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is in patience and intelligence great; in ability to live under adverse 

circumstances it is great. It is the best illustration, as stated here 

the other day, of the doctrine of the survival of the fittest and of the 

adaptation of the human race to a certain condition of affairs. They can live upon a meager diet, because for generation after generation 

they have schooled themselves and educated their race to that method 

ofliving. Dowewantto tryit f Not at all. Wedonotwantit. 

vVe want to leave those men there, and if my friend from Georgia is 

anxious to send them the ministry of the Gospel, let him carry out 

the very letter of the Scripture and send it to them, and not bring 

them to it. 

But, Mr. President, that will not bear the test of examination. 

Of the hundred thousand that are here, and have been here for years, · will some man from the Pacific coast tell me how many have become 

Christian people, what percentage of them t Not one-tenth of 1 per 

cent. have ever adopted the Christian faith or the Christian religion. 

They all with one accord deny it. They are a people actually withoutreligionof any kind or any character. As they have been schooled 

in this from the earliest times, as with a Chiaese what was is the 

best thing that can be, so they will ever remain. 

I did not intend when I rose to occupy the Senate so long; but I 

just wanted to say that while other Senators may vote for the bill 

with a sort of apology, I have no apology to make when I vote for 

this bill. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The que tion is on the amendment 

of the Senator from Kansas [Mr. L~GALLS] to the amendment of the 

Committee on Jt'oreign Relations. 

Mr. DAWES. Mr. President, I do not intend to delay the vote on this bill--

1\Ir. GARLAND. Will the Senator from Mru achuset ts yield to a motion to adjourn f 

Mr. DAWES. I do not intend myself to occupy more than t en or fifteen minutes. 

Mr. GARLAND. If the Senator will give way I move that the 

Senate do now adjourn. 

Mr. DAWES. I will accede to the wish of the Senator in this 

matter. What little I desire to say I can say at one time as well as another. I have no prepared speech to make. 

Mr. GARLAND. I move that the Senate adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; and (at four o'clock and forty-two 

minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

Mo~DAY, March 6, 1882. 

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

F. D. rOWER. 

The Journal of Saturday was read and approved. 

FRANK GALT. 

Mr. CAMP, by unanimous consent, submitted th6 following re o- lution; which was read, considered, and agreed to: 

Resolved, That the Clerk of the Honse of Representatives be, and hereby is, au- thorized to pay out of the contingent fund of the Hou e to Frank Galt, as assistant to Journal Clerk, the per diem compensation of committee clerks from December 

5, 1881, to February 28, 1882, inclusive. 

Mr. CAMP moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution 

waR adopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. _ 

CO~SULAR AND DIPLOMATIC BILL. 

The SPEAKER. The question recurs this morning on the pa sage 

of the bill (H. R. No. 3830) making appropriations for the consular 

and diplomatic service of the Government for the fiscal year ending 

June 30,1883, aud for other purposes, on which, under the rules, the 

yeas and nays will be taken. 

Mr. HOLMAN. I move to recommit the bill. with the following 

instructions : 

Resolved, That the pending bill be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations, with instructions to amend the bill by striking therefrom all the provisions in relation to envoys extra{)rdinary and ministers plenipotentiary, and also all pronsions in relation to ministers resident and secretaJ.ies of legation, and all appro- priations for salaries of such envoys extraordinary and minlsters plenipotentiary and ministers resident and secretaries, and to further amend the bill by inserting 

therein provisions for the appointment of all such consuls and other commercial auents as shall be necessary to promote and encourage the commerce of the United 

States and to protect the interests of citizens of the United States in foreign coun- tries, and providing suitable salaries for all such consuls and commercial agents. 

The Honse divided; and there were--ayes 22, noes 79. 

:Mr. ATHERTON demanded the yeas and nays. 

The yeas and nays were not ordered,. one-fifth not voting in favor 

thereof. 

So the resolution was not agreed to. 

The SPEAKER. 'Phe question recurs on the passage of the 

bill. 

The question wa-s taken ; 

voting 92 ; as follows : and there were-yeas 170, nays 30, not 

YEAS-170. 

Aldrich, David on, Joyce, Robinson, James S. 

Anderson, Dawes. Kelley, Russell, 

Armfield, Deerin~ Kenna, Ryan, Atkins, DeMo , Ketcham, Scales, Barr, Denster, King, Scoville, 

Baffue. Dingley, Lacey, Shallenberger, Be ord, Dowd, LeFevre, Skinner, Belmont, Dunnell, Lewis, Smith, A. Herr Beltzhoover, Dwight, Lord, Smith, Dietrich C. 

Berry, Ellis, Marsh, Smith, J. Hyatt 

Bin~am, Errett, Mason, peer, Bla.c , Evins. McClure, Springer, Blanchard, Fat-well, Sewell S. McCoid, Steele, Bliss, Finley, McCook, Stone, Blount, Flower, McKinley, Strait. 

Brewer, For d, Miller, Talbott, 

Briggs, Forney, Money, Taylor, Browne, Fulkerson, Morrison, Thompson, Wm. G. Brumm, Geddes, Morse, Tillman, Buchanan, Georie, Yosgrove, Townsend, .Amos Buckner, Grou , Moulton, Tucker, 

Burrows, Julius C. Guenther, Muldrow, Turner, Henry G. 

Burrows, J os. H. Hall, Nolan, ~degraff, Thomas 

Butterwortb., Hammond, John Norcross, Caldwell, Hammond, N.J. Orth, ~~:tme, Calkins, Hardy1 Pacheco, Vance, 

Camp, HaselUne, Parker, Van Horn. CamcE_bell, Haskell, Peelle, Wadsworth, Can er, Hatch, Phister, Wait, 

Cannon, Hawk, Pound, Walker, Carpenter, Heilma.n, Prescott, Ward, 

Chace, Henderson, Randall, Washburn, Cla.rdy, Hepburn, Ranney, Webber, Clement , Herbert, Ray West, Converse, Hewitt, AbramS. Reed, Wheeler, Cook, Hewitt, G. W. Rice, Theron M. White 

Cox. Samuel S. Hiscock, Rice, William W. wil.li.ains, Chas. G. 

Covington, 

Cravens, Hum~y, 

Hutc · , Rich, Williams, Thomas 

Richardson, D.P. Willits 

Crowley, Culberson, Jacobs, 

Jones, George W. 

Richardson, Jno. S. Wise, George D. 

Ritchie, Wise, Morgan R. 

Cullen, Jones, James K. Robeson, 

Cutts, Jones, Phineas !Wbinson, Geo. D. 

NAYS--30. 

.Aiken, Dibrell, Latham, 

Bland, Dunn, Manning, Clark, Ermentrout, Matson, 

Cobb, Gunter, McKenzie, 

Col erick, Holman. McLane, 

Cox, William R. Klotz, McMillin, Curtin, Knott, Murch, 

Davis, Lowndes H. Ladd, Reagan, 

NOT VOTING-92. 

Allen, Frost, 

Atherton, Garrison, Barbour, Gibson, Beach, Godshalk, 

Blackburn, Hardenbergh, Bowman, Harmer, 

Bragg, Harris, Benj. W. BucJr, Harris, Henry S. 

Cabell, Hazelton, 

Carlisle, Herndon, CassidY-, Hill. 

Caswell, Hoblitzell, 

Chalmers, Hoge, Chapman, Hooker, Cornell, Horr, 

Crapo, Houk, 

Darrell, House, Davis, George R. Hubbell, 

Dezendorf, Hubbs, Dibble, Jadwin, Dugro, Jorgensen, Farwell, Cbas. B. KMson, :E'isher, Leedom, 

So the bill was passed. 

Lindsey, 

Martin 

1J.iles, ' 

Mills 

Moore' , Morey 

Mutchler, 

Neal, 

Oates, O'Neill, 

Page, 

Paul, 

Payson, Pierce, 

Pettibone, Phelps, 

Rioo, John B. 

Robertson, 

Robinson, Wm. E. 

Rosecrans, 

Ross, 

Scranton, Shackelford, 

The following pairs were announced : :Mr. SPAULDING with Mr. STEPHENS. 

1\Ir. Bo~lAN with Mr. ALLEN. 

Mr. GODSHALK with Mr. DUNN. 

Mr. LEEDO;\I with Jt!r. SHULTZ. 

Mr. BLACKBUR~ with Mr. HUBBELL. 

Mr. THO)fPSON, of Iowa, with Mr. MILLS. 

Mr. RANDALL with Mr. O'NEILL. 

Mr. HlLL with Mr. DIBBLE. 

Mr. AIKEN with Mr. WARD. 

Mr. SCRANTON with Mr. FROST. 

Mr. PAYSON with Mr. TOWNSHEND of Illinois. 

Mr. HOUK with Mr. WHITTHORNE. 

Mr. SHELLEY with Mr. FARWELL of illinois. 

Mr. WATSON with Mr. MUTCHLER. 

Mr. TALBOTT with :Mr. liAR.."'d:ER. 

Sineeton, J as. W . Sp ks Stocksia~er, Turner, scar Warner, 

Willis. 

Shelle¥, 

Sherwm, 

Shultz, 

Simonton, 

Singleton, Otho R. 

SpaUlding, 

Spooner, St.ephens, 

Thomas, Thompson, P . B. 

Townshend, R. W. Tyler, 

Updegraff, J. T. 

Urner, 

VanAernam, Van Voorhis, 

Watson, 

Wellborn, 

Whitthorne, 

Wilson, 

Wood, Ben.jamin Wood, Walter A. 

Young. 

Mr. THOMPSON, of Kentucky, with Mr. SHERWIN. 

Mr. MILES with Mr. CARLISLE. 

Jt!r. MARTIN with Mr. JADWIN. 

Mr. BEACH with 1\lr. VAN VooRHis. 

Mr. WILSO~ with Mr. WEBBER. 

Mr. ERRETT with Mr. HOOKER. 

Mr. SIMONTON with Mr. RICE of Ohio. 
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Mr. CABELL with Mr. VAN AERN.lli. 

Mr. PETTIBONE with Mr. BENJAMIN 'VOOD. 

Mr. LORD with Mr. HOGE. 

Mr. HOBLITZELL with :Mr. UR...~R. 

:Mr. STRAIT with Mr. BRAGG. 

Mr. CRAPO with Mr. ROBINSON of New York. 

Mr. HARRIS, of Massachusetts, with Mr. HARRIS, of New Jersey. 

Mr. BUCKNER with Mr. KASSO~. 

Mr. ATHERTON with Mr. MOREY. 

On motion of Mr. BUCKNER, by unanimous consent, the reading 

of the names was dispensed with. 

The result of th101 vote wa-s then announced as above recorded. 

Mr. BURROWS, of Michigan, moved to reconsider the vote by 

which the bill was passed; and also moved that the motion to recon- aider be laid on the table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

ORDER OF BUSI~""ESS. 

The SPEAKER. The regular order is the call of States for the introduction of bills and joint resolutions for printing and reference ; 

also, on this call of States, joint and concurrent resolutions and me- morials of State and Territorial Legislatures may be presented for 

reference. 

ELBA AND TROY IiAILROAD COMPANY. 

}lr. OATES introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4791) granting to the Elba 

and Troy Railroad Company the right of way over the public lands 

and the right to take and use timber and other building materials 

thereon for the construction of said railroad; which was rea~ a first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and 

ordered to be printed. 

MARTHA J. PYEATT. 

Mr. GUNTER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 479"2) for the relief of 

Martha J. Pyeatt; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

Z. M. PETTIGREW. 

Mr. GUNTER also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4793) for the relief 

of Z. M. Pettigrew; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to 

be printed. 

MANLEY B. EDMONDSON. 

Mr. CRAVENS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4794) for the relief of 

Manley B. Edmondson; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be 

printed. 

PERSECUTION OF JEWS rn RUSSIA. 

}lr. BELI<'ORD introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 151) ex- pressing sympathy with the Hebrews in Russia; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Forei()'n Affairs 

and ordered to be printed. 0 ' 

DREDGING OF MUD FLATS ON SAL.'l'T JOIL.~'S RIVER. 

:Mr. FINLEY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4795) to authorize the 

flredging of the mud flats near Orange Mills on the Saint John's 

River, in the State of Florida; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered t.o JJ~ 

printed. 

RIVER LIGHTS ON SAINT JOHN'S RIVER. 

Mr. FINLEY also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4796) authorizin()' the 

establishment of river lights on the Saint John's River, in the State 

of Florida; which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

TAX ON STILLS Al\~ WORMS. 

llr. HAMMOND, of Georgia, mtroduced a bill (H. R. No. 4797) to 

amend the second paragraph of section 3244 of the Revised Statutes as to taxes upon manufacturers of stills and worms; which was read a. first and second time, referred to the Committee on Wavs and 

Means, and ordered to be printed. ~ 

JOHN N. SWIFT. 

Mr. HAMMOND, of Georgia, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 479tl) 

for the relief of John N. Swift; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be 

printed. 

STATE OF GEORGIA. 

Mr. HA.¥MOND, of Georgia., also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4799) 

for the relief of the State of Georgia; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to !Je printed. 

EDWIN L. DRAKE. 

Mr. SMITH, of ~llinois, introduced a bip. (H. R. No. 4800) to pla{}e 

t.he name of EdWl~ L. Drake on the pensiOn r!>ll; which was read a iust and second tlllle, referred to the Comnuttee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MARIETTA, GEORGIA. 

Mr. CLEMENTS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4801)forthereliefof 

the trustees of the Presbyterian chu,rch in Marietta, Georgia; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on War 

Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

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CATHOLIC CHURCH, DALTON, GEORGIA. 

Mr. CLEMENTS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4802) for the 

relief of the trustees of the Catholic church at Dalton, Georgia; 

which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

RUFUS BARKER. 

Mr. CLEMENTS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4803) for therelief of Rufus Barker; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

ANTIETAM NATIONAL CEMETERY. 

Mr. HENDERSON introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 152) 

to provide for the settlement of a claim against the Antietam national 

cemetery; which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Comm1ttee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

THOMAS LANA.l\t:. 

ltlr. ORTH (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4804) to in· crease the pension of Thomas Lanam; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and 

ordered to be printed. 

1\"'ICHOLAS M7QUINN. 

Mr. HEILMAN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4805) granting a pension to Nicholas McQuinn; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, ordered to be printed. 

BRIDGE OVER MISSOURI RIVER. 

Mr. THO~IPSON, of Iowa. I present the joint re olution of the 

General A sembly of the State of Iowa relative to the proposed bridge over the Missouri River, p~titioned for by the Sioux City and Pacific 

Railroad Company. I ask unanimous consent that the joint resolution be printed in the RECORD. 

The SPEAKER. Unanimous consent for that purpose cannot be 

given during this call. 

Mr. THOMPSON, of Iowa. Let the joint resolution be read. 

The SPEAKER. It will not go into the RECORD in consequence 

of its being read. • Mr. THOMPSON, of Iowa. I understand that. 

The joint resolution was read, and was referred to the Committee on Commerce. 

LA..."'ID rn INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT OF lOW A. 

Mr. McCOID introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4806) confirming and 

vesting the title to a certain tract of land in Burlin~on, Iowa, in 

the independent school district of said State; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands: 

and ordered to be printed. 

ZEMIA SHEPHERD. 

:rtlr. McCOID also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4807) for the relief 

of Zemia Shepherd; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

R. G. M. POPLIN. 

Mr. HEPBURN (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No 4808) for 

the relief of R. G. M. Poplin; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. 

ELMER A. JOHNSON. 

ltlr. HEPBURN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4809) granting a pension to Elmer A. Johnson ; which wa-s read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. ANNA E. HALLOWELL. 

Mr. STOCKSLAGER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4810) for the re- lief of Anna E. Hallowell; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. 

THOMAS CRAWFORD. 

Mr. STOCKSLAGER also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4811) for the 

relief of Thomas Crawford; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be 

printed. 

MARTrn HARRINGTON. 

:Mr. CARPENTER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4812) granting an additional pension to Martin Harrington; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and or- dered to be printed. 

BRIDGES ACROSS THE MISSOURI RIVER. _ 

ltlr. CARPENTER also presented a joint resolution of the General 

Assembly of the State of Iowa, instructing the Senators of that State 

and reqnestin.~ the Representatives to support such measures as will 

secure the building of railroad and highway bridges above the city 

of Omaha across the Missouri River, between IowaandNebraska, upon 

like conditions as below said city; which was referred to the ComIIlittee on Commerce. 

PORTER B. HEWITT. 

Mr . .ANDERSON (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4813~ 

granting a pension to Porter B. Hewitt; which was read a first and 
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second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions,· and pensiontoKeturah.A..Collins; whichwasreada:firstandsecondtime, 

ordered to be printed. referred to the Committee on Inva.lid Pensions, and ordered to ue EUGID:NE O'SULLIVAN. printed. 

Mr. RYAN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4814) granting an increase 

of pension to Eugene O'Sullivan; which was read a :first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to 

be printed. 

H. H. KIDDER. 

Mr. RYAN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4815) for the relief of H. 

H. Kidder, assignee; which was read a :first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

DR. LEW ALLEN AND A. G. DAVIS. 

Mr. RYAN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4816) for the relief of 

Dr. Lewallen and Anthony G. Davis; which was read a :first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered 

to be printed. · WILLIAM B. KEITH. 

Mr. RYAN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4817) granting a pension to William B. Keith; which was read a. :first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. 

WILLIAM D. STARK. 

Mr. RYAN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4818) for the relief of 

William D. Stark, administrator; which was read a :first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to 

be printed. 

DR. LEWALLE~. 

Mr. RYAN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4819) for the relief of 

Dr. Lewallen; which was read a :first and second time, referred to 

the Committee on Indian A..ffairs, and ordered to be printe.d. 

WILLIAM L. CROUCH. 

Mr. RYAN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4820) for the relief of 

\Villiam L. Crouch; which was read a :first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

M. J. MOSS. 

Mr. WHITE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 48'21) for the relief of M. 

J. Moss; which was read. a :first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

ELIZABETH M. LEWIS. 

Mr. WHITE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4t!22) granting a pension to Mrs. Elizabeth M. Lewis; whick was read a :first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be 

pl·inted. 

ANNA PODESTA .A.."U> SARAH L.A.."U>ERS. 

Mr. CALDWELL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4823) granting a pension to Anna Podesta and Sarah Landers; which was read a :first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and 

ordered to be printed. 

HE.}.TRY FOWLER. 

Mr. CALDWELL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4824) for the 

relief of Henry }"'owler; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be 

printed. 

ALEXANDER RITTER. 

Mr. CALDWELL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4825) for the 

relief of Alexander Ritter; which was read a :first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be 

printed. 

MARY A. BRADFORD. 

1\lr. KNOTT introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4826) for the relief of 

Mary A. Bradford, administratrix; which was read a :first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be 

printed. 

GENERAL JAMES M' AFEE. 

lli. KNOTT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4827) for the relief of 

the heirs of General James .McAfee; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to 

be printed. 

CAROLINE E. SILENCE. 

Mr. BLACKBURN (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 48~) 

for the relief of Caroline E. Silence; which was read a :first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and 

ordered to be printed. 

1\IARY T. DUNCAN. 

Mr. "'WILLIS introduced a bill (H .. R. No. 4829) for the benefit of 

1\lrs. MaryT. Duncan; which was read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

JOHN KAYE. 

Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4830) for the relief 

of John Kaye; which was read a :first and second time, referred to 

the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

KETURAH A. "COLLINS. 

Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4831) granting a 

PENSIONS FOR fEXICAN WAR, ETC. 

Mr. KING introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4832) to provide pensions 

to the soldiers and sailors of the Mexican war, and of the Indian wars of 1836, &c.; which was read a :first and .second time, referred 

to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

BATON ROUGE NATIONAL CEMETERY. 

Mr. ROBERTSON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4833) to con trnct a road to the national cemetery at the city of Baton Rouge, in the 

State of Louisiana, and for other purposes; which was read a :first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and 

ordered to be printed. 

FANNIE M. WELLS .A..~D IDA F. WELLS. 

Mr. BLANCHARD introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4834) for the relief 

of Fannie M. Wells and Ida F. Wells; which was read a :first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered 

to be printed. 

HEIRS OF LAURA P. MADDOX. 

Mr. BLANCHARD also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4835) for the 

relief of the heirs of Laura P. Maddox, deceased; which was read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, 

and ordered to be printed. 

AURELIA F. ROBBINS. 

Mr. LADD introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4836) granting a pension 

to Aurelia F. Robbins; which was read a :first and second time, 

referroo to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. 

PUBLIC BUILDING AT SACO, MAL~. 

Mr. REED introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4837) to provide for the con- struction of a public building at the city of Saco, State of Maine; 

which was read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. 

MRS. PORTER. 

Mr. REED also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4838) granting an in- crease of pension to Mrs. --- Porter; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid P~nsions, and 

ordered to be printed. · 

AMERICAN SHIPPING. 

Mr. DINGLEY introduced a bill(H. R. No. 4839) to place American 

shipping employed in the foreign carrying trade on an equal footing 

with the vessels of other nations engaged in the same business; which was read a :first and secoud time, referred to the Committee on Ways 

and Means, and ordered to be printed. 

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY OF CL~ADA. 

Mr. DINGLEY also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4840) for the relief 

of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Claims, and 

ordered to be printed. 

PUBLIC BUILDING AT ACGUSTA, MATh"'E. 

Mr. LINDSEY (by Mr. DINGLEY) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4841) 

to provide for the erection of a public building in the city of Augusta, 

Maine ; which was read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. 

SOUTHER..~ MARYLA...'IID RAILROAD COMPANY. 

lli. CHAPMAN introduced a bill (H .. R. No. 4842) to authorize the 

Southern Maryland Railroad Company to extend a railroad ~o and 

within the District of Columbia; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and 

ordered to be printed. 

JA....'\IES P. ROE. 

1\lr. COVINGTON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4843) granting a pension to James P. Roe; which was read a :first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on InvaJid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. 

CATHARTh'E W. BOWIE. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTON) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4844) 

for the relief of Catharine W. Bowie; which was read a :first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered 

to ue printed. 

SAl\fUEL PRY. 

1\lr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTO~) also introduced a bill (H. R. 

No. 4845) for the relief of Samuel Pry; which was read a :first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered 

to be printed. FRED D. ROHRER. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTe~) also introduced a bill (ll. R 

No. 4846) for the relief of Fred D. Rohrer; which was read a first 

and second tjme, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and 

ordered to be printed. 

JONATHAN Y ASTE. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTON) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

4847) for the relief of Jonathan Yaste; which was read a :first and 
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second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered and second time, referred to the Committee on Ways and :Means, and 

to be printed. ordered to be printed. 

JOHN A. HEDGES. 

M1:. URNER (by Mr. CoVINGTON) also introduced a bill (H. R.No. 

4t!48) for the relief of John A. Hedges; which was read a first. and . second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered 

to be printed. 

HENRY ROWZER. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTON) also introduced a bill(H. R.No. 

4849) for the relief of Henry Rowzer; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and orderetl to 

be printed. 

DAVID R. MILLER. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTON) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

4850) for the relief of David R. Miller; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered 

to be printed. 

ROBERT H. BOTELER. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTON) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

4851) for the relief of Robert H. Boteler; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered 

to be printed. 

BERNARD MONDAY. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTON) alsointroduced a. bill(H. R. No. 

4852) for the relief of Bernard Monday; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Comn:•ittee on War Claims, and ordered 

to be printed. 

SAMUEL El. GLOYD. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTOM) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

4853) for the relief of Samuel S. Glloyd; which was read a first and 

second time, r&ferred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered 

to be printed. 

HEIRS OF IGN A.TIUS FULKS. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTON) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

4854) for the relief of the heirs-at-law of Ignatius Fulks; which was rea<l a first and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, 

and ordered to be printed. 

HENRY M7CAULEY. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTON) also introduced a bill (H. R. 

No. 4855) for the relief of Henry McCauley; which was read a first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on War Cla.ims, and 

ordered to be printed. . J. S. BELT. 

~lr. URNER (by Mr. CoVINGTO~) also introduced a bill (H. R. 

No. 4856) for the relief of J. S. Belt; which was read a first and 

second time, refened to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered 

to be printed. 

GEORGE W. SMITH. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. CoVINGTON) also i.atroduced a bill (H. R. 

No. 4~7) for the relief of George W. Smith; which was read a. first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on War ClailllS, and 

ordered to be printed. WILLIA~I 1\IATTHEWS. 

Mr. URNER (by Mr. COVINGTON) also introduced a bill (B. R. No. 

4858) for the relief of William Matthews; which was read a first 

and seooiid time, referred to the Committee on \Var Claims, and 

ordered to be printed. _ 1\UCHAEL WEIK. 

Mr. CRAPO introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4859) granting arrears of 

pension to Michael Weik; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and order~d to be 

printed. 

D.Al\TJEL MEEHA...."". 

Mr. CRAPO also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4860) to increase the 

pension of Daniel Meehan; whioh wa.s read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. 

WORCESTER WILLEY. 

:Mr. NORCROSS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4861) for the relief of 

Rev. Worcester Willeyz which was rea-d a. first and second time, 

referred to the Comnnttee on Indian ~airs, and ordered to be 

printed. 

ABEL GREEN. 

Mr. RICE, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4862) 

granting a pension to Abel Green; which was read a first and second 

time, 1·eferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to 

be printed. 

INTERSTATE COMMERCE. 

Mr. CANDLER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4863) to establish a board of commissioners of interstate commerce as a bureau of the Interior Department; which was read a first and second time, :referred 

to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

FOREIGN-BUILT VESSELS. 

Mr. MORSE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4865) to amend section 

4219 of the Revised Statutes; which was read a first and second tirae, 

referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

NA V .AL OFFICERS ON SHORE DUTY. 

Mr. MORSE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4866) providinrr quarters and fuel for naval officers on shore duty; which was re;J' a first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and 

ordered to be printed. · GEORGE G. SNYDER. 

l\Ir. LACEY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4867) forthereliefofGeorge 

G. Snyder i which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. 

EDWARD C. GARDNER. 

Mr. LACEY also introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 4868) granting a pension to Edward C. Gardner; which was read a first and second ti.m0, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. 

THOMAS NILES. 

1\Ir. LACEY also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4869) granting a pension to Thomas Niles; which was read a :first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

JOHN W. STEELMAN. 

Mr. WASHBURN (by request) introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 4870) 

for the relief of John W. Steelman; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered 

to be printed. ABRAHAM H. BURKHOLDER. 

Mr. BURROWS, of Missouri, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4871) 

granting a pension to Abraham H. Burkholder; which was read a. :first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and 

ordered to be printed. 

JOHN G. EBERLE. 

Mr. BURROWS, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4872) 

for the relief of John G. Eberle; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be 

printed. 

HENRY D. HAMILTON. 

Mr. BURROWS, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4873) 

to relieve of the charge of desertion Henry D. Hamilton; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military 

Ail"airs, and ordered to be printed. 

ARREARS OF PENSION. 

111r. RICE, of Missouri, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4874) construing the act of January 25, 1879, for the payment of arrears of pensions, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee en the Payment of Pensions, Bounty, and 

Back Pay, and ordered to be printed. 

THERESA SUMMERS. 

111r. RICE, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4875) for 

the relief of Theresa Summers; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be 

printed. 

THOMAS F. COCKBUR.""· 

Mr. RICE, of Missouri, also introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 4876) for 

the relief of Thomas F. Cockbnr·n; which was read a. first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be 

printed. 

EMMA A. PORCH. 

Mr. RICE, of Missouri, also introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 4877) for 

the relief of Emma A. Porch; which was read a first and second time, 

refen·ed to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. 

PUBLIC BUILDING, SEDALIA, MISSOURI. 

111r. RICE, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4878) providing for the Arection of a public building in the city of Sedalia, 

Pettis County, Missouri, for the accommodation of the public service 

in said city, and making an appropriation therefor; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Publio Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. 

FRANCIS C, SMITH. 

Mr. RICE, of Missomi, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4879) to 

relieve Francis C. Smith from the charge of desertion, and to pay 

him for service as band-master of the Tenth Regimont Illinois Cavalry 

Volunteers; which was read a first and second time, referrefl to the 

Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

PROTECTION OF SETTLERS ON PUBLIC LANDS, 

DUTIES ON SUGAR AND MOLASSES. Mr. RICE, of Missouri, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4880) for 

Mr. CANDLER also int,roduced a bill (H. R. No. 4864) to eimplify the protection of actual settlers on the public lands under bema fide 

and equalize dutiQs on sugar and molasses; which was rea a first color oftitle, and forother purposes; which was read afirstandsecXIII-104 
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ond time, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered 

to be printed. 

THOl\IA.S W. KING. 

· l\Ir. HASELTINE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4881) for the relief 

of Thomas W. King; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

RANK OF ENGINEER, ETC., UNITED STATES NAVY. 

Mr. BUCKNER (b¥ request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4882) to 

confer positive rank m place of relative on the officers of the Corps 

ofEno-ineers of the United States Navy; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered 

to be printed. 

MARY J. TAYLOR AND JAMES HENRY EVANS. 

Mr. CLARDY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4883) granting a pension to Mary J. Taylor and James Henry Evans; wliich was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, 

and Ol'dered to be printed. 

HENRY J. L YDA. 

Mr. CLARDY also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4884) to rerate the 

pension of Henry J. Lyda; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. JOHN S. LOGAN. 

Mr. FORD introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4885) for the relief of John 

S. Logan; which was read a :first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

ABNER ROGERS. 

:Mr. FORD also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4886) for the relief of 

Abner Rogers; which was1·ead a first and second time, referred to 

the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to· be printed. 

NICHOLAS HIBNER. 

Mr. FORD also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4887) increasing the 

pension of Nicholas Hibner; which was read a :first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. JOHN F. ELLIS. 

Mr. FORD also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4888) increasing the 

pension of John F. Ellis; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. ALEXA.l.~DER KENNEDY. 

Mr. FORD (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4889) for 

the relief of Alexander Kennedy, sr.; which was read a :first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered 

to be printed. 

A. A. KENNEDY AND A. KENNEDY, JR. 

Mr. FORD (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4890) for 

the relief of A. A. Kennedy and A. Kennedy, jr.; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and 

ordered to be printed. 

CAMPBELL COUNTY, TENNESSEE. 

:Mr. FORD (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4891) for 

the relief of Campbell County, Tennessee; which was read a first anfl 

second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered 

to be printed. WILLIAM C. BRUMMETT. 

Mr. FORD (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4892) for 

the relief of William C. Brummett; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to 

be printed. 

LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF ENOCH BRANSON. • 

Mr. FORD (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4893) for 

the relief of the legal representatives of Enoch llranson, deceased; 

which was read a first and second time, referred to the Commif>tee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

CHARLOTTE MORROW. 

:Mr. FORD (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4894) for 

the relief of Charlotte Morrow; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be 

printed. GEORGE W. FRAKER. 

:Mr. FORD (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4895) for 

the relief of George W. Fraker; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be 

printed. 

J, C. B. PATTON. 

tiine, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be 

printed. 

.ll!E\"1HIENT TO CONSTITUTION. 

:Mr. MANNING introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 153) pro- posin~ !1Il amendment to the second section of the third article of thA 

Const1tution of the United States; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be 

printed. CHARLES H. HOLT. 

Mr. VALENTINE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4898) to rerate the 

pension of Charles H. Holt ; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. AMENDMENT OF PATENT LAWS. 

Mr. VALENTINE (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

4899) to amend the statutes in refation to patents; which was read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee on Patents, and 

ordered to be printed. 

RECEIVERS AND MASTERS IN CHANCERY. 

Mr. RAY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4900) in relation to the appointment of clerks of the United States circuit and district courts, or their deputies, as receivers and masters in chancery ; which was read a :fir t and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 

LISETTA W. SPAULDING. 

l\fr. RAY al o introduced a bill(H. R. No. 4901) granting a pension 

to Lisetta W. Spaulding; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. DUTY 0~ APOLLINARIS WATER. 

Mr. WEST introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 154) in re~ard 

to duty on apollinaris water; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and ordered to be 

printed. LJU.'D W ARRA....~S TO SOLDIERS A... "ill SAILORS. 

:Mr. NOLAN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4902) granting land war- rants to soldiers and sailors who served in the Army or Navy of the 

United States during the late rebellion; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and 

ordered to be printed. WALKER A. NEWTON. 

Mr. KETCHAM introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4903) for the relief of 

Walker A. Newton ; which was read a first and second time, refeiTed 

to the Committee on .Military .Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

SECTION 4433 REVISED STATUTES. 

Mr. McCOOK introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4904) to amend ection 

4433 of the Revised Statutes; which was read a first and ccond time, 

referred to ·the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

:hiARGARET .ll\'1> JULIA A. CALDWELL. 

Mr. SKINNER (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4905) for 

the relief of Margaret Caldwell and Julia A. Caldwell; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on War 

Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

CHARLES GALUSHA. 

l\fr. HAMMOND. of New York, (by request) introduced a bill (H. 

R. No. 4906) for the relief of Charles Galusha; which was read a :first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and 

ordered to be printed. JOHN KNAPP. 

Mr. MASON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4907) granting a pension 

to John Knapp; which was read a first and second time, referred to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

JOliN HERBOLD. 

Mr. BLISS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4908) for the relief of John 

Her bold ; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Claims, a.nd ordered to be printed. 

L'IIITATIO~ BUTTER AND CHEESE. 

l\1r. JACOBS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4909) to regulate the 

exportation of articles made in imitation of butter and cheese; 

which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

SUGAR. 

l\Ir. JACOBS (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4910) 

to amend schedule G ef section 2501 of the Revised Statutes relating 

to sugar ; which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on "\Vays and Means, and ordered to be printed. 

:Mr. FORD (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4896) for HARVEY z. FARR. 

the relief of J. C. B. Patton; which wa-s read a :first and second time, Mr. PRESCOTT introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4911) for the relief of 

:referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be prmted. Harvey Z. Farr; which was read a first and second time, referred to THOMAS J. POWELL. the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

Mr. FORD (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4897) for CONTAGIOUS AND ThTFECTIOUS DISEASES. 

the relief of Thomas J. Powell; which was read a first 1!-llcl sepoJl.d 1\lr. R~CJ1ARD$0N, of:New"'fork,ill.troquced a bill (H. R. No. ~12) 
1882. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1651 

to enable health officers at maritime quarantines and ports of entry 

of the United States to prevent the admission of contagious and infectious disease into the United States; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Public Health, and ordered 

to be printed. 

PUBLIC BUIDING AT YOJII.JrERS1 NEW YORK. 

Mr. HUTCHINS introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 4913) for the erection 

of a public building at Yo~rs, New York; which was read a first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and 

Grounds, and ordered to be printed. 

El\.1ELINE PINK. 

Mr. HUTCHINS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4914) granting a. pension to Emeline Pink; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. E. P. SMITH. 

Mr. HUTCHINS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4915) f'or the 

relief of E. P. Smith; which was read a first and second time, re- ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 

ASSAY OFFICE IN NEW YORK CITY. 

Mr. HARDY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4916) to provide for the 

erection of a new assay office in the city of New York; which was read a. first and second time, referred to the Committee on Coinage, 

Weights and Measures, and ordered to be printed. 

GENERAL ALEXANDER S. WEBB. 

Mr. COX, of New York, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4917) to place 

the name of General Alexander S. Webb on the retired list of the 

United States Army; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Military Afl:'a.irs, and ordered to be printed. 

J. H. MERRILL. 

Mr. COX, of New York, also introduced a ·bill (H. R. No. <1918) for 

the relief of J. H. Merrill; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed. 

ISABEL R. M1GUNNIGLE. 

Mr. COX, of New York also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4919) for 

the relief of Isabel R. McGunnigle; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Naval Afl:'airs, and ordered to be 

printed. PENSIONS FOR INDIAN W ARS1 ETC. 

Mr. VANCE introduced a bill (H.R. No.4920) toprovideforplacin(T 

all the survivin~ soldiers and sailors of the United States who served 

in Indian wars, mcluding those who served in removing the Cherokee Indians from North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee to the 

Cherokee Nation, on the pension-roll; which was read a. first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to 

be printed. HARVEY P. BUCKNER. 

llr. VANCE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4921) to restore the name of Harvey P. Buckner to the pension-rolls; which wa-s read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on InvaJid Pensions! and ordered to be printed. 

MARY MERRILL. 

Mr. VANCE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4922) granting a pension to Mrs. Mary Mocrill; which was read a. first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. · JAMES RUFFIN WOOD. 

lli. LATHAM introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4~) granting· a. pension to James Ruffin Wood; which was rea.d a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered. to be 

printed. ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND. 

Mr. DOWD introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4924) for the relief of 

Alexander Sutherland; which was read a. first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be priuted. 

PUBLIC BUILDING AT SPRINGFIELD, OlllO. 

Mr. TOWNSEND, of Ohio, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 49'25) for a public building at Springfield, Ohio; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and G.t'ounds, 

and ordered to be printed. 

CHARLES KORTZENBOR...~. 

llr. ATHERTON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4926) for the relief 

of Charles Kortzenborn; which was read a first and second time, 

1·eferred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

SOLOMON K. RUGGLES. 

Mr. UPDEGRAFF, of Ohio, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4927) 

granting a pension to Solomon K. Ruggles; which was read a first 

and seconrl. time, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered 

to be printed. REMOVAL OF CHARGES OF DESERTION. 

Mr. GEDDES introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4928) to emp6wer the 

Secretary of War to remove the charge of desertion from the military- recprq in all cases wh~:re the same is unjust; whic4 Wl).i read ~ 

first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Afl:'airs, 

and ordered to be printed. 

IMPORTATION OF LUMBER. 

1\fr. GEDDES also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4929) providing for a modification of the revenue laws so as to permit the importation of 

certain lumber into the United States of America free of import duty; 

which was rea.d a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. 

PUBLIC BUILDING AT MANSFIELD, OHie. 

lli. GEDDES also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4930) to provide for 

the erection of a building at the city of 1\fans:fieldl. Ohio, for the ac- commodation of the post-office and other offices ot the Government 

of the United States at said place; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, 

and ordered to be printed. 

L. A. GORMLEY. 

Mr. GEDDES also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4931) granting a pension to L. A. Gormley; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. ISABEL CAMPBELL. 

Mr. GEDDES also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4932) granting a pension to Isabel Campbell; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. WILLIAM P. CARR. 

Mr. GEDDES also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4933) to remove tb,e 

charge of desertion from the military record of William P. Carr; 

which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

NAVIGATION OF OillO RIVER, ETC. 

1\Ir. BUTTERWORTH introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4934) to provide for protecting the navigation of the Ohio, the Big Kanawha, 

and the Tennessee Rivers by increasing the number of lights on the 

Ohio River and extending the system of beacon lights to the Big 

Kanawha and Tenne see Rivers; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be 

printed. CAPTAIN ALLEN L. Al\TDERSON. 

1\Ir. BUTTERWORTH also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4935) to 

place the name of Captain Allen L. Anderson on the retired list of 

the Army; which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on Military Afl:'airs, and ordered to be printed. 

JOHN M. BLAIR & CO. 

Mr. BUTTERWORTH also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4936) for 

the relief of John M. Blair & Co.; which wa,s read a first and second 

time, refeiTed to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

MEMORIAL ADDRESS OF JAMES G. BLAINE. 

1\fr. McKINLEY introduced a joint resolution (H. R. ·No. 155) for 

printing ~,000 copies of the memorial address of James G. Blaine; 

which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. 

DEPOSITORIES OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 

1\Ir. McCLURE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4937) to establish 

depositories of public documents, &c.; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to 

be printed. · 

FRANCIS OREBAUGH. 

1\Ir. MOREY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4938) granting a pension 

to Francis Orebaugh; which was read a :first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and orrl.ered to be printed:-

SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

1\Ir. NEAL introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 156) to provide 

for the suspension of collection of special assessments in the District 

of Columbia. until the improvements which said assessments were made to pay for are fully completed; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, 

and ordered to be printed. 

DISCRll!fiNATING DUTIES-FREE LIST 

1\Ir. KELLEY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4939) to abolish discriminating dnties and to enlarge the free list; which was read a first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and 

ordered to be printed. . 

PUBLIC BUILDL.~G AT LEBANON, PE~SYLV.Ali"IA.. 

lli. BARR introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4940) to authorize the erec- tion of a public building at Lebanon, Pennsylvania; which was read a first and second time, ~eferred to the Committee on P~blic Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. 

JAMES AARON. 

Mr. CAMPBELL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4941) granting a pension to James Aaron; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the CoJD.lllittet~ on lnva.lid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 
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WILLIAM R. WED\IER. 

:Mr. CAMPBELL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4942) g1·anting a pension to William R. Weimer ; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to 

be printed. LEVI LEEDOM. 

Mr. CAMPBELL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4943) granting a pension to Len Leedom; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. ARTHUR I. M1

CO:NNELL. 

1\lr. CAMPBELL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4944) granting a pension to Arthur I. McConnell; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pe:asions, and ordered to 

be printed. JOSEPH SHOWMAN. 

Mr. CAMPBELL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4945) granting a pension to Joseph Showman; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. JOSHUA JOHNSO:N. 

}fr. BELTZHOOVER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4946) for the 

relief of Joshua Johnson; which was read a first and second time. 

The SPEAKER. It will be referred to the Committee on War 

Claims. 

1\ir. BELTZHOOVER. No, to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

This bill was introduced in the Forty-sixth Congress and referred to 

the Committee on War Claims, who reported it back stating that they 

had no jurisdiction of the claim. 

The SPEAKER. The question is where it goes under the rules. :Mr. BELTZHOOVER. I know; but the Committee on \Var Claims 

considered this claim and reported back to the House asking to be dischar~ed from the further consideration of the bill, a,nd askin~ that 

it be reterred to the Committee on Military Affairs. That is tne r e- port of the Committee in the Forty-sixth Congress. It would be a great hardship to this man to have this bill sent back to a committee 

that held it during one Congress and then reported it back and a ked 

to have it properly referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

The Chair, a-s a matter of course, under the rules would, without tbis 

information, refer it to the Committee on War Claims. 

The SPEAKER. Under the rules it goes there. 

Mr. BELTZHOOVER. Not necessanly-not unless there is nothing to disclose it should go elsewhere. 

The SPEAKER. On the face of the claim it shows it is an appropriation to pay for services during the war; and a great many times 

this session that question has come up and been decided, not only 

by the Chair but by the House, in favor of reference to the Committee on War Claims. The Chair decides this bill, under the precedents 

and under the rule, must go to the Committee on War Clainls. 

Mr. BELTZHOOVER. Hear me one word. I ask that it be put 

to a vote of the House. In the Forty-sixth Congress we had precisely the same question. Under the rule the bill was referred to t.he 

Committee on War Claims. 

The SPEAKER. That was right. 

Mr. BELTZHOOVER. That committee reported back it had no jurisdiction and the bill should go to the Committee on Military 

Affairs. And tbis claimant was kept out of relief durin~ that Congress by reason of that action. Now, then, with that actwn in view, is it proper to refer the bill a~ain to the Committee on War Claims! 

The SPEAKER. It is not uebatable. 

Mr. BELTZHOOVER. I know; but the action of the committee 

of the Forty-sixth Congress should be considered as an instruction 

to the House on the subject of the reference of this bill. That report at least should indicate the proper line of action to the House. 

The SPEAKER. The bill was properly referred in the Forty-sixth 

Congress, and if by any mistake it was changed improperly that is no argument for violating the law now. The question has been submitted frequently to the House this session and frequently decided. 

There is a large number of bills of the same character referred to 

the Committee on War Claims. This was properly referred during 

the last Congres , as the same character of bills have been properly r eferred, during this Congress, to the Committee on War Claims. 

Mr. BELTZHOOVER. I believe it is my duty t.o ask that it be 

1·eferred to the Committee on Military Affairs in view of the facts I 

llave stated. I demand a division ofthe House on the question. 

The House divided; and there were-ayes 18, noes 26. 

So the motion was disagreed to. 

The SPEAKER. The bill will be r eferred to the Committee on \Var Claims, under the rule, and ordered to be printeu. 

MARY E. S. FUREY. 

Mr. BELTZHOOVER also introduced a bill(H. R. No. 4947) granting a pension to Mary E. S. Furey; which·was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered 

to be printed. MICHAEL MURPHY. 

Mr. WALKER (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4948) for 

the relief of l\Iichael Murphy; which was read a fi1·st and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to 

be printed. AME:NDMENT OF PATENT LAWS. 

Mr. WISE, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4949) to 

amend the patent laws; which was read a first and second time. 

Mr. WISE, of Pennsylvania. Let it be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

The SPEAKER. It relates to patents and should go to the Committee on Patents. The Chair hears no objection, and the bill will be 

referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. 

EDWARD HANLY. 

. Mr. BINGHAM introduced_a bill (H. R. No. 4950) granting a penSIOn to Ed ward Hanly; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. - FALSE CERTIFICATES OF ARRIV ALB OF MAILS, ETC. 

Mr. BINGHAM also introduced a bill(H. R. No. 4951) to punish post- rna ters for making false certificates of the arrivals and departures 

of mails; which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be 

printed. LEASES FOR POST-OFFICES. 

Mr. BINGHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4952) to authorize 

the Postmaster-General to execute leas~s for post-offices in certain 

cases; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. 

POST-ROADS. 

Mr. BINGHAM al o introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4953) to amend 

section 5 of chapter 103, act of March 3, 1877, entitled ''An act establishing-po t-roads and for other purposes;" which was read a first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and 

Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. 

VIOLATIO:N OF POSTAL L.A WS. 

Mr. BING !LUI also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4954) making cer- tain violations of the postal laws a misdemeanor; which wa read a. fir ·t and second time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office 

ancl Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. 

NO:N-MAILABLE MATTER. 

Mr. BINGHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 49:>5) to amend sec- tion 20 of the act of March 3, 1879; which was rea-d a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, 

and ordered to be printed. 

OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES OF POSTAL SERVICE. 

Mr. BINGHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4956) to amend 

section 989, Revised Statutes, extending its provisions to officers and 

employes of the postal service; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on the PQst-Office and Post-Roads, 

and ordered to be printed. 

RETURN OF U:NDELIVERED MAIL MATTER. 

Mr. BINGHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4957) to amend 

section 3890, Revised Statutes. and to authorize the return of mail 

matter to the writer; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to 

be printed. PRETE:NDED PQST-OFFICE INSPECTORS. 

1\Jr. BINGHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4958) making it 

an offense to personate a post-office inspector; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office 

and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. 

PROF..U.'"E LANGUAGE IN POST-OFFICES. 

Mr. BINGHilf also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4959) to punish 

the use of profane and obscene language in a post-office; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the PostOffice aud Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. 

AME~~MENT OF POSTAL LAWS. 

1\IJ:. BINGILUI also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4960) to amend 

sections 3!J29 and 4041 of the Revised Statutes; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office 

and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. 

Mr. BINGHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4961) to amend 

section 5480, Revised Statutes; which was reacl a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, 

and ordered to be printed. 

Mr. BINGHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4962) to amend 

section 5463 of the Revised Statutes; which was read a :first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and PostRoads, and ordered to be printed. 

Mr. BINGHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4963) to amend 

section 31:;93 of the ReviAed Statutes; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post.- Roads, and ordered to be printed. 

MARGARET WOODS. 

1\Ir. MILLER introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 4964) to rerate the pension of Margaret Woods; which w~s ref\.d a fust and seconcl time, 
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refened to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be of Joseph Bissonette; which wasreadafirstand second time, referred 

printed. to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

ISAAC WHITE. 

l\[r. MILLER also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4965) granting a pension to Isaac White; which was read a first and second time, 

referrecl to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. MEMORIAL ADDRESS ON PRESIDENT GARFIELD. 

Mr. MILLER also introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 157) for 

the printing of 100,000 copies of the address of Hou. James G. Blaine 

in honor of the memory of James Abram Garfield, late President of 

the United States; which was I'ead a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. 

TH01\1A.S M1MANNUS. 

Mr. BAYNE (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4966) for the 

relief of Thomas McMann us; which wa~ read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. PLEURO-PNEUMO~IA IN CATTLE. 

Mr. WADSWORTH introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4967) fortheprevention and suppression of pleuro-pneumonia in neat cattle; which was road a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. 

W. B. BAYLESS. 

.Mr. HOUSE introduced a: bill (H. R. No. 4968) for the relief of W. 

B. Bayless; which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

PRESCILLA W. BURWELL. 

Mr . .MOQRE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4969) for the relief of 

Prescilla W. Burwell; which was reacl a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on ·war Claims, and ordered to he printed. 

GEORGE GLASS. 

Mr. DEZENDORF inti·oduced a bill (H. R. No. 4970) for the relief 

of George Glass; which was read a first and second time, referred to 

the Cerumittee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

CUSTO IS DISTRICT OF ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA. 

l\lr. BARBOUR inti·oduced a bill (H. R. No. 4971) to place the cus- toms district of Alexandria on the same list with Georgetown, Disti·ict of Columbia, and Cherrystone, Virginia, and other districts of 

that clacs; which was read a first and seconcl time, referred to the 

Committee on Ways and Means, and orderecl to be printed. 

ARTHUR 1\1, AND W. B. CHICHESTER. 

Mr. BARBOUR also introduced a hill (H. R. No. 4972) to compensate 

Arthur M. Chichester and 'N. B. Chichester, heirs of Mary Chichester, 

for her house, burned by Federal troops in 1862; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and 

ordered to be printed. 

E. C. KITTLE AND OTHERS. 

Mr. BARBOUR(by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4973) 

for the relief of E. C. Kittle and others; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be 

Jlrinted. LIGHT-HOUSE L."'i RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER, VIRGINIA. 

Ur. GARRISON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4974) for the erection 

of a light-house on Russ Rock, in the Rappahannock River; which was read a first and second time, ·referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

CHIPPEWA RIVER. 

Mr. HUMPHREY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 49i5) confirming 

certain rights on the Chippewa River heretofore granted by the 

Legislature of the State of Wisconsin; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered 

to he printed. 

MENOl\IONEE INDIANS IN WISCONSIN. 

Mr. GUENTHER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4976) to authorize 

the sale of timber on certain lands reserved for the use of the Menom- onee tribe of Indians in the State of Wisconsin; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, 

and mdered to be printed. 

PETER ~TCHELL, JR. 

Mr. GUENTHER. (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

4977) for th~ relief of Peter Mitchell, jr.; which was read a first 

ancl second tliDe, referred to the Committee on In valid Pensions, and 

mdered to be printed. 

ELECTIONS IN THE TERRITORIES. 

.Mr. OURY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4978) to provide for the election of a governor and a secretary of the Terri tory by the people of the 

several Territories; which was read a first and second time, referred liO the Committee on the Territories, a:ad ordered to ue printed. 

JOSEPH BISSON"ETTE. 

Mr. PETTIGREW introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4979) for the-relief 

SECTION 1889 REVISED STATUTES. 

Mr. AINSLIE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4980) to amend section 1889 

of the Revised Statutesofthe United States; which was read a first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and 

ordered to be printed. 

LA......~D CASES IN THE TERRITORIES. 

Mr. POST introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4981) to provide for tho appointment of a commissioner to take testimony and oaths in land cases in unorganized counties within the Territories of the United 

States; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. 

FREDERICK NELSON AND OTHERS. 

Mr. POST also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4982) granting pensions 

to },rederick Nelson, T. Caine, and R. Sanders; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

.ORDER OF BUSL~SS. 

The SPEAKER. The call of St.ates and Territories has been com- pletecl. Gentlemen desirous of introducing bills, &c., for reference, 

who were not present when their States were called, will now, in the 

absence of objection, be recognized. 

1\IARYLAl\'D AND DELAWARE SHIP-CANAL • 

Mr, SHELLEY (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4983) to 

aid in the construction of the Maryland and Delaware Ship Canal, 

and to secure to all vessels of the United States service for all time 

the right of navigation through said canal free of tolls and charges ; 

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

on Railroads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. 

MISSISSIPPI RIVER IMPROVEMENT. 

Mr. GIBSON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4984) making appropriations for the construction, repair, completion, and preservation of· certain works on the Mississippi River in accordance with the I'ecommendations, plans, specifications, and estimates of the Mississippi 

River commission; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 

Mr. BLACK introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4985) to repeal section 10 of 

the act approved J nne 2, 1879, entitled "An act to prevent the introduction of contagions and infectious diseases into the United States;" 

which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Public Health, and ordered to be printed. 

EMILY AGNES AITKE....~. 

Mr. TALBOTT introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4986) granting a pension to Emily Agnes Aitken; which wasreada:first and second tiine, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. 

PENSIONERS DROPPED FROM ROLL. 

Mr. HEWITT, of Alabama, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4987) to 

restore to the pension-roll all pensioners dropped therefrom on ac- couct of having engaged in, aided, or abetted the late rebellion, and 

requiring their pensions to be paid to them from and after the passage of this act; which was read a first and seconcl time, 1·eferred t.o the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY, DISTRICT OF COLIDIBIA. 

Mr. McMILLIN (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4988) to 

incorporate the National Gas and Electric Light and Illuminating 

Company of the District of Columbia; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia 

ancl ordered to be printed. ' 

SCH001\TER LOUISA BLISS. 

Mr. <?ANDL~, by unanimous consent, s~bmitted the following 

resolution; w hwh was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs: 

Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign .Aifairs be instructed to inquire into 

the alleged nnjust ~d extortionate fines ~d charges imposed upon the American 

schooner Lomsa Bliss of Thomaston, Maine, by the Spanish customs authorities 

!fo~~~~~~~~ Humacoa, in the island of Porto Rico, and to report their conclu· 

ISABELLA R. RA.l\ISDELL. 

Mr. BLISS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4989) granting n. pension 

to Isabella J. Ramsdell; which was read a first and second time 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to b~ printed. · 

AUGUSTUS C. LARKIN. 

Mr.COBB (byrequest)introduceda bill(H.R. No. 4990)fortherelief 

of Augustus C. Larkin·; which was read a fir t and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

HENRY T. SKINNER. 

. Mr. COBB also in~roduced ~bill (H. R. No. 4991) granting a ·pen- swn to Henry T. Skinner; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. 
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JOliN R. SMITH. 

Mr. COLERICK introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4992) for the relief of 

John R. Smith; which wa-s read a first and second time, referred to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

PRE-El\IPTIO:NS AND HOMESTEADS. 

Mr. WASHBURN introduced a bill(H. R. No. 4993)torepeal the laws 

allowing pre-emption of the public lands and amending the homestead laws; which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Comruittee on the Public Landa, and ordered to be printed. 

WILLIAM L. WHITLOCK. 

Mr. FORNEY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 4994) to refund to William L. Whitlock, of Alabama, taxes illegally collected as income tax; 

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

Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. 

JURISDICTION OF UNITED STATES COURTS. 

Mr. MANNING. I ask unanimous consent that the joint resolution 

introduced by me this morning proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States be printed in the RECORD. 

There was no objection, and it was ord~red accordingly. 

The joint re olution is as follows : 

Be it resolved, cf;c. , (two-thirdS of each House concurring therein,) That the following amendment to the Constitution of the United State.<J be proposed to the 

Legislatures of the several States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Le~?:islatures 1 shall become a part of the Constitution ; namely: That section 2 of article 3 of the Constitution of the United States be amended as follows: 

" The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made or which shall be made 

under this authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, and ot.her public minis- ters and consuls ; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to contro- versies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States, between a State and citizens of another State, between citizens of 

the same State claiming lands under gran of different States, and between a State or the 'citizens thereof and foreign States, citizens, or subjects. "In all cases affecting embassadors and other public ministers and consuls, and 

those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original 

jmisdictiou. In all the other cases before mentioned the Supreme Court shall 

have appellate jurisdiction, both a-s to law and fact, with such exceptions and 

under such regula.tions as Congress may make. 

"The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and 

such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been com· mitt eel; but when not committed within any State the trial shall be at such place or pla-ces as the Congress may by law have directed." 

FRIDAY EVE:Nl:NG SESSIO:NS FOR PEXSIO:N BILLS. 

Mr. BROWNE. I move to suspend the rules and adopt the reso- lution which I end to the Clerk's desk. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That, until the further order of the House, on Friday of each week the House will take a recess at four o'clock and thirty minutes until seven o'clock and 

thirty minutes p. m., at which evening sessions bills on the Private Calendar 

t·eported from the Committee on Invalid-Pensions only shall be considered. 

The question was taken; and (two-thirds voting in favor thereof) 

the rule were suspended and the resolution was adopted. 

SALE OF LEAF TOBACCO. 

Mr. DIBRELL. I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill 

which I send to the Clerk's desk. 

The Clerk read the bill, as follows : 

A bill to repeal the sixth clause of section 3244 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the sale of leaf-tobacco. 

Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the sixth clause of section 3244 of the Revised 

Statutes of the United States as imposes a fine or penalty on any farmer or pro· ducer of tobacco who may sell the same to a consumer be, and the same is hereby 

1·epeale<l; and hereafter all farmers or others producing tobacco shall be allow~ to sell tobacco of their own or tenants' production without any license or penalty 

whatever. 

Mr. ROBINSON, of Massachusetts. I demand a second on the mo- tion to suspend the rules. 

Mr. DIBRELL. I ask that the second be considered as ordered. 

Mr. ROBINSON, of Massa-chusetts. I think the vote had better 

be taken on seconding. 

:Mr. ROBINSO:N, of Massachusetts, and Mr. DIBRELL were appointed 

tellers. 

The House divided; and the tellers reported that there were- ayes 83, noes 66. 

So the motion was seconded. 

The SPEAKER. Under the rule fifteen minutes is allowed for 

debate on each side. 

Mr. DIBRELL. The passage of this bill, according to the report 

of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, will only reduce the reve- nue about ix hundred dollars. During the last fiscal year only five 

persons took advantage of the law and obtained licenses under it, 

yielding a revenue to the Government of $583, while it cost the Government $10,000 to enforce the law. The present law is a great 

hardship on farmers in the interior who raise small crops of tobacco 

and who have no licensed dealers in their vicinity to whom they can sell it. The passage of this bill will enable them to sell their small 

crops of tobacco. I do not think that any sensible man who will 

look at the matter aright will be disposed to continue this hardship on farmers and harass and annoy'them by imposing this tax npon 

them. I now yield five minutes of my time to the gentleman from 

Missouri, (Mr. HATCH. J 

Mr. HA1'CH. The bill presented by the gentleman from Tennessee, [Mr. DIBRELL,] to repeal so much of that section of the Revised 

Statutes which prohibits a farmer from selling in the open market 

the products of his own land, is, in my judgment, the most important 

bill that has been presented for the consideration of the Forty-seventh 

Congress. There is no other statute, national or State, like the one which this bill proposes to repeal. It prohibits the grower of a crop 

from going into the open market and selling to the highest and tlle 

best bidder. As the gentleman has stated, it does not affect the I'ev- enues of the Government to the extent of one dollar. It co t the 

Government more every year to collect the license under thi law 

than the revenue which they derive from it. The effect of tb law 

is to force the small farmer either to permit his crop of tobacco to 

hang in his barn until it rots, or to send it a long distance to a licen ·ed 

dealer to sell for any price that dealer may fiX upon it. 

The object of the bill now nnder consideration is not to interfere 

with the sale of manufactured tobacco. In my opinion it will not 

affect the sale of manufactured tobacco to the extent of one dollar a year. The great body of farmers who prefer to chew or to smoke 

unmanufactured tobacco, "long green," raise it now and use it a.t 

home. 

Each planter who raises a.s much as a hogshead or more of tobacco can afford to ship it to Saint Louis or Louisville or Cincinnati, or to 

any great city where there is a "tobacco break," and sell it in the 

open market through his commission merchant. But the great ma- jority of tobacco growers in the section of Missouri that I have the 

honor to represent on this floor do not raise large crops of tobacco, 

and the consequence of the law is that except at one, two, or three 

local places they are compelled to send their crops of tobacco hundreds of miles to Saint Louis, or give it away, or rather to let it rot 

in the barn, for nnder the law they are not allowed even to give it 

away. 

Now, why should the farmer, I ask you, gentlemen, be restricted in 

selling his crop of tobacco any more than be would his crop of corn, or wheat, or any other crop that he raises f "Ah," say the revenue 

officials, "a revenue is derived from manufactured tobacco." Well, 

does not the Government derive a revenue from manufactured corn f 

When corn is manufactured and sold, it brings revenue to the Government; yet the farmer can sell his corn to whom he pleases. If 

this restriction in regard to tobacco be removed, the moment the 

farmer sells his tobacco to the country merchant it then passes under 

all the restrictions of the revenue laws and the Government derives 

the benefit of whatever tax may be imposed, for the purchaser cas 

only sell it to a licensed dealer. 

Under the existing law on this subject there have occurred some of the most outrageous hardships ever known in this country under 

any law enacted by C<1ngress. Men living long distances from the 

Federal courts have been dragged from their homes from one hundred to three hundred miles to answer prosecutions for selling two or three pounds of tobacco to a neighbor, to be used as a cure for 

hog cholera or something else of that kind. 

I send to the Clerk's desk, to be read, a statement of a single instance which recently occurred in Saint Louis. It is copied from the 

Post-Dispatch of January 5, 1882. And this is not an extreme case. Hundreds like it have occurred in Missouri in the la t two or three 

years. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

JUSTICE-IT THROWS AN OLD HAN ON A BEGGAR'S RESOURCES IN A STRANGE CITY.-

" Well, here I am, an old man in a strange city, and without a cent of money in my pocket, and two hundred miles away from nome," said Isaac Murray-, as he 

stood in Jailer Ryan's office at the four courts this afternoon almost in desp:ur, after 

serving thirty days in jail, a sentence pronounced ~y Judge Treat, for selling some leaf tooacco without license. "I live in Macon County in this State, and am a farmer by occupation. Nearly three months ago I was arrested by the United 

States marshal for sellin~ a few strips of tobacco without a license. I have only one arm and I'm almost disabled. I'm now going on my sixty-sixth year . .At my trial I admitted selling the toba.cco for a few dollars, and was sent t.o the city jail for 

thirtv days. The time expired this morning, and I was discharged, but Lord knows I wis'h I could stay there, for I'd get something to eat and a place to sleep at least. I don't know a soul in this city, and what am I going to do 7 I've been over to the 

mayor's office but he won't do anything for me. I was at the United States court, 

but the deputy marshal said he wouldn't let me see the jndge, and God knows I don't know what to do when night comes on if I don't get assistance from some quarter. If I could get back to -:Macon County I would be all right, but it looks now as if I'd have to starve right here in the city's streets." Ke was advised to go to the United States marshal himself, and turning his coat collar up about his 

weather-beaten face he started out in the sleet. 

[Here the hammer fell.] 

Mr. DIBRELL. I now yield five minutes to the gentleman from 

Kentucky, [Mr. WmTE.] 

Mr. WIDTE. Mr. Speaker, I think that on our side of the House 

there is some misunderstanding as to the effect of this propo ed 

amendment of our revenue laws. I for one am opposed to adopting 

any measure which will destroy the revenue we are now receiving 

from the tax on tobacco. But this measure has not that object in 

view. · Mr. BUTTERWORTH. Will not that be the result f 

:Mr. WHITE. No, sir; it willnothavethatresult. The object of 

this measure has been clearly stated by the gentleman from Missouri, 

[:Mr. HATCH.] In remote parts of the country there is no such agent as is required by law, and the producer frequently ha-s not enough 

tobacco to justify him in going fifty or one hundred miles to hunt up an agent. The result is a constant temptation to violate the law, 

which I may say in too many cases plays in the hands of these spies 
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or informers, who are sustained by the miserable system of fees, 

which brings nothing to the Government; which is all the time a drain on the Treasury. Pass this bill, and you remove that incentive 

to violate the law. You give the producer what he is justly entitled 

to, the right to sell his product in open market. If the man who buys 

from the producer undertakes to traffic in this product he comes nuder another clause of the law, and is required to pay a license. This measure is not intended to relieve such traffickers from the procurement of license. It simply says to the producer, especially in 

remote parts of the country, who has a fewpoundsoftobaccoto sell, 

that he may sell it to the actual consumer, or indeed to any purchaser, without hunting up an agent of the Government .. I appeal to my friends on the Republican side of the House not to 

vote a.gainst this bill, for it will not have the effect which they imagine. A gentleman sitting here asks how we limit the provisions 

of the bill. The bill simp!y provides that the man who produces 

the tobacco shall have the right to sell it without having paid the 

license tax now required. 

Mr. BUTTERWORTH. He has the right to sell now. Mr. WHITE. He has no right to sell unless he himself or the man to whom he sells has paid this $300 tax. 

Mr. McCOOK. May I ask the gentleman a question f 

:Ur. WHITE. Certainly. 

Mr. McCOOK. Has the gentleman any report of the Commissioner 

of Internal Revenue recommending this change Y 

Mr. WIDTE. I have not. 

}.11-. McCOOK. Does he recommend it Y 

Mr. BUTTERWORTH. On the contrary, he ~aid that such provision 

would practically strike down the collection of all revenue from 

tobacco. 

Mr. WHITE. I desire to say only one word in conclusion. It is 

not fair, it is not just, it is not iB accordance with our ideas of free 

government that a. man who happens to live one hundred miles from 

one of these agents shall be practically prohibited from selling his 

product. 

[Here the hammer fell.] 

Mr. DIBRELL. Mr. Speaker, how much time have I left f 

'fhe SPEAKER. Two minutes. 

lli. DIBRELL. I will reserve that until the other side has been 

heard. 

Mr. ROBINSON, of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I wish to take a. minute or two. I stopped this bill because on an important question of this kind it should not go through with a rush. If we un- derstand it, and it is proper, it is time enough to pass it after we understand it, and not before. I will yield to the chairman of the 

Committee on WaysandMeallS, who knows allaboutthese subjects. 

The bill is written for this occasion, and has not been referred to any 

commHtee, and consequently has not received the sanction of any 

committee. I may say, without reflection on any gentleman, it is in 

many parts very inarti:ficially constructed, and would not work much 

reform. It proceeds to repeal so much of the sixth clause of a cer- tain section as impo es a penalty, but the sixth clause imposes no penalty whatever. Therefore a. large portion of the bill is of no 

a~count. 

It has been &aid in argument on this bill the farmer may sell in open 

market, but if I read this bill right, and I think I can, " all farmers 

and others producing tobacco shall be allowed to sell their own or their tenant's production without any license or penalty whatever." 

It says nothing about open market. 

I say at the outset-! presume gentlemen will make it plain-this 

opens the door to break down the tax on tobacco and gives almost 

unlimited occasion for fraud and imposition. Therefore, I say it 

should not, without the sanction of the Internal Revenue Bureau or without the approbation of the committee, be put through the House 

under a suspension of the rules. 

Mr. McMILLIN. I ask the gentleman to allow me to make one 

suggestion. I perceive there is great misapprehension as to the scope 

of this bill. I wish to suugest to the gentleman from Massachusetts 

that the revenue derived from this tax that is proposed to be repealed 

by this bill for the last year was only $500 or 600. There are only 

five licensed leaf-dealers in the United States, and yet for the purpo e of getting this amount of revenue we ha.mper the sale by every producer of tobacco in the country. That is altogether wrong. 

Mr. ROBINSON, of Massachusetts. I want to be as generous a.s possible, but the gentleman must not ask me to give him all my time. 

I now yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania. . Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, I have labored longer and harder for 

the repeal of this system than any other gentleman on this :floor. On 

the 1st of June, 1868, I presented to this House the hardships in- ·flicted by our internal-revenue laws on the growers of tobacco. In 

1872 I took occasion, when discussing the question of the repeal of our internal-revenue taxes, to say: 

The bill also provides how the farmer may sell his crop, and in what quantities be may sell it; I mean the farmer who grows tobacco. "\Vbat! basit cometothis, that an American citizen may not sell his crol! where he pleases and as he pleases i 

Yes, if you are going to perpetuate this ann-republican system of taxation you must, in order that the manufacturer of tobacco may be able to pay his taxes, pro- nde that the farmers shall not sell unmanu.f'actm·ed tobacco to those who may smoke or chew it. 

And there is the pith of the whole question. 

Mr. Speaker, I have recently appealed to the public from the stand 

and through the press to relieve our industries from this system of 

restraint and necessary espionage. But this measure proposes to 

begin at the wrong end. 'fhis is to open a door for allowing your 

revenue, so far as tobacco is concerned, to be frittered away. 

The gentleman says it will cost the Government $600 a year. This 

question is before the Committee on Ways and Means, and is receiving very grave consideration. I was present at the hearing of the 

Commi sioner of Internal Revenue before the sub-committee having 

it in charge, and when the question was put to him, upon the suggestion that it involved a los ofbut 600,he said, That does not indicate the loss; you cannot estimate the loss. That provi ·ion is the manufacturer's protection, and if you allow farmers to sell, it will be 

bought in small quantities and converted by hand into little twists, and the manufacturer's stock will be depreciated in his hands from 

the time the law goes into effect. 

Mr. HATCH. Allow me to ask the gentleman a question. 

Mr. KELLEY. I will co-operate with gentlemen on that siue and on this in all just efforts to relieve the country of internal taxation. 

I have been instructed by the course of the patriots who organized 

the Government under the Constitution, the men who gave us our earliest law. I have seen how they struggled against internal taxation. I have seen how the people of my own State rose in armed 

rebellion against the supervision it required. I have read J e.fferson's 

letter to Madison denouncing the excise system as an infernal one, 

that would destroy the liberties of the people. I have seen that such 

taxes were resorted to in the war of 1812, and were repealed by one of 

the :first acts of Congress after the close of that war. But w hila you 

retain internal taxes you must, if you wish your people to pay the 

tax fully and honestly, protect those upon whom it is assessed. And 

to repeal this law, Mr. Speaker, would be, as I have said, to throw 

the whole tobacco trade open to the depreciation of the stock in the 

hand of every manufacturer from the hour your repeal went into 

effect. 

Mr. ATKINS. Will the gentleman permit me to ask him one question! 

Mr. KELLEY. Yes, sir. 

Mr. ATKINS. I wish to know if the cost of the execution of this 

law does not amount to more than the revenue which the Government derives from itt 

.Mr. KELLEY. I will answer the gentleman. The Commissioner 

of Internal Revenue laughed at the idea, and said that nobody could 

estimate the consequences that would follow if it was repealed. 

That matter of licenses, said he, is hardly worth taking into account. 

He seemed to think that to reduce the cost of the license would be a little matter; but he said no man can imagine the percentage of the 

tax upon tobacco that will be lost if the law allowing the farmer to 

sell his own stock is passed. 

I am as anxious as any of you can be to get rid of the system 

of taxation which puts the whole process of the business of a particular class under cruel supervision, and subjects an ignorant man 

engaged in it to penalties, the provisions of which he has possibly never dreamed. But let us do it like legislators. Let us do it 

after inquiry. Let us do it on t;n.e report of a committee competent 

to investigate the subject, and anxious to win reputation by so modifying the tax laws of the country as to redound to the prosperity and 

the best interests of the Government and the people. But do not 

let us undertake in this manner to enter upon a system the end of 

which no man can see. 

Mr. TURNER, of Kentucky. I would like to interrupt the gentle- man for a moment. 

Mr. KELLEY. Very well. 

J\Ir. TURNER, of Kentucky. The trouble is, if the gentleman will 

permit me, that your Committee on Ways and Means will never report a bill of that kind, favorably or otherwise. For the last six Congresses attempts have been made to secure just such legislation, but 

they have invariably failed to make any report on the bills. I offered 

several during the :Forty-sixth Congress, and one during this--

Mr. KELLEY. I would like to know the source of the gentleman's 

prescience t 

J\Ir. TUR..c"\TER, of Kentucky. I speak from the records of this 

House. I judge of the future by the past. 

:Mr. KELLEY. You are referring to the records of the past. I 

point to the probabilities of the future. [Applause.] 

Mr. TURNER, of Kentucky. Many similar bills have been referred 

at this session and no report has been made. 

Mr. KELLEY. I say to the gentleman that I believe the committee will, within a fortnight, bring in a hill reducing the internal revenue taxes from :fifty to seventy-five millions of dollars; and when 

that is done it will be for us to see whether gentlemen will aid us in 

the good work of emancipating the South, for it is the South that is 

the largest sufferer by these laws. 

.Mr. HOUSE. Will the gentleman's committee report a bill at this 

session t 

Mr. KELLEY. I will not help you to open the flood-gate by which 

your principal source of revenue to t.he Union will be lost. I will 

never consent to such hasty and inconsiderate legislation. I will go 

systematically to work with you to get rid of the whole system which 

Jefferson denounced as an infernal one, and which is now an unneces- sary burden upon the people. 

1\Ir. HATCH. Now, will the gentleman permit me to ask him a question f 

1\Ir. KELLEY. Yes, sir. 
1656 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 6, 

Mr. HATCH. If this system is so bad as the gentleman admits 

that it is, why not open this food-gate now, and give to the honest 

farmers of this country the right to protect themselves in their honest labors, even if the manufacturers are to lose a little by it f Why 

not give the farmers of the country the benefitt 

Mr. KELLEY. My dear sir, this is a system which became neces- sary to provide for the raising of revenue when we were at war with 

the proudest, the bravest, and the ablest enemy with which the armies 

of any country ever had to contend. It wa-s a system devised for the 

support and maintenance of the Government when we were expending millions of dollars a day in bringing the South back into the 

Union, and we had to establish--

Mr. HATCH. But the war ended eighteen ye::u-s ago. It is cer- tainly time now to modify an iniquitous system. 

Mr. KELLEY. I say that it was a system established when tho 

Government in support of its very existence was called upon to devise means to raise a revenue. And I, more than any southern man, have 

labored to emancipate you from it; but I ask that it be done decently 

and after proper consideration. 

Mr. HATCH. Then if you want to do it, I ask you now to take 

off this gallinO' yoke from the farmers of the country. 

Mr. KELLEY. No, sir. I will not help you to perpetrate a fraud 

upon the dealers in manufactured tobacco. 

Mr. HATCH. It is not a fraud. The only wrong is upon the 

farmers. The farmers of this country are not peddlers of tobacco. 

It will not affect the interests of the dealers to the amount of a single cent. . 1\Ir. WHITE. I hope the gentleman from Pennsylvania will yield 

to me for a moment. 

Mr. KELLEY. Is theroanytimelefton this side of the discussion t 

The SPEAKER. There is. 

Mr. WHITE. Then I hope the gentleman will yield to me. Mr. KELLEY. I cannot. Your time has expired. I yield to the 

gentleman from Ohio. 

Mr. BUTTERWORTH. Mr. Speaker, the time (two minut-es) allowed me for this discussion is too short to say something and too 

long to say nothing. 

The system which this amendment proposes to change has been 

provided so as to insure the collection of the revenue tax upon tobacco, and I only desire to say to the House that in order to secure the collection of the tax imposed by law, it is necessary to trace the 

tobacco from the field where it grows, or rather from the hands of 

the prodncer to the manufacturer. Hence it is provided that he who 

rai e tobacco may use it for himself if desired, but when he puts it 

upon the market to be sold, it will be purchased only by dealers who 

have paid the special tax, i. e., been licensed as dealers; and wherefore f Why, in order that the Government may trace that tobacco, 

aml thereby collect the tax upon it. Otherwise it is impossible. If 

you permit every one who grows tobacco to sell it where he will 

and to whomsoever he will, the result will be that so fru: as the 

manufactm·ers are concerned, those who have built up their business 

under the present system will be stricken down, and it will be impossible to collect the tax a-s it is now done. 

If gentlemen on the other side are pleased to co-operate with the 

gentleman from Pennsylvania in striking down the internal-revenue 

tax, so be it. I should oppose it. But if it be deemed well that it 

should be stricken down, let it be done, as the gentleman says, decently and in order. But to pass this bill and modify existing law, as is proposed, is only to defeat the collection of the tax. Not only 

that; it would ruin every tobacco manufacturer in the country; and 

for the reason I have suggested, every farmer becomes a quasi man- ufacturer, and one-half of the tobacco would pay no tax at all. 

Mr. TUCKER. Let me sno-gest to my friend from Ohio that the 

language of the bill is that the producer may sell his raw product, 

not manufactured tobacco. 

Mr. BUTTERWORTH. Exactly, and the man who buys jt may use it; and experience has shown he sells it in the market, and each man who buys becomes a manufacturer, at least for his own use. That is the practical result. 

So far as the alleged hardships on the producer are concerned, 

there is no hardship. He in fact loses nothing, while the Government is protected in collecting its tax. 

[Here the hammer fell.] 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. SPEER] is 

entitled to two minutes. ~Ir. SPEER. Agreeing as I do in the main in the opinions of the 

distinguished chairman of the Committee of 'Vays and Means on this 

question of internal taxation, I regret, sir, that I cannot assent to 

his objections to this bill and to the rea-sons he gave for them. I 

know how hard is the operation of the law sought to be changed on the agricultural people whom I here in part represent. This bill is 

not to the injury of the manufacturer. There is no rule which re- quires the tobacco to be traced to the man who produces it, as the 

gentleman from Ohio [Mr. BUTTERWORTH] stated it. The manu- facturer pays so much per pound on the manufactured article, and 

the tobacco is not traced to the producer, as the gentleman inaccurately states. [Mr. BUTTERWORTII rose.] I have not time to yield 

to the gentleman. 

SiP, the farmer can sell without tax his cabbages raised on one patch or his potatoes raised on another; but he cannot sell his leaf .~bacco from the next patch. These laws are oppressive, unequal, 

unrighteous. So iniquitous is this system that it was stated by the distin~ruished gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. CARLISLE] before the 

Committee on Ways and Means that he knew of a farmer in his State 

who was indicted and prosecuted for manufacturing tobacco, he 

having simply twisted up the green leaves from his own field and put 

them under the corner of the rail fence to dry them. 

It is this harsh, this vexatious system which the bill is in a meas- ure intended to strike down. I ask it, we all ask it, for the relief 

of the agricultural people whom we represent all over the South and 

the West. At remote points from the railroads the small farmers can raise in the little rich coves on the sides of the mountains and in the 

fat bottoms of their branch lands small quantities of tobacco; and so far oft' are they from these licensed purchas&rs that it would cost the 

value of three loads to haul one load to market. And this bill simply 

asks that the farmer be permitted to sell the leaf tobacco, not the 

manufactured, to his neighbor or any other person who desires to 

purchase it. Sir, the hardship of this mischievous law is unbearable, 

and this Congress will strike it from the statutes. 

[Hm·:l the hammer fell.] 

The SPEAKER. The question is on suspending the rules and passing the bill. 

1\fr. DIBRELL. To test who are the friends of the farmer and the 

producer, I a-slt for the yeas and nays. 

The yeas and nays were ordered. 

The question was taken; and there were-yeas 113, nays 91, not 

voting 88 ; as follows: 

Aiken. 

Armfield, 

Atkins, 

Barbour, 

Belford, 

Belmont, 

Beltzhoover, 

BW::k, 

Blanchard, 

Bland, 

Blount, 

Buchanan 

Burrows, Jos. H. 

Caldwell, 

Chalmers, 

Chapman, 

Clardy, 

Clark. 

Clements, 

Cobb, 

Colerick, 

Converse, 

Cook, 

Cox, Samuel S. 

Cox, William R. 

Covington, 

Cravens, 

Culberson, 

Cur tiD, 

Aldrich, 

Anderson, 

Barr, 

Bayne, 

Brewer, 

B~gs, 

Brunun, 

Burrows, Jnlius C. 

Butterworth, 

Camp, 

Campbell, 

Candler, 

Cannon, 

Carpenter, 

Chace, 

Crowley, 

Cullen, 

Cutts, 

Dawes, 

DeeriDg, 

DeMotte, 

Din~ley, 

DWight, 

YEAS-113. 

Dav:idson, Hntohins, 

Davis, Lowndes H. Jacobs, 

Deuster, Jones, George W. 

Dibrell, Jones, James K. 

Dowd, Kenna, 

Dunn, King, Dunnell, Klotz, 

Ellis, Knott, 

Evins, Ladd, 

Farwell, Sewell S. Latham, 

Finley, LeFevre, 

Ford, Mannin~, 

Forney, McKenz1e, 

Fulkerson, McLane, 

Garrison, McMillin, 

Geddes, Mills, 

Gibson, Money, Gunter, Mosgrove, Hall, Moulton, 

Hammond, N.J. Muldrow, 

Hardenbergh, Murch, 

Hardy1 Nolan, 

Haseltine, Oates, 

Hatch, Phister, 

Herbert, Reagan, Hewitt, AbramS. Richardson, Jno. S. 

Hewitt, G. W. Robertson, 

Holman, Rosecrans, 

House, Scales, 

NAYS--91. 

Fisher, 

Grout, 

Guenthert 

Hammonn, John 

Haskell, 

Hawk. 

Hazelton, 

Henderson, 

Hepburn, 

Hiscock, 

Horr, 

Hubbs, 

Humphrey, 

Joyce, 

Kelley, 

Ketcham, . Lacey, 

Lewis, 

Marsh, 

Mason, 

McClure, 

McCoid, 

McCook, 

McKinley, 

Miller, 

Moore, 

Morse, 

Norcross, 

Orth, 

P:wheco, 

Page, 

Payson, 

Peclle, 

Pound, 

Prescott, 

Ranney, 

I:~ Rice, John B. 

Rice, William W. 

Rich, 

Richardson, D.P. 

Rit()hie, . Robinson, Geo. D. 

R.obinson, James S. 

Russell, 

NOT VOTING-88. 

Scoville, 

Shackelford, 

Simonton, 

Singleton, Otho R. 

Sparks, 

Speer, 

Springer, 

StockSlager, 

Talbott, 

Thompson, P. B. 

Tillman, 

Tucker, 

Turner, Henry G. 

Turner, Oscar 

Updegraff, Thorua.s 

Upson, 

Valentine, 

Vance, 

Warner, 

Wheeler, 

White, 

Whitt horne. :;tlt'\IDS• Thomas 

Wise, 'George D. 

Wise, Morgan R. 

Ryan, 

Shallenberger, 

Skinner, 

Smith, A. Herr 

Smith, Dietrich C. 

Smith, J. Hyatt Spooner, 

Steele, 

Stone, 

Taylor, 

Thompson, Wm. G. 

Townsend, Amo~ 

Tyler, 

Updegraff, J. T. 

Wadsworth, 

Wait, 

Walker, 

Ward, 

Washburn, 

Webber, 

West, 

Willits. 

Allen, Dibble, Jorgensen, Ross, 

Atherton, Dugro, Kasson, Scranton, 

Be:wh, Ermentrout, Leedom, Shelle:y, Berry, Errett, Lindsey, Sherwm, 

Bingham, Farwell, Chas. B. Lord, Shultz, 

Bl:wk.bw-n, Flower, Martin, Singleton, Jas. W. 

Bliss, Frost, Matson, SpaUlding, Bowman, George~ Miles, Stephens, Bragg, Godshru.k, Morey, Strait, 

Browne, Harmer, Mor;nson, Thomas, 

Buck, Harris, Benj. W. Mutchler, Townshend, R. W . Buckner, Harris, HenryS. Neal, Urner, 

Cabell, Heilman, O'Neill, Van Aernam, 

Calkins, Herndon, Parker, Van Horn, 

Carlisle, Hill, Paul, Van Voorhis, 

Ca-ssidy, Hoblitzell, Pierce, Watson, Caswefl, Hoge, Pettibone, Well born, 

Cornell, Hooker, ~~nelpalls', Williams, Chas. G. 

Crapo, Honk, .LWio d1 Wilson, 

Darrell, Hubbell, Rice, Theron M. Wood, Ben.jamin Davis, George R. Jadwin, Robeson, Wood, Walter A. 

Dezendorf, Jones, Phineas R.obinson, Wm. E. Young. 

So (two-thirds not voting in favor thereof) the rules were not suspended. 
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The following additional pairs were announced: 

Mr. PETTIBONE with Mr. BE...~J.ll!U{ WOOD. 

.Mr. LORD with Mr. HOGE. 

Mr. HOBLITZELL with Mr. UID."'"ER. 

Mr. STRAIT with Mr. BRAGG. 

:Mr. KASSON with Mr. BUCKNER. 

Mr. LINDSEY with Mr. ATHERTON. 

Mr. 'V ATSON with Mr. PIERCE. 

1\ir. CALDWELL with Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. 

Mr. HARMER with Mr. TOWNSEND of Ohio. 

Mr. RANDA,LL with ~.!r. O'NEILL. 

Mr. FLOWER with Mr. SHERWrn. 

Mr. BUCK with Mr. ROBDiSON of New York. 

Mr. CALDWELL. I am announced as paired with the gentleman 

from Illinois, [Mr. DAVIS.] I have voted for this bill, but did so after consultation with the gentleman's colleague, [Mr. ALDRICH.] 

I deem it due to the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. DAVIS] and to 

myself to make this statement. 

~Ir. WHITTHORNE. Iampairedwith my colleague, [Mr. HoUK,] 

but being informed that he would vote as I did, I have voted for this 

measure, and deem it proper to make this announcement. 

Mr. SINGLETON, of Illinois. · I desire to say that I was not in 

when my name was called. I am paired with Mr. l\IILEs, of Connecticut. If I had been present and permitted to vote I would have 

voted "ay." 

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 

A messaae from the Senate, by Mr. SYMPSON, one of its clerks, 

informe<l the House that the Senate had agreed to the report of the 

committee of conference upon the disagreeing votes of the two 

Houses upon the amendments of the Senate to the bill of the House 

of the following title: 

A bill (H. R. No. 42"21) to provide for certain of the most urgent 

deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government 

for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, and for other purposes. 

The message also announced that the Senate had passed without 

amendment a joint resolution of the House of the following title: 

A joint resolution (H. R. No. 80) in behalf of the American Company of Revisers of the New Testament for return and remission of 

duties. 

DAVIS ISLAND D~"\1. 

l\Ir. ERRETT. I move to suspend the rules and discharge the 

Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union from the 

further consider:ttion of the bill (H. R. No. 1514) appropriating 

100,000 for continuing the work on Davis Island Dam, and to pass 

the same at this time. 

The bill was read, as follows : 

Be it enacted, &c., That the sum of $100,000 be, and ttie same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose 

of con tinning the work on the Davis Island Dam in the Ohio River, and to be ex- pended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and in anticipation of part of 

the appropriation for such purpose in the regular river and harbor act. 

The SPEAKER. The question is upon the motion to suspend the 

rules, discharge the Committee of the "'Whole House on the state of 

the Union from the further consideration of the bill which has just 

been read, and to pass the same. 

Mr. ERRETT. I ask that the report of the committee be read. 

The SPEAKER. That is not in order at this time. 

Mr. SPRINGER. Then I will demand a second, so that the report 

may be read. 

Mr. PAGE. The report is a short one, and I hope there will be no objection to its being read. 

The SPEAKER. It can be read by unanimous consent. 

'l'here was no objection, and the report was read, as follows: . 

The committee to whom was referred Honse bill No. 1514 report the same back 

and recommend its passa<Te. Your committee listene8 to statements made by representatives of board.<> of trade 

and cham l.ters of commerce interested in the navigation of the Ohio River, together 

with membersoftheObio Ri'"ercommission and the engineer in charge of the wo1'k. Your committee also called for a report on the subject from the ·war Department, 

which was transmitted in accordance with the committee's request, in which re- port the Chief of Engineers states that" as eon tracts cannot by law be entered into m anticipation of appropriations, there is an absolute necessity for an early appropl·iation if the work in hand is to progress without interruption; otherwise its 

completion may be delayed a whole season or more." In Yiew of all the fact.<> laid before yom· committee, and the vast amount of com- merce of many different States affected by the present incomplete condition of the 

work, and the danger to navigation of the Ohio River by said incomplete condition 

of the work, your committee, after due consideration of 'its importance and the sav- iug to the Government, deem an early appropriation absolutely necessary, and rec- ommend the passage of the bill. 

The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman from lllinois [~1r. SPRINGER] 

iusist upon his demand for a second T 

Air. SPRINGER. I do not. 

The question was then taken; a.nd (two-thirds voting in favor 

thereof) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed. 

SPECIAL LEGISLATION. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I move to suspend the rules so as to discharge the Committ.ee on the Judiciary from the further consideration of 

the joint resolution (H. R. No.6) proposing an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting special legislation, and to pass the same at this 

time. 

The joint resolution was read, as follows: 

Resolved, &c., That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the 

several States a.<~ an amendment to the Constitution of the Uniteu States; whlch, 

when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid as a part of the 

Constitution, namely : ARTICLE-. 

SECTION 1. The Legislative power of the United States is limited to the enact- ment of laws gent~ral in their application and efi'ect to all sectioll'S and persons within the jurisdiction of this Constitution. All laws, private or special eLa.etments, hereby prohibited shall be null and void. 

S.Ec. 2. All claims against the United St.ates shall be adjudicated and determined by such tribunal or tribunals as Congress may establish for that purpose. 

The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion to suspend the 

rules, discharge the Committee on the Judiciary from the further 

consideration of the joint resolution which has just been read, and 

to pass the same at this time. 

Mr. ROBINSO~, of Massachusetts. I think that motion ought to 

have a second. 

The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman demand a second T 

Mr. ROBINSON, of Massachusetts. I do . . Mr. SPRINGER, and 1\lr. ROBINSO:N of Massachusetts, were appointed 

tellers. 

The House divided; and the tellers reported that there were-ayes 

31, noes 4d. 

So (no further count being called for) there was not a second. 

UNCOl\fPAHGRE AND WHITE RIVER UTE DIDIAN RESERVATION. 

Mr. BELFORD. I move to discharge the Committee of the 'Vhole 

House on the state of the Union from the further consideration of 

House bill No. 4685 and that the same be passed at this time. 

The bill was read, as follows: 

A bill relating to certain lands in Colorado within the reservation lately occupied by t.he Uncompahgre and White River Ute Indians. 

Whereas a strip of land not exceeding ten miles in width on the eastern side of 

and within that part of the Ute Indian reservation in the State of Colorado lately 

occupied by tbe Uncompahgre and White River Utelndia.nswasregarded by both 

the United State!'! and said Indians as public lands lying outside said reservation, 

and was in part surveyed and to some extent occupied by settlers and for mining 

purposes ; and 

Whereas by the recent location on the ground of the line of the one hundred ancl 

seventh meridian oflongitude west from Greenwich it h; fountl that the said strip lies within said reservation : Therefore, Be it enacted, &c., That all duly qualified persons who have in good faith made en hies, settlements, or locations, under any law of tbe United States, upon a strip 

of land e:~ .-tt:ndiug northerly and southerly not exceeding ten miles in width within 

that -part of the Ote Indian reservatiou in the State of Colorado lately occupied by the Umcompabgre and White River Ute Indians, and bounded on the east by the one hundred and seventh meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, are hereby authorized to continue in the possession of the land so entered, settled, or locat-ed in the same manner and to the same extent as if the lancl.::~ were public lands of the United States; and upon the release of said lands from reservation such 

entries, settlements, or locations shall legally date from the time they were respect- ively made; anti tbe right'3 of said pel'Soll8shall be in all respects the same as if the 

lawls had been legaJJy subject to their claims whe-n the same were initiated: Pro- vided, however, That if homestead entrie have been made on said strip, the lands so entered shall bo paid for in cash, after proof which would be safuJactory lmcler 

the pre-eruption laws: And pro,;ided.jurthR-r, That none of said lands shall be tlispo5ed of fur any consideration othe[' than cash, nor for ales~:~ price than one dollar 

and twenty-th-e cents per acre. Sse. 2. That upon tLe completion of the allotment of lands to the Ute Indians as ]n·oviaed f01· in " An act to accept and ratify the agreement submitted by the 

confederated bands of ti.Je Ute Indians in Colorado for the sale of their reservatiou 

in said State, and for other purposes, and to make the necessary appropriationil 

for carryin"' out the same," approved June 15, 1880, the President of the United 

States shJl, by prodamation, declare that on and after a certain day, which dav 

shall not be less t.han thirty nor more than sixty days subsequent to the date of 

such proclamation, all the lands within said reservation formerly occupied by the 

Uncompahgre and White River Utes and not so allotted shall be open to settle- ment, occupation, and dis-posal as other public lands of the United States, subject 

only to the limitations of said act of June 15, 1880. 

Mr. SPRINGER. The gentleman from Colorado has agreed to 

permit an amendment in the nature of an additional section. 

Mr. BELFORD. I have agreed to that. 

The SPEAKER. The motion to amend is not in order, but the gentleman from Colorado can include the amendment in his motion to 

suspend the rules. 

.1Ir. SPRINGER. The gentleman from Colorado has agreed to inclnde it in his motion. 

Mr. BELFORD. I would like to make a statement for a. moment. 

The SPEAKER. De bate is not now in order. 

Mr. DUNNELL. Are not thirty minutes allowed for debate' 

The SPEAKER. Not until the motion to suspend tho rules has 

been seconcled. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I suggest that by unanimous consent the motion 

be regarded as seconded, and the debate allowed to proceed. 

The SPEAKER. Is there unanimous consent that the motion be 

considered as seconded'¥ The Chair hears no objection. Fifteen 

minutes will now be allowed for debate on each side ; but before the 

debate proceeds the Chair would like to understand whether it is the 

wish of the gentleman from Colorado ll\Ir. BELFORD] that the bill 

shall include the additional section suggested !)y the gentleman from 

illinois, [Mr. SPRINGER.] 

Mr. BELFORD. I have agreed with the gentleman from Illinois 

tha.t he might offer the additiOnal section. 

The SPEAKER. But does the gentleman from Colorado accept 

this section as a part of the bill which he moves to pass under a sus· pension of the rules 

Mr. BELFORD. I do. 
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The SPEAKER. The additional section, which the gentleman from 

Colorado now includes as a part of the bill, will be read. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

SEc. 3. The lands embraced in the second section of this act and which contain 

deposits of coal shall be withheld from location until surveyed and appraised 

under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the 

Interior; and when so surveyed and appraised they may be offered for thirty days to the person who may have located any tract in good faith, not exceeding forty acres t.o each locater, at a. price not less than the appraised value thereof. ..A..ll tra.cts of such coal lands not so taken may be advertised for sale, from time to time, to the hi~hest bidder, in lots not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, but shall not be sold at less than the appraised value; and the Secretary of the Interior 

shall make all necessary rules and regulations for such advertisin~ ap.d for carry· ing this act into effect as will best protect the interests of the Urntoo. States. 

·Mr. DUNNELL. I would like to hear the report of the committee read. 

The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman from Colorado permit the 

1·eading of the re.port in his time f 

Mr. BELFORD. I am willing it should be read. 

The SPEAKER. It will ue read in the time allowed to the gentle- man from Colorado for debate. · Mr. PAGE. Will there be a separate vote on the bill and the 

amendmentY 

The SPEAKER. There is no amendment; there is but one proposition pending. 

:lllr. DUNNELL. The report of the committee will hardly be appropriate to the bill a-s now modified. 

The SPEAKER. There is no amendment pending. The bill which 

the gentleman fl'om Colorado asks to have passed under a suspension 

of the rules includes the proposition of the gentleman from Illinois, 

[Mr. SPRINGER.] 

Mr. SPRINGER. If the House will permit me to explain--

The SPEAKER. Debate is in order-fifteen minutes on each side. 

Mr. BELFORD. I desire to make a statement in reference to this 

bill. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I will defer my remarks till the gentleman from 

Colorado has been heard. 

Mr. BELPORD. This bill, as reported from the Committee on the 

Public Lands, was prepared by the Secretary of the Interior, who sent 

it to the committee with a written recommendation that it be pa.ssed 

In 1879, before the eastern boundary line of the Ute reservation was fixed, a large number of people of my State located on this ten-mile 

strip. They built a town called Irwin, which now has two thousand 

people, and another town called Gothic. Rich mines were discovered. 

The Indians did not cla,im this tract of ground. The Government in 

many cases issued pat.ents to the citizens. After these locations were made a survey of the Ute reservation was ordered by the Interior 

Department; and it was then found that the locations were within 

the limits of the Ute reservation. 

This bill provides that when the Ute reservation shall be opened 

up by virtue of the proclamation which the President of the United 

States is authorized to issue under an act of the last Congress, the 

Government shall recognize the ri~hts of those persons who in good 

faith made locations on this ten-nnle strip of ground. 

Mr. SCALES. I wish to ask the gentleman how the Indians are to be compensated for the loss of this land f 

Mr. BELFORD. They are to be paid under this bill. Whatever 

entries may be made are to be cash entries. 

Mr. SCALES. By actual settlers t 

Mr. BELFORD. Yes, sir. 

Mr. SCALES. Is the land to be appraised t 

Mr. BELFORD. The land is to be appraised, and the title is to 

be acquired, I apprehend, just as any citizen acquires title as to the 

rest of the reservation. But it must be observed that these people 

entered upon this land under the sanction of the Government, in 

many cases before the passage of the bill removing the Utes from 

this reservation. The Government issued patents to a number of 

the e citizens. It was then discovered that there had been a mistake in running the eastern line of the Ute reservation. These citi- zens who went there and made locations in good faith should not be 

required to suffer. 

Mr. SCALES. I wish to inquire whether in the bill providing 

another reservation for the Utes there was not a provision that this 

land should be sold in order to ce>mpensate the Government for the 

land appropriated to the Utes in the new reservation 'l 

Mr. BELFORD. That is correct. I desire to say that this strip of 

land ten miles in width was not understood by the Secretary of the 

Interior, was not understood by the Indians, was not understood by 

any citizen who located there, as forming a pa1·t of the Ute reservation. 

Mr. SCALES. But it did, nevertheless. 

Mr. BELFORD. It did, nevertheless. These people should not be 

allowed to suffer by reason of a location which was recognized by the 

Government of the United States, the mistake not having been disclosed until tlle second survey, made after they bad acquired locations. The bill, as I said, was prepared by the Secretary of the Interior, and sent by him to the Committee on the Public Lands. 

Mr. DWIGHT. How much land is covered by this billY . Mr. BELFORD. It includes the ten-mile strip. The original 

included 12,000,000 of acres, but this is a small fraction of it. 

Mr. DWIGHT. This bill has never before been discussed in the 

HouseT 

Mr. BELFORD. It never could have been discussed before in tke 

House. 

Mr. DWIGHT. Was it never up before this Congres f 

Mr. BELFORD. No, not this specific bill. It has been made neces- sary by a resurvey ordered by the Government during the last year 

whereby this mistake was discovered. 

Mr. DWIGHT. It is an important bill and we should undel.'Stancl 

it before we pass it. It certainly should not be passeu in this hasty manner. It should have full discussion. 

1\Ir. GUNTER. I wish to ask a question. 

Mr. BELFORD. I yield for that purpose. 

Mr. GUNTER. I wish to ask whether the people relieved by this 

bill are actual settlers or speculators in these lands t 

1\Ir. BELl!.,ORD. They are people who built homes and schoels 

and churches upon these lands-men who have invested milli<ms.of 

dollars in developing them under the impression they had the right 

to acquire title to them. They were recognized by the Interior Department as having such aright, and in many instances patents were issued. The question was raised whether the eastern line of the Ute 

reservation had been correctly run. It was resurveyed, and then it was found these people had located inside that Ute reservation. This 

bill simply provides that when it is opened up under the proclamation of the President to settlement, then the title acquired by these 

people shall be respected. It is a just, meritorious, righteous bill. 

Mr: GUNTER. I wish to know what price these actual settlers on this ten-mile strip are to pay for the lands T 

.Mr. BELFORD. On the Ute reservation proper f 

Mr. GUNTER. No, the people on this ten-mile strip. Are they to 

pay $1.25 per acre, or can they homestead f 

Mr. BELFORD. They cannot homestead or pre-empt. The bill 

simply provides that when the Ute reservation is opened to settlement under the act passed last session then the rights acquired by 

the e parties shall be respected by the Interior Department under the 

regulations and conditions, as I take it, of that act passed last year. 

ltlr. GUNTER. They pay, then, $1.25 per acre as for other land. 

Mr. BELFORD. I think so. ltlr. SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker, there are three sections to this bill as it now stands; and if I can get the attention of the House I think 

I can explain them so every member will understand exactly their 

scope and effect. 

The first section provides that a disputed strip of land, ten miles, more or less, on the eastern line of the Ute reservation in Colorado 

shall be subject, on that reservation being opened to settlement, to 

the claims and locations which have been made on that ten-mile disputed strip, precisely under the same conditions a-s if it had not been 

included in that reservation-homestead rights and aU. 

'fhat is the first section, and, as the gentleman from Colorado has 

stated, there is justice in it from the fact that a mistake was made in 

the original survey. These people, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, sn pposed they were going upon public land then 

open to settlement under the general law applying to all public land. 

The second section provides that all that part not included in the 

ten miles of disputed territory-that is, the whole of the Ute reserva- tion in Colorado not allotted to the Ute Indians-shall be open at a certain day to settlement, occupation, and disposal as other public 

lands of the United States. • The third section, which was offered by me and accepted by the 

gentleman, and is a part of the bill, provides that in all the other 

parts of the Ute reservation outside this ten-mile disputed strip, 

where there was no dispute and every man has gone as a trespasser, 

knowing he was going upon an Indian reservation, where he had no right to gcr-that in that part of the Ute reservation the parties going 

there and taking coal lands have acquired no rights by virtue of saiu 

location, and that said coal lands shall be withheld from sale and 

location until they have been surveyed specially and appraised as to 

their value, and after being so surveyed and appraised the locator 

in good faith may take under the general law at the appraised value 

not exceeding forty acres on such location ; but if he does not take 

that amount, and pay for it within thirty days, then it is the duty 

of the Secretary of the Interior to advertise from time to time these 

coal lands for sale to the highest bidder, but not to be sold at less 

than the appraised pri~e. 

I wish to say, :lllr. Speaker, I had occasion to visit that part of Colorado durmg the last summer, and in the western part of Colorado 

I found in the section embraced in the Ute reservation vast deposits 

of coal, anthracite and bituminous, and among the most valuable 

in the United States. Settlers have gone on the Ute reservation 

and squatted there upon the coal lands, and now claim the right to 

hold them when this reservation shall be opened up to the public. 

Now the object of this third section is to preserve the valuable coal 

lands in that reservation from such megal entries and location as have been made in this manner upon them, and that they shall be 

preserved for the benefit of the people of the United States. The 

amendment provides that the Secretary of the Interior shall advertise them for sale from time to time as coal lands, and in that man- ner protect the rights and interests of the people of the country generally against these parties who have gone there and illegally settled 

upon the lands. 

Air. PAGE. 'Vill the gentleman allow me to ask him a question 1 

Mr. SPRINGER. Certainly. 
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Mr. PAGE. I wish to ask the gentleman why he provides that 

these lands shall be sold in any manner. different from the other coal 

lands of the United States Y 

.Mr. SPRINGER. For the reason that they have been embraced 

heretofore in a reservation into which it was illegal to go and settle. Now trespassers have gone in upon those coal lands, and this is in 

order to prevent them from continuing thattre pa sunder the claim 

of a right to hold them when the lands are open for settlement. 

Mr. PAGE. The gentlem:tn does not apprehend my question. I 

ask if these lands a1·e restored to the public domain, then why is it 

necessary to provide that they shall be sold in a different manner fTOm other lands of the same character f 

Mr. SPRINGER. The object is because persons have gone there 

and settled illegally upon theL<tnds, and have brought them into publice notice and exhibited their great value. Now, my object is that 

they shall nothavethe benefit of the law which gives these to the public, having gone there in the first instance in defiance of the law, and 

for that reason they are made an exception to the ordinary lands on which deposits of coal have been discovered. I think the gentleman 

from California will see the propriety of this amen<lment for the rea- son I have stated. 

Mr. DUNNELL. Mr. Speaker, gentlemen whohavespokeninsupport of the bill have alluded to a letter from the Secretary of the 

Interior in advocacy of it. I should be very glad to have read for 

the information of the House so much of that report as is made up 

of t~e letter of the Secretary referred to. 

The SPEAKER. That porr.ion of the report will be read. 

Mr. BELFORD. I will state, Mr. Speaker, that I have this letter 

m one of the Senate reports. I have not got t.he letter incorporltted 

in the House report; but if the gentleman will allow this to be read 

from the Senate report, it is identically the same matter. 

Mr. SCALES. I would like to ask if the tinle for debate upon this 

bill has expired f 

The SPEAKER. Fifteen minutes have expired in ac:l.vocacy of tho 

bill. Fifteen minutes remain in opposition to it, and this report will 

be read in the fifteen minutes remaining. 

Mr. SCALES. I would like to be heard in reference to this bill. 

The SPEAKER. The letter referred to by the gentl~:~man from 

:Minnesota will now be road. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

DEP ARTYENT OF THE INTERIOR, 

Washington, February 6, 1882. 

SIR : I have the honor to .cknowled~e the receipt by reference from your com- mittee with request for the opinion of tne Department thereon, under dat.e of 9th 

ultimo, of Senate bill No. 69!!, ' ' relating to lands in Colora.dl) lately occupied by the 

Uncompahgre and White River Ute Indians." 

Reports have been callell for both from the General Land Office and the Office of 

Indian Affairs, and I inclose herewith for your information copies of reply from ea.ch. dated, respectively, the 17th and 21st ultimo, in relation to the subject-matter 

of the bill. 

Both before and soon after the commencement of the present session of Congress application was made to this Department to declare all that portion of the Uteres- •·rvation lately occupied by the Uncompahgre and White River Utes to be public 

lands of the United St.'l.tes and subject to disposal as such, and the question 

whether this could be lawfully done was snbmitted to the .Attorney.General. 

It will be seen by his letter of the 17th ultimo, herewith, that in his opinion this cannot be done under existing law; hence, if it be done at all, additional legislation, 

such as is proposed in Senate bill No. 698, is nece sary. 

The facts bearing upon this question, so far as they are in the posse. sion of this Department from official and unofficial sources, are substantially these : by reason of the time necessarily consumed by the Ute commission in examining lands in 

the reservation in Colorado to ascertain if such lands as are provided for in the agreement could be had therein for these Indians, and the time nece sarily con- sumed in examinin~ the lands in Utah when it was ascertained that suitable lands 

could not be fonnd m their old reservation, and the time then necessarily consumed 

in removing them to their present location in Utah, it was impossible to mako to tltem in Utah the allotments of land and to do for them durin,. last year other 

things agreed to be done for them in consideration of the cession o¥ thereserv~ttion in COlorado. 

B 'fore the east line of the Ute reservation in Colorado waR established it was understood lly lloth the Indians and the whites that that line would be some miles west of where it wa sub equently ascertained to be. Many white settlers, acting on this unrler!'ltanding, and without objection on the part of the Indians, settled UJ?OD a strip of land which , when the true line was established, was found to be 

Wlthin the r e ervation. They made valuable improvements thereon, are still there, 

and are naturally very anxious to have the validity of their claims duly established. This information is derived mainly from unofficial ources, but iscorifu-med by tho 

S nators from Colorado, who are fa.milar with the facts. 

'.rhe Uncompahgre and White River Indians, who have been recently removed to Utah, like people of all races newly settled in a. strange country, are to some extent restless and dissatisfied; and the Department has information that evil-dis· posed men are tampering with them and increasing their discontent. I feel constrained, therefore, to say that in this condition of affairs I seriously doubt the propriety of passing the proposed bill. Its passage, before the Indians shall have receivecl all they are to receive as the consideration for the surrender of their former reservation, may tend to increase still further their present dis- content, and may be used by mischievous men to that end. I therefore suggest that, in lieu of the present bill, a substitute be offered and passel!, the effect of which will be to secru·e to present settlers on the eastern por- tion of the reservation, formerly occupied by the Uncompahgre and White River Utes, valid titles to their claims so soon as the United St.ates shall have fully com- plied with the terms o{ the agreement with the Ute , and that in the mean time 

they shall be permitted to remain thereon unmole ted . .A draft of a bill of the character above indicated is herewith presented for the 

consideration of the committee. 

I also transmit herewith as bearing upon the case, and conveying further infor- mation upon the object of the bill, the full report of the Ute Commission, and copies of correspondence therewith during the year 1881. 

Very respectfully, 

S. J. KIRKWOOD, Secretary. Ron. P. B. PJ.UMB, 

Ohairman Oommittee on Public L~J.nds, United States Senate. 

1\fr. Dm'NELL. This letter of the Secretary of the Interior was written apparently in support of the Senate bill. Now, I desire to 

know whether the substitute referred to in that letter, and which the 

Secretary recommended and forwarded, is the bill now before the 

Honse 

1\lr. BELFORD. It is the bill exactly, without the dotting of au i or the cro ing of a t in the way of a chanue. 

1\lr. DUNNELL. It is the substitute furnished by the Secretary 

1\Ir. BELFORD. It is the same identically, with the adclition of 

the amenument of the gentleman from Illinois. 1\Ir. DUNNELL. One other question, and I will make no further 

delay in connection with this. How far does the amendment of the 

gentle.man from Illinois affect the character of the sub titute which 

the Secretary recommended Y 

lli. BELFORD. It does not, in my judgment, affect the character of the substitute at all, so far as it relates to this strip of ground, 

this ten miles which have been referred to. When the Ute reserva- tion is opened up under the treaty oflast year this substitute provides that the coal lands should not be sold in quantities larger than forty 

acres, but does not affect the ten-mile strip at all. 

Mr. DUNNELL. Does not the effect of the amendment propo ed 

by the gentleman from Illinois materially alter or substantially defeat the substitut-e which the Secretary says he approves' 

1\lr. SPRINGER. Allow me to answer the gentleman. 

1\lr. HAZELTON. It does affect it. 

Jtlr. ATKINS. I want to ask the gentleman from Colorado if the 

Secretary of the Interiot' recommends the passage of the bill' 

Mr. BELFORD. He does. 

Mr. HAZELTON. Not with the amendment. The amendment 

has been put on and changed the whole thing. 

Mr. SPRINGER. If the House will bear with me for a moment I 

will explain that I went to see Secretary Kirkwood and explained 

the provisions of the amendment w hicb I proposed ; and my understanding was, at the time, that he fully agreed with me :t to the 

necessity for that kind of legislation. 

Mr. SCALES. Mr. Speaker, this is a very important bill, and it 

should not be passed through the House in hot haste without consideration. 

When we made provision to pnt the Utes upon another reservation we added a provision to that bill that these lands were to be old and 

the proceed were to be used to reimburse the Government for the 

amount of money appropriated at that tinle and settle the Ute upon 

otbor lands. I do not know whether this bill is in harmony with that 

bill or not. For that reason, as it is :t bill thltt ought to be closely and 

cttrefully considered, and with the view that the Hou e shall have an opportunity of looking into it more thoroughly, :ts it i now nearly 

four o'clock, I move th..'lt the House adjourn. 

Mr. MILLS. I will state that this side of the House propose to 

hold a caucus, and desire the H:tll. I hope the other side of the 

House will agree to the adjournment. 

l\Ir. RYAN. I de ire to make a parliamentary inquiry. 

The SPEAKER. The gentlomn.n will state it. 

1\lr. RYA . What will be the effect of an adjournment if it 

should now take place upon the pending propo ition Y 

The 'PEA.KER. It will come up a the unfinished busine on the 

.first .Monday of next month. 

The question being taken on the motion to adjourn, there were- ~ty s 100, noes 14. 

ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. 

Pending the announcement of the vote on the motion to adjourn, 

Mr. ALDRICII, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, r eported 

that the committee bad examined and found duly enrolled bill~:~ of 

the following titles; when the Speaker signed the same: An act (S. No. 892) for the relief of Warren Hall; and 

An.act (S. No. 12J3) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide 

for the con truction of a marine ho pital in the city of Memphis, 

Tenne see." 

:Mr. WARNER, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, r eported 

thn.t the commjtee had examined and found duly enrolled a bill of 

the following title; when the Speaker signed the same: An act (H. R. No. 4221) to provide for certain of the most urgent 

deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government 

for the fiscal year entl.ing June 30,1882, and for other purposes. 

COMMlTTEE CHANGES. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair desires to state that at his own request 

?!lr. BARBOUR, of Virginia, is relieved from further duty on the Committee on War Clrums, and he is a.p-pointed to the Committee on the 

Census in place of Mr. WISE, of Virginia, relieved at his own re- quest. 1\IT. WISE, of Virginia, is appointed on the Committee on War 

Claims. 

LEAVE OF ABSE:NCE. 

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows: 

To 1\lr. DAVIS, of Illinois, for three days, to attend the funeral of a relative; 

To Mr. WmTTHoru..TE, for ten days, on account of important business; and 

To Mr. DUGRO, indefinitely, on account of illness. 
1660 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 6, 

WITHDRAWAL OF P .A.PERS. 

By unanimous consent, leave was given to withdraw from the files 

of the House papers in the following cases: To :Mr. DIBRELL, papers in the case ofWilliam Bain. 

To l\lr. THOMPSON, of Kentucky, papers in the claims of the following soldiers for horses lost in the service of the United States, no adverse report having been made thereon: John J. Elliott, Company 

A, First Kentucky Cavalry; William Girdle, Company L, First Kentucky Cavalry; J. B. Harper, Company L, First Kentucky Cavalry; 

D. A. Jones, Company L, }'irst Kentucky Cavalry; J. E. King, Company A, First Kentucky Cavalry; andJ. \V. Williamson, CompanyG, 

l•'irst Kentucky Cavalry. 

RECEIPTS AlH> EXPE~"'DITURES OF 1876. 

Tho SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Secretary 

of the Treasury, transmitting a statement ofthe receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal .year ending June 30, 1876, 

ancl calling attention to the fact that the statement for the fi cal 

year 1875, transmitted May 25, 1878, has not yet been printed; which was laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. 

The result of the vote on the motion to adjourn was then an- nounced; and accordingly (at four o'clock and five minutes p.m.) 

the House adjourned. 

PETITIONS, ETC. 

The following memorials, petitions, and other papers were 1aid on the Clerk's desk, under the rule, and referred as follows: 

By Mr. ANDERSON: The petition of Beaver Farmers' Alliance, of 

Kansa..s, for legislation to regulate charges for railway transportation-to the Committee .on Commerce. 

Also, the petition of ex-soldiers and citizens of Jackson County, 

Kansas, protesting against the repeal of arrears of pensions act-to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, the petition of Samuel P. Niles, relative to the claim of F. 

C. Buckley-to the Committee on Indian Affairs. 

Also, the petition of W. P. Pinkston, protesting against the passage 

of the Plumb bill relative to the employment of certain civilian 

clerks-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. BAYNE: The resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, urging the importance of improving the 

Allegheny River-to the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. BLANCHARD: The resolution of the Sugar Planters' Association of Louisiana, urging the abrogation of the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 

By Mr. BLISS : One hundred petition , containing about 25,000 

names, pra,ying for the pas aue of House bill No. 3386, introduced J au- uary 23, 18B2, by lion. A. M. Bliss-severally to the Select Committee on the Payment of Pensions, Bounty, and Back Pay. · Also, the petitions of George H. Laurence and others, citizens ofEast 

New York, and of citizens of Attica, Indiana, of similar import-severally to the same committee. 

By Mr. BRENTS: Memorial of the Astoria Chamber of Commerce, 

for the improvement of Chehalis River and construction of canal 

between Baker's Bay and Shoal water Bay, in Washington Territoryto the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. J. H. BURROWS: The petition of Charles W. Bigger and 

others, of Linn County, Missouri, for the restoration of fractional 

cnrrency-to the Committee on Banking and Currency. 

By 1\Ir. CALDWELL: Papers relating to the claim of John Rogan 

-to the Committee on War Claim!:!. 

Also papers relating to the pension claim of Sarah Landers and Anne 

Podester-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. CALKINS: Papers relating to the contested-election case of Lynch vs. Chalmers-to the Committee on Elections. 

By Mr. CHAL!t-IERS: Papers relating to the claim of Allen E. 

Anuerson and of 'V"illiam Hawes Harris-severally to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. CLEMENTS: Memorial of P. M. B. Young, for pay as a member of the House of Representatives-to the Committee on Elections. 

By Mr. CRAVENS: The petition of H. James and others, citizens of 

Hot Springs, Arkansas, praying for the privilege to purchase the 

lots upon which they dwell, of the Government reservation, at their 

appraised value--to the Committee on the Public Lands. 

By Mr. CROWLEY: The petition of 0. C. Bordwell and others, citizens of Niagara County, New York, for the improvement of Olcott 

Harbor, Lake Ontario-to the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. CULBERSON: The petition of Asa. Weems and others, 

praying for the pa sage of a law to regulate interstate commerce- to the same committee. 

By Mr. DOWD: A hill to improve the navigation of the Pedee 

River in North Carolina-to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of J. C. Kirk and others, for the establishment of a mail-ronte from Norwood to Kirk's Mills-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Po t-Roads. 

By Mr .. ERRETT: The petit~on of officers of the Twenty-first Regiment Uruted States Infantry, m favor of the passage of bill No. 1475, 

providing for the three-battalion organization ot the infantry-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. S. S. FARWELL: The petition of C. B. Bills and 48 others, 

asking for the construction of the Hennepin Canal-to the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. GARRISON: The petition of citizens of Virginia, for the 

erection of a light-house on Russ Rock, in the Rappahannock Riverto the same committee. 

Also, the petition of citizens of Vil:ginia, for dredging the York 

River-to the same committee. 

By 1\Ir. HALL: The petition of Henry H. Ladd and 16 others, of 

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for payment of spoliations of Ameri- can commerce by France prior to 1800-to the same committee. By Mr. HARDENBERGH: The petition of merchants and citizens 

of the United States, urging the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty 

with the Sandwich Islands-to the Committee on Foreign Affair . By Mr. HARDY: The petition of merchants and citizens of the 

city of New York, representing annual busine s transactions e timated at upward of one thousand millions of dollars, a king Congress to take action looking to the termination of the reciprocity 

treaty with the Sandwich Islands, concluded in 1875, at the ea1·liest 

time consistent with honorable compliance with its provisions; aud 

further, if it should appear that its provisions have been evaded by 

passing a different grade of sugar than that contemplated by the 

treaty free of duty, that Congress will take action to remedy uch 

evasion-to the same committee. 

By Mr. HAWK: Papers relating to the claim of John S. Oviattto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. HOBLITZELL: The petition of merchants and dealers in 

manufactured tobacco of the city of Baltimore, praying for a speedy 

settlement of the question of the tobacco tax-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. LINDSEY: Memorial of citizens of Hallowell, Maine, praying for legislation for the suppression of polygamy-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. MAGINNIS : The petition of Lieutenant-Colonel Gibson 

and other officers of the Third United States Infantry, protesting 

against the restoration of dismissed officers from the Army and placing· them above those who have been in continuous service-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. MASON: The petition of John Knapp, for a pension-to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, the petition of Thomas S. Mott and 20 others, ves el-owners 

and citizens, 1·emon trating against the passage of the bill to regulate lake and marine shipping-to the Committee on Commerce. 

By 1\Ir. McLANE: The resolutions of the Baltimore City Chemical 

and Fertilizer Exchange, for the abrogation of the so-called reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich Islands-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 

By Mr. MILLER: The petition of certain citizens requesting the 

termination of the IIawaiian reciprocity treaty-to the same com- mittee. 

Al o, the petition of citizens of Mercer, Pennsylvania, for legislation for the suppression of polygamy-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. MOORE: The petition of James H. Jackson and ofW. F. 

Tepler, for compensation for property taken and used by the United 

States Army during the late rebellion-severally to the Committee on 'Var Claims. 

By Mr. PAGE: The petition of citizens of the Pacific coast, a king 

Congress to pass the bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 

Also, memorial and resolutions adopted at a mass-meeting of Sacramento, California, praying for legislation for the suppression of 

polygamy-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. PRESCOTT : Memorial of Harvey Z. Farr, for bountymoney, to accompany bill for his relief-to the Committee on Invalid 

Pensions. 

By Mr. RAY: The resolutions adopted at a mass-meeting of citi- zens of Concord, New Hampshire, February 22, 18d2, in favor of the 

Edmunds bill for the suppression of polygamy-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By :Mr. T. M. RICE: Three bills to establish post-routes in Missouri-severally to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post Roads. 

Also, a bill for the improvement of the Osage River by locks and 

dams-to the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. RUSSELL: The petition of Mrs. Mary O'Sullivan, for a pension- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By :Mr. RYAN: The petitionof James Hill and others, for the location of an industrial school for the Indians in the Indian Territoryto the Committee on Indian Affairs. 

.Also, papers relating to the pension claims of 1\I. H . Clements, of 

H. E. Van Trees, and of Reuben Marshall-severally to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By :Mr. SCALES: The petition of citizens of Milton, North Carolina, relative to the tax on tobacco-to the Committee on 'Vays and 

Means. 

By 1\Ir. SHACKELFORD: Papers relating to the claim of John 

Bnrns and of Frank Armin-severally to the Committee on Claims. 

By 1\Ir. STEELE : The petition of Hon. J esse Arnold and 100 others, 

praying for a post-route from Le~ro to North Manchester-to the 

Committee on the Po t-Office and J:"ost-Roads. 

By 1\lr. STOCKSLAGER: Papers relating t0 the claim of Dr. Solom 
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Davis, late surgeon of the Tenth Indiana Cavalry-to the Committee 

on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. STONE: The petiti~n of c~tizens oflpswich, ~.Iassachusetts, 

for the improvement of Ipsw1ch R1ver-to the Corom1ttee on Commerce. By Mr. P. B. THO~IPSON: P~pers relating to ~he claim of Major 

John A. Morrison-to the Commtttee on War Clanns. 

By Mr . .AMOS TO"WNSEND: The petition and remonstrance of the 

Cleveland Vessel-Owners' Association against the pas age of the bill 

to regulate lake and marine shipping-to the Committee on Commerce . . By Mr. THOMAS UPDEGRAFF: The resolutions of the General 

.Assembly of Iowa relative to building. bridges over the Missouri 

River above Omaha--to the same comm1ttee. 

By :Mr. VANCE: Memorial of Mexican ,Veteran .Association of. the 

United States, urging t he passa!Je of a bill to place on the pen~IOnroll the surviving soldiers of tne Mexican war-to the Comm1ttee 

on Pensions. 

B:v lli. W .ALKER: The petition andresolutionsofthelrishNational 

League, of Bradford, Petinsylvania, fortheprotectionoflrish-.American citizens-to the Committee on Foreign .Affairs. 

.A petition was reported under clause 2 of Rule XXII, and referred 

as follows: 

From the Select Committee on Pensions, Bounty, and Back P!ty : 

The petition of Daniel P. 'Vhiting-to the Committee on Pensions. 

SENATE. 

TUESD.AY, March 7, 1882. 

Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. J. BULLOCK, D. D. 

The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and u.pproYed. 

EXECUTIVE COUMUNICATIO~. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o tempm·e laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War, transmittin a a report of Captain .A. 

Mackenzie, Corps of Engineers, of a survey for a harbor of refuge in 

Lake Pepin, at Stockholm, Wisconsin, and Lake City, Minnesota, 

mado in compliance with the river and harbor a.ct of March 3, 1881; 

which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordere(l to 

be printed. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. 

Mr. McDILL. I present a memorial and joint resolution of the 

General .Assembly of the State of Iowa, in relation to tbl3 improvement of the Missouri River, which I ask may be printed in the RECORD and referred to the Committee on Commerce. 

The memorial was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, and referred to the Committee on Commerce, as follows: 

MEMORIAL. 

To owr Senators and Representatives in Congress : 

We, the members of the nineteenth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, and now assembled at Des Moines in a legislative capacity, speaking for and representing the wish and imperative demand of the whole population of the State, 

would most respectfully represent: That there is no question in which all our people have so great and vital an interest as that of cheaper transportation for their products to the markets of the 

world ; that Iowa is and must ever remain an agricultural State; that success in 

agricultural pursuits depends not only on the amount produced but also largely on the price realized by the producer, and this is governed mainly by his means of transportation; that our products have so far outgrown our means of trans- portation that fully one-half of the price of all we prod nee is consumed in the form 

of freights, as fixed and regulated by corporations who havt} full control of our present means of transportation; that the Missouri River, if properly improved 

from Sioux City, in the State of Iowa, to its con:flnenc'3 with the Mississippi in 

the State of Mj8. onri, wonJd afford a cheap, safe, and speedy means of transport:ttion for the four ,.eat grain-producing States, namely, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. These States had, as sliown by the latest official report, an aggregate population of 5,198,103 inhabitants, and produced in the yey 1880 586,000,000 

bushels of corn, or more than one-third of that of the whole United States. Of this 

Iowa alone produced 276,000,000 bushels. In the year last n::uned these four States 

produced of cereals the fabulous quantity of 780,000,000 bnshcls, or more than llouble 

that of the sL-rteen Atlantic States. An increase in tl).e prico of tllese vast prod- nets of t.en cents on the bushel for a single year wonld raise a sum ten times greater than is necessary, if properly expended, to secure a uniform channel-depth of 

twelve feet at low water from Sioux City, in Iowa, to Saint Charles, in Missouri, 

and thereby lessen the cost of transportation at least 50 per cent., and s:1ve to the 

producers of these four great States fully $100,000,000 per annum, and to the farmers 

of Iowa not less than $30,000~000 each year. That M[\jor C. R. Suter, an able and 

efficient civil engineer, was auly commissioned by the Government to suiTey and 

report upon the practicability of so improving the Missouri River as to make it.s 

navigation safe and at all times reliable, and ha.s within the two years last past completed said sw-vey, and reported to Congress last winter that the Missouri can be so improved as to secure a uniform depth of twelve feet at low water from 

its mouth to Sioux City, in Iowa, and a.t a cost not exceeding $10,000 per mile, nnd 

in the aggregate not exceeding $7,820,000. (See Senate document, Forty-sixth Congress, third session.) Your memorialists are aware that larae sums of money have 

from time to time and at almost every session of Congress 'been appropriated for 

the improvement of rivers and harbors in the Eastern and older States ever since 

the formation of our Gove1nment, whereas the Middle and more Western St.ates have 

received but little or no encouragement by \vay of appropriations for a similar purpose, notwithstanding they have constantly been heavily taxed, and have responded cheerfully and liberally to every demand made by the General Government. They 

ha.V'e now grown weary and restive under and by reason of this unequal and unjust 

disbursement of the public funds, and therefore .Properly and earnestly demand 

snob an appropriation for the improvement of thell' large rivers as may be neces- sary to secure to them a cheaper and more reliable means of transporting their 

vast, and yearly increasing products to the marts of the world, and thereby secure to them a just reward for their industry and enterprise: Therefore, Be it resolved by the Geneml Assembly of the State of Iowa, That our Senators and 

Representatives in Congress be requested a-nd instructed to take early, earnest. and persistent action by way of securing an appropriation of not less than $7.000,000 

for the improvement of the lli souri River between Sioux City, in the State of 

Iowa, and Saint Charles, in the State of Missouri, and that they secure such other 

national legislation as may be necessary to insure the faithful and honest applica,- tion a.ncl disbursement of the money so appropriated, to the end that the work may 

be commenced as early as possible and completed without llllllecessary dolay. · Second. That this memorial be printed, properly authenticated, and a copy sent by the secretary of state to each of ~ur Senators and Repre entatives in Congress, 

also one to each Senator and Representative now in Congress from the States of 

Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. 

Approved February 25, 1882. STATE OF IowA, 

Ojfice of Secretary of Stale. 

I, J . .A.. T. Hull, secretary of state of the State of Iowa, hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy of a joint resolution of the nineteenth General 

Assembly on file in my office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of 

the State at Des Moines this 3d day of March, A. D. 1882. 

[SEAL.] J. A. T. HULL, Secretary of State. 

Mr. McDILL. I also present a joint resolution and memorial of 

t,he General .Assembly oflowa, relating to the Des Moines River lands, 

which I desire to have printed in the RECORD and referred to the 

Committee on Public Lands. 

Mr. SHERMAN. I do not think it is the custom of the Senate to 

print memorials in the RECORD. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. But this is the joint resolution of a State Legislature. . Mr. SHERMAN. Then it is all right, so it is not an ordinary me- morial. 

The joint resolution waR ordered to be printed in the RECORD, and 

referred to the Committee on Public Lands, as follows: 

Joint resolution and memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, relating t{) the Des Moines River lands. 

Whereas the settlers upon what is known as the lands granted to the Des Moines 

N avigation and Railroad Company believe that no acfjon has ever been taken 

relating to these lands in which the United States and the interest of the United 

States have been fairly, properly, and adequately represented in court; and 

·whereas the said settlers desire that the United States may be fairly and fully 

represented in the court: Therefore, 

Be it resolved by the house of representatives of the State of Iowa, the senate cmwur- ring, ThatourSenators and Representatives in Congress be earnestly requested to exert themselves to secure the prompt passage of a bill which 11hall in some way provide that the .Attorney-General of the United States shall immediately insti- tute proceedings, or cau e snob procee1lings to be commenced at once, by a.ction 

eitller in equity or at la.w, as may be deemed best, and appear in the name of the United States, so as to remove all claims from the title of said lands, and that in 

such action or actions to be instituted, as aforesaid, any person or persous in the 

posseasion of or claiming title to any land or l:tnds under the Umted States in- volved in such a.ction or :wtions may, at his Ol' her expense, unite with the United 

St.:ttes in the prosecution of said action or actions for the pw'Pose of fore>er set- tling the title or titles of the person or persons claiming said lands. 

Appro>ed March 3, 1882. STA. TE OF lOW A., 

Ojfice Seeretary of State. 

I hereby certify the foregoing to be a. true copy of joint resolution No.5, of 

the acts of the nineteenth Gener:il Assembly, on file in this office. 

Witness my h:md officially and the great seal of the State, March 3, 1882. [SEAL.] J. A. T. HULL, 

SecretanJ of State. 

Mr. S.A WYER presented the petition of E . D. Smith and 60 others, 

citizens of Menasha, Wisconsin, praying for the pa,ssage of a law for 

the suppression of polyga.my; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju<liciary. 

Mr. PUGH presented a petition of citizens of .Alabama, praying for 

legisbtion regulating charges for railroad tra,nsportation; whioh was referred to the Committee on Commerce. 

Mr. MITCHELL presented a petition of officers of the Twenty-first 

Infantry: praying for t h e passage of the bill (H. R. No. 1475) to in- crease the efficiency of the infantry branch of the .Army ; which wa.s referred to the Committee on Military .Affairs. 

Mr. TELLER. I have in my hand t-he resolutions of a large mass meeting of citizens of Colorado, residing in the neighborhood of the 

Ute Inclhn reservation, in reference to that reservation. The paper 

is not in the exact form that it ought to be to be presented to the 

Senate as a memorial; and yet I have no doubt that when the people 

adopted the resolutions they supposed they would be in a proper 

shape for presentation here. If there is no objection I should like 

to have the paper printed, inasmuch as it relates to a ma.tter that will come before the Senate. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator present it a.s a memorial f 

Mr. TELLER. I present it in that chamcter, although I want to 

state that it is irregular as a, memorial, and I did not feel at liberty 

myself to change the form of it. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. Tho Senator will be the jud~e 

whether it was intended to be a memorial. Although it be not m 

the strict form, if it was intended as a memorial to Congress it does 

not matter what shape the words are in. 

Mr. TELLER. I judge from the letter I received with the paper that they expected it to be for the use of the Senate when the bill came before us. 

Mr . .ALLISON. What bill t 

Mr. TELLER. The bill (S. No. 698) relating to lands in Colorado 

lately occupied by the Uncompahgre and White River Ute Indians,