. 3512 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 22, By Mr. GRISWOLD: Petition of citizens of Erie, Pa., for the By Mr. STEPHENSON: Petitionof David Wood and 15other passage of House bill401 in regard to immigration and importa­ church members and 62 other signers, of Alma, Mich., to close tion of aliens-to the Select Committee on Immigration and Nat­ the Columbian Exposition on Sunday-to the Select Committee uralization. on the Columbian Exposition. By Mr. HARMER: Petition of John S. Walter, late second By Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR: Memorial.of Lindlay M. Fullis lieutenant of Company B, Thirteenth Regim<;)nt Volunteer Cav­ Post, No. 123, Grand Army of the Republic, of Ohio, signed by 32 alry of Pennsylvania-to the Committee on Military Affairs. members thereof, praying for legislation preserving and mark­ By Mr. HARTER: Petition of the National Philatelical Soci­ ing the lines of Gettysburg battlefield -to the Committee on ety, to place postage stamps on the free list-to the Committee Military Affairs. on Ways and Means. Also, two petitions of citizens of Ohio, one of Columbiana, hav­ By Mr. HATCH: Two protests.of Farmers and Laborers.' Un­ ing 220 signatures, and the other, of Jefferson County, having ion of Missouri, one of Macon County and the other of Adair 180 signatures, praying for the passage of House bill 401, intro­ County, protesting against the passage of the Brosius lard bill duced by Hon. WILLIAM A. STONE, of Pennsylvania-to theSe­ (H. R. 395), and praying for the passage of a general pure-food lect Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. law-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, memorial of J. H. Reaves Post, No. 223, Grand Army of Also, resolutions of National Grange, Washington, D. C., in the Republic, of Ohio, signed by 33 members thereof, praying favor of pure-food law-to the Committee on Agriculture. for legislation preserving and marking the lines of Gettysburg By Mr. HENDERSON of Iowa: Petition of Raymond Parke battlefield-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Lodge, No.l97, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, North By Mr. TERRY: Two petitions of citizens of Arkansas, one of Dakota, urging legislation for the protection of railroad. em­ Mill Creek Township, Franklin County, and the other of John­ ployes-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. son County, against dealing in futures-to the Committee on Also, resolution of the conference of the State railroad com­ Agriculture. · missioners with the Interstate Commerce Commission urging By Mr. TRACEY: Petition of F. J. H. Merrill, of New York, Congress to give legislation for protection of railroad em­ favoring the metric system-to the Committee on Coinage, ployes-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Weights, an Measures. Also, resolutions of the Bricklayers' International Union, No. By Mr. WARWICK: Petition of the Presbytery of Wooster, 3, Dubuque: Iowa, favoring the passage of House bill 257-to the Ohio, against the opening of the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Committee on Labor. Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. By Mr. HOOKER of New York: Petition of F. T. Williams, of By Mr. W ASIDNGTON: Resolutions of Merchants' Exchange - New York, in reference to the reduction of letter postage to 1 of Memphis, Tenn., protesting against the action of the United cent-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. States .and Brazil Steamship Company, jn refusing to deliver Mr. HQPKINS of Illinois: Petition of citizens of Lake County, coffee at the port of Newport News, Va.-to the Committee on Ill., against the opening of the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Select Committee on the Columbian Exposition. / By Mr. HULL: Resolutions of the Des Moines (Iowa) branch of American Stonecutters, for enforcement of the eight-hour SENATE. law on public buildings, and that all material proposed for pub­ lic buildings by contract shall be excluded-to the Committea on FRIDAY~ .April22, 1892. Labor. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. By Mr. LODGE: Remonstrance of the American Tool and Ma­ The Journal of yesterday's _proceedings was read and approved, chinery Company and 12 other manufacturers of such ma{!hin­ EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION. ery, m Boston, against admission to this country of foreign b3et­ sugar machinery free of duty-to the Committee on Ways and The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com· Means. m;mication from the Secretary. of the Interior, transmitting, By Mr. MARTIN: Remonstrance of B. F. Anderson and 84 w1th a request for favorable actwn thereon, a recommendation other citizens of Denver, Ind., against legislation to close the from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to the granting World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Committee on the Co- of pensions and medals to certain Indians of the Standing Rock lumbian Exposition. - Agency, together with copies of correspondence relating thereto Also, affidavits of Lydia Bollman, Charles L. Curtis, and Ellen and drafts of bills to carry the recommendation into effect; Bollman, in support of House bill granting pension to said Lydia which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Com­ Bollman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · mittee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. By Mr. MILLIKEN: Petition of Walter L. Parker Post, No. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. 156, Grand Army of the Republic, of Maine, to mark the battle The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore presented the petition of Rev. lines at Gettysburg-to the Comm!ttee on Military Affairs. James A. Worden and other citizens of Philadelphia, Pa., pray­ Also, petition of Ruth M. Haskell, for increase of pension-to ing that no money be appropriated for the Columbian Exposi­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tion except on condition that it ba closed on Sunday; which was By Mr. MUTCHLER: Petition of citizens of Pennsylvania, for referred to the Committee on the Quadro-Centennial (Select). an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting States from grant­ Mr. HOAR presented a petition of Congregational ministers ing the right of suffrage to persons not citizens of the United of Boston, Mass., praying for the closing of the World's Colum­ States-to the Committee on the Judiciary. bian Exposition on Sunday; which was referred to the Commit­ By Mr. O'NEILL of Pennsylvania: Memorial of the Woman's tee on the Quadro-Centennial (Select). Silk Culture Association of the United States, asking for an ap­ Mr. VEST presented the memorial of F. C. Pierce and other propriation of $10,000 a year for three years for making silk cul­ citizens of Vernon County, Mo., remonstrating against the pas­ ture a permanent industry-to the Committee on Agriculture. sage of any legislation by Congress committing the Governmen~ Also, remonstrance of citizens of Philadelphia, adopted at a to a union of church and state; which was referred to the Com­ meeting held in the Fifth Baptist Church, against appropriating mittee on the Quadro-Centennial (Select). or loaning money to the Columbian Exposition unless upon con­ Mr. McPHERSON presented the petition of Andrew Alcorn dition that the fair be closed on the Sabbath-to the Select Com­ and 77 other citizens of Perth Amboy, N. J., praying for the mittee on the Columbian Exposition. adoptionofanamendmenttotheConstitutionoftheUnitedStates. By Mr. OTIS: Petition of the Woman's Foreign Missionary providing that no State shall pass any law respecting an estab: Society of the· Friends Church, of Barclay, Kans., protesting lishment of religion or make appropriations for sectarian pur­ against the sale of intoxicating liquors to the natives in Alaska­ poses; which wa-s referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. to the Select Committee on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. Mr. BATE presented a petition of citizens of McNairy County, By Mr. PATTISON of Ohio: Petition of John W. Davis and Tenn., praying for the passage of the Butt9rworth option bill; others of Thomas J. Nolan Post, No. 659, Grand Army of the which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Republic, Fairfax, Ohio, asking for the marking of battle lines Mr. PADDOCK presented the p 3tition of Elijah Sells, secre· at Gettysburg, Pa.-to the Committee on Millitary Affairs. tary, and 6 other Federal officers of Utah Territory; the petition By Mr. RAY: Two petitions of East German Grange, No.478, of Frank Hoffman, department commander, and 3 other officers of New York, one for the passage of a law to prevent the adul­ of the Grand Army of the Republic of Utah Territory; the peti· teration of food and drugs and the other to prevent gambling in tion of Hugh Anderson and 25 other citizens of Salt Lake City, farm products-to the Committee on Agriculture. · Utah; the petition of J. S. Langston, commander George R. Max­ Also, petition by the same grange, to prohibit contracts dis­ well Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and 22 other citizens of }rediting legal-tender currency-to the Committee on Banking Salt Lake City, Utah; the petition of J. Melton and 33 other citi­ and Currency. zens of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the petition of Frederick Solo­ Also, petition by the same grange, for the passage of House bill mon and 7 other citizens of Salt Lake City, Utah, praying that 395, defining lard and imposing a tax thereon-to the Commit- if any disposition is to be made of the Industrial Home property tee on Ways and Means. · at Salt Lake City, Utah, it may be set aside for the use of a sol- ;. ' - 1892. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-_ SENATE. 3513 diers' home for disabled and needy soldiers and sailors; which bill (S. 2852) to change the n~e of the Capitol, North 0 Street were ref~rred to the Committee on Territories.