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PETITIONS, ETC. 

The following petitions and papers were L<t.id on the Clerk's desk, 

under the rule, and referred as follows: 

By Mr. BAYNE: Resolutions of Post No. 59, Grand Army of the 

Republic, McKeesport, Pa., relative to pensions, &c.-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. CLEMENTS: Memorial relating to the claim of Rebecca. Wilber-to the Committee on War Claims. · By ~Ir. S. S. COX: Memorial relative to the claim of Augustus P. 

Green-to the same committee. 

Also, the memorial of the national convention of the chiefs and com- missioners of State bureaus of statistics of labor-to the Committee on 

the Census. 

B! ~r. ERMENTR<?UT: ~emorial of the trustees of the College of 

ChriStian Brothers, Samt LouiS, Mo., for relief-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By 1\fr. FOLLE'IT: Petition of Samuel E. Smith, administrator, for 

relief-to the same committee. · 

By Mr. ~DEMAN: Petitions-of merchants, manufacturers, planters, and Citizens of Columbus, Ga., favoring the passage of the 1\IcPherson Senate bill-to the Committee on Banking and Currency. 

By 1\fr. JAMES: Petition of Rev. S. D. Burchard, D. D., and 13 

others; of Rev. J. C. K. Millingt{)n, pastor, and the membership of 

the Reformed Presbyterian church; of Rev. L. W. Sampson, D. D., 

and 7 others of the Fifty-third Street People's church; of Rev. Norman Fox, pastor of Seaman's Baptist church, and the congregation, 

.aud of Rev. John Hall, D. D., pastor, and 1,500 members of the Pres-

~rian Church, ·New York cio/, relative to common schools, &c., for 

lnd1ans-severally to the ComiDlttee on Indian Affairs. 

By Mr. LOVERING: Petitions of703 posts, Grand Army oftheRepu blic, asking for the passage of an act granting a pension of $8 per 

mo~th to all officers, soldiers, and sailors who served sixty days or more durmg the war of the rebellion-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, petition of 30,000 citizens and ex-soldiers not members of the 

Grand Army of the Republic, asking for the passaaeofHouse bill No. 

<6463 on the same subject-to the same committee."' 

By 1\Ir. TALBOTT: PetitionofJohnB. Fay, askingCongresstogrant 

him one month's extra pay-to the Committee on Accounts. 

By Ur. WELLER: Petition of John H. Murtha and 43 others for 

the reduction of the salaries of the President and other public offi~rs, and to place lumber, salt, &c., on the free-list-to the Committee on Ways and Means. · , 

SENATE. 

WEDNESDAY, July 2, 1884. 

Prayer by Rev. W. I. McKENNEY, of Washington, D. C. 

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

ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore announced his signature of the following enrolled bills which bad previously been signed by the Speaker of 

the House of Represent.ati>es: 

A bill (H. R. 1246) granting a pension to the widow of Maj. Gen. 

James B. Steedman; and • 

A bill (H. R. 6092) making appropriations for the current and conting~nt ex~nses o[ the In~ian D_epartment, and for fulfilling t1 eaty stipulatiOns '\Vlth vanous Indian tnbes, for the year ending June 30, 1885, 

and for other purposes. 

NAVAL .APPROPRIATION BILL. 

Mr. HALE. 

.ation bill. 

I present the•conference report on the naval appropriThe PRESIDENT pro tempore. 

sentatives will be read. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

The aetion of the House of RepreIN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, July 1, 1884. 

Resolved, That the House ~urther insists upon its disagreement to the amend- men~s of the Senate to the bll~ (H. R. 4716) making appropriations for the naval <Service for the fiscal y~r end1ng June30, 1885, and for other purposes; and asks a further conference w1th the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon. l Ord re~, That Mr. RANDALL, Mr. HOLMAJ....,, and Mr. CALX:ms be the managers .-of the said further conference on the part of the House. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report of the conferees will be 

ifead. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on othe amendments <!f the Senate to the bill (H. R. 4716) making appropriations .for the nav:al service for the fiscal year ending June W, 1885, and for other pur- poses, ha.vmg met, after full and free conference have been unable to agree. 

EUGENE H.ALE, 

JOHN .A. LOG.rn, JAS. B. BECK, 

Managers on the part of the Senate. 

WALDO HUTCHINS, ._ SAl\! J. RANDALL, W. H. CALKINS, 

Managers on the part of the House. 

Mr. HALE. I move that the Senate further insist on its amendments 

and agree to the further conference asked by the House. 

The motion was agreed to. 

By unanimous consent the President pro tempore was authorized to 

appoint the conferees on the part of th~ Senate, and Mr. HALE, Mr. 

LOG.AN, and M:r. BECK were appointed. 

.AMEN DMEJ."iT TO SUNDRY CIVIL BILL. 

1\fr. RANSOM submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 

him to the sundry civil appropriation bill; which was referred to the 

Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. 

EXECUTIVE SESSION. 

Mr. INGALLS. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration 

of executive business. 

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to t)le consideration of executive business. After ten minutes spent in executive 

session the doors were reopened. 

·PETITIONS .A.ND ~IEMORIALS. 

The PRESIDE~T pro tempore. Petitions and memorials are now in 

order. 

Mr. MILLER, of California. I present a petition of citizens of California, praying for the passage of House bill No. 100 for the relief of cer- tain pre-emption and homestead settlers in California on what is called 

the Moquelamos grant. I move that the petition be referred to the 

Committee on Public Lands, and I call the especial attention of that 

committee to it . 

The motion was agreed to. 

Mr. LAP!IAM presented the petition ofE. S. Justb, ofWashington, D. C., praymg for the amendment of a bill entitled "An act relatincr 

to police regulations in the District. of Columbia, and for other pur~ poses; 0 which was ordered to lie on _tbe table. 

Mr. MITCHELL presented a petition of citizens and soldiers of Elizabeth, Pa., praying 1or the enadment of legislation by Congress in accordance with the recommendations of the Grand Army of the Republic 

in relation to pensions; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. 

He also presented resolutions adopted by the Grocers and Importers' 

Exchange of Philadelphia, Pa. , favoring the passage of House bill No. 

2414, making bills of lading conclusive in certain cases; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I presenttbepetitionofJoseph C. G. Kennedy, of 

W a.shington, D. C., praying Congress to reperu the twenty -second section 

of the law tor taking the tenth and subsequent censuses, .which section 

provides tor intermediate St.1.te enumerations, and for other purposes. 

:V.hile I have not carefully examined the petition, I think it is one of 

'"Importance and perhaps contains useful information. I move, therefore, that it be printed and referred to the Committee on the Revision 

oftbe Laws. 

The motion was agreed to. 

DISTRICT W .ATER SUPPLY. 

· Mr. VANCE. I am directed by the Committee on the District of 

Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 4651) to amend an act 

approved July 15, 188"2, entitled "An act to increase the water supply 

of the city of Washington, and for other purposes," to report it without amendment, and I ask for its immediate consideration. r 

Mr. McMILLAN. Let the bill be read for information. 

Mr. VANCE. A word of t:xplanation, I think, will remove any objection that could possibly be made to the bill. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempwe. The Senator from Minnesota asks 

that the biH be read for information. 

Mr. ·V ANCE. Will the Senator allow me to explain it? 

The PRESIDENT pro tmnpwe. The bill will first be read for information. . The Chief Clerk read the bill. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the present 

consideration of the bill? . 

"Mr. ALLISON. I object. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is made, and the bill will 

be pJaced on the Calendar. 

1\ir. VANCE. I think if I could be permitted to explain it, the 

Senator wo~d withdraw his objection. 

Mr. ALLISON. If there is no explanation made about it, and the 

bill goes right through, I shall not object. ' 

Mr. VANCE. It is-a House bill--

1\fr. SHERMAN. I would not make any explanation. It is not 

necessary. 

Mr. VANCE. Very well. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. . Is there objection to the present 

consideration of the bill? · 

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

proceeded to consider the bill. . The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

REPORTS OF CO::'t:IMITTEES. 

Mr. GARLAND, from the CommitteeontheJudiciary, towhom was 
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referred the bill (H. R. 5442) to amend an act entitled "An act to 

amend an act entitled 'An act to aid in the construction of a railroad 

and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to 

secure to the Government the use of the same for po tal, military, and 

other pruposes,' approved July 1, 1862," approved July 2, 1864, re- ported it with an amendment. · 

.Mr. ~UTLER. I am instructed by the Committee on Territories to 

make a favorable report on the bill (H. R. 6409) to vaJi.date and cure defects in certain acts of the Legislative Assembly of Washington Territory, and I ask that the bill be immediately considered. 

• Mr. ALLISON. I object. 

The PRESIDENT pro te?npore. The Senator from South Carolina asks 

unanimous consent--

Mr. ALLISON. I object. 

1\fr. HARRISON. I hope the Senator from Iowa will withdraw his 

objection. 

Mr. BUTLER. I trust the Senator from Iowa will not object. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Debate is not in order. 

:Mr. BUTLER. I am not debating the bill; I am simply appealing 

to the Senator from Iowa to withdraw his objection. 

The PRESIDENT pro te?npore. The Chair thinks that is in the nature of debate. ~1r. ALLISON. If we are to pass the appropriation bills--

The PRESIDENT pro tempore · Debate is not in order. Objection is 

made, and the bill will be placed on the Calendar. 

Mr. HOAR. I wish to state that the Committee on the Judiciary 

reported adversely the bill (H. R. 7034) to increase the salary of the. 

clerk of the Court of• Alabama Claims, and the bill is now on the Calendar. I am authorized by the committee to say that they now recommend the passage of that· bill with an amendment, and I had proposed 

to ask to take it up at the present time. 

l\ir. BUTLER. I object. 

Mr. HOAR. If the Senator from Iowa does not wish to have any 

interference with the appropriation bills-- · 

l\Ir. BUTLER. I object. ~1r. HOAR. I have not made the request; I am merely stating why 

I should not make the request at present. 

l\1r. BUTLER. I want to anticipate a request of that sort, ifnecessary. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Debate is not in order. . 

Mr. HOAR. I hope my friend from South Carolina will vent his 

wrath on the right man and not on me. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Debate is not in order. 

Mr. Mc11'1ILLAN, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2297) to authorize the construction of a bridge 

across the Saint Croix River at the most Mcessible point between Stillwater and Taylor's Falls, Minn., reported it with amendments. 

Mr. MILLER, of California, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 257) for the relief of John 

P. Gregson and Francis H. Ellison, asked to be discharged from its 

furtherconsiderationand that it be referred totheCommitteeon Naval 

Affairs; which was agreed to. 

Mr. DOLPH, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred 

the bill (S. 387) for the relief of David Waldo & Co., submitted an 

adverse report thereon. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Let the bill be plMed on the Calendar. 

The PRESIDENT pro te?npore. The bill will be placed on the Calendar with the ad\erse report of the committee. 

l\1r. CAMERON, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, to 

whom was referred the bill (S. 506) for the relief of Claude H. Mastin, 

surviving partner of the firm of LeVert & Mastin, of Mobile, Ala., and 

the children of Octavia LeVert, deceased, reported it without amendment, and submitted a report thereon. 

He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill (S. 

768) for the relief of the National Bank of Western Arkansas, submitted an adverse xeport thereon, which was agreed to; and the bill. was postponed indefinitely. 

1\Ir. MANDER ON, from the Committee on Claims, to whom wa-s 

referred the bill (S. 1607) for the relief of the administrators of the 

estate of Isaac P. Tice, deceased, reported it without amendment, and 

submitted a report thereon . · 

He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill 

(S. 630) for the relief of Cora A. Slocumb, Ida A. Richardson, and 

Caroline A. Urquhart, reported it without amendment, and submitted 

a report thereon. 

1\lr. CONGER. From the Committee on Commerce I report back 

the bill (S. 1661) for the relief of George C. Tanner, United States consul at Liege, Belgium. The bill provides an appropriation of $200 to 

pay for the rent of a house, paid out by the consul, when the amount 

shbuld have been paid by the United States. With the bill I reJlort a letter frolll the Secretary of State recommending the payment by the 

Government. The committee recommend that the bill be placed as an amendment upon the sundry civil bill. I ask that the bill be referred 

to the Committee on Appropriations. 

M:r. ALLISON. Let it lie on the table. 

Mr. CONGER. The chairman of .the committee uggests that the 

bill and papers lie on the desk. 

The PRESIDENT pro te?npore. The bill and accompanying papers 

will lie on the table, if there be no objection. ' 

Mr. CONGER. And given to the chairman at the proper time. 

Mr. LAl\IAR, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (S. 629) to atta-ch the parishes of Saint l\Iary's and Iberia, 

in the State of Louisiana, to the western judicial district of Louisiana, 

reported it with an amendment. 

1\fr. VAN WYCK, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the joint resolution (S. R. 91) prohibiting the Secretary of 

the Interior from certifying or patenting any lands to railroad corporations until Congress shall have acted upon any bill or report from com- mittee declaring forfeiture of same, reported it with amendments. 

P .APER.S WITHDRAWN AND REFERRED. 

On motion of l\Ir. LAPHAl\I, it was 

Ordered, That the papers in the pension claim of Isabella J. Ramsdell, now on file in the Secretary's office, be returned to the Committee on Pensions, there having been no adverse report. ' 

NORTHERN ·CHEYENNE INDIANS. 

1\I.r:. INGALLS submitted the following resolution; which was con- sidered by unanimous oonsent, and agreed to: · 

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to report to the Sennte the facts relative to the condition of the Northern Cheyenne Indians on the Tongue and Ro ebud Rivers who are alleged to be without rations and com- mitting depredations upon settlers for subsistence. · 

TARIFF REPORT. 

l\Ir. HAWLEY submitted the following concurrent resolution; whieh was referred to the Committee on Printing: 

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives conettrr-ing), That the report of Joseph Nimmo, jr., Chief of the Buteau of Statistics in the Treasury Department, on the operations of the tariff act of March 3, 1883, be printed; and that there be printed 6,500 additional copies, of which 2,000 shall be for the u e of the Senate, 

4,000 for the use of the House, and 500 for the use of the Treasury Department. 

MARL\ G. IDTDERWOOD. 

Mr. L.A.PH.A.l\I. Monday I gave notj.ce that at this hour I should 

ask to take up Order of Business 787, being a resolution to pay l\iaria 

G. Underwood 5,000 in full compensation for the time and expenses 

of her husband in prosecuting his claim to a seat in the Senate, with a 

view of submitting some remarks upon the resolution. I sta.ted at the same time that I would not ask to antagonize an appropriation bill. I 

state now that when the undry civil appropriation bill is concluded, 

if there be time to-dn.y, I shall ask that privilege, and if not I shall ask 

it to-morrow. 

BRANCH SOLDIERS' HOME. 

l\1r. PLUMB, ImovethattheHouseof Representatives be requested 

to return to the custody of the Senate the bill (H. R. 4696) to authorize 

the location of a branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers and sailors 

in either of the States of Arkansas, Colora{}o, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, 

Missouri, or Nebraska. The bill was passed by the Senate yesterday 

with amendments. 

The motion was agreed to. 

CATHARINJ!: H. GLICK. 

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. CLARK, its 

Clerk, returned to the Senate, in compliance with its request, the bill 

(S. 1971) granting a pension to Catharine H. Glick, widow of Elias B. 

Glick, deceased. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I appec.'\J. to the Senator from Iowa to nllow me to. have the pension bill which has just been returned from the House of 

Representatives postponed and the House bill pensioning the widow of 

Dr. Elias B. Glick taken U:p and passed. It will not take two minutes. 

Mr. ALLISON. I regret to be compelled to object, for the reason that 

the sundry civil bill must be finished to-day, and then there will be 

ample time, I will say to the Senator from Indiana, to pass aU these 

other matters. 

1\Ir. VOORHEES. All right. 

The PRESIDENT pro te?npore. Objection is made. 

SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. 

l\1r. ALLISON. I move that the Senate proceed to the considerfition of the sundry civil appropriation bill: 

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the 

Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (H. R. 73 0) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the :fiscal year 

ending June 30, 1 5, and for other purposes. 

The bill was reported from the Committee on Appropriations with 

amendments. 

Mr. ALLISON. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read for 

amendment at this time, and that the amendments of the Committee on Appropriations be first considered, and that they be considered as the reading proceeds. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa ask unanimous consent that the bill be read as in Committee of the Whole by 

paragraphs for amendment., and that the amendments of the Commit-
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tee on Appropriations a.s reported and others that they may propose as 

the bill goes on be considered in connection with the reading of the 

bill. Is there objection? , :Mr. VOORHEE . Let me inquire ofthe Senator from Iowa whether 

that will permit amendments other than.those offered by the committee before the reading of the bill is through ? . Ur. ALLISO~. It will not permit amendments unless they are 

offered as amendments to the committee amendments until after the 

reading of the bill is through. Then, of course, the whole bill will be 

open to amendment. 

The PRESIDENT pro tem,pore. Is there objection to the request of 

the Senator from Iowa with reference to the reading of the bill and action on the amendments of the Committee on Appropriations ? The 

Chair bears none. The reading will be proceeded with. 

The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the bill Tlte first amendment of 

the Committee on Appropriations was, in the appropriations "under 

the State Departmen~,'' in line 11 after the word ''State,'' to strike 

out "two ' and insert "eight;" and after the words "eighteen hundred and," in line 15, to strike out "eighty-three" and insert" eightytwo;" so as to make the clause read: · 

For expense of the international conference for fixing a. common zero of 

longitude and standard of time reckoning, including co t of printing and trans- lations, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $8,000; and 

the President i hereby authorized to appoint two delegates to represent the 

United States at said international conference, in addition to the number au- thorized by the act approved August 3, 1882, and who shall serve without com- pensation. 

The amendment was agreed to. . The next .amendment was to strike ont lines 25 to 30, in the following words: 

The commission may also conduct such special investigations, both at and 

ubsequent to the international electrical exhibition, as may conduce to the progress of electrical science in this country, and may prepare and submit re- ports of the results of the conference a.nd investigations. 

So as to make the clause read: 

That said commis ion may invite scientific men, native and foreign, to par- ticipate in the .conference, and may, in general, determine the scope and char- acter of its work. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The nextamendmentwas, inline31, beforetheword "thousand," to 

strike out '' five'' and insert ''ten,'' and in line 36, before the word 

"thousand," to strike out "five" and insert "ten;" so as to make 

the clause read: 

That the sum of 10,000 be appropriated to meet the expenses of the commission in conducting the conference and investigations a.nd to meet the expenses of preparing reports of the same: Pr()l)ided, That the whole amount of the ex- pense incurred by said commis ion shall not exceed the said sum of ,.10,000; 

and the members of said commission shall not receive any compensation for 

services. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 38, to insert: 

To enable the Secretary of State to pay expenses already incurred for the 

Siame e embassy,$2,500. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 41, to insert: 

For payment, under the final award made by the late French and American 

Claims Commi ion against the United State , of the claims of French citizens 

against this Government, under the treaty of January 15,1880, between this coun- try and France, $625,566.35. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 48, to insert: 

To enable the Secretary of State to obtain dies of the obverse and reverse of 

the sea,l of the United States, and the appliances necessary for making impressions from and for the preservation of the same, 1,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment wa , after line 52, to insert: 

To ena.ble the Secretary of State to appoint from time to time, for such period as is absolutely necessary, medical inspectors to be attached to the United States 

consulates in countries where yellow fever, cholera, or plague exists in epi- demic form, $10,000. . 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 57, to insert: 

That the sum of $.559.11 of the unexpended ba.lance of the appropriation for 

.:ontingen t expenses for foreign missions, 1882, be, and the sa we is hereby, reap- propriated and made ayailnble to pay the widow of General Judson Kilpatrick, late United States minister to Chili, the amount found due him on the settle- ment of his account for contingent expenses of the legation of the United 

States in Chili in 1882. • 

The amendment wa !lgreed to. 

The next amendment wa , to strike out lines 67 to 70, inclusive, as follows: 

That the work of the commission shall be completed within three year after 

the p age of thi ad ; and any balance remaining unexpended at the expira- tion of that time shall be covered into the United l:;ta.tes Trea ury. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment wa , in the appropriations' undertheTreasury 

Department " "public buildings," in line 74, to increase the appropriation "for post-office and court-house at Baltimore, Md.: For con- tinuation of building," from 100,000 to 150,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. • The next amendment was, in line 0, after the word 'for, " to strike 

out ''continuation" and insert "completion of building," and before the word ''hundred' to strike out '' one ' and insert ''three;' 1 

so as to make the clause read: 

For custom-hou e and post-office at Cincinnati, Ohio: For completion oi 

building, $300,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 92, to increase the appropriation 

"forcourt-houseand po t-officeatColumbus, Ohio: For continuation of 

building," from 50,000 to . 100,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment wa , in line 1q2, to increase the appropriation 

"for court-house and po t-office at Denver, Colo.: For continuation,.n 

from $50,000 to $75,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, p,fter line 105, to insert: 

For en tom-house and post-office at Dubuque, Iowa: For purchasing lot immediately northofthecustoro-house lot, Dubuque, Iowa, $5,000: Provided, That no part of the purcha.'5e money shall be paid until the Attorney-General of the 

United States shall be ati tied that there is a good title to said premises in the 

Unlted States, free from all incumbrance. • 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 112, to insert: 

For court-house and post-office at Fort Wayne, Ind.: For continuation ofi· building, $40,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 116, to increase the appropriation. 

"for court-house and post-office at Galveston, Tex.: For continuation of. building,'' from $25,000 to 30,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 117, to insert: 

For court-house and po t-office atHarrisonburgh, Va.: For completion ofbuild•- ing, $25,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 131, to insert: 

For court-house and post-office at Lynchburg, Va.: For continuation of building, 25,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after the word" dollars," in lin~141, to . strike out the following pro,iso: 

Pr011ided, That the Attorney-General is hereby authorized and directed to. bring suit for damages against said railway companies, if in his judgments; re- covery can be had against them. 

So as to make the clause read:· 

For custom-house, court-house, and post-office at Memphis, Tenn. : For com- pletion of building and approaches, $50,000; and for the construction of a support-- ing wall for the custom-house lot at the city of Memphis, Tenn., where the same has bee11: cut away along the river front thereof by certain rai.lway companies, S'>O,OOO; m all, $100,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 146, after the word "for," to insert 

''extension of site and;" so as to make the clause read: 

For post-office at Minneapolis, l\Iinn.: For extension of site and continuation,. $70,000. 

Mr. CAUERON, of Wisconsin. I wish to ask the chairman of the 

Committeeon.A,ppropriationsa question. I observe .that the bill appropriates 70,000 for the post-office at Minneapolis, Minn., ''for extension of site and continuation." The act providing for the erection or· a public-building at Uinneapolis was approved on the 11th day of April,. 18 2. The amount which the site and building should cost is limited' 

by the act to $175,000. What I wish to ask the chairman is whether 

in making these appropriations the committeelimitsitselftothe amount 

limited in the act authorizing the construction of the building. 

Ir. ALLISON. As I understand this particular appropriation, the 

limit fixed for the cost of the building is ~175,000. I think 100,000. has already been appropriated, certainly not more; so that the $70,000· appropriation is within the limits. · But the Supervising Architect says. 

that it is necessary to add about thirty feet of ground to the buildinm 

and we therefore inserted the words which are found in line 147. 

Tlie amendment was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 147, to insert: For court-house and post-office at :Montgomery, Ala.: For completion of build-. ing and approaches and inclosing grounds with anjron fence, $5,000. • 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 152, after the word ' plumbing," 

to insert "including sewerage;" and in line 153, before the word . "thousand," to strike out "twenty-five" and insert "'forty-seven; " so as to make the clause read: 

For custom house at New Orleans, La. : For plumbing, including ewerage, and for completion of repairs, $4.7,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after .line 153 to insert: 

Court-house and post-office at New York city: That the sum· of 16,104.4n 

being unexpended bala.nces of appropriations made from time to time fo1: a' 

ations and repair , including approaches, to the cour~house and po!'' A 

building at New York city, and for remedying defective v ntilation,s· ~{-

new elevators, and re~airing old elevat<x-s, is hereby -ruade availa' ..qiptyin; 

....,ie fo.: s.uch 

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work of alterations and repair as may be net:ded for the buildfng proper and 

for the heating apparatus and elevators therem. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 163, to insert: 

For court-house and post-office at New Haven, Conn.: For extension andrepairs of building, $50,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 16, to insert: 

For public building at Norfolk, Va..: For introducing heating apparatus and 

improving grounds, $15,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment wa8, after line 185, to insert: 

For the new custom-house at Saint Louis : For paving streets adjacent to the 

building, 9,900. ' 

The amendment was agreed to. . The next amendment was, in line 19~, before the word "thousand," 

to strike out "fifty" and insert "seventy-five;" and in line 192, after 

" New York, " to strike out: 

Prov-ided, That the stone can there be procured as cheaply as elsewhere, all 

things being equal. 

So as to make the clause read: 

For po t-office and court-house at Syracuse, N.Y. : For continuatif>n of building, $75,000; stone used in the construction of said building to be procured from 

quarries in t.he State of New York. 

So the amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 210, after the word "buildings,' ~ 

to strike out "including marine hospitals;" and in line 212, before the 

word ' thousand," to strike out "fifty" and insert "seventy-five;" so 

as to make the clause read: 

For repairs and preservation of public buildings : Repairs and preservation 

of custom-houses, court-bouse , post-offices, and other public buildings under 

control of Treasury Department, 175,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 212, to insert: 

For repair and preservation of marine hospitals, $25,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 220, to insert: 

For the repair of the United States mint building at Denver, Colo., $20,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 222, to insert: 

For hydraulic pl\ssenger-elevator for building at corner of Seventeenth andF streets, known as \Vinder's building, $6,500. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 225, to insert: 

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings· and examine int{) their requirements for fnrniture and 

other furnishings, including fuel, lights, and other current expenses, $3,000; and 

for necessary expense , not exceeding $3,000; in all, $6,000. · 

The amendment was ngreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of '' Light-houses, beacons, 

and fog-signals,'' after ~ 255, to insert: 

For the purpose of erecting a light-house on the north end ofConanicutlsland, 

Narragan et Bay, Rhode Island, $18,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

'l'he next amendment was, after line 262, to insert: 

For lea e of ground for electric light at Hell Gate, $100; and the Light-House Board is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, t? lease such parcel of land as is required for the establishmen~ of said e}ectric 

hght at Hell Gate. • . 

The ameiJdment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 267, to insert: 

For the establishment of lights on Hudson River, $5,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 269, to insert: 

For the establishment of lights on Cape Fear River, 85,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 271, to insert: 

For the establishment of lights on Saint John's River, Florida, 10,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 2 0, to insert: 

Croatan light station, North Carolina: For·removing the Croata.n light-house to a point where it will be of more ·value to navigators, Sl5,000. 

The amendment was·agreed to . . The next amendment .was, in line 294, to increase the appropriation 

for "Mo quito Inlet light station, Florida: For continuing the lightbouse at :Mosquito Inlet, Florida" from 15,000 to $70,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 298, to increase the appropriation 

for ''Rebecca Shoal light station, Florida: For completing the erection 

of alight-hou eonRebeccaShoal, FloridaReefs, Florida" from 15,000 

to $20,000. 

Tb.e amendment was agreed to. , Tlie next amendment was, in line 304, to increase the appropriation 

fol' "Nort]lwest Seal Rock light station, California: For continuing ~ constructi~.!! of a light-house on the Northwest Seal Rock, off Point 1 .. -George, California," from $30,000 to $75,000. 

S .. ID . ""Uendment W~S agreed to. 

The a. 

The next amendme:at was, after line 305, to insert: 

Gray's Harbor, Washington Territory: For the establishment of a. light at the entrance of Gray's Harbor, Washington Territory, $11>,500. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed and continued. to line 313. 

Mr. CONGER. In line 310, I move to strike out .''commencing" 

and insert "completing," and in line 311, to strike out "ten" before 

''thousand " and insert " twenty; " so as to read: 

For completing the construction of a light-house at or near Port Sanilac, Lake 

Huron, Michigan, $20,000. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That amendment is not now in orqer. Under the order of the Senate, on the .first reading through of the 

bill only the amendments proposed by the Committee on Appropriations will be considered, after which the amendment will be in order. 

. Mr. CONGER. Very well; I shall move the amendment subsequently. 

The reading of the bill was resumed and continued to the end of line 

343, in the appropriations for "life-saving stations." 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will suggest to the Senator from Iowa that after the word "one," in line 343, to make sense, 

the word '' on'' should be inserted and the word ''on '' before '' one'' 

changed to ''of;" so as to read: 

And. of one on the ooa.sts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, $1,800. 

Mr. ALLISON. That should be done. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be made if 

there be no objection. _ 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, under the head of " Life-saving 

stations,'' in line 371, before ''thousand,'' to strike out ''eighty'' and 

insert "eighty-seven;" so as to make the clause read: 

For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boatstntions, 

during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at lifesaving and life-boat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon 

any occasion of disaster, at such rate, not to exceed $10 for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill 

and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for eame ; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; tra-veling expenses of 

officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions of ections 7 and 8 of the act approved May 4, 1882, ·and contingent 

expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, sta- tionery, advertising, and mi cellaneous expenses that can not be included uo- der any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, 

$687,000. . 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of "Revenue-cutter service," in line 399, after " Richard Rush," to strike out " (and for the 

construction of the steam light-house tender herein provided for);" so 

as to read: 

For rebuilding the revenue · steamer Richard Rush, including a new hull, 

boiler, and outfit.s, but retaining the pre entengines,~,OOO; and a um not ex- ceeding 10,000 to be obtained from sale of the old hull and materials: Prooided, 

That the same shall be sold only after due appraisement and advertisement, and at a price not less than the appraised value. The Secretary of the Treasury is 

hereby authorized and required to advertise for bids for the rebuilding of the 

Richard Rush, according to the plans and specifications, which shall be open for 

inspection by persons proposing to contract. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the·head of "Engraving and printing, '' in line 426, after the word ''de troyed, '' to strike out ''four hundred and seventy-five" andinsert "five hundred and fifteen;" so as to 

make the clause read: · 

For salaries of all necessary clerks and employe , and for labor (by the day, 

piece, or contract), including labor of workmen skilled in engraving, transferring, plate-printing, and other specialties necessary for carrying on the work of 

engraving and printing notes, bonds. and other securities of the United States 

and national-bank notes, the pay for such labor to be fixed by the Secretary of 

the Treasury, at rates not exceeding the rates usually paid for such work ; and 

for other expenses of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities 

of the United States and national-bank notes; for materials other than distinctive paper required in the work of engraving and printing; for purchase of en- gravers' tools, dies, rolls, and plates, and for machinery and repairs of same; and for expenses of operating macerating machines for the destruction of the 

United States notes, bonds, and other obligations of the United States authorized to be destroyed, $515,700; and from said sum work may be executed by the Bureau of Engra~·ing and Printing for the following purposes, namely. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 436, to increase the appropriation 

''for engraving (except face-plates), printing, an<l finishing circulating 

notes tor national banking associations" from $110,000 to $150,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of" Light-House EstabJishment," in line 450, to increase the appropriation "for supplies of 

light-houses'' from $350,000 to $375,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 470, to increase the appropriation 

"for expenses of light-vessels: For seamen's wages, rations, repairs, 

salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty light-ships" from 

$230,000 to $240,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. · The next amendment was, before the word "thousand," in line 477, 

to strike out "twenty-five'' and insert "forty-five;" so as to read: 

For expenses of buoyage: For ex pen es of raising, cleaning, painting, repair- ing, removing, and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and 
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1884. . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD~ENATE. 5883 

rlor the maintenance of whistling buoys and bell-buoys, and for chains, sinkers, including hydrography on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana west of 

:and similar necessaries, $345,000. the Mississippi River" from $5,500 1;Q 6,500. 

The amendment was agreed ro. · The amendment was agreed to. . The next amendment was, in line 481, before the word ''thousand,'' The next amendment was, in line 555, 1;Q increase the appropriation 

to strike out" thirty-five" and insert" sixty;" so as to make the clause "for making the requisite verification of the work and for re-examinaread: · tions of entrances on the coast of Te~as" from $1,800 to $2,500. 

For expenses of fog-signals: For establishing, renewing, duplicating, and im- The amendment was agreed t<>. 

-,roving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and The next amendment was, in line 558, 1;Q increase the appropriation 

), ~idental expenses ofthe same, $60,000. "1;Q make off-shore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and 

'l~e amendment was agreed to. · temperature observations in the Gulf Stream" from $6,000 to $7,000. 

The' next amendment was, in line .(87, after ''Ohio,'' to insert'' and; '' The amendment was agreed to. 

in line 4:qs, before the word "rivers," to strike out ''Hudson and Cape The next .amendment was, in line 5~0, ro increase the appropriation 

Fear" aL 'd in line 493, before the word "thousand," to strike out • "for continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to 

"ni.n'ety-eig2t" and insert "seventy-five;" so as. to make the cla~ harbors and bars" from $3,000 1;Q $3,600. 

:read: The amendment was agreed ro. 

For lighting and :'uoyage ofriyers: !"or maintenance of po t ligh~ and bu<;>~s The next amendment was, · line 563, 1;Q increase the appropriation ~n the Mississippi, o.'Uo, and M~un, ~rod at the I!louth of Red Rtver, Louts1- ''for determinations of geographical positions (longitude party) '' from · ana, the Light-House _"'k>ard bemg hereby authoriZ~ to lease the necessary $2,000 to 3,000. 

ground for all such light-s iW.d beacons as are used to pomtout changeable chan- The amendment was agreed to. nels, and which in consequ.<lnce can not be made permanent, $175,000. The next amendment was, in line 565, 1;Q increase the appropriation 

The am,endment was agr ... ~ to.. . . . "1;Q continue the primary triangulation from Atlanta toward Mobile" 

The next amendment was .,n line 496, to mcrease the appropnation from $2,000 to $2,500. 

"for stirvey of light-house sites:· For examination and survey of sites The amendment waa agreed ro. 

for proposed light-houses, and prep.. q,rlng plans for proposed structures'' The next amendment was, in line 568, to increase the appropriation 

from $5,000 ro $10,000. _ "for continuing an exact line of levels from· the Gulf to the transconThe amendment was agreed to. . " tinentalline of levels between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans" from 

The next amendment was, nnder the o.a~, of .Coast ~~d Geodetic $1,000 to $2,000 . 

.Survey," in ·line 503, after "Gulf Stream, . to,,mse~ a~~ Japan The amendment was agreed ro . .Stream·" and in line 506 a.fter ''North Amerk'~, to msert and the . The next amendment was, in line 570, 1;Q increase the appropriation 

<COmpil~tion of data for a' general map of the Uni.4ed States;" so as to "to continue tide observations on the Atlantic ::mdGulf coasts, andre-

.make the clause read: searches relating thereto" from $2,000 1;Q $3,000. 

For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the surve.v of the ~tlantic The amendment was agreed to. ·Gulf, and Pacific coa ts of the United States, including the surv .. ~V of rtvers to The next amendment was; in line 574, to increase the appropriation the head of tide water or ship navigatio'n; deep-sea. soundings, tem1> ~~a.ture and '' ~~ t• · · , fr ~3 0 $ -curreRtobservationsalongthecoastsand throughouttheGulfStream fL'ldJapan w con mue grayity expenments . om 'I' 1 00 to 3,500. :Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary rest.:~ey:; The amendment was agreed to. 

the preparation of the Coast Pilot; a. magnetic map of North America, am .. ~ e The next amendment was, in line 578, to increase the appropriation ·compilation of data for a general map of the United States; and includi."'g '' 1;Q continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and 1;Q make special compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the fieldwork, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and _ltydrographic examinations for the same" from $2,000 1;Q $2,500. 

-Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury, and including al- ~e amendment was agreed to. 

lowance for subsistence to officer of the Navy attached t{) the survey, not ex- Th ~ next amendment was, after line 578, to insert: -eeeding $1 per day, as allowed by act of Congress approved June 12, 1858, and 

.also including the repairs, outfit, and equipment of vessels used in the survey, For cm:-tinuing the compilation of datA. for a general map of the United States, -to be expended under the following heads. $2,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. The amemih.."'ent was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 521, to increase the appropriation The next ame1.;dment was, in line 585, to increase the appropriation 

·''for continuing the survey of the unsurveyed portions of the coast of ''for topography fro."n San Luis Capistrano toward San Diego, from Point 

.Maine eastward from Chandler's River toward Quoddy Head" from Piedras Blancas to Ca~ San Martin, and supplementary surveys near 

:$6,500 1;Q 9,000. San Francisco" from C:-500 t<> $8,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. The amendment was ag."'O<l to. 

The next am.endment was, in line 524, to increase the appropriation The next amendment was, in line 590~ to increase the appropriation 

"'for examination of reported dangers and changes on the eastern coast "for primary triangulation t;-om San Luis-Obispo northward, from 

.and Vineyard Sound" from 1,500 to $2,500. Santa Clara southward, and from ~idad northward, including aline 

The amendment was agreed ro. of precise levels from Sancelito 1;Q th ... 'transcontinental line of levels '' 

The next amendment was, in line 526, to increase the appropriation from $11,000 to 16,000. 

"'for continuing resurvey of Long Island Sound" from $10,500 to The amendment was agreed ro. 

15,000. • The next amendment.was, in line 592, to ~crease the appropriation 

The amendment was agreed ro. "for hydrography of the same coast" from $ •. ;-.000 to $7,000. 

The next amendment was, in line 529, 1;Q increase the appropriation The amendment was agreed ro. ' 

"'for completing resurvey of Delaware Bay, including cnrrentobserva- The next amendment was, in line 599, 1;Q incre.."UHl from $7,000 to 

tions " from 6, 000 to 9, 000. - $10,000 the appropriation "for continuing the ·surv\.'Y of the coast of 

The amendment was agreed ro. . Oregon, namely: Survey from Umpqua River southwru . • and includThe next amendment was, in line 531, 1;Q increase the appropriation ing such river mouths as may be specially called for, and ,"ff-shore hy-

" for continuing examina.tion of changes and resurveys on the seacoa..<rt drography, and the survey of Columbia River and Willamet\.~., River to 

of New Jersey" from $1,800 1;Q $2,100. the head of navigation." 

The amendment was agreed ro. The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 536, to increa e the appropriation The next amendment was, in line 603, to increase the appropriati~~ll 

"for survey of estuaries of Chesapeake Bay, including Chincoteague "for continuing the survey of the coast of Washington Territory 

Bay, Maryland, and of sounds and tide-water passages in North and namely: For continuing the triangulation, t<>pography, and hydrog: 

South Carolina not heretofore surveyed" from 1,200 to 2,000. raphy of Fuca Strait, of the estuaries of Pnget Sound, a.nd of PossesThe amendment was agreed ro. sion Sound, from $9,000 to $14,000. 

The next amendment was, in line 538, to increase the appropriation The amendment was agreed ro. 

''for continuing the survey of the sounds on the eastern coast of Florida, The next amendment was, in line 610, to increase the appropriation 

including the Saint John's River" from 2,500 to 4,000. "for continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska; the preparation 

The amendment was agreed to. for and making· hydrographic surveys in the same '' from $3,550 to 

The next amendment was, in line 542, 1;Q increase the appropriation $4,850. 

" for continuing the survey of the western coast of Florida from San The amendment was agreed to. 

Carlos entrance southward, and from Bayport southward, and hydrog- The next amendment was, in line 616, to increase from $1,400 to $2,000 

raphy of same" from $4,000 1;Q $6,000. the appropriation "for miscellaneous work and contingencies of all 

The amendment was agreed ro. kinds, including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on 

The next amendment was, in line 546, to increase the- appropriation duty, not specified in the above, and for any special surveys that may 

"'for examining the changes in Mobile Bay, and surveying around the be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority." 

Chandelenr Islands and the waters on the east f'..Oast of Louisiana'' The amendment was agreed ro. 

from 1,400 to $2,500. The next amendment was, in line 623, 1;Q increase the appropriation 

The amendment was agreed to. ''for traveling expenses of the Superintendent and his party on.duty of 

The next amendment was, in line 552, to ipcrea e the appropriation inspection" from $800 to $1,·200. 

~'for continuing the survey of the coast of Louisiana from Bayou La The amendment was agreed to. 

Fom-che westward and between Vermillion Ba.y and l'lfermente.au Pass, The next am~ndment was, in line 626, to increase the appr~priation 
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5884 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE. JULY 2, 

' ' for objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent'' from 

1,000 to $1,500. The amendment was agreed to. . The next amendment was, in line 630, before the word "dollars, ' 

to strike out "eighteen thousand" and insert " ixty-four thousand 

eight hundred;" so as to make the clause read: 

And 10 per cent. of the foregoing amounts shall be a vailable interchangeably 

for expenditure on the objects named; in all, for party expepses, $16!,800. · 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 630, ·to insert: 

For furnishing points for State surveys, $16,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. • The next amendment was, in the appropriations for ''pay of office 

force '' of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, in line 663, after the word 

"thousand," to insert "two hundl·ed;" so as to make the clause read: 

In office of disbursing agent, three persons, from $1,400to $3,000 per annum, $6,200. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 670, before the word ''hundred," 

to strike out "four" and insert "two;" so as to make the clause read: 

In office of the <;:oast Pilot, three persons, from $720 to 1,500 per annum, $3,220. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next ·amendment was, under the head of "miscellaneous objects 

under the TreasuryDepartment," inline746,aftertheword "stamps," 

to insert" for the Bureau of Internal Revenue;" in line 747, before the 

word "thousand," to strike out "ten" and insert" :fifty," and in line 

751, ..after the word "Treasury," to strike out--

Provided, That the co t of doing it there shall not hereafter exceed what it 

hall be found after an advertisement for proposals it would cost to have it done 

el ewhere. 

So as to make the clau e read: For paper and stamps for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, $450,000;. the en- graving and printing of said stamp to be done in the Bureau of Engravmg and 

Printing of the Treasury Department, under the direction of the Secretary of 

the Treasury. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 762, after the words ''in the,~ ' Jro 

strike out "division" and insert "Bureau;" so as to make the c~ause 

read: 

For detecting and bringing to t.rial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue .laws, or con!liviJ:Ig at ~he same, includi..:o.g pay~ents 

for information and detectwn of such vwlatwns, $50,000; and the Comm1 toner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Co;::.gress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a deiAJ.iled statement of all 

miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appro- priation is made in this act. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 769, after the word ''dollars,'' to 

strike out: 

.And hereafter contracts for the transportation of all moneys, bullion, coin, note bonds and other securities of the United States, and paper, shall be let to the l~west r~ponsible bidder therefor, after due legal advertisement. 

So as to make the clause reau: For contingent expenses un$ier the requirements of section 3653 of the Re- vised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and 

disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and 

other securities of the United States, $55,000. • . 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 775, to increase the appropriation 

"for freight on bullion and coin: For freight on bullion and coin between 

the mints and assay offices" from 15,000 to '20,000. . The amoodment was agreed to. 

The ~xt amendment was to strike out lines 788 and 789, in the followiJ;lg words: ~r repa ir of the United States mint building at Denver, Colo., 10,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment wa , after line 789, to insert: 

That the proper accounting officers of the Trea ury Department be, a nd are hereby, authonzed and directed to examine the claim of the State of 1\la achu- ett for expenses incurred and paid, at the request of the President and Secre- tary of State, during the war, in protecting the harbors and strengthening the 

fortifica.tions on the coast, now on file with the Third .Auditor, and to audit the sa me, under the act of July 'n, 1861 (12 Statutes at Large, page '%16), and report 

the a~ount found due to Congress. 

Mr. ALLISON. I move to amend the amendment by striking out 

the word audit," in line 796, and inserting "adjust;" so a to read: 

And to adjust the same. 

nseful food-fishes, including lobster , oysters, and other shell-fish, and for con- / 

tinning the inquiry· into the cau es of the decrease of the food-fishes of the / 

Unit-ed States, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employe • $125,000 · and 10 per ce nt. of the amounts appropriated for the service of the • United State Fish Oommis ion shall be available interchangeably for expendi- ture on the objects named. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 814, after the word ''rooms, to 

strike out ' ' and other n ecessary office expenses'' and insert '' in & ...a city· of Washington; and in line 815, after the word "thou and, '~-- to 

strike out ":five hundred" and insert "three hundred and eighti)';" so as to make. the clause rMd: - / 

For expense of the-office of the United States Fish Commission: For rent of rooms in the eity of Wa hington, $1,380. · 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 831, after the wor·f"equipment , . 

to strike out ''three thousand" and insert ''four fl..tousand :five h~­

dred;" so as to make the clause read: 

For the com:pletion of .the car for th~ distributior_. of carp and ot.her useful 

food-fishe to dtstant portions of the Umted Statee . authorized by act approved: March 3, 1883, and its equipment, $4,500. ·• 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line PA3 to increase the appropriation• 

"for completion of the necessary CO?..JStru~tions at Wood's Holl Harbor . 

M~c~usetts, and. their equip_;n:Gilt, for the propagation of and investi: 

gat10n m regard to useful sea- 4ishes and other marine animals" from• 15,000 to 25,000. 

The amendment was 8'6reed to. • 

. The.ne:rta~~~d~e .,was, under the head of" current expenses, pub .. he _buildings, I? lJ:.._.e 860, to increase the apppropriation "for pay of 

~l!'tant ~usto~ .ils and janitors: For pay of assistant custodians and Ja~~rs, rnclu'.ring all personal services in connection with all public 

buildrng&, u~er control of the Treasury Department outside of the 

District <',i Columbia" from $300,000 to 360,000. 

The ~endment was agreed to .. 

T.~e next amendment was, in line 865, to increa e the appropriations 

" for heating appa.ratus for public buildings, including new buildings: 

For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the 

same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals, under control of the Treasury Department" from $125,000 tb 150,000. 

The amendment wM agreed to. 

ARI\IY APPROPRI.A.TION BILL. 

Mr. PLUMB. I ask the Senator from Iowa having charge of the 

bill to yield to me while I make a report from a conference committee. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. GARLAND in the chair). Will 

the Senator from Iowa yield to the Senator from Kansas ? 

Mr. ALLISON. I yield for the purpose of receiving the report of 

the Committee of conference. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The reportwill be received and read . The Secretary read as follows: 

T he cbmmittee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Hou es on thu amendment of the Senate numbered 35 to the bill (H. R. 6861) making ap- propriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30~ 

1885, and for other purpo es, having met, after full and free conference hav& 

agreed to recommend and do recommend to their re pective Houses as fol- lows~ 

That the House recede from its disagreement to the said amendment nUIJ1:1o. 

bered 35. 

.P. B. PLUMB, M. W. RANSOM, 

1Ianage1·s on Ute part of the Sena.te.-

WILLIAl\I H. FORNEY, J. WARREN KEIFER, 

Managers on the pa1-t of the House. 

Mr. PLUMB. I move the adoption or the report. 

The PRE IDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kansas moves th'0-

adoption of the report. . Mr. PLUMB. I will state for the 'information of the Senate that. the House recedes from its disagreement to the 'enate amendment_ The Senate amenqed the Army bill by striking out so much of the bill' as related to the prices paid for Army tran portation. The couferees. ofthe.House have now agreed torecede from their disagreement to the 

Senate amendment, leaving the bill as it passed the Senate in that. 

particular. 

The report was concurred in. 

REMOVAL OF CHARGE OF DESERTION. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I move that the Hou e of Repr entatiYes be re- The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. 

The amendment as amended was agreed to. - quested to return to the enate the bill (H. R. 4383) to relieve certain 

soldiers from the charge of desertion, which was passed ye tercl ay 

morning. I desire it returned in order that I may ask the Senate to 

appaint a committee of conference. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, in the appropriations "under the 

Commissioner of Fish ::md Fisheries,'' in line 09, after the word ''dollars," to insert: 

And 10 per cent. of the amounts appropriated for the service of the United 

States Fish Commission shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named. 

So as to make the clause read: 

For the propagation of food-fishes: For the introduction by the United States 

.1-'ish Commission into, and to increase in, the waters of the United States of 

The PRE IDING OFFICER. The question is on the motion of the 

Senator from Missouri, to request the return of the hill from the Hon e. The motion was agreed to. 

COMl\IITTEE SERVICE. 

Mr. MORGAN. I desire to be relieved from further service upon the 

Committee on Fisheries. 

The PRE !DING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama asks to be 
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.excused from further service upon the Committee on Fisheries. 

l()~jection? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. 

Is there of Education);" in line 989, before the word" thousand," to strike put 

Mr. SLATER. I ask to be relieved from further service upon t~e 

~ommittee on Indian Affairs. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of 

•the Senator from Oregon? The Chair hears none, and the order will be 

llllade excusing him from further service upon that committee. 

1\Ir. MORGAN. I move that the Chair :fill the vacancies upon the 

·Committees on Fisheries and on Indian Affairs occasioned by the resigna-

>tion of the Senator from Oregon [Mr. SLATER] and myself this morn-

>ing. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Alabama asks 

·unanimous consent that the Chair be authorized to :fill the vacancies 

·occasioned by the resignation of the gentlemen named on the Committees on Fisheries and Indian Affairs. Is there objection? The Chair 1

hears no objection. The Chair appoints -w be a member of the Com-

·mittee on Fisheries the ~enator from Oregon [l\1r. SLATER], and upon 

~the Committe~ on Indian Affairs the Senator from Alabama [Mr. MORGAN]. 

SU:NDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. 

The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideraiiion of the bill (H. R. 73 0) making appropriations for sundry civil 

•expenses of the Government for the :fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, 

-and for other purpo es. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

'Committee on Appropriations was, under the head of "AJaskan seal-

:fi.'3heries," after line 921:, to insert: · 

For the protection of sea-otter hunting-grounds and eal-fi.sheries in .Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue steamers for the pro- -tection of the interests of the Government on the seal-islands and the seal- -otter hunting-grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, :$25,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was to strike out lines 941 to943, inclusive, as 

.follows: 

That all laws or parts of laws authorizing the appointment of a National 

..Board of Health be, and the same are hereby, repealed. 

And in lieu thereof to ins~rt: 

For p~y and expenses of the members of the National Board of Health, 

"Sl.O,OOO. For the investigation of questions affecting the public health, $8,000. 

Mr. HARRIS I would suggest to the Senator from Iowa in charge 

of the bill to strike out in the :first paragraph "ten," in line 945, and 

insert "eight;" so as to read: 

For pay and expenses of the members of the National BoardofHealth,$8,000. 

And in line 947, to strike out "eight" and insert "ten;" so as to 

xead : · 

For the investigation of questions affecting the public health, $1.0,000. 

Mr. ALLISON. I have no objection to that. 

l\1r. HARRIS. It does not change the amount of the appropriation, 

.but changes the items. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That change will be made if there 

oe no objection. The- questionjs on the amendment as modified. 

The amendment as modified was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill wa resumed. The next amendment of the 

JCommittee on Appropriations was, after line 947, to insert: 

For rent, fuel, po tage, telegraphing, printing, and all other miscellaneous .expense , 2,500. . For clerks and messenger, $4,500; amounting, in all, to $25,000. The President of the United States is ·hereby authorized, in case of threat- ened or actual epidemic, to use the unexpended balance of appropriation made by act approved .August 7, 1882, and act approved 1\Iarch 3, 1883, not to exceed -$100,000, in aid of State aud local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in pre- -venting and suppressing the spread of the same and maintaining quarantine at ,points of danger. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was to strike out lines 963 to 965, inclusive, -as follows: · 

United States quarantine buildings, Marine Hospital Service: Gulf quaran- tine: For building wharf, 10,000. 

The amendment wa agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 979, to increase from 10,000 to ·$50, 000 the appropriation 'to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to 

· establish and maintain quarantine stations, and to provide proper shel-

' ter for and care of neat-cattle imported at such ports as he may deem 

'.D ecessary. ' ' 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 970, to insert: 

For amount necessary t-o pay direct-tax purchasers the amount paid by said .purchasers for real estate sold under the direct-tax laws, and from which they · have been evicted by judgment of a United States court, $2,414. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of' United States Execu- ·tive Departments at the World's Industrial and Cotton CentennialExposition at New Orleans, La.," in line 9 6, after "State Department," . to strike out" ten" and insert" twenty;" in line 9 7, after" Treasury .Department," to strike out "ten" and insert- "fifteen;" in line 988, 

_after "Interior Deparliment," to strike out" (notincludingtheBureau 

''twenty-five" and insert ''fifty;" after the word ''dollars,H in the 

same line, to strike out "for the BureauofEducation, Interior Department, $40,000;" and in line 1000, after the word "dollars," to insert: 

To be disbursed under the direction of the board on United States Executive 

Departments appointed under executil"e order of May 13, 1884; and no expenses of any kind beyond the amounts herein provided for shall be incurred by any of the said Departments, or any officer thereof, on account of said exposition. 

So as to make the clause read: 

To enable the several Executive D epartments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution to participate in the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition to be held at New Orleans, La.., under act of Con- gress of February 10,1883, as follows : For the War Department, $80,000; for the Navy Department, $60,000; for the State Department, $20,000: for the Treasury 

Department, $15,000; for the Interior Department, 150,000; for the Post-Office 

Department, 10,000: for the Department of Agriculture, $4.0,000; for the Depart- ment of Justice, $8,000; for the Smithsonian Institution (including the National Mu eum and Commission of Fish and Fisheries), 100,000; for necessary inci- dental expenses of administration by the board, including office-rent, fuel, gas, stationery, telegrams, aud expressage, $22,000; in all, $500,000; to be disbursed under the direction of the board on United States Executive Departments ap- pointed under executive order of May 13,1884; and no expenses of any kind be- yond the amounts herein provided for shall be incurred by any of the said De- partments, or any officer thereof, on account of said exposition. 

Mr. ALLISON. I desire to give notice that the Committee on Appropriations instruct me-that js their last instruction-to move to 

strike out, from line 979 to 1005, all that prov:i,sion and insert what 

I send to the Secretary's desk. I think the ""hole situation may as well be understood now. The proposition is to strike out the whole 

paragraph ·relating to this World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial 

Exposition and insert what I send to the desk. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa moves to 

amend the amendments proposed by the committee to the paragraph 

from line 979 to 1005 inclusive by inserting in lieu of the whole paragraph an amendment which will be read. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

To enable the several Executive Departments of the Government, including the Department of .Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution, to participate in the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition to be held at New Orleans, La., under act of Congress of February 10,1888, to be expended under the direction of the President, $250,000. , 

1\Ir. BECK. I ask the chairman of the committee ifhe has anyob-

. iection to allowing this amendment to be passed over until the other 

amendments ~f the committee are dispo ed of; to be considered as one 

of the committee amendments, but after the other amendments have 

been acted on? I will state my reason for the request. A great many 

gentlemen were induced to believe by the printed bill-the chairman 

of the Committee on Education and Labor is one of them, who is now 

ab§ent-that the amendment as printed in the bill would be the one 

the committee would adhere to. If the proposed amendment is read 

and the attention of the Senate called to it, I think there will be less 

trouble, and it will be fairer to allow it to be passed over until gentlemen objecting to the amendment have time to look at it. 

Mr. ALLISON. I have no objection to that if the Senator thinks 

gentlemen have been misled by this printed bill . 

Mr. BECK. I think so. I believe it. 

:Mr. ALLISON. I have no objection to passing it over for the time 

being, but I give notice now of the amendment as proposed by the 

committee and ask Senators to give their attention to it. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Kentucky asks 

unanimous consent that the question on the amendments from lines 

979 and 1005 be passed over informally to be resumed at a later stage . 

Is there objection? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. The 

reading of the bill will proceed. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, in the items "under the Navy Department," after line 1008, to insert: 

For repairing the dry-dock at the Brooklyn, N. Y., navy-yard, $140,954. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1011, to insert: 

To enable the Secretary of the Navy to continue the improvement of the cob- dock at the navy-yard, Brooklyn, N.Y., the unexpended balance of the appro- priation made by act of March 3, 1883, (22 Statutes, page 620), amounting t-o !47,362, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditures during the fiscal year ending June 30,1885. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1022, to ID.sert: 

For the erectien of a new derrick at the l\1are Island navy-yard, $40,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next.amendment was, after line 1024, to insert: 

· For Coasters' Harbor Island, Rhode Island: For completion of wharf, dredg- ing, beating apparatus, water supply for drill-hall and training-ship , repairs to old building and main causeway, and for lighting thoroughfares, houses, and vessels at Coasters' Harbor l3land, S41,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1030, to insert: 

For incidental expenses .of conducting a post-graduate school for naval officers, ooo . 

Mr. ALLISON. The committee instructs me to ask the SellB.te to 

di<>agree to-that amendment. 

The amendment was rejected. 

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The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 1032, to insert: 

For the publication of information from abroad, Bureau of Navigation, $.5,000 

The amendment was agreed to. • 

The next amendment was, after line 1034, to insert: 

For altering and refitting one of the Government buildings at the Norfolk 

navy-yard as a barrack. for marines stationed there, $12,350. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

':rhe next amendmendment was, after line 1038, to insert: 

· For completing the repairs to the Superintendent's house at the Naval Acad- emy, Annapolis, $5,000. 

Mr. ALLISON. The committee instruct me to ask the Senate to 

disagree to that amendment. 

The amendment was rejected. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 1041, to insert: 

To pay the owners of the schooner Druid in full satisfaction of their claim for 

loss and damage to said vessel and cargo resulting from collision with the United 

States steamer Powhatan, on the 15th day of October, lSSS, off the coast of Halifax, $11,201.43. 

Mr. MORGAN. I ask the chairman of the committee whether the 

claim has been ascertained in any way for the schooner Druid? Ha-s 

the amount of this claim been-in any way lawfully ascertained and the 

indebtedness of the Government for it established? •. 

Mr. ALLISON. It has been ascertained by the usual method in 

similar cases-that is, a board of naval officers was designated to examine the schooner Druid and ascertain the dam~ges and report upon 

them, and they have reported this amount. 

Mr. MORGAN. Has it been audited and allowed by any Department? 

1\fr. INGALLS. Is not this a private claim? If so, I object to it. 

The PRESIDENT pro tfffnpore. The Senator from Kansas rna ke. the 

point of order that this is a private claim. The Chair ::;u tains the 

point of order. 

Mr. ALLISON. I am glad the Chair does; but I should like to have 

put on record the reasons for the proposition. 

Mr. BECK. I should like to have the letter that the Senator from 

Iowa refers to read befQre the Chair decides the question. I do not 

think the Chair will bold that it is a private claim when he hears the 

communication. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The Chair will reserve hi 9-ecision: 

until the letter is read. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 25,1884. 

SIR: I ha"\'e the honor to present for the consj.deration of the Committee on .Appropriations the following facts: 

On the 15th of October, 1883, a colli ion occurred at sea, off the coast of Halifax, between the schooner Druid, of and from Lunenburg, N. S., bound for a. port 

in the West Indies, and the United States steamship Powhatan, bound for the 

port of Boston, 1\Iass. 

On the 23d of October a court of inquiry was ordered to investigate and report the circumstances attending the collision and where the blame, if any, should rest. On the 30th of November the court reported that the officer of the deck of 

the Powhatan, Lieut. Charles A. Stone, United States Navy, was re ponsible for 

the colli ion. On the 23d of November a. general court-martial was ordered for 

the trial of Lieutenant Stone, and also of Capt. A. W. Johnson, the commanding· officer of the Powhatan. upon a charge of culpable negligence and inefficiency 

in the performance of duty while navigating the Powhatan at the time of the 

collision. • Lieutenant Stone was tried first, found guilty of the charge, and entenced to suspension from rank. and duty for two years, on waiting-orders pay, a.nd to be 

reprimanded in general orders by the Secretary of the Navy. Captain Johnson was next tried and acquitted, but the finding of "not guilty" in his case was disapproved. 

On the 19th of December the owners of the Druid filed their claim for $11,519.88 as the aggregate amount of loss and damage to vessel and cargo resulting from 

the collision. On the 11th of January, U!84, a. board of officers was duly appointed to examine the claim in detail, together with the proofs and vouchers 

connected therewith, which board, after such examination, reported a total allowance of Sll,201.43 in favor of the claimants. Being satisfied that such allow- ance is just and proper, I have the honor to request that the amount in quesJ tion be inserted in the sundry civil bill now pending in your committee. 

Very respectfully, W. E. CHANDLER, 

Secretary of the Navy. Ron. WM. B. ALLISO ', 

Chairrnan Committee on Appropriatimul, United States Senai.e. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair is still of opinion that 

this is a private claim, and that on the principle of its not being such 

every claim sent to the Committee on Claims might be in erted in this 

bill. The Chair sustains the point of order. · 

Mr. BECK. I am not able to lay my hand on the papers, and I do 

not propose to dispute the decision; but this was a foreign ship and 

there was som~ arrangement between the Government of this country 

and the colonial government of Canada whereby this commis ion was 

had under the authority ofthe two countries; but that perhaps would 

not alter the case on the point of order. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Kentucky will 

understand that there is nothing for the Chair to decide but that under 

the rules this is a private claim. The justice of it is quite a different 

question. The Chair thinks this is clearly a private claim in the form 

in which the proposition stands. 

Mr. BECK. I only desire to add that we were so careful about inserting private claims that we looked i,nto this and found that there 

were some negotiations between this Government and Canada relativeto the action of the Secretary of the Navy and his officers; and we didl 

not regard it on the papers as being a private claim. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair thinks in the form in· which it stands it is clearly a private claim. • • 

Mr. HALE. It raises a question thatordinacyclaims do not, ornething of international comity, it being an outside matter entirely from... 

a claim of one of our own. citizens. That is, as the Senator from Kentucky says, the reason why the committee gave it a place on the bill. 

Mr. CAMERON, of Wisconsin. The Senate has refused to agree tothe amendment contained in lines 1039, 1040, and 1041, at the request. 

of the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. I was recently 

at Annapolis and I saw the house mentioned in this proposed amendment. It "is partially completed; the walls are up and it is inclo ed, 

and it would not require agreatdealofmoneytocompleteit. !should; 

like if the chairman of the committee would state why he recommendedto the Senate to not agree to that proposed amendment. 

Ir. ALLISON. I stated that I was instructed by the committee t;o.. 

so recommend. . , Mr. CAMERON, of Wisconsin. Why did the committee so instruct 

the , enator? 

Mr. ALLISON. I suppose the idea of the comJV.ittee was that theexpenditure, so fa as made on this building, has been in violation or 

law, and they thought it hardly worth while now to authorize the 

completion of the building when the expenditure thus far made had. 

been in violation of law. That is the reason the committee gave for· 

its instruction to me. 

Mr. CAMERON, of Wisconsin. Will the chairman state what statute has been violated in the erection? 

Mr. ALLISON. The Senator from Massachusetts [ 1\fr. DAWES] is: 

more familiar with the sublect. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The reading of the bill will proceed. 

Ir. ALLISON: I will state to the Senator from Wisconsin tha 

there was a. statute forbidding any of the appropriations made for the 

naval service being used for the repairs of the superintendent's house. 

The superintendent, as I understand it, instead of making repairs there, 

tore down the old building and constructed a new one without any authority of law. That is my understanding and reeollection. I have 

not the statute before me, or I should point the Senator to it. 

. l\Ir. HALE. I have looked into matters connected with the Navy 

Department. A general statute forbids the use of any appropriations 

for a distinctive purpose, for any other purpose. Under the statute and 

again tits spirit and terms, the superi.lltendent went on and under the 

head of "repairs," which was not intended to comprehend anything 

but repairs of old buildings and other buildings, took funds enough to. 

practically build a new structure. The committee thought that it was. 

done in defiance of law and admonished him by special clan es put 

upon the appropriation bills that it should not be done; but, all thesame, the building went on and was almost completed. The commit-· 

tee was not willing, that having been done, that any further moneyshould be appropriated, but preferred that it should stand as it is, L 

suppose, as a monument of the attitude of Congress on that position. 

I will say that so far as I am concerned I am entirely willing the· 

building should now be finished. I think it has stood there long: 

enough and we had better finish it up and ha.ve it done with, but the 

committee has thought otherwise, and so I do not make any point. 

Mr. DAWES. ~do not think the Senator from Maine does complete 

justice in this case. ·, The superintendent of the academy submitted an 

estimate to rebuild his headquarters. When that estimate came before 

the committee the committee, instead of making an appropriation to 

rebuild his headquarters, made an appropriation to repair the old headquarters. In the face of that appropriation and enactment he went on 

and tore down his old headquarters and took that money as far a it. 

would go to tear them down and make the underpinning of new quarters. Then the next year he came for an appropriation to complete the, 

erection of his new quarters, and Congre put in this provision: 

For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclo ing the grounds of the :ra.va.l Academy, and.for improvemeutfl, repairs, and 

furniture and fixture , $21,000: Provided, That no appropriation provided for 

in this act shall be con trued to authorize or be applied t<> a. new building for 

the use of the superintendent or other officers of the academy. 

N everthel~ss he went on till he has the bltilding erected and covered, 

in the face of this provision. Then there came in this bill this item for 

money to complete it, and the committee thought that on the whole it 

would be well enough to have it remain in its present position at least 

for a while in testim01iiarn rei. 

Mr. CA.!.IERO~, of Wisconsin. It has remained in its present con- dition for nearly one year and it eems to me it would be for the interest of the Govern.ment to go on and complete it now. A certain 

amount of money appropriated by Congress has gone into the erection 

of the bUilding. It is of no nse as it now is and all the money invested 

in it is a dead investment. Five thousand dollars, as I understand, will 

complete it. Then if the Committee on Appropriations are of the 

opiiiion that the superintendent ought not to be allowed to occupy it 

they can put cadets in it or they can put some inferior officer in it. 
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The investment already made, whether made strictly in MCOrdance 

with law or not, can only be utilized by completing the building. 

Mr. DAWES. Congress was of opinion that the old headquarters 

should not be taken down and new ones put in their place. It seemed 

to Congress to be a very valuable old building. It was built before the 

Revolutionary war, and was a relic which seemed to Congress of great 

Yalne. It seemed to the superintendent, however, not to be of much value. He dllfered from Congress, and he tore it down in violation of 

an express enactment, a:Q.d he has resolved that. he will have his quarters new instead of this venerable old edifice. 

There is one more such edifice left there which was occupied by the 

governor of the province before the Revolution. Those who saw this 

building, whowereoutsideofthe Naval Academy, seemed to think and 

enacted that it should not go down. 

Now, I do not care anything about it. If Congress does not care 

about having its enactments regarded by the officers, I am but one member of Congress and I shall try and reconcile my elf to it.· So far 

as I am concerned, for one, whenever Congress declares that a thing shall be done and an official says it shall not be done, I aJ;D. not one of 

tho e who will say, "Well, it is done and we will accept it and make 

the best of it;" I am not one of that kind. 

Mr. MORRILL. May I inquire of the Senator if this was done in 

defiance of law how was it possible that the accounts came to be audited 

by the Treasury? 

1\fr. DAWES. I do not know anything about that. I did not audit 

the accounts; I read the law. 

1\fr. MI~ER, of California. Mr. President, there is no doubt that 

the law has been violated in this case; but there is a question now of 

how far we are going to punish this superintendent. The method 

adopted in this bill is the punishment of the United States instead of 

the punishment of the superintenden~. He has a good house to live in, 

which he is now occupying; and it does not matter to him whether this 

building is completed or not; but it stands there partially completed; 

it is covered, but without windows, and subject to deterioration from 

the elements. The question is whether we shall go on and complete it 

and have it ready for the occupancy of somebody. 

I do not think it is wise to let the building go to decay. What has 

been done has been done; you can not undo it at this time; and you are only punishing the people of the United States by such enactments as 

this refusing to appropriate the requisite money to go on and finish 

t he buildin~. If any officer of the Navy Department, whether the su- perintendent or any other officer, has violated an act of Congress, there 

is ome way to get at him besides refusing to do a thing which ought 

to be done for the best interests of the United States in respect to this 

building. That is my view of it; and I hope the amendment of the 

committee striking out the clause will not be agreed to. 

Mr. CAMERON, of Wisconsin. Thecommitteeproposed theamendment, and I think the question bas been already taken; but I have no doubt the chairman will consent that it be taken again. 

Mr. MILLER, of California. Whatever i necessary to be done to 

have the building completed should be done. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The reading of the bill will proceed. 

Mr. CAMERON, of Wisconsin. I move to reconsider the vote by 

which the Senate refused to adop~ the amendment proposed by the 

Committee on Appropriations. Mr. HOAR. I hope there will be unanimous consent to put the 

question over again. A discussion grew up and the matter was merely 

put formally by the Chair, nobody attending to what was going on, 

and the debate happened after the vote. I hope by unanimous consent 

the question will be put again. · 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the question 

being again taken on agreeing to the amendment on lines 1039, 1040, 

and 1041? The Chair hears no objection. The question is on agreeing 

t o t he amendment inserting thoSe lines. 

Mr. PLUMB. Itisnot very often wegetasplainacaseas'thiswhere we can assert what little is left of the legi lative authority pf this Government. We have the least possible control over the money we vote 

here. We vote sums of money to our Executive Departments, and say 

by positive laws that they shall not spend any more than we vote, and 

they go right on and spend in such a way that we have to m3ke appropriations of even, ten, or even twenty-five millions a year to make 

up the deficiencies they themselves create in violation of law. It may 

be, perhaps,. that this is not the most wholesome point ab which we can a~ ert our authority, but it is a very good one, I think, because there 

can be no more flagrant violation of the law, no more flagrant contempt 

of Congress, no more ilagrant assertion of' the power of a naval officer 

to have things his own way, irrespective of written statutes, than is 

presented here. • I ubmit that if we are to have any legislative independence whatever, if we are to assert the power of the law over the creatures of the 

law and over the control of the expenditure of the public money, we 

can afford at least to pause long enough to make an example of this 

kind, however trivia.l it may be, because after all to a certaiu extent it 

is going to be conspicuous, because the violatio;n, of the law has been of 

!he most conspicuous _possible character;. and we can afford to do that 

in this case because it does not involve anything of importance to any 

Department of the Government. It is simply a question as to whether 

there shall be so many rooms more or less at the Annapolis Academy 

during the next fiscal year. If it were going to arrest any of the great 

functions of the Government, if it were going to stop some bureau of 

the Treasury Department or some other Department of the Government 

in the discharge of its duties in such a way as to cause difficulty, I 

would say we had better pocket this as we have pocketed all the other 

things of which I have spoken and with which we are constantly con- fronted in our relations with the Executive Depart.JD.ents. 

But here is a case where an officer came before the Appropriations 

Committee and sought to have an approprj,ation made for the purpose 

of erecting a building, and he was told then and there, in the first plaee, 

that it was not the purpose of Congress to have a new building but to 

repair the old building and keep it; and in the next place that it was 

deemed proper to keep that parlicular building, as it was an. old building and the only one practically there was about the academy that it was thought well to retain, a building connected with the present and 

the far past. Thereupon an appropriation was made to repair that old 

building; and in direct defiance of the terms of the law and of the 

admonition of the committee in response to his importunities for appropriation , he tore down the old building which it was designed to 

have remain there, and constructed the foundation of a new one, and 

then came in and asked for an appropriation to complete that building. Congress then, after debate in the Senate, enacted that there 

should be no reconstruction of that old building, but that its bricks 

and foundation should stay there as a monument of the displeasure of 

Congress with this viole:1.t and wholly inexcusable act on the part of 

this executive officer. But he simply laughed at the enactment, as he 

had done before, I have no doubt, but as officers do every day of the 

year, and took the money we said he should not use for that purpose 

and proceeded to use it for that purpose. 

Now, the Senator from Vermont asks how did these accounts escape 

the scrutiny of the Treasury Department. I answer by saying that the 

Treasury Department does not scrutinize these accounts. The Treasury Department practically does not scrutinize the accounts of either 

the Army or the Navy. These accounts are paid by the Pay Department of the Navy, and the only scrutiny which p:mctically the Treasury 

exercises over MCOunts of the Pay Department is to see that the sums 

total are correct. Scrutiny is applied to the statements of the accounts 

of the Indian Bureau and the Land Office and things of that kind, but 

practically the Army and Navy get the sums of money we give them 

and they spend them in their own way. An illustration of that has 

been fumished by some peculations which have turned up in the Navy 

Department, showing with what utter lack of scrutiny accounts are passed in that Department. I do not speak of it particularly as characterizing that Department as against oth.er Departments, but as simply a naked fact. 

Mr. JONES, of Florida. Will the Senator yield to me. Mr. PLUMB. I will. 

Ur. JONES, of Florida. For information I wish to know if the offi- cer in this case exceeded in expenditure the amount of the appropriation for this work? 

1\fr. PLUMB. There was no appropriation made for the work. It 

Wru? expressly stated that it should not be expended for this work; but 

notwithstanding that provisi9n the money was taken and was expen.ded. 

The total amount expended did not exceed the total amount appropriated by the bill; but there was just as plain a provision of the statute as could be put into language that no part of the money should be 

taken tp complete that building, and yet it was taken and the money 

used as far as it would go toward the completion of the building which 

Congress said should not be built out of that money. That is the way 

the thing stands to-day. The Senator from Wisconsin says, and the 

Senator from California says, that while the law has been violated by 

this particular man, who is there now eeking t he comforts and conven- ience of this building, we might as well' let it go and complete the 

building. I do not look at it in that way. If we do that thing now 

we might as well advertise at once that notwithstanding the limitations 

we put in the statute the money m..'ty be spent a~ording to the sweet 

will of the executive officer who happens to get his hand upon it. If 

I had it to do, I would never complete that building. I would let it stay there as long as Annapolis remains, as a monument of the displeasure of Congress at the action of the executive officer in violating 

the law in two open cases in regard to one subject-matter. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER ( Ir. HAWLEY m the chair). The 

question is on the amendment of the Committee on Appropriations to 

insert what will be read. · 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

For completing the repairs tQ the s uperintendent's bon eat the Naval A~d- emy, Annapolis, $5,000. 

1\fr. PLUMB. I hope that will be voted down. 

Mr. CAMERON, of Wisconsin. I hope it 'vill not be. 

Mr. PLUMB. In the first place thecommitteedo not report it. It 

went to the committee, but thecominittee itselfin full session struck it 

out, and therefore it is not a committee amendment. · 
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:J\.11:. BECK. It is not a committee amendment. 

Ir. CAMERON, of Wisconsin. Here is the bill reported by the 

committee, and it is in that. · 

Mr. BECK. But the committee d?es like every other committeemeets and revises its action. 

Mr. CAMERON, ofWiscon in. It did not meet and revise its action 

in this case, so far as I know, until after this bill was reported to the 

Senate. 

Mr. BECK. It met this morning and struck out this clause. 

1\Ir. CAMERON, of Wisconsin. The bill was reported last evening, 

printed, and placed on our desks. 

Mr. BECK. There need not be any dispute about the fact. That 

is o, but the committee met this morning and reversed the former 

action. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair desires to know, then, who moves this amendment? 

Mr. EDMUNDS. It is anamendmentof thecommitteethatwasre- ported, but on reconsideration they think it ought not to be adopted. 

1\Ir . .ALLISON. I stated that the committee instructed me this morn- ing to ask the Senate t;o reject the amendment, and I so asked the Senate to do. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question before the Senate is on adopting this amendment. 

The amendment was rejected. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 1048, to insert: 

For mile.age of officers of the Navy, being for p~yment of accounts audited 

and allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury, $29,357.75. 

The amendment wa agreed to. 

The next amendment was, ·in line 1054, to increase the appropriation 

"for navy-yards and stations" from $125,000 to $150,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was to strike out lines 1055 to 1062, inclusive, a follows: 

Naval Ob ervatory: To enable the President to appoint a scientific commission, composed of scientific men, to inquire into the organization, work, expenses, and reconstruction 

of the Naval Observatory, and to report to Congres the best system for its fut- ure management, 700, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of 

the Navy. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in the appropriations "under the Interior Dep::ntment," to strike out from line 1064 to 1066, inclusive, as follows: 

To complete the improvement of the Hot Sp1 ~ngs Creek, in the town of Hot Springs, Ark., $75,000. 

Mr . .ALLISON. I will say thatwhen the committee first examined 

this question they could find no papers relating to this matter, but 

since that we have fully examined the case and find from the report 

made to the House and also from a letter of the Secretary' of the Interior that this sum is necessary. Therefore I hope the amendment of 

the committee will be rejected. 

The amendment was rejected. 

The rending of the bill was· resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 1066, to insert: 

Bureau of Labor: For salary of Commissioner of LaborJ $3,000; salary of chief clerk, $2,000; rent of rooms for use of bureau, and for tuel,light, and ta.tionery, $3,000; and for 

other necessary expen es of said bureau, to be expended under the direction of 

the Secretary of the Interior, and as provided by law, 17,000; in a.ll,$25,000. 

The amendment was 'agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1099, to insert: 

For con tracting terraces north and south of the Capitol, ections marked A and l\1, as shown on printed plan accompanying the letter of the Secretary of 

the Trea ury (Executive Document No. !:1, first se ion Forty-eighth Congress), 

115,000, including wages of mechanic and laborers: Provided, That the work 

under thi appropriation shall be confined to the north and outh fronts of the 

Capitol building, and shall not extend westward beyond the line of the west fronts of the Senate and House wings oftheCapitol. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1112, after the word "gas," to insert "electric lighting; ' so as to make the clan e read: 

For lighting the Capitol and grounds : For lighting the Capitol and grounds 

about the same, including the Botauic 'Garden and Senate and House stables: For gas, electric lighting, pay of superintendent of meters, lamp-lighters, gas- fitters, and for materials for gas or electric lighting, and for general repairs, 

$20,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment wa , after line 1121, to insert: 

New Pension building: For completion .of the new Pension building, a per estimate contained in Senate Executive Document No. 1 , present session, 

$266,559.62. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was continued to the end of line 1147. 

Mr . .ALLISON. !move, inlinell45, tostrikeout"Minne otaand," 

before " Dakota," and in line 114 7, after the word ''thousand," I move to strike out "five hundred;" so as to read : 

For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Dakota: For 

rent of pffice for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, $2,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

1\Ir. ALLISON. After line 1147, I move to insert: 

Office of surveyor-general ofl\Iinnesota: For contingent expenses of the office 

of the surveyor-general of 1\Iinne ota, for fuel, books, stationery, pay of messen- ger, and other incidental expense , 1,000. 

These are all amendments ofthe Committee on Appropriations. 

1\Ir. 1\Icl\fiLLAN. Ought that not to be 2,000? 

1\Ir. ALLISON. One thousand dollars was the appropriation last 

year. The amendment was agreed to. 

The rending of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, under the head of "Expenses of the 

collection of revenue from sales of public lands,'' in line 1210, to in- crease the appropriation ''for incidental expenses of the several land 

offices'! from $140,000 to 200,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1212, to increase the appropriation 

"for eA>6nses of depo iting money received from the sale of public 

lands " from 12,000 to 15,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1219, after the word "lands," to 

~trike out "fifteen" and in ert "twenty-five;" and, in line 1220, after 

the word "dollars," to insert: • 

Pro'!Jidea, That agents and others employed under the three preceding para- graphs, while traveling on duty shall be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding $3 per day, 

and for a{!tual necessary expenses for transportation. 

So as to make the clause read: 

For expen es of agent employed in adjusting for swamp lands and for indemnity for swamp lands, $?....5,000: Provided, That agents and others employed under 

the three preceding paragraphs while traveling on duty shall be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding $3 per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after ]jne 1230, to insert: 

To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to prepare and pub- lish a new map of the United States, $5,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. · · 

The next amendment was, under the head of '' Surveyinfi the public 

lands,'.' in line 1235, after the word "lands," to strike out 'three hundred" and insert "four hundred and fifty thousand;" so as to read: 

For urveying the public lands, $450,000, at rates not exceeding ~ per linear 

mile for tandard and meander miles, $7 for township and $5 for section lines, &c. 

The amendment was a.greed to. 

ME SAGE FRO::U THE HOUSE. 

.A.. message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. CLARK, its 

Clerk, announced that the House had agreed to the resolution of the 

Senate to print extra copies of the report of the Commissioner of Fish 

and Flisheries for the year 18 4. 

The message also returned to the Senate, in compliance with its .re- quest, the following bills: 

.A.. bill (H. R. 43 3) to relieve certain soldiers from the charge of desertion j and 

.A.. bill (H. R. 4696) to authorize the location of a branch home for 

disabled volunteer soldiers and sailors in either the State of Arkansas, 

Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, :J\Iinnesota, Missouri, or Nebra ka. 

BRANCH SOLDIERS' HOME. 

Ur. HARRISON. I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate House 

bill 4696. -

The PRESIDENT pro tempo-re. The Chair will lay before the Senate a bill from the House of Representatives which has been returned at 

the request of the Senate. The title of the bill wi~l be reported. 

The SECRETARY. .A.. bill (H. R. 4696) to authorize the location of a branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers and sailors in either the 

State of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, or . Nebraska. 

Ur. HARRISON. I move that the Senate request a conference with 

the House on the amendments of the the Senate to the bill. 

The PRESIDENT: pro tempore. The· Senator from Indiana moves 

that the Senate request a conference with the House of Representatives 

upon the amendments of the Senate to the bill. 

The motion was agreed to. 

By unanimous consent the President pro tempore was authorized to 

appoint the conferees on the part of the Senate, and Ur. HARRISON, 

Mr. 1'111LLER of California, and M:r. CoCKRELL were appointed. 

RE::\IOVAL OF CHARGE OF DESERTION. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempo-re. The Chair lays before the Senate the 

other House bill which has been returned at the request of the Senate. 

The ecretary read the title of the bill (H. R. 4383) to relieve certajn 

soldiers from the charge of desertion. · . 1\lr. COCKRELL. I move that the Senate ask a conference with the 

House of Representatives on the amendments of the Senate to the bill. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator fro~ Missouri moves 
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that the Senate request a conference with the House of Representatives 

on the amendmenta of the Senate to the bill last reported. 

The motion was agreed to. 1 By unanimous consent the President pro tempore was authorized to 

appoint the conferees on the part of the Senate, and Mr. CocKRELL, Mr. 

HARRISON, and Mr. SEWELL were appointed. 

SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. 

The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. 7380) making appropriations for sundry civil 

expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending ~une 30, 1885, 

and for other purposes. 

The reading of the bill was resumed and continued to line 1284. 

Mr. ALLISON. At the end of line 1284 I move to add: 

Pro-vided, That all appropriations herein under public Ianda shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after the word ''therein,'' in line 

1295, to strike out '' the balance of the sum appNpriated to '' and insert 

''Prmided, That of the foregoing sum $27,000 shall; '' so as to make the 

clause read: For the protection and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For every purpose and object necessary for the protection, preservation, and im- provement of the Yellowstone National Park, including compensation of super- intendent and employes, $40,000, $2,000 of said amount to be paid annually to a superintendent of said park, and not exceeding &900 annually to each ten as- sistants, all of whom shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and reside continuously in the park, and whose duty it shall be to protect the game, timber, and objects of interest therein: Prwided, That of the foregoing sum $27 000 shall be expended in the construction and improvement of suitable roads and bridges within said park, under the supervision and direction of an e»gi- neer officer detailed by the Secretary of War for that purpose. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1301, to insert: 

INDIAN AFFA.IRS. 

For this amount, to pay the Creek Nation of Indians for 11i1,870.48 acres of land, 

being the amount taken by the United States in excess of the estimate made in the third article of the treaty with said Indians proclaimed August ll, 1866, at 30 -cents per acre, with interest thereon at 5 per cent. per annum from the date of the proclamation of said treaty, $86,313.04. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1312, to insert. 

For this amount, or so much thereof as maybe necessary, to enable the Secre- tary of the Interior to appoint and pay the expenses of a commission of three persons to examine and report what changes should be made in the boundary lines of Indian reservations and the location of Indian agencies in Northern 

Montana, and to confer with the Crows in reference to a reduction of their res- -ervation, and also to report, upon examination, what changes are necessary in the location ofthe Rosebud, Lower Brule, and Cheyenne River agencies, in Dakota Territ()ry, $10,000. 

.. The amendment was agreed to. 

The ne;xt amendment was, after line 1323, to insert: 

To pay amount found due N.C. Smith, as per certificate of Second Comptroller numbered 1848, dated June 9, 1884, under appropriation made by the act of Au- ,gust 15, 1876, for "payment of indebtedness incurred by Silas H. Sweetland," 

.$100. • 

Mr. ALLISON. In line 1324, I move to strike out" C" and insert 

" J;" so a.s tQ read: 

To pay amount found due N. J. Smith, &c. 

The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. 

The amendment as amended was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on AppropriatiollB was, under the head of "United States 

Geological Survey," after the word "States," in line 1336, to strike 

.out ' for furnishing points for State surveys; and to continue the collection of statistics of mines and mining; " in line 1341, after "InteriOl·, ' to strike out "four hundred" and insert "three hundred and 

-eighty -four; '' and in line 1343, after the words '' by the,'' to strike 

.out ' Director " and insert "Secretary of the Interior; " so as to make 

the clause read: 

For the United States Geological Survey: For the Geological Survey, and the cla sification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States; including the pay oftem- ]x>rary employes in the field and office, to be expended under the direction of -the Secretary of the Interior, $384,000. And the scientific employes of the Geological Survey shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior exclusively for "their qualifications as professional experts. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was to strike out lines 1365 and 1366, as follows: 

For salary o( one general assistant, 83,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1368, to reduce the total amount 

.of the appropriations for the ''United States Geological Survey'' from 

.$67,700 to $64,700. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of " Tenth Census," in 

line 1372, after the word '' on,'' to strike out '' November 1, 1884, '' 

and insert "June 30, 1885;" and in line 1374, after the word ''emXV-369 

ployes," to strike out "ten" and insert "seventy-five;" so as to make 

the clause read: • 

For the work of taking the Tenth Census and closing the bureau on June 30, 1885, including the salary of the superintendent and of all clerks and other em- ployes, $75,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1375, to insert: 

And in addition to the number of printed copies of the reports of the tenth census authorized by the act entitled ''An act to provide for the publication of the tenth censu ," approved August 7, 1882, there shall be printed 25,000 copies of the Compendium of the Tenth Census, of which 8,000copies shall be for the use of the Senate, 1fi,OOO copies for the use of the House, and 1,000 copies for the use of the Department of the Interior; and there shall also be printed and sep~ 

rately bound in paper covers an edition of each of the following-named mono- graph reports, the number of copies of each edition t() be as follows, namely: 

Of the reports on the seal islands of Alaska, on ship-building, on the cereals, on the manufacture of glass, on the resources of Alaska, on tobacco culture, on the factory system, on wages paid in manufacturing industries, 3,000 copies each; of the reports on the newspapers and publishing interests, on silk manufact- ure, on chemical products and salt, on flour-milling, on meat production, on the production of petroleum, on the manufacture of coke, on the manufacture of tobacco, on the manufacture of shop-tools, 2,500 copies each; of the report on cot- ton culture in the United States, including reports on cott()n fiber and cotton- seed oil, 3,000 copies; of the report on cotton culture in Louisiana, in 1\Iississippi, 

in. Tennessee, and Kentucky, in Missouri, in Arkansas, in Texas, in Alabama, in Georgia, in North Carolina, in South Carolina, in Virginia.t in California, and • in the Indian Territory, 2,000 copies each : Prm;ided, That OJ the above-named 

separate editions one-fourth shall be for the use of the Senate, one-half for the use of the House, and one-fourth for the use of the Census Office: Pro'l1ided also, That the copies of the compendium and monograph reports herein provided for shall be distributed through the Interior Department accordin~t to the provis- ions of existing law: Provided further, That the changes or corrections necessi- tated by errata in former editions of the reports herein referred to shall first be made by the Superintendent of Census; and the sum of$60,000, or so much thereofas may be necessary to defraytheexpenses of printing and binding the publications herein provided for, shall be paid out of the appropriation made by the act of August 7, 1882, entitled "An act to provide for the publication oft he tenth census." 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of " miscellaneous objects," in the appropriatiollB for the "Government Hospital for the 

Insane," after line 1436, to insert: 

And in addition to the persons now entitled to admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane, any inmate of the Soldi~rs Home who is now or may hereafter become insane shall, upon an order of the president. of the Board of 

Commissioners of the Soldiers' Home, be admitted to said hospital and treated therein; and if any inmate so admitted from said home is or thereafter becomes a pensioner, and has neither wife, minor child, nor parent dependent on him, in whole or in part, for support, his arrears of pen ion and his pension-money 

accruing during the period he shall remain in said hospital shall be applied to his support in said hospital, and be paid oyer to the proper officer of said insti- tution for the general uses thereof; and the expenses of maintaining any such person shall be paid from the Soldters' Home fund. 

:Mr. HARRISON. I move to strike out from the word "therein," in 

line 1442, down to and including "thereof," in line 1450, in the following words: 

And if any inmate so admitted from said home is or thereafter ~mesa pen- sioner, and has neither wife minor child, nor parent dependent on him, in whole or in part, for support, his arrears of pension and his pension-money ao- ci:uing during the period he shall remain in said hospital shall be applied to his support in said hospital, and be paid over to the proper officer of said institution for the general uses thereof. · 

This provision undertakes to take from the soldier, while he is being 

treated for a mental malady, not only his pension during that time but 

any arrears of pension. The law regulating the Soldier's Home passed 

at the last Congress provides that his pension shall be paid to him 

while in the home, in such amounts as the managers of the home think 

COilBisteit with good order and discipline, and the remainder is paid over to him when be leaves, or to hi~ heirs in case of death. I can see no reason why, if he is sent to a Government hospital, his pension should 

then be taken !Pam him. It seems to me that including the provision 

that the expenses of his maintenance shall be paid from the Soldier's 

Home fund is all that is needed, especially in view of the fact that they 

have a very large fund, and these old soldiers who are there have con- tributed to the fund themselves by a tax assessed upon their pay during their whole term of service. 

The PRESIDEl'rT p1·o tempore. The question is on agreeing to the 

amendment of the Senator from Indiana to the amendment of the Committee on Appropriations. 

The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. 

The amendment as amended was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 1456, to insert: 

For building one wooden cottage at the cemetery, $800. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1450, to insert: 

To continue the work of protection from fire, $5,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1462, to increase the appropriation 

" for building and to complete a barn for stock and the storage of farm 

products" from $3,000 to $5,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of ''Howard University,'' 

in line 1478, before the word "thousand" to strike out "fifteen" arid 

insert "eighteen," and after the word "dollars," at the end of the 
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same line, to trike out " $1,000 of which shall be paid t<> the instructor of 1ogic, hi tory, and English literature;" so as to make the 

clause read: 

For maintenance of the Howard University: To be used in payment of part of the salaries oft he officers, profe ors, and teachers, and other re~ular employ~s 

of the university, a portion of which will be paid from donat1ons and other sources, 18,500. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1480, to insert: 

For general repairs, i5,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1481, to insert: 

For increase of library and of philosophical and chemical apparatus, $3,500. 

The amendment was agreed to. · 

The next amendment was, under the head of " Freedmen's Ho pi tal 

and Asylum," in line 14 7, after the word "sub i tence," to strike 

out "twenty-four" and insert "twenty-two;" in line 1491, before 

the word'' thousand,'' to strikeout ''thirteen'' and insert'' fourteen;'' 

in the same line, after the word •' dollars,'' to insert •' of which sum 

$3,500 shall be paid as salary to the surgeon-in-chief;" in line 1497, 

, after the word ' expenses,'' to strike out ''nine '' and insert '' eleven; '' 

and in the same line, after the word "all," to strike out "fifty" and 

insert" fifty-one;" so as to make the clau e read: 

For sub istence, $22,000; for salaries and compensation of the surgeon-inchief, two assistant surgeons, engineer, clerk, matron, nurses, laundre ·es and cooks, teamster , watchmen, and laborers, 14.,000, of which sum &3,500 shall be paid as salary to the urgeon-in-<!hief; forrentofhospital buildings and grounds, 

$4,000 ; for fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicines . and medical supplies, repairs and furniture, s.nd other absolutely necessary ex- penses, 1.1,000; in all, -1,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. . 

The next an..endment was, after line 1498, to insert: 

For building four bath-rooms and water-<Jlosets, relaying floors, and repairing 

PQrches, 51,500; the same to be paid from any unexpended balances of appro- priation for the said ho pi tal for the fiscal year 1884.. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, un9-er the bead of '' N ationall\I useum, '' in 

line 1510, before the word "thousand" to strike out "ninety-one' 

and insert "ninety-five;" so as to make the clause read: 

For the preservation of collection of the National Museum: For the preser- vation and exhibition and increa e of the collections received from the survey- ing and exploring expeditions of the Government and other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employ~. $95,000. And the director of the National Museum is hereby directed to report annually to Congress the progres of the museum during the year and its present condition. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1529 before the word '' thousand,'' 

to strjke out "forty" and insert "fifty;" so as to make the clause read: 

For furniture and fixtures of the National Museum: For case , furniture, and fixtures required for the exhibition of the collections of the United States Na- tional Museum, and for salaries or compensation of all necessary employ~. 

sw,ooo. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The nextamendment was, under the head. of" Smithsonian Institution, ' after the word '' stol"ies,'' at the end of line 1537, to insert ''including liabilities already incurred;" so as to make the clause read: 

For finishing, beating, gas-fitting, plumbing, and completely furnishing the eastern portion of the Smithsonian Institution, and for finishing the fourth and fifth stories, including liabilities already incurred, 15,000. 

The amendment wa agreed to. 

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. 

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. CLARK, its 

Clerk, announced that the House bad concurred in the report of the 

committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate numbered 35 to the bill (H. R. 6861) 

making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year 

ending June 30, 1885, and for other purposes. 

ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. 

The message also announced that the Speaker of the House had 

signed the enrolled bill (H. R. 5459) making appropriations for the erv- ice of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

J 1885, and for other purposes; and it was thereupon signed by the President pro tempCYre of the Senate. 

SUNDRY CIVIJ ... APPROPRIATIO:Y BILL. 

The Senate, as in Committee of· the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. 7380) making appropriation for sundry civil 

expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, 

and for other purp<>Ses. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, in the appropriations for ''armories 

and arsenals'' under theW ar Department, in line 15G2, before the word 

"thousand" to strike out "ten" and insert "twenty-six;" o as to 

make the clause read: For general care, preservation, and improvement; for building new roads; for care and preservation of the water-PQwer; for painting and care and pre - ervation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shores of the i land ; for building 

fences, grading grounds, and repairs and extension of railroad, $26,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

\ 

The next amendment was, after line 1564, to insert: 

To further deepen the water-power canal at Rock Island arsenal, .,ZS,SOO :. Provid d, That before said um shall be expended the Moline Water-Po wet· Com- pany shall bind itself, upon the expenditure thereof for the purpo e afore1 aid,.. to relea e and discharge the United Stat from all further liability or obligation. unqer the contract between said company and lhe Secretary of 'Var of August 

28, 1882. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed and continued to line 1585. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair uggests to the enator from. Iowa that after the word'' vicinity," in line 1584, the word" of" should 

be inserted, so as to read "in vicinity of officers' quarters." 

1\Ir . .A.LLISO:N. Yes; that correction should be made. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempor . That amendment will be made. 

TP.e reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the· Committee on Appropriations was to strike out lines 161.7 to 1625, inclusive, a follows: 

That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to ell at public auc-. tion, after due adverti ement, and at prices not le than tho e fixed by a board of apprai ers in each ca e , the following arsenals, to wit: Allegheny ar- senal, Pennsylvania; Augusta arsenal, Georgia; Indianapoli ar enal, Indiana ; Kennebec arsenal, 1\Iaine, and Watertown arsenal, Massachusetts; and the · money o received, after paying necessary expenses, to be covered into the Treasury. · 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of' Buildingsandgrounds 

in and arouud Washington," after the word "dollars," in line 1629, to. insert: 

Said ite to be elected by and said pedestal to be erected under the supervi - ion of the "'ecretary of War, the chairman of t-he .Joint Committee on the Li-. brary, and the chairman of the Garfield monumental committee of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. 

So as to make the clause read: 

For the preparation of a site and the erection of a pedestal for a statue of the · late Pre ident .James .A. Gartield,$30,000· said site to be selected by and aid pede tal to be erected under the upervision of the Secretary ofWo.r, the chair- . man of the .Joint Commit.tee on the Library, and the chairman of the Garfield monumental committee of the ociety of the Army of the Cumberland. 

The amendment was. agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1634, to insert: 

To defray the expen e att~nding the unveiling of the statue of the lat~ Rear-- Admiral DuPont, to be erected in DuPont Circle, in the city of 'Vashington, . District of Columbia, $500, or so much thereof a may be required, to be ex- . pended under the direction of the Secretary of War. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1644, to increase the appropriation , ''for improving, care, and maintenance of grounds south of the Executive Mansion" from $3,000 to 10,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1678, to increase the appropriation 

'' for improving, care, and maintenance of various re ervation ' from 

5,000 to 15,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 16 4, after the word '' repair of, '' 

to insert" and refurnishing;" and in line 1685, before the word ' thou-. 

sand," to strike out "ten" and insert "fifteen ;" so as to make the- clause read: 

For care and repair of and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, 15,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of '' military ~ost '' in 

line 1722, after the words "enlargement of," to trike out ' military 

posts at San Antonio, Fort D . .A.. Russell, Fort Niobrara, Atlanta (Ga.), 

F~rt Snelling, and at; '' in line 1724 after the word '' such,'' to strike - out. " other;" and in line 1725, after the ·•:ord • hundred, ' to strike 

ont "and fifty;" o as to make the clause read: 

For the construction of building at and the enlargement of such military 

posts a in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, $200,000. 

Mr. MAXEY. I ask thecarefulattentionofthechairmanoftheCom- . mittee on Appropriations tow hatl hall say in regard to this amendment. 

I have no objection whatever to striking out the military posts at San Antonio, Fort D. A. Ru ell, Fort riobrara Atlanta, Fort Snelling and so . on, but in line 1929 the urn allowed by the House, '250,000, is reduced 

to '200, 000. At the request of General Sheridan I visited his office, and 

wentwithhim through omeoftbepropo edimprovementsoftho epo t . I know personally that the policy which General .Sheridan propose to . pursue in enlarging the post at rnilro,-td centers and drawing in the 

smaller po ts is economical. To do that the amount appropriated by the 

Honse is required. Indeed I know that a larger amount than $250,000 

was thought to be proper,. But I make no point on that. All I a k is 

that 250,000 shall be appropriated. About the post at Atlanta, Ga., 

I know nothing, but I am willing to let the General of the Army take 

the amount of '250,000 and put that amount down wherever he thinks 

it is to the best interest of the country to expend _it. My opinion is 

that every dollar of it could be successfully put down, without saying a word against Atlanta, upon the frontier posts. 

In view of the recommendations of the General of the Army and the- investigation which· I made carefully with him-and I think I know· 

something aboutt.hesethings-I ask that tpeamountgiven bvtheHouse ~ I . 
1884. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATEo 5891 . 

250 000, shall remain in the bill, and that theSenatenon-concurwith 

the recommendation of the committee in reducing the amount. 

Mr. BROWN. I wish to ask the chairman of the committee why it 

was that the names of the different posts were stricken out of the bill 

by the committee? 

Mr. ALLISON. Last year we appropriated, in the discretion of the 

Secretary of War, for the posts most needing the expenditure. We 

found that the policy worked very well, and we concluded to adopt it 

in this particular appropriation bill. 

Mr. BROWN. Why is the amount reduced $50,000? Does the Secretary of War say to the committee that he can get along properly with 

200,000? 

Mr. ALLISON. \\ e appropriated last year $200,000, and we heard 

of no complaint with reference to it. There are very large appropriar 

tions relating to these posts for barracks and quarters in the Army bill, 

amounting to nearly a million dollars, and we thought that for the class 

of permanent improvements that is usually included in this appropriation 200,000 would be ample. Indeed, some of the members of the 

committee thought 150,000 would be ample. 

Mr. MAXEY. If the Senator will permit me, I know that since last 

year the architect of the War Department has brought in his plans for 

the improvement of various posts. It was only a short time ago that 

General Sheridan called upon me to come up and examine them. Those 

plans were not before the committee the last time. I think the 250,000 

appropriated by the House is right. 

1\lr. BROWN. I wish to ask the chairman whether the committee 

conferred with the General of the Army or the Secretary of War on 

the subject of reducing the amount . 

.Mr. A.LLISO:N. We did not confer in the sense that the Senator 

from Georgia would expect us to do so. We examined every paper 

connected with the matter of these posts, the letters of the Secretary of 

War and the letter of the General of the Army. Of course, if we followed out the recommendations of the General of the Army and the 

Secretary of War we should appropriate avery large sumforthe Army. 

They submit every year very large estimates for app:r;opri.ations for this 

purpose. The Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and House 

of Representatives hitherto have endeavored to keep down this class of 

appropriations to the absolute needs of the service. I think there will 

be no trouble about it.. 

I think I see the trouble in the mind of the Senator from Georgia. 

He dislikes ofoourse to have Atlanta: Ga., stricken out of the bill; but 

the committee thought there was no special necessity at this time for 

enlarging upon the present requirements of the service in that direction. That was our idea. 

Mr. MAXEY. I make no point on the first amendment striking 

out the names, but I sliould like to have the vote so divided that a eparate vote shall be taken upon the two propositions. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question will be taken upon 

each amendment separately. 

Mr. BROWN. 'l'he only reason why I was unwilling to see Atlanta, 

Ga.: stricken out is that the late General of the Army,. General Sherman, after having gone through this whole matter very carefully, recommended ·at the la t Congress-and he was very open in his statements-that there be an appropriation made to locate barracks at Atlanta, Ga., because, he said, it was the strategic point of the whole 

South, and was a Yery healthy location for troops in summer; that, 

everything considered, they could be thrown from that point to any 

point in the Southern States or along the coast more rapidly and with 

better railroad facilities than any other point. On account of the railroad connections of that city with all the Southern coast a.nd on account 

of the great he.:'tltbfulness of the climate he very strongly advocated 

that course. 

However, if the appropriation is large enough to cover the actual necessities of the service, I think we can very well risk tha~ matter on 

the po ition Atlanta occupies, and I believe she will get what is right 

from the present General of the Army and Secretary of War; but I 

should oppose the xeduction of the amount. In other words, I shall 

vote with the Senator from Texas 3-oo-ainst reducing the appropriation 

from 250,000 to $200,000 

l\Ir. PLUMB. There is an item in the regular Army appropriation 

bill for this same geneml purpose of about 900,000; I think exactly 

$900,000. That, added to the amount which the committee propose, 

makes $1,100,000 for the purpose of barracks and quarters and the enlargementofmilitaryposts, &c., which is avery large appropriation for 

a ingle yea'r, and the committee thought it was enough. 

A somewhat extended illustration of the vice of dividing up appropriations is furnished by this very item. We appropriate what seems 

to be a small sum for a purpose of this kind, $200,000, oblivious to the 

fact that a -.ery much larger sum has been appropriated in another place. 

By striking out the names of the posts the Secretary of War is invested with the full discretion to put the money which is to be appropria.ted, whatever the sum may be, where he thinks it will best answer 

the needs of the public service. That seemed to be wiser than naming 

the number of posts, and thereby seem to discriminate perhaps against 

other posts, and thus compel him to makeallotmentsfor these various 

posts notwithstanding they might be of greatly differing need. Possibly at the moment when the money came to be pent there would be 

no need at all, because, as it happens very often, po ts are abandoned, 

or by reason of some shifting of Indian tqbe or something of that kind 

the necessity for keeping a large garrison at a post entirely disappears. 

It is the vice of our appropriations for this pnrpo e that we have spent 

large sums of money in plaees where there was no reasonable presumption that the posts would be continued, or at all events that they would 

continue to beofpressingimportance. TakeAtlantaortakeSan Antonio, 

those two places will remain undoubtedly depots of supplies by reason 

of their central location, and no doubt the Secretary of War will have 

that in mind in making allotments of funds for those particular posts. 

Air. MAXEY. If the Senator from Kansas will permit me, I have 

made no point on that. I am perfectly willing to risk the General of 

the Army putting the money at those posts which are be t. 

Mr. PLUMB. I was not making my speech for the benefit of the 

Senator from Texas; I was speaking for the benefit of other people who 

had not got that far along. I think that 200,000 for the next year 

with an economical expenditure would be far better than $250,000 in 

the terms in which the bill came from· the House ; and I believe that 

there will be a fuller recognition for all purposes of San Antonio and 

of Atlanta, Ga., if the appropriation shall remain as recommended by 

the committee. 

Mr. BROWN. I know how bard it is to fight the committee or to 

prevent an amendment recommended by the committee in any bill 

where the committee reduces the amount of the appropriation. I trust, 

however, that this amendment will not be agreed to. I do not care to 

argue the question further. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER {Mr. PLATT in the chair). The Secretary will report the pending question. 

The SECRETARY. In line 1722, after the word " of," the committee report to strike out ''military posts at San Antonio, Fort D . .A.. Russell, Fort Niobrara, .A.tlan.ta (Ga.), Fort Snelling, and at." 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Will the Senate agree to the amendment? 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The next amendment will be reported. 

The SECRETARY. In line 1724, after the word '' such,'' the committee report to strike out "other;" so as to read: 

Such milita.ry posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of W a.r, may be nec- essary. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The PRESIDING OF,FICER. The next amendment in the paragraph will be reported. 

The SE(;(RET.ARY. In line 1725, before the word "thousand," the 

committee report to strike out "and fifty; " so as to read '' $200,000." 

The amendment was agreed 1:&-ayes 22, noes not counted. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 1726, to insert: 

For the addition of two stories to the public building for a quartermaster and 

commissary depot in process of construction at Saint Paul, Minn., to be used as offices for officers of the Department of Dakota, $30,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the bead of "Signal Service," in 

line 17 48, after the words '' general service,'' to insert '' connected 

therewith;" in line 1749, before the word "thousand," to strike out 

"five" and insert "fifteen;" in the same line, after the word "dollars,'' to insert ''Provided, That such connections, in the opinion of the 

Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service and the Light-House Boa:rd, 

shall be deemed necessary;" and in line 1761, before the word "thousand," to ::trike out "forty-one" and insert "fifty-one;" so as to make 

the clause read: 

For the observation and report of storms: For expenses of the meteorological 

observation and report of storms by telegraph and signal or otherwise announc- ing the probable approach and force of storms, for the benefit of commerce and 

ngricul ture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purcha e, and repair 

of instruments, s->,500; for telegraphing reports, 136,000; for expenses of storm cautionary, off-shore, and other signals on the sea and lake coasts of the United 

States, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, $10,000; for cot- ton-belt reports, $7,000; for continuing the connections of stations at life-saving stations and light-houses, including services of operators, repairmen, materials 

and general service connected therewith, ~15,500: Provided, That such con: nections, in the opinion of the Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service and 

the Light-House Board, shall be deemed necessary; for manufacture, purcha e and repair of instrument-shelters, $2,000; for. rent., hire of civilian employes' 

furniture, and other expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities and 

ports receiving reports outside of,Vashingtoni D. C.,$40 000; for river and flood 

reports, $10,000; maps and bulletins to be disp ayed in chambers of commerce and boardsoftraderooms, and for distribution,$25,000; in all $251,000: Provided 

That the work of no other Department, bureau, or commission authorized by law shall be duplicated by this bureau. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1765, to reduce the appropriation 

'' for maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines '' from $34,000 

to 24,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1765, to insert: 

For the establishment of signal stations upon the island of Nantucket and of 

submarine telegraphic communication from such stations to the mainland 

lUO,OOO, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. ' 

The amendment was agreed to. 
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The next amendment was, in line 1777, after the word '' dollars,'' to 

insert ''one com.missary sergeant, $408, and one hospital steward, 

$360, to be detailed from the Army;" in line 1786, after the word 

"thousand," to strike out "one hundred and fifty-eight" and insert 

''nine hundred and twenty-si..x";'' in line 1790, after the word ''exceed,'' 

to strike out "six" and insert "eight; " and after the word "law," at 

the end of line 1791, to insert ''and of the three officers serving in the 

Arctic seas; '' so as to make the clause read: 

Pay: For pay of one brigadier-general and fourteen second lieutenants, $26,500; for longevity pay to officers, to be paid with current monthly pay, $4,000; for pay of one hundred and fifty sergeants, thirty corporals and three hundred and twenty privates, including payment due on discharge, $200,000; ·one commissary 

sergeant, ~08, and one hospital steward $360, to be detailed from the Army; for mileage to officers when traveling on duty under orders, $5,000; cost of tel- egrams in regard to discharged men, $250; for pay of contract surgeon, 1,200; for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, $8,208; in all ~.926. And the Secretary of War is author- ized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps not to exceed eight commissioned officers, exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal 

Corp authorized by law and of the three ofticers serving in the_ Arctic seas. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in.line 1812, before the word ''horses,'' 

to strike out "six" and insert " eight;" in the same line, after the 

word ' thousand,'' to strike out ''one '' and insert '' three; '' in line 

1813, before the word " animals," to strike out "thirty-one" and insert "thirty-three;" in line 1817, before the word "dollars," to strike 

out "seventeen" and insert "thirty-one; " and in line 1824, after the 

word " thousand," to strike out "six hundred and fifty-one" and insert '' ejght hundred and sWy-five;" so as to make the clause read: 

Subsi tence: For the sub istence of Sigual Service enlisted men, and for com- mutation of rations of Signal Service enlisted men, including $9,090.90 for sub- sistence stores, authorized articles for sales to officers and enlisted men and company messes, a allowed by paragraph 2199, Army Regulations,1881, $155,000. 

Regular supplies: Fuel, authorized allowance for officers and enlisted men at Fort l\iyer, Virginia, and for various offices at Fort 1yer, Virginia, and on the United States military telegraph lines, $6,200; commutation of fuel for two hundred and twenty enlisted meJl of the Signal Corp , at $9 each per month, 

$23,760; commutation of fuel for two hundred and forty-three enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at $8 each per month, $23,328; forage for twenty-five mules and eight ·horses, $3,300; straw for thirty-three animals, at $7 each per annum, as allowed by paragraph 1898, Army Regulations, 1881, $231; traw for forty en- listed men at post of Fort Myer, Virginia, and for hospital at that po t, as allowed by p~ragraph ~896, Army Regulatio~s~ 1881, $46.~8; tationery, $100; stoves and repall'S to heatmg apparatus, S600; lignts, $300; m all, $57,865.08. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1832, to insert: 

For interment of officers and men, $200. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 1833, to insert: 

For apprehension of deserters, 120. 

The amendment wa ~a-reed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1839, after the word "namely," to 

insert '' four horses and; '' in line 1841, after the word '' thousand,' to 

insert "eight hundred; " and in line 1845, after the word ''all," to strike 

out "thirty-five thousand five" and insert" thirty-six thousand three;" so as to make the clause read: 

Transportation : For transportation of material and funds, $25,000 ; for trans- portat.ion of men, $8,875; means of transportation, namely, four horses and five mule , at not exceeding $200 each, 1,800; one set six-mule harness, $85; one set four-mule ambulance harne , $45; for leather, iron, and timbers for repairs to means of transportation, $500; in all, $36,305. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1878, after the word "pay " to in- sert" and allowances;" o as to make the clause read: 

And there shall not be expended from any moneys appropriated by the act en- titled ''An ad making appropriations for the $Upport of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and for other purposes," any money for the support of the ignal Service or Corps, except the pay and allowances of such commis- ioned officers as the Secretary of War may detail for service in that corps, and except the appropriation of $5,000 therein contained for expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, and excepting also the pay and allowances of fourteen en- listed men detailed from the line of the Army serving with Lieutenant Greely in the Arctic regions. · 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 1894, after the words "Houses 

on," to strike out "the first" and insert "or before the third;" so as to make the clause read: 

That a joint commission, consisting of three Senators, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and three 1\Iembers of the House, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Repre entatives, shall consider the present organi- zations of the Signal Service, Geological Survey, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department, with the view to secure greater efficiency and economy of administration of the public service in said bureaus; and said joint commi!!sion shall report to their respective House on or before the third l\Ionday in December, 1884, their conclusions, by bill or re- po.t. 

· The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of'' National cemeteries,'' 

after line 1916, to insert: .. For purchase of additional landfor the Cypress Hills National Cemetery, near Brooklyn, New York,$15,600. 

The amendment wa.s agreed to. 

The next amendment was to strike out lines 1920 to 1925, inclusive, as follows: 

. For the com pletion of the road from Chattanooga. to the national · cemetery n ear that city, $2,500: Provided, That said work shall be first advertised and 

let to the lowest bidder; and no part of this sum shall be expended for anything 

except for labor and material on said road. 

Mr. HARRIS. I ask the Senator from Iowa, the chairman of the 

Committee on Appropriations, to allow this amendment recommended 

by the committee to be disagreed to. I hold in my hand a statement 

from my colleague in the House, the jmmediate Representative of that 

district, in which he says, among other things, that the road leading 

from the city of Chattanooga to the national cemetery is almost impassable. 

Mr. ALLISON. Will the Senator repeat that la~guage? 

Mr. HARRIS. The language he uses is that the road is almost impassable; and this sum of $2,500 will finish it. The Government has 

expended large sums to beautify the grounds and has nearly finished 

the road. It should now finish it. The Quartermaster-General's estimate was 3,500, but the Representative says the sum of$2,500 will 

complete the road. I think about $12,000 have already been ex-. pended upon the making of the road from the city to the cemetery, 

yet the road is not completed. Twothousandfivehundreddollarsmore 

will complete it; and the Government has expended already $12,000 on the roads, with certain other amounts expend!3d in beautifying the 

cemetery. I hope the chairman of the committee will consent that 

this amendment may be disagreed to, and the appropriation of $2,500, 

absolutely necessary to complete it, may be made. 

M]:. ALLISON. The Committee on Appropdations struck this .out 

for the reason that we had already appropriated $12,500 for this macadamized road and we have twice appropriated for its completion. Last 

year we were told that it would not require .... ,500, and therefore we inserted in the appropdation of last year a pronsion "that the sum of 

$2,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated." We 

were determined that for once this road should be completed, because we supposed it would be completed with the appropriation made two 

yea.rs ago, and last year we provided that only so much as was necessary 

to complete it should be expended. Now the Senator reads a letter saying that this road is almost impassable. If 12,500 expended have made 

it impassable, I should like to know how much money it would take to 

complete the road so as to make it a proper macadamized road. ..That 

is the trouble with this Chattanooga affarr, and that is the reason we 

struck it out. We have ooce before appropriated for the completion of 

this road. ~1r. HARRIS. Twelve thousand five hundred dollars have been heretofore appropriated, and a the Senator from Iowa states the last year's 

appropriation contemplated .completion, but it is not completed. The 

12,500have made a goodroadforthegreater p:trtofthedistance, seven mile I believe it is from the city of Chattanooga to the cemetery; but 

there is yet a gap wholly unimproved that is, accorrung to the statement of my colleague in the House, which is perfectly reliable, almost 

li not qmte impassable. It remains for the Senator from Iowa and the 

Senate to determine whether we shall appropriate the adrutional 2,500 

to complete that part of the road that is wholly incomplete and almost 

impassable, or lea-ve it impas •. ·~ab1e with the 12,500 already expended · upon it without the accompli hment of the object. The error has been 

in the estimates of the officers of the Government, not the fault of that 

locality or that people. If they have underestimated it if they have 

found the appropriations heretofore made inadequate to the- work, the 

question for the Senate to determine is whether we shall make the nec- essary appropriation or tum our backs upon the 12,500 already expended and leave the road impassable, as I am assured it is, or nearly 

o, in its present conrution. . 

ltlr. ALLISON. I do not think the fault can be entirely with the 

officers who make these estimates, as I find the House has put in a provision here, and no part of this sum shall be expended for anything except for.labor and material on said road," from which I illfer 

that a portion of the appropriations hitherto made has gone to some superintendent or some officer there who was upposed to be expending the appropriation upon himself rather than upon the labor neces- sary to complete the road. But inasmuch as I now have tlie assurance 

of the Senator from Tennessee that this road will be completed with 

this 2,500, and being now impassable will be very good after the 

money is expended, I shall make no further objection to his suggestions. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment 

of the Committee on Appropriations. 

The amendment was rejected. The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, in line 1926, after the word ''con! 

struction," to insert " and completion;" in line 1928, before the word 

"thousand, to strike out 'ten" and insert "twenty;" and after the 

word " dollars," at the end of the same line, to insert ''and none of 

said money shall be expended until contracts shall be made for the 

completion of said road for the sum hereby appropdated;" so as to 

make the clause read: 

For the construction and completion of a IJl&Cadamized road from Springfield, Mo., w the national cemetery near that city, $20,000; and none of said money shall be expended until contracts shall be made for the completion of said road for the sum hereby appropriated. 

Mr. ALLISON. I am instructed by t he Committee on Appropria.-
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tions, so that we may not have a repetition of this trouble, oo move to 

insert 22,500 instead of $20,000, in line 1928. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment oo 

the amendment. 

The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. 

The amendment as amended was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, in the appropriations for "miscellaneous objects," in line 1952, after the word "with " to Strike out 

"the Providence Hospital by" and insert "such institution as;" and 

in line 1953, after the word "Army," to insert "may select;" so as to 

make the clause read: 

For the support and medical treatment of transient paupers : For the care, 

support, and medical treatment of seventy-five kansient paupers, medical a?d 

surgical patients, in the city of Washington, under a contrad to be made w1th 

such institution as the Surgeon-General of the A.rmy may select, $15,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was continued to line 1972. 

Mr . .ALLISO:N. I am instructed by the commitree to offer a proviso to come in at this point, and it being in the nature of legislation, 

I ask unanimous consent. It is a proviso to the item as to the publication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. 

The SECRETARY. After line 1972 it is proposed to insert: 

Provided, That the time fixed in said act~. and the same is hereby, extended 

from July 1>.1884, until July 1~ 1885, and any act or joint resolution to the con- trary be, ana the same is hereoy, repealed. 

The ap1endment was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed and continued to the end of 

line 1986. · 

:Mr. ALLISON. I move to strike out the word "legislation" and 

insert" Legislature" in line 1986; so asoo :read: 

In accordance with the action of the Legislature of Kansas. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. That correction will be made if there 

be no objection. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 1988, to insert: 

For payment of the expenses of a board of three officers of the Army to be detailed to assist the Secretary of War in examining and reporting upon the claims 

of the States and Territ{)ries named in the act of Jun& 27, 1882, while on said . duty, including clerk-hire and hotel, traveling, and such other necessary ex- penses as may be approved by the Secretary _of War, $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary : Promded, That said officers shall, before proceeding t{) the 

discharge of said duties, be sworn that they will carefully examine said claims, 

and that they will, to the best of their ability, make a just, true, and impartia.l statement thereof, 8B required by said act. 

The amendment was agreed oo. The next amendment was, after line 2001, oo insert: 

Bounty to volunteers and their widows and legaJ heirs: For payment of amounts of bounty to volunteer soldiers who served in the war of the rebellion, 

and their widows and their legal heirs, which may be certified to be due by the 

accounting officers of the Treasury Department, $100,000. 

The amendment was agreed oo. The next amendment was, after line 2007, oo insert: 

Bounty under act of July 28,1866: For payment of amounts of a~ditional 

bounty under the act of July 28,1866, which may be certified to be due by the 

accounting officers of the Treasury Department, $100,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The n~xt amendment was, after line 2013, to insert: 

Pay of two and three year volunteers : For payment of amounts to two and 

three year volunteers who served in the war of the rebellion which may be cer- tified to be due by the aoooun ting officers of the Treasury Department, noo,OOO. 

The amendment was agreed oo. The next amendment was, after line 2018, oo insert: 

Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark.: For supplying bath-house, 

main buHding, and annex with hot and cold mineral waters, ,000. 

1\Ir. ALLISON. I hope that amendment will be disagreed oo. It was inserted under a misapprehension. :Mr. GARLL~D. What is the reason of the opposition to the amendment? 

1\Ir. ALLISON. The amendment is: 

For supplying the bath-house, main building, and annex with hot and cold 

mineral waters, $8,000. 

The building is not yet completed and probably will not be com- pleted until we meet again next winter, and there is no appropriation 

for the furnishing of the building. It is hardly worth -while oo appropriate for supplying the building until after we have completed it in 

such a way as to get it ready for occupancy. 

Mr. GARLAND. It is a mere matter of CODjecture whether the 

building will be completed in the time the Senaoor from Iowa indicates. 

There is no proof that it will not be; and before the committee yesterday I understood it was unanimously agreed that this amount should 

be appropriated. The truth is an appropriation of 25,000 is needed, 

but the committee reduced the amount to $8,000 and I certainly see no reason why it should be rejected. 

1\Ir. HAWLEY. I had intended to invite the attention of the Senator from Iowa to this case. The hospital building, I am authoritatively informed, will be :finished in October; and if it is desired to occupy the 

building as a hospital, a further appropriation ought to be made. There 

ought to be at least the further appropriations estimated by the SurgeonGeneral aiid approved by the Secretary of War; and if tliey be made, 

the building can be ready for general use and occupation next March; 

but if nothing further is done than is proposed by the Committee on Appropriations the work can not be resumed until after the 1st of July, 

1885, and the building will be ready for occupation perhaps in October, 

November, or December of that year. It is just a question of whether we wish oo go straight along and :finish the building. Furnishing a 

bath-house and furnishing hot and cold water will be of no use unless 

you proceed with the other estimates sent in, by the Secretary of War 

for grading and improving the grounds. The gentlemen familiar with 

that place tell me it is exceedingly rough and that considerable grading 

is absolutely necessary. In the next place, you will need hospital appliances, necessary office and other furniture fora hospital, $15,258.10 

by the estimates. · 

Mr. ALLISON. How much for the grading? _ 

Ur. HAWLEY. For grading and improving grounds-this is the 

Surgeon-General's estimate-$27,673; for hospital appliances, furniture, and bedding, &c., $15,258; for m~s of transportation required 

fortheuseofthe hospital, includingambnla.nces, wagons, horses, mules, 

stable equipment.s_, forage, and pay of teamsters, $5,438.26. Then, for 

expenses of maintenance for one year-for you must have some doctors 

and employes to support it-including subsistence of patients, pay of 

employes, fuel, gas, stationery,ice, tools, farming implements, $3,400. 70. 

Mr. ALLISON. If the Senaoor will allow me, I will withdraw my 

suggestion and let this amendment go in. I would rather allow this oo remain than oo carry out the suggestions of the Senaoor from Connecticut. 

Mr. HAWLEY. Did the Senaoor propose oo strike out the $8,000? 

Mr. ALLISON. _I did; but after hearing the Senator as far as I have, 

I am quite willing oo allow it oo go in. . Mr. HAWLEY. I desire oo give the inexperienced and youthful 

Senator from Iowa notice that if he is about to allow this. to be a Government hospital, something more is necessary than a building and a bath-house. He must have an ambulance and a docoor at least. 

Mr. ALLISON. I was rather of that impression myself; but it will 

take a considerable sum of money oo carry out the suggestions made by 

the Surgeon-General, and inasmuch as the committee believed that it was not necessary oo do that at this time, they only inserted this one provision, which we supposed was for the erection of a bath-house, 

and not for the supplying of water oo it. Therefore I am quite will-

:irlg to leave this out or in, just as the Senate prefers. 

Mr. HAWLEY. It is $8,000 toward the completion of the building, and the Senate must give the other $80,000 now, or next winter, or let the building stand idle. 

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. 

A message from the Honse of Representatives, by Mr. CLARK, ita 

Clerk, announced that the House had passed a bill (H. R. 7440) making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and 

for the armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending June 30 1885, and 

for other purposes, in which it requested theconctll1'enceoftheSenate. 

ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. 

The message also announced that the Speaker of the House had 

signed the enrolled bill (H. R. 4651) oo amend an ad approved July 

15, 1882, entitled "An act to increase the water supply of the city of 

Washington, and for other purposes;" and it Wail thereupon signed by. the President pro tempore. -

HOUSE BILL REFEBBED.-

The bill (H. R. 7440) making appropriations for fortifications and 

other -works of defense, and for the armament thereof, for the fiscal 

:;rear. ending June 30, 1885, and fo~ other purposes, was read twice by 1ts title, and referred oo the Com.nuttee on Appropriations. 

Sillo."'DRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. 

The Senate-resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (H. R. 7380) making appropriations for sundry civil ex- pensesofthe Government for the :fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and 

for other purposes. . 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The pending question is on the amendment recommended by the Committee on Appropriations to insert lines 

2019 to 2022, inclusive. 

Mr. GARLA...~D. TheSenaoorfromiowawithdrewhisobjection to it. 

The amendment was agreed oo. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 2084, to insert: 

For tJ;!.e construction of a fire-prooi building for headquarters and library at the Artillery School, Fortress Monroe, Va., as per plaDB submitted to Congress 

December 6, 1880, and printed in Senate Executive Document No.2 Forty-sixth Congress, third session, $30,000. ' 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of" National Home for 

Disabled Volunteer Soldiers," aft.er line 2096, oo insert: 

For addition to hospital at the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio, 863,350. 

The amendment was agreed oo. The next amendment was, in line 2116, to increase the appropriation 
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"for Southern Branch, to build ·and complete new hospital," from 

$87,000 to $125,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 2120, to increase the total amount 

of the appropriation for" National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers" from $1,299,134 to 1,400,484. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 2127, to insert: 

ID'DER THE PO T-DFFICE DEPART~NT. 

For rent of an additional building or additional rooms for the use of the money- order office of the Post-Office Department, and of the money-order division of the 

auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, 1,800, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 

For gas, $400; stoves, $400; and for furniture for money-order office, $500; in 

all, 1,300. 

To enable the Postmaster-General to carry out the provisions of the law passed 

at the present session allowing fifteen days' leave of absence with pay to lettercarriers, SSO,OOO. 

1\Ir. ALLISON. I move to strike out, in line 2140, after the word 

'' law,'' the words ''passed at the present session.'' That is not neces- sary. 

The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. 

Mr. BECK. I do not rise to oppose the amendment, but to call attention to a fact. We have allowed the letter-carriers fifteen days leave 

of absence, and that means to allow everybody from fifteen to twenty 

days. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is now urging it. We are doing it everywhere else, and we are advised that it will require 

from $100,000 to $150,000 to employ temporarily persons to do this 

work and to do it satisfactorily, during the fifteen days that we areallowing the letter-carriers to leave their work. One hundred thousand 

dollars was asked, $50,000 is allowed, to bridge it over until December, when we can make a further allowance. 

I only rose to say that while we appear to be doing very :fine things 

in a small way we are required to pay immense sums of money to do 

them and injuring the public service by temporarily employing people 

who know nothing about the business during the days the regular per- sons are not employed. So it will be in every department of the Government; the moment you give it to one you must give it to all, because 

all insist that they have the same rights. . There are several other hundred thousand dollars that will ha"\'"e to 

go very soon ~this is done now. It might as well be understood that 

the small things we are appearing to do as mere matters that amount 

to nothing really involve hundreds of thousands of dollars, and some- times millions. 

The amendment as amended was agreed to. 

Mr. ALLISON. In line 2143 I think the "i" had better come out; :so as to read ''electoral.'' 

The PRESIDENT pro te-mpore. The letter "i" will be taken from 

the word '' electorial'' if there be no objection. The reading will pro-

<!eed. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

,Committee on Appropriations was, under the head of '' District of Columbia," to strike out from line 2154 to 2157, as follows: 

For the construction of an addjtion to the building known as the Home of 

the Little Sisters of the Poor in the city of Washington, D. C., $25,000. 

Ur. ALLISON. I am instructed by the committee not to insist 

upon that amendment. 

Mr. BECK. I believe the chairman of the committee said he was instructed this morning by the whole committee not to insist on striking that out. The subcommittee struck it out. The whole committee have inserted it, not I think because they want it, but because the 

Garfield Hospital and a number of other items of the same class are sought to be added. I believe I am eorrect in that. 

1\lr. ALLISON. I am instructed toofferan amendrnentfortheGarfield Memorial Hospital. 

Mr. BECK. It is just as well to begin here to state the situation. 

We sought to divorce, if I may u e the word, the District of Columbia 

matters from the sundry civil bill, and in the District of Columbia 

bill we ha>e made provision for a great many of these charities. I 

hold it in my hand. It provides for eight or ten of them; but not con- tent with that and with what has been inserted here, a pressure is made 

by >ery clever people and very generous people and Christian people 

for all sorts of amendments to be added to the sundry civil bill. We are not getting clea1· apparently of the difficulties of mixing up the 

charity system of the District of Columbia as it was before by having a separate bill for the District of Columbia. I hold in my hand anumber of other amendments which the committee have not ~OTeed to, 

quite a merit01ious a.':l the Garfield Hospital item and those now being 

inserted, all of which, if we are going into that business, I shall endeavor 

to ha>e in. erted, becau e there is no use of giving aid to one unless you · aid all these institutions. I think the Senate had better stop now for 

the time being, and let them be content with the aid which has been 

given in the District of Columbia appropriation bill, and not open the 

door to all the amendments which will be suggested to this bill by the 

various charities in the District of Colun1bia. 

That is all I care to say. This is just as good as any of the others, 

and I am not sure hut a little more meritorious than many othe~N 

which will be offered. I am not yet prepared to say that a point of 

order can be sustained when the other amendments are offered. I 

think they are pri>ate matters. At least I shall ask the Chair to rule 

upon that point when the occas1on arises. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is upon the amendment. · 

Mr . .ALLISON. In view of what the Senator from Kentucky ha 

said I hope this amendment will be passed over until we ee what we 

do with the other items to which he has referred. 

.Mr. BECK. If the amendment fails to prevail, the item having been 

inserted by the House will still be in the bill; and we are going through 

this anomaly all the time under the rules of the Senate, that matters 

which are ruled out of order because they are legislation can not be con-

-sidered here because they are new legislation; but once being inserted 

in the House bill they are open to a committee of conference, and that 

committee of conference, composed of three men from each Hou e 

can put on what they like, irrespective of the rules of either House, and 

the Senate and the House have to pass upon the conference report as a 

whole. No point of order can be made upon that, I suppose. 

The Chair smiles as though I was wrong there. I am so apt to be 

wrong on points of order that perhaps I am; but that will be the practical result; that is the way it always works, law or no law. I have 

referred to the tariff conference of last year before; we know something 

about that. The result is going to be that when a thing is once in the 

bill and the conferees get together they will do pretty much as they 

please. The Little Sisters of the Poor are in the bill by the action of 

the House. I admit that; and refusing to agree to the motion to strike 

out does not take out the item.· I think we had better begin with it now and strike out all the items of this class. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair thinks it proper to say 

for the information of the Senate, although the question is not at this 

moment presented for his decision, that he has examined the question as to the power of conferees that has arisen on the District of Columbia 

appropriation bill, and is of opinion that it is not within the power of 

the S.enate conferees to report in favor of the Senate agreeing to an amendment to a House bill that would not be in order if recommended 

by any other committee of the Senate. 

Mr. BECK. But allow me to ask for information-suppose they do 

it, their report has to be acted on a a whole, and I uppo e the Chair 

could not strike out that part -of it. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair could not strike it out; 

but the Chair if the point were made, would be obliged to hold, after 

having investigated the subject,. that such a report was irregular. That 

would leave the Senate to do what it chose with the other amendments or to overrule the Chair. The que tion is on agreeing to this 

amendment. · 

l\lr. HALE. Some of the Senators did .not hear precisely what was the ruling of the Chair with reference to the power of conference committee upon amendments. I did not myself. 

The PRESIDE~T pro tempore. The Chair bas made no ruling, but 

he thought it right for the information of the Senate to tate his opinion, formed upon investigation in respect to the power of conferees. 

The Chair is of opinion that it is not within the power of the conferees 

of the Senate to put into a bill anything that any committee of the 

Senate could not put in or that members could not put in. 

Mr. Hl\.LE. As an amendment to a House proposition coming to 

the Senate from the Ron e? 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Precisely the same point of order can be made, the Chair think , again t the report of a committee of 

conference in respect to putting legislation on a bill that could be made 

against a report from any committee of the Senate. . Mr. HALE. But supposing that in conference of the two Houses the 

conferees on the part of the Bou e of Repre entatives propo e an amendment to a provision that the House has inserted in an appropriation 

bill, an amendment entirely germane under the rule of the Hou e, and 

modifYing a proposition that has passed the House, and the conferees on the part of the Senate agree to that amendment and report as a con- ference committee the original propo ition that came from the Hou e with an amendment in order under the rules of the Hou e, would the 

Chair, I '\"\"ill not say rule, but intimate that the ruling would be that 

there wa no power on the part of the conferee to do that ? 

The PRE IDE.NT p ro tentpm·e. The Chair will. say that in his opinion, formed after tudy and investigation, the conferee on the part of 

the Senate are merely its agent , that they are not governed or affected or instructed by any rule of the other body but by our rules, and therefore if anything that the conferee of the Senate recommend to the Senate to be concurred in in the House bill is a proposition which if proposed in this Chamber from a committee would not be in order, it 

would not he in order if recommended by a committee of conference. 

Mr. HALE. That would revolutionize all the practice a to confer- ence reports. . The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That may be. The Chair only states 

what he think the law of the enate iN. 

Mr. HALE. Then when a propo ition comes from the Hou e originally under their rules objectionable, offensive a it may be to the 

enate, the Senate can not ay or do anything, because the Hou e, 
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under its rules, has sent a propo ition here . To hold that in a joint 

conference of the two bodies, represented by conference committees, 

there can not be an amendment to that original proposi ti.on of the House 

that is according to their rules adopted and sent to this body, I think, 

as I have said, introduce an entirely new practice. 

I am not prepared to argue that question, but I think that the Senate 

hould take notice that it is an absolute change of what has been the 

practice with reference to conference reports. I may say here that I 

do not belie•e in extending the power of conference committees. That 

power is enormous at present. It is a power that ex necessitate rei is 

n9t much questioned; but whenever any question does arise, I believe 

it is the duty of conferee largely on the appropriation bills made up 

from members of the Appropriations Committee, where there is any 

doubt about it to give the decision in favor of not extending their 

power. I do not think anything ought to be done by the conferees 

appointed from the Committee on Appropriations that under any cir- cum tances should raise a question in the Senate. 

Mr. HARRIS. Will the Senator from 1\Iaine allow me to make a 

sugge tion to him? 

Mr. HALE.· Certainly. 

Mr. HARRIS. This question, however grave and important, is not 

now before the Senate. The Chair has notified the Senate as to the 

opinion that the Chair entertains, which I think is precisely correct; 

but I beg that we do not undertake to debate the question now, because 

it is not pending. When it becomes practical, we can then talk about 

it. 

~.Ir. HALE. I do not propo e to do so, but the days and hours are 

waning and I wish to call attention to the matter now, as some guidance for the conference reports that may come in for the rest of the 

session. Let the intimation made by the Chair be regarded and con- sidered with reference to conference reports. 

l\Ir. ALDRICH. I agree with the Senator from Tennessee that it 

may not be profitable to discuss this question from the purely hypothetical tandpoint. There is a matter pending now before the Senate, 

or liable to be called before the Senate at any time, the conference report upon the District of Columbia appropriation bill, which will raise 

the practical point whenever that conference report is under consideration, and I should like to have it called up as soon as this bill is dispo ed of o that the question may be practically settled by the Senate. 

The PRESIDENT pro ternpore. The Chair thought it right to mention in reply to the·Se:aator from Kentucky what the views of the Chair 

are upon the subject. The Chair will take the liberty of saying, in 

addition, to the Senator from Maine, that the Chair thinks theSenator 

from Maine is under a misapprehension as respects the nature of a conference. The conferees of each House, the Chair thinks, are entirely 

independent of the other, and merely represent the views of their own 

Hou e. They, in their conduct, are governed by the rules of their own 

House, and not by the rules of the other. A conference report may be 

properly made, the Chair thinks, by tbe Senate conferees upon any bill, 

whether the gentlemen of the other House should sign the report or 

not. The only object, the Chair supposes, of the report being signed 

by the conferees on both sides is to identify with absolute certainty 

what they have agreed to recommend to their respective Houses as of 

their own right. 

The Chair begs to apologize for having suggested the question now, 

although he thought it right to do so in view of what the Senator from 

Kentucky had aid. The question is on agreeing to the amendment 

striking out the words which have been reported. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

RIVER .A....~D HARBOR BILL. 

A. me...~e from the House of Representatives, by Ur. CLA.BK, its 

Clerk, announced that the House had disagreed to the amendments of 

the Senate to the bill (H . R. 7012) making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and 

harbors, and for other purposes, asked a conference with the Senate on 

the disagreeing votes of the two 'Houses thereon, and had appointed 

Mr. A. S. WILLI of Kentucky, Mr. :N. C. BLANCHARD of Louisiana, 

and Mr. T. J. HENDERSOX of illinois managers at the conference on its part. 

.Mr. ALLISO~. I ask that the message from the House be laid 

before the Senate. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Senate 

the bill {H. R. 7012) making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, 

and for other purposes. The bill passed the Senate with sundry amendments and is returned from the House "With a mes....c::age, which will be 

read. 

The Chief Clerk read as follow : 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESE:!'o--rATIVES, July 2, 1884. 

Resolud, That the Honse non-concur in the amendment of the Senate to the 

bill (H. R. 7012) making appropriation for the construction, repair, and preser- vation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purpo es. Ordtn·ed, That 1\Ir. WILLIS, :Mr. BLANCHARD, and Mr. T. J. HE:r.""DERSON be the managers of the said conference on the part of the House. 

l\1r. McMILLAN. I move that the Senate insist on itsamendments 

disagreed to by the House and agree to the conference thereon asked 

by the House of Representati•es. 

The motion was agreed to. 

By unanimous consent, the President pm tempore was authorized to 

appoint the conferee on the part of the Senate, and Mr. Mcl\IILLAN, 

Mr. COSGER, and Mr. RAN Q:.\I were appointed. 

FO RTH OF JULY. 

1\Ir. SHER~IA..t.~. I beg lea>e to submit a resolution which I wip. 

ask to lie over until to-morrow morning, unless the Senate by unammous consent see proper to adopt it now. 

The PRE IDENT pro tempore. The resolution will be read for information, if there be no objection. 

The resolution was read, as follows: 

Resolved Tbnt the Senate will meet at the usual hour on Friday, the 4th day 

of July, instant, and after the reading of the Journal, and b~fore other ~usiness is done, the Secretary of the Senate shall read the DeclaratiOn of Amencan In- dependence and ·washington's Farewell Address. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair understands the gentleman from Ohio to ask for the present consideration ofthe resolution. 

:Mr. HARRIS. Let it lie over. 

Mr. SHER~~'f. If there is any objection, let it go over. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution will be printed, and 

go over. 

SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. 

The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. 7380) making appropriations for sundry civil 

expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, 

and for other purpo es. · 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after the word "dollars, ' in line 

2157, to insert: 

For repairs to the police-court building, District of Columbia, $1,500. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 2161, to insert: 

To pay to the Church Orphanage Association of Saint .J~hn's church for the 

erection of a buildingfortheuseofsaidorphanage, ofWashington, D. C.,$6,000. 

Mr. ALLISO:N. I move toinsertatthispointtheamendmentwhich 

I send to the desk. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is it an amendment to the paragraph 

just read? . 

Mr. ALLISO:N. It is an independent amendment. 

· Mr. BECK. I rise for the purpo e of asking the Senate to strike out 

the clause just read in order to prevent so many others from coming in. 

I do not believe there is any serious objection to this item. The building in which those people now keep, and have done so for fourteen years, 

some fifty-odd children and have taken care of them, is in such a dilapidated condition that it has been condemned by the commissioners a 

unsafe and dangerous; but I really feel that in doing it we are opening 

the door to too many applications and we ought not to aid those people 

in building an additional building or one that shall be safe, a they 

have been ordered to do by the commissioners. In other words, the 

house is condemned and we ought to aid them to get one in which they 

can safely take care of the children; but if it is going to open the door 

to all the others, I think the pamgraph had better go out. 

Mr. HARRISO~. I notice that the committee has recommended us 

hike out, and the Senate has agreed to strike out, a special approprition for the Little Sisters of the Poor. It.seems to me we ought to observe ome uniformity with reference to this sort of appropriations. · For 

one, I can see how the burdens·oftaxation in the District and theobligation of the District government to take care of the unfortunate classes 

here may be relieved by these private charities. I have no doubt the 

institution of the Little Sisters of the Poor and this Church Orphanage 

Ass iation both do a great deal toward relieving taxation, and in that 

view it may be proper to make some annual appropriation for the maintenance of the dependent ones wbo would otherwise fall upon the District for support. But if we once go into the business of putting up 

orphanages and homes under the supervision of the different churches in 

the District, it seems to me we are entering upon a pretty wide field of 

operation. I would not make a distinction between the churches. K o doubt in each of these instances they are doing a good work, but I think 

if we start into the business of building houses for the different churches we hall run through the whole list and we can not stop. I think we 

had better top now and not agree to this amendment. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The question is on agreeing to the 

amendment recommended by the committee. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The PRE"IDENT pro tempore. The amendment proposed by the 

Senator from Iowa -nill now be reported. 

lli. ALLISON. In tiew ofthevotejusttaken with reference to these 

charities in the District of Columbia, I feel instructed by the committee 

to withdraw the amendment I was about to offer a few moments ago. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 2165, to insert: 

That the proper accounting officers of the ?-'reasury Department are ~er~by 

directed to allow and pay, out of any money 1n the Treasury not otherWise apv 
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5896 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JULY 2, . propriated to each of such persons, ortheirlega.l representatives, who were offi- cers clerb and employ~s of the metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia on the 28th of February, 1867, a sum equal to 20 per cent. on the salary of uch persons as fixed by law, for the time stated in said resolution of the 28th 

of February, 1867. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 2175, to insert: 

That the sum of $85,000 appropriated for the Boundary street intercepting sewer by the act approved July 1, 1882, is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for work done and to be done under the contracts heretofore made for its expenditure, or such futurecontractsas shall be made therefor. 

Mr. PLUMB. I should like to call the attention of the Senator from 

Iowa to the faet that the last two appropriations inserted are appropriation out of 'the Treasury entirely, and there is no clause attached to 

them which requires one-half to be takenoutofthe treasuryoftheDistrict of Columbia. I therefore move to add--

1\Ir. ALLISON. I understand the last item is simply reappropriating the interest paid, one-half by the District and one-half by the 

United States, under a previous law passed some years ago. ·Mr. :PLUMB. That may be, but that would not be the caae with 

reference to the preceding paragraph, at all events. 

l\Ir. ALLISON. I see now what the Senator alludes to specially, to 

the paragraph from line 2166 to line 2175. For myself, I do not father 

that amendment in any sense, and I leave it to others to promote it. 

The Senate passed at this SE>SSionaseparate bill requiring the payment 

of this money. 

l\Ir. PLUl\IB. Has it passed both Houses? 

l\Ir. ALLISON. No, sir. 

l\Ir. PLUMB. Then I move a reconsideration of the vote by which 

that amendment was adopted. I had not observed its terms. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas asks that 

the vote agreeing to the amendment Teport.ed from the committee inserting the paragraph from lines 2166 to 2175 be reconsidered. It will 

be reconsidered if there be no objection. It is reconsidered. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. 

Mr. PLUMB. I hope the amendment will not be adopted. The 

Senate has acted upon the measure, but not the House, and it is proper 

to leave it until the other branch of Congress shall have acted upon the 

subject-matter. 

Mr. VANCE. I understa.Jld a vote is to be taken on the proposition 

to reconsider. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The vote was reoonsiderei, and the 

question is on agreeing to the amendment. 

l\Ir. VANCE. On that! wish tosayaword. Thisisaclaimfuunded 

upon a joint resolution of the two Houses passed seventeen years ago, 

paying 20 per cent.--

Mr. PLUMB. I feel under the circumstanoes,_afterthestatementof 

the Senator from North Carolina, constrained to make the point of order on the amendment that it is a private claim. 

Mr. VANCE. The Chair will see that it is in pursn.a.nceof an existing law. 

The PRESIDE~T pro tempore. The Chair understands the Senator 

from Kansas to make a point of order. 

Mr. PLUMB. I raise the point of order on the paragraph. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair would be glad to be informed whether there is any existing law which requires the payment 

of this sum of money. 

1\Ir. HARRIS. In 1867 there was an act passed allowing certain 

extra pay to certain officers. The accounting officers of the Treasury 

held that the act did not apply to the class of persons provided for in 

this amendment and declined to pay them. Some one of that cla.ss 

made a test case. It went to the Supreme Court ofthe United States 

and the court decided that it did cover this class of persons. A private 

bill for the relief of this class has been introduced from session to session for many sessions and referred to the Committee on the Distri t of 

Columbia, at the present SE'SSion as well as at former sessions. The 

committee reported at this SE'SSion of Congress in favor of the passage 

of that private bill. 

1\Ir. BECK. It was passed. 

Mr. BUTLER. It passed the Senate. 

1\Ir. HARRIS. It has passed the Senate, but it has not yet passed 

the other House. That is the exact history of the case. Mr. BECK. The act of February 28, 1867, Statutes at Large, vol- ume 14, page 569, contains the language referred to by the Senator 

from Tennessee, which is in these words: 

An additional compensation of 20 per cent. on their respective salaries as fixed by law, or, where no salary is fixed by law, upon their pay respectively, 

for one year from and afte~ the 30th day of June, 1866. 

That has been construed by the Senate by the passage of the bill reported by the Senator from North Carolina [Mr. V .A.NCE], and which 

had been reported two years ago by the Senator from Alabama [Mr. 

MORGAN] and had a unanimous report of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House by the Representative from Vermont [l\Ir. POLAND J. 

I suppose there is no doubt under all the constructions given that there 

is an existing law for the payment. It was upon that theory that we proceeded yesterday in considering the amendment. 

Mr. HARRIS. The Supreme Court decided the case. . Mr. BECK. The Supreme "court has decided that these policemen were embraced in the law. I had all those reports, but I can not lay 

my hand on them now. I thought the clerk of the committee had them 

with him. They were lying on my table this morning, and gave all 

the facts. The report of the Senator from North Carolina contains the 

decision of the Supreme Court in 28 Wallace, 588, and the authorities are referred to where they sustain the claims and say they come within 

the provisions of the act. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair remembers the case. The 

Chair understands that this is a provision for the payment of overdue 

salaries to a class of officers who according to this decision are entitled 

under a former law to a salary that has not been paid them. The Chair 

therefore overrules the point of order, thinking that if Congress has 

failed to appropriate for general salaries to a cla.ss of officers that in point 

of law they were entitled to, the amendment does not fall within the 

provision in relation to private claims. The question is on agreeing to 

the amendment. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

Mr. PLUMB. I now move to add at the end of line 2182 these words: 

One-half of said sum appropriated by the two preceding paragraphs to be paid out of any money in the Treasury of the United States and the other half to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. 

Mr. SHERMAN. I hope that amendment will not be adopted .. The syetem of intercepting-sewers is very expensive. Work was un- dertaken by the Government of the United States in the first instance 

without respect to the District authorities. It is really a system of 

conveying water from the outlying regions off into Rock Creek and 

into the Eastern Branch, and originally was not designed to be charged 

upon the District of Columbia. It seems to me it is not right that it 

should be charged to the District of Columbia. At the last session of 

Congress, if I remember aright, or perhaps at this session, there was a provision made that the District government should pa.y interest at the 

rate of 3 per cent. upon one-half of the cost of these intercepting sewers. If the Senator would confine his amendment to that provision it would 

be all right, but to load the District government with this 40,000, to come out of their current rev~nue, would probably prevent them from 

availing themselves for general city purposes of the District revenues. I should have no objection if the Senator would make his amendment requiring that one-half of this should be ~d in the same mode 

and manner directed by e~ting law for the 'Other appropriations for 

intercepting-sewers, and I think that requires them to pay at the rate 

of 3 per cent. interest. 

Mr. PLUMB. The Senator is I think mistaken. This originally W88 appropriated to be paid in jnst the way I propose now to pay it; 

but by reason of the construction of the First Comptroller of the Treasury in regard to the contmct under which the money W88 to be expended, it could not be expended. The commissioners came down and 

asked us to put it in the District of Columbia bill. It was put in that 

bill; but when the matter came into conference the Honse conferees 

objected to the last part of the amendment on areount of its reference 

to a former contract, and after some conference it was left out in order 

to ascertain exactly how the law was. The commissioners asked that 

it be put in this bill in the same way. It only went out of the former 

bill for the reason I stated a moment ago. It will not impair their 

funds at all. It is entirely proper that one-half of this expense should 

be paid by the District. 

Mr. SHERMAN. I am informed by a member of the District Committee that the provision I spoke of applied only to the aqueduct. If 

the ordinary disposition of . this money is that one-half of it is charged 

to the District, I have no objection to the amendment. 

Mr. HARRIS. I think it is. I know there was a 3 per cent. proposition such as is referred to by the Senator from Ohio applied to the 

appropriation for extending the aqueduct, but I do not remember any 

such proposition in respect to any other matter. 

:Mr. ALLISON. I think so far as the last item is concerned, under 

the District act of 1882, without any such amendment as is proposed by 

the Senator from Kansas, one-half of this item would be paid by the 

District of Columbia, because this is simply a reappropriation of money 

appropriated in 1882 when the District was obliged to pay one-half. I 

do not think they ought t{) pay out of the current revenues of the District one-half of the other appropriation. That appropriation is for 

the Uetropolitan police of 1867. At that time the entire U etropolitan 

police was paid by the Government of the United States. It eems to me it would be wrong to put upon the expenditures of the District for 

1885 an expense that was incurred by the Government of the United 

States itself in 1867. 

Ur. SHERMA..~. That was before the District government was 

formed. 

Mr. ALLISON. Long before the District government was formed. 

I think it is not a wise thing to do. 

Ur. PLUMB. Very well; Ihavenoobjection tomakingtheamendment apply simply to the latter section. 

Mr. ALLISON. That is, the last paragraph, the one contained in 

line 2176 to line 2182? 
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. Mr. PLUMB. Yes; the last paragraph. 

Mr. HARRIS. So far as it applies to sewers I think it is entirely 

right; but I think it ought not to be applied to the other item. 

The PRESIDENT prfJ tempore. The question is on the amendment 

proposed by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. PLUMB]. 

The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. 

The amendment as amended was ag.reed. to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, in the "miscellaneous" appropriations '' under the Department of J nstioe, '' after line 2193, to insert: 

For the e~nses of Territorial courte in Utah Territory: For defraying the 

contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district~~ 

torney and his assistanta; the fees and per diems o.f the United St9:tes comxru~ 

sioner and clerks of the court; and the fees, per diems, and tra\"elmgexpenses 

of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of sum- moning jurors, s~bprenaing w;itnesses~ of arresting, gua~ding, and ~nsporting 

prisoners; of hirmg and feeding guaras; and of supplymg and carmg for the 

penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, $26,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 2213, after 4

' Court or Claims,'' to 

insert ''including the pay of one assistant, at a salary of $3,000; '' and, 

in line 2215, before the word "thousand," to strike out "ten" and 

insert "sixteen;" so as to make the clause read: 

For defending suits in claims against the United States: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of 

evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and the District of 

Oolumbia pending in any Department, and for necessary expenses incurred in 

defending suits in the Court of Claims, includ.ing the pay of one assistant, at a salary of 83,000, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, 

116,000. 

The am.endment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 2237, after the word u agents,'' to 

strike out "twenty-five" and insert "fifty;" so as to make the clanse 

read: 

For the prosecution of CTimes: For the detection and pTOSQCution ot crimes 

against the United States, preliminary to indictment, and for the investigation 

of official acts, records, and aocounts of officers of the courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marsha.ls, attorneys, clerks of the United States 

courts, and United States commis ioners, under the direction of the AttorneyGeneral, and for this pJ:ll'pose all the records and dockets of these officers, withou) exception, i!hall be~pen to the examination of his duly authorized agents, 

150,000. . 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 2238, to insert. 

For compiling and printing two hundred copies of the compilation of lawe 

applicable to the duties of the governor, &ttorney,judges, clerk, marshals, and 

commissioners for the dlst~ of Alaska, provided for bor section 11 ol the ~ 

approved May 17, 1884,8500. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, ~r line ~ to insert: 

To defray the actual and neoessary traveling expenses of the officert'l to be ap- pointed for the civil district of Alaska.. from their homes to their stations in 

Alaska, at 8300 each, 81.500. 

Mr. CONGER. I wish to ask the chairman of the committee if that 

is the title of '' the provisional government for Alaska?'' Are these the 

judicial officers? I did not understand that it was called the " civil 

district.'' 

Mr. HARRISON. If the Senator will allow me to answer, I will 

state that it includes all the officers to be appointed, and the description is correct here. It is mll.ed in the Alaska act ''the civil district 

of Alaska.'' 

Mr. ALLISON. We supposed we had it right, but I am not certain. 

Mr. CONGER. I supposed it referred to the judicial district, and 

not the Territorial government. 

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

amendment. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 2249, to insert: 

To pay the amount of final judgment rendered in the suit of Hallet Kilbourne 

against John G. Thompson, former SerK"eanH~Arms of the House of Representatives, $20,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 2253, to insert: 

To pay the costa of court in said case, $148.17. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 2255, to insert: 

To pay Shellabarger and Wilson counsel fees in said case, $2,000. 

Mr. ALLISON. I move to strike out the words, "Shellabarger and 

Wilson. n I do not know of any other counsel, but it is intended to 

pay the counsel fees on the part of the Government. 

M.r. HA..RlUSON. I wish to ask the Senator from Ohio who will 

have the distribution of the fund then; the Attorney-General? 

Mr. ALLISON. The Department of Justice. 

The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. 

The amendment as amended was agreed to. 

PRESIDENTIAL APPROVALS. 

A message from the President of the United States, by Mr. 0. L. 

PRUDEN, one of his secretaries, announced that the President had approved and signed the following acts : An act (S. 1861) for the relief of the Atlantic Alcohol Company, of 

Atlantic, State of Iowa; and 

An act (S. 534) for the relief of J. T. Pickett. 

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. 

A message from the House of Representatives, by 1\Ir. CLARK, its 

Clerk, announced thatthe House had concurred in the amendment or 

the Senate to the bill (H. R. 1682) providing for two additional associate 

justices of the supreme court of the Territory of Dakota. 

The message also announced that the House had agreed to the report 

of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two 

Houses on the bill (H. R. 4680) to grant a right of way through the 

Indian Territory to the Southern Kansas Railway Company, and for 

other purposes. 

The message further announced that the House had passed a con- current resolution for the printing of 9,000 copies of the report of the· 

Director of the Mint on the production of the precious metals in the 

United States for the year 1883. 

ROSA VEBTNEB JEFFREY AND OTHEBS. 

:Mr. CAMERON, of Wisconsin. Yesterday the House requested the 

Senate to return a certain bill to the House for consideration. That 

bill was in the hands of the Committee on Claims. I now report back 

the bill, being the bill (H. R. 2185) for the relief of Rosa V ertner J effrey and others, and ask that the committee be discharged from its 

further consideration. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. What disposition does the Senator 

desire to be made of the bill? 

Mr. CAMERON, of Wisconsin. The bill is not on the Calendar. 

The House yesterday requested the Senate to return the bill to the 

House for further consideration. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The order to discharge the committee will be entered. The Chair understands that the order to return 

the billltas already been made. 

Mr. CAMERON, of Wisconsin. I do not know whether the order was made yesterday or not. 

Mr. SHERMAN. It had better be made anyway. 

Mr. CAMERON, ofWi.soonsin. If it has been made, it moot neces- sary to make it again. 

The PRESIDENT pro tem;,.re. The Chair understmW.s that the order was made yesterday on IJ&Otion of the Senator from Massachusetts. 

[Mr. HoAR). 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore subsequently said: The Chair begs ro. call the attention of the Senate to House bill No. 2!85. A message was. received from the House of Representatives yesterday asking that the 

bill be returned. The RECORD shows that it was ordered on motion 

of the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. HoAR] that the bill be returned 

to the House of Representatives. The Chair finds that the Journal 

does not contain an entzy of the order that was made. The Chair asks 

unanimous consent, therefore, that the J onmaJ. of yesterday's proceedings be corrected so as to show the fact that the Secretary was directed 

to return the bill to the House of Representatives. Is there objection?' 

The Chair hears noae, and it is so ordered. 

SUNDBY CIVIL APPBOPBIATIQN BILL. 

The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill {H. R. 7380) making appropriations for sundry civil 

expenses of the Government for the fiscaJ. year ending June 30, 1885, 

and for other purposes. 

The reading of the bill was resumed and continued to line 2270. 

Mr. ALLISON. In view of the fad that the committee recommend 

the striking out of th~ legislative sections of the bill, I move to amend 

by striking out from line 2271 to 2280, in the following words: 

For salaries of United States marshals $219,000. For salaries of marshals' clerks and chlef deputies, $110,000. For expenses of marshals, namely, for transportation to attend courts, postage on process, and for fees and expenses of deputies, and of sheriffs and constable 

a{lting as deputies as provided by law, and for pay of special deputy marshaJ.s. 

under title 26 of the Revised Statutes, 8300,000. 

And to insert: 

For payment of the fees and expensesolUnitedStatesma.rsha.lsanddeputies,. 8629,000. 

Mr. COKE. I suppose that this amendment of the Senator from 

Iowa.---

1\Ir. ALLISON. If the Senator from Texas will allow me, I will ask 

that the amendment I suggest be passed over for the present until we settle the question of legislation. 

1\Ir. COKE. I was going to suggest that we pass it over and settlethe succeeding clauses. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa asks unani- mous consent that the question on this amendment--

Yr. ALLISON. On all the matter down to line2287. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That the paragraphs on page 93 

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from the top of~be page to the end of line 22 7 he passed o>er infon:J.- ! N? offic;er of the court hall reqt?-ire paymen~ from any jur?r. or :vitne for 

.ally to be resumed later. Is there objection? The Chair hears no1e, ~~LI~~~~~ ~~tf~ln~~J :)t~ du~i ~?thf:!~t~o~ ~~ !~~!_~~~n~i~rti\1 °~~ !.~ ..and it is so ordered. paying the same, und to trike out improper charge if any ure made therein. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the '!'he mar hals' clerk , the chief deputie , and other deputies hall be appointed · · · d th h d f '' J di · 1 , · by the Attorney-General, upon the recommendation of the mar hul of there- Committee ?n .Appropr1at1?f18 ~as, un er e e.,'\, ? . U Cla ' lll pective district ; and their oath of office shall be filed in the Department of 

the appropnatwns for the Umted States court , m line 2289, after Justice; and they shall be of good character and be able to read aud write 

the words ''for fees of clerks 160 000 " to insert: in the E11glish language, and be ubject to removal for ca.u e by the Attorney- • 1 1 ' • General, by the court, or mar hal: Pro·r:ided, That nothing in thi act hall be 

Fromded, That the clerk of th~ S~pre!De Court of the Umted tates shall, on con trued as in any way repealin.,. or modifying section 2021, 202'2, 2C28, 20"...4, the 1st day of .January next, or w1thin thuty days thereafter, and annually there- and 3689 of the Revised , tatute , nor of any other of the pro vi ions of title .after, make t.o the Secretary of the Treasury a return of all. co t collected by 26of the Revised tatute nor of any act amendatory thereof or supple [llentary him in ca e dispo ed of at the preceding term or terms of sa1d upreme Court; thereto ' 

and after ded.uct~g ~ co~pensatiou ~s pro.vided by law, and th~ incidental · SEC. 4. That deputy marshals shall be appointed in the manner provided in ·exl?enses of h18 offi.ce, ~ncludm~ clerk-hire, aid expenses to be certified by tl?-e the foregoing section for uch loca.li.ties in the district as the judge of the dis- •9Wef .Just1ce or a. JUStice of. said court, shall ~ay any uri?lus th:at may remam trict or circuit courts may authorize and require for the efficient tran action of mto the Treasury of the Umted States at the time of making said return. of the bu ine of the United tate court of such districts in each locality hut 

The amendment was agreed to. their powers shall not be limite~ by the locality for which they are appoir:ted. . . . . . . . No per on hall perform the duti of a deputy mar hal unle appomted and 

Mr. INGALLS. If section 2 lS to be stricken out the prOVlSlOn m qualified in the manner herein provided, but district or circuit court may aplines 2327 to 2329 would be superfluous. I call the attention of the point, upo!l t~e recommendation of the mary;hals, any sheriff o~ con table, br)Jd- •Chairman of the committee to that fact. mg comm~ss10_n as such under Stat<; authont.Y, t?. erve the ,~rtt or e:xe ule the . . proces e lSSUJDg out of the courts m uch di tr1et, after havmg been duly co:n- Mr. ALLISON. I know there IS no requrrement for such an appro- missioneda deputy by order oftbe court. In all ca. eswher practicable it hull 

priation now; but still the committee thought there would be no special be the duty of the marshal.t~ sen.d writs and.proce es of ?ourt by mail dii·ected 

harm in having a uniform system of aecounts among all the marshals to the deputy marshal residing m the l<;>cality where writ a~e to be erved or . . processes to be executed, or to the heriff or constable appomted to rve the 

.and clerks. If the Senator ObJects to 1t-- same in such locality, who e duty it hall be, aft.er service, to return such writ 

Mr. INGALLS. No, I do not object to it, except that it is not a pro- or proce by mail. to the mar h~; and in no <?a e hall fee be charoed or 

vision of existing law The Senator will observe that it depends upon all~wed for t~veling bet'Yeen powts where writs ~r proce e were ent by · . . . mail, or where 1t was practicable to send them by mail. The fees now allowed ihat clause of the prOVlSlOD proposed to be stricken out on page 98, be- by law for marshals for serving writ und processes shall hereafter be allowed 

tween lines 2402 and 2412. to the officers erving .the sa?Jle, except for co~mitting and di C~R;rging prisMr ALLISON So it does but still in itself it is not a bud provision oners i and tJ;Ie clause m sectiOn 29 of the Revlse!l Statute- pr~ cnbmg 5~ cen • • J. • ' • • for the same Is hereby repealed. No fee for servmg proce s snail be pa1d to a to have a uniform system of bookkeepmg for Umted States marshals chief deputy. Guards, when actually necessary, may be employed to a ist dep-

. and clerks. However, I have no objection to striking it out. uty m~~bals , sher.ifls,.or con table. in charge of pri oner and witne e before 

Mr INGALLS I have no obiection to it commissioners or JUStices of the peace, but not more than two before the same • · ., . · . . officer hall be employed on any one day. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The readmg of the bill will proceed. SEc. 5. That deputy marshals, sheriffs, and constable , while rvingcourt proThe next amendment was to strike ont lines 2330 to 2733 inclusive, ce e , shall be allowed fortran portation by public conveyance the amount fi l1 . · 1 actually paid therefor, which shall be stated in an itemized account, and hall ..as 0 OWS. not exceed the usual amount charged for uch transportation. For traveling 

SEO. 2. That United States mar hals shall hereafter receive annually for their where there i no public conveyance they shall be allowed 10 cents per mile each 

-services the following salaries, pay!lble monthly: Southern district of New way, and for erving writs and processes the fees provided by law. The co t York, $6,000; Northern New York, Massachusett , Eastern Pennsylvania, Dis- hall in each case be indorsed in item on the back of the writ when the return trict of Columbia, Southern Ohio, and California, $5,000 each; 1\Iaryland,Western is made. 

Pennsylvania, Eastern l\Iis ouri, Kentucky, Northern Ohio, Northern and SEc. 6. That the circuit or district court of the United States may, inca e of 

Southern Illinois, Eastern Louisiana, Kansas, and We tern Texas, $-1,000 each; emergency where the nece sary proce es of the courts can not be promptly ex- New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, Nevada, Southern Florida, ecuted by the marshal or hi regula r deputies so a . to secure the end of justice, 

Connecticut, Northern 1\Iississippi, and Southern 1\lississippi, $2,000 each; and enter an order of record requiring the mar hal or one of his deputies, or a per- .aU other marshals shall be paid a salary of $3,000 a year. son appointed as special deputy marshal by the court for that purpo e, to per- All money collected by· marshals on process in behalf of the United States, form a particular service or execute a particular writ; and for uch ervice there 

and all costs for fees and expenses of marshals taxed against parties other than shall be allowed such compensation as may be just and rea onable, but not ex- the United States, shall be collected by the marshals and be paid into court; ceeding 52.50 a day, and actual and nece sary traveling expen e , in lieu of fee 

and at the end of each quarter the marshal shall render a return of the moneys and mileaae. All accounts for such service ball be tatcd in itellli! a nd verified o collected t.o the Attorney~General, with receipts from the clerks of the courts by the person performing the service, and approv.ed as a separate account by 

for the sums paid as herein required, which returns shall be verified by the oath the judge who may make the order requiring the same. -<>f the marshal; and if this tatement is not received by the Attorney-General SEC. 7. That district attorneys of the United State shall hereafter be paid 

within thirty days from the clo e of the quarter, no further payments shall be monthly for their services the following annual salaries, in lieu of all fee , a"lmadetbemarshalonaccountofsalaryuntHsuch tatement is received. Upon lowances,and salary now authorized by law: Southern New York, 000; 

pplication to him for service, the marshal, before service is made, shall exact a Northern New York, Massachusetts, Eastern and We tern Pennsylvania, Di - deposit for the co ts thereof in all cases not brought by the United States, ex· trictof Columbia, Northern and Southern Ohio, Eastern l\1i ouri, N ortbern and 

cept in nits brought under chapter3 of the Revi ed Statute , for wages of sea- Southern lllinois, and California, -,ooo each; Maryland, Kentucky, Kansa , men, wherein the co ts, if not collectible from the parties t-o the suit, shall be Eastern Louisiana, Northern Georgia, Western Arka.n as and Western Texa , .charged by the marshal, clerk, and district attorney in their accounts against $i,OOO each; New Ramp hire, Vermont, Rhode Island , Delaware, Nevada, 

the United States, and shall be adjusted and paid by accounting officers in the Southern Florida, Connecticut, Northern Mississippi, and Southern 1\:t:is i ippi, same manner as costs inca es brought by the United tates. U he shall fail to $2,000 each; and all other United States district attorneys hall be paid each a exact such deposit he shall be responsible for the amount to the United States. alary of $3,000 a year. • It shall be the duty of the marshal to scrutinize the bill of the deputies, sher- In all proceedings, civil or criminal, including prizes and revenue ca e where 

iffs,or con tables, or whoever may be employed to serve process, and when he fees or compensation of any kind are now bylaw authorized to be taxed against 

.find the ame to be correct and in accordance 'vith law he shall pay the same; and paid by the United States for services of dist-rict att.orney or their as i ta.nts, 

but in case where he deem it advisable for his own protection be may with- no fees or percentages or commissions shall be charged or allowed on that ac- hold 25 per cent .. of the amount until the said bills have been audited and al- count. In all cases, civil or criminal, including prize and revenue ca , where 

1owed at the Treasury; and when so allowed he shall pay the amount found services are performed by district attorneys or their a istant , and the costs are due each in full. At the clo e of each term of court the marshal shall make up taxed against other partie than the United States, the amount of such costs or .his account for all fees and di bursements and submit the same to a circuit or fees for such service shall be collected and paid into court. nited tates district 

dLtrict court, in accordance 'vith the provisions of the act regulating fees and attorney shall, under the direction of the Attorney-General, attend to the in- co t , approved Februal'y 22, 1875, which shall be examined and passed upon terest.s of the United States in every suit or proceeding in which the United 

by the court at each term before its adjournment. States is concerned in any of the courts of the United tate or in the courts of 

SEC. 3. That there may be allowed en.ch United States marshal one clerk and any State, or attend to any other interest of the United States in their respective -<>ne chief deputy, whose salaries shall be paid as provided in section 2 for the districts. 

payment of marshals. The alaries shall be .,.1,800 a year in each of the follow- SEc. . That the district attorneys, marshals, and clerks shall be allowed, once mg districts: Northern New York, Southern New York, Massachusetts, Eastern for each term of court, the actual amount paid by them fortran portation in go- .Penn ylYania, Di trict of Columbia, Southern Ohio, Kentucky, Northern Illi- ing to and ret.urn"ing from the place where the court may be held in the di - nois, and California. trict, the itemized accounts for such transportation to be made out and verified In other districts the salary hall be determined by the Attorney-General, but as hereinafter provided in other ca es where transportation i allowed. Di - hall not exceed $1,200 per annum in any case. No clerk or chief deputy shall trict attorneys shall also be allowed the actual amount paid by them for n ce - be appointed in any di trict unless the Attorney-General shall deem such ap- sary tran porta.tion to and from their places of abode to place where criminal 

pointment necessary for the efficient performance of the public bu iness. examinations are held, or from one uch place to another. In all dish·icts where court are held at more than one place at which grand SEc. 9. That the fees earned by the clerks of"United tate ourts. the uprcllie juror are impaneled, the Attorney- eneral may, in his discretion, allow the and district courts of the Territories, and the court of the Di trict of Coin m bia. 

marsbnl a clerk or chief deputy (but not both) at such place, in addition to the for services in civil and criminal case and in naturalization ca s, and for mak- one hereinbefore authorized, if the bu iness of the office requires it, at a salary ing out, certifying, or authenticating all papers, and in bankruptcy proceeding , not to exceed . 1,000 a yeaT. and for duties of mal!ters in chancery, or as special commi ioner or r ef ere The Attorney-General shall provide a uniform sy tern of bookkeeping and by order of the court, or taking or authentica.tingdepo itions, is uingcertifica te .returns, and furnish book and blanks for this purpo e to the United States admitting attorneys to practice, and in all matters of any !lame and ch racter marshal . It shall be their duty to keep all the accounts, book , and papers of incident to their office or by virtue or authority of th court, and a- Fuited 

their respective offices in s nch manner as may be required by regulations pre- States commissioners, if holding aid office, ball be in cluded in their ern i-an- scribed by the Attorney-General, and to perform such other duties as such reg- nual returns to the Attorney-General; and it ball be t.he duty of the Attoruey- nlations may require. All books, papers, and accounts relating in any way to General to decide what expenses may be paid by such ciN- out of the urplu 

fficial bn iness shall remain in the oftice of the marshal and be trnn ferred by emoluments of their offices. At the end of each quarter they hall make out an him to hi uccessor in office, and hall be open at all times to the inspection of itemized statement of all co t p:tid into court in United tate ca es, how in"' 

parties interested. what dispo ition has been made of the a me and in what ca they accrued, and 

Any per on who steals, takes away, falsifie , mutilates, or otherwise alters, submit the same to the di trict court, who shall examine the same, and cau e de~troy , or conceal any book, record, or paper by law required to be in the such clerk to subscribe an oath to the correctnes of each and e very item in cu tody of the marshal, or who coun els, aids, or abets uch tea ling, taking uch statement. Uthejudge approves such statement a correct, he huH indor:ie .away, altering, fal fying, mutilating, destroying, or concealing of any such his approval thereon in writina, and the clerk shall thereupon transmit aid 

book, record, or paper, shall be guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, tatement to the Attorney-General. The clerks of the circnitand di trict courts, 

hall be fined not exceeding ... 1,000, or imprisonment at labor not exceeding three of the upreme and district courts of the Territories, an.tl of the upreme court· years, or both, in the discretion of the court. of the D i trict of Columbia hall not receive unuually exceeding ~.500 each fur It shall be the duty of the chief deputy marshal to as i ttbemarshal in attend- their en·ice ; and where one per on i clerk of both the circuit and di trict 

ing upon the sessions of the court, and to perform all other ·"!uties required of court , . uch clerk shall not receive for service in both capa itie a. sum exceedhim by the marshal of t.he court. ing $3,000 per annum, except the clerks of the district ::md circuit cour forth.,. 
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southern district of New York, who may each receive S3,500 annually for their e rvice . From the fees and emoluments earned and so reported by such clerks no one of them shall be allowed an amount exceeding- the maximum herein pro- vided; and after deducting the payment of deputy clerks, of office expenses, and any oth er allowances authorized by the Attorney-General, the balance of such Jees and emoluments, if any, over and above the said maximum amount, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States according to the provisions of sec- tion 844 of the Re vi ed Statutes; which payments shall be ascertained at the Trea ury Department upon quarterly returns to the First Auditor of all fees -earned during each quarter, to be made under oath and approved by the court; and upon failure to make said quarterly and semi-annual reports within thirty 

-day thereafter, the clerk shall be summarily removed by the judge upon the r equest of the Attorney-General. BC. 10. That the judges of the circuit and district courts of the United States .and the judges of the Territorial courts shall divide eaeh district into commis- sioner ' districts, COJ;tsisting of one or more counties or parishes, and they shall a ppoint one or more United tates commissioners in each commissioner's dis- tt·ict, as may be required for the efficient and economical execution of the law . nch commissioner shall have jurisdiction only of such offenses as are com- mitted in their respective districts, except in cases of change of venue or where no qualified commissioner resides in the commi sioner's district where the -offense was committed, who is in the district and physically able to perform his -duties, and except also in cases of offenses against the postal laws of the United tate , in which the jurisdiction shall remain as now provided by law. United States commissioners shall receive for their services such fees as are now allowed by law, except that in all criminal cases heard by them they shall -only be allowed Sl for issuing process to arrest and 1 for a recognizance or bond for court, including affidavits of justification of sureties and acknowledg- ments and for all other writs and processes issued, for all oaths administered, for docketing, hearing, and trying the same, and for all services performed the · urn of $5, and no more, for each case; but where two or more charges not re- -quiring separate trials are preferred against any person at the same time, the commis ioner shall be allowed only for a fee in one case. In preliminary ex- aminations, where there is probably cause of guilt, the commissioner shall bind -over the accused, if he shall give the bail required, to appear for trial before the court in his dist.rict which may be held nearest the place where the offense was committed having jsrisdiction thereof; and if he can not give the required bail, the commissioner shall commit him for trial to the nearest jail where such pris- <>ners can be safely and economically kept, and shall in both cases transmit all the papers in the case to the clerk of the United States court having jurisdiction thereof, to be held in said district nearest the placo where the offense was com- mitted, at which court grand juries are impaneled; and the clerk shall notify the district attorney thereof; but any accused person who may be committed in default of bail may, upon the order of the judge, on the application of the R(}-

<Jused, be removed to and tried at that place in the judicial district where the <Jourt will be held next aft-er his commitment : Provided, That all such preliminary -examinations shall be held and conducted by the officer authorized to hold and conduct such examinations who resides nearest the place where the <>ft'en e is alleged to have been committed. Justices ofthe peace shall receivethe same fees as United States commission- ers for services in criminal cases. Their accounts shall be verified by oath and forwarded to the United States attorney of the district, to be submitted to the <Jourt for approval; but no commissioner or justice of the pea.ce, acting as such, hall demand or receive from any accused party any cost or fee in any crir¢- nal procedure until after the final conviction of the accused, when such fees may be taxed as costs. It shall be the duty of commissioners and justices of the peace to examine .and certify t<> the marshal f•Jr payment bills of witnesses for transportation and attendance. 'fhejudgesoftheTerritorial courts, UnitedStatesdistrictattorneys, and United State marshals and their deputies, when required to use any public convey- ance in the discharge of their respective duties, shall be allowed the actual amount paid for transportation, not exceeding the usual fares on such public con,·eyance, and no more. All accounts rendered for such transportation shall be verified by oath of the person making the same; and he shall state in such oa th that he did not use for any part of such transportation a pass or pay a less fa re than that stated in the account. Accounts for the transportation of prisoners and guards by public convey- ::m ce sl;lall be rendered for such sum as was actually paid for such transports,. tion, not exceeding the usual fare, and vouchers verified by oath shall in all case accompany such accounts. · • EC. 11. That United State marshals shall hereafter be allowed their actual expenses in the following cases, namely : For tra nsporting prisoners in any State or Territory, or from one State or Ter- ritory to another, on any public conveyance, t.he amount actually paid for the transportation of themselves and for each prisoner and necessary guard, but not exceeding the usual fare. Where free transportation is used no charge 

whate,·er shall be made or allowed. If reduced transportation is secured this fact shall be ~tated and the actual amount paid shall be charged in the account and no more. The amount actually and necessa.rily paid for meals of themselves, prisoners, and necessary guards while in tra11s-itu., not exceeding 50 cents per meal. The amount actually paid deputy marshals and guards for their services, not exceedmg $2 per day. For travel in going to serve or returning from serving any process1 warrant, attachment, or other writ, including writs of subprena in civil 01: criminal cases, the actual amount paid for transportation on all public conveyances, and no m ore, the account to be stated as m case of transporting criminals; and for each mile actually traveled to serve any such process as aforesaid where there is no public conveyance, 10 cents per mile going and returning. For all travel required of them by law on any public conveyance they shall be allowed in all States and Territories theactualamountpaid, as herein provided, and no more; and for every mile actually traveled where there is no public con \"eyance, 10 cents per mile each way. All allowances for travel by public conveyance and meals are not to be con- strued a compensation, but as reimbursement for actual and necess..<tryexpendi- tures in the discharge of official duties; and all tran portation prmided for in thi act shall be computed by the nearest practicable route. All Rllowances for mileage and transportation on public conveyances in ex- c~ss of U1e amount actually paid ace hereby declared illegal; and no credit shall be allowP-d to any of the disbursing officers of the nited States for payments or allowances in violation of the provisions of thi act. An affidavit that the account is just and true in all respects, and that the expenses charged therein were actually and necessarily incurred, mu t accompany each bill. In all cases the account must contain the items of expenditure. The Attorney-General shall prescribe forms, rules, and regulations for presenting all accounts of court offi- cials, to all of which forms s h a ll be attached the oaths taken and subscribed. EC. 1::?. That hereafter jurors and witnesses in all of the States and Territories shall receive their actual and necessary expenditures fortran portation when u ·ing any public conveyance, in lieu of mileage, but not exceeding the usun.l fare ; and when there are no public con,·eyances they shall receive the mileage now allowed by la 'v for travel to nnd from court; and witne ses shall receive 1.50 a. day, and juror,; shall re ce ive S2 a day during actual attendance at any court or courts, and for the time necessarily occupied in going to and returning fron1 the same. -

The Secretary having begun the reading of the matter proposed to be 

stricken out, ' 

l\1r. ALLISON. The sections from line 2330, on page 95, to line 

3733, on pflge 111, are alllegislati>e sections relating to one topic, and 

as I presume Senators are familiar with them as relating to a change in 

the system of payment of marshals and clerks of courts, it is hardly 

worth while to spend the time of the Senate in reading them. 

Mr. COKE. Mr. PI·esident--

.Mr. ALLISON. 'Wbile I am up, if the Senator from Texas will allow 

me one moment, I think the debate on these sections will not occupy a 

great deal of time-, and I move that the :five-minute rule be applied to 

debate on all amendments now till the bill shall be concluded. I do 

not know of any seriously controverted questions that will arise. Does 

the Senator rise to speak to this amendment? 

Mr. COKE. For a few minutes. 

l\Ir. ALLISON. If it will not interfere with the Senator, I will 

move now to apply the :five-minute rule. 

Mr. MORGAN. I suggest to the Senator from Iowa.to postponetbe 

motion until the Senator from Texas bas had an opportunity to express himself. . 

l\1r. ALLISON. · I do it only with the consent of the Senator from 

Texas. Will it be agreeable to the Senator from Texas if I now move 

to apply the :five-minute rule? 

Mr. COKE. I have yielded for that purpose. 

Mr. ALLISON. The Senator from Texas, I understand, consents to 

it. I move that the :five-minute rule be applied to the remainder of 

the bill. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempCYre. The Senator from Iowa moves that 

debate on amendment'> to the bill be limited to :five minutes, in pursuance ofa standing order of the Senate applying to that subject. 

Mr. HOAR Can that be done by a majority, or does it require unanimous consent? 

The PRESIDENT pro tmnpCYre. It may be done by a majority vote. 

There was a standing order adopted the other day which provides that 

it shall be in order at any time to move to limit debate on appropria-

·tion bills to :five minutes by each Senator. The question is on agreeing to the motion of the Senator from Iowa. 

The motion wa-s agreed to. 

Mr. CAMERON, of Wisconsm. I wish toinquire if tbeamendment 

from Rection 2 to section12, inclusive, is regarded as one amendment? 

Ur. ALLISON. It is so reported as one amendment. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempCYre. The Senator from Iowa asks thttt 

the reading of these sections, section 2 to section 12, inclusive, be dispensed with on the motion to strike out. Is there objection? The 

Chair hears none. The qu~tion is on agreeing to the recommendation 

of the Committee to strike out these sections. 

Mr. COKE. Mr. President, the sections stricken out by the Senate 

committee contain a change of the laws with reference to the payment 

of the fees of marshals and district attorneys and other Federal judicial 

officers in the different States. I hope the Senate will ·not concur in 

the· ametldment of the committee, which proposes to strike these provisions mit for the reason that the change made by the bill in existing 

laws, as the bill came from the House, is exactly one that is demanded 

by the public sentiment of the State in which I live and which I have 

the honor in part to represent here, and so far as I know in all the 

States of the South. I can not speak for States not in that section. 

I have introduced twice in the Senate and had them referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary bills looking to the payment of salaries 

to district attorneys and marshals instead of fees, and that was the last 

ever heard of them. Bills to the same effect have been introduced repeatedly in the House and referred to the Judicia.ry Committee there, 

and it has been the last ever heard of them. 

The reform provided for by the proposed law as it stan$ in the sections sought to be stricken out is universally demanded. Every other 

effort to procure it which has been made has proved absolutely futile 

and fruitless, and if we can not get it as it is in this bill past experience shows that we will never get it at all. · 

I will read from the report of the Attorney-General. For se>en years, 

the length of time I have been a member of this body, annually the 

Attorney-General of the United States has recommended the change 

made in the sections of this bill which the Senate committee seeks to 

strike out. Every gentleman who has occupied the position of Attor- ney-General of the United States during that period baa recommended 

it. I hold in my hand the latest report from the Attorney-General's 

Office, and will read from it on this subject. He says: 

The practice of compensating the United States marshal by fees is an expen- sive one. Examiners of the Department of Justice who have b een detailed to examine their account-s report that, in order to make the maximum fees of the office S6,000 per annum, unscrupulous marshals in some instances through their deputies have e ncouraged frivolous prosecutions, outraging the rights of citi- zens, and invoh;ng the United States in unnecessary and excessive expenses. 

Now, I ask the attention of the Senate to this sentence: 

It is estimated that it co ts the Government. lO expen es for e,·ery dollar's emoluments of the marshal. Thus it will a ppear that it would be t o the inter- est of the Government to give the marshal a .fixed como en, ation, so as t o re- m oYe all inducemeuts to practice frauds upon the Governme n t on the one hand or w rong• upon the citizens on the other. If the deputy were to be paid fees for e:cecuting process, it would insure the same efficiency as the present. fee sysI 

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tem, and at the same time relieve the Department of the extraordinary expense complained of, as the marshal would have no interest in encouraging such 

practices. 

The same reasons, in favor of salaried: officers, apply with even more force to the United States attorney. By law he is required to examine the accounts of 

marshals, clerks, and commissioners. It is, therefore, clear that the emolu- ments of hi office ought not to be contingent upon the amount of business done 

by officer upon the correctness of whose accounts hemu t pass. The intere ts of the Government would be protected in fixing the compensa- tion of mar hal and attorneys by taking as a ba is an e timate of the business tra.n cted during the past ten years. To protect the Government against pay- ing excessive salaries in dist.ricts where the busine has heretofore been worked up by the in titution of frivolous ca....«es, for the ole purpo e of increa ing fees, I re pectfully recommend that Congres give the Attorney-General the authority, at his di cretion, to adjust salaries of marshals at the close of each fiscal year, increasing or diminishing the nme for the next fiscal year, upon some basis to be fixed by law. In this manner justice could be done both to the United tates and its officers. 

Here is a recommendation by the law officer of the Government, 

not made this year only but for seven years past, that the very thing 

be done which is proposed to be done in the clause sought to be stricken 

out by the Senate committee. 

It is said that these matters should be in an independent bill and it 

should come from the Committee on the Judiciary. Such bills have 

been repeatedly sent to that committee, and have been ignored. I 

know that such bills have been repeatedly proposed in the other House 

and nothing has come of them. 

ShaJl we never have a remedy for the admitted evils of the present 

fee ystem? The Government through its proper officer cries aloud 

for a remedy, and the people clamor for it, yet the Judiciary Committee turns a deaf ear to their appeals; and when the popular branch 

of Congress propose a remedy the Senate is asked on a technicality to 

destroy it-not amend it, but simply strike it out. 

In addition to what the Attorney-General says in this report every 

man in my section of country knows that the unpopularity of the Federal judicial tribunals is to be attributed solely to the reasons given by 

the Attorney-General in his report for making the change proposed, and 

that is that for the purpose of making fees the marshals and the district-attorneys foment and instigate and bring about frivolous and vexatious prosecutioJ;LS for the sole purpose and no other of making money 

for themselves. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The time of the Senator from Texas 

has expired. . Mr. MORGAN. I hope the Senator will be allowed to proceed. 

Mr. COKE. I only desire a minute or two more. 

Mr. ALLISON. I hope the presiding officer will allow the Sena~r 

from Texas a minute or two mora I did not intend to cut him off by 

the motion to limit debate. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa asks unanimous consent that the Senator from Texas be allowed to proceed. Is 

there objectioB? The Chair hears none. 

1\Ir. COKE. While instigating these frivolous and vexatious prosecuti(m against the citizen theyareatthe same time piling up costs against 

the Government, for the Attorney-General in the report just read declares that every dollar of the marshal's emoluments costs the Government $10. They are rendering the courts unpopular throughout the 

country. I have no hesitation in saying that while the salaries :fixed 

for all the officers in the bill ar& ample, there could not be a measure pas..Q('o through this Congress which would to a greater degree popularize 

the Federal judiciary than would this. I do not know of one that 

could be passed that would meet with so much· popular favor as this 

would. Take away from marshals, from district attorneys, from deputy 

marshals, the only motive they have for instituting any other than a 

just prosecution, that is the fees, and you will have no other than just 

ones, and the public sentiment of the whole country will sustain the 

courts whene>er a prosecution is instituted. But, as the Attorney-General says, as long as you offer a premium through the fee system to the 

district attorneys and to the marshals you will have oppressive and vexation litigation, which will be outrageous upon the rights of the citizen 

while i.J;lflicting heavy damage in the way of expense on the Government. 

Why should not the bill as it came from the House be passed with 

these ections in it? Whyshonld they be stricken out? It is said it is 

new legislation on a general appropriation bill, which is forbidden by 

our rules. I can turn to fifty places in the bill and point out new legislation. If gentlemen want to know where they are I have just selected 

a few samples. On page 56, under the head of " Tenth Census," tw&-

thirds of it is new legislation. On page 59, from line 1437 to line 1452, 

is new legislation. On page 72, from line 1766 to line 1770, inclusive, is 

new legislation. On page 79, from line 1926 to line 1931, inclusive, is 

new legislation. The bill, although a general appropriation bill, is full 

of new legislation, some of it put on by the Senate committee and a great 

deal more of it in the bill as it came from the House. If the Senate 

committee make no objection to new legislation as it stands in the bill as already adopted, why stickle over these sections which simply give what the Attorney-General has seven times recommended, what the 

public sentiment of the country demands, and what common justice 

ought to concede? 

I ee nothing in the objection that it is new legislation. If the Senate can take the new legislation which has already been adopted in this 

bill, it surely ought not to object to a little more that is so much demanded. 

I have nothing more to say. 

Mr. ALLISON. The Committee on Appropriations truck out this 

legi lation because it i wholly new legislation, and for the reason that 

it was not within its province or duty to examine into the details of 

twelve ections of a new measure reported not from the regular committees of either Hou e, upturning and oversetting legislation from the 

foundation of the Government to this time. We did not feel that in 

the few waning days and hours of this session we could do j u tice to a 

great question like that, e pecially when such subjects are .committed 

to the Judiciary Committee of this body, because we are not di po ed 

to draw into the meshes of the Appropriations Committee room all the 

legislation of the Senate. Yet here are questions involved which propo e to repeal and change laws passed from the foundation of the Government to this moment of time. 

In the next place, I do not believe there are three Senators, certainly 

not fifteen Senators, on this floor who did not in one form or other uggest amendments to these ections, saying that injustice had beendone 

to this district and that district, that anomalies exist here with reference to compensation and with reference to other questiolts in>olve<l in 

these sections. So the Committee on Appropriations, knowing that 

the bill must be reported within a few days and having this large rna 

of business to look after, concluded that, however wise a general revision of the fees and compensation of marshals and clerks and di -

trict attorneys may be, a system which had existed from the foundation 

of the Government could not be so wrong as to require us to remain 

here during the month of July to correct it. That is the expJanation 

of the a-ction of the Committee on Appropriations. 

Mr. BECK. I only desire to add to what has been said by the chairman of the committee, that while I looked with great care over these 

provisions and believed that there were many of them that ought to be 

adopted, I endeavored to see whether we could not take the legislation 

just as it came from the House. I took pains to consult leading members of the Committee on the· Judiciary. They pointed out difficulty 

after difficulty and amendment after amendment that ought to be added. 

Members of the Senate and members of the House protested against 

some of the items in these sections, until it became painfully apparent 

in the Committee on Appropriatio1lS that if we undertook to correct all 

that they said was wrong the bill could not be reported for two weeks 

to come. Indeed, if we had done nothing else but work on these legislative sections from the day the bill was submitted to us till the present time we should not have been through considering the propositions 

submitted to us by Members and Senators. It was a question whether 

we would let the bill go, or whether we would report it to the Senate, 

and confess in moving to strike out these clauses that we had not time 

to consider them and that the Senate must deal with the subject. 

We were advised and we knew the rule to be that we could not 

amend the legislation of the House; that any amendment sugge ted 

would be legislation, and therefore could be stricken out. We were 

told there were many things here that were wrong, and when we found 

we could not amend them. we could not afford to report them back. 

We were £old to-day from the chair that even in conference we can not 

amend House legislation by putting new legislation upon it to correct 

errors or rectify what was admitted by the House to be defectiYe. 

Mr. COKE. If the Senator will allow me, is it not competent for 

these House provisions to be adopted by the Senate without amendment? 

Mr. BECK. That is just the trouble. On an appropriation bill the 

decision of the Chair is, and the Senate has sustained the Chair in all 

its decisions, that we can not amend legislation that comes to u from 

the House. If we could do that it would present a very different que -

tion. We can adopt but can not amend. That is the deci ion of the 

Chair, and I believe all parliamentarians are agreed upon it. I know .. 

I consulted with the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. HARRIS] the enator from Arkansas [Mr. GARLAND], and others, who I believe are o-ood 

parliamentarians, and I consulted the President of the Senate him elf, 

I was so anxious to consider this question, believing with the enator 

from Texas that there were very many good things in the ection 

and the advice I got from all of them was that we could not amend 

them; and so what could we do? 

We can not consider the proposition; we can not amend it. We were 

told by the Chair to-day that even in conference we can not amend it. 

However important it may be, however. desirable it may be, there wa 

nothing left for the Committee on Appropriations in view of all the 

difficulties except to report to the Senate that they could not consider 

the proposition, and move to strike it out. 

Having done my duty, as I think, as a member of the Committee on 

Appropriations, :finding we could not amend it, I do not know whether 

I may not vote for. the House proposition, right or wrong, hopinu that 

ifthere is anything wrong in it it may be corrected here.c"lfter; but a a. member of the committee I could not do otherwise than to confess that we could not agree to i:t. 

Mr. GARLAND. ~1r. President, I sympathize with what the ' enator from Texas has said and agree with him in the main; but the Committee on the Judiciary, who have had this matter under consideration 
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since an early day of the session, have not been neglectful of it. A 

subcommittee has had the subject iB charge and it has heard many of 

the officers of the United States who are affected by the measure, and 

they are collecting information on the subject in order to frame a bill 

to remodel and reshape a system that has been in vogue ever since the 

foundation of the Government; and the Senator from Texas will find 

that the more he considers it the more diffic"!llt it is to frame a bill on 

the ubject. 

I think I assert a fact when I state that a majority of the Committee on the Judiciary concur in the idea of fixing .,alaries for these officer ; but when it comes to graduating the salaries and comparing them 

and adjusting them properly, it is one of the most serious jobs any 

committee of this body has ever had. 

When a bill of the character embodying general legislation has been 

pa ed in one House under a suspension of the rules, if such be the 

fa-ct, and then goes to another House where it can not be corrected, I 

think it is asking too much of the Senate to adopt it. Ru1e XVI of 

this body prohibits amendments of this kind, because they are general 

legislation. No gentleman can examine this proposition without seeing at once, when he compares it with existing laws, that amendments 

should be made to it. I have heard from two officers affected by this 

mea ure in Arkan&lS, a marshal and a district attorney, each one writing a letter of eight or ten pages, complaining of the distinction in this 

mea ure as against him. 

.My hands are tied. I can not offer amendments and have these letters read here, because to do so would be out of order; and yet in good 

faith to these gentlemen I can not see this measure pass through without attempting to improve it so fur as it affects them. One of these 

gentlemen, the marshal, was once a member of the other House of 

Congres , a gentleman who stood high there and stands high in the 

State of Arkansas; and the tone of his letter is very proper. He does 

not make a ground of complaint, but he submits facts deserving of 

consideration. 

That is the attitude we are in. However just is the complaint of 

the enator from Texas, with much of which I sympathize and agree, 

I can not now offer amendmentB to this measure, neither can any other 

Senator; and it is imposssble I think for the Senate to agree that this 

shall go forward on a sundry ci vii appropriation bill, being general legislation, and that character of legislation which affects very materially 

the interest of the country. 

The Committee on the Judiciary have done all they cou1d and are 

still investigating the subject, and a subcommittee still has the matter 

in charge. I do think under the circumstances that these clauses should 

be tricken out of this bill. 

Mr. PUGH. Mr. President, I fully concur in what has been so forcibly stated by the Senator from Texas with reference to the evils of the 

existing law. The personal knowledge of Senators, the report of the 

Attorney-General, and the testimony taken by what is known as the 

Springer committee in the other House have demonstrated that under 

the existing law the offices of district attorney and marshal are prostituted to personal gain. These evils are universally admitted to exist, 

and they have been known to be in existence for many years. These 

evils ought to be remedied, and it can only be done by legislation. 

Now I undertake to say that a large majority of the Senate concur in 

the tatement of the Senator from Arkansas, that the salary system is 

preferable to the fee system for rewarding these officers. If that be so, 

then I think I can safely say that the essential feature of the provisions 

of this measure as it came from the House we all sanction. I do not 

suppo e that we can make any improvement in the general provisions 

of the measure making a change in the existing law. Now why not 

adopt this change that t he House has sent us to remedy the evils, uni-

\ersally recognized evils, that have been spread all over the country 

throughout every State of the Union? Why not adopt these provisions as they come to us from the House and, in respect to the mere amount 

of salary to be apportioned according to the labor of each of these officer in the different States, remedy hereafter any inaccuracy that there 

may be? 

There is a pressing wrong and evil under the existing law. Great 

good will resu1t from a change of the existing law in regard to thereward of these officers by fees, by fixing for them salaries. That is the 

essential proposition and purpose of the House measure sent to us in 

this bill. ~ow; let us take the House bill as it is. It is only four months or a 

little longer before we meet ~aain , and after having gone home and 

thoughtaboutthi matter and 4e.:'l.ring the complaint that maybe made 

in reference to the operation of the measure, we shall come here next 

session prepared to make proper changes in reference to these non-essentials. Knowing as I do personally the oppressive character of the 

practices of these officers under the existing law and the great public 

demand and public necessity for this change, I do hope that, although 

it may be irregular and hasty according to the opinion of some Senators, we shall ta.ke this bill in its substance and remedy these immaterial matters at the next session. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. Mr. President, I think it right for me, as the 

chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, to ask the indul~ence of 

the Senate to say a word upon this subject. 

The m.a.tter has been under consideration, as my friend from Arkansas 

has said, in the Committee on the Judiciary carefully, almost in season 

and out of eason, for the whole session. We studied the reports of the 

Attorney-General, although the subject was not new to us in his reportB; 

we got information from all parts of the country; and while it is true, 

as the Senator from Arkansas and the Senator from Texa say, that 

in some districts of the United States there have been abuses for the 

sake of making fees and unjust. profits, I think it is safe to say that in 

three-quarters of the States of the Union any such charge or imputation 

would be unjust. 

But more than that, even this House provision, or any that could be 

named, only provides for a salary for the marshal. He, in his di trict, 

be it great or small, does and must do nine-tenths of his business by 

deputies who are still to be paid by fees, and tho e deputies receive 

process not directly from him, but from the courts, the clerk , and the 

coiU.Illi&~ioners; and therefore the abuse of heaping up unjust pro ecutions in order to get fees will only be scratched by putting the marshal 

on a salary and leaving the deputies on fees. There is no help for it. 

The more the committee investigated it the more difficult it appeared 

to us it wou1d be to make a change which would cut out all temptation 

to make fees in the way that is proposed; and if you put them all on a 

salary you must have an enormously graduated civil list with appropriations for it, and find it almost impossible to graduate the salaries 

according to the necessities of the case, and then hold out to the officer 

the contrariwise temptation of pocketing his money and not exercising 

any duty a a conservator of the peace and as an executor of the law . 

Those are the considerations. The committee could not come to a conclusion about it, because we found the . ubject one of such great difficulty to deal with in the broad aspect of the que tion as afl'ecting all 

the United States and all its interests. 

Mr. PUGH. The Senator will allow me to say that the Judiciary 

Committee can continue their investigation and make the needed improvements hereafter. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. It is a very extraordinary way to me from the far 

up north part of the country where I live to legislate first and consider 

afterward. We have been taught in our region of country, and I think 

it is so in most of the rest of the U niteo States, to consider first and legislate afterward, and not to plunge into an unknown sea of difficulties 

and dangers until we know where our footsteps are to lead. So it has 

appeared to us that it was far better to consider the subject until we 

could mature a plan, if it were possible to mature one, which would 

correct whatever evil exists without creating a greater one; and o it appears to me, with great respect to everybody else, that it would be enormous, if I may say so, to put on an appropriation bill a provision which 

a my friend from Arkansas says C.:'\n not be amended and modified. I 

have probably fifty letters before the committee now from various parts 

of the Union asking changes in this provision. It seems to be safer to 

let the Committee on the Judiciary continue to consider until the next 

session what system can be devised. 

Mr. PUGH. I would suggest to the chairman of the committee that 

any bill or report hereafter will meet with just as many objections in 

its details as the one now proposed. 

Mr. HOAR. Mr. President, I do not believe that the Senate on full 

consideration would adopt on the merits the proposition that has been 

made or the principles which lie at the bottom of that propo ition. 

Whatever difficulties or evils or abuses may exist in having officers 

stimulated by fees to make criminal prosecutions, it has been found in 

nearly all the States of this country, and I do not know but in all of 

them, and in England, that the only practicable way is to allow fees, 

at least in part; and in no case is the officer paid simply by a salary. 

There are cases where the fees beyond a certain sum are paid over. 

They are now in the case of United States marshal and district attorneys. 

But having a system of fee , by which the particular ervice is paid by 

an appropriate fee for that particular service in tead of hiring the offi- cer by the year, has been found in the experience of England and of 

this country to be on the whole the best scheme, and I su pect very 

few of the gentlemen who have complained of the present arrangement 

as to United States marshals represent States where such is not the 

practice. · Mr. MORGAN. Mr. President, in private litigation between individuals the fee system i entirely proper, because that ena,ble the court 

to apportion the coSts for the senice in each particular case according 

to the actual service rendered; but where the State is the pro ecntor, 

where the Stat.e employs counsel to represent it either in civil or criminal actions, but particularly in criminal procedure, the salary sy tern 

is very preferable. The distinction lies in the difference in the character of the employment and the nature of the service to be rendered. 

The salary system will be found to be, I think, the only one under 

which we can control the officers of the Government of the United 

States so as to prevent them from abusing the powers of their offices in 

order to make money for private gain. 

The Senator from Vermont, who of course is a great parliamentarian 

and is our honored presiding officer, and for whom we have the highest 

possible respect in every regard, takes the ground, as I understand 

him, that if we shou1d vote this part of the bill which the committee 

recommend shall be stricken out into the text of the bill, after that we can not amend the text. I must take issue with the Senator under our rules upon that proposition. If we refuse to strike out the subject-

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matter which the House has sent us as section 2 to section 11, inclui ve, then that becomes a part of the text of this bill, and in oommi tree 

or in Senate is open ro amendment as any other part of the text of the 

bill and under the same rules which control any other part of the text 

of the bill. It is very true that if the committee had suggested amendments as a substitute for this part of the text of the bill which involved 

new legi lation, t];lose amendments would be open ro a. point of order 

and could not be received or considered. But now we are considering 

this notwithstanding our rules. This is received, although it is general 

legislation. We are considering it, becau ewe are compelled to do it 

in order to legislate. Therefore the House, it appears, can send us 

original matter which is general legislation upon an appropriat,ion bill 

and force us ro the consideration of it. The question now is before the 

Senate, shall we consider or shall we not consider this, shalPwe strike 

it out or hall we consider it? If we decline to strike it out and agree 

to consider it, then it is a part of the text of this measw·e and is open 

to amendment. 

It may take too much time toget this bill into a sha-pe to suiteverybody during these latter hours of the session, but the subject is one of 

such great importance that I concur entirely with my colleague that it 

were better that we shouln have so~e crudities or imperfections in the 

measure than not ro have any measure at all. What the country re- . quires at our hands, and I believe the country almost universally, is 

~ change the system from fees to salaries in respect of several of these 

officers, particularly the attorneys and the marshals. Why, sir, the 

country, I know, must be pained and shocked at the reports made here 

by the Attorney-General in respect to the frauds that have been committed upon justice and upon the United States Government under this 

sy tem of fees. The officers of the Government have been going about 

making investigations, and they h:1Ve made reports which are very painful in their nature, showing the abuses of the fee system by the different marshals, and sometimes by the district attorneys of the United 

States, and, as was remarked by the Senator from Texas, AttorneyGeneral after Attorney-General has been asking and beseeching Congress that we should make this change. 

Now, inasmuch as we have not introduced this subject inoo the bill, can there be any harm in our allowing it to remain in the text of the 

bill and amending it according to the suggestions made by the Senator 

from Arkansas and the Senator from Vermont, or whoever else may 

desire to amend it? 

Sir, we are under no necessity for the adjournment of this body which 

is half as important to ourselves and the country as we are under ro give to this country a good system of law and to prevent abuses. I do 

not wish to protract the session, but it does seem that we shall never get to this question. I dQ not wish to make n.ny complaint of the Committee on the Judiciary, for I admire the conservatiem with which 

they proceed in the consideration of measures like this. At the same time we have p;ot ro take some steps forward very soon or else--

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. HAWLEY in the chair). The 

time of the Senator from Alabama has expired. 

1\Ir. WILSON. Mr. President, I do not care to participate in the discussion of this subject at this time, but I have received within the last 

day or two a letter from a United States marshal that is somewhat 

peculiar, and inasmuch as officers of that cla have been not a little 

denounced in connection with this subject, I ask that this letter may be 

read as part of my remarks, giving the opinion of at least one United 

States marshal concerning the proposition now pending before this body. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The paper will be read if there be no objection. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

OFFICE OF UNITED STATES MARSHAL, 

Keokuk., Iowa, June 26, 1884. 

l\IY DEAR SENATOR: I see that Congress has passed a bill to pay a fixed salary to the United States marshals and district attorney . This bill as passed the House cuts down the marshal's salary one-half at least, for under the fee sy tern the marshal wa allowed $6,000, provided he made it in fees, after all ex pen es were out. · Now, Senator, I believe the bill ought to pass the Senate fox· the reason that by salarying the marslials and district attorneys it will do away with a large number of prosecutions that are brought under the old ~ystem. The re is no disguising the fact that marshals, deputy mar bals, nnd district attorneys bring all the case of violations of the revenue laws that they can find to be brought·, as iL is the only way they can make their maximum, · ,oUo. Of course the deputy works up the cases a ml they arc submitted to the law officer of the Govern- ment, which is the district attorney, aud he of course orders or permits the prosecution of them all 1 as lie knows that it depend on the amount of CR.sesand couvictious he can get m the courts by the deputies to make this salary. You can plainly see that the gate is wide open for deputy marshals to bring a large number of frivolous cases and harass good citizens where they unintentionally violate the laws, fot· nearly all these cases of violation of. the revenue laws by the class of men such as doctors and druggists, they do it in ignorance of the law. llut nevertheless they are guilty, and a a general thingpleadguilty,and it makes a bitter feeling against the Government . Now, you may think it strange for a United States marshal that can make at least five thousand dollars out of bis office to advocate the pa-ssage of a bill cut- ting down his salary to three thousand; but knowing, as !do, that the Govern- meut can save thousands of dollars by the salary system and that it will stop a large number of frivolous prosecutions, and believing it i for the best interest of the Government and the people, is the reason why I do so. I run, sir, your obedient servant, 

R. ROOT, Unitro Statu Marshal Southern District Iouia. Hon. JAMES F. WILSON, . Ur~iled .Stat& Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C. 

:Mr. L.APHAU. lli. President, on looking at the provision which 

is proposed to be stricken out I ascertained that in the crudeness with 

which it has been framed the eastern district of New York is entirely 

unprovided for. The southern district is provided for, but the eastern 

district is not named. Both the marshal and district attorney of the 

eastern district have been here in person to inquire what it meant that 

no provision had been made for that important portion of our judicial 

system. They bring me the figures, which show that in the eastern 

district of New York there are a larger number of catr es, civil and 

criminal and in admiralty, than in any other district in the United 

States. The facts in relation to this were all spreadoutandsubmitted 

to the Committee on Appropriationswithanamendmentwhichloffered 

and had referred to the committee correcting this error. I learned from 

the Committee on Appropriations that in their opinion they had n~ 

power to propose amendments to this provision of the bill and theretore no remedy could be furnished which would help out the ea tern 

district of New York by way of amendment. If this be so, certainly 

I must rejoice at its having been stricken out by the committee and I 

must sustain the action of the committee in doing so. 

Mr. UAXEY. Mr. President, I have no doubt that if the measure 

proposed by the House and now pending should become a law defects 

would be found in it. I have equally no doubt that if the Judiciary 

Committee, intelligent as that body is, were ro present a bill on the 

subject we should find defects in that. I remember very well a bill 

in respect to the Pacific railroads concerning a vast sum of money, am~unting at that time to about 97,000,000, was reported by the very 

able and distinguished jurist and statesman Mr. Thurman from the 

Judiciary Committee, and that bill has had to be amended. I remember 

another bill reported by the distinguished chairman of the J ndiciary 

Committee to correct the evils in Utah, and that bill has been found 

by experience to be so defective that we have spent days and week 

during the present session in an effort to amend that bill So it would 

be with any great matter like this revolutionizing a system. What- ever bill we may adopt we shall find, as time rolls on, that we can amend its defects; but in this case the point is to start on the right 

road, and the right road beyond all question is the road by salaries 

and not by fees. 

A was stated by my colleague, in my own Stare the unpopularity of 

the Federal judiciary system there has resulted alone from the petty 

prosecutions brought about for the purpose and with the design and 

intent of making fees. In the northern district alone in one case blank 

warrants were signed by a United States commissioner and sent hundreds of miles up into the Panhandle of Texas; men were arrested 

and brought to Dallas, and the very able and firm and upright judge 

who presides there upon the discovery of that wrong dismissed the 

deputies who had executed those writs. I speak of that only a one instance. There are many others I could speak of. 

Not only has the Attorney-General recommended this, not only has 

the ·Attorney-General stated that every dollar of fees that the marshals 

get co ts '10 in the way of emolument, but the President of the United 

States has recommended that the foo system should be changed and 

the salary system adopted. In sending to Congress the report of the Attorney-General the President says in his message: 

They (di trict attorneys and marshals) should be paid wholly by salarie in- stead of in part by fees, as is now the case. The change would prove to be a measure of economy, and would discourage the institution of needless and op- pressive legal proceedings, which, it is to be feared, have, in some instances, been conducted for the mere ake of personal gain. 

When I make a statement as to the arbitrary, dictatorial, illegal, · fraudulent persecution of the people, I am indorsed by what was said in 

perhaps better language by the Attorney-General and the President of 

the nited States. 

Let us start in this system. We have been in session for more than even months, and during tho e whole seven months no bill on this ubject has been formulated or p1·esented by the Judi<:iary Committee. 

The time has come, in my judgment, when we should do something; 

and if we adopt this system, then whatever amendments may be needed 

to it can be made hereafter. I admit that amendments are necessary; 

I have examined it enough myself to see that amendments will be nec- essary. Whatever amendments may be n~ry time will develop, 

and we can go on and amend it hereafter. But let us start in the right 

direction, and the right direction is to abolish the opportunity for this 

oppression of which the people now complain. Let us start on a line 

in which there can be no oppression. 

Now, in respect to feeswhich the chairman of the Judiciary Committee says must be paid in the way of taxed costs in the case of deputy 

marshals, that is a matter which can be hereafter looked into. Perhaps 

a marshal can not look inro all these matters; he has deputies all over the district whose accounts are brought up. The records of the courts 

in Alabama and in Texas and elsewhere show the wonderful amount of 

fraud which is practiced on the United States Government by the present system, and it costs not less than ten times as much as a good and 

righteous system ought to cost. For that reason I am in favor of adopting the plan proposed by the House. " 

If the Senate could amend it I should propose amendments, for the , examination of the measure shows that they are necessary; but we are 
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told by the President of the enate, who is perfectly competent and· 

infinitely better qualified than I am about the rules, for I know nothing 

about them, that we can not amend this provision. If we can not 

amend it now we can amend it at the next session of Congress. Let 

that be done, and let it be now adopted. ~Ir. BAYARD. Mr. President, the great difficulty about this measure is the manner in which it is pre ented to the Senate. It comes to us upon an appropriation bill. It proposes in the closing hour~ of the 

session to change entirely whole ections of the law relating to the duties, the powers, and compensation of the clerks, commi ioners, and 

marshals of the United States courts. 

Ur. President, not once but many times during my service here I 

have sought to impress upon others the danger, the inconYenience, of 

attempting in this way to deal with general laws by ingrafting them 

upon appropriation bills. It must be perfectly obvious to Senators that 

if the system is to continue there will be no use whatever in the creation of the various committees of the Senate, and that that committee 

which was intended to deal only arithmetically with the estimates for 

the expenses of executing existing law will become one grand committee, ab orbing every function and every authority in the exercise of legjsl::l.tive powers. 

_Tow, ir, it so happen that I am a member of one of the committee.s of this body, the Judiciary, that have been considering this subject, but have not yet been able to mature a proper-substitute for exi ting laws. I do not propose here to recite the difficulties ol' dealing 

mth this question of affixing stated salaries for various officials in different parts of the country when their labors and their duties are so 

unequal. lean only say that the attempt has been made, and it has not 

r ·ultecl in a bill placed before either House of Congress. 

The measure itself as it comes to the Senate is not the result of the 

action and of the consultation of what may be called the appropriate 

committee of the House of Representatives. It is ingrafted in the last 

hours of the session upon a bill fntended merely to find money to execute existing laws. To whom is it committed? To the appropriate 

committee of the Senate? Not so at all. The Committee on the Judiciary never saw this provision until it was brought back here by the 

Committee on Appropriations. It is a very multifarious provision, and 

it propo es large and sweeping changes. I belieYe many of those chan goo 

would be reforms. Both the Senator from Texas and the Senator from 

. Alabama have not in the least overstated the gross oppression, the extortion, and the outrage executed under existing l'lw by the commisioners and marshals in many of the States. 

I do not quite agree with my friend from Alabama that the only 

remedy is legislation. It seems to me that a judge under whose snpervision these accounts are to be allowed has it in his power and it is 

manifestly his duty to put his hand upon these gross abuses, and I belie,·e in many of the States of this Union and those which lie farther 

north the judgeswouldnotpermitfor one momenttheabuseswhichare 

reported and testified to by the Department of Justice and by every 

one here in this Chamber and elsewhere who has know ledge of the fact.~. 

There should be and there could be a j ud.icial disallowance of these exce...<:ai Ye fees. There should be and there could be a removal from office 

of commissioners who have ahused their powe1-s under existing laws 

and a removal from office of marshals and of their deputies. 

I could myseU' contribute some facts to show the great abu es under 

existing law that marshals of the United States haYe perpetrated in 

other States than those that lie far south of us. The publication of 

yesterday by a committee now itting of the other House shows that 

the pruning hand of reform is badly needed in this Department. But, 

.:\1r. PTesident, how can we wisely move in this reform upon an appropriation bill? Our rules forbid amendments, and can it be that we 

hould adopt that which is palpably .£.'\ulty trusting for some future 

Congress to reconsider our action? 

.Mr. L.'\GALLS. .Mr. President, while the evils of the fee ystem 

have undoubtedly beeu extremely exaggerated, it can not be denied that 

it ofters temptation to i.rregulaTity and extravagance not easily resisted. 

When an officer is salaried at a minimum and is permitted to haYe a 

maximum to be realized out of fees, thel'e is unquestionably in the or- llinary mind an inducement which may result in frivolous and harassing :prosecutions and in the attempt to secure emoluments that perhaps under other circumstances would not exist. But on the other 

h:md the fee ystem has been approved by the experience of a great 

nmny generations as being the mo t eftecti...-e method of eeuring honest 

zeal in the prosecution of offenders. If we are to assume that the administration of justice is to be confided to men who are qualified to exer-

-ci e tho e functions, I think it can not be denied that human nature 

mu t change before we can make a radical transfer upon this subject 

mth regard to the method of paying our officials. 

There undoubtedly have been in orne of the Southern States excesses 

that require to be remedied; but obviously the suggestion of the Senator from Delaware is the correct one. These difficulties can not be ·ured by legislation. The method would be to remove an officer who was detected in improper and excessive charges. The difficulty that 

is complained of will not be cured by imply transferring this account 

from one side of the ledger to the other, by saying tliat instead of fees 

here hall be ~fixed and stated salary. That does not change the nature of men. That will not affect the administration of justice if thefouatain-head i impure and corrupt. 

· Therefore it appears to me that the argument upon which this change 

is demanded i 1hllacious. It i based upon something that is spor-adicand temporary and transient, and is in violation of the convictions and 

of the experience that have resulted from generations in which the othersystem has prevailed. 

One point further, Mr. President, on this general subject. I doubt 

very much if there are five Senators who know what this vast measure 

contains. The bill itself, if I am correctly informed, passed the House 

of Representatives mthout 9-ebate under a suspension of the rules. 

The ubjects in it received no consideration there whatever. I do not 

believe that one Senator who has poken is competent to say what this 

part of the bill contains, or that it will be etfeetive if we adopt it. 

But we are called upon under an application of our rules that forbids 

amendment and compels us either to accept this provision as it came 

from the House with all its defects npon its head absolutely as pre- • 

sented or else to reject it, to pa s upon a subject that has been before one 

of the committees of this body for months with patient consideration, 

and a ubject in which the difficulties were found to be so enormous. 

under the proofs presented from different portions of the country that 

they have been unable to fm·mulate a bill in regard to it. 

It appears to me that a mere statement of the situation in which thi 

ca e pre ents itself, no matter how great may be the difficulties that 

are to be corrected, is ufficient to justify us in agreeing mth the 

amendment of the Committee on Appropriations to strike out theseprovisions. 

I should like, if my time has not expired, to say one single word 

further upon the rule of the Senate to which reference has been made 

to-day. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time of the Senator ha expired. 

Mr. ALLISON. Let us have the vote. ' 

T ne PRESIDING OFFICE.R. The question is on the amendment 

of the Committee on Appropriations striking out from line 2330 to line 

2733 inclusive. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of theCommittee on Appropriations wa , after line 2755, to insert: 

SENATE • 

To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to l\frs. 1\Iary Ros , widow of" James Ross, deceased, late nn employe of the Senate, the sum of 551, due him for services rendered in the folding-room of the Senate. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 2761, to insert: 

To reimburse Benjamin Durfee for money advanced by him and to compen- sate him for labor bestowed in the compilation of the tariff statistics of the United States (Senate Report No. 12, Forty-eighth Congress, first session), in pursuance of Senate resolution of March 3, 1883, $2,500. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, after line 2768, to insert: 

To enable the Joint Committee on Public Printing to complete the prepara- tion, proof-reading, and indexing of the classified, analytical, and descriptive 

Catalogue of Government Publications, and of publications of public interest purchased by the United States for use or distribution, $4,500, or so mucb thereof as may be necessary for the final completion of the work, which may be ex- pended a additional pay or compensation to any officer or employe of the United States. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, under the head of ''House of Representatives," in line 2792, after the word "the," to insert "Secretary of the 

Senate and the; " in line 2794, before the word " House," to insert 

'• Senate and; " and in line 2796, after " 1884," to insert ~' including 

the Official Reporters of the two Houses and the Capitol police; " so as to make the clause read: 

To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House to pay to the officer nd employes of the Senate and House of Representatives borne on the annual and session rolls on the 30th day of June, 1884, including the Official 

Reporter of the two Hou es and the Capitol police, one month's extra. pay, at the compensation then paid them by law, which sum shall be immediately available. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

REPORT OF DIRECTOR 01<~ THE MINT. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the following 

concurrent resolution of the House of Representatives: 

Resolved by the Ho•u;eof Reprcsentalives(the.&m.ate concurring), That 9,000 copies of the report of the Director of the lint on the production of the precious met- als in the United States for the year 1883 be printed; -1,000 copies for the use of the House of Representatives, 2,000 copies for the use of the Senate, and 3,000 

copies for the use of the Director of the 1\Iint. 

Ur. HA. WLEY. That is here by reason of a. misunderstanding. 

The report of the Direetor of the Mint has already been ordered to be 

printed by both Houses. I suggest that the resolution be laid on the 

table. 

The PRESIDENT pro temp(}re. It will be laid on the table. 

Mr. HAWLEY. I suppose that course will be perfectly respectful. 

RAILROAD IN INDIAN TERRITORY. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair iays before the Senate the 

action of the House of Representatives on the conference report upon 
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the bill (H. R. 4680) to grant a. right of way through the Indian 'l'erri tory to the Southern Kansas Rail way Company, and fQr other purposes. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

lN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, July 2,1884. 

Resolved, That the House concur in the report of the committee of conference on the dia&greeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 4680) to grant a right of way through the Indian Territory to the Southern Kansas Railway Company, and for other purposes. 

Mr. INGALLS. I present the report of the conferees on the part of 

the Senate. 

The report was read, as follows: 

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses upon t he amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 4680) to grant a right of way through the Indian Territory to the Southern Kansas Railway Company, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference have agreed to rec- ommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows : That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the Senate numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, and 13, and agree to the same. That the Senate recede from its amendments numbered 5, 8, and 9, and con- sent that the same may be stricken out. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate nuiiLbered 12, and agree to the same with th~ following amendment, ~amely: 

Amend the said Senate amendntent by adding after the word " In tenor" the words "in accordance with said intercourse lawR;" and the Senate agree to the same. JOHN J. INGALLS, 

H.L.DAWES, 

RICHARD COKE, 

Managers on the part of the Senate. 

OLIN WELLBORN, RICE A. PIERCE, B. D. PERKINS, 

JJranagers on the part of the House. 

:Mr. HARRISON. I should like to know what the amendments are 

of the Senate from which it is recommended that we recede. There 

seem to be two or three amendments from which we are advised to 

recede. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendments of the Senate from 

which the conferees recommend that the Senate recede will be read. 

The CHIEF CLERK. Amendments numbered 5, 8, and 9are receded 

from. 

Amendment No. 5 was on page 5, line 18, to strike out ''four '' and 

insert "twelve;" so as to read: 

Provided further, That if the general council of either of the nations or tribes through whose lands said railway may be located shall, within twelve months after the filing of maps of definite location, as set forth in section 6 of this act, di sent from the allowances provided for in this section, and shall certify the same to the Secretary of the Interior, then all compensation to be paid to such dissenting nation or tribe under the provisions of this act shall be deteriiLined as provided in section 3 for the det-ermination of the compensation to be paid to the individual occupant of lands. &c. 

lli. HARRISON. I withdraw the request for the reading of the 

other amendments. j The PRESIDENT pro tempo-re. The question is on the report oft e 

committee of conference. 

The report was concurred iri. 

SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. 

The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. 7380) making appropriations for sundry civil 

expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, 

and for other purposes. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, in line 2SOO, after the words '' of 

the," to insert "Senate and;" in line 2801, after the word ' House," 

to insert "including the Capitol police; in line 2803, after the word 

'• who," to insert "h::We ceased, or who shall;" o as to read: 

That all officers and employes of the enate and House, including the Capitol 

police, who were employed on the 3d day of December, 1883,and who prior to, &c. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment was, in line 2 04, before "day,' to trike out 

''fifteenth'' and insert ''.first;' ' and in the same line, after the words 

" day of," to strike out " February' Z and insert "M~y; ' so as to 

read: 

The 1st day of 1\Iay, 1884. 

Mr. ALLISON. I desire to leave the word "fifteenth" and strike 

out the amendment to insert "first;" so as to read: 

The 15th day of February. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa moves to 

amend the amendment of the committee in line 2804. 

1t!r. ALLISON. I want the line to read "after the 15th day of May," 

striking out'' first" and" February." 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objet-tion to the amendment proposed by the Senator from Iowa to make line 2804 read ''after 

the 15th day of May, 1884"? 

The C..ttair hears no objection, and it is agreed to. 

l\1r. ALLISON. Now I move to insert after the word" 1883," in 

line 2803, the words: 

Or subsequ~ntly by resolution of either HotJBe. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

Mr. PLUMB. I should lik~ to inquire of the Senator from Iowa if 

that includes the temporary employes in the folding-room. 

Mr. ALLISON. It does not. 

Mr. PLUMB. All the other employes? 

~ir. ALLISON. I have another amendment to propose. 

Mr. PLUMB. I am oppo ed to this whole proposition. I do not care to make any dissent here; but if it is applied at all I want it to be 

applied to everybody who was employed by the Senate or by the House 

at the time named, and especiallythosepersonswhowere in temporary 

employment. We !'ay our annual employes a great deal more than is 

paid anywhere elF·e in the wide world for similar service; and if we are 

to do something to raise the wages of the people we have about us by 

giving to the temporary employes something more, I shall not specially 

object. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The reading will proceed. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, in line 2085, to strike out the word 

'' cease'' and insert '' ceased . '' 

The amendment was agreed to. 

~1r. PLATT. I wish to call the attention of the chairman of the 

committee to line 2808, and ask him whether in view of the amendment which has been adopted in line 2803 there should not be an amendment in line 2808. In line 2803 an amendment was adopted 

saying "who have been subsequently employed," and then line 2808 

speaks of the 3d day of December, 1883, as the time when they were receiving pay. 

Mr. ALLISON. I think we shall have to insert "or subsequently" 

there. I will say in reference to this clause that the Committee on 

Appropriations heretofore and two or three times have reported against 

these extraallowances and have always been overruled in both Houses; 

and this time the committee desired once for all to make these allowances apply to everybody in the employment of either House in this 

Capitol. 

1t1r. INGALLS. Why not apply it to enators and Representatives? 

Mr. ALLL"ON. If the Senat.or makes that motion we shall con- sider it. I moved to insert the words "or subsequently by resolution 

of either House," in line 2803, and I think the words "or subsequently as above provided" should be inserted in line 2809. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o tempo-re. The Senator from Iowa moves to insert after "1883 " in line 2809, the words "or sub~equently as above 

provided.' 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The reading of the bill' was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations wa , aft-er the word " available," in line 

2812, to insert: 

Pro'lrided, That but one month's allowance shall be paid in any case, and the same shall not be paid to any person who shall receive one month's extra pay linder the preceding paragraph. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

11-Ir. ALLISON. Now, I ask unanimous consent to go back to line 

2797, after the word "police," to insert: 

And the temporary employes in the folding-rooms of the Senate and House of Representatives. 

Mr. PLUMB. Now, I should like to ask the Senator from Iowa a question about what occurs in lines 2796 and 2797: 

Including the official reporters of the two Houses. 

Will the Senator from Iowa explain to me what that means and to 

whom it means to apply? 

Mr. ALLISON. I will do so with great pleasure. Under this provision of the bill as it came to us from the House of Representatives 

the official reporters of the House would be paid this extra month's 

pay, because they are borne upon the annual rolls of the House of Representatives, but the reporters of the Senate would not be, because they 

are not borne upon the annual roll; and we up posed that whatever 

applied to the reporters of the House should be applied to our reporters, 

and the committee inserted those words. 

Mr. PLUMB. Now, I understand that the reporting of the two 

Houses is done upon an entirely different basis. The Senate Illil.kes a con- trad with one person to do its reporting at 25,000a year, whichgives 

to that person a very large annual compensation, perhaps three times 

as large, taking it altogether, as any Senator receives on tllli .floor. 

The House, on the contrary, pays to five different persons 5,000 

each. It is a totally different proposition. I am opposed to thewhole 

thing myself in regard to any of these persons, because, in the first place 

it is giving to them, already sufficiently paid, what we practically 

have no right to give. We can only give a gratuity on the assumption 

that there is some follildation for it which is in the nature of an emer- gency or an exceptional condition of things prevailing at the moment. 

I am opposed tO that, and I am opposed to it for this reason: I have 

observed for some years a competition existing between the two Houses 

of Congress as to which shall pay the more to their employes. If the 

House raises a messenger the Senate goes to work pell-mell to raise a 

messenger also and have it understood it can spend as much money as 

the House can; and there has been no branch of the public service of 

which this has been more true than the reporting of Congress. When- ever the House gives a sum of money to Mr. McElhone or somebody 
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else as extra compensation the Senate rushes in at once and gives some- thing to its Reporter for the reason that it wants to get its elbows into 

the Treasury just as deep as we allow the House to get theirs in. 

So far as I am concerned I do not want to enter into any compensation of that kind. It is wrong. We are paying now a large sum for 

this service. I have not the slightest doubt in the world we could ha\e 

this service rendered as well' as it is rendered now-I speak with no 

disrespectoftbestylein which it is done now-fora less sum of money; 

and if those who are doing this service in either House of Congress 

will submit themselves to competition, and be willing to go before 

Congress and say, ''We will throw up our contract and submit this to 

stenographers who are competent to do this business," I have no 

doubt it can be done for a great deal less than is now paid. 

I do not want to disturb the extraordinary condition of things, but 

I am opposed to this constant crowding for a month's extra wages. 

What is a month's wage to a man who is getting $25,000a year, as our Reporter is to-day? Is it one-twelfth of $25,000 a year? It is one- twelfth of $25,000 a year in gross to the reporters of the House un- doubtedly, but is it one-twelfth of$25,000 to one man to whom we are now paying $25,000? Then it is about$2,500 to be paid him as a gmtuity for w bat? Upon some theory that he is not getting enough? 

.As I said, I am opposed to it. We are doing these things. They are pleasant, of course, to do every year, but we are doing that which we can not justify omselves in doing. The employes of the Senate and of 

the House, and especially of the Senate, are paid more than any salaried people in the ~vorld, I believe. There are more of them than there 

ought to be, and yet we constantly increase them; and they are paid 

larger salaries than they ought to have, more than we in decency and 

fairness to those we represent ought to consent they should receive. 

Now, we attempt to piece the thing out at the end of the session by a liberality that is begotten of that demoralization which comes at the 

close of a long and weary session. I do not think we can justify our- selves in doing it. 

Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the amendment in lines 2796 and 2797 was inserted. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Pending the motj.on of the Senator 

from Iowa to amend as has been reported, the Senator from Kansas moves to reconsider the vote by w hicb the amendment in lines 2796 and 

2797 was adopted. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I do not agree with the Senator from Kansas that 

there are too many employes of the Senate. I do not think we have a 

service here even equal to the public wants. I think those who are here 

do their duty faithfully and well, and I believe that they are insufficiently paid. I shall not only not vote to reduce any man's pay connected with the Senate, but I will vote for the most liberal construction for paying men here who are doing their duty. I will vote with 

the committee on this question with great pleasure. Usually it gives me pleasure to concur with the Senator from Kansas, but in this instance I will not, and I shall vote with the Senator from Iowa. 

Mr. INGALLS. It would beinterestingtoknowhowthisvenerable 

abuse grew up. We are doing with the public money what no man 

would do with his own. I think it is a very safe rule in dealing with 

funds that belong to other people to do with them as we would if they 

belonged to us individually, and I do not hesitate to say that no empluyer would give a servant, no matter bow faithful he might be, thirteen months' salary for twelve months' compensation. 

Several SE:N A TORS. Service, you mean. 

Mr. INGALLS. I do not mean service, because I should say that one balfthe time they are employed but three months out of the year 

and the other half of the time not over six or seven; and yet we present 

here year after year the astounding and inexplicable anomaly, when 

the service one year is three months and the next year six or seven, of - paying men who have annual compensation thirteen months' wages. 

If they are not paid enough by the mont:P. or by the year, they ought 

to have more; but there is no sense, there is no reason, and there is no justification for this method that we adopt of increa-sing the salaries of our servants and agents here when we refuse to increase our own. If 

this is "sauce for the goose" it ought to be "sauce for the gander." 

If our servants and agents and clerks and messengers and pages are en- titled to thirteen months' pay for twelve months' engagement, then we are entitled to it. We d-o as much work as they do, and if they do not 

receive what they are entitled to, we ought to increase their annual 

compensation. 

Mr. VOORHEES. Let me ask the Senator a question at that point. 

Does the Senator from Kansas believe that we do pay the employes of 

the Senate enough, a sufficient amount for their labor? 

1\Ir. INGALLS. I believe that we pay more than the private em- ployers of this country in any of the business affairs of life pay those 

who serve them. That is my honest conviction about it. 

:Mr. VOORHEES. Is that an answer, when you consider the character of the service rendered? 

1\Ir. INGALLS. The Senator from Indiana will not misunderstand me. I am not Rpeaking in disparagement of our service. I think our service is of a very high grade. I think that our officers, our clerks, 

our messengers, all those who render service to us are entitled to conXV--370 

sideration. I do not in any way whatever speak in derogation of them 

or their service, but I do denounce this false and vicious and pernicious 

system that is growing here year by year of paying for service that is 

not rendered and that can not be rendered until the number of months 

in the year is increased. We gi,e, tbr instance, to an employe here 

who receives $1,200 per annum $1,300 by the fiction of saying that he 

shall have an extra month's pay. An extra month's pay for what? 

He does not render an extra month's ervice. If we do not give him 

money enough for twelve months' service, then we ought to increase 

his salary. 

But that is not the worst of it. It does not apply to men who have 

an annual compensation alone, but under the amendments which have 

been adopted here a man who works for thirty days, a man who works 

for a fraction of a month, receives an additional month's compensation, 

exactly tbe same as he who has borne the heat and burden of the day 

and works for twel\e months in the year, if that amount of labor is 

required of him. 

It is unjust, 1\fr. President; it is inequitable; it is dealing with the 

funds of the people as no man who votes for it would do with his own 

money. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The time of the Senator bas expired. The question is on agreeing to the motion of the Senator from 

Kansas [Mr. PLmiB] to reconsider the vote by which the amendment 

in line 2796 and 2797 was agreed to. 

Mr. ALLISON. I only desire to say one word in response to the 

Senator from Kansas. The Senator must remember that this is not a thing that originated 'vith the Committee on Appropriations, nor ()id 

it originate in this Chamber. It is an affair that comes to us from the 

House of Representatives on this bill, as it has come to us many times 

from the House of Representatives, and we are obliged to deal with it. 

So far as our Official Reporter is concerned, it is true that instead of 

paying five official reporters we have one, but he has four assistants, 

and whatever sum is paid to our chief Official Reporter of course is 

divided among his regular assistants as the sum is divided in the House 

of Representatives among five chief reporters. 

Mr. INGALLS. But I understand the Official Reporter pays his 

own assistants, and they are not paid by the Government or by the 

Senate. 

Mr. ALLISON. Certainly. 

Mr. INGALLS. He hires his own assistants and pays what he sees fit. 

Mr. ALLISON. And they will be paid out of this fund, of course, 

in proportion. 

Mr. INGALLS. Does this give his assistants an extra month's pay? 

Mr. ALLISON. His four regular assistants will be included in what we allow to him for an extra month's pay. · 

Mr. PLUMB. Not necessarily. 

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

motion to reconsider. [Having put the question.] The noes appear to 

to have it. 

Mr. PLUMB. I believe I shall call for a yea-and-nay vote on that 

question. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The yeas and nays are demanded; 

Is there a second? [Putting the question.] Not a sufficient number 

of Senators second the call, and the yeas and nays are not ordered. The 

motion to reconsider is not agreed to. 

Mr. PLUMB. I give notice that I shall reserve that particular 

amendment for a separate vote in the Senate. 

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

amendment proposed by the Senator fromiowato ·tbesameparagrapb. 

ltlr. PLU:~1B. I wish to say that it so happens that the Sergeant-atArms of the Senate bas employed men for a week and discharged them; 

that be bas employed men for two weeks and discharged them; that he 

bas employed men for a month and discharged them, and bas accommodated himself to the varying circumstances and situations, the con- tingent fund included, until we shall be giving by this vote an extra 

month's p:ty to men who served a single week. Of course when we come to give it away, and when it is money that does not belong tQ 

us but to somebody else, it is a very easy thing to do, but it only illustrates the uttervicionsness of this entire system, and the Senate ought 

to understand what it is doing. 

1\Ir~ ALLISON. I withdraw the amendment I offered. I offered it 

chiefly on account of the Senator from Kansas, to meet his idea that 

these employes were not included on the regular roll. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa withdraws 

his amendment. 

Mr. PL ill1B. It was brought here by a member of the House,· and 

I presented it to the Senator from Iowa. It only illustrates the vicious- ness of the system. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was, after line 2837, to insert: 

For the assistant to the per on preparing the general index to the J(. urnals of Congress, authorized under the resolution of 1\Iay 22,1882,$2,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amendment wa 1 under the head of ''Public printing and 
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binding," in line 2853 after the word " million, ' to insert ' :five hundred;" so as to make the clause read: 

For the public printing, for the public binding, and for pap~r for the public 

printing, includ.ing the cost of printing t~e debates .and proc~edings of Congr.ess in the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD, and for lithographmg, mapmg, and engravmg for both Houses of Congres , the Supreme Court of the United States, the su- preme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Con- gress and t.he Departments, including salaries or compensation of all neces- ary clerks and employe , for lnbor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for all necessary mat~rials which may be needed in ~he pr~sec;ution o~ th~ work 

$2 000 500 • and from the said sum hereby appropnatedprmtmg and bmdmg may b~ do~e by the Public Printer t<> the amounts following, respectively, namely: 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair calls the attention of the 

tmator from Iowa to line 2846, a typographical t.:ror, probably, in 

misspelling the word " mapping." It will be spelled correctly if there 

be no objection. 

Ur. ALLISON. I move to insert a "p" there, so as to read "mapping" instead of "rna ping." 

The motion was agreed to. 

Mr. PLATT. Although we have passed over it, it seems to me there 

is a mistake in line 2821. I do not suppose it is intended to pay a 

clerk for services as "clerk to the subcommittee on accounts" $180 

for ten days' service. 

Mr. ALLISON. That is a typographical error. It should be January 1, 1884. 

The PRESIDENT pro ternpore. Is there objection to correcting the 

paragraph by striking out after the word "January," in line 2821, the 

word "twenty-first" and inserting ":first"? The Chair hears none, 

and it is agreed to. 

The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Commi ttoo on A ppropri..'l.tions was, in line 2858, after the word ''million,'' 

to strike out "one hundred and twenty-one thousand six" and insert 

"two hundred and eighty-one thousand three;" in line 2862, before the 

word "hundred " to strike out "two " and insert "three;" in line 

2863, before the ~ord ''thousand,'' to s~ike out thirty-six'' and imert 

"sevency-fi.ve;" in line 2866, after "Navy Department," to strike out 

"forty" and insert ''seventy;" in line 2868, before the word "thou~ 

sand '' to strike out '' four '' and insert ''eighty;'' in line 2871, after 

"ne'partment of Justice," to strike out "eight" and insert "ten;" in 

line 2872 after ''Post-Office Department,'' to strike out ''one hundred 

and tw~ty" and insert "two hundred;" in line 2873, after "Agricultural Department," to strike out "sixteen" and insert" twentyfive·'' in line 2876 after ''District of Columbia.,'' to strike out '' eight'' 

and' insert "one fuousand and :five;" in line 2878, after "Court of 

Claims " to strike out "six thousand four hundred " and insert "ten 

thou~d;" so as to make the clause re8d: 

For printing and binding for Congress, in. eluding the proceedings 1\nd de- bates 51 281300· for the State Department, $12,000; for the Treasury Depart- ment: saOO,oOO; 'for the War Department, $175,000 (of which sum $12,000 shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General's Office); for t.he Navy 

Department, $70,000; for the Interior Department, $380,000 (of which sum $10,- 000 is appropriated for rebinding tract-books for the General Land Office) ; for the Department of Justice, $10,000; for the Post-Office Department, $200,000 ;_for the Agricultural Department, $25,000; for the Supreme Court of the Uruted 

States, l!2<),000; for the supreme court of t~e District of Columbia, $1,500; for the Court of Claims, $10,000; and for the L1brary of Congress, $15,200. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated sh<tll be ex- pended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year, nnd no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two la t quarters of the fiscal year, except that in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances or' allotments for preceding quarters may be expended. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The next amend..nlent was, in line 2892, befure the word "necessary," 

to strike out "absolutely;" and in line 2896, after the word "law," 

to trike out ''or that is contained in any other report made by an officer ofthe Government;" so as to make the clause read: 

That it shall not be lawful for the head of any Executive Department or of any bureau branch, or office of the Government to cause to be printed, nor shall the Public Printer print, any document or ma,ter of any ch~rS;Cter whatever. exce~t that which is authorized by law and necessary t<> admmJster the public busi- ness nor shn.ll any bureau officer embrace in his annual report to be printed any ~atter not directly pertaining to the duties of his office aa prescribed by 

law. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

Mr. PLUMB. I ask the Senator from Iowa if he would object to 

amending this cln.use by inserting in line 2894, after the word '' annual,'' 

the words "or other." There are plenty of cases where the reports 

other than the annual report embrace matters that are requiTed to be 

printed and are printed by other bureaus. I move to insert the words 

"or other" after the word "annual," in line 2894. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas moves, in 

line 2894 after the word ' ' annual," to insert " or other. ' Is there 

objection? The Chair hears none, and the amendment is agreed to. 

The Teading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 

Committee on Appropriations was to strike out lines 2898 to 2903, inclusive, as follows: 

That hereafter the Public Printer is required to print not more than one vol- ume each year of the .decisions and opinions of the First Comptroller of the Treasury Department, with such explanatory matter as he may furnish, and to furnish to him not more than 100 copies of eaclt. volume. 

.Mr. HOAR. I see the whole bill is to be stricken out down to page 

129. I aak if that can not be all treated as one amendment, instead of 

having the question put twenty times? 

l\Ir. ALLISON. It is one amendment, as it relates to one subject, 

to wit, the redistribution of all the public documents. 

lllr. HOAR. Can not the reading be omitted? 

:Mr. ALLISON. I hope by unanimous consent that may be done. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa asks that 

the reading of sections 2 to 13, at the top of page 129, be omitted on 

the recommendation of the committee to strike them all out. 

Mr. PLUl\IB. I should like to make an inquiry before that question is put, in regard to what occurs in lines 2898 to 2903, inclusive. 

That evidently was inserted on the idea that it would work some re- striction on the printing done for the First ComptrolleT. I ask the Senator from Iowa if he knows how many volumes of decisions of the 

First Comptroller are printed now annually as the law stands? 

Mr. ALLISON. I do not know the number of volumes nowprinted 

annually. I think the number varies from time to time, depending 

upon the industry and energy of the Comptroller. 

Mr. PLUMB. I think that is a · proper provision. 

Ur. ALLISON. I do not object to the provision to which the Sena.-

tor calls attention; nor do I think the committee would object to it, 

omitting the last clause, whicB. is: 

And to furnish to him not more than one hundred copies of ea.ch volume. 

M:r. PLUMB. This is either a public document or it is not. If it 

is a public document, of course the Comptroller is supplied with it 

liberally, I think, being given one hundred copies more than is given 

to any other officer. I am informed from a very good source that the 

Comptroller now gets for his personal use 2,ooo· copies, and if that is 

so, there is certainly an abuse that ought to be corrected. 

Mr. ALLISON. There is here a letter among the papers which 

shows exactly how the Comptroller distributes the 2,000 copies. In 

form he does receive 2 000 copies, but they are distributed under the 

ordinary methods of distributing public documents. If the Senator 

thinks there is an abuse, it is a matter which I care nothing about, but 

on examination of the letter of the Comptroller, which I can not lay 

my hands on at this moment, I am satisfied so far n.s the latter clause 

is concerned that it ought to be stricken out. I am perfectly willing 

thn.t the :first part of the provision should stand. One volume is enough 

in a year. 

Mr . .INGALLS. Is the printing of one volume now authorized by 

law? 

Mr. ALLISON. I believe it is directly authorized by law. 

Mr. INGALLS. Iftheprintingofthe decisions is authorized bylaw 

he can very readily circumvent the intent of this section by enlarging 

the volume, and the result of this may be that you will have a volume 

larger than the Revised Statutes of 1878. 

Mr. PLUMB. That would be obviated by striking out the words in 

line 2901, ''with such explanatory matter as he may furnish.'' The 

observation I have given to these volumes is that there is a grain of 

wheat to a stack of chaff. I would suggest to the Senator from Iowa 

that so much of the amendment as goes down to the word "Department, '' in line 2901, should remain, and the words ''with such explanatory matter as be may furnish, and to furnish to him not more than 

one hundred copies of each volume," should be stricken out. 

Mr. INGALLS. Unless more definitely advised, I should very much 

doubt whether these decisions were printed by any authority of law. 

I question that very much indeed, and I should regret to see any custom grow up here by ·which the decisions of all our Comptrollers, and 

all our Auditors, and all our heads of bureaus, and all our chiefs of divisions are to be printed as public documents and distributed. Therefore, unless the printing of these decisions has the sanction of statute, 

I hope the Senator from Io--va will insist upon his amendment striking 

out this provision. 

:Mr. HALE. It is recommended as a restriction, not as an extension. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The question is on the recommen- dation of the committee to strike out lines 2898 to 2903, inclusive. 

The amendment was agreed: to. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa asks unanimous consent that the reading of what follows line 2903, on page 118, 

to and including the word ''repealed,'' at the end of section 13, on page 

129, be omitted, the committee recommending that it all be stricken 

out. Is there objection? 

M:r. PLUMB. Does that include the :first paragraph? 

Mr. HALE. That has just been voted on. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It includes what follows line 2903 

to and includingsection13, onpage129. Is there objection that the reading be dispensed with? The Chair hears none. The question is on agreeing to the amendment of the committee to strike out all the 

matter referred to. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The matter stricken out is as follows: 

SEc. 2. That whenever the printing of a document is ordered by Congress, or by either House thereof, the reguln.r and authorized number of copies of the same shell be 1,440, except as hereinafter proYided, nor shall a larger number be 

printed except upon the special order of Congress . SEc. 3. That of the regular ana authorized number of docum.ents nine hun· 
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dred and sixty-nine shall be bound in sheep, as soon as praeticable after the close of each session of Congress, and when bound shall be distributed by the Public Printer as follows: To the Secretary of the S-enate, seventy-eight copies, ofwhichheshall deli~er 

to the Vice-President one copy, to each Senator one copy, and to the office of the Secretary of the S-enate one copy; To the library of the S-enate, twelve copies; To the Clerk of the House of Representatives, three hundred and thirty-four 

copies, of which he shall deliver to each Representative and Delegate one copy and to the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives one copy; To the House library, sixteen copies; And the Public Printer shall deliver to the Secretary of the Senate or to the Clerk of the House an additional copy for each S-enator, Representative, or Del- egate added to the present membership of Congress; To the Library of Congress forty-five copies, of which two shall be for the Li- brary, and shRll not be taken therefrom, and forty-three copies shall be for ex- change with foreign governments, under the direction of the .Joint Committee on the Library. as provided in the joint resolution of March 2, 1867; To the President of the United States, one copy; To each of the Executive Departments, one copy; To the Department of the Interior, for depositories of public documents, four hundred and seventy-five copies; and one additional copy for each Senator, 

Representative, or Delegate added to the present membership of Congress; The remainder of the regular and authorized number shall be delivered as follows: 

To the document-room of the Senate, of Senate documents and reports, one hundred copies, and of House documents and reports, eighty-five copies ; To the document-room of the House, of Senate documents and reports, three hundred and thirty-five copies, and of House documents and reports three hun- dred and fifty copies; To the Department of State, for transmission to the legations in the capitals of foreign governments1 and to the legations and consulates of the United States abroad, twenty-five copies; To the President of the United States, one copy; To each of the Executive Departments, one copy; To the Library of Congress, one copy; To the Smithsonian Institution, one copy; To the Public Printing Office, one copy; And, in addition, there shall be printed four hundred copies of reports of com- mittees, which shall be delivered as follows: To the Senat-e document-room, of Senate documents and reports, one hundred copies, and of House documents and reports seventy-five copies each; And to the document-room of the House of Representatives, of S-enate docu- ments and reports, three hundred copies, and of House documents and reports three hundred and twenty-five copies each. 

SEc. 4. That of the papers and testimony in contested-election cases there shall be printed only as many copies as will suffice to supply the members of the House in which the contest may lie with one copy each, and one additional copy for each member of the Committee on ElectioRB, and two copies each for contestant and contestee; and1 in addition thereto, fifteen copies, which shall be bound in sheep and deliverea as follows: To the Library of Congre@S, three copies; to the library of the Senate, six copies; and to the library of the House of Representatives, six copies. 

SEc. 5. That reports of committees of a private nature, relating to pensions, 

patents, claims, reliefs, anddesertions1shall be termed private reports ; and there shall be printed of each and deliverea as follows : To the S-enate document-room, for the use of the Senate, one hundred copies; To the House document-room, for the use of the I:touse of Representatives, three hundred and fifty copies; To the President of the United States, one copy; And, in addition, there shall be printed twenty-six copies of each, which, at the close of ea<lh session of Congress, shall be bound in sheep, and shall be de- livered as follows: To the President of the United States, one copy; To the Library of Congress, three copies: To the Library of the Senate, six copies; To the Library of the House of Representatives, six copies; To each of the Executive Departments, one copy; To the Public Printing Office, one copy; To the Smithsonian Institution, one copy. 

SEC. 6. That of the public journals of the S-enate and of the House of Repre- sentatives the regular number shall be printed and distributed. 

SEc. 7. That there shall be printed of the following documents, namely, the documents accompanying the annual reports of the Executive Departments, pa- pers relating to foreign aflairs accompanying the annual message of the Presi- dent, the Report on Commercial Relations, and the Report on Commerce and Navigation, 2,000 copies, in addition to the usual number; 600 of which shall be for the use of the S-enate and 1,400 for the use of the House of Representatives. SEC. 8. That of the abridgment of messages and documents there shall be printed and bound 5,000 copies, 2,000 for the use of the S-enate and 3,000 for the use of the Hou e of Representatives. SEC. 9. That the Public Printer shall print and deliver of the daily edition of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD : To the President of the United States, three copies; To the Vice-President, two copies; To or upon the order of each Senator, forty copies; To or upon the order of each Representative and Delegate, twenty-four copies; said copies to be of the daily or bound edition, as each S-enator, Representative, or Delegate receiving the same may elect; To the S-ecretary of the S-enate, for the use of his office, five copies; To the Sergeantrat-Arms of the S-enate, for the use of his office, one copy, and one copy for delivery to each committee-room of the S-enate; To th~ Official Reporter of the Senate, seven copies; To Lhe Clerk of the House, for the use of his office, five copies; To the Postmaster of the House, one copy ; To the Sergeant-at-Arms, one copy; To the Doorkeeper, for his own use, one copy, and one copy for delivery to each committee-room of the House· To the Official Reporters of the House, seven copies; To the Library of Congress, two copies; To the Chief..J ustice and to each of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the "!Jnited States, the clerk and marshal of the court, one copy each; To the National Home for Disabled Soldiers at Dayton, in Ohio, and to the branches at Au~usta, in 1\laine, Milwaukee, in 1Visconsin, Hampton, in Virginia, the Soldiers' Home at Knightstown Springs, near Knightstown, in Indiana, the Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Bath, Steuben Cpunty, New York, one copy each. He shall also print and bind so many copies of the CoNGRES IONAL RECORD as will enable him to deliver- To the Pre ident of the United States. one set; To the Vice-President of the United States, one set; To the library of ~he -:;;enate, for t!le use of the S-enate and the officers thereof, 

thirty ets : • 

To the library of the House, for the use of the House and the officers thereof, 

fifty ets; 

To the Library of Congress, forty-five ~ets, of which forty-three sets shall be for foreign exchange ; To the Official Reporter of the Senate, five sets ; To the Official Reporters of the House, five sets; To the Chief-.Justice and to each of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the clerk and marshal of the court, one set each. SEC. 10. That the Public Printer shall, as soon as practicable after the close of each session of Congress, deliver of the laws of such session, published in pamphlet form, as follows: To the folding-rooms of the Senate, twenty-five copies for each Senator, and five copies for the Official Reporter of debates; To the folding-rooms of the House of Representatives, eighteen copies for each Representative and Delegate, and five copies for the Official Reporters of de- bates; 

To the President. of the United States, two copies; To the Vice-President of the United States, two copies; To the Libmrian of the Senate, for the use of the Senate, fifty copies; To the Librarian ofthe House, for the use of the House, fifty copies; To the Library of Congress, fourteen copies; To the Department of State, including those for the use of legations and con- sulates, three hundred and eigbty-five copies; To the Treasury Department, including those for the use of the officers of cus- toms, three hundred copies; To the War Department, two hundred copies; To the Navy Department, one hundred copies; To the Department of the Interior, including those for the use of the surveyors- general and registers and receivers of public lands, two hundred and fifty copies; To the PostrOffice Department, fifty copies; To the Department of .Justice, including those for the use of the chief and as- sociate justices, and judges, and the officers of the United States and Territorial court, four hundred and twenty-five copies;! To the Department of Agriculture, two copies; To the Smithsonian Institution, one copy; To the Public Printing Office, one copy; To each State and 'rerritoriallibrary, one copy; And ten thousand copies shall be distributed to the States and Territories in proportion to tb.e number of Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Con- gress to which they are at the time entitled. SEC. 11. That as soon as practicable after the close of each Congress, the Public Printer shall deliver to the Secretary of State two thousand two hundred and twenty-one copies of the Statutes at Large of the United States for such Congress, bound in sheep, which shall be distributed by the Secretary of State, as follows: To the President of the United State~ two copies; To the Vice-President of the United ~tates, one copy ; To each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, one copy; To the librarian of the Senate, for the use of the S-enate, seventy-five copies, To the librarian of the House, for the useoftheHouse, two hundred copies; To the Library of Congress, ten co:pies; To the Department of State, includmg those for the use oflegations and con- sulates, three hundred and eighty copies;· To the Treasury Department, including those for the nse of the officers of customs, three hundred copies; • To the War Department, fifty copies; To the Nn.vy Department, sixty copies, one of which shall be sent to each of the following libraries: The library of each navy-yard in the United States, the library of the Brooklyn naval lyceum, and the library of the naval institute at Charlestown, Mass; . . To the Department of the Interior, including those for the use of surveyors- general and registers and receivers of public land offices, two hundred and fifty 

copies; . To the Post-Office Department, fifty copies; . To the Department of .Justice, including those for the use of the chief and as- sociate justices, the judges, and the officers of the United States and Territorial courts four hundred and twenty-five copies; To the Department of Agriculture, two copies; To the Smithsonian Inst.itution, one copy; To the Public Printing Office, one copy. SEc. 12. That the Public Printer shall deliver, of all bills and joint resolutions printed by order of Congress, or of either House thereof: To the President of the United States, two copies; To the Secretary of the Senate, for the use of his office, five copies; To the document-room of the Senate, for the use of the Senate, two hundred and thirty copies of all Senate bills and resolutions, and one hundred copies of those of the House ; • To the Clerk of the House, for the use of his office, five copies; To the document-room of the House of Representatives, for the use of the House, six hundred and eighty copies of all House bills and resolutions,··and three h.undred and fifty copies of those of the S-enate; And at the close of each session the Public Printer shall deliver to the Con- gressional Library and to the libraries of the Senate and House of Representatives, each, two complete sets; And to the document-rooms of the Senate and House of Representatives, each, one complete set of all bills a.nd resolutions of such sessions, bound in sheep, for permanent preservation: Prov-ided, however, That hereafter no bills or resolutions of a private nature, 

relating to pensions, reliefs, disabilities, patents, claims, and desertions, shall be printed except upon a favorable report of a committee of Congress: · And provided further, That when a bill passes one House as reported, the same shall not be reprinted in the other Honse except by its order. SEC. 13. That all acts, joint resolutions, and concurrent resolutions in confl.ict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 

The next amendment of the Committee on .Appropriations was to insert, as section 2, the following: 

SEC. 2. That the .Joint Committee on Public Printing is hereby instructed to examine into the numbers printed of the various documents, reports, bills, and other papers published by order of Congress, or of either House thereof, and of the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD, and to report a bill, in December next, making such reductions in the numbers and cost of printing, and such changes aud re- ductions in the distribution of said publications, as they may deem expedient, with a. report ~iving their reasons therefor; and that the said committee is also instructed to mvestigate the printing and binding for the Executive Depart- ments executed at the Government Printing Office and at the branch printing offices' and binderies in the various Departments, and report a bill, in Decem- ber next making such reductions in expense and imposing such checks as they 

may de~m expedien~. with a. report giving their ~easo~s t~?-erefor; and sa~d committee is further wstructed to make any other mvest1gat10ns calculated 1n their opinion to reduce the cost of the public printing, and report the result thereof· and the said committee is hereby authorized to summon and to ex- alniue e'xp-erts and witnesses, and to call upon the heads of Executive Depart- ments and the Public Printer for such information regarding the preceding matters as they may desire; and any expenses necessarily incurre~ in making the investit;mtions aforesaid shall be defrayed equally from the contmgentfunds 

of the two Houses of Congress. 
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Mr. INGALLS. Is not that section liable to a point of order on the 

ground of being general legislation on an appropriation bill? 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senat()r make the point of 

order? 

Mr. INGALLS. I make the point of order. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The Chair sustains the point. of ord~r. 

He thinks the section i not in order under the rule. The enate will 

now return to the consideration of the amendment passed over informally on page 40. The portion of the bill on pages 40 and 41, from 

line 979 to line 1005, was passed over informally. 

1\ir. SHERMAN (at 5 o'clock and 45 minutes p. m. ). · I move that 

the Senate now take a recess until 8 o'clock. I will say that there are a great multitude of amendments to be offered to this bill, and; unl€ s 

we intend to weary ourselves out, we had better take a recess. Mr. VOORHEES. Why not adjourn? 

Mr. SHERMAN. I move that the Senate take a recess. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Ohio move that 

the enate take a recess until 8 o'clock this evening. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I move that the Senate do now adjourn. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Itismoved thattheSenateadjourn. 

l\1r. ALLISON. I ask unanimous consent to appeal to the Senator 

from Indiana to withdraw the motion. It is absolutely essential that 

this bill be finished to-night if we are to adjourn this week. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I withdraw the motion on the request of the 

Senator from Iowa. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion to adjourn being withdrawn the question recurs on the motion of the Senator from Ohio 

[Ur. SHERMAN] that the Senate take a recess until 8 o'clock this 

evening. 

The motion was not agreed to. 

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. 

A message from the House of Representatives, by 1\Ir. CLARK, its 

Clerk announced that the President of the United States having re- turned to the House of Representatives in which it originated the bill 

(H. R. 1015) entitled "An act for the relief of Fi~z-J ohn Porter,:' with 

his objections thereto, the House. of Representatives proceeded m pur- suauce of the Constitution to reconsider the same, and had 

Resolved, That the said bill pa s, two-thirds of the House of Representatives 

agreeing to pass the same. . • 

ENROLLED BILL- SIGNED. 

The message also announced that the ~peaker of the fionse h~ 

signed the enrolled bill (S. 2243) to authonze foot and carnage or railroad bridges across the 1tfississippi River at Saint Paul, in the State of 

Minnesota; and it wa thereupon signed by the President pro tempore. 

ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY. 

Mr. HAWLEY submitted the following resolution; which was ordered to lie on the table and be printed: 

Resolved That a select committee of five Senators be appointed by the Chair to inquir~ as to the capacity. of steel-prod.ucin~ works _in the Un~ted States to make steel of suitable quality and suffiCient m quan.tity to furniSh met!ll for guns of high power and metal plates and other matenal for the construction of ve els of war and for the armor or sheathing for such ve els. 2 That said committee shall also inquire as to the character and sufficiency of ~achinery and machlne-tool i.n the navy-yards, and also. in privat~ foun~­

E'ries and machine- hop in the Umted States, for the constructiOn ofengmes smtr- able for vessels of war and for manufacturing guns for the proper armament of such vessels, and of the seacoast defenses, and for the purpo e of constructing 

iron and steel ship of war. . . . . . . 3. Sa.id committee shall also mqmre mto the best locat10ns m the -qm~ed 

States for manufacturing guns, engines, and armor for vessels, !"'nd for bu~ld!-Dg 

iron and steel ships of war, and the best method of manufacturmg and build rug the same, whether by the Government or _1:>~ contractw~th private persons. 4. Said committee shall have power to s1t m the vacatiOn of the Senate a~ any place in the United States, to send' for persons and papers, and to appomt a clerlt and messenger, and may report by bill or otherwise. 5. The expenses of said committeeand ofwitnesse s~oned before i~ shall be paid ont of the continge::nt fund of the Senate, to be ce~tified by th~ chatrman of the committee, and aud1tedand allowed by the Comnnttee to Audit and Con- trol the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. 

SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. 

The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration 

of the bill (H. R. 73 0) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses 

of the Government for the fi cal year ending June 30, 1885, and for 

other pmpo es. 1 The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The first question is on agreeing to 

V

the amendmeEt recommended by the Committee on Appropriations, in 

line 9 6, to strike out "ten" and insert "twenty;" so as to read: 

For the tate Department, $20,000. 

Mr. ALLISON. I move, on behalf of the committee, now to strike 

out line 979to 1005, inclusive, and insertwhatihavesenttothedesk. 

The PRE IDENT pro tempore. The amendment proposed to be ineerted will be again reported. 

The Chief Clerk read the word proposed to be inserted, as follows: To enable the several Executive Departments of the Government, including the Department of Agriculture and the Smith on ian In titution, to participate in the 'Vorld's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition to be held at New Orleans, La., under act of Congre s of February 10,1883, to be expended under the direction of the Pre ident, $250,000. 

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

amendment propo ed by the Senator from Iowa. 

Mr. BECK. I propose to amend the amendment of the Senator from 

Iowa by inserting after '

1 in,'' in line 3, the words: 

The Cincinnati Industrial Expo ition to be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, during the month of September and October, 1884, the Southern Exposition to be held at Louisville, Ky., from August 16 to October 25,1884, and in. 

11.ll:. ALLISON. Does the Senator from Kentucky increase the sum? 

Mr. BECK. Not at all. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will state that strictly the 

amendment of the Senator from Kentucky is not now in order, it being an amendment· to what is an amendment to an amendment; but if 

there be no objection, it will be received for con ideration. It will be 

read as proposed to be amended. 

The CHIEF CLERK. As proposed to be amended the amendment 

would read: 

'l'o enable the everal Executive Departments of the Government, including the Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution, to participate in the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition to be held at Cincinnati, Ohlo, during the months of September and October, 1884, the Southern Expo ition, to be held at Louisville, Ky., from August 16 to October 25,1884, and in the World's Indus- trial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be held at New Orleans, La., under act of Congress of February 10, 1883, to be expended under the direction of the Pre ident, ~.ooo. 

Mr. JO~AS. I have no objection to the amendment offered by the 

Senator from Kentucky, but I trust the Senate will not concur in the 

amendment of the Senator from Iowa to reduce the amount of the ap--

propriation from 500,000, as contained in the Honse bill, to $250,000. 

The amount appropriated, I submit, is not more than sufficient in order 

to enablo the different Departments of the Government to make such 

an exhibition as is desirable atthisgreatexposition to be held in New 

Orleans in December. 

The President sent in a special message to Congress recommending an appropriation of 588,000, if my memory erves me aright, for the 

pupo e, to which the Hou e responded by appropriating 500,000, and 

distributing it among the different Departments of the Government as they adjudged best, after hearing the needs of the various Departments 

and bureaus in relation to the matter. 

The President has issued an executive order constituting a board 

from the different Departments of the Government for the purpose of 

preparing for this exposition. They are now making preparations of 

the most extensive character, and it would be, I believe, impossible 

for them to carry out the intentions of the President or to carry out 

the proposed preparations on the appropriation recommended by the 

committee. I think it would be but very poor and niggardly policy to 

reduce this appropriation now. The exposition which is to be held at New Orleans promises to be 

greatly more extensive and more successful than the one held in the 

centennial year in Philadelphia, for which the Government made a large appropriation, I think 700,000; and Congress made a large appropriation for the purpose of enablipg the various Departments of the 

Government to-make an exhibition there and made an additional appropriation for the purpose of restoring the various articles exhibited after 

the exhibition was over. I sincerely trust that after the great preparation which has been made 

for this exhibition, after Congress has come generously to its aid by 

loaning to its managers a million of money to enable them to carry out 

their programme, and has invited the world to this great exposition in 

New Orleans, we shall not now cut down the appropriation which has 

been asked for by the Pre ident on the advice of the heads of the different Departments and bureaus of the Government, the amount asked 

for being that which is actually necessary in order to enable them to 

make a proper e;xhibition at the New Orleans exposition a compared 

with that which they made at the Philadelphia exposition. 

Mr:GIBSON. Mr. President, if this were an original question, I 

think it might be doubtful whether it would be proper for the Government to appear a tall through its various Departments at the exposition 

at New Orleans, but ina much a.c::; the executive and legislative deparV 

ments of the Government have concurred in the policy, not only of coun- tenancing this exhibition at New Orleans but have actually contributed a million of dollars to its success, and also have determined to make an exhibition of the various Departments of the Government itself, it appears to me that we ought to make that e~hibition in some handsome 

manner, in a manner appropriate to the dignity and the character of 

the Government. · The small amount of 250,000 will hardly be ufficient if we attaeh an exhibition elsewhere in addition to that at New Orleans, because a 

very large po.rtion of that sum will be consumed in transportation and 

in the packing up of the articles which are to be exhibited and unpacking them. 

In view of these facts and that two other places have been added, I 

trust the Senate will agree to the original amount a it came from the 

Honse of Representatives. It ought to be 500,000 certainly. 

Mr. HALE. Will the Senator allow me to ask him a question? I see in the bill a it comes from the Honse of Repre entatives that for 

the World's Industrial and Cotton Exposition to be held in New Orleans the War Department is given$ 0,000 and the Navy Department 

$60,000. Now what possible relation or association can these two militarydepartments of the Government, that have nothing to do with the 
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industries of the country, bear to the industries of the world or to cotton culture? I have been unable to see what the e military departments of the Government, which have nothing whatever under our 

sy tern to do with the world's industries or with cotton culture, can have to exhibit that is of any value in this exposition. I can understancl that the Agricultural Department has something, that the Bureau of Education and the Bureau· of Labor may have something, that 

the State Department may furnish valuable information from abroad, 

but what it is that the War Department and the Navy Department can 

ha>e that shall ju tify the expenditure of 140,000 is a thing past my 

comprehension. 

I think for anything that is legitimate the Government has embarked 

in this enterprise not as a spectacular thing, but as an encouragement 

to industry and a representation of the world in industry, especially in 

regard to the cotton culture. I would not limit that; but merely to 

represent "'hat has existed in the past in the War Department and Navy 

Department as a spectacular show, I do not believe in. 

1\Ir. GIBSON. I quite concur with the Senator. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment 

proposed by the Senator from Kentucky [1\Ir. BECK]. 

.fr. ALLISO~. I hope tha;l amendment will not be adopted. 

Mr. BECK. It adds nothing to the cost. 

The amendment was agreed to; there being on a division-ayes 25, 

noes 23. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question recurs on the amendment as amended. 

1\Ir. JONAS. l\Iy colleague [1\Ir. GIBSON] offeredanamendmentto 

strike out. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That is not yet in order. The question is on the amendment proposed by the Senator from Iowa [1\Ir. ·ALLISON]. The amendment intended to be propo ed by the Senator 

from Louisiana [Mr. GIBSON] would be an amendment in the third 

degree. 

Mr. BLAIR. As I understand it, the amendment offered by the 

Senator from Iowa as amended by the one offered by the Senator from 

Kentucky will distribute, if it become a law, 250,000 between these 

three expositions, which will be, in my opinion, simply a waste of the 

whole of it. The estimate of the Executive Departments, after careful examination of this whole matter, was that in order todothethlng 

decently and in order at all.would require 588,000 to be applied to 

purposes of the Louisiana exposition alone. On reflection the action 

of the Hou e reduced thatamountto $500,000. I think it might very 

well be still further reduced by striking out the proposed show of the 

War and Navy Departments, which have filled the ear of the whole 

country with their clamor, for the reason that whatsoever they had in 

their several Departments was obsolete, and that they are in no condition 

whatever to keep the peace within our own borders. I do not think 

there is any common sen e whatever in exhibiting this old navy of ours 

in the waters of the Mississippi or exhibiting on an occasion of peace 

any implement of warfare whatever. We should simply become the 

laughing-stock of the nations by so doing. That 140,000ought to be 

stricken out of the bill as it went to the committee. 

But when you have passed beyond those ridiculous and objectionable provisions and come to the appropriations for this great and pea{!eful exposition, it does seem to me that we ought to .adhere to the bill 

as it came from the House, or to increase it, or to abandon it in toto. It 

is utterly impossible to carry this out in a way that will not make us 

the laughing-stock of mankind without at least the appropriations that 

are contained in the original bill. 

Now comes the amendment of the SeWitor from Kentucky, which I 

think must come from an enemy of the whole appropriation, to dinde 

this already ridiculously small sum of 250,000into three equal parts, 

it may be, and the whole would thereby be reduced. It seems to me to be an absurdity. To adopt this amendment now as amended on the 

motion· of the Senator from Kentucky would be equivalent, as it seems 

to me, to the practica.l defeat of the whole thing. I hope that the 

amendment of the committee will not be adopted, or, if it is adopted, 

that the whole will be stricken out. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair received by consent of the 

Senate an amendment in the third degree from the Senator from Kentucky [:Mr. BECK], and, if there be no objection, the Chair will receive 

the amendment the Senator from Louisiana [Mr. GIBSON] desires to 

offer, increasingthesum, inasmuch as, iftbeamendmentasitnowstands 

be agreed to, it would not be in order until the bill was reported from 

the Committee of the Whole to move to increase it, and the choice, 

therefore, if the Senate wishes to increase it, would be to reject this 

amendment on that ground and agree to it again with the sumincrea ed. 

So, if there be no objection, the Chair will entertain the amendment 

of the Senator from Louisiana to increase the sum. Is there objection? 

The Chair bears none. The Chair understands the Senator from Louisiana to move to increase the sum from $250,000 to $500,000. 

Mr. GIBSON. Yes, sir; that is my motion. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on that motion. 

Mr. PLUMB. I voted with a great deal of cheerfulness for the loan 

by the Government of a million dollars to aid this New Orleans Exposition. I am fully satisfied with the vote I gave for that appropriation. I want that to be as great an exposition as its promoters want it 

to be. I am tolerably safe in saying that I want it to be as great an. 

exposition as the Senators from Louisiana want it to be. I feel a very 

deep interest in it, and because I do I am opposed to appropriating anything of any particular consequence for the Government to exhibit itself 

down there at New Orleans. I do not want a wilderness ofwaxwork, 

of things that are of no consequence to anybody, that illustrate only 

the red tape of the minutire that pertains around the Government Departments. I want that exposition to represent the live, active, business interests of the people. I want it to represent the men who raise 

the corn, who raise the cotton, whoraisethecattle, whoworktheloom, 

and generally carry on the great business of this country in all its ingenious and other forms. To put into the inclosure of theN ew Orleans 

Cotton Exposition such an exposition as the Government Departments 

would make with an expenditure of $500,000 would be to put a blemish upon what may otherwise, and I hope will be, a presentable, live 

substance; and to send the Government down there with these different Departments authorized to expend the large sum of money provided for in the bill as it came from the House would add to that absurdity, in my judgment . 

If the Government is to go there, the President of the United States 

as the responsible head of the Government ought to have a sum of money 

ingross, and be should apportion it out among the several Departments in order that they may go down there as a whole, and not each 

Department go down there for itself and by itself and with an ambition 

on the part of each to excel all the rest and crowd all the rest out. 

There ought to be a uniform governmental exposition, and that, ifit is 

for any purpose whatever, ought to be simply and alone to illustrate the 

workings of the various Departments. Anything else than that v.-ould 

simply be out of keeping, I think. 

I do not think the people who go there from the South American 

states or the people who go there for instruction or for pleasure from the 

Central or from the Southern States, or from any other place, will be deprived of anything if the Government does not appear there at all. I 

believe that the use of a great· space by the Government would be an 

actual blemish upon the exposition itself, and therefore I would, as an 

original proposition, be opposed to the whole thing; but, at all events, 

if it is done: it ought to be done under some responsible head, in order 

that the exhibition by the Government may be uniform, may be connected, and may be harmonious, in place of being as it will be under 

the scheme and plan as it came from the House-each Department for 

itself and the devil for the hindmost. 

Mr. ALLISO~. ~Ir. President, is the amendment proposed by the 

Senator from Louisiana now before the Senate? 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It is. 

Mr. ALLISON. As I understand it, the proposition is to appropriate 

$500,000 for the purposeoftbeexhibitions at New Orleans, Cincinnati, 

and Louisville. If· that shall stand, it seems to me that there will be 

no end to the amount ofmoneythatweshall be required to appropriate 

for these purposes. 

For one I never would have consented to appropriate one dollar for 

this Louisiana exposition except for the fact that in the most solemn 

manner two years ago we committed this Government to that exposition by passing a law directing the President of the United States to 

invite foreign governments to. be there at an international exposition 

of cotton and the other products of this country. When we passed that 

law the Senator from Louisiana [1\'Ir. JONAS] stated that it was not the 

intent and purpose of the promoters of that bill to ask the Government 

of the United States for one dollar, and a proviso was inserted in the 

bill that not one dollar of expenditure should be made by the Government. · 

At the beginning of this session they came here from Louisiana and 

said that foreign governments had been invited, and that in the nature 

of things, owing to the misfortunes of the people of the South, this 

exhibition could not go on unless the Government of the United States 

would loan ~1, 000,000. When I asked a promoter of the exhibition, 

who appeared before the committee, what had been expected of the Government of the United States itself in reference to the exhibition, he 

said it was expected that the United States would not expend a very 

great sum of money, and he named 50,000. 

Now, after this 1,000,000 has been safely p~t in the pockets of the 

international exposition company at New Orleans, they come back to us 

with a proposition of $588,000 for the Government to expend there in 

addition to the 1,000,000. Of course the committee have in detail 

what it is proposed to do there, and the committee were of the opinionand so far as I know there was no division in the committee in reg:ud 

to that-that these propo ed expositions of the Government of the United 

States there were upon too elaborate a scale, and that they ought to be 

reduced or scaled down at least one-half. But with a small amount of 

money -we can not, of course, in an appropriation bill say what shall be 

the exact proportion of the different Departments of the Government at 

the exposition in order to make it a pradicable and presentable andrespectable exposition, and therefore we said we would give ane-half of 

this gross sum and put it in the hands of the Executive of ohe United 

States, and let him take the responsibility of making a presentable ex- position of this Government at this international exhibition. 
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. Now the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. BECK] puts on this measure 

'a proposition to allow this Goyernment to turn itself into a traveling 

menagerie. It is to stop first at Cincinnati and then at Louisville and 

go on down to New Or leans, when with respect to Cincinnati and Louisville there has never been an intimation heretofore that the Government of the United States was expected to be represented at those exposition<:. They are local expositions; they are expositions that the 

Government of the United States has never in anyway or in the most 

remote manner .committed itself to. If we are to appropriate for exhibitions everywhere in this general way, then, for one, I am opposed to 

the whole proposition. I would not agree to the proposition for the 

New Orleans exposition except upon the ground that the Government 

of the United States has committed itself to it and invited foreign governments there. 

The motion of the Senator from Louisiana [Ur. GIBSON] is to appropriate half a million dollars, and if that amount is to be appropriated, 

I am for, in a modified form, the original bill as presented to us by the 

House of Representatives rather than allowing this Government exposition to stop at Louisville and Cincinnati on its way to New Orlea-ns. 

Mr. BECK. I desire to have read by the Setretary a statement of 

the Louisville exposition before I reply to what the Senator from Iowa 

has said. 

The PRESIDENT p ro temp ore. The paper will be read, if there be 

no objection. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

THE SOUTHER:!'~ EXPOSITION AT LOUISVILLE, K Y . 

LOUISVILLE, KY., May 26,1884. 

Memorial to Congress in regard to exhibits from the Executive Departments. 

To the Congress of the United States : 

The Southern Exposimon does not seek from Congress an appropriation for its establishment and maintenance. The people of Louisville have contributed more than half a !Dillion dollars to that purpose, and they ask no assistance. The Southern Exposition only asks that the Government of the United States will make exhibits illustrative of its several Departments in a manner becoming the dignity and liberality of a great and prosperous nation disposed to encour- age the enlightenment of its members and the education of its people. · The greatest manufacturing e tablishments in the country have exhibited their products at their own cost; many educational institutions have exhibited their systems without asking any assistance; owners of some of the finest paintings and statuary not only freely exhibited their treasures, but made an outlay of their own money for the purpose. In the vast display of the Southern expo- sition of 1883, the only exhibitor who demanded payment of all expenses was the Government of the United States. Nearly a million citizens of our country, who never had opportunity to see the National Museum, the life-saving arrangement, the Signal-Service equipment, the result of our national surveys, and the other machinery of the De- partments, were interested and in tructed by the Government collection at the Southern exposition of 1883. It was a course of instruction, however, the ex- penses of which had to be paid by the exposition company. The Southern Exposition of 1884 is projected on even a larger scale than that of 1883. It will be within a half-day's journey of 11,000,000 of the people of the United States. A it was last year, so it will be this year, the largest exposi- tion-save the centennial of·1876-ever held in America. A vast majority of this surrounding population can not afford more than a day's excursion, and to them the Southern Exposition is the great event of their generation, notwith- standing the greater proportions of the centennial exhibition at Philadelphia. The munificent appropriation made for the benefit of the New Orleans Expo- sition induces the hope that in re-enacting the act of 1883 relative to the South- ern Expo ition, and authorizing the Departments to make an exhibit in the Southern Exposition of 1884 for the benefit of the millions of people in the central part of the country who can not afford long journeys, Congress will make an ;appropriation of at least $25,000 to pay its own expenses, as other exhibitors do. In presenting this memorial the Southern Exposition desires to guard against 

jeopardizing in any way the simple bill now pending authorizing the Depart- ments to make exhibits ns they did last year. The appropriation is asked only as a matt~r of fairness, and it will not be urged beyond the presentation of this memorial. If Congress is not disposed to appropriate money for such a pur- po e , it is respectfully requested that the pending bill be enacted, and the South- ern Exposition, through the liberality and enterprise of the people of Louisville, will pay the expenses of the United States exhibit. Under instructions from the board of directors the foregoing memorial is re- spectfully submitted. J. M. WRIGHT, General Manager. 

Mr. BECK. I have had that read to correct the Senator from Iowa 

JlS to this being a matter that the Unjted States has never encouraged 

;before. The United States made a very creditable exhibit last year at 

:Louisville, and the people paid for it. We are willing to pay for it ~o-ain. We desire to have it there; we do not think we ought to pay 

for it; but on its way to New Orleans, the nearest and cheapest route 

to get there is to go in that direction. That is all there is in my 

amendment, that the Government exhibits shall stop in Cincinnati 

and stop at Louisville; at Cincinnati in October, and Lonisville in November, and get to New Orleans by December, and there make the exhibit proposed. That is all there is in my proposition. 

The Government had a large and creditable exhibit at Louisville last 

year which was paid for by the people there, and they are willing to 

pay for it again if it is demanded; but we see no reason, and there is 

none, why the Government exhibit should not be displayed at Cincinnati and Louisville on its way to New Orleans, as was done before. 

Bills are pending which have been favorably considered, and I have no doubt the Senator from Iowa will vote for them, to allow the exhibit 

to be made. There was not a dissenting voice to allowing it to be 

P.one. 

Again, the Senator from Iowa is mistaken in saying that there wa 

~o division in the committee on cutting down the appropriation from 

f5001000 to $250,000. The l>ill as printed, and as reported by the Senator from Iowa yesterday, was for $500,000, and that was the vote of 

the subcommittee, if I may be allowed to say so. That was reversed 

this morning by a majority of the full committee, the Senator from 

Iowa himself being one of the subcommittee who reported the bill yesterday with 500,000 in it. The change made to-day was not made 

unanimously, nor with anything like nnaniinity. I was in favor of 

$500,000 yesterday when the bill was reported, and voted to report that 

sum. I am in favor of the 500,000 now, and have been all the time, 

and so have others. 

What I intended to sugge twas the same objection the Senator from 

1.1aine (Mr. HALE] made, that in the distribution heretofore made the 

Army, the Navy, and other Departments which have nothing to show 

which will educate the people had received more than I thought they 

ought, and I shall vote to place the aggregate sum in the hands of the 

President of the United States, so that he may get all the information 

possible and so adjust the matter thatwith$500,000 he can do the most 

good, and not show off Jarley's wax works, or General Washington in 

his old Continental clothes, or guns of the time of Henry VITI. 

We are living in the present, and not in the past. I insist now that 

the State Department ought to have a larger sum, and I believe it will 

be quadrupled when the President has control of the whole affair. We 

are requiring our consuls abroad to report every month on the products 

of other countries, the fabrics of other countries, the raw materials that 

can be found there. and we were advised that our consuls were sending to the State Department and they would send for exhibition samples of the raw materials to be found in all the places where they are 

located. They could be put upon our ships and our men would see 

what use they could be put to. All that would be of great importance 

for future use, things that could be multiplied for the benefit of every 

manufacturer in this country and all the producers of this country. 

This is such information as everybody wants, and it is worth a great 

deal more than to know what sort of guns were shot three hundred 

years ago. 

I want the State Department to do as it is doing through its consular 

reports now. Exhibits are being sent to the State Department and 

furnished to us in its reports, on which we are spending larger sums of 

money than is now asked in the way of printing and disseminating 

knowledge, which i!how the raw materials of all portions of the earth 

and of all the ports where our consuls are situated. Let those be brought 

as exhibits before our people, let them know where they-can get them, 

what they cost, and this will furnish information that will be of practical value. I should be willing to vote the 500,000 for that purpose, 

if for nothing else, instead of going back to show old-fashioned guns. 

The Senator from Iowa, in the great multiplicity of things in his 

charge (for he has had his head full not only of this bill but of forty 

others), was a little forgetful about the opposition made in committee 

to reducing the amount of the appropriation. 

Mr. ALLISON. I of course stand corrected in reference to the division of the committee. 

The PRESIDENT po tempore. Is there objection to the Senator from 

Iowa being again heard. 

Mr. ALLISON. Oh, :n.o; I do not ask that. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment 

proposed by the Senator from Louisiana [Mr. GIBSON]. 

11-Ir. GIBSON. I regretted very mnch to hear the severe criticism 

which the Senator from Iowa indulged in against the promoters of this 

exposition in New Orleans. Considering the reputation of that Senator 

for fairness it was surprising, nor was it just to the citizens of New Orleans who had given their time and services without compensation to 

this great public exposition. 

Mr. President, what have they done that they should have given 

offense to the Senat~r from Iowa or to any Senator upon this floor? 

They have COJile forward as citizens of the city of New Orleans to organize a great exposition for the purpose of bringing the citizens of the 

United 'States together, and especially for the purpose of inducing the 

citizens of the neighboring republic of Mexico and the South American 

States to come to this country to see the progress that we have Inade in 

the various industrial pursuits which have engaged our people. This 

purpose has commended itself to all the States of the Union, and it has 

especially commended itself to the Federal Government, because the 

Federal Government has loaned to the exposition board upon certain 

conditions a million dollars aB.d taken guarantees for its repayment. 

Now, what is there improper in the Government of the United States 

making an exhibition in New Orleans? The Senator says that it has 

invited foreign nations to attend at this expo ition, that it has taken 

this exposition under its own charge and keeping in a large measure, 

not at the solicitation of any citizens of New· Orleans particularly, but on the motion of the representatives of the people in the Congress of 

the United States and of the Senators who are assembled here in this 

body. If the Government has committed itself to the undertaking, 

it appears to me that it would be in keeping with the dignity of the 

Government, and the precedents we have pursued in regard to other 

expositions, to make a moderate allowance of 500,000 for the purposes 

of the governmental display. 

Mr. President, I hope that the amendment which I have offered 

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the exposition at Cincinnati and another part of it taken for the expo- Mr . .ALLISON. Now I move in line 2283 to strikeout "$350,000" 

sition at Louisville. I would likethatthewholesnmshould be placed and insert "$375,000;" so as to read: 

in the hands of the Executive to be expended by him in the manner For payments of salaries of United States district attorneys and their assist- that he may deem best. · ants, and for transportation of the district attorneys to attend courts, $375,000. 

Mr. HALE. Mr. President, the trouble will be that ifyon adopt the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment 

amendment of the Senator from Louisiana you are traveling around of the Senator from Iowa. 

in a peck measure and you will come back to just where yon started, The amendment was agreed to. 

and what I understood the Senator from Louisiana to say in agreement :Mr . .ALLISON. Now I move to strike out the subsequent pa.rawith what I said, that he did not wish to have money expended for graph. · 

useless exhibitions and spectacular performances and scenes, will not The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa proposes to 

be answered. If yon put this appropriation at $500,000 you will get strike out what will be read. 

the same thing that the Honse provision has given, and the only way The CHIEF CLERK. It is proposed to strike out lines 2285 to 2287 

that the Senator can get this exhibition of the Government down to inclusive, as follows: 

something legitimate, to something practical, to something that shall For compensation of special assistant attorneys or counsel employed under 

illustrate the industries of the country, that shall bear upon the cot- authority of law, $25,000. 

ton-culture which is the great object of this exposition, is to cut down The amendment was agreed to. 

the amount appropriated. But if after this debate you come back to Mr . .ALLISON. I desire to go back to page 27, line 635, and I there 

the $500,000 to be distributed among the different departments of the move to strike out "twenty" and insert "tlilrty." 

Government, they will force themselves into this exposition and send The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa moves an 

down there and use up the money intended for the exposition, for amendment which will be reported. 

things that in no degree will help the teal spirit and putpose of the ex- The CHIEF CLERK. In line 635, after the word " ooeans, " it is 

position. moved to strike out " twenty" and insert "thirty;" so as to read: 

But if we limit the sum, and give $250,000 or $300,000, then notice For transcontinental geodetic work, including line of leveling between the 

will be ta.ken I believe that Congress does not want to spend any money Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $30,000. 

uselessly, and I declare I do not see how the Government as a govern- The amendment was agreed to. 

ment can spend over $250,000 profitably and advantageously in this Mr. ALLISON. These are amendment$ which were agreed to after 

exposition. Most of the things that are done will be done by corre- the bill was printed. In line 427, in the appropriations for " engravspondence. You take out the bulky nature of the things that must be ing and printing, '' .after the word ' ' dollars, ' ' I move to insert: 

transported by the .Army and the Navy, and $250,000 will go a great To be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. 

way, and it will furnish this exposition, I believe, everything that those The amendment was agreed to. 

who have brought it about couJd desire. So I hope that we shall cut .Mr. ALLISON. .After line 66 I move to insert: 

out the useless that is hanging around this exhibition by keeping the To enable the President to continue negotiations with foreign governments sum down. We shall get a better exposition by that course. respecting the establishment of a common ratio between gold and silver, $10,000. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. GARLAND in the chair). The The amendment was agreed to. . question is on the amendment of the Senator from Louisiana [Mr. GIB- Mr. BECK. If the chairman is through with his amendments I deSON]. sire to offer an amendment of which I gave notice. 

The amendment was rejected. ~Ir. ALLISON. I think I have offered all. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment Mr. BECK. .After line 374, under "Life-Saving Stations," I move of the Senator from Iowa [:M.r . .ALLISON] as amended. to insert: 

The amendment as amended was agreed to. For mules for use at life-saving stations, providing harness, subsistence, and 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question now is on agreeing to stables for the same, $12,972. 

the amendment of the Committee on .Appropriations a3 amended. Mr. ALLISON. I make the point of order on that amendment. It 

The amendment as amended was agreed to. · · ted fi d · t rted b 'tt !Ir. MORRILL. I believe the amendments of the Committee on IS not estima or an 18 00 repo Y any COmml · ee. Mr. BECK. I do not know who has to e$mate for it. In the fifth 

Appropriations have been gone through with. . and sixth districts, running from Cape Henlopen to Hatteras, the beach 

Mr. ALLISON. I have one or two oth~ amendments to ~ropose. is of such a character, as I have every reason to know (and I know a 

. The PRESIDENT pro ~empore. There Is one part of the bill?ot yet good part of it), that they can not manage the life-boat-, by the aid 

diSp?sed of, page 93, which was passed over. .The .senate will now of men alone. The Senator from North Carolina [Mr. VANCE], the 

consider the rese~ved amendmen~ o~ page ~3, bemg lines 2271 to 2287. f.]na from Tennessee [Mr. JACKSON], and myself were there last 

The paragraph will be read, beginnmg at.li11:e 2~1.. . . C tmas and spent a day in inspection along that coast. We saw The CH~F CL~K. On page 93, beginmng m hue 2271, It 18 pro- e operations of the life-saving service and reported to Mr. Kimball 

posed to s~e ou~. ~ he condition of it, and he wrote to the superintendent, Lieutenant 

For salar~es of Umted States marshals,.$21.9,000.. Chaytor who sent him an estimate of what was nPP.P-''~Rll.rv. I hold the For salaries of marshals' clerks and chief deputies, $110,000. . ' . --~J • • 

For expenses of marshals, namely for transportation to attend courts, post- letter lD my hand, and the General Snpermtendent of the Life-SaVlllg 

age on process, and for fees and expenses of deputies, and of sheriffs and con- Service makes this indorsement upon it: . stables acting as deputies, as provided by law, and for pay of special deputy JUNE 30 1884.. 

marshals, under title 26 of the Revised Statutes, $300,000. I approve this and earnestly recommend an appropriation. ' 

A-d ms· ert · 8· I. KIMBALL, A.ll : GeneralBuperm~Lif~mng &rtrice. For the payment of the fees and expenses of the United States marshals and 

deputies, $629,000. I offered this amendment in the Senate five or six chys ago and had 

Mr. BECK. The sum is $600,000 in the bill for this year for fees 

and expenses of marshals and deputies. Why the other $29,000? 

Mr. ALLISON. The estimate for the current year is a little la.rger 

than for last year, and I have inserted just the House provision. I 

assume that they have been careful as to the amount. 

Mr. BECK. It was not before us particularly, and I was not awa.re 

of the necessity for an increase over last year. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

Mr . .ALLISON. We passed over the clause from line 2'281 to 2287. 

In line 2281, I move to strike out the words ''salaries of;'' and in line 

2282 I move to strike out the wc:~rds ''and for transportation of the 

district attorneys to attend courts." 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment of the Senator from 

Iowa will be reported. 

The CHIEF CLERK. The proposed amendment is in line 2281, before the words "United States," to strike out "salaries of;" and in 

line 2282, after the word " assistants," to strike out " and for transportation of the district attorneys to attend courts;" so as to read: 

For payment of United States district attorneys and their a sistants, $350,000. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

:Mr . .ALLISON. Now, after the word ' payment, ' in line 2281, I move to insert the letter "s;" o as to read: 

it referred to the Committee on .Appropria.tions. I failed to obtain a 

majority of the committee in favor of it. I was so thoroughly impressed with the necessity of it that it seemed to me those considerations ought to make it in order. I am not sure that they do not. I 

know the necessity exists because I sa.w the life-boats there, and two 

mules at each of the stations twelve miles apart would enable them to 

get the life-boats and apparatus there so as to save many lives which they 

now can not do. There were two wrecks in sight of us when we were 

there. 

In one a number of lives were lost because the men alone could not 

haul the boats. .At a cost of $12,000, from the southern coast of New 

Jersey to Hatteras, in North Carolina, the value of the service would 

be doubled. The men can not haul the boats they have. We saw them 

attempt to do it. We were there and stood by them and watched it 

ourselves carefully. 

For payments of United St-ates district attorneys and their a 

The amendment was agreed to. 

This is a very small expenditure and would add very greatly to t he 

efficiency of the service. The report shows that along the New Jersey coast where there are residences they can hire horses and mulea when 

they want them; but the coa t to which the amendment applies is a 

great sand-pit, divided from the mainland by sounds, and there are no 

horses or mules to be hired, and they are dependent altogether upon 

what they have themselves. It is one of t he most dangerous coasts in 

the nited States. With this assistance the service will be doubly as istants, $350 000. efficient as it is now. It is impo sible to perform the service now, and · 

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which are twel\e miles apart, all the sheds for mules and the mules to 

haul the boats, which would be the best service which could be rendered. That is all there is of it. The amendment may be out of 

order. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair feels obliged to sustain 

the point of order. It is obvious that the paper read by the Senator 

from Kentucky is not the estimate of a head of Department. 

Mr. BECK. No; Ido notclaim thatitis. The Life-Saving Service, 

I believe, is not an independent bureau. I do not think it is. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair thinks the point of order 

is well taken. 

Mr. BECK. I am sorry for it. 

Mr. MORRILL. By direction of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds I move, after line 1115, to insert: 

For the increase of the opening in the floor of the Senate Cha-mber, the lower 

openings in the roof, and the arrangement for the exhaust-fans to draw air from 

the corridors and stairways, as recommended by the chief engineer ofthe United 

States Senate and Architect of the United States Cs.pitol, $6,000. 

I shall not take time to discuss the amendment, but I refer Senators 

to Miscellaneous Document 103, in which will be found an interesting 

report. This is for the purpose of getting a larger amount of air in, 

and also having an opening on the top, after the late improvement of 

the House, which is found to be a very great one. I trust there will 

be no objection to the amendment. 

The amendment was agreed to. ·Mr. PLATT. Bydirection of the Committee on Contingent Expenses, after line 2750, I move to insert: 

To enable the Secretary of the Senate t-o pay J.P. Voorhees, H. G. Williams, 

and C. B. Lapham,clerksduringthe second session of the Forty-seventh Congress to the Select Committees of the Senate on Additional Accommodations for the 

Library, on the River Front of Washington, and Woman's Suffrage, rel!pectively, an amount sufficient to make the compensation of each equal to that paid to per diem clerks of other committees during the said session, the sum being the 

difference between the sum paid to said clerks by way of compensation during 

said session and the allowance under the legislative bill of August 5,1882, con- struing the words "during the session" to mean four months; and a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated and made immediately available. 

Mr. ALLISON. I will state that that amendment was offered I believe by the Committee on Contingent Expenses and referred t>O the 

Committee on Appropriations. · 

Mr. PLATT. It was. 

Mr. ALI;JSO~. Therefore it is in order, I suppose, to offer it now. 

The Committee on Appropriations of course knew nothing about it, 

and it being in order for the Committee on Contingent Expenses to 

offer it, I do not raise the point of order on it. 

Mr. PLATT. We have examined it and we think it is right. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

:M:r. CONGER. In line 310 I move to strike out'' commencing" 

and insert'' completing;'' and in line 311 to strike out "ten" before 

" thousand" and insert "twenty;" so as to read: 

For completing the construction of a light-house at or near Port Sanilac, 

Lake Huron, Michigan, $20,000. · 

.. ir. ALLISON. I raise the point of order on that amendment. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa makes the 

point of order. 

Mr. CONGER. This is a provision in the bill, and my motion is to 

change the amount. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The rule provides that no amendment increasing an item of appropriation is in order, unless in pursuance ofthe estimate of a head of Department, or reported from a standing 

or select committee of the Senate. 

Mr. CONGER. This has been estimated by the Department for:fi>e 

or six years. I t has been in the Book of Estimates. The only rea..<Jon 

why it has not been provided for before was because it was supposed a 

permanent appropriation, or an appropriation standing for small lighthouses on the sho1·c of Lake Huron would be applicable to the purpose. 

The Light-Hou e Board, finding that it could not be so applied, after 

advisement recommended the appropriation of $20,000 for a light-house 

at Port Sanilac on Lake Huron, and $10,000 is appropriated by the bill. 

It is a smalllight-hou e, and when theappropriationismade it should 

be enough to complete it, which is $20,000. 

The PRESIDENT pro te1npore. Will the Senator from ~Iichigan 

please end to the Chair the estimate on which he relies? 

:Mr. CONGER. I can not. I was not prepared for any such objection 

as this. 

- ~lr. ALLISON. I think it is not in the Book of Estimates this year. 

:M:r. CONGER. It has been in the Book of Estimates. 

Mr. ALLISON. Very likely. 

~fr. CONGER. It has been recommended by the Committee on Commerce in former years. 

Mr. ALLISON. I will state to the Senator from :Michigan that the 

committee sent to the Light-House Board for information respecting 

these light-houses and the Light-House Board returned three classes 

of lights, one indispensable, another necessary, and another desirable, 

and the light-house. of the Senator from :Michigan is not in either of 

them. 

The PRESIDE~T pro tempore. If the Senator from Iowa insists on 

the point of order the Chair will rule that the estimate of the LightHouse Board, as he did in theca e of the Senator from Kentuch.'"Y, is not 

the estimate of a head of a Department. 

Mr. CO.~:TGER. I admit it is not; but I know the Light-House Board 

has recommended it. It is in my own county, in my own neighborhood, and I have on former occasions attempted to have an appropriation made. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The Senator from Michigan will perceive that the estimate of the Light-House Board is not the estimate of 

a head of a Department within the meaning of the rule of the Senate. 

Mr. COJ.'GER. I had not said that it was. 

The PRE IDENT pro tempo're. The amendment is not in order unless the Senator can show a recommendation of the Secretary of the 

Treasury. 

Mr. CONGER. I could keep the Senate here until next month demanding that there should be sent here the estimates of the Department for every one of these items, if I chose. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That does not affect the duty of the 

Chair to ustain the point of order. 

Mr. CONGER. But it affects somewhat the position which the chairman of the committee takes with regard to it in _demanding that the 

Book of Estimates shall be searched and the propositions made. 

Ur. ALLISON. I have the Book of Estimates here and I find 

nothing. 

Mr. CONGER. I do not say it is in this year's Book of Estimates; 

I say it has been in the report. I laid this matter before the chairman 

of the committee and explained to him, as I "tried to explain to the 

Senate, that there is no use in dividing a little appropriation for a very 

important light on the coast into parts of $10,000 each. If the Senate 

has any desire to make a light-house that is necessary there, let it give 

the amount so that it can be constructed at once. 

Mr. MILLER, of California. :Mr. President---

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Michigan still has 

the floor. 

Mr. CONGER. I hold the floor long enough to ask the Senator from 

Iowa to withdraw his objection. 

Mr. ALLISON. I am very sorry to say I can not do so, because to 

do it would involve me in inextricable difficulty with other Senators. 

.Mr. CONGER. Well, I have simply to say that I do not think the 

Senator from Iowa could bear to be placed in a position of inextricable 

difficulty, and I shall not press the matter to his discredit. 

Mr. BLAIR. At t.he end ofline 2851 I move an amendment, which 

is recommended by the Committee on Education and Labor, and by their 

instruction I offer it. After the word '' contract, 7 ' at the end of the line, 

I move to add: 

ProtJided, That the employes of the Government Printing Office shall be allowed leave of absence with pay to the extent of fifteen days in each year. 

The original amendment.as printed is thirty days. I desire to modify 

it to :fifteen days. 

Ir. ALLISON. I raise the point of order on. the amendment. 

The PRESIDENT pro te'lnp01·e. The Senator from Iowa makes the 

point of order that the amendment proposes legislation. The Chair 

sustains the point of oTder. 

Mr. BLAIR. I hope that I may be permitted to appeal in the most 

touching manner to the Senator from Iowa to withdraw the point of 

order long enough for me to state the reason for asking that the amendment be made. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from New Hampshire 

is entitled to debate the amendment. 

Mr. BLAIR. CertaiJlly; I thought there must be justice somewhere. 

It is seldom in the course of human events that a point of order has been 

raised against an amendment so comparatively unobjectionable as this 

is, and really possessing so much real merit. There is no reason whatever, it seems to me, why the point of order should be inteijected 

here. The amendment simply proposes to give to the employes in the 

Government Printing Office one-half the vacation which we annually 

give to the employes in all the other Departments of the Government. 

The printers in the Printing Office give us our RECORD, they give us our public documents of every description, and we all know very well 

that on the face of the earth there is not to be found an exhibition of 

suchgreat skill in the art ofprinting asis furnished bythose same employes of the United States Government in the Printing Office in this 

city. · 

Mr. PLUUB. Will the Senator from New Hampshire allow me to 

ask him a question ? 

Mr. BLAIR. I do not like to be interrupted. These employes work 

by the day, it is very true, but they work continuously, so that. they 

perform as many days' labor in the year as the clerks in the Departments who are paid annual salaries. They possess as high intellectual 

qualifications and a much higher degree of manual skill than is neces- sary in order to discharge the average duties of the clerks in the Departments. As I said before, they work a many days in the year and 

more. They work not only the hours which are exacted of the ordinary salaried employes of the Government, but they work outside of 

regular hours, oftentimes a whole night, m order to give us the necessary printing to enable us to transact the public business. 

It is only just that those men should have some vacation. Many of 
1884. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 5913 

them are obliged to visit their homes. They do so at their"own expense. Annually most of them are obliged to go home. We know how 

it is, and I may as well state that nearly every one of these men is expected to perform the annual journey to the ballot-box. They do that 

in common with the other employes in the Departments, and they do 

it at their own expense. 

It does seem to me that in order to treat these men with anything 

like average justice, in order to give them anything like the consideration which we have to-day on the floorofthe Senate shown to the employes of the Senate as well as to the average salaried officer of the 

Government and clerk of the Government, we ought to be willing to 

give them this fifteen days' vacation. I appeal to the Senator from 

Iowa, for nobody else in the Senate will raise that point if he does not. 

1\fr. PLUMB. I shall. 

Mr. BLAIR. I appeal also to the Senator from Kansas, and if he will 

be quiet I will agree with him on his pleuro-pneumonia bill the next· 

time. I appeal to the Senator from Iowa to withdraw his point of order 

and let this little amendment that has so much good in it be adopted 

by the Senate. 

Mr. RIDDLEBERGER. I offer the foll6wing amendment--

Mr. BLAIR. I do not know but that I still have the floor. 

Mr. RIDDLEBERGER. Certainly, sir; I was only governing myself by the ruling of the Chair. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Virginia will suspend if the Senator from New Hampshire has not completed his remarks. 

Mr. BLAIR. [After a pause.] I see the Sena~r from Iowa is incorrigible and inexorable. 

Mr. RIDDLEBERGER. After lli,le 280, I move to insert: 

For establishing a small light and fog signal on Killick Shoal, in Chincoteague 

Bay, Virginia, $10,000. 

Mr. ALLISON. I raise the point of order on that amendment. 

Mr. RIDDLEBERGER. I understood the Chair to say a while ago 

that an amendment was in order which had been report"A!d from a standing or select committee of the Senate. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Reported from a committee and referred one day before its offering in the Senate to the Committee on Appropriations. 

Mr. RIDDLEBERGER. Yes, sir; that is the case with this amendment exactly. It was 1·eported from the Committee on Commerce. 

Besides that it is recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury in a paper I have here, and accompanying which are the recommendations 

of the Light-House Board as a board, and then it is signed by each 

member of it. I think the amendment perhaps did not get to the Committee on Appropriations in time for them to consider it, though they 

had a day s notice of it. 

.Mr. ALLISON. I suppose the point of order I made does not lie 

against this amendment. The committee did have it before them. It 

wasregularlyreferredtothecommittee. Ihadforgottenforthe moment 

that it was reported from the Committee on Commerce. 

Mr. HALE. I think it came within the rule of the committee generally. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. _The Chair understands the Senator 

from Iowa to withdraw the point of order. 

Mr. ALLISON. I suppose the point of order does not lie. I do not 

wish to withdraw it if I can make it good. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair understands the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations to state that this amendment 

has been reported from the Committee on Commerce and referred one 

day previous to this to the Committee on Appropriations, in which case 

it is in order upder the rules. 

Mr. ALLISON. It came to the Committee on Appropriations a day 

or two ago from the Committee on Commerce. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment is in order. 

:rt.IT. RIDDLEBERGER. I wish to say in support of the amendment that I have a recommendation here from the Secretary of the 

Treasury, one from Admiral Rowan, and a recommendation from all 

the members of the Light-House Board. This is simply an amendment providing for the construction of a fog-signaJ on a bay in which 

there js a channel which is dangerous at all seasons of the year and 

through which the Old Dominion Steamship Company run a daily line 

of steamers. It has been recommended, I repeat, by the·Light-House 

Board, each member of it, and then by the board, as reported. 

Mr. HALE. If the Senator will allow me, I think this comes under 

the rule t.he Committee on Appropriations adopted, that where a regular estimate was sent by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Committee on Commerce had reported the amendmentfavorablyanditwas 

sent in due time to the Committee on Appropriations, it should go on 

·the bill. I hope no objection will be made to its going on the bill, as 

it comes within the rule. 

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

amendment of the Senator from Virginia. 

Tb amendment was agreed to. 

lvlr. )IAHONE. In line 119, before the word " thousand," I move to trike out "twenty-five" and insert "fifty-two;" so as to read: 

For court-house and post-office at Harrison burgh, Va.: For completion of 

building, ~52,000. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That amendment is not now in order, it being an amendment to an amendment already agreed to. 

Mr. ALLISON. I raise the point of order on it. 

Mr. MAHONE. Where is the amendment already agreed to? 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Line 119, if the Chair understands 

the Senator correctly, is an amendment reported from the Committee 

on Appropriations which has been agreed to inserting $25,000 for this 

court-house. It is not in order therefore, if it were otherwise within 

the rule, to move to increase the amount until the bill gets into the 

Senate. 

Mr. MAHONE. Then I shall withhold the amendment. 

Mr. VOORHEES. lam instructed by the Joint Committee of the two 

Houses of Congress on the Library, after line 2257, to move to insert: 

To pay Theophilus Fisk Mills for preparing a plaster ca t of the face of, and for 

all work done by him upon, an equestrian statue of the late Secretary of War, 

General John A. Rawlins, $2,500. 

Mr. ALLISON. I make tlle point of order upon that amendment. 

It is a claim. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa makes the 

point of order. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I do not know whether the amendment is open 

to an objection of that kind or not. 

The PRESIDENT pro ·tempore. Was the amendment reported from 

a committee? 

Mr. VOORHEES. It has been reported and referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and as I understood from the committee it was 

to be allowed to be offered as I am offering it now. I had no direct 

communication with the chairman, but the objection surprises me. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. What day was the amendment reported from the Committee on the Library? 

Mr. VOORHEES. Two or three days ago. I will state franklyand the best way to deal with these matters is to state frankly-this was 

referred some years ago to the Committee on the Library, and I oonfess 

that I never obtained all the facts myself until the present session, possibly because the gentleman to wltt>m this appropriation goes is a better 

artist than he is a man of worldly affairs. This matter, however, has 

been investigated in the last two or three months, and if the Chair will 

pardon me for speaking of it, it went to the hands of Judge NUTTING, 

a member of the Honse from New York, and a most careful man--

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair must interrupt the Senator. No reference to a member of the House is in order. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I thought this afternoon some things were said 

on the floor that the present occupant, if he had been in the chair, 

would have suspended, but I am perfectly willing to be suspended upon 

that point. I would say, however, that this matter has been carefully 

investigated by a subcommittee of the Joint Committee on the Library 

of the two Houses. It was brought into a full meeting not more than 

two or three days ago. I can not quite recall the time, possibly it 

was Monday afternoon. There were present the Senator from Ohio 

[Mr. SHERMAN], whois thechairmanoftheLibraryCommitee, ofthls 

body, and consequently the chairman ofthe joint committee of the two 

Houses when meeting in session, the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. 

HoAR], and myself, and the members of the House--may I name them? 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair thinks not under the rule. 

Mr. VOORHEES. Then I shall not, of course. It was unanimously 

agreed under the circumstances that this man ought to be paid $2,500 

for work which he had done by emplOyment, first by QuartermasterGeneral Meigs, substantiated by General Grant, then President of the 

United States, and incidentally and more than incidentally afterward 

"by a joint resolution of both branches of Congress, work done in good 

faith, of which there can be no question. The only question is that 

this is not enough. Under these circumstances the joint committee of 

both branches of Congress unanimously instructed me to offer this 

amendment and have it referred to the Committee on Appropriations 

as an amendment to the sundry civil bill. I did so. I understood 

from the committee that while they did not put it in the bill, there 

would be no point of order made upon its being presented now. 

I wish to say but a single word further. General Rawlins ·died in 

September, 1869. When he died General Meigs employed this man who is the son of Clark Mills, an artist of merit, and who is as incom: 

petent a man to .take care of his worldly affairs as I ever knew, to take 

a cast of the dead man's face. He did so, carefully and well. These 

things are all testified to; they are all in the record. In July following the Congress of the United States passed a resolution which 

looked to the construction of an equestrian statue by virtue of the cast 

the:t;t made. :r'his man went on and for two years worked in this Capitolm good faith to carry out what he thoughtwas a valid and binding 

contract. · 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The time of the Senator from Indiana has expired in support of his amendment. 

Mr. VOORHEES. Allow me but one moment more. I am frank 

enough to say that technically his claim might be defeaOOd, but equitably and upon merit it ought to be paid. 

!i-1r. ALLISON. I think this clearly comes within the provision of 

the rule regarding claims, but it seems to me on the merits of the case 

that $2,500 for the mere taking of the likeness or face of General Rawlins is a pretty liberal appropriation. 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE. Jmy 2" , 

Mr. VOORHEES. Now, the Senator from Iowa does not-- The appropriation of $1,500 made by this bill will not enable him 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The time of the Senator from Indi- to accept the offer. It allows less than $500 for rent, after paying for 

ana has expired. ·· printing, fuel, postage, and other incidental expenses. This $500 addiMr . .ALLISON. I make the point of order upon the amendment. tionn.l will enable him to secure offices in which the Government propThe PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Iowa say the erty will be safe. If any Senator had his own property of like value 

amendment was not referred one day previous to the Committee on exposed in such an office as is now occupied by the surveyor-general 

Appropriations? and h:.td the opportunity at this additional cost to provide this additional 

Mr. ALLISON. I make the point of order that it is a claim. security he would do it. All I ask is that the Senate will exercise the 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. A private claim? same good judgment in regard to protecting the property of the United 

Mr. ALLISON. A private claim. States that each Senawr would exercise in regard to his own property 

The PRESIDENT prn tempore. The Chair sustains the point of or- under like circumstances. 

der on the ground that it is a private claim. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to the 

Mr. PLUMB. After line 2022, I move to insert: amendment. 

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay claim 22580, of Charles Wag- The amendment was agreed to. 

ner, allow~d by the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department, $380. Mr. DOLPH. After the word ''dollars,'' in line 1726, I move winMr. ALLISON. I raise the point of order on that amendment. sert: 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The ~hair sustains t.he point of or- To rebuild at Vancouver, the headquarters of the Military Department of the 

der. It is a private claim. Columbia, barracks and quarters, old and rotten, and that have been inspected 

Mr. MILLER, of California. After line 66, I move to add: and condemned, in order to accommodate a garrison of one regiment of infn.ntry 

To pay the expenses of representatives of the United States to the conference 

of the Red Cross AS!!ociation to beheld at Geneva on the 1st of September next, said representatives to be appointed by the Pre.<~ident, $2,000. 

This amendment was reported from the Committee on Foreign Relations. I suppose there will be no objection to it. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

Mr. JONES, of Nevada. After line 2761, I move to insert: 

To pay W. C. Frye, assistant conductor of the elevator, $1.98.3.3, being the difference between the pay of laborer and that of skilled laborer from Oct.ober 15, 1883, to June 30, U!84. 

l!fr. MORGAN. That claim is a just one. Mr. Frye is one of the 

employes of the Senate. When I first came h ere he was a page in the 

Senate, and after he got too old for his station he became a laborer 

down in the engineer' sroom and worked very faithfully indeed. Afterward he got a little promotion by being put in service as a skilled 

laborer, as an assistant to the elevator-man. He has a small account, 

$185, or something of that sort, which the Senate really owes him for 

this service. The claim is not only meriwrious, but it is needed by 

the young man in assisting and supporting his widowed mother. I 

hope the Senate will not object to giving him this little allowance. 

He bas earned it fairly. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

Mr. MAHONE. After line 1115, I move to insert: 

For cleaning the outside marble walls of the House and Senate wings of the 

Capitol, and the approaches thereto, $3,000. And hereafter it shall be the duty of the Architect to clean and keep in proper order the exterior of the Capitol. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

Mr. DOLPH. In line 1196, before the word ' ' dollar,'' in the appropriation for contj.ngent expenses of the office of the Surgeon-General 

of Washington Territory, I movew strikeout "onethousandfive hundred" a.nd insert " two thousand." 

Mr. ALLISON. I raise the point of order on that amendment. 

Mr. DOLPH. What is the point of order? 

Mr. ALLISON. It increases the appropriation. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair sustains the point of 

order. 

Mr. DOLPH. I should like to hear what the point of order is. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The point of order is that it increases an item of appropriation. 

Mr. DOLPH. It is estimated for. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator will report the estimate. Mr. DOLPH. The estimate is found on page 195 under the head 

gf "contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Washington," 

$2,500. The amount appropriated by the bill is $1,5~0. I also have 

a letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office addressed 

to the surveyor-general of Washington. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senawr will please send to the 

Chair the estimate. [After examining the Book of Estimates.] The 

Chair overrules the point of order. The amendment appears to be in 

conformity with the estimate. 

Mr. DOLPH. I dislike very much w be compelled to do so, but I 

feel compelled to offer an amendment or two to the bill at this late 

hour. 

LastSeptember the officeofthesurveyor-general of Washington Territory was burned with all its contents. The bill appropriates $21,000 

to replace the record , and it is estimated that it will cost $60,000 to 

replace the records, maps, and other property of the United States 

burned at that time. Besides the loss to the United States it was a greatinconvenience to the community. There are numerous suits pend- ing which have w be delayed until copies of the field-notesof the official 

surveys can be obtained. The surveyor-general reports that the present 

office is still more exposed to fire and more liable to destruction than 

the former office. The town is a wood-built town. There are very few 

if My brick buildings in it. It is the city of Olympia, in Washington 

Territory. He now has an offer from a party who is to put up a brick 

building to provide a set of offices for the General Land Office in it. 

and a battery of light artillery, $50,000. 

Mr. ALLISON. If that was estimated for I suppose it is in order, 

but we have appropriated $200,000 in the bill, a portion of which the 

Secretary ofWar can use at that place if he thinks it would be wise to 

apply the money to it, and we have also appropriated largely in a 

former appropriation bill for barracks and quarters. I hope the Senator from Oregon will withdraw the amendment. 

1\fr. DOLPH. I must insist on submitting the amendment to the 

Senate. 

Ur. ALLISON. Then I hope it will be voted down. 

Mr. DOLPH. But I shall be very brief in what I have to say about 

it. The appropriation of $200,000 for the erection of buildings at military po ts contained in t his bill as it came from the House was designated to be expended for building barracks at certain posts named. ·I 

have not the remotest idea that unless an especial appropriation is made 

for the construction of barracks at Vancouver any portion of the appropriation will be expended there. I submit herewith a statement of the 

appropriations made in the last ten years for the construction of barra.cks east of the Rocky Mountains: 

Posts. Date. 

On the Yellowstone and Musselshell ~ivers, Montana ............... June22, 1876 

At El Paso, Tex......... . . . .. ....... ...... Feb. 12, 1879 

Milk River,l\Iontana .................... June19,1878 Fort Snelling, Minn ..................... 1\Iay 14,1879 Madison Barracks, New York ..... May 14,1879 

Pagosa Springs, Colo ................... 1\Iay 14,1879 Niobrara, Nebr .................... ......... June 30,1879 Musselshell, Dak .......................... 1\Iay 17, 1880 

At the foot-hills near the Black 

Hills, Wyoming ........................ June19,1878 

$200,000 40,000 

100,000 

100,000 

25,000 

40,000 

50,000 

50,000 

100,000 

Special. 

Special. 

Regular. 

Sundry civil service. Sundry civil service. 

Sundry civil service. Regular. Regular. 

Regular. 

In appropriations amounting to something over $600,000, not one 

dollar has been expended on the Pacific coast. The barra.cks at Vancouver were constructed thirty-five years ago, and they were log houses. 

General Miles reports that they have become rotten inside and out, 

and are really untenable and dM.gerous to the health of the soldiers 

who are compelled to occupythem. We are appropriating millions of 

dollars for pensions w soldiers who became disabled during the war, 

and I think we can afford to expend a few thousand dollars for the 

purpose of giving them tenable quarters, at least quarters which will 

not be dangerous to their health. I ask the Secretary to read what is 

stated in an official letter of General Miles, dated January 29, 1884, to 

the assistant adjutant-general of tlle division of the Pacific in regard to 

the Vancouver Barracks. It is very brief. , The. PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there be no objection the paragraph will be read. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

Vancouver Barracks, Wash., is in :m11.ny respect-s the mo t important of all posts named for permanent maintenance. It is situated near Portland, Oreg., the 

center of the transportation system of the Pacific North west. It is now and must 

long remain the most economical point in the department at which troops can be sheltered, fed, and clothed; in short, it is the natural depot, so far RS this department is concerned, for troops of all arms of the service except cavalry. Its garrison, fully equipped for field service, can be moved to all points in the 

department quicker than from any other post. A command stationed there is 

required as a reserve for the department, and it should be strongly garrisoned, substantially and comfortably built, and, o long as the service of troops may be 

required in this part of the country, maintained in the highest practicable state 

of effioiency. The post was established in 1849. During that and the subsequent few years many log buildings now in use were constructed. In this hwnid climate the decay of expo ed wooden structures is exceptionally rapid. In the lapse of 

thirty-odd years the log buildings referred to have rotted inside and out, and 

have settled out of shape ; the pernicious odor of decayed wood permeates them, rendering them obnoxious in every way, but especi~tlly dangerous to health. 

It would be n. waste of public money to attempt their repair. They should be torn dowp and the rotten lumber burned or destroyed. Fifty-five thousand 

dollars is required to rebuild this po t for the accommodatiqn of one regiment of infantry and one battery of light artillery. By the judic~s expenditure of 

this sum the post can be placed in desirably habitable condition for the next 

thirty years, and it should be done at once. 
1884. CON-GRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE. 5915 

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

amendment. 

The amendment was rejected. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I offer, by authority from the Committee on the 

Library, an amendment which was submitted in due time and referred 

to the Committee on Appropriations as an amendment to the sundry 

civil bill. After line 2257 I move to insert: For the purchase of 1,000 copies of the work entitled Original Portraits of Washington, by Elizabeth Bryant .Johnston, to be distributed to public libra.- ries under the orders of the Senate, $12,000. 

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

amendment proposed by the Senator from Indiana. 

Mr. VOORHEES. Mr. President, a single word. I should be glad 

if I was prepared to say for this work what ought to be said. It is a 

great work, and I have intended during the entire session when the 

matter came before the Senate to speak what ought to be spoken for it. 

It embraces not only the correct portraits but the history of them from 

the earliest portrait taken of General Washington to his death. I know 

but one other work in thehistoryofpublic men like it. Ithasenlisted 

the warmest approbation of the men of the highest literary note in this 

country. It comes before the Senate with the full approbation of the 

Committee on the Library, who have had it before them for weeks and 

months. It embraces only the purchase of a thousand copies,· to be 

distributed under the order of the Senate. 

I state to the Senate, after some service here and possibly some claim 

npon the Senate for candor, that there is no work that has emanated 

from the prE-ss for years past of so much value as this work which we 

propose to purchase. It ought to go to the public libraries, it ought 

to go to the various librariesofthe country, where it would be hailed as 

one of the great instructors and teachers of the public mind. I only 

regret that I had not prepared something more worthy to say of this 

great and magnificent work than I say now. 

This amendment emanated from the Committee on the Library and 

was offered in due time, and I hope no exception will be taken to it. 

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

amendment. 

The question being put, there were on a division-ayes 18, noes 20-

no quorum voting. 

Mr. VOORHEES. Let us have theyeasandnays. That is equal to 

a call of the Senate. 

1 The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeP-ed to call 

the roll. 

Mr. PENDLETON (when his name was called]. I am paired with 

the Senator from Kansas [Mr. INGALLS]. Otherwise I should vote 

"nay." 

The roll-call was concluded. 

Mr. SEWELL. I am paired with mycolleague [Mr. McPHERSON]. 

Mr. PENDLETON. I understand that the Senator from Vermont 

(Mr. MORRIT...L~ is paired with theSenatorfromKansas [Mr. INGALLS], 

and therefore I shall vote. I vote "nay." 

The result was announced-yeas 23, nays 18; as follows: 

Beck, 

Blair, 

Bowen, 

Brown, 

Call, 

Conger, 

Allison, 

Bayard, 

Cameron of Wis., 

Coke, 

Dolph, 

Dawes, Garland, 

Gorman, 

Harris, 

Hawley, Hill, 

Edmunda, 

Groome, 

Harrison, 

.Jonas, 

McMillan, 

YEAB-23. 

.Jones of N eva.da., 

Lamar, 

Manderson, 

Maxey, 

Miller of Cal., 

Morgan, 

NAYB-18. 

Mahone, 

Pendleton., Platt, 

Plumb, 

Pugh, 

ABSENT--'35. 

Aldrich, Farley, Jones of Florida, 

Anthony, Frye, Kenna, 

Butler, George, Lapham, 

Camden, Gibson, Logan, Cameron ofPa., Hale, McPherson, 

Cockrell, Hampton, Miller of N.Y., 

Colquitt, Hoar, Mitchell, 

Cullpm, Ingalls, Morrill, 

Fair, .Jackson, Pike, 

So the amendment was agreed to. 

Palmer, 

Riddleberger, 

Voorhees, 

Walker, 

Wilson. 

Ransom, 

Sawyer, 

Vance. 

Sabin, 

Saulsbury, 

Sewell, 

Shen:nan, 

Slater, 

VanWyck, 

Vest, 

Williama. 

Mr. ALLISON. Now I hope tha~we shall close up the bill. There 

are no other amendments to be offered, I think. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I assure the chairman that I have none other.' 

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended. 

The PRESIDENT pre tempore. If there be no objection the question on concurring in the amendments made as in Committee of the Whole 

will be taken together. 

The amendments were concurred in. 

Mr. DOLPH. I now renew my amendment which was voted down 

as in Committee of the Whole. After line 1726 I move to insert: To rebuild at Vancouver, the headquarters of the Military Department of the Columbia, barracks and quarters, old and rotten, and that have been inspected and coademned, in order to accommodate a garrison of one regiment of in- fantry and a battery of light artillery, 850,000. 

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

amendment proposed by the Senator from Oregon. 

. Mr. DOLPH. I ask for the yeas and nays. 

The yeas and nays were ordered; and being taken, resulted-yeas 

21, nays 22; as fol1ows: 

YEAS-2l. 

Blair, 

Bowen, 

Cameron of Wis., 

Conger, 

Dolph, 

Harrison{ 

Allison, Bayard, 

Beck, 

Brown, Call, 

Coke, 

Hawley, Mitchell, Lapham, Morgan, 

Mcl\filla.n, Palmer, 

Mahone, Pendleton, 

Manderson, Plumb, Miller of Cal., Riddleberger, 

Colquitt, 

Dawes, 

Edmunda, 

Farley, 

Garland, 

Gorman, 

NAYB-22. 

Groome, 

Harris, 

Jonas, 

Maxey, 

Morrill, Platt, 

ABSENT-33. 

Aldrich, George, .Jones of Nevada., 

Anthony, Gibson, Kenna, 

Butler, Hale, Lamar, 

Camden, Hampton, Logan, Cameron of Pa., Hill McPherson, 

Cockrell, HoO:r, Miller ofN. Y., 

Cullom, Ingalls, Pike, 

Fair, .Jackson, Sabin, 

Frye, .Jones of Florida., Saulsbury, 

Sawyer, 

Voorhees, 

Wilson. 

Pugh, 

Ransom, 

Vance, 

Walker. 

Sewell, 

Sherman, 

Slater, 

VanWyck., Vest, 

Williams. 

So the amendment was rejected. . The amendments were ordered to be engrossed, and the bill to be 

read a third time. 

The bill was read the third tiine, and passed. 

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 

Mr. SEWELL, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom 

was referred the bill (H. R. 1017) relative to the Inspector-General's 

Department of the Army, reported it without amendment, and sub- · 

mitted a report thereon. 

Mr. BLAIR, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the following bills, reported them severally without amendment, 

and submitted reports thereon: 

A bill (H. R. 837) granting a pension to Reuben J. Chewning; 

. A bill (H. R. 2312) granting a pension to Almira B. Kaler; 

A bill (H. R. 6168) granting an increase of pension to Capt. H. D. F. 

Young; and 

A bill (H. R. 1965) granting a pension to John A. Crozier. 

Mr. VAN WYCK, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom were 

referred the following bills, reported them severally without amendment, and submitred reports thereon: 

A bill (H. R. 3625) granting an increase of pension to Levi Anderson; 

A bill (H. R. 4767) granting a pension to Mary A. Henry; 

A bill (S. 1446) granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Lou Gobright 

McFalls; and 

A bill (H. R. 943) granting a pension to Samuel Barnard. 

Mr. VAN WYCK, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was 

referred the bill (S. 2221) granting a pension to Mary A. Henry, reported 

adversely thereon; and the bill was postponed indefinitely. 

Mr. WILSON, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 4700) granting a pension to Simon E. Lewis, 

reported it without amendment, and submitted a report thereon. 

Mr. GORMAN, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, to 

whom was referred the bill (H. R. 4089) to empower the commission- ers of the District of Columbia to examine the claim of and providing 

for the payment of Outerbridge Horsey, assignee, reported it without 

amendment. 

He also, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred 

the bill (S. 2184) to authorize the construction and maintenance of a 

bridge across the Niagara River, reported it without amendment. 

BIT...LS INTRODUCED. 

Mr. BUTLER introduced a bill (S. 2360) for the relief of Agnes and 

Maria de Leon, heirs at law of Rebecca L. de Leon, deceased; which 

was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Claims. 

Mr. VOORHEES introduced a joint resolution (S. R. 97) for the 

relief ofTheophilus Fisk Mills; which was read twice by its title. 

Mr. VOORHEES. I move that the joint resolution lie over until 

to-morrow subject to call. 

The motion was agreed to. 

PUBLIC PRINTING. 

Mr. HAWLEY submitted thefollowingconcurrentresolution; which was ordered to lie on the table and be printed: 

Resolved by U~e Seiwte (the How;e of Representatives concurring), That the .Joint 

Committee on Public Printing is hereby instructed to examine into the num- bers printed of the various documents, reports, bills, and other papers published 

by order of Congress, or of either House thereof, and of the CoNG&ESSION AL REc- ORD, and to report a bill, in December next, making such reductions in the numbers and co t of printing, and such changes and reductions in the distribu- tion of said publications as they may deem expedient, with a report giving their reasons therefor; and that the said committee is also instructed to investigate the printing and binding for the Executive Departments, executed at the Gov- ernment Printing Office and at the branch printing offices and binderies in the va- rious Departments, and report a bill, in December next, making such reductions in expen e and imposing such checks as they way deem expedient, with a re- port giving their rea ons therefor 1 and said committee is further instructed to 
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UUI.ke a ny other investigation s calculited in their opinion to reduce the cost of the public printing, and report the result thereof; and the said committee is 

hereby authorized to summon and to examine experts and witnesses, and to call upon the heads of Executive Departments and the Public Printer for such information regarding the preceding matters as they may desire; and any ex- penses necessarily incurred in making the investigations aforesaid shall be defrayed equally from the contingent funds o·f the two Houses of Congress. 2. Said joint committee is hereby authorized to sit during the recess for the p u rposes of the first section hereof and in the discharge of its usual duties. 

ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC RAILROAD LAND GRANT. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Senate 

t he unfinished business, being the bill (H. R. 7162) to forfeit the unearned lands granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company to 

aid in the construction of arailroadand telegraph line from the States of 

Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific coast, and to restore the same to 

settlement, and for other purposes. 

Mr. BLAIR. I wish to say that in the morning the Pension Committee will expect to call up the pension cases on the Calendar immediately after the transaction of the necessary routine morning business. 

Mr. ALLISON. I move that the Senate adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; and (at.7 o'clock and 45 minutes p.m.) 

the Senate adjourned. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

WEDNESD.A. Y, J·uzy 2, 1884. 

The. House met at 11 o'clock a.m .. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. 

JOHNS. LINDSAY, D. D. 

The Journal ofy~.ert-liy's proceedings was read and approved. 

ORDER OF BUSINES . 

Mr. DUNN. I .rise to a privileged motion: 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. 

Mr. DUNN. I offer t h e resolution which I send to the desk; and, 

unless objection be mad(', I shall ask its immediate consideration. It 

is a resolution proposint~ ·. new rule of the House. 

The Clerk read as foUows: 

Resolved, That it shall be in order each day, during the hour next after the morning hour, to ask unani lllOUS consent for the consideration or passage of any measure; and for that pur~J e the Speaker shall call the names of the Members of the Honse and Delegntes from the Territories in the alpl!abetical order in which they appear upon the roll of the House, commencing, however, on alter- nate days at the bead and a t the foot of the roll\ going down ward from the head and upward from the foot ; but no member snail move the consideration of more than one measure wben his name is called. 

Mr. O'NEILL, of Pe:nn y 1 vania. I want to move an amendment to 

this resolution. 

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration of 

the resolution? The rules require that one day's notice shall be given 

of any proposed change in the rules. 

:Mr. WELLER. I would like to inquire whether the one day's notice 

has been given? 

The SPEAKER. It has not been; but it can be dispensed with by 

consent of the House. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Is this resolution offered subject to objection? ~ 

The SPEAKER. Unanimous consent is asked for the present conideration of the resolution. 

Mr. HOLMAN. The resolution itself is in order, as I undel'Stand? 

Mr. O'NEILL, of Pennsylvania. I move to amend the resolution 

so as to commence the call of members every third day at the middle 

of the roll. 

Mr. WELLER. I think I must object to the -present consideration 

of the resolution. 

Mr. DUNN. I ask tomakeonesingle statement. I give notice to the 

House that unless this or some such just rule be adopted no measure 

shall ever pass this House by unanimous consent so long as I am a member of Congress. 

Mr. O'NEILL, of Pennsylvania. Well, the gentleman s threat 'does 

not affect me in the slightest degree. 

Mr. DUNN. I make no threat; I think such a proceeding is necessary, and I intend to enforce its adoption: I am not brought to this 

resolution by reason of personal pique or disappointment, but by long 

and careful observation and study of the unjust operation of the existing custom of the House. There is no rule of the House regulating 

the order of recognition of ll!em hers for the purpose of asking unanimous 

consent to consider and pass unobjectionable legislation. There is always a large mass of such business that ought to be dispo ed of in this 

way. It is now entirelywithin the discretion of the Speaker to recognize whom he will and tQ refuse recognition to whom he will. For the 

purposes of this class of business many Congressional constituencies can be, a-nd generally are, practically deprived of representation, not by the 

intentional fault of the Speaker, but in spite of his best efforts to be 

just to all alike. 

In taking this step, in which I shaH be very :firm, I am influenced 

as much by a desire to relieve and protect the Speaker from what all 

know to be his greatest source of annoyance and embarrassment, as by 

a desire to secure equal and exact justice to all members of the House. 

I especially disclaim any feeling of disappo~tment on my own part, 

by reason of the action of our present Speaker. I cheerfully add my 

own testimony to that of others, that no fairer, more impartial, o1· just man ever occupied that chair than he. And if he can not rnetb out 

equal justice toall, we can allagree that we :find in thatfactthehighest 

possible proof of the injustice of the existing custom and the best reason 

for the adoption of 8ome just rule. I agree with General Grant, that 

' ' there is no bett~r way to secure the repeal of a bad law than to rigidly 

enforce it." I shall simply enforce the rules of the House. 

lli. MILLS. · I wish to inquire of the gentleman from Arkansas what 

is the ohject of beginning at each end of the roll alternately but never 

beginning in the middle. The arrangement proposed simply means 

that the middle shall always be at the end. · · 

Mr. REED. Let us draw lots. 

Mr. O'NEILL, ofPennsylvania. Ifthere olutioncannotbeamended 

I object to its consideration. 

1\{r. DUNN. I ask that it be referred to the Committee on Rules. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair hears no objection, and it will be so referred. 

Ur. O'NEILL, of Pennsylvania. Will my amendment be considered as pending? 

The SPEAKER. · It can not be pending to a proposition not before 

the House. The gentleman objects to the proposition. 

lli. DUNN. I demand the regular order of business, and will yield 

only to measures to advance investigations ordered by the House and 

to reports of committees, but to nothing else. [Cries of "Regular 

order!"] 

The SPEAKER. The regular order is better order on the floor of 

the House. 

Mr. HOLMAN. I ask the gentleman from Arkahsas also to except 

matters affecting the proper control of this Hall during the vacation 

of Congress. 

Mr. DUNN. Certainly I will make that exception. 

CARE OF HOUSE CLOAK-ROOMS. 

Mr. HOLMAN. I ask unanimous consent to submit a resolution retaining the two colored men, one on this and one on the other side, 

during the recess. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives be, and he is hereby, directed to retain upon the laborers' roll during the recess of Congress the names of Alex. B. Thomas and \Vilson Grice, now in charge of the cloak- rooms of the Honse, and pay said parties out of the contingent fund of the House at the rate of~ per month. 

There was no objection, and the resolution was received and adopted. 

Mr. HOLMAN moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution 

was adopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

CATHARINE H. GLICK. 

The SPEAKER, by unanimous· consent, laid before the House the 

following message from the Senate: 

Resolved, That the House of Representatives be requested to return the bill (S. 1971) granting a pension to Catharine H. Glick, widow of Elias B. Glick, de- • ceased, the bill having passed the Senate June 27, 1884. 

There was no objection, and the request of the Senate was complied 

with. 

PUl3LIC LANDS INVESTIGATION. 

Mr. COBB. I ask to submit M> report from the Committee on the 

Public Lands, which I believe to be privileged. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the resolution of the Honse providing for the raising of a committee to visit the State of Colorado and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona and determine what legislation, 

if any, is necessary in order to settle and quiet titles to the conflicting claims to certain lands situate therein, have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the same to the House with the following amend- ment , to wit: In line 7,after the word ' 'of," strike out the word " five" and insert instead thereof the word " three. " Also, in line 13, afte r the word " clerk,'.' insert the words "which shall be," and aft-er the word " stenographic," in same line, strike out the words " and a mes enger." Also, in line 17, afte r the word "exceeding," strike out the word "ten " •and in ert in lieu thereof the word" five." And when said amendments are adopted your committee recommend the passage of said resolution. Your committee believe that important legislation is required in order to settle conflicting claims t-o certain lands in said State and Territories, and we believe, in order to enable Congress to do so advisedly, it is necessary for a com- mittee of the House to visit the sections where the lands in controversy are sit- uate and ascertain the facts and report them to the House. 

The resolution is a f.ollows: 

\Vherea under and in pursuance of the eighth and ninth articles of the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, with t-he Republic of 11Iexico, concluded February 2,18481 it was stipulated and provided that the residents of the ceded territory shoula be secured and protected in the enjoyment of their rights to the property which 

they held as citizens of the Republic of Mexico; and Whereas under and by virtue of the eighth section of an act of Congress en- titled "An act to establish the offices of surveyor-general of New 11Iexico, Kan- sas, and Nebraska, to g1·ant donations to actual settler therein, and for other purpose ,'' approved July 22, 1 54., which section make it the duty of the sur- veyor-genera,} ofNew :!\Iexico, under instruct-ions from the Secretary of the lr.-

t-erior, to ascertain the origin, nature, character, and ext-ent of all claims to lands under the law , usages, and cu toms of Spain and Mexic-o, and to make a report