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By Mr. SPRINGER: Petition of the Dakota Agricultural College, Mr. EDMUNDS. How will the bill read with the amendments relative to certain university lands-to the Committee on Education. agreed to? By Mr. J.D. STEWART: Petition of Mary Boyd, of Clayton County, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be read as amended by Geo:q;ia, for reference of his claim to the Court of Claims-to the Com- the House of Representatives. mittee on War Claims. 1 The Chief Clerk read as-follows: By Mr. STO~E, of Kentucky: Papers in the claim of Carr, Rogers Be it enacted, etc., That tbe Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, au & Co.-to the Committee on War Claims. thorized nnd directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the limitations and provisions of the pension laws, the name of Hannah R. Langdon, widow of By Mr. J. D. TAYLOR: Petition of William Bundy and 32 others, Henry H. Langdon, late an assistant surgeon in the Seventh Regiment Ver of James A. Sheppard and 57 others, and of Silas Bailey and 17 others, mont Volunteers, in the war of the rebellion. for the adoption of the schedule of duties agreed upon by the wool The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The question recurs on the motion • growers and wool manufacturers in January, 1888-to the Committee of the Senator from Minnesota to concur in the amendments of the on Ways and Means. House of Representatives. By l\1r. WEBER: Two petitions of farmers of Erie County, New The amendments were concurred in. York, for protection of farm products-to the Committee on Ways and Means. IDA M. WELTON. By Mr. WILLIAM WHITING: Petition of Festus C. Currier, of The PRESIDENT pto temp01·e laid before the Senate the amendment Fikhbnrgh, and of Merchants' Association of Boston, Mass., for better of the House of Representu ti >es to the bill (S. 1784) granting a pension mail facilities-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. to Ida :M:. Welton; which was to add to the bill the words "and pay Also, petition of C. H. Hamlin and others, against the admission of her a, pension at the mte of $18 a month." Utah-to the Committee on the Territories. 1r. DAVIS. I move that the Senate concur in the amendment of Also, petition of John C. Green, of Fitch burgh, Mass., in favor of bet the House of Representatives. ter post..'llfacilities-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. The motion was agreed to. The following petitions, indorsing the per diem rated service-pension bill, based on the principle of paying all soldiers, sailors, and marines of 1\IRS. APOLLINE A. BLAIR. the late war a monthly pension of 1 cent a day for each day they were in Tl1e PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the amendment the service, were severally referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions: of the House of Representatives to the bill (S. 574) to increase the pen By Mr. BELDEN: Of William StTong and 40 others, citizens of East sion of Mrs. Apolline A. Blair, which was, in line 4, to strike out the Syracuse, and of Arthur E. Daniels and 22 others, citizens of Camillu.s words '' wr and during her natural life.'' - and Belle Isle, N. Y., ex-soldiers and sailors. · Mr. DAVIS. I move that the Senate concur in the amendment of By Mr. BUNNELL: Of soldiers and citizens of Susquehanna County; the House of Representatives. and of 150 soldiers and citizens of Ulster: Bradford County; Pennsyl The motion was agreed to. vania. HOUSE BILLS REFERRED. By Mr. GOFF: Of E. P. Meyers and others, of Marshall County, West The following bills, heretofore received from the House of Representa Virginia. tives, were severally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Com· mittee on Pensions: The following petition for an increaBe of compensation of fourth-class A bill {H. R. 428) granting a pension to William B. Johnson; postmasters was referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post A bill (H. R. 818) granting a pension to Sarah E. Pribble; Roads: A bill (H. R. 3191) granting a pension to MaryS. Logan; :By Mr. LEE: Of citizens of Verdiersville, Orange County, Virginia. A bill (H. R. 3839) granting a pension to Mrs. Hettie K. Painter; A bill (H. R. 4104) granting a pension to l\Iahala Dexter; The fol_lowing petitions, praying for the enactment of a law providing A bill (H. R. 5118) granting a pension to Theodore Gardner; temporary aid for common schools, to be disbursed on the basis of illit A bill (H. R. 6759) granting a pension to Mary Robinson; eracy, were severally referred to the Committee on Education: · A bill {H. R. 6761) for the relief of .Tames Orr; By Mr. BUNNELL: Of 265 citizens of Bradford County, Pennsyl- A bill (H. R. 6812) granting an increase of pension to Stephen Thurs vania. ton; and By Mr. ERUENTROUT: Of James Mitchell, of Atlanta, Ga. A bill (H. R. 7856) granting a pension to Emma R. Johnson. By Mr. GALLINGER: Of James Mitchell, of Atlanta, Ga. The joint resolution (H. Res. 140) appropriating $25,000 for the In By :Mr. LONG: Of 81 citizens of Plymouth County, Massachusetts. ternational Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain, was read twice by its title, By Mr. MILLIKEN: Of the Woman's Christian Temperance Unioq and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. of Ellsworth, Me. The bill (H. R. 8962) for the relief of Anthony L. Woodson was By Mr. NELSON: Of 99 citizens of St. Louis County, Minnesota. rc:l,d twice by its. title, and referred to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. RICHARDSON: Of 134 citizens of Coffee County, Tennessee. The following bilJs were severally read twice by their titles, andre· ferred to the Committee on Public Lands: The following petitions, asking for the passage of the bill prohibiting A bill (H. R 671) for the relief of the heirs of JohnS. Fi1lmore, · the manufacture, sale, and importation of all alcoholic beverages in the deceased; District of Columbia, were severally referred to the Select Committee A bill (H. R. 2996) to confirm the title of the heirs or legal repre on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic: sentatives of Henry Volcker, deceased, to a certain tract of land in the By Mr. BOOTHMAN: OfL. W. Brown and 73others, citizens of Ful- Territory of New Mexico; ton County, Ohio. A bill (H. R. 6394) for the relief of Hayem & Taylor; and By Mr. HA GEN: Of 73 citizens of the Eighth district of Wisconsin. A bill (H. R. 6879) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to con By tl:r. RUSK: Of 61 citizens of the Third district of Mary land. vey to Anson Rndd, of the St.ate of Colorado, certain real estate in the By Mr. WEBER (by request): Of80 citizens of the Thirty-thirddis county of Fremont, in said St.ate. trict of New York. By Mr. WILLIAl\I WHITING: Of 63 citizens of the Eleventh dis MARY S. LOGAN. trict of Massachusetts. Mr. HOAR. I desire to inquire of the chairman of the Committee By Mr. WILLIAMS: Petition of 73 citizens of the Third district of on Pensions what is the bill granting a pension to MaryS. Logan, which Ohio. has j nst been read and rtferred ? · :Mr. DAVIS. I twill be remembered that the Senate passed two bills, one 1or the relief of Mrs. Logan and the other for the reliefof Mn;. Blair. The Honse passed the Senate bill for the relief of Mrs. Blair, and in· SENATE. stead of passing the Senate bill for the relief of Mrs. Logan, it passed :MoNDAY, AprU 2, 1888. a bill of its own in the same terms. I now ask unanimous consent fox the consideration of House bill 3Hl1, granting a pension to Mary S. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. Logan. The Journal Qf the proceedings of Saturday last was read and ap The PRESIDENT pro tempare. The Senator from Minnesota _asks proved. unanimous consent that the Senate recall from the Committee on Pen ITANNAH R. LANGDON. sions and proceed to the consideration of the bill {H. R. 3191) granting The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid beforetheSenatetheamendments a pension to MaryS. Logan. Is there objection? of the Honse of Representatives to the bill (S. 549) granting a pension . There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, to Hannah R. Langdon, which were, in line 4, after the word ''pension proceeded· to consider the biU. It proposes to place on the pension-rolJ roll," to insert "subject to the limitations and provisions of the pen the name of Mary S. Logan, widow of the late John A.. Logan, a major sion laws," and in line 8, after the word "rebellion," to strike out general of the United States Volunteers iu the late war for the Union, ...... ''and pay her at the rate of 20 per month from and after the passage of and to pay her a pension at the rate of '2, 000 per annum. this act.'' The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there amendments to the billin Mr. DAVIS. I move that the Senate concur in the amendments of Committee of the Whole? the House of ~epresentatives. Mr. CULLOM. Was not the Senate bill the same? , 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 2601
The PRESIDENT pro tempore. But this is a bill from the House of Mr. FARWELL presented a petition of ex-Union soldiers and sailors, Representatives. citizens of Illinois, praying for the passage of the per diem rated serv Mr. CULLOM. I hope it will be passed at once. ice-pension bill; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to Mr. BUTLER. I present a memorial from the board of railroad a third reading, and was read the third time. commissioners for the State of South Carolina, signed by Milledge L. Mr. BERRY. I desire to state that, as a bill precisely the same as Bonham, D.P. Duncan, and Eugene P. Jervey, in regard to some ac this passed the Senate with only seven votes in the negative, I recog tion by Congress requiring railroad companies to adopt a uniform sys nize the fact that it would be useless to call for a division or for the tem of car-coupling in the interest of human life and the safety of pas yeas and nays. I wish it to go upon the record, however, that I am sengers and employes of railroads. The memorialists have formulated opposed to the bill, and I shall vote no. their opinion in a resolution, which reads as follows: The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is, Shall the bill pass? Resolved, That the Interstate Commerce Commission are instructed to con The bill was passed. sider what can be done to preyent the loss of life and limb in coupling and un coupling freight cars used in int-erstate commerce, and in handling the brakes PETITIONS A;ND MEMORIALS. of such cars, and in what way the growth of the system of heating passenger The PRESIDENT pro tempore presiiited. memorials from citizens of cars from the locomotive, or other single source, can be promoted, to the end isconsin, West Virginia, Virginia, Utah Territory, Texas, Pennsyl that said commission may make recommendations in the premises to the various raih·oads within its jurisdiction, and repor~ its doings' to Congress, at an early fvania, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Montana Territory, Mississippi, date, with such suggestions as to legislation on said subjects as may seem to it Missouri, Michigan, Maine, Kentucky, Kansas, Iowa, and Indiana, re necessary or expedient. monstrating against the Palmer pleuro-pneumonia bill; which were I move that the communication be referred to the Committee on •In ordered to lie on the table. terstate Commerce. He also presented two petitions of settlers on the New York Indian The motion was agreed to. lands in Bourbon County, Kansas, praying for the passage of the bill Mr. HARRIS. I present a memorial of the governor of Tennessee (H. R. 1406) fixing the price of the land therein described at $2.50 per and sundry citizens of the county of Greene, in that State, remonstrat acre; which were ordered to lie on the table. ing against the passage of the animal-industry bill, which is now the He also presented a petition of the Pressmen's Union No.1, of Wash special order. I move that the memorial lie on the table. ington, :r;>. C., praying for the passage of the international copyright The motion was agreed to. bill; which was ordered to lie on the table. :M:r. JONES, of Arkansas, presented the memorial of James Bowlin He also presented resol ntions adopted by the senate and house of rep and 10 other citizens of Arkansas, remonstrating against the passage of ·resentatives of Massachusetts, urging the passage of legislation to pro the bill to authorize the building of a railroad bridge across the Ar tect lives of train brakemen; which were referred to the Committee on kansas River at Little Rock; which was referred to the Committee on Interstate Con:vnerce. Commerce. Mr. CULLOM presented a petition of 19 ex-Union soldiers and Eail Mr. COKE presented a memorial of the Northwest Texas Cattle ors, citizens of Dn·Page County, Illinois, praying for the passage of the Raising Association, remonstrating against the passage of what is per diem rated service-pension bill; which was referred to the Com known as the Palmer pleuro-pneumonia bill; which was ordered ~lie mittee on Pensions. on the table. He also presented a petition of the' nistrict officers of the General He also presented a petition of citizens of Montague County, Texas, Land Office in Utah Territory, praying for increased appropriations for praying that some provision be made at this session of Congress to pay surveying; which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands. tbe Indian depredation claims which have been filed in the Indian Bu He also presented the petition of Smith, Hogg & Gardner, and 12 reau of the Department of the Interior by the pioneers and early set other firms of Boston, Mass., and the petition of Harding, Colby & Co., tlers on the frontier; which was referred to the Committee on Indian and 9 other firms of Boston, Mass., praying for the adoption of amend Affairs. ments to the interstate-commerce act to prevent discriminations by Mr. WILSON, of Uarylan
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.Mr. HOAR presented the petition of tht\ board of railroad commis ing bills, reported them se>erally without amendment and submitted sioners of Ua.."Sacbusetts, praying for the passage of a resolution direct reports thereon: ing the Interstate Commerce Commission to consider what can be done A bill (S. 1539) to increase tbe :::-~nsion of James E. Gott; to Jessen the loss of life and limb in coupling and heating fr6igbt-cars A bill (S. 1867) granting a pension to Mrs. Mary L. Ristine; and in the handling of brakes; which was referred to the Committee on A bill (S. 645) granting a pension toUrs. Margaret B. Todd; Inter tate Commerce. A bill (H. R. 7B91) for the relief of Cynthia J. Leroy; Mr. DA. VIS presented a petition of the railroad commission of the A bill (H. R. 416) granting a. pension to Thomas H . Aulls; State of Minnesota, praying that the Interstate Commerce Commission A bill (H. R. 97) granting a pension to Ida B. Linthicum; cont1i der means to preventpersonalinjuriesin coupling and uncoupling A bill (H. R. 509) granting a pension to James A. Haley; freight-cars; which was referred to the Committee on Interstate Com A bill (H. R. 3488) granting a pension to Mary Dull; merce. A bill (H. R. 6974) for the relief of Mary E. Hawn, widow of Emanuel Mr. SAWYER presented two petitions of citizens of 1\Iilwaukee, Wis., R. Hawn, late smgeon of the Forty-ninth Regiment IndianaVolunteers, praying that the work of eradicating pleuro-pneumonia shall be con deceased; tinued under the Bureau of .Animal Industry; which were ordered to A bill (H. R. 893) granting a pension to Julia Stokes; lie on the table. A bill (H. R. 2456) for the relief of Judith Plummer; He also presented a petition of ex-Union soldiers and sailors, citizens A bill (H. R. 7~2) granting a pen ion to Marble H. Baird; of Wiscon in, praying 1or the passage of the per diem rated service-pen A hill (H. R. 150) granting an increase of pension to Henry B. Sba.w; sion bill; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. and Mr. SHERMAN presented 14 petitions of 527 ex-Union soldiers aild A bill (H. R. 2518) granting an increase of pension to J obn Rowe. sailors, citizens of Ohio, praying for the passage of the per diem rated Mr. SAWYER, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was re senice-pension bill, as follows: ferred the bill (S. 655) granting an increase of pension to Mary Van Five petitions of citizens of Ohio; Kusserow, reported it with an amendment, and submitted a report A petiti6n of citizens of Lake County; thereon. - A-petition of citizens of Oak Hill; Mr. HOAR, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was re· A petition of citizens of Oak Hill, Samsonville, and other towns; ferred the bill (S. 1204) to provide for holding the circuit and district A petition of citizens of Andover, Ashtabula County; courts of the United States at Martinsbmgb, in the district of West A petition of citizens of Red Lion, Carlisle, and other towns in War- Virginia, l'eported it with amendments. ren County; DOCUMEXTS FOR STATE DEPARTMENT. A petition of citizens of Burghill, Kinsman, and other towns; · Mr. MANDERSON. I am directed by the Committee on Printing, A petition of citizens of West Mecca; to whom was referred the joint resolution (H. Res. 77) to supply the A petition of citizens of Springborough and other towns in Warren Department of State with copies of bills and other documents, to report County; and it without amendment, and I ask for its present consideration. A petition of citizens of Loveland, Goshen, and othe1· towns in Cler By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, mont r.nd ·wan-en Counties. proceeded to consider the joint resolution. It directs the Public Printer The petitions were referred to the Committee on Pensions. to furnish the Department of State, out of the usual number, with ten l\Ir. SHEJUIA.l~ presentedapetitionoftbe Scioto (Ohio) Game Club, copies of each bill and joint resolution, and twenty copies of each execu praying for the better protection of the YeJlowstone National Park; tive document, miscellaneous document, and report of committee of which was ordered to lie on the table. either House of Congress. Ur. COCKRELL. I present resolutions adopted by the Lea.gue for The joint resolution was reported to the Senate without amendment, the Protectic)ll of Pers~mal Liberty, in the city of St. Louis, Mo., pro ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed_ testing against the enactment of any laws which confer the right of l\IESS.AGE FROM THE HOUSE. expulsion of any inhabitants of this country, or which make the right of immigration to the United States dependent upon any new condi A message from the Hom:e of Representatives, by 1\fr. CLARK, its tions; and also urging that the existing Jaws :fgainst the importation Clerk, announced that the House bad disagreed to the amendments of of contract labor, criminals, insane persons, or paupers be strictly en the Senate to the bill (H. R. 7315) to divide the Great Sioux Indian forced by the authorities. reservation into separa.te smaller reservations, and for other purpose , I move the reference of the resolutions to the Committee on Educa agreed to the conference asked by the Senate on the said bill and amend tion and Labor. ments, and bad appointed Mr. PEEL, l\Ir. HUDD, and Mr. NELSON man The motion was agreed to. agers at the conference on its part. l\Jr. DANIEL presented a petition of the farmers' convention, as SIGNAL-OFFICE DUILDISG. sembled at Danville, Va., praying for the repeal of the internal-reve Mr. SPOONER introduced a bill (S. 2565) to appropriate a sum of nue Jaws; which -was referred to the Committee on Finance. money sufficient to carry out the provisions of the act appro>ed 1\Iarch He also presented the petition of Naurozine Grange, No. 126, Patrons 5, 18 8, entitled "An act for the pm·cbase of a site, inclurling the build of Husbandry, of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, praying for the passage ing thereon, also for the erection of the necessary store-houses, for the of the strictest laws against the manuL.'l.cture and sale of adulterated u e of the office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army. at the city of articles of food; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture Washington, D. C.;" which 'Was read the first time by its title. and Forestry. Mr. SPOONER. I ask unanimous consent that the bill may be con He also presented the petition of B.S. Rich and other superintendents sidered at this time. of the United States Life-Saving Service, praying for an adjustment of The PRESIDENT pt·o tempore. The hill will be read at length for salaries in the first, second, fifth, and eighth life-saving districts; "hich information. was referred to the Committee on Commerce. The bill was read the second time at length, as follo'Ws: Be it enacted, etc., That there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Treasury not otherwise appropriated a. sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of an act. entitled ".An act for the purchase of a site, including the building Mr. WILSON, of Iowa, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to thereon, also for the erection of the necessary store-house!'!, for the use of the wholl]. was referred the bill (H. R. 6051) regulating the times for hold office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Arruy, at the city of \Vashington, D. C.," ing the terms of the United States courts in the northern district of approved March 5, 1888. Iowa, reported it with an amendment. By unanimous consent the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, Mr. WILSON, of Iowa. I am directed by the Committee on the proceeded to consider the bill. Jmliciary, to whom was referred. the bill (H. R. 1859) to provide an 1\Ir. SPOONER. I wish to make a word of explanation showing additional mode of taking depositions of witnesses in causes pendipg the necessity for this bill. in the courts of the United States, to report it adversely. I will state Congress passed an act, which was approved on the 5th of March that the report is adverse for the reason that the Senate bas passed a last, authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pur bill on the same subject which is regarded by the committee as more chase a site in the city of Washington, including the building upon it, comprebensi\e than the House bill. I move that the bill be postponed for the use of the Signal Service, the site and building not to cost over indefinitely. $112,000. It also authorized the erection upon the land of certain The motion was agreed to. store-houses, the whole cost, including site, not to exceed $150,000. 1\lr. SAWYER, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred It was supposed that the act carried with it an appropriation. The the bill (S. 1841) granting a pension to 1\Iatiah Scales, submitted an ad Secretary of the Treasury submitted the question to the Attorney verse report thereon; which was agreed to, and the bill was postponed General, who decided that notwithstanding the bill contained a direc indefinitely. tion that the property be purchased, it did not imply an appropriation. He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the petition It is the desire of the Treasury Department that the appropriation of Anson S. McDonald, praying to l~e allowed a pension, submitted an shall be made, and promptly made, because the negotiations for the adverse report thereon; which was agreed to, and the committee were purchase of the property are interrupted for want of the. formal wor / Mr. SPOONER. That is alL It appropriates the money to carry three emrineer officers from the Engineer Bureau to be detailed to the duty of examini~.,. by actual inspection, the locality where said bridge is to be built, and out the provisions of that act. to report ~bat shall be the l~ngth of the main cha_nnel span and of the ot~er 1\fr. HALE. Will the Senator allow me to state further that the !'pans: Provided, That the mam channel span shall rn no event be less th~n ,()() Committee on Appropriations examined this subject-matter some years feet in length, or the other spans less than 600 feet each in length; and tf the report of said officers shall be approved ~Y the Secretary of War, the spans of ago very thoroughly, and incorporated the appropriation upon one ?f said bridge shall be of the length so reqmrcd. the appropriation bilJi> passed by the Senate, but it was struck out m The amendment was agreed to. conference? I hope that the bill may be passed. The next amendJl!ent was, in section 3, line 17, before the word ''feet,'' The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to to strike out "sixty-five" and insert "seventy-five;~' so as to read: be engrossed for a. third reading, read the third time, and passed. The lowest part of the superstructure of said bridge s~all be at ~east 75 feet BILL INTRODUCED. above extreme high-water mark, as un?ers~od at the po~t of location, and the bridge shall be at right angles to ana ItS pters parallel Wlth the current of the 1\fr. GEORGE introduced a bill (S. 2566) to provide for the erection river. of a public building in the city of :M:eridia~, Miss.; whi?h wa;s ~ead The amendment was agreed to. twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Public Bmldmgs The next amendment was, in section 6, line 4, after the word ''when '3, and Grounds. ever,'' to strike out '' Congress'' and insert '' Secretary of War; '' so as PRESIDENTIAL APPROV ALB. to read: A message from the President_ of the United States, by Mr. 0. L. That the ri crht to alter amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved, PRUDEN, one of his secretaries, announced that the President bad on and the rjghtto require'any changes in said structure, or its entire removal, at the expense of the owners, whenever the Secretary of War shall decide that the the 29th ultimo appmved and signed the act (S. 1665) granting a pen public interests require it., is also expressly reserved. sion to Theresa B. Hoffman. The amendment was agreed to. The message also announced that the President had this dn,y approved Mr. SHERMAN. Are the amendment"! being acted upon as they and signed the following acts and joint resolution: are reached? An act (S. 2550) appropriating 520,000 for expenses of special and The PRESIDENT 1Jro tempo1·e. As the bill is being read. select committees of the Senate; Mr. SHERMAN. One amendment bas been passed which I desire An act (S. 2220) to correct an error in and to further amend ''An act to have left open-the amendment relating to the height of the. bridge. to authorize the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company to construct bridges The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate can return to It when across the Sunflower, Yazoo, and Tombigbee Rivers, in Mississippi," the reading of the bill is completed. approved March 3, 1887; and The next amendment of the Committee on Commerce was to add to -; A joint resolution (S. R. 65) to print Executive Document No. 51, the bill the following additional section: first session of the Forty-ninth Congress• on the subject of cattle and SEC. 9. That an act entitled "An act to authorize the construction of a bridge dairy farming. • a-cross the l\Iississippi River at l\Iemphis, Tenn.," approved February 26, 1885, WO:llAN SUFFRAGE HEARINGS. be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Mr. COCKRELL submitted the following resolution·; which was re The amendment was agreed to. ferred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses l.fr. SHERMAN. I move to reconsider the vote by which the amend ofthe Senale: ment in line 17 of section 3, fixing the height of the bridge, was agreed .Resolt:ed That the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage be authorized to to . employ a 'stenographer for the purpose of reporting arguments before it., who The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be stated. shall be paid from the cont.ingent flmd of the Senate, and to have the arguments 'I'he SECRETARY. In section 3, line 17, before the word "feet," before it printed. strike out "sixty-five" and insert "seventy-five;" so as to read: :Mr. COCKRELL submitted the following resolution; which was re The lowest part of the superstructure of saiu bridge sl1all be at least 75 feet ferred to the Committee on Printing: above extreme high-water mark. l.U:s:>l1·ed, That the arguments before the Committee on Woman Su~rage The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore, The adoption of the amendment was April 2, 1888, be printed for the use of the Senate, and that extra cop1es be printed. purely informal, and the question on agreeing to it will be regariled as BILLINGS, CLARK'S FORK AND COOKE CITY RAILROAD. before the Senate, if there be no objection. _ l\Ir. SHERMAN. Then I move to strike out" seventy-five" and in- Mr. JONES, of Arkansas. I give notice that to-morrow I shall ask sert "one hundred;" soas to fix the height at 100 feet. . the Senate to take up the bill (S. 325) granting to the Billings, Clark's Fork and Cooke City Railroad the right of way through the Crow Indian The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The qu~stion is on agreeing to the reservation. amendment of the Senator from Ohio to the amendment reported from the Committee on Commerce. FLORIDA LAND TITLES. Ur. SHERMAN. I do not wish to prevent the passage of this bill, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Senate a because I know that the Mississippi River, and all the rivers, must be resolution coming over from a previous day, which will be read. bridged. I am not opposed to bridging the stream; but Congress some The Chief Clerk read the resolution submitted by Mr. CALL :March years ago adopted definitely the proposition that no bridge should be -· 31, 18~ 8, as follows: made across the Ohio River, the Mississippi River, or the Missomi Rive.r Resolved, Tbat a. special committee of five Senators shall be app.pinted, to be unless it either contained a draw or was elevated to 100 feet above low selected by the President of the Senate, who shall inquire whether it is essential or advisable for the protection of actual settlers on the public land of the United water mark. This is the first departure, I believe. The Senator from States in the State of Florida, which has been heretofore patented or certified to Tennessee may tell me whether there is any bridge over the Uississippi othet· than actual settlers improvidently or without authority, that suits shall be of a less height than 100 feet. brought by the United States to cancel such patents, the committee to report by bill or otherwise, and further report such other legislation as may be necessary • Air. HARRIS. I will inform the 8enator from Ohio that a week or for the protection of actual settlers on the public lands of the United States in ten days since the Senate passed a bill authorizing the construction the State of Florida and for the settlement of the title .to the public lands in t.he of a bridge across the Uississippi River at Natchez, 300 or 4.00 miles possession of such settlers. below Memphis, at a height of 75 feet. There is now on the statute Mr. CALL. I ask that the resolution may go over this morning in book an act passed in 1885 authorizing the construction of a bridge order that the members of the Committee on Public Lands may have across the Mississippi River at Memphis, with a span not less than 550 some conference in regard to it. I hope they will agree to it, as I should feet in length, at the height of 65 feet above high-water mark. prefer not to have them antagonize it. Mr. SHERMAN. That is tJle act which it is proposed to repeal The PRESIDENT pro temAvore. The resolution will be passed over. .Mr. HARRIS. The last section of this bill proposes to repeal that The morning business is closed. act. 1\iiSSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE AT 1\IlnfPHIS. This bill not only provides that the bridge shall not be less than 75 Mr. ·nARRIS. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration feet, but by the amendment reported by the Committee on Commerce of the bill (H. R. 2927) to authorize the construction of a bridge across it is provided- I read section 3- the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn. That .the said bridge shall be made with unbroken and continuous spans. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Before approving t.he plans for said bridge, the Secretary of War shall order three engineer officers from the Engineer Bureau to be detailed to the duty of Whole, proceeded to consider the bill, which was reported from the examining, by actual inspection, the locality where said bridge is to be built, and Committee on Commerce with amendments. to report what shall be the length of the main channel span and of the other Mr. HARRIS. I ask that the amendments be acted upon as they spans: .PJ·CJvided, That the main channel span shall in no event be Jess than 700 feet in length, or the other spans less than 600 feet each in length; and if the are reached in the reading of the bill. report of said officers shall be approved by the Secretary of War, the spans of The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That order will be followed, if there said bridge shall be of the length so req\iired. be no objection. With the absolute requirement that no bridge shall be built until The Secretary proceeded to read t.he bill. the SecretaryofWarapproves the plan, with the absolute requirement I . The first amendment was, in section 3, line2, after the word" spans," that he shall send three engineers to the site of the bridge to inspect to strike out the words: carefully the whole matter and determine upon what plans al}d the Tl1e two middle or channel spans thereof shall not be less th!l.n 600 feet in exact place at which the bridge is to be built, it seems to me that the length in the clear, and no span shall be less than 450 feet in length in the clear. rights of navigation have never been so well protected by any bridge And to insert: bill that has ever been reported to either House of Congress from the • Before approving the plans for said bridge, the Secretary of War shall order beginnin~ of the Government to this hour. 2604 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 2, l\1r. SAWYER. I will state to the Senator from Ohio that the Sec than 700 feet in length or the other spans less than 600 feet in length; and if the report of said officers shall be approved by the Secretary of War, the spans rek'l.l'y of War recommends 75 feet. That is why we changed the bill of said bridge shall be of the length so required. The lowest part of the super from 65 to 75 feet. That is as high as any bridge that has been con structure of said bridge shall be at least75 feet above extreme hlgh-water mark, structed since I have been on the committee. as understood at the point of location, a nd the bridge shall be at right angles to and its piers parallel with the current of the river. Mr. SHERM:AJ.~. Has the Mississippi River been bridged with an altitude of only 75 feet above low-water mark where there was no Mr. £HERMAN. With that provision I do not see that there ought draw? to be any complaint made by the people along the river. All I ask is Mr. HARRIS. Can the Senator from Wiseonsin "inform me as to the that the same provision in substance shall be applied to the Lower height of the St. ·Louis bridge? Mississippi River as was applied to the Ohio River. Mr. SAWYER. l do not remember now, but it is not near as high :Mr. SAWYER. This will be a much higher bridge than was required / as this. there. l\Ir. HARRIS. Can the Senator from Missouri "nform me as to the Mr. SHERMAN. Then I am satisfied. I withdraw my amend height of the St. Louis bridge? ment. · l\Ir . .JO:NES, of Arkansas. I suggest to the Senator from Ohio that :Mr. PLU:MB. I wish to call the attention of the Senator from Ohio Congress at the last session passed a bill authorizing the building of a to the fact that in providing for a bridge to be built across the Missouri bridge on the Mississippi River below St. Louis, theheightoftheprin- River at Louisiana 50 feet wa-s established as the height above high cipal span ofwhich was 65 feet. · water. That has been the rule. Mr. SHERMAN. Now, we have got information, most of which I Mr. SHERMAN. The Missouri River is a different stream from the already knew. I do not know, and do not believe now, unless Sena l\fississi ppi. tors wi11 so inform me who live on the Mississippi River, that Congress .Mr. COCKRELL. That bridge at Louisiana, in Missouri, is across has ever authorized the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi, the Mississippi River. Ohio, or Missouri Rivers ofa less altitude than 100 feet. If I am mis Mr. PLUMB. I should have said the Mississippi River. taken in this, I should like to know it. Mr. .ALLISON. I desire to say one word in furtherance of there 1r. PLUMB. Undoubtedly you are• mistaken; there are fifty of marks made by the Senator from Kansas. At my own town there is a them authorized. bridge which I believe is the highest bridg.e on the Mississippi River at 1\ir. SHERMAN. Where are they? this time. Mr. PLUMB. I will furnish them by the score in a few minutes. Ur. SHERMAN. What is the height? Mr. SHEl~MAN. If the Senator will convince me that the Missis- Mr. ALLISON. Fifty feet above high water. I believe it is satis sippi River has been bridged at a less altitude than that, I shall have factory to the people who navigate the river. nothing to say. I have received a great multitude of petitions and Mr. SHERMAN. What is the rise of water there? .papers on this general subject, mainly from persons engaged in naviga 1\:lr. ALLISON.. Between liigh and low water mark, where I live, the I tion at Louisville and on the Ohio River above; and I remember the sac differenc~ is 23 feet. experience we passed through here once, about fifteen years ago, in re :Mr. COKE. If in order, I move, in section 2, line 12, that the words spect to a bridge at Cincinnati. Up to that time Congress had refused "seven hundred" be stricken out and ''one thousand" inserted. to allow the erection of any bridge across the Ohio River less than 100 The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will announce, if there be feet altitude above low-water mark, but finally-- · no objection, that t.he amendment that was informally reconsidered is Mr. HARRIS. The Senator observes that this requirement is 75 feet agreed to. Now the Senator from Texas moves an amendment, ..which above extreme high-water mark. will be stated. - · Ur. SHERMAN. That is what I wished to get at. Mr. HARRIS. That is an amendment to an amendment of the com Then Congress did pass a bill at the urgent request of the Pennsyl mittee already acted on. vania railroad system authorizing the construction of a bridge at Cincin The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That amendment will be open to nati of 70 feet altitude above low-water mark. There was n. struggle over amendment in the Senate. J that, but it was finally passed. It was soon ascertained after the bridge .Mr. COKE. Very well; I will reserve it. had been partly finished, and when it was ready for the superstructure, Mr. BERRY. I move to amend, in section 1, line 12, by striking ou1 that to put that superstructure on the piers as they stood, 70 feet above after the word'' and'' down to and including the word ''of,'' in line 14. low-water mark, would enqanger navigation; but Congress asserted its The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be stated. power and compelled that company to change its plans and to raise the The SECRETARY. In section 1, line 12, after the word "and," it bridge to an elevation of 100 feet. The Senator from Vermont, who is proposed to strike out "at the option of the corporation by which it is here [Mr. EDMUNDS], knows about that very well, because he took may be built, may be used for the passage of;" so as to read: one view of it and I think I took an·other. The people of Ohio, who Said bridge shall be constructed to provide for the passage of railway trains were inte.r_ested in the construction of the bridge, insisted upon it that and wagons and vehicles of all kinds. ' that bridge should be raised to 100 feet, and it was raised. Mr. BERRY. _The object of the amendment is to make it obliga Mr. ALLISON. That much above low-water mark? tory upon the company to provide a passage-way for wagons and foot Mr. SHERMAN. Onehundredfeetabovelowwater; and thatbridge passengers. As the bi11 now reads itis left optional with the company was raised at an enormous expense, which was paid by the company whether or not they will make such a foot-passenger bridge. The ob under a provision inserted in the bill. The claim was made that Con ject of my amendment is to require them to provide a bridge for pas gress bad no right to compel this raising of the bridge; and it was pro sengers and vehicles. I think this is a proper amendment. vided that in ca-se the Supreme Court should decide that Congress·had The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment no right to compel this at the expense of the company the Govern proposed by the Senator from Arkansas. ment should pay the expense, and if the decision should be against Mr. HARRIS. My own judgment is that there ought to be a wagon the railroad company the company should pay it. The Supreme Court bridge, but having telegraphed to the president of the Merchant's Ex decided that the power of Congress was supreme in the matter, that change and Cotton Exchange of the city of MemphisJ somewhat to my they had a right to judge and require the bridge to be raised at the surprise they s:ty that a large proportion, perhaps the majority, of the expense of the company. people there think it unnecessary. Therefore, I am willing that the Mr. HARRIS. Will the Senator from Ohio allow me to make a sug bill shall pass without such an amendment, though my own judgment gestion to him? His suggestion, as I understand it, is that the bridge was different. shall be raised 100 feet above low water. Mr. BERRY. The people of Memphis a1·e not the only persons in l\Ir. SHERMAN. Yes. terested in this bridge; but there are people in Arkansas, on tbe west !lir. HARRIS. As a matter of fact the difference between extreme ern side of the river, who live adjacent to .Memphis, who have large low water and extreme high water at 1\iemphis is 48 to 50 feet. This interests and constant trade and commerce with Memphis. Their cot hill requires that the lowest part of the superstructure of the bridge ton finds a large market there; they go there to purchase supp1ics. The shall be not less than 75 feet above extreme high water. · bridge ought to be made convenient for wagons and passengers on foot Mr. SHERMAN. If that be so, that falls within the rule I have and on horseba-ck. I happen to know that there are n. number of per been enunciating. sons in the city of Memphis who are anxious that the amendment should Mr. HARRIS. The bill even goes beyond the rule that the Senator be adopted, and I know it is to the interest of the people on the west has been inSisting upon, because, as a matter of fad, there is a differ ern side of the river that it should be done. Therefore, I think, the ence of between 40 and 50 feet between lowand high water mark. mere fact that the president of the Board of Trade of Memphis is against Mr. SHERMAN. I should like to have that clause of the bill read, it ought not to control the Senate when there are so many reasons to for all I "..sh is to protect the interest of navigation on the Mississippi the contrary. River. Reid that section. .M:r. PLUMB. I have no doubt it would convenience the people on Tbe Secretary read as follows: the western side to have a wagon-bridge; but ifit is going to add infi SEc. 3. That the said bridge shall be made with unbroken ond continuous nitely to the expense, and thereby prevent the construction at all, the spans. Before approving the plans for said bridge, the Becrctary of War shRll object in view will be defeated. It seems to me that is a question order three engineer officers from the Engineer Bureau to be detailed to tho which ought to be left to be determined by the return that will proba duty of examining, by actual inspection, the locality where said bridge is to be built, and to report "'jVhat shall be the length of the main channel span an d o r bly be made, which will be settled, of course, by the. parties who build the other spans: P.-ov-ided, That the main channel span shall in no event be less the bridge, in favor of that form of expenditure if it is likely to result" / 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. .2605 in profit. If it is not, then to attach such a condition to the bill would hio;; house, however, by indisposition, and was not in the Senate. lin be to prevent the building of a railroad bridge, and thus the existing formed him directly once, and indirectly through a messenger of his impediment to commerce at that point would be continued. own two or three times, that I would delay asking the consideration of Mr. EDMUNDS. I am opposed to any further stopping up or ob this bill a reasonably short time, but the anxiety of the people whom lltructing the great water-ways of the United States, which are about I represent, the anxiety of the people who propose to build this bridge the only free thing, commercially considered, that is left to the people to have the authority to do so, and to avail themselves of a suitable as against the corporations; but if these obstructions are to continue, season of the year to commence the work of construction are such that then I am in favor of making them as liberal towards the common peo I could not delay asking the Senate to consider it for the unreasonable ple who do not own a railr~ad as I possibly can, and make them as safe time that would be covered by the absence of those two Senators look for navigation as I possibly can u~der the circumstances. ing after a canvass in Louisiana. If these railway people can not build a bridge there which shall allow I would regret as much as any Senator on this floor even to seem to the passage of wagons and foot passengers,(they had better not have be wanting in courtesy to any Senator upon this floor, especially any the bridge at all. Memphis is a great city, and has a great trade on absent Senator; but this·is a matter of too much importance to the com both sides of the Mississippi River; and when these railway people are merce of the country and the people whom I represent to allow me to \ to build a rail way bridge they can, with a very sligh~ additional ex delay longer the consideration of the Senate from whatever action the pense, comparatively, provide for the convenience and comfort of the Senate may choose to take upon it. The Senator from Louisiana [Mr. people of the United States who live on both sides of the river in that GIBSON] had full notice before he left here that I would not wait, but vicinity. If the parties who are interested in this railway project hap would insist upon consideration. pen to own ferries there at present, I can readily see how they think Mr. FRYE. I simply desired to make known to the Senator the the public would not want any provision made for the passage of a wish expressed to me this morning by the attorney, not indicating by man or a horse and wagon; but we all perfectly wen know that the my request any opposit-ion to the opinions of the Senator from Ten additional expense of providing a footway or carriageway either above nessee, for I fully concur that the bridge bill ought to become a law. or alongside the railway bridge, when the whole structure is going on Mr. HARRIS. I quite understand the motive and object of the together, is a very small thing indeed comparatively. hope, there Senator from Maine, and am obliged to him for the suggestion. fore, that the amendment Of the Senator from Arkansas will be agreed The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question recurs on the amend to. ment proposed by the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. BERRY] . . Mr. BERRY. I do ~ot know by what authority it is said that re The amendment was agreed to. C'Luiring the company to add a passage-way for passengers and wagons Mr. EDMUNDS. On page 5, section 5, line 17, I move to insert, will increase the expense largely. I am thoroughly in favor of the after the word ''built,'' the words ''or commenced.'' There will be bill. The people of my State are in favor of the bill. I have sup no objection to that, I am sure. ported it all the way through. But those people who live on the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be stated. western side of the river desire that there shall be a passage for wagons, The SECRETARY. In section 5, line 17, after the word "built," it and, as was said by the Senator from Vermont, that with very little is proposed to insert ''or commenced;" so as to read: , addition to the cost of the railway bridge the company can provide a And until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secre way which will be a great convenience to parties who live on the tary of w·ar the bridge shall not be built or commenced. western side of the river; and I do not think it will have any tendency Mr. HARRIS. There can be no objection to that amendment that wha1ever to defeat the passage of the bill, or prevent the construction I can see. of the bridge. I do think it is proper and right that Congress should The amendment was agreed to. provide in this way for the convenience of those people who reside near 1\'Ir. EDMUNDS. I move, with the same idea precisely which I Memphis and trade with :Memphis. suppose was intended in the bill, to add, after the word ''War," in line Mr. PLUMB. I did not say it would prevent the building of the 20, striking out the period and inserting a comma, the words: bridge. I do not know that it will; it might even accelerate it; bnt And shall not be made or commenced until the same is so approved. what I meant was that as the purpose I had in view, and as I think That is, if they change the plan they shall not_go on with the work the main purpose in securing this bridge, is to make uninterrupted com until the change is approved. munication between the interior of the country and the Atlantic sea 1\'Ir. HARRIS. That is exactly on the line of the other amendment, coast by means of a railroad which will cross this bridge, it is not wise and is unobjectionable. to take up the mere local trade and transit across the river at that point The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be stated. to the possible impediment of the more important part of this great The SECRETARY. At the end of section 5 it is proposed to strike out natural highway. It may aid it, and if it would, then the option of the period and insert a comma, and add: ·the company to build the bridge in that way would be all that would be necessary. And shall not be made or commenced until the same is so approved. Mr. BATE. As oneofthe representativesofTennessee, I have been So as to read: anxious, as has been my colleague, for the passage of the bill; and I And should any change be made in the plans of said bridge during the progress believe before the committee no such suggestion as this amendment of construction, such change shall be subject to approval of the Secretary of was made; but, notwithstanding that, I believe it will be to the in 'Var, and shall not be made or commenced until the same is so approved. terest of that people, especially to that city, to have this amendment The amendment was agreed to. made. • Representing, in part, the wishes and interests of those people, Mr. EDMUNDS. In section 7, page 6, line 10, the top lrne, I move not having been communicated with by the friends of either side, and to add, after the word " establish," the words "and maintain." wishing to do that which I believe will ultimatelv be to their inter- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be stated. est, I shall vote for the amendment. ~ The SECRETARY. In section 7, line 10, after the word'' establish," Every such bridge charter granted this session to railroad companies it is proposed to insert "and maintain;" so as to read: over a river in that St.a.te, as far as I know, has in it the substance of And on failure of the company or persons aforesaid to make and establish and maintain such additional structures within a reasonable time, the said Sectata.ry this amendment; and believing it necessary to have a bridge for the shall proceed to cause the same to be built or made at the expense of the Uz..ited interests of, Memphis as well as for the interests of Arkans:ls on the States. other side of that river, and there being no petition from the citizens The amendment was agreed to. against it, why should we make a distinction between this and any Mr. EDMUNDS. Now I move, inline 12 of the same section, on the other bridge? It should be so made as to contribute to the convenience same page, to strike out the word "shall" and insert "mav cause the of the people on both sides. I favor the amendment proposed by the said bridge to be removed at the expense of the owners thereof, or may.'' Senator from Arkansas, although there has been no petition here, so The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be stated . .fitr as I am aware, affecting it one way or the other. The SECRETARY. In section 7, line 12, before the word ''proceed," Mr. FRYE. I desire to ask the senior Senator from Tennessee if this strike out ''shall " and insert: is the contested Memphis bridge. May cause the said bridge to be rell?-oved at the expense of the owner thereof, Mr. HARRIS. Yes. or may. Mr. FRYE. I desire to say to the Senator from Tennessee who has So as to read: , it practically in charge that the two Senators from Louisiana who rep The said Secretary may cause. the said bridge to be removed at the expense of . resented an opposing interest are absent from the Senate, and I re- the owners thereof, or may proceed to cause the same to be built or made at the ceived this morning from the attorney who represents the interests that expense, etc. · they favored a request that this bill should not be taken up and dis Mr. EDMUNDS. I will explain the object of thn.t an'-mdment. . posed of until the retp.rn of the Senators from Louisiana. I simply There is another very proper clause in the bill, that if this ;midge turns . submit the request, having no desire myself in the premises. out to be obstml!tive to navigation, etc., the Secret..1.ry of vVar may cause J.lrlr. HARRIS. I was aware of the fact that the two Senators from the thing to be entirely removed. Now, I am afraid that if they con ' Louisiana were absent. I was aware of the fact that certain constitu struct the bridge, the clause :.: tanding as it is in the printed bill, if the , cnts of theirs now have the control of the charter granted in 1885. I owners should not comply with the requirements of the Secretary of : was aware of the fact that the senior of these two Senators desired to ·war in regard to the safeguards about approaches, etc., or doing the be present. I was aware of the fact that he was here in the cHy for a additional things requisite to make it as convenient for navigation as week afier this bill was reported to the Senate. He was confined to possible, in that case the Secretary would lose the power which is re- 2606 " CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-_SENATE. APRIL 2, ed.-tohim · th 1i ct" f · "ttobe dhlto neersnowrecom:merrdaheightof70feet. Weiindnothinginthereporl;tojns- serv m e ormers.e lOTIO reqmrmgl remove - tifythisassumption. Now,whatdoestheChiefofEngineerssayonthismatter? gether; and therefore I simply repeat what is a former provision of the General Duane, in a letter addressed to Senator GmsoN March 3,1888, say . bill. " Below Cairo to Natchez the Board of Engineers were divided as to the length The amendment was a!rreed to of the channel span to berequired,andrecommendeda.clearheadwayof70feet b • • • • • above high water, with all other spans over channel way not less than 600 feet Mr. ED~fUNDS. Then m line 13 of the sam.e section I think there between piers. The Mississippi Commission recdmmended 1,000 feet for the 1nust be a misprint or a clerical mistake. -The clause now reads that channel span at Memphis, and _not less th~n 750 feet at ~~tchez, the len_g~h of the Secretary of War may cause these additional thin()'s ''to be built or the span at. these two places bemg determined by the ex1~trng local conditions, 0 · • , • and the height at both was 75 feet clear headway above high water." made at the expen e of the Uruted States. All the precedmg clauses 1 General Duane Chief of Engineers, further says: very rightly, as I think, require all this to be done at the ex pen e of the "T?is office appro•C?S the recoJll!Ilendations of' the b~ard so far_ as they a~ply owners of the bridge altbou()'h done by the Secretary of War. There- to bndge!' ~or all portion~ of the river except below Carro; for thlS porllon tt 1s . ' , , n . , , . ,~ of the opmion that no br1dges should have less than 75 feet clear headway above fore I mo•e to stnke out Umted States a.nd msert the words own- high water and that the length of the channel spans should be left for a Board ers of t:ai:l brid()'e0 and in that case;'' so as to read: of Enginee~s, provided for in the modified bill, to determine, with tLe approval ' of the Secretary of War; and that the length of such spans should be regulated The said Secrelary may cause the ea.id bridge to be removed at the expense by the physical featqres of the locality where it is proposed to erect the bridge -Of the owners thereof or may proceed to cause the same to be built or made and the requirements of navigation at that point." at the expense of the owners thereof, and in that ca e shall refer the matter It will be observed, therefore, that neither the Chief of Engineers nor the without d elay to the Attorney-General of the United States. Board of Engineers hal·e concurred in recommending that the central span should have a minimum length of 700 feet, but that the Chief of Engiueer£1 rec Mr. HARRIS. That was what was intended by the originallan- ommends only that a board should be provided to determine the question. Now, guage. we think that a board consisting of the Army engineers and civil engineers43n ~fr . FRYE. It is evidently a mistake. the Missi ippi River Commission, which has been ma.k:ing an examination of the phenomena of this ri\"er for the last eight years (a complete and scientific The amendment was agreed to. survey of it in all respects), should have great weight as the very highest au The bill was reported to the Senate as amended. thority that can be found in the determination of a problem tha.t vitally con wish to make one suggestion the committee, cerns the vast industries and interests depending upon the free navigation of Mr. ED~IDNDS. I to the Mississippi River. They recommend that the minimum length of the cen .and that is a mere matter of form and taste, to put section 6, the right tral span of the bridge at Memphis, owing to the local conditions, should be to aHer, amend, and repeal, at the end of the bill as the last section, 1000 feet. W~do not think this11.t all unreasonable. We know that the War where it ought to be. It is now in the middle of the bill. Department has in>ariably adopted the minimum length of spans provided for by Congress, and we deemed it important, therefore, that the minimum, so far Mr. HARRIS. I have no objection to that. as the Missi!!sippi River is concerned, should be made not less than 1,000 feet, Mr. EDMUNDS. I move to transpose section 6 sothatitwill be the and that the he:ight should be not less than 85 feet. very last section in the bill. We beg to refer to the testbnonyofthe I'epresentatives of the steam-boat and barge lines plying on the river, from which it will be seen how rapidly th~ ton Tile PRESIDENT pro tempore. That order will be made, if there be nage bytbe barge lines is increasing, and that the largest steam-boats requrre at no objection. least 85 feet headway. Mr. I move, on page section line that the words These conditions may be very easily complied with in the construction of this COKE. 3, 3, 12, bridge. Bridge building within the last few years has undergone a revolution "seYen hundred" be stricken out and ''one thousand" mserted. · by the application of the cantalever system, which is now adopted in the con- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be stated. truction of nearly all important bridges. A few years ago, when Captain Eads The SECRETA.IW. In the amendment of the Committee of the Whole proposed to build a. bridge over the l\1ississippi River at St. Louis, it was held by engineers generally that a span of over 500 feet was impracticable. Now many in section 3, line 12, before the WOl'd '' feet,'' it is proposed to strike bridges are being constructed with twice that length of span, and some with out "seven hundred" and insert ".one thousand;" so as to read: tht-ee times that length. The first cantalever bridge built in this country was designed by Mr. C. Shaler That the main channel span shall in no event be less than 1,000 feet in length. Smith, and constructed over the Kentucky River. Since then a cantal ever bridge bas been built over the Niagara River, which has one span 170 teet above the :M:r. COKE. There is a minority report which accompanies this bill wate1· and 470 feet long, the total length of the canta.lever being 910 feet. The from the Committee on Commerce, signed by Senators GIBSON, RAN canta.lever bridge across the Hudson River at .Poughkeepsie contains five spans SOM, GoRMAN, KENNA, and myself, in which werecommend that there each of from 500 to 521 i feet in length and from 130 to 160 feet in clear headway. The Kentucky and Indiana bridge across the Olrlo River near Loaisville has shall be at least one span of not less than a thousand feet in width, and spans of 480 to 4.83 feet and a clearance of 109 feet above low water; and the pro that the h eight of the bridge shall not be less than 85 feet. We predi posed bridge over the East River, at Blackwell's Island, contains two spans of cate this recommendation upon the opinion of the Mississippi River !!10 feet each, with a clearance under the middle of the spans of 152 feet. And the bridge over the Frith of Forth, in Scotland, is about 1 m.ile long and con Commission, compo ~ ed of civilian and Army engineers, who say: ·t:ains four spans, two being of 1,700 feet in length and two of 675 feet in length, It is our opinion that if a bridge is permitted at l\:lemphis it should have at with a clear headway of 152 feet. least one channel span with a. clear opening, at right angles with the current, of Now, the water-courses over which these bridges have been constructed can 1,000 feet; and that the lowest part of this span should be75 feetaboveextreme not be held to be more important than the 1\fi sissippi River, and we have no high water. doubt that the promoters of this enterprise will find that a. minimum length of 1,000 feet of the main span and a. height of 85 feet are not unreasonable, and that That is the opinion of a commission of eminent engineers, both civilian engineers will be found competent to erect such a. bridge. This bas been ad mitted by the engineers. and A.rmy engineers, who, for eight years before the opinion was given, There is one peculiarity about the Mississippi River, and especially about the had been studying the Mississippi River, and especially the matter of local conditions at Memphis, which necessitates a. wider span than on any other a bridge at Memphis. I will send the minority report to the Secre place on the river. The commerce is carried on now chie:tly in barges, and as Capt. Smith S. Leach, of the Engineer Corps 9f the Army, and secretary of the tary's desk and ask that it be read: n.ussissippi River Commission, says: The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The paper will be read. "A tow, for instance, of thirty-eight. pieces, carrying 700,294 bushels of coal, The -Secretary read as follows: would in length extend 900feet, while its width would be265feet." Now, when such a tow meets a. bend in the river the steamer begins backing to pull the VIEWS OF THE MINORITY. upper end of the tow, and the tow itself, away from the concave bank. This operation is called • flanking.' In this way in passing bends the axis of the tow Mr. GIBSoN, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following mi- becomes inclined to the a:ris of the river, and in case of sharp bends or swift nority report, to accompat;~Y b~l H. R. 2927: • currents may be at right angles to it. "Such is the case," he observes, "in tows Tbe undersigned, the mmor1ty of the Comm1ttee on Commerce, beg leave to passing Memphis." He n.lso says that the tows have to retain the oblique po report their dissent from the majority report of said committee on the following sition in passing nearly the whole of the Memphis front. "It must be remem· points: . bered," be further observes, "that the channel on the west side of Pre ident•s They concur with the maj?rity of the comlii:ittee that a. br1d~e.sh~ul~ b_e con Island is the main channel, and is the one which requires the most flanking, structed in the interest of rail way transportatiOn across the MisSlSSippt River at and that in the progress of the improvement of the r iverit may be advisable to or nca.r Memphis. which has become 3: railway center.. 'l'be~ ~ould deny_ no close the other." Hence we are to determine the necessities of the case by the reasonable facilities to accommodate ratlway traffic, but 1n the1r JUdgment. If a length rather than by the width of the tows on the 1\:lississippi River, so far as brido-e can be constructed at Memphis which will afford ample facilities for com the Memphis front is concerned. munication with the trans-Mississippi country by railroad and hlghwa.y at a. One source of the greatest expense in building bridges over the Mississippi ost proport:onaie to the amount of business to be done, and altogether reason Ri>er is the cost of the piers, for it is necessary to dig down it may be 75 feet able, it should be erected, without interfering with the tr~de and comm~rce on in order to secnre a firm foundation for them; but by increasing the length of the river which it must be remembered, already exceed m value our entire for the main span the number of piers may be diminished. eign com'mcrce, 'and are constant!yincreasing with the developm~nt ?f the ~~ri We believe that these suggestions are founded not only in the interest of the cultural, mining, and manufacturmg resom·c:es o~ the vast populati_on mhabit1I?g trade and the commerce on the 1\lississippi River, but in permanent advantage the great v alley ; and it m!lBt al ? b_e borne.m ~d t_bat the function of t?e Mis also to the railway bridge. For it must be considered that if a. bridge should sissippi River is to determme, wtthm certam limitatiOns, the rates of freight all be constructed over that river which will materially ob truct the channel and over the country. impaii its navigation, the people of the valley will insist that it shall be. re The Government of the United States, appreciating the importance of this moved· and it will be removed. Hence we submit that the recommendatiOns great national highway, created a commission, by act. ~pproved ~m~e 29,_1879, of the Board of Engineers, which have had charge of the improvement~ ot compo ed of General Gillmore, General Comstock, MaJor Suter, distrngotshed this river for nearly ten long years and who can not be actuated by any b1as, eno-ineers of the Army; 1\lr. Ha.rrod, chief engineer of the State of IJOuisiana; should be accepted. M1~ 'l'ayloi", Mr. Fergnson,gradoate of WestPoint and an Armyoftic':lr, and like· We therefore propos that the bridge at Memphis should ha.ve one channel wise a distinguished engineer. The Government has also appropnated about span ,vith a. clear opening at right-angles to the current of at lea.stl,OOO feet, and $12,000,000 {not to speak of four and a half millions which ~ere expend7d on the that the lowest part of this span should be at least 85 feet above extreme high Eads jetties to secure deep water at the mouth of the nver) for the rmprove· water. . ment of the river from the Head of the Pa ses to St. Louis, and the plan adopted We beg leave to refer to the recommendations of the Board of Engineers and by them, at first held l>y many to be exp_erimental, bas produced the most hen- Chief of Engincer3 respecting bridges (marked document A); and the commu eticiali·esults wherever it has been applied. • nication from 1\:Ui.jor Post relating to cautalever bridges (marked document C); Every interest, therefore, of the people ~f tl1e 'Ybol~ ~ountry req!-Jire;'l that and to the table sho-wing the tonnage transported by the New Orleans barge the pl'Oposed bridges should be erected Without tmpaumg the naVIgatiOn ~f line during the years 1868'to 1888 (Dllll"ked document D); and to the other The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator desire the exhibits of Congresi in Iegulating these matters to protect the interests of the to be read? river and the rail commerce, and where there is a. conflict a fair and Mr. COKE. No, sir. _ reasonable and just compromise between themmustbeworked out. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is-on the amendment Under the provisions of this bill as it comes from the committee no proposed by the Senator from Texas [Mr. CoKE], which will be again one conclusion is more certain than that the Tights of navigation will read. be protected without the amendment of the Senator fro_m Texas. The The SEcRETARy. · It is proposed to strike out of the committee's· bill fixes 700 feet as the minimum length of the channel span; bnt it amendment, in section 3, line 12, before the word ''feet,'' the words also requires the Secretary of War to send three Army engineers to the "seven hundred," and insert "1,000;" so as to read: ground to inspect it, to determine where the bridge shall be built, and determine how long and how high the spans shall be, and to report ro That the m ain channel span shall in no event be less than 1,000 feet in length. him exactly how high and how long each span shall be; and when be Mr. SAWYER. I hope that amendment will not be adopted. receives that report the bill requires that no bridge shall be built un Mr. HARRIS. I ask for the yeas and nays on the amendment. til he approves the plan as ro the length of sp:m and height of bridge. The yeas 'and nays were ordered. Wha.t better guard, what better protection, can the rights of na.viga 1\Ir. SAWYER. A span of 700 feet, it seems to me, js wide enough. tion demand than is already incorporated in the bill in the am~md It is over four times as wide as Pennsylvania avenue from building to ments that the Committee on Commerce have reported and that the building. That is only 160 feet, and four times that would be 640. I Senate has agreed to? I do not see any reason whatever why the amend hope the amendment will not be adopted. ment now proposed fixing a minimum of a thousand feet should be put l\1r. HARRIS. I will not consume the time of the Senate by asking into the bill. Ifthatcommittee ofengineers shall report that a thousand that the report of the majority of the· Committee on Commerce 'Qe read feet is necessary, that 1,200 feet is necessary, or that 1,500 feet is nec that favors the passage of this bill as reported from that committee, but essary, it will be the duty of the Secretary of War to require the plan I will ask that the Secretary read a communication which I hold in my to conform to that recommendation and give to navigation all the prcr hand from General GeorgeS. Field, who is the engineer and a member of tection that navigation is entitled to. The rights of navigation could the Union Bridge Company, which I understand to be the largest and not be better protected by any possibility than they are protected by most successful company of bridge-builders in America. This question the bill as it stands amended. The minimum :fixed by the amendment was submitted to him by the friends of this measure, and I ask that the of the Senator from Texas is not only unnecessary, but it is fraught Secretary read his letter of response. with this great evil: it may involve such a cost for building the bridge The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The paper will be read, if there be as to defeat the construction -of a bridge altogether. n objection. The New Orleans Barge Line. during the last year, according to the The Secretary read as follows: report of t-he minority, floated up and down the Mississippi River UNio::s- BRIDGE COMPANY, New York, March 19, 1888. four hundred and some odd thousand tons of freight, while one single railroad, the Kansas City and :Memphis, carried across that ri"t'er at GENTLEllmN: I have yours of 16th, asking difference in cost of Memphis bridge if built in accordance with the recommendations of the majority or minority Memphis over 600,000 tons of freight within the same period. The com report of the Senate Committe on Commeree. merce crossing the river is va tly more important in bulk, more im '£he longer span and greater h eight, recom~ended by the minority, will in crease the cost about $425,000. On page 5 of pamphlet containing the two re portant in tonnage, vastly more important in value than that passing ports you will find the following: "Now, many bridges are being constructed up and down the Mississipp~ River; but all that I ask is that fair and with twice that length of span (500 feet), and some with three times that length." equitable compromise between the interests .of the land commerce and As far as the writer is aware no bridge has been built, for railway purposes, the interests of the river commerce which will give to each the highest, with spans longer than about 500 feet; and nope are in course of consknction, with the one exception of the bridge across the Firth of Forth, in Scotland, the fairest, and the most just measure of protection that we can give which is referred to, and which is such an enormously expensive structure that to secure a fair chance for the traffic of the country. t here is not traffic enough crossing any stream in this counn·y, n.t any one point., which would pay 2 per cent. on its cost. As a matter of fact I believe the trans Mr. COKE. Mr. President, the report of the minority of the com fer of freight and passengers can now be made at Memphis by ferry at a. less mittee, as I remarked awhile ago, is predicated upon the opinion of cost to the railroad companies than if they build a. bridg e costing not to exceed the Mississippi River Commission, composed of the ablest engineers in $2,000,000; and if conditiOns are imposed which will increase the cost much be yond that sum the scheme will not be inviting to capital. The reference in the this country, among them Captain Eads, .Army engineers and civilian minority report to the Niagara. cantalever bridge may be misleading t-o persons engineers. They say: not familiar with the subject.. The clear span, between abutments, is about 470 It is ofu. opinion that if n. bridge is permitted at Memphis it should have at feet (as stated). and not 910 feet, as some might suppose from reading the report. least one channel span, with a clear opening at right angles with the current of Nine hundred and ten feet is the distance from end to end of the bridge, includ 1,000 feet; and that the lowest part of this span should be 75 feet above extreme ing both sbore-a1·ms, which project over the land. high water. As a professional bridge engineer and builder it seems to me that the entire subject oflength of spans and height above water is in perfectly safe hands, as The opinion was delivered after this commission had for eight years far as the interests of navigation are concerned, when it is refened to the War been studying the phenomena of that river, appointed to make a scien De-partment. tific survey of it, which t:gey did make, and to direct its improve- On page 6 the minority report refers to reducing the cost by diminishing the number of piers. The number of piers will be the same in either case, four (two D1ent. · in the river proper and one at either end of t-he long spans) will have to go, This great river should not be obstructed. It is true that a great . practically, to the same depth, and will cost substantially the same, whichever deal of commerce crosses it, but it must be ren1embered that the Mis plan is adopted. Yours, truly, sisippi River is the great regulator of railroad freights in this country. GEO. S. FIELD. The Mississippi River and its tributaries and the Great Lakes alone Messrs. BRITTON & GRAY, prevent the railroads from owning this country so fa1· as transportation 622 F street No,-thwest, Washington. is concerned, and all these water-ways should be pTeserved open and Mr. HARRIS. I desire simply ro say that from General Field's let free, and no obshuction should be permitted on one of them; and ter it appears that the increase of length of the span and the height of when able men like these-not men employed in the interest of rail the bridge as recommended by the minority of the Committee on Com roads to deliver opinions, not gentlemen employed in the interest of the merce will increase the cost 5425,000, and in his opinion that increased city of Memphis or the State of Tennessee or the State of Arkansas to cost would so add to the difficulties in the way that capital would not give opinions, but gentlemen whose duty it is to supervise the improve be justified in building the bridge. . ment of the Mississippi River and do it in the most scientific manner 1\Ir. FRYE. The Senator must not forget that since the bridge bill when such men, with only the interest of the Government and the peo was referred to Mr. Field there has been an amendment adopted to-day ple of the United States at heart, have expressed the opinion that a span in the Senate providing for additional bridge accommodations for foot not less than a thousand feet should be required on a bridge that crosses passengers and horses and carriages, etc., and if that additional weight is the Mississippi River at Memphis, why should we allow less? · added to this span of a thousand feet the increase will be very much Mr. PLUMB. Will the Senator allow me to ask him a question? greater than $425,000. :Mr. COKE. Yes, sir. 1\fr. HARRIS. Unquestionably. I have no exact estimate, bnt I l\1r. PLUMB. Is he a member of the Commerce Committee of the think it is quite safe to state that the wagon way added to the railroad Senate? bridge will increase the cost certainly not less than $100,000. 1\Ir. COKE. I am. 1\Ir. FRYK l\fore than that. , Mr. PLUMB. Did he not consent to the passage through that com 111r. SAWYER. I am told from the very best authority that the mittee and through the Senate of a bill for the bridging of the Missis wagon bridge alone will increase it a half million dollars. Who would, sippi River at Natchez, several hnndred miles below Memphis, with a ever go over a bridge 75 feet hig;h in a wagon? . m aximum span of 750 feet? l\1r. HARRIS. I can not state what the additional cos.t of the wagon Mr. COKE. There is a. difference, as stated by the commission, be way wonld be, but certainly it would be over $100,000; possibly the tween bridging at Memphis and lower down tile river. full amount suggested by other Senators. Mr. PLUMB. Did not the Senator further consent to the passage of The commerce of the country needs and demands a railroad bridge a bill through that committee and th rough Con!o,>Tess in 1885 which pro· across the Ilfississippi River at Memphis. Of course, residing as I do on vided for a. maximum span of 850 feet at Memphis? the bank of the Mississippi River, I am about as much interested in pro Mr. COKE. Probably·! did; but! saytotheSenatorthatsincethat tecting the navigation of that river as any other Senator OH. this floor time I have learned something that I did not know then. can be; but there is a larger commerce, a very much larger commerce, Mr. PLUMB. I a.m very sure the Senator did not then. crossing that river by rail than floats up and down it. It iB the duty Mr. COKE. Here is the opinion of the 1\Iississippi River Con1mission, • 2608 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD=-SENA~E. APRIL 2, and upon that I stand. Congress can not afford to take the risk of put The result was announced-yeas 3, nays 43; as follows: ting an obstruction in the Mississippi River. YEAS-3. 1\fr. HARRIS. - Will the Senator from Texas allow me to ask him if Call, George, Ransom. he is afraid to trust the Secrtltary of War upon the opinion of a com mittee of three Army engineers special1y detailed to the duty of _going NAYS-43. Allison, Daniel, Hearst-, Riddleberger, uponthegroundand carefully investigating every condition that ~hould Bate, Davis, Hiscock, Sawyet·, be considered in respect to the preservation and protection of the rights ·Beck, Dawes. Jones of Arkansas, Sherman, of navigation? Berry, ]'arwell, :McPherson, Spooner, Blair, Faulkner, Mitchell, Stewart, Mr. COKE. Well, that is a question which I hardly think is a fair Blodgett, Frye, Palmer, Teller, one. It is simply a matter of judgment. The gentlemen who have Bowen, Gray, Payne, Turpie, expressed the opinion upon which I base my action are very able men, Brown, Hale, Platt, Voorhees, Cockrell, Hampton, Plumb, Walthall, and I do not desi.J:e to sit in judgment on the relative merits of the Sec Colquitt, Harris Pugh, Wilson of Iowa. retary of War and the Army engineers and these gentlemen. I si.Jnply Cullom, Hawley, Reagan, say that I am satisfied with this opinion of the River Commission, and ABSENT-30. I do not believe that what they say would be an obstruction to the Aldrich, Edmunds, Kenna, Saulsbury, Mississippi River ought to be placed there by Congress, aml they do Blackburn, Eustis, Manderson, Stanford, Butler, Evarts, Morgan, Stockbridge, say that a bridge with a span of less than a thousand feet at Memphis Cameron, Gibson, 1\Iorrill, ·vance, will be an obstruction in that great water way which they were detailed Chace. Gorman, Paddock, V est, by the Government to survey scientifically and to superintend the i.Jn Chandler, Hoar. Pasco, Wilson of Md. Coke Ingalls, Quay, provement of. I hope, Mr. President, that my amendment will be Dolph,• Jones of Nevada, Sabin, adopted. The PRESIDENT pro ten~p01·e. The hour of 2 o'clock has arrived, So the amendment was rejected. and the Chair lays before the Senate the unfinished business, which is Mr. EDMUNDS. I wish to call the attention of the Senator from the bill (H. R. 5034) to provide for the purchaSe of United Skl:_tes Tennessee to section 4 in a mere matter of phraseology. In the first bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury. part of section 4 there is a provision for all railroad companies having :Mr. HARRIS. I ask unanimous consentof the Senate that the un equal rights over this bridge, as is very proper. Then at the end of the finished business be- informally laid aside. It can not take long, I section is a provision that if they disagree about it "all matters at issue am sure not an hour, to complete the consideration of the bridge bill, between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War, upon a hear and I appeal to the Senate to allow it to proceed until it is finally dis ing of the allegations and proofs of the parties." It has occurred to 111e posed of. that there is some very technical language, "at issue" for instance, The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. HALE in the chair). The Sena ~nd then '' upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties.'' tor fi·om Tennessee asks unanimous consent that the unfinished busi The Secretary of War has no power under this bill or any other that ness be informally laid aside, and that the Senate continue the consid we can possibly pass to compel any party to come forward and make emtion of the bill which has been before it this morning. Is there his allegations and his proofs; and so in order to save any possible dif objection? ficulty of that kind I move to amend section 4, in line 11, by striking Mr. PLATT. I should like very much to oblige the Senator from out after the word "upon" the words "a hearing of the allegations Tennessee; but I can not give my consent io have the other business and proofs of the parties,'' and inserting '' reasonable notice to the which is now in order delayed by this bill. parties in interest and upon consideration of such allegations and Mr. HARRIS. I appeal tothe Senator from Connecticut; and I will proofs as may be submitted to him." say that if the consideration of this bill shall extend beyond an hour I Then a period; and then I wish to add the following to save all rights will uncomplainingly allow it to be laid aside and the tmfinished busi in case the Secretary of War does not decide. ness proceeded with; but I am exceedingly anxious to end this mat But the last foregoing provision shall not be held to exclude the ordinary ter to-day. I ask its consideration for one hour, and one hour only. jurisdiction of the courts of the United States. I think we can get through with it in twenty minutes. Tlie PRESIDING OFFICER. The :first question is on concurring Mr. PLATT. Do I understand that if the objeCtion is withdrawn in the amendments made as in Committee of the Whole. and this debate skould run more than an hour, it would theu• be the Mr. EDMUNDS. The Chair is right. The pending question is on order of the Senate that it be laid aside and the unfinished business be the amendments made as in Committee of the 'Vhole. taken up? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on concurring in the Mr. HARRIS. I will consent to lay the bridge bill aside if it is not amendments made as in Committee of the Whole. Is a separate vote disposed of in an hour; I think we can dispose of it in twenty minutes. ·desired on any amendment? Mr. PLATT. I withdraw my objection. Mr. SAWYER. I desire a separate vote on the amendment that Mr. EDM:U~DS. I wish it to be subj ct to a call for the regular would compel the compauy to build a. foot and wagon-bridge. order at any time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. That amendment will be reserved. Mr. HARRIS. Of course I have no objection to that. Will the Senate concur in the other a.mendment.9? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There being no objection the Senate The unexcepted amendments were concurred in. continues the consideration of the bill (H. R. 2927) to authorize the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question will now be on con construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River, at Memphis, curring in the amendment reserved by the Senator from Wisconsin Tenn. The question is on the amendment proposed by the Senator from (Mr. SAWYERl, which will be read. Texas (Mr. CoKE], on which the yeas and nays have been ordered. The SECRET..ARY. In section 1, line 12, after the word "and," The Secretary proceeded to call the roll. the Senate as in Committee of the \Vhole struck out "at the option of Mr. EDMUNDS (when his name was called). I ha>e had a pair the corporation by which it may be built, may be u.Sed for the passage made for me with the Senator from Missouri [Mr. VEST], who I believe of;" so as to make the clause read: favors ·the bill as reported. I think I should vote for the widest span, Said bridge shall be constructed to provide for the passage of 1·ailw!l.y trains, if I were at liberty. and wagons and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals, and for foot 1\Ir. HARRIS. The Senator from Missouri I know would vote against passengers, for such reasonable rates of toll as may be approved from time to this amendment if present. time by the Secretary of War. Mr. EDMUNDS. So I do not vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on concurring in this Mr. SABIN (when hisnamewascalled). I am paired with the Sen amendment made as in Committee of the Whole. ator from West Virginia [Mr. KENNA]. Not knowing how he would Mr. BERRY. I ask for the yeas and nays on that question. vote on this question if present, I withhold my vote. If he were here, The yeas and nays were ordered. I should vote "nay.,, Mr. BERRY. I silnply desire to call the attention of the Senate to The roll-call was concluded. the fact that this is the same amendment which was adopted in Com 1tir. COKE (after having voted in the affirmative). I withdraw my mittee of the Whole, which requires the company to provide a passage vote. I am paired with the Senator from Vermont [Mr. MoRRILL]. way for passengers on foot and in vehicles. As I stated then, it will 1\Ir. CALL. I announce the pair of my colleague [Mr. PAsco] not interfere with the building of the bridge, in my opinion, in any way with the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. QUAY]. whatever. Mr. UANDERSON. I am paired with the Senator from Kentucky I think it is entirely proper that persons who reside on the west side [Mr. BLACKBURN], who is absent. I do not know how he would vote of the river, who are in the habit of trading with Memphis, who go to if present, and therefore abstain from voting. Memphis for their supplies, ought to have the right to go across the Mr. P A.DDOCK. I am paire.d with the Senator from Louisiana [Mr. bridge as well as the railroad company, and it would be no grea.t hard EusTis]. Not knowing how he would vote if present, I refrain from ship to the railroad company to provide o. footway over the bridge. I voting. think it is a proper and necessary requirement. I can not understand 1\Ir. CULLOM. I announce the pair of the Senator from New Hamp why privileges should be granted to railroad companies to which the shire [Mr. CHANDLER] with the Senator from North Carolina [Ur. people there are not equally entitled. VANCE]; and of the Senator from Vermont [l\1:r. MoRRILL] with the The statement made here that it would cost over $100,000, I do not Senato~ from Texas [Mr. CoKE]. believe. I do not see how it would be possible or why, if it should 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENA-TE. 2609 cost$100,000, this convenience should not be made for those interested Eustis, Kenna, Plumb, S~ckbridgc, Evarts, Mandei'S()n, Quay, Vance, in the commerce there. Gibson, Morgan, Sabin, Vest, :Mr. McPHERSON. I will ask the Senator from Arkansas if he Hoar, Morrill, Saulsbury, Voorhees, knows how the cost of building this extra bridge is to be reimbursed Ingalls, Paddock, Spooner, Wilson of Md. to the railroad company? Jones of Nevada, Pasco, Stanford, :M:t:. BERRY. I would answer the Senator from New Jersey that So the amendment was concurred in. the bill requires parties to pay toll to the company building the bridge. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont [Mr. En H authorizes the company to charge toll for the use of the bridge. MUNDS] offers an amendment, which will be stated. The expenses for building the passage for vehicles and foot passengers The SECRETARY. In section 4, line 11, after the worcl ''upon," is to be borne by the railroad company; but they are authorized to strike out the remainder of the section in the following words: charge a reasonable toll, the amount to be determined by the Secre- A hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties; tary of War. . And insert: Reasonable notice to the parties in interest, and upon consideration of such • Mr. SAWYER. The Senator from Arkansas says the company ought allegations and proofs as may be submitted to him; but the last foregoing pro to have the right to build the bridge in this way. Of course they will vision shall not be held to exclude the ordinary jurisdiction of the courts of the if they deem it advisable; but what is proposed is to force the railroad United States in such cases. company to build it to accommodate veh1cles and foot passengers. If Mr. HA.RRIS. I think that amendment improves the bill, Mr. Pres they want to build the bridge in that way, let them do it. I hope the ident. amendment will not be adopted. The amendment was agreed to. 1r1r. McPHERSON. I suppose there is no bridge on the Lowe1· Mis The bill was reportecl to the Senate as amended, and the amendments sissippi farther down than Memphis. Here it is proposed to establish wen: e•ncurred in. an important, expensive, and extensive bridge structure. It is pro The amendments were' ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read posed on the part of the Congress of the United States to give to a rail a third time. road company the power to bnild a bridge, with all the obstruction to The bill was rea.d the third time, and passerl. navigation which any and every bridg~ imposes. Now, it is very evi Mr. HA.RRIS. I move that the Senate insist upon its amendments dent that the people of that locality can neither be prevailed upon, nor and ask for a conference with the other House upon the disagreeing the Government: to build a bridge suitable for the accommodation of votes of the two Houses. the public unless a railroad company does it. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SAWYER. I think it is equally apparent that nobody will go By unanimous consent the President pro tempore was authorized to in a wagon over a bridge 75 feet above high water when be can go by appoint the conferees on the part of the Senate, and Mr. S.A WYER, Mr. ferry. VEST, and Mr. HARRIS were appointed. l\1r. McPHERSON. Very true. People may have the option to go CONSIDERATION OF TJ!E FISHERIES TREATY. by ferry; but at the city of New York there is a bridge across the East Ur. RIDDLEBERGER. 1\ir. President, I take this opportunity to River and hundreds of thousands of persons cross it each day. At times state that to-morrow during the morning hour I shall ask the Senate of the year the ferry facilities are not adequate, and they are not at all to take up for consideration the 1·esolution before the Senate, which I times safe. In case of storms, in case of large quantities of ice floating think has the right of way in the morning hour, to suspend Rules down the river, certainly the ferry fadlities are not such as the people XXXVI, XXXVII, and XXXVIII, so that the :fisheries treaty may of that locality want. Now, as I said, if the people there can not build be considered in open session. I desire to give this notice so that there this bridge, inasmuch as the Government proposes to permit a railroad can be no more pleas of delay on the ground of absenteeism. I desire company to build a bridge and persons are willing to pay toll for the to give the notice, furthermore, so that those who are afraid to vote accommodation thE(y are to receive, at the same time not interfering against the proposition may absent themselves. with the railroad facilities at all, it seems to me Congress ought to be willing to grant that privilege n.nd to impose that responsibility on the .AMEND~ENT TO A BILL. railroad company. Mr. FARWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed JYir. BA.TE. In all probability it will be many years before there will by him to the bill (S. 163) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury be a demand for another bridge over the Mississippi River in that lo to apply the surplus money in the Treasury to the pmchase of United caJity. Memphis is a growing city, which is increasing in population, States bonds or to prepayment ofinterest on the public debt; which 1·apidJy developing in business interests, aud this is the only chance was ordered to lie on the table, and be print-ed. they will have for a number of years, in my opinion, to have a wagon PURCHASE OF BONDS. or foot-path way over the Mississippi River at that point, 1:1.nd for the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. HALE in the chair). The Senate convenience of that locality and looking io the future this amen.dment resumes the consideration of the unfinished business. should pass. A. bridge will cost millions of dol1ars, and this addition The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration can readily be made while it is being constructed, at such a small addi of the bill (H. R. 5034) to provide for the purchase of United States tional cost that it seems to me it can not be objected to. It ought to bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury, the pending question being on be done now, so as to secure for all time the advantages derived to all the motion of Mr. PALMER to recommit the bill to the Committee on classes of citizens from such a bridge. In this matter we should look Finance. to the future as well as the present. I hope the amendment will pre Mr. STEWART. I propose some instructions to the committee. I vail. move that the instructions which I send to the desk be added to the The Secretary proceeded to call the -.:>11. motion to recommit. Mr. EDMUNDS (when his name was called). I am paired with the -The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada moves to Senator from Missouri [Mr. VEST]. I understand that he would vote amend the motion made by the Senator from Michigan by adding in for the report of the committee just as it stood, if present, and there structions, which will be read. fore I withhold my vote. I should vote for the amendment if at lib The Secretary read as follows: erty. And that. the committee be instructed to report without delay a separate bill Mr. PADDOCK (when his name w~ called). I am paired with the allowing owners of either gold or silver bullion, or both, to deposit the same in Senator from Louisiana [Mr. EusTis]. Not knowing how he would any mint or assay office of the United States, and receive coin certificatf's there for at the market price of such bullion, such market price to be fixed by the vote if present, I withhold my vote. Secretary of the Treasury on the 1st and 15th day of each calendar mouth, and Mr. SABIN (when his name was c..'tlled). I am paired with the Sen when either of these days sllall fall on Sunday, or any other holiday, such ator fl:om West Virginia [Mr. KENNA]. Not knowing how he would statement shall be made on the following secular day, nnd the price so stated shall be equal to the average quotations of such bfillion in the New York City vote on this question, I refrain from voting. If he were present, I market during the fifteen days next preceding such statement: PJ·ovided, That should vote '' vea. '' the price stated by the Secretary of the Treasury for gold bullion shall not exceed The roll-call having been concluded, the result was announced-yeas 1 in such c~rtifi.cates for 25.8 grains, troy weight, of standard gold, nine-tenths fine, or $1 in like certificates for 412} grains, troy we:ght, of silver, nine·tenths 30, nays 11; as follows: fine, and that bullion below the standard value shall be reduced to the required YEAS-30. fineness at the several mints and assay offices of the United States, under regu Bate, Daniel,. Hawley, Ransoru, lations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, nt the same cost as is now Berry, Farwell, Hearst, Reagan, charged for reducing gold bullion to the standard required for coinage. Blair, Faulkner, Jonesof .Arkansas, Teller, That the coin certificates so issued sllall be of such denominations as the Sec Butler, George, McPherson, Turpie, retary of the Treasury shall prescribe: P1·ovided, That. they shall not be of less Call, Gorman, Palmer, Walthall, denomination than $1 or more than $1,000, and that one-half of the amount so Cockrell, Gray, Payne, Wilson of Iowa. issued shall be of denominations less than $50, and shall I.Je redeemable in gold Coke, Hale, Platt, or silveJ' coin nt the opt:on of the United States; that the Secretary of the Treas Cullom, Hampt{)n, Pugh, ury shall cause to be coined from time to t-ime such portion of I he bullion so de NAYS-11. posited as may be necessary to enable him to furnish coin for the redemption of such certificates; that all coin certificates so issued shall be a legal tender at Brown, Frye, 1\.fitchell, Sherman, their nominal value for all dues, public and private, except where otherwise Chace, Harris, Riddleberger, Stewart. expressly stipulated in contracts heretofore made. Dawes, Hiscock, Sawyer, ABSENT-35. Mr. EDMUNDS. I ask for a division of the question on the motion .A.JJrich, Blackburn, Cameron, Davis, to recommit and on the instructions. Allison, Blodgett, Chandler, Dolpby .Mr. SHERMAN. I trust if the Senate recommit the bill to the Com Beck, Bowen, C{)lquitt, Edmunds, mitiee. on Finn.ncc it will not send instructions with it. It is· not ex- XIX-164 2610 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 2, actly £'tir to the committee, nor is it fair to the Senate. It is very un a large amount of contraction if we authorize the President to go into usual indeed to instruct a committee in advance upon a proposition the market with this vast amount of money to buy bonds, and if we which has been introduced for the first time. The Committee on Fi pass a law which he would regard as mandatory, and justly so. On all nance are so constituted that the Senator's colleague is a member of the hands it is agreed that he may do it now; but he has very properly said committee, and he can present this question to the committee when the that the provision was in an appropria.tion act, and he was doubtful subject is there considered. •ro tie them down to a particular proposi whether that was the policy of the Government. He hesitates as to the tion would simply compel the committee to report back the proposition exercise of the power. There is no doubt about his power to do it, but and take away from them the consideration of the question. If the Sen he hesitates whether it is the policy of the Government, whether it is ate instructs the committee, as a matter of course all the committee can understood that it should be the permanent law, and he does not like do is to report back the proposition, which has never been considered to execute it; but if we pass a law like this now it" will be regarded as by the Committee on Finance. Such a course as that is unusual. It mandatory to expend the surplus in purchasing bonds. That would would be substantially reversing the whole policy and plan of the Sen produce a considerable amount of contraction, and it would enhance ate, which organizes its committees to inquire into and submit propo the value of the bonds. sitions. I say that the bill ought not to pass, in my judgment, without pro • Here is a proposition of instruction requiring the Committee on viding some way of increasing the circulation. At all events, we should Finance to report so and so. If the Senate are in favor of this propo adopt some mode to keep the circulation as it now is and ha"e it in sition, let them adopt it; the committee will not be responsible. If crease with the population. these instructions are given, the committee will report back this very 1\Iy proposition is a very simple one, and I do not think that it can proposition withoutamendment or change, because the Senate having injure anybody. It certainly will produce no violent expansion, be passed upon it, the committee, being a subordinate part of the Senate, cause it bas behind it a permanent limitation, a limitation which has would as a matter of course be bound to adopt the proposition without been used for two thousand years and which has never failed to be amendment. stringent enough-the extent of production. Such a limitation never _. • This measure is suggested as a practical plan. There is no objection produced inflation or injured any human being. The whole extent of to the passage of what is called the bond bill with the authority to the production of the two precious metals bas never injured the world purchase bonds in some form. The law now_on the statute-book is by inflation. precisely the equivalent of the proposition reported by the Committee The Government only pays the market price for the bullion. We on Finance. There will be no additional power given to the Secretary take it as it is. We take the price reduced now to 74. We take the of the Treasury by the passage of the original bill as reported. It was price that has been fixed by legislation. By demonetizing silver we thought best, rather than to allow an executive officer to be in doubt as have reduced the price, and the Government would only pay the mar to his power, to pass the bill in this form, and it was so reported from ket price for the bullion and i'5Sue its certificate therefor. Those cer the Committee on Finance, the committee unanimously agreeing that tificates would certainly be as well secured as we could deslre. You that is the substance of the present law; but to remo>e the doubt in talk about the security of national-bank notes, but it is nothing com the mind of the executive o!pcer the Committee on Finance were will pared with that. You have no security for those notes but the credit in~ to have the law re-enacted in somewhat different phraseology. of the Government. However, this is a different proposition. I trust that the Senate will You say you have the bonds of the Government deposited. Certainly act upon the question as to the extent of the power they will confer you have; but would it not be just as good security for the Government upon the Secretary of the Treasury, leaving these other questions to be to print the bonds and have the Treasury to stick them in a pigeon-hole, referred afterwards to the Committee on Finance. If the Senate has and hold them there, and save the interest, and put out greenbacks? made up its mind to deal with this financial que.stion in its length and You talk about security beyond the credit of the Government. The breadth, including the silver question and the reissue of United States national-bank notes are nothing more; but when you have silver bullion, notes, and all the difficult problems of finance which have been dis dollar for dollar, in the Treasury for the paper put out, you have then cussed in the last twenty-six years all over the country-ifitis the de something which the world has regarded as security from time imme sire that the Committee on Finance should take up these propositions morial. and submit a report upon them and a bill, that is one thing. The vote It seems to me that it is time to return to a specie basis and not in the other day indicated that such is the purpose of the Senate. Ifso, let vent any scheme of inflation or any scheme to putout any kind of money it be so; but that is no reason why we should delay action upon the bill except what is based upon bullion or coin. When we do not get enough reported by the Committee on Finance upon a totally different subject. of that we can then invent other schemes of money. I was in hopes that the Senator from Nevada and the Senator from It is said we are going to get too much of it. I do not think there Kansas would allow these different propositions to go to the Committee is any danger in that direction. The proposition is avery simple one, on Finance with instructions not to report a particular proposition, a and I should like to have an expression of the opinion of the Senate in particular formula, but to report upon the subjects-matter; and I have regard to it. I want a vote on it. I want each Senator to express no doubt the Committee on Finance would do the best it could to make himself. such a report. Whether we should be able to agree or not, we certainly I am laboring under great difficulty in talking to-day on account of should obey the disposition or vote of the Senate, and regard the vote a cold, and I will merely say that I want a vote in some form in the already taken a.s in the nature of an instruction to report some propo Senate upon this question, for I believe the Senate and the country are sition upon the subject. I have no disposition to evade it or avoid it; in favor of using silver as a basis of circulation. I believe a majority but as practical legislators, it seems to me, we ought to deal with the of the Senate is inclined that way, and I should like to have an ex question we have now before us, leaving these other questions to be pression of the Senate upon th,e subject. matured more carefully by the Committee on Finance. Mr. McPHERSON. Mr. President, the question, briefly stated, is I shall, therefore, vote against any instructions to that committee. simply this: The President bad expressed a doubt as to authority vested I shall vote against the recommittal of the bill to the committee. We in him under the act of 1881 to invest the surplus in the Treasury in have all considered the original proposition and reported it; and if any the high-premium bonds. The act of 1881, to which I allude, was amendments are made to it, let them be made here. Nothing can be passed as an amendment to an appropriation bill; and legislation in gained by recommitting the measure to the Committee on Finance. this way-of such import-bas always been held to imply some urgent My impression is that it would be the better course for the Senate to act necessity at the time, which could and would be supplemented in a upon the original bill, amending it as they see proper, leaving these more formal manner at a more convenient time. Since this act passed much more important questions to be considered by the Committee on the premium upon the bonds has largely increased, an the period of Finance under instructions or without instructions. time within which it would be possible for the Government j;o redeem M:r. STEWART. 1\fr. President, I do not wish to be understood as them at their face value very much nearer than when the act of 1881 attempting to interfere with the action of the committee. It has been was passed. No censure can attach to the President for deciding to assumed that there is nothing in the original bill but what everybody await the advice and action of Congress, before taking so important a agrees to; but under no circumstances could I vote for the original bill step, that does not with double force apply to Congress itself for not in the present stringency of the money market. In the last two years taking prompt action on this matter at the opening of the present ses we have retired of national-bank circulation $160,000,000. The passage sion. Four months of valuable time since this session began has been of the bill a,s it came from the other House would retire more, how practically wasted, the surplus during this time nearly doubled, and much more can not be stated accurately. There are $67,000,000 of 4~ not a thing done to arrest it, notwithstanding we were early advised per cent. bonds on deposit as secmity for national-bank currency. It by the President that be desired speedily the action of Congress in re- is very probable that if the United States goes into the market with spect of this subject. . $150,000,000 of money to buy bonds with and is forced to buy bonds, The House of Representatives ha>e passed a bill which has received we shall buy those bonds at a high premium. If that is the only remedy the unanimous report of the Finance Committee of this body, which which Congress suggests, the President would regard it as an instruc simply authorizes the President to invest the surplus in the Treasury tion to buy bonds; and if the United States goes into the market with in the bonds of the United States and thus place the surplus once more that amount of money to buy bonds we shall buy up that $67,000,000, in circulation among the people. The members of both political par and we may buy up a portion of the 4 percents deposited as a basis of ties in the House of Representatives m a wise and conservative spirit, national-bank circulation. without any attempt to change the financial policy of the Government, There are $115,000,000 of 4 per cent. bonds which are deposited for as is being done here, pa&;ed this bill. that currency and the withdrawal of which would inevitably produce Neither the President nor his :financial secretary are to blame for a 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD~SENATE. 2611 · congested Treasury. It was the duty of the last Congress, anticipat used in the arts, and we haye coined over thirty-two million of silver ing as it did this very condition of things, to have reduced the revenue. dollars- we have coffied more than all the rest of the world combined It.is charged, however, that the Secretary of the Treasury, without for new coinage. It is true the silver coinage of most other nations is warrant of law and against public policy, has left large sums of the pub full, and many of them are restricting rather than increasing their sil li.c moneys in the possession of the banks on pledge of Government bonds. ver coinage. The prodtlcers of silver here seem not to be satisfied with If this has been done in violation of any law, I would like to see the law; their own Government as long as it refuses to take the whole surplus if against public policy, go ask the people North, South, East, and ·silver of the world for coinage purpo»es. Westwhattheywould gainifthis vast sum were to-day tied up in the Mr. STEWART. Will the Senator permit me to state what we Treasury, instead of fructifying and assisting their industries. propose to do? We propose to relieve the country from the stringency Is this money any safer lodged in the subtreasuries without auy of the money market which is driving all enterprising people into security for its safety than are the security of the bonds pledged in the bankruptcy. We propose to allow the 1armers of the West to receive Treasury of the United States? It seems to me clearly not. Is there a higher price for their w beat and tbeu: corn, and we do not propose any danger ofloss to the Government when we are willing to pay a much to destroy but to build up industries. We propose to retnrn to the higher rate for the bonds than the pledged rate? Moreover, the present usages of the fathers, and have a sound currency. We do not propose Secretary of the Treasury would hardly be able to obtain a patent upon to nurse and foster national banks _or any banking institutions that this device for relieving the public necessities. Priority of invention are built up at the expense of the Government. There is no sense in could justly be claimed by a former administration, with this difference, the Government putting out its paper and pn.ying interest on it, and however, that large sums are said to have been left in Wall street with haYe that same paper deposited in vaults and then issue to somebody out any security whatever. else the money. We propose to stop all that, which we regard as un 'Mr. EDMUNDS. l\IayiasktheSenatorfromNewJersey aquestiqn? just. We propose to allow the money of the country to be limited. 1\fr. McPHERSON. Certainly. :Mr. McPHERSON. If the Senator will finish his speech after I get Mr. EDMUNDS. I ask the Senator whether he thinks it would be through, I shall be very much obliged to him. The Senator from Ne a safer or wiser poHcy to allow a Secretary of the Treasury to select his vada says that under my policy I propose to favor the national banks. particular pet banks to have the use of this money, to lend it out on Under the statement made by the Senator himself the national hanks interest-, or whether if he were to distribute it among the banks at all have become to-day practically useless so far ascircnlation is concerned. it should not be upon ::m even and square footing to every one? He says they have surrendered Sl60 000,000 of ci.Tculation. Under Mr. McPHERSON. If the Senator will name a single bank in the what sort of fostering proce~s have the national banks snrrendered United States of America that was willing and able to and did offer an $160,000,000 of circulation? amount of security equal to a single day's deposit where the Secretary Mr. STEWART. I will tell you. By the gold basis you have raised of the Treasury did not give that bank the same opportunity that he the bonds and made them so high that they can make more money by has given to others, then I will submit. selling the bonds at 130 than they can by using the money for any other :Mr. ED~IUNDS. Thn.tis not precisely the question. I am speaking purpose. You have raised the bonds by contraction so that yon are of the principle of the proposition, to leave it to the discretion of any almost killing yonr pets. chief financial officer of the Government, with $60,000,000 or $100,000,- Ur. McPHEP..SON. You have raised the value of the bonds by the 000 in his hands, to select at his discretion to whom he willintrust it, wise and conservative policy of this Government in maintaining the whether banks or private people, at any time of the year, whether it is public faith and the public credit. I wish to say of the gentleman a political year or any other. That ·is my question. who sits on that side of the Senate, who was once the finance minis Mr. McPHERSON. The answer to that is simply this: The Presi ter of this Government-I speak of the honorable Senator from Ohio dent of the United States conceived that it was an exercise of power [11-r. SHERltiAN]- tbat this country is indebted to him very largely that he ought not to take, to purchase the bonds in that way and re for maintaining the public credit and the public faith, until to-day the lieve the congested condition of )he Treasury. What, then, was there bonds of the Government can be sold in the public market at 2 per left for him to do? With almost a financial panic staring ns in the cent. interest. The burden of interest that was once weighing down face, with the currency needed in the affairs of the people, he proceedeii this Government and this country has been removed by a wise, con to distribute the money to any bank that would give the necessary se servative, honest, and faithful policy, and I want it continued with no curity. If you are going to l~ve any discretion with the Secretary of such innovations. as are here proposed. the Treasury at all, it must be such a discretion as will enable him to Mr. STEWART . I do not propose an innovation. I propose to lend avail himself of all the securities offered, come from whate\er source it upon bullion. I propose to adhere to the wisdom of the fathers. I they may. Tilltt is my answer. understand the Senator does not know the difference between wheat Mr. TELLER. !rir. President- and gold or silver as a money basis. I draw a distinction between Mr. McPHERSON. If the Senator will bear with me a moment un wheat and the gold and silver money that is used. til I get tb1·ough with a ~imple statement of the case, I will then try 1\Ir. McPHERSON. Will the Senator wait long enough to conHider to answer any question he may ask me. that there bas been no more fluctuation in the value of wheat during It is always dangerous to attempt to change the financial policy of a the past ten years than there has been in the value of silver? Why grea.tgovernmentwithoutsomepres ingnecessityexists forsucbcbange. not, then, wheat as well as silver? What the Treasury now requires, and all it requires by way of legisla Mr. STEWART . The Senator is mistaken. There bas been a greater tion, is the authority this bill gives to relieve it of the present surplus, fall by 8 per cent. in wheat than in silver. Silver has risen faster than and to prevent another surplus by reduction of tn.xes. wheat. We have in circulation three htmdredmillionsofstandardsilverdol 1\Ir. McPHERSON. I am equally opposed to the amendment offered lars whose intrinsic worth iS much less than the legal value decreed by by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. PLUMB]. If more currency is needed, Congress, that are kept for all the purposes of business on a par with I would much prefer an increase of the coinage of silver under the limi gold. The Government creditor can go to the Treasury and exercise tations of the act of 1878 to the amend merit of the Senator from Kansas, his own option as to the kind of money in which be shall be paid which proposes to start anew the printing press and give usa new issue gold or silver coin or their certificates, Treasury notes, or national-bank of Treasury notes, which is equivalent- to borrowing so much more notes. J nst so long as the Treasury is able to do this the in:f.i+m short money or making so much more debt, when it is not debt but money legged silver dollar will be as good as gold in all business transactions; that troubles us. but when the Treasury can no longer maintain the equality between Let me suggest to the Senator from Kansas that it would be safer, the gold and silver coin then the public-will begin to look out for them wiser, and more business-like to apply, if needed, such portion of the selves. special f~nds now lying idle in the Treasury to the object he has in I am unalterably opposed to the amendment of the Senator from Ne view rather than the mode be proposes. The business interests of the vada, which proposes in effect that we shall establish a Government country demand prompt action by Congress on this bill. It is not a pawn-shop for the relief of producers and holders of silver bullion. n political question, and any Senator who attempts to make it so assumes proposes to issue coin certificates upon the market value of silver bull a grave responsibility. ion. If upon silver bullion why not upon wheat or provisions, and The PRESIDING OF:FICER ( Ir. HAWLEY in the chair). The ques in this way help the farmer as >Veil as the silver producer? _Why not tion is on agreeing tO the amendment offered by the Senator from Ne issue a certificate upon old clothes, as they do in Chatham street, and vada [Mr. STEWART] to the motioB of the Senator from Michigan [Mr. give you a pawn certi.licate in return? You expect an increase in the PALMER], to recommit the bill to the Committee on F:inance. market value of silver bullion under this. policy? Mr. BUTLER. 1\Ir. President, of course I have no idea of entering But this is not all. You have the profits resulting from the use of the into a discussion of a question so broHd and important as that which certificates; you make them a legal tender in the paym~nt of debts, is presented by this amendment; but I desire to say that with many of :mel thus force them into circulation as money. In short, you estab the features of the amendment I very decidedly sympathize, and with lish a bounty system based upon silver bullion without any of the taxes some modifications I should be inclined to vote for it. But, as bas or restrictions you impose upon the national banks, and there is not a been suggested by the Senator from New Jersey, the exigency wb.ich national bank in existence to-day that would not hasten to surrender confronts the Treasury Department is such that I prefer to Yotc for the circulation. This amendment means the free coinage of silver, pure bill as it came from the other Honse, in order that the executive de and simple, with all that implies. pon the authority of the producers partment may have the means and the power and authority to meet of silver I fix the yield of silver for the past year at not over one hun the exigency which is claimed, and which I suppose it is not denied dred millions. Of this amount, some thirty-five millions have been by anybody, is upon the country. I therefore shall vote against the CONGRESBIONAJ_, REOORD- SENA-rrK APRIL 2, amendment in this form, as I shall vote against all amendments to the alfquestion as to the policy of extending the legal-tender notes beyond bill; and in doing that I do not wish to be understood as committing their present limit. myself against the principles involved in these amendments. Further answering the Senator from Vermont about the effect of the The pending amendment would be very far-1·eachiug in its operations proposed measure, I will state that the moment we purchase bonds on if it should become a law. As I stated a while ago, and as I said to the an extended scale (and we are obliged to purchase them in order to get mover of the amendment, my inclination is to support it, and, with clear of t.he immense surplus now in the Treasury, as well as to get some modifications and restrictions, I shall support it at the proper time, clear of the very bad condition of things which exists by deposits of upon a proper occasion, and in connection with a proper bill; but I do over $60,000,000 in national banks), the President has said in his mes not belieYe this to be one of those conditions, and therefore I shall vote sage that he regards that condition as very bad. He deprecates the against this and almost all amendments, and trust that the bill may be necessity of having to deposit the public's money with national-bank allowed to pass as it has been reported, I am informed, by the unani depositories, and allow them to loan that money out to the people to mous approval of the Committee on Finance of this body. whom it belongs at 6, 8, or 10 per cent., or whatever the laws of the With this statement, sir, I am prepared to vote on the amendment of State in which the national depository is located allow them to loan it the Senator from Nevada. at. It is only tolerated as being better than to lock it up in the Treas 1\Ir. BECK. :Mr. President, we seem to be in a tangle in regard to ury. The moment we offer to buy bonds we have necessarily to pur this measure, but I think we can all substantially agree if we can only chase bonds held now by the national banks as the basis of existing get to understand en.ch ot.her. None of us want to contract the existing circulation. currency. The amendment of the Senator from Kansas [~fr. PL1D IB] There are about $230,000,000 of H percents left, and I think about was designed, as he very properly said, for a single purpose, and that $100,000,000 of them n,re h eld by the national banks as the basi<:~ of was to prevent any contraction of the currency growingoutoftho with their circulation. I may be mistaken as to the amotmt so held. Nearly drawal of national-bank circubtion, which is inevitable as we all know, all their bonds are either 4 or 4} percents, a large portion of ·them 4i and will be more rn,pid n,s the bonds on which it; is based are purchased. percents, which we have a right to pay at par two or three years from All the 3 per cent. bonds are paid off. The sinking fund, as it now now. They are, as I said, bearing 4! percent. int~rest. Perhaps the exists, requires the annual purchase of at least $50,000,000 of four-and premium on them is 6 or 8 per cent. now. It will natural1y diminish a-half:S or fours now, and by it.<> provisions it must increase annually, as the time for payment approaches, but the 4 ~· per cent. interest-that and the bonds for the sinking fund must be bougllt at whatever pre we will save by their purchase at this time with the money we have, mium the holders see fit to demand. The contraction of the national which is now idle, and perhaps I might 8ay worse than idle, will more bank circulation has been very great for the last three years, say 5140, - than equn,lize the premium in the course ofthe two years we would have 000,000, and upwards of $102,000,000 of greenbacks were deposited iu to pay the interest which we can stop by the purchase. the Treasury two months a-go to take the place of the bonds which.had Knowing, therefore, that the contraction of the national-bank circu been withdrawn to secure the payment of national-bank notes not yet laticn must go on as we purchase the bonds now held as the basis of retnrned, the bonds which originally secured the circulation having what still remains, the proposition I now make is only to require the been paid off. Seveml propositions are pending to guard n,gainst the Secretary to do what he is now authorized to do; it simply directs the - dangers of the contraction produced by this condition of things. Secretary to supply the currency necessarily withdrawn under these con The Senator from Ohio [Mr. SHERMAN], from the Committee on Fi ditions with coin, silver coin ofthe standard value ofJuly 14, 1870, which nance, reported a bill to use the legal-tender notes thus held in the under all the decisions of the courts we have a right to use. The purchase of bonds. Suggestions have been made to extend it to the Attorney-General has so held, and the opinion of the Senator from S100,000,000 now held in the Treasury for the needless purpose, as I Vermont, I am happy to say, is as strong and as clear in that 1·egard as think, of guarding the legal-tender or greenback circulation. I assume my own or that of any other gentleman. He has more than once as that none of us desire to contract the currency by the authority we pro sert-ed that we have a right to pay all our debts, public and private, with pose to give by the pending bill to purchase bonds. None of us desire silver coin of that standard value. ...r seek to direct the Secretary of to go into a general debate in regard to all the questions of finance that the Treasury, as this contraction will necessarily go on, not to allow any would greatly delay and perhaps defeat the bill. I therefore propose to contraction of the existing volume of the currency, but to substitute offer n,t the proper time, as a substitute for the amendment of the Sen it to the extent of the contraction with coin of the standard value .Pre ator from Kansas, so as not to raise the question of unlimited silver scribed by law, by going beyond the minimum where by law he is coinage or the issuing more legal-tender notes on this measure, the fol compelled to coin $2,000,000 a month. Of course the contmction of lowing: national-bank circulation will not progress with sufficient rapidity to That whenever the circulation not in liquidation, or any portion thereof of exceed the maximum. I only propose to keep up the present circu nny national bank shall be surrendered and the same is not taken up by other lating currency by coining the standard silver dollar in lieu of notes national ba nks within thirty days thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury is upon which certificates can be issued. hereby authorized and directed to purchase at the market price thereof an equivalent amount in silver bullion in excess of the minimum of$2,000,000 worth I desire to correct my statement as to the four-and-a-halfs held by per month for coina,ge purposes, as provided in the act passed February 28, the banks now. The Senator from Missouri [Mr. CoCKRELL] tells me 1878, entitled "An act to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar and that the amount of these bonds held as the basis of circulation and to restore its legal-t-ender character." secure deposits of Government funds is $85,000,000. Of course we will Mr. STEWART. I will state that if that amendment can be sub have to buy the great bulk or all of them before long, and all I desire stituted for the amendment of the Senator from Kansas, I will with is to furnish a substitute, so that there will be no contraction of the draw my amendment to the bill and allow the bill to pass with that currency while this necessary process c f buying bonds is going on. amendment. 1\fr. EDMUNDS. It may be that the suggestion of the Senator from Ur. BECK. I am glad to hear it. It seems to me my proposition Kentucky may be exactly the happy issue out of all our afflictions; but would avoid the danger of contraction, and establish no new principle; I think a mat ter of so much importance, and that has w many different it could do no possible harm. It would insure a continuance of the aspects to it, when it comes to be applied to the business affairs of the existing currency and prevent the contraction that would otherwise country, ought to be considered by a committee. That is the only point follow by the withdrawal ofthe national-bank circulation, which will I make. I do not wish to contract the currency beyond the maximum follow the purchase of the bunds with the surplus. that can possibly be used by legitimate business. I clo not believe in Mr. EDMUNDS. Allow me to suggest to the Senator from Ken having the currency so expanded that mere speculators and c;ranks, as tucky tbn,t the di:fficnlty with all this business is-I think it is obvious you might say, ln finance can borrow the surplus money of persons, or to more Senators than myself, and I try to pay attention to it as much of banks, or of the United States, and go into speculations which are as I can-that after hearing these propositions read, not sprung on the sure to turn out disastrously, because in the end it comes back on the Senate with any improper purpose at all, it is impossible ior me to un laboring people of every country where that sort ot t hing goes on. derstand (it may "Qe for others perfectly possible) precisely what is the Therefore there is a point beyond which we ought not to go in hav scope and effect of what is proposed. Why is it not more sensible to ing currency in circulation, in order to keep business steady, and to dis send this bill (which in itself is entirely unnecessary, in my humble courage unjust and mere kiting speculations. I suppo ewe all agree judgment, a pure re-enactment of existing law) back to the committee to that. We ought not to go below, in the quantity of our currency, with these various suggestions and let that committee consider andre the just and legitimate and generous needs of the business community port precisely what, in view of all these suggestions, ought to be done? of the United States, and by that I mean the whole body of its people Mr. BECK. The only answer I can make to thn,t is, that the com who are honest and are willing to work in any kind of avocation. That mittee reported the bill as it came from the other House with some verbal is my proposition. amendments; it was entirely satisfactory to all the committee, but great Now, that being so, a proposition of this character, which on the face differences in opinion have sprung up in the Senate. The amendment of of it may look Tery plausible indeed, may need to he considered in the Senator from Kansas [Mr. PLUl\IB] was offered und inserted in the other aspects and bearings in such a way that it can not be considered bill in Committee of the \ Vhole, its sole object, as he avowed, and as I until it is matured and reported upon by a committee. That is why be~ieve, being to guard against a contraction of the currency. My we send bills to committees in the first instance, in order that the diffi proposition which I will offer as a substitute does that to the same ex culties which may be suggested may be considered and a calm and sober tent, while it guards against contraction by the use of one of the coins judgment had of the subject under consideration. of the United States which is now recognized by law as unlimited legal Both the amendment of the Senator from Nevada a.nd the suggestion t-ender and upon which certificates can be issued under the authority of the Senator from Kentucky embody very broad and in a consider given last year in the sundry civil appropriation act. We thus avoid able degree complicated propositions, the bearing of which in all their .. ' 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 2613 aspects can not be seen in a moment. llfy simple proposition is that. At the time of the passage of that aet the public debt amounted, or rather all these matters should go to the Committee on Finance, of which the on the 1st of July, 1869, to$2,588,452,213.94. And when this debt was Senator from Kentucky is a member, in order that it may have time, created, except as to the interest on bonos, it was payable in gold and briefly and diligently, to consider them and report a scheme which silver coin and in legal-tender notes. The amount of legal-tender notes will re1ieve the difficulty that is said to exist, and relieve it in a way in circulation Januaryl, 1869, was $355,892,975, and the Government, without any divisions by this aisle or any other divisions, and that we by the law under which the bonded debt was created, had the right may all calmly agree to it as being a wise and prudent thing to do. to issue other legal-tenders in payment of these bonds. It ha. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. On the motion to refer the bill to section may be reduced to the required fineness at the several mints and assay offices of the United Stutes, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the the Committee on Fina.nce the Senator from Nevada asks that the yeas Treasury, at the same cost to the depositm· as is now chru·gcd for reducing gold and nays be entered on the Journal. bullion to the standard required for coinage. . The yoas and nays were ordered. SEc. -. That the coin certificates issued under the provisions of this act shall be of sucli denominations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Pro Mr. McPHERSON. It seems to me as though an agreement might 'tidel:l, That they shall not be of less denomination than 81 or more than &,000, be reached in the Senate simply to take the bill as reported .from the and that one-half of the amount issued shall be of denominations less than $50, Committee on Finance. I hope, therefore, that no amendment wll!- be and shall be redeemable in gold or sih·er coin at the option of the United States. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be coined from time to time sueh made. portion of the bullion deposited under the provisions of this act as muy be neces 1\fr. TELLER. I inquire of the Senator what hiB side concede when sary to enable him to furnish coin for the redemption of such certifiea~s. All that is done? Do they concede anything in voting for the bill as it coin certificates issued under the provisions of this act shall be a legal tender at their nomillal value for all dues, public and private, except where otherwise ex came from the committee? pressly stipulated in contracts heretofore made. Mr. McPHERSON. I do not suppose it is necessary to concede any thing. It is a plain proposition. EXECUTIVE SESSION. Mr. TELLER. It can not be called an agreement then. We get The Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive busi.Ress. nothing. After twenty minutes spent in executive session the doors were re Mr. McPHERSON. I took it for granted the Senator from Colo~ado opened, and (at 4 o'clock and 25 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned and others were willing to vote for the bill as it came from the com until to-morrow, Tuesday, April 3, at 12 m. mittee. Mr. TELLER. I should like to inquire if the Senator will agree to NOMINATIONS. the amendment offered by the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. BECK], if Executive nornina.tious received by tlw Senate April2, 188a he will yield so much as to put that on? MINISTER. RESIDENT AND CONSUL-GENERAL. 1\!r. EDMUNDS. You have one amendment on the bill already. Mr. TELLER. That is different. We are going to put this amend Ezekiel E. Smith, of Fayetteville, N.C., to be minister resident and ment in place of the other. Will that suit the Senator from New Jersey? consul-general of the United States to Liberia, vice C. H. J. Taylor, 1\!r. McPHERSON. I will answer the Senator by saying that I think resigned. the amendment offered by the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. BECK] is UNITED STATES .ATTORNEY. far less damaging, far less dangerous than that offered by the Senator George J. Dennis, of California, to be attorney of the United Sta.tcs from Nevada [Mr. STEWART], or the on(whicb, as I understand,_ bas for the southern district of California, vice J. Marion Brooks, resigned. become a part of the bill, off<~red by the Senator from Kansas lMr. (The nomination of J. Uarion Brooks to the above-named office is I· PLmrn]. I consider the amendment of the Senator from Kentucky this day withdrawn.) better than either of the others, but I propose to stand on the report POSTMASTERS. of the Committee on Finance, and simply vote for the bill as they re Miss Julia H. Bronson, to be postmaster at Clinton, Oneida County, poded it. New York, vice Arthur W. Bronson, deceased. Mr. CALL. I should be very glad for one to have this question dis Thomas Murphy, to be postmaster at Mechanicsville, Saratoga cussed at some length. It seems to me to be entirely clear that this County, New York, ·de~ Farrington L. Mead, resigned. proposition of the Committee en Finance to invest the $150,000,000 Patrick J. Langan, t-o be postmaster at Hawley, Wayne County, Penn or perhaps $200,000.000 in a particular kind of property, in the pur sylvania, vice George Ammerman, commission expired. chase of the bonds in the public debt, may result in a very large addi Jacob W. Shrite,· to be postmaster at 1\Iount Joy, Lancaster County, tion to the amount to be paid by the tax-payers to that class of property Pennsylvania, tice William C. F. Reed, commission expired. holders. I think it very clear that there ought to be an authority in the President or Secretary of th_e Treasury to purchase these bonds. CONFIRUATIONS. Whether or not it should be declared to be the policy of the Govern Executive nominations confirmed by tlte Senate Mm·ch 21, 1888. ment to invest the whole surplus now in the Treasury and that which is to accrue, as fust as it accrues. in paying any premium that may be POSTMASTER. demanded on these bonds, is a very different question, whether or not J. E. Adams, to oo postmaster at Franklin, Venango County, Penn that policy shall be declared by Congress to the bondholders as the sylvania. established policy for the use of an the surplus money that shall be de Exectttive nomination-S' C011firmecl by the Senate Apl'il 2, 1888. rived from taxation without any provision for the benefit of the tax TERRITORIAL JUDGE. payers, and leaving to chance the distribution of this money in the channels of business, may be a question worthy of consideration. Micah C. Sanfley, of Kentuck--y, to be associate justice of the supreme I am not satisfied that there is not force in the suggestions made by court of the Territory of Wyoming. the Senator from Nevada in regard to the basis of the currency of this SURGEO~-GEl\""ERAL OF NAVY. country, whether or not the market value qf the preciolis metals may John 1\I. Browne, medical director, to be Surgeon-General and Chief, not be made availid>le as the basis of a sound currency and to what of the Bureau of 1\Ieclicine and Surgery ih the Department of the extent restrictions are necessary to be placed on the amount of circu Navy. lation. Prophesies-bold assertions of consequences to accrue-are not arguments. I should like to hear something in the nature of argument in place of mere statements of opinion and the reiteration of inconsequential facts. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. EDMUNDS. Would the Senator from Florida yield to me-to move for an executive session? It is very desirable to have an execu MONDAY, April2, 1888. tive session. The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. Mr. CALL. I yield with pleasure. I have no set speech to make. H. 1\iiLBURN, D. D. Mr. EDMUNDS. I move that the Senate proceed to the considera The Journal of Saturday s proceedings was read and approved. tion of executive busines. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Florida yield LEAVE OF .ABSENCE. fQr that purpose? By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows: Mr. CALL. Yes, sir. To 1\fr. 0 FERRALL, for two days, on account of important busine..."S. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Sena-tor from Vermont moves To Mr. RICHARD So~, foL this week, on account of sickness .and im- that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business. portant b:nsiness. The motion was agreed to. TARIFF BILL. 1\!r. STEWART. I ask that the amendment proposed by the Sena- Mr. MILLS, from the Committee on \Yays aud Means, reported a bill tor from Kentucky be printed. . (H. R. 9051) to reduce taxation and simplify the laws in relation to the 111r. EDMUNDS. And also that of the Senator from Nevada. collection of the revenue; which was Tead a first and second time, re The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That order will be made. ferred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, 1\fr. STEWART submitted the followingamenclment, intended to be and, with the accompanying report, ordered to be printed. proposed by him as additional sections; which was ordered to be printed: Mr. 1\fcKINLEY, by unanimous consent, submitted tpe views of the SEc. -. That any person may deposit at any mint or assay office of the United minority; which were ordered to be printed with the report of the com States either gold or silver bullion, or both, in quantities of not less than 5 mit~. ounces of gold or 80 ounces of silver, and demand and receive coin certiiicates therefor. The price to be paid for sueh bullion, in exchange for certificates, Mr. Mc}.llLLIN. After conference with members of the Ways and shall be stated by the Secretary of the Treasury on the 1st and 15th day of 1\Ieans Committee I am requested f"o announce :fo the House that we each calendar month, and when either .of these days shall fall on Sunday or any other holiday, such statement shall be made on the following secular day, will seek to take up for consideration the bill just rep.:>rted on two and the price so stated shall be equal to the average quotations of such bullion weeks from to-morrow-Tuesday, the 17th instaut. We ba>ethus set in the New York City m1u·ket durin;:fthe fifteen days next preceding such state the date forward for the purpose of enabling the AppropTiation Com ment: Provided, That the price stated by the Secretary of the T1·easury shall mittees to get their bills into the Senate as far as may be; and we trust not exceed Sl of such certificates for 25.8grains, troy weight, of gold, nine-tenths fine, nor H of like certificates for 412k grains, troy weight, of silver, nine-tenths that at that date the business of the House iu this respect will be so fine. Bullion below the standard fineness deposited under the provisions of this disposed of that we caQ have an unobstructed way. • I 2616 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-=-HOUSE. APRIL 2, DUTIES PAID BY THE Sl'ATE OF NEW YORK. Committee on Pa-cific Railroads. I report back three bills with the Mr. TRACEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to disch~rge recommendation that they be laid upon the table, and a substitute, the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union from the which I ask to have printed and recommitted. further consideration of the bill (H. R. 1G92) to refund duties paid by The substitute, a hill (H. R. 9052) to forfeit land:! granted to the the State of New York on arms imported in 1863. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and for other purposes, was read The SPEAKER. The bill will be read subject to objection. a first and second time, recommitted to the Committee on Pacific Rail The bill was rP.ad at length. roads, and, with the accompanying report, ordered to be printed. Mr. .HOLMAN. Let the report be also read subject to the right to The SPEAKER. There are three bills sent up. object. Mr. OUTHWAITE. I desire them to lie on the table. The report was read at length. The SPEAKER. The other bill can not be a substitute for three Ur. SPRINGER. I do not rise for the purpose of objecting to the bills. The gentleman can report an original bill in lieu of all these consideration of this bill; but if leave is given to consider it I desire to bills. be he..'l.rd for a moment. Mr. OUTHW.A.ITE. That is what I desire to do. The SPEAKER. Js there objection to the consideration of the bill? The following bills were laid on the table: Mr. JOHNSTON, of Indiana. I object, unless we can have an oppor A bill (H. R. 1302) forfeiting certain lands granted to the Southern tunity to discuss it fully. Pacific Railroad Company of California by section 18 of the act of Con gress approved January 27, 1866; BRIG TALLY HO. A bill (H. R. 1602) forfeiting certain lands granted to the Southern Mr. HAYDEN. I ask unanimous consent to take from the Private Pacific Railroad Company of California by section 18 of the act approved Calendar for present consideration the bill (H. R 6757) to reter the January 27, 1866; and claim of the owners of the brig Tally Ho to the Court of Claims. A bill (H. R. 2001) to forfeit certain lands gmnted to the Southern The bill was read. Pacific Railroad Company, and for other purposes. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration of the bill? ORDER OF BUSINESS. Mr. McMILLIN. Let the repOl't be read. The SPEAKER. This being 1\Ionday, the :first business in order is The report of the Committee on Claims was read. the call of States and Territories for t.he introduction and reference of The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration of bills and resolutions. the bill? HOUR FOR DAILY MEETING OF 1.'HE HOUSE. Mr. McMILLIN. I should like to hear some explanation. Mr. WHEELER offered the fol1owing resolution; which was read, Mr. HAYDEN. This is a very simple matter. The United States and referred to the Committee on Rules: steam-vessel of war Pinta, running off the coastofMassachnsetts, ran into .Resol-,;ed, That on and after l\ionday, April 9, the House meet at 11 a. m the sailing brig TallyHo, and sunk her. On an examination ordered by the Navy Department the court of inquiry decided the naval officers RESERVOIRS FOR IRRIGATION. were at fault; and the case was referred by the Secretary of the Navy . Mr. SYMES introduced a bill (H. R. 9053) toaidin the construction to the Court of Claims. Under the decision of the Court of Claims in of a system of reservoirs for the storage of water for irrigation; which the Abbie Pitman case it was determined that in cases of collision the was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Pub Court of Claims had no jurisdiction. Consequently the case would be lic Lands, and ordered to be printed. dismissed from the Court of Claims. The testimony has been taken on IRRIGATION. botll sides-on thepartofthe Government and on thepartoftheowners; Mr. SYMES also introduced a bill (H. R. 9054) for the development and now we ask that the ca.se may be permitted to be adjudicated in and utilization of the water resources of the arid region for the purpo e the Court of Claims, and that the testimony taken so far may be used of irrigation; which was read a first and second time, referred to the in the case, so that no more expense shall be put on the owner. Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. It is a simple case of collision, in which a United States steam man of-war ran into, a sailing vessel. ROYAL .ARCH PARK. Mr. McMILLIN. What has been the custom heretofore in cases of Ur. SYl\lES also introduced a bill (H. R. 9055) to establish a public this kind? · park to be called and known as the Royal Arch Park; which was read Mr. HAYDEN. Such cases had to come to Congress and be sent by a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, Congress to the Court of Claims. It was necessary to get permission and ordered to be printed. from Congress in order that they might be sent there. · WITHDR.AWN RAILROAD-GRANT LANDS. Mr. McMILLIN. As I understand, this is not like a case under the Mr. SYMES also introduced a bill (H. R. 9056) to protect purchasers Bowman act, where the Court of Claims makes a. return to Congress of oflamlslying in the vicinity ofDenver, Colo., heretofore withdrawn by the :findings of fact, but the case is to go to the court for judgment. the executive department of the Government as lying within the limits Mr. HAYDEN. And whyshoulditnotgoto judgment there? This of certain railroad grants and afterwards held to lie without such limits; is a case in which the Navy Department, a branch of the United States which was read a :first and second time, referred t ' 1888. CONGRESSIONAL., RECORD~HOUSE. 2617 rates imposed by common carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and and properl-y from one State, Territory, or District of Columbia. to any other Stat.e or Territ.ory or District of Columbia; and ordered to be printed. Whereas the commission created under said act has for some time past exer FEES IN COURTS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. cised the authority and functions conferred by the provisions of said act; and Whereas it does not nftirmalivcly appear that the said act has operat-ed bene Ur. CHIP.M:AN. introduced a hill (H. R, 9065) to :fix and equalize ficially in affording adequate relief to the people in the manner and through certain fees in the courts of the District of Columbia; which was read a the directions interposed by law: Therefore, Be it resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed and directed to first and second time, referred to the Committee.on the Judiciary, arid make inquiry and report to the House of Representatives whether the ~aidncth as ordered to be printed. operat-ed to prevent unjust discrimination in the matter of passenger tolls and freight rates demanded, collected. and received by such qpm.mon carriers, and CL.A.Il\-IS OF VOLUNTEER OFFICEBS. has been in all relations and provisions enforced and carried out touching its Mr. CUTCHEON introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 144) to pro intendments; anrl, if not, to further report what additional legislation, if any, is necessary to afford needed prot-ection to the people in the matter of such un vide for the adjudication of claims of volunteer officers under the acts just discrimination in the transportation of passengers and property known as of June 3, 1884, and February 3, 1887; which was read a first and "interstate commerce." second time (the first reading being in full, upon request of Mr. RELIEF TO UNION SOLDIERS, ETC., FOR AMPUTATION OF LIMBS. CUTCHEO.r ), referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered Mr. HOLMES introduced a bill (H. R. 9060) for the relief of Union to be printed. soldiers and sailors who suffered the amputation of a limb; which was UNITED STATES COURTS, MERIDIAN, :MISS. read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pen Mr. ANDERSON, of Mississippi, introduced a bill (H. R. 9066) to sions, and ordered to be printed. provide for holding terms of the United States courts at Meridian, Miss.; SECTION 1404 REVIS~D STATUTES. which was read a first and second time; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa, introduced a bill (H. R. 9061) to amend paragraph 3 of section 4414 of the Revised Statutes; which was read a. IRON BRIDGE, FORTRESS MONROE. first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and Mr. LAIRD (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 9067) for the ,con ordered to be printed. struction of an iron bridge from the military reservation at Fortress CLATI\IS OF POSTMASTERS. Monroe to Elizabeth City County, Virginia; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered Mr. TURNER, of Kansas, offered a. resolution asking the Postmaster t<> be printed. General to report upon claims of certain post-masters; which was re AMENDMENT OF REVISED STATUTES. ferred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. :Mr. McADOO introduced a bill:(H. R. 9068) to amend sections 1195, INDIAN LANDS IN SEVERALTY, ETC. 1196, 1197, 1198, 1199, and 1200 of the Revised Statutes of the District Mr. RYAN introduced a bill (H. H. 9062) to amend section 1 of an of Columbia; which· was read a first and second time, referred to the act e:~titled "An act to provide tor the allotment of lands in severalty Committee on the Distlict of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. tu Indians on the various xeservations, aud to extend the protection of PUBLIC BUILDINGS. the la s of the Un,i,ted States and the Territoriesov~r the Indians, ar:d l\Ir. MERRUfAN (by Mr. BLiss) suhmittedaresolutionauthorizing for other puryoses, approved Fehruar~ 8, l887; W~lCh was.rcad a first the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings to investigate the and second tlll?e, referred to the Committee on lud1an Affairs, and or- present condition and cost of public buildings of the United States; dered to be pnnted. _ l which was referred to the Committee on Expenditures on Public Build- PUBLIC PARK, LOUISVILLE, KY. ings. Mr. CARUTH introduced a bill (H. R. 90G3) to permit the city of PENSIONS. L respectfully request-ed and earnestly urged to use their best efforts in aid of the bill now before Congress asking for an increase in the salaries of keepers and be printed. sUt·fmen and others employed in the J..ife·Saving Service of the United States, COMPULSORY EDUCATION OF INDIAN CHILDREN. and that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to ea atives are elected after the ratification of this amendment shall hold no annual REBELLION RECORDS. session after such election, and -its term of office shall expire on the 31st day of Ur. GROSVENOR submitted the following resolution; which was the following December. read. and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs: The Senators whose existing term would otherwise expire on the 4th day of March next succeeding the day on which the term of the first Congress shall Resolt:ed, That the Committee on l\lilitary Affairs be, and it is hereby, directed, commence after the ratification of this amendment, shall co::ttinue in officr:~ until in addition to the inquiry it is now prosecuting in relation to the publication of their successors are appointed or elected. the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, to inquire and report in regard Congress shall assemble at least once in each year, and such meeting shall be. to tbe feasibility and advisability of completing the publication of these records on the first Monday in January, unless Congress shall bylaw appoint a. differen~ under the supervision and control of a joint committee of Congress. day. RECIPROCITY WITII CAN ADA. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from illinois [.Ur. 1\fr. BAKER, of New York, submitted the following resolutions; ADAMS] demands a second. The gentleman from Texas-asks unani which were referred to the Committee on Ways and 1\Ieans, and ordered mous consent that the second be conside!:ed as ordered. to be printed: Mr. BURROWS. On a proposition of so much importance us that Whereas "Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consentofthe senate and of changing the Constitution in two particulnrs I pr&e:r to take the house of commons of Canada," did by due statutory enactment assented to May 15, 1879, provide that" any or all of the following articles, that is to say, animals sense of the House, whether the House proposes to dispose of this in of all kinds, green fruit, hay, sb:a.w, bran, seeds of all kinds, vegetables, includ thirty minutes. I therefore object to the second being considered as ing potatoes and other roots; plants, trees, and shrubs, coal and coke, aalt, hops, ordered. wheat, peas and bean!!, barley, rye, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat, and all other grain; fiour of wheat and flour of rye, Indian meal and oatmeal, and flour or . The SPEAKER pro iC?nlJm·e appointed Mr. ADAl\IS and :M:r. CRAIN meal of any other grain; butter, cheese, fish (salted or smoked), lard, tallow, as tellers. meats (fresh, salted, or smoked), and lumber, may be imported into Canada ft·ee The House divided; and there were- ayes 110, noes 57. of duty, or at a less rate of duty than is provided by this act, upon proclamation of the governor in council, which may be issued whenever it appears to his sat So tha motion to .suspend the rules was seconded. isfaction that similar articles from Canada may be imported into the United The SPEAKER. Under the rules thirty minutes are allowed for de States free of duty, or at a rate of duty not exceeding that payable on the same bate, fifteen minutes in support of the proposition and fifteen minutes under such proclamation when imported into Canada;" and '\Vhereas the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in opposition to it. 'I'he Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas of America in Congress assembled did, by act approved March 3, 1883, duly pro [Ur. CRAIN] to control the time in support of the motion, and the vide that plants, trees, shrubs, and vines of all kinds, and seeds of all kinds, gentleman from illinois [1\Ir. 'ADAMS] to control the time in opposi fresh fish, fruits, green, ripe, or dried, eggs, and a large number of articles spe cifically named should be admitted into the United states free of duty; in conse tion. quence whereof it appears that large quantities of plants, trees, shrubs, vines, 1\Ir. CRA.IN. I yield two minutes to the gentleman from 1\Iassa. and seeds, eggs, aggregating in value in the year 1885 $1,&31,000; in the year chusetts [Mr. CoLLINS]. 1886, 1,728,000; in the year 1 7,$1 827,000, and great quantities of fish and other products of the Dominion of Canada have been imported into the United States lir. COLLINS. The House will remember that a few w·eeks ago a .duty free, while that government has neglected, failed, and refused to keep or constitutional amendment in another form with regard to the terms of observe Her Majesty's standing offer of reciprocity, in 1·espect of the articles the President, Vice-President, and members of Congress was under specified, or of many of them, and have, as is alleged, exacted large sums by way of duty upon many of the articles specified, which have been imported into discussion, and failed of securing the necessary two-thirds vote, partly Canada from the United States; and have, as is alleged, levied o.nd assessed nd because of the brilliant and vigorous opposition to it by the gentleman valorem duties npon American goods at the actual retail price or value at !rom Texas [Mr. CRAIN], and partly because a large number of the which such goods are sold for home consumption even when shipped, imported, and sold in large quantities at wholesale pl'ices notwithstanding and in disre members of the House did not desire to extend for some two months gard and violation of the spirit and letter of the·Canadian statutes; and their present term of office. Whereas it is claimed on the part of Canadian officials that the citizens of the I contended for the pas...~ge of that resolution with what little abil United States can avail themselves of the privileges of reciprocity under the I act first above quoted only after all the articles therei~ specified shall be ad ity had, mainly because it met partly at least the present difficulties, mitted free of duty by United States laws: Therefore, and would in all probability, having passed the Senate, receive the Resolved, That t11e Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed ratification of th~ requisite number of States during this year and thus to report as speedily as practicable to this Houae the kinds and quantities of goods and products imported into the United States from Canada free of duty affect the Fifty-first Congress. during the past five years, and also the quantities of similar goods and prod This amendment, I am bound to say, is not only in its essential feat ucts exported from the United States into Canada during the same period, to ures as good as that amendment as far as it goes, but is also much bet gether with a statement in detail, showing the amount of duties, specified and ad ;alorem paid thereon, to the end and purpose of ultimate recove1·y thereof, ter, because broader. It provides the term of the President and Vice and of an adjustment of the differences resulting from such breach of faith on President shall begin and end on the 30th of April ouce in four years. the part of the Canadian Government. . It provides that the terms of members of Congress, instead of ending on Re.solved, further, That the Committee on Ways and Means report to the House within ten days a bill providing: the 4th of Uarch, shall end on the 31st of December; and in addition First. For an ad valorem duty of 25 per cent. upon all plants, trees, shrubs, to that, that the Congress elected when this becomes a part of the or and vines of all kinds imported into the United States from lhe Dominion of ganic law of the country shall take their seats early in the January suc Canada. Second. For a specific duty of 5 cents per dozen upon eggs so iniported. ceeding the date of their election. Therefore I trust the amendment Third. For a. specific duty of 1 cent a. pound upon all fish so imported. will receive the necessary two-thirds vote of the House. Fourth. That in all cases a duty shall be imposed upon all goods and products [Here the hammer fell.] now on the free-list whenever similar goods and products are subject to duty under the laws of Canada, at a rate equal to that imposed thereunder. Mr. CRAIN. I yield two minutes to the gentleman from New York Fifth. That ad valorem duties imposed by the laws of the United States on [Mr. Cox]. goods, wares, and merchandise imported from foreign countries shall be assessed lUr. COX. I congratulate the gentleman from Texas and the gentle upon the actual retail price or value at which such goods are sold for home con sumption in the country of production or export, whenever in the country of man from Massachusetts upon their harmony in producing a measure such production or export ad valorem duties upon goods, wares, and merchan which in our last debate on this oopic it was suggested might be done dise imported into such country from the United States are assessed upon tlie by a conference between these gentlemen, who then disagreed. retail price or value at which such goods are sold for home consumption in the United States. I favor this amendment to the Constitution. My reason is simple. It. can be stated in less than my two minutes. I would have the Rep TERMS OF PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, ETC. resentative in touch with the people. The Representative is not, in fact, M::r. CRAIN. I move thattherulesbesuspendedand thattheHouse a representative, but is a mis-representative, unless~e comes fresh from pass the joint resolution (H. Res. 120) proposing amendments to the the people as the exponent of the popular sentiment and poli{!y. Owing Constitution, changing the time for the commencement and limitation to the vicissitudes of our politics and its changes, even its whims and of the terms of the President, Vice-President, and members of Con caprices, it is necessary in a republic that there should be a change made gress, and altering the date of the annual meeting of Congress. in the organic law, to be submitted, according to the constitutional pro .Mr. ADA])1S and M:r. BURROWS demanded a second. visions, to the States or to the people, so as to effectuate this representa Mr. CRAIN. I ask unanimous consent that a second be considered ti-ve nearness to the people. ·we are here the representatives of a demo as ordered. • cratic republic. It is a republic based on the will of the people as the The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. HATCH). Before that question is last resort. The people are represented in this, the popular body, and submitted the Chair directs the Clerk to report the resolution. I would forget all other considerations and ignore all other obstacles to The resolution was read, as follows: secure this great end proYided for in the amendment proposed by the Resolved, etc. (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following gentleman. articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as amendments to Mr. CRAIN. I reserve the rtlmainder of my time. the Constitution o! the United States, namely: Mr. ADAMS. I yield five minutes to the gentleman from Michigan ARTICLE-. [Ur. BURROWS]. The term of office of the President shall continue until the 30th day of April, :Mr. BURROWS. Thirt.y minutes is a very brief time to consider a in the year 1889, at noon, and the 30th day of April, at noon, shall thereafter be proposition to amend the Constitution in two important particulars. substituted for the 4th day of 111arch as the commencement and termination of the official term of the President and Vice-President. Heretofore the term of the President has commenced on the 4th of 'l'he twelfth article of the a.mendments to the Constitution of the United March, and the term of a member of Congress has commenced at the States shall be amended by striking out the words "4th day of :rtlarch," and same time. This was fixed by the Continental Congress at the begin substituting instead thereof the words" 30~h day in .April, at noon." ning of the GoYernment. It is now proposed to change this and have AnTICLE-, the Presidential term begin on the 30th day of April and the Congres The 31st day of December, at noon, is substituted for the 4th day of 11Iarch as sional term on the first Jllonday in January; so that the day fixed in the the commencement and termination of the official term of the Senators and of the members of the House of Representatives. beginning for. the inauguration of the National Government shall be The Congress:in existence.when the members of t.hefirstHouse of Represent- abandoned ~d another day substituted. 2620 CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD-HOUSE. APRIL 2, Let us consider for a moment the practical effect of this resolution if Again, 1\Ir. Speaker, and seriously, the point made that a man com it be made a part of the Constitution. ing here as aRepresentative should come fresh from the people is nota To illustrate. Let us suppose that the proposed amendment is ratified good one. A member coming to the Congress of the United States for ~y the requisite number of States during the coming summer, what the :first time, if he ha-s any due conception of the responsibilities of I will be the effect? The effect will be to make this the last session of his position, needs, for his own sake and the country's, about t hirteen the Fiftieth Congress, and no member of this body will be called upon months of good hard work preparing himself for the special. work of to attend a December session, for there will be none. The Fifty-first the place to which the people have called him, and, as a matter of fact, Congress will come in on the fust Monday in January next. This re our fathers were wiser than we shall be if we adopt this amendment sults in cutting off two months of membership in this Congress with when they arranged the matter so that before coming here and assum · the necessary loss of pay [laughter], while the Presidential term is to ing the duties of a Representative of the people a member-elect should be extended from the 4th of March until the 30th of April. The gen have time and opportunity to prepare hiruself for the new :field. tleman from New York [Mr. Cox] suggests that this is a wise provis It is one of the wisest arrangements in our system that the Repre ion, because if the party in power is repudiated at the November elec sentative is not allowed to come here and deliberate, act, and vote until tion, then the existing Congress ought not to hold another session, but he bas had time to study up those questions that he ought to be familiar the new Congress should come in as representing the recently expressed with, including the rules of orde1· of this House, which it will take ten sentiment of the people. times thirteen months for any ordinary man to understand. [Laughter.] But the joint resolution at the same time provides that the Presi Ur. CRAIN. I yield two minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana dential term shall be extended, although the people may have repudi [Mr. BLANCHARD). ated the President as well as Congress at the same election. The Rep Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker, the proposition embodied in the resentatives of the people are to meet in session immediately at the constitutional amendment now under discu...c:sion, establishing the time· beginning of the new year, but the Presidential term is to be extended when the terms of Congress shall begin and end and when Congr~s until the 30th day of April and the repudiated President remain in shall meet, is by no means new. power. And this, forsooth, because the :first President happened to In one form or another it has been advanced many times since the lJe inaugurated on the 30th day of April, 1789, although all the other adoption of our Constitution, and has been the subject of much formal Presidents during a century have been inaugurated on the 4th day of and informal discussion in and out of Congress, by legislators, by the March. It was a mere accident that Washington was inaugurated on press, and by students of our institutions of government. the 30th of April, and I submit that we ought not to amend our Con During the second session of the Forty-seventh Congress, several stitution to make it conform to what wn.s an accident in the beginning years before my friend from Texas [Mr. CRAIN] was first elected to and thus obliterate that historic day, the 4th of March, when the Congress, I myself introduced a bil\ relating thereto, known a-s H. R. machinery of ou~ National Government went into operation. 7376, Forty-seventh Congr~s, second session, and entitled ''A bill estab Another objection tothisproposedamendment is that it gives us two lishing the time when the terms of Congress shall begin and end and long se..'>Sions of Congress instead of one short and one long one. For when Congress shall meet." This bill was referred to the Committee instance, if the Constitution should be amended in conformity with on the Judiciary. this resolution before the next November election, then the Fifty-first No action having been taken on it by that Congress, I reintroduced Congress Will meet on the 1st of January, 1889, and the session will run the bill, with the necessary changes as to dates, in the Forty-eighth necessarily until July ·or August. Then the second session will begin Congress (H. R. 679). The Committee on the Judiciary, to which it on the :first 1'1Ionday in the succeeding January, and that also will be was referred, appointed a subcommittee on the bill, composed of Messrs. along session. Thus two long sessions will be held, which will be pro Hammond, SENEY, and REED, but no definite action was had. I re longed into the summer months, to the discomfort of every one. I sub introduced it again, with the necessary change of dates, in the Forty mit, Mr. Speaker, that the reasons assigned for this proposed amend ninth Congress (H. R. 952), but that Congress, too, failed to take ac ment ought not to prevail with the House. I can see no advantage to tion. be derived from it. Some have suggested as a reason for the change · I, thereupon, introduced it in the present Congress (H. R.1478), again that the 4th of March is an inclement season "for the inauguration of a altering the dates to suit the later time. President. I have yet to learn of a single President who has declined The bill as introduced in this Co11;gress is as follows: to be inaugurated on that day on account of the weather. [Laughter. J Be it enacred, etc., That the time for h.olding elections for Representa.ti ves and With equal propriety you might a-s well propose to change the celebra Delegates to Congress shall remain as now fixed in section 25 of the Revised tion of the 4th of July to some day in October because it would be n. Statutes of the United States; but so much of said section 25 of said Re·visecl Statutes as indicates when the Congress is to commence is hereby repealed. more comfortable season. SEC. 2. That the first regular meeting or session of the Fifty-first Congress shall Mr. CRAIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield two millutes to the gentleman commence on the 5th day of March, 1889, instead of on the first Monday in De from Illinois (Mr. SPRINGER]. cember, 1889,-and no regular session of said Congress shall begin on said first Monday in December, 1891. Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker, if this amendment is ratified it can SEc. 3. That the second regular meeting or session of the Fifty-first Congress not take effect to change the terms of the members of the Fiftieth Con shall commence on the second Monday in J11nuary, 1890; and the term of said gress. It can only relate, even if promptly ratified, to the Congress to F ifty-first Congress shall end at 12 o'clock meridian on the 1st day of December, 18!10. be elected next November. SEc. 4. That the term of the Fifty·second Congress shall begin at 12 o'clock A MEMBER. )Vhy do you not put that in the joint resolution then? meridian on the fhst day in December, 1890, and end at 12 o'clock meridian on Mr. SPRINGER. I say that in the very nature of things it can not the first day in December, 1892; and thereafter, nntilotherwise directed bylaw, the term of each succeeding Congress shall begin at 12 o'clock meridian on the be ratified until aft.er the time of this Congre38 shall have expired. I fhst day in December after each election for Representatives and Delegates in have in my hands a list of the dates of the meetings of the Legislatures Congress, and end at the same hour on the first day of the second December of the several States, from which it appears that it is impossible for after the beginning of the term aforesaid. SEc. 5. That the first regular meeting or session of the Fifty-second Copgre!.'s this amendment to be ratified during the sessions which will be held shall commence a't 12 o'clock meridian on the first Monday in December, 1 90, in the beginning of the year 1889. It could be ratified only in t he and the Eecond at the same hour on the first Monday in December, 189t; nnd very improbable contingflncy Qf the governors of three-fourths of the thereafter, until otherwise directed by law, the regular meeting or session of Cong~.·e s shall commence at 12 o'clock meridian on the first Monday in euch De- States calling extra sessions of the State Legislatures for that purpose. cember. / So that, in the natural course of events in this country, this amend SEc. 6. That all laws und parts of laws inconsistent h erewith are hereby re ment, even if acceptable to three-fourths of the States, will apply only pealed. to the members of Congress who are elected in November next, and to It will be seen that this bill covers the ideas embodied in the consti the President who is elected at that time. tutional amendment now under consideration (except as to the change As a matter of comfort and convenience members will certainly agree, of date for the inauguration of Pr~ident), lJesides being much fuller I think, that the weather on and about the 4th of March is_apt to be in the elaboration of those ideas and in the provision of detail neces- very inclement. Certainly it would have been extremely inconvenient sary to carry them into effect. ' and disagreeable to have had an inauguration on that day this yea,r. Whether it requires a constitutional amendment to give efficacy io [Here the hammer fell.] the same is a mooted question. Lawyers, even on the Judicia~y Com Mr. ADAMS. I yield three minutes to the gentleman from Mich mittee of this House, differ as to that. The only doubt is as to the igan [Mr. ALI,EN]. abridgment by statute of the term of a Congress. That a day different Mr. ALLEN, of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, this seems to be largely a from '' the :first :Monday in December ' ' for the meeting of Congress question of weather. I know of no one except the newspapers and peo may be appointed by law is not denied by any one. The authority is ple of this District who are asking for this change, and it is put ex expressly given in the Constitution. pressly upon the ground of having better weather for inauguration. And on the proposition of the abridgment by law of the term of a Now, as a matter ofsafety, the 4th of March is better than the 30th of Cong1·ess, without going into a legal or constitutional argument to sus April, because in this climate, where the weather changes twenty-four tain the same, or even insisting that it is sustainable, I will merely re times in each twenty-four hours, people coming here for the inaugura mark that the Constitution nowhere says directly that the term of Con tion on the 4th of March wiJl come prepared for anything, but if it is gress shall be for two years. It merely declares, on that poin~, that put off until the 30th of April they will coma wearing their thin cloth the "House of Representatives shall be composed of mem hers chosen ing, ancl, as a result, two-thirds of them will probably die from expos every second yea.r by the people of the several States;" and it appears ure. [Laughter.] Hence, from that standpoint, I do )lOt think it is obviously true that the term of a Congress may be shortened and yet safe to change the Constitution of the United States. fulfill the constitutional requirement of election in the "second year." .· 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2621: But., ·Mr. Speaker, whether the object we have in milld, the end we as Washington and Adams were, the electoral votes would have ·been have in view, in respect to this matter, may be better attained by con counted on the 4th day of March, and the President and Vice-President stitutional amendment or by statute, is not what I rose to discuss. would have been inaugurated soon afterwards. My purpose was and is to add a few observations on the merits of the But when the 4th of March arrived there was not a quorum present proposition. I heartily favor it. It should have been adopted long in either House of Congress. The House waited for a quorum till April ago. It does away with an anomaly which exists in our institutions. 1, the Senate till April 6. Then the votes were counted, and special It is the boast of Englishmen that their political system brings the gov messengers were dispatched to inform Washington in Virginia and ernment nearer to the people than ours. And there is, sir, some basis Adams in Massachusetts of their election as President and Vice-Presi for the claim. With them Parliament meets very soon after the elec dent. They started Immediately for New York, then the seat of gov tion of its members, and if the ministry, which represents the execu ernment. We are told that 'Vashington was anxious to arrive as soon tive power, is not supported by Parliament, it resigns, or appeals to the as possible in OTder that the new government might be set in operation country by a dissolution and new election. with the least possible delay. He was delayed by the throngs of people It is obvious that in this way the popular will is executed with but who wished to do him homage by the way. He did not arrive till April little delay. But with us the anomaly, and, from the representative 26. Adams had been sworn in as Vice-President some days before. point of view, the absurdity, is often presented of Representatives or a Whatever historical interest may attach to the exceptional and acci political party beaten at the polls assembling to make laws for the coun dental date of Washington's inauguratien, it does not justify Congress try. ''And," says a writer on this subject, "as the House of Representa in proposing to the Legislatures of the several States to change the Con tives is elected in November and does not generally meet until a year stitution in the manner proposed in this resolutions. If Washington from the following December, it may happen that a House may be dis were here in person to advise us, we know enough of his character to CTedited before it has entered upon its duties by the result of the State know what advice he would give us. He would doubtless say that the elections in the autumn following its own election." Thus it often oc interval between the election of a President and his inauguration into curs that what is accepted as true under our form of Government is office is long enough now and ought not to be extended fora merely senti actually false, namely, that the members of the lower House of Con mental reason. The President and the new Congress are elected on the gress are the immediate representatives of the people. Instead of be same day; for the choice by the electoral college has come to be a mere ing "the popular branch," as it is wont to be termed, of the National ceremony. They should go into office on the same day. Both Houses Legislative Assembly it sometimes happens that it is "unpopular" in of Congress should be in session on the 4th day of March. The Presi .the sense that it represents the minority sentiment of the people as as dent should deliver his inaugural address in the presence of the two certained by the result of State elections subsequent to its own. Houses. His address should be immediately referred to the proper com This peculianty of our system is a great inconvenience, if not illjury, mittees of each House for appropriate action. All parts of the new gov to the public service. It is in the way of a prompt response of legisla ernmental machinery should be put in motion at the same time. tion to the changes of public sentiment. It is inconsistent with ''the Such a ceremonial, simple and practical as it would be, though it rule of the people'' in the sense as embodied in the proud boast, so dear might be less attractive to the sight-seers of Washington than the to all Americans, that ours is· a government ''of the people, for the peo outdoor pageants of to-day, would be far more impressive to the right ple, and by the people," for the long delay now imposed between the thinking people of the United States. election of a Congress and its induction into office tends to defeat the But, Mr. Speaker, I desire to speak mainly of the second part of the will of the majority. The zeal of members for issues which carried them pending proposition, which fixes January 1 instead of March 4 as the into power is likely to abate somewhat in thirteen months, and this lapse beginning of the terms of Senators and Members of Congress. That gives the interested OJ!POnents of proposed reforms ample time to pre at least is its evident pur_pose. I think I can see some ambiguity in pare for effective work. Experience has shown that there is nothing that part of the proposition which relates to existing terms of Senators. gained and much risked by_the long delay bttween the election of a Rep It provides that certain existing terms of Senators shall be extended resentative ancl the beginning of his duties. till the election or appointment of their successors. According to this Besides, Mr. Speaker, our present time for the meeting of Congress provision, taken by itself, the term of the successor would begin on the leaves the country without an organized Congress-so far as relates to day of his election. It would run for six years from that day. Sen the House ofRepresentatives- for nine months at a time every two years, ators are not alwnys elected on the same day of the year, and never, making an aggregate of three-eighths of the time. The Speaker of the except by accident, on the 1st day of ,Tanuary, the day on which, ac House of Representatives is a personage ill the line of Presidential suc cording to another provision of the pending proposition, all Senatorial cession. It is not prudent to have this office vacated for nine months terms are to begin. There is, I thillk, a defect in the wording of the of every alternate year. proposition which will require change. It may be said that the Ian- - Again, sir, another sound reason for the proposed change is that it guage can be amended in the Senate or in a conference committee, and would enable each Congress to have two long sessions, instead of one so it can. But I think it unworthy of this House to send to the Sen long and one short session, as now. Our country has become so great, ate a proposition for an amendment to the Constitution unless it ex its people so numerous, its affairs so multitudinous, its concerns so presses the deliberate judgment of this House as clearly as this House varied, its interests so diversified, and these all the time increasing, that is capable of expressing it. the time is not far distant when Congress must needs sit seven or eight But, Mr. Speaker, I can not dwell on a mere question of expression. months every year in order to the proper and seemly transaction of the I will say, however, that we ought to refuse to suspend the rules and legislative business of the country. pass the resolution to-day, in order that it may come up again at a The measure under consideration addresses itself to the common sense time when questions relating to the form as well as to the substance of the people, and will, I have no doubt, receive their cordial approval of the proposed amendment to the Constitution can be deliberately con and indorsement. sidered. To defeat the motion to suspend the rules and pass the reso Mr. ADAMS. The:pendingresolutionforanamendmentto the Con lution does not finally defeat the main proposition. It only postpones stitution contains two distinct articles. The first postpones the begin it till it can be duly considered and amended if need be. ning of the Presidential term from 1\Iarch 4 to April 30. The second Now I desire to speak to the main proposition, to amend the Consti article relates to the Congressional term. It changes the date of the tution so as to provide that the Senatorial and Congressional term shall beginning of the term from March 4 to January 1, and provides that begin on the 1st day of January instead of the 4th day of 1\iarch, and there shall be a meeting of Gongress on the first day of the term. to state my objections to the proposed change. I will not notice, ex .A.ts to the first article, relating to the beginning of the Presidential cept in passing, the obvious inconsistency, alread_y alluded to by the term, I shall have little to say. When this proposition came before gentleman from Michigan [Mr. BURRows], between the first and the the House a few weeks ago, coupled as it then was with a proposition second article, both of which we are now asked to submit to the State to extend the Congressional term to the same date of the 30th of April, Legislatures by one and the same vote. It does seem to me surprising it had an esthetic and a sentimental side as well as a practical side. that when President and Congressmen are now elected at the same It postponed inauguration day till a pleasanter season of the year; that time and come into office on the same day, four months thereafter, we was esthetiC'..s. It postponed inauguration day to the day on which should be asked by one and the same vote to extend this interval in Washington happened to be inaugurated; that was the sentimental the case of the President and reduce it in the case of the Congressmen. side of the proposition. It also added about two months to the short ses It occurs to me that the same reasoning applies to hoth cases and that sion of Congress; that was its practical side. As the proposition comes the arguments which are adduced in fuvor of the second proposition before us to-day it has lost the practical feature which it hlld before, and are valid arguments against the first. But I have not time to dwell with it has lost, in my judgment, all claim to favorable consideration. on that. Thereisperhapssomeslight historicalinterestattached to the date of the I am opposed to amending the Constitution ill order to change the 30th of A.pril by reason of the fact that Washillgtonhappened to be inau beginning of the Congressional term from :March 4 to January 1 for two gurated on that day. Washington did not choose the day, however. reasons: · Doubtless he would have chosen an earlier date, for he was a prompt First, all, or nearly all, of the advantages which could result from and orderl;r. man of affairs, and he ought to have been and was ready adopting this amendment to the Constitution can be secured by an act to be inaugurated long before the 30th of April. Nor was the 30th of of Congress without amending the Constitution at all. April selected by the deliberate judgment of Congress as the proper day Secondly, the proposed change is fraught with inconvenience, and, for inaugurating the President. If the Senators and Members of the as I think, with danger in its bearing on the count of the elector:U votes .First C',ongress had been as diligent in the performance of ~:mblic duty for President and Vice-President. 2622 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. APRIL 2, What are the existing evil~ which it is sought to cure by the proposed amending the Constitution. The Constitution provides that the annual amendment of the Constitution? meeting of Congress shall be on the fir t Monday in December, unle s First, there is the interval of thirteen months alluded to by the gentle they ~hall by law appoint a different day. If we appoint by law the man from New York [:Mr. Cox] between the election of a member of 4th day of March as the day for the annual meeting of Congress, the Congress and the day on which he actually enters on his legislative December session as we now know it would cease to exist. In that duties. We can cure this evil by au act of Congress. case Congress, adjourning sine die in July, at the end of the long session, Secondly, some gentlemen think it an evil that members of Congress would not come together at all after the fall elections, except once in are allowed to legislate after their successors are elected. I do not four years, when, by force of section 142 of the llevised Statutes, it think it a serious evil; but.if it is, we can cure this, too, by an act of Con would be in session on the second Wednesday in Februaty for the pur gr ~ , without amending the Constitution. pose of counting the electoral votes for President and Vice-President. . Thirdly, some gentlemen think it an evil that the count of the elect Congress would thus have two legislative sessions in each term: oral votes for President and Vice-President is intrusted to a Congress First, the short session at the beginning of the term and lasting as long elected two years before instead of intrusting it to the newly-elected as Congress chose to sit, and, secondly, the se.cond session, beginning in Congress. I admit that we can not change this without changing the October, November, December, or January, as t'ach Congre~ mjghtpre Constitution; but far from regarding it as desirable, I believe that fer, and terminating whenever the two Houses chose to adjourn sine there would be serious danger i.Q leaving the duty of counting the elect die. Thus all of the substantial advantages promised by the proposed oral votes to a Congress elected at the same time with the electors constitutionn,l amendm.ent could be secured by au act of Congress with where votes are to be counted. out amending the Constitution at all. First, I &'\y we can by an act of Congress reduce the long interval Now, Mr. Speaker, I come to the last and most serious objection to between the election of members of Congress and the beginning of the proposed amendment of the Constitution. If that amendment were their legislative duties. We can provide that Congress shall meet on adopted, the electoral votes for President and Vice-President would be the first day of its term; that is, on the 4th day of March. Congress counted by a newly-elected House before the contested-election ca es thus assembled on the first day of its term could either sit for a few pending in it could possibly be decided. The average date of the gen days to complete its organization, or it could proceed at once to its eral election of members of the House is the 5th of November. The regular legislative work. State canvassing.boards can hardly i ue the certificates of election be If CongreSS' sat only for a day or two, just long enough to elect its fore the 25th day of the month. The existing lawallows a contestant Speaker and other officers, and then adjourned to the regular Decem thirty days from the issue of the certificate to serve on the contestee. ber session, a great advantage would have been gained. The Speaker the notice of contest, specifying the grounds on which the conte t is could during the recess choose the st..'l.nding committees of the House made. The contestee has thirty days from the receipt of this notice and announce them on the first day of the December session. This to prepare his answer and serve it on the contestant. From the day on would save three or four weeks now wasted at the beginning of the which the answer of the contestee is served on the contestant the par long session. ties have ninety days in which to take testimony, of which the first If Congress were to sit for a few weeks after the 4th day of March, forty days belong to the contestant, the second forty days to the con till the standing committees could be announced, and bills could be testee in reply, and the remaining ten days to the contestant in rebut introduced and referred, a still further advantage would be gained. tal. Each member, knowing beforehand what committee work he would be Now, consider what chance a contestant would have of getting his caJled on to perform at the long session, could prepare himself for that case decided bP.fore the two Houses proceeded to the count of the elect work during the recess. The House would go to work as a fully or oral votes. He learns on the 2._;th of November that the certificate has ganized body on the .fust day of the December session, and could accom been issued 1o his competitor. He has till the 25th of December to plish mo~e by the 1st day of May than it now accomplishes by the 1st serve the notice of contest. Suppose by great diligence he is able to day of July. Congress could do more than this at the spring session. serve it on the 15th of the month. Now the contestee has till the 15th I t could pass bills which had failed at the preceding Congress for lack day of January to serve his answer. He is not likely to waive this of time. Instead of adjourning till December it could ic't]{e a recess till right. He lias no motive to do so, and hi party may have, a I will October if the exigencies of public business required. It could then show, a ~:;trong motive to fcrbid him to waive it. The time for taking sit from October tillUay or from October till July if it chose, and could, testimony would therefore e},1?ire on the 15th of April. by means of a short preliminary session at the beginning of its term, Now, even if the beginning of the Presidential term were postponed accomplish far more work with less inconvenience than can possibly be till the 30th of April and the beginning of the electoral count were accomplished under the present system. postponed to a later date than the second Wednesday of February, even it llut, .Mr. Speaker, in order to compare the ses ions of Congress as the Comm 'ttee on Elections were promptly to act upon the case and re they could be rearranged by an act of Congress without an amendment port it to the House and the House were with equal promptness to con of the Constitution with the sessions as_they would be reauanged un sider and decide it, what probability is there that it could be decided der the proposed amendment, I will consider the first session, begin in time to allow the contestant, if successful, to take part in the count ning on the first day of the term, as a regular session, lasting till July ing of the electoral votes? IIi would be practically impossible. The at least, in which the annual appropriation bills could be passed and result would be that the electoral votes would be counted by tho e the work of general legislation entered upon. What would be the who have received certificates of election whether in fact duly elected or difference between the two plans? What advantage would the plan not. which required an amendment of the Constitution have over the other What difference would that make, it may be asked. I answer that plan? It would simply be a diffe1·ence of two months. In the one if the Presidential election has gone with a great majority one way or case the session would begin January 1, in the other it would begin the other it would make no difference whatever. But if the Presi March 4; that is all. Surely it is not worth while to amend the dential election is close or doubtful, and especially if there is a likeli Constitution to secure an advantage so slight as that. It will be ob hood that the election of the President would devolve upon the House, served that in making this comparison I leave out of view altogether the etrect upon the confidence of the public in the integrity of the elec the session at the end of the Congressional term, which we now know tion returns would be serious. When the Presidential election is dose as the short session. the fact is known all over the country within twenty-four hours after I do this because one of the objects of the propo ed constitutional thepollsareclosed. Itisknownlong before anyStatec..'lnvas ingboard amendment is said to be to abolish that short session, held after the can issue certificates of election to members of the House. It is 1.~own election for the succeeding House has been held. I see no necessity for even before the local canvassing boards'in the several districts can can abolishing the short session. The notion that a House of Representa vass the votes. Long before the certific..1.tesare jssued to members of the tives can not be trusted to legislate for the country after the succeed House by the State canvassing boards it may be known that the succe ing House has been elected is a fanciful one. The new House is largely of one party or the other in securing the certificates of election in a few composed of the same members as the last. l\lembers of Congress rarely Congressional districts will have ~important bearing on the counting fail of re-election because of neglect or incapacity. .Some retire volun of the electoral votes. tarily. Some are retired for lack of personal popularity or because of The State canvassing boards are in most of the States political in the greater populf\rity of some one else. In the vast majority of cases character. They will be strongly tempted to give certificates to mem members are as useful, as diligent, as trustworthy in their last session bers of their own party, even though they may be sure that their ac as in their first. The snme rule would apply to executive officers as to tion is likely to be reversed after the electoral count has been made. members of a legislative body. Did Grant cease to be trustworthy They know that it can not be reversed before that time. The Presi from the day that Hayes was nominated? Did Arthill' cease to be dency with all its patronage may hang upon the result of their decis trustworthy on the day when his hopes of a nomination failed? If ion. The temptations would be almost irresistible. A man will do the present Executive were to-day or to-morrow to come across his let that for his party which he would not do for himself. The temptation. ter of acceptance written four years ago, and were to decide that he will bere·entorcedbythemostplausibleexcuses. lie may be told that could not consistently with that letter become a candidate again, would the opposing party in other districts is straining the law and overriding it follow that he would not hereafter execute to the best of his ability facts to its own advantage. There are many who at such times are ready the duties of his office for the remainder of his term? [Laughter.] to insist on fighting the devil with fire. He will be told that even if Butfafter all, if it is really nece sary to abolish the short legislative he acts with scrupulous impartiality be will not get the credit of so session at the end of the term, we can do it by actofCongresswithout doing. The result will be general suspicion thron~hout the country. 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2623 . Charges of gros3 fraud will find ready credence. C.mtests would e 1\Ir. BLAl-ID. I hope it· will not be taken out of the gentleman's made in almost e1ery close Congressional district throughout the coun time. try. The country would stand face to face with a serious danger. It Mr. CRAIN. Verv well. may be said that the contingency to which I allude is a remote one. I 1\Ir. BLAND. It IS a serious objection, in my mind, to the adoption admit it. It is to guard againstj ust such remote contingencies that we of this amendment. passed a bill in the last Congress. We can not afford to increase in the 1\fr. CRAIN. If the gentleman has unanimous consent to ask the slightestdegreethedangers-which arein>olvedin itwhen itdoes occur. question, not to come out of my time, I do not object;. It may be said that canvassing boards are subject to the same tempta Mr. BLAND. The objection I wish the gentleman to answer is this: tions now, and that the danger -would be only slightly greater if the He assumes Congress, by "the consent of the State Legislatures, can ex electoral count were intrusted to a newly-elected House. It would be tend the term of the President for one month. If they can extend it vastly greater. A few weeks ago this House decided a contested-elec for one month, why not for one year or for two years? If they have tion case from the State of Indiana. If the Democratic majority o! that power where is the limitation to it? Thus, if we confer the power, this House had chosen to seat the contestant in that case, it would ha>e they would have the right to elect a President. destroyed the preponderance of the Republican party in the election of Mr. CRAIN. I answer that proposition- yes. the President by the House if it devolved upon the House a,fter the Mr. BLAND. Then you can not deny there'is no limit t.o the power .next election. Republican papers were .free to charge that the Demo when it is once assumed to exist? cratic majority would act upon this motive. l\1r. CRAIN. I say, through a constitutional amendment, the Con Having this in mind, the gentleman from New York [Mr. CoCKRAN], gress of the United States, with the ratification of the necessary num ~ speaking for the contestee, declared that although he would not believe ber of States, can make a President of the United States for life if they that any member ~f the majority would be influenced by such consid choose to do so, or establish a King in this country. eration, yet if there were any such be begged him to remember that :M:r. MORGAN. Will the gentleman permit me? although the Democratic party might thus gain an advantage in a con Mr. CRAIN. Yes; if' by unanimous consent it does not come out of tingency as yet remote, yet, if in order to gain that remote and prob n;1y time. lematical advantage, the Democratic party o.ffen"ded the sense of jus 1\.Ir. MORGAN. Have the people conferrecl any such power upon tice in the American people it would lose more than it would _gain. Congress? The November election would intervene. Any violation of justice Mr. CRAIN. Yes, sir; the Constitution itself provides for the man~ and fair dealing by aby political party would be punished at the polls. ner of amendment of that instrument. It provides if two-thirds of His argument was a logical one. both Houses of Congress shall adopt an amendment to the Constitution, ·But, 1\Ir. Speaker, what force would the argument have bad if at the and that amendment shall be ratified by three-fourths of the States of Q.me the No>ember election did not internne? "\That force would it the Union, then it shall be incorporated into and become a part of the have had bad the eloquent gentleman from New York been adrlressing organic law of the land, and Congress, acting in its representative ca· a House wl1icb in a· few weeks would proceed to count the electoral pacityon any proposition affecting the Government, by the ratification votes in a Presidential contest which bad already occurred? It would of three-fourths of the States, can make it a part of the organic law of ha1e bad no f0rce a ·~ all. It is not wise to subject any political party the land. That is my answer to the gentleman. wbate>er to the temptation which the adoption of this constitutional :M:r. BUCHANAN. Will the gentleman allow me to ask him a ques amendment would create. · tion? I hope the resolution to suspend the rules will not be adopted. I Mr. CRAIN. Yes; if I get consent that it will not be taken out of hope the Constitution will never be amended merely to avoid an in my time. con-.;-enience. I hope the remedy for existing evils by a change of the l\Ir. BUCHANAN. It will not be taken out of the gentleman's _Constitution will not be resorted to till the remedy by act of Congress time. has been trietl and bas failed. 1\ir. CRAIN. What is it? I hope this House will never agree to add in the slightest degree to 1\fr. BUCHANAN. Suppose this is ratified by the requisite num the danger of a disputed Presidential election. ber oi States by the 1st day of December in 1889, would not a membe :r 1\Ir. CRAIN. I ~:>hall endeavor in the brief time left me to answer elected in November next go out of office on the 30th of December, the objection raised by the gentleman from Illinois [:M.r. AD.A..Ms] be 1889? fore proceeding to discuss the questions raised by the gentleman from 1\Ir. CRAIN. Yes, 1890. 1\ficbigan [Mr. BunRon-s]. The objection which the gentleman from Mr. BUCHANAN. No, 1889. illinois presents, that if this amendment should be adopted there would 1\Ir. CRAIN. In answering that I answer the objection raised by be danger of fraud in the giving of certifi.ca.tes of election to members the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Bumwws]- thatis, by the proposed of Congress, because the members receiving those certificates would amendment we extend the term of President Cleveland. If this were participate in the count of the electoral vote, is not, in my judgment, a political amendment I would say to t,be gentleman that the people a sound objection. intend to do that whether we pass this amendment or not. [Laughter Up to the time Congress passed the general act in 1872 declaring and applause.] But it is nota political question, and I do not propose that the election of members of the House of Representatives should to discuss it from a political standpoint. take place all o>er the country on the same day, every State in the 1\Ir. BURROWS. Allow me a moment. Union elected its Representatives whenever it deemed proper to do so. The SPEAKER. The House will come to order. As a consequence during some sessions of Congress, I mean extra ses Mr. CRAIN. I will say in answer to the gentleman from New Jer- sions, there were States unrepresented because under.tbe existing State sey [1\Ir. BUCHA.N.A.N] that this amendment does extend the term of election laws no election was held in time to secure any representation the President of the United States who is now the Chief Executive, of said States in the House of Representatives. but it does not apply to any Executive in the future; an would deprive the members of that Congress of about two months' we come to vote on these pro,positio1ls we must surely call for a divis time. But it can not, I repeat, in the very nature of things, happen ion of the question and votefupon the first article proposed to the Con- · that a sufficient number of the State Legislatures will meet in time to stitution and separately upon the second. 1 ratify the amendment so as to affect the present Congress, unless, as I The SPEAKER. No. The Chair thinks that if the rule to which have already said, the very improbable event should happen that the the gentleman refers, of dividing this question, applied to this case, : governors of the States would call the Legislatures of the States in ex then all of the other rules would apply as well, and it would be sub· tra session for that purpose. A sufficient number, however, will meet ject to amendment, subject to motions to lie on the table, subject to in time to ratify the amendment which relates to the 6xtension of the mo~ions to postpone, or a motion to commit, as well as all ot4er par time of the present incumbent of the executive chair, and which also liamentary motions which prevailrn the ordinary course of legislation. fixes the beginning and the termination of the term of all his success But the motion to suspend the rules and pass the proposition is an en ors and of the Vice-Presidents. tire question in itself. The gentleman on the other side, from the State of Minnesota, I be Mr. HOOKER. J.Iy inquiry is addressed to the fact, when we come lieve, said that this idea ofRepresentatiYes coming fresh from the peo to vote on the articles as amendments to the Constitution, whether or ple is all nonsense. I desire to suggest to the gentleman that if he not the question is not properly divisible? means that some of us come rather ''fresh'' from the people I would agree The SPEAKER. It is not. The single proposition is the pending with him [laughter]; but what I mean is that the people, to use an motion to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution, which embodies English phrase, should be ''in touch'' with their Representatives, and both of the features to which the gentleman alludes. instead of a man being elected thirteen months before be comes here The yeas and nays were ordered. and takes his seat, be should be here within sixty days after his elec The question was taken; and there were-yeas 80, nays 154, not tion and legislate upon the questions which were vital issues before the voting 90; as folLows: people when be was elected and on which his election was based. • YEAs-SO. Mr. PETERS. Will the gentleman allow me to ask him a question? Abbott, Cummings, 1\Iaish, Rowland, Allen,l\Iiss. Dalzell, Martin, Russell, Mass. Mr. CRAIN. If it does not come out of my time I will. [Cries of Anderson, Miss. Dou{i'herty, McAdoo, Sayers, "Go on!"] . Bacon, Elliott, 1\:IcCiammy, Scott, Mr. PETERS. I would like to ask the gentleman if there bas ever Ba ker, N.Y. Foran, McRae, Shively, Bayne, Ford, :McShane, Smith, been a Congress elected that has not been composed of two-thirds of Blanchard, French, :r.:loore, , _ Snyder, the members of the preceding Congress? Bliss, Gallinger, 1\Iorga.n, Springer, 1\ir. CRAIN. Yes, sir. Breckinridge, Ark. Hare, 1\:lorse, Tarsney, Browne, Ind. Hogg, Norwood, Tracey, Mr. PETERS. Which? Rrowu, Ohio Howard, Oate s, Townshend, Mr. CRAlli. The first Congress of the United States. [Laughter.] Bryce, Budd, · O'Neall, Ind. Vance, I think that this amendment should be adopted for another reason, Burnes, Kean, Outhwaite, Warner, Candler, Laffoon, Parker, Washington. which has not been suggested in this debate,;md it is this: that under Caruth, Lagan, P eel, Wheeler, existing conditions the President of the Unifed States is elected thir Cbes~dle, Landes, Penington, Whiting, Mich. teen months before be submits his message to Congress, making such Collins, Lanham. Perry, Whitthorne, Cothran, Latham, Phel::m, Wilkinson, suggestions as be deems proper that Congress should act upon. If you Cox, Lawler, Randall, Wise, adopt this amendment he will have a Congress organized and in session Crain, Lehlbach, Rayner, Woodburn. on the 30th day of April, ready to receive the message which he has to NA.Y8-154, give to the country. Again, ihstead of the House being for nine months Adams, Dibble, Hunter, Peters, of the year after the election of a new Congress, as at present, without Allen, 1\:Iass. Dingley, Hutton, Pidcock, Allen, Mich. Dockery, Johnston, Ind. Plumb, a presiding officer, within ten days, to say the least, after the expira Anderson, Iowa. Dorsey, .Johnston, N.C. Post. tion of the term of his predece8sor a new Speaker would be chosen and Anderson, IlL Dunham, Kennedy, Reed, Anderson, Kaas. Farquhar, Kerr, Rogers, would be presiding over the deliberations of the House. . Baker,lll. Finley, Ketcham, Russell, Conn. This is the only country in the civilized world in which legislators Bankhead, Flood, Kilgore, Ryan, are elected to settle issues that are dead when they come to act upon Barnes, Forney, La Follette, Sawyer, Belden, Funston, Laidlaw, Seymour, them thirteen months after their election. Representatives.should be Bland, Ga.y, Laird, Simmons, in their seats at work within a reasonable time after their election, not Blount, Geru·, Lane, Sowden, thirteen months afterwards, and they should not be forced to leave Boothman, Gibson, Lee, Stahlnecker, Bound, Glass, Lind, Steele, their posts of duty at the Capitol to go into their districts and contend Boutelle, Glover, Long, Stephenson, for renomination in the midst of a busy session and before their record Bowden, Granger, Lyman, Stockdale, is made up. I hope the amendment will pass. Breckinridge, Ky. Greenman, Lynch, Stone, Ky. Brower, Grosvenor, Mason, Stone, Mo. [Here the hammer fell.] Browue,T.H.B.,Va.Grout, Matson, Struble, lYir. McCOMAS. I rise to submit a parliamentary inquiry. Brown, J. R., Va. Hall, McComas, Taulbee, The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Buchanan, Harmer, McCormick, Taylor, E. B., Ohio Bunnell, Hatch, 1\fcCreary, Thomas, Ky. 1\Ir. 1\IcCOl\IAS. This proposition is really two propositions. It pro Burrows, Haugen, McKenna, Thomas, Wis. poses to lengthen the term of the President of the United States in one, By num, Hayden, McKinley, Tillman, and proposes at the same time to change the time of the assembling of Cannon, Hayes, McKinney, Turner, Kans. Carleton, Henderson, Iowll. McMillin, Turner, Ga. Congress in the other. I happen to favor one of these propositions, and Caswell, Henderson, N.C. Montgomery, Vandever, am opposed to the other. Now, until two-thirds l1ave voted in favor of Chipman, Henderson, lll. Morrill, Wade, it I understand ·the rules are not suspended, and of course it requires Clark, Herbert, Neal, Walker, Clements, Hermann, Nelson, Weber, two-third€_.,;()pass an amendment to the Constitution through the House. Cobb, Hires, Newton, West, My que '>~lOn, therefore, is this: If it should happen that a member de- Cogswell, Holman, Nichols, Whiting, Mass. li-e to vote for one of these propositions nnd against the other, is it not Conger, Holmes, Nutting, Wickham, Crouse, Hooker. O'Neill,Pa. Wilber, proper that the question, if demanded, should be divided? In other Culberson, Hopkins, ill. Osborne, Williams, words, is it not a divisible question? I find that Rule XXVIII three Davidson, Ala. Hopkins, Va. Owen, ·wilson, 1\Iinn. times uses the words ''a proposition,'' any proposition, or some prop Davidson, Fla. Hopkins, N. Y. Patton, Wilson, W.Va. Davis, Houk, Payson, osition, asiunderstand it; ancl myinquiryis, whetberwecan not have DeLano, Hovey, Perkins, a separate vote on the two propositions embodied in this resolution. NOT VOTING..:.oo. The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks not. This is a motion to sus Arnold, Cutcheon, Lodge, Scull, pend that rule and all others as well; and every vote upon the propo Atkinson. Dargan, 1\:lacdonald, Seney, sition pending, wl!ich is to suspend the rules and pass the resolution, Barry, Darlington, 1\fo.ffett, Shaw, Belmont, Davenport, Mahoney, Sherman, necessarily involves a proposition to suspend all rules ordinarily gov Biggs, Dunn, Mansur, Spinola, erning the House, and bring the Honse to a vote directly upon the Bingham, Enloe, McCullogh, Spooner, proposition presented, which may embrace one or many items. Rowen, Ermenh·out, 1\ferriman, Stewart, Tex. Brewer, Felton, Milliken, Stewart, Ga. Mr. McCOMAS. But until the rules are suspended does not the Brumm, Fisher, Mills, Stewart, Vt. custom of dividing a proposition prevail? Buckalew, Fitch, Moffitt, Symes, The SPEAKER. It does not. Other rules provide for debate, pro Burnett, Fuller, :Morrow, Taylor, J. D,, Ohio Butler, Gaines, O'Donnell, Thomas, III. vide for amendment, provide for motions to lay on the table, etc.; but Butterworth, Gest, 0' Ferrall, Thompson, Ohio none of these are appJicable to a motion to suspend the rules and pass Campbell, F.,N. Y. Goff, O'Neill, Mo. Thompson, Cnl. a measure. The question now is on the motion to suspend the rules and Campbell, Ohio Grimes, Phelps, Weaver ,· Campbell,T.J.,N.Y. Guenther, Pugsley, White, Ind. pass the joint resolution. Catchings, Heard, Rice, "\Vbite,N. Y. Mr. BURROWS. I think we bad better have the yea,s and nays. Clardy, Hemphill, Richardson, Wilkins, l'l1r. HOOKER. I wish to make a parliamentary inquiry. Cockran, Hiestand, R.obertson, Ya.rdley, Compton, Bitt; Rockwell, Yoder, The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Cooper, .Jackson, Romeis, Yost-. )',fr. HOOKER. I find that the joint resolution proposes two addi Cowles, .Jones, Rowell, tional articles t{) the Constitution of the United States, and it seems Crisp, Kelley, Rusk, to me, in view of that fact, that the point of order made by the gen So (two-thirds not having voted in favor thereof) the rules were not tleman from Maryland on my right must be correctly made; for when suspended. / - I 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-' HOUSE. 2625 1\ir. BAKER, of New York. I ask unanimous consent to dispense That on Wednesday, Aprilll, the House shall take a recess at 5 o'clock p.m. untilS o'clockp. m., the evening session to be devoted exclusively to the con with the reading of the names. sideration of bills reported f1·om the Committee on Foreign Affairs, in such There was no objection. order as said committee may desi~nate. The following pairs were announced: That Thursday, May 10, immedtately after the reading of the Journal, be set apart for the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Agriculture, Until further notice: in such c·rder as may be designated by said committee. . 'Mr. MOORE with 1\Ir. DARLINGTON. That Tuesday, l\fay 15 and June 19 and 26, immediately after the reading of Mr. CmmiiNGS with Mr. MOFFITT. the Journal, be set apart for the consideration of bills reported from the Com mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds, in such order as said committee may 1\Ir. JONES with 1\Ir. GOFF. desigqate. Mr. DARGAN with Mr. LODGE. · That none of the foregoing assignments of days shall interfere with the con 1\Ir. O'FERRALL with l\Ir. JACKSON...... sideration of revenue or general appropriation bills, but the order assigning a. day to the Committee on Agriculture shall be a continuing one until two days :Mr. FELIX CAMPBELL with 1\Ir. ATKINSON. have been oci:!upied in the consideration of bills reported by it, a.nd on any of Mr. MERRIMAN with Mr. YARDLEY. the days hereinbefore designated, immediately after the reading of the Journal, 1\-Ir. ER)IENTROUT with Mr. BINGHAM. a motion shall be in order tha.t the House resolve itself into Committee of the 'Vhole on the state of the Union for the consideration of revenue or general ap :Mr. MILLS with M:r. BUTTERWORTH. propriation bills. 1\Ir. OUTHWAITE with 1\h. COOPER. Mr. O'NEILL, of Missouri, with Mr.·RoCKWELL. Mr. RANDALL. I do not know that I can add anything to the read Mr. WILKINS with l'llr. DAVENPORT. ing of the report which will further enlighten the House. I am ad· Mr. SENEY with 1\ir. KELLEY. vised that other gentlemen desire to q uali.ty the report to some degree, Mr. FISHER with Mr. BREWER. and I am ready now to listen, along with the rest of the members of Mr. HEARD with Mr. ROWELL. the House, to any proposition which may be made on the part of any Mr. COWLES with Mr. THOMPSON, of Ohio. member of the Judiciary Committee to strike out that part of the re 1\Ir. ,SPINOLA with Mr. THOl\IAS, of illinois. port which indicates the bill which shall be considered on to-morrow For this day: and the next day. I am ready also to yield for an amendment to strike Mr. BURNETT with 1\fr. BRUMl\1. out the like provision from the paragraph designating a day for the Com Mr. ENLOE with l\1r. GAINES. mittee on Public Lands, so as to leave it entirely with that committee :Mr. YODER with 1\Ir. ARNOLD. to determine what business shall be called up on that day and the or- Mr. COCKRAN with Mr. WHITE, of New York. der of its introduction. ' 1\Ir. THOMPSON, of California, with Mr. HIESTAND. Mr. OATES. 1\Ir. Speaker, I desire to submit a motion to sb·ike out Mr. BELMONT with Mr. SCULL. of the paragragh fixing the time"for the consideration of business re 1\fr. SHAW with Mr. BOWEN. ported from the Committee on the Judiciary that portion of it which l\Ir. RcsK with Mr. SHERl\fAN. designates for consideration the Senate. bill known as the bill for the Mr. CLARDY with 1\Ir. CUTCHEON. refunding of the direct tax, so that the resolution may simply provide . Mr. BARRY with Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR. that the time mentioned is allotted to the Committee on the Judiciary Mr. BUCKALEW with Mr. ROMEIS. for the consideration of bills reported from it in such order as the Mr. STONE, of Kentucky, with l\fr. SPOONER. committee may designate. And now, Mr. Speaker, I desire to say a Mr. C.AMPBELIJ, of Ohio, with Mr. PHELPS. few words in support of this motion. It is but fair for me to state a Mr. MAHONEY with Mr. BIGGS, on this vote. fact w bich, if not generally known, I wish all gentlemen on this floor to The result of the vote was then· announced as above stated. know and understand, that I am verymuch-I may say unalterably 1\fESSA.GE FROM THE PRESIDENT. opposed to that bill; but my motion is predicated not upon any oppo A message in writing from the President of the United States was sition to the bill, but upon the idea that it is not quite fair or respectful communicated to the House, by 1\ir. PRUDEN, one of his secretaries, who to the Committee on the Judiciary to tie it down to the consideration also informed the House that the President bad approved and signed of one particular measure, and to say that no other business from that bills of the following titles: · committee can be considered until that measure is disposed of, espe An act (H. R 1611) for the erection of a public building at Spring cially when it is well known that there is a division in the committee field, Mo.; touching that particular bill. An act (H. R. 6437) to provide for certain of the most urgent defi I presume, however, that tllis proposition bas its origin in the fact ciencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the that when the Judiciary Committee a short time ago bad two days as fiscal year ending. June 30, 1888, and for other purposes; signed for the consideration of its measures, this particular bill was not An act (H. R. 5373) to change the location of a certain alley in the brought forward. I will state why it was not. The resolution fixing city of Washington; and those two days was offered by myself. The unanimous consent of the An act (H. R. 1528) to reward the Esquimaux native3 of the Asiatic House was required to·permit its consideration, and some members on coast of the Arctic Ocean for acts of humanity to shipwrecked seamen. th~s floor, gentlemen who are now present, called on me· to ask whether ASSIGNl\fENT OF BUSINESS. that bill would oe brought up for consideration during the two days if they should be assigned to the committee. I had to give those gentle Mr. RANDALL. I present a privileged report from the Committee men an assurance, as I felt I bad a right to do on behalf of the commit on Rules. tee, that that bill would not be brought forward if the objection which The Clerk read the repOrt, as follows: would otherwise be made should be withheld and we should be allowed The Committee on Rules has had under consideration various resolutions to have those two days. Now, why should this extraordinary propo m~Ip.ng spec~l order!! for the consideration of bills, and in lieu of all the prop ositiOns submitted to 1t begs leave to report the accompanying resolution with sition be put to the House when it is well known that a majority of the recommendation that it do pass. the Committee on the Judiciary are in favor of this bill? It has been The committee found that the assignment of more than thirty days was asked for, and as it was manifestly impossible to interrupt the reguJar business for so fa>orably reported and is on the Calendar, and the views ofthe minor great a length of~ime the ~ommittee.has made as just an apportionment among ity are signed by only three members of the committee. I have no the several committees as 1t was possible to agree upon, and now submits its ac doubt that the same majority which reported the bill here will de tion for the consideration of the House. Resolved, That Tuesday and Wednesday, AprilS and 4, immediately aft.er the termine, if they are allowed to, ibe order in which and the time at which reading ot t.he Journal, be set apart for the consideration of Senate bill 139 to it shall be brought forward for consideration. provide for refunding the direct tax levied in 1861, and after the consideration There are other very important measures, one of which has been al of ~d bill is complet~d the. remai?der of said time is set apart for the consid eration of a.n:r other btll or bills designated by the Committee on the Judiciary. ready partly considered-! mean the bill reorganizing the district and That Thursday and Saturday, April5 and 7, immediately after the reading of circuit courts-and I submit it is utterly unfair to tie that committee the Journal, be set apart for the consideration of bills reported from the Com down to this proposition. Let the committee decide, and if they say mittee on Commerce in such order as said committee may desi~rnate. That on Tuesday, April3, and Thursday, April 5, the House.,shall take are that this bill should be considered first I will submit to it; I may be cess at 5 o'clock p. m. until8 o'clock p. m., the evening session to be· devoted compelled to submit to it anyway. But I would g1·eatly prefer, Mr. exclusively to the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Mili Speaker, that this matter should be settled in the usual method. It tary Affairs in such order as may be designated by said committee. is u.:;ual to allow a committee to determine what particular measures That Tuesday, ~pril ~0, imm~diately after the reading of the Journal, be set apart for the cons1derat10n of bills reported from the Committee on Pacific Rail they will bring forward and in what order. And certainly the gentle roads, in such order as said committee m ay designate. men on the Judiciary Committee who voted to report this bill favora That on Monday, April!>, the House shall take a recess at 5 p m until 8 p m bly have the power to say in what order and at what time it shall be the evening session to be devoted exclusively to debate upon ll~u~e bill No. Sls4' to amend the Thurman act. ' brought forward for consideration. I hope this amendment will be That Wednesday, Aprilll1 immed_iately after the reading of the Journal, be adopted; for its effect will be simply to leave it to the Judiciary Com set apart for the cons1derat10n of b1lls reported from the Committee on Terri tories, in such order as said committee may designate. mittee to determine the order in which the business of that committee That Thursday, Aprill2, immediately after the reading of the Journal be set shall be presented for consideration, and whether this partieular bill apart for the consideration of House bill No. 6897, reported from the Com.'mittee shall be the first measure brought forward. t on P~hlic Lands; and if the consideration of said bill shall be completed the Mr. BAYNE. Is not the tax-refunding bill now in possession of the r~mamder of said da;r be set !-'-Part. for the conside~ation of any other bill or blll'l reported from sa1d committee, 1n such order as 1t may designate House? Thaton Tuesday, the lOth of April, and_Thursday, the 12th of April, the House M:r. OATES. Certainly; and so is every other bill that the commit shall take a recess at 5 o'clock p. m. until 8 o'clock: p.m., the evenin"' session to be devoted exclusively to the consideration of bills reported from the Com tee co~1ld call up. mittee on Territories, in such order as said committee may designatf'!, Mr. BAYNE. The bill being in the possession of the House. is it not XIX-165 2626 CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-HOUSE. ' APRIL 2, perfectly competent for the House to decide whether it will take it up Mr. CASWELL. Mr. Speaker, I earnestly desire the attention of ·on the days mentioned or not? the House because this question affects every member present. Here Mr. OATES. It is perfectly competent for the House to determine is a proposition reported to .fix to-morrow and the next day for the con that matter; but why should. this particular bill be singled out for sideration of business of the Judiciary Committee, giving priority to first consideration, in preference to every other measure? the bill refunding the direct tax. The gentleman from Alabama moves Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. Because there is such a strong senti to strike out that part of the resolution giving this bill priority, so as to ment in favor of it. lea.ve the subject to the discretion of the Judiciary Committee. He Mr. OATES. Does the gentleman distrust the majority of the Ju asks why this bill should have precedence over other business of the diciary Committee that reported the bill? Will they not ha>e the committee. I will tell him wh;Y. As he has already stated, the House power, even if this amendment be. adopted, to bring forward that some days ago gave to our committee two days for the consideration of measure? its bills. This bill was one of the first on the Calendar, and because Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. We gave the committee. two days and there was some contention about its passage, some strong opposition to this measure was not considered. it in the committee, we passed it over for the time being, and I intro Mr. OATES. I have explained, so that the gentleman ought to un duced a resolution before those days were reached, asking the House derstand, the reasons it was not considered; and no one knows better to :fix two days in the future, so we might omit this bill from the assign than the gentleman that I have correctly stated those reasons. ment. That is the reason why it is given priority in the resolution now J'llx. CANNON. .Allow me a moment. I heard the request made in before the House. · open House, and, as I understood, without qualification, for time for Mr. Speaker, I wish to say to the members of this House, if you are the consideration of business of the Judiciary Committee, and not being in favor of passing the bill at this session you will oppose the amend aware of any secret understanding between the gentleman from Ala ment offered by the gentleman from Alabama lMr. OATES] and support bama and other gentlemen I did not object. If I had known that the report of the Committee on Rules. If you are opposed to the bill there was in his mind a mental reservation which had been manifested then you ought~ vote for the proposition of the gentleman from Ala to some gentlemen, but which did not go upon the Journal or the records bama [Mr. OATES]. As the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. EZRA B. TAY of the House, I would have objected. LOR] has stated, to-morrow is the :first day of the assignment. Our com Mr. OATES. M:r, Speaker, in reply to the statement of the gentle mitteehasanothermeeting,itistrue, to-morrowintheforenoon,atwhich man from Illinois [Mr. CANNON], I wish to say that gentlemen did rise we might settle this question. We might agree to take up this bill, but here and object. I appeal to the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. TURNER], the probability is we will not settle it, and we will come here without who sits before me, and who was one of those who made the inquiry, any bill agreed upon for consideration. You all know bow easy it would and to my colleague [Mr. HERBERT], who was another. To these gen be fora committee meeting to-morrow to consume the entire hour for the tlemen I gave the assurance-not in secret, but openly-that this bill consideration of the bill, or question before it, ancl when the hour of 12 would not be brought forward. The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. o'clock is reached the committee would be dissolved, as we have no right TURNER] says now that my statement is correct, that it was under to remain in session for a longer time. The time would be frittered stood this bill would not be brought forward. away and we would come on the floor of the House without this ques- I now yield the floor to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. EzRA B. tion being settled. · TAYLOR]. Here is a proposition reported by the Committee on Rules which set Mr. RANDALL. How much time does the gentleman ffom Ohio tles it and makes a certainty of the consideration of this bill to-morrow. [Mr. EZRA B. TAYLOR] want? The only way is to reject the amendment if we m·e in twor of the bilL Mr. EZRA B. TAYLOR. Five or possibly ten minutes. J)fr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. Y GU are in favor, then, of making this Mr. RANDALL. I yield to the gentleman ten minutes. a test vote as to whether members are in favor of or hostile to this bill. The SPEAKER. The Chair will state that the question is on the Mr. CASWELL. Yes, it necessarily involves that very question. motion of the gentleman from Alabama. [Mr. OATES] to strike out so Mr. RANDALL. I will yield now for :five minutes to the gentleman much of the resolution as requires that on the days assigned to business nom Arkansas [Mr. RoGERS]. of the Judiciary Committee the bill to refund the direct tax shall be Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, the only objection which the gentle first considered. man from Wisconsin has urged on this occasion is that when the Com Mr. EZRA B. TAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, the bill just mentioned by mittee on the Judiciary meets to-morrow for the purpose of determin you is one of great importance, and ought to be considered early if it ing the order of its business its time will be consumed by filibustering is to be considered at all. down the business for consideration. Now what warrant has my friend The friends of the bill have been trying to get the ear of the House from Wisconsin to mak~ any such charge as that against the minority upon propositions fixing time for the consideration of the bill, and they of the committee which filed the minority report irr this case? I think have been objected to. Finally we were obliged to have our proposi I may state without being called to order, there never has been any fili tion :fixing a time for the consideration of the bill referred to the Com bustering in that committee on that bill and never a particle of delay, mittee on Rules. As the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. O~TES] SJlYS: with the exception of what was necessary for action on one or two a majority of the Judiciary Committee are in favor ofthis bill, as shown amendments which we desired to offer. by their report as well as by the statement of the gentleman. Three There is no sort of desire-certainly none on my part-of any mem members of the committee have filed a minority report. Our resolu ber of that committee to interfere with it in any manner like that. tion having been referred to the Committee on Rules, the bill being Now, Mr. Speaker, why is it this measure has taken precedence over before the House and in its possession, this resolution has been reported. all the other business referred to that committee? Here we are in the I venture to say (and here there is a matter of taste, and nothing else, midst of the consideration of a measure affecting the whole judicial between the gentleman from Alabama and myself) that the majority system of our Government, partly debated, partly considered, and yet, of the Committee on the Judiciary, who favor this bill,. have no objec under this resolution, that measure, of far more importance than this tion to this report of the Committee on Rul~'3, but on the other hand can be, is to be thrust aside and give way to this one. warmly sustain it and wish it to be sustained by the House. There is the Utah amendment, looking tothecrushingout of polyg It may be true that the Judiciary Committee would again direct the amy throughout the United States, and yet the amendment takes from consideration of the bill if a meeting of the committee should be held the Judiciary Committee the power to say whether that shall have and a quorum attend. But to-monow is the day fixed by the Com precedence or this bill shall have precedence. mittee on Rules in this resolution for the consideration of our business. I do not know what course shall be pursued, but I can say to these The Honse has a right, it is the business of the House, to fix a time gentlemen, they will not have the power, even if they pass this reso for the consideration of this bill, and a committee of the House has lution against our objection, to thrust it down our throats when it proposed t o-morrow. Now, speaking on behalf of the majority of the comes here. There is always a way to meet these measnres and to Committee ou the Judiciary, we insist tha.t this report should be sus meet them fairly and justly. If you propose to have this measure con tained by the Honse. I recognize this amendment as a part of the op sidered fairly and justly, you will do it with some little show of court position to the bill, and for that reason I wish the report of the Com esv toward gentlemen who are onnosed to it. mittee on Rules to be sustained. ~J'lfr. CASWELL. Will the gentlemanallow me to ask him a ques The bill is one involving the payment of about $16,000,000. It is a tion? matter with which members of this Honse are thoroughly conversant. .l'!Ir. ROGERS. Certainly. They know bow this claim originated; they know its present standing; Mr. CASWELL. Let me ask the gentleman whether there is an or- they know there ought to be some disposition of the question, which ganization already to filibuster against; this bill when it comes up? has appeared before us time and again. I would dislike exceedingly Mr. ROGERS. I know of no such organization. to have any amendment made to this resolution which would throw Mr. CASWELL. Do you know that such is the intention? any uncertainty about the time when consideration is to be given to Mr. ROGERS. That is a matter which belongs to individual mem the bill. I hope the time as proposed by the Committee on Rules may bers. be fixed, so that there may be abundant opportunity to consider the Mr. CASWELL. Very well. measure fairly and well. Mr. ROGERS. If the intention exists it will exist as well without I yield the residue of my ten minutes to the gentleman from Wis the resolution as with it. consin [1\fr. CASWELL], a member of the Judiciary Committee. 1\Ir. CASWELL. I hope the gentleman will not charge the debate The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. CASWELL] on this bill as a reason for what is intended to be done by them. ·. has five minutes. Mr. ROGERS. My friend from Ohio, I repeat, will not tlUt a gag .. - 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD==-HOUSE. 2627 in the mouth of our committee by passing this resoJution. If there is Therefore, I trust we shall have a harmonious House to-morrow for the such purpo,se on the part of the committee to defeat it it will not go passage of this bill, and that no unnecessary time will be consumed on through in three or :five days if necessary to do it. I do not know it, but thatamajorityoftheRepresentatives on thisfioor, representing what cour e will be pursued. I have not dete:rmined in my own mind the majority of the people, will do as they ought to do, reach the con what course I will pursue. But I tell you now when you come to thrust trol of this legislation in the shortest time. measures through and to bind the Judiciary Committee you will :find Ur. RANDALL. I now yield :five minutes to the gentleman from that you are turning the hair the wrong way, instead of smoothing it Georgia [Mr. BLOUNT]. down. Mr. BLOUNT. Mr. Speaker, I favor the amendment of my friend Mr. BAYNE. Does the gentleman mean to say he will set the ex from .Alabama [.Mr. OATES]. It seems to me that so far as the action ample of :filibustering? of this committee relates to the conclusion that the Judiciary Com Mr. ROGERS. I am not afraid to do what I consider to be· right, mittee may not determine the order in which its bills shall be taken here or anywhere else. I am opposed to this measure, and I am opposed up, but prescribes that befm:e they will consider anything else they to it because I consider it is absolutely revolutionary and the mo~t per shall take up and consider a given bill, is entirely unprecedented. nicious doctrine which has ever found lodgment in the human brain. The practice of the House, in the reference of resolutions assigning [Here the hammer fell.] . days for the consideration of bills repotted by committees, was never Mr. RANDALL. I now yield to the gentleman from Maine [Mr. intended to do more than to settle this condition of things; that with REED] so much time as he may desire, as a member. of the Committee out any one supervising control, one committee after another would on Rules. come in with resolution$ assigning days, and the House would not keep Mr. REED. Mr. Speaker, I think by this time the House must be the various orders in mind or be in a condition to distribute the time quite well satisfied that it is very greatly pressed wiph business, and to be~t advantage by reason of this lack of information. that the question of vital importance before it is what business shall The result was that the House rarely knew, or never knew, when a be transacted. IIl order to give guidance to this, all these resolutions given proposition was up, what had been done with reference to other have been referred to tbe Committee on Rules. as has grown to be the committee!:', and couJd not maintain proper regulation of its business. custom of late years in the House. For that reason alone it has been the practice to refer to the Committee That committee, composed of members of the Committee on Appro on Rules the question of assignment of days to committees. Beyond priations and on Ways and Means, which committees have the right this it bas never gone till now. · of way under the ruJes of the House, is perhaps in a condition of as I take it it was never the purpose of the House to give to the Com much disinterestedness as any committee of the House can be; and I mittee on RuJes the power to d~termine what measures should be taken think that their report, presented by the gentleman from Pennsylvania up. It would be a most unreasonable thing that it should have that to-day, is a fair indication of their willingness to look over the whole power. .A. committee is the best judge of what measures shouJd be :field and take all the matters before the House fairly into considera taken up of those which have been committed to it. The rules of the tion, for the only criticism that bas thus far been invoked against the House determine what subjects they shaH consider, and leave to them report has been on the part of some members of the Judiciary Com the question of whether they shall be reported at all, and if they are mittee. Now, I can assure those gentlemen that there is not the reported the time for their consideration. slightest disposition to do anything which shall in any way interfere 1\1r. CANNON. Will the gentleman allow me? with the dignity and standing of that committee on the fioor. In fact, JHr. BLOUNT. I have but :five minutes. If the gentleman will no action on our part, or on the-part of the House, cvuld do that. The secure me an extension of time I will vield to him. reason why a particular bill was selected in that case was because of Mr. CANNON. I merely wish to state that the resolution intro paramount considerations. The Committee on the Judiciary have al duced by the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. CASWELL] and referred ready bad two days at their disposal. They asked for two more. The to the Committee on RuJes specially provided for two days and asked Committee on·RuJes, believing that the Honse had a sincere desire to for two days to consider this particular Senate bill.. reach and pass the bill named in the resolution, have felt that it was Mr. BLOUNT. But the report goes further. It not only gwes time their duty to yield to that wish. for the consideration of tba,t bill, but it prescribes that this House shall For my part I am of opinion that in the great majority of cases the not consider any other bill from the Judiciary Committee until that House, acting through its committees primarily, and subsequently one bas been considered. through itself~ sbouJd :fix upon the measures to be considered rather Mr. OATES. That resolution was introduced by the gentleman from than leave them to the committees. But there are a great number of Wisconsin [Mr. CASWELL] as a member of the House and not as repre minor measures desirable to pass, but which the country can get along senting the Judiciary Committee. without, which fact has given rise to the habit. which seems to be grow Mr. ROGERS. If the gentleman from Georgia will allow me, I will ing upQn the House, of giving days to committees instead of days to say that I understand there was another resolution offered by the chair measures; and I wish here and now to enter my protest against that as man of the Committee on the Judidary ~.sking for the consideration of a system; for I believe that in time it will grow to be a trouble and a this measure. clog to the House, leaving it more under the control of its committees Mr. BLOUNT. I care not whether that resolution was offered or than it ought to be, or than it is now; and I think that the evil of com not. The fact stands out that the Committee on RuJes have deter mittee control exclusively in these matters has become very apparent mined this particular bill shall be considered in preference to others. to the House in this last session of Congress. I submit it never was designed that such power should be conferred But I wish to call the attention of the House to an important matter upon them. in this connection. I do not believe that the gentlemanfroll}. .Arkansas Mr. CASWELL. Will the gentleman from Georgia allow me? (:Mr. RoGERS] is permitting himself consciously to get into that state of Mr. BLOUNT. I have but :five minutes, and unless my time is ex mind in regard to this bill which will justify actions on his part which tended I ron not yield to the gentleman. are usually denominated :filibustering; but I wish to assure him, from M.r. C.A.S WELL. The gentleman is mistaken in his statement. my knowledge of the workings of the human mind, that there is great ~1r. BLOUNT. I decline to be corrected in this running debate danger of his doing so if he allows this to become a matter of feeling in when my time is limited. stead of judgment. But it will be noticed that the opposition here to That is the report of the Committee on Hules, that the Committee this repo1·t of the Committee on Rules does not come from the majority on the Judiciary may not elect as to this particuJar bill, but when that of the Committee on the Judiciary. is disposed of they may as to every bill from that committee; but this Mr. HOPKINS, of illinois. Nor from the chairman. shall be considered by the edictoftheCommittee on Rules. I say such Mr. REED. The committee in itself does not feel aggrieved at any procedure is violative of the good sense of this House and is unfair to thing which has been done. It is only gentlemen who are opposed to the several committees of this House. the bill in question who seem to feel that impulse. They have a per The gentleman from Ohio says that the majority of the Judiciary fect right to be opposed to it, but if the House is in favor of it, the Committee are in favor of this and therefore it ought to be done. They House has a perfect right to facilitate its passage by all proper par like it, it is true, because they happen to want this very power exer liamentary means; and surely the gentleman from Arkansas would be cised to further their own ends; not from a!!y higher reason than that. the last man to oppose himself to the wishes of the House, manifested I protest for one against the abuse, as I regard it, of the Committee on under proper forms and in a proper way. Rules forcing on this House a measure which is not impelled by any The Rouse being desirous of passing this bill, if I am right in sup public exigency and which is expected to take from the Treasury $17,- posing so, and the vote will disclose that fact-the House being de 500,000. sirous of passing this bill, does not wish the intervention of anybody to [Here the hammer fell.] decide that matter for them. They are competent to decide and are Mr. RANDALL. I yield to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. CUL willing to decide it, and they purpose to offer the matter in such fashion l3ERSON.] that there will be an incentive on all bands to bring the bill to imme ~Ir . CULBERSON. I wish simply to state that I had knowledge diate consideration. The desire for immediate consideration will exist of the fact that that resolution bad been introduced by the gentleman on the part of the majerity, because they desire to pass the bill; and from Wisconsin [.Mr. CASWELL] and referred to the Committee on it will exist on the part of the minority because, although they may be Rules for the purpose of obtaining a day or two days for the considera opposed to this bill, they are earnestly in favor of other matters of im tion of this bill. On last 1\1onday I introduced an additional resolu J?Ortant legislation which can be attended to when this is disposed of. tion, asking for another day for the consideration of the busin~s of ) 2628 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-=HOUSE. that committee-generally. This, I think, is all that it is necessary to A division was called for. state in relation to the introduction of the resolution. I introduced the The House divided; and there were-ayes 62, noes 98. resolution I offered in response to suggestions of the committee. 1l1r. OATES. No quorum. · 1\Ir. CASWELL. Will the gentleman. from Pennsylvania yield to :Mr. BROWNE, of Indiana, and Mr. DIBBLE demanded the yeas me for a moment? and nays. Mr. RANDALL. Yes, sir. The yeas and nays were ordered. . Mr. CA.SWEL~. I drew this resolution providing expressly for two The question was taken, and there were-yeas 70, nays 161, not vot days to be assigned for the consideration of this bill. \ The Committee ing 93; as follows: on Rules simply say this, that after the disposition of the bill referred YEA8-70. to in the resolution and for which time was asked, if there be any time Abbott, Davidson, Fla. Laffoon, Robertson, Allen, Miss. Dockery, Landes, Rogers, remaining, it may be used in considering other bills. '.Chat is all the Anderson, Miss. Dunn, Lanham, Sayers, committee do in reference to this. Anderson, lll. Foran, Lee, Springer, Mr. RANDALL. The Committee on Rules, in presenting this mat· Bankhead, Ford, Mansur, Stewart, Tex. Blanchard, Forney, Martin, Stockdale, ter to the consideration of the Honse, are, I believe, absolutely without Uland, Glass, McClammy, Stone, Ky. feeling. They acted upon one or two resolutions duly referred to that Tireckinridge, Ark. Grimes, McCreary, Stone, Mo. committee, as they were in duty bound, and they have remitted this Breckinridge, Ky. Hatch, McKinney, Tillman, Buckalew, Henderson, N. 0. Mcl\lillin, Turner, Ga. question to this House practically in this form. If the House desires Burnes, Herbert, McRae, ·walker, that this bill shall be considered, then the responsibility in that con Candler, Hogg, Montgomery, Washington, nection shall be taken by the House. If, on the other hand, a major Catchings, Holman, Moore, Wheeler, Clements, Hooker, Morgan, Whitthorne. ity of this House do not want to consider that bill and prefer to con Cothran, Hopkins, Va. Neal, Wilson, l'rlinn. sider other matters from the Judiciary Committee, then the two days Cox, Hutton, Peel, Wise. remain and the matter is disposed of. Crisp, Johnston, N. 0. Penington, Now, I think we fully understand this qne3tion, and I demand the D11.vidson, Ala. Kilgore, Phelan, previous question on the amendment. NAYS-161. Mr. COX. I ask the gentleman to withhold his demand for the pre- Adams. Farquhar, Lyman, Scott, Allen, l\fass. Felton, Lynch, Seymour, vious question and allow me a moment. Allen, Mich. Flood, Macdonald, Shively, 1\1r. RANDALL. In that connection? Anderson, Iowa Fuller, Mason. Simmons, 111r. COX. Yes; in that connection. Anderson, Kans. Funston, 1\latson, Snyder, Baker, N. Y. Gallinger, 1\fc.A.doo, ~ Sowden, Mr. RANDALL. I yield to the gentleman. Baker, Ill. Gay, .McComas, Stahlnecker, Mr. COX. I notice in the report of the committee that they have Bayne, Gear, McCormick, Steele, planned the business of the House in advance for nearly a month. Belden, Glover, 1\IcKenna, Stephenson, Biggs, Greenman, McKinley, Stewart, Vt. Mr. RANDALL. IFor two weeks. Boolbruan, Grosvenor, McShane, Struble, Mr. COX. And I notice that in their 1·esolution they provide always Bound, Grout, Morrill, Symes, that after the reading of the Journal these various cla,sses of business Boutelle, Guenther, 1\Iorrow, Tarsney, Bowden, Hall, Nelson, Taulbee, may come up for action. That cuts off not only the morning hour for Browne,T.II.B.,Va.Harmer, Newton, '.raylor, E. B., Ohio, reports of committees, which I suppose might be handed in at the Browne, Ind. Haugen, Nichols, Thomas, Ky. Clerk's desk, or be otherwise made by unanimous consent, but it cuts Brown, Ohio Hayden, Nutting, Thomas, Wis. Brown, J. R., Va. Henderson, Iowa, Oates, Tracey off also the morning hour for the consideration of bills. That would Bt·yee, Henderson, lll. O'Donnell, Townshend, operate inconveniently·for one-half of the committees that have not had Buchanan, Hermann, O'Neall, Ind. Turner, Kans. a chance to call up bills for consideration. Bunnell, Hires, O'Neill, Pa. Vandever, Burrows, Holmes, Osborne, Wade, And I submit to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, and to the House, Bynum, Hopkins, Ill. Outhwaite, ¥Varner that there are other committees that have business which requires at Campbell, Ohio Houk, Owen, Weaver: tention, one that I have an interest in and that I ha•e been waiting for; Ca11non, Hovey, Parker Weber, Caruth. Howard, P atton,' West, but committees in the last part of the list have no show at all in this Oaswell, Hudd, Payson, White, Ind. Congress if this system is to be kept up. Cheadle, Hunter, Perkins, White,N. Y. No doubt the committee have considered thismatterwithentireim Chipman, Johnston, Ind. Perry, Whiting, M:ich. Clark, Kean, Pidcock, 'Vhiting, lass. partiality, and I will favor any proposition they may present for the Cogswell, Kennedy, Plumb, 'Wickham, dispatch of our business. Days must, of course, be set down either for Conger, Kerr, Post, Wilber, special bills or for special committees, but I think this resolution which Crouse, Ketcham, Randall, Wilkinson, Cummings, La Follette, lla.yner, 'Villiams, the gentlema,n from Pennsylvania has reported from the Committee on Dalzell, Laidlaw, Reed, Wilson, ¥V. Va. Rules might well be amended, so as to strike out the provision that Davis, Laird, Rice, Woodburn, these days shall be set apart for the business of these several commit De Lano, Latham, Rowland, Yoder, Dibble, J,awler, Russell, Mass. Yost. tees '' immediately after the reading of the Journal,'' and allow us the Dingley, LeWbach, Ru&k, morning hour for the consiperation of bills. That morning hour has Dorey, Lind, Ryan, been of great utility. It has been one of the best instruments for ex Dunham, Long, Sawyer, pediting the business of the House. I ba.ve been delighted and sur NOT VOTING-93. prised to see bow business bas been floated through in that hour; but Arnold, Cooper, Hemphill, Pu~!sley, Atkinson, Cowles, Hiestand, Richardson, now, from the Committee on Rules-a committee appointed for the Bacon, Crain, Hilt, Rockwell, guardianship of the rules of this House-we have a, report proposing Barnes, Culberson, Hopkins, N. Y. Romeis, to set.aside the most valuable rule in the House for the purpose of giv Barry, Cutcheon, Jackson, Rowell, Belmont, Dargan, Jones, Russell, Conn. ing special advantages to special bills and special committees. Bingham, Darlington, Kelley, Scull, 1\Ir. RANDALL. I now ask the :previous question on the amend Bliss, Davenport, Lagan, Seney, ment of the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. OATES]. Blount, Dougherty, Lane, Shn.w, Bowen, Elliott, Lodge, Sherman, Mr. COX. Will the gentleman permit me to move the amendment Bre\ver, Enloe, Il'Iatt'elt, Smith, I have suggested ? Brower, Ermentrout, 1\Iahoney, Spinola, Mr. RANDALL. Not now. Brumm, Finley, 1\laish, Spooner, Burnett, Fisher, 1\IcCullogh. Stewart, Ga. The previous question was ordered. Butler, Fitch, 1\Ierrimun, Taylor, J.D., Ohio, 1\lr. RAND.ALL moved to reconsider the vote by which the previous Butterworth, French, 1\:lil\iken, Thomas, IlL question was ordered; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be Campbell, F., N.Y. Gaines, Mills, Thompson, Ohio, CampbelJ,T.J.,N.Y.Gest., Moffitt, Thompson, Cal. laid on the table. Carlton, Gibson, Mor10e, Vance, The latter motion was agreed to. Clardy, Goff, Non ood, Wilkins, The SPEAKER. The question is on the amendment of the gentle Cobb, Granger, O'Ferrall, Yardley. Cockran, Hare, O'Neill, Mo. man from Alabama [Mr. OATES]. Collins, Hayes, Peters, A MEl\IBER. What is the amendment? Compton, Heard, Phelps, Mr. RANDALL. The effect of the amendment is simply to give to So the amendment was not agreed to. the Judiciary Committee control of the business which shall be called 1\fr. TOWNSHEND moved to dispense with the reading of the names up.. on these two days. of ruembers voting. The SPEAKER. The amendment proposes to strikeout so much of 1\Ir. OATES. I object. the resolution as provides that the bill in relation to the refund of the The Clerk then recapitulated the names. direct tax shall be first considered. The following additional pairs were announced: Mr. BUCHANAN. I c..'tll for the reading of the words proposed to :Mr. FRENCff1with Mr. R01\IEIS1 on.all political questions, for the day. be stricken out. :Mr. GRANGER with }rlr. PETERS. The Clerk read a.s follows: Mr. HUTION with Mr. FINLEY. Strike out the words "be set apart for the consideration of Senate bill139, to 1\1r. BARNES with Mr. PHELPS. provide for refunding the direct tax levied in 1861." The result of the vote was then announced as above recorded. The question was ta.ken on the amendment of Mr. OA n:.:;, and the 1\Ir. RANDALL and 1\Ir. OATES both moved to reconsider the vote Speaker det:lared that the ayes seemed to have it. by which the amendment was rejected; and the Speaker recognized • 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSEo ,2629 Mr. RANDALL who also moved to lay the motion to ieconsideron the Mr. BURROWS. Suppose a member is present and hears his nalfi6 table. called, but does not vote? The question was taken upon the motion to lay the motion to recon The SPEAKER. In such a case, under the practice of the Honse, sider on the table; and there were-ayes 120, noes 24. the member has no right to >ote. If, when he bears his name, be with Mr. OATES. No quorum. holds his vote purposely, the Chair thinks the member can not have Ur. CANNON. We may as well have the yea.~ and nays on this his vote recorded after the conclusion of the secopd roll-call. Such at question. It will save time. least has been the practice of the Honse. Gentleman, in asking after The yeas and nays were ordered. . the conclusion of the roll-call that their names be recorded, must state The question was taken; and it was decided in the affirmative-yeas that they were in the Hall but failed to hear their names called. 169, nays 38, not voting 117; as follows: The following additional pairs were announced on all political qnes· YEA8-169. tions fot the rest of the day: Adams, Davis, Latham, Russell, 1\Iass. Mr. STEWART, of Georgia, with Mr. KERR. Allen, Mass. ·DeLano, Lehlbach, Ryan, 1\'fr. HOGG with Mr. FUNSTON. Allen, 1\Iich. Dibble, Long, Sawyer, Anderson, Iowa. Dingley, Lyman, Scott, Mr. LAWLER with Mr. PHELPS. Anderson, Ill. Dockery, Lynch, Seymour, The result of the vote was announced as·above stated. Anderson, Kans. Dorsey, Macdonald, Shively, Bacon, Dunham, Maish, Simmons, ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. Baker, N.Y. Farquhar, Mansur, Snyder, Baker, Ill. Flood, Mason, Sowden, Pending the calling of the roll, Mr. KILGORE, from the Committee Bayne, Foran, Matson, Stahlnccker, on Enrolled Bills, reported that they had examined and found duly en Belden, Fuller, McAdoo, Steele, rolled a bill (H. R. 3470) to authorize the construction of bridges over Biggs, Gallinger, McComas, Stephenson, Bliss, Gear, McCormick, Stewart, Vt. the rivers St. Mary's, Satilla, Little Satilla, and Crooked, in the States Boothman, Glass, McKenna, Struble, of Georgia and Florida; when the Speaker signed the same. Bound, Glover, McKinley, Symes, Boutelle, Greenman, McKinney, Taulbee, AFFAIRS IN SAMOA. Bowden, Grosvenor, McShane, Taylor, E. B., Ohio The SPEAKER laid before the House the following message from the Browne,T.H.B.,Va. Grout, Montgomery, Thomas, Ky. Browne, Ind. Guenther, Morrill, Thomas, Wis. President of the United States; which was read, and, with the accom Brown, Ohio Hall, Morrow, Tracey, panying papers, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and or Brown, J. R., Va. Harmer, Nelson, Townshend, Bryce, Haugen, Newton, Turner, Kans. dered to be printed: Buchanan, Hayden, Nichols, Vance, To the House of Rcp1·esentalives: Buckalew, Henderson, Iowa. Nutting, Vandever, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with its inclosures, Bunnell, Henderson, ill. O'Donnell, Wade, f in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 8th ultimo, Burrows, Hermann, O'Neall. Ind. Walker, in relation to affairs in Samoa. Butterworth, Hires, O'Neill, Pa. Warner, GROVER CLEVELAND. Bynum. Holmes, Osborne, Weaver, EXECUTIVE MANSION, Campbell,T.J.,N.Y.Hopkins, Ill. Outhwaite, Weber, Washington, ..tfprit 2, 1888. Cannon, Hopkins, Va. Owen, 'Vest, Caruth, Houk, Parker, White, Ind. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. Caswell, Hovey, Patton, White, N.Y. Cheadle, Howard, Payson, Whiting, Mass. A message from the Senate, by Mr GILFRY, one of its clerks, an Chipman, Hudd, Perkins, Wickham, nounced that the Senate had passed with amendments, in which the Clark, Hunter, Perry, Wilber, Cogswell, Johnston, Ind. Pidcock, Wilkinson. concurrence of the House was requested, joint resolution and bill of Conger, Kean, Plumb, Williams, the following titles: , Cowles, Kennedy, Post, Wilson, Minn. Joint resolution (H. Res. 83) accepting the invitation of the French Crouse, Kerr, Randall, Woodburn, Culberson, Ketcham, Reed, Yoder. Republic to take part in an international exposition to be held in Paris Cummings, La. Follette, Rice, in 1889; and Dalzell, Laidlaw, Rowland, A bill (H. ·R. 481) for the relief of Stephen l\L Honeycutt. Davidson,Fla. Laird, Russell, Conn. The message also announced that the Senate had passed with amend NAY8-38. ments bills of the following titles, asked a conference with the House Abbott, Hende.rson, N.C. Morgan, Stone, Ky. Allen, 1\Iiss. Herbert, Neal, Stone, Mo. on the bills and amendments, and had appointed on the part of the Anderson, Miss. Holman, Peel, Tillman, Senate, conferees, as indicated respectively: Cobb, Johnston,N. C. Penington, Turner, Ga. A bill (H. R. 1158) for the relief of Louis Jacobson-conferees, 1\fr. Cothran, Laffoon, Phelan, Washington, Dtmn, Lanham, Rogers, "\Vheeler, MITCHELL, Mr. SAWYER, and Mr. R~AG4N. Forney, McClammy, Sayers, Whitthorne, A bill (H. R. 1361) to incorporate the reform school for girls in the Gay, Mcl\Iillin, Springer, Wise. District of Columbia-conferees, 1llr. SPOONER, .Mr. FARWELL, and Hatch, McRae, Stewart, Tex.' Hayes, Moore, Stockdale, Mr. HAR~IS. NOT VOTING--117. A bill {H. R. 1514) relating to the record of wills in the District of Arnold, Cox, Hogg, Phelps, Columbia-conferees, Mr. SPOONER, Mr. FARWELL, andl\Ir. HARRIS. Atkinson, Crain, Hooker, Pugsley, A bill (H. R. 1584) granting the right of way to the Duluth, Rainy Bankhead, Crisp, Hopkins, N.Y. Rayner. Barnes, Cutcheon, Hutton, Richardson, Lake River and Southwestern Railway Company through certain In Barry, Dargan, Jackson, Robertson, dian lands in the State of Minnesota-conferees, Mr. DAWES, Mr. Belmont, Darlington, Jones, Rockwell, HEARST, and Mr. BOWEN. Bingham, Davenport, Kelley, Rome is, Blanchard, Davidson, Ala. Kilgore, Rowell, A bill (H. R. 2112) for the relief of Capt. John Burkbart-conferees, Bland, Dougherty, Lagan, Rusk, Mr. MANDERSON, Mr. DAVIS, and Mr. HAMPTO:N. Blount, Elliott, Landes, Scull, A bill (H. H. 2216) for the relief of Thomas A. Osborn-conferees, Bowen, Enloe, Lane, Seney, Breckinridge, Ark. Ermentrout, Lawler, Shaw, Mr. SPOONER, Mr. HOAR, and Mr. FAUI.KNE.R. Breckinridge, Ky. Felton, Lee, Sherman. A bill (H. R. 2805) granting a pension to Martha T. Woodrum, widow Brewer, Finley, Lind, Smith, of James Woodrum, deceased-conferees, Mr. DAVIS, Mr. MITCHELL, Brower, Fisher, Lodge, Spinola, Brumm, Fitch, Maffett, Spooner, and :Mr. TURPIE. Burnes, Ford, Mahoney, Stewart, Ga. A bill (H. R. 6899) to incorporate the Eckington and Soldiers' Home Burnett, French, :Martin, Tarsney, Railway Company of the District of Columbia-conferees, Mr. HARRIS, Butlel', Funst . A bill (H. R. 2056) for the reliei or Joel J. Goss; A bill (S. 1495) grnnting a pension to M:rs. Mary McGee; A billtH. R. 209~) for the relief of John K. LeBaron; A bill (8. 1504) granting a pension to Mary C. Johnston; A bill (H. R. 2218) to increase the pension of Jame A. Buck; A bill (S. 1542) granting n. pen ion to John W. Reynolds; A bill (H. R. 2514) granting n. pension to J. Miller Raub; A bill (S. 1547) granting a pension to Mary Ann Dougherty; A bill (H. R. 2517) granting n. pension to Isaiah T. Johnson; A bill (S. 1607) granting a pension to Robert A. Bride, or McBride; A bill (H. R. 2595) tor the relief of the widow of John A. S. Tutt, A bill (S. 1609) for the relief of James McLaughlin; deceased; A bill ( ' . 1626) to amend the act of March 3, 1 77, entitled ''An act A bill (H. R. 2617) granting a pension to Mary Bailey; amending the pension law so as to remove the disabilities of those who, A bill (H. R. 3441) declaratory .of the meaning of the act entitled having participated in the rebellion, have, since its termination, en u An act for the relief of Maria. Syphax;" liste.d in the Army of the United States and become disabled;" A bill (H. R. 3613) for the relief of Joseph Cassom; A bill (S. 1654) granting a pension to Mrs. Catherine Wagner; A bill (H. R. 3758) for the relief of the legal heirs of Fidus Liver A bill (8. 1678) granting a pension to Mrs. Margaret Pickering-Cope- more, deceased; land; A bill (H. R. 3 50) granting a pension to Moses F. Jackson; A bill (S. 1742) granting n. pension toW. A. Hicks; A bill (H. R. 3898) granting an increase of pension to James H. A bill (S. 1743) granting a pension to Zephaniah H. Bones; Reeve; A bill (8. 1757) granting an increase of pension to :Mrs. Lou Go- A bill (H. R. 4626) for the relief of Mary B. Kirby; bright McFalls; A bill (H. R. 4835) for the relief of Everard Flynn; A bill (S. 1843) granting an increase of pension to Florida G. Casey; A bill (H. R. 5499) granting an increase of pension to Frederick A bill (S. 1844) granting an increa e of pension to Ann Atkinson; Augustin; A bill (S. 1876) for the pm:chase of a site and erection of a custom- A bill (H. R. 5766) granting a pension to Miss Capitola V. Harsh, house and post-office at St. Albans, Vt.; daughter of Daniel Harsh; A bill (S. 1919) granting a pension to John Fox; A bill (H. R. 5874) for the relief of the heirs of the late Francis I. A bill (S. 1928) granting a pension to U. J. Fogg; Wheeler; A bill (S. 1857) granting a pension to Virtue Smith; A bill (H. R. 6071) for the relief of Mary Penfield; A bill !S. 1967) granting a pension to Samh J. Tompkins; A bill (H. R. 6562) for the relief of W. W. Screws; A bill S. 1968) granting a pension to Eliza A. Talbott; A bill (H. R. 6789) granting a pension to :MaryS. Wells; A bill 8. 1971) to re-examine the homestead claim of Ira Haworth; A bill (H. R. 7217) for the erection of a public building at Lowell, A bill (S. 1972) grn.nting a pension to J. W. Meadows; Mass.; A bill (S. 1973) granting a, pension to John Black; A bill (H. R. 7237) granting a pension to Clarissa Harvey; A bill (S. 2033) granting a pen ion to Joseph Wirth; The mes age also announced thn.t the Senate had passed bills and A bill (S. 2064) granting n. pension to Titus Wilder; joint resolution of th~ following titles; in which the concurrence of the A bill (S. 2073) granting n. pension to Margaret Blades; House was requested: A bill (S. 2124) g~nting a pen ion to John Bush; A bill (S. 5) granting a pension to Mrs. "Margaret Gallagher; A bill (S. 2151) ~anting a pension to Irs. Aurelia Hillyer; A bill (S. 317) for the relief of William A. Bevens; A bill (S. 2157) granting increase of pension to Theodore F. Casamer; A bill (S. 341) grantingpensionsto William Knight, Jacob Parrott, A bill (S. 2167) granting n. pension to M:ary E. Wood ward; and John Whollam; A bill (S. 2168) granting a pension to Francis Marion Walker; A bill (S. 415) granting a pension t.o :Martin L. Stover; A bill (S. 2253) gmnting a pension to Mrs. Avis J. Hockey; A bill (S. 431) granting a pension to Emma S. Free, widow of Thomas A bill (S. 2254) to increase the pension of Mrs. Ella U. Grover; S. Free, late major of the United States Army; A bill (S. 2255) granting a pension to Amanda W. Beach; A bill (S. 432) for the relief of Joel B. Morton; A bill (S. 2330) gral;lting increase of pension to William Gallagher; A bill (S. 619) granting an increase of pension to Leopold Mayer; A bill (S. 2331) granting a pension to Mary J. McGregor; A bill (S. 654) granting a pension to Caroline Motz; A bill (S. 2332) granting a pension to John Linsley; A bill (S. 681) granting an increase of pension to Mrs. General Ward A bill (S. 23~6) granting increase of pension to Jennie Hartl\fullany; B. Burnett; A bill (S. 29) to authorize the Secretary of Wal' to issue ordnance and A bill (S. 692) granting an increase of pension to Enoch G. Adams; ordnance stores to the Territory of\Vashington in pn.yment for ordnance A bill (S. 702) granting a pension to Henry Pulsky; and ordnance stores borrowed by the State of Oregon during the Nez A bill (S. 760) grantffig a pension to Stephen C. Lobdill; Perce Indian war of 1877 and 1878, and for other purposes; A bill (S. 802) granting an jncrease of pension to Sarah A. Wilcox, A bill (S. 37) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make sale now Roberts; of certain lands of the Umatilla Indian reservation in Oregon to Will A bill (S. 808) granting a pension to Julius C. Monson; iam S. Byers and others, and to issue patent therefor; A bill (S. 867) granting a pension to Margaret Stafford Worth; A bill (S. 73) for the relief of E. B. Crozier, executrix of the last will A bill -(S. 887) granting a pension to Robert Foss; of Dr. C. E. Crozier, of Tennessee; A bill (S. 996) granting a pension to Caroline Ruppert; A bill (S. 113) for the relief of J. T. and C. T. Hulett; A bill ( S. 1017) granting a pension to Stephen Schiedel; A bill (S. 143) to provide for the issuing and recording of certain A bill (S. 1018) granting a pension to Joseph W. Eubank; commissions in the Department of Justice; A bill (S. 1037) granting a pension to the infant children of Micha.el A bill (S. 183) requiring notice of deficiency in accounts of principals A. Moran; to be given to sureties upon bonds of United States officials, and fixing A bill (S. 1045) granting a pension to Rhoda Williams; a limitation of time within which such suits shall be brought against A bill (S. 1101) granting a pension to Rachel A. Sinkinson; said sureties upon said bonds; A bill (S. 1121) granting a pension to Harmon.Bunn; A bill (S. 259) granting the title of the United States in certain A bill (8.1124) to iBcrease the pension of John W. January; lands to the county of Randolph and State of Illinois on certain con- A bill (8.1137) for the :telief of Adam L. Epley; ditions; _ A bill (S. 1142) granting a pension to Keziah E. Strong; A bill (S. 307) for the relief of Margaret Kennedy; A bill (S.l144) granting a penffion to Frances H. L. Prescott; A bill (S. 321) for the relief of Zeb. Ward, of Little .Rock, Ark.; A bill (8. 1146) granting a pension to L. J. McGoffin; A bill (S. 356) to obtain prison statistics; A bill (S. 1153) for the relief of Charles Wagemann; A bill (S. 439) for the reli~f ofthe Mobile Marine Dock Company; A bill (S.l192) granting a pension to Judson Knight; A bill (S. 5CU) for the relief of W. H. Ward; A bill (8.1193) granting a pension to John R. Wheelock; A bill (S. 599) in regard to a monumental column to commemorate A bill !S.1194) granting a pension to :Mary Whirry; the battle of Trenton, in the State of New Jersey, and appropriating A bill S.1219) granting n. pension to David Heinbach; $30,000; A bill 8.1237) granting a pension to Anna Mertz: A bill (S. 606) to amend an act entitled "An act to incorpomte the A bill S. 1239) granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Annie Gibson Washington Safe Deposit Company;" Yates; A bill (S. 690) to amend an act entitled 1 !,An act to incorporate the A bill (8.1254) granting a pension to Eliza J. Mayden; National Safe Deposit Cop1pany of Wa:.hington, in the District of Co A bill (S. 1258) granting n. pension to Sarah Ann Waters; lumbia," approved January 22, 1867; A bill (S. 1286) granting a pension to :Michael Lane; A bill (S. 720) for the relief of H. W. Shipley; A bill (S. 1288) granting a pension to John Child; A bill (S. 726) for the relief of the legal representatives of Chauncey A bill ,s. 1292) to construct a road from the city of Staunton to the M. Lockwood; national cemetery in the county of Augusta, in the State of Virginia; A bill ( S. 783) to correct the enrollment of an act approved 1\Iarch 3, A bill (S. 1384) granting a pension to Margaret J. Cash; 1887, entitled "An act to amend sections 1, 2, 3, and 10 of an act to A bill (S. 1359) for the relief of l\Iary A. Doud; determine the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United StateE, A bill (S. 1435) granting a pem;ion to Emil Schattle; and to regulate the rel!loval of causes from the State courts, and for A bill (S. 1447) granting a pension to Bridget Foley; other purposes," approved March 3, J875; A bill (S. 1457) granting a pension to George W. Welden; A bill (S. 881) to regulate the pay of ensigns of the United States A bill (S. 1459) granting a pen~ion to Florence Courtney Cochnower; Navy; 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD~- HOUSE. 2631 A bill (S. 1039) for the relief of the heirs of Charles B. Smith, de Mr. COX. Will the gentleman. from Pennsylvania yield to mA to ceased; have an amendment read? A bill (S. 1084) for the relief of Rev. Worcester Willey; Mr. RANDALL. Not now. A bill (S. 1089) for the relief of Henrietta 11!. Sands, widow of the Mr. COX. When? late Rear-Admiral Benjamin F. Sands, United States Navy; Mr. RANDALL. I can not fix a time. A bill (S. 1145) granting the right of way to the Rio Grande and Mr. HOLUAN. I ask that the portion of the pending resolution Utah Railway Company through the Southern Ute Indian reservation which relates to the consideration of business from the Committee on in Southwestern Colorado; Public Lands be read. A bill (S. 1172) for the relief of Henry Ayres; Mr. OATES. I move that when the House adjourns it adjourn to A bill (S. 1371) for the relief of Alfred Hedberg; meet on Wednesday next. A bill (S. 1178) for the relief of Capt. Charles Thomas, of the United 1\Ir. RANDALL. I have yielded the floor to the gentleman froru States Navy; Indiana [Mr. HOU1AN]. . · A bill (S. 1306) to define the status, and for the relief of the heirs or The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana had possession of legal representatives of certain recruits for the Fourteenth Kansas Vol the floor and can not be taken off of it without his consent. unteers who were killed at Lawrence, Kans., August 21, 1863, by guer Mr. HOLMAN. I ask for the reading of the resolution relative to rillas; the business of the Committee on Public Lands. A bill (S. 1336) for the removal of the charge of desertion from the The Clerk read as follows: military record of Jacob Rohn; That Thursday, Aprill2, immediately after the reading of the .Journaf, be set A bill (S. 1351) to enlarge the jurisdiction of the probate courts in apart for the consideration of House bill 6897, reported from the Committee ou Wyoming Territory; the Public Lands, and if the consideration of said bill shall be completed there main del: of said day be set a. part for the consideration of any other bill or bills A bill (S. 1333) for the relief of the legal representatives of Peter reported from said committee iu such order as it may designate. Lyle, deceased; A bill (S. 1387) authorizing the appointment of James S. Jouett to a Mr. HOLMAN. I move to strike out all of that resolution in rela first lieutenancy of cavalry in the United States Army; tion to bill 6897, and I wish to state a few facts for the information of A bill (S. 1415) for the removal of the charge of desertion from the the House. military record of Charles L. BuUis; ... 1\ir. TOWNSHEND. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. Is the res- A bill (S. 1494} to secure to the Cherokee freedmen and others their olution open to amendment? · proportion of certain proceeds of lands, under the act of March 3, 1&'""3; The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylvania yielded the floor A bill (S. 1529) to amend paragraph 3 of section 4693 of the Revised to the gentleman from Indiana. Statutes, and for other purposes; Ur. RA.!."'fDALL. Under instructions of the Committee on Rules. A bill (S. 1561) to provide for the completion of quarters, baxracks, Mr. HOLMAN. I wish to state to the House that a month ago the and stables at Fort Robinson, and at Fort Niobrara, in the State of Committee on the Public Lands reported to the House a bill for whicn. Nebraska; I have sought e>e.ry opportunity of a hearing; but which so far has had A bill (S. 1596) in relation to oaths in pension and other cases; but an hour and a half some days ago. That is a bill for the purpose K bill (S. 1671) for the relief of the heirs of M but in my judgment the first they will bring forward, if they are per Mr. HOLMAN. My State is interested when the gentleman speaks , mitted to do so, -will be the bill to secure the remainder of the public of individu..'ll members .being interested in this bill, and I know that lands to actual settlers. The next will be the bills declaring the for State would not ask to have it taken up and given preference at this feiture of railroad iand grants to the ~xtent of some 30,000,000 acres. late date in the session to bills of great public concern. Mr. PARKER. Will the gentleman answer? M1·. McRAE. I do not know what the State of Indiana may do, but 1\Ir. HOL IAN. The time is all farmed out now. I know that the majority of the committee want it considered. It can Mr. PARKER. Will the committee be permitted to bring forward not be considered without time is given them either by this or some simi the bills they mn,y regard as privileged? lar resolution. An opportunity is here presented in obedience to the in Mr. HOLMAN. I have said the committee will bring forward the structions of the committee to consider it; yet the gentleman proposes general land bills. They will bring forward the homesten.d and for to cut off the consideration to make way for privileged matters yet be feiture bills. hind and not reported to the House, and thus defeat it. If that is the Mr. PARKER. What bill? object he has in view I want him to disclose it. I waJ?-t him to say that Mr. HOL"MAN. All I ask is that it shall be left to the CommHtee is the reason, meet the issue squarely and fairly. If he thinks the day on the Public Lands to determine what bills shall have precedence. named for this bill is the only one he can ever get, then let him join me Mr. PARKER. That is satisfactory. · in asking that the original resolution be passed and I will agree not to The SPEAKER. What motion does the gentleman make? call up this bill on the 12th. All I want is consideration. I do not 1\Ir. HOLMAN. To strikeout all in regard to that particular bill, be antagonize his bill. I want them all, but I also want this one. cause to give a day to that committee to bring forward that bill only, or Mr. HOL:M:AN. Does my friend believe that we have a chance to give it priority, would not he any benefit to the important.public bills in consider the bills reported by the committee of great national import relation to the public land and the forfeiture of the railroad land grants. ance unless we can get a day for our general business? Mr. RANDALL. I yield five minutes to the gentleman from Ar- Mr. McRAE. I am willing to give the committee as many days as kansas (Mr. McRAE) in opposition to the amendment. necessary. I have already said that I am willing to give the committee Mr. ANDERSON, of Iowa. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. the day assigned here for this bill if we can get another day for the The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. consideration of this measure. We want to antagonize no revenue or . Mr. ANDERSON, of Iowa. I perceive from the reading of the res forfeiture bills nor any forfeiture bill, but we want consideration of olution that the Committee on Rules have assigned the time, or largely this in obedience to the action of the committee. I think the House disposed of the time, to several committees named, while one of the wants it considered, and I believe it to be unjust and unfair for the mostimportantcommittees of this House, and before which is pending chairman of the committee ro thus oppose it. I hope the amendment the greatest mass of legislation, is assigned no time. I rise now to ask will be voted down. if it is competent for me to move an amendment to strike out '' Pacific Mr. RANDALL. I now ask the previous question upon the amend Railroads" where it occurs in the resolution and insert in lieu thereof ment. • the words "Invalid Pensions?" Mr. COX. I wish to make a parliamentary inquiry. Do I under The SPEAKER. That would be in order if the gentleman could get stand my friend to call the previous question upon the pending amend the :floor in his own right to offer the amendment, but the gentleman ments? from Arkansas is now entitled to the :floor. The SPEAKER. There is but one pending. Mr. McRAE. Mr. Speaker, I am opposed to the amendment of the Mr. COX. I would like to offer mine and have it included in the gentleman from Indiana, and hope the House will give me its attention previous question. for a few moments. The resolution that I introduced asking for the Mr. RANDALL. After we get through with this amendment I will consideration of the bill H. R. 6897 was not presented on my own ac make answer to that. count, but had been adopted and authorized by the Committee on the Mr. COX. But I am afraid that I will be left in the lurch then. Public Lands, of which my friend from Indiana is the distinguished [Laughter.] chairman. I believe that he is the only member of the committee who The SPEAKER. The question is on ordering the previous question. does not favor the resolution giving consideration to the bill in question. The House divided; and there were-ayes 105, noes 10. The bill was favorably reported nearly two months ago, and the reso Mr. OATES. No quorum. lution asking for consideration adopted early in last month. I was Mr. OATES and Mr. CANNON were appointed tellers. greatly surprised when the gentleman offered the amendment, the The House again divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 160, noes 4. adoption of which would tend to defeat the expressed wishes of his Mr. OATES. I ask for the yeas and nays on this question. own committee. But his conduct in attempting to make the House The yeas and nays were not ordered. believe that the Committee on Public Lands does not wish the bill con So the previous question was ordered. sidered astonished me. He neither spoke for the committee nor reflects Mr. OATES. I move that the House do now adjourn. its wishes upon this subject. I am authorized to speak for the committee The question was taken; and on a division there were-ayes 38, noes and believe I voice the wishes of a large majority of them when I say 97. the amendment should not be adopted. Since the committee has al So the House refused to adjourn. ready voted to consider the bill why ask them to change it? Mr. HOLMAN. I now ask for the reading of that portion of the Mr. HOLMAN.· I only expressed my belief, and said especially that resolution to which the amendment applies, as it will stand if the I did not speak by authority of the committee. amendment is adopted. Mr. McRAE. You only speak for a minority of one-of and against Mr. RANDALL. I will state that the effect will be simply to give your own committee, but as you are the chairman and failed to tell the to the Committee on the Public Lands their wish as to the order or House that the resolution which gave the Committee on Rules juris consideration. diction had been authorized by your committee, at the same time pass The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the proposition as it will ing the importance of other bills, the impression was made that the stand if amended. amendment came from the committee through you and not from yon The Clerk read as follows: individually. Yon have never asked the House for time for any for That Thursday, April12, immediately after the reading of the Journal, be set feiture bills.· The truth is, Mr. Speaker, that all of the bills to which apart for the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on the Public my friend has referred are privileged. They may be taken up at any Lands in such order as said committee may designate. time under the rules. I undertake to say that the committee and this The question was taken on the adoption of Mr. HOLMAN's amend- House will take them up 'and consider them at an early date, but do ment; and on a division there were-ayes 34, noes 100. not believe that either the Committee on Public Lands or the House Mr. OATES. No quorum. will suffer them to be used to defeat other just and meritorious meas The SPEAKER appointed as tellers Mr. OATES and Mr. CANNON. ures like the one under consideration. These privileges should be used The House again divided; and there were-ayes 27, noes 136. to secure legislation and not tQ defeat bills. So the amendment was not agreed to. Mr. HOLMAN. Is it not fair to leave to the committee to deter Mr. RANDALL. I move to suspend the rules and adopt the reso mine its own action with reference to the consideration of such matters? lution reported by the Committee on Rules. Mr. McRAE. The committee has already determined it. They Mr. HOOKER. Will the gentleman from Pennsylvania yield tome authorized me to report the resolution. Why do you want to send it for an amendment? back to the committee for consideration again? Mr. RANDALL. I do not yield. Mr. HOLMAN. I donotsee that this would have that effect. The Mr. OATES. I move that the House do now adjourn. committee can determine what other bills to take up, and not be con The question being put on the motion to adjourn, there were-ayes fined exclusively to the consideration of one. 27, noes 98. Mr. McRAE. They have agreed to this; and it is trifling with the Mr. OATES. I ask for the yeas and nays. committee and with the individual membere of the committee inter On the question of ordering the yeas and nays there were ayes 18- ested in this bill, and who would like to have the matter adjusted, to not a sufficient number. offer such an amendment. So the yeas and nays were not ordered, and the House refused to ad There is nothing, Mr. Speaker, in the bill that is objectionable to any journ. man. It ·only provides for the adjustment of certain rights of the Mr. RANDALL. To save time, I ask for the yeas and nays on the swamp-lB.nd States under grants made-thirty years ago. It does not motion to suspend the rules. enlarge the grant, but provides for a settlement. The S~EAKER. Is a second demanded? J . . 1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE . 1\Ir. OATEB. move that when the House adjourns to-day it be to Atone, Ky. Thomas, Ill. Wilkins, Yost. t Tarsney, Thompson, Ohio Wise, meet on Wednesday next. Taylor, E. B., Ohio Thompson, Cal. 'Voodburn, Mr. DIBBLE. I make the point that that motion is not 'in order. Taylor, J.D., Ohio Wilbe1·, Yardley, The SPEAKER. The rule provides that when a motion to suspend So (two-thirds having voted in the affirmative) the rules were sus the rules is pending only one motion to adjourn is in order. After pended all.d the resolution was adopted. the result ·of the vote on the motion to adjourn is announced, the rule Mr. DIBBLE. I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the read- provides that the Chair shall not entertain any other dilatory motion ing of the names. until the vote is taken on suspension. There was no objection. Mr. OATES. I demand a second. The following pairs were announced for the remainder of the day: The SPEAKER appointed Mr. REED and Ur. OATES as tellers. Mr. RoGERS with Mr. 1\!cCOMAS. The House divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 156, noes 7. . Mr. WISE with Mr. HITT. So the motion .to suspend the rules was seconded. Mr. ABBOTT with Mr. THOMAS H. B. BROWNE, of Virginia. Mr. RANDALL. I now ask for the yeas and nays on the motion to Mr. BLAND with Mr. EZRA B. TAYLOR . .mspend the rules. Mr. HENDERSON, of North Carolina, with Mr. MILLIKEN. The SPEAKER. Fifteen minutes are allowed for debate on ea-ch The result of the vote was then announced as above stated. side, if gentlemen desire to avail themselves of that time. [Cries of_ MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. "No!"] The question, then, is on the motion of the gentleman from Pennsylvania tqsuspend the rules and adopt the resolution, upon which A message fropt the Senate, by Mr. PLATT, one of its Clerks, informed the yeas and nays are asked. ., ihe House that the Senate had passed a bill (H. R. 2927). to authorize The yeas and nays were ordered. the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at 1\Iemphis, The question was taken; and there were-yeas 155, nays 44; not Tenn., with amendments, bad requested a conference with the House voting 125; as follows: on the bill and amendments, and had appointed W!l conferees on the YEAS-155. part of the Senate Mr. SAWYER, Mr. VEST, and Mr. HARRIS. The message also announced that the Senate had passed an act (S. .Adams, Farquhar, Maish, Rusk, .Allen, Mass. Flood, Mansur, Ryan, 2562) to appropriate a sum of money sufficient to carry out the pro· .Allen, 1\Iich. Ford, 1\Iason, Sawyer, visions of the act Jl.pproved March 5, 1888, entitled "An act for the Anderson,Ill. Fuller, :Matson, Scott, purchase of a site, including the building thereon, also for the erection of Bacon, Gallinger, McAdoo, Seymour, Baker, N.Y. Gear, McClammy, Shively, the necessary store-houses for the use of the office of the Chief Signal Baker, Ill. Gibson, McCornlick, Snyder, Officer of the Army at the city of Washington, D. C.;" in which the Bayne, Glass, McCreary, Sowden, concurrence of the House was requested. Belden, , Greenma.n, McKenna, Springer, Boothman, Grosvenor, McKinley, Stahlnecker, The message further announced that the Senate had passed without . Bound, Grout, McKinney, Steele, amendment a bill and joint resolution of the following titles~ Boutelle, Guenther, McRae, Stephenson, A bill (H. R. 3191) grantjng a pension t-o MaryS. Logan; and Browne, Ind. Hare, McShane, Stewart, Vt. Brown, Ohio · Harmer, Moore, Struble, Joint resolution (H. Res. 77) to supply the Department of State with Brown,J.R., Va. Haugen, Morrill, Symes, copies of bills and other documents. Bryce, Hayden, Morrow, Taulbee, Buchanan, Hayes, Neal, Thomas, Ky. ALIEN OWNERSHIP OF LANDS. Bunnell, Henderson,Iowa Nelson, Thomas, Wis. Mr. DIBBLE. I ask leave for the minority of the Committee on Re· Burrows, Henderson, Ill. Newton, Tracey, Butterwo1·th, Hermann, ··Nutting, Townshend, vision of the Laws to file their views on the bill (H. R. 4916) to pro· Bynum, Hires, O'Donnell, Turner, Kans. hibit aliens from acquiring title to or owning land within the United Campbell,T.J.,N.Y.Holmes, O'Neall, Ind. Vance, States of America. Cannon, Hopkins, ill. O'Neill, Pa. Vandever, Caruth, Hopkins, Va. Osborne. "\oVade, There was no objection. Caswell, Houk, Outhwaite, · Warner, M1-. McMILLIN. I move that the Honse do now adjourn. Cheadle, Hovey, Parker, Weber, The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 5 o'clock and 45 Clark, Hunter, Patton, West, Cogswell, Johnston, Ind. Payson, White, Ind. minutes p.m.) the Honse adjourned. Conger, Kean, Peel, White,N.Y. Crain, Kennedy, Perkins, Whiling, Mich. Crouse, La Follette, Perry, Whiting, Mass. PRIVATE BILLS AND .JOINT RESOLUTIONS L."iTRODUCED .AND RE .Culberson, Laidlaw, Plumb, Whitthorne, FERRED . Dalzell, Laird, Post, Wickham, Davis, Latham, Randall, Wilkinson, . Under the rule private bills and joint resolutions of the following DeLano, Lehlbacb, Reed, Williams, titles were introduced and referred as indicated below: Dibble, Lind, Rice, Wilson, Minn. Dingley, Long, Rowland, Wilson, W.Va. By Mr. J. A. ANDERSON: A bill (H. R. 9102) granting a pension Dunham, Lyman, Russell, Conn. Yoder. to MaryS. Bates-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Dunn, Macdonald, Russell, Mass. By Mr. BLAND: A bill (H. R. 9103) for the relief of Edwin ~:I. Bol NAYS-44. ton-to the Committee on War Claims. By 1\Ir. BURNES: A bill (H. R. 9104) for the relief of Stephen C. Allen, Miss. Candler. Holman, Penington, Anderson, Miss. Carleton, Hooker, Sayers, Collins-to the Committee on War Claims. .Anderson, Kans. CatchingR, Johnston, N.C. Stewart, Tex. ·By Mr. CARUTH: A bill (H. R. 9105) for the relief of Caleb Ma Bankhead, Clements, Ketcham, Stockdale, ratta-to the Committee on War Claims. Barnes, Cothran, Lane, Stone, Mo. Biggs, Crisp, Lanham, Tillman, Also, a bill (H. R. 9106) granting a. pension to Peter L.iner-to the Blanchard, Davidson, Ala. Martin. Turner, Ga. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Blount, Davidson, Fla. McMillin, Walker, By Mr. COLLINS: A bill (H. R. 9107) granting a pension to Ellen Breckinridge, Ark. Dockery, Montgomery, Washington, Breckinridge, Ky. Forney, Morgan, 'Veaver, G. King-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . · Buckalew, Hatch, Oates, Wheeler. By Mr. DIBBLE: A bill (H. R. 9108) granting a pension to Mary G. Macnamara-to the Committ€c on Invalid Pensions. NOT VOTING-125. By Mr. FINLEY: A·bill (H. R. 9109) granting a pension to James .Abbott, • Cox, Henderson, N.C. Moffitt, Oliver-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Anderson, Iowa. Cummings, Herbert, Morse, Also, a bill (H. R. 9110) granting a pension to 1\Iartha J. Warren-to Arnold, Cutcheon, Hiestand, Nichols, Atkinson, .Dargan, Hitt, Norwood, the Committee on Invalid Pensions. :Barry, Darlington, Hogg, O'Ferrall, Also, a bill (H. R. 9111) granting a pension to Cyrus Edwards-to Belmont, Davenport, Hopkins, N.Y. O'Neill, Mo. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Bingham, Dorse.y, Howard, Owen, Bland. Dougherty, Hudd, Peters, .Also, a bill (H. R. 9112) granting a pension to W. B. Scroggy-to -Bliss, Elliott, Hutton, Phelan, the Committee on Invalid Pen.Sions. Bowden, Enloe, Jackson, Phelps, Also, a bill (H. R. 9113) gTanting a pension to Frank M. Martin-to Bowen, Ermentrout, Jones, Pidcock, Brewer, Felton, Kelley, Pugsley, the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Brower, Finley, Kerr, Rayner, Also, a bill (H. R. 9114) increasing the pension to Mrs. Martha Hays Browne,T.H. B.,Va.Fisher, Kilgore, Richardson, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Brumm, Fitch, Lafloon, Robertson, Burnes, Foran, Lagan, Rockwell, Also, a bill (H. R. 9115) for the relief of John W. Graves-to the Burnett, French, Landes, Rogera, Committee on Claims. Butler, Funston, Lawler, Romeis, Campbell, F., N.Y. Gaines, Lee, Rowell, Also, a bill (H. R. 9116) for the relief of Suann Hutcherson-to the Campbell, Ohio Qay, Lodge, Scull, Committee on War Claims. Chipman, Gest, Lynch, Seney, By Mr. GLOVER: A bill (H. R. 9117) granting a pension to Mrs. Clardy, Glover, 1\Iaffett, Shaw, Cobb, Goff·, Mahoney, Sherman, Adeline Couzins-to the Committee on Pensions. Cockran,' Granger, McComas, Simmons, By Mr. GREENMAN: A bill (H. R. 9118) for the relief of Emeline Collins, Grimes, McCullogh, Smith, Rice-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Compton, Hall, ~erriman, Spinola, Cooper, Heard, l\lilliken, Spooner, . By Mr. GROUT: A bill (H. R. 9119) granting a pension to George Cowles, Hemphill, Mills, Stewart, Ga. C. Chase-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. \ ·. 2634 OONGRESSIONAL RECORD= OUSE. APRIL 2, By Mr. HAYDEN: A. bill (H. R. 9120) granting a pension to Mary By 1\lr. BOUND: Petition of E. Kramer & Brother, and others, of A. Darling-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Milton, Pa., for the abolition of all taxes on alcohol used in the arts, .Also, a bill (H. R. 9121) granting a pension to Margaret Mackin-to etc.-to the Committee on Ways and Means. the Committee on Invalid J?ensions. By Mr. BOWDEN: Petition of Etheridge & Moore and 199 others, Also, a bill (H. R 9122) granting a pension to Solomon 1\f. Busnach business men of Norfolk, Va., again t the pa age of the Butterworth -to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · and Dawes lard bill3-to the Committee on .Agriculture. Also, a bill (H. R. 9123)grantingapension to Matthew Fleck-to the Also, petition of John H. Nash, for heirs of Nathaniel Nash, of Nor Committee on Invalid Pensions. folk County, Virginia, for reference of his claim to the Court of Claims Also, a bill (H. R. 9124) to increase the pension of George R. Hooper to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By J'rlr. BUNNELL: Petition ofwool-growersofSusquehanna County, Also, a bill (H. R. 9125) to remove the charge of desertion from the Pennsylvania, for speedy action to protect wool-growers and woolen man military record of Rober~· Downing-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. ufacturers-to the Committee on Ways and Means. By :Mr. HOUK: A bill (H. R. 9126) granting a pension to Mrs. Caro Also, petition of Grange NO. 257, Patrons of Husbandry, for legisla line <}. Scyfforth-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tion prohibi~;ing the adulteration of lard ancl other food-to the Com By Mr. LANE: A bill (H. R. 9127) forthereliefofChloeFraily-to mittee on Agriculture. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Also, petition of Grange No. 257, Patrons of Husbandry, for continu By Mr. LAWLER: A bill (H. R. 9128) for the relief of Thomas ing the Bureau of Animal Industry of theAgricultural Department Hickey-to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. MANSUR: A bill (H. R. 9129) granting a pension to Mar Also, petition of Columbia Grange No. 83, of Bradford County, PeV;U garet J. Bennett-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sylVania, for continuing the Bureau of Animal Industry, and that the By 1\Ir. MATSON: A bill (H. R. 9130) granting a pension to Susa~ Commissioner of Agriculture be ma.de a Cabinet officer-to the Com Singleton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on .Agriculture. By 1\Ir. McCREARY: A bill (H. R. 9131) granting a pension to By Mr. CARUTH: Papers relating to the claim of Caleb 1\Iaratta Lewis E. Lloyd -to the Committee on Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 9132) for the benefit of E. I. Baker-to the Com .Also, papers relating to the claim of Peter Liner for a pension-to mittee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Also, a bill (H. R. 913a) for the relief of Granville Allen-to the By Mr. CHIPMAN: Petition of citizens of the District of Columbia Committee on War Claims. relative to fees in the District courts-to the Committee on the Ju .Also, a bill (H. R. 9134) for the relief of S. W. Carrier-to the Com diciary. mittee on War Claims. By Mr. CLARK: Petition of H. F. Clarke and others, of Green Lake Also, a bill (H. R. 9135) for the relief of the estate of Elizabeth County, Wisconsin, for more effectual protection of agriculture-to the Layne--to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Agriculture. By 1\Ir. McCULLOGH: A bill (H. R. 9136) for the relief of Ed By 1\Ir. CLEMENTS: Petition of Elijah Snuth, of Bartow County, mund E. Schreiner-to the Committee on Claims. Georgia, for reference of his claim to the Court of Claims-to the Com By Mr. McSHANE: A bill (H. R. 9137) granting a pension to Eli mittee on War Claims. H. Kiser-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. COLLINS: Petition of the New England Women's Press Asso By Mr. NELSON: A bill (H. R. 9138) for the relief of Ramsay ciation, in favor of an international copyright law-to the Committee Crooks-to the Committee on Indian Affairs. on the Judiciary. By Mr. OWEN: A bill (H. R. 9139) granting a pension to Bridget Also, resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, for a resolution Tole-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. instructing the Interstate Commerce Commission to consider what can By Mr. HUNTER: A bill (H. R. 9140) for the relief of Daniel D. be done to prevent the loss of life and limb in coupling cars, handling Duncan-to the Committee on War Claims. brakes, and heating cars-to the Committee on Commerce. By 1\Ir. J. J. O'NEILL: A bill (H. R. 9141) to remove thechargeof By Mr. CRISP: Petition of S. H. Hawkins and others, of Americus, desertion from Lawrence Coffey-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Ga., for increased appropriations for the Ocmulgee River, in Georgia By Mr. RICE (byrequest): A bill(H. R. 9142) for the reliefofCharles to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Thimons-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. DALZELL: Petition of Monongahela Council, Junior Ordex Also, a bill (H. R. 9143) for the relief of the estate of Ramsey United American Mechanics, that February 22 be made a holiday-to Crooks-to the Committee on Claims. the Committee on the Judiciary. By 1\Ir. J. D. TAYLOR: A bill (H. R 9144) for the relief of Alex. By 1\Ir. DAVIS: Petition of Gideon Bowley, jr., and 51 others, citi MeNary-to the Committee on Claims. zens of Provincetown, and of George H. Holmes and 72 others, citizens By :Mr. G. 1\f. THOUAS: A bill (H. R. 9145) for the relief of Gabriel of Provincetown, M:ass., in favor of increasing the compensation of R. Bartley-to the Committee on Military Affairs. keepers and sur:fmen of the Life-Saving Service-to the Committee on By 1\fr. T. L. THOl\1PSON (by request): A bill (H. R. 9146) for the Commerce. relief of the legal representatives of Rosario Aguilar-to the Commit By 1\Ir. ELLIOTT: Petition of William Fuller and others, of W. N. tee on Private Land Claims. Jones and others, of Robert Henry, J'rf. D., and others, ofl\I. R. Clarke By 1\Ir. E. J. TURNER: A. bill (H. R. 9147) for the relief of Isaac and others, and of B. C. Truluck and others, citizens of the Seventh Clark-to the Committee on Military .Affairs. district of South Carolina. By 1\fr. WILKINSON: A bill (H. R. 9148) granting a pension to Also, (by request), petition of William M. Galt and others, for the Jane Robinson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. closing of an alley in square No. 376, Washingbm, D. C.-to the Com By 1\fr. WISE: A bill (H. R. 9149) for the relief of Samuel Worl mittee on the District of Columbia. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. FUNSTON: Petition of citizens of Bronson, Kans., against By 1\Ir. T. L. THOMPSON: A. bill (H. R. 9150) for the relief of the the removal of the duty on flaxseed and linseed-oil-to the Committee legal representatives of Luis Mesa-to the Committee on Private Land on Ways and :Means. Claims. By Mr. GALLINGER: Petition of E. J. Tenney, and of Sugar River Paper-Mill Company, and of Fred Colby, of Claremont; of" Wyman Change in the reference of a bill improperly referred was made in Pattee, of E. B. Ruse, of Enfield, and of Burleigh & Adams, of Ply the following case, namely: mouth, N.H., for quick mail transit between New England and the A bill (H. R. 2417) granting a pension to John Ward-from theCom West-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. m'ittee on Invalid Pensions to the Committee on Pensions. By l\fr. GEAR: Petition of J. H. Cole and sundry others, for a rigid boom to connect the canal at Keokuk with the pier of the Keokuk and Hamilton bridge-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. PETITIONS, ETC. Also, petition of James'A. Mitchell and others, for a pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. The following petitions and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk, By Mr. GIFFORD: Petition of George W. Wilcox and 85 others, of under the rule, and referred as follows: Brown County; of W. E. Whiting and 64 others, of Brookings County, By 1\fr. C. H. ALLEN: Memorial of Bicknell Bros., of Lawrence. and of J. C. Perry and 79 others, of Wessington, Beadle County, Da Mass., for better postal service between New York and New England kota, for the retention of the duty on flax and flax products-to the to the Committe on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Committee on Ways and Means. . _ By Mr. J. A. ANDERSON: Petition of citizens of Dickinson County, By 1\ir. GROUT: Memorial of the railroad commissioners of Ver Kansas, for increase duties on wool-to the Committee on Ways and mont, in behalf of improved method for heating and lighting cars, etc.- Means. to the Committee on Commerce. · Also, petition of Assembly No. 3797, Knights of Labor, of Clay Cen Also, re olution of the l\Ierchants' Exchange of St. Louis, in favor of tre, Kans., for the tonnage bill-to the Committee on Merchant Ma the Nicaragua canal-to the Committee on Commerce. rine and Fisheries. Also, appeal of the flax dTeR>ers of T ew York, for protection of man• Also, petition of the Board of Trade of Junction City, Kans., for an ufactured flax---:-to the Committee on Ways and Means. appropriation for Fort Riley-to the Committee on Appropriations. By 1\Ir. HARE: Petition of sundry citizens of Montague and othe1 / 1888. CONGRESS! ON AL- RECORD-HOUSE. 2635 counties in ·rexas, a king that provision be made to pay Indi~n depre Also, petition of the same, for a L.'tw against the adulteration of lard-,. dations-to the Select Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. to the Committee on Agriculture. By M:r. IIA..YDEN: Petition of ..Albert Anderson and others, agn.inst Also, petition of the same, in reference t.o the Agricultural Depart the repeal of the internal-revenue tax on cigars and cheroots-to the ment-to the Committee on Agriculture. Committee on Ways and Means. By Ur. PERKINS: Petition and evidence in support of bill for re By l\Ir. D. B. HENDERSON: Petition of steam-boat men and ship lief of A. J. Patchin, of Kansas-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.. pers of the Upper Mississippi, asking for the removal of the Galena Also, petition of J. M. Jllfahr and others, citizens of McCune, Kans., steam -boat inspectorship to Dubuque, Iowa-to the Committee on Com for the passage of bill to pension Jacob Copes-to the Committee on merce. Pensions. By Ur. HIRES: Petition of farmers of Camden County, New Jersey, By Mr. SIMMONS: Petition of 175 citizens of East North Carolina, for an increase of duty on agricultural products-to the Committee on protesting against the passage of the Butterworth and Dawes lard bills Ways and Means. to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, petition of GeneralJ. Madison Drake and others, ofNew Jersey, By Mr. J. W. STEWART: Petition of John Robinson and others, relative to pensioning ex-prisoners of war-to the Committee on In- citizens of Bennington and Rutland Counties, Vermont, for a stated term valid Pensions. · of the circuit court at Bennington-to the Committee on the Judiciary. By .Mr. HOUK: Petition of John Harrison, of Jefferson County, By Mr. STRUBLE: Petition ofT. P. Gere and 243 others, citizens of Tennessee, for reference of his claim to the Court of Claims-to the Woodbury County, Iowa, requesting that no change be made in the Committee on War Claims. tariff on flaxseed and linseed-oil-to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. HUNTER: Petition of John W. Newman, for a pension-to By Mr. E. B. TAYLOR: Two petitions of citizens of Trumbull the Committee on Invalid Pensions. County, Ohio, for continuation of the tariff on wool-to the Committee Also, papers in the claim of Daniel D. Duncan, of Logan County, Ken ·on Ways and .Means. tucky-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. G. M. THOl\IAS: Petition of Gabriel R. Bartley for relief By Mr. JOSEPH: Petition of citizens of New Mexico, for the admis to the Committee on Military Affairs. sion of that Territory into the Union-to the Committee on the Terri- By Mr. TILLMAN: Memorial of the railroad commissioners of South ~~ . Carolina,, for legislation to promote the safety of travel and prevent ac By Mr. KERR: Petition of citizens of Benton County, Iowa, against; cidents to brakemen-to the Committee on Commerce. any change of the tariff on flaxseed and linseed-oil-to the Committee By Mr. TOOLE: Petition of citizens of Custer County, Uontana, for on Ways and Means. forfeiture of the Northern Pacific Railroad land grant, and for other By 1\Ir. LAGAN: Petition of merchants of New Orleans, La., again;3t purposes-to the Committee on the Public Lands. the Butterworth and Dawes lard bills-to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. TRACEY: Petition of the New York State Agricultural So Also, petition for the relief of William W eser-to the Committee on ciety, asking that the work of suppressing contagious cattle diseases be War Claims. placed in charge of the Commissioner of Agriculture-to the Commit By 1\Ir. LANHAJ\I: Petition of Urs. Margaret J. Read, of Erath tee on Agriculture. County, Texas, for reference of her case to the Court of Claims-to the By Mr. E. J. TURNER: Petition of Isaac Clark, for removal of Committee on War Claims. charge of desertion-to the Committee on Military Affairs. · By Mr. L.A.TH..A..M: Petition of citizens of North Carolina, for an ap Also, petition of L. :0. Cunningham and others, members of Scotts propriation for deepening and widening the Clubfoot and Harlowe ville Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Kansas, for the passage Canal-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. of a service-pension bill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. L.A. WLER: Resolutions of the Irish American Council, fa Also, petition of E. W. Durkee, late postmaster at Russell, Kans., voring House bill No. 85 making appropriations for statues of Generals for relief--to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Jatc.es Shields and John A. Logan-to the Committee on Military Af By li:U.·. H. G. TURNER: Petition of citizens of Albany, Ga., against fairs. the bill to tax refined lard-to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. LONG: Petition of railroad commissioners of Massachusetts, AI o, petition of citizens of Thomasville, Ga., against the passage of relative to ntilroad couplers and brakes, and resolutions of the Legisla the Butterworth an~ Dawes lard bills-to the Committee on Agricult ture of Massachusetts-to the Committee on Commerce. . ure. By 1\Ir. McCREARY: Petition of Granville Allen, of Rock Castle ByMr. WASHINGTON: Petition ofU. L. Fowlkes, of Humphreys County, Kentucky, for relief-to the Committee on War Claims. County, Tennessee, for reference of his claim to the Court of Claims Also, petition of citizens of Laurel County, Kentucky, for a pension to the Committee on War Claims. to Lewis E. Lloyd-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. WEBER: Petition of citizens of Lockport, N. Y., in favor of Also, affidavits in the case of James M. Clamers-to the Committee proper protection of the Yellowstone Park-to the Committee on the on War Claims. Public Lands. Also, petition of K. Hamm, widow of E. Hamm, for relief-to the Also, petition of farmers of Niagara County, New York, for protec Committee on Pensions. tion to farm products-to the Committee on .Agriculture. Also, papers to accompany bill for the benefit of E. J. Baker, of Jack By Ur. WICKHAM: Petition of 60 citizens of New London, Huron son County, Kentucky-to the Committee on War Claims. County, Ohio, praying that no change be made in the tariff on flaxseed By Mr. MATSON: Petition of Matthew P. Roper, of Company C, and linseed-oil-to the Committee on Ways and Means. ' Sixth Indiana Volunteers, for increase of pension-to the Committee By Mr. WILBER: Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, in on Invalid Pensions. favor of refunding to commercial agents the license tax-to the Com- By Mr. MORRILL: Petition of R. J. Brown and 45 others, of Leav mittee on Commerce. ' en worth, and of L. C. Brunk and 63 others, of Meriden, Kans., asking By Mr. WILKINSON: Petition of 45 and of 93 consumers of refined that the tariff on flitx:seed and linseed-oil be retained-to the Commit lard, of New Orleans, La., against the passage of any bill designed to tee on Ways and Means. brand or tax the products of certain lard refiners-to the Committee By :Mr. MORSE: Petition of Vashti H. Palmer, for relief-to the on Agriculture. Committee on Invalid Pensions. • Also, petition of Mrs. W. Bokenfohr, one of the heirs of William By :Mr. NELSON: Petition of the Duluth (Minn.) :Board of Trade, Bokenfohr, of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, for reference of her claim to relative to restriction of immigration-to the Committee on Foreign the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. Affairs. By JIIIr .. NUTTING: Petition of Dr. H. W. Caldwell and 49 others, The following petitions for an increase of compensation of fourth for repeal of law cutting off from back pensions all who did not apply class postmasters were severally referred to the Committee on the Post before July 1, 1880-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Office and Post-Roads: By Mr. OATES: Petition of the railroadcommissionersof Alabama, By lli. COBB: Of J. S. Neatley and others, of Judson, Chambers for an amendment of the interstate-commerce law so as to empower County, and of W. A. Page, of Oakbowery, Ala. the interstate commissioners to require all railroad companies within By Ur. McCREARY: Of citizens of Laurel County, Kentucky. their jurisdiction to use. automatic couplers, train brakes, and cars to be heated from the engine, for the better protection of human life-to The following petitions, indorsing the per diem rated service-pension the Committee on Commerce. bill, based on the principle of paying all soldiers, sailors, and marines By Mr. J. J. O'NEILL: Petition of H. S. LaTourette, of Missouri, of the late war a monthly pension of 1 cent a day for each day they were togetherwith requC!'lt of Pensioners' Benevolent Union of Missouri, for in the service, were severally referred to the Committee on Invalid Pen increase of his pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sions: By JIIIr. OUTHWAITE: Petition of the Montana Mineral Land .A.i3- By Ur. J. A. ANDERSON: Of 40 ex-soldiers, of Wayne, and of 30 aociation, relative to certain mineral lands in said Territory-to the ex-soldiers, of Chapman, Kans. Committee on the Public Lands. By Mr. JEHU BAKER: Of John Glenn, Thomas Vaughn, and 8 . By Mr. PAT!ON: Petition of Narrow Creek Grange, ofPennsylva other ex-soldiers, of Bond County, illinois. ma., for reduction of postage on seeds, etc.-t.o the Committee on the ByJIIIr. BELDEN: Ofex-soldiers and sailors, of Syracuse, and of Will, Post-Office and Post-Roads. iam H. Scott and 10 others, citizens of Geddes, N. Y. CONGRESSIONAL RE00RD-SE1f.ATE. APRIL 3, 2636 I By Ur. BOUTELLE: Of Daniel Scribner and others, of Patten, Me. Mr. EDMUNDS. I think j ~ has been reported. By Mr. BURROWS: Of ex-soldie~, of Schoolcraft, Mich. Mr. PLATT. I think not. By Mr. FISHER: Of 11 soldiers and sailors, of Fairview; of 8 sol The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. The Chair will ascertain, and have diers and sailors, of Rymo, and of 14 soldiers_and sailors, of Elmira, the proper reference made. Mich. Mr. EDUUNDS. It has been reported, I am told. By Mr. LYMAN: Of312 ex-Union soldiers, of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mr. PLATT. The object of this petition is to prevent the Northern By Mr. NUTTING: Of Albert A. Rice and 55 others, and of Capt. Pacific Railroad Company from obtaining lands which are not mineral C. A. Taylor and 64 others, of New York. lands, which are said to be not included in its grant. By Mr. PLUMB: Of Louis Schmidt and 18 other ex-Union soldiers, Mr. MITCHELL. I know nothing of a bill of that character having of Du Page County, illinois. been reported, but I referred to another bill when I informed the Sen By Mr. ROWLAND: Of citizens of New Hanover County, North ator from Vermont it had been reported. Carolina. l\Ir. PLA.TT. I do not think any bill has been reported on tlte sub By Mr. WEST: Of ex-soldiers and sailors, of Hamilton County, and ject, ::md I ask the proper reference of the petition. of Farrell Post, Grand Army of the Republic, ofCanajoharie, N.Y. Mr. EDMUNDS. Both petitions should go to the Committee on Public Lands, then-the one I presented as well as that presented by The following petition.~, praying for. the enactment of a law provid the Senator from Connecticut. ing temporary aid for common schools, to be disbursed on the basis of The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. The petitions will be referred to illiteracy, were severally referred to the Committee on Education: the Committee on Public Lands. By Mr. J. A. ANDERSON: Of 13 citizens of Belleville, Kans. Mr. PLA.TT presented a petition of citizens of Arizona, praying for By Mr. DALZELL: Of 170 citizens of Allegheny County, Pennsyl legislation for the protection and relief of live-stock owners and raisers vania. in that Territory; which was referred to the Committee on Finance. By Mr. FUNSTON: Of 119 citizens of Anderson County, Kansas. Mr. SAWYER presented the petition of H. H. Porter, chairman of By Mr. D. B. HENDERSON: Of 77 citizens of Black Hawk County, the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Company, praying that an ap Iowa. propriation be made in the river and harbor bill tor the improvement By Mr. STEELE: Of Mrs. M. M. Sharp and 50 others, of Indiana. of Agate Bay, in Minnesota; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. The following petitions, asking for the passage of the bill prohibiting He also presented a petition of 60 ex-soldiers and sailors, citizens of the manufacture, sale, and importation of all alcoholic beverages in the ·Fond duLac, Wis., praying for the passage of the per diem rated service District of Columbia, were severally referred to the Select Committee pension bill; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. on the Alcoholic Liquor :Traffic: He also presented a petition of the board of railroad commissioners . By Mr. BOUTELLE: OfMrs. F. H.A. Paine and 53 others, citizens of of Wisconsin, praying for legislation to promote the safety of employes Eastport, 1\Ie. and passengers on railroads; which was referred to the Committee on By Mr. CASWELL: Of 80 citizens of the First district of Wisconsin. Interstate Commerce. By Mr. CLARDY: Of citizens of the Tenth district of Missouri. l\Ir. STOCKBRIDGE presented the petition of C. M. Dnnbar and 29 By 11r. FISHER: Of 84 citizens of the Tenth district of Michigan. other ex-Union soldiers and sailors, citizens of Michigan, praying for By 11r. HIRES: Of 63 citizens of the First district of New Jersey. the passage of the per diem rated service-pension bill; which was re By Mr. MANSUR: Of 52 citizens of the Second district of Missouri. red to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. E. B. TAYLOR: Of 100 citizens of the Nineteenth district of Mr. CAMERON presented a petition of Pressmen's Union No. 4, of Ohio. ,Philadelphia, Pa., praying for the passage of the Chace international By Mr. WASHINGTON (by request): Of 58 citizens of the Sixth copyright bill; which was ordered to lie on the table. , district of Tennessee. He also presented a pepition of Progress Grange, No. 96, Patrons of Husbandry, of Pennsylvania; a petition of Burrell Grange, No. 515, Pa trons of Husbandry, of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.; a petition of SENATE. citizens of Pine Creek, Jeffer~cn County, Pennsylvania; a petition of citizens of Milton, Pa.; apetitionof citizens of Advance, Pa.; a petition TUESDAY, .April3, 1888. ofcitizens of Upper .A.ngusta, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; Prayer by toe Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. a petition of citizens of Richmond, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; a . The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. petition 'of citizens of Corry, Erie County, Pennsylvania; a. petition of EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION. citizens of Asterbury, Bedford COunty, Pennsylvania; a petition of citi zens:of Shirley, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; a petition ofcitizens The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communica of Juniata:county, Pennsylvania; a petition of citizens offinion Church, tion from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a Pa.; apetitionofcitizensofMoreland, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; resolution ofFebru1l.ry 13, 1888, reports from the Commissioner of the a petitionofcitizensofRuralValley, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; General Land Office and the Director of the Geological Survey concern petition of citizens of Williamsburgh, Blair County, Pennsylvania; ing the desirability of authorizing the Geological Survey to segregate a. and~ petition of Welcome Home Grange, No. 55), Patrons of Hus lands where irrigation lit required, to lay out suitn.ble places for reser bandry, of Berks County, Pennsylvania, praying that the Bureau of voirs, and rights of way for ditches and canals, etc.; which, with the ac Animal Industry may not be separated from the Department of Agri companying papers, was referred to the Committee on Public Lands, culture, and that the work of the eradic:~.tion of pleuro-pneumonia may and ordered to be printed. ) be continued under that bureau without changing the plan of the work PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. I now in operation, with a chief who shall be a competent veterinary The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented a petition of ex-Union sol surgeon; which were referred to the Committee on Agriculture and diers and sailors, citizens of Kansas, praying for the passage of the per Forestry. . diem rated service-pension bill; which was referred to the Committee He also presented petitions of ex-Union soldiers and sailors, citizens on Pensions. . of Academy. Corners, Oxford, FoTest City, Shamokin, and Lansing, in He also presented the petition of David L. Evans, of New York City, the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the passage of the per diem praying that the Secretary of War 'i:le directed to send United States rated service-pension bill; which were referred to the Committee on troops to Chicago to P.rotect the lives and property of citizens against Pensions. " . the socialists of illinois and Iowa; which was referred to the Commit He also presented a petition of Progress Gmnge, No. 96, Patrons of tee on Military Affairs. Husbandry, of the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the reduction of Mr. EDMUNDS presented a petition of Henry M. Conry and 63 other postage upon seeds, bulbs, and other fourth-class mail matter; which ex-Union soldiers and sailors, citizens of Gaysville, Vt., praying for the was ordered to lie on the table. passage of the per diem rated service-pension bill; which was referred He also presented a petition of J.P. McCleery, M.D., and other cit to the Committee on Pensions. izens of Milton, Pa.: praying for the repeal of that portion of the in Mr. EDMUNDS. I present the petition of Archie Ferguson and 44 ternal-revenue laws which classes druggists as liquor dealers, and also other residents of Montana Territory, praying for legislation preserving for the reduction of the tax on spirits; which was referred to the Com- the mineral lands of that Territory to the citizens of the United States. mittee on Finance. · I think a bill.on that subject is on the Calendar, and I therefore move He also presented a petition of Richmond Grange, Patrons of Hus that the petition lie on the table. bandry, of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and a petition of Bunnell The motion was agreed to. Grange, No. 575, Patrons of Husbandry, of Armstrong County, Penn Mr. PLA.TT. I present the petition of H. H. Barnes and other citi sylvania, praying for the enadmentofsuch legislation as will prohibit zens of 1\fontana, praying for legislation which shall preserve mineral the sale of adulterated lard and other adulterated food products; which lands for the citizens of the United States, and prevent the Northern were referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Pacific Railroad from obtaining lands not included in its grant. Mr. VEST presented a petition of the Medico-Chirurgical Sqciety of The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The petition will lie on the table, the St. Louis, Mo., praying for the removal of import duties on medicines bill having been reported. and surgical instruments; which was referred to the Committee on Fi Mr. PLA.TT. Has such a bill been reported? nance.