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2120 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE.
SENATE. memorial of the legislature of Wisconsin refers to this bill, which is a nake{l extension of time for the benefit' of ·those employed in · TUESDAY, February 23, 1897. the construction of the brid5e, or-to the original bill, which in Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. H. MILBURN, D. D. volves a dispute as to certain conditions imposed upon the bridge On motion of Mr. QUAY, and by unanimous consent, the read company when it.accepted its charter? ing of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with. Mr. VILAS. The memorial relates to this bill, and the tele gram was in answer to a letter which I sent advising the parties EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. interested of the fact that this bill had been introduced. I con The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica cei~e that i~ can m~k~ no differenc~ in _reality to t~e company in tion from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compli whwh the Senator 1s mterested, whwh 1s constructmg the bridO'e ance with the provisions of the act of March 2, 1895, the report whether the bill passes or not. :::. ' and accompanying letter of Mr. Philip C. Garrett, of Philadel Mr. QUAY. If it makes no difference; then the Senator from phia, Pa., a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, on the Wisconsin ought not to object to its passage. result of the negotiations with the Ogden Land Company for the Mr. VILAS. Perhaps there may be some force in that sug~es purchase of the interest of that company in the Cattaraugus and tion, but I certainly am obliged to object to it under the instruc Allegany Indian reservations in the State of New York, etc.; tion of the legislaturE; of the State. I am quite sure the Senate whJCh, with the aceompanying papers, was referred to the Com would not insist upon passing it when the legislature of the State mittee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. has memorialized Congress against it, at least not without hear The VICE-PRESIDENT also laid before the Senate a communi ing what the objection is. I know in general what the basis of cation from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter that objection is. I have the documents and papers in my desk from the.Secretary of State of the 19th instant, as referred by the which well support the objection, at least to the first bill that was Commissioner of Navigation, relating to the claim of the mast.er introduced. of the Swedish bark Adele against the United States, and recom Mr. QUA. Y. There is no trouble about the first bill. I have no mending that an appropriation of $295.64 be inserted in the gen desire to do anything in this bill except to extend the time. eral deticiency appropriation bill for payment of that claim; Mr. VILAS. I hope the Senator will permit the bill to lie over which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Com fo1· the present, for I shall be obliged to contest it. mittee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. QUAY. I have no objection to the bill going over until ST. LOUIS RIVER BRIDGE. to-morrow, but the Senator from Wisconsin and the Senate must _ Mr. QUAY. I believe, according to the r-qle of· the Senate understand that, being a Senate bill, it must pass very promptly adopted upon the suggestion of the Senator from Massachusetts to be of any use to the constructors of the bridge. If that course [Mr. HOAR] yesterday, petitions and memorials may.be filed with is satisfactory, we will allow the bill to go over until to-morrow at the clerks at the desk without a formal presentation upon the the conclusion of the morning business. Mr. VILAS. I shall be glad to have it go over. floor. ~ The VICE-PRESIDENT. That is the order. . The VICE-PRESIDENT. The request of the Senator from Penn· Mr. QUAY. I move that the Senate proceed to the considera sylvania will be complied with, if no objection is interposed. tion of the bill (S. 3690) to amend an act entitled "An act to Mr. VILAS. Let us have no misunderstanding. Of course the authorize the construction of a steel bridge over the St. Louis Senator from Pennsylvania can not expect me to consent to take River between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota," approved it up until I have received the papers, but I do not ask any more April 24, 1894, as amended by an act approved August 4, 1894, of him now than that the bill shall go over until to-mon-ow, reserv· entitled "An act to amend an act to authorize the construction of ing any rights that I may have in regard to it. a steel bridge over the St. Louis River between the States of Min Mr. QUAY. If there is an intention out in Wisconsin to deal nesota and Wisconsin." fairly with this bill, and I have no doubt there is, the memorial The VICE-PRESIDENT. The bill will be read for information. should be here by to-morrow. The Secretary read the bill. . Mr. VILAS. I think so. I hope it will be here. Mr. VILAS. I should be glad to have that bill laid aside for Mr. QUAY. I will move to take the bill up to-morrow, then. the present. I have received, by telegraph, information that the The VICE-PRESIDENT. In the absence of objection, the bill legislature .pf Wiscom;in has passed a memorial to Congress re will be· passed over until to-morrow. monstrating against the passage of the bill. I have not yet INDEPENDENCE OF CUBA. received the document itself. I hope the Senator· from Pennsyl Mr. MORRILL. I desire to give notice that I shall ask the vania will not seek to have the bill pressed until I receive it. I indulgence of the Senate on Thursday morning to submft some am sorry that I should be obliged to object to the consideration remarks upon the resolution reported by the Co~mittee on For· of the bill, but I am under the instruction of the legislature. eign Relations in relation to the recognition of the independence Mr. QUAY. The Senator from Wisconsin is, I think, perfectly of Cuba. satisfied that the bill ought to pass. He must also know that if it MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. does not pass immediately the extreme probability is that it will A message from the House of Represent.atives, by Mr. W. J. not pass at all at the present session. The condition of affairs BROWNING, its Chief Clerk, announced that the House had agreed concerning the bridge, communicated to me to-day by the presi to the amendments of the Senate to the following bills: dent of the Pennsylvania St.eel Company, is this: A bill (H. R. 1515) for the relief of Hugh McLaughlin; and [Telegram.] A bill (H. R. 4424) to correct the military 1·ecord of G~orge I. The Duluth bridge is being built by us for local company, and all material Spangler. is at bridge. Site and bridge is about one-third erected. Act of Congress The _message also announced that tlle House had agreed to the authorizing const ruct ion of bridge r equires completion by April28, which is impossible owing to severity of weather this winter at Duluth; an extension report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of of time, say to July 1, would answer every purpose. the tw<;> Rouses on the amendments of the House to the bill (S. I certainly think that the Senate ought not to sustain the Sena 3614-) to aid in the improvement of the navigable channel of the tor from Wisconsin in asking for a further postponement of the South Pass by closing the existing crevasse in Pass a Loutre, in bill. I think the Senator from Wisconsin fully appreciates and the Mississippi River. properly estimates the equity of the claim of the men who are The message further announced that the House had agreed to constructing the bridge, who are not interested in the controversy the report of the committee of conference on the disagreein~ votes between the State of Wisconsin and the State of Minnesota. of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to tne bill Mr. VILAS. I have been here, I suppose, every moment ready to (H. R. 6834) to prevent the'Purchasing of or speculating in the object to the taking up of the bill until I could receive the memorial claims against the-Federal Government by United States officers. of the legislatur~ that I mentioned to the Senator from Pennsyl The message also announced that the House had passed the fol vania when I got the telegram. There is considerable contro lowing bills and joint resolution; in which it requested the con versy. I do not know, when the papers shall have. been received currence of the Senate: here, what effect they will produce upon me or what duty will be A bill (H. R. 6038) to increase the pension of Joseph M. Donohue; laid upon me by them with reference to it, but I certainly can not A bill (H. R. 9184) for the relief of Thomas W. Scott, late United consent to the bill being considered until I have received the States marshal; memorial of the legislat ure on the subject. A bill (H. R. 10329) mak--llig appropriations to supply deficien Mr. QUAY. As I understand the Senator, he has already re cies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, ceived a telegram stating the substance of the memorial? a;nd for prior years, and for other purposes; and Mr. VILAS. Yes; a telegram. The telegram informs me that A joint resolution (H. Res. 229) authorizing the Secretary of both houses of the legislatur~, after having heard the parties in War to deliver a condemned cannon to theN ational Encampment terest-ed on both sides, passed the memorial. of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held at Buffalo: Mr. QUAY. Will the Senator allow me to interrupt him a , PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. moment? _ The VICE~ PRESIDENT p1·esented a petition of. the legislature Mr. VILAS. Certainly. of Connecticut, praying for the enactment of legislation inci·eas- Mr. QUAY. 1 ask the Senator from Wisconsin whether the il:ig the salaries of letter carriers; which was referred to th& 1897._. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 2121
Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, and ordered to be He also presented the petitions of Edwin R. Palmer and 20 other printed in the RECORD, as follows: citizenR; of Robert S. Sutliffe and 10 other citizens; of Edwin 0. STATE OF CONNECTICUT, GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Parrish and 19 other citizens; of sundry citizens of Brewster, Pough· January Session, A. D. 1897. keepsie, Hudson, Mount Vernon, New York City, Brooklyn, Miller Concerning an act of Congress relating to letter carriars. Whereas on the lith day of June, 1896, th_e Senate of the United States ton, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Sing Sing, Tarrytown, Barrytown, passed a bill known as· S. 3058, to reg'U].ate the salaries of letter carriers, ~d Tivoli, White Plains, Croton Falls, Linlithgo, Albany, Bingham which provides.that in cities of 75,000 or mora inhabitants they shall. receive ton, Greene, Mount Morris, Fulton, Owego, Syracuse, Corning, for the first year of service $600, ana for the second year $800, for the third year Ithaca, Bath, Norwich, Horner, Conklin, Corbettsville, Oswego, Sl 000 and for the fourth year and thereafter $1,000, and that in cities of less than 75,000 inhabitants they shall receive $600 for the fi.rst year, $800 for the Warsaw, Little Falls, Eastcreek, Fonda, Whitesboro, and Utica, second year, and Sl,OOO for the third year-of service and thereafter: and all in the State of New York, praying for the passage of the anti Whereas a similar bill (H.R. 200) has been favorably reported by the House scalping railroad ticket bill; which were ordered to lie on the table. Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, and in addition has received the approval of many State legislatures, city governments, boards of trade. and, Mr. TURPIE presented a petition of the Niles & Scott Com without exception, the _public press: Therefore, pany, of Laporte, Ind., praying for the passage of the Torrey Be it resoLved, That the senate and house of representatives of the State of bankruptcy bill; which was ordered to lie on the table. Connecticut, ree<>gnizing the arduous and responsible duties of t~is branch of the public service, and the fact that for the pas~ nineteen years ~t has b~en · Mr. GEAR presented the petition of J. W. Hackley, of Musca more than seli"supporting, and that the increase m the gross receipts durmg tine, Iowa, and a petition of stmdry other citizens of Muscatine, the last fiscal year will more than cover the addit~onal cost of this measure, do Iowa, praying for the passage of the antiscalping railroad ticket hereby request the members of the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress from the State of Connecticut to use every proper means to secure bill; which were ordered to lie on the table. the enactment of this measure into law. . · Mr. PEFFER presented the petition of Rev. James J. Purcell, ·t Resolved,-Tha.t the clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house be in of Parsons, Kans., praying for the passage of the antiscalping • structed to forward copies of this resolution to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each Senator and Rep railroad ticket bill; which was ordered to lie on the table. resentative from Connecticut in Congress. Mr. MANTLE. I present resolutions adopted at a meeting of HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Februa1y 17, 1897. the Wool Growers' Association of Montana, convened in special Passed. session at the city of Helena, on the 15th day of February, 1897, FRED A. SCOTT, Clerk. favoring the adoption of the schedule of dutieg as proposed by the SENATE, February 19, 1897. Passed. National Wool Growers' Association. SAML. A. EDDY, Clerk. In submitting the resolutions, I desire to state that Montana Mr. QUAY presented a petition of the Christian Endeavor Soci now stands at the head of the woolgrowing States of the Union, ety of _the First Presbyterian Church, of Bethlehem, Pa., and a possessing a greater number of sheep than any other State in the petition of sundry citizens of Pennsylvania, praying for the enact Union; and because of this fact I think the resolutions ought to ment of legislation prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in carry considerable weight. I should like to ask, if it is not against the Capitol building; which were ordered to lie on the table. the rule, that the resolutions be printed in the RECORD. He also nresented a petition of Martha Washington Assembly, There being no objection, the resolutions were ordered to be No. 367, Royal Society of Good Fellows, of Pittsburg, Pa., pray printed in the R ECORD, and referred to the Committee on Finance, ing fortheenactmentof legislation regulating frate:rnal beneficiary as follows: · societies, orders, and associations; which was ordered to lie on the Resolutions of the Montana Wool Growers' Association. table. · .At a meeting of the Wool Growers' Association of Montana, e<>nvened ill speci~l session at the city of Helen~ on the 15th day of February, 1897, it was He also presented a petition of the Board of Trade of Philadel unammously ·· - phia, Pa., praying for ~he passage o~ the so-called Loud b.ill, relat Resolved, 'I'hat we heartily indorse the schedule of duties proposed by the ing to second-class mail matter; wh1ch was ordered to lie on the National Wool Growers' Association, of which the Hon. William Lawrence is table. . president\ at their e<>nference with the Ina.nufacturers on the 9th, lOth, and lith of ~'eoruary last, with one exception, viz: We urgently request that all . Mr. CULLOM presented sundry petitions of citizens of Upper skirted and ass0rted wools sha.ll be subject to the same duties as wash wools. ·Alton, Fidelity, and Fairport, all in the State of lllinois; of the Our experience with free wool has demonstrated the faJlacy of every argu, department of superinten·dence of the National Educational Asso ment urged by the advocates of that un-American policy which has reduced our woolgrowers to the verge of bankruptcy and desp~ir , relieved only by ciation, of Indianapolis, Ind., and sundry petitions of citizens of the hope tha.tthe.ine<>ming Administration.and new Congress will revert to New York, praying for the passage of the antiscalping railroad the policy of giving adequate protection to so important an indu.c;try-to every ticket bill; which were ordered to lie on the table. interest of our nation no less than to our own particular interests. The iiJ.justice of a discrimination of 2 cents per pound against the growers of the Mr. PASCO presented the petition of Benjamin Gates and 5 We.;;tern States, as suggested at a meeting of the manufacturers and grow other members of Shaker church, of N arcoossee, Fla., praying that ers held January 9 last, upon the ground of free range is at once anparent the movement to establish a court of arbitration between Great when we consider that the Western growers are subject.1 to a freight charge Britain and the United States be speedily consummated; which of not less than 2 cents per pound more in getting their wool from the point where they shear it from the sheep to the market than are the growers ot was ordered to lie on the table. the Middle and Eastern States and that the schedule of wages is lOOper cent Mr. B ITRROWS presented sundry petitions of citizens of Grand higher than the same class of 1abor in the East. The cost of living IS 50 per Rapids, Bliss, and Bellaire, all in the State of Michigan, praying cent higher; interest and taxes are 33t per cent higher. And in view of all these fact!!, we would su8:gest that should any discrimination be indulged for the passage of t~e antiscalping railroad ticket bill; which in on the_lines proposed, Its order be reversed, and that these wools which were ordered to lie on the table. enter into direct competition with the range-grown fleeces be subjected to a He also presented petitions of theWoman's Christian Tempera.noe higher rate of duty. Without antagonizing wools and manufacturers, but on the e<>ntr~ry, fully recognizing their need of protection, we have presented Union of Tecumseh; of theY oung People's Society of Christian En in the schedule of the national association only what is a fair and living rate deavor of the First Congregational Church, of Stanton; of W. W. for the support of our industry, and will cheerfully C<>Operate to secure them Brower and 109 other citizens of Fife Lake; Mrs. Agnes Gillespie a proportionate._advance in duties on foreign-manufactured products. Resolved, That the association requests, aiid confidently exvects, that the and sundry other officers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Montana Senators and Representative in Congress will do all m their power Union of Micliigan; of the Woman's C"nH.stil1n'"Temperance Union to secure for us this measure of protection at the earliest possible moment.: of Greenville; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of and will insist that the act take effect immediately upon its passage ana approval; and, further, that they seek the e<>operation of Senators and
1\Ir. PRITCHARD presented the petition of Charles M. Ham of impure and unwholesome tea, to report a new bill in the na- mond and sundry other citizens of East Milford Hundred, Kent ture of a substitute tberefor, and ask that it be printed, together County, Del., praying for the appointment of a joint commission with the repoTt thereon. to inquire into the political conditions existing in that State; which The bill (S. 37.25) to prevent tbe importation of impure and un- . was referred to tbe Committee on Privileges and Elections. wholesome tea was read twice by its title. . Mr. TELLER presented the petition of L.A. Wikoff, publisher The VICE-PRESIDENT. Senate bill 3581 will be indefinitely of the Herald, of Springfield, Colo., praying for the passage of postponed, if there be no objection. House bill No. 4566, to amend the postal laws relating to second Mr. PEFFER, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was class mail matter; which was ordered to lie on the table. referred the bill (H. R. 7317) to increase the pension of Leroy M. He also presented a petition of the city council of Denver, Colo., Bethea, reported it without amendment, and submitted a report prayb:~g for a reclassification of clerks in first and second class -thereon. · post-offices, and also to pay them fixed salaries according to the He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the duties actually perfonned; which was referred to the Committee bill (H. R. 8633) granting a pension to Nancy Roberts, of Man on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. chester, Clay County, Ky., rep01·ted it with an amendment, and He also presented a petition of the city council of Denver, Colo., submitted a Teport thel'eon. praying Congress to recognize the independence of Cuba; which Mr. CHANDLER, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to was ordered to lie on the table. whom was 1·eferred the amendment submitted by Mr. GALLINGER He also presented a memorial of sundry citizens of Montevista, on the 16th instant, intended t,o be proposed to the sundry civil Colo., and a memorial of sundry citizens of Georgetown, Colo., appropriation bill, reported it with amendments, and moved that remonstrating against the passage .of the so-called Loud bill, it be referred to the Committee on Appropriations and printed; relating to second-class mail matter; which were o1·dered to lie-on which was agreed to. the table. He also, from the same committee, reported an amendment in He also presented a petition of sundry woolgrowers of Lincoln tended to be proposed to the naval appropriation bill; which was - and Elbert counties, in the State of Colorado, praying for the pas referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be sage of the so-called Dingley tariff bill as a temporary measure of printed. relief for the wool industry , and also that a specific duty be placed Mr. GALLINGER, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom upon wool; which was referred to the Committee on Finance. wa-s refeiTed the bill (H. R. 1933) granting a pension to Mrs. He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Highland, Til., Datherine G. Lee, reported it without amendment, and submitted praying that a reciprocity provision in the interest of silve1· be a report t hereon. mserted in the next revised tariff bill; which was referred to the He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the Committee on Finance. bill (H. R. 6915) granting· a pension to Julia D. Beebe, reported it Mr. PETTI GREW. I present certain papers on behalf of the without amendment, and submitted a report thereon. individuals formel'ly comprising and belonging to the Catawba He also, fl'om the same committee, to whom was l'efeiTed the tribe of Indians, .relative to lands owned and occupied by them in bill (H. R. 7422) granting a pension to Lydia W. Holliday, reported the States of North and South Carolina, etc. I move that the it without amendment, and submitted a report thereon. papers be referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs ~ and that He also, from the same collllllittee, to whom was referred the they be printed as a document for the use of that committee. bill (S. 3183) granting a pension to Harriet Clarissa Mercur, The motion was agreed to. widow of James Merom·. late professor of civil and military engi 1.fr. BERRY presented a petition of sundry citizens of Searcy :q,eering in the United States Military Academy at West Poinf and Kensett, in the State of Arkansas, praying for the passage of N. Y., reported it with an amendment, and submitted a report the antiscalping railroa.d ticket bill; which was ordered to lie on thereon. - the table. Mr. THURSTON, from the Committee- on Territories, to whom Mr. GALL presented a petition of members of the Union Con was referred the bill (H. R. 10271) authorizing the funding of iri- . gregational Church and the SociAty of Christian Endeavor of A von debtedness in the Territories of the United States, reported it Park, Fla., praying for the enactment of legislation prohibiting with amendments. the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Capitol building; which was Mr. HAWLEY, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to ordered to lie on the table. whom was referred the bill (S. 170) for the relief of Robert Wil Mr. HANSBROUGH presented a petition of sundry citizens of liams, sergeant of ordnance, United States Army, reported ad· Fargo, N . Dak., praying for the passage of the antiscalping rail versely thereon, and the bill was postponed indefinitely. road ticket bill; which was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. CARTER, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom He also presented a petition of members of the Methodist Epis was referred the amendment submitted by Mr. SHOUP on the 20th copal and Congregational churches of Cando, N.Dak., praying instant, intended to be proposed to the sundry civil appropriation for the enactment of a Sunday-rest law for the District of Colum bill, reported it with an amendment, and moved that it be referred bia; which was ordered t o lie on the table. to the Committee on Appropriations, and printed; which was REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. agreed to. Mr. Mcl\fiLLAN, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom Mr. SEWELL, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to was referred the bill (S. 34:95) to remit the time penalties on the whom was referred the amendment submitted by himself on the light-house tender Rose, reported it with amendments, and sub 19th instant, intended to be proposed to the sundl·y civil appro mitted a report thereon. priation bill, reported favorably thereon, and moved that it be He also, from the Committee on Naval Affaire£, to whom was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and printed; which referred the amendment submitted by Mr. PETTIGREw on' the 17th was agreed to. instant, intended to be proposed to the naval appropriation bill, ESTATES OF JAMES M. AND TIMOTHY l\1EAHER. reported fav01·ably thm·eon and moved that it be referred to the Mr. BACON_ I am instructed by the Committee on Claims to Committee on Appropriations, and print ed; which was agreed to. report a :resolution and ask for the present consideration of the Mr. SHOUP, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was same. It simply authorizes the taking of certain testimony rela referred the bill (S. 3393) to increase the pension of Wesley C. tive to the bill (S. 3090) to confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Sawyer, reported it with an amendment, and submitted a report Claims to adJ'udicate the claim of Thomas W. McDonald, admin thereon. istrator of the estates of James M. and Timothy Meaher, and .to He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the remove the bar of the statute of limitations therefrom, which is bill (S. 3343) granting a pension to Mrs. Arethusa Wright, of pending before the committee. Sheridan, Oreg., reported it with amendments, and submitted a The resolution was considered by unanimous consent, and report thereon. agreed to, as follows: H e also, from the Committee on Territories, to whom was referred Resolved, That the Committee on Claims be, and it is hereby, authorized the amendment submitted by Mr. CARTER on the 19th instant, and empowered to order the taking of the testimony of the witnesses above "intended to be proposed to the sundry civil appropriation bill, named, and to make such other orders as may to them seem proper under r eported favorably thereon, and moved that it be refe1Tetl to the the provisions of the act of ~,ebruary 3, 1879. Committee on Appropriations, and printed; which was agreed to. MISSISSIPPI RIVER IMPROVEMENT. Mr. SMITH, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom Mr. CAFFERY. The Committee on Commerce has reversed its was referred the amendment submitted by Mr. LoDGE on the 19th action in regard to the amendment reported by the Senator from instant, intended to be proposed to the naval appropriation bill, Missouri [Mr. VEST] in behalf of the committee on the 19th instant, reported favorably thereon, and moved that it be referred to the and by direction of the committee I report a resolution and ask Committee on Appropriations, and printed; which was agreed to. for its present consideration. M.r. CAFFERY, from the Committee on Commerce, reported The resolution was considered by: unanimous consent, and agreed an amendment intended to be proposed to t he sundry civil appro to, as follows: priation bill; which was referred to the Committee on AppropTia Resolved. That the proposed amendment to the bill making appropriations tions, and ordered to be printed. for s1mdry civil expenses of t;he Government, which amendment was reported by Mr. VEST, from the Committee on Commerce, to be inAerted after the .Mr. WHITK 1 am directed by the Committee on Commerce, word " dollars," in line 12, page 80, be recalled from the Committee on App~ to whom WJ;lS referred the bill (S. 3581) to prevent the importation priations, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. .
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BILLS INTRODUCED. 3087) to in. corporate the Nationa.l Society of Colonial Dames of America, be Mr BUTLER introduced a bill (S. 3723) granting a pension to paid from the contingent fund of the Senate. Mrs. Jennie A. Kerr; which was read twice by its title, and re- PERRINE LAND-GRANT INVESTIGATION. ferred to the Committee on Pensions. . . Mr. CARTER submitted the following resolution; which was He also introduced a bill (S. 3724) for the_relief _of ~s. Jenme.A. referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Kerr, ofConcord,N. C.; which was read tWice by.1tst1tle, an4, With Expenses of the Senate: the accompanying papers, referred to the
A bill (8. 3718) to authorize the Montgomery, Hayneville and INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL. Camden Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge Mr. PETTIGREW. I move that the Senate proceed to the con aoross the Alabama River between Lower Peachtree and Prairie sideration of the Indian appropriation bill. Bluft, Alabama. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of The message also announced that the House had agreed to the the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. 10002) report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of -making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations 9647) to authorize the extension of the lines of the Metropolitan with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, Railroad Company, of the District of Columbia. and for other purposes. · · ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The pending question is upon the The message further announced that the Speaker of the House point of order raised by the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. VILAS1 had signed the enrolled bill (H. R. 6834) to prevent the purchas against the amendment of the cominittee on page_66, upon whicli ing of or speculating in claims against the Federal Government the Senator from Wisconsin is entitled to the floor. by United States officers; and it was thereupon signed by the Mr. VILAS. It is suggested, and I acquiesce in the suggestion, Vice-President. that we should save time if the Chair would decide the point of order CREVASSE IN PASS A LOUTRE. that was raised; but I should like to add a word or two, because Mr. CAFFERY submitted the following report: it was to t.he point of order to which I was generally directing The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Honses the remarks that I made yesterday. on the amendments of·the House of Representatives to the bill (S. 3614) to aid The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from Wisconsin will in the im_Provement of the navigable channel of the South J;>ass by closing the existing crevasse in Pass a Loutre in the Mississippi River, having met.z kindly restate the point of order, as probably many Senators wera after full and free conference have agreed to recommend and do recommena not present at the time it was made. - to their respective Houses as follows: - ' Mr. VILAS. The point of order is that the proposed amend That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the first amendment of the House, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: ment on p e 66 is general legislation, and is in the very teeth of After the word "Attorney-General," in line 21 of section 2, insert the fol the rule the Senate, which is, without qualification or excep lowing: "After a full hearing to both parties;" and the House agree to the tion, th "no amendment which proposes general legislation shall be rec ved to any general appropriation bill." sa*~t the Senate recede from its disagreement to the second amendment of the House amending the title, and agree to the same. Mr resident, I had made some observations yesterday in re And the House agree to the same. gar to the circumstances of the attempt to bring these very valn· D. CAFFERY, lands within the reach of claimants. Last evening I was KNUTE NELSON, Managers on the part of the Senate. m ntioning the fa-ct that the theory that there were discoverers is W. B. HOOKER, entirely unsupported, that there is no claim whatever which Con WALTER REEVES, gress ought to recognize for a moment that an equity exists in T. 0. CATCHINGS, favor of persons seeking to be placed in the light of original dis Managers on the part of the House. coverers of minerals. That point was really embraced within tha The report was concurred in. veto of President Harrison, who said, in reference to the bill then PRESIDENTIAL APPR<;>V ALS. .before him, after it had passed Congress: · A message from the President of the United States, by Mr. 0. L. The object, then, of this legislation is to be sought not in any_public demand PRUDEN, one of his secretaries, announced that the President for these lands for the use of settlers-for if they are susceptible of that use, had on the 20th instant approved and signed the joint resolution the Indians have a clear equity to take allotments upon them-but in thau S. R. 148) for the relief of farmers and truckmen in the city of part of the bill which confirms the mineral entries, or entries for mineral uses, which have been unlawfully made ~ ·or attempted to be made on said Washington, D. 0. · lands." It is evidently a· private and not a public end that is to be promoted. BILLS BECOME LAWS. It do~s not follow of course-that tJris private end may not be wholly merito rious, and the relief sought on behalf of these persons altogether just ancl The message also announced tlia.t the following bills having been proper. The facts, as I am advised, are that upon theselandsthereare veina presented to the President of the United States February 10,1897, or beds of asphahum or gilsonite, supposed to be of very great value. and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in Entries have been made in that vicinity, butuponpubliclands, which land$ which they originated within the time prescribed by the Constitu have been resold for very large amounts. It is not rmportant, perhaps, that the United States should in partin~ with these lands realize their value, bu1J tion of the United States, have become laws without his approval: it is essential, I think, that favoritism should have no part in connection with An act (S. 178) granting a pension to Betsey J. Webber; the sales. etc. ' - An act (S.14Q5) grantinganincreaseofpension to Hans Johnson; _Mr. VEST. If the Senator from Wisconsin will permit me, I An act (S. 1806) granting an increase of pension·to George B. have not read thatvetomessage for some time, but I think! remem Custer; ber very distinctly what was the ground upon which it-was based An act (S. 2126) granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Laura and sent to the Senate. The ground upon which President Harri- - A. Nelson; - son vetoed the bill to which the Senator alludes was that the An act (S. 2347) for the relief of Laura C. Dodge; and entries were unla~fully made because they were on an Indian res An act (S. 2913) granting an increase of pension to Nettie A. ervation, and not on the ground that they were not mineral dis Cheeks. - coveries. That bill was urged by the Senator from Colorado [Mr. METROPOLITAN RAILROAD COMPANY. TELLER], and the point in the case was that certain citizens of Mr. McMILLAN submitted the following report: Colorado claimed to have made these entries upon public lands, The oommittee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. -R. 96!7) to authorize the exten and President Harrison came to the conclusion that they were not sion of the Metropolitan_Railroad Company of the District of Columbia, hav public lands, bu~ that the entries were made unlaWfully upon an ing met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend and do Indian reservation. recommend to their respective Houses as follows: ill~gal That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the Mr. VILAS. There is nodoubt.atall thattheentrieswere Senate and agree to the same amended so that the bill shall read as follows: for that reason. I have here a report by the Commissioner of the Be it' enacted, etc., 'l'hat that the Metropolitan Railroad Company be, and it Land Office, Hon. Thomas H. Carter, now an honored member of is herebv, authorized and require~ wit~ six months from· the ~te <:>f the the Senate, in which he sets forth the facts in relation to it*under ~pprova.1 of this act to extend the lines of Its underground, electriC railroad from the intersection of Connecticut and Florida avenues northward along date of the 12th of April, 1892, which perhaps I had better send up Columbia road to a point on the west line of Eighteenth street extended: Pro and have read, together with the report of the Acting Secretary of vided 'l'hat the said company is hereby author~ed to issue and sell such an the Interior upon it. • amo~t of its capital stock as will, at the market value thereof, cover the cost of construction and equipment of the extension herein provided for. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Seqretarywill read as requested. - JAMES McMILLAN, The Secretary read as follows: J. H. GALLINGER, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND 0FFIOE, CHAS. J. FAULKNER, Washington, D. C., AprillS, 1892. Managers on the pa1-t of the Senate. SIR: I have the honor to ackn.owledge the receipt of a letter from the Hon. J. W. BABCOCK, WILLIAM F. VILAS, United States Senate, which you referred tothisofficefor G. M. CURTIS, report. · - · JAMES D. RICHARDSON, The Senator's letter relates to the White River, Kansas City, Joseph A. Managers on the part of the Hcn.J,Se. Thatcher, Scorpion, Lucky Boy, Leavenworth, Cow Bo_y, Dixie, Bandanna, The report was concurred in. Archie, Davy Crockett, Plumed Knight, Raffie, Black Jack, Wasatch, New York, Lorna Doone, Eureka. Colorow, Frying Pan, Utah, Mary Me., and Ourar, CAPTURE OF THE COMPETITOR. lode claims, located in August, 1888, and said to bear "albertite or fPlsonite. ' The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the following From the description furnished, the exact geographical position of said claims can not be determined, nor can they be definitely located upon any message from the President of the United States; which was read, map, plat, or diagram in this office; they are, however, in Uinta County, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee Utah, and within the Uncompahgre Ute lildian Reservation. on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed: This reservation was established by Executive order dated January 5, 1882, under act of Congress approved June 15,1880 (21 U.S. Stats., 199). To the Senate: -Although the land within this reservation is in a certain sense public land, I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution_ of the Senate of Febru yet. in view of said act and order\I am of the opinion that the attempt to locate --ary 6 1897, a report from the Secretary of State in regard to the persons the claims_above mentioned unaer the mining land laws was unwarranted cla.imlng American citizenship captured on board of the Co11Jp~itor. and illegal. GROVER CLEVELAND. Said attem_pted locations being, in my judgment, without any warrant in .Erli:OUTIVE MANSION, the lawii fail to see that these locators could acquire any rights, legal or Wa8hington, February ~tJ,1897. equitab e, as locators or discoverers by reason of such locations, or by reasca 1897~ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE. 2125
of having notices thereof recorded in the office ·of the recorder of Uinta hundred and ninetieth milepost, if my memory serves me as to the number County, Utah. of the post of said reservation. This post was conspicuously placed on a I have been unable to find in any standard work on mineralogy any au knoll or hill, and was a high rock monument, marked with cuts in one of th~ thority for designating any mineral substance as "gilsonite," but from infor large rocks. I then began tracing the east line of the reservation toward the mation r eceived I am led to t hink that that term has come into use as descrip south and north and readily found other rock monuments conspicuously tive of a fine quality of asphalt um, dealt in by the Gilson Asphaltum Com placed and marked on said line, all of said monuments identifying said line . pany of St. Louis, Mo., with agencies in London and Hamburg. as the boundary line between Colorado and U tah. - · In the Century Dictionary I find "albert ite" to be defined as being a I then saw that my mining claim and the lode throughout its entire extent hydrocarbon, pitchlike in appeara nce, and related to asphaltum, but not so aforesaid was within the limits and b oundaries of said reservation. If any fusible nor so soluble in benzine or ether. It is used in the manufacture of person at that time had taken the trouble to make an ordinary search or any illuminating gas and of illuminating and lubricating oils. kind of a search whatever for the boundaries of said reservation} such person It might be held that public land valuable on account of its deposits of could not help finding the east boundary line aforesaid as r eadi y and easily "albertite" would be subject to entry under the mineral-land laws, but I ~I did. Shortly after this a man, then lately from Iowa. and in the employ am unable to refer you to any decision specifically in point. of the United States, but entirely unaccustomed to this Western country (as The Senator's letter and inclosure are herewith returned. the plaee in question is), W€'nt to eject from said reservation certain persons Very respectfully, then alleged to be trespassing thereupon, and at that time, without help or THOS. H. CARTER, Commissioner. assistance, he readily found the monuments aforesaid and other monuments, The honorable SECRETA..RY OF THE iNTERIOR. and determined therefrom the boundary of said reservation. M~ location was made in the utmost good faith and ~as the first and original location on the ground and on the lode aforesaid, and It covered substantially DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, Apri l18, 1892. t~es~e.pre~esand portion of. said lode em~raced ~said alle~ed Evacua • SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication tion mmrng clarm. On ascertainmg that my srud location was Within thP. res of 30th nltimo and accompanying printed copy of certain alleged notices of ~rv