r - ,' 1102 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 2,
Harry F. Hawkins, to be postmaster at Beaver Falls, in the ments must receive their first consideration in Committee of the county of Beaver and· State of Pennsylvania, in the place of Whole on the state of the Union. The bill in its present form William H. Grim, whose commission expires February 28, 1893. iS--a bill raising revenue. Joseph G. Fietsam, to be postmasterat Weimar, in the county Mr. DALZELL. Ostensibly. of Colorado and State of Texas, the appointment of a postmas Mr. McMILLIN. The reading of the amendments will show ter for the said office having, by law, become vested in the whether they do not provide for the imposition of taxes. President on and after January 1, 1893. The SPEAKER. The House has the right to hear the amend Nicholas T. Lawrence, to be postmaster at New Lisbon, in the ments in order that this question may be determined. The county of Juneau and State of Wisconsin, the appointment of a Clerk will read them. postmaster for the said office having, by law, become vested in The amendments of the Senate were read. the President on and after January 1, 1893. Mr. BOATNER. Mr. Speaker, Imakethepointof order that the amendments of the Senate to this bill require consideration PROMOTION IN THE ARMY. in the Committee of the Whole House-- A.djutant-General's Depa'rtment. Mr. HATCH. On that point of order I desire to be heard. Capt. John B. Babcock, FifthCavalry,tobeassistantadjutant Mr. BOATNER. And under the provisions of Rule XXIV, general with the rank of major, February 2,1893, vice Sheridan, the House can not consider the matter at this time. Rule XX promoted. provides that- Any amendment of the Senate to any House bill shall be subject to the point of order that it shall first be considered 1n the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union it, originating 1n the House, it would be HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. subject to that point. Then in the first paragraph of Rule XXIV it is provided that · TnURSDA.Y, Feb'rrtta1"Y 2, 1893. After the .Journal is r ead and approved each day, the Speaker shall lay before the House, for reference, messages from the President, reports and The House met at 12o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. communication& from the heads of Departments, and other communications W. H. MILBURN, D. D. addressed to the House, and also such bills, resolutions, and other messages The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. from the Senate as may have been received on :previous days, but no such message, reporli, communication, bill, or resolutwn shall be printed except EXPENSES OF ON'ITED STATES COURTS. by order of the Speaker or the House; and House bills with Senate amend The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Secre ments which do not require consideration 1n Committee of the Whole may tary of the Treasury, transmittingacommunicationfrom theAt be at once disposed of as the House may determine. torney-General submitting a statement of additional deficiencies Now, the point is, Mr. Speaker, that this is not a House bill in appropriations on account of certain expenses in United States with Senate amendments which may be disposed of without be courts; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, ing considered in Committee of the Whole. We make the point and ordered to be printed. that this bill must be considered in Committee of the Whole be The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the cause it includes subjects and objects of taxation not included Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from in the original bill, and provide3 for expenses and disburse the Attorney-General relating to the need of an appropriation for ments not provided for in the original bill. transportation of jurors and witnesses summoned to attend court Mr. HATCH. Mr. Speaker, my reply to the point of order in United States cases; which was referred to the Committee on made by the gentleman from Louisiana is, in the first place- Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. BOATNER. Mr. Speaker, I had not yielded the floor. The SPEAKER. The Chair thought the gentleman had con DAILY HOUR OF MEETING. cluded. If he desires to say something further, of course the Mr. McMILLIN. I am instructed by the Committee on Rules Chair will hear him with pleasure. to report back with an amendment the resolution which I send Mr. BOATNER. Before concluding my remarks, I wish to to the desk, introduced by the gentleman frOm Indiana [Mr. call the attention of the Chair to the Senate amendment which HOLMAN). includes flour as one of the objects upon the dealing in which The Clerk read as follows: taxes are to be imposed. Resolved, That on the 3d day of February, and until further oruer of the Mr. McMILLIN. If the gentleman will permit me to inter Rouse, the daily hour of meeting be 11 o'clock a.m. rupt him right there. I have looked at the bill and the amend Mr. McMILLIN. The committee has amended the resolution ments with a view to seeing what this original clause was, and by inserting "the 3d day of February," so that the order shall also what the amendment proposes. The original section, be begin to operate to-morrow. We still have six appropriation ginning at line 11 on page 2, reads as follows: bills on the Calendar undisposed of; and the committee were of Nor to any contract or agreement made with any farmer or planter to fur opinion that this order should begin to operate at once, to insure nish and deliver to such farmer or planter at a. future time, or within a des the early consideration of those measures. ignated period, any of said articles which are required as food, forage, seed, etc. "' * * The amendment reported by the Committee on Rules was SEC. 3. That the articles to which the foregoing sections relate are raw or a 1893. CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-HOUSE. 1103 the Senate to a bill raising revenue it must go to the committee, man from Missouri, have been subject to the point of order that but it is that the bill shall embrace some matter requiring the ap it must be considered in a Committee of the Whole House? propriation of money or making a charge upon the Government. Mr. TAYLORof Illinois. That is the question! desire to ask The rule covers nothing else. The firat clause of Rule XXIV the gentleman. reads: Mr. BOATNER~ If the bill as originally introduced provided After the Journal is read and approved each day, the Speaker shall lay be only a tax on dealings in flour would it have been subject to the fore the House for reference, messages from the President, reports and com point of order? · munications from the heads of Departments and other communications ad dressed to the House, and also such bills. resolutions, and other messages Mr. TAYLOR of illinois. That is, if it had been an original from the Senate as may have been received on previous days, but no such bill with that provision alone in it? . message, report, communication, bill, or resolution shall be printed except Mr. HATCH. Why, Mr. Speaker, thes-e gentlemen are drift by order of the Speaker or the House: · ing away from this issue entirely, and their memories are so There is a semicolon at that point. Now what is the latter short that they do not remember the fact that on the 5th and · clause of the rule? 6th days of last June the first motion that was mad.e in this and House bills with Senate amendments which do not require considera House in relation to this bill was a motion I made to go into tion in Committee of the Whole may be at once disposed of as the House may Committee of the Whole for the purpose of considering bills determine. raising revenua, stating that this was a bill raising revenue. Mr. Speaker, it is within the power of a majority of this House Mr. McMILLIN. Will the gentleman allow me a qYestion? to say what determination shall be made with regard to this bill, Mr. BATCH. - As soon as I have concluded my answer to the a House bill amended by the Senate. former question, if the gentleman will allow me? Mr. RAYNER. Will the gentleman permit a question? Now, .the original bill wa.s one raisingrevenue1 and thatit was Mr. HATCH. With pleasure. such a bill is shown on its face; and the House journals will show Mr. RAYNER. What does the gentleman do with s9ction 3 it. But gentlemen them£elves at that time would not recognize of Rule XXIII, which provides that all motions or propositions the fact, and for two whole days they held this· House in abey involving a tax or charge upon the people shall be referred to ance by brute force. the Committee of the Whole? • Mr. CUMMINGS. Only one hour on one day. Mr. HATCH. I am coming to that; I will read all of section Mr. HATCH. Well, it was two whole sessions of the House 3, Rule XXIII. from the time it was b1~ought up that it was stopped by brute Mr. RAYNER. That is the point. force, that sort of force than can just as well be developed in this Mr. HATCH (reading)- Bouse by a trained:- parrot as a Representati"tre here, simply to All motions or propositions involving a tax or charge upon the people; all ~r object." They would not go into Committee of the Whole, but proceedings touching appropriations of money, or bills making appropria the majority of the representatives of the people on the following tions of money or property, or requiring such appropriation to be made, or authorizing payments out o! appropriations already made, or relea13ing any Monday expressed their opinion upon the merits of the bill when liability to the United States for money or property, shall be first considered it passed the House under a suspension of the rules by a vote of in a. Committ-ee of the Whole, and a point. of order under this rule shall be 168 to 37. Now the House has acted upon it, it goes to the Senate good at any time before the consideration of a bill has commenced. under our rules as a House bill. It comes back here simply Now, sir, that information has been held by the Speaker of amended in language by the Senate, and not one single dollar of this House and by every Speaker who has ruled upon the ql).es appropriation to be charged upon the people is placed upon the tion to relate to an amendment to any bill raising revenue. bill by the Senate amendments. Mr. BOATNER. Will the gentleman yield for a question? And now gentlemen ara extremely anxious to get into Com Mr. HATCH. As soon as I get through with this paragraph mittee of the Whole to consider revenue bills. Well, gentlemen, and my comments upon it. you have passed that stage on this bill. You were tendered the Mr. BOATNER. I thought you were through already. opportunity-- Mr. HATCH. Well, the gentleman need not get uneasy or Mr. McMILLIN. If the gentleman will permit me I will ask unhappy; I will give him ample time. him the question I wanted to ask him a moment ago. Mr: BOATNER. I did not want to int,errupt the gentleman Mr. HATCH. With pleasure. until he had concluded. Mr. McMILLIN. The question I wish to ask the gentlemen Mr. HATCH. On the 2d day of July, 1884-and I read now is, whether he does not know that it has bBen the uniform hold from the House Journal, page 1811-there was under considera ing in this Hoase that when the Senate makeS an amendment to tion what is known as the Mexican pension bill, which was a a bill which, if it had originated in the Houser would ha-ve car House bill with a Senate amendment. When it came backfrom ried the bill to the Committee of the Whole, the bill is sent to the Senate, and this amendment was to be considered by the the Commlttee of the Whole upon 9J point of order upon the Sen ;House, here is the interpretation put upon that language of the ate amendment? rule by Me. CARLISLE, the then Speaker of the House: Mr. HATCH. 0, no; I did not state the proposition as broadly Mr. TOWNSEND moved that the House concur in the Senate amendment, as that, and I do not understand that to be the fact. on which motion he demanded the previous question. Mr. McMILLIN. It has been held tbat way always. Pending which Mr. GOLDSMITH W. HEWITT made the point of order that the said amendment, under Rule XX, must receive its first consideration in Mr. HATCH. Not at all. If that bill had been brought into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. the House by the action of the Committee on Agriculture simply, The SPEAKER. overruled the said point of order, on the ground that there including any one of these articles, it would have fixed the status is nothing on the face of the amendment which would enable the Chair to de termine whether it would increase or diminish the number of pensioners, of the bill unquestionably, whether it had been wheat, or corn, and therefore become a charge or tax upon the people by requiring an ad or cotton, or flour. But if these gentlemen do not know that "ditional appropriation of money. flour is merely wheat ground and sifted through a bolting cloth, Now, here is a bill raising re-venue passed bytheHouseofRep they ought to flnd it out. . resentatives. It goes to the Senate, and not anew subject is in Mr. BOATNER. How about bread? troduced into it by a single Senate amendment; but yet these Mr. BATCH. There is nothing· new introduced into the bill gentlemen who interpose this point of order now say, in addition by introducing the word" flour." to wheat7 they find added by the Senate the products of wheat Mr. FITCH. Would the gentleman's:reasoning include bread wheat ground into flour-simply changing one of the products also? [Laughter.] of a raw mate1•ial in this part of the' Senate amendment. For Mr. HATCH. It is bread after it goes through a manufactur that reason they find that the Senate amendment must be first ing process. Now, Mr. Speaker-- considered in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of Mr. KILGORE. I would like to inquire of the gentleman from the Union. Missouri [Mr. HATCH] and of the Chair: The only question, as I Now, sir, I undertake to say that the uniform practice of this understand, now before the Bouse is the question of reference. Bouse has been, and I challenge these gentlemen to produce to M1·. HATCH. The gentlet:nan is mistaken. It is a point of the Speaker a single instance to the contrary, that the Speaker order that is pending. · of the House has uniformly held and invariably ruled that amend Mr. KILGORE. Now, if this bill is to be considered in the ments only carrying appropriations, or requiring appropriations Committee of the Whole, it must go to the Committee on Agri to be made.in consequence of their adoption, shall be first con culture or some other committeeof the House, to ba reported by sidered in a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the that committee. If it is not a bill that should go into the Com Union. mittee of the Whole, then the House may dispose of the amend Mr. TAYLOR, of illinois. Will the gentlemanfrom Missouri ment now. yield for a question? The SPEAKER. That is a matter the Chair desires to find Mr. HATCH. I promised to yield to the gentleman from out about, whether the amendments are such as require consid Louisiana first. eration by the Committee of the Whole. Mr. BOATNER. The question I desire to propound to the Mr. KILGORE. I did not know but Icould fool the Chairon gentleman from Missouri is this: If this bill had made provision that. [Laughter.] originally only for a tax upon dealings in flour, as introduced The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Missouri is responding into the House, would the bill, in the judgment of the ge~tle- to the inquiry of the Chair upon that point. (. - I \ 1104 OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE.· FEBRUARY 2, Mr. HATCH. Now, Mr. Speaker, untilsomebetterauthority The SPEAKER. Is there a statement? has been presented to the Speaker to sustain the point of order, Mr. WISE. No, sir; there is no statement. I would state to I insist that the interpretation given by a former Speaker of the the House that this is the bill that was passed by the House of House in regard to these amendments should be followed, and Representatives, with the exception of a few verbal amendments. the Chair having heard these amendments read, and knowing I move the adoption of the report. that not a single line or word has been added making an appro The SPEAKE.R. The gentleman from Virginia moves the priation or a charge upon the people requiring consideration in adoption of the report. Committee of the Whole, that my motiohis now in order, which I Mr. BURROWS. The statement had better be read. repeat,.that the House nonconcur in the Senate amendments Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. Is there a statement? and agree to the conference asked for by the Senate; and upon The SPEAKER. There seems to ba nostatementaccompany- that I demanded the previous question. ing the conference report. The SPEAKER. The House will please .be in order. The Mr. BURROWS. There ought to be. Chair having no notice that this motion would be made, has not The SPEAKER. There ought to ba. read the Senate amendments and has only heard them read this Mr. BURROWS. Let it go over until to-morrow. morning by the Clerk. It is clearly the rule of the House, of The SPEAKER. The gentleman can submit it to-morrow. course, that any Senate amendment which, if it thad originated in the House, must have had its first consideration in the Com ALLEGED READING RAILROAD COMBINE. mittee of the Whole, must be considered in Committee of the Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I desire to submit a priv Whole. This is largely a question of fact, and the Chair would ileged report. like to read the amendments and look them over, and if there The Clerk read as follows: be no objection the bill will lie upon the table; and the Chair, Resolved by the House of Rep7·esentatives (the Senate concurring), That there be printed 4,500 copies or the report, which includes the testimony of the having had opportunity to examine the amendments, will lay Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (report No. 2218), relating the bill before the House to-morrow. to combinations between the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Comnany Mr. HATCH. Let me ask that in the mean time, by unanimous and other railroads, 3,000 copies for the House, and 1,500 copies for the use ot consent, the Senate bill, with the amendments of the Senate, be the Senate. printed, so that alrthe members of the House can have tQ.e op The report (by Mr. RICHARDSON) was read, as follows: portunity to see what the amendments are. I want the veryfair The committee have considered House concurrent resolution to print4,500 est consideration of the matter. copies of the report, which includes the testimony of the Committee on In tersta.te and Foreign Commerce (report No. 2278), and direct me to report the The SPEAKER. The Chair supposes there will be no objec same with the recommendation that it do pass. tion to that. The estimated cost of the same is about $1 ,200. Mr. RICHARDSON. Does the gentleman wish the bill and Mr. RICHARDSON. I demand the previous question on the amendments printed in the RECORD, or printed as a document? adoption of the report.. Mr. HATCH. Printed'in the usual form. The previous question was ordered; and under the operation The SPEAKER. The Chair understands the gentleman's re thereof the resolution was adopted. quest to be ~ha t_the _bill_be prin~d as though it had been _ref~rre~. On motion of Mr. RICHARDSON, a motion to reconsider the Without obJectiOn 1t w1ll be prmted as amended; and 1t w1ll he vote by which the report was adopted was laid on the table. upon the table and the Chair will submit it to-morrow morning after having read it. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Mr. BLAND. I desire to submit oneobservationin reference By unanimous consent, leave of absence was..granted to Mr. to this matter, and that is, the House having suspended the rules PAGE, for four days, on account of important business. and passed the bill, whether this did not suspend the rules with COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION BETWEEN UNITED STATES reference to its going to the Committee of the Whole, and every AND CANADA. other rule pertaining to it? It is a bill that was taken out of the Committee of the Whole by order of the House and passed under Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I present a bill and ask suspension of the rules, which suspension suspended all rules unanimous consent to have it printed in the RECORD. It is a relating to it. Now, whether it comes back in a different form very short bill, only about twenty lines. to the House under those circumstances, is a question I would The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the title, after which like the Speaker also to investigate. the Chair will ask if there be objection. Mr. KILGORE. Mr. Speaker, before this matter goes over The Clerk read as follows: A bill (H. R. 10404) to provide tor and facilitate commercial and political , without objection, I want it understood that any point of order union between the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada. which goes to the question of immediate consideration of this bill and these amendments, as coming from the Senate, will be The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York asks unani considered as reserved. mous consent that this bill be printed in the RECORD. Is there The SPEAKER. Precisely as it is now. objection? Mr. WARNER. All points of order. Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I submit that it is not Mr. HATCH (with emphasis). All points of order. [Laugh usual to print bills in the RECORD. ter. J I am prepared for every one of them. Mr. CUMMINGS. This is a very short bill. Mr. RICHARDSON. Will it not be printed in bill form? TESTIMONY IN CRIMINAL CASES UNDER INTERSTATE-COM The SPEAKER. The Chair hears no objection, and it is so MERCE ACT. ordered. Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, I submit a conference report on the The bill is as follows: bill (S. 193.3) concerning testimony in criminal cases of proceed A bill (H. R. 10404) to provide tor and facilitate commercial and political ings made upon or growing out of alleged violation of an act en union between the United States America and the Dominion or Canada: titled "An act to regulate commerce." Be it enacted, etc., That au or the States to be formed out of the Dominion The conference report was read, as foYows: of Canada with suitable and exact boundaries and with representatives in Congress such as the population of each State shall warrant according to The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses the present apportionment of representation, shall, 1f the people of said Do on the amendments or the House to the bill (S.1933) concerningtestimonyin minion make proper application therefor with the consent and approval or criminal cases or proceedings based upon or growing out of alleged viola the Government of Great Britain, be admitted into the Union by virtue or tions of an act entitled "An act to regulate commerce," approved FebrUI\I"Y this act on an equal footing with existing States as soon as the terms and 4, 1887, as amended March 2, 1889, and February 10, 18!Jl, after full and itee conditions of such admission and the cession of the remaining territory of conference have agreed to recommendanddorecommend to their respective said Dominion to the United States by the government of said Dominion Houses: That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the sh~i~~~- c~i1~~«}~ltk~: ;~~t~~~¥g-~~~~ssum of $250,000 be, and the same House, and agree to the same with amendments as follows: is hereby, appropriated to defray the expenses of missions and negotiations In line 5, after the words " subpoona or the Commission, whether " insert to fix and a~ee upon the terms of said admission and cession either by treaty the words "such subpoona be." to be submitted to the Senate or by articles t o be submitted to the two In line 8, after the words, "violation of" strike out the word "said " and Houses of Congress as the President may direct. insert in lieu thereof the word " the." SEc. 3. And be it further enacted, That until said Dominion of Canada shall In line. 16, add to the word "subject" the letters "ed ";and in the same be admitted into the Union in pursuance or this act, there shall be commer line after the word "penalty "insert the words " or forfeiture." cial union between the said Dominion and the United States, and that impost In line 20, after the words "to its subpoona" insert the words" or the sub· duties or other taxes shall not be levied by the Unitej States on the products poona of either of them." of said Dominion coming into the United States, or on manufactures made And that the House do agree to the same. or materials admitted. tree by both countries ;•p1·ovided said Dominion admits JAMES F. WILSON, the products or the United States into said Dominion on reciprocal terms. 1L M. TELLER, JAMESL.PUGH, EMPLOYMENT OF EX-UNION SOLDIERS. Conferees on tll.e pm·t of the Senate. GEO. D. WISE, Mr. PICKLER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to JOSIAH PATTERSON, print a memorial of the Legislature of the State of South Da BELLAMY STORER, kota in the RECORD. Conferees on the part of the House. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the title, after which Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, I would say to the House-- the Chair will ask if tliere be objection. 1893; CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. I "' 1105 The Clerk read as follows: Mr. DINGLEY. Does the gentleman mean to say that there Memorial of the Legislature of the State of South Dakota, asking the were no removals under the civil-service rules during the pre passage or Senate bill1598 and House bill 5098, providing that preference be ceding four years? given in appointment to Government positions or Union soldiers of the late war, and requesting their retention in omce. Mr. BYNUM. No reinstatements. The removals occurred prior to March, 1889, but the reinstatements have occurred since ... The SPEAKER. The gentleman from South Dakota asks that time. : . uaanimous consent to print this memorial of the Legislature of Mr. DINGLEY. In order to have full information on this sub the State of South Dakota in the RECORD. Is there objection? ject ought we not also to have information as to the removals pre Mr. RICHARDSON. I do not think that ought to be done, viously made, and the causes of them? Mr. Speaker. Mr. BYNUM. Thisresolutioncoversthat, becauseitrequires Mr. PICKLER. I hope the gentleman will not object. It is less than apage. a list of names of the reinstated and also of the dates of their re .~ ' movals from the service. We are not se~king to find out about The SPEAKER. Objection is made. those that were not reinstated, because we have no special use Mr. PICKLER. Then, Mr. Speaker, I ask that the memorial for that information. The object is only to find out whet,her the be referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. civil-service law has been violated in the reinstatements. The SPEAKER. That will be done. Mr. DINGLEY. The gentleman does not desire this inquiry FORTIFICATION APPROPRIATION BILL. t0 go back of March 4, 1889? The SPEAKER laid before the House a bill (H. R. 9923) mak Mr. BYNUM. I have no objection to that. But there were ing appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, no reinstatements before that time, because there had been no for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ord removals. nance for trial and service, and for other purposes, with amend Mr. DINGLEY. Why can not the resolution be changed so ments of the Senate thereto; which was referred to the Cummit as to extend the inquiry back to March 4, 1885, in order to cover tee on Appropriations. the whole ground? ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. BYNUM. I ha\e no objection to that whatever. The SPEAKER also laid before the House a bill (H. R. 9895) Mr. DINGLEY. I hope that change will be made. making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fis Mr. ANDREW. I am willing to accept the amendment sug cal year ending June 30, 1892, and for other purposes, with gested by the gentleman from Maine [Mr. DINGLEY] to strike amendments of the Senate thereto; which was referred to the out" 1889" and insert" 1885." Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. I could not hear the read ing of the resolution; and I wish to inquire whether it provides JESSE BENTON FREMONT. for a report as to how many of these reinstatements have been Mr. BURROWS. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday I entered a mo reinstatements of veterans-of the late war. As I understand, tion to reconsider the vote by which the bill (S. 2311) to refer the veterans may be reinstated, though they may have been out of claim of Jesse Benton Fremont to the Court of Claims had been office one year. It seems to me there ought to be some infor passed. I made the motion with a view to looking into the bill. mation as to the number of reinstatements of veterans. I now move that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. Mr. BYNUM. Where an ex-soldier is reinstated, as the gen There was no objection, and it was so ordered. tleman says, the time he has been out of office is not essential, REINSTATEMENT IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. but under the resolution we shall get the information the gen Mr. ANDREW. Mr. Speaker I desire to present a privileged tleman desires. ·report from the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. Mr. ANDREW. I call for the previous question. The report was read, as follows: The previous question was. ordered. The SPEAKER. The 'first question is on the amendment to "Resolved, That the Unitej States Civil Service Commission be directed to ...... - furnish to the House the names of all appointees reinstated in the classified insert "1885" instead of "1889; " so as to read " the 4th day of ·service of the Government under the provisions of departmental rule 10 March, 1885." since the 4th day of March, 1889, the da~s when such appointees were dis missed or resigned from the service, the States to which they were charged The amendment was agreed to. at the time o! their separa.tion,~the dates of their reinstatement, the Depart The resolution as amended was adopted. ments in which they were reinstated, and the States to which they were cred ited upon their reinstatement." ORDER OF BUSINESS. The Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, to whom was referred the Several members addressed the Chair. above-mentioned resolution, recommend that the House agree to the resolu tion. Mr. KILGORE. I demand the regular order. The SPEAKER. The regular order is the call of standing and Mr. ANDREW. Mr. Speaker, I ask that that resolution be select committees for reports. acted upon at the present time. Mr. DINGLEY. One moment, Mr. Speaker. From what PAYMENT TO VIRGINIA UNDER ACT OF AUGUST 001 1890. time does the gentleman propose to investigate the civil ser Mr. BUCHANAN of Virginia, from the Committee on the Ju vice? diciary, reported back favorably the joint resolution (S. R. 121) Mr. ANDREW. This is not a resolution for an investigation. authorizing payment under act of August 30, 1890, to the State It is simply a request for information. of Virginia, upon the assent of the governor heretofore given, Mr. DINGLEY. Certain fa-cts are desired as to appointments till the adjournment of the next session of the Legislature thereof; under the civil service rules since what time? which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on Mr. BYNUM. Since the 4th day of March, 1889. the state of the Union, and, with the accompanying report, or Mr. ANDREW. The inquiry covers only the last three or four dered to b3 printed. years. The Commission are requested to send in a list of the FERNAND IN A HARBOR, FLORIDA. rein'ltatements which have been made of employes previously dismissed or resigned. I understand that they have this infor Mr. LESTER of Georgia, from the Committee on River and mation, but it does not exist anywhere in print. Harbors, reported back House concurrent resolution calling on Mr. DINGLEY. Does the same information exist as to the the Secretary of War to ascertain and report the present condi previous Administration ending on the 4th of March, 1889 ? Or tion of Fernandina Harbor, Florida; which was referred to the does not the gentleman wantanyinformation as to that period? Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and, Mr. BYNUM. There were no reinstatements up to that time. with the accompanying report, ordered to be printed. Mr. WEVER. Oh, yes; lots of them. SALE OF NAVAL ASYLUM PROPERTY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Mr. DINGLEY. My inquiry is whether we already have the Mr. CUMMINGS, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, re information up to March 4, 1889, and if not, why this inquiry ported back with amendments the bill (H. R. 9872) to authorize does not call for the information during that period, or from the the sale to the Schuylkill River East Side Railroad Company of establishment of the service, if we are to inquire into the facts a lot of ground belonging to the United States Naval Asylum in at all? Why is the inquiry limited to the period since March the city of Philadelphia, Pa.; which was referred to the Com 4, 1889, instead of going back? mittee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and, with Mr. ANDREW. That is the scope of the resolution as it was the accompanying report, ordered to be printed. referred to the committee. . Mr. BYNUM. If the gentleman will yield to me for a mo MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT • ment, I will say that I introduced -this resolution, and that A message in writing from the President of the United States there is no desire to cover up any information whatever that the was communicated to the house by Mr. PRUDEN, one of his sec House may need; but prior to March, 1889, there had been no retaries. reinstatements because there had been practically no removals. SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATIO~ BILL. Since that time there have been a large number of reinstate Mr. HOLMAN. I move that the House resolve itself into ments, as I am informed by persons professing to have the in Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union for the con formation. sideration of general appropriation bills. XXIV-70 ; I . ·. _1106 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 2, The motion was agreed to. pus proceedings in the ca.se of the United Stat~s aga.inst an Indian called Crow Dog, convict~d in the first judicial district court of the Territory of The House accordingly resolved itself into Committee of the Dakota for the erune of murder, in the killing or another Indian called Whole on the state of the Union (Mr. LESTER of Georgia in the Spotted Tail, including costs of transcript, printing tho same, printing brtets chair}, and l'esumed the consideration of the bill (H., R.l0238) and counsel fees for said defendant. ' making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Govern The amendment I have offered proposes to place the same sum ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, and for other pur at ~he disposal of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the poses. -qruted States to secure the early and proper adjudication of a The CHAIRMAN. When the committee rose yesterday the hke case already there pending, except that it is a. different paragraph commencing at line 17, page 83, was under consider question of jurisdiction. ation. The gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. BUSHNELL] had . T~e poin~ in that case was a different one-a question of juris offered an amendment upon which a point .of order was raised, diCtiOn, wh1ch does not arise here. There the question was which the Chair sustained; and from the decision of the Chair whether the United States laws intended to give to the United the gentleman from Wisconsin had aJ>pealed. States wing crimes, namely murder manslaughter r ap e! assault with ~ntent to kill, ar~on, burglary,' and larceny within any exact point has been decided by several chairmen presiding over Territory of the Umted States, and either within or without an Indian res Committees of the Whole. Those decisions go to this extent: erya ti~n . shall be subject therefor to the laws of such Territory relating to That even an amendment to a naval appropriation bill providing said cr1me::, and shall b~ tried therefor in the same coul'ts and in the same for the building of a new ship is not amenable to thispointofor manner an~ shall be subJect to the same penalties as are all other persons cha.l'ged With the commiss~o~ of said crimes, respectively; and the said der, because the maintenance of a navy is one of the objects in courts are hereby given juriSdiction in all such cases. progress provided for by law. I read from the Digest, page 257: And the nBxt clause is in the following language: A provision in the Nayy approprjation bill !or additional ships was held to be in order, as being in continuation of a public object already in prog~ And all such Indians- ress, namely, the maintenance of the Na.yy. If the object is a public object and itis already in 1)rogress, then there need And this is the part to which I wish more particularly to call not be any previous legislation authorizing it. The Chair believes that the your att.ention- construction o.f a. na.yy is a public object or a. public work. * * * It committ.iJ?.g any of the above crimes against the person or property of an· may be said also that the proposed amendment providing money for the other Indian or othe.r 1?8rson ~ithin the boundaries of any State of the construction of vessels does not change existing law a.nd is not prohibited p~ted States, and WithJ? th~ limits of any Indian reservation, shall be sub by law.-Mr. Xc01'eary, Chai7'Tnan. Congressional ltecord. second session Jee •.to t he same laws, tne~ in the san1e courts, and in the same manner, and Forty-ninth Congress, February 26, 1887. • · subJect t!> the s~m~ penalties as ar~ all other persons committing any of the Similar declsions were rendered by Mr. Chairman Cox and Mr. Butter~ above crrmes Within the exclusive Jurisdiction of the United States. worth, Chairman, in the Fiftieth and Fifty~first Congresses, respectively. And thus the United States has undertaken to give the jur It is true that in the last session of this Congress the gentleman isdiction. -- from Indiana IMr. SHIVELY], as Chairman of the Committee of Now, the question of jurisdiction here arises in this way: By the Whole, found some fault with that ruling, but he followed it the act of Septemoer 28, 1850, and subsequent land-grant acts as a precedent; and it has never been held otherwise. Congress gave to the State of Wisconsin and other State~ And further I call attention to this language (Digest, page 258): certain sw:amp lands and school lands. By a subsequent act of In the MUitary Academy appropriation bill a. provision for "fireproof building on site of public grounds at West Point" is within the purview of Congress 1t was undertaken to convert a portion of these lands· the rule. The construction of a building is an incident to the maintenan ce so granted by qongress to t~e State of Wisconsin, into Chippewa or the Academy itself, the object being already in progress, the main object and other Indian reservatiOns. The State had previously ac contemplated not only by the bill but by the very institution of the Academy itself.-.Mr. Cox, Chat1'1nan. Congr.essionaE Reco1·d, second session Fiftieth cepted the grants, took possession of portions of these lands so Congress, page 717. gran~ed, and exercised some acts of ownership over them. And there is nothing to the contrary. It IS held by the circuit judge of our United States court that Nor, Mr. Chairman, is this proposed amendment without ex Congress had no power thereafter to put these lands into Indian act precedent in the appropriation bills, and embodied in the reservations; and that therefore the United States courts have no sundry civil appropriation bills of Congress heretofore passed. jurisdictio~ un.der the law to try and sentence that Indian to be On page 624, volume 22 of the Statutes at Large of the United han.g-ed: to mfhct the penalty of death, where the crime is alleged States, I find in the sundry civil appropriation bill, the very to have been committed upon an Indian reservation, and the bill now under consideration, an appropriation exa-ctly like this. jurisdiction of the United States court depends upon whether or :Mr. OUTHWAITE. What bill is the gentleman discussing? not the offense charged was committed upon an Indian reserva I was out of the House when this question arose. tion. The district judge holds that he has jurisdiction to so try · Mr. BUSHNELL. A proposed amendment to the sundry civil and sentence the Indian.. And it is not one case alone in which appropriation bill. this question arises. Mr. OUTHWAITE. That bill is now up? There are some seven or eight Indian reservations in the State Mr. BUSHNELL. Which bill isnowup before the House for o! Wisconsin where th~ qu~stion is likely to arise, and theques~ consideration. And I am not surprised, Mr. Ghairman, that the twn has now already ariSen m two other cases of Indians who are gentleman did not understand what was being discussed. I under indictment in the United States courts of Wisconsin for doubt whether there are ten members of this House outside of the crime of murder. This case has been certified up to the the Committee on Appropriations who do understand it. And Supreme Court of the United States, upon a divided opinion be l shall take occasion at this point, if the House will hear me, to tween those two United States judges of the courts below fo1· say that the proposed amendment is not one of light or trifling the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States. rt' the importance. It iB one of great importance, inasmuch as it in case is allowed to take its regular order it will stand upon the volves the determination of a question now pending in the Su do.cket for three or four years before it is called up and deter preme Court of the United States as to whether a. man, an In mmed. In the mean time the Indians now under indictment dian, has been unlawfully sentenced to death by a court of the must lie in jail at the expense of the United States, and other United States, or whether it shall be held that a sentence of cases will be accumulating of the same sort. death resting upon him was lawfully imposed by that United The dockets of those courts and of the Supreme Court of the States court. United States will soon contain more records of just sucb cases The question arising here is one upon which two judges of the as this, and they will continue to accumulate until some one of United States eom·ts have disagreed and certified their division th~m is decided. If counsel were appointed, as contemplated by of opinion to the Supreme Court of the United States for the de this amendment, for the purpose of getting that case expedited cision of that tribunal, and it is now there pending for their de in the Supreme Court, it could be decided very soon. The termination as between these two disagreeing judges of the United States would save the expense of maintaining· those In United States courts. dians in jail for three or four years each, which in all would But I have said that a similar appropriation to this was made amount to several times the sum that it would cost to determine in an appropriation bill passed heretofore. In the Forty-seventh the question now in the Supreme Court of the United States. Congress a similar provision was passed in the sundry civil ap I insist, Mr. Chairman, that under the treaty obligations of propriation bill, and the language of the appropriation is this, the United. States with these Indians it is the duty of Congress as found in 22 United Statutes Statutes at Large, page 624: to appropriate enough money to carry out what the United States judges always and everywhere hold to be the law, that requires That ~1,000 is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of presenting the question of jurisdiction to the United States Supreme Court by habeas cor· them to appoint counsel to assist in the defense of indigent per- .. , .- 1893. CONGRESSIO_NAL- RECORD-HOUSE. 1107 _, sons before the' court who are unable to employ .counsel for them every State, where marshals arrest persons in one portion of the selves. Why, the treaty of Greenville, of 1795, found in our State and possibly take thell\ the whole length <>f the State, for compilation of Indian treaties, shows the way in which this ob the purpose of making mileage against the Government, to have ligation arises. That treaty, which was made with the Chip a hearing bafore some particular United States commissioner. pewa Indians and other tribes, provides that a great portion of In some States they take these persons thus arrested away from the State of Ohio, the whole of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and their homes some ~00 miles for the sole purpose of making mile Michigan shall be forever after the Indian country. age against the Government, sometimes through a combination The boundary line between the white man's country and the between the officer, United State.s commissioner, and even the - l Indian country, by that treaty is made a line drawn from the defendant himself. It i!3 not subject to a point of order, because mouth of the Cuyahoga River, where Cleveland City now is, up the very purpose is to save a large a-ddition to the expenditures that river and so by described lines to a point on the Ohio River and to stipulate and provide how this money shall be expended, opposite the mouth of the Kentucky or Cuttawa River, and the and to limit its expenditure. Indians are assured that to make that treaty "strong and per Mr. HOLMAN. Vote! petual" the United S tates relinquishes to them all claim to that Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. Mr. Chairman, a similar pro· vast area west of that line, north of the Ohio, east of the Missis vision was in the sundry civil bill as it passed this House last sippi River, and along the Great Lakes, except certain specified session. It went to the Senate and it was there stricken out. I -- smal l tracts for trading posts and forts; and by the same treaty am pretty certain that a similar provision was inserted on the these Indians are expressly taken under t)le protection of the sundry civil bill as it passed the House. United States. Mr. COGSWELL. Mr. Chairman, I withdraw the point of These Indians have been driven from one point to another order. until theyarenowpenned up onlittleseven-by-ninelndian reser The CHAJRMAN. The Chair thinks it is in order. The vations up there in the northern part of Wisconsin. The United question is upon the amendment offered by the gentleman from States having agreed to protect them, having taken them as Pennsylvania. wardsunderitsprotection, I insist, Mr. Chairman, that we are in Mr. CAMPBELL. What is the ruling of the Chair? duty bound to make an appropriation that will enable counsel to The CHAIRMAN. The point of order was withdrawn. be employea to protect the rights of these Indians. The amendment was agreed to. And I have only to say in conclusion, Mr. Chairman, that as The CHAIRMAN. The amendment of the gentleman from this great Republic has heretofore been the asylum of op Maryland will now be read. pressed individuals from all the civilized nations of the earth, so The Clerk read as follows: let us carry on and conduct this Government of ours, not as the Amend by adding the words "and criers," in line 2!. page 8!, after the rapacious freebooterof the seas, and in all lands; not as a perfid word "bailiff," in said line; and the words" bai.l.iff and one crier," after the ious traitor to sacred trusts assumed, or in us reposed; but as the word "three." in said line_ just and equitable guardians of all the rights of man, whatever be Mr.. FITCH. That amendment is beyond my amendl:nent. his race; so that our weak and struggling neighbor peoples may My amendment is in line 3. The amendment <>f the gentleman come if they will, butnot otherwise, and take shelter under our from Maryland comes lower down. protecting wing, as well from the storms of revolution against The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will report the amendment of hereditary misrule, asJlgainst the upheavals of anarchy and lapse the gentleman from New York. intobaTbarism and savagery. Thus, and thus only, may we prop The Clerk re as follows~ erly assume and disch1J.rge the great responsibilities of our now Insert on p e 84, line 3, after the words "revenue laws.," the following -· rightful position, among the first powers of the world. [Applause.] words: "or e laws relating to the election of members or Congress." And now, Mr. Chairman, having said my say, I withdraw the GSWELL. A point of order there, Mr. Chairman. appeal which I took from the decision of the Chair, and submit Mr ITCH. Now, Mr. Chairman, a'3 to the point of order, I to the ruling of the Chair as to whether he still adheres to his rst address myself to that. The amendment submitted by former decision. !Laughter.] 1n will, if adopted, without doubt work a reduction of expendi- The CHAIRMAN. 'rhe appeal is withdrawn. res. The section as it reads at present puts a restriction upon order is sUBt.ained. The Clerk will read. he number of cases in which fees in revenue prosecutions can The Clerk read as follows: be collected by a commissioner of the United States. My amend For fees of United States commissioners and justices o1' the peace .acti ment applies that same restriction to prosecutions under the as United States commissioners, $100,000_ And hereafter no part of any election laws, and it is clearly, for that reason, in the direction money appropriated to pay any fees to the United States commissioners, marshals, or clerks shall be used for any warrant issued or arrest made, or of retrenchment of expenditures. Before I go on I would like other fees in prosecutions under theinternal-revenue laws. unless the prose to ask my friend who made the point of order, whether I am cution has been commenced upon a sworn complaint setting !orth the facts mistaken in that contention or not? constituting the o:trense and alleging them to be within the personal knowl edge of the amant. or upon sworn complaint by a collector or deputy collec Mr. COGSWELL. I do notfully understand your point. tor or internal revenue or revenue agent, setting forth the facts upon infor Mr. HOLMAN. Rule! mation and belief, and approved either before or after such arrest. by a cir Mr. COGSWELL. Do not rule yet. Let the gentleman from cuit or district judge or the attorney of the United States in the district where the ofrense is alleged to have been committed or the indictment is New York go on and finish his statement. found. The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will again report the amend Mr. FITCH. Mr. Chairman, I offer the amendment which I ment. send to the Clerk's desk. The amendment was again reported. The CHAIRlvlAN. The Chair will state to the gentleman Mr. BURROWS. Let us have the section read as proposed fromNew York [Mr. FITCH] that theTe is an amendment already to be amended. pending. His amendment will be in order afterwards. Let the Mr. BOUTELLE. "What you are at" is what we want to pending amendment be read. know. The Clerk read as follows:· The Clerk read the section as proposed to be amended. Mr. BOUTELLE. I beg to ask the gentleman a question. At the end of line 1~ msert: "Provided, That it shall be the duty of the marshal, his deputy, or other l\Ir. FITCH. I yield with pleasure. offl •' --- 1108 OONGRES~IONAL RECORD-HOUSE, FEBRUARY 2, out many thousands of dollars in cases in which fees could not propriation of money or upon its expenditure; and that I think be paid if the same law applied to these election matters that IS what is done here. The language is very clear: applies to fees paid in ca£es arising under the internal-revenue And hereafter no part of any money appropriated to pay any fees to the laws. United States commissioners, marshals, or clerks shall be used for any war Cases in which no defendant could be found, in which no affi rant issued or arrest made or other fees in prosecutions under the internal davit of personal knowledge had been made by anybody, such revenue laws- cases have resulted in payments amounting to immense sums of Mr. DINGLEY. Mr. Chairman, can we not have order? We money, and consequently we desire, in the direction of retrench desire to hear what the gentleman from Indiana is saying. ment of expenditures, to make the law apply in election cases The CHAIRMAN. The committee will be in order. i - exactly as it does in internal-revenue cases. · Mr. HOLMAN. I will try to epitomize the provision. The Mr. BOUTELLE. Then, Mr. Chairman, I apprehend the substance of it is that hereafter no part of any mqney appropri matter correctly when I assume that the object of this amend ated for specific objects named shall be applied to certain other ment is to change the existing laws of the United States in re objects, including the objects contemplated by this amendment, gard to the election of members of Congress? unless the prosecution has been commenced in a certain manner; Mr. FITCH. I do not think you apprehend it correctly at all. that is to say that no money appropriated for certain objects shall It is in the direction of governing the way in which the Treas be expended for any other object except upon certain conditions. ury shall pay out money under those laws. Now, that is but a limltation upon the expenditure, and it has Mr. BOUTELLE. Now, let us not have any misapprehension been uniformly held, I think, that a provision is in order which about this matter. What law does this change? limits or restricts the expenditure of the money covered by the Mr. FITCH. It does nothing except put a restriction on the appropriation. • Treasury as to the class of cases in which fees shall be paid. It Mr. BOUTELLE. Mr. Chairman, it is perfectly understood does not change the election law at all. by everybody in this country who reads a newspaper that the Mr. BOUTELLE. It does not change any law? Democratic party have announced their purpose of accomplishing Mr. FITCH. Oh, it changes thisappropriation bill, of course. the repeal of all the Federal statutes now existing which have Mr. BOUTELLE. Does it change any law? any bearing or control upon the election of mem bars of Congress Mr. FITCH. No, sir. or President and Vice-President of the United States. Mr. BOUTELLE. Then how is it going to make any differ Mr. OWENS. I want to say that that is absolutely nota fact. ence in the execution of the law? Mr. BOUTELLE. I decline to be interrupted at present. Mr. FITCH. Because it is goin~ to put a restriction on the Mr. OWENS. But you ought not to make a statement of that Treasury as to the class of cases in which fees shall be paid . to kind. commissioners. If the comm.iEsioners or the supervisor want t-o Mr. BOUTELLE. I will say to the gentleman from Ohio, I go on and take their chances as to the collection of these fees apprehend that no prominent member of the Democratic party they can execute the law just as they did before. The law itself will now and here deny the fact that one of the purposes of that is not changed at all, but the Treasury will not be allowed to party, openly declared since the late election, is the repeal of pay these .fees except upon proper proofs and vouchers, as in in the United States statutes giving Federal controlor supervision ternal-revenue cases. of any elections held in the various States. Mr. BOUTELLE. In other words, thegentlemanclaimsthat Mr. OWENS. To John Davenport, yes, sir; we accept ,that an amendment to this bill which will directly modify the action proposition. · of the Government in paying certain fees for the performance Mr. BOUTELLE. Then why did you interrupt me to confirm of certain services can be put into operation without a change of my statement? law. Mr. OWENS. Because you made it too broad, that is all. Mr. FITCH. It can be, in this way-- Mr. BOUTELLE. Well, I will include the gentleman from Mr. BOUTELLE. One moment. We may as well understand Ohio specifically. That will make it broad enough to cover the this thing distinctly. whole case. Mr. FITCH. Of course we may as well understand it. Mr. OWENS. Oh, no; I would rather include you; you are Mr. BOUTELLE. If the gentleman from New York were broader than any body else according to your own idea. making a speech to some backwoods audience he might deal in Mr. BOUTELLE. I will endeavor to give the gentleman an this diplomatic language and perhaps deceive somebody, but we opportunity to explain what he wants to say. grown people may as well look this matter squarely in the face Mr. OWENS. You must not make such broad statements as and see just what the gentleman is driving at. Everybody un that. derstands that the object of this amendment is to prevent the Mr. BOUTELLE. Mr. Chairman, when the gentleman from employment by the supervisor of elections under the United Ohio gets through I will try to proceed with my statement. States law of men to prevent ballot-box stuffing and repeating in Mr. OWENS. Proceed, young man! our great cities. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Ohio will be seated. Mr. OWENS. Who by? Mr. OWENS. I yield to the gentleman from Maine. [Laugh~ Mr. BOUTELLE. It does not make any difference who by. ter.] Mr. FITCH. Mr. Chairman, anybody who understands what Mr. BOUTELLE. As I expected, Mr. Chairman, there is no the gentleman from Maine has stated woefully misunderstands denial of my proposition. Now, when that question comes before the fact. There is no such intention. The intention is to pro us in a regular and proper way I shall be ready for. one to meet tect the United States Treasury against frauds as glaring and as it as best I can, however small may be the political minority well proven as any frauds ever were proven in a court of law, with which I may be affiliated in the House in which t.hat ques frauds which the person whom we have investigated recently in tion may arise. But I do say that it is a little premature, that New York has committed over and over again as we believe. it is unwarranted and improper, to attempt that breaking down Mr. BOUTELLE. Who is that gentleman? of the Federal system of supervision of elections of members of Mr. FITCH. His name is John I. Davenport. Congress and of President and Vice-President of the United Mr. BOUTELLE. Let us understand whom you are atta-ck States in this insidious and furtive way by inserting a few words ing. in an appropriation bill. No gentlemen know better than do the Mr. FITCH. Certainly; and that you get up as his advo- gentleman from New York [Mr. FITCH] and the gentleman from cate. Indiana [Mr. HOLMAN] how absolutely improper and indefensi Mr. BOUTELLE. Because we deny that this gentleman has ble this sort of proceeding is. committed any frauds, and we assert that he is assailed-by your I do not care what technical plea you may raise; I do not care partv because he has prevented Democrats from committing how plausibly you may argue; you know and the country will frauds in elections. know that you are attempting, by putting an apparently insig Mr. FITCH. Mr. Chairman, this is not a question for discus nificant rider upon an appropriation bill, to insert the entering sion here. The person in question, Mr. Davenport, says that he wedge to accomplish the repeal of those statutes which have been has a perfect defense to these charges, but he ran away from the enacted and put inforceformany years-put inforcetoagreater committee which desired to examine him and was afraid to face or less, principally to a less, extent I am sorry to say in certain the investigation. parts of the country-in assertion of the power and prerogative [Here the hammer fell.] of the Government of the United States, consisting of the Sen Mr. ROCKWELL. I desire to offer a substitute. ate, the House of Repr·esentatives, and the President, to enact Mr. HOLMAN. J wish to say a word on the point of order. and execute legislation providing safeguards to insure the hon I think it has been uniformly held or generally held-- est election of members of the two branches of the Congress and Mr. HOOKER of Mississippi. I hope, Mr . . Chairman, that of the President and Vice-President of the United States. order will be preserved so that we may hear what is going on. Mr. CAMPBELL. We will repeal the law anyway in the Mr. HOLMAN. I think it has been generally held that a Fifty-third Congress. proposition is in order which imposes a . limitation upon an ap- Mr. BOUTELLE. This is a nullification of existine- law by an . ,. .. , , - . I I· . , ... 1893. OONGRBSSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1109 insidious method. It is doing by indirection what ought to be When the gentleman seeks to answer these testimonials and done, ifitis to be done at all, boldly and manfully in the open light to repudiate the declarations of such men· as Mr. Cox and Mr. of day, and when gentlemen wish to go before the American peo Whitney, in order to strike down a law which they and other ple with the declaration that the most pernicious of the old leading Democrats declared to be conducive to the purity of dogmas of States rights have been exhumed and galvanized into elections in the great cities of the country, I demand that he do life to such an extent that a great political party is prepared to it, as I have said, in the open field, and not under a thin dis say to the country that the Congress of the United States and guise or by parliamentary indirection. [Applause on the Re the Executive combined, acting for the sovereign people of the publican side.] nation, shall have no power to enact the slightest law or regula Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. Mr. Chairman, this amendment tion to throw any safeguards around the purity of the elections I understand proposes to add the words '' and laws pertaining to •. of members of this body, who legislate for the people of all of the the election of members of Congress," after the word "laws," States, I want to see them do it in an open field, so that the peo in the third line of page 84. The point of order is that it changes ple of the country may look at them and see what kind and man existing law. I ner of men they are. [Applause on the Republican side]. Under the existing law a man who violates the election laws If they desire to attempt to shield themselves behind the petty pertaining to a memberof Congress maybe arrested on informar prejudices sought to be aroused against a single individual be tion. The process of law authorizing the arrest of violators of cause of his prominence and activity in the efforts to suppress the law on information by the party making the information is election frauds-- that" he has been informed and believes," and is as old as the The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. common law itself. Mr. BOUTELLE. But, Mr. Chairman, I am talking to the If the amendment prevails no person can be arrested except point of order. I submit I can not be cut off in this manner. on warrant issued upon a sworn affidavit of a person who has The CHAffiMAN. The Chair was not aware that the gentle seen the offense committed. The language is plain- man was talking to the point of order. Unless the prosecution has been comme1,1ced upon a sworn complaint set Mr. BOUTELLE. I am talking to the point of order, and ting forth the facts constituting the olfense and alleging them to be within think I am discussing it quite pertinently, and will endeavor to the personal knowledge of the amant. make my remarks entirely to the point, even.in the opinion of Now, the point of order that it changes existing law is this: the Chair. Under the existing law at present the person who commits the The CHAIRMAN. The question of order is whether this offense may be arrested on an information made by an affianton amendment changes existing law. information and belief; and if this can not be done it requires Mr. BOUTELLE. And I am trying to show to the satisfac the person who makes the arrest to have personal knowledge of tion of the Chairman that this amendment is not in order on the facts, thereby changing existing law. this bill because of that very fact, and am giving, I think, fair Mr. ROCKWELL. Mr. Chairman, I simply desire to say, in and cogent reasons for. that opinion. I trust the Chaif' will give reply to the point of order and in answer to the gentleman from me credit for having stated my reasons with some pertinency and Maine, that there is no use in being unduly excited about this force. question. The whole paragraph is brought in here by the Com-· Mr. FITCH. And a good deal of flourish. mittee on Appropriations and agreed to unanimously by my Mr. BOUTELLE. I am showing the Chair, or endeavoring friend, Mr. COGSWELL of Massachusetts, and all of the members to influence the mind of the Chair to perceive that this amend of that committee. ment can not be in order, it being not only a change of existing Mr. COGSWELL. Ah! but not this amendment. law, but a change of one of the most important enactments in Mr. ROCKWELL. Not the amendment, but the section it the whole framework of the G<>vernment. It is an attempt to self provides the very limitations on fees in internal-revenue change a law which lies at the very foundation of popular na cases which we now desire to apply in election cases. tional government; a law that touches the very integrity of this Mr. DINGLEY. That is an additional change of law. body as well as the body at the other end of the Capitol; a law Mr. ROCKWELL. It is suggested that I make this proposi ' which is intended to throw safeguards around the proper elec tion again, that the Committee on Appropriations, both Repub . tion of members who shall constitut9 the legislative government licans and Democrats, including the gentleman from Massachu of the United States, who have the power conferred upon them setts [Mr. COGSWELL], unanimously reported this clause which, to enact laws for sixty-five millions of people; and I say, Mr. if the amendmentis subject to the point of order, the clause itself Chairman, it is not broad-minded, it is not patriotic, it is not de is subject to the point of order, for it does in internal-revenue fensible for men to get up here and seek to utilize the partisan cases what is sought to be done in election cases. It imposes the ,... prejudices against an individual-Mr. Davenport, if you will same limitation in internal-revenue cases that now is proposed • to do a thing which strikes deeper than the relations which any by the amendment to be extended also to election cases. individual bears to this Government. Mr. BOUTELLE. But the gentleman from New York [Mr. I want to remind the gentleman from NewYorkthat the very RoCKWELL] of course understands the fact that a paragraph in law which he seeks to strike down has been indorsed and ac a bill may be subject to a point of order! but that the failure to make credited by leading members of the Democratic party; no less the point of order against that paragraph would not cut off the distinguished men than SamuelS. Cox and William C. Whitney, point of order to an amendment which might be equally obnox both of his own State, who explicitly and officially approved it ious. as wise legislation and beneficial to the cause of pure elections Mr. ROCKWELL. But I simply desire to call attention to in the great cities of the country. that, in answer to the gentleman from Maine [Mr. BOUTELLE], In his report to the House in 1877, as chairman of the commit when he says we come here and seek to do something by indi tee on alleged fraudulent registration and fraudulent voting in rection. If we are doing it by indirection, then the cQmmittee the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Jersey unanimously are applying the same rule and are doing by indi City the Hon. SamuelS. Cox used these emphatic words of in rection in reference to the internal-revenue laws what we now dorsement: seek to extend to the election laws. Whatever may be said about the United States law as to elections or their Mr. BOUTELLE. But the other matter is something about supervision by United ~tates authority, whatever may be said as to the right of a State to regulate in all ways such elections, this must be said, that which there is no dispute and which all are in favor of. the administration of the law by Commissioners Davenport, Muireheid, and Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. And it was done by the commit Allen, the United States functionaries and their subordinates, was eminently tee. just and wise and conducive to a fair public expression in a Presidential year of unusual excitement and great temptation. Mr. BOUTELLE. It was done by the committee in the first The testimony of Mr. Davenport, the United States commissioner for tho place. southern district of New York, is a remarkable statement, which the com Mr. ROCKWELL. Now, as to this reduction of fees I simply mittee would adopt as the b::t.sis ot their report as to the three cities. desire to read a very brief extract from the examination of John No-less emphatic and commendatory was the testimony of the I. Davenport last summer, before the Senate committee, on this Hon. William C. Whitney before the same committee, in which very subject of his fees in these election cases, which are reached he made the following statements: by this amendment: Mr. Davenport will explain to you how carefully he goes over the registry. Senator HILL. What salary do you get as chief supervisor of elections? I am entirely familiar with the system that he has put in operation, and I Mr. DAVENPORT. I should like to know. I have never been aware that I think it is very thorough; and if a man succeeds in getting through that got any. system and voting when he has no title to vote he is pretty smart. Senator HILL. How are you compensated? • * • • * • • Mr. DAVENPORT. By fees. Question. You think that the supervision of the election under the system Senator HILL. How much have you obtained tfrom that omce in the past of Mr. Davenport has had the tendency to prevent illegal voting and to give ten years? a fair election? Mr. DAVENPORT. I can not tell you. Answer. I think it has; yes, sir. * * * I know that I have heard Mr. Senator HILL. Have you any idea? John Kelly since [the election) express to the o~·ganization with which he is Mr. DAVENPORT. The past ten years would be five general Congressional connected, and in one place and another, the same opinion I have ex elections; saying nothing as to any special elections I should suppose that pressed here-that Mr. Davenport has been a very important accessory in I had received from.the Government as chief supervisor for the five gen preventing fraudulent voting m New York City. eral elections in the neighborhood of $125,000. .· .., ... .- 1~ 110 CONGRESSIONAL· RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 2, Senator HILL. Have you :~.ny bills against the Government now unpaid on the same subject. [Laughter on the Republican side.] And relating to the discharge of your du•ies? Mr. DAVENPORT. !have. because-- Senator HILL. What amount? Mr. FITCH. The" gentleman from New York, Mr. FITCH," Mr. DAVENPORT. I think there are allowed bills awaiting the passage of had not the honor to be a m ember of the Forty-ninth Congress. the deficiency bill amounting to about $3,300. There 1s another bill of prob ably about ~1,000, making $4,300, and while you are on that matter I would Mr. BOUTELLE. Well, the Fiftieth Congress. That is too state that there are also two suits by me against the Government, amount small-- ing to about $1,500, and a third Will be brought within a. few days. Mr. FI'l'CH. That is as nearly accurate as the gentleman generally gets anything. Now, I desire to say that for the expenditure of all this money, Mr. BOUTELLE. That is too small a hole for so much of a which does not include the money paid to deputy supervisors and man as my friend from New York to crawl through. [Laugh deputy marshals, for the expenditure of all this money there has ter.] never been a conviction for illegal voting or a conviction under Now, Mr. Chairman, I only want to say, in reply to the very the election laws of the United States in the southern district of impassioned remarks of the gentleman from the Elmira district New York, where this chief supervisor resides; and it is to put of New York [Mr. ROCKWELL], that in the brief appeal I have an end to that, it is to deprive this man of these funds which are submitted as to the necessity of throwing safeguards, or main so freely paid out to him to be used in election expenses, which taining the safeguards around the integrity of the election of serve no good purpose to the Government, which have never members of Congress, I have simply emphasized a danger that produced a conviction, but which have created annoyance and was brought very vividly to the attention of this body, when a hardship. · very large majority of the Committee on Elections, of this Hundreds and hundreds of voters at every election have been Democratic House, solemnly declared that the seat now occu haled away from the polls, haled away from their homes, con pied by the gentleman from the Elmira district of right be fined in the Tombs, held a day or two without any sworn com longed to and should be occupied by a Republican Representa· plaint being made against them and then released. All this bill tive. [Loud applause on the Republican side.] provides is that for doing that sort of dirty work men shall not Mr. FITCH. Will the gentleman allow me? Just one word be paid out of the national Treasury at the hands of a pemo in response to the gentleman from Maine. If the gentleman cratic Congress of the United States. [Applause on the Demo says that I ever, in the Fiftieth Congress or in any other, said cratic side.] one word in favor of these laws or of the person who is execut 1\fr. FITCH. Mr. Chairman, I desire in the first place- ing them, he is absolutely and thoroughly mistaken. Mr. BOUTELLE. Will the gentleman allow me a moment in Mr. BOUTELLE. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman canshow which to reply to his colleague from New York [Mr. RocK- that during his service here as a Republican he eversaidaword WELL]. _ against either, I will forgive the apparent suddenness of his con Mr. FITCH. No, I will not. You would not yield to me, al version. [Laughter on the Republican side.] though I asked you five or six times. Mr. ROCKWELL. One word in response to the allusion Now, Mr. Chairman, there are two points to be considered. made to me. [General laughter.] The party friends of the The one is the legal question which addresses itself to the Chair, gentleman had twenty men in my district arrested, and they whether or not this point of order is well taken; and I suppose were discharged because they were unable to find anything as to that the only question ·can be as to whether or no my against them. amendment is germane to the section to which it is offered. Mr. BOUTELLE. Yes; and the committee of this House said Now, the United States laws provid~ for fees of C?m.m~ssioners that a proper execution of the law showed that you were not in difi'erent classes of cases. '.rhe mam fees are pa1d mmternal elected. , revenue cases and in election cases. '!'his committee wisely and Mr. ROCKWELL. And the House by 50 majority said the unanimously have decided that in regard to inter:nal-revenue cases committee was mistaken. the United States judge ~d United States district attorney shall Mr. BOUTELLE. Yes; but only after being wrestled with certify that the proceedings have been commenced. Now, this very severely! whole assault on the liberties of the people that my friend talks Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. And bringing in influence about and this cry abouthonestelections,amounts to this, that we from the Senate. want~ long as these laws exist to have a United States judge Mr. DINGLEY. Mr. Chairman, I would like to say a word. and a United States diRtrict attorney certify to these vouchers I desire to call the attention of the Chair first to the fallacy of before the moneys are paid. And the stump speech of my friend the position taken bythegentlemanfromindiana[Mr. HOLMAN] [Mr. BoL•;:rELLEJ about the intentions of the Democratic party, that this is only a limitation on this particular appropriation, for ) is as wholly irrelevant to this as the most of his utterances in the I fear that the Chair may have accepted that statement. This . House are when he talks about anything except politics. provision in the law is not a limitation as to the manner in which This is a restriction on the right of the Treasury to pay cer this particular appropriation only shall be expended. It applies tain vouchers, and as such it retrenches oxpenditures and it to all appropriations in the future also, and is a change of the comes properly in at this place. . . . law. The word "hereafter" in the proposition to which this is If it is proper that the Treasury.Departme"D:t shall m8ls~ m made makes it permanent law. The proposed amendment is a all internal-revenue cases that a Umted States Judge or a Uruted change of existing law, and refers not simply to this appropria· States district attorney shall certify them, it is fair and reason· tion but to any appropriation. Therefore the plea of limitation able that the same restriction as to the vouchers shall apply in must be put aside. the election cases. Now as to the other point. Thereisnodoubt butthis changes Now, one word, Mr. Chairman, as to the other point. existing law. I take it that no gentleman upon this floor will My friend from Maine says what we really want is to repeal the contend for a moment that it is not a change of existing law. law and that we ought to do this in an open and manly manner, :Mr. FITCH. Oh, yes; we so contend. and in the light of day. If he had read the report of the select Mr. DINGLEY. The gentleman contends that it makes no committee of which I have the honor to be chairman, he would change in existing law! know that in the most open manner, in the light of day, in this Mr. FITCH. Yes, sir. House more than a week ago, the committee put in a report Mr. DINGLEY. I do not wonder that the gentleman smiles recomkending that these laws be repealed. We are not ashamed when he makes that contention. [Laughter.] of our position on that subject. Mr. FITCH. You do not wish me to weep, I suppose. Mr. BOUTELLE. Why did you deny it? Mr. DINGLEY. Mr. Chairman, this is a clear change of ex· Mr. FITCH. I did not deny it. I am proud of it and I repeat isting law, and the rules provide that in an amendment to an it to-day-that when the opportunitycomeswewill repeal these appropriation bill existing law shall not be changed except in laws from beginning to end. [Loud applause on the Democratic one of three ways. The first is by a reduction of the number or side.] salary of Government officials. Certainly there is no contention The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will be obliged to terminate here that this amendment comes under that part of the rule. this debate. The second is by a reduction of the amount covered by the bill. Mr. FITCH. I ask the Chair to allow me to have read four or There is no contention that this amendment makes such are· five lines, which I will send to the Clerk's desk, and which is part duction. But it is contended that the amendment reduces ex of the report, in answer to the statement of the gentleman from penditures. Supposing that it does, what is the manner, and the Maine that we were hiding anything. only manner, in which an amendment that simply reduces ex· Mr. HOLMAN. That statement does not amount to anything. penditures can come in? It is on the report of the committee Mr. BOUTELLE. Mr. Chairman, I simply desire to say that which has the subject in charge, and the committee having this the gentleman from New York [Mr, FITCH] ought not to take subject in charge has not reported this amendment. Hence the such serious exception to my earnestness in regard to this matter, amendment does not come within either of the exceptions pro because I did not feel any more earnestness in my expression vided for in the rule. than he did as a Republican member in the Forty-ninth Congress Mr. HOLMAN. Let me ask my friend from Maine whether -· •·. 1893. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. ,' 1111 \ it is not true that the only question arising here is whether Qr city of New York, and as I had the honor to be present at some not the nroposed amendment is simply a limitation upon the ex of those hearings and to hear the evidence, and as I have read penditure of the money appropriated by this bill? The other that which has been reported to the House, and have also read rule has nothing to do with it. and studied with ,. ...- ...... ' . - . , 1112 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 2, The gentlemen attacking these laws have attacked them be Democratic majority in New York City it was never so great as cause of their alleged unconstitutionality, and yet the Supreme it was in the last election? Court of the United States has repeatedly declared that they are Mr. RAY. I desire to say simply this: That in the minority not unconstitutional; that they are wise and efficient laws; that report, which I hope the Democratic brethren will take time to they are necessary laws, and that without them the perpetuity read, I have stated conclusively the reasons for that. of this Republic would be endane-ered. Mr. Chairman, in the This select committee appointed by this House for the pur minority report which has been filed and printed I have taken pose of making an investigation so timed their meetings as to occasion to call the attention of members of the House to these call before that distinguished body on registration days and on declarations of the highest court of the United States. election days all of the United States officers, marshals and The majority of this select committee have not seen fit to at deputy marshals, that they could find, and kept them there un tack the propriety of these laws. They do not even say that the der the authority of this committee, and thereby prevented law guarding the people of this country against offenses com them from performing their duty, prevented them from keeping mitted upon the elective franchise is unnecessary. They dare these repeaters from the polls; and by these means t.he Demo not go to that length. The only thing they have said, the only cratic vote was quite largely increased in New York and Brook- thing they dare to say, is that the execution of these laws has lyn. · been expensive; and they say further in th~ir repo-rt, without a Mr. FITCH. Is it.nota fact that the total number of witnesses ·. particle of evidence to justify their assertion, that the laws have examined before this committee at eleven hearings was 46 men. been used for partisan purposes to perpetuate party power. Mr. RAY. Oh, yes; 46 men. And, Mr. Chairman, I desire The only reason why they have made that statement, in my right now and here to call attention to the character of the evi judgment, is because of the fact that the due execution of these dence given by some of these witnesses. How did this commit laws within the city of New York has operated to keep away tee proceed, Mr. Chairman? Did they call before them gentle from the -polls hundreds of men who before their enactment had men having personal knowledge of the facts to which they pre made it their business on election day to go over from the city tended to testify? No; they sent out the emissaries of the com of Jersey City in the State of New Jersey, where they resided, mittee, gentlemen employed by the committee, to manufacture and then violate the laws of New York by illegally voting. hearsay evidence, and I can point you to page after page of evi Mr. ROCKWELL. May I ask the gentleman a question? dence which appears in this way: Mr. RAY. Oh, yes. "Q. Mr. Doe, did you hunt up Mr. Joe?" Mr. ROCKWELL. Is it not in evidence before the special "A. Yes; I did." committee, of which the gentleman is a member, that during "Q. What did you ask him?" the entire time covered by this investigation there has never "A. I asked him had he any knowledge that he had ever been been a conviction in the southern district of New York for illegal proceeded against or prosecuted for any offenses against the voting, notwithstanding all of the efforts made by Davenport United States election laws." and his myrmidons? "Q. What did he s~y to that?'' Mr. RAY. For that particular offense. There is evidence "A. He said that he had no knowledge that he had ever been that there has been no conviction in the city of New York. But, accused of any such offense." Mr. Chairman, the investigation made by this committee was Such, Mr. Chairman, is the character of the evidence that ap confined to the city of New York. We were not permitted to pears in this report. Such was the modus operandi used by this reach across into Jersey City. [Derisive laughter on the Demo special and selectcommitteeforthepurposeofmaking an assault cratic side.] We were not permitted to inquire into the opera upon these et'ficient election laws of the United States. I ask tion of these laws anywhere outside of the city of New York. gentlemen upon this side of the House, I ask lawyers upon the We were not permitted to investigate and let the light of day other 3ide of the House, how much attention are you going to ·into the foul den of repeaters known to exist and operate every give to evidence of that character adduced in that way? It is year in the city of Elmira, from which city the gentleman hearsay evidence pure and simple! and hearsay evidence of the comes. . vilest description. Had we bean permitted to do so, and invade the sacred pre Now, Mr. Chairman, I suppose that in thediscussionof apoint cincts of that city immortalized by scenes and deeds of political of order I ought not to have wandered off to the discussion of corruption, we could have unearthed enough fraud and crime this report of this special and select committee. I suppose that against the election laws of the State of New York and of the it 1s somewhat out of order; butas thechairmanof that commit United States to have sent a shudder through the heart of every ~e knows a great deal more than I do, as he is a much better citizen who loves his country or has any respect for the honest lawyer than I am, and as the majority of thatcommitteearefrom exercise of the right of suffrage. [Applause on the Republican the other side of the House, and as they know the proprieties of side.] this occasion, and as they saw fit to drag that evidence and re The gentleman from Elmira desires of course to have these port into this discussion, now that I have the floor,' I suppose I lawsrepealed. ·But he has diverted me, Mr. Chairman, from may ~xercise my right to follow them at least by way of ex the line of my argument. planation: And it is for that purpose, and that purpose only, I desire to say, sir, that in the State of New York there have Mr. Chairman, that I have arisen and said what I have said on been many convictions for offenses committed against the United this subject. States election laws, not merely one or two, but many. The main Had I the evitlence and the report before me, and would time efficiency of these laws, however, has been this: The marshals permit, I would call attention to both and especially to some of clothed with the authority of the Government, armed with war the statements in the report. Many of them are utterly with rants issued by the supervisors of elections and by the other offi out foundation and without any evidence whatever to support cers of the Government, have attended faithfully at the places of them. registration and of voting, and .when t~ey have found these -r:e Mr. FITCH (handing Mr. RAY a copy of the report). Will peaters, these men who appear m the Cityof·New York on regis the gentleman allow me to present him with a copy. tration and election days, and at no other time-when they have Mr. RAY. I am exceedingly sorry, Mr. Chairman, that any found these despoilers of the elective franchise seeking to regis allusion has been made here by my friend from Maine [Mr. Bou ter as lawful voters, or on election days seeking to cast their bal TELLE] to the change of heart that bas been wrought in the lots, they have at once arrested them. chairman of this committee, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Then these would-be criminals have been taken before the FITCH]. It is only a few years ago that he was one of those loud United States officers for examination, and the result is that we est in his praise of John I. Davenport. have prevented thousands from casting illegal votes. This Mr. FITCH. That is not so. There is not a word of founda- prompt action has so frightened the wrongdoers that they have tion for that. ceased to appear. It is true that by the vigilant and active en Mr. RAY. Then I regret my statement. forcement of these laws in the city of New York we have largely Mr. FITCH. Certainly, you ought to. , . reduced the Democratic majority of that State. (Derisive laugh Mr. RAY. I was misinformed then. ter on the Democratic side.) Mr. FITCH. Yes, you were. Mr. FITCH. Will the gentleman answer a question? Mr. RAY. I withdraw the statement. Mr. RAY. Oh, yes. Mr. FITCH. Thank you. Mr. FITCH. Does the gentleman know, or does he not know Mr. RAY. And I crave the pardon of the respected chairman it to be a fact, that the Republicaa party in the last election of the committee. polled a much smaller vote in the city and in the State of New Mr. FITCH. It is granted. [Laughter.] York than in the previous Presidential year-- Mr. RAY. I hope he will ~ear me no ill-will. I take it, Mr. Mr. BOUTELLE. Because you fellows deprived us of our Chairman, that he never was an admirer of John I. Davenport. rights. [Laughter.] I take it, then, that he never was an admirer of efficient and Mr. FITCH (continuing). And that instead of reducing the honest United States election laws. I take it that he never was "I \ 1893 . . : CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1113 a citizen who desired the exercise of the elective franchise to be officers performing such duties, whether called sheriffs, deputy guarded by wise and efficient laws. I take it that he is willing sheriffs, marshals, deputy marshals, or by any other name, are that on registration days repeaters and nonresidents of the provided by all courts of record, either State or Federal, in this State shall be allowed to register at will and without interfer country. And they insist, Mr. Chairman, that these officers are ence. essential to the orderly conduct of the business of those courts. I take it that on election day he is willing that these repeaters Not only so, but the Attorney-General in his report went out and nonresidents shall come within the State of New York, of his way in an appeal to Congress to provide an appropriation that they shall go into other States of this Union, and illegally for the payment of these criers. But beyond all this, Mr. Chair cast their ballots, thereby changing the result in assembly and man, this House itself has added this kind of a provision which senatorial elections, often changing the result in the State, and we seek to engraft upon this bill when only a few days ago it also in the election of Representatives to the Congress of the pa-ssed a bill providing for an additional court in this District. United States. In that bill it provided criers for that court. Mr. Chairman, the founders of this Republic, in the Consti I respectfully submit, Mr. Chairman, that in view of the fact tution of the United States, very wisely reserved the power in that the judges of these courts, gentlemen who understand their Congress not only to alter, but to make laws regulating the business, demand and insist upon the necessity for these officers; election of Representatives in the Congress of the United and in addition to the fact that since these courts were organ States. ized these criers have been employed; and in view of the fact Mr. Chairman, this is a nation and not a mere confederation that this House has deemed it necessary to provide such officers of States. It is no invasionofthe right of any State for the Gen for a court which it has provided for in this city only a few days eral Government, acting for all its people, to prescribe by appro ago; in view of the fact that the Attorney-General of this Gov priate laws the mode and manner by which the lawmakers of ernment, who ought to be, and doubtless is familiar with the ne this nation of ours shall be elected. At least we may lawfully cessities of the case, has recommended it, it is right andproper and properly supervise such elections. It seems to me to be surely that this House should continue this appropriation. proper that this Congress itself, by wise enactment, shall throw Mr. Chairman, bear in mind there is no additional appropria safeguards around the election of those officers of the Govern tion made here. It simply adds criers, officers alre&dy provided ment who are to make the laws. It is well known that under the for by the present law. operation of the existing laws offenses against the ballot box in Mr. McMILLIN. Do I understand the gentleman to say that many quarters of the Union have well-nigh ceased. these officers have been employed? It is well known by the people everywhere who have read the Mr. COMPTON. They are provided for by law and have been history of this Republic that the conditions growing out of the employed ever since the courts were organized. late civil war induced the commission of many offenses against Mr. McMILLIN. How are they paid'? the ballot. The existence and enforcement of our election laws Mr. COMPTON. They are paid out of the appropriation, $2 has resulted in grea.t good, no harm. Quiet has come to all the per day, and this bill simply drops them out. Southern section of this country. To-day offenses against this Mr. HOLMAN. We have been appropriating the money to law are heard of in Chicago, New York, and Boston, andinother pay them all along, and there is a great army of them. great cities of the Union, but not elsewhere to any extent. Mr. McMILLIN. Can the gentleman from Maryland state how Mr. Chairman, let us continue them, let us enforce them, let many of them there are? us do our duty fearlessly as American citizens; continue these Mr. COMPTON. One in each court. laws on the statute books, amend them where amendment is nec Mr. McMILLIN. Do our State courts get along without them? essary, and the result will be that we shall·have purity in our Mr. HOLMAN. They do. elections, continued prosperity in this nation of o.urs, and every Mr. COMPTON. Not in my State. citizen will have and not be afraid to exercise the right to cast Mr. McMILLIN. Well, in Tennessee and other States the his ballot as he sees fit and have that ballot honestly counted. courts get along without such officials. The majority of honest voters shall rule and offenders against Mr. DALZELL. Do I understand that this would leave the the ballot shall hide their faces in shame. [Applause on the Federal courts without criers? Republican side.] I withdraw my appeal, Mr. Chairman. Mr. McMILLIN. As I understand it, the duties of the crier The CHAIRMAN (Mr. DoCKERY in the chair). The question would devolve upon the marshal. is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York Mr. DALZELL. To serve writs and attend upon the sessions [Mr. FITCH]. of the court at the same time? The question was taken. Mr. McMILLIN. He would serve his writs through deputies. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is in doubt. Mr. DALZELL. Why, Mr. Chairman, there is not a court in Mr. BOUTELLE. Division, Mr. Chairman. Christendom that is organized on that basis. The committee divided; and there were-ayes 120, noes 0. Mr. HOLMAN. This duty can be performed by anybody, by Mr. BOUTELLE. No quorum. the marshal or by a d~mty marshal. As a rule, these officials The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Mairfe makes the employed in the Federal courts are so numerous as to jostle each point of no quorum. The Chair will appoint tellers under the other. rule. The gentleman from Maine [Mr. BOUTELLE] and the gen Mr. BUCHANAN of New Jersey. That is not the case in my tleman from New York [Mr. FITCH] will please act as tellers. section of the country. After some time spent in the count, Mr. HOLMAN. Oh, it is the case everywhere. Mr. REED. A good plan would be to announce the vote and Mr. DALZELL. What is the necessity for a clerk? Why can then let us see who are absent. not the judge perform the clerk's duties also? [Laughter.] The CHAIRMAN. Tellers have not yet reported. • Mr. HOLMAN. Now, Mr. Chairman, I want to say that this Mr. BURROWS. Let the result ba announced. There is no little office, which is a matter of convenience to the judge, a use of staying here all day. little perquisite, was omitted at the instance of the chairman of After further time spent in the count, tellers reported-ayes the Judiciary Committee, a gentleman very competent to judge 172, noes 47. of the question, and after discussing the subject the Senators So the amendment was agreed to. cheerfully acquiesced in the omission. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. COGSWELL. They can easily detail a man to open the Amend by adding the words •• and criers,'' in line 24, page 84, after the word court. "baililfs " in said line; a.nd the words " bailitrs and one crier" after the Mr. HOLMAN... Oh, yes; there is no trouble about makingoa word "three " in the same line. detail. Mr. Chairman, I call for a vote. Mr. HOLMAN. Vote! Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. Mr. Chairman, the bill as re Mr. COMPTON. Just a word in regard to this amendment, ported by this committee makes no appropriation for criers. I Mr. Chairman. In the first place let me say that it will be ask the attention of the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HoLMAN], found on page 136, section 715, of the Revised Statutes, that because I desire to reply to some statements made by him. Sec these criers are provided for by law. In the sundry civil bill tion 715 of the Revised Statutes of the United States provides that passed at the first session of this Congress no provision was for the payment of criers. It provides that the circuit and dis made for the payment of these criers. This amendment pro trict judges may appoint criers for their courts, j:,o be allowed vides for tihe payment of criers in the section to which it is the sum of $2 per day. added. The Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, as Every United States court in the country has appointed these I understand, objects to this provision upon the ground that criers. They are officers of the court. The act of Congress which these criers are unnecessary. provides for bringing suits on contracts against the United States Now, in answer, Mr. Chairman1 to that objection, I desire to will permit every one of these men to sue the Government andre present to this House the opinion expressed by every judge upon cover the per diem which the law gives him, and instead o! appro the bench of this District, in which they state distinctly that priating the money to compensate these criers accr;rding ro law I '\ 1114 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE~ FEBRU.ARY 2, we shall have to appropriate money to satisfy the judgments strikedown thepaltrysa.lruries to which these officers.areentitled which theywillobta.inagainstthe UnitedStatesforthei.rservices. as officers of the law'? They areJ I repeat, officers of the law•. The question being taken on the amendment, it was ao-reed to, Now, as to the necessity for them, I undertake to say here in there being-ayes 75, noes 54,. o the presence of members of this House that a cou.rt is not law Mr. OATES. I desire to offer the amendment whicb I send fuDy constituted in Pennsylvania without aerier. The .crier ex to the desk. ecutes the verbal orders of the court. He makes the procla The Clerk read-as follow.s: mations of the court. There is no other officer in the court who For recons~-ucting eastern e1evator .at House Wing, so as to obtain in· can perfo.rm these duties. Let me'call the attention of the gen creased speed of same, $3,750 .and for extending western elevator to sub tleman from Indiana to one provision in the law. basement story, for the accommodation or the committees in the terraces, Mr. HOLMAN. The bailiffs can do it. $1,800; 1n au !5,550, or so much ~thereof as may be requ:ired. Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. They can not. They never do. 1\{r. HOLMAN. There is no law for that. I make a point of Mr. HOLMAN. Tb.ey can do it very well as a rule. order. :Mr. WILLI.Al.i A. STONE. They never have done it.; ne-ver Mr. OATES. I hope the gentleman will reserve his point for in the world was a proclamation that a sheriff is going to ac a moment. I do not think he ought to make it. I concede that knowledge a dood made by anybody in Pennsylvania but the the amendment is subject to .a point of order. But it is in ac crier, and under the United States laws when the marshal at cordance with estimates which have been made by the Architect tempts to acknowledge a deed the proclamation must be made of the Capitol, who knows what is necessary. by the crier of the .court. He iB an officer of the court, so con Every gentleman here is aware of the fact that the elevator at stituted by law, and you can no more strike him out of the bill the west side of this Hall stops on this floor, does not go down to than you can strike the judge out of the bill. He is a lawfully the lower floor as it ought to do.; while the .elevator on the east constituted officer and his duties are defined by law. side, which is used by the greater number of people an.d by a Mr. COGSWELL. Will the gentleman permit a question? majority of the members when they enter the Hall or leave it, .Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. Yes, ,sir. is very slow and inefficient; the machinery to drive it has not .Mr~ COGSWELL. Can not the court appoint an acting crier sufficient force; it merely creeps along, so that we might as well who can perform these duties? or better have no elevalior at all. In order that the work may Mr. HOLMAN. Yes; the -sheriff or a bailiff. be done and both elevators put in proper order before the meet Mr. DALZELL. Without pay? ing of the next Congress, it is requisite to make an appropria Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. You -can not get the duties done tor the purpose at this time. I hope the gentleman from Indiana in that way. will not press his point of order. Mr. COGSWELL. I have seen it done forty times, and so Mr. HOLMAN. If there is .any necessity ior this, the appro have you. priation already madefor theimprovementof the Capitol covers Mr. WILLIAM A. S~ONE. I am .speaking about the courts the ground. in Pennsylvania, and I say that, so far as those courts are con Mr. OATES. But there is nothing in that aupropriation cerned, the crier is an offi-cial who is necessary to the proper which a-pplies to this work. - · operation of the court, and that there are duties for him to do Mr. HOLMAN. Oh,yes. Theappropriation for the improve which no other official can perform. It is his duty to make the ment of the Capitol is broad enough to extend to this. proclamations, to proclaim all the verbal orders of the court. .Mr. OATES. Does the gentleman states that the appropria Take the matter of acknowledging deeds, under the law of Penn tion for ordinary repairs is extensive enough to be applied to sylvania a deed must be acknowledged in open court. It can these purposeo? only be acknowledged after proclamation is made, and that proc Mr. HOLMAN. I call the attention of my friend to the lan lamation can be made only by the -crier of the court. guage of the appropriation: Mr. COGSWELL. Will the gentleman allow another ques For work at Capitol -and for genera1 repairs trhereof, including wages of tion? mechanics, J.n.bo:rers, and fresco pa.in.ters, $20,000. Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. Certainly. Mr. COGSWELL. What is done on the occasion of the sick- Mr. OATES. Is that a sufficient amount, .and· could it be ap :uess or absence Qf the crier? plied to these purposes? Mr. WILLIAMA. STONE. Thecourtappointsanothercrier. Mr. HOLl\1:AN. · I think it is as m.uch as we ought to appro Mr. DALZELL. But it pays him. priate this year. Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. It pays him. Mr. OATES. The gentleman is of course familiar with the Mr. COGSWELL. Whenadeputy sheriff is detailed for that scope of these appropriations; and I .ask him whether that ap purpose is he paid for it? If so he is paid twice. propriation could be properly applied to the improvements con Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. The deputy sheriff never per templated by my amendment? lorms the duties of crier. Th-e crier is an officer of the court. Mr. HOLMAN. I think it could be if there was money Let me suggest a possibility where with three tip.staffs and no enough. . I . crier the business of the court would be absolutely crippled. Mr. OATES. I think not. I appeal to the gentleman from Suppose the gran-d jury is waited upon by one tipstaff, another Indiana-- jury is out, waited upon by another tipstaff, and anotller waited Mr. HOLMAN. Oh, I can not consent to any addition to the upon by a third, there you .have three juries waited upon by appropriations in this bill. It is already one of the most ex three bailiffs outside the court room, and nobody to open or close traordinary bills that ever passed Congress. I can not consent to the court. the addition of a dollar. Mr. COGSWELL. Can not the de-puty sheriff do it? Mr. OATES. Will the gentleman hear me? .Mr. WILLIAM A. STONE. The deputy sheriff is not aerier. Mr. HOLMAN. There was a time when we walked up to our If you do .not have a crier you ought to have a larger number of Hall and thought nothing of it. bailiffs. Mr. OATES. Will the gentleman accept an amendment by But the point I make is that from the time when the common way of proviso-- law first obtained foothold in Pennsylvania there have been Mr. HOLMAN. Oh, no; I can not consent to load this groat criers in all the courts. These officers are necessary. If you bill down with one cent more. must strike down any officer why not strike down the janitor? Mr. OATES! Well, I thought my fri~nd was discreet enough You would not want the judge to open and close his own court. at least to hear a proposition before he rejected it. I was ask The amount necessary to compensate the.se criers will not exceed ing if you would accept an amendment to the provision that $20,000, and the attempt to economize by striking criers from $5,000 of the sum appropriated for the Capitol building might the bill is small, very small, and will not in the end result in be applied to this matter. saving money to the Government. Mr. HOLMAN. Oh, I made remark that I coald not consent Mr. HOLMAN. I ask unanimous consent that debate on this to ~:mlargemen ts of the bilL . question be elosed in three minutes. Mr. OATES. But this iB not an enlargement of the bill. There being no objection, it was ordered accordingly. 1\:fr. HOLMAN. It is the .same thing; it means a deficiency. ,Mr. COMPTON. Mr. Chairman, there has notbeenfromany Mr. OATES. The gentleman will not consent to a proviso source any request for the witholding of the salaries of these oi that of the $20,000 appropriated $5,000 may be applied to this .ficers. Here is an office provided for by law; why should we purpose? not make appropriation for payment? By nature 1 run so con Mr. HOLMAN. I .can not consent to that. I do not know stituted that I despise t6'do by indirection what should be done whether it would be enough or not. directly. If the gentleman from Indiana proposes to abolish these Mr. OATES. 1 am satisfied it is not enough; but the work .offices, why not repeal -the statute which provide-s for them? ought to be done. ~fr. HOLMAN. We do, so far as we can by this hill. Mr. HOLMAN. .Mr~ Chairman, I ask a ruling. Mr. COMPTON. Why undertake in this indirect way to The CHAIRMAN. The Chair sustains the point of order. . 1893. OONGRESSIONAL REOORD-HOUSE. 1115 Mr. HOLMAN. I move that the committee rise and report the demand. The gentleman has a right to have a separate-vote the bill and amendments to the House. on any amendment that has been reported from the Committee Mr. DINGLEY. Mr. Chairman, before that motion is sub of the Whole. mitted I wish to occupy a moment to make a correction in a Mr. BOUTELLE. Mr. Speaker, can not a separate vote be statement I submitted to the House on yesterday in reference to demanded upon every amendment? what is known as the hat-trimmings case. I made the statement The SPEAKER. Undoubtedly. It is only by unanimous con that I had been informed that the Government attorneys had sent that a vote can be taken on more than one amendment at a recommended the compromise of the case referred to. I am time. But the House may order the previous question upon all informed now that this is a mistake, and that neither the Govern of the amendments, and that is the motion of the gentleman ment attorneys nor any one connected with the Attorney-Gen from Indiana [Mr. HOLMAN], that the previous question be or ·' eral's Office have recommended such compromise. 1 misunder dered upon the pending amendments and the bill to its engross stood a statement which was made to me in reference to the ment and third reading. matter. The previous question was ordered. I desire, t herefore, to make this correction, because it may The SPEAKER. Now, if gentlemen will indicate such amend seem to imply that the Attorney-General had recommended such ments as they desire separate votes upon, the Clerk will note action. • the amendments. The CHAIRMAN. The question is onagreeing to the motion Mr. BOUTELLE. I desire a separate vote on the amendment of the gentleman from Indiana. offered by the gentleman from New York [Mr. FITCH] relating The motion was agreed to. to sup3rvisors of election. The committee accordingly rose; and the Speaker having re The SPEAKER. The Clerk will note the amendment. sumed the Chair, Mr. LESTER of Georgiareported that the Com Mr. BLAND. I desire a separate vote on the amendment re mittee of the Whole House on the state of the Union having had un lating to the purchase of marble for the Library building. ... ,, .. d er consideration the sundry'civil appropriation bill, had directed The SPEAKER. The Clerk will note that amendment. him to report the same back to the House with sundry amend Mr. COGSWELL. The motion upon which I desire a separ ments. ate vote is a motion to r ecommit. Mr. HOLMAN. I demand the previous question on the bill The SPEAKER. That comes in at a later stage. and pending amendments to its engrossment and third reading. Mr. DICKERSON. I desire a separate vote on that portion Mr . COGSWELL. Before that motion is submitted, Mr. of th e bill or the amendment-! think it is in the form of an Speaker , I wish to submit an inquiry as to the parliamentary amend men t-which makes appropriations for rivers and harbors. condition. I do not desire to interpose any objection; I am will Mr. BLANCHARD. That is no amendment._ That is in the ing to agree that the previous question may be considered a3 text of the bill. ordered , and that a vote may be taken on all the amendments as Mr. HOLMAN. I wish toaskforaseparatevote on the amend a whole, provided that the understanding entered into in com ment on page 43, incraa'3ing the appropriation for salaries for mittee is observed in the House; thatunderstanding being that compensation of persons employed to look after timber and at the proper time the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HoLMAN] swamp lands. There was a substitute offered for the proposi was to be recognized to make a motion to recommit this bill with tion in the bill and then an amendment to that, and it is· the certain instructions, whereupon I was to be permitted to offer amendment to that on which I want a separate vote. an amendment with certain other instructions. - The SPEAKER. What is the number of the amendment? Now, if that is the understanding-that having been agreed to Mr. HOLMAN. I have not the number of the amendment, in committee-and I can preserve my right to demand a yea-and but it is the only amendment on page 43. nay vote on my separate amendment of instructions, why then I Mr. BLANCHARD. A parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker. have no desire further to contend. But I want -to understand The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. whether what I have stated, which was the understanding in the Mr. BLANCHARD. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HOL committee. will be observed in the House. MAN], chairman of the Committe3 on Appropriations, and in The SPEAKER. This matter is not debatable. charge of this bill, offered a substitute for a paragraph in this Mr. HOLMAN. I hope the gentleman will be permit~d to bill appropriating $60,000 as the compensation for inspectors of state the agraement. the General Land Office. Upon my motion the substitute was Mr. COGSWELL. lam asking aquestion of a parliamentary amended so as to increase the amount from $60,000 to $120,000. -character. My amendment to the substitute was adopted. As thus amended The SPEAKER. But what occurred in committee is a parlia the substitute of the gentleman from Indiana[Mr. HOLMAN] was mentary matter that must be addressed to the Chairman. · The adopted by the Committee of the Whole. Now, I wish to ask present occupant of the Chair has no information as to what took the Speaker, as a parliamentary question, whether the gentle place in committee. man from Inftiana [Mr. HOLMAN] can dem.and a separate vote Mr. HOLMAN. I hope that the gentleman will be permitted upon the amendment to his substitute which was adopted in Com to make a statement of fact which was not communicated to the mittee of the Whole? Speaker, but was an arrangement entered into while the com The SPEAKER. The only vote in the House will be upon the mittee was dividing. There was a general understanding that amendment as finally reported to the House from the Committee a motion would be addressed to the Chair to recommit this bill of the Whole. and a yea-and-nay vote taken-- Mr. HOLMAN. I understand that, and I reserve a vote on Mr. BINGHAM. On that question. that. Also, on page 84, upon the amendment inserting the words Mr. HOLMAN. Not on that first. But that the gentleman "one crier," at line 24, on that page, I desire to reserve a sepa from Massachusetts would have an opportunity, with the con rate vote. currence of the Speaker, to move an amendment to the first Mr. LONG. Also, on page 60, lines 22 and 23, for miscellane motion, on which a vote by yeas and nays would be taken. ous objects. .' The SPEAKER. The Chair would not recognize a gentleman The SPEAKER. The Clerk will note ·these various amend in the minority to take control of tlie bill, but would of course ments upon which separate votes are desired. recognize the minority on a motion to recommit. Now. of course, Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. :::;peaker, I ris3 to a parliamentary in if there was any agreement the Chair will endeavor to carry it out quiry. as far as possible. · The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Mr. COGSWELL. Then another parliamentary inquiry. Mr. SPRINGER. Is it understood that the yeas and nays are · If I should be recognized to make the motion to recommit ordered on each of these separate votes? with certain instructions, and that motion is followed by an The SPEAKER. Not at all. Gentlemen are merely indicat amendment, can I have the right to a separate vote on my in ing the amendments upon which they desire separate votes. If structions? there be no objection the Chair wlll submit the motion on con T he SPEAKER. The Chair would rather wait until the ques curring in the remaining amendments all together. tion rises than anticipate it now. There was no objection. Mr. COGSWELL. The r eason I wanted foreknowledge on The remaining amendments were agreed to. this point was because if I am deprived of that information: which The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the first amendment I would like to have, I will be compelled to avail myself of the on 'vhich a separate vote is demanded. right remaining to object that these amendments may be voted The Clerk read as follows: upon as a whole, and get my yea-and-nay vote on one of the On page 43, line 10, strike out all from line 10 down to line 25, and lines 1 amendments pending. I do not want to take the time of the and 2. page 44, and insert in lien thereof the following: . House if I can avoid it, and wiU not do so if I can get a yea-and Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of nay vote at the .proper stage. claim for swamp lands a.nd swamp-land indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands and for the more efil.cient execution The SPEAKER. Of course the gentleman can get a yea-and of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public nay vote at any stage if a sufficient number of members second lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and or ad~usting ·· .. , 1116 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE.' FEBRUARY 2, claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, !120,000: PrOfJi(kd, NAYS-78. That agents and others' employed under this appropriation shall receive salaries at not exceeding the rate of $1,000 per annum, and shall be allowed Atkinson, Dolliver, Ketcham, Scull per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the In· Baker, Funston, Lind, Shonk, . terior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding !3 per day Bartine, Griswold, Lodge, Simpson, each and actual necessary expenses for transportation: Provided f'Urther, Belden, Grout, Loud, Smith, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Belknap, Halvorson, Miller, Stephenson, Secretary of the Interior, is authorized during the fiscal year 1894 to detail Bergen, Harmer, Milliken, Stone, C. w. from time to time clerks in his office for protecting timber on the public Bingham, Haugen, Morse, Stone, W. A. lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to Boutelle, Henderson, Ill. O'Donnell, Storer, the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent Bowers, Hermann, Otis, Taylor, Ill. entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands and in Broderick, Hilborn, Payne, Taylor, Tenn. demnity for swamp lands, and per diem subject to such rules and restric Buchanan, N.J. Hitt, Perkins, Taylor, J. D. tions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence of Burrows, Hoar, Pickler, Townsend, clerks so detailed, at a rate not exceeding $3 per day each and actual neces Busey, Hooker, N.Y. Post. Wadsworth, sary expenses tor transportation, shall be paid from the foregoing appro Cheatham, Hopkins, Pa. Powers, Walker, Efiation; and the Comm1s:::.ioner of the General Land om.ce shall submit 1n Clover, Hopkins, Ill. Raines, Wever, Cogswell, Houk, Tenn. Randall, Wilson, Ky. vi~o~nual report a detailed statement of the expenditures under this pro- Cutting, Huff, Ray, Wilson, Wash. Dalzell, Hull, Reed, Wright. Dingley, Johnson, N.Dak. Rite, The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to this amend Do an, Jolley, Robinson, Pa.. ment. The question was taken; and the Speaker announced that the NOT VOTJNG-67. Alexander, Culberson, Henderson, Iowa Rusk, noes seemed to have it. Beeman, Curtis, Johnson, Ind. Russell, Mr. BLANCHAND. Division, Mr. Speaker. Branch, Davis, Johnson, Ohio Sanford, The House divided; and there were-ayes 19, noes 75. Brawley, De Forest, Johnstone, S.C. Scott, Breckinridge, Ky. Dixon, Kendall, Seerley, Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker, I shall have to make the Brosius, Edmunds, Lagan, Snodgrass, point of no quorum, and ask for tellers. The House evidently Brunner. Enochs, Lawson, Ga.. Stevens, does not understand this amendment. Bunting; Fellows, Lewis, Stump, Byrns, Fithian, Lockwood, Sweet, Mr. SAYERS. Regular order. Caldwell, Flick, Mitchell, Taylor, E. B. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HOLMAN] Capehart, Forman, O'Neill, Pa. Taylor, V. A. and thg gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. BLANCHARD] will please Causey, Forney, O'Neill, Mo. Watson, Clancy, Fowler, Page, Waugh, take their places and act as tellers. Clark, Wyo. Gillespie, Paynter, Whiting, The House again divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 72, Cockran, Goodnight, Quackenbush, Willcox, noes 96. Cowles, Hallowell, Reilly, Williams, Mass. So the amendment was rejected. Cox, N. Y. Hare, Reyburn, The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the next amendment. So the amendment was agreed to. The Clerk read as follows: The following pairs were announced: On page 60, line 23, strike out the word "ten" and insert the word '' liWen Until further notice: ty-flve;" so as to read: "For surveys, additions to :;.nd to correct the engraved Mr. AMERMAN with Mr. HOPKINS of Pennsylvania.. plates, $25,000. " . Mr. GOODNIGHT with Mr. SANFORD. Mr. SCOTT with Mr. BROSIDS. Mr. LONG. Mr. Speaker, since I have been iniormed by the Mr. CAUSEY with Mr. RUSSELL. committee that this amount will be needed, I withdraw the de Mr. BUNTING with Mr. VINCENT A. TAYLOR. mand for a separate vote. Mr. MITCHELL with Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa. The_amendment was agreed to. For this day: The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the next amendment. Mr. WmTING with Mr. CALDWELL. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. CULBERSON with Mr. CLARK of Wyoming. On page 84, line 3, after the word "laW:3," insert "or the laws relating to Mr. PAGE with Mr. REYBURN, on this vote. the election of members of Congress." The result of the vote was then announced as above recorded. Mr. BOUTELLE. Mr. Speaker, on that question I desire the The SPEAKER. The Clerk will renort the next amendment. yeas and nays. The Clerk read as follows: - The yeas and nays were ordered. In line 24, page 84, afwr the word "bailifrs," in said'line, insert the words The question was taken; and there were-yeas 184, nays 78, "and criers; " and the words "bailifts and one crier," after the word "three," in the same line. not voting 67; as follows: YEAS-184. The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to this amend ment. Abbott, Coolidge, Kern, Patton, Alderson, Coombs, Kilgore, Pearson, The question was taken, and the Speaker announced that the Allen, Cooper, Kribbs, Peel, ayes seemed to have it. Amerman, Covert, Kyle, Pendleton, Mr. HOLMAN. Division. Andrew, Cox, Tenn. Lane, Pierce, Antony, Crain, Lanham, Price, The House divided; and there were-ayes 74, noes 59. Arnold, Crawford, Lapham, Rayner, Mr. LONG. No quorum, Mr. Speaker. [Cries of "Oh."] Babbitt, Crosby, Lawson, Va. Richardson, [After a pause.] I withdraw it. Bacon, Cummings, Layton, Robertson, La. Bailey, Daniell, Lester, Va. Rockwell, So the amendment was agreed to. Bankhead, De Armond, Lester, Ga. Sayers, rrhe SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the next amendment. Barwig, Dickerson, Little, Shell. Belt.zhoover, Dockery, Livingston, Shively, The Clerk read as follows: Bentley, Donovan, Long, Sipe, On pa~e 86, at the end of line 6, insert: Blanchard, Dungan, Lynch, Snow, "Provided, That the Chief of Engineers ot the Army shall award all con Bland, Dunphy, Magner, Sperry, tracts tor materials to be used in said building to the lowest responsible Blount, Durborow, Mallory, Springer, bidder; and in making such a. wards the preference shall be given to home over Boatner, Elliott, Mansur, Stahlnecker, foreign products where material of equally good quality of home production Bowman, Ellis, Martin, Steward, Ill. is o1Jered at equal or lower prices." Breckinridge, Ark. English, McAleer, Stewart, Tex. Bretz, Enloe, McClellan, Stockdale, The SPEAKER. The question is on the adoption of this Brickner, Epes, McCreary, Stone, Ky. amendment. The question was taken, and the Speaker announced Brookshire, Everett, McGann, Stout, that..the ayes seemed to have it. , Brown, Ind. Fitch, McKaig, Tarsney, Brown, Md. Fyan, McKeighan, Terry, Mr. BLAND. Division. Bryan, Gantz, McKinney, Tillman, The House divided· and there were-ayes 76, noes 103. Buchanan, Va. Geary, McLaurin, Tracey, Mr. ATKIN80N, The yeas and nays, Mr. Speaker. Bullock, Geissenhainer, McMillin, Tucker, Bnnn, Gorman, McRae, Turner, The yeas and nays were ordered. Bushnell, Grady, Meredith, Turpin, The question was taken; and there were-yeas 112, nays 129, Butler, Greenleaf, I Meyer, VanHorn, not voting 88; as follows: Bynum, Hall, Montgomery, Warner, YEAS-112. " Cable, Hamilton, :Moore, Washington, Cadmus, Harries, Moses, Weadoclr, Amerman, Bro~eric'k, Coombs, English, Caminetti, Harter, Mutchler, Wheeler, Ala. Atkinson, Buchanan, N. J_ Cooper, Enloe, Campbell, Hatch, Newberry, Wheeler, Mich. Babbitt, Bullock, Covert, Everett, Caruth, Hayes, Iowa Norton, White Baker, Burrows, Cox, Tenn. Funston, Castle, Haynes, Ohio Oates, Wike,' Ba.rtine, Butler, Crawford, Geissenha.iner, Catchings, Heard, O'Ferrall, Williams, N. C. Belknap, Cadmus, Crosby, Greenleaf, Ohliger. Williams, TIL Beltzhoover, Caldwell, Curtis, Griswold, g:~~an, ~::J>e~s~'n, N. C. O'Neil, Mass. Wilson, Mo. Bergen, Carninettl, Cutting, Halvorson, Clarke, Ala. Herbert, Outhwaite, Wilson, w. Va. Bingham, Dalzell, Harmer, Cobb, Ala. Holman, Owens, Winn, Blount. g~~fe~ell, Daniell, Haugen, Cobb, Mo. Hooke:s, Miss. Pan·ett. Wise, Boutelle, Cheatham, Davis, Hermann, Coburn, Honk, uhio Patterson, Tenn. Wolverton, Bowers, Cogswell, Do an, Hilborn, Compton, Jones, Pattison, Ohio Youmans. Brickner, Coolidge, Dolliver, Bitt, -. ·' ; ' 1893. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1117 ;· .. Hooker, N.Y. Lynch, Powers, Stone,c.w. amended by striking from the bill the substitute of Mr. OUTHWAITE for lines Hopkins,Pa. Ma.llory, Price, Stone, W.A. 3 to 22inclusive, on page 61 of the bill, and inserting in lieu of said lines the Hopkins. Ill. McAleer, Raines, Stone, Ky. followin~: Houk, Ohio McGann, Randall, Storer, Artific al limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or com- Hutr, Miller, Ray. Stout, mutation therefor, and necessary tran->£6rtation, to be disbursed under the Hull, Milliken, Reyburn, Taylor, Ill. direction of the Secretary of War, 11\650, • , Johnson, Ind. Morse, Richardson, Taylor, Tenn. Johnson, N. Da.k. O'Donnell, Scull, Taylor, J.D. Mr.·COGSWELL. On that I demand the previous question. Jolley, O'Neill, Pa. Shonk, Townsend, The previous question was ordered. Ketcham, Otis, Smith, Washington, Lind, Parrett, Stahlnecker, Waugh, Mr. COGSWELL. On the adoption of the resolution I ask Little, Pattison, Ohio Stephenson, Wever, for the yeas and nays: Lodge, Payne, Steward, Ill. Wheeler, Ala. The yeas and nays were ordered, 63 members voting in favor Lon~, Perkins, Stewart, Tex. Wilson, Ky. Lou, Post, Stockdale, Wolverton. thereof. The question was taken; and there were-yeas 110, nays 119, not NAYS-129. voting 100; as follows: Abbott, Cobb, Ala. Kern, Paynter, YEAS-110. Alderson, Cobb, Mo. Kribbs, Pearson, Allen, Compton, Kyle, Peel, Amerman, Crosby, Hull, Post, - . Andrew, Crain, Lane, Pendleton, Atkinson, Curtis, Johnson, N.Dak. Powers, Antony, Cummings, Lanham, Rockwell, Babbitt, Dalzell, Jolley, Randa.ll, Arnold, DeArmond, Lapham, Sayers, Bartine, Davis, Kem, Ray, Bacon, Dickerson, Lawson,Va. Seerley, Earwig, Dingley, Ketcham, Reyburn, Bailey, Dockery, Layton, Shell, Belden, Do an, Kribbs, Scull, Bankhead, Dunphy, Lester, Va. Shively, Belknap, Dolliver, Lapham, Shively; Earwig, Durborow, Lester, G-;1.. Simpson, Beltzhoover, Donovan, Layton, Shonk, Belden, Elliott, Livingston, Sipe, Bergen, Forman, Lind, Sipe, Bentley, Ellis, Mansur, Tarsney, Bingham. l<~ton, Lodge, Smith, Blanchard, E~s, Martin, Terry, Boutelle, Gantz, Loud, Sperry, Bland, F tch, McCreary, Tillman, Bowers, Geissenha.iner, .r..ynch, Stahlnecker, Boatner, Forman, McKaig, Tracey, Bretz, Gorman, Martin, Stephenson, Bowman, Gantz, McKinney, Tucker, Brickner, Griswold, McAleer, Steward, m. Breckinridge, Ark. Geary, McLaurin, Turner, Broderick, Hallowell, McGann, Stone, C. W. Bretz, Gorman, McRae, VanHorn, Brookshire, Halvorson, Miller, Stone, w. A. Brookshire, Grady, Meredith, Warner, Brown,lnd. Harme:::-, Milliken, Storer, Brown, Ind. Hall, Meyer, Watson, Buchanan, N. J. Harter, Morse, Taylor, TIL ·- - Brown, Md. Hamilton, Montgomery, Weadock, Burrows, Haugen, O'Donnell, Taylor, Tenn. . Bryan, Harries, Moore, White, Bynum, Haynes, Ohio Ohliger, Taylor, J. D. , . Buchanan, Va. Harter, Mutchler, Wike, Cable, Hermann, O'Neill, Pa. Tracey, Bunn, Hatch, Newberry, Williams, N.C. Cadmus, Hitt, Owens, Waugh, Busey, Hayes, Iowa Norton, Wilson. Wash. Campbell, Holman, Parrett, Wever, Bushnell, Haynes, Ohio Oates, Wilson; Mo. Coburn, Hooker, N. Y. Patton, Williams, m Bynum, Heard, O'Ferrall, Wilson, W.Va. Cockran, Hopkins, Pa. Payne, Wilson, Ky. Caruth, HemcRhill, Ohliger, WinD, Cogswell, Hopkins, TIL Pearson, Wilson, Wash. Catchings, Hen e1·son, N. C. O'Neil, Mass. Wise, Coolidge, Houk, Ohio Perkins, Cate, Herbert, Outhwaite, Youmans. Cooper, Houk, Tenn. Pickler, Chipman, Holman, Owens, Clarke, Ala. Hooker, Miss. Patterson, Tenn. NAYS-119. Clover, Jones, Patton, Abbott, Cox, Tenn. Kilgore, Peel, Alderson, Crain, Kyle, Pendleton, NOT VOTING-88. Alexander, Crawford, Lane, Price, Alexander, Donovan, Kilgore, Rusk, Antony, Cummings, Lanham, Richardson, Beeman, Dungan, Lagan, Russell, Arnold, Daniell, Lawson, Va. Sayers, Branch, Edmunds, Lawson, Ga. Sanford, Bacon, DeArmond, Lester, Va. Seerley, Brawley, Enochs, Lewis, Sco~t. Bailey, Dickerson, Lester, Ga. Shell, Breckinridge, Ky. Fellows, Lockwood, Snodgrass, Baker, Dockery, Little, Simpson, Brosius, Fithian, Magner, Snow, Beeman, Dunphy, Livingston, Stewart. Tex. Brunner, Flick, McClellan, Sperry, Blanchard, Durborow, Long, Stockdale, Bunting, Forney, McKeighan, Springer, Bland, Elliott, Ma.llory, Stone, Ky. Byrns, Fowler, McMillin, Stevens, Blount, Ellis, McCreary, Stout, Cable, ~n, Mitchell, Stump, Boatner, Enloe, McKaig, Ta.rsney, Capehart, G espie, Moses, Sweet, Bowman, Epes, McLaurin, Terry, Causey, Goodnight, O'Neill, Mo. Taylor, E. B. Breckinridge, Ark. Everett, McMillin, Tillman, Clancy, Grout, Pa~, Taylor, V. A. Brown, Md. Fitch, McRae, Tucker, Clark, Wyo. Hallowell, Pic ler, Turpin, Bryan, Geacy, Meyer, Turner, Coburn, Hare, Pierce, Wadsworth, Buchanan., Va. Grady, Montgomery, Warner, Cockran, Henderson, Iowa Quackenbush, Walker, Bullock, Greenleaf, Moore, War.son, -· Cowles, Henderson, Ill. Rayner, Wheeler, Mich. Bushnell, Hall, Mutchler, Weadock, Cox,N. Y. Hoar, Reed, -whiting, Butler, Hamilton, Newberry, "\Vheeler, Ala. Culberson, Houk,Tenn. Reilly, Willcox, Caruth, Harries, Norton, Wheeler, Mich. DeForest, Johnson, Ohio Rife, Williams, Mass Castle, Hatch, Oates, Wike, Dingley, Johnstone, S.C. Robertson, La. Williams, lll. Catchings, Hayes, Iowa. O'Ferrall, Williams, N.C. Dixon, Kendall, Robinson, Pa. Wright. Cate, Heard, O'Neil, Mass. Wilson, Mo. Chipman, Hemphill, Otis, Wilson, W.Va. The following additional pairs were announced: Clarke, Ala. Henderson, N. C. Outhwaite, WinD, Mr. SPRINGER with Mr. REED. Cobb,Ala. Herbert, Patterson. Tenn. Wise, Cobb,Mo. Hooker, Miss. Pattison, Ohio Youmans. Mr. TURPIN with Mr. PICKLER. Compton, Jones, Paynter, Mr. TUCKER with Mr. TOWNSEND. Mr. CABLE. Mr. Speaker, I desire to vote. NOT VOTING-100. Allen, Culberson, Johnstone, S. C. Rockwell, The SPEAKER. Was the gentleman in the Hall when his Andrew, Cutting, Kendall, Rusk, name was called? Bankhead, DeForest, Lagan, Russell, Mr. CABLE. I was not, sir. Bentley, Dixon, Lawson, Ga. Sanford, Branch, Dungan, Lewis, Scott, The SPEAKER. The Cnair can not entertain the request, Brawley, Edmunds, Lockwood, Snodgrass, under the rule. Breckinridge, Ky. English, Magner, Snow, • The result of the vote was then announced, as above recorded. Brosius, Enochs, Mansur, Springer, Brunner, Fellolris, McClellan, Stevens, The SPEAKER. This completes the amendment.a. Theques- Bunn, Fithi , McKeighan, Stump, tion is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill. Bunting, Flick, McKinney, Sweet, The bill was ordered to be engr~sed and read a third time. Busey, Forney, Meredith, Taylor, E. B. Byrns, Fowler, Mitchell, Taylor, V. A. The SPEAKER. The question now iB on the passage of the Caldwell, Fyan, Moses, Townsend, bill. Caminetti, Gillespie, O'Neill, Mo. Turpin, Mr. COGSVVTELL. Mr. Speaker, I offer the resolution which Capehart, Goodnight, Page, VanHorn, Causey, Grout, Pierce, Wadsworth, I send to the desk, and upon that I demand the previous ques- Cheatham, Hare, Quackenbush, Walker, tion. Clancy, Henderson, Iowa Raines, Washington, The SPEAKER. Under the rules a motion to recommit may Clark, Wyo. Henderson, Ill. Rayner, White, Clover, Hilborn, Reed, Whiting, be made either pending the demand for the previous question or Coombs, Hoar, Reilly, Willcox, after the previous question has been ordered. Covert, Huff, . Rife. Williams, Mass. Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker, I demand the previous q ues- Cowles, Johnson, Ind. Robertson, L~ . Wolverton, Cox,N. Y. Johnson, Ohio R)!Jinson, Pa.. tion on the passage of the bill. Wright. The previous question was ordered. So the motion to recommit wit h instructions was rejected. Mr. COGSWELL. Now, Mr. Speaker, I offer the resolution The following additional pairs were announced: which I send to the desk. Mr. WALKER with Mr. HOAR on this vota; Mr. WALKER The resolution was read, as follows: would vote ''aye" and Mr. HOAR ' 'no." Resolved, That the bill, House bill10238 be recommitted to the Committee Mr TUCKER with Mr. TOWNSEND, for the rest of the day. on Appropriations with instructions to report t.he same back forthwith, The result of the vote was announced as above stated. / .- '\ 1118 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 2, The bill was then passed. BILLS, MEMORIALS, AND RESOLUTIONS~ On motion of Mr. HOLMAN, a. motion to reconsider the last vote was laid on the table. Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills of the following titles were introduced, severally read twice, and referred as follows: LEAVE OF ABSENCE. By Mr. LITTLE: A bill (H. R. 10403) to revise the pension By unanimous co:D.sent, leave of absence was granted as follows: list, and for other purposes-to the Committee on Invalid Pen To Mr. ATKINSON, for three days, on account of important busi sions. ness. By Mr. CUMMINGS: A bill (H. R.l0-104:} to provide for and To Mr. BUNTING, for ten days, on account of sickness in his facilitate commercial and political union between the United family. States of America and the Dominion of Canada-to the Commit To Mr. DE FOREST, for one week, on account of important busi- tee on Foreign Affairs. ness; and · By Mr. WATSON: A bill (H. R. 10405) to increase the cur To Mr. LAGAN, until the 16th instant, onaccountofimportant rency and provide for its distribution through homestead land business. loans, and for other purposes-to the Committee on Ways and MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. Means. By Mr. TERRY: A bill (H. R. 104:06) to provide for the con A message from the Senate, by Mr. MCCooK, its S e c~et.ary, demnation of land for a military post near the city of Little Rock, announced that the Senate had passed with amendments bills of Ark.-to the Committee on l\1ilitary Affairs. the following titles; in which the concurrence of the Hous~ was By Mr. PICKLER: AmemorialoftheLegislature of the State requested: of South Dakota, asking the passage of Senate bill1598 and House A bill (H. R; 9923) making appropriations for fortifications and biil5098, providing that preference be given in appointment to other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the pro Government positions of Union soldiers of the late war, andre curement of heavy ordnance fo1· trial and service, and for other questing their retention in :office-to the Select Conunittee on purposes; Reform in the Civil Service. A bill {H. R. 9825) making appropriations for the support of By Mr. HOLMAN: A memorial of the Legislature of Indiana, the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, and for other favoring House bill 2299, entitled'' A bill defining options and fu purposes; · tures," etc.-to the Committee on Agriculture. A bill (H. R. 9930) for the construction and maintenance of a bridge across the St. Lawrence River; A bill (H. R. 6798) to authorize the construction of a bridge PRIVATE BILLS, ETC. across the Missouri River by the Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Under clause 1 of Rule XXIT, private bills of the following Memphis Railway Company; titles were presented and referred as indicated below: A bill (H. R. 9758) to am-end the charter of the Eckington and By Mr. CAMPBELL: A bill (H. R. 104:01) to authorize and Soldiers' Home Railway Company of the District of Columbia; direct the Secretary of War to compute the amount of pay and and allowance due to Fitz John Porter-to the Committee on Claims. A bill (H. R.1795) to inCl'8ase the pension of A. J. CopanhaverJ By Mr. LODGE: A bill (H. R. lOWS) io pension Mary A. Our late a soldier in the Mexican war. ley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. It also announced that the Senate had passed without amend By Mr. McRAE: A bill (H. R. 10409} for the relief of Charles ment bills of the following titles: W. Russey, of Arkansas-to the Committee on Claims. A bill (H. R. 5012) to increase the pension of Thomas Enlow; By Mr. STEVENS: A bill (H. R. 10!W) granting a pension to A bill ~H. R.5752) to amend an act approved August 6, 1888, Nancy E. Hardy, widow of George H. Hardy-to the Committee entitled 'An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across on Invalid Pensions. the Alabama River· , By Mr. WEVER: A }>ill {H. R. 104:11) for the relief of R.obert A bill (H. R. 8602) to authorize the construction of a bridge Gray-to the Committee on Military Affairs. across the Mobile River by the Chicago, Mobile and Gulf Ports Railroad Company; PETITIONS, ETCA A bill (H. R. 8956) establishing a fog signal at Tibbets Point, Lake Ontario, New York; and Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, the following petitions and papers A bill (H. R. 9433) granting a pension to Mrs. Ann Mercer were laid on the Clerk's desk, and referred as follows: By Mr. ALDERSON: Petition of L. 0. Walker, heir-at-law of Slaughter. It also announced that the Senate had passed bills o£ the fol Hiram Walker, of Nichol.&s County, W.Va., praying that his lowing titles; in which the concurrence of the House. was re- war claim be referred to the Court" of Claims under the provi sions of the nowman act-to the Committee on War Claims. quested: ' A bill {S. 3806) to provide for the purnishment of offenses on Also, petitiontOf Bluefield Lodge, No. 332, International Asso the high seas; and ciation of :Mechanics, against admitting free of duty machinery A bill (S. 3798) to amend an act entitled "An act to a11thorize to b3 used in the manufacture of sugar-to the Committee on the building of a railroad bridge at Little Rock, Ark. Ways and Means. By Mr. AMERMAN: Petition oi Nay Aug Council, No. 344, ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. United American Mechanics, of Scranton, Pa.. praying for the Mr. OBLIGER, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, re passage of an immigration law-to the Select Committe.e on lm· ported that they had examined and found truly enrolled bills of migration and Naturalization. the following titles; when the Speaker signed the same: By Mr. ANDREWS: Petition of John D. Mor ton, Thomas P. A bill (S. 509) granting an increase of pension to Thomas J. Beale, Charles Fairchild, Rufus S. Frost, Charles H. Taylor, Matlock; Charles T. Gallagher, W.E. Barrett, A. Shuman, Jordan, Marsh A bill (S. 3311) to refer claim of Jessie Benton Fremont to cer & Co., T.Jefferson Coolidge,jr.,Royal R.obbins, James H. Dovle, tain lands, and the improvements thereon, in San Francisco, George A. Marden, William Olin, CharlesEdicott, JacobFott1er, Cal., to the Court of Claims: . and John F. Dever, in support of Housa bill 360 , for the classi A bill (S. 3753) relating to the anchorage and movement of ves fication and adjustment of salaries for clerks in first and second sels in the port of Chicago· class post-offices-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post A bill (H. R. 5012) to increase the pension of Thomas Enlow; Roads. A bill (H. R. 5752) to amend the act approved August 6, 1888, By .Mr. BINGHAM: Petition of Gen. Marion Council of the entitled "An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Order of American Mechanics, praying for immediate legislation the Alabama River;" concerning immigration-to ~he Select Committee on Immigra· A bill (H. R. 8602) to authorize the construction of a bridge tion and Naturalization. across the Mobile River by the Chicago, Mobile and Gulf Ports Also, petition of citizens of Philadelphia, Pa., relative tc Railroad Company; amendment of the laws covering immigr ation-to the Select Com A bill (H. R. 8956) establishing a fog signal at Tibbets Point, mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. Lake Ontario, N~w York; By Mr. BROSIDS: Four petitions of members of the Order of A bill {H. R. 9433) granting a pension to Mrs. Ann Mercer United American Mechanics of Pennsylvania, as follows: The Slaughter; and petition of the council at Marietta, at 11aytown, a.t Lancaster, A bill (H. R. 10063) to amend" An act authorizing the con and at Quarryville, for restricting immig ration-to the Select struction of a high wagon bridge across the Missouri River at or Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. near Sioux City, Iowa," etc. By Mr. BUCHA....l'fAN of New Jeresy: Petition of the Fourth Mr. HOLMAN. I move that the House do now adjourn. Presbyterian Church of Trenton, N.J., in favor of closing the The motion was agreed to; a11-d accordingly (at 5 o'clock anQ. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co 10 minutes p.m.) the House, in accordance with its previous lumbian Exposition. order, adjourned until to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock. By Mr. BUSHNELL; Resolutions of the Republican Club of . ~ -- .. ,. .· •- 1893. CONGRESSIONAL- RECOR~HOIJSE. 1119 Massachusetts, in favor of the repeal oi the silver-purchasing Also, petition of Edward Young and 56 others, of Anthony, clau:::e of the a.ct of July 14, 1890-to the Committee on Coinage, Kans., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Weights, and Measures. mittee on the Columbian Exposition. By 1\fr. CALDWELL: Petition of the Commercial Club of Also, petitionef J. B. Oatho:ffand 56 others, of Covington, Ky., Cincinnati, Ohio, for the repeal of the Sherman silver law-to to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee the Committee on Banking and Currency. on the Columbian Exposition. By Mr. CASTLE: Petition of the Chamber of Commerce of Also, petition of L. Girky and 32 .others, of La Crosse_, Wis., to Minneapolis, against the antioption bill-to the Committee on open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Intorstate and Foreign Commerce. the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of quarrymen of Tennessee, against the use of Also, petition of Gust Rich and 44 others, of W1Sconsin., to foreign material ior the Congressional Library building-to the open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of the Duluth Stock Exchange, for the repeal of Also, petition of George Henderson and 29 others, of Grant the Sherman silver bill-to the Committee on Interstate and Falls, Colo., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Foreign Commerce. Committee on the Columbian Exposition . . Also, petition of the clearing house of Duluth, for the repeal Also, petition of James M. Stockell and 36 others, of Washing of the Sherman act-to the Committee on Interstate and For ton, D. C., and St. Louis, Mo., to open the World)B Fair on Sun l. eign Commerce. day-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Bv Mr. COMPTON: Petition of Alvin Edmonston and others, Also, petitionoi J. W. Woodrow and 52 others, of Pontiac1 TIL, oi Wetheredville, Md., praying for the passage of the bill in to open the World's Fair on Stmday-to the Select Committee troduced by Senator CHANDLER limiting immigration-to the on the Columbian Exposition. Select Conwrlttee on Immigration and Naturalization. Also, petition of M. Stewart and 56 others, of Hedrick, Iowa., By Mr. DALZELL: Five petitions of citizens of Pennsylvania, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Selfrot Committee as follows: Of General Taylor Council United American Me on the Columbian Exposition.. chanics, <>.f Pittsburg Council United American Mechanics, of Also, J>etition of John Wilhelm -and 5{) others, of Bremen, Ind., New .Mayville Council American Mechanics, of Pittsburg Council to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee American Mechanics, and of Good Will Council American Me on the Columbian Exposition.. chanics, all in favor of legislation restricting immigration-to Also, petition of Charles Davis and 54 others, of Findlay, Ohi-o, the Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, memorial of Pittsburg Coal Exckange, approving of on the Columbian Exposition. Homestead a.nd Pittsburg Bridge Company's bridge, etc.-to Also, petiti<>n of J. W. Edwards and 39 others, of Canton, the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Kans., to open th~ World's Fair on Sunday-to the SelectCom By Mr. DE ARMOND: Protest of the Baptist Association of mittee on the Columbian Exposition. Johnson and Lafayette Counties, Mo., against Sunday <>pening Also, petition of Dr. Gru;to Zinks and 53 others, o.fCineinnati,. of the World's Columbian Exposition-to the Select Committee Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com on the Columbian Exposition. . mittee on the Columbian Exposition. By Mr. DURBOHDW: Memorial <>f the Pattern-Makers' Na Also, petition of B. H. Dress and 13 others, of Iowa., to -open tional League of North America, against the employment of un the WPrld's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on tb.B naturalized citizens (aliens) on Government works-to the Select Columbian Exposition. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Also, petition of W. G. Crabill and 40 others, of South Bend, ,, - .Also, petition of G. Frank Lydston, M. D.,and others, of Cook Ind., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com County, Ill., asking Congress tomake an appropriation to defray mittee on the Columbian Exposition. the expenses of the Pan-American Medical Congress-to the .Also, petition of J. H. Springer and 13 others, of Indianapolis, Committee on Appropriations. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of James H. Hughes and 26 others, of Went on the Columbian Exposition. worth, Ark., f<>r opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Also, petition of J. B. Simpson and 27 -others. of Shullsburg, Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Wis., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-t<> the Select Com I : Also, petition of H. C. Westphal and 36 others, of St. Louis, mittee on the Columbian Exposition. Mo., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Also, petitlon oi C. H. Jones and 20others, of Williamsburg, Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Iowa, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of 49 citizens of Burlington and other places mittee on the Columbilm Exposition. in Iowa, for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Also, petition of D. D. Ginther and 45 others, of Rochester., Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Ind., to open the World"s Fair on Stmday-to the Select Com Also, petition of J. S. Hill, jr., and 56 others, of Cincinnati, mittee on the Columbian Exposition. Ohio, and Richmond, Va., to open the World"s Fair on Sunday Also, petition of W. G. Schinglan and 124 others, of Chicago, to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of J. D. Henry and 56 others, of Pueblo, Colo., mittee on the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, -petition of W. F. Hall and 56 others, of Indiana, to open Also, petition of Ed. Odell and 92 oth-ers, of West Point, Nebr., the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the • I • to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Columbian Exposition. on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of John Lams and 54 others, of Madison, Wis., Also, petition of S. F. Moore and 56 others, of Kansas City, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Kans., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com on the Columbian Exposition. mittee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of C. Perry Willer and 56 others, of Hayesville, Also, petition of J.P. Ross and 56 others, o.f Kansas, to open Iowa, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com the World"s Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the mittee on the Columbian Exposition. Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of David Young and 42 others, of Louisiana, to Also, petition of C. M. Brown and 44 others, of South and open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on North Dakota, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Se the Columbian Exposition. lect Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of George H. Wilkes and 53 others, of Clyde, Kans., Also, petition of Thomas Swobe and 56 others, of Omaha, Nebr., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee to open the World's Fair on Sundav-to the Select Committooon on the Columbian Exposition. the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of H. W. Cadott and 55 others, of Horton, Kans., Also, petition of C. G. Briggs and 178 others, of Leadville, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Colo., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com the Columbian Exposition. · mittee on the Columbian Exposition. Also,petitionofE. F. Davenport and 56othe.rs, of New Orleans, Also, petition of W. N. Rugg and 54 others, of Carroll, Iowa, La., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit to open the World"s Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee tee on the Columbian Exposition. on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of Robert Britts and 37 others, of Perry, Oregon, Also, petition of S. E. Jones and 56 <>thers, of Marion, Ind., to to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on ', open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of JamesW. Wright and 20others,ofFortRiley, Also, petition of F. E. Abbott and 40 others, of Chicago, IlL, Kans., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee mittee on the Columbian Exposition. -- on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of James Talor and 54 others, of Denver, Colo., 1120 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 2, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to theSelectCommittee on Also, petition of J. S. Knight and 47 others, of Denver, Colo., the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, petition of G. A. Vandegrift and 56 others, of Cincinnati, the Columbian Exposition. Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of E. M. Riese and 56 others, of Colorado, to mittee on the Columbian Exposition. open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, petition of Peter Richter and 120 others, of Fond du La{}, the Columbian Exposition. Wis., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of James Roberts and 44 others, of Oregon, Ill., mittee on the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of C. Franklin, Omaha, Nebr., and 19 others, to on the Columbian Exposition. open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, petition of F.L. Cooperand47others, of NewYorkCity, the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, petition of J. W. Shiner, West Moreland, Kans., and 55 the Columbian Exposition. others, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of Herman Gunther and 121 others, of Kansas, to mittee on the Columbian Exposition. open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on AlsQ, petition of A. J. Bargo and 56 others, of Cleveland, Ohio, the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of J. W. Brown and 56 others, of Marinette, on the Columbian Exposition. Wis., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of Robert W. Foote and 56 others, of Brecken mittee on the Columbian Exposition. ridge, Colo., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Also, petition of G. W. Rigby and 55 others, of Concordia, Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Kans., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of A. C. Kent and 25 others, of Janesville, Rock mittee on the Columbian Exposition. County, Wis., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Se Also, petition of J. Seberger and 27 others, of Indi~na, to open lect Committee on the Columbian Exposition. the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Also, petition of Henry Lischer and 123 others, of Davenport, Columbian Exposition. Iowa, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of A. M. Gregg and 56 others, of Omaha, to open mittee on the Columbian Exposition. the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Also, petition of D. J. Sullivan and 56 others, of Indiana, to Columbian Exposition. - ' open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, petition of E. Abel and 50 others, of Denver, Colo., to the Columbian Exposition. open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, petition of Otto Vogler and 26 others, of Kansas, toopen the Columbian Expo~ition. the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Also, petition of George B. Cock, M.D., and 56 others, to open Columbian Exposition. . theWorld's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co Also, petition of Nick Spang and 56 others, of Chicago, Ill., lumbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of A. L. Adams & Co. and 56 others, of Wiscon on the Columbian Exposition. . sin, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of E. Kristiansen and 43 others, of Chicago, Ill., tee on the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of G. B. Allison and 28others, of Iowa, to open on the Columbian Exposition. the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Also, petition of Daniel Camp and 78 others, of Chicago, Ill., Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of Charles Stommel and 92others, of Hammond, on the Columbian Exposition. Ind., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of M. C. Carey and 56 others, of Chicago, Ill., to mittee on the Columbian Exposition. open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee ori Also, petition of F. L. Roudebush and 55 others, of Creede, the Columbian Exposition. Colo., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of Amanda Wheeler and 52 othera, of Janesville, tee on the Columbian Exposition. / ' Wis., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of C. A. Daigh and 1 other, of Eu Claire, Wis., mittee on the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of James A. Barwick and 56 othera, of Chicago, on the Columbian Exposition. Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of J. N. Waggenner and 55 others, of Iowa and tee on the Columbian Exposition. Hamilton, Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Also, petition of J. A. Van Auken and 56 others, of Chicago, Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. ID., to open the World's ·Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of John Morrison and 40 others, of Chicago, Ill., tee on the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, petition of E. Cady and 72 others, of Waupun, Wis., to the Columbian Exposition. open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, petition of M. Bruce and 56 others, of Cleveland, Ohio, ' - the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of W. H. Briggle and 56 others, of Brecken on the Columbian Exposition. ridge, Colo., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Also, petition of M. F. Moore and 56 others, of Westmoreland, Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Kans., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of C. F. Williams and 52 others, of Chicago, Ill., mittee on the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of Warren D. Hawley and 56 others, of San on the Columbian Exposition. Diego, Cal., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Also, petition of Em. W. Parne and 40 others, of Iowa, to open Committee on the Columbian Exposition. the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Also, petition of William A. Meyer and 96 others, of Avoca, Columbian Exposition. Iowa, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of E. B. Noyes and 116 others, of Fremont, Ind., mittee on the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of E. E. Martin and 56 others, of Colorado Springs, on the Columbian Exposition. Colo., to opan the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of Henry Burkost and 56 others, of Wisconsin, mittee on the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of L. N. Thomas and 56 others, of Canton, Ohio, on the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, petition of W. Bicknell and 30 others, of Chicago, Ill., the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of F. B. Aldeman and 116 others, of WestPoint, on the Columbian Exposition. Nebr., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of F.W.Breedloveand 56 others,ofNewOrleans, mittee on the Columbian Exposition. La., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of W. L. Aldridge and 49 others, of Kansas City, tee on the Columbian Exposition. Mo., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition ofT. J. Plunket and 40 others, of Chicago, Ill., to mittee on the Columbian Exposition. ,· open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, petition of George N. Crawford and 48 others, of Excel the Columbian Exl)osition. sior Iron Works, Chicago, Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sun Also, petition of A. Colton and 52 others, of Portland, Oregon, day-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. to open the World's Fail· on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, pt}tition of H. S. Lincoln and 56 oth3rs, of Wheeling, W. the Columbian Exposition. Va., and Rock Island, Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sunday Also, petition o(Kittie Banks and 24 other ladies, of Chicago, to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of C. J. Steward and 116 others, of Terre Haute, tee the Columbian Exposition. Ind., Pittsburg, Pa., and Baltimore, Md., to open the World's Fair ,.. ' . ' ., 1893, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1121 on Sur,day-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposi Also, petition of 47 citizens of Wyoming, to open the World's tion. Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex· Also1 petition of Samuel Baer and 56 others, of Chicago, Ill., position. and Green Bay, Wis., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to Also, voluminous petition from the Elmwood· German Verein, the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. of Cook County, Ill., t-o open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Also, petition of 27 citizens of Wisconsin, to open the World's Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. . Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Also, voluminous petition from the Chicago Swiss Turner Ve position. rein, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of 37 citizens of Chicago, to open the World's mittee on the Columbian Exposition. Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Also, petition of the Springfield {Ill.) Turner Verein, to open position'! the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the / Also, petition of 60 citizens of Chicago, to open the World's Columbian Exposition. ' Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex- Also, petition of 132 citizens of Missouri, to open the World's position. • Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Also, petition of 45 citizens of Chicago, to open the World's position. Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Also, petition of 154 workingmen, forwarded by Concordia position.. Lodge, of Chicago, praying that the World's Fair be kept open on Also, petition of 55 citizens of Chicago, to open the World's Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Also, petition of Garden City Odd Fellows' Lodge, of Chicago, Exposition. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petitions of the Deutsche Gozellschaft of Springfield, on the Columbian Exposition. Mass., of the Boston (Mass.} Workmen's Association, of the Chi Also, petition of Charity Lodge, No. 65, of Chicago, Ill., to cago Garfield Lodge Hermann's Sons, of the Chicago Schleswig open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Holstein Saengerbund, of the Plattsmouth (Nebr.) Swiss Helve the Columbian Exposition. tia Society, of the Platte Society of Grand Island, Nebr., of Also, petition of 169 citizens of Chicago, to open the World's the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Germania Sharpshooters, and of the Fair on Sunday-to the oelect Committee on the Columbian Ex Brooklyn (N. Y.j Bay Jaegers Company, numbering in all many position. thousand signatures of laboring men, etc., to open the World's Also, petition of 165 citizens of Chicago to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex- Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex position. • position. Also, petition of 129 citizens of New York, to open the World's Also, petition signed by several hundred industriai residents Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian of Hoboken, to op~n the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Exposition. Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 208 citizens of Des Moines, Iowa, to open the Also, resolution of the Milwaukee Lodge, No. 128, Brother World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co hood of Railway Trainmen, unanimously favoring the opening lumbian Exposition. of the World's Fair on Suuday-to the Select Committee on the -. Also, petition of the New Ulm (Minn.) Maennerchor; of the Columbian Exposition. Davenport (Iowa) Claus Gratz Gilde; of the Holstein (Iowa) Also, petition of 254 citizens of Chicago, to open the World's Turner Verein; of the Waterloo (Ill.) Monroe Lodge, Daughters Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committ3e on the Columbian Ex of Hermann; of the Minneapolis Swiss Griibli Society; of the position. Beuter Gilde of Milwaukee, of the Singing Society Harmonie, Also, petition of over 200 guests of the Hotel Brevoort, Chicago, of Milwaukee; numbering thousands of signers, to open the and other United States cities, to open the World's Fair on Sun World's Fair on Sunday to enable the laboring people to par day-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. ticipate, etc.-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Expo Also, petition of laborers from Chicago, to open the World's , sition. Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Also, petition of citizens of Brooklyn, to open the World's position. Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Also, voluminous petition, signed on Labor Day, at Chicago, position. by thousands of laborersof that city, praying for legislation that Also, petition of 238 citizens of Chariton, Iowa, to open the will enable the World'sFair to open its gates on Sunday-to the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. - Also, petition of 155 citizens of Chicago, to open the World's Also, petition of the Tutern Maennerchor and Turner Verein Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian .. Vornaert of Chicago, numbering several hundred signers~ to Exposition. · open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Also, list of signers from the Palmer Hotel, of Chicago, em the Columbian Exposition. bracing several hundred com~rcial travelers, businessmen, and Also, petitions of New York City Bloomingdale Turner V ere in; other guests, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select of the New York City Melrose Turner Verein; of the Elgin(lll.) Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Turner Verein; of the Grand Crossing (Ill.) Turner Verein, and Also, voluminous petition of over 400 signers from Chicago, of the Jacksonville (Ill.) Turner Verein, numbering over one to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee thousand names, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the on the Columbian Exposition. Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, list of signers at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, em Also, petition of 25 citizens of Florida, to open the World's bracing over 300 travelers and guests, to open the World's Fair Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposi position. tion. Also, petition forwarded by J. C. Brown, esq., of Shenandoah, Also, petition of 56 citizens of Chicago, to open the World's Iowa, embracing nearly 500 names of business men, laborers, and Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex farmers of that section, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to posi'tion the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of several hundred citizens of Chicago, and com Also, petition of 145citizensofToledo,Iowa, to open the Worlds mercial travelers and others, guests of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee position. on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 101 citizens of Morrison, Ill., and Clinton, Also, patition of 300 citizens of Chicago, to open the World's Iowa, to open the World's Fair on Stmday-to the Select Com Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex mittee on the Columbian Exposition. position. Also, petition of 56 citizens of Chicago, to open the 'Vorld's Also, petition of several hundred workingmen, who make spe Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex cial plea for Sunday opening of theWorld 's Fair, with the promise position. of only six days' work by the employes of the Fair-to the Select Also, petition of the Turner V ere in, of Alton, Ill., Utica, N.Y., Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Chicago,Ill.,Yankton, S.Dak., NewUlm, Minn., Elizabeth, N.J., Also, petition of 55 citizens of Illinois, to open the World's Milwaukee, Wis., Newton, Kans., Manistee, Mich., Bern, Kans., Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Green Bay, Wis., Milwattkee, Wis., Madison, Wis., Topeka, position. Kans., Lawrence, Mass., to the number of tens of thousands of Also, petition embracing several hundred names of bankers, signers and members, praying that the World's Fair be not closed workingmen, and citizens of Chicago, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposi on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposi· .- tion. tion. XXIV-71 ; ._ 1122 OONGRESSIONAL REOOR_D-HOUSE. FEnRU.ARY 2, Also: petition of officers of various local assemblies, Knights of for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Labor of Chicago, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the tee on the Columbian Exposition. Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of E. 0. Bartlett and 56 others, of Joplin, Mo., Also, voluminous petition signed by travelers and guests at for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit the Palmer House, .Chicago, to open the World's Fair on Sun tee on the Columbian Exposition. day-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposit.ion. Also, petition of E. L. Paige and 45 others, of Chicago, Ill., Also, petition of 48 citizens of St. Louis, Mo., for opening the for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit World~s Fair on Sunday-to the SelectCommitteeon the Colum tee on the Columbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of H. A. Hohn and 13 others, o.f Chicago, Ill., Also, petition of 48 citizens of New Orleans, La., for opening for opening the World's Fai,r on Sunday-to the Select Commit the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the tee on the Columbian ExpoSition. Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of the employes of the Cottage Grove Manufac Also, petition of 180 citizens of South Omaha, Nebr., for open turing Company, of Chicagol Ill., all of whom are" God-fearing ing the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the and liberty-loving men," to open the World's Columbian Exposi Columbian Exposition. tion on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Also, petition of 52 citizens of Philadelphia, Pa., for opening position. the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Also, petition of 43 citizens of Newark, Ohio, for opening the Columbian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum- · Also, petition of 55 citizens of Clinton, Iowa, for opening the bian ExPosition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co Also, petition of 47 citizens of California, for opening the lumbian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum Also, petition of 48 citizens of Clinton, Ohio, for opening the bian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co Also, petition of 17 citizens of Stockton, Cal., for opening the lumbian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum Also, petition of 23 citizens of Oak Harbor, Ottawa County, bian Exposition. Ohio, for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com-· Also, petition of 51 citizens of Bellaire, Ohio, for opening the mittee on the Columbian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum Also, petition of 24 citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, for opening the bian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum Also, petition of 30 citizens of Columbus, Ohio, for opening the bian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum Also, petition of 9 citizens of Sandusky, Ohio, for opening the bian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum Also, petition of 40 citizens of Ohio, for opening the World's bian Exposition. Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Also, petition of A. D. Ferris and 53 others, of Chicago, ill., for position. opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of 50 citizens of Pennsylvania, for opening the on the Columbian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum Also, petition of George C. Stickney and 54 others, of Chicago, bian Exposition. Ill., for opening the World's Fairon Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of H. Montgomery and others, of Creston, Iowa, mittee on the Columbian Exposition. for opening the World'sFair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of Charles R. Clow and 56 others, of Chicago, on the Columbian Exposition. Ill., for opening the World's Fair. on Sunday-to the Select Com Also, petition of H. L. Jackson and others, of Sioux City, Iowa, mittee on the Columbian Exposition. for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of Emil Wolf and 53 others, of Chicago, ill., for tee on the Columbian Exposition. opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of the Organized Wage-Workers of Dubuque, on the Columbian Exposition. Iowa, for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Also, petition of R. Oberhauser and 55 others, of Peoria, Ill., Committee on the Columbian Exposition. - for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of Patrick Williams and 61 others, ol Humboldt tee on the Columbian Exposition. County, Iowa, for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Also, petition of J. G. Bain and 30 others, of Chicago, ill., for Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Also, petition of 52 citizens of Western Hotel, Grand Rapids, on the Columbian Exposition. - Mich., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Also, petition of M. J. Reilly and 33 others, of Chicago, Ill., Committee on the Columbian Exposition. for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of 27 citizens of Iowa, for opening the World's tee on the Columbian Exposition. Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Also, petition of John Bahnsen and 56 others, of Chicago, Ill., position. for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of 111 citizens of Iowa, for opening the World's tee on the Columbian Exposition. Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Also, petition ofF. D. Bailey, of Columbus, Ohio, and 56 others, position. of Ohio and other places, for opening the World's Fair on Sun Also, petition of 51 citizens of New Orleans, La., for opening day-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co Also~ petition of H. W. Weihe and 54 others, of Chicago, Ill., lumbian Exposition. for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to tho Select Commit Also, petition of 52 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the tee on the Columbian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committ2e on the Colum Also, petition of G. P. Black and 55 others, of Chicago, Ill., bian Exposition. for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of George G. Gill and 60 others, of Wetmore, tee on the Columbian Exposition. Kans., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Also, petition of L. E. Brooks and 33 others, of Chicago, Ill., Committee on the Columbian Exposition. for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of 107 citizens of Iowa, for opening the World:s tee on the Columbian Exposition. Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Also, petition of D. C. Dixon and 54 others, of Chicago, Ill., position. for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the SelectCommit- Also, petition of W. H. Forrest and 48 others, of Mineral, Ill., tee on the Columbian Exposition. . for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of W. P. Whiting and 56 others, of Chicago, Ill., tee on the Columbian Exposition. for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of 110 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening tee on the Columbian Exposition. the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Also, petition of R. J. McGuire and 56 others, of Chicago, Ill., Columbian Exposition. for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of Samuel Barry and 115 others, of Millersburg, tee on the Columbian Exposition . . Dauphin County, Pa., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday Also, petition of F. Salamon and 56 others, oi Chicago, Ill., to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Also, petition of 14 citizens of Wisconsin, for opening the tee on the Columbian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum Also, petition of F. C. Wilson & Co. and 48 others, of Chicago, bian Exposition. TIL, for opening the World's Fait· on Sunday-to the Select Also, petition of 14 citizens of Sioux City, Iowa, for opening the Committee on the Columbian Exposition. World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co· Also, petition of J. F. Hatch and 55 others, of Chicago, Ill., lumbian Exposition. · ·. ., 1893. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1123 Also, petition of 33 citizens of Chicagot lll., for opening the Also, petition of 36 citizens of Lakeside, Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the SelectCommittee on theColum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum blan Exposition. bian E~position. Also, petition of H. E. Taylor and 37 others, for opening the Also, petition of 50 citizens of Lima, Ohio, to open the Wodd's World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex- . bian Exposition. position. · Also, petition of several hundred citizens of Michigan, and Also, petition of 52 citizens of Akron, Ohio, to open the World's commercial travelers from various cities, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian position. Exposition. Also, petition of 84 citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, to open the Also, petition of 90 citizens of Marquette, Mich., to open the \Vorld's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co lumbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, voluminous petition embracing hundreds of signatures Also, voluminous petitions from Niles and Three Rivers, Mich., of workingmen and citizens of Chicago, praying for the opening to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee of the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the on the Columbian Exposition. ' Columbian Exposition. . Also, petitions of 115 citizens of Burt and Clayton, Mich., to Also, petition of 56 citizens of Rapid City, lll., to open the open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co.. the Columbian Exposition. . lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of llOcitizens of Oshtemo and Menominee, Mich., Also, petition of 52 citizens of Buffalo Grove, Ill., to opan the to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co on the Columbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Alsot petition of 100 citizens of Allegan and Eolland, Mich., to Also, petition of 160 names from Quincy and Canton, Ill.. to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. the Columbian Exposition. Also, petitionof80citizens of Mount Pleasant and Kalamazoo, Also. petition of 52 citizens of Bloomington, Ill., to open the Mich., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co mittee on the Columbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also,Jpetitiouof70citizensof Mason, Mich., to open the World's Also, petition of a large number of commercial travelers of Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian various cities of the United States, to open the World's Fair on Exposition. . Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 100 citizens of Adrian and Saginaw, Mich., Also, petition of 37 citizens of Spring Valley, Ill., to open the to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee World's Fair on S\.mday-to theSelectCommitteeon the Colum on the Columbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition oi several hundred citizens of Detroit, Mich., to Also, petition of 121 citizensof Arlington Heights, Ill., to open open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co the Columbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 110 citizens of Jackson, Mich., to open the Also, petition of 47 citizens of Edwardsville, Ill., to open the World's Fair onSunday-totheSelectCotnmitteeon the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the SelectCommitteeon the Colum bian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 104: citizens of Niles and Bay City, Mich., to Also, petition of 59 persons, forwarded by the rector of Christ's open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Church, Howard, Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Columbian Exposition. the Select Committee on the Columbian E~position. Also, petition of 120 citizens of South Haven and Dexter, Also, petition of 129 names from Joliet, Ill., to open the World's Mich., to open the World's Fair on Sunda.v-to the Select Com Fair on Stmday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex mittee on the Columbian Exposition. position. Also, petition of 110 citizens of Greenville and Battle Creek, Also, petition or 76 citizens of Effingham, Ill., to open the Mich., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com World's Fair on Sunday-t) the Select Committea on the Co mittee on the Columbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 160 citizens of Copac and Grand Rapids, Also, petition of 56 citizens of Genoa, Ill., to open the World's Mich., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian mittee on the Columbian Exposition. Exposition. Also, petition of 100 citizens of Michigan cities and commercial Also, petition of 100 citizens of Springfield and Joliet, Ill., to travelers, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Committee on the Columbian Exposition. the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 100 citizens of Niles, Whitehall, and Mon Also, petition of 54. citizens of Huntsville, Ohio~ to opep. the tague, Mich., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co Committee on the Columbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, large petitions of citizens of Lucas and Saginaw, Mich., Also, petition of 55 citizens of Fithian, Ill., to open the World's to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex on the Columbian Exposition. position. Also, petition of 100 citizens of Canton, Miss., to open the Also, voluminous petition from Lansing, Ill., to open the World's Fairon Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co bian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 52 citizens of Illinois, to open the World's Also, petition embracing several hundred names from San Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex dusky, Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select position. Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 42 citizens of St. Johns, Mich., to open the Also, petition, numerously signed, of citizens of Flint, Mich., World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee bian Exposition. on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 50 citizens of Lodi, Ohio, to open the World's Also, petition of 52 citizens of Tiffin, Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex position. position. Also, petition of 55 citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, to open the Also, large petition, embracing bankers, business men, and World's Fair on Sunday-to theSelectCommittee on the Colum workingmen of Peoria, Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sun bian Exposition. day-to the Select Committee on the Columbian·Exposition. Also, petition of 35 citizens of Little Sandusky, Ohio, to open Also, petition of 150 citizens o1 Joliet and Galesburg, ill., to the World'a Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on Columbian Exposition. the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 52 citizens of Ohio City, Ohio, to open the Also, petition of 52 citizens of Columbus, Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co lumbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of Rev. M. Kenk and 52 others, of Reedtown, Also, petition of 56 citizens of Franklin, Ohio, to open the Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com World's Fair on Stmday-to the Select Committee on the CQ mittee on the Columbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. ., -:;._- .J .· / ' . 1124 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRU.AEY 2, Also, petition largely signed from Cincinnati, of citizens and Also, petition of Rev. E. D. Jacobs and congregation, of Bryan, of commercial travelers from several cities of the United States, Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee mittee on the Columbian Exposition. on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of J. W. Patton and 58 others, of Chicago, Ill., Also, petition of50citizenso!Dayton, Ohio, to open the World's for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex tee on the Columbian Exposition. position. Also, petition of J. F. Hech and 54 others, of Chicago, Ill., for Also, petition of 52 citizens of Greenup, Ill., to open the opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee c;m the Co the Columbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of W. J. Rudd and 56 others, of Chicago, Ill., for Also, petition of several hundred citizens of Cincinnati, Ohio, opening the World's F~ir on Sunday-to the Select Committee to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colun:fbian Exposition. on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 54 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, -petition of 52 citizens" of Detroit, Mich., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-t<> the Select Committee on the Co· bian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 53 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition o! 52 citizens of Fostoria, Ill., to open the World s Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co bian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 54: citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition, with 55 signers, of citizens of Columbus, Ohio, World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum and travelers from other cities, to open the World's Fair on Sun bian Exposition. day-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Als~, petition of 53 citizens of Chicago,.Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 53 citizens of Fremont, Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co bian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 35 citizens of Chicago, I1l., for opeuing the Also, petition of 52 employes of the Elm wood (Ill.) paper mills, World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee bian Exposition. on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 53 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 50 citizens of Cairo, Ill., to open the World's World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex bian Exposition. position. Also, -petition of 48 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 92 citizens of Teutopolis, Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co bian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 33 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 52 citizens of Elmwood, IlL, to open the World ·s Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co bian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 54 citizens of Chlcago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 100 citizens of Rock Island and Springfield, World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Commit- bian Exposition. tee on the·Columbian Exposition. ' Ah;o, petition of 56 citizen of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 55 citizens of Jacksonville, Ill., to open the World's Fair on Sundav-tothe Select Committee on the Colum- World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co bian Exposition. w . lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 28 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 105 names from Toledo, Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum bian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 36 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 52 names from Bowling Green, Ohio, to open World's.Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on tbe Colum the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the bian Exposition. Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 56 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 52 citizens of Illinois cities, to open tb.e World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co bian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 52 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for op:ming the Also, petition of 53 citizens of Ohio, to open the World's Fair on World's Fair on Sunday-to the SelectCommitteeon the Colum Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposi bian Exposition. tion. Also, petition of 52 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petitiono!several hundred citizens of Cincinnati, Ohio, to World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on bian Exposition. the Columbian Exposition. . Also, petition of 55 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening ths Also, petition of 86 citizens of Toledo, Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sundav-to the Select Committee on the Colum- World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co- bian Exposition. ~ lumbian Exposition. · Also, petition of 54 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition forwarded from Cincinnati of 52 travelers and World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum citizens, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-ta the Select bian Exposition. Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 56 citizens of Chicag-o, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 52 names from Salem, Ohio, ta open the World's Fair on Stmday-to the SelectCommit~e on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-t<> the Select Committee on the Co bian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 26 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, voluminous petitions of several hundred names from World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co- Toledo, Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select lumbian Exposition. • Committee on the Columbian Exposition. Also, petition of 51 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for op:ming the Also, petition of 52 citizens of Lodi, Ohio, to open the World's World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex lumbian Exposition. position. Also, petition of 32 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 51 citizens of Frank, Ohio, to open the World's World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Ex lumbian Exposition. position. Also, petition of 54 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of citizens of Ohio, to open the World's Fair on World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposi lumbian Exposition. tion. Also, petition of 53 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 102 citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, to open the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co lumbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 23 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 161 citizens of Ohio, to open the World's Fair World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposi lumbian Exposition. tion. Also, petition of 49 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the ·' 1893. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1125 World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 46 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 51 citizens of Chicag-o, Ill., for opening the World's_Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Expo3ition. bian Exposition. Also, p8tition of47 citizens of St. Paul, Minn., for opening the Also, petition of 43 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian E xposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 34 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for openillg the Also, petition of 56 citizens of New York City, for opening the World's F air on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 49 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 49 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 46 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 12 citizens of Columbw'~, Ohio, for opening the World's F air on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Alw , petition of 61 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 52 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair onSunday--totheSelect Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum bian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 56 citizens of Ke.:1osha, Wis., for opening the Also, petition of 52 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's F air on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum- bian Exposition. bian Exposition. · Also, petition of 49 citizens of Oshkosh, Wis., for opening the Also, petition of 39 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to theSelectCommitteeon the Colum World's Fair on $unday-to the Select Committee on the Co bian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 56 citizens of Barlin, Wis., for opening the Also, petition of 65 citizens of Chicag-o, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the SelectCommitteeon the Colum World's Fair 0.::1 Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum bian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 56 citizens of Madison, Wis., for opening the Also, petition of 38 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to theSelectCommitteeon the Colum bian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 64 citizens of Kenosha, Wis., for opening the Also, petition of 37 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's F·air on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum bian EKpcsition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 48 citizens of Chicago, lll., for opening the Also, petition of 139 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum bian E xposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 56citizensof Sheboygan,Wis.,foropeningthe Also, petition of 43 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum bian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 51 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 56 citizens of Beloit, Wis., for opening the World's Fail' on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 35 citiz!3ns of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 85 citizens of Chicago, lll., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committeeon the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum bian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 14 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 49 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World~s Fair on Sunday-to th~ Select Committee on the Co- World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 34 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, patition of 63 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the 1 World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum- lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 55 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 49 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World'!! Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co lumbian Exposition. lumbian Exposition. Also, petition of 48 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opaning the Also, petition of 53 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World'sFair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 50 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 52 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 51 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 50 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 50 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 52 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co World's Fair onSunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 48 citizens of Chicago, lll., for opening the Also, petition of 17 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co· World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum lumbian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 47 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 29 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum bian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 50 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 48 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum bian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 50 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also,petition of 29 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-totheSelectCommittee on the Colum bian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 60 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 291 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum bian Exposition. bian Exposition. Also, petition of 49 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Also, petition of 55 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the • ..... 1126 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 2, .· World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum- By Mr. LOUD: Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of bian Exposition. . San Francisco, Cal., favoring the peaceful annexation of the Alsor petition of 54 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the Hawaiian Islands-to the Committee on Foreign Affaira. Worlds Fair on Sunday-to the Se:ectCommitteeon the Colum By Mr. McKINNEY: Petition of Horace Greeley Council, No. bian Exposition. 72, OrderofUnited American Mechanics, of Londonderry, favor Also, petition of 49 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the ing a restriction of immigration-to the Select Committee on World's Fair onSunday-tothe Select Committee on the Colum Immigration and Naturalization. · bian Exposition. By Mr. MORSE: Petition of the Republican Club of Massa Also, petition of 52 citizens of Chicago, Ill., for opening the chusetts, praying for the repeal of .the silver-purchase act of World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Colum July 14, 1890-to the Committee on Banking and Currancy. bian Exposition. Also, petition of Council No. 56, United American Mechanics, By Mr. F)NLOE: Petition of Andrew Jackson and 35 other of Bridgewater, Mass., for legislation restricting immigration citizens of McNary County, Tenn., in favor of the pure-food bill to the Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. MUTCHLER: 'l'wo petitions of the Order of United By Mr. GROUT: Memorial of Samuel Huntington, in the mat American Mechanics, one of Bath Council, No .17 4, and the other ter of Poseshae Howe, mother of Eugene Howe, of Company A, of Columbia Council, No. 13, both relative to unrestP'icted foreign Sixth Vermont Volunteers·, and to support House bill 9861-to immigration-to the Select Committee on Immigration and the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Naturalization. Also, memorial of deaf soldiers, sailors, and marines, of In By Mr. OHLIGER: Petition of John C. Dauber and others, dianapolis, Ind., ill favor of House bill 349-to the Committee on for suspension of silver purchases-to the Committee on Banking Invalid Pensions. and Currency. Also, resolutions of the New York Chamber of Commerce, in By Mr. O'NEILL of Pennsylvania: Petition of Council No.5 favor of the Cullom-pooling bill-to the Committee on Interstate of the Order of United American Mechanics, favoring the re and Foreign Commerce. striction of immigration generally, and especially prohibiting Also, re.... olution of the Rutland (Vt.) Board of Trade, favoring the immigration of the criminal classes of the Old World-to the a road department-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Post-Roads. By Mr. PATTERSON of Tennesseee: Petition of 10 citizens Also, resolutionsof the Republican Club of New York, for the of Memphis, Tenn., who favor the opening of the World's Co 4 repeal of the Sherman silver law-to theCommitt,eeonCoinage, lumbian Exposition on Sundays-to the Select Committee on Weights, and Measures. the Columbian Exposition. . Also, memorial of Boston Merchants, for the repeal of the Sher By Mr. PAYNE: Two petitions of citizens of New York, one man silver act-to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Meas of the Society for Political Education, of Auburn, N.Y., and the ures. other of Sherwood Lodge, No. 456, Independent Order of Good By Mr. HALL: Protest of the Chamber of Commerce of Min Templars (numbering 68 memb2rs), both asking for the passage neapolis, against the passage of the antioption bill-to the Com of House bill8369, giving women the right to vote for members mittee on Agriculture. of the House of Representatives-to the Committee on the Ju Also, memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of diciary. the enactment of a law providing for a national quarantine-to By Mr. PAYNTER (by request): Petition of Mrs. Rachel L. the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Drake, for the relief of her daughter, Rachel A. Gill-to the Also, petition of citizens of Olivia, Minn., in favor or opening Committee on Invalid Pensions. the World's Columbian Exposition on Sunday-to the Select By Mr. PEARSON: Three petitions of different councils of Committee on the Columbian Exposition. United American Mechanics, of Ohio, as follows: The petition Also, petition of citizens of Minnesota, favoring the opening of Council No. 86, at Powhatan Pointi of Council No. 62, at Bel of the World's Columbian Exposition on Sunday-to the Select mont, Belmont County, and of Council No. 59,locatedatSt.Clairs Committee on the Columbian Exposition. ville, in favor of restricting immigration-to the Select Com Also, three petitions of citizens of Renville County, Minn., all mittee on Immigration and Natura.lization. in favor of opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Also, two petitions of members of the Order of United Ameri Committee on the Columbian Exposition. can Mechanics, of Ohio, one of the Columbia Council, No. 77, Also, petition of citizens of Taylors Falls, Minn., against open of Hendrysburg, the other of Lexington Council No. 87, of ing the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Sherodsville, for restricting immigration-to the Select Com Columbian Exposition. mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. By Mr. HARMER: Two petitions of the United Order of By Mr, RANDALL: Resolution of the ·congregational Club, American Mechanics of Philadelphia, Pa., one of Kensington of Boston, against opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Council, No.9, the other of Reliance Council, No. 40, in favor of Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. By Mr. REYBURN: Two petitions of the Order of United restrictin~ foreign immigration-to the Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. American Mechanics of Philadelphia, Pa., one of Fredonia .Coun Also, petition of Liberty Council, No. 11, United American cil, No. 52, and the other of Valley Forge Council, No. 25, for Mechanics, of the cHy of Philadelphia, Pa., in favor of legisla re tricting immigration-to the Select Committee on Immigra tion restricting immigration-to the Select Committee on Im tion and Naturalization. migration and Naturalization. By 1\Ir. RICHARDSON: Papers in the matter of H. W. Hill, By Mr. HARTER: Resolutions of the board of health of Ash to accompany House bill10372-to the Committe on Invalid Pen land, Ohio, urging that the entire control of maritime quaran sions. tine be placed in the hands of the National Government-to the Also, petition of John P. Haskins, in behalf of a pension for Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Henry Washington Hill, of Bedford County, Tenn.-to the Com mittee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HOOKER of New York: Petition of E. W. Ross Coun By Mr. ROBINSON of Pennsylvania: Two resolutions of Pres cil, No. 37, Order United American Mechanics, of Jamestown, byterian churches of Pennsylvania, as f.ollows: The resolution of N. Y., asking for restriction of immigration-to the Select Com the First Presbyterian Church of Chester, and of Trinity Church, mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. of Berwyn, favoring Sunday closing of the .World's Fair-to the By :Mr. KRIBBS: Two petitions of councils of the Order of Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. United American Mechanics of Pennsylvania, one of Council Also, two petitions of members of the Order of United Amel·i No. 370, of West Monterey, the other of Council No. 392, of can Mechanics of Pennsylvania, one of Wayne Council, No. 27, Troutville, in favor of restricting immigration-to the Select of Phoenixville, the other of J. L. Pyle Council, No. 73, of John· Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. son's Corner, against unrestricted immigration-to the Select By Mr. LAYTON: Memorial of the members (200) of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. United Presbyterian Congregation of Huntsville, Ohio, against By Mr. SHIVELY: Petition of Joseph Baker for a removal the repeal of the law closing the World';; Fair on Sunday-to the of the charge of desertion-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition:. By Mr. SIPE: Memorial of four eeveral councils of the Junior By Mr. LIND: Resolutions adopted by the Agricultural So Order of American Mechanics of Pennsylvania, as follows: The ciety of Brown County, Minn., asking for Government owner memorial of Point Marion Council, No. 567, of Point Marion; ship of railroads, telegraphs, and telephones, and for the reduc of Meyer Council, No.166, of Meyer; of C. E. Boyle Council, No. tion of the tariff to a revenue basis, and for the repeal of int~r- 724, of Uniontown, and of Leisenring Council, No. 180, of Leis . nal-revenue taxation, and for the establishment of an income enring, praying for the passage of the bill known as the Chan tax, and for the repeal of all indirect taxation-to the Commit dler bill, regulating immigration-to the Select Committee on tee on Ways and Means. Immigration and Naturalization...... :.. . - .· 1893. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 1127 Also, memorial of Roscoe Council, No. 369, Junior Order of SENATE. ~merican Mech~nic~, pr~ying_ for the passage of a law restrict mg and regulating ImmigratiOn-to the Select Committee on FRIDAY, Febr'ttary 3, 1893. Immigration and Naturalization. · By Mr. SMITH of illinois: Petition of 23 citizens of Randolph The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m. County, ill., praying for a Congressional investigation of a com Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. bination existing between the millers, rai.lroads, and elevat<>rs The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. for the purpose of depressing the price of wheat-to the Com TRADE RELATIONS WITH CANADA. mittee on Agriculture. By Mr. STEVENS: Petition of Nancy E. Hardy, widow of The ~CE-PRESIDE~T laid before the Senate a message from George H. Hardy, late corporal of Company D, Twenty-first the President of the Umted States; which was read. Massachusetts Volunteers, for the relief of herself and chil [The message appears in the House proceedings of this day.] dren-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. SHERJ\fAN. I feel some doubt as to the committee or comll!ittees t~ which this very import!lnt message should b3 re "[3Y Mr. SPRINGE~: Pet.ition of the General Missionary Com mittee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ao-ainst the repeal of ferred. It evidently ~mbraces subjects-matter that would prop the law closing the World's Fair on Sunday~to the Select Com erly go to the Committee on Foreign R'3lations because it in mit tee on the Columbian Exposition. volve~ the questi?n whether c~rtain par2ographs ~f the treaty of By Mr. STEVENS: Petition of Lexington Council, No. 48, Washmgton a~'e m ~orca, and It also might very properly be re United American Mechanics, of Lowell, Mass., for a law tore ferred to the Comm1ttee on Commerce, or the Committee on In strict immigration-to the Select Committee on Immio-ration terstate Commerce. Mr. PLATT. Or the Select Committee on Relations with and Naturalization. "' Canada. By ~r. STqNE. of Kentucky: .Petition of Dr. Joel A. King and evidence m his property claim-to the Committee on War Mr: SHE~MAN. Or the special committee in regard to <>ur Claims. rc:latwns w1th Canada. But it dealswith commercial questions By Mr. STORER: Resolutions of the Commercial Club of Cin with commerce between the States and with foreign nations: cinnati, for the repeal of the Sherman act-to the Committee on It als? embraces financial questions of very great importance, Banking and Currency. that Is, .the effect upon the revenue of the present mode of the By Mr. SWEET: Four petitions of citizens of Idaho, as fol ~ra~sshipmept of goods th.rough the United States for Canada. lows: The petition of 38 citizens of Clarks Forks; of D. F. Cham ;::;o 1 thmk It would be difficult to make any reference of the -. berlain, S. T. Mitchell, T. C. Ingersoll, J. H. Adams, and 29 message~ any one c<;>mmittee. My suggestion is that themes others, of Idaho Falls; of J. W.Ayres, W. W. Green, George W. sage be prmted and he on the table, and in the mean time Sena Spencer, and 45 others, of the State of Idaho; and of Henrv A. tors who are connected with the committees I have named might Hade and :-!9 others, of Kootenai, to open the World's Fail- on e~amine it and see whether a reference could not be made of the Sunday-:-to the Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. different parts of the message to the appropriate committees. I suggest that it lie on the table and be printed for that purpose. Also, two p~ti~ions of citizens of !ranklin, Idaho, one of the Woman's Christian Temperance Umon, the other of citizens for Mr. CDLLOM. The last remark of the Senator from Ohio closing the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select C<>mmitt.ee answers the suggestion I was about to make. As he states the on the Columbian Exposition. message pertains to so many different phases of the general 'sub By Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR: Twenty memorials, signed by jec~ ti;at it would seem.differen~ committees ought to have jur Guy Johnson, of Toronto, Ohio, and 502 other American citizens ISd1Chon over parts of It. For mstance, take the discussion of mostly residents of the Eighteenth Congressional district of the treaty. The President has gone into that subject more thor Ohio,, setting forth the evils of unrestricted immigration, and oughly perhaps than anyone has ever done before, either a Pres praymg Congress to amend laws to prohibit immigration for ident ~r anybody else: It r.eally seems to me t~at the Judiciary Committee ought to mvestigate that feature with a view to en one yea:, ~xcept~ng vi~itors to the World's Fair, and to appoint a commlSsion to mvestigate and report upon the evils of immi abling Congress to come to a definite conclusion as to whether gration-to the Select Committee on Immigration and N aturaliza the twenty-ninth article of the treaty is in force unless we are tion. ready to take the conclusion at which the Preside~ t of the United Also, resolutions of the board of health of the villao-e of Con States himself has arrived. ~ordt M~kingum County, Ohio, ~n favor of the suspension of Then there is a large part of the messao·e devoted to a discus 1mm1grat10n-to the Select Committee on Immio-ration and Na- sion of the matters pertaining to comm~rce between tJJ.is and turalization. "' foreign nations which could very properly go to the Committee BY_ Mr. TO.WNSEND: Resolution of t~e Denver and Arapaho on Interstate Commerce or to the Committee on Commerce I Me~10al So01ety, held at J?enver, qolo., mfavorofnationalquar should say, or possibly the select committee of which the Se~a antlne under the control of the UDlted States Marine Corps-to tor from Massachusetts [Mr. HOAR] is a member thouo-h not Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce now the chairman, the Committee on Relations with Can'ada. . By Mr. WASHINGTON: Resolu~ion of the B~thel congrega However, I really think the last suggestion of the Sen a tor from tiOn of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Monto-omerv Ohio, that after the message has been printed the different sub County, Tenn., ag~inst opening the World's Fair on Sunday-to jects ~iscussed in it shall be divided up and allow each proper the Select Comm1ttee on the Columbian Exposition. committee to have charge of the subject which the committee By Mr. WEVER: Petition of 13 people of Franklin County ought to have, is probably the wisest course to be pursued. N.Y., asking for an appropriation by Congress for defraying Mr. MANDERSON. As it is very evident from the character expenses of the Pan-American Medical Congress-to the Com of this document that there will be an immediate demand for mittee on Appropriations. quita a number by constituents and we can certainly print several thousand extra copies under the rule, I move that 2 000 addi By Mr. W~LLIAMS of ~assachus~tts: Petition of Plymouth Rock Council, No. 37, Umted AmeriCan Mechanics of South tional copies be printed at once for the use of the Senate. That FraminghaiD:, Mass., for a law to restrict imm1gration-to the would give over 20 copies for each Senator. Select Comm1ttee on Immigration and Naturalization. Mr. C_ITLLOM. Could we not go beyond that number? I think By Mr. WISE: Petition of the Chamber of Commerce of Rich there will be a very great demand for the message. It is a little mond, Va., in favor of the repeal of the act of Congress com too long for newspapers to publish ordinarily. I suo-gest to the monly known as the Sherman a-et, requirino- the Government to chairman of the Committee on Printino- to make th; number as purchase 4,500,000 ounces of silver per mo~th-to the Commit large as we can go without the passag; of a concurrent resolu tee on Banking and Currency. tion. By Mr. \VOLVERTON: Two petitions of members of the Mr. MANDERSON. Undoubtedly we can print 5,000 copies United American Mechanics: of Pennsylvania, one of Council No. under the rule. I move, then, that 5,000 additional copies be 150, at Central, the other of Council No. 146, at Bloomsburg in printed. favor of restricting immigration-to the Select Committee' on The VICE-P~ESIDENT. The message will be printed with Immigration and Naturalization. the acCOJ?lpany;ng- fu>cuments, ~nd _5,000 extra copies will be or Also, three petitions of citizens of Pennsylvania, one of An dered prmted, if there be no obJectiOn. The Chair hears none drew Dottery and others, the second of W. H. HiP"ht and others and it is so ordered. The message will lie on the table for th~ and the third of W. Bingaman and others, all i;favor of legis: present. lation restricting immigration-to the Select Committee on Im PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. migration and Naturalization. The VICE-PRESIDENT presented the petition o! S. S. Daisle By Mr. WRIGHT: Memorial of C. A. Haines and 28 others of & So~, of Washington, D. C., praying that an asphalt pavement Le Boy, Pa., and vicinity, in favor of restricting immigratio~ be laid from the Aqueduct bridg~ to Arlington, Va.; which was to the Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. referred to the Committee on the Di.3trict of Columbia.