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By Mr. SAWYER: Of 80 citizens of the thirty~:fi.rst district of New Itition of Sibley, Lindsay & Carr and 28 other firms, importers ~t Roeh· York. · · ester, N. Y., praying for the passage of the bill to amend the immediate. By Mr. SKL..~NER: Of 240 citizens of the :first district of North transportation act; which were referred totheCommitteeonCommerce. Carolina. Mr. TELLER presented the petition of Mrs. Anne Lucas, praying By Mr. STRAIT: Of 325 citizens of the fifth district of .Minnesota. to be reimbursed for a draft payable to her improperly paid by the By Mr. J. T. WHITE: Of 239 citizens of the third district of C<>n· Treasury to another person; which w~ referred to the Committee on necticut. · Finance. By Mr. MILO WHITE: Petition of the Women's Christian Temper- He also presented the petition ofWollf & Brown, praying payment ance Union, of Caledonia and of Eyota, Minn., favoring the educational for horses pressed into the service of the United States by CoL Thomas bill. .Moonlight in 1885 at Denver, Colo.; which was referred to the Com· mittee on Military Affairs. He also presented the petition of Mrs. l\{. A. Kretchmar, praying SENATE. compensation for board furnished to certain Cherokee Indians; which was referred to the Committee on Indians Affairs. l\IONDAY, Jan'ttary 17, 1887. He also presented the petition of John B. Wolff, attorney for the heirs of Capt. A. W. Hicks, praying that allowance be made to Captain Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. Hicks as messenger to tb.e l\filitary Committee of the House of Repre· The Journal of theproceedingsof Friday last was read and appro\ed. sentatives, Forty-fifth Congress, extra session; which was refeued to EXECUTIVE CO~UNICATIONS. the Committee on Claims. He also presented the petition of John B. Wolff, praying that a pen The PRESIDENT pro tempOTe laid before the Senate a communica- sion be granted to the heh:s of Capt A. W. Hicks; which was referred . tion from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the to the Committee on Pensions. Secretary of the Interior, submitting an estimate of an appropriation Mr. MORRILL presented the petition of James Cava.nagh, late of of $1,000 to pay Shirley C. Ward, special counsel of the mission In Company B, First Regiment of Vermont Cavalry, praying to be granted dians in California; which, with the accompanying papers, was, on arrears of pension; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. motion of l\Ir. DAWES, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, l\Ir. PALMER presented the petition of W.l\I. Holton and 37 other and ordered to be printed. residcmts of Dearborn, Mich., praying for legislation at the present ses Ho :1.lso laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary sion of Congress to increase the rate of pension of those who have lost es- of War; transmitting, in reply to a resolution of January 11, 1887, both arms in the military or ~al service of the United States; which - timates of chiefs of bureaus of that Department for the contingent ex was referred to the Committee on Pensions. penses of the bureaus for the :fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, which, He also presented the memorial of the Michigan Annual Conference with tbeaccompanyingpapers, was, on motion of Mr. l\IoRGAN, referred of the l\Iethodist Episcopal Church, remon_strating against needless to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Sunday work in Government service and the running of railroad trains He also laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary on the Sabbath; which was· referred to the Committee on Post-Offices of the Navy, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of January 11, and Post-Roads. 1887, estima.tes for the contingent fund of each bureau in that Depart He also presented a petition of the 1\Iichigan Annual Conference of ment; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Com the M:ethodist Episcopal Church, praying for the enactment of a law mittee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. for the protection of the Chinese and for the passage of the Chinese in· 1IO'G'SE DILLS REFERRED. demnity bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Rela The following bills, received on Friday last from the House of Rep tions. resentatives, were severally read twice by their titles, and referred to Mr. FRYE. I present resolutions of the Legislature of the State of the Committee on the Judiciary: l\Iaine. I ask that they be read and then referred to the Committee A bill (H. R. 2441) to amend sections 1, 2, 3, and 10 of "An act to on Commerce. determine the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States The resolutions were read, and referred to the Committee on Com· and to regulate the removal of causes from State courts, and for other merce, as follows: purposes," approved March 3, 1875; and [State of Maine. Resolves in opposition to the Dunn free-ship bill.] Whereas the bill now pending before Congress providing for the admission of A bill (H. R. 6974) to provide for the bringing of suits against the foreign-built ships to an American register is iuimical to one of the leading in Governmentofthe United Statee. dustries of our State, and threatens to destroy a. constant and lucrative source of employment for our labor: Therefore, _ · CONSULAR REPORTS ON TRADE GUILDS OF EUROPE. Eesol'!Jed by Ule senate ana house of representati.'t!U of the Bta.te of Maine in Legis· lature assembled, That the enactment of the Dunn free-ship bill, so-called, would The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the following be a cruel and fatal blow to the prosperity of our American merchant marine. concurrent resolution from the House of Representatives; which was Resol11ed, That as ship-building is a. national interest, affecting the material read, and referred to the Committee on Printing: prosperity of our whole country, as we have the capital, materials, brains, and skill to build our own vessels, that il!l a. suicidal policy that would now drive Resolved by the House of Repruen.tativu (the Senate concurring), That there be skilled labor into other and untried avenues of employment, discouraging the printed, with pamphlet covers, 7,000 copies of the volumes of reports from the investment of American capital in American enterprises, aud make this great consuls of the United Stat-es on the trade guilds of Europe and the laws and nation a. weak dependant upon foreign labor and capital, liable at any moment regulations by which they are governed, published by the Department of State to assume a hostile attitude. in the year 1885; 5,000 copies of which shall be for the use of the House of Rep Eesoltved, That this effort to legislate a great American fntere.qt out of exist resentativ~, and 2,000 copies for the use of the Senate. ence, this abandonment of the wise policy of our fathers, is as unpatriotic as it is unnecessary. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. Eesol11ed, That the secretary of state be, and is hereby, directed to forward an authenticated copy of the foregoing resolutions to the President of the Senate The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented a petition of the Legislative and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, with o. Assembly of Arizona Territory praying for an increase of clerical force request that the same be laid before their respective bodies. for the Assembly; which was referred to the Committee on Appropria- l::f HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, January 13,1887. tions. · Read and passed finally. He also presented the petition of Kauffman, Lattimer & Co., of C. E. LITTLEFIELD, Speaker. Columbus, Ohio, praying for the repeal of in~-revenue taxes; Dr SIDTATE, January li, 1887. which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Read and passed finally. Mr. CULLOM presentedresolutionsadopted bytheSangamonCounty SEBASTIAN S. 1\!A.RBLE, President. Fine Stock Breeders' Association, at Springfield, Ill., urging the neces JANUARY 15,1887. Approved. sity of legislation for the suppression of contagious diseases among cat .JOSEPH R. BODWELL, Go1:emor. tle; which were referred to the CommitteeonAgricultureandForestry. A true copy. Attest: He :1.lso J?resented the petition of William F. Parker and 219 other ORA.MANDAL SMITH citizens of Streator, Til., praying for a change in the present system of Secretary of State. • collecting the revenues of the Government by means of import duties Mr. COKE. I present a petition signed by many citizens, merchants, and the internal revenue system, and that the burden of taxation be and importeJ"S of the city of Galveston, stating that from the mouth of placed upon property; which was referred to the Committee on Finance. the Mississippi on the east to the mouth of the Rio Grande on the west, He also presented the petition of Chamberlin, Johnson & Co. and 12 including the coast line of Texas and Louisiana, within which is com other firms, importers at Atlanta, Ga.; the petition of the Shepard & prised nearly 20 per cent. of the whole coastoftheUnitedStates, there Morse Lumber Company and 9 other firms, importers at Burlington, is not a single ship, vessel, or cutter in commission or flying the flag of V t. ; the petition of A. C. Hutchinson, general manager of the Southern the United States; that the revenue-cutter McLane, which has hitherto Pacific Company, and 8 other firms, importers at New Orleans, La.; been in service in those waters, was in August last inspected and con the petition ofT. A. Chapman & Co. and 15 other firms, importers at demned as unseaworthy, and has been taken North to be sold; and ~hat l't1.ilwaukee, Wis.; the petition of R. Ballerstein & Co. and 26 other the steamer Dix, now lying at New Orleans, was ordered to be rep::nred firms, importers at Hartford, Conn.; the petition of Louis Cohen & Co. andtake the place of the McLane, but now, after inspection, it trans· ~md 3 other firms, importers at Charleston, S.C.; the petition of Hodges pires that she is not worth repairing. Brothers and 42 other firms, importers at Baltimore, Md.; and the pe- In view of the contiguity to Mexico and the necessity for thesuppres- 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 711 sion of smuggling and for the control of these waters, and in order to fully and earnestly pmy and petition Congress to pass said bill at the prevent the introduction of contagious diseases, the" petitioners ask an earliest possible date. appropriation for the purpose of constructing a steamer for the reYe- "In thus representing and petitioning we attempt to speak for the nne department properly adapted in size, strength, and draught to great mass of our race who are not alive to tlreir interests in this mat thoroughly patrol the Gulf and its bays and estuaries. ter, and who, moreover, in many places are unable to formulate their I move the reference of the petition to the Committee on Appropria- wishes. tions. "We beg leavo to submit briefly the following as a few reasons for The motion was agreed to. onr thus petitioning: Mr. McMILLAN presented the petition of Noyes Brothers & Cutter, "The comparative moral and intellectual backwardness of our race wholesale merchants of Saint Paul, Minn., praying that internal taxes is, from well known causes, so great thm the ordinary process of de maybe reduced as rapidly as the state of the Treasury will permit; velopment would be too slow in preparing it for responsible citizen which was·referred to the Committee on Finance. ship. Extraordinary steps, therefore, are necessary for, at least, a few Mr. VEST presented the petition of the Saint Louis (Mo.) Lead and years in order to place us in a condition to stand alone. Oil Company, praying for a repeal of all legislation creating internal- "These facts have been long recognized by a large class of patriotic revenue taxes; which was referred to the Committee on Finance.- and philanthropic citizens who have in a private way aided us by the He also presented the petition of Mary A. Baker, of Sivan, Mo., establishment of schools, churches, and colleges. But these efforts, praying for a pension, she being the widow of a deceased soldier; which while a great blessing as far as they go, are inadequate to the need;. was referred to the Committee on Pensiqns. and, at the present rate, it will be many years before fairly informed Mr. PAYNE presented the memorial of .J. C. Lockwood and other educat01's can be prepared for every community. citizens of Milan, Ohio, remonsl:irating against the erection of a second "Even were there no such special emergency as we represent, un bridge over the Sainte 1\IarieRiver; which was refe.rredtotheCommit- der onrexistingschool systems, funds areinadequatetoprovide school tee on Commerce. houses, furniture, and teachers' salaries. This fact, coupled with onr Mr. GIBSON. I present the petition of Finlay & Brunswig, whole- more than ordinary need, remlers the demand for some special aid the sale druggists, signed by G. R. Finlay, who is a member of the Na- more imperative. tional Wholesale Druggists' Association, praying for a reduction of in- "We believe the general dissemination of intelligence among the ternal taxes. I move the reference of the petition to the Committee mass ofourwhite fellow citizens (as designed in the Blair bill} would on Finance. greatly better onr treatment at their hands, go far towards solving the The motion was ~o-reed to. existing race problem, and in other ways indirectly be of benefit to us.'' Mr. COCKRELL. I present a petition for the repeal of the internal- The petitio~ is respectfully submitted by ''The Students' Confer- revenue taxes, signed by F. M. Sterrett, secretary of the Dr. Harter ence," composed of the students of Fisk University, Roger Williams Medical College, of Saint Louis, Mo.; also, .a petition of citizens of University, and Central Tennessee College. .J. B. Batte, president of Wayne County, Missouri, praying for the reduction ofinte:rnal-revenue the conference; R. C. Edmondson, secretary of the same. . taxes. They seem to be printed petitions and in stereotyped form I have set this matter forth in the language of the petitione~ and -the same. I move their reference to the Committee on Finance. at a little farther length than is usual, because these students represent The motion was agreed to. those of the colored race who are now receiving the benefits of higher Mr. MORGAN presented the petition of Capt. Tim Meaher, of education; they are the leaders of the coming generation of the colored Mobile, Ala., praying permission of Congress to build a coal and iron people; they come from all parmoftheconntry, and especially from all wha.rf near .Mobile, .Ala., on the Alabama Rive1: ; which was referred parts of the South; and the reasons which they thus set forth, it seems to the Committee on Commerce. to me, are entitled to consideration. Mr. PLUMB presented a petition of cattle growers and dealers of .Although the bill has passed the Senate, I thus draw public attention Doniphan County, Kansas, and a petition of the Short-Horn Breeders' to the matter, in the hope that, through the RECORD,~t may reach a Association of Johnson County, Kansas, praying for the passage of what body somewhere else. I move that the petition lie on the table. is known as the Miller bill for the snppression of pleuro--pneumonia ; The motion was agreed to. which were referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Mr. SABIN presented resolutions adopted by the chamber of com- 1\ir. VANCE presented the petition of James Taylor, of North Caro- merce of Saint Paul, Minn., favoring the passage of a national bankrupt lina., praying to be permitted to pay for and receive title to certain law and anamendmentofthecnstomslawsj which were referred to the public lands in that State; which was referred to the Committee on Committee on the Judiciary. Public Lands. , _ Mr. BUTLER presented a petition of citizens of South Carolina, pray- Mr. SPOONER presented a petition of the executive committee of ing that an appropriation be made for the deepening of Winyale Bay the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars, State of bar; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. Wisconsin, praying for the passage of the bill (S. 1579) granting to the He also presented a petition of citizens of the District of Columbia, people of the District of Columbia the right to determine by ballot praying for a system of filtration of the water supply of the District of whether intoxicating liquors may hereafter be legally manufactured Columbia; which was referred to the Committee on the District of Co and sold therein; which was referred to the Committee on the District lumbia. o:f Columbia. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Mr. INGALLS presented the petition of Messrs. McPike & Fox, 1\Ir. SAWYER, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, wholesale
CENTENNIAL CONSTITUTIONAL CELEBRATION. at a cheaper rate,~rhaps, than by any other line of transport-ation Ur. IIOAR. I report from the Select Committee on the Centennial ·which can be suggested anywhere in the United States. oftheConstitutionand the Discovery of America, a resolutionfor which Therefore, believing that this work will be done, knowing that it has 1 ask present consideration, if there be no objection. been detained' merely to await the completion of the Muscle Shoals The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Massachusetts, Canal, in which Alabama has an interest, but not a very large interest from the select committee referred to by him, submits a resolution, believing that Congress will now proceed to commence this work~ I wl1ich will be read. very much desire that it shall be so continued as that wasteful extrava The Chief Clerk read the resolution,· as follows: gance shall not attend the completion of this very important public Resolcecl, That it is expedient that the centennial anniversary of the inaugu improvement. ration of the Constitution be celebrated in April, 1889, by an address to be de I move the reference of the bill to the Committee on Commerce. livered before the President of the United States and the two Houses of Con The motion was agreed to. · . greRS by th~ Chief Justice of the United States, to which the representatives of foreign governments shall be invited, and tbll.t the occasion be further cele 1\Ir. CA.LL introduced a bill (S. 3153) to amend section {414 of the brated by suitable civic or military observances, the detail of which shall be Revised Statutes providing a salary for inspector!:! of hulls and boilers eettled hereaft~r. in the district of Apalachicola, Fla.; which was read twice by its The resolution was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to. title, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. .M:r. COCKRELL. In pursuance of the request of constitutents, a BILLS INTRODUCED. number of whom are interested in the matter, I introduce a bill. . Ur. VEST introduced a bill (S. 3143) granting a pension to Mary A. The bill (S. 3154) authorizil;sg the construction of a high-level bridge Baker; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Commit over the Mississippi River at Saint Louis; Mo., was read twice by its tee on Pensions. title, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. VANCE introduced a bill (S. 3144) for the relief of James Tay~ Mr. HOAR introduced a bill (S. 3155) for the relief of I. W. lor; which was read twice by its title, and, with the a~companying pa Ambler; which was read twi~ by its title, and referred to the Com pers, referred to the Committee on Public Lands. mittee on Pensions. Mr. McMILLAN (by Tequest) introduced a bill (S. 3145) for there He also introduced a bill (S. 3156) for the relief of I. W . .Ambler; lief of Anna W. Osborne; which was read twice by-it.s title, and, with which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on the accompanying paper, Teferred to the Committee on Military Affairs: Pensions. Mr. BLAIR introduced a biil (R. 3146) granting a pension to John Mr. WALTHALL introduced a bill (S. 3157) to authorize the removal W. Reynolds; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the of the Quarantine station from Ship Island, Mississippi; which was read Committee on Pensions. twice by its title. · Mr. FAIR introduced a bill (S. 3147} to establish range-lights on or Mr. WALTHALL. Iaskthatthebill, with theaccompanyingpapers, near the north training wal1, Oakland Harbor, California; which was be referred to the Committee on Commerce. These papersarea memo read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. rial from the board of supervisors of Harrison County, Mississippi, .Mr. PALMER introduced a bill (S. 3148) granting a pension to praying for the removal of this quarantine station, and a special report George W. Strattan; which was read twice by its title, and referred to on the snbject from the Surgeon-General dated the 8th instant. I de the Committee on Pensions. sire to cn.ll the attention of the committee to the tact that the Surgeon Mr. MAHONE introduced a bill (S. 3149) to construct a road to the General has repeatedly reported that the quarantine station is too near Poplar Grove National Cemetery, near Petersburg, Va.; which was read the shore and dangerous to the people on the mainland. twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Milit..1.ry Affairs. Mr. HARRIS. I am inclined to think that the bill ought to go to He also introduced a bill (S. 3150) granting right of way and other the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, which has had control heretofore privileges to the Hampton and Old Point Railroad Company; wh1ch of all quarantine matters. was_ read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Military fJ'he PHESIDENT pro tempo1·e. The Senator from Tennes."'ee moves Affairs. that the bill be referred to the Committee on Epidemic Diseases. Mr. BERRY introduced a bill (S. 3151} for the relief of Levander Mr. HAaRIS. However, if the Senator from Mississippi dtsires to Jenkins; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Coin have it referred to the Committee on Commerce, I shall not test the m i ttee on Claims. sense of the Senate on the question. Mr. MOHGAN introduced a bill (S. 3152) to provide for opening the Mr. WALTHALL. . I am entirely willing to have it go to t.he Com shoals and rapids in the Coosa River, so as to form a continuous chan mittee on Epidemic Diseases, but I thought the other was the appro nel for steam navigation from Wetumpka, Ala., to Rome, Ga.; which priate committee. was read twice by its title. The PRESIDENT pro tempo1·e. The bill will be referred to the Co~ Mr. MORGAN. Mr. President, before the bill is referred I desire mittee on Epidemic Diseases. to call the attention of the Committee on Commerce to it for a mo Mr. PLUMB introduced a bill (S. 3158) to provide for the holding -ment. of the· district court of the United States at Salina, Kans.; which was They will find in the reports of the engineers a very full and accurate read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on the Jndiciacy. estimate of the work that is necessary to be done to accomplish the He also introduced a bill (S. 3159) to grant to the Chicago, ·Fort purpose that the bill is designed to accomplish. Those estimates run Scott, and Texas Railroad Company a right of way through the Indhin up to a sum between $1~500,UOO and $1,700,000. The precise :figures Territory, and for other purposes; which was read twice by its title, I am not prepared to state at this moment. The work is of great im and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. portance as I esteem it, both national and Sta.te, and I shall be very Mr. ALLISON introduced a bill (S. 3160) to authorize the construc glad if the committee will take it into consideration. tion and maintenance of a brid~e by the Chicago, Saint Paul, Min neap ' lt is somewhat a departure from the ordinary procedure in Congress, lis and Omaha Railway Company across the Missouri River at Sioux I grant; but my object is that the Government, having ascertained what City, Iowa, and for other purposes; which was read twice by its title, is a proper sum for the entire work, should make an appropriation of and referred to the Committee on Commerce. that sum of money, to be drawn out or the Treasury upon the warrant AMENDMENTS TO BILLS. of the Secretary of War in annual installments of such amounts as may Mr. GIBSON submitted two amendments to be proposed by him. to be needed for the continual progress of the work. My purpose is to the sundry civil appropriation bill; which were referred to the Commit try to avoid in this necessary expenditure, which I think the Senate tee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. and the Congres..c:; will not refuse to make, that wasteful extravagance which has resulted from making such works to depend annually upon MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. tho fluctuating ideas of Congress as to how much money shall be ap A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. CLARK, its propriated in a particular year. Clerk, announced that the House bad passed the following bills: The history of appropriations for public works bas been one of great A bill (S. 165) for the relief of William H. Gray, of Kentucky; extravagance because of the fact that different Congresses have differed A bill (S. 250) for the relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the in their opinions as to th.e necessity of pushing the work continuously. United Sta.tes steamer Ashuelot; . In this way there has been a great waste of material as well as of time ' A bill (S. 391) for the relief of A. A. Thomas; and money. . A bill (S. 1642) granting a pension to William F. Harmon; I desire by this bill to try to obviate this troable in regard to this A bill (S. 1654) granting a pension to Joseph Mays; very important improvement.. I can not entertain a doubt that the A bill (S. 2167) granting a pen ion to Mrs. Margaret Dunlap; Congress of the United States will open communication between the nav A bill (S. 2388) granting a pension to Alonzo Raymond;· igable waters of the Upper Coosa Rivet· and those of the Alabama River, A bill (S. 2420) granting a pension to Sidney Denton; which is formed by the junction of the Coosn, and the Tallapoosa Ri_vers A bill (S. 2459) granting a pension to Eliza Wilkins; just below Wetumpka, and thereby bring into commerce the vast re A b1ll (S. 2478) granting a pension to John Wines; and sources of that conntrv in iron and coal. A bill (S. 2730) granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth S. de . This water-way leads right almost by the mouth of the mines, and Krafft; • · · on the bank of the Coosa River above Gadsden there are very large The message also announced that the House insisted upon its amend deposits of Iich hematite iron. which C3.n be brought to the sea-board ment to the bill (S. 10) to amend an net entitled "An act, to amend aud earried into domestic and foreign commerce over this water-course section 5352 of the ReYised Statutes of the United States in reference CONGRESSIONAL RECORD~ENATE. 713 to bigamy, and for other purposes," approved MarrJ122, 1882, agreed A bill (H. R. 9863) granting a pension to Mary McCoy; and to the conference asked by the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the A. bill (H. R. 10152) granting a pension to Ellen M Sturtevant. . two Houses thereon, and had appointed Mr. TUCKER, Mr. CoLLINS, The above twelve pension bills received from the House of Rep· and Mr. EzRA B. TAYLOR managers at the conferenca on ita part. resentatives this day were severally read by their titles, and referred The message further announced that the House had concurred in the to the Committee on Pensions. amendment of the Senat.e to the bill (H. R. 4.688) granting a pension COUNTING OF ELECTORAL VOTI!;S. to Josephine Da Costa Thomas. The message also announced that the House had passed the following Ur. HOAR submitted the following report: bills with amendments; in which it requested the concurrence of the Tho committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on Senate: the amendment-s of the House to the bill (S. 9) to lix the day for the meeting o! the electors of President and Vice-President, and to provide for and regulate A. bill (S. 542) for the relief of William Ervin; and ~he counting of the votes for President and Vice-President, and the. decision.o! A. bill (S. 2699) granting a pension to Sarah E. Norton. questions arising thereon, having mett. after full and free conlerence have agreed to recom wend and do recommena to their respective Houses as follows: PAPEJlS WITHDRAWN AND REFERRED. That the Senate agree to the amendments of the House numbered 1 and 2. That the &nate agree to the amendment of the House numbered 3, with a.n On motion of Mr. HOAR, it was nmendment, to wit: On page 3,line 30, insert in the sentence proposed by the Ordered, That the petition of I. W. Ambler and the accompanying papers be House to be inserted in the bill, after the word "been," and before the word withdrawn from the files of the Senate, and referred to the Committee on Pen "certified," the word "lawfully;" and that the Hoose a,ooree to the same. sions. '.rhat the Senate agree to the amendment of the House numbered 4, with an amendment, to wit: In lieu of the words stricken out by the House insert the On motion of Mr. WILSON, of Iowa, it was following: . " but the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes Ordered., That the pa}>ers in the case of Ut·s. Mary A. Foster be withdrawn when thE>y agree that such vote or votes have not beeu so regularly given by from the files of lhe Senate, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. electors whoso appointment has been so certified;" and that the House agree to the same. CONFERE.NCE REP0RTS. That the Senate agree to the amendment of the House numbered 5, with an nmendment, to wit: In lieu of the words proposed to be stricken out and to be Mr. EDl\IUNDS submitted the following resolution; which was rc· in~erted, insert as follows: "the two Houses shall concurrently decide were cast by ln.wful elet'tors appointed in accordR.nce with the laws of the Statte, unless !erred to the Committee on Rules: the two Houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide such votts not to Resoll;cd, That the following be a. sta!lding l'U'e of the Sen:1le: be the lawful votes of the legal1y appointed electors of such State. But if the two Houses shall di&~gree in respect of the counting of such votes, then, and in RULE-. that case, the votes of the electors whose appointment shall have been certified Wben a. report of a. committee of conference agreeing with the Hoose con by the executive of the State, onder the seal thereof, shall be counted;" and ferees shR.ll have been made and be under con:~ideration, the first question that the House agree to the same. thereon shall be, Will the Senate R.gree to the ~arne? If such report shall not GEO. F. HOAR, be agreed to, or if a. disagreement be reported, the matter shall stand in the GEO F. EDMUNDS, same way a.s if no conference hnd been had thereon, and be proceeded with ac JAl\fES L. PUGH, cordingly. lf a. conference shall be asked or agreed to by the Senate, it shall be Managers on the part of the Be1w.le. in order to instruct the Senate conferee-; as it shall to the Senate seem meet. ANDREW J. CALDWELL, FOX .A.YD WISCON~IY RIVER IMPT.OVEMENT. JOHN R. EDEN, W. C. 'COOPER, Mr. SAWYER submitted the foJlowing resolution; which was con Managers on the part of lhe I1ousc. sidered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: Ur. CONGER. I should like io ask the Senator from Massachusetts Resolved, That tbe Attorney-General is hereby instructed to investigate tho judgments and awards against the United States arising under an act of Con if this bill has been printed as it will stand if the re(iort be agreed to. gress entitled "An act to aid in the improvement of the Fox and \Visconsin Mr. HOAR. The conference report is printed in the Holise proce'ed· ltiv'ers in the State of 'Visconsin," approved 1\Iarch 3.1875, and to report to iugs. I am not aware that the bill was printed in that way by order the SenR.te whether the liability of the United State3 therefor is established, of the other House. and what amonnt is due thereon, for which appropriation has not already been made. Mr. CONGER. Does it appear in yesterday's RECORD in the House IN:rERIOR DEPART31EYT CO.NTINGE...~T EXPEXSES. proceedings of Saturday? Mr. HOAR. Yes, sir. Mr. MORGAN submitted the following resolution; which was con- Mr. CONGER. It will not take much time to have it printed in bill sidered by unanimous consent, .and agreed to: · form as it will stand when the conference report is agreed to. .. · 'Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior is directed to send to the Senate the de~ailed it~ms on which he ba.sPd his estimates for the contingent expenses Mr. HOAR. I will let it go over until to-morrow if the Senate pre· of the Interil r Department for the fisCR.l yearendmgJune 30. 1~. and that he fers. Btate the item:! of such estimates that are r equired for e<.tch bure~u in said De Mr. CONGER. I should like _to see it printed as proposed to be pn.rtment. changed. . ' ,, DISTRICT LIQUOR LICE...~SES. Mr. HOAR. I suggest, then, that this matter go over until to-mor Mr. PLUMB submitted the following resolution; which was consid row, and that, in the meim time, the bill be printed, under the direction ered by unanimous "consent, and "agreed to: of the Secretary, as it will read if the conference report be adopted, show· Resolred., That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in answering ing the difterences made by the Honse amendments and by" the con the resolution of the Senate of January 14, 1887, be directed to furnish informa. ference report if adopted. iion a.s to the number of·plnces where- liquors are sold without license, and to give the reasons why such places ure not sup)Jressed. . l\lr. CONGER. That will be satisfactory. The PRESIDENT pro te-mpore. If there be no objection, the report ORDER OF BUSINESS. of the conference committee as it stands, showing the changes, will be The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there are no further concurrent printed. · or other resolutions the morning busine:os is closed, and the Calendar Mr. HARRIS. Will the bill be printed as bills reported from com is in order. mittees; that is, showing what the Senate bill was, what was · stricken Mr. SAWYER. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration ont by the House, and what is inserted by the conference? of private pension bills on the Calendar. Mr. HOAR That is my suggestion. . Mr. HOAR. If the Senator from Wisconsin will pardon me, I desire The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair so understands-in the to make a conference report. I suppose it will be in order to make it same manner that the interstate-commerce bill was recently pl'inted as after the Senator's motion shall be agreed to. proposed to be changed by the conference. , . " .Mr. SAWYEI:{. Then why not let my motion be put? Ur. HARlUS. That is what I desired to propose. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Massachusetts FORT BERTHOLD RESERVATION. submits a conference report which is in the natnre of a privileged ques tion. la, the mean time the motion of the Senator from Wisconsin is The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the foll'lwing pending. message from the President of the United States; which was rea-d, and, PENSION BILLS. with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed: .A. me-sage from the House of Representatives, by Mr. CLARK, its To the Senate and House of Representatives: Clerk, announced that the House had passed the following bills; in I tmnsmit herewith a. communiCR.tion of the 11th instant from the Secretary which it requested the concurrence of the Senate: of'the Interior, submitting, with accompanying paper!'!, a. copy of an agreement A bill (H. R. 5629) granting a pension to Thomas G. Polley; duly mR.de under the provisions of the act of May l5,1886 (24 Statutes, p. 44), with the ftH.Iians residing upon the Fort Berthold reservation in Dakota, for the ces A bill (H. R. 7504) granting a pension to Larkin Delph; sion of a portion of their reservation in said Territory,and for other purposes. A bill (H. H. 7983)" gmnting a pension to Mrs. Anna Schier; The agreement, together with the recommendations of the Department, is pre A bill (H. R 8384) for the relief of Mahala Brown; sented for the action of Congress. A bill (H. R. 8067) to pension Andrew J. Vanorder; GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MA-NSION, January 17,1887. A bill (H. R. 9009) granting a pensiOn to Mrs. Susan E. Barry· A bill (H. R. 9025) for the relief of .Mrs. Sophia Sprain, widow: and PRIVATE PENSION BILLS. t.wo minor children of Louis F. Spmin; The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. A bill (H. H. 9157) granting a p The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Wisconsin moves Cavalry, alleges he contracted rhelliilatism from exposures a.t Cumberland, Md., on or about May 8, laM. that the Senate proceed to the consideration of private pension bills on The Pension Office rejected the claim on the gronnd that there is no record ot the Calendar in their order, under the eighth rule. rheumatism, and declared inability of claimant to furnish testimony of an officer Mr. HARRIS. As a motion, certainly that would be out of order. or surgeon to existence of same in service. if to all The records show that the claimant was admitted to division hospital, Sandy It will have to be done by unanimous consent it applies the pen Hook, Md., April 29,1864, and returned to duty May 22, 1864. No records of this sion bills. A motion would be in order in respect to any one of them. regiment on file between April 16 and November1 1864. Claimant was trans I rose, howe~er, to suggest whether it would not be better policy to ferred to Company E, First Regiment Pennsylvama Volunteers, and was with tha t company and regiment at time of contracting disability. take up the Calendar under the eighth rule and run on through it as Jacob F. Myers and Isaac L. Sutton, members of Company E, First Pennsyl rapidly as we may, devoting to it this short time that is allowed, which vania Cavalry, testify that claimant contracted rhenmatism from exposures at amonnts to about an hour of the" morning. Ifwe devote it to the con Cumberland, Md., in May, 1864. Sutt<>n says that he tented with claimant, sideration of the cases on the Calendar under the eighth rule we can h elped to carry him from tent to an ambulance to take him to a. hospital. John 1\I. S. Bishop, another com rae!_~ also testifies that claimant contracted rheuma very soon get through the whole Calendar. I shall not interpose an ob tism in the arms and legs in may, 186i, at Cumberland, Md., and was lame and jection if unanimous consent is asked to take up this class of cases, but sick and sent to hospital. I give notice that I will object hereafter to taking out bills upon the Dr. J. S. Johnson testifies that be treated claimant for rheumatism in 1866· said disease disabled him one-half for manual labor; and also that he was a Calendar until we have gone through the Calendar and given every one sound man at enlistment, as is also testified to by several neighbors. an opportunity to have his bill considered. Dr. S.M. Osmun testifies that he treated claimant in 1869 for rheumatism, also in 1882 and 1883, when claimant was badly disabled from rheumatism, it being Mr. SAWYER. There are not a great many private pension bills, of a chronic nature. and they will only take a short time. When we strike into the Calen Several persons testify that claimant bas been fully disabled one-half since his dar we do not progress. There are only a few of these bills and I de ret urn from the service and is a. constant sufferer from rheumatism, affecting hlm in left arm and hlp and in his limbs at times; sometimes so badJy that he sire that we go on with them. is unable to do any work at all, and oft-entimes so that he is unable to perform Mr. HARRIS. I shall not interpose an objection. any continuous labor. - Mr. GEORGE. When does the unfinished business come up? Dr. James Ramsey testifies: "I being Mr. Garis's attending pl1ysician, have attended him for the last two The PRESIDENT pro tempore. At 2 o'clock. years. The a-pplicant has had frequent attacks of inflammatory rheumatism; The Senator from Wisconsin asks the unanimous consent of the Sen duration of disease from one month to three; the winter of 1885 an attack of ate to proceed to the consideration of private pension bills on the Cal three months. My deceased uncle, Dr. S.M. Osmun, was his attendant for sev enteen years previous to my attending him. I see by his books that he had the endar in their order, under the eighth rule. The Chair hears no objec same ailment during his attendance." tion. The board of surgeons at Easton, Pa., examined the claimant May 14,1884, ABEL J. LEWIS. and rate.d his disability one-half. This claim is possessed of great merit, and your committee recommend the Mr. SAWYER. I nsk in the first place that Order of Business 908, passage of the bill, amending the title, and in line 6 strikin?, out one of the let· being the bill (H. R. 6381) granting a pension to Abel J. Lewis, be in lers '' r" in the word " Garris," so that the same shall read • Aaron Garis." definitely postponed. The pension has been granted at the Pension The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to Office. a third xeading, read the third time, and passed. The bill was indefinitely postponed. JAMES R. BAYLOR. JOSHUA L. MORRIS. The bill (H. R. 6825) granting a pension to James R. Baylor, was The bill (H. R. 5599) granting a pension to Joshua L. Morris was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of James R. Baylor, late a. private in Company pension-roll the name of Joshua L. Morris, late of Company H, Third F, Fiftieth RegimentNew York Engineers. Missouri State :Militia Cavalry. - The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. a third reading, read the third time, and passed. WILLIAM: LYNCH. JAMES CARLIN. The bill (H. R. 6132) granting a pension to William Lynch, was con The bill (H. R. 6314) to increase the pension of James Carlin was sidered as in Committee ofthe Whole. It proposes to place on the considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to increase the pension-roll the name of William Lynch, late a private in Company E, pension of James Carlin, late a private in Company I: Third Regiment Fifth Regiment United States Infantry. Vermont Volunteers, and now on the pension-roll, to $40 a month. The bill.was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. a third reading, read the third time, and passed. ALEXANDER FALCONER. J AMES M1GLEN. The bill (H. R. 6443) granting a pension to Alexander Falconer was The bill (H. R. 8474) granting a pension to James ~IcGlen was con considered as in Committeeofthe Whole. It proposes to place on the sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Alexander Falconer, late a sergeant of Com- pension-roll the name of James McGien, late a private in Company I, pany E, First United States Infantry. . One hundred and thirty-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers. · The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. a third reading, read the third time, and passed. JOHN MILLER. CYRA L. WESTON. The bill (H. R. 8836) granting a pension to John Miller was consid The bill (H. R. 8310) granfutg a pension to Cyra.L. Weston ~as con ered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pen sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the. sion-roll the name of John Miller, late of Company A, Thirty-ejghth pension-roll the name ofCyra L. Weston, {lependent father of William Regiment New York Volunteers. L. Weston, late a private in Company B, Twenty-sixth Massachuset1s The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to Volunteers. a third reading, read the third time, and passed. . The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to . HARRY M'ELIIINNY. a third reading, read the third time, and passed. The bill (H. R. 429) granting a pension to Harry McElhinny was JESSE CAMPBELL. considered as in Committeeofthe Whole. Itproposestoplaceon the pen The bill (H. R. 8150) granting a pension to Jesse Campbell was con sion-roll the name of Harry McElhinny, late of Company C, One hun sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the dred and second Illinois Volunteers. pension-roll the name of Jesse Campbell, late of Company C, Eighteenth The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. a third reading, read the third time, and passed. ' The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to JAMES LONG. a third reading, read the third time, and passed. The bill (H. R. 7796) granting a pension to James Long was con AARON GARIS. sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of James Long, lateofCompoanyD, Ninety-third The bill (H. R. 8830) granting a pension to Aaron Garis was con Regiment of Ohio Infantry Volunteers. _ sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to pension-roll the name of Aaron Garis, late of Company C, Twentieth a third reading, read the third time, and passed. Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry. ])fr. COCKRELL. Let the report be read. HANN AH C. DE WITT. The Chief Clerk read the following report, submitted by Mr. BLAm The bill (S. 2293) granting a pension to Hannah C. De Witt was July 27, 1886: considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the T he Com mittee on P ensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R . 8830) grant pension-roll the name of Hannah C. De Witt, mother of George E. De ing a peosjon to Aaron Garis, have exa mined the sam.e, and report: ' Vitt, late a private in the Seventh Battery :Maine Artillery, who died '£he facts in thls case are sufficiently detailed in the accompanying r ep ort of in said service November 9, 1864. the Ilouse Committee on Invalid Pensions (House Report No. 2589), which we adopt, and recommend the passage of the bill : The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered The soldier, late a priva te of Company 0, Twentieth Regiment Pennsylvania. to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. MARY H. C.A.SLli.:R. The Secretary read the following report, submitted by Mr. SEWELL . The bill (S. 2532) for the relief of Mrs. :M:. R. Casfer was considered July 31, 1886: 'as in Committee of the Whole. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. B. 6817) grant ing a pension to Thomas Brown, have examined the same, and report as follows: The Committee on Pensions reported the bill with an amendment, From an examination of the papers the committee find that claimant was a in line 6, before the name "Casler," to strike out "Mrs. :M:. R.'' and member of Company D, Thirty-first Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, and was insert "Mary H.;" so as to make the bill read: in the service as a teamster. He claims pension through injuries to his left foot and ankle by being thrown from a wagon while in the line of duty, in driv· Be il enacted, de._. That the Secretary of the Interior be, nnd he is hereby, au ing from Capitol Hill to Camp Warren, District of Columbia. thorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and '.rhe claim was rejected on the ground that there is no evidence on record limitations of the pension laws, the name of 1\Iary H. Casler, widow of M. R. showing disabilities from varicose veins in the sen-ice. Casler, late captain of the One hundred and twenty-first Regiment New York The committee find the testimony largely in favor of claimant, as the follow· Volunteers. ing extracts from the report in this case, made by the House Committee on In· The amendment was agreed to. _ valid Pensions, will show: · " William Parker and Thomas Hoppock, two comra The Secretary read the following report, submitted by Mr. SAWYER sion-roll the name of Cud bert Stone, late a private in Company H, Janua1·y 11, 1887: . · Fourteenth Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S: 2252) grantinoo The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to a. pension to Susan A. Duncan, have examined the same, and report: ... a third reading, read the third time, and passed. The claimant, Susan A. Duncan. is the widow ot Leroy C. Duncan, captain of Company 1\I, Fortieth Enrolled Missouri 1\liliUa, who died at Warrensburg, MRS. REBECCA A. CRAW. Mo., 1\Iay 18, 1865, of wounds received on the 7th of the same month, at Kings ville, Johnson Count.y, 1\Iis.'louri, while in an engngement with ·" bushwhack Mr. SAWYER. The next pension bill on the Calendar, the bill (S. ers." Theclaim was rejected by the Pension Ollice, as stated by the Commis 2161) to increase the pension of 1\Irs. Rebecca A. Craw, was reported sioner in his letter to the Senate Committee on Pen ions, on the ground that "it was not prosecuted to a successful issue prior to July 4, 1874." adversely. It appears by the report of the Adjutant-General that the soldier wa.s mus Mr. COCKRELL. Why not have it indefinitely postponed? tered into service as captain of Company D, Johnson County, Missouri, Horse Mr. SAWYER. I was going to move that. Guards, Twenty-seventh Regiment Mount~d Troops, to date from July 4, 1861; mustered out January 27, 1862; that he was corumissioned captain Fortieth En Mr. COCKRELL. I move that it be indefinitely postponed, and I rolled Militia. October 30, 1802; wa.'l detached for active service as captain Com ask for the reading of the report. pany B ;' Fifth Pro>isional Enrolled Militia., May 23, 1863. It was while con Mr. SAWYER. I intended to have that bill postponed indefinitely nected with this organization that he received his death wound, according to the testimony of his comrade Henry C. Ross, who was wounded at the same when I reported it, but I forgot to make the motion at that time. time. It is shown by the report of the Third Auditor that the regiments to 1\Ir. COCKRELL. Let the report be read to show the grounds of it. which be belonged were" employed in the military service of the United States, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report will be read, though· and the State paid for the above sen,ice. and has been reimbursed hy the United Slates.'' · In another report fi'Om the Third Auditor it is stated that the widow this, being adversely reported, is not, within the role, under considera filed a claim for his pa.y which wns paid. · · . tion. From tho proof con tamed1 in the papers accompanying this case, it is apparent Mr. COCKRELL. Let the report be read. that the husband was in the service of the United States and that he died from wounds received in action. '.rhe bill is reported favorably, with the recommen The Secretary read the following report, submitted by :Mr. SAWYER, dation that it do pass. -January 11, 1887: The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2161) granting an increase of pension to Rebecca A. Craw, have examined the same, and re be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. port: ELIZABETH RICE. The petitioner is the widow of Lafayette Craw, private, Company G, One hun dred and eleventh Regiment New York Volunteers. She was pensioned March . The bill (S. 2216) for the relief of Mrs. Elizabeth Rice was consid 4,1867,nt therateof$8 per month, and is now receiving $l2permonth. She now ered. as in Committee of the Whole. It provides for placing on the asks increase to S30 per month by special enactment, on account of the death of her son, who was a. member of the same regiment in which his father served, pension-roll the name of Mrs. Elizabeth Rice, of Canandaigua, Mich. and who died not long after his father was killed, of disease alleged to have been The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to contracted in the service. There is no law under which two pensions can be be engrossed for a third reading, 1·ead the third time, and pa.c;sed. granted to a. dependent relative, nor is the committee a.wa.re of any precedent for this by the passage of a special bill. MRS. M. E. WOODS. '.rhe widow bases her claim upon her necessities, a.nd petitions for S30 per month. The committee have no reason to doubt the accuracy of her statements, The bill (S. 2997) granting a pension to Mrs. M. E. Woods was con but the wisdom of increasing pensions by special law, except in very extraordi sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the nary cases. is very greatly mjstrusted. In the present instance there is no ap pension-roll the name of Mrs. M. E. Woods, of Fairfield, Iowa, who parentjustilication for the increase demanded. Your committee therefore report the bill with a. recommendation that it do served as a hospital norse and sanitary agent from 1862 to the close of not pass, and request to be discharged from its further consideration. the war of the rebellion, at the rate of $25 a. month. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to The PRESIDENT pro te1npore. If there be no objection the bill be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. will be postponed indefinitely. The Chair hears no objection. G. W. FRALEY. EQUALIZATIONS OF PENSIONS. · The bill (H. R. 929) granting a pension to G. W. Fraley was con The bill (S. 217 4) to equalize the pensions paid to soldiers and sailors sidered as in Committee of the Whole. 1 t proposes to place on the pen who become totally disabled was announced as next in order on me sion-roll the name of G. W. Fraley, late a primte in Company C, For- Calendar. · tieth Regiment Kentucky Volunteers. · · The PRESIDENT pro tempore. This not being a private bill, it The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to does not come under the order for to-day,' unless by unanimous consent. a third reading, read the third time, and passed. lllr. COCKRELL. Go to the next. . :M. 8. CLAY. MRS. HENRIETTA 1\1, DRUM HUNT. The bill (H. R. 4103) granting a pens~on to M.S. Clay was considered The bill (H. R. 8869) granting a pension to Mrs. Henrietta ?tf. Drum as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension Hunt was announced as next in order. roll the name of M. S. Clay, of Bates County, Missouri, late a member .M:r. BLAIR. Let that be passed over without prejudice. ·The of Company A, Twenty-second Illinois Infantry, and aJso a membe1· of Senator in charge of it is out. Company E of the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be passed over with~ The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to out prejudice. a third reading, read the third time, and passed. FREDERICK ROBERTSON. JOSEPH F. KIRKHART. The bill (H. R. 1860) granting a pension to Frederick Robertson was The bill (H. R. 9167) granting a pension to Joseph F. Kirkhart was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the considered as in Committee ot the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the narue of Frederick Robertson, late an assistant surgeon pension-roll the name of Joseph F. Kirkhart, late a private in Com in the United States Army. pany E, One hundred and seventeenth Oh,io Volunteers, second lieu The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to tenant of Company D, Fourth Independent Battalion Ohio Volunteers, a third reading, read the third time, and passed. · and first lieutenant of Company A, Thirteenth Ohio Cavalry. MARY E. HEDRICK. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to The bill (H. R. 8623) granting a pension to Mary E. Hedrick was a. third reading, read the third time, and passed. considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the LUCINDA BARRETT. pension-roll thenameofMary E. Hedrick, widow of Thomas H. Hedrick, The bill (H. R. 356) granting a pension to Lucinda Barrett was con late captain of Company K, Fifteenth Iowa Volunteers. sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pen The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to sion-roll the name of Lucinda Barrett, widow of Thomas S. Barrett, a third reading, read the third time, and passed. deceased, late a private in Company M of the Sixth Regiment Illinois JOSIAH MAHONEY. Cavalry. The bill (H. R. 42G5) granting a pension to Josiah Mahoney was The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to considered as in Committee of the Whole. It provides for placing on a. third reading, read the thll-d time, and passed. the pension-roll the name of Josiah .Mahoney, late second lieutenant of FRANKLIN SWEET. Company D, Eighth Tenne...~ee Cavalry. The bill (H. R. 7540) to increase the pension of Franklin Sweet was The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to increase the a third reading, rt>ad the third time, and passed. pension of Franklin Sweet, late captain of Company E, Sixty-second The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The order of the Senate has been Uegiment of Penn ylvania Volunteers, to the rate to which he would executed, and now the Calendar is in order. - have been entitled had his muster as a captain been made prior to the PENSION APPROPRIATION BILL. date of the incurring of the disability for which be was pensioned. Mr. ALLISON. I move that the Senate proceed to the considera The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to tion of House bill10397, being the pension appropriation bill. a third reading, read the third time~ and passed. · The motion was agreed to: and the Senate, as in Committee of the CUDBERT STO:SE. Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (H. R. 10397) making appropria The bill (H. R. 927) grantin~ a pension to Cu The bill was reported from the Committee on Appropriations with as now authorized and provided by law, $131,500; for additional pay to such offi· cers far length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay,$42,960; in an amendment, in line 40, after the word "Treasury," to insert the all, 8174.460. . . words "where practicable;" so as to make the clause .read: . The amendment was agreed to. And the Secretary of the Treasury, where practicable, shall cause suitable .rooms to be set apart in the public buildings under his control in ciLies where The next amendment was, in line 64, after the word "dollars," to pension ag-encies are locatt'd, which shall be acceptable to the Secretary of t.he insert "in all, $196, 100;" so as to make the clause read: Interior, for the use and occupancy of the said agencies respectively. Quartermaster's Department: For pay of the officers in the Quartermaster'S' The amoodment was agreed to. Department, as now authorized and provided by law, SH6,500; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly Mr. COCKl~ELL. I should like to ask the- Senator from Iowa if pay, $49,600; in a.ll, 1196,100. there is any change made in regard to the fees of examining surgeons or is the law of last session repealed? . The amendment was agreed to. !-Ir. ALLISON. This is the same as the law of the last session ex The next amendment was, in line 71, after the word "dollars," to capt that the amount of appropriation ''for f.ees and expenses of exam insert "in all, $101,100 ;"so as to make the.clause read: iningsurgeons" is increased from $821,000 to $1,000,000, and the words Subsistence Department: For the pay of the officers in the Subsistence De-. 11 partment, as now authorized and provided by law, 579,500; for additional pay 1or services rendered within the fiscal year lASS" are inserted; those to such officp.rs for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, words have not been in the bills heretofore, the o~ject being to keep S21,600; in a.ll, $101,100. each fiscal year by itself. It has got to be a habit of the Department The amendment was agreed to. . to allow these expenditures to lap over from one year to another. The next amendment was, in 1ine 78, after the word "dollars," to Mr. President, I move, in line 39, to strike out "fifteen" and insert insert "in all, $535,500 ;" so as to make the clause 1·ead: "twenty;" so as to read: Medical Depart.ment: For the pay of the officers in the Medical Department, For rents, $20,0000. as now authorized and provided by la\V, $426,700; for additional pay to such offi The House of Representatives undoubtedly bad in view the substi cers for length of service, to be paid with their cur!ent monthly pay, $108,800; tution of Governml1Jt buildings for buildings now rented by pension in all, $535,500. agents. The Committee on Appropriations have carefully examined The amenllment was agreed t.o. that question and find, on a report made by the Secretary of the Treas The next amendment; was, in line 85, after the word "dollars," to ury , that it is not practicable to put pension agents in any public insert ''in all, $164,250;" so as to make the clause read: building now completed. There is a pension agency at Concord, N. Pay Department: For the pay of the officers in the Pay Department, as now authorized and provided by law. $126,500; for additional pay to such officers for· H., another at Augusta, Me., and another at Columbus, Ohio, and it length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $37,750; in all, js probable that the pension agents can be provided for when the public $164,250. buildings now under construction are completed, but none of these The amendment was agreed to. buildin~s are complet~d, and it is not probable that they will be The next amendment was, inline 92, after the word "dollars," to within the fiscal year. insert "in all, $34,000;" so as to ~ake the clause read: Mr. COCKUELL. How is it at Topeka, Kans.? Judge-Advocate-General's Department: For the pay of the officers in the Mr. ALLISON. My impression is that that building is not com Judge-Advocate-General's Department, as now authorized and provided by pleted. law. m,ooo; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Mr. COCKRELL. 1 think so, too~ and that is the reason I asked with their current monthly pay, $7,000; in all, $34,000. the question. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. ALLISON. So that for the next fiscal year, at leastJ the com The next amendment was, in line 101, after the word "cents," to mittee are of opinion that it will not be practicable to reduce the insert "in all, $1,190,313. 75-;" so as to make the clause read: amount paid for rents. For pay of officers on the retired-list, and for officers who may be placed The amendment was agreed to. thereon during the current year, $918,544.65; for additional pay to such otth:ers The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $271,769.10; in moots were concurred in. all, $1,190,313.75. The amendments were ordered to be engrossed, and the bill to be The amendment was agreed to. read a third time. The next amendment was, under the head of " miscellaneous," in The bill was read the third time, and passed. 1ine 109, before the word "contract surgeons," to insert "not exceed ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL. ing sixty-five;" in line 110, before the word " hospital matrons," to insert ''not exceeding one hundred and sixty;" and in line 111, before Mr. .ALLISON. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration the words " veterinary surgeons," to insert "not exceeding fourteen;" ()f the bill (H. R. 1024:l), being the Army appropriation bill. so as to make ·the clause read: The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the For pay of not exceeding sixty-five contract surgeons, not exceeding one hun· Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (H. R. 10242) making appropri dred and sixty hospital matrons, and not exceeding fourteen veterinary sur· ations for the-support of the Armyf\:;r the fiscal year ending June 30, geons; in all, $102,875.94. 1&)8, and for other purposes. The amendment was agreed to. .Mr. ALLISON. I a~k unanimous consent that the formal reading The next amendment was, in line 114, before the words "paymasters' of the bill be dispensed witht and that the amendments of the Com clerks," to insert "forty-six;" in line 115. before the words '• pay mas· mittee on Appropriations be considered as the regular reading pro ters' messeng~rs," t.o insert "thirty;" and in line 117, after the word gre es, and the committee amendments first considered. "all," to strike out ''eighty-eight" and insert" eighty-three;" so as The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair hears no objection to that to make the clause read: suggestion. For pay of forty-six paymasters' clerks, atS1,400eacb; thirty paymasters' D:le& The Secretary proceeded to read the bill. The bill was reported from Pengers, and traveling expenses of paymasters' clerks; in all, $83.800: Pmvirled, That the maximum sum to be allowed paym&.'"lters' clerks when traveling on the Committee on Appropriations with amendments. duty shall be 4 cents per mile, and, in addition thereto, when transportation The first amt>ndment was in the appropriations •· for pay of. the gen can not be furnished by the Quarterma.'!ter's Department, the cost of same eral staff,'' in line 3-!, after the word ''dollars,'' to insert '' in all $65,- actually paid by them, exclusive of sleeping or parlor car-fare and transfers. 500;" so as to make the clause read: The amendment was a~reed to. Adjutant-General's Department: For pay of the officers in the Adjutant.-Gen The next amendment was, after line 126, to insert: eral's Depa.rtmeut, as now authorized and provided by law, $49,500; for addi For pay of one clerk for the General of the Army on the retired-list, $1,600. tional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $16,000; in all, $65,500. The amendment was agreed to. The amendment was .agreed to. The next amendment was, after line 128, to insert: The next amendment was, in line 41, after the word ''dollars," to For additional pay to the officer commanding the military prison at Leaven insert "in all, $29,500;" so as to make the clause read: worth, Kans., $1.000. Inspector-General's Department: For pay of the officers in the Inspector The amendment was agreed to. General's Department, as now authorized and provided by law, $23,500; for The next amendment was, in line 141, before the word "traveling," additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be p aid with their cur rent monthly pay, $6,000; in all, $29 ,500. to strike out "when;" and after the word "duty," at the end of the same line, to insert "without troops, when authorized by law;" so as to The amendment was agreed to. read: The next amenrlment was, in line 48, after the word "dollars, " to For mileage to officers traveling on duty without troops, when authorized by in ert "in all, $313,24Y;" so as to make the clause read: law, not to exceed 5&'>.000. The Corps of Engineers: For pay ofthe officers in the Corps ofEngineers, as The amendment was agreed to. now authorized and provided by law, $2.'l9,500.; for additional pay to such offi cers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $73,740; The next amendment was in line 158, to reduce the total amount of in all, $313,240. the appropriation for the pay of the Army from $12,666,918.69 to The amendment was agreed to. $12,664,518.69. ,The DP.xt amendment was, in line 57, after the word 11 dollars," to The amendment was agreed to. insert ." in all, $174,460;" so as to make the clause read: The next amendment was in the appropriations for "subsistence of Pay of staff officers: the Army," in line 199, before the word ''from" to insert "and;" Ordnance Department: For p~y of the officers in the Ordnance Department, after the word "from" to strike out "and at;" and, in line 203, before 718 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. the word ''thousand, '' to strike out ''twenty '' and insert ''ten,'' so and in line 466, before the word ''hundred,'' to strike out '' three '' as to read: and insert "four;" so as to make the clause read: For• the payment of tho regulation. allowances for commutation in lieu of ra · For manufacture of arms at national armories, ${00,000: Pl'ovided, That not tions to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance-sergeants on duty at ungarri more than $60,000 of the ·money appropriated for the Ordnance Department in soned posts. to enlisted men stationed n.t places where rations in kind can not be allit,s branches shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said Depart economically is ued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is im ment. practicable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to cont-est for " places or prizes in the department, division, and Army rifle competitions, while The amendment was agreed to trav-eling to and from places of contest, in all $1,74.5,000, to be expended under The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. HARRIS in the chair). The hour the direction of the Secretary of,Var; and not more thn.n 110,000 thereof shall of 2 o'clock having arrived, it is the duty of theChairtolaybefore the be applied to the payment of civilian employes of the Subsistence Department. Senate the unfinished business, which is the bill (S. 372) to establish The amendment was agreed to. agricultural experiment-stations in connection with the colleges estab. The next amendment was, in the clause making appropriations for lished in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July .A:£my tr::msportation, in line 313, after the wo:rd "supply" to strike 2, 1862, a.nd of the acts supplementary thereto. out "up to," and insert "to not exceeding," so as to read: Mr. ALLISON. I ask the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. GEORGE] "That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in the purchase for the to yield, that we may finish the army appropriation bill. Army of draught animals until the numb-er on band shall be reduced to five The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa asks unani· tl1ousand, and thereafter shall only be expended for the purchase of a number sufficient to keep the supply to not exceeding five thousand. mous consent that the unfinished business be informally laid aside in order that the Senate ma.y continue the consideration of the appropri· The amendment was agreed to. ation bill. Is there objection? The Chair hears none, and the reading The next am~ndment was, at the end of the same clause, to strike of the army appropriation bill will be proceeded with. out the following proviso from line 314 to line 328: The Chief Clerk resumed, and concluded the reading of the bill. And provided further, That no expenditure authorized by this act from the ap The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendments propriations made h-erein for the Quartermaster's Department of the Army, in cluding the tran portation of troops and their supplies, and the expenses inci were concurred in. dent thereto, shall be made except by the Quartermaster-General, under the The amendments were ordered to be engrossed, and the bill to be direction of the Secretary of 'Vat·, unless an emergency exists that demands read a third time. immediate action; and in such case the expenditure necessary to meet the emergency may be made upon the order in writing of the General command The bill was read the third time, and passed. ing the Army, or upon the order in writing of a division or depa-rtment com l\Ir. ALLISON. I ask leave to send to the Reporter a statement of mander in whose jurisdiction the emergency arises; but every such order from the changes in the bill from that passed last year, and I ask that it may a did ion or department commander shall certify that an emergency exists re quiring immediate expenditure, stating the emergency necessary to be met. be inserted in the RECORD. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The statement will be inserted in the The amendment was agreed to. REcoRD, if there be no objection. The Chair hears none. The next amendment was in the appropriations for " barracks and The statement is as follows: quarters," in line 383, after the word "same," to strike out "$12, 500," and insert "$10,000;" so as to read: Army bill-1888. For construction and repair of quart-ers for hospital-stewards, including the Amount of estimates ...... $25, 524.587 M extra--duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, SlO.OOO. The amendment was agreed to. Amount of House bill ..... m ...... ~ ...... 23, 642, 618 69 Net increase ma-de by Senate committee...... ~ ...... q 95,100 00 The next amendment was in the appropriations for the " Ordnance Department,'' in line 450, after the word ''a:rms,'' to insert ''ordnance, .Amounts reported to Senate ...... 23, 7~, 718 69 and ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the Amount of Army act for 1887 ...... 23,753,057 21 office of the Chief of Ordnance~'' so as to make the clause read: The bill as report-ed less than est.imates...... 1, 771,530 43 Ordnance service: For current expenses of the ordnance service required to The bill as repor~d less than act for 1887 ...... •...... 15, 338 52 defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing The changes in amoupt of House bill made by the Senate committee are as arms and. other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tools, follows: fuel and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tvols and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical Increase: trials arid tests of small-arms, ordnance, and ordnance supplies. including pay Pay of one clerk to the General oft.he Army on the retired list...... &1, 600 ment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, $90,000. Additional pay to officer in charge of military prison at Fort Leaven- wprth...... 1. 000 The amendment was agreed to. 1\Ian ufa-cture of arms at nationnl armories...... 100, 000 The next amendment was, in line 463, after the word "cavalry," to Total increase ...... 102, 600 insert "and artillery;" so as to make the clause read: For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including ho.rse eqnipments Reduction: for cavalry and artillery, $75,000. Paymasters' clerks, messengers, and traveling expenses...... 5, 000 Quarters for hospital stewards...... '": '...... 2, 500 The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, in line 465, after the words ''arms at,'' to Total reduction ...... :...... 7,500 strike out "the National .Armory" and insert "national armories;" Net increase...... 95,100 Oomparative statenl.ent showing the appropriations for 1887; the estimates for 1888 ; the amounts of House biU, and the amounts recomPnencled lJy the Senate Oommt'ttee on Appropriations for 1888, for support of t"M Army. Object. .Appropria- · Estimates, House bill, Senate com- tions, 1887. 1888. 1888. mittee, 1.888. Officers of the line : For pay of officers of the line...... $2, 868, 000 00 $2, 868, 000 ()() $2, 868, 000 00 ~. 868, 000 00 Additional pay to aides-de-camp, one military secretary, and officers of foot regiments...... 8,000 00 12,160 ()() 8,000 00 8,000 00 Pay of officers for length of service...... 767,791 50 812,770 ()() 812,770 oo. 812,770 00 3, 643, 791 50 3, 692, 930 00 8, 688, 770 00 8, 688, 770 00 Enlisted. men : Pay proper of enlisted tpen ...... : ...... 4, 276, 588 ()() 4, 334, 308 ()() 4, 287, 508 ()() 4, 287,1508 ()() Pay by reason of length of s.ervice ...... ~ ...... ~ 368,784 ()() 881,360 ()() 881,360 00 381., 860 ()() Pay of general-service clerks and messengers...... _ ...... 161,900 ()() 161,900 00 161,900 00 161.900 00 4,f11.'11,272 00 4,877,568 00 4, 880, 768 00 4, 880, 768 00 Adjutant-General's Department: Pay of officers...... ~ ...... 49,500 00 49,500 ()() 49,500 ()() 49,500 00 Additional pay for length of service ...... ,...... 16,000 00 16,000 ()() 16,000 ()() 16,000 00 1 ------~--- 1·------~------~ ------65,500 00 65,500 00 65,500 00 65,500 00 Inspector·General's Department: Pay of officers ...... -...... 23,500 00 23,500 00 23.500 ()() 23,500 00 Additional pay for length of service..... n ...... ~ ...... ~ ...... 6,000 00 6,000 00 6,000 00 6,000 00 29,500 ()() 29,500 ()() 29,500 ()() ~ 29,500 ()() Corps of Engineers: Pay of officers ... _ ...... 239,500 00 239,500 00 239,500 00 239,500 00 Additional pay for length of service ...... • ...... 66,864 00 78,740 00 73,740 00 73,740 00 306,364 ()() 318,24.0 00 3l8,24.o oo I 313,240 00 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE~ 719 Comparative statement showing the appropriations forl887; the utimalesjor 1888; the amount of Ho~e bUl, &e.-Continued. Appropria Estimates, House bill, Senate com- Object. tions, 1887. 1887. 1888. mittee, 1888. Ordnance Department: Sl31,500 oo $131,500 00 $131,500 00 Sl31,500 00 ld~~fo~lc;~-!~~1e~gt"h·;;r·~e~~·:::::::.·:::::.·:::::.·:::::::::.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~:: 41,588 00 42,960 00 42,960 00 42,960 ()() ------1------1------173,038 00 174,460 00 174,460 00 174,460 00 148,500 00 146,500 00 146,500 00 51,870 00 49,600 00 49,600 00 200,370 00 196,100 00 196,100 00 Subsistence Department: Pay of officers ...... '1'9,500 00 79,500 00 79,500 00 79,500 00 Additional pay for length of service...... , ...... 22,260()0 21,60000 21,60000 . 21,600 00 1------1·------101,760 00 101,100 00 101,100 00 101,100 00 Medical Deparbnent: . Pay of officers ...... 425.500 00 426,700 00 426,700 00 426,700 00 Additional pay for length of service...... ll6,340 00 108,800 00 108,800 00 108,800 00 541,840 00 535,500 00 535,500 00 535,500 00 Pay Department: Pay of officers ...... 129.000 00 126,500 00 126,500 00 l2n,500 oo Additional pay for length of service...... ~ ...... 38,850 00 37,750 00 37,750 00 37,750"00 1------1 167,850 00 164,250 00 164,250 00 164,250 00 .Judge-Advocate-General's Department: Pay of officers ...... 24,250 00 27,000 00 27,000 00 27,000 00 Additional pay for length of service...... 7,000 00 7,000 00 7,000 00 7,000 00 31,250 00 34,00000 34,000 00 34,000 00 Retired-list: Pay of officers on the retlred-list ...... 902,977 38 918,544 65 918,544 65 918,544 65 Additional pay of officers on the retired-list for length of service ...... m ...... 245,617 50 271,769 10 271,769 10 271,769 10 Pay of enlisted men on the retired-list...... 36,426 83 65,677 00 56,241 00 56,241 00 1, 195, 021 71 1, 255, 990 75 1, 246, 554 75 1, 246, 554 75 1\liscellaneous: Pay of contract surgeons, hospital matrons, and veterinary surgeons...... 111, 000 00 120, 742 00 102, 875 94 102,875 94 Pay of paymasters' clerks, paymasters' messengers, and traveling expenses of latter...... 88,800 00 93,653 35 88,800 00 83,800 00 For expenses of courts-martial ...... •...... 15, 000 00 9, 797 06 10, 000 00 10,000 00 Additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings, &c., in Wo.shington, D. 0...... 500 00 1, OUO 00 500 00 500 00 Additional pay to-officer commanding Fort Leavenworth military prison...... 1, 000 00 1, 000 00 ...... 1ooooo - Pay of clerk to General of the Army on the retired-list ...... :: ...... - ...... 1:600 00 For commutation of quarters...... 150,000 00 158, 627 16 150,000 00 150,000 00 For allowances fo1· travel, retained pay, &c., to enlisted men on discharge... _ •.,...... For mileage to officers traveling on duty ...... Total pay of the .Army...... Subsistence Department: I===== For subsistence of the Army...... , ...... 1======:======1======1======Quartermasters' Department: 2,678 000 00 2, 678, 000 00 2, 678, 000 00 ~~~~~J:~~Pf~~s~~e~·. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::·.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 2,:~g:~ ~ 675,000 00 675, 000 00 675, 000 00 For purchase of horses for cavalry and artillery...... 130,000 00 150,000 00 130, 000 00 130, 000 00 For transportation of the Army...... 2, 800, 000 00 3, 000, 000 00 2, 800, 000 00 2, 800, 000 00 For arrears of transportation on land-grant railroads...... 85,000 00 100,000 00 50,000 {)() 50,000 00 For transportation over non-aided portions of bonded Pacific Railroads...... 250,000 00 ·····-·· ·············· ..... ,...... For barracks and quarters...... "' ...... _ ..M...... 620, 000 00 690,000 00 620, ()()() 00 620, 000 00 For she! ter and shooting-~eries and ranges...... 10, 000 00 10,000 00 10, 000 00 10,000 00 For construction and repair. of hospitals...... 100,000 00 100,000 00 100, 000 {)() 100, 000 00 For Army and Navy hospital building, Hot Springs, Ark...... ;...... {a) $37,375 {)() $7,700 00 $7,500 00 For construction of quarters for hospital stewards...... S12, 500 00 10,000 00 12,500 00 12,500 00 For clothing, camp, and garrison equipage...... 1, 250,000 00 1, 250, 000 00 1, 150, 000 00 1, 150, 000 00 ------'------1------·l------8, 360, 500 oo 1 8, 950, 375 oo 8, 233, ooo oo 8, 2~. ooo oo 1\Iedical Department: For medical and ho pita.l supplies...... 200.000 00 I 239. 000 00 200.000 00 200. 000 ()() For services at the Army and Navy hospital, Hot Springs ...... (a) 14, 620 00 10,000 00 10,000 00 For .l\Iedica.l Museum and library of Surgeon-General's Office ...... 15,000 00 15,000 00 15,000 00 15,000 00 215,000 00 i 268,620 {)() 225,000 00 225,000 00 Engineer Department: • I · For incidental expenses, including purchase of materials, fuel, &c...... 6, 500 00 I 12,000 00 6, 500 00 6, 500 00 ~ ~~J~\~1 ~~~~~:~:~ ~ ----~~·~·~~~~~~~~i~~:~~~~~~ 16, 500 00 I 96, 000 00 I 6, 500 00 6, 500 00 Ordnance Department: i For current expenses of ordnance service...... 90,000 00 I 100,000 00 90,000 00 90,000 00 100,000 00 For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms ...... } 100,000 00 100,000 00 For targets and. material for target practice...... 50,000 00 ...... ~~:~.~.} For mounting guns, repairing ordnance in hands of troops, &c...... 10, 000 00 30,000 00 5,000 00 5,000 00 For purchase aud manufacture of ordnance stores for troops...... 75,000 00 150,000 00 75,000 {)() 75,000 ()() For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments...... 65,000 00 100, 000 00 fl 75,000 00 75,000 00 For horse equipments for cavalry, field guns, &c ...... 1 100,000 00 ·720 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENAr.l'E. Cmnparative statement showing the appropriations for ·1887; the estimates for 1888 ; the amount of House bilt, dlc. -Continued. Appropria.- Estimates, House bill, Senate com- Object. tions,1887. 1887. 1888. mittee,l888. For overhauling, &c., new ordnance stores on band at arsenals ...... to,ooo oo 320,000 00 ...... ~· · ...... ,., .. For manufacture of arma at national armories...... : ... :...... 400,000 00 500,000 00 $300,000 00 $400,000 ()() 1 ----~----- 1 ------· l ------l ------745,000 00 1, 150, 000 00 645,000 00 745,000 ()() . Recruiting Service: For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits ...... ~ ...... 100,000 00 100, 160 00 100,000 00 100,000 00 Signal Service: . . For expenses of the Signal Service ...... 3,000 ()() 5, 000 ()() 8,000 ()() 3,000 00 Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of the office of the Lieutenant General...... 1,200 ()() 1,750 ()() 1, 200 ()() 1,200 ()() ]!'or contingent expenses of the Adjutant--General's Depart.ment...... 2,000 00 2,500 ()() 2,000 ()() 2,000 ()() "i!"or contingent expenses of the Army, not otherwise provided for ...... 15,000 00 30,000 00 15,000 ()() 15,000 ()() 18,200 oo 1 84,250 ()() 18, 200 00 18,200 ()() Total for support of the Army...... , ...... 23. 753, 057 21 1 25, 524, 587 64 23, 642, 618 69 23,737, n8 69 a Appropriations for Army and Navy hospital building and for service of the hospital for 1887 were made by sundry civil and deficiency acts, but. estimates herefor were required to be submitted hereaft-er as a part of the military establishment. t AMENDMENT TO A BILL. bill (H. R. 4688) granting a pension to .Josephine DaCosta Thomas; and Mr. SHERMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed it was thereupon signed by the President pro temprrre. by him to the sundry civil appropriation bill; which was reierred to AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT-STATIONS. the Committee on Appropriations, and, with the accompanying paper, ordered to be printed. Mr. GEORGE. I call for the unfinished business. The PRESIDING OFFICER {Mr. HARRIS in the chair). The Sen ELON A: MABSH AND MINARD LAFEVER. ate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumes the consideration of the :Mr. PLATT. With the consent of the Senator in charge of the un- unfinished business, ·the title of which will be stated. 1inished business, and with the understanding that it shall not in.ter The CHIEF CLERK. A bill (S. 372) to establishagricnltural experi fere with it, I ask that a House bill which was read twice and ordered ment-stations in connection with the colleges established in the several to lie on the table may be t.aken up. It is the bill (H. R. 5894). I wish States under the provisions of an act approved .July 2, 186~, and of the to ask the Senate to concur in the passage of the bill, as a similar bill acts supplementary thereto. . .. has been reported by a commitree of the Senate. Mr. PLATT, I should like to have the bill read. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Connecticut asks The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Connecticut asks unanimous consent that the unfinished business be informally laid for the reading of the bill. It will be read at length. · aside for the purpose suggested by him. Is there objection? The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the bill to section 9. There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of ~he Whole, itir. HAWLEY. What is that section just read-an amendment? proceeded to consider the bill (H. R. 5894) for the relief of Elon A. The PRESIDING OFFICER. An amendment already agreed to by Marsh and Minard Lafever. · the Senate in Committee of the Whole, ·as the Chair is informed by . The preamble reads, that on the 28th of December, 1880, in. due form the Secretary. of procedure and in all legal, respects, letters patent numbered 236052 Mr. GEOl~GE. What is the amendment? were duly granted and issued to ElonA. Marsh and his assignee, Minard The CHIEF CLERK. The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, in Lafever, of Battle Creek, Mich., for a new and useful improvement in serted as a new section : steam-engine valve-gear, Ba.ve that the letters patent were not, by acci S.Eo. 9. T.be provisions and benefits of this act shall apply to the agricult dent or mistake, at the time of issuing them, as by law required, signed ural colleges which ha ve been or may hereafter be establis hed in 1\ny of the Territories of the United States under the laws t hereof : Provirled, That the av bv the Secretary of the Interior; and that they were afterward, on t.he erage attenda nce of pupils upon t.he instruction of such college fur the year 2~th of February, 1882, but not before, duly signed by the tben Acting preceding its application for the benefits of this act shaH not have been less Secretary of the Interior. The bill, therefore, makes legal and valid the than fifty. letters patent named in the preamble from December 28, 1880, to the Mr. GEORGE. That amendment was offered by the Senator from same extent and for the same term that tliey would have been legal, Indiana [Mr. HARRISON.] Has it been adopted? valid, complete, and operative if the signature ofthe Secretary of the The P~ESIDING OFFICER. So the Secretary informs the present Interior had, at the time of the supposed issue of the letters patent, occupant of the chair. · · been placed thereon, and the omission of the signature had not oc Mr. GEORGE. In order to p erfect the bill I have one or two co rred. These provisions are not to be held or construed to apply to amendments to offer. On page 5, section 6, line 11, I propose to strike or affect any suits now pending, nor any cause of action heretofore aris 1 out ' :five" and insert'' seven,'' so as to provide for the first payment of in~. salaries to be made on the 1st day of July, 1887 . .Mr. COCKRELL. Is this a Senate bill or a House bill? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair is informed by the Secre The PRESIDING OFFICEU. A Honse bill. tary that the clause has been already amended by striking out ":five" Mr. COCKRELL. I should like to hear an explanation or have the and inserting '' six.'' report read. Mr. GEORGE. Then I propose to strike out "six" and ins.ert Mr. PLATT. This is a case where a patent was issued in due form ''seven.'' except that by accident the Secretary of the Interior omitted his signa The PRESIDING OFFICER. The parliamentarymethod would be tore. HaviiJg all the issues for a fortnight before him and signing them to reconsider the vote adopting the amendment heretofore agreed to. all, he omitted to affix his signature to this patent. Afterwards the Act Mr. GEORGE. The time has passed when "six ' ' would be an ap ing Secretary of the Interior signed it; about a year afterward. . Then propriate figure there. I move to reconsider the vote. the matter went into court, and it waa held that that did not make it lir. EDMUNDS. It can bedonebyunanimoosconsent. !tis merely a valid patent. This bill is to validate that patent. It is a House bill, a date. . and the Hoose bill provides that no right of action and no pending liti 1't1r. GEORGE. I ask unanimous consent now to strike out "five" gation shall be affected by it. There can be no objection to it. 1 and insert ' seven.'' , Mr. COCKRELL. Let the bill be read again. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Mississippi asks . The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will be again read. unanimous consent to strike out "five" and insert "seven." Is there The Chief Clerk read the bill. objection? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. · The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to Mr. CHACE. I move to amend, in section 4, line 14, by striking out a third reading, read the third time, and passed. "of valuation" after "standard;" so as to read: The preamble was agreed to. But nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize sai~ commig.. Mr. PLATT. I now move that the Senate bill on the samesu~ject, sioner t.o control or direct the work or management of a ny suoh statton except being the bill (S. 500) for the relief of Elon A. Marsh and Minard La as to the standard of commercial fertilizers. fever be indefi.nitely postponed. The motion was agreed to. Mr. GEORGE. In line 14 ofsection4? Mr. CHACE. Yes. ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. Jtlr. ED~IUNDS . The words occur also in line 4 of section 4. A message from the Hoose of Uepresentatives, by Mr. CLARK, its Mr. CHACE. Yes, in line 4; but they are only of importance in Clerk, announced that the Speaker of the House had signed the enrollt!d line14. • I 1887. CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-SENATE. 721 1\fr. GEORGE. Is the motion to strike out the words "of valua Mr. GEORGE. There is so much noise that I can not hear the Sen· tion?'' ator from Vermont. Mr. CHACE. Yes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont will sus· Mr. GEORGE. I have no objection to their being stricken out in pend until the Chair asks Senators to resume their seats and cease con~ line 4 and in line 14. versation, so that the business of the Senate may proceed intelligently. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Mississippi Mr. EDMUNDS. I am sorry that the Chair hasfeltitto be his par~ modify the amendment proposed? liamentary duty to do that, because I have no doubt that a dozen agri~ Mr. EDMUNDS. It is moved by the Senator from Rhode Island cultural experiment-stations were going on in the Senate at this present [Mr. CHACE]. time, and if they had only been allowed to take root and grow, we Mr. GEORGE. I merely said that I saw no objection to the amend should have had a large crop. [Laughter.] ment offered by the Senator from Rhode Island if it is carried through Now, I will repeat what I was saying, that. I am informed by my the bill. friend from Pennsylvania, Mr. Atherton, as I have no doubt my friend ·1t1r. CHACE. If is it accepted, I have nothing to say. from Connecticut is still more fully informed from them all, who has The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment been devoted to those interests under the authority of Pennsylvania .proposed by the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. CHACE] in section 4, for some time, that the people really interested, and not ror profit or ad~ line 4, after the word ''standard," to strike out "of val nation," and vantage, but for the public good in this business, have thought that the in line 14, after the word "standard," to strike out "of valuation." whole of section 4 should goout and that another statement should be Mr. HOAR. Will the Senator from Mississippi explain to the Sen inserted in its pla{)C, which I will ask the Secretary to read now for in ate what the difference is which is caused by this amendment? formation. My friend from Connecticut [Mr. HAWLEY] has charge of Mr. GEORGE. I suppose the objection which the Senator from all· these amendments, but as we were going on to fix these things I Rhode Island bad to the words "of valuation" standing in the bill thought it right, as he did not, to state this. was that they meant some commercial value. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The proposed amendment suggested Mr. CHACE. Undoubtedly; they can not mean anything else than by the Senator from Vermont will be read. the money value of this article of merchandise. The Chief Clerk read as follows: ?tir. PALMER. If the Senator from Mississippi will permit me to SEc. 4. That in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniformity of methods ask him a quest.ion, I should like to ask what the object of this proviso and results in the work of said stations, it shall be the duty of the United States Commissioner of Agriculture, by the advice and with the consent of a commis- is, beginning with the words "but nothing herein contained," and sion composed of the directors, or a majority thereof, of the stations receiving from there to the end of the sentence? It seems to me that it is en the appropriations hereinafter made, to lay out cert.ai n lines of wotk and methods tirely superfluous. which each of said stations shall prosecute and adopt to the extent of at least 15 per cent. of said appropriations i but nothing herein contained shall be con· Mr. GEORGE. The proviso to section 4? strued to authorize said Commisstoner of Agriculture to control or direct the Mr. PALMER. That part of the section beginning "but nothing work or management of any such station, except in the manner annually pro· herein contained.'' vided and aporoved by the said commiRSion, and to the extent of the income M:r. CHACE. The Senator alludes to the words at the end of line 11 above set forth. It shall be the duty of each of the said stations, annually, on or before the lsli day of February, t-o make to the governor of the State or Ter~ and what follows. ritory in which it is located a full and detailed report of it.q operations, includ· Mr. HOAR. 1\Iy question has not yet been answered. I asked what ing a statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shrul be was the difference in meaning with the words ''of valuation 11 out. sent to each of said stations, to the said Commissioner of Agriculture, and to the 1 Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and, for the purpose of securing What is the standard to be now-'' standard of commercial fertilizers ' further co-operation among such colleges or stations and of co-ordinating the in what respect? results of their work, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to lli. INGALLS. Does it mean their price in the market, or their collate and publish, at least monthly, the results of such work in the United States and in foreign countries, and to provide a suitable place for holding an~ value as elements of production when used in the field? nual meetings or conventions of the directors or other representatives from Mr. GEORGE. It means the latter. such colleges or stations. Mr. INGALLS. It does not say so. Mr. EDMUNDS. Mr. President, this distinguished gentleman, Pro Mr. HOAR. I do not quite understand yet. I wish the Senator fessor Atherton, of the State College of Pennsylvania, on this topic in from Mississippi would explain to the Senate fully what is the quality a letter to me, inclosing that with sundry other suggestions, which, after of the commercial fertilizers which is to be proportioned to one another consultation with the agriculturists of the country, they have thought by this "standard." Is it price? it advisable to ask Congress to do, says on this precise point this: · Mr. GEORGE. I do not know that I can give avery lucid explana tion to that. I presume that the meaning is this, that it is intended Strike out section 4, and insert the accompanying substitute to fix a standard of value by which the relative value for use of the Which has just been read.:_ various commeTcial fertilizers is to be tested. This does not affect the structure of the purposes of the bill, but defines more · Mr. HOAR. That is to say, whether guano is better than bam-yard precisely some of the duties to be done under it. The provision requiring the United Stat-es Commissioner of Agriculture to collate and publish frequently manure, and if so how much better as a general thing; relating to all the results of the work of stations we all regard as of great importance, as this sorts of cases. - constant sense of working under the public eye will be the surest guaranty of Mr. GEORGE. The intention was that the fertilizing standard, the the quality of the work done all over the country. comparative qualities of each kind of commercial manure as a standard, This substitute steers clear of tbe suggestions made about standards should be tested. of value and the suggestion made by the Senator from Kansas, and so Mr. HOAR. Comparison in reference to what qualities, is the ques· far as I can see, having been born a farmer, it is a great improvement t-ion. What is the quality which this standard is to enable us to .com· on the fourth section. pare so that the one is 90 and the other 95? :Mr. GEORGE. The bill as reported by the Committee on Agricult Mr. GEORGE. Its productive quality, its capacity to facilitate pro ure was introduced in the lower House at the last Congress by Mr. duction. Cullen, of illinois. I believe no action was then taken on it, how· Mr. HOAR. Must that not depend on the soils in which it is to be e-ver. At the convention of the presidents of the agricultural colleges used and thousands of things as to which it is ut~rly impossible to of the United States, held, I believe, in this city some time last year, they have one standard? considered that bill, agreed to it, and the president of the .Agricultural 1t1r. PI.UMB. I venture to suggest to the Senator from Mississippi College of l\Iississippi inclosed to me the bill as it now stands, and as I that that section is liable to such a construction that I think it had introduced it and as it was reported by the committee, stating that it better be stricken out altogether. had received the examination and the approval of the presidents of the Mr. GEORGE. Very well. agricultural colleges in convention assembled, and asking me to intro Mr. DAWES. Is it possible to have a.ny standard, whatever it may duce it. Accordingly I did introduce it. The vexy same bill was intro be, that will in the end fix the price of commercial fertilizers in the duced in the House of Representatives, as I understand, in pursuance market, and therefore is not the Agricultural Department here called of a similar request made by the presidents of the agricultural colleges. upon to fix the price in the market of different fertilizers? It is commonly known as the Hatch bill, being identically the same Mr. PLUMB. I move to strike out, in line 14, the words ' 'except bill as the one introduced here and the one preyiously intrOduced by as to the standard of valuation of commercial fertilizers." I think Mr. Collen in the last Congress, and approved, as I have just stated, that would relieve the proposition. ' by the convention of the presidents of the agricultural colleges of the Mr. EDMUNDS. The gentlemen who have devoted special atten Union. It has received their sanction, and has been carefully examined tion to this subject, including and chief among whom is Mr. Atherton, by them. .As such, I have introduced it in the Senate, and it has been who has charge of interests of this character in the State College of approved and indorsed by the Committee on Agriculture. Pennsylvania, have, as I understand, on consideration, thought that the Of course, I have no technical knowledge as to what ought to be the whole of section 4, if that is the one we are now on, ought to go out; peculiar phase of the bill in its various sections, and I have relied ex· and that the substitute for it, which I think my friend from Connecti· elusively upon the judgment, upon the iniormation, and upon the tech· cut [Mr. HAWLEY] has in charge, and I have a copy of it, should be nical skill of the presidents of the agricultural col1eges for that. In inserted. I suggest, t~erefore, in order to save time, that the substi fact I have merely introduced the bill which they approved and sent tute proposed by these gentlemen, sincerely and patriotically interested to me for introduction, and it was approved by the Committee on Agri in this business-- culture as the proper bill to pass. · XVIII-16 • 722 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY 17, · The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment formula :which he prescribed. It would naturn.lly, therefore, limit proposed by the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. CHACE]. their work. Mr. INGALLS. Let it be read again. Ammonia is the principal ingredient of value, I think, in a fertilizer, · The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment will be read. and there should not be any limitation on the power of these stations . The CHIEF CLERK. In line 4 of section 4, after the word "stand to determine other ingredients of valne as well as that; in fact, to take ard," it is proposed to strike out the words ''of valuation;" and in line them all into account. That would give him power to determine the 14,after the word'' standard,'' to strike out the words'' of valuation.'' commercial value of all the fertilizers in the markets of the United The a,mendment was agreed to. States. It would be akin to giving him the power to determine what Mr. PLUMB. In order to-make the section in harmony with the was an adulteration of an article of food. amendment already adopted, I move, in lines 14 and 15 of section 4, Mr. EDMUNDS. The practical effect of it would be just the same. to strike out the words '' except as to the standard ofvaluation of com Mr. PLUMB. In manyoftheSonthernStates where these fertilizers mercial fertilizers.'' are used as they are not in my Sta.te, boards are created possessing Mr. CHACE. The Senator will notice that the words ''of valuation'' certain police power for the purpose of analyzing articles offered for are stricken out in line 14. sale and exposing to the public these analyses, so that if a man buys Mr. PLUMB. Now nzy motion is to strike out all that relates to an article that possesses a certain amotmt of ammonia be knows it; if fertilizers. it possesses less, he knows it, and so on; and he can buy it securely Mr. CHACE. That strikes out the whole section. and freely. But in this case the Commissioner of Agriculture would Mr. INGALLS. It would be better, it seems to me, to strike out have practically the determination of the market value and th• right all after the word "act," in line 11, down to the word "fertilizers," to sell every commercial fertilizer offered in the market. in line 15. .After what has been done in line 4, that whole clause- is It seems to me that while I have no idea he would use it in a bad superfluous. way, at the same time he might by misunderstanding, by misconcep Mr. PLUMB. The motion I make now is to make the section har tion make such use of his power as to seriously interrupt the ordinary monious with the amendment already adopted. A further motion can course of trade in this very important article and give the benefit of be made later. It seems to me that that provision in regard to agri the Government indorsement to one article as against another. cultnralfertilizers ought to go out. Though I was instrumental in re ?!Ir. CHACE. I do not know that I apprehend fnlly the remarks of porting the bill, I think the bill ought to be amended in that partic the Senator from Kansas [Mr. PLuMB]. I suppose, however, that he ular. does not mean to say that ammonia is the only or the chief ingredient Mr. EDMUNDS. I should like, to save inconvenience and to save of value in ordinary fertilizing compounds. Hydrogen in ita -various time, to take the sense of the Senate on the amendment that I had read forms is an important element; potash, phosphoric acid, the traces of for information in lieu of section 4. That, of course, at this moment iron, magnesia, and sundry other substances are of great importance also, requires unanimous consent. If the Senate is willing to do what these and, in ~any cases, of more importance even than ammonia. So, too, gentlemen. on consideration, write me that they desire to do, and which the question of how much of the phosphoric acid is soluble and how seems to me to be a much safer provision than section 4 as it now stands, much is insoluble becomes a very important matter. It is in order and which gets rid of all the difficulties we are now discussing, I shall that there may be some method of analysis and of marking, so that the be glad, and I think we shall save time. I therefore ask unanimous purchasers and venders, dealers and users of these articles may know consent to take the question on agreeing to the substitute for section 4, what they are buying that I apprehend this section has been intro that I have had read from the desk. duced into the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment of I am neither the author of the bill nor the defender of it. I think the Senator from Kansas [Mr. PLUMB]. The Senator from Vermont with the Senator from Kansas we should be very careful not to clothe [Mr. EDMUNDS] asks the unanimous consent of the Senate that the the Commissioner of Agriculture with too much power over this amendment proposed by himself, to strike out aU of section 4 and insert matter, and I have already prepared and offered an amendment to the substitute that was read for information a few moments since, be this section looking to that very matter. But if the views of the now considered. Is there objection? Senat.or from Kansas are to prevail, I think the amendment of the Mr. EDMUNDS. I wish to add to that unanimous consent the un Senator from Vermont [Mr. EDMUNDs] if introduced would answer derstanding that that substitute shall be open to amendment just the the purpose much better than his, because he really emasculates this. same as the original; so that if there seems to be any imperfection in We might as well strike out the whole section. it it may be corrected. . Mr. HAWLEY. I object to the whole of section 4 as in the bill The PRESIDING OF.r'ICER. With that understanding is there and to much of the amendment offered by the Senator from Vermont, objection? for they have one common vice. The bill of the committee says: Mr. PLUMB. I will object simply because I think we had better That in order to secure, as far as pract.ica.ble, uniformity of methods and perfect the section as we have begun to do. Then we can determine results in the work: of so.id stations, it shall be the duty of the United States whether this or that is the best. Commissioner of Agriculture to determine annually a. standard- Mr. CHACE. I think that is best. We have stricken out the words "of valnation"- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment of the ingredients of commercial fertilizers, upon which the analysis of such proposed by the Senator from Kansas, which will be read. fertilizers, as far as made by said station. shall be based. The CHIEF CLERK. In section 4, line 4, after the word "agricult I fail to comprehend the sense of that. The Senator from Kansas ure," it is proposed to strike out all down to and including the word made an objection to that of some force. What shall be the standard? "based," in line 7, as follows: What is meant by "a standard of valuation" or ".a standard of the ~ . To determine annually a. sto.ndard of the ingxedients of commercial fertiliz ingredients of commercial fertilizers?'' ers, upon which the analysis of such fertilizers, as fa-r as made by said stations, Mr. CHACE. If the Senator from Connecticut will allow me- shall be based. Mr. HAWLEY. 'l'he Senator will kindly wait until I get through. Mr. CHACE. I should like to ask the Senator from Kansas what He can talk to much better advantage then. object he expects to attain by that? As I understand it, the pmpose No two of these fertilizers-and they are known by the hundred aud of this section was to establish, not a standard of value in money, but perhaps by the thousand in the market-are exactly alike. The to establish a standard of quality-cllemical quality, if I may use that a,crricultural-experiment station of Connecticut is the oldest in the phrase-so that-there may be one universal standard all over the coun country. When we want anything done in Connecticut we go and do try that shall be accepted by buyers and sellers, by the users of the it; we do not come to Congress and beg for it. Ours is twelve years fertilizers, and upon which they may be able readily to inform them old at least. The agricultural-experiment station there is every day selves, and so judge more readily and more perfectly of the value as a or two receiving specimens of fertilizers said to be of extraordinary fertilizer. value. The chemist gqes to work and makes a thorough analysis. He . I do not speak of the value now in a money sense, but of the quality of finds that the specimen submitted has so many hundred grains of phos· the fertilizer. There seems to be a very apparent value in some such pro phoric acid, so much of potash, so much of ammonia. I am not chem vision. It is like a s~ndard measure, a mea.'lure of weight or quality ist enough to go over all the ingredienta, bnt the elements are large in in handling any of the ordinary substances that we use in th~ arts. number; and he says at the end that at the market value of these ele The object of this section was to have some standard that should be ments this preparation is worth so much a ton. It is impossible for recognized as the Government standard. It would be found that pur the Commissioner of Agriculture to establish a standard of ammonia, chasers of fertilizers would be comparing fertilizers all the time with of phosphoric acid, and of nitrogen. Or does it mean a standard ar the standard, and they would become familiarwithit. It seems tome ticle? There is no more a standard article of fertilizers than there is that if the amendment of the Senator from Kansas is adopted that ob a standard article of cathartic pills, of which there are millions of-varie ject will be entireiy frustrated so far as this section goes; and that is ties. What would be ilie use of instructing the :Medical Department really about all the value there is in the section. of the .Army to establish a st.c'l.lldard article of pills of any description? Mr. PLUMB. I am not prepared to speak now about the value of There is not any standard. These elements should be there in certain the remainder of the section, but it it seems ·to me that this power quantities in purity:, and all the chemist can d~ is to examine a given would be lia.ble to be badly used. In the first place, it would limit article and say what it is. exactly, and then people know what the lhe work of the agricultural stations to the plan laid ont by the Com market value of its constituent elements is, and then the market value missioner of Agriculture. They would simply analyze accor~ing to the of the componnd is so much per ton, and people can buy as they please. 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. Analysis shows the most remarkable differences. Some of the most The grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on ths fol- lowing conditions, to which, as well as t~ the provisions hereinbefore contained, desirable fertilizers are. shown on analysis to be worth, for example, the prev·ous assent of the several States shall be signified by legislative acts. $40 a ton, and another IS worth $80 a ton, determined by the absolute test of the cberilist. Then the Morrill act goes on to make seven specifications of the man I" do not wish to have the Commissioner of Agriculture of the United ner in which this money shall be applied to agricultural education, and States doing what other people understand better than be does. That says that ''no State shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless is one objection. I am a State rights man in some of these things, it shall express its acceptance thereof by the Legislature within two and very earnestly so. ·I think our chemists in Connecticut, in the sta years," &c., so tbatwhen this is once doneand the Statesacceptit, the tion which we have established, for which we have given a tract of States are then responsible for the manner of executing the trust and land, which is provided with a handsome building, which we have expending the money in detail; the Federal Government is done with it. ~tted up in all respects as such a station ought to be, are doing all tllat I have drawn a. substitute in precise accordance with the principles IS necessary for the farmers of that State; but I have no objection, if of the Morrill act. I am aware that some will say we cannot trust the States to properly expend this money. I doubt whether it would it be thought wise, for the benefit of this great interest, to give $151 000 a year to that institution, or to a similar institution in my State; but he wisely expended in all cases. We are liable to that always; but if we are getting along so happily, so sagaciously, with such thorough we are to proceed upon that as the fundamental theory in our legisla ness, that I am very much afraid to have Congress send any money tion, we may as well take charge of every imaginable su.bject and say tHere to meddle with us. And my judgment is that the Congress of that in our judgment a State can not be trusted at all, and we think the United States has no more business with establishing the st.mdatd we can do everything more wisely. ... for a f~rtilizer made by a fum in my town than it has to appoint a con I say that the Legislature of the State I have the honor to belong to stable m the town. Any manufacturer can go on and make anything can takecareoftbis business better than any Congress. It knows what he pleases and call it Smith and Jones' standard fertilizer, entirely in its soils are, what the best fertilizers are, what its farmers desire. It dependent of the Commissioner of Agriculture's fertilizer. Why not has already as good a chemist as anybody has, and as good a station; and establish a standard hoe, a standard pill, or a standard anything else? if we are to have any money there I want to have it in the form we We have all a right to make these articles exactly as we please in spite already have without the dictation or intermeddling of any Federal of your law and in spite of your Commissioner of Agriculture. What authority. I do not want him who is trusted with an important work is the use of establishing a standard? I do not understand the thing to dictate a standard of value to manufacturers which he is not obliged at all. to look at; he can throw them in the waste-basket Some of these amendments are wise. • There is a multitude of them Give, if need be, this money, under as strong conditions as you from professors of agricultural colleges, members of State boards, &c. please, to the States requiring it, and let the States areept the money Some I approve, some I do not. I studied this matter carefully in con with those conditions. It is easy to provide for the exercise of a snltation with a number of gentlemen from different States, and in cor faithful discharge of the trust in that way. I think the majority of respondence with them, who are interested in this matter, and I liave the States now have agricultural colleges of some description. Qnite drawn a substitute for the whole bill. I do not pretend to say that it a large number of them have valuable experimental statiom. The is perfect, but I do believe it is a great deal better than the bill. This first one of which I have record was established by Connecticut in substitute is printed and credit given to the Senator from Massachusetts 1875. Another followed in1877, and they have been gradually spread [Mr. HoAB]. It should be the Hawley amendment. I am not par ing throughout the States. That is .the natural and proper way for ticular about the credit to be given; I am perfectly willing to assume the thing to grow anyhow. If the States do not understand the value the discredit, if any there be, but my name should be there instead of of them sufficiently to start them now, I have some question as to that of the Senator from Massachusetts. I propose to change essentially whether they will after we give the money, for that which costs noth the form of the bill but not the purpose. ing is too apt to be considered as worth nothing. But undoubtedly I will not go into a discussion, because somebody I believe is to make the progress of agricultural education is such that all the States will a motion to recommit this bill in order to readjust these conflicting in due time be ready of their own accord to establishe.KJ>erimental sta- amendments. They can not well be adjusted in this random debate. tions-. ~ The bill I have drawn gives this money to the States in precise har I have no objection, if it is thought wise, to burryiug the D.'llltter mony with the plan of the act of 1862, which established aaricultural through the medium of such a bill as this, but I think it altogether colleges. It is merely a bill amendatory of, or ancillary ~' that act. wiser that it should follow the general plan of the original act on the It would give the money to the States, and ask of the States that they subject. shall accept it under certain conditions accepted by the Legislatures, Mr. MORRILL. Mr. President, I consider some bill of this kind and expended "under the following conditions, n and then we have as an exceedingly important adjunct to the agricultural colleges and done with the schools. stations already established. I do not regard this section as of any par Now, the pending bill requires an annual or a continual meddling ticular importance. Take it in my own State, where we have had of the Federal Government with the State institutions, and what to chemical analyses of the various kinds of compounds sold for manures me is an absurdity, the money is not given under any different theory, and their chemical value certified for more than a dozen years, so that but it begins-, as they now have it, on the 1st of July, 1887: the farmer can know exactly what is the real cost of the article be is' But no such payment shall be made to any station- buying, and then he can judge for himself as to its agricultural value . They are going to pay it directly from the Treasury to the experi by testing it. ment station- I should be quite willing myself to see this section stricken out and • until the trustees or other governing body of the college at which such station something that will be proposed by the Senator from Connecticut [Ur. is located shall have executed, under their corporate seal, and filed with the HAWLEY] taken as a substitute. I do not regard the section as one Secretary of the Treasury, an agreement to expend all moneys received under that is likely to be in harmony with these institutions. I believe it this act for the sole and exclusive purpose and in the manner herein directed and to maintain a farm of at least 25 acres in connection with such college: far better that the agricultural stations and colleges · now in existence and shall also have executed and filed with said Secretary their bond, in the should be permitted to conduct their affairs so as to satisfy the farmers penal sum of $15,000, with two sufficient sureties, approved by the clerk of a. court of record in such State, conditioned on the faithful expenditure ofand ac of their respective States. Undoubtedly there will be differences be counting for all moneys so received. ween one State and another as to what should be done in the agricul t State rights are not so altogether out of fashion that it would seem ural stations. I hope that we shall not fetter the bill so as to prevent proper for me to comment on the Federal Government making an ap its being useful to all of the States, as I believe it will be. . . propriation direct to State officers constituted under State laws, acting Mr. INGALLS. ~Ir. President, from such casual inspection as I underState authority, givingmoneydirectly to them, disregarding what have been able to give this bill it appears to me exceedingly crude and we call the sovereign States, and asking those officers of the State gov imperfect. While I sympathize fully with the object that it bas in ernment to give bond to the Federal Government, and assuming, there view, and shall cordially support any measure that looks toward en fore, a control over them and an annual inspection of those bonds. It larging the boundaries of human knowledge or increasing the sum total does not assume to bind the trustees, but it may as well do it. They of human happiness on this earth, I am disposed to think that a crit are changing every year; most of these boards are renewable, a portion ical analysis of the measure, such as we would apply to the fertilizers of them every year, so as to maintain some sort of uniformity. Then that are named in it, would disclose the fact that it is inapplicable to the Secretary of the Treasury must follow our State action in appoint the purposes for which it is designed. ing new trustees and require new bonds of our State officers every year. We have in Kansas at this time a well equipped and exceedingly I do not think that is the way at all. active institution, organized under the act of Congress of 1862, where · The bill known as the :Morrill act of 1862, which established agri all these various experiments are continually conducted under the con ~ultnral colleges, was drawn with deliberation and care and sa!!lcity trol of a corps of skilled and intelligent instructors, who are devoted to and that said-not to read all of it- o ' the objects and purposes of the institution. There is nothing that I . That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter men h.-now of that is named here in the way of experiment or analysis which tioned. * * * is not at this time conducted in the Kansas State Agricultural College That was the wise provision- at Manhattan, which is attended by a large number of youths of that -all moneys derived ~rom the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which State of both sexes. ~e lands are apportiOned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore pro I am disposed to think that this bill in its present form is not, in any Vided for, stmll be invested in stocks of the United States. . .. * * * * • sense whatever, responsive to any great popular demand. It is one of 724 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY 17~ that great category of measures which ha.ve been presented to us in of record in such State, conditioned on the faithful expenditure of and times past in obedience rather to the clamor of a certain select class accounting for all moneys so received.'' of self-constituted reformers of all the institutions of the earth, and it There are many other particulars in which I think the bill is open is based upon an entirely mistaken apprehension of the theory of this to criticism. It is tautological. It is inarti:ficial. · It iS such a statute Government. It illustrates the tendency of this class of agitators to as ought not to be enacted in its texms. Look at section 2, in the demand the continual interposition of the National Government in declaration of the objects and purposes of these experimental stations, State and local and domestic affairs, with the result, as I believe, of ab in line 8. Among other things that they are to inquire into is '' the solutely destroying the independence and freedom of individual con capacity of new vla.nts or trees for acclimation.'' That is well enough, duct, and subverting the theory on which the Government is based and but they are to inquire into" the capacity of new pla.ntsortrees foraccli· in the conduct of which hitherto it has reached such great results. mation within the isothermal limits represented by the climate of the . If the General Government desires to contribute $15,000 a year to the sev.eral stations and their vicinity." It would look to the ordinary State Agricultural College of Kansas, at Manhattan, I have no objec reader of language as if it were sufficient to provide that this experi tion, but I am opposed to any stipulation as to the methods in which ment should be limited to ''the capacity of new plants or trees for accli it shall be employed outside of its application to the general object of mation." That is definite; that is ta.ngible; there can not be any diffi the trust. We do not desire to have our system hampered or inter culty about the meaning; but the framers of the bill are not content fered wi~, or its usefulness destroyed by any interposition of national with that, they must have some rhetoric about it, and therefore this authority. Weare competent to manage thesea:ffairs in our own way. capacity for acclimation is to be "within the isothermal limits repre We have achieved great and beneficent results; weknowwhatwe want; sented by the climate of the several stations and their vicinity." We and I should be opposed to the recognition of the authority of the Com are called upon to enact language like that into a statute, together missioner of Agriculture to come to that institution and say yea or wi tb many other particulars in w bich the same redundancy is apparent. nay as to any of the methods that we shall adopt, the purposes that If the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry think best to appro we shall pursue, or the manner in which we shall dispose of these priate $15,000 per annum for the purpose of assisting experimental funds in case they are appropriated, so long as we apply them within agricultural stations in the different States, I have no objection; well the limits of the legitimate objects and purposes of the appropriation. and good. But let us so provide that it shall be in assistance of, and Take this fourth section and look at the declaration of principle that in co-operation with, the existing authorities in those States, with it contains: annualreport, if necessary, to the Commissioner of Agriculture, but not_ That in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniformity of methods andre under the control of the Unite,d States Government, with the avowed sults in the work of said stations, it shall be the duty of the United States Com- purpose of reducing all of _these institutions to absolute uniformity of missioner of Agriculture, &c. ~ work and of results. It is not desirable that uniformity of methods or results should be Mr. PLUMB. Mr. President, I think that my colleague has made obtained. That is exactly what we wish to prevent. We do not want a mistake in assuming that the :Agricultural College of Kansas, which any bed of Procrustes erected on w bicb all these institutions shall be justifies all his encomium, shares the feeling be has expressed about the laid, and if they are too long have them abbreviated, and if they are object and terms of this bill. I have had direct communication from too short, so far as the view of the Commissioner is concerned, have the official staff of that college to the effect that the passage of this bill them stretched out or lengthened to meet his views of the results and in the form in which it was introducedandreportedis desired. While methods which ought to obtain. Sir, it is the confiict of the contra I admit that it is subject to some verbal criticism, and that there is an riety of opinions in this country upon these subjects that results in the exuberance of language in one of the sections, I trust that all of us are greatest good to the greatest number. It is the collision and contest not to be confined to narrow limits in that respect because some people between opposing ideas or views of contending localities that enable excel in that direction. ns to rea-ch the highest results in the departments of activity and gov Nor do I feel that there is anything which is derogatory to the im ernment. But here is the adoption of a principle as a legislative dec portance of the Agricultural College of Kansas, or any other college, laration that we will concede to the General Government the right to in imposing terms upon new appropriations to be made, and to be ex establish uniformity in all these methods, and uniformity of results; pended under their direction. It may be true that according to the that we will surrender our independence! relinquish all that we have terms of the original trust the Government of the United States would hitherto been able to accomplish in this direction by individual effort, not now have a right to prescribe a curriculum for all those colleges, and consent to a general national supervision of this gre'it subject. and to dictate the manner in which they should expend even the rev Sir, I a.m opposed to it. I can not understand what conceivable good enues which they had derived from the bounty oftbe C'TCneral Govern is proposed by this section. What is to be gained by ascertaining the ment, but it is certainly entirely competent for the Government, if it commercial value of fertilizers? One fertilizer differetb from another makes appropriations of money to be spent at those colleges, tbat... it fertilizer in glory. There is one fertilizer for corn, one fertilizer for shall direct exactly how and under what circumstances and conditions wheat, another for toba-cco, and another for cotton. How is the Com it is to be expended. missioner of Agriculture to appear at one place or another and proclaim While I have no doubt of the pecuniary responsibility of the trus that for all these purposes the United States Government shall declare tees of all these colleges, and of their entire good faith, I happen to that there shall be a unit of commercial valuation of fertilizers to be know that the treasurer of the Agricultural College of Kansas is re nsed in Kansas, or Alabama, or Rhode Island, or elsewhere? quired to give a bond with at least two good and sufficient sureties to Forttmately, we do not need in the State in which I live much, ifany respond in damages in case be should be false to his trust. So I do thing, to do with fertilizers. Our soil is rich and exuberant, abounding in not believe that or any of the other officers of that college will object fecundity. It is a matter entirely unimportant to us w betber there is any to giving bond to do as faithfully by the money to be appropriated commercial unit ofvalue offertilizers established or not. But the whole under this bill, if it shall pass, as he stipulates that be will do in re section is repugnant; it is opposed to the idea on which, these institu gard to the money which comes into his hands from other sources. tions were established, and in my judgment will be destructive of the There may be a great many valid doubts about the propriety of the objects and purposes for which they have hitherto been maintained, the passage of this bill, but I do not think it can be said that the con ~nd which have resulted insuchmagni:ficentattainmentinagriculture. ditions which are imposed upon the colleges in regard to the expendi Look again at the sixth section. The terms upon which this money is ture are at all onerous. It may be true, as my colleague bas said, that to be received are ignominious and degrading. Here are these institu the college to which he alluded is doing exactly this work, but even if tions esta.blisbed through a long period of years, accomplishing great it is doing this work it will enlarge its usefulness, its capacity, to give and beneficent results. You propose after subjecting them to this rule of itthismoney, because the money which it is now using for this purpose nniformity and governmental control, to provide how they shall receive it can then devote to something else. I have never heard of any of these this paltry pittance which yon propose to give to them as a donation, institutiona, or in fact ofany other institution except the Treasury of the and you provide that before this money shall be paid to the treasurer of Uni~d States, that had as much money as it wanted. the State there shall be a written stipulation or gnarantee that it will This will enlarge the facility, the capacity, the opportunity of these not be stolen, that it will not be misappropriated, that it shall not be colleges for the performance of the duties for which they were created. applied to the maintenance of the militia, or the care of the insane, or It will give in a large measure arlirection, and, I think, a useful direc the protection of society from depredation. A written stipulation is to tion, to the exercise of their great functions. be :filed by the proper officers that it shall be devoted to the purposes for I do not believe there is any more unconstitutionality, any mora lack which it is appropriated. of Government power, nor any more impropriety in giving $15,000 a That is not all, Mr. President. As if to add the crowning insolence year to each one of the agricultural colleges of the country upon con to the proposition, the officei'S of the State are assumed to be so evilly dition proposed on which the money shall be spent than it is to give disposerl toward this proposition, they are assumed to be so incapable it to them in a lump sum without conditions. I would not vote to of discharging their duties which the State bas reposed in them, so un give to any agricultural college anywhere of money without condition worthy of confidence, that yon require them to give to the General as to its expenditure. Government a bond, which the Sta.te does not exact, and they are re It is not unusual to surround the appropriation of money with con quired, if this bill becomes a law, not only to file their stipulation that ditions as to its expenditure. The Legislature of the State of Kansas the money shall not be stolen or misappropriated, but to give a bond appropriates money each year for the support of the Agricultural Col to the United States Government with satisfactory security in the penal lege of Kansas and attaches a condition to every single dollar of it, as sum of $15,000, with two bondsmen, '•approved by the clerk of a court it ought to do. It is a proper exercise of legislative authOrity. The • 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. l tendency and direction of it is good. We know out of abundant ex by them, tlie colleges to be chartered and goV'emed in accordance with perience here that we can not attach too many conditions usually to the State laws. expenditure of public money which we appropriate out of the Treas I indicated that it was also in my judgment extremely undesirable ury. that any officer of the Federal Government-! will make it broader I shall be glad, so far as I am concerned, to vote for this bill, having than I did then, not making it invidious-should be establishing stand some little interest in the measure, an interest which has been excited ards for work of pri>atc.individuals or private corporations established not by anything evolved out of my own inner consciousness, but ex under State laws. cited by reason of applications which have been made to me by gentle I beg leave to ask that the amendment which I propose in the naturo men connected with the Agricultural College of Kansas, by intelligent, of a substitute for the bill may be read by the Secretary. It will then public-spirited farmers of that State, men whose judgments I would appear in the RECORD, where any one can find it, if that is desirable. ta;k~ against that of my own in regard to matters of this kind, and who I think it provides for e>ery essential object sought by the pending have said to me that they believed the bill ought to pass. For that measure, and it is framed upon the idea I indicated a few moments reason chiefly and because on a critical examination of it I am satisfied ago, t.hat if it is desirable to do something it should be done by a direct that the main object is good, I have given to it my support in committee gift to the States, subject to certain conditions. If there be no objec as I give it on the floor of the Senate. tion, I hope the substitute will be read. If it can be amended so as to do more good than in its present shape The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there be no objection, the Secretary I hope it will be so amended. I am not prejudiced against it in the will read the substitute presented by the Senator from Connecticut. slightest degree because it commits these experiments to the general The SECRETARY. It is proposed to strike out all after the enacting supervision of the Commissioner of Agriculture. He is to-day a Com clause, and insert-- missioMr at the head of a Department. I hope and believe that be Mr. BUTLER. Before the Secretary proceeds with the reading, I fore this Congress adjourns he will be the SecretaryoftheDep~¥tment, should like to inquire of the Senator from Connecticut whether the possessing a dignity by reason of the provisions of positive law, which language of his amendment is the language of the amendment lying will, I hope, require the President to take him into his Cabinet. I upon our tables in print? think, perhaps, that some portion of the distrust of the Agricultural Mr. HAWLEY. The one entitled " Mr. HoAR's amendment? " Department, which finds vent here and elsewhere, will disappear when Mr. BUTLER. Yes. this Department, at sea heretofore very largely, denounced as outside Mr. HA. WLEY. It is, with the exception of a single phrase intro the Constitution, starved in the matter of appropriations, shall be en duced: dowed with functions vital to the great agricultural interests of this To be specially llroviued for by Congress in the appropriations from year to country, and put on a footing with the other Departments of the Gov year. ernment. That is the only change of consequence. There is a minor amend It may be trne that when we come to tn.ke into consideration what ment in line 6 of section 1, inserting the words "as so appropriated." these free stations shall do, the enumeration of their powers and duties There is another minor amendment on line 3 of section 3, inserting may be enlarged; it may be possible that we ought to decide in addition the words '' relating to ; '' and another in line 11 of section 4, insert to somewhat circumscribe the language in which that enumeration is ing the words: contained; but I will venturetosaythatanything like a close scrutiny Said bulletins and reports shall be transmitted through the mails as third of the statutes of the United States enacted during the last ten years class matter. will disclose many a law much more inartificially framed, and yet The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Secretary -will proceed to read losing none of its effects because so framed, than this will be if enacted the proposed substitute. in precisely the terms in which it came from the Committee on Agri The Secretary read as follows : culture and Forestry. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: "That the sum of $15,000 per annum be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, I think that we can err, if we are to err at all, somewhat on the side to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriations from year to of an effort in this direction, in an effort to make our aw-iculture more year, to each State and Territory, for the purposes and under the conditions here productive, in an effort, through the medium of agricultural colleges, inafter described, to be paid quarterly, as so appropriated, beginning with the first of-. reinforced by stations of this kind, established by the General Govern "SEC. 2. That said sum shall be inviolably applied, by each State and Territory ment, and paid by it, to give a wider scope and direction to agricultural which may a~cept and claim the benefit of this act, to the establishment and labor and in aid of profit. maintenance, in connection with the colleges established, or that may hereaf ter be established, in accordance with the provisions of the act approved July Certain1y, looking at the results which have attended this indtistry 2, 1862, entitled • An act donating public lands to the several States and Territo during the last few years, it is worthy a trial at least, to see if, with all ries which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the me that we have done for manufadures, we can not do something for that chanic .art.s,' or any of the supplements of said act, a department to be known as an • agricultural experimenHtation :' Pro'V"ided, That in any State or Territory great industry in which are engaged seven-twelfths of the people of the in which two such colleges may have been or may be so established the appro· United States. priation made by this act shall be equally divided between such colleges, un In our zeal to look after the manufacturing interests of the country less the Legislature of such State or Territory shall otherwise direct. "SEo. 3. That it shall be the object and duty of saW experiment stations to con we have overlooked in a very large measure the men who are without duct original researches or verify experiments re1ating to the physiology of power to combine, who are without the power of association and the plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the consequent power to influence public opinion. They have been over remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their differ ent stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pur· looked during the time when, lavishly, expensively, and even extrav sued under a varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for agantly, we have promoted, out of the revenues of the Government, out acclimation within the i~othermal limits represented by the climate of the sev of the Treasury, taken from the tax-payers of the United States, other eral stations and their vicinity ; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to industries less vital to this Government and the great interests of this test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; t.he adaptation and people than that of the agriculturists. value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic ques So, in the place of a denunciation of this bill, or anything akin to it, tions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches there ought to be an effort to make it what it ought to be. If it is in or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United mtificial, let it be corrected. If it is lacking in scope, let the scope be States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the vary widened. If there is anything in it that ought to come out, let it be ing conditions and needs of the respective States. •• SEC. 4. That the grants of moneys herein authorized are made on the follow put out; but something of this nature is demanded. When I say ''de ing conditions; to which, as well as to the provisions herein before contained, manded,'' I do not mean to say that it comes in the shape of a com the previous assent of the several S tates and Territories shall be signified by mand that we shall do this thing, as something which will put us under legislative acts. "First. It shall be the duty of the chief officer of each station to publish, at penalty if we do not do it, but I do mean to say that the intelligent least once every three months, in cheap and popular form, a bulletin or report organs of opinion, reflecting the interests as they reflect the wishes of of progress, which shall be sent to the Department of Agriculture and to each the agriculturists of the United States, have asked Congress to pass this other experimenHtation established under this act, and furnished at cost, singly or by the year to subscribers. Said bulletins and reports shall be transmitted bill. They believe that it will be of use; and unless somebody with through the mails as third-class matter. more experience or observation than they shall intelligently show to "Second. A full report of the opera tions of each station, including a state the contrary, I am in favor of passing it just as it is if necessary, or by ment of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending June SO, shall be made annually and sent to ea~h other station, and to the Secretary of the Treas making it better, if better we can make it. ury 11.nd the Commissioner of Agriculture of the United States. Mr. HAWLEY. If, in anything I said when I was occupying the "Third. Out of the first annual appropriation under this act a sum not ex· · :floor a short time ago, I seemed to depreciate the value of the Depart ceedingone-fifth of the sum received for each station may be expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or buildings necessary for the ment of Agriculture, I am sorry for it. I would have said the same work of such station, and thereaft-er a sum not exceeding 5 per cent. of such of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of State, the Adjutant- appropriation may be so expended. - General, or a.ny other member of a department of tht> Government, as "Fourth. No State or Territory shall be entitled to the benefits of this act un less it e.A.press its acceptance thereof by its Legislat ure w ithin two years after to the undesirability of its having a joint control over State officers and the date of the approval of the act by the President. State institutions. Everything of the description, everything anal "Fifth. Whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury, from the agous to this, should belong to eitner one or the other of the govern annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations, that a part of the preceding annual appropriation rem a ins unexpended by such sta ments, the State or the National. If the National Go\'ernment desires tion, such sum shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropria-· tO assist and build up, as in the case of the original act, agricultural tion to such station." colleges, let it do so in accordance with what I think was the perfect The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment plan of that bill, by a conditional grant to the States, to be accepted proposed by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. PLUMB]. • CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY 17 726 . ' Mr. D.A. WES. Air. President, I believe that in' Massachusetts the distinctly they bad created a •sepaTate organization and government, agriculturists and all those who have devoted attention to that sub with a corps of officers and professors and all to carry it on. ject are in accord with the general purposes of the bill and are desirous M.r. HOAR. This measure would break it np. ofseeing them carried out in some measure that shall be practicable Mr. D.A. WES. Yes, this measure compels them to give the money and efficient to the ends that are sought. · to the college, but they may think it wise to consolidate these two, I have had some trouble with the construction of the bill, and espe or they may think, for reasons whlcb controlled them in creating the cially with its application to the organization in some of the State~, experimental station, that it is best to keep up the separate station. particularly Massachusetts. Massachusetts has an agricultural college No ill can come from it if they are authorized to apply the benefits ro which is in successful operation and would be entitled under the pro this station. The object of my proviso is to keep up the State control visions of the last section to the benefits of this appropriation, but she in the manner in which the State chooses to carry it on, so far as it can has also a separate experimental station established by law under an en be consistent with the general purposes of the law. tirely separate organization. I have the act here. It is established Mr. PLA.TT. I think the Senator from Uassachusetts is quite right with great distinctness, designed for some purpose (I am not familiar in saying that if the bill is to pass (and I am in favor of the general with the purpose whlch originated it) to be separate from the college. principles of the bill) it ought to be left to the States to decide what Its office:r!J are specified in the law. The governor of the commonwealth they will do with the money in case tbe.re a-re two institutions or more is at the bead of it, and in all respects it is a distinct organization as than one institution where it might be applied. But the case of Massa- much as the college itself: It is carrying on experiments precisely as . chusetts does not resemble the case in Connecticut, as my colleague bas is contemplated by the bill stated. No separate agricultural college was established in Connecti Under the phraseology of the last section the college would have the cut, but the income of the bonds derived from the sale of the scrip was benefit of the provisions of the bill and there would be two separate by statute to be paid over to Yale College to be applied to the Sbeffi~d experimental stations iii Massachusetts whlch would greatly cripple .A.gricu~ural School, which established an agricultural course, and to both of them. It would greatly benefit Massachusetts if they could be which pupils could be admitted free and have the benefit of the fund; combined. For that purpose I ask that if tb~ bill shall be adopted, or and certainly it was within the purposes of the original act, and in con if the substitute shall prevail, that a proviso may be a-dded to the last nection with that an experimental station has been established in Con section. The object of it is to enable the State to obtain· these benefits necticut. But since that time the State has established an entirely and combine the two together either at the college or at the station as independent agricultural school, where, without knowing the exa~t the State shall deem best. The latter bas its laboratory, it has its or facts, I suppose ten, perhaps fifteen, boys get an agricultural education ganization, it has its officers, it bas the governor of the commonwealth to where one does in the Sheffield scientific school. and persons selected from the different agricultural associations to give .A. good many of the farmers of Connecticut think that if this money direction to it, and in all respects it may be carried on precisely with is coming to Connecticut it ought to be applied in some way to an ex all the benefits and safeguards, if the Stat-e should deem that the perimental station in connection with the agricultural school. There wisest way. If, on the other band, the State should think it best to might be a division of opinion about that. I should not be prepared turn over its station to the college by an enactment, then the whole to say to-da.y what would be the best disposition of it, but I do think thing could be consolidated at the college. That is the object of the that that matt-er should be left to the States themselves irr some way. proviso, which I ask may be read. The Senator's proposed amendment would not quite hit the case in Mr. MORRILL. I wish to ask the Senator from Massachusetts if C-onnecticut, but the principle which he tries to incorporate in the bill be does not think it would be better that all ofthese-- is manifestly right. . Mr. BECK. I ask that the proviso may be read, so that we can un The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment derstand what it is before the Senator from Vermont speaks to it. proposed by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. PLu~m]. Mr. MORRILL. Very well _ ~Ir. BECK. I desire to ask the Senator from Mississippi and the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Secretary will read the proviso Senator from Connecticut what they mean by the language ''a depart proposed by the Senator from Massachusetts. The amendment is not ment to be known as an 'agricultural experiment-station?' " and by now in order. It will be read for the information of the Senate. requiring these stations to report to the Commissioner of Agriculture. . The Secretary read as follows: The Department of Agriculture is now struggling to become indepen And pTO'Didedfurthe~·, That in States having colleges cnfitled under this section dent; it· is already a Department; and here seems to be a department to the benefits of this act, and haTing also agricultural experiment-station es within a Department. I wonld prefer some other word, if it would tablished by law separate (rom sa.id colleges, such States !!!hall be authorized to to apply such benefits t.o expeziments at stations so established by such States. answer as well, show that it is only a bureau. Mr. HAWLEY. Does the Senator address his question to me? Mr. BECK. That is all right. :Mr. BECK Either to you or to the Senator from MississippL You Mr. MORRILL. I merely desire to ask the Senator from Massa both employ the su.melanguage. chusetts if he does not think it would be far better if all these ngricult llr. H.A. WLEY. I hardly thlnk the suggestion is applicable to any .nral stations should be connected with the agricultural colleges, whlcb thing in the amendment I propose. Does the Senator refer to the lan have a staff of professers:'all of them a professor of agricultural chemis guage of the second section? try, and a laborat01·y, so that there would be some uniformity. Would Mr. BECK. Line 10. it not be better that Massachusetts should change her State appropria !-Ir. H.A. WLEY. That provides simply for a department of a col tion so that the college in that State could have the benefit of it rather lege-a branch, so to speak, of the old agricultural colleges. than to make a miscellaneous kind of a bill of this sort which would Mr. BECK. I believe that is right. allow such a divergence as I think would not work any good to the 1\Ir. VEST. I must confess my inability to under3tand the differ whole country? ence in principle between this measure and what is known as the Blair :M:r. D.A. WES. I will answer the SenatoT tha.t my first impression educational bill, to which I was certainly oppose~ and 3.oo-ainst which I would be that it would be better, but Massachusetts bas bad a pretty voted. The objection;5 that were made to that bill apply with equal intelligent legislation upon the subject of the promotion of agricult force to this. The only difference between the two bills is as to the ure for a great mn,ny years. She established her agricultural college, subject-matter for which the appropriations are made. There were under the auspices and under the lead of the distinguished Senator some of us who then thought, and for one I still think, that Congress from Vermont, a good many years ago, but in 1883 (I think it was; I did not have the power to thrust its hand into the Treasury of the peo have b~fore me the report for 1885), for considerations which seemed ple and takeout themoneyofthepeople and appropriate it forthepur to the State to be wisest and best, she separated this experimental sta pose of education in the States. I believed then, and I believe now, tion from the college and established it as an independent institution that the subject of education is under control of the States and the under a separate control. It bas the ~vernor of the Commonwealth States alone. Now it is proposed to ~'lke the money of the people out at the head of it. It bas a corps of officers appointed separately, and of the Treasury and apply it to the purpose of agricultural education assistants. in the States. I do not set myself up as a teacher· of agriculture, but there are rea The only difference between the two bills is that the Blair bill pro sons which have controlled the State. I understand the same thing is vided for general education and this bill provides for agricultural edu true in other States. To get the best results, the Senator will see it cation. Those of us who then opposed the Blah· bill were well aware would be better to combine all these efforts, either at the college or at of the distinction which some of us undertook to establish, and in the separate stations. All the proviso requires is to leave the State which I believe, between land belonging to the Government of the to determine for itself which of the two courses it will pursue. United States and money raised by taxation in its Treasury. We Mr. MORRILL. The Senator seems to give dignity to this sepa were then told that there was no difference between the lands and the rate agricultural station because the governor is at the bead of it. money which is the result of taxation of the people. I think the Con I desire to ask him if the governor of the State of ?tiassachusetts is stitution of the United States gives to Congress the power to dispose of not ex officio a member of the board of trustees of the Agricultural the public domain, but there is no power to grant money in tbe Treas College? ury tor the purposes of education in the States, whether it be agricult J!.Ir. D.A. WES. Cert.:'\inly. It is not because· the governor is at the ural education or education in its general features. head of it, but it is because the State of Massachusetts established a There is one single feature of this bill which shows that in the pop· separate st.atiou. I spoke of the organization to show how cle..'trly and_ ular branch of Congress this very question was considered by the Com- ' ' 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 727 mittee; and in order to meet the views of those members who hn.ve this country besides any particular pursuit. Even if this was for the some scruples in regard to the power of Congress to make such an ex benefit of agriculture, I could not vote for a bill which I believe in its penditure it was concluded to put in this saving clause, and it is the principles is directly opposed to the theory of this Government. I last in the bill: agree with the Senator from Kansas [Mr. INGALLS], wl10 :first spoke That nothing in this net shall be construed to impair or modify the legal rela in regard to this measure. He declared his opposition to this perpetu tion existing between any of Lhesaid colleges and the government of the States ally recurring legislation in both branches of Congress that went to in which they are respectively located. strike down all distinction between Federal and State powers until the 1\Ir. GEORGE. That is not in this bill. people of this country are now being educated from day to day that :Mr. VEST. This is identical with the House bill. the States are mere forms without power; that for everything which ~Ir. DAWES. That is in the Senate bill. they seek they must come to Washington city and to the Congress of Mr. VEST. I say it is in the Senate bill, and I am 1·eading it from the United States. the Senate bill, which is identical with the bill reported in the House There are distinctions between Federal and State powers still exist of Representatives. ing. I believe ihat one of them is this, and a fundamental distinction, SEc. 8. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the that the Sta.tes have the exclusi\e control over education. I know legal relation existing between any of the said colleges and the government of the States in which they are respectively located. that we have established here a bureau of agriculture. It is very What is the meaning oft at provision? What is ''the legal relation questionable whether the power to do that exists or not. Some of the existing between'' these colleges and the respective States? In the :first best lawyers in the United States doubted it when it was established section of the bill it is provided: arul doubt it to-day, but it was done, anq that bureau is. now in exist ence. That in order to aid the Department of Agriculture in acquiring and diffusing among tho people of the United States useful and practical information on sub Mr. BECK. A Department. jects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and ex Mr. VEST. It is called a "Department:" but it is really a bure:la periment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science, there constituting one of the :five bureaus in the Interior Department. shall be e tablished, in connection with the college or colleges in each State es tablished. or which may hereafter be established, in accordance with the pro Mr. PLUMB. I beg pardon; it is an independent Department.. visions of an act approved July 2, 1862, enti~led "An act donating public lo.nds Mr. VEST. I know what the law is as well as any of the gentle to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges," &c.- men, I think. It is called a Department, by that name, but it is sim That~' the StateS which may provide colleges- ply a bureau. " for lhe benefit of agriculture a.nd the mechanic arts," or any of the supple Mr. PLill.Q3. Do you mean to say it is under the Secretary of the ments of said act. Interior? Turning to that particular act of which this is an amendment, and Mr. VEST. I mean to say it is one of the five bureaus really in the which established the legal relation between the States and these col practical operation of that Departl)lent. leges, what do we find to be the case? 'Ve :find that Congress assumed Mr. PLUMB. Under the Secretary of the Interior? Then I beg no control whatever over these colleges, that there was a donation of the Senator's pardon. public lands to the respective States for these colleges with exclusive Mr. VEST. It may not be under the Secretary of the Interior. I control on the part of the States over these institutions, and no reser do not mean to say that it is in that sense; but it is not a Department vation of power as to what should be taught, as to what should be of this Government. done. The only provision is that it should be for general agricultural Mr. GEORGE. It has no connection with the Interior Depart purposes. Section 4 of that act provides: ment. That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States Mr. VEST. It is not a separate Department like the War Depart to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbe ment, the Navy Department, or the Department of State. That is fore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than 5 per cent. upon the what I mean to say. I know a bill has been sent ns from the Honse of par value of said stocks; and that the moneys so invested shall constitute-a per Representatives making a minister of agriculture. petual fund, the capital of which shall remain for.ever nndiminish~ (except so Mr. TELLER. The Senator will allow me to say that the Secretary far as may be provided in section 5 of this act), and the interest of wh1ch shall be inviolably appropriated by each State, which may take and claim the benefit of the Interior has no more control over the Commissioner of Agricul of this net, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one col ture and ltis disbursements than he has over the Secretary of the Treas- lege where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learn ing as are related to agriculture nod the-mechanic . • in &"X:!h manner as the ~r. VEST. I understand that, and yet I repeat what I said, that it Legislatures of the States may respectively presc- .be, in order ~romote the is not a Department of this Government as the other great Depart liberal and practical education of the industrial ses in the severa...'.~mrsnits ments are. and profe~sions in life. Mr. TELLER. The head of it is not a Cabinet officer. And subsequent sections provide, in order to put this matter beyo~d Mr. VEST. That is what I mean; and so it is nothing else in the any question, that not one dollar shall be appropriated even for there world but a bureau, called a Department, no matter under whose con pairing of a building. All this is under-the control of the States. trol it is. Congress throughout this whole act especially denies to itself the right I can not vote for this bill, Mr. President. I know I shall subject to say what shall be done with this money, as to the branches which myself to some sort of ridicule as being bound by these old doctrines of may be established in the various colleges, and the different objects of State rights that are held to be obsolete, but my vote must be accord- education therein. ing to my judgment. • But now what does this bill provide? Instead of recognizing this Mr. BUTLER. Mr. President, it is quite well understood that the distinction, it goes on and prescribes eo 9'Wmine what shall be done Senator from Missouri and I agreed when the Blair bill was under con with this money: sideration, and that both of us voted against it and did what we could SEc. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to con duct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and to prevent its passage; but I do not concur with him in saying that this animals ; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies bill is on all fours with the Blair educational bill. I regard it as entirely for the same ; the chemical com position of useful plants at their different stages different. of growth, &c. · This bill, as I understand, simply proposes to appropriate $15,000 a And, more than that, the Commissioner of Agriculture has the power year in aid of each State agricultural college established under the act under this act to put his valuation upon the ingredients of commercial of 1862. The language of the Senator from Connecticut is ancillary or fertilizers, whatever that may mean, and that estimate of his is bind auxiliary to or co-operative with those colleges established at that time. ing upon these experiment stations. While I might have doubted the constitutional power of Congress to Mr. PLUMB. That I am proposing to strike out. If the Senator make the appropriation for the establishment of those colleges, it has had been observant of the proceedings of the Senate, he would have been acquiesced in so long as to have become an acknowledged and known that. accepted fa-ct. Therefore I do not understand that this bill is at all Mr. HAWLEY. And that is wholly omitted in the substitute I likewhatwas known as the Blair educational bill. To that I saw very propose. . serious objections, and still entertain the opinion about that bill which :Mr. VEST. Very good. Then that portion ofmyobjection goes for I expressed at the time it was pending in the Senate. notning; but still.the fact remains that throughout this bill the dis I have read cursorily the amendment offered by the Senator from Con tinction made in the original act of which it claims to be amendatory necticut [1\Ir. HAWLEY] in connection with the bill of the committee, between Federal and State control is. absolutely ignored, and every Sen and I must say that, with the exception of the provision which is pro ator who votes for it as it stands now before the Senate, when the Blair posed to be amended by the proposition of the Senator from Kansas educational bill is brought back here for our consideration at the next [.Mr. PLmrn], I can see very little difference in substance between them. session will b~ estopped from making one single argument against that The bill of the committee simply proposes an appropriation of $15,000 bill which was heretofore made in the discussion. Every Senator who for the establishment in each State of an experimental station in con casts his vote ior this bill casts it in favor of the principles of the Blair nection with the agricultural college established under the act of 1862, educational. bill and must close his mouth against the objections which and the Senator from Missouri [:Ur. VEST] in discussing that bill lost I have quoted here to-day. sight of a very important section, section 3, which pro~des: It is certainly not necessary for me to say that I am not here oppos That the said experiment stations shall be under the direction and control of ing agriculture. The State which I partly represent is one of the the trustees or other governing body of such colleges, who shall have power to largest agricultural States in the Union. But there is something in appoint a director and such assistants a.s may in ·each case be necessary. - . 728 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D--SENATE. JANUARY 17, I The Senator from Connecticut omits that provision from his substi of it. It was said he was visionary, that he made experiments upon tute entirely, and I must say that I am surprised at that, in view of sorghum cane to see whether sugar could be made, and that he estab what fell from that Senator on the question of the rights of the States lished a tea farm or wanted to establish a tea farm. He did establish to control their own domestic affairs in their own way. To my mind one in roy State, and I shall always believe that his successor made a, that is a most valuable provision in this bill. great mistake in not continuing it. He did a great many thinO"S that Mr. ITA WLEY. Will the Senator permit me a moment? were laughed at as visionary and unwise, but he is the only man who Mr. BUTLER. Yes, sir. has been in charge of that bureau since I have known it who has given !fr. HAWLEY. The substitute I dranghted renders it impossible for anything like practical benefit to the farmers of the country. the money to be under any other control, and so the proviso is not nec It was said be was visionary. Well, sir, I am rather inclined to essary. think that visionary people are of great benefit to us. They put prac Mr. BUTLER. I should be very glad if the Senator from Connect tical men to thinking. We are now appropriating $100,000 a year to icut would point out in the original bill as it came from the commit buy seeds, -and I sent some of the seeds assigned to me to one of my tee that this money is under the control of anybody except the State. constituents, I believe purporting to be C.'1bbage seed, and the result If there is anything 'in the bill to that effect I can not see it. It is was that tobacco came lip. [Laughter.] distinctly stated in the bill that the money shall be used in connection Mr. PLATT. And flower seeds came up radishes. [Laughter.] with the colleges established under what was known as the land-scrip Mr. BUTLER. ~Iy friend from Connecticut says flower seeds came act of 1862. In my State there are two colleges getting the benefit of up radishes, and morning-glories are supplied to the Soutb, as my that money, one known as the South Carolina University, a State in friend from Alabama [.Mr. MoRGAN] suggests. I remem her sending a stitution, and the other the Claflin University, endowed by some be package of seeds with some outlandish name, which I shall not at nevolent gentlemen of the State of Massachusetts. The fund is di tempt to repeat, and they turned out to be nothing but China-berry vided equally between them. There is an experimental farm in seed. connection with eacb, one at Orangeburg and the other at Columbia. So, Mr. President, I submit that, if we are going to keep up this De We also have what is known as a department of agriculture, controlled partment, or bureau, of Agriculture, we had better begin to inject into it by a commissioner of agriculture with certain powers under the statute some little practical common sense and divest it of all this hullabaloo, of the State. if I may use the expression, that it is pnt there for the benefit of the I should be very glad to have the amendmentofthegentleman from farmers, and that you must buy $100,000 wortlrof seeds in order to Massachusetts [Mr. D.A WES] adopted. If it be inserted, I shall vote for enable the Senators and Representatives to electioneer with their con tbe bill with the amendment of the Senator from Kansas [Mr. PLUMB] stituents, for that is about all it amounts to. They are used as elec prevailing, because that gives to the States the right to put this matter tioneering measures and my experience has been that in that aspect under the control of the colleges, where they now exist, or under their of the question, it cuts both ways, for if you send a package of seeds department of agriculture, if they should see fit to establish one. to John Smith and leave out Bill Jones at the same post-office, Bill Mr. President, it was very refreshing to me this morning to hear Jones will be certain to get mad. ' sentiments such as those that fell from the Senator from Connecticut Then, sir, upon the whole, I shall vote for this bill appropriating (Mr. HAWLEY] and the Senator from Kansas [Mr. INGALLS], after $15,000 for the establishment of experimental stations and I would the action of this body in using the taxing power of the Government gladly double the amount. I would rather make it$30,000 than $15,- for the purpose of destroying one of the industries of the country at the 000 to each State. a standard up to which all of the fertilizers oftered for sale should come To illustrate-! want to make this p1ain, bec..1.use the Senator from in regard to the ingredients of which they were composed. Missouri, I thought, misunderstood it. Mr. HAWLEY. Mr. President, the Senator from South Carolina Mr. HAWLEY. Will theSenatDr let me finish my remarks? Then did me the honor to include me with the Senator from Kansas [Mr. he can go on with that matter. INGALLS] in observing that we had given him comfort. I am very He says it is but an extension of the Morrill act. Must I repeat the glad of it. He _made a mistake, however, in including me among those provisions of that act again and again, that the money under conditions who bad voted for the Blair educational bill, or among those who had and trust was given to the State, and it was required that the State voted for any pleuro-pneumonia bill in such form that it gave any Legislature should accept that money for that distinct purpose? Now Federal officer a right to go into a State and quarantine or destroy dis if the work of these colleges is to be reconstructed and greatly extended eased cattle. No pleuro-pneumonia act of Con~ress bas any proper in the way proposed, is there any imaginable reason w by the additional force in the United States unless it confines itself to interstate or in grant should not be given precisely in the same way t{) the State Leg ternational commerce or quarantine, and I have voted for nothing to islatures and subject to certain conditions? It certainly will make a the contrary. confusion in the management of these colleges to have two funds, one Ur. BUTLER. I desire simply to interrupt the Senator to say that of them a fund held by the State, which it received from th~ Federal I feel bound to admit that upon most of those questions, the Senator Government, to be disbursed by the State to the college in the usual has, in my judgment, been very sound in regard to his constitutio~al way, and the other a fund for V{hich the officers of the college go t{) the views. Treasury of the United States, making their reports and giving their Mr. HAWLEY. Then I shall admit that the Senator from South bonds there and performing work that they are not required to do by Carolina..is also very sound upon these questions. I point out to him their State charters. Suppose a State in any way materially reorgan that by supporting this bill even after he shall have stricken out the izes its college under the Morrill act and takes away from these offi first fifteen lines of section 4, he will be in section 6 giving some money cers certain duties, they still remain standing out as officers of the Fed to the trustees of a State corporation without asking the leave of the eral Government for a certain purpose, receiving a distinct fund from ' State government in any form, and calling upon those State officials or the Federal Government for which they have neither gratitude nor ob officials of a State corporation to give bonds to the Federal Government ligation unto the ~tate government. Section 8 of the committee bill for certain uses of money not contemplated in the instructions given says: those trustees by State Jaws. ' That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal rela. Under the Morrill act the State created, as it had a right to do, cer tion existing between any of the said colleges and the government of the States tain agricultural colleges, defined the duties of trustees, professors, &c. in which they are respectively located. They accepted the money subject to the conditions imposed. Now, I doubt if the bill could do so, because the original grant was made the Senator would come in, if he approves this bill, and, nominally pur without condition as to revocation of the money, and it has been ac BUing the path of the Morrill bill, would omit its wise precaution of cepted with its conditions. Nevertheless it does attempt to modify the giving the money to the State and asking the State to accept it under duties of the officers created by the original act. condition. He goes around that directly to the trustees of a State cor I want to call attention, if I did not do so sufficiently in my pre poration and seeks to put them under bond to the Treasury of the vious remarks, t{) a certain clause in section 6: United States. That is one of the criticisms I make on the bill. .And to maintain a. farm of at least 25 acres in connection with such college. Mr. GEORGE. Will the Senator allow me t{) interrupt him right If the amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be rejected, I there? trust the friends of the original measure will at least modify that in Mr: HAWLEY. Yes. some important degree. In the amendment I propose that is left to Mr. GEORGE. All of these agricultural colleges, as far as I know, the State as one of the natural things a State might do; keep a tract are State corporations. Their powers, franchises, and capacities were of land; :five acres may be ample for experimental purposes. I know conferred byact of the Legislatures of the several States in which they that less than that quantity answers in Connecticut for a valuable are located and to which they belong. series of experiments in planting and in cultivation. Some of these Mr. HAWLEY. So I said. stations are established, and to buy 25 acres would involve a very Mr. GEORGE. Now, without knowing, for I have not examined all large sum, indeed, unless the land should be purchased at a very con of them, what are the various powers and franchises granted to each one siderable distance from the station. of these colleges, we may at least presume, I think, that they have the Mr. GEORGE. Mr. President, proceeding in the train of thought capacity to receive donations for the purpose of carrying out the objects upon which I was speaking when the Senator from Connecticut cut me for which they were created. I believe there has been no university, off in my remarks, I desire to explain the legal relations of these agri no college chartered, that has not among its capacities and franchises cultural experimental stations to the Government of the United States the power to receive donations in aid ofthepurposesofthe institution. and to the agricultural colleges. If that be true in reference to any agricultural college established in the There i.s no attempt to reorganize the agricultu'ral colleges by this bill. Union, the corporation, the college has in advance the permission of the They stand upon the organization made by the act of 1862, granting State to which it belongs 'to receive these donations, and therefore that tbe land which constitutes their endowment. This bill is but an ex objection is obviated. If it has not that power by the charter. then it tension, as I remarked when I was interrupted in my statement before, can not take any appropriation made by this act unless the Legislature of the powers which were exercised by the Government in the estab shall afterward give its permission for it to take it. lishment of the Agricultural Department. To make that pP.rfectly It is a mere question of power on the part of the corporation. We plain, so that there can be no dispute about it, I have but to call the assume, the Committee on .Agriculture assumed, the presidents of the attention of the Senate to what is being done and has been done every agricultural colleges in convention assembled who recommended this year from the organization of that Department up to the present time. bill all assumed that their various charters granted by the several States The object of that Department being to aid in developing agricul authorize them to receive this money. If they have that capacity by ture, what do we do first? We send out seeds. We are supposed to State law, then we havenot invaded State sovereignty by making this send seeds to the various States of the Union with the view of enabling offer. the people in the States receiving them to make experiments by plant Mr. HAWLEY. Nevertheless you have departed entirely from the. ing them and deter·mine whether they are valuable 1or that purpose in theory of the original act to which this is an amendment, an addi particular loc.'l.lities or not. We are making an experiment when we tion, and I submit that there is a material and very great difference send seeds. That is the object of sending the seeds, and we employ, in between a subscription made to a college in the ordinary way, whether the making of that experiment, the persons to whom the seeds are sent dedicated to any particular trust or not, and a gift by the Federal and require them to report. Government which requires bonds from the trustees and impClses upon What is the next thing we do? We collect every year, or at least them a great enlargement of the duties they have under the State the Commissioner does, what is supposed to be valuable agricultural charter, changes radically the . constitution of the college, requires information, and we distribute that by the publication of a large num labor that has never been done there, and asks them t{) give bonds to a ber of his report. We go o,nother step, and we :find that the Agricul Federal Department. It is substantially the reconstruction of a State tural Department has been charged directly by acts of Congress with colle~e without permission of the State. It is asking these men to the duty of making experiments on agriculture under its own super undertake a large additional work and to give bonds for doing it, vision. Why, there was a sorghum farm here under the control of the while the State bas imposed upon them a different labor. .Agricultural Department; there was a tea farm under the control of The Senator says the State will consent. I have no doubt of it. Whv the Agricultural Department, as was mentioned by the Senator from not therefore give it to the State on certain conditions as we made tb'e South Carolina. These were purely experiments. Then we went fur original grant, and let the State impose additional duties on its own ther than that. We gave money and directed the Agricultural De officers? partment to make experiments to find out whether sugar could be Mr. GEORGE. Rigllt here I would like to make an explanation of made out of sorghum. We have been constantly making experiments this bill on a point that seems to be greatly misunderstood. These ex in agriculture through the Ag1·icultural Department. perimental stations are really but an extension of the Agricultural De This bill differs from those bilJs in this and in nothing else, that in partment of the General Government; that is all; and they rest and the stead of requiring the Agricultural Commissioner to superintend di provisions of this bill and the power to pass it rest upon the same iden · rectly in person these experiments, he is simp]y authorized (and I call tical power which enabled Congress to establish . the Agricultural De the attention ofthe Senator from Connecticut especially to that point) partment. to employ as the ,agents of the Government the various agricultural 730 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- -SENATE. JANUARY 17, colleges in the United States for the purpose of making experiments. tees until they first agree-that is, execute an agreement under their It seems to me that the only question is, not a question of power, as corporate seal, manifesting, approving the agreement or assent of the suggested by the Senator from Connecticut and the Senator from Mis trustees to receive the money and to expend it according to the terms souri, but whether the agencies which we propose to employ in the of the act. That is nothing more than that assent on their part as a. making of these experiments are proper agencies. I think t~ey are.. I condition-precedent to their receiving the money, no bond, no obliga think no better agency can be employed by the Government m making tion required. Now I read again: experiments in agriculture than the agricultural colleges themselves. But no sueh payment shall be made to any station until the trustees or other !tis their business; they are already engaged in it; and it seems to me, governing body oi the college at which such station is located shall have exe cuted;- under their corporate seal, and filed with the Secretary of the Treasury, with due deference to Senators, that they are the proper parties tp be an agreement to expend all moneys received under this act for the ss.le and ex employed. clusive purpose and in the manner herein directed. Mr. President, it is objected, I believe, by the Senator from Kansas :M:r. HOAR. Read on. and also by the Senator from Connecticut that we undertake to in>ade J.Ir. GEORGE- State authority to the extent that we provide that State officials shall ~nd to maintain a farm of at least 25 acres in connection with such college. give bond to this Government. . Let us see what that means when it is analyzed. .As I said when I was first up, no agricultural college can Now that ends ·aU that is embtaced in the agreement, the assent of receive this money unless in its charter it has capacity to receive it. the trustees, and it is manifestly proper that they should execute an If it has that capacity it has got it from the State which granted the agreementofthat sort. You cannot convey to anybody anything un charter. Having the capacity to receive, having the capacity to be less that body is willing to receive it. employed as the agent of the Government, and being only employed by Mr. HOAR. Now re:ul on. the Government as an agent in making these experiments, and it ~1r. GEORGE. I read on: being settled, as I think I have shown, that they are the proper, the and shall also- most proper, agencies to be intrusted with this duty, then the question In addition to this agreement, which is a mere assent of the trustees is when the Government has employed an agent or a person, whether to receive the money and to pledge their honor to appropriate it accord artificial or natural, in the performance of a duty which requires a ing to law-in addition to that, says the bill- disbursement" of money advanced by the Government to that person and shall also have executed and filed with said Secretary their bond- whether it is a proper safeguard and precaution on the part of the Gov No corporate seal there; "their bond," their individual bond- ernment advancing the money to this agency to take a bond requiring in the penal sum of $15,000, with two sufficient sureties, approved by the clerk the money to be faithfully expended and accounted for; and that is aU of a court of record in snch State, conditioned on the faithful expenditure of and there is in it.- accounting for all moneys so received. :Mr. HOAR. When it is convenient to the Senator I wish to ask him This is very plain. If it had been inte~ded that the bond.should be a question on that point. executed by the trustees in their corporate capacity on behalf of the Mr. GEORGE. I am ready now. college, there was no necessity whatever for any agreement to be made 4 Mr. HOAR. I see that this proposition is that ' the trustees or other about it, because the bond itself was the agreement. The two provis governing body of the college" shall execute this bond " under their ions are inconsistent with the idea that both mean the same thing, and corporate seal." Now, is it not true. that such a bond as that w:oul~ the language used is also inconsistent with the idea. Now, let us see be binding upon the trustees and the1r successors, not upon the rndl what the agreement is. The agreement is to be under the corporate vidual members of the board but upon the trustees as a corporation? seal of the corporation. That is a pledge of honor; that is the assent Mr. GEORGE. What part of the section? of the corporation to receive; that is a statement on their parh that Mr. HOAR. On the fifth page, sixth section, thirteenth and four they are willing to receive this fund and apply it properly; and now teenth lines. If there is anything in my point it cn.n easily be avoided what do they promise to do? They promise- by an amendment. It is not important to..the substance. This is a To expend all moneys received under this act • * * in the manner herein State corporation, a political corporation, a public corporation, having directed, and to maintain a farm of at least 25 acres in connection with such only such propertiesin its control as the State has furnished it with, college. except a certain gift from the United States which it received in the That is what they agree in the agreement. Now, let us see what past under the old bill. they agree in the bond to do: Now this bill requires this board to execute under its corporate seal And shall also have executed and filed with said Secretary their bond, in the an obllgation of pecuniary responsibility, to wit, that it will appropri penal sum of $15,000, with two sufficient sureties, approved by the clerk of a ate properly, according to the bill, the "moneys received." That ob~i court of record in such State, conditioned on the faithful expenditure of and ac gation will be binding upon the successors of the corporation and will counting for all moneys so received. be enforcible against any trust funds in their hands. You are asking, That is their obligation. The other is the mere a.sSent. The obli then, without consent of the State, that aStatecorporation clothed with gation is personal and also supplemented with the personal responsi a public duty, intrusted with the State public funds, shall execute an bility of two additional securities. That is not required to be executed obligation binding upon thosefuudsin the hands of the successors of the under the corporate seal of the corporation. That is omitted ex indus particular trustees who execute the bond. The Senator from Vermont trid. The fact that it was mentioned in the first place in reference to (Mr. EDMUNDS] says to me~ private that tha~ poll?-t had alr~-dy m_et the agreement, which embraces things not embraced in the bond, is his attention, and that there IS an amendment m eXIStence which will conclusive evidence, when it is omitted in the next clause, which re remedy it. If that is so it is not necessary to trouble the Senate with lates wholly to the bond, that the corporate seal was not to be annexed, it now. that it was to be the private, personal obligation of the trustees and Ur. GEORGE. No such amendment has bee adopted. their sureties. Mr. HOAR. No, it has not been adopted. My point was to ask the Mr. HOAR. May I not ask the Senator a question ? Senator if the bill should not be amended in that respect. Mr. GEORGE. Yes, sir. Mr. GEORGE. Now, Mr. President, theanswertothe Senatorfrom :Mr. HOAR. The Senators interpretation of this section does not Massachusetts is a very plain one, and I think I shall make it so plain meet my assent, though he thinks it is very plain. I think it would that there will be no controversy or confusion about it. be very easy to show that he is mistaken; but assuming for the mo Mr. HOAR. My proposition would lead to this result: that would ment the Senator's proposition to be true, take the case, for instance, oJ be an illegal bond. You cannot say to the Treasurer of the State of South Carolina. I am informed that the trustees of the Agricultural M~chusetts or Mississippi, ''You shall execute a bond binding on College of South Carolinaarethegovernorand the judges ofthe supreme your successors, and on the State funds which come to their hands, to court. Now, does.the Senator think it reasonable that the governor of perform a certain function entrusted to you by the United States, or a State and the judges of its supreme court should be called upon to any other authority," any more than the State couldrequiretheTreas give their individual bonds with sureties for the expenditure of a sum urer of the Unit-ed States to bind money in the Treasury by some ob of money which may fall into the han~ of their successors at any re ligation he should take. mote pe1iod? Mr. GEORGE. Of course they could not do that. Now, the an The money may be received the day before the governor goes out of swer to that is very plain. If the Senator from Massachusetts will office, the day before the judge dies or resigns. Would you require give me his attention I think I can convert him. In the first place, official persons in every State and commonwealth, especially an official this bill does not mean that the bond shall be executed by the trustees of the dignity and character of the State officers, who~ ~his office of in their corporate capacity. trustee of these State colleges, to give personal bond, cond1tioned for the Mr. HOAR. Read the fourteenth line. faithful application by their successors in office of sums of money? Mr. GEORGE. I will read it and I will show that it does not: They might be made liable, as it is said a late Commissione1· of Agri But no such payment shall be made to any station until the trustees or other culture is, for an incorrect interpretation of the law. It seems to me governing body of the college at which such station is located shall have exe cuted under their corporate seal, and filed with the Secretary of the Treasury, a result so monstrous that the court never would put that construction an agreement to expend all moneys received under this act for the sole and ex·· upon it, and they would say that both these things nre acts binding elusive purpose aud in the manner herein directed. upon the trust fund in the hands of the trustees and importing no per That is the agreement they are to execute, which is nothing more sonal obligation whatever. Does the Senator think that a reasonable than an assent on the part of the corporate authorities to receive the thing to do? money on the terms and conditions specified in the act. That clause M:r. GEORGE. The criticism of the Senator from Massachusetts ex is for that entirely. Of course the money is not to be paid to the trus- pends its whole force upon the supposed or alleged impropriety of the 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 731 legislation, and does not touch the question of the meaning of the legis clerk of a court, is required and authorized to spprove a bond executed lation. by these trustees or sureties· in the sum of $15,000 con~tioned on the It might be an onerous charge placed upon the governor of South faithful expenditure of the money? Carolina and the judges of the supreme court of that State to execute I confess that is rather a queer mixture of the authorities of the two .the bond; it may be too onerous; but the fact that the law requires governments in connection with this business. When we come to an them to execute the bond is very plilln. You can not argue that the alyze the subject the State is left out., except simply that there is a com plain words of the statute, as I have read and expounded them, do not plimentary mention made of it by reference to the clerk of one of its mean what they say, because it is imposing an obligation upon these courts, a court of record. It has no more authority over this money men which they would not likely be willing to assume. after we appropriate it than I have. An act of the State Legislature But, Mr. President, e>en on that point he Senator fails. The argu· would not touch it. A direction of the State Legislature to its own ment will not stand even on the attempt to show the impropriety of the corporation as to how it shall expend this money and how it shall ac legislation, because werequireontsidesureties to sign the bond. Would count for it would ne>er touch the subject at all. it not be as unreasonable to expect the officers of the college themselves The board of trustees of this State corporation would say: "Your acts to be unwilling to sign the bond for an obligation which might have to go for nothing, because we are not oblige_d to account to you in any way be performed by their successors as it would be that sureties would whatever. You have made no appropriation of this money; yon can sign the bond over which they had no control whatever? not make any. It was not given to you to appropriate. Your assent But then the statute must recei>e a reasonable construction, and if is not required in any part of this bill to anything that we do. We the Senator's objection was good, as I think I have shown that it is are entirely independent of you in the expenditure of this $15,000, un not, it does not weigh a feather in my opinion against the propriety of accountable to you for the manner of its expenditure, and therefore we the provision, unless Senators are willing to donate this money and to have nothing to do with you in respect of the.disposal to be made of employ these agencies without any security whatever as to the faithful this fund." application of the money. · That is the bill. If there is anything else in it in which the State has For this reason, if his construction of the bill be correct and we re the slightest interest or power, I fail to perceive it. quire the official corporate obligation of these trustees so that it binds Now the amendment of the Senator from Connecticut comes in, and the funds of the college, then they have no power to execute such ob it proposes to bestow this money upon the State and to allow and re- . ligation by reason of the requirement here. It can only be by virtue quire the State to appropriate and to apply it to the specific purposes of a power conferred upon them by the State Legislature, and if the named in this act. That is something which we can understand. State Legislature is willing to endow them with the power of executing There is not a commingling of authority and a division of responsi such a bond I do ·not see why we can complain. bility and accountability but that is clear and clean. We understand So at last it comes to this: Ifthey have no such power by the charter that when this money goes to the State it goes for a specific purpose; or by the lawsofthe State under which they act, this proposed statute that the State must take it and appropriate it to that purpose, and can does not confer the power upon them. If they have such power, then not appropriate it to any other; and that is the end of it. if it be right in appropriating this large sum of money for us to require Could it have been the purpose under the guise, yes, the deceptive an obligation for its faithful application and accounting, it is but a guise, of paying this little compliment to the States, to draw this money proper exercise of the power on- the part of these authorities conferred into the hands of these boards of trustees of these State corporations, on them by the Legislature of the State. . to be expended entirely by the Government of the United States . Mr. MORGAN. Mr. President, when this bill was brought in I through its agents, and to be accounted for to the Secretary of the supposed it was a bill to apply or appropriate money to the States to Treasury, with a view of convincing the people of the United States be disbursed by the States in the establishment of agricultural experi that the money we are bestowing upon these agricultural colleges is mental stations. On carefully reading the bill I see that that is not money handed over to the States for these purposes? Ifso, sir, it is en t,he case. It is a. bill appropriating money to be expended under the tirely illusory. There is not a lawyer; I think, in the world who can direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture by the trustees of the work out the proposition that the State has the slightest interest in agricultural colleges, with a responsibility secured by bonds and secur this money or the slightest control over it under the terms of the bill. ities directed to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States in If we intend to give it to the colleges directly, let us do so. What accounting for the money, and the only mention.that is ma-de of the is the use of mentioning the State when it has no power in connection State in this bill is as follows: wit.h the subject? Let us give it directly to the colleges, if we intend That for the purpose of paying the salaries and wages of the director and to do it. If e intend to give it.,to the States for the purpose of en otheremployesofsaidstations "' * * the sumofS15,000per annum is hereby appropriated to each State. abling each of them, according to its best judgment, its experience, and the wisdom of its policy, to bestow the money in the nurture and ex That is all; the money is to be appropriated to each State in this pansionoftheseagriculturalexperimental stations, let us do it. Let us Union by a.ct of Congress. The State would be the party, naturally, do one thing or the other. . that under anyordinary bill would be entitled to draw the money, and Mr. INGALLS. Will the Senator from Alabama yield to a motion would be required and entitled also to dispose of it; but after saying to proceed to the consideration of executive business? that the money is appropriated to the State, what is the next step in Mr. ~fORGAN. Yes, I will yield for that purpose. the bill? Mr. INGALLS. I move that the Senate proceed to the consid-eration To be paid in equal quarterly payments, on the 1st day of January, ApriL July, of executive business. and October in each year, to the treasurer or other officer dnly appointed by the aforesaid boards of trustees to receive the same. Mr. EDMUNDS. Pending that motion I move that the Senate ad journ. It is so late that we can not do anything in executive session. The money is appropriated to the State. The board of trustees, or 1\Ir. MORGAN. Will the Senator from Vermont allow me to offer an the officer appointed by them, must receive the same; the first pay amendment to the bill? ment to be made on the 1st of July, &c. Mr. EDMUNDS. Yes. But no such payment shall be made "to any station until the trustees or other 1t1r. MORGAN. I propose an amendment to the bill, which I send governing body of the college at which such station is located shall have exe cuted, under their corporate seal, and filed with the Secretary of the Treasury, to the desk. nn agreement to expend all moneys received under this act for the sole and ex The PRESIDENT pro tempore: The amendment will be received clusive purpose and in the manner herein directed. and ordered to be printed. The Senator from Vermont moves that the That is the first agreement. Senate do now adjourn. And to maintain a farm of at least 2.3 acres in connection with such college. The motion was agreed to; and (at 5 o'clock and 10 minutes p.m.) That is the second branch of this honorable undertaking. the Senate adjourned· until to-morrow, Tuesday, January 18, at 12 Now, we have it that the money is being paid to the trustees or their o'clock m. agent. It is being expended under the direction of the board of trust ees upon an agreement that they will do two things: that they will expend it in accordance with the act, and that they will maintain a HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. farm of at least 25 acres in connection with the agricultural college. • Further, in order to make it perfectly plain that the relationship is 1\IoNDAY, January 17, 1887. directand unbroken between the Government of the United States and the management of these stations and the board of trustees and all of The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. their agentB, a further guarantee is put into the bill: H. MILBURN, D. D. of And shall also have executed and filed with said Secretary their bond in the The Journal of the proceedings Saturday was read and approved. penal sum of$15,000, with two sufficient sureties, approved by the cle;·k of a LR.A. VE OF .ABSENCE. court of record in such State- By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows: Not approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, bnt approved by the To Mr. SNYDEB, for one week, on account ofimportant business. clerk of a court of record in the State- To ~r. FoBNEY, indefinitely, on account of sickness in his family. ~~~~~d~ed on the faithful expenditure of and accounting for all moneys so To Mr. DoCKEBY, for this day, on account of sickness. Can anything be more palpable than that the State has nothing to HENRY .A.. P.A.US. do with this except the mere mention of the name of the State as a Ur. O'DONNELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to dis party to whom the appropriation is made, and that a State officer, a charge the Committee of the Whole House from the further consider- 732 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 17;. - ation of the bill (H. R. 1261) for the relief of Henry A. Pans, and of 'Vorcester County, and its courts are in session almost without intermission. Its population is o\·er ';0,000. It is the second city in the Sta te in population, put it upon its passage. The objection which was heretofore made to wealth, and business. Its population is largely engaged in mechanical pursuits, the bill bas been withdrawn provined an amendment striking out cer and it owes its peculiar growth and prosperity largely to the fact that its busi· tain words in the bill is adopted. I have no objection to the amend ness establishments are owned by individuals rather than by corporations, and by residents rather than by non-reside nts. ment. The following statistics show the business ofthe Worcester post-office ns com The SPEAKER. The bill will be read subject t.o objection. pared with that of the other cities of Massachusetts: The bill is as follows: Free deliven; or carri.e1· service, yea·r ending Jw1e 30,1885. B e il enat:ted., &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to remove the charge of desertion resting upon the military record of Henry A .. Pans, late a private in Company K, Nineteenth Regiment IJlinois Volunteers, and to issue to the said Henry A. Pans an honorable discharge from said organization as of the 20th day of April, 1862; and the said Henry A. Pans shall be entitled to the same pay, bounties, and benefits as if he, on said Offioo. 20t.h day of April, 1852, had been lawfully discharged or mustered out of Com pany K, Ninteenrh Regiment Illinois Volunteers. Mr. 0 1DONNELL. The Clerk.will please read the proposed amend ment. The Clerk read as follows: 12 · Fall River...... 2, 519,941 It is proposed to strike out all the remainder of the bill after the words "sixty 11 Ne\v Bedford ...... 3,663,033 two, •· in line '9; as follows: 16 Lowell...... 3, 639, 439 "And the said Henry A. Pau& shall be entitled to the same pay, bounties, and 12 Springfield...... 3, 265, 357 benefits as if he, on said 20th day of April, 1862, had been lawfully discharged 16 Worcestt-r ...... 4,202,882 or mustered out· of Company K, Nineteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteers.'' 1iir. OATES. With that amendment, I witl1draw the objection I PosfaZ statistics, fiscal y ear cndlng June 30, 1885. made to the bill before. Mr. TAULBEE. Has this been reporteu by the Committee on Mili- Popula- 1 Office. Gro~s re-1 Net reve- tary Affairs favorably? . tion. celpts. nue. · Mr. O'DONNELL. Yes, sir; they make a Yery strong report in its I :favor. 58,000 Fall River ...... $27,632 53 $10,400 27 The amendment was agreed to. 33,393 Ne'v Bedford ...... 42,400 63 26,195 71 The bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed for n. third reading; 49,000 Lynn ...... 41,388 40 20 994 60 and being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time, and passed. 64,051 Lowell ,...... 7fl,661 26 49:492 55 40,000 Springfield ...... 73,770 33 50,770 62 Mr. O'DONNELL moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill 70,000 Worcester ...... 86,0f57 M 53,811 47 was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider he laid on the table. The latter motion was agreed to. .Statistics, year ending June 30, 1885. MO~Y-ORDER BUSU."ESS, 0. F. ADAMS. Receipts ...... $134, 968 21 Mr. SKINNER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous .consent to discharge Payments...... 186,305 11 i11e Committee of the Whole House from the further consideration of Total...... 321, 273 32 the bill (H. R. 9868) for the relief of 0. F. Adams, and pntit upon its Receipts from stamps, postal cards, stamped envelops, &c., in 1883, passage. The objection which was made to the bill a few days ago is under 3-ceut rate of postage, fiscal year ending June 30, 1883...... 96,743 3G withdrawn provided the amendment which I shall offer is adopted, to Expenses...... 28, 812 76 strike out of the bill the last three words, "between the States," and Net revenue ...... :...... 67,930 60 insert the words u of the Te bellion." The SPEAKER. The bill will be read, subject to objection. In 1885, under 2-cent rate...... 86,087 04 The bill is as follows: Expenses ...... ,...... 32,275 57 Be it enaeucl &c., That the sum of $1,450 be, and the same is hereby, appro Net re>enu e...... 53,811 47 priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay 0. F. Adams, of Washington, N. C., for SCjfvices rendered the Government dur MAIL MATTETI. ing the war between the States. Number pieces mail handled: The amendment was agreed to. By carrier ...... 4,202,882 Delivered through boxes and general delivery ...... 2,!J20,349 The bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading; Mail matter of all classes mailed and dispatched ...... 8,S27,6L3 and being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time, and passed. Mail in transit ...... 3, 745,738 Mr. SKINNER moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was Registered mail...... ----62,160 was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the Total number pieces handled...... 19, 258, 742 table. Number mails sent and receiv The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration of time, referred to t.he Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to the bill? be printed. Mr. STORM. I object. GEORGE UNKS. Mr. COWLES. I call for the regular order. Mr. HOWARD introduced a bill (H. R. 10681} granting a pension ORDER OF BUSINESS. to George Unks; which was read a first and second time, referred to The SPEAKER. This being Monday, the regular order is the call the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. of States and Territories for the introduction and reference of bills and .A.LE.X.A.NDER B. BUSHNELL. joint resolutions. On this call memorials of State and Territorial legis Mr. HOWARD also introduced a bill (H. R. 10682} granting a pen latures-are in order for reference; alt;o resolutions of inquiry addressed sion to Alexander B. Bushnell; which was read a first and second time, to beads of Departments, a.s well as resolutions providing for changes referred t.o the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. in the rules of the House. WILLIA~I R. ROBBINS. LA GRANGE COLLEGE. Mr. HOWARD also rn:troduced a bill (H. R. 10683) granting a pen- Mr. WHEELER introduced n. bill {H. R. 10671) for the relief of La sion to William R. Robbins; which was read a first and second time, Gr::tnge College; which was read a first and second time, referred· to the referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed . . Committee on War CJaims, and ordered to be printed. 1\IARY ANY HARDEN. J. w. ANDREWS. ~ir. HOWARD also introduced a bill {H. R. 10684) granting a pen- hlr. WHEELER also introduced a bill {H. R. 10672) for the relief sion to Mary Ann Harden; which was read a first and second time, re of J. W. Andrews; which was read a first aml second time, referred to ferred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordeted to be printed. PAULINE T. CARPENTER. SUITS TO ANNUL LAND PATENTS. Mr. HOWARD also introduced a bill (H. R. 10685) granting a pen .. Mr. MORROW introduced a bill (H. R. 10673) providing a limi~'l. sion to Pauline T. Carpenter; which was read a first and second time, tion for suits by the United States to vacate and annul land patents; referred to the Committee on Im·alid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. EPHRAIM S~ALL WOOD AND OTHERS. Mr. HOWARD also introduced a bill (H. R. 10686) for the relief · C. .A.. WILLIAMS AND OTHERS. of Ephraim Smallwood, George Smallwood, Jesse M. Browning, Allen Mr. WAIT introduced a bill (H. R. 10674) for the relief of C. A. Goss, and Frank Varney; which was read a first and second time, re Williams and others, owners of the schooner Era; which was read a ferred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. fir:>t and. second time, refened to the Committee on Claims, and ordered WILLIS OLIVER. to be printed. WINDSOR .A..ND SOUTH WINDSOR, CONN. Mr. HOW.ARD also introduced n. bill (H. R. 10687) granting a pen sion to Willis Oliver: which was read a first and second time, referred Mr. BUCK introduced a bill (H. R. 10675) for the relief of the towns to the Committee on. Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. of Windsor and South Windsor, Conn., on account of damage done to Bissell's Ferry; which was read a first and second time, referretl to CAPT. ROBERT G. S::UITIIER. the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. 1\Ir. BROWNE, of Indiana (by Mr. STEELE), introduced a bill (H. JOSEPH A. WOODSWORTH. R. 10688) for the relief of Capt. Robert G. Smither; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, :J\Ir. LORE submitted a resolution for thereliefof Joseph A. Woods and ordered to be printed. worth; which was read, and referred to the Committee on Accounts. GEORGE W. LEIPPS. ADDITIONAL LAND DISTRICT IN FLORIDA. Mr. STEELE (by request) introduced a. bill (H. R. 10689) for the · Mr. DAVIDSON, of Florida, introduced a bill {H. R. 10676) pro relief of George W. Leipps, Company K, Fortieth and Fifty-first Ohio viding for the establishment of an additional land district in the State Volunteers; which was read a first and second time, referred to the of Florida; which was read a first and second time, referred t.o the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. · Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. INDIANA KUHN. PUBLIC BUILDING, PENSACOLA, FLA. Mr. CONGER introduced a bill (H. R. 10690) granting n. pension to Mr. DAVIDSON, of Florida, also introduced a bill (H. R. 10677) pro Indiana Kuhn; which was read a first andsecond time, referred to the viding for the completion of the public building in the city of Pensa Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. cola, Fill.; which was read a first and second time, referred t.o the Com JOHN BOLES. mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Mr. STRUBLE {by request) introduced a. bill (H. R. 10691) grant GEORGE E. SANFORD. ing a pension to John Boles; which was read a first and second time, Mr. LAWLER introduced a bill {H. R. 10678) to relieve George E. referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be Sanford of the charge of desertion; which was read a first and second printed. time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be JOliN G. HASSON. printed. ~Ir. HEPBURN introduced a bill (H. R. 10G92) granting a pension CONSIDERATION OF BII..L H. B. 69i7. to John G. Hasson, of Waldon, Iowa; which was read aprst and sec Jtfr. SPRINGER submitted the following resolution; which was read, ond time, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be and referred to the Committee on Rules : printed. ResoZtJed, That Saturday, January 22, after the reading of the Journal, be set LAKE INl\I.A N1 KANSAS. apart for the consideration in the House of House bill No. 6977, relating to the compensation and duties of United States att01·neys, mai'Shals, and commission Mr. PETERS introduced a bill (H. R. 10693) granting title to the ei'S, and for other purposes. Northwestern Town Company, of Topeka, Kans., to Lake Inman, in BUSINESS OF COIDIITTEE ON THE TERRITORIES. McPherson County, Kan8as; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. SPRINGER also submitted the following resolution; which was read, and referred to the Committee on Rules: BENJAMIN DABNEY. Resolved, That Tuesday and Wednesday, January 25 and 26, be set apart, after Mr. WOLFORD introduced n. bill (H. R. 10694) granting a pension the reading of the Journal, for the consideration in the House of bills reported to Benjamin Dabney, late a private of Company F, Thirteenth Ken from the Committee on the Territories. tucky Cavalry; which was rea-d a first and second time, referred to the NOAH W. HALLEY. Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. W A'RD, of Indiana, submitted a resolution for the payment to PROSECUTIONS AGAINST INDIANS. Noah W. Halley of the difference between the com pens.1.tion of a folder Mr. ROBERTSON introduced a bill (H. R. 10695) to 1·egulate the and a messenger during the period of his service as messenger; which prosecutions against Indians for crimes committed in the Territories;. was read, and referred to the Committee on Accounts. which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on THOMAS F. TOWNSEND. the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Mr. MATSON introduced a bill (H. R. 10679) to increase the pen J...\.1\IES D. :M'KENZIE. sion of Thomas F. Townsend; which was read a first and second time, Mr. McCREARY introduced a bill (H. R. 1069G) for the relief of referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be James D. McKenzie, of Lincoln County, Kentucky; which was read a printed. first and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and FINTON A. STROuP. ordered to be printed. Mr. FORD introduced a bill (H. R. 10680) granting a pension to HENRY MORRIS. Finton A. Stroup, late a private in Company E, One hundred and fifty- Mr. McCREARY also introduced a bill (H.R. 10697) granting a pen- second Regiment Indiana Volunteers; which wasreadafirst and second sion to Henry Morris, of Jackson County, Kentucky; which was re,ad a 734 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 17, first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, QUARANTINE STATION, SHIP ISLAND, MISS. and ordered to be prin_ted. Mr. V A.N EATON introlluced a bill (H. R. 10713) to authorize the JESSE P. RIFFE. removal of the quarantine station from Ship Island, Miss.; which was Mr. McCREARY also introduced a bill (H. R. 10698) for the reliet read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, of Jesse P. Riffe, of Lincoln County, Kentucky; which wasreadafirst and ordered to be printed. - and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered JAMES W. SAUNDERS. to be printed. Mr. MORGAN (by Mr. V .AN EATON) introduced a bill (H. R. 10714) 1\L BARLOW. for the relief of James W. Saunders; which was read a first and second Mr. McCREARY also introduced a bill (H. R. 10699) for the benefit time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be of M. Barlow, of Richmond County, Kentucky; which was read a first printed. and second time, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered W. H. WADE. to be printed. Ur. WARNER, of Missouri, introduced a bill (H. R. 10715) for the J .A.l\IES W. HOW Aim. relief of W. H. Wade, late a captain in Thirty.first Ohio Volunteer In· Mr. McCREARY also introduced a bill (H. R. 10700) for the relief fantry; which was read a first and second ~me, referred to the Com of the heirs of James W. Howard, deceased; which was read a first mittee on War Claims, and ordered to be prrnted. and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and or dered to be printed. 1\IRS. 1\IABY J. JACKSON HORD. J.A.l\IES !-L CHANDLER. Mr. W .ARNER, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. 10716) for Mr. LAFFOON introduced a bill (H. R. 10701) for the relief of the relief of Mrs. Jifary J. Jackson Hord, of Independence, · Mo.; James M. Chandler; which was read a first and second time, referred which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. War Claims, and ordered to be printed. LIGHT-HOUSES, CIDCOT P .ASS .AND GRAND LA.KE. BRIDGE ACROSS MISSOURI RIVER. Mr. GAY introduced a bill (H. R. 10702) to establish light-houses Mr. WARNER, of Missouri, also entered a bill (H. R.10717) to au at Chicot Pass and Grand Lake, State of Louisiana; which was read a thorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and most accessible point between the city of Kansas and the town ofSibley, ordered to be printed. in the county of Jackson in the State of Missouri; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce,andor FEES FOR OFFICIAL SERVICES TO .A..MERIC.AN VESSELS. dered to be printed. Mr. DINGLEY introduced a bill (H. R. 10703) to amend an act to WILLIAM. J. SCARBOROUGH. abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the lawB relating to shipping commissioners, seamen, and own Mr. STONE, ·of Missouri, introduced a bill (H. R. 10718) granting a ers ofvessels and for other purposes; which was read a first and sec pension to William. J. Scarborough; which was readafirstandsecond ond time referred to the Select Committee on American Ship-building time referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be and Ship:owning Interests, and ordered to be printed. prm'ted. .A.J.""'fN C. GUTHRIE. GOLD AND SIT. VEB LEGAL-TENDER CERTIFICATES. Mr. STONE, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H.R.10719) granting :Ur. FlNDLAY introduced a bill (H. R. 10704) to make gold and · a pension to Ann C. Guthrie; which was read a first and second time, silver coin jointly legal tender; to authorize the ~e of legal-tender referred to the.Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. certificates for halfgold and halfsil ver coin; and to provide that the fond for redeeming Treasury notes, and that the coin reserves of national JOHN H. NELSON. banks shall be held half in gold coin and half in silver coin; which Mr. STONE, of Missouri, also intro_duced a bill (H. R. 10720) for the was ~ad a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Banking relief of John H. Nelson; which was read a first and second time, re and Currency, and ordered to be printed. • ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. JULIA B. SCIIOEPF. MYRA YEOMANS. . Mr. COMPTON introduced a bill (H. R. 10705) for the relief of Julia Mr. STONE, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. 10721) for the B. Schoepf widow of the late General Alvin F. Schoepf; . which was relief of Myra Yeomans; which was read a first and second time, re read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be ~rinted. Pensions, and ordered to be printed. S:ETILEBS ON PUBLIC DOMAIN. ELIZA SHREEVE. Jifr. DORSEY introduced a bill (H. R. 10722) for the relief of settlers on the public domain; which was read a first and second tim~, referred Jiir. SHAW introduced a bill (H. R. 10706) granting a pension to to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Eliza Shreeve; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. HORACE JUDSON. W.ALT WIDTMAN. Mr. DORSEY also introduced a bill (H. R. 10723) granting a pension to Horace Judson, Company A, Seventy-fifth Illinois Infantry; which Mr. LOVERING introduced a bill (H. R. 10707) granting a pension was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid to Walt Whitman· which was read a first and second time, referred Pensions, and ordered to be printed. to the Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Co~ttee ~n FRANK HEALY. SAMUEL W. :riERCE. Mr. DORSEY "also introduced a bill (H. R. 10724) granting a pension Mr. RANNEY introduced a bill H. R. 10708) granting a pension to to Frank Healy, Company I, Thirty-first Wisconsin Infantry; which Samuel W. Pierce; which was read a first and second tim€, referred to was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Pensions, and ordered to be printed. DANIEL B. HANWELL. JOHN LITILE AND HOBART WILLIAMS. Mr. RANNEY introduced a bill (H. R. 10709) for increase of pen Mr. DORSEY also introduced a bill (H. R. 10725) for the relief of sion to Daniel R. Hanwell; which was read a first and second time, re John Little and Hobart Williams; which was read a first and second ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pen&ons, and, with the accompany time, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. ing report, ordered to be printed. P. DUNPHY. EBEB F. CLARK. Mr. LAIRD (by Mr. DoRSEY) introduced a bill (H. R. 10726) to re· Mr. _ALLEN introduced a bill (H. R. 10710) granting a pension to move the charge of desertion from the military record of P. Dunphy; Eber F. Clark late Company B, Fifty-third Massachusetts Volunteers; which was read a first and second time, referred to the CoiUIIlittee on which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Invalid Pensions, and, with the accompanying report, ordered to be JON ATHAN n. CLINE. printed. J. W. L.ADD. Mr. LAIRD (by Mr. DoRsEY) also introduced a bill (H. R. 10727) granting a pension to Jonathan H. 9line; which ~as rea~ a first and Mr. STRAIT introduced a bill (H. R. 10711) for the relief of J. W. second time, referred to the Comm1ttee on Invalid Pensions, and or· Ladd · which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com dered to be printed. mitte~ on Claims, and, with the accompanying .report, ordered to be SARAH A. P ACK.An.D. printed. THOMAS M.'C.ABE. Mr. GALLINGER introduced a bill (H. R. 10728) granting a pen Mr. WHITE, of Minnesota, introduced a bill (H. R. 10712) forthe sion to Sarah A. Packard; which was read a first and second time, re relief of Thomas McCabe; which was read a first and second time, re ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and, with the accompany PUBLIC BUILDING AT HANOVER. N. H. ng report, ordered to be printed. Mr. GALLINGER also introduced a bill (H. R. 10729) to provide 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 735 for the erection of a public building in the town of Hanover, in the drew J. Blackstone; which was read a. first and second time, referred State of New Hampshire; which was read a first and second time, re to the Committee on Military .Affairs, and ordered to be printed. ferred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered ELECTION OF SENATORS BY THE PEOPLE. to be printed. . - UNITED STATES COURTS, NEWARK, N.J. Mr. HERMANN introduced a. joint resolution {H. Res. 239) propos ing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing 11-Ir. LEHLBACH introduced a bill (H. R. 10730) providing for the for the election of Senators by the votes of the people of the States; holding of ·United States courts in the city of Newark, N. J.; which which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Ju the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. diciary, and ordered to be printed. B. F. DOWELL, HEIRS OF A. C. GIBBS. PUBLIC BUILDING, BINGIIA11ITON N. Y. 7 Mr. HERMANN also introduced a bill (H. R. 10744) to pay to B. F. Mr. MILLARD introduced a bill (H. R. 10731) for the erection of a Dowell and the heirs of .A. C. Gibbs, deceased, for services as attorneys public building in the city of Binghamton, N. Y.; which was read a in defending certain cases in behalf of the United States in the courts; first and second time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Claims, and ordered to be printed. MARY E. DONAHUE. JAMES H. COLBY. Mr. BURLEIGH (by Mr. JOHNSON, of New York) introduced a bill Mr. HERMANN also introduced a bill (H. R. 10'745) to place the (H. R. 10732) granting a pension to Mary E. Donahue; which was name of James H. Colby, of Company I, Thirty-second Regiment read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pen Maine Volunteers, in the late war, on the pension-roll; which was read sions, and ordered to be printed. a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, MARY 1\I, STRONG. and ordered to be printed. 1lfr. BURLEIGH also introduced a bill (H. R. 10733) granting a pen ANDREW CLARNO, OF OREGON. sion to Mary M. Strong; which was read a first and second time, referred 1\Ir. HERMANN also introduced a bill (H. R. 10746) for the relief of to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. .Andrew Clarno, of Oregon; which was read a first and second time, WAGES OF EMPLOYEs, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. F .ARQUHAR introduced a bill (H. R. 10734) to revise the rates HARKNESS & TOOGOOD. of wages of certain employes ofthe Government Printing Office; which :Mr. HERMANN also introduced a bill (H. R. 10747) for the relief of was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Labor, Harkness & Toogood, of Oregon and Idaho; which was read a first and ordered to be printed. and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered JAMES A. MURRAY. to be printed. Mr. FARQUHAR also introduced a bill (H. R. 10735) for the relief OREGON INDIAN WAR CLAIMS. of James A. Murray, ofBu:ffalo, N.Y.; which wasreadafirstandsecond Mr. HERMANN also introduced a bill (H. R. 10'748) to pay the time, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Oregon Indian war claims, audited by Philo Callender, war commis EMILY A. ALLEN. sioner; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com M.r. P .ARKER introduced a bill (H. R. 10736) for the relief of Emily mittee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. A . .Allen; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Com j MRS. CAROLINE SEXTON. mittee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. HERMANN also introduced a bill (H. R. 10749) for the relief of FRANCES M. CHAPIN. Mrs. Caroline Sexton, formerly Mrs. Nidy, of Oregon; which was read Mr. P .ARKER also introduced a bill (H. R. 10737) for the relief of a first and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and Frances M. Chapin; which was read a first and second time, referred to . orde!ed to be printed. the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. WORLD's EXPOSITION, BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 1\I.A.RTni GOLDING. },Ir. KELLEY introduced a bill (H. R. 10750) to provide for an ap- - Mr. SKINNER (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 10738) for the propriation to promote the Colored People's World's Exposition, to be relief of Martin Golding, of North Carolinaj which. was read a first and holden at the city of Birmingham, .Ala., commencing on the 2~d day cecond time, referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to of September, 1887; which was read a first and second time, referred to be printed. the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. MILITARY CEMETERY, WIL!\IINGTO.N, NORTH CAROLINA. ALEXANDER H. ADAMS. Mr. BENNETT introduced a bill (H. R. 10739) to macadamize the Mr. SOWDEN (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 10751) for the road from Wilmingt:.on, North Carolina, to the National Military Ceme relief of the sureties on the official bond of_.Alexander H. .4-dams, late - tery near that city; which was read a first and second time, referred pension agent at Lexington, Ky.; which was read a first and second to the Committee on Military .Affairs, and ordered to be printed. time, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. ll.A.RRY BARTON. FRANCES DINGLEY RANDALL. Mr. FORAN submitt-ed the following resolution; which was referred Mr. RANDALL introduced a bill (H. R.l0752) grantingapension to to the Committee on Claims: Frances Dingley Randall; which was read a first and second time, re &solved, That the Committee on Appropriations be requested to provide for ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. the payment of Harry Barton, in one of the general appropriation bills, the sum of $67.08, it being the difference between his pay as a. folder and that of n. CONSTITUTIONAL CENTENNIAL COMMISSION. clerk in the office of the House Folding-Room from March 10, 1886, to May 31, Mr. RANDALL also introduced a bill (H. R. 10753) to provide for 1886, at which time be ceased to be an employe of this House. the appointment of commissioners to represent the Federal Govern CATHARINA Al\fBERG. ment in the Constitutional Centennial Commission, and to authorize Mr. GROSVENOR (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 10740) them to take part in carrying out the programme arranged for the cele granting a pension to Catharina Amberg; which was read a first and bration of the centennial anniversary of the framing and promulgation second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered of the Constitution ofthe United States of .America, to be held atPhil to be printed. adelphia on the 15th, 16th, and 17th days of September, 188'7, for the FR..AJ\CIS POHL. publication of public archives and other documents; which was read Mr. CAMPBELL, of Ohio, introduced a bill (H. R. 10741) to pension a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, Francis Pohl; which was read a first and second time, referred to the and ordered to be printed. Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. JACOB D. JOHNSON. RULE xxxm. Mr. SOWDEN introduced a bill (H. R. 10754) granting a pension to Mr. WILKINS submitted the following resolution; which was re Ja~ob D. Johnson; which was read a first and second time, referred to ferred to the Committee on Rules: .,the C,ommittee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. .Resolved by flle House of Representatives, That Rule XXXIII be suspended ORLANDO .P. HART. so as to permit the use of the Hall of the House of Representatives to the In terna tional Medical Congress, which m eets in this city in the month ofSeptem Mr. STORM introduced a bill (H. R. 10755) for the relief of Orlando ber,lS87. P. Hart; w}Jich w~ read a first and second time, referred to the Com LINUS FESSENDEN. mittee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. WILKINS also introduced a bill (H. R.10'742) granting a pension AUGUST LANTENSCHLAGER. to Linus Fessenden; which was re..'\d a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. FLEEGER introduced a bill (H. R. 10756) granting a pension to August Lautenschlager, late private, Company B, First Michigan ANDREW J. 'BLACKSTONE.. Light Artillery; which wasread a first and second time, referred to the Mr. McKINLEY introduced a bill (H. R. 10743) for the relief of .An- Com.mittee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. CIRCUIT COURT, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. for a custom-house in New York city, N.Y.;" which was ·read a first Mr. HEM:PIDLL introduced a bill (H. R. 10757) to provide for an and second time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and additional term of the circuit court of the supreme con rt of the District Grounds, and ordered to be printed. of Columbia, and for the appointment of one additional associate justice EMILY M. WARD. thereof; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Commit Mr. LE FEVRE introduced a bill (H. R. 10769) granting a pension tee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. to Emily M. Ward, widow of Austen W. Marshall, late captain Com CODIFIC.ATIO~ OF LAWS 1 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. pany E, Tenth Ohio Cavalry; which was read a first and seeond time, Mr. HEMPHILL also introduced a bill (H. R. 10758) to provide for referred to the Committee on Im-alid Pensions, and ordered to bo the compilation of the laws relating to and in force in the District of printed. Columbia, and for the appointment of a reporter for the supreme court MATHEW O'REGAN. of the said District of Columbia; which was read a first and ~econd time, Mr. LAWLER introduced a bill (H. R. 10770) granting an increase reierred to the Committee on the District of Columbia., and ordered to of pension to Mathew O'Regan; which was read a first and second be printed. time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be PROTECTIO~ OF MINORS, DISTRICT OF COLU:M"BI.A. printed. Mr. HEMPHILL (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. 10759) SALE OF PROPERTY IN CHICAGO. for the protection of the morals of minors in· the District of Columbia; Mr. WARD, of Illinois; introduced a bill (H. R. 10771) to amend which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on an act ''to provide for the ascertainment of the market value of certain the ~istrict Qf Columbia, and ordered to be printed. property in the city of Chicago, and to ant·horize the Secretary of the NEW STEAM CRUISER. Treasury to sell and convey said property," approved May 27, 1886; Mr. BALLANTYNE introduced a bill (H. R.10760) for the construc which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on tion of a steam cruising vessel of war of20knotsspeed; which was read Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and OPPOSITIO~ TO THE FREE-SHIP BILL. ordered to be printed. · Mr. MILLIKEN presented a resolution of the Maine Legislature in FREDERICK BROWN. opposition to the Dunn free-ship bill. Mr. THROCKMORTON introduced a bill (H. R. 10761) for there Mr. MILLIKEN. I ask that the resolution be read. lief of Frederick Brown; which wa.s read a :first and second time, re The resolution was read, and was referred to the Select Committee ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. on .American Ship-building and Ship-owning Interests. SAMUEL WORL. SILAS W. SIIULTS. _ Mr. WISE introduced a bill (H. R. 10762) for the relief of Samuel Mr. NEECE introduced a bill (H. R. 107'12) granting a pension to Worl; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Commit- Silas W. Shults; which was read a first and second time, referred to tee o.n Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. GILBERT THOMPSON .AND OTHERS. PARLEY H.ARSON. _ Mr. BARBOUR (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 10763j for the Mr. NEECE also introduced a bill (H. R. 10773) granting a pension to rcliefofGilbertThompson, Veronica Ulke, Julia F. Laskey, and_F. G. Parley Harson; which wa.~ read a first and second time, referred to the Barbadoes; which was read a first and second time, referred to the.Com Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. _mittee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. WILLIAM SWEGER. · DEPENDENT RELATIVES, l'riEMBERS LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. :Mr. ATKINSON introduced a bill (H. R. 10774) granting a pension Mr. LIBBEY introduced a bill (H. R. 10764) granting a pension to to William Sweger, dependent father of Absalom Sweger, deceas~; the dependent relatives of members of the Life-8aving Service who were which was read a :first and second time, referred. to the Committee on lost at Virginia Beach, January 8, 1887; which was read a first. and Pensions, and ordered to be printed. second time, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. MARY P. TIIO:llPSON. BUSINESS FRo:\I THE COIDIITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS. Mr. ATKINSON also introduced a bill (H. R. 10775) granting a pension to Mary P. Thompson; which was read a fu-st and Recond time, :Mr. BRAGG submitted the following resolution; which was read, and referred to the Committee on ·Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be referred to the Committee on Rules: · printed. Resolved, That on Thursday, January the 20th, at 5 o'clock p. m., the Honse take a. recess until 7.30 p. m., for an evening session, to be devoted exclusively LEVI NEITZ. to the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Military .Affairs, Mr. ATKINSON also introduced a bill (H. R. 10776) for the relief the bills to be called up in the order directed by such committee. of Levi Neitz; which was read a first and second time, referred to the .ALEXANDER HOLTZ. Committee on Military Aft'a.irs, and ordered to be printed. Ur. VAN SCHAICK introduced a bill (H. R. 10765) granting a pen WILLIAM W .ALL.ACE. sion to Alexander Holtz; which was read a :first and second time, re ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. ATKINSON also introduced a bill (H. R. 10777) granting a pension to William Wallace, late Of Company D, Twenty~first Penn TAX.ATIO:Y OF' RAILROADS, W .ASHINGTON TERRITORY. sylvania Cavalry; which was read a first and second time, referred to Mr. VOORHEES introduced a bill (H. R. 10766) to provide for the the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. taxa lion of railroad property in Washington Territory; which was read a fust and second time, referred to the Committee on the Territories, REMOVAL OF A SOLDIER'S BODY. and ordered to be printed. Mr. ATKINSON also (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 10778) au thorizing the Secretary of War to cause the removal of the body of W. CITY OF POMEROY, W .ASHINGTO:Y TERRITORY. M. J.filler from Fort Robinson, Nebr., to Snyder County, Pennsylvania; Mr. VOORHEES also introduced a bill (H. R. 10767) to enable the which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on ci~ of Pomeroy, in Washington Territory, to levy special taxes forthe Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. building of water-works, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and UNION P .ACIFIC RAILROAD COl\IP .ANY. ordered to be printed. Mr. .ANDERSON, of Kansas, submitted the following resoluqon; CANAL, W.ASID!{GTON TERRITORY. which was read, and rPJ'erred to the Committee on the Judiciary: Resolved That the .Attorney-General be requested to inform this House by w bat; Mr. VOORHEES also introduced a bill (H. R. 10768) providing for legal authority the directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company consoli the operation of a canal between Lakes Union and Washington and dated that company with the Kansas Pacific Railway Company and the Denver Pacific Railroad Company, and reorganized the same under the name of the Puget Sound, in Washington Terr~tory, and 'granting the right to _im Union Pacific Railway Company, and by what legal authority the last-named pose and collect tolls, and for oth~r purposes; which was read a first company issued 824,000,000 of the capital stock of said company in addition to and second time, 1·eferred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, the capital stock of the Union Pacific Railroad Company: and also by what legal a.nd ordered to be printed. authority the Union Pacific Railway Company issued two trust loans, amounting to 511,883,000, and whet~er the said Union Pacific Railway Company has any legal ORDE.R OF BUSI~ESS . existence as a. corporatiOn. The SPEAKER. This completes the call. If there be no objection, EUNICE TURNER. the Chair will now recognize for the introduction of bills and resolu Mr. CALDWELL introduced a bill (H.10779) granting a pension to tions gentlemen who were not in their seats when thei~ States were Eunice 'l"'urner; which was read a first and second time, referred to the called. Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. There was no objection. JAMES· CURRAN. CUSTOM-HOUSE BUILDING IN. NEW YORK. Mr. DUNHAM inrroduced a bill (H. R. 10780) granting a pension Mr. T. J. CAMPBELL introducedajointresolution (H. Res. 240) au to James Curran; which was read a :first and second time, referred to thorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to ascertain the cost of a site the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. . I 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. .. 737 CHARLES 0. ROESCH. Mr. RANDALL. I object to debate. Mr. MORIUSONintroduced a bill (H. R. 10781) granting a pension The SPEAKER. Debate is not in order. to Charles C. Roesch; which was read a first and second time, referred Mr. TOWNSHEND. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. If the to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, ~n· dordered to be printed. conference report is taken up and the day is cOnsumed in the consider ation of it, will not that compel the unfinished business of last snspen- RELIEF OF LABORERS, DISTRICT OF COLUM:BIA. sim1 d~y to be postponed for one month? , ' Mr. O'NEILL, of Missouri, introduced a bill (H. R. 10782) for the The SPEAKER. .As a matter of course. relief of certain laborers in the District of Columbia; which was read a Mr. TOWNSHEND. And I desire to inquire further whether the first and second time, referred to the Committee ou Labor, and ordered censideration of this conference report is not in order on any day after to be printed. iliis? . BRIDGE OVER THE MISSISSIPPI AT SAINT LOUIS. Mr. MATSON. I desire to raise the question of consideration. :Mr. O'NEILL, of Missouri, also (by xequest) introduced a bill (H. The SPEAKER. It has been raised by the gentleman trom Kansas R. 10783) authorizing the construction of a high level bridge over the [Mr. .ANDERSO~]. Tlie Clerk will report the title of the bill. Mississippi River at Saint Louis; which was· read a first and second The Clerk read as follows: time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be A bill (S. 1532) to regulate commerce. printed. Ur. PETERS. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. PHILLIP KOPPLIN. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Mr. O'NEILL, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. 10784) for Mr. PETERS. I desire to ask what committee will be next in order the relief of Phillip Kopplin.; which was read a first and second time, re under the call. ferred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. The SPEAKER. The Committee on Patents was called, and the EDWARD G. GANNER. bill was under consideration. Mr. PETERS. What will be the next committee in order. Mr. KETCHAM introduced a bill (H. R . .J.0785) to relieve Edward Several 1\IEM.BERS. Regular order! G. Ganner of the charge of desertion; which was read a .first and second The SPEAKER. The Committee on Invalid Pensions. The ques- time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be tion is, Will the House now proceed to consider the conference report? printed. Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. I demand the yeas and nays. DISCRIMINATIONS AGAINST AMERICAN VESSELS. The yeas and nays were ordered, 53 members voting in favor thereof. 1\Ir. BELMONT introduced a bill (H. R. 10786) to protect American Mr. CUTCHEON. M:r. Speaker, I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. vessels against unwarrantable and unlawful discriminations in the ports The SPEAKER. The gentleman will•state it. of British North .Americ;~o; which was read a first and second time, re Mr. CUTCHEON. This conference report, as I understand, is a ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. matter of privilege which may be brought up on any other day. NATIONAL-BANK ACT. The SPEAKEH.. The Chair has already stated that. Mr. BRUMM introduced abill (H. R. 10787) to amend the national The question was taken; and there were-yeas 113, nays 137, not vot bank act; which was read a fi.rst and second time, referred to the Com ing 69; as follows: mittee on Banking and C:nrrency, and ord~red to be printed. YEAB-ll3. · .Adams,~.~. Dargan, Jones.~- T. ~ Sayers, DEFICIENCY ESTIMATES. Allen,~- M. Davidson, A. C. Laffoon, Scott, The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from . the Secr~tary of Ballentine, Davidson, R. H. M. I.anham, Seney, Barbour, Dawson, LeFevre, Shaw, the Treasury, transmitting deficiency estimates for the fisC3;1 year end Barksdale, Dibble, Lore, Skinner, ing June 30, 1887; which was referred to the Committee on Appropri Barnes, Dougherty, Mahoney. Sowden, atwns, and ordered to be printed. . Belmont, 1 Dunn, Martin, Springer, Bennett, Eden, McAdoo, Stewart, C. BUSINESS OF POST-OFFICE COMMITIEE. Blanchard, F..llsberry, McCreary, Stone, W. J., Mo. Bland, Findlay, McMillin, Storm, Mr. BLOUNT submitted a resolution to set apart a day for consid Blount, Foran, McR;ae, Swope, eration of bills from the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads; Boyle, Ford, Merriman, Tarsney, which was referred to the Committee on Rules. Bragg, Gay, Miller, Taylor, J. M. Breckinridge, 0. R. Gibson, 0. H. Mills, Throckmorton, BRIDGE ACROSS "WHITE' RIVER, INDIANA.. Breckinridge, WCPGiass, Morrison, Till wan, Mr. KLEINER introduced a bill (H. R. 10788) to authorize the Burnes, Glover, Murphy, Tucker, Cabell, Green, W. J. Neal. •.rurner, construction of a bridge for the Evansville and Chicago Railroad across Coldwell, Hall, Norwood, Van Eaton, the White River, in Indiana, at the town of Hazelton; which was read Catchings, Halsell, Oates, Ward,T.B. a first and second time, referred to ilie Committee on Commerce, and Clardy, Hammond, O'Ferrall, Warner, A. J. Clements, Harris, Outhwaite, Wellborn, ordered to be printed. Compton, Hatch, Peel, 'Vheeler, ORDER OF BUSINESS. Cowie'<, Hemphill, Perry, Willis, Cox,Wm.R. Henderson,~.S. Randall, Winans, Mr. TOWNSHEND. I call up the unfinished business of last su.S Crain, Herbert, Richardson, Wise. pension day, being the bill reported from the Committee on Patents. Crisp, Hutton, Riggs, 'Voodbnrn. Mr. CRISP. I desire to ask the House to consider the conference Croxton, 1rion, Rogers, Culberson, Johnston,T.D. Rusk, 1·epm·t on the interstate-commerce bill Daniel, Jones. J. H. Sadler, Mr. TOWNSHEND. I am in favor of this, but not until this other matter is disposed ot: NAYS-137. Adams, G. E. Everhart, Libbey, Rowell, The SPEAKER. The gent1eman from Georgia [Mr. CRISP], as a Allen, C. H. Farquhar, Lindsley, Ryan, .matter of privilege, calls up the conference report on the interstate-com- Anderson, C. M. Felton, Little, Sawyer, merce bill. The Clerk will read the title of the bill. · Anderson, J. A. Fisher, Long, Scranton, Atkinson, Fleeger, Louttit, Seymour, Mr. .ANDERSON, of Kansas. I rise to a parliame..ntary inquiry. Bacon, Frederick, Lovering, Spooner, .,fhe SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Baker, Fuller, Lyman, Steele, Mr. .ANDERSON, of Kansas. This .is suspension NOT VOTING-69. !t1r. TOWNSHEND. In order to avoid waste of time, I now call for Aiken, Geddes, Maybury, Spriggs, the yeas and nays. Barry, Gibson, E. McComas, Stahlnecker, The yeas and nays were ordered. Bingham, Gilfillan, Mitchell, Stephenson, Bliss, Green, R. S. Morgan, Stewart, J. ,V. Mr. BLAND. If in order, I ask for the reading of the bill. Browne, T. M. Hanback, l\Iuller, ,St. Martin. The bill was read, as follows: Buchanan, Harmer, O'Hara, Stone, W.J.,Ky. Burleigh,_ Heard, Payne, Taylor, Zach. Be i.t enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United St~tes of Campbell, Felix Henderson, T. J. Payson, Trigg, Ameru:a in C011.gress assembled, That hereafter the United States district and cir· Candler, Henley, Pettibone, Wadsworth, cuit courts shall have no jurisdiction to hear or to try any case arising from tho Carleton. Hires, Phelps., Wallace, ~.ctual ~1~o of any pate_nt ri~ht, or its infrin&"em.ent by suc.h use, by any person Collins, Hiscock, Pidcock, Ward,J.H. m or ctttzeo of the Umted :::itates or the Tern tortes, wherom the amount in con· Comstock, Honk Reagan, 'Veaver,A.J. t.roversy does not exceed $200 against one person or citizen. Cox, S. S. Hudd: Reese, West, SEc. 2. That purchasers of any patent right for actual use shall not be liable Curtin, Jackson, Robertson, 'Vhiting, to damages, royalty, or for value of the same, or for infringing the same iu any Davenport, James, Sessions, Wilson. manner, who at the date of such purchase bad no knowledge of the claims of Dockery, K.ing, Singleton, nny third person, or that the inventor of the same has an interest therein ad Ermentrout, Lalrd, Smalls, >erse to the seller thereof.. That no ~rson who shall in good faith purchase, use, manufadure, or ~ell, w1th~ut prev1o!l8 knowledge oft!Je existence of a. pat Forney, Lowry, Snyder, ent therefor, any article, machme, machmery, or other thmg for the exclusive So the Honse refused to consider the report. use, sale, or manufacture of which any patent has been or hereafter may be granted to any person, persons, or corporation whatever, shall be liable, in The following named members -were announced us paired until fur- damages or otherwise, for an infringement of such patent until after written ther notice: notice of the existence thereof shall have been personally served on such her- Mr. SNYDER with 1\Ir. BUCHANAN. b~nlli!r~!rr:rn~oO:t~~~~ation, as the case may be, and such infringements a~l 1\fr. REAGAN with 1\Ir. HISCOCK. SEc. 3. That all laws or parts of laws inconsist-ent herewith are hereby re Mr. PIDcocK with Mr. GILFILLAN. pealed. Ur. KING with 1\Ir. BROWNE, of Indian.,, SE?· 4•. That nothing herein contai.J?.ed shall affect any pending suit or pro Mr. MORGAN with 1\Ir. ZACH. TAYLOR ~!:~;~fs~~~ ofthe courts of the Umted States or in any court of any of the Mr. WILSON with 1\Ir. 1\fcCOl\IAS. Mr. MITCHELL with Mr. WHITING. The question was taken; and there were-yeas 81, nays 156, not vot Mr. CANDLER with 1\Ir. WEST. ing 82; as follows: YEA8-Sl. Mr. Cox, of New York, with Mr. PAYSON. REESE with Mr. WEAVER of Nebraska. Anderson, J. A. Ellsberry, Landes, Swope, Mr. 1 Bacon. Ely, Le l;l'evre, Tarsney, !t1r. SPRIGGS with 1\Ir. HauK. Bland, Fisher, Lindsley, Taulbee, Mr. CoMPTON with 1\Ir. STEWART, of Vermont. Burrows, Frederick, Lowry, Thomas, J. R. Bynum, Fnller, :Matson, Thomas, 0. B. Mr. FORNEY with 1\Ir. PAYNE. Cabell, Funston, 1\lcMHlin, Townshend, The following named members were announced as paired for this Campbell, J. M. Gay, Moffatt, VanSchaick, day: Campbell,J.E. Glass, Murphy, Wakefield, Campbell, T. J. Glover, Neece, Ward,T.B. Mr. ROBERTSON with Mr. SESSIO~S. Carleton, Hale, Nelson, Warner, William 1\Ir. ERMENTROUT with l\IF. HARMER. Caswell, Halsell, O'Donnell, Weaver,J.B. r. GIBSON, .of West Virginia, with Mr. PETTIBONE. Cobb, Hatch, O'FerraJJ, Weber, Conger, Henderson, D. B. O'NeiU.J.J. Wellborn, Mr. MULLER with Mr. LAIRD. Cooper, Hermann, Outhwaite, Wheeler, Mr. FELIX CAMPBELL with 1\Ir. BINGHAliL Cowlea, Holman, Perry, White, ~Iilo Mr.· LOWRY with 1\fr. HANBACK. Cox, ,'V. R. Holmes, Pindar, Wilkins, Culberson, Howard, Plumb, 'Vinans, Mr. BARRY with 1\Ir. J ACKBON. Dawson, Johnston, J. T. Springer, 'Vorthington. Mr. GEDDES with Mr. !IE:NDERSON1 of Illinois. Dorsey, Johnston, T. D. Stone, W.J., Mo. Mr. STONE, of Kentucky, with Mr. JAMES. Dunn, Jones,J.H. Strait, Struble, 1\Ir. DOCKERY with Mr. BURLEIGH. Eldredge, Kleiner, The result of the vote was announced as above stated. NAYS-156. Adams, G. E. Davidson, R. II. M. K'et~m. Reed, FORT BERTHOLD RESERVATIOX, DAKOTA. Adams,J.J. Dibble, Laffoon, Rice, Allen, C. H. Dou~herty, LaFollette, Richardson, A message from the President of the United States was communi Anderson, C. M. Dunnam, Lanham, Riggs, cated to the House by Mr. PRUDEN, one of his secretaries. Atkinson, Ermentrout, - Lehlbach, Rockwell, The SPEAKER laid before the House the following message from Ballentine, Evans, Little, Rogers, Barksdale, Everhart, Long,. Romeis, the President of the United States; which, with the accompanying Barnes, Farquhar, Lore, Rowell, papers, was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered Bayne, Felton, Louttit, Ryan, to be printed: Belmont, Findlay, Lovering, Sadler, Bennett, Fleeger, Mahonfy Sayers, To the Ser~ate and House of Representatives: Blanchard, Foran, Markham, Scranton, I transmit herewith a commnnication of the lith instant from the Secretary of Blount, Ford. Martin, Seney, the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, a copy of an agreell\ent Bound, Gallinger, McAdoo, Seymour, duly made under the provisions of the act of l\1ay 15, 1886 (24 Stat., page 44) Boutelle, Gibson, C. H. McCreary, Shaw, with the Indians residing upon the Fort Berthold reservation. in Dakota, for Boyle, Goff, McKenna, Singleton, the cession of a portion of their reservation in said Territory, and for other pur Brady, Green, W.J. l\fcKinley, Skinner, poses. Bragg, Grosvenor, 1\[cRa.e, Sowden, The agreement, together with the recommendations of the Department is llreckinridge, C. R. Grout, Merriman, Spooner, . presented for the action of Congress. ' Breckinridge, WCP Guenther, Millard, Stahlnecker, GROVER CLEVELAND. Brown, C. E. Hall, l'lliller, Stewart, Charle.e EXECUTIVE 1\IA..NSION, Brown, ,V. W. Hammond, Milliken, Storm, Januarv 17, 1887. Brumm, Harmer, Mills, Taylor, E. B. Buck, Harris, Morrill, Taylor, J. M. DEFICIL"'\CIE'3 ESTIMATES. B unnell, Hayden, Morrison, Thompson, Burnes, Haynes, Morrow, Thro~orton, The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of Butterworth, Hemphill, Neal, TiJlman, t.he Treasury transmitting deficiencies estimates made for the current Caldwell, Henderson, J. B. Oates, Trigg, Catchings, Henley, O'Neill, Charles Tucker, :fiscal year; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, Clardy, Hepburn, Osborne, Turner, and ordered to be printed. · Clements, Herbert, Parker, Van Eaton, PATENTS. Compton, Hiestand, Peel, Viele, Comstock, Hill, Perkins, ''Vait, Mr. TOWNSHEND. I now call up the unfinished business of the Crisp, Hilt, Peters, Warner, A. J. Croxton, Hoplcins, Pettibone, White, A. C. last suspension day. Daniel, Hutton, Phelps, Willis, The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the title of the bill. Dargan, Johnson,F.A. Pirce. Wise The Clerk read as follows: Davenport, Jones,J. T. Randall, Wolf~rd, Davidson,A.C. Kelley, Ranney, Woodburn. A bill (H.R.4458) to limit the jurisdiction of United States courts in patent cases, and to protect persons, who, without notice, are bO'Iw.fide manufacturers NOT VOTING--82. purchasers venders, and users of articles, machines, machinery, and othe~ Aiken, Cox,S.S. Heard, Maybury, things for the exclusive use, manufacture, or sale of which a patent has been or Allen,J.l\1. Orain, Henderson, T. J. McComas, may hereafter be granted. Baker, ·curtin, Hires, Mitchell, Barbour, Cutcheon, Hiscock, Morgan, - The SPEAKER. On the third M:onfuty of last" month, the gentle Barry, Davis, Houk, 1\Iuller, man from Illinois [~1r. ToWN IIEND] moved to suspend the rules and Dingham, Dingley, Hudd, Negley, pass this bill. The time for debate upon the motion had been ex Bliss, Dockery, Irion, Norwood, Browne, T. M. Eden, .Jackson, O'Hara, hausted when the House adjourned. The question now is upon the Buchanan, Forney, James, Owen, motion of the gentleman from Illinois to suspend the rules and pass Burleigh, Geddes, King, Payne, the bill. Campbell, Felix Gibson, Eustace Laird, Payson, Candler, Gilfillan, Lawler, Pidcock, The question having been put, the SPEAKER said: The noes seem Cannon, Green,R.S. Libbey, Reagan, to ha\e it. · Collins, Hanback, Lyman, Reese, 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 739 Robertson. Spl'iggs, Swinbm'De; Ward,J.H. The SPEAKER. Under the rules of the House thirtv minutes are Rusk, Steele, Symes, Weaver,A.J. Sawyer, Stephenson. Taylor,I.H. West, allowed for debate, fifteen minutes in support of the motion and fifteen Scott., Stewart. J. W. Taylor, Zach. Whiting, minutes in opposition to it. The Chair will recognize the gentleman Se sions, St. Martin Wade, Wilson. from Indiana. [Mr. ~1ATSON] as controlling the time in support of the Smalls, Stone, E. F. Wadsworth, Snyder, Stone, W.J.,Ky. Wallace, . motion and the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. CowLES] us con trolling the time in opposition to it. So the motion was disagreed to. Mr. MATSON. I move that the debate on this bill be extended to During the roll-call the following additional pa.irs were announced: thirty minutes on each side instead of :fifteen. I know several gentle: Mr. RoBEBTSO:N with Mr. B.A.KBR on this vote. men who wish to be heard on it. Mr. liEABD with Mr. SESSIONS for the remainder of this day. Mr. SPBINGER and Mr. BLO"L'NT objected. Mr. Gmso:N, of West Virginia, with Mr. HANBACK for the remain 1\Ir. BURROWS. I desire before the debate begins to call the atten· der of this day. tion of the gentleman from Indiana. to the fourth section. It evidently RESIGNATIO:N OF HON. ROBEBT S. GBEE:N. is intended to exclude from the provisions of this bill those whose dis Mr. McADOO. I present the following letter of resignation from abilities were incurred in the naval as well as the confederate military my colleague, which I ask to be read. service. Ought not, then, the words ''or naval " to be inseTted after The Clerk read as follows: . the word '' military?' ' HoUSE oF REPRESEl."TA.TTVES, Mr. MATSON. Under the law the word" milit.'l.ry 11 includes the Wa&hingt.on, D. C., January 15, 1887. na-val branch of the service. DEAlt SIR: I have forwarded to the governor of New Jersey my resignat.ion Mr. BURROWS. In the other sectiong of the bill the language as Representative of the United States for the Third Congressional district of 11 New Jersey. to takeeffeet thi day. used is "military and naval service in every instance. Is th~re ob Permit me to personally t-hank you for your tmiform kindness and courtesy, jection to inserting the words "or naval n after "mill tary." and to express the h.ope that your life may long be spared and the country long Ur. enjoy the benefit of your ripe experience and valued services. MATSON. I have no objection. Yours truly, Mr. BURROWS. I ask unanimous consent to insert those words. ROBT. S. GREEN. Mr. HAMMOND. I object. Hon. J. G. CA.RLISI.E. Ur. MATSON. Mr. Speaker, this bill embraces two iril.portant Speam. Howe of .Repre.sentatiua.. propoSitions, that embodied in the second section being much the more The letter was laid upon the table. important. DEPEND~T PAB.ENTS AND HONORABLY DISCHARGED SOLDIERS. The :first section provides simply that the rn.le of evidence in claims filed by dependent parents shall be changed so that hereafter those 1\Ir. MATSON. I am directed by the Committee on Invalid Pen- who make such claims shall be required to prove only a present de sions to move that the rules be suspended and the bill (H. R. 10457) pendence,. instead of a dependence existing at the time of the death of fOl' the relief of dependent parenta and honorably discharged soldiers the soldier. This section of the bill is an exaet copy of one section of and sa-ilors who are now disabled and dependent upon their own labor · a bill passed under a suspension of the mles, on motion of the dis tin.: for support, be passed. guished gentleman from Ohio (Mr. W .ABNEB), on the 21st day of April, The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the bill. 1884. That bill,- in that form, passed the· Honse a:nd went to the The bill was read, as follows~ Senate. It is in precise accord with the recommendations of the Sec Be it enacted, &c., That in consideling the pension claims of dependent retary of the Interior, as contained in his last ann.na.l report, to be parents, the fact and cause of death, and tihe fact that the soldier left no widow or minor children, having been showu as required by Jaw, it shall be necessary found on page 50 of that report. only to show by competent. and su:ffi.eient evidence that such parent or parents The bill presented by the committee to-day differs from the proposi are wit..hou• other present means of support than their own manual labor or tion submitted by the gentleman ~m Ohio, to which I have just re· the contribuUons of others not legally bound fmr their support: Provided, That no pension allowed under this act shall commence prior to its passage, and in ferred, only as to a proviso, and that proviso was plaeed in the bill on case of applications hereaftel' made unde-r this. act the pension shall commence the suggestion made in the report af the Secretary o£ the Interior. It fron1 the date of the filing of the applie&tion in the Pension Office. provides that pensions granted under the provisions of this act shall not SEC. 2.. That all persons who served th1·ee months or more in the military or naval service of the United States in any war in which the United States has begin until after the passage of the act, and hence shall not relate back. been engaged, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and who It is supposed, and I may say estimated, that the provisions of the are now or who may hereafter be suffering from mental or physical disability, first section of the bill will add to the annual value of the pension-roll not not the resnlt-of their own vicious habits or gross ca~relessness:, which inca..paci more than 50,000; that theTe are not more than five hundred cases in tates them fot·the pe~formanceof labor in snch a. degree as to render them unable to earn a. suppo~t, and who are dependent upon their daily labo~ for support' the Pension Oiijee covered by the provisions of this section, and if they shall. upon making due proof of the fact according to such rules and regulations were all allowea. that the annual value of the pension-roll would not as tbe Secretary of the Interior may provide in pursuance of this a.ct; be placed on the list. of invalid pensioners of the United States, and be entitled to receive, be increased by the section over the amount I have specified. for such total inability to proetll'e their subsistence by daily la.bo~, $12 per Mr. :McMILLIN. Has the gentleman from Indiana. any stafutics month; and such pension shall comtnenee from the date of the filing of th.e sbowing- ap}llication in the Pension Office. upon prOQf tbat the disability then existed, and continue during the existence of the same in the degree herein provided= Mr. 1\L\.TSON. With all due respect to the gentleman from Tennes· Protridecl, That persons who are now receiving pensions under existing laws, or see, I must decline to be interrupted now until I have completed my w~e claims are pending in the Pension Offi..ce, may, by applica..tion to the statement, after which I shall be glad to answer any inquiries. Commissioner of Pension in such form.'\ as he may pres ibe, receiv-e the ben e1its of this act; but nothing herein contained shall qe so construed as to aJlow As to the second proposition, the more important one, I desire to more than one pension a.t the same time to the same person or· pension to com call the attention of the House, in the :first place,' to the fact that this mence prior t~ the passage of this act: .A.nd provided further, That rank in the provision embraces honorably discharged soldiers of all the wars in service shall not be considered in applications filed thel'eund.eJ'. SEC. 3. That no agent, attorney, or other person instrumental in the presenta which the United States has been engaged; it embraces those engaged tion and prosecution of a claim undell' this act shall demand or receive for his in the Seminole, in the Black Hawk,. in the Mex~ and in the last services or instrumentality in pl'esenting and prosecuting such claim a sum war. It is a broad measnre, and not confined to the soldiers of any greater than $5, payable only upon the order of the Commissioner of :Pensions, by the pension agent making payment of the pension allowed, except in cases particular war. The gist of the proposition,. Mr. Speaker, is to take heretofore prosecuted before the Pension Office, when, in the discretion of the from the poor-houses of the country the soldiers who have honorably Commissioner of Pensions, a. fee of $10 may be allowed in like manner to the served their country during any war.. The proposition contained in agent or attorney of record in the case at the date of the pa "".e of this act; and any agent, attorney, or other person instru.:Qlenf:U in the prosecution of a this section of the' bill is simply that every man who is totally unable claim under this act w l1o shall demand or receive a sum greater than that herein to labor, and is in a dependent condition, shall be pensioned at the pr~vided for, for his services in the prosecution of the claim. shall be subject to rate of $12 per month. There is no provision for pensioning any one the same penalties as prescribed in section 4 of the a.ct of .July~ 18M, entitled ••.An a.ct making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions who ha~ a less disability than a total inability to labor; and in addition of the United States for the fiseal year ending June 30,1885, and for other plll' to that he must show that_he lB dependent upon his dailylaboi for his poses.'' support, and has no property from which to derive an income. It is a SEC. 4. That section 4'116 of the Revised Statutes is hereby modified so that the same shall not apply to this act: Provided, That this act shall not apply to charity measure. tho e persons under political disabilities. And no person shall be pensioned It will not be asserted by the friends or enemies of the bill,. I appre under this act for any disability mcurred while engaged in the military service hend, that there is anything in any contract made by the Government against the United States. that would call for this legislation; but the legislation itself is the out The SPEAKER. Is a second demanded? growth of a sentiment that I believe prevails, throughout the length and Mr. COWLES. Yes; I demand a seeond. breadth of this country, Uoo-ainst permitting the men who have defended Mr. :MATSON. I ask consent that a second be considel"ed as ordered. the Government to remain in the poor-houses to be supported by charity; :l'tf.r. COWLES. I can not yield for that purpose. and it is in obedience to that sentiment that the committee deem it The SPEAKER appointed as tellers 1\Ir. MATSON and MI. COWLES. proper to bring in a measnre placing these men upon the honorable The Honse divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 128, noes 13. · roll of pensioners of the United States. 1\Ir. COWLES. · No quorum. Now as to the ma-tter of cost: I desire to say that early in this Con The SPEAKER. The point of no quorum. being m..1ode, the tellers gress, in obedience to a suggestion made to the Commissioner of Pen· wm retain their pJaces. sions, when be was before the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and was The House further divided; and the teller3 reported-ayes 150, noes being examined in eonnection with various matters relating to the pen 17. sion laws, he wrote to the authorities in every county in the United So there was a second. States for the purpose of ascertaining how many soldiers and sailors who 740 CONGRESSIONA·L RECORD-HOUSE. J ANU.A.RY 17, ha he is indigent, if he has any means at all that he has saved he is not Mr. WARNER, of Ohio. I understood that there was half an hour entitled to a pension. given by consent. MJ·. HENDERSON, of Iowa. Will the gentleman allow me one Several MEMBERS. ''No." " No." queston? 1\Ir. WARNER, of Ohio. I simply wish to add that a large number Mr. WARNER, of Ohio. In a moment. The pension, therefore, is of those who are now drawing pensions under the present law for dis rather for the man's poverty-poverty coupled with in:tbility to labor- ability will undoubtedly surrender their pensions under the present law than lor disability incurred in the service. - and apply under this act. Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. Will the gentleman allow me now? What the increase from this source will be can not be accurately esti Mr. WARNER, of Ohio. I will. mated, but-altogether instead of five or six millions, after there has Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. I call the gentleman's attention to been time for claims to come in that, no doubt, will come \n, I think the fact that Mr. Choate's ohjection to that legislation was because it the amount required to satisfY them will hardly fall short of twelve to granted a pension to a man who might be disabled by his own vicious fifteen millions annually, and may rise to twenty millions, or more. In habits or gross carelessness, whereas this bill expressly excludes that this connection I would like to add, for the information of the House, claAS from the benefit of its provisions. a few :figures, showing the cost of the late war, so that we may know Mr. WARNER, of Ohio. But throughout the world one labors and what we are doing. The first cost ofthe war was about$3,350,000,000. saves, and consequently has in time of need, while another labors and This has been paid, and with it in interest and pensions about $3,300,- spends all as he goes. Is it proposed to take from him that saves ru;~.d 000,000 more, am} before it is all over at least $3,300,000,000 more must give to him that spends? be paid. Thus the first cost of $3,350,000,000, before all is done, will Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. But Mr. Choate's objection to that have been paid three times over, and the war will have cost not less th~ old bill is ·met in the bill now under consideration. $10,000,000,000. · :ur. WARNER, ofOhio. Oh, no. Mr. COWLES. I now yield to the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. You have not read any others. BLOU.YT). Mr. WARNER, of Ohio. Well, let me read some more. Mr. Choate Mr. BLOUNT. I have no idea, Mr. Speaker, that anything I may goes on to say : say is likely to influence any gentleman on this floor in his action on Nobody willingly admits that he feels the pressure of the most respectful this bill; yet I do think there is reason for us to pause before we pass poverty. "' "' * Itrequires him to spread upon record conclusive evidence of a bill of this kind and ask what will be its result when it shall come his pauperism, under his own hand and oath. into practical operation. The gentleman in charge of the bill [Mr. That is what this bill does, too. And, Mr. Speaker, in departing from M.A.TSO.Y] came before the House in effusive style and declared that the the sound principle that pensions are intended as compensation for purpose of it was to take soldiers from the poor-houses of the country. disability incurred in the defense of the country, and not as charities or He could not have used any language better calculated to bring out gratuities, we launch upon a sea to which no one can prescribe limits. the sympathies of the House for the measure. But be did not stop Under this bill if a man is able to do any work at all he gets noth there. ing; or if able to do no work, he still has anything saved up, he gets After making an estimate of the number that were in the poor-houses nothing. Only where he can show that he is able to do no work of the country on information which evidently was exceedingly meager, and has nothing is he affected by this bill? The bill, therefore, offers he then undertook to make an estimate of persons not in the poor the temptation to men receiving small pensions, but who work as they houses but dependent upon the contributions of friends. When he can to help along, to stop work in order to get the better offer to those reached that point he was very careful to avoid, or rather he did avoid, who do not work at all of $12 a month. any sta:tement of details by which any human being could make an es I hope the bill at any rate will be amended before it becomes a law, timate. I asked him bow he reached the result. His answer was by so as to take out of it the purely pauper feature, and ~rant to all who esti:mate; but there is pot one single scintilla of evidence before this apply under this bill a pension proportionate to his disability on the House upon which gentlemen can reach any conclusion as to the num basis of the allowance proposed. The bill then would make present ber of persons to be included in this way. I asked the gentleman if disability the starting point in preferring a claim, and thus cure the the Commissioner of Pensions approved of his mode of reaching the con evil most complained of in the present law, and would be entirely clusion. He stated that he did, but, feeling that that official could not sound in principle and safe and conservative in its application. come to this House and ask appropriations from the Treasury of the The bill should be amended, also, so as to except from· its provisions United States upon so indefinable a ground, I pressed the gentleman, those who are cared for at soldiers' homes while at the homes; and and then he said to me that the CommLQSioner bad not made that esti then I would like to wipe out entirely the provision relating to claim mate. ~ents, and leave claimants to look for help to attorneys near home Mr. MATSON, The gentleman will allow me, I suppose, to say- who can help them and get them out of the hands of agents about Mr. BLOUNT. I have not the time. Washington, who can do them no good at all, but who fasten like leeches Mr. MATSON. It is simply a misunderstanding. upon them. . Mr. BLOUNT. Well, Mr. Speaker, let it be a misunderstanding. Mr. COWLES. Mr. Speaker, I desire to know whether the gentle Now, we understand the fact that the Commissioner of Pensions has man from Ohio is favoring the passage of this bill. [Laughter.] made no such estimate; and while the Committee on Invalid Pensions Mr. WARNER, of Ohio. I am criticising some features of the sec have been in session here for months and months they have failed to ond section of the bill. obtain from the Commissioner or from any other source any informa Mr. COWLES. Are you in favor of the bill? tion upon which this body can intelligently vote, for these appropria ~ir. WARNER, of Ohio. . I am pointing out some objections to it, tions may run into millions upon millions. The gentleman comes here and I shall ask that it be amended. with an estimate that is simply absurd so far as the ascertainment of Mr. COWLES. I would rather yield time to some gentleman who the truth from it is concerned. is opposrng the bill. [Laughter.] . And I am reminded that when the arrearage-of-pensions act was The SPEAKER. The Chair will state to the gentleman from Ohio passed a distinguished gentleman from Ohio came upon the floor, as [M.r. W .A.RNER] that the bill can not be amended, except by unani my friend from Indiana does to-day. as the ad vocate of the soldier and mous consent. estimated that the act would involve a cost of about fifteen millions. Mr. WARNER, of Ohio. I shall ask unanimous consent. I shall Instead of reaching merely that sum it has amounted to about three ask that the bill be amended by inserting, in line 14, after the word hundred millions. In behalf of the people who pay the taxes of this " receive," the words: "a pension proportionate to such disability, on country I insist, as a representative, that before we pass this legislation the basis of twelve dollars for," so as tomaketheprovision read: , "and we shall know what burdens it is to bring to the tax-payers. be entitled to receive a pension proportionate to such disability, on the Mr. STEELE. I desire to ask the gentleman whether he does not basis of twelve dollars for total inability to procure their subsistence think the estimates in this case are about as good as the estimates in by daily labor.'' regard to the Mexican pension bill? Mr. CURTIN. Will the gentleman allow me a question? Mr. BLOUNT. I decline to yield, for the gentleman knows there Mr. WARNER, ofOhio. !fit willnottakeuptoomuchofmytime. is but little time. Mr. CURTIN. Is not the objectofyour amendment covered by the Sir, we do not know, we can not know, what the cost of this measure existing law? is to be. We can not know bow it is to affect the matter of taxation Mr. WARNER, of Ohio. I think not. Now, Mr. Speaker, as to the in the future. We ought to know what we are doing. The measure cost of this bill, the estimate of the gentleman from ·Indiana [Mr. ought not to be hurried through in any clap-trap style and in utter MATSON] is, in my opinion, entirely too low. We ought not to de disrega1·d of the ordinary methods by which we reach conclusions tor ceive ourselves or the country, but meet the question fairly. It prob legislative purposes. ably will not take over five or six millions of dollars iJ we limit con .Mr. ADAMS, of New York. I would like to know whether the sideration to cases now on :file in the Pension Office, but nobody can gentleman himself has made any estimate. approximately estimate the number of applications that will come in Mr. BLOUNT. The gentleman from NewY9rkasks whether I have under this bill if it becomes a law. made an estimate. I tell him frankly I have not. More than that, Ur. COWLES. Mr. Speaker, I desire to know how much time I it appears that the Committee on Invalid Pensions have themselves 1 have remaining. made no estimate; for as soon as they get away from the meager facts The SPEAKER. The gentleman has six minutes. in relation to persons in almshouses, instead of giving the data upon ' 742 CONGREHSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 17, which they base their conclusions, they simply declare, "We have made service. If, however, he was in the service of the country and there an estimate.'' When I asked how they got at the result, the reply was, incurred disability but afterward was in the Confederate service, I shall "We estimated it." When asked, "Did the Commissioner of Pension vote for his being pensioned for the disability honorably incurred in agree to it?" the answer was, "Yes;" but subsequently that answer his country's service, and I have no apology to make here before do- was corrected. And under these circumstances we are called upon to ~~ . pass this bill ! This is not a proposition of charity, for although we had no written The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. MATSO~] has contract with these men we·gave a pledge that they and their fathers now five minutes. and mothers should not live or die in the poor-houses. That.is the Mr. 1\IATSON. I yield three minutes to the gentleman from Kan pledge given by this nation, and this bill seeks in a humble manner to sas [Mr. MORRILL]. fulfill that pledge. This bill gives bnt a. little, but let us give that little 1\lr. MORRILL. I yield one minute to the gentleman from Iowa in obedience to the very kindest and best dictates of our natures. [Mr. CoNGER]. Mr. BOUTELLE. Let me ask the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. HEN Mr. ~ONGER. Mr. Speaker, I have but a single ,word to say on DERSON] whether this bill would pension any soldier but one totally this measure, and it is that the Committee on Invalid Pensions and disabled? the membership of this House owe to the soldiers of this country an Mr. 'HENDERSON, of Iowa. I so understand it. apology for introducing and attempting to pass such a bill as this. Mr. BOUTELLE. Let that be understood, that only those who are This apology is made appropriate by the fact that the majority of the totally disabled are the ones who are to receive the benefit under this membership of that committee representing the party in the majority bill, and they form but a small part of the whole mass of the disabled in this House have compelled us to present a measure of this.character soldiers. or else prec;ent none. With this apology I have simply to say that the .Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. It is but a small amount, a few mill soldiers of this country must wait for just pension legislation until the ions annually, but where we can not get an ell for our deserving ones control of this House passes into the hands of their friends. I shall let us get an inch. vote for the bill. The SPEAKER. The time .for debate bas expired, and gentlemen . [Here the hammer fell]. will resume their seats. Mr. ~IORRILL. Mr. Speaker, under the law as it now stands the Mr. CUTCHEON. I ask unanimous consent to insert in the second . \ aged father or mother who gave a. son to the country on the battlefield section au amendment, "Provided ju1·tlter, That pensions under this is obliged to prove dependence upon the soldier for support at the time act shall not bepaid to any person who is being supported in a.national of the death of the son or can receive no pension. This bill proposes soldiers' home.'' to change the law in that respect, and provides that the father or mother Mr. BLOUNT and Mr. HAMMOND objected. who is now dependent upon the charity of others for support shall re Mr. WARNER, ofOhio. Ia.skconsenttooffer the amendment I sug ceive a pension for the loss of a son in the service. This is a. principle gested. which has been recognized by Congress during the last six years in the llfr. HAMMOND and Mr. BLOUNT objected. passage of individual pension bills. In our special legislation on this lli. HENDERSON, of Iowa. I think it is perfectly evident no con subject we have asked only the question whether the old father or the sent will be given, and therefore I demand the regular order of busi old mother is now dependent. We have left out of consideration en ness. Let us have a vote. tirely the question of dependence at the time of the death of the soldier. The SPEAKER. The question recurs on suspending the rnles and The second section of this bill provides that all soldiers who are now passing the bill. dependent upon charity, who are unable to earn a livelihood by manual Mr. COWLES and Mr. MORRILL demanded the yeas a.nd nays. labor, shall receive a pension. This is a declaration on the part of the The question was taken; and it was decided in the affirmative-yeas Government that no old soldier who followed the flag for three months, 180, nays 76, not voting 63; as follows: who offered his life in defense of the country, shall ever end his days YEAS-180. in the poor-house. Adams, G. E. Everhart, Little, Rusk, Mr. STEELE. And it includes a few who followed the other :flag. Adams,J. J. Farquhar, Long, Ryan, . Mr. MORRILL. The gentleman from Indiana says it'' includes a Allen, C. H. Fisher, Lore, Sawyer, few who followed the other flag." Anderson, C. M. Fleeger, Louttit, Scott, Anderson. J. A. Foran, Lovering, Scranton, A MEMBER. Not only a few. Atkinson,· Ford, Lowry, Seney, Mr. MORRILL. It is true that the soldier of the Mexican war or of Bacon, Frederick, Lyman, Seymour, mi Indian war who fought three months for his country and who after Baker, Fuller, :Markham, Shaw, Bayne, Funston; 11-Iatson, Sowden, ward-- Bound, Gallinger, McAdoo, Spooner, Mr. BOUTELLE. May have fought four years against it. Boutelle, Gay, McKenna., Springer, Ur. MORRILL. Who afterward entered the confederate service Boyle, Gibson, C. H. McKinley, Stahlnecker, Brady, Goff, Merriman, Steele, shall, if disabled now and if he did not receive that disability in the Brown, C. E. Grosvenor, Millard, Stephenson, confederate service, be pensioned. Mr. Speaker, for one I am willing Brown, W. W. Grout, Milliken, Stone, E. F. to yield that point. If the soldier fought three months in the Mexi Brumm, Guenther, Moffat, Stone, W. J., Mo. Buck, Hale, Morrill, Strait, can war or in an Indian war, bravely and nobly, I am willing to for Bunnell, · Hall, :Morrison, Struble, give him if afterward he was led into the service against the country. Burnes, Harmer, ~Iorrow, Swope, All legislation is to a certain extent a compromise, and I gladly ac Burrows, Hatch. Murphy, Taulbee Butterworth, Hayden, Neece, Taylor, E. B. cept this for the sake of my old comrades who are now poor and de Bynum, Haynes, Negley, Taylor, I. H. pendent. Campbell, J. M. Henderson, D. B. Nelson, Thomas, J. R. [Here the hammer fell.] Campbell, J. E. Henley, O'Donnell, Thomas, 0. B. Cannon, Hepburn, O'Neill, Charles Thomp on, The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. MATSON] is Carleton, Hermann, O'Neill, J. J. Townshend, now entitled to two minutes. Caswell, Hiestand, Osborne, Van Schn.ick, Mr. MATSON. I yield one minute to the gentleman from Illinois Clardy, Hill Outhwaite, Viele, Cobb, Bitt, Owen, Wade, [:Mr. SPRINGER.] Conger, Holman, Parker, Wadsworth, Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker, this bill seems tome very fair and Cooper, Holmes, Perkins, Wait, conservative. It is estimated by the committee that it will add $6,- Curtin, Hopkins, Peters, Wakefield, Cutcheon, Howard, Pettibone, Ward,J.H. 000,000 a year to the present expenditures for pensions. It has been Davenport, Johnson, F. A. Phelps, Ward,T. B. stated that we cannot ascertain the amonnt of the demand which this Davis, Johnston, J. T. Pindar, Warner, A. J. bill will make upon the Treasury. We cannot do so accurately, but Dingley, Kelley, Pirce, Warner, William Dorsey, Ketcham, Plumb, Wea~er, J. B. we can approximate to the fact. I believe that the statement of Dougherty, Kleiner, Randall, 'Veber, the gentleman from Indiana., representing the committee, is approxi Dunham, La. Follette, Ranney, White, A. C. mately correct-is at least a safe estimate upon which to base our legis Eden, Landes, Reed, White, Milo Eldredge, Lawler, Rice, Wilkins, lation. Ifthis bill be passed, it will furnish a greater amount of relief Ellsberry, LeFevre, Riggs, Winans, in proportion to the sum involved than any measure in the interest of Ely, Lehlbach, Rockwell, Wolford, pensioners that Congress has heretofore enacted~ I hope it will pass Ermentrout, Libbey, Romeis, Woodburn, without a. dissenting voice. Evans, Lindsley, Rowell, Worthington. llfr. MATSON. I yield the remainder of my time to the gentleman NAYS-76. from Iowa [Mr. HENDERSON]. Allen, J. M. Cabell, Davidson, A. 0. Henderson, J. 8. Ballentine, Caldwell, Davidson, R. H. :M. Herbert, Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, there are, perhaps, ob Barbour, Catchings, Dawson, Hutton, jections to some features of this bill on the part of some gentlemen, Barksdale, Clements, Dibble, Irion, but I wish to say that this bill is wholly unsectional. It lays its kindly Barnes, Compton, Dunn, Johnston,T.D. Bennett, Comst-ock, Glass, · Jones,J.H. hand on every part of this nation, North and South. It touches with Blanchard, Cowles, Glover, Jones, J. T. kindness the sufferers in every State in this Union who supported the Bland, Cox, W. R. Green, W. J. Laffoon, conn try's flag. It is said, by some around me, "it will pension some Blount, Crisp, Halsell, Lanham. Bragg, Croxt.on, Hammond, Martin, who have been in the Confederate service." Ay, that is true, but the Breckinridge, 0. R. Culberson, Harris, McCreary, bill prohibits him from a pension if his disability was incurred in that Breckinridge,WOP Dargan, Hemphill, McMillin, 1887. -coNGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 743 McRae, Perry, Skinner, Tucker, Mexico such grant shall be prima facie evidence of his service and honorable 'Miller, Richardson, Stewart, Charles Turner, discharge; bnt such evidence shall not be conclusive, and may be rebutted by Mills, Robertson, Stnrm. Van Eaton, evidence that such land-warrant was improperly grant.ed. . . . Neal, Rogers, Taylor, J. M. 'Vellborn, "SEc. 4. That the pension laws now iu force which arenotmcons1stent or 1n Oates, Sadler, Throckmorton, Wheeler, confiict with this act are hereby made a part of this act, so far as they may be O'Ferrall, Sayers, ~an Willis, Peel, Singleton, Trigg, ' Wise. aJ!:p~~~J~ it~r:~~tion 4716 of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed so far as the same relates to this act or to pensioners under this act. .. NOT VOTING-63. "SEc. 6. That the provisions of this act shall not apply to any person whue un Aiken, Felton, King, Smalls, der the political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment. to the Con Barry, Findlay, Laird, Snyder, stitution of the United States." Belmont, Forney, Mahoney, Spriggs, Bingham, Geddes, J.\.Iaybury, Stewart, J. W. The SPEAKER. Is the reading of the House bill demanded? Bliss, Gibson, Eustace McComas, St. Martin, The reading of the House bill was not called for. Browne, T. M. Gilfillan, J.\.fitchell, Srone, W. J., Ky. I Buchanan, Green, R. S. Morgan, Swinburne, Mr. BRAGG. demand a second on the motion. Burleigh, Hanback, Muller, Symes, The SPEAKER. The Chair will appoint as tellers the gentleman Campbell,Felix Heard, Norwood, Tarsney, from Wisconsin [Mr. BR.A.GG] and the gentleman from Mich,.gan [lli. Campbell, T. J. Henderson, T. J. O'Hara, Taylor, Zach. Candler, Hires, Payne, Wallace, ELDREDGE). . CoUins, Hiscock, Payson, 'Veaver, A. J. M:r. OATES. Before the vote is taken I desire to ask a quesbon Cox, S. S. Honk, Pidcock, West, with reference to the meaning of a provision in this bill, the answer.to Crain, Hudd, Reagan, Whiting, which will have an influence upon further action with reference to It, Daniel, Jackson, Reese, Wilson. Dockery, James, Sessions, for if it is subject to one construction to which its language ap~ears So (two-thirds voting in favor thereof) the bill was passed. susceptible it seems to me manifes~ that it ought to go to a committee On motion of M:r. MATSON, by unanimous consent the reading of of conference. the names was dispensed with. In the thirtieth line of the first section of the bill as proposed to be The following additional pairs were announced: amended I would like to inquire the effect of the word "or" where Mr. DANIEL with 1t1r. SYMES, for the rest of the day. it is inserted. I will read, beginning with line 28, so as to show the Mr. CRAIN with Mr. TARSNEY, on this bill. .connection: Mr. EVANS. Mr. Speaker, my colleague, Mr. JACKSON, is absent But it shall not be held to include any person not within the rule of age or on account of sickness. He is paired with Mr. BARRY, of Mississippi. disability or dependency herein defined,- If present, 1\Ir. JACKSON would vote "aye." That is cl~r enough that the disability, if received, would entitle the 'l'he result of the vote was then announced, as above recorded. applicant to be admitted to the pension-roll before arriving within the J.EA VE OF ABSENCE. limit of age prescribed, but it goes on further to provide:- or who incurred such disability while in any manner voluntarily engaged in or By unanimous consent leave of absence was granted to Mr. HEARD, aiding or abetting the late rebellion against the authority of the United States. for this day, on account of sickness. - 1\IEXICAN PENSION BILL. Would that exclude absolutely all such persons? Mr. ELDREDGE. No, sir; that permits them to draw pensions if The committee on pensions was called. they are sixty-two years of age. Mr. ELDREDGE. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and Mr. OATES. It is very awkwardly expressed. discharge the Commilitee of the Whole House on the state of the Union Mr. ELDREDGE. That maybe, but the effect of the law will betbe from the further consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill same. (H. R. 807) granting pensions to soldiers and sailors of the Mexican The SPEAKER. The tellers will take their places. war and concur in the amendments of the Senate. The House divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 171, noes 0. Mr. McMILLIN. I hope my fr·iend will modify his motion so as to So the motion was seconded. move a non-concurrence in the amendments of the Senate and agree to The SPEAKER. Under the rules of the House thirty minutes are the conference asked for by the Senate on this bill. There are provis allowed for debate-fifteen minutes in support of, and fifteen minutes ions here that ought to be amended. One requires an applicant to in opposition to the motion. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from swear to his poverty or prove it in order to get any pension at all. I Michigan [Mr. ELDREDGE] to control the time in support, and the shall vote for the bill if I can not get a better one; but I hope that if a gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. BRAGG] in opposition to the motion. conference is had we will get some of the objectionable features of this [Cries of "Vote!" "Vote!"] Senate bill stricken off and get others incorporated that are more just Mr. ELDREDGE. Mr. Speaker, if no gentleman desires to speak to the Mexican veterans. I submit to the gentleman that if a confer against the bill, I am perfectly willing that it should come to a vote ence is had the report is privileged and a majority vote will pass it. now, without discussion. [Cries of "Vote!"] It can not, therefore, possibly endanger the bHl to agree to conference. I ask the yeas and nays on the question. We have all to make and nothing to lose. Mr. BRAGG. I called for a second upon this motion because I am Mr. ELDREDGE. I make this motion by direction of the Commit- opposed to the limit of time fixed which shall be deemed service suffi tee on Pensions. cient to enable a person to make applicatiQn and receive pension. I The SPEAKER. 'I'he Clerk will report the amendments of the Sen do not believe in sixty days' soldiers who never see a battle being pen ate. sioned at the hands of the Government any more than I believe in the The Clerk read as follows: bill which has just passed this House; and to say a few words upon that Strike out nll after the words "directed to," in the fourth line, and insert: bill was one of the l'easons for demandina a second upon this mot;·on. "Place on the pension-roll the names of the surviving officers and enlisted men, 0 " . including marines, militia, and volunteers, of the military and navaJ. services of That such a bill as that ought to pass, making four months on the the United States, who, being duly enlisted,adually served sixty days with the muster-roll sufficient to entitle a man to make an application for a Army or Navy of the United States in Mexico, or on the coasts or frontier there- pension, is to my mind utterly inadmissable. I shall vote agal'nstthlS' of, or en rouf.e thereto, in the war with that nation, or were actuaJ.ly engaged in a l a ~tle in said war, and were honorably discharged, and to such other officers bill, as I voted against the other, because I believe that that bill ought -- and soldiers and sailors as may have been personally named in any resolution of to have been entitled "A bill to pension the rubbish of the Army of ~ffi~~:S::dre:li!t~~e~~~:s~~~!~. ~h~~~~h~J~!ss~~~v!~fr':~~':ie% sh! the United States, and to revive the business of claim agents in the vided, That every such officer, enlisted man, or widow who is or may become city of Washington." [Laughter.] By its terms four months on the si:xty-two years of age, or who is or may become subject to any disability or de- muster-roll is all that is required-- pendency equivalent to some cause prescribed or recognized by the pension laws 11.,. _ OATES Th h ofthe United States as a su:ffi.cientreasonfortheallowance of a pension, shall be .llll. • ree mont S. entitled to the benefits of this act; but it shall not be held to include any person Mr. BRAGG. Three months; worse and worse. That covers every not within the rule of age or disability or dependency herein defined, or who in- substitute, every bounty-jumper, every scalawag who went into the curred such disability while in any manner voluntarily engaged in or aiding or · J abetting the late rebellion against the authority of the United States. Army m annary and February, 1865. That covers every man who •.• SEc. 2. That pensions under section 1 of this act shall be at the rate of S8 enlisted in 1861, and before active hostilities were commenced in the per month, and payable only from and after the passage of this act, for and field it was discovered that he was physically defective or else consti- during the natural lives of the persons entitled thereto, or during the continu- ll d ~" · ance of the disability for which the same shall be granted: Provided, '!'hat sec- tutiona Y e1ective in the essentials necessary to a soldier, and we per- tion 1 of this act shall not apply to any person who is receiving a pension at mitted him to slide out. That is the reason I voted against that bill the rate ofSS per month or more, nor to any person receiving a pension of less and made this call for the purpose of submitting this statement upon ~~~~s~t~~ ~o~!~·X:.~:b.~ ~~dt~ ~:~~~~.between the pension now received my vote in order that my action should not be misunderstood. And, "SEc. 3. That before the name of any person shall be placed on the pension-roll permit me to say that, although my term of official life is short and may under this act proof shall be made, under such rules and regulations as the Sec- never be again renewed, yet I hope that so long a-s I live, if it ever come retary of the Interior may prescribe, of the right of the applicant to a pension ; nnd any person who shall falsely and corruptly take any oath required under to pass that I shall vote upon a pension bill, I never will forget the this act shall be deemed guilty of perjury; and the Secretary of the Interior brave men who followed my flag in the battle-field for four long years shall cause to be stricken from the pension-roll the name of any person when- and classify them 'th th bb' h f th A · d to t the ever it shall be made to appear by proof satisfadory to him that such name was Wl e ru 18 0 e rmy m or er ge m put upon such roll through false and fraudulent representations and that such a pension. [Cries of "Vote !" "Vote!"] p~rson is not entitled t~ a pension under this act. The IC!ss of the certificate of The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion to suspend the d~harge shall. not deprive any .person of the benefits of~his act, but other record rules and concur in the amendments of the Senate. eVIdence of enlistment and serv1ce and of an honorable discharge may be deemed sufficient: Provided, That when any person has been ~ranted a land-warrant, I Mr. ELDREDGE demanded the yeas and nays. under any act of Congress, for and on account of serviCe in the said war with The yeas and nays were ordered. 744 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 17, The question was taken; and there were-yeas 247, nays 5, not vot The SPEAKER. The gentleman from illinois sent the bill to the ing 6G; astollows: desk, and stated what his motion was. YEAS-247. Mr. SPRINGER. I think I have a right to have my motion stated. .Ad&ms, G : E. Dunham, Laffoon, Romeis, The SPEAKER. The motion to adjourn is in order at any time. Allen. C. H. Dunn, La Follette, Rowell, .Anderson,_O. M. Eden, Landes, Rusk, Mr. SPRINGER. But not before the other motion is made, when I Anderson, J. A. Eldredge, Lanham, Ryan, am on the .floor to make it. I am on the floor, and I cannot be taken .Atkinson, Ellsberry, Lawler, Sadler, off the floor when I have made a proper and parliamentary motion till Bacon, :Ely, LaFever, Sawyer, Baker, Ermentrout, Lehlbach, Sayers, my motion is stated. Ballentine, Evans, Libbey, Scott, The SPEAKER. The gentleman can state it. The gentleman has Barbour, Everhart, Lindsley, Scranton, stated it. But the first question is on the motion to adjourn, upon Barksdale, Farquhar, Little, Seney, Rarnes, Felton, Long, Seymour, which the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. SPRINGER] calls for the yeas Bayne, Findlay, Lore, Shaw, and nays. Bingham, Fisher, Louttit, Singleton, On the question of ordering the yeas and nays there were-ayes 25. Blanchard, Fleeger, Lovering, Skinner, Bland, Foran, Lowry, Sowden, Mr. WILKINS. Count the other side. . Blount, Frederick, Lyman, Spooner, The negative side was counted, and numbered 117. Bound, Fuller, :1\Iahoney, Springer Mr. SPRINGER. I call for tellers on the yeas and nays. Boyle, Funston, Markham, Btahlnecker, Brady, Gallinger, Martin, Steele, Tellers were ordered; thirty-six members voting therefor. Breckinridge, 0. R Gay, Matson, Stephenson, The SPEAKER appointed as tellers 1\Ir. SOWDEN and Mr. SPRINGER. Breckinridge,WCP Gibson, 0. H. McAdoo, Stewart, Charles The House again divided; and the tellers reported-o.yes 43, noes 86. Brown, 0. E. Glass, McCreary, Stone, E. F. Brown, ,V, ,V, Glover, McKenna, Stone, W. J., Ky. So the yeas and nays were ordered. Brumm, Goff, McKinley, Stone, W. J., Mo. The question was taken; ·and there were-yeas 96, nays 103, not vot Buck, Green, McMillin, Strait·, ing 119; as follows: Bunnell, Grosvenor, "McRae, Struble, YEAS-96. lsurnes, Grout, Merriman, Swope,. Burrows, Guenther, Millard, Tarsney, Allen, J . M. Crisp, Jones: J. T. Rice, Butterworth, Hale, Mills, Taulbee, Bacon, Croxton, Landes, Richardson, Bynum, Hall, Moffatt, Taylor, I. H. Ballentine, Culberson, LeFevre, Riggs Cabell, Halsell, Morrill, Taylor, J. M. Barbour, Cntcheon, Lindsley, Roweh, Caldwell, Hammond, Morrison, Thomas, J. R. Belmont, Davidson, A. C. Little, Sayers, Campbell, J. M. Harmer, :Morrow, Thomas, 0. B. Bennett, Dingley, Long, Scranton, Campbell, J. E. Harris, Murphy, Thompson, Bingham, Eldredge, Martin Seymour, Campbell, T. J. Hatch, Neal, Throckmorton, Bland, Evans, McKinley, Shaw, Cannon, Hayden, Neece, Tillman, Blount, Everhart, 1llcMillin, Singleton, Carleton, Haynes, Negley, Townshend, Bound, Fisher, Millard, Sowden, Caswell, Heard, Nelson, Trigg, Boyle, Foran, Miller, Spooner, Cl\tchings, Hemphill, Norwood, Turner, Bragg, Glass, Millst Steele, Clardy, Henderson, D. B. Oates, VanEaton, Brown,W.W. Greene, Morrison, Stewart, C. Cobb, Henderson,J.S. O'Donnell, Van Scbaick, Brumm, Grosvenor, Murphy, Stone, E. F. Compton, Henley, O'FerroJJ, Viele, Burrows, Hammond, Neal, Swope, Comstock, Hepburn, O'Neill, Charles Wade, Bynum, Ho.nis, Negley, Trigg, Conger, He1·bert., O'Neill,J.J. Wadsworth, Campbell, J. E. Hayden, Nelson, Turner, Cooper, Hermann, Osborne, Wait, Campbeli,T.J. Hemphill, O'Fen·all Van Eaton, Cowles, Hiestand, Outhwaite, Wakefield, Cannon, Henderson, J. S. Oulhwait~, Wnrner,A.J. Cox, W. R. Hill, Owen, Ward,J.H. Carleton, Hill, Owen, Wellborn, Crain, Bitt, Peel, Ward,T.B. Comstock, Holman, Pettibone, Willis, Crisp. Holman, Perkins, Warner, William Cowles, Hudd, Pirce, 'Vinans, Croxton, Holmes, Perry, Weaver,J. B. Cox,W.R Johnson, F . .A. Randall, 'Vise Culberson, Hopkins, Peters, Weber, Crain, Jones,J.H. Ranney, Worthington. Curtin, Howard, Pettibone, Wellborn, NAY&-103. Cutcheon, Hudd, Phelps, Wheeler, Adams,G.E. Fleeger, Lyman, nargan, Hutton, Piree, White, A. C. Springer, Davenport, Irion, Plumb, White, Milo .Allen, C. H Frederick, 1\lahoney, Stahlnecker, Davidson, A. C. Johnson, F. A. Randall, Wilkins, Anderson, J. A. Fuller, :Matson, Stephenson, David!!on,R.H. M. Johnston,J.T. Ranney, Baker, Gallinger, l\fcAdoo, Stone, W.J.,ofKy. Willis, Bayne, Gibson, C. H. l\lcCreary, Stone,W.J.,of 1\fo. Davis, Johnston~T. D. Richardson, Winans, Dawson, Jones,J.tt. Riggs, · Wise, Boutelle, Glover, McKenna, Storm, Dibble, Jones,J.T. Robertson, Wolford, Breckinridge,C.R. Goff, l\lcRne, Strait, Dorfey, Ketcham, Rockwell, Worthington. Breckinridge, WCP Groutt Milliken, Struble, I Dougherty, Kleiner, Rogers, Brown,O.E. Guentner, ?.IorriJI, Taulbee, Buok, Halsell, l\forrow, 'l'uylor, J. M. NAYS-5. Bunnell, Hatch, Oates, Taylor, Z. Butterworth, Haynes, O'Donnell, Thomas, 0. B. Bennett, Bragg, Parker, Storm. Cabell, Henderson, D. B. O'Neill, C. 'l'illman, Boutelle, Caldwell, Herbert, O'Neill, J. J. Townshend, NOT YOTINQ-66. Cooper, Hermann, Osborne, Viele, .Adams J. J . Ford, Miller, Spriggs, Dargan, Hitt, Parker, Wade, Aiken, Forney, Milliken, Stewart,· J. W. Davenport, Holmes, Peel, 'VadsV{orth, Allen, J . .M. Geddes, Mit-chell, St. Martin, Dawson, Howard, Perkins, Wa.rd,J.H. ' Barry, Gibson, Eustace Morgan, Swinburne, Dougherty, Irion, Perry, Warner, W. Belmont, Gilfillan, Muller, Symes, Dunham, Johnston, J. T. Peters, Weaver, J. B. Bliss, Hanback, O'Hara, Taylor, E. B. Dunn, Johnston, T. D. Plumb, Weber, Browne, T. M. Henderson, T. J . Payne, Taylor, Zach. Eden, Kleiner, Rockwell, \Vheeler, Buchanan, Bires, Payson, Tucker. Ely, La Follette, Rogers, White, :r.r. Burleigh, Hiscock, Pidcock, Wallace, Ermentrout, Lanham, Ryan, Wilkins, Campbell, Felix Houk, Pindar, Warner, A. J. Farquhar, Lawler, Seney, Vvolford. Candler, Jackson, Rea.gan, Weaver, A. J. Felton, Low1-y, Skinner, Clements, James, Reed, West, NOT VO'l'ING-119. Collins, Kelley, Reese, Whiting, Cox, S. S. KingJ Rice, Wilson, .Adams, J. J. Dibble, King, Sadler, Daniel, Laira, Sessions, Woodburn. Aiken, Dockery, Laffoon, Sawyer, Dingley, Maybury, Smalls, Anderson, 0. M. Dorsey, Laird, Scott, Dockery, McComas, Snyder, Atkinson, Ellsberry, Lehlba.oh, Se sions, Barksdale, Findlay, Libbey, Smalls, So (two-thirds voting in fa\or thereof) the rules were suspended and Barnes, Ford, Lore, Snyder, Barry Forney, Louttit, Spriggs, the bill was passed. Blanchard, Funston, Lovering, Stewart, J. W. Mr. ZACH. TAYLOR. I beg to state that I refrained from voting Bliss, Oo.y, Markham, St. Martin, because paired with the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. MoRGAN]. Brady, Geddes, Maybury, Swinburne, Brown, T. M. Gib on, E. McComas, Symes, If be bad been present I should have voted ''aye.'' Buchanan, Gilfillan, 1\Ierriman, Tarsney, The following additional pairs were announced: Burleigh, Hale, Mitchell, Taylor, E. B. Ur. DAVIDSON, of Alabama, with Mr. SWINBURNE, until further Burnes, BaiJ, Moffatt, Taylor, I. B. Campbell, F. Hanback, Morgan, Thomas, J. R. notice. Campbell, J. M. Harmer, Muller, 'l'hompson, Mr. PrnDAR with Mr. KELLEY, for the rest ofthe day. Candler, Heard, Neece, Throckmorton, The result of the vote was then announced as above stated. Caswell, Henderson, T. J. Norwood, 'l'ucker, Catchings, llenley, O'Hara, Van Schaick, SUPPLEMENT TO BOWMAN .ACT. Clardy, Hepburn, Payne, Wait, Clements, Hiestand, Payson, 'Vakefield, Mr. SPRINGER. I am authorized by the Committee on Claims to Cobb, Hires, Phelps, Wallace, move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (S. 2643) as amended which Collins, Hiscock, Pidcock, W ard,T.B. Compton, Hopkins, Pindar, ·weaver, A. J. I send to the desk. ' · Conger, Houk, Reagan, West, M.r. SOWDEN. I move that the House do now adjourn. I Cox, S. S. Hutton, Reed, White, A. 0. The question being taken on the motion to adjourn, there were___; Curtin, Jackson, Reese, Whiting, Daniel, James, Robertson, Wilson, ayes 105, noes 54. 1 Davidson, R.H.M. Kelley, Romeis, Woodburn. Mr. S~IUNGER. I call for the yeas and nays. But before that I Davis, Ketcham, Rusk, ask to have the question stated by the Chair. So the House refused to adjourn• • 1887. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HOUSE. 745 Mr. WADSWORTH. I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the The SPEAKER. The Chair will announce the vote. Upon this reading of names of members voting. question the yeas are 87 and the nays none. -No quorum has voted. There was no objection, and it was so ordered. Mr. SPRINGER. The question of ordering a second will be the The followin~ additional pair was announced: :first question to be determined when the bill comes up on the next day Mr. LAFFOON with Mr. HIRES for the remainder of the day. for the suspension of the rules? The result of the vote was then announced as above recorded. The SPEAKER. It will. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from illinois (Mr. SPRINGER) MESSAGE FRO:\! THE SENATE. moves to suspend the rules and pass the bill indicated by him. The bill as proposed to be amended by the Committee on Claims of A message from the Senate, by Mr. SYliiPSON, one of its clerks, in the House was then read. as follows: formed the House that the Senate had passed with amendments bills of the following titles: ' Be it ena.cled, &c., That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of A bill (H. R. 10242) making an appropriation for the support of .th4:' Claims to investigate and make a finding of fact in a.ny claim or demand, other than war claims, against the United States, pending before any committeeofthe Army 1or the :fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, and for other purposes; feuate or House of Represent.atives, or before either House of Congress, upon and the 11ame being referred to the court under this act: Provided, That all claims A bill (H. R. 10397) making appropriations for the payment of in and d ~ ma.nds not presented to said court by the claimant or claimants within the period of two years after such claims and demand3 have been referred to valid and other pensions of th3 United States for the fiscal year end· the court under this a.ct shall be forevt>r batTe:l. ing June 30, 1888, and for other purposes. Sxc. 2. That the court is required to promptly consider all claims and de mands ·referred under this act and presented to the court, under such needful ORDER OF BlJSINESS. rules and regulations IU it may adopt, and subject to the provisions of existing laws not inconsistent with this act. That on the first day of every December Jtir. SPRINGER. I move that the Honse do now adjourn. session of Congress the clerk of the Court of Claims shall transmit to each House The mMion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 4 o'clock and 53 min- ot longress a. full and complete statement of the findings offa.ctin each claim utes p. m.) the Honse adjourned. · or demand investigated under this act and not theretofore reported, stating what amount, if anything, is due the claimant or claimants; whether the claim or de· mand is founded upon any act of Congress, or upon any contract, express or implied: the laches or diligence of the claimant or claimants in presenting the PETITIONS, ETC. claim or dt>maild against the United States; and such other findings of fact and The following petitions and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk conclusions of law as the court !'ball deem material to enable Congress to p:lBs 7 upon such claim or demand. That until such claim or demand is finally in ves under the rule, and referred as follows: tigated and reported upon to Congress by the court, as heiein provided, neither By Mr. ATKINSON: Petition of 50 citizens of Orbisonia, Pa., pray Bouse of Congress shall consider the same, by bill or otherwise, in reference to ing for the repeal of taxes on tobacco and alcohol used in the arts-to allowing any such claim or demand. SEc. 3. That whenever any private or domestic claim or demand, other than the Committee on Ways and Means. war cl11ims against the United States, is pending before any committee of the By Mr. BACON: Petition of citizens of Highland Falls, N.Y., for Senate or House of Representatives, or before either House of Congress, which additional pension legislation-to the Committee on Invalid Pensio~s. involves the investigation of facts, the committee or House may cause the 11a.me, with the vouchers, papers, proofs, and documents pertaining thereto, to By Mr. BOYLE: Resolutions of National Grange of Patrons of Hus be transmitted to the Court of Claims, and the same shall there be proceeded bandry, in relation to the Signal Service, education, agricultural experi with as herein provided. When claims and demands are rtlferred to the court ment-stations, &c.-to the' Committee on Agriculture. · under this act, by any committee of the Senate or House of Representatives, such committee shall, before the end of the session of Congress at which such By Mr. C. R. BRECKINRIDGE: Petition _' of citizens of .Lon~ke reference was made, report the fact in writing to the House of Congrt"Ss by County, of Clinton County, and of White County, Arkansas, m favor which such committee was appointed. That nothing in this act shall be con of the agricultural experiment-station bill-to the same committee. etrued as committing the United States to the payme~t ofany such claim or de mand, and that no judgment shall be entered thereon by the court. · . By Mr. BUNNELL: Petition of owners, masters; and seamen, against SEo. 4.. That at the adjournment of each Congress all bills relating t-o private compulsory pilotage fees to State pilots in eleven States of the Union and domestic claims and demands, other than war claims, against the United to the Committee on Commerce. States, which may be pending in either House of Cengress or before any com mittee of either House, shall, by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of Also, resolutions of the Western Pennsylvania Agricultural Associ the House, respectively, be referred to the Court of Olaims, together with all ation, favoring the passage of the Miller bill, for the prevention of papers relating thereto, as hereinbefore provided; and all such claims and de pleoro-pneumoniar-to the Committee on Agriculture. · . mands shall be investigated by the court as provided in this act. The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House shall enter in the J oumals of the re Also, a petition of Post No. 2, department of Pennsylvania, G. A. spective Houses, and in the CoNGRESSIONAL REcoRD, a statement showing what R., favoring the passage of the Edmunds-Tucker bill with amendmen~ billa have been so transferred. to prevent the existing disloyal and illegal condition of officers in the SE:o. 5. That after the passage of this act neither House of Congress shall con sider or entertain, for any purpose other than that of referring the same to Territory of Utah-to the Committee on the Judiciary. .. eome judicial tribunal or commission under existing law, any private or do By Mr. BURLEIGH: Petition of Mary E. Donahue, for a widow's mestic cla.im or demand against the United States which involves the investiga,. pension-to the Committee on•Invalid Pensions. ' tion of facts other than war claims, until such facts shall have been investi gated by such judicial tribunal or commission and the findings of fact reported By Mr. J. 111. CAMPBELL: Petition of citizens of Clermont County, to Congress. Ohio, to pension Francis Pohl-to the same committee. SEc. 6. That it shall be the duty of the Attorney-General, or his assistants, By Mr. CARLETON: Papers in the claim of M. Walker--,-to the under his direction, to appear for the defense and protection of the United States in all cases which may be transmitted to the Court of Claims under this Committee on Claims. act. By Mr. COBB: Petition of the State Board of Agriculture of Indiana, SEO. 7. That reports of the Court of Claims to Congress under this act, if not in favor of the Miller bill-to the Committee on Agriculture. · · · finally acted upon during the session at which they are reported, shall be con tinued from session to session and from Congress to Congress until the same By Mr. CRAIN: Petition of John Friery, of Galveston, Tex:., asking shall be finally a.cted upon. that his claim be referred to the Court of Cla.ims-to the Committee on Claims. The SPEAKER. Is a second demanded? By Mr. CROXTON: Resolutions adopted by t'Qe common council of Mr. McMILLIN. I demand a second. the city of Fredericksburg, Va., for the completion of monument to Mr. SPRINGER. I trust that a second will be considered as or-' Mary, the mother of Washington-to the Committee on the Library. dered. . By Mr. R. H. M. DAVIDSON: Petition of 26 citizens; of 29 citi Mr. BRAGG. I clove that the House do now adjourn. zens; of 20 citizens; of 105 citizens; and of 29 citizens, all of West Tlie question was taken on the motion of Mr. BRAGG, and there Florida, praying for the establishment of an additional land district in were-ayes 54, noes 80. the State of Florida-to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. BRAGG. I call for the yeas and nays. By Mr. DIBBLE: Petition of 27 druggists of Charleston, S. C., pray The yeas and nays were refused, only fifteen members voting in favor ing for the repeal of internal taxes-to the Committee on Ways and thereof. Means. Mr. BRAGG. I demand tellers on the yeas and nays. By Mr. DORSEY: Petition of the Women's Christian Temperance The yeas and nays were refused; only ten members voting in favor Union of Nebraska, in favor of the Blair bill-to the Committee on thereof: • Education. . The SPEAKER. Upon the motion to adjourn there are yeas 53 and By Mr. EVERHART: Petition of citizens of .1\Iedia, Pa., and vicinity, Days 80. So the House refuses to adjourn. The tellers will take their praying for a reduction of internal taxes-to the Committee on Ways pla{!es upon the question of ordering a second. and Means. . J,{r. SPRINGER (before the count was completed). Mr. Speaker, it By Mr. FINDLAY: Petition of Maj. F. L. Hagadorn, for compensa is evident that it will take some time to get a quorum, and if it can be tion for the use of his ammunition-chests-to the Committee on Claims. understood that a second is ordered I will myself move that the House By Mr. FORAN: Petition of Benton, Myers & Co., of Cl~veland adjourn. County, Ohio, for the abolition of internal taxes-to the ComiiDttee on Mr. HOL~IAN. There is no quorum I believe. Ways and Means. The SPEAKER. There is not. The gentleman from illinois [Mr. Also, petition of the officers of the Women's Christian Temperance SPRINGER] .asks unanimous consent that a second be considered as or Union of Ohio, praying for the passage of the Blair bill-to the Com dered. mittee on Education. :Mr. McMILLIN. I haYe no objection to that. By Mr. FORD: Petition of citizens of Goshen, Ind., asking a pen Mr. BRAGG. I object. sion for Finton A. Stroup-to the Committee on Invalid Pensio~s. Jtfr. SPRINGER. Then, Mr. Speaker, is it in order to move to ad- By Mr. GALLINGER : Papers in the pension claim of Albert D. journ, there being no decision? · . Spalter-to the Committee on Pensions. 746 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 17, By Mr. HEPBURN: Petition of 75 citizens of Decatur County, Also, petition of Joseph Goldney, of Washington, D. C., relative to Iowa, asking that a pension be granted to John.G. Hasson, of Weldon, gilding the dome of the Capitol-to the Committee on the Library. Iowa, he being a soldier of the Black Hawk war-to the Committee Also, petition of Vessel-Owners and Captains' National Association, on Pensions. relative to compulsory pilotage-to the Committee on Commerce. By Mr. LAIRD: Petition Of Jonathan H. Cline, for a special-act Also, paper from the employes of the Government Printing Office, pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. for relief-to the Committee on Printing. By Mr. LAFFOON: Petition of Dr. A. C. Wood and others, for in By Mr. W. J. STONE, of Missouri: Petition of Ann C. Gutherie crease of fees of examining surgeons-to the same committee. and of William J. Scarborough, for an invalid pension-to the Com By Mr. LAWLER: Papers relating to increase of pension to Martha mittee on Invalid Pensions. O'Rigan-to the same committee. By 1tfr. STRAIT: Petition of the Chamber of Commerce of Saint By Mr. LOVERING: Papers relatingtothe caseofJohnH. Moore Paul, Minn., praying for the passage of the Lowell bankruptcy bill; to the same committee. also asking that importers be allowed to swear to en tries before notaries, By 1t1r. LYMAN: Resolutions ofFarmers' Alliance, of Shelby County, and that certified checks be received by collector of customs in lieu of Iowa, against amendment of the oleomargarine law, and for other pur coin and coin certificates in payment of duties-to the Committee on poses-to the Committee on .Agriculture. Ways and Means. By Mr. McCREARY: Petition of Henry Morris, late ofCompanyE, By Mr. THROCKMORTON: Petition of Frederick Brown, for re Forty-seventh Kentucky Volunteers-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- moval of charge of desertion-to the Committee on Military Affairs. sions. . By Mr. VAN SmiAICK: Petition of Alexander Holtz, late Com Also, petition of Jesse P. Riffe, of Lincoln County, Kentucky, for pany I, First New York Light Artillery, for a pension-to the Commit payment of a war claim-to the Committee on War Claims. • tee on Invalid Pensions. Also, memorial of Mrs. James Bennett, of Richmond, Ky., on female By Mr. VOORHEES: ResolutionofthecitycouncilofPomeroy, Wash., suffrage-to the Committee on the Judiciary. praying for the passage of a bill to enable said city council to levy special By Mr. MARKHAM: FivepetitionsofcitizensofSanDiego County, taxes for the building of water-works in said city-to the Committee on California, asking that lands forfeited by act of February 28, 1885, be the Territories. restored at $1.25 per acre instead of $2.50-to the Committee on the By 1tir. WILLIAJ\IWARNER: Petition and affidavits ofMrs. J. Jack Public Lands. son Hord, of Independence, Mo., for relief-to the Committee on War By Mr. MORRISON: Petition of Charles C. Roesch, for an invalid Claims. pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1tfr. A. C. WffiTE: Petition of 133 citizens of Kittanning, Pa.~ By Mr. NORWOOD: Resolutions by Savannah ( By Mr. THO~IPSON: Of officers of the Women's Christian Temper Mr. MITCHELL, of Pennsylvania, presented a petition of citizens ance Union of Ohio, for the Blair bill. of Philadelphia, Pa., praying for a reduction of inter~l-revenue taxes; By .Mr. VIELE: Of 22 citizens of the tp.irteenth district of New which was referred to the Committee on Finance. York. Mr. SAWYER presented a memorial of vessel-owners and persons By Mr. WIDTING: Of 112 citizens of the eleventh district of Mas- interested in the carrying trade of the northern chain of lakes, remon sachusetts. - strating against the passage of the bill (H. R. 6104) to authorize the con By Mr. WILKINS: OftheWomen's Christian Temperance Union of struction of a railroad bridge across the Sainte Marie River, Michi Ohio, for the passage of a bill aiding public schools. gan; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. COCKRELL. I present a letter which was intended, doubt less, as a petition from citizens of Carroll County, :Missouri, in regard to pleuro-pneumonia, praying for the passage of what is known as SENATE. the 111iller bill. It is signed by Samuel B. Robertson, J. I. Mansur, and many other leading citizens of Carroll County, Missouri. I ask TUESDAY, January 18, 1887. that it may be received and referred to the Committee on Agriculture Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. and Forestry. I believe that committee is considering the bill. The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That order will be made, there being no objection. - EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION~. Mr. VEST presented the petition of the Meyer Brothers Drug Com The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communica pany of Kansa.s City, Mo., praying for a repeal of the laws establishing tion from the Secretary of the Treasury, -transmitting a letter from the internal-revenue taxes; which was referred to the Committee on _Fi Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate for an appropriation nance. of$5,000 for the employment ofphysicians and the purchase of ~edi He also presented a petition of citizens of Carroll County, Missouri, cines in cases of Indians who have no treaty or gratuity funds to their praying for the passage of the pleuro-pneumonia bill; which -was re credit; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Com ferred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. mittee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Mr. PLUMB. I have a letter from a leading attorney in my State He also laid before the Senate a communication from the Attorney in regard to a very important subject which I desire to call to the atten General, transmitting, in response to a resolution of January 11, 1887, tion of the Judiciary Committee. I wish to have the formality of a an estimate of the appropriation for contingent _expenses of the Depart reference by the Senate of the paper to.that committee as though it were ment of Justice; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred a petition. It is not in form a petition, but it is in substance one. to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The paper, being in the nature of a He also-laid before the Senate a communication from the Attorney petition, will be received and referred to the Committee on the Judi General, transmitting, in reply to a letter from the chairman of the ciary if there be no objection. Committee on Appropriations [Mr. ALLISON], certain information in Mr. McMILLAN. I have a communication from the Saint Paul reference to the expense of additional terms of court in Utah; which Chamber of Commerce:which is defective in form, perhaps, to authorize was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. it to be presented to the Senate, bnt it is in regard to legislation pend He also laid before the Senate a communication from the Attorney ing before the Senate, and it is evidently of a character-that should go. General, transmitting a letter from the clerk of the United States courts to one of the committees of the Senate. I therefore ask leave to pre for the district of Indiana in regard to fees of such clerk; which, with sent this memorial in favor of a national bankrupt law, and I ask its the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on Appropria reference to the Committee on the Judiciary. tions. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The paper will be received and so SARAH E. NORTON. referred if there be no objection. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the amendment Mr. 1\1cMILLAN presented resolutions adopted by the Saint Paul of the House of Representatives to the bill (S. 2699) granting a pen (Minnesota) Chamber of Commerce, favoring certain amendments of sion to Sarah E. Norton, which was, in line 7, after the words "rate of," the customs laws; which were referred to the Committee on Commerce• . to strike out "twenty-five" and insert "twelve;" so as to make the Mr. CULLOM presented the petition of Mrs. Maria M. Brooks, of bill read: Peoria, Ill., praying that her name may be placed upon the pension-roll; Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, au which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. thorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, thenameofSarah E. Norton, a volunteerndrse Mr. MANDERSON presented a petition of the Women's Christian during the war of the 1·ebellion, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per Temperance Union of Nebraska, praying for the p~ge of the Blair month.. educational bill; which was ordered to lie on the table. .... · The amendment was concurred in. Mr. BLAIR presented .a petition of citizens of Marion, Ala., praying WILLI.A.!! ERVIN. that an appropriation be made in aid of the Colored People's World's Ex position; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The PRESIDENT pro tempo1·e laid before the Senate the amendments He also presented petitions of 27 citize.ns of New York city and 68 of the House of Representatives to the bill (S. 542) for the relief of citizens of Chicago, Ill., praying for such legislation as will prevent William Ervin; which were referred to the Committee on Claims. the violation of the Sabbath by interstate railroading and Sunday PETITIONS .AND !IEMORIALS. parades ofUnited States troops; which were referred to the Committee Mr. ALLISON. I present a petition of.a committee appointed by on Education and Labor. · the Consolidated Cattle-Growers' Association of the United States, respecting the passage of a bill looking to the extinguishment of pleuro REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. pneumonia. As it is very short and relates to an important subject Mr. ALLISON, from the Committee on Appropriations, to ~hom were I ask that the petition may be inserted in the RECORD. referred the following petitions, asked to be discharged from their further The petition was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and For consideration; which was agreed to: estry, and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: A petition of workingmen of the District of Columbia, praying an IowA CITY, IowA, January 12,1887. appropriation to pay John Pope Hodnett for services rendered to them To the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives as counsel for the last fifteen years; and from the State of Iowa, Washington, D. a.: A petition of merchants of Washington·, D. C., praying for the pas GENTLEMEN: We, the undersigned, a. committee appointed oy the Consoli dated Cattle-Growers' Association of the United States, in behalf of the legal sage of the Senate bill providing for the payment of John Pope Hod voters of our State of all political parties, our brother farmers and stock-raisers, nett for services rendered as counsel for workingmen of the District of dependent in a large measure for their support upon the proceeds of cattle Columbia. raised and fed on their farms, represent that they are at this time suffering great pecuniary loss from the fact that the dread cattle disease-contagious pleuro Mr. ALLISON, from the Committee on Appropriations, to whom was pneumonia-has established a foothold in an adjoining State. Should this dis referred the bill (S. 2542) to pay John Pope Hodnett for services ren ease find its way into our herds of cattle we would suffer irreparable loss. That dered as counsel to the Government in the investigation into affairs of it will do so, unless the most heroic measures are at once resorted to, can not be questioned. The people of this great cattle-growing State of Iowa hereby ap the District of Columbia, acting as such counsel by order of a resolu peal to you as their representatives to use every possible influence in your power tion of the House of Representatives; also for acting as counsel for the to secure the passage of the bill recently introduced in both the Senate and workingmen of the District of Columbia for fifteen years last past, Honse of Representatives for the extirpation of contagious pleuro-pneumonia and known as the "Miller bill." asked to be discharged from its further consideration; which was Never before ba.ve a like number of your con,stituents been so vitally interested agreed to. in a measure to be brought before the Congress of the United States. Mr. SAWYER, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was re THOMAS B. WALES, SR. ferred the bill (S. 2629) granting a pension to Jane Brown Dnnn, re WM. LARREBEE. H. C. WHEELER. ported it with an amendment, and submitted a report thereon. 0. 0. NOURSE. He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill JOHN SCOTT. (S. 1321) granting arrears of pension to Richard H. McWhorter, ·re C. C. C.A.RPID..'"TER. ROBERT 1\fiLLER. po.J;"ted it with an amendment, and submitted a report thereon. J. J. RICHARDSON. He also, from the same committee, to whom were referred the fol-