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.. 58 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD~SENATE. DECEMBER, 10, SENATE. The bill (H. R. 9473) making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year THURSDAY, D ecember 10, 1896. ending June 30, 1898, and for other purposes, was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. H. MILBURN, D. D. HOUSE BILLS REFERRED. The VICE-PRESIDENT resumed the chair. DoNELSON CAFFERY, a Senator from the State of Louisiana, The following bills were read twice by their titles, and referred appeared in his seat to-day. · to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads: The Jom·nal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. A bill (H. R. 4156) to amend the postal laws, providing limited indemnity for loss of registered mail matter; · ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY. A bill (H. R. 4157) to amend the postal laws relating to use of Mr. ALDRICH. l;,move that when the Senate adjourn to-day, postal cards; and it adjourn to meet on Monday next. A bill (H. R. 54.73) concerning delivery of letters in towns, vil The motion was agreed to. lages, and other places where no free delivery exists. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. PETITIONS A....'m MEMORIALS. · The VICE-PRESIDENT appointed, pursuant to the joint reso The VICE-PRESIDENT presented a petition of the Gla.ss Bottle lution approved June 14, 1892, J. C. Bancroft Davis and Ainswox·th Blowers' Association of the United States and Canada, praying for R. Spofford .members for three years of the Memorial Association the enactment of legislation restricting immigration; which was ordered to lie on the table. of the District of Columbia. He also presented a memorial of the faculty of the College of ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Physicians and Surgeons and of the medical department of Colum The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the annual report bia University, in the city of New York, remonstrating against of the Attorney-General for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896; the passage of Senate bill No. 1552, for the further prevention of which was ordered to lie on the table and be printed. cruelty to animals in the District of Columbia; which was ordered to lie on the table. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. Mr. GORDON presented a memorial of Bluthenthal & Bickart, The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communication of Atlanta, Ga., remonstrating against the enactment of legisla from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance tion permitting distillers to bottle whisky in bond; which was with the requirements of section 4690 of the Revised Statutes, the referred to the Committee on Finance. annual ·report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Mr. BATE presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce and Geodetic Survey for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896; which, of Chattanooga, Tenn., praying that an appropriation be made · with the accompanying papers, was ordered to lie on the table.and for dredging in front of the city wharf and Water street, in that be printed. city; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. CERTIFICATION OF ELECTORS. Mr. KYLE. I present a petition of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, praying for the 'appointment of a The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate nine communi nonpartisan commission to investigate the problems of papital cations from the Secretary of State, transmitting, in pursuance of and labor. The petition refers, I .believe, to the Phillips bill, the provisions of the act of February 3, 1887, certified copies of the which has already passed the House and is now before the Com final ascertainment of the electors for President and Vice-Presi mittee on Education and Labor. I move that the petition be re- dent from the States of Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ala ferred to that committee. · bama, Indiana, Ohio, Delaware, North Carolina, and Rhode The motion was agreed to. Island; which were ordered to lie on the table. Mr. WALTHALL presented a ~etition of Post No. 25, Grand • EXTENSION OF CONNECTICUT AVENUE. Army of the Republic, of Greenville, Miss., praying for the pas sage of a service-pension bill; which was refen-ed to the Committee The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica on Pensions. tion from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, trans Mr. HALE presented a petition of the members of the Society of mitting, pursuant to a provision in the District appropriation ac.t the Colonial Dames of America, praying for the enactment of legis ·of June 11, 1896, a report as to the comparative advantages and lation incorporating that association underthe laws of the United disadvantages and comparative cost of extending Connecticut States; which was referred to the Committee on the Library. · avenue from Florida avenue to the District line; which, with Mr. NELSON presented the memorial of Mary F. Isaminger, of the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on the the city of Washington, D. C., remonstrating against the erection District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. of stables on lot 43, square 358, in that city; which was referred to MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. the Committee on the District of Columbia. ~ Mr. McBRIDE presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. W. J. of Astoria, Oreg., praying for the early completion of the Nicara BROWNING, its Chief Clerk, announced that the House had agreed gua Canal; which was referred to the Select Committee on the to the report of the committee of conference~ on the disagreeing Construction of the Nicaragua Canal. votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the Mr. CALL. I present a petition of women of the United States, bill (H. R. 2604) to increase the pension of Caroline A. Hough, members of the Business Woman's Exchange. The petition is widow of Brig. Gen. John Hough. signed by a large number of pe1·sons and prays that some action be The message also announced that the House had agreed to the taken on the part of Congress for relief from imprisonment of report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of Mrs. Florence E. Maybrick. I do not know to what committee the the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H. R. petition should be refen-ed. As the Committee on the Judiciary 4354) granting a pension to Mrs. Mary Gould Carr, widow of the have reported unfavorably, I suppose the petition may be referred late Brig. and Bvt. Maj. Gen. Joseph B. Carr,. United States Vol to the Committee on Foreign Relations. unteers, deceased. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The petition will be so referred, in The message further announced that the House had passed the the absence of objection. · following bills: Mr. QUAY presented a petition of 15,000 operators in woolen A bill (S. 264) providing for the location and purchase of public and worsted mills in the United States, praying for the passage lands for reservoir sites; and of the so-called Dingley taliff bill; which was referred to the Com A bill (S. 2047) extending the time within which the University mittee on Finance. of Utah shall occupy lands heretQ.fore granted to it. He also presented a petition of the Glass Bottle Blowers' Asso The message also announced that the House had passed the fol ciation of the United States and Canada, praying for the enact lowin~ bills; in which it requested the concun-ence of the Senate: ment of legislation restricting immigration; which was ordered A bill (H. R. 4156) to amend the postal laws, providing limited to lie on the table. indemnity for loss of registered mail matter; He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Chambers A bill (H. R. 4157) to amend the postal laws relating to the use burg, Pa., praying for the enactment of legislation for the relief of postal cards; of the suffering Armenians in Turkey; which was referred to the A bill (H. R. 5473) concerning delivery of letters in towns, vil Committee on Foreign Relations. lages, and other places where no free delivery exists; and He also presented a memorial of the War Veterans' Association A bill (H. R. 9473) making appropriations for the payment of of Allegheny County, Pa., remonstrating against the extension invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year of the classified 8ervice provided for in recent proclamations of ending June 30, 1898, and for other purposes. the President; which was referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment. · PENSION. APPROPRIA.TIO BILL. He also presented a petition of (}eorge G. Meade Post, No.1, :Mr. HALE. I ask that the pension appropriation bill, which Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pa., praying for has just come from the House, be laid before the Senaw and the recognition of the independence of Cuba; which was referred referred to the Committee on Appropriations. to the Committee on Foreign Relations. · .· 189.6. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 59 He also presented resolutions adopted by the National Board of Mr. LODGE introduced a bill (S. 3340) authorizing Herbert Trade, favoring the development of the export tra<le; which were H. D. Pierce to accept a medal from the Russian Government; referred to the Committee on Commerce. which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee He also presented a petition of the National Board of Trade, on Foreign Relations.