4094 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. MAY 1~, . sociation for the passage of H. R. 4460-to the Select Committee on Re- By ~Ir. RANDALL: Memorial of the Women's Silk Culture Asso­ form in the Civil Service. · ciation of the United States, relative to S. 2002-to the Committee on. Al..."<>, memorial·ofthe Women's Silk Culture Associationofthe Uni­ Ways and Means. ted States, relative to S. 2002-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, resolution relative to Indian education-to the Committee on. By l!Ir. GLASCOCK: Memorial of the Saint Helena Grape-Growers Appropriations. Association of California-to the same committee. By Mr. ROCKWELL: Remon tance of citizens of Pittsfield, against By 1.1r. GUENTHER: Petitionofcitizens ofLodi, Wis., asking that the Government taking possession of and managing the telegraph busi-· a pension be granted to John Morter,jr.-tothe Committee on Invalid ness-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Pot-Roads. Pensions. Also, petition of250 citizens of North Adams, Mass., to reduce the Also, petition of citizens of Appleton, Wis., asking that a pension be internal-revenue tax, and opposing the Uorri on tariff bill-to the Com­ granted to William A. Mason-to the same committee. mittee on Ways and Means. By Mr. H. H. HATCH: Petition relating to the pension claim of By l\ir. ROSECRANS: Memorial of the Women's Silk Culture Asso­ Sanderson P. Stacy-to the same committee. ciation of the United. States, relative to S. 2002-to the Committee on. By Mr. HERBERT: Petition of W. H. Morris and others, in favor of Labor. the passage of the Blair bill-to the Committee on Education. Also, letter of John Saulnier & Co. and other merchants of San Fran­ By 1\fr. HOLTON: Papers relating to the claim of Jane C. Dyer­ cisco, in favor of the passage of H. R. 6757-to the Committee on Ways. to the Committee on War Claims. andMeans. · By Mr. HOUK: Petition for a post-route in Scott County, Tennes­ By Mr. STRAIT: Resolutions of the Saint Paul (Minn.) Chamberoi see-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Commerce, relating to the removal of obstructions to the free naviga­ By 111r. HOUSEMAN: Petition of ArthurS. Hetchings, James Bright, tion of the waters of the United States, &c.-tothe Committee on Rivers. W. D. Findlater, and many others, residents of the fifth Congressional and Harbors. district of Michigan, in favor of legislation in the interest of labor-to By Mr. C. A. SilliNER: Concurrent resolution of the General As­ the Committee on Labor. sembly of the State of California, relative to river and harbor improve­ By Mr. HOWEY: Petition from citizens of Washington, N.J., favor­ ments on the Pacific coast-to the same committee. ing the passage of a bankrupt law-to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. WAIT: Petition of Zenas C. Robbins, for reimbursement of' By Mr. HUNT: Memorial of the New Orleans Chamber of Com­ expenses, &c.-to the Committee on Claims. merce, to suspend the further coinage ofsilver, &c.-to the Committee By 1\Ir. WELLBORN: Two petitions relative to tariff on earthen­ on Banking and Currency. ware-severally to the Committee on Ways and Means. By lli. JEFFORDS: Petition of J. L. Collins. J. Chapman, and By lli. YOUNG: Petition relating to the claim of Hugh Natt-to­ others, citizens of Issaquena County, and of W. H. Allen, W. A. Al­ the Committee on War Claims. corn, and others, of Coahoma County, .Mississippi, asking for the pas­ sage of the Blair school bill-severally to the Committee on Education. By Mr. KEIFER: Petition of J. D. Culp & Co., for the payment of a SENATE. judgment-to the Committee on Appropriations. By Mr. KING: Petition of J. L. Carruth, president of board of school TUESDAY, },fay 13, 1884. directors, parish of Saint Helena, and others; ofT. P. Liscombe, presi­ dent of board of school directors, parish of East Feliciana, and others, and Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. E. D. HUNTLEY, D. D. of Central Trades and Labor Assembly of New Orleans, all in Louisiana, The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. favoring the passage of the bill granting aid to education-severally to EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. the Committee on Education. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid befure the Senate a communica­ By Mr. McCOID: Memorial of Post No. 79, Grand Army of theRe­ tion from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter of the Quarter­ public, Department of Iowa, asking a pension of $8 per month to all hon­ master-General and accompanying estimate for repairs, &c., at Jackson. orably discharged soldiers of the late war-to the Committee on Inva­ Barraclm, Louisiana, with recommendation that the amount named, lid Pensions. 20,088.94, may be appropriated at the present session of Congress; By Mr. McCOMAS: Papers relating to the claim of William Read­ which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee­ ing, of Johnson Benson, of John H. Huyett, of Henry McCauley, of on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. John H. King, of Michael Culler, of Charles W. Hoffman, execuwr, . &c.: of Abraham Shaff, of Reuben Rowzee, of Elizabeth A. Jarboe, of • PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS • Jacob D. Earey, of Mrs. Catharine Little, of Jacob Grim, of Michael Mr. MILLER, of New York, presented a memorial of citizens of~ Bartholow, and of Terrence and Joseph Byrne-severally to the Com­ Canajoharie, N. Y.; a memorial of citizens of Gloversville, N. Y.; a mittee on War Claims. memorial of citizens of M:cGrawville, N. Y.; a memQrial of citizens oi By Mr. McCORMICK: Petition of John McMahan, for relief-to the Berkshire, N. Y., and a memorial .of citizens of Little Falls, N.Y., Committee on Military Affairs remonstrating against the establishment of a governmental monopoly oi By Mr. MORRILL: Petition of H. D. McCarty and 90 others, ask­ the telegraph business; which were ordered to lie on the table. ing for the restoration of the Nez Perce Indians to their homes in 1.1r. MILLER, of New York. I present a petition which I will take Idaho-to the Committee on Indian Affairs. the liberty of reading. It is as follows: Also, petition of Oklahoma Colony Company, asking that said Terri­ To the honorable the Senare and HO'USe of Representatives of the United. States: tory be opened for settlement-to the Committee on the Territories. The undersjgned, merchants, ship-owners, and others interested in the com­ mercial prosperity of the port of New York, respectfully represent: ByMr. MURRAY: PetitionofofficersoftheArmy, urgingthe enact­ That the condition of the principal entrance to this port, a.s indicated by the ment of a law reorganizing the infantry arm of the service-to the frequent striking of vessels of large draught on Sandy Hook bar for many Committee on Military Affairs. months past, and lately demonstrated by careful soundings made on said bar, has become a matter of anxious concern, involving the welfare of our city, and the Also, petition of citizens of Eaton, Preble County, Ohio, against the existence of the vast interests centering here. Government telegraph bill-to the Committee on the Post-Office and The soundings lately made show that the natural action by which the channel Post-Roads. had been deepened to a. maximum of twenty-five feet at low water has been re­ versed, and a. shoaling has now set in by which the depth has been seriously de­ By Mr. NEECE: :M:emmial of the Moline Water Power Company, creased. While this process of filling the channel has been going on, the com­ of Moline, Ill., asking for an appropriation for the completion of the mercial necessity of the time has compelled the building of ships larger and of water-power canal at the Rock Island arsenal-to the Committee on greater draught in order to meet the demand for cheaper and quicker transporta­ tion, and if the port of New York can not receive them its commercial supremacy Appropriations. is seriously impaired. By lli. NICHOLLS: MemoriaJ of Sarah M. Bissell, widow of Com­ We therefore respectfully request that your honorable bodies will make such modore Bissell, for the passage of bill granting her a pension-to the suitable and ample provision for the deepening and improvement of the ap­ Committee on Pensions. proaches to this port a.s the case requires. Also, memorial of Hon. Amos F. Rahn and others, citizens of Effing­ This petition is signed by a verylargenumberofthemost prominent ham County, Georgia, favoring the passage of the educational bill-to shipping merchants and importers ofthecityofNewYork, and also by the Committee on Education. nearly all the marine underwriters of the same city. I move that it be By Mr. OATES: Petition of Dr. John W. Garrett. and 42 others, citi­ referred to the Committee on Commerce. zens of Clintonville, Coffee County, Alabama, for the passage of the The motion was agreed to. Blair educational bill-to the same committee. Mr. MILLER, of New York. In connection with this same matter By :Mr. PARKER: Petition ofF. F. WeadPost, No. 368, GrandArmy I present a preamble and resolutions adopted by the Chamber of Com~ of the Republic, for more liberal pensions-to the Select Committee on merce of the State of New York, which reads as follows: Payment of Pensions, Bounty, and Back Pay. .At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held May 1, 1884, the By Mr. PETERS: Petition of the Ministerial Association of Harvey following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas the memorial to Congress of the merchants, ship-owners, and others County, Kansas, asking for the return of the Nez Perc~s from Indian interested in the commercial prosperity of the port of New York, praying for Territory to Idaho-to the Committee on Indian Affairs.