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1896. CONGRESSIONAL RECO~D-HOUSE. ~- 2649 action by the house of which he is a member. Then the authority Mr. GRAY.- Mr. President-- of that adjudication ceases. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. BACON in the chair). Doe8 Now, sir, I wish for a moment to call the ~;~.ttention of Senators the Senator: from Indiana yield to the Senator from Delaware? to the credentials of William T. Watson, one of the senators from Mr. TURPIE. Certainly. the county of Kent in the State of Delaware, and I will ask the Mr. GRA._Y. With the permission of the Senator from Indiana, Secretary at the desk to read the credentials with the signatures. I move tha.t:the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Secretary will read as indi business. cated. The motion. was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the con The Secretary read as follows: sideration;. of executive business. After three minutes spent in STATE OF DEL.A. WARE, Kent County, ss: executive session the doors were reopened, and (at 4 o'clock and 38 Be it remembered that at the general election held on the Tuesday next minutes· p-; m.) the Senate adjourned ,until to-morrow, Wednes after the first Monday in November~.,..in the year of our Lord one thousand day, March 11, 1896, at 12 o'clock meridian. eight hundred and ninety-two, for Kent County, according to the constitu tion and laws of the State of Delaware, William T. Watson was duly chosen senator for said county in the general assembly, which is manifest by calcu CONFIRMATIONS. lating and ascertaining the aggregate amount of the votes ~ven for each person voted for, according to the provision made by law in this behalf. Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate March 10, 1896. - In testimony whereof we the sheriff of the said county and the inspectors POSTMASTERS. of the several hundreds and election districts of said county, who have this day met and ascertained the state of the said election throughout the said Scott W. Carney, to be postmaster at Downs, in the county of county, as the law requires, have hereunto set our hands, at the court-house Osborne-a-nd.State of Kansas. in said county, on Thursday, the tenth day of November, being the Thurs day next succeeding the day of the election: aforesaid in the year aforesaid. Georg~ R. Fitzsimmons, to be postmaster at Reading, in the Amos Cole, sheriff; J. C. StocklyI. inspector for eastern election county of Ilillsdale and State of Michigan. · district of Duck Creek Hunared; Samuel J. Reynolds, in "Ferris S. Fitch, to "be postmaster at Pontiac, in the county of spector forwestern election district of Duck Creek Hundred; R. E. Carsons, inspector for Little Creek Hundred; John F. Bell, Oakland and State of Michigan. · inspector for Kenton Hundred; Edward R. Knotts, inspector Robert M~ Todd, to be postmaster at Halstead, in the county of for election district No. 1 of East Dover Hundred; James A. Harvey and State of Kansas. Kerin, inspector for election district No.2 of East Dover Hun M. dred; Charles A. Garton, inspector for third election district Joseph Young, to be postmaster at London, in the county of of East Dover Hundred; Alfred G. Sturdevant, inspector for Laurel andState.of Kentucky. West Dover Hundred; William R. Postles inspector for east Martin V. B. Smith, to be postmaster at Morrison, in the county ern election district of North Murderkill Hundred; George of Whitesid_e and State of· illinois. W. Walheater, inspector for west election district of North Murderkill Hundred; Robert H. Sipple, inspector for election district No.1 of South Murderkill Hundred; George C. Mason, inspector for election district No.2 of South Murderkill ,Hun dred; Nathan l.l,. Raughley, inspector for election district No. .ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1 of MispiJ.l.ion Hundi·ed, J.R.K.Miller, inspector for election district No.2 of Mispillion Hundred; Luther F. Cubbage, in TUESDAY, March 10, 1896. ~ector for eastern election district of Milford Hundred; Wil liam A. Truitt, inspector for western election district of Milford The Ho~e - met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, ·Rev. Hundi·ed. HENRY M. COUDEN. Mr. TURPIE. That certificate is accompanied bythecertificates The Journal of the proceedings· of yesterday was read and ap of judges, of the officers and judges, so as to make it evidence proved. under the act of Congress. I wish to offer the credentials as evi DEATH PENALTY. dence of the fact that Mr. William T. Watson was admitted and Mr. CURTIS of New York. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous sworn in as a member of the State senate upon such papers, unob consent for :the present consideration of the bill (H. R. 878) to jected to and not protested against. reduce the--cases in which the death penalty may be inflicted. _ I offer at the same time an extract from the journal of the State The bill.was read, as follows: senate of Delaware, which I will read in connection with this cre Be it entJC.ted.,_ etc., That in all cases where the accused is found guilty of dential and having direct relation to it. This is the record: the crime--of. murder or of rape under sections 5339 or 5345, Revised Htatutes, the jury may qualify their verdict by adding thereto "without capital pun By the returns of the officers of Kent County, appointed by law judB"es of ishment ";.and-whenever the jury shall return a verdict qualified as afore election, it appeared that on the Tuesday next after the first Monday m the said the perso11 convicted shall be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor month of November last, at the several and respective places appointed by for life. law for holding the election Jn and for said county, Thomas T . Lacey was SEC. 2. That except offenses mentioned in sections 1342,1624, 5339, and 5345, duly chosen to represent the said county in the senate of the State of Dela Revised Statutes, when a person is convicted of any offense to which _the pun ware to fill out the unexpired term of the late John W. Hall terminating on ishment of .dea-th is now specifically affixed by the laws of the United States, the first Tuesday of January, A. D. one thousand eight hun(h':ed and ninety he shall w.sentenced to imprisonment at -hard labor for life, and when any five; and also that William T. Watson was duly chosen to represent the said person is oonvicted of an offense to which the punishment of death, or a lesser county in the senate of the State of Delaware for the ensuing term of four punishment, in the discretion of the court, is affixed, the maximum punish years. ment shall be imprisonment at hard labor for life. That is the record of the qualification, of the election, and the SEC. 3. That the punishment of death prescribed for any offense specified It by the statutes:. of the United States, except in sections 1342, 1624; 5:339, and return of Senator Watson in that body. is a judgment. It 53!5, Revised Statutes, is hereby abolished, and all laws and parts of laws in shows that he has all the functions of a State senator and that consistent with this act are hereby repealed. the term for which he was elected was four years. The election SEc. 4. That nothing herein contained shall apply to, or in any way affect~ any proceeQing or indictment now found or pending or that may be founa was held in November, 1892, and his term will expire in Novem for any offense eommitted_before the passage of this act, and all offenses com ber, 1896. He was then and is now and will continue to be a sen mitted before the passage of this act shall be punished under the laws then in ator from the county of Kent, in the State of Delaware, unless the force: Provided, That juries ma.y return qualified verdicts in such cases ac ·journal shows in some other place, on some other page, and under cording tad;ha-provisions of section 1 of this act, and the sentences shall be some other title that he has been disqualified, that his seat has imposed as-therein provi_ded. been vacated, that he has been ousted or expelled. That does not The SPEAEER. Is there objection to the present consideration depend upon our resolution. It does not depend upon any argu of the bill?-· · ment about the constitutional point, nor about the existence of Mr. ADA"MS. Mr. Speaker, before consent is given, I wish to any constitutional point. It depends upon whether there is upon ask a question of the gentleman. Is this to do away with capital such point-the one stated here, or the ten stated here, or any point punishmentr.under the statutes of the United States? . - . stated here-any order, resolution, or judgment of the State senat6 Mr. CURTIS of New York. · Only in nineteen offenses. of Delaware. Mr. ADAMS. Will the gentleman explain the cases? I with- Mr. HOAR. Does not the same journal show that somebody hold my objection for an explanation. else was elected speaker pro temp01·e because this man had become Mr. SAYERS. It is understood that the objection is reserved? governor? The SPEAKER. Objection is reserved. Mr. TURPIE. It shows that some person else was elected Mr. CURTIS of New York. Mr. Speaker, the bill H. R. 878 speaker pro tempore.