9080 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. OCTOBER 2, 

Mr. FORD with Ur. GUENTHER. 

Mr. STEWART, of Texas, With .M:r. DUNHAM. 

Mr. CLARDY with Mr. WADE. 

l!Ir. O'FERRALL with Mr. MASON. 

:Mr. BIGGS with :Mr. MORROW. 

Mr. BELMONT with {r. DAVENPORT. 

Mr. GRANGER with .Mr .• ROCKWELL. 

:Mr. BLANCHARD with Mr. -THOMAS, of Tilinois. 

Mr. MoRSE with l\'Ir. WmTING, of Massachusetts. 

Mr. HOWARD with Mr. HOPKINS, of Illinois. 

Mr. CUTCHEON with Mr. TARSNEY. 

Mr. DARLINGTON with .Mr. MOORE. 

Mr. PIDCOCK with Mr. PHELPS. 

Mr. RUSSELL, of Massachusetts. with Mr. COGSWELL. 

Mr. WHITING, of Michigan, with Mr. HOUK. 

Mr. LYNCH with Mr. YARDLEY • • 

Ur. BACON with Mr. CASWELL. 

Mr. McADOO with Mr. BRUMM. 

Mr. MAHONEY with Air. BROWN, of Ohio. 

1t!r. ~<'SHANE with Mr. LAIRD. 

Mr. ~HIYF'..LY with Mr. OwEN. 

Mr. LATIIAM with Mr. GEST. 

Mr. GLASS with Mr. KETCHA!vf. 

Mr. NEWTON with Mr. FELTON. 

Mr. SIMMONS with Mr. BUNNELL. 

Mr. COWI~ES with Mr. THOMPSON, of Ohio. · 

· Mr. DocKERY with Mr. W AR.NER. 

Mr. DfBBLE with Mr. BELDEN 

Mr. GLOVER with Mr. CooPER. 

Mr. NOI:!.WOOD with Mr. PARKER. 

Mr. RAYNER with Mr. DE LAN01 

Mr. ERMENTROUT with Mr. GALLINGER. 

Mr. WILKINSON with Mr. NICHOLS. 

Mr. FISHER with Mr. BROWER. 

Mr. MANSUR with Mr. SAWYER. 

Mr. VANCE with Mr. MOFFITT. 

Mr. LANDES with Mr. McCORMICK. 

Mr. CHIPMAN with Mr. ARNOLD. 

Mr. O'NEILL, ofMissomi, with Mr. CONGER. 

Mr. O'NEAL, of Indiana, with Mr. HENDERSON, of Iowa. 

Mr. MACDONALD with Mr. JoHN R. BROWN. 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Illinois, with Mr. DALZELL. 

Mr. DUNN with Mr. HOWELL. 

Mr. LAWI~ER with Mr. SEYMOURMr. TAULBEE with Mr. FARQUHAR. 

Mr. STONE. of Missouri. with Mr. WILLIAMS. 

Mr. CULBERSON with Mr. BAKER, of Illinois. 

Mr. BooTHMAN with Mr. McKINNEY. 

Mr. WILSON, of 1\linnesota, with Mr. ATKINSON. 

Mr. STEWART, of Geor¢a, with Mr. HARME~. 

Mr. ENLOE with M.r. PUGSLEY. 

Mr. PENINGTON with Mr. STEPHENSON. 

Mr. HoGG with Mr. SCULL. 

Mr. DARGAN with Mr. GROUT. 

Mr. TOWNSHEND with Mr. SPOONER. 

Mr. HoLMAN with Mr. JoHNSTON, of Indiana. 

Mr. CARLTON with Mr. FuNSTON. 

Mr. COBB with Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. 

Mr. CRISP with Mr. REED. 

Mr. liLOUNT with Mr. WEBER. 

Mr. McMILLIN with Mr. RUSSELL, of Connecticut, 

Mr. W ASHTNGTON and Mr. HIESTAND were announced •as paired 

on all political questions for this day. 

Mr. ANDEl{SON, of Mississippi, and Mr. PETERS were annouuced as paired on all political questions until further notice, and especially on 

the Oklahoma bill. Mr. PETERS would vote for the bill and Mr. ANDERSON, of Mississippi, against it. • The result of the Yote ·was then announced as al>ove recorded. 

Mr. BRECKINHIDGE, of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, no quorum having voted, I move a call of the House. . The question was taken; and the motion was not agreed to-ayes 12, 

noes 36 . .Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky. I believe the only thing now in order is an adjournment, and I move that the House do now adjourn. 

Mr. BROWNE, of Indiana. Will the gentleman withdraw that 

motion until I can ask leave of absence for the remainder of thesession? 

Mr. llRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky. Ifthatrequestisnowinorder, 

I shall be very glad to accommodate the gentleman. 

The SPEAKEH Jfi'O tempore. The rules do not permit the transaction of any business when it is disclosed that no quorum is present. 

:Mr. BHOWNE, of Indiana. Obtaininp; leave of absence is not busi- ness, hut getting clear of business. [Laughter.] 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. No busine~:;S is in order in the absence 

of a quorum, except a motion for a call of the Honse and a motion to 

adjourn. 

The motion of Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky, was agreed to; and 

accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 25 minutes p. m.) the Hous~ adjourned. 

PRIVATE BILLS• INTRODUCED AND REFERRED. 

Under the rule private bills of the following titles were introduced 

and referred as indicated below: 

By Mr. CHEADLE: A bill (H. R. 11535) to correct the military 

recor:l of Allen L. Ball-to the Committee on .Military Affairs. By Mr. R H . .M. DAVIDSON: A bill (H. R. 11536) for the relief of 

John Baptiste-to the Committee on War Claims. -

By Mr. HOOKER: A bill (H. R. 11537) for the relief of the estate 

of William H. Sims, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. MAISH: A bill (H. R.l1538) for the relief of Charles Kochto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. MATSON: A bill (H. R. 11539) to remove the charge of desertion from the name of Samuel C. Vance-to the Committee on Military Aflairs. 

By Mr. McCREARY: A bill (H. R. 1154.0) for the relief of Sanford 

D. Van Pitt-to the Committee on Claims. 

By Mr. ROGEl{S: A bill (H. R.ll541) granting a pension to Lorain 

B. Sykes-to the Committee on Pensions. _ 

PETITIONS, ETC. 

The following petitions and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk, 

under the rule, and referred as tollows: 

By Mr. BUCHANAN.: Petition for pa .. •>sage of laws prohibiting transportation ot convict-made goods-to the Committee on Labor. 

By Mr. HOOKER: Petition of A. Krape, of .hbdison County, Mis- sis~i ppi, asking reference of his claim for stores and supplies to the Court 

of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. NEAL: Petition of S. R. Safley and 55 others, of Warren 

County, Tenne.~see, manufacturers of apple brandy, askin~ that the 

time be extended in which the tax upon brandy it;; required to be paid, 

the regulations and instruc.tions similar to what are now required in 

thE( case of whisky and malt liquors-to the Committee on Way~ and 

Means. . By Mr. MAISH: Petition of Charles Kroch, Company H, One _hundred and thirtieth Re~iment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, praying for a pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By l\1r. McCHEARY: Petition of Moritz Klump, praying for the 

allowance of a claim against the United States-to the Committee on 

War Claims. 

By Mr. MORGAN: Petition of widow of James M. Clark, deceased, 

late of Tippah County, Mississippi-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. PHELAN: Petition of citizens of Memphis, Tenn., asking 

for a seaboard quarantine-to the Committee on Appropriations. 

By Mr. H.OBEH.TSON: Petition of Dr. Chase A. Hardy, lor reliefas 

Mexican veteran-to the Committee on Pension. 

By Mr. HOGEHS: Petition of citizens of Sebastian County, ATkansas, 

praying relief of the family of the late John D . . Trammel, who was 

killed while acting deputy United States marshal engaged in the en- forcement of internal-revenue laws-to the Committee on Claims. 

SENATE. 

TUESDAY, October 2, 1888. 

Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. 

The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. 

PETITIONS A.ND MEMORIAL3. 

Mr. CALL. I ask unanimous consent to present and have referred 

to the Committee on Fisheries a letter from John Cross, of Liverpool, 

Fla_, ih the nature of a petition. This letter is addressedtoConrz;ress, 

praying that body to do something to keep the Cubans out of the waters 

of Charlotte Harbor, on the coast of Florida. The letter further states 

that the Cuba.us build huts on om islands, send away the :fish to Cuba, 

spend no money here, and introduce the yellow fever. 

I move the reference of the letter to the Committee on Fisheries. 

The motion was agreed to.· 

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 

:Mr. PAD DOCK. from the Committee on Pensions, to whom were re· 

ferred theJollowing bills, reported them each with an amendment, and 

submitted reports thereon: 

A bill (S. 0538) granting a pension to :Mary Saeger; and 

_ A bill (S. 3042) granting a pension to Mrs. Philena T. Carpente·r. 

_Mr. BLAIR, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred 

the following bills, reported them severally without amepdment, and 

submitted reports thereon: 

A bill (H. R. 10825) granting a. pension to Mary Jane Jelly; 

A bill (H. R. 9784) granting a pension to Anna Boppell; 

A bill (H. R. 4101) granting a pension to Martha Giddings, formerly 

Martha Priest; · · 

A bill (H. R. 9388) to increase the pension of Joseph Holmes; 
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A bill (H. R. 5919) restoring to the pension-roll the name of James 

Monohan, minor child of Richard Monohan, deceased; 

A bill (H. R. a593) granting an increase of pension to Lau!a L. 

Wallen; 

A bill {H. R. 5985) to increase the pensions of Mrs. Mary Ann Cross, 

Mrs. Minnie L. Gardner, and Mrs. Lilla May Pavy to $30 per month; 

A bill (H. R. 10911) granting a pension to Ira E. Baldwin; and. 

A bill (H. R.10488) granting a pension to Myra Sinclair. 

Mr. SAWYER, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the follQwing bills, submitted adverse reports thereon, which were agreed to; and the bills were postponed indefinitely: 

A bill (S. 3534) granting a pension to WilliamS. Dean; and 

A bill (S. 3555) granting a pension to Albert N. Bradley. 

Mr. SAWYER, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom were re- ferred the following bills, reported them severally without amendments, and submitted reports thereon: 

A bill (H. R.l1333) granting a pension to Mrs. LouiseM. Humphrey; 

A bill (H. R. 4792) to pension J. W. Porter; 

A bill (H. R.l0647) granting a pension to Samuel J. Wright; 

A.. bill (S. 3374) granting an increase of pension toNewtonJ. Shrake; 

and 

A bill (S. 3556) granting a pension to William H. Mays. 

lfr. DAVIS, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom were re- ferred the following bills, reported them each without amendment, and 

submitted reports thereon: 

A bill (H. R. 10659) for the relief of Elizabeth C. Cole; and 

A bill (H. R. 9252) granting a pension to Mrs. Catherine Barberick, 

of Watertown. 

Mr. VOORHEES, from the Committee on the Library, to whom was referred the bill {S. 3384) to purchase a painting of Abraham Lincoln, 

reported it without amendment~ and submitted a report thereon. 

HENRY LECOMTE. 

' Mr. HAWLEY. I report favorably, without amendment, from the 

Committee on Military Aflairs, the joint resolution (S. R. 112) authoring the SeCI·etary of War to receive, for instruction at the Military 

.Academy at West Point, Henry Lecomte, of Switzerland, and I oeg for 

its immediate consideration. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The joint resolution will be read at 

length for information, subject to objection. 

The Secreta_ry read the joint resolution, as follows: 

That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to permit Henry 

Lecomte, of Switzerland, to rt:ceive instruct~on at the Military Academy a.t West Point: Provided, That no e1.:pense sha.ll be caused to the United States thereby: And prtnJided further, That in the ~e of the said Lecomte the provis- ions of sections 1320 and 1321 of the Revised Statutes shall be suspended. 

Mr. SHERMAN. I should like to hear an explanation of the joint 

resolution. 

Mr. HAWLEY. I was about to give a word of explanation. This 

is not at all an unusual thing. We have now, I think, two young gentlemen from foreign countries admitted to the Military Academy. 

Their expenses are paid. 

Mr. SHERMAN. From what country? . 

Mr. H.A WLEY. One of them is from Venezuela, I think, from one 

of the South American states, at least, and the other is a Japanese. 

This young gentleman is from Switzerland. The act whose tbrce is 

suspended in such cases is the one requiring .an oath of alle¢ance to 

the United States, which is quite common. 

The tat her of this young gentleman, Colonel Lecomte, served honorably in our war, and is now of the highest rank in the Swiss army. He 

is quite anxious that his son should be educated a tour Academy. The 

Secretary of War sends the resolution here with a copy of the request 

ofthe Swiss Government, and asks that it may be passed as early as convenient. 

The joint resolution was reported to the Senate without amendment, 

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

passed. 

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. 

A message from the HouseofRepresentatives, by Mr. CLABK, its Clerk. 

announced that the House had elected Hon. JAMES B. McC&E.ARY, a Representative from the State of Kentucky, as Speaker pro tempore 

during the temporary absence of the Speaker. 

ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. 

The message also announced that the Speaker pro tempore of the 

House had signed the enrolled bill (H. R. 10540) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiRcal year 

ending June 30, 1889, and for other purposes; and it was thereupon 

signed by the President pro tempore. . 

BILLS INTRODUCED. 

Mr. BLAIR introduced a bill (S. 3603) granting increase of pension 

to Joseph Demash; which was read twice by its title, and, with the 

accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. 

He also introduced a bill (S. 3604) granting a pension to Sarah J. 

Alexander; which was read twice by its title, and, with the acco.q!panying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. 

Mr. MITCHELL introduced a bill (S. 3605) granting an increase of 

pension to William Thompson; which was read twice by its title, and, 

with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. 

Mr. SABIN introduced a bill (S. 3606) to authorize the building of a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi River at La Crosse, Wis.; 

which was read twice by its title, and refetTed to the Committee on Commerce. 

OCCUP A.NCY OF PUBLIC GROUND. 

Mr. CHANDLER submitted the following resolution; which was read: 

Resolved, That the Commit-tee on the District of Columbia be, and hereby is, instructed to inquire whether or not a. private dwelling is being erected in 'Washington on public land a.t the intersection of Massachusetts avenue and M 

street, facing Thomas Circle; and if so, to inquire bow much public land is be- ing so occupied, and to ascertain by what legal authority, if any, such erection and occupancy are permitted; said committee to report the facts to the Senate, and also to report a. bill, if such is necessary, to prevent any illegal occupancy of public land. 

Mr. CHANDLER. I ask for the present consideration of the re.solution. 

Mr. SPOONER. I suggest to the Senator from New Hampshire 

whether it would not attain his purpose quite as well and preliminarily, at least, better for him to addres.~ his resolution t-o the commissionels of the District, instructing them to report whether any building is being constructed on public ground. I do not care anything 

about the matter, but I make that SU!!gestion. 

Mr. SHERMAN. I enter an objection to the considerat.ion of the 

resolution. It affects a private person. The matter is now iu controversy between her and the District commissioners. I therefore object 

to the present consideration of the resolution. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution will lie over under 

the rules until to-morrow. 

Mr. SHERMAN. I do not think it ought to be taken up here. 

IMPORTATION OF CONTAGION OR INFECTION. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Senate a 

resolution coming o''l'lr from a previous day, offered by the Senator from 

Florida [Mr. CALL], which will be stated . The SECRETARY. A resolution . in relation to the importation of 

conta-gious or infectious disease from foreign countries on the coasts or boundaries of the United States, submitted September 27. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to the 

amendment proposed to the resolution by the junior Senator from 

Florida [Mr. PAsco]. • Mr. CALL. Mr. President, I wish, if possible, to obtain some action 

of the Senate and of the House which may assume the form of law 

wit.hont any delay in reference to the epidemic disease that is now prevailing in the State of Florida and elsewhere in Southern States. It 

bas elicited a number of communications from men of thoughtful- ness and scientific attainments which I think ought to be put before 

the public in some form; and without detaining the Senate for any great 

length of time, I ask leave to print in the RECORD such parts of these 

communications as may be important without reading the whole at 

length. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempo're. The Chair bears no objection. 

Mr. CALL. I have a letter from Dr. William Miller, 149 East One 

hundred and twenty-fifth street,. New York, as follows: 

NEW YORK, Stpte'l'lwer 28,1888. 

DEAR Sm: I take the liberty of transmitting to you $ slip from yesterday's Star on the prevention of yellow fever by vaccination. This note is called out by a resolution offered by you in the Senate appro- priating SlO,OOO for the expen~es of the meeting of t.ne Academy of Sciences a* Washi~>gton, D. C., for investigating the methods for the prevention of yellow fever. For years I have experimented in this direction for the culture of viruses to prevent diseases; and the first who ever vaccinated for hereditary tubercular consumption with success. . I know yellow fever -can be prevented or modified with a correctly cultivated animal virus of the disease germ that is safe and harmless. It is now plainly understood it is the multiplying of this poisonous germ in the body and eating up the red part of the blood corpuscles, and shown by Dr. Neal Mitchell, of Jacksonville. Fla., of a case of completely honeycombing the liver. &omething 

ought to be done to prevent this disease, and all I do to stop the progress of the disease is to poi.l!on the food or pabulum this little microbe multiplies and feeds · upon by vaccination. His career is then cut short. .An appropriation for the purpose of testing this method of treatment is of important value. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, DR. W. MILLER, • 119 East One hundred and tu·enty-fifth st1·ee1, New York Oity. 

Ron. Senator CALL, 

Washington, D. 0. 

Dr. Miller sta~s in an article which he incloses to me, as follows: 

WHAT YELLOW FEVER IS-A CORRESPONDENT SUGGESTS INOCULATION_ AS THB 

BEST PREVENTIVE. . 

SEPTEMBER 27,1888. To the Editor of the Star: 

SIR: In view of the grave consequences resulting from the scourge of yellow fever at Jacksonville, :Fla., it seems something ought to be done, more than has been done, to prevent the ravages of this contagion. It is now generally under stood by medical men and those who have studied the cause or retiolog-y of the- disease, that it is a. poison of the blood, and brought about by the iuhalation of a distinct disease germ through the currents of the air, and conveyed by the water, food, and possibly by absorption through the pores of the skin. Whether these poisonous germs a.re the carriers of an infection, or fasten upon t-he internal organs of the body and there multiply and rfilllroduce themselves to 
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an unlimited extent .. and ~hen die and choke up the venous and art.erial circnla- tieu, are q_ uestion& yet to be dete:rmin.ed. It has beenshown that when this germ is taken into the organism by way of inhalation they pass through the stomach with the food into the lower section of the intestinal canal without harm, until they reach the lower region of the colon, where they find an enlodgment and ar condition suitable to their propagation, when, within a.few hours, they mnltiply 

llJ'ldreproduce themselves to many millions. Th.is is the real beginning or in· cipient sta.ge of yellow fever, before the absorption of these germs into the cir- culation, and to clean out this fermentive com pad with Epsom salts or castor oil, followed up with finely powdered charcoal, is very effective treatment to stay the progress of the disease. In contagious or infectious diseases the virulence depends upon the activiLy of the poison, and to modify this germ for the prevention or mitigation of dis- ease is now an interesting problem in medical science. That such a thing is possible bas been proved, or even shown, that vaccination with a correctly cul- tivnted virus will alford protection ft·om so grove a maJady as yellow fever. It would then seem incumbent. on the medical profession to test the virtues of this prophylactic without regard to explanations whether it compares st-rictly with pathology o1· as to the ex:act mode which these results come about, and save the lives of thousands who have been or ma.y be exposed to this-malignant disease. To prove the value of an antagonistic poison tliat is safe and harmless, H is now on record of a medical professor who inoculated 1,438 persons exposed to yellow fever with attenuated adders' poison not one of whom died, though seven were attacked with the disease. This is authentic, and other clinical evidence can be given in support of this theory and treatment of yellow fever by vaccination. On July 28,1873, the first vaccination wasperfor.med inthiscountryfor hered- ital.-ytuber.Uru:consumption wi.t.h success, an.d o.flater date f~r other disease!!, by this method of practice. Since the discovery of the disease germ and the relation to disease enough bas already been proved to satisfy the public mind, and nothing short of actual t-ests should be given to show the practicability of preventing yellow fever with a. modified form of virus that may be used under certain conditions, not so much for a cure, but a preventive, as small-pox is prevented in man. Though this fact of preventing disease willi au antagonistic poison has long- been known, the difficulty has hereto.foce been. in the correct and safe method. of attenuation. 

The day is not far distant when the application of distinct viruses fm: differ- ent diseases will be generally practiced and perhaps bettex understood. For this purpose a laboratory should. be established for the cultivation and distribu- tion of such viruses to all sectionsofthecountry, as vaccine issentforsmall-pox. 

It is then possible great good can be done for the benefit of mankind and. the cause o.f m.edic.al science. W. 1\IILLER. 

ties, and proved as virulent there as in low re[\'ions. Indeed the disease has al· ways been more virulent in the country, when it. once prevails there, than in cities." 

'.L'hese clear and authoritative statements form a solid-foundation for the now prevalent opinion that this disease is not simply an aggravated form of malarial fever, but that it stands alone, with a cause as specific as small-pox itself. This conclusion encourages the hope that this specific poison IDl.l.Y yet be counter· acted by some specific remedy. 

That yellow fever is gendered by poisonous germs, multiplying with fearful rapi~ity in the system of the patient, is generally believed, though the demon· stra~1C!n of th~ germ is not. yet accepted by all physicians. However this may be, 1t 1s certam. that for more than seventy-five years ther e has been in New Orleans, throughout all the yellow-fever epidemics by which it has been ra.v· aged, one point in the heart of the city where, despite some unfavorable sani- tary conditions, no case of yellow fever has ever occurred. That point is the calai?oose, or old city prison. Often crowded to its utmost capacity during epi- det;~:ne~, its inmates always escaped the prevailing infection. Still another lo- cahty ill New Orleans has for about fifty years enjoyed the same immunity with the city prison. ~hat locality is the city gas-wmks, not only tile employes of which have 

uniformly escaped yellow fever, but all the families resident. in the immediate vicinity. The gas-works in Mobile h ave also;exerted th.e same protecting infln"' ence. The various ch-emicals employed in gas-works and the very compound odors engendered might well l eave even medical men in doubt as to the true antidote to the prevailing yellow-fe-ver poison. nut an examination of the cal- aboose furnished clearer indications. The attics of this-old city prison had long been the abodes oi countless bats, th.e dead bodies of which, with their accumu- lated droppings, bad by their deooy produced an annoying stench. The pre- dominating odor of ammonia, however, clearly demonstrated it as the success- ful antagonist of the germ.. Soon after the conclusion of th.e last epidemic in New Ocl.eans a very interesting article wa.s. published in the Times by l'tll'. J . Lidngston, an active member of the Howard Association. 

He gav-e o. detailed account of the free application of ordina1·y aqua. am- monia, sometimes mixed with equal parts of spirits-of camphor, to the bodies of . a large number of patierLts. This was done at first simply with a view to the powerful arid grateful cooling influence produced by the rapid evaporation, 

favm-ed by the heat of the fever; After his experience in several epidemics he . was impressed with the fact that the heat and fever once reduced by the appli- cation ot the ammonia neve~ retut:ned. He became convinced that ammonia as an "alkaline gas. penetrated the body through the pores of the skin, and as the-l'e~r did nob return, the conclusion was inevitable 'that the poison in the system was an acid poison, and that the alkali neutralized it.' Doubtless his conclusion was correct; but he appem:s to have overlooked the very important fact that the ammoniated atmosphere surrounding patients thus treated was · fl:eely inhaled by them, and from the extended and very absorbent surface of , the. air-cells of the lungs had much more influence in destroying the fever poi- " KILL TIIJil J.i'EVElt: WITlF FRO.S'll-A..NOVEL PROPOSITION" TU CHECK T.HE SCOUitGE SOil in the blood than any action through the skin. We- have long been im- BY AB:l'IFI.CIAL REil'lllGE:&ATI.ON. ' pres_ed with this view of the case, and some valuable expedients for readily:-

NEW YORK, Beptemhe-J•24. 

A reporter for the Star had a conversation with. a gentleman who ha& made brin~into full play the absorbing powe1· o1' the lungs ana air passages gen- the situation at. Jacks.onville a. study, and who has had a yellow-fev-er experi- erally having just; occurred to us, we hasten to make them public for the ben- ence of his own, and the following-are some·ofthe ideas advanced.: He said that· ef:it of our afflicted towns and cities without waiting the slow c.ourseo1' the med:- inatead of blindly fighting a disease which, ever since its advent, had defied the ica.l journal!<. skill and science of the-medical m.en in every quarter of the parth, people would The general application of ammonia.. to th.e bodies of patients, as has been adopt. the only means ever known to kill the disease and stop its ravages, fi·ost, . described, should always be practiced when possible; but often from deficiency theTe would be a gleam ofsense in their methocfo.fprocedure. of materials and of nurses this pian cannot. be pursued. In.such:cas.ea aqua In. place or· importuning the rules of the universe for frost, the gentleman~& ammonia may be sprinkled upon a cloth or. handkerchief and laid upon the plan is to make that chilly disinfectant as occasion requires, and insteaw of us- breast of the patjenlr. In this way inhalation of the ammonia. in sufficient ing the large relief fund now pouring in for burying the dead and. ameliorat- q_Yantities to neutralize the poison may re.adily be. secured without the aid of i'ng- the condition o:t the sm·vivors, he· would appropriate a sum of money for an:;~ apparatus, the animonia, of course, to be. renewed at. inte1:vals. This plan. the purci1ase of an ice machine, which, with the expenditure. of three tons- of . will prove of great. ad'\'!antage even when free ammoniated applications have coal daily, would' refrigera-te the- atmosphere. of. a.-space equaL to t.he extent of. been IDl.l.de to th-a. oody ~ 

the largest of ow: city blocks, and in it place every one who showed. the. firs~ , Ouc next practical suggestion. is that the wa.rds of hospitals and the rooms symptom of the disease or permit any· one to enter who· fea1·ed the approach of of private dwellings may readily be placed in the same safe conditiolb against.: the malady. yellow fever as the. old calaboose at New Orleans. This can readily oe accom- It is a well-known: fact that one of our· best appointed hospitals. has.- a . " chill plisliedbyallowing theproperamourrtofammonincalgastoeseapestai.edlyinto room" for the sam.e. purpose, and there seems no good reason in the gentle- the hospi~ or dwellings to be protected. The gas- may be compreE.Sed intu mJID's mind why-it should not be applied en a much Iargerseale-. ct>pper Yessels, properly fitted: wit.h small adjustable. stop-cocks. 

Of course I lia;ve no such knowled!Ze as enables me to express any For the protection of unacclimated nurses and visitor& the air of" aU sick- ~ rooms should be ammoniated whenever possible. Ill this connection it is im~ 

opinion upon thi!Y subject, but I think it- very-clear that wh:t.tever portantt.o 1·emarkthatthevolatiledisinfectants, suchas chlorine.,carbolic a.cid, 

method may furnish, in the judgment of reasonable men, a probable etc., will condense or decompose ammonia., and thus destroy. its usefulness. 

cure or nreventive far this= diseasp- which has already caused the loss Where ammoniacal gas is employed disinfection should J.>e accomplished by ...,.. .., non-volatile agents, as copperas and ordinary lime-not ti.J.e chloride. After of so much life a-nd. threatens to extend su much further than it has all that has been. stated, it is- clear t.he1·e is: no: plan fon personal protection 

already extended an<f ha.s cost' so much- money to the country, it should against. yellow fever which ean be com Dared to that which can readily be seb ...... ~~.:~- -71 ._;- d ai th t · d t t d e1 ·ts t th cured by ammonia in some form. e ~.u.n~, anu ~.u.C! upon a sc e a lS a equa e 0 ev 0P 1 ru Even travelers fearing infection may carry-about with them small oottres of 

orits falsity: aqua-ammonia, so tbatra.handkerchiet ma;y-be.moisten-ed.with.it.from.time to 

I have another letter from ME. I. B., Read, a; pliysieian,. I. am told, <Jf time, and worn in. t.he breast pockets of their coats. A still more co~venien1i 

t din d ~~~ -~ -+...- • T ~ 1 Ala · H · 1o mode of securing pr-otection will be- to provide a small cloth bag that can be S an g an !tbiiGU.J.ll.Uen~ IU liSC::uoosa, · e InC ·ses· a. commu- conveniently carried in the v-est- po-cket, and place in it Iralfanounce, or less, 

nication to me, and in inclosing it makes use of tnese· remarks~ of coal'Sely pulverized carbonate of a-mmon in.. The warmth of the person will 

Tusc.ALOOSA., Be]}tember 2S, 1888. liberate a-n ample amount of gas for enveloping the chest and re.aching the lungs, exerting additional influence by inlialation. :QE.UI. Sm.: Inclosed you will find an article of mine on prevention and cm·e It is needless, perhaps, to remind the ladies that the old-style· l>otUe.s of of yellow fever. which ram sm>e yen wi1I read with interest. smeTiing-salt& may be well revived at this juncture, as they give o:tt• n=onia. in Notwithstanding the lateness-of the season, the practical suggestions-made sufficient quantity to be useful, whethe.J:" tl-a'\'!eling or at home, in infected sec- may prove of great service to your State; es-pecially in southern portion of it, tions. The various modes of using ammonia for antidoting yellow fever and. 

where ki11ing frosts. occur late. Parties desiring an early return to Florida will the readiness and economy with which they may be employed certainry give receive aid and comf01·t from my article, a.nd the prospect of immunity from promise of most beneficial results in all localities infested or threatened by yel- fU:tu:re visitations of yellowfeve:r will tend-to-prevent depreciation of property low fever, and pn.rticularly in.e..rl.t:eme southern or tropical sections. Carbonate · in your State-fl'Om the presen·t epidemic. Ra-ve the kindnes-s to exhibit my ar- orrunmonia, iJ1 5-gr:.rin doses, may- be· usefully employed internally. But it ticle to your colleague-, l'llr. PASco, and to hnve it published where ill will be is the part of discretion nob to :rely exclu-sively upon.amm.onia.in the treatment most likely to reach the southern portion of your Stare, whe:refrosts are ta.rdy. of yellow fever; the use of miiStard, of foot-b!l.thsj etc., should not be neg-lected. 

Key West andHavano.IDl.l.y yetrbe soon relieved. Ko prudent physician will, in any serious form of disease in the South, omit Very respectfully, yours, the internal use of mercury in some torm, and prefe-rably calomel. Of this use- J . B. READ. ful drug a combination of 20 grains with, tln·ee of bicarbonate of soda should be Hon. W . CALL, United States Senate. 

In this article Dr. Read states as follows: 

YELLOW FEVER-BO.ME PRACTI'C.AL SUGGESTIONS FOR I.TS PREVENTION AND CURE. 

The exigencies of the hQur lend interest to any proposi~ions giving reason- able promise of relief. There is good ground for the belief that the expecta~ 

tionswhicb will natm-ally be excited will not be disappointed. Some years ago one of my old preceptors, Dr. Warren Stone, of New Or- lcan.s, of more than thirty y~ars' experience in the treatment of yellow fever, made the following remarks in one-of his public lectures in regard to its nature. They wiU be read with interest at this juncture, and open the way for the sug- ge tions we propose to maka.. "Nothing mt>l:e definite can be sn.id than. that it (yellow fever) is a disease in- cident to wa.nn clim.ates, and induced by a. peculial' poison., totally intangible, nnd disconnected ft·om ll.IlY known cause of disease. There is no combination nf filth, 'no combination of. circumstances, calculated to deteriorate henllh and excite typh-oid 01: typ¥,us fevers that ha.vc.. anything to· do-with the generation 

Clf yellow fever. * * * 'l'he fever has existed upon high and healthy localibe made into five pills, and oue given every hour from the outset. Quinine be- ino- of very questionable utility in' yellow- fev er; we propose. in ita stead the use of"'quassia: in solidextrant or infusion. It. is an admirable toni:c, and, having little or. no exciting power, may be used without damage when the fever is at its height. We would remind oar profe~sionn.I brethren of the high reputation 

acquired by quassia long ago in relievin~ the putrid and malignant fevers of Surinam. It is a powerful antiseptic uod insecticide, and there is little room to doubt that its first high reputation was due to its power as a destroyer of ge1·ms in malignant southern fevers. It certainly deserves resuscitation. We would enforce all that has- been claimed for ammonia by refe1·encc to the facts that the old Morgan line of steamers that for so manyyears was engaged in the transportation of cattle to and from Indianola, Galveston, New @cleanS', and Havana neve£ bad a; case of' yellow fever to occur among.,. its office~·s o:r crews. The filth of the cattle kept the-vesseL satm·ated uy runmoniacal odors, 

whicll by inhaiation preserved the health of all employed in that trnffi.C'. Let it l)e remembered that no amount of ordinary disinfection and.c:u:e will prevail 

against yellow fever. '.rhe heights oi Gibraltar, guarded n.nd cleansed with the utmost care by the skill of British garrisons, has suffered as severely as nny 
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quarter of the globe, with a. few exceptions in our own country. Cleanliness is all important, and disinfectanta have their use, but ammonia is claimed as an antidote to yellow fever, and the claim is apparently well founded. Ordinary disinfectants may be safely omit.ted; ammonia never. J. B. READ, 1\f. D. TUSCALOOSA, ALA., September 26, 18SS. 

This constitutes the substance of the suggestions of Dr. Read upon 

this subject, the methed of using as a disinfectant and a cure and preventive the spirits of ammonia in different forms for this disease, based 

upon the ascertained fact, as he claims it to be, of the exemption of 

certain localities where this chemical existed in natural conditions as 

the only ascertained cause and preventive. 

Dr. Read suggests that this should receive an exhausti.Ye examination, and that some public action should be taken by the Government 

to test this method of cure and prevention. He alludes to the fact that 

the commerce of the Southern States, the Gulf States of Alabama and 

Mississippi and a portion of Georgia, is almost entirely suspended, and 

that a shot-gun quarantine, dangerous to life and very costly to the 

different localities, is being maintained throughout the entire extent 

of the country, causing a loss of millio~ of dollars. 

I am also informed that in New York the transportation of cotton 

from the States which are supposed to be infected with this disease has 

been prohibited, and that a very large interruption of the commercial . relations of the country has been e:tused already by the apprehension 

of its importation into the Northern and Eastern cities. 

I have another letter from a man who seems to be a man of some thoughtfulness and with a spirit of inquizy and examination into this 

subject, a 1\Ir. Knickerbocker, of Lawtey, Fla., I believe a citizen of 

lllinois, who has recently made his home in that State, which is as follows: 

Hon. WILKISSON OA.LL: 

DEAR S.rn : In nnswer to your inquiry of 15th, I am happy to suy there is no yellow fever in Bradford County, nor fever of any kind in this section. There is now authentic record that there are but two places in the Stale where yellow fever is epidemic, Jacksonville and ltkelenny, except Gainesville, which at date of writing is doubtful. In my previous letter to you I inclosed drawings and description of methods to kill the germs and kill the yellow fever. I have in- closed other drawings and description to more fully eYpla.in. if any interest or move is made to practically test the plans proposed. The plan inclosed for disinfecting, by superheated steam t<O spray bichloride of mercury, or other disin- fecting solutions, ought to be published in the papers generally, as it is immedi- ately available in most towns of any size that have steam fh·e-enginea. The streets and sewers can by this plan be thoroughly disi~fected immediately. I intensely feel that this epidemic will injure us as a. State more thnn ·any- thing that has befallen us since .Florida. has been a State. and anything that may possibly lead to a method or plan of stamping out or staying the disease before frosts should be resorted to. It is our duty to do all we possibly ea.n, and I hope the plans proposed may at least suggest som~ plan t<O scientific men that will at least save us from another visitation of this dread pestilence. The following additional explanations apply to the balloon plan of drawing down frosty air from high elevations: First. Just previous to elevating the balloons, to ascertain whether adverse cross-currents are prevailing, pilot balloons can be sent up. These will show whether guy ropes are needed, or the balloon can be made so the lower parts will act like a. common kite, and always. hold the balloon at. a.n angle of not ovm· forty-fl.ye degrees. This may do away wit.h a. serious trouble in prnctice, and the only serious trouble to be apprehended. The record of the amounts of ice-cold air a. fan blower of 48 inches diameter will discharge per horse power per minute is 15,000 cubic feet, which will give a faint ides oi the i.znlaense amount of frosty air that could be spouted on the. ground of the streets and forced through the sewers and infected buildings, etc., by this method·. I think the most serious objections to the proposed plan have been answered. Should any move be made towards trying these pla{\S, I would be very mucll obliged to be notified of the !;ame. Most respectfully, yours, M. KNICKERBOCKER. 

LAWTEY, BRADFORD CoUNTY, FLORIDA, &pten!JJer 23", 188& 

Mr. Knickerbocker incloses drawings- of a mechanical contrivance for 

the purpose of disinfecting by superheated steam in sprays of the bichloride of mercury or other disinfectin~ solutions by the aid of steam 

fire-engines in the streets and sewers of cities. 

This tendency of the American mind to exhaustive inquiry and ex- amination into eYery subject that presents any great danger to the 

country at la1·ge is largely among people of limited means, men of en- terprise but without money, enthusiasts, perhaps, but still thoughtful 

men, following the principles of the Baconian system of reasoning, who 

experiment in facts, who test particular cases, and who reason from an extensi\e gathering of the observations or reliable persons in relation 

to the ascertained facts. This epidemic is becoming more fu.tal every day in the loca:iities where 

it exists, and it is only the near approach of frost that will stay its rav- ages. It is very important, t-o prevent its recurrence in t.he coming summer with renewed virulenCl:l antl vastly extended range, that the 

subject should be inn~stigated at the present time and without any 

further delay, when it can be done before the frost shall have exterminated it for the time being. 

T also submit the following letter from Dr. Stephen Smith,. vice-president of the National Board of Health: 

NATIONAL BOARD OF liEALTir, 

New Yorr., 574 .Madison.cr.;enue, ~ptember 25, 1888. 

l\ly DEAR Sm: I uoticc tha..t you have introduced a. bill creating a. commission to study yellow fever as it at presen~ exists in Florida., with ~view to its prcYention. Perhaps it is not known to you that a similar investigation was mnde by a competent corps of medical men during the prevalence of the epi- demic of 1878, in the Mississippi Vallev, which led to tb.e creation oftb.eNatioD.lll Board of Health in 1879. One of the first acts of that board was to send a com- mission of experts, in the knowledge of yellow fever, to Cubs. to study the disease at its home, and determine the best methods of dealing with it. The re- port of that commiss-ion was most exhaustive, and will be found at length in the first and second annual reports of the National Board of Health. Based on that report was all of the subsequent work of the board, and had it been sUBtained,. by even meager appropriations, yellow fever never would have gained a foot- ing in this country. . • The National Board of Health still e:rists, having in its membership the ablest sanitarians in this country, two of whom :ueeminentSouthern physicians,. who have personally been through the severest yellow-fever epidemics of the Mis- sissippi Valley. And it is a matter of astonishment to the members of that board that in this great crisis. of another visitation of the pestilence the board is not summoned by the President to give its advice and aid as in 1879. Instead, the President relies entirely upon one member of that board, namely, the Surgeon- General of the Marine Hospital Service, and thus fails to call into the service two of the most competent physicians in the management of yellow fever perhaps- in the world. I refer to Dr. Robert W. 1\Iitchell. of Memphis, and Dr. Stanford E. Cha.ill~e, of New Orleans, members of the board. I think if you will confe.1: with Senator HARRIS and Senator GIBSON yo11 will learn much in regard to thv J.)oard and its work which you ought to be npp'rised of in this emergency. The act creating the board was approved March 3, 1879, and is still in force. The act which gave the board its greater powers was approved June 2,1879, and expired by limitation at the end of four yeH;rs. This latter law ought, in my opinion, to be revived, and the National Board of Health again empowered t<O exercise its functions as the snnit:uy branch of the Government. It is no wish of the members of the board to obtrude themselves upon the President, who now is alone responsible for the use of the funds appropriated to prevent the spread of the epidemic, but they feel and believe tlul.t the special knowledge which the boardhasofyellow fever and the large experience gained of the value of measures of prevention in 1879-'83 would be of great public service fn this epidemic. The national board is the lawful branch of the public health service of the General Government. and as such ought of rigb.t to perform the du.tie3 belonging to that service. Excuse the freedom with which I have written, but I do so only from a sense of duty and responsibility a ,\1 an officer of the board. Very truly, yoru-s, STEPHEN SMITH, ~L D., Vicc-Pre:Jiacnt of the NationaL Boa1·d of Heallh. 

Hon. WILKIKSON CALL, SenAtor. 

I am told that it is an ascertained fact that while the frost or a severe degree of cold temporarily suspends the poison or whatever may be the canse of this disease, it reappears und-er favorable conditions on the first 

ad vent of a heated temperature in the next season. Therefore the 

country where this disease has prevailed is very profoundly impressed 

with the necessity of an exhaustive examination during the next three 

or four weeks into the conditions of this disease in the locality where 

it now is, tlie ~ethods of its introdu.ction into this country, and all the 

facts attending it. 

I therefore hope that the Senate will take some action.. I have almost despaired of the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, in the midst 

of the engagements which the chairman and some other members of 

the committee have upon other important subjects, giving to this- matter the time and attention whichjs necessary for its immediate passage; 

but I hope that the resolution will pass without delay, and I trust that 

if the Committee on Epidemic Disea~es can not give to the subject the 

time and consideration necessary to formulate and reportto the Senate a bill by which this method of inquiry may be ha<L and that all sug· 

gestions from all persona not confined to arrypaTticnlar school of medi:- cine or any class of men, be thoroughly and exhaustively examined. 

To that end I have introduced a joint resolution, which T hope iviii 

receive the favorable consideration of the committee, requesting the 

President to convene the Academy of Sciences, which, I undeiStand, is 

composed of a number of learned men who have habits of research into 

the different sciences, and are eminent for their attainments in some of 

them, as a nucleus, and to add to them such eminent scientists a.s may 

be found in other portions of the country and in other countries, not 

confining it to the United States alone, to convene and to establish 

proper modes of prpof, of the gathering of facts while this epidemic 

still prevails, and to give to the subject the profound ~bought and attention that it deserves. We must remember that this matter of epidemic disease bas been 

in the past history of the world a fruitful cause of the destruction. of 

entire peoples-, more so than even the great wars that have desolated 

the world. Professor Proctor, whose lamented death has recently 

occurred, wrongly attributes, T think, to the prevalence of this scourge, 

in an article which he bad prepared, suggested to him by the preva· Ience of the yellow fever in the Southern States, collated the facts as stated by the different historians upon this subject, and among others 

he caJ.led to mind the fact tha.t the historian, Gibbon, states it as his 

opinion, from the best data which could be obtained,. that the great 

plague which desolated the Roman Empire and Lb.e Orienta.! nations 

during the latter days of tll.e empire destroyed not less than one hundred million people. 

The wonderful fatality of this peculiar disease, which Dr. Stone describes as something distinct !rom all other known diseases and having 

no reJatiou and no resemblance to them-the '-ronderful fatality with 

which at times it prev:tils in different portions of this country, being 

transported in the clothing, transported apparently in wood and in substances which would seem to have no natural affinity for it, renders it necessary that the very best intellectual capacity the country 

and the world affords shall be bestowed upon this subject. 

We are now almost in daily communication with the coast of Cuba, 

with the city of Havann,, where this terrible disease is almost con- stantly existing, and where at particular seasons of the year no foreigner can enter the city from the latitudes which we inhabit without 

great danger of being snbjected to it. ~ 
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Mr. President, I shall not detain the Senate any further. My object 

was to present these sugge~tions and put them irt the RECORD from men 

who have given much thought to this subject, and who e ideas h:we 

been communicated t~ me for the pnrpose of being placed beJore some authority capable of dea.Jing with them. . 

I -call attention, beto!e concluding, to the remarkable features of this 

epidemic in the city of Jacksonville. With a population of probably 

nut more than nine or ten thousand persons who were left there after 

the advent of the epidemic, out of 3u,UOU people living there and in 

the immediate vicinity of this city, there have been, up to this date, I 

think, very nearly twenty-nine hundred cases, if I read the figures 

aright, and two hundred and sixty-three deaths out of thitt number. 

The city of Jacksonville is a place the natural conditions of which are 

remarkably healthful. It is a very sandy, open, porous soil, which 

readily dispo es of whatever may be placed upon the surface that would 

engender a had atmosphere. It is rollmg ground; it is washed by the 

tide-waters of the Atlantic Ocean, which make their entrance and their 

exit there twice in every twenty-four huurs. 

It is near the coast, where tiJe sea breezes from the open ocean, unaffected by any intervening land, from the coasts of Africa and Europe, 

entirely open, render it peculiarly salubrious and wonderfully he~lthy 

in ordinary times. This dis~e has by its very great fatality there 

shown what it would do if it were located in Washington City or in 

Norfolk, as it has been, or in any great city where sanitary conditions of 

a proper character are very difficult to preserve, and it actually threatens 

the whole of this country, threatens it with a probability that can only 

be met by the most carefuhmd efficient methods and at this present 

time. 

That i'l the opinion of the most intelligent and best informed physicians who have communicated with me since the first resolution was 

introduced asking the aid of_Coi:u~ress upon this subject. 

Mr. BLAIR. Will the Senator yield for a question? 

Mr. CALL. Certainly. 

Mr. BLAIR. The Senator alludes to a correspondence with physicians. I understand the difficulty to be that there is a portion of the 

southern extremity of Florida where the disease has already become 

seated1 which is below the frost line, where we can not rely on freezing 

to extirpate the fever germs. Is that the point at which the Senator 

would direct his effort? 

Mr. CALL. That is one point in the matter. 

Mr. BLAIR. Then, the inquiry I want to put to the Senator is this: 

whether these physicians suggest any tangible, definite thing to be 

done? 

Mr. CA.LL. Yes, i have a great number of communications which 

I desire to place upon the record to go before the country. 

Mr. BLAIR.. There seems to e a vast amount of communications 

and a great deal of general talk, while the disease is continuing its ravages and spreading over the country. I thought perhaps the Senator 

had some proposition to bring this to a. focus, to give them some money 

to do something. 

Mr. CA.LL. I have introduced this resolution asking the President 

of the United States to convene the Academy of Science. 

.Mr. BLAIR. What object is there in convening the Academy of 

Science, I ask the Senator? 

Mr. CALL . . And such other learned men--

Mr. BLAIR. Learned men have worked for ages and ages on this 

business and have found oub nothing. 

Mr. CALL. I do not know of any other method except to conVN1e 

the best intelligence and the best information that can be had on the 

snQject. and ask of that body to adopt the proper methods of in vestigation and follow it up in the most earnest and scientific method. 

Mr. BLAIR. .lfow would it do to appoint a committee of the Senate and let them summon experts? It seems to me to summon the 

Academy of Science would be wild work. I never yet knew such an 

academy that could agree that two and two make four. If the Senator 

will make a proposition to do something, to spend some money, and 

find out something by a committee of the Senate or a joint committee 

of both Houses with authority to go to work and summon people who are supposed to know something-two-thirds of them will know nothing, but some of them will know something-we shall get the advantage of what they have to say, and possibly shall get some information 

that will enable us to buy coffins, i1 nothing more. · 

Mr. HALE. Allow me to suggest that the Committee on Epidemic 

Diseases, of which the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. HARRIS] is chairman, has taken a great interest in this matter, is now looking into the 

subject and considering what may best be done, and will no doubt report in the pra-ctical direction indicated by the Senator from New Hampshire. 

Mr. BLAIR. Would it not be well for them to be armed with some money and some instructions to bring things to a focus, call in the 

learned men of the Academy of Science and men who do not know so much as they do, out of whom they may get information of some value 

if they can get it from any source. 

:M:r. HA.LE. I never knew a committee intrusted with such works 

who would not need a liberal supply of money. 

Mr. BLAIR. 'rhey might be instructed to bring their work to an 

end before the disease had spread everywhere and the people of the nation had died ot the disease, and do the best tbey can. It seems to me it is a better way than it is to talk so much. 

Mr. CALL. It seems to me that the proper action for the two 

Houses of Con~ress to take at this time would be to pass the joint 

resolution which I have introduced and which I was in hopes the 

Committee on Epidemic Diseases would have considered and reported 

beJore this time. 

I appreciate the fact of the public engagements which will now 

occupy the time of Senators and which may have prevented that 

committee from giving this subject the attention which it deserves. 

{t can not wait. If this investig~tion is to be had at all, and to be 

had in the most efficient manner, it mnst be made within the next 

three or four weeks while this disease is prevailin!! with its greatest 

virulence in the States in the South. Then it will have disappeared, 

and unless a faithful record shall have been kept, and kept upon a 

large scale, bringing in the greatest number of cases and the peculiar 

symptorus and features. attending each case and the surroundings and 

the effect of the different remedies nsed and experiments made under 

intelligent direction of all the new suggestions, we can not hope to 

develop anything new. 

This disease has existed for seventy-five years, At times it has desolated the city of Havana and the city of New Orleans and the city of 

Galveston. It has only occasionally made its appear3:nce upon the 

coast of Florida, and this year it has come in a shape and with a fatality so widely extended as to threaten in the future very wide areas of 

country. -

The Academy of Science, as I understand, is a corporation of learned 

men who are devoted to the subject of scientific research, natural research-which l:ienators are not-who have given their lives to it; such 

men as Huxley, of England, and some who have not attained equal fame 

but have approximated it, lik.e the late Mr. Proctor. There artl numbers of them, with whose names I am not familiar, in the United States. 

Mr. BLAIR. Those are not citizens of the United States. How can the Pre.sitient convene them? 

Mr. CALL. He can request their attendance. 

Mr. BLAIR. I know a doctor in N e·w Hampshire who will find out 

more about it than any of them will if you summon him before the 

committee. · 

Mr. CALL. I have not the slightest doubt of it. 

Mr. BLA.IR. I am in favor of exhausting the American doctors before we go abroad. 

Mr. CALL. I have no doubt he is a very learned man; learning is 

not confined to any particular bounds. I acknowledge there are great 

men in New Hampshire; but there are some elsewhere, and let us have 

them all, or as many of them as we can l·onveniently get. 

That was tbe suggestion that occurred to me, that we should have 

the investigation not only of medical men, but all men of natural research, men of habits, of study~ and thought. and experiment. The 

great trouble of the world has been the want of that continuous scientific practical investigation which Bacon with his wonderful genius indicated so many years ago as the only solid basis of progress and practical information as to natural science and the facts of nature, the 

order of nature. 

If this disease shall evoke and procure that action by the Congress 

of the United States of an assembly of "'the great scientists of Americaof New Hampshire-of England, of France, of Germany, for the purpose of investigating and determining the true facts which will indicate 

the character of this disease and the methods of its propagation and 

prevention, ~d its cure, it will have accomplished a ,z;reat good to the 

world and a gr.-at good to ourselves; and I am persuaded from the facts 

which are exhibited by these scientific men, some physicians and some 

not physicians, but who have given attention and thought to this subject-! am satisfied somethmg useful will be developed. 

Mr. BLAIR. Allow me to ask the Senator one questicn before he 

takes his seat.- Suppose this convocation should get together and find 

out absolutely, beyond all peradventure, a remedy fortheyellow fever, 

and in some way its application would interfere with the doctrine of 

State rights, what would be-the Senator's position? 

Mr. CALL. We can discuss that when it comes up. 

Mr. BLAIR. Now, unless the Senator is willing to start with the 

understanding that in some way we can override the doctrine of State 

rights and . take this specific, if it be necessary and the only thing to 

eure the yellow fever. I am opposed to any further expenditure. 

Mr. CALL. I should he very sorry to lose the support of my friend, 

the Senator from New Hampshire, but he must not allow the doctrine 

of State rights to intertere with his present action. We can consider 

that when it comes up. · 

Mr. BLAIR. Not long since the Senator broug:ht up the subject, 

which was discussed for a long time and we were all ready to help him 

out, but when it trenched upon the doctrine of State rights he chose 

the.yellow le-rer. In view ofthe prospective destruction and death ot 

this nation by reason of this epidemic, if we find the remedy, it may 

be at a million dollars' expense, I want to know if the Senator is going to interpose the doctrine of State rights and prevent us taking 

physic and getting well? 

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:Mr. CALL. I have never found any difficulty in the doctrine or taiu this theory certainly it is a proper subject for investigation, and 

State rights interfering with any national purpose which was really a it is right and proper that the facts should be known. 

natioual purpose; but I will not enter into that discussion with my · In whatever wa.y this disease is brought into the country, in whatever 

friend. My idea is tba.t the National Government and the States ought way the present epidemic originated in the localities where it bas ex- to operate together, the one aiding the other, which is the proper in- isted during the· present year, if it is possible for the Committee on terpretation of the spirit of the Constitution. However, we will not. Epidemic Diseases to ascertain that channel, to discover that avenue, 

discuss that now. then it would seem to be our duty to cut it off and keep it from again 

Mr. BLAIR. That seems to be this, that the State of Florida fur- invading the country. It is for this purpose that I have offered the 

nif:bes the disease and we m·e called upon to furnish the remedy, and amendment, so that these questions may be eieamiued into in order 

in that way to co-operate together. Now, I want to know whether that if the disease is brought in from foreign countries by smugglers or the Senator will interpose the doctrine of State rights to prevent our by any lines . of trade and travel to and from toreign countries, that 

helping the people in the State of Florida to prevent the spread and stricter guards may be placed at the ports of entry and along the coast, 

the extension of the disease to other portions of the country? and that the disease may be kept out of our land in that way. Of 

Mr. CALL. The trouble is that the State of Florida does not fur- course, when it once comes in here we have got tQ resist it; we have 

nisb the disease. The Constitution furnishes the disease in cr~ating the got to find the best and most e:ffecti ve means of checking its mvages, 

foreign commerce of the country and placing it under the regulation and the money of the Federal Government and of the people of the 

of Congress. country has been poured out liberally, almost like water, in order to 

Mr. BLAIR. If that be so, why does not Congress take control of meet and resist this disease during the present year. 

the whole matter? The Senator's theory of State rights is conceded . If it is to comehereyearafter ye.ar, it is our duty to devise means to enaway, even by the Senator himself: deavor to prevent it and to check its progress. Butafteritcomes, ourex- Mr. CALL. I do not think so. My friend is welcome to that opin- perience bas taught us that our eftorts. though extended and generous, 

ion if be thinks so. I see no difficulty in Congress taking such action accomplish but little in comparison with the vast !\mount of suffering 

as will secure the best possible results; .and my opinion and my desire are and evil that comes with it. It will still go on with its ravages, and it 

that the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, or the Senate without the will only be after years of experiment and years of investigation that 

committee, will at this present time, during this week, pass this reso- we may perhaps chance to come upon some remedy that will cure the 

lution, or some resolution similar, providing for an organism of some disease. But if we can keep it out of the country, if we can meet it at 

kind to investigate at the public expense t.be methods of the preven- the threshold, if we can stop it at our gates, and keep it from entering 

tion and the cure of this disease which may be ~uggested by learned through the channels of trade and commerce and travel something efand practical men all over the country, and that it may be required to fective will be accomplished. ' 

commence the investigation immediately here in the city of Washing- It is for this purpose I have offered the amendment, that it may go 

ton, and to obtain such facts as it may be possible to obtain at this to the committee with the resolution and with the bills that have been 

time for the prevention of this epidemic. 'That is the hope I have, and referred to the committee from other sources, and that the scope of this 

with tbo.t hope I have brought the subject before the Senate. examination and this investigation may be widened, and that the com- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The pending amendment will be mittee, if possible, may discover the avenues by which it comes into 

read. the country; and then let us take means to shut up those avenues. The SECRETARY. At the end of the resolution it is proposed to add: Mr. BERRY. Mr. President, a-s the chairman ot the Committee on Resolved, That the committee do further inquire into the introduction ofyel- Epidemic Diseases, the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. HARRIS], is not 

low fever into the United States during the present year, and ascertain, if pos- present, I wish to say that the Committee on Epidemic Diseases ha ·e sible, by what means and through what a.'"enues, if any, it has been brought into Florida and other st~tes where it has appeared as an epidemic during the shown a disposition to grant a.U the money and to grant all the power 

present year. · that may be necessary to crush out this disease; and especially will I 

Mr. CHANDLER. Does the Senator from Florida [Mr. PAsco] wish say that the Senators on that committee from the Northern and New 

to speak upon this subject? England States have shown a liberality that is greatly to be comThe PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. The Senator from Florida [Mr. mended in regard to their desire and disposition to give all the money 

PAsco] offered the amendment which bas just been read by the Sec- to stop this dread disease in the Southern States that they can give, 

retary. and to grant any power that may be necessary. 

Mr. PASCO. I have a few remarks to make touching the amend- Now, in regard to the resolution of the Senator from Florida, if I 

ment I introduced, before the discussion closes. understand it, it is a proposition to instruct that committee to do a parI have no objection to this inquiry and investigation proposed and ticular thing while that committee is investigating the whole subject. 

suggested by my colleague into this subject of preventing and curing I do not think the resolution ought to pa-ss in that shape, but I think 

the yellow fever, and shall favor a full consideration of the resolutions the resolution, with the amendment of the junior Sena.tm from Florand bills he and others have introduced in the Senate on the subject. ida, should go to the Committee on Epidemic Diseases. That commitThe Committee on Epidemic Diseases and Congress and the country tee are now investigating it. They are disposed and anxious to do everyhave been liberal to our people. They have contributed freely of their thing that it is possible to do and do the correct thing, and I think it 

money, publicly and privately, and everything that was possible in the would not be proper to adopt a resolution instructing them .tQ report a 

way of immediate and substantial relief seems to have been done in particular character of bill when they are investigating the su~ject, and 

order to arrest the progress of the disease and give relief to our suffer- are perfectly willing and int-end tv report the best bill that they can 

ing people. But if these investigations are to be made, and if this possibly frame. · matter is to be thoroughly inquired into by the Committee on Epi- Mr. CHANDLER. I should like to ask the Senator fi:om Florida 

demic Diseases, as I hope it will be, I should like the investigation to who introduced the resolution [Mr. CALL] whether be bas any objec- commence a little further back and not simply to consider how we shall tion to modifying the first part of the resolution so as to instruct the 

meet the disease when it comes into the country, bow we shall com- committee to consider the subject-matter of the resolution, but omitbat it and stop its ravages, but to inquire further as to the best means ting the instruction to report. If so, there is no objection tQ the pasof keeping it from getting into the country. · sage oftbe resolution, and there is no objection, as it seems tQ me, to - There have been several theories with reference to its coming into the adoption of the amendmen~roposed by the junior Senator from 

Florida during the present year. It bas been alleged that it was Florida [Mr. PAsco], which is an amendment instructing an investibrought in by smugglers dealing npon the coast of Florida. If so, then gation. But it does seem to me, especially in view of what the Senathere should be an examination into tba.t matter, and additional efforts tor from Arkansas [Mr. BERRY] has said, that after this Committee on should be made to protect the commerce of the country a,aainst an ir- Epidemic Diseases, the chairman of which is not here at this time, bas 

regular and illegal traffic with countries where this disease annually shown the dispositivn it has to give all the money and all the authorappears, and the Treasury Department should be supplied with liberal ity that may be needed in the present emergency, and· has also been means to prevent its coming thmugb these avenues of an unlawful disposed to consider all the many propositions which have been re- trade and commerce. ferred to that committee on the motion of the Senator from Florida 

It has been suggested that it bas .been brought in by the increase of [Mr. CALL], that it would not be quite wise or right to undertake to commerce between Florida and the West India seaports. If that is so, limit the committee by affirmative instruction, implying that there is 

that commerce should be guarded by a stricter quarantine, and all need of the application of some partil!ular stimulant on the part of the 

proper means should be taken to prevent the introduction of yellow Senate to make the committee do that duty in which it has not been 

fever into the country by that channel. derelict, but which I believe it bas been very prompt to perform. I 

~t bas been suggested, as re~erred to by the Senator from New Hamp- hope the Senator will make that modification, and then that the reso- sbue_[Mr. BLAIR], that the disease has been brought into the State in lution so modified may be adopted. If that modification is not made 

tormer years and that it has remained there during the winters below I shall move that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Eptbe frost-line, ready to break out with fresh vigor when the weather idemic Diseases. 

and conditions became favorable in another season. The experience of Mr. CALL. The 1·esolution proposes a very simple thing, and it 

our people fo.r mmny years at Key West, which is tbe'lowest point in does not require any delay. It proposes to instruct the committee to 

l.,l?rida:,. where this disease makes its visitations, and the history of the report at this session of Congress-what? Not any particular bill, but 

epidemiCs there would seem to prove that the disease does not subsist some resolution requiring the investigation at this moment in some in the country during the winter. But if there is any foundation to sus-· shape, by somebody, of the proper and best methods for the suppres-
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sion and prevention of this epidemic. I suppose it contained all the a wind-mill as Don QuL'{_ote was. He sees things in the air; specters 

ideas that are contained in the amendment of my colleague, but I have trouble his imagination. I said nothing about the committee. I "aid 

accepted that amendment simply as a matter of comtesy. I presume the committee have not reported any bill upon this subject, ex:cept the 

that when the subject of epidemic diseases, their introduction, and appropriation of $200,000 in money to beeX]_)ended in the·¢ty of Jacktheir suppression and prevention, is referred to a committee, it c~rries somille and elsewhere, and the resolution of the Senator t'rom Verwitb it the methods of their introduction as one of the means of pre- mont [Mr. ED'l£UNDS]; but a.<~ to any bill looking to an investigation 

vention as a necessity. of the best means of preventing this epidemic, for curing it, no action 

Mr. SPOONER. I wish to ask the Senator if he will yield for a has been taken by them. That is no reflection upon the committee. 

moment to allow the resolution to be read? I know the chairman of that committee bas been engaged upon the 

Mr. CALL. Cwtainly I wilL Finance Committee constantly; he told me so himself. So the sugThe PRESIDENT p1·o tempore~ The question is on the amendment. gestions of the Senato1: from New Hampshire amount to nothing, as 

The resolution ann amendment will both be read, if there be. noobjec- they very often do. And I am StJ.IPrised that the Senator from A.rk::mtion. sas, when I ask the Senate to take action requiring an investigation 

'.L'he Secretary read the resolution and the amendment. at this time while it can be had, should construe that into a reflection 

Mr. CALL.. Mr. President, there are two ideas connected with this upon the committee. There bus been no consideration, so far as I am 

matter. The one is the prevention o.f this epidemic, whether it be by advised or nave been informed, by any membe-r of preventing or suppreventing its introduction into the United States or by sanitary con- pressing this disease since the advent _of this epidemic in Florida. I 

ditions by some methods of affecting the peculiar substance of which did appear before that committee and I did urge the passage of the 

it consists. The learned men whose opinions have been communicated $200; 000 bilL and did urge that it should be so expressed as to authorhere, the notable instance in New Orleans, if tru~ which seeiUB not to ize and require the destruction of the woolen clothing and other inhave come before the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, of se-venty-five fected articles used by persons who had this disease, and paid for; but 

years' experience of exemption, and yet this terrible plague desolated the committee refused to approve it,. and the result ha.s been that this 

the city of Memphis. and the Mississippi Valley, and there seems never disease has been conveyed in the clothing of these people throughout 

to have been an investigation of that iact, if it be a fact, as is alleged the country and is now prevailing in Decatur, according- to the very 

here by a man of high character, of learning and experience upon this best authority, by the failure to do wlmt I urged in speeches which I 

subject. That would be one method of preventing it. made here when that resolution was before the committee. By the 

The use of this peculiar chemical which is found to exist in til at lo- opposition of the committee to tha't provision this disease has been exca.lity, if it be true, and this seems to have the authority more or less te:o.ded into those localities where. it has gone. 

of the distinguished pliysician who was a very learned man ru1d a man !fr. BLAIR. Will the Senator allow me to remind him that during 

of great experience on this subject, Dr. Stone, of New Orleans-:-I know t.he debate upon the reSolution or-bill as it passed his suggestions were 

not whether it be true or not, but I know, comingfrom. thisautliority, fully considered, and the action of the Senate was based upon the unit i::1 deserving of investigation, and I know that the Committee on Epi- derstanding that the bill as passed embraced all the Senator desired? 

demic Diseases are not the scientific men to make that investigation. It was left in the discretion of the authorities to buy old clothes, to buy 

I know that men wbo are acquainted with the specific suhject are bet- old buildings, and extirpate the disease in any way whatever that 

ter capable of making that investigation than are those men who are they might deem it wise and judicious to employ the money for that 

engaged in political matters, and whose thoughts are constantly occu- purpose. So the Senator's suggestion in that regard falls to the greund. 

pied with other subjects than those which require special knowledge The authorities had power to buy the clothes and stop the infection and 

of a particular condition of things. spread of the disease. and if anything is necessary that C.:'l.n be said or 

Mr. President, that was the reason why r asked this action, not that done by the Government we want to de it and have the end accomit W(}Uld be any reftection upon the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, plisbed. I do not think, therefore, that the Senator ought to combutimminence of this plague does not await the convenience of the Com- plain of unwillingness on the part of the Government. 

mittee on Epidemic Diseases. A. thousand people probably have lost 1\ir. CALL. r have made no complaint of unwillingness on the part 

their lives while the Committee on Epidemic Diseases have been con- of the Government or the committee, or any one else. I stated the 

sidering m: not c0nsidering what action should be taken. I know they fact--

have given attention to it. He:re are these bills before them. Of course Ur. BLAIR. Bu.t does not the-Senator understand, as I sta.ted, tha.t 

they are required to examine them and say whether they are correct under the existing legislation the clothing can be bought and can be 

or not, whether they ought or ought not to be passed; but I think the destroyed, if necessary? 

members of that committee will bear me out in saying that they have. :Mr. CALL. I understand it.is not so construed. I understand the 

not had more than one session of a few minutes or of an hour. or two UIJOn language is the same- as in the former bill, a:nd I understand, as I stated 

the consideration of this great epidemic. since. it has made its entrance then, that the construction put upon it did not authorize the purchase 

into the United States. and destruction of infected el'othing, bedding, and other things-. 

1\.lrr BERRY. We have had s.everai sessions. 1\fr. BLAIR. Did· it not authorize the destruction of the infected 

Mr. CALL.. How many? clothing .. bedding, and other thin~, whether the pmchase wasauthorMr. BE~RY. I do not know the number of sess:ionsr burr there lias ized o-r. not? 

been more than one, I am sure. Mr.. CALL. That was voted down in the Senate upon the moti~n of 

Mr. CALL. More than one? the c~Yminittee. Now, I sought to make that plam I have been en1\fr. CHANDLER. I should like to ask the Senator a question. L deavoring to procure suc1i legislation as would authorize some compeask whether he has not himself appeared before that committee? tent authority somewhere-toinve&tigatethis subject, to summon before 

1\Ir. CALL. I have~ them the men who had scientific and other knowledge· upon this sub-

• Mr. CHANDLER. And made as full a statement as he desired to ject, who had experience, to gather the evidence, to convene· the best 

make of his views on this subject? ability in the world, in the United States and out of it, and to give to 

l\1r. CALL. I did on the first resolution. Now,_ I ask the Senator the subject the digntty and the· importance and the patient investigahow many other meetings has that committee had pending the preva- tion which the great extent of danger with which it threatens the 

lence of this epidemic? • country requires. That is all; and in asking that it should be done 

:M:r. CHANDLER. I do not undertake-to say that they have spent immediately I did it because fknew that if the Senate does not take 

as much time in considering the measures before them as the Senator some action upon the subject now the Ollportunity will pass away. 

has consumed of the time of the Senate in talking about them, bot I I have introduced this resolution at the request of the men who have 

think that the adion of the committee has had quite as good. an effect volunteered their services and endangered their :bives in this work ot 

in suppressing the epidemic as the speeches of the Senator from Florida~ charity. in the city of Jacksonville, w bo have asked that a record under 

If the Senator will allow me, I say he carries an implication in the publie authority should be made of all the cases and of the conditions 

remarks he baa just made that men have been dying of this disease · of the epidemic existing there, in order that it might be considered by 

through the fault of the Committee on Epidemic Diseases. 1\o.fr. Presi- the scientific intellects of the world, and some· theory based upon facts 

dent, I regret that the Senator should use such language. I pardon observed and recorded which would relieve the country from the '9isthe Senator for his extreme zeal in 'this behalf, but while engaged in · itations efthis plague_ That is all. 

discussing this subject at such great length he should not do injustice This resolution does not commit the committee to any form of adion. 

to others; for he knows that from the beginnin~ to the end of this. busi- It instructs them to act in some way, to consider and report without 

ness, as the Senator from Arkansas has saidr the Committee on Epi- delay, and we all know, notwithstanding the remarks of the Senator 

demic Diseases have shown a disposition to do e-vexything that needs from Arkansas and the Senato-r from New Hampshire, that with the 

to be done and to give all the time that is necessary to this subject, inte-rest the country feels in the pending election, with the preoccupaand I think the Senator should refrain from casting imputations upon ' tion of some, the absence of others from the Senate, and the coming 

the committee, particularly when the chairman of the committee is discussions upon fin-ancial snbjects-we know notwithstanding what 

absent from the Senate. has been said that all the probabilities are- that unless the Senate pn.ss 

Now r ask the Senator what fault he has to find with the commit- thia resolution and give this instruction this body will adjoum and 

tee ? this subject refuain where it is, leaving to· chance alone the preservation 

Mr. CALL. :Mr. President, I have not found any fault with tlie of' the evidence and the fuc1:8 whleh ar~ important in investigations upon committee~ Th.e Senator from New Hampshire is· a& fond of fig}iting this-subject, aud leaving the plague to recur without the advantage of 
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experiment and proof an:d investigation of the various remedies, cures, of the clothing of persons who visited there and died in Mobile and 

and preventive methods which learned and thoughtful men have sug- Ieavingitatthevillagehot-el. A town was absolutely depopulated, some 

gested. ninety deaths occurring out of a population of 130 or 140, on a high 

:Mr. HALE. If the motion has not already been made and is not ridge in the piny-wood section of the Sta.te,. and.. as healthy a place as pending, I move that the resolution and amendment be re~'!"ed to the a person could select. 

Committee on Epidemic Diseases. I think all this proves. that the first place in which the yellow feve.c 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The Senatorfrom.Mainemoves that is developed anywhere in the United States, at whatever time of the 

the resolution and the amendment be referred to the Committee on year it maybe developed,. indicates the locality at which there ouglitto 

Epidemic Diseases. be a concentrated effort to prev.ent its spread. ·By what system of 

Ur. MORGAN. lli. President-- quarantine regulation that is to be done I have no advice to ofler, beMr. SIIElU.IAN. I hope the Senatol' from Alabama will allow me cause I do not understand that. subject; but wliat r m.ean to assert iS 

to state that the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. HARRIS], the cb.a.i:r.m.an that the nower that we intend. to oppose to the spread of yellow fever 

of" the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, who naturally takes a great ought to be concentra-ted upon the particular place where it first upinterest in the subject-matter, is, I know, necessarilyengaged in public peared in any given season, and we ought to spend as much money as 

business in connection with. the tariff, and therefore can not be here. is necessary to be spent there to have a perfect quarn.ntine and introI wish to make that statement, as his absence might not: otherwise be duce such other llygienicremedies as may b.e thought advisable. 

accounted for. How is this to be accomplished.? It must be done in one of two 

Mr. MORGAN. Mr. President, I am..notdisposed to delay action on ways, or perhaps by two means that lie within our reach: First, the 

this matter a.t all, and believing that the Committee. on. Epidemic Dis- Congress of the United Stat-es should. organize a commission_ with a.n..-

eases will take every possible step and do all that c:m be done by Con- thority to go to any :r>lace in any State where the yello..w fever fust apgrestional action to arrest and suppress the yellow fever, I shall still pears, and there have power to enforce the regulations that may be 

vote for the motion of the Senator from Maine to refer this resolution provided and money to carry out the p.urposes. of the commission, to 

to the copucittee. I think that that committee has labored as dili- introduce and enforce such a quarantine and s.uch hygienic measures 

gently ns any committee of this body since it was first organized for the as would be best adapted to the suppression of the disease in that lopurpose of carrying out the wishes of Congress as far as possible in the cality and to prevent its-spread. 

SUilpression of this plague; but my purpose..in rising to speak upon this On that proposition we are met with this difficulty: That tli.e Congress 

subject is t01 submit for the consideration of that committee a !?roposi- of the United States can not invade the States with its quarantine laws 

tion which has recommended itself to my mind after several years of and take from them the jurisdiction and right to govern the health of 

pretty close observation upon this trouble.. thepeoplean.d: providefor:theh:security. ThecityorNewYo:rkwould 

The Southern States are frequently agitated by the appearance of never submit in the world to liave a. United States commission go to 

yellow fever, a terrible impediment to commerce and business of every that great place from the city of Washington" or appointed by tlie 

chara.cter, aside from tlie sacrifice of human life that attends: the rav- President of the United States, and take charge. of alllocalquaranages of this disease, and the loss in money is very enorm.-orrs, and the tine and sanitary regulations to prevent yellow rever or. small-pox, or 

panic which the people are exposed to is something that is exerutiat- any other disease; and we have no jOWe.t. to compei Iier to surrender ing. I have observed, having taken part in the debates. which oc- this ancient right of sove1·eignty. 

curred at the time this committee was first organized, that there is a So there is a difficulty that occurs in. the admiuistm.tion. of the Taw 

sort of periodicity about the appearancao G.f yellow fever in the South, just in that wa.y. Bn.t there are powers. that we can exert in regard to 

and my observation ha.3 been that the periods-occur about once in ten the yellow fever in the Southern States. to w.hich I think. we ought to 

years. resort. There are nine States in. the South that have been heretofore 

Why this is so I am not able to judge,. but it is the faet~ The first subj~ct to the ravages of the yellow fever. They are Texasr Arkansas, 

appca:ran.ce of the yellow fever is usually upon the Southern coast, the Louisiana, Mississippi.,. Tennessee, Alabama, Georgja,.Floridar, andSouth 

eoast of the Gulf of Mexico or the Sou.th Atlantic; but of late years Camlina. Now, suppose that each' of these States should vote $1.00,-

it.is very observ..able that. the cities of" New Orleans, of Galveston, and' 000-if they had to vote the. money out of their treasury or borrow,. it 

of Mobile, which have heretofore been ravaged by this disease, have would make no difference-there would. be a fnnd.of$900,-000 :raised by 

practically escaped the infection while other cities in the· interior, com- these separate States. 

mencing at Brownsville, Tex., and coming around to Shreveport, La., Let each governor of each State. appoint a. commission and let that 

Memphis, Tenn., and Decaturr Ala., and other interior localities have honrd elect its president; let the commissioners be seiectelf with refbeen very much affected with it.. Two or three- yea-rs ago the yellow erence to their probity and their reliability and. their skill. Let them 

fever appeared in Pensacola. I do not now remember exactly whether take the form of a. joint commission and have free access to and th.e 

it was two years or three years ago- right to use. any !?art o£ this money, with the accu.m..ula.tions, at any 

Mr, CALL. Three years-. place. where the fever may appear in the South: Let them go. there 

Mr. MORGAN. Three ye:m; ago, and it continued in a certain fm·m and use their very best endeavors, guided by science and skill and 

during the winter season. I suppose the frost was not strong enough experience, to stamp out the appearance of the disease in that locality. 

to extirpate it. The Congress of the United States. in virtne of its. interest fn the 

It now seems to have found a field at Jacksonville and at other places mails, in interstate commerce,. international commerce, and in prein }!,lorida, :mdfollowing-the track a good deal that it had ten years ago, serving navigation, would have no difiicully at all in voting a su.bvcnonlyin a reverse direction, it is sweeping a.round toward Decatmr, Ala., tion to that commission and placing its" money fu the charge of these 

mill so on. Of course, I am not a ole to account for thes.e very peculiar State authorities to be expended under the State laws-. The States 

visitations-of yellow fever,, and do. not pretend to be able to account for themselves would naturally conform their legislative provisions so as 

them. I only find a certain state of facts which are repeated on several to make this a success at any place in any of these States where the • 

occasions, which admonislr. me that tfre efforts we are to make to pre- fever might appear. There is no diffi.culty about the introduction of 

vent the introduction of yellow fever into the United States must be it into the city of New York or the city of Philadelphi..-a.or the city of 

concentrated at the proper. time upon the· proper locality, the locality Boston. There is very little danger of i.t9 spread in the present light 

where the disease first appears. · that scientific men and experience have shed upon the question"of the 

Trn;vel between New Orleans, Galveston, 1\Iobile, and the Isfund of treatment of the· disease. So it is not necessary to enlarge this project 

Cuba and the other islands of the: Caribbean Sea was formerly slow; further than to include the eight or nine Southern States tha.tare Iiabie 

now it ~very rapid. A man can be aifected with the virus of the to the visitation. 

yellow fever in. Cuba, for instance, and come on a very rapid passage 1 believe if this were done we should get around the constitutional 

across the little divide of waters there. and remaint threem: four or five and other di:ffi.culties; that we -sho.ci.ld have a fund.- available in the 

days in a Florida towu or an Alabama. t-own before the disease devel- hands of the right kind of men, th-e right kind of a commission to go 

ops itself, it being contagious as well as infections, but particularly -to the spot, whether it is .Jacksmiville or wherever_ it may be in the 

dangeroua as a contagious disease. After the develoo.ment occurs in . South. where the fever first appears, and there ma.ke use of eyer.y e.ffor:t one of these towns about the coast, the conditions of temperature and that is possible to human ex.perien.c.e and human wfsd.om to stamp out 

moisture being favorable to the development and spread of the disease, this disease. 

other persons in the vicinity take it probably from contagion, or per- I have. thrown. ou.t these observations in this cmde..folliii., merely !or 

haps from infection, but they take it, and.itcommencesspreadingfrom the:pn.rpos.e of bringing them to the attention of the Committee on 

ma.a to man: and from neighborhood to rieighborhood, and. is trans.- Epidemic Diseases. I desire also that th.eLeg:i.siai:nres of the different 

ported by the railroads from place to place until we find it scattered States of the Sou.th should. devote some attention to this matter, a& they 

all over the country. · doubtless will. I think if we can secnre by Congressional ad..vice, and 

1Ien are carried into- healthy localities where there is no favorable Omgressional assistance.- and. Congressional concurrence a uniCormit.y 

condition for the spread of the disease, and if they get well that is the of action- among the different Stat-es of the South on. this su.bject, we 

end of it; but in other localities where the con-ditions are-fu:vorahle to shall have: a power to control. the introduction of yellow fever which 

the progress and spread of the disease it goes anout through the com- is equivalent to that which has· kept it out of Galveston and_ New Or-

• mnnity andkillsagreatmany. I have-knownalittlepiny-wocdstown Jeans and Charleston for years. It can- be kept ou.t;. there is no doubt 

50 miles awn.y from the Alabama Ri-ver during the prevalence of yellow about it.. Gen.e:ral Butler kept the yellow feve.r out of New Orleans 

fevec a.t Uobile to oe in.iected with that disease from.. tlie brin,oing home ! when. he had milit::r:ry possessiOn_ of tha.t :Qla-ce.. Whether: he did it by 
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local hygiene and hygienic treatment or not, I do not know. More 

likely than not it was in consequence of the blockade enforced against 

persons from Cuba.. 

My own opinion is that there is not a native case of yellow fever in 

the United States. They are all cases which are brought from abroad, 

in certain cases the fever breaking out and at other times latent and 

lurking in the system. I do not believe there is a foot of ground in 

the United Sta.tes that is native to the yellow fever. It is shown that 

it is similar to the African fever, and that is found in Africa only in the 

tropical belt of the coast on the east and west of that continent. 

I desired merely to submit these observations in the hope that the 

Committee on Epidemic Diseases would look into the su~ject. 

Mr. CA~L. Mr. President, I had no ide,a when I introduced this 

resolution that anything would come of it. I knew it would he referred to the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, and that would be the 

beginning and the end of it. Still I considered it my duty-to do it and 

to urge it so far as I have any power. This committee has lasted here 

for years. Terrible epidemics have scourged this country, and yet no effective method has been provided by it tor .either the investigation or 

the prevention of the disease. Now, I am not blaming the committee. 

It is a difficult subject, and it is only when plague and pestilence in 

their worst forms threaten the country that general attention is directed 

t,o this subject. The committee have sought to provide quarantine 

regulations. They are good; but how can you enforce a quarantine 

over a country with its 5,000 and 6,000 miles of seacoast? How can 

you prevent smugglers from coming into the country? 

yet learned the value of the Bacon ian theory of the investigation of the 

order of nature and of the causes of pestilence. 

'l'hey have not yet perceived, thon~h a disease may destroy thousands 

and millions of people, that it is of national concern that it be ascertained by scientific research and by convening the best intellects o1 the 

world to consider it carefully. I know that, and it is as diffi<:nlt to get 

a progressive idea for the progress of science and the advancement of 

learning through a committee of this body as it is to wrest the stars 

from the heavens. nut I think it my duty, and I know it should be 

done, to urge that this inve<>tigation shonld he had, and had not by a committee of Congress, but by learned men engaged in and accustomed 

to natural research; men like Huxley, men like Proctor, men like 

some of those we have in our own country whose names are not familiar 

to me, engaged in this direction of thought and experiment; men like 

Dr. Read, like these other men whose letters I have read; men some 

of whom perhaps are low down on the laddE.'r of science, but yet are 

giving their time and their observations to the discovery of some protection for humanity against this great plague. 

Mr. President, there is but one thing to do, and 1 am well aware 

that the Senate will not do that. It is to pass this :re~olution, and, if 

necessary, create a special committee that will have time to investigate 

and consider this subject, or, at all events, pass this resolution instructing that committee, not merely to refer it to them, for referring means 

killing it, to refer it means to say that there shall be no investigation 

and no action by Congress on the subject. That is all. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER CUr. DoLPH in the chair). The que..'ltion is on the motion to refer the 1:esolution and amendment to the 

Committee on Epidemic Diseases. 

The motion was agreed to. 

LANDS IN DENVER. 

Mr. TELLER. I desire to make a conference report on the bill (H. 

R. 3300) to amend an act to enable the city of Denver to purchase cer- tain land for cemetery purposes. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. It ought not to be read now, as the papers are not 

here. It should be laid on the table. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The report will be received, and lie 

on the table for the present. 

You talk about investigating bow this disease was brought into Florfda. The Surgeon-General says he has positive evidence that it was 

brought there by smugglers upon the coast of Florida bringing in fine 

goods, silks, and articles easily transported, cigars and the rum of Cuba. 

It has been traced with absolute certainty in other cases to woolen 

clothing brought from Havana. It was carried recently to Decatur in 

a bundle of clothes by a man who escaped the disease entirely, but left 

those clothes behind to give death to the family where he was and to 

all who came in contact with them in that community. As is stated 

by Dr. Read, giving the opinion of Dr. Stone, it is one of the most deadly 

and fatal of all the plagues that have ever affected humanity, having a 

nature pecnliar to itself, as to which but little is known after seventyfive years' experience of its deadly power. . s.UNDA Y ons~RV .ANCE. 

In this condition ofthings, withnothingbutaresolutionappropriat- Mr. BLAIR. I subm1t the followmg order: 

ing $200 000 and the subsequent resolution passed upon the motion of Ordered, _That the petit.i<?ns filed in support of the Sunday rest bill, referred to 

h S ' 't y t [Mr E J · t• cr dd' the Committee on EducatiOn and Labor, and for the better observance of the 

t. e enator rom ermon. · DMU~"DS , approp~Ia 1_no an a 1- 1 Sabbath by the Post-Office, the .Army and Navy Departments, be permitted to 

t10nal $100,000 for the relief of the sufferers from thiS diSease, there be taken from the tues of the Senate to be arranged and classified and returned 

has been no action taken, none whatever, looking toward the preven- to the Senate. 

tion of it except the bill which provided a penalty for those who es- The Woman los ChrU:t!an Temperance U~ion are obtaining a very_large 

cape the quarantine imposed by the Government. number of other pet1hons. These are diSarranged, and they wiSh to 

The Senator from Alabama. [Mr. MoRGAN] talks about the diffi- ~rrange the whole to~ether and have them presented. to th~ Senat.e. It 

cnlty of enforcing it upon the part of national authority, but the Sen- IS a matter of convemence, and I suppose nobody w1~l O~Ject to 1t. 

ator from -Tennessee (Mr. HARRIS) and the Committee on Epidemic The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there be no obJectiOn, the order 

Diseases have introduced and reported favorably a. bill, which has passed wm ~e made. 

the Senate, au thorizillg the Government of the United States to establish 

a local quarantine, and even providing penal ties to be enforced in the 

courts of the United States against the citizens of a State who, in the 

interior of that State, shall have violated the quarantine prescribed by 

the Federal Government. -;why talk about the subject of authority 

- when this action has already been taken by the Senate? I see no difficulty in any case of the national authority co-operating with the 

States and aiding the State authorities in any and all cases wbatso-

• ever, the States consenting and requesting the aid of national authority. Mr. BLAIR. How would it do for the State of Florida. to co-operate and assist the National Government in this business? 

Mr .. CALL. That would be very good. I do not see any difficulty 

about it. The States north did co-operate and assist the National 

Government in the late civil war, co-operated and aided them in their 

State organizations, provided money and provided troops. There is no 

difficulty in any case, and that is the Constitution. It is the harmony 

of National and State power, and this is a figment, an idea in the brain 

of the Senator, and has no existence in reason and can not be defended 

in argument by the Senator from New Hampshire. 

But I am talking now about the duty that I owe to the people of the 

country, to my own State, and all the States, not only the nine Southern 

States, including Maryland and Virginia, that have both bad this dreadfnl plague in its worst forms, this African fever, coming from Asia and 

Africa and finding a domicile in theW ~t Indies, and from thence being 

carried to the coast of the United States; and it has been in New York 

and Philadelphia, and bas even been in Quebec with wonderful fatality, 

as Dr. Stone indicated in his opinion as stated by Dr. Read. 

That is the condition, that is the position this question occupies, and 

that is the relation which the Committee on Epidemic Diseases bold to 

it. I have no fault to find with them, because I know the Senator 

from TennP-ssee, who is chairman of that committee, has been occupied 

laboriously and incessantly in the Committee on Finance; but there is 

ohly one intelligent thing to do. The Senate and the committees of 

this body are non-progressive, they have not yet arrived at that point 

of know led~e which the rest of the world bas reached. They have not 

DEFICIENCIES IN .APPROPRIATIONS. 

Mr. HALE. I present the conference report on the deficiency appropriation bill. 

Tlie PRESIDING OFFICER. The report will be received and read. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill !H. R.10896) making appropriations to 

supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fisc.a.l year ending June 30,1888, 

and prior years, and for other putposes, having met, after full and free confer- ence have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: 

That the Senate recede from its amendments numbered 10, 13, 14, 19, 23,26,28, 

34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 43, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 64, 66, 67, 78, 79, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 90, 91, 93, 

103, 116, 117, and 137. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the Senate numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, '1:1, 30, 31, 32, 33, 

44, 45, 46, 47. 53, 55, 56, 57' 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 65, 6R, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76,77 ,80, 83, 

f!!l. 88, 89, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, Ul, 118,119,120, 

121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 1'1:/, 128, 129, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 139, 140, 141, 142, 

143,144,145,146,147,148,149, 150,151,152, 153,154,155,156,157,158,159,160J.61.162, 163, 

164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169,170,171,172,173,174,175, 176, 177, 178, 179,180, .. 81,182,183, 

184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, Hl8, 199, 200, 201, 202, 

203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 

22~Z:~f;~~ ;.~;;:~ci1f: i?h:r~~gH~eu~ t~~!~~;om its disagreement to 

the amendment of the Se::oate numbered ll, and agree to the same with an amendment ns follows: In lieu of the sum proposed, insert "SL,OOO;" and the 

Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 12: That the House recede from its disagreement to 

the amendment of the Senate numbered 12, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed in s:1id amendment, insert " 6 ,000; " and the Senate agree to the same Amendment numbered 29: That the House recede from its disagreement to 

the amendment. of the Senate numbered 29, .and agree to the same with an amendment ns follows: After the matter proposed to bo inserted by said amendment insert the following: "To refund to the heirs of C. A. J. Flemister the balance of the proceeds of a sale of certain real estate of said Flemister, covered into the Treasury oYer and 

above hiq indebtedness to the Government, $475." 

.And the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 39: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 39, and agree to the same with an amendment a.s follows: After the matter proposed to be inserted by said amendment insert the following: "To enable the commissioners of the District of Co- lumbia to employ counsel in special cases during the fiscal year 1889, 82,500, or so much thereof as may be necessa1·y;'' and the Senate agree to the same. 

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Amendment numbered 42: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 42, and agree to the same with an amend- ment as follows: In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by said amendment insert the following: "Increase of water supply, Washir.gton, D. C.: That all work heretofore per- formed upon the \Yashington aqueduct tunnel, together with the provisions of any contract made for the sn.me or any portion thereof, shall forthwith be fully 

investigated by a joint select committee of six members, of whom three shall be mem hera of the Senate, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and three shall be members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker. Said committee shall have authority to employ a clerk and stenogl"apher and such experts as it may deem. necessary for the investigation; it may sit during the sessions of Congress or in recess, and shall have full power either in full committee or subcommittee to administer oaths and send for per- sons and papers and to conduct its investigation either in Washington or in such places as may be deemed necessary; it shall make full report of its proceedings and the conclusions arrived at, with such recommendations as it may deem proper, to Congress on or before January l, 1889; and for these purposes the sum of 55,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to be disbursed on vouchers approved by said committee." And the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 54: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 54, and agree to the same with an amendmentas follows: In line 7 of said amendment strike out the word "sixty- seven " and insert in lieu thereof the word "sixty-six; " and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 63: That the House recede from its disagreement to \}le amendment of the Senate numbered 63, and agree to the same with an f.!lendment as follows: Ip lieu of the sum proposed in said amendment insert • $1,328.07; '' and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 107: That the House recede from its disagreement to _ the amendment of the Senate numbered 107, and agree to the sn.me with an amendment as follows: After the matter proposed to be inserted by said amend- ment insert the following: "To provide for the payment of the claims enumerated in Senate Executive Document No. 270, Fiftieth Congress, first session, for fees of dist1·ict attorneys, as follows, namely: Fiscal year 1886, $320; for fiscal year 1887, $4,744.90; in all, 

$.>,064..90." And the Senat.e agree to the same. Amendment numbered U5: That the House recede f.rom its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 115, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: Strike out the matter proposed to be inserted by said amendment and insert after line 2, page 2, of the bill, the following: "To pay out of humane consideration, and without reference to the question ot liability therefor, the sum of $276,619.75 to the Chinese Government as full indemnity for all losses and injuries sustained by Chinese subjects within the United States at the hands of residents thereof." And the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered130: That the House receden·om its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 130, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: After the matter proposed to be inserted by said amend- ment insert the following: "To reimburse the Official Reporter of the Senate for moneys paid for cleri- cal hire during the first session of the Fiftieth Congress, and for extra clerical services and expenses occasioned by the prolongation of the session, $5,000." And the Senate agree t.o the same. Amendment numbered 138: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 138, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: After the matter proposed to be inserted by sn.id amend- m ent insert the following: "To p ay all session .employ65 of the House of Representatives aut.horized by. the 'Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial ex- penses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, and for other purposes,' approved 1\1arch 3,1887, at the several rates of compensa tion ther ein allowed from the 5th day of July,1888, to the end of the present session of Con- gress, $4.5,000." And the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 230: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 230. and agree to the sn.me with an amendment as follows: After the matter proposed to be inserted by said amend- ment, insert the following: . "SEc. 7. That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations, the balance of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund _under the provisions of section 5 of the act of June 20, 1874, and under appro- priations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1886 and prior years, and which have been certified to Congress under sec- tion 2 of the act of July 7,1884, as fully set forth in House Executive Document No. 455, Fiftieth Congress, first session, there is appropriated as follows: 

"W.AR DEPARTMENT CLAil\I.S ALLOWED BY THE SECOND .AUDITOR .A1iD SECO::O.-n 

COMPTROLLER. 

" For pay of two and three year volunteers, 18U and prior years, $27,708.15. "For bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, 1871 a nd p rior years, $20,069.46. "For bounty, act of July 28, 1866, 1880, and prior years, $4,525.89. "For pay, etc., of the Army, 1886 and prior years, $369.47. "For pay, etc., of the Army, 1887, $606.20. "For pay, etc., of the Army, 1888, $'J25,75. 

"Th"TERIOR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND Al:'DITOR AND SECO::<D 

..._ COMPTROLLER. 

"For pay of Indian agents, 1886 and prior yea.rs, $206.75. 11 WAR DEP .ARTliE~T CL.ADIS .ALLOWED BY THll: THIRD .AUDITOR AND SECOND 

COMPTROLLER. 

"For transpm·tation of the Army and it11 supplies, 1886 and prior years, $6-!.81. $5~.~~r regular supplies, Quartermaster's Department, 1886 and prior years, 

" For incidental expenses, Quartermaster's Department, 1886 and prior years &164.62. ' •· For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, 1886 and prior years, 88 cents. "For 50 per cent. of arrears of Army transportation due certain land grant railroads, 1886 and prior years, $5.68. "For commut-ation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States and to soldiers on furlough prior t.o July 1, 1886, $4.35. " For contingencies of fortifications, $49.33. "For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington 

Volunteers in 1855 and 1856, 1871, and prior years, $23.67. 1

' For horses and other property lost in the military service prior to July 1 1886 $.),415.16. . . ' ' 

"NAVY DEPARTMENT-CLAIMS .ALLOWED BY •THE FOURTH .AUDITOR ..U.-n SECO~D COMPTROLLER. 

"For pay of the Navy prior to July 1,1886, 518,798.40. 

XIX--569 

"For pay, Marine Corps, prior to July 1, 1886, $11.40. "For provisions, Navy ,Bul"eau of Provisions and Clothing,1886 and prior years, 

$2,327.93. "For enlistment bounties to seamen, prior to July 1, 1886, $100. "For the payment of claims for difl:'erence between actual expenses and mile- age allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Graham vs. United States, $135.50." And the Senate agree to the same. • The committee of conference have been unable to agree on the amendmenta of the Senate numbered 41, 100, 112, 113, 114, and 231. EUGENE HALE, W. B: ALLISON, F. M. COCKRELL, 

Managers on the part of the Senate. 

JAS. N. BURNES, JOSEPH D. SAYERS, THOS. RYAN, 

Managers on the part of the House. 

Mr. HALE. As a I'esult of repeated conferences, the larger portion 

of this bill has been disposed of by agreement of the conferees. The 

items upon which no agreement could be reached are those indicated 

in the report, :five in number. 

Number 100 is the Senate amendment appropriating the balance of a year's salary to the widow of the late Chief-Justice. The attitude 

of the conferees on the part of the House in this matter was taken 

Tery squarely. It is claimed that there is no precedent for it; that 

it is a gratuity, and the conferees representing that body declined to 

yield. The amendment having passed the Senate unanimously, and 

been put upon the bill by the report of one of the standing committees, the Senate conferees did not feel prepared to yield. 

Number 114 is an amendment offered by the Senator from Florida 

[Mr. CALL] giving a year's salary to the widow of an employe in the 

internal-revenue service who died at his post from yellow fever. 

Number 231 is the Public Land Strip amendment offered by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. PLUMB], a provision covering what is known 

as No Man's Land. 

Number 41 is a large claim against the District upon which there is no real difference, but the conferees wanted further ~pportunity to examine it. 

Numbers 112 and 113 cover the proposition embodied in the bill in 

the Senate amendment which is found upon page 61. I ask the Secretary to read for the information of the Senate these amendments. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

112. Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah Territory: To further aid the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah Territory, under its arti- cles of incorporation, in the establishment and maintenance of an industrial and educational institution in Salt Lake City for the benefit of the dependent women and child'ren of Utah and Idaho Territories who desire to sever their allegiance to the 1\:Iormon Church, $75,000; and for contingent expenses of the association. 

$5,000; in all, 580,000. 113. The money hereby appropriated shall be disbursed by the treasurer of said association, who shall give such bonds for the faithful performance of his duties as may be deemed requisite by the Secretary of the Interior. All accounts of e.xpenditures under this appropriation shall be audited by the Uta h commis- sion, which shall hereafter act as the boa rd of control for said institution, and shall make an annual report to Congre5s covering the work of said iustitntion and its expenditures. ' 

Mr. HALE. This provision is in the direction of carrying out a policy 

that has been adopted by Congress in the last two years, and is in aid 

of an enterprise which Congress has recognized and adopted. The opposition to the Senate amendments which have just been read has its 

root in the undying hostility of the Mormon Church and its leaders to a movement in Utah which had its origin and was set on foot by the 

philanthropic women of America who have, in this, been largely represented by the organizations known as" The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union," of which Miss Frances Willard is president, 

and- "The National Womens' Home Missionary Society," of which 

]1,1rs. R. B. Hayes is the president. 

These organizations alone, in theirmembership, represent more than 

three hundred thousand women in the United States. 

They are here by their memorials addressed to Congress, and by their 

intercession, urged in letters and petitions, in the interest of the Senate 

amendments which have just failed in conference betweep. the committees of the two Houses. 

I do not ueed to give the names of any of these women or of their 

leaders. They are found and known throughout the United States 

wherever law and order are upheld; wherever sobriety and temper- ance and good morals are maintained; wherever is found the home 

circle and all of its elevating and ennobling influences. 

And, Mr. President, whatever lapses there have been on the part of 

Congress and the Executive in dealing with the monstrous evil of 

polygamy in Utah and the adjacent Territories of the United States; 

however delinquent the Government may ha-v-e been in dealing with 

that evil, and however much the Mormon hiecarchymayhaveprofi.ted 

by these lapses and delinquencies, no part of the fault for all this can be laid at the door of the women of America. Early-and late they 

have besieged Congress in the interest of the sanctity of the maiTiage 

tie, the virtue of woman, the purity of the household, all of which 

have been assailed and outraged, both heretofore and now, under the 

laws which govern and the practices which obtain in the Mormon 

Church. 

The matter is so grave that I feel justified in occupying the time of 
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tbe Senate for the narration-not, I hope, at great length-of the history 

of the movement which is represented by the amendmentB of the Senate 

to the annual deficiency appropriation bill which have thns far failed to 

receive the assent of the other branch of Congress. 

Previous to the year 1886 the National Woman's Home Missionary 

Society became interested in the condition of indigent, distressed, and 

dependent women in Utah, and especially in Salt Lake City, who were seeking to withdraw from polygamous union in the Mormon Church, 

but who were prevented from so doing by the fact that poverty and 

want stared them and their children in the face whenever they so'ught 

to dissolve their relations with polygamy in th~ Mormon Church. 

The efforts of benevolent women and men in Utah to aid and en- courage the women and children who were seeking to escape from polygamy were found to need organized effort, and therefore, under the 

act of the Utah Legislature of March 13, 1884, there was organized 

upon the 15th day of March, 1886, at Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 

a voluntary association under and bearing the corporate name of ''The 

Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah." 

Under the articles of agreement of incorporation the place of bnsi ness 

of this association was located at Salt Lake City. It was provided 

with a boa1·d of thirteen directors or trustees, a president, eight vicepresidents, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, and a treasurer. 

The names of leading business men of respectability and responsibility are found in the list of the board of directors, as well as the names of earnest, philanthropic women. Elaborate provisions are found in the articles of incorporation, cov- ering in detail provisions regulating the meetings of the incorporators 

and of the directors, and the manner of doing business. 

The objects, pursuits, and business of the association are set out 

fully in article 5. They are, in short, to found, build, equip, provide 

for, maintain, and regulate in all necessary anq proper ways industrial 

homes, schools, hospitals, and places of instruction for dependent women and children in Utah; to relieve distress and ameliorate suffering among them, and, generally, t.o enable such classes, through the 

industrial pursuits taught by said association, to better maintain for 

themselves an honest livelihood. 

The act of incorporation is formal and explicit, in compliance with 

the laws, and when orp:anized ''The Indn.strial Christian Home Association of Utah" was ready to engage in its great work. · The applications for relief, from women seeking to escape from polygamous union and representing their own and their children's hard con- dition, at once became so numerous that the association felt justified 

in applying to Congress for aid in its work. · 

Here is a copy of the first memorial which it addressed to the Fortyninth Congress, setting forth its need for aid and the objects which it 

sought to accomplish: 

To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of £he Forty-ninth Gmgress: 

We, the undersigned, omcers ofthe.I.ndnstri.alChristian Home Association of Utah Territory, by the authority of the board of trustees of said incorporation, 

beg leave to present for the consideration of your honorable body the following memorial and petition: A great philanthropic movement for the relief of the dependent classes of Utah Territory ho.s been in formative operation among ciYi.l and ecclesia'3tical authori- ties in Utah and tbe States for the past three years. On the 15th of March.l886, a permanent organization was formed in Salt Lake City under the name of the .. Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah." The association was incorporated under chapter 4.5 of the laws of the Territory of Utah of the year 1884. The officers of the association are Christian women of established character and executive ability. The board of trustees are gentlemen of known business integrity and finan- cial strength. The objectlofthe association is the establishment of an educaLiono.l institution in Salt Lake City, where industrial pursuits shall be taught upon a basis which shall qualify for self-support. The institution will be divided into three dis- tinct departments. In the first, domestic industries, such as cooking, dress-making, tailoring, 

cutting and fitting children's clothing, etc., will be taught. In the second, mechanica.l industries, including type-writing, telegraphy, 

stenography, silk-reeling, etc. In both of these departments competent instructors will be employed. A bureau of information will be established who shall furnish information as to positions available to graduates in adjacent States. The graduat~ in the mechanical department may perform remunerative labor in the institution to the ext-ent of funds for transportation ·to t.he positions se- cured. 

Pul)ils from the domestic department will find immediate employment in the gentile homes of Utah. . The third department will offer temporary shelter to the homeless women and children whose cases nre accepted by the board. For this class the bureau may furnish employment in the Territory or adjacent States of such character as the capacity of the individual indicates or opportunity furnishes. The demand for such an institution is found- 1. In the anomalous social condition of Utah Territory under Mormon regime. 

2. In the fact that there is not a single benevolent institution in the Territory for the dependent classes. . Moreover, it is hopeless to expect a Mormon Legislature to appropriate funds to meet a. condition of things which the Mormon leaders declare does not exist or to establish an lnstitution which shall contribute towards the disinte.,n:ration of the l\1ormon Church. Hence national obli~tion is apparent. The principle is fundamental in a. republican government to protect its help- less minorities, especially so when these minorities are women and children. The question of self-support is basal in the solution of the problem of the dis- ruption of polygamous households. 

It is a well-known fact that there are many who would voluntarily abandon polygamous relations if facilities for self-support were provided. 

Furthermore, it is futile to legislate against existing relations and make no provision for the terrible exigencies which arise in the execution of law. Fathers and mothers whose moral nature has sul'Vlved the wreck of polyga- mous life will at least hesitate to impose upOn their children immediate disas- ter by either voluntary or enforced obeclience to national law. Therefore it is with confidence in that justice which is the apotheosis of mercy that we, your petitioners, in behalf of those who can not speak for themselves, 

except by their silent appeal t-o the nation's God, ask of your honorable body the appropriation of $100,000 to the Industrial Christian Home Association for the construction and equipment of such an institution as is herein specified. Respectfully submitted. · 

JEANNETTE II. FERRY, President 

Park City, Utah Ten-itory. MARGARET D. ZANE, Vice-President, 

SaU Lake Oity, Utah Territory. CORNELIA A. PADDOCK, Secretary, 

GEORGE A. LOWE, IRA E. LYONS, HECTOR M. SCOTT, JAMES M. DARLING, GEORGE E. ELLIS, HENRY M. LAWRENCE, 

SaU Lake Oity. 

Per ANGiE F. NEWl\I.A..N, Vice-President at Large, 

Trustees, Salt Lak.e Oily. 

The subject was brought directly before Congress in a hearing before 

the Senate Committee on Education based upon this memorial, which, 

with accompanying fads, were presented by Mrs. Angie F. Newman, 

who represented the Utah association, as is shown by the following 

resolution of the board of directors: 

At a meeting of the board of directors of the "Industrial Christian Home As- sociation of Utah," held upon due notice at the place of business of the corpo- ration, in Salt Lake City and County, Utah Territory, on Monday, the 22d day of March, 1886, a majority of the whole number of directors composing said board being present, it was by the unanimous vote of the meeting, in substance and effect, . Resolved, That Mrs. Angie F. Newman, of Lincoln, Nebr., one of the '\"icepresidents of this corporation, be, and she is hereby, appointed a.nd authorized to represent this corporation at Washington, D. C., and at other lJ:astern places, as its aid and assistant in forwarding aU matters pertaining to the busineRB of the corporation; and, among other matt~rs, she may take measures to raise by private subscription for corporate purposes, and ma.y for such purpose re- ceive contributions, moneys, and funds, and may solicit and seek, and adopt and carry out measures to secure, in all proper ways, Congressional action and assistance by way of appropriation, or other measures looking to the pecuniary bett-erment of the affairs or other advancement of the business of the corpora- tion. . Attest: H. M. SCOTT, 

Secretary P''O tempore of the B()(lrd of Directon. 

To show that other important in:fl.uences outside of the association were aroused to the importance of the moYement, I cite the following 

testimonials: 

The foregoing and within is approved by the undersigned, a. majoriLy of the board of directors, said corporation having no seal. EMMA L l\1ILLER, 

President pro tempo1·e. CLARA A. HUSE. G. S. ELLIS. 1\IARTHA M. CAMPBELL. H. W. LAWRENCE. MARTHA A. LOCKE. MARGARET D. ZANE. 

The following paper is addressed to the chairmn.n of the Committee 

on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, but was sent to 

this committee: 

0ll'll'1CE OF THE UTA.n 0oMXISSION, 

BaJ.t Lake City, March 12, 1886. 

Sm: An organization under the general incorporation laws of this Territory has been perfected by Christian women of Utah for the establishment of an in- dustrial home for the helpless and dependent of their own sex and their cbil- drt'n at or near the city of Salt Lake. . The trustees of the association are prominent business men of 1..--nown ability, 

integrity, and good financial standing, resident•of this city. The executive officers are representative Christian women, also residing here. We vouch for their high cha.raeter and cordially indorse and commend the philanthropic movement they have inaugurated. It is proposed to establish an institution upon a basis broad enough to meet the exigencies that may arise from the exceptional social conditions of this Territory. 

It is contemplated not only to provide homes for the indigent and distressed, but to furnish gratuitous domestic and mechanical instruction which shall qual· 

ify those who receive it for self-support. We believe that such a beneficence, supplemental to the enforcement of the laws for the suppression of polygamy in Utah, will effectively aid in accom- plishing the result sought through Congressional legislation. It may be reasonably hoped that this provision for the maintenance and in- dustrial education of polygamous wives and children will induce the withdrawal of many who are now held through fear of the distress and suffering that would inevitably result to them from such separation. 

Considering the undoubted usefulness of an institution of this character in aid of the effort of the Federal Government to emdicate the polygamic evil, we believe that it could properly and should receive financial assistance through liberal appropriations by Congress. We desire, therefore, to second the appeal of the association in this behalf. Very respectfully, 

Hon. W. S. HoLMAN, 

A. B. CARLTON. J. R. PETTIGREW. .A. S. PADDOCK. G. R. GODFREY. 

Ohairman. .Appropriatior~.& Committee, Bouse of Repracntativcs, lVttshington, D. 0. 
1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE. .9091 

STATE OF NEBRASKA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, 

Lineo!m., Apn1. 16, 1886. 'To the Oongr.l!ssional delegation of the State oj Neb,-aska: 

GENTLEliiEN: Mrs. A. F. Newman, of this city, visits Washington for the pur- pose of securing G.overruneut aid in establishing an industrial school at Salt Lake City. I take great pleasure in co=ending her to your courteous con- sideration as well as to your Kindly offices in the work in which she is en- gaged. I remni:D, respectf'n1ly, .JAMES W. DAWES, 

Governor of Nebraska. 

DJmVER, CoLo., April6, 1SS6. 

'!JJD "1he&natO?:s and .Representatives of Col01-ado in. Washington, .D. C.: 

I hereby commend to your thoughtful :eanside-ation the plansfor-a:n i:adns- ":trial home for the destitute women of Utah, pl'esented by the bea.rer, Mrs. .Angie :F~Newman,.Bnd indarsed by the leadingyhilan.thropists of Salt Lake. Since:t'ely, yolll"\8, H~W. WARREN, 

JBisb.op of 'the 1lL E. r[Jb,urch and tin cha;rge uf missions tin Utah. 

SALT LAlrn. CITY, April, ~886. 

. 'To whom it may CDncern: 

Mrs. Angie F. Newman 1being .duly elected by the dix.eclo:rs of the Woman's Industrial Ohristia.n Home Association .of Utah as -their delegate to secureCon- .g.ressional.aid in behalf of this much-needed institution, I take pleasure in com- mending her .to the coniid.enoo of all peqple as a. brilliant speaker, .an ea.l'llest advocate of reform, and a Christian woman whpse heart. .has borne the burden of the c:: use of .christ .in. Utah for yeru:s. S. ;J. CARROLL, Pastor qf .lJl. :E. lJh,urcD, .a.ud Editar gf Vtah Ohri&tian A.dvocat.e. .J . .JAYGl\.RVIN, .Pt·e.sident of B. een~inarJJ. 

The Woma.n'alndustri&l Christian Home Association, in their maetingHarch 

:22 .to re:cODHider "the ~lection.of delegates to ashington in their behalf, decided 1.o .send but--one delegate in placed the two mst chosen. .Mr . Angie F. N.ewmtm RS -elected .the 100e dele.ga.te ;and .a co=ittee was appointed to secure funds .for b.er use.o.nd forward the same to her at Washin~ 

.ton. 

To the .1ilicYulm O:>mmd.ttee nn AppropriGli.ons.: 

The Utah l"Ddnstria'l Home Associati<m 'is -an orga.niza.'tion w"hose ])urpose is 'tu provide & means 'Of .self-suppo:rt fur the dependent classes "Of this Territory. "The society 'lra;ve incorporated under the statutes. They have elected Mrs. A. G. Paddock a.nd Mrs. Angie F. Newm1m as their representatives to your hon.ora.- 'ble body to ask far Congressional-appropriation of $--to aid in the purchase 

tOf]ats and the erection ofsu.ita.ble 'buildings in whicll domestic and mecbanical · industries sball be taught and a shelter afforded to 'hetpless women and chil- -dren. The .object is in every sense praiseworthy. 'l'he:rearem:any women now tm:embe:rs of polygamous fanri.lies who would renounce their present relations if they had n.rry place of shelter -or n.uy means of "Support a!5SUTed for themselves .and their Children. There are many more who have !'enounced polygamy and Mormonism toget'her, and who have nothing but their hands to ward off starva- 'tion. The fn.ct 'thltt there is not a single public institution in this TC1Titory for the protection of this numerous class makes imperativesuch action. The ladies .sele cted to :make -.fuis·nppea.l are-trustworthy. The -project has the indorsement :uf-

<TI!ARLES S. ZANE. W. H. DICKSON. E. A. ffiELAND. 

-They embmee Ute names of eminent clergymen and educators in 

< Lake City, the members of the Utah Commission, the judiciary of 

the Territory, and other well-known and important officials. . 

As a result of the appeal and the information laid by Mrs. Newman 

before Congress the following appropriation was made as a provision in 

the general deficiency bill of 1886, ~..ing the act approved August 4, 

1.886. This -bill wAS under my cllarge, and I a.m. glad ro say that no 

opposition io the appr.opriation then arose. 

INDUSTRIAL HOME IN UTAH TERRITORY. 

T-o uid in -the establishtnent of an industria.! home in the Ter.ritory CJi Utah, to provide enwloyment.and means of self-support for the dependent women 'Who renounce polygamy a.ud the children·of such women of tender age in said TerritoTY, -with :a vtew to aid in the suppression ·of polygamy therein, $!0,000 ; said smn to be expended upon requisition o'f a.ud under the m.anagement of a. 'board of control to consist of the ,goveinor and justices .ai the supreme conrt and the district.attorney of said Territory: and said bo 1·d shall dn!y and prop- mly expend said "SUm, or · o much thereof as "D:lay be necessary, for the pur- 'J)OSes herein indica.1ied, ana tfua:li, from time to time, report to the President 'tlreiT !lctR-a.nd doin:gsand~ndi:tureshereunderfortr.msmissionto"Congress. 

.It will be ~tieed that in this provision norefer.enceis madeto ''The 

hdustria1 ~tian Home .A.ssociatiml of Utah " as an organization 

through w'hich the appwpriation madebyC<mgressshould be expended. 

The general 'Object of .the ·appropriation is wven .as an ''aid in tlie establishment of an industrial home in the Territory of Utah to provide 

oemplayment and means of sel.f-tmpport for the dependent women who 

ll.'enonnoe poly.gamy, and the children of sach women of tender age," 

:in :Said 'l'ei:ri ocy, with 'View -to aid in the suppression-of po!yp;a:my; 

~d the whole management and ex:p.end:itnre of the money is left in 

ocha.tge m '8 board -of con.trol,consistingof the governor and the judges of 

the supreme court and district attorney in said Territory. 

.By this appropriation Congr'885 .emba.Tked in the work of aiding dependent ·women and children seeking to escape from polyg.amons relations and added the important words that it was doue ·~with view to -d in the .suppression of polygamy in the Territory." 

The menace found in these words was sufficient to arouse the hostility <Yf the Mermon leaders, and when the officers and membm:s of the 

industrial associailion in Utah sought to have the money expended in 

such a way -as would most clea.rly accomplish the objecl; stated by Con- ~ess they were met and thwarted in every direction. The new govoernor of the Territory, who acted as chairman of the board of control, 

largely took the charge of the matter and by his rulin.w> as to the construction of the languag-e of the appropriation prevented the applica· 

tion of it.B provisions in very many of the c::tSes where relief was ap- plied for. 

Under this construction the first wife, in a family where plural marriage existed, was forbidden relief upon the ground that she was not 

technically reoouneing polygamy; and thus she and her children were 

shut out from the relief provided by 'Congress. 

Other rulingR were made which tended to thwart the object of the 

appropriation, and although the board of control, with the governor 

at ita head, leased a temporary home and opened it for such inmates 

as, ~der the rulings of the board, could be admitted, yet the reports 

of the Industrial Association, which, under all the discouraging circumstances attending the case, kept up its efforts, show the difficulties 

nnrl.er which it labored. I give here quotations from the first report 

of the association, showing the work of the first ten months: 

Weare n{)m:inally at the close of our first year; practically we have to do with the work aud results of but ten months, the two months after Congress appro- pria~d the means for establishing the home having been spent in securing and fitting up a building as a temporary shelter for those who should avail them- selves of the comfort offered by sn()h. The strong conviction in the minds of those who founded the home that the time had come for organized effort to a. vert co.nditio.ns of dependency or guard R.gainst deviations from lawful, domestic, and social relations so prevalent in Utah, and bring around the dependent women and children of the Territory such influences as would promot~ their best a.nd truest interest~ caused a few brave men and women to make such per- sonal .sacri.fices and public effo1·t as brought this industrial home into existence one year ago. .As these months have passed the importance and magnitude of the undertaking have been more and more apparent. The labor in the e:ffort to lea-d these strangely deluded women into lives of self-dependency has opened our eyes t-o much that we little dreamed ofw hen we began the work ten months ago, making us aware of possibilities, yes, probabilities in its future that were beyond our comprehension at the start. Yet it is with a. sense of this great beyond, of the experience we havenotha.d, ofth~ knowledge we have not gained in this work, that we venture to speak of th~ past and the needs of the future. The past has ha.d its rejoicings as well as sadness., its days of bright sunshine as well as dark storms. There have been eleven polygamous women and twenty-two children helped to better con- ditions in life by the home and its influence. Two of this number of women were provided for outside of the home roof. The nine who have had a home within its walls are infinitely better able to battle with and provide for their children and themselves in the future than they were when entering the home. During the ten months we have had sixty-three applications for a temporary home-a shelter until work could be obtained. These come un~ 

der the care of the .. employment bureau:• yet., more strictly speaking, un- der the industrial .department of the home, as when places were secured for their services they were found incompetent. We have given nine month's scli'OOling to children, the influence of which will last through comi11g time. To the women we have taught the duties of general housew{)rk., with sewing, 

only so far as the demands of the home and their families' clothing demanded. In this department there has been some improvement, althoughJnot such as should have been procured in the time within the home. A great hinderance to successful work here bas' been thecimpossibility for in- =tes-<>r anyone else-to pass from the cook stove, dish-pan, wash-tub, or scrub- brush one-half day or week: to the needle-work and produce even passably good results. The real and lasting foundation to "provide employment and means of self-support" will have been laid only when we so extend our boundaries as to proffer systematic, practical training in various industrial pursuits to those seeking the help of an industrial home; where, -too, tihe -moral. mental, and domestic atmosphere shall fortify them against wa.nt and temptations. the co- operative industries which are at once the basis of self-development and inde- pendence. The inadequacy of our p1·esent conditions and house to the needs and expectation of an industrial institution has been fully demonstrated to those who have interested themselves in visiting the home and seeking to know its needs. 

That the class of persons admitted at present by act"221, Congress United States of America, is too limited to reach to the fullestextentitsintention, namely, "to aid in suppression of polygamy ,"the following cases, I think,will illustrate: One w-oman with five children, left destitute, starving, because she refused to sub- mit to the doctrines taught by Utah Mormonism, she not having been in polyg- amy, but refusing to go into it{ is not now a .. legal'' applicant, therefore refused admittance. .An old woman eighty-two years of age) who "will not think.of the harrid thing," is left, homeless, money less, and friendless, yet, not having been in polygamy, can not be admitted into the home. Third, a young woman, brought to this Territory by a. Mormon mother, but who, when she saw and k:new the truth of Utah Mormonism. refused to remain in fellowship with it, and was cast off. a physical wreck, made so through the hardships she has had to go through. .Another class is found in that of children of ~olygamous relations-either minors or beyond that age-whose lives have been)nade dependent in the truest sense, by their refusal t{) become a party to plural marriages. This is a. class for which the home should be opened, a.nd through which great results for Utah's future good could be realized. A recapitulation of the condition of the home, its inmates, work:, ~enses, 

with "employment a.nd means of self-support " i"or the ten months, is hereto attached. 

Home opened for inmates November 21, 1886, with two employes, one of whi ch was a polygamous woman with three children, making a family of five during December, 1886. January and February ,1887, there entered three women ami nine children, a total during first quarter of sixteen polygamous persons. Number inmates i:n ten mouths, 31; number employes in ten months, 3; number clothed, 26; largest number at any one time during the ten months, 22; smallest number at any one time during tho eight month~, 9; longest time any one fitmily has been in the home, 10 months; shortest time any one family has been in the home. 4 months; largest family, 5; smallest family, 2. The following figures represent the ages of women: 49, 42, 32, 52, 45, 39, '14, '51, 

Zl, 37, 31; children; 20,18,15,17,16, 10, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1.5,12, 8, 12, 7, 4, 8. 4,ll years, ·&nd one barn in the home during August; to1al, 31; two having been aided by, blltnot supp.orted in, the home. Number of children in school during the tenm.onths, 

15, 3 of whom were but one term, the remainder during the scholastic year. 

Cost uf books, tuition, et{!.J $88.47. 

"WORK Oll' HOJIIE. 

Articles made in sewing-roo1n (10 months) ......... ~.................................... .. 415 

Articles mended in sewing-room (lD months) ...................... -···--·············· 259 Pairs of stoclcings darned.. .................................... - ........... - ... -·--.-········ 310 

Garments 'CUt and 1itted..-···-························-············-'······ .. ··~····-········-- l59 

Tot I pieees of W1lrk done in sewing-room ......................................... 1, JA3 
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9092 CO.NGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. OCTOBER 2, 

Larg('st number of loaves of bread baked during any month..................... 264 

Smallest number of loaves of bread baked during any month.................... 57 

Number of days of washing and ironing (10 months) ......................... ....... 154 

All the home work has been done by the inmates under the supervision of 

the housekeeper. All the sewing has been done by the household, excepting 

five days' work at a cost of ~8. 

Total expense for 10 months ............... ................................. ................. $6,550.25 

Total expen se provisions for 10 months.................. ............. ............... 1, 019.65 Total expense average 34 ............... ...... .................................................. 31.56 

'.l'otal expcuse for clothing, 10 months ...... .......................................... ~ 744.55 

Total expense. average 26 clothed ................ ........... ·.. ............................. 28.63 

Respectfully submitted. 

llUTH M. WOOD, Di1·ector. 

I can not, Mr. President, so well state the difficulties under which 

this most needful work was prosecuted, in fuller detail, as by hayjng 

read at the Secretary's desk the memorial of '' 'rhe Industrial Christian 

Home Association of Utah Territory," addressed to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, during the present session of Congress, which 

fQrms the basis of the provision inserted by the committee and adopted 

by the Senate and now antagonized by the House of Representatives. 

It is the same provision which I had read at the beginning ofmy re- marks: 

To tlie honorable the Senate Commiltee on .Appl'opriations: 

GENTLEME~: The Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah Territory nuthorize me, as their representative, to ask of the national Congress through 

your committeeFirst. An additional appropriation of$75,000. 

Second. An expansion of tb,e law to the status defined in the original memo- I·ial of the association to the Senate, namely, "the dependent classes of Utah 

Territory." . Third. That the law shall specify through whom the funds shall be drawn 

from the national Treasury. 

Fourth. 'l'hat special provision be made in the law for the "conting-ent" ex- penses of the association to the amount of $5,000, for use in the transportation of applicants to the home, to the States on leaving the home, for advertising, 

and such other expenditures as are necessal'ily incurred "in the establishment 

of the home." 

That t.he basis of appeal for such aid may seem valid to your committee, I beg leave to submit the following data, which I have endeavored to limit to such 

facts as are necessary to a correct judgment as to the failure of the association to execute its original purpose. 

On the 6th of August, 1886, $40,000 was granted by Congress to "aid in the es- tablishment of an industrial home".in Utah Territory. As the representative of the association, on the adjournment of Congress I devoted six: weeks' time to visiting the institutions of the East to ascertain the cost of mechanical ap- pliances, plans for building, to secure teachers, specialists in the various depart- ments. 1 went to Utah in October, 1887, to lay these plans before the association, a.nd assist them to proceed at once to the erection of a suitable building. 

At a joint meeting of the board of control and the association, I was met by tbe 

ruling of the cbairman of the board of control, Governor West, that the appropriation was made to the board of control, that the work of the association 

ended when the appropriation was secured. 

Under this ruling the chairman of tbe board of control rented and furnished a temporary home. · - Determined to do what wa.s possible under existing conditions, the association met monthly and attempted to win the board of control to the recognition of the provisions of the law for industrial education and to the purchase of 

prope1·ty and the erection of buildings. We attempted the impossible. To this date both the spirit and letter of the law and intent of the association have 

been violated by the board of control, in that neitber industrial nor mechanical arts have been taught in the home. 

The appeal of the association for funds to furnish such facilities has been denied. The intent of the association is defined in the letter of the·la w, "to provide means of self-support," nottosupporttho.pauper element·, which alone has 

been done. . The be~ter element of Mormon society-those whom it would be of value to lift to the grade of intelligent citizenship-will not accept charity. Yet only 

charity has been provided. 

The association have furthermore been most seriously embarrassed by the 

ruling of the chairman of the board of control that a. law to "aid in the suppres- sion of polygamy" could be applied only to thosealreadyin polygamy. Hence only plural wives and their·children have been admitted to the home. 

The first annual report of the president of the association, made October, 

1887, states: "One hundred and fifty-four women and children, within the last 

nine months, have come for help to the doors of the home. Twenty children 

have gone out well clothed to tbe best schools of the city. The number of ap- plicants for the benefit of the home which were not _admitted, because not strictly in conformity with the letter of the law relating tp admission, although all were victims of the evil of polygamy is, during the named nine months, as follows: Forty-eight, besides these sixty-three women, have applied for a tem- pprary home while seeking employment. Among those, were 'first,' or legal '\tives abandoned by their husbands for other and younger wives; women and 

girls unwilling to be coerced into polygamy; girls of polygamous parentage 

anxious to escape from the influences of Mormonism; women apd childrc,n who are Mormons and came to Utah unaware that polygamy was an f'Sta.blished 

practice here, and who abhorred its adoption, becoming impoverished and 

needing the very necessities of life, and thus applied for admission: all these 

have been rejected, although needy applicants." (See list of rejected cases.) 

Under these conditions the association delegated me to go to Washington in 

February,1887, and get the law amended so as to define the duties of the board 

of control and the status of the incorporation. 

Senator EDMUNDS draughted the followingnewbill, which passed the commi~ 

tee, and only failed of becoming a law by the failure of the deficiency appropriation bill (of which it was a part) for want of, time in the closing hours of the 

second session of the Forty-ninth Congress: . "Industrial Christian Home: To aid the Industrial Chtistian Home Association of Utah in carrying on, under its articles of incorporation, the work of providing employment and means of self-support for the dependent women who 

shall have renounced polygamy, and their children of tender age, $40,000; and 

the unexpended balance of the appropriation for aiding in the establishment of an industrial home in the Territory of Utah, contained in the act of Congress approved August 4, 1886, entitled "An ad making appropriations for sundry cnil expenses of the Government for the' fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, and 

for other purposes," shall be deemed a part of this appropriation; and the board 

of control mentioned in said former appropriation shall audit the expenditures under this appropriation, and report yearly to the Secretary of the Interior." 

The early passage at the present session of the amended bill. lost in the Forty- ninth Congress, restores the management of the home to the association. 

Immediately upon the passage of the law I went to Uta.h and remained a blonth, 'l'he a~sociation attempted, during that period, to purchase land and 

prepare for the immediate erection of suitable buildings in which mechn.nical 

and industrial pursuits could be_ taught, for the home is no lollger an cxperi· ment. 

~y .the non-acti_on of the board of control as to the purchase of property, in 

th1s rnterral of eighteen months, real estate has quadrupled in value in Salt 

Lake City, and the approp1iation is entirely inadequate to the needs of the pres- ent hour, $10,000 having been expended in the tempora ry home, which is in 

the language of the committee (see report), •· totally inadequate and deficient in room for the successful or otherwise opening and conducting of any one of the 

departments." 

ln view of these facts the association authorize me to ask of yom· honorable· body the additional appropriation. 

'£he expansion of the law to the" relief of the dependent women and children 

of Utah Territory" would most hi~hly conserve the interest.-s of all women who 

seek the protection of the institutiOn. 

The Mormon press has constantly charged tbat the Christian men and women of the association have been actuated by bitter hatred of the Mormon people and only desire to get them within the home to execute vengeance. ' I have had personal interviews with editors and leaders of the church and 

they insist when we appropriate money for those who renounce polygamy we are buying disloyalty at a price. The same end will be subserved by specify- ing "dependent women and children whose cases shall be accepted by the 

board," since the gentile population is only a fraction and that fraction not in 

the list of "dependents." For the gracious services of your committee, gentlemen, in the past the asso• ciation returns most grateful thanks, but begs you to believe polygamy is no more a surrendered tenet of faith or practice than it was two years ago. One 

lady missionary, in a town of 6,000 inhabitants, last year visited in four hun. 

dred polygamous families. 

On the second Sunday in March I visited the penitentiary in Salt Lake City and addressed a great host of polye-amous brethren. These men are mostly incarcerated for a term of six months, and therefore many such groups have come and gone since the famous Rodger Clausen case, of which JOHN T. OAINE h!W. 

the temerity to declare before the committee "it was the last of which he had 

knowledge." 

I found in one cell, 10 by 13t, without flour, six women, three of whom had 

babies under six months of age, who were incarcerated for "contempt of court" 

in refusing to acknowledge the paternity·of their children. When I plead with them to answer the court and be released, they said, .. If we do, there are mR.ny wives and children to suffer the loss of a fatber." In another cell were two girls, one fourteen, one sixteen, each married to her own father, both with babes,.and yet polygamy is a lost art! 

The editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, Judge 0. 0. Goodwin, than whom no man has more accurate knowledge of existing facts, states in an editorial Ma3' 

2:7, 1888: "Quite 25 per cent. of adult Mormons in Utah are in polygamy, and 

very many of the-best informed believe that 33t per cent. are thus involved." 

Gentlemen of ·the committee, as long as helpless women and innocent babes are in this hellisb bondage let ns as a nation never declare ouraelves a free 

people until we have offered them possible liberty, through a national me- dium, which is beyond the control of the hierarchy which enslaves them. 

Long years of suffering under the most helpless conditions are before thou· 

sands such as I have noted. Let us be as willing to liberate them by humane 

methods as to deliver them by the sword, which may be the sequel if we tride, 

and I sometimes think ajust God will ask this Christian nation to pay with its own blood the price of its indifference to the death g-roans of innocence through the last half century. Confidently do we ask, gentlemen of the committee, that 

you will strengthen our hands by an appropriation, by the expansion of the law, 

by the appointment of a disbursing agent from the association, if so your judg- ment concurs, for reasons which Governor 'Vest assigns in his report to the 

President. (See excerpt.) 

We ask, fmthermore, your careful attention to the accom'(lanying records ot 

the association in evidence of statements rendered, and to the list of accepted 

and I'ejected cases, in which lies the argument for the development of this enter- prise. 

Respectfully submitted. 

ANGffi F. NEWl\IAN, 

In behalf oj the Association. 

A list of some of the rejected cases referred to in the memorial of the 

association presented by Mrs. Newman is as follows: 

REJECTED CASES. 

Cases rejected by Governor West on the ruling of the law that only plural wives were included in its provisions: 

First case.-Dolly Mitchell, fifty-third child of Bishop Mitchell; daughter of 

his seventh wife; .p1other had died; DoUy living in a polygamous family; was twelve years of age ; on being rejected was employed as doorkeeper by the matron. 

Second case.-Application made by Judge Henderson, Democratio judge of 

the Federal court, by letter, in substance as follows: 

1\Irs. David May; five children; Mr. May was employed in the silk factories 

of Glasgow, Scotland; was induced by missionaries of the Latter Day to come to Zion; arriving in Salt Lake found things at variance with the representa- tions which had been made by the missionaries; was urged to go in to polygamy; then resolved to leave the Ten-itory. The wife secured employment at the Continental Hotel~alt Lake City; husband sta1·ted East on foot by the Denver and Rio Grande .uailway. The wife's 

health failed; took her five children and went to Provoforlighterwork; found none; applied to the Morman Ohurch for help; was refused; appealed to Judge Henderson, exclaiming: "Must I starve, and my little ones, in this land. ofliberty?" Judge Henderson attempted to find the Bishop of Provo. The 

bishop took t·he underground, lest this woman had given iMormation concern-_ ing.his plural relations. Judge Henderson thenma.deappli~tion to the Indns-. trial Home for the woman and her five chl1dren; case reJect~d by Governor 

West. • Third case.-Mount Pleasant-Application made by Grace Murphy, Presby- terian school-teacher. Girl fourteen years old whom I wish to get into the. Home, and also a younger sister; have kept them both in my home three 

months. I sent Emma away with the weight of her soul resting upon me, but · I could not keep her longer; I still have the sister. The mother of ~hese girls was left. an orphan in her infancy; was brought up by tbe bishop; a polygamist, who made her marry a sixty-year-old polygamist when she was twelve 

years old. She now has four husbands. 

Fourthca.se.-Springville.-Application made by HannahBreckinridge. Case: 

Second wife, sixty-three years of age, helpless in bed; no ono to bring her- a drink of water. No liberal has dared to h elp her but me, for they d1·ead the at- tacks of the 1\Iormons. . I am a widow, living alone with two daughters, and I am seriously threatened 

for the service I have rendered her. The .1\Iormons have cut down my wood 

and drawn it away; they have fenced out the public road so I could not go to town to get supplies·-all because I have given help to this Mormon woman. I know three or fom· other l'ilormon women for whom my heart is weeping. I wish the governor w ould send a detachment of soldiers to help them away. My 

home shonld shelt-er them. Ask the governor to assist me now and send com- missioners to open the road. 
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This letter was taken to the governor and he declined to have anything to do about it. and rejected the cases. Fifth Ca.se.-Pleasant Grove. Application made by the postmistress. Case: Old lady eighty-three years of age; came to Utah three years ago by request of Mormon relatives; has been abused and persecuted becaus e she would not adopt Mormon practices. She was refused as not a. legal applicant, but the old lady came to the home; said she was so unhappy she had to come, and the r must take her. Sbe is aunt to Bishop Brown's third wife. The matron wrote to Bishop Brown and asked what should be done with her. Answer by Mrs. Brown: •• The bishop is in exile for polygamy. I don't want the old l_ady re- turned to me. Tbe late law has thrown me on my own resources wtth five 

children. I can not take the burden." The governor said she could not stay over night in the home. The matron kept her five days; and now the Meth- odist Church are paying her board elsewhere. 

To show further, Mr. President, the kind of work done by this institution, and the imperative need of sustaining it and furthering and 

extending its work, I give here a list of some of the cases admitted to : the home, and the circumstances attendant upon them: 

ACCEPTED CASES-INDUSTRIAL HOME-UTAH TERRITORY. 

Fil"st case.-AmeliaChatterton is the daughter of Bishop Mitchell, who was missionary to England in 1854. Mitchell had seven wives and fifty-three chil- dren. Amelia was marl'ied at fifteen years of age, by commando.( her father, to Jonathan Chatterton, as his second plural wife. Chatterton was living with his third wife, to whom he had never been married until after the passage of the Edmunds law; he was then marrieQ. in order to evade arrest for adultery. 

Amelia, the second wife, was many times whipped by both Chatterton and the first wife. Chatterton struck her in the face so she bore blackened eyes for days. .Just before Lossie's birth Chatterton stood over her wit't\ a pick-ax and threatened her life. 

Second case.-Mrs. Bross, second wife of William Bross. Had eight children, f·hree Jiving; first wife living; brought three children to the home. Third case.-Mrs. Lorrenson, first wife, lived two months with Lorrenson after he went into plurality, then left with her four children. During the years she lived with Lorrenson she bad to wash, beg, herself and her children go bare- footed in cold weather, while he pald the most he could earn to the church. 

'Vhen he tO<lk his second wife he mortgaged the home to her because the first wife rebelled against his going into polygamy. After leaving Lorrenson she lived for weeks on one meal a day~herself and children-and often put her three boys to bed crying for food. And then she sobbed all night because another wife had her home. Fourth case.-Helen Larsen; twenty-four years of a.,o-e; plural wife. George 

Q. Cannon performed the marriage ceremony. Mrs. Larsen earned her own living for nine years, and Larsen appropriated to himself a large portion of her earnings. 'Vhen 1\Irs. Larsen was sick in bed Larsen left her alone in the house for days. 

Fifth case.-Mrs. Neilson; three children; married in the endowment-house 

by Brigham Young. Can neither read nor write. Never been in a. house of more than one room; oldest child fourteen; never been out of the town in which he was born. 

Sixth case.-Lizzie Littgon; third wife; was married by Daniel H. Wells in the endowment-house after the passage of the Edmunds bill. Brought three chil- dren t.o the home, one nineteen months old. Lived with I.itt£on until the sec- ond day before she left. Gave birth to two children in celestial marriage before the legal marriage. 

Seventh case.-Mary K. Peterson; came to Utah in 1885 from Sweden with a. band of one hundred and fifty. Married in plurality .January 1, 1886. Second 

wife entered the home .June 6; daughter born in the home August 14. Later was sent to friends in Wisconsin. 

Eighth and ninth cases.-~lizabetb Clawson and Anna Bell, both second wives, were assisted with money and sent to friends in Chicago and Denver. Tenth case.- Mrs. Jennie Hitches; converted to Mormonism in St. Louis in 1883. Came tO Utah and was entertained in the homes of President Taylor and Apostle Woodruff; here the only conversation heard was, in substance: "Marry, marry in plural marriage, and become a high priestess." Was taken in p lu- rality by Hudson. He made application for her admittance to the home, and, on being questioned, said he had never married her. 

To come now, Mr. President, more closely to the points in controversy between the two Houses, let me state what further the associa-

• tion has been doing. 

In the first deficiency bill passed by the present Congress, approved 

February 1, 1888, Congress made the following provision, intending to 

meet the difficulties under which the "Industrial Christian Home 

Association" was laboring in prosecuting its work. 

The provision is as follows: 

INDUSTRIAL CHRISTIAN HOllE. 

To aid the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah in carrying on, un- der its articles of incorporation, tlie work of providing employment and means of self-support for the dependent women who shall have renounced polygamy, and their children of tender age, 840,000; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for aiding in the establishment of an industrial home in t.he Ter- ritory of Utah contained in the act of Congress approved August 4,1886, entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June30, 1887, and forothet· purposes," ehall be deemed a part of this appropriation; and the board of control mentioned in said former appropriation shall audi~ the expenditures under this appropriation and report 

yearly to the Secretary of the Interior. 

It will be noticed, and this is important as bearing upon the present 

controversy, that by this provision Con_gress entirely changed the direction of its appropriation, and, in terms, adopted the '·Industrial 

Christian Home Association of Utah" as the agency through which its 

appropriation should be expended. . 

The work of the association is recognized as the fundamental movement, and the appropriation of money is made to further that work 

and that movement. 

Under this appropriation the association has gone on and purchased 

land upon which to erect a permanent building, to be occupied as a 

home for the persons received into it, has made a contrad for the main 

buildin~ three stories in height, at a cost of $18,000, which contract is 

now being executed, the foundations of the building already, I think, 

completed, and the whole structure is expected to be finished by the 

close of the year. 

The work is being prosecuted with a dispatch that is characteristic 

' 

of private enterprise, and of courSe has no parallel in any work done 

by the Government. 

The money provided in the two acts of Congress already passed, 

amounting to $40,000, will be n~rly expended when the main building is erected, and the additional appropriation sought in the present 

bill will be needed under t.he estimates of the architect employed by 

the association for the purpose of adding another story to the main 

building and two wings three stories high, all of which will be needed 

by the association to develop the industrial part of its work. 

The balance of the appropriation will be needed for the next year in 

fitting up the new building, in the employment of a moderate force to 

conduct the work of the association, and for the expenses of maintaining it. 

As soon as the enterprise is fairly entered upon and the scope of its 

work can be seen the association will make, through the board of con- trol, detailed reports of its work, and will be able to present definite 

estimates for future expenditures. 

It will be noticed that in the present provision, which I have had 

read, a change is made covering language which will admit to the 

home all classes of women and children who are desirous of '' seveTing 

their relations with the Mormon Church." 

This particular language is not essential, and, if other important 

thin_gs could be agreed upon, other words could be adopted to cover the needs of the case. In a late report made by Governor West, chairman of the board of 

control, the following statement is made: 

The board of control unanimously hold that some other and better a.gency than the board can and ought to be selected as disbursing agent of the fund. The chief-justice and district attorney residing at the capital have their time fully occupied with the duties of their respective offices. The other judges hold their courts awa.v from here. and are compelled either to absent themselves from and close their courts or fail in attendance at the board meetings. The board of control recommend that the executive com- mittee of the Woman's Christian Industrial Home Association of Utah be con- stituted a board for the purpose. 

In accordance with this association the amendments now before the 

Senate provide for a new board of control, and the committee has selected the Utah commission as the most suitable organization to be 

intrusted with this power. · 

I have thus given, Mr. President, in a most imperfect fashion, as I am aware, the history of this important enterprise upon which the 

association referred to, sustained in its work by hundreds of thousands 

of noble American women, has embarked. 

I do not pretend to deny that the amount of money required by this 

appropriation may seem large to some persons; but when the magnitude of the work is considered the amount appropriated is none too 

large. Indeed, Mr . .President, if the sum were double I should be in 

favor of giving it. . The United States Government bas in its charge the inhabita,nts of 

the Territory of Utah in some respects as wards of the nation. It appropriates large sums of money annually for the government of the 

people of that Territory. It pays for its executive, its judicial officers, 

and its Legislature. It has permitted for years the monstrous evil of 

polygamy to fasten itself, as the predominating force, upon the social 

institutions of the Territory, and when to-day Congress is asked to 

provide money for the relief of the victims of that institution, it can not shirk the re~ponsibility, and is in duty bound to give money and 

to give freely. 

I do not claim or pretend tha.t this institution will in any great degree be self sustaining. · 

Afteritshallhave been fully established, an.d its work knowntbronghoutthe Territories of Utah and Idaho, which are embraced.in its provisions, the women and the children who will apply to it for relief and 

for protection and for aid to enable them in time to become self-supporting will be numerous. 

1 noti1y the Senate that unless hostile influences impede and arrest 

and break up this great work Congress will be called upon from year 

to year t{) further appropriate in aid of the association. 

For one, I shall not turn back the hand that I have set to this work so long as I remain here or so long as a single woman, now held in po .. 

lygamous relation, desires to be encouraged and helped in her efforts 

to escape from that condition. - Mr. President, I have been stating the actual difficulties that have 

arisen in conference with the gentlemen who represent the Honse ot 

Representatives, gentlemen of large experience, competent in every 

way, of the highest chara-cter, and our conferences have been conducted 

in the most amicable manner notwithstanding the differences we have 

found; and now I want to state what the real point of trouble is. 

l do not know that we can agree as to amount. The House believes 

the proposition covers too much money. I do not believe and the Senate conferees do not believe it. I hope the Senate will insist upon this 

amount, and I believe it is all needed. But an attempt is made here-and that is the vital controversy that 

stands now between the two committees-to take the management of 

this fund, the disbursement of the moneys appropriated by Congress, 

and the work that is going on in the erection of this building, away 

from this institution. The House conferees proposed and offered a proposition to take this away from the institution, to put it into the 
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control of the Treasmy Departmen , and have this building completed 

under plans to be devised by that Department, by the Supervising 

Architect's office, I suppose, and built and completed as a ~vernment 

work. 

Mr. President, that means, first, an indefinitedel<'ty. I have adverted 

to the rapidity with whi~h the work of constructing this building is 

going on under such influences as surround a. private enterprise, and 

the difference between that and all governmental work in erecting 

buildings; and I venture to say that if Congress should take away the 

completion of this building from this institution that has dedicated itself to this noble work, and has but one object in view, the speedy completion of the building-if Congress should take it away from that institution and put it into the Treasury Department, setting aside all the inducements that would beo:fferedfordelay, all the attempts of the leaders 

of the Mormon Church to a:ffectthework of the Department, with an honest purpose under the machinery by which the work is done in that 

Department, it would be fr&m two to three years before a single person 

. could be admitted into that institution, and I for one, and the Senate 

conferees, stand on that ground, and will not agree to anY. such proposition. 

It is proper that I should state it, beC!luse the Senate wants to know 

what the real point in controversy is. I should be willing to go to this 

extent: We furnish the appropriation, as Congress has already done, 

and the additional appropriations needed, and that this assocation, 

with its treasurer under bonds, as is provided here, shall disburse the 

money and complete the building to be nsed for this purpose, and that 

then, upon condition that this association shall go on and do this work 

and occupy and control the building, the title shall be vested in the 

Government. That I have no objection to. If the Government is appropriating for it, I have no objection to the title being veste£1 in the 

·Government. But to take away tbe work now begun by this association and transfer it to any Department of the Government, I do not 

care what it is, is, in effect, striking a blow in the face of this great 

enterprise and putting it under the ban of Congress; and every forlorn 

woman in Utah fluttering in the bars of her cage, seeking to emerge 

into the light and protection to be given by this institution, may give 

up at once any hope of anythirig being done at present. 

Therefore it is, Mr. President, that I ask that the Senate in this matter shall agree to the report and insist upon its amendment, in order 

that a further conference may be had upon this important subjectmatter. 

The PRESIDENT p1'o tempore. The question is upon a.:,crreeing to 

- the report of the committee of conference. · 

:Mr. COCKRELL. Mr. President, it is due, I think, that I should 

state a fact which may not have appeared in the remarks of the Senator from Maine, and that is that the :Mormons, the Mormon Church, 

the Mormon organization, or whatever else it may be styled, had no 

influence, directly or indirectly, in any shape, manner, or form1 upon 

the discussion of this question which took place in the committee of 

conference, in my judgment---not a particle; and I do not believe that 

any member of the conference committee on the part of the House or 

on the part of the Senate was influenced by any such consideration. 

Mr. HALE. Has the Senator any doubt that the 1\formon authorities are bitterly hostile to this whole movement? 

1\f.r. COCKRELL. I do not know whether they are or not. That 

they may be hostile to it may be true. If they are, I have no information in regard to that, nor have I ever had any informat~on from any 

Mormon authority, directly or indirectly, that there was any hostility 

to it. If they have manifested any hostility to the movement, the inftnence has been exerted upon others than myself. Even their publications, if any such have been made, have not been furnished to me. As I understood, the principal grounds of difference were as to how 

this money for the public building shoUld be expended-whether it 

should be placed in the hands of this corporation, this benevolent institution, this charitable institution, or whether it should be placed in 

the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be expended by him in 

completing the building. As I understood, that was the point of disagreement; and, further, I understood that so far as the amount of the 

appropriation for that building is concerned there would be probably no disagreement; and then so far as the management of the institution, 

the support of the institution after this building is completed under 

the Treasury Department, there would probably be very little difference of opinion. 

I merely state this as a matter of justice and right in the premises. 

Mr. TELLER. I would like to ask the Senator from :Missouri what 

he understands the controversy is in this matter? 

Mr. COCKRELL. If the Senator can not understand from what I 

have stated, and from an hour's speech by the Senator from Maine, I 

must confess that I despair of enlightening him. 

Mr. TELLER. I do not. I confess I have listened with a good deal 

of attention; but I do not know whether the words which I find here, 

"who desire to sever their allegiance to the Mormon Church,~~ constitute the objection. 

1\Ir. COCKRELL. That I consider as an objection. Yes, that was made an objection. 

llir. TELLER. That might be amended, I suppose. 

Mr. COCKNELL. No doubt of it, and as I understand that was not 

a ground of absolute difference in the end. I will say to the Senator 

that that matter could be adjusted as far as that was concerned; but so 

far as the placing of the money to erect this buildin_g is concerned1 I 

understood that there was a direct disagreement. The Renate conferees 

wanted it in the hands .of this institution and the House conferees 

wanted it in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury. 

Mr. TELLER. Then the question, according to that, is n.s to who 

shall control this fund after it is appropriated ? 

Mr. COCKRELL. As to the building. 

Mr. TELLER. As t(} the building? 

Mr. COCKRELL. Yes. 

Mr. TELLER. lam in full sympathy with this movement to assist 

these people in Utah. I can not say that I am· in full sympathy with 

the words of this amendment, and it seems to me that it should be so changed that it would be less objectionable than it may be now to some. 

I confess that I have such a prejudice, if I may say it, against what I 

consider the interference with the freedom of religious belief in this 

country, that I do not care myself about seeing in a statute a provision 

that says we will enable somebody to leave or go into any church. 

I am quite willing and quite anxious to vote for some provision of 

this kind that shall protect this class of people. Since I have been in 

public life there have been two very important bills passed with reference to the people of Utah. The last one I -thought at the time of its 

passage, and I think now, trenches upon constitutional grounds. I 

thought it was harsh, crnel, and wicked, and I so said, and I withheld 

from it my vote. I complained then, as I had years before when the 

other bill passed, tlmt we were breaking bonds that were ex:istin~ be 

tween these people notrightfully, but actually, without any provision, 

without any attention being given to the protection of them when they 

were broken. For instance, a man bas several wi-ves, and each wife 

bas several children. He is maintaining as best he ean the relation of 

father to all these children and husband to these wives, and is enabled 

to maintain them perhaps in comfort. The moment that relation is 

broken itmayiiotbepossible fo.rhim todothis, andifitis, the chances 

are a thousand to one that he has no inclination to sustain the relation 

of a protector to those people who have parted with him. 

There was every inducement held out to the women to adhere to the 

man, beeause there was nothing left for them but poverty and want. 

Everybody understands that in any country, no matter where, a woman 

with a few small children is the most dependent and helpless creature 

in the world. · The very necessary care which she must give he1' children precludes her from earning a living, and we .have made no provision whatever for her. Other nations that have dealt with this question, I believe~ have always made provision for such a case, but we 

have made none. We insisted that the relation should be severed; we made it a crime not only for the man, bu_t we made it a crime for the 

woman, and then we made no possible pro~n by which the woman could break this connection without meeting starvation and want or 

something worse. So· I am in favor of this, which I think is the first real-no, I will 

not say that, beea.use I think ;the act of 1862 was a proper aet; I think 

the act usually known as the Edmunds act passed later was a proper 

act, except that it did not go far enough; it ought to have contained 

some such provisi~>n as that; but this is a provision which supplements 

the other in such a way that I think it will be· effective and at the same time merciful and right.. . · 

I should much prefer to see those words to which I have referred 

stricken out. 

Mr. HALE. Perhaps the Senator was not present when I was discussing that part of the amendment. · 

:Mr. TELLER. I was not in. I was called out, and did not hear it 

all. · 

111r. HALE. The wo:r:ds to which the Senator refers, ''who desire to 

sever their al..le.,aiance to the Mormon Church," were not insisted upon 

by the Senate conferees; in fact, I :may say that other words, which I 

think are these-

. Dependent women and children of Utah an.d Idaho Tcrritories-

~n be agreed upon, and if there is any agreement between tbe two 

Houses can be used as the basis instead of the words referred to by the 

Senator. So there is nothing there that need prevent the Senator giving the amendment his hearty and complete support. 

Mr. TELLER. I was about to say that I should votefor the amendment even with these objectionable words in it, but I shoulcl prefer 

not to put them in, because I think the words in a statute of this kind 

are not good. Still, rather than see this appropriation fail, which, as I 

said before, I think is a proper step, a right step, and a righteous step, 

I should vote for it as it is; but if the committee would strike those 

words out and leave it "the dependent women and children of Utah 

and Idaho Territories," and leave it to the discretion of this charitable 

institution, I do not believe there would be any trouble about it. I 

should be very happy myself to see this amendment adopted, for I believe with the Senator from Maine that this is the true method of proceeding, and one which is in accordance with our ideas of justice :rnd 

right. 

These people, many of them, have formed these connections under 

circumstances that are quite different from what we usually under• 

stand such connections to be formed. and some of them that we do not 
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appreciate and that make them almost, if not entirely, excusable so I have been compelled to remain in that condition for the want of even far as they are coneerned, for they are people who have been brought 1\ the ordinarynecessariesoflife? Isittruethatchildrenoftwelveyears 

up to believe that it is a religious duty, and we know very well that of age are compelled to enter into polygamous and unlawful marriages 

people can believe the mo~t absurd things in th~ world, thatmen.have and t.heSenateand ~h.eSenators.fro~ Maine and Vermon~ ~vequietly 

gone willingly and comiD.ltted murder, supposmg they were dorng a re:marned here proV!drng no legiSlatiOn but these de:Q.':ffiClatwns of the 

very meritorious act in the interest of religion; and so we can not ac- Mormon people? If these sb.tements be true, the eVIdence should be 

count for the religions fanaticism of any people. obtained and prompt legislation provided by which that evil should not 

I should be very glad to see this amendment adopted, but I should exist a day longer-the evil of a people honestly desiring to conform to 

also be very glad to see the words stricken out which I have suggested. the laws and yet unable to do it because the laws have provided no Mr. CALL. I voted for this appropriation, not only as a member or efficient methods for their protection and their subsistence. 

the Committee on Education and Labor when it was first considered, I am not ready to believe these statements. I do n<>t believe that 

but also as a member of the Committee on Appropriations and of the polygamy, howeverwron"gfnJ it is of necessity and in itself, destroys the 

Senate. I objected to and would now object to and vote against the natural love and affection which the Divine Being has implanted in 

legislation of this body persecuting these people because they had cer- the human heart, that charity can not exist where it prevails. We 

tain religious views or views on the subject of religion which were op- derive our religion from a polygamous people. I have been ta~ht to 

posed to my own and to those of our people generally. I consider that reverence the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as a divine 

in all that legislation we not only violated the Constitution, but we revelation and the chara-cters they present ru; the highest types of huviolated all the principles of civil liberty upon which our institutions manity. And while we believe with the confidence of knowledge that are founded. I have never changed that opinion. I think we went our Christianity is the true and higher civilization and the only true 

back eighteen hundred years in the progress of the world to the days religion, it is not necessary thatweshouldhaltanddenouncethosewho 

of barbarism, to use the courts, the civH power of the State, to com- differ from us in faith and practice. I do not believe that either amongst 

pel by force a change in the opinions of men upon the subject of faith the Mormons or any other people surrounded by theinftuencesofmod- or of their .religion. . ern civilization such cruelties would be permitted. 

The Constitution says we shall take no action whatever, exercise no There are two sides to these statements; the Mormons deny them, 

power of Government respecting the establishment of religion, and yet their representative denies them in a speech delivered in the House of 

the language of this bill is plain and direct, offering inducements to Representatives. Travelers and men of·high standing bothin our own leave the Mormon Church. We have forgotten even that we have no and foreign countries profess to have examined carefully into this subpower to legislate upon the subject of a man's belief on the subject of ject and describe these people as a mild and truthful, industrious and 

religion, whether it be true or untrue, and so in all this legislation in virtuous people, comparing very favorably in many respects witli the 

which we have prepared a. prejudiced jury, in which we have prepared people of other countries save only in the permission for polygamous 

-a prejudiced judge, and selected him for the purpose of trying men of life and representing that to be limited in practice. I do not know anydifferent opinions on the subject of religion from himself, we have vio- thing as to the truth of these statements either on the one side or the 

la.ted not only the principles of the Constitution, but we have violated other, but I am not willing to bear false witness against any one or to 

all the institutions upon which our present civilization is founded, and condemn without full and fair evidence on both sides. we only need to go a few steps further to introduce the power of the I have never seen a Mormon except those who have been hru:e before 

State to punish in direct tenus a man for being a Methodist or a Cath- the two Houses of Congress, and it is only just to say that these had 

olic or a ~resbyterian, or for holding some different form oLfaith from the appearance and manner of intelligent, educated, and kindly men. that which the dominant party in the State may profess. I have never known but one of their faith, and his famHy life in this 

nut, M.r. President, I approve the principle of the legislation in this community was in all respects like our own, and his charities and perappropriation. If the Mormons are t.o be converted, or any other set of sonal characteristics such as gave him respectful consideration and re- people, it is to be in aecordance with the divine religion of Christ, by gard of excellent persons of our own Christian faith who are themselves 

persuasive methods, and not by the exercise of power. The legislation of unblemished life and reputation. I am not willing, therefore, that 

of this body has done more to perpetuate polygamy and establish it by my vote fur this appropriation shall be placed upon the ground that 

making martyrs of them tlh1.n any and aJ.l other causes and inst.rumen- these people aTe destitute of all the moral virtues and all the kindly 

talities that -could have been bro~ht together. sympathies of humanity. · 

We live in an age in which the principles of Christian tolerance, the I do not believe it. I vote for this appropriation because I wish to 

teachings of Christ that the sword is not the power to create opinion, provide every possible agency to give full and free infl.uence to the perto produce conviction, but it is argument, it is the preaching of the suasive power of the divine teachings of Christ and furnish the oppordivine word, it is the missionary, and not the power of the sword and tunity to all who wish to leave the polygamous life to do so, basing the 

the power of the civil law. The law by which these courts are estab- law to be enforced against the practice of polygamy amongst them as lished and -.ested with unusual powers can not be distinguished from amongst other people in the spirit of fairness and justice, in gentlethe exercise of the power of the state in creating the Spanish Inquisi- nes!>'and in mercy, and not with the cruelty and violence of either the 

tion as an arm of civil power to compel observance of a particular faith. Teligious or the political bigot. I have more faith in the persuasive 

The two are precisely the same, and no argument can distinguish be- power of the gospel of Christ and the Christian ministry than in all 

:tween the legislation of Congress in respect to the Mormons and the the terms of the law, even when enforced w1th the thumb-screw and 

exercise of the civil power of the stat-e in the shape of the Inquisition the stake, the dagger of St. Bartholomew's massacre and Coligni's as- to suppress another religion or faith, either by delegating it to an eccle- sassin, or all the thousand cruelties which stain the pages of history, 

siastical body or exercising it directly. and which we are beginning to repeat. 

The constructions of law under which these people have been tried Mr. President, we had better enact some legislation in this direction. 

and punished, if correctly reported, are a lastingsha.me and disgraceto We had better ascertain the facts. I am in favor of an appropriation, 

our country and to the administration of the law, and to ourselves for however large it may be, to provide a home and subsistence and em- permitting it to continue. I have seen it stated by persons said to be ployment tor any of these people who may be convinced that their 

reputable incharacterandtruthful that men and women have beencon- methods of life are improper and unlawful. Opposed as I am to p.er-

' victed and sentenced for unlawful cohabition upon proof alone that they secution and disgraceful persecution, if I had the power I would remove had contributed to the support of the families, the women and children the judges and the civil officers who have been guilty of crime themtoward whom they had at some former period of time sru:tained the po- selves, if the statements I have read be true, ofadistortionofthelawby 

lygamousrelation, and that in other cases women had been sentenced and the severity of their punishment of these people. I read an instance in 

impl'isoned because they thought it proper to refuse to disclose the name the memorial presented in aid of this very bill of a woman and a child, 

of the man towards whom they had sustained these relations. a woman of eighteen years of age, I think, with an infant of three 

But this legislation providing a home for the people who may be con- months, confined in the jail, and that infant dying of measles, because 

vinced that they are pursuing a wrong method of life and a criminal she would not reveal the name of the man with whom she had been 

one, of-providing a home for the women and children who may be left led into this improper relation, suffering and dying, the memorial states, 

destitute in consequence of a change of life, met the approval of my and there was no charity, no kindness from the judge or the marshal 

judgment. It was in the line of persuasion, in the line of the only or any one towards this poor young mother confined there like a com- possible successful policy, of the policy convincing the moral sentiment mon felon, a disgrace to civilization and a. disgrace to humanity and 

which the Almighty has provided as the means of reformation for all to those who have the power to correct it. -

men everywhere. It can not be that you can change opinion, thought, But, Mr. President, the question here is whether the public money 

by power, by oppression, by persecution, by the sword, by compelling shall be placed in private hands with no responsibility except by a bond men to believe. This is the method of the stake, the iron boot, the for carrying out these purposes. In the English law it was found nee- fearful implements of the cruelty and crime of the Dark Ages, and essary to provide a system of visitation even of private foundations of 

these we adopted in place of the gentle persuasion of the divine Christ. charity. It was found that the abuses which followed these institu-

:Mr. Presi9-ent, if the statements of the Senator from Maine are true, tions in private hands were so great as to pervert and defeat the pur· 

it is the severest arraignment of this body that could possibly be made. poses of the founder until a. power of visitation was exercised by the 

Can it b~ that the Senate of the United States and the House of Rep- courts and prescribed by the statutes. 

r~entatives. have sat here and allowed such a condition of things to Why, then, should we depart from that course and vest the power of 

e:ust as ~hernstances described by him repTesent? Is it truethat peo- disbursement of this money in the hands of these individuals without 

pie convmced of the error of their lives and subjected to extreme cruelty any authority on the part of the Treasury officials to supervise or di· 
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rect it? It seems tome that the unswerisclear to those who sincerely 

desire the conversion of these people, who desire to furnish protection 

to those who wish to leave, who recognize the power of the Christian 

religion (which the legislation upon this subject denies) to convert and persu~de those people who believe in Christ and Christ's religion and 

not in the persecutions which this body and the other House have es- tablished against these people. Those who believe as I do in Christ's 

commission "Go ye into all nations and preach the Gospel," and who 

desire the success of this charity ai;ld to protect these people when the 

power ofthe Christian faith mayconvertthem, as it willconvertthem, 

would have the Government retain its control over the expenditure 

of this money. 

If yon choose to give this building or the use of it to this charitable 

organization, I shall have no objection, and should support a provision 

of that kind, provided they exercise that charity in the spirit of love 

and not of denunci~tion, not of hatred and bitter reproachj provided 

they remember that the evil of which they complain is not now for the 

first time known to the civilization of the world, that the Christian re- ligion has been fi~hting it successfully for eighteen hundred years, not 

with the sword and the stake, but with the teachings of Christ, and 

that the religion of Christ alone bas reclaimed hundreds of millions 

of people from the practice of the greater part of the world who have 

lived in polygamy and with whom ithasbeen an institution-England 

and those who derive their civilization from her. 

Mr. President, there has been too much of political persecution in 

this matter and too little of Christian faith and Christian practice. Let. the Government appropriate its money, let it build this house, let it 

make ample provision for all who shall be convinced that the Christian 

system is the true one, and make it ample for the industrial education 

and subsistence of these people for a reasonable time, that this experiment may be promptly tried, but let it be done by the Government and 

under the supervision of bonded officers of the Government, and then, 

ifwechoose, give the managementofthischaritytothese peoplewhose 

purposes, I have no reason to doubt, are correct, and those of philanthropy and of good to mankind; butlet it be required to be done in the 

spirit and according to the precepts of the religion of Christ. 

Mr. BLAIR. Mr. President, I much tear that if for any reason, 

good or bad it may be in itself, the Senate should yield the point which 

their conferees hold to in the pending report, tbe assured and prolonged 

delay that will result in the completion of this building, whether upon 

the present plans or upon such new plans as the public architect may see fit to devise, will result in great advantage to Mormonism, and the 

American people will think this whole movement to be merely a device 

to accomJ_>lish that delay in the interest of the Mormon Church. I 

think it unnecessary that Congress should place itself at this time in a position which would be open to that misconstruction. 

The scheme now being wrought out was adopted with great deliberation and consider·ation. This association, charitable to be sure, but 

under the control of as discreet men and women as any in the. country, 

has been intrusted with the construction of this building. Plans have 

been made and the process of construction has been entered upon. 

Money has been expended upon these plans and upon the foundationhow many thousands of dollars I do not know, but some portion of the 

public money has been expended in the execution of the legislation of 

previous years. 

There does not appear to be any reason why this building should be 

devised by the public architect, aud the money expended under his 

supervision, which did not exist originally. We are but rev~ing the 

action of a Congress as intelligent as our own, I take it, with the scheme 

partially perfected, well-nigh approaching completion, after having been 

long delayed by reprehensible opposition from the Territory of Utah, 

stimulated by Mormanism, but, as I believe, carried out very largely 

by the Government officials themselves i and there are many facts which 

will come to light if the discussion of this matter is prolonged, which 

will, perhaps, need explanation in the direction of what I suggest. 

It seems to me that if we now arrest the progress of what we have 

entered upon H will come to be understood as done, and will be in fact 

something done, in the interest of Mormonism. It is what the Mor- mons want done at all events, and it is the only way in which they can delay the active and efficient operation of this all-essential means of extirpating their erroneous belief and their still worse practices in 

this country. 

The honorable Senator from Vermont [Mr. EDMUNDS] for years has 

labored until we have upon the statute-book a.s efficient legislation operating by force upon the institution of Mormonism as we can possibly 

devise. At least I assume that if anything more efficient could be 

devised the Senator from Vermont would have had it brought to the 

attention of Congress. But in addition to that measure, supplementing it and indispensable in operation with it, the moral means, the intellectual processes which are absolutely indispensable for the extirpation of the powerful and injurious establishment of Mormonism, we find embodied in the institution which is now being considered by the 

Senate. Shall we arrest the prosecution of this institution and the 

benefits to be dedved from it? 

The Senator u·om Maine has given us some account of the earlier 

steps connected with the establishment of this institution. From the 

fust time that I ever saw that great woman, Mrs. Newman, and listened to her exposition of the nature of the problem of Mormonism 

and of the institution which t.hese women had devised and its relation 

to the problem and its eradication, it seemed to me that it was after all 

the.great means which we must rely upon for success in the end. After 

the appropriate hearing before the committee to which Congress sent 

the resolution a report was made which was placed before the Committee on Appropriations. The cause was placed in the hands of the 

Senator from Vermont and the Senator from Maine, and since then under their care and direction it has proceeded thus far on its beneficent 

mission. 

I entreat the Senate not to abandon this movement at the present 

time, not to consent to the proposition of the House, which, however 

plausible it may be on the surface, is, as I think, a direct measure of 

the Mormon Church to defeat the good that is to be accomplished by 

the destruction of Mormonism through the beneficent and efficient operation of this institution. 

It is worth while for the Senate to adhere to its amendment, if need 

be, till the commencement of another session of Congress. It is better 

to lose the c.leficiency bill than to lose the appropriation for this institution. I hope that the Senate will adhere, and I hope that it will 

make such modifications as will be satisfactory to the Senator from 

Colorado, such as will enlarge, if need be, the scope of the operations 

of the institution, making whatsoever amendments in that direction 

anybody may see fit to suggest, but still adhering to the present plan 

of the construction of the building in order that it may be soon com· pleted. 

We know when Congress sets out to do anything in the way of public architecture the interminable delays which occur in every instance, 

the changes of plims, the insufficiency of appropriations, the additional 

appropriations, the controversies and frauds and difficulties of every 

description that arise. I believe it would be impossible to ere<;t by 

public architecture a sanctuary in the city of Washington without there 

being some public scandal connected with it. When will the Library 

building be done? Is ther~ any certainty that this building, if undertaken by the public architect and under public supervision, will be 

completed before the Library building will be done? 

There is some necessity for the use of this building greater t.han the 

necessity for a building for the storage of our books. These destitute women !leeing as to a city of refuge to this institution need that it 

should be at once enlarged for their accommodation. Polygamy, I believe, is in no such danger from any other source as it is from the efficient operation of the institution that is now asking a slight additional 

appropriation. · 

I do not desire to consume the time of the Senate, but I feel earnestly 

upon this subject. I know that there are millions of the women of 

this country and of the men of this country who understand this whole 

problem and the relation of what we are now considering to its solution, who will feel more deeply any thrust at its progress by Congress 

than almost any other ill thing that we could do. 

Mr. CALL. I ask the Senator from New Hampshire and the Senator from :Maine to explain why it is and how it is that the disbursement of this money by this particular association is so important and so necessary to the objects of charity. 

Mr. BLAIR. Because it would take some time; it might take five 

years' more time to complete the building by arresting the present 

plans and the work that is being done and turning it over to the public architect, who may have friends who want him to give them some- thing to do. Who knows anything about the motive that may be at 

the bottom of this nonsensical proposal to make the change now, when we have got half through with our plan of action? What occasion is 

there for it? Is this business in the hands of people who are mter 

money? Is there any fraud among these women aod these benevolent 

gentlemen who are devoting their time without pay to the accom- plishment of this great purpose? Is there a suspicion of it? There was time earlier to have suspected iti. Are there any developments or any accusations or charges or suspicions which induce the suggestion 

of this change of plan of operations at this time? There can be no earthly cause for it except the delay desired by the Mormon Church 

and in the· interest of the Mormon Church, possibly in the hope that 

future complications may arise and the whole institution be frittered 

away and this great effort, born of the purposes oftbe angels of heaven, 

may be defeated in furtherance of the purposes of these devils from 

hell. I do not see any use in it. 

1\Ir. CALL. Mr. PresidentUr. PAD DOCK. Before the Senator commences, I should like to 

ask him a question. Has it not been quite usual here in the District 

of Columbia to make appropriations, to make grants or subventions, to 

organize private charitable associations, which have been expended by 

the officerE of these associations without intervention on the part of the 

Government, and why is it that my friend in this case desires to make 

an exception? 

Mr. CALL. I do not think that it ever has been the policy of the 

Government to appropriate large sums of money and put them in the 

bands of inclividuals.for the purpose of erecting buildings for charity. There have been a few exceptions; but it is not the policy of the Gov~ 

ernment to put the public money in the hands of private and irrespon• 

sible persons to execute any great public work. 
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Mr. PAD DOCK. These are not private persons. This is an incorporated association similar to those to which subventions have been 

made in the District of Columbia. The cases· are exactly parallel. 

Mr. HALE. I can furnish the Senate with forty instances where 

the Government has appropriated moneys to institutions organized and 

incorporated like this for benevolent and philanthropic purposes, to 

maintain them, to keep up their establishments, to repair buildings, 

and to erect their buildings for them. That has been done repeatedly. 

Before the discussion closes, and before this subject is ended, if any 

Senator requires it, I will see that the instances are produced. 

Mr. CALL. I agree that that bas been done; and I have voted for some instances of repairs and for the maintenance of charities. We 

give an annual appropriation to the Providence Hospital for taking so 

many patients and taking care of tbem, and there are various other 

institutions in the District of Columbia where that is done. But still 

I insist it is not the custom nor is it a good practice. When it can be 

avoided the Government should not establish a public work by putting a large sum of money in the hands of a private corporation. It is not 

the method in which the Government is usually administered. 

I wi::!h to ask the Senator from New Hampshire why is there a ne- cessity for any change of plans? The money is disbursed from the 

Treasury Department. Why can not the same plans go on? Why can not the work progress without a moment's delay? Because you change 

the hands through which the money is disbursed, that has no connec- tion with changing the plans. 

Mr. BLAIR. I was led to make that suggestion because I have been 

informed that this change is desired to be made in order that the public architect may make a new plan, and that this business may be 

done by friends of other parties, and not by this institution. I do not 

care to be more specific unless forced to be. 

Mr. CALL. I do not know anything about that. I know but one 

l\Iormon, I believe, out of the whole number. 

Mr. BLAIR. I did not say anything about the Mormons. 

Mr. CALL. I do not know what they desire or what they do not 

desire, but I wish to suggest that every propo~ition must have some reasonable conclusion to it; it must relate in some kind or degree to 

the subject under discussion. If it be true that the transfer of the disbursement of the fund for the construction of this building to the 

proper officers of the Treasury Department will have the effect of postponing this relief and this ~rotection of the convert.ed Mormons who desire to abandon their method of life, why not modify the provision so as t{) make some of it applicable to the lease and renting of houses in 

the present before the construction of this building, so as to afford the 

relief without interruption and without delay? 

This building may be constructed according to the plans of this cor- poration by law, if you see fit to do so, and yet the money may be disbursed by the proper officers of the Government. I submit that there 

is nothing in the advancement of this work or its continuance in the 

highest state of efficiency that is in any manner whatever connected 

with the fact whether the money shall be disbursed by the officers of 

the Government or by private individuals. There is no connection between tho e propositions. 

Mr. HALE. I have here a very late instance of partially completed 

legislation, precisely in the direction which the Senator from Florida 

declares Congress has not hitherto gone. I ask the Secretary to read 

whafr has just come to the Senate from the House of Representatives, 

a bill making an appropriation for the Girls' Reform School of the District of Columbia. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will read as requested. 

The Secretary read as follows: A. bill (H. R.l0873) making an appropriation for the Girls' Reform School of 

the District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted, etc., That the sum of 830,000 be, and the same is hereby, appro- priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 

benefit of the Girls' Reform School of the District of Columbia, a corporation incorporated by act of Congress of July 9, 1888. 

SEC. 2. That the sum herein appropriated, or so much thereof as may be nec- essary, shall be used ior the purchase of a site and purchase or erection of a suitable building for the Girls' Reform School of the District of Columbia. 

Mr. HALE. It would not be possible to furnish an instance more completely in point than this, of a bill just passed by the House of Representatives, a body that objects to the proposition of the Senate upon 

the bill we have been discussing, and which has just passed a bill for an incorporation like this, for a benevolent purpose like this, appropriating a large sum of money for the specific purpose of buying a lot and 

erecting a building. 

Mr. DAWES.. The bill has been referred to the Committee on Appropriations. 

Mr. HALE. This proposed act was this morning taken from the 

desk and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. · ; There is not any doubt that Congress has done this repeatedly. It 

never has done it in an instance where there was so much need and 

cause for action as the present condition in Utah discloses. 

; Let me say a word on this proposition that the House of Representatives urges to defeat this provision. Without in any way claiming to 

know what the motives of the conferees are, or laying any imputation 

upon them in the least, I may say that there can be but one object in . diverting the appropriation of money from this association that has 

already embarked in the work which Congress has committed to it in 

the construction of this building, and that purpose is delay. It is not 

claimed that there is any reason why Congress should interpose. It is 

not claimed thnt there is any scandal by this association in the expenditure of the money already appropriated. It is not claimed that it is 

squandering the money. It is not claimed .that every stroke of work 

done under it is not being done in good fashion, and that out of it an 

economical and suitable building for the purpose is not to be erected. 

No word of complaint of that sort has been uttered anywhere. Out of 

the clear sky, because it is not dared or ventured to oppose this appropriation in terms, in order to kill it c<;>mes this proposition which has 

nothing in it but delay. I want the Senate to understand that. 

Mr. CALL. As far as I am concerned I have no particular objection 

to the provision passing in the shape in which the Senator from Maine 

desires it, but I wish to state that I did not say there was no precedent 

for such an appropriation of money. I say it is not the custom of the 

Government. I say it is not a good, wise public policy. It has been 

done in the District of Columbia, which is under the immediate supervision of Congress. There is some difference between this District and a remote Territory, which has a Territorial government and an autonomy of its own, even though it be subject to the supervising authority 

of Congress. But be it a precedent or not, except in the case of aq es- tablished charity it is a bad precedent to appropriate a sum of money 

and put it in the hands of private individuals for the construction of 

buildings for a charity. The plan should be prescribed by the Government. 

Mr. SAULSBURY. In whom is the title? 

l\1r. CALL. The title, I understand, is in this corporation; but it 

is proposed to place the title in the Government if so desired. Be 

that as it may, it is surely not a wise public policy, without limitations and conditions, to put a large sum of money in the hands of any 

number of persons or any corporation, however meritorious they may be. 

The point in this matter is that the advancement of this work, this 

charity, the rescuing and protection of these people, the continuance 

of the charitable purposes of this corporation in its highest possible efficiency, granting all that is said for it-, has nothing whatever to do 

with the disbursement of the money. The mere hands through which 

this money shall pass are immaterial to the purposes of the charity. If 

the building is constructed, and constructed with proper speed and diligence, and in a proper style n,nd with proper conveniences, that is what 

the charity demands. It is not required that the money shall be disbursed by A or B or any one else. The singular part of it is that it is so insisted, not for the efficiency of the charity, but for the disbursement of the money by particular individuals, and the proposition manifestly has no connection whatever with the purposes of the charity. I 

myself am in favor of the charity, and I have no great objection to the 

provision passing in this shape. 

Mr. PAD DOCK. Will the Senator allow me a single word? 

Mr. CALL. Certainly. 

Mr. PAD DOCK. There has not been a single dollar of the funds 

that have been used for this charity expended by the association. 

Every dollar of the money appropriated has been received, controlled, 

and paid out by the board of audit and control, specially designated 

by law to perform this duty, which is composed of the governor, the 

judges of the supreme court, and, I think, the marshal and district attorney of the Territory of Utah, all officials appointed by the Federal 

power and its representatives in Utah in respect to such q.uties as may 

be imposed upon them. Moreover, it is proposed by this amendment, 

this proposition, that the Utah Commission, which is within its jurisdiction as defined and fixed by law the accredited agency of the Federal Government there, shall hereafter have entire supervision of all 

contracts and all disbursements for and on behalf of this charity, in re- spect not only to the construction of the building for the use of the as- sociation in furtherance of the objects for which it was organized, but 

also as to whatever may be done afterwards in the conduct and the operations of the same. Certainly very few, if any, of the appropriations 

of a similar character in this district to which reference has been made 

have been more carefully guarded as to their expenditure. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on concurring in the 

report of the committee of conference. 

The report was concurred in. 

Mr. HALE. I move that the Senate insist upon its amendments 

which have not been disposed of by the conference report. 

The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. The Senator from l\Iaine moves that 

the Senate insist upon its remaining amendments disagreed to by the 

House of Representatives. 

The motion was agreed to. 

Mr. CALL. I desire to ask the Senator from Maine a question. I 

understood the conference report to retam for further conference the 

provision for the widow of Lafayette Dancy ? 

Mr. HALE. That is one of the items still in conference. 

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. 

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. CLARK, its 

Clerk, announced that the House bad agreed to the report of the com- mittee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 

amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 3300) to amend an act to 

enable the city of Denver to purchase certain land for cemetery purposes. · 
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The message also announced that the House bad agreed to the reports of the committees of conference on the amendments of the House 

of Representatives to the following bill and joint resolution: 

A bill (S. 3234) to abolish circuit-court powers of certain district 

courts of the United St:lies, and for other purposes; and 

Joint resolution (S. R.llO) in :rid of the sufferersfromyellowfever. 

The message further annount!ed that the House had passed the bill 

(S. 3559) to amend section 2304 of the Revised Statutes of the United 

States to allow persons who have abandoned or relinquished their homestead ent1:ies to make another entry, with an amendment; in which the concurrence of the Senate was requested. 

'.fhe message also announced that the House had passed the bill {H. R. 9874) for the relief of administrator of Alfred Alcorn; in which the concunence of the Senate was requested. 

YELLOW-FEVER .SUFFERERS. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate the mes- sage of the House of Representatives on Senate joint resolution 110. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore laid before the Senate the following 

resolution of the Honse of Representatives; which was read: 

IN THE HousE OF REPRESENTATIVES, October~~ 1889. 

Resolved, That the House concur in the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing ~otes of t.ke two Houses on the amendments of the House of Represe-ntatives t-o the joint resoluti<m (S. R. 110) in aid of the sufferers from yellow fever. 

l\'fr. EDUUNDS. I submit from the Senate conferees the report. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The report will·be read. -

The Secretary read as follows: 

The committe-e of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on , tbe joint resolution of the Senate (S. R.llO) in aid of the sufferers from yellow 

fever, having met, after full and free conference have agree-d to recommend nnd do recommend to their respective Houses as follows; That the House of Representatives recede from Us amendment to the resolu- tion of the Senate, and agree to the same amended as follows: In lines 5, 6, and 7 strike ont the words "in the relief of the suffering caused by yellow fever now prevailing in the State of Florida, or elsewhere in the United · States," and insert the words: ••whenever, in his opinion, such expenditure will tend to the eradication of the epidemic of yellow fever now prevailing in the · United States, or its spread from State to State." And the Senate agree to the same. 

GEO. F. EDMUNDS, W. B. ALLISON, F. M. COCKRELL, 

.Managers on the part of the Senate. 

JAS. N. BURNES, 

J. C. CLEMENTS, 

THOS.RYAN, 

Managet·s on the part of the House. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. It is proper to explain tbat the representatives of 

the other Honse in this conference insisted that the House could not ' 

and would not agree to the use of the ·phrase adopted in the Senate res- olution in direct aid of the sufferers from yellow fevet:, upon the ground, as they supposed and understood, thatitwas beyond the constitutional 

authority of CongFess to do a thing of that kind, particularly as illustrated and illuminated and set forth in a message of the President of 

the United States to the last Congress, sending back without his approval a resolution providing for the distribution of seeds in a certain 

part of the State of"l'exas which had been suffering from a drought. In 

order to accommodate the solicitudes of the Honse of Representatives . npon that subject, the conferees agreed to a paraphrase which means precisely the same thing, if the President of the United States possesses 

the discretion that we all impute to him. So we think we have accom- plished the end without wounding the constitutional sensibilities of 

anybody. 

The report was concurred in. 

CIRCUIT COURT POWERS. 

ML EDMUNDS. I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate the m~ 

sage from the Honse of Representatives concerning Senate bill No. 3234. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore lakl b~fore the Senate the following 

resolution from the House of Representatives; which was read: 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRES1U<'TATIVES, October 2, 1888. 

Resolved, That the House concur in the report ot the com:mitte-e of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the House of Representatives to the bill (S. 3234) to abolish circuit-court powers of certain district courts of the United S~ates, and for other purposes. 

Mr. ED~IDNDS. I submit the report on that bill. 

The Secretary read the report, as follows: 

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill (S. 3234) to abolish circuit-court powers of e-ertain district courts of the lJnited States, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as fol- lows: 

That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendme-ntof the House of Representatives, and agree to the sam.e amended to read as follows : "That there shall be, and is hereby, established a. circuil court of th.e United States in and for the western district of Arkansas, for the northern district of Mississippi, and for the we. tern district of South Carolina, respe-ctively, as the said districts are now constituted by law. And terms of said circuit courts, re- spectively, shall be held at the times and placCes now provided by la.w for the holding of the district courts in said districts, respectively, and terms of the circuit court shall be held also at Helena, in the eastern district of Arkansas, at the same times the district court is now required by law to be held; and also at the times and places in \Vest Virginia where the district court is now provided by law to be he.ld. · "SEc. 2. That said circuit courts, respectively, shall have and exercise, within their respective d istricts, the same o~n-inal a.nd appellate jurisdiction as is or may be conferred by law upon the other circuit courts of the Uniled States. 

;A-nd ~ll ~nits, causes, and p~oceedi~gs _now pending in the said several respect- Ive diStrict courts, and also m the d1Str1ct court of the district of West Virginia. and also in the district court of the east-ern district of Arkausas held a.t Helena., ui and concerning which the said district courts exercise circuit ~ourt powers, shall be transferred to and belong to the jurisdiction of said circuit courts l'espe-ct- ively, and shnll be proceeded with accordingly. ' "'SEc. 3. That there shall be appointe-d for each of said circuit courts in this act mentioned, by the circuit court judge of the circuit in which said districts are respectively embraced, a. clerk, who shall take the oath and give the bond re- quir~ by law for clerks of circuit courts, who shall discharge an the duties and be entitled to a.ll t~ fees and emoluments prescribed by general law. And the marshals of the Umlied States in and for said respective districts shall act as marshals of said circuit courts, and the district attorneys of the United States in and for said respective districts shall discharge the duties of district attorneys in said circuit courts. Hereafter all appointments of clerks of circuit courts of ~e U~t-e-d Sta~s s~all be made by the circuit judges of the respective circuits m which such c1rcutt courts are or may be hereafte-r established; nnd all pro- visions of law inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. "SEc. 4. T.f?.at ~id circuit courts, respectively, shall have power to make such orders and directions as shall be proper for the transfer from said district courts of all eases, proceedings, matters. records, files, and papers as by force of this act should belong t-o the said circuit courts. '' Sxc. 5. That the provisions of the act en titled 'An act to amend section! 588 556, 571, and 572 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to com·~ in Arkansas and other States,' approved January 31, 1!!77, conferring upon the district courts na.med therein circuit-court powers, and section 5n of the Re- vise-d Statutes of the United Sta.tes ns amended by said last-mentioned act, and all provisions of Ia w inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. 

".SEc.6. '.r:-hat hereafte.r in allea.s~ of conviction of crime the punishment of whie~ proVIded by la.w IS death, tned before any court of the United States, the final Judgme-nt ofsnch court against the respondent shall, upon tbe application of the respondent, be re-examined, rever!!ed, or affirmed by the Supreme Court of~he Umted States upon a writ of error, ~der such rules and regulations as smd court may prescnbe. Every such w;nt of error shall be allowed as of right and without the requirement of any security for the prosecution of the same or for costs. Upon the allowance of every such writ of error it shall be the duty 

of the clerk of the court to which the writ of error shall be directed to forth- with transmit to the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States a certified transcript ofthe record in such case, and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Su prem~ Co rut of the United. Sta~es to receive, file, and docket the same. Every such wnt of error shall durmg Its pendency operate as a stay of proceedings upon the judgment in respect of which it is sued out. Any such writ of error may be filed and docketed in said Supreme Court at any time in a. term held prior to the term named in the citation as well as at the term so named; and all such writs of error shall be advanced to a speedy hearing on motion of either party. When any such judgment shall be either reversed or affirmed the cause shall be remanded to the court from whence it came for further proceedings in accordance with the de-cision of the Supreme Court, and the cqurt to whlch such cause is so remanded slmll have power to cause such judgment of the Supreme Court to be carried into exe-cution. No such writ of error shall be sue-d out or grante-d unless a petition therefor shall be filed with the clerk of the court in which the trial shall have been had during the same term or within such time not exceeding sixty days next after the expiration of the term of the -court at which the trial shall have been hnd as the court may for cause allow 

by order entered of record. "SEc. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the 1st day of 

November, A. D.1888." And that the title of said bill be amended to read as follows : "An act to abolish circnit-eourt powers of certa.in district courts of the United States, and to provide for writs of error in capital cases, and for other pur- poses." 

And that the Honse agree to the same. 

The report was conc~red in. 

GEO. F. EDMUNDS, · JAMES F. WILSON, 

Managers on the part of the Senate. 

JNO. H. ROGERS, WM. E. FULLER, 

Managers.<m the part of the House. 

HOMESTEAD ENTRIES. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the amendment 

of the Honse of Representatives to the bill (S. 3559) to amend section 

2304 of the Revised Statntesofthe United States to allowpersonswho 

have abandoned or relinquished their homestead entries to make another 

entry; which was read. 

On motion of Mr. DOLPH, it was Resolved, That the Senate disagree to the said a.men·dments of the House of Representatives. and ask a conference with th.e House on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon. 

By u:na.Irimous consent, it was 

Ordered, That the conferees on the pa.rli of the Senate be appointed by the Presid.ent pro tempore. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempo~·e appointed :Ur. DOLPH, Mr. PADDOCK, 

and Mr. BERRY. 

HOUSE BILL REFERRED. 

The bill (H. R. 9874) for the relief of administrator of Alfred Al- corn was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Claims. LANDS .IN DENVER. 

-The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Senate a message from the Honse of Representatives. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, October 2,1888. 

Resolved, That the House concur in the report of the committee. of conference on the disagree-in~ votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 3300) to amend an act to enable the city of Denver to purchase certain land for cemetery purposes. 

:Mr. TELLER submitted the f-ollowing report: The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 3300} to amend an act to enable the city of Denver to purchase certain land for cemetery pm·poses, having met, !l.fter full .and n·ee conference have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as folio ws : That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the Sen· ate numbered 1 nnd 3, and agree to the same. 
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That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 2, and agree to the same with amendments as follows: 

In line 9 of said amendment strike out. the word "any" and insert in lieu 

thereof the words '• the next nearest." · In line 25 of snid amendment, after the word "respects," insert as follows: 

"saving the rights f1f any settlers claiming under any of the general land laws 

of the United States, who may be in possession at the date of the passage of this 

act." 

And the Senate agree to the same. 

'i'ho report was concurred in. 

H. l\I. TELLER, F. 1\I. COCKRELL, 

Managm·s on the part of the &nate. 

L. E. PAYSON, 

J. McKENNA, 

Managers on tll.e part of Ch.e House. 

EXECUTIVE CO:liMUNICATION. 

The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Interior~ transmitting, in answer to a 

resolution of AugUBt 17, 1888, a report of the amount oflands of the 

Puyallup Indian reservation, in Washington Territory, that have never 

been patented to any of the families or individuals of the Puyallup Indians; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on Indian Ai£.1.us, and ordered to be l;)rinted. 

The PRESIDENT p-ro tempore. The original resolution submitted 

by the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. HARRIS] will be read. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

Resolved, That the Committee on Finance have authority to employa.stenog· ::-apher and such other clerical assistance as may be necessary in connection 

with matters referred to that committee for investigation, such expenses to be 

paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The amendment reported by the 

Senator from Nevada to the resolution of bhe Senator from Tennessee 

will now be read. 

The SECRETARY. It is proposed to strike out all after the word 

"Resolved," and insert: 

That the Committee on Finance have authority, in connection with matters 

referred to that committee for investigation, to summon witnesses, send for per- sons and papers, administer oaths, and to employ a stenographer and such 

clerical and other assistance as may be necessary, the expense to be paid out of 

the contingent fund of the Senate on vouchers duly approyed, a~d that said 

committee have leave to print the 1-ecord and results of such investigations and 

its report and conclusions thereon. 

The PRESIDEl.~T pro tempore. Does. the Senator from Nevada. desire that this resolution be now considered? 

:Mr. JONES, ofNevada. Yes, sir. 

Mr. HOAR. I would suggest to the Senator that the Committee on .ANDREW J. Sl\IITH. Finance will find it convenient to have the usual addition to that res. 

Mr. SHERMAN. I move that the Senate proceed to the considera- olntion, making any subcommittee of its number a committee of the 

tion of executive business. Senate for the purposes therein indicated; otherwise they can not adMr. HAMPTON. I ask the Senator from Ohio to withhold that minister an oat.h unless the full committee is present. - motion for a moment while I make a. report from the Committee on l\Ir. SHERMAN. My impression i.s that that was done soon after 

Military Affairs. the organization of the committee, but th.zre is no harm in doing it 

!Ir. SHERMAN. Certainly. again. 

l\Ir. HAMPTON, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom Mr. HOAR. But this resolution gives this committee power to send 

was referred the bill (H. R. 2579) authorizing the President to appoint for persons and papers, and to administer oaths, and all that. Now, 

and retire Andrew J. Smith, late colonel of the Seventh United States that can only be done by the full committee under the resolution as it 

Cavalry and a major-general of' volunteers, reported it without amend- stands. 

ment. l\Ir. SHERMAN. I think a resolution to that effect has already 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The bill will be placed on the Cal- been adopted. 

endar. Mr. HOAR. Not on this subject. It is none of my especial busiMr. CULLOM. I nsk the Senator from Ohio to withhold his motion ness, however. 

for a moment \mtil I can get the bill jUBt reported put on its passage. Mr. HARRIS. If the Senator from Massachusetts will. allow me, 

I think there will be no objection to it. I will say that the Committee on Finance obtained all the authority 

Mr. SHERMAN. If it does not require debate I will withhold my necessary in respect to such investigations a good while ago, but sub- .motion. sequent to that time a subject-matter referred by the Senate to the 

The PRESIDENT pro temp<rre. The Senator from lllinois asks unan- committee for investigation has been referred to a subcommittee, the 

imons consent that the bill· just read may be taken up for considera- matte.t; not having been before the committee at the time the previous 

tion. It will be read at length, subject to objection. authority was given, and the resolution that I offered was simply inThe bill was read. tended to cover such necessary expenses as might be incurred by the 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the present con- subcommittee in investigating the matter that was referred to it. That 

sideration of this bill? subcommittee is composed of the Senator from New York [Mr. HiscocK] 

Mr. BERRY. I object. and myself. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be placed on the Cal- 1\Ir. HOA...~ TheCommitteetoAuditandControl th.eContingentEx- endar. penses now reports a substitute for the resolution proposed by the SenThe Senator from Ohio now moves that the Senate proceed to the ator from Tennessee. 

consideration of executive business. Mr. HARRIS. I think the suggestion of the Senator from Ma;;saBefore submitting that motion the Chair lays before the Senate the chusetts is a good one, that the authority should extend to the subunfinished business the title of which will be read. committee. 

The SECRETARY. A bill (H. R. 9151) to forfeit certain lands granted Ur. HOAR. Yes. - The substitute does not as it stands extend the 

to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and for other purposes. authority to the subcommittee. 

. EXECUTIVE SESSION. Mr. HARRIS. I_think th:;ttisagoodsnggestion,andihopetheSen- ' . . ator from Nevada will adopt 1t. 

The PRESIDENT pro temp~re. '-!'he Senator ~om Oh;o moves that I l\1r. HOAR. I would suggest to amend the amendment by addin(J", 

the Senate proceed to the cons1derat1on of executive busmess. · . after the words "the Committee on Finance," the further words "~r The motion wns agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the cons1d- b •ttee f th · b , ti f · t' b · .Aft · t . . any su comm1 o err nnm er. era . on o ex.ecn 1ve usmess. er seven mmn es spent m executive The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report being to amend by striksesswn the doors were reop~ned. ing out and inserting, the Senator from Massachusetts moves to amend 

CHIN ESE :rnl\IIG:&ATION · the p:1rt proposed to be inserted. The proposed amendment will be read 

Mr. JONES, of Nevada, submitted the following resolution; which by the Secretary. 

wns read: The SECRETARY. After the word "Finance" in the amendment 

Resolved, That, in view of the fact that the presence of Chinese laborers on the reported by the committee, it is proposed to inserh "or any snbcom- North American continent is incompatible with the welfare of the laboring mittee of their number,·" so as to. read: masses of the white race, and inconsistent with the progress of modern ciYilizntion, and in view of the international difficulties and embarrassments likely That the Committee on Finance, or any subcommittee of their number, have to arise from the entrance or attempted entrance of Chinese laborers from con- authority in connection with matters referred to that committ~e for investiga- tiguous countries into the United States in contravention and defiance of our tion to summon witnesses, etc. 

laws, the President be requested to negotiate treaties with the Government of Th d h dm ed t Her Britannic .Majesty and with theRepnblicofMexicorespectively, which will e amen ment tot e amen ent was agre O. 

secure the co-operation of those governments in excluding such laborers from The amendm.ent as amended was agreed to. 

the North American continent and in preventing their entrance into the terri- The resolution as amended was agreed to. 

tory of the United States from the territory of either of such go'\""ernments or of dependencies thereof. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempo-re. Does the Senator from Nevada desire the present consideration of the resolution? 

l\Ir. JONES: of Nevada. I ask that it be referred to the C<>mmittee on Foreign Relations. 

The PRESI:pENT pro tempore. It will be so referred. 

INVESTIGATION BY FINANCE COMMITTEE. 

Mr. JONES, of Nevada. I am instructed by the Committee to 

Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to whom 

was referred the resolution of the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. HARRIS] of September 19, 1888, to report the same with an amendment in 

the nature of a substitute. 

CONDITION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE. 

Mr. JONES, of Nevada. I am further instructed by the Committee 

to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to whom 

was referred the resolution of the Senator from Maine [lli. HALE] of 

July 26, 1888, to report it to the Senate with an amendment. 

The PRESIDENT p ro tempor.e. The original resolution will be read: 

The Secretary read as follows: 

Resol-ved, That the Select Committee to In>estigate the operations of the civil 

SerYice be authorized to continue during the recess of Congress the investiga- tions directed by the resolution of this body of .l'llarch 13, 1888, with all the 

powers a.nd privileges conferred by said resolution. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment reported from the 

committee will now be read. 
9100 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. .OCTOBER 2, 

The SECRETARY. At the end of the resolution it is proposed to add: 

And all necessary expenses of such committee shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The resolution as amended was agreed to. 

Mr. BLAIR. I would like to ask what investigation is referred to 

in that resolution? 

The PRESIDENT-pro tempore. The Secretary will read the resolution again. 

The resolution was again read. 

Mr. BLAIR. I did not want the resolution read. I only asked what 

the investigation was. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will report the unfinished business. 

STEAM-PRESSES IN ENGR.A VING BUREAU. 

Mr. BLAIR. I would like to inquire of the chairman of the Committee on Finance what progress is being made with the bill coming 

from the Honse of Representatives touching the removal of steam print.: 

inp;-presses from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. 

Mr. SHERMAN. That is under examination by a subcommittee, 

and they are taking testimony constantly. No don bt the investigation 

has been somewhat delayed by the constant attendance of the members 

of the committee on the tariff investigation, but a great deal of· testimony has been taken pro and con. Mr. BLAIR. As the Senator is aware, there are reasons why as early a conclusion as possible on that subject-matter should be reached. The 

subject came to the Senate several months since in the form of a reso- lution, and now the bill is here and I hope it will be disposed of as 

soon as possible. 

Mr. SHERMAN. That matter was placed in the charge of the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. HARRIS]. 

Mr. HARRIS. The subject referred to by the Senator from New 

Hampshire is the one that was intended to be covered by the resolution just passed providing for an investigation. 

The matter has been referred by the Committee on Finance to a sobcommittee composed of the Senator from New York [Mr. HiscocK] 

and myself, for invest.igation. We have heard a large number of wit- ne~ses on one side of the question and are in tending to hear at the earliest 

moment possible such other witnesses as we are informed it is desired to 

bring before us. The investigation is progressing as rapidly as the time 

and engagements of the Senator from New York and myself can possibly admit of. 

Mr. BLAIR.. May I ask the Senator whether it may not be hoped 

that the investigation will be concluded and a report of the bill made 

to the Senate during the present session? 

Mr. HARRIS. I shall not be able to answer the Senator until I as- certain something as to the probable number of witnesses that it is desired we should hear. I do not know how many, nor do I . know what 

length of time it will take to hear them. I can only say that the subcommittee will proceed as rapidly as it can, consistent with the duties 

that devolve on the members of that committee. 

Mr. BLAill. I hope that it will do so. I think it will be a subject 

of general regret if. that bill should not be acted on at the present session of Congress. 

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD LANDS. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secret..'lry will report the unfinished business. 

The SECRRT.ARY. A bill (H. R. 9151) to forfeit certain lands granted 

to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and for other purposes. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Pending that bill, I move that the Senate adjourn. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate (at 4 o'clock and 38 minutes p.m.) adjourned until to-morrow, Wednesday, October 3, 1888, 

at 12 o'clock m. 

NOMINATIONS. 

Executive nlimina.tions received by the Senate Octobe1· 2, 1888. 

UNITED STATES CONSUL. 

James Petigru Lesesne, of South Carolina, to be consul-general of 

the United States at Melbourne, Australia, vice James M. Morgan, remgned. 

PROl\IOTIONS IN THE N .A VY. 

Medical Inspector Michael Bradley, a resident of Pennsylvania, to be a medical director in the Navy, from the 19th of June, 1888, vice Medical Director Edward Shippen, retired. 

Surg. Theoron Woolverton, a resident of New York, to be a medical inspector in the Navy, from the 19th of June, 1888, vice Medical 

Inspector :M. Bradley, promoted. 

Passed Assist. Surg. Howard Wells, a resident of Pennsylvania, 

to be a surgeon in the Navy, from the 19th of June, 1888, vice Surg. T. 

Woolverton, promoted. 

Medical Inspector Adrian Hudson, a resident of the District of Columbia, to be a medical director in the Navy, from the lOth of July, 

1888, 'Vice Medica] Director George Peck, retired {subject to the exam- inations required by law). 

Surg. Charles H. White, a resident of Massachusetts, to be a medical inspector in the Navy, from the lOth of July, 1888, vice Medical 

Inspector A. Hudson, promoted. 

Passed Assist. Surg. James H. Gaines, a resident of Maryland, 

to be a surgeon in the Navy, from the lOth of July, 1888, 'l-ice Surg. C. 

H. White, promoted. 

Medicallnspector Newton L. Bates, a resident of New York, to be a medical director in the Navy, from the 1st of September, 1888, vice 

Medical Director James Suddards, deceased (subject to the examina· 

tions required by Jaw). · 

Snrg. George W. Woods, a resident of California:, to be a medical 

inspector in the Navy, from the 1st of September, 1888, vice Medical 

Inspector N. L. Bates, promoted. 

Passed Assist. Surg. Daniel N. Bertolette, a resident of Pennsylvania, to be a surgeon in the Navy, from the 1st of September, 1888, 

vice Surg. G. W. Woods, promoted. 

Surg. · Frank L. DuBois, a resident of Pennsylvania, to be medical 

inspector in the Navy, from the 15th Septem her, 1888, vice Medical Inspector John C. Spear, retired. 

Passed Assist. Snrg. Ezra Z. Derr, a resident of Maryland, to be a surgeon in the Navy, from the 15th September, 1888, vice Surg. Frank 

N. DuBois, promoted. 

Surg. George H. Cooke, a resident of Pennsylvania, to be a medical 

inspector in the Navy, from the 15th September, 1S88, vice Medical Inspc>ctor A. C. Rhoades, retired (subject to the examinations r\!quired by 

law). 

.Passed Assist. Surg. Frank B. Stephenson, a resident of Massachusetts, to be a surgeon in the Navy, from the 15th September, 1888, 

vice Surg. G. H. Cooke, promoted. 

Paymaster George A. Lyon, a resident of Pennsylvania, to be a pay 

inspector in the Navy, from the 15th September, 1888, '!lice Pay Inspector Charles F. Guild, retired (subject to the examinations required 

by law). 

Passed Assistant Paymaster John W. Jordan, a resident of Florida, 

to be a paymaster -in the Navy, from the 19th June, 1888, vice Paymaster George R. Watkins, dismissed, and Charles D. Mansfield, re- tired. -

Assistant Paymaster R. T. Mason Ball, a resident of Virginia, to be a passed assistant paymaster in the Navy, from the 19th Jnne, 1888, 

vice Passed Assistant Paymaster William C. McGowan, deceased, and 

Passed Assistant Paymaster John W. Jordan, promoted. · 

Lieut. Commander John K. Winn, a resident of Massachusetts, to 

be a commander in the Navy, from the 31st of March, 1888, vice Commander W. S. Schley, promoted. 

Lieut. Clifford H. West, a resident of New York, to be a lieutenantcommander in the Navy, from the 31st of March, 1888, vice Lieut. Commander J; K. Winn, promoted (subject to the examinations required 

by law). 

Lieut. Frank J. Milligan, junior grade, a resident of Tennessee, to 

be a lieutenant in the Navy, from the 31st of March, 1888, vice Lieut. 

C. H. West, promoted. 

Ensign Philip V. Lansdale, a resident of Maryland, to be a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy, from the 31st of March, 1888, vice 

Lieut. F. J. Milligan, junior grade, promoted. 

Lieut. John P. Merrell, a resident of Michigan, to be a lieutenantcommander in the Navy, from the 28th of May, 1888, vice Lieut. Commander G. M. Totten, deceased. 

Lieut. Albon C. Hodgson, junior grade, a resident of Georgia, to be a lieutenant in the Navy, from the 28th of May, 1888, vice Lieut. J.P. 

Merrell, promoted. 

Ensign Horace W. Harrison, a resident of the District of Colombia, 

tO be a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy, from the 22cl of May, 

1888, vice Lieut. L. W. Piepmeyer, junior grade, deceased. • Ensign WilliamS. Benson, a resident of Georgia, to be a lieutenant, 

junior grade, in the Navy, from the 28th of May, 1888, vice Lieut. A. 

C. Hodgson, junior grade, promoted (subject to the examinations re- quired by law). 

Lieut. James M. Helm, junior grade, a resident of Tennessee, to be a lieutenant in the Navy, from the 1st of June, 1888, vice Lieut. Hamilton Perkins, resigned. . Ensign William V. Bronaugh, a resident of Kentucky, to be a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy, from the lstof June, 1888, vice Lieut. 

J. M. Helm, junior grade, promoted. 

Lieut. Joseph G. Eaton, a resident of Massachusetts, to be alieutenant-commamler in the Navy, from the 19th of June, 1888, vice Lieut. 

Commander Socrates Hubbard, retired. 

Lieut. William G. Cutler, junior grade, a r<lsident of Nevada, to be 

a lieutenant in the Navy, from the 19th of June, 1888, vice Lieut. J. 

G. Eaton, promoted (subject to the examinations required by law). 

Ensign Frank M. Bostwick, a resident of Wisconsin, to be a lieu tenant, junior grade, in the Navy, from the 19th of June, 1888, vice Lieut. 

W. G. Cutler, junior grade, promoted (subject to the examination re- quired by law). 

Lieut. Cameron Mc.R. Winslow, junior grade, a resident of Massachusetts, to be a lieutenant in the Navy, from tbe 1st of July, 1888, 

tJice Lieut. Emory H. Taunt, resjgned. Ensign Walter bl. Constant, a resident of Indiana, to be a lieut.enant, 
1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. HOUSE. 9101 

junior grade, in the Navy, from the 1st of July, 1888, vice Lieut. C. 

:M:cR. Winslow,. junior grade, promoted. 

Lieut. Charles Laird, junior grade, a resident of Ohio, to be a lieutenant in the Navy, from the 28th of September, 1888, vice Lieut. 

Robert H. McLean, resigned. . Ensign James H. Oliver, a resident of Georgia, to be a lieutenant, 

junior grade, in the Navy, from the 28th of September, 1888, viteLi~ut. 

Charles Laird, junior grade, promoted (subject to the examinations 

required by law). 

Passed Assistant Engineer George E. Tower, a resident of New York, 

to be a chief engineer in the Navy, from the 30th of June, 1887, vice 

Chief Engineer William J. Lamdin, retired (subject to the examinations required by law). 

Passed Assistant Engineer Hugh H. Cline, a resident of Maryland, 

to be a chief engineer in the Navy, from the 2d of December, 1887, vice 

Chief Engineer William S. Stamm, retired (subject to the examinations required by law). . Assistant Engineer Theodore F. Burgdorff, a resident of New Jersey, 

to be a passed assistant engineer in the Navy, from the 22d of June, 

1886, vice Passed Assistant Engineers H. L. Harvey and W. B. Boggs, 

deceased. 

Assistant Engineer William R. King, a resident of Maryland, to be a passed assistant engineer in the Navy, from the 17th of March, 1887, 

vice Passed .Assistant Engineers F.l\I. Ashton, deceased, and B. C. Gow-

•ing, promoted (subject to the examinations required by law). ·. Assistant Engineer Frank H. Eldridge, a resident of Ohio, to be a passed assistant engineer in the Navy, from the 30th of June, 1887, vice 

Passed Assistant Engineers .A.. Kirby and George E. Tower, promoted 

(subject to the examinations required by law). 

Assistant Engineer Charles C. Kleckner, a resident of Pennsylvania, 

to be a passed assistant engineer in theN avy, from the 30th June, 1887, 

vice Passed Assistant Engineers C. H. Manning and G. ~. Gates: re- tired. [NoTE: The retirement of Passed Assistant Engineers C. H. 

Manning and G. S. Gates entitled Assistant Engineer George W. Snyder to be prpmoted, and he was nominated by the President i:O December, 1884, to fill the vacancy, subject to the examinations required by 

-law. Snyder died before qualifying and the vacancy was·held for Assistant Engineer W. 0. Chrisman. This officer was unable to appear 

for his examination on account of illness, and he wa.s finally retired from 

active service on the 29th June, 1887. Assistant Engineer Kleckner 

is now entitled to fill the vacancy.] 

Assistant Engineer Edgar T. Warburton, a resident of Pennsylvania, 

to be a passed assistant engineer in the Navy, from the 1st July, 1887, 

vice Passed Assistant Engineers L. W. Wooster, retired, and J. Ent-

• wistle, promoted. Assistant Engineer William B. Dunning, a resident of New York, to 

be a passed assistant engineer in the Navy, from the 2d December, 

1887, vice Passed Assista-nt Engineers N. P. Towne and H. H. Cline, 

promoted. 

Assistant Engineer Robert I. Reid, a resident of Pennsylvania, to be a passed assistant engineer in the Navy, from the 19th June, 1888, vice 

Passed Assistant Engineers T. J. W. Cooper, deceased, and John C. 

Kafer, retired (subject to the examinations required by law). 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

TUESD.A. Y, October 2, 1888. 

The House met at 12 o'clock m., and was called to order by Hon. 

JoHN B. CLARK, Clerk of the House, who said: The Clerk is in re- ceipt of a telegram from the Speaker of the House dated Lynch burgh, 

Va., stating that he missed a railroad connection this morning, and is 

therefore unable to reach the city in time for the meeting of the House 

to-day. Under these circumstances it is the duty of the Clerk to call 

the House to order. The only business now before the House is the 

election of a Speaker pro tempore to preside during the temporary ab- sence of the Speaker. 

ELECTION OF SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE. 

Mr. TURNER, of Georgia. I offer the resolution which I send to 

the desk. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That Hon. J. B. McCREARY, a Representative from the State of Ken- tucky, be, and he is hereby, elected Speaker pro tempore during the absence of 

the Speaker. 

The resolution was adopted. 

Mr. McCREARY, on taking the chair as Speaker pro tempore, was greeted with applause. 

Prayer was offered by Rev. J. H. CUTHBERT, D. D. 

The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. 

NOTIFICATION TO THE SENATE. 

1\fr. TURNER, of Georgia. I offer the resolution which I ask the 

Clerk to read. 

The Clerk read us follows: 

Resolved, That the Clerk be directed to notify the Senate that the House has 

elect-ed Hon. J AME9 B. McCrtEAB.Y, a Representative from the State of Ken lucky, as Speaker pro tempore during the absence of the Speaker. 

The resolution was adopted. 

LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted :lS follows: 

To Mr. ANDERSON, of Iowa, indefinitely, on account of sickness in 

his family and important business. 

To Mr. BROWNE, of Indiana, for the remainder of the session, on ac- count of ill health. 

To Mr. HIREs, indefinitely, on account of important business. 

To Mr. LEHLBACH, indefinitely, on account of important business. 

To :Mr. WILLIAMS, indefinitely. on account of important business. 

To Mr. PATTON, indefinitely, on account of important business. 

To Mr. HAYES, indefinitely, on account of important business. 

To Mr. WISE, indefinitely, on account of important business. 

POWERS OF UNITED STATES COURTS. 

Mr. ROGERS. I rise to present a privileged report from a committee of conference, which I ask the Clerk to read. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill of the Senate No. 3234, entitled ".A. bill to abolish circuit-court powers of 

certain district courl,s of the United States,and for other purposes," having met, afte~ull and free conference have agreed to recommend and do recommend to thei espective Houses as follows: T at the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the House of Representatives and agree to the same amended to read as follows : "That there shall be, and is hereby, established a circuit court of the United 

StateS' in and for the western district of Arkansas, for the nort-hern district of 

Mississippi, and for the western district of South Carolina, respectively, as the 

said districts are now constituted by law. And terms of said circuit courts, r~ 

spectively, shall be held at the times and places now provided by law for the 

holding of the district courts in said districts, respectively. And terms of the 

circuit court shall be held also. at Helena, in the eastern district of Arkansas, at the same times the district court is now required by law t.o be held; and also at the 

times and places in West Virginia where the district court is now provided by 

law to be held. 

"SEo. 2. That said circuitcourts, respectively, shall have and exercise, within 

their respective districts, the same original and appellate jurisdiction as is or may be conferred by Ia w upon the other circuit courts of the United States. And 

all suits, causes, and proceedings now pending in the said several respective district courts, and also in the district court of the district of West Virginia, and 

also in the district court of the eastern district of Arkansas. held at Helena, in 

and concerning which the said district courts exercise circuit-court powers, shall be transferred to and belong to the jurisdiction of said circuit courts, respectiyely, and shall be proceeded with accordingly. 

"SEC. 3. That there shall be appointed for each of said circuit courts in this act mentioned, by the circuit court judge of the circuit in which said districts are I'espectively embraced, a. clerk:, who shall take the oath and give the bond r~ 

quired by law for clerks of circuit courts, who shall discharge all the duties and 

be entitled to all the fees and emoluments prescribed by general law. And the 

marshals of the United States in and for said respective districts shall a.ct as marshals of said circuit courts, and the district attorneys of t.he Unit-ed States 

in and for said respective districts shall discharge the duties of district attorneys 

in said circuit courts. Hereafter all appointments of clerks of circuit courts of 

the United States shall be made by the circuit judges of the t·espective circuits 

in which such circuit courts are or may be hereafter established; and all prons. ions of Ia.w inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. "SEc. 4. That said circuit courts, respectively,shal1 have power to make such 

orders and directions as shall be proper for the transfer from said district courts of all causes, proceedings, matters, records, files, and papers as by force of this act should belong to the said circuit courts. "SEc. 5. That the provisions of the act entitled "An act to amend sections 533, 

556, 571, and 572 of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating t<> courts in Arkansas and other States," approved January 31, lffl7. conferring upon the 

district courts named therein circuit-court powers, and section 571 of the Re- vised Statutes of the United States as amended by said last-mentioned act, and. all provisions of law inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act be, and 

the same are hereby, repealed. 

"SEc. 6. That hereafter in all cases of conviction of crime the punishment of 

which provided by law is death, tried before any court of the United States, the 

final judgment of such court against the respondent shall, upon the application 

of t.he respondent, be re-examined, reversed, or affirmed by the Suprerue Court 

of the United States upon a writ of error, under such rules and regulations as said court may prescribe. Every such writ of error shall be allowed as of right; 

and without the requirements ofanysecurityfortheprosecution oft he eame or for costs. Upon the allowance of every such writ of error, it shall be the duty of the 

clerk of the court to which the writ of error shall be directed to forthwith trans- mit to the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States a certified transcript 

of the record in such case, and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Supreme 

Court of the United States to receive, file, and docket the same. Every snch 

writ of error shall, during its pendency, operat-e as a stay of proceedings upon the judgment in respect of which it is sued out. Any such writ of error may be 

filed and docketed in said Supreme Court at any time in a term held prior to the term named in the citation as well as at the term so named; and all such 

writs of error shall be advanced to a speedy hearing on motion of either party. 

When any such judgment shall be either reversed or affirmed the cause shall 

be remanded to the com·t from whence it came for further proceedings in a.a. cordance with the decision of the Supreme Court; and the court to which such cause is eo remandecl shall have power to cause such judgment of the Supreme 

Court to be carried into execution. No such writ of error shall be sued out or granted unless a petition therefor shall be filed with the clerk of the court in 

which the trial shall have been had during the same t erm or within such time, ' not exceeding sixty days next after the expiration of tho term of the court at which the trial shall have been had, as the court; may for cause allow by order 

entered of record. . "SEc. 7. This act shall take effed and be in force from and after the 1st day 

of November, A. D. 1888.'' And that the title of said bill be amended to read ns follows: "An act to abolish circuit-court powers of certain distrid courts of the United Stat-es, and to provide for writs of error in capital cases, and for other purposes;" and that 

the House agree to the same. JOHN H. ROGERS, 

WILLIAM E. FULLER, 

Managers on the part of the House. 

GEORGE F. EDMUNDS, JAMES F. WILSON, 

Manager1 on the part of the Senate~