1907c CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE.- .243 Also, petition of Jerome E. Morse, for Dick-Capron pay bill­ By Mr. THOMAS of North Carolina: Paper to accompany, to the Committee on Naval Affairs. bill for relief af Annie B. Berry, widow of Richard Berry-to Also, petition of Robert Stewart, for bill to equalize and fix the Committee on Invalid Pensions. pay of Army and Navy-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr.-TIRRELL: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Eli Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of George Milton S. Dunklee-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Frye-to the Committee on rnvalid Pensions. By Mr. WANGER: Resolution of the Board of Trade of the Also, petition of Junior Order United American Mechanics, city of Chicago, against Federal uniform inspection of grain­ favoring restriction of immigration-to the Committee on Immi­ to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. gration and Naturalization. By Mr. WASHBURN : Paper to accompany bill for relief of By Mr. LIVINGSTON: Paper to accompany bill for relief o~ Mary E. Cook, Edw. M. Frissell, Joseph W. Preston, and Calvin heirs of David L. Duffey-to the Committee on War Claims. E. Breed-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, papers to accompany bills for relief or Samuel E. Brat­ Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of John A. Taft-to ton and Elizabeth Smith-to the Committee on War Claims. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. 1\lcKIN!\TEY: Petition of Illinois Pharmaceutical Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Charles S. Bot­ Association, for amendment to the Sherman antitrust law­ tomly-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. WEBB: Paper to accompany bill for relief of estate By Mr. MADDEN: Petition of Chicago Pharmaceutical Asso­ of Samuel E. Bratton-to the Committee on War Claim~. ciation, for amendment to Sherman law so as to favor small By Mr. WEISSE : Petition of Theodore Schwants & Co., H. dealers-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Bechheim, Carl C. Johnson, H. E. Parratt, and Charles R. Hen-­ Also, petition of Chicago Association of Commerce, for appro­ derson, against feature of the copyright bill inimical to musical priation to increase post-office facilities in city of Chicago-to composers-to the Committee on Patents. the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, resolution of the Junior Order of United American Also, resolution of Chicago Board of Trade, against Federal Mechanics, favoring restriction of immigration-to the Com­ uniform inspection of grain-to the Committee on Interstate mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. and Foreign Commerce. Also, resolution of the board of directors of Board of Trade By Mr. MANN: Papers to accompany bills for relief of Emil of Chicago, against proposed legislation establishing uniform Oberkircher and Elijah Clark-to the Committee on Invalid inspection of grain under Federal supervision-to the Com-­ Pensions. · mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. MOORE of Texas: Petition of citizens of Hempstead, Also, resolution of Wisconsin Woman's Temperance Union, Tex., against pa),'cels-post law-to the Committee on the Post- for a sixteenth amendment to Constitution, against disfran­ Office and Post-Roads. chisement of citizens on account of sex-to the Committee on By 1\lr. NORRIS: Petition of citizens of Nebraska, against the Judiciary. · parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office and By Mr. WILEY: Resolution of the city council of Montgom­ Post-Roads. ery, Ala., for Congress to put on the continuing-contract system By Mr. OLMS'l'ED: Paper to accompany bill for relief of e>ery portion of the water system of the Coosa River-to the Edward H. Brady-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Rivers and Harbors. By Mr. OVERS'rREET: Paper to accompany bill for relief By 1\Ir. WILSON of Pennsylvania: Resolution of Henry S. ·' of George H. Penrose-to the Committee on Claims. Van Dusen; Fairview Grange, No. 817; Costello Grange, No. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Henry Whitinger­ 1310; :West Branch Grange, No. 1149, and Earl A. Furman and - to the Committee on In>alid Pensions. thirty-eight others, for amendment of Federal law relative to Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Oran Perry-to manufacture of oleomargarine-to the Committee on Agricul-­ the Committee on Appropriations. ture. By Mr. PADGETT: Papers to accompany bills for relief of By Mr. YOUNG: Petition of voters of Twelfth District of heirs of S. H. Armstrong and estate of Joseph Townsend-to the Michigan, against parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Committee on War Claims. Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of James K. Nichols and John Davis-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. _By Mr. PAYNE: Papers to accompany bills for relief of SENATE. Daniel Harter and Edwin C. Cleveland-to the Committee on Im·alid Pensions. TUESDAY, December 10, 1907. Also, petition of Langdon C. St~wardson, president of Hobart Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. EDWARD E. HALE. College, et al., for remo>al of tariff on art works-to the Com­ The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of yesterday's mittee on Ways and Means. proceedings, when, on request of Mr. CLAPP, and by unani­ By Mr. POLLARD: Petition of J. C. Thygeson, Nebraska mous consent, the further reading was dispensed with. City, Nebr., against change in rates on third and fourth class The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Journal stands approved. mail matter, and for reduction to 1 cent per ounce on first-class matter-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. PATENTS TO PURCHASERS OF INDIAN LANDS. Also, petition of W. S. Power et al., for amendment to pension The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communi­ act of February, 1907, giving $20 per month at 65-to the Com­ cation from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draft mittee on Invalid Pensions. of a bill to authorize the issuance of patents in fee to pur­ By 1\fr. REYNOLDS: Paper to accompany bill for relief of chasers of Indian ·lands under any law now existing or here­ William ~.A.nlick and John H. Barney-to the Committee on after enacted, which, with the accompanying paper, was re­ Invalid Pensions. ferred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be By Mr. ROBERTS: Resolution of Northeastern Federation printed. of Women's Clubs, for . enactment into law the bill offered by SANTEE INDIAN RESERVATION LANDS. Hon. William H. Moody December 2, 1901-to the Committee The VICE-PRESIDEl\"'T laid before the Senate a communica­ on the Judiciary. tion from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a draft of By Mr. SHERMAN: Paper to accompany bill for relief of a bill to authorize the issuance of a patent in fee simple for cer­ Mrs. Alice C. Dingman-to the Committee on Pensions. tain lands of the Santee Indian Reservation in- Nebraska to the By Mr. SLAYDEN: Paper to accompany bill for relief of directors of school district No. 36, in Knox County, Nebr., which, Betsey A. Sallee-to the Committee on Pensions. with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee By Mr. SPERRY: Resolution of Isbell Post, Grand Army of on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. the Republic, No. 43, Naugatuck, for the Lafean bill-to the WILLIAM JOHNDRON. Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. SPIGHT: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Emily The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communi­ Clayton-to the Committee on War Claims. cation from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a draft of By Mr. STAFFORD: Resolution of William Steinmeyer Post, a bill to authorize an investigation to be made to cancel the al­ No. 274, Grand Army of the Republic, for the Lafean bill to lotment of William Johndron, a Yankton Sioux allottee,. should increase pension of widow.s of soldiers of the civil war-to the such allotment prove to be fraudulent and fictitious, which. Committee on Invalid Pensions. with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee By 1\fr. TAWNEY: Paper to accompany bill for relief ·of on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Oliver Jones-to the Gommittee on Invalid Pensions. INDIAN AGENCY LANDS IN OKLAHOMA. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Andrew Risser­ The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica­ to the Committee on In valid Pensions. tion ~rom the Secretary' of the Interior, transmitting a draft of 244 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEl\IBER 10, , a bill to authorize the sale of 640 acres of the lands of the FINDINGS OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS, Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency and the Arapahoe school near The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate communica­ Darlington, Okla., and the use of the proceeds thereof, which, tions from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans­ with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on mitting certified copies of the findings of fact filed by the court Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. in the following causes: PUEBLO INDIAN LANDS. In the cause of George A. Russell, administrator of the The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica­ estate of Stephen Chadwick, deceased, v. The United States; tion from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draft of In the cause of Mason G. Ellzey, executor of William W. a bill to authorize the acceptance of conveyances to the United Ellzey, deceased, v. The United States; and States of lands from the Pueblo Indians oj New Mexico, and In the cause of D.