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SENATE. of the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church of North Elba; of sundry citizens of Northfield; of the congregation of the TUESDAY, November 17, 1903. Methodist Episcopal Church of Chazy; of sundry citizens of Islip; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Islip; of the Prayer by Rev. F. J. PRETTYMAN, of the city of Washington. congregation of the Sixth A venue Baptist Church, of Troy; of ANSELM J. McLAURIN, a Senator from the State of Mississippi; the congregation of the Third A venue Church of Christ, of Troy; JosEPH H. Ml::LLA.Rn, a Senator from the State of Nebraska., and of the congregation of the Memorial Baptist Church, of Troy; of JAMES P. TALIAFERRO, a Senator from the State of Florida, ap- the congregation of the Grace Methodist Church, of Troy; of the peared in their seats to-day. . congregation of ·the English Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, · The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of yesterday's pro of Troy; of the Young Men's Christian Association of Troy; of ceedings, when, on request of Mr. BuRRows, and by unanimous the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Troy; of the Chris consent, the further reading was dispensed with. tian Endeavor Society of Jasper; of the Woman's Home and For The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there be no objection, the eign Missionary Society of Seneca Castle; of the congregation of Jom·nal will stand approved. The Chair hears none. It is ap the First Presbyterian Church of Arkport; of the congregations proved. of the Methodist Episcopal churches and Woman's Christian Tem MIDWA. Y ISLANDS. perance Union of Jasper; of the Woman's Christian Temperance The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com Union of Union Springs; of the Woman's Christian Temperance munication from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a copy Union of Bay Shore; of the Woman's Branch of the City Missions of a letter from Mr. George G. Ward, vice-president and general of Brooklyn; of sundry citizens of Islip; of the congregation of manager of the Commercial Pacific Cable Company, requesting the Methodist Episcopal Church of Smithtown; of the Woman's the enactment of certain legislation for the relief of the conditions Christian Temperance Union of Smithtown; of the congregation in the Midway Islands by providing appropriations for the estab of the First Congregational Church of Bay Shore; of the con lishment of a suitable harbor, buoys, and light-house; for the con gregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Islip; of the struction of landing facilities, and for the establishment of ma Presbytery of Brooklyn; of sundry citiz·ens of Brooklyn; of the rines or other guards to maintain order and enforce the laws at Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of Brooklyn; of that place; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to sundry citizens of Northport; of the Woman's Christian Temper the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. ance Union of Syracuse; of the congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Montgomery; of the Woman's Christian Temperance PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. Union of Montgomery; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Mr. BURROWS presented a petition of the Michigan Hay Union of Troy; of sundry citizens of Grnmville; of the congrega Association, of Owosso, Mich., and a petition of the National Hay tion of the Geddes Congregational Church, of Syracuse; of the Association, of Detroit, Mich., praying for the enactment of legis Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Syracuse; of the lation to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commis Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Lawrence; of the con sion; which were referred to the Committee on Interstate Com gregation of the University Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, merce. of Syracuse; of the congregation of the Olivet Baptist Church, of He also presented the memorial of George F. Dimond. president Syracuse; of the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the Michigan Hay Dealers' Association, of Mayville, Mich., of Stamford; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of remonstrating against the enactment of legislation to enlarge the Auburn; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Still powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission; which was water; of the Young Men's Christian Association of Rochester; referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Plattekill; of the He also presented petitions of the Epworth League of Hender Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Port Jervis; of the con son, of the Temperance Alliance of Henderson, of sundry citizens gregation of the Firs~ Presbyterian Church of Williamson; of the of West Bay City, of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Epworth League of Stamford; of the congregation of the First of Henderson, and of sundry citizens of Douglas, all in the State German Baptist Church of Rochester; of theWoman's Christian of Michigan, praying for an investigation of the charges made Temperance Union of Fort Plain; of the Woman's Christian and filed against Ron. REED SMOOT, a Senator from the State of Temperance Union of Cohocton; of theYoung Woman's Christian Utah; which were referred to the Committee on Privileges and Temperance Union of Sandy Hill; of sundry citizens of Mount Elections. . Vernon; of the congregation of the New York Presbyterian Mr. PENROSE presented petitions of the congregation of the Church, of New York City; of the congregation of the Methodist United Presbyterian Church of Bellevue; of the Woman's Chris Episcopal Church of Cohocton; of the Woman's Christian Tem tian Temperance Union of Newville; of the congregation of the perance Union of Horseheads; of the congregation of the Pres South A venue Methodist Episcopal Church, of Wilkinsburg; of byterian Church of Cohocton; of the Christian Endeavor Society the congregation of the Christian Church of Bellevue; of the con of Atlanta; of sundry citizens of New York City; of the congrega gregation of the Episcopal Church of Bellevue; of the congrega tion of the Baptist Church of Pulaski; of the Woman's Christian tion of the Methodist Protestant Church of Bellevue; of the con Temperance Union of Pulaski;· of the congregation of the Congre gregation of the Presbyterian Church of Bellevue; of the United gational Church of Pulaski; of the congregation of the Baptist Presbyterian Seminary, of Allegheny; of the congregation of the Church of Rochester; of the congregation of the Methodist Protes Methodist Episcopal Church of Bellevue; of ClassE, Organization tant Church of Gerry; of sundry citizens of Stamford; of the con- of the Patterson Memorial Presbyterian Sunday School, of Phila gregation of the ·Free Baptist Church of Horseheads; of the delphia; of sundry citizens qf Philadelphia; of the Evangelical As Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of Hornellsville; sociation of Rochester; of sundry citizens of Morris Run; of the con of the congregation of the Brighton Heights Reformed Church, of gregation of the Evangelical Church of Connellsville; of sundry New Brighton; of the Brighton Heights Young People's Society of citizens of Somerton; of the congregation of the First Luther.an Christian Endeavor, of New York City; of sundry citizensof New Church of Altoona; of the Woman's Missionary Society of Con Brighton; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Hope nellsville; of the Prohibition Alliance of Meadville; of the session well; of the Woman's Synodical Society of Hudson; of sundry citi of the First Presbyterian Church of Shenandoah; of the congre zens of Verona; of sundry citizensofHornellsville; of sundry citi gation of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Mahanoy City; zens of Arkport; of the congregation of the First Presbyterian of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Reedsville; of Church of Wolcott; of the congregation of the First Presbyterian the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Cochranville; of the Church of Waterloo; of the Christian Endeavor Society of the Bap congregation of the United Evangelical Church of Milton; of tist Church of Esperance; of the Woman's Christian Temperance the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Lake Pleasant; of Union of Flycreek; of the congregation of the Methodist Epis the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor of Oxford, copal Church of Sherman; of sundry citizens of New York City; and of sundry citizens of Milesburg, all in the State of Pennsyl of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Seneca; of the· vania, praying for an investigation of the charges made and filed EpwoTth League of New York City; of the congregation of against Hon. REED SMOOT, a Senator from the State of Utah; St. James Church, of New York City; of the Woman's Cluistian which were referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Temperance Union of Oneida County; of the Woman's Christian Mr. DEPEW presented petitions of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Rockland County; of the Ladies' Aid Soci Temperance Union of Berlin; of the Epworth League of Mount ety of the Lenox Church, of New York City; of the Woman's Vernon; of the congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Broad Christian Temperance Union of Hobart; of sundry citizens of albin; of the East Wayne Christian Endeavor Union, of Wayne Rockland County; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union County; of the congregation of the Baptist Church of Findley of Rochester; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Lake; of sundry citizens of Arkport; of the Woman's Christian ·Buffalo; of the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church Temperance Union of Mina; of the Woman's Missionary Society of Tyrone: of the Pro~ibition Alliance of Perry; of the Ries Park of Westchester; of the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Baptist Mission, of Rochester; of sundry citizens of Otsego; of the Church of Williamson; of the Christian Endeavor Society of Syra congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Bedford; of cuse; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of North Elba; the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Madison County; of 288 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. NOVEMBER 17, the Mount Kisco Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of Bed aware, praying for an investigation of the charges made and filed ford; of the E. F. Lord Union Woman's Christian Temper~ce against Hon. REED SMOOT, a Senator from the State of Utah; Union, of New York City; of the Woman's Missionary Society of which were referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Buffalo; of the Woman's Missionary Society of Katonah; of sun Mr. FULTON presented a petition of the Woman's Christhn dry citizens of Patterson; of the congregation of the First Pres Temperance Union, the Youp.g People's Society of Christian En byterian Church of Waterloo; of the Woman's Missionary Society deavor, and of the Sunday school of the Friends Church of Salem, of the Westchest-er Presbytery; of the congregation of the Baptist Oreg., praying for an investigation of the charges made and fil ed Church of North Salem; of the Woman's Christian Temnerance against Hon. REED SMOOT, a Senator from the State of Utah; Union of Seneca; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of which was referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Fort Edward; of the congregation of the Baptist Church of Can Mr. BARD presented a petition of General George A. Custer isteo; of the congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Canisteo; Council, No. 22, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, of of the Independent Order of Good Templars of Orleans; of the Oakland, Cal., praying for the enactment of legislation to restrict Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Perry; of sundry citi immigration; which was referred to the Committee on Immigra zens of West Galway; of sundry citizens of Thiells; of sundry tion. citizens of Southeast; of the Presbyterian Church of Yorktown; Mr. COCKRELL. I present an address to Congress auopted by of theWoman's Missionary Society of Yorktown; of theWoman's the National Convention of Insurance Commif5sioners, held at Christian Temperance Union of Kendall; of the First Methodist Baltimore, desiring to bring to the attention of Congress cert:tin Episcopal Church of Kanona; of the Epworth League of Fly matters, and also a letter addressed to me from the insurance Creek; of the King's Daughters Circle of the Lenox Presbyterian commissioner of the St.ate of Missouri. It is in regard to the get Church, of New York City; of the congregation of the Lake rich-quick companies-fraudulent companies in the United States, A venue Baptist Church, of Rochester: of theWoman's Missionary and postal facilities that are afforded them in some instances. I Society of the Lenox Presbyterian Church, of New York City; move that the papers be pli.nted as a document and referred to of the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Mont the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads for their consider gomery; of the congreg-ation of the First Presbyterian Church ation. of Mount Vernon; of the Society of Friends of Milton; of the The motion was agreed to. Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Mount Vernon; of sun Mr. FAIRBANKS presented a petition of Local Union No. 39\l, dry citizens of Mount Vem.on; of the Young People's Society of Cigar Makers' International Union, of Vincennes, Ind., praying for Christian Endeavor of Stamford; of sundry citizens of Pough the enactment of legislation providing for a reduction of 20 par keepsie; of the congregation of the First Baptist Church of West cent on all goods coming from Cuba; which was referred to the field; of sundry citizens of Redlands; of the Woman's Christian Committee on Finance. Temperance Union of Cohocton; of the congregation of the First He also presented a petition of Local Union No. 19, Interna Baptist Church of Walworth; of the congregation of the Congi·e tional Printing Pressmen's Union, of Fort Wayne, Ind., praying gational Church of Gasport; of the Society of Christian Endeavor for the passage of the so-called eight-hour bill; which was re of the Baptist Church of Christ, of Poughkeepsie; of the Young ferred to the Committee on Education and Labor. People's Society of Christian Endeavor of Poughkeepsie; of the He also presented a petition of Local Union No. 19, Interna Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Westerleigh; of the tional Printing Pressmen's Union, of Fort Wayne, Ind.. praying Christian Endeavor Society of Clinton; of the Woman's Christian for the passage of the so-called Hoar anti-injunction bill; which Temperance Union of Carmel; of sundry citizens of Stamford, was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. and of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Richmond Mr. TELLER. I present sundry petitions from citizens of Colo County, all in the State of New York, praying for an investiga rado, praying that there may be an investigation of the right of tion of the charges made and filed against Hon. REED SMOOT, a Senator SMOOT, of Utah, to a seat in the Senate. I wish to say Senator from the State of Utah; which were refen-ed to the that I have examined these petitions and none of them ask for his Committee on Privileges and Elections. expulsion. They simply ask that the Senate will inquire whether Mr. FOSTER of Washington pr~sented a petition of the Atlas he is a polygamist and living in violation of the statutes of the Lumber and Shingle Company, of Seattle, Wash., praying for United States, and, if such shall be the fact, that he may be ex the enactment of legislation to enlarge the powers of the Inter pelled. state Commerce Commission; which was referred to the Commit The PRESIDENT pro t€mpore. The petitions will be referred tee on Interstate Commerce. to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. He also presented a petition of Local Union No. 71, Journey Mr. QUAY presented petitions of the congregation of the First men Tailors' Union of America, of Seattle, Wash., praying for Presbyterian Church of Milton; of the congregation of theRe the passage of the so-called Hoar anti-injunction bill; which was formed Presbyterian Church of Wilkinson; of the congregation referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. of the St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Newville; of the He also presented a petition of Local Union No. 71, Journey congregation of the Third Presbyterian Church of Washington; of men Tailors' Union of America, of Seattle, Wash., praying for the Young Ladies' Missionary Society of the Third Presbyterian the passage of the so-called eight-hour bill; which was referred Church of Washington; of the Young People's Society of Chris to the Committee on Education and Labor. tian Endeavor of Washington; of the Woman's Missionary So He also presented a petition of the United Presbyterian Church ciety of the Third Presbyterian Church of Washington; of the of Mount Vernon, Wash., and a petition of the Woman's Chris congregation of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Sheri tian Temperance Union of Columbia, Wash., praying for an in danville; of the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church of vestigation of the charges made and filed against Hon. REED Monaca; of the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church of s~ooT , a Senator from the State of Utah; which were referred'o Sheli.danville; of the Young People's Society of Christian En the Committee on Privileges and Elections. deavor of Sheridanville; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Mr. DRYDEN presented petitions of the congregation of the U }lion of Sheridanville; of the congregation of the First Reformed Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, of Camden; of the Frances Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg; of the congregation of the Willard Union of Camden; of the congregation of the Calvary First. Methodist Episcopal Church of Vandling, and of the con Methodist Protestant Church, of Camden, and of the cong1·egation gregation of the Big Spring Presbyterian Church, of Newville; all of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, of Camden, all in the in the State of Pennsylvania, praying for an investigation of the State of New Jersey, praying for an investigation of the charges charges made and filed against Hon. REED SMOOT, a Senator from made and filed against Hon. REED SMOOT, a Senator from the the State of Utah; which were referred to the Committee on State of Utah; which were referred to the Committee on Privi Privileges and Elections. leges and Elections. Mr. PLATT of New York presented petitions of the Ladies' Mr. BALL presented petitions of the Woman's Christian Tem Missionary Society of the First and Second Presbyterian churches perance Union of Camden and Wyoming; of the Woman's Chris of Peekskill, of sundry citizens of Berlin, of sundry citizens of tian Temperance Union of Newcastle; of the congregation of the Dobbs Ferry, of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Methodist Episcopal Chm·ch of Wyoming; of the congregation of Binghamton, of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Camden; of the congregation Islip, of the Presbyterian Young People's Society of Christiap. of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, of Wilmington; of the Endeavor of AI·sport, of the Woman's Christian Temperance Sunday School Association of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Union of West New Brighton, of the Woman's Christian Tem Church, of Wilmington; of the Young Woman's Christian Tem perance U cion of Shawangunk, of the Woman's Home and Foreign perance Union of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, of Wil Missionary Society of the Presbytery of Geneva, and of the con mington; of the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church gregation of the Friends Church of Union Springs, all in the of Marshallton; of the Good Templars of Marshallton; of the State of New York, praying for an examination of the charges Knights of Pythias of Marshallton; of the Knights of the Golden made and filed against Hon. REED SMOOT, a Senator from the Eagle of Marshallton; of the Degree of Honor of Marshallton; of State of Utah; which were referred to the Committee on Privi the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Dover, and of Capital leges and Elections. Grange, Pat1·ons of Husbandry, of Dover, all in the State of Del- Mr. McCUMBE.R presented the memorial of Adam Sprafka 1903. CQNGRESSIO;N·AL- ~ECORD-SENAT;E. 289
and sundry citizens of Minto, N.Dak., remonstrating against the more a collfDl].ttee was appointed to prepare a bill .and a memorial passage of the so-called parcels-post bill; which was referred to to Congress for the purpose of preventing the use of-the mails by the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. · ~ra:g.dulent _i~surance comp~es. · _. Mr. FRYEpresentedapetitionof the Economic Club, of Wash I wish to..make it distinctly clear that this bill and the memo ington, D. C., praying for the reorganization 'of ·the Bureau of rial were not-prepared· by orin theinterest of any company oTset Labor; which was referred to the Committee on Education and o~ ~ompa~ies or fo~ ~ny .system of insurance, but the commit~e Labor. · - · · of that convlmtion, in which were represented twenty-nine Sta~s BILLS--INTR-ODOOED. of th~ Union, 1ma which speaks for the officials of the Tcnious in surance departments! prepared the bill and memorial. The col!l Mr. PLATT of Connecticut introduced a bill (S.1238)-gr;:mting mittee consisted of· the insurance commissioners of the State of an incTease of pension to .Sar~h V. Rearic~; w!t:igQ._w~. ~ead_twice Tennes8ee·, the.State.:..of Michigan, the State of rn·diana,
He also introduced a bill (S. 1285) to correct the military rec dent or the head or any Department relating to any matter pending in the Senate, the proceedingS in regard to which are secret or confidential und!}r ord of William Harper; which was read twice by its title, and, the rules, said documents and papers shall be considered as confidential and with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on shall not be disclosed without leave of the Sanate." Military Affah·s. · Mr. HOAR. I move that the proposed amendment be referred He also introduced a bill (S. 1286) for the relief of the Old Do to the Committee on Rules. minion Granite Company; which was read twice by its title, and Mr. BAILEY. Mr. President- referred to the Committee on Claims. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Massachu Mr. PROCTOR introduced a bill (S. 1287) to establish the setts moves that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Fredericksburg and Adjacent National Battlefields Memorial Park Rules. The Senator from Texas. in the State of Virginia; which was read twice by its title, and Mr. BAILEY. I simply desired to know what the motion was. referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. I could not hear it. The Chair h2.s stated it. It is all right. Mr. TELLER introduced the following bills; which were sev The motion was agreed to. · erally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on Pensions: EXECUTIVE SESSION. A bill (S. 1288) granting a pension to John F. Kline; Mr. HALE. If there is no further morning business, I move A bill (S. 1289) granting a pension to Andrew J. McWade; that the Senate adjourn. A bill (S. 12UO) granting a pension to Thomas Madden; Mr. PENROSE. There are a number of nominations which I A bill (S. 1291) granting a pension to John G. B. Masters; should like to report to the Senate from the Committee on Post A bill (S. 1292) granting a pension to :Maria L. Meserve; Offices and Post-Roads. A bill (S. 1293) granting a pension to Thomas M. Moore; Mr. HALE. Then I will change the motion, or the Senator A bill (S. 1294) granting a pension to Archie Nunnelly; from Pennsylvania can make it. A bill (S. 1295) granting a pension to Morgan O'Brien; Mr. PENROSE. Very well. I move that the Senate proceed A bill (S. 1296) granting a pension to John E. Page; to the consideration of executive business. A bill (S. 1297) granting a pension to Luther B. Paxon; The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Maine A bill (S. 1298) granting a pension to Robert N. Pollock; withdraw his motion? A bill (S. 1299) granting a pension to John M. Reimer; Mr. HALE. I withdraw the motion. A bill (S. 1300) granting a pension to Milton Reynolds; The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing A bill (S. 1301) granting a pension to Thomas B. Roark; to the motion of the Senator from Pennsylvania. A bill (S. 1302) granting a pension to 0. Gustave Roedel; The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the con A bill (S. 1303) granting a pension to Mary P. Scovel; sideration of executive business. After twenty minutes spent in A bill (S. 1304) granting a pension to Upton T. Smith; executive session the doors were reopened, and (at 12 o'clock and A bill (S. 1305) granting a pension to Henry Stutsman; 40 minutes p.m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Wednes A bill (S. 1306) granting a pension to John D. Thomas; day, November 18, 1903, at 12 o'clock m. A bill (S. 1307) granting a pension to William C. Thoms; A bill (S. 1308) granting a pension to Thomas Tobens; CONFIRMATIONS. A bill (S. 1309) granting a pension to Daniel L. Tracy; A bill (S. 1310) granting a pension to Ella C. Tupper; Execmtive nominations confirmed by the Senate November 17, 1903. A bill (S. 1311) granting a pension to Henry Wagner; ASSISTANT ATTORNEY-G ENERAL. A bill (S. 1312) granting a pension to Jacob D. Walter; James C. McReynolds, of Tennessee, to be Assistant Attorney A bill (S. 1313) granting a pension to George R. Warner; General. A bill (S. 1314) granting a pension to Reuben B. Weiser; A bill (S. 1315) granting a pension to George W. Williford; .ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.. A bill (S. 1316) granting a pension to Aaron Wood; and Daniel Thew Wright, of Ohio, to be associate justice of the A bill (S. 1317) granting a pension to Henry A. F. Worth. supreme court of the District of Columbia. Mr. TELLER introduced a bill (S. 1318) removing the charge of desertion from the name of Frank A. Land: which was read CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER. twice by its title, and referred to the Commlttee on Military Alford Warriner Cooley, of New York, to be a Civil Service Affairs. Commissioner. Mr. PETTUS introduced a bill (S. 1319) authorizing Robert A. CHIEF EX.A.MINER, CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIO~, Chapman, of Alabama, his associates and assigns, to use the wa Frank M. Kiggins, of Tennessee, to be chief examiner of the ters of the Coosa River, in Alabama, for the purpose of generat Civil Service Commission. . ing elect1·icity; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF CORPORATIO~S . Mr. FRYE introduced a bill (S. 1320) to provide for the pur Herbert Knox Smith, of Hartford, Conn., to be deputy com chase of a site and the erection of a building thereon at Auburn, missioner of corporations in the Department of Commerce and in the State of Maine; which was read twice by its title, and re Labor. ferred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS. TREATIES, LA.WS, ETC., RELATING TO INDIAN AFFAIRS. David M. Little, of Massachusetts, to be collector of customs Mr. STEWART submitted the following concurrent resolution; for the district of Salem and Beverly, in the State of Massachu which was referred to the Committee on Printing: setts. Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That TERRITORIAL .ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. there be printed and bound 3,000 copies of Senate Document No. 452 Fifty seventh Congress, first session, entitled "Treaties, Laws, Executive Orders, William H. Pope, of New Mexico, to be associate justice of the etc., relating to Indian Affairs," as revised, :n> of which shall be for the u..c::e supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico. of the Senate, 800 for the House of Representatives, ax> for the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 50 fo1· the House Committee on Indian Affairs, 50 for the SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, PHILIPPINE ISLAI\TDS. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and the remaining 1,100 shall be sold by E. Finley Jonnson, of Michigan, to be an associate justice of the the superintendent of documents. supreme court of the Philippine Islands, provided for in the act of DEL.A. WARE RIVER IMPROVEMENT. Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled "An act temporarily to Mr. KEAN submitted the following concurrent resolution; provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.'' Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep?-esentatives concurring), That the Secretary of War bel. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a CIRCUIT JUDGE. survey to be made or the Delaware River between Trenton, N.J., and Phila William C. Hook, of Kansas, now serving as United States dis delphia, Pa., with a vi.ew to deepening the channel to 17 feet, and to submit an estimate of the cost at the earliest date practicable. . trict judge for the district of Kansas, to be United States circuit judge for the eighth judicial cil·cuit. CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS AND PAPERS. The PRESIDEN'l, pro tempore. The Chair lays before the CONSUL-GENERAL. Senate the resolution offered by the Senator from Massachusetts John G. Foster, of Vermont, to be consul-general of the United [Mr. HoAR] proposing an amendment to the ruies. It will be States at Ottawa, Canada. read. CONSULS. The Secretary read the resolution submitted yesterday by Mr. Luther T. Ellsworth, of Ohio, to be consul of the United States HoAR, as follows: at Cartagena, Colombia. An amendment intended to be proposed to Rule XXXVI of the Senate. Christopher H. Payne, of West Virginia, to be consul of the Resolved, That the rules of the Senate be amended by adding at the end United States at St. Thomas, West Indies. of Rule XXXVI the following: "V. Whenever by the request of the Senate, or any committee thereof, Alfred L. M. Gottschalk, of New York, to be consul of the any documents or papers shall be communicated to the Senate by the Presi- United States at Callao, Peru. 1903. OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 291
Charles N. Daniels, of Connecticut, to be consul of the United Levi 0. Chittenden to be postmaster at Guilford, in the county States at Sheffield, England. of New Haven and State of Connecticut. Pierre Paul Demers, of New Hampshire, to be consul of the Billions C. Hall to be postmaster at Union City, in the county United States at Port Limon, Costa Rica. of New Haven and State of Connecticut. Edward Higgins, of Massachusetts, to be consul of the United Frank A. Heffion to be postmaster at Deep River, in the county States at Berne, Switzerland. of Middlesex and State of Connecticut. Urbain J. Ledoux, of Maine, to be consul of the United States James R. Meigs to be postmaster at Madison, in the county of at Prague, Austria. New Haven and State of Connecticut. UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS. Jacob Widmer to be po"'tmaster at New Hartford, in the county Sherman T. McPherson, of Ohio, to be attorney of the United of Litchfield and State of Connecticut. States for the southern district of Ohio. DELAwARE. John P. Nields, of Delaware, to be attorney of the United CarrollS. Fisher to be postmaster at Wyoming, in the county States for the district of Delaware. of Kent and State of Delaware. PROMOTIONS IN THE REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE. John P. Steward to be postmaster at Milford, in the county of Kent and State of Delaware. First Lieut. Howard M. Broadbent to be a captain in the Rev- GEORGIA. enue-Cutter Service of the United States. First Lieut. FTancis M. Dunwoody to be a captain in the Rev- Cicero C. Alexander to be postmaster at Commerce, late Hn.r- enue-Cutter Service of the United States. mony Grove, in the county of Jackson and State of Georgia. First Lieut. Howard Emery to be a captain in the Revenue- Sarah J. Anthony to be postmaster at Shellman, in the county Cutter Service of the United States. of Randolph and State of Georgia. First Lieut. Daniel P. Foley to be a captain in the Revenue- William 0. Bagwell to be postmaster at Lytle, in the county of Cutter Service of the United States. Walker and State of Georgia. Second Lieut. John G. Berry to be a first lieutenant in the Rev- William 0. De Loache to be postmaster at Talbotton. in the enue-Cutter Service of the United States. county of Talbot and State of Georgia. . · Second Lieut. Claude S. Cochran to be a first lieutenant in the Anna P. Grimsley to be postmaster at Cochran, in the county Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States. of Pulaski and State of Georgia. Second Lieut. Colin S. Craig to be a first lieutenant in the Rev- Charles E. Murphy to be postmaster at Waycross, in the county enue-Cutter Service of the United States. of Ware and State of Georgia. Second Lieut. Samuel P. Edmonds to be a first lieutenant in the HAWAII. Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States. Vetle A. Vetlesen to be postmaster at Wailuku, Maui Island, Third Lieut. John Boedeker to be a second lieutenant in the Hawaii. Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States. Mabel R. Woods to be postmaster at Kohala, in the Territory APPO:lliTME~TS IN MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE. of Hawaii, ILLINOIS. George L. Collins, of Massachusetts, to be an assistant surgeon F nk M c b in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United ra · auger to e postmaster at Granite City (late Gran- States. ite), in the county of Madison and State of Illinois. Edward Maples Steger, of Texas, to be an assistant surgeon in William A. Collins to be postmaster at Western Springs, in the county of Cook and State of tllinois. the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United Albert s. Corl to be postmaster at Nunda, in the county of States. Harvey G. Ebert, of Washington, to be an assistant surgeon in McHenry and State of lllinois. the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United CharlesA. GregorytobepostmasteratLovington,inthecounty States. of Moultrie and State of illinois. William M. Wightman, of California, to be an assistant sur- Herman F. Middendorf to be postmaster at Chester, in the county of Randolph and State of illinois. geo!l in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the Frederick w. Morrison to be postmaster at Berwyn, in the Umted States. county of Cook and State of Illinois . • M.A.RSH.A.LS. • j Frank Morrell to be postmaster at Pawnee, in the county of Henry .W .. Mayo, o~ Marne, to be marshal of the U~ted States Sangamon and State of lllinois. for the distnct o~ Marne. . John S. Nicholson to be postmaster at Beardstown, in the Horace W. B.ail~y, of Vermont, to be marshal of the Umted county of Cass and State of Illinois. States for the district of Vermont. Frederick W. Obermillerto be postmaster at Mount Pulaski in POSTMASTERS. the county of Logan and State of lllinois. ' .AL.A.SKA.. Frank L. Paine to be postmaster at Xenia, in the county of E. J. Brooks to be postmaster at Juneau, in the Territory of Clay and State of Illinois. Alaska. John F. Regan to be postmaster at Mount Sterling in the ARIZONA. county of Brown and State of illinois. ' Fred E. Cadwell to be postmaster at Douglas, in the county of George E. Swanson to be postmaster at Woodhull, in the Cochise and Territory of Arizona. . county of Henry and State of lllinois. • ARKANSAs. Allen H. Webster to be postmaster at Cuba, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois. Arthur Deland to be postmaster at Black Rock, in the county George E. Wiedman to be postmaster at Zion City, in the of Lawrence and State of Arkansas. county of Lake and State of Illinois. James A. Maxwell to be postmaster at Lake Village, in the John Yost to be postmaster at Eldorado, in the county of Saline county of Chicot and State of Arkansas. d s t f lllin be 0 Mary J. Smith to postmaster at Lewisville (late New Lewis- an ta e ois. INDI.A.NA. ville), in the county of Lafayette and State of Arkansas. John Perry to be postmaster at Kramer, in the county of War CALIFORNIA. ren and State of Indiana. Roy R. Giffen to be postmaster at Fowler, in the county of Thl>IAN TERRITORY. Fresno and State of California. Samuel W. Metcalf to be postmaster at Sisson, in the county of John E. Bruin to be postmaster at Bristow, in the Cherokee Siskiyou and State of California. Nation, Ind. T. Catherine T. Ryan to be postmaster at Gilroy, in the county of Harland J. Butler to .be postmaster at Miami, in the Ottawa Santa Clara and State of California. Nation, Ind. T. Nels A. Thompson to be postmaster at Newman, in the county Philip K. Connaway to be postmaster at Minco, in the Chicka of.Stanislaus and State of California. saw Nation, Ind. T. Daniel R. Trout to be postmaster at Boulder Creek, in the county Charles J.Lane to be postmaster at McAlester, in the Choctaw of Santa Cruz and State of California. Nation, Ind. T. George Watterson to be postmaster at Bishop, in the county of Arthur I. Morgan to be postmaster at Bartlesville, in the Chero Inyo and State of California. kee Nation, Ind. T. William F. Wulf to be postmaster at Crescent City, in the Enoch Needham to be postmaster at Hugo, in the Choctaw N a county of Del Norte and State of California. tion, Ind. T. John A. Porter to be postmaster at Tishomingo, in Chickasaw COID."'ECTICUT. Nation and Indian Territory. John A. Ayer to be postmaster at Saybrook, in the county of Flavyous J. Sullivan to be postmaster at Pryor Creek in the Middlesex and State of Connecticut. Cherokee Nation, Ind. T, ' 292 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. NoVEMBER 17-,
IOWA. Frank Wyman to be postmaster at St. Louis, in the county of Charles H. Austin to be postmaster at Lineville, in the county St. Louis and State of Mjssouri. of Wayne and State of Iowa. MONTANA. James Beard to be postmaster at Mount Ayr, in the county of Lewis Coleman to be postmaster at Deer Lodge, in the county Ringgold and State of Iowa. of Powell and State of Montana. Alonzo Bryson to be postmaster at Davenport, in the county of Clarence R: Lane to be postmaster at Forsyth, in the county of Scott and State·of Iowa. Rosebud and State of Montana. Alice M. ·Davis to be postmaster at Bonaparte, in the county of John R. Stout to be postmaster at Glendive, in t~e county of Van Buren and State of Iowa. Dawson and State of Montana. Walter Gillrup to be postmaster at Northwood, in the county of Worth and State of Iowa. NEVADA. Henry P. Gow to be postmaster at Greenfield, in the county of Herman C. Sommer to be postmaster at Lovelocks, in the county Adair and State of Iowa. of Humboldt and State of Nevada. Nathan 0. Hickenlooper to be postmaster at Blockton, in the NEW HAMPSHIRE. county of Taylor r..nd State of Iowa. · Andrew J. Hook to be postmaster at Warner, in the county of J. J. Marsh to be postmaster at Decorah, in the county of Win Men-imac and State of New Hampshire. neshiek and State of Iowa. Forrest E. Page to be postmaster at Raymond, in the county of Minnie A. Muhs to be postmaster at Akron, in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire. Plymouth and State of Iowa. . NEW MEXICO. PeterS. Narum to be postmaster at Waukon, in the county of Fred 0. Blood to be postma~ter at Las V~gas (late East ~as Allamakee and State of Iowa. Vegas), in the county of San ~I1gueland Te1ntory.of New Me.nco. Robert P. Osier to be postmaster at Clarion, in the county of Albert R. Carter to be postmaster at Tucumcari, in the county Wright and State of Iowa. of Quay and Territory of New Mexico. · · Jacob E. Palmer to be postmaster at Hawkeye, in the county of John M. Hawkins to be postmaster at Alamogordo, in the Fayette and State of Iowa. county of Otero and Territory of New Mexico. Lambert J. Rogers to be postmaster at Allison, in the county of OREGON. Butler and State of Iowa. Carlton E. Harmon to be postmaster at Grants Pass, in the Frank C. Traverse to be postmaster at Bloomfield, in the county county of Josephine and State of Oregon. . of Davis and State of Iowa. Hiram F. Murdoch to be postmaster at Klamath Falls, m the George W. Wiltse to be postmaster at Montezuma, in the county county of Klamath and State of Oregon. . of Poweshiek and State of Iowa. ·· Wallace W. Smead to be postmaster at Heppner, in the county KANSAS. of Morrow and State of Oregon. · George W. Hill to be postmaster at Douglass, in the county of PORTO RICO. Butler and State of Kansas. Augusto Font to be postmaster at Aguadilla, in the county of Frank W. Johnson to be postmaster at Larned, in the county of Aguadilla, P. R. Pawnee and State of Kansas. RHODE ISLil"'D. Roberta H. McBlain to be postmaster at Fort Riley, in the John B. Landers to be postmaster at Jamestown, in the county county of Geary and State of Kansas. of Newport and State of Rhode Island. J. Frank Smith to be postmaster at Pleasanton, in the county SOUTH DAKOTA. of Linn and State.of Kansas. Bayard T. Bc.~Ian to be postmaster at Armour, in the county Joseph A. Whitehair to be postmaster at Chapman, in the of Douglas and State of South Dakota. county of Dickin8on and State of Ka~sas. John J. Mansfield to be postmaster at Hurley, in the county of MAINE. Turner and State of South Dakota. William W. Brown to be postmaster at Bowdoinham, in the Eva M. Young to be postmaster at Faulkton, in the county of county of Sagadahoc and State of Maine. . Faulk and State of South Dakota. Irving W. Case to be postmaster at Lubec, ill the county of TEXAS. Washington and State of Maine. . . James A. Butler to be postmaster at Troup, in the county of Lindley H. Folsom to pe postmaster at Greenville, ill the county Smith and State of Texas. of Piscataquis and State of Maine. · . W. E. Connelly to be postmaster at Hubbard, in the county · Frank E. Monroe to be postmaster at Milo, in the county of of Hill and State of Texas. Piscataquis and State of Maine. Ellie V. Flanagan to be postmaster at Henderson, in the county . Stephen B. Thurlow to be postmaster at Stonington, in the of Rusk and State of Texas. county of Hancock and State of Maine. Albert L. Gibson to be postmaster at Guffey, in the county of M.A..SSACHUSE'ITS. Jefferson and State of Texas. Festus G. Amsden to be postmaster at Athol, in the county of UTAH. Worcester and State of Massachusetts. Samuel Judd to be postmaster at St. George, in the county of Alfred G. Cone to be postmaster at Haydenville, in the county Washingto_n and State of Utah. of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts. · WISC O ~SIN. George W. Cutting to be p::>stmaster at Weston, in the county William H. Berray to be postmaster at Wautoma, in the comity of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts. - of Waushara and State of Wisconsin. . Ralph W. Emers ~n to be postmaster of Chelmsford, in the Thomas W. Claridge to be postmaster at Reedsburg, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts. · county of Sank and State of Wisconsin. Frank A. Fales to be postmaster at Norwood, in the county of Albert E. Edwards to be postmaster at Monticello, in the Norfolk and State of Massachusetts. · county of Green and State of Wisconsin. Fred A. Hanaford to be postmaster at South Lancaster, in the Gertrude Frazier to be postmaster at Viola, in the county of county of Worcester and f::ltate of Massachusetts. Richland and State of Wisconsin. Herbert M. Howard to be postmaster at Randolph, in the Edith L. Maynard to be postmaster at Sheboygan, in the county county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts. . of Sheboygan a~d State of Wisconsin. . . . Stephen C. Luce to be postmaster at Vineyard Haven, in the Sutcliffe Parkin to be postmaster at :Mazomame, m the county county of Dukes and State of Massachusetts. of Dane and State of Wisconsin. Harriet M. Mudge to be postmaster at Bedford, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts. John F. Phipps to be postmaster at Hopkinton, in the county HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts. Edward F. Shaw to be postmaster at Three Rivers, in the TUESDAY, November 17, 1903. county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts. . . The House met at 12 o'clock m. Mary C. Smith to be postmaster at Wellesley Hills, ill the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts. · · Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. HENRY N. CouDEN, D. D. Frank M. Tripp to be postma-ster at Marion, in the county of The Journal of yesterday's proce3dings was read. Plymouth and State of Massachusetts. CORRECTIONS. Charles H. Webster to be postmaster at Northfield, in the county Mr. RANDELL of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Iwish to correct the of Franklin and State of Massachusetts. Journal. The RECORD is correct. but the Jomnal, which states, MISSOURI. according to the reading by the Clerk, that CHOICE B. RANDELL, Andrew J. Robison to be postmaster at Liberty, in the county of the Tenth district of Texas, was sworn in-yesterday, is not cor of Clay and State of Missouri. . rect. I am from the Fourth district of Texas, was not sworn in 190B. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. / 293 yesterday, but was sworn in on the first day of the session. I un CUBA. derstand the Hon. JOSEPH E. RANSDELL, of Louisiana, was sworn The SPEAKER. In pursuance of the resolution adopted yes in yesterday. I wish to correct the Journal in that respect. terday the House resolves itself into Committee of the Whole The SPEAKER. Without objection, the correction will be House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of made. the bill H. R. 1921, n.nd the gentleman from New York [Mr. There was no objection. SHERMAN] wUl take the chair. SWEARING IN OF MEMBERS. The House accordingly resolved itself into Committee of the The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New Jersey, Mr. Fow Whole House on the state of the Union, Mr. SHERM..A.N in the chair. ler, the Chair is informed, is present and desires to take the oath. The CHAIRMAN. The House is in Committee of the Whole Mr. Fowler came forward to the bar of the Honse and took House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the oath of office. the bill H. R. 1921, the title of which will be announced by the Mr. LITTLE. Mr. Speaker,mycolleagne,Mr. Brundidge, from Clerk. the Second district of Arkansas, is present and desires to take the The Cle1·k read as follows; A bill (H. R. 1921) to carry into effect a convention between the United oath of office. States and the Republic of Cuba, signed on the lith day of December, in the Mr. Brundidge came forward to the bar of the House and year 1902. took the oath of office. Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Chairman, I yield thirty minutes to the MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. gentleman from New York [Mr. KNAPP]. Mr. KNAPP. Mr. Chairman, the UnitedStatesduringthepast A message from the Senate, by Mr. P ARKL~SON, its reading five years has had new duties to perform and problems to solve by clerk, announced that the Senate had passed the following reso reason of the war with Spain. The results accomplished in per lutions; in which the concurrence of the Honse was requested: forming those duties and solving those problems have been greater Senate concurrent resolution No.8. than were ever accomplished for a similar purpose and during an Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the equal period of time by any other nation. Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directea to cause a survey to be m!lde of that portion of the Columbia River between Tongue The war with Spain created a new era in history, gave a new Point and Fort Stevens, Oreg., commonly known and designated as the As rank to the United States, added a new glory to the fl.ag, taught t.oria Harbor, with a view t.o widening and deepening the channel and per other peoples how to make war for humanity's sake, and awoke manently improving said harbor, and tosubmitaplanandestimate for such improvement. the nations of the Old World to the fact that the United States Senate concurrent resolution No.9. was a world-wide power. Resolved by the Senate (the House of Reyresentatives concurring), That the The causes which led to that war are too familiar to need recall Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to cause a survey to be made except to say that they were such as, in the judgment of the civil and an estimate submitted of the cost of removing Starr Rock, Bellingham ized world, justified this Government and nation in an appeal to Bay, Washington, in accordance with the recommendations heretofore made and filed with the War Department. arms. President McKinley and those associated with him in the Senate concurrent resolution No.10. administration of the Government, with humane purpose, made Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concu1-ri!11]), That the every honorable effort to right the wrongs of Cuba and still avert Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause a. armed conflict. Possibly those efforts might have prevailed had survey to be made and estimates to be submitted of the cost of dredging and it not been for the crime of the Maine; but if ever there had been otherwise improving the harbor of South Bend, Willapa Harbor, Washing ton, so as to meet the demands of commerce. a possibility of securing justice for Cuba without a resort to arms, that calamity destroyed the possibility and made war, with Senate concurrent resolution No.ll. all its trials and results, a certainty. Resolved lnJ the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, di.rected to cause an exa.mmation and War came, victory followed. and the nation stood face to face survey to be made and estimate submitted of the cost of improving the Che with new and untried responsibilities. So!lle were bidden; others halis River, Washingt,on, botween Aberdeen and Montesano, to meet the de were not; all were ours. mands of commerce. But there is no question in the government of peoples that can Senate concmTent resolution No. 12. not be safely intrusted to the American nation. And so all the lllr Resolved by the Senate (the House o.f Representatives concU1'1-ing), That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a results growing out of the war with Spain have been accepted survey to be made of the Delaware River, between Trenton, N.J., and Phil and all are being and will continue to be worked out for the ad adelphia, Pa., with a view of deepening the channel of 17 feet, and to submit vancement of peoples who have never known the blessings of an estimate of the cost at the earliest date practicable. good government and for the credit of the American name and SENATE CO~CURRENT RESOLUTIONS REFERRED. the lasting honor of the American nation. Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, the following Senate concurrent RESULTS OF THE WAR W1TH SPAIN. resolutions were taken from the Speaker's table and referred to As one of the results of that conflict Cuba became a temporary their appropriate committees as indicated below: dependency of the United States. We said to the people of that, Senate concurrent resolution No. 8: one of the fairest isles of the seas, "We have given you lib3rty Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep1·esentatives concu1-ring), That the from the tyl·anny of Spanish rule; we will add to that the bless Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause a ings of eelf -government." As a means of redeeriling this promise survey to be made of that portion of the Columbia River between Tongue the United States instituted in the island of Cuba a military gov Point and Fort Stevens, Oreg., commonly known and designated as the As toria Harbor, with a view to widening and deepening the channel and per ernment, which began on the 13th day of December, 1898, and manently improving said harbor, and to submit a plan and estimate for such ended on the 20th day of May, 1902, when the government of the improvement- island was turned over to the duly constituted authorities of the to the Committee on River and Harbors. CUban Republic. During our occupancy of Cuba we pacified her Senate concurrent resolution No. 9: people, stimulated her industries, gave her a splendid school sys Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concU!-ring), That the tem, and taught her the blessings of education, in which center the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to cause a survey to be made hope of any people. We projected railways, improved her har and an estimate submitted of the cost of removing Starr Rock, Bellingham & v, Wa-shington, in accordance with the recommendations heretofore made bors, built up her waste places, advanced her trade and commerce, and. filed with the War Department- and pointed her the way to industrial prosperity. In short, we to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. rescued her from a tyrant's rnle, led her in paths of peace, gave Senate concurrent resolution No. -10: her self-government, and welcomed her to the galaxy of nations. Resolved by the Senate (the Bouse of Representatives concun-ing), That the History bears no record of a promise more unselfish and a ful Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause a fillment more generous. All of this commands the gratit-ude of a survey to be mad~ and estimates to be submitted of .the cost of dredging ?-nd people whose dream of liberty has been ·made a reality and chal- • otherwise improvmg the harbor of South Bend, Willapa Harbor, Wa-shmg ton, so as to meet the demands of commerce- lenges the admiration of every civilized nation of the world. to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. But all of this did not measure our full responsibility to Cuba Senate concurrent resolution No. 11: and her people. There was then and there is now no rule of right by which we could or can abandon Cuba to her fate. Every dic Resolved by the Senate (the House of R~resentat(ves concurring), That the Secretary of War be, and he is..hereby, directed to cause an exam.inationand tate of justice and national honor demands "that Cuba shall still survey to be made and estimate submitted of the cost of improving the Che be sheltered by the American flag." To give her self-government halis River, Washingt,on, between Aberdeen and Montesano, to meet the de we gave. of our treasure and blood. To make that Government mands of commerce- stable and insure her future we must aid, as far as possible, in se to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. curing to her industrial prosperity. This we can do by granting Senate concurrent resolution No. 12: her reciprocal trade relations, and that without injurh;1g a single Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurrin"), That the Secretary of.War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a one of om· manifold industries. That was one of the purposes of s.urvey to be made of the Delaware River, between Trenton, N.J., and Phila the attempted legislation in the Fifty-seventh Congress, but which deiphla, Pa., with a view of ..deepening the channel of 17 foot, and to submit failed of enactment; that is one of the purposes of the treaty nego- an estimate of the cost at the earliest date practicable- tiated by the President, ratified by the Senate, and now before the to the Committee on River,s and Harbors. House for its concurrent action. 294 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. NovEl\IBER 17,
That treaty, of which the bill now before the House is the en Further than all this, President McKinley, in his speech at Buf abling act necessary to make the same operative, provides, in sub falo, the last, but one of the greatest, of his public utterances, said: stance, as follows: Reciprocityis the natural outgrowthof our entireindustrial developmentun Article 1 provides that all articles of meTchandise being the product of der the domestic policy now firmly established. * * "' Reciprocity treaties the soil or industry of the United States and the Republic of Cuba and now are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of retaliation are not. imported from one country to the otheT free of duty shall so continue to be admitted as free of duty. Those words were uttered in what proved to be a last mes Articles 2 and 3 provide that all articles of merchandise not included in sage to his countrymen from one whose devotion to the policy of article 1 being the product of the soil or industry of the United States or the a protective tariff has never been questioned, and whose services Republic of Cuba and imported from one country into the other shall be ad mitted at a reduction of 20 per cent of the rates of dntythereon as provided to his country and humanity will live through coming years. by the tariff laws of the respective countries. But no added words are needed to demonstrate the value of Article 4 provides that certain articles of merchandise especially enumer reciprocity-that it is, so to speak, a very handmaiden of protec ated and described and being the product of the soil or industry of the United States imported into Cuba shall be admitted at the respective reduc tion, and the treaty of reciprocity with Cuba now under consid tions of 25 per cent, 00 per cent, and iO peT cent of the rates of duty thereon eration is in perfect accord with that Republican policy which provided by the tariff of the Republic of Cuba. has made us the greatest industtial nation in the world. Article 8 provides that the rates of duty provided for by the treaty, both on the part of the United States and Cuba, being preferential in respect to TREATY WILL NOT INJURE ANY OF OUR INDU TRIES. all like imports from other countries, and also that while "the rates of dutv .The purposes which underlie this reciprocity treaty are two herein granted by the United States to the Republic of Cuba are and shall continue during the term of this convention preferential in respect to all fold: First, reciprocal trade relations between the United States like imports from other countries in return for said preferential rates of and Cuba, the resultant effect of which may be beneficial to both duty granted to the Republic of Cuba by the United States,~t is agreed that countries; second, and equally important, justice to Cuba, for the the concession herein granted on the part of the said Republic of Cuba. to the products of the United States shall be likewise, and shall continue during the welfare of which the United States must, to a certain extent, term of this convention, preferential in respect to all like impo~ts from other stand sponsor. countries: Provided, That while this convention is in force no sugar im While the question as to whether this treaty will work injury ported from the Republic of Ouba and being the product of the soil or indus try of the Republic of Cuba, shal1 be admitted into the United States at a to any one of our industries can not be answered with mathemat reduction of duty greater that 20 per cent of the rates of duty thereon as ical ac(mracy, still, reasoning from the experience of the p.ast and provided by the tariff act of the United States approved July 24:,1897, and no the probabilities of the future, the conclusion is reasonable that sugar the product of any other foreign country shall be admitted by treaty or convention into the United States while this convention is in force at a it will not, but will in the end be beneficial not only to our in lower rate of duty than provided by the tariff act of the United States ap dustries but to our trade with Cuba. The protests that it would proved July 24, 18!J7." work injury to the beet-sugar industries of this country are ;;: Article 11 provides that the treaty shall continue in force for at least the period of five years. neither new nor solely characteristic of this treaty, and that such TREATY ONE OF RECIPROCITY. would be the result is by no means conceded. This treaty provides for reciprocal trade relations between the There are at present in the United States about forty beet-sug1:r United States and the Republic of Cuba on terms and conditions factories. Their production for the year 1902 aggregated about intended to be beneficial to both countries; in other words, it is a 190,000 tons. That industry should continue to have the foster treaty of reciprocity. ing care which will protect and develop it, and it is not the in The criticism made by some who have preceded me that it is tention of those on this side of the House who favor this treaty to inconsistent with the policy of a protective tariff is not well deprive it of such care. While, as stated, the exact effect of the founded. To the principle of a protective tariff the Republican treaty upon a single industry can not be foretold with mathe party stands to-day, as it has in the past, irrevocably committed. matical accuracy, it can be foretold with exact certainty that Through that principle, enacted into tariff laws, it has given this after the reduction proposed on beet sugar that industry will still nation an industrial policy which has developed agriculture, dotted remain one of the most highly protected of all our industries, and hills and valleys with manufacturing industiies! employed labor, it is a fair and reasonable assumption that such reduction will veined the continent with railways, vexed the waters of the deep neither jeopardize nor injure the industry. As materially bear with fleets which convey the products of our greatness to every ing upon this subject, I present the following figures, compiled nation and clime, and through it all has led the nation along a from official statistics, showing the total consumption of sugar in pathway of industtial prospetity never equaled by any other na the United States during the calendar year 1902, as well as the tion since time begun. Whenever changed commercial and in production, imports, and exports of sugar during the same period: dustrial conditions have or may indicate the wisdom of a thorough Gross tons of 2,!40 pounds. revision of the tariff laws, such revision has been and doubtless 8 1 will be made, and if made by the Republican party will, like its Q~~~~~~!r 1&}2~ ~~~~- ~. ~~~. ~~~~- ~-~-t-~~ -~~~: •.~~ -~~ : 2, 566,108 ~evision of the ta.Iiffs in the past, have as basic ptinciple not free trade, not tariff for revenue only, but just protection for Ameli Product of the continental United States during the crop year 1002: ___ can industries, labor, and homes. [Applause.] ~~t :::: ==~=::::::::::::::=~=~===~ :::::: :::::::~::::::::: ===~ :::::: ~~ ~M The treaty under discussion is in no way inconsistent with this Republican principle of protection, but, on the contrary, is in Total .... ----.... ----- __ ... ···-_...... --·· •...... •...•... _..... 473, 7i0 exact accord and compliance with it. Imports from United States Territories and possessions during the__ _ The present tariff law authorizes the President to enter into calenda!: year 1902: reciprocity treaties with other nations which may reduce duties Hawaii ...... •....•...... ______···-·--·-··· ...... ···------1l>3 , <170 Porto Rico-·-···-····-···-·------········-····· 91.671 of the present law 20 per cent from those fixed in the otiginal Philippine Islands------··----_ .•... ------·------·-·- 2, 42!) act. It is under the express authotity conferred by that pro- Total...... 397,570 . vision of the Dingley tariff law that this treaty has been nego Imports from foreign countries during the calendar year 1902 ..•..• 1, 709, 032 tiated by the President, concurred in by the Senate, and is now Exports of sugar refined in the United States during the calendar before the House for action. year 1002, including shipments to Porto Rico ...... • 4, 001 Foreign sugar exported from the United States during the calendar It is not an attempted revision of the schedules of the tatifflaw, year1902 •••• ···-······----···· .•••• ••.•• •••.•• .•••• ••••• •••• •••• •••.•• 1,137 except for the purpose of trade relations with Cuba. That was clearly set forth in the message of the President on reciprocity RECAPITUUTION. with Cuba, transmitted to the Fifty-seventh Congress on J nne United States product, crop year 1902 .•• ______••.•.• ••••••.••• •••••• 473,740 Imports from Uni~edStates ~erritories, etc:, calender year 1002.... 007,570 13, 1902. In that message the President said: Imports fromfore1gn counti·les ______1, 709,® T:he question as to which, if any, of the different schedules of the tariff . ----- to ouaht0 most_l!_roperly be revised does not enter into this matter in any way Total product and imports------2,580,342 or shape. We are concerned with getting a friendly reciprocal agreement Total exi>
sugar schedule of the Dingley tariff law was purposely so framed, Why should not these conditions be changed, and the balance of having in view the making of that schedule, as expressed by the trade he in favor instead of against the United States? While the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. GROSVENOR],'' a trading schedule for trade and commerce of Cuba may not be large in the aggregate, reciprocity treaties." It was not intended by the framers of the still, her natural resources, which will invite the investment of sugar schedule, as is evidenced by section 4 of the Dingley tariff capital, the -progressiveness of her people, and her new relation law, to unalterably fix the tariff rate on sugar, but rather to fix ship to the nations of the earth, make it a reasona.ble certainty of the maximum duty, adding a permission, under prescribed con the future that as years go by her trade and commerce will con ditions, for a 20 per cent reduction, so that this treaty in question tinually and largely increase. Here, then, at our very door ure is in exact compliance with both the intention and the letter of markets present and prospective for the products of the Ameri the Dingley tariff law. can farmers and manufacturers, and it is onr duty, even in self It is further a fact that under the provisions of this very treaty interest, by reciprocal trade relations, by fostering a spirit of sugar will still have a protection of about 25 per cent above the good will, and by every right means to secure those markets to average and second only to one of our diversified industries, the American producer, and such is among the purposes and namely, tobacco. It is a fact, which will be conceded by all, that doubtless will be among the results of ~is treaty of reciprocity. no one of our industries should be permitted to have a monopoly of JlJSTICE TO CUBA DEMANDS TIIE T&EATY. protection. .Reciprocity treaties neither stand nor fall on proph esied results as to one industry, but rather on hoped-for results But, Mr. Chairman, there are reasons above and beyond all of as to the industries affected taken as a whole. This treaty affects these which more than justify this treaty. Reasons limited not not alone the article of sugar. but other articles in tariff sched by the narrow bounds of self-interest but by the broader con nles of various industries, and if viewed as a whole, from the siderations of right. Justice to Cuba, for the future destiny of standpoint of self-interest, it is beyond a reasonable doubt that its which this nation must to a great extent stand sponsor, demands resultant effects will be beneficial to the trade and industries of this treaty. In the interest of humanity we gave Cuba liberty, the United States. we added self-govtlrnment, and now if we are to make tbat liberty But, fmiher than all this, reciprocity with Cuba is not an un and self-government permanent realities and so consummate the tried experiment. We need not be ignorant of a past or obliged great work which challenges the approval and admiration of the to guess at a future. Under the McKinley tariff law we had a world we must, as far as lies in our power, add to Cuba indus reciprocity treaty with Cuba, and during the nearly three years trial prosperity. that treaty w.as in force our exports to Cuba increased to the ex The war with Spain and its results placed upon this nation the tent that they nearly doubled, and after it was annulled by the duty of securing to Cuba a stable government. That duty is still enactment of the so-called Wilson bill our exports decreased. upon us. Thi} distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. The fact that in 1900 and 1901, during our occupancy of the DALZELL] in discussing this subject in the last Congress made use island and under military tariff, our exports again largely in of the following language, to quote: creased id no argument against the beneficial results of that I assert as a fundamental proposition that a stable government is possible only to a contentea people. The world's history of revolutions and insurrec treaty. That treaty was in force when Cuba was under the des tions is the bloody record of discontent. .A.nd I assert, furthermore, that to potic rule of Spain, and if its results were beneficial who will insure peace and tranquillity to any people you must have prosperous indus doubt that this treaty would be far more beneficial, negotiated trial conditions; that poverty and bankruptcy are the efficient causes of as it is, not with a dependency of Spain, but with the Republic of popular uprisings and of crimes Rgainst law and order. Cuba, the people of which are bound both by ties of gratitude The truth of the above assertion has been inscribed in a world's and friendship to this neighboring Republic? history. A contented people has always been the first requisite of a stable government. Prosperous industrial conditions have OUBA'S TRADE AND COIDIERCE. always been the first requisite of a contented people. Without But still further Cuba is, as has been said, an "inviting field for both of these there can be no such thing as a permanent stable American trade and commerce." Her near-by location, the possi government. bilities of her commercial and industrial development, the close re · The conditions which characterized Cuba, her industries, and lationship which does and should exist between the two countries, her people, and which have led up to and emphasize the necessity all point unerringly to the fact that the United States should of for this treaty are too familiar to need recall. For more than half right possess a monopoly of Cuba's foreign trade and commerce. a century Cuba had longed for freedom. Her people had strug This is not now ours to the extent that it should be. As dem gled with a heroism which challenged the admiration of mankind onstrating this, I submit for careful consideration a table show to lift the yoke of Spanish oppression. That terrible struggle and ing the aggregate of Cuba's trade and commerce for the calendar the successive wars which characterized it culminated in 1898, year of 1902: when the United States proclaimed to the world that Cuba's Cuba's commerce in 19~ (calendar year). wrongs must be righted and that Spanish misrule on this Western Continent must end forever. r:_~~'::g ~;~~g For that half a century Cuba's dream, hope, ambition, and ------1----f---- effort had been for liberty, and in her struggle for that all but Imports ______------$62,135, 4M $60, 584,800 paralyzed were ber industries. Herhplantations were laid waste, Exports------64,948,804 64,329,700 her mills and factories destroyed, er homes pillaged, her labor unemployed, her industries prostrated. Poo1·, unhappy, desperate Total .. ______------. ___ _ 1.27,084,268 124, 914, 500 Imports from United States------ 26,053,395 25,243,200 was the lot of Cuba. But with liberty and self-government se Imports from other countries------ 36,082,009 85,341,600 cured to her by the United States her people turned resolutely to Exports to the United States------ 49,498,587 49,4.98,00) the future. They, with a purpose and energy worthy an ambi Exports to other countries------1D,450,217 14,831,400 tious people, began to build upon the ruins of the past-to turn industrial night into industrial day. And while it is true that The above table shows that during the calendar year of 1902 her industrial conditions are somewhat improved, still the results the total commerce of Cuba, excluding money, aggregated in of half a century of trials, of war, of bloodShed, and neglected value $124,914,500, and of this $64,329,700represented exports and industries are still upon her, and to-day to obtain the revenues $60,584,800 represented imports. Of her exports she sold to the sufficient to pay the sum due her patriot army and meet necessary United States in value $49,498,300, and to all other countries requirements she seeks the markets of the world to negotiate a $14,831,400, or approaching three times as much to the United loan aggregating $35,000,000. That is the mortgage which must States as to all other countries. be placed upon this new-made Republic to aid her to successfully Of her imports she purchased of the United States in value continue in the pathway of national life. 825,243,200, and of all other countries $35,34l,600, or nearly In the face of an this, where could or should Cuba turn for aid 10,000,000 worth more of other countries than the United States. but to the United States? As we were morally bound to lend a So that at the end of the year the United States owed Cuba as helping hand to give her civic freedom, so we are morally bound a balance of trade $24,255,100, while Cuba owed other nations as to lend a helping hand to give her industrial prosperity. The a balance of trade $20,510,200. declaration of war against Spain, the results of that war, our oc- As further illustrating the importance of this to certain indus- cupancy of Cuba, and finally our turning the island over to the tries in the United States it may be noted-that during the calendar Government we had aided them to establish, all emphasize the year of 1902 Cuba's total imports of certain industries were as truth of the above assertion. follows: The United States by every act relative to Cuba, from the dec- Total importaof cotton goods ______$5,285,511 larati~n of war agai;nst .Spain t? the present time, stands morally lmportsofsamefromtheUnitedStates ______4D1,107 ~ ttedto tablsh th t isl d tabl t B Totalimportsofvegetables______2,307,2791 0 ~t es 1 . md hisa. Gan. as _e ~overnmden · e- Importsofsamefrom the United States______789,713 cause 1 wassocomnntte , t overnment mSistedan Cuba ac- Tota.limportsofanimalsandproducta... ------12,881,6811 quiesced in ingrafting into her constitution the so-called Platt Imports of same _from the U~ted States ______~------6•869•489 amendment. By the provisions of that amendment Cuba stipu- Totalamountdau-yproductsrmportedfromallcountnes ______1,096,340 . " . Total amoUnt same from the Urnted States---~------···------· 655,554 lated, among other thmgs, never to enter mto any treaty or other 296 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-ROUSE. N OVEl\IBE}{ 1 7' compact with any foreign power which would impair, or tend to Cuban products into our country as provided by the bill, page 2, impair, her independence, or to permit any such power for military lines 12, 13, and 14, as follows: or naval purposes to gain control over the island or any part of it., The rates 't>f duty herein granted by the United States to the Republic of That her Government "would never assume or contract any Cuba. are and shall continue during the term of B!l.id convention preferential public debt to pay the interest on which" and provide for its in re3pect to all like imports from other countries. ultimate discharge the revenues of the island should be insuffi Second, that the duty on sugar shall not be reduced for five cient, aside from defraying the expenses of the Government. years by either statute, treaty, or convention unless the treaty Articles ill and VII of such amendments provide, respectively, shall be sooner abrogated as follows, page 2, lines 15 et seq: Provided. That while said convention is in force no sugar imported from in full as follows: the Republic of Cuba., and being the product of the soil or industry of the Re Ill. That tha Government of Cuba consents that the United States may public of Cuba., shall be admitted into the United States at a reduction of exercise the ri~ht to intervene for the preser>ation of Cuban independence, duty greater than 00 per cent of the rates of duty thereon, as provided by the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, prop the tariff act of the United States approved July 2!, 1897, and no sugar the erty, and individual liberty, and for discharging the oblig-ations with respect product of any_ other foreign country shall be admitted by treaty or conven to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Pa1·is on the United States,now to be tion into the United States while this convention is in force at a lower rate assumed and undertaken by the Government of Cuba. of duty than that provided by the tariff act of the United Statts approved VII. That to enable the· United States to m aintain the independence of J nly 24, 1897. Cuba, and to protect the people thereof as well as for its own defense, the BELIEVE IN PROTECTION. Government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points, to be agreed upon I wish to state in the outset that I am a sincere protectionist. with the President of the United States. I believe just as squarely in the Republican doctrine of protection as any man on this side of the House. But I believe that the time By inserting this amendment in her constitution Cuba's Gov will be near at hand when a reduction must be made in some of ernment made partial relinquishment of sovereignty to the our tariff schedules which are admitted to be excessive, such as island, and while it may be maintained that the United States those of iron and steel, glass, lumber, pulp, pottery; and the like, made no direct promise in reciprocation, is there not in the fair and among them must be reduced the tariff schedule on sugar. construction of that amendment and the fair interpretation of all The chairman of the committee yesterday informed us that this our ads relative to Cuba an implied promise that we would aid schedule was excessive now. I believe that if it·be bul'densome in making stable her Government and secure her future? This to our people a reduction should be made so that our people will we can best do by making contented her people, this best do by get the benefit, and that it ought not go to some foreign pro making prosperous her industrial conditions, and all can best be ducers or to those who elwell in some foreign country. I am un accomplished by giving her what she reasonably asks-reciprocal willing to vot.e for any measure which pledges to continue for five trade relations. Trade and commerce are connecting links be years a tari__ff schedule which is admittedly excessive and burden tween nations. They are factors more potent in shaping the some and which wrings unjust taxation to that extent from our destiny and relationship of nations than all the armies that tread people. t.he earth or navies that ride the sea. Reciprocal trade and com B!tLIEVE IN RECIPROCITY. merce will give the people of Cuba new hope for the futtue and I believe also in the Republican doctrine of reciprocity. I be an added link to bind in lasting friendship the two Repub believe that the practical application of that doctrine is necessary lics. · to protect and extend our foreign trade, and I am convinced that But is it said that we owe Cuba nothing more? Then let us re the results of this measure will be to restr-ict our trade rather member that there are somethingswe owetoourselves. We owe than to extend it. I believe it will narrow our markets rather it to ourselves to keep our promise! direct or implied. We owe it than increase them; that it will prevent reciprocity rather than to ourselves to deal with Cuba by the ru1es of right and justice. promote it. I believe a liberal policy of trade agreements shou1d She does not ask of us alms, but only that we give her that trade be adopted, especially with Canada, Mexico, and our nearest reciprocity which will br?athe li~e anew in~ her ~dus~r'i~s a~d Ame1'ican neighbors. But this measure seems to me to postpone make possible to her that mdustrial prospenty which will InVIto such a consummation indefinitely. national progress. COMMERCIAL NATIONS PRODUCE SUG.A.R. We gave our treasure and blood to give her liberty and self Nearly all the commercial nation~ of the world are producers government, and now to ~st ~er adrift. wou1d be a r.eproach to of sugar. Since the passa~e of the Dingley bill in 1897 the United the American name. She IS still our child, and ours rs the duty to see to it that she does not fall upon the threshold of national States has imported sugar from nearly all the great commercial existence· ours the duty to make stable her government and cer nations of the world. tain her future; ours the duty to lead her by the hand until she The following table shows the total sugar importations into the can walk alone the pathway of national life. · United States since 1897 and from the nations indicated: This nation was humane and great enough to free Cuba from a Per tyrant's rule and make her a republic; it is humane. great, and cent Appraised age of just enough to continue Cuba in the galaxy of nations. [Ap- From- Tons. value. total plause.] · im Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Chairman, I now yield to the gentleman ports from Minnesota [Mr. STEVENS]. Mr. STEVENS of Minnesota. Mr. Chairman, I am raluctant Cuba------·------ 1,800,000 $101,025, 861 00 to oppose my personal opinion and judgment against that of the Austria------·------ 234,000 9,584,648 241 Belgium------ 136,000 5,552, 700 great majority of my associates. on this side of the ~ouse, andes France.------44,492 1,386,589 tolf peciallv against that of the chamnan of the Committee on Ways Germany ------______------______------1,890,998 74,510,2i4 14 and Means. For three terms I have followed his leadership and Netherlands, including colonies .. ------·- 2, 487,168 101, ~7,396 a4_B United Kingdom, including colonies ______1.~~ .002 57,375,8t.':! b5} I have had and now have a sincere respect for his wisdom and his Russia-----.----·------2,346 1CO,G44 tofl judgment. But some investigation and reflection upon the con Mexico _____ ·---.------_--"--_----- ____ ------5,4.49 202,'01 i of 1 ditions surrounding this measure have constrained me to differ Central America------15,125 808,685 H South America ______------_____ ----- 741,535 26,717,]09 ct of l with him and with the majority on this side of the House, and I Santo Domingo and Haiti------~-- 839,642 15,234,763 55 ask leave to state briefly the reasons for my position. Asia and Africa. producing sugar, excluding I should feel under obligation to have voted for a straight 20per colonies.----- ______262,416 12,1G9,316 16 cent reduction upon Cuban products entering this country, not a On 85 per cent of colonial b·ade. bOn 16 per cent of colonial trade. because I belieVf•d there was any obligation, express or implied, on cOn excluding Brazil, 15 per cent. our part, because we have given Cuba all she desired and with no hope or expectation of reward to ourselves; not that I believe You will notice that from nearly all the commercial nation~ of any promise had been made, because none was or could have been the world we import sugar. ThegentlemanfromNewYork [1\Ir. made by any Executive; not that I believe that Cuba needs such KN.!.PP], who just preceded me. has made a statement concerning legislation, because she is fairly prosperous now; not that I be the present condition in the American market, but I do not think lieve it would be of any benefit to this country, because I think he has brought his figures quitA up to date. I have been furnished it will be a detriment; but I would vote for it because the great this morning from the Bureau of Statistics a compilation made by majority of the American people out of their abundance desire to Willett & Gray, which shows the probable condition of the Ameri be generous to Cuba, and because such a reduction is pressed and can sugar market during the next season. recommended by our Republican National Administration. SUGAR PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD. It is as follows: The consumption of the United States will be CONDITIONS OF RECIPROOITY. about 2,800,000 tons. The estimated crops are as follows: But when the proposition'comes before us for official action I Sugar crops of the world. find two conditions attached to the reduction. First, that there In the following table we have a:.med to include the entire sugar produc shall be a continuing preference for five years to the admission of tion of n.ll the countries of the world, including those crops which have hereto- 1903. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 297 fore been ignored in statistics. These figures include local consumptions of there, and that there is even now an agitation to repeal whatever home prodUction wherever known: restrictive immigration laws now exist, and to increase immigra [Willett & Gray's estimates of cane-sugn.r crops, November 5, 1903.] tion of Asiatic, African, and cheap labor so that this vast increase of sugar production shall be made. Yon will notice further that 1903-4. 190"2-3. 1901-2. 11900-1. the junior Senator from Massachusetts already has introduced a ------1------bill in the Senate, regardless of the constitutional limitations and United ~i;ates: Tons. Tons. Ton.'f. Tons. restrictions upon origin of revenue legislation, to reduce the duty Lomsmna ------240,001 rol, BENEFITS OF THE BILL. opportnne time, when our custom revenues are falling off, and Now, what do we secure .by the passage of this bill? We since the beginning of the fiscal year the expenditures have been have a preferential entrance into the Cuban market of from larger than the receipts, yet here we propose to further reduce 20 to 40 per cent over other nations. Last year they imported our receipts more than a million dollars a month. To consider it 60,000 000 of foreign products. I have made some compila practically it would be good business policy for us to appropriate tions, as carefully as I could, as to where these products should that money out of our Treasury, buy these additional products, naturally come from. I have made three classes. First, the and cast them into the sea, rather than let a bill like this pass products of which the United States has a practical monopoly in which imperils the vast foreign trade of our country with other the Cuban market, where other nations can not fairly compete. sugar-producing nations. The second class of products is that where the other nations have FOREIGN TRADE. a practical monopoly in the Cuban market, and where we· can What did that trade amount to last year? We sold Cuba $21,- not fairly compete, and the third, the class of competing prod 764,{)00 of products. We sold the other West India islands which ucts. In the first class, of which we have a monopoly, I find last export sugar to this country during the same time $17133,000. year there was imported into Cuba about $15,000,000 from the We sold the East Indies $6,221,000. We sold to the South .Amer United States, consisting of steel and iron manufactures, of pro ican nations which export sugar to us 41,114,000. We sold Ger visions and grain stuffs, and things of that sort. many $193,000,000. We sold Austria $8,000,000. We sold to the In the class where the other nations had a monopoly and as to African territories which export sugar to us 38,000,000. We sold which we can not fairly compete, during the term of this treaty, the Netherlands $80,000,000. We sold the British colonies whlch I find about $20,000,000 were imported of jerked beef, of textiles export sugar to us $36,000,000. This does not include Great such as silks and linens, some glass and gold and silver wares, and Britain, which purchased more than $524,000,000 last year, and some wines and liquors, which we ourselves import from Euro whose capital is interested in sugar production in every country pean markets. There remains, then, the third class of about and colony under the sun. We must fairly and fully realize the $25,000,000 of competing products. situation that for the sake of getting a possible increase of from SHARE OF ln\TJ:TED STATES. twelve to twenty million dollars in the Cuban market we imperil and will invite retaliation on one thousand million dollars of our If I remember correctly, General Bliss testified before the Senate foreign trade. committee that the United States, under the provisions of this It would take but a very small percentage of discrimination treaty, ought to receive about 80 per cent of the competing trade. against our products to swallow up many times over all the pos Eighty per cent of $25,000,000 would be $20,000,000, which sible increase of our trade with Cuba. This is why I believe th~ s we ought to get under this bill. Mr. Bliss further confirms measure will not promote reciprocity, but prevent it; will not in this by a detailed estimate that the increase would be about crea e our foreign trade, but restrict it. It will not sell more of $21,000,000 annually. The reciprocity under the McKinley bill, our farmers' products at higher prices, as is so glibly promised, which has been praised so greatly upon this floor, yielded an but will tend to decrease the demand, to depress prices, becau.:e annual increase of our exports to Cuba of about $12,000,000 over it will subject our export trade to added burdens. the preceding year, when there was no reciprocity. I believe that would be about the increase which might be fairly expected from BURDEN ON FREIGHTS. this bill-an increase of exports of about $12,000,000 per annum, But that is not all. Where we have been importing 1,000,000 although it may possibly run up to $20,000,000. tons of sugar from other countries, that has enabled other prod ucts to be exported by cheaper freights with better facilities and UNSOUND PROPHECIES. to better advantage. Sugar has been one of the staple articles, I think that the prophecy of the gentleman from New York of great bulk and weight, that has furnished inward cargoe3 to [Mr. PAYNE] was almost nonsensical yesterday when he stated this country. We cut off these sugar cargoes coming into this that there might be an increa e of $300,000,000. Why, Mr. Chair country, and the ships which go out loaded with our products man, last year we exported to Great Britain, the greatest con must come in empty and in ballast. The result would be that suming nation of the world outside of this country, only about freights would be greatly increased the very next ye~1·, and must $524,000,000. We exported to Germany, the next greatest con continue to increase so long as there is a cargo only one way. The suming nation of the world, one hundred and ninety-three mil export cargo must pay for the double voyage. There is no escape lions of export; to France, less than eighty millions, and to the from that fact when we exclude otheT sugars from our markets. Netherlands, with their population in the East Indies of 50,000,000 We may find that the freights on our exports to those nations people, about $80,000,000. It seems to me utter nonsense that we who formerly sent sugar to us may be increased from three to can expect any vast increase of our trade with Cuba. Remember, six million dollars, and we can safely count that before the expi too that we have had an increase of trade in the last few years ration of this treaty our annual freight charge on our products abdve even the high tide of .McKinley reciprocity. going to the same countl·ies may possibly be increased more than United $6,000,000, thus levying an annual tribute upon our foreign trade States ex on account of this help toward Cuba. portsto PREVENTS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. Year ending June 30- Cuba, do mestic and Another factor, and I speak as a Republican now. I believe the foreign. measure in the last Congress was and I believe this me2sure in this Congress is a cruel blow to one of the most promising agri 1893 ______------•• ------___ : ------$24, 157' 698 cultural industries of this country; that is, the establishment of 1894. --·-- ·------.------20 125 321 beet-sugar production wherever practicable and profitable. I 1895 ..•. ------12:807:661 make no plea for factories already in existence. This bill is a 1b'OO. ------... -- ·------·------.------. 7,500,880 1897------8,259,'7'76 bonanza to them, because it insures a high price for their product 18 ------9,561,656 for five years and prevents at the same time the establishment of 1899 ..•.. ------.---..• ------18,616,'ifl7 new enterprises which might compete and reduce their profits. 190()_ ------26,513,400 1901.------..• ------25,96!,801 I am not interested in continuing the profits of existing factories. 1902.------26,623,500 But I am greatly interested in the development of new enterprises 1903 .••• ------.------21,761,638 wherever it can be profitably done in this country. PREVENTS GROWTH OF SUG..A.R INDUSTRY, This shows that our exports in 1900, 1901, and 1902 were in each It is very easy to assert that this measure injures no industry year larger than our exports during the highest period of McKin and will not interfere with any legitimate interests. Let facts ley reciprocity, and we can not fairly expect any further phenom and not assertions determine. The chairman of the committee enal increase. Now we may possibly get an inci"ease of from admitted yesterday that no beet-sugar factory had been estab twelve to twenty million dollars. lished since this agitation had commenced. I believe no beet OOST OF TRADE INCREASE. sugar factory will be established dm1.ng the term of this measul'e, What do we pay for it? In the first place there will be a reduc unless it may be in an exceptional place and under exceptional con tion of our revenues. If I read the testimony rightly, this meas ditions. I believe it for this reason, that these conditions which ure will cause a reduction of revenue of about $7 a ton on SUgfl.r. I have just outlined, these obnoxious reasons that I have just There will be 1,400,000 tons to 1,500,000 tons imported from Cuba stated, which will imperil and restrict and burden our foreign next year. Seven dollars a ton would make a reduction of about trade, will become so hateful to the people of this country that 10,000,000 on sugar alone. There would be a further reduction there will be started a movement to abolish them, especially the of about 2,000,000, as I recall., on other products. The result continuance of the present tariff for five years. The agitation would be that we anticipate a possible reduction of $12,000,000 in will be "begun at once, and will increase in intensity as the bur our revenue for the sake of selling possibly from twelve to twenty den and injustice become known and felt. We know well that. million dollars of our products. as long as such an agitation continues capital will not embark in This reduction of $12,000,000 per annum comes at rather an in- the development of the sugar business. I believe as a Republican 1903. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 299 and a protectionist that we should reduce this tariff on sugar to this great opportunity for the development of the agricultural the proper protective point that is admitted to be fair, just, and sections of this country, which have stood so nobly by the Repub reasonable, and keep it there. Then under its provisions and lican party, and propose to so stand in the future, destroyed by leg under its beneficent influence we could develop the beet-sugar islation like this. Because it takes money out of our Treasury and industry, as can and hould be done in this country. And do we distributes it to foreigners at a time of possible national extremity, realize what that might mean? because it imperils or injures untold millions of our foreign trade, BENEFITS SUGAR INDUSTRY. because it restricts our commerce and prevents genuine reci TheAgriculturalDepartment reports there are twenty-two States procity, because it injures, if not destroys, oneof our most prom in this Union which can cultivate beet sugar. There would be ising agricultural industries, I am compelled by my convictions needed many millions of capital and there would be employed to vote against this bill. I ask leave to extend my remarks in the many thousands of men, and not only the direct results but the RECORD. [Applause on the Republican side.] indirect results of beet-sugar cultivation would be even more The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Minnesota asks unani beneficial. The result in France and Germany has shown that L:lous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD. Is there under the proper scientific system of beet-sugar cultivation in objection? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. The gen those countries, under the scientific and practical rotation of tleman from Missouri [Mr. CLARK] is recognized for forty min crops, the proportionate increase of yield of other crops, such as utes. [Applause on the Democratic side.] grain, grasses, and root crops, has been from 25 to 33 per cent Mr. CLARK. Mr. Chairman, in making any remarks upon this over the same land not so cultivated. The average yield of grain bill the first duty of a Democrat is to congratulate the Republicans in France in the beet-sugar districts under this system increased that" light" is breaking on their intellects at last. [Laughter.] from 17 to 28 bushels per acre on the average. It is not " a great awakening light," such as Abou Ben Adhem :BY -PRODUCTS. saw on a celebrated occasion, but it is a light nevertheless, and an There is further needed, when beet sugar is cultivated scien earnest of what may happen in the days to come, because it is tifically, a larger number of cattle to be used in connection with written in a very old book that "a little leaven leaveneth the the land cultivated. In Germany is used about 1 head to every whole lump." 6 acres; in France, about 1 head to every 7 acres. I conferred Before I say anything in particular about the bill I want to with one of the instructors in our school of 3.oariculture in Min return my heartfelt thanks to my distinguished friend from Pitts nesota, one of the most eminent in his line in the United States, burg [Mr. DALZELL] for delivering for the thirty-seventh time in if not in the world, and he informed me that in the Northwest it this House yesterday his famous speech about what happened would.}Je.a safe estimate that 1 head of cattle would be needed when the Wilson bill was finally passed in this House. [Laugh for every 5 acres. Another instructor connected with the school ter and applause on the Democratic side.] of agriculture. who has made a specialty of this very branch, It is said that practice makes perfect, and if that is true then informed me that 1 head of cattle would be needed for every 4 that speech of Brother DALZELL ought to be the most perfect piece acres. One of my constituents, a gentleman of culture and much of eloquence that ever fell from human lips. [Laughter.] Now, experience, who has experimented in this line, stated that in his I have a fair proposition to make, and every Democrat will in experiments he has found that 1 head to every 2 acres could be dorse it, and most of the Republicans, that if he will agree never utilized. to deliver that speech in the House again we will all agree to com There is now in the North. Central States, according to the last mit it to memory. [Laughter.] So that when he feels moved to census, about 1 head to every 20 acres of cultivated land. The deliver it all he will have to say is, "Dig up out of your memories result would be that under this calculation the nliiD.ber of cattle that speech I have delivered so frequently." [Laughter.] He would be increased from four to five fold, adding many millions said he might not have deliYered it if there were not a lot of new of dollars of wealth to our country and greatly increasing the fer Members in the House. tility of our farms. In our great llairy States, too, there is needed Well, it must be assumed that new Members can read, and one use for the pulp that remains in the factories after the juice has of the most valuable daily papers published in America is the been expressed. In our section this pulp is sold to the dairymen, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. In my judgment our Republican and the result of experiments that have been made show that its friends in this House are riding to a fall and pickling a rod for use increases from 7 to 15 per cent the value of the cream and their own backs. If there is anything that is probable at this milk over the same expenditure of labor and money used with time, it is that the Democrats will control the next House of Rep resentatives and elect the President of the United States [applause out it. on the Democratic side], and it becomes more probable every day. HEAT, LIGHT, AND POWER FURNISHED. In the November election Kentucky finally and for all time set From the residue of molasses in Germany a large amount of the seal of her condemnation on assassination as a political method alcohol is distilled, and it is actually shown by the 1·eport of Con in this country. [Applause.] Maryland oncemoretookhe:rplace sul-General Mason, one of our most reliable officials, that this al securely in the political household to which she legitimately cohol produces 10 per cent more heat and power units than is belongs. · found in refined petroleum. If we could have appropriate legis My friend from Ohio [Mr. GROSVENOR], venerable and vitriolic, lation by Congress so that alcohol could be utilized as it is in Ger said here last winter, when he and I delivered some remarks at many, the troublesome propositions of heat, light, and power cross purposes, that Rhode Island went Democratic last year by could be solved for many of our Western States. The German a fluke. It went Democratic this year, and two victories in suc Government has used this product to advantage and with econ cession for the Democrats of. Rhode Island show that there was omy in its public work. Stoves, lamps, and engines have been no fluke about it, and that it is the settled purpose of the voters constructed for its use, and there is no reason why there should of that State to return to the Democratic column where it used to not be a similar development in this country. belong. Greater New York has freed herself from the domina DISTRIBUTION OF B~~TS. tion of that great aggregation of political Pecksniffs that has con If these things could be brought to pass, the increase of crop trolled her destinies for the last two years. [Applause on the yield would be millions of dollars annually, the increase of cattle Democratic side.] and cattle products would be a source of immense wealth. The Now, if cool judgment could control and human passion did increase of your dairying is and has been a solicitude to Congress, not enter into the equation, then when we get possession of this and the development of new heat, light, and power possibilities in Honse we would do away, undoubtedly, with these gag rules. every locality in the West could be of untold benefit to our people. But Mark Twain says that human nature is very strong, and we Thousands of people would be profitably employed, and the indus all have a heap of it in us. [Laughter.] Lord Byron, after tries of our country could be wonderfully diversified and increased. enumerating everything that was sweet in nature that he could For my part, instead of having one of our principal food products think of, wound up by declaring that "sweet is revenge;" and produced on baronial estates, mvned by nonresident landlords, in he ought to know, because he practiced it as much as any man tropical climes, by semislave labor consuming little of our prod who ever lived. Now, the tighter you bind us down, the more of ucts, and always a menace to our institutions, I prefer to have these ironclad rules you ram down our throats, the more you will our sugar grown in our own land by the small farmer in the midst get rammed down your throats when we come into possession of of civilization, whlch he and his family do so much to support, this House. [Great laughter.] Consequently, you will do well to and who consume the bulk and the best of our native products. go a. little slow and to " bring forth fruits meet for repentance." I prefer to see the manufacturing done in our smaller communities I want to read you an excerpt or two from the RECORD which scattered all over the land, owned by thousands of small investors, my friend from Pittsburg [Mr. DALZELL] helped to make. He rather than to have it all done by a grasping monopoly in a few tells with great gusto what we did in passing the Wilson and of the larger cities of the country and distributed under the rigid Gorman bill, which my friend_fromNew York [Mr. PA.Y:sE] terms r~gime of the sugar trust. Yet the last is the inevitable effect of an enormity. So far as I am individually concerned, I voted for this bill. it holding my nose. [Laughter.] The gentleman from Pitts Now, Mr. Chairman, I greatly regret to see such magnificent burg [Mr. DALZELL] says that wemadethemswallow600amend possibilities destroyed by Republican legislation. I regret that ments to the Wilson-Gorman bill without debate! Well, that ia •300 90NGRESSION.AL RECORD-HOUSE. NOVEMBER 17' practically true. Now, that is a startling proposition if nothing sition. It has never been equaled, and I say that it does not lie in else goes with it. I will tell the rest of that interesting story, the mouth of the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. DALZELL] which the gentleman was too modest to relate. or r.ny other gentleman on the other side of the House to be The new Members for whose benefit he was delivering his re eternally and everlastingly lecturing us about what a Democratic markable speech for the thir~y-seventh time will be pleased to House did in the Fifty-third Congress. learn that when the Republicans got into possession of the House, Mr. DALZELL. Mr. Chairman, I would not have done it if I when my friend was helping run the machine, they concocted in thought it would hurt so much. [Laughter.] this House after nine days' debate the Dingley tariff bill and sent Mr. CLARK. I want to clear that thing up for all time to it over to the Senate, and they sent it back, not with 600 amend come and be through with it. I am tired of hearing that speechl ments, but with 872 amendments! [Laughter.] Let us see what [Laughter.] they did. How much debate did they allow us? Here is what There is another little matter I wish to attend to before I come happened. The first thing that occurred on the 8th day of July, to this bill. I always listen to my distinguished friend, the chair 1897, in this House was this message from the Senate: man of this committee [Mr. PA.ThTE], with pleasure, sometimes A message from the Senate, by Mr. Cox, its Secretary, announced that the with amazement, and frequently with awe. There was one par Senate had passed with amendments the bill (H. R. 379) to provide revenue agraph in his speech yesterday which constitutes what Horace for the Government and to encourage the inuustries of the United States, had r equested a conference with the House of Representatives on the said Greeley would have denominated" mighty rich reading." I will bill and amendments, and had ordered that Mr. ALLISON, Mr.ALDRICH, Mr. read it to you: PL.ATT of Connecticut, Mr. BURROWS, Mr. Jones of Nevada, Mr. Vest, Mr. Under the Wilson bill we had fallen behind in the revenue, and the object Jones of Arkansas, and Mr. White be the conferees on the part of the Senate. of a Republican bill always is to produce revenue as wen as protection. A Democratic bill, as, for instance, the Wilson-Gorman enormity, was neither After disposing of a point of order that was raised by the bril protective nor did it supply sufficient revenue to support the Government. liant and picturesque statesman from the new State of Washing It was wrong at both ends. They profess the principle of tariff for r evenue ton, Col. James Hamilton Lewis, to the effect that Congress was only, with incidental protection. They did not get the protection incidental, nor did they ~et the revenue nnder their bill; and so it is that we put the not in session at all [laughter], my friend from Pittsburg [Mr. rate o~ duty hi~ her on sugar than was abrolutely necessary because we could DALZELL] introduced the following rule: get thiS splendid revenue from the sugar duty, a revenue that came from the The Committee on Rules, to whom was referred House resolution No. M, people o! the United States who use sugar in their households. bave had the same under consideration and ask leave to report the following Now, to begin at the la.st end of it. Every Republican. in the substitute therefor: "Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to United States that I ever heard make a speech, every Republican move t<> nonconcur in gross in the Senate amendments t<> House bill No. 379, newspaper that I ever read in all my life has been asserfulg ever and a~ee to a committee of conference, asked for by the Senate, on the dis since the tariff question in this country became acute that "the agreemg votes of the two Houses; and the House shall, without further delay, proceed to vote upon said motion; and if the said motion prevail, a committee foreigner pays the tariff tax" and the American citizen does not. of conference shall b9 a.P:()Ointed, without instructions; and said committee It is said an open confession is good for the soul. I congratulate shall have authority to JOlll with the Senate committee in renumbering the my friend the chairman of the committee on making it, for he paragraphs and sections of said bill when finally agreed upon." says: The gentleman from Pennsylvania, as the RECORD shows, on And so it is that we put the rate of duty higher on sugar than was abso that occasion really desired to take away from the Democrats in lutely necessary, because we could get this splendid revenue from the sugar this House the poor privilege of debating that rule for forty min- duty, a revenue that came from the people of the United States who used . ntes-twenty minutes on a side-but JosEPH WELDON BAILEY, of sugar in their households! Texas, at that time leader of the minority of the House, and among That sentence answers every Republican speech that· has been the leaders of the Senate now, the greatest debater on the Ameri made on the tariff in the last twenty years. [Applause on the can Continent, bar none, would not have it. He secured the twenty Democratic side.] It comes right down to the Democratic posi minutes, and during that time he delivered these sentences, which tion, and I thank God that the Republicans have gone even this I commend to the careful and prayerful consideration of the gen- little step toward Democracy. Thomas Jefferson said in his first inaugural address, which has become a classic," We are all Fed tlemen on the other side of the House: . eralists; we are all Republicans.'' If he were delivering that ora Mr. S:{)6aker, the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. SWANSON] has suggested a. weak pomt, which it was the purpose of the oommittee to guard. They do tion to-day, in the changed nomenclature of the times, he would not desire to be embarrassed with a proposition to eliminate the gratuity to say, "We are all Republicans, we are all Democrats, and it really the sugar trust. looks from this performance here that we are going to be all Demo That applies to-day as well as it did when Mr. BAILEY was crats." [Applause and laughter on the Democratic side.] That standing up here making that speech. is not all of that wonderful paragraph. · He continues: Here are some more of his remarks: Under the Wilson bill we had fallen behind in the revenue, and the object If they are willing to take that responsibility, certainly we on thissidewill of a Republican bill always is to produce revenue as well as protection. not complain. If they are willing to go to the country, having given the It is a work of supererogation, but I am going into that thinO' sugar trust all that it asked for ana. more than it expected, and having denied the House an opportunity for a separate vote upon that question, we are con once more. I was really surprised to hear a man of the eminenc~ tent to have the record made up in that manner. of the distinguished gentleman from New York, the chairman of That is exactly what we ask for in this connection, the privi the committee, make any such declaration as that. lege of voting on an amendment to this bill to strike out the dif I will tell you what produced the deficiency in the revenue. ferential on refined sugar, which amounts, in round numbers, to The McKinley tariff bill produced it; and the Wilson tariff bill, 12! cents per 100 pounds of refined sugar, and the leaders of the while it did not suit me, would have produced enough revenue to Republican party on the other side of the Honse were so afraid run the Government if the income-tax section had not been de that the Minnesota and California and Michigan and other beet clared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United sugar producing statesmen on their side of the Chamber would States, when it reversed the precedents of an entire century to kick out and vote with us again, as they did in the last Congress, render that decision. [Applause on the Democratic side.] The · that they would not give them the opportunity to do so, and gentleman from New York speaks of the Wilson-Gorman bill as there you are. [Applause on tho Democratic side.] You can a "tariff for revenue only" measure, when, as a matter of fact, it not get away from that proposition. carried an average tariff of thirty-nine and a fraction per cent on But that is not all of this rule business. I want to stir up your about 4,000 articles of everyday consumption. minds just a little more about it. Here is a rule that I say ha-s never What I am going to read to you is not original at all. I owe it been paralleled in any legislative body in any civilized country to the industry and courage of the Hon. JoHN WESLEY GAINES , of on the face of the earth. It was brought in here on February Tennessee. He thrashed out that question very thoroughly once, 27, the day they were stealing a seat from a Democrat which they and at the risk of boring some of the old Members, and for the had no earthly use for, a Democrat who was as lawfully elected purpose of carrying on that school of instruction which my friend to CongresJ as any man that sits in this House to-day. Here is from Pittsburg [Mr. DALZELL] started yesterday, I will read you the rule they brought in, and I want the younger Members, to a little correspondence. Brother G A.INES took it into his head one whom the gentleman was addressing his speech, to listen to it: day that he was going to find out the truth about this business of The Committee on Rules, to whom was referred the resolutions of the how that deficit came. He went over to the Bureau of Engrav House numbered !68 and 470, have had the same under consideration, andre ing and wanted to get Secretary Foster's letter. He could not port the following- in lieu thereof, with the recommendation that it do pass: set the letter until he went to the Secretary of the Treasury and "Resolved, That immediately upon the adoption of this rule, and at any time thereafter drning the remainder of this session, it shn.ll be in order to got an order from Mr. Gage to give him a copy of that letter. take from the Speaker's table any general appropriation bill returned with Here is the whole of the Gaines-Gage correspondence, which is Senate amendments, and such amendments haVlng been read, the question a valuable thing to have in the Democratic family and which . shall be at once taken without debate or intervening motion on the following question: 'Will the House disagree to said amendments en bloc and ask a. proves beyond a peradventure that the McKinley tariff bill created conference with the Senate?' And if this motion shall be decided in the a deficit in the revenues some eighteen months before the Wilson affirmative, the Speaker shall at once appoint the conferees, without the Gorman tariff bill was enacted into law: intervention of any motion. If the House shall decide said motion in the HOUSE OF REPRESENT.ATIVES, negative, the effect of said vote shall be to agree to the said amendments." Washington, D. C., March !5, 1897. Now, gentlemen, that rule amm.mts to this: That if you vote on Sm: I desire to procure the original letter, or certified copy thereof, writ one proposition you shall be counted as voting on another propo- ten by Mr. Secretary Foster February 20, 1800, addressed to the Chief of the 1903. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 301 Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of which the following purports to be a. agree to that proposition. [Laughter.] This last summer, when co-py: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Senator JOSEPH Ba.~soN FORAKER Washington, D. C., February~. iB!JS. were punching Uncle MARK over the ropes in the Ohio convention, Srn: You are hereby authorized and directed to prepare designs for the 3 just as he went into a comatose state he exclaimed, "For God's per cent bonds provided in a Senate amendment to the-sundry civil bill now sake, let well enough alone." [Renewed laughter.] And there you pen In 1899 the total imports into Cuba were $66,783,100, of which ports from Cuba amounted to $215,107,742, and the total imports- the share of the United States amounted to 43.7 per cent. amounted to $162,244,893, showing a balance in favor of Cuba of In 1900 the total imports had fallen to-$66,658,600, while the $52 862,849. - · . share of the United 5tates rose slightly to 43.8 per cent. For the four years 1899 to 1902, inclusive, the total exports In 1901 the total imports had fallen to $66,58-4,000, while the amounted to $232,494,081, and the total imports to $'375,261,323, share of the United States had fallen to 42.2 per cent. showing a balance against Cuba of $42,769,242. Or, if we com- In 1902 the imports had still further decreased to $62,135,464, an~ pare the exports and the imports of the last two years with those this including specie, while the share of the United States had of the years 1894 and 1895, we find a shrinkage of nearly fallen to 42 per cent. During the same period of the exports $85,000,000. from Cuba to other countries the share of the United States fell In other words, during the two years immediately before the from 83 per cent to 76.2 per cent. war Cuba sold $53,000,000 more than she bought, and yet during In return for our trifling concession of 20 per cent, Cuba con- the last four years! the greater part of which time she was under cedes us reductions in the rates of duties now levied upon prod- American control, she sold nearly $43,000,000 less than she bought. nets of the United States ranging from 20 to 40 per cent. This certainly does not show increasing prosperity. These liberal concessions should certainly permit the United Two years ago Cuba was on the verge of bankruptcy, and that States to obtain a virtual monopoly of the Cuban market. she has escaped ruin is not due to any effort on out part. - I know that gentlemen from Louisiana, in common with repre- That she has been able to exist at all during the last two years sentatives of the beet-sugar industry, are afraid that this 20 per is because of two reasons: cent reduction will so stimulate the production of sugar in Cuba First, the change in her government; second, the marketing of as to result in driving the American industry out of business. an increased amount of tobacco and sugar. They should console themselves with the thought that the per In 1902 the spectacular and extravagant rule of General Wood, capita of consumption in this country has kept-pace with the in- having saddled upon Habana for ten years the infamous gambling creased production throughout the world and that there is still a monopoly of the Sociedad Anonima J ai Alai, gave place to the con safe margin of some one and a half million tons which must be servative, economical, sensible, and business-like administration purchased by the people of the United States elsewhere than in of President Estrada Palma, who has proved himself an executive Cuba. of the very highest order. Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. But the gentleman from New The fiscal year 1899-1900 produced a revenue of $17,385,898, York will admit, I think, that the incre.ased production of raw during which time there was expended $15,661,093. General sugar in Cuba has been very remarkable. In the last t.hree years Wood was in office about six months of this time. · it has jumped from 630,000 tons to 1,130,000 tons this year. During the fiscal year 1900-1901 the revenues amounted to "17;- Mr. McCLELLAN. 1'he gentleman is not altogether exact. 165,080 and the expenditures to $17,645,427. General Wood was The exports of sugar from Cuba have increased to that extent, but in office during the entire year, and the budget showed a deficit of the production has not. Last year they drew very largely from about half a million dollars. the reserve. From. July 1,1901, to May 19, 1902, or less than eleven months, Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. They increased from 680,000 tons the revenues amounted to $14,708,302 and the expenditures to to 1.130,000 this year. $16,401,480. General Wood was still in office and the budget Mr. McCLELLAN. The production estimated for 1903? I showed a deficit for the eleven months of nearly two million have got the figures, and I think the gentleman will find that dollars. those are the exports from Cuba and not the production. From May 20, 1902, the date of the commencement of the On- Moreover, Mr. Chairman, while the per capita consumption of ban Republic, to December 31, 1902, the revenues amounted to sugar in Great Britain in 1001-2, according to Licht's sugar cir- $9,729~448 and the expenditures to $8,102,587, a surplus of over a cular, was 98.03 pounds, the per capita in the United States was million and a half dollars, while for the six months from-January 70.59 pounds, and there is no reason why our per capita should 1,1903, to June 30,1903, the revenues amounted to $8,197,9-tO and not eventually be as great as that of Great Britain~ the expenditures to $5,229,250, a surplus for six months of nearly It is claimed by some gentlemen that a decrease of the Dingley three million dollars. · duty on sugar will not lower the price to the American consumer, In other words, under President Estrada Palma the cost of gov although these same gentlemen insist that a tariff tax is always crnment is over 87,000,000 per annum, or nearly 40 per cent less borne by the consumer. than it was under General Wood. - Now, eliminating the question of the incidence of a tariff tax, I This has alone greatly relieved the economic condition of Cuba. let us for a moment examine the probable effect of the reduction The second factor which has kept Cuba from bankruptcy has been of the sugar duty on the cost to the consumer. , the marketing of an-increased quantity of tobacco and of sugar. On the 1st of September of this year the Brussels sugar conven- While the total value of tobacco exported from Cuba to the tion went into effect, having been ratified by France, Germany, United States in 1902 was $10,899,924, the total value for 1903 Austria, Great Britain, Holland, Sweden, and, tentatively, by Italy. is approximately $13,141,646, or an increase of nearly $2,250,000. Without going into detail as to the provisions of this conven- During the past year a very large quantity of sugar, including tion, it is enough for present purposes that the effect of the con- a considerable amount of the reserve stock, was imported from vention is the destruction of the power of the kartels to artificially Cuba to the United States. increase the price of sugar within the boundaries of the countries I do not ~sh to be . unfair to the gentleman from Michigan. where they are powerful and to decrease it abroad. In other The crop for 1903 amounted to975,000 tons, as against 850,181 tons words, as the result of the Brussels convention, the world price for 1902. of sugar, heretofore artificially fixed by the arbitrary action of Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. And for 1903 and 1904 it is esti- the sugar kartels, will henceforth be regulated by the ·natural mated at 1,130,000 tons. law of supply and demand. Mr. McCLELLAN. That is a matter of estimate, and we have Now, if it is true, as some of the opponents of. this bill claim, had experience in that before. Two years ago it was estimated that the reduction of the Dingley rate on sugar will enormously all sorts of ways. r stimulate production in Cuba, it must necessarily follow that the Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. It is Willett & Gray's estimate. supply will outrun the demand so as to lower the price until the Mr. McCLELLAN. _Yes; but they were 100,000 tons out of the demand meets the supply, and, as a consequence, the consumer way in the crop of 1902. will derive the benefit of the lower price. Mr. WM. ALDEN SMITH. That would still make it over a While we are steadily losing our trade with Cuba, Cuba is milliQJl tons. - steadily losing her ability to trade. Unless something is-doni? to Mr. McCLELLAN. Yes. secure the Cuban market and to relieve economic conditions in The crop for 1903 amounted-to 975,000 tons, as against 850 -181 Cuba, it can only be ·a question of time when what little com- tons for 1902 . . But of the 1902 crop, only 439,382 tons were ex merce she can afford to have will be deflected from our po:J;ts and ported, while in 1903 the reserve was drawn upon, so· that the when her respectable poverty will be changed into absolute total amount exported to the United States was 1,069,610 tons. bankruptcy. This increased exportation was not due to increased prosperity, It is claimed that Cuba has become so prosperous that she does nor did it result in profit to the planters. not need any commercial help from us. It is generally conceded that the cost of a pound of 96° centrif- Cuba does not come to us as a beggar. She is not an object of ugal sugar, free on poard ship at Habana, is 2 cents. The ship charity. She is not bankrupt, but she is, none the less, very poor. ping charges, freight, insurance, etc., from Habana to New York Our responsibility did not cease with the transfer of her gov- range from 0:25 to 0.265 cent per pound, according to the market ernment to Cuban hands, and it is our duty to allow her to be- price of sugar. The bond price of sugar in New York-that is, the come prosperous. She comes to us asking ·for a -trade- arrange- market price of sugar less the duty-must therefore be 2.25 cents ment which will permit her to better her condition, and in return per pound in order to permit the Cuban planter to sell his prod she offers us concessions of priceless value. · _ uct without loss; or, if the duty, which amounts to 1.685 cents For the two years 1894 ·and- 1895-, "f?efore tJ:lE) war, the to~al ex- per pound, be added, the market price must be about 3t cents. _ 1903. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. ~. ,305 When the last reciprocity bill was before the House the market "adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual price was about 3i cents, representing a loss to the Cuban planter liberty." of 0.56 cent per pound. Whether our a.ction there was wise or foolish, right or wrong, Shortly after that time the Brussels convention was signed by we must bear the consequences. the delegates taking part, and in anticipation of its ratification We are as much bound in honor as a nation to foster the mate there was an immediate shrinkage in continental sugar produc rial prosMrity of Cuba, so that an adequate government can be tion. The effect of this was an increase in the price of sugar, so maintained, as we were bound in honor to withdraw from the that the last Cuban sugar crop was sold at between 3!- and 3i island the moment an adequate government was established. cents per pound, representing a loss of approximately over a mil We have denied to Cuba the right to enter into intimate rela lion dollars to the sugar planters of Cuba. tions with any other power. It is true that she may negotiate The planters prefer to get rid of their sugar and pocket their treaties of commerce with other countries, but were she to nego loss rather .than pay the insurance ~nd storage charges for. an in tiate such treaties and to repudiate any of the obligations she definite period, with the hope of ultimately obtaining a reduction might incur, as Latin-American republics have sometimes been of tbe Dingley tariff rate. · known to do, the cocontracting power would be unable, either Should a 20 per cent reduction of the Dingley rate be conceded directly or indirectly, to even request her to live up to the terms to Cuban sugar, the duty will be reduced to 1.348 cents per pound, of the treaty without having to answer to the United States. which at a market price in New York of 3! cents would mean a It is scarcely probable that any of the nations of Europe would profit of about 0.144 cent per pound to the Cuban planter, or, on a care to enter into intimate commercial relations with a power crop of 850,000 tons, a profit of nearly $3,000,000 to Cuba. that has been made irresponsible through our action. In short, Cuba has existed because the cost of her Government As we have made it impossible for Cuba to seek alliances else has been reduced over $7,000,000 per annum; because the sugar where, it is a duty which we can not shirk to permit her to enter planter has been able to market his crop and a part of his re into the closest political and commercial relations with us. serve at a loss, and the tobacco planter has been able to sell about Cuba complied with the terms of the Platt amendment willingly ;2.225,000 more of his product. and in good faith, trusting to the honor of the United States that The objection to the bill that it is undemocratic is scarcely our part of the bargain would be carried out. valid. I grant that it does not of itself shatter the Dingley law It is a stain on the national good faith which can never be re and give us in place a tariff for revenue and revenue only, but it moved, that the petty interests of a second-rate trust should have certainly does lower the excessive and iniquitous Dingley duties been considered of greater moment than the fulfillment of the in one direction, and it certainly does decrease taxation to the word of honor of our great country people of the United States. Now, at last, after years .of waiting, after the spectacle of an Let me call the attention of those Democrats who are opposed insolent lobby practically dominating the Congress, we propose to reciprocity to the fact that the first treaty of reciprocity was to partially fulfill our pledge to Cuba by giving her this twopenny negotiated by Franklin Pierce, a Democratic President; that the measure of relief which is warranted not to offend the suscepti Hawaiian treaty of reciprocity was renewed by a Democratic bilities of even the most sensitive trust in existence. P1·esident, Grover Cleveland, and that the platform of 1892 pro Many believe that as the yeru·s go by a common destiny will claimed the doctrine as ~tound Democracy. draw the United States and Cuba closer and closer together until, And let me especially ask them, if they are in doubt, to read in God's good time, the Republic of Cuba will become an integral the '' Report on the privileges and restlictioil}:l on the commerce part of the greatest nation on eai·th. of the United States in foreign countlies," sent to the House of If Cuba is ever to throw in her lot with ours, she must do so Representatives on December .16, 1793, by the then Secretary of voluntarily, having first been united to us in interests, in senti State, Thomas Jefferson, in which he says: ment, and in aspirations before she is united politically. Such being the restrictions on the commerce and navigation of the United The shortest road to union is by tearing down the barriers of States, the question is, In what way may they best be removed, modified, or the prohibitive tariff which divides the two nations. The strongest counteracted? plea that can be made to Cuban hearts is to excite their gratitude. As to commerce, two methods occur: First, by friendly arrangements with the several nAtions with whom these restrictions exist, or, second, by We have made a solemn promise to Cuba. If a Republican the separate act of our own legislatures for countervailing their effects. majority in its might is only willing to partially keep that prom There can be no doubt but that of these two, friendly arrangements is the ise, the blame and the shame rest with the Republican party. most el.lgible. Would even a single nation begin with the United States this system of This bill is but a partial fulfillment of our obligation: but as free commerce it would be advisable to begin it with that nation, since it is we are confronted with the alternative of either not fti.lfilling one by one only that it can be extended to all. Where the circumstances of that obligation at all or of only fulfilling it in part. there should either party render it expedient to levy a revenue by way of impost on com merce its freedom might be modified in that particular by mutual and be no difference of opinion upon this side of the Chamber as to equialenvt measures, preserving it entire in all others. the necessity of enacting the bill. Some nations, not yet ripe for free commerce in all its extent, might still It is not a question which should be considered in the light of be willing to mollify its restrictions and regulations for us in proportion t-o the advantages which an intercourse with us might offer. Particularly they personal preferences, of sectional feeling, or of p1ivate interests. may concur with us in reciprocating the duties to be levied on each Side, or It is a question which should be considered in the light of the in compensating any excess of duty by equivalent advantages of another duty and of the honor of the United States. [Loud applause on nature. the Democratic side.] Certainly the objection of Republicans who are conscientious Mr. PAYNE. M1·. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from protectionists is much more valid, for this bill is unquestionably Indiana [Mr. CRUMPACKER] twenty minutes. a breach in the wall of protection and a step in the direction of a The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Indiana is recognized tariff for revenue and revenue only. for twenty minutes. Whether the sugar trust will or will not increase its dividends Mr. CRUMPACKER. Mr. Chairman, I shall support the bill under the terms of this bill, whether the United States will re under consideration for ethical and political, rather than econom ceive direct benefit or not, whether Cuba is bankrupt or only on ical reasons. When the Republic of Cuba was born into the family the verge of bankruptcy, whether this bill is undemocratic or un of nations its freedom was somewhat hampered by conditions and republican, there is an argument in favor of its enactment which, limitations imposed upon its sovereignty by this Government to my mind, rises above all other arguments, and that is what which are embodied in what is commonly known as the" Platt some gentlemen sneeringly call the sentimental argument, but amendment." The status of Cuba is not that of a dependency which really involves that greatest of all sentiments-the good ~ but its relationship with the United States is similar to that of~ faith and the honor of the United States. qualified suzerainty, and in view of the limitations imposed upon Let me very briefly run over the history of the question which the power of the new Republic affecting substantially its functions is before the House. of international sovereignty, it is the solemn duty of this Gov In 1898 the United States recognized the independence of Cuba, ernment t? render adequate compensatory b Tepresenting a new government of the J>COple, by the people, and has an area of about 44,000 square miles and a population of about for the people, constitutes one of the proudest pages in American a million six hundred thousand. When properly developed, as history, and we can not afford to mar or in any manner becloud it will be if conditions are sufficiently encouraging, it has the ul that splendid act of justice and magnanimity by following it up timate capacity to produce sugar enough to supply the entire with a narrow, selfish, and unjust commercial policy. This Gov world, and in my judgment, under the influence of the pending ernment stands sponsor for the new Republic, and the question of treaty, inside of five years Cuba will produce and send to this cost is a secondary consideratiDn. We should either grant the country every pound of sugar that will be necessary for us. to reasonable requests of the Republic of Cuba respecting commer bring from abroad. The island is exceedingly fertile and prolific. cial and all other relations, or unqualifiedly abrogate the condi Its resources are large and its products are numerous. The only tions that we imposed upon its sovereignty. In addition to this, thing that seriously hampers rapid development in the island to Mr. Chairman, the location of Cnba, occupying as it does a com day is lack of a market for its sugar product and the want of an manding position over the Gulf of Mexico and the Isthmus of adequate labor supply. The island of Java is but little larger Panama, makes it imperatively necessary from a political stand than Cuba, and its natural fertility and resources are no greater, point that in a large sense American influence shall control the but it has been developed and is to-day supporting a population of policy of the island. It is truly within the sphere of our political 28,000,000 people. Cuba has the capacity to creditably and com influence, and conditions upon the island-political, social, and fortably maintain a population of from 10,000 000 to 15,000,000 commercial-are and must forever be so intimately connected souls. This condition perhaps will not come about for a consid with our own affail·s that prudence demands that our relations erable period of time, but it is a condition that will ultimately with the new Government shall be of the most intimate and cor come, and the power and influence of a country so fertile andre (iial characte1· possible. The close proximity of Cuba to the sourceful with so large a population will be a considerable factor United States, and its intimate connection with om own peace in the politics and commerce of this country. and welfare, justified our interposition in the first instance and In the development of Cuba there will be a large demand for our conduct in securing its independence. It would be a policy iron products, for agricultural implements, machinery, and many of inexcusable stupidity for this country to now tum the island things that the people of this country are able to supply, and, adrift and allow foreign influences to get a foothold in its com under the advantages we obtain by the provisions of the pending mercial and political policy. It would be a practical abandon treaty, we ought in a large measure to supply all the things that ment of the principles that we professed in intervening to wrest may be required along the lines I have suggested in the develop the island from further domination by the Kingdom of Spain. ment of the island. We will be benefited in a large measure by Furthermore, it is the belief of manyof our people that the ulti the terms of the treaty from the standpoint of trade. mate destiny of Cuba will be annexation to the United States. Our trade with foreign countries may be greatly increased That eventuality can be justified only when the people of the island under the influence of reciprocity treaties. If we are receiving willingly consent to it. We owe the new Government our sincere certain kinds of products from several competing nations and good will a11d encouragement in its independent national life, but should negotiate with one, giving it material advantages in our if the time shall come when it is the judgement of the people of ports, as a matter of course our trade with that country would Cuba and of this country that annexation is the wiser policy for be greatly increased, but an increase of trade brought about by both, conditions ought to exist in the island that will make its such conditions is not always a benefit, viewed from a purely com assimilation more easily accomplished. Bnt whether annexation mercial standpoint. An increase of trade is always a blessing to shall ever be brought about or not the clear policy of the United -the country if it comes about by operation of natural law. In States is to Americanize the new Republic as far as possible. Its determining the question as to the advantages derived from an political institutions are largely patterned after ours. Its national increase of trade, the question of concession and sacrifice is and social life ought to be brought into fuller harmony with our always an important factor. civilization, in order that peace and good will between this coun I confess I am nDt enamored of the policy of reciprocity as a try and that shall be permanently assured; and no policy tends means of promoting foreign trade. It is unscientific, and arrests more to knit peoples together into closer friendship than intimate and often destroys the operation of natural economic law. If ·commercial intercourse. Therefore, for political reasons alone, our tariff policy were made up altogether of reciprocity agree there is abundant justification for the enactment of the pending ments with commercial countries containing various and varied ·measure and the vitalizing the treaty that has been negotiated. rates of duty upon similar commodities brought to our ports, The pending treaty provides that products from the island of competing countries for our trade would not occupy an equal Cuba shall be admitted into our ports at a rate of duty 20 per cent footing. and the wbole system of commerce wonld be artificial 'below those fixed by the Dingley law, and, as a matter of com ized and chaos and factitious forces would reign supreme. It 'pensation, products of the United States exported to Cuba are to seems to me that the wisest commercial policy for any country is .be admitted at preferential rates of from 20 to 40 per cent over to receive the products of foreign countries in its ports upon 'other countries. Cuba, like all tropical and subtropical coun equal terms where impartial treatment is accorded it by those "tries at all developed, is a greater producer than consumer. countries. I believe in the open-door policy, and by that I mean Judged from a pure money basis, it is not likely that the United that we should treat all of the commercial countries impartially Istates will receive any material benefits from the treaty. I do not that deal with us according to the same principle. The open-door mean to say that our trade with Cuba will not be increased, because policy, as I conceive it to be, means simply equal commercial it will, but what I mean iB that we will probably yield more bene treatment of foreign nation.s that do not discriminate against us. fits from a commercial standpoint than we will receive. Sugar is It is perfectly consistent with the policy of protection, and it en the chief product of Cuba, and a reduction of 20 per cent of the courages a better feeling mnong foreign na.tions and at the same tariff rate will amount to $7 a ton on the entire product of the time puts producing countl'ies seeking our markets upon an equal island. The quantity of sugar consumed in the United States footing and allows those that can produce to the best advantage last year was something over 2,500,000 tons. The quantity im to have the full benefit of their superiority. Iported from foreign countries was about 1,600,000 tonsJ and of I am discussing this question now from a purely commercial 'this seven or eight hundred thousand tons were imported from standpoint, and, as I said at the outset, I am in favor of the pend Cuba. ing treaty with Cuba upon other grounds. It is often the case I .AB long as the product of Cuba is not sufficient to satisfy our that political considerations outweigh commercial considerations, foreign demand, the rebate of $7 a ton on sugar will wholly go and where t~ is true a country is perfectly justifiable in grant into the pockets of the Cuban sugar grower, since there can not ing trade concessions for the purpose of obtaining political advan oo two prices in the markets for the same commodity, and Cuba tages. Again, it is sometimes necessary for a country to enter will have an advanta~e over all competitors of 7 a ton. It is not into special trade relations with another country for the purpose to be supposed that Cuban sugal' will be sold any cheaper than of protecting itself against unjust treatment in the commercial .SUgar fTomGermanyor Austria, so it is quite clear that the Cuban world. The policy of retaliation is a most important weapon in sugar producer will be _the beneficiary o! the rebate of 7 a ton the commercial armory, and it should always be used where it is until the Cuban product more than satisfies our demand for for necessary to secure fair and just treatment. eign sugar. This is the object of the treaty. It is designed to Reciprocity, as a permanent commercial policy, in my judg give the Cuban sugar grower the benefit of the substantial con ment, can not be reconciled with the policy of protection as ex cession in order to promote development and to contribute to the emplified in the last two Republican tariff laws. Those laws were general prosperity of the island. Whenever Cuba produces more framed along the line of imposing a tariff upon products the like than su~ar enoug'h to satisfy the Amarioan demand, tben the con of which can be produced in this country, for the double purpose cession made 41. the tariff will be divided between the Cuban sugar of raising revenue and encouraging the home industry. This is producer and the American sugar consumer. This is in accord the essence of protection, as expressed in the McKinley law ance with economic law. The largest sugar product in the island enacted in 1890 and the Dingley law enacted in 1897. Those laws o? Cuba was in 1894 and amounted to something over a million admitted into this country free of duty all commodities, not clas tons. sified as luxuries, the like of which can not be produced here. In The development of the isla11d, however, is in its infancy. It negotiating reciprocity treaties it is necessary, of course, to make 1903. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-·HOUSE. 307 trade concessions in favor of foreign countries, and where the Cuba and a condition of prosperity which it ha.s never enjoyed be tariff laws are framed for the double purpose of revenue and pro fore in all its history. The American name and memory will be tection, and customs are collected exclusively upon competitive cherished by that grateful people more fully as the years go by, products, no concessions can be made except upon competitive and it certainly will be a matter of pride to every American that articles. The result mn.st be that domestic manufacturers, seek this country has been the means of raising the ill-fated island ing markets abroad under special trade arrangements, will urge from a position of destitution and dependence to that of prosperity the reduction of customs duties upon other products in order to and independence. [Appla11Se on the Republican side.] secure better markets for their own. This policy creates discord, Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Chairm~ , I now yield twenty minutes to friction, and warring among our own industries and leaves the the gentleman from New York [Mr. DoUGLAS]. whole industrial situation in a condition of uncertainty and Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. Chairman, after nearly two years of un anxiety. complaining expectancy-quiet waiting, but nevertheless hope de If reciprocity is to be the permanent commercial policy of this ferred, our sister Republic of the south, whose birth as a nation _.country, we should revise our tariff laws and impose duties upon we were so largely instrumental in bringing about, is still wait articles the like of which we can not produce in order to have a ing for us to carry out those anticipations she had a right to ex basis for the negotiation of trade treaties. If we had a tariff pect, which practically amounted to an absolute promise on our upon coffee, we could say to the Republic of Brazil, " We are pre part that we would grant her, through the lowering of our tariff, pared to make substantial reductions in favor of your coffee the opportunity to market her products, chiefly sugar and tobacco, products if you will give UB equivalent concessions for certain at a remunerative basis, she having lost her previous outlet by lines of our wares.'' This could be done without sacrificing the reason of the Spanish-American war, and it is hardly to the honor interests of any American industries and without breeding com of our nation, the wish of our people, or the justification of her mercial and sectional wars among our own producers. The hopes that she is still knocking at our door and pleading for a :McKinley bill in 1890 greatly enlarged the free list, and Mr. relief which practically all admit is necessary for her commercial Blaine criticised that historic measure on the ground that it gave salvation. Let us therefore no longer delay or stay our hands, away substantial customs duties without receiving a single con but at once redeem our pledge, if only to the degree we propose by cession in the way of preferential advantages in foreign markets the passage of this bill, and allow the 20 per cent reduction, so in return. This I conceive to be the reciprocity policy advocated that Cuba may go her way with renewed hope in the building up by 1\Ir. Blaine, one of the most intelligent and consistent of a long of her own destiny. line of able champions of the policy of protection. He believed that We need her sugar, we can use to advantage her tobacco, and the tariff should not be abrogated upon noncompetitive articles, should never have forced her to pay full duty on the crops of 1902 except upon receiving equivalent concessions in the markets of the and 1903 to the extent of about $10,000,000 when she could little countries producing and importing that class of commodities. afford the burden, after being devastated and impoverished by a That is the only kind of reciprocity that can be reconciled with cruel war. She is by adoption almost as close to us, and in actual a policy of protection. It is along the same line that Hon. Joseph distance closer, than our own newly born daughters of Porto Rico, Chamberlain is advocating the reconstruction of tariff duties in Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands, yet we allow the two former the British ports. He favors larger cn.stoms schedules, not for absolute freedom of entry to our home ports and rebate on sugar the purpose of protecting indUBtries of the United Kingdom, but and tobacco from the Philippines 25 per cent, which is likely be for the purpose of enabling the Imperial Government to accord fore long to be made 50 per cent, from our present tariff, as I note preferential rates to the English colonies and other countries Senator LoDGE has lately introduced a bill to that end, and from that care to enter into trade treaties with Great Britain. The debates that took place in this Hon.se at the last session I judge principle is identical with the Blaine idea and, in my judgment, such-extra allowance would be favorably considered by this Con in view of the fact that all the great powers of the earth are hedg gress. ing themselves about with protective laws, it is only a question I believe now, as I did at the time of the former debate, in 1902, of a few years when Great Britain will enact a general tariff law that 25 per cent to 30 per cent rebate should be given, and that sufficient to enable her to grant preferences to her own colonies it will do no serion.s harm to our American sugar-beet industl·y and to other countries where she may find it to her interest to do even if for a time capital might hesitate and the building of new so. The limit upon my time only allows a brief reference to this factories would not be inaugurated, and I had then and have now great question, and I have only attempted to state a few general slight sympathy with those who made so fierce a fight to retain conclusions. I have endeavored to discriminate the pending the full duty on the theory it was necessary protection to any treaty from what is commonly termed the" general reciprocity American industry (as most evidence appeared to the contrary), policy." or that it would in any way imperil the geneml plan of protec There is much sentiment in this country in favor of more lib tion, which has been so potent a factor in the grand upbuilding of eral trade relations with the Dominion of Canada, and there is the greatest manufacturing industries in the world. We should much to jn.stify that sentiment in the way of political argument. remain loyal to our successfully tried system of protection, but That is a question solely for the future. If a trade treaty should not subservient to it, or make ourselves its abject slave, which ever be negotiated with Canada, in my judgment it will be justi some do on my side of the Hon.se, as it is our personal duty to ap fied mainly upon political grounds, and it does seem that the peo proach all such subjects on the broad lines of national honor and ple of the United States and the people of Canada ought to be expediency, and not sectional interest. bound together by stronger ties of political and commercial unity With the greatly improved methods of manufacture, and the than they are to-day. gradual cheaper supply of beets through their culture on a large The Cuban treaty has my unqualified approval. If Cuba was scale, and the use of the by-product.s, we should be able to turn out geographically situated so as to be without the proper sphere of the refined sugar to meet competition, unless conditions greatly American influence and we had no sponsorship for hel' national change and rapidly, Cuba also increasing her output and cheap life, I probably would entertain different views upon the subject. ening it beyond any present calculations of the experts on the sub Two years ago I opposed in a Republican caucus a. bill authorizing ject to-day. reduction.s of tariff revenues in favor of Cuban products. My po Those who should be well posted claim that if the present duty sition was based in the main upon the conditions contained in that has to be paid no money can be made, even if the plantations were bill. It provided that Cuba should not only make equivalent equipped with the best up-to-date machinery, and railroad con trade concessions, but that she should at the same time in the nections built to bring the cane more cheaply to the centrales, but same connection ingraft upon her system of government our nat that 20 per cent reduction will enable the larger planters to real uralization policy and our labor-exclusion laws. It occurred to ize a fair margin on the capital invested, but is hardly sufficient me then, and I believe that my position was right, that Cuba to warrant the smaller landowners to go to the expense of fertil could not afford to comply with our demands. The labor situa izing and erecting new works, and they will most likely have to tion there is such that her policy may be to encourage laborers sell out to the capitalist. from foreign countries. This wa.s our policy in the early days of There is one feature of this bargain I can not believe in so the Republic, and it greatly promoted development and enhanced strongly as many seem to do, perhaps unthinkingly, and I say our prestige. this in all good faith, as I am among the strongest advocates for We have arrived at a time in our national life when it is alto an increased exportation of our manufactured goods, and we gether proper and expedient for us to impose rigid restrictions should lose no fair opportunity to aid our exporters, as I believe upon immigration and to prevent laborers coming here under exportation to be the salvation of our indn.stries, and the only way contract altogether. This condition has not arrived yet in the in which we shall be able to maintain our rapid growth and up history of the Republic of Cuba, and it occurred to me that it was hold even to a reasonable degree the present wage scale, which is unjust and unwise for UB to impose any such conditions upon so desirable. Cuba as a consideration for our making commercial concessions I question, however. the wisdom of the demand we have forced which ought to have been made without hesitation or reluctance. upon Cuba for trade concessions for our goods under the guise of I have no doubt that the pending treaty will soon become opera fair reciprocal reciprocity. The term reciprocity mearu merely tive, and I look forward to a revival of activity in the iBland of the same thing as the swapping of horses among men or jackknives 308 CONGRESSIONAL.., RECORD-HOUSE. NOVEMEER 1-7' between boys, and it might be much better for the entire world strongly urge it to be given consideration, as during the past if all granted uniform tarlli laws to all others on goods crossing twelve months it has been made plain to us that powerful interests the ocean or border, which would avoid jealousy and discrimina with whom we are already or may shortly be at war commercially tion, and I am glad to know the last speaker [Mr. CRUMPACKER] do not like and will not quickly accept or tolerate our going ahead agrees with me in these views. In any reciprocity treaty one party continually, as opportunity offers, taking away ther inherent sup must get the better of the other. posed rights and privileges to trade in markets heretofore open to All countries have a perfect right to adopt a. tariff to suit their them on equal bases with ourselves. We seem willing to feather special needs, and no one can complain; but so soon as they give om· own business nests by plucking the plumage from the commer privileges to one nation and not another, this is clear discrimina cial body of England, Germany, France, and other nations, and tion and invites retaliation. I will frankly admit, by reason of blindly shut om· eyes to trade retaliation that may swiftly follow. the circumstances surrounding our relations with Cuba, it is Our friend from Virginia who spoke so well and gave us many more reasonable and allowable we should proceed on the lines we new ideas to consider tries to put all our loss of business abroad propose than would apply generally, and the same thing can be on the grand Republican Dingley tariff act, but fails to see that said about Canada; but that does not change the principles in while other nations may not like our high tari-.ff at home, they volved. Circumstances will at times make reciprocity desirable, can not justly complain, if we will bear the burden, so long as even necessary, and the lesser of two evils; but it will most we do not discriminate, but so soon as we do, by reciprocal deals always be dangerous. and shutting-out processes, they then find justification in decid We can give Cuba 20 per cent reduction in duty for products, ing to put up a barrier against us in markets they control at home including raw sugar, and few can object, although it shuts out or abroad. the sugar of the English West Indies, which now goes to Canada We are rather boastful to-day, and appear to fancy ourselves as its market, receiving a lower duty, as coming from an English gre..o:ttly, but must not forget that there are several other nations colony; but when we ask similar allowances for ourselves, rang on this earth who have more markets subject to their ploasm·e ing from 20 per cent to 40 per cent on American goods sent to than ourselves (leaving out our home market in this statement), that island, is it true we do her no harm, or, rather, is it not true and said ports of entry for our goods on equal tariff bases with we really injm·e her and also the feelings of outside powerful na all others is of the utmost necessity to us, as we-may be shipping tions who may remember it, and to our own detriment? many millions in value to said countries. As likely the best illus It is admitted and well known that Cuba raises her revenue to tration, we will take England, and all of us are aware of the seri run the country practically entirely from her customs, and if we ous thought she is now giving to this issue, and how Mr. Cham to-day do 30 per cent or more of the trade this must mean cutting berlain is endeavoring to secure from that country an acceptance down her revenue accordingly, and, as it is stated frankly on this of his views, which are certainly not likely to help the United floor that our further desire and object is to drive out other States, which country he states he looks upon as his most power nations' goods, so as to secure a larger share of her business for ful trade adversary. ourselves-in fact, pra.cticallyallof it if wecan-doesitnot follow He at present wishes to bring about by his personal propaganda if we are successful that we force on her a still larger heavy reciprocal rei lotions, not so much with foreign countries-that will shrinkage of her revenue, which may be serious to her finances? come later-but with their own colonies, which is more easy of Is it not again true, although I have not heard it mentioned, that arrangement. Canada has granted it. Australia and New Zealand already Cuba has in contemplation this result, and that she admits are about granting a 10 per cent (at least) reduction on English she may be forced to raise her tariff all around to offset the loss goods. South Africa, it is said, will shortly follow with 5 to 10 she is likely to sustain? per cent, and India, Ceylon, and the West Indies, and such places I fail to see how, under such conditions, we will cheapen the in China, etc., also the Crown colonies, or those under control by cost of our goods for her benefit, which bas been put to us so what is termed " spheres of influence,'' can readily be brought into strongly, but rather that we will increase the cost of all importa line. May we not easily lose many millions more in these markets tions to her people and largely those she must have from other alone than we will gain in those where we have seen fit to close nations, as I doubt if the greatest optimist among us will not ad the door in favor of ourselves? Time alone will tell; but we shall mit there are some articles she will by inclination and preference b3 forced to act on the defensive, and that is always objectionable. or necessity desire to obtain from others. Let us hope this event Mr. Chamberlain has already assailed us bitterly for shutting uality may not be necessary for her to face, as she can little afford them out.of our newly acquired colonies, where England has traded at present to pay high prices for her necessities, and as a non for centuries, and in several of his recent speeches he has not been manufacturing nation she is dependent on the outside for most sparing in his remarks regarding the likely action we will take in all the general requirements of her people. We naturally should Cuba. We must remember England's colonies are intensely loyal have pride, as our esteemed leader on this side has said, in doing to the mother country; they look to her for protection from for the larger share of Cuban trade; but with that island almost at eign enemies; their moneyed relations to her are as close as those our doors it can hardly be either satisfactory or a source of glori of blood, and these causes alone are worth to her 10 per cent in fication on our part to think or admit that our manufacturel's, who the way-of preference in placing business, and if a reduction is boast of world conquest, must have a bounty in their favor of 20 then made of 10 per cent actual benefit we can wisely count it as per cent to 40 per cent against all others to enable them to hold 20 per cent in her favor. what they now ha'""e and secure a larger foothold in said island. Germany also is agitating and agitated over this position of One of the speakers referred to various items in which we ours, and her newspaper articles have lately been very bitter. And should largely increase our trade, as whisky, soap, shoes, etc.; but who can blame her if she retaliates at home and abroad, as she is there are other reasons besides reduction ef duty which enter into to-day the most aggressive nation in Europe searching for new such matters. In the case of whisky, for instance, the Cubans markets? We can not ride .several hobbies or horses at the same baYe for years used Scotch whisky, and it will be necessary for time, and it is rathe1· foolish to show such indignation and dis our distillers to educate them up to the taste of Bourbon and rye may if we are differentiated against, when we play the same game before we can expect to do much in this line. The soap chiefly if the chance offers. used, except the common variety, is highly perfumed, costly, and The open door for American goods has become the platform cry not such at present as we can supply to advantage. Shoes, also, for om· statesmen and speakers, but they seemingly forget the they mostly take from France and Spain, and the same are closed doors in the United States, Porto Rico, Hawaiian anii specially manufactured for their market, and our people will have Philippine islands, and, lastly, Cuba. to study their requirements carefully before they can capture the I symp per cent if products of Cuba come to our shores in an American interpreted clauses of State constitutions limiting the taxing power vessel. We have but few deep-water vessels, and any encourage of the legislature. ment we can give to them is our clear duty. The last of these cases was decided last March, and is reported Reference was made to a fleet of American ships trading with in the one hundred and ninetieth volume of United States Su Cuba and then sailing farther on down the coast to South America, preme Court Reports, at page 107. Another is reported in 180 invading and securing for American industries that splendid mar United States Reports, at page 506. Both of these cases com ket which should become so valuable to us in the future; but it is pletely sustain my view. Besides these, there are two others re- with sincere regret, we must admit, that said fleet is but a phantom . ported in 94 United States and 105 United States. The essence one, and likely to remain so, unless the Republican party moves of all these decisions is that the manner of enactment of a statute more quickly than they have in the past to redeem their pledges is of its substance; and hence, that when the Constitution plainly and do something to again restore the Stars and Stripes on the directs that bills of a certain kind shall originate in a certain ocean. Every American who loves his country can not but hope manner or body and receive certain prescribed sanctions, those for action. I doubt, however, if we will be able to obtain 20 per directions are a condition precedent to the validity of the act. cent to 40 per cent special concession on our goods from the (180 u. s.' 315, 322.) southern republics unless we do more than we are at present doing Mr. Chairman, let us consider this bill in the light of the prin to obtain their good will and confidence. [Applause.] ciple thus judicially established. The committee report says: We must all admit that the dignified and successful manner in That ~wer of taxation is expressly lodged in the Congress. (Sec. 8, Article which Cuba has so far administered her affairs is vastly to her I of the Constitution.) Section 7 of the same article provides that all bills for raising revenue shall ori~te in the House of Representatives. It is not credit, and shows her people are seemingly more capable of self intended here to cite authorities or advance reasons on this proposition. The constraint, control, and good government than was predicted or records of Congress abound with unrefuted arguments on the affirmative of anticipated by many in this House. This legislation, I believe, this contention, and the practice of Congress has been uniformly in the same is only a beginning, however, and that her ultimate destiny will direction. be closer relationship with us, if not finally an absolute merger There is no dispute, then, as to what the constitutional require of her affairs in our national life. It is perhaps well she had ad ment is. The question arises, however, as to what it means; and versity at the start, as likely the real time of trial and risk for that I shall endeavor to show by its history. her will come when she attains prosperity. Hard times brings I think I can show that it does not mean the mere acquiescence individuals and the people of a nation together. A.ffiuence leads of the House in the action of the Senate on measures raising rev to temptations and dissensions. enue or fixing conditions upon which the House may originate Heartily glad, however, should we be-even if many of us on bills for raising revenue; that the Constitution gives that right to both sides desire absolute union-that it now appears likely to the House unconditionally and indefeasibly, and that tho reason come slowly and gradually, as it will prove beyond a doubt the for ita so doing is to be found in the principle that taxation and honesty of our position as her protector and redeemer from Spain, representation under our governmental system must always go to and that we had no selfish motive so far as her freedom was in gether. I admit that every treaty "requiring the payment of question; and this will oblige the civilized world to give us credit money," from the first of them to the last, has been referred to for disinterestedness, which was questioned by some at the close Congress to make the necessary appropriations of money. That of the late war. [Applause.] • is because no money can be drawn from the Treasury except in Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Chairman, I now yield fifteen minutes to consequence of appropriations made by law and not by treaty. the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. MORRELL.] It could not have been otherwise under the Constitution. But Mr. MORRELL. Mr. Chairman, I am rejoiced that we are so this is not. an appropriation bill. To show how far it differs fi·om soon to determine what was a vexed question-what our duties such a bill let me read another paragraph from the report of the are and are not in relation to Cuba. Since the question was first committee, in which it is admitted that the true function of the ·agitated our duties have been so well defined by the sentiment of bill is not to appropriate money to carry into effect a valid treaty, the country at large, as first portrayed by the press and later by but to make an invalid convention with Cuba valid. The report the sentiment which we find existing among the :rdembers of says: Congress assembled in this extraordinary session, not merely on To render the convention valid it is necessary to enact into law the lan the Republican side of the Chamber but equally by our colleagues guage of the proviso of Article vm, "and no sugar, the product of a.ny_other foreign countrr, shall be admitted by treaty or convention into the United on the Democratic side, that-there is practically nothing left but States while this convention is in force at a. lower rate of duty than that pro for us to all join hands and vote for the bill. vided by the tariff act of the United States approved July 24, 1897. '' To enact There is, however, a principle involved, and a principle to my these words into la.w would be to admit by Implication that duties could be lowered by treaty or convention. Your committee can not consent to this mind as interesting to the Democratic side of the House as it is to proposition, nor is it believed that such a.n admission would be ss.nctioned this. The distinguished conservative body of gentlemen who by any Member of the House. The bill, therefore, adds the following saving conduct their deliberations at the other end of the Capitol clause at t."'leconclusion of this_proviso: ".A.n.d provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be held or construed as an atimis1:;ion on the part of have certain prerogatives sacred in their eyes, and, as far as I the House of Representatives that customs duties can be changed otherwise know, never interfered with or encroached upon by this body at than by an ac.t of Congress, originating in said Honse.!-' This proviso, in the this end of the Capitol. We have, as they have, certain preroga judgment of your committee, preserves the contention of the Honse as to its tives which I had always understood were sacred to us-prerog rights and prerogatives under the Constitution. atives as dear to us as those which they enjoy and as sacred to Mr. Chairman, if the proviso of Article VIII .of the convention us as their prerogatives are to them. Among the prerogatives can not be accepted by the House directly, it can. not be accepted which they have is the treaty-making power, the power of con by it indirectly, by adding a new proviso to it, as is done in this firmation or rejection of appointments, and others, all jealously bill. This last proviso is a mere declaration, like those recently guarded. Two of the greatest prerogatives which we have are, inserted in the District of Columbia and Indian appropriation first, one which we guard and make operative by our own a-ction bills, respecting the policy of Congress, which the courts have in adopting the rules which govern the procedure in this body declared nugatory. It amounts to nothing. It is a mere pretext namely, the power to enact legislation, a power which we, under for doing per obliquum what can not be done per directum. But this rule, propose to put into force at 4 o'clock on next Thursday if it were otherwise, this House has no right to tie its hands by afternoon. Another of these prerogatives, equally dear to us, and passing any law respecting taxation which the people of the in fact I may say practically mandatory under the Constitution, United States may not honorably, and of their own free will and is the prerogative that all measures affecting the revenue must mere motion, repeal, amend, or alter, without reference to the emanate in the House of Representatives, they being the only body consent of any other people. I say this House has no right, or directly chosen by the people. This question, to my mind, as I power, or pretense of right to tie its own hands in this way. said before, is equally as dear to the Democratic side of the House Neither has it the power to tie the hands of the American people as it is to the Republican. in this way. And if it is true, as the report says, that "foreign The report of the Committee on Ways and Means does not en countries, in making treaties with us, are bound to take notice of tirely satisfy me. That report admits that this is legislation the requirements of our Constitution," is it not equally true, and respecting taxation. And it matters not, in my opinion, whether far more reasonable, that we are ourselves charged here with such legislation may be referred to the second section or to the notice of these requirements? Are we not charged with knowl eighth section of the first article of the Constitution; it is still edge of the history and meaning of the provision that all bills for limited by the seventh section, which provides that" all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives? raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives." Mr. Chairman, the exclusive right of this House to originate In my opinion a literal compliance with the language of that bills for raising revenue, according to the authority conferred by section is a conditional precedent and one which must be per the seventh section of the fhst article of the Constitution, can not formed in its enth·ety before any revenue bill can rightfully be be surrendered or compromised without inflicting a fatal wound come a law. And while section 7 has never been brought directly upon our entire system of government. The great principle on and squarely before the Supreme Court for interpretation with which the English monarchy was established by the revolution of reference to acts of Congress, yet I have found analogous cases 1688 was that there should be no taxation without representation which fully sustain my-contention-cases in which that court has that the people, who were to pay the taxes, must decide, through 310 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. NOVEM:B.ER 17, their immediate representatives in Parliament, what amount and [Mr. CLARK]. I have not had the pleasure of meeting the gentle· what kind of taxes they were willing to pay, and should have the man from Pennsylvania, but I hope to do so during the session of right of withholding from the Government the very means of this Congress, and hope that our relations throughout its sitting existence, if necessary, in order to procure redress of grievances. will be of the most amicable character. If he intended his re This right of the people to act through delegates responsible to marks for our information only, I thank him for the pa1·t that themselves alone was claimed as the only sure remedy for viola was intended for me. But if it was for the purpose of attempt tions of the right of petition. The petitions of the people had ing to disCI·ed.it the Democratic party in the course taken at the been despised by irresponsible kings, who had been able to col time mentioned by him. I respectfully decline to give it heed and lect money from them without their consent, and had used it to will now dismiss it from my thoughts. hire standing armies for the enslavement of the people. This Now, Mr. Chairman, I will address myself to the measure that great principle was the citadel of English liberty, and, as Madison is pending before the House. I favor it, because it has upon it says, it was the germ of American independence. the brand of Democratic reciprocity. As I understand reciprocity, After this bill passes it can not be repealed or amended without when it is boiled down to its final analysis it means" Do unto the consent of the Senate, in which the States are represented others as you would have them do unto you," or give and take. equally without regard to population or wealth. Its passage will I understand from the provisions of this measure that we are to therefore be a clear infraction of the spirit of the Constitution. receive from the Cuban Government the benefit of from 20 to 45 "Nothing is clearer," said Chief Justice Fuller in the income-tax per cent reduction of the Cuban duty on the products of the soil cases, "than that what the Constitution intended to guard against and of the factories and furnaces of the United States that find was the exercise by the General Government of the power of di their way to th~ Cuban ports, and that we are to extend to that rectly taxing persons and property within any State through a Republic a fair and amicable tariff rate or toll upon the products majority (in Congress) made up from other States." (157 U.S., of the toil of the laborers of that island of the sea that they see 582.) The idea was that the people, according to their numbers, fit to export to our shores. should participate, through their representatives here, in all mat I believe in reciprocity to the core. I believe it ought to be ters of taxation, and without any limitation as to time except taught in every valley and upon every hill. I believe it ought to that which provided for biennial elections. And in th~ the Chief be practiced in all communities, as well as between all nations. J nstice merely expressed in another form the views of Franklin I believe in a reciprocity that says to those who advocate the in his letter to Governor Shirley in 1754. In that famous letter, great canal upon the South and asks the assistance of those in the " concerning the voice of the people in choosing rnlexs by whom North to dig it, that they ought to be willing to accord to those taxes are imposed," Franklin said: of the North the privilege of cutting their canal from the Hnd on I apprehend that excluding the people of the colonies from all share in the River to the Great Lakes and assist them in doing it, thereby choice of the grand council will gwe extreme dissatisfaction as well as the opening up those great waterways to the great waterway of the taxing them by act of Parliament where they have no representation. It is very possible that the General Government might be as well and faithfully earth-the Atlantic Ocean. I believe in a reciprocity that says to administered without the people as with them; but where heavy burdens are the people of the West, in the arid region," If you will help us to to be laid upon them it has been found useful to make it as much as possible take the water off of our lands in the South, lying along the their own ac~ for they bear better when they have. or think they have, some share in the direction. (2 Franklin's Works, 376, 377.) banks and in the basins adjacent to the great Father of Waters, we are in favor of helping you to put water uponyonraridlands.'' But here it is proposed to deprive the people of any share in I believe in a reciprocity that says to England, nay, to all the levying or repealing taxes so long as the President and the Senate other governments of the world, that if they will allow us to in see fit to continue in force this convention with Cuba. "It may troduce our products into their empires and provinces at a fair be for years, and it may be forever." It arms the Government and equitable reciprocal basis we are willing to allow them to in with perennial resources, and forms a precedent for making such troduce theirs into our great nation upon the same terms. Such resources sufficient, to maintain a standing army of any size, a course seems to be just, and I believe the conditions are ripe whereas the constitutional provisions for biennial elections and for it. for limiting appropriations for armies to two years show that the It has virtually been said upon the floor of this House by the framers of the Constitution intended to prohibit all such legislation. gentleman from New York [Mr. PAYNE], the leader upon the The whole history of the Constitution and the Revolutionary other side, that the time was ripe for it, and I was surprised at period shows that the principle embodied in section 7 of the first one or two admissions that he ma.O.e in his speech on yesterday. article was deemed essential to the security of the liberties of the He must have made it believing in the absolute security and people, and that unless it had been incorporated into the Con certainty of his reelection from his own Congressional district, stitution that instrument would never have been adopted. The and because of a feeling of great confidence in the position his J onrnals of Congress, the Madison Papers, The Federalist, Elliott's party has taken upon this bill, believing that it has adopted a Debates, and all the books of that period teem with discussions of reciprocal policy that will continue it in power in spite of his sui this " first grand right of the people," showing how deeply the cidal admissions. He said that- men of those days took this matter to heart. Judge Story, in his It seemed to us [the Republican party] that it was incum bent upon us as a great work on the Constitution, emphasjzes the importance of the great nation out of our wealth, out of our surplus in the Treasury, out of seventh section of the first article, and Judge Cooley, in his notes our overflowing taxation, which greatly exceeds our expenditures, to do on Story's work, refers with approval to the Dawes resolution, something for the Republic of Cuba, and hence this bill was brought into the passed by this Honse in 1872, and to the action of the Senate with House. regard to that resolution. (Story on Constitution~ sec. 880, note.) The only conclusion that I can draw from his language just · I have not the time necessary for reading these authorities, but quoted is that there is an exorbitant, unjust, and unnecessary I refer to them as sustaining my contention throughout, and as taxation resting upon the toiling masses of this country that is showing why I feel justified in offering a mild protest against actually overflowing its Treasury, and that out of the overflowing this bill in its present form, in spite of the fact that so many able TreaSUI-y we can well spare $6,000,000 of our excess revenues at lawyers and eminent statesmen seem satisfied with it. I shall this time bywayof reciprocitywith Cuba. I agree with the gen vote for it out of deference to the opinion of the majority of my tleman that we can spare the six millions of our revenue that colleagues and the general sentiment throughout the country will be cut off in that way, and I go further and say that if the among Democrats and Republicans alike that we owe a still fur- Treasury is overflowing, if taxation is greater than the needs ther duty to Cuba. . , of our Government demand or require, why can we not cut off :Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Chairman, unless there is some one on this more of this excessive revenue and let it remain in the hands of the side who desires to take the floor at this time, I will yield thirty people, where it rightfully belongs and where it will circulate minutes of my time to the gentleman from :Mississippi [Mr. WIL through the channels of trade until all our people will have felt LIAMS], to be used at this time by the gentleman from Texas its beneficial presence? (Mr. BURGEs]. It has been al·gued upon this floor that this is a Republican The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. BURGESS] measure. The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. GROSVENOR] went so is recognized. far as to say that he wanted it to retain its Republican features Mr. PAYNE. The gentleman does not seem to be present at to the extent that Democrats would not try to swear the parentage this moment. I yield this time, Mr. Chairman, only on condition of it over to this side of the Honse. Sir, we deny that the reci that it is to be used this afternoon. procity feature of the bill is in any wise related to any defined The CHAIRMAN. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Republican policy. There are two features of the measure, how Arkansas [Mr. MAcoN] for fifteen minutes. ever, that I will guarantee no Democrat will ever try to swear Mr. MACON. Mr. Chairman, I had the pleasure of listening over this way. One is that which attempts to bind us-though yesterday to the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. DALZELL], it can not under the law do such a thing-for the period of five who in the cour!:!e of his remarks indicated that he was talking for years against the further reduction of the tariff upon sugar the benefit of the new Members of the present House, which por imported from any other country, because of the reciprocal rela tion of the addresS' of the gentleman was alluded to this morning tion that will exist between us and Cuba under the provisions of in a very clever manner, indeed, by the gentleman from Missouri the bilL We claim that to be a Republican feature, and we do 1903. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 311 not want it to mar the beauty of our Democratic child, reci the adoption of the Dingley tariff act that a lower rate of duty procity. was ample protection to encourage and foster the beet-sugar in Another Republican feature expressed in the bill is that which dustry, we believed that a lower rate of duty was sufficient to take fails and refuses to extend the provisions of the measure so that care of the sugar industries of the States of Louisiana and Texas," it will take in the refined article as well as the crude. We under and then in the face of that belief adopted the high-tariff provi stand, however, that to extend the provisions of the bill to refined sion of the Dingley law upon the subject of sugar, is enough to sugar would be a blessing to the people and a check upon the ab discTedit him and his party before the American people and be normal gains of the sugar trust, is why it is left free from its pro fore the world. By his declaration he virtually admits that his visions. We know that it is not the policy of the Republican party has taken 20 pe1· cent too much money out of the pockets party to help the people where their interests are in conflict with of the consumers of this country upon the sugar schedule alone. the interests of the trusts. Therefore we are glad to say to the Then! in the name of reason and good conscience, I ask, how much gentleman from Ohio, "Yon are welcome to the last-named fea has his party extorted from them upon other schedules of fue bill? tures of the bill. Nurse them, che1ish them as yon will. No Can the people stand such extortion? Will they longer stand it Democrat will ever recognize them as being the features of the is the question of the hour. [Loud applause on the Democratic Democratic child of reciprocity." But as to the reciprocity fea side.] ture of it that says to Cuba, "If yon will allow our products to Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks enter your ports at from 20 to 40 per cent reduction we will allow in the RECORD. _ yours to enter ours at a reduction of 20 per cent of our present The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman asks unanimous consent to tariff," we say that it is a Democratic feature, and no Repub extend his remarks in the RECORD. Is there objection? [After lican can claim it as his offspring or disguise it so it will not be a pause.] The Chair hears none. The gentleman from North known to its own. It is true that Democracy finds her child of Carolina is recognized for ten minutes. reciprocity in bad company in this inst..o:tnce, but a loving parent Mr. THOMAS of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I had not never fails or refuses to recognize its own because it happens to intended to debate the pending bill, but I feel constram;: d to do fall into bad company for a time. Reciprocity has been preaclled, so to-day in the limited time allotted to me because I believe that taught, and practiced by Democrats since the formation of our this bill is a step in the direction of tariff reform and thB breaking Government, and we are not going to be frightened out of voting down of the high rat.es of the Dingley tariff law of July 24, 1897, for this bill by the cry of "Republican measure." and because I hope it may prove also a step in the direction of Sir, there are not Republicans and sugar planters enough be freer trade relations with other countries, including the Dominion tween Nantucket on the east and Yuba ])am on the west to keep of Canada, thereby benefiting the people and constituency whom us from voting for the bill. I understand, sir, that individual I have the honor to represent. Republicans have from time to time favored the great principle As a Democrat and in common with the Democratic Members of reciprocity between nations. It was recognized as a living, of the House, I would like to see the bill amended and put upon burning question by the greatest Republican statesman that ever it the amendment proposed by the Democratic minority, which sat in the chair that you now occupy, in my judgment-the Hon. was known in the last Congress as the Morris amendment, adopted James G. Blaine-but, notwithstanding all his brilliancy, ability, in the Fifty-seventh Congress as an amendment to the reciprocity and statesmanship, he could not bring his party to accept his bill with Cuba then pending, and which was passed by the united views and practice what he attempted to teach. The much action of the Democratic minority and the Republicans interested lamented and illustrious McKinley also embraced the doctrine of in the manufacture of beet sugar. This amendment provided reciprocity a short time before the close of his life. He realized that- that the time had come when we could no longer narrow our There shall be levied, collected, and ~aid, in lien of the duties thereon now· transactions to the confines of our own country, and that it was pronded by law, on all sugars above No.l6, Dutch standard in color, and on necessary for us to reach out for broader fields in which to market all sugar which has gone through a process of refi:n:ing, imported into tho our rapidly increasing commerce. United States L825 cents per pound. Mr. Chairman, I have great faith in the possibilities of this The effect of this amendment would be to strike from the tariff grand Union of ours when she has surely launched her reciprocal laws the differential duty upon refined sugar, thereby benefiting bark upon the great ocean of commerce. I believe it is strong the consumers of refined sugar in this country. enough in its matchless resources and superior citizenship to car The bill should also be amended, in my opinion, as proposed by ry its trade, in peace, to the vast expanses of civilization. And, the Democratic minority, by striking out that clause which pro sir, I believe we are too great to desire trade upon other than vides that during the life of the treaty with Cuba, for fi"V"e •ears. peaceful terms with any country. I do not believe it necessary, there shall be no further reduction of the duty upon Cuban"suO'aJ: wise, or just to attempt to gain markets or trade by the sword. imported into the United States and that no sugar the prod~ct Coercion will never make a contented or profitable customer. of any other foreign country shall be admitted during said pm'ioa Nations have no more right to obtain trade by the bayonet than into the United States at a lower rate of duty than that provided a merchant has with a gun. I do not believe in that class of trade by the Dingley tariff law. that requires hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent in an at In other words, the United States shall grant no other country tempt to pacify a batch of crude islanders in an effort to open up any reduction of duty upon sugar during the life of the treaty and . a market in which we might sell a few bales of cotton, bushels of no further reduction than 20 per cent shall be granted to Cuba corn and wheat, barrels of flour, or pounds of meat. It would be during said time. I do not think such provision legally binding infinitely better from every conceivable view to take the money upon a future Congress. that has been expended upon our island possessions and spend it But under the rule adopted by the Republican majority tha upon the rivers and harbors of this great country. With it we Democratic Members of the House are unable to Eeeure the adop could have leveed the Mississippi River on both sides from its tion of these two amendments. Under these circumstances, and source to its mouth. It would have channeled out all of the in accordance with the caucus resolution of the Democratic party, smaller navigable rivers, giving to them all of the necessary locks I am in favor of this bill, while I opposed the rule which seeks to and dams, and in leveeing and channeling o~t our own streams pass it without the Democratic amendments I have mentioned. we would have opened up the most fertile valleys of the earth, in I am for the bill, first, because I believe, with the distinguished which billions of dollars' worth of produce could have annually gentleman from New York [Mr. McCLELLAN], that it is a step been added to the commerce of the world and thousands and thou in the direction of tariff reform and is a breach in the excessively sands of happy and prosperous homes filled with intelligent Cau high tariff wall erected around the country by the Dingley tariff casian inhabitants would have been erected, that would have law. I believe that a revision of the high prot.ective rates of this been a great addition and mighty help to this Commonwealth. law is necessary to the American people and demanded by the Is there any hope that the Philippines will produce such a happy American con2umer. condition or add such greatness to our nation? Mr. Chairman, These rates are not only unjust and oppressive to the people, reciprocity is one of the greatest thoughts of this or any other but, as was well said on yesterday by the gentleman from Vir age. Its free adoption will put a stop to our" overflowing taxa ginia [Mr. SwANSON], the effect of these high rates is to induce tion," it will remove burdens of labor from the bended backs of many of the nations of the world at this time to so modify their the toiling people, it will tear down the high tariff wall that is a policy with respect to the tariff as to resort to retaliatory meas menace to our own people as well as to all the nations of the ures. Great Britain, which has been heretofore a free-trade coun earth. It will stop the great Chamberlain in his mad rush to try, is now proposing through one of its eminent statesmen, Jo close the doors of the English markets against us. It will open seph Chamberlain, free trade between the colonies and the mother up a free and mutually beneficial commerce between us and Can country and a protective tariff against the United States and the ada., South America, Germany, France, Russia; nay, sir, I may rest of the world. truthfully say, between all the nations of the earth and us, all of I was especially impressed by the statement that Canada still which can be done without the tooting of a horn or the firing of a maintains a high tariff against the United States and threatens gun. It seems to me, sir, that the admission of the gentleman to increase it, and the preferential tariff in favor of Great Britain from New York [Mr. PAYNE] that" we believed at the time of is 33!- per cent of the Canadian customs tari::ff. Now, Canada, by 312 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. NOVEMBER 17, blood and by kiru;hip, by her position north of us upon the Ameri A bill authorizing the President to enter into a commercial treaty with the Government of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great can continent, and by every tie, should be a part of this country Britain and Ireland, with the view to reciprocity between the United States if we are determined upon a policy of expansion and annexation. of America and Canada, With reference to a. modification of the customs She should buy much more largely than heretofore from the tariff of Canada imposing a duty upon American strawberries. United States, and I am fully of the opinion that if we are to have Whereas by section 4: of the act entitled "An act to provide revenue for the Government and to encoura~e the industries of the United States," freer trade relations with Cuba by means of reciprocity treaties or approved by the Congress of the Urn t-ed States of America July 24,1897, the otherwise, we should have freer trade relations by means of reci President of·the United States of America, by and with the advice and con procity or otherwise with the Dominion of Canada. sent of the Senate, is authorized to enter into commercial treaties with other countries and to concede thereunder, for equivalent commercial advantages And, Mr. Chairman, I shall support the bill for the further from such other countries, a reduction of the duties prescribed in the afore reason that I hope and trust it is a movement in the direction of said act; and future reciprocity treaties with other countries, especially those Whereas under the customs tariff of Canada strawberries and other ber ries enumerated in tariff item 75 of said customs tariff of Canada are required upon the American Continent, including the Dominion of Canada. to pay a duty of 2 cents per pound, the weight of the package to be included I hope it is the harbinger of Canadian reciprocity as well as a in the weight for duty; and breach in the tariff wall erected by the Republican party. The Whereas the abolition or reduction of said duty would be of great advan tage to American farmers cultivating strawberries for market, and said duty Democratic members of the Committee on Ways and Means, in is practically valueless to the Canadian government, while the abolition their report filed on yesterday, declared: thereof would open up the Canadian market to American farmers cultivating strawberries and other berries enumerated in said customs tariff of Canada: We regret that the party in power has not seen its way to confer still fur Therefore ther benefits upon citizens of both nations by providing for even freer and Be it enacted, etc., That the President of the United States of America yet more untrammeled and unrestricted commerce between them. As long be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, by and with the advice as the present party is in power we can perhaps hope for tariff reductions and consent of the Senate, to enter into a commercial treaty of reciprocity and revision only from reCiprocity treaties. It IS a piecemeal process, but it under the provisions of the act of Congress of July 24, 1897, with a view to is better than no process at all. We hail it as a harbinger of future reciproc the abolition or reduction of the duty imposed by the customs tariff of Can ity treaties with other countries, especially those upon the American Conti ada upon strawberries and other berries enumerated in the seventy-fifth or nent, and notably our neighbor to the north, the Dominion of Canada. other tariff item thereof. A reciprocity treaty, under the provisions of the Dingley law, Mr. HUGHES of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, there are many authorizing the President, by and with the advice and consent of things that can be said both for and against this bill, but inas the Senate, to enter into commercial agreements or treaties with much as the gentlemen on the other side of the House and those other countries, and to concede thereunder for equivalent com on this side of the House are all going to vote for the bill in any mercial advantages a reduction of not exceeding 20 per cent upon event, it does not seem to me that anything I .can say to-day will the duties prescribed by the Dingley tariff law, and similar to the materially affect the result. Many Democrats are opposed to this ... treaties negotiated with France, the Argentine Republic, and bill on various grounds. Some oppose it for the reason that it is other countries, might also be negotiated with Great Britain as a Republican measure and that it will benefit the trusts. It seems to the Dominion of Canada, which would be of great benefit to to me that if we are ever to vote for a Republican measure, we all sections of the country, and especially to the State and distiict are ne~essarily going to vote for a measure that will benefit the I have the honor to represent. trusts. As the gentleman from Missouri [:Mr. CLARKl said this At the opening of this session of Congress I introduced the bill morning, I, with the other Members on this side of the Honse, which I hold in my hand, and· which provides for the negotiation rejoice that light at last is breaking in upon the Republican party of a reciprocity treaty with Great Britain as to the Dominion of in this matter. Perhaps we are all, Republicans and Democrats, Canada, especially with the view to the abolition or modification of going to get a little closer together than we have been. It may the seventy-fifth item of the customs tariff of Canada of 1897, which be that in a little while we shall see that spectacle that Tom imposes a prohibitory tax of 2 cents per pound, the weight of the Johnson some years ago predicted would be seen on the .floor of package to be included, as duty upon American strawberries and this House-that of the Republican and Democratic leaders rac other berries imported into Canada. · ing to the Speaker's desk to be the first to introduce a bill for I shall incorporate my bill in my remarks, and I trust in the fu tariff revision. ture it may be the policy of both the majority and min01ity, Re Coming from the district that I do, and representing as I do publicans and Democrats, to advocate the negotiation of such a many varied interests, I feel that there is much to be said on both reciprocity treaty with Canada, framed wisely as to its schedules. sides of this question; but we are agreed in my part of the coun Such a treaty would be of incalculable benefit to my own constitu try-and it seems to me that before long we will be agreed in ency as well as to the whole of the American people. If we are every part of this great country-that the tariff must be reformed to have wider markets in Cuba for our cotton manufactures, lum until it will be impossible for any man or combination of men to ber, rice, cattle, and other articles by means of a treaty or com monopolize any of the necessaries of life or to be enabled to favor mercial agreement, I insist that no greater benefit could be con the foreign consumer because of the high price extorted from our fen·ed than to open up new markets to the American people in own people. the Dominion of Canada by means of another treaty with Great The only question, as I look at it, is whether the tariff shall be Britain. reformed by the Republican party or by the Democratic party. Especially would such a treaty benefit the people of eastern It seems to me there can be no question but that that tariff must North Carolina and the district I represent, as well as other sec be reformed by the party which is now in the minority. tions of the country. It is an old maxim, an old and true statement, that the minority Upon the one item of strawberries alone, to which I have re is always in the right. This may sound strange, but there is rea ferred, the abolition of the Canadian customs tariff would mean son for it. The minority in its desire, p3rhaps a sordid desire, to _a saving of thousands of dollars to my constituency and the open get into power, will search for and adopt principles which attract ing up of new markets in Canada to North Carolina, the South, those who are good and true men to its standard, This has been and the whole country. Whatever differences of opinion exist in the course of the Democratic party for years, and it is, I believe, both parties as to tariff rates and schedules, there is no question beginning to bear good results. but that the high rates of the Dingley tariff law need wise revision, If the Republican party is sincere in its oft-asserted desire to and that commercial agreements with Cuba, Canada, and other protect the American laborer against competition with the prod countlies are in line with Democratic ideas and steps in the direc uct of the foreign pauper laborer, let it protect him against the tion of tariff reform and wider and freer trade relations with the direct competition of the pauper lab:>rers themselves, who are world. crowding into this country by the thousand. It matters little Upon this issue of tariff reform the Democratic party has won that the goods are shut out if our ports are thl:own open to those success in two Presidential campaigns, and in the next campaign, who make the goods. inscribing upon its platform " honesty in the administration of Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks the Government and opposition to monopoly under the protective in the RECORD. system," I trust and believe it will again win; and if, Mr. Chair The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New Jersey asks man, we are to have this piecemeal proc~ss of revision of the tariff unanimous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD. Is the movement should extend not only to Cuba, and open up to us there objection? her market south of ns, but the still wider market for American There was no objection. manufactures of cotton goods and agricultural products north of The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. us in the Dominion of Canada. One of the first reciprocity trea McDERMOTT] is recognized for fifteen minutes. ties ever negotiated was negotiated with Canada under the Demo [Mr. McDERMOTT addressed the committee. See Appen cratic Administration of Franklin Pierce. dix.] Reciprocity-wise and not sham reciprocity, and which means freer trade relations and just and equitable tariff revision-is The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is prepared to recognize any of good Democratic doctrine; and while we are moving in this direc the gentlemen furnished in the list given the Chair by the gentle tion let us open up the markets north of ns in Canada as well as man from Migsissippi [Mr. WILLIA.:ru:s]-Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia, the Cuban market south of us, for the benefit not only of my own the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. RICHARDSON], the gentleman people but of the '"!hole country. [Applause.] from Michigan [:Mr. FoRDNEY], the gentleman from Tennessee 1903. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 313 [Mr. PIERCE], and the gentleman from New York [Mr. SULZER]. PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMORIALS. None of them claims the floor. Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolutions, and memorials Mr. PAYNE. I move that the committee rise. of the following titles were introduced and severally referred as The motion was agreed to. follows: . The committee accordingly rose; and the Speaker having re By Mr. DAVIDSON: A bill (H. R. 3544) to prevent the dese sumed _the chair, Mr. SHERMAN, Chairman of the Committee of cration of the American flag-to the Committee on the Judiciary. the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that that By Mr. MACON: A bill (H. R. 3545) to refund the cotton tax committee had had under consideration the bill H. R.1921, and to the Committee on War Claims. had reached~no ·resolution thereon. By Mr. MURDOCK: A bill (H. R. 3546) to provide for the pur PRINTING AND BINDING FOR A COMMITTEE. chase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Newton, in the State of Kansas-to the Committee on Public Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the Buildings and Grounds. . present consideration of the resolution which I send to the Clerk's By Mr. RIXEY: A bill (H. R. 3547) for the protection of Balls desk. Bluff battlefield, in Loudoun County, Va., and the cemetery The Clerk read as follows: thereon-to the Committee on J\.filitary Affairs. Resolved, That the Committee on Ways and Means be authorized to have By Mr. GRillFITH: A bill (H. R. 3548) granting land warrants ·such printing and binding done as may be required in the transaction of its to soldiers and sailors of the Spanish-American war-to the Com business. mittee on the Public Lands. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The By Mr. CLARK: A bill (H. R. 3549) providing for the erection Chair hears none. of a public building at Louisiana, Mo.-to the Committee on Pub The question was taken; and the resolution was agreed to. lic Buildings and Grounds. LEAVE TO SIT DURING SESSIONS OF THE HOUSE. By Mr. MANN: A bill (H. R. 3550) providing for a naval officer in the district of Chicago-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. PAYNE. I ask also for the consideration of the other reso By Mr. CLARK: A bill (H. R. 3551) declaring a certain por lution with it. tion of the Maramec River to be an unnavigable stream-to the The Clerk read as follows: _ Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Resolved, That the Committee on Ways and Means be authorized to sit dur· Also, a bill (H. R. 3552) making an appropriation to improve the ing the sessions of the House. harbor of Hermann, on the. Missouri River, in Gasconade County, The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Mo.-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Chair hears none. - Also, a bill (H. R. 3553) for the improvement of the Missouri The question was taken; and the resolution was agreed to. River at and near the mouth of Smiths Creek, near Bernheimer, Warren County, Mo.-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. CHANGE OF REFERENCE. Also, a bill (H. R. 3554) removing the import duty from salt By unanimous consent, reference of the bill (H. R. 1947) to re to the Committee on Ways and Means. vive and amend an act to provide for the collection of abandoned Also, a bill (H. R. 3555) to place binding twine and all ma property and the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary districts terials used in making or manufacturing the same upon the free within the United States, and acts amendatory thereof, was list-to the Committee on Ways and Means. changed from the Committee on Claims to the Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 3556) to place wood pulp, printing paper, and Claims. so forth, on the free list-to the Committee on Ways andJMeans. Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now Also, a bill (H. _R. 3557) placing agricultural implements on the adjourn. . . free list-to the Committee on W llYS and Means. _ The motion. was agreed to; and accordmgly (at 4 o'_clock p.m.) By Mr. SHULL: A bill (H. R .. 3558) to provide for the purchase the House adjourned. of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Easton, Pa.-to the Committee on Public-Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. GOULDEN: A bill (H. R. 3559) for the construction CHANGE OF REFERENCE. and completion of the Harlem River-to the Committee on Rivers Under clause 2 of Rnle XXII, committees were discharged from and Harbors. . _ the consideration of bills of the following titles; which were Also, a bill (H. R. 3560) for the construction and completion of thereupon referred as follows: Westchester Creek-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. A bill (H. R. 422) to correct the mili,tary record of W. J. Whit Also, a bill (H. R. 3561) for the construction and completion of eon-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred to the Bronx River-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. the Committee on Military Affairs. _ , Also, a bill (H. R. 3562) for the construction and completion of A bill (H. R. 572) for the relief of Arulus C. ParkhurshCom the Harlem (Bronx) Kills-to the Committee on Rivers and mittee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred to the Com- Harbors. mittee on Military Affairs. · . ·i By Mr. CANDLER: A bill (H. R. 3563) authorizing and direct A bill (H. R. 578) for the relief of Abel Patrick-Committee on ing the Secretary of War to cause a survey_to be made of the Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred to the Committee on Tombigbee River from Demopolis, Ala., to Columbus, Miss.-to Military Affairs. . the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. _ A bill (H. R. 622) granting an increase of pension to John J. Also, a bill (H. R. 3564) making an appropriation for the im Martin-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred provement of the Tombigbee River, in the State of Mississippi and to the Committee on Pensions. in the State of Alabama-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. A bill (H. R. 699) granting a pension toM. Yell-Committee on By Mr. COOPER-of Texas: A bill (H. R. 3565) directing the Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred to the Committee on Secretary of War to expend $125,000 heretofore appropriated for Pensions. the deep-water channel through Sabine Lake, Texas-to the Com- · A bill (H. R. 700) granting a pension to Felix Linsay-Commit mittee on Rivers and Harbors. _ tee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 3566) to provide for the selection of a site on Pensions. . for the establishment of a navy-yard and dry dock on or near A bill (H. R. 1045) granting a pension of $12 per month to Ma Sabine Pass, or theNeches or Sabine River, in the State of Texas tilda Witt, widow of J. Burgess Witt-Committee on Invalid to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Pensions discharged, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3567) proViding for a coastwise canal in A bill (H. R. 1273) granting an increase of pension to J. J. Texas-to the Committee on Railways and Canals. Hunter-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred By Mr. RICHARDSON of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 3568) to to the Committee on Pensions. provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public A bill (H. R. 1347) for the relief of the estate of J. L. Walker, building thereon at Murfreesboro, in the State of Tennessee-to deceased-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and re the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. ferred to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3569) to establish a national military park at A bill (H. R. 1631) granting a pension to JohnR. Costen-Com the battlefield of Sttme River-to the Committee on Military mittee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred to the Com Affairs. mittee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3570) to plac~ all articles and commodities A bill (H. R. 1842) to remove the charge of desertion from the manufactured and controlled or produced in the United States by military record of Michael Cullen-Committee on Invalid Pen a trust or trusts on the free list, and to reduce the rate of duty sions discharged, and referred to the Committee on· Military Af on any article or commodity manufactured in the United States fairs. and sold in a foreign country more cheaply than in the United - A bill (H. R. 1847) to correct the military record of Alexander States-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Nugent-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred Also. a bill (H. R. 3571) to fix the salary of the Public Printer to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Printing 314 OONGRESSION.A.L REOORD-ROUSE. N OVEM:BER 17' By Mr. GARBER: A bill (H. R. 3572) for the erection of a States in the district of Minnesota, and for other purposes, ap memorial structure at Fort Recovery, Ohio-to the Committee on proved April26, 1890,"-to the Committee on the Judiciary. the Library. By Mr. SCARBOROUGH: A bill (H. R. 3594) to provide for By Mr. SHAFROTH: A bill (H. R. 3573) for the establishment the erection of a monument to Gen. Francis Marion-to the Com of a board for the protection of children and animals-to the Com mittee on the Library. mittee on the Judiciary. Also, a bill (H. R. 3595) to regulate the manufacture of ciga By Mr. TRDffiLE: A bill (H. R. 3574) for the relief of the rettes-to the Committee on Ways and Means. farmers and tobacco growers of the United States-to the Com By Mr. BURNETT: A bill (H. R. 3645) to authorize the Sec mittee on Ways and Means. retary of the Interior to reclassify the public lands of Alabama By Mr. KEHOE: A bill (H. R. 3575) to increase the pension of to the Committee on the Public Lani!B. widows of deceased soldiers and sailors-to the Committee on By Mr. GARDNER of Michigan: A bill (H. R. 3816) to extend Invalid Pensions. JJineteenth street northwest, from Cincinnati street to the Adams By Mr. RICHARDSON of Alabama: A bill (H. R. 3576) forthe Mill road, and to acquire the triangle abutting on the east side erection of a public building at Florence, Ala.-to the Committee thereof included within Cincinnati street and the Adams Mill on Public Buildings and Grounds. road-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. By Mr. BISHOP: A bill (H. R. 3577) to a-cquire certain ground By Mr. HULL: A bill (H. R. 4057) for the erection of a public for a Government reservation-to the Committee on the District building at Des Moines, Iowa-to the Committee on Public Build of Columbia. ings and Grounds. By Mr. ACHESON: A bill (H. R. 3578) to authorize the Mer Also, a bill (H. R. 4058) providing for the manner of payment cantile Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monon of postage on books, catalogues, and other printed matter-to the gahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of North Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Charleroi: Washington County, to a point in Rostraver Township, By Mr. RIXEY: A joint resolution (H. J. Res. 37) asking for Westmoreland County-to the Committee on Interstate and For estimates for the improvement of Uyper Machodoc Creek, in eign Commerce. King George County, Va.-to the Committee on Rivers and Also, a bill (H. R. 3579) to provide for the erection of a public Harbors. building at Charleroi, Pa.-to the Committee on Public Buildings By Mr. COOPER of Texas: A joint re3olution (H. J. Res. 38) and Grounds. proposing an amendment to Article III, section 1, of the Constitu By Mr. GILLETT of California: A bill (H. R. 3580) to provide tion of the United States of America-to the Committee on the for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building Judiciary. thereon at Eureka, in the State of Calijornia-to the Committee By Mr. BRADLEY: A joint resolution (H. J. Res. 39) to appoint on Public Buildings and Grounds. RobertS. Talbot a passed assistant engineer on the retired list of Also, a bill (H. R. 3581) providing the means of acquiring title the Navy-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. to two groves of Sequoia gigantea in the State of California, with By Mr. LAMB: A memorial of the legislature of the State of a view to making national parks thereof-to the Committee on Virginia, relating to the three hundredth anniversary of the first the Public Lands. English settlement at Jamestown, Va.-to the Select Committee By Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R. 3582) to ex on Industrial Arts and Expositions. tend and regulate the liability of certain classes of employers to By the SPEAKER: A memorial of the legislature of the State make compensation for personal injuries suffered by employees in of Virginia, relating to the celebration of the three hundredth their service-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. anniversary of the first English settlement at Jamestown, Va. Also, a bill (H. R. 3583) granting to certain employees of the to the Select Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions. United States the right to receive from it compensation for in juries sustained in the course of their employment-to the Com mittee on the Judiciary. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. By Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi: A bill (H. R. 3584) to au Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions of thoiize the resubdivision of lots or blocks in the District of Co the following titles were introduced and severally refen·ed as lumbia-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. follows: By Mr. GAINES of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 3585) to amend By Mr. BARTHOLDT: A bill (H. R. 3596) granting a pension sections 3894 and 3929 of the Revived Statutes, and the first sec to Marie Bosslet-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tion of the act of Congress of March 2, 1895, chapter 191, entitled Also, a bill (H. R. 3597) to correct the military record of John "An act for the suppression of lottery traffic through national and Herbst-to the Committee on Military Affairs. interstate commerce and the postal service, subject to the juris Also, a bill (H. R. 3598) to correct the military record of Julius diction and laws of the United States," so as to apply the pro H. Rogge-to the Committee on Military Affairs. visions of existing laws to letters, postal cards, circulars, pam Also, a bill (H. R. 3599) for the benefit of William H. Miller phlets, and publications concerning any business of and contracts to the Committee on War Claims. and policies of life, fire, or other insurance transmitted into any By Mr. BEIDLER: A bill (H. R. 3600) for the relief of Ann State, District, or Territory by concerns or persons not authorized Kinney-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. wtransact such business in the State, District, or Territory from Also, a bill (H. R. 3601) for correction of record of HenryS. which the same are transmitted-to the Committee on the Post Williams-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. BOWERSOCK: A bill (H. R. 3602) granting an honor By Mr. BATES: A bill (H. R. 3586) to provide for the retire able discharge to Levi Mott-to the Committee on Military Affairs. ment of petty officers and enlisted men of the Navy-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 3603) granting an increase of pension to Jere mittee on Naval Affairs. miah McCanse-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3587) to promote the efficiency of the clerical Al<1o, a bill (H. R. 3604) granting a pension to Laura M. Swan service in the Navy of the United States, to organize a clerical Anderson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. corps of the Navy of the United States, to define its duties, and to Also, a bill (H. R. 3G05) granting a pension to William McClure regulate its pay-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. GLASS: A bill (H. R. 3588) to complete the execution Also, a bill (H. R. 3606) granting a pension to Timothy Law of the ninth article of the treaty of 1819 between the United States bead-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. and Spain-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3607) granting a pension to Susan H. Ste By Mr. THOMPSON: A bill (H. R. 3589) to increase pay of vens-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mail carriers on rural free-delivery routes-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 3608) granting an honorable discharge to the Post-Office and Post-Roads William Brown-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. BEDE: A bill (H. R. 3590) in relation to cigarettes, and Also, a bill (H. R. 3609) granting an increase of pension to to limit the effect of the regulation of commerce between the sev William W. Thornton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. eral States and with foreign countries in certain cases-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 3610) granting an increase of pension to Committee on the Judiciary. Lucius R. Simons-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3591) to prohibit the charging by monopolies Also, a bill (H. R. 3611) granting an increase Of pension to Ed and combinations of unreasonable prices for certain merchandise ward L. Allen-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. and products which enter into interstate commerce-to the Com By Mr. BRADLEY: A bill (H. R. 3612) to correctthe military mittee on the Judiciary. record of Demon 8. Decker-to the Committee on Military Affairs.· ..Also, a bill (H. R. 3592) to define the duties of the Attorney Also, a bill (H. R. 3613) to reimburse John Waller, late post General concerning combinations and monopolies, and to appro master at Monticello, N.Y., for moneys expended in carrying the priate such money as may be necessary to pay the expense inci mails-to the Committee on Claims. dent to the discharge of such duties-to the Committee on the Also, a bill (H. R. 3614) granting a pension to George M. Judiciary. Sayre-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3593) to amend an act entitled "An a-ct pro Also, a bill (H. R. 3615) granting an increase of pension to Annie viding the terms and places of holding the courts of the United L. Evens-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1903 . . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. 315 Also, a bill (H. R. 3616) granting a pension to James W. pension to Andrew Sollenberger-to the Committee on Invalid Davis-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 3617) for the relief of Charles M. Everett By Mr. CLARK; A bill (H. R. 3654) removing the charge of to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. desertion from the record of William E. Talbert-to the Commit Also, a bill (H. R. 3618) for the relief of Nancy Rose-to the tee on Military ..t\..ifairs. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, a bill (H. R. 3655) to remove the charge of desertion from Also, a bill (H. R. 3619) for the relief of David V. Howell-to the military record of David Gibson-to the Committee on Mili the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. tary Affairs. By Mr~ BURKETT: A bill (H. R. 3620) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 3656) to remove the charge of desertion from of pension to Victor VIfquain-to the Committee on Pensions. the military record of John Ziegler-to the Committee on Mili By Mr. BURNETT: A bill (H. R. 3621) for the relief of the tary Mairs. trustees of Gaylesville Academy and Methodist Episcopal Also, a bill (H. R. 3657) appropriating moneyfortheprotection Church, of Gaylesville, Cherokee County, Ala.-to the Committee of property in Lincoln County, Mo.-to the Committee on Levees on War Claims. and Improvements of the Mississippi River. Also, a bill (H. R. 3622) for the relief of Mrs. Martha Stiff Also, a bill (H. R. 3658) to enable Fredrich Burckhardt to make to the Committee on War Claims. application to the Commissioner of Patents for the extension of Also, a bill (H. R. 3623) for the relief of Amos L. Griffith-to letters patent-to the Committee on Patents. the Committee on Wa.r Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3659) placing upon a pensionable status Fagg's Also, a bill (H. R. 3624) for the relief of John B. Hardman-to Fifth Regiment of Pike County (Missouri) Militia-to the Com the Committee on War ClaiiDB. mittee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a. bill (H. R. 3625) for the relief of William D. Clay and Also, a bill (H. R. 3660) granting an increase of pension to John others-to the Committee on the Public Lands. Jones-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3626) for the relief of James Pitts-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 3661) granting an increase of pension to Committee on the Public Lands. George Whitehead-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3627) for the relief of S. V. Biggers, admin Also, a bill (H. R. 3662) granting an increase of pension to John istrator of R. P. Biggers, deceased-to the Committee on War M. Wright-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3663) granting an increase of pension to Also. a bill (H. R. 3628) for the relief of Claude B. Alverson Uriah H. Owings-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on the Public Lands. Also, a bill (H. R. 3664) granting an increase of pension to John Also, a bill (B. R. 3629) for the relief of Joseph l\I. Witt-to the E. Ball-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3665) granting an increase of pension to Henry Also, a bill (H. R. 3630) for the relief of E. A. Gilliland-to the C. Jones-to.the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3666) granting an increase of pension to James Also,abill (H. R. 3631) for the relief of the estate of J. C. West M. Shippee-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3667) granting an increase of pension to Alber Also, a bill (H. R. 3632) for the relief of the estate of James L. tns Leovisin Paine-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Romine, deceased, Winston County, Ala.-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 3668) granting an increase of pension to Gar War Claims.· land Spencer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3633) for the relief of the estate of D. M. Also, a bill (H. R. 3669) granting an increase of pension to John Sparks, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Snay-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3634) for the relief of Joseph Blakemore, ad Also, a bill (H. R. 3670) granting an increase of pension to Ben ministrator of Elizabeth Blakemore, deceased-to the Committee jamin F. Barrett-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3671) for the relief of Elanor W. Smith-to Also, a bill (H. R. 3635) for the relief of the Oak Bowery Church, the Committee on Military Affairs. · of Cherokee County, Ala.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H¥ R. 3672) for the reliE!f of Capt. Henry L. Reck Also, a bill (H. R. 3636) for the relief of J. B. Roberson, admin mann-to the Committee on War Claims. istrator of the estate of J. P. Roberson, deceased-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 3673) for the relief of the heirs of the late mittee on War Claims. William H. Finch-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3637) for the relief of David W. Hollis-to Also, a bill (H. R. 3674) for the relief of Mrs. Fannie Donnelly the Committee on War Clai.mB. to the Committee on War Clai.mB. Also, a bill (H. R. 3638) for the relief of the Bank of Attalla Also, a bill (H. R. 3675) for the relief of W. D. McLean, alias to the Committee on Claims. Donald McLean-to the Committee on :Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. ~639) toremovethechargeof desertion from the Also, a bill (H. R. 3676) for the relief of the estate of the late record of Joseph A. Choate-to the Committee on Military Af B. F. Richardson-to the Committee on War Claims. fairs. Also, a bill (H.. R. 3677) for the relief of Ralls Lodge, No. 33, Also, a bill (H. R. 3640) to remove the charge of desertion from Ancient Free and Accepted Masons-to the Committee on Military the military record of James W. Gutherie-to the Committee on Affairs. Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H.R. 3678) fortherelief of Mrs. CatherineBedell Also, a bill (H. R. 3641) to remoT"ethe charge of desertion from to the Committee on Military Affairs. the record of Robert A. Godsey-to the Committee on Military Also, a bill (H. R. 367!1) for the relief of George W. Payne-to Affairs. the Committee on Military Affairs. . Also, a bill (H. R. 3642) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 3680) for the relief of F. H. Hnnicke-to the James H. Martin-to the Committee on Pensions. Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3643) granting pensions to certain companies Also, a bill (H. R. 3681) for the relief of the trustees of the Reg of scouts and guides who served in the Federal Army during the ular Baptist Chm·ch, at Mexico, Mo.-to the Committee on War war of the rebellion-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3644) grantin~ a pension to Thomas Nelson Also, a bill (H. R. 3682) for the relief of John Harper, Alex to the Committee on Invalid PensiOns. ander Hammontree, and others, trustees of the Methodist Church By Mr. CALDWELL: A bill (H. R. 3646) granting an increase at Warrenton, Mo.-to the Committee on Military Affairs. of pension to M"merva McDonald-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 3683) for the relief of the trustees of the Pensions. Methodist Church at Warrenton, Mo.-to the Committee on War By 1\Ir. CANDLER: .A. bill (H. R. 3647) for the relief of the Claims. Christian Church of Corinth, Alcorn County, Miss.-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 3684-) for the relief of Edwin F. Mathews mittee on War Claims. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3648) for the relief of the Masonic lodge at Also, a bill (H. R. 3685) granting a pension to William Calla Bexar, Ala.-to the Committee on War Clai.mB. way-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3649) for the relief of the trustees of the Bap Also, a bill (H. R. 3686) granting a pension to Jeremiah Ro tist Church of Corinth. Miss.-to the Committee on War Claims. mans-to the Committee on In-valid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3650) for the relief of J. M. Cumby, heir of Also, a bill (H. R. 3687) granting a pension to Maj. LouisDieck 1\f. G. Cumby-to the Committee on War Claims. graefe-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3651) for the relief of the trustees of Cum Also, a bill (H. R. 3688) granting a pension to George N~ War berland Presbyterian Church, of Corinth, Miss.-t<> the· Commit field-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3689) granting a pension to Charles B. Also, a bill (H. R. 3652) for the relief of J. W. Walker-to the Stough-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3690) granting a pension to William Toedt By Mr. CASSEL: A bill (H. R. 3653) granting an increase of mann-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 316 OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. NOVEMBER 17' ' Also, a bill (H. R. 3691) granting a pension to Cyrus Scott-to Also, a bill (H. R. 3734) granting a pension to James R. Gib the Committee on Invalid Pensions. son-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3692) granting a pension to Green H. Honey Also, a bill (H. R. 3735) granting a pension to James W. Mc cutt-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Cune-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3693) granting a pension to Prudence E. Also, a bill (H. R. 3736) granting a pension to John A. Black Wyatt-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. well-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3694) granting a pension to Edward W. Also, a bill (H. R ..3737) granting a pension to Ignatz Bohnert Nichols-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3695) granting a pension to Henry Porter Also, a bill (H. R. 3738) granting a pension to Almond T. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Vaughn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3696) granting a pension to Spotwel E. Also, a bill (H. R. 3739) granting a pension to Cicero Cluster Page-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3697) granting a pension to Johnson W. Also, a bill (H. R. 3740) granting a pension to George W. Eubanks-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3698) granting a pension to Samuel S. Grim- Also, a bill (H. R. 3741) granting a pension to James T. Ed matt-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. • wards-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3699) granting a pension to James A. Terry Also, a bill (H. R. 3742) granting a pension to Peter Berg-to to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3700) granting a pension to Absalom Howell Also, a bill (H. R. 3743) granting a pension to Charles E. Eggers-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Foley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3701) granting a pension to Susan L. Brimer Also, a bill (H. R. 3744) granting a pension to William Dillon to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3702) granting a pension to Jeremiah Mil Also, a bill (H. R. 3745) granting a pension to Emma A. Bax roy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ter-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3703) granting a pension to Mary Followill Also, a bill (H. R. 3746) granting a pension to Josephine B. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Harris-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3704) granting a pension to William Dixon Also, a bill (H. R. 3747) granting a pension to Frank M. Hass to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ler-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3705) granting a pension to John T. Clark Also, a bill (H. R. 3748) granting a pension to John W. Hunter to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3706) granting a pension to William W. Bat Also, a bill (H. R. 3749) granting a pension to Conrad Klinge t€rton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions . . Also, a bill (H. R. 3707) granting a pension to Joseph Turn Also, a bill (H. R. 3750) granting a pension to Thomas A. baugh-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Bnrks-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions . . . . Also, a bill (H. R. 8708) granting a pension to Elizabeth Sei Also, a bill (H. R. 3751) granting a pension to William H. fert-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Holland-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3709) granting a pension to Mary F. Wright Also, a bill (H. R. 3752) granting a pension to William H. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Boulden-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . Also, a bill (H. R. 3710) granting a pension to Thomas.C. John Also, a bill (H. R. 3753) granting a pension to James J. W. son-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Clifton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3711) granting a pension to John McCann- Also, a bill (H. R. 3754) granting a pension to David Copan- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · haver-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. , Also, a bill (H. R. 3712) granting a pension to Frederick W. Also, a bill (H. R. 3755) granting a pension to William A. Tappmeyer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Gibbs-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3713) granting a pension to Lydia Lollar- Also, a bill (H. R. 3756) granting a pension to John Rohy-to to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. _ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . Also; a bill (H. R. 3714) granting a pension to Silas A. Elkins Also, a bill (H. R. 3757) . granting. a pension to Charles B. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Stough-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ·Also, a bill (H. R. 3715) granting a pension to Freidrich Also, a bill (H. R. 3758) ·granting an increase of pension to Schmied-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James M. Cartmill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3716) granting a pension to Samuel Wood Also, a bill (H. R. 3759) granting a pension to Annie A. Gal to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. lagher-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3717) grantingapensiontoJohn J. Adams- Also, a bill (H. R. 3'760) for the relief of the heirs of the late to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . Joseph M. Carrico-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3718) granting a pension to Lonvina Mays- By Mr. COCHRAN: A bill (H. R. 3761) ceding certain land to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . appertaining to the custom-house at St. Joseph, Mo., for use as a Also, a bill (H. R. 3719) granting a pension to Benjamin Hag street-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. gard-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. COUSINS: A bill (H. R. 3762) granting an increase of Also, a bill (H. R. 3720) granting a pension to John D. Reeds pension to Stephen Winans-to the Committee on Invalid Pen to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sions. Also, a bjll (H. R. 3721) granting a pension to Martha A. My Also, a bill (H. R. 3763) granting an increase of pension to ers-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Wyatt Botts-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Alsoba bill (H. R."3722) granting a pension. to James G. Head Also, a bill (H. R. 3764) granting an increase of pension to to the ommittee on Invalid Pensions. Ephriam E ..Blake-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3723) granting a pension to James W. Con Also, a bill (H. R. 3765) granting an increase of pension to Titus away-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. K. Cone-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3724) granting a pension to S.M. Barker Also, a bill (H.R.3766) granting anincreaseofpension toJ. W. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Byers-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3725) granting a pension to George H. Rob By Mr. CROWLEY: A bill (H. R. 3767) granting an increase of erts...:....to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . pension to William Neely-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3726) granting a pension to Jeptha D. New Also, a bill (H. R. 3768) granting an increase of pension to Joel man-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. D. Baker-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3727) granting a pension to Orison Williams Also, a bill (H. R ..3769) granting an increase of pension to Clin to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ton M. Casey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3728) granting a pension to James Griffith Also, a bill (H. R. 3770) granting an increase of pension to Henry to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. C. Foster-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3729) granting a pension to John H. Miller Also, a bill (H. R. 3771) granting an increase of pension to John to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Terrell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3730) granting a pension to Lewis K. Gilbert Also, a bill (H. R. 3772) granting an increase of pension to Sam to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. uel P. Leith-to the Committee on Inva,lid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3731) granting a pension to Alice Harrison Also·, a bill (H. R. 3773) granting a pension to Theocaneus C. to the Committee on Pensions. Dodd-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3732) granting a pension to Robert L. Also, a bill (H. R. 3774) granting a pension to Emma E. Upton Davis, sr.-to the Committee on Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3733) granting a pension to Harrison N. Also, a bill (H. R. 3775) granting a pension to Sarah J. Ford Gourley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1903. ·CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 317 Also, a bill (H. R. 3776) granting an increase of pension to pension to Hester E. Mooney-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- Alfred I. Judy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sions. · By Mr. DOVENER: A bill (H. R. 3777) granting a pension to By Mr. GLASS: A bill (H.R.3817) for the relief of EdwardS. William A. Scott-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Brown-to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. FOSS: A bill (H. R. 3778) granting an increase of pen- By Mr. GRIFFITH: A bill (H. R. 3818) granting an increase sion to Juliaetta Rowling-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- of pension to Peter B. Beidenbach-to the Committee on Invalid sions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3779) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 3819) granting an increase of pension to Ira Samantha Williams-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Stout-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. FOSTER of Vermont: A bill (H. R. 3780) granting an Also, a bill (H. R. 3820) granting an increase of pension to increase of pension to H. M. Wight-to the Committee on Invalid William M. Neal-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also. a bill (H. R. 3821) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. FOWLER: A bill (H. R. 3781) for the relief of William Hannah Riley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · R. Tretbeway-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3822) granting a pension to Eliza J. Mahu- Also, a bill (H. R. 3782) for the relief of George Serrell-to the rin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3823) granting a pension to John W. Adams- Also, a bill (H. R. 3783) for the relief of Frederick Merck-to to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3824) granting an increase of pension to Al- Also, a bill (H. R. 3784) for the relief of William A. Forbes- bert B. Harryman-to the Committee on Pensions. to tha.Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3825) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. . R. 3785) to correct the military record of John Fleetwood H. Sale-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Hunter-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3826) to correct the military record of Alonzo Also, a bill (H.~. 3';'86) removing the charge of desertion and Carter-to the Committee on Military Affairs. granting an honorable discharge to John D. Long-to the Com- Also, a bill (H. R. 3827) granting a medal to Mortimer S. Long- mittee on Milit ~uy Affairs. wood-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3787) removing the charge of desertion from By Mr. GAINES of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 3828) to increase the record of James Conover-to the Committee on Military the pension of L. L. Tothacer-to the Committee on Invalid Affairs. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3788) removing the charges of desertion and Also, a bill (H. R. 3829) to increase the pension of Eben Fuller- granting an honorable discharge to Caleb Aber-to the Committee to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3830) for the relief of Peter Holt-to the Also, a hilL(H. R. 3789) granting an honorable discharge to Committee on War Claims. William 1\f. Culbertson-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3831) toincreasethepensionofJohn W.Hart- Also, a bill (H. R. 3790) granting an honorable discharge to ley-to the Committee on Pensions. John Fagan-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By-Mr. GARDNER of Mi-chigan: A bill (H. R. 3832) granting • A.l.sOya. bill (H. R. 3791) granting a pension. to Gottlieb Miller- an increase of pension to Eli T. Hoyt-to the Committee on Inva- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. lid Pensions; . Also, a bill (H. R. 3792) granting a pension to Alexander Sand- Also, a bill (H. R. 3833) granting an increase of pension to Elias ford Utter, alias Alexander M. Sandford-to the Committee on McQuay-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Invalid Pensions. . . . Also, a bill (H. R. 3834) granting an increase of pension to Seth Also, a b1ll (H. R. _3793) grantm~ a pen~IOn to Oscar W. Hum- R. Henton-toihe Committee on Invalid Pensions. phrey-to t?-e Cemmittee· on ~va~d PensiOn~. . Also, a bill (H. R. 3835) granting an increase of pension to Caro- Also, a bill (H, ~- 3794)_gxan?ng a .Pension to Malmda Van 1 lineN. Lovejoy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pelt-to th~ Committe~ ~n Invali.d Pensions: . Also, a bill (H. R. 3836) granting an increase of pension to &so, a bill (H.~· 3t9J) grant?-ng a pensiOn to Sarah E. Gil- David R. Thompson-to the·Committee on Invalid Pensions. le""e-to t~e Committee on Pens_IOns. . . Also, a bill (H. R. 3837) granting an increase of pension to Also, a.b1ll (H. R,. 3796) granti?g a p~nsiOn to Drucilla Beck- William H Southwell-to the Committee on Invalid Pen...~ons man.,-to the Comnnttee.on Invahd Penswns. Als b.ill (H R 3838) t' · f · 't Also, a bill (H. R. 3797) granting a pension to Sarah E. How- o, a · · gran ~ng an mcre~se 0 ~ensiOn ° ard-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Charles S. J?askam-to the Commi.ttee on ~nvalid PensiOns .. Also, a bill (H. R. 3798) granting a pension to Humphrey Sales- Also, a bill (H. hR. 3839) .grantmg an ~ncreas~ of pensiOn to to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. H. D. Jord~n-to t e Committee ~n Inval~d PensiOns. . Also, a bill (H. R. 3799) granting a pension to Emma Cort- Also, a bf (~. R. 3840) gra~.tmg an mcr~ase of. pensiOn to right-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Lucy F. Ba; dwm-to the Co.mm~ttee 0!1 Invahd Pensi~ns. Also, a bill (H. R. 3800) granting an increase of pension to Mary . Also, a bill (H. R. 3841) ~antingan 11~.crease ?f pensiOn to Hen- J. Franklin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. netta Buc~llto the Co~rmttee O? Invahd ?enswns. Also, a bill (H. R. 3801) granting an increase of pension to · Also, a ~1 (H. R.B84?) gran_tmg a pensiOn to Horace Hall-to John J. Willis-to the Committee on Pensions. the Comm:ttee on Invalid Pens.wns. . . Also. a bill (H. R. 3802) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill ~H. R. 3843) ~anting. a pensiOn to Belmda Wheeler- Israel D. Lum-to the Committee on Inv.alid Pensions. to the Com~nttee on Invalid Pens_wns. . . Also, a bill (H. R. 3803) granting an incre.ase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 38~4) grantmg .a pens~on to Adonrram J. John Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Eastman-~ the Comnnttee o:r~.Invalid P~nswns. . Also, a bill (H. R. 3804) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill.(H. R. 3845) ~ran~~m~ a pensiOn to Horace Wilson- Christine B. Knapp-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Com~mttee on Invalid Pe,!lSIOns. . Alsv, a bill (H. R. 3805) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill.(H. R. 3846) g:rantm~ . a pensiOn to John C. Parker- . Mary A. Dishon-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Com;rrnttee on Invalid Pe~swns. . . . Also, a bill (H. R. 3806) granting an increase of pension to . Also, a bill (H. R. ~847) grantin~ a pe~on to Abigail Ether- George H. Sweet-to the Committee on Pensions. mgton-to ~he Comrmttee on In~ahd Pens~ons. Also, a bill (H. R. 3807) granting an increase of pension to Wil- Also, a bill (H. ~· 3848) gran~mg a ~ns10n to Sally Ann Brad- liam Van Riper-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ley-to the .Committee on Invah.d Penswn~. Also, a bill (H. R. 3808) granting an increase of pension to Wil- . Also, a bill (H.~- 3849) gran~mg a p~nswn to Martha A. Ham- liam L. Shipps-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. lm-to the .Committee on Invali~ PensiOns.- . Also, a bill (H. R. 3809) granting an increase of pension to _Also, a bill (H."?· 3850) gran~g a p~ns10n to Charles H. Ens- Joseph J. Sparling-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. bm-to the.Comm1ttee ~n Invali~ PensiOns.. . Also, a bill (H. R. 3810) granting an increase of pension to Susie Also, a bill (H.~· 38<>1) gran?ng a pensiOn to Cathenne M. G. Seabury-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Hall-to the Comnnttee on PensiOns. Al ~o. a bill (H. R. 3811) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 3852) to correct the military record of Joel Katharina Becker-to the Co-mmittee on Pensions. N. Sanford-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3812) granting an increase of pension to 1\farie Also, a bill (H. R. 3853) to correct the military record of Hiram B. Flannery-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Eideneir-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. GROSVENOR: A bill (H. R. 3813) for the relief of Also, a bill (H. R. 3854) to correct the military record of Jabez James P. Barney-to the Committee on War Claims. Lumbart-to the Committee on Military Affairs . . By Mr. GARDNER of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R. 3814)grant- Also, a bill (H. R. 3855) to correct the military record of Henry ing an increase of pension to Eben S. Perkins-to the Committee Myers-to the Committee on Military Affairs. on Invalid Pensions. _. Also, a bilL(H. R .. 3856) .to_correctthe military record of Henry . By Mr. GOULDEN: A bill (H. R. 3815) granting an increase of S. Hunter-to the Committee on Military Affairs . . 318 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. NoVEMBER 17, Also, a bill (H. R. 3857) tocorrectthemilitaryrecordof George Also, a bill (H. R. 3897) for the relief of William E . Scott-to S. Groesbeck-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3858) to correct the military record of C. W . Also, a bill (H. R. 3898) for the relief of William C. Tindell Thompson-to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3859) for the relief of Edmund Stanfield-to Also, a bill (H. R. 3899) for the relief of Thomas J . Wear-to the Committee on Claims. the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. GillSON: A bill (H. R. 3860) for the relief of M. E. By Mr. HAMLIN: A bill (H. R. 3900) granting an increase of Hall and the estate of James B. Hall, deceased- to the Committee pension toW. W. Donham-tothe Committee on Invalid Pensions. on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3901) granting a pension to Mary A. Gurley Also, a bill (H. R. 3861) for the relief of Joseph Alstott, de to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3902) granting a pension to Martha J. Dar Also, a bill (H. R. 3862) for the relief of the trustees of the rington-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Baptist Church of Jefferson City, Tenn.- to the Committee on By Mr. HAUGEN: A bill (H. R. 3903) granting an increa e of War Claims. pension to George C. Sherman-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Also, a bill (H. R. 3863) for the relief of James T. Blair, ex sions. ecutor of Hugh Blair, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. HAY: A bill (H. R. 3904) for the relief of the heirs of Also, a bill (H. R. 3864) for the relief of John C. Buckner-to Nathan Spitler-to the Committee on War Claims. · the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. HEMENWAY: A bill (H. R. 3905) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 3865) for the relief of John T. Brown-to of pension to Samuel M. Gibbs-to the Committee on Invalid Pen the Committee on War Claims. sions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3866) for the relief of Joseph A. Brown-to By Mr. HOUSTON: A bill (H. R. 3906) for the relief of Sam the Committee on War Claims. uelS. Weaver-to the Committee on Claims . .Also, a bill (H. R. 3867) for the relief of Mrs. Isabella R. Boyd-to By Mr. HUFF: A bill (H. R. 3907) granting an honorable dis the Committee on War Claims. charge and pension toW. Scott King-to the Committee on 1tlili .Also, a bill (H. R. 3868) for the relief of the personal represent tary Affairs. atives of Horace L. Bradley, deceased-to the Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 3908) granting an increase of pension to Ja Claims. cob Troutman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3869) for the relief of Campbell County, Also, a bill (H. R. 3909) granting an increase of pension to Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. George Hayden-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3879) for the relief of Calvin L. Childress Also, a bill (H. R. 3910) granting an increase of pension to to the Committee on War Claims. Charles W. Hoffman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3871) for the relief of the legal representa Also, a bill (H. R. 3911) granting a pension to Jacob Lybarger tives of P.M. Craigmiles, deceased-to the Committee on War to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3912) granting a pension to Thomas B. Lu Also, a bill (H. R. 3872) for the relief of H. T. Cox-to the cas-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3913) granting a pension to J . H. Pershing Also, a bill (H. R. 3873) for the relief of the estate of Lemuel to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Cox, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3914) granting a pension to James M. Redick Also. a bill (H. R. 3874) for the relief of Sarah E. Cox-to the to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on War Claims. By Mr. HULL: A bill (H. R. 3915) for the relief of James Mc Also, a bill (H. R. 3875) for the relief of the estate of Dr. Thomas Kenzie-to the Committee on Military Affairs. J. Coward deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3916) for the relief of James S. Harbel'-to Also, a bill (H. R. 3876) for the relief of the estate of George W. the Committee on Military Affairs. ' and Richard B. Cooper-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3917) to correct the military record of Palmer Al o, a bill (H. R. 3877) for the relief of Andrew A. Colter-to G. Percy--to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3918) granting a pension to Miller C. Hunter Also, a bill (H. R. 3878) for the relief of the personal represent to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. atives of Mitchell J. Childress-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3919) removing charge of desertion from Also, a bill (H. R. 3879) for the relief of D. Froneberger-to the George J . Dennis, Company C. Thirty-third New Jersey In Committee on War Claims. fantry-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also a bill (H. R. 3880) for the relief of William M. Goforth Also, a bill (H. R. 3920) granting an increase of pension to to the Committee on War Claims. Sarah S. Long-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3881) for the relief of Bartley Giffin-to the Also, a bijl (H. R. 3921) granting an increase of pension to Committee on War Claims. M. C. Staves-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3882) for the relief of theeststeofisaacHull, Also, a bill (H. R. 3922) granting an increase of pension to deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Simon N. Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3883) for the relief of Mary Jane Hubbard Also, a bill (H. R. 3923) granting an increase of pension to John to the Committee on War Claims. W. Worley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also a bill (H. R. 3884) for the relief of J ames W. Holt-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 3924) granting an increase of pension to Ira Committee on Invalid Pensions. Waldo-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3 85) for the relief of Susan J. Jones-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 3925) granting an increase of pension to Committee on War Claims. Sarah J. Littleton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3886) for the relief of the estate of William Also, a bill (H. R. 3926) to remove the charge of desertion from Lenoir & Bros.-to the Committee on War Claims. the naval records now standing against John Glass-to the Com Also. a bill (H. R. 3887) for the relief of the legal representa mittee on Naval Affairs. tives of Wiley Line, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3927) correcting the record of Elisha C. Also, a bill (H. R . 3888) for the relief of Anthony L. Maxwell Bierce-to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R . 3!>28) to extend the provisions of the act of Also, a bill (H. R. 3889) for the relief of Robert McCampbell March 3, 1883, relative to officers and enlisted men of the United to the Committee on W aJ.' Claims. States Army-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3890) for the relief of S. M. McGuire-to Also, a bill (H. R. 3029) granting a pension to John Kelly-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3891) for the relief of Wesley C. Owens-to Also, a bill (H. R. 3930) granti..ng a pension to WilliamLeaver the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3892) for the relief of the estate of David Also, a bill (H. R. 3931) to place the name of Jonathan ffium Pangle, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. on the pension roll-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3893) for the relief of the First Presbyterian Also, a bill (H. R. 3932) for the relief of Thomas Burns-to the Church, of Knoxville~ Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Military Affairs. Alsu, a bill (H. R. 3894) for the relief of the Presbyterian Also, a bill (H. R. 3933) for the relief of David K. Reynolds Church of London, Loudon County, Tenn.-to the Committee on to the Committee on Military Affairs. War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3934:) for the relief of heirs of Daniel Reich Also, a bill (H. R. 3895) for the relief of the trustees of the ard-to the Committee on War Claims. Pre byterian Church of Straw Plains, Tenn.-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 3935) for the relief of James McKenzie-to on War Claims. the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3896) for the relief of Eli Sharp- to the Com- Also, a bill (H. R. 3936) granting an increase of pension to mittee on War Claima. Isaac Frazier- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1903. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-·HOUSE. 319 Also, a bill (H. R. 3937) granting an increase of pension to -Also, a bill (H. R. 3978) for the relief of Thomas H. Streeter Roswell Harris-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3938) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 3979) for the relief of Joseph Logan, deceased David Sharp-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3939) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 3980) for the relief of the estate of PeterS. George E. Dee-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Baker-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 394.0) granting an ine1·ease of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 3981) for the relief of the heirs of John Henry C. Beltz-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Wilson-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3941) granting an increase of pension to Wil Also, a bill (H. R. 3982) for the relief of the heirs of Moses liam Moore-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Wright-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3942) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (IL R. 3983) for the relief of the heirs of Stewart Thomas P. Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Wilson-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3943) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 3984) for the relief of the estate of James L. Soren V. Kalsem-to the Committee on InTillid Pensions. Holland deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3944) granting an increase of pension to Isaac Also, a bill (H. R. 3985) for the relief of the estate of John Porter-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Black, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3945) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (IL R. 3986) for the relief of the heirs of Robert Joseph 1\f. West-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Bynnm-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. HUNT: A bill (H. R. 3946) to correct the military rec Also, a bill (H. R. 3987) for the relief of Mattie H. Ligon-to ord of Anthony W. Smith-to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on War Claims. By 1\Ir. JENKINS: A bill (H. R. 3947) for the relief of holders Also, a bill (H. R. 3988) for the relief of R. D. Andrews-to the and owners of certain District of Columbia special-tax scrip-to Committee on War Claims. the Committee on the District of Columbia. Also, a bill (H. R. 3989) for the relief of the estate ofW. R. Han By Mr. KEHOE: A bill (H. R. 39-!8) for the relief of Otho sard, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Adams-to the Committee on Claims. ' Also, a bill (H. R. 3990) for the relief of the heirs of John Wals Also, a bill (H. R. 3949) for the benefit of George W. Taylor's ad ton-to the Committee on War Claims. ministrator-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3991) for the relief of the heirs of Eliah By Mr. KINKAID: A bill (H. R. 3950) for the relief of W. R. 1\'Iatheny-to the Committee on War Claims. Akers, of Alliance, N ebr.-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3992) to grant a pension to Mary E. Moore By Mr. LANNING: A bill (H. R. 3951) granting a pension to to the Committee on Pensions. Patrick Howe-to the Commit-tee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3993) to place the name of Sandy Crawford By Mr. LEGARE: A bill (H. R. 3952) for the relief of Moses on the pension roll-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Winstock-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. RICHARDSON of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 3994) to By Mr. 1\IAHON: A bill (H. R. 3953) fortherelief of Col. David correct the military record of E. D. Judkins-to the Committee on S. Gordon, United States Army, retired-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 3995~ to correct the military record of Dobson By Mr. MAYNARD: A bill (H. R. 3954) granting a pension to Johnson-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Cecilia H. Long-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3996) authorizing the heirs of Fannie P. Mur Also, a bill (H. R. 3955) for the relief of Robert H. Holland free, of Tennessee, to present their claims to the Court of Claims to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. -3956) for the relief of James F. Carr-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 3997) to remove the charge of desertion from Committee on War Claims. · the record of Jordon H. Moore-to the Committee on Military Also, a bill (H. R. 3957) for the relief of the trustees of the Oak Affairs. grove Methodist Episcopal Chnrch, of Norfolk County, Va.-to Also, a bill (H. R. 3998) granting a pension toJohnF. Yeargin the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3958) for the relief of Mary Cornick-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 3999) granting a pension to Nora Stokes-to Committee on Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. PAYNE: A bill (H. R. 3959) granting a pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 4000) granting a pension to Tempier Good Mary Friary-to the Committee on Pensions. son-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. RICHARDSON of Alabama: A bill (H. R. 3960) for the Also, a bill (H. R. 4001) granting a pension to William H. Hug relief of Felix W eeden-to the Committee on War Claims. gins-to the Committee on In-valid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3961) for the relief of Mrs. H. H. Cribbs-to Also, a bill (H. R. 4002) granting a pension toMr.i. Martha A. E. the Committee on War Claims. O'Neal-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3962) foT the relief of the heirs of George W. Also, a bill (H. R. 4003) granting a pension to James M. Foster-to the Committee on War Claims. O'Neal, soldier of Indian war-to the Committee on Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 3963) for the relief of William B. Olive-to Also, a bill (H. R. 4004) grantinganincreaseof pension to Sarah the Committee on War Claims. Waller-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3964) for the relief of John C. Thomas-to Also, a bill (H. R. 4005) to increase the pension of N. R. Cooper the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3965) for the relief of W. C. Tipton-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4006) granting an increase of pension to Committee on War Claims. Nancy A. Bonds-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 3966) for the relief of Mrs. W. E. Trousdale Also, a bill (H. R. 4007) for the relief of the heirs at law of to the Committee on War Claims. Barclay M. Tillman, deceased, of Bedford County, Tenn.-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 3967) for the relief of Margret L. Watkins Committee on Claims. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4008) for the relief of J. M. Carney, of Frank Also, a bill (H. R. 3968) for the relief of Mrs. Nancy M. Weaver lin County, Tenn.-to the Committee on Claims. to the Committee on War Clail:ns. Also, a bill (H. R. 4009) for the relief of James C. Hoover, of Also, a bill (H. R. 3969) for the relief of the estate of John Rutherford County, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. Wesson, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. .Also, a bill (H. R. 4010) for the relief of Joseph H. Thompson Also, a bill (IL R. 3970) for the relief of William M. Under to the Committee on Claims. wood, of Lauderdale County, Ala.-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 4011) for the relief of the legal representatives Pensions. of Dennis Mahoney, deceased-to the C-ommittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3971) for the relief of Elizabeth A. Smith Also, a bill (H. R. 4012) for the relief of Dr. J. J. Crunk, of to the Committee on War Claims. Marshall County, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3972) for the relief of John Jones-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4013) for the relief of estate and heirs at law Committee on Wa1' Claims. of John Leiper, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3973) for the relief of the heirs of Rebecca Also, a bill (H. R. 4014) for the relief of William F. Cowan-to Haley-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3974) for the relief of Robert D. Cox-to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4015) for the relief of Thomas M. Emerson Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 3975) for the relief of John T. Lehman-to Also, a bill (H. R. 4016) for the relief of the legal representa the Committee on War Claims. tives of Mary C. Turner, deceased, late of Tullahoma, Tenn. Also1 a bill (H. R. 3976) for the relief of John Thomas Owen to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4017) for the relief of the Cumberland Pres Also, a bill (H. R. 3977) for the relief of the estate of Reuben byterian Church, Fayetteville, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Street, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. Claims. 320 OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. NOVEMBER 17, Also, a bill (H. R. 4018) for the relief of W. T. Smotherman & PETITIONS, ETO. Co., of Tennessee-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 4019) for the relief of Bettie Wood-to the Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, the following petitions and papers Committee on Invalid Pensions. were laid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: 0 h tate 0 f C L By Mr. BADGER: Address of committee named by theNational Also, a bill (H. R. 4.020) for t h e relie f f t e es • • Convention of Insurance Commissioners, requesting legislation · Davis, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. ul . · Also, a bill (H. R. 4021) for the relief of the Baptist Church at denying the use of the mails to fraud ent msurance compames- Tnllahoma, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, a bill (H. R. 4022) for the relief of William Henley-to By Mr. BIRDSALL: Papers to accompany bill to increase pen- the Committee on Invalid Pensions. :I~~s~f Daniel Bushman-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- Also, a bill (H. R. 4023) for the relief of W. J. Winsett, of Bed- By Mr. BARTHOLDT: Petition of Metal Trades Council of St. ford County, Tenn.-to the Commit'-LBe on War Claims. f h · Also, a bill (H. R. 4024) for the relief of Joseph B. Johnson- Louis, Mo., favoring the passage o an eight- our law-to the to the Committee on War Claims. Committee on Labor. Also, a bill (H. R. 4025) for the relief of c. c. Lowe-to the Also, petition of the Pattern Makers' Association of St. Louis, Committee on War Claims. 'Mo., and vicinity, favoring passage of an eight-hour law-to the Committee on Labor. Also, a bill (H. R. 4026) for the relief of the estate of Laodocia Also, petition of Typographia No.3, of st. Louis, Mo., branch Bivens, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. of the American Federation of Labor, favoring the passage of an Also, a bill (H. R. 4027) for the relief of L. D. Sugg, of Lin- eight-hour law-to the Committee on Labor. coin County, Tenn.-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, resolution of Electrotypers' Union No. 36, of St. Louis, Also, a bill (H. R. 4028) to pay the heirs of Fannie P. Murfree, Mo., favoring the passage of an eight-hour law-to the Commit of Tennessee, for property lost, destroyed, taken, and used by the tee on Labor. United States forces during the late war-to the Committee on Also, petition of Glass Bottle Blowers' Association of St. Louis, War Claims. Mo., favoring the passage of an eight-hour law-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 4029) for the relief of the Cumberland Pres- on Labor. . byterian Church of Tullahoma, Tenn.-to the Committee on - By Mr. CANNON: Memorial of G. W. Perkins, president of War Claims. the International Cigar Makers' Union, relative to the so-called By Mr. SHAFROTH: A bill (H. R. 4030) granting an increase Cuban reciprocity measure-to the Committee on Ways and - of pension to Oliver N. McLain-to the Committee on Invalid Means. Pensions. _ Also, memorial of the National Cigar Leaf Tobacco Association, Also, a bill (H. R. 4031) granting an increase of pension to Sam- protesting against the so-called Cuban reciprocity measure-to nel R. Wasson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensi.ons. the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. SKILES: A bill (H. R. 4032) granting a pension to John Also, memorial of the Economic 0. M. Club, praying for are- P. Kosht-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. organization of the Bureau of Labor-to the Committee on Inter- Also, a bill (H. R. 4033) granting a pension to C. B. Hinneho- state and Foreign Commerce. right-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. CAPRON: Letter from the New England Shoe and Also, a bill (H. R. 4034) granting an increase of pension to_ Leather Association, advocating the retention of the present sys- . Henry Frederick-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tern of tariff on boots, shoes, and leather between the United Also, -a .bill (H. R. 4035) granting an increase of pension to States and Cuba-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Charles H. Coe-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. COOPER of Wisconsin: Letter from Mayaguez section Also, a bill (H. R. 4036) granting an increase of pension to of Chamber of Commerce of Porto Rico, indorsing petition of Herbert A. Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Ponce section of Chamber of Commerce of Porto Rico, praying AI_ so, a bill (H. R. 403~) granting a~ incre!lse of pension to I that a duty of lt cents per pound be levied on all coffee entering - Anna Gray-to the Committee on Invalid PensiOns. the United States-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, a bill (H. R. 4038) gra~ting an incr:ease o~ pension to By Mr. COUSINS: Resolution of the National Grain Dealers' George W. ~ord-to the Comrmt~e on Inyahd PensiOns. . Association, favoring the passage of legi~lation to I?revent dis- Also, a bill (H. R. 4039) granting an mcrease of pensiOn to crimination of traffic rates between localities and sectiOns-to the Henry K. Murphy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, a bill (H. R. 4040) granting an _increa~e of pension to By Mr. CROWLEY: Papers to accompany bill to pension Alfred N.C. Patte~-~ the Committee o~ Invah~ PensiOns. . I. Judy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ~H. R. 4041) granting an mcrease of pensiOn to By Mr. DANIELS: Resolution of Gordon Granger Post, No. William A. Ritchey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 138 Grand Army of the Republic, Orange, Department of Cali- Also, a bill (H. R. 4042) grant~g an increa~e of p~nsion to fo~ia and Nevada, favoring passage of a service-pension bill-to William B. Sturges-to the Comrmttee on Invalid PensiOns. the Committee oil Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4043) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. DAVIDSON: Resolution · of Chamber of Commerce of John Worley-to the Con;tmittee on Invalid Pen~ions. . . Milwaukee, Wis., in favor of restoring mercha~t marine-to the By Mr. SNOOK: A bill (H. R. 4044) grantmg a pensiOn to Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisbenes. William H. Slough-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. DAVIS of Minnesota: Petition of M. G. Evers:::m, of Also, a bill. (H. R. 4045) ~antin.g a pension to Minnie Gusler- St. Peter, Minn., in favor of the passage of service-pension bill- to the Committee on Invahd PensiOns. . to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4046) granting an increase of pension to Also, petition of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers of St. Paul, George N. Rice-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Minn., favoring passage of an eight-hour law and anti-injunctio::1 Also, a bill (H. R. 4047) granting an increase of pension to An- bill-to the Committee on Labor. drew Lybold-to-the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · By Mr. DOVENER: Papers to accompany bill to pension Wil- By Mr. SPERRY: A bill (H. R. 4048) for the relief of the heirs liam A. Scott-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of Eneas Munson-to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. GIBSON: Petition of the heirs of Josiah Pugh, deceased, By Mr. SULLOWAY: A bill (H .. R. 4049) gra~ting a _Pension late of Blount ~unty, Tenn., p.ra~g reference of.war claim to to Sidney F. Sanborn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Court of Clarms-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. TOWNSEND: A bill (H. R. 4050) granting a pension By Mr. HEMENWAY: Papers to accompany bill to pension to Louise H. Watson-to the Committee on Pensions. Samuel N. Gibbs-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4051) granting a pension to William E. By Mr. HUFF: Resolution of Sewickley Presbyterian Church, Chase-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of West Newton, Pa., urging the passage of the Hepburn inter- Also, a bill (H. R. 4052) granting an increase of pension to state liquor act-to the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. Francis X. Soleau-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, papers to accompany bill granting an increase of pension Also, a bill (H. R. 4053) granting an increase of pension to Wil- to Charles W. Hoffman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. liam R. Fuller-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, papers to accompany bill granting an increase of pension Also, a bill (H. R. 4054) to grant an honorable discharge and to George Hayden-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. pension to Phillip Miller-to the Committee on Military Af- Also, papers to accompany bill to pension James M. Redick- fairs. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4055) granting an increase of pension to Also, papers to accompany bill to pension Rev. J. H. Pershing- Thomas Wyrill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. VAN VOORHIS: A bill (H. R. 4056) granting an in- Also, papers to accompany bill granting an honorable discharge crease of pension to Wilson Snider-to the Committee on Invalid and a pension toW. Scott King-to the Committee on. Military Pensions. Affairs. 1903 . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 321 .Also, paper to accompany bill to pension Jacob Lybarger-to of Long Branch; of the congregation of the Simpson Memorial the Committee on Invalid Pensions. :Methodist Episcopal Church, of Long Branch; of the congrega Also, papers to accompany bill to pension Thomas B. Lucas-to tion of the First Presbyterian Church of Long Branch; of the the Committee on In valid Pensions. Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Long Branch; of the By Mr. HULL: Papers to accompany bill to pension Betsy congregation of the Bethel Presbyterian Church, of Ea.st Orange; Chapman-to the Committee on Pensions. of the congregation of the Broad Street Methodist Episcopal By Mr. MAYNARD: Papers to accompany bill to pension Mrs. Church, of Trenton; of the congregation of the Calvary Presby G. H. Long-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. terian Church, of Camden; of the congregation of the Methodist Also, petition of Bolivar Sheild, of York County, Va., praying Episcopal Church of Ebenezer; of the congregation of the Metho reference of war claim to the Court of Claims under the Bowman dist Episcopal Church of Hope; of the Woman's Christian Tem Act-to the Committee em War Claims. perance Union of Hope, and of the congregation of the Central By Mr. METCALF: Resolution of General George A. Custis Methodist Episcopal Church of Trenton, all in the State of New Council, No. 22, Junior Order United American Mechanics, of Jersey, praying for an investigation of the charges made and filed Oakland, Cal., asking the enactment of a stringent immigration againt;t Hon. REED SMOOT, a Senator from the State of Utah, law-to the Committee on Immigration. which were refer1·ed to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Also, resolution of the Amalgamated Association of Street Rail Mr. McCOMAS presented petitions of the Woman's Christian way Employees of America, Division No. 92, Oakland, Cal., in Temperance Union of Monkton, of sundry citizens of Baltimore favor of an eight-hour bill-to the Committee on Labor. County, and of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor . Also, resolution of the Amalgamated Association of Street Rail of Buckeystown, all in the State of Maryland, praying for an in way Employees of America, Division No. 92, of Oakland, Cal., vestigation of the charges made and filed against Ron. REED in favor of the passage of anti-injunction bill-to the Committee SMOOT, a Senator from the State of Utah; which were referred to on the Judiciary. the Committee on Privileges and Elections. By Mr. NEEDHAM: Resolution of Benjamin Harrison Post, Mr. BLACKBURN presented a petition of the Woman's Chl'is No. 166, Department of California and Nevada, Grand Army of tian Temperance Union of Owensboro, Ky., praying for an inves the Republic, favoring the passage of a service-pension bill-to the tigation of the charges made and filed against Ron. REED SMOOT, Committee on Invalid Pensions. a Senator from the State of Utah; which was referred to the By Mr. SKILES: Protest of Cigar Make1·s' Union No. 416, of Committee on Privileges and Elections. Norwalk, Ohio, against passage of the Cuban reciprocity treaty Mr. SPOONER presented a petition of the Woman's Christian to the Committee on Ways and Means. Temperance Union of Bloomington, Wis., praying for an inves Also, resolution of C. B. Gambee Post, No. 33, Bellevue, De tigation of the charges made and filed against Ron. REED SMOOT, partment of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, favoring passage a Senator from the State of Utah; which was referred to the of a service-pension bill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on P1'ivileges and Elections. By Mr. VAN VOORHIS: Papers to accompany bill to pension Mr. BURROWS presented petitions of the congregation of the Wilson Snider-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Congregational Church of Grand Ledge, of the Christian En By Mr. WILEY of New Jersey: Memorial of civil-war locomo deavor Society of Plainwell, and of the Woman's Christian Tem tive engineers of the United States Government of Washington, perance Union and the congregation of the Protestant Church of D. C., favoring the passage of a bill to pension civil-war engi Saranac, all in the State of Michigan, praying for an investigation neers-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of the charges made and filed against Ron. REED SMOOT, a Senator Also, resolution of select and common council of Philadelphia, from the State of Utah; which were refened to the Committee relative to a 35-foot channel for the Delaware River, port of on Privileges and Elections. Philadelphia-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Mr. PLATT of Connecticut presented petitions of the Young Men's Christian Association of Bridgeport; of Thomas Martin, of Bridgeport, and of sundry citizens of Bridgeport, all in the State of SENATE. Connecticut, praying for an investigation of the charges made and filed against Ron. REED SMOOT, a Senator from the State of Utah; WEDNESDAY, November 18, 1903. which werereferred to the Committee on PrivilegesandElections. Prayer by Rev. F. J. PRETTYMAN, of the city of Washington. Mr. GALLINGER presented a petition of Local Union No. 43, The Secretary proceeded to read the Journalof yesterday's pro International Brotherhood of Paper Makers, of Ashland, N.H., ceedings, when, on request of :rtlr. GALLL~GER,and by unanimous praying for the passage of the so-called eight-hour bill; which con ent, the further Teading was dispensed with. was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Journal will stand ap He also presented a petition of Local Union No. 43, International proved. Brotherhood of Paper Makers, of Ashland, N.H., praying for PETITIONS AND MJOIORlALS. the passage of the so-called Hoar anti-injunction bill; which was Mr. SCOTT presented a petition of sundry citizens of Wells referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. bl.ug, W. Va., praying for an investigation of the charges made MEXICAN WAR PEJ.~SIONS. and filed against Ron. REED SMOOT, a Senator from the State of Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, I present a petition from Utah; which was referred to the Committee on Privileges and an organi::.:tion known as The Dames of 1846, praying for an in Elections. crease of pension to the survivors of the Mexican war to $30 per Mr. DEPEW presented petitions of the congregation of the month. Presbyterian Church of Gowanda; of the congregation of the In this connection I should like to be permitted to state that in 11:Iethodist Episcopal Church of Gowanda; of sundry citizens of 1888 , thirty-nine years after the close of the Mexican war, a serv Clinton and SY1·acuse; of the congregation: of the Presbyterian ice pension of $8 per month was granted to the survivors and the Church of Bethlehem; of the congregation of the First Presby widows. A few years after it was amended, making it 12 per terian Church of New Scotland; of the congregation of the Con month to those who were in destitute circumstances and unable gregational Church of Baiting Hollow; of sundry citizens of to labor, and at the last session of Congress a further amendment Boonville and Oneida; of the Independent Order of Good Tem was made granting $12 per month to all the survivors of the Mex plars of Albion; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of ican war. Rochester; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Es I do not venture to say how much merit there is in the peti perance; of sundry citizens of Mount Vernon and Cayuga; of the tion of these good women, but of course the Committee on Pen Woman's Christian Temperance UnionofHuntington; of the Wo sions will give it proper consideration. man's Christian Temperance Union of Oswego; of the Young The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The petition will be referred Woman's Missionary Society of Albany; of the Woman's Chris to the Committee on Pensions. tian Temperance Union of Chazy; of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New Albion; of the Mothers' Christian COST OF PRINTING DOCUMEl~TS. Association of New York City; of the congregation of Olivet Mr. PLATT of New York, from the Committee on Printing, Methodist Episcopal Church, of Syracuse, and of the congrega who were directed by a resolution of the Senate of March 12, 1903, tion of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Manlius, all in the to ascertain and report to the Senate the cost, for each session of State of New York, praying for an investigation of the charges the last four Congresses, of printing all such documents, other made and filed against Ron. REED SMOOT, a Senator from the than executive or legislative documents, as may have been printed State of Utah; which were referred to the Committee on Privi by order of the Senate, or by unanimous consent, on the request leges and Elections. of individual Senators, submitted a report thereon. Mr. KEAN presented petitions ofthecongregationoftheForty BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION INTRODUCED. sixth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Bayonne; of the :Mr. CULLOM introduced the following bills; which were sev congregation of the First Reformed Church of Long Branch; of erally read twice by their titles, and referred t.o the Committee the congregation of the First Baptist Church of Long Branch; of on Pensions: the congregation of the St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal Church, A bill (S. 1321) granting a pension to Charles M. Clark; XXXVII--21