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.· can statesmanship has been almost silent, until the people have 

demanded action. 

The land which is being overrun by the oriental invader is the 

fairest portion of our heritage. It is the land of the vine and the 

fig tree; the home of the orange, the olive, and the pome~anate . . Its 

winter is a perpetual spring, and its summer is a golaen harvest. 

There the northern pine peacefully sways against the southern palm; 

the tendAr azalea and the hardy rose mingle their sweet perfume, and 

the tropic vine encircles the sturdy oak. Its valleys are rich and 

glorious with luscious fruits and waving grain, and its lofty 

Mountains like ·giants stand, 

To sentinel the enchanted land. 

I would see its fertile plains, its sequestered vales, its vine-clad 

hills, its deep blue canofis, its furrowed mountain-sides dotted all over with American homes-the homes of a free, happy people, reso- nant ·with the sweet voices of fl.axen-hairell children, and ringing 

With the joyous laughter of maidens fairSoft as her clime, an:d suuny as her skieslike the homes of New Engln.nd; yet brighter and better far shall 

be the homes which are to be builded in that wonderland by the 

sunset sea, the homes of a race from which shall spring 

The flower of men, To serve as model for the mighty world, 

And be the fair beginning of a. tune. 

Mr. VOORHEES. Mr. President, I desire to make a motion that 

the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business, but . before making that motion I wish to say that it was my purpo e to 

have submitted some remarks to-day on the subject of the Library. 

However, at this hour, of course, I will not do so. I will ask the 

Senator from California, who is so much interested in the pending 

question, however, to allow it to be laid aside informally, so that I 

may be entitl'3d to the floor to-morrow at half past one o'clock for the 

purpose of addressing the Senate on the subject of the Library, and 

then the discussjon of this bill can be resumed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The proper way, the Chair would 

state to the Senator from Indiana, would be for the bill to take its 

place re~ularly at half past one to-morrow, and then conse11.t be given 

at the pLeasure of the Senate to lay it aside. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I thought I might obtain consent of the Senate now and be entitled to the floor to-morrow at half past one. The PRESIDING OFFICER. This measure would lose its place 

if it be not placed before the Senate at that time. 

Mr. HOAR. It can be done by unanimous consent. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I will state then that I shall ask unanimous con- sent to-morrow, at half past one, to lay aside informally and temporarily the special order for the purpose of addressing the Senate on the 

subject oftheLibra.ry. 

Mr. FARLEY. About what time will the Senator consume T 

Mr. VOORHEES. I shall need, perhaps, an hour. 

CARDS TO GARFIELD :MEMORIAL SERVICES. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. 'l'he Chair lays before the Senate a bill from the House of Representatives. 

The bill (H. R. No. 4679) to authorize the Secr~tary of the Treasury 

to furnish impressions of the cards of invitation to the Garfield memo- rial service was read the first time by its title. 

Mr. SHERMAN. If I can get the attention vf the Senate a minute, I will ask the passage of that hill at the request of several mem- bers of the House. 

The bill was read the second time at length, as follows : 

Be it enacted, &:c., 'That the Secretary of the Treasury, at the ~quest of Senators, 

Representatives, or Delegates in Congress, is hereby authorizetl to furnish impres- sions from the engraved ca.r(l of invitation to the Garfield memorial services made 

in the Bureau of Engraving a.nd Printing, at the cost thereof, with 10 per cent. added, to be paid for by persons ordering the same ; and orders for the same, and 

payment-s therefor, may be made for Senators, Representatives, and Delegates threu{!h the office of tne Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House, respectively. 

Mr. SHERMAN. That i.~ now in substance the law as to all vignettes and engrayjngs in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 

but it is doubtful whether the Jllate of the memorial card is properly an engraving of that kind in the language of the law. I ask the 

Secretary to read the law which I send to the desk. 

The Acting Secretary read as follows: 

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury, at the request of a Senator, 

Representative, or Delegate in Congress, the head of a Department or bureau, art a,;wciation, or libra.ry1 be, and he is hereby, authorized to furnish impressions fi"Olll any portrait or vignette whioh is now, or may hereafter be, a. part of the 

en)!Taved stook of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at such rates and under t~nrh conditions a.s he may deem necessary to protect the public interesta. 

By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of tbe Whole, 

]n·oceeded to consider the bill. 

1\lr. COCKRELL. I ask the Senator from Ohio what is the cost T 

Mr. SHERMAN. I suppose it will be a cent apiece; it will be 

trifling. The engraving is already complete and the stock is on hand; but it is doubtful whether it comes within the la.ugnage or-the 

existing law. I doubt whether the cost will exceed a cent a copy, 

and many members of the House desire to have them in considerable 

numbers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered 

to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

EXECUTIVE SESSIO~. 

l\Ir. VOORHEES. I move that the Senate proceed to the consid- eration of executive business. 

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business. After eleven minutes spent in execu- tive session the doors were reopened, and (at four o'clock and twentythree minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

TUESDAY, February 28, 1882. 

The House met at twelve o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. 

.F. D. POWER. 

The SPEAKER. The Journal of the proceedings of Saturday la t 

and also of yesterday will be read. The Journal was read and approved. 

CORRECTION. 

1\Ir.J\llLLS. Upon the vote on Satm·day last upon the bill making 

appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department the RECORD shows that I diq not vote. On a previous vote it is shown 

that I was paired with the gentleman from Wisconsin, [Mr. HAzELTON.] The same statement ought to have been made in connection 

with the subsequent vote, or it should have been tated in the first 

instance that. I was paired for the day. 

CARDS OF I?."VITATIO~ TO GARFIELD l\IE:MOP..IA.L SERVICES. 

1r. SKINNER. I ask unanimous consent to introduce a bill, upon 

which, if there be no objection, I ask immediate action. 

The l>ill was reacl, a.s follows : 

A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish impressions of the 

cards of invitation to the Garfield memorial service. 

Be it ena.cted, cf:c., That the Secretary of the Treasury, at the requo~tof Senators, 

Representatives, or Delegates in Congress, is hereby authorized to furniflh imp res· sions from the engraved card of invitation to the Garfield memorial servioe, made 

in the Bureau of""En!.!.'l-a.ving and Printing, at the cost thereof with 10 per cent. added, to be paid for by persons ordering the sa.me; and that orders for the same and payment therefor may be made for Senators, Representatives, and Delegates through the office of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House, 

respectively. 

There being no objection, the bill (H. R. No. 4679) was read a fir t 

and second time, ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read 

the third time, and passed. 

1\lr. SKINNER moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill wa pa-ssed ; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the 

table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

CELEBRATION OF DISCOVERY OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. 

Mr. GIBSO:N. I ask unanimous consent to present a memorial from 

the governor and other prominent officials of the State of Louisiana, 

and also a concurrent re olution based thereon. I ask that the memo- rial be read and that the concurrent resolution be now acted on. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will first read the concurrent re olution, and then the memorial. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Whereas the chambers of commerce, cotton and produce exchan~es, and other 

commercial assoCiations, the histoxioal and literary an!l scientific societies and 

municipal governments in the Valley of the Mississippi have invited the Con!.!.'l·e s of the United States to be r epresented at the celebration to be held by them~ the 

city of New Orleans on April 9, 1882, of the two hundredth anniversary of the 

first voyage down the Mississippi River to the sea. and the discovery of its mouth 

by Robert Cavalier de la. Salle; 

Now, therefore, in order to commemorate an event so memorable alike in the 

history of our country and of civilization, and to testify on behalf of the people of 

the whole Union their appreciation of the servioes of Robert Cavalier dela. Salle 

and their respect for his memory, Be it resol~:ed btJ th.e H ouse of Representatives, (th.e Senate "Concurring,) That a committee of sixteen members, seven from the Senate and nine from the Ho'use of 

Representati,es, shall be a.l?pointed by the Senate and the Speaker of the House 

of Representatives, respectively, to attend the said celebration on April 9, 1882, in 

the city of New Orleans. 

The SPEAKER. The Clerk will now reacl the memoriaL 

The Clerk read as follows: 

To the Se-nate and Home of Representatives of th.e OonJrcss of the United States: 

The undersigned repre ent to your honorable bodies that it is proposed by tho historical as ociations located in the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio River's ancl 

their tributaries tha.t there shall be a commemorative celebration in the city of K c'w Orlean!i of the two huntlredthanniver ary of theiliscovery of the month of' the hlis- sil:!'ippi River I.Jy Robert Cavalier ue la Salle, on the !lth da.y of April, 1882. (Tbo States to-day bordering ou the Mississippi River and its tributaries are Loui8iau:t, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, West Vir~inia, Pennsylnuna, :Missoun, Indiana, illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansa-s, Nebrasu:a, and lU.i:Dnesota , aml they now have an arrgregate population of twenty-three millions.) In dew or the historic interest of that great event and as a tribute to the memory of ono or the most remarkable men and one of the greatest discoverers of any age or coun- ~y, this celebration is believetl to be eminently worthy of national recognition. It 

Is, therefore, prayed that thA Congress of the United States shall associate itself 
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therewith by the passage of a joint resolution appointing a committee of both 

Houses to attend such celebration and by taking such other measures as may be 

deemed meet and proper. 

S.D. McENERY, 

Governor, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

WILL . .A. STRONG, 

SOO"retary of State, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

.ALLEN JUMEL, Auditor. 

A.A. BURKE, 

Preagu·rer, New Orleans. 

JOS. A. SHAKSPEARE, 

Mayor, Ne1o Orleans. 

GEO. DELAMORE, 

Administrator of Assessments, New Orleans. 

JOHN FITZPATRICK, 

Administrator of Improvements. W.E.HUGER, .- Administrator o.f Public Accounts. 

B. T. W .ALSHE, 

Administrator of Finance. 

P.ME.ALEY, 

Administrator of Police. 

WM.FAGAN, 

Administrator of Oommeru, New Orleans, La. 

A. J. GOMILA, 

President fr~ Ii:~~ooffxchange. 

' SOO"Tetary New Orleans Produce Exchange. 

T • .A. BARTON, 

President New Orleans Stock Exchange. .A. A. BRINTMADE, 

SOO"Tetary New Orleans Stock Exchange. 

THOS. L. AIREY, 

President New Orleans Ootton Exchange. 

HENRY G. HESTER, 

&r:retary Ootton Exchange. 

The SPEAKER. 

this resolution f 

Is there objection to the present consideration of 

Mr. KASSON. Reserving the risht to object, I wish to inquire 

whether the gentleman from Lowsiana [Mr. Gmso~] would not 

deem it best to refer a resolution of this importance to a committee 

before asking the House to act upon it. It proposes to take away 

from our sessions a very large number of Representatives and Senators; and I think in view of the number to be taken away and the 

possibleeffect upon the business of the two Houses, we ought not to 

act without the report of a committee. 

:Mr. SPRINGER. I reserve the right to object. 

Mr. GIBSON. Before the presentation of this resolution, a great 

many members of this Honse were consulted in regard to it and I 

supposed it would meet with general concurrence. The simpie question is, whether we should accept an invitation extended t-o this body 

by the cities in the Valley of the Mississippi, to attend a celebration 

by them at New Orleans in coiDln.emoration of the discovery of the 

Valley of the MississippL The resolution does not propose to take 

away any great numberofmembersoftheHouse-onlynine,and ata season of the year when I hope gentlemen here will be found willing 

to represent Congress on so interesting an occasion. 

Mr. KASSON. I appreciate the gentleman's purpose in presenting 

the resolution; but I still submit to him that in view of its possible 

effect upon the transaction of our business here it ought to have the 

consideration of a committee. A cL~use c:m be inserted providllig 

for n. prompt report. 

Mr. GIBSON. What committee does the gentleman suggest! 

Yr. COX of New York. Say the Committee on the Library. 

Mr. KASSON. I shall suggest the Committee on Appropriations, 

o0r the Committee on Commerce, or indeed any committee th~ gentle- man may select. 

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration 

of this matterY 

Mr. COX, of New York. Let it go to the Committee on Rules. 

Mr. GIBSON. Vecy well; let it be referred to the Committee on Rules. 

There was ,no objection, and it was ordered a-ccordingly. 

REPEAL OF DIBCRIMINATING DUTmS. 

Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, I am instructed by the Committee on Ways and Means to ask immediate consideration of the bill which 

I send to the Clerk's desk. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

A bill (H. R. No. 4680) to repeal discriminating duties on tea and coffee the 

products of the possessions of the Netherlands. ' 

Mr. KELLEY. If the House will bear with me for one moment I 

will explain the necessity for this measure. Mr. SPRINGER. Let the bill be read subject to objection. 

The bill was read, as follows: 

Whereas section 2501 of the Revised Statutes provides for a discriminating duty 

of 10 per cent. on certain goods the produce of countries east of the Cape of Good 

Hope when imported from places west of said cape· and 

Whereas the fifth article of the treaty of the 26th of February, 1853 between 

the United Stat~s and the Netherlands provides that the discriminatfug duties 

against tea and coffee, the products of the possessions of the Netherlands shall be 

removed by the United States whenever the discriminatingexportduties'imposed 

by the Government of the Netherlands in favor of direct sliipments to Holland of 

the products of its colonial possessions are removed· and 

Whereas satisfactory infol'Ination has been receiv'ed by the President that said 

discrUJ:rinating export duties have been removed by the Government of the Netherlands: Therefore, 

Be it eaacted, etc., That tea. and coffeek the products of the possessions of the 

Netherlands, be, and the same shall herea.rr.er be, exempt from discrimina.ting duties 

imposed by section 2501 of the Revised Statutes. 

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The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration of 

this bill f 

There was no objection. 

Mr. KELLEY, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Ways 

and Means, reported a bill (H. R. No. 4680) to repeal discriminating 

duties on tea and coffee, the products of the possessions of the Netherlands; which was read a first and second time. 

Mr. KELLEY. I need not say anything, as the preamble fully 

explains the necessity for the passage of this measure. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time ; and 

being engrossed, it was accordin~ly read the third time, and passed: 

Mr. KELLEY moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed ; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be hid on the 

table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

IMPROVEMENT OF GALVESTON HARBOR. 

Mr. REAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask, by unanimous consent, to take 

from the Speaker's table the bill (S. No. 1211) making an appropri&-

tion for continuinO' the improvements of Galveston Harbor, State of 

Texas. It is a bill which has pa-ssed ·the Senate, has the approval of 

the Committee on Commerce of this House, and it is by the authority 

ofthat committee I now askth!~.tthat Senate billmaybetakenfrom 

the Speaker's table for the purpose of continuinO' the improvements o~ Galveston Harbor. The local engineer, a-s well as the Chief of Engmeers, both report that unless this appropriation is made this important work will suffer serious detriment. If it is passed, the amount 

here appropriated will be deducted from the general river and harbor 

appropriation bill. 

The SPEAKER. Is there o bjectioo to the present consideration of ~he bill (S. No. 1211) making an ap;rropriation for continuing the 

rmprovements of Galveston Harbor, State of Texas! 

1\fr. ·ROBINSON, of Massachusetts. Let the bill be read. 

The SPEAKER. It will be read, subject to objection. 

The bill was read, as follows: 

Be it enacted, tic., That the sum of $100,000 be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of !IDY. money~ in the Treasury not otherwise appropri'lted, for the purpose of contmwng the unprovements of Galveston Harbor, in the State of Texas, 

which improvements are now being prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War, and the appropriation for which is wholly insufficient to continue the 

work to the end of the current fiscal year; and the expenditure of the sum hereby ~ppropriated is placed under the direction and control of the Secretary of War. 

1\Ir. HOLMAN. I desire to reserve any objection until some explanation is made of the bill. 

Mr. ROBINSON, of l\fassachusett3. I reserve my right to object, a-s I did not hear what the gentleman from Texas stated when he 

made the request for unanimous consent. There was some considerable confusion, and it was impossible to hear. .1tfi:. REAGAN. I will sta~ the ~ecessity for the passage of this 

bill m a few words. There 1s an rmportant work of-improvement 

going on at Galveston. Thelocalengineer, ColonelMansfield,reports 

that the balance of appropriation on hand will not enable him to con- tinue the work during the present fiscal year, and that unless some provision is made for continuing the work serious damage will result 

to the interests of the Government as well as to the interests of the commerce of that harbor. The Chief of Engineers has approved the 

recommendation of the local engineer in favor of the passa<re of this 

appropriation. The Senate has paB:Bed and sent us this bill for the 

purpose. 

. Th? Committee on Con;rm.erce of thi.t H~ have carefully exam- med 1t, and have authonzed me to make 'this request by unanimous 

consent, and that committee likewise ~ve agreed that this amount 

shall be deducted from the river and harbor appropriation bill for 

the next fiscal year. 

Mr. ROBINSON, of Massachusetts. On that statement of the .gentleman from Texas I make no objection to his request. 

The bill, by unanimous consent, was taken from the Speaker's table, 

read a first and second time, and ordered to be read a third time ; and 

it was accordingly read the third time, and pa-ssed. 

Mr. REAGAN moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed ; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

:BRIDGE ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI AT KEITHB:BURGH7 ILLINOIS. 

Mr.l\IARSH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee of the Whole Honse on the state of the Union be discharged 

from the further consideration of the bill H. R. No. 4454, a substitute for the bill (H. R. No. 2247) to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Keithsburgh, in the 

State of illinois, and to establish it as a post-road, and that the same be now put upon its passa~e. 

The substitute for this bill is unanimously reported from the Committee on Commerce, and I hope there will be no objection to its 

present consideration. 

.Mr. HOLMAN. Let the bill be read. 

Mr. BAYNE. Let it be read subject to objection. 

The bill was read. It is as follows: 

Be it ena.cted~ ~c., Thatit shall llelawfulfortheMercerCoun~:B.ridgeCompany, 

a corpo:ratton nnly created and organized under the laws of the t:'tate of illinois or , the Keithsburgh Bridge Company, a. corporation duly created and organized nnaer the laws of the State of Iowa, or boUl of them, or either or both of their successor&· 
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or assigns, to build a bridge across the Mississippi River at such point on said river a.t or near Keithsburghl....in.~he State of lllinoi~,. as may accommodate the Chicago, Burlington and Pacific .J:iai.lroad Company, or me Central Iowa-RAilway Company, and their connections, on the west side of said river, and the Peoria and Farmin~­

ton Railroad Company, on the east side of said river, and to lay on or over sa1i:l 

brid(Te a railroad track or tra~ks for the more perfect connection of any railroad or ra'llroads that are or shall be constructed to the said river, on either or both 

sides thereof, at or opposite said point, under the linlitations and conditions hereinafter provided; that !ilaid bridge shall not interfere with the fl-ee na.vi&ation of 

said river beyond what is nece.~ ary in order-~ ca~ in~~ effe~t the rignts and 

privileges hereby grant~l; and m case of any litigatiOn ansmg from any obstruction or iilleged obstmction to the free navi~ation of sai<l river, the cause may be 

tried before the district court of the Unitea. States of any State in which any portion of said obstruction or bridge touches. 

SEC. 2. That any bridge built under the provisions of this act may, at the option of the company building the same, be built as a draw-bridge, with a pivot or other 

fonn of <lraw, or with unbroken or continuous spans: Provided, That if the said 

bridge shall be made with unbroken and continuous spans, it shall not be of less 

elevation in any case than fifty feet above e:\.--treme high· water mark, as understood at the point of location, to the bottom chord of the bridge, nor shall the spans of 

said bridge be less than two htmclred and fift:y feet in Jen~h, and the piers of said 

bridge shall be parallel with the current of srud ri•er, ana. the main span shall be over the main channel of the river and not less than three hundred feet in length: 

.And pro'!Jided also, 'l'hat if any b1·i<lge built under this act shall be constructea. as a draw-bridge the same shall be constructed as a pivot draw-bridge, with a draw over the main channel of the ri•er at an accessible and navigable point, and with 

spans of not less than one hun<lred and su'i;y feet in len~ in the clear on each 

side of the central or pi•ot pier of the <lraw, ancl the nen adjoining spans to the 

draw shall not be less than two hundred aml fifty feet, and said spans shall not be 

less than thirty feet above low-water mark and not less than ten feet above ex· treme high-water mark, measurinu to the bottom chord of the bridge, and the piers of said bridge shall be P.arallel with the current of the river where said bridge may be erected: And provtded al¥o, That said draw shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passage of boats. 

SEc. 3. That any bridge constructe<! under this act and according to its limitations shall be a ln.wfulstructure, aml shall be known and recognized as a post-route, and the same is hereby declared to be a post-route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the tran!'lmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and tlie 

munitions of war of the United States, or for passengers or freight passing over said brid~e, than the rate per mile paid for their transportation over the railroads 

and public highwt~ys leading to the said bridge; and the United States shall have 

the 1·ight of way for v.ostal-telegnt(>h pu111oses across said bridge. SEC. 4. That all ratlway compames des1ring to use said bridge shall have and be 

entitled to equal ri~hts aml privileges in t.he passage of the same, and in the use of 

the machinery and n:rtures thereof, and all of the approaches thereto, under and upon such tenus ancl conditions as shall be prescribed by the Secretal{ of War, upon 

h~~-g5~~~:f~~~~~~:rErh~;:i~f ~tl;:;;;:d· ~a'ifs~e~~~h;ndnl~~!fd~der and su~ject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said river as the 

Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War for his examinat.ion and approval a design and drawings of the brid~e and a map of the location, giving for the space of one mile above a.n<l one mile be10w the proposed location the to:pography of the 

banks of the river, the shore lines at high and low water, the direction and stren~th 

of the cnrren ts at all stages, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the 

stream, the location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other 

information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the 

subject; and until the sa1d plan and location of the bridge are approved by the 

Secretary of W a.r the brid~e shall not be built; and should any change be made in 

the ;plan of said bridge durmg the progress of construction, such change sha.ll be 

sub1ect to the approval of the Secretary of War; and the said structure shall be at all times so kept and managed as to offer reasonable and proper means for the 

passage of vessels through or under said structure; and for the safety of vessels 

passing at night there shall be displayed on said bridge, from the hours of sunset to sunrise, such lights as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; and the 

said structure shall be changed, at the cost and expense of the owners thereof, 

from time to time, as Congress may direct, so as to preser•e the free and conve- nient navigation of said river; and the authority to erect and continue said bridge shall be subject to revocation. and modification by law whenever the public goOd shall, in the jud~ent of Congress, so require, without any expense or charge to the 

United States. ·.1:nat the said Mercer County Bridge Company1 or the said Keithaburgh Bridcre Company, whichever of them shall construct sa1d bridge, may exe- cute a morfga~e or mortgages thereon, and issue bonds, pa:yable, principal and 

interest, in gola, the J>ayment of which shall be secured by said mortgage. SEc. 6. That the nght to alter, amend, or repeal this ad is hereoy expressly re en·ed. 

S&c. 7. That this act shall take eifect and be in force from and after its passage. 

Mr. WASHBURN. Mr. Speaker, I desire to say for the informa.-

tion of the HoilseMr. BAYNE. The 1·ight to object has been reserved, but I pre- sume the gentleman may be allowed to make a statement first. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair will preserve the rights of gentlemen. 

Mr. "\V ASHBURN. I desire to say for the information of the House 

that this bill has been carefully considered by the Committee on Commerce, and reported favorably by the unanimous voice of the 

committee. Before taking action on the bill, as on aJl bills relating 

to cro ing navigable streams, the bill was referred to the Chief En~­

neer and uy him to the local engineer for the division of the Mississippi River in char~e at that point, and both retUin answer that no ·reason exists why tne bill should not be passed. It is guarded in 

every respect. There is no provision looking to the protection of the 

navigation of the Mississippi River that is not fully guarded in the 

bill, and I can conceive of no possible objection to its passage. It is 

important that immediate action should be had upon it, as the roads 

interested are desirous of progressing with the work as rapidly as possible, and therefore there are reasons why the House should take 

immediate action upon it. • .Mr. DAWES. Will the gentleman permit me to ask him what 

provision ha.a been made with reference to the width of the channel 

6ipanT 

Mr. W .ASHBURN. The same provision that is made with reference 

io other bridges. It is the same that is prescribed by the law with 

::Jega.rd to every bridge that has been built OR the l\lississippi River 

since 18-78. Every one of them has had the same provision .. as to 

wifltlk of span, and that provision is incorporated in this bill. 

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration 

of the bill. 

Mr. HOLMAN. I desire to reserve the right to object until I ascer- tain whether the bill contains a provision, or whether an amendment 

will be accepted, putting it upon the same footing with tho Carondalet bridge--

The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks the gentleman had better sub. 

mit his amendment in writing. 

Mr. HOLMAN. I will inquire in the first instance if this contains a provision, as I am now informed that it does, providing for the 

transportation of the mails of the United States over the bridge at 

the same rate that is paid for the transportation over railroads cross- in (Y the bridge f 

Krr. WASHBURN. That is provided in the bill. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Then I shall not object to its passage. 

Mr. BAYNE. It seems to me that a bill of this importance should 

be considered by the whole House. 

The SPEAKER. Does the Chair understand the gentleman from 

Pennsylvania as objecting f 

Mr. BAYNE. No; T shall not object, as I am informed the bill has 

been carefully prepared by the Committee on Commerce. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time ; and 

being ~Efssed, it was accordingly read the third time, and passed. 

Mr. SH moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the 

table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

EVE~ING SESSIO~S FOR THE CO~SIDERATIO~ OF PENSIO~ BILLS. 

Mr. BROWNE. I am instructed by the Committee on Invalid Pensions to ask the House to set aside the evenings of Tuesday and 

Thursday of next week for the consideration of pension bills on the 

Private Calendar, and that the House on said days take a recess until eight o'clock; the evening sessions to be devoted to the purpose 

named, no other business to be transacted. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair understands that there is a continuing 

order of the House giving Tues4ay and Thursday evenings of each 

week for the consideration of the business of the Committee on tht:t 

District of Columbia. 

1\ir. BROWNE. Then I will make it Monday and Friday of next 

week i and that the House on those days shall take a reces , to meet 

at eignt o'clock for the purpose specified. 

Mr. DUNNELL. Say half past seven o'clock. 

Mr. BROWNE. I am willing to accept the suggestion, and will 

say half past seven. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentle- man from Indiana f 

Mr. TURNER, of Kentucky. I object. · 

ORDER OF BUS:rnESS. 

:Mr. YOUNG. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. I desire to ask 

the Chair whether, when there is a regular order ofbusiness which 

is interfered with by a special order, as was the case on yesterday, 

upon the disposition of that special order the regular order is not to 

be resumedf 

The SPEAKER. The Chair understands the practical effect of thegentleman's inquiry to be, whether the business of Monday, which wa.a interfered with by the special order of yesterday, goes over until 

Tuesday. 

Mr. YOUNG. Precisely. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks that Monday's business is con- fined to that day only, and would not go over until Tuesday if interfered with by the action of the House in any manner. Mr. YOUNG. I ask the question for the reason I understand that 

there are several gentlemen who desire to introduce bills for refer- ence. I myself have had some bills for over a week, but have had no opportunity of presenting them, though it would take the time of theHouse but for a moment. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair will ask consent of the House for th& 

gentleman to introduce the bills. 

Mr. COX, of New York. I hope all gentlemen will be allowed the· privilege ofintroducing bills to-day. 

HARRIET E. EDWARDS. 

Mr. YOUNG, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

4681) granting a pension to Harriet E. Edwards; which was read afirst and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, 

and ardered to be printed. 

BOYLE & ROACH. 

Mr. YOUNG also, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R~ 

No. 468'2) for the relief of Messrs. Boyle & Roach, contractors for 

work on the Saint Mary's Falls Canal, Michigan ; w:hich was rend. a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Claims, and 

ordered to be printed. 

MARL.~ HOSPITAL AT CINCL~ATI, OIDO. 

1\fr. YOUNG also, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 

No. 4683) to provide for the establishment of a marine hosp1tal atCincinnati, Ohio; which was read a first and second time, referred. to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 
1882. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1491 

REGULATION OF STEAM-VESSELS. 

Mr. COX of New York, by unanimous consent, introduced a. bill (H. 

R.No.4684) to amend section 4400 of title 52 of the Revised Statutes 

of the United States, concerning the regulation of steam-vessels; 

which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on 

Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

ORDER OF BUSL~SS. 

Mr. STEELE. I desire to submit a resolution calling for information. 

Several members called for the re~ular order. 

The SPEAKER. If gentlemen will rise in their places and insist 

on the reO'ular order the Chair will enforce it. 

Mr. SINGLETON, of Illinois, (having risen.) I call for the regular order. URGE...~ DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL. 

Mr. IDSCOCK. I desire to make a. privileged report from the Committee on Appropriations. I ask the Clerk to read the report. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. No. 

4221) to provide for oor'~ of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiScal year ending .rune 30, 1882, and for 

other purposes, together with the amendments of the Senate thereto, have con- sidered the same, and beg leave to recommend as follows: 

The committee recommend concurrence in the amendments of the Senate num- bered 2, 7, 11, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, '2:1, 39, and 40. The committee recommend non-concurrence in the amendments of the Senate 

numbered 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 

34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 41, and 4~. 

Mr. IDSCOCK. I move that the House do now concur in the 

amendments of the Senate in which the Committee on Appropriations recommend concurrence. Mr. CONVERSE. I desire to make a. parliamentary inquiry. I 

desire to know whether the rules do not require a statement as to the 

contents ofthese amendments in which the Committee on Appropriations recommend respectively concurrence and non-concurrence T 

The SPEAKER. The rule to which the gentleman probably has 

reference only refers to conference reports. · 1\!r. CONVERSE. Then I ask that the amendments may be read 

separately, that we may know what they are. Mr. IDSCOCK. If the gentleman from Ohio desires it I can take 

up the amendments one by one and state their purport. 

Mr. CONVERSE. I should like the gentleman from New York to 

do so. 

Mr. HISCOCK. Then I will state that the first amendment in 

which we recommend non-concurrence is the increase by the Senate 

of the appropriation for the public printing from $400,000 to $600,000. 

In the second amendment the Senate decreases the appropriation 

for rebuilding the revenue steamer W. P. Fessenden from $30,000 to 

$25,000. The reduction is small, and we recommend concurrence. The next amendment is on the appropriation for the transportation of bullion and coin. We gave $50,000. The Senate has increased 

the amount to $55,000. We recommend non-concurrence in that 

amendment. 

The Senate strikes out the item of$75,000 for vaults and inserts two 

items, one for 10,000 for vaults, &c., at the assistant treasurer's office 

at San Francisco, and one for $10,000 for an additional vault in the 

mint at San Francisco. We recommend non-concurrence in all of 

those amendments. 

The seventh amendment is a limitation on the expenditure of money 

for fuel1 light, water~ and miscellaneous items for public buildings, 

the limitation being that this appropriation shall be used outside of 

the city of Washington. That amendment we recommend concurence in. 

The Senate puts in next $10,000 for the repair and purchase of 

instruments to be used in observing the transit of Ven"lJS, &c. In 

that we recommend non-concurrence. The Senate strikes out the item of $100,000 for new boilers in cer- tain vessels designated by the Secretary of the Navy. In that we recommend non-concurrence. The Senate introduces an amendment fOI' $20,000 for mileage of 

Army officers; in which we recommend the House to non-concur. The Senate inserts an item for stationery for the Interior Department of $4,000; we recommend the House to concur in that amendment. 

There is an item added of $20,000 for collectiong and subsisting 

Apaches and other Indians of Arizona and New Mexico; we recom- mend non-concurrence. The Senate also amends the bill by the insertion of an item of 

$50,000 for the support and civilizatio:q. of the Cheyennes, Apaches, 

and other Indians; we recommend non-concurrence. The Senate strikes out an item of $3,000 for the support of Indians 

in the Central superintendency; we recommend non-concurrence in 

that amendment. 

The Senate also amends the bill by inserting an item of $15 000 for 

the lndians in the Central superintendency, including the Modocs 

and the Nez Perces of Joseph's band; we recommend non-concur- rence. It also introduces an item of $5,000 for the support and civilization 

liif the N ava.joes; we recommend non-concurrence in that item. 

The Senate amends the clause for the support of schools not otherwise provided for by inserting the words ''including schools for freed- men in the Indian Territory," a clause which was ruled out in the 

Honse on a point of order; we recommend non-concurrence in that. 

We recommend non-concurrencein an amendment providing $5,000 

to pay expert architects employed under the act of June 8, 1880, for 

work on additional accommodations for the Library of Congress. 

We recommend concurrence in amendment number 19 of the Senate which appropriat-es $4,769.51 and $5,230.49 for additional clerk 

hire in the Interior Department in the Patent Office. 

Amendment number 20 of the Senate authorizes the Secretary of 

War to nse the unexpended balance of the approp-riations for the improvement of the Susquehanna River in the construction of the channel and break-waters of the :fishing battery below Havre de Grace; we recommend non-concurrence in that item. 

The Senate increases the appropriation for post-office clerks from 

$75,000 to 150,000; we recommend non-concurrence. Ame·ndments 23 and 24 are verbal amendments to the clause appropriating money for rou,te agents and post-office clerks; the Honse 

committee recommend concurrence in those amendments. 

Amendment 25 app1,'opriates $1,830.70 for the repairing of damages 

done to the court-house building in Wa-shington during the storm of 

J nne 27, 1881 ; the Honse committee recommend concurrence in that 

amendment. 

Amendment 27 is for furniture and repairs in the Senate, and we recommend concurrence. Amendments 29, 30, 311 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, and 38 are all amendments introduced by the Senate for the payment of employes of the 

Senate and the expenses of the Senate ; your committee recommend non-concurrence in all those amendments. I may say they are all 

grouped under the head of the twenty-sixth amendment, "Senate;" 

and the numbers I have given are the numbers of the clauses in that 

amendment. 

Amendments 39 and 40 associate the inspector of the buildings of 

the District of Columbia with the Architect of the Capitol in the 

erection of the school-houses in the District of Columbia; your com- mittee recommend concurrence in those amendments. 

Amendment 41 is an amendment appropriating $2,000 for the con- tingent expenses of the executive office; your committee recommend non-concurrence. Amendment 42 is an amendment for the payment of rent for a building occupied by a. part of the force of the Surgeon-General's Office; 

your committee recommend non-concurrence in that amendthent. 

Mr. PAGE. I would like to make an inquiry of the chairman of 

the Committee on Appropriations, [Mr. HiscocK.] I understood him 

to say that the committee recommended non-concurrence in an amendment of the Senate making an appropriation for constructing vaults 

in the sub-treasury in San Francisco. I would ask the gentleman if 

the bill originally contained any appropriation for that purpose f 

Mr. ffiSCOCK. In answer to the gentleman from California [Mr. 

PAGE] I will say that the original bill contained an appropriation 

of $75;000, which wa-s intended to include the amount necessary fo:r 

constructing those vaults. The Senate proposes a specific appropriation for the vaults in San Francisco of $20,000 and strikes out the 

appropriation of $75,000 which was made by the House. I will say 

to the gentleman that the recommendation of the Committee on Appropriations to non-concur in those amendments of the Senate is 

not because there is any desire to antagonize the building of these 

vaults. 

111r. PAGE. In that case I have no objection. 

The SPEAKER. The question will be first upon the amendment 

which the Committee .on Appropriations recommend concurrence in. 

Mr. HOLMAN. I think each amendment should be acted upon 

separately. 

Mr. COX, of New York. The Committee on Appropriations recom- mend non-concurrence in most of the amendments, and in regard to 

them the question might be taken altogether. 

Mr. HOLMAN. It is possible that the House might differ with 

the Committee on Appropriations. I su~gest that the amendments 

be reported by the Clerk, and if not obJected to they can be con- sidered as concurred in. · The SPEAKER. The amendments in which concurrence is recom- mended will first be read and considered. 

The Clerk then read amendments numbered 2, 7, 11, 19, 23, 24, and 

25, which were concurred in, in accordance with the recommendation 

of the Committee on Appropriations. 

Amendment 26.wasread as follows: 

After line 1, page 7, insert " Senate." 

The SPEAKER. The Committee on Appropriations recommend concurrence in the amendment just read. 

Mr. HISCOCK. I think that is a mistake. The amendment in 

which we recommend concurrenceis27 clause ofamendment26. MOOr 

the word " Senate" will be found this clause: 

For furniture and repairs, $5,000. 

The SPEAKER. That is a further amendment. 

Mr. HISCOCK. It is not a further amendment; it is a clause of 

amendment 26. 

The SPEAKER. It is stated in the report as a separate amendment. 
1492 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 28, 

Mr. HISCOCK. The Committee on Appropriations of the House 

recommend concurrence in that clause only of amendment 26. 

The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the amendment indicated. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

For furniture and repairs, $5,000. 

The amendment wa-s concurred in as recommended by the Committee on Appropriations. 

Amendments No. 39 and No. 40 were then read and concurred in, 

in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on Appropriations. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will now read the amendments in which 

the Committee on Appropriations recommend non-concurrence. Mr. HISCOCK. Do I understand that the gentleman from Indiana 

[Mr. HOLMAN] demands a separate vote upon each amendment in 

which the Committee on .Appropriations recommend non-concurrencef 

Mr. HOLMAN. The amendments have not been printed. 

Mr. COX, of New York. Certainly they have. 

Mr. HISCOCK. What I ask is this: does the gentleman ask a separate vote on the amendments in which the Committee on Appropriations recommend non-concurrence f 

Mr. HOLMAN. There are some of them which I desire to have a separate 'Vote upon, but it is impossible for me to indicate them in 

the absence of the printed bill containing the. amendments of the 

Senate. 

Mr. HISCOCK. It seems to me that the gentleman need not 

require a separate vote upon these amendments where we do not 

recommend a yielding of the House. 

Mr. HOLMAN. The House might desire to concur in some of the 

amendments. 

Mr. HISCOCK. Do I understand the gentleman from Indiana--

The SPEAKER. The Chair will inquire of the gentleman from 

Indiana [Mr. HOLMANl whether he insists upon having all the 

amendments in which the Committee on Appropriations recommend non-concurrence considered and acted upon separately f 

Mr. HOLMAN. There are one or two upon which I desire a separate vote, but I cannot indicate them, not having the printed bill. 

Mr. COX, of New York. The printed bill is here with all-the 

amendments. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Not in the order in which they are reported. 

The SPEAKER. The bill with the Senate amendments has been 

printed i the report of the Committee on Appropriations upon the 

Senate amendments has not been printed. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Inasmuch as we have to rely upon the statement 

of the chairman of the committee as to what they have done, and 

inasmuch as I am assured that the recommendations of the committee favor a reduction of appropriations, I will not insist upon the 

separate vote. 

The CHAIRMAN. Then the question will be upon agreeing to the 

recommendation of the Committee on Appropriations, that the re- mainder of the Senate amendments to this bill be non-concurred in. 

The recommendation of the Committee on Appropriations was .agreed to. 

Mr. ·HISCOCK moved to reconsider the votes just taken; and also 

moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. T~e latte~ motion wa-s agreed to. 

, ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

. Mr. HISCOCK. I move that the morning hour be dispensed with. 

I make the motion for the purpose of moving to go into Committee 

of the Whole on the state of the Union to consider the Military Acad-

-emy appropriation bill. 

Mr. CALKINS. Before that is done, I desire to submit a report 

from the Committee on Elections. That committee is ready to make .some reports this _morning. · The SPEAKER. The Committee on Elections is authorized to ~eport at any time. 

ELECTION CONTEST-CAMPBELL VS. C..L."mON. 

Mr. CALKINS. I am authorized by the Committee on Elections 

'to report upon the contested-election-case of Campbell vs. C:mnon 

ftom the Territory of Utah. It is proper for me to state that the 

views of 'the minority of the committee appear in the report seriatim. 

1 ask the Clerk first to read the resolutions reported by the majority 

.Of the committee. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Besoltled, That Allen G. Campbell is not entitled to a seat in this Con~ess as a Delegate from the Territory of Utah. 

Be.BoZved, That George Q. Cannon is not entitled to a seat in this Congress as a Delegate from the Territory of Utah. 

RiBolved, That the seat of Delegate from the Territory of Utah be, and the -eame hereby is, declared vaeant. 

Mr. CALKINS. The gentleman from Iowa, [Mr. THOl\:lPSON1] as one of the minority of the committee, desires to submit resolutions, 

which I ask the Clerk to read. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

Resolved, That G. Q. Cannon is not entitled to a seat in the Forty.seventh Congresa as a Delegate frOm the Territory of Utah. 

Resolved, That Allen G. Campbell is entitled to a seat in the Forty-seventh Congress as a Delepte from the Territory of Utah. 

-.Mr. CALKINS. I now yield to my colleague on the committee, 

the gentleman from Illinois, [Mr. MOULTO~,] to submit a minority 

report. 

Mr. MOULTON. I desire to submit the views of a minority of the 

committee upon this case; and I presume they will be published 

with the majority report. I simply a-sk now that the resolution we submit be read. · The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That George Q. Cannon was duly elected and returned as Delegate from the Territory of Utah, and is entitled to a seat as Delegate in the Forty- seventh Congress. 

Mr. CALKINS. I desire that the views of the different member!! 

of the committee, together with the resolutions, be printed; and I 

give notice that at some future time I will call up the matter for the 

action of the House. 

The SPEAKER. The report of the committee with the views of 

the minority will be printed and lie over, to be called up hereafter as a privileged question. 

DELEGATE FROM ALAB.KA. 

Mr. RITCHIE. I am directed by the Committee on Elections to 

submit their report on the petition of M. D. Ball for admission to a seat in the Forty-seventh Congress a-s Delegate from Ala~ka. 

Mr. CALKINS. Let the resolution reported by the committee be 

read. · The Clerk read as follows: 

RaoZved, That M. D. Ball be not admitted to a seat in the Forty-seventh Congress as a Delegate from the Territory of Alaska until the Committee on Territories shall report thereon, and that the matter be continued until that time for 

further action. 

The SPEAKER. The report and accompanying resolution will be 

printed and lie over. 

Mr. CALKINS. I understand that my colleague on the committee [Mr. RITCHIE] desires to have this matter referred to the Committee on Territories. 

Mr. RITCHIE. There is a recommendation to that effect in the 

report. 

Mr. CALKINS. We may as well dispose of ·the matter now by 

referring it to the Committee on the Territories. · The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. RITCHIE] asks 

that the report on this subject, together with the xesolution and 

accompanying papers, be referred to the Committee on the Territories. Is there objection f . 

There was no objection, and it was ordered accordingly. 

Mr. CALKINS . .A minority of the committee desire to submit 

their views with a resolution embodying a different conclusion. It 

is desired that the views of the minority may take the same refer- ence. 

The SPEAKER. The House will doubtless ~ive consent to that. 

Mr. ROBINSON, of Massachusetts. Does' this action relate to the 

matter of a Delegate from Alaska f 

The SPEAKER. Jt does. 

Mr. ROBINSON, of·Maasachusetts. As I understand, the majority · of the committee propose to submit hereafter a resolution covering 

the caae • Mr. CALKINS. The majority of the committee now report their 

conclusion in the form of a resolution and ask that the whole case be 

referred to the Coinm:i.ttee on the Territories for a report with refer- ence to the organization of Alaska as a Territory. The minority of 

the committee a-sk leave to make a report hereafter, proposing that 

the applicant for a seat be seated. As I understand, they wish time 

to prepare that report. 

:Mr. ROBINSON,of:Massachusetts. Itoccuratome-Idonotknow 

what the Committee on Elections have reported or may report-but 

it occurs to me (and I presume a great many others share in that 

opinion) that the title of the ~entleman coming here from Alaska and 

asking a seat in this Honse 18 an exceedingly slim one. It is proposed now, a.s I understand, to continue his case along month after 

month until the Committee on Territories shall report on the question. 

The SPEAKER. The subject is not up for consideration now. Mr. ROBINSON, of Massachusetts. I understand the question is, 

what shall be done with this report. I want to take this, my earliest 

opportunity, to say that in my opinion it is not right--

The SPEAKER. The matter is not before the House for consideration. It has been referred to the Committee on Territories. 

:Mr. ROBINSON, of l\Ia sachusetts. It was not so understood. I 

hope the committee will report as soon as possible, so that we may 

not be called on to vote a large sum from the Treasury for the time 

and expenses of this gentleman in prosecuting his claim. 

REPRINTING OF A JOINT RESOLUTION. 

Mr. SPRINGER. All the copies heretofore printed of joint resolution (H. R. No.6) in relation to prohibiting special legislation are exhausted. I ask that the resolution be reprinted. There being no objection, it was ordered accordingly. 

PROMOTION OF LIEUTENANTS. 

1\Ir. STEELE. I ask unanimous consent to submit for immediate 

consideration the resolution which I send to the desk. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby1 directed to infonn ib.H 

House why section 1204 of the R-evised Statutes is not applied to lieutenants of the 

Army in lineal promotion. 
1882. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1493 

!lr. KASSON. I suggest to the gentleman that the resolution be 

modified so as to read, " whether section 1204 of the Revised Statutes is or is not applied," &c. 

Mr. STEELE. I modify the resolution in the manner suggested. 

There being_ no objection, the resolution as modified was considered and adopted. 

Mr. STEELE moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution was adopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be 

laid on the table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

INDIAN RESERVATION rn COLORADO. 

Mr. BELFORD. by unanimous consent, reported from the Committee on the Public Lands, a.s a substitute for House bill No. 2830, a bill (H. R. No. 4685) rela~ing to certain lands in Colorado ~t~ the 

reservation latelr occupied by the Uncompahgre and White River 

Ute India.ns; which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and, with 

the accompanying report, ordered to be printed. 

UTAH CONTESTED-ELECTION CASE. 

Mr. BELTZHOOVER. !Ir. Speaker, in the Utah contested-election case of Campbell vs. Cannon, I ask leave to present my own views as a member of the Committee on Elections, concurring in the 

report of the majority, and ask that it be printed in connection with 

reports already filed in the case. There was no objection, and it was ordered accordingly. 

POLYGAMY. 

Mr. JOYCE. Mr. Speaker, I ask by unanimGus consent that reso- lutions adopted at a meeting of citizens of Vermont on the subject 

of polygamy be printed in the RECORD. 

There was no objection, and it was ordered accordingly. 

The resolutions are as follows: 

Resolutions adopted at a citizens' meeting held at Bennington Centre, Vermont, 

February 22, 1882. 

Resolved, That in unison with right-minded citizens in Vermont, and indeed 

throughout the land, we view energetic laws successfully executed against poly g. 

amy in Utah and adjacent Territories as profoundly necessary in many ways to the welfare of the people concerned. 

Resolved, That we could not but regard any practical admission in the present 

crisis of inadequacy or indis:position for any reason of Congress and the National 

Government to eft'ectnal legiSlation against the vast and growing evil in question as an alarming omen for our country. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be signed by the chairman and secretary of this 

meeting and inclosed to Hon. C. H. JOYCE, the Representative of this district in 

Cougre s. SAMUEL CHANDLER, 

Ohairman. 

ALFRED ROBINSON, 

Secretary. 

Resolutions adopted at a citizens' meeting held at Bennington, Vermont\ February 

22, 1882. 

Resolved, That in common with good citizens generally throughout the land 

assembled to-day to express public sentiment on the polygamous practices of the 

Mormons, we do herein record our conviction of the abominable character of these 

practices as abhorrent to Christian morals, to the laws of our country, and to the 

good order of society, and as tendin~ to degrade utterly those immedin.toly con· earned in them, and to involve postenty in a heritage of Ignorance and vice. 

Resolved That it ia the duty of all ~ood citizens to aid in the effort to remove this foul blot froxa our American social life, and we would especially entreat all 

Christians to renewed zeal-in seeking.·through their various educational and benev· 

olent agencies, the enlightenment and Christianization of the growing populations 

of Utali and the adjacent Territories. 

Resolved, That we do most heartily indorse the repressive legal measures em· bodied in the so-called Edmunds bill, which lately passed the Senate of the United 

States, and that we respectfully, but urgently, request our Representatives in Con· 

gress to sustain these measures by voice and vote, and by all lawful means in their 

power to seek the extirpation of this great evil. 

Uesolutions adopted at a citizens' meeting held at Plainfitlld, Vermont, February 

22, 1882. 

Whereas the practice of polygamy in Utah is carried on in direct defiance of the 

laws of God and of the laws of the United Staies, resulting in the degradation of 

all persons that are concerned in it, and by the contempt thus poured upon the 

laws of the country tending to the weakenmg of the national will and authority ; and 

Whereas this organized system of wrong and vice is assuming more and more gigantic proportions, and is growing every year bolder and more de:tiant in its im- pudent demands; and 

Whereas the Territory of Utah is controlled by a polygamous hierarchy, the 

clean and law-abidin"' inhabitants being unable to cope effectually with the evil: 

Resolved, That we, the citizens ofPlaiit:fi.eld, Vermont, in public meeting assem· bled, rejoice in the prospect .that more stringent le~ation by Congress is to be 

brought to bear upon the offenders against law anu decency in Utah; and that 

while we are in h~n'ZbWathy with the efforts of all good men in every yart of our land to secure the . . . ation of polygamy we especiiilly commend ana mdorse 

the bill of Senator EDMUNDS that has Just pass~ the Senat-e, and we hope that it will 

speedily become a law of the land; and we pray that Congress will pass all laws 

that are still further needed for t.he suppression of polygamy, use its lawful pow- til'S to enforce such laws and others now existing for that purpose, and :punish all 

offenders thereof; and we further pray Cong:r:ess to take such measures m govern· 

ing their own assembli~s that shall exclude all men offending the laws of chastity, 

whether Mormons «~r Christians, whetheJ.l coming from Utah or residing in Washinaton. 

~lvedjurther, That we do now express our admiration for the moral heroism 

and persistent patriotism of our fellow-countrymen that are living in Utah, and who, io the schools. in the press, in the P.ulpit, in the church, and in society·generally are bravely :fightinp: this colossal evil. 

:Resol1Jild.ju:rth8r, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the Congress- ma.n of this district. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

!lr. HISCOCK. I move, Mr. Speaker, that the morninghourthis 

day for the call of committees for reports be dispensed with. 

The House divided; and there were-ayes 91, noes 34. 

Mr. SPRINGER demanded tellers. 

Tellers were not ordered, one-fifth of those present not voting in 

the affirmative. 

So (two-thirds having voted in favor thereof) the morning hour was dispensed with. TARIFF COl\fMISSION. 

:Mr. KASSON. Mr. Sp.eaker, in pursuance of the notice giv.en. a. week or ten days ago, I desire to move to go into Committee of too 

Whole House 011 the state of the Union on t)l.e bill known as tb& 

tariff commission bill, reported by the Committee on Ways anti 

Means. · I understand the gentleman from New York [Mr. HiscocK] 

desires to :m..'1ke a statement at this time. 

lli. HISCOCK. Mr. Speaker, it is with extreme reluctance I ask 

theHousetoantagonizetheWaysandMeansCommittee butibeliev& 

it is eminently proper before the House enters upon the consideration of their bill, the discussion of which will doubtless take some time,. we should get to the Senate appropriation bills enough so that it 

will have ample work on its hands. Therefore, the Committee on Appropriations now antagonizes the motion of the gentleman from 

Iowa .in order that the House may proceed at this time to the consideration of the Mjlitary Academy appropriation bill, to be followed 

by the Indian appropriation bill, and immediately afterward by the 

diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. I think this Housewould do well to give to the appropriation bills the whole of this. 

week, and that would enable us, nO'doubt, to get to the Senate 'York 

enough of that character so there would be no need to interrupt the 

discussion of the tariff commission bill or any tariff legislation which 

may be deemed necessary until it was completed and a final votereached. 

I commend these suggestions to the House, I commend them oo th& 

Committee on Ways and Means, I commend them to the gentleman 

from Iowa. It seems to me it will be wise action on our part if theCommittee on Appropriations is allowed to have this week for the 

considemtion of the bills which. I have indicated; first the Military 

Academy appropriation bill, second the Indian appropriation bill,. 

and third the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill; and that 

committee will do all in its power to bring those three bills to a vote in the House by Saturday evening ofthis week. 

Mr. KASSON. Mr. Speaker, in reply to the gentleman from New 

York, the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, I wish to 

state that the Committee on Ways and Means has endeavored, as it was its duty to do, to come into accord with the Committee on Appropriations as to the order of consideration of the important busi- ness reported respectively by them. With a view to that object my 

first understanding, before I gave notice of the day when the tariff .. commission bill would be called up, was that the Post-Office appropriation bill, which wa.s then pending, should be finished, as well as a certain other measure, the apportionment bill, which was then also 

pending, should be disposed of, and that then the field would be 

clear for calling up the tariff-commission bill, and notice was generally given over the House tothat effect. Since that time the _Appropriations Committee has deeemed it important, as more time was taken up by the Post-Office appropriation bill than was expected, 

to a~k some further delay on the part of the business of the Ways 

and Means Committee. 

That has been stated by the gentleman as it was stated to the Committee on Ways andMeansthismornin(J',inawayto impress us with 

the opinion that at least one additionaY appropriation bill should be 

passed before we went into any general tariff discussion ; and that 

bill was understood to be the Indian appropriation bill. The chair- man of the Committee on Appropriations has since suggested that 

the Military Academy appropriation bill, the Indian appropriation 

bill, and the diplomatic and consular appropriation .bill could all be 

disposed of in two days, or at the furthest, by the third day. Now, as he is of opinion that may be done, we do not wish to antagonize such action on the part of the Committee on Appropriations, 

:md as our first appointment was made in harmony with that com- mitt-ee, and it states it requires this further time for the consideration of the appropriation bills indicated, I feel, with great reluctance, we should yield even two or three days more. But we are willing to do it, however, if the gentleman thinks he can get these 

bills through in two or three days, in order that the public business 

may be promoted, whi~h, of course, is the object of tlle whole House. 

As the chairman ofthe Committee on Ways and Means suggests, we shall then, by general consent of the committee representing that 

interest and our own and of the House, take up our bill and proceea a.s Tapidly as in the opinion of the House it may be considered and 

acted on. 

Mr. McLANE. I desire to ask the gentleman a question. 

Mr. KASSON. Certainly; I yield for that purpose. 

Mr. McLANE. I wish to know if it iB the understanding that on the report of the Committee on Ways and Means we shall have the 

opportunity and the liberty to look at the r.evision of the tariff 7 

Mr. KASSON. There is no question, I think, on that snJJject, so far as I know the object of the Ways and Means Committee, and 
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certainly to the full extent of my own purpose, it is to open the 

debat-e fully when that commission bill comes up. 

Mr. McLANE. lt is far more important than the appropriation 

bills. 

Mr. KASSON. After disposing of the Military Academy bill, which 

will take but little time, and the Indian appropriation bill, both of 

which are to be closed in two days, it is the understanding we may 

then proceed with that business which we all regard as of great 

importance. 

I will add, while I am on my feet, it is of great importance, if this 

commission is to be created, that the persons who are to be appointed on it should begin at an early day. The bill limits the report to the 

1st day of December, and it is important the commission should get 

to work at as early a day as l)ossible. With that understanding I 

yield to the gentleman from New York, chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, to move to go into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair desires to state that it does not understand any special order was made for the consideration of the tariffcommission bill to-day, but only, as stated by the gentleman from 

Iowa, notice wa~ given he would claim the floor to-day to make the 

motion. 

Mr. KASSON. If there is any misapprehension about it, I will 

only say it is privileged to move to go into Committee of the Whole 

House on the state of the Union on a revenue bill. 

Mr. IDSCOCK. I have no doubt but that the Military Academy bill 

and the Indian appropriation bill will be disposed of at the end of 

three days, and certainly I am very desirous that the House shall 

enter upon their consideration for the purpose of getting them to the 

Senate at as early a day as practicable. And I say further in this 

connection, that I hope the gentleman from Iowa will see the wisdom of allowing one other appropriation bill to be perfected before 

he presses the consideration of the tariff-commission bill. 

Mr. KASSON. I am not authorized, sir, to go further than I have 

sta~d. 

Mr. HISCOCK. I 11ow yield to the gentleman from Kentucky to move that the House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole on the Military Academy bill. 

The SPEAKER. Before that motion is submitted the Chair desires to lay before the House some requests of members for leave 

of absence. 

LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follow a: To ]')fr. SCHULTZ, for ten days, on account of important business. 

To Mr. LEEDOM, for ten days, on account of important business. 

:MILITARY ACADEMY APPROPRIATION BILL. 

]')fr. BLACKBURN. I move that the House resolve itself into the 

Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union for the purpose 

of considering the Military Academy appropriation bill. 

The motion was agreed to. 

The House accordingly resolved itself into the Committee of the 

Whole on the state of the Union, Mr. McCooK in the chair. 

The CHAIRMAN. The House is now in Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union for the purpose of considering a bill the 

title of which the Clerk will read. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

A bill (H. R. No. 4222) makin~ appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, and for other purposes. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. I understand objection will be made to .dispensing with the first formal reading of the bill. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Let the bill be read. · The bill was read at length. 

]')fr. BLACKBURN. Mr. Chairman, I shall not ask to make any 

extended statement in relation to this bill. An examination of the 

total footings at the conclusion of the bill will show that the estimates for the next fiscal year are 419,574.47, or 100,717.43 in excess of the amount appropriated by this bill. The appropriation for the 

present current-fiscal year was $322,435.37, while the amount recom- mended by this bill is 318,857.04. If the Clerk will now read t.he 

bill by paragraphs I will take occasion to answer any questions that mav be propounded by any gentleman, or give any infol'ID,ation that the~ Committee on Appropriations may have in relation to auy changes 

recommended by this bill, either by way of increase or decrease, as compareo with the former bill. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

For repairs and improvements, timber, plank, boards, joists, wall-strips, laths, 

shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass_, paint;, tnr. pentine, oils, varnish, flagstone, lime, cement, plaster, hair, sewer ana drain pipe, 

blasting-powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, mantels, and other similar materials, and 

for pay of citizen mechanics and labor employed upon repairs and improvements 

that cannot be done by enlisted men, $13,000. 

Mr. ATKINS. I move to strike out, in line 59, "thirteen" and 

in ert "eleven," so that it will read" eleven thousand dollars," if 

adopted. We appropriated for this purpose last year 11,000. 

I will now occupy, Mr. Chairman, if the committee will allow me, 

my :five minutes by not refening further to this bill, but in referring 

to a stat-ement which I find in theN ew York Times of the 27th instant, 

in cornmentincr on the debate and action of the Committee of the Whole 

House upon tB.e appropriation bill for the Post-Office Department, 

especially r~lating to special mail facilities, last week. 

The Times uses this language : 

The attorneys for the star-route thieves, among whom we must; always include 

~!i!~~~~!~ ~~ ~IN~~T~~: Jf!~·s~~~~ t!:le;~~blt!b~!c:is:fl way monopolists may be subsidized and the New York nllwspapers be pampered. 

And again in another distinct paragraph, among other things it 

says: 

Representative ATKINs, of Tennessee, who has ever been the most reckless and 

zealous advocate of the star-route gang, asserted, among other thin~s. that Mr 

James, while Postmaster-General, had paid $70,000 t<~ the Xew York Central Railroad for the mere changing of a mail car from one train to another, and that this was done for the purpose of securing the presidency of the Lincoln :Bank, in which Mr. 

Vanderbilt is interested. ThiS is simply a bold untruth. The amount paid to the 

New York Central Railroad, for its entire mail service, is $60,000 per annum. A postal car attached to the early morning train from. New York was, by the arrange- ment made by Mr. James, added to the fast train leaving :Bnffalo for Chicago. thus makin~ an additional through fast-mail service to the West. For this the railroad was paid the additional $1~ 000 per annum, making $70,000 for the whole service. 

Furthermore, the Vanderbilts do not control the Lincoln :Bank and MI·. James was invited into its management (and that fa{)t was published} before he was Postmaster-General. 

Now I felt authorized in making the statements I did, and which are referred to by this article, from a letter of Mr. James, the lata 

Postma-ster-General, dated December 12,1881, addressed to 1\lr. Vanderbilt, in which he says: 

The annual compensation on your main line from New York to Chicago is now $1,ll6,329.11. 

The arrangement which I so much desire will not require the moving of any more cars, but only the rnnnin~ of one car from :Buffalo t<~ Chicago on the faSt 

train, instead of the express which follows it. This arrangement will increase 

your annnal compensation from s~ to seventy thousand dollars. :Because of the 

superior equipment of your road, I am a~ous to increa-se the amount of mail forwarded thereon. 

I think, Mr. Chairman, that any one reading this letter, seeing how 

much is appropriated for this particular company, $1,116,329.11, and 

then reading the clause which I have just read, in which it speaks 

of increa-sing the pay from $60,000 to $70,000, would fairly and logically deduce the conblusion I did, and which I stated upon this :floor, 

that this road ~ot 70,000 for changing one car from one train to 

another. And if I am inconect in that, I ha.ve only to say that I 

made the mistake unintentionally. I would not wrongly harm any 

one, nor would I desire causelessly to throw an insinuation at the 

honor of any one, of any corporation, or any person whatever. But 

gentlemen on the :floor all around me so understood it, and I doubt 

not so understand it to-day. 

Mr. Chairman, the New York Times I have always understood to 

be a conserv~tive paper, one that I believe intended to represent 

conectly and fairly the proceedings of Congress and to do justice to 

the public men of this country, and I am surprised, utterly surprised, 

to :find this statementin that paper. Althoughiamanhumbleman 

I acknowledg:~1 and that newspaper may have overlooked my record 

heretofore, still as it has undertaken to criticise my record in this 

instance, it ought to have been better informed than to have intimated that at any time I had given my countenance to what it denominates the star-route gang or the star-route thieves. It is true 

I represent a district which has considerable star-route service, so far as that is concerned. But, sir, there are no persons here endeavoring to get contracts from my district that I know of; nor do I 

know of any persons from any portion of the country who are endeavoring to get contracts for my district, so far as that is concerned. 

All I have to say is, here is the record, [holding up a volume of the 

CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD.] Here is a record ofthememorable con- test in this House during the Forty-sixth Congress. I refer to the 

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Forty-sixth Congress, second session, page 

2085. There is my name recorded along with that of the distinguished 

gentleman from Kentucky, [Mr. BLACKBURN,] that of my friend from 

Georgia, []')1r. BLOUNT,] and that of my friend from Illinois, [Mr. 

CANNoN,] and all the other gentlemen who acted with the Appropriations Committee of that Congress in opposition to the demands 

of the Department for this extraordinary deficiency for what they 

called the star-route service. And if I may be allowed so unparliamentary an expression, I say that the editor of that paper has published to the country a brazen and infamous untruth when it intimates 

I have been in anywise the representative of or have sympathized 

with the star-route contractors who have endeavored to get contracts 

to defraud the Government and the people of this country. 

It was stated further the other day that lli. James, by having 

this extraordinary reweighing within eight months of the time he 

had originally weighed upon these roads had cost the Government, as the gentleman from New Jerseystated,$200,000 in addition to the 

$30,000 required for the weighing. These are the facts of the case; 

and any intimation coming from any quarter that I have at any 

time during that Congress or any other Congress been in collusion 

with any person who desired illegitimately or illegally or wrongfully to defraud the Government of the United St~tes out of one 

cent is the statement of a slanderer, a calumniator, and one that has 

not the courage to stand to his words. 

Mr. HUMPHREYS. We did not believe it before you got up to 

reply to the statement. · • Mr. HISCOCK. I desire to say one word here and now. I most 

heartily indorse all that has been said by the gentleman from Ten- nessee as to his record and his position in regard to the star-routo 

service. When he made the remarks which he did the other day, 

which I thought were somewhat censorious of the late Postmaster-
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General, I confess that I wondered then, as I have continued to won- der since, that he made strictures upon that, when he must have been 

compelled to recognize the fact that the late Postmaster-General 

struck down and trampled under foot plunderers of the Government 

who had set the Committee on Appropriations in the I<'orty-sixth Congress at defiance. While I say this, Mr. Chairman, I abate nothi.I1g 

of what I have said before in reference to the resolute position which 

the gentleman from Tennessee lias always maintained against them. 

But knowing so well as he did their power, and how impotent and 

weak we were to struggle with them, I thought he should have rec- ognized in the late Postmaster-General both courage and fidelity when 

he struck them down as he did. 

I have no indorsement, Mr. Chairman, to make of what the New 

York Times has said in reference to the past record of the gentleman 

from Tennessee, but I beg him to remember that when in his speech, as I remember it, and he will set me right if I am wrong, he charged 

directly that the Postmaster-General was influenced in his action 

with reference to theN ew York Central Railroad by the direct bribethe direct bribe of the presidency of a bank owned by the Vanderbilts-he must not wonder that the friends of the late PostmasterGeneral smarted under that charge, and that they retaliated some- what in kind; and in this instance I say incorrectly, as his charge 

against the late Postmaster-General was incorrect. 

The late Postmaster-General may have made mistakes in the administration of his office. Gentlemen upon the other side or upon 

this side of the House may think he did. I may think that he did 

not. But I can stand here both as a Representative and as a citizen 

of his State, and face the House and face the United States, and proclaim that Thomas L. James is an honest man, and that he brought 

to the discharge of his duty both fidelity and bravery. 

Mr. BLAND. I desire also to address myself to this question of 

privilege. 

I have just this moment observed the paragraph in the paper which 

has been alluded to, in which I find my name connected with that 

of the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. ATKINS] as attorneys for these 

star-routers. Now, I shall not speak for myself particularly, but. I 

apprehend if the other gentlemen mentioned in connection with myself had been appointed attorneys to prosecute these star-routers 

iRstead of the gentlemen who were called upon by the late Postmaster-General, the country would not now have had to record the 

fact that the Postmaster-General . and his attorneys permitted the 

time to elapse when thesestar-routethievescouldhavebeenindicted 

and prosecuted. 

I remember, sir, when the Postmaster-General was first installed 

into office it wa-s proclaimed throughout the country that he had appointed as his clerk or a-a some chief officer in that Department a cor- respondent of a certain newspaper, the name of which it is unneces- sary to state here, as I suppose gentlemen here and the country are familiar with it; and the only effect of the prosecution of these starroute thieves that I have seen ha-s been the correspondence of this 

newspaper from this official, announcing the great efforts the Postmaster-General was making in prosecuting thieves and the saving he was making in star-route contracts. There were no steps taken effectively to prosecute them; and when we come to ascertain the facts we find that all the savings, and more, if! am not mistaken, which 

he claims to have made on the star routes were wasted on railroads. 

The charge is made, not by me, but by the country and by the starroute thieves on the other hand, that the Postmaster-General was striking doWR steamboat routes and star routes and giving the sav- ings to Jay Gould and Vanderbilt and the great railroad lines. And 

the records of the Department, so far as we can obtain them, sustain 

that position. 

How was it with these star-route ca-ses f The record will show that 

not only myself, but the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. ATKINS] and 

other gentlemen from the sections of the country most interested in 

star routes, took up the fight against these thieves and placed a provision on the statute-book whereby this expedition of the service 

could not be made so as to drain the public Treasury of the money 

appropriated for star-route service, and it prohibited the expediting 

of routes by which an increase of more than one-half of the amount 

of the original contract could be taken from the Treasury. 

In other words, those interested in the star routes were the very 

first, by their votes and acts on this floor, to shut the door against 

this steal. And what did they do the other day, and against the 

protest of those men interested in the railroads Y They adopted 

another amendment, by which the subletting of contra-cts, another 

great source of fraud and infamy, will be wiped out and prevented 

in the future. That action was taken by the very gentlemen referred t~ in this newspaper, and from the section of the country most interested in star routes. 

But when we came to reform the service in regard to these railroads, the service on these great trunk lines, we found that those 

who were interested in the trunk lines would not join us in any reformation whatever in that respect. And I have to reiterate now what I stated before that the $500,000 appropriated for the trunk 

lines is nothing but a corrupt subsidy given to Jay Gould and Vanderbilt, and not for the public service of the country. 

The CHAIRMAN. The time for debate upon the pending amendment has been exhausted. 

Mr. IH$C0CK. I move to strike out the last word, or anything 

else necessary to give me five minutes. There is one gentleman upon 

the other side of the House with whom, whenever there i.s anything goin~ on in the direction of a reform, I for one have always been able 

to jom hands; and in joining hands with him he ha.S always recognized the fact that we met and acted here as men, not as partisans, 

to legislate for the good of our country. 

That gentleman is the gentleman from Tennessee, [Mr. ATKINS,] 

the late chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. He recognizes the fact that good men upon this side of the House, and good men upon his side of the House, without distinction of party, struggled against the star-route corruption in the Forty-sixth Congress. 

And I do not believe that that gentleman, whatever the gentleman 

from Missouri [Mr. BLAND] may do, will impugn the motives of any man on this side of the House, or upon his side of the House, for the 

vote which he may have given for special facilities on trunk lines. 

It was a business matter. It wa a great question on which we upon 

this side of the House who favor it, and I believe those upon his side 

of the House, (for I now have in my eye Democrats from the State of 

New York, who I believe favored it as much a-a I did and as honestly as I did,) acted understandingly, honestly, and upon ourresponsibility as Representatives. It wa-s a question which we looked at and discussed as a business question for the interest of the people ofthe United 

States. We voted for the appropriation not because it was to go into 

the coffers of Jay Gould or Willia10. H. Vanderbilt, nor because it wa-s to go to any railroad corporation, but because we believed the 

needs of the country demanded it. 

Gentlemen upon the other side of the House need not attempt to 

point out failures or omissions on the part of the Government in relation to the prosecution of the star-route offenders. The fact stands out 

notorious that the Forty-sixth Congress was entirely unable to cope 

with those great malefactors, and that while it may have been an ulcer in the Republican party and in a Republican administration, it was a Republican official and a Republican administration that cut 

it out. And I may say in this connection that it has been cut out, 

although it has been resisted by insidious attacks and sneers and 

attempts to pull down and strike down the brave official that headed 

the war upon the contractors, colluding officials, and then· fi·audulent devices. 

And I say further-! will not say what I was goino- to. I was about to impute largely the attacks to the other side of' the House. 

But upon the discussion of this bill I do not desire to precipitate or continue a partisan discussion. I therefore forbear to allude to votes or methods either of men on the other side of the House or upon my own side of the Chamber upon the question. But I will commend 

to gentlemen on the other side to follow in the footsteps of the gentleman I have followed in the past, in treatin~ questions of this kind 

not a.s partisan questions but as business questions, in regard to which 

Republicans and Democrats alike ought to vote according to their 

conscience. 

Mr. ATKINS. The gentleman will do me the justice to say that I 

did not brin..,. any partisan matter into this discussion. 

Mr. HISCOCK. No, the gentleman did not. It seems that another 

gentleman on that side of the House thought it was necessary to do so in order to indorse him and rise to his defense. I would say to him 

that the gentleman from Tennessee is always able to take care of 

himself. 

Mr. TOWNSEND, of Ohio. I rise to a point of order. 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. 

Mr. TOWNSEND, of Ohio. I would like to know what this discussion has to do with the appropriation bill under consideration Y 

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is unable to answer that question 

exactly. There has always been allowed great latitude of debate 

upon appropriation bills. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. I trust the gentleman from Ohio, [1\:lr. TOWNSEND,] who certainly cannot regret more than I do that the Military 

Academy appropriation hill should have been made an instrument for 

introducing a discussion of post-office matters, will not object to giving the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. SINGLETON] an opportunity 

to say a word, as members on the other side have been indulged. 

Mr. MILLS. Let the debate go on. There are some things I want 

to say. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. Oh, no, not on this bill. 

1\Ir. MILLS. Those who have acted in opposition to the Committeo on Appropriations have been characterized by the gentleman from 

New York [Mr. HiscocK] as unable to resist the influence of con- tractors; and those gentlemen have a right to speak. 

1\Ir. HISCOCK. When have I done anything of that sortt 

Mr. 1\fiLLS. The gentleman said that the Jo,orty-sixth Congress was unable to resist the influence of star-rout.e thieves. After the 

gentleman from Mississippi [1\:lr. SINGLETON] has got through I desire to be heard. 

Mr. SINGLETON, of Mississippi. I had not noticed the article 

referred to by the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. ATKINS] until his 

speech. With other names mentioned in that article I see that of 

Singleton. I cannot believe, however, that it was intended to apply 

to me for the reason that I did not open my mouth last week upon thiB subject. There is a gentleman on this floor of similar name who 

I believe did speak on the subject, and I presume the reference intended was to the gentleman from Illinois, [Mr. SINGLETON.] 

I voted with the gentleman from Tennessee against the proposi-
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tionintroducedhere to appropriate a large am'ount for the star-route 

service. Our. votes are recorded upon the same page. I wish to add 

that if I had spoken upon the subject there is no language that I 

would not have been ready to employ in denouncing these star-route 

men-these men who have been filching money from the Government; whose whole object seems to have been to plunder the Treasury of the United States. I presume I need not have said this. Possibly in the next issue of this paper I may be taken to task and ar- raigned as one of the attorneys for these star-route men. The name of'' SINGLETON" having been mentioned in the article, I have thought 

it proper to make this statement. 

}.lr. BLACKBURN rose. Mr. MILLS. Something has been said here w hlch I think I am entitled to refer to. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. I am sure the gentleman from Texas [Mr. 

MILLs] will not believe I can be wanting in the spirit of courtesy or kindness toward him; but whilst I am in charge of a bill which 

simply looks to making appropriations for the maintenance of the 

Military Academy of this country, I must protest against the debate 

going off into speeches-.aot once, but twice or three times-made by 

mill vidual members upon matters altogether forei~n to it. 

Mr. MILLS. Then my friend from Kentucky LMr. BLACKBURN] 

ought to have interposed some time ago. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. In that the gentleman from Texas and myself 

differ. · Now, Mr. Chairman, I regret that this matter should come up at 

all; but while personal explanations are not usually had in Committee of the Whole House upon an appropriation bill, in this case a gentleman who had been assailed, as he thought and I think, very 

unjustly, asked to make some remarks in the nature of a personal 

explanation. That was responded to by the gentleman from New 

York, [Mr. HiscocK,] chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, 

who was replied to by the gentleman from Missouri, [Mr. BLAND,] 

and then the gentleman from New York responded again. It seems to me that honors and opportunities are easy 1 and I must ask that 

there shall be no more discussion of Post-Ottice matters upon this 

Military Academy appropriation bill. 

lli. BLAND. The gentleman will allow me to correct him. I did 

not "reply" to the gentleman from New York. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. Then the gentleman spoke in his own right; 

of which I do not complain. 

I wish to say, if it will at all tend to soothe the gentleman from 

New York, that I recognized in the action taken by the late PostmasterGeneral a purpose exactly in line and in accord with the conduct of 

the fight made by the Committee on Appropriations in the Forty-sixth 

Congress in opposition to the star-service gang. I appreciated the 

effort made-successfully at lea-st to a degree-by the late PostmasterGeneral in that direction. The gentleman from New York is grievously mistaken when he robs the Committee on Appropriations and 

the Forty-sixth Congress of their due credit in throttling the abuses 

of the star service. 

Mr. IDSCOCK. I did not rob them of any just credit. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. The gentleman will remember that he said the 

Second Assistant Postmaster-General and the star-service men :flung 

defiance into the face of the Forty-sixth Congress. He willnotforget-I certainly have not forgotten, for I happened ~o be charged as chairman of the sub-committee with the conduct of that bill-that we put into it an amendment which stands as the permanent law of the 

land to-day, providing that never in the future should any compensation for expedited service be allowed anywhere in excess of 50 per 

cent. of the original contract price. 

Mr. BLAND. And every man whose name is mentioned in that 

paper voted for it. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. Yes, and I think every gentleman n:uned was grievously outraged by that article. 

Mr. STEELE. Is it in order to move that the committee rise, to 

terminate this debate 7 

Mr. BLACKBURN. If this discussion goes further I am going to 

move-! do now move that the committeee rise, in order to limit 

debate upon this paragraph to one minute. 

Mr. MILLS. The gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. BLACKBUIL~] 

rose to keep me from making a speech, and he has made one himself. . Mr. BLACKBURN. I thought I was ID:aking one satisfactory to 

the gentleman from Texas. · Mr. MILLS. No, indeed. I will ask to be heard now, or I will 

speak on the next proposition that comes up. 

The question being taken on the motion of Mr. BLACKBUIL~, that 

the committee rise, it was not agreed to, there being-ayes 58, noes 59. 

Mr. )fiLLS. Mr. Chairman, I am so very obscure that I do not 

in fact know a star-ro-qte contractor in the United States. I may 

perhaps know some gentlemen who may be contractors or who may 

oo filling some character I know nothing about, but I do not know 

actually one star-route contractor in the United States. I have never been spoken to on the subject of star routes by anybody whom I 

know to be a contractor. I rose, however, to reply to the charge 

made by the gentleman from New York, [Mr. HiscocK,] that the 

Forty-sixth Congre s found itself unable to withstand the influences 

of the &tar-route "ring," and passed the measures brought into this 

House by their recommendation. I remember distinctly when that 

question was presented tb the House that in my place on this :floor 

I stated to the Committee on Appropriations I was ready at any 

time or times to go with them in apprehending the felons charged 

with plundering the people's money and bringing them to the bar of 

the House in order they might be punished for their crimes. I called on the Committee on Appropriations to bring before this House all 

guilty parties they might detect occupying high stations so they 

might be impeached by this grand inquest of the nation at the bar 

of the Senate·, a tribunal organized by the Constitution to try great 

offenders. But they did not do that, Mr. Chairman. What did they 

propose to do f They came gravely and told the House that the 

star-route thieves and their friends who were officers of the PostOffice Department had stolen from the public coffers about two 

million dollars, and then as a consequence of that they proposed to 

deprive the people of the United States of their mail facilities. 

lli. VALENTINE. That is what they did, exactly. 

Mr. MILLS. I have in my place on this :floor protested against 

that sort ofpunishment. I said lwouldnotpunishmyconstituency 

and save the lash from the parties who were guilty of high mimes and 

misdemeanors in the public service. I said then to the committee, 

"Go and apprehend these guilty parties and take them to the courts· and try them for the offenses they have committed." 

I honor the late Postmaster-General for the position he has taken. 

He has taken the right course. This is not a judicial tribunal foc 

the trial of these crimes. Our fathers who framed the Constitution 

said when theyformed our Government that a free people could only 

exist with the executive, legislative, and judicial departments divorced from each other, free but independent, one not under the influ- ence and control of the other. 

I protested against this body setting itself upon an a-.;>propriation 

bill to hear charges of guilt, of criminality against parties, and proposing- to punish them by depriving the people of the United States 

of their mail facilities. That wa,s my position precisely. I have no charges to make against the Postmaster-General ; he has done right. 

But the gentleman from New York misstates his position; it was the 

people of the United States by their Representatives here who refused 

to withdraw their mail facilities and punish them for crimes com- mitted by others. 

[Here the hammer fell.] 

Mr. HASKELL. Mr. Chairman, Itookasomewhatprominentpart 

in the de bate in the Forty -sixth Congress concerning these star ron tes, 

and the frauds which were alleged to have been perpetrated in the 

letting of star-route contracts. I fought with all the intensity and 

power I was capable of in behalf of the star-route mail service of the 

\Vest, and, against a bill brought upon this floor from the A~propriations Committee, or an amendment, that without investigation, with 

only vague and indirect charges of fraud, without having proved any 

single case of fraud in a single route, proposed to strike down one hundred and seven of the great star routes west of the Mississippi 

River. I took the floor, I believe, Mr. Chairman, the :first man in this 

House, in opposition to that amendment reported by the Committee on Appropriations, and if it was to be reported again, and this 

moment, the speech I made then would be repeated witlt redoubled 

earnestness now in opposition to the whole matter. 

It has been told from one side of this country to the other that in 

the Forty-sixth Cong-ress there was a great struggle between starroute thieves and their represeittatives on this floor and the honest 

people of the United States and their representatives on this :floor. 

I deny it. There never was in the Forty -sixth Congress an issue presented for and against frauds in the star-route service, never in the 

world; the issue was star-route service or no star-route -service, sir. 

The only question we ever had presented to us was either to vote for or against the proposition to take out of existence one hundred and seven star routes, without a word of proof, without a word to show 

that service was not needed and necessary. And we stood here on this floor, day by day, and week by week, and month by month, with 

the investigating committee of the Democratic Congress in session, 

and demanded of them that they should produce the proof of the 

frauds on these star routes; and when it was so produced, I said we would stand ready to strike down every route which was proved to 

be fraudulent or on which the service was excessive. And when, 

Mr. Chairman, I secured a copy of the evidence from that committee, 

I obtained it without the knowledge or consent of the committee and 

brought it upon this floor. There never was a report made from that 

committee. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. I did not catch the sentence, and I ask the 

gentleman to repeat it. 

Mr. HASKELL. I said I had secured a portion of the evidence 

submitted to your committee, without the consent of the committee, 

and used it one day on this floor. . Mr. BLACKBURN. Does the gentleman ·mean to intimate that 

that committee or any member of it ever refused that evidence to 

any member of the House Y 

Mr. HASKELL. Ever refused it Y 

Mr. BLACKBUR~. I ask if the gentleman says that that com- mittee or any member of that committee refused to allow this testimony to be seen Y ~Ir. HASKELL. No, I do not know that--- · l\Ir. VALENTINE. I will say to the gentleman from Kentucky 

that they did. I a ked for it---
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Mr. HASKELL. I cannot yield. 

Mr. VALENTINE. I personally asked several members--

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Kansas declines to yield. 

The gentleman from Nebraska is out of order. 

Mr. HASKELL. I was not refused it; but when I attempted to use it on this floor, aa the REcoRD shows, the point of order was made against me, and the honorable gentleman from North Carolina, 

[Mr. ScAL~s,) who was then in the chair, willrememberthatit was tried to prevent me from using any of the evidence obtained in refer- ence to this matter by that investigating committee. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman s time has expired. 

Mr. HASKELL. Just a word more. I hope the committee will 

extend my time a single moment. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. I will feel compelled to move tha.t the com- mittee rise for the purpose of limiting debate, unless there be no other 

gentleman present who haa a speech which he desires to make at this 

time. 

Mr. HASKELL. I only want a single moment to conclude what I 

have to say. I wish to state that when finally we had, after much 

discussion, agreed upon ·a bill to appropriate money for the star 

routes, into which bill was incorporated valuable remedial legislt~.­

tion, it passed the House without a dissenting voice, and went to 

the Senate. There it waa amended, and as amended it pa-ssed the 

Senate without a dissenting voice. AltJ10ugh $200 000 was added to 

the amount appropriated, when it came back to the House the first 

roll-call on the star-route matter was had, and on that roll-call the 

House concurred with the Senate. Those of us who battled for 

western mail service feel, therefore, that we were not entirely un- supported..' .since we had a majority of the House and a unanimous 

Senate behind us. · Mr. BLACKBURN. Then I shall feel compelled to move that the 

committee rise for the purpose of limiting debate. 

The motion was agreed to. 

The committee accordingly rose· and Mr. McKINLEY having taken 

the chair as Speaker p1·o tempore, Mr. McCooK reported that the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union having had 

under consideration the bill (H. R. No. 422'2) making appropriations 

for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending 

June 30, 1883, and for other purposes, had come to no conclusion 

thereon. · Mr. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, I now move that the House re- solve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 

the Union for the purpose of further considering the Military Academy 

appropriation bill~ and pending that I move that all debate upon the 

pending paragrap.ns, and all amendments thereto, be limited to one- quarter of a minute. . Mr. NEAL. I rise to a privileged question. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands the gentle- man from Kentucky has moved that the House now resolve itself 

into the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, injustice to the gentleman from 

Ohio I will ask to withhold that motion until he has had an oppor- tunity of being heard. ' 

Mr. HASKELL. · I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Ohio is recog- nized . Mr; HASKELL. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry, to a point of 

order. 

The SPEAKER pro tempm·e. The gentleman will state it. 

[The Speaker here resumed the chair.] 

Mr. HASKELL. I wish to inquire if there is to be an opportunity 

for debate on the motion of the gentleman from Kentucky to limit 

debate. 

The SPEAKER. The motion of the gentleman from Kentucky, aa the Chair understands, is to go into Committee of the Whole on the 

state of the Union, and also to limit debat~. Does the gentleman 

from Kansas make a parliamentary inquiry in that connection t 

Mr. HASKELL. I do. I wish to ascertain if it will be admissible 

to discuss the question of limiting debate. 

The SPEAKER. It is not debatable. 

Mr. NEAL. I x'ise to a question of personal privilege. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair understands the motion of the gentleman from Kentucky is in order. Does the gentleman from Kentucky yield Y 

1\Ir. BLACKBURN. I have yielded to· the gentleman from Ohio. 

1\Ir. NEAL. .Mr. Speaker, this is the first time since I have Leen a member of Congress that I have had to ask a privilege of this kind 

upon this floor, and I should not do it now were it not for the fact that 

the attention of this House has been called by the gentleman from 

Tenne ee [Mr. ATKINS] to an article in Monday's New York Times 

which I now send to the Clerk's <lesk and ask to have read. ' 

The Clerk read ns follows: 

T~. unreasonable and unreasoning op:position to the fast. mail service which appears m Conw:ess whenever an appropnation for that service is asked for, was 'B.Dcommonly virulent la t week. The attorneys for the star-route thieves among ~h~m we must always include Messrs. ATKINS, :BLAND, SIYGLETON, and NEAL, ~slSt ~hat valuable and necess:trY. routes have been cut o.ff' or- their service dimin- ished, m order that the bloated railway monopolists may be subsidized and the New 

York newspapers be pampered. This feeble stuff is scarcely worthy of serious 

attention. It is too late in the history of thi.s country to debate ihe value of the fast. 

ma.il service. That the facilitating of rapid communication between the great cities 

of the R-epublic is a benefit to commerce every sensible and candid person will 

admit. New York is the great commercial metropolis of the country. If we are to have a fast mail service, it must begin here. 

1rfr. NEAL. When the matter in reO'ard to the star-route service was under discussion in the Forty-sixth Congress, about two years 

ago I think, arising, if I x·ecollect aright, from a communication to 

the House by the Postmaster-General asking for a large appropriation for the star routes, and in default of which appropriation he 

stated frankly that he would take the service off from a large portion 

of the same-those members of the Forty-sixth Congress who are now upon the floor will recollect the burden of that discussion-a 

sub-committee of the Committee on Appropriations, consisting of the 

gentleman from Kentucky, [])fr. BLACKBURN,] the gentleman from 

Illinois, [1rlr. C.ll.TNON, ] and the gentleman from Connecticut, [Mr. 

HA.WLEY,] was appointed to investigate the whole matter. As I 

understand, they made a thorough examination of General Brady 

and other witnesses, but the .result of that investigation was never made public, nor was any report made to the House. The action of 

the House in substantially indorsing what had been done in expediting service and increaaing compensation discouraged that com- mittee to such an extent that they discontinued the investigation. 

Now, what has been my connection with this business t What foundation has any one to gravely charge me with being an attorney of any 

''star-route thief" or any one in any way connected with the star-route 

service T* I do not know any of them, I ha.ve never seen one of them, 

neyer spoken to one of them; nor have I ever had any relation, directly or indirectly, with one of them. I do not know their names or faces, if I should meet them. Every vote I gave on this floor during 

the Forty-sixth Congress was in support of the Appropriations Committee, aud against the star-route men, so far as they had any interest in the transactions of the House. Every vote I cast was in the 

interest of good government, of economy, andoffidelity to what I believed an honest administration of the finances of the Government. 

I have not a.sked of the late Assistant Postmaster-General Brady 

any favor during the four years he was in office. I only demanded of 

him what was my right and that of my constituency. No star route 

in my district was expedited and in but one or two instances was service increased, of which no official has ever complained. 

Mr. FLOWER. Will the gentleman permit me to ask him a ques- tion t 

Mr. NEAL. Certainly. 

Mr. FLOWER. Suppose there was a general law on this subject 

by which members of Congress were required to be present at these 

maillettinga in their districts, does the gentleman believe that that 

would tend to atop this star-route thieving 7 

Mr. NEAL. Oh, I cannot answer that question, because I have no star routes in my district of any importance; none except some short ones. 

Mr. FLOWER. Do you know what the contracts in your district are let forT . • 

Mr. NEAL. Why, every contract is let, as I understand, to the 

lowest bidder. 

Mr. FLOWER. Would it not be better for Congressmen to spend a little time in watching the price at which these contracts are let 

in their Congressional districts than to spend it in peddling garden 

seed, and books that are not read, 'fihrough their districts t 

1\fr. BLACKBURN. I feel that every gentleman interested having 

had a chance to be heard on this question, I should now insist on my 

motion that the House go back into Committee of the Whole and. resume the consideration of the :Military Academy bill. 

Mr. NEAL. I wish to say one word in regard to my action during the past week-- . Mr. BLACKBURN. I wanted to give the gentleman from Ohio 

what the Chair would hold to be full scope in the matter of personal 

privilege; but I do not want it to go beyond that. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair is of opinion that the gentleman from 

Ohio must confine himself directly to the matter whlch he claims 

gives him a right to rise to a question of personal privile~e. 

Mr. NEAL. I shall do so. During the considemtion ot the PostOffice appropriation bill last week, from the moment of its introduction to its final passage, I made no remarks on this floor or elsewhere 

in regard to the same. I supported on every vote, with perhaps one exception, the report of the Appropriations Committee, and of which 

the RECORD will confirm me. On the final paasage of the bill on Saturday last I was unavoidably detained from this House owing to a serious illness in my family; otherwise I should have voted for the 

bill just as it was reported from the Committee of the Whole. 

My p~~lic cond~ct and my public utterances are legitimate matters · for cnticlSID herem the House and elsewhere. But, Mr. Speaker, it 

is not fair, it is not just! it is beyond the province of honorable and 

upright. j?l?I;talism ~o charge members of this Hous.e, having great responSlbilihes resting upon them and great public trusts to dis--

charge, with being attorneys of thieves, engaged in plundering the 

Government, without anything upon whioh to found such oharges. 

And especially is this unfair when, so far from being true, every 

word spoken and every vote given has been in opposition to every 

corrupt scheme and to expenditure of every dollar of money not 

required in the proper management of the public service. 

Mr. DUNNE.LL. Let me ask the gentleman from Ohio a single 

q_uestion, whether he has not done injustice to the sub-committee 
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to which he has referred whe~ he says that sub-committee got dis-

<X>uraged f 

Mr. NEAL. I think not· that is my view of it. 

Mr. CANNON. I would iike to answer that question. 

ORDER OF BUSlli'ESS. 

The SPEAKER. DoesthegentlemanfromKentucky [Mr. BLACKBURN] yield further f 

Mr. BLACKBURN. I want togetridofthis discussion, andmove 

that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, to resume the consideTation of the Military 

Academy appropriation bill ; and pending that motion I move that 

all debate on the pending paragraph and amendments thereto be 

limited to one minute. 

The motion to limit debate was agreed to. 

The motion that the House resolveitselfintothe Committee ofthe 

Whole House on the state of the Union was agreed to. 

MILITARY ACADEMY APPROPRIATION BILL. 

The House accordingly resolved itself into the Committee of the 

Whole House on the state of the Union, (Mr. McCooK in the chair,) 

and resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 4222) making 

.appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal 

year ending June 30, 1883, and for other purposes. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. I trust that the postal affairs of the country 

having been disposed of to the satisfaction of the committee, we may now be allowed to proceed with this bill, which ought to be com- pleted within an hour's time if the House will give it proper con- sideration. 

Mr. ATKINS. I withdraw my amendment. 

The Clerk resumed the reading of the bill, and read the following 

paragraph: 

For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For additions to ap· varatus to illustrate the laws of aooustics, optics, and mechanics, $1,000; books of 

.reference, text-books, materials, and repairs, $400; for pay of mechanic assistant, 

$1,000; in all, $2,400. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. By direction of the Committee on Appropriations, I offer the amendment which I send to the desk. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

Insert after line 162 the following: "For astronomical instruments to equip the new observatory, $10,000." 

Mr. HOLMAN. I should like to hear some explanation of this from 

the gentleman from Kentucky. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. I will state to the gentleman from Indiana 

that this is an appropriation of $10,000 for instruments to equip the new observatory at West Point. And in order that the committee 

may understand the necessity for the appropriation I will make a statement, as brief as possible. 

The railway company, now constructing a tunnel under part of the 

Government reservation, found it necessary to adopt a line that passed 

immediately under the observatory, the most expensive building on this reservation. By a contract, the terms of which I am assured were very advantageous to the Government, the railroad company 

obligated themselves, according to plans and speci:fiations to be 

agreed upon, to construct at its own expense a new observatory for 

the Government. Of course the passage of trains through this tunnel, which was below the base and foundation of the building, would 

render it unfit for observation purposes or as an observatory. It 

does not affect or damage the building for other purposes. The railroad company accepted the terms stated by the Government, and are now constructing a very handsome, elaborate, and suitable building 

for an observatory on a site adapted for the purpose. In the con- t'ltruction of this observatory the Government is not put to the expense 

of a single dollar; but, on the contrary, there is even enough money 

left after the construction of the building to provide for the dismantling of the old observatory and the conversion of its rooms into a library. 

The item of $10,000 for the purchase of instruments for the equipment of the new observatory was not put into the printed bill because 

the committee was not at the time-several weeks ago-satisfied that 

this new observatory would be completed in time to make this ex- penditure necessary during the fiscal year. They are now convinced 

t he observatory will be completed by the 1stofDecembernext atthe 

furthest. Hence, in the judgment of the committee, it is necessary 

to insert this 10,000 item in the bill; because from ei~ht months to one year must of necessity elapse after the appropnation for this 

purpose shall have been made in order to have the instruments con- structed and completed. They cannot be completed in a less period 

than from eight to ten months. The lawwillnotallow any contract 

for this purpose to be entered into until the appropriation therefor 

shall have been first made. Hence, in the judgment of the committee, 

it was necessary to insert this provision in this bill; so that the con- tract for these instruments might be entered into and the order for 

their construction given within the fiscal year for which this bill 

makes provision. As to the amount, or the necessity for the appropriation, I may say there was not a particle of division of sentiment m the committee at all. 

Mr. HOLMAN. I understand that the result of building this railroad is to increase the aggre~ate expenses $10,000. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. No, srr. 

Mr. HOLMAN. This appropriation is to provide instruments for 

the new building, not for the old f 

Mr. BLACKBURN. The gentleman misunderstands me. I will go 

further and say this: one of the three instruments in the old observatory is a very valuable instrument; the other two are totally inadequate to the wants of the institution. This same appropriation 

would be required whether this new building was made or not. 

I am assured by the astronomical professor, who in my. judgment, 

by his long and efficient service, has proved himself to be one of the 

most valuable men we ever have had in that Academy, that the dis- moun~$ of the instruments in the old observatory and the remounting of tnem in the new building would cost not less th.'l>n $6,000. 

This appropriation is for 10,000 to provide new' and suitable instruments for the new observatory building; that is, two out of the three 

instruments to be used. One ofthe instruments in the old building, 

the transit instrument, is admirably adapted for the purposes of the 

school. 

·Then we have as a credit against this appropriation of 10,000 

whatever amount the two discarded instruments will bring. And 

from the best information I can get I feel that I am warranted in 

saying that they will bring from 3 500 to $6,000. Therefore this 

appropriation will be 10,000, less the value of these discarded instruments, which we cannot transport and rearrange in the new observatory at much less cost than the 10,000 asked for by this 

amendment. 

The amendment was adopted. 

The Clerk resumed the reading of the bill, and read the following: 

For continuing addition to cadet barracks, $21,190.54. 

Mr. HOLMAN. I find that the item in the paragraph last read 

swells the aggregate amount of this appropriation very materially 

beyond the usual appropriations made for this institution. I suppose 

it must have reference to the same object for which the sum of$2,255 was appropriated in the bill for the current :fiscal year. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. No . .Mr. HOL:MAN. That provision of the appropriation bill for the 

current fiScal year is as follows : 

For completing repairing roof of cadet barracks, $2,255. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. Not so. Mr. HOLMAN. And another provision is: 

For completion of main building and one wing fer the new hospital for cadets, $11,617.84. 

Now, these were the two works that seemed to have been in progress at the time these appropriations were made. 

.Mr. BLACKBURN. From what is the gentleman reading f 

Mr. HOLMAN. From the appropriation bill of the current fiscal 

year. 

1\Ir. BLACKBURN. If the gentleman will look at that bill he will 

find that the last item in it is this: · 

For continuing addition to cadet barrack8 $25,000. 

Now, for the same purpose the bill of this year appropriates $21,000. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Then nothing is appropriated by the pending bill 

for the two items which I have read from the bill for the current 

fiscal year! 

:Mr. BLACKBURN. There is nothing in this bill for them. 

Mr. HOLMAN. And thisappropriationisincontinuationofawork 

for which the bill of last year appropriated $'25,000 f 

Mr. BLACKBURN. Some 4,000 less than was appropriated for 

the current fiscal year. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Yes. When I come to consider the last item of 

25,000 in the appropriation bill for the current :fiscal year I am not 

able to see how it occurs that the appropriations for this institution are so materially increased in this bill. 

The appropriations for this institution were somewhat modified in 

the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress, so as to make the aggregate appropriations for that year for the support of the Military 

Academy $290,000 in round numbers. For the next :fiscal year the 

aggregate appropriations were $286,000. I concede that last year, 

in consequence of the appropriation of 25,000 for addition to cadet 

barracks the appropriations ran up to $322,000. 

But the effect of the amendment which has just been adopted, as my friend from Kentucky [Mr. BLACKBURN] will perceive, is to swell 

the appropriations under this bill from 286,000 to $328,000; and to 

make that amount it was necessary to include the large appropriation of$25,000 for this building for the current fiscal year. 

Now, it is true that the appropriation for the next fiscal year for 

the continuation of the same work is only 21,190.54. Yet the total 

appropriations are but slightly diminished, and includincr the $10,000 

just adopted they are materially increased. Therefore, t~ bill, containing no larger appropriations for improvements than the bill of 

last year, or not materially larger than the bill for the second ses- sion of the Forty-fourth Congress, swells the total appropriations to 

larO'e proportions. ~ow, it seems to me that this is a branch of the public ervice 

which beyond the items for new improvements would not necessa- rily grow. The same number of pupils and the same number ofprofessors are there, and they are of the same grades, except a slight 

change which I discover in t.his bill in regard to an appropriatiOn 

for a second lieutenant instead of a first lieutenant. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. The gentleman from Indiana. is mistaken. He 
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cannot find any increase in this bill as compared with the bill of the 

last year. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Including the 10,000 f 

Mr. BLACKBURN. If the gentleman will hear me a moment he 

will be corrected. He may fiild an increase of $300 here and 200 

there. Thflre is one item of $30. But he will find that except the 

item of$10,000 just a.dopted, the av.propriations in this bill are smaller 

than the appropriations in the bill for the current fiscal year. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Yes; I made that statement. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. Somefourthousanddollarsless than the appropriation of last year for the same object. Now if the gentleman will 

look at lines 200, 201, and 202, he will find one item amounting to 

something over $10,000, which has not been in any bill of this kind 

for thirteen years, and could not have been, because it is an appropriation to replace steam heating apparatus and boilers which have 

been in use for thirteen years, and have recently been condemned by 

the inspector of the insurance company in which the policies of in- surance are held. Of course this appropriation, in the judgment of 

the committee, had to be made. The committee could not think of 

resolving themselves into an insurance office to ta.ke the responsibility for tbe destruction of property and the loss of life which might 

happen in the event of those botlers bursting. 

Then, if the gentleman will look at a previous part of the bill he 

will find an item of 2,500 intended to bring about a change in the lightin~ and ventilation of the barrack buildings, an appropriation 

which m the ,judgment of the committee (including myself) was absolutely necessary. There has not been a superintendent of that 

Academy for perhaps thirty years, there has not been a board of visitors I take it for ten years, there has not been a Secretary of War 

for years pa-st that has not recommended this change. Congress has 

been again and again assured of its necel:lsity. It is necessary for the 

purpose of ventilation and light ; for the north wing of that cadet 

building is so dark with the present cut-up, diamond-shaped windows that at noonday it is difficult for the cad~ts to study their 

lessons. 

By items of this kind-and I might point to others-there is au increaseof 12,500,and theamendmentjustadoptedadds 10,000 more. Of course these items swell the bill to the extent of 22,500; yet in 

spite of this the bill will be less than 7,QOO in excess of the appropriations for the present year. I do not think the bill is amenable to 

the charge made by the gentleman from Indiana-, either as a whole or in its separate items; for instead of being swollen immoderately, 

it has been restricted, I think, to the utmost verge that caution and 

prudence would allow. 

1\fr. HOLMAN. I only want to call attention to the fact that within 

six years the expenditures fortheMilitary Academy, taking this bill as. the data for the expenditures of the coming year, have grown from 

$286,604 to 3'28,857.04. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. Three hundred and eighteen thousand, not 

three hundred and twenty-eight. 

Mr. HOLMAN. I include the $10,000 just added by way of amendment. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. Yes1 that is right. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Now this is a very important increase in the ex- penditures for a department so limited as the Military Academy 

naturally is. I trust the Committee on Appropriations are not going 

to permit the appropriations in all of the great appropriation bills to 

increase at this rate. If the increase in the other bills should be upon 

the basis of the present bill, we shall reach beyond even the extraordinary expenditures of the year 1873. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. One word in response to the gentleman. I 

do not know why he goes so far back in selecting years for com pari- son. The tables before me do not extend further than two years 

back. I find, however, that the amount to be appropriated by this 

bill, including the $10,000 just added by way of amendment, will 

be in round numbers $328,000, while the amount appropriated for 

this establishment last year in the bill for the present fiscal year is 

322,000, and the amount appropriated the year before is 316,000. 

I cannot for my life detect any frightful swelling of expenditures. 

Mr. HOLMAN. There has been an increase. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. There is an increase if no allowance be made 

for improvements that are being put up. There is another item in 

this ve1;y bill which looks to the remodeling of a building. Yet 

there will be but $6,000 difference between this bill and the bill making appropriations for the current year, and but $12,000 differ- ence b etween this bill and the bill of two years ago. It seems to me that 'Ye ~e keeping down expenditures pr~tty closely when in appropnations of more than a quarter of a million of dollars annuallyverging toward half a million of dollars, takinO' one year after 

another-we are not differing at the outside mo:fe than $10,000 or $12,000, 'Yhile in the mean time we are supplying new steam boilers .and heatmg apparatus that only have to be supplied once in thirteen 

years, equipping new observatories, which does not have to be done more than once in half a century, as well as conductinO' other improvements in the remodeling of buildings, &c., which certainly 

cannot happen ~very year. In the face of these unusual expenditures, the committee present to you now a bill coming within $6,000 

.of the appropriations for the present year, and within less than 

-$12,000 of the appropriations made for the last year. 

The Cle1·k resumed and concluded the reading of the bill. 

Mr. HOGE. I move to amend by adding to the bill what I send 

to the desk. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

And it is further provided, That section 1315 of the Revised Statutes be amended 

and re-enacted so as to read : · SEC. 1315. From and after the 4th day of March, 1883, appointments of cadets 

shall be made in the yroportion of one from every two Congressional districts, one from every two Temtones, including the District of Columbia as one of the Terri- tories for the purposes of this act, and six from the United States at la;rge. They 

shall be appointed by the President, and shall, with the exception of the six cadets 

appointed at large, be actual residents of the Congressional or Territorial districts, or _of t.he District of Columbia., respectively, from which they purport to be appomted. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. I makethepointof orderou that amendment. 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state his point of order. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. If I have gathered it correctly, as the Clerk 

ha.s reported it, it is certainly a change of existing law and does not 

of necessity on its face reduce expenditure. The gentleman offering 

it probably would argue t.hat the reduction of the number of cadets 

would be a reduction of expenditure, I ha\e no doubt, but I believe 

the present Speaker of the Honse ruled the other day-and I do not 

undertake to say his ruling was other than correct-that in order to come within the rule of the House the amendment itself, if changing 

existing law, must upon its very face and of necessity by means of 

its own operation show a reduction or retrenchment of expenditure. 

It certainly is not germane, sir, to any portion of this bill. 

Mr. HOGE. I desire to say that under the existing law with the 

number of Congressional districts increa-sed to three hundred and 

twenty-five, with ten appointed from the nine Territories and the 

District of Columbia, and ten appointed at large, the number of 

cadets would consist of three hundred and forty-five. 'rhe effect 

of this amendment is to reduce the number to precisely one-half of 

that number and one more. That settles the question raised by the 

gentleman from Kentucky, and the amendment is in order undoubtedly on its face, because while changing existing law it does reduce 

expenditure. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. I ask the gentleman will answer the other 

branch of my point of order I made, that it is not germane t.o any 

section of the bill. 

1\<lr. HOGE. I offer it as an independent section. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. Then under the rule it must be shown to be 

germane. If it changes existins: law it must be germane to th~ paragraph of the bill, and must on 1ts face reduce expenditure. I do not 

think this amendment is germane to the bill, because there is nothing in the bill which undertakes to regulate the method of appointment or the number to be appointed of cadets to this institution. 

Mr. HOGE. This bill provides for the expenses of the Military 

Academy ba-sed upon a certain number of cadets. I propose as a matter relating to these expenditures to reduce thenumberofcadets 

one-half. That certainly is germane. 

The CHAIRl\IAN. The Chair is of the opinion that while the amendment may reduce expenditures, nevertheless it is not germane to the 

bill under consideration; and the point of order, therefore, is sus- tained. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. I move the committee rise and report the bill 

and amendment to the Honse. 

The motion was agreed to. 

The committee accordingly rose ; and the Speaker having resumed 

the chair, Mr. McCooK reported that the Committee of the Whole 

Honse on the state of the Union ha.d, according to order, had under 

consideration the bill (H. R. No. 4222) making appropriations for the 

support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

1883, and for other purposes, and had directed him to report the same back to the House with an amendment. 

Mr. BLACKBURN demanded the previous question on the bill and 

amendment. 

The previous question was ordered. 

The amendment was read, as follows : 

On page 8, at the end of line 162, add the following: 

"For astronomical instruments to eqnip the new observatory, $10,000." 

The amendment wa-s agreed to. 

The bill as amended was ordered to be enO'rossed and read a third 

time; and being engrossed, it was according~yread the third time. 

Mr. BLACKBURN. The yeas and nays must be taken on the passage of the bill. 

The SPEAKER. That is the rule. 

The question· was taken; and there were-yea-s 214, nays 4, not 

voting 74; as follows: 

.Aiken 

.Aldrich, 

Anderson, Armfield, Atherton, Atkins 

Barbou'r, 

Barr, Bayne, Beach, Belmont, Black, Blackburn, Blanchard, Bland, 

YEA.S-214. 

Bliss, 

Blount, 

Bragg, Briggs, Browne, Bruinm., Buchanan, Buck, 

Buckner, Burrows, Jnlins C. 

Burrows, Jos. H. Cabell, 

Caldwell, Calkins, 

Camp, 

Candler, Cannon, 

Carpenter, Cassidy, 

Chalmers, Chapman, 

Clardy, 

Clark, 

Clements, Cobb, 

Con•erse, Cook, 

Coz, William R. 

Cotington, Crapo, 

Cravens. Culberson, Cullen, Curtin, 

Davidson, 

Davis, George R. 

Dawes, Deering, 

DeMotte, Denster, Dezendorf, Dibrell, 

Dingley, Dowd, Dunnell, 
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Jn:ight, 

~=it, Evins, 

Farwell, Sewell S. 

Finley, 

Flower, 

Ford, 

Forney, 

Garrison, 

Geddes, 

George, 

Grout 

Guenther, 

Gunter, 

Hammond, John 

Hammond, N. J. 

Hardenbergh, 

Hardy, 

Hanner, 

Harris, Benj. W. 

Harris, Henry S. 

Haskell, 

Hatch, 

Hawk, 

Henderson, 

Hepburn. 

Herbert, 

Hewitt, G. W. 

Hill 

His~ck, 

Hoblitzell, 

Hoge, 

Holman, 

Hooker, 

Horr, 

Houk, 

House, Hubbell, 

Neal, 

Hubbs, 

Hutchins, 

Jacobs, 

Jadwin 

Jones, George W. 

Jones, James K. 

Jones, Phineas 

Kasson, 

Kelley, 

Kenna, 

Ketcham, 

Ring, 

Kloiz, 

Lacey, 

Ladd, LeFevre, 

Lewis, 

Lord, 

Manning, 

Marsh, 

Mason, 

Matson, 

McClure, 

:McCoid, 

McCook, 

McKenzie, 

McKinley, 

McLane, 

McMillin, 

Miles, 

j(ills, 

Money, 

Moore, 

Morey, 

Mornson, 

Morse, Mutchler, 

Oates, O'Neill, 

Page, Springer, 

Par&er, Steele, 

Paul, Stone, 

Payson, Strait, 

Peelle, Talbott, 

Pierce, Thompson, P. B. 

Pettibone, ~-J]!'f!on, Wm. G. Phister, 

PoWld, Townsehd, Amos 

:Ranney, Tucker, 

:Ra.y, Turner, Henry G. 

Rea!!all, Turner, Oscar 

Ree:l, ~ler, Rice, Theron :M. Upson, 

Rice, William W. Valentine, 

:Richardson, D.P. Vance, 

:Richardson, Jno. S. Van Aernam, 

Ritchie, Van Horn Robinson, Geo. D. Van Voorhis, 

Robinson, James S. Wadsworth, 

Robinson, Wm. E. Wait, 

Rosecrans, Walker, 

Ryan, Ward, 

Scales, Warner, 

Scoville, Washburn, 

Scranton, Wellborn, 

Shackelford, West, 

Shallenberger, Wheeler, 

Shelley, White, 

Sherwin, Whitthorne, 

Singleton, Otho R. Williams, Chas. G. 

Skiimer, Williams, Thomas 

Smith, A. Herr Willis, 

Smith, Dietricli·c. Willits, 

Smith, J. Hyatt Wilson.~, 

Sparks, Wise, ueorge D. 

Spaulding, Wise, Morgan R. 

Speer, 

Spooner, 

NAYS-4. 

Stockslager, Updegraff, J. T. Upde~ Thomas 

NOT VOTING-74. 

Allen, Dibble, Knott, 

Belford, Dugro, Latham, 

Roberttwn, 

Robeson, 

Beltzhoover, Dunn, Leedom, 

Berry, Ermentrout, Lindsey, 

Bingham, Farwell, Chas. B. MArtin 

Bowman, Fisher, Miller,' 

Brewer, Frost, Mosgrove, 

Butterworth, Fulkerson, Moulton, 

Campbell, Gibson, Muldrow, 

Carlisle, Godshalk, Murch, 

Caswell, Hall, Nolan, 

Chace, Haseltine, Norcross, 

Colerick, Hazelton, Orth, 

Cornell, Heilman, Pacheco, 

Cox, Samuel S. Herndon Phelps, Crowley, Hewitt, lbram S. Prescott, 

Cutts, Humphrey, :Randall, 

Darrell, Jorgensen, Rice, John B. 

Davis, Lowndes H. Joyce, Rich, 

Ross, 

Russell, 

Shultz, 

Simonton, 

Singleton, Jas. W. 

Stephens, 

Taylor, 

Thomas, 

Townshend, R. W. 

Urner, 

Watson, 

Web be~ 

Wood, .tSenjamin 

Wood, WaJ.terA. 

Young. 

So the bill was passed. . During the roll-call the following pairs were announced from the 

Clerk's desk : Mr. BOWMA.J.."'( with Mr. ALLE...~. 

Mr. GoDSHALK with Mr. DUNN. 

Mr. HALL with Mr. KNoTr. 

Mr. W ATSO~ with Mr. CHALMERS. 

Mr. HEILMAN with Mr. ERMENTROUT. 

Mr. MARTDi with Mr. JADwrn. 

Mr. LINDSEY with Mr. MURCH. 

Mr. NORCROSS with Mr. TOWNSHEND of illinois. 

Mr. MILLER with Mr. DAVIS of Missouri. 

Mr. HEWITT, of New York, with 1t1r. ·WEBBER. 

Mr. DmBLE with Mr. THOMAS. 

Mr. CHALMERS. Although paired with Mr. WATSON, of Pennsylvania, supposing he would vote for the bill, I have voted in the 

affirmative. 

On motion of :Mr. DUNNE.LL, by unanimous consent, the reading 

of t.he names was dispensed with. · The vote was then announced as above reco;rded. · Mr. BLACKBURN moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed ; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

MESSAGE FROl\1 THE PRESIDENT. 

Several messages in Writing from the President of the United 

States were communicated by Mr. PRUDEN, one of his secretaries, 

who also announced that the President had approved and signed 

bills of the following titles : · 

An act (H. R. No. 2944) authorizing the Lancaster National Bank 

of Lancaster, Massachusetts, to change its location and name ; 

An act (H. R. No. 3210) in reference to the trustees of the Lincoln 

Monument As ociation; and 

An act (H. R. No. 3,").1)0) making an apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States under the tenth census. 

MESSAGE FROl\I THE SENATE, 

life and services of James Abram Garfield, late President of the 

United States, before the two Houses of Congress and their invited 

guests, on the 27th of February, 1882. 

It further announced the passa~e of a resolution for the printing 

of 1,000 additional copies of the list of merchant vessels, published 

under the direction of the Secretary of the Trea-sury, for 1881, in 

which concurrence was requested. 

It further announced that the Senate insisted on its amendments 

to the bill (H. R. No. 4221) to provide for certain ofthemosturgent 

deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government 

for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, and for other pu.rposes, disagreed to by the House and a ked for a conference on the disagreeing 

votes of the two Houses, and had appointed Mr. ALLisoN, Mr. PLUMB, 

and 1t1r. BECK as managers of said conference on its part. 

It further announced the passage of the following bills, in which concurrence was requested: · A bill (S. No. 83) for the relief of Lieutenant Frank P. Gross; and 

A bill (S. No. 293) for the relief of Edward P. Vollum. 

BRIDGE ACROSS THE 1\IISSOURI RIVER .A.T SAINT CHARLES, 1\IISSOURI. 

Mr. BUCKNER, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 

No. 4686) to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the most accessible point from five to eight miles above 

the City of Saint Charles; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Commeree, and ordered to be printed. 

JAMES WILLIAM BUTLER. 

Mr. HOUK, by unanimous consent from the Committee on War 

Claims, reported, as a substitute for House bill No. 15331 a bill (H. 

R. No: 4687) for the relief of James William Hutler; which was re- ferred to the Committee of the Whole House on the Private Calendar, 

and the accompanying report ordered to be printed. 

WILLIS N. ARNOLD. 

Mr. HOUK also, by unanimous consent, from the same committee, 

reported back the bill (H. R. No. 1597) for the relief of Willis N. 

Arnold; which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the Private Calendar, and the accompanying report ordered to be 

printed. HIR.lli JOHNSO:N AND OTHERS. 

Mr. HOUK also, by unanimous consent, from the same committee, 

reported back with an adve~se recommendation the bill (H. R. No. 

1587) to pay Hiram Johnson, and other persons therein named, sev- eral sums of money therein specified, being the surplus of a military 

assessment paid by them, and accounted for to the United States, in excess of the amount required for indemnity for which it was levied 

and collected. 

Mr. HOUK. I ask that this bill, with an adverse recommendation, 

be referred to the Private Calendar. 

The bill, with adverse recommendation, was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the Private Calendar, and the report 

ordered to be printed. 

REPRn-T OF A REPORT. 

Mr. LACEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask consent at this time to present 

for adoption the resolution which I send tC\ the desk. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That 2\000 copies of House Report No. 473, to accompany the bill (H .. R. No. 4198) to estaolish a postal savin~s depository as a. branch of the Post-Office,. Department, be printed, one-half of which number shall be fo'r the use of the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. 

The resolution was agreed to. 

Mr. LACEY moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution. was adopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

URGE...~ DEFICIENCY BILl.. 

Mr. HISCOCK. I move that the House ins-ist upon its amendments, 

disagreed to by the Senate, to the bill (H. R. No. 4221) to provide for· certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the· service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, 

and for other purposes, and agree to the conference asked by the Sen-- ate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses. 

The motion was agreed to. 

NATIONAL LABOR-LEAGUE RAILWAY COl\IPANY. 

Mr. ROBINSON, ofNew York, by unanimous consent1 introduced. (by request) a bill (H. R. No. 4688) to or()'anize the National LaborLeague Railway Company of America, and for other purposes; which. was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Railways and Canals, and ordered to be printed. 

ORDER OF BUSI:NESS. 

Mr. BLACK. I ask unanimous consent at this time to introduce: a bill for reference. 

Mr. ALDRICH. I demand the re()'ular order. 

Mr. HISCOCK. I move that the Hou_se proceed to the consideration of business on the Speaker's table. 

The motion was agreed to. 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. SYMPSON one of its clerks, an- PUBLIC BUILDL~G AT PE~SACOLA, FLORIDA. 

nounced concl1rrence in the resolution of the thanks of Congress to The first business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No.6) to- Ron. James G. Blaine, for his appropriate memorial address on the authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to erect a public building in§ 
1882. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1501 

the city of Pensacola, in the place of the one recently destroyed by 

fire; which was read a first and second time. 

The SPEAKER. This bill will be referred .to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 

Mr. DAVIDSON. I ask the House to hear me for a moment in 

regard to that bill. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Let it be referred to the committee. 

Mr. DAVIDSON. I only ask to be heard for a moment. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana objects. 

Mr. DAVIDSON. In the fall of 1880-

The SPEAKER. The bill is not to be considered. 

Mr. DAVIDSON. I hope the gentleman will withdraw his objection. I am satisfied when he hearswhati have to say, and if he will 

permit a member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds 

to make a brief statement, that he will not object to the request I 

wish to make. 

I wish to say, sir, that a bill similar to this has already been con- .sidered by the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds 

and a favorable report made. This building was destroyed by fire 

in 1880, and the Senate immediately appropriated money for con- structing another, and at this session has passed another bill. The 

House committee have considered a similar bill and reported favorably upon it. Now, here is the Senate bill on the Speaker's table ~overing identically the same ground; and I simply ask, in view of 

the fact that a House committee has already favorably reported on the bill, that it be passed at this time. 

The House a few days since considered and pa-ssed a bill for the 

erection of a public building in Colorado---

Mr. HOLMAN. They should all go to the appropriate committees. 

Mr. DAVIDSON. But the committee has already considered a ;Similar bill. 

Mr. HOLMAN. But this reference to committees should be of universal application. 

Mr. DAVIDSON. I hope the House will hear a statement from a member of the Committee on Public Buildin~s and Grounds. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair .is quite willing to hear the statement, but t~~Jentleman from Indiana has made an objection, and 

'the Chair t · s the time of the House should not be taken up under 

the circumstances. · Mr. DAVIDSON. I hope the gentleman will withdraw his objection. 

Mr. HOLMAN. All bills should go to the committees and have 

their consideration before them. r think it is for the interest of 

:general legislation that this rule should be invariably adhered to. 

Mr. HERBERT. I ask the gentleman from Indiana to withdraw 

his objection simply for the purpose of allowing me to make a state- ·ment, reserving his right to mak.e the objection. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks it is taking up unnecessarily 

the time of the House, unless the gentleman is making an appeal 

simply to the gentleman who objects. 

Mr. ALDRICH. I demand the regular order. 

The bill was referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and 

Grounds. ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

Mr. MIL.LS. I desire to know what has become of the morning 

hourT 

The SPEAKER. The morning hour has been dispensed with by 

order of the House. · 

BRIDGE ACROSS THE ·MIBSOURI RIVER. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No. 308) 

to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River 

at the most accessible ·point within :five miles above the city of Saint 

Charles, Missouri; which was read a first and second time. 

Mr. HATCH. I desire to offer an amendment to that bill. 

ORDER OF BUSThTESS. 

Mr. SINGLETON, of Illinois. I was out of the House a few mo- ments ago, when other gentlemen in the sa.me category as myself were permitted to make explanations in regard to a matter of personal 

privilege. I desire to have that opportunity now. The SPEAKER. The Chair will recognize the gentleman for that 

purpose at another time. The House is now engaged in considering 

another matter. 

Mr. SINGLETON, .oflllinois. Very well. 

BRIDGE ACROSS MISSOURI RIVER. 

The SPEAKER. The question is on the reference of the bill (S. 

No. 308) the title of which has been read. In the absence of objection it will be referred to the Committee on Commerce, and will be 

ordered to be printed. 

There was no objection, and it was so ordered. 

EASTERN SHAWNEE INDIANS. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No.1046) 

for the relief of the Eaatern Shawnee Indians at the Quapaw agency, 

Indian Territory; which was read a first and second time. 

Mr. HASKELL. I ask for the present consideration of that bill. 

It is a bill recommended by the Departmentofthe Interior, and pro- vides that a small portion of the fnnd of these Indians be given them 

because of their present necessitous circumstances. 

Mr. HOOKER. I object to the present consideration of the bill. 

Mr. ~fiLLS.. I think it would be better to have all these bills 

referred to the appropriate committees. 

Mr. SPRINGER. Let the bill be read. 

The bill was read, as follows : 

Be it enacted, d':c., That the Secretary of the Int~rior be, and he is hereby, author· 

ized and directed to cause to be paid in cash per capita to the Eastern Shawnee 

Indians at Quapaw agency, Indian Territory, from their uninvested funds in the 

Treasury, the sum of $2,000, in order to relieve their pressing wants and necessities 

occasioned by the failure of crops during the summer and fall of 1881. 

The SPEAKER. The question is cin the third reading of the bill. 

Mr. HOOKER. I would like to ask a question of the gentleman 

from Kansas, the chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. Is 

this a proposition to take from the principal of the fund belonging 

to the Indians Y 

Mr. HASKELL. I understand the bill is framed to take the 

money from their principal fund, although they have an interest 

fund annually accruing • Mr. HOOKER. I am opposed to intrenching on the principal if 

there is an interest fund accrued from which this amount can be 

taken. 

The bill was ordered to be read a third time; and it was accord- · ingly read the third time, and passed. 

Mr. HASKELL moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. 

The latter motio.n was agreed to. 

NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF NEBRASKA. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No. 17) 

to extend the northern boundary of Nebraska ; · which was read a first 

and second time. 

The SPEAKER. The question is on the third reading of the bill. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I do not understand that the bills are now being 

taken from the Speaker's table to be put upon their passage. 

The SPEAKER. They are taken up either for reference or for 

passage, as is provided in the rule. 

Mr. SPRINGER. This bill has only been read by its title. I call 

for the reading of the bill. 

Mr. VALENTINE. Let it be referred. 

The bill was referred to the Committee on the Territories, and 

ordered to be printed. · 

HALL OF RECORDS, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No. 817) 

making appropriation for the purchase of ground and·the erection 

thereon, in the city of Washington, of a building to be used as a Hall of Records; which was read a first and second time. 

Mr. MILLS. I think that bill ought to be referred. It raises a very important question. 

The bill was referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and 

Grounds, and ordered to be printed. · 

FREEDMAN'S BANK PROPERTY. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No. 1092) 

authorizing and directing the purchase by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the public use, of the property known as the Freedman's 

Bank, and the real estate and parcels of ground adjacent thereto 

belonging to the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company; and located on Pennsylvania avenue between Fifteenth and Fifteenth-and-a-half 

streets, Waahington, District of Columbia; which was read a first 

and second time. 

Mr. BUCKNER. I ask that that bill be considered now. Mr. SPRINGER. Has a motion been made to refer the bill T 

The SPEAKER. A. motion to refer has not been made. The question is on the third reading. 

The bill was ordered to be read a third time; and it was accordingly read the third time in extenso, as follows : 

Be it enacted, tic., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase, for the use of the Unired States, all these lots and 

parcels of ground, with the improvements thereon, situated in the city of Washing; 

ton, District of Columbia, on Pennsylvania avenue between Fifteenth and Fifteentliand-a.-half streets, and belonging to the Freedman's Savings and Trust Compan:y:, known and described in the origmal deeds of conveyance to the said Freedman s Savings and Trust Company as the west half of lot numbered three, all of lots num- bered four, five, six, and seven, and the south halfoflotnumberedei~ht, in s9.uare 

numbered two hundred and twenty-one, as laid out a.nd recorded m the onginal plat or plan of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, at a sum not ex- ceeding $250.000 to be paid and by him pla.ced to the credit of the commissioners 

of the said Free~an's Savings and Trust Company, or their successors, on the 

books of the Treasurer of the \Jnired States, for distribution among its creditors. out of any money in the Trensury not otherwise appropriated, upon proof of a perfect titJe and the execution to the United States of a deed good and sufficient in 

la.w, and in form approved b;v the Attorney-General; and said sum, or so much 

thereof as may be necessary, 18 hereby appropriated for that purpose. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I ma.ke the point of order on that ·bill that it 

should go to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 

Union. 

The SPEAKER. The point of order is made too late, the bill having been ordered to be read a third time. 

Mr. SPRINGER. The bill has not been considered at all in the 

House. I make the point of order that as it makes an appropriation it must have its first consideration in Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. 
1502 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HOUSE. FEBRUARY 28, 

Mr. BUCKNER. The rea-son I ask for the passage of the bill is 

that a similar bill, word for word, has been considered favorably by 

two committees of the House, the Committee on Banking and Currency and the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I insist on the point of order that as the bill 

makes an appropriation of money it must have its first consideration 

in Committee of the Whole. 

Several members called for the regular order. 

The SPEAKER. The regular order is the question, Shall this bill 

passf 

Mr. SPRINGER. If the Speaker rules that my point of order can- not be entertained, I shall move that the House adjourn. We can- not pa-ss a bill appropriating $250,000 without any consideration. We 

have had no consideration of the bill here, and I say we are entitled 

to consider a bill of this magnitude. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman made his point of order after the 

bill had been ordered to a third reading. The Chair thinks the point 

of order was made too late. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I could not hear what was going on. I did not 

understand the bill was up for a-ction, but thought the reading was being had for information. 

Mr. COX, of New York. I move that the House do now adjourn. 

That will give us a chance to understand this question. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I move to refer the bill to the Committee of the 

Whole House on the state of the Union. 

Mr. COX, of New York. A motion to adjourn is surely in order. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks the bill is past the stage when 

it can be referred on such a motion as that of the gentleman from 

Illinois. · 

Mr. SPRINGER. I think the motion to refer is in order at any 

time before the passage of the bill. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. SPRINGER) inquired if a motion had been made to refer the bill, and the Chair 

stated that such a motion had not been made. Then the gentleman 

took his seat, and the bill was then ordered to be read a third time. 

Mr. COX, of New York. I insist on my motion, that the House do now adjourn. 

Mr. IDSCOCK. I hope my colleague will not press that motion 

for a little while. 

Mr. HOOKER. I hope the gentleman will insist on it. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I will make a motion which is in order. I move to reconsider the vote by which the third reading of the bill was ordered. · The SPEAKER. The motion which the gentleman from illinois now makes is in order. The question is fiTst on the ~otion of the 

gentleman from New York, [Mr. Cox,] that the House do now adjourn. · The question being taken there were-ayes 59, noes 75. 

So the House refused to adjourn. 

The SPEAKER. The question is now on the motion of the gentle- man from Illinois, [Mr. SPRINGER,] to reconsider the vote by which 

the third reading of the pending bill was ordered. 

Mr. CAMP. I move to lay the motion on the table. 

The motion of Mr. CAMP was not agreed to. 

The question recurred upon the motion of Mr. SPRINGER, to recon- sider the vote ordering the bill to a third reading. 

Mr. BUCKNER. I desire to say a word or two--

The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks the motion is not debatable. 

The motion of Mr. SPRINGER wa-s then agreed to. 

The question recurred upon ordering the bill to be read a third 

time. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I move to refer this bill to the CoiD.Ifi..ittee on Publie Buildinus and Grounds. 

Mr. BUCKNER. TheCommitteeonPublicBuildingsandGrounds 

have already considered it, and so have the Committee on Banking 

and Currency. If the gentleman wants to consider this bill, let it 

go to the Committee of the Whole. 

Mr. CRAPO. I move to amend the motion to refer by substituting 

the Committee on Banking and Currency for the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.-

Mr. SPRINGER. Is that motion in orderf 

The SPEAKER. It is a motion to amend. 

Mr. SPRINGER. What has the Committee on Banking and Currency to do with this bill f 

The SPEAKER. That is for the House to decide. 

The amendment of Mr. CRAPO was not agreed to. 

The motion of Mr. SPRINGER was not agreed to, upon a divisionayes.67, noes 88. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I now make the point of order that t-his bill 

makes an appropriation, and must recei\e its first consideration in 

the Committee of the Whole. 

Mr. ROBINSON, of Massachusetts. Is not that point of order 

rather late f 

The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks the point of order is too late. 

Mr. ROBINSON, of Massa.chusetts. I do not care for this bill par- ticularly, but I think it is a little unsafe practice to allow points of 

order to be made in this way. 

Mr. HASKELL. The point of order would be too late, hadnotthe 

House reconsidered the vote ordering the bill to a third reading. 

The motions to refer have been voted down and the bill is now elearly subject to a point f>f order in the ordinary way. I think the 

bill should go to the Committee of the Whole, and I now move that 

the House resolve itself into Committee of the "'Whole for the purpose 

of considering this bill. 

The SPEAKER. The bill is not now in Committee of the Whole. 

Mr. HOOKER. I move that the House now adjourn. 

:Mr. COX, of New York. What has become of the point of order f 

Has the Chair decided it Y 

The SPEAKER. The Chair has not decided it. The Chair has 

intimated that the House having entered upon the consideration of 

this bill it is too late to make the point of order at this time. 

Mr. SPRINGER. If t.his bill had been referred--

Mr. HOOKER. I insist upon my motion to adjourn. 

Mr. HASKELL. I rise to a point of order. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. 

Mr. HASKELL. I made the motion that the House resolve itself 

into Committee of the Whole for the purpose of considering this 

bilL 

Mr. REED. That is not in order. 

Mr. HASKELL. Why not Y I desire to ask the Chair if that mo- tion is out of order f 

The SPEAKER. The motion to go into Committee of the Whole 

for the purpose of considering this bill would not be in order for the reason that the bill is not now in Committee of the Whole. 

Mr. HOOKER. I insist upon my motion to adjourn, which is 

alwavs in order. 

Mr: HASKELL. I desire to give notice that if the motion to adjourn is voted down I will move to refer the bill to the Committee of 

the \Vhole. 

The question was taken upon the motion to adjourn, and upon a division there were-ayes 77, noes 96. 

Before the result of the vote was announced, 

Mr. HOOKER called for the yeas and nays. 

The question was taken upon ordering the yea-s and nays, and 

there were 32 in the affirmative; not one-fifth of the last vote. 

Mr. HOOKER. I call for tellers on ordering the yeas and nays. 

The question was taken upon ordering tellers, and there were 35 

in the affirmative. 

So (the affirmative being more than one-fifth of a quorum) tellers were ordered, and Mr. HOOKER and Mr. HiscocK were appointed. 

The House again divided; and the tellers reported there were- ayes &:!, noes 110. _ 

So (one-fifth voting in the affirmative) the yea-s and nays were ordered. I 

CONFERE~CE COMMI'ITEE ON URGENCY DEFICIENCY BILL 

The SPEAKER. Before the roll is called upon the motion w adjourn, the Chair will announce as the conferees on the part of the 

Honse upon the disagreeing votes of the two Houses upon the bill 

(H. R. No. 4221) to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies iu the appropriations for the service of the Government for the 

fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, and for other purposes, the following: l\fr. HISCOCK of New York, Mr. ROBESON of New Jersey, and l\fr. 

Cox of New York. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

l\fr. CAMP. I understand that our Democratic friends want to 

hold a caucus this evening, and I think we had better adjourn. 

Mr. HOUSE. Before the roll-call is commenced--

l\fr. HISCOCK. I understand that the gentlemen on the other side 

of the House desire an adjournment because they wish to hold a caucus this evening. If that is true, this side of the House will not be so discourteous a-s to prevent their doing so. Mr. HOUSE. We would like to havetheuseoftheHall this even- ing for a meeting, but we do not wish to interfere with the regular 

business of the House. 

The SPEAKER. The yeas and nays have been ordered on the 

motion to adjourn. 

Mr. HARRIS, of Massachusetts. I move to reconsider the vote by 

which the yeas and nays were ordered. 

The SPEAKER. The calloftheroll on the motion to adjourn can be dispensed with by unanimous consent. Is there objection Y [After a pause.] The ~air hears none, and the call of the roll is dispensed 

with. 

Mr. CHALMERS. Will this be the unfinished business to-morrow f 

The SPEAKER. It will be the unfinished business on the Speaker's table. · 

ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. 

Mr . .ALDRICH, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported 

that they had examined and found truly enrolled a bill of the Senate 

of the following title; when the Speaker signed the same: A bill (S. No. 58) for the relief of William H. Gill. 

LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows: 

To Mr. HoUK, for one week from to-day, on account of important business. 

To Mr. ERYIDITROUT, for the remainder of the week, on account of 

important business. 

To l\fr. BRUMM, until March 6, on account of sickness in his family. · To l\fr. TucKER, for the remainder of this week, on account of important business. 
1882. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1503 

BETSEY A. MOWER. 

.Mr. WAIT, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

4689) for the relief of Betsey A. Mower; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and 

ordered to be printed. 

PERSONAL EXPLANATION. 

Mr. SINGLETON, of Illinois. Before the question is put on the 

motion to adjourn I would like to say a word. 

The SPEAKER. Does thegentlemanfromMississippi[Mr. HooKER] withhold the motion to adjourn so as to allow the gentleman 

from Illinois [Mr. SrNGLETONj to make a personal statement. 

Mr. HOOKER. Yes sir; I yield to the gentleman. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois desires consent to 

make a personal statement. The Chair hears no objection. 

Mr. SINGLETON, of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I should not, under 

ordinary circumstances, have troubled the Honse with any·denialor 

explanation upon the subject ofwhathas appeared in the New York 

Times, which ha~ been referred to by several gentlemen to-day; but as others have felt it due to themselves that they should deny what 

is there charged, I have only to say that since I have been a mem- ber of this House I have, upon every occasion, voted with that party 

here who have· opposed the star-route thieves, as they have been 

called. I have followed theleadofmydistinguishedcolleague, [Mr. 

CANNON,] the distinguished gentleman from Connecticut, [General 

HAWLEY,] who is now in the Senate, the distinguished gentleman 

from Kentucky, [Mr. BLACKBUfu~,] and all those who have united in 

opposition to what is commonly denominated the "star-route steal." 

Mr. HOOKER. I now renew the motion to adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at four o'clock and 

thirty minutes p. m.) the Honse adjourned. 

PETITIONS, ETC. 

The following memorials, petitiom~, and other papers were laid on the Clerk's desk, under the rule, and referred as follows: 

By Mr. ALDRICH: The petition of the North Carolina Rolling 

Mill Company, relative to dredging dam at Calumet Harbor-to the 

Committee on Commerce. 

Also, the resolutions of the Garden City Division, No. 422, Sons of 

Temperance, of Chicago, remonstrating against the proposed reduction of tax on alcohol-to the Committee on Ways and Means . .Also, papers relating to House bill No. 3172, giving reasons why 

claims for materials, &c., furnished a vessel at her home port should 

be preferred to mortgage claims-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. ANDERSON: The petition of members of Bow Creek 

Alliance and citizens of Phillips County, Kansas, for legislation to 

regulate charges for railway transportation-to the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. ATKINS: The petition of Samuel B. Person, administrator 

of B. R. Person, deceased, for compensation for property taken and 

used by the United States Army during the late rebellion-to the 

Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. BARBOUR: The petition of Lavinia Gertrude Hunter, for 

relief-to the same committee. 

Also, papers relating to the claim of the heirs of Tilghman Weaverto the same committee. 

.Also, the petition of the collector of customs of .Alexandria, Virginia, praying that the Alexandria customs office may be placed in 

the same list with Georgetown and Cherrystone districts-to the same committee. 

By Mr. BARR: The petition of.citizens of Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania, against the continuance of polygamy in Utah or elsewhere 

within the jurisdiction of the General Government-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

Also, three petitions of citizens of Harris burgh praying for the passage of the McKinley bill, fixing the duty on manufaCture of iron 

and steel-severally to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. BAYNE: The petition of Harry C. Teeter and 24others, soldiers in the late war, praying for the passage of the bill to establish a soldiers' home at Erie, Pennsylvania-to the Committee on Milita,ry Affairs. 

By Mr. BELTZHOOVER: The petition of ex-soldiers and sailors 

residing in the nineteenth Congressional district of Pennsylvama, 

and of ex-soldiers and sailors residing in Adams County, Pennsylvania, for the passage of House bill No.1440, for the establishment of a soldiers' home at Erie, Pennsylvania-severally to the same com- mittee . .Also, papers relating to the claim of Joshua Johnson-to the same committee. 

By Mr. BRAGG: The remonstrance of Chicago vessel owners against the passage of a bill to regulate lake and marine shippingto the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. BROWNE: The petition of Hon. John E. Neff, relative to a contest made by him for a seat in the Forty-third Congress-to the 

Committee on Elections. 

By Mr. BUCK: The petition of F. Humphreys, M.D., and George K. Dickinso11z relative to the tax imposed on proprietary medicinesto the ComiDlttee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. J. H. BURROWS: ThepetitionofW.P.Davisandothers~ 

of Bynnmville, Chariton County, Missouri, asking for the restoration 

of fractional currency-to the Committee on Banking and Currency. 

By Mr. CALKINS: The petition of citizens of the villages of 

Wakarusa and Locke, in the State of Indiana, relative to polygamy-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. CARPENTER: The petition of 'Citizens of Carroll County, 

Iowa, asking that some privileges and encouragement be given to 

building bridges for railways across the Missouri River above Omaha as below said city-to the Committee on Commerce. . Also, the petition of citizens of Sioux City and of Onawa City, in 

the State of Iowa, of similar import-severally to the same com- mittee. 

By Mr. CHALMERS: The petition of citizens of Vicks burgh, Mississippi, for aid to restore the ha,rbor at that place-to the same com- mittee. 

By Mr. COVINGTON: The petition of citizens ofMaryland, to have 

Oxford made a port of entry-to the same committee. 

By Mr. CRAPO : The petition of E. E. Sewall and 420 others, citi- zens of Provincetown, Massachusetts, asking that notice be given of 

the desire of the United States to terminate the fishery articles of the 

Washington treaty-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 

By Mr. CURTIN: The petition of James F. w·eaver and others, 

citizens of Miles burgh, Pennsylvania, for legislation to relieve the 

people from unjust discrimination by common carriers-to the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. GEORGE R. DAVIS: The petition of the Chicago Vessel 

Owners' Association, protesting against the passage of House bill No. 

4260, to regulate lake and marine shipping-to the same committee. 

By Mr. DEZENDORF: Papers relatin~ to the claim of the Indiana 

Methodist Chwch, of Norfolk County, virginia-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. ERRETT: The petition of sundry soldiers and sailors who 

served during the late war, praying forthe passage of the bill to 

esta'Qlish a soldiers' home at Erie, Pennsylvania-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. }..,LOWER: The petition of ex-Umon soldiers and sailors, 

for the passage of House bill 3386, providing for pensioning soldiers 

and sailors confined in confederate prisons dnnng the war of the 

rebellion-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. GEDDES: The petition of H. P. Davis and60 others, citi- zens of Richland County, Ohio, for the enactment of stringent laws 

for the suppression of polygamy-to the Committee on Ways and 

Means. 

By Mr. GUENTHER: The petition of M. R. Hunt, general man- ager of the National Iron Furnace, and 36 other manufacturers and 

business men of East and West De Pere, Wisconsin, asking for an appropriation of $5,000 for dredging the lower Fox River from the 

city of Green Bay to De Pere-to the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. HARMER: Memorial of citizens representing the industries connected with the book and printing trades of the United 

States, asking Congress to extend the privileges of copyright in the 

United States to foreign authors and designers-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

Also, memorial of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who 

served during the late war, now residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, praying for the passage of the bill establishing a soldiers' 

home at Erie, Pennsylvania-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. HATCH: The resolutionS of the Merchants' Exchange of 

Saint Louis, Missouri, urging a more efficient organization of the 

United States Signal Corps-to the same committee. · By Mr. HEILMAN: The petition of 147 citizens of Lane Township, 

Wa:rrick County, Indiana, asking Congress to appropriate "5,000 to 

relieve the distress of the citizens of sard township, caused by a fail- ure of crops last year-to the Committee on Appropriations. 

By Mr. HOBLITZELL: The petition of Mrs. Mary Luckett, for 

relief-to the Committee on War Claims. · .Also, the petition of steamship owners and captains at the port of 

Baltimore, asking for a change of the Sandy Point light-to the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. HUBBELL: The petition of Syd. Scott, vessel-owner, and 

others interested in the business and shipping of Lake Superior, for 

the establishment of a harbor of refuge at Grand Marais, on the south 

shore of said lake-to the same committee . .Also, the petition of Jacob S. Jones and others, soldiers of the late 

war, for the equalization of bounties-to the Select Committee on the Payment of Pensions, Bounty, and Back Pay. 

By Mr. HUMPHREY: The petition of A. P. Wild, 0. S. Powell, 

George P. Merrick, and others, of River Falls, Wisconsin, for the passa~e of the Edmunds bill on polygamy-to the Committee on the 

JudiCiary. ' 

Also, the resolution adopted by a mass meeting of the citizens o:f 

Ean Claire, and the petition of citizens of Woodville, Saint Croix 

County, Wisconsin, on the subject of polygamy-to the same com- mittee. 

By Mr. G. W. JONES: The petition of citizens of Texas, for legislation to regulate charges for railway transportation-to the Committee on Commerce. 

Also, the petition of citizens of Texas, for legislation f6r the suppression of polygamy-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 
1504 OONGRESSION.A.L RECORD-SENATE. MARCH 1, 

By Mr. JORGENSEN: Papers relating to the claim of Mrs . .A.delina 

T. Blick-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. KASSON: The joint resolution of the General Assembly of 

Iowa, urging an amendment to the patent laws so ·as to protect innocent purchasers offatented articles-to the Committee on Patents. 

Also, memorial o the Iowa State board of health, for a national 

quarantine inspection, so as to prevent the spread of small-pox-to 

the Select Committee an the Public Health. 

By Mr. LINDSEY: Papers relating to the claim of Tous.saint 

Mesplie-to the Committee on Claims. 

By Mr. MOORE: Papers relating to the claim ofT. L. Taylor, administrator of the estat.e of Andrew Taylor, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. MOREY: The petition of 500 citizens of Fayette County, 

Ohio, for legislation regulating charges for railway transportationto the Committee on Commerce. 

Also, the petition of citizens of Monroe1 Butler County, Ohio, asking 

for legislation to protect innocent purcha-sers of patented articlesto the Committee on Patents . . ByMr.MOSGROVE: Four petitions of ex-soldiers of the twentyfifth Congressional district of Pennsylvania, for the early passa.O'e of 

House bill No. 1440, for the establisment of a soldiers' home at Erie, 

Pennsylvania-severally to the Committee on Military Affairs . .Also, the petition of citizens of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, for 

legislation for the suppression of polygamy-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. NEAL: The resolutions of the annual conference of the 

liethodist Episcopal Church, for legislation for the suppression of 

polygamy-to the same committee. ·By Mr. ORTH: The petition of certain citizens of Indiana, praying 

that a pension be granted to SamuelH. Cole-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. PAGE: The petition of citizens of Oakland, California, 

asking for the prompt pa~ge.of the bill to incorporate the Maritime 

Canal Company of Nicara~a-to the Committee on Foreign ~airs. 

By Mr. PETTIBONE : rapers relating to the claim of Robert 

Hays-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. ·PETTIGREW: Papers.relating to the claim of Edwin 

Parleman-to the Committee on Clillms. 

By Mr. PIERCE: The petition of citizens of Indiana, for the improvement of the Wabash River-to the Committee on Commerce. 

Also, a bill appropriating .$25(),000 for the improvement of the 

Wabash River-to the same committee. 

By Mr. W. W. RICE : The petition of Warren Newcomb and others, 

citizens of Wellfleet, Massa-chusetts, for the abrogation of the .articles af the Washington treaty relating to the fisheries-to the Committee on Foreign ..A.ffaus. . By Mr. ·RITCHIE: The petition of Oliver B. Veritz and12 others, 

citizens of'Ottokee, Fulton County, Ohio .~r the amendment of the 

pension laws-to the Committee on lnva.J.i<l Pensions. 

Also, the petition of 46 stave-manufacturing companies, of Northwestern Ohio, who ~ve employment to 1,970 men, protesting aga.inst 

any increase of duties on low grades of sugar.,....-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. ROSECRANS: Two petitions of citizens of San Francisco, 

California, prnying Congress to favor the maritime canal companyto the Committee on Foreign Affairs. · By 1\Ir. SHALLENBERGER: The petition of C. W. Hazzard and 

others, discharged soldiers of Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, and 

vicinity, in favor of the early passage of the bill establishing a soldiers' home at Erie, Pennsylvania-to the Committee on Military 

Affairs. 

By Mr. STEELE: The petition of Henry Heister and 100 others, 

for legislation to regulate charges for railway transportation-to the 

Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. WILLIAM G. THOMPSON: Memorial of the Board of 

Health of Des Moines, Iowa, for the establishment of a national quarantine to prevent the spread of small-pox-to the Committee on the 

Public Health. 

Also, the resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, praying for a law 

of Congress to protect innocent purchasers of patented articles for 

personal use-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

Also, the resolutions adopted at a meeting of citizens of Muscatine, 

Iowa, for legislation for the suppression of polygamy-to the Committee on the J ndiciary. 

By Mr. TUCKER: The petition of citizens of Virginia, for the re- peal of inspection fees on tobacco intended for export-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. TYLER: Memorial of Charles Morgan, William H. Bliss, 

Rev. J . .A.. Sherburn, and 90 others, citizens of Rochester, Vermont, 

asking for prompt and efficient legislation for the suppression of 

polygamy-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

Also, the petition of S. W. Dike, W. B. Hevrich, J. L. Denison, as a committee of the citizens of Royalton, Vermont, in mass-meeting assembled, a-sking for the enactment of laws for the suppression of 

polyga.IIly-to the same committee. · .By Mr. Y .A.N VOORIDS: The petitiou of 360 citizens of Rochester, 

New Tork, for the ropeal of the tax on bank deposits and the twocent stamp on bank checks and drafts---to the Committee on Ways 

andMeans. · 

By Mr. W .A.DSWORTH: Papers relating to the claim of Frederick 

Foote, of Falls Church, Vir~inia-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By\Mr. WAIT: The petition of citizens of Woodstock, Connecticut, for such legislation as will lead to a speedy suppression of 

polygamy-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. W .A.RD: The petition of Wilde Post, No. 25, Grand Army 

of the Republic, of Chester1 Pennsylvania, in favor of the bill for the 

establishment of a soldiers home at Erie, Pennsylvania-to the Com· mittee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. WILLITS: The petitions of Bach & .A.rel and 70 others, otr 

Ann Arbor, and of Clark, Baker & Co. and 77 others, of Adrian, Michl .. gan, for the repeal of the tax on barnk deposits and the two-cent· stamp on checks and drafts-to the Committee on Ways and Means . By Mr. WILSON: The petitionof.A.ndyMcGarrellandothers, citi · zens of West Virginia, relative to the duty on imported iron plate 1 

coated with tin or teme metal-to the same committee. 

By Mr. G. D. WISE: The petition of D. Buckner & Co., to h-1-· .e refunded to them the amount of tax alleged to have been illegally 

collected from them on manufactured tobacco-to the same com- mittee. 

Also, t~e petition of Gordon & Allen and others, of Richmond, Virginia asking for the refunding of the amount of tax paid by them on tobacco alleged to have been illegally assessed-to the same com- mittee. 

By Mr. YOUNG: The petition of Alexander Cameron and 25 others, 

of Richmond, Virginia, in relation to the repeal of the tax on tobaccoto the same committee. 

SENATE. 

WEDNESDAY, March 1,1882. 

Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. J. BULLOCK, D. D. 

The Journal of yesterday's proceedings w~s read and approved. 

EXECUTIVE COMl\WNICATION. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in Tesponse to a resolution of Jan nary 30, 1882, a report of the Adjutant-General containing 

reports of the commanding generals of the divisions of the Missouri 

and the Pacific in relation to Indians held as prisoners under orders 

of the War Department; which was referred to the Committee on Iudian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

PETITIONS A..~ MEMORIALS. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented resolutions of the New 

York Historical Society in favor of the purchase by Congress of the 

Benjamin ~'ranklin papers and documents, now in London; which were referred to the Committee on the Library. 

Mr. ·MCDILL. I present joint resolutions of the Lecisla.ture of 

Iowa in reference to the patent laws, and I desire that t'hey may be 

printed in the REcoRD. 

Mr. ALLISON. I think they had better be read. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. They can be read, but could be 

printed in the RECORD without reading. The resolutions will be 

read. 

The resolutions were read, and referred to the Committee on Pat· 

ents, as follows : Joint resolution No. 3. 

Be it resolved by tM General .Aaaembly of the State of IOUJa, 1. That in view of the 

vexations, litigation. and extortions forced upon the people of this State by barbwireJ.. drivs-well, and otherpatent-ri~htmonopolies, we do hereby earnestly request our ;:;enators and Representatives m Congress to use their influence to have the 

patent laws of the United States so amended that while they will secure due and 

ample reward to the inventive genius of our country, they will also protect tho 

people from the recurrence of such unjust exactions. 

2. Resolved, That the secretary of state be, and he is hereby, instructed to trans- mit a copy of the foregoing resolution to each of our Senators and Represelltati vee in Congress. 

Approved February 23, 1882. 

STATE OF low A., 

Office Secretary of State : 

I, J'. A. T. Hull, secret~ of state of the State of Iowa, hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of joint resolution No.3 passed by the nmeteenth General 

Assembly and on file m this office. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of 

the State, at Des Moines, this 24th day of February, A. D. 1882. 

(SEAL.] J. A. T. HULL, Secretary of State. 

Mr. SHERl\I.A......~ presented a petition of citizens of Ohio, praying 

for legislation r~~nlating charges for railroad transportation; which was referred to me Committee on Commerce. 

Mr. McPHERSON presented a petition of the Historical Society of 

New Jersey, praying Congress to :hlake an appropriation for the purchase of the Benjamin Franklin papers; which was referred to tbe 

Committee on the Library. "' 

Mr. :r.fcPHERSON. I holain my hand several petitions from glass- blowers and those en~aged in the manufacture of glass, not orily in 

New Jersey but in other Sta~es, praying Congress for some correc- tion ofthe tarifflaws. Theystatethat "thetarifflaws ofthiscountry were evidently formed for the protection of the manufacturing 

interests of the country, and.the import duties imposed upon manu-