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IN SENATE. a petition praying compensation for two lots and buildings thereon in Nashville, 'l'ennessee, occupied one as a warehouse for commis­ TUESDAY, February 6, 1877-10 a.m. sary stores, the other as a hospital for the Union forces during the late war of the rebellion. -.... I know this petitioner. She lives in the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The recess having expired, the Sen­ town in which I live. I am quite sme of her loyalty. She does not ate resumes it.s session. belong to the race to which the Senator from Iowa and myself be-. PRESIDENTIAL APPROVALS. long. Accompanying her petition are the affidavits of numerous citi..: Amessage from the President of the United States, by Mr. U. S. zeus, surgeons in the war, lawyers, and others, stating her ownership GRAN'J;, jr., his Secretary, announced that the President had, on the of this property, stating its occupation, stating that it was taken by 31st day of January, approved and signed the act (S. No. 155) to the authorized authorities of the United States, and stating why and amend sections 533, 556, 571, and 572 of the Revised Statutes of the how she was unable to obtain compensation at the time. If any as­ United Stat-es relating to courts in Arkansas and other States. surance of mine can give the chairman of the eommittee a prejudice in favor of the loyalty and the merit of this claim, I beg to give that RESUMPTION OF SPECill PAYl\IENTS. assurance. I believe the case a meritorious ono, and I hope the hon­ i The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore laid before the Senate the following orable Senator may remember the few words I have said, and consider message from the President of the United States: it kindly in committee. To the Senate and House of Representative$: The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The petition will be referred to the .f:By the act of Congress approved January 14, 1875, "to provide for the resumption Committee on Claims . of specie payments," the 1st of January, 18i9, is fixed as the date when such resump­ :Mr. CONKLING. I present also the memorial of many members of tion is to begin. It may not be desirable to fix an earlier date when it shall actually the bar of the State of New York, particularly of the city of New become obligatory upon the Government to redeem its outst.andin~ le~al-tender York, being in the southern district of that State, praying legislation noies in coin on presentation, but it is certainly most desirable and will prove most beneficial to every pecuniMY interest of the country to hasten the day when the to augment the judicial staff by increasing the circuit judges. With paper circulation of the country and the ~old coin shall have equal values. this petition is a letter from Mr. Wetmore, a highly respectable mem­ 1 At a later day if Qurrency and coin should retain equal values it might become ber of the bar ; and I move that the letter with the petition be re­ advisable to authorize or direct resumption. I believe the time has come when by ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. a simple ad of the legislative branch of the Government this most desirable result can be attained. I am strengthened in this view by the course trade has taken in The motion wa-s agreed to. the last two years, and by the strength of the credit of the United States at home Mr. CO:NKLING. I present also a petition signed by Henry R. Sel­ and abroad. den, a well-known citizen of the State of New York, and signed in all : For the fiscal year endin"' June 30, 1876, the exports of the United States ex­ by 216 men and 394 women, 610 citizens of the State of New York, ceeded the imports by 6120,'213,102; but our exports include 40,569,621 of specie and bullion in excess of imports of the same commodities. .For the six months of asking for a sixteenth amendment of the Constitution. In present-­ the present fiscal year, from July 1, 1876, to January 1, 1877, the excess of exports ing this petition I am requested to read the three lines which com~ over imports amounted to $107,54·1,869, and the import of specie and bullion ex­ pose it: ceeded the export of the precious metals by $6,192,147 in the same time. The act­ ual excess of exports over imports for the six months, exclusive of specie and bull­ The undersigned, citizens of the United States, residents of the State of New ion, amounted to $113,737,040, showing for the time being the accumulation of spe­ York, .* * * earnestly pray your honorable body to adopt mea..<>ures for so cie and bullion in the country amounting to more than $6,000,000 in addition to the amending the Constitution as to prohibit the several States from disfranchising national product of these metals for the same period, a total increa8e of gold and United States citizens on account of sex. silver for the six months not far short of ~60,000,000. It is very evident that unless I move its reference to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. this great increase of the precious metals can be utilized at home in such a way as to make it in some manner remunerative to the holders, it must seek a foreign mar­ The motion was agreed to. ket as surely as would any other product of t-he soil or the manufactory. Any leg­ Mr. CONKLING. I present also a petition, indorsed upon the back islation which will keep coin and bullion at home will, in my jud~ent, soon bring by au appeal by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others officers of about practical resumption, and will add the coin of the country to the circulating the national Woman Suffrage Association, praying in like tenor and medium, thus securin~ a healthy "inflation" of a sound currency to the great ad­ vantage of every legitimate business interest. effect as the last petition. It ifi signed by a number of women citi­ The act to provide for the resumption of specie payments authorizes the Secre­ zens of the county .of Herkimer in the State of New York. I move its tary of tbe Treasury to issue bonds of either of the descriptions named in the act reference to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. of Con~;ress approved July 14, 1870, entitled "An act to authorize the refunding of The motion was agreed to. tho national" debt, fornot less than par in gold. With the present value of the 4! per cent. bonds in the markets of the world, they could be exchanged at par for gold, Mr. SHERMAN. I present a memorial of the Cincinnati Chamber thus strengthening the Treasury to meet :final resumption and to keep the excess of of Commerce, setting out the great interest taken by that body in coin over aemand, pending its permanent use as a circulating medium, at home. .All geographical discoveries and polar explorations, and stating that in that would be further required would be to reduce the volume of legal-tender notes in circulat.Wn. To accomplish this I would suggest an act authorizing the Secre­ the interest of science, as well a,s in behalf of commerce and trade, tary ef the Treasury to issue 4 per cent. bonds, wHh forty years to run before ma­ mutually and inseparably linked together, they heartily approve and turity, to be exchanged for le~al-tender notes whenever presented in sums of $50~ urge the passage of the bill providing for another expedition toward or any multiple thereof, the whole amount of such bonds, however, not to exceea the North Pole for the purposes of exploration and the establishment $150,000,000. To increase the home demand for such bonds I would recommend of a colony at some point north of the eighty-first degree of north that they be available for de~osit in the United States Treasury for banking pur­ poses under the various proVIsions of law relating to national banks. latitude. They approve of an appropriation of $50,000 by the Gen­ I would suggest further that national banks be required to retain a certain per­ eral Government for this purpose. I move the reference of the me­ centage of the coip. interest received by them from the bonds deposited with the morial to the Committee on Appropriations. Treasury to secure their circulation. . I would also recommend the repeal of the third section of the joint rMolution The motion was agreed to. "for the issue of silver coin." approved July 2-4, 1876, limiting the subsidiary coin Mr. DAVIS presented the petition of Rev. Thomaa Scott Bacon, of and fractional currency to $50,000,000. Oakland, Maryland, praying to be allowed to give evidence before · 1 am satisfied that if Congress will enact some such law as will accomplish the the Committee on Privileges and Elections in relation to affairs in the end suggested, they will give a relief to the country instant in its effects, and for which they will receive the gratitude of the whole people. State of Louisiana; which was referred to the Committee on Privi..; • U.S.GRANT. · leges and Elections. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 3, 1877. Mr. BOOTH presented a petition of citizens of California, praying The message was referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered the paasage of a law allowing arrears of pension; which was ordered to be printed. to lie on the table. Mr. CRAGIN presented a petition of J.P. Jameson and 30 others, RECESS. praying for the passage of a law that will provide for cheap tele-: Mr. PADDOCK. I move that the Senate take a further recess un­ graphing, &c.; which was referred to the Committee on Post-Offices til twelve o'clock. and Post-Roads. t , The motion was agreed to ; and the Senate accordingly took a re­ Mr. JOHNSTON presented the petition of Catesby apR. Jones, o~ cess until twelve o'clock. Selma, Alabama, praying for the removal of his political disabilities; The Senate re-assembled at twelve o'clock m. which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. i Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. BYRON SUNDERLAND, D. D. Mr. WHYTE presented the petition of H. H. Lewis, of Baltimore The Journal of the proceed~ngs of Monday, :February 5, was read City, Mary land, praying for the removal of his political disabilities; and approved. which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. PETITIONS Al\"D 1\IE;\IORIALS, CO:\U.fi'ITEE SERVICE. Mr. CONKLING presented a petition signed by numerou~ citizr.ns of Bethel, New York,· praying the passage of the bill allowing arrears The PRESIDENT JJ1'0 tmnp01·e appointed Mr. HEREFORD a member of pensions; which wa.s ordered to lie on the table. of the Committee on Claims in place of Mr. Price, whose term of serv­ t :Mr. CONKLING. I also present the petition of Elizabeth Schoon­ ice has expired. maker, praying to be invested with the rights of self-government at FREEDMAN'S SAVINGS .1;\ND TRUST COl\IPANY. the ballot-box. I inquire of the Chair to what committee this appro­ Mr. SHERMAN. I am directed by the Committee on Finance to priately goes Y report back the bill (H. R. No. 4284) authorizing the commissioners of ' The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Committee on Privileges and the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company to buy in certain real and Elections. other property, and to sell the same at public or private sale, and for :Mr. CONKLING. I move its reference to that committee. other purposes. If there is no objection, I should like to have the The motion was agreed to. bill acted on now. It is a very brief House bill. 1\lr. CONKLING. I present also the petition of M:rs. M:ary Dove, There being no objection, the bill was considered n-s in Committee of and as I see my honorable friend, the chairman of the Committee on the Whole. Claims [Mr. WRIGHT] before me, I beg t~ make a. remark. This is The first section provilles tha.t the commissioners of theFrecdman's 1274 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. FEBRUARY 6,

Savings and Trust Company, their survivors or survivor, and their Mr. SHERMAN. ~h. Creswell is one; Mr. Leipold, formerly au of­ or his successors, shall have the right and authority to buy in, for the ficer of the Treasury Department, is one; and the other is from Penn­ benefit of the company, any real or other property which may be sylvania, a Mr. Purvis I think. offered for sale at public auction to pay debts or liabilities due the Mr. DAWES. I should like to inquire of the Senator from Ohio if company, if, in their or his judgment, the property will otherwise be there is anything in t.he past management of that establishment that sacrificed, and to dispose of the same at public or private sale, as, in justifies such an extreme confidence being placed in this board as their or his judgment, may be deemed most advantageous to the there seems to be by this bill f creditors of the company, furnishing to the pnrcha er or purchasers Mr. SHERMAN. In the old management of the Freedman's Bank of any property thus sold by them or him good and sufficient deeus I think there was not only gross abuse, but I have often expressed of conveyance for their respective purchases. my opinion upon that subject. I have heard no allegation against The second section approves and ratifies the action of the commis­ the present commissioners who are managing the tn1st. sioners in buying in each and every of the pieces of real and other ~u. DA\VES. I inquired simply to know whether the Senator was property heretofore purchased by them to prevent their sacrifice, and so entirely satisfied with the method in which this establishment, if in selling and conveying sundry parcels thereof, and authorizes the I may call it so for want of a better name just at this moment, has commissioners, their survivors or survivor, and their or his successors, been closed up to this time that he is willing beforehand to ratify to sell and convey any of the property not heretofore sold, to any everything they will do, as the bill proposes to do. purchaser or purchasers, upon the most favorable terms for the cred­ Mr. SHERMAN. I know nothin~ about the management of the itors of the company. present commissioners that is to thetr discredit; I haveneard nothing Mr. COCKRELL. Is there a report 7 of that kind. I know that the original management of the Freed­ The PRESIDENT pro tempo1·e. There is no report. It is a House man's Bank grossly and scandalously abused its trust ; and all the bill. powers conferred by Congress on that corporation were in my judg­ Mr. COCKRELL. I should like to hear some explanation of it. ment abused. Against the management of these commissioners in Mr. SHERMAN. I will say that the commissioners believed they closing up the business, I have heard nothing. hall the power conferred by this act, and they proceeded to bid in the Mr. DAWES. I do not allude to the management of the institu­ property sold on trust deeds from time to time, and again to sell that tion originally; that is past all cure. I allude to the manner in prope1·ty. When they came to convey it a question was raised as to which the closing up of it by these commissioners has been transacted, their power to convey their title. A question was raised by lawyers and I see by the bill that the Senator proposes beforehand, without and conveyancers here that there was some doubt as to their title, the slightest knowledge of what it may be, to ratify everything that their authority to sell the property under these circumstances, and may be' done by these commissioners under this bill. I do not know to convey it. They have, however, in many cases sold the property, but that I may be mistaken about it, but there has been a great deal and this doubt being raised as to their title it is necessary to appeal of discussion in one House and the other about the manner in which to Congress to pass a law on the subject. The committee examined the closing up of this institution has been managed. I remember it very carefully, because anything relating to this Freedman's Bank that in the other Honse quite an excited discussion took place during has undergone very careful scrutiny in both Houses. The House the last session of Congress over a bill giving these commissioners pa sed the bill after full examination, and we came to the conclusion some new power. that it was absolutely necessary to pass it to enable the trustees to I am not arraigning the commissioners; I am inquiring of the Sen­ get full value for the property. ator who has charge of this bill if he is entirely satisfied with the Mr. DAVIS. It refers to the Freedman's Bank of the District of management. The Senator will excuse me for saying that after hav­ Columbia? ing intimated that he does not know anything about the manage­ Mr. SHERMAN. Yes, sir. ment of this concern by these commissioners, I should not want to ~h. CAMERON, of Pennsylvania. I desire to know whether the declare beforehand that I would ratify everything they would do if sale is to be made by public outcry or by individual offers. Let the I did not know what they had done. Clerk read t.hat section which authorizes the sale. Mr. SHERMAN. This bill does not ratify what these gentlemen The PRESIDENT pro tempo1·e. The Secretary will read the section have done except in the purchase of land on which they hold trust­ referred to. deeds and in the sale of that land. That is all that is ratified. There The Chief Clerk read the bill. is a doubt as to their power, although I believe the courts of the Dis­ ~h. CAMERON, of Pennsylvania. I move to strike out the words trict have decided that they had the power, but aa that case was not "or private" before "sale." I do not desire to allow these commis­ taken to the Supreme Court there is still a doubt about it. sioners to sell in private any property. There has been great misman­ As to the management of these commissioners I never have heard agement in the institution referred to. A few years ago I opposed any allegation against it. If my friend has and will make that the supplement to the charter which gave them the right to take known, of course I shall hesitate and pause; and they ought to be real estate security. From the amendment then made to the charter removed if well-founded allegations have been made against these has come all the trouble in that institution. The whole loss as I men so that the commissioners who are now settling up the affairs believe of the Freedman's Savings institution or bank or whatever of this bank have excited doubts of their fidelity and integrity. If it is called arose from the amendment to the charter which allowed that be so, this bill ought not to pass and their authority ought to be them to take real estate as security. Their original charter, I think, repealed; but I have not heard anything of that kind. Two of the gave them authority only .to invest their funds in public securities, commissioners came before the Committee on Finance this morning stocks of the United States, and other similar stocks. I could not and stated the circumstances and facts which justify the passage of consent to allow some, as I understand, of the same people who mis­ this bill. It has already passed the House of Representatives, and we managed the affair to have the right to dispose of this property as examined it carefully and came to the conclusion unanimously that the ma.y suit themselves. Therefore I move that the words'' or private" bill ought to pass. If there were any doubt about the integrity of the be stricken out. commissioners, that would raise quite a different question. The bill :Mr. SHERMAN. I was myself disposed in committee, after exam­ was recommended on the supposition that they were men of integrity ining this matter very carefully, to allow these commissioners to sell who had not abused their trust. property at private sale. If they are required to sell at public sale, Mr. DAWES. The Senator will not understand me aa raisin~ any it nmst be on the order of some tribunal, some court, in which case doubt about the integrity of the commissioners. We are not m the it would be necessary to apply for an order of sale, involving a habit with those in whom we have the utmost confidence of putting considerable amount of costs. We were informed to-day by the com­ quite so much power in their hands; but I observed that the Senator missioners that much of this property was of a very cheap character. voted to permit these parties to sell any of the real estate of this in­ Loans were made on property in this city, in some cases small loans, stitution at private sale anywhere or at any time. If I understand on property of small value, and to require an order of court for a the transactions of this institution, they are all over the country, sale in each case would involve very large expense, of course. A especially the Southern States. There have been some of the most public sale would give no greater security for fidelity, I think, than remarkable loans that were ever known, and the strangest sort of a private sale. We have got to depend upon the fidelity and the securities were taken of imaginative and of inflated stocks and all honor and faithfulness of these commissioners for the proper execu­ sorts of property. This property may be taken by these commission­ tion of their duties. The names of the three commissioners are prob­ ers under this law and sold at private sale anywhere and everywhere ably known to the Senate. They are men of responsibility, at least and under any circumstances, and to any party, and the language of they have been so considered; and the committee thought, on the this bill is, and we hereby ratify everything that they may do under whole, it was better to trust them and hold them responsible rather this bill. I suggest to the Senator that that is rather strong language. than put the trust to the expense of making a public sale by adver­ I would not myself like to vote for such a sweeping measure. tisement and by order of the court in every case, which would in­ Mr. CAMERON, of Pennsylvania. I think we bad better postpone volve a very large sum of money. It is, however, for the Senate to this bill for the present. I should like to have a report from the com­ determine. I think myself it is better to trust to them and hold missioners who have this institution now in charge. I learn tbat them rigidly responsible. They are re'lnired to make a report of they are three gentlemen doing the business which one man could do their sales to Congress in every case. and that each gets $3,000 a year. The whole management of the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment affair hitherto has been, if not corrupt, most badly done. I am afraid of the Senator from Pennsylvania. to trust them with the power which they have now; I certainly would The amendment was rejected. not give them any more. I should not be unwilling at all to authorize Mr. CONKLING. May I inquire of the Senator from Ohio who are them to buy in property to save any debts they may have against it, the commissioners referred to in the bill t and that is all tho power they ought to ha.ve. If they can save their 1877. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 1275 debts by making a purchase of the property it is right they should do (S. No. 605) for the relief and re-appointment of Captain Thomas n. so. An individual would do that, and these gentlemen, like business Hunt assistant quartermaster in the United States Army, submitted men, ought to do so. But there is a shifting of responsibility here as an adverse report thereon; which was ordered to be printed, and the there is among a great portion of the officers in this town. There is bill was postponed indefinitely. a chief, and then there is a deputy, and then there is a deputy of a 1\Ir. WINDOM subsequently said: I ask leave to enter a motion to deputy, and eo on. In this case, I think $2,000 a year salary to one reconsider the vote by which the report of the Committee on Mili­ man, with one clerk at $1,200 more, ought to manage the whole of this tary Affairs on the bill for the relief of T. B. Hunt was agreed to, defunct institution. Why shall 1\Ir. Somebody receive $3,000 a year indefinitely postponing it, and I ask that it be now reconsidered. I because he has been a chief clerk in a Department, and somebody else think the Senator reporting it will not object. get $3,000 because he is a friend of somebody else, and so on T It is all The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the present wrong. No business mau w~uld so conduct his business. Here was consideration of the motion to reconsider f money, scraped from the poor negroes all over the country, which bas There being no objection, the motion to reconsider was agreed to. been wasted in giving salaries that men may live riotously and fare 1\fr. ·wiNDOM. I move that the bill be recommitted to the Com­ sumptuously every day, while these poor negroes are starving. It was mittee on Military Affairs. entirely wrong. The motion was agreed to. I move that we postpone the bill. Let us get a report from the 1\fr. CAMERON, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Foreign commissioners having this matter in charge, and let us look into their Relations, to whom was referred the bill (S. No. 1141) to encoura!?e stewardship before we give them any more authority. My motion is and promote telegraphic communication between America and Europe, to postpone the bill. reported it with amendments. The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. The Senator from Pennsylvania 1\Ir. PADDOCK, :from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was moves to postpone the bill. referred the bill (S. No. 116~) for the relief of certain settlers on the 1\fr. MORRILL. I hope the bill will not be postponed. Evidently public lands, reported it without amendment. · a bill of this character ought to pa-ss, for the reason that it is not Mr. Wll.~DO:\I. I am instructed by the Committee on Appropria­ sufficient authority that these men shall have power to foreclose mort­ tions to report back the bill (H. R. No. 4540) to provide for the pay­ gages and obtain property unless they shall have equal power to dis­ ment of James B. Eads for the construction of jetties and other aux­ pose of it. By withholding the power of sale, we lock up the assets iliary works to make a wide and deep channel between the South of this unfortunate institution, so that there can be no distribution Pass of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico under contract of the proceeds. with the United States, adversely with a written report. I give no­ I have never heard that the present commissioners have been dere­ tice that I shall ask the consideration of the subject to-morrow morn­ lict in their duty. It ha-s sometimes been charged that there are too ing. many of them; that the management is too expensive; that the busi­ The report was ordered to be printed. ness might as well be done by one man; but certainly the power con­ 1\fr. COCKRELL, from_ the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom veyed by the proposed bill is a necessary power; and itshould pass in was referrec:l the joint resolution (S. R. No. 30) to amend tht=~ joint the interest of those who have made deposits in the institution. It resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue arms, approved will facilitate the closing up of the affairs of the bank, and that atas July 30, 1876, reported it witbout amendment. early a period as will be proper, considering the depressed state of Mr. ALLISON. The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was business in this city. referred the bill (H. R. No. 4452) makin~ appropriations for tho cur­ I therefore hope that the bill will not be postponed, and if any rent and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for ful­ action is to be taken in relation to diminishing the number that are filling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year employed in conducting this business it perhaps had better be con­ ending June 30, 1878, and for other purposes, have instructed me to sidered in a separate bill. I trust that there will be a disposition on report it back with sundry amendments. I give notice that at tlle the part of the Senate to act upon the bill. I can see iio peril in this earliest possible oppOI'tunity I will call the bill up for considera­ bill. It is certainly well that somebody should be responsible for tion. whatever is done by these men that have cha,rge of winding up this I desire to say further that the committee have instructed me to institution, and if we distribute this among the courts and the com­ report back an amendment proposed by the Senator from Missouri missioners nobody will be responsible. [Mr. BOGY] to this bill without recommendation, and I ask that the Mr. CLAYTON. It is very evident this bill is going to occupy the amendment lio on the table in order that the Senator from Missouri morning hour with discussion. I move that it go over until we get may have an opportunity of calling it up if he desires to do so. through the morning business. The PRESIDENT pro tem:pore. Is there objection to its t-emporary T. A. WALKER. postponement for morning business! 1\fr. WINDOl\I. I ask that the papers in the claim of T. A. Walker, Mr. SHERMAN. I havo no objection to that. praying to be re-imbursed the amount of certain money paid by him The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be passed over and for clerk hire while acting as register of the Unit,ed States land the business of the morning hour continued. office at Des Moines, Iowa, which were referred to the Committee on Public Lands by mistake, be referred to the Committee on Claims. I REPORTS OF COMl\IITTEES. move that the Committee on Public Lands be discharged from their Mr. CLAYTON, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom further consideration, and that they be referred to the Committee on was referred the bill (S. No.1114) to authorize the President to restore Claims. John Jackson to his former rank in the Army, reported adversely there­ The motion was agreed to. on ; and the bill was postponed indefinitely. He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill DE..~R .AND RIO G~.ll.L>E RAILWAY. (S. No. 1052) for the relief of A. W. Greely, submitted an adverse re­ 1\Ir. WEST. The Committee on Railroads, to whom was referred port thereon; which was ordered to be printed, and the bill was post­ the bill (S. No. 1083) to amend an act entitled" An act granting the poned indefinitely. right of way through the public lauds to the Denver and Rio Grande He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill Railway Company," approved June 8, 1872, in5truct me to report it (S. No. 939) for the relief of JohnS. Bishop, reported adversely there­ back with an amendment; and as this is a mere extension of a grant on; and the bill was postponed indefinitely. to a local railroad, and the only prospect of its passage at all at this He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill (S. session of Congress is to put it on its passage in this body now, I ask No.l110)forthe reliefofCaptain Edwin R.Clarke,submitted anad­ that it be done. verse report thereon; which was ordered to be printed, and the bill was There being no objection, tho Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, postponed indefinitely. proceeded to consider the bill. Mr. CLAYTON. I am also directed by the same committee, to whom The amendment reported by the committee was to strike out the wa-s refe).'red the petition of the heirs of Daniel Spaulding, deceased, word" repealing"in line 6 and insert" making," and inserting after the praying to be allowed compensation for services rendered by said word " act" in line 7 the word " read;" so as to make the bill read : Spaulding during the war of 1812, to ask to be discharged from its That an act entitled ".An act granting the right of wa.y through the public lands consideration. This compensation seems to be in the nature of a pen­ to the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company," approved June 8, 1872, be, and sion, and the Committee on Military Affairs thought it ought to go to the same is hereby, amended by making the second proviso in said act read as fol­ lows, to wit : the Committee on Pensions. P-rovided, That said company shall complete its railway to a point on the Rio The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The committee will be discharged Grande as far south a-s Santa F6 within five lears of the :passa~e of this act, and from the further consideration of the petition and it will be referred shall complete fifty miles additional south o said point m eacn year thereafter; to the Committee on Pensions. and in default thereof the rights and nrivileges herein granted shall be rendered 1\fr. SPENCER, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom nnll and void so far as respects the 1l.Lft.risbed portions of said road. was referred the bill (S. No. 407)