918 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY· 23, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa moves To be first lieutenants. that the Senate pt·oceed to the consideration of executive business. Second Lieut. Frank A. Barton, Tenth Cavalry, October 16, 1898, The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the con­ vice Rivers, Third Cavalry, promoted. sideration of executive business. After seven minut~s spent in Second Lieut. Robert Sewell, Seventh Cavalry, October 24,1898, executive session the door.s were reopened, and (at 4 o'clock and vice Mills, First Cavalry, promoted. 47 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until Monday, January 23, Second Lieut. George C. Barnhardt, Sixth Cavalry, November 1899, at 12 o'clock meridian. 7, 1898, vice Lockwood, Fourth Cavalry, promoted. · Second Lieut. James H. Reeves, Sixth Cavalry, November 10, HOMINATIONS. 1898, vice Allen, Second Cavalry, promoted. Second Lieut. Kirby Walker, Third Cavalry, December 14;1898, Executive nornination,s received by the Senate Janum'Y 21, 1899. vice Stotsenburg, Sixth Cavalry, promoted. REGISTERS OF LAND OFFICE, Second Lieut. Claude B. Sweezey, Eighth Cavalry, December 14, 1898, vice Byron, Eighth Cavalry, appointed assistant quartermas~ Frederick C. L. Hachenberger, of Burlington, Colo., to be reg­ ter, who resigns his line commission only. • ister of the land .office at Hugo, Colo., vice Thomas J. Edwards, Second Ljeut. Sterling P. Adams, First Cavalry, December 14, term expired. 1898, vice Wood, Ninth Cavalry, appointed assistant quarter­ Edmund D. Wiggin, of Washington, D. C., to be regist~r of the land office at Weare, Alask::t (location changed from Nulato by master, who resigns his line commission only. Executive order of December 2, 1898), vice Boetions H. Sullivan, APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY. resigned, "the commission for the appointment of R. C. Nichols, To be professor of mathematics in the Military Academy. issued August 12, 1898, during the recess of the Senate, having Associate Prof. Wright P. Edgerton, October 7,1898, vice Bass, peen canceled. retired. COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS. To be associate professor of mathematics in the Military Academy. James Low, of New York, to be collector of customs for the district of Niagara, in the State of New York, to succeed William First Lieut. Charles P. Echols, Corps of Engineers, October 7, Richmond, whose term of office will expire by limitation Febru­ 1898, vice Edgerton, appointed professor of mathematics. ary 10, 1899. PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. APPOINTMENTS IN THE VOLUNTEER ARMY. Asst. Engineer Henry B. Price, to be a passed assistant engineer in the Navy, from the 17th day of November, 1898, vice P. A. En· To be inspector-gene1·al with the_rank of major. gineer Frank H. Conant, deceased. Capt. Cunliffe H. Murz:ay, Fourth United States Cavalry. Asst. Engineer Martin E. Trench, to be a passed assistant engi­ Tenth Regiment Volunteer Infant1-y. neer in the Navy, from the 20th day of November, 1898, vice P. A. David B. Jeffers. commissary-sergeant, United Stat~s Army, re­ Engineer Walter M. McFa:rland, promoted. tired, to be second lieutenant, vice Burton, discharged. ·Ninth Regiment Volunteer Infantry. SENATE. William H. Coston, of Ohio, to be chaplain, vice Walker, re­ signed. MONDAY, January 23, 1899. First Regiment Volunteer Engineers. Prayer by the Chaplain. Rev. W. H. MILBURN, D. D. Lieut. Col. Harry F. Hodges, to be colonel, vice Griffin, re­ LUCIEN BAKER, a Senator from the State of Kansas, appeared signed. in his seat to-day. Maj. JohnS. Sewell, to be lieutenant-colonel, vice Hodges, pro­ The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of the proceedings moted. of Saturday last, when, on motion of Mr. FAULKNER, and by Caot. William G. Ramsay, to be major, vice Sewell, promoted. unanimous consent, the further reading was dispensed with. Fiist Lieut. Henry C. Wilson, to be captain, vice Ramsay, pro­ The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Journal stands approved. moted. Second Lieut. Chauncey Eldredge, to be first lieutenant, vice LOS~ES BY LOYAL SEMINOLES. Wilson. promoted. · Tho PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com­ Sergt. Maj. Justin Burns, to be second lieutenant, vice Eldredge, munication from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in promoted. response to a resolution of the 17th instant, copies of the loyal To be signal offwe?' with the rank of captain. Seminole rolls, and also the report of the commissioners appointed to investigate s e·minole losses; which, with the accompanying First Lieut. Alvar G. Thompson, United States Volunteer Sig­ papers, was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and nal Corps, vice Sample, discharged. ordered to be printed. To be signal officers with the 1·ank of first lieutenant. CREDENTIALS. Second Lieut. Charles H. Gordon, United States Volunteer Sig­ The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented the credentials of nal Corps. vice Coe, discharged. EuGENE HALE, chosen by the legislature of .Maine a Senator from Second Lieut. Alson J. Rudd, United States Volunteer Signal that State for the term beginning March 4, 1899; which were read Corps, vice Reddy, discharged. and ordered to be filed. Second Lieut. William Mitchell, United States Volunteer Signal PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. Corps, vice Thompson, promot~d. The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented a concurrent resolu­ To be signal officers with the 1·ank of second lieutenant. tion of the assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma, relative to First-Class Sergt. Charles C. Shew, United States Volunteer free homes for settlers on public lands; which was r eferred to the Signal Corps, vice Gordon, promoted. Committee on Public. Lands. First-Class Sergt. Robert B. Montgomery, United States Vol­ He also presented a memorial of the Romeyn Mutual Improve­ unteer Signal Corps, vice Rudd, promoted. ment Society of the Romeyn Church of the Fifth Avenue Presby­ First-Class Sergt. James P. Anderson, United States Volunteer tenan Church of New York City, N.Y., remonstrating against Signal Corps, vice Mitchell, promoood. the seating of Cong-ressman-elect B. H. Roberts, of Utah; which First-Class Sergt. Edward E. Kelley, United States Volunteer was ordered to lie on the table. Signal Corps, vice Campbell, promoted. .Mr. Q.lJ A Y presented a memorial of the Board of Trade of Phil­ To be b1-igade surgeon with the 1·ank of major. adelphia, Pa., and a memorial of the Grocers and Importers' Ex­ change, of Philadelphia, Pa., remonstrating against the failure to Orlando Ducker, of Kentu~ky. provide for the maintenance of a pneumatic-tube system in the Seventh Regiment Volunteer Infantry. post-office at that city; which were referred to the Committee on Owen T .. Kenan, of Georgia, late major, First Georgia Volun­ Appropriations. teers, to be captain, vice B~rnhard, resigned. He also presented a petition of the Local Union No. 28, United Sergt. Daniel T. Brantley, Company D, Seventh United States Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Volunteer Infantry, to be second lieutenant, vice Hunter, dis· a petition of Local Union No. 56, Journeyman Tailors of America, charged. of Philadelphia, Pa., praying for the passage of the eight-hour PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY. bill: which were referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. ·. CA VA LBY ARM. He also presented petitions of the congregations of the First To be captain. Congregational Church of Rochester and the Central Presbyterian First Lieut. John M. Stotsenburg, Sixth Cavalry, December 14, Church of Allegheny; of the Penns Park Young Woman's Chris­ 1898, vice Knox, Sixth Cavalry, appointed inspector·general, with tian Temperance Union, of Bucks County; of the United Presby­ rank of major, who resigns his line commission only. terian Congregation of Canonsburg, and of the Brownburg Union, 1899. c·ONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 919 of Bucks County, all in the State of Pennsylvania, praying for in the production of rainfall. It is not a large document, and the the enactment of legislation to prohibit the sale of liquor in can­ cost of printing will come within the limit fixed by law. teens of the Army and Navy and of Soldiers' Homes, and in im­ The motion was agreed to. migrant statiOllS and Government buildings; which were referred REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. LODGE presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce Mr. McBRIDE: from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom of Boston, Mass., praying for the enactment of legislation to pro­ was referred the bill (H. R. 8162) to authorize the Secretary of the vide for the reorganization of the consular service; which was Interior to rent or lease certain portions of forest reserve, reported referred to the Committee on Commerce. it without amendment, and submitted a report thereon. He also presented a petition of the Builders' Exchange, of New Mr. McMILLAN, from the Committee on the District of Colum· Bedford, Mass., praying for the enactment of legislation to in­ bia, submitted a report, accompanied by a bill (S. 5318) for there· crease American shippmg; which was referred to the Committee lief of Francesco Perna; which was read twice by its title. on Commerce. Mr. TURNER, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was He also presented a petition of the Woman's Christian Temper­ referred the bill (S. 3475) granting a pension to Charles (,Titzer, ance Union, of Fall River, Mass., praying for the enactment of reported it with amendments, and submitted a report thereon. legislation to prohibit the sale of liquor in canteens of the Army Mr. HOAR, from the Committee on the Judiciary, I'eported an and Navy and of Soldiers' Homes, and in immigrant stations and amendment proposing to appropriate $10,000 to defray the cost of Government buildings; which was refe1Ted to the Committee on the employment of auditors in the Court of Claims, intended to be Military Affairs.