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7196 CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-.SENATE. JULY 9,

The Clerk read as follows: PETITIONS, ETC. Mr. WILSON o! West Virginia, Mr. MCMILLIN of Tennessee, Mr. Turu..Jm of Georgia, Mr. MONTGOMERY of Kentucky, Mr. REED O! Maine, Mr. BUR­ Under clause lof Rule XXII, the following petitions and papers ROWS of Michigan, Mr. P A.YNE of New York. were laid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: DEATH OF HON. MARCUS C. LISLE. · By Mr. ALDERSON: Petition of Sally H. Tompkins, of Kana­ Mr. McCREARY of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, it is my sad wha County, W.Va., praying that t.he claim of Beverly Tomp­ duty to announce to the House of Representatives the death of kins, deceased, be referred to the Court of Claims under the Hon. Marcus C. Lisle, late a Representative in Congress from Bowman act-to the Committee on War Claims. the State of Kentucky. He died early this morning at his ByMr. BAKERofNewHampshire: PetitionofCharlesWinch home near Winchester, Ky. and other citizens of Langdon and Alstead, N.H., prayino- that He was born September 23, 1862, in Clark County, Ky. Though fraternal beneficial societies, etc., may be exempt from the pro­ young in years, he had become very prominent as a lawyer, leg­ visions of any law providing for a tax on income-to the Com­ ISlator, and business man. In the year 1890 he was elected county mittee on Ways and Means. judge of the county in ;vhich he was born and reared. In 1892 By Mr. COFFEEN: Petition of 63 citizens of Laramie County, he was elected a Representative in Congress, and was therefore Wyo., for suspension of assessments on mining claims-to the serving his first term at the time of his death. . Committee on Mines and Mining. He was a true friend, a pure patriot, and an accomplished gen­ By Mr. CURTIS of ~ansas: Petition of citizen!!! of Arkansas tleman, and he was loved and respected by all who knew him. City, Kans., favorable to the Kyle resolution-to the Committee In all the positions of honor and trust held by him he was con­ on Labor. . spicuous for his ability, integrity, and fidelity to duty. By Mr. HOOKER of New York: Petition of the presidentand At this time I will not indulge in any extended remarks on faculty of Alfred University, Alfred, N.Y., for the suppression the life, cha-racter, and public services of our deceased colleague of lotteries-to the Chmmittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. and friend, but in the future I will ask the House of Represent­ . By Mr. O'NEILL. of Missouri: Pap~rs to accompany House atives tiJ set apart a day for the commemoration of his virtues blll 7658, for the rehef of Mary Ann T1ppler-to the Committee and public services, and for appropriate action in rel!ard to his on Invalid Pensions.

The message also announced that the House insisted upon its and providing for the payment of life, sick, accident, and other amendments to the bill (S. 807} granting a pension to Earnest C. benefits to the members and dependents of such members shall Emerson; and the bill (S. 920) to pension Mary Brown, of Berlin, be exempt from all the provisions of the bill requiring taxation Vt.; agreed to the conference asked for by the Senate on the dis­ in any form; which was ordered to lie on the table. agreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and had appointed He also presented a memorial of a committee of the Yearly Mr. MARTIN of Indiana, Mr. HARE, and Mr. PICKLER, man­ Meeting of Friends for New England, remonstrating against the agers at the conference on the part of the House. proposed abolishment of the Board of Indian Commissioners by Th~ message further announced that the House had passed refusing to make any appropriations for its necessary expenses; the bill (S. 411) for the.relief of Samuel Collins. which was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs . . The message also announced that the House had passed the Mr. ALLEN presented a memorial adopted by the People's following bills; in which it requested the concurrence of the party of Charles County, Md., July 4,1894, remonstrating against Senate: any compromise of the rights of the people in connection with A bill (H. R. 4326) to subject to State taxation national-bank the Pacific Railroads, demanding that the mortgages held by notes and United States Treasury notes; the United States on those railroads be foreclosed, and that they A bill tH. R. 4322) granting the use of certain land to the town be owned and run by the United States in the interest of the of Castine, Me., for a public park; people; which was referred to the Committee on Pacific Rail· A bill (H. R. 4448) for the r~lief of persons who have filed dec­ roads. larations of intention to enter desert lands; He also presented a memorial of the Woman's National Indus­ A bill (H. R.4952) to amend section 2455 of the Revised Stat­ trial League of America, of Boston, Mass., remonstrating against utes of the.United States; the passage of the so-called Everett bill, to encourage the Mon­ A bill (H. R. 7020) to readjust the salaries and allowances of golian race to become naturalized citizens of the United States; the postmasters at Guthrie, Oklahoma City, and Kingfisher, in which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. - Oklahoma Territory; and Mr. BLANCHA~D presented a memorial of the Orleans Par­ A bill (H. R. 7335) to grant to the Arkansas, Texas and Mexi­ ish Medical Society, of New Orleans, La., remonstrating against can Central Railway Company a right of way through the In­ a reduction of the appropriation for the library of the Surgeon· dian Territory, at:d for other purposes. General's Office, ; wh~h was referred to tlle ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. Committee on Appropriations. The message further announced that the Speaker of the House REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. had signed the following enrolled bill and joint resolution; and Mr. PLATT. I am directed by the Committee on the Judi­ they were thereupon signed by the Vice-President: ciary, to whom was referred the bill (S.2173) to amend an act A bill (S.1758) to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize entitled "An act to establish a United States court in the the Oregon and Washington Bridge Company to construct a Indian Territory, and forother purposes," approved March 1, bridge across the Columbia River between the State of Oregon 1889, and an act entitled" An act to provide a _temporary gov­ and the State of WMhington, and to establish it _as a post-road; ernment for the Territory of Oklahoma, to enlarge the juris­ and • diction of the United States court in the Indian Territory, and A joint resolution (H. Res. 201) authorizing the Secretary of for other purposes," approved May 2, 1890; to provide for the ~ the Navy to continue the employment of certain mechanics and redistricting of the Indian Territory for judicial purposes, for laborers. an additional judge and more United States commissioners, and PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. to prescribe the jurisdiction, duties, and authority of such Mr. SHERMAN. I present petitions of the Chamber of Com­ judges and commissioners, and for other purposes, to report it merce and Merchants' Exchange; of the Ohio Mechanics' Insti­ with amendments. I shall call the bill up to-morrow morning tute; of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association; of the with the permission of the Senate. Manufacturers' Association; of the Freight Bureau of the The VICE-PRESIDENT. Meanwhile the bill will be placed Chamber of Commerce; of the Commercial Club, and of the on the Calendar. Builders' Exchange, all of Cincinnati, Ohio, praying for a fast Mr. PLATT. The Committee on Indian Affairs has already mail service from Cincinnati to the South. As this matter is reported the amendment providi!J-g for the payment of certain pending before the Committee on Appropriations, I move that claims, submitted by the Senator from California [Mr. PERKINS] the petitions be referred to that committee. on the 26th ultimo, as an amendment to the sundry civil appro· The motion was agreed to. priation bill. I am now authorized by the committee to report Mr. SHERMAN presented a memorial of 56 citizens of Clark the same amendment to the bill making appropriations for the County, Ohioj remonstrating against any appropriations being expenses of the Indian Department. I ask that it may be re· made for Indian education at sectarian schools; which was ferred to the Committee on Appropriations. referred to t.he Committee on Indian Affairs. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The amendment will be so referred. He also presented the petition of J. B. Corey, of Pittsburg, Mr. PASCO, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom. Pa., praying for the enactment of legislation to punish leaders was referred the bill {H. H. 3~58) extending the time for final of labor organizations, etc., for obstructing the civil processes proof and payment on lands claimed under the public land laws of State and national authority, and remonstrating against the of the United States, reported it with an amendment and sub­ unlawful combinations of capitalists; which was referred to the mitted a report thereon. Committee on Education and Labor. He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the Mr. GALLINGER. On behalf of my colleague [Mr. CHAND­ joint resolution (H. Res. 92) to print extra copies of the decisionlil LER], who is absent from the city, I present petitions of'Richard of Interior Department relating to public lands and pensions, Nelson, president, and Ella Nelson, secretary and treasurer, of asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that it the Nelson Business College, of Cincinnati, Ohio; of 0. E. Ful­ be referred to the Committee on Printing; which was agreed to. ghum, principal, F. C. Fulghum, assistant principal, W. S. Mr. COCKRELL, from the Committee on Appropriations, to Heiser, penman, Mrs. W. S. Heiser, superintendent shorthand whom was referred the bill {H. R. 7097) making -appropriations department, and Emma C. Beals, shorthand instructor, all ' Of for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Gov­ the Richmond {Ind.) Business College; of U.S. Loofbourrow, ernment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, and for other superintendent of schools, of Eldorado, Ohio; and David H. purposes, reported it with amendments. Cochran, Ph. D., LL. D., president Polytechnic Institute, of CHARLES IVERSON GRAVES. Brooklyn, N.Y., in behalf of an,d by direction of the faculty Mr. PUGH. The Committee on the Judiciary authorize me of the Institute, praying for the passage of joint resolution (S. to report back favorably without amendment the bill (H. R. 1141) R. 651 to encourage better spelling of the English language, etc. to remove the political disabilities of Charles Iverson Graves, • I move that the petitions be referred to the Committee on Ed­ of Rome, in the State of Georgia. The bill has been before our ' ucation and Labor. committee for several months. It is all right, and it will take The motion was agreed to. but a few minutes to dispose of it. I ask for the present consid­ Mr. GALLINGER (for Mr. CHANDLER) presented the petition eration of the bill. of Charles H. Dimick and sundry other citizens of Lyme, N.H., By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the praying for the enactment of legislation to enable the States t<> enforce State laws regulating the sale of substitutes for dairy Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. products; which was referred to the Committee on Interstate The bill wa.s reported to the Senate without amendment,.or­ Commerce. dered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed (two­ He also (for Mr. CHANDLER) presented the petition of Dr. A. thirds of the Senators present voting in the affirmative). H. Hoyt and 15 other citizens of Penacook, N.H., praying that CRIMINAL ~OOEEDINGS IN MINNESOTA. the pending tariff bill be so amended that fraternal beneficiary Mr. PUGH. I am directed by the Committee on the Judi· societies, ordera, or associations operating upon the lodge system ciary, .to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 7293) regulating the 7198 OONGRESSION.AL RECORD-SENATE. JmLY 9,

procedure in criminal ca.ses iQ. the district of Minnesota, to re­ It adds nothing to the cost or expenses of the judiciary, and fur­ port itfavorablywithoutamendment. The Senator from Minne­ nishes near to the people of a considerable portion of the State sota [Mr. DAVIS] states it is important that the bill shall pass a Federal court. immediately, and I ask for its present consideration. · . I desir~ to offer one amend¥lent which I neglected to present By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee or the 1n comnuttee. I move to str1ke out the last section of the bill, Whole,pr.oceeded to consider the bill; which was read, as follows: section 10, which provides .Be it enacted. -etc., That all crimina.! proceedings instituted tor the trial of Th3:t the United States sha.ll not be at any expense in providing tor a. o!fenses against the laws of the United States arising 1n the district of buildmg or room tor holding or the terms or sa.id com:ts at Meridian. Minnesota, sha.ll be brought, had, and prosecuted in the diVision of said district in which such o1renses w.ere committed. I desire to say in favor of this amendment that there has been SEC. 2. That this act .shall take e1!ect upon its pa£Sage. a law passed and is now in progress of execution by which $50 The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or­ 000 was appropriated to erect a Federal building at the town of dered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. Meridian. The building has not been yet erected, and the tenth section might prevent the expenditure of a part of the money COURTS lN MISS_ISSIPPI. in fitting up a court-room. It will cost the Government noth­ Mr. GEORGE. I am directed by the Committee on the Ju­ ing. Therefore, in order to prevent any misconstruction, I diciary, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 6447) to fix a term move to strike out the last section of the bill. of the Federal district and circuit courts of the Southern judicial The amendment was agreed to. district of :Mississippi, to be held at Meridian, Mis.s., to include The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the the counties named, to report it· back with some slight verbal amendments were concurred in. .amendments. I ask consent that the bill be now considered. The amendments were ordered to be engrossed and the bill to The VICE-PRESIDENT. The bill will be read for informa­ be read a third time. tion. The bill was read the third time, and passed. to The Secretary proceeded read the bill. BILLS INTRODUCED. Mr. ALLISON. From the re-ading this seems to be a. bill em­ bracing a go-od many thing"B. Of course if it takes no time I Mr. HARRIS introduced a bill (S. 2190) for the relief of the shall not object to its consideration. tru~tees of the Pre~byteri!'l'n qhurch of B~thel Springs, Tenn.; Mr. GEORGE. The reading is nearly completed, and it is whwh was read tw1ce by 1ts title, and, w1th the accompanying merely a bill establis.hing a new division of a district. papers, referred to the Committee on Claims. Mr. ALLISON. I shall not object. He also {by request) introduced a. bill (S. 2191) to regulate the The Secretary re!';umed and concluded the reading of the bill. sal~ of milk in the ;District of _Columbia, ~d for other purposes; Mr. PLATT. I do not enter any formal objection to the con- whwh was read tWice by its t1tle, and., w1th the accompanying sideration of the bill at this time. It is reported by the Senator letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, re­ from Mississippi and is for the establishment of a new division ferred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. in his own State where United States courts are to be held. I Mr. HUNTON introduced a bill (S. 2192} granting a pension to think, however, I ought to state that dispatches have been re­ Celestia P.Hartt; which was read twice by its title, and referred ceived by Senatore from the United States district judge for to the.Committee on Pensions. Mississippi saying that the new place for holding courts ought Mr. BLANCHARD introduced a bill (S. 2193) for the relief not to be created. I do not enter any formal objection to the of the estate of. Alfred W. Green, late of Carroll Parish, La.; bill, because it is reported by the Senator from M~sissippifrom which was read twice by its title. the Judiciary Committee and he ought to know about. the con~ Mr. BLANCHARD. I present the affidavits of Mingo Hop­ dition of affairs in his own State, but I felt I ought to say to the. kins and Urias Conn, of the parish of East Carroll, La.; which Se.nate that the United States district judge thinks the bill I move be referred, with the bill, to the Committee on Claims. ought not to pass. The motion was agreed to. The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the present Mr. PERKINS introduced a bill (S. 2194) providing for the ex­ consideration of the bill? tension of the coal laws of the United States to the district of There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the Alaska~ which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. Committee on Public Lands. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The amendments of the Commit~ Mr. KYLE introduced a bill (S. 2195) making .employers liable -tee on the Judiciary will be stated in their order. un~er certain res~rictio~s f?r injuries sustained by employes; The first amendment was, in section 1, line 4, to strike out whiCh was read twice by 1ts title, and referred to the Committee ''emb~ace" and insert u include;H in line 5, after" Neshoba," to on the Judiciary. insert a semicolon; in line 6, to strike out "Scott;" in line 7, Mr. MARTIN introduced a. bill (S. 2196) to increase the pen­ after the word "Wayne," to insert "and;" and in the same line, sion of J. Francis Hopper; which was read twice by its title, and after the word ".Jones," to strike out "and Smith;" so as to referred to the Committee on Pensions. make the secti.on read: OBSTRUCTIONS TO RAILWAY TRAINS. That the southern judicial district of the State of Mississippi be so con­ stituted as to include the counties of Kemper, Noxubee, and Neshoba; and .Mr. KYLE. On Friday last I introduced a joint resolution t.b.at the counties of Lauderd.a.le. Kemper, No:xubee, Leake, Neshoba, New­ (S. R. 94) defining obstructions to railway trains, which wasor­ ton, Jasper, Clarke, Wayne, and Jones shall be known as the eastern divi­ dered to lie on the table. I move that the joint resolution be sion of said southern district, and circuit and district courts tor the trans· action of business pertaining to the persons and property in said ea.stern Teferred to the Committee on Education· and Labor. I believe division shall be held at the city of Meridian .on the second Mondays of it is fully covered by the bill introduced by the Senator from March and September of each year and shall continuo tor three weeks, or Mississippi [Mr. GEORGE], which was referred to the Committee so long as bu~nness may require. on the Judiciary. The amendment was agreed to. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The joint resolution will be re­ The next amendment was, in .section 4, line 4, aft-er the word ferred to the CommiU8e on Education and Labor, in the absence "division," to insert "or district;" so as to make the section of objection. read: AMENDMENTS TO APPROPRI.A.TION BILLS. SEC. 4.. That if there be more than one defendant in a cause and the de­ femiants reside in different diVisions of the said southern district, or any of Mr. ALLISON submitted three amendments int~n.ded to be the defendant s reside in the northern district, the plaintiff may sue in either proposed by him to the sundry civil appropriation bill; which division or district where any defendant resides, and send duplicate writs for the other defendant or defendants, the other division or distl'ict where were referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, suoh de.fenda.nt or defenda-nts reside, and said writs when executed and and ordered to be printed. returned into the court from which they issued shall constitute one stilt and Mr. GALLINGER submitted an amendment intended to he 'be proceeded in accordingly. proposed by him to the general deficiency appropriation bill; The amendment was agreed to. which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the.Com­ "The next amendment was, in section 5, line 3., after "Ncwton," mittee on AppropriatiOJ?.S. to strike out "Scott, Smith;" so as to make the section read: Mr. DOLPH. I submit an amendment intended to be pro­ SEc. 5. That all processes issued out of said courts at Meridian against de­ posed by me to the sundry civil appropriation bill. It refutes fendants residing in the counties of Lauderdale, Kemper, Noxubee, Leake, to the matter that was submitted to the Senate by the Secretary Neshoba, Newton, .Jasper, Olarke, Wayne, Jones, or any other county, shall be returned to the courts hereby provided to beheld in Meridian. of the Treasury this morning. I move that the proposed amend­ ment he referred to the Committee on Appropriations and The amendment was agreed to. printed. , ~r. ,GEORGE. I desire simply to remark, in response to the The motion was agreed to. ObJeCtiOn telegraphed by the Federal judge, that the bar and the people of that portion of the State think that the division CONTROL OF RAILROADS, ETC. ought to be created. My own opinion iB that it is very essential Mr. PEFFER. I submit a resolution, and ask that it may be to the convenience oi the people of that section of the State. read and lie over under the rule. 1894. OO.NGRESSIONAL RECORD---8ENATR I 1199

The reHOl suggest- acts_: tnj~}'l;:sc;fv!~~~~~~a}:~~~~ffed Sta'tet:- An act (S. 2135) to provide that a tecrn -of the circuit and -dis- First. That all public tunct1ons rought to b9 exer&s-ell by 11.Ild through trict con.rt of the United. States for the district of Vermont may publie agencies. be held at .Montpelrer; b:0;~~1n'f~~J;;!:~~o;~~£%~o~g{!~:;~~~=~f n;::11;~~~ .An aet (R T954-) to ame~ section 13!9, chaJ?ter 1, Title XV, Re- cers; tha;t-cha.Tgea for transportation of persons and property·ought to be Vlse~ Statutes .of the U~ted States., m relation to a.pp.o1.n:tments 'UilifoYm tnronghoUt th:e country; tha.t wages ·or temploy6B ought to be reg- , Q! aSISta.nt paymasters rn the Navy; :and ulated by law and pa.id promptly :fn money. An act (R 1963) for the relief of the snreti~3 of Dennis Mur- Third. Th~t aJ1 coal beds ought to oo owned li.D.d wol'ked by the 'States OT h "Y the Fed~Tal Government; and -the wa.g~s ot all persons who work tn the P Y · . lnines ought to be provided by law and paid in money when due .. - The :m.essage lurthe.r ~nnounced that too Pr~Sident -Of the Fourth. That a.ll mcmey used by the people ought to be supplied only by United States barl. on the 6th inst.ant a,ppl'Ov.ed and siO"ned the • the Government o! the Unlted States; that the rate of interest ought to be folloW'inO" .acts· c -unift)rm 1n all the States, not-exceeding the net average increase of 'the per- ·· ~ · - . _ . ma.nent wealth of the people. An :act (S~~11) granting to t,he State of N{)rth Dakota .certain Fifth. That all revenues of the Gove-rmnent ought to be~·a.ised by taxes on landshei·emiore set apart as a wood reservati-on ~or Fort T-otten real estate. • . . _ militaryreservation for the 11se of the militia .of North Dakota., The VICE-PRESIDENT. The reBOlution will lie over as re· and for ,.other _purposes; .and quested. . ~ . An aet (S. 2000) granting to -th-e Brainerd and Northern Min- 9 Mr. COCKRELL. What lS done mth the resolutwn · nesota Rail way Company a right of way through the Leech Lake The VICE-PRESID.ENT. It goes over -under the .rnle. Indian Re.serv.aiion in the State of Minnesota. Mr . COCKRELL. Very welL The me-ssage 'also annoanced that the President of the United INDIAN ENGAGEMENTS. States had on the 9th instant oa.pproved and signed the act (8. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays bef.ore the Senate 578) .granting An increase {)f pensioa to Wclls J"ohnson. a resohttion eoming over from a previous -day. ROUSE :BILLS REF.ERRED". The Secretary read the reso.luti{)n submitted hyMr.LINDSAY "The hill (H. R.4326) tosrihject to State taxation.na'"tional-bank -on the 2d insta.nt, as follows: notes and United States Treasury·.note.s w.a~ read twice by its Resolved, That the Secretary of War l>e, and~ hereby ts, requested to title, and referred to the Committee on the Judieiary. furnish for the nsem the Senate, as early as practicable, a st-atement .show- The b-ill (H. R. 4322} granting the use of -certain land to the mg tully and ii.n detail all exveditions and engagements had by the military town ~" rt...-+C;-e 1\.Ke !o nnblio -n..,r:~- '""'S re~ ;:t tw1"ce bv its forces of tbe United States with ho.stil~ ba.nds or tribes of Irutla;na, for the - w. v.l:lll)IJlll ' . .l.''.L ...., T .a II:'- r..., :-A. """ (;I.LI. a period beginnlng witJl 185D a.nd ending with Ma.rch s, 1891., :showing. "When- title, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. over possible; the tribe or ba.nd en~aged or oJ)era.ted against, and submit- The bill (H. R. 7020) to readjust the .salaries .and .allowances of ting with the sa.id statement copies of all corresponden-ce and reports re- the postiruJ.Sters at Guthrie., Oklahoma City., and Kingfisher, in ~~~~ ~ ~~~~~id expeditions against and engagements-with the said Indian Oklahoma TerritDrf~ was reaa twice by itB title, and referred to -The VICE-PRESIDENT. T.he Senato-r from Ken.tucky, woo tbe Committee .on Post-Offices and Post-Road~ introdnc.ed the resolution, requests thatit be indefinitely post- The bill (H. R. 7335)togranttothe ArkansBS,TexasandMexi- d can Centr.al Rail way Company aright of W11Y throngh the Indian po~·. 'coCKRELL. Then I move that th-e resotution beindeft· Territory., and lor other purposes~ w.as read twiee h_y its title, nitely postponed. and referred to the Committee :on Indian A'ff:airs. The motion was agreed to~ The following bills were severally read twice by their title,q, and referred to the C!tmmittee on Public Lands; PEARL HARBOR SURVEY. A hill {EL R 4448) f.o-r" th-e .relief of _persons who have iiled The VICE-PRESIDENT. "The .Chair lays bef:ore 'the &nate e .actea upon :as 'they ,a.re re-ached in the The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lay-s before the Senate reading of the bill. a resolution submitted by the Sen.ator from FloridafMr. CALL], The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair coming over from .a previous day. .hears none-; .and it is 8{> ordered. The Seeretarv Tead the resolution submitted .on £he 2d in- The Secretary ;proceeded to 1·eaa the bill, whicb. had been re- stant by Mr. CALL, .as follows: ported' by tne Committee on A-ppropriations with amendments. & solved. 'l!ha.t a comm.itte.e ot five Senators shall be &J>poin.teil by the "T.h-e :fir£;t amendment reported "Qy the Committee on Appro- President who-shall.inquir.e .and report to the S.en&te tbe causes of the ex- - p;ria~ons wa.s 0- n nRcre 2 line 8 a~ter +he w~.. d up.,.0.,.,;ded ,., to isting sttike ot railroad and Pullman-car tel'Ilploy6s and the justice o! the w. ' r-.c • ' •L " - V"- _, "~ ' :demands of the workingmen, a.ud repo:rt b-y bill or ,(Jtherwise ·such legisla- .strike .out- · tion as may secure jus.tlile to !the workingmen a.nd .be reason.a.blfl a.nd fair to That .all omc.ers who :nave "be.en a.ppolnt.e·d or who may "be :appointed to their emplCJ'YerS and secure {.he transportation of the m.a.ils :and "freigh-t and

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ground. I scarcely think, in view of the statements from that pended snan not exceed the sum placed to the credit of the n:1.va.l hospital fund as the net proce{lds of the sale of naval hospital lands under the pro official, that it will be necessn.ry for me to add anything to what visions of the act approved July 2, 1890. I have said. The sum of $75,000, I am told, is a necessary amount to construct a boat adequate tor such service. So as to make the clause read: Naval hospital fund: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at the I submit to the Senator from Maryland whether under the various navy-yards and stations and for care and maintenance of patient'\ circumstances detailed, and especially upon the information con­ in other hospitals at home and abroad, $20,000. tained in this late communication from the Secretary of the The amendment was agreed to. Navy, who has familiarized himself personally with the subject, Mr. GORMAN. After the word" dollars," in line 8, I move it will not be well to accord my request. to insert what I send to the desk. Mr. GORMAN. The Committ-ee on Appropriations were of The SECRETARY. After the word "dollars," in line 8, page course very anxious to reduce the amount of the appropriations 21, insert: to the lowest possible limit consistent with the proper conduct For complete renovation of present hospital building at Brooklyn, N. Y., of the business affairs of the Navy Department. It is true that with a view of placing it 1n a perfect sanitary condition, namely, for erec­ the statement which the Senator from California has just had tion of retaining and boundary wall, $15,000; for kitchen, mess hall, and smoking room, removed from basement and located apart, conveniently for read was not brought to our attention until this morning, and I inmates and attendants of main hospital building and proposed adjacent am satisfied that the appropriation of $50,000 is necessary for wards, $3,500; for construction or and operating ward with all modern anti· septic appliances, $1,500; for heating and fire apparatus, enlarged and im· that purpose. proved; plumbing renewed, $5,000; for elevator for transporting sick and Mr. WHITE. I ask the Senator from Maryland whether it wounded introduced. $3,000; for apartment fitt-ed in main building for chapel, ought not to be made $75,000, in view of the estimate of the De­ reading room, and sailors'·llbrary, $1,000j in all, W, 000; which sum shall be partment and the fact stated, that it is necessary to have a paid from that portion of the naval hospital fund accruing from the sale of naval hospital grounds to the city of Brooklyn and placed to the credit of stronger and heavier tug-a seagoing tug-at that particular the naval hospital fund, in pursuance of tb.e act approved July 2, 1890. island for the reasons detailed in the letter of the Secretary? Mr. GORMAN. I think the Senator from California had bet­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing ter let the matter remain as it came from the other House. to the amendment proposed by the Senator from Maryland. There is. no estimate for it. There is nothing but the letter of Th~ amendment was agreed to. the Secretary. I suggest that the Senator had better let the The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment provision remain for the present as it came from the other of the Committee on Appropriations was, on page 25, line 18, House. I withdraw the amendment. after the word" dispensary," to strike out" Washington's" and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maryland insert" Washington;" and in line 19, after the word "labora­ withdraws the amendment of the committee striking out the tory," to strike out ''and department of instruction;" so as to clause. The reading of the bill will be proceeded with. make the clause read: Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For freight, expressage on The re~ding of the bill was resumed. The next amendment medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick to hospital, transpor­ of the Committee on Appropriation& was, on page 22, line 15, tation of insane patients; care. transportation, and burial of the dead; ad­ after the word "Academy," to strike out "to be immediately ·vertising; telegraphing; rent of telephones; purchase of books and station­ ery; binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; postage available;" so as to make the clause read: and purchase of stamps for foreign service; expenses attend.ing the medical For buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: Improvement of the water board of examiners; rent of rooms for naval dispensary; hygienic and sani­ front of the Academy, $10,000. tary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; pur­ chase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase or and feed for horses The amendment was agreed to. and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental The next amendment was, on page 22, after line 16, to insert: articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory, si()k quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons' For repairs to the gas-plant, ~.ooo. offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations; washing formed- The amendment was agreed to. ' ical department at museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, The next amendment was, on page 22, af~r line 17, to insert: dispenSaries at navy-yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous; To pave Hanover street from Maryland avenue to Wagner street, Wagner for necessary expenses incident to removal of museum of hygiene to old ob­ street from Hanover street to King George street, and King George street servatory building and· grounds, and. for such minor repairs on said build· from College avenuet6Collegeor Graveyard Creek, in the city of Annapolis, ing and grounds as may be 1·equired to properly receive and preserve the M.d., $13,000; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to convey exhibits, and all other necessary contingent expenses, $25,000. · to the city or Annapolis, Md., the title to the bed of .King George street from College avenue to College or Graveyard Creek. The amendment was agreed to~ The next amendment was, on page 26, line 5, after the wol'cl The amendment was agreed to. "hospitals," to strike out" and department of instruction," so The next amendment was, on page 23, line 5, after the word as to make the clause read: 11 extended,"to strike out" to be immediately available;" so as to Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For necessary-repairs of naval make the clause read: laboratory, naval hospitals and appendages, including roads, wharves, out­ For grounds and roads: For continuing graaing, extending roads and houses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, $20,000. paths, clearing and improving grounds of new Naval Observatory, and fill· 1ng ravine contiguous to boiler house to Massachusetts avenue extended, The amendment was agreed to. 112,000. The next amendment was, on page 26, after line 9, to in­ The amendment was agreed to. sert: The next amendment was, in the appropriations for Naval That an officer of the pay corps of the Navy may be temporarily detailed as assistant to the ChiefottheBureau of Supplies and Accounts in the Navy Observatory, on page 23, line 20, after the word "dollars," to Department, and that such omcer shall, in case of the death, resignation, strike out "to be immediately available;" so as to make the clause absence, or sickness of the Chief of the Bureau, unless otherwise directed read: by the President, as provided by section 179 of the Revised Statutes, per­ form the duties of such chief until his successor is appointed or such ab­ Instruments and accessories: Miscellaneous instruments and accessories, sence or sickness shall cease. namely: One comet seeker IMOO; one standard mercurial barometer, $400; one magnetic theodolite, t8oo; one dip circle, f250; one earth inductor in· The amendment was agreed to. clinometer, ®300; one galvanometer, SSO; one telescope and scale, !50; one The next amendment was, on page 31, after line 24, to insert: quadrant galvanometer, !62; one compensator, 114; glass scales, !100; beam suspensions, $100; one photographic register, !150: one altazimuth instru­ For the repair of the ship Constitution, now lying at the Portsmouth ment, mounted and protected from weather, $6,500; eyepieces and shades, navy-yard, in the State of New Hampshire, in order that it may be used as f250; one 12-mch object·glass,$2,000. For freight elevator, 1!500; in all, $23,956. a training ship for the naval militia, $8,000. The amendment was agreed to. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, on page 24, line 3, before the word The next amendment was, on page 34, to strike out lines 17, 18, 11 museum," to strike out'' and department of instruction;" so as and 19, in the following words: to make the clause read: To commence the construction or new machinery, engines, and boilers of United States steamship Ha1 tford, $100,000. Medical Department: For surgeons' necessaries for vessels in commis· sion, navy-yard, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for The amendment was agreed to. the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval The next amendment was, on page 37, line 17, before the word laboratory, museum ot hygiene, and Naval Academy, $60,000. "dollars," to strike out" forty-three': and insert "seven;" so The amendment was agreed to. as to make the total of appropriations for pay of professors and The next amendment was, on page 24, line 8, after the word others at Naval Aacadeiny $52,407. "dollars," to strike out- · · The amendment was agreed to. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to use such portion of The next amendment was, on page 38, line 8, after the word the naval hospital fund accruing from the sale of nav~~ol hospital grounds to the city of Brooklyn, and placed to the credit of the naval hospital fund, in "President," to strike out the following proviso: pursuance of the provisions of the act approved July 2, 1890, as may be re· Provided, That every Member or Delegate of Congress whose district or quired to thoroughly repair the United States Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Territory is now unrepresented at the Naval Academy by a cadet who is not Y., and to build, equip, and maintain additional sick quarters of modern an actual resident of the district shall be permitted on or before the 1st day construction at that place for the proper care and treatment ot sick and of August, 1894, to recommend a candidate for appointment as a cadet at wounded om.cers and men, and to make such further improvements in and the Naval Academy, and the Secretary of the Navy shall nominate such a bout said naval hospital and the grounds thereof as may be commensurate candidate tor appointment to the Academy, subject to qualifications now with the requirements of the service: Provided, That the amount so e:x:- prescribed by law. Such cadets when appointed to be in addition \u the XXVI-451 7202 CONGRES~IONAL RECORD-SENATE. JULY 9, number of cadets now allowed: Provided, That th.ere shall be but one ap­ deprived of their equal privileges of appointment to the Naval pointed from the State of South. Dakota at large, a.nd the sum of $5,500, or so much thereof as is necessary, is hereby appropriated, tor the additional Academy, and the vacancies have been :filled indiscriminately number of cadets herein authorized. by the President and the Secretary of the Navy from boys around Mr. ALLEN. I hope the Senator from Maryland will with­ this District, or the -sop.s of naval officers, why not right that draw thB amendm-ent. After the word '~ existsr" in line 5, -page wrong by adopting the amendment I ha\e proposed. The ap- 38, of the bill, I move to insert: propriation is small. - Wh.o shall have been for at least two years immediately preceding the date With reference to the other amendment, I understand the Sen­ of his n;ppo1ntment an actual and bonafide resident of such district 1n which atormakesnoobjection to it. I willread the amendmentagain. the vacancy may exist. After the word ''exists," in line 5, I move to insert: Also after the word ''President," in line 8l I move to insert: Who sha.ll ha~e been for at least two years immediately preceding the But must be distributed among the different States of the Union in a.s nearly date ol his appomtment an actual and bona fide resident of such. district in equal a manner as is practicable. which. the vacancy may exist. I desire to say to the Senator in charge of the bill that the Then, after the word "President, 11 in line 8, I move to insert Congressional district in which I reside in the State of Nebraska the wards: has an appointee in the Naval Academy who never even saw But must be distributed among the dltrerent States ot the union 1n nearly the State of. Nebraska, who knows nothing about it any more as equal a manner a.s 1a practicable. than he would know if he had been born in Russia. He was ap­ Mr. GORMAN. I suggest to the Senator to let the vote be pointed from this District, who has probably never been west of first taken on the committee amendment, and his amendments the District, and yet that boy is put in the Naval Academy can ba offered afterwards. The last amendment the Senator charged to the"Third district of Nebraska, while the boys there, suggests interferes with the existing system. The law now pro­ many of whom are amply competent and desirous of filling these vides that every member o:f Congress shall nominate one in four positions, are excluded from them. , years for each Academy, and therefore the distribution is as per­ I hope t!l.e Senator from Maryland will consent to the amend­ fect as it can be made. Then t-en shall be appointed bv the ment of the proposed law I have suggested, to the end that no President at large, who, under the unwritten law always ob­ abuse may be indulged in in the appointment of cadets to the served, has appointed descendants of persons who had distin­ Military and Naval Academies of the nation. It is perfectly guished themselves in the Army or Navy. 1 do not think the proper that the youth of my State should have an equitable por­ second amendment the Senator suggests.would operate at n.ll tion of the appointments to the Naval Academy and th~ Military well. We can not make a more fair distribution than to pro­ Academy. Because we reside lt500 miles from the sen.board vide that the appointment shall be made from each Congres­ furnishes no reason why the President or the Secretary of the sional district. Navy or any other person in power should exclude our .boys I trust the Senator will allow us to vote on the committee from the privileges and responsibilities of these appointments. amendment first and then he ea.n offer his amendment as to I have been informed by those who have had m01"6 Congres­ bona. :fide residence. I have no objection to that amendment. sional experience than I tbat it has been a custo-m to abus-e Mr~ ALLEN. I have no objection to the order in which the these appointment3, and that boys from the District of Columbia amendments are offered. I want, however, to see the amend­ have been accredited to different districts and Statea in the ment I offer- become a part of the law of this country. I do not Union1 which neither they nor their parents: ever visited or want to be required to take the committee amendment :first and ever saw. I hope the Senator from Maryland will consent t o then have the committee tell me that my amendments are not the amendments I pFopose. germane t-o the bill and ought to be voted down. Mr. GORMAN. I am in entire sympathy with the· object the Mr. GORMAN. The Senator will have no difficulty about Senator from Nebraska has in view in requiring these appoint­ offering his amendments. I am not prepared to exclude his ments to be made from the actual residents of a Congressional amendments, but under the ruling of the Chair the committee district. The provision as the.. Committee on Appropriations amendment must be first voted on. have left it I think a.m.-ply provides foi"" that. If the Senator de­ Mr. ALLEN. I understood the Senator fromMa.ryland tosav sires the further·qualificationof residence for at least two years that he has no objection to my first amendment. • in the dist1'ict I have no objection to that amendment, but in Mr. GORMAN. None in the world, and I will accept it when recommending that the proviso shall be stricken out I think the time comes. . the Senator upon reflection will agree the committee we1.•e quite Mr. ALLEN. Iy second amendment, which requires that right. The law now provides that every member of Congress the general appointments made by the l?resident shall be dis­ shall nominate once in four years a candidate for the Naval tributed as nearly equitable as possible among the different Academy or West point. States, it strikes me is preeminently proper. I do not know In the event that the members fail to nominate, or fail to what right the President oi the United States should have to nominate a boy who can pass the examination, and: after such select ten or- twelve young men or boys annually at his mere rejection still neglect to make another appointment, the Presi­ discretion and place them in the naval service of the United dent and the Secretary o:f the Navy, or Secretary of War, have a States. It strikes me that, if the States have any rights here, aright to supply the vacancy. The custom has grown up of tak­ those appointments ought to go to the Stn.tes as well as those ing whoever they thought proper, whether the boy be a resident made by members of Congress. The tendency o! that practice of the District of Columbia or one of the Dakotas or Nebraska. is simply to build up a naval aristrocracy. It is simply to give This provisiont as it is proposed to leave it, will prevent that a boy an advantage by an appointment in the Naval Academy hereafter. The proviso we propose to strike out makes provis­ of the Government because his father may have been a distin­ ion that where a lapse has occurred in the past a member of guished man, when the boy himself may prove utterly unfit fo1· Congress shall now have a right to nominate another person the a.-ppointmant he has received. and thus increase in an appropriation act the number of boys in I have no sympathy with that kind of flunkeyism and aris­ the Academy. tocracy which recognizes a child simply because thefathermay Mr. GEORGE. Why not increase the number? have been a great man. Let the boy take his chance in the race Mr. GORMAN. There is no necessity for it. It is difficult of life and depend upon his own merits, Let the appointments now to provide for the boys who have already passed. We which have been accumulating for years through the agency of make in this very bill provision !or them. We are now trying the President and the Secretary of the Navy go out among the to open another door that they may enter the engineer class, a different States of the Union, and let boys be selected who are class from which they have not graduated, so that they may meritorious and who show mental and physical capacity to per­ have employment hereafter. form the duties of .the office to which they will be promoted. We can not correct what is past; we can not go back to give a It is a small thing it is true, but it is one of the small things member oi Congress who has failed to do his duty to his constitu­ which added to many other things is building up an aristocracy ents an opportunity to make another nomination, and thus in­ in the Navy, an aristocracy in the Army, and an aristocracy in crease the force out of proportion, but we do provide that here­ all of our great Departments, and thus takes away from the peo­ after when a lapse shall occur the appointment shall be made plea part and parcel of their rights. actually from the district to which the appointment belongs. Now, I hope the Senator from Maryland will pennit the sec­ Mr. ALLEN. I have been informed that in a.t least one in­ ond amendment also to be made to the bill. stance a member of Congress who had the appointing power The PRESIDING OFFICER . The question is on the amend­ und'3r an act similar to this, was never actually notified by the ment repo-rted by th.e committee, to strike out the proviso on Navy Department of the desire that the appointment should be page 38. made-. lit occurs to me that an abuse has grown U'Jl in this re­ 'rhe ame-ndment was agreed to. spect. I do not say that the failure to notify was designed or The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question recurs on the a.nyth.ing af that kind; it was merely an oversight,, or it- may amendment submitted by the Senator from Nebraska. have beelll a. fuilure on the par-t of the mails to reach the mem­ Mr. ALLEN. The first amendment was acoepted, I under­ ber. If the boys of the different States of the Union have been stand. 1894. OONGRESSION AL REOORD-BENATE. 7203

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair understands that so fur as I have knowledge, in the last twenty or thirty years the amendment submitted by the Sen-ator from Nebraska was have done well in that regard. accepted by the committee. I know they have hadan active competition in the iargenum- Mr. GORMAN. Let the amendment be read as it stands. ber of young men whose fathers, or whose grandfathers, or The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment will be stated. perh:J-ps their great grandfathers, had served in the Navy or in The SECRETARY. On page 38, line 5, aft-er the word" exist," the Army. In many cases these young men were naturally ex- it is proposed to insert: tremely anxious to get into the service, and the very honorable Who shall have been for at least two years immediately preceding the record of the service of their ancestors is a sufficient guaranty date of his apl)ointment an actual and bona fide resident ot the district 1n that they will do well. They take great pride in it ior the rea­ which the vacancy exists. son that members of their families have been for generations The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amend- in the service. ment of the Senator from Nebraska. The Senator thinks there is a sort of aristocra~y here. On Mr. GORMAN. Let the word ''and" be inserted at the end the other hand, thefathersandgrandfathersofthese young men of the amendment, so as to read "in which :the vacancy exists are, as a rule, poor men; and remember also, as a rule, they have and of the legal qualifications/' etc. practically no political experience, and no President gains any- Mr. ALLEN. That is right. thing for his party by making these appointments. I am happy ThePRESIDINGOFFICER. The amendment will be so modi- to say I have known of many cases in which party has had noth- . · h d t d"fi d ing to do with such appointments~ fi.ed. The questwn IS on t e amen men as mo 1 e · In the case of the exception to which I referred, some six or The amendment as modified was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The next amendment pro- eight years ~o I had the pleasure of bringing to the notice of posed by the Senator from Nebraska will be stated. the President a bright young fellow who had been a c.aptain of The S ECRETARY. After the word ''President," in line 8, on the Rig h School Cadet Corps in this city' and the President · d to · rt took quite a fancy to him and appointed him~ Who was his page 38 'It is propose mse - father? A Republican clerk in one of the Departments. He but must be

law from the very beginning of the Government and from the unforeseen defect of hearing1 he was b1.rred out. foundation of those two great schools has been that each Repre- I give that as an example of the fairness of President Cleve­ sentative in Congress should have the power to nominate once land, and I know of many othe1" Presidents who have acted in in four years a boy as a candidate to each of these two a similar way. I should be very sorrv to see the law changed schools, the Naval Academy and the Military Academy. It in thiflrespeet. w was also provided, so that exact justice might be done, that Mr. MILLS. I can account for the fact that there may be an the President should have ten appointments at large, and the oceasional exception~ statute provides that he may select them from any place in the Mr . HAWLEY. This is only a single exception~ I do not United States. The real object, however, was to give the Presi- know of another. dent an opportunity to select boys, the sons of officers of the Mr. MILLS. That is perhaps the only ,exception. lean see Navy and the Army, wbo had no residence in any of the States, how the President might be unable to :find a suitable person to go into these two great academies. am<>ng thesonsoi officersoftheArmyand the NaYyaud be driven The Senator from Nebraska is entirely wrong when he inti- to make appointments out...

corrected so as to give all, whether they be sons of officers of the from Marylan-d and the distinguished Senator from Connecticut Army or of the Navy, or civilians, the S9m.e opportunity and would con~nd that every military appointment to the Academy put them upon the sE~.me footing, so that all may have an equal at West Pomt should be made from the sons of some distin• chance. ~uished officer of the Army; and yet, Mr. President,. the his­ I do not hold because a young man is the son of a distinguished tory of this count1·y has demonstrated that the greatest failures officer of the Army or of the Navv that for that reason he is en­ in civil and military life have ·oeen the sons of great men. titled to any preference over a yo'lmg man equally well qualified With one or two exceptions, can any Senator stand at his desk in civil life. in this Chamber and point to the successful son of a distin­ Mr. HAWLEY. Of course, the son of an officer has no right guished man? Under such a system every officer in our Army and no especial claim, but as a matter of fact a great many of twenty-five years from to-day would be the son of some man who the older officers of the Army and Navy have no legal residence had been an officer in the Army preceding him. in any Cong-ressional district. It .is hardly possible .that they The same argument can be applied to thecivillistwith equal should all be able to get one. The head of the family in the propriety and equal logic. Suppose we had a law to-day that service is oftentimes three years at sea, and the family lives in the President or some Cabinet officer might appoint to the civil one place and then in another. list of this country boys or girls because they were the sons and Sometimes he hn.s shore duty, and the family goes and lives daughters of distinguished men. They might lack every quali­ with him while he has that duty on shore; but the actualfact is, .fication of success; they might be on the debatable line between as the officers will tell you, that a great many of them have idiocy and sanity, and yet the sole qualification that the law never stayed long enough, or taken the pains in any particular would require them to possess would be that they should be the place to acquire the right to vote there. Even if they had been sons or daughters of distingu~shed men in the civil department for awhile there, what chance has an officer of the Navy who of the Government. How many years would it b3 until this may be in China waters to get an appointment from the Con­ Government in its civil department, in its naval department, in gressman who has scores of political friends around him beg­ its military department, and in all its ramifications would be an ging for such appointments for their boys. aristocracy, if not an absolute oligarchy? Mr. HUNTON. Will the Senatorallowme to ask him a ques­ No such power should be conferred upon the President of the tion? United States. His office does not call for a concession of this Mr. HAWLEY. Certainly. kind. There is no reason existing why these ten offices should Mr. HUNTON. Suppose an admiral of the Navy had a home not be distribut-ed as nearly equally or equitably as possible be­ in Connecticut, and his family remained there, just as the Sena­ tween the different States of this Union, so that every honest tor's family remains there and mine in Virginia, I ask the Sena­ boy, wherever he may be in the Union, whether he be the son tor if that officer of the Navy could not go home and vote at the of a commodore or a general, or the son of a hod-carrier or a polls in the State of Connecticut? farmer, may have an equal opportunity by merit to win that Furthermore, I desire to say that almost all the members of position. That is democracy; that is republicanism; that is in Congress now appoint to Ann!i.poiis and West Point upon com­ the line of a government by the people, and of the people, and petitive examinations. When that is the case, the son of the for the people, recognizing alone the merit that the individual officer of the Army or of the Navy has the same right to compete possesses and not to any inherited privilege. as any civilian, and I think the officer would have the right Mr. HAWLEY. Mr. President, I would not prolong this dis· ·under such circumstances to vote in Connecticut, as I am sure cussion if the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. ALLEN] had not im­ he would have in Virginia. plied that I had made a remark from which the inference might Mr. HAWLEY. The right to vote depends, as the Senator be drawn that I was in favor of having the cadets at Annapolis well knows, upon a number of qualifications prescribed by the and West Point appointed from the families of distinguished State. It is notal ways easy for the officer of the Army or of the naval and military officers. I never said anything of the kind. Navy to comply with these conditions and save his vote. The I never said anything about having any of these young men actual fact is, as I have stated, that many of them have no place taken from military or naval families. The great body of the where they can vot-e. naval and military cadets are selected by 356 members of the Mr. HUNTON. If an Army or a Navy officer has a residence House of Representatives, and there is no better guarantee for in a State he has the right to vote there. their being fairly distributed throughout the Union, and no bet­ Mr. HAWLEY. I understand that. He may have his wife ter guarantee for their being fairly representative, to use the in Connecticut for a number of years, but when the time comes phrase so much used nowadays, of the people at large. to register and vote he may be in Havre, or up in the Mediter­ I only advocate giving the President an equitable discretion ranean, or in the China seas, and he does not get around, so that in the appointment of about ten young men in the Army. How he can not vote very often. in the worla are ten cadets to be distributed proportionately Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, I think there is no force what­ over the Union? The appointments, taking deaths and resig­ ever in the position of the Senator fromConnecticut[Mr. HAW­ nations into account, will amount to about three a year, to be LEY J. In the first place, I think it is absolutely impossible to con­ distributed amongst forty-four States. ceive of a case where a man is a citizen of the United States and Mr. GRAY. Mr. President, I do not neglect the opportunity has no residence. If any man is a citizen of the'United States, of indorsing so far as I can the sen timen ts expressed by the Sen­ he has a legal residence somewhere, in some State, some Terri­ a"'tor from Nebraska [Mr. ALLEN] with so much vehemence and tory, some district of this Union. If he is not a citizen of some eloquence. As a Democrat I would not deny the equal oppor­ State and has no residence, or domicile, at least, somewhere in tunity for all of advancement i~ life, for entry into the public the United States, then he is not a citizen of the United States, service to any man on account of his condition, no· matter how and he is entitled to no consideration at the hands of this Gov­ humble or how poor that man may be in this world's goods. I :ment, and ought not to be in its service. do not believe that the son of a commodore or of a general or of a Whenever you use the words" citizen of the United States," distinguished Senator like the Senator from Nebraska-- you imply that the individual has a domicile, legal or actual, in Mr. ALLEN. Or the Senator from Delaware. some State or Territory of the Union or in the District of Co­ Mr. GRAY. Should have any advantage over the son of the lumbia. It may be that he may have been absent from it for hod-carrier, to whom the Senator from Nebraska alluded as one years, possibly for nearly all his life-from boyhood until he is of presumed humble condition in life. I would not, by any vote an old man-and yet, during all that time, there is some spot, of mine or by any word of mine, give the least advantage toone there is some State or Territory or place in the United States over the other. of which he is a citizen, and where, if otherwise qualified, he is But, Mr. President, in our consideration and in our care and a legal voter. If such a man voluntarily goes into the naval or anxiety to preserve that equality for certain classes in the com­ military service of this Government in the pursuit of honor, munity, we are sometimes in danger of producing an ine the same intellectual standard. plains, even west of the Senator's own State, and it seemed to There is an absolute equality as to requirements. When they me depriving him of that equality of opportunities, for which have once entered, I have never heard any charge that there we are both contending, to require him to send his son back to was any favoritism as to the graduation of these lads in the serv­ reside for two years at this domicile, a.t an expense he could illy ice of their covntry. On the contrary, I have always believed, afford, and deprive him of his society and of the opportunity fLS I have heard it asserted, that there were no more democratic to train the boy as he wished to do, in order that hemightenter institutions in this country: certainly no more democratic edu­ the military service. cational institutions, than these academies for the naval and Mr. ALLEN. The Senator does not deny the fact, then, that military service. There is absolute equality there to-day as to at some place in the United States, within its territorial juris­ opportunities, as to condition in life, as to instruction, and as to diction, every officer of the Navy and of the Army, although he the mode of living between the son of a millionaire or the son may be now or may have been for twenty-five years in the heart of the distinguished Senator from Nebraska and that of the of Africa, has a legal domicile, and that the domicile of his wife humblest boy who has entered the Acad(3my by the favor of the and children follow his domicile. There can be no question Representative of his dist-rict; and I have never heard any alle­ about that rule. It is the rule of this country; it is the rule of gation to the contrary. every civilized country upon the face of the globe to-day, and This is a practical question. I do not think the case quite has been for five hundred years. calls for the vehemence and eloquence of the Senator from Ne­ Suppose the Senator from Delaware with his family was in the braska. If there is a wrong here, I would go with him to right State of California or the State of Washington, and a competi­ it, and I would go with him to right it on the lines he has tive examination was to be held in the State of Delaware, in marked out for producing equality and absolute equality, andes­ which his son desired to enter for appointment to the Naval pecially equality to those who should be less fortunate in the Academy or to the Military Academy, would the Senator think race of life than their fellows, but it does not seem to me that it wa3 proper, under those circumstances, to have a law which the occasion exists. · would permit the President to appoint his son, without under­ It seems to me that there were wise men and deiil()cratic men going that competitive examination with tho boys who live in and men in favor of the rights of the people who made this law the State pf Delaware, which would take him in consequence of before we came here. There were great men before Agamem­ his being in California and still having a domicile in the Stats non; there were wise legislators before the Senator and I en­ of Delaware, and place him in the Military Academy or the tered this body, and they seem to have provided with a practi­ Naval Academy, and by that means defeat the other good boys cal good sense and a practical statesmanship for the distribution of Delaware from an opportunity to compete for that position? of these cadets over the Union by allowing the Representative Mr. GRAY. If the Senator wants an answet· now, I do not of each district to nominate them. think his supposititious case is a good one. That would not de­ I quite agree with the Senator in making more stringent the prive any boy in Delaware of that opportunity who now would provision that the cadet should be domiciled and have a bona be entitled to it, each district having on~ cadet; and this is en­ fide residence in the district from which he is appointed. tirely a matter of additional appointment given to the President In addition to that, it seemed necessary to clothe the Presi­ to meet the case which I have tried to describe. ·· dent-! do not suppose the President desires the power at all, Mr. ALLEN. No, Mr. President, if the Senator from Dela­ for it is only a trouble and annoyance to him-with this power to ware were in California he would be there by his own volition appoint these few cadets in order to do away with what seemed and would have his family there by his own volition, and that to be a condition of things that would produce inequalities and would furnish no reason why his boy should not return to Dela­ unfairness towards a certain class of our citizens. ware and undergo a competitive examination before he was se­ Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, I desire to say, in reply to the lected for a place in the Naval or Military Academy-none Senator from Delaware [Mr. GRAY], that my amendment, as I whatever. It would be due to the boys in Delaware that they drew it, is only a provision that affords an equal opportunity to should have an opportunity to enter into competitive examina­ all the people of this country. I do not want to giveanyspecial tion with him and show, if they could, that they were brighter advantage to the son of any particular man or class of men. I and fitter for this appointment than his son. want for the humblest citizen in this land who has a bright and Mr. GRAY. II I may interrupt the Senator for just onemo-, intelligent boy, one who is mentally and physically competent ment, I think there is one basis of the Senator's argument to enter the naval service of this Government, as complete an which would fail him, for if he will refer to the law as it existe, opportunity to do so as the son of any commodore or commander now and aa it is proposed it shall exist, he will see that there iii of a. vessel or any other man. no provision requiring a competitive examination. The Senator from Delaware says that he agrees with me upon Mr. ALLEN. I understand that quite well; but in view of the that. I did not think so a moment ago when he said that the fact that competitive examinations have been instituted by President ought to have the power to reward a certain class of members of Congress throughout the different States and rec­ men in the naval service. ommended by the War Department, why should not the son of Mr. GRAY. I did notsay that. the Senator or the son of a naval or military officer undergo Mr. ALLEN. Why not make the son of a commodore-and! that examination the same as your son, Mr. President, or mine? speak simply by way of illustration-go into the district where Why should the President of the United States have the ap­ his father has a legal residence, and there come in competition pointment of ten persons to the Naval Academy, to be appointed with the boys who live in that Congressional district? Has the from those whom he may himself select, entirely regardless of Senator from Delaware any objection to that? their distribution over the country? There is nothing about Mr. GRAY. Mr. J:>resident, I should have no objection to it. the person of the President of the United States, nothing abou~ There is nothing in this matter, so far as I view it, except in the office he holds which should give him this wonderful power. the matter of practical arrangement, so as to do the least possi­ These appointments belong to the people of this country and ble injustice and make the greatest possible equality in distrib­ they should be distributed as equitably and as justly as possible uting these appointments. among the different States of the Union. There would be a very great hardship, it seems to me, if my It is no argument for me, at least, for Senators to stand up and friend from Nebraska happened to be an officer in the Army out say that here is a custom which has grown up and has existed upon the plains, with a little family around him, to compel him for forty or fifty or more years. If it is vicious to-day-and I to send his son athousz..nd miles away in order to acquire a domi­ believe itt<> be so-it was vicious when it was instituted years cile somewhere else, and incur expense and trouble in order to ago, and it is part and parcel of our duty, if it is wrong and 7206 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JULY 9, bottomed upon wrong principles, to change it by appropriate now, as he has been since the foundation of the Government, to legislation. make these selections wisely and judiciously frorn the different Mr. President, the amendment I have J?l"'Oposed will not pass. ranks of the people, if we admit that there are any different I am not foolish enough to suppose that 1t will pass. It will not ranks among our people, as was indic11ted by the remarks of the pass not because it ought no_t to become a. law., not because the Senatort-t"om Nebraska. President should be clothed with power at his caprice to The provision of the bill leaves the matter where it has ahvays appoint indiscriminately persons t-o the Naval and Military been. The power has been exercised wisely a.Ild judiciously Academies, not because that can be justified by any process of hitherto, and I can sea no reason whatever for the amendment reasoning, but because the custom has existed so long and the which the Senator from Nebraska proposes. inroads of aristocracy have been so great in the political insti­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing tutions of this country that enough Senators can not bemus­ to the amendment submitted by the Senator from Nebraska LMr. terecl here to change this law. ALLEN]. Mr. CAFFERY. I should liketo inquire of the Senator from The amendment was rejected. Nebraska what is the particular amendment which he offers? The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment I was not in the Chamber at the time it was read- reported by the Committee on Appropriations was, on page 41, Mr. ALLEN. On page 38, line 8, after the word H Presi­ line 15, after the word "privates," to strike out " and for the ex­ dent," I have moved to insert this language.: "but must be penses of clerks of the United States Mal'ine Corps traveling distributed among the States of the Union as nca:rly equally as under orders;" and in line 18"' after the word "cents," to strike practicable." out- Mt·. President, I offered this amendment and have made my ProvUJ.ed. That the pa.y of the drum major sh~ll be the same as that now remarks for the purpose, so far as I am concerned, ot setting the established, or that may be her-eafter established, for first sergeants in the seal of condemnation upon this methodof transacting the public Marine Corps o! the same length .o.f service. business. I want every one of these ten officers who .are under S-o as to make the clause read: the control of the President and the othe1-s who .a-re under Pay o1 noncommiss i on~d offu:ers. musieia;ns, and privates: For one ser­ the control of members of the Rouse of Representatives to be geant-major, one qua.r.termaster-sergeant, one leader o! the band, one drum­ major. fif ty firs t sergea,nts, one hundred and forty sergeants, one hundred distr ibuted over this .colllltry as equallyand as equitably as pos- and eighty corporals, thirty musicians, ninety-six drummers and fifers, and sible. · one thousand six .hundred :prlvatea, ~84, 704.79. The President has no special interest in the Navy cr the The amendment was agreed to. Army. True, the Army and the Navy .are subject to his con­ The next amendment was, on page 4'3, iine 10, after the words trol as Commander-in-Chief; but the President has no rig-ht in "District of Columbia," to strike out "or San Franci-sco, Cal.;" equity or in justice to s:ty who shall enter the military service so as to make the clause read: of this country and who shall not. He has no il"ight to take the In the ofiice of tllil assistant quartennaster, Washington, D. C.: one cl-erk, son of one manor the sons of one class -of men .and put them in at :Sl,tOO; 1n all. for pa.y of civil force, $1'1,636.23, and the money herein tipe· ciftcaUy appropriated fDr pay of the Marine Corps shall be dlBbursefi and ac­ the Army, and thus build up a military aristocracy, any more counted for in accordance wlth existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, a.n.d than he has the right to take the sons of naval -officers and put for that p-urpose shall constitute one fund. them in Annapolis, and by that means build up a navai m:-istoe- . The amendment was agreed to. racy. Neither one would be any more justifiable than for us to The next amendment was, on page 43, line 24, after the word pass a law or recognize a custom by whi-ch the ei vil-ser-vioo list "cents," to strike out" and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby should be built up primarily from the sons ·and daug-hters of authorized '\o transfer balances as may·be necessary in the ex­ those who have served the Government in itscivil branch. isting accounts of the Paymaster-General of the Navy and.the Mr. President! turn to the books and you will find that this Quartermaster of the Marine Corps;~' so as to make the clause District has nea.rly 4,000appointments in the civil service of this read: · country. There are but 250,000people in the District of Colum­ Provisions., Marine Corps: For 1.,100 noncommissioned o.mcers, musicians, bia, and yet they have three, four, or five times more appoint­ and privates, -and for commutation tor rations to U enlisted men detailed as ments than the State of NewYork.or the Stateo! Pennsylvania; clerks and messengers, also for pa.yment of hoard and lod~ng of recruiting parties, said payment for board not to exceed $2,500, t14,001.55; and no law and there are more appointments in the naval serviee to-day shall be construed to entitle enlisted marines on shore duty to any ra.tlons from the District of Columbia than from any .single State in the or commutation therefor other than such a.s now are or may hereafter be Union. Where there has been a lapse in appointments in the allowed to enlisted men in the Army. · diffe rent States persons have been taken from this District who The amendment was agreed to. have never been beyond the State of Maryland r speed premi1Im on the new exist in dividing the!m appointments out among the different steel practice vessel Ba.ncrott, $45,000. districts im the United States. It seems to me that it is a wise The amendment was agreed to. provision that this power should vest somewhere, and I see no The reading of the bill was concluded. place where it can more safoly or more properly vest than in Mr. PERKINS. I have an amendment which I desire to of­ the President of the United States. Surely he can be trusted fer to the bill. I will preface its presentation by ·saying that I 1894~ CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-SENATE. 7207

P:ave submitted it to the eommittee, who have carefully con- which I have just read, or by some other authority. I should sidered it, and I have reason to hope that they will acce1>t it. be glad to have some explanation. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. FAULKNER in the chair). Mr. GORMAN. By the act of March 3,1893,as stated by the The amendment proposed by the Senator from California will Senator from Florida., $2.5,000 was appropriated to acquire the be stated. necessary land for the dry dock. The Secretary of the Navy, The SECRETARY. On page 32, after line 3, insert: in pursuance of the authority of that act, attempted to acquire For the repair or the hull o! the United States ship Ha.rt!ord, to be used sufficientland by private purchase. Finding that the land could as a. training ship when repaired, IS15G,OOO. not be obtained in reasonable amount, condemnation proceed- Mr. WHITE. The committee will observe and the Senate ings were instituted, and they have been concluded. The will notice that a committee amendment has already been amount of this appropriation is the exact sum necessary to pay adopted striking out a provision, found in lines 3 and 4, on page the award for the land. The Committee on Appropriations in 8, with relation to a modern battery for the Hartford. The framing the amendment provided only for the payment of the amendment proposed by my colleag-ue answers, I think, theob- sum so ascertained. jection of the committee, which was tha.t there had been no ap- There is nothing in the proposition looking to doing any work propriation for the hull. As stated by the Senator from Mary- there or making plans for a dry dock. That is a matter for land, there is a general desire to preserve the historic ve"Ssel, Congress to determine hereafter. All that is proposed to be and it can be done in this manner, and will be useful for the pur- done by the amendment to the bill is to pay for the land which pose indicated in the amendment of my colleague. I hope the has been condemned. committee will acquiesce in the am-endment. Mr. PASCO. I should like to ask by what authority thecon- Mr. PERKINS. I will add that this is the precise amount, damnation took place~ I understand that there are very se­ $150,000 for the a-rmament, which was stricken out. Therefore rious objections to the location at Algiers, and that when the it does not increase the gross appropriations in the bill. Mississippi River is very high there are developments at Al- Mr. GORMAN. The Senators from California submitted the giers which indicate a most unfavorable location for a dry dook. amendment to myself and the other members of the suboom- I do not know of any law ever having been passed authoriz­ mittee in charge of th-e bill, and we are inclined to accept it. ing the establishment of a dry dock there, or authorizing the If the Hartford is to be preserved (and I suppose there is a gen- condemnation of any land. The section of the statute which I cral sentiment in the country that she ought to be preserved), have read is the only authority I have s-een which would indi­ she would unqu-estionably be of great use in the service as a cate that the matter was being considered, and that does not training ship on the Pacific roast. , fix definitely the location at Algiers. But it seems that the The oost of repairing the hull of the vessel will be, in the end, Department has gone on acquiring land by condemnation, and a.s estimated by the Department, $276,000 in round numbers.. that a furthei"" appropriation is now to be made for the payment She Is now at San Francisco, and this provision will, in all prob- of the. land so acquired. I should think that there ought to be a.bHi ty, enable sufficient repairs to be made ~o use her as a train- some definite understanding as to whether Algiers is to be the ing ship. Therefore I have no objection to the amendment being location of the dry dook. The purpose he-re seems to be simply adopted. , . to purchase land without any determination of that question. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing It a.ppears to me that in view of the developments which took to the ameudmentproposed by the SenatorfromCalifornia[Mr. place at Algiers, disclosing serious if notfatal objections to that PERKINS]. place., it would be well~ if the matter is still Ol)en, to examine it The amendment was agreed to. more ~:we.fully and completely be!ore making any further ap- The bill was repo--rted to the Senate as amended. propt'iatinn to purchase land, if the place is really unfit for a M:r-. PASCO. I sho-uld like to have one of the .armendments dry dock. . made as in Committee of the Whole reserved. I refer to the Mr. GORMAN. I understand that under the- provisions of amendment whi~h relates to the appropriation for a dry dock at the act of 1893, making appropriation"S for the naval service-- Algiers, La. I wish to have some mformati

(linary economy which obtains, that an amount only sufficient There was a direct authorization to the Secretary of the Navy to pay for the land condemned would be necessary this year. I to acquire this land and to prepare plans for the construction of understand that the location of the dry dock at Algiers has been a dry dock. No more authority whatever is necessary in any decided on, and all that is wanted now to complete the work is case, and no further provision that I am aware of is ever made sufficient appropriations by Congress. for the establishment of a dry dock. The Secretary of theNavy, Mr. PASCO. The Senator from Louisiana says that this loca­ as I have just shown, under that provision. has gone on to ac­ tion has been decided upon. That is the very point to which I quire land, and d1d acquire it. He refused to purchase itat the was addressing my inquiry. I have never seen any actual deci:. price at which it was offered, $65,000, and condemnation pro~ eion fixing upon Algiers as "the location. I can find no law that ceedings were had. The jury awarded for the land acquired was ever passed fixing the location there. I think that there $44,000. It requires $22,000 more to pay the award, and there ought to be some such authority produced, if the Senat-or from the matter will rest. ·It will hardly be possible for Congress to Louisiana can do so, which will satisfy the objections I have been refuse to make that appropriation at this time. making. My suggestion is that until the Congress of the United But to meet the objection of the Senator from Florida and States has by some direct action fixed upon Algiers as the loca­ others who may still think it an open question as to the propriety tion, we should not be appropriating money in one appropria­ of the establishment of the dry dock at this point, the Commit­ tion bill after another for this purpose. The definite location tee on Appropriations have deliberately stricken out all provision ought to be fixed by authority of law. for even the plans of a dry dock there. So at the next session The Senator says it is recommended by the Secretary of the of Congress or at any other time when the condition o! the Treas­ Navy. I have never seen any such recommendation, and I think ury is such that we may consider the propriety of entering upom that either the recommend!ltion of a Secretary of the Navy or the construction of any new work, the whole question will come some actual law passed by the two Hol4ses of Congress ought to up whether this is a proper location. Then all that matter may be produced before we go on in this way, appropriating monev be gone over and determined. But now it is absolutely neces­ year after year for a dry dock at Algiers. - sary that we should make this small appropriation. I trust, If the Senator is correct in his view that one or the other of therefore, that the Senator from Flor1da will withdraw the the bases for the appropriation exists, I suggest that he produce amendment, for it has no relation to the appropriation now be­ them to the Senate now, so that we can see what they are. H ing made. the question is an open one, we ought to go slowly with refer­ . Mr. PASCO. It does seem to me that before any money is ence to this appropriation. paid from the Treasury the location should be fixed. The appro­ Mr. CAFFERY. I ask the Senator from Florida whether the priation of $25,000 in the act of 1893 does not seem to have led to act of1893, authorizing the acquisition of land ...-at Algiers for any decisive results. The Secretary has not been able to pur­ th_e purpose of a dry dock, is not virtually and substantially a chase the land because the appraised valuation of ft is nearly location of that point for. a dry dock:O That is what has been double the amount appropriated. They are now going on, done. The report of tho commission in favor of Algiers, after apparently committing the Government one step farther, to a the act authodzing the condemnation of landfor this public pur­ second appropriation. It does not seem to me that it is wise, as pose, I think is conclusive of the factthatthe location of the dry long as the matter has not yet been closed, as long as the q ues­ dock has been agreed on at that point, and that it is sufficiently tion of the location of the dry dock is still open, to go on appro­ authorized. priating additional amounts of money in the different appro­ Mr. PASCO. That is precisely what I am trying to ascertain, tion bills, and thus indirectly committing the Government to whether it rests on the appropriation made two years ago, or the establishment of the dry dock at Algiers. whether _.there is some authority of law for it. The Senator The location, as I said, and as the Senator from Louisiana now seems to intimate that it rests upon the appropriation in [Mr. BLANCHARD] just suggested, has been favorably reported the act of 1893; and if that is all it rests upon then the question upon by two boards, but I will say again what I said before he may still be regarded as an open one. The appropriation now came in, that very serious doubts have arisen as to whether it proposed in an amendment which was not printed in the bill is a proper location. The location at Algiers has been flooded moves indirectly in precisely the same direction. with water since then, and everything indicates that when the It strikes me that a matter of such great importance should Mississippi River is high the entire plant may be washed out be settled before these appropriations are made, and that the and ruined altogether. I think it would be very wise to settle Government should not, by these appropriations made from by some definite legislation the location of the dry dock before time to time, be drawn into a large expenditure to be made some· we appropriate any more money. time in the future, committing the Government in this indirect Mr. HALE. Will the Senator from Florida allow me? way to the establishment·of a dry dock there. If the question Mr. PASCO. Certainly; I yield to the Senator from Maine . . is still an open one, I suggest to add to the amendment the fol­ Mr. HALE. I agree with the Senator as to the doubfs lowing proviso, to which I call the attention of the Senator from whether this is precisely the best place for the dry dock; but Maryland: the Senator speaks too late. The location has been fixed. Con­ Provided, That before the expenditure or the said appropriation the Sec· gress fixed it by authorizing the purchase of the land. The retary of the Navy is satisfied that the location at Algiers is suitable tor a Secretary of the Navy has gone- on, and not being able to pur­ dry dock; and if he finds that there are serious objections to the location that they be reported to Congress tor its further action before the appro­ chase the land, has condemned it, but has not had money enough priation is expended. to pay the whole sum of the condemnation. We are in duty It seems to me some such action ought to be taken to prevent bound to pay the award, bem~use the location has been settled. the Government from going too far in this direction, and that It never will be. settled any more determinately. Whether this appropriation should not be made until we definitely de­ right or wrong; lt has been done. termine that the dry dock shall be located at Algiers. The only future question, as the Senator from Maryland says1 Mr. BLANCHARD. I desire to ask the Senator from Flor­ is whether when next year comes Congress shall, with this lana. ida a question in this connection. Is it not true that two hoards upon its hands that it ought to pay for and has to pay for, go of commissioners have, under instructions from Congress, ex­ on and spend a half a million or a million dollars in building a amined the sites for the proposed dry-dock on the Gulf coast, dry dock. The location has been settled just as much as Pensa­ and have not both of them reported in fa~or of Algiers? . cola bas been settled. It is only a question of future appropria­ Mr. PASCO. I so stated before the junior Senator from Louis­ tions, just as it is a question of future appropriations for Pensa­ iana came in. I referred to the act of 1893; I called attention to cola. We are in for it. The location has been settled. it and I read it. But still,neither of these reports has ever been Mr. PASCO. I suggest to the Senator from Maine, with all confirmed by Congress. The matter! I understand, still remains due respect, that he is simply begging the question. The very open. In 1893, after these two reports, there was an appropria­ question I raise is whether the Government is already committed tion made "toward the establishment of a dry dock," but Con­ to that project. gress has never directed that the dry dock shall be est.ablished Mr. HALE. We have appropriated money for this purpose, there. My suggestion was, that before any further appropria­ ana under it the Secretary of the Navy has gone on-- tions or expenditures or arrang-ements are made the question of Mr. PASCO. We have appropriated $25,000, and he can not location ought to be definitely settled by some action on the part get the land for less than $50,000. of Congress. · Mr. HALE. No; but the Secretary has gone on under the Mr. GORMAN. I trust the SenatorfromFloridawill not press act and condemned the land for the United States and taken the amendment which he has just offered. If he .will look care­ legal process, and thereby has located it. This appropriation is fully at the act of March 3, 1893, to which he has just referred, merely necessary to complete the payment for the la.nd. We he will find the usual provision made: have to pay for the land even if we abandon it. Toward the establishment of a dry dock on the Government reservation Mr. PASCO. But the Secretary of the Navy had no power near Algiers, La.; for plans and speciftcationB, and for the acquisition of beyond the $25,000 which was appropriated. If that was insuffi­ such additional land as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary cient he could close the contract, he could not buy the land; and ot the Navy, in accordance with the recommendations of two coillrillssionB &ppointed by the President under the provisions ot &n act approved Septem­ now he comes here and says," If you will give me $22,000 more 1 ber 7, 1888, and the act approl"ld June 30, 1890, respectively, 125,000. can do it." · -·

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Mr. HALE. This is only to carry out what is recognized by after the finding of these two commissions, after an appropria­ the law as one process. A general statute requires the Govern­ tion of money for the condemnation of land at Algiers and for the ment to pay for land which it has condemned. It can not get establishment of a dry dock, it occurs to me the establishment out of it. It is equivalent to a deed where property has passed is a thing settled. I do not share in the fears of the Senator. rrom one private party to another-the money can be recovered­ from Maine that it may be a bad selection. I take the report of and the United Seates is in this situation. I think quite likely two commjssions that it is a good selection, and I take my per­ we have got into a bad scrape and have got involved in an ex­ sonal knowledge that the point is perfectly secure from over­ penditure down there which will not be at the best place; but flow, which is the only objection that the Senator from Florida we are in for it, so far as the land is concerned. has raised. When the question comes up of placing $1,000,000 worth of Mr. HALE. Will the Senator from Louisiana allow me? I work there, that is a matter which Congress has to determine do not wa,nt to interrupt him. hereafter. We might perhaP.s better afford to let the land lie Mr. CAFFERY. Certainly. than to put more money on 1t. But we are in for buying the Mr. HALE. I find the general statute which the Senator land. That is all this provision applies to. The Senator is from Florida calls for is very clear and distinct. In the first wrong in saying it has not been located. That has all been done. place in the act last year we appropriated so much towards the Nothing more will ever be done in the way of locating than has establishment of a dry dock. We did not limit it. We did not been done. . say that the land should cost only so much, but in the very Mr. PASCO. I am not satisfied that the Senator from Maine words used, "toward the establishment," indicated that it was is correct, because there is no authority here to have any pro­ only a portion of the appropriation. That is the force of the ceedings in condemnation. There is no authority to expend word 11 toward" in an appropriation act. any more than $25,000, and there is no authority here to take If you appropriate toward the construction of a building or any of the steps the Senator from Maine speaks of. It was for toward the construction of a ship, it is understood, and every that verv reason that I opened this debate. I asked whether common mind can understand it, as being only a portion of the any authority outside of the statute of 1893 existed. The Sena­ appropriation. Upon that the Secretary of the Navy took the tor from Louisiana [Mr. CAFFERY] thought that some additional act of August 1, 1888, which provides that- authority did exist, but when he was pressed by a question he In every case in which the Secretary o! the Treasury or any other offl.cer of the Government has ·been, or hereafter shall be, au thorized to procure was obliged to admit that no other authority did exist than that real estate :tor the erection or a public building or tor other public uses he act. Now, this is the extent of the authority in the act of 1893, shall be, and hereby is, authorized to acquire the same for the United States to which I call the attention of Senators: by condemnation, under judicial process, whenever in his opinion it is nec­ Toward the establishment of a dry dock on the Government reservation, essary or advantageous to the Government to do so. near Algiers, La.; :tor plans and specifications, and for the acquisition of You can not have any more plenary power than was given by such additional land as may be necessary 1n the discretion o! the Secretary of the Navy, in accordance with the recommendations of two commissions that act to the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of appointed bY. the President under the provisions o! an act approved Sep­ the Navy went on under that authority and used the money ap­ tember 7, 1888, and the act approved June 30, 1!!90, respectively, m25,000. propriated so far as it went toward establishing the dry dock Now there is no authority for condemning any land. There and found it was not sufficient, and then he condemned land is no definite location of the dry dock. enough for the establishment of the dry dock. You can not get Mr. HALE. There was a general act passed a few years ago, anything more complete, more specific, and more conclusive and a specific application to any case is not necessary. The gen­ than that. eral authqrity under the act passed in 1888 as part of an appro­ Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. President, it has been thought for priation act lodges the authority in the heads of Departments, some years that the establishment of a dry dock somewhere on and the Secretary of the Navy has gone on in accordance with the Gulf coast was a necessity. So in 1888 a law was passed that act. authorizing the appointment of a board of naval officers to ex­ Mr. PASCO. To establish this dry dock in accordance with amine the Gulf coast and consider the merits of the several that act? places proposed for the dry dock, and ascertain which was the Mr. HALE. To condemn the land in accordance with the act. best location for the dock. The board of 1888 reported, after ex­ Formerly, in every act for a public building, there was a special aminingPensacola, in the State of the Senator from Florida, and provision for condemnation proceedings. That was cut short after examining Mobile, New Orleans, and other localities, that by a general act. the best place for a dry dock was at the Government reserva~ Mr. PASCO. The Senator from Maine understands perfectly tion in the town of Algiers, opposite the city of New Orleans. well that the authority for the erection of a public building is After that action by the board there was nothing for Con­ the limit of cost fixed by the act, and beyond that limit of cost gress to do to authorize a dry dock at Algiers except to make an· no one has any authority to go. Now here is a limit of cost of appropriation to begin the work. But rival interests inter­ $25,000. Beyond that limit of cost the Secretary of the Navy fered and prevented that being done at that time. So in the· has no power to go, if that doctrine is correct. next Congress, in 1890, another commission was authorized by Now, taking that view of the matter,itseemstq me that there law to be appointed for the purpose of reexamining these com­ is no committal of the Government to any expenditure there or peting localities upon the Gulf coast, and again reported to Con­ any location there unless it can be obtained within the limit of gress what in their judgment was the best locality for the dry the appropriation of $25,000. dock. Those of us interested in the establishment of a dry Mr . .HALE. That does not apply to the purchase of land. dock at New Orleans submitted to all this. · Mr. PASCO. It applies to the purchase of land for Govern­ The second board of naval officers were appointed, and again ment buildings, and the same principle must be effective every­ they examined the several points upon the Gull coast, Mobile, where. Now, the Secretary of the Navy, having no power togo Pensacola, New Orleans, and other localities, p.nd again they beyond that $25,000, is powerless to extend that sum or take an reported that the best locality for the dry dock was the Govern­ action unless we give him this additional power by appropriat­ ment reservation in the town of Algiers, opposite the city of ing $22,000 more. If there is any special act which the Senator New Orleans. from Maine has referred to, I will make the same inquiry of him So here we have had two investigations by two different na­ that I did of the Senator from Louisiana, to produce the act and val boards, each of them reaching the same conclusion, to let us look over it and see whether the power exists. wit, that the best place for a dry dock is at Algiers. Following Mr. CAFFERY. Mr. President, it occurs to me, and itis very the action of these two boards it was not essential that a sepa­ clear, that after the report of two commissions favorable to the rate, distinct, formal act of Congress should be enacted locat­ location of a dry dock at Algiers, after an appropriation in the ing the dry dock at Algiers. act of 1893 towards paying for the land for the establishment of All that was necessary was that Congress should take some a dry dock, that that forms a complete location of a dry dock, action il .icating its purpose to carry into effect the recommenda­ and the amount of money mentioned is the initiative payment. tion of t he two boards of naval officers. This action was taken If that amount is not sufficient more will be had. when in thenavalappropriation bill of 1893 the followingprovi­ I desire to say that the objection raised by the Senator from sion was inserted: Florida to the establishment of a dry dock in Louisiana at Dry dock, Algiers, La.: Toward the establishment o! a dry dock on the Algiers because of possible overflows of the Mississippi River is Government reservation, near Algiers, La.; :tor plans and specifications, and for the acquisition of such additional land as may be necessary in the dis­ without any foundation. That particular point has never, in cretion ot the Secretary of the Navy, in accordance with the recommenda­ my recollection, been overflowed. That particular point can be tions of two commissions by the President under the provisions of an act entirely and completely protected against overflow. approved September 7, 1888, and the act approved June 30, 1890, respectively, New Orleans, being the largest city on the Gulf, and the port l&:ai,o:o. - of New Orleans being a fresh-water port, material and men being There could be no more direct assent on the part of Congress more plentiful and the more easily to be had there than at Pen­ to the establishment of the dry dock at Algiers than the incor­ sacola, I imagine Algiers is a better point for the location oi a pora.tion oi this appropriation in the Nava~ appropriation act of dry dock than Pensacola, and so the commission thought. NowJ 1893. The Senator from Florida, who insists that actioillocat- 1210 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JULY 9,

ing the dry dock has not yet been taken, is ·certainly in error. The SECRETARY. On page 48, a.fter line 19, add: This language could mean nothing-else. It was later ascertained That, for the :purpose -of further increasmg the Naval Establishment or $25,000 the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed that the was not sufficient. Additional land, n.eeded to and completed, at such one or more of the navy-yards of the United StateS be added to -the reservation to make the m-ea sufficiently exten­ as may be best adapted ther~to, a.nd which are to be designawd by the Sec­ sive for ·a dry-dock, could not be purchased by private agree­ retary of the Navy, tw{) steel-armored cruisers (of the general type of the new ment, and had to be condemned. It required more money to United Stat~s cruiser Minneapolis, authorized and now building under the act of March 2, 1891). Each of the said cruisers herein authorized to have meet the judgment awarded in the 'Condemnation proceedings, the highest practicable speed for vessels o.f their class, and to be furnished and the ptoposition now before the Senate is to give this a ddi­ with the latest and best types of modern engines, nrmament, and equip­ tional money. menta, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not more tban $2,750,000 each. In the construction of each ot the &aid vessels all the provisions ot the act It is too late now for the Senator from Florida to 1·aise the ob­ or August3, 18S6, ~mtitled "An act to increase the Naval Establishment," as jection he has raised. It is in the nature of a demurrer which to material for said vessels, their e.r:.gines, boilers, and machinerv, the plans, should have been pleaded in li1nine. We have passed now to the drawings, and specifications therefor, shall be observed and followed, and said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of so much of the said merits of the case. act as is !therein provided for the construction of the vessels therein named The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question isonconcurring to be built in thena.vy-ya.rds of the United States, save that in all theirparlis in the amendment made as in Committee of the Whole. the vessels h-erein authorized shall be o:f domestic manufacture. Mr. P.ASCO. I thought the Senator from Louisiana [Mr. Mr. GORMAN. I trust the Senator from Virginia will not CAFFERY[ rose to address the Senate, and I waited. press the amendment, but will withdraw it. I am in full sym­ Mr. CAFFERY. No. pathy with the purpose he has in v-iew to increase our Navy as Mr. PASCO. Mr. President, I have already admitted what rapidly as possible, -and for the past six or eight years-indeed

the Senator from Louisiana has stated1 that this matter has ever since I have been a member of the Committee on Appro­ bee:11 examined and reported favorably; but it still seems that priations-I have advocated the most liberal appropriations. there has been no definite location of the dry dock at Algiers, But we have 1oeached a point in our .financial affairs where it is and it d..s manifest that the location is to be made in this in­ almost impossible for us to make an additi<>nal appropriation on direct way; and that is what I object to. this aooount. There a1'e thirteen vessels under way that are M1·. HALE. What force does the Senator from Florida. put being oonst.ructed and at·e not completed. The Secr-etary of the upon the act of Congress appropriating money toward theestab­ N.av_y states that he h-opes by 1896 to have those thirteen vessels Ushmen t of a dry dock at Algi~rs, if that is not a location of it? completed, and they will make us a very respectable Navy. Mr. PASCO. There is a good deal of force in the w.ords ''to­ [n the m-ean time I hope and trust the business conditions of ward the ·establishm~nt" of a dry dock there, bHt stili !n my the country will be so impr-oved that w~ shall be abl~ to take up judgment the matter is in fieri; it has not yet been oonclu.ded, this matter again .and go -on with it. There can be no very se­ and I still think the Secretary<>f the Navy was lirnitedte·$25,000; rio-us trouble in the delay which :the condition -of the Treasury just as when the SecretM·y <>f the Treasury is limited to $100,- seems to -demand. ! 'therefore trust thn,t the Senator from 000 for a public building to be erected in a particular place, he Virginia will witbd:i'aw the .amendment, and not open up a de­ has no authority to make any contract beyend the wnoun t bate which would be long extende~ but will permit the matter actunlly apprepriated. It is in that view oi the ca....ck. Mr. DANfEL. In view -of the remarks -made by the SeD a tor But these reports a1~ not conclusiv-e. They only bring inf ther oonsiderations advanced by him.., [ shall not urge the velopments have<>ccnr.red at Algiers sh'Owing tba.t it w-ould be amendment at this time. I do not believe that it would be suc­ a m-ost inappropriate and unfit place, because .of the v-olume <>f

water ther.e1 which w-ould threaten the e:afety of thee.atire struc­ standing the policy of the Government to build up a great navy ture, the complete plant. But I do think that while the matter as rapidly as its resGuroes will allow. I therefore withd-raw the is still :in an unsettled -condition we sh-ould keep it so until a .com­ amendment. plete and 'thorough investigation and determination has been The PRESIDING OFFiCER. The Senator fr.om Virginia made, and we should not locate the dry dock there in this indi- withdraws the amendment. rect way. , The atmendmen.ts were ordered to be .engrossed and the bill The Chair was about to rput th~ qu-estion on the committee to be t'ead a third time. amendment, but it will be recollected that there was .an amend­ The bill was read th-e third time, and passed. ment pending which I myself '0ffered to the committee amend­ POST-OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL. ment, which I think is :first in order. 1\ir. BLACKBURN. i move that the Senate proceed to the The PRESIDINGOFFICER. The Chair -did not understand consideration of the bill (H.R. 601'6) making appropriations for the Senator from Florida as offerin~ an amendment. the service ·oi the Post-Office Depar'tment for the fiscal year Mr. PASCO. It was read to the Senate ~ometime ag-o.. ending .June 30, 1895. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator suggested an The motion was agreed to. amendment to the Senator in charge 'Of the bill, but did not Mr. BLANCHARD. Pending the consideration of this bill, send it to the desk. The Chair did not understand it.ha-d been I ask-the Senator from Kentucky to yield to me, promising him o:ffet·ed. to take but a very short time. J.'l:r. PASCO. I ask that it be read 11t this time. Mr. BLACKBURN. Certainly. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment will be stated. The SECRETARY. Add the following proviso to the am-end- PERSONAL EXPLANATION. ment made as in Committee of the Whole: Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. President) I rise to a question of Provided, That betore the expenditure of the said appropriation the Sec­ personal privilege. My attention was called to-day fur the first retary of the Navy is satis.fiea that the location at Algiers is smtable fer a time to an article which appeared in the Washingtom Post of dry dock; and if he finds that there are serious objections to the location, that they be r-eported to Congress for its further action before the appro­ July 5. It appeared under the foll'Owing heading: pria.tion is expended. OVER A NARROW BRIDGE-HOW '!!'HE TARIFF BILL WAS FINALLY CARRIED Tbe PRESIDING OFFICER. The question i-s 'On .agreeing to TO VICTORY-SOME DEVELOPli!EN'l'S PROMISED-SENATOR Bnd of line 12, page 49, tG add of the :article which I ha~e marked. to the clause remitting the time penalties on the dynamite The PRESIDING OFFICER. Tlie Secretary will read W3r~ cruiser Vesuvius: quested. And a. sum sufficient for such purpose is het•eby ap:(}ropria.wd. The Secretary read as follows: This amendment meets with the approbation of the commit­ Yesterday's afte.nnath of the passage ot the tarifl b111 by the Senate w~ worth gleaning. The narowness of the bri.dge ov~r which the Democra.t1d tee, and I oifer it in the hand writing Qf a member of the com­ majority in the Senate passed to safety was shown in the Post yesterday mittee. m01ning, butasthecurta..in continuestoraisethedeptb o!the chasm 1s more The amendment was agreed to. and more revealed. For sever l hours last Tuesday afternoon and evening th-e Democrll.tic m.anagers we.re Qn the ragged edge o:t uncertainty, and lt is Mr. DANIEL. I desire to offer an amendment to come in on by no me:l.ns certain that their troubles are yet at an end. The bill will page 48, preced!i.ng line 20, for th~ ·construction o! twa steel­ 1 1 armored cruisers. ~~=n~~~Z:~tfc2L~~a~· ~rt~~~!~~¥ ~~~o';~r~ea~l~'fs ~!~~e ~~~:~ finally: e-nact th-e Ineasure tn to la.w. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The .amendment proposed by The storm·cen.ter last Tuesday afte-rnoon ranged around the two Senators the Senator!rom Virginia. will be stated. • trom Loulstana. They had surrendered ad valore'IXl to specific duties in 'th'&

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sugar schedule-the former being in favor of the trust and the latter being keep the fai+.h. I presume, from the language used connecting demanded by the planters-and had accepted in return the pTopo.sition of the Finance Committee that the bounty.should be allowed to remamopera­ my name with this affair, I am the one alluded to as :Qot having tive until the first of next year. Suddenly this extension was revoked, kept the faith. through the affirmative vot.es of Messrs. CoKE, GEORGE, and PUGH, on the Mr. President, to all of this I have but a word to say. I had Deruocraiic side, who without any explanation, joinecl the anta.gon.ifl tic combination of HILL and lRBY. no agreement or understanding with the Senator from South Their action, alleged to have been in direct violation of the caucus agree­ Carolina [Mr. lRBY], or any otherSenator, that my vote was to ment;, incensed the sugar Senators and widened the chasm into which the be withheld, or that my vote was to be cast "yea" or "nay" bill seemed fora whilo to be destined to fall. Noopportunityforthe sugar men to show their hand,however,came until Senator PALMER, anxious to serve the upon the bill. From that statement I would except my colleague interests or the wire-fencing manufacturers, proposed to place this [Mr. CAFFERY]. fencing on tbe dutiable list, removing it from the free list, whe1·e it had He and I are charged here with the care of the same inter­ been placed by the committee as a. concession to the Populists, and particu· la.r1y to Senator ALLEN of Nebra..'3ka, who regarded this action as helpful ests, and, in our connection as colleagues, we frequently con­ to his political prospects. ferred with each other and consulted with one another as to the A TRUCE PROPOSED IN V .A IN. proper course to pursue. in reference to the tariff bill. But other Having themselves been victimized, as they claimed, by the Fina.nC8 Com­ than my colleague I had no understanding with any Senator mittee, the sugar Senators, with a few recruits, now proceeded to do a little that I would at first withhold my vote, or that I would cast it guerma warfare on their own account. They joined with the Republicans in voting against the free barbed wire proposition, as related in the Post "yea" or" nay·" and when I am uut in the cateo-ory of actino­ yesterday and won their point. With the banner of battle thus hoisted, they the part of a co~spirator to defeat the bill, I deno'{ince the state"= came forward, afte1· a conference among themselves, with a. flag of truce. ment as false. It was an amendment which proposed to delay the repeal of the bounty law until the end o.l' the present year. Even at the muzzle of a loaded gun, MINING CLAlliS. so to speak, the Finance Committee refused to be held up, and the amend­ ment failed to pass. More than Oneil was the proposition brought forward, Mr. STEWART. I ask unanimouscon.senttoreport from the but each time it went down to defeat. Once again, too, the Populist Sena­ Committee on Mines and Mining and have passed a short bill fo1~ tar from Nebraska. made a gallant fight t'o:r free barbed wire fencing, but the extension of assessment work on mining claims. !tis nec­ without success. Disintegration seemed to have set in on tbe Democratic side, with the Republicans voting first one way and then the othe?, without essarv that it should be done at once. It will take but a mo­ any regard ror consistency, but only with the one idea. or making still more ment: dangerous the-quaking bog in which the1rDemocraticopponents were sa.dly The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada floundering_ MR. BLAiiCH.ARD'S SILENCE. asks unanimous consent that the unfinished business be t-empo· Such was the condition when the vote was taken. The key of the situa.· rarily laid aside for the purpose he has indicated. Is there ob­ tion rested then with Mr. BLANCHARD of Louisiana, whose name, coming · jection? The Chair hears none. early in the list, preceded that of the otheT conspirators. But Mr. BLAN­ Mr. STEWART. I report back from the Committee on Mines CH..A.n.D did not answer to his name. He was present. but as silent as the grave. Mr, CAFFERY kept the faith. He answered in the nega.t1v~. Five and Mining, with an amendment, the bill (H. R. 6558) to amend minutes later the Clerk called the name of Mr.lRBY of South ca.rolma.. In section numbered 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United these five minutes Mr. IHBY had done a great -deal of thinking. He had Stat-es relating to mining claims; and! ask ior its present consid­ noticed the silence of Mr. BLANCHAIID and saw no reason why he should throw away his vote. He answered "aya" His response ma'.le Mr. CAF­ eration. FERY start. By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the A moment later Mr. KYLE, tne Soath Dakota Populist, also voted for the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. bill. Then Mr. CAFFERY felt the ground sinking from under his feet and began to reach out for the dry land. When the roll ca.llha.d been concluded The amendment of the Committee on Mines and Mining was, but before the result had been announced, he was on h.is feet. Entering his in section 1, line 21, after the words "South Dakota," to strike :protest, as told in the Post. yesterday, he changed his vote from "no" to out "and the Second Congressional district of the State of Colo- •• aye '' and sat down. Then, and not until then, did Mr. BLANCHARD appear upon the scene. He did the only thing left for him to do, and voted in the rado;" so as to make the bill read: - affirmative. The tartil b111 had crossed the bridge, but through the wide Be it enacted, etc., That the provisions or section numbered 2324 o! the Re­ and yawning gaps in the planks there was a glimpse of a bottomless gulf vised Statutes of the United States, which require that on each claim lo­ which made the Democratic mana.gers shudder. cated aft-er the 10th day of Ma.y, 1872, and until patent has been Issued there­ Wli.A.T MR. CAFFERY MAY DO. for, not less than $100 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year, be suspended for the year 1894, so that no mining All this, it is true, was told with some detail in the Post yesterday, and be­ claim which has been regularly located and recorded as required by the local longs to the might-have-peen chapter-a chapter that is now interesting la.ws and mining regulations shall be subject to forfeiture for nonperform­ simply as a. contribution to hist-ory. It is now repeat-ed because there is a ance of the annual assessment for the year 189!: Provided, That the claim· possibility that before the final. vote is taken M..r. CAFFERY may ha. ve more to ant or claimants of any mjning location, in order to secure the benefits of say upon the subject. It he should tell. as it is said he will, the histO!'Y of this act, shall cause to be recorded in the ofil.ce where the location notice or the sugar schedule of the bill; it he should undertake to be the narrator of certificate is filed on or before December 31, 189-i, a. notice that he or they a story of broken promises, he will be su:re to have an audience of interested in good faith intend to hold and work said claim: Provided, however, That Ust.eners not only in the Senate, bnt 1n the country. It is understood that the provisions of this act shall not apply to the State of South Dakota. he h.P.s been pt·omised that the matter shall be fixed up in conference, but it SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect fl"om and after its passage. would not be surprising if he should now decline to rest any further belief upon promises, but should play the part of a free lance and make things de­ The amendment was agreed to. cidedly warm for some of his Democratic colleagues. At any rate, the future The bill was reported to the Senate as amended and the amend­ is. sa.id to hold some developments which will prove a. fitting climax to the most remarkable fight which the Senate has ever seen. ment was concurred in. Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. President, the Washington Post, The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be besides being one of the best newspapers in the country, enjoys read a third time. an enviable reputation for the fairness and justness with which The bill was read the third time, and passed. it usually treats public men whose duties require them to con­ THE SAMOAN ISLANDS. gregate in this capital city. Nor do I believe that the journal The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the follow­ referred to had any intention to misrepresent my position in the ing message from the President of the United States; which was article which has just been read at the desk. Nevertheless, read, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the Com­ Mr. President, the information upon which the article is based mittee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed: was erroneous, and the article itself contains statements that re­ To the Senate: flect upon me in my capacity as a Senator. It states that- I transmit herewith, in fur~her response to the Senate resolution of April The key of the situation rested tben with Mr. BLANCHARD of Louisiana., 6, 1894, a report from the Secretary o! State, accompanied by copies of cer- whosename, coming early in the list, preceded that of the other conspira­ tain correspondence relating to Samoan affairs. GROVER CLEVELAND. tors. The word "conspirator," as applied to Senators, is reprehen­ EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, J itly 9, 1894. sible. and pa.rticularly as applied to me in this connection is EXECUTIVE SESSION. without foundation to rest upon; is meaningless and false. In Mr. MORGAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the con­ my connection with the tariff bill atad with the voting upon that sideration of executive business. measure I did nothing that should cause me to be referred to as The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the "a conspirator,"and I do not believe thatanyotherSenator upon consideration of ex:ecutive business. After twenty minutes spent this floor did anything that entitles him to be classed as a con­ in executive session the doors were reopened. spirator. The article goes on to say- - LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Bat l!lir. BLANCHARD did not answer to his name. He was present, but as Mr. MORGAN was: on his own request, granted an indefinite silent as the grave. leave of absence from the sessions of the Senate. When my name was called on that occasion I was not in the DEATH OF REPRESENTATIVE LISLE. Senate Chamber. But that is immaterial. Had I been pres­ -A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. T. 0. ent in the Chamber when my name was called, I would, for TOWLES, its Chief Clerk, announced the death of Ron. Marcus reasons that were quite sufficient to me, have withheld my vote C. Lisle, late a Representative from the State of Kentucky, and on the first call. communicated the resolutions of the House thereon. :Mr. CAFFREY kept the faith- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair lays before the Sen­ The article goes on to say; a.nd the plain inference is that at~ the resolutions of the House of Representatives, whicb will somebody, who is referred to as one o1 the conspirators, did not be read. 7212 CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD-SENATE. JULY 9,

The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: SURVEYOR OF CUSTOMS. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, July 7, 1894. John C. McGuire, of New York, to be surveyor of customs in R esolved, That the members of the House or Representatives have heard with deep regret and profound sorrow of the death of the Hon. Marcus C. the district of New York, in the State of New York, to succeed Lisle, late a. Representative !rom the State of Kentucky. George W. Lyon, resigned. ltesolved, That a committee of seven members o! the House be appointed by the Speaker to act with such Senators a.s may be selected to attend the REGISTER OF LAND OFFICE. funeral of the deceased; and that the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House shall James M. Barco, of Bronson, Fla., to be register of the land take prop~r action for superintending the funeral and tor attending there­ mains of the deceased at the place of burial, and the necessary expense in office at Gainesville, Fla., vice Alexander Lynch, term expired. curred by the execution of this order shall be pa.id out of the contingent POS'l'MASTERS. fund of the House. Resolved, That the Clerk be direct-ed to c·ommunicate to the Senate a copy Frank D. Smith, to be postmaster at Dothan, in the county of of these resolutions. Henry and State of Alabama, the appointment of a postmaste~ Resolved, That as a further mark or respect the House do now n.djourn. The Speaker announced the appointment of Mr. MCCREARY, Mr. BERRY, for the said office having, by law, become vested in the Presi­ Mr. TAYLOR of Indiana, Mr. PAYNTER, Mr. DRAPER, Mr. LUCAS, and Mr. dent on and after July 1, 1894. . PENCE, a.s the committee on t,he part or the House. Curt W. Miller, to be postmaster at Tempe, in the county o! Mr. BLACKBURN. Mr. President, if the members of the Maricopa and Territory of Arizona, in the place of Andrew J. Senate had known Mr. Lisle as intimately and as well as I knew Halbert, resigned. . him, they could appreciate the pain with which I announce his JohnS. Mitchell, to be postmaster at Newcastle, in the county death to this body. One of the youngest men in the other of Placer and State of California, the appointment of a post­ House, serving his first term, I doubt if death could have selected mas~r for the said office having, by law, become vested in the a man who was surrounded by happier conditions or who gave President on and after July 1, 1894. promise of more usefulness in the public service. I do not mean John J. Anderson, to be postmaster at Meriden, in the county at this time to detain the Senate by any eulogy upon the de­ of New Haven and State of Connecticut, in the pla.ce of Henry ceased Representative, but simply ask that the resolutions which Dryhurst, whose commission expired January 16, 1894. I send to the desk may be now considered. D. Smith Sholes, to be postmaster at Ridgefield, in the county The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolutions submitted by of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, the appointment of a post­ the Senator from Kentucky will be read. master for the said office having, by law, become vested in the · The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: President on and after July 1, 1894. · Resolved, That the Senat-e has heard with deep sensibllity the announce· Lewis A. Westcott, to be postmaster at East Berlin, in the ment of the death of Hon. Marcus C. Lisle, late a Representative from the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, the appointment State of Kentucky. of a postmaster for the said office having, by law, become vested Re1olved, That a committee consisting of five Senators be appointed by the Presiding omcer to attend with the committee on the part of the House in the President on and after July 1, 1894. of Representatives the funera.l of the deceased a.t his late residence in the Thomas M. Gooden, to be postmaster at Dover, in the county State of Kentucky. of Kent and State of Delaware, in the piace of John Satterfield, Ruolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives, and that he be further directed to send a duly-attested whose commission will expire July 24, 1894. copy of the same to the family of the deceased. Ambrose M. Craddick, to be postmaster at Shelbyville, in the Re8olved, That as a. further mark of respect to the memoryo! the deceased, county of Shelby and State of Illinois, in the place of Elgin H. th~ Senate do now adjourn. Marshall, whose commission expired April12, 1894. The Senate, by unanimous consent, proceeded to consider the Benjamin W. Greer, to be postmaster at White Ha11 1 in the resolutions, and they were unanimously agreed to. county of Greene and State of Illinois, in the place of Edward B. The PRESIDING OFFICER, before announcing the result, Smith, whose commission will expire July 29, 1894. appointed as the committee on the part of the Senate under John C. Neltnor, to be postmaster at Turner, in the county of the second resolution, Mr. BLACKBURN, Mr. LINDSAY, Mr. PAL­ Dupage and State of Illinois, the appointment of a postmaste1• MER, Mr. SQUIRE, and Mr. DUBOIS. for the said office having, by law, become vested in the Presi­ Thereupon (at 4 o'clock and 27 minutes p. m.} the Senate ad­ dent on and after July 1, 1894. journed until to-morrow, Tuesday, July 10, 18U4, at 12 o'clock William H. Lightle, to be postmaster at Gas City, in the meridian. county of Grant and State of Indiana, the appointment of a. post­ master for the said office having, by law, become vested in the NOMINATIONS. President on and after July 1, 1894. Nun McCullick, to be postmaster at Montpelier, in the county Executive norninations received by the Senate July 9, 1894. of Blackford and State of Indiana, the appointment of a post­ ASSOCIATE JUSTICES SUPREME COURT OF UTAH TERRITORY. master for the said office having, by law, become vested in the William H. King, of Utah Territory, to be associate justice President on and after July 1, 1894. of the supreme court of the Territory of Utah, vice James A. J. M. Hammond, to be postmaster at Hamburg, in the county Miner, whose term will expire August 2, 1894. of Fremont and State of Iowa, in the place of Herman C. Cool­ Napoleon B. Laughlin, of New Mexico Territory, to be asso­ baugh, whose commission will expire July 9, 1894. ciate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mex­ Good win R. Wiley, to be postmaster at Bethel, in the county ico, vice Ed ward P. Seeds, whose term will expire July 24, 1894. of Oxford and State of Maine, the appointment of a postmaster UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEYS. for the said office having, by law, become vested in the Presi­ Sherwood Dixon, of Illinois, to be attorney of the United dent on and after July 1, 1894. States for the northern district of Illinois, vice Thomas E. Mil- James F. Shea, to be postmaster at Indian Orchard, in the christ, whose term will expire August 2, 1894. · county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, the appoint­ James P arker, of New Jersey, to be attorney of the United ment of a postmaster for the said office having, by law, become vested in the President on and after July 1, 1894. St ~ttes for the district of New Jersey, vice Henry S. White, whose term will expire August 22, 1894. Charles A. Burr, to be postmaster at Rochester, in the county of Oakland and State of Michigan, the appointment of a post­ UNITED STATES MARSHALS. master for the said office having, by law, become vested in the Cla-rk Campbell, of New Hampshire, to be marshal of the President on and after July 1, 1894. United S tates for the district of New Hampshire, vice Adams B. F. T~omas, to be postmaster at Carthage, in the county of T. Pierce, whose term will expire August 13, 1~94. Jasper and State of Missouri, in the place of Thomas K. Irwin, John R. McCar ty, of New York, to be marshal of the United whose commission will expire July Hi, 1894. States for the southern district of New Y01·k, vice John W. William E. Smith, to be postmaster at Millbrook, in the Jacobus, whose term expired January 13, 1894. county of Dutchess and State of New York, the appointment of JUSTICE OF PEACE IN DISTRICT OF COL.UMBIA. a postmaster for the said office having, by law, become vested in Samuel R. Church, of the District of Columbia, to be justice the President on and after July 1, 1894. of the pe:1ce in the District of Columbia, to be assigned to the John Cranker, to be postmaster at Perrysburg, in the county city of Washington: vice J ames A. Tait, whose term expired of Wood and State of Ohio, the appointment of a postmaster for June 18, 1804. the said office having, by law, become vested in the President on COLLECTOR OF IN'l'ERNAL REVENUE. and after July 1, 1894. Amos H. Frost, to be postmaster at Harrison, in the county William A. Be a~h, of New York, to be collector of internal of Hamilton and State of Ohio, in the place of Clinton F. Bon­ revenue for the Twanty-first district of New York, to succeed ham, whose commission ex-pires July 9, 1894. Alexn.nder von Landberg, resigned. Charles L. Gilbreath.- to be postmaster at Collinwood, in the COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS. county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, the appointment of a Edward J. Taylor, of New York, to be collector of customs for postmaster for the said office having, by law, become vested in the district of Niagara, in the State of New York, to succeed the President on and after July 1, 1894. James Low, whose term of office has expired by limitation. Emmett H. Kennedy, ~o be postmaster at Scio, in the county

I 1894~ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 7213 of Harrison and State of Ohio, in the place of Evan B. "Kirby, Lieut. (junior gra4e) Richard M. Hughes, to be a . resigned. Ensign Guy W. Brown, to be a lieutenant (junior grade). David S. Smith, to be postmaster at East Palestinet in the Ensign William B. Fletcher, to baa lieutenant (junior grade). county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, in the place of Har­ Ensign Marbury Johnston, to be a lieutenant (junior grade). rington H. Young, whose commission expires July 24, 1894. George W. Wilkinson, to be postmaster at South Charleston, PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY. in the county of Clarke and State of Ohio, the appointment of a Ordnance Depm'tment. ' . postmaster for the said office having, by law, become vested in First Lieut. Sidney E. Stuart to be captain. the President on and after July 1, 1894. First Lieut. J. Walker Benet to be captain. Rufus J. Bost, to be postmaster at Stillwater, in the county of First Lieut. William W. Gibson to be captain. Payne and Territory of Oklahoma, the appointment of a post­ Second Lieut. George Montgomery, Second Artillery, t-o be master for the said office having, by law, become vested in the first lieutenant. President on and alter July 1, 1~94. . Abner Carson, to be postmaster at Parkers Landing, in the Second Lieut. Tra.cy C. Dickson, Second Artillery, to be first county of Armstrong and State of Pennsylvania, in the place of lieutenant. Winfield S. Barr, whose commission expires July 12, 1894. CORPS OF ENGINEERS. Levi G. Kilmer, to be postmaster at Montgomery, in the county To be additional second . of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, the appointment of a postmaster for the said office having, by law, become vested in 1. Cadet William B. Ladue. the President on and after July 1, 1!:>94. 2. Cadet William J. Barden. Michael J. Ryan, to be postmaster at Lonsdale, in the county ARTILLERY ARM. of Providence and State of Rhode Island, in the pla.ce of George To be second lieutenants. Sherman, whose commission expired January 27, 1894. Henderson .M. Horton, to be postmaster at Midland, in the 3. Cadet William P. Pence. county of Midland and State of Texas, the appointment of a post­ 4. Cadet Clarence C. Williams. master for the said office having, by law, become vested in the 5. Cadet James M. Williams. President on and after July 1, li.::l94. 6. Cadet John W. J oyes. A.M. Watts, to be postmaster at Wharton, in the county of 7. Cadet Edward P. O'Hern, first lieutenant in the Ordnar. ~~~ Wharton and State of Texas, the appointment of a postmaster Department.· for the said office having, by law, become vested in the President 9. Cadet Clarence E. Lang. on and after July 1, 1894. To be additional secon'i li::utenant. H. M. Goff, to bepostmasteratRichford,in the county of Frank­ lin and State of Vermont, the appointment of a postmaster for 11. Cadet Warren H. Mitchell. the said office having, by law, become vested in the President CAVALRY ARM. on and after July 1, 1894. William Graham, to be postmaster at Orange, in the county To be second lieutenants. of Orange and State of Virginia, the appointment of a postmaster 8. Cadet Samuel Hof. for the said office having, by law, become vested in the Presi­ 12. Cadet Francis Le J. Parker. dent on and after July l, 1894. 13. Cadet George F. Hamilton. C. B. Wentzell, to be postmaster at Harpers Ferry, in the 14. Cadet Dwight E. Aultman. county of Jefferson and Stat-e of West Virginia, the appointment 15. Cadet William H. Paine. of a postmaster for the said office having, by law, become vested 16. Cadet Alston Hamilton. in the President on and after July 1,1894. 18. Cadet John W. Craig. 19. Cadet John C. Gilmore, jr. PROMOTIONS IN NAVY. Naval cadets (line division) to be ensigns. To be additiO'Ital second lieutenants Joseph R. Campbell, George C. Day, Holden A. Evans, Luke 22. Cadet Hugh D. Berkeley. McNamee, Frederick L. Sawyer, Charles L. Hussey, JohnR. Y. 23. Cadet Albert E. Saxton. Blakely, Charles T. Jewell, Gregory C. Davison, Leon S. Thomp­ 24. Cadet Hamilton S. Hawkins. son, Frederick A. Traut, John F. Hines, Fred. R. Payne, Pow­ INFANTRY ARM, ers Symington, Yates Stirling, jr., George Mallison, Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, and Benjamin B. McCormick. . To be second lieutenants. 10. Cadet Charles W. Castle. Naval cadets (engineer division) to be assistant engineers. 17. Cadet Paul B. Malone. John S. Porter, Robert K. Crank, Stanford E. Moses, and 20. Cadet Rogers F. Gardner. Raymond D. Hasbrouck. 21. Cadet John F. Preston, jr. Naval cadets (line division) to be second lieutenants in the Marine 25. Cadet Butler Ames. Corps. 26. Cadet Frederick G. Lawton. William C. Dawson, Theodore H. Low, Walter Ball, Austin 27. Cadet Charles F. Crain. R. Davis, John H. Russell, jr., Charles F. Macklin, and Thomas 28. Cadet Frank S. Cocheu. 8. Borden. 29. Cadet Ora E. Hunt. PROMOTION IN .ARMY. 30. Cadet Frank Parker. 31. Cadet Jobn C. McArthur. Infantry arm. 32. Cadet Thomas G. Carson. Second Lieut. Arthur B. Foster, Nineteenth Infantry, to be 33. Cadet Frank D. Ely. first lieutenant, July 5, 1894, vice Maxwell, Second Infantry, 34. Cadet William A. Sater. dismissed. 35. Cadet Edwin Bell. 36. Cadet Otho B. Rosenbaum. 37. Cadet George H. Estes, jr. WITHDRAWAL. 38. Cadet George Vidmer. Executive nomination withdrawn jl'om the Senate, July 6, 189ft. 39. Cadet Dana W. Kilburn. Samuel T. Owings, to be po3tmaster at Moscow, Idaho, whose 40. Cadet Oliver Edwards, jr. nomination was delivered to the Senate June 21, 1894. 41. Cadet Thomas W. Connell. 42. Cadet JohnS. Battle. 43. Cadet Charles L. Bent. CONFIRMATIONS. 44. Cadet William E. Welsh. Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate July 9, 189-'f. 45. Cadet Frederick G. Stritzinger, jr>., CONSUL. 46. Cadet Charles C. Smith. William Myers Little, of North Carolina, to be consul of the 47. Cadet FrankL. Wells. United States at Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 48. Cadet Briant H. Wells. 49. Cadet John W. Barker. PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. 50. Cadet Ralph R. Stogsdall. Lieut. Commander CharlesS. Sperry, to be a commander. 51. Cadet James P. Harbeson. Lieut. Francis H. Delano, to be a lieutenant-commander. 52. Cadet Hugh D. Wise. Lieut. (junior grade) Edward Lloyd, jr., to be a lieutenant. 53. Cadet Pegram Whitworth. Lieut. (junior grade) HarryP. Ruse, to be a lieutenant. 54. Cadet James A._Moss. 7214 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JULY 9,

SURVEYOR OF CUSTOMS. to a hospital on account of sickness or disability, for which rea­ Chr~'3tian A. Schaefer, of West Virginia, to be surveyor of son he was not mustered with the regiment. After a time there customs for the port o! Wheeling, in tho State of West Vir­ were other companies raised by other people which were con­ ginia. solidated with this regiment while he was still in the hospital, POSTMASTERS. and another man was appointed colonel of the regiment by Mr. Johnson, then governor of the State of TAnnessee. Enoch Moore, to be postmaster at Wilmington, in the county Since that time Mr. Strickland has applied to Congress and a of Newcastle and State of Delaware. bill has been already passed placing his name on the muster roll Stephen R. G1·eene, to be postmaster at Oregon City, in the as colonel of the Eighth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, and he county of Clackamas and State of Oregon. received a.,. pension, which he is now drawing. James A. Crossen, to be postmaster at The Dalles, in the county Mr. DOCKERY. What doe3 the present bill propose? of Wasco and State of Oregon. . Mr. STONE of Kentucky. What this bill seeks to do is to pay Benjamin F. Bonham, to be postmaster at Salem m the county him for about five months' service as a colonel of cavalry, for of Marion and S tate of Oregon. which he has never been paid because of the fact that he was not Will E. Newman, to btl postmaster at Lancaster, in the county mustered. of Fairfield and State of Ohio. Mr. BURROWS. What is the amount? Albert M. Ensminger, to be postmaster at Bucyrus, in the Mr. STONE of Kentucky. I do not know the exact amount. county of Crawford and State of Ohio. It is about five months' pay of a colonel of cavalry, whatever Edmond W . Manolt, to be postmaster at Toms River, in the that is. county of Ocean and State of New Jersey. Mr. COX. Who wa.s the colonel of that regiment? Thomas Buckley, to be postmaster at Plantsville, in the county Mr. STONE of Kentucky. I do not remember the name of the of Hartford and State of Connecticut. colonel who was appointed by Mr. Johnson. George Kirkland, to be postmaster at Oneonta, in the county Mr. COX. Was this a Tennessee regiment? of Otsego and State of New York, Mr. STONE of Kentucky. Yes·; the Eighth Tennessee Cav- William H. Malone, to be postmaster at Norwalk, in the alry. county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut. Mr. BARTLETT. Was he ever in active service? Conrad G. Bacon, to be postmaster at Middletown, in the Mr. STONE of Kentucky. Oh, yes. The report shows that. county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut. Mr. COX. Does the report show who was the colonel of the Richard W. Sayre, to the postmaster at Atlantic City, in the re1!iment? county of Atlantic and State of New Jersey. Mr. STONE of Kentucky. Yes; the report shows all of the facts in connection with the matter. I have only stated them briefly. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. BYNUM. I understand the gentleman to state that this regiment was made up by the consolidation of other companies I\fOND.A.Y, July 9, 1894. while the proposed beneficiary of this bill was sick in the hos- 'tal? The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Rev. JOHN IllMr : STONE oi Kentucky. Other companies were consolidated W. HEIDT, D. D., of Atlanta, Ga. with it, but the greater part of the regiment was raised by Col. The Journal of the proceedings of Saturday was read and ap­ Strickland. proved. Mr. BYNUM. I understood the gentleman to state that he IMMIGRATION AND CONTRACT LABOR LAWS. was trying to raise the regiment, but that he was taken sick and The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Sec­ went to the hospital, and during that time other companies were retary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to House resolu­ assigned to the regiment, which was formed in that manner. tion of June 7, 1864, information relative to the rules and regu­ Was this officer ever in actual serviee? lations established in connection with the administration of Mr. STONE of Kentucky. Oh, yes~ he was in actual service. the immigration and contract labor laws; which was referred to Mr. COX. WaB not this Col. Hawkins's regiment? the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Mr. STONE of Kentucky. I do not think so, but I am not REFERENCE OF SENATE BILLS. positive about that. The SPEAKER also laid before the House bills of the Senate of Mr. BARTLETT. How could there have been two colonels the following titles; which were severally referred as indicated, of the same regiment? namely: Mr. STONE of Kentucky. There was a colonel, aB I have A bill (S. 879) granting a pension to Josephine F. Kelton, already stated, appointed by the governor of Tennessee. Col. widow of Brig. Gen. John C. Kelton, late Adjutant-General Strickland was commissioned by Mr. Lincoln to raise the regi­ United States Army, deceased-to the Committee on Invalid ment, and was always regarded in the orders of the commanding Pensions. officer as the colonel. A bill (S. 2129) to authorize the entry of land for reservoir Mr. COX. And was actually the colonel of it? purposes-to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. STONE of Kentu{}ky. No; because Governor Johnson of Tennessee appointed the colonel. The report shows all the COL. JESSE H. STRICKLAND. facts. The SPEAKER also laid before the House the bill (S. 838) for I will state that I have no special interest in this matter. I the r elief of Col. Jesse H. Strickland, Eighth Tennessee Cav­ have been requested by gentlemen to call it up. Ithasbeen be­ alry, United States Volunteers. fore the committee for a long time. Mr. STONE of Kentucky. M1·. Speaker, I ask unanimous Mr. BURROWS. It ought to pass. consent for the present consideration of that bill, a similar bill Mr. COOMBS. I think there is no obj~ction. havincr been reported by the House committee. The SPEA KER. Is there objection to the present considera­ The"'SPEAKER. The blll will be read subject to objection. tion of the bill? The bill was read at length. Mr. BYNUM. I think that this should go through the regu­ Mr. DOCKERY. Let me ask the gentleman from Kentucky lar course. I object. if that has been reported by a committee of the House? The SPEAKER. Objection is mad~, and the bill is not before Mr. STONE of Kentucky. It has been. the House. Mr. DOCKERY. I would be glad to have the House report REPORT ON TYPHOID FEVER, ETC. read. The SPEAKER laid before the House the following House Mr. STONE of Kentucky. The House committee has reported resolution with a Senate amendment: a bill exactly like it. House resolution providing for the printing or 4,000 extra copies of the The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the report if there be report of the select committee of the Medical Society of the District of no objection. Columbia on typhoid and malarial fevers and other preventable diseases. The Clerk proceeded to read the report. The SPEAKER. This is a House resolution with a Senate Mr. DOCKERY. I understand that this report is quite a amendment. lengthy one, and possibly the gentleman from Kentucky may 'Mr. RICHARDSON of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, that resolu­ make a brief explanation, which will be sufficient. tion as originally introduced was a House resolution, and it was The SPEAKER. Without objection, the gentleman will be reported and passed as such. - It went to the Senate by inadvert­ permitted to make a brief explanation of the bill. ence, and the Senate made it a concurrent resolution and passed Mr. STONE of Kentucky. -Mr.Speaker, thisisaeaseinwhioh it, and the only amendment is the amendment making it a con­ Col. Strickland was authorized by President Lineoln to raise' a current resolution. There is no change in its provi-sions. I regiment of cavalry during the war. He went into the service, move to ooneur in the Senate amendment raised a portion of the regiment, and then was compelled to go The motion of Mr. RICHARDSON of Tennessee was agreed t().