet and thereby furnish the people with a local currency tore of the very highest order. With a circulation so restricted we lieve their needs, while in no wise interfering with. the national can expe:c1 nothing but hard times, dull business, and frequent circula-tion. bankruptci~s. The prod.uctofthefarmers in the country to-day Mr. TURNER. This currency of the State banks would live are selling at prices ruinously low, prices actually below the cost in the States,. and, like chickens, would "come home to- roost. ' of production. Give the countrymoremoney-goodmoney-and Mr. DAVIS. Would that State money lift a mortgage') times will change. This bill, in my judgment, is far better for Mr. OATES. Of course it would not be a legal tender; and tbe country, so fa1~ aa relief from stringency in money matters your nat.ion.al-b6nk notes are. not a legal tender either. You is. concerned, than any fre-e-coinage bill. This section of the can not depend upon supplying the country with currency by statutes should be repealed anyway for the reason that it is wrong, means of the national-banking system. That system is doomed. absolutely- wrong in principle. The result it brings about is It will not meet the demands of the people of the country. F:rom purely prohibitory. !tis meant to be so in itse1Iect. It imposes .a circulation at one time of nearly $400,000,000 it has dwindled a tax on the circulationofbanksotherthannational banks which down to $160,000,000. It cannot survive longer than 1907 1 when prohibit such circulation. It is therefore in its plainest sense the bonds of the Government will be due and must be paid. It is the exercise of the Federal taxing power, not to raise revenue, for high time that Congress was preparing some substitute for the it raises none, and is not intended, but to kill off a vocation law national-bank circulation. While the national banking system ful and! proper. It is a perversion of the taxing power which remains I would utilize and make th0 best possible use of it for greatly injures the country, 1·etards its prosperity, and there the benefit of the people. is no possible excuse for longer tolerating it on the statute books. I introduced a bill at the beginning of this Congress to amend I now yield five minutes to the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. the law so as to allow national banks to lend money at a legal rate OATES]. of interest on real-estate security. I sent that bill to the Com Mr. OATES. Mr. Speaker there has been no measure before mittee on Banking and Currency, and although I appeared be 'Chis House during th.epresentsession, and! doubt whether there fore that committee and urged them to report it favorably last hM been any in several sessions, equal to this in importance. January, no report has yet been madeuponit. Thatwouldhave This bill is not to repeal the tax on what is known as "wild-cat" a tendency to induce the banks to take out a larger circulation money or "shinplasters'' issued by corporations or municipali and lend it to the people who have real estate to offer as security, ties. It is to repeal the 10 pe1• cent tax now imposed by law which is usuallythe very best security in the world. If this bill upon the issues of regular State banks. Gentlemen will observe were passed it would therefore contribute much towards the that there are two sections of the statutes bearing upon this relief of the stringency of the money.market, and its provisions question. The one proposed to be repealed by this bill is in the are such as to hold the Iendero down to tbe legal rate of interest. following language: The low price of farm products which has prevailed now for SEC. 3412. Every natioua.l banking associatien.. State bank, or State bank two years has barely en-abled the farmers of the Southern: and ing association, shall p~ a tax o! 10 per cent on the amount o! notes o! any person, oro! any State bank or State banking association, used !or circular Western States to pay current expenses. All that they have tlon and paid out by them. realized for their crops went to the local merchants and money The other section, not embraced in this bill, reads: lenders, and the bulk of it went from these to the great mercan SEC. 3413'. Every national banking assoefation, State bank, or banker, or tile a.nd manufacturing sections of the Union; and thus our association, shall pay a ta.x of 10 per cent on the amount or notes of a.ny farmers, especially in the Southern States-who are d~enden t town, city, or municipal col'pora.tion, paid out by them. upon cotton for their money-have no money to make their crops The bill does not propose to repeal the latter section at all, the present year, and are compelled in most cases to borrow, which oontinues the tax on town, city,and municipal notes, usu and the money which is to loan is so scarce that it commands a ally known as shi:nplasterg, but only to relieve the issues of regu high and ruinous rate of interest-ruinous to those who have to lar State banks from the tax of 10 per cent imposed upon them pay it. A proper understanding of the running of interest is b-y section 3412. at once the comprehension of the whole financial problem, ap Now, sir, it is known to every well-informed man tJ.!at there plicable alike to individuals, States, and nations. The individ is a sfiringency of money in the Southern and Western States un ual boTrowerwho pay~ a high rate is on the road to. the poor paralleled in the histo--ry of this country. While &bout sixteen house, and the higher the rate the more it will accelerate his hundred millions of dollars are said to be in circulation, I doubt progress.
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All the schemes which have been proposed for the relief of It will be observed that this bill does notlegislatefor the State. G. financial distress among the agricultural people are of a central It does not force a banking -system upon any State. It but re· izinG' nature and many of them utterly unconstitutional and im lieves from the 10 per cent tax the issues of any State bank which praCticable. The free coinage of silver has been proposed as a are made in accotrdance with the provisions thereof. While I relief because it is believed that it will increase the circulating would prefer the total repeal of this tax, so as to allow the States medium. I am, sir, in favor of silver, but I am of opinion that perfect freedom in establishing such banking systems as they the measure of relief which it would afford is very much exag may desiret yet, in a spirit of compromise and believing that it gerated and overestimated. Its most enthusiastic advocate, Mr. would accomplish perhaps as much good, I would gladly accept BLAND of Missouri, clainls that it would increase the circulation the passage of the bill which I have just quoted. only about $20,000,000, while Senator STEWART, the leading ad But gentlemen seem afraid to trust the wisdom of their States. vocate of silver in the'Senate, does not claim that it will increase Every man who votes against a repeal of this 10 per cent tax the circulation beyond $15,000,000 per annum. thereby practically declares a want of confidence in the wisdom Why, air, under the present silver law, odious though it be, of his State and the capacity of its Legislature to provide a. wise there is an increase in our paper circulation of $54,000,000 per system of banking. annum and yet this fails to give effective relief in the agricul Sir, I have confidence in the honesty, the patriotism, and the tural sections of the country. capacity for self-government of the people of my native Alabama, Sir, there m-e but two ways of effectually relieving the pres and when I and my honored colleagues came here to speak for ent financial stringency. The one is for this Congress to so leg them in the councils of the nation we left behind us no very per islzte n.s to produce a large deficiency in the revenues of the ceptible diminution of these hlgh qualities and qualifications. Gm·ernment, and to supply that deficiency, not by increased taxa I presume that as mucll might b3 said of other Repret~ntati\~es tion but by the is5Ue of Treasury notes, and paying them out to and other States. meet the current expenses of the Government. I would not ad Mr. BACON. Mr. Speaker, I think the House snould take vise the creation of such deficiency by reckless expenditures or into consideration the history of this bill. It was introduced by e:xtt avaga.nt appropriations, but by a reduction of taxation. the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. RICHARDSON] on the 2d day Many articles oi necessity, which are now the sources of large of May, 1892, and raferred to the Committee on Ways and Means. annual revenues under the pro-visions of the tariff, I would put It has never been reported fl"om that committee; nor has the on the free list, and otherwise so reduce the burdens of taxation committee, as I a.m informed, taken the matter under consider as to result in a deficiency of revenue f01• the payment of the or ation. The Committee on Banking and Currency, to which it dinarv expenses of the Government. seems to me this bill more properly should have been referred, The other way, and the better one in my judgment, is to so leg ha.s before it mea.sures of this character. It is holding them un· islate as to decentralize the present controlling power of the der consideration; it has had befor-e it gen:tlemen advocating this Government over all the money, and restore to the States, as the kind ot legislation; and even this morning we were in seBSion bill under consideration isint9nded todo, therightfortheStates or should have been in session but for the notice that this bill again to establish banks and have a local currency~a home would come up-for the purpo£e of taking into consideration and money-consonantwith the rightof local self-government, adoc recommending to this House some legislation on this subject. trine in which in the main is found the Eecurity and success of Mr. OATES. Will the gentlemAn allow me a moment~ OUI' grand systems of American Government. Mr. BACON. Yes, sir. I grant that Congress under the Constitution, as expounded by Mr. OATES. I am very glad to hear the gentleman's ::~tate the Supreme Court, has the controlling power over all money ment, bttt-- within the jurisdiction of the United States. But1 sir, the ob Mr. BACON. I can not yield; it is very obvious that this is servation of every well· informed and thinking man must have not a question. already brought him to the conclusion that the wisest adminis Mr. OATES. I have introduced similar measures--- tration of this Federal Government, in all of its Departments and The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York doea not that which is m03t conducive to the welfare of the people and of yield. it.s own perpetuity in their affections, especially in times of peace, Mr. BACON. Snch a measure was introduced by the gentle is tha exercise of even its well-defined powers within the narrO\V man, and he was heard upon it. Other measures somewhat sim est limits of their erea tion. ilar have been introduced by other gentlemen and they have The people of the agricultural States ought to have the right been heard upon them. The committee is earnestly consideting to utilize all their valuable and available securities as a basis in what form this legislation can be perfected and presented to for a local currency. On the 5th day of January last, in a spirit this House. of compromise and concession to the advocates of centralized Mr. JOHNSTONE of South Carolina. And doing nothing. money power, I introduced into this House a bill, and had it re Mr. BACON. Doing injustice to no one. ferred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, to suspend Mr. JOHNSTONE of South Carolina. Your committee is the 10 per cent tax imposed by the section which the bill under .doing nothing-. consideration proposes to repeal as to the issues of State banks, The SPEAKER. ThegentlemanfromNewYork[Mr. BACON] - the redemption of which was secured in accordance with State has declined to yield . laws by the solvent bonds of such States, deposited for the pur Mr. BACON. Mr. Speaker, I trust the Rouse will consider pose, and 25 per cent·of lawful money of the United States; and what this bill means. It means the introduction into the United I went before that committee and made an elaborate argument States to-day of a system of banking which broke down when the in favor of a report of that measure, but none has yet been 8 tates were fewer and the people were less engaged in commel'ce. made. I would now amend that bill by making also the solvent Mr. RICHARDSON. Are not you willing to trustNewYork, bonds of any county or municipality. as well as State bonds, a your own State, to -provide a banking law? basis of security for the redemption of State bank notes. Why Mr. BACON. Thegentlemanmustnotinterruptme. I insist should this not be done? Are not solvent State bonds, county that order be preserved. bonds, and municipal bonds good securities for the redemption The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York declines to of circulating notes? This bill would be an encouragement to yield and must not be interrupted without his consent. the States to establish State banks on a perfectly secure basis, Mr. BACON. I insist, therefore, that this House ought not one w hieh would make their circulating notes as safe and as in this summary way to disturb the banking system which now good to the holder as national-l,Jank notes. That bill thus exists, while providing for no adequate system to take its place. amended would read as follows: This question is a very serious one. It reaches too far to be disposed of in this fashion. I say to the House in all good faith, B~ it ~nacted, etc., That section 3412 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which reads as follows, to wit: "Every national banking associa that the Committee on Banking and Currency is t-aking no more tion, Sta.te bank, or State ba.nking association shall pay a. ta.x of 10 per cent time in deliberating on this question than its importance in the on the amount of notes of any person or of any State ba.nk or State bank opinion of that committee demands. We desire to make a report ing association used for circulation a.nd paid out by them,"be, and the same is hereby, suspended a.s to all notes issued to circulate as money by any when it can be deliberately considered by the House. I implore corporation or banking association under the laws of the State where the the House not to take hasty and inconsiderate action upon so se same is located: Provided, That there shall first be deposited by such cor rious a matter. poration or association, with the State treasurer or other safe depository designated for that purpose by the law of such State, an amount of the solv Mr. HENDERSON of North Carolina. I have introduced a ent bonds of par value of such State, or or any county or municipality there bill similar to this in every Congress since the Forty-ninth and or, equal to 75 per cent of the aggregate amount of notes proposed to be no committee has ever reported it. . isSlled by such corporation or association, together with 25 per cent of lawful money of the United States, which deposits are by the laws of such Mr. BACON. I yield three minutes to the gentleman from Sta.te made and held for the secur1ty of the holders of such bills or notes Ohio [Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR]. and for the redemption of such notes or bills: Providedfu1·tker, That the ag Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, a good many years gre~n.te amount of such State bank issues shall 1n no case exceed $5_per cap1ta of the population Of sttch State as ascertained by the last preceding ago I heard Judge Emmons, who was then a United States circuit census of tho United States. · . judge, holding court at Cincinnati, who, by the way, was a resi-
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dent of the State of Tennessee, sentence two men to imprisonment The party has not taken a position in favor of this bill. My in the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years each for counter attention has just been called to the platform adopted by the feiting certain United States money. Democratic party in Missouri in 1890. I read as follows: And I remember the reason he gave for sentencing these pris We are in favor of free and unrestricted coinage of silver, and the increase oners to the greatest punishment known to the law. He said of currency to meet the legitimate demands of trade; and we believe that the power to issue and control the volume of such currency should be exer that the money of thecountryis the life of the nation, that money cised by the Govern.ment~ is to the nation what blood is to the human body, and you can no more destroy the blood anQ. save the life of an individual than More than that, in the national platform of 1884 we virtually you can destroy the money of the country and save the life of the declared against such a currency as is proposed by this bill, for Republic; that the money of the country is just as necessary to we said- · the existence of the country as the blood of the human body is to We believe in honest money, the gold and silver coinage of the Constitu human life; and this statement of Judge Emmons ought to be re tion, and a circulating medium convertible into such money without loss. membered. This bill, Mr. Speaker, proposes to poison the na I am in favor of the gold and silver coinage of the Constitution. tion's money and endanger the nation's life. It can mean nothing I am in favor of the free coinage of goldandsilveratthe present more, it can mean nothing less. ratio and believe that our paper money should be issued by the This, Mr. Speaker, is not only an important question but it is National Government alone, and convertible into coin on demand a question in which everybody is alike interested, rich and poor, [applause]; I am not willing, either by my voice or vote, to con - , great and small. There has been no question before this Con tinue national :banks as banks of issue; neither am I willing that the gress during this S3ssion as important as this. It is a question States shall authorize private corporations to issue money-which which will affect all kinds of business and should this bill be would have all the objectionable features of national-bank notes come a law it will rob the people of hundreds of millions of dol without their advantages. If we are going to have a currency lars. It is a question which will unsettle the values· of all the issued by private corporations-I repeat I do not think we should property in the nation. have it at all-I want a currency that is guaranteed, that will be I remember a little experience of my own before the war. In as good in one State as another, and that will not be subject to 1857 I went on a business tour to New York and Philadelphia. the fluctuation which the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. JOSEPH D. I carried Ohio money and the money of the two banks of Wheel TAYLOR] has spoken of. I do not want a currency which will ing, Va. We never had before the war three better banking make it necessary whenever a man travels from one State to an institutions than the Ohio State bank and the two banks of other to have telegraphic communication with all parts of the Wheeling, and notwithstanding this fact every hundred dollars United States in order to know whether his money is good. that I carried with me to Philadelphia and New York was worth · [Here the hammer fell.] there only $90, every t3n-dollar bill counted for only nine, and I Mr. BACON. I yield four minutes to the gentleman from was " shaved " in every transaction that I had at the rate of 10 Massachusetts [Mr. WALKER]. per cent. That was the custom at the time. Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, I wish to say that I hold in my Every merchant who went East to buy goods had to bear this hand a copy of the original bill as just presented by the gentle loss, and the loss which the country sustained by the failure and man from ·Tennessee [Mr. RICHARDSONJ. It shows that it must bankruptcy of the banks in the different States was a thousand have been prepared with great haste, and submitted to no one fold greater than this. Every day brought news of the failure for approval-that it is simply the result of one mind. I want of some bank. Under the old State-bank system, which this bill to say, secondly, that there is not a man in this country, I do not is intended to revive, no two notes scarcely had the same value, care who he is or where he may comes from or what his expe and a bank-note detector had to l:e used in every transaction. rience, who can frame a banking bill without consulting other No bank note was good a thousand miles away from home, minds and taking the judgment of all sides of the question and though the banks were continually refusing to lend money at all phases of it. home, and always lending it and sending it abroad, but I have I wish to say, furthermore, that it is a physical impossibility traveled in a continuous trip from Boston to San Francisco and to localize a bank, t0 localize money. It can no more be done used the same money, and could travel around the world with it. than you can separate the springs and brooks in the States from If the States want more banks, and they really need more, they the water system of the country. It would be as fatal to economi can have national banks just as well as State banks if they will cal money service and exchanges of the country as to again remove the tax burdens, allow a larger limit of currency and sup localize our railroads to their former condition and break bulk ply some other and cheaper security for the currency. Any and transfer freight to State cars at State lines. I want to call bond or mortgage or security which will make a State-bank cur the attention of this Housa to the fact that the bad money, the rency secure will make national-bank currency secure. wildcat money that existed before the war was almost all of it [Here the hammer fell.l controlled by sharpers in the city of New York, by men who Mr. BACON. How much time, Mr. Speaker, is remaining? con-trolled those banks and controlled the issues, and shipped the The SPEAKER. The gentleman has eight minutes. money over the country for the purpose of making enormous Mr. BACON~ I yield four minutes of the time to the gen profits on exchanges. I want to say, furthermore, that it is a tleman from Nebraska [Mr. BRYAN]. physical impossibility to make an economical circulating medium Mr. BRYAN. Mr. Speaker, I would gladly support this bill in this country, where the banks are chartered by all the Statesi if convinced that it would bring any real relief to the people. where there is not a uniform system of current redemption al But it seems to me that the purpos3 of the bill is simply to pro over the country, and a uniform system of current redemption vide for a return to the system of " wild-cat" banking from can not in the very nature of the case ba provided by separate which we suffered before the war. It is not argued that the States. It must be provided by the National Government; and States can make the money issued by State banks a legal tender, in order to have the National Government provide it, the Gov nor can the States guarantee this money. They can simply au ernment must issue the money and exercise a police supervision thorize private institutions to put out among the people a sub, over all the banks. I am opposed to the present banking system stitute for money. I have been opposed to the issuing of money as expensive and cumbersome. I am opposed-to any bank's issuing by national banks for the reason that this function of govern a dollar in currency except through the National Government. ment should not be surrendered to any corporation or any pri I want it issued by the General Government to proper organiza vate concern whatever. On the same ground I am opposed to tions and under proper regulation. the States authorizing private corporations to issue money, or Mr. STOUT. So do I. so-called money. Mr. WALKER. I want the money issued as freely as the Mr. OATES. Will the gentleman allow me a suggestion? water runs or the sun shines; but it must be good money, every Mr. BRYAN. No; I can not yield for an interruption; I am dollar of it radeemable in coin. And there is not a particle of diffi sorry, but I have not the time. culty in doing that, and in having money just as good as gold How can those support the bill who have objected to national and silver. I want tJ say, furthermore, that it is a physical im bank circulation on the ground that banks are permitted'' to possibility for the States to issue money without having the ex eat their cake and keep it" by drawing interest on bonds and changes that will be charged by local brokers all over this coun then issuing money and drawing interest on that? The Consti try, amounting to more than twice what the profits manufac tution of the Unit ~ d States provides- turers ara getting to-day jn taking raw material from its. pro "No State shall * * * coin money, emit bills of credit" or " make any ducers and returning it in the finished product to its producer to thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." consume. That is to say, if we go back to State banks, even if Therefore, ii this bill should become a law and State banks of they are good, even if they are solid, even if they do not one of issue be instituted we would have all over the country a flood of them fail, it will cost more to make the exchanges of this coun currency, not a legal tender, which would be redeemable, if at try, which now cost absolutely nothing, than the profits aggre all, only on individual responsibility. The currency which is a gate of every man who handles the hide that the farmer takes legal tender would all go out of circulation and debtors would be off his animal to the boots and shoes he buys, or from the wheat at the mercy of creditors. he raises to the flour he consumes. or from the cotton he raisea ·.
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to the cloth he buys. It can not be done, and there will spring up Mr. WALKER. I object. I ask for two hours on each side. all through the country what existed before the war-brokers, The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion of the gen the favorites of bankers, who will reap larger profits than are tleman from TenneSS33 [Mr. RICHARDSON] to suspend the rules now made, as I have said, by the manufacturer-- and pass this bill. Mr. LIVINGSTON. There have been more failures since the The question was taken. national banking system went into operation than ever occurred The SPEAKER. The Chair is in doubt. under the State banking-system-a larger percentage. Mr. McREA. Let us have the yeas and nays. Mr. WALKER. That is one of the wildest statements ever The yeas and nays were ordered. made. Let the money of the country be issued by the General The question was taken: and there were-yaas 84, nays 118, Government. Let it be redeemable in gold and silver. This is not voting 127; as follows: not a question of coinage-- YEAS-84. The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expired. Abbott, Cobb, Ala. Hemphill, Moore, Cowles, Henderson, N. C. Moses, Me. JOHNSTONE of South Carolina. Will the gentleman !~~~~~od~r. Cox, Tenn. Johnstone, S. C. Oates, allow me to ask him a question? • Bailey, Crawford, Jones, Page, R.I. Mr. WALKER. My time has expired. Bankhead, Crosby, Kilgore, Patterson, Tenn. Culberson, Kribbs, Pierce, The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expired and ~f::C~~d, Daniell, Kyle, Price, the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. RICHARDSON] is recognized. Bland, DeArmond, Lagan, Richardson, Mr. RICHARDSON. I yield two minut9s to the gentleman Blount, Dixon, Lane, Robertson, La. Edmunds, Lanham, Sayers, from Ohio [Mr. HARTER]. Boatner,Branch, Ellis, Layton, Snodgrass, .Mr. HARTER. I have listened wHh great attention to the Bullock, English, Lester, Ga. Snow, objections made to this bill. I am prepared to say as a matter Bunn, Enloe, Livingston, Stewart, Tex. Everett., Long, Stone, Ky. of axiom, that the objections made to the bill are ab3:llutely un- ~~~e1'ti Fithian, Mallory, Terry, founded, and that not a dollar of this money could get into general Capehart, · Forney, McCreary, Tracey, circulation unless it was worth, dollar for dollar, as much as gold, Caruth, Geary, McMillin, Warner, Goodnight, McRae, Willcox, silver, or any legal tender. The feature which recommends g~:~gs, Grady, Meredith, Williams, Ill. the bill, is the fact that all the money issued under it would be cate, Han·ies, Meyer, Wilson, W.Va. good intrinsically. You could never pass a dollarof this money, Clarke, Ala. Harter, Montgomery, Wise. it not having any legal-tender quality behind it, unles3 it was NAYS-118. worth, dollar for dollar, as much as legal-tender money or na Arnold, Dungan, Martin, Seerley, tional-bank notes. I say you could not get into circulation or Babbitt, Durborow, McAleer, Shell, :pass a dollar of it otherwise. Suppose any State should author Bacon, Enochs, McDonald, Shonk, Baker. Flick, McGann, Simpson, IZe its bs.nks to emit money not properly secured. Such notes Belknap, Fowler, McKeighan, Smith, would have no circulation whatever. They could have neither Bentley, Gillespie, McKinney, Stackhouse, a local nor a general circulation Bowman, Gorman. Miller, Steward, Ill. Bretz, Griswold, Mitchell, Stone. C. W. Mr. DOCKERY. D0es not the gentleman think this would Brookshire, Grout, Mutchler, Stone, W. A. destroy the demand for the free coinage of silver? Brown, Halvorson, O'Donnell. Storer, Mr. HARTER. It wo:.1ld; and it would be a most happyand Bryan, Hamilton, O'Neil, Mass. Stout, Bushnell, Hare, O'Neill, Pa. Tarsney, wholesome result, too. Butler, Hatch, O'Neill, Mo. Taylor, Ill. The idea that the pa3sage of this law would restore to this Byrns, Hayes, Iowa Owens, Taylor. E. B. country the kind of wild-cat money we had prior to the war Caldwell, Hayne::;, Ohio Otis, Taylor, J. D. Causey, Heard, Patton, Tillman. is simply beyond a possibility. The money that goes out with Chipman, Henderson, Iowa Payne, VanHorn, out any legal-tender quality b3hind it must prove its right to Cobb, Mo. Henderson, Ill. Paynter, Walker, circulate under the law of the survival of the fit~st. No man Coburn, Hermann, Pearson, Washington, Compton, Holman, Perkins, Watson. in any community would take this money unless it was good. Coolidge, Hopkins, Pa. Post, Weadock, Mr. SIMPSON. Does the gentleman hold that State-bank Cooper, Hopkins, Dl. Raines, Wheeler, Mich. notes would be legal tender? Covert-, Honk, Ohio Ray, White, Cox, N.Y. Johnson, Ohio Rayner, Whiting, Mr. HARTER. No; and I say for that very reason the money Craig,Pa. KeiD, Reilly, Wik:e, would have to b3 intrinsically go:)d or it would not circulate. Cummings, Lapham, Reyburn, Wilson, Ky. Mr. RICHARDSON. I yield two minutes to the gentleman Davis, · Lind, Robinson, Pa. Winn, Dickerson, Lockwood, Rockwell, Youmans. from New York [Mr. TRACEY]. Dingley, Loud, Scott, Mr. TRACEY. Mr. Speaker, the purpose for which this tax Dockery, Lynch, Scull, was imposed was accomplished when the State banks were forced NOT VOTING-127. to become national and to purchase United States bonds to pro Allen, Cocln·an, Hutr, Reed tect their circulation. Complaint is made that in some sections Amerman, Cogswell, Hull, Rife,, of the country difficulty is found in procuringsufficientcurrency. Andrew, Coombs. Johnson, Ind. Rusk, .At.kinson, Crain, Tex. Johnson, N.Dak. Russell, By relieving State banks from the tax on their circulation bank Bartine, Curtis, Jolley, Sanford, bills can be issued sufficient in quantities to supply all demands Barwig, Cutting, Kendall, Shively, and to use for local convenience. The danger from ill-secured Belden, Dalzell, Ketcham, Sperry, Beltzhoover. De Forest, Lawson, Va. Springer, bills can be obviated by State legislation. In the Shte of New Bergen, Doan, Lawson, Ga. Stahlnecker, York the existing law-- Bingham, Dolliver, Lester, Va. Stephenson, Mr. BLOUNT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of order. Boutelle, Donovan, Lewis, Stevens, Bowers, Dunphy, Little, Stockdale, The gentleman from New York can not be heard on account of Brawley, Elliott, Lodge, Stump, -the confusion. Breckinridge, Ark. Epes, Magner, Sweet, The SPEAKER. Gentlemen will resume their seats, and there Breckinridge, Ky. Fellows, Mansur, Taylor, Tenn. Brickner, Fitch, McClellan, Taylor, V. A. will be less confusion on the floor. Gentlemen occupying the Broderick, Forman, McKaig, Townsend, aisles and standing about in the aisles talking create great confu Brosius, Funston, Milliken, Tucker, sion. Brunner, Fyan, Morse, Turner, Buchanan, N. J. Gantz, Newberry, Turpin, Mr. TRACEY. Mr. Speaker, in the State of New York the Buchanan, Va. Geissenha1ner, Norton, Wadsworth, existing law requires that the banks which issue paper money Burrows, Greenleaf, O'Ferrall. Warwick, shall place securities, either United States bonds or State bonds, Busey, Hall, Outhwaite, Waugh, Bynum, Hallowell, Page, Md. Wever, in the State banking department, and all bills which would be Cable, Harmer, Parrett, Wheeler, Ala.. issued after the repeal of this portion of the law would be en Uadmus, Haugen., Pattison, Ohio Williams, Mass. tirely safe. Campbell, Herbert, Peel, Williams, N. C. Cheatham, Hitt, Pendleton, Wilson, Wash. Now, Mr. Speaker, in my opinion it rests with each State to Chapin, Hoar, Pickler, Wilson, Mo. secure its people against paper money being issued which will Clanc-y, Hooker, Miss. Powers, Wolverton, not be good; and I do not think that it is any part of the duty of Clark, Wyo. Hooker, N.Y. Quackenbush, W1ight. the National Government to interfere with such legislation as Clover, Houk, Tenn. Randall, properly belongs to the province of the States. Mr. HERBERT. Mr. Speaker, I am paired with the gentle The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expired. man from Maine [Mr. BOUTELLE]. If he were present I should Time for debate on this question is exhausted. vote '' yea." Mr. RICHARDSON. Have I not one minute left? The following additional pairs were announced: The SPEAKER. The gentleman has exhausted his time. Until further notice: Mr. RICHARDSON. I promised one minute to my colleague Mr. HERBERT with Mr. BOUTELLE. ft·om Tennessee. Mr. WHEELER of Alabama with Mr. HARMER. Mr. PENDLETON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Mr. PATTISON of Ohiawith Mr. SWEET. that the time may be extended twenty minutes on each side. 1\Ir. McCLELLAN with Mr. JOHNSON of North Dakota. ·'
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For the rest of the day: nance irrevocable without the consent or the United States and the people of said State: Mr. FOREMAN with Mr. JOLLEY. First., that perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and Mr. ELLIOTT with Mr. RIFE. that no inhabitant of said State shall ever be molested in person or property Mr. MAGNER with Mr. CHEATHAM. on account of his or her mode or religious worship; Second, that the people inhabiting said proposed State do agree and de Mr. TURNER. I voted affirmatively. I desire to withdraw clare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated my vote, being paired with the gentleman from Nevada [Mr. public lands lyin.gwithin the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within B ARTINE]. said limits owned or held by any Indian or lndian tribes; and that until the title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same The SPEAKER. On this question the yeaa are 84, the nays shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States, and said 116. Two-thirds not voting in the affirmative, the motion is Indian lands shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the lost . Congress of the United States; that the lands belonging to citizens o! the United States residing without the said State shall never be taxed at a. higher STATUE OF GEN. WILLL~M T. SHERMAN. rate than the lands belonging to residents thereof; that no taxes shall be Mr. BRYAN. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and imposed by the State on lands or property therein belonging to or which may hereafter be purchased by the United States or reserved for its use; but pass the bill (H. R. 8888) for the preparation of site and erection nothing herein, or in the ordinance herein provided for, shall preclude the of a pedestal for statue of late Gen. William T. Sherman, and said State from taxing, as other lands are taxed, any lands owned or held by appropriating the sum of $50,000 therefor. any Indian who has severed his tribal relations and has obtained from the ULited States or from any person a title thereto by patent or ot.her s-rant, The bill was read, as follows: save and except such lands as have been or may be granted to any mdian Be it enacted, etc., That the sum of $50,000 be, and is hereby, appropriated or Indians under any act of Congress containing a provision exempting the for the preparation of a site and the erection or a pedestal for a statue of lands thus granted from taxation; but said ordinance shall provide that all the late Gen. William T. Sherman in the city of Washington; said site to suclr lands shall be exempt from taxation by said State so long and to such be selected by and said pedestal to be erected under the supervision of the extent as such act of Congress may prescribe; president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, the Secretary of War, Third, tha.t the debts and liabilities of said Territory shall be assumed and and the Major-General Commanding the Army, and any part of the sum paid by the said State; and hereby appropriated not needed for preparation or site and the erection of Fourth, that provision shall be made for the establishment and main a pedestal may be used and expended in the completion of said statue of the tenance of a system of public schools, which shall be open to all the children late Gen. William T. Sherman. of said State and free from sectarian control, and in all of which schools the Mr. KILGORE. I demand a second. · English language shall be taught.· SEC. 4. That in case a constitution and State government shall be formed Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. I ask unanimous consent that a in compliance with the provisions of this act, the convention forming the second be considered as ordered. same shall provide by ordinance for submitting said constitution to the peo The SPEAKER. Is there objection that a second be con :ple of said 1::1'-tate for their ratification or rejection, at an election to be held m said Territory on the Tuesday after the fh•st Monday of April, 1893, a.t sidered as ordered? which election the qualified voters of said proposed State shall vote directly Mr. KILGORE. I object. for or against the proposed constitution, and for or against any provisions Tho SPEAKER. The Chair will appoint the gentleman from separately submitted. The returns of said election shall be made to the sec retary of said Territory, who, with the governor and chief justice thereof, Nebraska [Mr. BRYAN]'- and the gentleman from Texas [Mr. or any two of them, shall canvass the same; and if a majority of the legal KILGORE] to act as tellers. votes cast on that question shall be for the constitution, the governor shall The tellers reported ayes 141, noes26; soasecond was ordered. certify the result to the President of the United States, together with a statement of the votes cast thereon and upon separate articles or proposi The SPEAKER. The Chair will designate the gentleman tions, and a copy of said constitution, articles, propositions, and ordinances. from Nebraska [Mr. BRYAN] t.o control the time in behalf of the And it the constitution and government of said proposed State are repub motion and the gentlemanfrom Texas ~Mr. KILGORE] to control lican inform, and if all the provisions of this act ha>e been complied wich in the formation thereof, it shall be the duty of the President of the United the time in opposition to it. [Cries of 'Vote!" "Vote!"] States to issue his proclamation announcing the result of said election, and Mr. KILGORE. I reserve my time, Mr. Speaker. thereupon the proposed State of New Mexico shall be deemed admitted by The question was taken on the motion of Mr. BRYAN; and the Congress into the Union under and by virtue of this act on an equal footing with the original States from and after the date of said proclamation. Speaker stated, in his opinion, that two-thirds had voted in the SEc. 5. That until the next general census, or until otherwise provided by affirmative. law, said State shall be entitled to one Representative in the House of Rep· Mr. KILGORE. I demand a division. resentatives of the United States, which Representative in the Fifty-third Congress, together with the governor and other omcers provided for in said The House divided; and there were-ayes 144, noes 32. constitution, may be elected on the same day of the election for the adoption So (two-thirds having voted in favor of the motion) the rules of the const1tution; and until said State officers are elected and qualified were suspended and the bill was passed. under the provisions or the constitution and the State is admitted into the Union, the Teritorial officers shall continue to discharge the duties o! their ADMISSION OF NEW MEXICO. respective offices in said Territory. Mr. WASHINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the SEC. 6. That upon the admission of said State into the Union sections num bered 2, 16, 32, and 36 in every township or said proposed State, and where rules and pass the bill which I send to the desk, being the bill such sections or any parts thereof have been sold or otherwise disposed of (H. R. 7136} to enable the people of New Mexico to form a con by or under the authority of any act of Congress, other lands equivalent stitution and State government, and to be admitted into the t.hereto, in legal subdivisions of not less thanone-quartersection and as con tiguous as may be to the section in lien of which the same is taken, are Union on an equal footing with the original States. hereby granted to said State for the support of common schools, such in The bill was read, as follows: demnity lands to be selected within said State in such manner as the Legis Be it enacted, etc., That the inhabitants of all that part of the area of the lature may provide, with the approval of the Secretary or the Interior: Pro United States now constituting the Territory of New Mexico, as at present 'Vided, That the second, sixteenth, thirty-s.econdi and thirty-sixth sections described, may become the State of N ew Mexico, as hereinafter provided. embraced in permanent reservations for na.tiona purposes shall not at any SEc. 2. That all per~:oons who shall have resided within the limits of said time be subject to the grants nor to the indemnity provi ions of this act, proposed State for sixty days, and are otherwise qualified by the laws of nor shall any lands embraced in Indian, military, or other reservations of said Territory to vote for representatives to the Legislative Assembly thereof, any character be subject to the grants or to the indemnity provisions of this are hereby authorized to vote for and choose delegates to form a conven act until the reservation shall have been extinguished and such lands be re· tion in said Territory; and the qualifications for delegates to such conven stored to and become a part of the pu.blic domain. tion shall be such as, by the laws of said Territory, persons are required to SEc. 7. That upon the admission of said State into the Union, in accord possess to be eligible to the Legislative Assembly thereof; and the aforesaid ance with the provisions of this act, 100 sections of the unappropriated lands delegates to form said convention shall be apportioned among the several within said State, to be selected and located in legal subdivisions as pro counties within the limits of the proposed State, in proportion to the popu vided in section6 of this act, shall be, and a.re hereby, ~ranted to said State lation of each county, by the census of 1890, exclusive of all Indians, upon a for the purpose of erecting public buildings at the capt tal of said State, for basis of one delegate for each2,000 inhabitants in each county, and one addi legislative, executive,· and judicial purposes. tional delegate for a fraction of over 1,000 inhabitants therein, the same to SEc. 8. That 100,000 acres of land, to be selected and located as provided in be apportioned as follows: Bernalillo County, nine delegates; Chaves County, the foregoing section of this act, are hereby granted to said State tor the use one delegate; Colfax County, four delegates; Dona Ana. County, five dele· and support of an agricultural college in said State, as provided in the acts gates; Eddy County, one delegate; Grant County, five dele~ates; Lincoln of Congress making donations of land for such purposes. County, two delegates; Mora County, five delegates; Rio Arrtba. County six SEC. 9. That 10 per cent of the proceeds of the sales of public lands delegates; San Juan County, one delegate; San Miguel County, twelve dele lying within said State, which shall be sold by the United States subsequent gates; Santa Fe County, seven delegates; Sierra. County, two delegates; to the admission of said State into the Union, after deducting all tbe ex Socorro County, five delegates; Taos County, five delegates, and Valencia penses incident to the same, shall be paid to the said State, to be used as a County, five delegates; seventy-five delegates in all; and the governor or said permanent fund, the interest of which only shall be expended for the sup Territory shall, by proclamation, order an election of the delegates aforesaid port of the common schools within said State. in said Territory, to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday inNovem · SEc. 10. That all lands herein granted for educational purposes, except as ber, 1892, which proclamation shall be issued within thirty days after the pas hereinafter otherwise provided, shall be disposed of only at public sale, and at sage of this act; and such election shall be conducted, the returns made, the a pricenotless than $5per acre, the proceeds to constitute a permanent chool result ascertained, and the certificates to persons elected to such convention fund., the interest of which only shall be expended in support of said schools. issued in the same manner as is prescribed by the laws of the said Territory But said. lands may, after such regulations as the Legislature shall pre· re~a tiugelections therein for Delegate to Congres,c:~. All persons resident in scribe, be leased for periods of not more than five years, in quantities not sa1d proposed State, who are qualified voters of said Territory, as herein exceeding one section to any one person or company; and such land shall provided, shall be entitled to vote upon the election of delegates and upon not be subject to preemption,~. homestead entry, or any other entry under the ratification or rejection of the constitution, under such rules and regu the land laws of the United ;:;tates, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, but lations as said convention may prescribe, not in conflict with this act. shall be reserved for school purposes only. SEc. 3. That the delegates to the convention thus elected shall meet at the SEc. 11. That the lands, to the extent of two townships in quantity, author seat of government of said Territory on the first Monday of Decf\mber, 1892, ized by the sixth section of the act of July 22, 185!, to be reserved tor the es and, after organization, shall declare, on behalf or the people or said pro tablishment of a. university in New Mexico, are hereby granted to the State posed.State, that they adopt the Constitution of the United States; where of New Mexico for university purposes, to be held and used in accordance upon'the said convention shall be, and is hereby, authorized to form a con with the provisions or this section; and any portion of sai-d lands that may stitution and State government for said proposed State. The constitution not have been selected by said Territory may be selected by said State. But shall be republican in form, and make no distinction in civil or political said act is hereby so amended that none of said lands shall be sold for less rights on account of race or color, except as to Indians not taxed, and not be than :£5 per acre, and the proceeds shall constitute a permanent fund, to be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the safely invested and held by said State, and the income thereof to be used ex· Declaration of Independence. And said convention shall provide, by ordi- clusiv-elyfor university purposes. But said lands maybe leased in the same /
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~anner as provided in section 10 of this act. The schools, colleges, and shall proceed to exercise all the functions of State otllcers; and all laws in universities provided tor in this act shall forever remain under the exclusive force made by said Territory at the time of its admission into the Union control of said State, and no part of the proceeds arising from the sale or shall be in force in saidt State, except as modified or changed by this act or disposal of any lands herein granted for educational purposes shall be used by the constitution of the State. for the support of any sectarian or denominational school, college, or uni SEC. 21. That all acts or -parts of acts in confiict with the provisions of this versity. act, whether passed by the Legislature of said Territory or by Congress, are SEc. 12. That all mineral lands shall be exempted from the grants made here by re-pealed. by this act. But if sections 2, 16, 32, and 36, or any subdivision or portion of any smallest subdivision thereof in any township shall be found by the De The SPEAKER. Is a second demanded? partment of the Interior to be mineral lands, said State is hereby authorized and empowered to select, in legal subdivisions, an equal quantity of other Mr. PERKINS. I demand a second. unappropriated lands in said State in lieu thereof for the use and the benefit Mr. WASHINGTON. I ask unanimous consent that a second of the common schools of said State. be considered as ordered. SEc. 13. That in lieu or the grant of land for purposes of internal improve Mr. PAYNE and Mr. TAYLOR of Illinois objected. ment made to new States by the eighth section of the act of September 4, 1841, which section is hereby repealed as to said State, and in lieu of any claim The SPEAKER appointed Mr. WASHINGTON and Mr. PER or demand by the State of New Mexico under the act of September 28, 1850, KINS to act as tellers. and section 2479 of the Revised Statutes, makin~ a grant of swamp and over The House divided, and the tellers reported-ayes 151, noes 2; flowed lands to certain States, which grant it 1s hereby declared is not ex tended to said State of New Mexico, and in lieu of any grant of saline lands so a second was ordered. to said State, the following grants of land are hereby made to said State for The SPEAKER designated Mr. WASHINGTON to control the the purposes indicated, namely: · time in favor of the motion and Mr. PERKINS to control the time For the establishment of permanent water reservoirs for irrigating pur poses, 500,000 acres; for the establishment and maintenance of an insane against it. asylum, 100.000 acres; for the establishment and maintenance of a school or Mr. WASHINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I reserve my time and mines, IOO,OOU acres; for the establishment and maintenance of a deaf and suggest that the gentleman on the other side occupy his if he dumb asylum, 100,000 acres; for the establishment and maintenance or are form school, 100,000 acres; for establishment and maintenance of State nor desires, as it is possible that no one on this side may care to mal schools, 200,000 acres; and for establishment and maintenance of an in speak at all on this bill. stitution for the blind, 100,000 acres. Mr. DINGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I think we ought to havesonie The said State of New Mexico shall not be entitled to any further or other grants of land for any IJurpose than as expressly provided in this act; and reasons given for the passage of so important a bill in this way. the lands granted by this section shall be held, appropriated, and disposed of Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, I would prefer that the ad exclusively for the purposes herein mentioned, in such manner as the Legis vocates o.f this bill should occupy some of their time and assign lature of the State may provide. SEc. H. That all lands granted in quantity or as indemnity by this act shall the reasons why this bill should be passed in this way under sus be selected under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior from the sur pension of the rules. veyed, unreserved, and unappropriated public lands ot the United States Mr. HAYES of Iowa. The r-easons are just the opposite of the within the limits of said State of New Mexico. And there shall be deducted trom the number of acres of land donated by this act for specific objects to l'easons why nobody on your side of the House voted for a second. said State the number of acres therein heretofore donated by Congress to said The SPEAKER. Of course the gentlemen from Iowa [Mr. Territory for similar objects. PERKINS] will understand that the Chair can not control the SEC. 15. That the State of New Mexico shall constitute one judicial dis trict, which shall be called the district of New Mexico, and the circuit a.nd matter of whether gentlemen having control of the time shall district courts therefor shall be held at the capital of said State for the time occupy it or not. [Cries of "Vote!" "Vote!"] being. The judge of said district shall receive a yearly salary of $5,000, pay Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, under ordinarycircumstan9es, able monthly, and shall reside in his d.istl"ict. There shall be appointed clerks of said courts, who shall keep their offices at the capital or said State. representing in part, as I do, a Western constituency, I should There shall be appointed for said district one district JUdge, one United not be disposed to antagonize the admission of a::ty new State States attorney, and one United States marshal. The regular terms or said whose claims to admission might be well founded. While I am courts shall be held at the place aforesaid on the first Monday in April and the first Monday in November in each year. For judicial purposes the dis not prepared to-day to discuss this bill generally, because I was trict of New Mexico shall be attached to the eighth judicial circuit·, and only not advised that it was to be called up at this time, I think there one grand -jury and one petit jury shall be summoned in both of said courts. are one or two considerations that should receive the attention SEo. 16. That the circuit and dlStrict courts for the district of New Mexico and the judges thereof, respectively, shall possess the same powers and ju of the House before voting upon the bill. I suppose it will be risdiction and perform the same duties possessed and required to be :per remembered that a bill for the admission of New Mexico was re formed by the other circuit and district courts and judges of the Umted E_O_rted in the Fiftieth Congress by the gentleman from illinois States and shall be governed by the same laws and regulations. SEo. 17. That the marshal, district attorney, and clerks of the circuit and LMr. SPRINGER]. I think it is worth while to make some com district courts of the said district of New Mexico, and all other officers and parisons between the conditions then proposed for the admission other persons performing duty in the administration of justice therein, shall of Ne\v Mexico and the conditions now proposed. severally possess the powers and perform the duties lawfully possessed and required to be performed by similar omcers in other districts of the United I wish to call the attention of the House to one point particu States, and shall, for the services they may perform, l'eceive the same fees larly. I believe a bill has been ~ introduced_in this Congress for and compensation all'owed by law to other similar om.cers and persons per the disposition of the arid lands. It is, in my judgment, a ques forming similar.duties. tion of great concern as to what disposition shall be made of the SEO. 18. That the convention herein p1·ovided for shall have the power to provide, by ordinance, for the transfer of actions, eases, proceedfugs, and arid lands of this country, and I desire to call attention to the matters pending in the supreme or district courts of the Territory of New fact that this bill proposes a precedent for the future disposal of Mexico at the time of the admission of the said State into the Union to such those lands. If the House is inclined to vote affirmatively upon courts as shall be estahlished under the constitution to be thus formed or to the circuit or district court of the United States for the district of New that proposition now, it seems to me that at least it .should do so Mexico; and no indictmeut, action, or proceeding shall abate by reason of considerately. It will be remembered that in the bill reported any change in the courts, but shall be proceeded With in the State or United by the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. SPRINGER] for the admission States courts according to the laws thereof, respectively. That all cases of appeal or writ of error heretofore prosecuted and now pending in the Su of New Mexico in the last Congress the assignment of lands to preme Court of the United States upon any record from the supreme court New Mexico was made in conformity with the custom of Con of said Territory or that may hereafter lawfully be prosecuted upon any re cord from said court, may be heard and determined by said Supreme Court gress in the past in the admission of new States; but in this bill of the United States; and the mandate of execution or of further proceed it is proposed to give to New Mexico double the amount of land ings shall be directed by the Supreme Court of the United States to the cir ever before given to any State, and this is proposed upon the cuit or district court hereby established within the said State from or to the sup1·eme court of such State, as the nature of the case may require. And theory that it is a proper way to dispose of our a:t'id lands. the circuit, district, and State courts herein named shall, respectively, be If this precedent shall be established we shall have every other the successors of the supreme court of the Territory as to allsuchcasesaris State that has been admitted into the Union coming here peti ing within the limits embraced within the jurisdiction of such courts, re spectively, with full power to proceed with the same and award mesne or tioning for an equal distribution of these lands, so that Con final process therein; and that from all jud~ents and decrees of the su gt•ess is embarrassed at the outset in its action upon this great preme court of the Territory mentioned in this act in any case arising within question. Not only so, but it is proposed in this bill that the the limits of the proposed State prior to admission, the parties to such judg ment shall have the same right to prosecute appeals and writs of error to price at which these lands shall ba disposed of shall be reduced the Supreme Court of th.e United States as they shall have had by law prior one-halfbelowwhatwasever charged before. Now, Mr. Speaker, to the admission of said State into the Union. at this time, when the questiop. of irrigation is becoming one of SEO. 19. That the sum of $30,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap such prominence in the country, when the science of irrigation propriated, to said Territory for defraying the expenses of said convention is only beginning to be clearly understood, it does not appear to and for the payment of the members thereof, under the same ru1es and reg be that this Congress is prepared to say that these lands, whose ulations and at the same rates as are now provided by law for the payment of the Territorial Legislature. Any money hereby appropriated not neces value in the near future can not now be estimated, should thus sary for such purpose shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. be disposed of by wholesale. SEc. 20. That the constitutional convention may by ordinance provide for Now, Mr. Speaker, it is a question whether the people,of New the election of om.cers for a full State government, including members of the Legislature and a Representative in the Fifty-third Congress, at the Mexico desire the passage of this bill. I undertake to say that time of the election for the ratification or rejection o.r the constitution. In no evidence has been presented further than the compilation of case the constitution of said State shall be ratified by the people, but not some old reports-nothing that has transpired during the life oi otherwise, the Legislature thereof may assemble, organize, and elect two Senators of the Unite:!. States; and the governor and secretary of state of this Congress-to show that New Mexico itself is asking for ad the proposed State shall certify the election to Congress; and when said mission. It is true that about a year ago New Mexico voted State is admitted into the Union, as provided in this act, the Senators and upon the adoption of a constitution, and rejected it. I do 'lllOt Representative sh:lll be entitled to be admitted to seats in' Congress, and to know but that New Mexico would declare against admission at all the rights and privileges of Senators and Representatives of other States in the Congress of the United States; and the State government formed in this time. It is said by those resident in New Mexico that it is pursillhll.ce of said constitution, as provided by the constitutional convention, not well for New Mexico itself that it be admitted at this time. ' - CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JUNE 6 5088 . '
Mr. LIND. Will the gentleman allow me a question? Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR. If we do not adjourn I am afr aid Mr. PERKINS. Yes, sir. these gentlemen will undertake to repeal the fifteenth amend Mr. LIND. I understand that Spanish is to-day recognized as ment of the Constitution. [Vwghter.J an official language in the courts and public offices of the Terri Mr. SCOTT. l rise to a point of order. The motion to ad tory of New Mexico. Is not that truer journ was made after the Clerk had begun to read the bill. Mr. PERKINS. I understand that it is true. The SPEAKER. The Chair will state that under the rule one Mr. LIND. Is that prohibited by this proposed constitution? motion to adjourn is in order pending a motion to suspend the Mr. PERKINS. There is no constitution submitted; I under- rules. stand that this bill provides that the English language shall be The question havin~ b ::!en put on the motion to adjourn, taught in all the schools-- The SPEAKER said: The noes have it. Mr. LIND. But does it prohibit the perpetuation of a foreign Mr. DINGLEY. I ask for the yeas and naya. language as the official language of the State? The yeas and nays were not ordered, there being-ayes 26, Mr. liERKINS. Oh, no. noes 175-less than one-fifth voting in the affirmative. Mr. LIND. Do you not think that would be a proper question The Clerk read as follows: for this House to consider at length-more fully than we can do Whereas the people or the 'l'erritory of Arizona did, on the 30th day of in a thirty-min-qte debate? September, 1889, by a convention of delegates called and assembled for that Mr. PERKINS. The very point I am urging here is that the purpose, form for themselves a constitution, which constitution was rati circumstances of that Territory and the conditions embodied in fied and adopted by the people of said Territory at the election held therefor on the first Tuesday in December, 1891, which constitution is republican in this bill are of such a character that we are not wise in pushing form and is in conformity with the Constitution of the United States; and the bill through without deliberate considerat ion. Whereas said convention and the people of the said Territory have asked Mr. JOSEPH. Will the gentleman allow me a moment? the admission of said Territory into the union of States on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever: Therefore, Mr. PERKINS. Certainly; I will yield to the Delegate from B e it enacted, etc., That the State of .Arizona is hereby declared to be a New Mexico [Mr. JOSEPH]. State of the United States of America, and is hereby declared admitted into Mr. JOSEPH. Did the gentleman say that the Spanish lan the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects what ever; and that the constitution which the people of Arizona have formed guage is now spoken in the courts of New Mexico? for themselves be, and the same is hereby, accepted, rat.ified, and confirmed. Mr. PERKINS. Oh, no; I did not say anything about the SEC. 2. That the said State shall consist of all the territory included within the present boundaries of Arizona, to wit: Commencing at the southwest courts. corner of the State of Colorado, the same being the northwest corner of the Mr. JOSEPH. I will tell the gentleman for his information Territory or New Mexico as established by act of Congress February 24, that the business language of New Mexico is the English laJ?- 1863; thence west with the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude to it-s in guage; it is spoken in the courts and taught in every public tersection with the east boundary line of the State or Nevada; thence south with that boundary line to its intersect.ion with the center or the Colorado school throughout the Territory. [Applause on the Democratic River; thence following down the center of said river to a point on the side.] boundary line established by treaty between the United States and theRe Mr. PERKINS. I have no disposition to contend with the public of Mexico, dated December 30. 1853; thence easterly, following said treaty line to its intersection with 190° 2' 59.25" of longitude west of Green gentleman on that point. . wich; thence north with that degree to the place of beginning. Mr. WASHINGTON. This bill requires that the English lan SEC. 3. That until the next general census, or until otherwise provided by guage shall be taught in every public school in New Mexico. law, said Stat.e shall be entitled to one Representative in the House of Rep resentatives of the United States, and the election of the Representative to Mr. PERKINS. After ;yieldmg one·minute to the gentleman the Fifty-second Congress and the Representative to the Fifty-third Congress from Minnesota [Mr. LINDJ I will reserve the residue of my time. shall take place at the time and be conducted and certified in the same man Mr. LIND. Mr. Speaker in the minute allowed me I can call ner as is provided in the constitution of the State for the election of State, district, and other omcers. attention to only one fact, which has struck me as very important. SEc. 4. That sections numbered 2, 16, 32, and 36 in every township of said If I am correctly advised, the Spanish language is the official proposed State, and where such sections, or any parts thereof, have been language used in the Territory of New Mexico-not to the ex sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any act of Con· gress, other lands equivalent thereto, in legal subdivisions of not less than clusion of English, but side by side with it. Now, as an Ameri one-quarter section, and as contiguous as may be to the section in lieu of can citizen I protest against admitting into this pnion a~y St~te which the same is taken, are hereby granted to said State for the support of where a foreign language may be perpetuated s1de by s1de w1th common schools, such indemnity lands to be selected within said State in such manner as the Legislature may provide, with the approval of the Sec the language of the land. retary of the Interior. Mr. T ARSNEY. Is there anything in the enabling act . or SEc. 5. That all lands herein granted for educational purposes shall be dis constitution of Minnesota which prohibits the use of the Span1sh posed of only at public sale, the proceeds to constitute a permanent school fund, the interest of which only shall be expended in the support of said or any other language in that State? schools, but said lands may, under such regulations as the Legislature shall Mr. LIND. No foreign language has ever been recognized as prescribe, be leased for periods of not more than five years, and such land an officiallanguaae in our State, and never will be, I hope, in shall not be subject to preemption, homestead entry, or any other entry un der the land laws of the United States, whet.her surveyed or unsurveyed, but that or any othere State of the Union, unless it be in the State shall be reserved for school purposes only. vou propose to admit. SEC. 6. That 100 sections of the unappropriated public lands within said I ~ Mr. WASIDNGTON. The Spanish language is not the offi State, to be selected and located in legal subdivisions as provided in section 4 of this act, shall be, and are hereby, ~anted to said State for the purpose cial language of New Mexico, and never has been. of erecting public buildings at the cap1tal of said State. [Here the hammer fell.] SEc. 7. That 10 per cent of the proceeds of the sales of public lands lying Mr. COWLES. I would like to ask the gentleman from Min within said State which shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of said State into the Union, after deducting all the expenses in nesota before he takes his seat in what language the court rec cident to the same, shall be paid to the said State, to be used as a permanent ords in New Mexico are kept. fund, the interest or which only shall be expended for the support of the Mr. LIND. ln the Spanish language. common schools within said State. SEc. 8. That the lands granted to the Territory of Arizona by the act of Mr. COWLES. The gentleman from New Mexico informs me February 18, 1881, entitled "An act to grant lands to Dakota, Montana, Ari that the English language is required by law to be used in the zona, Idaho, and Wyoming for university purposes," are hereby vested in pleadings and official records of the courts. · the State of Arizona, to the extent of the full quantity of 75 sections to said State, and any portion of said lands that may not have been selected Mr. LIND. The records and official proceedings outside of by said Territory of Arizona may be selected by the said State; but said the Federal courts are kept in both. It is this feature that act of February 18, 1881, is hereby so amended as to provide that none of should be prohibited in the enabling act. said lands shall be sold for less than $5 :{>er acre, and the proceeds shall constitute a permanent fund to be safely mvested and held by said State, The SPEAKER. If no further debate is desired, the question and the income thereof be used exclusively for university purposes. The will be taken. · [A pause.] schools, colleges, and universities provided for in this act shall forever re The question b aing taken on the motion of Mr. WASHINGTON main under the exclusive control of the said State, and no part of the pro ceeds arising from the sale or disposal of any lands herein grant-ed for edu to suspend the rules and pass the bill, there were-ayes 177, noes cational purposes shall be used for the support of any sectarlan or denom 3. [Applause on the Democratic.side.] inational school, college, or university. Mr. DINGLEY. I call for the yeas and nays. SEC. 9. That 100,000 acres of land, to be selected and located as provided in section 4 of this act, are hereby granted to said State for the use and support The yeas and nays were not ordered, only 31 voting in favor of an agricultural college in said State, as provided in the acts of Congress thereof. making donations of lands for such purpose. The SPEAKER. Two-thirds having voted in favor thereof, SEC. 10. That in lieu ot the grant of land tor purposes of internal improve ment made to new States by the eighth section ot the act of September 4, the rules are suspended and the bill is passed. {Applause on the 1841, which section is hereby repealed as to the State of Arizona, and in lieu Demccratic side.] of any claim or demand by the said State under the act of September 28, ADMISSION OF ARIZONA. 1850, and section 2479 of the Revised Statutes, making a grant of swamp and overflowed lands to certain States, which grant it is hereby declared is not Mr. SMITH of Arizona. I move to suspend the rules and pass extended to the State of Arizona, and in lieu of any grant of saline lands to the bill (H. R. 7204) to provide for the admission of the State of said State, the following grants of land are hereby made, to wit: To the State of Arizona: For the establishmentandmaintenance and sup Arizona into the Union, and for other purposes. port in the said State ot the insane asylum, 50,000 acres; tor the penitentta:r;x The Clerk proceeded to read the bill, when 50,000 acres; for the deaf, dumb, and blind asylum to be established, 30,uuu1 Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR said: I move that the House ad- acres; for a min~rs' hospital for disabled miners, 30,000 acres; for normal schools, 100,000 acres; for State charitable, penal, and reformatory iustitu journ. tions, 250,000 acres; for county hospitals, 100,000 acres. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio moves that the SEC. 11. That the State of Arizona shall not be entitled to any fm•ther or House adjourn. other grants of land for any purpose than as expressly provided in this act; 1892. CONGRESSION·AL RECORD-HOUSE. 5089
and the lands granted by the foregoing section shall be held, appropriated, The SPEAKER. Is a second demanded? and disposed of exclusively for the purposes herein mentioned, in such manner as the Legislature of the State may provide: Provided, however, Mr. PERKINS. I demand a second. That none of the lands granted for normal schools shall be disposed of other The SPEAKER appointed Mr. PERKINS and Mr. SMITH of wise than as provided in section 5 of this act. Arizona a.s tellers. SEC. 12. That all mineral h,mds shall be exempted from the grants made by this act; but if sections two, sixteen, thirty-two, and thirty-six or any sub The House divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 169, noes 2. division or portion of any smallest subdivision thereof in any township shall The SPEAKER. The motion was seconded; and the Chair be found by the Department of the Interior to be mineral lands, said State will recognize the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. SMITH] to con is hereby authorized and empowered to select, in legal subdivisions, an equal quantity of unappropriated lands in said State in lieu thereof for the use trol the time in favor of the proposition, and the gentleman from and the benefit of the common schools of said State. Iowa [Mr. PERKINS] in opposition. [Cries of "Vote! '"Vote!"] SEC. 13. That all lands granted in quantity or as indemnity by this act Mr. SMITH of Arizona. I reserva mv time. shall be selected, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, from the unreserved and unappropriated public lands of the United States within the Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, I do riot proposa to delay the limits of the State entitled thereto; and there shall be deducted from the House. I have very little to add with reference to this bill to number of acres of land donated by this act for specific objects to said State what I suggested in speaking of the New Mexico bill. I have the number of acres that may have heretofore been donated by Congress to said Territory for similar objects. the same objection to this bill, as far as the disposition of the SEC. 14. That the sum of $30,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, public lands is concerned, that I had to the other. The provi is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwi!:>e ap sions are identical in that respect. propriated, to said Territory for defraying the expenses of the said con vention and for the payment of the members thereof, under the same rules It is probably useless for me here to-day to discuss the matter and regulations and at the same 1·ates as are now provided by law for the of p~p~lat.ion or the condition of the Territory, as well as the payment of the Territorial Legislatures, and for the elections held therefor conditiOn It would assume under statehood, or anything of that and thereunder. Any money hereby appropriated not necessary for such pur];lose shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. sort. I had not expected to make any allusion whatever to pol SEc. 15. That the said State, when admitted as aforesaid, shall constitut.e a itics in the consideration of these bills; but I think it is pretty judicial district, the name thereof to be the same as the name of the State; well evidenced here . to-day that it is made a political question. and the circuit and district courts therefor shall be held at the capital of the State for the time being, and the said district shall, for judicial purJloses, My judgment is that questions of the magnitude involved in these until otherwise ];lrovided, be attached to the ninth judicial district. There bills should be considered impartially, and from the standpoint shall be appointed for said district one district judge, one United States at of the best judgment that we can bring to bear. Certainly there torney, and one United States marshal. The judge of said district shli.ll re ceive a yearly salary or $5,000, ];la.yable as provided for by law, and shall is no opportunity here for any such consideration to-day. I reside in the district. There shall be a];lpointed clerks of said court, who shall simply desire to file my protest here to th~ passage of these bills keep their om.ces at the ca.IJital of said State. The regular terms of said JIDder the conditions that are named therein. courts shall be held in said district at the Jllace aforesaid on the first Monday in April and the first Monday in November of each year, and only one grand I reserve the remainder of my time. (Cries of "Vote!" "Vote!"] jury and one petit jury shall be summoned in both said circuit and. district The SPEAKER. If no gentleman desires to occupy the floor courts. The circuit and district courts for said district, and the judges the Chair will submit the question. The question is on the mo thereof, respectively, shall JlOSsess the same powers and jurisdiction and perform the same duties required to be performed by t.he other circuit and tion to suspend the rules and pass the bill just read. district courts and judges of the United States, and shall be governed by the The question was taken. same laws and regulations. The marshal, district attorney, and clerks of Mr. COWLES and others. Let us have the yeas and nays. the circuit and district courts of said district, and all other officers and per sons ];lerforming duties in the administration of justice therein, shall severally The yeas and nays were ordered. JlOSSess the ];lowers and perform the duties lawfully JlOSSessed and required The question was taken; and there were-yeas 173, nays 13, to be performed by similar officers in other districts of the United States; not voting 143; as follows: and shall, for the sernces they may perform, receive the fees and compen sation allowed by law to other similar offi.cers and persons ];lerforming similar . YEAS-173. duties in the State of California. Abbott, Covert, Holman, Patterson, Tenn. SEc. 15. That all cases of appeal or writ of errorheretot'ore];lrosecuted and Alderson, Cowles, Houk, Ohio Patton, now :pending in the Supreme Court of the United States UJlOn any record Alexander, Cox,N. Y. Johnson, Ohio Paynter, from the supreme court of said Territory, or that may hereafter lawfully be Al'Dold, Cox, Tenn. Johnstone, S.C. Pearson, prosecuted upon any record from said court-s, may be heard and determined Babbitt, Craig, Pa. Jones, Pierce, by said Su];lreme Court of the United States. And the mandate of execution Bacon, Crawford, Kem, Price, or of further Jlroceedings shall be directed by the Supreme Court of the Bailey, Crosby, Kendall, Reilly, United States to the circuit or district court hereby established within the Baker, Culberson, Kilgore, Richardson, said State from or to the supreme court of such State, as the nature of the Bankhead, Cummings, Kribbs, Robertson, La. case may require. And the circuit, district, and Sta.te courts herein named Beeman, Daniell, Kyle, Rockwell, shall, respectively, be the successor of the supreme court of the Territory, Bentley, Davis, Lagan, Sayers, as to all such cases arising within the limits embraced within the jurisdic Blanchard, DeArmond, Lane, Scott, tion of such courts, respectively, with full power to proceed with the same, Bland, Dickerson, Lanham, Seerley, and award mesne or final process therein; and that from all judgments and Blount, Dixon, Layton, Shell, decrees of the supreme court of the Territory mentioned in this act, in any Boatner, . Dockery, Lester, Ga. Simpson, case arising within the limits of the proposed State Jlrior to admission, the Bowman, Dungan, Livingston, Snodgrass, parties to such judgment shall have the samerlght to prosecute aiJpeals and Branch, Durborow, Lockwood, Snow, Writs of error to the Supreme Court of the United States a.s they shall have Bretz, Edmunds, Long, Stackhouse, had by law prior to the admission of said State into the Union. Brookshire, Ellis, Lynch, Steward, DL SEC. 17. That in res];lect to all cases, ];lroceedings, and matters now pend Brown, English, Mallory, Stewart, Tex. ing in the supreme or district courts of the said Territory at the time of the Bryan, Enloe, Martin, Stone, Ky. admission into the Union of the State of Arizona. and arising within the Bullock, Everett, McAleer, Stout, limits of such State, whereof the circuit or district courts by this act estab Bunn, Fellows, McCreary, Tarsney, lished might have had jurisdiction under the laws of the United States had Bunting, Fithian, McDonald, Terry, such courts existed at the time or the commencement of such cases, the sa,;id Busey, Forney, McGann, Tillman, circuit and district courts, res:pectively, shall be the successors o:f said su Bushnell, Fowler, McKeigha.n, Tracey, . / preme and district courts of said Territory; and in respect to all other cases Butler, Gea.ry, McKinney, VanHorn, ];lroceedings, and matters pending in the supreme or district com·ts or the Byrns, Goodnight, McMillin, Warner, said Territory at the time or the admission of such Territory into the Union, Caminetti, Gorman, McRae, Washington, arising within the limits of said State, the courts established by such State Campbell, Grady, Meredith, Weadock, shall, res];lectively, be the successors of said supreme anddistrictTeiTitorial Capehart, Greenleaf, Meyer, Wheeler, Mich. courts; and all the files, records, indictments, and proceedings relatin~ to Caruth, Hallowell, Miller, White, anys'uch cases shall be transferred to such circuit, district, and Stata com·ts. Castle, Halvorson, Mitchell, Whiting, :-es:pectively, and the same shall be ];lroceeded With therein in duo course of Catchings, Hamilton, Montgomery, Wike, law; but no writ, action, indictment, cause, or ];lroceeding now pending, or Cate, Hare. Moore, Willcox, that prior to the admission of the State shall be pending, in any Tc.Titorial Causey, Harries, Moses, Williams, N.C. court 1n said Territory shall abate by the admission of such State into the Chipman, Harter, Mutchler, Williams, Ill. Union, but the same shall be transferred and ];lrocceded with in the proper Clark, Wyo. Hatch, Newberry, Wilson, W. Va. United States circuit, district, or State court, as the case may be: Provided, Clarke, Ala. Hayes, Iowa Oates, Winn, hotoever1 That in all civil actions, causes, and ];lroceed1ngsin which the United Cobb, Ala. Haynes, Ohio O'Neil, Mass. Wise, States IS not a party, transfers shall not be made to the circuit and district Cobb, Mo. Heard. O'Neill, Mo. Youmans. courts of the United States except upon cause shown by written request of Coburn, Hemphill. Otis, one of the parties to such action or proceeding filed in the Jlroper court; and Coolidge, Henderson, N. C. Owens, in the absence of such request such cases shall be proceeded with in the Cooper, Hermann, Page,R. L proper State courts. SEC. 18. That the Legislature of the said State may elect two Senat01s of NAYS-13. the United States as is ];lrovided by the constitution of said State, and the Belknap, Perkins, Shonk, Wilson, Ky. Senators and Representative of said State shall be entitled to be admitted to Grout, Ray, Stone. W. A. seats in Congress and to all the rights and Jlrivileges of Senators and Rep Johnson, Ind. Reyburn, Storer, resentatives of other States in the Congress of the United States. O'Donnell, S"CUll, 'l'aylor, J. D. SEc. 19. That until the State om.cers are elected and qualified under the ];lrovisions of the constitution of said State, the offi.cers of the Territory of NOT VO'IT~G-143. Arizona shall discharge the duties of their respective om.ces under the con Allen, Brawley, Cadmus, Cutting, stitution of the State, in the manner and form as therein Jlrovided. Amerman, Breckinrid;;e, Al'k. Caldwell, Dalzell, SEc. 20. That from and after the admission of !!aid State into the Union,· Andrew, Breckinrldge, Ky. Cheatham, De Forest, in Jlursuance of this act, the laws of the United States, not locally inapplica Atkinson, Brickner. Chapin, Dingley, ble, shall have the same force and e1Ject within the said State as elsewhere Bartine, Brodericlr, Clancy, Doan, within the United States; and all laws in force made by said 'l'erritory, at Earwig, Brosius, Clover, Dolliver. the time of its admission into the Union, until amended or repealed, shall be Belden, Brunner, Cockran, Donovan, in force in said State, except as modified or changed by this act or by the Beltzhoover, Buchanan, N. J. Cogswell, Dunphy, constitution of the State, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with the pro Bergen, Buchanan, Va. Com];lton, Elliott, visions of this act, whether passed by a Legislature of said Territory or by Bingham, Burrows, Coombs, Enochs, Congress, are hereby re:pealed. Boutelle, Bynum, Crain, Tex. Epes, SEc. 21. 'l'hat this act shall take e1Ject on the 1st day of January, 1893. Bowers, Cable, Curtis, Fitch, XXlTT--319 .f
5090 CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-HOUSE; JUNE 6,
Flick, Jolley, Payne, Stone, C. W. keeper, $2,592, and $500 additional while the office of assistant doorkeeper is Forman, Ketcham, Peel, Stump, held by Isaac Bassett, the present incumbent; acting assistant doorkeeper, Funston, Lapham, Pendleton, Sweet, $2,592; three messengers, acting a.s assistant doorkeepers, at $1,800 each; Fyan.. Lawson, Va. Pickler, Taylor, Ill. twenty-eight messengers, at $1,440 each; assistant roes enger on the ftoor Gantz, Lawson, Ga. Post, Taylor, Tenn. of the Senate, $1,440; messenger to the om.cial Reporter's room, $1,440; mes Geissenha.iner, Lester, Va.. Powers, Taylor, E. B. senger in charge of storeroom, $1,200; upholsterer and locksmith, $1J.!!O; two Gffiespie, Lew13, Quackenbush, Taylor, V. A. carpenters to assist him, at $960 each; et.ght skllied laborers, at $1,uvu each; Griswold, Lind, Raines, Townsend, two janitors at $000 each; laborer in charge of the private passage, 0; Hall, Little, Randall, Tucker, female attendant in charge of the ladies' retiring room $720; telephone ope Harmer, Lodge, Rayner, Turner, rator, $i20; telephone page,~; twelve laborers, at $7'2o each; six.teenpn.ges Hangen, Loud, Reed, Turpin, for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of t!.50per day each during the session, Henderson, Iowa 1\lagner. Rife. Wadsworth, $4,840; in all, $91,924. Henderson, Ill. Mansur, Robinson, Pa. Walker, Post-office: For postmaster, $2,250; assistant postmasterandmail-carrter, Herbert, McClellan, Rusk, Warwick, $2,088; one clerk in post-office, $1,800; five mali-carriers, at$1,200 each; four Hitt McKaig, Russell, Watson, riding pages, at $912.50 each; in all, $15,788. Hoar, Milliken. Sanford, Waugh, Documentroom: For superintendent ofthedocumentroom (Amzi Smith), Hooker, Miss. Morse, · Shively, Wever, $3,000; three assistants indocumentroomil at $1,440each; one clerk to super Hooker, N.Y. Norton, Smith, Wheeler, Ala. intendent of document room, $1,440; in a , 818,760. Hopkins, Pa. O'Ferrall, Sperry, Williams, Mass. Folding room: For superintendent of the folding room, $2,160; one as Hopkins, Ill. O'Neill, Pa. Springer, Wilson, Wash. sistant in folding room, $1,200; one clerk in folding room, $1,000; one foreman Houk, Tenn. Outhwaite, Sta.hlnecker, Wilson, Mo. in folding room, $1,200; six folders, at $3 per day while actually employed, Huff, Page, Md. Stephenson., Wolverton, $6,5i0; in all, $12,130. Hull. Parrett, Stevens, Wright. Under Architect of the Capitol: For chief engineer, $2,160; three assistant John-on, N.Dak. Pattison, Ohio Stockdale, engineers, at $1,440 each; three conductors of elevators, at $1,200 each; one machinist and assistant conductor of elevators, $1,000; two firemen. at $1,095 So (two-thirds having voted in favor thereof) the rules were each; four laborers, at $720 each; in all, $16,150. suspended and the bill passed. For twenty-three clerks to committees, at $6 per day each during the ses sion, $16,698. The following additional pair was announced: For contingent expenses, namely: For stationery and newspape1·s, includ Mr. WATSON with Mr. HOPKINS of illinois on this vote. ing not exceeding $0,000 for stationery for committees and omcers of the Mr. CLARK of Wyoming. Mr. SJ?eaker, I am paired gener Senate, $15,500. ally with the gentleman from Virgrnia [Mr. O'FERRALL], but For postage stamps for the office of the Secretary of the Senate. $..."00; for the om.ce of the Sergeant-at-Arms, $100; in all, $300. having tho assurance that he would vote" aye," I have voted in For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons for favor of this motion. carrying the mails, $3,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Mr. PEEL. I am paired with the gentleman from Washing For materials for folding, $4,000. For folding speeches and pamphlets, a.t a rat-e not exceeding $1 per thou ton [M.r. WILSON). Not knowing how he would votelwill with sand, $3,000. draw my vote. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating apparatus, exclusive of labor, $6,000. Mr. PENDLETON. I withdraw my vote, being paired. For pm·chase of furniture, $2,000. Mr. TUCKER. I desire to know, Mr. Speaker, if a quorum For materials for furniture and repairs of sa.me, exclusive of labor, $1,000. has >oted? For services in cleaning and varnishing furniture, $1,000. For packing-boxes, !970. The SPEAKER. A quorum has voted. For m.iscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $20,000. Mr. TUCKER. Then I will withdraw my vote. I was paired For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, in with the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. TOWNSEND] with the un cluding compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of derstanding that I could vote to make a quorum. the Senate, but not exceeding $1.25 per printed page, $15,000. Mr. TURPIN. I desire to say that I am paired with the gen For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, $9....5,000. payable tleman from South Dakota[Mr. PICKLER], and withdraw my vote. in equal monthly installments. The result of the vote was then announced as above recorded. CAPITOL POLICE. (Applause on the Democratic side.] For one captain, $1,600; three lieutenants, at $1,200 each; twenty-four pri vates, at $1100 each; and eight watchmen, at $900 each; in all, $38,800, one LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL. half to be diSbursed by the Secl'eta.ry of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Mr. FORNEY. Me. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and For contingent fund, $100. pass the bill (H. R. 904:0) making appropriations for the legisla CONGRESSlONAL DffiECTORY. tive, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the For expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congre siona.l fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, a.nd for other purposes. [Ap Directory, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on plause.] Printing, $1.200. · BOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE , The SPEAKER. The bill will be read. For compensat-ion Of members of the House of Representatives and Dele The bill was read. gates from Territories, $1,720,000. It is as follows: For mileage, $115,000. For compensation of the omcers, clerks, messenger , and others in the erv B e it enacted, etc. That the following sums be, and the same are here by ap 1 ice of the House of Representatives, $379,836.30, namely: propriated, outofanymoney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriatea, in Office of the Speaker: For private secretary to the Speaker, $2,102.40; clerk full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June SO, 1893, for to the Speaker's table, 2,102.40; clerk to the Speaker $1,600; messenger to the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: the Speaker, $1,000; in all, 16,804.80. LEGISLATIVE. Chaplain: For Chaplain of the House, 3900. Om.ce of the Clerk: For Clerk of the House of Representatives, including SENATE. compensation as disbursing om.cer of the contingent fund, !5,000; and for For compensation of Senators, $440,000. hire of horses and wagons and cartage for the nse o! the Clerk's om.ce, fi)OO. For mileage of Senators, $45,000. or so much thereof as maybe necessary; for Chief Clerl{, Journal Clerk, and For compensation of the om.cers, clerks, messengers, and others in the two reading clerks, at $3,600 each, and for the Journal Clerk for preparing service of the Senate, $316,608.90, nh.mely: Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; tally clerk, $3,000; for printing and Office of the Vice-President: For secretary to the Vice-President, $2.1.~; bill clerk, and disbursing cf"6rk, at ~.500 each; for file clerk, and enrolling for messenger, $1,440; telegraph opat"ator, $1,200; one telegraph page, ww; clerk, at 1!2,250each; for assistant disbursing clerk. assistant enrolling clerk, in all, $5,460. • assistant journal clerk, resolution and petition clerk, newspaper clerk, in Chaplain: For Chaplain of the Senate, $900. dex clerk, superintendent of document room, and librarian, at $2,000 each: Office of Secretary: For Secretary of the Senate,$5,000, including compensa for distributing clerk, stationery clerk, and two assistant librarians, at tion as disbursing om.cer of the contingent fund of the Senate, and for com $1,800 each; for one bookkeeper, and foul' clerks, at $1,600 each; for document pensation as disbursing om.cer of salaries of Senators, $396; hire of horse and clerl{, and locksmith, at $1,440 each; t·wo messengers in the House library, at wagon for the Secretary's om.ce, $700, or so much thereof as may be neces $1,314 each; one telegraph operator, at $1,'20:>; one assistant to the file <'lerk. sary; chief clerk and financial clerk, at$3,000 each; principal executive clerk, and two laborers in Clerk's .document room, at $900 each; one :page, one la principal clerl•, minute and journal clerk, and enrollingclerk, at lf2,592each; borer in the bathroom, and four laborers at $720 each; one asslStant index assistant financial clerk, ~.4.00; librarian, $2,220; assistant librarian, $1,«0; clerk, during the session and three months after its close, two hundrecl and six: clerks, at $2,220 each; five clerks, at $2,100 each; keeper of stationery, eleven days, at $6 per day $1,266; one page in the enrolling room, at $7"...0; one $2,100.40; assist.ant keeper of stationery $1,800; one assistant in the station messenger boy 1n Chief Clerk's1 room, i300; in all, :r80,71(. ery room, $1,000; two messengers, at $1,440 each; five laborers, at $720 each; Under Architect of the Capitol: One chief engineer, $1, 700· two assistant one page, $912.50; in all, $64,638.90. engineers, at $1,200 each; fourconuuctorsof the elevators, atS1.100 each, who Clerks and messengers to committees: For clerk of printing records, 1!2,- shall be under the supervision and direction of the Architect ot the Capitol; 220; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, $3,000, assistant clerk, $2,220; one laborer, 3'820; five firemen. at $900 each: one electrician, $1,200; one la· messenger, to be appointed bY the committee, $1,«0; clerk and stenographer borer, $800; one laborer to clean Statuary Hall and watch statuary therein, to the Committee on Finance, $2,500, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Com i660; in all, $16,480. mittee on Claims, $2,2'>...0, assistant clerk, $1,440,messenger,$1,«0; clerk to the Clerks and messengers to committees: For clerk to the Committee on Committee on Commerce, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440; clerk to the Com Ways and Means, ~.000, assJstant clerk, ~1,600; messenger, $1.000; clerk to mittee on Pension, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,«0, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations. ff3.GOO; assistant clerk, $1,600; mesEenger. the Committee on the Judiciary, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Com $1,000; clerks to the Conimittee on Accounts, Agriculture, Claims, Com mittee on Military AtJairs, $2,220 messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee merce. District of Columbia., Elections, Foreign Affairs, Indian A!l'airs, In on Post-offices and Post-Roads, :bi,220, messenger, $1,44.0; clerk to the Com valid Pensions, Irrigation of Arid Lands. Judiciary, Merchant Marine and mittee on the District of Columbia, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Fisheries, Military Affairs, NavalA:!Iairs,Public Lands, RiversandHa.rbors, Committee on Foreign Relations, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Com War Claims, Post-Omces and Post-Roads, and Public Buildings and Grounds. mittee on Engrossed Bills, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerks to the Commit and clerk to continue Digest of Claims under resolution of March 7, 1888, at tees onNavalA!I'airs, Joint Committee on the Library, Census, Public Lands, $2,000 each; and for assistant clerk to the Committee on War Claims, 1,200; Indian A!l'airs, to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, in all, $52,400. Public Buildings and Grounds, Agriculture and Forestry, Education and For thirty- ix clerk to committees, at i6 each per day during the s ion, Labor, Territories, Interstate Commerce, Epidemic Diseases, Private Land $26,136. Claims, Patents, Coast Defenses, and Rules, at $2,220 each; in all, $84,160. Office of Sergeant-at-Arms: For Sergeant-at-Arms of the Hou<;e of Repre om.ce of Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper: For Sergeant-at-Arms and sentativ"&s,$4,500; one deputy tO the Sergeant-at-Arms, 12,000; one cashier, Doorkeeper, $4,600; horse and wagon for his use, $420, or so much thereof as $3,000; one paying t-eller, $'2,000; one bookkeeper, 11,800; one m esseugtU', may be necessary; for clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms $2,000; assistant door- $1,200; one page, at $720: and one laborer. at 1000; 1n all, $15,850.
y ... ,. 1892. GONGRESSIONAL REOORD-HOUSE. 5091
Office o! Doorkeeper: For Doorkeeper, $3,EOO; and for hire of horses, feed, chief clerk, $2,7"':>0; for six chiefs of bureaus and one translator, at $2,100 repair of wagon and ha.rness. ~. or so much thereof as may be necessary; each; clerk to the Secretary, $2,000; eleven clerks of class 4; four clerks a.SaiBtant doorkeeper, superintendent of document room, assistant {superin of class 3; seven clerks or class 2; one clerk of class 21 for indexing rec tendent of document room, and Department messenger, at $2,000 each; two ords, $1,400; sixteen clerks of class 1, one of whom is to be a telegraph special emEloy6s, at IU,500 each; document file clerk, ~t,400; assistant docu- operator; five clerks, at $1,000 each; ten clerks, at $900 each; one messenger, three assistant messengers; one packer, at $'720; and ten la borers; in all, :::e~~e~s~~c~~k~::e~~~~~l~~eF:~o:~~s~~~~:-y,a:t!it~ ~~~~;; ~~: $119,870. messengers, at $1,000 each; six laborers, at $720 each; two laborers in the Fot· proof-reading the l:J.ws or the United States and r eports to Congress water-closet, at $720 each; three laborers, including two in the eloalu'ooms, including boxes and transportation o-r the same, $1,280. ' at $600 each; female attendant in ladies' retiring room, !720; superintendent For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and I'epairs. and for the purchase of Of the folding room, $2,000; three clerks in the fold1ng room, one at $1,800 and passport paper, S5,003. "wo at IU ,200 each; one foreman, $.1,500; one messenger, $1,200; one folder in For books and maps, and books fm.· the library, $2,000. the sealing room, $1,200; o'L.e page, $500; one laborer, $400; ten folders, at $900 For services of lithographer and necessary materials for the lithographic each; five folders, at$840 eacli; three folders, during the session, at i?'O per press, $1,200. month each, $8.10; fifteen. tolders, at r720 each; one night watchman, $900; For contingent expenses, namely: For care n.nd subsistence of horses and one driver. $600; fourteen messengers on the soldiers' roll, $1,200 each; two repairs of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable and wagon shed, chief pages, $900 each; thirty-three pa~es, boys not under twelve years of age, care of clocks. telegraphic and electric apparatus, and repairs to the same during the session, including two riding pages, one telephone page, and one and for miscellaneous items not included in the 'foregoing; in all,~ 500. ' telegraph page, at $2.50 per day each, ~,982.50; two messengers, during the For expenses or editing and distributing the laws enacted during the first session, at $70 per month each, $560; ten laborers during the session, at $60 session.~! the Ffty-~econd 9ongress. $3,000, to be immediately available. per JT~nth each, &\2,400; six laborers, known as cloakroom men, at $50 per For editing and distribntmg the Statutes at Large of the Fifty-second month each; horse and l>nggy tor Department messenger, $250; in all, $121,- Congress, !1,000, to be immediately available. 026.50 Olll.ce of Postmaster: For Postmaster, $2,500; first assistant postmaster, TR:!'.:A.SURY DEPARTMENT. $2,000; ten messengers, including messenger to superintend trans_l)ortation of mails, at :31,200 each; three messengers, during the session, at 8i800 each; Secretary's Office: For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury four messengersLat $100 per month each, during the session, 1,600; and one $8,000; three assistant secretaries of the Treasury, at $!,500 each; clerk to the laborer, a.t e720; mall, $21,220. Secretary, t2,400; three private secretaries, one to each assistant secretary For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, $3,775, or so at$1,800 each; one clerk of class 1; one copyist; three messengers; -three assistant messengers; in all, $36,080. much thereof as may be necessary. 9 Official Reporters: .For five Official Reporters of the proceedings and debates Olll.ce of chief clerk and superintendent: For chief clerk, including 00 as of the Honse, at $5,000 each; assistant olll.cial reporter, t1,000; in all, $26,000. superintendent of Treasury building, $3,000; assistant superintendent of Treasury building, $2,100; one inspector of electric-light plants, gas, and .fix Stenographe1·s to committees: For two stenographers to committees, a.t tures for all public build1ngs under control of the Treasury Department :UzQ?O each, ~. 000. " ·~· nat wherever the words "during the session" occur in the foregoing 31,000; four clerks of class 4o; additional to one clerk of class 4asbookkeeper: they shall be construed to mean tour months, or one hundred and twenty-one 11)100: two clerks of class 3; thrae clerks of class2: three clerks of class 1; one days. clerk at $1,000; one messenger; two assistant messengers; one storekeeper, For contingent expenses, namely: For materials for folding, $16,000. $1,200; one telegraph ope1·ator, 1,200; three elevat{)rcondnctors, atmoeaeh· one engineer, $1,400; one assistant engineer, $1,000; two assistant enginee1-s at CFor purchase of furniture, $2,000. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $1 ,000. $720 each; one locksmith, $1,200; three firemen; five firemen, at$660 each· one coal-passer, $500 j one captain or the watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch For services in cleaning and varnishing furniture, $1,000. at$900 each; fifty-eight watchmen; sixspecial watchmenat$720each; one fore For vacking-boxes, $970. man of laborers, ,1,000; one skilled laborer, male, at 840; three skilled la For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, ~.000. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, in borers, male, at rT20 each; twenty-six laborers; ten laborers, at i500 ~ach · one labor-er, at $!80; two laborers, a.U360 each; ninety charwomen; one fore~ cluding compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may man of cabinet shop, $1,500; one draftsman, $1,200; eleven cabinetmakers, be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of $1,000; the Senate, bnt not exceeding $1.25 per printed page, 115,000. at $1,000 each: one cabinetmaker, , ... o: one carpenter, one carpen For repo1·ting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, !25,000, payable t-er's h.elper, 10060. For the Winder Building: One engineer, $1,000; conduetor in equal monthlY installments. of elevator. t720; one fireman; .tour watchmen; tnreelaborers, one of whom For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, !6,000. when necessary, J>hall assist and relieve the conductor of the elevator; one For furniture and repairs of the same, $8,000. labor~r1 at 3480; and six charwomen; in all, $167,.680. Fo1· packing-boxes, $3,005. DiVlSlOn of warr~nts, estimates, and appropriations: For chief of diviBion. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, $3,000; assistant chief or division, 812,4.00; estimate and digest clerk, $2,000; six $20,000. • clerk of class 4; three clerks of class S; one clel'k of class 2; four clerks of For stationery for members of the Rouse of Representatives, including not class 1; two clerks at $1,000 each; one cle1·k at $900, one assistant me senger, of and one laborer; 1n all $33,480. exceeding 16,000 for stationery tor the use the committees and officers of Division of customs: For chief of division, $2.750; assistant chief or divi the House, $!7,875. For. postage stamps tor the Postmaster, !100; for the Clerk, 1!200; for the sion, $2,000; two clerlrn of class 4, two clerks of class 3, two clerks of class 2. two clerks or class 1; two clerks at $1,000 each, two clerks at $000 ea.ch two Sergeant-at-Arms, $..'>00, and for the Poorkeeper, $25; in all, !525. assistant messengers; in all, 8121,990. ' PUBLIC PRINTING. Division of appointments: For chief of division. $2,750; as istant chief of For compensation of the Public Printer, t-!,500; chief clerk, ~.400; two division. 2,000; one clerk of class 4; four clerks of class 3; two clerks of class clerks or class 4; two clerks of class 3; one clerk of class 2; in all, $15,100. 2; one clerk at $1,000; two clerks at-$900 each; two copyists at $840 each; one For contingent expenses, namely: For stationery, postage, advertising, -<~.ssistantmessenger; one laborer; inall, ~1.610. traveling expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous items, 13,000. Division of pnblie moneys: For chief of division, $2,500; a sistant ohlef of LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. division, $2,000; four clerks of class 4; three clerks of class S: two clerks of For compensation of Librarian, $4,000; and for twenty-eight assistant li class 2; one clerk of class 1; one clerk, 11,000; one clerk, mo; one messen brarta.na, two at $2,500 each; two at $1,800 each; two at $1,600 each; two at ger; one assistant messenger; one laborer, $550; in all, 1!2!,510. $1,440 each; eight at $1,400 each, one of whom shall be in charge of interna Division of loans and currency: For chief of division,:i2,500: one assi-stant ~hie! of division, at ~2 , 100; seven clerks or class 4; additional to two clerks tional exchanges; nine at $1.,200 each; one at $720; and two at $600 each; in of class 4 as receiving clerk of bonds and bookkeeper, $100 each; two clerks an. $42,600. of class S; two clerks of class 2; two clerks of class 1; two clerks, a.t $1,000 ~.,or purchase of books for the Library, $4,000; for purchase of law books !or the Library, $1,500; for the purchase by the Librarian of Congress of new ea.ch; thirteen clerks, at :!900 each; one copyist, at $840; one messenger; two books or reference for the Supreme Court, to be a. part of the Library of assistant messengers; six laborers; superintendent of paper room, $1 ,200; Congress and purchased under the direction of the Chief Justice, $1,500; for one paper-cutter, at :l\3 per day; one paper-counter, $720; twenty-four paper counters and laborers, at $520 each; in all, 1!6!,319. expenses of exchanging public documents for the ;publications of foreign Division of revenue marine: For a sista.nt chief of division, $.:"!,00:>; one Governments, $1,500; .for purchase of files of periodtcals, serials, and news 2; $2,500; in $11,000. clerk of class 4; four clerks or class 3; two clerks or class two cler.ks of papers, all, class 1; two clerks. at ll,OOO each; one clerk, at $200 ; and one laborer, in "11 For contingent expenses of the Library, :£1,000. $18,000...... ' For expenses of the copyright business, $500. To enable the Librarian of Congress to continue the work upon the Cata Miscellaneous division: For chief of division, $2,500: assistant chief of di the vision, 12,000; one clerk of class 4; two clerks of clasJB; two clerks of elass logue of Congressional Library, i2,500. 1; one clerk, at $1 ,000; one clerk, at $900; one assistant mest>enger; in all BOTANIC GARDEN. $14,520. I For superintendent. 11.800; !or assistants and laborers, under the direction Division of stationery, printing, and blan1.-:s: For chief o! division, S2,DOO; o!the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $12,003.75; 1n all, $13,803.75. four clerks of class 4; two clerks of class 3; threeclerksofclass2; two clerks For procul'ing manure, tools, fuel, pur{)hasing trees and shrubs, and for o1 class 1; two clerks, at ~00 each; twomess.sngers; two assistant messen labor and material in connection with repairs and improvements to .Botanic gers; one foreman of bindery. at $5 per day; four binders. at 8!4 per day each· Garden, under dh·ection of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $5,000. and o~e sewer and folder, at 182.50 per day; in all, $31,715.50. ' EXECUTIVE. Div1sion of mail and files: For chief of division, $2,500; one clerk of class For compensation of t.he President of the United States, $50,000. 3; five clerks o! class 2; two clerks of class 1; six clerks, at 11,000 eac.b · four For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States, iS,OOO. clerks, a't $900 each; .one mail messenger, $1,000; two assistant messeDgers; For compensation to the .following in the office o.f the President of the one laborer, a.t !600; m all. !26.140. United States: Private secretary, $5,000; assistant secretary, :s2 500; one ex Division of special agents: For assistant chief of division,$2,400; one clerk ecutive clerk and disbursing clerk, and one executive clerk, at $2,000 each; or class 3; thr~e clerks of class 1; one clerk, at $1 ,000 ; three clerks, at fOOO two clerks of class 4; tw'o clerks of class 3; steward, !1,800; usher to the Presi each; and one messenger; in all, 112,14.0. dent, $1,800; chief doorkeeper, $1,800; four doorkeepers, at $1,200 each; .four Offices of disbursing clerks: For two disbursing clerks, at $2,5:m each; one messengers, at $1,200 ea~h; one _:watchman, 900; and one engineer, who is clerk or class 4; one clerk of class 3; and one clerk, $1,000; in all, $9.40:>. also the fireman., $1,000; mall, 135.200. Miseella~eous: Fo.r one clerk of cla.e paid for from sg(l() each; one messenger, and one laborer; in all, $36,400. and equitably charged against such appropriations: Provided, That the ex For neces ~11ry traveling expenses, .including those or examiners acting penditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, shall not under the direction of the Commiss1on, and for expenses of examinations exceed !200,000 and that the Secretary of the Tr-easm·y shall each yea.r in the and investiga.tions held elsewhere than at Washington, $5,250. annual estimates report to Congress the number or persons so employed and DEPARTMENT OF STATE. the amount paid to each. Fer compensation of the Secretary of State, $8,000; First Assistant Secre First Comptroller or the Trea-sury: For First Comptroller of the Treasury, tary of State, !4,500; two Assistant Secretaries of State, at $3,500 each; tor $5,000; deputy comptroller, $2,700; tour chiefs of division, at $2,100 each; 5092 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JUNE 6, seven clerks or class 4; twelve clerks of class 3; twelve clerks or class 2; Commission& of Internal Revenue: For Commissioner or Internal Reve· eleven clerks of class 1; three clerks, at$1,000 each; eight clerks, at$900each; nue, $6,000; one deputy commissioner, !3,200; one chemist, $2,500; one micro one skilled laborer, at $840; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and scopist, $2,500; two heads of division, at $2,500each; six heads of division, at three laborers; in all, $92,480. · · $2,250 each; one superintendent of stamp vault, $2,000; one stenographer Second Comptroller of the Treasury: For Second Comptroller of the Treas $1,800; twenty-five clerks or class 4; twenty-five clerks of class 3; thirty-fiv~ ury, $5,000; deputy comptroller, $2,700; seven chiefs of division, at $2,100 each; clerks or class 2; twenty-five clerks of class 1; fourteen clerks, at $1,000 ten clerks or class 4; ten clerks of class 3; ten clerks or class 2; ten clerks of each; forty-one clerks, at $900 each; three messengers; fourteen assistant class 1; two clerks, at $1,000 each; five clerks, at $900 each; five clerks, at $660 messengers; and thirteen laborers; in all, $272,580. each; one messenger, and three laborers; in all, $95,020. For one stamp agent, at $1,600, and one counter at $900; in all, $2,500, the That hereafter the adjustment or the accounts of the Soldiers' Home, under same to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. section 4818of the Revised Statutes, in the offices of the Second Comptroller, Light-House Board: For chief clerk or the Light-House Board, $2,4.00 ; two and Second Auditor, shall be limited to those originating subsequent to clerks o! class 4; two clerks or class 4; two clerks or class 2; four clerks of March 3, 1881. class 1; ten clerks, at $900 each; two assistant messengers; one labOrer, at Commissioner or Customs: For Commissioner of Customs, $!,000; deputy $600; one assistant civil engineer, at $2,400; one draftsman, at $1 800 ; one commissioner, $2,250; two chiefs or division, at $2,100 each; two clerks of draftsman, at $1,560; one draftsman, at $1,«0; one draftsman, at $1,200; in class 4; five clerks of class 3; eleven clerks of cla-ss:!; eight clerks of class 1; all, !36,240. one clerk. at !1,000; one assistant messenger, and one laborer; in all, $49,430. Office of Life-Saving Service: For General Superintendent of the Life First Auditor: For First Auditor of the Treasury, 13,600; deputy auditor, Saving Service, !4,000; assistant general superintendent of the Life-So.ving t\2,250; !our chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; seven clerks or class 4; ten Service, $2,500; one principal clerk and accountant, $2,000; one topographer clerks of class 3; eleven clerks or class 2; eighteen clerks of class 1; three and hydrographer, $1,800; one civil engineer, $1,800; one draftsman, $1,500; clerks, at $1,000 each; !our copyists and counters, a t $900 each; two assistant two clerk~; of class 4; three clerks or class 3; two clerks of class 2; five clerks messengers, and two laborers; in all, $88,810. of class 1; two.clerks, at $1,000 each; four clerks, at $900 each; one assistant Second Auditor: For Second Auditor, $3,600; deputy auditor 1 ~,250: six messenger; and one laborer; in all, $37,7f!O. chiefs or division, at ~.ooo each; thirteen clerks or class 4; additwnal to one Bureau of Navigation: For Commissioner or Navigation, $3,600; two clerks clerk of class 4 as disbursing clerk, $200; forty-three clerks or class 3; fifty of class 4; additional to one clerk designated as deputy commissioner, $200; six clerks of class2; forty-nine clerks of class 1; eleven clerks at $1,000 each; one clerk of class 3; two clerks or class 2; three clerks of class 1; ten clerks, five clerks at $84.0 each; one skilled laborer, $900; one messenger; three as- at $900 each; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, $25,780. sistant messengers; eight laborers; in all, $271,830. · Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For Chief of Bureau, $4,500; assistant For the purpose or restoring and repairing the worn-out and defaced rolls chief, $2,250; accountant, $'2,000; one stenographer, $1,600; one clerk or class and vouchers 1n the Second Auditor's Office, $21,000. 3; two clerks or class 1; one clerk, at $1,000; two assistant messengers; and For the twenty additional clerks or class 1, in the Second Auditor's Office, one laborer; in all, $17,450. rendered necessary by increase or work relating to pensions, $24,000. Bureau of Statistics: For officer in charge of the Bureau of Statistics, That hereafter nothing in section 2n or the Revised Statutes of the United $3,000; chief clerk, $2,250; one special statistical expert, $2,000; !our clerks of States shall be so construed as to prevent the Second Auditor of the Treas class 4; three clerks of class 3; five clerks of class 2; nine clerks of class 1; ury from disallowing claims for arrears of pay and bounty in ca.ses where it three clerks, at $1,000 each; two copyists; three copyists, at $720 each; one appears from the records and files of his office that payment in full has al messenger; one assistant messenger; one laborer; and one female laborer, ready been made to the soldier h.im3elf, or to his widow or Ie~al heirs: P.ro- at $480; in all, $46,710. 1Jided, That if any person whose claim may be disallowed be dissatisfied with For the payment of the services or experts, and for other necessary ex the action or the Auditor, he may, within six months, appeal to the Second penditure connected with the collection of facts relative to the internal and Comptroller; otherwise the Auditor's action shall be deemed final and con foreigncommerce·or the United States, $1,000. clusive and be subject to revision only by Congress or the proper courts. That hereafter collectors of customs shall render to the Bureau of Statis~ Third Auditor: For Thh·d Auditor, $3,600; deputy auditor, $2,250; four tics, in such manner and form and at such periods as the Secretary of the chiefs or division, at: $2,000 each; six clerks of class 4; twenty-one clerks of Treasury may prescribe, returns of exports to foreign countries leaving the class3; fifty-fourclerksot class2; twenty-nineclerks ofclass1; eightclerks, United States by rail. Any person who shall hereafter deliver to any rail at $1,000 each; six clerks, at$900 each; one assistant messenger; eight labor way or transportation company or other common carrier commodities !or ers; and one female laborer, at $480; in all, $188,530. transportation and exportation by rail from the United States to foreign Fourth Auditor: For Fourth Auditor, $3,600; deputy aud.itor, $2,250; three countries, shall also deliver to the agent or such railway or transportation chiefs or division, at $2,000 each; two clerks of class 4; thirteen clerks of company or common carrier a manifest, in such form as the Secretary of class 3; nine clerks of class 2; eleven clerks of class 1; four clerks at :f1,000 the Treasury may prescribe, duly verified by oath or affirmation, exhibiting each; five clerks, at $900 each; one clerk, at $800; one messenger; one assist the kinds, quantities, and values or the several articles delivered by such ant messenger; and two laborers; in all, $"74,230. person for transportat.ion and exportation; and any railway or transporta Fifth Auditor: For Fifth Auditor, $3,600; deputy auditor, $2,250; three tion company or common carrier that shall hereafter transport commodi chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; four clerks of class 4; five clerks of class 3; ties for exportation, as herein specified, without having received such man four clerks of class 2; six clerks of class 1; two clerks, at $1,000 each; four ifest of the persons shipping the same for transportation and exportation as clerks, at $900 each; one messenger; and two laborers; in all, U7,610. aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty of $25. And no railway car containing Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department: For Auditor of commodities, the product or manufacture or the United States, or foreign the Treasury !or the Post-Office Department, !3,600; deputy auditor, who goods, duty paid or free of duty, intended to be exported to any foreign coun may be designated to sign., in the name of the said Auditor, such letters and try, shall be permitted hereafter to leave the United States until the agent papers as the Auditor may direct, $2,250; chief clerk, $2,000; ten chiefs of di of the railway or transportation company or the person having such car in vision, at $2,000 each; eighteen clerks of class 4; additional to one clerk charge shall deliver to the customs otncer at the last port in the United States as disbursing clerk, $200; s~y-five clerks or class 3; seventy-seven clerks through which the commodities pass into foreign territory a manifest of olass 2; eighty-five clerks of class 1; seventy clerks, at IU,OOO each; one thereof, which shall specify the kinds and quantities of the commodities in skilled laborer, at $1,000; twenty assorters of money orders, at 1&900 each; the form prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and said manifest fifteen clerks, at $900 each; thirty assorters of money orders, at 1!840 each; shall be accompanied by the manifests thereof required herein to be deliv two messengers; twenty-three assorters of money orders, at $720 each; ered to the railway or transportation companies by the owners, shippers, or twelve assistant messengers; twenty-three male laborers, at $660 each; consignors ot the commodities. The agent or employ~ of the 1·ailway or three female laborers, at ~60 each, and ten charwomen; in all, $548,390. transportation company who shall hereafter omit or refuse to deliver to the ·For the temporary force to dispose of accumulated money orders, namely: customs officer such manifests of the lading or any car shall be liable to a Three clerks o~ class 1; three clerks, at $1~000 each; and four clerks, at $900 penalty of $50 for each otrense, or the detention or the car until such mani each; in all, $10,200. fests shall be furnished, or information satisfactory to such customs otncer That hereafter the Postmaster-General shall require each postmaster at as to the kind, quantities, and values ofthe domestic and foreign free or duty a money-order or postal-note office to render to the Post-Office Department pa.itl commodities laden in such car. . monthly, semimonthly, weekly, semiweekly, or daily accounts of all money Secret Service division: For one chief clerk, $3,500; one chief clerk, $2,000! orders and postal notes issued and paid; of all fees received for issuing one clerk of class 4; one clerk or class 2; one clerk of class 1; one clerk at them; of all transfers and payments made from money-order funds; and or !1,000; and one attendant at ii720; in all, $11,620. all money received to be used for the payment of money orders or postal Office of Construction of Standard Weights and Measures: For construc notes, or on account o! money-order business. tion and verification of standard weights and measures, including metric Treasurer: For Treasurer of the United States, $6,000; assistant treasurer, standards, for the custom-houses, other offices or the United States, and !or $3,600; cashier. $3,600; assistant cashier, $3,200; chief clerk, $2,500; five chiefs the several States, and mural standards of length in Washington, D. C.: One of divisions, at $2,500each; one vault clerk, !2,500; one principal bookkeeper, adjuster, at $1,500; one mechanician at $1,250; one assistant messenger; and at $2,500; one assistant bookkeeper, at $2,400; two tellers, at~,500 each; two one watchman; in all, $4,190. . • assistant tellers, at $2,250 each; one clerk for the Treasurer, $1,800; twenty For purchase or materials and apparatus, a.nd incidental expenses, $500. six clerks of class 4; seventeen clerks or class 3; fifteen clerks of class 2; one For expenses of the attendance of the American member of the Interna coin clerkl,.~l!. $1,400; twenty clerks of class I; ten clerks, at$1,000 each: fifty tional Committee on Weights and Measures at the general conference pro- clerks, at ~wueach; nine clerks, at $700 each; one mail messenger, $840; six vided for in the convention signed May 20, 1875, the sum of $600, or so much messengers; six assistant messengers; twenty-three laborers; seven char thereof as may be necessary. women; three pressmen, at $1,200 each; one compositor and pressman, at Office of the Director of the Mint: For director, $4,500; examiner, $2,500; &'1.20 per day; eight separato1·s, at $660 each; seven feeders, at $660 each; in computer, $2,500; assayer, $2,200; adjuster of accounts, $2,000; one clerk of all, 1!273,361.00. class 4, one clerk of class 3, one clerk of class 2, who shall be a stenographer; For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be reim four clerks of class 1; one translator, $1,400; one clerk at $1,000; one copyist; bursed by the national banks), namely: For superintendent, $3,500; one teller one messenger; assistant in laboratory, $1,000; and one assistant messenger; and one principal bookkeeper, at $2,500 each; one assistant bookkeeper, $2,400; in all, ~.160. one assistant teller. $2,000; two clerks of class 4; three clerks o!class3; four For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between clerks or class 2; fifteen clerks of class 1; t-en clerks, at J1,000 each; five mints and assay o!ll.ces, !9,000. clerks, at $900 each; three assistant messengers; and one charwoman; in For contingent expenses or the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under all, $51,800. the direction of the Director, namely; For assay laboratory, chemicals, fuel, Register of the Treasury: For Register of the Treasury, $4,000; assistant materials, and other necessaries, $750. register, $2,250; four chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; seventeen clerks of For examination of mints, expense in visiting mints and assay offices for class 4; sixteen clerks of class 3; eleven clerks of class 2; fourteen clerks of the :purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special exam class 1; two clerks, at $1,000 each; twenty-nine copyists; one messenger; inations, $2,500. four assistant messengers; and eight laborers; in all, $139,750. For books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins and ores, balances, Comptroller of the Currency: For Comptroller ol the Currency, $5.000; weights, and incidentals, $500. deputy comptroller, $2,800; chief clerk, $2,500; three chiefs of division, at$2,200 !<'or the collection or statistics relative to the annual production of the each; one stenographer, at $1,600; eight clerks of class 4; additional to bond precious metals in the United States, $3,000. · clerk, $200; eleven clerks of class 3; ten clerks of class 2; eight clerks of class Office of Supervising Surgeon-General Marine Hospital Service: For Su 1; ten clerks, at $l,OOO ; thirteen clerks, at $900each; one messenger; two pervising Surgeon-General, 14,000; one clerk, $1,800; five clerks, at $1,600 assistant messengers; one engineer, $1,000; one fireman; three laborers; and each; two clerks, at $1,200each; one hospital steward (employed as chemist), two night watchmen; in all, $103,420. $1 ,200; six copyists, one messenger, $600; two laborers, at $480each, and one For expeuses of special examinations of national banks and bank plates, laborer,~; in all, $24.720, the same to be paid from the permanent appro of keeping macerator in Treasury building in repair, and for other inci priations for the Marine Hospital Service. dental expenses attending the working of the macerator, 11,600. Omce Supervising Inspector-General Steamboat Inspection Service: For For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national Supervising Inspector-General, $3,500; one chief clerk not to exceed $1,800; banks), m~mely: One superintendent, at $2,000; one teller, one bookkeeper, one clerk not to exceed $1,600; two clerks, at not to exceed $1,200 each; one ant.l one assistant bookkeeper, at $2,000 each; two clerks or class!; one clerk, messenger not to exceed !840; in all,$10,140, the same to be paid from the per ~1,01)J ; tive clerks. at $900 each; and one assistant messenger; in all, $16,620 . manent appropriations for the SteambOat Inspection Service.
.. 1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 5093
For contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, including all build INDEPENDENT TREASURY. ings under control of the Treasury in Washington, D. C., namely: Office of assistant treasurer at Baltimore: For assistant treasm·er, $4,500; .For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several Bureaus, cashier, $2,500; three clerks, at $1,800 each; two oJ.erks, at $1,400 each; three ~~~- . clerks, at $1,200 each; one clerk, $1,000; one messenger, $840; three vault For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Umon_coun- watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $22,800. tries, $1,500. - omce of the assistant treasurer at Boston: For assistant treasurer, $5,000; For postage, $200. For newspapers, law books, city directories, and other books of reference; for chief clerk, $2,500; paying teller, $2,500; assistant paying teller, $2,200; purchase of material for binding important records and of the amount ap vault clerk, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,00J; first bookkeeper, $1 ,800; second propriated not more than $400 may be used in the pm·chase of technical pub bookkeeper,$1,400; specie clerk, $1,800; assistant specie clerk, $1,500; money lications, foreign and domestic, $"2,000. clerk $1,500; coupon clerk and redemption clerk, at. $1,400 each; receipt clerk For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessary trav- and general clerk, at $1,200 each; assistant l"edemption clerk, $1,100; three eling expenses, and for other traveling expenses, $500. clerks, at $1,000 each; one clerk, $800; messenger and chief watchman, li\1,060; For freight, eXl)ressage, telegraph and telephone service, 1!1,800. . three watchmen and janitors, at $850 each; in all, $37,910. For rent of buildings, $3,970. omce of assistant treasurer at Chicago: For assistant treasurer, $4,500· That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cashier, $2,500; paying teller, 11\1,800; bookkeeper and receiving teller, at 11\1,500 cause to be prepared and submitted to Congress each year, in the annual each; three coin, coupon, and currency clerks, at 11\1,500 each; seven clerks, Book of Estimates of Appropriations, a statement of the buildings rented at $1,200 each; one messenger, $840; one janitor, at $600; and three watch- within the District of Columbia for the use of the Government, the purposes m~re~re;;s~t~;l~e~~r at Cincinnati: For assistant treasurer. M,500; for which rented, and the annual rental of each. · cashier, $2,000; bookkeeper, $1,800; receiving teller, $1,500; check clerk and For purchase of horses and wagons, for om.ce and mail service, to be ~ed only for om.cialpurposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoemg, interest clerk, at !1,200 each; one clerl{, at $1,200; two clerks, at $1,000 each; and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, 13,500. two night watchmen, at $720 each; messenger, $600; one watchman, at $120; For purchase of ice, $2,500. ind"Mc!!?i~istant treasurer at New Orleans: For assistant treasurer, $4,000; For purchase of file-holders and file cases, $2,500. chief clerk and cashier, $2,250; receiving teller, $2,000; paying teller, $2,000; For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils, and grease, grates, grate baskets bookkeeper, !1,500; one clerk, $1,:0:00; coin and redemption clerk, $1,200; two and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, !10,000. - clerks, at $1,000 each; porter, !500; one day watchmltn, $720; one night watch- For purchase of gas, electric light, gas brackets, candles, candlesticks, man, $720; in all, $18,090. . drop lights and tubing, gas-burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and omce of the assistant treasurer at New York: For assistant treasurer, wicks, $14,000. 1!8,000; cashier and chief clerk, $4,200; deputy assistant treasurer, $3,600; For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, assistant cashier and vault clerk, $3,200; two chiefs of division, at $3,100 each; matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, la1!ng, and relaying of the same, by chief of :division, $3,000; chief paying teller, $3,000; authorities clerk, $2,600; contract, $5,000. . d ks For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair-caning, chair covers, es , two chiefs of division, at $2,400 each; bond clerk, $2,400; correspondence bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering clerk,$2,300; assistant chief of division, $2,300; two assistant chiefs of divi chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, ventilators, sion, at $2,250 each; assistant paying teller, $2,200; chief bookkeeper, $2,200; wardrobe cabinets washstands, water-coolers and stands, $10,000. . minor-coin teller, $2,000; three clerks, at $2,100 each; nine clerks, at i2,000 For washing and hemming towels, for the purcp.ase of awn~gs and _fix each; twelve clerks, at $1,800 each; three clerks, at $1,700 each; eight clerks, tures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benz1ne, turpent1ne, varnlBh, at $1,600 each; seven clerks, at $1 ,500 each; fifteen clerks, at $1,4.00 each; four baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvaf1, crash, clerks, at $1,300 each; eight clerks, at $1,200 each; two clerks, at $1,000 each; cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and.window fasteners, dusters, stenographer and typewritt'r, $1,400; messenger, $1,300; four messengers, at flower-garden, street, and engine hose, · lace leather, lye, nails, oil, plants, $1.200 each; two messengers, at $900 each; two hall men, at $1,000 each; two picks pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps, and repairs of same, porters, at $900 each; keeper of the building, $1,800; chief detective, $1,800; assistant detective, $1,~; engineer. $1,050; assistant engineer, ~...0; six stamp ink, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponge, tacks, traps, ther watchmen, at $720 each; mall, 1192,890. mometers, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for black · om.ce of assistant treasurer at Philadelphia: For assistant treasurer, $4,500; smithing, repairs.of machinery, removal o~ rubb~h, sharpening tools, adver for cashier and chief clerk, $2,500; bookkeeper, $"2,500; paying teller, $2,200; tising for proposals, and for sales at public auct10n-in Washington, D. C., of cb.iefinterestclerk,andchiefregisteredinterestclerk, at$1,900each; assistant condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, _payment of bookkeeper, $1,800; coin teller,$1,700; redemption clerk, andassistantcoupon auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $10,000. Clerk, at $1,600 each; assistant registered interest clerk, $1,500; assistant to cashier,and assistant coin teller, at $1,400 each; receiving teller,$1,300; three COLLECTING INTERNAL REVENUE. clerks, at $!,200 each; assistant receiving teller, $1,200; superintendent mes senger and chief wat-chman, $1,100; four female counters, at $900 each; seven For salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy collectors and c}erks, watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $42,340. including eXl)enses incident to enforcing the provisions of the act of August om.ce or assistant treasurer at St. Louis: For assistant treasurer, $!,500; 2 1886 taxing oleomargarine, and the act of August4, 1886, imposing upon the chief clerk and teller, $2,500; assistant teller, $1,800; bOokkeeper, $1,500; as Government the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported, and the act sistant bookkeeper, coin teller, and assistant teller, at$1,200 each; eoinclerk, or October 1, 1890, providing for the payment of a bounty on sugar, and for assistant coin clerk, and messenger, at $1,000 each; three watchmen, at $720 the purchase of the necessary polarlscopes and other miscellaneous expen:ses each; in all, $19,060. connected with the ascertaining and payment of said bounty, ·includmg om.ce or assistant treasurer at San Fr::mcisco: For assistant treasurer, transportation of public funds, ~1,900,000: Provided, That the number of deputy collectors and clerks employed in the collection of internal revenue $4,500; cashier, 13,000; bookkeeper, $2,500; chief clerk. $2,400; assistant cash shall not be increased, nor shall the salary or said omcers and employt'is be ier, receiving teller, and assistant bookkeeper, at $2,000 each; coin teller and one clerk, at ~1,800 each; one clerk, $1 ,400; one messenger, :f84.0; and four increased beyond the salaries paid during the last fiscal year. watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $27,120. · For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, ·fees and expenses of For compensation of special agents to examine the books, accounts, and gaugers, salaries of storekeeJ,lers, and for miscellaneous expenses, ~1,!lOO,
-,. 5094 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JUNE 6,
For incidental and contingent ~nses, $35,000. ~.ooo each; two stenographers, at $1,800 each; five clerks of class 4; five Assayomce at Boise City, ~daho: For assayer~o shall also perform the clerks of class 3; nine clerks of class 2; twenty-one clerks of cla.s.s 1; seven duties of melter, $2,000; one clerk, $1,200; in all, ~.200. clerks, at $1,000 each, four messengers; seven assistant messengers; eillht For incidental and contingent expenses, including labor, $7,500. laborers; carpenter, $1,000: foreman of laborers, $1,000; one hostler, tOOO; Assay omce at Charlotte, N. C.;. For assayer and melter, $1,500; assistant two hostlers, at $540 each; and one watchman, at $540; in all, $106,550. assa.yer, $1,250; in all, $2,750. Record and Pension Division: Two chiefs of division, at$2,000each; twenty For incidental and contingent expenses, including labor, $2,000. clerks of class 4; forty-three clerks of class 3; ninety clerks of class 2; four For replacing worn-out charcoal furnaces and mumes with a gas plant, hundred and sixty-five clerks of class 1; one hundred and twenty-seven clerks, including two melting furnaces, two mume furnaces complete, with blower at $1,000 each; fifty copyists; one engineer, 1,400; one as 1stant engineer for motor, and putting same in place, 1,000. night duty, $900; two fiiemen; one skilledmechanic,$1,000; fivemessengers; Assay omce at Helena, Mont.: For sala.ry of assayer in charge, !2,250; twenty-nine assistant messengers; one messenger boy, 1!360; five watchmen; melter, $2,250; chief clerk, $1,800; one clerk, $1,4.00; in all, $7,700. one superintendent of building, $250; and sixteen laborers; in all, $1,009,890, For wages of workmen, $12,700. and all employ6s provided for by this raragraph for the Record and P6llllion For incidental and contingent expenses, $4,500. Division of the War Department shal be exclusively engaged on the work Assay om.ce at NewYork: For salary of superintendent, IM.500; for assayer of this division for the fiscal year 1893. and melter and refinel', at $3,000 each; chief clerk, assistant melter, andre In the omce of the Adjutant-General: Chief clerk, $2,000; fifteen clerks of finer and weighing clerk, at IS2,500 each; bookkeeper, $2,350; warrant clerk, class 4; seventeen clerks of class 3; twenty-one clerks of cla s 2; eighty-two $2,250; cashier, $2,000; bar clerk, abstract clerk, and assayer's computation clerks of class 1; nine clerks, at $1,000each; four messengers; twenty assist· clerk, at$1,800each; assistant weigh clerk, $1,600; register of deposits, $1,250; 4Ult messengers; three watchmen; in all, $212,920. assayer's first assistant, $21250; assaye:r's second assistant, $2,150; ass!'yer's In the omce of the Inspector-General: For one clerk of class 4; one clerk third ::.ssistant, f2,000; in all, $39,250. of class3; two clerks ot class 2; two clerks of class 1; one assistant messen For wages of workmen, $25,000. ger; in all, $9,320. For incidental and contingent expenses, $10,000. .Judge-Advocate-General's Department: Chief clerk, !2,000; two clerkS of Assay om.ce at St. Louis, Mo.: For assayer in charge, $2,500; one clerk, class 3; one clerk of class 2; four clerks of class 1; one clerk, at 11,000; one $1,000; in all, m3,500. copyist; one messenger; and one assistant messenger; in all, $14,860. For incidental and contingent expenses, including labor, 1!2,400. Signal omce: One clerk of class 4; two clerks ot class 1; one messenger; one laborer; 1n all, $5 700. GOVERNMENT lN THE TERIU'J;ORIES. In the omce or the Quartermaster-General: Chief clru:k, at f2,000; thirteen clerks of class 4; eleven clerks of class 3; twenty-four clerks of class 2; Territory of Alaska: For salary of governor, $3,000: judge, !3,000; attor thirty-six clerks of class 1; ten clerks, at $1.000 each; six skilled typewriters, ney, marshal, and clerk, ~.500 each; four commissioners, $1,000 each; six at $1,000 each; one female messenger: at $480; four messengers; nine e.ssist deputy marshals, $750 each; in all, $22,000. ant messengers; two laboTers; one clvil engineer, 1!1.800; one assistant civil l!'or incidental and contingent expenses of the Territory, stationery, lights, engineer, $1,200; one draftsman, 1!1,800; one assistant draftsman, $1,600; on and fuel, to be expended under the direction of the governor, $2,000. assistantdraftsman, $1,~i_one assistant draftsman, $1,200; one experienced Territory- of Arizona: For salary of governor, $2,600; chief justice and three builder and mechanic, $2,oou; in all, $158,940. associate JUdges, at $3,000 each; secretary, $1,800; interpreter and tra,nslator In the office of the Commissary-General: Chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk in the executive om.ce, f500; in all, $16,900. of class 4; three clerks of class 3; four clerks of class 2; fourteen clerks of For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, class!; nine clerks, "t $1,000 each; two a.ss.tstant messengers; two l~borers; $500. in all, $42,760. For legislative expenses, namely: For gene1·a1 expenses of the Seventeenth In the om.ce of the Surgeon-General: Chief clerk, at $2,000; seventeen Legislature of Arizona, fitting up legislative halls, buying furniture, paying clerks of class 4; fifteen clerks of class 3; thirty-one clerks of olas.s 2; thirty members ~nd omcers of the Legislature per diem and mileage, printing laws eight clerks of class 1; eleven clerks, at !1,000 each; one anatomist, at $J,600; and journals, and other incidental expenses of the Legislature, rent, fuel, one engineer, !1,400; one assistant engineer, for night duty, $900; two fire lights, a.nd incidental expenses for secretary's office, $24,250. men; one skilled mechanic, $1,000; twelve assistant messengers; three Territory of New Mexico: For salary of governor, $2,600; chief justice and watchmen; one superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and four associate judges, at $3,000eaoh; secretary, at$1,800; and interpreter and Library), $250; and five laborers; tor the following employas heretofore au translator in the executive office, at $500; $19,900. thorized and paid from the appropriations for contract surgeons, namely For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by tb.e governor, one chemist, $2,088; one pathologist, $1,~; one microscopist, $1,800; one $500. assistant librarian, $1,800; in all, $184,'718. IJ For legislative ex:penses, namely: For compensation of members and om In the office of the Paymaster-General: Chief clerk, at $2,000; six clerks of cera of the Legislative Assembly; mileage of memba.rs; stationery, record class 4: five clerks of class 3; nine clerks of class 2; two clerks of class 1; books, and incidentals; printing laws, journals, bills; rentot rooms for Leg one assistant messenger; four laborers; in all, $39,160. islature and committees; furniture; light. fuel, ice, stationery, and record In the om.ce of the 9.hief of Ordnance: Chief clerk, at $2,000; three clerks of files, record casings, printing,postage, clerks, messenger and porter, and in class 4; two clerks of class 3; two clerks of class 2; twenty-two clerks of cidentals in secretary's om.ce, $26,000. class 1; two clerks, at$1.000 each; two messengers; one assistant messenger; Territory of Oklahoma: For salary of governor, $2,600; chief justice and one laborer; in all, $44,860. two associate judges, at $3,000 each; and secretary, at $1,800; $13,400. In the omce of the Chief of Engineers: Chief clbrk, at $2,000; four clerks of For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, class 4; two clerks of class 3; three clerks of class 2; three clerks of class 1; $500. one clerk, at 11,000; one as&ista.ntmessenger; and two laborers; 1n all, $23,240. For legislative expenses, namely: For pay of members of.the Legislative And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other serv Assembly, mileage, rent of rooms for the Legislature and committees, furni ices as the Secretary of Warma.y deem necessary, may be employed only in ture, stationery, prin1iing, fuel, lights, and incidentals; rent of omce, furni the om.ce of the Chief of Engineers to carry into etrect the varwus appropri turtl, fuel, lights, stationery, clerk hire, printing, postage, ice, record casings, ations for rivers and }larbors, fortifications, and surveys , to be paid trom messenger and port-er for secretary's omce, $24,250. such appropriations: Provided That the expenditures on this account for Territory of Utah: For salary of governor, $2,600; chief justice and three the fiscal year ending June 30, l893, shall not exceed $60,000; and that the Stlc associate judges, at $3,000 each; and secretary, at $1,800; !16 400. retary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress For contingent expenses ot the Territory, to be expended by the governor, the number o! persons so employed and the amount paid to each. $500. omce of Publication of Records of the Rebellion: For one agent, $2,000; For legislative expenses, namely: For contingent expenses of secretary's four clerks of cla-ss 4; three clerks of class 3; two clerks of class 2; three clerks of class 1; three copyists; two pressmen and compositors, at f1,200 o~eat$~'o~uch of section 9 of the act entitled "An act to amend section 5352 each; one compositor, $1,000; two copyholders, at $900 each; two assistant of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in reference to bigamy, and messengers; two watchmen; and one laborer, at 1!600; in all, $31,780. for other purposes," approved March 22, 1882, as authorizes the President to For postage stamps for the War Department and its bureaus, as required appoint a. board of five persons to exercise certain powers and duties pre under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal scribed in said section, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and the said Union countries, $1,000. board is hereby abolished, and all powers and duties conferred upon said For contingent expenses of the War Department and its bureaus: Ex board are hereby imposed upon anq shall be discharged, without additional penses of horses and wagons to be used only for omcial purposes; purchase compensation, by a board hereby created, to be constituted of the governor, of nrotessional and scientific books, blank books, pamphlets, newspapers, chief justice, and secretary of the Territoey of Utah. maps; furniture, and re;airs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases. For the following expenses of the foregomg board, namely: For printing, towels, ice, brooms, soap; sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and stationery, clerk hire, and om.ce rent, $3,000: Provided, That out of this sum repairs to the buildings ~outside of the State, War, and Navy Department the said board is hereby authorized to pay tothesecretaryof the Territory, building) occupied by the Adjutant-General's Office, the Surgeon-General's who, in addition to being a member of the board, shall be its secretary and OJfice, the Signal om.ce, and the om.ce of Records of the Rebellion, and the disbursing agent, a reasonable sum for such service, not exceeding $300 tor record and pension division of the War Department; freight and express the fiscal year 1893. charges, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $55,000. For compensation of the officers of election, including contingent expenses, For stationery for the War Defartment and its bureaus and omces, $35,000. $25,000. Fo1· rent of buildings for use o the War Department, as follows:' Formed There are hereby granted to the Territory of Utah, for the uses hereinafter ical dispensary, Surgeon-General's omce, $1,000; for the Rebellion Records declared, the property and premises known as the Industrial Christian Home O:ffice, $1,200; for record and pension division, $2,4.00; for office for Signal Bu of Utah situated in the city and county of Salt Lake, Territory of Utah, be reau, including heating, lighting, and care, :1>'2,000; in all, $6,600. ing lot 3, and a strip of land ott the south side of lot 4, in block 52, plat B, Salt Lake City survey, more particularly described as follows: Commencing PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. on the east side of Fifth East street, at the southeast corner of said lot 3, and Office of public buildings and grounds: For one clerk, $1,600; one m essen running east on the south line of said lot 330 feet to the southeast corner of ger; one public gardener, $1,800; in all, $4,240. •the lot, thence north in the center of the block 173t feet, thence west parallel For overseers, draftsman, mechanics, gardeners, and laborers employed in with the lot lines 115 feet, thence north 18 feet, thence west 50 feet, thence the public grounds, $30,000. south 18 feet, thence west 165 feet to Fifth East street, thence south along For day watchman in Franklin Square, $600. Filth East street 173i feet to the beginning, together with the buildings and For day watchman in Lafayette Square, !660. improvements and fixtures, fittings and furniture in and used in connection For two day watchmen in Smithsonian Grounds, at $000 each, $1 320. with said buildings: Provided, That the granted premises shall be used by For two night watchmen in Smithsonian Grounds, at $120 each, $1,440. said Territory as a. site and accommodations for its school for the deaf, and For one day watchman at Judiciary Square and one at Lincoln Square and deaf mutes, until Congress shall .otherwise provide: And providedfurther, adjacent reservations, at $660 each, $1,320. That said property and premises shall revert to the United States wheneve-r For one night watchman in Judiciary Square, $720. # the same shall cease to l;>e used by said Territory for such purposes. For one day watchman at Iowa Circle; one at Thomas Circle and neighbor Mine inspectors: For salaries of three mine inspectors, authorized by the ing reservations; one at Rawlins Square and Washington Circle; one at Du· act approved March 3, 1891, for the protection of the lives of miners in the pont Circle and neighboring reservations; one at McPherson and Farragut Territories, at $2,000per annum each; for per diem, subject to such rules and Squares; one at StantonSquareandneighboringreservations; two at Henry regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, m lieu of sub Square and Seaton Square and reservations east of Botanic Garden; one at sistence at a rate uot exceeding ~ per day each while p.bsent from their :Mount Vernon Square and adjacent reservations; one for the greenhouses homes on duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspect and nursery; one at grounds south..of Executive Mansion; eleven in all, at ors, ~. ooo; in all, $11,000. !660 each, f7,260. For one n~ht watchman at Henry Square (Armory) and Seo.ton Square WAR DEPARTMENT. and reservatfons east of Botanic Garden, 1720. For compensation of the Secretary of War, $8,000: Assistant Secretary, For one night watchman a.t Garfield Park, $720. .( $f,I!.OO; chief clerk, ~.750; disbursing clerk, $2,000; three chiefs of division, at For contingent and incidental expenses, $50J.
\. 1892. OONGRESSI(}N.AL RECORD-HOUSE. 5095
STAXE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT. Bureau of medicine and surgery: For chief clerk, $1,800; one clerk of class 3; two clerks of class 2; two clerks 'Of class J..; one clerk, $1,000; one assist Office of the superintendent: One clerk of class 1; one chief engineer, at ant messenger; one laborer~ one 'ja.llitor, $600, a.ud one 'laborer, lHSO (for $1,mO; .eight assistant €ngineers, s;t $1,000 each; one captain of the wa.tch, at N a -nl Dispen_sary) : in au, $12,'060. $1,200.; two lieutenants of the wa.tch. .at !840 each; 1ift)T-eight watchmen; one Bureau of Yards and Docks: For one chief clerk, .$1, 00~ one dr.a.Itsman carpente1·, $1, 000; one machinist, ~~ one plumber, '$900; one painter, '$900; and clerk, &,'800; one clerk of .class 4; one clerk of cl.a.ss S; one clerk of class four skilled lauorers, at $720 each; twenty-tnghtfiremen, including-tour fire 2; one .clerk of class 1; o:ne assistant messenger; and one laborer; in an, men heretofore paid from appropriation tor fuel, lights, and miscellaneous il0.980. items; ten conducto1·s of elevators, at $720 each; twenty laborers; and eighty For professiona1 books and periodicals for De:p.artment library, &,000.. cn:n-women: in all, $121,il80. For stationery, fUrniture, :newspapers, plans, drawings, dra'Wing mMe For fuel, lights, tniscellaneo~ items, and repairs, $39,'6:!D. ria.is, horses and wagons to ba used only fo-r otn.clal purposes, .trei.ght., e.x iNAVY DEPARTMENT. . Pl'eSBa!.:."'e, postage, a..nd other a.bsolutely necessa;ry -expenses of the Navy De· :pa.!l'tment .a.nd its va.rJ.ous bureaus and o:mees, $12,000. For compensation ot the Secretary of the Navy, ~.'000; A:ss1sta.nt Secre tary of the Navy, $-1,500; chief clerk. $2,500i clerk to the ~cretazy• .$2,250; DEPA.RT:MENT OF THE JNTERIOR. disbursing clerk, $2,250; two clerks o.! class 4; one clerk of class 4 in t:harge af tiles and records; two clerks of cla.ss 3; one stenographer, il,600; one , For :compensation of the Sec:retlt:ry of the Interior, $8,'000; First As, istant stenographer, $1,400; one clet•k of class 2; four clerks 'Of class !l; one clerk, Secretary, U;SOO; Assista;nt S-ecretary, M,OOD; chief clerk, $2,500, and !250a.d at $1,000; telegr.aph operator, $1,000; on:e carpenter, '8i900; two messengers; ditional as superintendent ofth:e P.atentOm:ce building; nine member-s Of 'a. three assistant messengers; two messenger boys, at $420 each~ one messen 'board of pensionsppeals, to be 11ippoin1led by the Secretary of the Interior, gerboy, 1360; oneln.borer; one clerk of class2; andonemborer (Iorinspec· at $2,000; two special iand·inspectors, connected 'With the -administra.tionof tJpn Board) ; one clerk of class 1 (for Exa.mining and Rethil:l.g Boa-rd) ; in all, , the public-land :service, to be p])ointJed 'by the Seereta.ry
13,000; chief clerk, $2,250; two law clerks, at $2,000 each; three examiners in For surveyor-general of Idaho, $2.500; and for the clerks in his ofH.ce, $3,000; chief, at 1!3,000 each; examiner of interferences, $2,500; thirty-two principal in all, $5,500. · • examiners, at !2,500 each; thirty-four first assistant examiners, at $1,800 For rent of otnce for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of each; thirty-eight second assistant examiners, at $1,600 each; forty-three messenger and other incidental expenses, $1,500. third assistant examiners, at 51,400 each; fifty-two fourth assistant exam For S)ll'Veyor-general of Louisiana., $1,800; and for the clerks in his otnce, iners, at 1!1,200 each; financial clerk, $2,000, who shall give bonds in such $5,000; mall, $6,800. amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine; librarian, 1!2,000; For fuel, books, stationery, messenger, and other incidental expenses, three chiefs of division at $2,000 each; three assistant chiefs o! division, at $1,200. 11,800 each; five clerks of class 4, one of whom shall act as application clerk; For surveyor-general of Montana, $2,500; and for the clerks in his otnce, one machinist, !1,600; six clerks o! class 3, one of whom shall be translator $10,000; in all, $12,500, of language~;. fourteen clerks of class 2; fifty clerks of dass 1; one skilled For rent of otnce for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of laborer, l1,2w; three skilled dra!tsmen, at 11,200 each; four draftsmen, at messenger, and other incidental expenses, $2,000. $1,000 each; one messenger and property clerk, 51 ,000; twenty-five permanent For surveyor-general of Nevada, 11,800; and for the clerks in his .omce, clerks, at $1,000 each; five model attendants, at 11,000 each; ten model at $2,500; in all, ~.300. tendants, at~ each; sixty copyists, five of whom maybe copyists of draw For rent of otnce for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of ings; seventy-six copyists, at $720 each; three messengers; twenty assistant messenger, and other incidental expenses, ~- messengers; forty-five laborers, at $600each; forty-five laborers, at !480each; For surveyor-general of the Territory of New Mexico, $2,500; and for the fifteen messenger boys, at $360 each; in all, $692,990. clerks in his omce, $3,000; in all, ~.500. · For purchase of books and expenses of transporting publications of pat- For fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, $1,500. ents issued by the Patent Olfice to foreign governments, $2,000. · For surveyor-general of North Dakota, $2,000; and for the clerks in his For photolithographing or otherwise producing plates for the Otncial Ga otnce, $5,000; in all, 1!7,000. zette, $55,000. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and For photolithographing or otherwise producing copies of drawings of the other incidental expenses, 11,500. weekly issues of patents, for producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and For s~veyo!·general of Oregon, $2,000; and for the clerks in his otnce, pending applications, and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of draw i3,000; mall, ~a , OOO. ings and specifications; said photolithographing or otherwise producing For fuel, books, st~tionery, pay of messenger, and other incidental ex- plates and copies referred to in this and the preceding paragraph to be done penses, $1,000. . under the supervision of the Commissioner of Patents, and in the city of For surveyor-general of South Dakota, $2,000; and for the clerks in his Washington, it it can there be done at reasonable rates; and the Commis office, $7,500; in all, $9,500. sioner of Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall For rent of otnce for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, st~tionery, binding be authorized to make contracts therefor, $100,000. records, and other incidental expenses, $1,500. For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventions for For surveyor-general of the Territory of Utah, 12,500; and for the clerks in two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and for expenses hi.s omce, ~.000; in all, 15,500. attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner o! Patents, For rent of omce for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, $1,400. '~or the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the Inter For surveyor-general of Washington, $2,500; and for the clerks in his omce, national Bureau at Berne, SWitzerland, ~700. $7,500; in au, 110,000. Bureau of Education: For the Commissioner of Education, 13,000; chief . For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay~ clerk, 1!1,800; two clerks of class 4; one statistician, $1,800; collector and com messengers, and other incidental expenses, 11,500. piler of statistics,$2,400; one speciallst in foreign educational systems. 51,800; For surveyor-general of Wyoming, 1!2,500; and for the clerks in his omce, two clerks of class 3; one translator, 31,600; five clerks of class 2; six clerks $4,000; in all, 16,500. of class 1; two clerks, at $1,000 each; seven copyists; one skilled laborer, For rent of otnce for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and l840; two copyists, at~OO each; one copyist, $720; one assistant messenger; other incidental expenses, 11,500. two laborers; two laborers, at ~480 each; one laborer, at $400; and one la borer, at$360; in a.ll, 148,620. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT, For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current pub O.Hlce Postmaster-General: For compensation of the Postmaster-General, lications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals,l5500. !8,000; chief clerk of the Post-Otnce Department, 12,5()1); stenographer, $1,800; For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, stenographer, $1,600; appointment clerk, $1,800; one clerk of class 4; two ~1,500. clerks of class-3; one clerk of class 2; one clerk, 11,000; one messenger; one For the purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, assistant messenger; one page, $360; in all, 1525 020. and tor the collection, exchange4 and cataloguing of educational apparatus omce of assistant attorney-general for the Post-Omce Department: Law and appliances, text-books ana educational reference books, articles of clerk, $2,500; two clerks of class 4; one clerk of class 3; one clerk of class 2; school furniture, and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and two clerks of class 1; one assistant messenger; in all, $12,220. - domestic systems and methods of education, and for repairing the same, Otnce First Assistant Postmaster-General: For First Assistant Postmas ter-General, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,000; chief of salary and allowance division, $2~ce of Commissioner of Railroads: For Commissioner, ~.500; book $2,200; superintendent division post-otnce supplies, $2,000; superintendent of keeper, $2,4.00; engineer, !2,500~ assistant bookkeeper, 11,800; one clerk o.f free delivery, 1>3,000: assistant superintendent of free delivery, $2,000; three class 3; one copyist; and one assistant messenger; in all, ~!,420. clerks of class 4; nine clerks of class 3; two clerks of class 2; sixteen clerks For examination of books and accounts or certain subsidized railroad of class 1; eight clerks at $1,000 each; three clerks at $900 each; six assistant companies. and inspecting roads, shops, machinery, and equipments of same, messengers; nine laborers; one I>age at $360; superintendent of the money 11 order system, 13.500; chief clerk, $2,000; six clerks of class 4; eight clerks ot g:ce of the Archltect of the Capitol: For Architect, $4,500; one clerk of class 3; five clerks of class2; twelve clerks otclassl; six clerks at$1,000ea.ch; class 4; one draftsman, $1,800; compensation to disbursing clerk, 11,000; one six clerks at $900 each; one assistant messenger; one engineer $1,000; one assistant messenger; person in charge of the heating of the Congressional assistant engineer for additional building for money-order diVlSion,1 Sixth Library and Supreme Court, f864: one laborer in charge of water-closets in Auditor's o.m.ce, $1,000; one fireman; four watchmen; one conductor of ele central portion of the Capitol, $660; three laborers for cleaning rotunda, vator, 3720; four charwomen; one- female laborer, $480; and ten laborers; corridors, and dome, aU660each; two laborers, in charge of public closets of superintendent o! Dead-Letter omce, $2.500; one clerk of class 4, who shall the House of Representatives, and in the terrace, at !720 each; seven watch be chief clerk; one clerk of class 4; three clerks of class 3; eleven clerks of men employed on the Capitol grounds, at f840 each; in all, 20,f>H. class 2; twenty-four clerks of class 1, including eight female clerks; fl.ve Otnce of the Director of the Geological Survey: For Director, $6,000; execu clerks at $1,000 each; fifty-five clerks at $900 each; six female clerks at r"/20 tive otncer, :W,OOO; chief clerk, $2,400; chief disbursing clerk, $2,4.00; librarian, each; one assistant messenger; three laborers; !our female laborers at $480 $2,000; one photographer,~2.000; three assistant photographers, one at $900, each; in all, $273,840. one at $720, and one at $480; two clerks of class 1; one clerk, $1,000; four O.m.ce Second Assistant Postmaster-General: For Second Assistant Postr clerks, at $900 each; four copyists, at $720 each; one watchman,~; four master-General, $4,000; chief clerk, !2,000; chief of division of inspection, watchmen, at $500 each; one janitor, $600; four messengers, at $480 each~ in $2,000; superintendent of railway adjustment, $2,000; ten clerks of class 4; all, $35,540. . thirty-three clerks of class 3; eighteen clerks o.f class 2; one stenographer, For contingent expenses of the olfice of the Secretary of the Interior and 31,600; eighteen clerks of class 1; nine clerks, at $1,000 each; five clerks, at the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the Interior Department, including the $900; three assistant messengers; two laborers; superintendent of foreign Oivil Service Commission: For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, mails, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; one clerk of class 4; three clerks of class dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, expressage, wagons and harness, food 3; one cler:k of class 2; one clerk of class 1; two clerks, at $1,000 each; one and shoeing for horses, diagrams, awnings, constructing model and other assistant messenger; in all, $163,100. cases cases for drawings, file-holders, repairs of cases and furniture, and Otnce Third Assistant Postmaster-General: For Third Assistant Post other' absolutely necessary expenses, including fuel and lights, $75,000. master-General, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,000; chief or division of postage stamps, For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several burea'\Ls $2,250; one chief of finance division, who shall give bond in such amount as and offices, including the Civil Service Commission and the Geological Sur the Postmaster-General may determine for the faithful discharge ot his du 0 ties, $2,000; four clerks of class 4; sixteen clerks of class 3; twenty-two clerks vio~e~ books and books to complete broken sets, $500. of class 2; twenty-six clerks of class 1; seven clerks, at $1,000 each; two fe For rent of buildings for the Department of the Interior, namely: For the male clerks, at $900 each; three assistant messengers; six laborers; in all, Bureau of Education, $4,000; Geological Survey, $10,000; Indian Otnce, $6,000; $119,970. General Land Office, $2,8:>0; in all, $J2,800. O.m.ce Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General: For Fourth Assistant Post For postage stamps for the Department of the Interior and its bureaus.} as master-General, $4,000; chief of appointment division, $2,000; chief of bond required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressea to division, $2,000; one clerk of class 4; fifteen clerks of class 3; seven clerks of Postal Union countries, $2,000. class2; tenclerksofclass1; threeclerks,at$1,000each; onepa.ge,$360; chief SURVEYORS-GENERAL AND THEIR CLERKS. post-otnce inspector, !!3,000;.chief clerk of mail depredations, $2,000; one clerk For surveyor-general of the Territory of Arizona, $2,500; and for the clerks of class 3; one stenographer, $1,600; two clerks of class 2; five clerks of class in his office, !3,000; in all, $5,500. 1; four clerks, at $1,000 each; two assistant messengers; in all, $81,400. For rent of otnce for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, Office of topographer: For topographer, $2,500; three skilled draftsmen, stationery, and other incidental expenses, $1,500. at $1,800 each; three skilled draftsmen, at $1,600 each; three skilled drafts· For surveyor-general of California, $2,750; and for the clerks in his omce, men. at $1,400 each; three skilled draftsmen at $1 ,200 each; one examiner, $13,750: in all, $16,50J. $1,200; one clerk of class 2; one map-mounter, $1,200; one assistant map For books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, mounter, $720; one a.ssistantmessenger; twowatchmen; fourfemaleclerks, $2,000. at $900 each; and one charwoman; in all, $31,020. For surveyor-general or the State of Colorado, $2,500; and for the clerks in Office of disbursing clerk: Disbursing clerk and superintendent of build his otnce, $7,000; in all, !9,500. ing, 12,100; one clerk of class 2; one clerk of class 1; one engineer, $1~~; For rent of otnce for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of one assistant engineer, $1,000; one fireman, who shall be a blacksmith, ww; messenger and other incidental expenses, f1,500. one fireman, who shall be a steamfitter, $9,000; one conductor of elevator, For surveyor-general of Minnesota, $1,800: and for the clerks in his o.m.ce, $720; two firemen, one carpenter, $1,200; one assistant carpenter, $1 ,000; cap $3,000; in all, $4,800. tain of -&he watch, $1,000; nineteen watchmen; twenty-two laborers; one For fuel, books, stationery, printing, binding, and other incidental ex plumber, $900; one awning-maker, at $900, and fifteen charwomen; and for penses. $1,000. force in the additional building as follows: Four watchmen; two .fi.remen; one For f!urveyor~neral of Florida., $1,800; and for the clerks in his o.m.ce, elevator conductor, $720; four laborers, and six charwomen; and t.he :follow 1 ing additional force for the additional building used for the storage of post $ ~~; ~n~llol~mce for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and o.mce supplies: Two watchmen; two firemen; one laborer, and one char· other incidental expenses, $700. woman; in all, $60,760. 1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 5 97
For contingent expenses of t-he Post-Office Department, including the Court of Private Land Claims: For cb.j.efjustice and four associate justices, additional building occupied by the money-order division of the Sixth Audit at $5,000 each; or's Ofllce, and the additional building used for storage of post-ofllce sup- For clerk, $2,000; plies, namely: . For stenographer, $1,500; For stationery and blank books, including amount necessary for the pur- For attorney, $3,500; chase of free penalty envelopes, $12,000. For interpreter and translator, $1,500; in aU, $33,500. For fuel and for repairs to heating apparatus, $9,000. For deputy clerks, as authorized by law, so much therefor as may be nec For gas and electric lights, $5,250. essary. For plumbing and gas and elertric-light fixtures, $2,000. District courts: For salaries of the sixty-four district judges of the United For telegraphing, $500. States, at $5,000 each; . For painting, $3,500. For salary of the judge of the United States court in the Indian Territory, For carpets and matting, $3,000. $3,500; in all, $39..3,500. For furniture, $3,000. To pay the salaries of the United States judges retired under section 714of For purchase and keeping of horses and repair of wagons and harness to the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year end be used only for ofllcial purposes, 161,000. ing June 30, 1893, is hereby appropriated. For hardware, $1,000. Supreme Court, District of Columbia: For salaries of the chief justice of For miscellaneous items, $12,000. the supreme court of the District of Columbia and the five associate judges, For rent of a suitable building or buildings for the use of the money-order $24,500. ofllce of the Post-Ofllce Department, $8,000; for rent of building for use of the District attorneys: For salaries of the district attorneys of the United money-order divi&ion of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Of'lice De States, $20,700. partment, $11,000; for rent of a suitable building for the storage of post-ofllce Marshals: For salaries of the district marshals of the United States, $13,500. supplies, $4,000; in all, $23,000. And thetopographer'som.ceshall be removed Court of Claims: For salaries of five judges of the Court of Claims, at to and furnished accommodations in the space rented for the city post-ofllce ~.500 each; chief clerk, $3,000; one assistant clerk, $2,000; balitr, $1,500; four in the building on G street between Sixth and Seventh streets. clerks, at $1,200 each; and one messenger· in all, $34,640. . For the publication of copies of the Oftlcial Postal Guide, including not For stationery, books, fuel, gas, and other miscellaneous expenses, $3,000. exceeding 1,500 copies for the use ofthe Executive Departments, $15,000. For reporting the decisions of the court, and superintending the printing For miscellaneous expenses in the topographer's office in the preparation of the twenty-seventh volume of the Reports of the Court of Claims, to be and publication of the post-route maps, $18,000. And the Postmaster-Gen paid on the order of the court, $1,000i said sum to be paid to the reporter, eral may authorize the sale of post-route maps to the public at cost and 10 notwithstanding section 1765 of the Revised Statutes, or section 3 of the act per cent thereof added, the proceeds of such sales to be used as a further of June 20, 1874, chapter 328. appropriation for the preparation and publication of post-route maps. SEc. 2. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, laborers, For postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not ex and charwomen provided for in this act, unless otherwise specially stated, empt from postage under article 8 of the Paris convention of the Universal shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at Postal Union, t750. the rate or !720 per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of $660 per annum DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. each, and for charwomen, at the rate of $240 per annum each. SEc. 3. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the several Exe Ofllce of theAttorney-General: ForcompensationoftheAttorney-General, cutive Departments, in the interest o:rthe public service, to require of all clerks $8,000; Solicitor-General, $7,000: four Assistant Attorneys-General, at $5,000 and other employ~s, of whatever grade or class, in their respective Depart each; one Assistant Attorney-General of the Post-Otnce Department, $4,000; ments, not less than seven hours of labor each day, except Sundays and days Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $4,500; Solicitor for the Department of State, declared public holidays by law or Executive order: Provided, That t.he heads $3,500; two assistant attorneys, at $3,000 each; three assistant attorneys, at of the Departments may, by special order, stating the reason, further extend $2,500 each; one assistant attorney, $2,000; law clerk and examiner of titles, or limit the hours of service of any clerk or employ~ in their Departments, ~,700; chief clerk and ex-ojficio superint-endent of the building, $2,500; sten respectively; but in case of an extension it shall be without additional com ographic clerk, $1,800; three stenographic clerks, at ~1,600 each; two law pensation: .And provided further, That the head of any Department may grant <:lerk:s, at $2,000 each; four clerks of class 4; attorney in charge of pardons, thirty days' annual and thirty days' sick leave, with pay, in any one year to f2,400; additional for disbursing clerk, $200; three clerks of class 3; three each clerk or employ6, the sick leave to be allowed in case of personal illness clerks of class 2; six clerks of class 1; one telegraph operator and stenogra only, or where some member of the immediate family is aftlicted with a con pher, at $1,200; seven copyists; one messenger; five assistant messengers; tagiousdisease and requires the care and attendance of such employe, or where four laborers; three watchmen; one engineer, $1,200; two conductors of the his or her presence in the Department would jeopardize the health of fellow elevator, at $720 each; eight charwomen; superintendent of building, $250; clerks: .And be it further provided, That in exceptional and meritorious cases, and three firemen; in all, $128,010. _ where to limit such sick leave would work peculiar hardship, it may be ex ,· For contingent expenses of the Department, namely: tended, in the discretion of the head of the Department, with pay not exceed For furniture and repairs, $1,000. ing sixty days in any ~me case or in any one calendar year. For law and miscellaneous books for library of the Department, $1,500. This section shall not be construed to mean that so long as a clerk or em· For purchase of session laws and statutes of the Stat-es and Territories ployli is borne upon the rolls of the Department in excess of the time herein tor library of Department, $1,000. provided for or granted, that he or she shall be entitled to pay during the For stationery, $1,500. period of such excessive absence, but the pay shall stop upon the expiration For miscellaneous expenditures, incluqing telegraphing, fuel, lights, for of the granted leave. . _ · eign postage, repairs of building and care or grounds, and other necessaries, SEc. 4. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent or in confiic~ with the directly ordered by the Attorney-General, $7,160. provisions of this act are hereby repealed. For ofl:l.cia.l transportation. including purchase, keep, and shoeing of ani mals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, $500. NoTE.-Total estimates 1893. ---·------____ ------______$22,754,038.05 For the following force necessary for the care and protection of the court Total appropriations 1892, including items from last house in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States sundry civil, Indian, and deficiency acts______22,141,874.75 marshal of the District of Columbia: One engineer, $1,200; three watchmen; Amount in this bill------·----·------______21,683,752. 05 three firemen; four laborers, at $480each; and six assistant messengers; in all, $11,760. Otnce of the Solicitor of the Treasury: For compensation of the Solicitor During the reading of the above bill the following occurred: of the Treasury, $4,500; assistant solicitor, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; three Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR (interrupting the reading). Mr. clerks of class 4; three clerks of class 3; four clerks of class 2; one assistant Speaker, I move that we do now adjourn. messenger; and one laborer; in all, $26,680. The SPEAKER. The Clerk has begun the reading of the ~~r law and miscellaneous books for of'lice of the Solicitor of the Treasucy,, bill. That motion could only be entertained by unanimous con For stationery for omce of Solicitor of the Treasury. $250. sent. For warden of the jail of the District of Columbia, $1,800. Mr. BLOUNT. Regular order. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. The SPEAKER. Without unanimous consent the Chair could For compensation of the Commissioner of Labor, $5,000; chief clerk, $2.500; not interrupt the reading of the bill, and the gentleman from disbursing clerk, $1 ,800; four statistical experts, at :t2,000 each; four clerks of class 4, who may be statistical experts; five clerks of class 3; six clerks of Georgia [Mr. BLOUNT] demands the regular order, which is class 2; twelve clerks of class 1; ten clerl{S, at $1,000 each; two copyists; one equivalent to an objection. messenger; one assistant messenger; three watchmen; two laborers; two Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR. If gentlemen on the other side charwomen; six special agents. at $1,600 each; ten special agents, at $1,400 each; four special agents, at $1,200 each; in all, $101,020. will move to suspend the rules and admit Alaska to the Union, For per diem, in lieu of subsistence of special agents and experts while I might withdraw my motion. [Laughter.] travelmg on duty away from home and outside of the District of Columbia, Mr. ENLOE. It is a little too warm to admit Alaska. to-day. at a rate not to exceed $3 per day, and for their transportation, and for em ployment of experts and temporary assistance, and for traveling expenses If you will wait till winter we will consider it. of olllcers and employ6s, $47,500.- Mr. McMILLIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of order. For stationery, V50. For books, periodicals, and newspapers !or the library, $1,000. There is so much confusion that we can not hear the reading. For postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal-Union The SPEAKER. The point is well taken. Gentlemen in the countries, $250. aisles will resume their seats, and gentlemen will cease conver For rent of rooms, including steam heat and elevator service, $5,000. For contingent expenses, namely: For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, sation on the floor. hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, express The Clerk resumed the reading of the bill: age, l'epairs of cases and furniture, fuel and lights, soap, brushes, brooms, Subsequently mats, oils, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $3,100. Mr. PAYNE said: Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. JUDICIAL. Would it be in order to ask unanimous consent to dispense with Supreme Court: For the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United the further reading of this bill. States, $10,500; and for eight associate justices, at $10,000 each; in all $90,500; For ten circuit judges, to reside in circuit, at $6,000 each, $60,000; The SPEAKER. The Chair will submit the request. For marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, $3,000; Mr. PAYNE. I do not care to make the request. I only For stenographic clerk for the Chief Justice and for each associate justice of the Supreme Court, at a sum not exceeding $1,600 each, $14,400; in all, $167,- make the suggestion. 900. Mr. CALDWELL. I make the request. CircuitcoUl'ts of appeals; For nine additional circuitjudges, a.t$6,000each; Mr. BLOUNT. Regular order. For nine clerks, at $3,000 each; in all $81,000. That so much of section 2 of the act approved March 3, 1891, to establish Mr. CALDWELL. I move to dispense with the further read circuit courts of appeal, as authorizes the appointment of a marshal to each ing of the bill. of said courts at a salary of $2,500 be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and Mr. BLOUNT. Regular order. any duties or powers imposed upon said marshals under the said act shall be performed by the United States marshals in and for the districts where The SPEAKER. It could only be done by unanimou~ consent. terms of said courts may be held. The gentleman from Georgia demands the regular or(}er, which 5098 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JUNE 6, is equivalent t.o an objection. The Clerk will t·esume the read- sent to consider a second as ordered, and the gentleman from ing. , Iowa [Mr. HENDERSON] objected, whereupon teUers were ap- The Clerk resumed the reading of the bill. pointed. Then thegentlemanfromiowa [Mr. HENDERSON] with- Subsequently drew his objection to considering the second as ordered. Now, Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR said: Mr. Speaker, I wish to ask does the gentleman from Wisconsin object to considering the unanimous consent that the words "nine hundred dollars" for second as ordered? salaryoftheChaplainoftheHouseofRepresentatives,bestricken Mr. COWLES. Mr. Speaker, I make the poim of order that out and that the amount be made $1,200. It is a shame that the Chair had recognized the gentleman from Alabama. his salary is so small. It ought to be $1,200. The SPEAKER. The Chair had done so. Mr. HOLMAN. Regular order. Mr. COWLES. Therefore, I say that the pointof the gentle- The SPEAKER.. Thegentlemanfromlndiana ~fr. HoLMAN] man from Wisc ,·. 1892. CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-HOUSE. 5099 yield to the gentleman, as we have only fifteen minutes, when Oh, yes. Let the galled jade wince. That is what you are we ouD"ht to have several hours. I would be glad to yield to the doing, gentlemen. You are sacrificing your country in order gentleoman from Wisconsin ilt I could. to try to deceive the J:eople and issue campaign documents. Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, !would like some Halloo about it if you will. Now, niark me well. The heads of gentleman to give a good reason for the course being pursued here Departments and the heads of bureaus were invited to come be to-night. I stated that I would not, simply to punish my col fore that committee. They were heard on the estimates. They leaD"ues in this House, insist on my demand that a quorum should demonstrated again and again the necessity for increases here appear; but, nevertheless, I protest against this method of smug and there. Not one was allowed. That committee of this House gling through the House of Representatives an appropriation of Representatives snubbed them and their estimates, as it has bill carrying well-nigh $22,000,000 without the right to make a snubbed the Senate of the United States, while here, by resolu single amendment, or of general debate. It is an unprecedented tion, you had to whip our committee into making some slight in thing in the history of legislation in this country. creases in this body, your own House of Representatives. Re Mr. HOLMAN. Oh, no. form! Whatdo you do further? Under the Edmunds acta great Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. I say, oh, yes. In the Forty reform was started in Utah. The hand of the law was laid .upon eighth Congl·ess a bill was passed under suspension of the rules the throat of a great evil there-a national crime. on the 23d of June, at the end of the fiscal year, on an unani This bill roots up that Commission, the guiding star of theEd mous agreement on both sides of the Appropriation Committee munds-Tucker act, cuts it out root and branch, and that, too, at a that a vote should be had on seven amendments. In this in time when I am glad to say we are having evidences that that stance the minority of the Committee on Appropriations were great act, conceived and fulminated by Senator Edmunds, has 1 .. not even notified of the purpose o1 the majority to take this pro been working great good. I believe the time is not far .distant ceeding to-day. What need is there for suchhaste? There are when Utah can come into the presence of Congress with clean thirteen appropriation bills. The agricultural appropriation bill hands and demand recognition and a. pla{!e in the sisterhood of has been reported to the House; the army bill has passed the States. But the time for that has not yet come, and here, at House; the d1plomatic and consular appropriation bill has passed the request of -the Mormon power, you cut the virtue out of that the House; the District of Columbia bill has passed the House law, instead of leaving the Commission, a. great nonpartisan body, and the Senate, and is in conference; the fortification bill has to regulate and conduct elections until Utah is ripe for admis been reported to the House; the Indian appropriation bill has sion. What else do you do? In this bill you cut the internal passed the House; the legislative, executive, and judicial ap"{>ro revenue system, you cripple and hamper it. You strike down priation billis now being passed under whip and spur, with th1rty the inspectors under the bounty law on sugar. minutes for debate; the Military Academy bill has passed the What else do you do? You enter the Bureau of Labor and cut House and the.Senate,.and is now inconference; thenavalappro and slash and reduce there. What else? YouentertheBureau priation bill has passed the House; the pension bill has passed of Education and cut and slash there. What else? You enter the House; the Post-Office bill has passed the House; the river the auditing offices of the Government where the claims·of the and harbor bill is in conference; the sundry civil bill has passed defenders of the Union are still piled mountain high, and you the House· the general deficiency bill alone is not yet reported, cut and slash there to prevent those claims being audited, and and that is the last bill ever reported from the committee, be this you do in spite of the earnest protests of the officials. All ing the omnium gatherwm to take up the threads of leglSlation along the line you have put in the knife) cutting down and with· and provide for deficiencies in the different Departments of the holding, until after the election of November, 1892. Government. I can understand why we are limited to fifteen minutes' debate Nine of the thirteen great appropriation bills have passed the on this bill, with no amendments. Familiar as I am with day House, and three are in conference. Only one remains; yet this after day consideration of this bill, I can well understand why bill, with its $22,000,000, is proposed to be rushed through here, you will not face the country with broad, manly discussien and while we are bucked and gagged so that we can not discuss or a defense of your pruning process adopted with referenee•to the amend it! Ah, gentlemen, we have heard about" fair play," we Presidential campaign. have heard about" deliberation" and "giving a fair opportunity Mr. Speaker, I promised to yield to my friend from New York for discussion." We have heard much about the" Reed rules," [Mr. PAYNEl, and I give him two minutes. and the" Reed Congress." We never passed a bill in the Fifty Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, what has become oi "the sacred first Congress, even under a special rule~ without giving you an rights of the minority"? [Laughter and derisive applause on opportunity to discuss it, and discuss it fully. the Democratic side.] Where arethemournersfrom Tennessee You may have frittered away your opportunities with filibus who howled so loudly and wailed in such plaintive strains two tering, as you did, but we, like men, not afraid to face the truth, years ago for the" sacred right of debate and deliberatim: ?" gave you a manly opportunity to present your views. [Renewed laughter and applause.] What has become of them? Mr. BUTLER. Will the gentleman permit a question? Why, you have been in session here for six mon ths--[Derisive Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. !have not time. You have your cries on the Democratic side.] own time on that side. You cut our time down to fifteen min Mr. PAYNE. Oh, I can not be interrupted by any catcalls. utes and now attempt to pismire it away with interruptions. The SPEAKER. The House will be in order. The gentle [Laughter.] man from New York is entitled to proceed without interrup Mr. BUTLER. I seethatiswhatyouaredoing. Mr. Speaker, tion. I do not wish to object to the gentleman" pismiring" away his Mr. PAYNE. You have been in session here for six months time. [Laughter.] with your 140 majority. Your own party papers have lashed you Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa (not hearing Mr. BUTLER). Mr. for your incompetency, and advised you to adjourn and go home Speaker, I can not in this brief time attempt to discuss this bill, and give the Democratic pat·ty a chance in the elections this but a few rapid glances I must take, even with my hands tied fall. Is it this that has taken away what sense you had; is it and my lips sealed, and with no opportunity to present a single this that has addled your brains, so that now, on the 6th day of one of the many amendments that I had proposed to present all June, you are in such haste to accomplish something and get out along the line of these items. What have you done in this bill? of sight of the American people? You claim to have made a reduction of some $450,000. Of that, The idea of coming in here to-day with a half dozen important $142,300 was recommended by the Republican officials; $71,311 matters to rush them through without debate, to rush them of it is because the next session of Congress will be the short through without opportunity of amendment; and on the heels of session; $213,615 of it no Democratic member of the Appropria that, a half hour after the usual time for adjournment, you bring tions Committee can claim any credit for. in a great appropriation bill carrying $22,000,000, and with barely How have you made the rest of yourreduction? Youhave cut five minutes of explanation you demand of your colleagues to put in round numbers $82,000 from the estimates of the Senate, a co it through under the whip and spur of the two-.thirds rule. ordinate branch of thftl Government. Your Committee on Ap Oh, you want "deliberation and debate," don't you? In the propriations sits in judgment upon and takes the Senate of the last Congress when we brought in a rule we fixed a time for the United States under its wing and undertakes to regulate its ap previous question and gave you time for debate; you filibustered propriations, expecting, as you do, gentlemen, knowing, as you day after day on these questions; you used up and frittered away do, that eYery dollar that you have cut out will be put back. the time and showed the country that you did not want debate. Of the remaining $200,000 that you have reduced you know Your course then was dishonest and demagogical to the last ex that nearly $100,000 will be and should be replaced in the bill by treme; and now, as a further demonstration, we have this day's the Senate of the United States. Thatis youreconomy! What exhibition held up to the country. iathis Committee on Appropriations to which I belong? Dig [Here the hammer fell.] nify it, will you, with the title of an appropriations committee? Mr. HATCH. Will my friend from New York allow me to No, no, gentlemen. I will tell you what it is; it is the Demo askhim-- cratic campaign committee of 1892, not the Committee on Ap Mr. PAYNE. If I had the time I would ba glad to yield for a propriatiQns of the House of Representatives. question and to continue this discussion. / -- ,_ 5100 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JUNE 6, The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Iowa has three minutes The SPEAKER. The Chair will appoint tellers, a second remaining. being demanded on the motion of the gentleman from Vermont. Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. I reserve the residue of my time. Mr. BUTLER and Mr. GROUT were appointed tellers. Mr. FORNEY. On our side we do not desire to occupy fur- Mr. GROUT. I ask unanimous consent that a second be con -· ther time. • sidered as ordered. The SPEAKER. The-question is on the motion of the gen Mr. BUTLER. I object. tleman from Alabama [Mr. FORNEY] to suspend the rules and Mr. McMILLIN (after the count had proceeded for some pass the bill. [The question was put.] In the opinion of the time). Have the tellers made their report? Chair two-thirds have voted in the affirmative. The ayes have The SPEAKER. The count had not been concluded. it; the ru1es are suspended, and the bill is passed. [Applause Mr. HOLMAN. Is not a motion to adjourn in order? on the Democratic side.l The SPEAKER. As soon as the tellers make their report, if ORDER OF BUSINESS. a quorum is not present. Mr. HOLMAN. I move that tho House adjourn. Mr. GROUT. There are still others, Mr. Speaker, I under Mr. McMILLIN. I hope the gentleman will withhold that sto.nd, who will be here in a moment. motion a moment; I wish to introduce a resolution. Mr. McMILLIN. I ask for the announcement of the vote. Mr. HATCH. I want to ask unanimous consent of the House The SPEAKER. The gentleman asks for an announcement for what I regard as a question of privilege. on the part of the tellers. · The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Mr. McMILLIN. I do not want to interfere, but it looks very Mr . .HATCH. I ask unanimous consent that gentlemen who much as H no quorum was present. addressed the House to-day upon·what is known as the" anti Mr. HEMPHILL. I think we can afford to wait here a little option bill" may be permitted to extend their remarks in the while and get a quorum, and especially is that true in regard to RECORD. this bill, which does not carry any money. . The.SPEAKER. The Chair will again submit the request. Mr. McMILLIN. I believe debate is not in order, Mr. Speaker, The gentleman from Missouri asks unanimous consent that gen but if it is, or when it is, that proposition will be controverted. tlemen who addressed the House to-day on what is known as the The SPEAKER. Debate is not in order. The tellers will re· "antioption bill'' be permitted to extend their remarks in the port. RECORD. The tellers reported-ayes 135, noes 9. Mr. WARWICK. The privilege not being granted to all The SPEAKER. A quorum has not voted. members; I object. Mr. BLOUNT. I move that the House do now adjourn, Mr. HATCH. Now, Mr. Speaker, I ask that all gentlemen [Cries of "Oh, no."] who desire to print remarks in the RECORD on that bill may have The SPEAKER. In the absence of a quorum the only motions the priv.ilege of doing so. in order are a motion to adjourn or for a call of the House. Several MEMBERS. That is right. Mr. GROUT. Let me askunanimousconsent that this bill ba The SPEAKER. Is there objection? considered in the House tz>-morrow, when there will be a quorum present, and on its merits. That is all I ask. Mr. KILGORE. I object. Mr. HATCH. I hope that will be done. FINAL ADJOURNMENT. Mr. BUTLER. I object. Mr . .McMILLIN. I desire to submit a resolution for reference Mr. BANKHEAD. Regular order. only. Mr. HEMPHILL. Can I not ask unanimous con3ent that a The Clerk read as follows: second be considered as ordered? · Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring) , That the 'rhe SPEAKER. When the regu1ar order has been demanded PresidEmt of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives de clare their.respective Elouses adjourned without day on Monday, the 4th day it is equivalent to an objection. of July, 11.t 2 o'clock p. m. Mr. SMITH oflllinois. As we would like to get through with [Loud applause on the Democratic side.] this matter I will ask for a call of the House. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Ways and The SPEAKER. The first motion in order is the motion ol Means. the gentleman from Georgia. Mr. GROUT addressed the Chair. Mr. GROUT. I do not wish to make any unreasonable re The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HOL quest of the House, or I would myself have moved a call of the MAN] withdraw his motion? House. Mr. HOLMAN. Yes, I withdraw it for the present. The SPEAKER. If the motion of the gentleman from Georgia MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. is voted down the other motion will be in order. Mr. GROUT. I do not want to be unrea.sonable. I want the A message from the Senate, by Mr. PALTT, oneof its clerks, an bill to be considered by the House on its merits and voted upon. nounced that the Senate had nassed without amendment the bill Mr. DINGLEY. If the House should now adjourn would not (H.R. 754)directing the issueof duplicate United States bonds this matter, which is pending on the motion of the gentleman to Elijah P. T. Hollcroft, guardian of Burton J. Parr. from Vermont, come up as the unfinished business and ba first A further message from the Senate, by Mr. PLATT, one of its in order on the next suspension day? clerks, announced that the Senate heW. insisted upon its amend The SPEAKER. When suspension business is resumed, under ments to the bill (H. R. 7093) making appropriations for the naval the practice of the House, this bill will be first in order. servicefor the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893,andforotherpur Mr. BRYAN. If the moti.on to adjourn is defeated, wou1d H poses disagreed to by the House of Representatives, had agreed be possible to take up any other measure for cqnsideration? to the conference asked by the House on the disagreeing votes The SPEAKER. Not in the absence of a quorum. of the two Houses thereon, and had appointed Mr. HALE, Mr. Mr. HATCH. I ask unanimous consent, in view of the rule ALLISON. and Mr. GORMAN as the conferees on the part of the with regard to the status of this matter that, instead of passing Senate. ' · it over for two weeks, it be made a special order for to-morrow MILITARY POST, BURLINGTON, VT. morning immediately after the reading of the Journal. Mr. GROUT. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and Mr. STh1PSON and Mr. BUTLER objected. pass the bill (S. 1233) to establish a military post on the line of Mr. BUTLER. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. railway between Burlington and Highgate, Vt. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. The bill was read, as follows: Mr. HATCH. I will say to the gentleman he will simply post;; Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to ac pone this two weeks. That is all he will do. cept, free of cost to the United States, a donation of a. tract of not less than Mr. BUTLER. I want to ask whether this bill, which comes 300 acres of land on the line of rail way between Burlin'gton and Hfghga te, in up on private suspension day, will be in order on committee sus· the State of Vermont, and to construct thereon, out of any appJ;oprlation available tor that purpose, the necessary buildings, with the appurtenances, pension day? • !or a. military post; and he is authorized to proceed in acquiring lan.d as The SPEAKER. It has always been held by the presiding provided !or the enlargement of the military post at Plattsburg, N. Y., by officers of the House that such a bill goes over until the next act approved March 3, 1891: Provided, That in his judgment the said tract of land is found to be in an respects adequate and suitable for the purpose, suspension day, regardless of whether it is private suspension and that the title shall have been declared valid by the Attorney-General of day or committee suspension day. the United States. Mr. GROUT. I am entirely content to let the motion to ad The SPEAKER. Is a second demanded? journ be put. Mr. BUTLER. I demand a second. The SPEAKER. The question is upon the motion of the gen· Mr. BANKHEAD. I move that the House adjourn. tleman froi:u Georgia [Mr. BLOUNT] that the House do now ad The SPEAKER. That motion is in order. journ. The question was taken; and on a division (demanded by Mr. The motion was agreed to. GROUT) there were-ayes 61, noes 104. Accordingly (at 8 o'clock and 10 minutes p.m.) the House ad So the House refused to adjourn. journed untilll o'clock to-morrow morning. r • 1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 5101 BILLS, MEMORIALS, AND RESOLUTIONS. others, of St. Louis, Mo., protesting against the manufacture Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills of the following titles were and sale of cigarettes-to the Committee on Ways and Means. introduced, and severally referred as follows: By Mr. COMPTON: Petition of C. A. Pitts and others of Ber By Mr. MEREDITH: A bill (H. R.. 9120) for the construction lin, Worcester County, Md., for the passage of a law forbidding of a memorial bridge from theNa val 0 bserva tory grounds to the the sale, manufacture, and importation of cigarettes-to the Arlington estate-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Committee on Ways and Means. · Commerce. Also, petition of citizens of Berlin, Worcester County, Md., By Mr. JOSEPH: A bill (H. R.. 9121) to aid in the construction for the enactment of a law forbidding the sale, manufacture, and of the Denver and El Paso Independent Railroad-to the Com· importation of cigarettes-to the Committee on Ways and mittee on the Public Lands. Means. By Mr. CATE: A joint resolution (H. Res.138) to appropriate By Mr. CRAWFORD: Petition of citizens of Rutherford $100,000 for the relief of sufferers by the overflow from the Mis County, N. C., against the Brosius lard bill-to the Committee sissippi River and tributaries-to the Committee on Appropria on Agriculture. tions. By Mr. CURTIS: Petition of ex-soldiers and sailors of Joseph By Mr. McMILLIN: A resolution declaring that the Senate K. Barnes Post, No. 360, Grand Army of the Republic, of New _and the House of Representatives adjourn without day on Mon York, asking for the preserving and properly marking the bat tle lines of Gettysburg, Pa.-to the Committee on Military Af. day, July 4-to the Committee on Ways and Means. fairs. · By Mr. DALZELL: Petition of Emile Law, engineer of the PRIVATE BILLS, ETC. Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, in favor of the adop Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills of the following tion of the metric system of weights and measures exclusively titles were presented and referred as indicated below: in the service of the United States-to the Committee on Coin By Mr. CAR.UTH: A bill (H. R. 9122) granting an increase of age, Weights, and Measures. pension to Isaac Stephens-to the Committee on Invalid Pen By Mr. FYAN: Two protests of the Farmers and Laborers' sions. Union of Newton County, Mo., against thepassageoftheBrosius Also, a bill (H. R. 9123) for the relief of George F. Fuller-to lard bill, H. R. 395, and praying for the passage of a general pure the Committee on Claims. . food law-to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. COMPTON: A bill (H. R.. 9124) granting a pension to By Mr. HAR.TER: Two petitions of Clearfork Grange of Ohio, MaryJ. Webster-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. one to pravent gambling in farm products and the other for leg By Mr. HOOKER of Mississippi: A bill (H.R. 9125) for there· islation for the encouragement of silkculture-totheCommittee lief of G. Zergir Stewart-to the Committee on Claims. on Agriculture. By Mr. McALEER: A bill (H. R. 9126) for the removal of Also, petition by .the same grange, urging the passage of charge of desertion against John Scanlin, late of Company F, House bill395, defining lard and imposing a tax thereon-to the Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers-to the Committee on Committee on Ways and Means. Military Affairs. Also, petition by the same body, for frea delivery of rural By Mr. O'DONNELL: A bill (H. R. 9127) directing the Secre mails-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. tary of War to issue an honorable discharge for Francis E. Hale, Also, petition by the same body, for prohibiting contracts dis deceased-to the Committee on Military Affairs. crediting legal-tender currency-to the Committee on Coinage, _ By Mr. PATTER.SON of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 9128) for the Weights, and Measuras. relief of the estate of Nancy J. Carr, deceased, late of Shelby By Mr. HATCH: Two petitions of citizens of Missouri, one County, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. of the elders and deacons of New Providence Presbyterian By Mr. RUSK: A bill (H. R. 9129) for the relief of Dennis Church, Marion County, against op3ning the Columbian Expo Cowber-to the Committee on Claims. sition on the Sabbath-t!:> the Select Committe3 on the Colum Also, a bill (H. R. 9130) for the relief of Christopher Nestley- bian Exposition. to the Committee on Naval Affairs. • Als:~, resolutions of St. Louis Young- People's Society of Chris Also, a bill (H. R. 9131) for the relief of William Cole-to the tian Endeavor, favoring the closing of the World's Columbian Committee on Claims. Fair on Sunday-to th3 Select Committee on the Columbian Ex By Mr. SCULL: A bill (H. R. 9132) for the relief of the Society position. of the United Brethren in Christ-to the Committee on War By Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa: Hesolutions by the Woman's Claims. . Columbian Auxiliary, of Chicago, Ill., urging an appropriation By Mr. STORER: A bill (H. R. 9133) for the relief of Mrs. for the benefit of the colored people of the country in connection Linda Hunt, of Canton, Ohio-to the Committee on Invalid Pen with the World's Fair-to the Select Committee on·the Colum sions. bian Exposition. By Mr. HENDERSON of North Carolina: Petition of Charles N. Robinson and 21 others, of Elizabeth City, N. C., asking PETITIONS, ETC. Congress to enact a law forbidding the sale, m!:tnufacture, or Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, the following petitions and pa- importation of cigarettes in a~y form in the United States and pers were laid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: · providing punishment for violation thereof-to the Committee By Mr. ALEXANDER: Two petitions, one from citizens of on Ways and Means. Union County, N. C., and one from citizens of Mecklenburg By Mr. HERBERT: Petition of C. S. W. Spadley and others, County, N.C., against the passage of the Brosius lard bill, H. R. of Crenshaw, Ala., remonstrating against the passage of the 395-to the Committee on Ways and Means. . Brosius lard bill, H .. R. 395, and pray~g for the passage of the . By Mr. BEEMAN: Petition of citizens of Neshoba County, Paddock pure-food b1ll-to the Comm1ttee on Agriculture. Miss., praying for the passage of the Hatch antioption bill-to By Mr. HERMANN: Petition of the Traffic Association of the Committee on Agriculture. California, signed by Edward Bender and others, for the com By Mr. BRYAN: Two petitions of citizens of Nebraska, one pletion and national control of the Nicaragua Canal-to the Com by Sophia McAllister and others, and the other by George W. mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Wells and others, asking for a law forbidding the sale, manufac Also, petition of citizens of Oregon, to prohibit impure litera ture, and importation of cigarettes-to the Committee on Ways ture from the mails-to the Committee on the Post-Office and and Means. · Post-Roads. Also, petitjon of Caroline A. Jone.:; and others, for woman By Mr. HOPKINS of Pennsylvania: Petition of 27 citizens of suffrage-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Potter County, Pa., praying Congress to enact legislation to pre By Mr. BUSHNELL: Protest of Frank Proctor and 61 others vent the sale, usa, and manufacture of cigarettes-to the Com- of Grant County, Wis., against the passage of any law by Con mitteeon Ways and Means. · gress that closes the World's Columbian Exposition on Sunday By Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio: Petitionof27 citizens of Cleveland, to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Ohio, remonstrating against the closing of the World's Fair on By Mr. CATE: Petition of Miss C. S. Beach and 25 others, of Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Minturn, Ark., against closing the World's Fair on Sunday-to By Mr. KEM: Three petitions of Pleasant Valley Grange, No. the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. 48, of Nebraska, as follows: One for the passage of a law to pre By Mr. CARUTH: Papers to accompany a bill granting an in vent the adulteration of food and drugs, the second to prevent Ci'ease of pension to Isaa~ Stephens-to the Committee on In gambling in farm products, and the third asking for legislation valid Pensions. to encourage the culture of silk-to the Committee on Agricul Also, petition of Rev. J. R. Sanpey, of Louisville, Ky., against ture. the removal of the Southern Ute Indians-to the Committee on Al~o, petiti~n. by the same-grange, for the passage of an act Indian Affairs · makmg certam 1ssues of money a full legal tender in payment of By Mr. COBB of MissJuri: Petition of M. H. Bartlett and all debts-to the Committee on Coinage,-Weights, and Measures. -. I . \ .. 51.02 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JUNE 7, Also, petition by the same grange, asking for the passa-ge of Also, petition of Seventh-day Baptists, against closing the House bill395-to the Committee on Ways and Means. World's Fair on the Sabbath-to the Select Committee ou the Also, petition by the same grange, asking that measures be Columbian Exposition. taken to extend the free delivery of mails to rural districts-to By Mr. WARWICK: Tvm petitions of Buckeye Grange, No. the Committee on the Post-Office and PostrRoads. 1343, of Ohio, one for a law to prevent gambling in farm products, Also, six petitions from Nebraska, as follows: Of the Congre and the other for the passage of a pure-food bill-to the Commit. gational Church of Creighton, Knox County; of the Methodist tee on Agriculture. Episcopal Church of Gandy and Garfield; of the Presbyterian Also, petition of citizens of Starke County, Ohio, favoring a Church of Shelton; of the United Presbyterian Church of Majors, constitutional amendment respecting the establishment of reli Buffalo County; of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Cedar gion, etc.-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Rapids, and of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Shelton, all Also, petition of the Young People's Society of Christian En asking that the World's Fair be closed on Sunday-to the Select deavor, of Louisville, Ohio; against opening the Columbian Ex Committee on the Columbian Exposition. position on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Also, petition of citizens of Nebraska, asking for the passage Exposition. of the Washburn-Hatch antioption bill-to the Committee on Also, affidavit to accompany House bill 9019, granting a pen Agriculture. sion to Mrs. Linda Hunt, an army nurse-to the Committee on Also, three petitions of Seventh-Day Adventists of Nebraska; Invalid Pensions. one by J. H. Lewis and others, of New Helen, of CustBr County; By Mr. WEADOCK: Petition of the Equal-Suffrage Associa the second by N. A. Harris and others, of Linton; and the third tion of Bay City, Mich., 104: members, asking for the passage of by E. R. Henderson and others, of Orum, Washington County, House bill8369, giving women tbe right to vote for members of all against the passage of any bill or resolution to close the the House of Representatives-to the Committee on the Judi World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum ciary. bian Exposition. By Mr. WHITE: Petition of the United Presbyterian Church Also, two petitions of citizens of Nebraska; one of Pender and at Guernsey, Iowa, praying that Congress close the World's Fair the other of Kearney, asking for the passage of House bill83u9, on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposi ·giving women the right to vote for members of the House of tion . . Representatives-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, petition of citizens of Newton and vicinity, for the pas Also, petition of citizens of Nebraska, asking that Congress sage of the Paddock pure-food bill-to the Committee on Agri take no action to close the World's Fair on Sunday-..to the Se culture lect Committee on the Columbian Exposition. . By Mr. WILLI.A1.1S of illinois: Papers in the case of .Joseph Also, petition of the Woman's:Christian Temperance Union, C. Williams, for removal of the charge of desertion-to the Com asking that no Exposition for which appropriations are made by mittee on Military Affairs. Congress, shall ba opened on Sunday-to the Select Committee By Mr. WILSON of Missouri: Petition of Mary Hatfield and on the Columbian Exposition. others, of Maitland, Holt County, Mo., for the enactment of a law By Mr. LANE: Resolution of the Mattoon District Ministe forbidding the sale, manufacture, and importation of cigarettes rial Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the Illi in any form in the United St-ates-to the Committee on Ways nois Conference, favoring the closing of the Exposition on Sun and Means. day-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, protest of Farmers and Laborers' Union of Missouri, Also, two petitions of churches of Illinois, one of the United against the passage of the Brosius lard bill, H. R. 395, and pray Baptist Church of Van Burensburg, the other of the Methodist ing for the -passage of a general pure-food law-to the Commit Episcopal Church of Butler, asking that the World's Fair be tee on Agriculture. closed on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian By Mr. WILSON of West Virginia: Two petitions of citizens Ex-position. West Virginia, one of the county of Morgan, and the other of By Mr. LAYTON: Petition of the Congregational Association Berkeley, remonstratin~ against the passage of the Brosius lard of Ohio, representing churches of that State, against the open bill, H. R. 395, and praymg for the passage of the Paddock pure ing of the World's Fair on Sunday and the sale of intoxicating food bill-to the Committee on Agriculture. liquor thereat-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex By Mr. WISE: Paper in the claim of George A. Klein, butcher position. in the United States Army, Mexican war, to accompany House By Mr. MEREDITH: Petition of Silas Grayson, asking for bill 9020, for relief-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. payment of property furnished tbe United States troops during the late war-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. MILLER: Petition of J. E. Farrer and others of Wau shara, Wis., against the passage of any bill or resolution to close SENATE. the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. TUESDAY, Jtme 7, 1892. By Mr. MORSE: Hesolution by the Legislature of Massachu setts, urging the importance of adopting legislative measures es Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. tablishing a uniform policy in dealing with immigrants from The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. foreign countries and persons n.Jgrating from State to State, who EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION. are dependent upon public or private charity, and are of idle, vicious, or criminal habits-to the Select Committee on Immigra The PRIDENT p1·o temp01·e laid before the Senate a com tion "and Naturalization. munication from the Attorney-General makng a correction in By Mr. POST: PetitionoiC. T. Colemanand9others, ofCanton, the list of judgements rendered in the Court of Claims in the In Fulton County, Ill., for an amendment to the Constitution to pro dian· depredations up to the 1st of June, 1892, heretofore trans hibit any State passing laws respecting the establishment of re mitted pursuant to a resolution of May 27, 1892; which was re ligion-to the Committee on the .Judiciary. ferred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be Also, resolution of the Board of Trade of Peoria, Ill., for the printed. passage of the antioption bill-to the Committee on Agriculture. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. Also, petition of A. C. King and others, of Knox County, ill., Mr. SHERMAN presented a resolution of tbe Chamber of aO'ainst closing the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Commerce of the State of New Yo1·k, in favor of an international urlttee on the Columbian Exposition. silver conference, etc.; which was referred to the Committee on By Mr. PERKINS: Protest of .J. C. Smith and 121 others, of Finance. Castana, Iowa, against any action on the part of Congress with Mr. DAWES presented the petition of Mrs. H. M. Dewees and reference to closing the World's Fair on Sundays-to the Select others, of New York City, praying for the passage of legislation Committee on the Columbian Exposition. to prevent the manufacture and sale of clothing in unhealthy By Mr. REILLY: Petition of citizens of Potter, Armstrong, places; which was referred to the Committee on Education and and Warren Counties, Pa., in favor af a law prohibiting the sale Labor. and manufacture of cigarettes-to the Committee on Ways and Mr. FAULKNER presented a petition of Tuscarora Grange, Means. No.14, Patrons of Husbandry, of Berkeley County, \V. Va.• pray By Mr. ROCKWELL: Petition of George N. Slauson and inD' for the passage of the Paddock pure-food bill, and also for the others of Elmira, N.Y., for the passage of a law forbidding the passage of legislation regulating speculation in fictitious farm manufacture and sale of cigarettes-to the Committee on Ways products; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. and Means. Mr. PEFFER presented a memorial of members of Farmers' By Mr. SPRINGER: Petition of the Grand Army of theRe Alliance and Industrial Union No. 3156, of Barton County, Kans., public, Department of illinois, in favor of an intermediate rate remonstrating against the passage of House bill 395 and Senate on pensions-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. bill 2984, known as the Brosius-Wilson bills, and praying for the