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1902.- CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-HOUSE. 5365 First Lieut. William H. Cushing, of New York, to be a cap~in HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to succeed Louis N. Stodder, retired. TUESDAY, May 13, 1902. PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY. The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. liE.l'ii'RY N. CouDEN, D. D . Infantry Arm. The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and ap- Capt. James B. Goe, Thirteenth Infantry, to be major, April15, proved. · 1902, vice Huston,.Nineteenth Infantry, promoted. OMNIBUS CLAIMS BILL. Capt. Hunter Liggett, Fifth Infantry, to be major, May5, 1902, ~r. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I desire to present a conference vice Wittich, Twenty-first Infantry, promoted. report. First Lieut. Henry M. Dichmann, Seventh Infantry, to be cap The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylvania calls up tain (subject to examination required bylaw),.April15, 1902, vice a conference report. which the Clerk will read. Goe, Thirteenth Infantry, promoted. Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I .desire to inquire if this First Lieut. Halstead Dorey, Fourth Infantry, to be captam, is a conference report on what is known as the omnibus claims May 5, 1902, vice Liggett, Fifth Infantry, promoted. bill? APPOINTMENT IN THE ARMY. Mr. MAHON. The omnibus bill. Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I desire to raise.a point of Infantry Arm. order against the conference report at the proper time. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the report . Post Q. M. Sergt. Staley A. Campbell, United States Army, to Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consentthatthe be second lieutenant, Feb. 2, 1901, to fill an original vacancy. statement be rt3ad instead of the report. The statement explains DISTRICT JUDGE. everything. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylvania asks unan Clarence Hale. of P ortland, Me., to be United States district imous consent that the reading of the report be omitted, and that judge for the district of Maine, vice Nathan Webb, resigned, to the statement only be read. Is there objection? take effect July 1, 1902. Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I desire that the statement and report be read. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Alabama objects. The CONFIRMATIONS. Clerk will read both the report and the statement. The report of the committee of conference was read, as follows: Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate May 13,1902. The committee of conference on the diEagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 8587) for the allowance of PROMOTIONS IN THE .MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE. certain claims for stores and supplies rep01;ted by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the act approved March 3, 1&13, and commonly known as Asst. Surg. Hill Hastings, of Kentucky, to be a passed assistant the Bowman Act, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free surgeon in the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States, to conference have agreed to r ecommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: rank as such from March 29, 1902. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Asst. Surg. Claude H. Lavinder, of Virginia, to be a passed Senate numbered 2, and agree to tho same. - assistant surgeon in the Marine-Hospital Service of the United That the House r ecede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 1, and agree to the same with amendments as follows: States, to rank as such from March 27, 1902. On page 8 of said Senate amendment, between lines numbered 15 and 16, Asst. Surg. Taliaferro Clark, of Virginia, to be a passed as insert the following: sistant surgeon in the Marine-Hospital Service of the United "To Charles M. Flower, FrankS. Flower, William Flower, and D . Sprigg Flower, children of Charles H: Flower, deceased, of Rapides Parish, $23,357." States, to rank as such from March 27, 1902. On page 10 of said Senate amendment, between lines numbered 18 and 19, insert the following: · UNITED STATES .ATTORNEY. "To Henry R. Walton, administrator of John Walton, deceased, of Anne Arundel County, $5,083. • William E. Bundy, of Ohio, to be United States attorney for "To WilliamS. Tildon, of Harford County, $330." the southern district of Ohio. On page H of said Senate amendment, between lines numbered 23 and 24, insert the following: REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE. "To John W. Hancock, of Iron County, $1,160." On page 24 of said Senate amendment, between lines numbered 17 and 18, Loronzo R. Thomas, of Idaho, to be register of the land office insert the following:_ "To William B. Horner, late of Shelby County, $1,250. at Blackfoot, Idaho. "ToW. H. Robertson, administrator of Emma Robertson, deceased (for merly EmmaM. Mayo); H. P. Hobson, administrator of Lucy Mayo, deceased, RECEIVER OF PUBLIC .MONEYS. and Sarah Agnes Bumpass, heirs of F. W. Mayo, deceased, of Fayette County $874." · George A. Robetha.n, of Pocatello, Idaho, to be receiver of On p~ge 25 of said Senate amendment, between lines numbered 9 and 10, public moneys at Blackfoot, Idaho. - insert the following: "To Mary E. 0. Dashiell, late of Norfolk County, $810." INDIAN AGENT. On page 29 of said Senate amendment, in line numbered 22, strike out the words "James C. Hays, administrator de bonis nonh" and insert in lieu thereof Caleb B. Jackson, of South Dakota, to be agent for the Indians the words "Titus C. Hammond, administrator wit the will annexed." o~ the Sisseton Agency in South Dakota. wo~~~fiea~~t ~'h~;~~~~:~gf:S;~ti~ ~[!~ ~~~~f.~e2~~~~~~.~~~~ J. Nagle." TERRITORIAL .ASSOCIATE JUSTICES. On page 78 of said Senate amendment, in lines numbered 6 and 7,strikeout the words "forty-four thousand and fifteen dollars and eighty-four cents" J. L. Pancoast, of Oklahoma, to be associate justice of the su and insert in lieu thereof the words "forty thousand three hundred and preme court of the Territory of Oklahoma. twenty-one dollars and three cents." . Frank E. Gillette, of Oklahoma, to be associate justice of the On page 79 of said Senate amendment, in line numbered 18, strike out the words "J. Simonson" and insert in lieu thereof the words "the legal r epre supreme court of the Territory of Oklahoma. sentatives of J. Simonson, deceased." James K. Beauchamp, of Oklahoma, to be associate justice of On page 79 of said Senate amendment, iii lines numbered 21, 22, and 23, the supreme court of the Territory of Oklahoma. strike out the words "to the contractors or their personal representatives Sll3,543." and insert in lieu thereof the words ''to the sm·viving partner or1 the constructors, $87,615.67." POSTMASTERS. On page 86 of said Senate amendment strike out lines numbered 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 and insert in lien thereof the following: William D. Ingram, to be postmaster at Lincoln, in the county "That the claim of the State of Nevada for costs, char~es, and expenses of Placer and State ·of California. incurred by the Territory of Nevada for enrollin~, subsistmg, clothing, sup plying, arming, equipping, paying, and transporting its troops employed m George J. McCabe, to be postmaster at Bisbee, in the county of aiding to suppress the insurrection against the United States, war of 1861- Cochise and Territory of Arizona. 1865, under the act of Congress of July 27,1861 (12 Stats., p. 276),and joint res W. J. Hill, to be postmaster at Salinas, in the county of Mon olution of March 8, 1862 (12 Stats., 615 ), as interpreted and applied by the Su preme Court of the United States inthecaseof the State of NewYorkagainst terey and State of California. the United States, decided January 6,1896 (160 U. S. Reports, p. 598), not here Shelley Inch, to be postmaster at Placerville, in the county of tofore allowed or disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury, shall Eldorado and State of California. be examined, allowed, and paid out of any money in the Treasury not other wise appropriated." Charles G. Chamberlain, to be postmaster at Pacific Grove, in On page 87 of said Senate amendment strike out lines numbered 8, 9, 10, 11, the county of Monterey and State of California. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19. - Henry Osterheld, to ba postmaster at Yonkers, in the county of On page 88 of said Senate amendment, in line numbered 8, strike out the word "thirty" and insert in lieu' thereof the word "twenty-five." Westchester and State of New York. On page 88 of said Senate amendment, in line numbered 15, strike out the Arthur J. Hudson. to be postmaster at Clifton, in the county of word" thirty" and insert in lieu thereof the word "twenty-five." Graham and Tenitory of Arizona. On page 90 of said Senate amendment strike out lines numbered 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 and insert in lieu thereof the following: Dick M. Kirby, to be postmaster at Palatka, in the county of "To James M. Seymom·, jr., the sum of $2,500, for services as assistant Putnam and State of Florida. commissioner to the IntemationalExposition at Barcelona, Spain." OONGRESSION AL RECORD---HOUSE. MAY 13, 5366 ~ On page 92 of said Senate a-mendment, in line numbered 11, strike out "M. the Whole in the House. The other claims we_re not. Then I M. Defrees, of Jndianapolis, Ind.," and insert in lieu thereof "the State of Indiana." also find the claim: On page 92 of said Senate amendment, in lines numbered 22 23, and 24 To William B.