1875. CONGRESSIONAL RECOR,D. 261 ORDER OF BUSINESS. Ohio, and others, that provision be made for the free traDsporlation The question bei~g put on the motion of Mr. BUTLEB, of Massachu­ and subsistence of all soldiers and sailors of all American wars on tho setts that the House now adjourn, the Speaker declared that the occasion of the centennial celebration at Philadelphia in 1876, to the ayes 'appeared to prevail. Select Committee on the Centennial Celebration. .Mr. HARRIS, of Massachusetts, called for the yeas and nays. By lli. LOUGHRIDGE: Several petitions of citizens of Monroe The yeas and nays were not ordered. and Davis Counties, Iowa, for the removal of the United States dis­ So the motion was agreed to ; and a.ccordingly (at four o'clock and trict court for Iowa from Keokuk to Burlington, to the Committee on twenty-five minutes p.m.) the House adjourned. the Judiciary. By Mr. LOWE: Papers relating to the claims of Pottawatomie Indians, citizens of the United States, to the Committee on Indian Affairs. PETITIONS, ETC. Also, the petition of John .A.. Tiffany and others, for relief, to the The following memorials, petitions, and other papers were pre­ Committee on Indian Affairs. sented at the Clerk's desk, under the rule, and referred as stated: By Mr. McKEE: The petition of citizens of Lauderdale County, By Mr. ASHE: Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, Mississippi, for refunding of the cotton tax, to the Committee on in regard to removal of obstructions from Neuse River, to the Com­ Ways and Means. mittee on Commerce. By Mr. MILLS: Petitions of citizens of Texas, for refunding the Also, resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, in relation to cotton tax, to the Committee on Ways and Means. the harbor of Edenton, North Carolina, to the Committee on Com­ By Mr. NESMITH: Petitions of citizens of Oregon for the estab­ merce. lishment of a post-route from Winnemucca, in the State of Nevada, Also, resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, in relation to via Black Buttes, to Salem, in the State of Oregon, to the Committee the Freedman's Savings-Bank, to the Committee on Banking and on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Currency. Also, resolutions of the Board Trade of Portland, Oregon, in favor By Mr. BANNING: The petition of Caroline Sheward, for a pen­ of the construction of railroads to connect the railroads of Oregon sion, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. with other railroa-ds of the United Stn.tes, to the Committee on Rail­ By lli. BUNDY: The petitions of Ralph Leete and 102 others, of ways and Canals. George Pet-ers and 121 others, and of M. W. King and 66 others, of By Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS: The petition of B. H. Wright, of Lawrence County, Ohio, praying Congress at its present session to Rome, New York, in relation to early resumption of specie pay- provide for an increase of United States legal-tender notes commen­ ments, to the Committee on Banking and Currency. surate with the demands of the business interests of the country, and By Mr. RUSK: The petition of Harry E. Eastman, for relief, to to provide for a uniform rate of interest not exceeding 5 per cent. the Comrilittee on War Claims. per annum, to the Committee on Banking and Currency. By Mr. SMITH, of Pennsylvanin.: Memorial of the State Society By Mr. BUTLER, of M3B8achusetts: Memorial of the Southern of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, in regard to compensation for serv­ Maryland Railroad Company, prayin~ Congress to authorize the ices of revolutionary officers, to the Committee on War Claims. authorities of the District of Columbia to divert to the Southern By Mr. SMITH, of Ohio: The petition of Benjamin D. Lakin, of Maryland Railroad Company the amount of subscription authorized Clermont Conn% Ohio, for relief to the Committee on War Cln.ims. and directed to be made to the Piedmont and Potomac Railroad by By Mr. SMIT.tl, of Virginia: Tne1 petition of William B. Derrick an act of the Legislature of the District of Columbia approved August and 3,000 colored citizens of Richmond, Virginia, for legislation to 19, 1872, and ratified and confi.rme(l by act of Congress approved relieve depositors in the branch of the Freedman's Sn.vings Bank, May 23, 1873, to the Committee on the District of Columbia. located at Richmond, to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Also, petitions of publishers in the United States, for a trial in the By Mr. THORNBURGH: The petition of Mary D. Williams, widow Government Printin~ Office of Orren L. Brown's patent machine for of William M. Williams, late private Second Tennessee Infantry, for setting and distributing type, to the Committee _on Printing. a pension, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, the petition of Frank J. Adams, of Oakland, California, that Also, the petition of William K. Griffith, guardian of minor chil­ land warrants be granted disabled soldiers in pla.ce of homesteads, to dren of John Morgv.n, late private First Tennessee Infan"iry, for re­ the Committee on Military Affairs. lief, to the Committee on Militn.ry Affairs. By Mr. BUTLER, of Tennessee : A paper for the establishment of . Also, the petition of Thomas F. Carter to be compensated for serv­ a post-route in the State of Tennessee, to the Committee on the Post­ ices rendered the F~~eral Army, to the Committee on Military Affairs. Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. WHITEHEAD: The petition of Eliza J. White, of Rock­ By Mr. COX: Memorial of Kate Louise Cushing, widow of Com­ bridge County, Virginia, for relief, to the Commi~~ on War Claims. mander W. B. Cushing, for a· naval pension, to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. DANFORD: The petition of J. M. Dalzell, for le~slation to ' ) provide free transportation and subsistence for soldiers m the late war to the centennial celebration at Philadelphia in 1876; to the Select IN SENATE. Committee on the Gentennial Celebration. By Mr. FARWELL : Papers relating to the claim of Mrs. Eliza WEDNESDAY, January 6, 1875. Potter for relief, to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. FINCK: The petition of J. R. Teagarden and,-others, for a. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. BYRON SUNDERLAND, D. D. post-route from South Bloomfield, via. Saint Paul, to Marcy, in Pick­ The Journal of yesterday's proceeding was read and approved. a way County, Ohio, to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. By :Mr. FRYE: The petition of Betsey M. Murray, for a pension, tu A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. CLINTON the Committee on Invalid Pensions. LLOYD, its Chief Clerk, announced that the Speaker had signed the Also, the petition of Mary J. Blood, widow of Emery A. Blood, that following enrolled bills; which were thereupon signed by the Vice­ a. pension be granted her children, to the Committee on Invn.lid Pen­ President: sions. A bill (S. No. 381) to create an additional land district in the State By Mr. GOOCH : The petition of Elizn.beth Williams, for a pension, of Oregon, to be called the Dalles land district; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. A bill (S. No. 433) for the relief of Mrs. Susan .A.. Shelby; and By Mr. GUNCKEL: Petitions of James Riley, John Hamilton, John .A. bill (S. No. 650) explanatory of the resolution entitled ".A. resolu­ McCabe, Philip Lavassuer, and Dicy Fyke, for pensions, severally, to tion for the relief of settlers upon the absentee Shawnee lands in the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Kansas," approved April7, 1869. By Mr. HAGANS: The petition of Mrs. D. W. Wallingford, to be compensated for property taken by the United States Army, to the HOUSE BILL REFERRED. Committee on War Claims. The bill (H. R. No. 4119) authorizing the Commissioner of the By Mr. HODGES: The petition of Alison Nailoi:, for relief, to the General Land Office to grant a patent for certain land in the Terri- . Committee on War Claims. to1·y of Arizona was read twice by its title, and referred to the Com­ By Mr. HOUGHTON: The petition of the heirs and legal represent­ mittee on Public Lands. atives of Jose and Pablo .A.pis, for relief, to the Committee on the .. Judiciary. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. Mr. HUNTON: The petition of bondholders of the Northern Pacific The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a. letter of the Sec­ Railroad, for indemnity, to the Committee on the Pacj.fic Railroad. retary of War, recommending an appropriation for the employment By Mr. KELLEY: The petition of Brevet Brigadie1·-General C. A. of two draughtsmen in the office of the Quartermaster-General; which Finley, late Surgeon-General United States Army, to be allowed the was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be rank and pay of a colonel of twenty years' service to date from the printed. 1st of July, 1870, to the Committee on Military Affairs. ~ He also laid before the Senate a letter of the Secretary of War, Also, the remonstrance of dealers in manufactured tobacco in Phil­ transmitting a report of General E. 0. Q. Ordinrelation to the sufferers adelphia, against the passage of the bill allowing producers of to ba.cco from the grasshopper plague; which was ordered to lie on the table to sell leaf-tobacco to consumers, to the Committee on Ways and and be printed. Means. He also laid before the Senate a letter of the Secretary of War, By Mr. LA. WRENCE: The petition. of J.