1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 

And then (the hour -of 5 o'clock p. m. ha'Ving arrived) the Speaker ' the passage of the per diem rated service-pension bill; which were re·. 

pro tempoYe, under the previous order, declared the Honse adjourned. ferred to the Committee on Pensions. 

He also presented petitions of the Junior Order of United American 

Mechanics, Chosen Friends' Council, No. 86, of Philadelphia, Pa.; of 

Manchester Council, No. 124, of Allegheny, Pa.; of Orient Council, 

No. 72, of Johnstown, Pa.; of General McClellan Council, No. 150, of • 

Verona., Pa.; of Laurel Counci1, No-. 126, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; of Shick· 

shinny Council, ,No. 203, :of Shickshinny, Pa. ; of Summit Council, No. 

17.3, of Lemont Furnace, Pa.; of Dawson Council, No. 75, of Dawson, 

Pa.; of 1\IcKeesport Council, No. 109, of McKeesport, Pa.; of Mans· 

field Council, No. 66, of Mansfield Valley, Pa.; ofGreble Council, No. 

13, of Philadelphia, Pa.; of Fidelity Council, No. 21, of Bristol, Pa.; 

PRIVATE BILLS INTRODUCED AND REFERRED. 

Under the rule private billa of the following titles were introduced 

and referred as indicated below~ . By .Mr. HOVEY: .A. bill (H. R. 11298) for the relief of Fmneis 

Burch-to the Committee on Uilitary .Affairs. 

By 1\ir. KE.A.N: A bill (H. R. 11299) for the relief of GeorgeS. New· 

ton-to the Committee on Inv;a.lid Pensions. 

By Mr. C. A.. RUSSELL: .A. bill (H. R. 11300) granting a pension 

to George H. Burges.~-to the Committee. on Invalid Pensions. 

PETITIONS, ETC. 

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

under the rule, and referred as follows: 

By 1\ir. BELDEN: Petition of citizens of Otiseo, N.Y., for the pas· 

sage of House bill No. 11253-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. BLAND: .Affidavit in the claim of George Barron-to the 

Committee on War Claims. 

By :Mr. BROWER: Petition of citizens of Caswell County~ North 

Carolina, for aJll6lndments to the interstate-commerce law-to the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. BRUMM: Petition of Hon. John Tahaney and others1 in 

favor of the anti-convict labor bill-tG-the Committee on Labor. 

By Mr. BURNETT: Petition of Statira S. Drake, dependent mother 

· ofWiltiam B. Drake, for a pension-to theCommitteeoninvalid Pensions. 

.Ey Mr. BYNUM: Petition of 36 citizens~ members of tp.e Woman's 

Relief Corps, of Shelbyville, Ind., for the erection of a soldiers' home 

at Indianapolis, Ind.-to the Committee on Military .Affairs. 

.Also, petition ofKnights of Labor of Indianapolis, Ind., to protect 

free labor against convict labor-to the Committee on Labor. 

By J.Ir. CATCffiNGS: Petition of Margaret Davidson and of 1\fartha 

Crosby, widow of Peter Crosby, of Warren County, Mississippi, for reference of their claims to the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War 

• ofO. W. How.ell Council, No. 210, ofStauffer, Pa., and ofCoopersdale 

C~mn<-11, No. 97, .ofCoopersdale, Pa., praying for the passageofSenate 

bill553, to regulate and restriet immigration; which were referred to 

the Committee on Forew Relations. 

He also presented a memorial of West End Lodge, No. 44, Amalga--

mated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, of Pittsburgh, Pa., re· 

monstrating against any reduction of the present tariff; which was 

referred to the Committee on Finanee. 

111r. TELLER presented the l)etition of .John Wilson, of New Orleans, La. , praying for the enactment of a national election system; 

which was referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. 

He also presented a petition .of citizens of Las Vegas, Territory of 

New Mexico, -praying for the passage of "a bill providing for the pay· . 

ment of claims for Indian depredations to citizens living on the front. 

ier; which was referred to the -committee on Indian A:fiairs. 

REPORTS <>F (JQMM!TTEES. 

Mr. WILSON, <>f Maryland, from the Committee on Claims, to whom 

was referred the j.oin.t resolution {S. R. 47) f.or the relief of the widow 

and ehildren of John W. Judson, late agent of the United States at Os· 

wego, N_ Y . ., for public works on Lake Ontario. reported it with an 

amendment, and submitted a report thereon. 

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

1518) for tbe relief of Maria Black, submitted an ad verse report thereonf 

which was agreed to; and the bill was postponed indefinitely. 

Ur. CAMERON, from tbe Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was 

referred the bill {S. 2271) for tbe relief of Rodman ~L Price, reported 

it without amendment, 'and .submitted a report thereon. ~ 

Mr. PLUMB. 1 am instructed by the Committee on Appropriations 

to reportbackwith.sundryamendments the bill (H. R. 10998) making 

Tbefollowingpetitionforan increase ofeompensationoffonrtb-cl:ass . appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, ~or the 

postmasters was referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post- j armament thereoL for ,the procurement of heavy ordnan{}e for tnal and 

Roads: ~ I ~rvioo, and for other purposes. I give notice that I shall ask the SenClaims. · 

By 1\fr. DORSEY: Petition of citizens of Grand Island, Nebr., in fa· 

vor of bill to pension Mary E . .Adams--to the Committee on Invalid 

Pensions. 

Ey Mr~ BRUMM: Of J. D. Hepler and ()thers, of Haas,, Pa. ate to consider the bill to-.nim:row immediately .after the morning business. 'The P"R"ESIDENT pro tcnpare. Meanwhile the bill wiD' be placed 

SENATE, 

WEDNESDAY, August 29, 1888.. 

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

The .T oumal of yesterday's proce~gs was read and approved. 

EXECUTIVE CO:m\IUNICATION. 

The PRESIDENT pr.o tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of defieieneies in various appropriations for the service of the District of 

Columbia for the fiscal year ended June 30, 18881 as submitted by the 

commissioners of the District of Columbia, amounting to $3,010.75; 

which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee 

on .Appropriations, and oidered to be printed. 

DISTRICT ELECTRIC WIRES. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communica· 

tion from the eommissionm:s of the District of Columbia, transmitting, 

in compliance with a resolution of the 28th instant, a. report from the 

engineer commissioner of the District on the subject of overhead and 

under-ground electric wires; which, with the accompanying doeuments, 

was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered 

1o be printed. - · 

PETITIOllo'"S AND MEMORIALS. · 

Mr. CAMERON predented the petition of Robert Bolling and other 

citizens of Philadelphia, Pa., pr.aying for the repeal of that portion of the 

.internal-revenue laws which classes druggists as wholesale liquor dealers, and for the reduction of the tax on spirits; which was referred to 

the Committee on Financ.e. 

He also presented a petition of citizens of Venan!,ro County, Pennsylvani~ praying for certain amendments to theinterstat~-commerce law; 

which was referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. 

He also presented a petitionoftheNaHona.IEncampment, Union Veteran Legion, held a,t Youngstown, Ohio; a petition of citizens of West. 

moreland County, Pennsylvania; a petition of George M. Spaulding 

anrl. other citizens of Wellsborongh. Pa.; a petition of citizens of Fayette and Greene Counties, Pennsylvania, and a petition of G. W. Rayan 

Post, Grand .Army of the Republic, of Middlebury, Pa., all praying for . 

on the Calendar. . · 

BILLS INTRODUCED. 

Mr. REAGAN introduced a bill (S. 3493) to permit the importation 

()f jute bagging .free of duty:; which was Iead twice by its title. .Mr~ .REAGAN. I mi>ve that the bill ·be referred to the Committee 

-on Finance, :and .I ask nnanimo11S consent to make a moment's st.ate. 

ment in relation iD it. 

We are ad-vised· that a trust has been furmed which 'has .so inereased 

the price of jute bagging that cotton· planters are discussing the question 

as to whether they will withhold th~ir ·cotton from market until its 

operntion can pass by. To do so would entail-very great dama.ge.on the 

retail merchants .and the wh.olesa1e merchants who are sustained by 

them throughout the country generally. 'This trust is strik:ing at one 

of the great industries of the country which has no pro.tectio~ because 

while eotton forms one of the chief exports of the cuuntryt it goes into 

the .markets of the world in competition with cotton from everywhere 

else. Congress has the power to- protect this great industry against this 

wrong by relie-ving the dnty on jnte bagging and 1 trust the Commiir 

tee on Finance will take the matter into consideration.and enable us to 

take some action on the subject. 

The bill was referred to the Committee on Finance. 

Mr. CAMERON introduced .a bill (S. 3494) granting a pension to 

Charles H. Groves; which was read twice by its title, and, with the.ac· 

companying papers, referred to the Committee on Pensions. 

He also introduced a bill (S. 3495} granting a pension to Joseph K. 

Null; which was read twice by its title, and~ with the.aeeompanying 

papers, referred to the Committee .on Pensions. 

He also introduced a bill (S. 3496) to removethe charge of desertion 

from the record of John Thomas, late of Company K, Fourth United 

States Infantry; which was read twice by its title, and, with the ac· . companying papers, referred to the Committee on Military .Affairs. 

Mr. _CHACE {by request} introduced .a bill (S. 3497} making .an ap· 

propriation for the Girls' Reform School of the District 'Of Cola.mbia; 

which was read twice by iis title., -and .referred to the Committee on the 

District of Columbia. 

He also introdneed a bill (S . .3498} for the relief .of L. W . .Allen; 

whi"Ch was read twice by its title, and referred to the Co.mmitiee on 

.Military Aft"a.irs • 
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He al o introduced a bill (S. 3499) granting a pension to Anna :M. 

Greenfield; which was read twice by it.<~ title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. -

He also introduced a bill (S. 3500) granting a pension to William J. 

Pierson; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. 

Mr. REAGAN introduced a bill (S. 3501) relating to the classification of pogt-offices and amendatory of the act app1·oved March 3, H:!83, 

entitled ''An act to adjust the salaries of postmasters;" which was read 

twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and 

Post-Roads. 

EFFECT OF IRRIGATION O:N LOWER VALLEYS. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there be no further morning business, the Chair lays before the Senate the resolution submitted by the 

Senator from Kansas [Mr. PLUMB] August 21~ 1888, in relation to the 

waters of the Platte and Arkansas Rivers and their tributaries in Colorado. Does the Senator from Kansas desire a~tion on the resolution 

this morning? 

Mr. PLU.~IB. I desire to have action upon it, but I wish to amend 

it at the proper point by inserting, after the words ''and whether," the 

words "in his opinion." 

The P.RESIDENT pro tempore. The ·resolution will be read. No 

formal amendment is nece sary, the Senator having the right to modify 

the resolution under the rule. It will be read as modified. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

.&>solt-ed, That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to inquire and report to the Senate at its next e sion the extent to which the diversion of the waters of the Platte and Arkansas Rivers and their tributaries in Colorado, for irrigation or other purposes, affects the flow of the water of those streams in the lo\ver 

valley , and especially dur\ng the ~< rowing season; and whether in his opinion the title conveyed by the Government to lands fronting on said streams cov- ers the privilege of diverting water therefrom beyond that necessary for use thereon for irrigation and mining purposes, and to report what action is needed to !Jrotect the rights of riparian owners along the course of said streams in the 

States of Kansas and Nebraska. 

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

resolution. 

Mr. TELLER. I do not desire to antagonize the resolution, which 

is a resolution simply calling for information, although I hardly approve of the provision that calls upon an officer not charged with rendering a legal opinion for a legal opinion, which the resolution seems 

to do. It calls upon the Secretary of the Interior for an expression as 

to certain legal rights. However, I do not care to antagonize the resolution for that reason. 

I merely desire to say that to apply the old rule that each man who 

has lund on a stream or across which a stream ran or by the side of 

which it ran, has a right to insist that the water shall not be diverted 

and taken away_ from him, is an impossibility in what is called the 

arid regions. While that has been the rule in such regions as are 

blessed with an abundance of rain, it never has been the rule in any 

section of the country where agriculture is dependent wholly upon irrigation. 

It was decided in 1842 by the supreme court of the State of Illinois 

that if water by irrigation was absolutely necessary for the raising of 

vegetation, then it became a natural use, and the right to divert it 

and to use it all up was the same with the man who used it for agricultural purposes as it was with the farmer who might let his cattle 

drink the entire stream and thereby cut off the man below. • The rule has always been that the residents who are on the upper 

part of the st.ream might take all the water for the cattle if it was 

necessary. If the farmer's family was large enough to take it all, they 

could take it all and none was run below. That is upon the theory 

·that it is a natural nse essential to his existence. The supreme court 

of Illinois as early as 1842, as I said, held that that rule must apply 

also to irrigation in the arid regions, but that it would not apply in 

the State of Illinois, although agriculture might be increased and made 

profitable by irrigation, becau e it was not absolutely necessary. 

It_has been the rule in all the Western country, where irrigation was 

necessary, in California, Colorado, and Nevada, to allow the people liv- ing on the upper end of the stream to divert it by takin~ the water out 

of the stream. The ownership of water there has been determined by 

prior appropriation. When Colorado became a State, it put a provision 

in its constitution that the waters of the State were public property, 

and could nob-be monopolized, and could not be diverted except under 

regulatj.ons made by the Legislature of the State. · 

I might say, wbat I suppose everybody knows, that there are millions and millions of acres of land in the United States on which to 

apply the old doctrine of riparian rights would always dedicate the 

land to solitude and silence, and it would be absolutely worthless. 

Consequently a different rule must prevail; and if the people on the 

Upper Platte or on the Upper Arkansas divert the water for agricultural purposes there is no damage resulting to the people of Kansas 

for which they can re.ceive any compensation from any source that I 

know of. 

Of course whatever may be the report of the Secretary of the Interior 

it wil not determine anything in this matter except to give us information. It is a question, as I said some days ago, that the Government 

-

will have some day to deal with. I do not know how the Government 

can prevent the State of Colorado from using the waters of the non- mwigable streams of that State, and that is the character of the streams. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. .The State of Kansas might sue the State of Colorado for damnges. · 

Mr. TELLER. As suggested, if the State of Colorado should do any 

damage to the State of Kansas, I suppose a suit might be brought. But 

the acts complained of are not committed by the State; they are com- mitted by the people. I do not suppose the State of Kansas would ever have any claim for damages, though its citizens might. It is undoubtedly a question that never can be settled otherwise than that the 

people who are on the lower rivers may be injured, unless we should 

by some great system of water-works enable the waters to continue in 

the streams until they reach the lower section of country. 

I will say that before a drop of water was taken out of the Arkansas 

River, before a drop was ever taken out of the Platte River, those rivers 

went dry; and they have every year since the country was settled gone 

dry at some point between the foot of the mountains and the points 

mentioned in the States of Kansas and Nebraska. They sink, and I do 

not suppose it would be possible, except by an immense expense, to ever 

keep up those rivers, although no water whatever was diverted for the 

purposes of irrigation. 

I only wanted to say this much, that the Senate niight understand 

that this is a very great question and one not to be lightly dealt with 

when the report comes in. 

Mr. PLUMB. If anythin~ could be settled by a discussion at thls 

time, I should be very glad to. enter upon it, agreeing entirely with 

the Senator from Colorado, that it is an important question. But it 

was only for the purpose of getting some information which will be accessible to the Secretary of the Interior, to enable the Senate to determine what, if any, legislation is to 'be entered upon, that I offered the 

resolution; and no discussion of it, I think, is necessary, certainly not 

on my part, at this time. 

Mr. STEW ART. l should like to offer an amendment to the resolution. I move to strike out all nfter the word "season" in the fol· 

lowing words: 

And whether in his opinion the title conveyed by the Government to Ianda 

fronting on said streams covers the· privilege of divert.ing water therefrom beyond that necessary for use thereon for irrigation and mining purposes, and to report what action is needed to protect the rights of riparian owners along the waters of said streams in the :3lates of Kansas and Nebraska. · 

And to insert in lieu thereof: 

And what measures can be devised to increase the flow of water in those streams during such season. 

So as to make the resolution read: 

Resolved, That the S~cretary of the Interior be directed to inquire and report to the Senate at its next session the extent to which the diversion of the waters of the Platte and Arkansas Rivers and their tributaries in Colorado for Irrigation and other purposes affects the flow of the waters of those streams in the 

lower valleys, and especially during the growing season, and what measures can be devised to increase the flow of water in those streams during such sea- son. · 

~Ir. STEW ART. Mr. PresidentMr. PLUMB. If the Senator will just pardon me for a moment, I 

do not think any debate will be necessary. I have no objection to the 

addition of what he has offered to the resolution as it now stands. 

Mr. STEW ART. · I wish to make one remark. 

Mr. PLUMB. We can then get the information from the Secretary 

of the Interior covering the entire matter according to his view of it. 

M:r. STEW ART. Mr. President, I do not want to involve the Secretary of the Interior in this question of legal rights. It is too broad 

a question. At least one-half, and I think two-thirds, of all the agriculture that has been pursued in the world bas been in countries where 

irrigation was necessary, and where the rules that applied in England 

to riparian proprietors had no application and could have none. The 

common law is a system of principles applicable to the changing conditions of man under any circumstances, but the conditions are different, the facts are different, and the conclusions must be different. 

If the Secretary of the Interior had not had this subject called to his 

attention he would go wrong upon it. Two-fiiths of the land of the 

United States requires irrigation, and different rules mnst be applied, 

and thl}t...point had better be left out of the inquiry. Let us get the 

information; let us get what are the exact facts, and then see what 

remedy can be devised. I have been over that country frequently. I 

believe that Kansas and Nebraska and a large portion of Dakota require irrigation, and I think when that country i settled up the people will do as all other countries have done when they became civilized, 

they will store the water in the mountains as India does, and that the 

region east of the Rocky Mountains and near the Rocky Mountains 

will be the very best market in the United States. 

Mr. PLATT. If the Senator from Nevada will permit me, I should 

like to ask him a question. He has evidently given thismattermuch 

study. I want to know if it is not true that in those countries where. 

the government has controlled the water and leased it to those who used 

it and used the land which was irrigated, the farming has been profitable to the farmer, and in those countries where private individuals 

have controlled and leased the water it has not been profitable to th& 

farmer? 
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Mr. STEW ART. Where monopolies have been allowed farming has 

not been profitable; but the Western States have taken aetion against 

the monopolies. California put a provision in its constitution that if 

indiyiduals sold water the localities, the counties and cities, should re~ulate the va:rbe by their boards of supervisors. Irrigation must be 

regulated by some governmental authority to prevent monopoly. 

The Supreme Court of the United States have recognized to some ex- tent the principles applicable to that part of the country. They decided in the case of Brodervs. The Water Company, inllOUnitedStates 

Reporm, that when water had been diverted for mining or agricultural 

purpo es and the ]and was subsequently sold by the United States, the 

purchaser took it subject to the rights of prior appropriators. That 

principle will have to be recognized. 

I did not intend to discuss this question now, for it is too large a q,uestion. It involves two-fifths ofthelands of the United States, and a rule will have to be applied different from what is applied in the 

Atlantic States, following the principles of the common law, making 

them elastic and making them tO fit the case where water ·must be used 

for irrigation. -

Let us have from the Secretary of the Interior the information as to 

how these streams are affected, and also if any remedy can be applied. 

I believe a remedy can be applied. I believe if the water is stored in 

the mountains, which it undoubtedly will be some day, and brought 

down in the proper seasons, there may be a great deal more in the riv- ers then than if they staid in the ordinary condition, the water going 

down in flood time and being wasted. · This is a great question and the resnl\i is a very important one. It 

is au important inquiry, but ifweinvolve theSecretaryofthe Interior 

in the question oflaw he will answer it in someway that may mislead 

people, that may do harm, because he has not the means or the time 

to make such an investigation. 

I will say of the courts that the courts in the States and Territories 

most affected are conforming to the condition which nature requires. 

The State of Colorado has the best system of laws governing irrigation 

that now exists in any country in the world, so far as that State is con- cerned, except the part of it which relates to storing water. It has not 

the right to do that yet, because the places whe.re water C..'\U be stored are on Government larid. But let us get this information as to what 

effect the hrigation is having and what can be done, and let my amendment be added to the resolution, keeping the Secretary free from this 

troublesome legal questionas to riparian rightswhichdependnotupon 

any fixed rule but the condition of the country, which it seems to me it 

would be unwise to call upon him for. 

ltlr. MANDERSON. Mr. President, I heartily approve of the reso- lution of the Senator from Kansas. I believe that this exploration by 

the Int.erior Department will be one that will be productive of great 

good to the West. I do not, however, favor the amendment proposed 

by the Senator from Nevada if it is to go to the extent of striking out 

the last part of the resolution of the Senator: from Kansas, and if the 

words which he proposes are to be substituted. I have no particular 

objection to their being added to the resolution itself, although I believe that that inV'estigation is already fully provided for in the clause 

of the sundry civil appropriation bill which appropriates quite a sum of money for the purpose. I do not understand that that clause is yet 

lost in the conference on the disagreeing vote of the two Houses. 

1\Ir. TELLER. It may not become a law. · 

Mr. MANDERSON. It may not become a law, but I think it perhaps will be adopted as a part of that bill. 

Mr. STEWART. Upon the suggestion of the Senator from Colorado 

and the Senator from Nebraska, I will modifY my amendment so a.s to 

make it an addition to the resolution, and riot to strike out part of it 

and substitute these words. 

:Mr. :UANDERSON. If it is plaeed in that form I have no objection 

to it personally. 

Mr. STEW ART. Let it be so modified. 

Mr. :MANDERSON. ·I can not, however, let the statement of the Senator from Colorado [Mr. TELLER] go without making further suggestion. 

I admit the fact that by reason of the peculiar condition of things in the 

far West, and under the peculiar conditions existing in what we choose 

to call the arid regions of the We t., there has come a very important 

departure from the principles of the common law with reference to the 

rights of riparian owners, just as there has come in the mining section 

represented by the Senator from Colorado a change in the common law as to the ownership of land by reason of what is known as miners' 

custom or miners' law. 

I realize that there is a right in those owning land adjacent to the 

upper portions of the .Arkansas and Platte Rivers to the use for the purpo es of irrigation and the improvement of their lands of the waters of 

those rivers even to the entire ·exclusion of those who are so unfortunate as to live further down the stream; but I do not believe that that 

departure from the principles of the common law permits the character 

of irrigation which I understand is in vogue in the State of Colorado and 

in other parts of the country wbere ditch companies are formed, which 

construct large ditches, carrying the water to a great distance beyond 

the banks of the stream and irrigating lands not naturally subject to 

irriJ!;ation from the streams themselves. If there are such enterprises 

as those, and I understand there are, then certainly no principle such as is contended for by the Senator from Colorado can obtain. 

Wbatever the fact may be, I earnestly hope that this investigation 

may-be had by the Interior Department so that we may have a full 

understanding of all the conditions prior to legislation at the next ses- sion of Congress. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment 

proposed by the Senator from Nevada [ !\Ir. STEW ART]. 

Mr. PLUMB. I will accept the amendment as an addition, adding 

what the Senator from Nevada proposes as a separate inquiry. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution will be read as now modified. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to inquire and report to the Senate at its next session the extent to which the diversion of the waters of the Platte and Arkansas 1-tivers and their tributaries in Colorado for irriga~ 

tion and other pw·poselt affects the flow of the waters of those streams in the 

lower valleys, and especially during t.he growing season, and whether iq his 

opinion the title conveyed by the Government to lands fronting on said streams covers the privilege of diverting water therefroxp. beyond that necessary for use thereon for irrigation and mining purposes, and to report what action is needed to protect the rights of riparian owners along the waters of said streams in the 

States of Kansas and Nebraska, and what measures can be devised to increase 

the flow of water in those streams during such season. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The Senator from Kansas having 

accepted the proposed amendment, it is a part of the original resolUtion, and the question recurs on agreeing to the resolution as modified. 

The resolution was agreed to. 

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. 

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

Clerk, announced the appointment of Ur. BUTTERWORTH in place of 

Ur. RYAN, resigned, as one of the managers on the part of the House 

at the conference on the bill (H. R. 10234) making appropriations for 

the support of the Army for the :fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, and 

for other purposes. 

The message also announced that the House had passed the following bill and joint r~solution; in which it requested the concurrence of 

the Senate: 

A bill (H. R. 9623) to provide for printing Government securities in 

the highest style of art; and 

Joint resolution (H~ Res. 219) to continue the provisions of a joint 

resolution entitled a ''Joint resolution to provide temporarily for the 

expenditures of the Government." · 

ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. 

The message also announced that the Speaker of the House had 

signed the following enrolled bills; and they_were thereupon signed by 

the President pro tempore: 

A bill (S. 899) for the relief of :Mary M. Briggs; 

A bill (S. 1070) granting a pension to Mrs. :Mary R. Armstrong; 

A bill (S. 1880) declaring that certain water-reserve lands in the 

State of Wisconsin are and have been subject to the provisions of the 

act of Congress entitled ''An act granting to railroads ~he right of.way 

through the public lands of the United States," approved March 3, 

1875; 

A bill (S. 2721) granting a pension to Jackson Chapman; 

A bill (S. 2899) granting a pension to Harriet Welch; 

A bill (S. 3076) granting a pension to Mary M. Shattuck; 

A bill (S. 3166) granting a pension to William F. Pike; 

A bill (S. 3226) granting the Leavenworth Rapid Transit Railway 

Company the right to construct and operate its railroad through a portion of the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kans.; 

A bill (S. 3304) to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the 

United States; · A bill (S. 3474) amendatory of an act authorizing the construction 

of a bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Mo., approved 

February 3, 1887; 

A bill (H. R. 165) for the relief of H. C. Ma~kham; 

A bill (H. R.1761) for the reliefofthe First NationarBank of Portland, Oregon, for money advanced the Oregon Iron Works, the con- tractor in building the United States revenue-cutter Thomas Corwin, 

aud for other purposes; 

A bill (H. R. 3902) for the relief of Sophia B. Moore; 

A bill (H. R. 6371) granting a pension to Jesse M. Stillwell; 

A bill (H. R. 7013) to place the name of Delia Newman on the pension-roll; and 

A bill (H. R. 8087) for the relief of Thomas Strodder. 

LAND SUITS AND LAND PATENTS. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before tB.e Senate the 

resolutions coming over from yesterday, submitted by the Senator from 

Nevada [Mr. STEW ART], calling for information in relation to land 

suits and land patents. Shall the resolutions be read at length? 

Mr. BECK. Let them be read at length. I should like before they 

pass to call t.he attention of the Senator from Colorado [Mr. TELLER], 

who was once Secretary of the Interior, to the resolutions.· It seems to me that it is going to be very much like the information we had the 

other day called for by the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. CHAND- LER J, where nearly a ton of documents came in. I do not know whether 

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they were ordered to be printed or not. If yon count the time employed to work them up and the cost of printing them, I think the 

documents that came in the other day would cost more than it would 

cost to run the Naval Academy at Annapolis for a year. These reso- lutions look to me as if it would require months to procure the information; but perhaps not. I should like to have the Senator from Colorado make :1 statement about it. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The resolutions will be read. 

-The Chief Clerk read the resolutions submHted yesterday by :Ur. 

STEWABT, as follows~ 

.Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interlor be, 'and he is hereby, directed to furnish the Senate without delay with a statement of what disposition has been 

made of the following items of appropri:l.tion in the acts of August 4, 1886, and 

March 3, 1887, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Govern- ment for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1887, and June 30, 1888, respectively, 

and for other purp03es, hereinafter quoted, giving the nam.eofeach person who 

has received any portion of said appropriations and the amount received by 

each and the character of service each-performed, together with the residence 

of each of said persons at the ti.J.ne he was selected or appointed to perform the 

service for which the money was paid, namely: 

Depredations on public timber: 'l'o meet the c:xpenses of protecting timber on the public lands, $75,000. - Protecting public lands: For t.he protection of public lands from illegal and 

fraudulent entry or appropriation, ~90,000. 

Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings held by reg- isters and receivers, under instructions from the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulententriesare of that character or have been made 

in compliance with law, $20,000. 

Settlement of claims for swamp-land and swamp--land indemnity: For salaries 

and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp-lands, and for 

indemnity for swamp-lands, .,.20.000: Pro-vided, That agents and others em- ployed under this and the appropriations for "Depredations on public timber" 

and" Protecting public lands," while traveling on duty, shall be allowed per diem, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate n()t exceeding $!!.50 per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation. (Act August 4, 1886.) 

Depredations on public timber: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on tile public lands, $75,000. Prot~cting public lands: For the protection of public lands from illegal and 

fraudulent entry or appropriation, $100,000. 

Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings held by order 

of the General L~nd Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, $20,000. 

Settlement of claims for swamp-land and swamp-land indemnity: For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp-lands, and 

for indemnity for swamp-lands, $20,000: Provided, That agents and others em- ployed under this and the appropriations for" Depredations on public timber" 

and" Protecting public lands," while traveling on duty, shall be allowed per diem. in lieu of sub istence, at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation. (Act March 3, 1887.) And be it further resolved Thn.t the Secretary of the Interior furnish the Senate 

without delay with the number of applications for patents for public lands, in- cluding both mineral and agricultural lands, now pending and undetermined in 

his Department, stating the number of those pending before the Commissioner 

of the General Land Office and the number on appeal to the Secretary of the In- terior; and also a statement of the number of patents issued in each of the public-land States and Territories during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, and 

the amount of land covered by each of said patents. -

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

resolutions. 

Mr. MORGAN. I think the resolutions ought to go to the Committee 

on Public Lunda. The second resolution, I think, is entirely covered 

by reports which have come in from the General Land Office, showing 

on the 30th day of June the number of applications that were pending there for patents and the whole scheme of the business of the Land 

Office. Perhaps that report. does not show how many cases were then 

pending before the Secretary of the Interior or how many were then 

pending before the Commissioner of the General Land Office, but I am quite sure that a very close approximation could .be had to the actual 

state of the bn...<Uness of• that office in reference to the issue of patents 

by consulting the report of the Commissioner of the General Land 

Office made on the 30th day of June. " 

I can hardly conceive the use that is to be made of this information 

after we get it. I am a member of the Committee on Public Lands, 

and I do not know of any question that is pending there which would 

call for the information or for that which is contained in the preceding 

part of the series of resolutions. '£he object of both the resolutions 

seems to be to inquire into the matter of how the money in two appropriation acts has been expended, requiring a very cri,tical and exact 

history of every-expenditure, and including a good many matters that 

I tpink the Senate would hardly find much interest in reading or in 

knowin~. 

I can not conceive what legislative purpose can be aimed at by the 

Sena~r from Nevada. in asking for all of this detailed information. 

There may be something that he has a suspicion about as to misappropriations. I do not know; but if there is any instance that can be cited 

of a misappropriation or anything that looks like it, I suppose the Senate would hardly refuse to make an inquiry into it on the l'uggestion 

of the Senator from Nevada. But to put in a general fishing resolution 

here for the purpose of getting information in a broad, general way as 

to the history of every expenditure under two appropriation acts, it 

seems to me is unwise and unnecessary. 

The resolutions, as it appears to me, would require the expenditure 

of a very large amount of money and the empl(}ymenb of a large num- ber of clerks. The Senator requires in the resolutions that these statements shall be furnished '"without delay.n I suppose that it would 

cost the Government of the United States in the loss of the services ot 

the different clerks in the Department a large amount of money, and I 

also the necessary delay of the- current public business in order to gratify the Senator from Nevada in his researches into the history of the 

expenditures under these appropriation act-!3. 

Now let us see what is comprehended in the resolutions: 

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and ho is hereby, directed to furnish the Senate without delaywtth a statement of what disposltion has been 

made of the following items of appropriation in the acts of August 4, 1886, and 

March 3, 1!!87- -

Two fiscal yearsmaking appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal years ending June 30,1887, and June 30,1888, respectively, and for other pur poses. 

Then the first resolution proceeds to quote the features of the different acts of appropriation and the amounts of money that were appropriated in order to show to what the resolutions are applicable and to 

indicate the special points upon which the Senn.tor from Nevada desires 

information. Not only that, but be requires that the Secretary of the 

Interior shall proceed and give " the name of ea-ch person who has re· 

ceived any portion of said appropriations." I suppose that it would 

be almost a matter of impossibility to give the name of every person 

who has received any portion oftboseappropriations; but suppose there 

is a voucher showing the expenditure of every dollar into the hands 

of the different individuals who have been employed by the Government, or who in any wise have rendered any service, or to whom any 

expenditure has been made in the execution of these appropri:ttion 

acts, what necessity can there be for having "the name of each person 

who has received any portion of said appropriations" brought before 

the Senate and the amount received by each, and the character of service each performed?'' That would req nire a very detailed history of 

the character of the service performed by each individual in respect of 

each of the appropriations for the two fiscal years, covering a large 

number of subjects, to which I shall presently refer. 

Together withHe wants alsothe residence of each of said persons at the time he was selected or appointed lo 

perform the service for which the money was paid. 

I can not understand why the residence of a person who might be 

employed can enlighten the Senate of the United State..'i upon any question of expenditure. It may or it may not, but it does seem to me that 

it is merely an effort to dig up everything that has been done in respect 

of this Department at an enormous expense to the Government of the 

United States and to the great delay of other current public business, 

and that the resolutions would inflict upon the Government a misfortune without any good to result from them so far as I can see. 

Here are the subjects to which the resolutions relate. In the particulars to which I have referred the Secretary of the Interior must report, without delay, upon these appropriations: 

Depredn tions on public timber: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, $75,000. , 

That item would include quite a history, I should say. 

Protecting public lands : For the protection of public lands from illegal and 

fraudulent entry or appropriation,$90,000. 

This must be of course doubled. because the report covers two :fiscal 

years and the appropriation which is recited here covers but one: 

Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings held by reg- isters and receivers, under instructions from the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been 

made in compliance with law, 20,000. 

Settlement of claims for swamp-land and swamp-land indemnity: For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp-lands, and 

for indemnity for swamp-lands, 20,000. 

Then there is a proviso: 

Provided, That agents and others employed under this and the appropriations 

for "Depredations on public timber" and "Protecting public lands," while 

traveling on duty, shall be allowed per diem, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding $2.50 per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation. 

Those items would have to be examined under two appropriation 

laws. The next isDepredations on public timber: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, $75,000. 

Every transaction for two years connected with depredations on the • 

public lands or the timber on the public lands is required to be reported 

in the most minute particular. 

Protecting public lands : For the protection of public lands from illegal and 

fraudulent entry or appropriation, 8100,000. 

Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings held by order 

of the General Land Office to determine whether allegedfraudulent entries arc of that character or have been made in compliance with law, $20,000. 

That would necessitate the production, I suppose, of all the transactions of the different special agents, including their reports. 

Settlement of claims for swamp-land and swamp-land indemnity: For sala· 

ries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp-lands, and 

for indemnity for swamp-lands, $:!0,000. 

There is a proviso to that part of the inquiry: 

Provided, '.rbat agents and others employed under this and the appropriations 

for "Depredations on public timber" and ''Protecting public lands," while 

traveling on duty, shall be allowed per diem, in lieu of subsistence, at a. rate not exceeding $3 per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation. (Act 

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Then comes the second resolution, upon 1which I colll.lllented .a.t first, rnle that no case should be advanced, but asked if they could not mak-e 

relating to the number tOf applications for patents, etc. the cases from Alaska "special" in some way, so as to equalize them 

Mr. President, I do not think the Senate will do the Senator from with the others, and what time the person who wrote the letter might 

Nevada any injustice in referring these resolutions, which are of a very apticipate his patent or the consideration of his case. I received a 

extraordinary character, to the Committee on Public Lands and let reply that his case would be reached some time late in the year 1890. 

them investigate them and see what good is to result from having all That was the only explanation. The disposition of such cases ought 

of this elaborate and very expensive information brought to the atten- not to :require years. It is a long time in .a mining ca.mp to wait fonr 

tion of the Senate. I know of no bill, no resolution of this body that or five years for mere :routine business; and if the De))artment is thus 

seems to make this information in the slightest degree relevant, or that clogged it is important to know what amount of business is there so 

it could have any other purpose than merely to gratify some desire of that we can predicate legislation. 

the Senator from Nevada to make an investigation into matters which I say the great appropriations now are for investigations and for spe- are perfectly open to him. He has a perfect right to go there and ex- dal agents that are infesting that country, and there are many people 

amine the files of the office. I dare say the Senator has never made who think they are unnecessary. The system of secret spies has not 

an application for anything of this kind. No demand bas been made worked well in any -country. Secret spies never did work well; the 

probably-we h.ave heard of none at least----upon the Secretary .of the star-chamber business over a vast extent of countcy like that will do, 

Interior or the Commissioner of the General Land Office tor the pro- where no one is allowed to see the reports or ask any questions. Men's 

duction and examination by any Senator, or any Member of Congress, cases are tried and dispo ed of without a hearing. Patents are denied 

or any other authorized per::;on into the details of this matter. Sup- on these reports, which are acted 11pon as officiaL It is a system that 

pose I should come in here, having perhaps some quarrel with the is working great hardship and it is costing a Ycery large amount of 

War De-partment, some desire to inspect all of their dealings, and I money. 

should demand that the War Department sliould send to the Senate, We ought to knowhow that money is expended. It is a speeialcase. 

to be printed here for the public information. a detailed statement of I concur with the Senator from Alabama that we can not inquire inta 

every expenditure made by the Departmi!nt and of every hnman being all the details of the ordinary expenditures of the Government. That 

concerned in the receipt of money or its expenditure in the War De- would be absurd; but when a system of~ionage has grown up in the 

p:rrtment, or iri. the Navy, or in the Treasury, or the Post-Office De- country and a large force of spies is traversing the land and it is conpartment. tended that it is necessary to continue thiseystem, I tbhink we should 

The requirement would 'be just as reasonable, so far as I can see at know .something '()f it. I am opposed to the system, and I think we 

le.ast, as the requirement of the Senator from Nevada. ought to have legislation to cut it .off. But as long as the system is 

A long time ago we abandoned the idea of its being necessary to held to be necessary let us know how the money is used. That is an 

print and ciJ:culate before the world the itemized statements of all the I ask. And inasmuch as the Department is ;go far behind that we ean 

expenditures of the United States Government. · What a series of not have the ordinary business ~one, that men must wait for _years fo.r 

enormous volumes it would fill if we should undertake to do work of their pre-emption and mineral entries to be .considered, we ought to 

that kind in the reports that we require from the Departments. When- know the number of cases there and !What legislation is necessary to 

-ever that rule is found not to be longer useful, when some necessity is facilitate them. · 

found for departing from it, it ought to be upon a case stated, it ought If more force isneededin that Department of t'he routine business to 

to bo in reference to some complaint made of a -certain officer, or De- fadlitatetheconsiderationofmineralentriesand pre-emptionand homepartment, or bureau. of this Government in respect of the manner of stead claims, the Umted States is bound to give what force is neeessar_y 

expenditure. The Senate ofthe UnitedStatesoughtnottoberequired to do the bnsinesswithin a reasonable time. iitis further behind now 

in a case as broad and as general as this is tb bring forward by itsreso- than it has e"\'"er been in the history of the country~ There bas never 

lution all of the informaliion that any Senator may choose to have Sent before been .a time when the delays amounted to a practical denial of 

in here and printed merely fc:n his own information or his own grati.fi- justice as they do -now, and the accumulation in the Department, I uncation. The Senator from Nevada, I think, owes it to the Senate that derstand, is increasing. If there is not appropriation enough fo:r that, 

he should state soms reason, some particular fact o:r proposition that I would make more. If the appropriations for this system of secret 

he has in his mind with reference to which he would ask the Senate to investigation.are necessary, let them go on. .All I ask is 1:o know what 

make this very large appropriation of money. is done with the money, ann let us understand what the1>ystem is, so 

Mr. ALLISON. I move now that this snbjectgo over for to-day. that we can judge of it. I believe the system is bad. l ma_y be wrol.lg, 

Mr. STEWART. I should like to make an explanation after what but let us see what has been done with themoneyemployed,llowmany 

has been said. I will not occupy more than five or ten minutes. persons have been employed, and wha't services have been perfonned. 

Mr. ALLISON. I yield to the Senator from Nevada. I do not think _ There is no way to act until we have cthis information. If l get up 

there is any particular explanation neededJ but if the 'Senator thinks here and charge this system with being :evil, working -evil, and being a 

so he may go on. terrible curse to the people of that r-egion, I shall be told that I am mad 

:M.r. STEW ART. I want to s:ty a few words. at something and go into the newspapers and arraign the officials; but 

M:r. ALLISON. Very well. U' -we have the information so that we can see what is done with the 

Mr. STEW ART. Mr. President, there is a matter pending before money:, .and if \We 'can have the information so that we can know why 

Congress in regard to which this info.rmation, if we had it, would be these delays are made, why we have to wait years and years to have 

very important in its consideration. There is a like appropriation and our applications for patents .considered, then Congress will know how a. larger one in the present bill; and a system of spending several hnn- to act, and not till then. 

dred thousand dollars each year for special agents for guarding the pub- 'l'his .Department is -a mystery; it is a closed book to Congress. Conlie lands and for various purposes has grown up. It is a new thing. gress appropriates whatever is asked withou.t inquiring what is done 

It has got to be the principal expense, the largest item ,of expense in with the money. Here is a case where .a f\ystem has grown np which 

.administering our public lands. 1 everybody who will think about it a. moment must see can not b~t he 

Mr. MORGAN. Will the Senator from Nevada allow ·me? I do full of ·evils. Have :we not a right to ask for detailed i-nformation in 

not know whether the President of the Senate understood that 1 made this particular case? The labor involved will not be great; but if it a motion to refer. should be great, the information called for is uf infinite value. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair did not understand the I will now yield to the Senator from Iowa. 

Senator to submit the motion. Mr. ALLISON. 1f this matter can be disposed of without further 

Mr. MORGAN. I did. debate 1 will yield a moment. 

1t1r~ STEW ART. It has grown up, .n.nd you have in the sundry civil 'The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The ·qnestic:m :recnrs on the .motion 

bill. between two and three hundred thou...~nd dollars-! think it is -of the Senator from Alabama .to :refer the :resolution to the .Committee o>er "300, 000, taking all the items into consideration-for the purpose on Public Lands. 

of investigating, employing special agents, and the like; and there are M.r. MORGAN. There are otherSenato:rsbesidesmyselfwho desire a large number of them employed. I believe most of it is nnneces~ ' to 'Speak further about this resolution and look int-o it. 

sary, and I know that it might be rendered altbgether unnecessary M:r. ALLISON. Then I move to proceed to the consideration of the with the p:roper legislation. I think, as it has been in vogue some conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill 

time, it would be well to seehow this money has been ex:pended, and The motion was .agreed to. 

what isthecharacterofthe service, and who are the persons thatha.ve 

been employed, so that we shall have some light on the subject. 

Then as to another portion of the resolutions, wherein inquiry is 

mane as to the number of eases pending in the Department undisposed 

ofJ tha.t is important. Fo:r example, I .received a letter .a few days 

ag<> from a gentleman in Alaska, inquiring when he might expect a 

patent for a mineral application. He stated in his letter that it is a 

long distance and he did not have an equal chance with those people 

who li\ed ncar by; that it took sometimes six months ora year to get 

a communication from where he was. I addressed a note to the Depari ment, and suggested that I did not desire to interfere with their 

MF.SSkGE 'FRO:\£ THE HOUSE. • 

A message from i.he House of Representatives, b_y Mr. ·CLA.RK, its 

Clerk, announced that the House bad passed a bill (H. R. 10896) mak· 

in:t appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropri.ations for the 

:fiscal year ending .June 307 1888, and for prior years, and for other 

purposes; in which it eqll.e;:)--ted :the concurrence of the Senate. 

1ll:ESSAGE ON .FISHING ThTTERESTS. 

.Mr. .SHERMAN. I ask unanimous consent ,of the Senate that;the 

order to print the_ \recent message of the President be .made., leaving the 
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question of reference to stand open for debate. I simply want the 

message printed so that it may be used by the committee. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It will be so ordered, if there be no 

objection. 

THE LOUISIANA ELECTION. 

Mr. PASCO. I desire to give notice that on Friday next I wish to 

call up t.he resolution offered by the Senator from New Hampshire [l\fr. 

CHA-NDLER] with reference to investigating the recent ·election in 

Louisiana and submit some remarks thereon. 

SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. 

The Senate resumed the consideration of the report of the committee 

of conference on the disagreeing votes of the 'two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 10540) ma,king appropriations for 

sundry civil expenses of the Go>ernment for the fiscal year ending June 

30, 1889, and for other purposes. 

Mr. BEH.RY. Mr. President, the Senator from Maryland, who sits 

farthest from me [Mr. GoRMAN], expects to acldress the Sen..'lte this 

morning, according to the notice given by the Senator from Missouri 

[Mr. CoCKRELL] yesterday. Before he begins his r€lmarks, however, 

he has kindly consented that I may submit a few remarks in answer to 

the statements made yesterday by the Senator from Maine [Mr. HALE]. 

The Senator from Maine said, insubstance-Idonotpretend to quote 

his exact language-that appropriations were being made for public 

buildings in Southern States largely in excess of those which were made 

in Northern States, and that it was impossible to secure the passage of 

bills for that purpose in the cities and towns located in the northern 

section of the Union, while they were easily procured for public buildings in the southern section of the Union. He cited as an instance of 

that an appropriation at Helena, Ark., which, I presume, he intended 

should be taken as an exait~ple of an improper appropriation. I sought 

at the time to get an opportunity to reply, but did not obtain it. 

I will say that while it is true as the Senator stated that in 1880 the 

population of llelena wa.s something less than 4, 000, yet I a.m confident 

that that population has been more than doubled and that there are at least 8,000 r(lsidents in that town at this time. I will state further- more that the town is located upon the Mississippi River, and is surrounded by cotton lands that are equal· to any cotton li:mds in the 

world; that it is in the midst of a wealthy and intelligent community, 

and it is a town that is rapidly growing and rapidly progressing. There 

has been a Federal court there for a number of years, having jurisdiction in a large number of counties, and considerable business is transacted at that court. It was almost absolutely necessary that a building should be provided for the use of that court, and also for the postoffice, and $75,000 were appropriated for that purpose by the present 

Cong;ress, and the President signed the bill. 

Now, Mr. President, I do not think the fact that $75,000 were given 

for that growing town of8,000 inhabitantswouldjnstifythestatement 

made by the Senator that larger appropriations were going to the Southern States than were goin~ to the Northern States. The Senator from 

Missouri [Mr. VEST] stated yesterday, and I wish to repeat it to-day, 

that for public-building purposes the State of Maine has had appropriations amounting to $2,231,114. The State of Arkansas has had altogether $309,317. I am not sure whether Helena and Texarkana are included in that amount or not, probably not. The State of Maine 

had in 1880 a population of 648,936; Arkansas had at that time 802,: 

525. Arkansas to-day has more than a million of inhabitants. I do 

not know what the increase of population has been in the State of 

Maine, yet there is the State of Maine in 1880 with 200,000 less population than the State of Arkansas, and yet the State of Uaine had nearly 

$2,000,000 more appropriated for public buildings thauArkansas had. 

I submit, in view of that fact, if the Senator was justified in saying 

that these appropriations were going South and they could not be procured for the Northern States. 

While I am upon the :floor I wish to answer another proposition made 

by the Senator from Maine. The Senator from Maine complained 

that the Administration was extravagant, that large appropriations 

and extravagant appropriations had been made under Mr. Cleveland's 

Administration, exceeding those that were made UJlder the administration of Mr. Arthur, and yet I do not believe that a single appropriation of any consequence has passed the Senate that the Senator 

from Maine did not support, except I believe he voted against the 

Blair bill. 

In addition to that, the Senator from 1\Iainewhenhemadethatstatement knew that twenty-five millions of that increase, a.s was admitted 

by the Senator from Iowa [1\Ir. ALLISON] yesterday, was accounted 

for by increased pension appropriations, and yet the Senator from Maine 

earnestly supported every increase of pension that has been presented 

for consideration here. Not only that, but he voted for a bill that 

would have increased the appropriations at least -twenty-five millions 

• annually, and, as was generally believed, fifty millions annually; and 

when the President of the United States vetoed that bill be was denounced as being the enemy of the soldiers of the Union. Yet the Senator from Maine knowing this fact, parades this appropriation of $25,000,-

000 here as an evidence of the extraYagance on the part of this Administration after he himself had earnestly supported it. 

Another cause of increase, I am informed, is largely due to the fact 

of the naval appropriation, appropriations for building naval vessels, 

and yet no Senator upon this floor was more earnest in his advocacy of 

large appropriations for building a navy than the Senator from Maine, 

and I think in every instance he advocated larger appropriations than were given by Congress. · 

. Another cause that will account for this supposed increase of expend- ~tures, as I underetood the Senator from Iowa to say yesterday, is the 

mcreased cost of the postal service, and yet, 1\lr. President, ngain and 

again Senators upon that side of the Chamber denounced the PostmasterGeneral for his parsimony because he would not spend more money on 

the postal service. It ha.s been done on more than one occasion, and 

they tried to force upon him $800,000 per annum more than · he asked 

for to run for ten years more than he wanted, money that he did not 

need for ten years, and yet the Senator from Maine says that this Democratic Administration has been extravagant, when he voted to force 

that $800,000 upon him which he said he did not need for the postal 

service. Yet., 1\Ir. President, if that $800,000 had been appropriated 

by Congress, and $25,000,000 more, annually, for pensions had been 

voted, this would have been arraigned by the Senator from 1\Iaine as an element of Democratic extravagance. 

Ilfr. President, I submit that that is not fair politics, I submit that 

that is an unjust impn tation upon the Administration, when it is known 

that in nine cases in ten for almost every appropriation that passed 

that side ofthe Chamber has stood solidly in the affirmative, and that 

whatever objection there was came fmm this sid.e of the Chamber. I 

a-ssert here to-day, while I have not the :figures all before me (that 

counting one year's appropriation of the Blair bill), that bills which 

have passed the Senate during: this present session, a Republican Senate 

appropriated not less that $50,000,000 which the House has refused to 

pass; that bills have heen passed here in which at least $50,000,000 more have been appropriated by the action of the Republican Senate 

than has been by the Democratic House of Representatives during the 

present Congress. One item I remember, that amounts to about $20,-

000,000, was to refund the direct taxes to the States. That bill passed 

this Chamber with very few negative notes upon the Republican side, as 

I remember it, and it has been earnestly pressed in the other House by 

Republicans, and the Democrats have refused to pass it. 

1\Ir. BLAIR. May I ask the Senator a question? 

Mr. BERRY. Certainly. 

1\fr. BLAIR. In estimating the appropriations recommended by the 

Senate and the amount specified in the educational bill, does the Sena- tor estimate for $79,000,000 in the edncational bill, or the $9,000,000 

which is the appropriation for a year? 

1\Ir. BERRY. I estimatedforoneyear,which Ithon;;~;htw:v;$8,000,-

000. The Senator says it was $9,000,000, which adds one million 

mM& · 

Mr. BLAIR. For eight years t~ amount ·would have been $79,-

000,000. 

l\f r. BERRY. Tl1e first year would have been $9,000,000. 

1\Ir. BLAIR. :Between $9,000,000 and $10,000,000; nearly $10,000,-

000. 

Mr. BERRY. Then I stated in round numbers that I find the direct tax would have involved an appropriation of $20,000,000, the pension bill that has passed here would not have been less than $25, 00\l, 000 

more; that, in addition to the $9,000,000 for this one year of the Blair 

bill, would make more than $50,000,000, to say nothing about the in- crease of the large appropriations that have been made for public buildings and various other purposes, to which I presume the Senator from 

1\laryland will allude when he comes to speak. But in round numbers it is sa.fe to say than $50,000,000 has been appropriated by this 

Senate that the House of Representatives have not yet concurred in, 

and we have rio reason to believe they will. ' 

So far as I am concerned I simply state that it can not be shown 

outside of these items that there has been any extravagance in this 

Administration over and above the administration which has preceded 

it; and I think it is unjust and unfair to go to the country with such a statement as the Senator from 1\Iaine has made, that this Congress 

i:; making large appropriations fo.P tbe Southern States, when the facts 

show that it is not true-t.o go to the country with the statement that 

this Administration has been extravagant beyond that of the past in 

appropriating money, which is not true, and when ·the Senator from 

Maine has been the most earnest advocate not only of the appropriation bills that passed, but for the appropriation of millions of dollars 

which the Democratic House of Representatives has refused to pass. 

Mr. DOLPH. 1\Ir. President, in the course of the debate yesterd-ay 

the Senator frotn New Jersey [Mr. McPHERSON] said: 

I notice that t.here are large appropriations asked for in this bill. I believe 

that a large appropriation was made for a public building at Portland, Oregon, some years ago. The cost of the public building at Portland alone, if my mem- ory serves me aright, is more than equal to the entire cost of aU t.he public 

buildings in New Jersey. 

Also, in another part of the debate later on, after asking how much was appropriated for Nevada, he said: 

How much :for Oregon? 

That is, how much was appropriated for Oregon? 

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:Mr. President, I do not know why Oregon should have been dragged story of that building is required for the post-office. The collectors of 

into this discussion. I sought an opportunity yesterday to answer the customs, the present one and his predecessor, say that the accommodaSenutor from New Jersey, but was unable to obt.ain it. The fact is that tions in the present building are insufficient for the public business; 

there is not a dollar in this bill for the construction of a public build- besides, the location is not a proper one fora custom-house. Tbe Supr..ring in Oregon. As the bill passed the Senate it contained a Senate vising Architect has recommended during every Congress I have ~en 

amendment, as follows: in the Senate the construction of a new building. The Senate during . For custom-bouse at Portland, Oregon: For th~ purpose of rc_imbursing the the Forty-eighth Congress passed a bill making an appropriativn for 

CJtyof.Portland,Oregon,formoneyndva!JCedoutJtsgeneralfundmpaymentfor the construction of a custom-house in Portland The SenaJ.e ourinO' street Improvements assessed to the Umted States on the custom-house block . . <. • ~ o 

in that city, between 1\Iarch 1, 1869, and January 1, 1888, $1,271.82. the Forty-mnth Congress passed a bill and sent It to the House of H.epreEven this amendment it seems the Senate conferees have been com- sentatives making an appropriation for the construction of a cmtompelled by the opposition in the other branch of Congress to drop, and b?use at Por~and. The Senate during the ~iftieth C?ngress passed _a 

they report in favor of receding from it. b~ and sent It to the House of Representat~~es makmg an ~ppropnUnder the laws of Oregon, in the city of Portland, the streets are im- a:10n. of $500,000 fore, custon;t-house at t~e mty of Po:tland; ~nd con- proved and kept in repair by an .assessment on the adjacent property. s1de:mg the present P?P~lat10n ~nd busmess of the c1ty and 1ts prosThe United States owns a block of ground on which there is a public pechve growth, no b~ildmg c~stm~ less than that can be erected. to 

building and owns the fee of the streets to the center of the street on accommodate the busmcss which WJll compare at all favorably w1th 

each side of the block. There is no provision of law for improving this ?ther public buildings ~elonging t~ the co~nty as well as public buildpart of the streets, which belongs to the United States and adjoins the rngs erected by the Umted States ~n ~bat mty. . property, except by an assessment on the property. As this a83essment W~at has b~en the fate of t~e billrn the Ho.use of. Representatn~es? 

can not be collected, the city of Portland has been compelled out of the I be~1eve. dunng the ~orliy-e1ghth Co_ngress 1t recmved no attentiOn. 

general fund to make these street improvements from time to time and Poss1~l~ m the Forty-.nmth Congress J.t was fa.vorabl1 reported. In 

has presented a claim to the Department. The estimate has been re- the. Fiftieth Congress 1t was rep~rted favorably and w1th a ;ecommenpeatedly made for the payment of it. The Senate Committee on Ap- d~t10n to reduce the amount to $350,000. I~wascutdownm theCompropriations saw fit to put an amendment on the bill to provide for the mttt~e of the :Whole to ~200, 000, and here 1t stan~s. . . . payment of it, and still the House insists that this payment shall not It IS true. th.at I baye mtroduced a bill for a public buildmg m Portbe made, and this amendment is the only amendment relative to public land, and 1t IS ~eq~red an~ recommende~ by every o~cer of the 

buildings or the grounds for a public building in the city of Portland Government haVIng rnformatlon on the subJect, and the btll ought to 

or ili the State of Oregon contained in this bill. be_p~ed. I am only so~ry that as th~ b_ill 'Yas no~ pas~ed ~he approMr. McPHERSON. May I ask the Senator from Oregon if he bas pnat10n f~r the <J?DStrnc?-on of the bmld~g IS not rn this_ bi_ll. 

not introduced a bill into this Concrress for a post-office or some public But I dtd not riSe to diScuss the necess1ty for a new buildmg, and I 

building in the State of Oregon? o should n~t have referred ~o i_t or.to what has been done looking to the 

Mr. DOLPH. I will explain that to the Senator in a moment-. The constructiOn of such a bmldmg 1f the Senator had not referred to the 

Senator said that this bill contained $600,000 for public buildings in matter. 'Oregon, when it does not contain a dollar. I wish to say further that I think this amendment providing for the 

Mr. McPHERSON. I simply wished to ask, owing to the expla- payment of the cost of improving the adjacent street to the customnation that was made yesterday by the Senator from Iowa [Mr. AL- house at Portland is a matter upon which the committee of conference 

LISON], who bas charge of the bill, in respect to the public buildings ought to insist. SomeotberappropriationsforOregon have been dropped 

that appropriations were asked for, if the Senator from Oregon has not by the committee, but they are not so palpably just as theonetowhich a bill before this Congress appropriating quite a large sum of money I have referred. 

for a public builcllilg in the State of Oregon. If he bas not, then my Mr. GORMAN. Mr. Presidentrecollection is at fault; and if it is of course I will admit the fact. Mr. Mc"PHERSON. I ask the Senator to yield to me for a moment. 

1\Ir. DOLPH. The Senator is trying to create an issue with me that Mr. GORl\iAN. I yield to the Senator from New Jersey. 

I have not raised. I will ~nss that in a moment. The point to Mr. McPHERSON. I simply wish to make an explanation which 

which I rose and the statement of the Senator that I desire to correct I think perhaps is due to the Senator from Oregon [Mr. DoLPH] as ' was that there was $600,000 in this appropriation billior public build- well as myself. I noticed that there were certain bills pending in the 

inp:s in Oregon. I sav there is not-a dollar. Senate which I thought had been introduced by the Senator from Ore-

'.rhe Senator also drew a comparison between appropriations for pub- gon, providing for large appropriations of money for public buildings 

lie buildings in the State of New Jersey and in other States. I find in Oregon. I now have the bills before me, one for the city of Portupon reference to a statement of appropriations and expenditures for land, for a public building, at $500,000, the other a public building at 

public buildings, etc., to June 30, 1882-since th:J.t time there has Salem, Oregon; in which an appropriation of $75,000 was asked. Both 

been nothing appro"Priated for Oregon for public buildings; I do not went to the Committee on Appropriations for the pnrpose of having 

know how it bas been in the State of New J ersey-tbat the cust{)m- them become a part of this bill. I did not examine the bill minutely, 

hCiuse and post-office at Jersey City is charged with an expenditure ot and therefo,re could not say whether they were in it or not, but I snp-

$111,870.58; thatthecustom-houseandpost-officeatNewarkis charged posed they were, quite naturally. 

with $159,873; that the custom-house and post-office at Perth Amboy .Mr. DOLPH. If the Senator will permit me-- i<~ charged with $3,374.66; that the revenue-office at- Sandy Hook i<! Mr. McPHERSON. I have not got through. I am speaking in the 

ccarged with $719.31, ttnd the custom-house and post-office at Trenton time of the Senator from Maryland, and I do not wish to take up more with $409,906.56. than a moment. 

In the State of Oregon .there has been appropriated for public build- The only object I had in view yesterday was to draw a comparison 

ings since the State was admitted, 1or custom-house at Astoria, which between the practice of Congress in times past under other adminisis the first custom-bouse after entering the Columbia River and a place trations of this Government in giving large appropriations of money to 

of importance, $76,047.85; for custom-house at Portland, $396,379.71. Western States. The most of them were Republican States, and cer- Tbat is all that has ever been appropriated for this purpose in the tainly the South never had anything by way of public improvements 

State of Oregon since Oregon was a State. There were some srhall from this Government, particularly in the shape of public buildings. 

appropriations for a penitentiary and state-bouse at a very early day Yesterday exception was taken by the Senator from Iowa [Mr. ALLIwhen Oregon was a Territory. The appropriation for the penitentiary SON] because public buildings were asked for in some important growat Portland was $60,000, and for the state-house at Salem $33,554.75. ing cities in the South. I simply wished to draw a comparison beThose appropriations were made, the one for the state· house in 1848, tween what had been done for Western States and Western Territories 

and the one for the penitentiary in 1850. and what bad been done for my own State. I stated on that occasion 

Now, Mr. President, in regard to the bill which has been introduced by that the Government of the United States did not own up to the time me in the Senate for a custom-house at Portland, I wish to say that when this Congress was organized more than one public building, 

Portland to·day has some fifty-five or sixty thousand .inhabitants. It meaning by that a post-office, custom-house, and court-house, in the 

is the point where the customs are principally collected, and the other StateofNewJersey, whichwaslocatedatTrenton. They did have, it is 

business-Federal business-in the State is done. It is a building which true, a part of a building at Newark, insufficient entirely for the postis an ornament to the city, and in a proper location for the post-office office, and they were required to rent an a{! joining properliy fort be use of 

and United States courts. Its capacity to-day is sufficient only for the the post-office. During this Congress we have made appropriations at 

post-office and forthecourts. Theinternal-revenneofficesand thecns- Newark, a place of 200,000 people, for additional facilities for a posttoms office, and all the other Federal offices in the State ought to have office, and appropriating $350, OUO for the purchase of a site and the 

other quarters; in fact the internal-revenue collector's office has been erection of a building which is to be used as a custom-bouse and po3trecent1y removed from the building. It now contains the surveyor- office and office for the internal revenue in the largest collection disgeneral's office, the post-office, the customs office. It bas capacity only trict of internal revenue almost in the United States, or certainly one 

Jor the offices for which it was designed-the post-office and United of the largest. Then at Paterson, a. place of o>er 80,000 people-let 

States courts. · me inquire right here of the Senator from Oregon the population of 

Every Federal official at Portland has recommended the construction Portland? - · , . of a. new Federal building. The presen~ postmaster, appointed under Mr. DOLPH. I told the Senator that t.he population of Portlan~ 

the present Administration, and his predecessor say that all the lower and its suburbs was probably about 55,000 or 60,000. 

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Mr. McPHERSON. Very well Now, the city of Paterson, a place standing in 1882 that the county court-house could be used. Of comse of 80,000 people, with a much greater increase of population during the when the United States court was required to 'Sit in Sioux City, without 

last ten years, I think, than you will find in Oregon, asks for $80,000. any public building, the county supervisors or authorities allowed for 

The Senator from Oregon asks for $500,000. The city of Hoboken, the time being the UnitedSt.ates court to be held in the county courtwith a population of 80,000 people, asks for $60,000 for a post-office and house; but the county court-house is full of litigation as respects our custom-house and an internal-revenue office agency as well. Jersey State courts and State business, and it is absolutely inconvenient for 

City, with its surroundings, with a population of nearly 200,000, has a them to allow the United States court to sit there. That is all there 

public building that has cost perhaps the meager sum of $80,000 for was of that. 

the building and the site I think this year we were able to get an Mr. GORMAN. 1\Ir. President, in the general statement made by 

appropriation of$25,000 to give increasedfacilitiesatthatpointforthe the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, the Senator from 

post-office. Iowa [Mr. ALLISON], as to the condition of the bill now under considerThat is the comparison !wished to make in regard to what had been ation, and the trouble the conferees on the part of the Senate are having 

done for the Eastern States. Now let me state further that during the to obtain such concessions as would comply substantially with the votes 

whole period of Republican administration here, certainly dming my of the Senate, I am in perfect accord with him; but there is one item in 

term of service in .the Senate, lasting now about eleven years, we have the sundry ci vi1 appropriation bill inserted by the Senate about w hicb I 

been persistent in asking for these facilities for post-offices at the dif- desire to say a word before referring to the general statements of the 

ferent points I have mentioned, and we have many other cities better chairman, and that is in regard to the appropriation to condemn the halentitled to them certainly than cities which are now getting them. ance of the square upon which the Government Printing Office is now We have the cities of Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Camden, Morristown, located. I had not an opportunity to make the statement when the 

Somerville, and Plainfield, and many other large cities that are enti- bill was pending in the Senate. I trust that the confeTees on the part 

tled to public buildings by reason of their population and importance; of the Senate will insist on that amendment. 

but we have not asked for them, notwithstanding all these appropria- The building known as the Government Printing Office was erected 

tions are made at the rate asked for here by the Senator from Oregon many years ago as a private enterprise, and it is now totally inadeof $500,000 for Portland, with a. population of 55,000. quate to the great business of the Government Printing Office. It is 

Mr. ALLISON. I ask the Senator from New Jersey to yield to me so constructed as to make it absolutelydangeroustolife, and the venti- a moment that I may explain to the Senator from Oregon and other lation is so bad that it is an outrage upon the poor people who are com- Senators the difficulty we found ·in the way of providing for the paving pelled to labor there daily. It was found, after a personal examination 

of streets. by the Printing Committee, .not only in the interest of humanity, for 

For the last two or three years theHouse of Representatives has per- if it were a private establishment I believe the grandjurywonld con- sistently refused to allow any of these paving items and we have been demn it, but also in the interest of the business of the Government 

obliged in all these bills to surrender those paving items. This year, that there is not sufficient space to do all the work that is ordered by as I think very properly, the House committee suggested to us that it Congress. The. whole machinery of your printing establishment deis the duty of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds in the pends to-day upon a single engine, which has been in constant use for 

two Houses to provide some general legislation on the subject, and I the last ten or fifteen years. As a matter of economy, outside of the 

think that the attention of the Committee on Public Buildings and other question to which I ha>e merely alluded, it is an appropriation 

Grounds of the Senate should be called to the necessity of some uni- that ought to be made, and not a day should be permitted to pass 

form rule as respects our duty in regard to the paving of streets about I before the improvement is begun. 

the public buildings which we erect in the different cities of the Union. Mr. President, the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations 

For myself, I believe that this Government, if it erects a public build- has made several statement.c;, with one of which I concur fully; that 

ing in the midst of a city (and it usually erects its public buildings in is, that in the Senate Committe~ ou Appropriations in considering these 

the most conspicuous portion of a city), should pay its proper propor- appropriation bills politics or p~ divisions never enter into any item 

tion of the cost of the maintenance of the streets and the sidewalks in recommended by the committee of the Senate. That I testify is absoand about that building, and I think there should be a law regulating lutely true since I have had the honor of being associated with my 

that matter so that if the Government of the United States desires to friend from Iowa upon that committee. I have said upon former oc- maintain the sidewalks and streets about its buildings, its own officers casions that in all these matters he as the chairman of that committee, 

should surpervise the construction of the work. That is the reason during the time that we have bad a Democratic President and a Demwhy the conferees on the part of theSenatesurrendered all these items ocratic House of Representatives, has, in the consideration ofeveryap- -· respecting paving, which of course include the item alluded to by the propriation bill, sunk the partisan, and so I may say of every other 

Senator from Oregon. member of the committee-! allude to )fim as the representative of 

If the Senator from Maryland [Mr. GoiDiAN] will excuse me a mo- the majority. In committee the controlling idea has been the adment further I want to say a word in response to what has just fallen vancement of the best interests of the Government., and he has recom- from the lips of the Senat.or from New Jersey [Mr. McPHERSON]. He mended and agreed to appropriations that have been liberal and which seems to think that I criticised the erection of public buildings in the have produced great 1·esults. 

Southern States in my remarks yesterday. The Senator totally mis- Therefore, sir, it was that I was more astonished by his remarks yesapprehended my remarks. I made no criticism as respects any of the terday than I would have be~n by a similar statement made by anJ 

public buildings. I not only did not do that, but I stated that I had other member of this Senate. He having participated in and largely 

voted for all of them. My criticism was that_ there was not that dis- controlled the appropriations as made up to this time, I confess that I 

criminating judgment as respects public buildings which ought to was amazed when my friend from Iowa, seconded by the Senator from 

prevail. I called attention simply to the fact that in my own State Maine [Mr. HALE], here upon the eve of a great election, should state 

there was a city of from 35,000 to 40,000 inhabitants, and when it the condition of these appropriations and the finances of the Governasked for a public building it met with a Presidential veto, whereas ment in such a way that the country must conclude that it was purely 

in other States of the, Union, like North Carolina, to which I alluded for partisan purposes. I confess I wa."' astonished when I heard the 

particularly, and Texas and Arkansas, in towns having a small popu- Senator fromiowamake the declarations in which he twitted the Demlation and but little business, public-building bills by some device ocratic party within four years of having made appropriations $95,000,- were enabled to run through both branches and pass the approval of 000 _greater than were made during the preceding administration of 

the President of the United States. President Garfield and President Arthur, and attempt to stir up sec- I called attention to two or three instances, one of which was an in- tional feeling, as he unquestionably intended to do by his pointed alstance in the State of North Carolina, where this very year we have lusions to the appropriations for public buildings in the Southern 

provided for a public building at Statesville, a town situated 40 miles States. 

from Charlotte, where there is another public building now, a town of So that I may not be mistaken, or rather that I may not do any inthree or four thousand inhabitants, and that bill could receive execu- justice to him after what he has said this morning, I will read a parative appro>al, but when we come to- a great city like Sioux City, in my graph or two from his statement of yesterday, found on pages 8829 and 

own State, with a moderate appropriation for a public building, where 8830 of the RECORD. After alluding to the appropriations for a buildthere is great need of that public building, we are met with a Presi- ing in Buncombe County, North Carolina, he said: 

dential veto. That was all I intended to say in my criticism yesterday 1\Ir. ALLisoN. I am not criticising these things except to point a moral, that as respects these public buildings. these little v~agcs ~ Nor,th CaroJ+na, in Texas, in .Mississ1ppi, and in Arkansas 

GOR . can have thell' publio-bwlding bills not only railroaded through these two 

Mr. M:AN · Mr. President-- Houses-I have no doubt I voted for all of them-but they pass the scrutiny of 

Mr. GEORGE. Will the Senator from Maryland allow me to ask the President of the United States; and yet when n. bill comes here from the 

the Senator from Iowa a question? Stat-e in which I live and fro~ ~city having more than 30,000 inpabitants an~ 

I GOR, ... ' 1\.T I ill if · d t 1 d fi h d b t nearly as much trade as there 181D half the State of North Carolina, the Presl- 1'1 r. llLA.l.'l, W: It oesno ea to nrt er ~ a.e. . dentsendsusamessage .. snee.ri~gin_it.!ltoneandlthink_undiw;Ufiedinitschar- Mr. GEORGE. I wiSh to ask the Senator from Iowa if S1oux C1ty act.er, saying that a. public building IS not necessary at Sioux C1ty. has a Federal court? I merely call attention to these things for the purpose of showing that it de- ,.,..- ALLISON ·It h pends, or seems to depend, upon the location of these public buildings whether .l•u·. • as. they can become Jaws * "' * 

Mr. GEORGE. Is ther~ any public building there now? .And again he say~: 

Mr. ALLISON. ':fhere IS not. ~d now, as we are upon that, I want But I am not finding fault with these appropriations. I am only now calling 

to say that the President took occasion to say that there was an under- attention to the discriminations made respecting them. showing how easY it is 
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for certain States of this Union to get appropriations for public buildings whe1·e I represent in pn.rt a State whose people were foremost in every act that 

theneedsofthepublicservicedonotrequirethemasmnchastheyarerequired tabl" h d h' U · S h in other SLates and cities where these buildings are actually needed, and I am es IS e t IS n10n, a tate t at has been loyal to it every hour sjnce 

in sympathy somewhat with the Senator from New Jersey when he says that its existence, whose soldiers in number in the Union Army exceeded New Jersey h as not hitherto h ad its share of these public buildings. those of :Maine, and there has never been an occasion, and I hope there 

He again alluded to the fact that these bills for the Southern or never will _ be while I have a seat upon this floor, when I shall vote 

Democratic States were "railroaded through these two Houses," that against a pension bill that is just and right. 

there was some peculiar influence brought to bear upon the Executive The people of my State sustain me in such votes. During the rethat they might be signed and become laws. I say to the Senator and hellion- the number of l\laryland men in the Union Army and in the 

to the Senate that the way in which he made that statement, the im- Confederate army wereaboutequaL The Confederat-es returned home 

pression that it conveys to the counb.-y, and which I have no doubt mth everything gone except honor and manhood. Surrendering their 

uponreflectionhe regrets this morning, are not warranted by the facts. convictions, renewing their allegiance to the Government, starting 

His party zeal, his desire to bolster up the waning fortunes of his anew in life with no hope of nor desire for pensions or aid from the 

party, is the only' possible reason with which to account for his state- Hovernment, they are hewing their path through time with a will and 

ments. But, Mr. President, the Senator will find that the attempt to energy and success which commands the admiration of alL Standing renew sectional feeling on appropriation bills will fail, for the people side by side in their daily avocations with the Mary-land Uni~n sol- know that with this Democratic Administration there is no section- diers whom they see drawing their pensi{}DS quarterly, and yet the 

alism. There is only the great Union of Stat-es, all equal, and there most earnest and outspoken advoeacy of my course comes from these 

is honesty all'd integrity in every department of the General Govern- men, and so long as our Legislature is just and liberal they will SUJl· 

ment. port us. And yet your party in the face of this opens anew the 

Mr. President, I sympathize with the Senator from Iowa. He was wounds of a period sad in its memories, but which should.never be relaboring under some excitement, possibly because of the recent veto of ferred io here. _ an appmpriation bill for a building at Sioax City, in the State ofiowa. And yet I say to the Senator from Iowa and the Senator from Maine I can understand how for the moment he would resent it and suppose that we have gone on at such a rate that it will cost more for pensions 

that he was discriminated against, and ifhe had made that statement to the Union soldiers than it cost to put down the rebellion. Mr. immediately upon the reception of the veto, in hot blood, I could have President, the time has come when there must be some just limitation 

understood it, for there was another building bill for Annapolis, in my in this matter. Your party has forced the issue; you have forced these 

State, vetoed. The State of Maryland, that aided in creating theGov- immense ap-propriations, and taking advantage of your acts in the past 

ernment, with its old capital enriched by all the associations running four years, the Senators who have spoken upon this question now hold 

back to colonial times, and the memories of the greateventsthathave the Democratic party up to the country as a party of extravagance! 

occurred there, with the Naval Academy located withinitshistoricpre- I saytoboth ofthoseSenatorsthat itisnotfair. Isaytothem that the 

cincts, the only capital of a State but one in the Union that has nota public time will come at the North, and that soon, whenever distress strikes 

building in it, for it has been a rule that the capitals of allStares should the country in its great material" interests-the time will come when 

have a public building, asked two years ago, and Congress granted it, we shall all beheld responsible for these extravagant expenditures, and an appropriation of $100,000 for a public building at Annapolis. Had instead of arraigning the Democratic party because of these appropriathis bill become a law the appropriation would, in all pTobability, have t.ions it does seem to me, if .the Senator from Iowa will permit me to 

been used in such a way as to secure a historical buildin~, one which say so (for I have no doubt for some time to come he will be respon- was used by General Washington, by Lafayette, by Carroll, and other sible in a large degree for these appropriations), that even now, in a compatriots as a council house before and during the Revolution, and Presidential election, on the floor of the Senate he ought to live by the 

a-t the same time would have secured a cheap and commodious building rul.e that was adopted in the Committee on Appropriations, and discuss 

for the post--office. The President of the United States in his desire to these matters without reference to party. I think, therefore, it was an limit these appropriations, mistaken in his judgment as I believed then, unfair and an unfortunate allusion and statement for that distinguished 

and as I suppose he may have been in the Sioux City matter, but still ex- Senator, and one for which he will not succeed in holding the D~­

ercising the discretion that is warranted by the Constitution, vetoed that ocratic party responsible. 

bill; yetlhavenorighttosay, as the Senatorfromlowaand the Senator Now, Mr. President, let us look at the figures. Ninety-five million 

from l\laine have intimated, that it was a discrimination against my dollars is the excess of appropriation during the present AdministraState because of its location geographically or because of its political tion as compared with the four preceding years. During the Garfield 

relations. The President has exercised that power wherever he has and Arthur administrations, from 1882 to 1885, the total amount-I 

thought best, and I do not believe that we have any right to attribute will not read by years, but I will give the total amount for the four 

to him any other motive than that which he states in the veto mes- years-wa-s $291,667,306.68 for pensions. 

sages. If we think he is wrong in his views in particular cases we can 1\Ir. GEORGE. What four years was t-hat? 

pass the bills over his veto if we have a two-thirds vote; but the in- Mr. GORMAN. During the four years of the Garfield and Arthur 

timation that his action was instigat-ed by partisan consideration or administration~ 

sectional influence earn not be sustained by any act Ol' expression of th"(} During the four years of President Cleveland's administration, em- President. • bracing 1886, 1887, 1888, and 1889, the Mexican war pensions and the 

1\lr. President, the Senator says that we have appropriated $95,000,- deficiency in pensions, including the appropriations now made for 

000 more of money in the last four years than were appropriated in the 1889, we have appropriated $304,486,400, or an increase of $12,819,-

preceding four years. I say to him, that is true; but the items mak- 093.32, not quite so large as the Senator in his stat-ement yesterday 

ing up the amount of such increase are well known to the Senator. made it. But there is anincreaseofover$12,000,000, nearly$13,000,-

The greater portion of it is necessary and unavoidable, no matter what 000, and a gross amount in four years of Democratic rule ot $304,486,-

party is in power, but there is a part attributable alone to the constant 400. 

and unjustifiable attacks of the Republican party upon the South. I The details are shown by this table: 

will do the Senator from Iowa [Mr. ALLISON] the justice of saying APPROPRIATION s FOR PENsro:xs 1882-'85, 1886-'89. 

that so far as I know this is the first time in discussing an appropria- . t:n..rfield and Art.hnr's administration: _ 

tion bill-that he has arrayed one section against another, bnt it is con- 1 8!!.. ............... ~ ..... - ....... ~ ....... ~.............................................. S68, 282,306.68 

st t1 d b his ty . t h . th H . th t 1883 .................................................................................. -. ...... 100• 000• 000• 00 . au y one y par assom.a es ere, m e ouse,m e conn ry, Detici-ency ......................................................... m.................... 16,000,000.00 

and through the press everywhere; they have upon certain measures 1884 ........ ·· · ................ -......................................................... 86,575,000.00 

denounced the Democratic party as being controlled by Southern in- 18S5 ....................................... ................................................... ~810,ooo.oo 

teres.ts. Every vote of a Southern Democrat against a pension o.r against Total ... ...... ..... .... ......... .. .... .. . . .. .... .. ... .... .. ... . .... .... .... .. ...... 291, 667, 306. 68 a claim made by a loyal-citizen is heralded all over the country as an evidence of a new rebellion. You have thus excited a feeling in a ma- jority of the States which makes fair, careful consideration of snch measures difficult, if not impossible. The result-extravagance, a w aste of the people's money. And when the Executive :futerposes his veto you exhaust the adjectives. Economy and justice to claimants 

will come only when you cease this unpatriotic sectional war. But we have voted untold millions for pensions ancl other matters growing out of the war. I have no doubt if you had not raised such an issue, or prevented that feeling from growing up am-ong your -own 

people, we could have met many of these questions simply upon the 

facts without reference to sectionalism, and saved millions of money 

to the tax-payers. But here, in both Houses of Congress, yon hrt\e 

with gre..<tt regularity, audacity, and ability agitated.it, and have made 

it almost impossible to prevent a pension bill, no matter what its demerits may be, from passing either House. 

Mr. President, no man will char~e me with be~ illiberal to soldiers. 

•• 

Cle veland's administr ation: 1886 .................................... ..................................................... . 1887 ......................................................................................... .. 1888 ......................................................................................... . Mexican ............................................. .................................... .. Deficiency .............................................................................. .. 1889 ...... ............ .......... ....... .......... .................... ................... .. 

60, 000, 000. 00 'i6, 075, 200. 00 76, 252, 500. 00 6, 900, 000. 00 3, 500, 000. 00 81, 758, 700. 00 

Total .... : ......... ............ ............. ....... .. ...... ...... .. ...... ... ....... 304,486,4.00;00 

291,667,306.68 

Inm·ease nuder Cleveland 's administration...... ........................... 12,819,093.32 

Now, 1 say to the Senator from Iowa. that but for the President's 

Tet.oes and the Democratic opposition the amount would have been 

swelled at least $25,000,000 per annum for the next five or six years; 

and I do not believe the loyal men of the North, the soldiers who were 

engaged in the Army <turing the rebellion-for they are patriotic men- or their d~endants, desire or wish that this Government shall be bank· rupted by going on with the ratio of increase which we have made in 
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the last four years. But, Mr. President, the Senator from Iowa and I 

know that there i~ a class of men who are engaged in the collection of 

these claims. This city is full of them, men of intelligence and n.ctivity, men of wealth-for they have made millions upon millions in 

the collections ofthcseclaims-who subsidize the press, who own news- papers, who get up excitement between the two political parties so far as they can use the means thus made from the soldiers to promote thls 

feeling. 

I say to. the Senator from !own. and the Senator from Maine that it 

is too grave a question, the amount invohed is too great to treat this 

matter simply from the political standpoint. We ought to come together and determine what is to be done to limit these appropriations and yet do justice to all who. h:.we not been included, rather than fight 

it out upon party lines. 

Mr. President, in this ninety-five millionsofappropriatiousin excess of the Arthur administration there are some other items which ca-n not 

be charged to the Democratic Administration. When this Administration came into power it found the countrywithouta single gunofhigb 

power and without a vessel that could go to sea with safety. Yon were without a Navy; yon were without a gun in au·y fortification of the 

country, except some obsolete affairs whose day bad passed, and we an agreed, Republicans and Democrats alike, that this waE a crying shame 

and must be remedied, and in the appropriations made you have appropriated for the Navy alone during Mr. Cleveland's Administration 

the sum of $77,271,483.29 as against an appropriation of only $60,260,-

V21.17 in the previous four years, or an increase of $17,010,562.12 to 

b11ild the Navy. 

The appropriations for the Navy durirg the Garfield and .Arthur administrations and the present Administration are as follows: 

APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE NAVY, 1882-'85, 1886--'89. 

(Jarfield and .A.z·thur's administration: 1882..... ............. ......... .............................................................. Sl4., 566,037.55 

1883 ... '"""""'" ................................. ····•···· ...... ..................... ...... 14, 819,976. 80 188!......... ................ ................................. ............................ .• 15,894, 4.34. 23 1885.......................................................................................... 14,980, 4.72. 5_9 

Total ......................................................... .................... . 

Clevellmd's administration: 1886 ........................................................................... ............. . 1887 .................. ....................................................................... . 1883 ......................................................................................... . 1889 ................................................ ............ ............ ........ ......... . 

Total ............................................................................. . 

60,260,921.17 

15,070, 837.95 16, 489, 907. 20 25, 767, 348.19 19, 943, 389. 95 

77,271, 4.83. 29 60,260,921,17 

Increase during Cleveland's administration................................. 17,010,562.12 

You not only have made this increase upon a matter that both parties have a!rreed to, but the principal amount of these appropriations was put in"'by this body. Yon increased them, and it was right to increase them; but it is wrong for the Senator from Iowa, after having 

been tbe principal agent, and his party in this Senate being responsible 

for the increase, now to hold the Democratic party accountable for tbe 

extrava(l'ance committed by this body of which he is the leader. Every 

dollar of tbe appropriations was exactly right, and in view of recent 

occurrences, and those likely to come, the appropriations were not made 

too soon. The amount might have been doubled with great profit and 

security to your country, for, 'Mr. President, the people of the United 

States in the matter of the armament of your forts and the construction of your Navy and. otbe~ public works, the necessity fo~ ":hich all 

recognize, are not pars1momous as to the amount of appropnat10ns. It 

is with them only a q nestion of how the money shall be expended apd 

tbe honesty of the administrative officers who disburse it. ~ e can point 

with areat satisfaction not only as Democrats but as Amencans to the wond~rful result t.hat has been attained since President Cleveland has 

administered the executive affairs of this Government. I am not going 

now into the details as to what his administration bas accomplished, 

but it will compare favorably with any administration from the foundation of the Government to the present, and there is no administration 

since the clos~ of the war that be(}'ins to compare with it in results. ... Mr. President the next piece of extravagance that is included in the r emarks of my friends from Iowa and Maine is the postal service. I 

have listened on former occasions on this floor to gentlemen who have 

denounced the Post-Office Department, since the advent of the Democratic Administration. for not giving postal facilities; and yet it appears by the record that to·day that Department is carried on upon a more extensive scale than ever in the history of the Government. The 

extensions of the star routes and all the facilities for the quick dispatch of mails and the extensions over the Territ?ries have gone en 

with a rapidity that is astonishing. As to the details there ma.y have 

been some causesofjnstcomplaint, as there always are, butdurmgthe 

administration of Garfield and .Arthur there were $179,131,252 expended, and during the past four years .we have expende~ $224,621,-

737.14, or au i ncrea.se of $45,490,485.14 m. the postal serVIce alone, ~ 

give the people of th~ country that whic~ th~Y. ~ust have and. Wlll 

have under any admimstratfon, perfect mail facilities. To do thrs we have spent $45 490 485.14 more than was expended during the administration of Ga~field and .Arthur. And you call it extravagance! 

The appropriations for the postal service during the administration 

of Garfield and .Arthur and during the present Administration have 

been as follows: 

APPI!OPRIA'l'IONS FOll. POSTAL SERVICE, 1882-'85, 1886-'89. 

Garfield and Arthur's administration: 1882............ .......................... ............. .......................... ............. $40, 951, 4.32. 00 1883... .......................................... ....................................... ...... 44,643, 900.00 1884 ...... ...... .. .. .. ...•.•... .••.•• ... ... • . •••..•• ...... ...... ...... •. ..... ...... .... .. ... ... 4.4, 489, 520. 00 1885...... ......... ... .. . ... ... ...... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ........ ....... .....• ..... ... . ...... 49, 040, 400. 00 

Total........................................... .................................... 179,131,252.00 

Cleveland's administration: 1836 ......................................................................................... . 1887 .. .......... ............................................................................. . 1883 ......................................................................................... . 1889 ............................................................................. ............ . 

53, 700, 990. 00 M, 3u5, 863. 25 55, 694,.650. 15 00, 860, 233. 74 

Total............................................................................... 224,621, 7W7.14 179, 131, 252. 00 

Increase in postal service during Cleveland's administration...... 4.5, 490,4 5. 14 

All ofthis money, or nearly the whole of it, comes bactc, as tbeS.en- ator from Iowa knows, in postage; but just before this .Administration came in-I think Hwas immediately before-the postage was re.duced 

from 3 to 2 cents on every letter, so that the receipt-s from the PostOffice Department nominally fell off, but the people of the country 

gained forty or fifty millions by that reduction, and but for that reduction the ¥OStal receipts would have been about a sixth greater than 

they are, and there would have been, instead of a deficit in this matter, a large surplus for the Treasury; but in that item is $45,000,000 more than were expended in the four years previous to the advent of the . 

present Administration. 

Mr. President, there was another item which was for the benefit of 

the North-and I class Maryland for the time as a Northern State, as 

distinguished from States that were out of the Union during the war- that goes to swell up this $95,000,000, every dollar of which went to 

New England, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, andStatesup~n the 

border north of us and e.ast of ns. That is $5,769,015.28 for the Alabama claims, all paid since this Administration came in, and charged 

to us as a part of the extravagance in the $95, 000,000. Then there was the Choctaw Indian judgment of $2,858,798.62, with interest. This was a judgment of the courts. The claim came along before the Democratic party became responsible for this Government, but it is to be 

paid out now. It is not fair to charge that to this .Administration as 

part of its extravagance. 

UNUSUAL ITEMS OF APPI!OPRIATION DURING CLEVELAlo."'D1S ADMTh""ISTI!ATION. 

Alabama clailus awards, 1887 ........................ ................................... $5, 769, 015. 28 Chocta'v Indian judgment, 1889. ... ......... ............................ ............ ... 2, 858,798.62 

. Total .............. :...................................................... .................. 8, 627, 813. 90 

Mr. President, the whole recapitulation of the increase of appropriations during Mr. Cleveland's administration, for pensions and the other 

items which I have gone over, makes $83,947,954.48 of the $95,000,000, 

which my friend from Iowa talks so much about. 

RECAPITULATION. 

Increase in ap:(lloprintions during Cleveland's administi·o.tion, for 

pensions ................................................................................ ...... Sl2, 819, 093. 32 Increase in appropriations during Cleveland's administration, on account of the Navy ..................................................................... 17,010,562.12 Increase in appropriations during Cleveland's administration, on account of the posta1 service........................................................ 4.5, 490, 485.14. Unusual appropriations during Cleveland's administration-.Alabama claims awl\rds and Choctaw Indian judgment.................. 8, 627,813.90 

Total.................................................. ......... ........................... 83,947,95-1.48 

Mr. President, I do not desire even to follow the Senator from Iowa. 

in the matter of giving this matter the slightest partisan tinge. The 

appropriation bills have come to us from . another branch, but the 

abundant increases that have been made upon them have been made 

in this body, and as I have said, they were made, in my judgment, 

the greater portion of them, in the interest of the colllltry and for items 

for which you could not a•oid making appropriations. Still we have 

largely increased the bills as they came from the other branch of Congress, and we are responsible for it in the ~~nate .. Whatl.co~plain of now is that the Senator from Iowa (and I JOmed htm heartily m nearly 

every measure) should bring this matter up at thls last moment, when 

we are about to pass the bills and make them laws, and do it for a partisan purpose, do it that it may b~ used in the cat;npaign to defeat t~e 

Democratic party, when he and hlS party upon thLs floor are responsible for the increases to the extent of millions. 

Now let us see what the increases are. INCREASE HADE BY THE SENATE ON APPROPRIATION BILLS A.9 PASSED DY THE 

BOUSE AT THIS SESSION. 

!~~~mr~b~~~:;~·~~~t"~>:·.·:.:::::::::.·.:::·::.:::::·::::.::::·::::::::.·:.·:.·::.·.::::::: 6~~~: ~: Dipiomatic o.nd consular bill (law)................................................ $14., 600.00 

~if.!~!~i~~JEZ~J~~Hill~~·~.:.:.:.:: :_:-.:.::::::·::::::::::::::::::.: ~~::::.:.:. ::::::.:.:.:.:.:.:.:: 2, !~: ~~: ~ Sundry civil bill (as passP.d Senate) ... ...... ............ ...... ... ........ ...... 5,174, 593. 24 Deficiency bill.B ....................... ... ....... ........ ... ...... .... ... .......... ............ _~_,99_, 64_3_. _22 

Total ........................................................ ~..... .... .. ........... .....• 16, 163, 632. 20 

I£ is fair to say that the Army bill and the fortification bill are yet 

in an incomplete state, and to some extent these figures may ba 

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changed, but up to date we have increased the a.pproJ?riations. ~ they 

reaehed this body from the House of Representatives $.16,163,632.2~. 

Mr. President, I repeat again that in nearly every mstance I thmk 

the ]ncrease was right, and many of the items were added, as the Senator from Iowa has stated, at the solicitation of the heads of Departments; and I emphasize it that in making these ~ppropr~tions the ma- jority of the Seuate, though opposed to the ~dmmiSt~ti~n., have acted 

with a liberality which will be a proper thmg for mmonbes .to follow 

and for us to follow, if our positions should happen at any t:me t~ be 

reversed. Your action in the committee was the result of thiS po}ICY, 

but it is I think an unfair advantage whic! the two Senators who 

have spoken and ~ho are members of the Appropriations Committee are attemp~ing to take of the Democratic p:ut.y. They ought to have 

sunk the partisan in the statesman. 

This is not all the Senate bas done in the way of increasing appropriations durin{)' this Administration. Ninety-five millions more, says my 

friend from Iowa were appropriated during the Democratic Administration than during the last Republican Administration. D?-ring all 

that time you haye bad possession of the Senate,and the p1creases 

proposed by the Senate on appropriation bills as they have passed Congress from 1886 to 1889 have been $73,507,916.91. They are as follows: 

INCREASE PROPOSED BY THE SENATE ON APPROPRIATIONS AS THEY PASSED TIIE 

HOUSE DURING THE FOUR YEARS 1886 to 1889. 

1886 ..•..• ····••········ ...........• ...••.••.••.••....•••.•..•••••••.••..•.••.•••••••••.•..•.•.••. 810,091, f!IJ7.16 1887 ........•............ .............................. ········· .....•............ ······ .....• •..•.• 13, 392, 795. 82 

1888 ···············································•·················••··················•··•··•···• 35,046,210.61 1889 ............ .............................. ............ .......................................... 14,977,103.32 

Total...................................................................................... 73,507,916.91 

NOTE.-Tbe amount stated for 1SS6 does not include the 1i~er and har~?or b!ll as it passed the House and failed in the Senate for want of tune to consider It, 

If the appropriations had been made as proposed by the Senate their sum total for the past four years would have been $52,861,105.23 

greater than it is. 

APPROPRIATIONS INCREASED BY THE SENATE'S ACTION FOB THE FOUR YEAn.S 

1886 TO 1889, OVER THE AliOUNT PASSED BY THE HOUSE. 

1m:::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::i:::::_:;_:_:_:::::::i:::::i::::::::::::: 1~ i m: fi 

Total..................................................................................... 20, 646, 811. 68 

NoTE -The amount stated for 1889 does ~ot include the proposed increase on the Ar~y bill and only the difference on the sundry civil bill as it would stand 

should the pending conference report be adopted. 

1\'fr. President, we come now to the general result of all the appropriations during the administrations of Garfielcl and Arthur and of 

President Cleveland. The net ordinary expenses of the Government 

and the total expenditures during the Arthur administration were $769,761,316. The average per capita of. expenditure durin~ that ~dministration on all the people of the Umted States was $4.f:i2, takmg 

the tables of the late Professor Elliott as to the population of the United 

States. When you ran the Government during the last Republican 

administration you had it costing the people $4.62 per capita, and when 

your administration clo::;ed and President Cleveland was in~ugurated 

March 4, 1885, as I have before stated, you had not a gun of h1gb power 

in the Unit-ed States, you had not a vessel that could float the ocean with safety, and you were absolutely at the mercy of any fifth-rate 

power of the world. We came into power: and by the aetion that has 

been heretofore taken, which I will not go over again, we have conduc~ed 

this Government, and will up to the end of the next fiscal year, makmg 

tlie four years complete, at a cost of $778,340,119.60, or an average_ per 

capita of $4.32, basing the population of the country to-day, I thmk, 

2 000 OOObelowwbatit is; but basing thepopulationonlyat61,688,000, ~hicl~ is simply adding to Professor Elliott's tables the same ratio of 

increase we have cm::.dncted the Government and accomplished all 

these gr~t things that I have alluded to by holding to a rigid accountability every officer, high and low, introducing economies everywhere, 

cutting down salaries, as was shown by my friend from Kentucky [Mr. 

BECK] is being done on the legislative bill, a million dollars below 

General Arthur's administration. 

Mr. ALLISON. Does my friend say that there has been any cutting 

down of salaries? The-reduction suggested by the Senator from Kentucky yesterday resulted simply fr?m the ~ropping of one hundre~ and 

fifty pension clerks, who were earned durmg the last year of Pres1d~nt 

Arthur's administration and who were not needed during the followmg 

year. 

Mr. GORMAN. We have reduced the amount of the expenditures. 

I know there has been an adjustment of clerks, a clerk dropped off 

here and there, but with the force now in the Pension Office we have 

been able to grant more pensions than were ever granted before in the 

history of the world. TbP-re is a third more work being accomplished 

in the Pension Office under the earnest and skillful management of 

General Black than in any like preceding period, and the work of every 

auditor's office in the Treasury Department is up to date under the 

present Administration, which was never done heretofore, and yet we have had a reduction of expenditures that amounts to a million dollars. With all of that, and all the things we have accomplished, and 

notwithstanding there is $95,000,000 of increase that my friend from 

Iowa harps upon we have conducted the Government at the rate of 

$4.32 per capita or 30 cents less than the party of my friend from the 

State of Iowa h~ done. It seems to me that this is a result of which 

evet·y party man may be proud and at which every American ought to 

rejoice. So much for the figures. -

Period. Net ordinary 

expenditures. 

Payments Estimated per eft pita 

population. of 

population. 

Arthur's administration: 

1883 ............................................. $265, 408,137.54 54,163,000 

1884 . . .. .• .. . . . ... . . . . .. ... ........ ... . . .• .. .•... 244, 126, 244. 33 55, 554, 000 

1885 . ... .. . . . . . . . . . .. ... . . . . .. ... . .. .. ...... ... .. 260, 226, 935.11 57. 093, 000 

Total expenditures....... ........... 769,761,316.98 .................... ! 

A r::·:~l~f:~n~~~- .. ~.~:..~~~-~- ................................. ······ ······ 

Cleveland's administration: I 

$4.90 

4.39 

4.56 

13.85 

4.62 

1886 ....... _.. ...... ..•.••.•. .... ................ 242. 483,138. 50 58, 420. 000 I 4.15 

1887 ............................. •................ 267,932,179.97 60,018,000 4. 47 

1888 ...... ...... ............... .................. 267,924,801.13 61,668,000 4. 34 

Total expenditures.................. 778, 340,119.60 .. ............ ······1 12. 96 

A :~~:~~r~~~i~~- .~~:.~~~:.. ........................ ..................... 4. 32 

NOTE.-The population as stated in the above is from estimates prepared by 

the late Professor E. B. Elliott, of the Treasury Department, except for the year 1888, which is computed on the same ratio of increase as is shown for 1887 

over1886. 

Now, sir, we come to the matter of appro~riations for public buildings, and I again repeat that I regret exceedmgly--

Mr. BLAIR. Will the Senator allow me to ask him a question? 

Mr. GORMAN. Certainly. 

Mr. BLAIR. Does the Senator understand that the American people are to be governed at so mu.ch a head? J:?oes he h~ ~bat i~ any 

fair test of the relative expenditure under different admtrahons? 

We hire a school-teacher and pay him $50 a month whether be has 

twenty-five pupils or thirty or fifty. . 

Mr. GORMAN. No, Mr. President; but the expenses of thiS Government increase as the population increases. You can not make appropriations for rivers and harbors and the ordinary affairs of the Government the same for lO,OOO,OUO people that you can for 60,00U,OOO. 

The expenses increase in the ratio that the population increas~, and 

it is the only fair way to state this case; to compare a Democratic administration that so ably manages the affairs of 62,000,000 of people in 

point of economy with one_when there was but 10,000,000 people would 

be a most unfair statement, and therefore I think the last table I have 

read is the exact statement to be made. 

Now, Mr. President, as to the appropriations for pub~ic buildings 

and the allusion that an excessive amount was appropnated for the 

Southern States or the Democratic States. I hold in my hand a re- port made at the first session of the Forty-ninth Congr:ess, being Senate 

Heport No. 89, made by the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, from which I have taken the figures and brought 

them together. I find that that report is a sta-tement of the appropriations for public buildings made from March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1885, 

inclusive. During that whole period, taking the Southern. States, 

eliminating Kentucky and l\1issouri, but taking all the remamder of 

the Southern States, twelve in number, the whole amount from 1789 

to 1885 for that entire section of the country was $16,329,328.46-I 

will publish this stat-ement, giving the appropriations fo-r each Statewhereas the appropriations for Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, 

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont, the New England States, 

six of them as against twelve Southern States, amounted to $13,053,- 718.73, and for the five Middle States, including Delaware and Mary- land, $29,663,231, making, if you add Kentucky and Missouri to the 

Southern States, for all the -fourteen Southern States $25,306,689.99. 

Take the six New England States, $13,053,718.73, and the five 1\liddle 

States $29,663,231; the ten Western States, $22,882,695.89; the three Pacifi~ States, $2,964,184.81; and for the Territories, $621,-!93.90, mak- ing the aggregate amount from the foundation of t.he Government up 

to 1885 $94,492,014.32. 

If you deduct the fourteen Soutbe;:n States-and it is not fair to include Missouri and Kentucky, for I understand that one building 

alone, during the time when the Democrats were not responsible for 

appropriations, in Missouri, in the city of St. Louis, cost $6,000, 000-but 

including them and counting all of these Southern States out of the 

$94 492 014.32, the Southern States have only received $25,306,689.99, 

and the1Northern and Western States $69,185,324.33. Here are the 

figures: 

APPROPRIATIONS FOB PUBLIC BUILDINGS FROll l!ARCH 4,1789, TO HARCH 4,1885. 

New England States: 

Connecticut ............................................................................. . 1\Ia.ine ...... ............................................................................... . Massachusetts ....................................................•..................... 

$1' 158, 786, 46 

2, 280, 7f17. 15 8,412, 796. 84 New Hampshire .................................................................... . Rhode Island ............................................................... ........... . 474,300. ()() 

354,777. 68 

Vermont ............................................ - ..................... ......... ...... ____ 372,350. _ 60 

Tota.l New England States ........................................... .. 13, 053, 718. '13 
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Middle States: 

Delaware ...................................................... .......................... . ?tlaryland ................................................................................ . New York ................................. .............................................. . 

~::~;r!~~i·~ :::::::::::::.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~ 

$103,500.00 

2, 888, 429. 05 

15, 404, 120. 51 

712,719.31 

9, 554, 4.62.12 

Totall\1iddle States ....... ,................................................ 29,663, 231.00 

Western States: 

Colorado ............................................................. _ ................. . Illinois ................................................................................... . Indiana ................................................................................... . Iowa ....................................................................................... .. Kansas ................................................................................... . 1\Iichigan ................................................................................ . Minnesota ....................................... ,_, .................................... . Nebraska ................................................................................ . 

~~~~~~·~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~::::::::::::::::·:~·::.: 

Total Western States .................................................... .. 

Pacific States: . California ........................ : ...................................................... . Nevada .................................................................................. .. Oregon ........................... : ....................................................... . 

Total Pacific States ...................................................... .. 

Territories: 

248,000.00 

8, 154., 950. 59 

1, 240, 100. 24 

1, 072,457. 97 550,000.00 

1, 34.8, 392. 07 851,817.38 

704,336.00 

8, 010, 754. 37 

701,887.27 

22, 882, 695. 89 

2, 239,5""<>5. 91 I 100, 000, 00 

624.,628. 90 

2, 964, 184. 81 

Alaska..................................................................................... 18, 000. 00 

Dakota ................. ;.................................................................. 30,000.00 

Idaho....................................................................................... 71,740.15 Montana ............................................ h................................... 4.8, 795. 00 

New Mexico .................................................................... ,........ 150,000.00 

Utah......................................................................................... 65,000.00 

Washington.............................................................................. 127,545.75 

Wyoming ............................................... ................................. 110, 4.13. 00 

------ Total Territories............................................................ 621, 493. 90 

Southern States: =:;=::==== 

Alabama ........... w ................................................. ................... . 

.Arkansas ............................................................................... .. Florida. ................................................................................... . 

~~~£~':':':·::.::':':':'::·:·:·::':':':':'::·:::.:.:.:.:::::::::.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~::: 

~!:~1-~.i.:·::::::·.:::::::·::::.:::::::::::::::::::·.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~::~::: North Carolina. ...................................................................... . South Carolina ....................................................................... . Tennessee ............................................................................... . 

~~~:.:::::::.~·:::::::.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::~::::~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: West Virginia ......................................................................... . 

667,310.00 

310,250.00 

575,425.00 

579,656.00 

1, 675, 770. 33 

5, 3<10, 94.2. 67 

378,275.16 

7, 300, 591. 20 

601,281.58 

3, 556, 396. 58 

1, 820, 4.15.19 

679,964.59 

1, 316, 84.7. 39 

502,5&!.30 ------ Total Southern States..................................................... 25, 306, 689. 99 

RECAPI.TULA'rlON. 

Fourteen SonthernStates, including Kentucky and Missouri........ 25,306, 689. 99 Six New England States ....................... _ ...................................... 13,003,718.73 

Five Middle States, including Delaware and Maryland............... 29,653, 231.00 

~~~e: P~':ill~ ~~:~·:.·:::::: :·:::.:::.::::·:.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.:·.·.:·::::::::::::::::::::: ~; ~: ~:: ~ Eight Territories........................................................................... 621,493.90 ------ Total..................................................................................... 94, 492-, 014". 32 

.Less fourteen Sou them Stat-es ......... ."........ ........... ............ ........ ..... 25, 306, 589. 99 

59, 185, 324. 33 

Five IDddle States.......................................................... ....... ........ 29, 66-3, 231. 00 Ten Western States .. ........................ ................ ...... .............. ... ...... 22, 882, 695, 89 

Total......................................................................... ............ 52, 545, 926. 89 

~ Mr. President, since this Administration came in-for the statement 

I have read runs down only to 1885-I hold in my hand a table showing the amount of appropriations, which I will have published, by States, 

but I will not detain the Senate by reading it. The summary of it is 

that the fourteen Southern States which I have named, including Kentucky and Missouri, have received during this Administration by appropriations $2,747,000, while the Western, the Middle, and the East-. 

ern States have had $4,043,148. 

Ne1.o public buadings autlwrized since March 4, 1885, to be erected 'lknder 

tile control of tlw office of the Supervising Architect, Trea.su:ry Department, 

an·cn1.ged .Elphabetically by States, August 29, 188~. 

States. 

Alabama ........... . 

.Arkansas .......... .. 

'd 

.~ ci .do Date of ~~ authoriza- t;i~5 tion. 

Location of building,. etc. Limit 

of cost. 

oo 

<1.) .... 

0 

s. 

s. 

Feb. 24,1887 Huntsville ..................... ~............ $100, 000 

Apr. 19, 1888 Birmingham...................... ........ 300, 000 

Total.. ................................ . 

Mar. 16,1886 Fort Smith ........................ , ....... .. Mar.16,1886 FortSmithjail.. ........................ .. Apr. 11,1888 Helena ...................................... .. 

400,000 

100,000 

50,000 

75,000 

Total......................... ... .. .. .. 225, 000 

Ca.li1'ornia ........... W. June29,1887 LosAngeles ...... ;...,........................ 150,000 

Mar., 1887 San Francisco, site .................... _ 350,000 

Tot.a.L... ... .. ........... .............. 500, 000 

' 

New pt~blic buildings authorized, since JJ1arcl• 4, 1885, etc.-Continued. 

'd 

0 

:a_g 

States. ~~ 

"'c! 1:1)0 

oo 

<1.) .... 

Cl 

Connecticut ........ E. 

Dell\ware ........•... M. 

Florida ............... s. 

Georgia. ............ .. s .. 

Date of 

authorization. 

June 19, 1888 

F 4,1887 

July 29,1886 June 7.1888 

~Location of building, etc. Limit 

of cost. 

Bridgeport ................................... $150,000 

Wilmington................................. 200,000 

Jacksonville. ..... ........................ .. 150,000 

Tallahassee ..... , ......................... .. 75,000 

Total ................................. .. 

Feb. 24,1887 Augusta ................................ , ..... .. 

225,000 

150,000 

120,000 

200,000 June 6, 1888 Atlanta, extension ........ : ........... . June30, 1885 Savann.ah. ................................. .. 

Total................................... 470, 000 

lllinois ............... W. Mar. 3.,1887 Chicago, repairs.......................... 84,000 

Mar. 3,1887 Chicago, marinehospital............ 10,000 

Total................................... 94-, 000 

Indiana............... W. May 14,1888 Indianapolis ....................... ~........ 150,000 

Iowa ............ ...... W. - ' Aug. 8,1888 Ottumwa.............. ......... ... ......... 4.0, 000 

Kentucky .......... s. Feb. 16, 1887 

Louisiana ...•••...•. s. June 18,1888 

Aug. 4,1886 

Aug. 1,1888 

Massachusetts ..... E. Apr. 9,1888 

Jan. 3,1887 

Jan. 29,1887 

Owensboro ugh .. ................ ......... 50, 000 

Monroe ...................................... . New Orleans, repairs. mint ....... . Opelousas ................................... . 

= 75,000 

15,000 

50,000 

Total .................................... 140,000 

= Lowell......................................... 200, 000 

Springfield. ...• .-......... ~ ....... ~...... 150,000 

Worcester ..... ......... ....... .............. 250, 000 

Total ................................... . 600,000 

Maine ... ....... ...... E. 1\clay 17, 1886 Belfast extension .......... : ............. 15, 000 

Jan. 17,1887 Eastport...................................... 100,000 

· Total ........ ,........................... 115,000 

Michigan ..... ~- .. - · W. Junel9<,1888 BayCity .. ~ ...... _ .... ,. ..................... 200,000 

Minnesota.......... W. 

Mississippi......... S. 

Missouri............. W. 

NewJersey ......... M.. 

New Mexico ....... w. 

New York. ......... M. 

North Carolina ... s. 

Ohio .................... W. 

Pennsylvania..... M. 

South Carolina... S. 

Texas ............... .. s. 

West Virginia..... S. 

Wisconsin .... r ...... W. 

Aug.21.1888 Jackson................................. ...... 60,000 

Total.................................... 260, 000 

May 14, 1888 Dnluth ................................ ........ . 150,000 

100,000 

80,000 

100,000 

June 6,1883 Vicksburg .................................. .. 

Mar. 3,1887 St.. Louis extension .................... . Mar. 29,1888 Springfield ................................. .. 

TotaL................................... 180,000 

Jan. 26,1887 Camden....................................... 100,000 June 18,1888 Hoboken..................................... 60,000 

Mar. 30,1888 Jersey City extension................. 12,200 ~Iar. 1,1888 Newark ...... m .... ., ...... :................. 350 000 June 7,1888 Paterson...................................... so;ooo 

Total.................................... 602,200 

Feb. 9,1887 sa.D.ta·Fe................. ............... ...... 52,148 

Binghamt-on .... ~ ..................... :.... 150,000 

Buffalo, site only........................ 850,000 

Mar. 3,1887 

Apr. 5,1888 

TotaL................................... 500,000 

A!~~~~t.~~~~~~ .. ~~~~~.~:~. 100,000 

Charlotte.................................... 85 000 Statesville.................................... 75; 000 

May 8,~ 

Aug.13,1888 

Aug. 8,1888 

Tot.a-1.. ................................ .. 260,000 

1\lar. 3,1887 Daytol) ..................................... .. Apr. 30,1888 Portsmouth (without Presi150,000 

dent's approval) ...................... . 60,000 

TotaL .................................. . May 9, 1888 "Lancaster .................................. .. July 29,1886 Reading, extends Ii.J:hlli ............. .. 

210,000 

100,000 

100,000 

Total.................................... 200, 000 

Feb: 9,1887 Charleston, limit extended.~....... 100,000 

?!Iay 1, 1888 Greenville................................... 100, 000 

Aug. 1888 

J une30, 1888 

Feb. 24.,1887 

Feb. 9,1887 Apr. 15,1886 

Apr. 19, 1886 

Total.................................... 200, 000 

Brownsville................................. 50, 000 El Paso........................................ 150,000 

Houston...................................... 75, 000 

Jefferson................... ...... ............ 50, 000 

San Antonio................................. 200, 000 

Texarkana................................... 100, 000 

Total. ........................ _......... 625,000 

May 1,1888 Charleston, extension. ............ -. 52,000 

July 28,1885 Oshkosh ... .:.................................. 100,000 
1888. CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-SENATE. 8071 

S'UMUAllY. 

Southern St-ates : 

AlabaD'Ul. ·-··-·······: ........................................................................ .. Arkansas ........................................................................................ . Florida-............ ............................................................................ . Georgia. .......................................................................................... .. 

ri~~~~i·:::~::::~::::·:~::::::::·:::::::~:.~.:.:.~::·:::.: ... :.:~:·:~::~:::::::~.::::::.:~~::::::::::::~: .North Carolina. ........................... .................................................... . Routh Carol.i.na .................................. ~ ............................................ . Texas .............................................................................................. . 'Vest Virginia ........................................................................... _ .••• 

$100,000 

225 000 225:000 

470,000 

50,000 

140,000 

100,000 

260,000 

200,000 

625,000 

52,000 

---- Total Southern States ....... .-................................................. _...... 2, 741,000 

We~ern States: 

California. ..................................................................................... .. Illinois ................... -·---............................ oom•·· ............................. . 

ln.dia.aa ........ ~ ............................................................. - .............. n .. .. 

Iowa. .............................................................................................. .. 1\fichiga.n ........................................................................................ . 1\Iinnesota ................... - ........................... ···--· .. •• ..... - ................... . 1\Iissouri. ................. - ................................. - ................................. . New Mexico .................................................................................... . Ohio ............................................................................................. ~ .. 

'Visoonsin-----···--··----................................ ~ .. - ............ ~.-.. .. 

500,000 

94,000 

150t000 

40,000 

260,000 

150 000 

1SO:ooo 

52,148 

150,000 

100.000 

---- Total Western StAtes ................................................................... 1,676,14.8 

Middle States ~ 

' Delaware ............. ·~·-· ...... ·--·· ......................................... - ......... . New Jersey .................................................... -....... _ .................... . NewYork ..................................................................................... . Pennsylvania ................................................................................ .. 

200,000 

602,000 

500,000 

200,000 

---- Total Middle Shates ..................................................................... 1,500,000 

Eastern States : 

C6nnecticut . ................................................................................... . 1\fassa.chusetts.-....................... - ............... - .................................. .. lHa.ine ....................................... ..................................................... .. 

Total Eastern States .................................................................. .. . 

150,000 

600,000 

115,000 

865,000 

Total Western, Middle, and Eastern States ................... ~............ 4, 043,14.8 

I submit to my friend from Iowa, as the figures show, and they can 

not be controverted, that from the very beginning of the Government 

to 1885 the per cent. taken upon population or territory..ghows a great 

excess of appropriations to the Northern States in all these appropriations. Since this Administration came into power the Northern and 

Western States, by appropriations of Congress. and by the approval of 

the President of the United States, have received nearly $5,000,000 as 

against $2,500,000 in round numbers received by the fourteen _Southern 

States; and when he takes into consideration that for four years that 

last-named portion of the country was devastated and business went 

down, and there was suffering and oppression f?UCh as no other people were ever subjected to upon the face of the earth, and when he remem- bers that within the past four years and since the election of a Democratic President.this sectional feeling has been to a large extent '\viped 

out and becomea thing of the past; thatNorthernmen, capitalists from 

all sections of the country, have been flowing into the Sonthenl States 

and developing the mines of Alabama, of Georgia, and of North Carolina and V'~.rginia, and have gone into the Everglades of Florida and 

made garden spots of places that were marshes but\ a few years since; 

that this prosperity extends from here to the utmost confines of the 

Republic smith of us, and an era of good feeling under a Democratic 

adininistration prevails, and it is only remarkable, controlling, as the 

Democratic party does, the exeeutive branch and the other Honse, 

that they have been so moderate; and I think it ill becomes the .Senator from Iowa and myself, who represent in part great communities 

not seriously disturbed by the affairs of twenty years ago, whose people are prosperous and have always been so, who have been treated 

generon.o;ly by this Government from the beginning-indeed, his State 

has received as generous treatment as any State in the Union, whether 

under Democratic or under Republic:m rnle-to now take advantage of 

what he and his Republican colleagues and those of us on this side as Democrats have done to advance the interests of this country, and it is 

a degree of partisanship which I trust my friend from Iowa will regret 

and never repeat. 

1\ir. President, there is a serious prospect presented by the figures of 

the Senator from Iowa. It is that the estimated revenues for the 

current year are $440,563,734.32. The current and annual appropriations will prob!!-bly be $424,000,000, leaving an estimated surplus of 

$16,563,734.32. Four hundred und twenty-four millions to r.nn the 

Government! 

There is but one way to reduce these enormous appropriations. There 

is but one safe road to greater economy, and that is to reduce taxation. 

Stop the unnecessary flow of the people's money into the Treasury. An 

overflowing Treasury induces extravagance. It invites schemes for 

public plunder. I trnst before we adjourn the one certain remedy, a reduction of taxation, will be consummated. 

[Mr. GEORGE addressed the Senate. His speech complete will be 

found in the proceedings. of the succeeding day.] 

Having spoken for some time--

Mr. ALLISON. I ask the SenatorfromM'ississippi to yield tome for 

a few moments that I may ask the Senate to take a vote on the con- ference report which is under consideration. 

The PRESIDENT pro tmnpore. Does the Senator from :Mississippi 

yield the floor for that purpose? Mr~ GEORGE. Yea, sir. · The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on concurring in the 

report of the committee of conference on the bill (H. R.l0540) making 

appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the :fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, and for other purposes. 

The report was concurred in. . - Mr. ALLISON. I now move that the Senate still further insist upon 

the remaining amendments, and request a further conference thereon. 

The·PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa moves that 

the Senate still further insist upon its ~mendments not disposed of by 

the conference report, and request a further conference with the Honse 

of Representatives. 

Mr. VANCE. I ask if it would be in order to object to one amend- rnen~ -

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It is in order to recede from any 

amendment made by the Senate. A motion to do so would take precedence. 

Mr. VANCE. I move that the Senate recede from its amendment 

numbered 222. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Tlie amendment will be reported by 

the Secretary. 

The SECRETARY. Amendment n..u.mbered 222, page 76, line 7: Strike 

ont all after the word ''been'' down to and includin,g the word ''and'' 

in line 12, as follows: · Commenced UJ>OD a sworn complaint setting forth the fa.cts constituting the 

offense and alleging them to be within the personal knowledge of the affiant, or upon sworn complaint by a. collector or deputy collector of internal revenue or revenue agent, setting forth the !acts upon information and belief and. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Honse of Representatives having disagreed to this amendment, the Senator from North Carolina 

[Mr. VANCE] moves that the Senate recede from the sa.fue. 

Mr. ALLISON. I hope the Senator from North Carolina will not 

press that motion at this time. 

:Mr. VANCE. I do not know what other time may be offered 

in which I might press it if I desired the amendment to be non-con- curred in. It seems to me, Mr. President, that ." now is the accepted 

time" [laughter], and if the Senator from Iowa [Mr . .ALLisoN] will 

not harden his heart, I think I can show a reason very briefly why the 

Senate should recede from that amendment. 

In the country from which I come. there are a very large number of 

small distilleries, the whole output of which put together would not 

perhaps make as much spirits as that of one large distillery in the 

country of the chairman of the Appropriations Committee. There is a degree of annoyance perpetrated under the internal-revenue system by 

the methods of enforcing that law which, however much we might be 

inclined to stand if it were required of us as good citizens, we should 

yet like to. have removed, if we ma.v, by asking the Senate to recede 

from this amendment. In addition to the authority which is given to 

the regnlar collectors of internal revenue and their deputies and to the 

special agentS' 9f the Treasury Department, theJaw as at present con- stituted permits any officious or greedy outsider or infonne.r to swear 

out warrants "on information and belief" to prosecute his neighbor. It~ very ofte.n done for the sake of the fees alone. Hundreds of the 

most frivolous cases of prosecution upon the most insnffi.cient grorinds are thus inflicted upon the people of my country and, I doubt not, of _ other countries in the same way. 

Now, the proposition is to deprive the greedy informers of the right 

to swear out warrants and to commence p-rosecutions at their discretion 

for the sake of the fees or for the sake of avenging any private com- plaint they may have against their neighbors_ In all ages and In all 

countries, I believe, an informer has been held in disrepute and con- demnation as the meanest of all characters, and it does not-become a free government to offer any inducement to this class of persons. There 

is nothing more repugnant to the spirit of Anglo-Saxon liberty than 

the employment and encouragement of illformers. There is nothing 

more undemocratic, there is certainly nothing more un-American, than 

the employment of the basest class of any community to aid in the 

execution of its laws. • It is a remnant of the methods of despotism left over in the ostensible service of freedom, and it is an acknowledgment that the brutal 

and nnserupnlous methods of tyranny may be justified in the service 

of free government. Such things, sir, are uncomplimentary alike to 

the Government and to the people by whom they are employed. It 

is bad enough in all conscience to give the known and recognized and 

bonded officers of the law the authority to institute these prosecutions on information and belief merely, but to allow every class of greedy 

sneaks in the land, who desire to persecute their neighbor or to make 

the miserab-le fees that attend the prosecutions in the Federal courtsto allow them to institute prosecutions upon th.;irinformation and belief is, it seems to me, a direct blow to everything that we hold reputable and free in our Government. · 

Mr. COCKRELL. Will the Senator from North Carolina permit mo to a,sk him a question? 
• I 

8072 CONGRESSIONAL BEOORD-SENATE. AUGUST 29, 

:M::r. VANCE. Certainly. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Are those laws in his State enforced by the Democrats of his own State in the manner that he is now indicating? 

Mr. VANCE. No, sir; I am speaking of outsiders. I am speaking 

of persons who are permitted under the present law to volunteer information and make affidavits for the sake of the fees. 

M:r. COCKRELL. Do they flock into North Carolina in such numbers as to cause any serious disturbance to the honest, law-abiding 

citizens of that State? Do they arrest any persoiLS who are not guilty 

of crime? 

:M::r. VANCE. Hundreds of them. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Do they arrest persons not guilty of violations 

ofthejnternal-revenue laws. 

Mr.''V ANCE. Hundreds of them, sir, hundreds of them. If the 

Senator will analyze the present law as it stands on the statute-book 

he will find that anybody has the power, on information and belief, to 

have anybody else arrested. 

Mr. COCKRELL. And they are taken before a United States commissioner. - Mr. VANCE. Yes, a.nd then if the prosecution is dismissed as false 

or frivolous the witness' fees, etc., are pocketed by these informers, 

whilst a great lo8s is iiiflicted on their victims. 

1\Ir. COCKRELL. Who are these informers? Are they not residents 

ofNorth Carolina? 

1\Ir. VANCE. Certainly, they are our own peo'(>le, sir. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Informing on each other? 

Mr. VANCE. Informing on each other, as a matter of course. Nohotly else could do Jt-nobody but those that live there could pretend to 

any knowledge of the matter. I should like the Senator from Missouri or any other Senator to inform me why this extraordinary power or 

privilege should be given to any malignantly disposed person in any 

community to take out a warrant in the name of the United States, 

and have any person brought before a United States commissioner on 

a pretense of crime, whether it was well-founded or ill-founded, for 

the sake of the fee, and thatisjustwhat is done to my personal knowledge frequently in the State where I live, and I have no doubt it is 

practiced in all the States where there are any small distilleries or any 

temptation to such a practice. 

I think the original text of the bill as it came from the House, con- fining this power to the resident and bonded officers of the Government who may, and whose duty it is to, take out warranta upon information and belief, is proper; but if any outside person sees proper to 

begin a prosecution agaiDBt any one of his neighbors, he should be required to swear his warrant out upon his own personal knowledge and 

not upon information and belief. That is the whole of the proposition. It seems to me that it is a reasonable one, and I hope the Senate 

will recede from its amendment. 

Mr. ALLISON. Just one word w~th respect to this amendment. 

The provision in the House bill enlarges very much the existing law as respects exemption from prosecution in regard to the little distillery cases so numerous in the State of North Carolina. The Committee on 

Appropriations struck out a portion of that clause, but I think left 

enough of it to protect the Senator's friends from any unjust prosecutions. I will just read the clause as amended to show how the law 

will stand if the Senate amendment is agreed to. 

And no parb of any money appropriated by this a.ct shall be used to pay any fees to United States commissioners, marshals, or clerks for any warrant issued or arrest made, or other fees in prosecutions. under the internal-revenue Jaws, 

unless the prosecution has been approved, mther before or after such arreBt, by 

the a ll{)rney of the United States in the district where the offense is alleged to haYe been commiLted, etc. 

Now surely, Mr. President, that ought to be protection enough to 

any honest man, because a man who is .fit to be district attorney in 

North Carolina, or in any of the Southern States, certainly will not 

allow the fees unless he has just ground for pro~ecution. Tlie Senate 

Committee on Appropriations, in looking over this matter with great 

care, believed that they had gone as tar as it was wise to go on this 

matter. Eo I hope the suggestion of the Senator from North Carolina 

will not be agreed to. 

I will say to that Senator, further, that there are two bills pending, 

which if either one of them should pass would greatly relieve his constituents. One Of them is a bill pending in the Committee on the Judiciary which gives practical relief, and the other is the :Mills bill, of 

which we have heard so much, which absolutely relieves these people 

from every sort of restraint respecting little distillatioiLS in those small 

distilleries. So there are two measures pending which can be considered hereafter if this should prove objectionable. 

Mr. VANCE. That is very true, Mr. President, those two bills are 

pending aud they are very likely to "pend" [laughter], and while 

they are pending they are of no use to my constituents or anybody else. 

M:r. ALLISON. So it seems. Ur. VANCE. In reference to the statement that the bill as it is at 

present requires the ·district attorney to supervise the wa-rrants of ar- rest, that is also true; and we have two very faithful and efficient offi- cers as district attorneys in the State of North Carolina, but I beg to 

call the Senator's attention to the fact that there are two districts in 

North Carolina, the eastern and western districts. 

There are ninety-eight counties in the State. The western district 

in which grain and fruit are raised, and in which most of the distilla~ tion is done, is composed of sixty counties, it being hundreds of miles 

from one end of the district to the other, so that it is a physical impossibility for the district attorney to supervise the issuance of all the warrants in his district. If he could do it, why that would be all the protection our people would require against superfluous prosecutions, but 

it is a physical impossibility . . When a warrant should be required to 

be issued in a county 90 miles or 100 miles distant from the home of 

the district attorney, the proposed prosecutor and the witnesses would 

have to make a journey of that distance to submit to the district attorney the facts in the case befo;:e he could give an intelligent opinion in 

regard to it. So that it makes it, owing to the vast extent of territory, a physical impossibility, as I have said. · 

And now, :M:r. President, it does seem to me a small matter that the 

zeal on behalf of informers of the Committee on Appropriations every 

time that any relief of this kind is proposed against the harshness of 

the law of which we complain in the South should go to such an ex- tent and be so dili~ent to defeat every mitigating measure. We only 

ask for a common right-tha.t )10 citizen shall be taken up and exposed 

to costs, paiDB, and penalties, and to inconveniences of a criminal prosecution, except upon sworn information and knowledge of the facta. 

That is all. 

Mr. ALLISON. It seems to me that the Senator from North Caro· 

lina has a remedy by securing good officers to administer the Jaw in 

his State, and if they oppress good Christian people as he sueuesta 

that they are now doing, I think a proper appeal to the Preside~t of 

the United States would perhaps cure that difficulty. It is very cer- tain that all this legislation has a tendency and effect to relax the collection of the tax on whisky, and the Committee on Appropriations 

have gone just as far on this provision as they could possibly go and secure the enforcement of the law. I hope the Senator'e motion will 

not be agreed to. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempot·e. The question is on the motion of 

the Senator from North Carolina [Mr. V ANcErthat the Senate recede 

from its amendment numbered 222. 

A division being called for, there were-ayes 15, noes 13; not a quorum voting. 

Mr. ALLISON. Let us have the yeas and nays. 

The ·yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded to call 

the roll. · 

1\Ir. CALL (when his name was called). I am paired with the Senator from Colorado [Mr. BoWEN]. If his colleague can tellme how he 

would vote I shall be obliged. 

Mr. TELLER. I doubt whether my colle.'lgue would care to be 

paired on this subject. I do not know bow he would vote or anything 

about it. It is thought perhaps the Senatqr had better not vote. 

Mr. CALL. I vote "yea." 

Mr. PASCO (when Mr. FAULKNER's name was called). I beg to 

give notice that the Senator from West Vir~ia [Mr. FAULKNER] is 

paired with the Senator from Pennsylvania LMr. QUAY]. 

Mr. HARRIS (when his name was called). I hav~ a general pair 

with the Senator from Vermont [Mr. MoRRiLL], but bein_e persuaded 

that if he were present he would vote "nay," I record my vote that 

way. 

Mr. TELLER (when Mr. McPHERSON's name was called). The 

Senator from New Jersey [Mr. McPHERSON] is paid with the Senator 

from Nevada [Mr. JONES]. 

:M::r. PASCO (when his name was called). I am paired with the Sen~tor from Illinois [:1\Ir. FARWELL]. 

Mr. VANCE (when Mr. RANSOM's name was called). My colleague 

[Mr. RANSOM] is paired with the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. 

DAWES]. 

Mr. TELLER (when his name was called). I am paired with the 

Senator from Louisiana [Mr. GmsoN], but I traiLSfer that pair to the 

Senator from Oregon [M:r. MITCHELL] and I vote "nay." 

The roll-call was concluded. 

Mr. BLODGETT (after having voted in the affirmative). Since cast· 

ing my vote it occurs to me that I am paired with the Senator from New 

Hampshire [?tlr. CHANDLER], and therefore I withdraw my vote. Mr. MANDERSON. I am paired with the Senator from Kentucky 

[Mr. BLACKBURN]. Ifhe were present, I should vote "nay." 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The result---

Mr. MANDERSON. I call the attention of the Senator from llfis· 

sissippi [Ur. WALTHALL] to the fact that as no quorum has voted it 

may be well for us to traiLSfer pairs. I will transfer the pair of the 

Senator from Kentucky [Mr. BLACKBURN] to the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. SPOONER]. 

Mr. w· ALTHALL. I have already voted. I am paired on political 

questions, but do not regard this as a political question. 

Mr. MANDERSON. I did not understand that the Senator had 

voted. Then I vote "nay." 

Mr. BLODGETT'. In order to make a quorum, if agreeable 'to the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. BLAIR], the colleague of 

the Senator w.ith whom I am paired [b1r. CHANDLER], I will vote 

"yea." 
1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD---SEN~TE.' 8073 

The result was announced-yeas 17, nays 22; as follows: 

Bate, 

Berry, 

Blodgett, 

:Brown, 

Call, 

Aldrich, 

Allison, 

:Blair, 

Chace, 

Cockrell, 

Cullom, 

Beck, 

:Blackburn,, 

Bowen, 

Butler, 

Cameron, 

Chandler, 

Colquitt, 

Daniel, 

Davis, 

Dawes, 

YEAS-li. 

Coke, Payne, George, Pugh, Gray, Reagan, Hampton, Saulsbury, Jones of Arkansas, Vance, 

Dolph, 

Frye, 

Gorman, 

Hale, 

Harris, 

Hawley, 

Edmunds, 

Eustis, 

Evarts, 

Farweu,, Faulkner, 

Gibson, 

Hearst, 

Hiscock, 

Hoar, 

NAYS-22. 

Ingalls, 

Manderson,, Palmer, 

Platt, 

Sawyer, 

Sherman, 

ABSENT--37. 

Jones of Nevada, 

Kenna, 1\fcPherson, 

Mitchell, 

Morgan, ' 

Morrill, 

Paddock, 

Pasco, 

Plumb, 

Quay, 

Ransom, 

· So the motion to recede was not agreed t<>. 

Walthall, 

Wilson of Md. 

Stewart, 

Stockbridge, 

Teller, 

Wilson of Iowa. 

lliddleberger, 

Sabin, 

Spooner, 

Stanford, 

Turpie, 

Vest, 

Voorhees, 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question recurs on the motion of 

the Senator from Iowa [Mr. ALLISON] which, as the Chair underst!:!onds, 

includes the asking of a further conference. 

Mr . .ALLISON. Yes, sir. 

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 Mr. ALLISON, Mr. 

HALE, and Mr. BECK were appointed. 

HOUSE BILLS REFERRED. 

The following bills and joint resolution, received from the House of 

Representatives, were severally read twice by their titles, and reterred 

to the Committee on Appropriations: 

A bill (H. R. 10896) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in 

the appropriationsforthefiscal year endingJune30, 1888, andforprior 

years, and for other purposes; 

A bill {H. R. 9623) to provide for printing Government securities in 

the highest style of art; and . 

Joint resolution (H. Res. 219) to continue the provisions of a joint 

resoiution entitled "Joint resolution to provide temporarily for the 

expenditures of the Government.'' 

FISHING RIGHTS OF TilE UNITED STATES. 

The CHIEF CLERK. Order of Business 2175, being the bill (S. 3482) 

to enable parties to construct, maintain, and operate a wagon-road to 

the top of Pike's Peak, in the State of Colorado. 

There being no o~jection, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, _ 

proceeded to consider the bill. It prpposes that any corporation or as- sociation duly authorized by the laws of Colorado may construct, maintain, and operate a wagon-road into or across the Pike's Peak military 

reservation, Colorado, but the Government of the United States shall 

have the right to use the road free from toll or tax. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

Mr. HAWLEY. I move to correct the title of the bill so as to read, 

"A bill to authorize the construction and operation of a wagon-road 

across the Pike's Peak reservation, in the State of Colorado." 

The amendment to the title was agreed to. 

BAPTIST E.EM.ALE COLLEGE, LEXINGTON, IIO. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Order of Business 2156, being the bill (H. R. 2601) for the relief 

of the Baptist Female College, of Lexington, Mo. 

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

Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. It provides for the payment to 

the Baptist Female College, of Lexington, Mo., of $3,167.67, compensation ior rent of the college building while used by the United States 

Army for four years from 1861. 

'l'he bill was reported to the Senat.e without amendment, ordered to 

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

TACOMA PUBLIC PARK. 

Mr. DOLPH. I ask unanimous consent to call up Order of Business 2174, being the bill (S. 3475) granting the use of certain lands in 

Pierce County, Washingt<>n Territory, to the city of Tacoma, for the 

purposes of a public park. 

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

proceeded to consider the bill. -

The bill was reported to the Senate, ordered to be engrossed for a 

third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

STEAMER SAGINAW. 

Mr. GRAY. I move to take from the Calendar Senate bill No. 3364, 

Caltmdar number 2023. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempo're. The title of the bill will be reported 

by the Clerk. 

The CHIEF CLERK. A bill (S. 3364) to provide for nn American register for the steamer Saginaw, of New York. 

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

Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. It directs the Commissioner of 

The Senate resumed the consideration of the motion of Mr. SHER-• Navigation to cause the foreign-built steamer Benison, owned at New 

MAN to refer to the Committee on Foreign Relations the message of the York, by W. P. Clyde, an American citizen, and rebuilt by him in the 

President of the United States of August 23, 1888, relative to the fish- United States, to be registered as a. vessel of the United States under 

ing rights of the United States. the name of Saginaw, and directs the Secretary of the Trea-sm·y to auThe PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Mississippi [Mr. thorize and direct the inspection of the v~ssel and cause to be granted 

GEORGE] is entitled to the floor. · the proper and usual certificate issued to steam-vessels of the merchant 

Mr. CULLOU. If the Senator from Mississippi will allow me, as I marine, without reference to the fact that the steam-boiler, etc., were 

desire to leave the Chamber for the remainder of the evening, I wish not construc e~ pursuant to the laws of the United States. 

to say that I should like to be recognized when this subject comes up The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

again, afte-r the Senator from Mississippi has concluded his re~arks. be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

Mr. G EOHGE. Mr. President, if the conference report for the pres- JOHN D. ADAMS. 

entation of which I yielded the floor for the time has been disposed Mr. JONES, of Arkansas. I ask unanimous consent to call up Orof, I shall proceed now by unanimous consent of the Senate. der of Business No. 1944, being the bill (S. 320) for the relief of John 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator is entitled to the floor D. Adams. 

on the motion tp refer the message. By unanimous consent the Senate, ns in Committee of the Whole, 

l\1r. GEORGE. I shall not detain the Senate more than a few mo- proceeded to consider the bill. , 

ments now, and, if agreeable, I should prefer finishing what I baYe to The bill was reported from the Committee on Claililll with amendsay, which will not be very long, in the morning. I desire to call the ments, in line 3, aft.er the word "thousand" to strike out "six" and 

attention of the Senate to one or two things before I take my seat this insert "seven;" and after the word "and" to strike out "twentyevening. seven'' and insert ''five;'' in line 4, after the word ''and,'' to strike 

1\fr. GEORGE proceeded with his speech begun this morning. After out •' eighty-five" and insert" thirty-six;" an din line 9, after" 1861," 

speaking some time he said: to strike outNow, Mr. President, I have been interrupted for some time, and with It being the sum found due him under contract, as per sta.tement of the 

the consent of the Senate I will close my remarks for to-day here and Sixth Auditor of the Post-office Department, dated February IS, A. D. 1880-

give notice that to-morrow morning I will ask the indulgence of the So as to make the bill read: · 

Senate to finish them, and shall occupy but a short time. That the sum of$3,750.36 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any [Mr. GEORGE's speech will be found complete in the succeeding money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pa.y John D. Adams, a. · day's proceedings.] contractor for transporting the United States mails in tile '3t·ate of Arkansas ~ prior and up to the 1st day of June, A. D. 1861. 

WAGON-lWAD TO PIKE'S PEAK. The amendments were agreed to. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate, as in Committee of the The bill was reporte~ to the Senate as amended, and the amendWhole, resumes the consideration of the unfinished business, being the ments were concurre~ m. ~ . . . ~ . . bill (S. 12) to provi_de for the formation and admission into the Union I M~. ~RYE. I desrre to as~ a questiOn m Ielerenc':l to thiS bll~ be; 

of t he State of Washington, and for other purposes. fore 1t 1s passed. Does the bill come from ~he Committee on Claims. 

1lr. TELLER. I ask unanimous consentthattha.t order maybe in- hlr. JONES, of ~kans~s. Yes. ? .. 

formally laid aside and that I may have general consent to call up Sen- Mr. FRYE. Is It unammously reported· . 

ate bill3482, being Order of Business No. 2175. ~r. J~NES, of Arkansas. Yes. . . The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. The Senator from Colorado asks :rhe ~Ill was ordered to be ellgrossed for a third readmg, rtad the 

unanimous consent that the unfinished business may be informally laid thud time, and passed· 

aside and that the Senate take up the consideration of the bill the title PENSIONS TO A mrY NURSES. of which will be stated. Mr. BLAIR. I would like to ask the Senator from :M:iEsouri [Mr. 
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CocKRELL] if it would be inconvenient for him to proceed now to 

the consideration of the bill for the relief of women enrolled as a.rmy 

nurses? 

1\fr. COCKRELL. I will say to the Senator from New Hampshire 

that I made inquiries of the Department in order to get some facts which 

I considered necessary in the consideration of that bill, in regard to the 

number and the localities of those persons, and the War Department 

sent me a telegram the other day in reply to my letter, in which they 

say that the Snrgeon-General's Office is making out alist and will furnish it at the very earliest day possible. I have not received that yet, 

and I hope therefore the Senator will not press the bill. . Mr. BLAIR.. I will say to the Senator and to the War Department, 

upon whieh I called some four months ago when this matter came up, 

that there seems to be a dexterity of delay which is quite formidable 

certainly to the army nurses. Life is shol't, time is passing away, and 

these nurses are growing old. I hope the Department will be able to 

coni ply with the Senator's request very soon. M l·. COCKRELL. I hope so, too. 

Mr. BLAIR. Otherwise the Senator) I hope, will join with me in 

having the bill taken npwitbotrt thecommunicationfrom the War Department. 

11EVE.NUE-cDTTER FOR NEW BERNE. 

Mr. FRYE. I ask unanimous consent to call up Order of Business 

1946'. 

The PRESIDENT pro ie'mpore. The Senator from Uaine asks unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Order of 

Business 1946, being the bill (H. R. 5670} fo-r the co-nstruction of a revenue-cutter for New Berne, N. C., to replace the revenue-cutter 

Stevens. No objection being made, the Senate as in Committee of the Whole, 

pro~eded to consider the bill. 

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

FIRE-ALA..RM: AND TELEPHONE SERYICE. 

Mr. VANCE submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: lUsolved, Tha.t the commissioners of the District or Columbia be directed to transmit to the Senate for its information the recent a.nnualreport of Henry R. Mile!'!, superintendent or the fire-alarm and telephone service, for the year }-888, 

and 1 hat the s~e be referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and 

bep inted. 

EXECUTIVE SESSIO~. 

Mr. COKE. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of 

executive business. 

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business. After five minutes spent in executive ses- sion the doors were reopened, and (at 4 o'clock and 45 minutes p.m.) 

the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Thursday, August 3(}, 1888, at 

12 o'clock m. 

NO:!\IINATIONS. 

ET.eeutire 'lwminations received TJy the Sencde Augu.st 29, 1888. 

U~'"ITED STATES CONSULS. 

William Gaston Allen, of South Carolina, now consul a.t Piedras Negras, to be consul of the United Sta.tes at Kingsto~, Jamaica, 'Lice J. 

Hanrey Brigham, deceased. · Vicente M. Baca., of New Mexico, to be consul of the United States 

at Piedras Negras, ,;ice William Gaston Allen, nominated as consul at 

Kin~ston, Jamaica. 

J. G. Cisco, of Jackson, Tenn., to be consul of the United States at 

Nuevo Laredo, to fill a vacancy. 

PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY. ' 

Fifth Regiment of Cavalry. 

First Lieut. George B. Davis, to be captain, August 21, 1888, 1-i.ce 

Rockwell, deceased. 

Second Lieut. William E. Almy, to be first lieutenant, August 21, 

1888, vice Davis,. promoted. 

. lolinth Regiment of Infantry. 

Lieut. Col. Alfred L. Hough, of the Sixteenth Infantry, to be colonel, 

August 21, 1888, vice !fason, retired from active service. 

Tenth Jle[Jiment of btjantry. 

First Lieut. Clayton S. Bnrbank, to be captain, August 21, 1889, 

'Dice Hampson, promoted to the Twelfth Infantry. 

Second Lieut. Isaac ,V. Littel, to be first lieutenant, August 21, 

1883, vice Burhank, promoted. 

Tt elftl~ lle.qiment of ~tfa.n ry. 

Capt. Jesse A. P. Hampson, of the Tenth Infantry, to be major, 

August 21, 1888, vice Penrose, promoted to the Sixteenth Infantry. 

Sixteenth Regiment of InfantnJ. 

M~. William H. Penrose, of the Twelfth Infantry, to be lieutenant-colonel, Augnst 21, 1888, vice Hough, promoted to the Ninth Infantry. 

Tenth Regiment of Infantry. 

Additional Second Lieut. Alexander W. Perry, of the First InfantryJ 

to be second lieutenant, August 21, 1888, vice Littel, promolied. 

Fifth Regiment of Cavalry; , 

Additional Second Lieut. Andrew G. C. Quay, of the Eighth Cavalry, to be second lieutenant, A ngust 21, 1888, vice Almy, promoted. 

Corps of Engineers. 

Additional Second Lieut. William V. Judson, to be second lieutenant, July 23, 1888, vice Newcomer, promoted. 

Tenth R egim ent of Infantry. 

. Additional Second Lieut. William T. Littebrant, of the Nineteenth 

Infantry, to be second lieutenant, .A.ugtrSt 23, 1888, vice Shollenberger, 

promoted. 

Corps of Engineet·s. 

Capt. Daniel W. Lockwood, to be major, July 23, 1888, vice King, 

promoted. 

First Lieut. Thomas L. Casey, jr., to be captain, July 23, 1888, vice 

Lockwood, promoted. . Second Lieut. Henry C. Newcomer, to be first lieutenant, July 23, 

1888, vice Casey, promoted. 

Tenth Regiment oj Infamry. 

Second Lieut. John H. Shollenberger, to be first lieutenant, August 

23, 1888, vice Cranston, deceased. 

CONFIRMATIONS. 

Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate August 29, 1888.. 

POSTMASTER. 

Robert A. A. Pilcher, to be postmaster a.t Olathe, in the county of 

Johnson and State of Kansas. 

UNITED STATES CONSULS. 

Charles de Blanc, to be consul of the United States at Puerto Cabello. 

Ernest W. Sl¢.th1 of Massachusetts, to be consul of the United States 

at Mozambique. 

J. Russell Parsons, of New York, to be consul of the United States 

at Aix-hi-Chapelle. 

L. Austin Spalding, of New York, now consul at Aix-la.·Chapelle, 

to be consul of the United States at Brunswick. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

WEDNESDAY, .A.ugt.tst 2Q, 1888. 

The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by Rev. J .. ll. CUTHBERT, 

D. D. 

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

LEA. VE OF ABSENCE. 

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows: 

To Mr. FITCH, on account of illness in his family. 

To Mr. McKINLEY, indefinitely, on account of serious illness of his 

wife. 

To l\Ir. DARGAN, for six days. 

Mr. HOOKER. I ask leave of absence from :Monday nex t for my 

colleague, Mr. STOCKDALE, who is cnJled home on important business. 

There was no objection. 

EYROLLED BILLS SIG...~ED. 

Mr. KILGORE, from the Comm.itteeonEnrolledBills, reported that 

they had examined and found duly enrolled bills of the following 

titles; when the Speaker signed the same: A bill (H. R. 165) for the relief of H. C. Markham; 

A bill (H. R. 1761) for the relief of the First National Bank of PortJan~ Oregon. for money advanced the Oregon Iron Works, the con- tractor in building the United States revenue-cutter Thomas Corwin; 

. A bill (H. R. 3902) for the relief of Sophia B. Moore; 

A bill (H. R. 6371) granting a pension to Jesse M. Stillwell; 

A bill "(H. R. 7013) to place the name of Delia Newman on the pension-roll; 

A bill (H. n. 8087) for the relief of Thomas Strodder; 

A bill (S. 1880) declaring that certain water-reserve lauds in the 

State of Wisconsin are and have been subject to the provisions of the 

act of Congress entitled "An act wan tina to railroads the right of way 

through the pnblic lands of the _United States," approved March 3, 

1875; 

A bill (S. 3474) amendatory of a.n act authorizing the construction of a. bridge over the Mississippi River a t St. Louis, Mo., approved February 3, 1887; . · A bill (S. 3304) to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the 

United States; 

A bill (S. 32"26) granting the Leavenworth Rapid Transit Railway 

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