• 1876. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE. 1965 .Also, the petition of Daniel S. Lukens, Howard Preston, and other other citizens of New York, praying for the prohibition of the man­ citizens of Chester County, Pennsylvania, of similar import, to the ufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors in the District of Columbia and same committee. the Territories ; which was referred to the Committee on the District .Also, the petition of Jesse Hicken, for a pension, to the Committee of Columbia. on Invalid Pensions. He also presented the memorial of J ohn G. Reither, Edward T. Ja-ck­ By Mr. WHITING : The petition of 555 legal voters of Illinois and son, and 11 other business men of Brooklyn, New York, remon trating 444 women over the age of eighteen years, to prohibit the manu­ against the 1·epeal of the ba,nkrupt act; which was referred to the facture and _sale of alcoholic liquors as a beverage in the Di trict of Committee on Finance. Columbia and Territories of the United States, and to require total He also presented the petition of William .M. Whitney and George n.bstinehce on the part of all officers and subordinates in the civil and T . .May,·praying for a just and equitable disposition of the money military service of the United S ates ; and to appoint a commission awarded to the United States by the tribunal of arbitration at Ge., to investigate and report the effects of the liquor traffic on the health, neva; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. intelligence, industry, property, crime, and pauperism; also upon tax­ 1\fr. BOUTWELL presented the petition of the First Methodist ation, revenue, and general welfare of the people of the United States, chmch of Chelsea, Massachusetts, signed by pa-stor and officer ; pray­ to the Committee of Ways and Means. ing for prohibitory legislation for t he District of Columbia and the By l\Ir. WIGGINTON : The petition of citizens of Inyo County, Territories, the prohibition of the foreign importation of alcoholic California, for relief, to the Committee on Public Lands. liquors, that total abstinence be made a condition of the civil, military, By Mr. WILLIAMS, of New York: Remonstrance of Lawrence Bar­ and naval service, and for a constitutional amendment to prohibit groves and others, against any change in the tariff laws, to the Com­ the traffic in alcoholic beverages throughout the national domain; mittee of Ways and Means. which was referred to the Comrruttee on the District of Columbia. By 1\fr. WOOD, of Pennsylvania. The petition of J. B. Moorhead Heal o presented the petition of Rev. H . T. Cheever, H. R. Greene, and 68 other citizens of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, of similar and other citizens of Worcester, Massachusetts, praying for the pro­ import, to the same committee. - hibition of the manufa-cture and sale of alcoholic liquor in the Dis­ trict of Columbia and the Territories; which was referred to the Com­ mittee on the District of Columbia. Mr. BOUTWELL. I present a joint resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts in regard to the metric system of weights and meas­ IN SENATE. ures, which I ask ma.y be I'ead and referred to the Committee on Finance. M ONDAY_, lJfarch 27, 1876. The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The resolution will be reported and referred to the Committee on Finance, if there be no objection. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. BYRON SUNDERLAND, D. D. The Chief Clerk read as follows : · · The Journal of the proceedings of Friday last was read and ap­ COMMOYWEALTH OF 1\fA.ssACHUSETI'S. proved. In the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. EXECUTIVE CO:Ml\fill\TICATIONS. Resolution· in favor of the introduction of the metric system of weights ru1d The PRESIDENT pro tempo1·e laid before the Senate a letter from measures. the Secretary of War, tra,nsmitting, for the information of the Com- Resolved, That the Senators and Representatives in Congress from this Common­ . mittee on :Military Affairs, a, communication from George R. Cecil, sec­ wealth are hereby requested to forward by all legitimate means the introduction ond lieutenant Thirteenth Infantry, relative the reduction of the of the metric system of weights and mea ures as the sole legalized stru1dard to throughout the United States. pa,y of second lieutenants, giving his objections thereto, with an in­ R esolved, That the governor be, and he is hereby, reqnested to ta:ansnlit to each of dorsement by his post commander; which was referred to the Com- the Senators and Representatives in Congress a popy of the f01·egoing resolution. mittee on lliitary Affairs, and ordered to be printed. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, March 3, 1876. He also laid before the Senate a, letter· from the Secretary of War, Passed: sent up for concurrenoo. transmitting a communication from the Commissary-General of Sub­ GEORGE A. MARDEN, Olerk. sist ence, dated the 20th instant, asking for an early appropriation of SENATE, 1!arch 9, 1816. $300,000 on account of subsistence of the .Army for the fiscal year Passed in concurrenoo. commencing July 1, 1876, with authority to expend the amount ap­ S. N . GIFFORD, Olerk. propria,ted during the current fiscal year, to enable the Subsistence SECRETARY'S D.IU' AR~"T, BOSTON, March 24, 1876. Department to purchase supplies for the remote posts in Arizona, New A true copy. Mexico, Texas, Montana, a,nd Dakota, during the months of .April and HE};'"RY B. PEIRCE, May, 1 76, in order to reach those posts early in the next fiscal year; Secretary of the Commonwealth. which was referred to the Committee on .Appropriations, and ordered :Mr. CHRISTIANCY presented a. memorial of the bar of Ea-st Sag­ to be printed. inaw, Michigan, in reference to the Federal courts in that State; PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. C.A.l\IERON, ofPennsylva,nia, presented two petitions of citizens M..r. CAMERON, of Wisconsin, presented the petition of J . C. Pen­ of Blair County, Pennsylvania,; two petitions of citizens of Phila,­ berthy and other citi zeus of Wi cousin, praying for a general law to delphia, Pennsylvania; a petition of workingmen of Dauphin County, prohibit the liquor traffic within the na,tionalj urisdiction; which was P ennsylvania; two petitions of workingmen of Montgomery County, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Pennsylvania; three petitions of workingmen of Lawrence County, He also presented the petition of M. F. Taylor and other citizens of P enn ylvania; apetitionofworkingmenofHuntingdon County,Penn­ Wisconsin, praying for the prohibition of the manufacture and sale sylvuia; a petition of workingmen of Berks County, Pennsylvania; of alcoholic liquors in· tbe District of Columbia and the Territories; a petition of workingmen of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; and a which was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. petition of workingmen of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, praying Mr. WRIGHT presented the petition of I aac Herring, of Polk that the tariff laws may rema,in undisturbed; which were referred to County, Iowa, prayin_J? to be allowed a pension; which was referred the Committee on Finance. to the Committee on .t'eru;ions. He also presented the memorial of Samuel Riddle, William Simpson, Mr. EDMUNDS. I present the petition and remonstrance of sun­ John Ledward, J.P. Crozier, and G20 other manufacturers, mechanics, dry citizens of Washington, against railroacls on the public grounds, and citizens of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, remonstrating against &c., which I ask may be referred to the Committee on Public Build­ the pa sage of any act reducing'the duties on imported articles that ings and Grounds. I introduced illst week a bill for the removal of enter in~ competition with American manufactures; which was re­ the railroa-ds on the pul:)lic grounds, which, I understand, was re­ ferred to the Committee on Finance. ferred contrary to my motion to the Committee on the District of 1\fr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I present the memorial of workingmen of Columbia. I understand that that matter properly belongs to the Pas aic, New JerseyJ remonstrating against the propo.sed change in Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and I move a change of the tariff laws. I observe they sa,y in their petition that while they reference. are rea-dy to bear With I'eSolution their share of the depression which The PRESIDENT pro tempore~ The Chair hears no objection and exists all over the world, that resolution will be changed to despair that change of reference will be made. This petition will be referretl if the proposed tariff bill passes. I move the reference of the petition to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. to the Committee on Finance. 1\fr. CONKLING. I present a memorial signed by many busine s. The motion was agreed to. men, leading citizens of the county of Clinton, in the State of New Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN presented a petition of pensioners of the York, saying that they observe with alarm the introduction of a scheme­ United State , residinginNew Jersey, praying that Congress in defer­ for tariff reduction a,nd revision; which, in very earnest language,. ence to their interests will not pass a law changing the pre ent mode they protest against. I move the reference of this memorial' to the­ of paying pensions; which was referred to the Select Committee to Committee on Finance. Examine the Several Branches of the Civil Service. · The motion was agxeed to. Mr. KERNAN presented a petition of the Lodge of Good Templars Mr. W ITHERS pre ented the petition of Weisiger & Co., .A.