1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. -2597 of Foxboro, Mass., prayingfortpe free delivery of mails in coun­ lution of the river improvement convention held in Kansas try districts-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post­ City, Mo., December 15 and 16, 1891, praying that adequate ap­ Roads. propriations be made for the improvement of the Missouri and Also, petition of Northboro Grange, No. 119, ofMassachusetts, Mississippi Rivers. I move that the resolution be referred to for the free delivery of rural mails-to the Committee on the the Committee on Commerce, as only a portion of the matter has Post-Office and Post-Roads. been acted upon by the Senate. Also, petition of Northboro Grange No. 119, of Massachusetts, The.motion was agl:'eed to. for legislation for the encouragement of silk culture-to the Com­ ~r. COCKRELL presented the memorial of C. C. Bland, judge mittee on Agriculture. of the eighteenth judicial circuit of Missouri, and other attot'neys Also, petition of Northboro Grange No. 119, of Massachusetts, at law of Steelville, Mo., remonstrating against the passage of a for pure lard-to the Committee on Agriculture. · general bankruptcy law; which was referred to the Committee Also, petition of Northboro Grange, No. 119, of Massachu­ on the Judiciary. · setts, for pure food-to the Committee on Agriculture. He also presented the following petitions of Union Grange, -- Also, petition of Northboro Grange, No. 119, of Massachu­ Patrons of Husbandry, of Missouri: setts, for legislation to prevent gambling in farm products-to Petition praying for the anactment of legislation -to prevent the Committee on Agriculture. • gambling in farm products-referred t o the Committee on the By Mr. WILSON of Washington: Petition of 186 citizens of Judiciary. Vancouver, Clark County, Wash., praying Congress to enact legis-· Petition praying for the passage of a bill making certain issues lation for the restriction of immigration-to the Select; Commit­ of money full legal tender in payment of all debts-to the Com­ tee on Immigration and Naturalization. mittee on Finance. By Mr. WRIGHT: Memorial and petition of citizens of Brad­ Mr. BUTLER presented. a petition of the Board of Trade of ford County, Pa., against any legislation intended to divert pub­ Spartanburg, S.C., praying for the extension of the free deliv­ lic moneys to sectarian purposes, or to in any way recognize any ery system to cities of 5,000 inhabitants· which was referred to religious bodies, and f{\voring a constitutional amendment pro­ the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. hibiting any such action-to the Committee on the Judiciary. l\Ir. BLACKBURN presented two memorials of sqndry citi­ - Also, memorial of East Smithfield Grange, No. 214, of Penn­ zens of Kentucky, remonstrating against the passage of a gen­ sylvania, against gambling in farm products-to the Committee eral bankruptcy law; which were referred to the Committee on on Agriculture. the Judiciary. Also, memorial of East Smithfield Grange, No. 21-!, of Penn­ l\Ir. HARRIS. I present a number of regulation printedste.reo­ sylvania, against contracts discrediting legal-tender currency- typ~d petitions of Centerville Grange, No. 1.72, Patrons of Hus­ to the Committee on Banking and Currency. · bandry of Tennesse3. Also, memorial of East Smithfield Grange, No. 214, of Penn­ A petition praying for the ene.ctment of legislation for the en­ sylvania, in favor of silk culture-to the Committee on Agricul­ couragement of silk culture-ordered to lie on the table. ture. A petition praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent Also, memorial of East Smithfield Grange, No. 21-!, of Penn­ gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the sylvania, in favor of pure lard-to the Committee on Ways and Judiciary. ~eans. - A petition praying for the passage of House bill 395, defining Also, memorial of East Smithfield Grange, No. 214, of Penn­ lard and imposing a tax thereon-ordered to lie on the table. sylvania, in favor of free delivery of mails in rural districts-to - A petition praying for the passage of a bill to prevent the the Committee on the Po3t-Office and Post-Roads. adulteration of food and drugs-ordered to lie on the table. · Also, petition of citizens of Windham Township, Bradford A petition praying for the free delivery or mails in rural dis­ County, Pa., in favor of free delivery of mails in country dis­ tricts-referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post- tricts-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Roads. - Also, memorial of citizens of Bradford County, Pa.1 in favor of A petition praying for-the passage of a bill making certain is­ a bill to provide home rule for Utah-to the Comm1ttee on the sues of money full legal tender in payment of all debts-to the Territories. Committee on Finance. ~Ir. HARRIS presented the memorial of H. G. Kyle and 40 other citizens of Rogersville, Tenn., remonstrating against the SENATE. pa1sage of a general bankruptcy law; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, · l\IONDAY, March 28, 18.92. Ml'. GORMAN presented the petition of C. Morris Cheston Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D.p. and other citizens of Obligation, ::0.1d. · the petition of William The Journal of the proceedings of Friday last was read and ap­ Anthony and other citizens of Solomons, Mel.; the petition of J. proved. E. T. Ewell and other citizens of Baltimore, :Md., and the peti­ tion of H. B. Adams and other citizens of Baltimore, Md., pray­ EXECUTIVE COl\IMUNICATION. ing for the passage of an amendment to the Constitution of the The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica­ United States prohibiting any legislation by the States respect­ tion from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter from ing an establishment of religion or making an appropriation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to the employment money for any s3ctarian purpose; which were r eferred to the of special attorneys and assistants to look after the interest of Committee on the Judiciary. the Indians in claims for depre:lations against them; which, with He also presented the illljmorial' of Rev. Thomas J. Packard the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on Ap­ and other citizens of Maryland, remonstrating against the pas­ propriations, and ordered to be printed. sage of Senate bill 362, providing for the removal of the South­ PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. ern Ute Indians from their present fertile reservation in Colo­ The VICE-PRESIDENT presented resolutions adopted at a rado to Utah Territory; which was referred to the Committ~ e meeting of the Steamboatmen and seamen held at Milwaukee, on Indian Affairs. Wis., citing certain violations of the alien contract-labor law. He also presente d a petition of the Wo:nan's Christian Tem­ and praying for an investigation and legislation to remedy such peranc3 Union of Maryland, comprising 2:900 members, praying abuses; which was referred to the Committee on Immig-ration. that no expo3ition for which appropriations are made by Cou.­ He also presented a petition of citizens of Frankfort, Ky., pray­ gress shall be opened on Sunday : which was referred to the ing for the passage of a bill to increase the internal-revenue tax Committee on the Quadro-Centennial (Select). on paper-wrapped cigarettes; which was l'eferrad to the Com­ He also pres:mted the following petitions of Springville and mittee on Finance. Liberty Grove Granges, Patrons of Husbandry of Maryland: Mr. BERRY presented the petition of ~f. R. Carson and 22 Petitions praying for the enactment of legislation for the en­ other members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, of couragement of silk culture-ordered to lie on the table. Jonesboro, Ark., praying for the passage of a bill to insure the Petitions praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent safety of railroad employes; which was rzferred to the Commit­ gambling in farm product -referred to the Committee on the tee on Interstate Commerce. Judiciary_ Mr. BATE presented a petition of the Woman's Christian P etitions praying for the passage of House bill395, defining lard Temperance U nion,signed by abou t200 citizens of Morgan County. and imposing a tax thereon-ordered to lie :-n the table. Tenn., praying Congress to prohibit the opening on Sunday of Petitions praying for the pas age o£ a bill making certain is­ any exhibition or exposition where United States funds are ex­ sues of money full legal tender in. payme!lt of all debts-referred pended; which was referred to the Committee on the Quadro­ to the Committee on Finance. - Centennial (Select}. fr. PASCO presented the petition of J. R. P lumb and 119 ... Mr. COCKRELL. I present a resolution of the Thirty-sixth other citizens of Clearwater Harbor, Fla., )? raying Congress to General Assembly of the State of Missouri, concurring in a -reso- prohibit the opening on S unday of any exhibition or exposition

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where United States funds are expended; which was referred to Heal o presented a petition of 119 citizens of New Brightou, the Committee on the Quadro-Centennial (Select). Pa., praying for the passage of House bill401 relative to immi­ Mr. DOLPH presented the following petitions of Mount Holly gration and the importations of aliens under contract or agree­ Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of Oregon: ment to perform labor; which was referred to the Committee on Petition praying for the enactment of legislation for the en­ Immigration. couragement of silk culture-ordered to lie on the table. He also -presented a petition of 123 citizens of Beaver County, Petition praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent Pa., praying for the imposition of certain restrictions upon gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the immigration and the adoption of an amendment to the Constitu­ J udi,giary. tion prohibiting any State from granting the right of suffrage Petitions praying for the passage of House bill 395, defining to any person not a citizen of the United States; which was re­ lard and imposing a tax thereon-ordered to lie on the table. ferred to the Committee on Immigration. Petition praying for the passage of a bill to preve)lt the adul­ He also presented a memorial of the Kensington Methodist teration of food and drugs-ordered to lie on the table. Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, Pa., and a memorial of the Petition praying for the free delivery of mails in rural dis­ Young People's Christian Endeavor Society of Huntingdon tricts-referred to the Committee OCl Post-Offices and Post-Roads. County, Pa., remonstrating against the opening of the World's Mr. STOCKBRIDGE pre sented the following petitions of Hart­ Columbian Exposition on Sunday; which were referred to the ford, Whitneyville, and Elm Valley Granges, Patrons of Hus­ Committee on the Quadro-Centennial (Select). bandry, of Michigan: He also presented a petition of L. C. Bigley and 25 other citi­ Petitions praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent zens of Goplay, Pa.; a petition of 55 citizens of Jonestown, Pa.; gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the a petition of 19 citizens of Shenandoah, Pa.; a petition of 74 citi­ Judiciary. zens of Tower City, Pa.; a petition of 55 citizens of Scranton, Petitions praying for the passage•of House bill 395, defining Pa.; a petition of 50 citizens of Brisbin, Pa.; a petition of 43 citi­ •, lard and imposing a tax thereon-ordered to lie on the table. zens of Brockwayville, Pa.; a petition of 29 citizens of Caledonia, Petitions praying for the passage of a bill to prevent the adul­ Pa.; a petition of 20 citizens of Schellsburg,Pa.; a petition of 47 teration of food and drugs-ordered to lie on the table. citizens of Hickory Corners,Pa.; a petition of 21 citizens of Phil­ Petitions praying for the free delivery of mails in rural dis­ lipsburg, Pa.; a petition of 38 citizens of Fort Loudon, Pa.; tricts-referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. a petition of 25 citizens of Forest County, Pa.; a petition ol the Petitions, praying for the passage of a bill making certain is­ National Grand Lodge of the Loyal Knights of America, of Scran­ sues of money full legal tender in payment of all debts-to the ton, Pa., and the petition of W. H . Va.rick and 51 other citizens Committee on Finance. of Philadelphia, Pa., praying for the passage of an amendment Mr. WILSON presented a memorial of 35 citizens and business to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting any legisla­ firms of Ottumwa, Iowa, remonstrating against the passage of a tion by the States respecting an establishment of religion or bankruptcy bill; which was referred to the Committee on the making an appropriation of money for any sectarian purpose; Judiciary. ~ which were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. He also presented the following petitions of Buena Vista Grange, Mr. GALLINGER presented the following petitions of Morn­ Patrons of Husbandry, of Iowa: ing Star Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of New Hampshire: . Petition praying for the passage of House bill395, defining lard Petition praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent and imposing a tax thereon-ordered to lie on the table. gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the Petition praying for the passage of a bill to prevent the adul­ Judiciary. teration of food and drugs-ordered to lie on the table. Petition praying for the passage of House bill 395, defining Petitions praving for the free delivery of mails in rural dis­ lard and imposing a tax thereon-ordered to lie on the table. tricts-referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Petition praying for the passage of a bill to prevent the adul­ Mr. PERKINS presented the petition of 0. S. Cassad and 48 teration of food and drugs-ordered to Ue on the table. other citizens of Pittsburg, Kans., praying for the .passage of Petition praying for the free delivery of mails in rural dis­ Senate bill254, providing for the free delivery of mails in rural tricts-referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. districts; which was referred to the Committee on Post-Offic2s Petition praying for the passage of a bill making certain is­ and Post-Roads. sues of money full legal tender in payment of all debts-to the He also presented a. memorial of the First Congragational Committee on Finance. Church of Manhattan, Kans., remonstrating against the opening of the World's Colmp.bian Exposition on Sunday and praying fqr Mr. HOAR presented a petition of the American Federation the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors on the grounds; of Labor of New York City, signed by Samuel Gompers, presi­ which was referred to the Committee on the Quadro-Centennial dent, praying fo:- the passage of legislation for the relief of the (Select). toiling masses of the country; which was referred to the Com­ He also presented a memorial of the United Presbyterian Pres­ mittee on Education and Labor. bytery of Kansas City, Kans., remonstrating against the open­ He also presented the following patitions of North Brookfield, ing of the World's Columbian Exposition on Sunday; which was Oxford, Petersham Worcester, and Mendon Granges, Patrons referred to the Committee on the Quadro-Centennial (Select). of Husbandry, of Massachusetts: He also presented a memorial of the First Congregational Petitions praying for the enactment of legislation for the en­ Church, of Manhattan, Kans., remonstrating against the pas­ couragement of silk culture-ordered to lie on the table. sage of the bill authorizi.i:lg the licensing of the sale of intoxi­ Petitions praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent cants in the Territory of Alaska; which was referred to the Com­ gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the mittee on Territories. Judiciary. He also presented the 1:>etition of Martha Hill, of Wauneta, Petitions praying for the passage of House bill 395, defining Kans., widow of David Hill, late of Company F, First Battalion lard and imposing a tax thereon-ordered to lie on the table. of Cass County (Mo.) HomeJ Guards, praying to beallowed apen­ Petitions praying for the passage of a bill to prevent the adul· sion· which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. teration of food and drugs-ordered to lie on the table: He also presented the petition of Isaac Cogswell, of Ossawato­ Petition praying for the free delivery of · mai1s in rural dis­ mie, Kans., late a member of Company A, Seventh Regiment tricts-referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post­ Kentucky Cavalry, praying Congress to grant him a discharge Roads. and to remove the charge of desertion standing against him; Mr. HALE presented the following petitions of Floral and which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. South Montville Granges, Patrons of Husbandry, of Maine: Mr. QUAY presented a petition of citizens of Erie County,Pa., Petition praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent praying for the free delivery of mails in rural districts, for more gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the frequent mails therein, and that the classes of mail matter be re­ Judiciary. duced to two; which was referred to the Committee on Post­ Petitions praying for the passage of House bill 395, defining Offices and Post-Roads. lard and imposing a tax thereon-ordered to lie on the table. He also presented a petition of the Woman's Christian Tem­ Petition praying for the free delivery of mails in rural dis­ perance Union, signed by 147 citizens of Pennsylvania, praying tricts-referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post­ Congress to prohibit the opening on Sunday of any exhibition Roads. or exposition where United States funds are expended; which Mr. CULLOM presented a petition of sundry citizens of Illinois, was referred to the Committee on the Quadro-Centennial(Select). praying for the passage of an amendment to the Constitution of ' He also presented a petition of members of the faculty of the the United States prohibiting any legislation by the St&.tes re­ Theological Seminary of Gettysburg, Pa., praying that no loan specting an establishment of religion or making an appropriation be granted in aid of the World's Columbian Exposition unless of money for any sectarian purpose; which wa.s referred to the it b:o closed on Sunday; which was referred to the Committee on Committee on the Judiciary. the Quadro-Centennial (Select). He also presented a memorial of citizens of Vandalia, TIL, re- -- •.

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monstrating against the passage of a Federal bankrupt-cy law; Ind., praying for the adoption of an amendment to the Constitu­ .. - which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · tion of the United States, p~hibiting any legislation by the He also presented the following petitions of Ridge Grange, Pa­ States respecting an establishment of religion or making an ap­ trons of Husbandry, of Illinois: propriation of money for any sectarian purpose; which was re­ Petition praying for the enactment of legislation for the en­ ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. couragement of silk culture-ordered to lie on the table. He also presented a memorial of sundry citizens of Indiana, Petition praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent remonstrating against the passage of a general bankruptcy law; • gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Judiciary. . Mr. McPHERSON presented the petition of ex-President:Mc­ Petition praying for the passage of a bill to prevent the adul­ Cosb, President Patten, and other members of the faculty of teration of food and drugs-ordered to lie on the table. Princeton College, of New Jersey, the petition of A . W . Cor­ Petition praying for the free delivery of mails in rural districts­ nell and 52 other citizens of Spotswood, N.J., the petition of referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. G. William Barnard and 26 other citizens of Gloucester, N . J., Mr. ALLISON presented a petition of Division No. 226, Broth­ the petition of Archie Coddington, jr., and 24: other citizens ot erhood of Locomotive Engineers, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, praying Bound Brook, N. J ., and the petition of Benjamin O'Donnell and for the passage of legislation compelling all railroads to establish 19 other citizens of Camden, N.J., praying for the adoption of uniform systems of couplers and power brakes on all cars and an ameniment to the Constitution of the United States prohibit· locomotives; which was referred to the Committee on Interstate ing the establishment of a religion by the States and the appro­ Commerce. priation of public money for sectarian purposes; which were re­ He also presented resolutions adopted by the Capital Council, ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. No.4, Order United American Mechanics, of Des Moines, Iowa, He also presented the following petitions of Locktown, Mullica favoring the passage of legislation to amend the naturalization Hill, Medford, and Bridgeport Granges, Patrons of Husbandry, laws as reported by the Judiciary Committee of the House of of New Jersey: Representatives; which were referred to the Committee on the Petitions pra.ying for the enactment of legislation for the en­ Judiciary. couragement•of silk culture-ordered to lie on the table. He also presented a memorial of Tents Post, Grand Army ot. Petitions praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent the Republic, of Fontanelle, Iowa, remonstrating against the pas­ gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the sake of the free-coinage bill; which was referred t:> the Commit~ Judiciary. tee on Finance. Petitions praying for the pzssa.ge of House bill 395, defining He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Iowa, pray­ lard and imposing a tax thereon-ordered to lie on the table. ing for the passage of the Bland silver bill; which was referred Petitions praying for the passage of a bill to prevent the adul­ to the Committee on Finance. teration of food and drugs-ordered to lie on the table. He also presented a memorial of citizens of Knoxville, Iowa, Petitions praying for the free delivery of mails in rural dis­ remonstrating against the passage of a bankruptcy bill; which trict-s-referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post­ was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. R oads. He also presented a memorial of the National Woman·s Chris­ Petitions praying for the passage of a bill making certain issues tian Temperance Union of Iowa, remonstrating against the open­ of money full legal tender in payment of all debts-to the Com­ ing of the World's Columbian Exposition on Sunday: which was mittee on Finance. referred to the Committee on the Quadro-Centennial (S 3lect). Mr. CAMERON presented the petition of William Wible and He also presented a petition of citizens of Lyon County, Io)Va· 21 other citizens of Cumberland County, Pa.; the petition of P . a petition of citizens of Woodbury County, Iowa; and a petition L . Houck and 24 other citizens of Adams County, Pa., and the of citizens of Little Sioux and River Sioux, Iowa, praying for the patition of D. H. Guise and 30 other citizens of Liberty Town­ passage of the Washburn-Hatch antioption bills; which were re· ship, Cumberland County, Pa., praying for the passage of legis­ ferred to the Committee on the .Judiciary. lation regulating speculation in fictitious farm products; which Mr. SHERMAN p1·esented the following petitions of Benton, were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Champion, Haverhill, Union, Clearfork, St. Clair, Chesterfield, He also presented a petition of Liberty Alliance, No. 20, of . and Fairview Granges, Patrons of Husbandry, of Ohio: Adams County, Pa., praying for the extension of the free-delivery Petitions praying for the enactment of legislation for the en­ system; which was referred to the Committee on Post-Offices couragement of silk culture-ordered to lie on the table. and Post-Roads. Petitions praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent He also presented the petition of C. W. Knights and 23 other gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on t he citizens of Port Trevorton, Pa.; the petition of John R . Marlin Judiciary. and 25other citiz::ms of Philadelphia, Pa.; the petition of Frank Petitions praying for the passage of House bill 395, defining Ernst and 27 other citizens of Read.ing, Pa.; the petition of~ - C. lard and imposing a tax thereon-ordered t o lie on the table. Grime and 56 other citizens of Reading,.. Pa.· the petition of D. Petitions praying for the free delivery of mails in rural dis­ F . Bassler and 13 other citizens of Bedford County, Pa.; the peti­ tricts-referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. tion of W. G. Sheetz aud 38 other citizens of Newmanstown, Pa; Petitions praying for the passage of a bill making certain issues the petition of Jasper Lightfoot and 28 other citizens of Blandon, of money full legal tender in payment of all debts-to the Com- Pa.; the petition of A-T. Bowman and 21 other citizens of Bis­ mittee on Finance. , marck, Pa., and a petition of the National Grand Lodge of the Mr. PETTIGREW presented a petition of citizens of Turner Loyal Knights of America of Scranton, Pa., praying for the pas­ County, S.Dak., praying for the passage of the Washburn-Hatch sage of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States antioption bills; which was referred to the Committee on the prohibiting any legislation by the States respecting an establish­ Judiciary. ment of religion or making an appropriation of money for any Mr. WOLCOTT presented a petition of the Silver Club of Red sectarian purpo&e; which were referred to the Committee on the Cliff, Colo., praying for the passage of a bill for the free and un­ Judiciary. limited coinage of silv~r; which was r eferred to the Committee He also presented the petition of John W . Speed and 29 other on Finance. citizens of Port Royal, Pa., praying for the passage of certain Mr. VILAS presented a petition of the Wisconsin State Cran­ amendments to the immigration and naturalization laws; which berry Growers' Association, praying that additional appropria· was r eferred to the Committee on Immigration. tions be made for the ser vice of the Weather Bureau in Wiscon­ He also presented sundry petitions collected by the National sin; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Woman's Christian Temperance Union, signed by 109 citizens of Forestry. Pennsylvania, praying that no exposition or exhibition for which He also presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce of appropriations are made by Congress shall be opened on Sunday; Milwaukee, Wis., praying for the passage of certain amendments which were referred to the Committee on the Quadro-Centen­ to the interstate commerce law; which was referred to the Com­ nial (Select). mittee on Interstate Commerce. He also presented petitions of Mahanoy City, Darlington, He also presented the following petitions of North Branch North Star, Jenkintown, Highspire, Corsica, and Fort Hunter Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of Wisconsin: Councils, Junior Order United American Mechanics, of Pennsyl­ Petition praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent vania, and petitions of Washington Camps, Nos. 482, 450,517, 396, gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the and 386, Patriotic Order Sons of America, of Pennsylvania, Judiciary. praying for the passage of a bill to amend the naturalization Petition praying for the passage of a bill to prevent the adul­ laws as agreed upon and reported by the Judiciary Committee teratioi;l of food and drugs-ordered¥> lie on the table. of the House of Representatives: which were referred .to the Petition praying for the free dehvery of mails in rural dis­ Committee on the Judiciary. tricts-referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. He also presented the following petitions of Center, Road, and Mr. TURPIE presented a petition of citizens of Fort Wayne, Baileysburg Granges, Patrons of Husbandry, of Pennsylvania :

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... Petition praying for the enactment of legislation for the en­ Mr. FAULKNER, from the Committee on Claims, to whom couragement of silk culture-ordered to lie on the table. was 1·eferred the bili (S. 242) for the relief of the estate of John Petitions praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent W. Whitfield, reported it with amendments: .and submitted a gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the report thereon. Judiciary. · 1\fr. CAREY, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Petitions praying for the passage of House bill 395, defining Grounds, to whom· was referred the bill (S.1304) for the erection lard and imposing a tax thereon-ordered to lie on the table. of a public building at Pierre, S. Dak., reported it without Petition praying for the passage of a bill to prevent the adul­ amendment, and submitted a report thereon. teration of food and drugs-ordered to lie on the table. Mr. SAWYER, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post­ Petitions praying for the free delivery of mails in i'ural di - Ro::~.ds, to whom was referred the bill (S. 1752) for the relief of tricts-referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post­ W. A. Walker, of Albuquerque, N. Mex., reported it without Roads. amendment, and submitted a report thereon. Petition praying for the passage of a bill making certain is­ Mr. GALLINGER, from the Committee on the District of Co­ sues of money full legal tender in payment of all ·debts-to the lumbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 834) for the promotfon Committee on Finance. of anatomical science and to prevent the desecration of graves Mr. VEST presented a petition of the house of representativas in the District of Columbia, reported it with amendments, and of the Thirty-sixth Ganeral Assembly of Missouri, praying that submitted a report thereon. adequate appropriations be made for the improvement of the Mr. PADDOCK, from the Committee on Public Lands, to Mississippi and Missouri Rivers; which was raferred to the Com­ whom was referred the bill (S. 391)for the relief of Wesley Mont­ mittee on Commerce. gomery, reported it with amendments. He also presented the petition of J. I. Woodfill and other cfti­ He also, from the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, to zens of Nichols, Mo., praying for the passage of the Washburn­ whom was referred the bill (S. ·] 109) to secure the introduction Hatch antioption bills; which was referred to the Committee on of dome ticated reindeer into Alaska, reported it without amend­ the Judiciary. ment. He also preEented the following petitions of Oalrland Grange, Mr. HOAR, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom Patrons of Husbandry, of Missouri: the subject was referred, reported a bill (S. 2729) to amend an a<:t Petition praying for the enactment of leg·islation for the en­ entitled "An act to establish circuit courts of appeals," and to couragement of silk. culture-ordered to lie on the table. define ~nd regulate in certain cases t.he jurisdiction of the courts Petition praying for the enactment of legislation to preyent of the United State , and for other purposes; which was read gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the twice by its title. Judiciary. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The bill will be placed on the Cal­ Petitions praying for the passage of House bill 395, defining endar. lard and imposing a tax: thereon-ordered to lie on the table. l\1r. HOAR. I desire to give notice that I shall a k the Sen­ Petition praying for the fre3 delivery of mails in rural dis­ ate to consider the bill at a very early day. tricts-refereed to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Petition praying for the passage of a bill making certain is· HO'l' SPRINGS RESERVATION. sues of money full legal tender in payment of all debts-to the Mr. BERRY. I am dirc c~ed by the Committee on Public Committee on Financa. Lands to report back favorably, with an amendment, the bill (S. Mr. FRYE presented a petition of citizens of the District of 2397) to include lot numbered 89 at Hot Springs, Ark., in the pub­ Columbia, praying for the passage of Senate bill2085, regulating lic reservation at that place. In view of the importance of the steam engineedng in the District of Columbia; which was r e­ matter, it being a very short bill to prevent the sale of a lot at ferred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Hct Springs, I am instructed by the committee to ask for its Mr. PLATT presented memorials of citizens of Lackawanna, pres:::mt consideration. Luzerne, Lehigh, Bedford, Berks, Tioga, Schuylkill, Northum­ There b ~ ing no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the berland, Westmoreland, and Center Counties, of Pennsylvania, Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. and memorials of citizens of Frackville, Myerstown, Rays Hill, The amendment of the Committee on Public Lands was, in line Center Valley, Limekiln, Rathmel Mount Pleasant, McGees 3 after the word "numbered", to insert thewords "fifty-three in Mills; Washington, Philadelphia, Reading~ and Centralia Pa., block;" so as to make the bill read: remonstrating against the passage of the Faulkner, Caine, and B e it enacted; etc., That lot numbered 53 in block 89, or the town or Hot Springs, in the State of Arkansa , as-surveyed and laid eut according to an Te ler bills relative to home rule for· Utah Territory; which acto:! Congress approved March 3, 181i. under the direction and supervision were referred to the Committee on Territories. or the Hot Springs commission, be, and the same is hereby, reserved from He also presented two petitions of citizens of Connecticut sale, and the same is hereby de ~ lared to be a part of the permanent public reservation at Hot Springs, and that it shall be subject to the same laws, pra~ng for the passage of legislation regulating speculation in rules, and regulation. that apply to s:~.id permanent reservation as now de­ fictitious farm products; which were rererred to the Committee fined. on the Judiciary. He also presented a petition of citizens of Cromwell, Conn., ~Ir. PLATT. Is the bill reported from the Committee on Pub­ praying for the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution of lic Lands? Mr. BERRY. I will state to the Senator from Connecticut the United States~ prohibiting the appropriation by any State of that it is J'eported from that committee. There is also a favor­ public money for the support of any institution in whole or in able report from the Secretary of the Interior in fayor of adding part under sectarian control· which was referred to the Commit- this.lot to the public reservation. It was believed that it did be­ tee on the Judiciary. . . long to the reservation until rec3ntly. The letter of the Com­ 1\fr. SHOUP prasentcd a petition of the Democratic Club of mistiioner of the Land Office is hera. Pocatello, Idaho, praying for the passage of the Palmer bill, pro­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is -on agreeing to the viding for the election of United States Senators by adirectvot3 amendment reported by the committee. of. the people; which was referred to the Committee on Privi- The amendment was agreed to. leges and Elections. · The bill was raported to the Senate as amended, and the amend­ Mr. GEORGE presented the following petitions of 1vfagnolia ment was concurred in. and Cincinnatus Granges, Patrons of Husbandry, of Mississippi: The bill was ordered to. be engros ed for a third reading, read Petitions praying for the enactment of legislation to prevent the third time, and passed. gambling in farm products-referred to the Committee on the The title was amended so as to' read: "A bill include lot Judiciary. to Petition praying· for the passage of House bill No. 393: defining numbered 53, in block 89, at Hot Spdngt;, Ark., in the public lard and imposing a tax thereon-ordered to lie on the table. reservation at that place." Petition praying for the passage of a bill to prevent the adul- OPTION BILL HEARINGS. teration of food and drugs-ordered to lie on the table. Mr. PLATT. From the Committe3 on the Judiciary I report Petitions praying for the free delivery of mails in rm'al dis- a resolution; and I ask that the resolution, together with the tricts-referred totheCommitte3 onPost-OfficesandPost-Roads. 'testimony to which it refers, be referred to the Committee on Petitions praying for the passage of a bill making certain is- Printing. - sues of money full legal tender in p lymen't. of all debts-to the The resolution was read., and, with the accompanying test.i- Committee on Finance. nony, referre:l to the Committee on Printing, as follows: COMl\llTTEES · R esolved, 'l'hat the testimony taken by the Committee on the Judiciary in REPORTS OF' · hearings upon the so·calle:l Washburn option bills be printed for the use or Mr. VEST, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom the the Senate. subject was referred, reported a bill (S. 2728) fixing the com_~:en- MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. sation of United States district attorneys, and for otherpurpo es; A messag-e from the House of Representatives, by _fr. T. 0. which was rea-d twice by its title. · 1 TOWLES, its Chief Clerk, annatmced that the House had passed 1892. CONGRESSIO.NAL RECORD-SEN;_ATE. 2601 /------~------the following bills; in which it requested the con:mrrence of the He also introduced a bill (S. 2741) granting an l;wnorable dis- Senate: charge to Albert G . Romine; which was read twice by its title, A bill (H. R. 670) granting a pension to Ellen Maguire; · and referred t6 the Committee on Military Affairs. · A bill (H. R. 721) granting a pension to Esther Doolittle; He also (by request) introduced a bill (S. 2742) for the relief and A bill (H. R. 723) granting a pension to Sarah L. Henderson; classification of letter carriers in second-class post-offices; which A bill (H. R . 724) granting a pension to Jane Shierry; was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Post- A bill (H. R. 1078) to pension Jane Allen: Offices and Post-Roads. A bill (H. R. 1084) to remove the charge of desertion now Mr. HOAR introduced a bill (S. 2743 ) to amend an act entitled l!tanding against Michael Keefe, deceased; "An act to facilitate the disposition of cases in the Supreme Court A bill (H. R. 1425) for the relief of Wells Cheney; of the United States, and for other purposes;" ~hich was read A bill (H. R. 1445) for the relief of Kate P. Mitchell, daughter twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. of Stephen MitchE'll, late of the Fifth Maine Battery; Mr. CULLOM introduced a bill (S. 2744)ior the relief of Francis A bill (H. R. 1528) to pension Samuel 0. Fisher, of L ynn, M. Perkins; which was read twice by its title, and referred to Mass.; the Committee on Military Affairs. A bill (H. R. 1738) to pension Mrs. Adelia S . Ferris; He also introduced a bill (S. 2745 ) granting a pension to Charles A bill (H. R. 1938) granting· a pension to Caroline E. Quigg, Scott; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com- formerly C. Elizabeth Henry, an army nurse in the late war; mittee on Pensions. A bill (H. R. 2425 ) granting a pension to Mrs. Jennie Vaughan; Mr. CARLISLE introduced a bill (S. 2746 ) granting the right A bill (H. R . 2433 ) granting a pension to Elizabeth Kelly; to sell burial sites in parts of certain streets in Washington City A bill (H. R. 2436) granting a pension to Bridget Maloy; to the vestry of Washington Parish for the benefit of the Con- A bill (H. R. 3199) to pension Margaret Turner; and gressional Cemetery; which was read twice by its title, andre- A bill (H. R. 3204) to pension L'3wis L. Lane. ferred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. The message also announced that the House had passed the He also introduced a bill (S. 2747 ) for the relief of William W. joint resolution (S . R. 49) constl·uing article 4 of the agreement Utterback; which was read twice by its title, and referred t<> the with the Citizen ba.nd of Pottawatomie Indians in Oklahoma Committee on Military Affairs. Territory and elsewhere. .Mr. COLQUITT introduced a bill (S. 2748) to grant a pension EJ\TROLLED BILLS· SIGNED. to Essex M. Botsford; which was read twice by its title, ar -1, with The message further announced that the Speaker of the ~ome the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. had signed the following enrolled bills; and they were thereupon Mr. GORMAN introduced· a bill (S. 2749) to amend an act ap- signed by the Vice-President: proved February 4, 1887, entitled " An act to regulate com- A bill (H. R. 497) to determine the sessions of the circuit and merce;" which was read twice by its title: and referred to the district courts of the United States for the eastern distdct of Committee on Interstate Commerce. · Wisconsin; He also introduced a bill lS. 2850) for the r elief of S. E. Git- A bill (H. R. 1487) to remove the political disabilities of John tings administrator; which was rea-d twice by its title, andre- R . F. Tatnall; ferred to t~e Committee .on Claims. A b~l (H. R. 3885) to increase the pension of George R. Allen; Heals? mtro~uced ,a bill (S. 2751 ) for the re~oval of tJ:te char:ge A b1ll (H. R. 5891) to authorize the appointment of clerk for . of ~ese:twn ag-am~t Charles Getzand:mer; whwh was rea-d twwe the circuit and district courts in the Texarkana division of the by 1ts tltle, and, w1th the accompanymg papers, referred to the eastern district of Arkansas; and . Committee on Military Affairs. -- A bill (S.444) granting to the State of South Dakota section No. He also introduced a bill (S . 2752) granting an honorable dis- . 36 in township No. 94 north of range No. 56 west, in the county charge to John Cunningham; which was read twice by its title, of Yankton, in said State, for the purpose of an asylum for the and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the Co_mri:littee insane, to correct an act approved June 16, 1880, attempting to on Military Affairs. make such grant to the Territory of Dakota, and for other pur- Mr. QUAY intt·odu~ed a bill (S. 2753) supplementary to an act poses. approved March 3, 1891, entitled " An act in amendment to t_he BILLS INTRODUCED. various acts relative t<> immigration and the importation of Mr. WILSON introduced a bill (S. 2730) granting an honorable aliens under contractor agreep:1ent to perform labor;" which wa discharge to William B. Barnes; which was read twice by its read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Immi­ title, and, with the a-ccompanying papers,·referi·ed to the Com- gration. mittee on Military Affairs. He ah;o introduced a bill (S. 2754) to extend the provisions of Mr. McMILLAN introduced the following bills; which were the act entitled "An act refe'rring the claim of the owners of the severally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Commit- steam_er.L N. Bunton to the Court of Claims," approved_March tee on the District of Columbia: 2, 188~, to the claims arising out of the loss of life on said steamer; A bill (S. 2731) making an appropriation for the expenses of which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee the twenty-sixth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the on Claims. Republic to be held in Washington, D. C.; He also introduced a bill (S. 2755) granting a pension to Regina A bill (S. 2732) to authorize the Commissioners of the District O'Brien and Elizabeth O'Brien, daughters of Edward O'Brien, of Columbia to make regulations for the control of the bridges decea ed, etc.; which was read twice by its title, and referred to within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes; · the Committ2e on Pensions. A bill (S. 2733) to provide for the rebuilding of the bridge He also introduced a bill (S. 2756) granting an increase of pen- across Rock Creek at P street northwest, in the District of Co- sion to Cyrus Eakman; which was read twice by its title, andre- lumbia; and ferred to the Committee on Pensions. A bill (S. 2734) to provide for the rebuilding of the brldge He also introduced a bill (S. 2757 ) for the relief of Michael A . across R<>ck Creek at K street northwest, in the District of Co- Smith; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the lumbia. Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. GALLINGER (by request) introduced a bill (S . 2735) to He also introduced a bill (S. 2758) for the ralief of John E'\!.&ns; pension Edmund Pendleton Gaines; which was read twice by its which was read twic3 by its title, and referred to the Committee title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. on Military Affairs. - :.\1r. WOLCOTT introduced a blll (S. 2736 ) to aid the S tate of . He also introduced a bill (S. 2759 ) granting an increase of p3n­ Colorado to support a State university; which was read twice swn to John A. Stewart; which was read twice by its title, and by its titb, and referre:l to the Committee on Public Lands. referred to the Committee on Pensions. Mr. SHERMAN (by request) introduced a bill (S. 2737) for the He also introduced a bill (S. 2760) for the r elief of Hugh Cos- 1 relief of John A. l...ynch; which was read twice by its title and 1 grove· which was read twice by its title, and, with the accom­ referred to the Committee on Claims. ' ' panying papers, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. He also introduced a bill (S. 2738) granting a pen ion to 1\Ifs. Mr. PADDOCK introduced a bill (S. 2761) granting a pension Mary Clute; which was read twice by its title, and r aferred to to John D. Wakley; which was read twice by its title, and re- the Committee on Pensions. fei·red to the Committee on Pensions. He also introduced a bill (S. 2'7 39) fo r t he relief of James P etty; He also introduced a bill (S. 2762) to pension Anna Morgan which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee Bm·ns; which was read twice by its title, and r efe rred to the on Military Affairs. Committee on Pensions. Mr. PERKINS introduced a bill (S. 2740) providing, within He also introduced a bill (S. 2763) for the protection and ad- designated limits, for the diversion of natural waters and their ministration of the public forest reservations; which was read appropriation to beneficial use3, and for the regulation thereof; twice by its title, and referred tO the Committee on Agriculture which was read twice by its title, and r eferred to the Committee and Forestry. • on Irrigation and R!'\clamation of A r id Lands. Mr. VILAS introduced a bill (S . 2i64) for the r elief of Sarah 2602 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. MARCH 28,

E. Wedelstedt; which was read twice by its title, and referred out that personal examination which he ought to make to give to the Committee on Claims. the information and which the subject ought to have? Mr. STOCKBRIDGE introduced a bill (S. 2765) granting to Mr. SHERMAN. If he Cloes so, he will only do exactly what the Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad Company a right of way the Secretary of the Navy did in making hia estimate. It was across the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation; which was read prepared by one of his subordinates, I presume. I hope we shall twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Indian Af­ not fear that these gentlemen overwork themselves by furnish­ faira. ing figures found upon their ledgers, and in which they probably Mr. CALL introduced a bill (S. 2766) granting a pension to are not called upon to do anything further than to sign their Thomas C. Ellis; which was read twice by title, and, with the names to general results. accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions . . Mr .-CHANDLER. I think the Senator does injustice to the AMENDMENTS TO BIL.LS. Secretary of the Treasury. !do not believe, from my knowledge 1\ir. DAVIS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed of him, that he will take a mere perfunctory statement prepared by him to the agricultural appropriation bill; which was referred by a subordinate and sznd it here without scrutiny. I am very to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, and ordered to certain that the Secretary of the Navy in making his estimate be printed. has not failed to give the subject his personal attention. I ask Mr. FELTON submitted an amendment intended to be pro­ the Senator, if he thinks the resolution ought to be passed, posed by him to the river and harbor appropriation bill; which whether he has any obJection to adding to it an amendment. . was referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be Mr_ HOAR. Let the resolution be read again. printed. · The Chief Clerk read the resolution. Mr. PETTIGREW submitted an amendment intended to be The VICE-PRESIDENT. The amendment proposed by the proposed by him to the Indian appropriation bill; which was re­ Senator from New Hampshire will be read. ferred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be The CHIEF CLERK. It is proposed to add to the resolution: printed. And further, to transmit to the Senate a list of the vessels of the Revenue Marine, with P statement as to each of its tonnage and the number of guns RECIPROCAL TRADE RELATIONS WITH ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. and other arms, the number of the officers and crew, and the miles cruised during the past year, and also a statement showing the nature of the duty Mr. MORGAN submitted the following resolution; which was performed by each vessel, and whether the discipline on the cutters and the considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: practice in he use of great guns and small arms is the same as that on ves­ Resolved, That the President is requested to send to the Senate, if in h1s sels of the Navv. opinion it is not inconsistent with the public interests, the correspondence with the Government of the Argentine Republic on the subject of commercial Mr. SHERMAN. I have no objection to the amendment. In­ reciprocity with the United States under section· 3 of the act of October 1, deed that information can ba found already in the reports; but 1890. And that he inform the Senate as to the articles exported from the United States to the Argentina Republic in reference to which the United there is no objection to having it transmitted in this connection. States proposed or demanded that the customs duties imposed by the Argen­ The amendment was agreed to. . tine Republic should be reduced or abolished, so as to make the commercial Mr. ALLISON. I think there is another item of information relations between the two countries reciprocally fair and just or equal and reasonable. which it might be well to have in this connection, and that is the SOUTHERN UTE INDIAN LANDS. number of people who would be placed immediately on there­ tired list in the event of the transfer. I do not know but that Mr. WOLCOTT submitted the following concurrent resolu­ it is embraced in the resolution of the Senator from Ohio. tion; which was read: .Resolved lJytheSenate (theHouseconcu?·ring), That the President be requested Mr. SHERMAN. I did not expressly emb1·ace it. I have no to refrain from allotting in severalty the lands of the present reservation of objection to the amendment, but I think the number of officers the Southern Ute Indians, pending legislation in the present Congre<>s re­ who would be retired is given, and the computation would be specting the removal of said Indians to another re'3ervation. based upon that. Mr. WOLCOTT. I give notice that I shall call up the reso­ Mr. BUTLER. That will appear from the Register, I take it. lution to-morrow at the close of the morning business and ask Mr. ALLISON. Verywell; Idonot ask that that be inserted. permission to make a few remarks upon it. I only want to be sure that we shall have the information. The VICE-PRESIDENT. Meanwhile the resolution will lie Mr_ BUTLER. We have the information. on the table. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. resolution as amended. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate a Mr. ALLISON. I would insertsomewherein theproperplace resolution coming over from a previous day, which will be read. ''including the cost of the retired list. ' The resolution submitted on the 24th instant by Mr. SHERMAN Mr. SHERMAN. ''The number of officers who will be placed was read, as follows: on the retired list." · Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to furnish ths Mr- ALLISON. Yes, "the number of officers who will be Senate a detailed statement of the saving or increase in the annual expensee placed on the retired list under the proposed change." of the Revenue Cutter Service which would result from the transfer of said service from the Treasury to the Navy Department. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. The CHIEF CLERK. It is proposed to add to the resolution. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the Including the number of officers to be placed on the retired list under the resolution. proposed legislation. Mr. CHANDLER. I desire to ask the Senat~n· from Ohio whether he thinks that it is worth while to put the Secretary of The amendment was agreed to. the Treasury to the duty of preparing a statement of that kind? The resolution as amended was agreed to, as follows: It is not exactly a call for information now on file in his Depart­ Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to furnish the Senate a detailed statement of the saving or increase in the annual expenses ment, but a request to him to ascertain facts and make a com­ of the Revenue Cutter Service which would result from the transfer of parison showing the results of the proposed transfer of the R-ev­ said service from the Treasuryto the Navy Department, and further, to enue Marine. Now, the Secretary of the Treasury is a very busy transmit to the Senate a list of the vessels of the Revenue Marine, with a statement as to each of its tonnage and the number of guns and other arms, man, and is it expedient to put him to doing that work at this the number of officers and crew, and the miles cruised during the past year! time? If it were a mere call for facts within his Department I and also a stat-ement showing the nature of the duty performed by each ves­ should not think of making this inquiry of the Senator; but the sel, and whether the discipline on the cutters and the practice in the use of great guns and small arms is the sam.e as that on vessels of the Navy, in­ Secretary has just returned to his duties, and ought he to be cluding the number or omcers to be placed on the retired list under the pro­ taken away from more important duty to prepare this argument, posed legislation. so to speak, against the proposed transfer of the Revenue Ma­ rine Service to the Navy? LEAVES OF ABSENCE TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES. M1·. SHERMAN. Is the Senator through? The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there further morning business? Mr. CHANDLER. That is my question. Is it worth while to If not, that order is closed and the Calendar under Rule VIII is put the Secretary of the Treasury to doing this work? in order. · Mr. SHERMAN. The Secretary of the Navy has given his Mr. CAREY. I ask the S snate to proceed at this time to the estimate of what he supposed would be the saving by this propo­ consideration of Order of Business 221, Senate bill 1768, which sition, and now I want the estimate of the Treasury Department, was passed over without prejudice. where all the money is paid out, as to the saving or loss by the There being no objection, the Senate resumed the considera­ p1•oposed change. As a matter of course, the Secretary of the tion of the bill (S. 17o8) to allow thirty days' leave of absence to ' Treasury will not have much to do in writing it out; his time employes in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and in the will not be very much occupied in that particular pursuit when Navy Department. . there are about 2,000 employes there who are very rea-dy at that The VICE-PRESIDENT. The bill hasbeenheretoforepassed, kind of business. and the vot9 by which the bill was ordered to a third reading Mr. CHANDLER. But is there not danger, I ask the Sen­ and passage has been reconsidered. The bill is before the Sen­ ator, that the Secretary will take an estimate made by his sub­ at-e and the pending amendment will be read. ordinates, and being very busy himself transmit it here with- The Chief Clerk read the amendment heretofore submitted by

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Mr. CAREY, to strike out all after the enacting clause and in­ foremen and the captains of ten and of twenties in the navy-yards sert: are now pushing a claim that we should give them thirty days' That the employes of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, including the furlough ea.ch year. P-ieceworkers, shall be allowed leave of absence with pay, not exceeding Mr. HARRIS. This does give it. thirty days in any one year, under such regulations and at such time or times as the Chief of the Bureau may prescribe and designate; and that all the Mr. COCKRELL. This e~tends it to the navy-yards. draftsm6ll, assistant draftsmen. clerks, writers, and copyists under the di­ Mr. MORGAN. No; only to the clerical force of the navy­ rectbn of the Navy Department who receive per diem ~ay shall be allowed yards. thirty days' leave of absence each year without forfeiture of pay during such leave, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may pre­ Mr. HALE. That I did not even know. The bill originally scribe: Provided, That no such full leave of absence of thirty days sha.ll be did not extend that far. I am informed that this bill now ex­ granted to any person under the provisions of this act, who shall not have tends the leave to workmen in the navy-yards. That I did not been an employe of said Bureau or Department for a period or not less than eleven months immediately preceding the granting ot such leave. know. Mr. CHANDLER. The Senator from Maine is mistaken. The The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the amendment of the Senator from Alabama[Mr. MORGAN] extends amendment. the provisions of the bill to draftsmen and copyists in the Navy Mr. ALLISON. I suggest to the Senatpr from Wyoming that' Department, but the proposition to give the foremen in the navy­ there should be inserted in line 7, after the word "Bureau," the yards thirty days' leave of absence in each year with pay now words~' with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury," so rests in the Committee on Naval Affairs. as to read: Mr. HALE. Then I was right about it. I did not suppose At such time or times as the Chief of the Bureau, with the approval of the that it had got into the navy-yards and embraced foremen. It Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe and designate. embraces draftsmen. That was the amendment offered by the Mr. CAREY. I have no objection to that. Senator from Alabama [Mr. MORGAN] the other day-draftsmen The amendment to the a.mendmen t was agreed to. and writers-the clerical force. Mr. SHERMAN. I should like to ask the Senator from Con­ Mr. CHANDLER. If the Senator will allow me, he is quite necticut [Mr. HAWLEY] whether this rule has been adopted in right in stating that the Senate and House, perhaps, will have to the Government Printing Office. This bill gives to all employes meet the proposi ion to give the foremen in the navy-yards the of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and therefore those same -privilege, and I, for one, without knowing what the com­ who are employed by the day or the piece, thirty days' leave of mittee may do and what the Senate may do, arn in favor of that, absence with full pay. because I do not see how any distinction can be made. Mr. HAWLEY. That is the law in regard to the Printing Mr. HALE. The Senator has confessed frankly what we shall Office. have to meet. It will go to the workmen in the navy-yards, who Mr. SHERMAN. It is adding one-twelfth to the expense.3 of a1·a a temporary force and who perhaps u-pon an emergency this whole Bureau. If that is the desire it is not in my bailiwick, would need to be used every day in the year for the bene.:fi t and but still I think we ought to have a little regard for the public safety of the Government. Then it will go beyond, and it will interests. When person.s are employed on an annual salary be made to apply to any possible employment under the Govern­ there is a reason why they should have some holiday, extending ment wherever it may be throughout the United States. from two weeks to thirty days, but when persons are employed Mr. CHANDLER. Will the Senator allow me a question? by the piece they can regulate their own time in their own way Mr. HALE. Yes. and work as little or as much as they please. It seems to me the Mr. CHANDLER. I ask the Senator whether he knows any rule of allowing an additional thirty days' pay without work is reason why this particular privilege of receiving thirty days' pay not correct. If, however, that is the cust~m in the Printing in each year without work-thirty days of absence with pay­ Office, I do not see why it should not be applied to all the other should be confined to employes of the Government within the city branches of the Government. of Washington? Mr. CHANDLER. Mr. President, I would say to the Senator Mr. HALE. No; not if the employes of the Government are from Ohio tb.at that is the law now as to the Government Print­ a regular force from January 1 to December 31 and employed ing Office both as to employes paid by the day and employes paid upon annual pay and needing, as human b eingo, physically this by the piece. The committee that reported this bill came to the respite. Then I have no objection to its applying out.side; but conclusion that one class of these employes in Washington are the rule never ought to have been changed, and it ought to have entitled to this privilege just as much as another. If we do not been confined to regular, permanent employes of the Go\ern- give it to the class of persons who are provided for in this bill, ment. · then we ou~ht to take it away from the employes of the Govern­ Mr. CAREY. Mr. President, this bill is exactly as the law ment Printmg Office: and the rule, as has been explained, is ap­ now is with reference to employes in the Public Printing Office. plied not only to workers by the day and by the month and em­ In the Bureau of Engraving and Printing they are allowed now ployes under salaries by the year, but to the pieceworkers under fifteen days leave of absence, and persons who work in that Bu­ a rule for ascertaining the average of the amount earned by piece­ reau by the month, or by the day, or by the year are only allowed work. I am unable to see, as the committee that reported this fifteen days. This bill merely equalize::; the employes of the sev­ bill have been unable to see, how we can make fish of one and eral Departments of the Government, and allows them all thirty flesh of another. days' leave. Mr. HALE. Mr. President, of course Senators understand The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the the old rule and the good rule was to give a furlough with pay amendment as amended. only to persons in steady employment by the year, who had no Mr. VEST. Mr. President, if this system is to be continued, control over their time and who needed a respite, and it was be­ no good raason, I think, can be suggested why it should not ap­ lieved to be for the good of the service generally that such regu­ ply to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, whera a large lar employes upon a salary for yearly work should .receive this number of delicate women are employed, and where the work is holiday. peculiarly irksome, unhealthy, and protracted. The first innovation was made in the case of the Public Print­ If I could, I should like to vote against the whole system. If ing Office, and that after discussion was based upon the ground the same rule which we apply to Government employes should largely urged that, in effect, these were permanent employes, be applied to private life it would virtually stop employment that the force in the Printing Office, while it-measured its work throughout the country. If· any one of us should have an em­ by the piece, was to all intents and purposes a regular force. and ploye whom we had employed for twelve months, who would in-­ needed this change, this respite, as much as those paid an'nual sist that he should work eleven and receive pay for twelve, it salaries. So Congress gave them the leave, and the door was would beconsideredavery greatoutrage. Noemployer through­ opened. Now, the employes of the Bureau of Engraving and out the country in his private business would tandany such rule. Printing, which does most of its work by the piece, _claim that for a moment. they should have this leave as much as the Government Printing Mr. CAREY. Will the Senator from Mis ouri permit me to Office employes. I suppose that their work is of about the same ask him a question? order. It is practically a continued force throughout the year Mr. VEST. Certainly. and needing, if anybody does, a holiday. Mr. CAREY. I want to ask him if it is not almost the tmi­ But I want to notify the Senate that this thing is not going to versal rule of merchants and manufacturers to give their em­ stop here. Not only the regular force, but the piece force, the ployes a leave of absence? fragmentary force, and all employes under the Government are Mr. VEST. No, Mr. President, it is not a universal rule; and coming and knocking at the doors of the Senate and of the House even if it should be granted, for the sake of the argument, that of Representatives and claiming to have thirty days out of each it applies to large manufacturing establishments, it does notap­ year with pay when they are not at work, and it will not be long ply to contracts between farmers and their employes and me­ before we shall be beset by men in employment in the Govern­ chanics and their employes and railroads and their employes, or ment navy-yards that they shall have thirty days' pay when they banks and their employes. Very true, the Bank of England, I are not at work, although it is peculiarly a temporary force. The believe, has a rule to furlough every one ot its employes, with- 2604 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-BENATE. MA.RoH 28,

out application on the part of the employe, but that is a measure pay them an extra month, because we are impot·tuned by them. of precaution in order to examine his accounts and books while It is all wrong. he is absent on vacation, and for no other reason. It is not true Mr. VEST. I have but one observation to make, but I sup­ in the United States that any of the large institutions or any of pose it will be entirely useless. l know but one rule, and I try the large corporations have any such rule, and wherever it pre­ to know but one rule in my public action in regard to such mat­ vails in any of the cities it is an exception to the rule. ters, and that is to treat all the citizens of this country alike. We know very well that if there is a vacancy in any one of the Mr. HALE. Let me correct a statement I hav~ just made in Departments there are immediately from ten to fifty applicants reference to the letter-carriers. It was the clerks of the first for it, and we know that these very same persons if employed in and second class post-offices to whom we gave fifteen days' leave . any other department or business throughout the country would of absence last year, and now they are asking for thirty days. not expect any such discrimination in their favor. Therefore, I We gave the letter-carriers the eight-hour limitation. I want repeat, if I had the opportunity I should vote against the whole to set that right. system. · Mr. VEST. As the Senato1· from l\faine say , it is nota pleas­ But~ as the Senator from Maine [Mr. HAL.E] says, this is not ant m_atter to antagonize movements of this sort. I am not the last of it, because when you have granted this privilege to standing here to make any professions of liberality. It is simply the employes in any one bw·eau, it furnishes an argument for a question of duty upon our part, as it is a duty upon the people granting it to all; and I am frank to say if it is given to any of who come here for these extraordinary privileges. I repeat, we the employes of the Government it ought to be given to the women ought to establish. one rule or the other-treat all the people of in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; for any one who has this country alike, or, if we extend these extraordinary privi­ visited that establishment knows that it is the most laborious, leges to any one class, then make the privileges universal so as unhealthy, and irksome work that can possibly be conceived. to destroy class privileges and class legislation. - But again, look at this legislation. I have never belonged to Mr. STEWART. Mr. President, there is only one condition that class of public men who attempt to secure popularity by of things that seems to make it almost necessary that the clerks demagoguingwith the ]Jtboring p eople of the.country and excit­ in many of the Departments should have a vacation. If any ing their antipathies to men who possess wealth or capital. I Senator will visit the different rooms where the clerks are have never been an expert in that sort of business and never ex­ crowded together and where the atmosphere is mostdestructive pect to be; but if discrimination in favor of the working people of health, he will see that it would be almost impossible, with is to be recognized a3 a political element in this country at all, the conditions imposed, for the employes to work all the year look at this bill. Here we grant thirty days' leave of absence to round. I think it would bs b3tter to make the conditions of copyists and draftsmen, the gentlemen who sit in a warm room and h ealth such that they could work the year round, so that there do delicate work that a woman probably could discharge as well or woitld be no distinction between them and other laborers. But better than they, but when we come to the workman who labors many of the rooms in which these clerks are employed, if Sena­ out of doors in a navy-yard, who is subjected to all sorts of tors will visit them, they will find have no ventilatfon, and the weather, who is compelled to work eight hours a day, then no clerks actually have to retire on account of ill health; which is such discrimination is given to him. I want the friends of the occasioned by the crowded rooms and the bad ventilation that workingman in this Chamber, and the gentlemen who under­ exists in many of the Departments. stand the peculiar manipulation of that vote, to answer to the Mr. HALE. Does not the Senator believe that tens of thou­ working organizations of this country when they vote for this sands and hundreds of thousands of workmen throughout the bill. · I think they will find it rather a difficult campaign experi­ country perform their work and get their little subsistence in ment. rooms and holes and corners that are ten times worse than the Mr. HALE. The truth is that the workmen of the country worst employed under the Government, and does not the Sena­ have not the least interest in these favors that are given to this tor know that this great army of working people does not aver­ special class. · age half the amounts which are paid to these Government em­ Mr. COCKRELL. Not a bit. ployes? Mr. HALE. The truth is that we are all the time raided by Mr. STEWART. I know all that is very true, but that is no clerks, draftsmen, printers, engravers, and letter-carriers, who reason why the Government should not make proper arrange­ are in the employment of the Government, into which they ments for the ventilation of the buildings and the health of the have got by importunity, and have much better berths than the employes because there are places where men and women are workmen of the country, and they are the ones who are coming compelled to work under very unhealthy conditions. down upon us all the time and demanding more and more favors. Mr. HALE. The furlough business does not meet that; the The workmen of the country are not interested in this legisla­ furlough business does not meet narrow quarters, does not meet tion. The workmen of the country, those who do the work in pri­ stifled air, does not meet malaria and pestilence that are said to vate establishments and have no such favors as these, are not at exist in these places. · It is another remedy that the Senator has all concerned in these movements, which are made by special in his mind which ought- to be resorted to, and that is to give classes. It is all the other way, and we are not legislating in them more room: with plenty of sweet air and plenty of light. favor of workmen when we are giving these favors to a favored l\fr. STEWART. They ought to have some time to recruit. · class; we are legislating against the workmen. Senators must see the necessity for that. I think if we had Mr. VEST. I think the Senator from Maine [Mr. HALE] states plenty of light and rooms and good airfurnished to our employes the case accurately, Mr. President, butido not hop3 for any re­ there would be very much less necessity for furloughs; no more form. When I first came to the Senate I had a visionary ide:t of necessity for them than the ordinary laborer has everywhere, reforming such abuses, but I have long ·since contented myself and not as much; but as they are situated it would be a great with trying to keep things as they are, 41 order that they may hardship in many cases to decline to grant furloughs, because the not become any worae. employes need them to regain their health. . At the close of this session of Congress I suppose we shall pay Mr. HALE. I move to lay the bill on the table. a month's extra pay to our employes and the other House proba­ The VICE-PRESIDENT.. The question is on the motion of bly will do the same thing, and we shall not stop with giving the Senator from Maine. this thirty days' leave of absence to the copyists and draftsmen :Mr. CAREY. Mr. President--- in the navy-yards, but it will not be a week or a day possibly The VICE-PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Maine with­ until this same privilege must be extended to the same class of draw his motion? people in every other department of the governmental service. Mr. HALE. I yield to the Senator. Mr. HALE. Does the Senator know that last year as a special Mr. CAREY. I can not understand why there is so much in­ favor we gave the letter-carriers fifteen days leave of absence, dignation to-day in reference to this bill. As long ago as 1883 a much to the detriment of the postal service, and it is followed bill of similar purport to this was passed and approved, allowing this year by a demand to make it thirty days? the employes in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing fifteen There is but one rule about this matter. When we begin to days' leave of absence in each year. In 1883 a•law was passed legislate for these favored classes, the Government classes, we . through both Houses of Congress allowing thirty days' leave un­ have got to select, but we never satisfy them. der the regulation of the heads of the several Departments to all The Senator refers to what we do for our employes here. It the employes in the Departments in this District. In 1886 an act is not a pleasant thing for a Senator to stand up in the face of all was passed allowing all employes in the office of the Public Printer these employes and talk as I am willing to .talk about this. It is thirty days' annual leave. Only in the last Congress, on the 28th an outrage upon everybody else that we give our employes an day of March, 1890, an act was passed giving to all officers en­ extra month's pay. We ought not to do it. They have the best gaged in the collection of customs throughout tb is country thirty , places in the Government. They are not required to be here all days' leave in each year. the time; they have a long vacation, and notwithstanding this Now, why should the employes of the Bureau of Eng-raving they are paid for an extra month every year. While other people and Printing be discriminated against? This bill merely pro­ wgu1d be glad to hold these places for half the sum they get, we poses to equalize these privileges, and it is fair that they should 1892. CONGRESSlONAL RECORD-SENATE. 2605.

have them if the employes in theoiherDepartmentsenjoithem. the Senator from Texas [Mr. COKE]. I do not knmv how he The women in that Bureau who are employed by the year or by would vote, if present, and I therefore withhold my vo~. the day are allowed only fifteen days' leave of absence, while the While on my feet I desire to announce the pair of my colleague more favored ones in the Treasury Department, in the Interior [Mr. MANDERSON] with the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. BLACK.: Department, in the Agricultural Department, and in thevarious BURN]. My colleague is detained at home by illness. other Departments, are allowed thirty days' leave. Mr. PASCO (when his name was called). I am· paired with This kind of legislation did not originate with the present the Senator from North Dakota [Mr. CASEY]. In his absence Committee on Education and Labor. It originated years ago. I withhold my vote. · The committee believes in dealing equitably and fai~~oly with all Mr. PLATT (when his name was called). I am paired wit~ the Government employes, and if you kill this bill to-day by laying the Senator from Virginia [Mr. BARBOUR]. If he were present it on the table, or by voting it down directly, you should, to be I should vote ''yea." consistent, repeal all this class of legislation. If this other legis­ Mr. QUAY (when his name was called). I am paired with the lation is to remain on the statute book, then this bill-- Senator from West Virginia [Mr. FAULKNER], who, I believe,· is. Mr. VEST. Will the Senator permit me? not present. If he were present I should vote'' nay." Mr. CAREY. Certainly. Mr. SHERMAN (when his name was called). I am paired Mr. VEST. The Senator has, with all respect to him, simply with the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. CARLISLE]. If he were recapitulated the arguments which have been made from one present I should vote" yea." . Congress to another in favor of this class of legislation. I agree Mr. TELLER (when his-name was called). I am paired .with with him that you can not repeal the system. I am certain that the junior Senator from Texas [Mr. CHILTON]. I do not know you could not do it if you would let the matter lie over for twenty­ how he would vote...j_f present, and therefore withhold my vote. four hours, for I am sure that personal solicitation to each Sen­ MI. WALTHALL (when his name was called). I am paired ator would prevent the repeal of the system. with the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. DIXON]. I am prepared now, as much as I condemn the whole thing, but The roll call was concluded. recognizing that it is impossible to get the system done away with, Mr. DOLPH. I announce my pair with the Senator from Mis­ to vote for that portion of this bill which gives this privilege, sissippi [Mr. GEORGE]. I do not see him in his seat at present wrong as I believe it to be in principle, to the women employed and withhold my vote. · in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. But it has been The result was announced-yeas 16, nays 33; as follows: amended so as to include now the copyists, and draftsmen in the YE~S-16. naval service and all the employes in the Bureau of Engraving Allison , Gibson, La. Ransom, Vest, and Printing besides. Berry, Hale, Sawyer, Washbm-n, Mr. HALE. ·Mr. President-- . Cockrell, Hoar, Stockbridge, Wbite, The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair feels bound to call the Colu~, Jones, Ark. Vance, Wilson. attention of Senators to the fact that this discussion is going on NAYS-33. under Rule VIII, which forbids a Senator to speak more than Allen, Davis, McPherson, Squire, Bate, Dawes, Morgan, Stanford, once or exceeding five minutes on any question. Butler, Dixon, Palmer, Stewart, Mr. SHERMAN. The matter ought to go over. Call, Dubois, Peffer, Tm-pie, Mr. HALE. The suggestion is made that by objecting the Cameron, Gibson, Md._ Perkins. Vilas, Carex, G<>rman, Pettigrew, o Voorhees. - matter goes over, but as the Senator from Missouri [Mr. VEST] Chandler, Hansbrough, Pugh, has well said, if this matter goes over a day the solicitations that Colquitt, Kyle, Sanders, will pile up on Senators will be unmeasured; there will be no end Cullom, McMillan, Shoup, to them, and I am afraid, with the Senator from Missouri, that NOT VOTING-39. many Senators will weaken and falter. I hoped when I made the Aldrich, Faullmer, Hill, Platt, motion to lay upon the table, knowing how the Senator from Barbout·, Felton, Hiscock, Power, · • Blackburn, Frye, !l·by, Proct-or, Missouri feels, knowing what his estimate is of the justice of it, Blodgett, Gallinger, Jones, Nev. Quay, applied to all these people, that he would join with me in an ef­ Brice, George, Kenna, Sherman, fort, which required some small degree of courage to make, to Carlisle, Gordon, Manderson, Teller, Casey, Gray, Mitchell, Walthall, stop this bad practice here and now. We have got to do it some­ Chilton, Harris, Morrill, Wai:ren, where, or we have got to give way entirely. Daniel, Hawley, Paddock, Wolcott. Mt·. VEST. I should like to ask the Senator if he will join with Dolph, Higgins, Pasco, me in voting to repeal the whole system? So the motion to lay the bill on the table was rejected. . Mr. HALE. I will join the Senator in voting to repeal the The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question recurs on agreeing whole system. to the amendment as amended. Mr. VEST. If you do that, there will be some equity in it. Mr. CALL. Mr. President, I wish to say a single word on thi.s Mr. HALE. I did not know before that the employes in the bill. I do not agree with those. who have opposed it and have custom-houses throughout the country had &'ot this thirty days' stated that it is not the desire of the working people of the United leave of absence. They ought not to have It. Everybody who States. It is, in my opinion, the very general desire of the has seel'i a custom-house, who has seen the ins and outs and the working people of this country, who pay the taxes and who pay avenues, knows that there is the greatest clamor to get the the higher wages which these employes receive, that they should pla-ces, that their holders are a favored class, so looked upon in have this leave of absence. The reason is that they wish the their com'munities, and to give them what their neighbors and United States to set an example to the employers of labor thrvugh associates are not getting in private establishments is all wrong, the country by which the condition of the lab)rlng classes may and I will join with the S.enator in any movement he may make be benefited and they may receive a larger portion of the com­ to repeal that. _ forts of life than they do now. There is no courage required before the country in taking this It is an example that is needed. The laboring people of this ground. There is no public sentiment in favor of giving to these country who pay the taxes ara not, as a general rule, in that con­ clerks and printers and others in Government employment extra dition Of Cvmfort and well-being in which they ought to be and favors that are not gained by the people outside. They make a in which they may be and this movement is in the lead of that sentiment by solicitation. They get together in meetings and new and b3tter order of things which they are contemplating organizations and pass resolutions and knock and thunder at the for the laboring people of the country. _ doors of Congress, but it is not the people who are interested in Mr. CHANDLER. Mr. President, I think in view of the fact this matter. Therefore, I am iiiclined to see how many Senators that allusion has been made to the case of the foremen in the will vote as I think they believe, to table this whole bill. navy-yards,. I should state what their claim is. Mr. VEST. Insist on your motion, then. The Senator from Missouri [Mr. VEST] took occasion to say Mr. HALE. I do. I am not going to withdraw it. that he did not understand that leaves of absence of this charac­ The VICE-PBESIDENT. The question is on the illation of ter were given to the foremen in privat3establishments. Why, the· Senator from Maine that the bill as amended lie on the table. sir, I unde rs~ and that the contrary is the c ::. s3, and that in the Mr. CAREY. I ask for the yeas and nays on that motion. large private manufacturing establishments of this country of The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded one kind and another it is the rule to give their for ~ men or to call the roll. leading men thirty days' leave of absence with pa.y. At any rate, Mr. GEORGE (when his name was caJled). I am paired g·en­ that is the case which has been made by the forem~ n in t)le navy­ erally with the Senator from Oregon [Mr. DOLPH]; · Not know­ yards in the application which,they have made to Congre3s and ing how he would vote if present, I wi hhold my vote. in the bill which is now pending in the Committee on Naval Af.­ Mr. HARRIS (when his name was called). I am paired with fairs of the Senate. The foremen come here and they submit the Senator from Vermont [Mr. MORRILL]. evidence that in all the large mechanical shops in the vicinity of Mr'. PADDOCK (when his name was called). I am paired with Norfolk, in the vicinity _of Washington, in the vicinity. of Balti- ··- . -

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more and Philadelphia, it is the custom to give to the foremen, sence to the clerks employed here in the Departments receiving the principal men, the leading men, thirty days' leave of absence an annual salary; and now this bill, as I understand it, proposes not with pay, and on that ground the passage of the bill giving these only to give to these employes who are here in the Departments, foremen thirty days' leave of absence when in Government em­ some of them poorly paid I agree, notably so in the Bureau of ploy is advocated. Engraving and Printing, but to extend it to the navy-yards· Now, Mr. President, I understand that the principle upon and this bill extends to certain classes of people wh9' are under which that bill is advocated, is the one which has been stated the control of the Navy Department wherever they may be. , by the Senator from Maine; that is to say, I refer to the discrim­ Mr. CHANDLER. It does not. ination which he has made between those employes of the Gov­ Mr. ALLISON. It does not so state. I examined the bill. ernment to whom the thirty days' leave of absence should be What I object to is that we are by these successive steps en­ given and those to whom it should not be given. The foremen larging from time to time these privileges so that om· civil serv­ are yearly employes. Whether their pay is reckoned by the year ice in the future will be added to just one-eleventh as respects or by the 'month or by the day, they are employed continuously compensation. Last year we extended leaves of absence to the "the whole year round, and therefore conceive that they are as clerks of the first and second class post-offices for fifteen days. much entitled to have thirty days' leave of absence with pay, as Why should we limit them to fifteen days if we are to extend the clerks in the Departments in Washington and as the employes this privilege to thirty days now in all the cities of the country? in the custom-houses throughout the country, and I am unable I was not aware until this moment that this privilege had been to see how their petition can be refused. extEr.nded to employes of custom-houses in remote distt'icts. With reference to the proposition that is implied in the mo­ I think it is time that there should be a careful revisionofthi tion of the Senator from Maine to lay this bill upon the table in whole subject. I have great faith that the chairman and the order that he and the Senator from Missouri may have an op­ membership of the committee having this subject in charge will portunity to repeal all these grants of thirty days' leave of ab­ do full justice as respects this whole question. sence made to various Government employes, I have this to ay, The Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. CHANDLER] states that not only do I believe it would be impossible to secure a repeal, that he favors the extension of this privilege to the foremen of as the·senator from Maine himself seems to admit, but I do not navy-yards. What dght have we to extend this to the foremen believe that it would be just, or wise, or expedient to do so. of navy-yards and not extend it to the workmen in the navy­ The Senator from Maine can not but recognize the principle yards who work side by side with the foremen for twelve months upon which these bills have been passed. The principle is that in th~ year? So we shall extend this by these gradual processes men who work the year round for employers, men who give all until every employe of this Governmen.t wherever he may b3 their physical and their mental strength to the service of their will receive twelve months pay for eleven months' work. employers, can do as much work in eleven months with one The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time of the .Senator from month's leave of absence as they can do in twelve months con­ Iowa has expired. tinuous work. It is a universal principle in political economy Mr. PEFFER. Mr. President, if we were proposing to take that man needs rest, and he needs that rest whether he is en­ from the employes who now enjoy thirty days' vacation annually gaged in purely physical, manual, muscular labor, whether .h e is that privilege, we should have before us altogether a different engaged m purely intellectual labor, or whether he is engaged proposition from the one that we are now discussing. Whenever in labor that is a combination of the two; and I undertake to say it is proposed to equalize the burdens and the pleasures of labor in that the Senator frotn Maine would keep in his employmen,.t no­ the service of the Government in that direction, I shall perhaps where a man to whom he would not give thirty days' leave of ab­ feel differently altogether, in respect to such a measure, from sence withpay ineach year, rather than compel that employe to what I do in respect to this one. work continuously twelve months in the year without any leave I understand, Mr. President, that this bill proposes simply as of absence. far as possible to equalize privileges in the Departments and The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. TURPIE in the chair.) The among the employes there; that is to say, inasmuch as the em­ Senator's time has expired under the rule. ployes mentioned in the bill have not heretofore enjoyed the • Mr. CHANDLER. I do not understand the reason why I was privilege of a vacation of thirty days, such as other employes in interrupted by the Chair. other Departments enjoy, that they shall have it. It is equaliz­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired. ing the privilege to that extent, and on that account I am in fa­ Mr. CHANDLER. Shall I understand that the Chair is en­ vor of it. forcing the five-minute rule? I am in favor of it, furthermore, for the additional reasOn that The PRESIDD.'{G OFFICER. Such is the rule of the Senate, I think it will be taking a step backward to take from any of our and the Chair is trying to enforce it. faithful employes, eitherin the Government service or in private Mr. ALLISON. Mr. President, I voted to table this bill, and service, a single privilege in the way of recreation that they now I did so for the reason that I think the tendency is by successive enjoy. Indeed, sir, if I had the power, or if I could control the I ~ steps to too greatly enlarge the leave of absence provided for by power of the Government! I would, during the next year, after statute for employes of the Government. giving thirty days' notice, stop the wheels of every factory within I am perfectly familiar with the history of this legislation. our jurisdiction at the end of eight hours during the day, and at The Senator from Wyoming alluded to it. It was first inserted the end of the first year from that time I would stop them at the in an appropriation bill in 1883, if I remember correctly, and it end of six hours. was placed there for the purpose of correcting an abuse. It was I believe that we have enough of men and of women in this well known to Senators and Representatives that prior to that country to do the work that is needed to be done in the shops, on time in the Departments certain favored clerks could receive the farms, in the offices, and everywhere by working six hours a leaves of absence for thirty and sixty and ninety days, and in day; and doing that faithfully in properly ventilated apartments, some cases six months and longer, and that other clerks could re­ we should have altogether a different condition of things from ceive no grant whatever of leave of absence, and therefore what we find now. We should not have a million, or two million, there was inserted in the legislative and executive appropriation or two-and-a-half million of men and women moving about the bill in 1883 a provision that all clerks might receive thirty days' country, as is the case t-o~day, upon the very verge of starvation, leave of absence with pay, and that for a longer period. 9f absence begging for employment. their pay should stop. The result of that has been thatin theEx­ So, it seems to me, it is wise for the Government to take the ecutiveDepartments there has grown up a system of substitution, lead in this matter and make the burden of labor as light as pos­ which has even been recognized by our Civil Service Commission, sible and make the burden of the poor as light as possible. Let whereby when leaves of absence are granted to clerks in a De­ us, as far as our authority extends, wield it mercifully. Where­ partment for sixty days or ninety days or longer they can put ever we can take up one worker, no matter where, let us take him

in substitutes drawn by the Civil Service Commission1 which up and give him the same benefits and the same enjoyments that ' substitutes receive the pay for the time being. the rest of us have. - When that appeared, the next step was to give the employes Mr. HALE. Mr. President, I do not think if this privilege is in the Public Printing Office, who were not annual employes, a to be given to a portion of the employes of the Government that small leave of absence to the extent of fifteen days, and upon it ought to be kept from others. The remarks made by the Sen­ what I think a very proper ground, that these poorly paid em­ ator from Kansas [Mr. PEFFER] suggest to me more forcibly this ployes, although ;.>racticallyemployed all the year, were not dec­ proposition, and in order that there may be no complaint and orated in these bills as were the clerks receiving from twelve to that it maybe understood that Congress has adopted the system eighteen hundred dollars a year, or as our own employes, who of giving to its employes as they come up with special claims and often receive an extra month's pay. Fifteen days were granted demands from time to time this thirty days' leave, I propose an at first; then it was extended to thirty days; and then the people amendment that extends it generally, so that the Senate may see in the Printing Office who work nights were allowed 20 per cent what is before it and may make this matter a subject of one additional pay. So we have been running along since 1883 by action, take one bite at it and end it, because, so sure as we live, adding t(} the privileged classes, because the act of 1883 was in­ so sure as time l?asses, we shall be met by an irresistible demand, tended to correct an. abuse and allow thirty days' leave of ab- after we pass this bill, already extended beyond the scope of the

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Senator who introducd it here by the amendment of the Senator The Senator from Alabama [Mr. MORGAN] offered an amendment, from Alabama-it may be seen that we accept the principle and whichincludedcertainemployesin theNavyDepartment. With­ make it extend to all. Therefore, ! ,offer this amendment as an out consideration the Senate has voted on the original measure additional section: a most important amendment, wh\ch includes or is supposed to in­ The provisions of this act shall hereafter apply to all regular employes of clude all the employes of the Government of the Uni~d States. the United States, whether they be employed by the year, or the month, or I do not knowwhateffectthiswill have. Idonot know whether the day, or by the piece. this will suit the executive officers who manage this Govern­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment will be stated. ment. This may be a very dangerous thing, a very dangerous The CHIEF CLERK. It is proposed to add a new section, as proposition. It has been offered by an enemy of the measure for follows: the purpose of killing it. I, having reported that bill after it SEC. 2. The provisions of this aet shall hereafter apply to all regular em­ was considered by the Committee on Education and Labor, shall ployes of the United States, whether they be employed by the year, or the feel constrained from the very necessity of the case to vote against month, or the day, or by the piece. • the bill as it has now been amended. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is upon the amend­ Mr. WILSON. Mr. PreSident, the scope of this bill has been ment to the amendment. very greatly changed. It opens the field to its full extent. In The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. order that the new field may be properly surveyed and c-onsid­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to ered by the committee, and especially in view of the remarks the amendment as amended. just made by the chairman of the committee, I move that the Mr. HARRIS. Let us have the amendment as amended re­ bill be recommitted to the Committee on Education and Labor. ported. Mr. HALE. I hope that motion will prevail. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The· amendment as amended Mr. CULLOM. So do I. will be reported. Mr. HALE. This whole subject-matter ought to be consid­ The CHIEF CLERK. It is proposed to strike out all after the ered in the light of whatever information has been gained by enacting clause of the bill and insert: the committee, and I shall vote, for one, for the motion of the That the employes of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, including the pieceworkers, shall be allowed leave of absenc_e with pay, not exceeding thirty Senator from Iowa to recommit the bill to the committee. days in any one year, unde-r such regulations and at such time or times as the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the motion Ohie:f of the Bureau, with the approvaL-of the Secretary of the Treasury, may of the Senator from Iowa to recommit the pending bill with the prescribe and designate; and that all the draftsmen, assistant draftsmen, clerks, writers, a11d copyists, under the direction of the Navy Department, amendments to the Committee on Education and Labor. who receive per diem pay shall be allowed thirty days' leave of absence each The motion was agreed to. year, without forfeiture of pay during such leave, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: Provided, That no such full leave BRIDGE AT BURLINGTON, IOWA. of absence of thirty days shall be granted to any person, under the pro­ Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, I ask leave to call up for con­ visions o:r this act, who shall not have been an employe of said Bureau or De­ partment :for a period of not less than eleven months immediately preceding sideration House bill 4631, Calendar No. 305. It is a short bill the granting of such leave. and willJtake no time in its consideration. It is important, if SEC. 2. The provisions of this act shall hereafter apply to all regular em­ acted upon at all, that it should be acted upon now. ployes of the United States, whether they be employed by the year, or the month, or the day, or by the piece. 'rhere being no objection, the bill (H. R. 4631) to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the construction of a railroad, · The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amend­ -wagon, and foot-passengerbridgeatBurlingt<;m, Iowa, approved ment as amended. [Putting the question.] The noes seem to August 6, 1888," as amended by act approved February 2J, 1890, have it. was considered as in Committee of the Whole. Mr. CHANDLER. I ask for the yeas and nays. The bill was reported from the Committee on Commerce- with Mr. HALE. Let the parliamentary position of the question an amendment, in line 9, after the word "extended," to strike be stated. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is upon the out "two years" and insert "one year;" so as to make the bill amendment as amended. read: Be it enacted, etc., That the time for the commencement and completion or Mr. HALE. Now, what amendment is that? My amendment said bridge, authorized by said act entitled "An act to authorize the co118truc­ to insert an additional section was agreed to. tion of a railroad, wagon and :toot-passenger bridge at Butlington. Iowa., ~P• Mr. ALLISON. That is in. proved August 6, 1888," as amended by act approved February 21, 1890, l>a;"' Mr. HALE. That is in already. and is hereby, each extended one year from the passage of this act. Mr. HARRIS. The Senator's amendment was an amendment Mr. WILSON. I do not desire that that amendment shall be to the amendment reported by the committee in the nature of a agreed to for the reason that it is important that the extension substitute, and now the question is upon the amendment as should be for the period of . two years. In the original legisla­ amended. , tion on this subject there were some errors committed which Mr. HALE. Then the question is now upon the whole bill as required an e~tension as stated in this bill, but 'since that time reported from the committee, with the additional section which the prospect of the work has grown tmmensely, and it involves I offered. a character of work, and to such an extent, that it will probably The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is now upon strik­ require the two years' time in order to complete it. I there­ ing out all after the enacting clause of the original bill and in­ fore hope that the amendment will not beconcurredin, and that serting the amendment as amended, which has been read. the bill may pass the Senate a.g it. was sent to us from the House Mr. HALE. And that amendment is the report of the com- of Representatives. mittee, with the additional section added? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Yes, sir. the amendment. Mr. COCKRELL. It is the final passage of the whole matter. The amendment was rejected. Mr. HARRIS. Oh, no. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment. Mr. HALE. It is the final passage of the whole matter with Mr. VEST. I simply want to state on behalf of the Commit­ the amendment. tee on Commerce that we have no objection to a disagreement Mr. CHANDLER. The Chair declared the motion lost, and I to the amendment. It simply is a question of limitation as to asked :for the yeas and nays. time, and that is not very material in this case. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is the demand for the yeas and The bill was ordered to a third reading, read the third time, nays seconded? and passed. Mr. VEST. What is this on? ILLINOIS RIVER BRIDGE. Mr. HALE. The passage of the whoJe bill with a section Mr. VEST. Mr. President, I ask the Senate to proceed to the added. · consideration of Senate bill1935, Calendar No. 314, a. bridge bill, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Onagreeingtotheamendment in which the Senator from illinois is interested. There is some as amended. necessity for action upon it at this time. Mr. HARRIS. The question is upon agreeing to the amend­ The bill (S. 1935) to establish a railway bridge across the illi­ ment as amended. Then comes the question, the bill being in the nois River, between a point at or near the city of Havana, in Ma­ Senate, upon its third reading and final passage. son County, and a point on the opposite side of said river, in Ful­ Mr. HALE. That is only a stage of parliamentary proceed­ ton County, in the State of Illinois, was considered as in Com­ ing. This is a test vote now, whether the Senate will take the mittee of the Whole. report of the committee, which is technically an amendment, The bill was reported from the Committee on Commerce with with the additional section which was adopted on my motion. amendments. It is a test vote of the whole subject-matter with that section. The first amendment was, in section ·2, line 8, after the word Mr. HARRIS. Yes. "way," to insert "measured normal to the current of- said river;" r Mr. CAREY. Mr. President, the bill was reported by the Com­ in line 24, after the word "length," to insert "measured normal to plittee on Education and Labor to do that which they belj.eved to the current of said river;" in line 27, before the word "feet,"to be just to the employes in the Bureau of Engraving and Printiiig. insert ''and fifty;n in the same line, after the word ' 'length•" to in-

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sert "measured normal to the current of said river;" and at the COURTS IN EASTERN TEXAS DISTRICT. end of the section to insert the following: Mr. VEST. Mr. President, I am instructed by the Committee .And p1'ovided also, That if the approaches by land to said bridge shall be built on the Judiciary to report back the bill (S. 2467) to fix terms of over land submerged at high water, said approaches shall be provided with sumcient passa~es for water, in connection with the water way through the holding courts in the eastern district of Texas favorably and spans of said br1dge, to pass the fiood discharge or the Illfuois River without without amendment. unduly increasing" the velocity of fiow through the navigated spans of sa.id I desire to state that this bill makes provision simply for the bridge: .Andprov~ded also, That all such dikes, booms, piers, fences, wing­ dams, and other accessory works, that m ay be necessary to safely guide all change of terms of courts in Texas, the first of which is to be steamboats, rafts, tows, and other water craft navigating said river, up to held in April, and it is necessary to take the bill up now. It is and through said draw or channel spans at any and all stages of water in the a very short bill, and will occasion no debate. Illinois River, within a distance of 1 mile above and one-half mile below said bridge shall be located, constructed, and maintained at all times as may Mr. COKE. I ask unanimous consent that that bill may be be required by the Secretary of War: .And provided also, That the approaches taken up at this time. There is only: one page of it. of said bridge by land or by water within the limits of high water Wlth limit­ ing and level lines of the natural surface, grades of track, and·proposed high­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the pres­ water discharge openings, within said overflowed limits along the line of ent consideration of the bill? such road or any road using said bridge, and all accessory works herein re­ Mr. SHERMAN. I do not object. I merely wish to give no­ quired among other data hereinafter required shall be indicated, shown, and located upon the maps and plans of said bridge, hereinafter required to be tice that after this bill is disposed of I shall move an executive submitted for appt·oval to the Secret ary of War. session. So as to make the section read: There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (S. 2467) to fix terms of SEC. 2. That any bridge built under the provisions of this act may, a t the option of the company building the same, be built as a drawbridge, with a holding courts in the Eastern district of Texas .. p1vot or other form or draw; or with unbroken or continuous spans: Pr o­ The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or­ vided, That if the said bridge shall be built with unbroken or continuous dered to be eng-rossed for a third reading, read the third time, spans it shall have one or more channel spans, each having not less than 350 clear channel way, measured normal to the current of said river, and not and passed. · less than 55 feet clear headroom above high-water mark, and the clear head­ MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. -room under the other channel spans may be less than 55 feet: Provided, That no part of the superstructure of such spans shall give a tess headroom than A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. T. 0. 10 teet above high-water mark: .And pt•ovided further, That the interests of TOWLES, its Chief Clerk, announced that the House had passed navigation be not injured by such reduction in·height; and the piers of said the following bills and joint r.esolution; in which it requested bridge shall be parallel with the current of said river , and the main span shall be over the main channel of the river, and not less than 350 feet in the concurrence of the Senate: length: .And provided also, That it any bridge built under this act shall be A bill (H. R. 1093) granting an increase of penMon to Samuel constructed as a drawbridge, the same shall be construct ed as a pivot draw­ J. Boling; , bridge, with a draw over the main channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point and with spans of not less than 160 feet in length, measured A bill (H. R. 1167) granting a pension to Mrs. Eliza Fays; normal to the current of said river, on each side of the central or pivot pier A bill (H. R. 3971) to provide for the opening of alleys in the of the draw; and the next adjoining spans to the draw shall not be less than District of Columbia. 250 teet in length, measured normal to the current of said river, and every part of the superstructure shall give a clear headroom of not less than 10 A bill (H. R. 54-14) to amend an act entitled "An act to incor­ feet above high-water mark: Provided, That the spans of both high and low porate the National Union Insurance Company of Washington," • bridges shall be so located as to atrord the greatest possible accommodations approved February 14, 1865; to"the river tramc, and a draw-opening of low bridges shall, if practicable, be located next or near shore; and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel A bill (H. R. 6286) to amend the charter of the Rock Creek with the current of the river when said bridge may be erected. A nd provided Railway Company; and also, That said draw shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the .A joint resolution (H. Res. 92) to encourage the establishment passage of boats. And provided also, That if t.he approaches by land t<> said bridge shall be built over land submerged at high water, said approaches and endowment of institutions of learning at the national capi­ shall be provided with sutllcient passages for water, in connecM.on with the tal by defining the policy of the Government with reference to water way through the spans of said bridge, to pass the fiood discharge of the use of its literary and scientific collections by students. the Illinois River without unduly increasing the velocity of flowthl·ough the navigated spans of said bridge. .And provided also, That all such dikes, The message also announced that the House had passed the booms, piers, fences, wing dams, and other accessory works, that may be bill (S.1884) to prevent fraud upon the water revenues of the necessary to safely guide all steamboats, rafts, tows, and other water craft District of Columbia; navigating said river, up t o and through said draw or channel spans at any tlflond all stages of water in the Illinois River, within a distance of 1 mile The message further announced that the House had agreed to above and one-half mile below said brid~e shall be located, constructed, and the concurrent resolution of the Senate authorizing the Presi­ maintained at all times as may be reqmred by the Secretary of War. And dent of the United States, the President of the Senate, and the provided also, That the approaches of said bridge by land or by water within the limits or high water with limiting and level lines of the natural surface, Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint each su grades of track, and proposed high-water discharge openings, within said citizens of the District of Columbia to be members of the Memo­ overflowed limits along the line of such I'Oad or any road using said bridge, .rial Association of the District of Columbia. and all accessory works herein required among other data hereinafter re­ quired shall be indicated, shown, and located upon the maps and plans'bf The message also announced that the House had passed reso­ said bridge, hereinafter required to be submitted for approval to the Secre- lutions commemorative of the life and services of Hon. Francis tary of War. · B. Spinola~ late a Representative from the State of New York. The amendment was agreed to. ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. The next amendment was, in section 5, line 7, after the word "bridge," to insert" and approaches by land and by water;" and The message further announced that the Speaker of the House in line 16, after the word "bridge," to insert " and approaches had signed the enrolled bill (S. 2384) to change the name of the thereto;" so as to make the section read: customs collection district and port of Wilmington, Cal. • SEC. 5. That the structure herein authorized shall be built and located un­ PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL. der and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said A message from the President of the United States, by Mr. 0. river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his L. PRUDEN, one of his secretaries, announced that the President examination and approval, a design and drawings or said bridge and ap­ had on the 24th instant approved and signed the joint resolution proaches by land and by water and a map of the location, giVing, for the (S. R. 44) authorizing the Librarian. of Congress to exhibit cer-: space of 1 mile above and 1 mile below the proposed location, the topog­ raphy of the banks of the river, the shore lines. at high and low water, the tain documents at the World's Columbian Exposition. direction and strength of the current at all stages, and the soundings, accu­ EXECUTIVE SESSION. rately showing the bed of the stream, the location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a Mr. SHERMAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the con­ full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said plan sideration of executive business. and location of the bridge and approaches thereto are approved by the Sec­ I'etary of War the bridge shall not be commenced or built; and should any The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the con­ change be made in the plan of said bridge during the process of construction sideration of executive business. After three hours and five min­ such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary or War, and utes spent in executi-ve session the doors were reopened, and (at 5 the said structure shall be at all times so managed and kept as to otTer rea­ sonable and proper means for the passage of vessels through or under said o'clock and 7 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to-mor­ structure; and to secure the safe passage of vessels at night there shall be row, Tuesday, March 29, 1892, at 12 o'clock m. displayed on said bridge, from the hour of sunset to that of sunrise, such lights as may be pres<'ribed by the Light-House Board; and the said struc-· ture shall be changed, at the cost and expense of the owners thereof, from time to time, as the Secretary or War may dh·ect, so as to preserve the free NOMINATIONS. and convenient navigation of said river. The amendment was agreed to. Executive nominat·io ns 1·eceived by the Senale llfa t~h 28, 189e. The next amendment was to strike out section 8, as follows: CONSUL. SEc. 8. That this act shall t.ake effect and be in force from and after its Nicholas Wertheim, a German subject, to be consul of the passage. . . United States at Moscow, to fill a vacancy. The amendment was agreed to. The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend- SECOND ASSISTANT ENGINEER, REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. ments were concurred in. · Thomas B. Brown, of Pennsylvania, to be a second assistant The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read engineer in the Revenue Cutter Service, to succeed James H. the third time, and passed. Chalker, promoted. 1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2609

REGISTER OF LAND OFFICE. Attorney-General, transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the Carroll H. Parmelee, of Buffalo, Wyo., to be register of the land 18th instant, information relat.ive to injuries to Government dams office at Buffalo, Wyo., vice Horace R. Mann, resigned. on the Mississippi River; which was referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, and ordered to be printed. ' PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY. Injant1-y arm. MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Lieut. Col. George M. Brayton, Ninth Infantry, to be colonel, The SPEAKER also laid before the House the following Sen­ March 23, 1892, vice Jordan, Nineteenth Infantry, retired from ate concurrent resolution. active service. The concurrent resolution was read, as follows: Maj. Jacob Kline, Twenty-fourth Infantry, to be lieutenant­ Be it resolved by the Senate (the House of Repreuntatives concurring), That in pursuance of a certifl.ca.te of incorporation of the ''Memorial Association ot colonel, March 23, 1892,vice Brayton, Ninth Infantry, promoted. the District ot Columbia," signed by Melville W. Fuller, John M. Schofield, Capt. Frederick E. Trotter, Fourteenth Infantry, to be major, John W. Foster, B. H. Warner, S. P. Langley, A.B. Hagner, J.C. Bancroft March 23, 1892,vice Kline, Twenty-fourth Infantry, promoted. Davis. WalterS. Cox, S. H. Kaui!man, A. R. Spofford, John Hay, J. W. Doug­ lass, Myron M. Parker, Gardiner G. Hubbard, W. D. Davidge, S. S. Franklin, First Lieut. Frank Taylor, Fourteenth Infantry, to be captain, Charles C. Glover, and Tennis S. Hamlin, and recorded March 21,1892, the March 23, 1892,vice Trotter, Fourteenth Infantry, promoted. President of the United States, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker Second Lieut. WilliamS. Riddle, jr., Thirteenth Infantry, to of the House of Representatives be, and they hereby are, authorized and di­ rected to appoint each six citizens of the District of Columbia to be members be first lieutenant, March 23, 1892, vice Taylor, Fourteenth In­ of said association, and to serve tor the terms of one, two, and three years, fantry, promoted. respectively, as they may determine by lot, and thereafter to appoint annu· Oat•al?'Y arm. ally each two members to serve for three years. Second Lieut. Herbert S. Whipple, Tenth Cavalry, to be first Mr. HEMP.HILL. ¥r. Speaker, that is a. concurrent resolu­ lieutenant, March 27, 1892, vice Bettens, Ninth Cavalry, deceased. tion, is it not? First Lieut. Ezra B. Fuller, Seventh Cavalry, to be captain of The SPEAKER. It is a Senate concurrent resolution. cavalry, March 22, 1892, vice Wilkinson, Seventh Cavalry, de­ :Mr. HEMPHILL. I ask unanimous consent to take it up for ceased. present consideration. It simply asks for the appointment of Second Lieut. James W. Benton, Ninth Cavalry, to be first certain gentlemen by the President of the Senate, the Speaker lieutenant of cavalry, March 22, 1892, vice Fuller, Seventh Cav­ of the House, and the President of the United States to begin alry, promoted. the organization here of a society to gather together ancient Subsistence Department. memorials and other historical matter of general interest to the First Lieut. Ed ward E. Dravo, Sixth Cavalry, to be commis­ public. . sary of subsistence with the rank of captain, March 28, 1892, vice The SPEAKER. The Chair will state the request. The gen­ gleman from South Carolina asks unanimous consent for the Eagan, promoted. present consideration of the concurrent resolution. Mr. BURROWS. I would like to hear it read again. CONFIRMATIONS. The resolution was again read. Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate Ma1·ch 28, 1892. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present considera­ REGISTER OF LAND OFFICE. tion of the concurrent resolution? George M. Bowen, of Alpine, Colo., to be register of the land .Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker I would like to ask the gentle­ man from South Carolina if the passage of this resolution would office at Leadville, Colo. _ in the future make an appropriation for this association neces- PROMOTIONS IN THE NAv;y. saiJr? · · Paymaster Robert P. Lisle, to be a pay inspector in the Mr. HEMPHILL. Oh, no. It is simply this: These gentle­ Navy. · · . . men want to organize an institution here for the purpose I have Past Assistant Paymaster R-eah Frazer, to·be a paymaster in stated. In order to give it some character and dignity, as well the Navy. as to get it on its feet and start it, they ask that the presiding Passed Assistant Paymaster Henry R. Smith, to be a pay­ officers of the two Houses and the President of the United States master in the Navy. shall simJYly appoint the first incorporators. Passed Assistant Paymaster Hiram E. Drury, to be a pay­ Mr. SIMPSON. If it will not involve any appropriation in master in the Navy. the future I have no objection . APPOL.'iTMENT IN. THE NAVY. . Mr. HOLMAN. I hope the gentleman will be able to state whether it contemplates any appropriation of money by Con­ Champa Carter McCulloch, a resident of Texas, to be an as­ gress. sistant surgeon in the Navy. Mr. HEMPHILL. I will state, Mr. Speaker, that so far as I DISTRICT JUDGES. know, it does not contemplate any appropriation by Congress. John B. Rector, of Texas, to be United States district judge They are asking simply what I have already stated. Of course, for the northern district of Texas. what they may do hereafter, and what future Congresses may William K. Townsend, of Connecticut, to be United States dis­ do, I.do not . know; but, so far as this resolution is concerned, it trict judge for the district of Connecticut. simply asks that these three officials shall appoint eighteen gen­ JUDGE OF COURT OF CLAIMS. t.lemen to begin this association. Mr. SIMPSON. I object, believing that there may be an ap­ Stanton J. Pee1le, of Indiana, to be judge of the Court oi Claims, propriation asked for in the future. vice Glenni W. Scofield. The SPEAKER. Objection is made, and the resolution will UNITED STATES ATTORNEY. be referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Ellery P. Ingham, of Pennsylvania, to be attorney of the United Mr. HEMPHILL. I will state to the gentleman from Kansas States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. that the Committee on the District of Columbia have recom­ mended the passage of a similar resolution. REPORT OF COMMISSION ON EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The SPEAKER also laid before tp.e House the following con­ current resolution of the Senate, which was read and referred to MONDAY, March 28, 1892. the Committee on Printing: . The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Resolved by the Seroale (the House of Representatives concurring), That th~ W. H. MILBURN, D. D. Public Printer be, and he is hereby, directed to print and bind 6,000 copies of the reports on European immigration, Jllade to the Secretary of the Treas· The Journal of the proceedings of Saturday was read and ap- u.ry by the special commissioners appointed under authority of the sundry proved. ~ civil appropriation act of March 3, 1891, excluding "the General Appendix," the "Appendix to Report on Russia.," and the papera marked "Schedule C" INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE RED CROSS. and "Appendix C;" and of the reports printed 2,000 copies shall be for the use The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Acting of the Senate and 4,000 for t~e use of the House. Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communica­ THE LATE SENATOR HEARST. tion from the Acting Secretary of State with its inclosures, sub­ The SPEAKER also laid b3fora the House the following Sen­ mitting an estimate of appropriation for the expenses of two del­ ate resolution: egates to represent the United States at the fifth international Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of the death of conference of the Red Cross, to be held at Rome on April 21, George Hearst, late a Senator from the State of California. 1892; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, Resolved, That as a. mark o! respect to the memory of the deceased, the and ordered to be printed. business of the Senate be now suspended to enable his associates to pay proper tribute of regard to his high character and distinguished public serv­ GOVERNMENT DAMS ON MISSISSIPPr RIVER. ices. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate communicate these resolutions -- The SPEAKER also laid b ~fore the House a. letter from the to the House of Representatives. XXIII-· -164

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The SPEAKER. This resolution will lie on the table for the Mr. DOCKERY moved t<> reconsider the vote by which the present. resolution was adopted; and also moved that the motion to recon­ PUBLIC BUILDING, HELENA, MONT. sider be laid on the table. The SPEAKER also laid before' the House a bill (S. 180) to The latter motion was agreed to. provide for the construction of a public building at Helena, Mont.; MRS. ELIZA FAYS. which was read a first and second time, referred to the Commit­ Mr. COGSWELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that tee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. the Committee of the Whole be dischacged from the further con­ UNITED STATES COURTS IN WEST VIRGINIA. sideration of the bill (H. R.l167) granting a pension to Mrs. Eliza The SPE.AJ{ER also laid before the House the bill (S. 2643) Fays, and that the bill be now considered in the House. changing the time for holding the circuit and district courts in The bill was read, as follows: Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, the district of West Virginia; which was read a first and second authorized and directed to place upon the pension roll of the United States time, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and or­ the name of Mrs. Eliza Fays mother of Frank Fays, late a private in Com­ dered to be printed. pany A, Seventeen th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and to pay her a pension at the rate of $12 ver month. - RESIGNATION OF HON. J. M'KENNA. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present considerar ·The Speaker laid before the House the following communicar tion of this bill? tion: Mr. KILGORE. I demand the regular order, Mr. Speaker. The Clerk read as follows: The SPEAKER. The regular order is demanded, which is MY DEAR Sm: I most respectfully inform you that I have sent my resig­ equivalent to an objection. nation as Representative in Congress from the 'Phird district of the State of California to the governor, to take effect on the 28th instant. ORDER OF BUSINESS. Very truly, J.McKENNA. Mr. CARUTH. Mr. Speaker, would not the regular order be Hon. CHARLES F. CRISP, a vote upon the bill which comes over from Saturday with the Speaker of the House of .Representatives. previous question ordered upon its passa~e, the bill granting an The SPEAKER. This letter will be printed in the RECORD, increase of pension to Samuel J. Bolings. and entered on the Journal. The SPEAKER. The previous question wa.s ordered upon the passage of that bill. -The House was dividing when it was inter­ VOTE OF MR. DONOVAN ON SILVER BILL. rupted by the special order, and the Chair thinks the bill would The SPEAKER. The Chair will call attention to a communica­ properly come up now. tion, which the Clerk will read, from the gentleman from Ohio Mr. KILGORE. Mr. Speaker, I desire to make a point of or­ [Mr. DONOVAN] respecting his vote. der upon that bill. The Clerk read as follows: The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26, 1892. Mr. KILGORE. That is a bill which properly belongs to the Mr. SPEAKER: On page 2630 of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD I am recorded Friday evening session, but, by unanimous ·consent, it was taken as voting in the negative on Mr. BURRows'smotion to lay the bill {the silver bill) on the table. I was not in the Hall when my name was called on this up and considered on last Saturday between the hours of 12 and 2 or any other roll call pertaining to the silver bill. · o'clock. Now~ my point is that it can not be considered further .As my physician, Dr. Hazen, has given positive orders that I shall not except on an occasion fixed for the consideration of such billR­ leaYe my room, I am obliged to write you instead of making an explanation in person before the House. either a Friday night session or some other time that may be Hoping that a proper correction of the RECORD may be made, I remain, agresd upon. Yours very respectfully, The SPEAKER. As the Chair understands the rule, the pre­ D. D. DO NOV AN, Sixth JJistrict, Ohio. vious question having been ordered on the passage of the bill, it The honorable SPEAKER of the House of .Representatives. comes up properly after the reading of the Journal on the suc­ The SPEAKER. This letter will be printed in the RECORD, ceeding day. The Chair will call attention to a ruling upon this and the Journal will be corrected so as to show that the gentle­ point which the Clerk will read. man from Ohio did not vote. The Clerk read as follows: Under the established practice of the House the effect of thepreVIousques­ LEAVE OF ABSENCE. tion ordered before an adjournment was to bring the proposition on which it had been ordered up for consideration immediately after the reading of By unanimous consent leave of absence was granted as follows: the Journal the following morning, even on Frid.ay, though it be a public To Mr. LANE, for five days, on account of important business. bill. Under the later practice of the House the etrect is different, if it has To Mr. SWEET, for this day, on account of illness. been ordered only on some less advanced stage of the measure. In such case the time for consideration of the P-roposition is not a:llected by the previous VOTE ON THE SILVER BILL. question having been ordered. LSee decision of Speaker CARLISLE, CoN­ Mr. BURROWS. Mr. Speaker, I desire to inquire whether GRESSIONAL RECORD, December 6, 1888.] the change suggested by the letter of the gentleman from Ohio SAMUEL J. BOLINGS. [Mr. DONOVAN] changes the result of the vote? The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the title of the bill . .The SPEAKER. It does not. That announcement was made The Clerk read as follows: at 'the time. · A bill (H. R. 1093) granting an increase of pension to Samuel J. Bolings. Mr. BURROWS. I so understood. The SPEAKER. The previous question has been ordered The SPEAKER. Ahl The Chair's attention was directed only upon this bill, and the House was dividing when the division to t1ie vote as to which the question was made, and his response was interrupted by the special order. Tellers had been ordered to the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. BURROWS] applies only and no quorum had voted. . to that. The Chair has not examined the record to see what ef­ Mr. KILGORE. I must insist on a division. fect the statement of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. DONOVAN] The SPEAKER. The Chair will reappoint tellers. The gen­ might have upon other votes. ~ tlemanfrom Texas [Mr. KILGORE] and the gentleman from Ken­ Mr. DINGLEY. Is not the gentleman [Mr .DONOVAN] recorded tucky [Mr. CARUTH] will please act as tellers. as having voted on the previous roll call, when it appears he did Mr. KILGORE. I must insist on a division on this bill Mr. not vote? Speaker. The SPEAKER. The Chair has made no examination as to Mr. HEMPHILL. Mr. Speaker, in order to facilitate the mat­ · that. The response which the Chair ma4e to the gentleman ter I ask unanimous consent that the further division by t ellers from Michigan had reference only to the vote as to which ques... be suspended and that we take a vote upon the passage of the bill. tion was made. The Chair is informed by the Clerk, however, The SPEAKER. The question is upon the passage of the bill that the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. DONOVAN] was,not recorded and the House is dividing, upon that question, the gentleman on other votes. from Texas having made the point of no quorum when the bill COINAGE AND MINT CAPACITY. was up before for consideration. The gentleman from Texas Mr. DOCKERY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the [Mr. KILGORE] and the gentlemanfroiJ,l.Kentucky [Mr. CARUTH] present consideration of the resolution which I send to the desk. will please take their places as tellers. The question is upon the The resolution was read, as follows: passage of the bill. .Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, requested The House divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 166, noes 2• to inform the House of Representatives what amount of gold, silver, and mi­ So the bill was passed. nor coinage has been executed at the four coinage mints of the United States Mr. CARUTH. I ask unanimous consent to amend the title of from June 30, 1891, to March 1, 1892, the number vf pieces and respective de- . nominations of su11h gold, silver, and minor coinage; and also whether the this bill by striking out the final "s" in the name of the pen­ present capacity of the Mint is adequate to execute the authorized coinage sioner. The correct name is Samuel J. Boling. of the United :~ts . The SPEAKER. In the absence of objection, the correction The SPE R. Is there objection to the present considera- will be made. tion of the resolution? On motion of Mr. CARUTH, a motion to reconsider the -vote by There was no objection, and the resolution was adopted. which the bill was passed was laid on the table. I

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MRS. ELIZA FAYS. Mr. ATKINSON. I wish to ask the gentleman from Georgia The SPEAKER. The Chair is informed that the gentleman a question. from Texas [Mr. KILGoRE] withdraws his demand for the regu­ The SPEAKER. The regular order is demanded. lar order· and the Chair will again submit the request of the ENROLLED ·BILL SIGNED. ( gentlema'n from Massachusetts [Mr .. Coos~]. U:z;animous Mr. WARWICK, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, re­ cmisent is asked for the present cons1derat10n of the bill (H. R. ported that the committee had examined and found truly en­ 1167) granting a pension to Mrs. Eliza Fays. The bill will be rolled the bill (S. 2384) to change the name of the customs col­ read. lection district and port of Wilmington, Cal., to Los Angeles, and The Clerk read as follows: for other purposes; when the Speaker signed the same. Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary or the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place upon the pension roll or the United States ORDER OF BUSINESS. the name of Mrs. Eliza. Fays, mother of Frank Fays, late a. private in Com­ pany A, Seventeenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and to The SPEAKER. The Chair will direct the committees to be pay her a. pen:;;ion at the rate of $12 per month. called for reports under the rule. There being no objection, the House proceeded to the consid- CONVEYANCE OF CERTAIN LANDS TO KANSAS. eration of the bill. · Mr. AMERMAN, from the Committee on the Public Lands, The question being taken on ordering the bill to be engrossed reported back the bill (S. 800) to authorize the Secretary of the and read a third time, there were-ayes 133, noes 1. Interior to convey to the State of Kansas certain lands therein; Mr. BAILEY: No quorum. which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the Tellers were ordered; and Mr. COGSWELL and Mr. BAILEY state of the Union. were appointed. TRINITY CHURCH, HOT SPRINGS, ARK. . The House again divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 172, noes 1. Mr. McRAE, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported So the bill was ordered to be engrossed for. a third reading; back the bill (H. R. 3380) to authorize the trustees of Trinity and it was accordingly read the third ti?le, and pass.ed. Church Hot Springs, Ark., to purchase certain lands, with the On motion of Mr. COGSWELL, a motwn to reconsider the last recomm'endation that it be indefinitely postponed. . vote was laid on the table. The SPEAKER. In the absence of objection that order will be made, and the report will be printed. INVESTIGATION OF JUDICIAL ABUSES. There was no objection, and it was so ordered. Mr. CULBERSON. I ask unanimous consent for the present GRADE OF MEDICAL OFFICERS. consideration of the resolution which I send to the desk. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. OUTHWAITE, from the Committee on Military Affairs, IleaoZved, That in the investigation now being made by a subcommittee of reported back the bill (S. 1039) to define the grade of certain the Committee on the Judiciary of alleged abuses of process and authority medical officers of the Army, and for other purposes; which was by certain officers of the Judicta.l Department of the United States under a referred to the House Calendar. resolution of the House heretofore adopted, the chairman or said subcom­ mittee be, a.nd he is hereby, authorized to draw for the expenses of the said CUSTODY OF RECORDS, VOLUNTEER ARMIES. investigation on the Clerk of the House from the contingent fund of the House in sums not to exceed $500 at any one time. Mr. OUTHWAITE, from the Committee on Military Affair~, reported back the bill (R. R. 6483) to provide for the perman~nt There being no objection, the House proceeded to the consid­ preservation and custody of the records of the volunteer arm.1es, eration of the resolution; which was adopted. and for other purposes; which was referred to the House Calen­ On motion of Mr. CULBERSON, a motion to reconsider the last dar. vote was laid on the table. PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF CF,RTAIN MINORS. CONSULAR AND DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. BELTZHOOVER, from the Committee on War Claims, Mr. BLOUNT, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, re­ reported back the joint resolution (H. Res. 24) authorizing the ported a bill (H. R. 7624) making appropriations for the diplo­ payment of pay and allowance to minors who were discharged matic and consular service of the United States for the fiscal from the armies of the United States at the close of the war of year ending June 30, 1893; which was read a first and second the rebellion, by special order secured by action of friends be­ time, referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state fore the date of the general order mustering out their command· of the Union, and, with the accompanying report, ordered to be which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on printed. the state of the Union. Mr. DINGLEY. I desire to reserve all points of order on that BUSINESS FROM THE COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUM­ bill. BIA. The SPEAKER. Points of order will be reserved. The SPEAKER. This being the fourth Monday, under the VOTE OF MR. DONOVAN ON THE SILVER QUESTION. rule, if claimed by the Committee on the District of Columbia, Mr. L1VINGSTON. i rise to a question of privilege. the Chair will recognize the chairman of that committee to call The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. up measures pertaining to the District. Mr. LIVINGSTON. On page 2630 of the RECORD, I am re­ PREVENTION OF FRAUD, WATER REVENUES, DISTRICT OF ..CO­ ported as having said last Thursday night in relation to the vote LUMBIA. of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. DONOVAN]- Mr. HEMPIDLL. I call up for consideration the bill (S.1884) He was here, and voted when his name was called. to prevent fraud upon the water revenues of the District of Co­ The letterwhich has been read from the gentleman from Ohio lumbia. this morning appears to call for some explanation from me. The bill was read, as follows: When the name of Mr. DONOVAN was called by the Clerk upon Be it enacted, etc., That any person w}lo, with intent to injure or aefra.ud the the vote referred to, the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. EVER­ District of Columbia, shall make or cause to be made any pipe, tube, or other ETT], the gentleman from Texas [Mr. LONG], as well as myself, instrument or contrivance, or connect the same or cause it to be connected distinctly heard the response "No!" and the Clerk was right with any water main or service pipe or other pipe for conducting or supply­ ing Potomac water, in such manner as to pass or carry the Vi"a.ter, or any por­ when he entered that response. I ask the gentleman fro;m Geor­ tion thereof, around or without passing through the meter provided ror the gia and the gentleman from Texas to bear me out in the state­ measuring and registering of the Potomac water supplied to any premises. or who shall, without permission from the Commissioners of the District of ment that when the name of the gentleman from Ohio was called Columbia, tamper with or break any water meter or break the seal thereof, the answer "No" was distinctly given from that part of the or in any manner change the reading

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"SEC. 2. That the alfairs of the company shall be managed by not less than Adams Mill road to Kansas street, thence along Kansas street to Ontario nine nor more than fifteen directors, to be elected annually by ballot on the avenue thence along or adjacent to Ontario avenuo to the east line of the second Monday of July by the stockholders or by their legally empowered Zoological Park, on such line as shall be approved by the Commissioners of agents; and each share of stock shall entitle the holder thereof to.one vote; the District of Columbia. That the extension and branch herein provided !or the election to be held at the om.ce of the company at a general meeting of shall be subject, in all respects, to the acts of Congress granting and amend­ the stockholders convened !or that purpose, by ten days' public notice in two ing the charter of the Rock cteek Railway Company as fully as if such acts or more otthe daily papers of the city of Washington: Provided, That the :first were incorporated herein. election for directors shall be held pursuant to ten days' notice given in one SEC. 2. That whenever the route of the foregoing extension coincides with or more of the daily papers of the city of Washington by the persons named the track occupied by the Metropolitan Railroad Company, both companies in the first section of this act, or any five or them, who shall designate the shall use the same track upon such fair and equitable terms as may be tlmewhenand the place where said election shall be held; and thestockhold- agreed upon by said companies; and in the event that said companies shall ers shall then and there elect nine directors to serve until the next ensuing fail to agree upon equitable terms, either or said companies may apply by election as provided for in this act. And at the first ensuing meeting of the petition to the supreme court of the District of Columbia, who shall hear and directors after every election they shall appoint one of their number as pres!- determine summarily the matter in due form of law, and adjudge to the dent, wco, together with themselves, shall hold om.ce until the next eruuing proper party the amount of compensation to be paid therefor. Whenever election, as herein provided for; and five members of said board shall com- more than one or the tracks of said railroad company shall be constructed pose a quorum. And in case that an election for directors should not be on any of the streets, avenues, or other public highways in the District of made when, pursuant to this act, it should have been made, the company for Columbia, the width of space between the two tracks shall not exceed 4 feet, that cause shall not be dissolved: and it shall be lawful, within forty days unless otherwise especially OJ;dered by the Commissioners of the District of thereafter, to hold and make an election for directors in .such manner as the Columbia. • by-laws ot the company may prescribe, and the president and directors for SEc. 3. That the Rock Creek Railway Company and t.be Eckington and I· • the time being shall be continued in om.ce until such e!ection takes place; and Soldiers' Home Railway Company shall have the power to make any con­ in the event of death, resignation. or removal of any director from om.ce his tracts or agreements that may be necessa17 to enable the said companies to place for the remainder of his term may be filled by the president and direc- run the cars of each or either company over the tracks of the other company, t~rs for the time being, in such manner as the by-laws may prescribe." and also to contract tor and use the power of each or either company to pro- Second. That said act be further amended by the addition of a tenth sec- pel the cars of the other company. The said extension and branch shall be tion, as follows: completed within one year and a half from the passage of this act. _ "SEc. 10. That said company may lease, purchase, hold, and convey real SEC. 4. That the streets or a. venues opened under the provisions of th act estate, not exceeding in value $250,000, and such in addition as it may acquire shall conform to the general plans tor the extension of the streets and ave­ in satisfaction of debts due the corporation, tmder sales, decrees, judgments, nues or the District of Columbia, and shall be laid out under the direction of deeds of trust, and mortgages: the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. The committee recommend the adoption of the following amend- SEc. 5. That Congress reserves the right at any time to alter, amend, orre- ~: ~~~ Add to section 10 the following proviso: "Provided, That any property so Mr. HEMPHILL. Mr. Speaker, I ask fo1· the reading of th-e acquired iu satisfaction· of debts due the corporation as above provided shall report upon this bill. not be lleldor owned by said company for more than five years, but shall be The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Cleek will raad tpe report. sold and conveyed within that time." The report (by Mr. HEARD) was read, as follows: The amendment was adopted. The Committee on the District or Columbia have had under consideration The bill as amended was ordered to be en~rossed and read a. the bill (H. R. 6286) to amend the charter of the Rock Creek Railroad Com­ thh·d time; and being engrossed, it was accordmgly read the third pany, and make the following report thereon: . ~ The object of the bill is to authorize and enable the Rock Creek Railroad, trm- which is a purely a suburban line, to connect with three of the existing lines The question being on its passage, of street railway now being operated-inside the city limits, and to build a Mr. GOODNIGHT said: Mr. Speaker, we can not understand branch line outside the city limits to enable it to reach the Zoological Park. · I k th +-th t'tl f th b'll b d The line proposed on U street and Florida avenue covers only a few squares, what this bill IS. as a" e 1 e 0 e 1 e rea · and there has been no protest against its occupancy of said streets, so far as The SPEAKERf?'O te-mpo1·e (Mr. RICHARDSON in the chair). your committee is advised. The other street railroad lines which the exten- The title of the bil will be again reported. sion of this atrects do not object, but desire the connection which this blll he title was aQ'ain read. gives, and your committee consider the same of material importance to the T ~ public, and recommend its passa~e . It has the approval of the District Com- The bill was passed. missioners, and of the Senate DlStrict Committee, which has favorably re- On motion of :Mr. HEMPHILL, the m otion to reconsider the ported the same in the form recommended by your committee. last vote was laid upon the table. ' Mr. HEARD. l\Ir. Speaker, I deem it only necessary to say, OPENING OF ALLEYS, DlSTRICT OF COLUMBIA. in addition to what the report states, that this Rock Creek line Mr. HEMPHILL. I now call up the bill (H. R. 3971) to pro- begins at the boundary practically, at the head of Connecticut vide for the opening of alleys in the District of Columbia. , avenue and Eighteenth street, and runs entirely outside of the The bill wa-s read, as follows: city with the exception of probably a very few blocks on U street, Be it enacted, etc., That the Commissioners ot the District of Columbia, as to near the western boundary. The proposition of this bill origi­ the ordinance of the late corporation of WashinJ.rt;on in regard to opening nally was to run the line east on U street and connect with the and extending alleys, approved November 4,1842, be, and they are hereby, Seventh street line (which connected it with the Eleventh and declared to be the legal successors of the mayor of the said corporation, are Ninth street lines), but the Commissioners recommend, and your authorizedandempoweredasfullyasthemayorwastoopen.altoc,orchange. comnu' ttee adopted the recommendati"on , that the · company b e The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time; compelled to extend it still farther, to North Capitol street, by and being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time, and which it will connect with two other lines. The object is to give -passed. this road which runs in the country and runs out through thiA .· On motion of Mr. HEMPIDLL, the motion to reconsider the Rock Creek Park section a connection with the city lines of road, last vote was laid upon the table. and this will connect it, I believe, with four or five different lines Mr. STOCKDALE. Mr. Speaker, I would like to inquire if of railroads. copies of these bills ought not to be at the Clerk's desk? We can The other proposition, authorizing them to build a branch line not know what bills are coming up. I , have sent several times and run out to the Zoological Park, refers to a district entirely to the Sergeant-at-Arms, and can not get a bill that is being con- outside of the city, and is either over the land of the company sidered . We ought to have copies of all these bills at hand in or they must buy the right of way for themselves. The Com­ the House. missioners approve of the proposition, and your committee are The SPEAKER pro tempm·e. The Chair has no information on unanimous in recommending it. I have no doubt that it will the subject, but has no doubt that copies of the bills may be ob- result in a public benefit. tained in the document room. Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I suppose Mr. STOCKDALE. But, Me. Speaker, by the time one of the that as the system of granting corporate privileges is n0w being pages gets ·back from the document room the bill has passed, carriedonin thisHouseandinou1·StateLcgislaturesperhapsthis and then we have the pleasure of looking over the bill after it has is as innocent a bill as could be presented. But! want to submit passed. to this House whether the time has not arrived when, in the The SPEAKER pl'o tempore. The Clerk has copies of the bill capital of this country,:there should not be some system adopted at the desk. • with reference to the transportation of passengers in the city by Mr. STOCKDALE. I have sent to the desk, and the reply has railway. come back every time that there are no extra copies there. I It seems to rrie, from the cursory examination of the subject 1 sent for a copy of this bill that is under consideration now. have made, that so far we have had an utter lack of system in The SPEAKER pro tem.pc>'re. The Chair will direct that some ali the cities of this Union in that respect, and it seems to me copies of these bills be brought to the desk, in order that mem- that in the capital of the country, whera the legislation mu t be bers may examine them. bad at th ::~ hands of the national Congress, whe:J;"e members come :flOCK CREEK RAILROAD COMPANY. up from differant sections of the country, posted as to the best Mr. HE~IPHILL . I ask to call up the bill (H. R. 62 ~ G ) t o amend means of transportation used in their respective cities, that here the charter of the Rock Creek Railroad Company. and perhaps now are the proper place and time for us to stop and The bill was read, as follows: consider whether, instead of continuing this piecemeallegisla- B e it enacted. etc., That the Rock Creek Railroad Company be, and it is here- tion, granting to one company the right to transport a pas en­ by, authorized to extend its road from its present terminus on u street to ger for a short diatance , and to another and entirely distinct Florida avenue. thence along Florida avenue to North Capitol street: Pro- company the right to take up that transportation to the end of vided, That it shall run on the same track with the Metropolitan Railroad its line and then to turn him over in turn to anothel' corporation, Company between Ninth and Seventh streets. Said company is authorized to extend a branch road from a point on its line in CW!burne tract across the we should not adopt some general system to provide for the

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transportation of persons ·throughout the city. I make these The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading; and · suggestions now because we are rapidly gridironing this city in being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time, and this desultory and disconnect~d manner. Before long so many passed.- corporate rights will have accrued, so many of ·these franchises On motion of Mr. HEARD, a motion to reconsider the last vote will have passed into the hands of private owners, that an at­ was laid on the table. tempt to systematize this matter would be resisted by large ag- USE OF LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONS BY STUDENTS. gregations of capital. · Mr. HEMPHILL, I now call up for consideration the joint Mr. HEARD. Mr. Speaker, l have only to say in coimection resolution (H. Res. 92) to encourage the establishment and en­ with the subject and in partial response to the suggestions made dowment of institutions of learning at the national capital by de­ by the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. BUCHANAN] that your fining the policy of the Government with reference to the use of committee are not prepared, nor do I think the gentleman from its literary and scientific collections by students. New Jersey himself would attempt, to fix a rule by which every The joint resolution was· read, as follows: one of the railroad companies of the city would be compelled to Whereas large collections illustrative of the various arts and sciences and accept passengers from every other railroad and carry them for facilitating literary and scientific research have been accumulated by the nothing. This bill proposes to connect a road which runs several action of Congress through a series of years at the national capital; and miles into tke country with four or .five systems in the city, not Whereas it was the original purpose of the Government thereby to pro· mote research and the d.iJiusion of knowledge, and is now the settled policy less than four of those systems having a trackage of 5 miles or and present practice of those charged with the care of these collections spe­ more in this city. Now, it is a fact that will appear to the gen­ cially to encourage students who devote their time to the investigation and tleman, or to anyone else, upon examination, that the transporta­ study of any b1·anch of knowledge by allowing to them all proper use thereof; and tion of passengers by street railway lines in this city is perhaps Whereas it is represented that the enumeration of these facilities and the cheaper now than in any other city in this country. formal statement of this policy will encourage the establishment and endow· I know of no city where the fare is so low for riding the same ment or institutions of learning at the seat or Government, and promote the work of education by attracting students to avail themselves of the advan· distance as it is in the District of Columbia. The fact is, that tages aforesaid under the direction of competent instructors: Therefore, there are two or three of the larger lines having branches, and Resolved, etc., That the facilities for research and illustration in the following some of them saveral branches, over all of which they transfer and any other governmental collections now existing or hereafter to be es· tablished in the city of Washington for the promotion of knowledge shall be their passengers to their termini, 5 or 6 miles, for one fare. accessible, under such rules and restrictions as the officers in charge of each Mr. Speake1', I want to submit now, in justice to these people, coll~ction may prescribe, or as are already, or hereafter may be, prescribed that the committee have had this subject under consideration. by act of Congress, to the students of any institution of higher education now incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated under the laws of Congress or On motion of the gentleman from Louisiana, Mr. Gay, I think of the District of Columbia, to wit: it was, we considered and investigated it. The difference b:l­ 1. Of the Library of Congress. tween selling six tickets for a quarter, which prevails in this 2. Of the National Museum. 3. Of the Patent Office. city universally, and that which obtains in m ost of the other 4. Of the Bureau of Education. cities of this country, of selling five for a quarter, amounts to a 5. Of t.he Bureau of Ethnology. saving of more than $150,000 a ye:tr to the patrons of the roads 6. Of the Army Medical Museum. 7. Of the Department of Agriculture. of this city. 8. Of the Fish Commission. On the Washington and Georgetown road alone it amounts to 9. Of the Botanic Gardens. a discount of $75,000 a year on the usual fare. I submit, there­ 10. Of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. 11. Of the Geological Survey. ' fore, Mr. Speaker, that it will not be fair for this road, which 12. Of the Naval Observatory. runs, as I say, almost entirely in the country, to Rock Creek and beyond as far as Glen Echo, from five to nine miles in the coun­ The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed for a third try, to compel it to transfer its passengers to the city lines, reading; and, being engrossed, it was accordingly rea::l the third which may run from five to six miles inside the city, and make time. them carry passengers over both lines for one fare. I think that Mr. LONG. I would like to have the chairman of the com­ that will be doing them an injustice. mittee give some explanation of this joint resolution. Mr. BRETZ. Is this to be a horse-car road? Mr. HEMPHILL. Mr. Speaker, this resolution simply gives Mr. HEARD. The motive power is electricity. the assent of Congress t.o a practice which has hereto existed Mr. BRETZ. I am in favor of doing away with horse cars at in the Library, in the Smithsonian, and other places of the kind, the capital. in allowing students at the colleges and universities here to have :Mr. HEARD. This provides for electric cars such as are now access to the collections for the purposes of study. That is the in operation on the Rock Creek, Tennallytown, and other roads whole of it. using the overhead wires. The question was taken, and the joint resolution was passed. Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, the gentle­ On motion of Mr. HEMPHILL, a motion to reconsider the last man from Missouri [Mr. HEARD] has entirely misapprehended vote was laid on the table. the spirit of my remarks. I did not allude to the matter of fare REFORMATORY AND HOUSE OF DETE~TION FOR WOMEN. at all as an objection. I expressly said that under our present Mr .. HEMPHILL. I now call up the bill (H. R. 5097) for the slipshod system of granting franchises, this bill was, perhaps, as erection of a reformatory and house of detention for women innocent as any bill that had been presented, and perhaps as charged with and convicted of crimes and misdemeanors in the meritorious. But what I wished to call the attention of the com­ District of Columbia, and for other purposes. mittee to was whether or not the time has not arrived when. we The bill was read, as follows: should abandon this slipshod system of granting franchises for a Be it enacted, etc., That the Attorney-General and the Secretary of the In­ portion of a road to ~me company, and a frarfchise for another terim· be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site within portion to another company, having as many different systems tpe District of Columbia, and cause to be erected thereon suitable buildin~s for the confinement of all women convicted of a.ny crime or misdemeanor m or lack of systems of transportation in the interest of different the District of C'olum bia, and for the detention of women charged with crimes companies. Whether the time has not arrived for the commit­ or misdemeanors in the District of Columbia, and the plans, specifications, tee to take some general view of this subject, and prescribe some and estimates of said site and buildings shall be previously made and ap­ proved according to law, and shall not exceed the sum of :rnoo,ooo, which said broad general regulation which shall put all the r-ailways within sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropri­ this District under some proper system which will provide de­ ated out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise cent and adequat.a accommodations for the patrons of the road, appropriated. ~Ec. 2. That the control and management of said reformatory and house of will provide that the employes of the roads shall not be worked detention be vested in the Attorney-General, who shall have power to appoint out of hours, and which, in fact, will provide a model transporta­ a superintendent and other officers necessary for the safe-keeping, care, pro­ tion for the passengers of this city. tection, and discipline of such prisioners: Provided, That all the employ~l3, so far as possible, shall be women. Mr. BRETZ. And at the same time do away with the horse SEc. R That eve17. prisoner, when discharged from the reformatory :md cars. house of detention, If the term of her imprisonment shall have been for one . Mr. HEARD. I will say to the gentleman from New Jersey year or more, shall be furnished with suitable clot.hing, the cost not to exceed $15, and $5 in money and transportation to he!". home in the district where that our committee has done the best they could. It is perfectly convicted. will.ing to receive and will welcome any suggestion from any SEC. 4. That the Attorney-General shall formulate rules and regulations for source with reference to better systematizing and governing all the conduct of said reformatory and house of detention. and he is hereby au· thorized to establish rules of commutation for good behavior of said prison· these roads. We have very greatly improved them within the ers. last six or seven years, and it may be practicable to effect still SEC. 5. That the Attorney-General shall be authorized to use said reforma· further improvement, and we will be glad to still further aid tory and house of detention for the confinement of women convicted in any of the courts of the United States. Congress in that direction. Many of the matters to which my SEC. 6. That in all cases where the commitment or imprisonment would be friend remarks obtain against the old methods have been pro­ in :ia.il, the courts and committing magistrates are authorized to commit vided for in the new. As I say, however, our committee will be women to the reformatory and house of detention. glad to welcome any suggestion of practical use from the gentle­ Mr. HOLMAN. I would ask tb.e gentlemanfrOJD. South Caro­ man from New .Tersey or any other source. lina if this bill should not be considered in the Committee of the Mr. HEMPHILL. I hope we will have a vote on this bill now. Whole.· .2614 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE . MARCH 28,

Mr. HEMPHILL. I ask unanimous consent, Mr. Speaker, general way in the midst of the confusion ..that prev s in the that the bill be considered in the House as in Committee of the Hall. Whole. The SPEAKER pro te?npore. Before the gentleman proceeds The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from South Car­ the Chair desires to say also that he is informed that the bill olina asks unanimous consent that this bill be considered in the contained this appropriation in specific terms when it was pre­ House as in Commit~ee of the Whole. Is there objection? [ Aiter sented and referred to the committee, and the question is whether a pause.] The Chair hears none. that would not give the committee jurisdiction of the bill as a The amendments recommended by the Committee were read, whole, it having been regula:rly referred under the rule without as follows: objection made at the time. After the word "women," in line 6, insert " and ~irls;" in line 8, a.fter the 1r. BRECKINRIDGEof Arkansas. The Chair must be aware word "women" insert "and girls;" in line 12, strike out" three hundred" and insert "fifty;" in section 5, line 3, on page 3, after the word "women," that the way in which we refer bills now does not make it possi­ insert " and girls;" in line 3, section 6, insert, after the wm·d "women," " and ble for any exception to be taken at the time of reference. The girls." bills are not referred in open House· they are put into the peti­ Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I want to tion box and referrad, away from the observation and presence make a point of order on this bill. I did not know the nature of of the House. the bill until its reading had progressed to a considerable ex­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair calls the attention of tent, and I shall make the point of order on the bill that inas­ the gentleman to the fact that the reference is made by the much as it reports an appropriation it is not in order, that power Speaker, under the rule and the reference is printed in the REc­ not being lodged with the committee reporting the bill. ORD the next day and at any time the gentleman from Arkansas, Now, Mr. Speaker, owing to the confusion in the Hall, I have or any other gentleman, could have moved to have the bill re­ not been able clearly to catch the provisions of the bill from the called from the committee if the reference was not a proper one. reading. I have sent to the document room for a copy, but it The rules provide for a motion to recall a bill from a committee has not yet arrived. It seems perfectly clear, however, from the to which it has not been properly referred. reading, that in several places there are indications that this bill Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I submit that that does carries a considerable appropriation, which I think makes it out not remove the embarrassment which exists in regard to detect­ of order; and hence the bill its9lf is not in order. And I will ing any irregularity of this character, and unless the point has sa:y, as a reason why this point should be made, that substantially been ruled upon heretofore, I believe that a very liberal con­ thlS whole matter is provided for by legislation in the District struction should be placed upon the rule, because of the difficulty . appropriation bill, which we have passed and sent to the Senate. in discovering violations of the rules which exists under the The SPEAKER p1·o terrtpore. 'rhis is not a general appropria­ present practice of referring bills. Now, the Chair will observe tion bill. that in clause 3 of Rule XI, it is provided that all legislation re­ Mr. DINGLEY. Does the gentleman from Arkansas [Mr. lating to appropriations for the District of Columbia shall be BRECKINRIDGE] make the point of order that no committee ex­ referred to the Committe ~ on Appropriations. Am I to under­ cept the Appropriations Committee have a right to report a bill stand the Chair as saying that this bill is not for the District of making an appropriation for the object for which the bill is re­ Columl?ia, but simply for some institution that will be in the Dis­ ported? trict and not of the District? I would be glad to have the Chair Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I make the point of or­ make himself clear on that. point. der that no committee has the power to report an appropriation The SPEAKER p1·o ternpoTe . No, I do not say that. except a committee which has that power delegated to it by the Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. Will the Chair pardon a House. suggestion? Mr. DINGLEY. The gentleman surely understands that thou­ 'l'he SPEAKER p1·o tempore. Certainly. sands of such reports have been made from committees. Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. Every Fntlu.y evening we The SPEAKER p1·o tempore. The Chair will be pleased to have act upon bills which contain approp ria. tions and which have n ever the gentleman from Arkansas cite any authorities which he may b ~e n reported from the Committee on Appropriations. Every have at hand. The gentleman is perhaps not aware that the gen­ light-house bill reported from the Committee on Commerce con­ tleman from South Carolina [Mr. HEMPHILL] asked unanimous tains an appropriation which has never been submitted to tbo consent that this bill be considered in the House as in Committee Committee on Appropriations. of the Whole, and that that order has been made. Mr. HEMPHILL. Mr. Speaker, the ingenuity of my friend Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. Am I to undm·stand the from Arkansas [Mr. BRECKINRIDGE] has not been able to suggest Chah· to intimate that therefore the point of orderwouldnotob­ anything to the Chair that has any weight in it, and I think it tain when we are acting in the House but as in the Committee is hardly worth while to take up our time further in discussing of the Whole? this point. [Laughter.] , The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would be pleased to The SPEAKER pro tempo1·e. The gentleman from Arkan as have a reference to some authority to show why the bill is not in [l\1r. BRECKINRIDGE] has the floor. order. The fact that it carries an appropriation would not pre­ Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I am ready for the vent the committee from reporting it, the Chair thinks; but the ruling of the Chair and for the response of the Chru r to the q ues­ Chair will hear any authority the gentleman has to cite. tion which I have propounded. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I submit to the Chair­ Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker, before the decision is made I and it is a point upon which the Chair can rule with its own should like to make a suggestion. knowledge and discretion-whether it is in order for committees The SPEAKER pro ternpO'I'e. The Chair will be glad to hear to report bills carrying appropriations when the House has not all suggestions. conferred upon those committees the power of dealing with ap- Mr. HOLMAN. I would like to be heard for a moment in propriations. . . , order to illustrate the bearing of this bill upon our current legis­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. They certamly could not report lation, and to show the importance of the ruling upon this point a general appropriation bill or a deficiency appropriation bill-- with reference to that legislation. I hold in my hand the bill Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. The Chair of course is making appropriations for the District of Columbia and I shall perfectly familiar ;with the rule that requires all matters relating be glad if the Chair will permit to be read a provision in that to appropriations for the District of Columbia to be referred to bill which I have marked and which throws light upon this the Committee on Appropriations. question. _ The SPEAKER pro tempo1·e. The Chair will cause the third Mr. DINGLEY. That is the bill making the regular appro· paragraph of Ru1e XI to be read~ priations for objects already authorized by law. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I was about to read it to Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. Not at all; an appropri­ the Chair. ation for this object. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. DINGLEY. Well, if such a. provision was put in there, it To the District of Columbia, other than appropriations therefor-to the was put in by unanimous consent. Committee on the District of Columbia. The SPEAKER p1·o tempore. The Clerk will read. The SPEAKER pro tempo~e. The rule speaks of appropria­ The Clerk read as follows: tions "for" the District of Columbia. This is not for the Dis­ For the erection and completion, according to plans and specifications to trict of Columbia. The Chair calls the attention of the gentle­ be prepared by the inspector of buildings and approved by the Commission­ ·. ers of the District of Columbia, of a suitable building or buildings on the man from Arkansas to the language of the rule, and will be glad United States Reform School farm in said District, to be used as a Reform to hear the gentleman upon his point of order. School for Girls, the sum of $35,000, to be expended under the direction of said Commissioners. Said building shall be erected on a site to be selected by Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. The Chair must be aware said Commissioners and t-he trustees'Of the Reform School of the District that any remarks which I may make upon this bill at the pres­ of Columbia: PrCYVided, That not more than tl!tyacres of said Reform School ent time must be made under considerable difficulty. Until farm shall be appropriated for the Reform School for Girls herein provided tl;lis moment I have not had a copy of the bill; I have not yet for. read it, and I can only speak to the points as they reach me in a Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker, the importance of a severe con-

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struction of the rules of the House as to the jurisdiction of the inspection the condition of affairs there. He will find that people various committees is well illustrated in this case. Here is a bill of both sexes, arrested and sent there are placed in cells opening providing for the same service for which the House has made upon a corridor, without means of privacy and protection. It provision in a bill already passed by us. That bill provided, as will be seen that the laws of propriety and decorum demand that ought to have been provided, that the land to be appropriated provision be made, and that promptly, to provide proper quarters for this purpose should be a portion of that vast body of public for women and girls under detention. land which we have withirl. the limits of this city. I insist, Mr. It is the duty of a civilized and enlightened state to protect Speaker, that if consistent with the rules it ought to be held that the morals

Mr. HOLMAN. Does not my friend know that the same pro­ tinct class of people from those who are not convicted of any vision in the general bill conforms the school for girls to. the crime, but who are simply under bad influences. provision already made for boys? They ought to be on the same It also provides that the Attorney-General shall be authorized footing of course, both in the District and both under the Dis­ to use said reformatory and house of detention for the confinement trict Commissionerl'l. ·But I ask again, does he propose to have of women and girls convicted in any of the courts of the United i • • two reformatory schools, one under the management of the At­ States, and also provides that women and girls charged with torney-General.) and the other under the control of the District crime may ba lodged there for safe-keeping until their trial, in­ Commissioners. _ stead ,of being placed, as the gentleman from New York [Mr. Mr. CURTIS. They are not the same. CURTIS] has stated that they now are, under the most baneful in­ Mr. HOLMAN. How do they differ? fluences, in the common prison of the District of Columbia. So, Mt•. CURTIS. They differ in this respect. The committing Mr. Speaker, the difference between the two is manifest when magistrate sends women and girls to this institution for safe­ you read the two acts. One is for the reformation of children k eeping pending their trial. When tried, older and, more har­ between the ages of 16 and 21; the other is for the caring for dened criminals will be sent to this institution to serve the sen- women of the land who are either charged with crime or have - tence imposed, while the younger and those more amenable to been convicted of any crime in any of the courts of the United reformatory influence will be sent to the proposed Reform School States. And as the gentleman says, the United States has done for Girls. something toward building prisons, and this is something aloo.g Mr. HOLMAN. Does the gentleman propose to have two dif­ in the same line-to provide a place where persons convicted of ferent schools for girls? crime may be sent, provided that they are women or girls. Mr. CURTIS. Not two different schools. This school for Mr. BRETZ. I want to ask this: Whether it is a fact that girls is for the younger ones. As it is now you leave all above a women who are·arrested in the city and are confined awaiting very limited age unprovided for by the law you propose. These their trial are confined in the common jail with the men? are separate and distinct institutions, both deserving of the com­ Mr. HEMPHILL. That is my understanding. mendation of good people; but this reformatory and house of Mr. BRETZ. The next question I desire to ask is whether or detention as proposed is of absolute and primary importance to be not the object of this bill is to correct that system and separate established before the other. women who are arrested and awaiting trialfrom the men, so that Mr. HOLMAN. The chairman of the committee, the gentle­ they may be confined in a separate jail until their trial is had? man from South Carolina [Mr. HEMPHILL], must have overlooked Mr. HEMPIDLL. That is one of the objects of the bill. ·this general provision for the institution for girls in the general Mr. BRETZ. And then, if they are convicted, by means of appropriation bill. this building they' are also kept separate in their confinement Mr. HE.MPHILL. I beg the gentleman's pardon. He is mis­ from the men? taken about that. Mr. HEMPIDLL. Yes, si.r Mr. HOLMAN. Do you intend the erection of two distinct Mr. BRETZ. Now, what I want to ask the gentleman is buildings, one under the control of the Attorney-General and the whether or not the school that is provided for the boys and girls other under the control of the District Commissioners, the Treas­ do.es not also provide the same thing that you are seeking to pro- ury to bear the en tire expense of one and the District to bear vide for here~ . one-half the expense of the other? - Mr. HEMPHILL. Oh, no. Mr. HEMPHILL. When the gentleman has finished his re­ Mr. BRETZ. That is different altogether? marks I will endeavor to explain to the House the difference be­ Mr. HEMPHILL. That is entirely different. It is entirly tween the two bills. different _from thfl reform school. Now I yield t9 the gentle­ Mr. HOLMAN. I will reserve the balance of my time. man from Maryland [Mr. COMPTONj. Mr. HEMPHILL. Mr. Speaker, the act to which the gentle­ Mr. COMPTON. I simply want to ask a question. Does not man refers, providing for girls, wa.S passed in 1888, and ptescrib2d the workhouse now existing here provide for the class of women that the institution should be the same in every respect, as far which this bill undertakes to provide for? as practicable, as the Reform School for Boys, which is already Mr. CURTIS. There is no provision for women in th3 work­ in existence in the District of Columbia. . The appropriation bill house. It is for boys and men. of the present Congress- for the District of Columbia provides Mr. COMPTON. I am not talking about the workhouse for $30,000, I think, for this purpose. _ boys. Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. And the Senate has passed the Mr. CURTIS. There is no workhouse for the women. bill g·iving $75,00£), so that probably the minds of the Senate and Mr. COMPTON. The gentleman is mistaken. the Hous9 will have to come together when the bill comes back. Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. '.rhe gentleman is mistaken. Mr. HEMPHILL. Suppose we should agree upon $50,000 then, They are sent to the workhouse; but they ought not to be there. or any other sum that may be agreed upon? That is a bill for a Mr. HEMPHILL. But they are separate from the m~les now. Reform School for Girls in the District of Columbia, which is to Mr. COMPTON. My question is, if the object sought for by be the same practically as the Reform School for Beys. · Now, the this bill, 'so far as the women are concerned, is that it shall be Reform School for Boys is described, and the duties and responsi­ used for the incarceration of women who have been conYicted of bilities of the officers and the class of persons who may be ad­ some criminal offense who, under the present regulations, are mitted are set forth in the a

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1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. 2617 pet·haps of a comparatively trifling offense that they should be however, made for such institution. The need of such a school thus recog­ nized is urgent. I am frequently reminded by judges and officers of the sent to a workhouse and have for their associates women of courts of the District of Columbia and elsewhere throughout the United may be hardened character? Would not that destroy the reform­ States, t.ha.t there is no place where a juvenile female offender can be sent with any hope of such treatment and discipline as will result in reformation. atory character of the institution? It is impossible to justify the association of children of tender years who Mr. HEMPHILL. I would state to the gentleman from Mary­ may have gone astray, in the same prison with mature and oftentimes hard­ land that if this was a reformatory school for girJs, where girls ened criminals. Yet, in the absence of an institution especially adapted to such case& there is no alternative. I know of no State institution of the alone are to be kept, that objection could be made. In the re­ kind· where such prisoners can be sent except in occasional or rare instances. formatory school to which the gentleman from Maryland refers The succe!:'sful workings and results of the Reform School for Boys in the the girls are under 16 years of age. If we confine this to women District of Columbia not only commends that institution, but would seem to absolutely, others 20 years and 6months old could not be confined be a sufficient argument why a similar provision should be made for girls. in this building, although they be convicted of crimes, whereag That is the recommendation of tl;le Attorney-General. It r efers they could have been confined in this building if they were 21 years to the act approv;ed July 9, 1888, which provides for this teforma.­ of age. Therefore we thought the safer way was tO make it for tory institution. both girls and women, .and provide for girls and women in the Mr. HEMPHILL. From what page did the gentleman read? same bill. I now yield to the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. HEN­ Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansa-s. Page 13 of the report of DERSON]. • the Attorney-General. Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. ~r. Speaker, I was not aware, Mr. HEMPHILL. I will read you something more from the until after listening to the debate for the last five minutes, that r eport a little further on. this bill was pending in the Honse. But it seems to me that it Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I have read the entire is leading to some confusion. The act of 1888, reportei from the recommendation of-th9 Attorney-General relating to a reforma­ Committee on the District of Columbia, on a bill which I had tory institution. This is the recommendation that the Commit­ the honor to introduce to the House, makes all suitable provi­ tee on Appropriations acted upon when it inserted the para­ sion for girls. graph which has b 3en read from the District appropriation bill, Mr. HEMPIDLL. Under 16 years of age. and which has passed this House and has· gone to the Senat~ . Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. Of any age, 16 or any age. This is the point that was urged by the President in a message When they become of age they do not come within the provi­ which he sent to Congress. sions of the existing law. There may be objections, however, to Now, sir, the Committee on Appropriations went exhaustively this. I will not say a-s to that. If the court does not have a re­ over this whole question of the needs of the District in this re­ formatory school to send them to: it would have to send them to spect, and nei ther the President in his me...,sage, nor the Attorney­ the common jail or the workhouse, where none of them should Gen 9ral in his report, nor any official of the District of Col~ bia, be sent. not· anyone representing the charities of the District, had a word Now, this bill,. as it was drawn, did not have girls in it. It to say about the institution that is provided for in the pending only applied to women. If the word " girl" was stricken out bill. Their entire and exclusive insistenca was upon a reforma­ the legislation would be more syst9matic. I am not question­ tory for g irls which should be like that which now exists for ing the wisdom or the patriotis~ of the legislation here as to boys, and which, as I have said, was provided for in the District women, but I think the law now as to girls is complete. We bill. This proposition comes in here, so far as the Committee had the criminal judge and a large number of citizens before on Appropriations knows after ·an exhaustive inquiry into the the Committee on Appropriations when we had the bill under subject, without the recommendation of a single official connected consideration for making appropriations for that purpose. The with the District of Columbia or that of any citizen of the Dis­ House will remember that we had quite a debate on the point trict. of order in the Committee of the Whole, and the chairman sub­ Not only that, but it provides $50,000 as-an amendment tp the mitted the _question to the committee, n.nd the decision was in amount originally proposed, $300,000, which shows the extent of favor of the appropriation. So that $30,000 is appropriated the needless.expenditure that it is proposed to_enter upon. And by the House in the District of Columbia bill to put this law not only that, but it is a needless expenditure, ev~ry dollar . of into operation and to commence this work. . which is to be saddled upon the taxpayers of the country; for no Now, it seems to me that that makes sufficient provision for the provision is made that one cent of it shall be paid by the taxpayers girls, all that has been a-sked for by the citizens and by the po­ of this community, although the District of Columbia would of lice judge, and I think all that is needed. As to those who are course furnish a great majority of those who would receive the over age, this legislation is in the proper direction; but either benefit of the institution. Clearly, sir, the bHl .ought not to be- the girls should be stricken out of this bill or else the bill should come a law. . . · be made amendatory of existing law, so that women can be added. Mr. HEMPHILL. ThegentlemanfromArkansas[Mr. BRECK­ I am not prepared tJ say without investigation that that would INRIDGE] is unfortunately like a g-ood many other gentlemen who be wise. Possibly those are a grade of criminals who ought not become members of the Appropriations Committee; he thinks to be associated with the girls, but ought to have a separate in­ that nota single dollar of appropriation ought to be proposeC. or stitution. voted by any man sent here to r~pr ~sent the people unless the Mr. HEMPHILL. I think the gentleman is in error in his Committee on Appropriations says so. statement that all girls can be put into the reform school estab­ The gentleman states that his committee ha.s not been able to lished under the act of 1888. get any recommendation from anybody in favor of this appro­ Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. All who are brought before the priation. But I will remind him that the members of his com• court on charges. They are sent there upon the order of the mittee are not the only Representatives on this floor; they are court. The judge stated distinctly that what was needed was a not in charge of everything in conn~ ction with the business of place of a reformatory character, like the reform schools in the the Government. Therefore, if the Committ3e on Appropria­ States, to which he could send girls. tions have not been able to get any information on this point, it Mr. HEMPHILL. But my reading of that law is that only may be owing to their ignorance or their lack of diligence. There­ girls under 18 years of age can be sent to the reform school estab­ fore, it is very unfair to say that this m easure is not a good one, lished under the act of 1888, and this bill undertakes to provide because the Committee on Appropriations do not understand it. a place w J;tere the class of girls described in it as well as women The effort of that committee to confound this measure with the may be confined. bill already passed has broken down comple.tely; they know Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. Let me make a suggestion to my themselves that this is a separate and distinct measure, standing friend from South Carolina, for I know that he does not wish to upon a different basis. . ·duplicate legislation upon this subject. Put a proviso into the The gentleman has read from. the report of the Attorney-Gen­ pending bill that it shall not include the class of cases already eral certain r emarks with reference to the Reform School for provided for by the act of 1888, describing them. Then it will Girls, in ever.v word o f which I concur. Now, turning to the be right. . next page of that report I will read the gentleman what the At­ Mr. BRECKINRIDGEof Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, the gentle­ torney-General says about thjs bill, or a measure similar to this. man from New York [Mr. CURTIS], in advocating this bill, spoke After speaking about the Reform Schoolfor Girls and the jail of of it as a response to the recommendation of the Attorney-Gen­ the District of Columbia., the Attorney-General says; eral. I believe that is a correct statement of the gentleman's po­ Provision should be made for the building o! a.n additional wing with suit­ sition. able accommodations for female pr isoners. so that they may be kept en­ Mr. CURTIS. Yes; a response to his recommendation in re­ tirely separate. As it is now, quarters assigned to female prisoners are in too close proximity to those occupied by the men. More room is needed; and spect to the need for some other provision than that now existing. the quarters now occupied by the women are not fitted for their use. · Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. Here is what the Attor­ ney-General says is needed. I read from his report: • So that if the gentleman had 1'ead this report thoroughly he would have found the Attorney-General giving him. some inior­ In an act of Congress approved July 9, 1888, the incorporation of a reform school for gil'ls in the District of Columbia is authorized, a.nd provisions en­ mation upon this point. The Committee on the District of Co­ acted for the management and 1·egulation of the same. No provision was, lumbia thought it not the best thing to provide an additional ~------~------~------~------~------~~----~----~~------~------~~~---- ·------.·

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wing for prisoners of the District of Columbia only, but believed The SPEAKER p1·o temporo. The gentl~man is recognized. it wise to provide a separate building in which should be confined Mr. WASHINGTON. Mr. Speaker, before the vote is taken not only prisoners whose confinement is now provided for under on the amendments, or on the pending bill, I think it ought to existing law, but also (if the Attorney-G~:meral should deem it be clearly understood by the·House exactly what it is proposed wise) women from outside the District who have been convicted to do. I have never seen the bill until.this morning, but I have of offenses.· glanced over it in the last few minutes while the discussion has Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. Are we to understand been progressing, and it strikes me that under the guise of the that the gentleman justifies this bill imposing a tax upon the establishment of a reformatory institution for women and girls people of the whole country, by reason of a clause in the Attor­ in the District of Columbia it is pro-posed to establish a reforma­ ney-General's raport asking simply a small addition to the Dis­ tory institution for women and girls from all parts of the United trict jail? Is that the ground which the gentleman takes? States . I can not believe that the bill is clearly understood by Mr. HEMPIDLL. Why, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman, I am the House or it would certainly meet with strenuous opposition. afraid, has not heard me through. I stated--. . Section 4 provides- Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I shall listen to the gen­ ' That the Attorney-General shall formulate rules and regulations for the tleman with patience, and with fond expectation of hearing conduct of sa.id-reforma.tory and house of detention, and he is hereby auihor­ something fm·ther on that point. ized to establish rules otcommutat:l.on for good behavior of said prisoners. Mr. HEMPHILL. I stated that if the gentleman had read the And section 5, to which I wish to call the especial attention of report of theAttorney-Generalhe would have learned that there the House, is in the following language: is something else needed in this District besides the Reform SEC. 5. That the Attorney-General shall be authorized to use said reform­ School for Girls. That was my object in reading what I did tory and house of detention for the confinement of women and girls con­ from the Attorney-General's report. Then I added that the victed in any of the courts of the United States. committee did not entirely concur in the suggestion of the At­ Now, it seems to me that that is going a very long- way in a torney-General that a separate wing should be built for the ac­ District bill, to establish a reformatory institution in this city to commodation of prisoners convicted under the law of the Dis­ which may be sent girls and women from Texas and California, trict of Columbia and now confined in the present building, but Nevada, Wyoming Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas, and from every thought it wise to provide a separate building for the detention other State in the Union at the pleasure of the Attorney-General of women and girls of this District who may be accused o.r con­ of the United States. It is a very long step towards centraliza­ victed of crime, as well as those who are convicted in any part tion, and is very far beyond what this House should undertake of the United States and who the Attorney-General may think to do in the way of establishing reformatories for the District of should be confined here. · Columbia. It is time, I think, to call a halt and let the bill be Mr.1 Speaker, this whole matter is one about which there can understood before it is rushed to a vote. be no neees~ity for a great deal of discussion. I think the House Mr. HEMPHILL. Oh, the gentleman from Tennessee is-mis­ understands the question. Iwill only add that I propose to offer taken. The bill is not being rushed through the House. The auroviso-- House understands it. It is not necessary for the gentleman to -Mr. LONG. This bill as I understand, provides for the pur­ get up here and allege that this bill is being rushed through the chase of a site!' House without consideration or debate. · Mr. HEMPHILL. Yes, sir. Mr. WASHINGTON. I believe I have the floor. Mr. LONG. Can there not be found in the public reservations Mr. HEMPHILL. Very well. I will reply to any such ridicu­ in this city sufficient ground for the erection of this building? lous insinuation when J; get the floor. Mr. HEMPIDLL. There is nothing very suitable, so far as Mr. WASHINGTON. It may seem " ridiculous" to the gen­ we know. tleman from South Carolina, but the House will hardly regard it Mr. LONG. It does seem to me that with tpe number of parks so when its attention is called to the bill. and reservations in this city, some suitable ground could be found M1·. HEMPHILL. And every man who has any sense knows without the expense of purchasing a site. . that it is ridiculous. Mr. HEMPHILL. I propose to move to amend by adding at Mr. WASHINGTON. Well, I claim to have about as much the end of the bill- sense, and certainly as much manners, as my friend from South Pro?Jided, That the word " girls," wherever used in this act, shall not be so Carolina. I think that my friend from South Carolina displays construed as to embrace the class of persons speciaJly provided for in the avery greatdegree oftemperunnecesS{lrily when he becomes so act of July 9, 1888. very indignant at a charge that I made, not against himself per­ With this amendment there will be no clashing between the sonally, but against a measure which is reported here from his two bills. committee. Mr. DOCKERY. - rhave just come into the Hall, and would I did not reflect upon the gentleman in the -slightest degree. be glad to ascertain the parliamentary status of this matter. . Is I esteem the gentl~an from South Carolina too bighly as a per­ this bill being considered in the House as· in Committee of the sonal friend to do anything of that kind. What I did say was Whole? that! did not think the bill should be rushed through the House Mr. HEMPHILL. Yes, sir. without being properly understood or properly considered. I Mr. DOCKERY. Have any amendments been offered? alluded to the discussion which has taken place on the bill, the Mr. HF.MPHILL. There are committee amendments pend­ brief time in which it has been before the House for considera-­ ing; and I am just submitting another. _ tion, and the manner in which it has been under discussion in The SPEAKER p'ro tempo're. There are already pending some the House, believing that the members of the Honse are not amendments reported by the committee. aware of what the bill proposes. I believe that a bill which con­ Mr. HEMPHILL. I ask that the amendments of the commit­ tains such sections as those which I have already quoted, should tee all>eady pending be voted upon as a whole. have very grave and careful consideration here before it is en­ Several members addressed the Chair. acted into Jaw. I find nobody immediatelyaroundmewhoknows ~ The SPEAKER pro tempo're. The Chair can not submit the what the bill conFlins, or that it contained such a section as that question on any amendment so long as gentlemen desire to speak. which permits women and girls. to be sent here and incarcerated . Mr. KYLE. I have an amendment which I desire to·oifer to in a reformatory institution by order of the Attorney-General one of the amendments submitted by the committee. of the United States, who may be convicted in any of the States -. The SPEAKER pro tempo;e. Before voting upon the amend­ of the Union in any one of the United States courts. I say I ments of the committee, any amendment to those amendments think it is going very far in the establishment o:f a District in­ will be in order. The Clerk will reE_O!t the amendment sent up stitution to insert such a provision as that. by the gentleman from Mississippi LMr. KYLE]. Besides, Mr. Speaker, the sum of $50,000which is appropriated The Clerk read as follows: by the bill is but a starter. The bill before being amended by the Amend the commit tee amendment by striking ou.t the word ''fifty,'' in line committee called for $300,000. What the total annual appropria­ 12 and also in line 13, and inserting in each case the word "twenty-five." tion will be before we get through with this thing nobody can Add at the close of section 1 the words," Provided, That alike sum shall be conjecture. If we are to establish here such an institution as paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia." this you will have to erect a building as large as the Capitol of The SPEAKE.R pro ternp01·e. The first question will be on the the United States to contain the inmates or convicts who will be amendment to the amendment, when the ·House has disposed of sent here. the committee amendmsnts. · A }.fEMBER. That would not be large enough. Mr. WASHINGTON. I hope a. vote will not now be taken Mr. WASHINGTON. And, a..qafriendnea.rmesnggests,even upon the amendments, or any other part of the bill. that would be inadequate. I hope, therefore, the House will The SPEAKER p'ro tempare. For what purpose does the gen­ consider the matter carefully, and let its merits and demerits be tleman from Tennessee rise? well understood before a vote is taken. Mr. WASHINGTON. To address the House upon the pend­ Mr. H OLMAN was recognized. illi' bill. Mr. HEMPHILL. I would like to have the privilege of re- 1892. CONGRESS! ON AL RECORD.-HOUSE. _2619 plying to the gentleman from Tennessee~ if the gentleman froiD. one a provision in regard to a girls' reformatory school. That Indiana will yield. has passed the House and is now before the Senate. The other Mr. HOLMAN. How long does the gentleman want? is the recommendation of the Attorney-General that there be a Mr. HEMPHILL. About five minutes. . wing added to the District jail for the confinement of women Mr. HOLl\iAN. Very well. convicted of crime. Now, instead of adopting that report, in­ Mr. HEMPHILL. Mr. Speaker, I am very glad to hear the stead of providing for a new wing to the jail, which would not gentleman from Tennessee say that he means no reflection on enlarge the number of officers, it isproposed to create an entirely myself. I accept his statement in good faith and do not wish to new establishment, under the control of the A~torney-General say anything unkind to him. But the gentleman will understand, and the Secretary of the Interior. and the House will understand, that it is hardly fair to a gentle­ Now, I object to that. If they will bring in a bill to carry out man in charge of a bill here, whether it be myself or anybody the views of the proper officers, to construct that wing ,to the else, to say that he is rushing it through the House with unusual jail, I for one will consent and vote for it, although our funds haste, or that the House does not understand it when he is insist­ can poorly bear the expense at this time. But I will consent to ing upon a vote. that rather than to lay the foundation h ere for an expenditure Now, this bill has been under discussion for quite a time this of hundreds of thousands of dollars and the creation of a great morning. I have distinctly called the attention of the House over horde of new officers not recommended by any Department of and over again to the fact that one of the objects of the bill is to this Government. erect a prison or place where women convicted in any of the The gentleman talks about the necessity of an institution in United States will be sent and confined, in accordance with the which to confine women convicted of crime here at this capital. provision of section 5, when it meets the approbation of the At­ I protest against that. How is it in most of the States of this torney-General of the United States. Union? I speak only for my own State. A woman convicted of That is one of the distinct features of this bill, and I do not crime there is sent to the women's reformatory in that State and want this House to vote upon it under any misapprehension. I not carried off here, five or six hundred miles, to an institution have stated that over and over again. away at one side of the Union. I presume the same arrange­ Mr. DOCKERY. Will the gentleman allow me to ask him a ment is made by the Attorney-General with almost all of there­ question? formatory institutions for women in various other States of the Mr. HEMPHILL. Yes, sir. Union. Mr. DOCKERY. Is there any other building or reformatory Mr. HEMPHILL. The gentleman does not correctly under­ of this kind in the United States of like character? stand the measure if he thinks this prevents that. It simply Mr. CURTIS. Not under Federal law. authorizes the Attorney-General to send them here; and I hardly Mr. HEMPHILL. In various States, but not under Federal think the Attorney-General will take them out of reformatory law,· as I understand. institutions in the States and bring them here; but there are · Mr. CURTIS. We have no Federal prison of this kind. many States in this Union in which there are no such institu­ Mr. WASHINGTON. Am I right in my interpretation of tions. section 5, that it authorizes the Attorney-General to send to this Mr. HOLMAN. I do not wish to see any such extraordinary institution women a.nd girls convicted in any court of the United power as that conferred upon any officer. I do not think the States? large class of the unfortunate, the miserable, and the wicked Mr. HEMPHILL. Yes, sir; that is exactly it. should be brought here to this capital. I think it is far better Mr. WASHINGTON. I say that is an outrage, and it ought that they should be diffused. Besides, gentlemen must bear in not to be allowed. · mind that there paE=sed the House, and I believe it passed the Mr. HEMPHILL. The gentleman has a right to think it is Senate in the last Congress, a. bill proYiding for penitentiaries an outrage; but I think it is equally an outrage, and more of an under Federal authority at various points, North, East, South, outrage, to send a woman convicted of crime in South Carolina and West. The gentleman can see very well that just such pro­ to be confined in a prison in the State of New York, where she visions will be contemplated in the erection of those bqildings is confined, not under the statutes of the United States, nor un­ when they are erected. An appropriation has not been made for der (Jnited States control, but under the laws of New York reg­ them, but will be made when the Treasury can bear the expense. ulating prisoners there, and she is confined in the same prison Mr. HEMPHILL. I trust that we will come to a. vote. I think with all the men who are sent there from New York and from the House understands the measure perfectly well. any other part of the United States. Mr. BAILEY. Do I understand the gentleman from South Mr. WASHINGTON. They have a female ward at Sing Sing. Carolina to say that under the provisions of this bill a woman Mr. HEMPHILL. The only question is whether it is wise or convicted in one of the States might be sent here to be impris­ not to provide a place where the women of this country may be oned? confined when convicted of crime. That is the only question so Mr. HEMPHILL. Yes, sir. far as the section is concerned about which the gentleman from Mr. BAILEY. Well, what authority has the Federal Govern­ Tennessee [Mr. WASHINGTON] is disturbed. ment to provide for them? Mr. DOCKERY. If this institution is to be maintained by the Mr. HEMPHILL. That is, when they are convicted in the United States, and is in no sense an institution relating to the United States courts. District of Columbia, it oocurs to me, and I suggest it with all Mr. BAILEY. And not convicted under the operation of State deference to the gentleman from South Carolina.[Mr. HEMPHILL], law? that it would be well to locate it in the Mississippi Valley, at Mr. HEMPHILL. Oh, no. I now yield tothegentlemanfrom some poinb near the center of population. New York [Mr. FELLOWS]. Mr. HEMPHILL. It the gentlemen will look at the bill he Mr. BUSHNELL. Where is the report of the committee on will see that it does not refer entirely to the courts of the United this bill? States, but it refers as well to the District of Columbia; and it is Mr. HEMPHILL. It is House report No. 846. in a measure a tentative scheme, to find out whether the confine­ Mr. BUSHNELL. I have just sent for it, and it is reported ment of women in a separate prison will work any better results that we can not get it. · than their confinement in prisons with men, as now. A MEMBER. I will give you one now. Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker, I wish to occupy but a. very few Mr. FELLOWS. Mr. Chairman, I desire to occupy the atten­ minutes. When the gentleman from New York [Mr. CURTIS]­ tion of the committee but a. single moment in what I shall have who is very humane a.nd kind-hearted, as I am sure, from what to say with reference to this bill. It will be understood that I have seen of him-showed me this bill, I had overlooked the nearly all the States ha-ve recognized the propriety of establish­ fact that we had passed through the Honse this provision on the ing such institutions as will separate female prisoners from males. District bill relating to a girls' reformatory school. That was That it has been a blot and reproach upon the civilization that the measure that was specially brought to the attention of the for so many years these prisoners have been confined in common Committee on Appropriations. The only objection made by any has become apparent to the intelligence of our people. Where­ member of that committee was that, as all gentlemen in the ever these institutions for separate confinement for female pris­ House know, this is no time to go into expenses that are not ab­ oners exist the United States by virtue of existing laws, has it solutely demanded. I hope this House will determine not to ad­ within its power to make such contracts with the State. authori­ journ with appropriations too great to be met by our current ties as is necessary to put within those places now established revenues. such female prisoners as shall have been convicted in the Federal When my friend points to the attempt on the part of the Com­ courts. If there is any institution of that chara-cter provided mittee on Approprialtions to obtain jurisdiction, I am sure he will for in Federal territory, such as the DistrictofColumbiais, it must bear in mind the fact that that committee is simply making a necessarily be by act of Congress. No such institution can grow great effort to keep the current expenses of this Government up here unless by permission of the vote of this House and of the within its revenues, and nothing·more. Now, there were two rec­ Senate. ommendations which I wish to call totheattentionof theHouse; Nowr the moiety of prisoners beyond those in the District. of 2620 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 28,

Columbia who would be convicted of offenses for which, in the from South Carolina how many minutes the report that accom­ judgment of the court, they should go to reformatory institu­ panies the bill has been printed· and available for the use of the tions rather than to institutions of positive punishment would, House? with the small percentage which by convictions in the United Mr. HEMPHILL. I have had it ever since I called foritthis States courts in the various States would not be sent to estab­ morning, before the House convened. I do not know when it lishments already in existence, I undertake to say, in reply to came into the document room. The bill was reported on the the gentleman from Tennessee, not number fifty in any given 2-1th of March, and the raport has been available, I suppose, since year in our history. Beyond that small percentage of convic­ the 25th. tions of females in the United States who might be taken care of Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. My understanding is that in any reformatory or penal institution already provided in the it has not been available for the use of members longer than ten States there would not be fifty and probably not twenty sent to or fifteen minutes. this institution in the District of Columbia. Mr. HEMPHILL. I do not know about that. I know that the Call it an outrage that the Attorney-General should have the bill was reported, as I have said, on the 24th of March, and, pre­ power to designate places of confinement for these prisoners sumably, the report has been accessible ever since the 25th. At whom the humanity, civilization, and enlightened conscience of all events, I know it was in the document room when I called the world have taught us should not only ba separated from male for it. criminals; but who perhaps are convicted of a -first offense, by Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I do not wish, however, virtue of their sex, should be given an opportunity for reform to be drawn away from the main point, and that is that the At­ rather than be confined in institutions-provided especially for torney-General, with full knowledge of all the facts, recommended punishment. But I say in reply to the gentleman, closing as I an annex to the jail in this District and nothing else. Now, the began, that as black a blot upon our civilization, as base a re­ gentleman from New York [Mr. FEL.LOWS], with a tribute to proach on our manhood, as complete a departure from the chh­ virtue and to woman which we all indorse, but which should not alry that we pretend to exercise toward those fallen and depraved serve as a plea to cover unnecessary expenditure or the laying of our mothers' sex requires the kind of legislation contemplated of improper burdens upon the taxpayers, has stated that in his in this bill. judgment not twenty-five of the inmates per annum of this insti­ Mr. HOLMAN. Will the gentleman allow me to a-sk him a tution will come from outside the District of Columbia. The question? _ g€ntleman has stated that, so far as persons who come under the Mr. FELLOWS. With pleasure. clas3ification contemplated here being properly confined is con­ Mr. HOLMAN. While I think the gentleman's views as to cerned, they can be properly confined, as they are now, in suit­ the other places are correct, and I fully agree with him, is it not able institutions existing within the States. far better to follow the recommendation of a proper officer of the Mr. FELLOWS. If the gentleman will permit me, there are Government than disregard his recommendation and establish several States in which no such institutions exist. . an institution of this kind against his recommendation? Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. Only a few. Then the Mr. FELLOWS. You have a recommendation of the Depart­ States which have them could, of course, receive inmates from ment of a Government, if the Department of .Justice, represented other States; just as now persons convicted in one State in the by a Cabinet officer, may be considered such, as I think it prop­ United States courts are frequently sent to institutions in other erly can. The Attorney-General has strongly recommended this States. Therefore, that is the measure of that point. measure. Mr. FELLOWS rose. Mr. HOLMAN. Will my friend pardon me for saying that it Mr. BRECKINRIDGEof Arkansas. Doesthegentleman wish has not been recommended by him? to say anything further? Mr. HEMPHILL. It is quite clear that the gentleman has Mr. FELLOWS. Yes; the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HoL­ not read the report of the committee. MAN] stated that the policy of the Government was to build and Mr. HOLMAN. If the measure came in that form I should take charge of its own prisons. have no objection to it. This is a proposition for an independent This is but a step in that direction~ so that we may not have to establishment and not recommended by a Department. b a under contract with the various States. In many of the States Mr. HEMPHILL. That can be very easily settled by reading of this Union women convicted in the Federal c~mrts, if they are the letter from the Attorney-General, contained in the report. confined at all, must be confined in prisons which are also occu­ Mr. FELLOWS. I will call the attention of the gentleman pied by men; and the point in my remark was that the tendency from Indiana to the very brief letter of the Attorney-General: and the proper tendency of our civilization wa to provide sep­ DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, arate i.IJ.stitutions for them. Now, when this small percentaga­ Washington, IJ. C., March 16, 1892. foritissmall-ofwomen ara convicted in the Federal courts, even Sm: I have examined House bill No. 5097, "for the erection of a reforma­ if they can be sent to places of confinement within the States, tory and house of detention for women and girls charged with and convicted they must be sent to prisons where men alsq are confined, and what of crimes and misdemeanors in the District of Columbia, and for other pur­ poses," and beg to say that the bill has my earnest approvaL The reason is now proposed by this bill is to provide for them an institution why, in my opinion, this bill should pass is set forth in my last annual re­ where they may have an opportunity for reformation. port on page xiii. I am sure that such an institution in the District of Co­ Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I do not understand the lumbia. is greatly needed and will be most useful. Respectfully, yours, facts in relation to our institutions to be of that character at all. W. H. H. MILLER, Atto1•ney-Gen~1·al. There are reformatory institutions in many of the States which Hon. N. M. CURTIS. are used exclusively for women and girls. House of Representatives. . Mr. HEMPHILL. Only in three out of forty-four States in Surely that is a report from a departmental officer. the Union, as I understand. Mr. HOLMAN. Why, my friend must see from what has al­ Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. Well, if there are three ready been read and the time when this bill was before the Attor­ there are that many. Now, there is the power vested in the At­ ney-General the letter could have no reference to the report made torney-General to send persons convicted in the Federal courts to Congres3 by him. He simply recommended an enlargement to suitable institutions that are maintained within the States. of the new wing of the District prison instead of an entirely new Mr. HEMPHILL. Does the gentleman say that there is any establishment. law which authorizes the Attorney-General of the United States Mr. HEMPHJLL. I suppose the Attorney-General recom­ to send women convicted in the United States court to a reform­ mended the new wing to the jail until he got some further in­ atory institution in any State? ., formation upon the subject, and then took this bill up, considered Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I say he has authority it, and gave it his hearty indorsement. That is the whole case. to send them to State institutions. Mr. Speaker, I aF~k for a vote upon the measure. Mr. HEMPHILL. Yes; but "State institutions" mean gen­ Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I want to erally penitentiaries or State prisons. call attention very briefly to one or two points. The gentleman Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I venture to say the gen­ from South Carolina [Mr. HEMPHILL], in reply to what I had to tleman does not know of any place where persons convicted in say, read from the report of the Attorney-General, and all that the courts and are incarcerated in the usual way that does not he read related to an extension of the District jail, an annex to have proper arrangements for the separation of the sexes. We that building. The gentleman read nothing else. Now, within could extend the law to milder institutions. the last five minutes we have had read a letterfrom the Attorney­ Now, the need for this institution is of this extent, that the Gener;tl, which has never been presented to the House before-- Attorney-General in his regular report makes no mention of it Mr. HEMPHILL. If the gentleman will permit me to inter­ at all, but mentions simply a slight addition to the Dlstrict jail. rupt him, I will say that that letter was printed in the report Let us inquire further as to the necessity. The necessity, as which accompanied the bill. I did . not read it here because I indicated by the gentleman from New York [Mr. FELLOWS], is supposed the gentleman ha-d read the report of the committee or that outside of the convictions taking place in the District of else he would not have undertaken to criticise the bill. Columbia there will not, in his judgment, be twenty-five persons Mr. ERECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I will ask the gentleman a year incarcerated in this institution. Does tl1at inc1icate an

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overcrowded condition of the institutions which now exist in the ~fr. KYLE. I believe I have the floor, though I aid not want States? Does that justify an appropriation of this character, to interfere while these gentleman were speaking. It seems, which is to be paid exclusively by the people of the country at sir, that the bill we have before us on our desks is a misprint. I large, not one cent of which is to be paid out of the revenues of have been laboring under a misapprehension as to the provisions the District of Columbia? of the bill; and I find thecase is the same withothergentlemen. Are the people of the country to bear the whole burden of an I have not been able to obtain the correct print of the bill; but institution which in the original bill was provided for to the I want to offer an amendment striking out" $300,000" and in­ amount of $300,000-and that would scarcely be a beginning­ serting" $100,000." when the gentleman him.Belf states in his advocacy of the meas­ Mr. HEMPHILL. I will state to the gentleman that the com­ ure that but a moiety of those who would be convicted and sent mittee have adopted an amendment reducing that to $50,000. to this institution would come from places outside of this Dis­ Mr. KYLE. My information was that that was a misprint. trict? The bill is a bad one and it ought to be defeated. Mr. HEMPHILL. Oh, no. The bill really before us is No. Mr. FELLOWS. Will the gentleman permit a question? 5097. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. Yes, sir. The SPEAKERp1·o tempol'e. Thagentlemanfrom Mississippi Mr. FELLOWS. If an institution of this character is needed [Mr. KYLE], as the Chair understands, proposes to strike out here, and is to be established, it must be established by act of "$300,000," where it appears in the first line of the bill, and in­ Congress, must it not? sert" $100,000." There need be no difficulty about this. When Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. Certainly. the amendment is submitted, the Chair will see that it comes in Mr. FELLOWS. Very good. Now, if the institutions in the at the proper place. \ . various States are sufficient to provide for the greater number Mr. KYLE. If this is the correct bill, I have an amendment of criminals who are convicted in the State courts, why should to offer to the committee amendment. not we, when we provide a necessary reformatory institution for The SPEAKER p·ro tern.pm·e. The gentleman will send it up. . this District, provide also· a place where the female criminals The Clerk read the amendment of Mr. KYLE, as follows: convicted in the Federal courts in the various circuits and dis­ tricts of the United States may be confined? There should be Amend the committee amendment by striking out in line 12 the words ·three hundred thousand" and inserting in lieu thereof' the words "one one place for this purpose. Those persons can not be sent to a hundred thousand;" and in line 13, strike out "fifty thousand' and insert in reformatory in the States. There is no power in the Federal lieu thereof ·'twenty-five thousand." courts to send them there. Our idea in this bill is to get them into a reformatory rather than in a place of punishment. Mr. CURTIS. I hope that amendment will not prevail. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I will answer that by :Mr. HEMPHILL. I call for a vote. asking the gentleman from New York this question: If the num­ )er1 • Mr. CURTIS. Tellers, Mr. Speaker. Barwig, Brookshire, Ca.minetti, Cobb, .run.. 1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2623.

Cobb. Mo. Halvorson, McKei~han, Shell, Mr. HENDERSON of Illinois. Then I desire to withdraw my Coburn, Hamilton, McMillin, Shively, Cooper, Hare, McRae, Simpson, vote: as I am paired. . Cox, Tenn. Henderson, N.C. Montgomery, Snodgrass, The SPEAKER p1·o tempore. On this question the yeas are Crawford, Herbert, Moore, Steward, ill. 108, nays 111. The nays have it, and the motion to lay on the Crosby, Holman, Moses, Stewart. Tex. Culberson, Jones, Mutchler, Stone, Ky. table the motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill was Davis, Kem, O'Ferrall, Tarsney, laid on the table is not agreed to, and the question now is on the DeArmond, Kilgore, O'Neil, Mass. Terry, motion to reconsider the motion by which the bill was laid on the Dockery, Kyle, Otis, Tillman, Dunphy, Lanham, Owens, Turner, table. Edmunds, Lawson,Va. Parrett, Warwick, Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. And on that 1 demand Epes, Layton, Patterson, Tenn. Washington, the yeas and nays. Everett, Livingston, Patton. Watson, Fithian, Long, Paynter, Wheeler, Ala. The yeas and nays were ordered. Forney, Lynch, Pearson, Williams, N.C. After the Clerk had proceeded to call the roll for some time, Fyan, Ma~er, Pendleton, Williams, lll. Mr. HOLMAN said: Mr. Speaker, I think there is a misaP" Gantz, Ma ory, Robertson, La. Wilson, Mo. Goodnight, Mansur, Sayers, Winn, prehension as to the nature of the vote. Gorman, McClellan, Scott, Wolverton. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will state the ques­ Grady, McCreary, Seerley, tion. The gentleman from Arkansas [Mr. BRECKINRIDGE] moved NAYS-117. to lay the bill and pending- amendments on the table, which mo­ Amerman, Dalzell, Houk,Tenn. Reed, tion prevailed. He then moved to reconsider the vote laving Atkinson, Daniell, Hurr, Reyburn, the bill and amendments on the table. The latter motion· was Bartine, DeForest, Hull, Richardson, Belden, Dingley, Johnson, Ind. Rife, voted upon a moment ago by yeas and nays, and the House de­ Belknap, Dixon, Johnson, N. Dak. Rockwell, cided that it would not lay the motion to reconsider on the table; Beltzhoover, Do an, Johnson, Ohio Russell, and the question now recurs upon the question to reconsider the Bentley, Dolliver, Jolley, Scull, Bergen, Enochs, Kribbs, Shonk, vote by which the bill and amendments were laid on the table. Bowers, Fellows, Lagan, Smith, Those in favor of the motion to reconsider the vote laying the BoWm.an, Fitch, Lapham, Snow, bill on the table will, when their names are called, vote yea, Broderick, Funston, Lawson, Ga. Sperry, and those not in favor of reconsidering the vote will vote nay. Brosius, Geary, Little, Stackhouse, Buchanan, N.J. Geissenhainer, Lockwood, Stephenson, Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Kentucky. Then the opponents of Bullock, Greenleaf, Loud, Stone,c.w. the bill should vote nay? Bunt.ing, Hall, Martin, Stone,W.A. The SPEAKER The Chair can not make that Bm-rows, Hallowell, McAleer, Taylor, ill. pTo tempore. Busey, Harmer, McGann, Taylor, Tenn. statement. Bynum, Harries, McKinney, Taylor, J.D. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Kentucky. I will be kind enough , " Cadmus, Hatch, Meredith, Townsend, to make it for the Chair. Caldwell, Haugen, Meyer, Tucker, Campbell, Hemphill, O'Donnell, VanHorn, The question was taken; and there were-yeas 114, nays Ill Causey, Henderson, Iowa O'Neill, Pa. Wadsworth, not voting 105; as follows: . ' Clancy, Henderson, Til. O'Neill, Mo. Weadock, YEAS-114o. Cockran, Hermann, Outhwaite, Whiting, Payne, Atkinson. Coombs, Hopkins, Pa. Reyburn, Cogswell, Hitt, Williams, Mass. Bartine, Craig,Pa. Hopkins, TIL Richardson. Coolidge, Hoar, Perkins, Wilson, Wash. Belknap, Curtis, Honk, Tenn. Rife. · Coombs, Hooker, Miss. Post, Wilson, W.Va. Beltzhoover. Cutting, Huff, Rockwell, CraWs Pa. Hooker, N.Y. Raines, Bentley, Dalzell, Hull, Rusk, Cur , Hopkins, Pa. Ray, Bergen, Daniell, Johnson, N.Dak. Russell, Cutting, Hopkins, Ill. Rayn·er, Boutelle. DeForest, Johnson, Ohio Scull, Bowers, Dingley, Jolley, Shonk, NOT VOTING-102. Bowman, Dixon, Kribbs, Smith, Allen. Dickerson, Lodge, Springer, Brawley, Dolliver, Lagan, Stackhouse, Babbitt, Donovan, McDonald, Stahlnecker, Breckinridge, Ky. Ellis, Lapham, Stephenson, Bacon, Dungan, McKaig, Stevens. Broderick, Enochs, Lawson, Ga. Stone, C. W. Baker, Durborow, McKenna, Stockdale. Buchanan, N. J. Fellows, Lockwood, Stone,W.A. Bankhead, Elliott, Miller, Storer, Bullock, Fitcti, Loud, Stump, Bingham, Ellis, Milliken, Stout. Bunting, Flick, McKaig, Taylor, Ill.. Blanchard, English, Mills, Stump, Burr<>ws. Funston, McKinney, Taylor, Tenn. Bland, Enloe, Mitchell, Sweet, Busey, Geissenhainer, Meredith, Taylor, J. D. Boatner, Flick, Morse, Taylor, E. B. Bynum, Greenleaf, Milliken. Townsend, Boutelle, Forman, Newberry, Taylor, V. A. Cable, Hallowell, Mitchell, Tracey, Brawley, Fowler, Norton, Tracey, Cadmus, Harmer, O'Donnell, VanHorn, Breckinridge, Ky. Gillespie, Oates, Turpin, Caldwell. Harries, O'Neill, Pa. Warner, Bunn, Griswold, Page,R.L Walker, Campbell. Haugen, O'Neill, Mo. Waugh, Byrns, Grout, Page,Md. Warner, Castle, Heard, Outhwaite, Weadock, Cable, Harter, Pattison, Ohio Waugh, Causey, Hemphill, Payne, Wever, Castle, Hayes, Iowa Peel, Wever. Clancy. Henderson, Iowa P erkins, Whiting, Catchings, Haynes, Ohio Pickl&', Wheeler, Mich. Clark, Wyo. Hermann, Post, Wilson, Wash. Cheatham, Heard, Pierce, White, Cockran, Hitt, Ray, _ Wilson, W. Va. Chapin, Houk,Ohio Powers, Wike, Cogswell, Hoar. Reed, Clark, Wyo. Johnstone, S. C. Prioe, Willcox, Coolidge, Hooker, Miss. Reilly, Compton, Ketcham, Quackenbush, Wilson, Ky. Covert, Lane, Randall, Wise, NAYS-111. Cowles, Lester, Va. Reilly, Wright, Abbott, Cooper. Kilgore, Robertson, La. Cox,N.Y. Lester, Ga. Robinson, Pa. Youmans. Alexander, Cox, Tenn. Kyle, Sayers, Crain, Tex. Lewis, Rusk, Andrew, Crawford, Lanham, Scott, Cummings, Lindz Sanford, Arnold, Crosby, Lawson, Va. Seerley, Bailey, Culberson, Layton. Shell, The following pairs were announced: Bankhead Davis. Livingston, Shively, Barwig, De Armond, Long, Simpson, Mr. ELLIOTT with Mr. SANFORD, until further notice. Beeman, Dickerson, Lynch, Snodgrass, For this day: Blount, Dockery, Mallory, Sperry, :Mr. ENLOE with Mr. WILSON of Kentucky. Branch, Dunphy, Mansur, Steward, Ill. Breckinridge, Ark. Edmunds, Martin, Stewart, Tex. :Mr. PAGE of Maryland with Mr. MORSE. Bretz. Epes, McClellan, Stockdale. Mr. NORTON with Mr. STORER. B1."ickner, Everett, McKeighan, Stone, Ky. Mr. STEVENS with Mr. RANDALL. Brookshire, Fithian, McMillin, Tarsney, Brunner, Forney McRae, Terry, Mr. BOATNER with Mr. PICKLER. Bryan. Fyan, Meyer, Tillman, Mr. HAYNES of Ohio with Mr. LODGE. Buchanan, Va. Gantz, Montgomery, Turner, Mr. BLANCHARD with Mr. QUACKENBUSH, for the restof this Bushnell, Geary, Moses, Warwick, Butler, Goodnight. Mutchler, Washington, day. Caminetti, Gorman, O'Ferrall, Watson, Mr. HAYES of Iowa with Mr. KETCHAM, on this vote. Capehart, Grady. O'Neil, Mass. Wheeler, Ala. Mr. TURPIN with Mr. HOOKER of New York, on all political Caruth, Halvorson, Otis, Wike, Cate, Hamilton, Owens, Williams, N. C. questions, including election case, until further notice, except Chipman, Hare, Parrett, Williams, Ill. on the silver question. Clarke, Ala. Hatch, Patterson, Tenn. Wilson, Mo. Mr. EZRAB. TAYLORwithMr. 0ATES,fromMarchl4toApril Cobb, Ala. Herbel't, Patton, Winn, Cobb, Mo. Holman, " Paynter, Wolverton. 7, 1892, Coburn, Kem, Pearson, Mr. PEEL with Mr. HENDERSON of illinois, on all political questions, and the Bland silver bill. If present Mr. PEEL would NOT VOTING-103. vote "yea" in all stages; Mr. HENDERSON of Illinois would Alderson. Bingham, Byrns, Cowles, its Allen, Blanchard, Catchings Cox,N. Y. vote "nay" on the main question. Amerman, Bland. Cheatham, Crain, Tex. Mr. HENDERSON of illinois. Mr. Speaker, I desire to inquire Babbitt, Boatner, Chapin, Cummings, if a quorum has voted? Bacon, Brosius, Clover, Do an, Baker, Brown, Compton Donovan, The SPEAKER pro tem2Jore. A quorum has voted. Belden, Bunn. Covert, Dungan,

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Durborow, Ketcham, Oates. Storer, from South Carolina is pending, and the gentleman from Indiana Elliott, Lane, Page,·R. I. Stout, English, Lester, Va.. Page, Md. Sweet, [Mr. HOLMAN] knows it. Enloe, Lester, Ga.. Pattison, Ohio Taylor, E. B. The SPEAKER pro tempm·e. The question is upon the motion Forman, Lewis, Peel, Taylor, V. A. to lay on the table the bill and pending amendments. Fowler, Lind, Pendleton, Tucker, Gillespie, Little, Pickler, Turpin, Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. Upon that I ask for the Griswold, Lodge, Pierce, Wadsworth, yeas and nays. Grout, Magner, Powers, Walker, The yeas and nays were ordered. Hall, McAleer, Price, Wheeler, Mich. Harter, McCreary, Quackenbush, White, Pending the roll call, Hayes, Iowa McDonald, Raines, Willcox, M.r. HEMPHILL s.aid: Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con ent Haynes, Ohio McGann, Randall, Williams, Mass. that this bill be laid aside until next District day, when we may Henderson, N.C. McKenna., Rayner, Wilson, Ky. Henderson, lll. Miller, Robinson, Pa. Wise, have a fuller House, and that in the mean time members may have Hooker, N. Y. Mills, Sanford, Wright, an opportunity to examine the bill-- Honk, Ohio Moore, Snow, Youmans. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. And that we now ad­ Johnson, Ind. · Morse, Springer, Johnstone, S. C. Newberry, Stahlnecker, journ? Jones, Norton, Stevens, Mr. HEMPHILL. No. There are two or three other meas­ ures that we desire to bring before the House to-day. Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, I would like to be recorded. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE of Arkansas. I have no objection to The SPEAKER pro tempo're. Was the gentleman in the HaJl, that. and did he vote? The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the req ue t Mr. HALL. I did not vot.e. of the gentleman from South Carolina? The SPEAKER pro ternpm·e. Was the gentleman in the Hall? Mr. HATCH. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. This Mr. HALL. I wa-s not in my seat. bill, I understand, will retain its present position on the Calen­ The SPEAKERp1·o ternpm·e. Was the gentlemanin the Hall? dar? Mr. HALL. I think I was in the Hall. The SPEAKERp1·o tempm·e. It will. The SPEAKER pro temp07'e. Under the circumstances, the Mr, DOCKERY. And the yeas and nays have been ordered gentleman can .not be allowed to vote. upon it. The following additional pairs were announced: The SPEAKER p1·o temp07'e. Is there objection to the request Mr. HAYES of Iowa with Mr. KETCHAM, for the rest of the day. of the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. HEMPHILL]? 1\Ir. HENDERSON of North Carolina with Mr. ROBINSON of There was no objection, and it was so ordered. Pennsylvania, for the rest of the day. Mr. FITHIAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask for a recapitulation of the SAFEGUARDS IN THEATERS. vote. Mr. HEMPHILL. Now, Mr. Speaker, I want to submit and The SPEAKER p1·o tempm·e. The gentleman from Illinois asks ask to have considered at this time a joint resolution which has for a recapitulation of the vote. The vote is very close, and the not been reported until now because we have not had time. Chair thinks it is proper that it should be recapitulated. The The ioint resolution was read, as follows: Chair, however, requests gentlemen to pay attention to the an­ Joint resolution amending the joint resolution "to regulate licenses to nouncements made by the Clerk, so that any error may be cor­ proprietors of theaters in the city of Washington, D. c., and for other pur- . poses,,. approved February 26 1892. _ rected. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, etc., That the Commis­ The vote was recapitulated. sioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to extend for Mr. HEMPHILL. Mr. Speaker, there was some correction a reasonable period, to be determined by them, the time for compliance with the regulations prescribed by them for the public safety, pursuant to there­ made by the tally clerk, and I do not know what it was. I would quirements of the first section of the joint resolution to regulate licenses to like to know what the correction was. proprietors of theaters in the city of Washington, D. C. , a.p:r.roved. February The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia 26, 1892, in cases where they are satisfied that the persons notified are mak­ ing due exertion to effect such compliance; and that said Commissioners [Mr. LAWSON] thought that there was a mi£take in calling his may continue in force, pending such compliance, the license for any such name. ~ theater or other public place of amusement, provided that no more than Mr. HEMPHILL. I could not understand it. ninety days' extension of time in the aggregate shall be allowed for compli­ The SPEAKER p1·o temp01·e. On this question the yeas are ance with such regulat.ions. 114, the nays 110. So the House determines to reconsider the The SPEAKERp1·otempore. Is there objection to the pr sent vote by which the bill and amendments were laid on the table. consideration of this joint resolution? The question now is on the motion of the gentleman from Ar­ Mr. BLOUNT. Mr. Speaker, I think there ought to be some kansas [Mr. BRECKINRIDGE] to lay the bill and pending amend­ explanation of it. ments on the table. Mr. HEMPHILL. Congress recently passed a resolution au­ Mr. FITHIAN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the gentle­ thorizing and requiring the Commissioners of the District of man a question-- Columbia to establish certain regulations for t,he safety of the The SPEAKER pro temtJore. That motion is not debatable. public in theaters and other places of public amusement, and it Mr. FITHIAN. I want to ask the gentleman from South Car­ required that those regulations should be complied with in ten olina [Mr. HEMPHILL] a question, if the House will allow me. days under ~nalty of a revocation of license. We .find now that The SPEAKER pro temp07'e. The question is not debatable. it 1s imposs1ble to comply with the regulations which the Com­ The gentleman can only ask by unanimous consent. missioners have made within the limited period of ten days. Mr. FITHIAN. I ask unanimous consent that I may be per­ For instance, they require the procurement in one theater of mitted to ask the gentleman from South Carolina a question. new curtains which can not possiblybe made in less than twenty The SPEAKER pro tempoo·e. Is there objection to the request days. They require the putting of-an iron fire-escape of iron on of the gentleman from Illinois? [After a pause.] The Chair the upper side of Albaugh's theater. They require the taking hears none. out of the front of that theater and putting in iron steps, and it is Mr. ],ITHIAN. I should like to know whether the-whole impossible to do all this work within ten days. That is what the chargeforthisinstitutionistobeupontheGovernmentorwhether parties concerned say and the Commissioners say the same half of it is to be paid by the District of Columbia? thing, and they write asking that this resolution be passed, au­ Mr. HEMPHILL. I will state to the gentleman that the bill thorizing them to extend the time to a reasonable extent, not in its present form does not provide that half the expense shall exceeding under any circumstances, ninety days. be paid by the District, but there is an amendment pending-­ The joint resolution having been read twice, was ordered to be Mr. HOLMAN. The bill provides that the whole of it shall engrossed and read a third time, and it was accordingly read th~ be paid out of the Treasury. third time, and passed. Mr. HEMPHILL. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HOLMAN] Mr. HEMPHILL moved to reconsider the vote by which the was not asked for his view. joint resolution was passed, and also moved that the motion to The SPEAKER p?'o tempore. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. reconsider be laid on the table. FITHIAN] asked unanimous consent that he might ask the gen­ The latter motion was ag1·eed to. tleman from South Car.:>lina [Mr. HEMPHILL] a question. The INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING, DISTRICT OF COLU:MBI.A.. House gave permission,and the gentleman from Illinois has asked Mr. HEMPHILL. Mr. Speaker, I call up the bill (S. 1492) to his question, and the Chair trusts that the gentleman from South authorize the appointment of an inspector of plumbing in the Carolina will be permitted to answer it. District of Columbia, and for other purpo es. Mr. HEMPHILL. The bill itself does not make any provision The bill was read, as follows: for having one-hhlf of the cost placed upon the District of Co­ Be it enacted, etc., That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and lumbia, but there is an amendment pending-- their successors be, and they hereby are, authorized and empowered to Mr. HOLMAN. The bill appropriates $50,000 from the Treas­ make, modify, and enforce regulations governing plumbing, house drainage, and the ventilation, preservation. and maintenance in good order of house ury. ewe1·s and public sewers in the District- of Columbia, and also regulations Mr. GROUT. The amendment mentioned by the gentleman governing the examination, registl:ation, and licensing of plmnbcrs and the 1892. CONGRESSIONAL . RECORD-· HOUSE. 2625•

practice of the business of plumbing in said District; and any person who Mr. HEMPHILL. They are to be paid out of thefeescoming shall neglect or refuse to comply with the requirements of the provisions of said regulations after ten days' notice of the specific thing required to be in; but they are not to get all the fees that come in, ·. done thereunder, within the time limited by the CommiSsioners !or doing Mr. HOLMAN. I do not think that these five officers should such work, or as the said time may be extended. by said Commissioners, be fastened upon the Treasury. We know how fees come in. I shall upon conviction thereof be punishable by a fine of not more than $200 tor each and every such o:trense, or in default of payment of fine, to impris­ certainly think my friend from South Carolina can frame this onment not to exceed thirty days. bill so as not to create a new class of salaried officers. The bill SEc. 2. That the said Commissioners and their successors be and they could very readily ·be arranged so that the fees should be paid hereby are, authorized and empowered to require every person licensed to practice the business of plumbing in the District of Columbia, before en­ directly to the parties who do the inspection. If the fees which gaging in the said business, to file a bond in such amount and with such num­ these officers are to receive be paid by the persons for whom the ber of sureties as the said Commissioners shall determine, conditioned upon work is done, I have no·objection. the faithful performance of all work in compliance with the plumbing regu­ lations, and .that the District of Columbia. shall be kept harmless from the Mr. HEMPHILL. The fees have to be paid in the first in­ consequence of any and all acts of the said licensee during the period covered stance into the Treasury. Under existing arrangements there by the said bond. • .. ' is no authority for any of these officers to receive any fees; and SEC. 3. That the said Commissioners and their successors be, and they hereby are, authorized to establish and charge a fee for each permit granted they make nothing out of it. This bill simply provides that these to connect any building, premises, or establishment with any sewer, water, men shall have a. reasonable salary out of the fees receivelt from or gas main, or other underground structure located in any public street, this work. avenue, alley, road, highway, or space; and also to establish and cha1·ge a fee for each permit granted to make an excavation in any public street, ave­ Mr:HOLMAN. What is the salary? nue, alley, highway, road, or space, fo1· the purpose of repairing. altering, or Mr. HEMPHILL. Two thousand dollars for the inspector and extending, any house;sewer, water main, or gas main, or other underground $1 ,200 for each of the assistants. construction. The fees authorized by this section shall be paid to the col­ lector of taxes of the district of Columbia and by him deposited in the"Treas­ · Mr. HOLMAN. How many assistants? ury of the United States, to the credit of the District of Columbia. Mr. HEMPHILL. Not exceeding four. SEC. 4. That the said Commissioners of the District of Columbia. and their Mr. HOLMAN. Then this means that five new salaried offi­ successors be, and they hereby are, authorized and empowered to appoint an inspector of plumbing and such number of assistants a.s they deem neces­ cers, one at $2,000 and the others at $1,200, are to be created. It sary which may be authorized by appropriations made by Congress, not ex­ would be a very easy thing to provide that the expense of these ceedhig four, in and tor the District, whose duty it shall be, under the direc­ services be paid by the persons who have the work done. Why tion of c;aid Commissioners, and they are hereby empowered accordingly, to inspect or cause to be inspected all houses when in course of erection in said 00~ . District, to see that the plumbing, drainage, and ventilation of sewers thereof Mr. HEMPHILL. For the reason that if the fees for this class conform to the regulations hereinbefore provided for; .and also at any time, of .work should amount to ten or fifteen thousand dollars a yeat• during reasonable hours, under like direction, to inspect or cause to be in­ spected any house in said District, to examine the plumbing, drainage, and there is no reason why these inspectors should get the whole ventilation of sewers thereof, and generally to see that the regulations amount. That is all there is of it. We have been obliged to cut hereinbefore provided for are duly observed and enforced. down the pay of the recorder of deeds and the register of wills, · SEC. 5. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith be, and they hereby are, repealed. whose compensation has been made up of fees, and to give those officers a limited salary. This bill provides a limited salary for The SPEAKER. The question is on the third reading of the the inspector of plumbing and his assistants. Senate bill. Mr. HOLMAN. Who is to collect these fees? Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I listened Mr. HEMPHILL. They are to be paid to the collector of with what care I could to the reading of the bill, but I did not taxes, who is to turn them into the Treasury of the United States. catch the amount of the salary named in it. Mr. BUCHANAN of -New Jersey. Let me call the gentle­ Mr. HEMPHILL. That is to be provided for by the commit­ man's attention to the fact that,-so far as I have examined, neither tee. the manuscript bill as read by the Clerk, nor the printed copy of Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. So that the committee can the bill as passed by the Senate, contains any provision as to the vary the compensation of these people at their own sweet will. amount of. salary. . Is that the purpose? . _ · . . Mr. HEMPHILL. Mr. Speakec, does not the fifth section of Mr. HEMPHILL. That is not the purpose, but that is the this bill make -provision as to these salaries? way: the bill came over to us from the Senate and we have agreed The SPEAKER pro t.emprJre. . Section 5 is simply a repealing t<> It. provision, .which the Clerk will read. Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. Then there is nothing to The Clerk read as follows: prevent the Committee on Appropriations from appropriating, SEC. 5. That all law or parts of laws inconsistent herewith be, and they in a moment of liberality, $10,000 a year for this official. hereby are repealed. Mr. HEMPHILL. No, sir. Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. How many officials does the Mr. HEMPHILL. Now, I Mk t he Clerk to read section 4. the bill provide for? . The Clerk read as follows: SEc. 4. That the sa.id Commissioners of the District of Columbia and their Mr. HEMPillLL. An inspector of plumbing, and three as-. successorl'; be, and they hereby are, authorizeq and empowered to appoint an sistants, I think, or four. inspect~· of plumbin~ and such number of assistants as they deem necessary, Mr. BUCHANl\..N of New Jersey. That would make five ad­ which may be authonzed by appropriations made by Congress, not exceed­ ing four, in and for the District, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of ditional officers. said Commissioners, and they are hereby empowered accordingly, to inspect, Mr. HEMPHILL. Yes, sir. or cause to be inspected, all houses when in course of erection in said Dis­ Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. I simply wanted to call the trict, to see that the plumbing, drainage, and ventilation of sewers thereof conform to the regulations hereinbefore provided tor; and also at any time, attention of the gentleman from Indiana. [Mr. HOLMAN] to that during reasonable hom·s, tmder like dh·ection, to inspect, or cause to be in­ fact, but he does not seem to be here. [Laughter.] spected, a.ny house in said District, to examine the plumbing, drainage, and The bill was read a third time. ventilation of sewers thereof, n.nd generally to see that the regulations here- Mr. HOLMAN. I wish to inquire whether this bill imposes inbefore provided foi· are duly observed and enforced. · any charge on the Treasury? Mr. HEMPHILL. It s'3ems Mr. Speaker, that the Senate bill Mr. HEMPHILL. It does not. as printed and the Senate bill a engrossed are different things; Mr. HOLMAN. How are these officers to be paid? in this way I was misled when I made my statement to the gen­ Mr. HEMPHILL. By salaries to. be appropriated hereafter tleman from Missouri [Mr. HEARD] and the gentleman from.In­ upon the report of the Committee on Appropriations. . diana [Mr. HOLMAN]. I am willing that the bill as passed by Mr. HEARD. Are not these officers to be paid by fees? the Senate; leaving out all provision for salaries, be passed by Mr. HOLMAN. If the bill creates five new salaried officers, the House. I think that ought to satisfy the. gentleman from I certainly object to it. Indiana. . Mr. HEARD. My impression is that these officers are to be Mr. HOL~I AN. I am satisfied if all provision for the creation paid by fees. of new salaried officers is omitted. Mr. HEMPHILL. I beg 'Pardon of the gentleman from In­ Mr. HEMPHILL. Then I ask a vote on the passage of the diana. I see now, on examining the bill, that salaries are to be bill. - paid-$2,000 per annum to the inspector and $1,200 to each of the Mr. HOL!viAN. The amendment, I believe, has not yet been assistants. placed on the bill. Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. Is that provided in the bill Mr. HEMPHILL. It has not been amended; but the Senate as read by the Clerk? bill, read from the desk, the manuscript bill, which is the real Mr. HEMPHILL. Yes, sir. bill, does not provide any salary, The bill which was printed as Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. I was listening·, and did the Senate bill did provide a salary, and I imagine the mistake not hear that provision. came about by this clause being stricken out in the Senate. But Mr. HEARD (to Mr. HEMPHILL). Does the bill provide sala­ as the bill i.s read by the Clerk, and will be passed by the House, ries? it does not provide any salary. I am willing it should b'3 passed Mr. HEMPHILL. Yes, sir. in that way. Mr. HEARD. My impression 'va~ that these officers were to Mr. HOLMAN. Does it provide that these fees shall be paid be paid by fees. direct to the inspector by the person who has the work done? XXIII-165

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Mr. HEMPHILL. No, sir; it does not provide that they shall tleman from Indiana to put us in that attitude. Our committee be paid directly to the inspector, but that they shall be paid stand here having recommended the cutting down of the fees of through the assessor's office and into the Treasury of the United the recorder and the register, which the gentleman's committee States. This will leave the question of compensation to the in­ had failed to cut down. We did that by an amendment to the spectors to be fixed by the Committee on Appropriations. bill which your committee brought in here, and we do not pro­ Mr. HOLMAN. I submit to the gentleman from South Caro- pose to have the gentleman put us in any such position as he •lina that it would be better, and more in harmony with safe leg­ suggests now. He can not thus pose before the country at our islation, to let this bill be recommitted with instructions to so expense. amend the bill that the fees thereby provided for shall be paid Mr. HOLMAN. But my friend admits, I suppose, that this to the inspection officers by the persons for whom the work if, is a proposition to create five new public offices? done. It is a private business largely, not public. Mr. HEARD. I admit that it proposes to create the office of Mr. HEARD. :Mr. Speaker, I want to ask if the gentleman an inspector and as many assistants as the Commissioners find from Indiana thinks it would not be safe to leave in the hands of necessary, but it leaves the whole question of providing compen­ the Committee on Appropriations the fixing of the compensation sation to the Committee on Appropriations. of these officials? Now, while it is, in one sense, as the gentle­ The gentleman from Indiana can sit on those fellows as much man has said, a private matter, to the extent that the private in­ as he has a mind oo, and pose before the oountry as the savior of dividual is to pay for the inspection, it is in another, and in a its money in that direction. much broader sense, a public matte:c of very great

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spootors shall be paid. fo:rt directly by persons having the work mittee- consists of Mr. BRECKINRIDGE. of Arkansas, M:r. CoMP­ done instead of paying them salaries. - TON of Maryland1 11r~ HENDERSON of Iowat :Mr. COGSWELL of Mr. HOLMAN. I think that this private business of plumb­ Massachl!l.Setts, and myself. · • ing in the city should not be a source of revenue, and it should There was no objection, and leave waa granted. not be a source of expenditures either.. As this bill will stand, The motion of Mr. BuCHANAN of New Jersey was then &,O"Teed without any reference to what th_e fees paid here may be, or the to; and accm·dingly Cat 5 o1clock and 1 minute p.m.) the. House salaries fixed, they have to be paid~ adjourned. Mr. HEMPHILL. I have said that the bill as read from the Clerk's desk does not provide a.. cent for it. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Mr. HOLMAN. It provides for the in~pectors-. . . Mr. HEMPHILL. Well, let theComnutteeon Approprulitions Under elause 2af Rule XIII, private bills and resolutions were provide for the payment then, if. the work is to be paid for out severally reported from committees, delivel'ed to the Clerk, and of the fees. refeiTed to the Committee of the Whole House, as follows. Mr. HOLMAN. When you propose to create offices of course By Mr. BYRNS, frcrm the Committee on Claims: A bill(H. R. \he salaries must be provided for. 3223 ~ for the relief of Daniel W oodsan and of the estate of Ely Mr HEMPIDLL. I trust that the House-will not put the Moore. (Report No. 880.) · Co~ittee on the District of Columbia in the.ridiculous attitude By Mr. COX of New York, from the Committee on Claims:' A bill ('H. R. 4303) for the relief of Franklin Lee and Charles F. that the gentleman from Indiana asks it shall be put. Dunbar. (Report No. 881.) If will allow ~sh Mr. HOLMAN. the gentleman me?> my By Mr. BULLOCK, from the CommHteean'Claims: A bill (H. sentence, I think this business should be condue~ed m this ~~y: The District CommissionBrs, who are the recogmzed a.uthor1t1es R. 36'15)forthe relief of W. T. Scott and others. (Report No. 882.) By MANSUR from the Committee on Claims: here should appoint the inspectors,.and let them fix th-e fees low Mr-. 1 enough so that no more shall be paid than would afford a rea­ A bill (8.1538) for the relief of the heirs of James S. Ham. (Re- port No. 883.) . - sonable compensation~ I insist that our Government should have A bill (S. 1539)' fox the relief of the heirs o1 John W. Vose (Re­ just little to do with the affairs of ~his District.as possible. as port ·No. 884.) I.t only seems to increase the. charges against. the public Treasury, and somehow or other tends to diminish the charges that the Dis­ By Mr. STONE of Kentucky, from the Committee on War trict of Columbia are to pay. Claims~ On reflection while I certainly think tha.t gentlemBn are A bill fH. R. 3375) for the relief of the ¥ttle Rock and Mem­ honest. in their ~orts not to increase the number of public offi­ phis Railroad Company. (Report No. 885.} A bill {H. R. 1694)· for the relief of Laura E. Maddex, sole ex- cers unnecessarily1 and while I regret the Committee on the District of Columbia have not infoTIIled us. how many inspectors ecukix of Joseph H. Maddox, deceased. (Report No. 886-) . there are now and the amount of their salaries and how they By :M:r~ HOUK of Tennessee, from the Committee on War are paid-while we have no sue):! information. before us. :what­ Claims: A bill (H. R. 6813~ for the relief of the widow of Dabney ever, I. will not further antagomze- the committee,. but-will see Walker. (Report No~887.} ByMr DOLLIVER1 from the Committee on War Cisirns.: A whether I can not make some such arrangement. Now 1 Mr. Speaker-, I withdraw my IIIQtion. bill tS. 634} to authorize and dil'ect the Secretary of War- to in­ vestigate the elaim made for fuel alleged to have been taken and Mr. HEARD. I desire only to sa.y to the gentleman~rom In­ diana that. I join in his expression of regret thM. the infa:uma­ used by the United States Army during-the war from the prop­ tion has. not come to- the Hous.e, bu.t. think we might naturally erty in Chattanooga known as "Cameron Hillr'' and to provide expect that such. information ought to be in the possession of for the payment thereof. tRe2ort No. 888.) the Committee on Apprap..riations; for surely they ought to know By Mr-. PAGE ofRhode Island, from the Committee on Claims: more abo-ut. this than the Committee on the District of Colnm­ A bill (H. R. 5271} for the relief of the heirs o! the late Mrs. bia, since that is the committee which appropriates the money ·Catherine P. Culver-. (Report No. 889.). to pay all such salaries. By Mr. SHELL, from the Committee on War Claims: A bill The health of this. District seems to me a matter of sufficient (H.R.1015) for the relief of Rinaldo .Tohnson and. Ann E. John­ importance to require. the exercise of these duties. It appears son. {Report No. 890-.) to me clearly necessary; and I do not believe there is a gentle­ By Mr. NORTON, from the Committee on Pensions~ A bill man on the floor of this House who, upon reflection or investi­ (H. R. 6763) for the relief of Agries P. Ellis, of Lincoln County, Mo. gation, will decide that there ought not to be inspectors of all (Report No. 897 .) ByMr. PARRETT, f'rom the Committee on Pensions: A bill plumbing in this District~ . . . The SPE.'UCER pro tempOTe. The questiOn 1S on the matron (H. R. 5599) to increase pension of George MarshalL (Report No. of the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HOLMAN] to recommit the 898.) bill with instructions. By Mr. WILSON of Missouri, from the Committee on Pen- Mr. HOLMAN. I said,. Mr. Speaker,_ tha.t. under the circum­ sions: , ' stances I shall no-t antagonize the Committee on the District ill Co­ A bill (H. R. 2395),granting ap.ension toD.M.Lang. tReport lumbia and would withdrawmymotion, with the stateme-nt that No. 899.) · when the opportunity a.cc:urs I will seek to get this matter so A bill (H. R. 2399) granting a pension to John Mercer. {Re­ arranged as to provide that these inspectors shall. be appointed port No. 900.) by the District Commissioners and that the fees charged shall A bill (H. R. 3120) to pension Abraham Landes, for services in only be sufficient to pay a reasonab-le compensation to the per­ the Black Hawk war. (Report No. 901.) sons employed as inspectors by the persons for whose benefits A bill (H. R. 3845) to increase th.e pension of Ed ward R. Chap­ the inspection is made. man. (Report No. 902..) The SPEAKER yro tempore. The gentleman withdraws. the By Mr. BELTZHOOVER,from the Committee on War Claims: motion to recommit, and the question now is on the passage. of A bill (H. R. 4112) for the relief of the Roman Catholic Church the bill. of St. Peter's1 at Jacksont Miss. (Report No. 903..). Thequestion was taken; and the Speaker p1·o tempm~e announ{}ed • that the ayes seemed to have it. BILLS1 BESOLTITlONS, AND MEMORIALS. Mr. BAILEY. I demand a division, Mr. Speaker. Unde1~c1ause 3.of Rule. XXII, billa, resolutions, and me.m.m·ia!s The House divided; and there were-ayes 65, noes 16~ of the following titles were introduced, severally read twice, and Mr. BAILEY. No quorum. · refened as follows-: Mr. BUCHANAN o1 New .Jersey. I m.Dve that the House do By Mr. SMITH of Ar~ona.: A J:!ill (H~ R. 7625) for-th~ re~ru ~! now adjourn. · cer-tain settlers on publie land m the Tucson land diStrict, m Mr. DOCKERY. Pending that, I ask the gentleman from.N ew Arizona-to the Committee an the Public- Lands. Jersey to permit the Chair to lay before the House a. few personal By Mr. HARVEY: A bill (E;. R~7626} toa.men«; the ~~ond pro­ requests. viso of the twenty-second section of the act ~titled An act to LEAVE OF ABSENCE. provide a temporary government for the Territory of Oklahoma, to enlarge the juriEdiction of the United States court in the In- . By unanimous consezrt, lea.ve of absence was granted as follows: dian Territory, and fol' other pur-poses,." approved May 2,1890- To Mr. WILSON of Kentucky, indefinitely, on acc.ount a.f im- to the Committee on the Public Lands. portantbusll1~. · By Mr. BELTZHOOVER~ A bill (H. B. 7627) to. establish a. -. To Mr~ JOHNSON or Indiana, this day, on account o! impor-tant limited pt>st and telegraph service, and for other purposes-to business. , . · the Committee an tha Post-Office and Post-Roads. Mr. DOCKERY. On beha.lf of the subcommittee on. appro­ By Mr. CULBERSON (by request. )~ A bill (HJ R. 7628} reiat- ~· priations charged with the investigation of the. World~s Fair-ex­ ing- to the co:u:Ft m the: Territory ol OklahollllL-to the Commit­ penditures, I desire to ask ind~finite leave oi. absence. The com- tee on the Judiciary.

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By Mr. BRODERICK: A bill (H. R. 7629)toprohibitthesale of By Mr. DINGLEY: A bill (H. R. 7649) to correct the military • intoxicating liquor on land belonging to any national military record of Charles A. Coffin-to the Committee on Military Af­ home for disabled soldiers, and for other purposes-to the Com­ fairs. mittee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 7650) granting a pension to Luther Sanborn, • By Mr. DURBOROW: A bill (H. R. 7630) to amend section 22of jr.-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. an act to regulate commerce, approved February 4, 1887, and as By Mr. DUNPHY: A bill (H. R: 7651} to increase the pension amended March 2, 1889-to the Committee on Interstate and For- of Annie Charlesly-to the Committee on Invalid Pension . eign Commerce. . Als'o, a bill (H. R._ 7652) to increase the pension of Annie M. By Mr. SMITH of Arizona: A bill (H. R. 7631) authorizing the Chaisley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. removal of the Indians of the Papago or Gila Bend Reservation Also, a bill (H. R. 7653) granting an increase of pension to H. in Maricopa County, Ariz., to the Papago Reservation in Pima Louise Gates-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. County, or to one of the Pima and Maricopa Reservations known . By Mr. ELLIS: A bill (H. R. -7654) for the relief of Frank L. as the Gila River and Salt River Indian Reservations-to the Hall-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Indian Affairs. . By Mr. FYAN: A bill (H. R. 7655) for the relief of HenryS. By Mr. Sl\1ITH of Arizona: A bill (H. R. '7632) to provide for Spivey, administrator of Joel Hearrell, deceased-to the om­ the con truction of a levee at the junction of the Gila and Colo­ mittee on War Claims. rado Rivers, near Yuma, Ariz., and to improve and maintain the By Mr. GROUT: A bill (H. R. i656) granting relief to H. R. navigable condition of the Colorado River-to the Committee on Sturtevant, postmaster at Hartland, Vt.-to t-he Committee on Rivers and Harbors. , . the Post-Office and Post-Roads. · . By Mr. HARVEY: A bill {H. R. '7633) to ratify and confirm an By Mr. HARRIES: A bill (H. R. 7657) for the relief of John agreement with the Kickapoo Indians, in Oklahoma Territory, W. McCann-to the Committee on Military Affairs. and to make appropriations for carrying the same into effect­ By Mr. HARE: A bill (H. R. 7658) for the relief of John to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Freund-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. FUNSTON: A bill (H. R. 7634) to ~uthorize the con­ By Mr. ;HATCH: A bill (H. R. 7659) granting a pension to struction of a bridge across the Kansas River-to the Committee Harriet Overall Williams-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. HENDERSON of North Carolina (by request): A bill By Mr. HOAR: A bill (H. R. 7635) to provide for the recovery ­ (H. R. _7660) for the relief of the executors of Lewis Thompson, of duties erroneously assessed and paid in certain cases-to the dec3ased-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Claims. By Mr. HERBERT: A bill (H. R. 7661) for the relief of Willis By Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio (by request): A bill (H. R. 7636) Darby, of Conecuh County A1a.-to the Committee on Wat• tO amend section 738, chapter 22, of an act of Congress for the Claims. District of Columbia, passed June 19,1860, specifying and desig­ By Mr. HULL: A bill (H. R. 4662) granting a pension to .Marion nating the grounds for divorce-to the Committee on the Dis­ Kern Sharman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. trict of Columbia. By Mr. LAGAN~ A bill (H. R. 7663) for the relief of Orner By Mr. HERBERT: A bill {H. R. 7683) to increase the ef­ Baudry, of St. John the Baptist Parish, La.-to the Committee ficiency of the Navy by the reorganization of the active list of on War Claims. line officers and to establish in the future a regular system of By Mr. LAYTON: A. bill (H. R. 7664) for the relief of John promotion and for other purposes-to the Committee on Naval C. Douglass-to the Committee on Military Affmrs. Affairs. By Mr. MARTIN: A bill (H. R. 7665) granting a pension to By Mr. O'NEILL of Pennsylvania: A bill (H. R. 7684) to amend William Lindsay-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. rule 7, section 4233, of the Revised Statutes-to the Committ3e By Mr. McALEER: A bill (H. R. 7666) for -the relief of Fh·st on Int::!rstate and Foreign Commerce. Lieut. Michael Carroll-to-the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. BELTZHOOVER: Ajointresolution (H. Res.114) pro­ By Mr. McKEIGHAN: A bill (H. R. 7667) to pension Mary F. posing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States Parker, widow of George W. Parker-to the Committee on In­ in relation to the election of President and Vice-President-to valid Pensions. the Salect Committee on Election of President and Vice-Presi­ By Mr. MILLS: A bill (H. R. i668) for the relief of Brig. Gen. dent and Representatives in Congress. and Bvt. Maj. Gen. David S. Stanley, United States Army- to By Mr:SMITH of Arizona: A resolution making inquiry of the Committee on Military Affairs. . the Secretary of the Interior as to the number of acres of un­ By Mr. 'MILLIKEN: A bill (H. R. 7669} granting a pension to surveyed land within the Atlantic and Pacific Railrvad grant in George H. Rand-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Arizona and New Mexico and cost of urveying same-to the By Mr. O'FERRALL: A bill \H. R. 7670) for the relief of the Committee on the Public Lands, estate of Gideon Tobin, deceased, of Page County, Va.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 7671) for the relief of Henry Doll, of Shen­ PRIVATE BILLS, ETC. andoah County, Va.-to the Committee on War Claims. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills of the following By Mr. PAYNTER: A bill {H. R. 7672) for the relief of John titles were presented and referred as indicated below: M. Rice-to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. ALLEN: A bill (H. R. 7637) for the relief of Shelby By Mr. PERKINS: A bill (H. R. 7673) granting a pension to Newman, of Alcorn County, Miss.-to the Committee on War Libbie Hamilton-to the Committee on Invalid Pension . Claims. By Mr. RAYNER (by request): A bill (H. R . 7674) granting a Also, a bill (H. R. 7638) for relief of estate of Francis Whit­ discharge to John Cunningham-to the Committee on Military field-to the Committee on War Claims. Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 7639) for the relief of the estate of James By Mr. RUSSELL: A bill (H. R. 7675) to correct the military Roach, deceased, of Hinds County, Miss.-to the Committee on l'ecord of James L. Townsend-to the Committee on l\filit.ary War Claims. Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 7640) for the relief of F. S. Casper-to the Also, a bill (H. R 7676) granting pension to Maggie McD.i-Yid­ ofnmittee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 76-ll) for the relief of the trustees of Cumber­ By Mr. STEWART of Texas: A bill (H. R. 7677) granting an land Presbyterian Church of Corinth, Miss.-to the Committee increase of pension to Theodore Hyatt, late a soldier in Company on War Claims. D of the One hundred and twenty-seventh Regiment Illinois By Mr. ANDREW: A bill (H. R. 7642) for the relief of Charles Volunteers-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . Erskine-to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. STONE of Kentucky: A bill (H. R. 7678) to increase the By Mr. BELTZHOOVER: A bill (H. R. 7643) for the relief of pension of W. P. Campbell~to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ Abraham Heckendorn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sions. By Mr. BRUNNER: A bill (H. R. 7644) granting an increase By Mr. WILLIAMS of Massachusett: A bill (H. R. 7619) for of pension to Benjamin F. Fair-to the Committee on Invalid the removal of the charge of desertion from the record of John Pensions. . _ Harney-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 7645) for the relief of JohnA.Haas-to the By Mr. BOWERS: A bill (H. R. 7680) for the relief of Jona­ Committee on Military Affairs. than J. Warner-to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. BYRNS: A bill (H. R. 'i646) granting a pension to Hen­ By Mr. DANIELL: A bill (H. R. 7681) for the restoration of p n­ rietta Gottweiss-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sion to Pricilla F. JW::kman-to the Committee on Pension . By Mr. CATE: A bill (H. R. 7647) for the relief of Mary E. . By Mr. KRIBBS: A bill (H. R. 7682) granting a pension to Whitehead-to the Committee on War Claims. Emma M. Springer-to the Committee on Invalid Pension . . By Mr. CAMPBELL: A bill (H. R. 7648) to remit the penal­ By Mr. EZRA B. TAYLOR: A bill (H. R. 7.685) granting a pen­ ties on gunboat No. 3, the Concord, and gunboat No. 4, the Ben­ sion to Almira N. Hanson-to the Committee. on Invalid Pen­ nington-to the Committee qn Naval Affairs. sions.

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1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2629 - PETITIONS, ETC. Also, petition of Elm Valley Grange, to prevent gambling in farm products and the adulteration of food and drugs-to the Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, the following petitions and pa­ Committee on Agriculture. pers were laid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: Also, petition of the same body, to prohibit contracts discred­ By Mr. AMERMAN: MemorialofWashingtonCamp, No.175, iting legal-tender currency-to the Committee on Banking and Patriotic Order Sons of America, S.wanton, Pa.-to the Select Currency. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Also, petition of the same body, for a free delivery of rural By Mr. ANDREW: Petition of 13 ci.tizens of Boston, .M~s., mails-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. praying for a proposed sixteenth amendment to the Constitution Also, petition of the same body, for a pure-lard law-to the of the United States-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee op. Ways and Means. By Mr. ATKINSON: Petition of citizens of Fort Lo~doD:, Pa., Also, two petitions for support of House bill 5956, to increase praying for tbe passage_o~ ~amendment to the qons~Itutwn of tax on cigarettes-to the Committee on Ways and Means. the United States prohibitmg S~tes. from con~rib~tmg to tp.e By Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey: Petition of JohnM. Bow­ support of any sectarian or ecclesiastiCal orgaruzatwn, o-r: t?. m­ ker and others, of New Jersey, for the passage of House bill 401, terfere with religious liberty-to the Committee on the Judiciary. in egard to the immigration of aliens-to the Select Committee Also two petitions of citizens of Franklin Mills, Pa., for the on Immigration and Naturalization. same-'to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr, BUTLER: Petition of citizens of Clay County, Iowa, Also, petition of Port Trevorton, Pa., for the same-to the praying for retention of duty on barley-to the Committee on Committee on the Judiciarv. Ways and Means. Also, petition of citizens of Port Royal, Pa., praying for an Also, petition of citizens of Clayton County, Iowa, praying for amendment to the laws of immigration, naturalization, and citi­ retention of present duty on barley-to the Committee on Ways zenship-to the Select Committee on Immigration and Natural­ and Means. ization. Also, petition of citizens of Cherokee County, Iowa,.praying By Mr. ALLEN: Petition of 72 citizens of Corinth, MisE!., and for retention of the present duty on barley-to the Committee from the Women's Christian Temperance Union, to prohibit the on Ways and Means. opening of the ,World's Fair.o~ Sunday-to the Select CQmmit- Also, two petitions, one of citizens of Cerro Gordo Conn ty, Iowa, tee on the Columbian ExpositlOn. , and the other. of Mitchell, praying for the regulation of specula­ By Mr. BELKNAP: Petition of citizens of Ionia, Mich., for tion in fictitious farm products-to the Committee on Ways and the free delivery of mails:-to the Committee on the Post-Office Means. , _ . · and Post-Roa{}s. By Mr. BUSEY: Petition of citizens of Elwood, Vermillion Also, petition of .citizens o~ qlarksville, Mich., for Sun?-ay clos­ County, TIL, for free delivery of mails to 1·ural districts-to the ing of the Columbian expositwn-to the Select Comm1ttee on Committe on the Post-Office and Po3t-Roads. the Columbian Exposition. By Mr. CAUSEY: Petition of the Methodist Episcopal Church Also, petition for the passage ()f House bill5956, to increase of Delaware, protesting against the further enactment of op­ tax on paper-wrapped cigarettes-to the Committee on Ways and pressive legislation again,st the Chines3 people-to the Commit- Means. tee on Foreign Affairs. • Also, petition of Whitneyville Grange, to prevent gambling in By Mr. CHIPMAN: Petition of citizens of Flat Rock, Mich., farm products and the adulteration of food and drugs-to' the in favor of the Washburn-Hatch antioption bill-to the Commit- Committee on Agriculture. . . tea on Agriculture. 1 Also, petition of the same body, for free delivery of rural Also, petition of Daniel Scott & C

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mg legal-tender currency-to the Committee on Banking and full exercise thereof or permitting any tax to be raised for the Currency. support thereof-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, petition of the same bodies, for a pure-lard law-to the By Mr. HARTER: Petition of 17 farmers of Center Village, Committee on Ways and Means. Ohio-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. DALZELL: Resolutions of the National Grand Lodge ,By Mr. HATCH: Petition of Union Grange, to prevent gam­ of the United States, Loyal Knights of America, of Scranton, bling in farm products-to the Committee on Agriculture. Pa., in favor of an amendment to the Constitution against the Also, petition of the same body, to prohibit contracts discred­ establishment of any religion-to the Committee on the Ju­ iting legal-tender currency-to the Committee on Banking and diciary. Currency. Also, petition of the United Presbyterian Congregation of Stew­ Also, petition of the same body, for a pure-lard law-to the arts Station, Pa., against opening the World's Fair on Sunday­ Committee on Ways and Means. to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. By Mr. HAUGEN: Protest of citizens of Pierce County, Wis., Also, resolution of Council (Pittsburg, Pa.) of Junior Order against any reduction of the McKinley duty on barlev-to the United American Mechanics, in favor of an amendment of the Committee on Ways and Means. ~ immigration and naturalization laws-to the Committee on the Also, memorial of the Chamber of Commerce, of Milwaukee, Judiciary. Wis., asking that the interstate commerce law be so amended as By Mr. DANIELL: Petition of citizensandsoldiersof Lincoln to make it more effe<.'tive-to the Committee on the. Judiciary. Post, No. 28, Grand Army of the Republic, New Hampshire, for Also, petition of the Eauclaire (Wis.) Grocer Company, in favor marking the battle lines at Gettysburg, Pa.-to the Committee of more strictly defining second and third-class mail matter-to on Military Affairs. the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, petition of citizens of Sullivan, N. H., for free delivery Also, resolution of the Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers' of mails in rural districts-to the Committee on the Post-Office Association, asking for appropriation to extend the Weather and Post-Roads. Bureau service-to the Committee on Appropriations. Al$o, petition of citizens of ·weare, N.H., for free delivery of By Mr. HENDERSON of Illinois: Petition of Knox Henry rural mails in rural districts-to Jhe Committee on the Post­ Grange, to prevent gambling in farm products, to encourage silk Office and Post-Roads. culture, and to prevent the adulteration of food and drugs-to By Mr. DE FOREST: Petition of citizens of Redding, Fairfield th~ Committee on Agriculture. '/ County, Conn., for free delivery of mails-to the Committee on Also, petition of the same body, to prohibit contracts discred­ the Post-Office and Post-Roads. iting legal-tender currency-to the Committee on Banking and Also, petition of Morris Pl;ym~mth Grange, encouraging silk Currency. culture, to prevent gambling m farm products, and the adulter­ Also, petition of James Stitt and 39 others, of Henry County, ation of food and drugs-to the Committee on Agriculture. Ill., praying that Congress will not enact House bill2699 and Sen­ Also, petition of the same body, for a free delivery of rural ate billl757 known as the Hatch and Washburn bills-to the Com­ mails-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Ro:1.ds. mittee on Agriculture. Also, petition of the same body, for a pure-lard law-to the By Mr. HERMANN: Petition of citizens of Marion, for tho Committee on Ways and Means. :.. Washburn-Hatch bill-to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. DICKERSON: Petition to accompany bill granting Also, petition of citizens of Union County, Oregon, for the pas­ pension to John H. Foster-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- sage of the Washburn-Hatch antioption bills-tothe Committee sions. , on Agriculture. By Mr. DINGLEY~ Petition of Edwin Sibly Post, Grand Also, three petitions for pure food, from the following granges Army of the Republic. Rockingham, Me., for pension to Luther of Oregon: Oak Grove,No.198,GrandPrairie,No.10,and Mount Sanborn, jr.-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Zion, No. 121-to the Committee on Agricultm·e. Also, petitions of Nelson Thompson and others, of Friendship, Also, petition of Oak Grove Grange, for pure silk-to the Com­ Me., for the passage of the Lapham bill-to the Committee on mittee on Agriculture. Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Also, petition of Grand Prairie Grange, No.10, oi Oregon, for Also, petition of Enterprise Grange, for free delivery of rural pure lard-to the Committee on Ways and Means. mails-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, three petitions from granges of Oregon, as follows: Mt. 1 By Mr. DIXON: Petition of citizens of Custer County, Mont., Zion, No. 121; Grand Prairie, No. 10, and Oak Grove, No.198, all in favor of·a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution prohibit­ against gambling in farm products-to the Committee on Agri- ing States from passing any !law respecting religion, etc.-to the culture. " Committee on the .Judiciary. Also, two petitions of granges, as follows: Oak Grove, No.198, By Mr. DOAN: Resolution of the Missionary Society of Wit­ and Mt. Zion, 121, for free delivery of rural mails-to the Com­ tenburg Theological Seminary, of Springfield, Ohio, that the Co­ mittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. lumbian Exposition be closed on Sunday-to the Select Commit­ By Mr. HOAR~ Petition of Samuel U. Warren and 32 others, tee on the Columbian Exposition. of Cambridge, Mass., urging Congress to pass laws and a means ' By Mr. DOLLIVER: Petition of Brotherhood of Locomotive of enforcing them for the Indians-to the Committee on Indian Engineers' Lodge, division 226-to the Committee on Railways Affairs. and Canals. By Mr. HOLMAN: Papers to accompany House bill for the By Mr. DUNPHY (by request}: Petitions for a sixteenth relief of Benjamin A. Waybright--to the Committee on Invalid amendment to the Constitution of the United States-to the Pensions. ... Committee on the Judiciary. Also, papers to accumpany House bill of Hermon Schroer-to By .Mr. DURBOROW: Petition of Peter Dahlsten and 16 the Committee on Invalid Pensions. others-to the Committee on Education. Also, papers to aroompany House bill to increase pension of Also, petition of citizens of Daphne, Ala.-to the Committee Simeon P. Bell-to the Committee on Pensions. . on Education. By Mr. HOOKER of Ne York: Petition of citizens of Sher­ , ' By Mr. EDMUNDS: Petition against the World's Fair being man,N. Y.,in regard toCONGRESSIONAL RECORDS-to the Com­ kept open on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum­ mittee on Pl.·inting. bian Exposition. Also, petition of friends of equal rank and pay for equal sta­ By Mr. ENLOE: Pe.tition of B. F. Howard, of Madison County, tion and service-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Tenn., for reference of his claim under the Bowman act--to the By Mr. HOPKINS: Petition of Cortland Grange, to prevent Committee on War Claims. gambling in farm products and the adulteration of food and By Mr. ENOCHS: Resolution of the Board of Trade of Chilli­ drugs-to the Committee on Agriculture. cothe, Ohio, praying for the passage of House bill5560, author­ Also, petition of the same body, for a free delivery of rural izing the Secretary of War to cause a survey to be made for a mails-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. ship canal connecting the waters of Lake Erie and Ohio River, Also, petition of the same body, for a pure-lard law-to the between the cities of Cleveland, and Portsmouth, Ohio-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Committee on Railways and Canals. · Also, petition of citizens of Clinton County, Pa., asking for By Mr. FITHIAN: Petition of citizens of Edwards, ill., for re­ the passage of House bill 401, restricting immigration-to the gulating speculation in fictitious farm products-to the Com­ Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. mittee on Agriculture. By Mr. JOHNSON of North Dakota: Two petitions, one of By Mr. GOODNIGHT: I:'etition of citizens of Muhlenberg. Uxbridge and the other of Dazey, 13arnes County, N.Dak., in County, Ky., opposing bankruptcy legislation-to the Committee favor of alaw to regulate the speculation in fictitious farm prod­ on the Judiciary. ucts-to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. HARRIES: Petition of citizens of Minnesota for a six­ Also, petition of citizens of Uxbridge, in favor of a law to reg­ teenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States pro­ ulate speculation in fictitious farm products-to the Committee hibiting States from passing any law respecting religion or the on Agriculture. .i fl892. CONGRESSIONAL . RECORD-HOUSE. 2631

I Also, petition of citizens of Cass County, N. Dak., in favor of fur preserving and properly marking the battle lines at Gettys­ the antioption bill-to the Committee on Agriculture. burg, Pa.-to the Committee on Military Affairs. l By Mr. JOHNSON of Indiana: Petition of divers citizens of Also, protest and petition by churches and Sabbath schools •Randolph County, Ind., for a law regulating speculation in ficti­ numerously signed, for certain regulations of the World's Fair_!, tious farm products-to the Committee on Agriculture. to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. By Mr. LONG: Petition of Marqueze Grange, No.356, of Leon Also, petitions as follows: New York, Oswego, N. Y., and County, Tex., in favor of the antioption bill-to the Committee Wolcott, N.Y., all praying an amendment to the naturalization on Agriculture. laws-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, petition of S. P. Allen, Henry Shan, and 71 others, of By Mr. RAINES: ~etition of Gen. Barry Post, No: 248, Gran<1 Anderson County, Tex., favoring Senate bill254, extending free Army of the Repubhc, Department of New York, in favor of delivery of mails-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post­ marking lines of battle of Gettysburg-to the Committee on Roads. Military Affairs. • Also, petition of B. L. McNeil, E-; A. Green, and 40 others, of Also, petition of residents of Lindley, N. Y.,·for free delivery Cherokee County, Tex., favoring Ocala demands-to the Com­ of mail in country-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post­ mittee on Agriculture. Roads. Also, petition of K. M. Buckilen, S. 0. Stone, and 22 others, of Also, petition of residents of Naples and South Bristol. N.Y. Cherokee County, Tex., favoring Ocala demands-to the Com­ for free delivery of mail in country districts-to the Committe~ mittee on Agriculture. on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. McKINNEY: Petitionofthe GraniteCutteTs'National Also, petition of Troupsbury Grange, to prohibit contracts dis­ Union,toprevent the letting of Governmentwork to contractors crediting legal-tender currency~to the Committee on Banking in convict labor-to the Committee on Labor. and Currency. Also, petition of citizens of the First Congressional district of · By Mr. RANDALL: Petition of Kimball R. Howes, for closing New Hampshire, praying for an amendment to the Constitution the World's Fair on Sunday and against the sale of liquor on of the United States regarding sectarian or ecclesiastical control­ grounds-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition; to the Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. By Mr. RAY: Petition of citizens of Maine, Brown County Also, petition of numerous citizens in favor of a sixteenth N.Y., against speculation in fictitious .farm products-to th~ amendment to the Constitution of the United States-to the Com­ Committee on Agriculture. mittee on the Judiciary. Also, petition of the New York State Sabbath Committee, for Also, petition of 13 citizens of Dover, N.H., in regard to a the closing of the World's Exposition at Chicago on Sunday-to sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States­ the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. to the Committee of the Judiciary. Also, petition of citizens of Oweg-o, Tioga County, N.Y., for Also, petitionofMountBelknap,Wyoming,Uncononuc, Granite reformation in spelling-to the Committee on Education. State,Winnipesanker,Wantasliquelr,Lawrence,NewHampshire, Also, two petitions, one of Plymouth Grange, N.Y., No. 452, Candia, Thornton, Crain Point, Chickester, Luftonboro, Pem­ the other of Lenox Grange;No. 43, in favor of House bill395-to broke, Focheco, Barnstead, New Hampton, Laconia, London­ the Committee on Ways and Means. derry, and Golden Rod Granges, encouraging silk culture, to pre­ Also, five petitions, as follows: Plymouth Grange, No. 452, and vent gambling in farm products, and the adulteration of foods New Berlin Grange, No. 578, for legislation to prevent gambling­ and drugs-to the Committee on Agriculture. in farm products; and the followi~g: L enox Grange, No. 43, Ply­ Also, petition of the same bodies, for a free delivery of rural mouth Grange, No. 452, and Berlin Grange, No. 578, for legisla­ mails-to the Committee on Agriculture. tion to prevent the adulteration of food and drugs-to the Com­ Also, petition of the same bodies, for a pure-lard law-to the mittee on Agriculture. Committee on Ways and Means. Also, two petitions, as follows: Berlin Grange, No. 578, and Also, petition of the same bodies, to prohibit contracts dis­ Plymouth Grange, No. 452, in favor of laws preventing the mak­ crediting legal-tender currency-to the Committee on Banking ing of contracts discrediting legal-tender currency-to the Com­ and Currency. mittee on Banking and Currency. Also, petition of citizens of Londonderry, Rockingham County, Also, two petitions of granges of New York, of Coventryville, N. H., urging the passage of House bill 5353, of the Fifty-first No. 4:84, one for pure food, and the other against gambling in Congress, introduced by Mr. Butterworth, and known as the farm products-to the Committee on Agriculture. option bill-to the Committee on Agriculture. · Also, petition of the same body, to prohibit contracts discredit­ By Mr. McCLELLAN: Petition of Harmony Grange, to pre­ ing legal-tender currency-to the Committee on Banking and vent the adulteration of food and drugs-to the Committee on Currency. AJ.so, petition of the ~:arne body: for pure lard-to the Com­ Agriculture. mittee on Ways and Means. By Mr. MARTIN: Petition of the Baptist Church and many Also, petition of students of Hamilton (N.Y.) Theolog-ical Sem­ citizens of Decatur, Ind., for legislation to close the World's inary, against opening the World's Exposition on Sunday-to the Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex­ Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. position. Also, petition of Osborne Hollow Grange, to prevent gambling Also, affidavits of Eli S. Butler and Josiah Brower, in support in farm products, and the adulteration of foods and drugs-to the of House bill 7342, for increase of pension of Israel T. Castle-to Committee on Agriculture. · the Committee on Pensions. Also, petition of the same body, to prohibit contracts discred­ Also, petition of Peter Batch and 36 others, for the passa()'e of iting legal-tender currency-to the Committee on Banking and House bill 389 for increase of pensions of those who have"' lost Currency. limbs-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of the same body, for a pure-lard law-to the By Mr. MILLIKEN: Petition of Cyrenus B. Downes, for com­ Committee on Ways and Means- , . mutation money-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. REED: Petition of Wescustago Grange, to prevent Also, petition of Samuel Robbins for relief, to accompany bill­ gambling in farm products-to the Committee on Agriculture. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also_, petition of the same body, for a pure-lard law-to the . Also, papers in the"claim of J. W.Eastmanforpension-tothe Committee on Ways and Means. Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. ROCKWELL: Petition of W. C. Duttonandothers,of Also, petition of citizens of Maine, for the improvement of Lin­ Waterloo, N. Y., in behalf of the law to impose a tax upon all colnville Harbor-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. transactions in ontions and futures, and known as theWashburn­ Also, petition of Hugh Riley, Togus, Me., for removal of charge Hatch bill-to the Committee on Ways and Means. of desertion-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also~ petition of the president and 32 professors and instruc­ Also, petition of Matthias A. Callman for relief-to the Com­ tors of Cornell University, in favor of a constitutional amend­ ., mittee on the Invalid Pensions. ment to the Constitution prohibiting the passage of any law re­ By Mr. O'DONNELL: Petition of 14citizensof Delton,Mich., pecting the establishment of religion, etc.-to the Committee on in favor of bill to increase tax on paper-wrapped cigarettes-to the Judiciary. the Committee on Ways and Means. · Also, petition of Rose Hill Gr:Jrnge, to prevent gambling in By Mr. O'FERRALL: Papers in the claim of John Caine, of farm products-to the Committee on Agriculture. Clark County, Va.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, petition of the same body, for a pure-lard law-to the By Mr. PATTISON of Ohio: Petition of W. H. Freeman and Co~ttee on Ways and Means. . others, of Jefferson, Adams County, Ohio, asking for the free de­ Also, petition of Rose Hill Grange, to prohibit contra-cts dis­ livery of mail in country districts-to the Committee on the Post- crediting legal-tender currency-to the Committee on Banking Office and Post-Roads. .. and Currency. By Mr. PAYNE: Petition of ex-soldiers and sailors of C. W. Also, petition of the same body, to prevent the adulteration of Crocker Post, No. 45,GrandArmyof the Republic,of New York, foods and drugs-to the Committee on Agriculture. 2632 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D-SENATE. MARon 29,

By Mr. RUss::mLL: Petition of Shetucket Grange, encouraging issue of $500,000,000 oi Treasm~y notes to improve public roads­ silk culture, to prevent gambling in farm products, for a pure­ to the Committee on Agriculture. lard law, an,d the adulteration of food and drugs-to the Commit­ By Mr. WHEELER of Michigan: Petition of Ravenna Grange, tee on Agriculture. to prevent gambling in farm products-to the Committee on Also, petition of the same body, for rfree delivery of rural Agriculture. · mails-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, petition of the same body, for free delivery of I ural · By Mr. STACKHOUSE: Resolutions adopted by the Quarterly mails-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. - Conference for Berkley circuit, South Carolina, in reference to By Mr. WTKE: Petition of Samuel Hicks and others, of Greene the Columbian Exposition-to the Select Committee on the Co­ C