1895. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 283 Ordnance Depm-tmt7nt. Second Lieut. Alexander Lucien Dade, Tenth Cavalry, to be Second Lieut. Charles Clark Jameson, Fifteenth Infantry, to be first lieutenant. first lieutenant. Second Lieut. John Sheridan Winn, Second Cavalry, to be first lieutenant. Judge--Advocate-General's Departnwnt. Second Lieut. Solomon Pervis Vestal, Fifth Cavalry, to be first Lieut. Col. Thomas Francis Barr, deputy judge-advocate-gen- lieutenant. eral, to be assistant judge-advocate-general. Second Lieut. Charles Aloysius Hedekin, Third Cavalry, to be Maj. George Breckenridge Davis, judge?advocate, to be deputy first lieutenant . judge_-advocate-general. Second Lieut . Francis John Koester, Tenth Cavalry, to be first Quartermaster's Department. lieutenant. Second Lieut. John Daniel Leinbach Hartman, First Cavalry, to Lieut. Col. George Henry Weeks, deputy quartermaster-gen­ be first lieutenant. eral, to ba assistant quartermaster-general. POSTM.A.STERS. Maj. Gilbert Cole Smith, quartermaster, to be deputy quarter- Perce C. Montgomery, to be postmaster at Portersville, in ~iJ.e master-general. county of Tulare and State of California. Capt. John Lincoln Clem, assistant quartermaster, to be quar­ Joseph Marks, to be postmaster at Oroville, in the county of termaster. Butte and State of California. - Subsistence Depm·tment. Mathew J. Byrnes, to be postmaster at Visalia, in the county of Maj. Samuel Tobey Cushing, commissary of subsistence, to be Tulare and State of California. assistant commissary-general of subsistence. Frank M. Adams, to be postmaster at Forney, in the county of Capt. Wells Willard, commissary of subsistence, to be commis­ Kaufman and State of Texas. sary of subsistence. Webster Wotkyns, to be postmaster at Pasadena, in the county Capt. Henry Granville Sharpe, commissary of subsistence, to be of Los Angeles and State of California. commissary of subsistence. WilliamS. Staley, to be postmaster at Selma, in the county of Fresno and State of California. Medical Department. Willie M. Compton, to be postmaster at Meridian, in the county Lieut. Col. Dallas Bache, deputy surgeon-general, to be assist­ of Bosque and State of Texas. · ant surgeon-general. Abner L. Board, to be postmaster at Seymour, in the county of Maj. David Lowe Huntington, surgeon, to be deputy surgeon­ Baylor and State of Texas. general. Oscar D. Baker, to be postmaster at Uvalde, in the county of Maj. William Elkanah Waters, surgeon, to be deputy surgeon­ Uvalde and State of Texas. general. Samuel A. Hill, jr., to be postmaster at Bellville, in the county of Maj. Justus Morris Brown, surgeon, to be deputy surgeon-gen- Austin and State of Texas. eral. Joseph E. Green, to be postmaster at Giddings, in the county of Capt. William Cummings Shannon, assistant surgeon, to be sur- Lee and State of Texas. geon. Goldesbery C. Green, to be postmaster at Mineral Wells, in the Capt. Louis William Crampton, assistant surgeon, to be surgeon. county of Palo Pinto and State of Texas. Capt. Louis Stanislaus Tesson~ assistant surgeon, to be surgeon. Thomas M. Matthews, to be postmaster at Athens, in the county Capt. Edwin Fisher Gardner, assistant surgeon, to be surgeon. of Henderson and State of Texas. Capt. William Henry Corbusier, assistant surgeon, to be sm·- Edmund R. Manning, to be postmaster at Albany, in the county geon. of Sha-ckelford and State of Texas. Capt. Daniel Mitchell Appel, assistant surgeon, to be surgeon. Clarence W. McNeil, to l;>e postmaster at Laredo, in the county Pay Department. of Webb and State of Texas. Ezra M. Tate, to be postmaster at Sulphur Springs, in the county Lieut. Col. George Evan Glenn, deputy paymaster-general, to of Hopkins and State of Texas. be assistant paymast.er-general. Edward E. Solomon, to be postmaster at Baird, in the county of Maj. Asa Bacon Carey, paymaster, to be deputy paymaster­ Callahan and State of Texas. general. Oscar Y. Rathbun, to be postmaster at Whitewright, in the Oorps of Engineers. county of Grayson and State of Texas. Lieut. Col. John Moulder Wilson, to be colonel. Charles W. Willis, to be postmaster at BigSpring,in the county Lieut. Col. John Whitney Barlow, to be colonel. of Howa1·d and State of Texas. Lieut. Col. Peter Conover Hains, to be colonel. William G. Williams, to be postmaster at Waxaha-chie, in the Lieut. Col. George Lewis Gillespie, to be colonel. county of Ellis and State of Texas. · Lieut. Col. Charles Russell Suter, to be colonel. Sallie West, to be postmaster at Hillsboro, in the county of Hill Maj. Oswald Herbert Ernst, to be lieutenant-colonel. and State of Texas. Maj. David Porter Heap, to be lieutenant-colonel. Joshua Downing, to be postmaster at Brookings, in the county Maj. William Ludlow, to be lieutenant-colonel. of Brookings and State of South Dakota. Maj. William Albert Jones, to be lieutenant-colonel. Augustus Huntemer, to be postmaster at Dell Rapids, in the Maj. Andrew Neaf Damrell, to be lieutenant-coloneL county of Minnehaha and State of South Dakota. Capt. Richard Leveridge Hoxie, to be major. Mahlon Purdin, to be postmaster at Medford, in the county of Capt. William Louis Marshall, to be major. Jackson and State of Oregon. Capt. Joseph Henry Willard, to be major. Capt. William Herbert Bixby, to be major. Capt. Eric Ber~land, to be major. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. First Lieut. William Campbell Langfitt, to be captain. FiTst Lieut. Henry Ely Waterman, to be captain. SATURDAY, JJecember 21, 1895. Fu·st Lieut. James Clark Sanford, to be captain. The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. First Lieut. Hiram Martin Chittenden, to be captain. HENRY M. COUDEN. First Lieut. Cassius Eric Gillette, to be captain. The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and ap- Second Lieut. William Wright Harts, to be first lieutenant. proved. · Second Lieut. Robert McGregor, to be first lieutenant. EXECUTIVE COMMUNIO.A.TION. Second Lieut. Edgar Jadwin, to be first lieutenant. Under Rule XXIV, clause 2, the following executive communi­ Second Lieut. Charles Keller, to be first lieutenant. cation was taken from the Speaker's table and referred by the Second Lieut. Herbert Deakyne, to be first lieutenant. Speaker, as follows: Second Lieut. Charles Summers Bromwell, to be first lieutenant. A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting Cavalry a1'11t. a copy of the report of the Columbia Railway Company of Maj. Samuel Marmaduke Whitside, Seventh Cavalry, to be Washington, D. C., for the fiscal year ended February 28, 1895, lieutenant-colonel. together with an abstract of the company's receipts and disburse­ Capt. Henry James Nowlan, Seventh Cavalry, to be major. ments from September 1, 1871, to March 1, 1895; which was re­ First Lieut. Cmtis Bushrod Hoppin, regimental quartermaster, ferred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Second Cavalry, to be captain. , MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. First Lieut. Loyd Stone McCormick, Seventh Cavalry,· to be A message in writing from the President of the United States captain. was communicated to the House of Representatives, by Mr. PRU­ First Lieut. Henry Lewis Ripley, regimental quartermaster, DEN, one of his secretaries, who also informed the Honse of Rep­ Third Cavalry, to be captain. resentatives that the P.residenthadapproved and signed joint reso­ F1rst Lieut. Jacob Garretson Galbraith, First Cavalry, to be lutions of the following titles: captain. Joint resolution (H. Res. 7) providing for the printing of the 284 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER- 21, MonthlySummaryStatementofimportsandExportsoftheBureau Committee on Military Affairs.-Messrs. Hull, Curtis of New of Statistics, Treasury Department. York, Marsh, Woomer, Griffin, Southwick, Parker, Bishop, Fen­ On December 20, 1895: ton, Tracy, Tarsney, Tyler, McClellan, Washington, Lockhart, and A joint resolution (H. Res. 26) to pay the officers and employees of Catron. the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries Committee on Naval Affairs.-Messrs. Boutelle, Robinson of for the month of December, 1895, on the 20th day of said month. Pennsylvania, Hulick, Hilborn, Bull, Hanly, Wilson of New York, MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. Foss, Dayton, Cummings, Meyer, Money, Hall, Tate, and Hart. Cornmittee on the Post-O.tfWe and Post-Roads.-Messrs. Loud, A message from the Senate, by Mr. PLATT, one of its clerks, an­ Smith of lllinois, Gardner, Linton, Sperry, Settle, Huff, Lorimer, nounced that the Senate had passed without amendment the bill Bromwell, Miller of Kansas, Mahany, Kyle, Swanson, Crain, Og­ (H. R. 2173) making an appropriation for the expenses of a com­ den, Pendleton, Hall, and Murphy of Arizona. mission to investigate and report on the true divisional line be­ Committee on the Public Lands.-Messrs. Lacey, Stephenson, tween the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana. Meiklejohn, Bowers, Ellis, Barney, Curtis of Kansas, Wilson of The message also announced that the Senate had passed the fol­ Idaho, Kulp, Shafroth, McRae, Latimer, DoWning, Underwood, lowing resolution; in which the concurrence of the House of Rep­ Jones, and Flynn. · resentatives was requested: Committee on Indian Affairs.-Messrs. Sherman, Curtis of Kan­ · Resolved, etc., That 6,000 extra copies of Senate Document No. 226, first ses­ sion Fiftieth Congress, relative to the Venezuelan boundary, be printed in sas, Wilson of Ohio, Meikfejohn, Gamble, Doolittle, Fischer, Eddy, paper covers, of which number 2,000 copies shall be for the use of the Senate Stewart of Wisconsin, White, Hyde, Watson of Indiana, Allen, · and !,000 copies for the use oJ; the House of Representatives. Maddox, Pendleton, Little, Owens, and Flynn. The message also am;1.0unced that the Senate had passed with an Committee on the Territories.-Messrs. Scranton, Perkins, Le­ amendment the concurrent resolution providing for the holiday fever, Avery, Harris, Hadley, Knox, Taft, Low, Harrison, Turner recess; in which the concurrence of the House was requested. of Virginia, Owens, Cooper of Texas, Catron, and Murphy of Ari­ zona. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.