1886. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 6305 9727) to remove the charge of desertion against Henry Conrad Bending; amount due on the dispatch-boat Dolphin; which, with theaccompany­ which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on ing paper,. was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and or- Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. dered to be. printed. • The Honse then (at 5 o'clock and 8 minutes p. m.) adjourned. He also presented a communication from the Secretary of the Treas­ ury, transmitting a letter from the assistant trP..asurer at Cincinnati, PETITIONS, ETC. Ohio, asking to be allowed an extra watchman for his office; which, The following petitions and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk, with the a{!C(}mpanying papers, was referred to the Committee on Ap­ under the rule, and referred as follows: propriations, and ordered to be printed. By Mr. BINGHAM: Memorial of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. voicing the public wish for a sufficient supply of clean, well-secured paper currency of the denomination of one and two dollars-to the The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented resolutions adopted.by the Committee on Banking and Currency. Board of Trade of Portland, Oreg., declaring that the resolutions adopted By Mr. R. H. M:. DAVIDSON: Memorial of citizens of Gadsden at a special meeting of the board June 24, 1886, protesting against the County, Florida, asking that an appropriation may be made for the im­ forfeiture of the land grant on the Cascade branch of the Northern Pa­ provement of the Ochlocknee River-to the Committee on Rivers and cific Railroad were inconsiderate and illegal, a.nd directing that they be Jiarbors. expunged from the records of the meeting. By Mr. DOCKERY: Petition of William Stanly Post, No. 208, Grand Mr. MITCHELL, of Oregon. Mr. President, I wish to say in reference Army of the Republic, asking the passage of Senate bill1886-to the to the resolutions which have just been laid before the Senate by the Presi­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. dent of the Senate that the Board of Trade of the city of Portland, State of By Mr. DUNN: Papers relating to the claims of William N. Rob­ Oregon, is composed of several hundred, I believe-! do not know ex­ ertson, of Philips County; of William W. Glenn, of Batesville; of actly how many-of the most respectable and influential business and Abraham Fleener, and of William J. Vineyard, of Arkansas-to the professional men of the city of Portland, and their views with reference Committee on War Claims. to matters pertaining exclusively to the commercial interests of that By Mr. ERMENTROUT: :Memorial of the Board of Trade of Phila­ city should be and with me are very potential. Those of us, however, delphia, asking for a supply of paper currency of small denotninations who are so fortunate, or unfortunate, as the case may be, as to hold posi­ for circulation-to the Committee on Banking and Currency. tions in the Senate and Honse of Representatives are necessarily com­ By Mr. FUNSTON: Petition o( Solomon Williams, for a pension-to pelled to take a somewhat broader view of legislative matters hete than the Committee on Invalid Pensions. it is expected will be taken by a board representing almost exclusively Also, petition for the passage of House bill No. 7695, fo1· a pension the commercial interests of a particular city. for James McLaughlin-to the same committee. Therefore I, as one of the representatives of that State in the Senate, By Mr. GROSVENOR: Evidence to support House bill No.1887 for in connection with my colleague, have believed it to be for the material the relief of Mrs. E. H. Wildes-to the same committee. ' and commercial interests of Eastern Oregon in particular and Washing­ Al~o, petition of John Denback and many others, pf Pomeroy, Ohio, ton Territory, and .of the whole nation, that there should be a speedy relatrng to the public lands and other matters of public interest de­ completion of the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad across the Cas- manded by the Knights of Labor-to the Committee on Labor. cade Mountains to Portland via Puget Sound, thus making a through By Mr. T. J. HENDERSON: Communication of Charles Barry, of connection to the Pacific seaboard, for the benefit not only of the farmers West Cornwall, Henry County, illinois-to the Committee on Invalid and producers of Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington Territory, Pensions. ·Idaho, and Montana, but for the people generally of the East and of the By Mr. LINDSLEY: Petition for organizing the Territory of Okla­ whole nation East and West. In this connection permit me to attract at­ homa, and other purposes-to the Committee on the Territories. tention to the fact that the farmers and producers generally of Eastern . .Also, petition in regard to land forfeiture, and other pw·poses-to Oregon and of Eastern Washington Territory are now subjected to bur­ the Committee on the Public Lands. dens in the matter of freight charges along the Columbia River that are Also, petition of Edward F. Dewey, for relief-to the Committee on unparalleled in the history of transportation in this or in fact in any other War Claims. country. Whe..<tt producers are compelled to pay now $6 a ton for trans­ By Mr. .MA-TSON: Petition of A: E. Gentrv and 125 others citizens porting ~heir wheat from Wallula, Wash., to Portland, Oreg., a distance of Monroe County, Ip.diana, asking that the arrears act be rep:aled-to of 214 nnles, whether they transport it on the cars of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company on their railroad alonO' the banks of the Colum­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 0 By· Mr. CHARLES O'NEILL: Resolutions of instructions of the bia River, or whether they transport it on the river boats to Portland Union Republican Club of the fourteenth ward of ·Philadelphia, con­ and cop trolled by the same company. It is at the rate of nearly 19 cents demning th~ Morrisqn-Hewitt tariff bill, and asserting the advantage per bushel for 214 miles, or at the rate of nearly 3 cents per ton per mile. to the workrngmen of the country of a high protective tariffc-to the Therefore we have thought and we still think, notwithstanding the Committee on Ways and Means. Portland Board of Trade has changed its opinion upon the subject from By Mr. TAULBEE: Petition for the restoration of Mrs. Catharine that expressed a few days since in a memorial presented here, that we Sonne to the pension-roll-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. would be false to our duty if we were to sit idly by in the Senate and !3Y Mr. TUCKER: Petition of W. D. Hemp. of John Engelman, of not lift up our voices and give our votes in favor of the encoura()'ement :Michael Carroll, of Jacob B. Carroll, of J. B. Fanver, of William T. of a competing line to the seaboard for the benefit of the prod~cers of · Fanver, and of Peter Elinger, of Augusta County, Virginia· and of Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington Territory, and especially when Mrs. M. L. Poll, widow of Miguel Poll, deceased, of Jackson 'eounty in our judgment the commercial importance of our metropolitan city of Mississippi, asking that their war claims be referred to the Court of Portland is to be promoted by such action. Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. ~e have no fig?t, ~t least I h,ave none personally, upon the Oregon By Mr. VAN EATON: Papers relating to the claim of John A. Crook Ra1lway and NaV1gat10n Company or its managers. The men who con­ ~d of Joseph C. Spright, of Tippah County; of Daniel McDougal, of trol that company are highly respectable and enterprising business men. Richard E. Holt, and of Terry Dalton, of Alcorn County; of Joseph Nor are we interested in advancing the individual interests of any other company or corporation. We have, however, an interest in the welfaro Bontura, or ~d~m~ C~unty, and of Lawrence L. Brown, of Prentiss County, MlSStSSippi-to the same committee. of the producers and shippers of that country and of the consumers as By Mr. VOORHEES: Resolutions of the Board of Trade of Port Town­ well. We believe we QUght to do all we can to aid in the completion send, Wash., against the reduction of the tariff on coal lumber and of competing lines by rail and water, to the end that freight charges wool-to the Committee on Ways and Means. ' ' along the Columbia basin and down the great Columbia Valley to the By Mr. WILLIS: Papers in the claim of Charles Jimot for a pen- seaboard may be reduced to some reasonable and proper· limit. sion-to the Committee on Pensions. ' ThePRESIDENTprotempore. TheresolutionsoftheBoardofTrade ' of Portland will be laid upon the table. The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented a petition of 24 citizens of • Pof:s<Iam, N. Y., praying for the passage of the bill to tax oleoma.rgarine; SENATE. wh1ch was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and FOJ;estry. Mr. CULLOM presented the memorial of 32 Knights of Labor of WEDNESDAY, June 30, 1886. Englewood, Ill., remonstrating against the passage of the oleomargarine Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. • The Secretary pro~eeded to read the Journal of yesterday's proceed­ He also presented the petition of Dr. J. N.