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Also, petitionoftheP. L. Abbey Company,ofKalamazoo,Mich., A bill (H. R. 7595) granting a pension to Sarah K. Ward; urging the repeal of the war-revenue law-to the Committee on A bill (H. R. 8180) granting a pension to Isabella Cross; Ways and Means. . A bill (H. R. 9224) increasing the pension of David R. B. Harlan; By Mr. WADSWORTH: Petition of the Young People's Chris­ A bill (H. R. 9866) granting a p~nsion to Joseph Griffith; tian Union of the Universalist Church of the State of New York, A bill (H. R. 10055) granting a pension to James Burnett; · to raise the age of protection for girls to 18 years in the District of A bill (H. R. 10080) granting a pension to Frances E. U~y Columbia and the Territories-to the Committee on the District ~~& . of Columbia. A bill (H. R. 10276) granting an increase of pension to George ·Also, petition of the Young People's Christian Union of the Uni­ Witter; and versalist Church of the State of New York, to prohibit the trans­ A bill (H. R. 10915) making an appropriation to execute certain mission by mail or interstate commeree of newspaper descriptions provisions of the act of Congress for the protection of the people of prize fights-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ of the Indian Territory. merce. PETITIONS A.l\!"D MEMORIALS. Also, petition of the Young People's Christian Union of the Universalist Church.. of the State of New York, to prohibit the Mr. PLATT of New York presented a petition of the Young sale of liquor in canteens of the Army and Navy and of Soldiers' People's Society of Christian Endeavor of the Emmanuel Baptist Homes and in immigrant stations and Government buildings-to Church of Buffalo, N. Y., praying for the maintenance of pro­ the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. hibition in Alaska and the Indian Territory, etc.; which was re­ Also, petition of the Young People's Christian Union of the fened to the Committee on Territories. Universalist Church of the State of New York, to substitute arbi­ He also presented a petition of the Young People's Christian tration for railway strikes-to the Committee on Labor. Union of the Universalist Church of the State of New York, pray­ Also, petition of the Young People"s Christian Union of the in~ for the enactment of a Sunday-rest law for the District of UniversalistChurchof the Stateof New York, to forbid interstate · Columbia; which was referred to the Committee on the District gambling by telegraph or telephone-to the Committee on Inter­ of Columbia. state and Foreign Commerce. He also· presented a petition of the Young People's Christian Also, petition of the Young People's Christian Union of the Union of the Universalist Church of the State of New York, pray­ Universalist Church of the State of New York, for the passage of ing for the enactment of legislation raising the age of protection a bill to protect the first day of the week in the District of Colum­ for girls to 18 years in the District of Columbia and the Territories; bia-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. which was ordered to lie on the table. · Also, petition of the Young People~s Christian Union of the He also presented a petition of the Young People's Christian Universalist Church of the State of New York, to forbid inter­ Union of the Universalist Church of the State of New York, pray­ state transmission of kinetoscope reproductions of prize fights, ing for the enactment of legislation to suhstitute voluntary arbi­ etc.-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. tration for .railway strikes; which was referred to the Committee By Mr. YOUNG: Petition of the Geographic..'l>l Society of Phil­ on Education and Labor. adelphia, Pa., in favor of the construction of the Nicaragua Canal He also presented a petition of the Young People's Christian under the auspices of the Government-to the Committee on Union of the Universalist Church of the State of New York, pray­ Interstate and FOTeign Commerce. ing for the enactment of legislation to prohibit interstate gambling Also, resolution of the Master Builders' Exchange, of Philadel­ by telegraph, telephone, or otherwise; which was referred to the phia, Pa., for the protection of shipping under the American flag­ Committee on the Judiciary. _ to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. He also presented a petition of the Young People's Christian Union of the Universalist Church of the State of New York, pray­ ing for the enactment of legislation to prohibit the reproduction SEN.ATE. of prize fights in the District of Columbia and the Territories, TUESDAY, December 13, 1898. and the interstate transmission of ·devices for the s~me; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. H. MILBURN, D. D. He also presented a petition of the Young People's Christian JoHN W. DANIEL, a Senator fi·om the State of Virginia, appeared Union of the Univers-alist Church of the State of New York, pray­ in his seat to-day. - ing for the enactment of legislation to prohibit the transmission The Journal of yesterday's. proceedings was read and approved. by mail or interstate commerce of pictures or descriptions of prize DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION ESTIMATES. fights; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica­ He also presented petitions of the congregation of the Baptist tion from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from Church of Reeds Corners, of the Woman's Christian Temperance the Secretary of War, of the lOth instant, submitting supple­ Union of Port Byron, of the Young People's Society of Christian mental estimates of app1·opriation for the six months ending June Endeavor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Buffalo, of the 30, 1899, for equipment of engineer troops, 830,000, and for civil­ Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Ellenyille, of theYoung ian assistants to engineer officers, 830,000; and requesting that People's Christian Union of the Universalist Church, and of sun­ these estimates be included in the urgent deficiency appropria­ dry citizens of Fairport and Rockport, all in the State of New tion bill; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to York, praying for the enactment of legislation to prohibit the the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. sale of liquor in canteens of the Army and Navy and of Soldiers' Homes, and in immigrant stations and Government buildings; MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. which were referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. H. L. Mr. HARRIS presented a petition of Di~sion No. 161, Order of OvERSTREET, one of its clerks, announced that the House had Railway Conductors, of Parsons, Kans.,· praying for the passage passed with an amendment the bill (S. 4717) authorizing the use of the anti-scalping ticket bill; which was referred to the Commit­ of typewriting machines for the recording of deeds and other in­ tee on Commerce. struments in writing in the office of the recorder of deeds of the Mr. COCKRELL presented a petition of the board of directors District of Columbia in which it requested the concurrence of the of the Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis, Mo., praying for the Senate. enactme?t of legisJation authorizing the St. Louis: Tecumseh, The message also announced that the House had passed with and Lexmgton Rrulway Company to construct and operate rail­ amendments the bill (S. 3941) regulating the inspection of flour in ways through the Territory of Oklahoma, and for other purposes; the District of Columbia in which it requested the concurrence which was referred to the Committee on Territories. · of the Senate. He also presented a petition of the board of directors of the ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. Board of Trade of Kansas City, :Mo., praying for the enactment The message further announced that the Speaker of the House of legislation restoring to the United States the ocean carrying had signed the following enrolled bills; and they were thereupon trade in vessels sailing under the American flag; which was re­ signed by the Vice-President: ferred to the Committee on Commerce. A bill (H. R. 1045) granting a pension to Mary A. Caulfield; He also presented a petition of sundJ:y citizens of Kansas City, A bHl (H. R. 2869) granting a pension to Eliza J. Mead; Mo., and a petition of the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal A bill {H. R. 4200) granting an increase of pension to Ellen Stack; Church of Kansas City, Mo., praying for the enactment of legis­ A bill (H. R. 4668) granting a pension to Maggie Morris; lation to prohibit the sale of liquor in canteens of the Army and A bill (H. R. 4'741) granting a pension to Lucy Nichols; Navy and of Soldiers' Homes, and in immigrant stations and Gov­ A bill (H. R. 5746) granting a pension to Elizabeth D. Pittman; ernment buildings; which were referred to the Committee on A bill (H. R. 6076) to increase the pension of Thomas B. Ham- Military Affairs. mond; He also presented a petition of the Commercial Club of Kansas A till (H. R. G944) to pension John F. Gates; City, Mo., praying for the immediate construction of the Nicara­ A bill (H. R. 7230) granting a pension to Mary Paul; gua Canal by the Government, and also for the enactment of A bill (H. R . 7257) granting a pension to Rachel T. Abbott; legislation providing for the establishment of an International A bill (H. R. 7293) granting a pension to Della E. Spaulding; American Bank; which was ordered to lie on the table. 136 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DEOE~IBER 13,

He also presented a petition of the board of directors of the He also presented a petition of the Commercial Club of Omaha, Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis, 1Ylo., praying for the construc­ Nebr., praying for the enactment of legislation providing more tion of tbe Nicaragua Canal by the Government, and also for the liberal and extensive parcels post facilities and advantages, both enactment of legislation to remove the burden placed upon the domestic and foreign; which was referred to the Commitooe on exchanges of the country by the war-revenue tax law; which was Post-Offices and Post-Roads. ·ordered to lie on the table. He also presented a petition of Federal Union, No. 6332, Ameri­ Mr. TURLEY presented the petition of J. A. Myers and sundry can Fe~eration of Labor, of Lincoln, Nebr., praying that copies other citizens of Lincoln County, Tenn., praying -for the enact­ be furmshed them of all correspondence in connection with the ment of legislation to prohibit the sale of liquor in canteens of the case of George Dagget, late a substitute letter carrier in the post­ Army and Navy and of Soldiers' Homes and in immigrant sta­ officfl at that city; which was referred to the Committ-ee on Civil tions and Government buildings; which was referred to the Com­ Service and Retrenchment. - mittee on Military Affairs. He also presented a petition of the Association of County Com­ He also presented the petition of J. A. Myers and sundry other miss~oners and County Supervisors of the State of Nebraska,· citizens of Lincoln County, Tenn., praying for the en~ctment of praymg for the enactment of le¢slation providing for the con­ legislation to prohibit the transmission by mail or interstate com­ struction of a national highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific merce of pictures or descriptions of prize fights; which was re­ oceans; which was referred to the Committee on Railroads. ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Mr. TURPIE presented a petition of the commercial clubs of Mr. S.HOUP, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was the cities of New Albany and Jeffersonville, in the State of Indi­ referred the bill (S. 477G) granting a pension to Flora Stanton ana, praying for the establishment of a permanent military post Kalk, reported it without amendment, and submitted a report on the Indiana side of the Ohio Riv.er near those two cities; which thereon. · - was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. GALLINGER, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom Mr. BERRY presented the petition of William H. H. Oyler and was referred the bill (S. 48i5) granting an increase of pension to sundry other citizens of Stone County, Ark., praying for the en­ George H. Lamport, reported it without amendment, and sub­ actment of legislation changing the present homestead laws so mitted a report thereon. that lands not fit for homestead purposes, or lands that can not be He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the taken up under the homestead laws, etc., may be resto1·ed to cash bill (S. 1245) granting a pension to George W. Emery, reported entry; which was referred to the Committee on Public-Lands: it with amendments, and submitted a report thereon. Mr. SMITH presented resolutions adopted at a meeting of the Druggists' Association of Jersey City, N.J., October 18,1898, pray­ ELEAZER SMITH. ing for the repeal of Schedule B of the war-revenue tax law; which Mr. GALLINGER. I am directed by the Committee on Pen­ were referred to the Committee on Finance. sions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4871) granting an in­ Mr. HOAR presented the memorials of Henry G. Pickering an

and amend the provisions of a· supplemental act approved Febru- approval of the President of the United States, is authorized to contract with res.ronsihle parties, who shall be citizens of the United States, for the con­ . ary 15, 1897, entitled "An act to extend and amend an act entitled struction, completion, and equipment of the Nicaragua Canal within a period 'An act to grant the right of way to the Kansas, Oklahoma Cen­ of six years from the date of this act, and all work on said canal, and all ma­ tral and Southwestern Railway Company through the Indian terial used in the construction. shall be subject to the immediate and continu­ ous inspection. supervision, and approval of the engineers, as provided by this Territory and Oklahoma Territory, and fo'r other purposes;'" act, and said Nicaragua Canal is to be constructed, completed, and eqmpped ·which was read twice by its title,and referredtotheCommitteeon for the use and navigation of the largest sea-going vessels, at a cost not to ex­ -Territories. ceed the estimate of the engineers, and not to exceed Sll5,000,000, and the said sum of $115,000,000 is hereby appropriated as a permanent appropriation out Mr. FAIRBANKS introduced a bill (S. 4984) granting a pension of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the same is to be to Mary Longley Hendricks; which was read twice by its title, expended in the manner following: The board of directors, at the commence­ and referred to the Committee on Pensions. ment of the work, and quarterly thereafter, shall file with t.he Secretary of the He also introduced a bill (S. 4985) granting a pension to George Treasury a statement of the work necessary to be done and the expenses nec- White; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accom­ :~~h!~ ~~~~Y:!~~\~ea~:~f~it~~~itfet~~~~;: :~~t~ftft! ~~~zfd panying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. · payable thereon, together with all other or extraordinary expenses necessary 4986) to be incurred by said board during said quarterly period, and on his exami­ Mr. SIMON introduced a bill (S. granting a pension to nation and approval of said statement the Secretary of the Treasury shall William Hayes Silsby; which was read twice by its title, and _issue a warrant upon Treasury of United States to the said board of di­ referred to the Committee on Pensions. rectors for the amount so approved by him, and .this section shall apply to Mr. PETTIGREW introduced a bill (S. 4987) to reimburse cer­ any contract that is made' for the construction of the entire canal, or any part thereof, or any contract work connected with said canal, or any rail­ tain Lower Brule Siou~ Indians of Sou,th :Qakota for property road. telegraph, telephone, or other facility to be used in constructing said destroyed; which was read twice by its title, and, with the ac­ canal, or in forming or deepenin~ the harborR connected therewith. For the companying papers, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. security of the relfaymeut by said company of said moneys so a-dvanced and interest thereon by the United States to the said board of directors, a lien is Mr. NELSON introduced a bill (S. 4988) to increase the pension hereby declared in favor of the United States of America upon all the of Ellen Spalding; which was read twice by its title, and referred property, real, personal, and mixed, and upon all the rights, franchises, to the Committee on Pensions. easements, privileges, rents, and tolls, and interests of every description be­ longing to the Maritime Canal Company of Nicara~ua, and appurtenant to Mr. TURNER introduced a bill (S. 4989) for the payment to said canal or connected therewith, whether in actiOn or possession, and in Joshua T. Roberts of balance due for surveying public lands; default of the payment of the principal and interest of said moneys by such which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee time as the President of the United States shall determine that they ought on Public Lands. - to be paid by said company, he, the President, is -fully empowered to declare the forfeiture of said property to the United ~tates without the necessity of Mr. TURPIE introduced a bill (S. 4990) granting an inCI'ease of a judicial or other ascertainment of such forfeiture, and thereupon the full pension to Jehu D. Martin; which was read twice by its title, and, and complete title of said company to all such property, rights, privileges, rents. tolls, or franchises shall rest absolutely in the United States, and the with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on President shall cause the same t-o be taken iuto possession for the benefit of Pensions. the Government. And the President of the Umted States is hereby author­ Mr. TELLER introduced a bill (S. 4991) granting to the city ized at any time to suspend or to decline the payment, in whole or in part, - of Boulder, in the State of Colorado, certain lands for park pur­ of any of the quarterly sums or estimates herein provided for." - Amend the committee amendment substituted for section 3 of the bill, of· poses, and for the preservation·of the native trees on said lands; fered on December 7,1898, as follows: In line 6, on page 1, after the word which was read twice by its title. "subscribed," insert the words "paid for or partially paid for;" after the Mr. TEJJLER. I also present a memorial of the mayor and word "outstanding," in the same line, insert the words "which has ~n paid for, or partially paid for;" after the word" satisfaction," in line 3, on city_council of the city of Boulder, addressed to myself, my col­ page 2, insert the words ·• and persons who have partially paid upon said . league in the_Senate [1\_fr. WoLCOTT], and my colleagues in the stock subscription shall be considered as entitled to relief under this section House. I move that the memorial be referred with the bill to the to the extent of the partial cash payments, respectively;" after the word "thereof," in line 9, on page t of said amendment-, insert the words "war· ·.committee ori Public Lands. rants of the '.rreasury of the United States, which the Secretary of the 'l.'reas­ · The motion was agreed to. ury is hereby authorized to cause to be issued to an amount not exceeding, Mr. PETTIGREW introduced a bill (S. 4992) granting a pension at their par value, the sum of £5,000,000, which said amount, in such case, shall be fixed and determined by three commissioners by principles of justice and to Peter Lync:Il; w4ich was read twice by its title, and, with the equity, so as to provide a fair compensation of the rights, privileges, and accompanying papers,-referred to the Committee on Pensimis. franchises now owned by the said company, and the reimbursement of all Mr. SHOUP introduced a bill (S. 4993) authorizing tho President expenses made heretofore by the said company in the construction of the topominate Brig. Gen. Thaddeus H. Stanton to be a m·ajor-general canal,-or in any way incident thereto." Amend line 4 of page 3 by striking out the words "by an amount of said guaranteed bonds" and inserting~· an in the United States Army and to place him on the retired list amount of said warrants so authorized as aforesaid." . with .the rank and pay of that grade; whic,h was read twice by its Amend section 5, of the bill, by striking out the words "for'cause," in line title, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. - 10, and inserting after the word "States" in line 10, the following: "Such directors shall be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Sen­ Jr:Ir. BACON introduced a bill (S. 4994) to authorize the con­ ate, and no two of the-same shall be residents of the same State, Territory, struction of a bridge across the Savannah River from the main­ or District of the United States, nor shall either of the said directors have land of Chatham County, Ga., to Hutchinsons Island, in said been connected heretofore with the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, either as directors. officers, or employees thereof." county; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Amend section 8, of said bill, by striking out the word" seven," before" hun­ Committee on Commerce. dred," in line 1, page 8, and inserting the word "nine;" and insert the words Mr ~ ALLEN in~roduced a bill (S. 4995) granting an increase of "and twenty-five," after the word "hundred," in line 2; and strike ont in line pension to Robert Morap; which was read twice l>y its title, and, 8, page 8, of Raid section, the words "the guarantee by the United States of the bonds of said company," and insert in lieu thereof, after the word "con­ with. the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on sideration," the words "of the Treasury warrants hereinafter." PensiOns. He also introd:uced a bill (S. 4996) granting a pension to James Mr. BERRY. Mr. President, if I may be permitted to say only Thompson; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the a very few words, I will state that the object of the amendment Committee on Pensions. is to eliminate the bonds autho-rized in the original bill to be issued He also introduced a bill (S. 4997) granting a pension to William by the Maritime Canal Company, and which, according to the B. Parsons; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accom­ original bill, would be guaranteed by the United States. Instead panying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. of those bonds the proposition is to make directly from the Treas­ Mr. THURSTON introduced a bill (S. 4998) granting a pension ury an appropriation of the money necessary to build the canal. to Ann E. Tillson; which was read twice by its title, and, with Yesterday evening, in answer to a question from the Senator from the accompanying papers, refen-ed to the Committee on Pensions. Texas (Mr. CHILTON], the Senator from Alabama rMr. MORGAN) Mr. COCKRELL introduced a joint resolution (S. R. 201) for indicated that he is favorable to such an amenament. I have the relief of Charles W. Hazeltine; which was read twice by its sought to place it in language that would cover the idea advanced title. by the Senator from Texas, and to which the Senator from Ala­ ·Mr. COCKRELL. I present a statement of Charles W. Hazel­ bama said he would have no objection. tine, and ask that it may be printed as a document to accompany There is one other change of importance proposed. According the bill and that both the bill and statement be referred to the to the original bill there is $22,500,000 of this stock to be turned Committee on Naval Affairs. over and held by that company, to be sold thereafter for the con­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. It will be so ordered. struction. I strike that out, and instead of the United States being THE NICARAGUA CANAL. entitled to take $70,000,000 of the stock, they take $92,500,000, the Mr. BERRY. I ask leaveto present at this time certain amend­ entire stock to be owned by the United States, except the $7,500,000 ments to the unfinished business, being the bill (S. 4792) to amend reserved .for Costa Rica and Nicaragua. an act entitled ".An act to incorporate the Maritime Canal Com­ Those are the principal changes involved in the amendments. pany of Nicaragua," approved February 20,1889, and to aid in the There are some amendments about the residence of the directors construction of the Nicaragua Canal. I ask to have the amend­ to be appointed. Of course the amendments were drafted some­ ments printed, and I shall offer them at the proper time. what hm·riedly. Whether they cover all the points intended fully The VICE-PRESIDENT. It will be so ordered. and clearly will be dete!'mined when they come up for discussion. Mr. MORGAN. Let the amendments be read at the desk. But I repeat that the main purpose of the amendments is to give Mr. BERRY. Let them be read. all the stock in the company to the Government of the United The Secretary read the amendments, as follows: States except the amount reserved for Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Strike out sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, and 17 and insert t.he following: and the further proposition is that instead of the company issuing "Th:At the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, with the consent and bonds to be guaranteed by the United States the money is to be 138 CONGRESSIONAL · RECORD- SENATE. DEOE!ffiER 13,

appropriated and taken directly from the Treasury of the United the State of New Hampshire is also in the city, and I make a States. similar request in his behalf. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The amendments will be printed. The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the request? Mr. .RAWLINS. I submit an amendment intended to be pro­ The Chair hears none, and the order is made. posed by me to the Nicaragua Canal bill, whlch I ask to be read, and ordered to be printed and to lie on the table. .ATLANTIC WORKS, OF BOSTON, lUA.SS. The amendment was read, and ordered to lie on the table and to 1\Ir. HOAR. I desire to call the attention of the Senator from be printed, as follows: Vermont fMr. 1\IoRRII,L]. During the present session I intro~ Amendment proposed by Mr. RAWLINS to the bill (S. 4792) to amend the act duced a bill (S. 4937) for the relief of the Atlantic Works, of Bos~ entitled "An act to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicara· ton, Mass., and it was inadvertently referred to the Committee on gua," approved February 20, 1889, and to aid in the construction of the Finance, when all that class of bills belongs to the Committee on Nica.ragna Canal. Claims. There have been a great many reports on the same class Insert at the end of the bill, as a separat~ section, the following: "That this act shall not take e1Iect until the Government of the United of cases. I move that the Committee on Finance be discharged States shall have secured by convention with the Governments of Costa Rica from the further consideration of the bill and that it be referred and Nicaragua. and with other governments with which the United States to the Committee on Claims. I suppose, probably, the matter will may ha>e treaties inconsistent therewith, the right to fortify and garrison the proposed canal and to maintain armed vessels therein or upon Lake Nica­ hardly get much attention at the present session. I'agua, and to move military forces through the territory of either of said The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the change of States for the purpose of protecting the canal and the citizens of the United reference suggested by the Senator from Massachusetts? The States operating the same; also the right of passage through the canal of the armed vessels, troops, munitions, and supJ)lies of war of the Governments Chair hears none, and the order is made. of the United State , Costa Rica, and Nicaragua in case either of said Gov­ REGULA.TIO~ OF SA.IL VESSELS. ernments is at war with any fm·eign government, with-the right to close the canal to the ships, troops, and munitions of war of such foreign government 1\Ir. GALLINGER. Some days ago I asked consideration for dnring the existence of such state of war." the conference report on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses W A. HINGTON CITY POST-OFFICE BUILDING. on the amendments of the House to the bill (S. 622) concerning Mr. VEST submitted the following resolution; which was re· sail vessels of over 700 tons. The Senator from Missouri [Mr. ferred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Ex­ CoOKRELL] asked that the report be printed. It has been printed, . penses of the Senate: and the Senator is satisfied that the report should be acted upon . Resolved by the Senate, That the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds I suggest that it has been read, and all that is now required is a be directed to inquire and report upon the following matter: vote <>n the adoption of the report. First. What has been the cause of the delay in constructing the city post­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there any objection to taking up office building in the city of Washington, authorized to be constructed by Congress seven years ago. the conference report on the bill (S. 622) conceming sail vessels of Second Whether defective or improper materials have been used in erect­ over 700 tons? The Chair hears no objection, and the question is ing said building, and if so, upon whom the responsibility rests f•Jr using such on agreeing to the conference report. materials. Third. Whether said building, or any part thereof, has been negligently or The report was agreed to. defectively constructed, and if so, by whose negligence or failure in duty. SUPREME COURT JlUILDING. Fourth. Whether there has been extravagance and waste of the public money in the erection of eaid building, and if so, who is responsible therefor. Mr. MORRILL. Mr. President, a week ago to-day I gave notice Fifth. What has been the cost of the site and building, and whether addi­ that I would call up this morning the bill (S. 1876) authorizing tional expense must be incurred in the alteration of said building or any part the purchase of a site for a building for the accommodation of the of the same. Sixth. What system of construction has been adopted in erecting said Supreme Court of the United States. I now ask leave, if there is buildin~. and whether the defects, if any, are caused by the methods of the no further morning business, to call up that bill for consideration. SuperVIsing Architect's Bureau of the Treasury Department in erecting The VICE-PRESIDENT. At the request of the Senator from public buildings, and if so, what legislation is necessary to correct such methods and to render said Bureau more efficient. Vermont, unless there is objection, the Chair lays before the Sen­ Said committee may conduct its investigation through a subcommittee, ate Senate bill 1876. which shall have power to send for persons and papers and to administer There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the oaths to persons brought before it to testify. The committee may employ a stenographer, and the expenses of the investigation shall be paid from the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill, which was read. contingent-expense funds of the Senate. The committee shall report by bill 1\Ir. MORRILL. Mr. President, the recent gas explosion and or .otherwise. fire in that portion of the Capitol occupied by the Supreme Court PURCHASE OF NA.V.AL VESSELS, ETC. and the law library sternly indicates the propriety of promptly Mr. VEST submitted the following resolution; which was re­ providing elsewhere a more appropriate home and accommoda­ ferred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent tions for the Supreme Court, that rather neglected coordinate Expenses of the Senate: branchoftheUnitedStates Government. Congress, having some Whereas charges have been made in the public press, over the signatures years ago enlarged and improved the building for its own use of responsible parties, that improper and corrupt means have been used to and occupation, can well afford to give some attention to the secure contracts from the Government for the purchase of vessels for the Navy and for the furnishing clothing and other necessary articles for the comfort and dignity of our judicial tribunal, whose character Army of the United States during the warwithSpainat excessive and exorbi­ and special learning may fairly be claimed to stand among similar tant prices: Therefore, be it tribunals unrivaled in the hlstory of the world. In the early part Resolved by the Senate, That a special committee, to consist of five Senators, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, shall be created, who shall of the career of the American Republic the Supreme Court doubt­ make inquiry as to the truth of all such charges and make report to the Sen­ less contributed to its success by its aid jn the solution of some per­ ate. Said committee shall have power to summon witnesses and enforce plexing constitutional problems, not only by its firm and patriotic their attendance, to administer oaths to all such witnesses, and to employ a statesmanship, but by its thorough and ample judicial knowledge. stenographer, the expenses of the committee to be paid out of the contingent funds of the Senate. This bill introduced by me has twice passed the Senate unani­ Mr. VEST. These are substantially the same as the resolutions mously, the first time on June 6, 1888, and again April22, 1890, as I have heretofore offered, the only change made being from a joint I hope it will pass to-day. Since then it has had the approval of to a Senate resolution. the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of every Con­ gress, but it has been thought w~ll not to urge its passage until NATIONAL FISHERY CONGRESS. the completion of the library and the city post-office. Happily lYir. PASCO submitted the following concurrent resolution; no other Government buildings are now in the way. The bill which was referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to has received thorough and careful revision and will protect the be printed: interests of the United States, as well as the just rights of the Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concut'1'ing), That there land owners. be printed 3,000 copies of the proceedings and papers of the National Fishery The bill covers a like amount of ground on the east front'Of the Congress held at Tampa, Fla., January 19-2!, 1 93, as contained in the Bulle· tin of the United States Fish Commission, volume 17, for 1897 (Document No. Senate corresponding to that occupied by the Library on the east 561, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session), of which 500 shall be for the use of front of tile House of Representatives. The large avenue and the Senate,1,000 for the use of the House of Representatives, and 1,500for the street running through the squares to be taken, of course, will cost use of the Fish Commission. nothing. .ADMISSION TO THE FLOOR. Nearly all of the present owners of the land described in this Mr. HOAR. Mr. President, I desire to say that the governor­ bill have with much earnestness petitioned Congress to put the elect of the State of Colorado is present in the Capitol. While he question of its purchase at rest. by a final decision in favor or does not come strictly within the letter of the rule of admission to against taking the land for public use, which now appears, like the floor of the Senate, he comes within the spirit of it, and the rule Mahomet's coffin, to hang suspended between heaven and earth, in the past, I am informed, has been so construed as to admit a and, as the owners say, can neither be sold nor rented. gm-ernor-elect to the privileges of the floor. I ask unanimous con­ Formerly the land here under consideration was appraised at a sent that the governor-elect of Colorado may have the privilege of little more than that taken for the Library, or between five and six the floor. hundred thousand dollars. The ground is so obviously indispensa~ The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the request of ble to complete the symmetry of the grounds on the eastern front the Senator from Massachusetts? The Chair hears none, and it is of the Capitol that no Senator would deny that its ultimate acquisi­ so ordered. tion is, as I have once before said, as fixed as Milton's "fate, free­ Mr. GALLINGER. I wish to state that the governor-elect of will, and foreknowledge absolute." How fortunate are we that 1898. CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-=-SENATE. .139 the grounds will also be so appropriate and altogether admirable ing, which is now occupied as an opera house, was for sale that as the site of our Temple of Justice! it should be purchased by the Government so as to extend our This bill is only for the acquirement of ground actually essential ownership to the alley between the Cameron property and the to the beauty and equal proportions of the grounds on the east Blaine building. Congress thought proper to defeat that purchase. front of the Capitol, upon which, however, it is also proposed that But there is still ample area for the construction of a building a proper building shall hereafter be placed for the Supreme Court, large enough to accommodate the Supreme Court immediately not one of great extravagance, yet necessarily a large, convenient, contiguous to the White House, to the Departments, and to the and elegant stl·ucture, as the United States can hardly afford to business portion of the city. build any other, certainly not for the Supreme Court. I do not think the purchase of this large extent of ground upon It is probable that Congress will decide to have the United Capitol.Hill at the present time is necessary. I have an old­ States Court of Claims and the District court of appeals suitably fashioned idea that a representative of the people should conduct proviqed for in the same building. the public business with the same economical and prudent care Among other needful rooms will be a room for the Attorney­ that he would conduct his own. General, a robing room, the rooms of the clerk; the marshal, the We have owned the property upon which the Attorney-General's reporter, and the Solicitor-General, and a room for the general Office is located for eighteen years. It was bought from the use of attorneys. · Freedman's Bank, being all of the assets of that institution that The law library should a1so be considerably larger than the were left. At the instance of the late ex-Senator Bruce, of Missis­ present one, as the Supreme Court Reports, with the accretions sippi, a bill was passed by which we purchased that ground for f1·om the circuit and district courts and the additions from State 250,000, and the Senator from Vermont [Mr. MoRRILL] and courts, as well as what may be received from judicial tribunals myself labored earnestly to effect that transaction. It was the abroad, will bring together ere many years a great law library of best purchase the Government of the United States has ever made rare value. in real estate. It is by aU odds the best lot in the city of Wash­ A fine ball should also find a place in this buHding for the use ington, withoutexception: but it lies there to-day vacant, although of international commissions, for which we have much and fre­ the Attorney-General under Cleveland's first Administration, Mr. quent use. Garland, repeatedly urged upon Congress the purchase of the The room now in use by the Supreme Court is hardly large ground, together with the Blaine building, and the erection of a enough; for instance, whenever an important case is on trial, suitable building thereon for the accommodation of the Supreme where eminent attorneys are expected to appear, it frequently hap­ Court. pens that several members of the House of Representatives, and Mr. President, I have felt it a duty to myself to make this state­ of the Senate, desire to be present, but find they should have gone ment. I shall not antagonize the consideration of this measure. earlier, as all the seats are in the possession of other spectators. I have served upon the Committee on Public Buildings and In 1789 the Supreme Court was organized, with a Chief Justice Grounds for nearly twenty years-within a few months of twenty and five associate justices, any four of whom were to be a quorum. years-with the Senator from Vermont. I know the fidelity, the In 1807 a sixth associate was authorized. In 1837 the associate earnest, patriotic fidelity, with which he has discharged his duties justices were increased to eight, and in 1863 to nine, but in 1866 the as a member of that committee. number was reduced to six. There is great force in what he says about erecting a building In 1869 the court was made to consist of the Chief Justice and which will complete the architectural symmetry, if I may so ex­ eight associate justices, any six of whom were to constitute a press it, of the Government ownership upon. Capitol Hill, but quorum. This statute is still in force. what are we to do with this expensive and valuable property we · It is sufficient to say that among the great historic names of our now own and have paid for in the central portion of the city? It country this court has been honored by its full share. is vacant, it is appropriate for the purpose which is contemplated As the years go by there is a general concurrence on the part by this bill; and I have felt constrained, with these convictions, of the American people that the present site of the capital of the to say what I have. Republic, chosen by our forefathers when they had the pick from Mr. MORRILL. Mr. President, I regret that the distinguished a whole continent, was most happily selocted. Its genial and Senator from Missouri should at this late hom· show some oppo­ healthy climate never forfeits its high reputation. The plan of sition to this bill. I am sure that I never discovered his opposi-• W ashington grows in favor as the city grows older and larger. tion until last year, and we have heretofore had the advantage of The chief blunder which can be justly charged against our prede­ the Senator's suggestions in the way of perfecting the bill, which, cessors is that they have persistently underestimated the dimen­ of course, are always valuable. sions required for nearly every public building here erected. The In relation to the need of the General Government for this tract rapid growth of the country from 13 to 45 States (and how many of land, the Senator from Missouri may be sure that for any land more now in the womb of time no one can tell), having a corre­ we now own there will be a legitimate and immediate demand in sponding enlargement of business and representation in Congress, the near future. At the present time the -Attorney-General's is the abounding evidence of this growth and shows why both Office is located there, and we are to very soon find quarters either the House of Representatives and Senate have so long suffered for the Patent Office or for the Interior Department. So theTe is from a shortage of committee rooms. Eleven committees of the no question but that there will be a demand for any land we now Senate occupy rooms at the Maltby House. Sixty-six members have. · render services there-that is to say, whenever the attendance I must say that while this bill bas been under consideration for there of a quorum can be secm,·ed. nearly ten years and has twice passed after discussion, the Sena~ Congress imperatively requires every foot of room in the Capitol, tor from :Missouri did not appear as an objector. I have conversed, yet does not no~ propose the removal of the Supreme Court, but I suppose, with nearly every member of the Senate, certainly with will first provide more comfortableandattractive accommodations. a very large number of Senators, and I have never yet found a sin­ and then invite the Chief Justice and associates to take possession, gle Senator who was not ready to say he would support the bill. It may take several years for its completion, and the sooner it is I have no fear of its rejection, Mr. President, and I ask for a vote. begun the better. 1\Ir. COCKRELL. Mr. President, we have all had some expe­ The elevation upon which the Capitol stands, while not high, rience in regard to the cost of land when condemned by juries, a adds immensely to its dignity, and with the Library and Supreme glaring instance of which occurred in condemning some land down Court buildings situated not far apart thereon, they will form a on the Potomac, which we could have bought at SlOan acre, but harmonious group of large public structures on Capitol Hill of when we had it condemned we had to pay about $50 an acre for it. unequaled grandeur, and will be appreciated by the American Section 4 of this hill provides: people forever. That if the Secretary of the Interior shall be unable to purchase the whole The VICE-PRESIDENT. Does the Senator desire action upon of said land by agreement with the respective owners- the bill at this time? The previous section giving authority to purchase, which is a Mr. MORRILL. I ask for a vote. very wise and judicious provision, because he may be able to pur­ Mr. VEST. Mr. President, my personal regard and reverence chase the land; but this provision says: for the Senator from Vermont make it excessively disagreeable to That if the Secretary of the Interior shall be unable to purchase the whole of said land by agreement with the respective owners within thirty days me to object to anything he asks. after the passage of this act, he shall, at the expiration of such period of thirty A bill similar in its provisions to the one now pending has passed days, make application to the supreme court of the District of Columbia- the Senate twice, and whilst I entertained the same opinions I For condemnation. shall now express briefly at the time of the passage of that measure, I do not think thirty days is sufficient time to enable him tone~ to be entirely frank, I did not think that the bill could pass the gotiate properly. It is equivalent to simply sayingto him, "You coordinate branch of the Legislature, and therefore made no de­ will have to go into court." I think he ought to have at least cided objection to it. ninety days, if not one hundred and twenty days, to negotiate with I have always entertained the opinion, when this question has the owners of the land before he is compelled to institute proceed­ been before Congress as to the erection of a building for a Supreme ings in court. Court, that we ought to v.tilize the property we now own oppo­ I suggest to the Senator in charge of the bill that additional time site Lafayette Square and upon which is located the Attorney­ be allowed, so as to give the Secretary time to negotiate and deter­ General's Office. I urged upon the Senate when the Blaine build- mine. That will give him time to ascertain as to the title of the 140 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMB~R 13, .

property. He is not allowed to purchase this property until the was, in section 1, line 10, after the word "company," to insert Attorney-General has certified to the correctness of the title, and "and approved by the Secretary of War;'' was to make the sec· that can not be done in thirty days. Yon might just as well say tion read: that yon will have no negotiation as to keep in the bill the limita­ That the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad Company, a corporation created tion of thirty days. and existing by virtue of the law of the State of Arkan sas, its successors and If assigns, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct and maintain bridges across Mr. MORRILL. it will suit the Senator from Missouri and the Arkansas River and such other navigable rivers in the State of Arkansas the Senate, I have no objection to making the time sixty days, but as may be necessary for the crossing of said rivers with its railroad line at I wish to say to the Senator that the matter will be greatly facili­ such points as may be selected by the said railroad company and ap:proved tated in consequence of the offers of all persons interested in this by the Secretary of War. Said bridges shall be constructed to proVIde for the passage of railroad trains, and, at the option of said railroad c.ompany by property ten years ago to sell it for a given sum; and most of them which they may be built, may be used for the passage of wagons and vehicles say to-day that the land is worth no more than it was then. of all kinds, for the transit of animals, and for foot passengers, for such rea­ Mr. COCKRELL. But the Senator knows that when parties sonable rates of t.oll as may be fixed by the said railroad company and ap· come to negotiate it is very easy to change the price. The limit proved by the Secretary of War. should not be less than ninety days. The amendment was agreed to. ' Mr~ MORRILL. Sixty days, 1 think, will be enough. The next amendment was, in section 3, line 15, after the word Mr. COCKRELL. Sixty days would not give time enough to "thereto," to strike out" and." negotiate with the parties and pass upon the title to the property. The amendment was agreed to. There are a great many lots, and the Secretary of the Interior could The next amendment was, in section 4, line 24, before the word not inside of sixty days confer with thirty or forty different per­ " bridges," to strike out " and" and insert " all; " in line 1, on page sons if he had to do nothing else. 3, after the words "navigation of," to strike out "said river'' and Mr. MORRILL. I have so much confidence in the Senators from insert "the river over which they may be built;" in line 5, after Missouri that I have no objection to accepting an amendment of­ the word'' bridges," to insert ''and maps of locations selected;" fered by either of them. I will therefore accept the amendment in the same line,aftertheword "plans,"toinsert "and locations;" of the Senator making the limit ninety days. in line 8,after the word" bridges," to insert''oranyoneof them;" Mr. COCKRELL. Then I move to amend, in section 4, line 25, and in line 10, after the word "bridges," to insert "or any one of before the word " days," by striking out "thirty" and inserting them;" so as to make the section read: "ninety;.: and I also move the same amendment in line 1, at the SEc. 4:. That all bridges authorized to be constructed unoer this act !'Wall be built under and subject to such regulations for the security of the naviga­ top of page 3, and the same amendment in line 24, on page 3. tion of the river o>er which they may be built as the Secretary of War shall The ·VICE-PRESIDENT. The amendment proposed by the prescribe, and to secure that object the said company or corporation shall sub· Senator from Missouri will be stated. mit to the Secretary of War for his examination and a_pproval designs and drawings of the bridges and maps of locations selected; and until the said The SECRETARY. In section 4, line 25, page 2, before the word plans and locations are av.proved by the Secretary of War the bridges shall "days," it is proposed to strike out "thirty" and insert" ninety;" not be commenced or built; and should any changes be made in tbe plans of on page 3, at the end of line 1, before the word "days," to strike said bridges or any one of them during the progr ess of constru0tion, such changes shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, and all out "thirty" and insert "ninety;" and in line 24, on page 3, be­ changes in said bridges or any one of them required by the Secretary of War fore the word "days " to strike out " thirty" and insert "ninetv·" at any time, or their entire removal, shall be at the expense of the corpora­ so as to make the se~tion read: - ' tions or p ersons owning or operating said bridges. SEC. 4. That if the Secretary of the Interior shall be unable to purchase The amendment was agreed to: the whole of said l~nd by agreement with the respective owners within The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend- ninety days after the passage of this act, he shall, at the expiration of such period of ninety days, make application to the supreme court of the District ments were concurred in. . of Columbia, at a general or special term, by petition containing a particular The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading,·read the description of the property required, with the name of the owner or owners third time, and passed. thereof, and his, her, or their residence, as far as the same can be ascer­ tained, which court is hereby authorized and required, upon such applica­ BOOK TYPEWRITERS. tiou, without delay, to appoint five commissioners, freeholders of the District of Columbia, who shall, before entering upon their duties, take-and subscribe The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the amendments an oath, before some officer in the District of Columbia authorized to admin­ of the House of Representatives to the bill (S. 4717) authorizing ister oaths, that they are entirely disinterested in the purchase or sale of the use of typewriting machines for the recording of deeds and • said real estate, and that they will well and truly discharge their duties as such commissioners; and they shall then proceed to make a just and other instruments of writing in the office of the recorder of deeds equitable appraisement of the cash value of the several interests of each and of the District of Columbia, which were, on page 1, line 7, after every owner of the real estate and improvements thereon necessary to be the word "machines," to strike out down to and including the taken for the public use in accordance with the provisions of this act, which appraisement shall be subject to ratification by said court; and when the word "them," in line 10, and insert" to be paid for as appropria~ question of ratification is considered by the court both the United States and tions may be made from time to time;" and on page 1, line 11, to the owner of the land shall have tbe right to introduce testimony as to the strike out "required" and insert.'; entitled." · value of the property and to be heard by counsel or otherwise; and if at the expiration of ninety days after the passage of this act said court shall not be Mr. McMILLAN. I move that the Senate concur in the amend­ in session in general or special t.erm, a special term shall be held, commencing ments of the House of Representatives. on the day next thereafter, for the purpose of making the appraisement and The motion was agreed to. ratification herei-n provided for: Provided, That written notice of the time and place of appraisement shall be given by said commissioners to each owner of INSPECTION OF FLOUR IN THE DISTRICT, real estate the purchase of which is contemplated by this act at least thirty days before J?.l'Oceeding to appraise the same; and in the case of a nonresident The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senatethe amendments owner a similar notice shall be given by publication in two daily newspapers of the House of Representatives to the bill (S. 3941) regulating of general circulation published in the city of Washington; and if it shall appear that any owner or party otherwise interested in any portion of said the inspection of flour in the District of Columbia, which were, oij real estate be a minor, or otherwise incapacitated, said court shall, before page 5, line 21, to strike out the word" September" and insert :proceeding to the apJ>ointment of said commi9sioners, appoint some suitable "March;" on the same page, line 22, strike out" eight" and insert :person as guardian ad litem to represent such person in all further proceed­ " nine;" and on page 8, line 5, after the word" act," to insert "and mgs in reference to such portion of said estate under this act. 1·elating exclusively to the District of Columbia." The amendment was agreed to. Mr. McMILLAN. I move that the Senate concur in the amend­ Mr. CAFFERY. I should like to inquire of the Senator. from ments of the House of Representatives. Vermont how long it has been since the site of the proposed build­ The motion was agreed to. ing for the Supreme Court was se!ected? Mr. MORRILL. It has not been selected. JOSEPH GRAHAM. Mr. CAFFERY. How long has the committee had in contem- Mr. GEAR. I ask unanimous consent for the present consid- plation the selection of this site? eration of the bill (H. R. 3056) to correct the military re~rd of Mr. MORRILL. That has been in contemplation for many Joseph Graham. years. · There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of t:Q,E) The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend: Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. It proposes to remove the ment was concurred in. charge of desertion now standing against the military record of The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read Joseph Graham, late a private in Company B, Seventeenth Regi- the third time, and passed. ment United States Infantry. ARKANSAS RIVER BRIDGES. The "!Jill was .reported to the ~ena~e without amendment, ordered to a th1rd readmg, read the third t1me, and passed. Mr. VEST. I am instructed by the Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4891) to authorize the Choctaw 1 KETTLE RIVER VALLEY RAILWAY CO:MPANY. and Memphis Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Mr. WILSON. I desire to make a favorable report from the Arkansas and other ·navigable riT"ers in the State of Arkansas, to Committee on Indian Affairs on the bill (S. 4966) granting to thfj) report it with amendments. Kettle River Valley Railway Company a right of way through Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I ask unanimous consent that that the Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington. As bill may be considered at this time. I shall be absent from the Senate in a day or two, I ask unanimous There being no objection, the Senate, as in Cotnmittee of the consent that the bill may be considered at the present time. Wholo, proceeded to consider the bill. There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the The fu·st amendment reported by the Committee on Commerce Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. 1898; Q0NGRESSIONAL · RECORD-SENATE. 141

· Mr. COCKRELL. I wish to have read the first clause, defining Mr. COCKRELL. Let the bill be read for information. the right of way. How much does it provide shall be granted? The Secretary read the bill, and, by unanimous consent. the Sen­ The Secretary read as follows: ate. as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to its consideration. That there be, and is hereby, granted to the Kettle River Valley Railway The bill was reported from the Committee on Pensions with an Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Washing­ amendment, to strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: ton, a right of way: for a railroad, to the extent of 100 feet on each side of the center line thereof;across the said Colville Indian Reservation, and also a That section 4766, Title LVII, of the Revised Statutes of the United States right of way to the extent of 100 feet on each side of the center line of any be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following addi­ branches of said line. tional provi<>o, to wit: "Provided further, That in casearesidentpensionerof II the United States shall for a period of over six months de8ert his lawful wife Mr. COCKRELL. I move to strike out "one hundred" and in­ (she being a woman of good moral character), or, if he have no lawful wife, sert '' fifty." I do not think we have ever passed a bill giving to shall desert his legitimate minor child or children under 16 years of aj:te, the Commissioner of Pensions is hereby direct ed, upon being satisfied by a railroad 200 feet through an Indian reserv~tion. competent evidence of such desertion, to cause one-half of the pension due or Mr. WILSON. It is only a hundred feet. to become due said pensioner during the continuance of such desertion to be Mr. COCKRELL. Two hundred feet this bill carries-100 feet paid to the wife, or, in case there is no wife, to the le~al guardian of the child or children; and that the entrance of the pensioner mto any State home for on each side of the main line of the roa.d., I move to strike out soldiers and sailors as an inmate thereof shall constitute prima facie evidence "one hundred'' and insert "fifty." · of desertion, unless the wife or minor child or children shall also be inmates Mr. WILSON. I accept the amendment. of the same institution or of some home provided for the wives or children of soldiers and sailors: Pt·ovidedrfU7·the?·, That if any such pensioner is or shall Mr. COCKRELL. Let the amendment be made in the differ­ become an inmate of a national Soldiers' Home three-fourths of the pension ent places wherever the words "one hundred" occur in the bill. drawn in his behalf shall be paid by the treasurer of that institution to such . The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the pensioner's wife, or, if there be no wife, to the legal gnardian of the minor amendments proposed by the Senator from Missouri. child or children, on the order of tha Com.missionet• of Pensions." The amendments were agreed to. The amendment was agreed to. . The bill was reported to the Senat-e as amended, and the ameRd­ The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend- ments were concm·red in. ~ ment was concurred in. . The bill was ordered to be engross·ed for a third reading, read The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and ·the bill to be the third time, and passed. read a third time. COMMITTEE SERVICE. The bill was read the third time, and passed. Mr. ALLISON. I wish to move to :fill certain vacancies on ROADS IN A.L.ASIU.. committees. I move that the Senato1· from Oregon [Mr. SmoN] Mr. CARTER. I desire to call attention to the joint resolution be placed upon the committees indicated on the paper which I (S. R. 65) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to gra:Q.t per­ send to the desk. I will state that Senators on the other side of mits to construct roads in Alaska, and for other purposes. Pro­ the Chamber have been consulted. vision for the construction of roads in Alaska having been embodied The Secretary read as follows: in another bill which was passed at the last session, I move the List of committees to which Senator SIMON can be assigned, vacancies hav­ indefinite postponement of the joint resolution. ing been left on these committees for Oregon: The motion was agreed.to. . .. Mines and Mining, Irrigationand Reclamation of Arid Lands, Revolution­ ary Claims, To Investigate the Condition of the Potomac River Front at THE NICA.RA.GUA. CA.NA.L. Washington, To Investigate Trespassers on Indian Lands. Mr. .MORGAN. I ask that the bill (S. 4792) to amend an act The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the entitled "An act to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company -of motion of the Senator from Iowa. Nicaragua," -approved February 20, 1889, and to aid in the con­ The motion was agreed to. struction of the Nicaragua Canal, with the amendments brought Mr. COCKRELL. Let the list of committees as they now exist in yesterday and adopted, be printed. be printed in separate form. The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the request of The VICE-PRESIDENT. That order will be made. the Senator from Alabama? The Chair hears none, and the order HOMESTEA.D SETTLERS IN FLORIDA.. is made. The Calendar under Rule VIII is in order. Mr. PASCO. I ask unanimous consent for the present consid­ Mr: COCKRELL. Regular order. eration of the bill (S. 4690) for the relief of certain homestead LIEUTENANT-GENERA.L, UNITED STATES A.RllY. settlers in Florida. The jojnt resolution ·(S; R.1.23) to revive the grade of lieatenant-. There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the general in the United States Army was announced as the first Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. It provides that any quali­ business in order on the Calendar. fied homestead claimant who was in good faith actually occupy­ Mr. COCKRELL. Let the joint resolution be pass(ld for the ing a homestead claim under the laws of the United States in the present, without prejudice. · · State of Florida in the month of September, 1896, and who was by, through, or on account of a storm which passed through the The VICE-PRESIDENT. The joint resolution will be pa~sed State dming that month driven from or compelled to leave such over. homestead, may, within one year from the passage of the proposed ALLEY IN SQUA.RE 465, IN THE DISTRICT. act, return to such homestead claim and proceed to perfect title The bill (H. R. 9068) to authorize Commissioners of District of thereto as though absence therefrom had not occurred. Columbia to extinguish alley in square 465 was considered as in Mr. COCKRELL. Let the first part of the report be read, and Committee of the Whole. also its last clause. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered The S~cretary read from the report submitted by :Mr. P A.SCO to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. June 27, 1898, as follows: BUILDING LINES IN THE DISTRICT. Tbe Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4690) for the relief of c.:lrtain homestead settlers in F1orida, have considered the The bill (H. R. 10106) to provide for the establishment of build­ snme and submit the following report -thereon: ing lines on certain streets in the District of Columbia, and .for In September. 1896, a very destructive storm passed through a large por­ tion of Florida., blowing down trees, dwelling houses, outbuildings., and other purposes, was announced as the next business in order on fences., causing injury and death to many settlers and doing other damage the Calendar. and loss. to the people :in_ the section so visited. Many homes.tead settlers Mr. ALLEN. Let the bill go over. were thus deprived-of their homes, were left without means of support, and ·were compelled to seek new homes for themselves and familiE>s. Some re­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. Objection is made, and the bill lies turned at a later time, r epaired the injury done, and reestablished their over. homes. Others we!'e unable to do so and have not com-plied with the require­ GOVERNMENT HOSPIT A.L FOR THE INSANE. ments of the laws relating to homesteads, and their rights are forfeited be­ cause of their inability to make their final proofs. The bill (S. 4626) to change the proceedings for admis!?ion to 'rhe legislature of .Florida at its last session, moved by the sad condition of these unfortunate_ people, memorialized Congress to give relief to the home­ the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for stead settlers b;v allowin~ them to purchase their homestead landsat 25 cents other purposes, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. , an acre, and thl.S memorial was referred to this committee and bas received The bill was reported from the Committee on the District of Co­ ·careful consideration. · lumbia with amendments. The first amendment was, in section 1, after the word "Colum­ The* committee~· do not favor* the special* relief *recommended by the* State legislature, uut as many of the homesteaders actually lost their homes and bia," to insert "and of independent or pay patients admitted to others were for a time compelled to vac:;. te their farms to make provision for the said hospital under section 4854: of the Revised Statutes of the their families, they are of the opinion that the relaxation of the laws in their United Stat-es;" so as to make the section read: favor, as proposed in the bill, is reasonable and proper, and it is recommended that the bill do pass. That hereafter proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane of indigent insane persons residing in the District of Columbia, The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered and of independent or pay pat1ent.s admitted to the said hospital under sec­ to be engrossed.for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. tion 485-! of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and for admission temporarily to said hospital of nonresident insane p arsonS' found in the said PA.YMENT OF CERTA.IN PENSIONS. District, shall be commenced by petition presented in open court to the jus­ tice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. holding a special term Mr. GALLINGER. I ask unanimous consent for the present for orphans' court business, stating the facts necessary to admissio~ to said . con~ideration of the bill (H. R. 1055) to amend section 4766 of the hospital as heretofore provided by law. Revised Statutes of the United States. · The amendment was agreed .to. 142 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE .. · DECE:MBER 13,

The next amendment was, at the end of section 4, page 3, line 1, was destroyed by ice during the past winter, and on March 11, 1898, it recom­ mended the passage of a similar bill (H. R. 8882). It therefore recommends after the words" United States," to insert: the passage of Senate bill No.4706, for the reestablishment and reconstruction And all other costs of the proceeding shall be paid by the District: Provided, of the light at Salem Creek, New Jersey. That in the case of independent or pay patients the petition shall be signed Respectfully, yours, by one of the nearest relatives of such insane person, by his legal guardian, L. J. GAGE, Sec:retm-y. 9r by some friend. All costs of the proceeding shall be defrared out of the The CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, estate 0f such person, and a deposit shall be paid into court sufticient to cover United States Senate. such costs; and the request for admission to said hospital shall be made within five days after the entry of the order of court. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered The amendment was agreed to. to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed, The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend­ NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ments were concurred in. Mr. FAULKNER. At the close of the last session House bill The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read 5370 was read through, and just after it was read through t.he the third time, and passed. Senator from Nebraska [1\Ir. ALLEN] desired to examine it further DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. MUNICIP.AL BIDLDING. and asked that it go over. I have seen him, and he will make no The bill (S. 4462) to provide for a municipal building and court­ objection now to its passage, and I should like to have it put on house in the District of Columbia was considered as in Commit­ its passage in the Senate. tee of the Whole. Mr. COCKRELL. What is the case? The bill was reported from the Committee on the District of Mr. FAULKNER. It is the negotiable-instrument bill. Columbia with amendments. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Vir­ The first amendment was, in section 1, line 3, after the word ginia asks consent to have further considered the bill (H. R. 5370) "building," to insert" of two distinct parts;" in line 5, after the relating to negotiable instruments within the District of Colum­ word" and," to insert" the;" and in the same line, after the word bia.. ls there objection? " Col urnbia," to insert "respectively;" so as to make the section There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the read: - Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill. Mr. FAULKNER. The bill has been read through. That there shall be constructed a fireproof building, of two distinct ;parts, for the accommodation of the municipal offices and the courts of the DIStrict The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend­ of Columbia, respectively, to be erected on or near the part of public reser­ ments were concurred in. vation No.9, commonly known as Judiciary Square, upon which the city hall The amendments were ordered to be engrossed and the bill to is now situated, in the city of Washington, and such additional port10n of said reservation adjacent thereto as may be necessary for such purpose. be read a third time. The total cost of said building shall not exceed $2,500,000, one-half of which The bill was read the third time, and passed. shall be chargeable to the revenues of the District of Uolumbia and the other half payable out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not CLERKS IN FIRST AND SECOND CLASS POST-OFFICES. otherwise appropriated. The bill (S. 3030) for the classification and fixing of salaries of The amendment was agreed to. clerks in the first-class and second-class post-offices was announced The next amendment was, in section 2, page 2, line 25, after the as next in order on the Calendar. word "noted," to insert "to be paid from time to time as the work The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill was reported from the progresses;" so as to read: Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads with an amendment, Said architect shall receive as full compensation ·for the said designs, to strike out all after. the enacting clause and inse1·t a substitute. drawings, and personal services the sum of 3 'per cent of the total cost of the said building, with the exceptions herein noted, to be paid from time to time The proposed substitute will be read. as the work progresses; and all designs and drawings furnished by him for Mr. COCKRELL. I do not see the Senator in charge of the biil, the said buildin~ shall become the property o.f the United States. The other : the Senator from Mississippi fMr. MoNEY], or any member of the competing architects shall each receive $500. Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads here to explain exactly The amendment was agreed to. what changes the bill makes in the existing law. Whether it The next amendment was, in section 3, page 3, line 7, after the · makes any material change or not, I do not know. I have not ha,d word" duty," to insert "to be appointed bythe aforesaid commis­ time to compare it, and I do not now see in their seats any Sena­ sion;" so as to make the section read: tors who are members of that committee to make an explanation. SEC. 3. That the cOnstruction of said building shall be placed in char~e of I discover that the hour of 2 o'clock is at hand, and would there­ an officer of the Government specially qualified for the duty, to be appomted fore suggest that the bill retain its place on the Calendar, and that by the aforesaid commission, who shall receive for his additional services an increase of 40 per cent in his present salary, to be paid out of the appropria­ the unfinished business be laid before the Senate. tions made for the said building, and he shall disburse the funds under rules The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, that will be to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, make all contracts, and the order. employ all necessary personal services not herein otherwise provided for. The hour of 2 o'clock having arrived, it is the duty of the Chair The amendment was agreed to. to lay before the Senate the unfinished business, which is Senate The next amendment was, in section 4, page 3, line 19, after the bill4792. word " commission," to insert " one-half of which shall be charge­ THE NICARAGUA CANAL, able to the revenues of the District of Columbia;" so as to make the The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consid­ section read: eration of the bill (S. 4792) to amend an act entitled "An act to SEC. 4. That $.10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for carrying incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua,"- ap­ out th.e provisions of this act in preparation for the actual construction of the building, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not other­ proved February 20, 1889, and to aid in the construction of the wise appropriated, to be disbursed under the direction of the said commis­ Nicaragua Canal. sion, one-half of which sha~l be chargeable to the revenues of the District of Mr. MORGAN. I submit two copies of papers sent to me by Columbia. the Secretary of State, relating to the Nicaragua Canal, which I The amendment was agreed to. desire to have read. The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the Secre­ ments were eoncurred in. tary will read as requested. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read The Secretary read as follows: the third time, and passed. (A) No. 156.] LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, LIGHT-HOUSE AT SALEM, N. J, San Jose, Costa Rica, November 6, 1898. Sm: I have the honor to inclose herewith the copy of official letter addressed The bill (S. 4706) for the reestablishment and reconstruction of to President Zelaya confirming your cahle remonstrance of October 28 a light-house at or near the mouth of Salem Creek, New Jersey, against any change in the status of,the canal question. It is my duty to fur­ ther inform you that my telegram to Consul Donaldson, requesting him to was considered as in Committee of the Whole. personallv present your remonstrance to the President, reached him after :Mr. COCKRELL. Let the report be read in that case. the "option" to the canal speculators had been signed, but fully one day The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. GALLINGER in the chair). before the Nicaraguan Congress, that was specially called to confirm it, The report will be read. · passed upon it favorably. I am informed that it is an option for one year only, but hope soon to send you more precise information in reference The Secretary read the report submitted by 1Ir. GALLINGER thereto. from the Committee on Commerce June 9, 1898, as follows: With assurance of my highest consideration, I beg to remain, sir, The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4706) for Your most obedient servant, the reestablishment and reconstruction of a light-house at or near the mouth WILLIAM LAWRENCE MERRY, of Salem Creek, New Jersey, make a favorable report upon the same. United States Minister. The bill was referred to the Treasury Department, which makes the fol­ Hon. JORN HAY, lowing favorable report: Secretar-y of State, Washington, D. C. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. 0., June 6, l898. [Inclosure ~ o. 1.] Srn: I have the honor to acknowledge the 1·eceipt of a letter from your LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA., committee, dated June 3,1898, inclosing Senate bill No. 4706, for the reestab­ San Jose, Costa Rica, October SB, 1898. lishment and reconstruction of a light-house at or near the mouth of Salem ESTEEMED SIR AND FRIEND: I have the honor to advise that I have this Creek, New Jersey, and asking suggestions touching the merits of the bill day received the following cable from the Government of the United States: and the propriety of its passage. "You will represent the great expediency of continuing the present status In reply I beg leave to state that the matter was referred to the Light­ (of the Nicaragua Canal question) until Congress shall have had opportunity House Board, which reports that the light-house at Salem Creek, New Jersey, to act, and remonstrate against any arrangements which may constitute new 1898. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 143 conditions for those now existing." Under these instructions I have to-day thousands of miles to the north. It would give to the nations of telegraphed the United States consul at Managua, requesting him to present the world liberty of the seas in a grander sense than was ever the remonstrance of the United States Government against any change of the conditions connected with the Nicaragua Canal concession. contemplated by the most illustrious writers upon the subject of I trust that Your Excellency will decide it in the interests of the country international and maritime law. It would realize the bright which intrusts its destinies to your able and patriotic guidance, to accede to dream and glorious vision of the great discoverer in making at the policy herein suggested, so important to the future development and prosperity of Nicaragua, and as due to the friendly relations between Your last a waterway to the distant Orient and the Indies which he Excellency's Government and that of the United States, w)lich it has been thought so near. my special endeavor to promote. I may be permitted to add my personal The lapse of time and :recent events memorable in our history assurance of a sincere desire to use every honorable influence to assure Your Excellency the proud record of important and patriotic aid in opening the have not diminished the necessity for the successful execution of ocean highway for the world's commerce through beautiful Nicaragua. this great project. They have not diminished the difficulty of the With assurance of my high personal esteem and official respect for Your undertaking. Rather, I think, we should be admonished by the Excellency, I remain, Your most obedient servant and friend, many failures which have already taken place in the attempt to WILLIAM LAWRENCE MERRY, construct this canal to a greater precaution and to a greater de· Envoy Extrao1·dina1-y and Minister Plenipotentiary gree of prudence in laying legislatively the foundations for opera­ of the United States of America. His Excellency Gen. J. SANTOS ZELAYA, tion in aid of its execution. President of Nicaragua, Managua. The honorable Senator from Alabama [Mr. MoRGAN] speaks about the opponents of the canal. I have never seen any oppo­ NEW YORK, December 2, 1898. nent of the canal. I do not believe there is one in this Chamber Mr. PRESIDENT: As chairman of the executive committee of the syndicate or elsewhere. I have seen a great many opponents of the 1\fari­ lately formed in this city for the purpose of constructing and operating the time Canal Company-of the corporation named in this bHl-a interoceanic canal across the Isthmus of Nicaragua, I have, in accordance with said committee's wish, the honor of respectfully submitting to you, sir, great many who denounce its scheme, its plan of execution, and a statement of the syndicate's objects and views. who refuse to give to it even the slightest degree of credit or con­ The enterprise was undertaken by the syndicate and the concession ob­ fidence. I am one of that number. I think the greatest enemy tained from the Government of Nicaragua on the knowledge of the fact that the Cardenas-.Menocal concession had been forfeited, that its conditions were of the canal in the United States and the most vicious and ven­ impracticable, that no extension of same would be granted by the Govern· omous opponent of this magnificent scheme is the Maritime Canal ment of Nicaragua, and that that Government intended that only a private Company. They have monopolized the attention of the public corporation, preferably American, should build, operate, and own the canal. The status of the Cardenas-Menocal concession was submited to the consid­ and the very close attention of Congress in both branches for ten eration of the legal advisers of the Government of Nicarauga, and while it years-a ten years crowded with disaster and discredit, brought was decided that the said concession had, for numerous valid reasons, been about by the conduct of that corporation. I for one do not believe forfeited, it was lletermined that the concession granted to .Messrs. Eyre and Cragin should only take effect from the lOth of October next, when the pre­ that under the auspices of that corporation, no matter how the vious concession lapses by limitation. scheme may be changed, no matter how its plans may be modi­ The syndicate is satisfied that with a concession on the liberal, practical fied, this great undertaking, necessary to the unity of the fleet, to terms of the one it now controls the capital necessary for the construction of the canal can be obtained, and that once the American people is assured the commerce of the world, and to the public defense, will ever be that the work has been contracted for as an American enterpriSe by respon­ successfully completed. - sible American con tractors for a reasonable fixed sum, the subscriptions neces­ If we could eliminate and strip away from this enterprise that sary to complete the required capital will be forthcoming. On these lines the bad, maleficent odor which has characterized every step of the syndicate is now perfecting its :plans. The syndicate is :persuaded th1s business is one from which private capital, 1\Iaritime Canal Company from its first creation down to the pres­ energy, and direct10n should by no means be eliminated; it is eminently an ent moment, it would be an act of magnificent promise for the suc­ enterprise calling for the most efficient commercial management, and as a cess, the final succe s, of the canal construction. hi~hway for the shipping of all nations its object can be better served under pr1vate management, while as an American company it will be under the Mr. CAFFERY. Mr. President, this debate is a very impor­ liDmediate protection of our own Government. tant one, and the Senator fi·om Indiana has mastered the subject. On the other hand, although not agreein{r with those that fear the uncon­ I very much desire that his djscourse be heard by a full Senate. trolled exploitation of the great highway m :private hands might be detri­ mental to the interests of our v.eople, the synd1cate, respecting the opinion of I therefore suggest the absence of a quorum. those holding such views, is willing, if necessary, to arrange a basis on which The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana sug­ our Government would control the tariffs for the service of the canal and gests the absence of a quorum, and the roll will be called. participate in the man~ement of the enterprise, to which effect, sir, I am directed by the executive committee to submit the following for your The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators an­ considers.tion: swered to their names: (a) The Interoceanic Canal Company shall be organized under a charter of Aldrich, Gallinger, Mason, Simon, one of the States of the Union. Allen, Gear, Mills, Smith, (b) The capital shall be $100,000,000, with the right to issue mortgage bonds .Allison, Hanna, .Morgan, Spooner, not exceeding $150,000,000 bearing interest at not exceeding 4 per cent per Bacon, Hansbrough, 1\Iorrill, Stewart, annum, and with a sinking fund of one-half of 1 per cent per annum after Bate, Harris, Murphy, Sullivan, twenty years_ Berry, Hawley, Perkins; Teller, (c) In exchange for the right to control and regulate the tariff established Butler, Heitfeld, Pettigrew, Thurston, for the service of the canaL after allowing for the service of the bonds and a Caffery, Jones, Ark. Pettus, Turley, dividend on the stock of 6 per cent per annum, to which the company is will­ Carter, Lodge, Platt, Conn. Turner, ing to agree, the United States Government shall guarantee interest at the Chilton, McBride, Platt, N. Y. Turpie, rate of 3 per cent per annum on $50,000,000 of the mortgage indebtedness of Clay, McEnery, Proctor, Warren, the company referred to in paragraph (b), but taking a second mortgage as · Cullom, .McLaurm, Rawlins, Wilson, security therefor, the guarantee only to be ~iven when the company shall have invested in the enterprise of its own capital at least a million dollars_ Deboe, .McMillan, Roach, Wolcott. (d) Should the company apply for the guarantee, as provided for in para­ Elkins, .Mallory, Sewell, graph (c), it shall deliver to the Government $25,000,000 of its stock, and the Faulkner, .Martin, Shoup, Government shall have the right to appoint five members of the board of Mr. McLAURIN (when MI.·. TILL:nA.N'S name was called). I directors, consisting in all of not more than fifteen. (e) In addition to the investment of $20,000,000 of the company's own cap­ desire to say that my colleague [Mr. TILLMAN] is detained at home itaL referred to in paragraph (c), the company shall also, as further security, on account of illness. have contract for the completion of the work within the shortest possible The PRESIDING OFFICER. Fifty-eight Senators having an­ limit of time for a fixed sum under guarantees that shall fully assure the ful­ fillment of such contracts. swered to their names, a quorum of the Senate is present, and the (f) The syndicate will consent, if necessary, that the disbursement of the Senator from Indiana will proceed. amounts referred to in paragraph (c) shall be subject to audit by the Govern­ Mr. TURPIE. Mr. President, the honorable Senator from Ala· m ent. bama has spoken about the pressure of public opinion, in one case It ia hardly necessary to assure you. sir, that the syndicate is most desirous of meeting your wishes in every p ossible way, and to allay the fears of those mentioning the verdict and in another the judgment of the Ameri­ of our people who consider that this great work ehould not be left to uncon­ can people in favor of the construction of the Nicaragua Canal. trolled private management. Respectfully, I concede that in the very strongest terms, but there never has W.R. GRACE, been any verdict nor any judgment nor any expression of opinion Chair-man Exec'utive Committee, Nicaraguc~ Canal Syndicate. by the people of any State in favor of the scheme of the Maritime Bon. WILLI.ll.I :McKINLEY, Canal Company. The Senator does not make the distinction be· President of the United States, Washington, D. C. tween two plans. ::M:r. MORGAN. I have heard that the Senator from Indiana There is a very great c1istinction between the two works-the [Mr. TURPIE] desires to take the floor this morning. construction of the maritime canal across the Isthmus connecting l\Ir. TURPIE. I would ask if the Senator from Alabama con­ the Pacific and Atlantic oceans-that is the object of the pressure cluded his remarks yesterday. of public opinion and the verdict and judgment which the Senator 1\Ir. MORGAN. I did. has mentioned; but the object of the Maritime Canal Company of Mr. TURPIE. 1\ll:. President, no one shall excel me in support Nicaragua has been from the beginning, and is now, to cut a or advocacy of an isthmian canal by the Nicaragua route, nor in channel of easiest communication between the Treasury of the the zeal with which I shall do everything possible for the promo­ United States and the empty coffers of that corporation in New tion and advancement of that great enterprise. It is a magnifi­ York, by which they can be replenished and repleted. That is the cent project, and a ve1·y ancient one. It has engrossed the great distinction between these two enterprises, and for the pur­ attention of the commercial nations of the world now for at least pose of facilitating the cutting and completion of this channel one hundred years. It would .remove the Straits of Magellan connecting the two treasuries it has pleased the friends and allies 144 CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-SENATE. DEOEMBER 13,

of this company to count all men who are opposed to this scheme fectly willing to do it if they could not get a charter here; but of confiscation as enemies of the canal. they insisted on having a charter here, as the Senate was unani· I think the learned and honorable Senator commenced his dis­ mously in favor of the construction of the canal, in order to give course by allusions to the canal charter. The Senator's canal them the prestige of being cha1·tered by the United States. charter is a very ordinary document, drawn in the most common Then we replied, "We are willing to give this prestige upon language. There is nothing unusual or unprecedented 1n it. It your request, upon your very urgent supplication for it; but, if we incorporates certain gentlemen named for the purpose of con­ do, it must be conditioned upon the terms that no pecuniary lia.· structing and operating a ship canal through the Isthmus of bility shall be undertaken or shall be imposed upon the United Nicaragua. · States by reason of granting you the charter as a favor which you The ~enator thinks we are legislating for two Republics as well ask," and it was for this reason and to carry out that condition as our own in granting this charter. 1 think the charter is an or­ that the honorable Senator from Mississippi, Mr. George, whose dinary act of Congress, and has not the slightest weight extra­ memory is highly honored in this Chamber, drafted the proviso territorially, and there is no legislation of ours that could have to the section of this bill to which I have had the honor ·of calling such effect in any form, whether by charter or otherwise. It is the attention of Senators. in force in the United States, nnd it governs the members of the They not only were content with this condition and this proviso; Maritime Canal Company, of this corporation, who are residents they not only allowed all their rights and privileges to be limited of New York, by law, as the corporation has its principal office by this proviso and qualified lily it,.but they asserted in the boldest there, and as to foreign stockholders, and so on, it prescribes rules terms-this Maritime Canal Company is, if noted for anything, and regulations for them, but nothing in the nature of govern­ noted for its audacity, its repeated audacity-they asserted in the ment, general government, such as the Senator intimated in his boldest terms that they did not want a dollar of money from the remarks. It is partially international, foreign. It is the regula­ United States; that they did not want one atom of credit from the tion, in some degree, of the members of an international, foreign, United States; they would not accept a guaranty from the United and domestic incorporation as prov.ided in this act--domestic with States, they want-ed no assistance, no help; they had the money respect to American stockholders; foreign with respect to the engaged, all engaged, whatever might be the cost of the enterprise, stockholders or directors of the two Republics whose territory is to carry it to a successful completion. traversed by the course of the canal route. . This was the statement made at the time, and it was under The Senator spoke also very learnedly and at great length about these conditions that the Maritime Canal Company got the char­ the repealing clause. The repealing clause reads in the ordinary ter which the honorable Senator from Alabama has cited in our fashion. It reserves the right to repeal or modify this enactment, hearing, and I venture the assertion, and I think everyone here at which is a part, I think, of every Federal incorporation act. We that time will support me in it, that without this condition the have incorporated many, too many, corporations under the au­ charter could not have been obtained, without the condition that thority of the United States, but I do not recollect that we ever the United States should neither directly nor indirectly be liable have incorporated a body here without inserting that clause. for any expenditure of the company, for any contract of the com· There js one part of the clause which we could carry into exe· pany, and that the United States should not guarantee any en· cution. Congress has the right to-repeal this act. I wish we gagement of the company-without this condition of plain, perfect, could repeal it to-day. If we could repeal the act, I.say if we had plenary liberty of the United States and release of the United votes enough to repeal this act, it would be a great step in fur­ States from all liabilities on account of this company this bank· therance of the construction and completion of the Nicaragua rupt and worthless corporation-worthless then and worthless Canal. now-if it had not been for this plenary release, the charter would There is one part of the charter, however, which the honorable never have become a law. Senator did not read, and which I will call the attention of the Consequently, Mr. President, I was yery much surprised with Senate to. It is the proviso in the first section of the act, on page others when within two years thereafter this company came in 2, and reads: here asking a subsidy of SiO,OOO,OOO in aid of the construction of Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed the canal. I addressed the Senate at that time in opposition to as to commit the United States to any pecu~iary liabilitywhatev.er for or ~n the subsidy and in opposition to subsidizing any private corpora· account of said company, nor shall the Umted States be held m any WISe tion .by the Government of the United States in any manner. liable or responsible many form or by any implication for any debt or liabil­ ity in any form which said company may incur, nor be held as guaranteeing '!'hat bill was hardly heard here. There were, I think, but a few any engagement or contract of. said company, or as having assumed, by vir­ votes for it; it barely made its appearance. The RECORD shows tue of this act, any responsibility for the acts or proceedings of said c.ompa.ny it was here, and that is all. in any foreign country, or contracts or engagements entered into in the Some years subsequently the company again returned asking a United States. subsidy of a hundred million dollars in aid of the construction of · That is a very material part of the charter of the Maritime Canal the canal, and they made a third attempt at a subsidy, and, I Company of Nicarag-ua. think, this is the fourth attempt which the Maritime Canal,Com­ Mr. MORGAN. That is all set out in my speech. pany is making for a subsidy from Congress in aid of the con· Mr. TURPIE. I think you set out the charter, bu~ I did not struction of this canal. hear your comments on this part of it. I have called attention frequently to what. I think is the illegal Mr. MORGAN. I did not make any at all. and utterly lawless character of the subsidy asked in this par­ Mr. TURPIE. No, sir; I think not. I did not say it had not ticular bill, because it is the same as the one we formerly had been set out in your speech; I have no doubt it is; but I under­ before us in its modus- operandi. It provides that the United took to say-and if I am not mistaken, I am correct in the state­ States shall guarantee the payment of the bonds of the Maritime ment-that the honorable and learned Senator had not called the Canal Company to the amount of $115,000,000. How can we law­ attention of the Senate to this part of the proviso; and I am now fully do that? I have asked this question before. I have never doing it. had any· answer. I wish to see an affirmative grant either by im­ Mr. MORGAN. Mr. President- plication or expressly in the Constitution authorizing the G ov~rn­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Indiana ment of the United States to guarantee the payment of the bonds yield to the Senator from Alabama? of a corporation. It is immaterial by whom they were chartered; Mr. TURPIE. Certainly. . the fact that they were chartered by the United States does not at Mr. MORGAN. The Senator said I had not read it. I asked all complicate the question, under what grant of power in the Con­ that it be incorporated in my remarks, and it is in the RECORD. stitution is such guaranty legal or lawful? Mr. TURPIE. Yes, it is in the RECORD, but the Senator did Sometimes this subsidy asked here is spoken of as being parallel not read it. I adhere to that statement. The Senator read the with the subsidy granted the Pacific railroad companies, but in first section down to the names of the incorporators and com­ that case, Mr. President, there was no guaranty of any bonds. mented upon it. The Senator read the repealing clause and The bonds of the Unitod States were issued directly, made payable commented at great length upon that; but the Senator did not and delivered to the company. There is no precedent. The United call any attention to the proviso which I have just read. It is that States has never guaranteed the bonds of any corporation for any proviso in this section of the original charter of this company that purpose, and the1·e is nothing in the Constitution of the Unit-ed , divides the advocates and opponents of the Maritime Canal Com­ States, in my judgment, authorizing or empowering Congress to pany's schemes. It does not divide the friends of the Nicaragua pass this law. I believe that the guaranty will be utterly worth· Canal. As to the construction of the canal there is no division of less, not worth the paper upon which it is Wl'itten, and there ought sentiment here, and never has been. to be no market for the bonds; no citizen ought to purchase such It was well known here that this company-and gentlemen who bonds or pay any consideration or do anything in consideration of are members of the Senate will bear me out in it-were advised a guaranty so positively derogatory of constitutional grants and to go to New York and get a charter there. It would have an­ powers. lt would be a precedent of all others most pernicious swered every purpose, every legitimate purpose. All they wanted and perilous. was an incorporation in acc01·dance with the terms of the original When this question is put to the advocates-not the advocates concession. They were advised to go to New York and get a of the Nicaragua Canal, but the advocates of the confiscation charter there. They said that tlley could do that, and were per- scheme of the Maritime Canal Company-they answer that Great 1898. · CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 145

Britain will not allow this canal to be built; that there is great Government of Nicaragua and the Government of Costa Rica to difficulty in the Clayton-Bulwer treaty; that there is very great insert into their concessions to the Maritime Canal Company of difficulty in some of the concessions that have been given, either Nicaragua certain things not inconsistent with the treaty of 1868, as to some that have been given in the past or some that are to be for there was none of them of that character, but certain things given in the future; that there is a syndicate in Paris that is going more particularly directed in detail toward corporate' rights and to take all the bonds and build the canal after the universally franchises and action than would constitute the subjects of a gen- known failure of the Panama Company; that there is a syndicate eral treaty between two governments. · formed in Germany, embracing the leading capitalists in Europe, The honorable Senator from Alabama says the concessions are I\ going to build the canal, and that the canal will pass out of the based upon the treaty of 1868. The coneessions are not based control of the United States unless we make this guaranty. upon the treaty of 1868, and the treaty of 1868 has no reference Everything is spoken of except the question of constitutional whatever, and could have none, to these concessions. The con­ power. cessions were not made until twenty years afterwards, and their That is the answer to the objection to the guaranty; that is the details could not possibly have been known on behalf of the Gov­ answer to the constitutional objection to this bill, and the only ernments and the signatory parties who executed the treaty of answer ever made. 1867. The treaty of 1867 has nothing whatever to do with our Now, sir, I a.m such a friend of the Nicaraguan Canal project legislation in the pending bill, nothing to do with this charter, that I do not regard any of the complications about concessions and has only to do with the concessions as that a man upon com­ as standing in the way; I do not regard that there is any serious parison might determine whether there was anYthing inconsistent trouble with respect to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. There is no between these concessions and the former treaty between the two serious trouble with respect to the action of adverse foreign money Governments. · syndicates, and never has been any. The only trouble is the want I will take up now the treaty of 1868. Ihavethe text here. The of money in the Maritime Canal Company; and although corpora­ treaty of 1868 goes upon the supposition that a canal has been com­ tions may be very poor, and yet have some credit, the utter want pleted and constructed, and its object is to ascertain the rights of credit in that eleemosynary society, the utter want of confi­ and relations and duties of the two Governments who are parties dence displayed by all mankind in any part of the operation or to it with reference to a canal so constructed and completed and in machinery of this corporation-that is the trouble in constructing operation. It does not refer to the work of construction at all. It the canal under this scheine. There is no other trouble. What does not refer to any charter of a corporation for that purpose. is the use of talking two or three hours here about the C1ayton­ But it refers to the transit of goods and passengers after the canal Bnlwer treaty, about foreign money syndicates, in answer to the is completed, and it refers to transit only. Here is one of the.pro­ question as to whether this is a constitutional method of giving a 'visions of the treaty, and one of the principal "ones, which shows subsidy or aid, if we intend to give any? · the correctness of this view: · ·- The honorable Senator speaks of the charter as an original The Republic of Nicaragua hereby grants to the United States, and to their paper. It is an original charter. It is the first one giv~n, and in citizens and property, the right of transit between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the territory of that Republic on any route of communica­ contrast with the frequent amendments, the very numerous amend­ tion, natural or artificial, whether by land or by water, which mav now or ments, the very verbose amendments which have been reported to hereafter exist or be constructed under the authority of Nicaragua, ·to be this charter, it is and it ought to be regarded .as original. But it used and enjoyed in the same manner and U,POn equal terms by both Repub­ lics and their respective citizens, the Republic of Nicaragua, however, reserv- is not an original paper; it is a paper entirely secondary, entirely ing its rights of sovereignty over the same. ·, • dependent. This charter is based upon what !s known as conces .... . That section refers a completed canal or railroad, any means sions-two concessions made, one by~the Republic' of Nicaragua to and the other by the Republic of Costa Rica to the Nicaragua of communication, and provides that the property and persons of Canal Association, the company which preceded in existence the citizens of the United States shall have the right of transit under present Maritime Canal Company. In respect to those two papers, the ordinary term!:!. Again: . . . . . The United States hereby agree to extend the'u· protection to all such the concession and the charter, the one is dominant; the conces­ routes of communication as aforesaid, and to guarantee the neutrality and sion is dominant, thoroughly dominant, superior, and the charter innocent use of the same. . is servient to the dominant grant. There can be nothing in the charter inconsistent with the concession; there can be nothing in Evidently refelTing to canals completed and constructed. , They the charter more and there can be nothing less than the letter and also agreed to employ their influence with other nations to induce spirit of the concession contain in terms. ' them to guarantee such neutrality and protection. I might ask with reference the present pending bill, what is And the Republic of Nicaragua, on its part, undertakes to establish one free to port at each extremity of one of the aforesaid rout~s of ~ communication be­ the use of the last section in reiation to neutrality? The conces­ tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At these ports no tonnage or other sion has a section upon the subject of neutrality. Can we enlarge duties shall be imposed or levied by the Government of Nicaragua on the ves­ sels of the United States, or on any effects or merchandise belonging to citi­ it? The honorable Senator seems to intimate the opinion that we zens or subjects of the United States, or upon the VE)ssel..'> or effects of any can. Can we modify it? The honorable Senator has modified it. other country, intended, bona fide, for transit across the said routes of com­ Can we change it? The honorable Senator has made most impor­ mtlnication and not for consumption with~ the Republic of Nicaragua. tant changes in it; but this bill, this act of Congress, proposed to Another section relating to the h·ansit of goods ' &Cross' the be passed here, is an ex parte, a thoroughly ex parte, exercise of isthmian railroad or canal reads as follows: . legislative power on our part, and when you attempt to amend a The United States shall also Le at liberty, on giving notice to the Govern­ concession, the pt·evious dominant, controlling paper and instru­ ment or authorities of Nicaragua, to carry troops and 'munitions of war in ment in the history of the case, yon 'can not do it ex parte. their own vessels, or otherwise, to either of said free ports, and shall be entitled to their conveyance between them without obstruction by said Gov­ ' It has to be a bipartite arrangeniente; it has to be by consent of ernment or authorities, and without any charges or tolls whatever for their both parties or of all parties to the concession. I think that the transportation on either of said routes: Provided, Said troops and munitions clau~e in relation to neutrality in the pending bill agrees exactly of war are not intended to be employed against Central American nations With the clause in the treaty of 1868-no, I will say the clause in friendly to Nicaragua. the concession agrees very nearly with the clause in the treaty of Another section dealing only with transit, the peculiar right of 1868...;_but the clause in the pending bill does not agree with the transit of munitions of war and of troops. And again: ~ neutrality clause in the concession or with the treaty of 1868. The The Republic of Nicaragua a !!Tees that, should it· become necessary at any time to employ military forces for. the security and protection of persons and .consequence is·that this clause is a mere brutum fulmen. It is property passmg over any of the routes aforesaid, it will employ the requi­ like the guaranty of the bonds of this bankrupt corporation. It site force for that purpose; but upon failure to do this from any cause what­ . is an act for which there exists no power. It is an ex parte at­ ever, the Government of the United States may, with the consent or at the , tempted infraction of provisions which were agreed to long before request of the Government of Nicaragua, or of the minister thereof at Wash­ ington, or of the competent le~ally appointed local authorities, civil or mill· and which limit and control the charter. tary, employ such force for this and for no other purpose; and when, in the I have looked at all three of the provisions with relation to neu­ opinion of the Government of Nicaragua, the necessity ceases, such force trality. · I am not going at large into that subject now. I may in shall be immediately withdrawn. the subsequent discussion of the ease. I think the best provision What is the use, then, of saying that any legislation of ·ours is in relation to neutrality is contained in the treaty of 1868. It is based upon this treaty? The treaty itself is legislation. The a better provision than that in the concession, and it is certainly a treaty itself is the supreme law of both countries, of the United much better provision and more favorable to the United States, States and Nicaragua, in respect to the subject-matter with which and much easier of consb:uction and interpretation, much more it deals. The only legislation which would be necessary to carry facile of practical application than the section inserted here in out this treaty agreement would not be any legislation such as the the bill, the last ~f the sections. I think, as far as legislative con­ Senator from Alabama has suggested, authorizing the construc­ s~ruction was concerned, having particular reference to the opera­ tion of a canal or incorporating a company for the construction tions under this charter, that the provisions of the treaty of 1868 of a canal or deelaring the conditions of neutrality with respect to were merged into the concession upon which the charter is the canal. None of that legislation is authorized by this treaty. founded. Most of it is wholly excluded. · . The honorable and learned Senatcir.from Alabama thinks that The only legislation based upon this treaty would be an act of that is the first time he has ever heard it. He has now heard that Congress, that is made necessary,·authorizing our own troops to phrase used the second time. I think it was competent for the be sent down there for the purpose of protecting the persons or

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pr.onerty of Americans in transit upon.. the Iathmus. If there-ever­ by the Unit~d States? How entirely diff~rent this is from.thepro4 ' was a treaty, iethera ever was a public pa:ner, if. ther.a was ever a. gramm.H wh1ch I have advance.d and which I shall vote. for,~ and state dbcumen.t·that had no relation. to m.· connection with, or any which, I think,. every American..Senator ought. to vote fol';. degree of kip.dred even t4e most remote- to the IegisfutiOn: now If tha Maritime. Canal Company had not by the most deliberate before the Senate, it is- the treaty of !867 betw~n. the United fraud attempted to impose. upon the commercial world, to make States and Nicaragua. victims of persons. who were of easy credence in the subscription The honorable Senator fromAJabama speaks about having..h.eard_ of· its capita! stock and. bonds.;. if it hrul not deliberateiy reduced "merged'' for the first time:. Let me. remind· him that I have and lessened. the. expense of the canal one-half, stating and pub­ heard for· the first" time this morning_any allnsion, although. I hava lishing that it could be built for. $65,000,000, deliberately insisting often heard tlie honorable Senator. from.Alabama and expect to U"Pon it-if it wer.e guilty of none of these frauds, indescribable heaT him yet again on.. this subject,. to t~ treaty of 1887 as having· frauds,-which..have accompanied its whole life and existence, if it anything to do with the charter of the-.Maritime Canal Company. were entirely innocent, I would not yet support the bill, because It is true it. is. published with the. report.. Itis part of the padding the bill does not provtde. that the canal shall be. the property of of the report. The report is made up of !BER 13,

raiSrng money. The question of thirty or forty million dollars, honm·able gentleman has had to say, unless he presents some facts while -that is a very important matter; especially to the taxpayers which tend to support his affirmations; and, Mr. President, when of the country, or the- question of the difference-of thirty or forty I challenge his sta.tements he is required to bring his proofs. million dollars in the cost of this canal, is one that sinks into In this record is contained a list, which is taken from the re­ insjgnificance when it is compared with the probability or the citals in ~h.e act of Congres~ which cha:r~ered this company, of all possioility of losing the canal entirely. I do not think there is a of t~e ongmal corpo!ators m the Ma!Itime Canal Company; and Senator on this floor to·day who would' not ·be- willing to vote I will read, and I Will ask the attention of Senators to the list of $150,000,000 for a final, conclusive, and effectual settlement of names, for they know many of them personally, to ascertain this question in favor of the right of the United States either to whether this aggregation of names represents a body of men or own andoontrol, orto control without owning, this canal through. any men who are capable of the frauds and the outrages which the Isthmus of Darien. · the Senator from Indiana has indulged himself in reproaching I am not asking the Senate of the Uniterace L. Hotchkiss, Edwa.:r~ F. Beale, Iill·am Hitchcock, C. Ridgeley Good: ing the proposition that if this Senate knew that it would cost wm, A_. C.. Cheney, J. F. 0 Shaughnessy, H. C. Taylor, J. W. Miller, A. S. $1'50,000,000, they, would vote $150,000,000. I can go further than Crownmsh1eld, A. G. Menocal, Charles Jf. Stebbins, T. Harrison Garret t Jules Aldige, R. A. Lancaster, Alfred E . Mills, Gustav E. Kissell, Hornce Fair~ that, and I' can ·say that some of the most conservative and able banks, George H. Robinson, Alfred B. Darling, Joseph E. McDonald Jam.es and trustworthy Senators in this hody have said to me that we Roosevelt, Christian Devries, Frederick F. Thompson, Henry A. Parr and are obliged to have the canal, even if it should cost us a foreign such other persons as may be associated with them and their successors are hereby constituted and created a body-corporate ·and politic indeed and in war. law, by the name, style, and title of" The Maritime 'Canal Company of Nica· We know, Mr. President, that the exigency resting upon us- is ragua.' ' of such an imperious character that there is_nothing which can turn tbe people and the Government of the United States back Senators are present on this floor who know thes-e gentlemen now from the cutting of that waterway through that Isthmu-s. perhaps every one of them, who have an· individual, personal ac~ We know that. That was· true before Hawaii was annexed; it quaintancewith them, and I think I shall be thoroughly borne out was true before the--treaty in regard to the Philippines was signed in the statement I am going to make, that there is notjn America on last Saturday in Paris, but it is doubly trn.e now in respect to a mo1·e honorable set of men than are named amongst that body the mercantile and commercial interests or the people of the of incorporators. There is no man there whose name has ever United States. But the other view of it, Mr. President, which been lmder the slightest reproach. There is no man there of has been illustrated and established as an object lesson before the whom it can be said that he ever perpetrated personally fraud country-the military defense of the United States-is something upon any person; and yet the company which has been under the that we can not afford to forego or to neglect or to· forget. direction of a board of directors selected from this body of corpo. We are obliged to have that canal in order to make our naval rators is· charged to-day with having been engaged in frauds, the defense of this country effective, and, after all, that is the main frauds themselves not mentioned, and no facts tending to show question here. Themain-questionhereisnot Walker's report; the that the frauds had ever been committed. ma.inquestioniswhetherornotwhenweareembroiledinwarwith I have here a list of the directors of this company-which, for other countries we. shall have to send other Oregons -around Cape the moment, I ean not lay my hands upon-the directors -who are Horn, and whether we shall havein thefuture; without the assist;. chosen from·this same body of men. I will probably be able to ance of this canal, to make ·two fleets, one to occupy the Eacific furnish a list to the Senate before I get through my remarks upon . Ocean and the other the Atlantic, for the purpose of protecting the subject. But amongst these men I notice the name-of Joseph our country. E. McDonald, forme.rly a Senator of this -body and the predecessor · I am not disposed, Mr. President, to deal in very minor con- in office of the Senator from Indiana [Mr. TURPIE]. He was in siderations when this one great fact looms up before us and de- the list of directors-. Another Senator who was in the list of mands of us that we exercise om-powers ·to relieve th.is situation. directors was James B. Eustis, of Louisiana. One of the most In vjew of that fact and of. other facts not necessary for me to eminent judges in New-York, Judge Daly, tbe president of the repeat to-day, it is obvious that the Senate of-the United States, American Geographical Society, and a number of prominent gen­ now having a full quorum, now having leisure, not being pressed tlemen have been included all the time in this board of directors by other dnties or other measures that are brought before us, ought- who have been engaged in the perpetration of these frauds and to go on and debate this question, express their opinions upon whose presence in that board of dh·ectors and in the possession of both sides of it with perfect freedom, and investigate it to the charter powers conferred upon them by Congress -the Senator bottom upon e-very argument that can possibly be made abouti~ of Indiana regards as a public wrong, an injustice, a calamity, pro and con. ' and as the cause of the-defeat-of the building of this canal. The Senator from Indiana may feel -better satisfied to argue Now, Mr. President, can injustice, bitterness, and vituperation this case after be has seen .that report; but e.viden.tly, from the g<> further than that? Is the Senate of· the United States, upo-n drift of his remarks, he wants with his engineering experience, an occasi<>n like this., when considering a great measure, to be ap· backed by enormous abilities, to criticise the report. What does pealed to through these avenues of passionate· discourse for the it amount to if the Senator is able to make a criticism upon that purpose of coming to judgment against men of the highest char­ report if the profile or the· measurements or the borings-or some acter and the highest ability in this country-men known every· other thing_- in connection with the Walker report does not suit where as men of probity? Why should they be called bankrupt him? Nothing more, Mr. President, than the platitudes, the ,when they do not ow~ a dollar; when they-have paid every debt severe phrases which the Senator bas offered to-day in regard to that ever has come agamstthem? Why should they be called mend:i· the-Maritime Canal Company of Nica1·agua. cants when they have never applied to the- Government of the We have beard the Sena.tm· to-day, with-out ever stating one United States for assistance? fact or hinting or intimating at.one fact upon,which the honor of On the contrary, the Senate of the United States, finding them the Maritime corporation can be questioned, or.any director of the in the possession of the only concession through which we could Maritime corporation can be questioned, indulge in fulminations, approach this subject, of the only right granted by Nicaragua to great, powerful adjective phrases, for the purpose of impressing anybody for the building of this canal, concluded that it was bound upon the Senate of the United States-this orderly and honorable to interpose and make of it as far as was legitimate, considering body-the idea that·they are guilty of fraud, that they are impos· the terms-of the concession, a governmental establishment to carry ters, that they are a bankrupt corporation, that they are here peti- out that declaration of General Grant, followed by every Presi· tioning like mendicants the Government of the United States to dent since that time, that this canal was to be under the control come to their .relief, tp give them some money. It makes no dif- of Americans, which means always the United States, when ut· ference that George F. Edmunds and 'Warner Miller and Hiram tered in this Chamber and when uttered anywhere. else by an Hitchcock, under oath, and other Senators and gentlemen, have American. mttde· their statements to show that this company never made During all the time that the Senator inveighs against this Mari· such an application-it makes no difference to the Senator from time Canal Company as being the perpetrator of fraud and wrong· Indiana. doing, and being an interrupter of the progress of the canal, Costa He passes over these facts, which .are in the record, which re- Rica. and Nicaragua have had their directors in the board. Not fute all he has said on that subject, and he pays not the slightest only so, but their directors have been the ministers accredited to at~ntion to any man's statement to the contrary of his utterances, this Government from Costa Rica and Nicaragua-Mr. Guzman, wh1ch have been made without foundation of fact and which are while he was minister from Nicaragua, and Mr. Calvo, the min• not sustained by the record in .any sense. But the flood of abuse ister from Costa Rica, and then afterwards the minister of the goes on. There is no expression, it seems to me, left uncoined in interior who became the successor of Mr. Guzman as a director in the mind of. the Senator. to cast odium and reproach upon the this company. . Maritime Canal Company that he has not-already invented and Now, look at. the absurdity of this vicious statement against e_:x-p l ?~ed on this occasion and on prior occasions. But, sir, the this company, and then ask yourselves why it is that the subject Mantime Canal ComP.any of Nicaragua can stand all that that-, is brought forward in.this way. What is the purpose of it? What 1898.· QONGRESSIONAL i RECORD-SENATE. 151

is to be accomolished by it? Are we taking the Maritime Canal makes the following propositions to the President of the United Company into ·our bosom and warming it up~ a view~~ keep­ States and they a.re filed m the State Department; ing it in power in this country? The very bill upon which the (a) The Inte-roc~anic Canal Company shall be organized under a charter Senator comments so severely is a bill to get rid of it absolutely, of one of the States of the Union. to drive out all private owne1·ship of stock, to remodel and reform Not Congress. the canal company, to reduce the number-of directors in it to (b) The capital shall be $100,000,000, with the right to issue mortgage bonds not exceeding $1.50,000,000, beat•ing interest at not exceeding 4 per cent eleven, of whom nine shall be appointed by the President and con­ per annum, and with a sinking fund of one-half of 1 per cent per annum firmed by the Senate; the other two of the eleven being of right after twenty years. the representatives of Nicaragua and·Costa Rica, because that is (c) In exchangei'or the"I'ightto control and regu~atethe tariff established fo~· the sm.-vice of the canal, after allowing for the service of the bonds and a the reservation in the charter. dividend on the stock of G per cent per annum, to which the .company is Now, Mr. President, underthese conditions, when we are trying willing to agree, the United States Gov~rnment shall guarantee interest at to get rid of this company, when we are trying to bring the Gov­ the rate of o per cent -per annum on $50,000,000 of the mortgage indebted­ ness of the company-referred to in paragraph (b), but taking a second mort­ ernment of th.e United States into as close contact with this canal gage as security therefor, the guaranty only to be given when the comv.a.ny as is possible under the concession, what advantage or what dis· sh.a.ll have invested in the enterprise of its own capital at least a m1llion advantage either is it to this proposition that the Maritime Canal dollars. (d) Should the company apply for the guaranty, as provided for in para.­ Company of Nicaragua is doomed bythis bill, if it becomes a law, graph (o), it shall deliver to the Government $25,000,000 of its stock, and the to pass out and to have no further connection with. it? If it was Government shallllave the right to appoint five members of the board of the vicious thing that tne Senator from Indiana describes it to be, directors, consisting in all of not more than fifteen. (e) In addition to the investment of $20,000,000 of the company's own-cap.i· that would be a sufficient reason for driving it out. But without - tal, .referred to in paragra-ph (c), the company shall also, as fm•ther security, taking that-view of the subject, without dishonoring respectab1e have contract for the completion of the work within the shortest possible American citizens who ha-ve shown in their conduct the strongest limit of time, for a fixed sum, under guaranties that shall fully secure the determination to do well for their country, without resorting to fulfillment of such contracts. (f) The syndicate will consent, if necessary, tha.t-the disbursement of the anything of this kind, we enter into an amicable arrangement with amounts referred to in paragraph (c) shall qe subject to audit by the Govern­ them about--this business. How do we do it? ment. The Senate of the United States at its last session passed a reso­ It is hardly necessary- lution asking this particular canal company to state the terms Mr. Grace conclndes- upon which they would dispose of their concessions. They stated toassureyou, sir, that the syndicate is most desirous of meeting your wishes the terms through the SeC1·eta1·y of the Interior. They were in every possible way and to allay the fears of those of our people who con­ sider that this great work should not be left touucontrolled privatemmmge­ brought to the attention of the Senate, for the Secretary of the ment. Interior was required to rep01·t those terms to the Senate. There­ Respectfully, W. R. GRACE, upon they were referred to the Committee on the Constr.uction af Chairman Executive Committee Nicamgua Canal Syndicate. the Nicaragua Canal. We took-up those terms and copied them He had gone on in the earlier part of this .letter to make an argu­ into the bill, but we declined to accept them in all their breadth, ment in favor of the proposition that the company ought to be whereas the first bill that was reported here by Mr. Sherman gave under private management in prf'ference to Government manage­ to the Maritime Canal Company the equivalent of $11,000,000 in ment. stock and bonds for the.Jrtl.rpose of clearing off their indebtedness Now, without going any deeper into this question-for I know and having a tabula rasa when we should come to take possession· Senators will examine that paper-we find ihe bed that we have got of the canal. to lie upon-whenever we can do either of two things-break down The committee of which I have now the honor to be the chair­ the proposition to build this canal upon the concession to the man in reporting this bill reduced that allowance to $5,000,000. Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, or, by protracting the Now, why did we do it? We thought that in the pi"esent depre- time of the decision, bring that question to bear which the Senator - ciated condition of the property and the threats which surrounded referred to, which he says is-true, that on the 9th day of October, it it was a good bru·gain for them to be able to get this stock-to 1899, this concession expires. That is not a correct statement of get $5,000.000 for all that they owned in thesa concessions. We the case; but I will not argue that now. If Senators feel any in­ put the pressure uponthem, and they havenotyetconsented to the terest in the question as- to whether that concession expires on the $5,000,000; but I have not any doubt that they will do so. But 9th day of October, 1899, I beg them to look atthe latest report of with $5,000,000 that we pro,Pose to give them in this bill they have the Committee on the Construction of the Nicaragua Canal, wllere to dear off twenty-three to twenty-four million dollars of obliga­ they will find the best effort that we are able .to make, to say the tions resting upon them. least of it, to prove that that is not-true; and the effort, in my Now,I can say to the Senate of the United States, if that is not judgment, is absolutely successful. satisfactory, if you want to pass this bill striking out all allow­ It is -necessary for the Senate to go ahead and act upon this bill, ance whatever to these men, if yon think yon have the right to for, as I observed on yesterday, when the bill is passed it leaves do such a thing as ·that, and that we can gain the proper attitude every question in regard to the clearing up of any difficulty that toward this canal and this concession by striking ont of the bill may occur in the further progress of this canal in the hands of all allowance to them, let the Senate so vote, Mr. President, and the President", to be determined by him by a suspension of t.he when they have done so I will vote for the bill. issue of bonds, if he sees proper to suspend them, and by a refer­ More than that, sir, I am authorized to do it. There is a sense ence of all the fucts upon which he makes his suspension to the of patriotism in the hearts of the men who ha'Ve been abused so Congress of the United States for their final decision. energetically to-day that has rarely been equaled in American There can be no harm if it should turn out that the Walker history, and I must do them the justice to say that in myinte.r­ commission on the 1st of January or at any other time, say the conrse with them now for about ten or twelve years I have never last day of- the present session, should r.eport that it would take known gentlemen who were -more delicately sensitive to every $250,000,000 or 8150;000,000 to build this canal. The President of obligation of duty and honor than these men have been. the United States would have the perfect right, and it would be So this bill now proposes to get rid of them. Where is the ne­ his duty, to suspend the issue of any bonds, or the payment of any cessity when we are voting to drLve them out of this corporation money out of the Treasury in the event the amendment of th~ OTto get rid of them that they shall be blackened with allegations Senator froni. Arkansas [Mr. BERRY] becomes effectual, and refer of fraud and crime without one word to sustain or support the the facts to Congress to ascertain: ,from us the p1·ecise q nestion allegation? Why should the Senate of the United States engage that he would present, whether we are willing to go on with the itself in vituperation against these men while they are disposing bttilding of this canal under those circumstances and at that of their interests in this concession and claiming from them all amount of expenditure. the footing that we have got for the purpose of building a -canal? The President can settle the Clayton-Bulwer question. He can Can any man -point out to the Senate what ground or right we settle the question of the obligation.Qf our treaties with Nicaragua have to go into Nicaragua or Costa Rica and build a canal except in 1867. He can settle, Mr. President, another question, which is in virtue of the concessions of those two countries? Let them be one of the most important in this case and which was referred to withdrawn; let them be destroyed; let this corporation refuse to by the Senator from Indiana, and that is the question, What ar.e grant its concessions to the Government of the United States, and the rights of Costa Rica in this matter? For after President Cleve­ then answer the question, What-footing have we got there to stand land was I"equired to make his decision, and made it, that the upon? Nothing, Mr. President, unless we fall back upon this sec­ right bank of the San Juan River from Castillo Viejo, or within 3 ond charter granted by Nicaragua in violation of a contract, one miles of Castillo Viejo, out to the sea was the northern boundary of the term of which I will read to the Senate. I have had it of Costa Rica, and that Costa Rica had full right with Nicaragua copied in the record to-day, and I should be very glad indeed if to control the waters of the San J nan outlet of Lakes Nicaragua Senators would take that record and read this paper. Mr. W. R. and Managua-after that decision was made the Maritime Com­ Grace is the leading man in the firm that owns this 1ast conces­ pany went forward and obtained at considerable expense from sion, obtained from Zalaya and the Congress of Nicaragua at the Costa Rica a concession for the building of this canal which was very moment of its expiry when it was entering into a new Gov­ in identical terms with that which had been obtained previously ernment called the United States of Central America, Mr. Grace from Nicaragua. 152 CONGRESSIONAL RE·CORD-SENATE._ DECEMBER ·13,

Now,, Costa Rica comes in. She finds herself in the legislation cessions were made whenever it was convenient to get this affair under which we granted the chart-er to this company, for her on the bargain counter arid make a new sale of it. rights are there distinctly mentioned and referred to. When the Mr. TURPIE. That is not the expression of amity to the Re­ cnarter was granted it was granted upon the basis of the conces­ public of Nicaragua. sion that Nicaragua had made, and of such concessions as Costa . Mr. MORGAN. The expression of amity! That is the delight­ Rica might make, to t.he Maritime Canal Company. Costa Rica, ful voice they utter in our ears. "We are amiable toward you; · therefore, is juet as important a factor in this matter as Nicaragua, we love you; we are the friendliest people in the world. :• because she controls jointly with Nicaragua the lower reach of Mr. TURPIE. That is the word of the people. the San Juan River, some 60 or 70 miles, as I have stated, nom Mr. MORGAN. That is the word of the people, and does that Castillo Viejo-or within 2 or 3 miles of_it-clear out to the sea. convince the Senator from Indiana it is all true? The Senator Now, Costa Rica has never intimated any objection to the course from Indiana seems to have got to a sentimental mood about this of the United States or any objection to the course of the Maritime b1;1siness, and because in some treaty the word" amity " has been Canal Company. She is entirely satisfied with it and claims all of used he has come to the conclusion that Nicaragua is so in love her rights. Nicaragua consented to this concession from Costa with us that not only would they do justice by us under all cir­ Rica, and wa~ bound to do it, because when she made her own cumstances, but they never would take any of our money for a concession she represented to this canal company that she owned concession that they wanted to dispose of to us. the entire river; that her line went below the inargin of the San What becomes of that amity, Mr. President, when the President Juan River on the south; that she owned the whole of it, That of the United States caused to be served upon President Zavala a affirmation was untrue. It turned out, according to President protest against the change of the status quo as he was going out of G"leveland's decision as an umpire, that that affirmation was not office, which I read in the Senate yesterday, and Senators will find true; that Costa Rica owned up to the margin of the river on its it in the RECORD? It is a solemn protest that the status quo in right bank and that she owned equally with Nicaragua the waters Nicaragua must not be altered, as that Government was about to of that river. be dissolved. How did the President of the United States under­ What are we going to do about Costa Rica? When we are drop­ stand this question of amity at that time, and in what light did he ping this concession; when we are refusing to carry it out; when view this interruption, or irruption, rather, of Mr. Grace into weare condemning and denouncing it ineverypossibleway, Costa Nicaragua for the purpose of taking control of the diplomatic sit­ Rica stands by and looks the Government of the United States in uation of the Government there? the face and says, "What are yon gomg to do with me? I am as In times past, Mr. President, we have been compelled to have much interested in this canal as Nicaragua is; it is the very life of some legislation on questions of this kind, and I want to call at­ my country. I have been looking to it for many years as a source tention to it for a moment. I call attention to section 5335 of the of wealth to our people. I have gone honestly and by your invi­ Revised Statutes, with a view of showing what the Government tation in your charter into the making of this concession. I claim of the United States has found it is compelled to provide in the myrightsunderit. What are you going todowith me?" "Why," nature of a penal law to prevent just such things as Mr. Grace says the Senator from Indiana, "we will make a tripartite treaty has done, and then flouts in the face of the President of the United with the three." States by asking him to accept a proposition, provided he will tako Mr. President, it is no more possible to make a treaty between a second-mortgage bond or a second-mortgage security for the these three States to-day than it is between three stars in the amount of money that they want-$50,000,000. firmament. It is impossible to get the consent of Costa Rica to SEC. 5335. Every citizen of the United States, whether actually r esident or any treaty that Nicaragua will consent to hereafter, for the reason abiding within the same, or in any foreign country, who, without the per­ that she understands perfectly well that Nicaragua for years past­ mission or authority of the Government, directly or indirectly, commences or carries on any verbal or written correspondence or intercour!le with any ever since Cleveland's decision was made-has had toward her a foreign government, or any officer or agent thereof, with an intent to influ­ most splenetic and revengeful feeling, and has determined to ence the measures or conduct of any foreign government, or of any officer or destroy her integrity and her sovereignty. agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or cor..troversies with the United State-s, or to defeat the measures of the Government of the United States; It was for that reason more than any other in the world that and every person, being a. citizen of, or resident within, the United States, Nicaragua consented to go into this new republic· with Hon­ and not duly authorized, who couns€11s, advises, or assists in any such corre­ duras and Salvador, which has been broken up, they tell me. That spondence, with such intent, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, and by imprisonment during a term ns>t less than six monthR nor is what the papers say about it, and I think it must be so. She more than three years; but nothing in this section shall be construed to went in there for the purpose of uniting two States that had abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign nothing to do with this canal at all into a federation with her. government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may But before she went in, after the compact had been entered into have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects. by which her sovereignty as an independent State was to cease on One of the points in this statute is, that a person who under­ the 1st day of November, then, on the last day of October, she takes to defeat ths measures of the Government of the United received from Mr. Grace, who comes and offers this contract to States is amenable to this punishment. The President of the the United States, $100,000,000 in gold and a promise of $400,000,000 United States sent his protest to the President of Nicaragua, and when he could get the United States or any other country to char­ informed him that the Government of the United States made t.er this corporation and have it put into execution. In the very that solemn protest against any change in the status quo in regard last expiring moment of the Government of Nicaragua she made to the canal. Thereupon Mr. Grace pressed his demand arid got that bargain. . this concession, violating a measure that the Government of the The Senator from Indiana said that there had been a hundred United States had found to be necessary in order to protect the concessions made to the people of the United States-131, I think, rights of its own citizens. he said had been made in'all to the people of the United States. It is very true, Mr. President, that the Government of Nicaragua Mr. TURPIE. No. has paid no respect whatever to the concessions they have made. Mr. MORGAN. Am I mistaken? It is very true that they have made a great many of them, and Mr. TURPIE. Yes, sir. they have accumulated a great deal of money out of this very Mr. MORGAN. I will ask the Senator to repeat his statement. traffic. But it is time that the Government of the United States Mr. TURPIE. I said there had been, I thought, at least 100 stopped it. It is time that.we had taken an attitude in regard to concessions granted, even before the existence of the Republic, this thing that will teach them that they can not any longer prac­ and 21 , at least, had been granted to citizens·of the United States. tice this fast and loose with our people in their concessions. Mr. MORGAN. I beg pardon. I dare say, Mr. President, that This bill proposes to take an attitude on the part of the Govern­ $100,000, or some such sum of money, was paid for each conces­ ment of the United States in the maintenance of a contract hon­ sion. Ol'able and just and upon a consideration in money of $150,000 Mr. TURPIE. I think so. paid for it under which four and one-half million dollars have Mr. MORGAN. And the Senator said that it was a very com­ been expended. It proposes to take an attitude in affirmation of mon practice to have them lap over one another. the rights of its citizens; a!ld to show the earnestness of the Gov­ Mr. TURPIE. Yes, sir. ernment on that subject and its determination to use, employ, and Mr. MORGAN. And that the Government after making these consummate the arrangement that has been made, we dispense concessions would pay no attention to them at all. with these private gentlemen; we take their transfer, not of the Mr. TURPIE. No. concession, but of stock in this company. We become stockhold· Mr. MORGAN. That we had not anything to do but to go ers in it, along with Nicaragua and Costa Rica, who, if they had down-- had the money, could have taken the majority of the stock in this Mr. TURPIE. What I said was that the parties who had con­ canal, or either of them could have done so. We propose to come cessions paid no attention, having made surveys and found the in now and show that the Government of the United StaLes is expense was beyond their reach. determined that Nicaragua shall comply, as Costa Rica is comply· Mr. MORGAN. They forfeited their money and came away. ing, with all her obligations under this concession and under the The true history of it is that the Government of Nicaragua has treaty of 1867. , been making these concessions from time to time, and that con- When we march up and take that attitude, then Nicaragua will 1898. · CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 153

understand that her thimblerigging game that she has been prac­ made this valid concession, and enter into a tripartite treaty be­ ticing down there by the assistance of Mr. Grace can not possibly tween Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the United States? She bas defeat the United States Government in this enterprise of build­ disqualified herself. But she is in a position where the Senator ing the canal. Did Mr. Grace go there to build the canal? If he from Indiana says that governments pay no respect to matters like wanted to build the canal (and be has had the money all the time this, to corporations or individuals. They break down these in­ to do it if he has got it now), why did be not interpose two or three terposing barriers; yes, take them by the heels and drag them out or four or five years ago? Why did he wait until be ·supposed that and go in and take possession of their affairs and their property. on the arrival of the 9th of October next the concession under Governments may do this, but the Government of the United which we are moving to-day would expire, and when he supposed States has never done it and never will. We respect the rights that influences might be brought here to delay action in the Sen­ of the humblest man in this world; and if the men who own this ate until it bad expired, then put up his $100,000 and pay it into concession were the fraud perpetrators and the scoundrels they Zavala's pocket the last minute that he had life in him as presi­ have been represented to be to-day by the Senator from Ind,iana on dent, and promise $400,000 more on the consummation of that ras· the floor of the Senate, still their rights there are just as sacred to cally contract? Why did he do all this? Was it to build the canal? us as if they were honorable men, for it is not their cb_aracter that No, Mr. President; it was to own it. It was to hold up the Gov­ we are protecting, but it is their rights that we are protecting, and ernment. It was to prevent us from building the canal unless we our Government will always stand by the right. would come in and open the doors of the Treasury and pay him Now, Mr. President, I will yield the floor for amotion to adjourn. and Nicaragua some exorbitant sum in addition to all that has been expended there to get hold of this property. APPENDIX. What do they propose to do with the work that bas been done List of di1·ectors of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, j1·om date oj there-the plan, the building, the surveys that have been so very organization, May 2, 1889, to June 1, 1898. - expensive and that are not yet finally completed? They availed Hiram Hitchcock, May 2, 1889, to date. President of the company, and the ·themselves of all this. Did they take all of this property? They only president it has had. In offiee at present time. New York. • Charles P. Daly, May 2,1889, to date. Vice-president of company; ex-chief niake no compensation, and do not even hint at the idea of mak­ justice New York; president of American Geographical Society, etc. In ing compensation. What do they do with the rights of Costa office at present time. New York. Rica? They do not even mention Costa Rica in the concession. Daniel Ammefi, United States Navy, May 2, 1898, to date. Rear-admiral United States Navy. In office at present time. Ammendale, Md. They ride Costa Rica down as if she had no interest in this canal Horace L. Hotchkiss, May 2, 1889, to date. Banker, New York. In office at line at all, and come towering in here, in virtue of their supposed present time. New York_ - wealth and power, to demand of the Government of the United States that if they expect to get into this arrangement they may owFe~ef£!~~~~~~tfoh ~t[h~ !rB;;~t~r~e~:~~tiaW;~~· J'e~~lillin.gs is be let in to the extent of $50,000,000, provided they take a second aJ~seB~~M~~Do.nald, May~. 1889, to June 21, 1891 ~x-United States Sen- mortgage to secure themselves, and then make that proposition to Francis A. Stout, May 2, 1889, to May 7,1891. Vice-President American the President of the United States. That is what we are invited Geographical Society. Resigned; since deceased. Alfred B. Darling, May 2,1889, to November 2, 1893. Capitalist. Resigned; to receive and accept as the future hope of this country in regard since deceased. to the building of the Nicaragua Canal. Franklin Fairbanks, May 2, 1889, to April 24, 1895. President of Fairbanks And here come in another and another and another claimant. Scale Company. Deceased. The Panama Canal Company is here for the purpose of informing BaYti!~~~~lebe~~~~~~n, May 2, 1889, to May 19, 1894. Surveyor of port of us at this late hour that if we will only abstain from building this Alexander T. Mason, May 2, 1889, to December 7, 1893; May 2, 1895, to date. canal, if we will take .time to be a little dispassionate and cool, if Counsel of the company. In office at present time. New York. - Joseph Bryan, May 2, 1889, to date. Proprietor of The Richmond Times~ we will not get into a fever heat about building the canal or in too In office at present time. Richmond, Va. great a hurry, they will build a canal for us that will answer all James Roosevelt, May 2,1889, to date. Vice-president Delaware and Hud­ our purposes. We have got to wait but a little while on them. son Canal Company and director in various financial companies. Chairman of executive committee of company. In office at present time. Hyde I see it is stated in a New York paper that a man by the name Park, N.Y. - of Cragin has denied a statement I made here.· What was that Horatio Guzman, May 2, 1889, to December 31, 1895. Minister of Republic ' statement? That the Grace party expected to place a majority of of Nicara-gua. Withdrawn. _ their bonds and stocks in London. I have not seen Mr. Cragin since Minister of Fomento of Republic of Nicaragua, December 31, 1895, to date. The minister proposes to name his representative, but has not yet done so. he has been in Washington on the present expedition. He bas not In office at present time. · done me the honor to call upon me, but Mr. Michael Grace called Pedro Perez Zeledon, May 2. 1889, to June 27, 1889. Minister from Republic · on me. I did not in\Tite him to my bouse, and he came twice dur­ of Nicaragua. R-esigned June L 1898. . Thomas B. Atkins, May 1, 1890, to date. Secretary and treasurer of the ing the same day. He was trying to convince me that the best company. In office at present time. Roselle, N. J. thing in the world to do about this canal was to abandon the idea Henry E. Howland, May 7,1891, to date. Ex-judge marine court New York. controlling it by a government and to let it be controlled by pri­ President of the New England Society, etc. In office at present time. New of York. vate owners of stock. I asked Mr. Grace the distinct question, "If James B. Eustis, November 5, 1891, to April 6, 1893. Ex-Senator and ex­ you break down this Nicaragua Canal concession and get your ambassador of the United States. Resigned. proposition afloat, where do you expect to get your money?" "Why, Frederick F. Thompson, September 19,1893, to date. Vice-president of First National Bank. In office at present time. New York. we expect to get the majority of it in London by the sale of bonds Robe.rt Sturgis, May 4,1893, to date. Counselor at law. In office at pres· and stock., I understand Mr. Cragin has come out in aNew York enttime. NewYork. paper over his own signature to say that that was not true. RICHARD C. SHANNON, May 3, 1894, to March 6, 1896. Ex-minister of the Another of the agents of this lobby that is hanging around United States and present member of Congress. Resigned. Samuel E. Kilner, May 3, 189!, to date. Trustee of estate of Frederick E. Washington said it was true that Mr: Mike Grace had stumbled Billings. In office at present time. New York. in talking with me about it. It was a natural question for me to George West, May 2,1895, to date. Ex-member of Congress, and large ask him, for I wanted to know whether, under his plan of the paper manufacturer. In office at present time. Ballston Spa, N. Y. Aneceto G. Menocal, May 7, 1896, to date. Civil engineer, United States eonstruction of this canal, it was to be done by Americ·an citizens Navy. In office at present time. Brooklyn, N.Y. or by foreign citizens. So I asked him first-where be expected to get the charter. Did he expect to get it in Congress? ·No. Mr. PLATT of Connecticut. I move that the Senate proceed to "Where do you expect to get the charter?" "In New York." the conside'ration of executive business. ''Where do you expect to raise your money?" '' On the sale of The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the con­ bonds or stock; the majority of it in London," be stated. That sideration of executive business. After twenty minutes spent m was not an innocent disclosure of Mr. Grace, made by accident. executive session the doors were reopened, and (at 5 o'clock and 15 It was a serious speech of his to convince me that the money minutes p.m.) the Senate adjourned until to-moiTow,.Wednes· would be forthcoming to build the canal. day, December 14, 1898, at 12 o'clock meridian. Now, Mr. President, we have the whole matter opened up here in this letter that William R. Grace, of New York, sent to the President of the United States; and that is what we are invited to. NOMINATIONS. That is where we are drifting and that is where we land. Is there Executive nominations received by the Senate December 13, 1898. a Senator on this :floor who would be willing to see that canal PROMOTIONS IN .THE ARMY, built by London people or by the Government of Great Britain or any other foreign Government except those concerned-Nicaragua CAVALRY ARM. and Costa Rica-or to have any partnership in the building of this To be majors. canal or in its ownership or control? Why, what are we thinking Capt. Charles A. P. Hatfield, Fourth Cavalry, October 16,1898, of, when we do not interfere with other nations of the earth in vice Carr, Eighth Cavalry, promoted. respect of their transportation and facilities for governing their Capt. J obn B. Kerr, Si'{th Cavalry, October 24, 1898, vice Kelley, distant colonies or possessions, that we should permit any Euro­ Tenth Cavalry, retired from active service. pean power or any European body of citizens to come here and by Capt. Joseph H. Dorst, Fourth Cavalry, November 7,1898, vice a trick like that to usurp the control of this canal? Thompson, Second Cavalry, retired from active service. Where has Nicaragua placed herself by making that concession Capt. GeorgeS. Anderson, Sixth Cavalry, November 10, 1898, in the event that it is valid? . Can she turn around now, having vice Nowlan, Seventh Cavalry, deceased. 154 CONG).illSSlONAL)l{RE.CORD~SEN ATE. DEOEl\ffiER 13,

To be captains. for the southern district of Ohio, to which position he was tem~ First Lieut. Leste1· W. Cornish, Fifth Cavalry, October 16, 1898, porarily appointed dlll'ing the last recess of the Senate, vice vice Olmsted, Ninth Cavalry, .retired from. active service. George R. Sage, resigned. Fi.rst Lieut. Tyree ~R. Rivers, Third Cavalry, October 16, 1898, Edward .R. Meek, of Texas, to be United States district judge vice Hatfielcl, Fourth Cavalry, promoted. for the northern district of Texas, to which position he waa tern~ Fil·st Lieut. Albe.rt L. Mills, First Cavalry, October 24, 1898, porarily appointed during the last recess of the Senat-e, as provided vice Kerr, Sixth Cavalry , promoted. for by act of Congress approved February 9, 1898. First Lieut. John A. Lockwood, Fom·th Cavalry, November 7, UNITED STATES A.TTORNEYS. 1898, vice Dorst , Fourth Cavalry, promoted. Robert A. Friedrich, of California, to be attorney of the United FirstLient. Henry T. Allen, Second Cavalry, November10, 1898, States for the district of Alaska, to which position he was tem· vice Anderson, Sixth Cav..aJry, promoted. po1.-arily appointed duTing the lastT-ecess -of the Senate, vice Bm·­ INFANTRY A'IDII. ton E. Bennett, removed. To be jint lieutenants. Milton C. "Elstner, of Louisiana, to be attorney of the United States for the western district of Louisiana, to which position he -second Lieut~ Sam uel 'F. L yon, Twenty-fifth Infantry, June 30, 1898, vice Steedman, Sixteenth Infantry, promoted. was temporarily appointed during the last reeess of the Senate, Second Lieut. William T. Schenck, Tenth Infantry, June 30, vice Charle-s W. Seals, whose term expired August 22, 1897. George H. P ettit, of New York, to be attorney of the United 1898, vice Ahern, Twenty-fifth Infantry, promoted. States for the eastern district of New York, to which position he APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY. was temporarily appointed during the last recess of the Senate, MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. vice James L. Bennett, ·whose t--erm expired August .2, 1898. To be assistant SU'I"geons with the rank of first lieutenant. Edgar Allan, of Virginia, to b e attorney of the Unit-ed States for the eastern djstrict<>f Virginia, to which position he was tem- . First. Lieut. Clyde Sinclair Ford, of West Virginia, assistant porarily appointed during the last recess of the Se-nate, vice surg:eon, Fom:th UnitedStates~ Volunteer Infantry, to fill :an m·i:gi­ William H. 'White, resigned. nal vacancy. JameB Robb Chm·ch, of the District of Golumbia, latefirst lieu­ UNITED STATES :MARSHALS. tena,nt, assiatant surgeon, First United States Volunteer Cavalry, Frank Simmons, of Alabama., to be marshal-of the United. States to fill an original vacancy. foT the southern distric.t of Alabama, t o w.hich poaition lie was Joseph Herbert Ford, _of the District of Columbia, to fill an temporarily appointed September 16, 1897, during a recess of the original vacancy. Senate, .and nominated .to the same position December 18, 1892, but Percy Moreau Ashburn, of Ohio, to fill au original vacancy. Congress having adjo.urned without- taking action as to biB con­ Elmer Anderson Dean, of Tennessee, to fill an original vacancy. firmation, he was again appointed during the last recess of the Waite1· Cox, of Maryland, to fill an original vacancy. Senate. Richard B. Westnedge, of Iowa, to fill an 01·iginal vacancy. Thomas F. McGourill, of Florida., to be marshal of the United Francis Marion Cowgill Usher, of Kentucky, to fill an original States for the northern dis.trict of Florida, to which poaitiGn he vacancy. was appointed tempomrily during the last recess of th-e Senate, SamuelLewis.steer, of Pennsylvania, to fill an original vacancy. vice Samu-el Puleston, whose term expired August 24, 1898. Will.ard F. Truby., of Pennsy:lvania, to fill an original vacancy. Frank. G. Ramsey, of Idaho., to be ma;rshal uf the United St:a.t es Frederick Fuiier Rmsell, of New York, to fill an original for the district of Idaho, to which p:osition he w.aa temporarily vacancy. appointe.d during the .last reoesa of the Senate, v.ioe James I. Edwin Philip Wolfe, of New York, vice Strong, retired n·om Crutcher, whose term .exph.~ed Allt,oust 8, 1SU8. active~ service. Charles .Fontelieu, af Louisiana, to be marr.ahal of the Unit-ed Edward Warwick Pinkham, .pf Massachusetts, vice A.l·thur, States for the eastern district of Louisia.na, to -w.hich p.osition he promoted. was temporarily appointed during the last r-eee s of the Senate, Llewellyn P. Williamson, of Missouri, vice Brewer, deceased. vice J. V. Guillotte, whose term expired J.anuaey 20. 1898. Charles .Edward..Ma1:row, of Virginia, vice .Rash, .resigned. George H. Green, of Texas, to be mru.·shal of the United States SECOND LIEUTEN A.NT OF INFANTRY. for the northern d:iBtrict of Texas., to which pesition he was tem­ William A. Talcott, jr., la:te of New York, to be second lieuten­ porarily appointed during .the last recess-of the Se11ate, vic:e Rob­ ant o.f infantry, to date from July 9, 1898, to fill an original va­ ext ltL Love; removed.. cancy. COMMISSIONER. 'rO REVISE AND CODIFY CRilliNA.L AND PENAL LAWS. NoTE .. -He served as an enlisted man in the Seventy-first New Da~fd K. Watson, of Ohio, to be a com.m.issioner to r-evise and York Volunteers during the war, and was examined by a board ·in codify the criminal and penal laws of the United States, t.o which Santiago, Cuba, for the appointment of second lieutenant of in­ position he was temporarily appointed dm·ing the last ree.ess of fantry. the Senate, vice Albert C. Thompson, resigned. He·was commissioned d.ming the reces~..August 24, 1898., to be second lieutenant of infantry, to rank from July 9, 1898, and his INSEECTQR OF STEAM VESSELS.. commission was forwarded to him August 30, 1898, at Camp James Stone, of Ohio, to be supervising inspector of steam ves­ Wikoff, Montauk Point, Long Island, New York. sels for the Ninth district, to succeed 1\!. J. Galvin, remo"'R:ld. Mr. He died September 1, 1898. Stone is nnw serving under a tempm·ary commission issued duTing SECOND LIEU'l'ENANT OF .ARTILLERY. the recess of the Senate. Arthur Fletcher Cassels., of-the District of Columbia, to b.e sec­ ""PROMOTIONS Til" THE REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE. ond1ieutenant of artillery,.July 9,1898, to fill an original va.cancy. First Asst. Engineer Harry L. Boyd.. of Maryland, to be a chief engineer in the Revenue-Cutter Se.rvlce of the United States. Mr. ASSISTANT SU RGEO..NS IN THE li1ARINE-HOS.PITAL SERVICE. Boyd' is now J3erving unde1· a. temporary commission issued.d.uring William C. Billings, of Connecticut, to be assistant surgeon in the reees,s of the Senate. the .Marine-Hospital.Service of th-e United States. First Asst. Engineer Nathaniel E. Cutchin, of Virginia, to be a Gustave l\1. Corput, of Georgia, to be assis.tant surgeon in th.e chief enginee1· in th-e Revenue-Cutter Service of the United Marine-Hospital Service o.f the United States. States. Mr. Cutchin is now serving under a temporary commis~ John W. ·Ke.rr, of Ohio, to be assistant surgeon in the Marine­ sion issued during the recess of the Senate.. Hospital Service of the United St,ates. First Asst. Engineer Andrew J. Howison, of South Carolina, Dana E. Robinson, of Ohio, to be assistant surgeon in the to be a chief engineer in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United Marine-Hospital Service of the United States. States. :Mr. Howison is now serving under a temporary commis~ POSTMASTERS. sion iss.ued. during the recess of the Senate. First Ass.t. Engineer Eugenious A. Jack, of Virginia, to be a Albert C. L:mders, to be postmaster at Newport, in the county chief engineerin th-e Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States. of Newport and State _of Rhode Island, in the place of D. E. Mr. Jack is now serving under a temporary commisaion issued Young, whose commission expired December 11, 1898. during the recess of the Senate. John A. Bushfield, to be postmaster at Miller, in the county of First Asst. Engineer Charles F. Nash, of the District of Coltnn­ Hand and State of South Dakota, in the place of John Pusey, bia, to be a chief engineer in the Revenue-Cutt.,er Service of the whose commission expires January 15, 1899. United.. Sta.tes. Mr. Nash is now serving under a temporary com­ DISTRICT JUDGES. mission iBsued during the-recess of the Senat~. Hamilton G. Ewart, of N.orth Carolina, to be United States First.Asst. Engineer Edwru:d J. Noonan., of Massachusetts, to district judge far the western district of North Ca-rolina, to which be a~hief engineer -in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United position he w.as temporarily appointed during -the last recess of States. :Mr. Noonan.is now serving under a temporary commis­ the Senate, vice Robert P. Dick, resigned. sion issued during the :recess of the Senate. Albert C. Thompson, of Ohiu, to be Ilnited,States district judg~ First Asst. Engineer William Robinson, of Pennsylvania, to be 1898. CONGRES.SIONAL RECORD-SENATE.' 155

a chief engineer in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the Unit~d for the district of N-ew Orleans, i~ the St-ate of Louisiana, to sue~ States. Mr. Robinson i

ASSISTANT COI,LECTOR OF CUSTOMS. CONFIRMATIONS. Frank F. Patterson, of New Jersey, to be assistant collector of Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate Decembe1' 13, 1898. customs for the port of Camden, N.J., in the district of Phila­ delphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, to succeed D. B. Peterson, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE, whose term of office has expired by limitation. Mr. Patterson is David J. Hill, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of State. now serving under a temporary commission issued during the CONSULS-GENERAL. 1·ecess of the Senate. Frank H. Mason, of Ohio, to be consul-general of the United APPRAISER OF MERCHANDISE. States at Berlin, Germany. Robert J. Hendricks, of Oregon, to be appraiser of merchandise Richard Guenther, of Wisconsin, to be consul-general of the in the district of Willamette, in the State of Oregon, to succeed United States at Frankfort, Germany. __ Owen Summers, resigned. Mr. Hendricks is now serving under CONSULS. a temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. Max J. Baehr, of Nebraska, to be consul of the United States at MEMBERS OF THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. Kehl, Germany. Thomas W. Phillips, of Pennsylvania, to be a member of the Rufus W. Lane, of Ohio, to be consul of the United States at Industrial Commission authorized by the act of Congress approved Smyrna, Turkey. . June 18, 1898. Mr. Phillips is noyr serving under a temporary George G. Pierie, of Pennsylvania, to be consul of the United commission issued during the recess of the Senate. States at Munich, Bavaria. Andrew L. Harris, of Ohio, to be a member of the Industrial George H. Pickerell, of Ohio, to be consul of the United States Commission authorized by the act of Congress approved June 18, at St. Michaels, Azores. 1898. Mr. Harris is now serving under a temp·orary commission COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE, issued during the recess of the Senate. Archie D. Sanders, of New York, to be collector of internal John L. Kennedy, of the District of Columbia, to be a member revenue for the twenty-eighth district of New York. of the Industrial Commission authorized by the act of Congress approved June 18, 1898. Mr. Kennedy is now serving under a temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. Simeon N.D. North, of Massachusetts, to be a member of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Industrial Commission authorized by the act of Congress approved June 18, 1898. Mr. North is now serving under a temporary com­ ruESDAY, Decemher 13, 1898. mission issued during the recess of the Senate. • The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Ellison A. Smyth, of South Carolina, to be a member of the In­ HENRY N. COUDEN. dustrial Commission authorized by the act of Congress approved The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and ap­ June 18,1898. Mr. Smyth is now serving urider a temporarycom­ proved. mission issued during the recess of the Senate. ORDER OF BUSINESS. John M. Farquhar, of New York, to be a member of the Indus­ trial Commission authorized by the act of Congress approved June Mr. HAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise for the purpose of offering a 18, 1898. Mr. Farquhar is now serving under a temporary com­ privileged report. . . mission issued during the recess of the Senate. The SPEAKER. The regular order, the Chair would state, is, Eugene D. Conger, of Michigan, to be a member of the Indus­ the previous question having been ordered on yesterday and par­ trial Commission authorized by the act of Congress approved June tially executed, to continue the vote on the bill penQ.ing at the time . 18, 1898. Mr. Conger is now serving under a temporary commis­ of adjournment. · · sion issued during the recess of the Senate. Mr. HAY. Th"Eln I will withdraw the report for the present. Michael D. Ratchford, of Indiana, to be a member of the Indus­ The SPEAKER. No motion is now privileged, the Chair will trial Commission authorized by the act of Congress approved June state, but the Chair will put any request for unanimous consent 18, 1898. Mr. Ratchford is now serving under a temporary com­ that members desire to submit. · mission issued during the recess of the Senate. Mr. HAY. I will ask to withhold the report until the matter Charles J. Harris, of North Carolina, to be a member of the In­ under consideration has been disposed of. dustrial Commission authorized by the act of Congress approved REPORT OF BOARD OF MANAGERS OF NATIONAL HOME. June 18, 1898. Mr. Harris is now serving under a temporary com- Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, I desire to ask unanimous con­ mission issued during the recess of the Senate. - sent to consider a resolution which has been referred to the Com­ ASSISTANT TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES. mittee on Printing and reported back favorably. John F. Finney, of Pennsylvania, to be assistant treasurer of The SPEAKER. The resolution will be read, after which the the United States at Philadelphia, Pa., to succeed William D. Chair will ask if there be objection. Bigler, whose term of office has expired by limitation . . Mr. Fin­ The resolution was read, as follows: Resolved, That tbere·be printed of the Report of the Board of Managers of ney is now serving under a temporary commission issued during the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, in addition to the usual the recess of the Senate. number, 500 copies for the use of the Home. SUPERINTENDENTS OF MINTS. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the accompanying report. Charles W. Boothby, of Louisiana, to be superintendent of the The Clerk read as follows: mint of the United States at New Orleans, La., to succeed Over­ The Committee on Printing, having bad under consideration House concur­ rent resolution No. 45, to print, in addition to the usual number, 500 copies of ton Cade, removed. Mr. Boothby is now serving under a tem­ the report of the Board of Managers of theNa.tiona.l Home for Disabled Volun­ porary commission issued during the recess of tht~ Senate. teer Soldiers, for the use of the Home, recommend that the same be agreed to. Roswell K. Colcord, of Nevada, to be superintendent of the The Public Printer estimates the cost of printing under this resolution at mint of the UnitedStatesatCarson, Nev., to succeed J. W.Adams, $625. removed: Mr: Colcord is now serving under a temporary com­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the.present consideration mission issued during the recess of the Senate. of the resolution? COLLECTORS OF INTERNAL REVENUE. There was no objection. The resolution was considered, and agreed · Joseph E. Lee, of Florida, to be coHector of internal revenue to. for the districtofFlorida, to succeed George W. Wilson, removed. PRINTING OF GENERAL ORDERS IN BANKRUPTCY. Mr. Lee is now serving under a temporary commission issued dur­ Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, I also submit the resolution ing the recess of the Senate. which I send to the desk and ask unanimous consent for its . Louis J. Sauer, of Louisiana, to be collector of internal revenue present consideration. for the district of Louisiana, to succeed John J. Carter, removed. The SPEAKER. The resolution will be read. Mr. Sauer is now serving under a temporary commission issued The Clerk read as follows: during the recess of the Senate. Resolved, That there be printed of the general orders in uankruptcy, adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States, in accordance with the GENERAL INSPECTOR FURNITURE, TREASURY DEPARTMENT. act of Uongres.o; approved July 1, 1898, 10,500 copies, for the use of the House Richard 0. Jeardeau, of Wisconsin, to be general inspector of of Representatives. ' furniture, etc., Treasury Department. Office created by act of The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present considera1Jon Congress approved July 1, 1898. Mr. Jeardeau is now serving of the resolution? under a temporary commission issued during the recess of the Mr. BAILEY. One moment, Mr. Speaker. Senate. That appears to me to be a matter exclusively for the benefit of the legal profession, and presents hardly, I think, a Congressional WITHDRAWAL. function. Mr. PERKINS. I will state to the gentleman from Texas, if he Executive nomination withdrawn Decembe1• 13, 1898. will permit me, that this has been requested by very many mem­ Arthur Fletcher Cassells, to be a second lieutenant of aftillery. bers of the House. The information contained iri the publicatioD • 1898. CONGRESSIONAL- RECORD-HOUSE. ·157

is as to the procedure in bankruptcy cases, and is regarded as NOT VOTING-118. supplemental to the act itself, and of great importance to all per- Arnold, Cousins, Johnson, Ina. Prince, Babcoc!J. Cummings, Johnson, N.Dak. Royse sons interested in such proceedings. · Baker, .ro.d. Curtis, Kans. Jones, Wash. Russell, Mr. BAILEY. It is perfectly true that the law itself provides Barber, Dvckery, Joy, Shannon, that the courts shall establish these rules, but those rules are only Barlow, Dorr, Kirkpatrick, Shuford, of interest to the legal profession. I believe that no citizen, merely Barrows, Dovener, Kulp, Simpson, Beach, Ermentrout, Lentz, Skinner, as a citizen, would have any use for them. Still I am not so clear Belden, Fischer, Lewis, Wash. Smith, Ill. that it is an improper publication, and I shall not object to the Belknap·, Fitzgerald, Lorimer, Smith, S. W. unanimous consent, but will simply cont-ent myself with voting Benner, Pa. Fitzpatrick, Loud, . Southard, Bland, Fleming, Loudenslager, Southwick, ''no." Bodine, Foote, McCleary, Strait, Mr. PERKINS. I ask unanimous consent, Mr. Speaker. This Boutell, ill. Fowler, N. C. McCormick, Strode, Nebr. resolution would be privileged if I chose to put it in the box and Boutelle, Me. Fowler, N.J. McDowell, Strowd, N.C. Bradley, Fox, McMillin, have it printed and come back in that way, but I assumed that Brewster, Gaines, Maddox, :f~zrr. Ala. there would be no objection. Brownlow, Gardner, Maguire, Van Voorhis, · The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration Bull, Greene, Nebr. Mahany, Vincent, Burleigh, Griffin, Mahon, Wadsworth, of the resolution? Campbell, Griggs, :Marshall, Walker, Va. There was no objection. Castle, Grosvenor, Martin, Ward, The resolution was agreed to. Warner, 8hr~~Fn'g, g~y, · ~lil:r, La. Wheeler, Ala. On motion of Mr. PERKINS, a motion to reconsider the votes Clark, Iowa Henry Conn. Minoi-, Wheeler, Ky. by which the two resolutions were agreed to was laid on the table. Cochrane, N.Y. Hill, ' Newlands, White,lll. Codding, Howard, Ala. Norton, Ohio White, N.C. PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN. Colson. · Howe, Norton, S. C. Wilber, Mr. PAYNE. I call for the regular order. Connell, Hunter, Odell. Williams, Pa. The SPEAKER. The regular order is called for; and it is the Cooper, Wis. Hurley, Otey, vote on the first two amendments to Senate bill 95, to amend the Corliss, Jenkins, Pitney, laws relating to American seamen, for the protection of such sea­ So the amendments were rejected. men, and to promote comme1·ce. Perhaps the Clerk had better The Clerk announced the following pairs: read the am'endments. Until further notice: · The Clerk read as follows: Mr. VAN VooRHIS with Yr. -McDowELL, · Mr. JOHNSON of North Dakota with Mr. FITZGERALD. On page 16, lines 17 to 19, after the word "earn," strike out" ana also at the discretion of the court by imprisonment for not more than one month." Mr. ROYSE with Mr. ERMENTROUT; On page 17, lines 8 to 10, strike out, after the word "pay," "or at the dis­ Mr. STRODE of Nebraska with Mr. LEWIS of Washington. cretion of the court by imprisonment for not more than one month." - Mr. PITNEY with Mr. DOCKERY. . The SPEAKER. The queRtion is on these two amendments. Mr. DOVENER with Mr. CUMMINGS. On this question the yeas and nays have been ordered. Mr. WILBER with Mr. HUNTER. ' The question was taken; and there were-yeas 107, nays 125, Mr. CODDING with ~fr. FITZPATRICK. answered "present" 5, not voting 118; as follows: Mr. CORLISS with Mr. STROWD of North Carolina. YEAS-107. Mr. Joy with Mr. LENTZ. · .Adamson, Cox, Lamb, Sayers, Mr. McEwAN with Mr.- VEHSLAGE . Allen, Cranford. Lanham, Settle, ~fr. MAHON with Mr. OTEY. Davenport, Latimer, Shafroth, Mr. BROWNLOW with Mr. RICHARDSO~. ~~·~l' Davey, Lester, Sims, · Bake:x!;ID. Davis, Lewis, Ga. Slar.den, Mr. WARD with Mr. LESTER. Ball DeArmond, Little, Sm1th, Ky. Mr. LouD with Mr. DE VRIES. Baclmead, De Uraffenreid, Livingston, Spalding, Mr. BELDEN with Mr. MAGUIRE. Bartlett, . Dinsmore, Lloyd, Sparkman, Bell, · Driggs, McAleer, Spight, Mr. RussELL with Mr. McCLELLAN, Benton, Elliott, McCulloch, Stallings, For this day: Berry, Graham, McEwan, Stark, Mr. GRIFFIN with Mr. Fox. Botkin, Griffith, McLain; Stephens, Tex. Brantley, Handy, McRae, Stokes, Mr. BOUTELL of lllinois with Mr. GRIGGS. Brenner, Ohio Hartman, Maxwell, Sulzer, Mr. JENKINS with Mr. MADDOX. Brewer, Hay, Meekison, Sutherland, Mr. GROSVENOR with Mr. BLAND. Broussard. Henderson, Miers, Ind. Swanson, Brucker, · Henry, Miss. Moon, Talbert, Mr. BuRLEIGH with Mr. NORTON of South Carolina. Brundidge, Henry, Tex. Ogden, Tate, Mr. BARLOW with Mr. OGDEN. Burke, Hinrichsen,· Osborne, Terry, Mr. SAMUEL W. SMITH with Mr. McMILLIN. Carmack, Howard, Ga. Peters, Underwood, Mr. WADSWORTH with Mr. MARSHALL. Clardy, Jett, Pierce, Tenn. Vandiver, Olark, Mo. Jones, Va. Rhea, Vehslage, Mr. WALKER of Virginia with Mr. NoRTON of Ohio. Clayton, Kelley, Ridgely, Williams, Miss. Mr. DE VRIES. I voted, but I have a general pair with the Cochran, Mo. King, Rixey, Wilson, gentleman from California, -Mr. LouD. I do not know how he Cooney, Kitchin, Robb, Young, Cooper, Tex. Kleberg, Robertson, La. Zenor. would vote, so I withdraw my vote and ask to be recorded as Cowherd. Knowles, Robinson, Ind. present. If he were present, I should vote "aye." NAYS-125. Mr. BRODERICK. .MY colleague, Mr. CURTIS of Kansas, is . Acheson, Dingley, Landis, Reeves, absent by reason of illness . Adams, Dolliver, Lawrence, Robbins, Mr. McCLELLAN. I have a general pair with the gentleman .Aldrich, Eddy, , Linney, · Sauerhering, -from Connecticut, Mr. RUSSELL. I do not kiiow how he would Alexander, Ellis, Littauer, Shattuc, Barham, Evans, Lovering, Shelden, have voted if here, so I change my vote from ''aye" to "present." Farney, Faris, Low, Sherman, 1\Ir. DOCKERY. I desire to know whether a pair has been: an4 Barrett, Fenton, Lybrand, Showalter, nounced with the gentleman from Ne~ Jersey, Mr. PITNEY. I B:u·tholdt, Fletcher, McCall, Smith,Wm. Alden Belford, Foss, McDonald, Snover, understood that I was paired with the gentleman from New Bmgh::un, Gillet, N. Y. Mcintire, Sperry, Jersey. . Bishop, Gillett, Mass. Mann, Sprague, The SPEAK;ER. The gentleman is so paired. Booze, Graff, :Marsh, Steele, _ • Broderick, Greene, Mass. Mercer, Ste.vens, Minn. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Bromwell, Grout, Mesick. Stewart, N.J. The SPEAKER.- The question is on the next two amendments, Brosius, Grow, Miller, Stewart, Wis. which the Clerk will report. Brown, Hager, Mitchell, Stone, The Clerk read as follows: Brumm, Hamilton, Moody, Sturtevant, Burtono Harmer, Morris, Sulloway, Strike out in line 8, pa~e 2±, t.ho followin~: Butler, Heatwole, Muda, Tawney, "(Except as provided m subsection (c) O.L this section.)" Cannon, Hemenway, Olmsted, Tayler, Ohio Strike out in lines 11 to 21, page 24, all of section (c). Capron, Henry, Ind. Otjen,. Thorp, The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the amend· Clarke. N.H. Hepburn, Overstreet, Tongue, Connolly, Hicks, Packer, Pa. Updegraff. ments which have just been reported by the Clerk. Grump, Hilborn, Parker, N.J. Walker, Mass. The question was taken; and the amendments were rejected. Crumpacker, Hitt, Payne, Wanger, The bill_was then ordered to a third reading, read the third time, l.'urtis, Iowa Hopkins, · Pearce, Mo. Weaver, Dalzell, Howell, Pearson, Weymouth, and passea. Danford, Hull, Perkins, Wise, On motion of Mr. PAYNE, a motion to reconsider the vote by Davidson, Wis. Kerr, Powers, Yost. which the bill was passed waa laid on the table. - Davison, Ky. Ketchum, Pugh, Dayton, Knox, Quigg, GARRISONS IN CUBA., PORTO RICO, .AND PHILIPPINES. Dick, Laca:r, Ray, Mr. HAY. ~fr. Speaker, I desire to offer a privileged report. ANSWERED ' 'PRESENT"-5. Mr. GROUT. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House 1·esolve itself Eennett, De ~ries, Gibson, McClellan, into the Committee of the Whole House on the stat.e of the Union Ri<:hai·dson. for the consideratiOn of appropriation bills. ~ 158 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DEOEMBER 13, ..

The SPEAKER. An appl'Opriation bill has precedence. consulted with our brethren and with Major Conger, our American minister l\fr. HAY. I think I had the floor, sh·; and this resolution would I de~med it ~afe for the fannly to come, as no one anticipated any trouble for foreigners nght here under the Empress's eyes, and while the new go-vern­ only take a very short time. ment is on probation before the interested powers. Our veteran leader Dr The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks the gentleman should per­ Lowry, felt entirely sure that the distut·bing rumors which have ac~om: mit this resolution to pass. It will only take a few moments. panied the change in rulers could not affect our affairs in Pekin thouah S'?mewhat &ppre~ensive Of tt:OUb~ for missionarieS in the interior, Wui espe­ The gentleman from Virginia presents the following report. Cially for those m West China, if, as was probable, the retirement of the The Clerk read as follows: young Emperor should be interpreted to mean the supremacy of the anti­ Resolved, That the Secretary of War at his ea.rlie.st convenience be re­ reform-that is, anti-foreign-element in the imperial capital. Thus far we quested to inform the House of Representatives what towns in the islands of have no tidings of disaster from any quarter ontside, though Ma;jor Conger Porto Rico, Cuba., and the Philippines will require to be_garrisoned by soldiers. told me day before yesterday that the consul at Chungking had wired that of the United States, and how many soldiers of the United States will be affairs were growing worse in that part of the Empire. necessary for each town in said islands; and how many soldiers of the United •• Singularly enough, it has fallen to the lot of my own family to be of the first to mee_t violence _under the new regime, and that here in Pekin, 'the States will be required for the United States proper. safest placem the empn'e. • Mr. HAY. I ask the Clerk to read the report. ''Mrs. Cranston and our da!!,g.hters left Tfentsin yesterday forenoon by Mr. HOPKINS. Mr. Speaker, is that a 1·eport from a com­ tr~in , due here a;t ~.10 p.m. The station is outside the city walls, about 4 miles from the miSsion compound. I had expected to go with Dr. Lowry to mittee? meet my family; but when Dr. Lowry explained the difficulty of securing Mr. HAY. Yes, sir. gC?Od chair-bear~rs for so many, I acquiesced in his plan of taking wit.h him The SPEAKER. It is a report from the Committee on Military his daughter Mtss Mabel, aged about 14, as company for the girls, who mlght come up in the springless cart, which is the common mode of conveyance Affairs, which the Clerk will read. even in Pekin. As matters turned out it was fortunate that but two chairs The Clerk read as follows: were sent; but no one dreamed of trouble. The day was beautiful the com­ The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom wa-.s referred House resolu­ pound so quiet that one could hardly realize the proximity of a great city tion No. 3i7. entitled "A resolution of inquiry as to certain information rela­ and so homelike that we could easily have fancied ourselves in Anierica. ' tive to the increase of the Army," report the same back to the House with "Dr. Lowry and his daughter are both ~uite accustomed to the native the recommendation that it do pass. donkey, and thus mounted left for the station about L15. The chairs and This information is deemed important in order that members may know c.arts were to be there for the return. The way leads through the south upon what basis it is proposed to mcrease the R-egular Army. gate of the main city, through a populous but somewhat scattm•ed settle­ ment called the 'South City,' beyond which is an outer wall with its gates. Mr. HOPKINS. Mr. Speaker, is that a privileged resolution? One very important factor in the whole affair had not been thought of by The SPEAKER. It is a resolution of inquiry. anyone. 'l'he day was a festival day. Great crowds were on the wide street Mr. HOPKINS. Well? between the two gates. The presence of foreigners probably reminded the people of the removal of the trading booths, which had long made the way The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman see any objection to it as very narrow-one of the improvements ordered by the late Emperor under a privileged report? 'foreign' influence. At any rate, the crowd began to yell, and then to run Mr. HOPKINS. I do not understand the full merits of it, and after the doctor and his da~hter, and soon were pelting them with clods and stones. Dr- Lowry put hrmself between Mabel and. the mob and pushed perhaps if I did I would not object to it; but as I understand it, along as fast as practicable. He was hit several times in the head and body, it is not a privileged resolution; but I defer to the superior judg­ but not seriously hurt. He stopped at a police station and asked for protec­ ment of the Speaker in the matter. tion, but met only an evasive answer. "At another, on the way, he wa~~mised an escort for his retur:t?-; but de­ The SPEAKER. The Chair was endeavoring to acquire wisdom termined to avoid the crowd by t - a less frequented t·oute, raroer than by asking if there was any objection. The Chair thought perhaps trust to such uncertain J?rot-ection. 0 course he did not have telephone or the gentleman understood and perhaps the Chair did not. telegraphic communication with his friends in the city. At the station he my simply said to the ladies not to be alarmed if they should see large crowds of Mr. HOPKINS. It was purpose to object if it was not privi- people in the streets-that it was a. feast day, and the people were out in leged. force. The coolies were instructed to take another route in returning, but The SPEAKER. The Chan· thinks it is a resolution of inquiry. for some reason did not do so. When the cavalcade was ready to move, Mrs. Mr. DOCKERY. Calling for information. Cranston and our eldest daughter, in chairs, were in the lead. Next came n. cart with our second daughter and Miss Mabel; then Dr. Lowry, with oru· The question was taken; and the resolution was agreed to. youngest, in another cart, and the baggage carts following. On motion of Mr. HAY, a motion to reconsider the vote by "Soon after they entered the •South City' these laSt separated from which the resolution was adopted was laid on the table. them, taking another route. It must be remembered that there is always a throng of vehicles and pack animals on these roads. The party had turned OUTRAGES ON AMERICAN CITIZENS IN C.HINA, from the broad street and passed eastward toward the 'Altar of Heaven' inclosure, leavin~ a wide open space between them and the great thorough­ Mr. HITT. Mr. Speaker, I desh·e to present a privileged report. fare-but were still in plain view-when they discovered a large crowd farther Mr. GROUT. I yield one moment. up the main avenue engaged in hooting, throwing, and other violent demon­ The Clerk read as follows: strations. This proves later to have been an attack on the secretary of the British legation and a lady whom he was escorting from the station. They Joint resolution (H. Res. 298) of inquiry concerning outrages on American were in chairs., and only escaped by taking refuge in their luggage carts-as citizens in China. we learn from a. note from the Engl.i.sh Church bishop, who sent over from Resolved, etc., That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, requested the London mission last night to inquire after our party. to communicate to Congress, so far as the same may be done without detri­ "The crowd seems to have just then caught .sight of our chairs over on the ment to public interests, all the information in his possession concerning cer­ side road, and, yelling like demons, they came on the run across the open, tain alleged outrages committed upon the person of Bishop Earl Cranston gathering clods, pieces of concrete-anything hard that happened to be in and other American citizens in the city of Pekin, Clrina, by subjects of the their way. Dr. Lowry, who had been alert to the whole proceeding, leaped Emperor of China, and what steps, if anr.. have been taken by the State De­ from the cart, and snatching a heavy chair bar from the coolies, faced the F:;tment in t.he matter of demanding smtable redress a-nd indemnity there- onrushing mob. &a the coolies then pushed ahead, the escape might have been easier; bu.t one of them being struck by a missile, the whole lot stopped and left the ladies sitting there in the road. Two of them joined in the .The report (by Mr. HITT) was read, as follows: defense, two ran away, the other four seemed paralyzed. Dr. Lowry plied The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred joint resolution his weapon right and left, and wherever he moved the cowardly assailants (H. Res. 298) of inquiry concerning outrages on American citizens in China, fled before him. But he could not defend on all sides at once. He thinks beg leave to report the same back and recommend its adoption. • there were not more than 200 who took part in the throwing, but behind Mr. HITT. Mr. Speaker, the report is the unanimous report of them were several thousands, many of them well-dressed men giving the mob encouragement. The ladies in the chairs protected themselves as best the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and on inquiry at the State De­ they could with their wraps and the chair curtains, while the stones and partment we learn that the papers in response to the resolution are clods made havoc of window glass and trimmings. The chairs were strongly ready to be transmitted at once to the House. I yield for a mo­ built and covered with cloth over the framework, or they would have fared worse. ment to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. BROMWELL], who desires "The mob did not appear to be bloodthirsty, but simply wild. One fellow to present a paper. rushed to the front of our daughter's chair, pushed aside the barrier. saw Mr. BROMWELL. Mr. Speaker, I have nothing to say upon her face, and then, with all his strength, hurled at her a big lump of hardened mortar. Somehow its force was broken by the curtain frame, and it fell at this resolution further than that it appea.red f1·om publications in her feet, not having touched her body. She brought it in as a souvenir. Not the public p1·ess that in September last, in the city of Pekin, one missile in twenty took effect, but there were enough that did. Mean while Bishop Earl Cranston, in charge of the Methodist Episcopal the brave Dr. Lowry had been everywhere, fighting back the crowd, com­ manding the coolies to pick up the chairs and move on-which they finally did, Church missions in China, and Mr. Hirst, of the same church, and those lef.t of them-his presence and mastery over all who came within reach two ladies were viciously and violently assaulted by Chinese in of his long club being the only hope of the ladies for escape, unless God should the city of Pekin, and one of the party very severely injured. It work a miracle in their behalf. What of the carts? The first, containing .Mi&"! Mabel and onr second daughter, was n.bandoned by_ the driver, or he was was an occasion, it seemed to me, for a full statement of the facts, thrown off or dragged off-it does not appear which. The mule, young and in order that the country might know what waa being done in unused to such treatment, ran-fortunately, in the right direction-dragging China for the protection of its citizens. I ask unanimous consent the cart perilonsly near to au embankment, which would have overturned it. Miss Mabel, who kept her nerve during the whole of the awful ordeal, to have a letter from Bishop Cranston to the Western Christian reached forward, caught the lines that had fallen on the shafts, and brought Advocate published as a part of my remarks. It sets out in detail the animal under control. Soon afterwards the driver reappeared. The a statement of the transaction. other cart had followed with poor Ruth in it, alone-for the Doctor was fac­ The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio asks permission to ing the rioters. "The firs.t intimation of trouble which reached us at the compound was the print in the RECORD the letter described. Is there objection? arrival of the two carts. In hurried, tearful sentences the girls told of the [After a pause. J The Chair hears none. attack and how they h2.d left the scene. Major Conger was at the moment The letter referred to is as follows: on the ground, with his wife, paying social calls. I advised him, as well as I could nuder the awful stress, of the peril of Dr. Lowry and the ladies, know­ BISHOP CRANSTON'S FAMILY lOBBED IN PEKIN, SEPTE.YBER 80. ing full well that before relief could come, either from us or through the in; In a letter to the editor, Bishop Cranston says: tervention of our representative, the issue would be decided. The carts had "I wrote you yesterday that I had left Mrs. Cranston and the girls at traveled more than a mile from the scene of trouble. That meant at least Tientsin while I came to Pekin to learn what I could of the situation here fifteen minutes of precious time already gone. Whatever could befall them and determine whether they would bett~r come on to the capital. Having in the hands of a mob had happened ere the news reached us, or they had 1898. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD·- H_OUSE. 159

already esca-p-e~. :tit seemed that w.e·cm;rl!lonlypray and.~I>&in a:wfuJ.,sus, missioners, and is also $h7'1,219 •.30 less than tlurlast District bill. p ense-. The mnnste:r I-:ushed away on his· errand. The IDlSSiona.ry company ' Nevertheless, Mr. Chairman, it is-tlie largest bill that ever yet and the Chinese students gathered quiclrly at- tfia entrance of th-e-com:pmmd. ''A sally was p-roposed ~ and: prepal"ations instantly begun by some of the -came fr:om ·the Committee on Amu:o"Qria.-tions to the House. It is Americans. SeveraJ. were· just ready to start for the scene of danger. when , a little-o:ver ana-half a million. dollars larger than the last bill as. the cry was heard, 'Here come the chall:s! ' Ten minntes hadpassed since the -lJrought to the House by the Committee orr Appropriations• . arrival of the carts. A minut1:1 more a-nd snspense gave wa.y to tlia.nksgiving: The dear ones, for whom manyprayeraare-daily offered. Ii:ad not beeninj'nred.. · It is abo-ut one-half_ a million. dollars- larger than the bill for the They werewo~derfullycalm :u; they receive~ th~ gree-?n~tB and eongra.tula· :prec.eding year, and it is larger by S154;935. 'Z7 than the bill which tions of the friends. Dr:. Lawry came trudgmg m. behind the- others, a. hero came-to the House in 1897 and about on.e,.half a million dollars from the crown of his head' to the soles of Irls·feet-. His clotlies were soiled,.his' 1 face and head bruised and bleeding, andlater examination indicatestlia.the has ·largerthan thatwhich came to the House in 1896, andaboutthree­ suffered a. broken rib; but he was as caJm as ifhe had been conducting. chaJ>el quarters ef a million dollars lairger than that which came to the exercises. In answer to some remark concerning his adventure, he said:, • It is House: in 1895, almost a million dollar& larger than that which. came the fi-rst injuryreceivedtn.thirt y years of lifeinqlrlna;. I ought to stand this ; from the committee-in 1894-, almost a million dollars largertha.n that much.' Miss Mabel came lJl for her share of pra;rse for her remarkabl~cour­ age; bnt dismissed e-very compliment witb.a. modest,' 011.. that wa1> nothing;' in.1893., and about three-quarters of a million larger than that of The faithful coolies were not forgotten> . 1892. 8othatwhile·it is over S2~00.0,000less-than . the Commissioners­ •• Major Conger is. making prompt movements for t'he protection of .Amer­ . asked fon, and while it is one hundred and seventy thousand and ie3DS'; but one can not help feeling that, in. such a country as this, every foreign legati-on should have at instant command a. force-of a hundred well­ some hundred dollars less than appropriated by: the last bill, you armed and disciplined..men. from its own country. This would give the asso­ will see that~ compared with pTevious- bills as they came from the ciat.ed legations a. good battalion for use_ when needed, and its presence would Committe& on ApproiJriations, it is really quite respectable in size. be worth a;n army of native soldiers for-the preservation of order, not only in the ca.pita.l. but for hundreds of miles around. . , I state this so that, notwithstanding the complaints of some as "While such an event as that of yesterday creates some apprehensiveness to the action of your committee-in reporting a less sum than asked a.mong.st all foreign residents here, still there seems little gronnd to fear for by the Cammissioners, the House- may know that the commit­ further violence at this time. The combined demands of the American and British legations-and it is reported.nowthat France a.nd Japan have also tee is en-deavoring to k.eep step with_ the. progress of. the city and ca-use to COID1llain for ontrages committed yesterday on..some of their people­ Illltke· appropriations commensur.ate with the demands of the will probably bring this Government to realize that, while it may cut off District. Chlnese heads with impunity, it must protect-the· people of other lands who are here-under treaty gusranties. Perhaps it may be well for me ta explain some· of the large re· ·~'l'here ara same perils, to be sure-,. which no gove-rnment ca.n wholly­ ductions from the estimates. It will be noticed that the bill, avert-such as sudden mob violence-but we shall see whethet:'arrest and this punishment follow the complaints already; entex:e.d. To A.meric:ms in: Chinn. while-it. appropriates.more fm:sewers year than last,. yet cuts It seems pertinent ta a,dd that eur own Government sh{)uld show to China a.n down very largely th"& estimate of the Commissioners. It appro­ example of fait hful administration of law against mob murder of both priates $420,000~ as against $38Z,OOO in the biU. a year ago, not as Chinese and negroes. "EARL CRANSTON. brought in by the Honse committee, but as finally passed: by the u PEKIN, october r, 1898." two Houses and approved by the- President. In an accompanying note the· Bishop says: The reason why there is so large a_reduction from the estimate "I have given the story as gathel'ed from Dr. Lowry and the severa,lmem- made by the Commissioners: i& because, on conference with the be.rs-ofthefamily. Itcov:ersthewh-olacase Noneofusthinkthe,mobwas En · C · · th ·tt b a es t"sfi dth 4-the premeditated or that it meant murder. If'it did, it was a most cowardly-lot. · gJ.Ueer ommis&oner, e camm.l ee ec m a I e a 11 The motive seemed to be vengeance for the widening of the street a.t the sum appropriated was. all that they could reasonably use within expense of the shopkeepers some months-ago, and the. d.emonstration natu- the year. An appropr:ia.tion of $25-,000 is-made toward extending rally came on this first festival since the-change." th B ~.::~n-...T t m nty se nd and A streets NE. and "- 1\iiss Katharine Mullikin of Cincinrurti, who is teaching- in Pekin, has e· OUJ.J.Ua>S._y. sewer. 0 .!!We - CO - · ..., written h er brother, Hugh Mullikin,. a- th--rilling account of the- experiences contract authoriz.ed for $190,000, w.hich that sewer will cost. above recited. Ref&ri:ng to the danger& by, which the nriBsionaties are sur- There were two other projects connected. with that to connect ro~J~~~~d.!;Yf~st, at the heatlien Snnday sclioor, the wife of the native with. the proposed pumping station, which the committee thought preacher was talking to the women. telling them how they could reseive not best to enter upon at this time, and so. the amount asked for hereafter the- reward for. an tlre.m troubleS> in this life-, wh-en a heathen by tlre Commissioners seems to be considerably reduced. But the woman spoke up and said, 'Your reward will come. very soon,. then. for in a. engineer officer agreed- with. us that this $190,000 contract had ID.ml.th all the foreigners and a.ll that have anything to do with them will be best b 4- d b f th oth · t t d kill-ed.' Of course-, we do not belie-ve iir any-such threats; if we did, I suppose e pn" nn er-way e ore e er prOJeC s were en ere upon. we should go away, though it would never seem right to leave these. poor There is a reduction in the expense of street cleaning of $15.,000. native Christians to the~ fate. We can n{)t help realizing what might pos- That is not because it was though.t by the committee that there sihly hap-pen to us. in these troublous tfrnes; but we-live a;l{)ng_ fr0m.. day to.. would be really les& street cleaning for the coming vear than in dav, not dreami:ngi;hat a.nythlng·seriow:l will happen to us. So we go aliout J ou~ work, and are· peaceful and restfut leaving everythingto-Hi:DL w.llo only the cmrrent_year; but it was because the: Commissioners submitted can overrule for the best in. all these complica-tions." , to, the cmnmittee a; statement to the· effect that if allowed to clean The latest. advices from Bishop- Cranston ara under date of OctoD.er Z!, th tr t b t~~~.::~- 't ~--t~ b d e · te t d f from Fuchau. where the party arrived' the day before. The family are fairly . e- s: ee s. y J..I.te on my motion. square yards than they claimed they could do it for by· hand; but The SPEAKER. The gen.tlemanfrom Vermont-moves. that the in the event of a failure: to find a contractor who will do it at that

House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole House on the reduced rate-1 which,. as you will see, is-10 cents less than the cur­ state of the Union for the pur:tJose of considering the District apprn- rent pric.e~ then the Commissioners. may go forwai:d with cleaning pria.tion bill. by hand. which. they say they can.do fornineteencentsanda frac- The motion was agreed to. tion. You-r committe& would hava put- it at a less sn~ at the, 19 The House accordingly resolved itself into. Cmnmittee ol the cents even, but they feared if tbeydidso it.mightres-u:ltinnocon­ Whole Honse on the state of the Union., Mr~ HEPB-~in . the chair. tract, which the- committee believed_will not be best. for-the. public The CHAIRMAN. The House is in Committee of the Whole interests. After making this pl"Ov.ision they say that if the con­ House on the state of the Union forthe purpose of considering the tr.act fails at that fig.ure, which.. is 3 cents more than the amount bill making appropriations to provide fo1~ the expenses of· the gov- submitted to the committee, then it may go over to hand cleaning · ernment of the District of Columbia for the- fiscal year ending or to street machine sweeping,. as t1ie commissioners may deter- June 30, 1900, and for other purp-oses. mine:. We reduce the sum by the amount ot-10 cents on each Mr. GROUT. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that thousand sqtiare yards: of the streets to be cleaned. the first reailing of th-e- bill be di-spensed with. There is a_reduction in the appropriation.for the. water:s.upply The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Vermont asks: unani- of the· city, largely-below the demands:' of the CommissiOllel:S;. and mous consent that the first reading of the. bill be dispensed with. the smn appropriated by the. billllf)W before us is less than tha.t: Is there objection? appropriated in~ the: cnrrent bill. But the enginee1· officer having Mr. HANDY. What was the requestr M:u. . Chairman1 charge ot the. work, which you will- rememher is the reconatruc- The CHAIRMAN.. That the first reading- of. the bilL be· dis- tion. and repair: of what is known as the old Lydecker tunnel, pensed with. Is there objection? [After a. pause.] The Ch&ir carrying water to the Howard University resellVoh:-the engiuee1· hears none, and it is so ordered. officer: stated:. to the committee that the- sum appropriated was all Mr. GROUT. Mr. Chairman, I shall take but a very few min- he could profitably use; or all that-he could probably use, during utes in explaining in a general way- some of the: provisions of this the coming year; and m doing- so went into.. a careful estimate of_

bill. It appropriates, exclusive of the. water department, $6 1230,- the expenditures fox the current yam: so. far as the work has been. 809.77. This is $2,870,856.30 less than was asked for by the Com- prosecuted. Accordingly, the committee gave $200.000 for this 160 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 13,

work, and withheld for the present some one hundred and odd on the judgment of the Committee on Appropriations, and for the thousand dollars more which had been estimated for by the Com­ purpose of keeping faith with a declaration which Con ... ress has missioners. In short, we appropriated what money the engineer made heretofore, that these sectarian appropriations should be officer in charge of the work thought he could profitably expend dispensed with; and, in the second place, on the report of the in the time appropriated for. special joint committee of the two bodies appointed some two This also cut out the sum of $290,000, estimated for the comple­ years ago to investigate this subject, who reported that these in· tion of the Howard Unive:rsity reservoir; but confessedly they can stitutions, all of which are eliminated from the bill, are sectarian not complete the tunnel under a year and a half at least, and more in character. They also reported that one which the committee has probably two years, and no one can claim there is any propriety in left in the bill was sectarian in character. appropriating money for the completion of the reservoir so much in Mr. HENDERSON. Which is that? advance of the tunnel. The engineer concurred with the sugges­ Mr. GROUT. That was St. Ann's Infant Asylum; but from tions of the committee; and so no appropriation has been recom­ the fact that the city is not altogether prepared to take charge of mended in the bill, reducing by so much the estimate of the Com­ these infants which now go to that asylum, and because they missioners, possibly making it appear to a superficial observer that leave the institution at 2, 3, or 4 years of age, before any educa· we are neglecting some of the great interests of the city; wherea~ tional influences can very properly be said to obtain, the com­ it was the purpose of the committee, and their united purpose, to mittee thought that it might answer for the time being to leave make provision for sewers, water, schools, and the care of the that institution in and have accordingly reported it in the bill. streets-four great and leading features in the administration of It was, however, in the nature of a compromise that this con· the affairs of a great city-and to make ample provision for them, elusion was reached. Individually, I thought it ought to go out too, and we believe we have done so in this bill. also. In refe1·enceto the public schools, the sum total of the approplia­ Mr. HENDERSON. Is not this Women's ChristianAssociation tion is increased from $1,250,375 to $1,326,000. Here is a very con­ sectarian? I see that is left in the bill. siderable increase in the bill; and you will notice that the depart­ Mr. GROUT. No; not sectarian, though Christian in character. ment of schools is a great item in the bill-almost one and a half Mr. HENDERSON. Domina.tedandcontrolledbywhatchurch? · millions of dollars by the summary submitted in the report. Mr. GROUT. By no church; by the Christian people of the We have also made, I think, larger appropriations for school­ District of Columbia. It is neither pagan nor infidel, but Chris· houses than has ever yet been made in any single appropriation tian, according to its name. bill passed by Congress. Certainly it is a larger sum than that Mr. HENDERSON. But the Catholics have nothing to do carried in the last bill, and I feel safe in asserting-though I have with it. not consulted the record in reference to it-that is a considerably Mr. GROUT. Possibly not. larger appropriation than any yet recommended by the Committee Mr. HENDERSON. You know very well that they have not. on Appropriations to the House. The appropriations for new Mr. GROUT. If they have not, it is because they choose to schoolhomes in the bill amount to $202,000. stand aloof. They would be welcome. ,At this point I might suggest that we have included in the Mr. HENDERSON. I see also the Young Women's Christian appropriations for public schools an industrial school for the Home is left in. co!ored people. In the last Congress we provided an industrial Mr. GROUT. Yes, sir. · That is an institution of the same school for the whites, and in this bill, besides an increase of $3,000 kind. That is not under sectarian control or under sectarian in- for kindergarten instruction, we-provide for the erection of an fluences, as the select committee reported. . industrial school for the colored children. And I believe, Mr. Mr. HENDERSON. Ho:pe and Help Mission is left in also. Chairman, that it is the most important provision in this bill-that Mr. GROUT. Precisely. That, again, is not a sectarian insti- is, to provide the means of setting the colored boys and girls to tution. work. teaching them bow to work; not educating alone the head, Mr. HENDERSON. And all under Christian control. but the hand also, thus qualifying-them to win their way in the Mr. GROUT. Certainly. battle of life by intelligent manual labor. Fifty thousand dollars Mr. HENDERSON. But' wholly non-Catholic-all under Prot­ has been appropriated for that purpose, and authority for a con­ estant control. tract for $100,000 for the institution. Mr. GROUT. Not non-Catholic, Mr. Chairman, but catholic in · I might also explain how in this bill we have provided for the the broadest and best sense of the word; and Roman Catholic if erection of a hall-an assembly hall-for the Boys' Reform School; the Roman Catholics want to participate. They have never been how we have appropriated $25,000 for enlarging the Girls' Reform refused and never will be refused participation in this charity. If School, and how we have appropriated.$15,000 for the enlarge­ they take no part in it, it is because they do not want to. · ment of the Washington Assylum and have provided at the asy­ Mr. HENDERSON. Now let me ask you, have you made any lnmforthe educa~onof the nursesthereandforacouple of trained provision for the orphans of St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum? I see nurses to give them instl·uctions; and also for the furnishing of the you have left St. Ann's in. nurses' house or building erected by an appropriation made in the Mr. GROUT. No, and I will tell you why. last Congress. Mr. HENDERSON. Has the District of Columbia made any Now, sir, I have occupied more time in the explanation of this provision for them? bill than I had intended, and if no gentleman desires to discuss Mr. GROUT. Not for those that are in that institution, and I the bill I wm ask- think you will agree with me that we ought not to, because they Mr. HENDERSON. Before the gentleman from Vermont are children who are taken principally from St. Ann's Infant takes his seat, I desire to interrupt him for a moment, with his Asylum, and educated strictly in the Roman CathoHc faith, consent. · and that is one objection which has been made to the appro­ Mr. GROUT. Certainly. priation for St. Ann's Infant Asylum, because it is claimed to Mr. HENDERSON. I see that under the head of" Chalities," be a recruiting station for St. Joseph's Asylum, and also for on page 40 of the bill, and on page 9 of the report, there have been St. Rose's Industrial School-the boys go to the former and the some radical changes made. The House of the Good Shepherd, gh·1s to the latter. But the committee thought best to leave this which has usually received $2,700, is entirely omitted in the bill; charity in for the time being and for the reasons already given. and St. Joseph's OrphanAsylum, which has been for years receiv­ Those we have left out I think you will agree with us that we ing $1,800, is also entirely cut out of the bill. should leave out, because they are under control exclusively of I see that the appropriation for charities for 1899, the current either Catholic or Episcopal instruction. Two of the charities law, was $325,925. The estimates were $265,725 for the next year, omitted are under Episcopal control and three under .Roman Cath­ and you have recommended in this bill only $247,125, a cut on olic control; so it can not be said that there is any discrimination chal'ities of $78,800, between Catholics and Protestants. Now, if there is any provision in the bill that I have not fotmd Mr. HENDERSON. I understand that St. Joseph's Orphan on this subject, I would like to have it explained, and hear the Asylum takes care of an average of about 90 to 100 orphan boys. gentleman state, for the information of the committee and the Mr. GROUT. St. Joseph's or St. John's? . House, why these charitable institutions have been omitted. Mr. HENDERSON. St. Joseph's. You have eliminated it and Mr. GROUT. Mr. Chairman, three of them were omitted in left that out. accordance with the recommendation of the Commissioners of the Mr. GROUT. Precisely so. . Disbict of Columbia in submitting their estimates. As to one of Mr. HENDERSON. They are orphan children taken from the these three the Commissioners appeared before the committee and streets, gutters, and any source whatever where God sends them stated that they desired to recall the recommendation-that is, from, and you have left them without a dollar, and without any as to St. John's Church Orphanage-and allow the appropriation provision by the General Government or the District of Columbia to be made. Nevertheless, the committee did not appropriate for to take care of them. this charity on the same ground that they declined to appropriate Mr. GROUT. I thought you might refer to St. John's Church for the others that are omitted, viz, that it is sectarian in char­ Orphanage Association, which is an Episcopal institution, and a-cter. The others-in fact, all-were ta1ren out, in the first place, takes boys wherever they can find them an~ carefully educate& 1898. CONGRESSIONAL· RECORD-HOUSE. 161 them in the faith of the Episcopal Church, or Church of England, Mr. HENDERSON. Why read that to me, when for years and that is just what we have repeatedly said we would not do in your bills make dead the law, and because there was no provi­ in the law already referr~d to. . sion for these children we have, nevertheless, for the past two years Mr. HENDERSON. I do not care what faith they are educated gone on and appropriated money where it was needed? Read that in. You have left in here another institution strictly in the Cath­ to somebody else. olic faith, and yon have left in this Women's Christian Associa­ Mr. GROUT. Mr. Chairman, as the gentleman will not be tion, where the Catholic hand can not reach. I should like to see comforted, I turn to the inquiry of the gentleman from Georgia consistency. If you are going to run the legislative knife into [Mr. LIVINGSTONl. these orphan institutions, rip them all up. Mr. LIVINGSTON. The inquiry I want to make of the gen­ Mr. GROUT. Does the gentleman mean to say "where the tleman in charge of the bill, or of the subcommittee that prepared hand of the Catholic can not reach" when he refers to this Women's the bill, is, have you endeavored to make any provision for the Christian Association? better lighting of tbe city of Washington? I understand that for Mr. HENDERSON. I say the Women's Christian Association the size of the city it is the poorest lighted city in the United is as distinct from Catholic relations as is St. Ann's or St. Joseph's States to-day. I see here, on page 18 of the bill, this provision: from Protestant relations. Provided, That no more than $20 per annum for each street lamp shall he Mr. GROUT. Simply because the Catholics choose to make paid for gas or oil, lighting, extinguishing, r epairing, painting, and cleaning, it so. Simply because they do not choose to cooperate with the under any expenditure provided for in this act. other Christian bodies in charitable work, but confine their con­ Do I understand the lighting of an oil lamp on the street stands tributions to instit utions under their own exclusive control. on all fours with the gas lamp-$20 a Jight? Is that the under­ Mr. HENDERSON. I hope that the ghost of A. P. A. ism is standing of the gentleman who framed the bill? That is on page not to be invoked to cause these orphan institutions to go without 18; the first proviso there in lighting. Are oil and gas put on all support. fours? That is the question. Mr. GROUT. I have not seen the ghost of A. P. A. ism and am Mr. GROUT. I will say to the gentleman from Georgia that soiTy it is haunting the gentleman. the sum fixed is only the largest sum that can be paid. Undoubt­ r. HENDERSON. I see the ghost of A. P. A. ism [laughter] edly they could obtain the oil lamps very much cheaper than the and I do not jntend to be frightened by it. gas. The oil lamps are very few in number and are confined to Mr. GROUT. Nobody else sees it but the gentleman whose the outlying portions of the city where there is no gas carried by imagination I fear must be disordered. We are simply-- mains. Mr. HENDERSON. But these orphan children are going to be Mr. LIVINGSTON. Do you not think they ought to be sepa­ made to feel it unless this House shall have the courage and reso­ rated in the bill as a safeguard? lution to amend this bill. Mr. GROUT. No; I do not think it is necessary. Mr. GROUT. They are amply provided for. These institutions 1\lr. LIVINGSTON. I also want to inquire whether the com­ have never suffered for want of funds and never will; and let me mittee made any inquiry whether or not it was proper and prac­ inform the gentleman that if he will make a little inquiry he tical to extend the electric light to the whole city? What is the will learn-· trouble?. Why not have the streets lighted with electricity instead Mr. HENDERSON. I have visited every one of these institu­ of gas? What would be the additional cost, if the committee tions. made any inquiry? :Mr. GROUT. I do not yield unless the gentleman will listen .Mr. GROUT. We did not enter upon that inquiry because it courteously to my reply. . was in no way presented to us. Nobody has been asking that Mr. HENDERSON. All right. If you will not yield, I shall that should be done. Besides, Congress has enacted that there ask you no further question. should be no overhead wires and no extension of conduits for the Mr. LIVINGSTON. Will the gentleman in charge of the bill conveyance of these wires until further permission is granted. permit me to direct his attention to one thing in the bill? Mr. LIVINGSTON. Then we are shut up with poor lights on Mr. GROUT. Certainly. many of the streets in the city until we can get that act repealed? Mr. LIVINGSTON. And that is the lighting of the city. Mr. GROUT. Well, Mr. Chairman, I hardly think the statement Mr. GROUT. Yes; but before we go to that I want to calm is justified that we are shut up with poor lights, because the city down the waters of this ecclesiastical controversy and will call the is provided with gas wherever there are gas mains and wherever attention of my friend from Iowa, who I hope will possess himself it is possible. Where it does not go, these few oil lamps are estab­ in patience, if the gentleman from Vermont does not, to the fact lished, at undoubtedly mnch less cost. That question, however, that the Committee on Appropriations have made up and reported was not raised before the committee, and so I am unable to answer this bill in accordance with existing law, which I have but just the gentleman fully. . obtained and will now read. It expressly forbids these appropria­ Mr. LIVINGSTON. I am sorry you have left the same limita­ tions for which the gentleman is clamoring. _It is as follows: tion in the bill with reference to the oil lamps that yon have to And it is here by declared to be the p olicy of the Government of the United the gas lamps. States to make no appropriation of money or property for the purpose of Mr. GROUT. The oil lamps we1·e so few, and it was so small founding. maintainmg, or aiding by payment for services, expenses, or a matter, that it was not thought worth while to deal with them otherwise, any church or religious denomination, or any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control; and it is hereby enacted separately. that. from and after the 30th day of June, 1898, no money appropriated for Mr. BRODERICK. Mr. Chairman, I want to call attention to charitable purpo es in the District of Columbia. shall be paid to any church page 21 of the printed bill, line 2i:J, as to the assignment of salaries or religious denomination, or to any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control. to teachers. It reads: "For 14:, at £1,500 each." Is this provision for the principals of the schools? There is nothing to indicate any Mr. HENDERSON. May I now interrupt the gentleman? distinction between principals and teachers. Mr. GROUT. Certainly. :M:r. GROUT. Mr. Chairman, in th,is provision in line 23 there Mr. HENDERSON. How long has that been incorporated in were two increases made by the committee. They were for the the law? principals of the Western High School and of the Eastern High Mr. GROUT. Since 1897. School. Another principal of the high school, the Business High Mr. HENDERSON. It has been incorporated in two or three School, already has $1,500, but what teachers of the other eleven appropriation bills. are to receive $1,500 I am unable to say. The number of teachers 1\Ir. GROUT. In two bills, certainly, and after a great fight the was large, and I am not able to recall the salaries of all first time-- Mr. BRODERICK. The salaries of two were increased. Mr. HENDERSON. Notwithstanding it has, and there is no Mr. GROUT. Yes; those were the principals, not the super­ ~onflict over the general policy, is it not true you have gone ahead vising principals, as they are called, but the principals of the and taken care of sectarian institutions because there was no Eastern High School and the Western High School. other place for them? With that provision in the bill, did you not Mr. BRODERICK. Have any of the salaries been decreased? appropriate for these institutions? Mr. GROUT. None whatever. We raised these two salaries, 1\Ir. GROUT. ~lr. Chairman, I did not. The two bodies did. and some members of the subcommittee would have been glad to The House and the Senate agreed to that. increa-se the salaries of others; but, under all the circumstances, Mr. HENDERSON. No one will charge you with ever having it was thonght they could wait. Very likely at some time it may that done. come, but the committee could not see its way clear to m ake Mr. GROUT. Will the gentleman allow me? that change now. I will say with reference to many of the teachers, Mr. HENDERSON. I thought I was allowed. some of whom appeared befo1·e the committee, that the sum re­ Mr. GROUT. Very well. ceived by them was less than that received by many teachers of a Mr. HENDERSON. I have asked a question, and you have not like grade in most of the other large cities. answered it. Mr. BRODERICK. Are their salaries not less than in all the Mr. GROUT. I have answered it. The act of 1897 just read lar~e cities of the country besides Washington? answers it. Mr. GROUT. Lean not say that this was true of all the large XXXII-11 162 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 13, cities of the country. A tabulated statement was submitte4 to ·been detailed for this purpose, and the work has been increasing, tho committee. showing that in many of the large cities a larger as have also the receipts; . aum was paid than we are paying here for certain teachers. But Mr. BERRY. Allow me to suggest the idea that possibly an it was suggested to some of them who came before the committee inspector can not inspect more than twenty-five scales or series of • that the beauty and attractiveness of Washington m ight a little weights and measures in a day. His labor, therefore, is not a help out their salary, and one admitted that the suggestion was very considerable one. He goes back to the office and enters up not entirely without force. in the record what he has done. I can see no possible necessity Mr. BRODERICK. The beauties of the city will not supply for a clerk under these circumstances. bread. Mr. BINGHAM. A clerk has been already detailed in the office Mr. GROUT. No, but the committee did not learn that any of by the Commissioners for some time. them were short of bread; if we had, we would have surely pro­ Mr. BERRY. Oh, they have many unnecessary things here. vided for them. Mr. BINGHAM. And, further, permit me; with reference to Mr. BERRY. Mr. Chairman. I would like to ask the gentleman anything political in this matter, to say to the gentleman from a question. On page 5 of the printed bill, line 10, there is an ap­ Kentucky that he has efficient friends on the Committee on Ap­ propriation of $900 for a secretary to the sealers of weights and propriations who are capable of taking care of anything political measures. There are two of these sealers of weights and meas­ in the committee should such a condition of affairs ever arise ures, and it seems to me -that one ought to do the work. But the there. city has two, and now they want $900 for a clerk. It strikes ine Mr. BERRY. I simply like to know the facta. There is cer­ that the sealers of weights and measures have no necessity for a tainly no objection to inquiring of one of- the committees of the clerk. All the sealer has to do is to go through the city and inspect House the reason for presenting certain matters in the Honse. the weigl;lts and measures and certify to them, and that is the end of Mr. BINGHAM. Certainly not. it. What they want of a clerk in an office I do not know. Mr. BERRY. I do not know the gentleman in charge of that Mr. GROUT. Mr. Chairman, we allow to the clerk of the office; I do not even know his name; but was aimply informed sealer of weights and measures $900, one of the very few new offices that he had been an official in the Ohio penitentiary, and was created in the whole bill. That we did because we knew the sealer brought here and made sealer of weights and meal'ures. Now, of weights and measures, with his assistant, is giving evidence, when I heard him spoken of as an'' expert,"lfelt justified in asking as the committee learned, of really attending to the business of a question in regard to it. that office. Mr. GROUT. Oh, well, there maybe some room for misunder­ Mr. BERRY. I understand, if the chairman will excuse a standing, I suppose. fm·ther interruption, that this man lately came from Ohio, and Mr. BERRY. Certainly. was an official in the penitentiary there; and, further, that he has Mr. GROUT. I only want to be accurate in this particular­ no knowledge of weights and measures, and is not an expert. there is already a clerk there, and his presence has increased the Mr. GRO UT. If the gentleman will permit me, a clerk has efficiency of the office. It has been proven a satisfactory experi­ been for some time past employed in that office, by assignment or ment. The system is one that require3 the presence of the sealer detail of the Commissioners, and paid from the contingent fund; in the testing of every scale and measure in the District; and and the report shows that from the 1st day of December, 1896, to while he and the assistant are perhaps out attending to the work, the 1st day of October, 1897, the receipts were $3,157.48, while some people must go to the office, where the clerk can remain, be­ with a clerk, after he was detailed on this duty, and the sealer cause the hucksters and dealers of that kind have no local habita­ of weights and his assistant were able to go out about the city and tion, and can· not, unless they can get access to the office, secure attend to the duties of the\!" office, inspect scales, investigate the stamping of their weights and measures. Their weights and weights, and so on, the receipts of the office during a similar measures could not be tested or sealed at all if yon change this period were $5.477.85. During their absence the clerk remained system. And I would say to the gentleman that in this matter the in the office to keep the accounts concerning the work of the office committee acted in the utmost good faith. and to attend to such business as might be brought into the office lf, however, the gentleman from Kentucky seriously thinks that in the absence of the sealer himself. this is an extravagant and an unnecessary expenditure of the pub­ Mr. BERRY. But I understand that the sealer of weights and lic money, of course he can test the sense of the House by m

The amendment was read, as follows: comes too late to have influence on the action of the House; but I de­ Strike out, in line 14, on page 3, the words "two clerks" and in line 15, same siretohaveitread to the House, becauseitthrowslightupon a ques­ page, the words "four clerks" and insert in lien thereof in each place the tion which arose in debate as to the attitude of the sailors and of the words "three clerks." Federation of Labor. The bill relating to seamen passed this · Mr. HANDY. Mr. Chairman, this is an amendment intended morning, and this telegram goes to show that the sailors favored to transfer a clerk now receiving-$1,200 into the class of clerks · the amendments proposed by me and defeated by the House. This receiving $1,400. It does not change the number of clerks. The telegram is sent to me by Mr. Gompers in the hope apparently of total number in the two classes in this office will still remain at influencing the House to agree to those amendments. I ask the six, but the amendment will have the effect of increasing the sal­ Clerk to read the telegram. ary of one clerk $200. This clerk is a citizen of my State. He has The Clerk read as follows: been employed in his present position for eight years without any KANSAS CtTY, Mo., December· 1!1, 1898. increase of salary. I understand that this increase of $200 was Hon. L. I. HANDY, Washington, D. 0.: · Whereas Senate bill No. 95 (a bill to improve the condition of the seamen, recommended this year by the assessor in whose office he is em­ ~grotecli such seamen, and to increase commerce~ has passed the Senate; ployed. I wish to say that this clerk is not of my party faith. He is a stanch Republican. I wish he were the other way; but Whereas this bill, though a great step in the right direction, still falls short of admitting the seamen to full freedom and equality with other citi­ I state the situation so as to show that my amendment is not zen,s in this, that. the imprisonment for violating a contract to labor in a inspired by partisan preference. He is a man of some 50 years of foreign port in the foreign trade is still maintained along with the old evil age, with a family. He has been there eight years without any of allotment to original creditor: Therefore, Resolwd, That while we appreciate and are, on behalf of the seamen, grate­ promotion. I believe he is worthy of this promotion and increase ful for these concessions, we desire to submit that the seamen have earned of pay, and so I offer the amendment. · and should be granted full personal freedom, the ownership of their own Mr. GROUT. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman state what bodies, and the full protection of wages signed for; and therefore respect­ fully request that Senate bill No. 95 be thus amended and passed at the earli­ (; i clerk in the assessor's office he refers to; not the name, but the est convenient date. duties which he performs. SAML. GOMPERS. Mr. HANDY. He is one of the clerks mentioned in line 15, under the head of " four clerks at $1,200 each." I should not ob­ Mr. HANDY. M1·. Chairman, I withdrawmyproformaamend­ ject to giving the gentleman's name. · ment. Mr. GROUT." That would not help me at aU. I wanted to The Clerk read as follows: locate the position which he holds. I will say, Mr. Chairman, that Provided, That in assigning salaries to teaehers no discrimination shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of school the Commissioners said to the committee that they had declined and performing a like class of duties. . . to recommend any changes in the assessor's office pending an in­ vestigation which is now on foot by one of the Commissioners, and ·Mr. HANDY. I reserve the point of order. Is that new legis­ acting upon that the committee brought the bill in as they did. lation? Possibly the gentleman's proposition may be meritorious, but if Mr. GROUT. What is your question? so, it would only be one of a large number of desired increases in Mr. HANDY. Page 23, lines 7 to 10. I would inquire of the the bill, and so the committee thought best to refuse to recom­ gentleman in charge of the bill if that is new legislation? mend any changes. They did not see how they could enter upon Mr. BINGHAM. Read the paragraph. any general system of increases. Mr. HANDY (reading)- Provided, That in assigning Flalaries to teachers no discrimination shall Mr. HANDY. I have no quarrel with the committee for not be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of recommending this, but the subject is now before the House, and school and performing a like class of duties. I think my friend under the circumstances, should not be strenu- ous in his opposition. • Mi-. GROUT. That is not new, Mr. Chairman. · It has been in Mr. GROUT. I shall have to object, Mr. Chairman, to any in­ this bill for the last ten years, as the clerk of the committee in­ crease of these salaries. forms me. Mr. HANDY. This is a worthy gentleman, so worthy that his The CHAIRMAN. That is the existing law. case has appealed across party walls to me. On account of his Mr. GROUT. Certainly. worth, his competency, and his good character, and because he The Clerk read as follows: has been serving for eight years in this position without any pro­ For the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, for the care and education of dependent children, under a con­ motion, I have offered this amendment. The snows of age are tract to be made with the National Associs.tion for Relief of Destitute Col· now falling on his hair. I appeal to the charitable disposition of ored Women and Children by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia., my friend [Mr. GROUT], who is himself beginning to feel a little not to exceed $9,900: Provided, That from and after June 30, 1899, no aged of the snow fall of years. women shall be maintained by said association. • Mr. GROUT. "Snow fall" is good, Mr. Chairman-it is beauti­ Mr. HENDERSON. I offer the following amendment. ful; and I am glad to see that a Republican stands so high in the The Clerk read as follows: esteem of my Democratic friend, but shall have to stand by the bill After the word "association," in line 19, nage 41, insert the following: "For as reported. St. Joseph Asylum, maintenance, $1,800." - l\1r. HANDY. 1\Ir. Chairman, I have no objection to the Re­ Mr. GROUT. Mr. Chairman, I raise the point of order against publicans of my State, except that there are rather too many of that amendment-that it will change existing law. them. (Laughter.] · Mr. HENDERSON. Let me ask the gentleman from Vermont The amendment offered by Mr. HANDY was rejected. if it is not true that the current law bas this appropriation in it? The Clerk, proceeding with the reading of the bill, read as fol­ Mr. GROUT. Certainly it is in the current law. lows: Mr. HENDERSON. Then where is your point of order? . Sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning: For sprinkling. sweeping, and c1ean­ Mr. GROUT. The r eason for it maybe found in the enactment mg str eets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, $130,500: Provided, That the which I r ead to the House this morning, and which distinctly Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not leta cont ract hereunder for sweeping str eets at a price exceeding 22 cents per 1,000 square yar ds. and, prohibits the appropriation of public money for sectarian or in the event of failure, after due a.d vertisemen t, to procure a contract at said ecclesiastical uses. rate or less, they are authorized to expend this sum u nder their immediate Mr. HENDERSON . It doas not make any difference; in the direction and w1thout contract. present cmTent law the amount is appropriated for. Mr. DOCKERY. Mr. Speaker, I move to strike out the last The CHAIRMAN. Will the gentleman send jt u p to the Chair? word, simply for the purpose of saying that I dissent from the Mr. GROUT. I will send it up in a minute. judgment of the committee in reporting this provision. It is re­ Mr. HENDERSON. I have marked it, upon page 19. It is the ported pursuant to the recommendation of the Commi ~ sioners who current law for the District of Columbia. estimate that the cleaning of streets can be accomplLhed by hand The CHAIRMAN. What the gent leman from Iowa has sent at a less cost than under contract by private enterprise. I do not up is an appropriation act and not a general law. impeach the honesty or integrity of the Commissioners in the Mr. HENDERSON. That is the appropriation for this institu­ least, but question their judgment. I wish simply to express my tion in the present law; and my amendment is in h rec verba the view and have it go in the RECORD, that I bel-i eve private enter­ present law. prise can perform this work at much less expense than the Dis­ The CHAIRMAN. Will the gentleman from Vermont send up trict Commissioners can do it, and I think that at the end of the what he says is the law. year my judgment will be vindicated by results. Mr. GROUT. In a moment, Mr. Chairman; I have sent for it. The Clerk read as follows: The Clerk read as follows: For sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United And it is hereby declar ed to be the policy of the Government of the States: For c~ erk, $1,500; clerk, $900; in all, ~.400. Umted States to make no appropriation of money or property for the pur­ pose of founding, maintaining, or aiding, by payment for services, expenses, Mr. HANDY. Mr. Chairman, I move tostrikeoutthelastword. or otherwise, any church or religions denomination, or any institution or I make this formal motion for the purpose of having read to the. society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control; and it is hereby House a telegram which I have at this moment received from Mr. enacted that from and after the 30th day of June, 1898, no money appropri­ Samuel Gompers, the official head of the American Federation of ated for charitable purposes in the District of Columbia shall be paid to any church or religious denomination or to any institution or society which is Labor, of which the Seamen's Union is a branch. The telegram under sectarian or ecclesiastical control. 164 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 13,

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair understands that St. Joseph , Mr. HENDERSON. Will the Chair allow me one moment right •Asylum-- there? Mr. HENDERSON. If the Chair will indulge me a moment, if The CHAIRMAN. Certainly. he is about to decide the question. Mr. HENDERSON. I call the attention of the Chair to the The CHAIRMAN. Certainly. fact that there is nothing in my amendment to show that this is a Mr. HENDERSON (continuing). It has been the law since sectarian institution, and the Chair can not go beyond the record 1897 when, I think, it was first passed. It has been incorporated and accept evidence as to what kind of an institution it is. - fro~ year to year in the bill, ~n~ notw.ithstanding th~t, from year The CHAIRMAN. The Chair understands it to be conceded to year we have been appropnatmg this money. It 1B a declara­ that St. Joseph's Asylum is under sectarian control and it comes, tion of policy; it is the enactment of a policy that was to govern therefore, within the very language of the law: "An institution Congress; but notwithstanding ~he law was passed, 'Ye. have ap­ or society which is under rsectarian or ecclesiastical control." Now, propriated this money; and that 1s the present law-giYlllg $1,8qo the reply made to that by the gentleman from Iowa is that there to this institution to help these orphans. I have sent the Cha1r is a provision in last year's appropriation bill like his proposed the current law, now in existence and under which we are now amendment, but in the opinion of the Chair that does not make operating. That was merely a declaration; that is all. existing law. A question similar in principle was raiRed on the The CHAIRMAN. But here ·san enactment. 17th of January, 1896, in the Fifty-fourth Congress, when the Mr. HENDERSON. To whiCh no attention was paid by Ccn­ House was in Committee of the Whole House on the state of the gress in these appropriations. Union, and the gentleman from Maine j'Mr. DINGLEY] was in Mr. GROUT. And for this reason, Mr. Chairman, that Con­ the chair. With respect to that question he said: gress was awaiting the action of this j~int .co~mittee for infor­ The Chair desire!:. to say that the fact that this legislation is limited in mation as to the real character of these mstitutions. The report operation to one year does not change its character a.t all. U is still new leg· of that joint committee gives the status of these institutions, and isla.tion for one year, a change of existing la.w for one year, or if you pl~e to style it an act suspending exiRting legiSlation for one year, the fact still their report discloses the fact, fully and completely, that St. Joseph remains that it is, pro tanto, a change of existing law. Asylum is exclusively under the control of the Catholic Church, and so is amenable to that proVIsion of the law. And the reason Upon principle and following precedents, under the circum­ why it was included in former appropriations-the House never stances, the Chair is obliged to sustain the point of order. led in the appropriation, but always appropnated a. lump sum­ The Clerk read as foll9ws: was simply because the report of the select comrmttee had not Garfield and Providence hospitals: For isolating wards for minor contagious then developed the fact that it was a sectarian institution. diseases at Garfield and Providence hospitals, maintenance, each $2,000, $1,000. Now that it has been developed and is in that report, if the Mr. McRAE. Mr. Chairman, I do not approve of the chapter gentle~an will obtain it and read it, he will see at once there is in this bill relating to the distribution of charities in the District abundant ground for saying, on the authority of that committee, of Columbia. We have several times discussed this question on that this is an institution exclusively under ecclesia'3tical control, the floor of the House, and once even during the life of the present and so will contravene the law if the appropriation be made-- Congress. I will not undertake, therefore, to detain the commit­ 1\fr. HENDERSON. Mr. Chairman, the committee referred to tee for the purpose of resubmitting my views upon that subject is not created by either of these acts; the report is not referred further than to say that I desire to earnestly repeat. what I have to by either of these acts. always believed and heretofore adhered to. that public charities Mr. GROUT. That committee was provided for by the District should be dispensed by public officials and not by a private insti­ appropriation bill of 1897. tution, whether sectarian or otherwise. Mr. HENDERSON. I unders~~md that~hatactupon which,YO:O This bill violates the principle of the statute read here to·day stand did not create that comm1ttee, nor IB there any clause m It and confessedly appropriates public money for private organiza­ providing that when that committee shall report that the institu­ tions. I believe that it ~ wrong to do so and desire to enter my tions the committee shall expunge shall be expunged. And to protest against it. Why do the other s1de foster some ot these insti­ show how little there is to the gentleman's point, he has in this tutions while rejecting others? Can it be that it is because of the very bill the St. Ann's Infant Asylum, whicJ:l h~ st~ted in deb!lte religious faith of the one or the other? The only safe policy for a short time ago was one of the excepted mstltut10ns, showmg the Government and for the District of Columbia to pursue is to that he does not consider himself bound by it. There are com· use public officials for the purpose of dispensing public charities. mittees and commissions, but here is the law, which I have sent This bill gives the money to the private organizatwns under con­ to the Chair,appropriating$1,800 a year to help these orphans. I tracts. submit that existing law appropriates this money and that the You place yourselves in a position to be justly criticised for amendment is not subject to a point of order. having recognized some of these institutions because they are un­ 1\!r. GROUT. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman constantly refers der the control of those with whom you agree in matters of reli­ to me personally, and says, "Here is St. Ann's InfantAsyl~ you gious faith, while others which are equally well equipped for the are appropriating for." I want to say to the House agam that work of dispeilsing charities have been disregarded and cut off. the inclusion of Ht. Ann's Infant Asylum in this bill was a co~­ Yon refuse some because you say they are sectarian, and take promise between myself and other members of the committee. I others that are managed by those believed to be sectarian. said it ought to go out as well as the others, but I endeavored to As long as you attempt to use private institutions for the pur­ reconcile myself to the retention of that item on the ground that pose of dispensing public money you will have protests against it. it is for hospital purposes and for children who have not come to I warn you against the danger of it and beg you to stop while the educational period, and so the reason for the rule does n?t you can. exist in full force. On that ground I consented to let that remam Now, I am not urging that that concern left out of the bill should in the bill as a matter of compromise. Strictly it should go out be put back, but that all of them should be left out and the money with other like ecclesiastical institutions. But the fact that it is appropriated in a lump sum and the Commissioners a ~ lowed tClety, which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control. was laid on the table. 1898. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. '165

LEA.VE OF ABSENCE. and Memphis Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Arkansas and other navigable rivers in the State of Arkansas-to By unammous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows: the Committee on Int-erstate and Foreign Commerce. To Mr. SETTLE, for three days, on account of important business. By Mr. McRAE: A bill (H. R.11140) to extend the public land To Mr. BARLOW, for two days, on account of sickness. laws of th~ United States to Hawaii, and for other purposes-to To Mr. HowE, indefinitely, on account of sl-ckness. the Committee on the Public Lands. And then, on motion of :Mr. DmGLEY (at 2 o'ck>ck and 50 By Mr. MUDD: A bill (H. R.11141) for the erection of a public -minutes p.m.), the House adjourned. building at Annapolis, Md.-to the Committee on Public Build­ ings and Grounds. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. By Mr. WISE: A joint resolution (H. Res. 309) authorizing the Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, the following executive commu­ Secretary of the N-avy to pay certain laborers. workmen, and nications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as mechanics at United States navy-yards and naval stations 50 per follows: · · · cent additional for work performed in exce::;s of eight hours per A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting diem-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. a cop y of a communication from t he Attorney-General submitting By Mr. PERKINS. A concurrent resolution (House Con. Res. cer tain supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Court of No. 47) providing for the prin ti.ng of additional copies of the report Private Land Claims-to the Committee on Appropriations, and of the Secretary of the Interior, 181}7-~to the Comnnttee on order ed to be printed. Printing. A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a oommunicat10n from the Secret ary of the Interior sub­ PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED. mitting a supplemental estimate for "CoiDIIllssion to the Five Civ­ Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions of ilized Tri!Jes "-to the Committee on Indian Affail:s, and ordered the following titles were introduced and severally referred as to be printed. follows: By M.r. BELL: A bill (H. R. 11142) granting to the city of Vic­ REPORTS OF COJiriMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS AND tor, in the county of El Paso and State of Colorado, certain lands RESOLUTIONS. t herein described for water reservoirs-to the Committee on the Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, b1l1s and resolutions of the follow- Public Lands. ing titles were severally r eported from committees, delivered to By Mr. BOTKIN: A bill (H. R. 11143) to provide just pensions the Clerk, and referred to the several Calendars therein named, for widows of officers and privates in the Army and Navy of the as follows: war of the rebellion-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. L ACEY, from the Committee on the Public Lands, to which By Mr. COWHERD: A bill (H. R. 11144) to remove the charge was referred the bill of the Hou"e (H. R. 11090) granting 5 per of desertion and grant an honorable discharge to Benjamin Mey- cent of the land sales on military land warrants to the public-land ers-to the Committee on Military Affairs. · States, reported the same without amendment. accompanied by Also, a bill (H. R. 11145) for the relief of the heirs of Andrew J. a r epo1·t (No.1663); which said bill and report were referred to Surber-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee of the \Vhole House on the state of the Union. By Mr. Il.AMILTON: A bill (H. R. 11146) granting a pension 1\ir. ELLIOTT, from the C.oiDIIDtteeon the Judiciary• .to which to Abraham Geiser-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. • was referred the bill of the Senate (S. 4326) to regulate the sitting By Mr. HARMER: A bill (H. R. 11147) for the relief of John of the United States courts within the district of South Carolina, C. Webb-to the Committee on Military Affairs. r epor ted the same without amendment, accompanied by a report By Mr. JETT: A bill (H.:R. 11148) to grant a pension to Orin (No. 1672); which said bill and report we1·e referred to the House Long-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Calendar. . By ~Mr. REEVES: A bill (H. R. 11149) granting a pension to Visa C. MoiTill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 0~ PRIVATE BILLS AND By Mr. McCLELLAN: A bill

By Mr. HARMER: Affidavits to accompany House bill for the odist Episcopal Church, the Second Presbyterian Church, and the relief of John C. Webb-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Young Men's Christian Union, all of Butler; of the congregations By Mr. HILL: Petition of Mrs. Henry Thorp Bulkley and of ~he Crestview and Plains Presbyterian churches of Callery; the Daughters of the American Revolution, of Southport, Conn., for Methodist Episcopal Church of Harmony; the West Unity and legislation against the desecration of the American flag-to the Scottish Hill churches of Harrisville; the Methodist Episcopal Committee on the Judiciary. Church of etrolia; the English Lutheran Church of Chicora, and By Mr. LLOYD: Petition of citizens of Adair County, Mo., for the Centerville United Presbyterian Church of Slippery Roclr, all the passage of a bHl compelling all railroads to sell ticketR at 2 in the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the enactment of legis· cents per mile-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ lation to prohibit the sale of liquor in canteens of the Army a:rfd merce. Navy and of Soldiers' Homes, and in immigrant stationsandGov· Also, paper to accompany House bill for the relief of Charles ernment buildings; which were referred to the Committee on W. Hazeltine-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Military Affairs. By Mr. PUGH: Paper to accompany House bill No. 6049, fo1· Mr. WARREN presented a petition of Laramie Division, No. the relief of Martin Lunsford-to the Committee on .Military Af­ 142, Order of Railway Conductors of America, of Rawlins, Wyo., fairs. · and a petition of Cheyenne Division, No. 128,. Order of Railway By Mr. SHOWALTER: Petitions of the FirRt Presbyterian Conductors, of Cheyenne, Wyo., praying for the passage of the Church of Butler, Pa., containing176 names; St. Paul's Reformed anti-scalping ticket bill; which were ordered to lie on the table. Church of Butler, Pa.; also of 3,900 citize!!s of Butler County, Mr. HOAR presented a petition of the congregation of theNorth Pa., to prohibit the sale of liquor in canteens of the Army and Avenue Baptist Church, of Cambridge, Mass., praying for the en­ Navy and of Soldiers' Homes, and in immigrant stations and Gov­ actment of legislation to prohibit the sale of liquor in canteens of ernment buildings-to the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. the Army and Navy and of Soldiers' Homes, and in immigrant By Mr. SAMUEL W. SMITH: Petition of Rev. E. 0. Suther­ stations and Government buildings; which was referred to the land and 200 other citizens of Whjte Lake, Mich., praying for the Committee on Military Affairs. passage of House bill No. 7937, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating He also presented the memorials of William S. Stone and 3 other liquors in all Government buildings and reservations-to· the Com­ citizens, of John Macksey and 2 other citizens, of William P. mittee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. Strickland and 1 other citizen, of Nathan B. Prescott and 30 By Mr. STARK: Resolutions of the Association of County Com­ other citizens, of P. L. Cushman and 15 other citizens, of Edward missioners and County Supervisors for the State of Nebraska, for L. Parks and 9 other citizens, of James Dana and 10 other citizens, the construction of a national highway from the Atlantic to the of J. Thea. Heard and 19 other citizens, of W. B. Bird and 28 Pacific ocean-to the Committee on Appropriations. other citizens, of George C. Page and 7 other citizens, of Francis By Mr. STRODE of Nebraska: Petition of the Commercial Club B. Sears and 11 other citizens, of Leverett S. Tuckerman and 18 of Omaha, Nebr., asking that the "Act to regulate commerce" be other citizens, of William B. Atkinson and 13 other citizens, and amended-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. of Fredirlck W. Plummer and 10 other citizens, all in the State of Also, petition of the Commercial Club of Omaha, Nebr., pray­ Massachusetts; of Daniel Beckwith and 11 other citizens of ing for improved transportation of packages and bundles by the Providence, R. I., and of Reuben G. Thwaite, of Madison, Wis., Post-Office Department-to the Committee on the Post-Office and remonstrating against any extension of the sovereignty of the Post-Roads. United States over the Philippine Islands in any event, and over By Mr. SUTHERLAND: Protest of J. C. Francis and other any other foreign territory without-the free consent of the people citizens of Doniphan, Nebr., against any extension of the sover­ thereof; which were referred to the Committee on Foreign Rela· eignty of the United States over the Philippine Islands-to the tions. Committee on Foreign Affail's. Mr. McMILLAN. presented a petition of the Woman's Christian By Mr. UPDEGRAFF: Petition o.f E. M. Hancock and 9 other Temperance Union of Birmingham, Mich., praying for the enact· citizens of Allamakee County, Iowa, praying for the passage of ment of legislation toprohibit the sale of liquor in canteens of the the Ellis bill to prohibit the sale of liquor in canteens of the Army Army and Navy and of Soldiers' Homes and in immigrant sta­ and Navy and of Soldiers' Homes, and in immigrant stations and tions and Government buildings; which was referred to the Com- Government buildings-to the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor mittee on Military Affairs. · Traffic. GEORGE W. WESTON. By Mr. WANGER: Petition of the Young People's Society of Mr. GALLINGER. A few days ago I introduced a bill (S. 4870) Christian Endeavor of Carmel Presbyterian Church, of Edge Hill, for the relief of George W. Weston and intended to send some Pa., in favor of the Ellis bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicating papers to the Committee on Claims with the bill, but I find them liquors on Government reservations, etc.-to the Committee on on my desk. I now present those papers for reference to the Com· Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. mittee on Claims. By Mr. WEYMOUTH: Petition of the Woman's Christian Tem­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. If there be no objection, the papers perance Union of Fitchburg, Mass., to prohibit the sale of liquor will be so referred. in canteens of the Army and Navy and of Soldiers' Homes, and in immigrant stations and Government buildings-to the Committee REPORTS OF A COMMITTEE. on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. Mr. GALLINGER, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was recommitted the bill (H. R. 4973) for the relief of Mary J. Brown, reported it with amendments, and submitted a report thereon. SENATE. He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the WEDNESDAY, December 14, 1898. bill (H. R. 312) granting a pension to Ellen Wright, reported it with an amendment, and submitted a report thereon. Prayer by Rev. E. E. Boss, D. D., of Nashville, Tenn. The Journal of yesterday s proceedings was read and approve~. PURCHA.SE OF NAVAL VESSELS, ETC. REPORT ON REINDEER IN ALASKA. Mr. JONES of Arkansas, from the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to whom was re­ The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communication ferred the following resolution submitted by Mr. VES1' on the 13th from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response-to a instant, reported it without amendment: resolution of the 6th instant, the report of Dr. Sheldon Jackson Whereas charges have been made in the public press, over the signaturo:J upon the introduction of domestic reindeer into the district of of responsible parties, that improper and corrupt means have been used to Alaska for 1898; which, with the accompanying report, was or­ secure contractR from the Government for the purchasG of vessels for the Navy and for the furnishing clothing and other necessary articles for the dered to lie on the table and to be printed. Army of the United States during the war with Spain a.t excessive a.nd ex: orbi ­ DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION ESTIMATE. tant prices: Therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate, That a special committee, to consist of five Sen a torsi The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica­ to be appointed by the President of the Senate, sb!lll be created, who sbal tion from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letterfrom make inquiry as to the truth of all such charges and make report to the Sen­ ate. Said committee shall have power to summon Yvitnesses and enforce the Secretary of the Interior of the lOth instant submitting an their attendance, to administer oaths to all such witnesses, and to employ a estimate of appropriation, 5106,600, to carry into effect the pro­ stenographer, the expenses of the committee to be paid out of the contmgent visions of the act of June 28, 1898, for the protection of the people funds of the Senate. of the Indian Territory. and for other purposes, and requesting Mr. VEST. I should like to have the resolution passed upon that the estimate be included in the urgent deficiency appropria­ by the Senate. tion bill; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the present con­ the Committee ori Appropriations, and orderad to be printed. sideration of the resolution? PETITIONS AND MEMORIA.LS. Mr. PLATT of Connecticut. I wish that itmaylieover to-day. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolution will lie over. Mr. PENROSE presented sundry petitions of the Woman's Chris­ tian Temperance Union, of congregations of the Grace Lutheran WASHINGTON CITY POST-OFFICE BUILDING. Church, the First Baptist Church, the Church of God, the United Mr. JONES of Arkansas, from the Committee to Audit and Con­ Presbyterian Church, the Gospel Prohibition Church, the Meth- trol the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to whom was referred