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Also, memorial of W:illiam Schaus, relating to the tariff on imported 

works of art-to the Committee on Ways and Means. _ 

By Ur. SNYDER: Petition of John Bray, of Robert C. Lilly, of William C. Price, of Thomas 0. Ten-y, of trustees of Baxter Institute, of 

William Rigg, administrator ofllenry Rigg; of JohnS. Fisher, and of 

JohnS. Cunningham, trusteeofSt. :M:ark'sProtestantEpiscopalChurch, 

Coalsmouth, West Va., for reference of their claims to the Court of 

Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, resolutions of miners, laborers, and other citizens of Coalburgh, 

Hampton, and North Coalburgh, Kanawha County, West Virginia, 

protesting against coal, coke, and pig-iron beingputnpon thefree-listto the Committee on 'Vays and Means. 

By Mr. SPRINGER: Petition of the authorities of Petertlburgh, Ill., 

for a general ~ppropriation bill for public buildings-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 

By l!fr. STAHLNECKER: Petition of William Schaus, regarding 

tariif on imported works of art-to the Committee on Ways and Mea.ns. 

By Mr. TAULBEE: Papers relating to the bill for the relief of J. 

H. Tinsley-to the Committee on Claims. 

By Mr. E. B. TAYLOR: Petition of citizens of Ashtabula Ohio, for 

a government telegraph system-to the Committee on the Post-Office 

and Post-Roads. 

Also, memorial of the Tillage of Ravenna, Ohio, relating to :public 

buildings-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 

By Mr. G. M. THOUAS: Papers in the case of N. L. Payne, for an 

original pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. VOORHEES: Petition of 148 citizens of Clarke County, 

Washington Territory, for national aid to common schools-to the 

Committee on Education. 

By Mr. WADE: Petition of heirs of l!foses H. Shelton, for reference 

of their claim to the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. WALKER: Memorial of citizens of Pemiscot County, Missouri, asking that all bills preventing the compounding of lard wit}l 

cotton-seed oil be defeated-to the Committee on Agriculture. 

By Mr. WASHINGTON: Petition of D. C. Edmondson, executor of 

- Matilda O'Neal, of Davidson County, Tennessee, for reference of his 

case to the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. WEST: Petition of citizens of Johnstown, N. Y., for a general appropriation for building public buildings throughout the country-to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 

Dy Mr. WHEELER: Petition of David B. Johnson, Laum E. Wilkinson, W. F. Hurt, and H . M. Jones, for reference of their claims to 

the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a bill to improve the navigation of the Tennessee River at Colbert Shoals-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. 

By Mr. S. V. WIDTE: PetitionofJohn T. Bruen, late captain Tenth 

Independent Battery New York Light Artillery, for relief-to the Committee on In'\"alid Pensions. 

Also, petition of Joseph H . Tucker, late colonel Sixty-ninth Illinois 

Volunteers, for relief-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By :Mr. WICKHAM: Petition of citizens of Lorain County, Ohio, for 

speedy action for the protection of the wool-growing and wool-manufacturing interests of this country-to the Committee on Ways and 

?.leans. 

By Mr. WILKINSON: Petitionofthe BoardofUnderwritersofNew 

Orleans, La., in favor of an international marine conference to formulate measures to lessen the dangers of navigatio~-to the Committee on 

Merchant Marine and Fisheries. 

By Mr. W. L. WILSON: Petition of W. D. Whitted and 40 other 

miners of coal, etc., against reduction of tariff on soft coal-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

Also, petition of Isaiah Fenton and 160 other miners, of West Virginia, for same-to the Committee on Ways and l!Ieans. 

By Mr. WISE: Petition for the creation of a Department of Agriculture, with a head as a member of the Cabinet-to the Committee on 

Agriculture. 

The following petitions for an increase of compensation of fourthclass postmasters were severally referred to the Committee on the PostOffice and Post-Roads: 

By Mr. C. L. ANDERSON: Of J. H. Gray and others, of Jewell 

Hill and Shady Grove, Jasper County, Mississippi. 

By Mr. BANKHEAD: Of J. G. Willingham and others, of New 

Lexington, Ala. ' 

By Mr. BUNNELL: Of citizens of Colley, Pa. 

By Mx. McCLAUUY: Of citizens of Dismal, Sampson County, and 

of Colly, Bladen County, North Carolina. 

By Mr. ROWLAJ\1]): Of citizens of Brown Creek, N. C. 

The following petitions, praying for the enactment of a law providing temporary aid for common schools, to be disbursed on the basis of 

illiterucy, were severally referred to the Committee on Education: 

By Mr. BACON (by request): Of 226 citizens of Orange County, New 

York. 

By Mr. C. S. BAKER: Of 419 citizens of 1\Ionroe County, New York. 

By Mr. BANKHEAD: Of 129 citizens of Tu caloosa County, and of 

A. S. Whitehurst and others, of Northpm:t, A.b. 

By Mr. BOUTELLE: Of 174 citizens of Aroostook County, Uaine. 

By J.\1r. DELANO: Of 247 citizens of Uadison County, New York. 

By Mr. HIESTAND: Of 471 citizens of Lancaster Connty, Pennsyl- vania. 

By 1\Ir. J . T. JOHNSTON: Of 314 citi7.ens of Warren County, Indiana. .. 

By Mr. LODGE: Of the First Baptist Church and 325 others, citizens of Essex County, Massachusetts. 

By Mr. McKINNEY: Of 297 citizens of Rockingham County, New 

Hampshire. 

By Mr. RUSK: Of 219 citizens of Baltimore County, Uaryland. 

By Mr. WEBER (by request): Of 250 citizens of Niagara County, 

New York. 

The following petitions, asking for the passage of the bill prohibiting 

the manufacture, sale, and importation of all alcoholic beverages in the 

District of Columbia, were severally referred to the Select Committee 

on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic: , 

BJ.:Mr. BAYNE: Of120 citizens of the Twenty-third district of Pennsylvania. 

By Mr. FLOOD: Of F . W. Arnold:md others, citizensoftheTwentyeighth district of New York. · 

Dy Mr. FULLER: Of 137 citizens of the Fourth disb:ict of Iowa. 

By Mr .. GROUT: Of 109 citizens of the Second district of Vermont. 

By Mr. KERR: Of 120 citizens of the Fifth disirict of Iowa. 

Dy Mr. LA FOLLETTE: OfF. M. Burrowsand~l13 others, citizens 

of Dane County, Wisconsin. 

By Mr. LYNCH (by request) : Of 169 citizens of the Twelfth district 

of Pennsylvania. 

By Mr. J.D. TAYLOR: Of 136 citizensofthe Seventeenth district 

of Ohio. 

SENATE. 

TIIURS~AY, Februa.ry 16, 1888. 

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

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

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a resolution of February 13, 1888, the re:porvof John L. Smithmeyer, 

architect of the building for the Library of Congress; which, with the 

accompanying report, was referred to the Select Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, and ordered to be 

printed. 

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. 

Mr. EDMUNDS presented a petition of the White River Valley Pomona Grange, of Royalton, Vt., praying fora reduction ofthe postage 

on seeds, plants, bulbs, scions, etc.; which was referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. 

111r. EDMUNDS. The other day I presented a petition which was rather informal, praying tpat a :pension be granted to Sarah J. Foy, 

of Rutland, Vt. I now present another petition, which should have 

been presented at that time, but was mislaid, of this woman, for a pension. I move iti:l reference to the Committee on Pensions. 

The motion was agreed to. 

Mr. SHERMAN presented a petition of soldiers and sailors, citizens 

of Bainbridge, Ohio; a petition of the Middleport (Ohio) Post, No. 125, 

Grand Army of the Republic, and a petition of the Brooklyn (Ohio) Post, 

No. 368, Grand Army of the Republic, praying for the passage of what 

is known as the service-pension bill; which were referred to the Committee on Pensions. 

Mr. SHERMAN :presented a joint resolution of the General Assembly 

of Ohio, in favor of the passage of Senate bill 260, to reimburse the sev- eral States for interest paid on war loans, and for other purposes; which 

was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, and referred to the Committee on Claims, as follows: 

[Senate joint resolution No. 13.] 

Joint resolution relative to requesting our Senators and Representatives in Congress to do all possible for the passage of Senate bill No. 260. 

Whereas there has been introduced in the Senate of the United States a bill 

(No. 260) to reimburse the several States for interest paid on war loans, and for 

other purpos~: Therefore, 

Be it resolved by the General .Assembly of the State of Ohio, That our Senators and 

Representatives in Congress be, and they are hereby, reque ted to vote for and 

urge the passage of the same, and that the gove~nor ~orward a copy of this res- olution to each of our Senators and Representahves m Congress. ELBERT L. LAMPSON, 

Speaker of the House of ReJYrcsentatives. THEO. F. DAVIS, President pro tempore of the Smate. 

Adopted February 9, 1888. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 0BI01 

Offtee of the Secretary of Slate: 

I, James !3· Robinson, secretary of state of the Stato of Ohio, do hereby certify 

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that the r~:>reg-oin,. is a. true copy of a. joint resolution adopted by the General 

Assembly of the State of Ohio on the 9th day of February, A. D. 188&, taken 

from the original rolls filed in this office. . In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscnbed my name n.nd affixed my official seal, at Columbus, the lOth da.:J-1l~~~~Ilc>#.ufs-J":,S&crefar~J of SLate. 

EXECUTIVE CHAl\IDER, Columbus, Ohio, February 10,1888. 

In compliance with the request contained in the resolutioDB ~bove set forth, I have the honor to transmit a certified copy of the same herewith. 

J. B. FORAKER, Governor. 

Mr. SHERMAN presented a petition of ~38 citiz_ens of the Ei_g~t~ a~d 

Twenty-first Congressional districts of OhiO, praymg for pr~bib1tion m 

the District of Columbia; which was referred to the Comillittee on the 

Dll5trict of Columbia. 

He also presented the petition of Samue~ Kramer, a;n acting chaplain 

·at the navy-yard, WashingtonaD. C., pray~gto be retired un~ertheact 

of 1u81· which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affaus. 

:M:r. REAGAN presented resolutions adopted _by the Graj"~On <?ounty 

(Texas) M:edical As ociation, praying that medical and surgwali~truments be placed on the free-list; whieh were referred to the Committee 

on Finance. 

Mr. TELLER presented a petition of citizens of La Pla~ County, 'Colorado, praying for the removal of the Southem_Ute Indmns_to the 

Indinn Territory; which was referred to the Committee on Indian .Affairs. . . He also presented the petition ofT. J.L Patterson and other Citizens 

of Denver, Colo., praying that an ~ppropriation be made for th~estub1ishment of the reservoir 8ystem m the State of Colorado; whiCh was 

referred to the Committee on Public Lands. . 

Ur. QU.A. Y presented a pe_titi?n of 126 citjze~ o~ the. Sixth and 

Twenty-third Congressional distncts of Pennsylvama, praymg for prohibition in the District of Columbia.; which was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 

1\'Ir. CALL presented a petition of the Boa:r:d ?f Trade of the citY: of 

St . .Augustine, Fla., praying that an appropriation be made for the Improvement of the harbor at St . .Augustine; which was refer~ed to the 

Committee on Commerce. . Mr. ALLISON. I present a petition numerously si&ned by citizens 

of 1ticGregor and vicinity, in the State of Iowa, making a statement 

respecting the tariff duty on wool, and praying that the schedule of 

duties agreed upon bytherepresentativesofthewool-growersand wo?lmanufacturers at Washington City, January 14, 1888, maybe speedily 

enacted into a law. I move the reference of the petition to the Committee on Finance. 

The motion was agreed to. 

Mr. DANIEL presented the peti?on of\Yilliam J. C~?:r an_d 201 o~er 

citizens of the District of Columbm, praymg for prohibition m the DIStrict of Columbia; which was referred to the Committee on the District 

of Columbia. 

Mr. BLODGETT presented a petition of the Grand Division, Sons 

ofTemperance of New Jersev, officially signed, and a petition of Enterprise Tempie,_ Temple of _H?nor, o_f N~w Jersey, ?fficially signe~ prayin~ for a nah?nal commlSSlon of I?qmry concermng the alcoholic 

liquor traffic· which were ordered to lie on the table. 

l'!Ir. D.A. wES presented a petition of204 citizens of the Sixth, Ejghth, 

Ele>enth, and Twelfth Congressional distric~ of ~sachusetts, praying for prohibition in th~ D~strict of Colu:nbm; which was referred to 

the Committee on the DIStrict of Columbia. 

M:r. PL.A.TT. I present a petition of 254 citizens of the Second Congressional district of Connecticut, the distric~ in which I reside, praying for prohibition in the D~trict of Colu:n~- I move t~e reference 

of the petition to the Comnnttee on the District of Columbut. 

The motion was agreed to.• 

Mr. PL.A.TT presented a petition of 26 citizens of Utah Territory, 

praying for prohibition in t~e J?istrict of Col"?-mbia; which was referred 

to the Committee on the DIStnct of Columbia. 

Mr. CULLO.:U presented a memorial of the West Branch Lumber-. 

man's ExchanO'e of Williamsport, Pa., remonstrating against the proposed change i; the tariff in relation to lumber; which was referred to 

the Committee on Finance. 

He also presented a memorial of the Chamber of Comm~rce of :Minneapolis, Minn., remonstrating against ~e proposed regulation of tra~sportation over Canadian railroads; which was referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. 

:Mr. SABIN presented a petition of the Woman'S' Christian Temperance Union of :Minnesota, praying for the enactment of such statutes 

as shall ·provide 'for the adequate punishme~t of crimes a~~t women and girls; which was referred to the Committee on the DIStnct of Columbia. 

He also presented resolutions adopted by tb.e Board of Trade of Minneapolis, Minn., in favor of free trade and exchange between the people of the United States a~d thos~ of Canada of the products .and 

manufactures of both countries; wh1ch were referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. 

He also presented the petition of Professor Edward D. Porter, of the 

University of Minnesota., praying that an appropriation be made for 

the purpose of establishing agricultural-experiment stations; which 

was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. 

He also uresented a memorial of the Board of Trade of Miru1eapolis, 

Minn.~ renionstrating against alleged disc~imina_tion in ~a vor of Chicago 

by the General Government in its fast-mml serVlce; wh1ch was referred 

to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. . 

Mr. HALE presented__a petWon of 168 ci~ns of th~ ~.con~ and 

Fourth Congressional districts of Iaine, praymg for p~ohibition m t?e 

District of Columbia; which was referred to the Committee on the DIStrict of Columbia. 

?lfr. BUTLER presented the petitio_n_of W. W. T4nmoJ?-S, T. B. Heinnent, U. D., C. M. Wise, and other Cittzens of lly.manville, Marlh?roughCounty, South Carolina., and thepetitionofRichard D. Lee, Manon 

Moise, E. W.]Ioise, and other citiz.ensofSam.ter, SumterCOt~ty, South 

Carolina., praying that an appropriation be made for deepemng th~ bar 

at the entrance to Winyaw Bay; which were referred to the Comm1ttee 

on Commerce. 

1\fr. BROWN. I present the petition of II. C. Clement., president of 

the Georgia Uarble Works Comp:my, praying that the tarifl' on mar?le 

may not be reduced; reciting the fuct tbatove~ $500,0~0 have ~ecn m- vested in marble works and marble quarries m Georgia, and 1f they 

should have to come in competition with the cheap labor of Italy 3t~d 

other foreign countries they would be obliged to labor under great disadvantages, if not to suspend their work. They therefore pray .t~at 

the tariff may not be reduced upon marble. I move that the petition 

be referred to the Committee on Finance. 

The motion was agreed to. 

1\fr. BROWN presented a petition of the faculty of the ~niversi~ of 

Georgia, at Athens, Ga., praying for the enactm~nt of an mtcrnat10nal 

copyright lawj which was referred to the Committe~ ~n Patents. 

He also presented a petition of the Wo~'s Christ•an Temperance 

Union of Georgia, officially signed, representmg 1,000 mem~rs_, pmying for the repeal of the intern~-revenue _tax on all alcoholic liquora; 

which was referred to the Comm1ttee on Finance. 

:Mr. STEW .ART presented the petition of Charles D. Poston, a citizen of the United St..o:ttes, praying for an award of damage.::; for los:-es 

sustained in .Arizona for the want of Go>ernmental protectwn; which 

was referred to the Committee on Claims . 

Mr. W ALTHALLpresented a memorial of the Legislature ofl\Iississippi, remonstrating against the p~e of Senata ~ill 650, for the prevention of the use of cotton-seed oil as a substitute for hogs-lard; 

which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. 

Mr. EV .ARTS presented resolutions adopted bJ: th_e New _York State 

Bar Association in L.wor of the passage of the bill mcreasmg the pay 

of the United States judges resident in that State; which were referred 

to the Committee on the Judidary. 

He also presented a petition of citizens ~f. the Twent:t-~ourth Congressional district of New York, and a pehtion of 169 c1tizens of the· 

Eleventh, Twenty-second, Twenty-seventh, TwC?ty-eighth ~n?- _T~­

tieth ConO'ressional districts of New York, pmyrng for prohibition m 

the Distri~t of Columbia; which were referred to the Committee on the 

District of Columbia. 

He also presented a petition of 29 surviving soldiers and sailors of 

the Union Army and Navy; apetitionoftbeDavidS. Cole'sComman~, 

No.4. Union Veterans' Union, Department of New York, and a petition of the soldiers, sailors, and marines of the Union Army and Navy, 

praying for the passage oft~e per diemra:tedservice-pension bill; which were referred to the Committee on Pensmns. 

He also presented the petition of Rev. J. L. Roe, Rev. S. F. Wheeler, 

and other members of the Methodist Episcopal Churches, of Salem, N. 

J., praying for the better legal protection of yo?llg girls in th~ Di~trict 

of Columbia; which was referred to the Corunnttee on the DIStrict of 

Columbia. 

He also presented a petition of the Woman's Christian Temperance 

Union of the State of New York, officially signed, praying for· legislation t~ provide for the adequate punishm~nt of crimes against women 

and girls; which was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 

Mr. FARWELL presented a. memorial of citizens of Washingto~, 

D. C., remonstrating against the removal of the tracks of .t.b:e Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company to south K street; which was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 

He also presented the petition of ~r. A. Dunbar, of Washingt(;m, :J?· 

C., praying that the sc~eme of weedin~ ~:n;t the drunkard ~ tried m the District as a solution of the prohibition problem; which was referred to the Conimittee on the District of Columbia. 

He also presented a petition of 154 citizens of the Ten~- a_nd !ourteenth Congressional districts of Illinois, praying for PJ:Obibition rn t?e 

District of Columbia; which was referred to the Committee on the DIStrict of Columbia. 

REPORTS OF 0!>1\IMITI'EES. 

:M:r. COCKRELL. The Committee on :Military .A.ffairst to which was 

referred the bill (S. 1679) making a donation to the Kansas Veteran 

.Association of two condemned brass cannons and two hundred stand of 

small-arms and equipments, have instructed me to report it adversely, 

and recommend that the bill be indefinitely postponed, for two reasons: first, that there aTe no brass cannon cond~mned and_ nnappr_opri~ted; 

and, in the second place, we accompany this report With a pnce-list of 

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arms and accouterments for sale at all the various arsenals in the United 

States, and the price is so lowthatwe do not thinkwe should bejustrfied in appropriating them. They can be purchased at all the various 

arsenals. The price-list is attaehed to this report., so that Senators can send it to persons desiring it in answer to any inquiries. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The bill will be postponed indefinitely, if there be no objection, and the report will be printed. 

Mr. COCKRELL, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 1387) for the relief of the volunteers of the 

Fourth Regiment of Iowa Infantry, reported it with an amendment, 

and submitted a report thereon. · Mr. VEST, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred 

the bill (S. 1498) granting to the city of Grand Forks, Dak., the right 

to build two free bridges at said city across the Red River, reported it 

with amendments. 

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

1701) authorizing the construction of a high wagon-bridge across the 

Missouri River at or near Sioux City, Iowa, reported it with an amendment. 

He also, from ~he same committee, to whom was referred the bill (H. 

R. 4327) regulating the construction of bridges over the Muskingum 

River, in Ohio, reported it with amendments. 

Mr. SPOONER, f.rom the Committee on Claims, to whom was re- ferred the bill (S. 604) for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Gerard Wood, deceased, asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that it be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims; which was agreed to. 

Mr. SPOONER. Yesterday, by direction of a majority of the Committee cin Claims, the Senator from Maryland [Mr. WILSON] reported 

favorably to the Senate the bill (S.11) for the relief of Warren Mitchell. 

A minority of the committee, consisting of the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Ho.A..Rl, the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. QuAY], 

and myself, dissent from that report, and I ask leave to present the 

views of the minority upon that bill at a day no later than to-morrow. 

The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. It will be so ordered, if there be no objection. 

Mr. HOAR. I think there will be no objection to have the Senate 

also delay the order to print the original report, so that the two reports 

may be printed together. ' 

Mr. SPOONER. That can be done if the majority report has not 

been already printed. 

The PRESIDENT pro te-mpore The Chair is informed that thereport of the majority of the committee has not been printed. Therefore 

it will be withheld from the Printer until the views of the minority are in! and they will both be printed together. . ·Mr. SPOONER, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred 

the bill (H. R. 3749) for the relief of Frank Baker, reported it without 

amendment, and submitted a report thereon. 

:Mr. Mc};'HERSON, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom 

was referred the bill (S. 1484) for the relief of G. Kaemmerling and 

others, reported it with amendments, and submitted a report thereon . .Mr. DAWES, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were 

referred the following bills, reported them adversely; and they were severally postponed indefinitely: . A bill (S. 1149) to promote the efficiency of the public service in the 

Indian Bureau; 

A bill (S. 1511) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for t.he 

allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, 

and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the 

Territories over the Indians," and for other purposes; and - A bill (S. 620) to divide the Great Sioux reservation, in Dakota and 

Nebraska, and to secure to the Indians the title in fee simple to lands 

in sevetalty, and to open a p~rtion to actual settlement, and to provide 

for the better education and civilization of the Sioux Indians. 

Mr. DOLPH, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 1128) to create ports of entry at Tacoma and Seattle, 

in Washington Territory, reported it without amendment. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. I reported the other day a bill to incorporate the 

Nic>.aragua Maritime Canal Company, but omitted to report with it the 

petition of P. Cudmore and many other citizens of Minnesota in support of that bill which had been referred to the committee by the Senate. I now return that petition to go on the files. It should have 

been returned with the report. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o temp01·e. The petition will be placed on the 

files of the Senate. 

Mr. STEW ART, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom 

was referred the bill (S. 35) to authorize the promotion of cer~ain assistant surgeons of the Army after twenty years' service, reported it 

with an amendment, and submitted a report thereon. 

Mr. PAYNE, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the bill (S. 630) forthe reliefofEdwin De Leonl reported 

it without amendment. 

V .ALUATION OF IMPORTED MERCHANDISE. 

Mr • .ALLISON. The Committee on Finance unanimously instruct me to report a substitute for the bill (S. 977) to regulate the importation of foreign merchandise and to secure uniformity in the classification and valuation thereof, and for other purposes. I ask the Senate 

to allow this substitute to be printed as the original bill, so that it will 

appear when taken up for consideration as the original bill. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. ';rhen you had better report it as an original bill. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa asks that the 

amendment of the Committee on Finance, which is in the nature of a substitute for the entire bill, may be printed as an original bill. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. To make the Journal rightitoughtto be reported 

as an original bill, with a new number, and then the other bill can be 

dropped. 

Mr. HOAR. Then you do not have to take the question on the 

amendment and on the bill as amended separately. 

Mr. ALLISON. Very well; I will ad,.Qpt the suggestion. · The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The journalentry, then, if there be 

no objection, will be changed so as to show that the Senator from Iowa, 

from the Committee on Finance, reports the original bill adversely; and 

the new bill will be read by its title. 

Mr. AT,.LISON. The only reason why I suggested that the substitute be considered as the original bill is to continue the connection between the bill reported in December last and this bill. I think, on a moment's reflection, it will create less confusion if we connect the present bill with the one reported in December. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. Very well.; then the substitute is reported as an amendment intended to be proposed by the committee, and whether we will take it or the bill first reported when we proceed to consider the 

subject we will wait and see. That will be t'he straightway. No doubt 

there will be no objection then to substituting the amendment, but I 

should not wish to consent now until I see it. 

Mr. ALLISON. Isubmitwith thebillawrittenreport, andaskthat 

it be printed. · The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The Chair desli'es to know the wish 

of the Senator from Iowa concerning th~ substitute which he has re- ported. 

Mr. ALLISON. There being objection to the course I suggested, I 

will let the bill take its usual course, whatever it may be. I simply 

report the bill which I send to the desk as a substitute for Senate bill 977. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Then Senate bill 977 is to be reported 

adversely and postponed indefinitely, and the substitute will be treated 

as the original bill. 

Mr. ALLISON. No; I make no note of Senate bill977. I now re- port a substitute for that bill. 

The PRESIDENT pro te-mpore. But under the rules the Chair thinks a bill must be reported back either with an amendment, or adversely. or favorably without amendment. There is no method under the rules 

by which the bill can be reported ba-ck without recommendation, with 

another as a substitute. 

Mr. ALLISON. But Senate bill 977 is in the control of the Senate. 

It was not recommitted to the Committee on Fina:D.ce; it is in the possession of the Senate. I report now an' amendment in the nature of a substitute for that bill, which is in the possession of the Senate. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair understands that Senate 

bil1977 is reported back with an amendment. 

Mr. HARRIS. That bill was reported to the Senate perhaps a month or six weeks ago and is now on the Calendar. The Senator from Iowa 

is directed by the Committee on Finance to report an amendment, and 

I think his object will be accomplished by printing the paper he now 

sends to the desk as an amendment proposed by the committee to the 

pending bill. 

1t1r. ALLISON. That is what I desire, Mr. President. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report of the Senator from Iowa, 

from the Committee on Finance, will then be journalized as suggested 

by the Senator from Tennessee. and the report will be printed. 

Mr. ALLISON. I desire to state that I wish to take the bill up at an early day. Of course I do not wish to interfere with any other 

pressing current business, but I give notice that on next Wednesday 

morning I shall ask the Senate to consider the bill, and to continue its 

consideration until it is completed. 

Mr. HOAR. I desire to a8k unanimous consent that 2,000 or 1,500 

copies of the bill, whatever may be ~he number to bring it within the 

rule of the Senate, not requiring a reference to the Committee on Printing, be printed in pamphlet form for the use of the Senate. 

Mr. MANDERSON. In document form? 

1't1r. HOAR. In docUJ;nent form. I suppose that will not exceed the 

limit. :fixed by the ru]e. 

Mr. ALLISON. That is, to print the new bill? 

Mr. HOAR. The new bill. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The Senator from Massachusetts asks an order that 2, 000 copies of the amendment and the report may be 

printed. · M:r: HOAR. Not the report, but simply the new bill. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore The order to print 2,000 copies of 

the amendment for the use of the Senate will be made, if there be no 

objection. Mr. MANDERSON.. That will clearly be within the limit of $500 

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Mr. HOAR. If the report would come within the rule of $500 I 

should like to have that printed also; but I suppose there would be some doubt about that, and so I will limit the motion to the bill. 

1\fr .. HA WL~Y subsequently said. The Committee on Finance a few moments ago reported a substitute or an amendment to Senate bill 

977, and with it submitted a report which iS to be very much in demand. Since the matter was up I have examined the report and am satisfied that the Senate can order the additional 2, 000 copies spoken 

of far below the limit of $500. I therefore move that 2,000 additional 

copies of the report be printed. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. In connection with the bill? 

Mr. HAWLEY. With the bill. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Connecticut moves that 2, 000 copies of the bill and of the report of the Committee on Fi- nance be printed for the use of the Senate. It will be so ordered, if 

there be no objection. 

BILLS INTRODUCED. 

Mr. EDMUNDS introduced a bill (S. 2018) granting an increase of 

pension to Henry Sprague; which was read twice by its title, and re- ferred to the Committee on Pensions. 

He also introduced a bill (S. 2019) to amend section 2 of the act en- titled ''An act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Gove.rnment of the United States," approved March 3, 1887; which was read 

twice by its title. 

1\fr. EDMUNDS. I wish to say in regard to the reference of the bill, 

that it is a matter really and strictly judicial, but as the original bill, 

which it seems needs some correction, came at the last Congress from 

the Committee on Claims, I think it more convenient that this proposed 

amendment should go to that committee for consideration. I move that 

the bill be referred, with the accompanying papers, to the Committee on Claims. 

The motion was agreed to. 

Mr. MORRILL (by request) introduced a bill (S. 2020) for the promotion of anatomical science, and to prevent the desecration of graves 

in the District of Columbia; which was read twice by its title, and, 

with the accompanying paper, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 

Mr. FARWELL introduced a bill (S. 2021) to brevet officers of the 

Army on the active and retired lists; which was read twice by its title, 

and, with the accompanying paper, referred to the Committee on :Military Affairs. 

Mr. BLACKBURN introduced a bill (S. 2022) for the relief of Dr. 

William Kenney; which was read twice by its title, and, wit:9 the ac- companying paper, referred to the Committee on Claims. 

Mr. SPOONER (by request) introduced a bill (S. 2023) to authorize 

the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to extend, widen, grade, 

curb, and lay sidewalks on Sixteenth street, between Boundary street 

and Columbia road; which was read twice by its title, and referred to 

the Committee on the District of Columbia. 

:M:r. CULLOM introduced a bill (S. 2024) to authorize the construction of a bridge over the .1\fississippi River at or near Clarksville, Mo., 

and for other purposes; which was read twice by its title, and referred 

to the Committee on Commerce. · 

Mr. VOORHEES introduced a bill (S. 2025) relating to pay of skilled 

workmen and leave of absence to all employes in the Government 

Printing Office; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the 

Committee on Printing. 

He also introduced a bill ~S. 2026) to establish an additional land 

office at Springfield, in the State of Colorado; which was read twice by 

its title, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. 

He also introduced a bill (S. 2027) for the purchase of suitable grounds 

in thecityofRichmond, in theStateofindiana, and the erection thei·eon 

of a public building for the post-office, United States collector's office. 

United States commissioner's office, and for the use of other Unitecl 

Sta~es officers in Ba:id citJ:, ~d appropriating money for said purposes; 

which was read tWice by Its title, and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 

Mr. SABIN introduced a bill (S. 2028) to authorize the President to 

confer brevet rank on officers of the Army for gallant services in Indian 

campaigns; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. . 

He also introduced a bill (S. 2029) granting right of way to the For· est City and Watertown Railroad Company throuo-b the Sioax India,n reservation; which was read twice by its title, and0

referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. · 

He also introduced a bill (S. 2030) in relation to bridge of Forest City 

and Watertown Railroad Company; which was read twice by its title 

and referred to the Committee on Commerce. ' 

Mr. RIDDLEBE~GER introduced a bill (S. 2031) for the relief ot 

Hannah Hurdle, Widow of Samuel R. Hurdle; which was read twice 

by its title. 

. Mr. RIDDLEBERGER. It would seem that the bill ought to be re- ferr~d to .the Comm~ttee on Cla~ms! but as it proposes relief for injuries received m the serVIce of the D1stnct of Columbia I move that it be re- ferred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 

The motion was agreed to. -

Mr. QUAY introduced a bill (S. 2032) to provide for the purchase or condemnation of the entire property and appurtenances of the Monongahela Navigation Company, a corporation of Pennsylvania; which was 

read twice by its title, and referred to the COmmittee an Commerce. 

Mr. TELLER introduced a bill (S. 2033) granting a pension to Joseph 

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

He also introduced a bill (S. 2034) to authorize the citizens of the 

United States to return their estraycattlefromthe Republic of Mexico 

into the United States without the payment of duties; which was read 

twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. 

Mr. WILSON, of Iowa., introduced a bill (S. 2035) granting an increase ofpension to Samuel J. Murphy, of Marengo, Iowa; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. 

He also introduced a bill (S. 2036) granting a pension to Mark F. 

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

Mr. BLODGETT introduced a bill (S. 2037) to remove the chargeof 

desertion from the military record of John Fitzpatrick; which was read 

twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

Mr. DANIEL introduced a bill (S. 2038) increasing the -pension of ·Mary Minor Hoxey; which was read twice by its title, and referred to 

the Committee on Pensions. 

Mr. PLUMB introduced a. bill (S. 2039) for the relief of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company; which was read twice by its 

title, and referred to the C'.ommittee on Naval Affairs. 

Mr. TELLER introduced a bill (S. 2040) to establish a land office at 

Folsom, Tenitory of New Mexico; which was read twice by its title, 

and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. 

Ur. McPHERSON introduced a bill (S. 2041) providing for the holding of the P"nited States courts in the city of Newark, N.J.; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

Mr. ?!!ANDERSON introduced a joint resolution (S. R. 55) abolishing the office of the United States surveyor-general for the district of 

Nebraska and Iowa, and authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to 

proceed, under the provisions of sections 2218 and 2219 of the Revised 

Statutes of the United States, in the transfer of the field-notes, maps, 

records, and other papers to the States of Nebraska and Iowa; which was read twice by its title, and, wi.th the accompanying paper, referred 

to the Committee on Public Lands. / 

He also (by request) introduced a joint resolution (S. R. 56) granting permission to officers and soldiers, members of the military order 

of the Loyal Legion of the United States and of the Grand Army of 

the Republic, to wear the badges adopted by those orders; which was read twice by its title, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to 

the Committee on Military Affairs. 

AMENDMENTS TO BILLS. 

Mr. DANIEL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 

him to House bill 6437, making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, .1888, 

and for prior years, and for other purposes; which was referred to the 

Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. 

.1\fr. VOORHEES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 

by him to the bill (H. R. 1338) to extend the leave of absence of em- ployes in the Government Printing Office to thirty days per annum; 

which was referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printe~ · 

.1\fr. FAULKNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 

by him to the bill (S. 1176) t{) authorize the sale to aliens of certain 

mineral lands; which was ordered to lie on the table and be printej. 

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. 

Amessagefrom theHouseofRepresentatives, byl\fr. CLARK, itsClerk, 

announced that the House had passed the following bills; in which it 

requested the concurrence of the Senate: 

A bill (H. R. 2093) for the relief of John K. LeBaron; and 

A bill (H. R. 4557) for the relief of George F. Chilton. 

DIAMOND SHOAL LIGHT-HOUSE. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there are no ''resolutions, con- current or other." the Chair lays before the Senate the resolution submitted by the Senator from Kansas [.Mr. PLIDIB] directing the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads to make a thorough inquiry into 

the cause of inefficient mail service. 

:l\Ir. RANSOM. I ask the unanimous consent of the Senate to take 

up the bill (S. 1283) making a.n appropriation for the erection of a 

light-house on or near Diamond Shoal, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. I think it will give rise to no debate. • By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, 

proceeded to consider the bill. It proposes to appropriate $500,000 for 

the erection of a light-house on or near Diamond Shoal, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Contractors for doing this work may be selected 

by the Light-House Board, such as may, in the judgment of the board, 

be best fitted by reason of skilJ, experience, possession of plant, and con- trol of means to do the work, payments to be made in the discretion of 

the board, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. 

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The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered 

• to be engrossed for. a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

SURETIES OF S . .A.. BLAINE. 

1tlr. COKE. ·I ask unanimous consent to call up the bill (S. 147) for 

the relief of S. D. Barcl:1y, G. D. Adams, anq William H: Kimbrew. 

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

proceeded to consider the bill. It proposes to release S. D. Barclay, 

G. D. Adams, and William H. Kimbrew, sureties on the bond of 

Samuel A. Blaine, late Indian agent, against whom n.judgment was rendered in the United States court for the northern district of Texas, at Waco, Tex., for $5,000, on the 22d of November, 1886. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossecl for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

THE MAIL SERVICE. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Senate a resolution coming over from a previous day, which will be stated. 

The CIIIEF CLERK. .A. resolution by Mr. PLUMB, directing the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads to make thorough inquiry into 

the cause of inefficient mail service. 

:Ur. REAGAN. I ask the Senator from Kansas if he will consent to an amendment of the resolution by inserting the word ''alleged'' after 

the word "such" in the last line but one? 

Mr. PLUUB. That has already been done, I think. 

Mr. COCKRELL. That word has already been inserted, on my mo- tion. 

Mr. PLUMB. The resolution has been already so amended. 

Ur. RE.A.G.A.N. Very well. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Will the Senate agree to the reso- lution? 

The resolution was agreed to. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

l'tfr. PLATT. I ask the Senate to consider at this time the bill (S. 

395) for the relief of Hyland C. Kirk and others, assignees of Addison 

C. Fletcher. 

Mr. :MANDERSON. I do not desire to antagonize this request, but 

is the order of morning business closed? I think there is another reso- lution following the one which has just been acted upon. The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The Chair would be glad at this time 

to take the sense of the Senate upon a question affecting the order of 

business in the morning hour. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I caJl for the regular order. 

The PRE !DENT p1·o tempore. Resolutions offered in the Senate 

are open to objection under the rule on the day they are offered, and 

under such objections they lie over for one day. It ha.s been the practice of the Senate for some time to reooard resolutions so objected to as entitled to consideration the next day or the day thereafter, whenever 

concurrent and other resoln~ions are called for. There are several reso- lUtions either on the Calendar or on the table, the Chair is not able to 

say which, that have come over from a previous day under objection. 

The Chair desires to take the sense of the Senate, the rules being silent on the subject, whether those resolutions shall be called every morning under the order of "concurrent or other resolutions," or whether 

they shall go on the Calendar or on the table to be called up he_reafter. 

JI,Ir. PLA.TT. I think that the orderly conduct of business in the 

Senate requires that resolutions which are objected to should be taken 

up the next day if opportunity offers; and therefore, although I desire 

the Senate to consider the bill to which I have referred, I will withdraw that request for the present. 

1\Ir. SHERMAN. :Mr. President, I have always undexstood that 

-when resolutions were ohjected to under the rule they went over to 

the next day under the objection. They are then laid on the table of 

the Presiding Officer, and are submitted the next day at the close of 

resolutions then offered. .A.n order of that kind was adopted at the 

last Congress; but if they were not disposed of on the first day after 

the objection was taken then they were placed on the Calendar. It 

seems to me that is the proper order of proceeding, because if a resolution comes over and the Presiding Officer lays it before the Senate, all!~d' 

it has its day in court and is not then disposed of, it ought to go tot e Calendar and ought not to encumber the usual morning business oft e 

Senate. That practice, I think, was adopted during the time I~J~d 

the honor to preside over the Senate. Always, a resolution com og over under objection was supmitted to the Senate at the proper ti tle, 

at the close of resolutions on the following day, and if it was not then 

disposed of it went on the Calendar. 

The PRESIDENT pro te-mpore. But if a resolution is not reached 

for consideration the next day after it is offered, or is not then submitted to the Senate, the Chair desires to be instruct-ed whether the 

day having lapsed theresolution then is to go on the Calendar. 

Mr. SHERMAN. I think the understanding was that a day should 

always be had, that one opportunity tQ dispose of the resolution should 

be given; and if it wa.s not reached the first day it certainly would be 

the next, and then it wonld be laid before the Senate; but when laid 

before the Senate it is in the possession of the Senate, and it goes on the 

Calendar unless disposed of that day. I think that was the ruling 

adopted by the Senate while I occupied the chair. 

Mi. HARRIS. I think the practice of the Senate has been, in the 

absence of a rule regulating it, very much as stated by the Senator 

from Ohio. Upon objection a resolution goes over; it lies on the table; 

attention is called to it on the next day. .A. concurrent or Senate reso· lution that went over comes over to the next day under that objection. Where the business of the morning hour is snch that the whole time 

is consumed an<l the resolution not reached, but lies on the ta.ble, the 

practice, I think, has been to give it its day; that is, to ca.ll attention 

to it on the first day that it can be reached; lmt failing to be dispo ed 

of after the attention of the Senate has been called to the resolution on· the table for the one dn.y, it ought to take its place on the Calendar and 

be subject to the rules governing all cases on the Calenda.r. 

Ur. PLUMB. I have had the impression, with the present occupant 

of the chair, that the rules lai<l it down that the resolutions objected 

to when offered come up as of course; that is to say, they have the right 

of way and are to be laid before the Senate when the order of resolutions is reached, and that applies to a resolution until action is taken or some underst:mding is reached, as in the C:1Se of a. resolution I introduced. The Senator from Ohio, then presiding, did not lay it before 

the Senate. I called the matter to the attention of the Senate, and 

my recollection is quite clear that the present occupantofthe chair then 

made a motion or a suggestion which resulted in an understanding or orne affirmative act on the part of the Senate-I am not sure whichto the effect that these resolutions have the 1·ight of way until they are 

disposed of, and must be laid before the Senate when the orcler of reso- lutions is reached. 

The PRESIDEr T pro temp01·e. There arc resolutions upon the Calendar which have been pending since the 21st of January undetermined, and have had no da.y before the Senate. 

l\Ir. CULLOM. I wish to make au inquiry for the purpose of get· 

ting the attention of the Chair to the suhject. Suppose a resolution is 

introduced and its consideration objected to the first clay and laid over. Then, as I understa.nd the Senator from Ohio and the Senator from Tennessee, it has another day, an<l is taken by the occupant of the chair 

and presented to the Senate. Suppose that resolution is taken up by 

the Senate for consideration, but not finally disposed of on that subsequent day, does it or not come up as unfinished business at some future 

time? 

.1\fr. HARRIS. There is no unfinished business in the morning hour. 

1\fr. CULLOM. None at all? 

Mr. HARRIS. None at all. 

The PRESIDE~T pro tempore. The Chair would think that a reso- lution having been considered would still retain its place on the Cal- endar, the resolutions coming over from a. former day, or be laid on the 

table. 

1tir. HARRIS. I think it would go to the Calendar. It loses its 

place on the table, clearly. Mr. CULLOM. It seems to me a Yery unsatisfactory way of dispos· 

ing of a su~ject after partially discussing it, that on its coming before 

the Senate. it is to go to the Calendar to be considered three months 

hence, perhaps. Mr. HARRIS. It is alway~ under the control of a majority of the 

Senate. Mr. CULLO~f. I think H should come up again as unfinished busi- ness at some time. 1\'Ir. HARRIS. It is always in the control of :lo majority of the Senate, just as any other matter on the Calendar. It bas had the advantage, at least, of one day in court. 

'l'he PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair, then, will lay before the 

Senate the first resolution coming oYer from a former day that has been 

considered. The title of the resolution will be stated. 

The CHIEF CLERK. .A. resolution by Mr. CALL relative to the man- agement of railroads by receivers appointed by United States courts. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The Chair is informed that this resolution wa.s considered on the 9th of' February and went over. The 

Chair, therefore, would hold that the resolution goes to the Calendar. 

Mr. CALL. _ That is what I desire. --.. ~ __ 

- DISTRIBUTION OF REBELLION RECORDS. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The next resolution coming over from a former day will be stated. 

The CHIEF CLERK. .A. resolution submitted by Mr. 1t1ANDERSON 

February 9, 1888, directing the Secretary of War to fumi h certain information concerning the distribution -of Records of the Rebellion. 

Mr. M:.A.NDERSON. I understand that resolution is for consideration at this time. 

The PRESIDENT pro te1np01·e. The resolution will be read. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed t<> report to the Senate what members of the Forty-seventh C<>ngress have furnished lists for the <li ·tribution of t11e Records of the Rebellion as provided by l11.w, the number of each volume thereof remaining undistributed, and the list of names and addresses of tho ~ 

designated to receive that publication by any member of Congress when not1· fied so to do by either of the Senators from the State represented by said C<>n- gressman. 

M:r. MANDERSON. Itbinkitdue the Secretary of Warthatishould 

say that, in a conversation had with him within a few days and since 

the presentation of this resolution, he said to me that in refusing to 

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grant, upon requests of members of Congress, the lists of names furnished by members of the Forty-seventh Congress of persons and libraries to receive the Rebellion Records he bad been simply following a cnstom of the Department, not a rnle that he himself had inaugurated, 

but that finding such a custom obtaining he simply continued it; that 

he saw no objection whatever to a resolution of this character and would 

be glad, as I understood him, to have it pas . I t · k it due to him 

that this statement should be made in his behalf. 

1\Ir. President, while referring to this mat er wish to speak on a subject somewhat akin to it. A somewhat unfortunate reslflt, so far 

as the c ort of many members of th~S ate is concer~c ame from 

the d. ussion of this qiu~stion a few sago, and it is ewhatofa com ent:u-y, I think, upon the stric res made by the Sen tor from 

1\I" ouri [ fr. VEST] upon the extensive publication of public documents. 1\Iy own mail has been much burdened, and I understand the 

mail of many other Senators has been inundated by requests for documents, some of them of the character that the Senator from Missouri 

characterized as very good literature, and other documents that he con- demned as worthless. I wish to say here, for the purpose of relieving 

myself at least, th..'tt so far as this document, the Recordsofthe Rebellion, 

is concerned, there are none within my gift, and there have been none for me to distribute. The whole issue of that valua,blepublication was monopolized by the members of the Forty-seventh Congress, and none 

others except tho e named upon the lists furni hed by them can be distributed, unless it shall be in accord with the joint resolution that 

passed the Senate a few days ago, permitting the distribution of undistributed copies where members of the Forty-seventh Congress are not 

yet in Congress, such distribution to be by their immedi.-.te successors. Mr. CULLOM. Allow me to say that I ba\e had the s:tme experi- ence as to requests that "the Senator indicates that he has bad, and 

many of the requests made to me ha.ve been to the effect that perhaps 

I might get some public documents for the applicants from the distinguished Senator from Missouri, so as to accommodate the citizens of 

Dlinois to some extent. 

1\Ir. MANDERSO~. Now, Mr. P1·esident, one word further in response to some of the suggestions made by the Senator from Missouri 

in his remarks upon the resolution submitted by him and referred to 

the Committee on Printing a few days ago. I regret tb~t I was not in 

my scat on that day, and I regret-that there was no member of the 

Committee on Printing in his seat to bear his remarks. The evils that 

he depicted have been recognized by that committee to exist in part. 

I think there was some degree of exaggeration of the evils by the Senator from Missouri, and I think he will :find on full consideration of 

the subject-matter that to make changes of the sweeping character he seems to desire would be very injurious to the public service. 

As I understood him from reading his remarks it is his desire to cut 

down in a large degree the usual number of public documents that are printed, and to reduce greatly the number ofbillsand resolutions that are printed for the use of Congress. I do not think that the Senator 

from Missouri could have looked carefully into the manner of distribution of these documents, else he would not have made the as.~ertion 

that as to those issued under the rule of the usual number there are 

any for distribution by him. Take, for instance, the Senate Journal 

and the House Journal; none are for the distribution of the Senator 

from Missouri, and, as I understand it, none are upon the list for distribution by any member of Congress. In the printed blank that issues 

from the folding-room of the Senate that contains the list of documents 

issued for the public that are subject to dis~ribution by members of 

the Senate, the Senate J ournaJ. and the House Journal will n,ot be found, nor will any of the reports, valuable as many of them are, made by 

the committees of this body be found. 

The bills that are printed and that he would reduce in number to, I 

think, 750 by his resolution, are now printed to the extent of 924 when 

they are Senate bills, and this is the disposition made of them: 440 of 

them go to the document-room of the House, so that every member of 

the Honse of Representatives may be furnished with at least one copy 

of the bill and that there may be some in excess for distribution. To 

the office of the Clerk of the House there go 308; to the office of the 

Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, 134; to the office of the Secretary of 

the Senate, 8; to the Department of State, 15; to the office of the Public Printer, 4, and there kept as file copies, 15, making the 924 which 

constitute the usual number of bills that are printed. I had investigated, prior to the discussion upon this subject the other 

day, the question whether this number of bills could be reduced, and 

I am satisfied that as to what are known as private bills-take, for instance, the private pension bills-we could quite materially decrease 

the number, as they are not in great demand by members of Congress or by outside parties; but as to general bills, I doubt if the number 

could be reduced from 924 now printed under the law, which has been 

the number established by law for many years past. 

As to documents of the Senate, the usual number, by legislation 

upon that subject had years ago, is 1,900. Of this number 940 are l eft unbound and 960 are bound copies, and this is the distribution 

made of these documents: To the document-room of the House of 

Representatives of unbound copies· there go 411; to the office of the 

Clerk of the House 20; to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate 243; to 

the Secretary of the Senate 6; to the folding-room of the Senate 190; 

fo the Dt-partment: of State 30; to the office of the Public Printer 4, 

and for file copies 36, making--

Mr. BUTLER. Is the Senator now referring to each publica.tion1,900 of each publication? . 1\Ir. MANDERSON. Nineteen hundred of each document and report 

of Congress. 

l\1r. BUTLER. That is to say, 1,900 of the volume on Commerce and 

Navigation, and of the :Uessage and Documents? 

1\Ir. MANDERSON. No, I do not refer to them. Those are not doc- uments or reports to Congress. The Senator refers to reports made by 

the Executive Departments, called executive documents, the number of 

which is fixed by law. 

1\Ir. BUTLER. We each got about thirty-odd of those. 

Mr. MANDERSON. I am not referring to those. My reference is to 

the documents published by order to print the usual number by Con- gress; for instance, there comes to either House of Congress a report 

from one of the Department chiefs, the Secretaryofthe Interior for ex- ample . It is ordered to be printed with the accompanying papers. 

Mr. BUTLER. The annual report? 

Ir. l\IANDERSON. Not the annual report, because that printingis 

provided for by general law passed many years ago. All the reports of 

committees that come here are ordered printed. That order implies 

that there shall be printed 1,900 copies. 

Mr. BUTLER I do not understand that those documents are printed 

for distribution. 

1\Ir. 1\fANDERSO~. Not at all, and I am correcting the apparent 

misapprehension of the Senator from Missouri in that regard. They are not printed for- distribution as public documents are usually dis- tributed by members of Congress; but this is the distribution: Of the 

bound copies, numbering 96U, there go to the Senate document-room 

114; to the House document-room 313; to the Senate folding-room 

4.3; to the Department of State 10; to the Department of the Interior 

420, and these are for distribution among the libraries of the country 

that are designated as depositaries of public documents by law, being 

named as such by the members of the House of Representatives and oi 

the Senate; 52 copies go to ·the Library of Congress; 10 to the library 

of the House of Representatives, and 1 is retained in the office of the 

Public Printer, making 960, and the two sorts, bound and unbound, 

composing the 1,900 copies that are thus printed. 

1\fr. HOAR. When the Senator has got through theparticularpoint 

which be is making, I desire to ask him a question, prefacing it by a statement of the reason for it. 

There is a general notion prevailing throughout the country that there 

is a vast storehouse here of all the public documents printed by order 

of Congress, not mentioning the documents provided for the tran...~ction 

of the business of either House, but general documents like the Agri- cultural Report, and the Report of the Geological Survey, and the Surgeon-General's Repo1·t, and the Rebellion Records more particularly. I suppose there are two notions that prevail very extensively. One is 

that there is an unlimited number of these documents, so that any Sen- ator or Representative can supply any constituent who wants them, no matter what the number may be, and many people think we are negli- gent if we do not supply everybody who requests them. The next 

is that there is an enormous waste of these decuments, that they are stolen by members of either House, or that they are used for all man- ner of purposes that may be imagined. I get from surgeons in the late war very proper requests, which I · 

should be eager to comply with, for copies of the 1t1edical and Surgical ~tory of the War; and they feel quite disturbed that other persons 

who have not perhaps rendered military service themselves get them: and they do L.ot. I am only stating now the experience of every Sen- ator. I get from young gentlemen in the collegElS applications for the 

Geological Report, for the report ofPowell's Survey, and so on, aml most 

costly and valuable r~ports, the Polaris Expedition, the Greely Expedi- tion, and the other Arctic expeditions. I get perhaps only 10 or 15 

copies of some of these reports. In the old district which I represented 

when I was in the other House there are now more than thirty public libraries; and I suppose in tbt! Commonwealth which I represent there 

are more than three hundred, and this number does not begin to supply them. Now, I should like to ask the chairman of the Committee on Print- ing if he will make a statement, which may go with his other statements to the country, of the number which are usually received for distribution by the members of this body of th~ more important reports, so fur as be has it in his memory. 

Mr. MANDERSON. I would hardly dare to trust my memory to 

respond in any detail to that question. I can only answet it in a gen- era.! way. 

The documents that are of the character referred to by the Senator 

from Missouri in his speech of a few days ago, being the reports of the 

Departments and the reports of the chiefs of bureaus, are published in 

the number that he described. There are not a great many· of each one that come to the distribution of a member- of Congress. In the 

aggregate, of course, they amount to a large number. Documents of 

the character described by the Senator from Massachusetts-for in-
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stance, the Report of the Commissioner of Education, the Report Of the 

Commissioner of .Agriculture, the numerous publications of the Geological Survey, ofthe Smithsonian Institution, and of the Academy of 

Sciences, are published in numbers :fixed by concurrent resolution by 

Congress. 

The greatest number published of any one document is that of the 

Report of the Commissioner of .Agriculture, and that runs into many 

hundred thousands annually. Four hundred thousand, I believe, is 

the usual number that has been printed for distribution. I have never, 

since I have had the honor of presenting these resolutions under instruction of the Committee on Printing, heard any proposition from 

any Senator on this floor to reduce the number, and I do not think 

there has ever been a motion as to any other of the documents that I 

have named to reduce the number that it was proposed should be 

printed. Very frequently the Senate Committee on Printing have proposed to reduce the number provided for in a House concurrent resolution, and the Senate has usually been in accord with tl8 in that reduction. Occasionally we have increased, and the Senate has been with 

us in the matter of increase. 

I think the number allotted to each member of the Forty seventh 

Congress of the Rebellion Records was 26, the Reports of the Geological 

Survey perhaps 15 or 16, and of the Ethnological Report 15 or 16. Of 

the late yery valuable publication, known as Cattle and Dairy Farming, 

the number to each member of the Senate was, I think, 6. 

l\Ir. PLATT. Eleven. 

Mr. MANDERSON. Eleven, and 6 to each member of the House , of Representatives. I will, at my earliest convenience, present are- port that shall come either upon some special d~cument that is to be 

printed or in response {o the resolution of the Senator from Missouri: 

and attempt to show exactly the number of public documents issued, 

the allotment to each member of the Senate and each member of the 

~ouse of Representatives, and the character of the publication. 

Mr. TELLER. I should like to ask the Senator from Nebraska a question. How is the Cattle and Dairy Farming publication published? 

Mr. li!.A.NDERSON. By authority of Congress, by concurrent reso- lution passed at the last session; that is'to say, there was a motion 

made first that the usual number be printed. 

Mr. TELLER. Did the resolution fix the number? 

Mr. MANDERSON. The concurrent resolution fixed the number to 

both Senate and House beyond the usual number, and I think 1,000 

copies were furnished to the State Department for distribution, it being a consular report and not one of the usual documents issued by 

order of Congress or the ~xecutive Departments. 

Mr. President, I did not rise for the purpose of going into this matter in any detail, but simply to say that the Committee on Printing 

has recognized some of the evils that are ·complained of by the Senator 

from Missouri. It has not, however, during the last two or three years 

felt that it was justified in making any radical change of the laws that 

had existed for so many years, and concerning which there never has 

been one word of complaint until that which emanated from the Senator from Missouri a few days ago. Under a resolution that was introduced at the last session of Congress the Committee on Printing 

started an investigation with a view of codifying the printing laws and 

remedying some of the abuses that are complained of. That work was 

well under way under the efficient care of Major Poore, the late clerk 

of the Committee on Printing. Its progress was interrupted somewhat 

by his .death, but the committee is yet making the investigation in that 

regard and trying to reconcile some of the conflicting views on the subject. It also bas in charge an investigation into the manner of the distribution of the public documents. 

I recognize that there are great evils .in the present method of distribution. Quite valuable Teform has been obtained by the efforts of 

Dr . ..hines, who is the superintendent of the distribution of documents 

in the Interior Department; but my own idea of the matter-and I 

confess that my views are rather crude upon this su~ject, as I have not 

yet" brought theln into tangible shape-is that in th~ distribution of 

the documents that are for issue by members of Congress it would be 

well that they should be distributed Under some issuing executive 

officer, say, perhaps, a superintendent of documents. I do not believe 

that he should be under the control or a part of the Department of the 

Interior. I do not think he should be any more an executive officer - than the Public Printer is an executive officer; and I think the most 

economical way of distributing these documents.would be to have them 

taken from the Printing Office to, perhaps, some adjoining building, so that the cost of carriage would not be great, some building adapted 

for the purpose of their storage prior to distribution, where they would 

be protected from injury by dampness, and that there this superintendent of documents, who should be under the control of Congressfor let it be borne in mind that the printing which is conducted at the 

Public Printing Office is by an officer who is the creation of Co.ngres3, 

and the work that he does is under the direct control of Congress-I 

think this distributing officer should occupy a like :position, and that 

the documents which are allotted to members of Congress for distribution ainong their constituents should be distributed through that chan-

. 

nel; not that I would dispense with the document-room of either the 

Senate or the House, for we all know the convenience of having that 

distributing center near at hand. 

Now, before closing, JI.Ir. President, I simply want to show what be- comes of the document.s to the number of 960 that are known as the 

Senate reserve documenU:!. I have already stated where they are sent, 

and this is the distribution madeofthem: There go to Senators78copies, 

and to the Library of Congress 2 copies. These 80 copies are bound in 

calf. There are bound in sheep the remaining 880 volumes, and they 

are thus distributed: To the Clerk's document-room of the House 313 

copies; to the Senate library 36; to the House library 7; to the Department of State 10; to the Department of the Interior 420, these 

being for distribution to public depositories; to the Library of Congress 

50; to the Senate folding-room 43, and one to the Public Printer, making the 960 copies bound in calf and sheep that are known as the bound 

copies of the reserved documents of the Senate. 

The distribution of the Senate Journal is as follows: There go to the 

Senate document-room 66 copies; to the Department of the Interior for 

distribution 1,550-and that distribution is not only to the public libraries of the country, but, under the law, 1 copy is sent to every State library, 1 copy to the governor of every State and Territory, and 1 copy, 

L believe, to the secretary of state of each State, and a large number, of course, are sent to foreign countries through the Department of 

the Interior; to the Secretary of the Senate 150 copies; making 1, 766 

copies, and then, to be delivered as reserved documents according to 

the list I have before read, ·960 copies, making the total number 2, 726. 

Mr. VEST. What is done with those 960 reserved documents? 

Mr. l\IANDERSON. The 960 are distributed as I have said-to Senators 78 copies; to the Library of Congress 2 copies; 313 to the Clerk's 

document-room of the House; 36 to the Senate library; 420 to the Department of the Interior, etc. So that the distribution of these Journals is exactly the same as the distribution of the bound copies of the 

documents that are ordered in the usual number or of the reports of 

Congress. 

I do not claim that this is the best method of distribution; but the 

Committee on Printing have not felt it well, as an independent proposition, that they should make any change in this number that the experience of many years without complaint seems to have taught Congress was the proper number and a wise system. 

Mr. VEST. Mr. President, the fact that this abuse which the chair- man of the Committee on Printing has admitted to exist has become 

crystallized by custom is no argument to me for its continuance. I 

repeat every word I have said heretofore in regard to the printing of 

public documents and the inexcusable waste of public money in that 

direction, and the experience of every day that we have been in session 

has confirmed me in my opinion. 

I received this morning a communication from the Register's Office of 

the Treasury, referring to the remarks I had the honor to submit to the 

Senate on last Monday, written by l\1r. Holladay, an employe of that 

Department, one of its principal employes, which states that so gross has 

become the abuse of piling up these perfectly worthless documents in 

the Trea-sury Department that the Secretary of the Treasury some six 

months ago appointed a committee offive employes of the Department, 

of which he was chairman, to ascertain what relief could be had from 

this nuisance, for it has become nothing else. The corridors were filled 

up, the garrets filled, and there was no room for the absolutely necessary records of the Department needed forthetransactionofbusiness-

.filled with the Journals of the House and "Senate and every resolution 

that is printed here by: Congress, and thnt matter has been accumulating there for the last thirty years. 

Why, sir, the clerk of the Committee on Public Buildings and 

Grounds, as I said the other day, told me that last week he sent to the 

basement of this Capitol twenty-five bags of these documents which had 

never been opened, and the clerk of the Committee on Commerce, of 

which I am a member, corroborates the statement by; saying that he 

does the same things. There is not a committee-room in this Capitol 

that is not crammed with them. There .are over twenty-five hundred 

bags of unbound books in the cellar of the Capitol to-day. 

Mr. MANDERSON. Arenotthosethe books that are the allotment 

to each member of the Senate, not as yet distributed by him? 

Mr. VEST. No, ]:!ir. They are sent to the committees, copies are 

distributed to every committee-room, and they are sent to each one of us individually besides. 

Mr. MANDEHSON. I should like to ask the Senator whether those 

copies .of different documents in the committee-rooms are not of value, 

and whether they had not better be retained there, at least those of 

modern date, upon proper shelves and in proper cases, rather than have 

those committee-rooms stripped to the bare walls, as a great many are, 

and not a book to be seen upon any shelf. 

l\fr. VEST. I undertake to say that there is not a single member 

who will rise and declare that he consults one of these books in a com- mittee-room. Every one of us knows that if we want to consult any 

publication of the Government we send to Mr. Smith at the documentr·oom, and he sends us the record. Life is too short for us to go into 

these files of books and hunt out an item that is wanted in regard to 

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the proceedings of Congress or in regard to an eXpenditure l~at bas 

been mad~ a Department. It is not done; we know that it is not 

done by us. 

The Senator from lllinois, and I am sorry he did not have more originality, said that he supposed the people needed valuable public documents. I said, until I thought I bad exhausted my command of the 

English language to express it, that I bad no valuable documents, but 

I have old House Journals and Senate JournaJs and statistical reports, 

and if my friend appeals to me personally he can have them, but I do 

not think so poorly of the intelligence of the people he represents as to 

suppose they want them. 

Mr. CULLOU. Will the Senator allow me to say a word? 

Mr. VEST. Certainly. 

Mr. CULLOM. I simply stated that some of my constituents had 

the impression that the Senator had the Rebellion Records or some such work as that which they were very anxious to procure, .and suggested that as I had none and never had any, possibly I might get some from the distinguished Senator. 

I want to say, however, while I am on the floor, that I am not very 

well informed about the distribution of documents, but I suppose that so far as the committee-rooms are concerned, each committee-room is 

furnished with one copy of each public document at each session of 

Congress, and it seems to me that that is a very proper provision to be 

made. I a:in inclined to believe that the books which are going to the 

cellar or elsewhere out of the committee-rooms are old reports, probably twenty, thirty, forty, or :fifty years old, which of course are not 

likely to be used by Senators in legislation at the present day. If that 

is the truth about it, which I take it to be, I still see no reason in that 

why the committee-rooms should not be furnished with a copy of each 

of the reports from year to year that are being made, for the use of the 

committees. 

Mr. VEST. The Seaator is very much mistaken. These are not old 

documents accumulated for a number of years, but they are books just 

issued to the committees and there is no room for them. In the room of the Committee on Commerce the glass cases provided for the files of 

these documents are full. You can not pile them on the floor. If all 

the books issued to the committees of the Senate were put in the com- mittee-rooms, nota man could get into them-not one. We know that 

all we want is a file of the documents accessible to every member of the 

Senate and House, and that is in the document-room perfectly access- ible and under the charge of a skillful officer. But yet a constant stream 

of publications goes to the committee-rooms and to each individual 

member of Congress. 

My friend from lllinois says he has received communications from 

his constitutents stating that I had these publications. I stated ex- pressly, as' far as my feeble command of the English language would permit, and I have said it over and over again, that the documents I have are those issued to every member of the Senate, which are absolutely 

worthless to me and I suppose to them-these journals, these statistical 

reports issued to me for my personal and individual benefit, and for 

which I have no use. 

Mr. MANDERSO:N. That the Senator may not be misunderstood 

by his constituents or the people at large, had be not better make the 

furtber statement that he gets but one copy of the Senate Journal and 

but one copy of the Honse Journal for his individual use? 

Mr. VEST. I think I know whereof I speak on this subject. I am much obliged to my friend from Nebraska. What I do want to say is • this: that I havenoval.uable documents; that I want more copies of the 

Records of the Rebellion; that I want more Agricultural Reports; that 

I want more Geological Reports; that I want more Reports on Cattle and 

Dairy Farming; that I want books that my people want, but I do not 

want this trash and the public money thrown away upon it. We have 

spent, as I showed the other day, and I repeat it, since the Forty-sixth 

Congress $1,200,000 that we might just as well have thrown into the 

Potomac River. 

l\Ir. ALDRICH. Will the Senator from Missouri allow me to make a suggestion? 

Mr. VEST. Certainly. 

l\Ir. ALDRICH. It is that the books which he considers trash and 

which his constituents consider trash may be considered valuable by 

the constituents of other Senators. · 

Mr. VEST. Does the Senator fmm Rhode Island mean to say that 

his people want the Jorunals of the House and Senate? _ ~Ir. ALDRICH. Certainly they do; and there is not a library in 

my State that would not wish to have them. The Senator made a mistake the other day in saying that these books were sent by the Secret..'try of the Interior to every library in every State in the United 

States. They are only sent to four libraries, and I have over forty 

public libraries in my little State that are anxious to receive these 

copies, and I do not have enough at my disposal to meet the demands 

within my State. If the Senator has a surplus I shall be very glad to 

relieve him. 

Mr. VEST. I have heard that over and over again. I think I can distribute my charities without any suggestions from others. I find 

t,hat so many of these public documents go to the Secret..'lry of the Interior, and I am told that they are nistributed to the librarieS in the 

respective States. 

Mr. ALDRICH. Four in each State, I think. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Will my colleague permit me? It is not four to 

a State. One goes to a designation made by each Senator and each Rep· 

resentative, and it depends upon the number of Senators and Representatives a State has. Rhode Island gets four and Missouri gets sixteen. 

Mr. VEST. I assert, and that is the salient point in this discussion, 

that instead of spending the money of the people upon books that they 

want, wf! are throwing it away upon books that they do not want and 

that we do not want ourselves. The Senator from South Carolina [Mr. 

BUTLER] says to me that he has a ton of these documents issued to him 

for his personal use, and if there is such a rush for these documentson 

the part of our Republican colleagues, I take it for granted he will supply the demand to a limited extent anyhow. 

I understood the Senator from Nebraska to assert that none of these 

Honse and Senate Journals are distributed to Senators and Members. 

Mr. MANDERSON. For distribution, I do say. 

l\Ir. VEST. For their personal use. Mr. MANDERSON. No; I distinctly said that each Senator and 

each Member of the House received one for his personal use, but that 

he did not receive any for distribution, and the Journals will not be 

found upon the document list for distribution. 

Mr. VEST. I made no statement here the other day in regard to 

tlris matter that I did not get from the Printing Office and fl'om the 

document-room. I spent a day in hunting up the truth in regard to 

this abuse and this nuisance. Here is the condition of the printing of 

the Senate Journal, to which I refer the Senator from Nebraska, and I 

suppose he has this book at his command: Sixth. Of the public Journals of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, 1,550 copies. 

That is under section 3798 of the Revised Statutes, passed February 

18, 1875. Fifteen hundred and fifty "of the public Journals of the 

Senate and of the Honse of Representatives." By a mistake in the revision, to which the Printing Office called my attention, as also did .Mr. 

Amzi Smith, there was put in another provision in the revision, section 

3792-

Mr. MANDERSON. Will the Senator give the dates of those ads, so that we may see how that is? -

l\Ir. VEST. I have given one-February 18, 1875; and now section 

3799 of the Revised Statutes is: Of the documents printed by order of either House, there shall be printed and bound 50 addiLional copies for the purpose of exchange in foreign countries. 

In section3792, 1,550 are authorized, and in theaboveparagraph which 

I bave1·ead 1,550 more, making 3,100. Insteanof 1,550 copies as stated 

in the Revised Statutes, there is twice tliatnumber; first, under the sec- tion which I have read, of the public Journals of the Senate and of the 

House of Representatives, 1,550 copies, and under section 3792, which was enacted on the 25th of July, 1868, it is provided thatFifteen hundred and fifty copies of any document ordered by Congress shall be printed, a.nd that number shall be known as the usual number. No greater number shall be printed unless ordered by either House or as hereinafter pro- vided. 

Fifteen hundred and fifty copies are printed under this section and 

bound, and 1,550 copies under the other section, and I am told by the 

superintendent of the document-room and by the Public Printer or his 

assistant, who is very competent in this matter, that that was a mistake in the Revised Statutes, and yet it has gone on from year to year 

at an enormous expense to the people of the United States. 

Mr. MANDERSON. The Senator from Missouri, if he will permit 

me to make the suggestion, this error in. the law having existed for the 

last thirteen or fifteen years, has been here the greater -part of those 

years smarting under this terrible infliction of public documents and 

bas until this time ma<l.e no efforts to correct it 

Mr. VEST. Ibavenotbeen upon theCommitteeonPrinting. !permitted myself to rely on the opinion of my distinguished friend from 

Nebraska, who has been chairman of that committee, and never until 

the other day, in a debate utterly unpremeditated, was my attention 

called to this abuse, and on inquiry I found that the Public Printer had 

carried out what he conceived to be the law by publishing twice as many 

of these documents as Congress ever intended should be published; and 

be informed me-or rather Mr. Brian, the assistant of the Public Printer, 

who is very competent in these matters-that he bad appeared before 

Committee after Committee on Printing and called their attention to 

this thing, but without avail, and it has been permitted to go on from 

year to year. 

I leave to the Senate to judge what is the worth of a remark made 

by the Senator from Nebraska a moment ago that I had been smarting under this,abuse and bad called no attention to it. I have done 

my work. I have served faithfully on aU committees where I have 

been placed, and I have relied on other committees to do their duty. 

It is an abuse; and if there is any doubt about it let any Senator go 

to the basement of this Capitol, let him look at the upper portion of 

the Capitol, and let him look at the committee-rooms, and be will 

find that thousands and thousands of dollars are thrown away with· 

out any sort of excuse for it. ' 

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All that I want to do is to take this money and apply it to useful 

publications, and cut off this nuisance. Instead of throwing away 

hundreds of thousands of dollaru year by year upon books that nobody wants, let us apply this money to books that will do some good 

~mongst the people, and disseminate intelligence and aid the people 

throughout the country. That is all I want. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Mr. President, in rega1·d to the Secretary of War 

not disclosing the names of persons to whom the Rebellion Records 

have been ordered to be sent, I can verify from my own personal knowledge the custom that has existed in the War Department for many 

years, and probably the same exists in other Departments in regard to the 

distribution of documents. The Secretary of War has declined ordinarily to give information in relation to the lists of names sent in by 

the different ~enators and Representatives of their constituents for 

these documents to be sent to. I remember very distinctly that some 

years ago I applied there and discussed the matter fully wfth the Secretary of War, and told him why I wanted to see the list of names, 

for the purpose of making, not public use of it, but simply to save me 

labor in distributing, simply that I might not send my copies to persons designated by ~epresentatives, and the Secretary then permitted 

. me to go aud examine the list. It is simply a regulation of the Department, and I presume the present Secretary only followed in that 

line. 

In regard to the documents which are accumulating in the Departments, the select committee of the Senate in rega.rd to the organization 

and methods of business of the various Departments has given some attention to that and will report a bill on that question, not only in regard to the documents which have accumulated in the Executive Dep:rrtments, but also the files of valuable documents which are no longer 

needed in the current business and have no historical value or political 

interest. That report will be submitted at a very early day. 

Ur. TELLER.. Mr. President, I can not myself conceive of any 

such abuse having grown up in any Department of the Government as 

that a citizen of the United States asking for information of the character mentioned here should not receive it; much less that when a public officer; a member of this body or the Honse of Representatives, asks 

for it his request should be refused; and I was very much astonished, 

and I confess I was somewhat indignant, when I received from the Secretary of War a notice that I could not learn what libraries in my 

State were getting the Rebellion Records and that that was a state secret that must be kept close. I do not know but thattba~ has been the 

rule, and when the Senator from Missouri [Ur. CocKRELL] says it has 

been I will not dispute his word. I simply say that it is an absurd, 

ridiculous rule, that, it seems to me, a man of ordinary intelligence _would have wiped out on the first notice that such a rule had been 

adopted by somebody or had crept in by some system. 

A Senator asks me if I ever heard of such a rule. I never hea.rd of 

such a rule in the Int-erior Department, and I know such a rule never 

existed there, and does not exist there now. 

On more than one occasion I have expressed my opinion about secrets 

in the Departments. I hold that there is no Department in this Government that has any business to have secrets from the public, except it 

may be the State Department, pending treaty negotiations or something 

of that character. Evm·y decision made by the head of a Depart~ent 

ought to be an open book; every adjudication made by the bead of a 

bureau ought to be an open book for the people of the United States 

to read and examine- not simply the public officials, but any man who 

does not go there out of simple idle curiosity, during the business hours 

of the day ought to have access to the public records. It is one of the 

essentials of a free people that they should know what their public 

servants are doing. 

I may be pardoned if I depart a little from the subject. I consider 

the secret sessions of the Senate entirely unrepublican in character, except when there shall be, as there may occasionally be, a treaty under 

consideration that ought to be considered in the secrecy of an executive 

session; but there is no more reason why the confirmations of executive appointments should be behind closed doors, in my judgment, than 

there is tlillt we should legislate behind closed doors, as we did some 

years ago. Mr. PLUMB. Sympathizing somewhat with the Senator from Colorado, I should like to a.sk him what he thinks about the sessions of 

the President and his Cabinet on public matters. I do not want the 

matter to go off without considering the whole subject. 

llfr. HA \VLEY. He ought to include the Supreme Court also. 

Mr. TELLER. I will include them all. J. said the adjudications of 

a Department should be public. I do not say that when the Secretary 

of the Interior sits down to determine a judicial question, as he does, 

or when his law division sits down to determine it,_pending that in,estigation everything should be made public. I do not suppose that 

when the President calls about him his Cabinet, what they discuss and 

what they say should be made publiC'; but I do say that when they 

have come to a determination, that determination becomes the property of the people of the United States, and the President bas no right to 

conceal it, and every member of his Cabinet ought to be compelled to 

take the responsibility for the advice that he has given the President. 

So I hold here. If there is anything that t he Senate desires to consider that it thinks it ought to consider in privacy, the application of 

two Senators closes the doors. When we have got throl4ih, the act 

should be made public, and it should be known how every man voted. 

That is what I say . And when the Senator from Connecticut asks me if the Supreme Court conferences should be public, he asks a question 

that has been asked by people who have not given thought to the subject. It is not a new and original proposition with him. It has been 

asked a dozen times by people who do not consider the difference between the processes of arriving at a conclusion and the conclusion itself. The Supreme Court renders its decisions in public when· they 

are reached, and it does not attempt to hide the responsibility from the 

men who make them. Every man goes upon the record and the public knows just how each member of the judiciary votes; but the people 

do not know how the members of this body vote upon questions of infinitely more importance to them than the questions which are presented to the court. 

:Mr. HAWLEY. Will the Senator permit me a word? 

Ur. TELLER. Certainly. 

Mr. HAWLEY. I understood the Sena.tor to be discussing the general proposition that all these things should be considered in public . 

He was not speaking so much about conclusions. 

Mr. TELLER. I said expressly adjudications and determinations, 

when reached, should be made public. 

Mr. HAWLEY. Then the Senator is satisfied if we have·an ordinary 

executive session and announce afterwards the result, which we do 

always. 

llfr. TELLEJi. I am not aware of that, but I am satisfied that would 

be an improvement on the present method. I am satisfied if I could 

say to my constituents, '

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0n that nomination I voted so and so," it 

would be satisfactory to them; and I should be ashamed of myself if.! 

ever cast a vote in the Senate, either in secret or open session, and was 

afraid to declare to them how I had voted. ,j,_ treaty comes here of 

importance to the people, a treaty comes here that the whole people of 

the United States are interested in, and we sit with closed doors to consider it, and assume the responsibility of its rejection or its adoption. 

I did not propose to discuss that question when I commenced. I 

only referred to it incidentally. I rose to say a word about these public records. I do not want to say anything offensive to anybody, but 

this is a very little matter. This is a good deal, if I can say it without 

being offensive, like a tempest in a teapot. If all the reforms now agitated and suggested should be carried out we should save comparatively 

little, a mere bagatelle, a mere nothing. Is it not better that we should 

err on the side of giving the people of the United States the advantage 

of knowing what their public servants have been doing? Is it not better that there should be too much publicity than not enough, that there 

should be books printed that they do not want rather than there should 

be books that they want and can not get left unprinted? 

I agree with the Senator from l\fissouri, that we have not been advised perhaps sufficiently of the expenditure of money for this purpose, 

and that we get too few of valuable documents, like the one referred to 

a few moments sinceonCattleandDairyFarming, wheregreatexpense 

is incurred in getting the facts, with valuable plates and valuable pictures illustrative of the breed of cattle, and they are put in at great expense, and yet we get for the people of the United States less than 4,000 

copies to distribute. 

1\Ir. MANDERSON. If the Senator will permit me, I should like 

to suggest another practical difficulty in the road of publishing the best 

m..<tterial. I do not me..1:n to say that the Committee on Public Print- • 

ing, as. now constituted, would be efficient critics, and that if they 

would appro"l'e after reading it would benefit matters much; but I do 

say that it is a practical impossibility for the Committee on Printing 

to examine all the manuscript that is sent to them with a proposition 

to print. We must rely, and we invariably do rely, upon the recommendation of the heads of Departments from which a document emanates, not only as to the advisability ofprinting it, but as to the num- ber that shall be printed. 

l\Ir. TEI.:LER. I hope the Senator will not understand that I am criticising the committee. It was farthest from my thought. 

Mr. MANDERSON. I did not so understand the Senator. 

llfr. TELLER. I know how this is done. I know we pay five or 

six hundred thousand dollars a year for geological surveys. The printing of the results of their labors costs a mere nothing. I can show one 

book wJJ,ich cost more than $100,000, yea $120,000, and I received 2 

copies of it and my associates here received 2 copies of it. It would 

have cost a mere nothing to have given us 20 copies, because the labor 

consisted in preparing the data and acquiring the information; and 

when it was once put in print we might just a.s well have had 20 copies 

apiece as 2; and there is a demand in my State for a. thousand of 

them to-day-a valuable book on mining. If the Government is to expend its money to gather together these 

facts and this information, it gathers them for the people or it has no business with them at all. You have not any right to the valuable 

labors of scientific men if yon are to bury the results. There should be 

enou~h copies printed of their works to enable at least a reasonable 

numbe1· of people to have t}.em. I know we can not publish Agricultural Reports so that every furmer shall get one; but we can publish 
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them so that there can be a copy in every neighborhood; we can publish t hem so that there shall be a COifY in every school-house; we can 

publish them so that there shall be a copy in every library, and that 

is what I want, 'and that is what the people want. 

I have served in this body several years and I have not a public document on my hands, unless it is one that has come to me within a few 

days past, that has not gone out to the people whom I attempt to represent. I have never had a book given to me that I could no£ distribute, 

and my own personal reports and those of the action of this body and 

the other House I k eep in my private library at home. I have carefully preserved them, and I will say to the Senator from Missouli that 

they are examined from time to time by the people of my State. 

I received but a few days since a letter from a State senator of my 

State saying, "Send me one copy of every document that the Government publishes." He says, "I keep a library for the benefit of the 

community in which I live, and the people understand that when they 

come to my library they can find everything the Government has published, and they come here whenever they want to find anything of the 

chara.cter of a Government publication.' 1 • 

I repeat again that the $5,000 or $10,000 which would be saved is a 

mere nothing, for I do not believe all the reforms suggested would 

amount to $5,000 a year. What is that? It is a mere nothing. It is 

one of the essentials to the maintenance of a free government that the 

people understand what their servants are doing. When the eye of the 

people is upon the public servants, then you may expect that you will 

have better legislation, and if ever the time shall come when this Republic will be in danger it will be when the people of the United States 

shall be careless of what their public servants are doing and shall fail 

to bring them to the proper mark if they fail in the discharge of duties 

that they have been intrusted with here, and you can not give them 

too many books, you can not make your record too open, you can not 

make your proceedings b.ere too open. It is no answer to me to say that 

I may want, when I rise to discuss a treaty with the King of the Cannibal la~ds, to talk about a policy of the Government that I do not want 

the King of the Cannibal Islands to understand. If I want to discuss 

that I say to my neighbor sitting by my side, "Let us close the doors," 

and two men in this body can close them; but wh~n we get through, 

the people of the United States are entitled to know bow I voted upon 

that treaty with the King of the Cannibal Islands. 

I am not afraid, I repeat again, at any time, upon any vote that I 

may be called to give-nay, more, I am glad to let the people whom I 

represent know how I voted, whether it is in accordance with their 

wishes and their will or not. 

:Mr. VEST. Mr. PresidentThe PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. CHACE in the chair). The Chair 

would say to the Senator from Missouri that the morning hour has 

expired. 

:Mr. VEST. I wish to say a word. 

Mr. MANDERSON. I hope the Senator from Missouri will be allowed to go on, and that we shall have the resolution disposed of. 

Mr. SAWYER. I gave notice that I would call up the pension bills 

this morning. If this will not run on long, I will not interfere with 

the Senator from Missouri. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. No objection being made, the Senate continues the consideration of the resolution submitted by the 

Senator from Nebraska [Mr. :MANDERSON]. 

Mr. VEST. I have no disposition to detain the Senate by any remarks on this subject. The Senator from Colorado [Mr. TELLER] has 

discussed the whole matter,and says that the changes I propose amount 

simply to a savirtg at the best of five or ten thousand dollars in the 

course of a year. I read the other day the figures showing that we 

had wasted, in my judgment, $1,200,000 since the Forty-sixth Congress, and there is not a single session of Congress in which we have 

D.Ot thrown away over $150,000 on useless publications. It may be 

that that amount of money is not worth the consideration of the gigantic intellect of the Senator from Colorado; but I have been under the 

impression that we were here for the purpose of correcting just such 

abuses. • I have neither furnished the teapot nor raised the tempest. 

This matter came here on a report of the Committee on Printing, and 

I took occasion to express my views in regard to an abuse that has 

grown up and which no Senator can fairly deny. 

.As to the declamation of the distinguished Senator from Colorado in 

regard to imparting general information to the people and taking secrecy off the proceedings of the Senate, I have nothing to say except 

that if that Senator will tell me how the presence of two thousand five 

hundred bags of unopened and bound documents in the cellar of this 

Capitol tends to disseminate intelligence among the people, I will bow 

with the greatest pleasure to his superior intellectuality. Yet this fact 

exists, and I assert now that the money is thrown away, and all I ask 

of my friend from Nebraska is, without imputing to him any neglect 

of official duty, that he look into the causes of this abuse, that he will, 

~·possible-and he.co~ld do no higher public service-go through the 

list of documents distnbuted to Senators and Representatives personally and aleo for distribution by them, and increase the number of valuable documents and diminish those that are worthless. That is all. 

In that I doubt not the Senator from Colorado would cordially concur. 

, . . 

Mr. MANDERSON. The Senatorwill permit me to ask if that suggestion he hasjust made is not theverypoint of difference? The Senator says that certain documents are useless. The Congress of the 

United States for many years, some fifteen years, has designated by a 

majority that the documents he characterizes as useless are useful. 

Shall the Printing Committee or the chairman of the Printing Committee put up their opinion or his opinion as against that majority 

opinion of Congress that has operated for the last fifteen years? 

:Mr. VEST. Is there any limitation upon abuse? Is it possible that 

we are bound by precedent to such an extent that we can not go into 

the reform of the abuseS of this Government? What are committees 

made for, what are Senators elected for, except for the specific purpose 

of improving the legislation of the country and introducing more economical methods in the public service? 

Mr. MANDERSON. Who shall decide between the Senator andmy- ~n , Mr. VEST. The Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

States in Congress assembled will decide. I po)..nt to an abuse, and I 

say now that there are twenty-five hundred bags of these documents in 

the basement of the Capitol that are useless. 

Mr. MANDERSON. And I submit to the Senator that these bags of 

books that he refers to are books that have been accumulated in the 

committee-rooms that have been stripped of that which I say is usefnl 

in c01;nmittee-rooms and have been sent to these places of deposit. 

Mr. VEST. Since I have been speaking on this floor the clerk of the 

Committee on Foreign Relations has informed me that he sent down 

fifteen bags of these documents within the last few days, and I donbt 

not that every clerk of a committee of the Senate will corroborate the 

assertion. I ask the Senator from Nebraska if it is a fair criticism 

upon the public service that this enormous mass of volumes is issued 

unnecessarily? Why, sir, there are documents there unopened, bags 

unopened, that have lain in the basement of the Capitol for thirty 

years, and yet at the same time we have letters from my constituents, 

and from the Senator's constituents, and from all parts of the United 

States, asking for public documents that I can not supply-Smithsonian 

Reports, Agricultural Reports, Dairy Reports, Reports on Ethnology, the 

·Geological Survey. Why not issue more of these? There is a list here, 

and the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. BUTLER] proposes to speak 

upon it, showing the publications of this Government. Of certain valuable documents there are given to each Senator and Representative five 

or a dozen, and then there is sent to him all this trash, utterly nsel'e..."S, 

that nobody ever reads; bound volumes, for which there is no storage 

room; and I have been told by some Senators since this question came -

up that they have sent books to their post-offices, and the postmasters 

wrote to them remonstrating that they could not distribute them, 

could not give them away; books sometimes printed for our personal 

use, with our names upon them. And the Senator from Rhode Island 

says that his constituents want them-Journals of the Senate and of 

the House ! ~fy constituents want something that is worth reading. 

I do not propose to insult their intelligence by sending them books 

that they will not read and that are only :fit to be put in libraries for 

reference and left on file to be accessible to the public. 

Mr. TELLER. Mr. President, I did not intend when I spoke before 

to cast a reflection upon the Senator from Missouri or to be oft"Emsive in 

any manner. I shall endeavor not to be excited, however, on this matter myself. 

Mr. VEST. I am not excited. 

Mr. TELLER. The Senator makes a statement as to cost which can 

not possibly be correct. I challenge the correctness of it, and it is not 

possible that he can make it out. He admits that of these various documents we must publish some. Now, the grand expense is in publishing the first volume. When you have got one book ready, when yon 

publish but one, you have the great expense of the publication. Suppose you publish 3,100 of a certain class, and 1,500 are absolutely needed 

by Congress, when you have got the 1, 500 ready you have incurred the 

grand expense; each volume after that will not cost over 40 per cent. of 

the first 1,500. So it will not do at all to multiply the expense of one 

volume by the total number of any given document to arrive at the 

gross expense. The great expense is in the :first 1, 000 or 2, 000 of any 

work, and then the additional cost of further nnm hers is a matter simply 

of printing, paper, and binding. So it will not do to send out to the 

country a statement that we have wa.sted $1,200,000 in a few years. 

While I do not intend myselfin dealing with governmental affairs to 

be picayune and small, $1,200,000 is as much to me as it is to anybody, 

and I am anxious to save it. I have not been brought up in a way to 

despise dollars by any means, nor have I been brought up in a school 

that teaches me that I have any right to waste the public funds any 

more than my own. 

Mr. VEST. If the Senator will permit me, I do not suppose there 

can be any difference between us as to the amount of money that has 

been spent. Here is what I referred to the other day: 

I find on inquiry at the Printing Office that not one of these volumes has cost less than $2, and some of them cost as high a.':l $2.8-'5 and $3 apiece. There are 76 Senators and 334 Members and Delegates of the House, making 410 together in the two Houses. The number of public documents sent to each in the Forty- sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eightb, und Forty-ninth Congresses is 729, making 

300,34.8 volumes at $2 apiece, making $600,696, or $150,174. in each Congress. 
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My position, whether right or wrong, is that these books are absolutely worthless to us, and I have found out by experience in my public duties that they are useless to our constituents. 

Mr. TELLER. The Senator says the whole money expended is a waste; but does ever a government in the world fail to publish the 

record of its legislative proceedings? Was there ever a go\~rnment that 

failed to furnish the representatives of the people a copy of all the records of its action? Has there ever been a time in the history of this 

country when a Senator or Member of the House did not get a copy ot 

the Journal, not only of his body, but of the other? And what kind 

of a government would it be if we got down to that point of economy 

that we could not afford to give to each Senator and Member a copy of 

the proceedings of both bodies, and that we could not afford to give a copy to the public libraries of this country? Thirty-one hundred copies 

will not more than•furnish one to each library in this country; it wm 

not begin to do it. In the State of Colorado we are entitled to thir- . teen numbers, but it does not begin to supply the libraries of the State, 

let alone private libraries. It does not supply the principal libraries 

of the State. 

Mr. MANDE.RSON. I will say to the Senator, with his leave, that 

of the class of publication to which he refers, the Senate and House 

Journals and the bound reports of committees of both Houses, the State 

of Colorado gets but six copies. Three go to the libraries designated 

and one to each member of the Senate and House from the State. 

Ur. TELLER. Nobodycan complain of that. Ifthedocument.'laccumulate in the Capitol, if in one of the committee-rooms they accu- mulate excessively, the whole expense, I 1·epeat, is not very great, and I 

do not see why they should not be in the committee-rooms. 

I have not had the good fortune to be connected _with committees 

that I had very much control of so as to have many of these books. I 

think at this session for the :first time in my eight years' service in this 

body I am in a committee-room that has something of a library. It 

has the statutes; it has some of these proceedings, ·and I must say I felt 

quite elevated when I got in there where I could get a book when I went 

to) he committee-room without having to send_to the public Library, 

and that I could spend ten, :fifteen, or twenty minutes with some advantage to myself, and Ihopeto thatofmyconstituents,lookingup a subject connected with legislation. I never had before, and I never before 

heard any Senator complain that his committee-room was overstocked 

withbookssinceihave been here. They may be so, butithas been true so far as I am concerned in my committee-rooms that there are a great 

number of shelves which are bare on which many books might be put. 

I think it would be of advantage to some members of the committees, 

myself at any rate, especially if I should have time to study. 

Mr. HAWLEY. If this discussion is to go on, I propose to contribute an observation that may possibly be of some use. The Senator from Missouri talks of the overloaded committee-rooms, 

Many of the committee-rooms have a large number of books that are of no possible use for the studies of that committee-room; but if there be 

a committee-room that has a complete collection of the peculiar books 

needed for its exact work, I do not know where it is. One would suppose that the first desire of a committee would be to have in its room a collection of the reports made by that committee from the beginning. 

I think a few years ago there was not one in a single room in this building. I know that the Military Committee did not have it and many 

others did not. Mr. McKee, of the Senate library, formerly of the 

document-room, has been making a private effort in this direction for 

some months and has succeeded in getting one copy for each committee-room of the Senate and of the House of all the reports that those 

committees have made-some of them are, of course, comparatively new committees-but running back to the war of 1812, when many of the 

documents were destroyed. But not only· would a committee desire to 

have the reports made by that committee, but they naturally need a collection of all the statutes, and of all Government documents pertaining to the business of that particular committee. 

If I dared to make a practical suggestion in the way of advice, I 

would say to the chairmen of committees that the lack under which 

they labor is very largely their own fault; that they can direct their 

clerks to begin now to make a collection of the specialty library that 

the committee needs. I am doing that work and have very much interest in it. 

:Mr. GORMAN. Mr. President, the remarks submitted by the Sen.; a tor from Missouri on Monday last, and which he has substantially repeated to-day, convey, though of course not so intended by him, a false 

impression, in my judgment, of this whole matter. That there are abuses, that there is some extravagance in the number of documents 

ordered to be printed by Congress, is, in my judgment, beyond question. 

But when the Senator from Missouri says that we are throwing away 

$150,000 per annum in the publication of useless documents: such as the 

Journals of the two Houses and the various reports from the Departments, he is entirely mistaken. .As the Senator from Colorado has well 

said, the great cost of the publication of these documents is the setting 

them in type; and when you have ordered 500 or 1,000 copies to be 

printed, the additional number up to 1,900 or 2,000 is insignificant. 

It is the mere cost of the paper and press-work. 

Mr. VEST. And the binding. 

Mr. GORU.AN. The binding, of course, costs so much per volume. 

But there is not $150,000 or any other great amount of money thrown 

away each Congress in printing. 

I submit to the Senator from Missouri that the natural inference 

from what he has said would be that the Committee on Printing have 

not been looking to and guarding carefully the interests of the Government. I have served upon the Committee on Printing for six or seven 

years, and each and every year it has been endeavoring to reduce the 

expenditures on account of public printing. There has never been a proposition made by that committee to reduce the. number and the cost 

of public documents, some of which were considered entirely uselessat all events the printing of which was extravagant-that my friend 

from Missouri, who is a great economist, has not led toe fight to increase the number, and almost invariably the reports of the Committee on Printing have been disagreed to and the largest number proposed 

has been ordered. I submit in this matter of the publication of the 

Journals of the two Houses, 3,100 copies may possibly be an excessive 

number, but my attention bad not been c.alled to that particular publication before, and I doubt whether that o£ the chairman of the com- mittee has been called to it. Possibly 600 copies might be sufficient; 

but surely of the message of the President of the United States and 

the reports of the various Departments 1, 900 copies are not too great a 

number to be distributed among the people. 

The Senator from Missouri and myself may not care to look at them; we can send to the document-room and get them; but for distribution 

throughout the country~ in my judgment, 1,900 is not too great a number. There is never a message sent in by the President of the United 

States that there is not a motion made by either a member of the Senate or ofthe House, and usually agreed to unanimously, for the printing Of an additional number. 

I hold in my hand a statement ma{je by the Public Printer showing 

the exact number of documents ordered, the number :fixed by law, and 

the number ordered by resolution of either House of Congress or of both 

Houses. If the Senator will refer to the Public Printer he will find 

that the whole expenditure per annum is $550,000. The Committee on Printing have struggled for several years to reduce the number of 

reports to be printed and the illustrations, and in the Agricultural Report alone at the last Congress we saved $55,000 in the illustrations. 

The innumerable reports that come in from heads of Departments, of 

which an extraordinary number is ordered to be printed, have run this 

amount up; but under the supervision of the Committees on Printing 

of both Houses of Congress, while the volume of work from the Government Printing Office has exceeded by 20 per cent. that of four years 

ago, the expenses of that great department have been kept down, be- cause we have eliminated the expensive illustrations which heretofore 

were found in all these reports. 

Now, I say to the Senator from 1\fissouri that there is absolutely noth· 

ing in this case, unless Congress shall determine thatitwill reduce the 

number of documents, such as the Journals of the two Houses and reports of the Departments, below what was thought necessary :fifteen 

years ago. The broad proposition that will have to be met when his 

resolution comes up for consideration is whether the number is to be 

decreased; and when you decrea,se the number from 1,900 to 1,000 or 1,200, as proposed by my friend from :Missouri, thesavingwill beinsigni:ficant. 

1\Ir. VEST. The Senator will see that he is mistaken as to the num- bers printed. Of the Senate Journal alone 3,194 copies are printed, 

and of the Honse Journal3,128. The Public Printer is printing this 

number from _year to year. . _ Mr. GORMAN. · The fact the Senator from ::MISSOur1_presents ought 

to be considered; but that practice-bas crept in and has not been cor- rected, and I am glad the Senator from Missouri bas called a~tention 

to it; but what I wanted to do was to enter my protest agamst the 

natural inference to be drawn from the remarks of the Senator from 

Missouri, that the Committees on Printing had been careless in the expenditure of the money. 

Mr. VEST. I did not say that. , Mr. GORMAN. No, sir; the Senator from Missouri did not say that, 

but it is the natural inference to be drawn from what be said as to the 

extravagant expenditures of an unnecessary $150,000 each year. It is 

not one-tenth of it. 

1\fr. VEST. I made no attack upon the Committee on Printing. 

They made a report here and I took occasion t? call ~heir a~ention to~ hat 

the Senator from Maryland himself knows lS a miStake m the ReVIsed 

Statutes in regard to the printing of the J~urnals .. I made .no refie~­

tion on the committee. Ifi have succeeded rn drawmg attent10n to th1s 

matter and any reform is inaugurated, I shall be glad. . Mr. GORMAN. The exact language of the Senator from Missouri 

was: 

In other wordsReferring to the printing of the_ executive documents and the JournalsIn other words, we h!l.ve thrown away in these four Congresses alone $1,200,-

000 ofthe public money. 

Mr. VEST. I repeat it. 

Mr. GORMAN. I say the Senator is mistaken, notwithstanding the 
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fact that he repeats his statement. I say to him that there is no es- cape from printing the President' .!"message and the accompanying documents from the Departments; there is no escape from printing the 

Journals of the House and Senate, and when you have ordered the 

printing of 100 copies, the number may be increased without amounting to one-tenth of the sum he has named, and therefore his statement 

is misleading. T~ impression of the country will be that we have 

been throwing away $1,200,000, when the fact is that by the passage 

of his resolution he would not save $50,000 per annum. :Mr. SAWYER. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration 

of private pension bills favorably reported on the Calendar. 

Mr. MANDERSON. I appeal to the Senator to give way. I do not 

think any one desires to be heard furlher on this resolution, and if it can be considered and passed, I desire to modify it. 

Mr. SAWYER. If the Senate will come to a vote on the resolution, 

I will not insist on my m9tion. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The yeas and nays not having been 

ordered, the Senator from Nebraska has a right to modify his resolutio 

• Mr. MANDERSON. I send the modification to the desk. 

The SECRETARY. It is proposed to strike out all after the word 

"undistributed," in the fourth line, and insert: 

The Secretary of War is requested, whenever the information is desired by any member of Congress, to furnish such m ember a list of names of those desig- nated to receive the publication within t.he State or district represented by such member of Congress. 

The resolution as modified was agreed to. 

THE M.EXICAN FREE ZONE. 

?llr. MORGAN submitted the following resolution: 

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to inform the Senate whether and to what extent the customs laws and regulations of Mexico, in the belt of country known as the Free Zone of Mexico, extending along our border, has encouraged smuggling across tha t border into either country, the estimated loss of revenue to the United States from that cause, the means employed, or that are necessary to prevent such sm uggling, and the additional cost to the United States of the necessary agencies to prevent the violation of its laws in consequence of the existence of tha t Free Zone. 

The resolution was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to. 

Mr. MORGAN. I submit the following resolution: · 

Resolved, That the Secretary of State is directed to send to the Senate copies of all correspondence with the Government of :Mexico, or its diplomatic repre- sentatives, not heretofore published, respecting the laws and regulations of that Republic relating to customs duties and their collection in the belt of border country extending with our frontier from the mouth of the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean, known as the Free Zone of Mexico. 

:M:r. EDMUNDS. I suggest to the Senator from Alabama that the 

ordinary course has been, and I think it ought to be, in calling for 

diplomatic correspondence, that the request should be addressed to the 

President, with the usual clause, "if not in his opinion incompatible 

with the public interest.'' 

Mr. MORGAN. I had been informed that the minister from Mexico had made a voluntary communication to the Secreta,ry of State 

setting forth what the laws and regulations were. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. I dare say that may be true as matter of fact, but 

officially we do not know it. I think we had better preserve the usual 

form. 

Mr. MORGAN. That was the reason why I put the resolution in 

the form I did, knowing there was no secret about the matter. I am quite willing to change it so as to direct the resolution to the President, ''if not incompatible with the public interest.'' 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The modification of the resolution 

will be read. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the President, if not incompatible wHh the public interest, is requested to send to the Senate copies of a.ll correspondence with the Govern- ment of Mexico, etc. 

Mr. ED?!IDNDS. It should be, ''if in his opinion not incompatible 

with the public interest." 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution as proposed to be 

modified will be read. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the President, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public 

interest, is req nested to send to the Senate copies of all correspondence with the Government of Mexico, etc. 

The resolution as modified was agreed to. 

ADJOURNMENT TO 1\IONDA Y. 

Mr. MORGAN. I move that when the Senate adjourn to-day it adjourn to. meet on Monday next, at 12 o'clock. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Alabama moves that when the Senate adjourn to-day it be to meet on Monday next. 

The motion was agreed to. _ 

HOUSE BILLS REFERRED. 

The following bills, received from the House of Representatives yesterday, were severally read twice by their titles, and referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary: 

A bill (H. R. 161_2) to provide for holding terms of the United States 

district and circuit courts in the State of Nebraska; 

A bill (H. R. 2595) for the relief of the widow of John A. S. Tnt~, 

deceased; 

A bill (H. R. 3361) to provide for holding terms of the circuit and 

district courts of the United States for the district of Kentucky at 

Owensborough, in said district, and for other purposes; and 

A bill (H. R. 4375) to create a board of arbitration to settle and determine the controversy between the United Sta~ and the State of 

Texas relating to certain territory by them respectively claimed. · The following bills, received from the House of Representatives today, were severally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads: 

A bill (H. R. 2093) for the relief of John K. LeBaron; and 

A bill (H. R. 4557) for the relief of George F. Chilton. 

PRESIDENTIAL APPROVALS. • • 

A message from the President of the United States, by Mr. 0. L. 

PRUDEN, one of his secretaries, announced that the President had on the 14th instant approved and signed the act (S. 1754) for the relief of 

Henry H. Marmaduke, of Missouri; and on the 15th instant the joint 

resolution {S. R. 50) appointing Andrew D. White a mem her of the Board 

of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 

COMl\HTTEE SERVICE. 

Mr. SAWYER. Before proceeding with the pension bills I wish to 

ask the Senate to excuse me from further service upon the Committee on Education and Labor. I have so much work to do on other committees that it is utterly impossible for me to attend to tho business, and 

I ask that the Chair fill the place if the Senate will excuse me. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Wisconsin asks to 

be excused from further service upon the Committee on Education and 

Labor, and that the vacancy caused by his resignation be filled by the 

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

The Chair appoints the Senator from Vil·ginia [Mr. RIDDLEBERGER 

to fill the vacancy upon the Committee on Education and Labor. 

IMPROVEMENT OF OHIO RIVER. 

Mr. QUAY . . I ask the Senator from Wisconsin to give way for ona moment for the passage of a resolution calling on the War Department 

for information. 

Mr. SAWYER. I yield for that purpose. 

Mr. QUAY. I offer the resolution which I send to the desk. 

The Chief Clerk read the resolution, as follows: 

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, requested to report to the Senate wha.t amount of money could be profitably expended in the com- ing fiscal year in locating and continuing the improvement of the Ohio River bet ween Davis Island Dam and a. point at or near the mouth of Raccoon Creek' in Beaver County, Pennsylvania., in accordance with reports of Col. W. E. Mer- rill, engineer in charge. 

Mr. WILSON, of Iowa. I sugg~t to the Senator from Pennsylvania that that resolution should be modified so as to read "that the 

Secretary of War be directed," instead of "requested." 

Mr. QUAY. I have no objection to that. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That modification will be made, if 

there be no objection. 

The resolution as modified was agreed to. 

CONSIDERATION OF PENSION BILLS. 

Mr. SAWYER. I ask that the Senate now proceed to the consideration of private pension bills on the Calendar favorably reported. 

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

the Senator from Wisconsin? The Chair hears none, and the Secretary 

will report the first private pension bill on the Calendar in their order on the Calendar. 

Mr. VEST. Do I understand that this only applies to private ·pension bills? 

Mr. SAWYER. Private pension bills reported favorably. 

Mr. VEST. Why not take up all the private bills? 

lli. SAWYER. We always take the- pension bills by themselves. 

We can take up the others subsequently. 

Mr. VEST. Very well. 

MARY GAMMELL. 

The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the 

bill (S. 1298) granting a pension to Mary Gammell. It proposes to 

place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of 

the pension laws, the name of Mary Gammell, widow of Andrew Gammell, late private in Company C, Thirty-fourth Ma.Ssachusetts Infantry. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

FREDERICK BENO. 

The bill {S. 39) to gr.wt an increase of pension to Frederick Beno was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to increase 

the pension of Frederick Beno, of East Portland, Oregon, to $72 per 

month. 

Mr. BUTLER. Is there a report in that case? 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. There is. The report will be read. 

The Secretary proceeded to read the report submitted by Mr. PADDOOK January 10, 1888, and having read to the end of the letter signed 

":M. C. George, 11 namely: · 

The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred ~the bill (S, 39) granting 
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an increase of pension to Frederick Beno, have examined the same, and report: 

Tllat said Beno was a private in Company F, Twelfth Missouri Infantry, and was severely wounded in thigh and arm at battle of Vicksburg, May 22, 1863, 

and was only pensioned first at $4 per month; afterward increased to $50, and is -clearly entitled to $72, as fully appears by the inclosed letters. 

All the papers in the Department clearly establish this claim, and your com- mittee 1·ecommend the passage of the bill with an amendment, inserting com- pany ru:td regiment in which he served. · 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

Wa-shington, D. C., December 6,188-. 

DEAR Sm : I desire to especially call your attention to the pension case of 

Frederick. Beno, certificate No. 131076, who desires to have his allowance in- creased from S50 per month tom per month, the full sum which I understand can be given for a total disability. I desire to stat~, on my own personal knowledge, that Mr. Beno is totally disabled, being unable to walk and having no use of his arms or legs. He suffers 

intensely, and his neighbors frequently hear him several hundred yards away screaming in his misery. lie is compelled to take morphine from six to twelve 

times a d!iy, anu has done so for years, to suppress his pain. From the use of 

morphine his body has become poisoned, until sores have appeared all over him, scarring his body almost completely. It is necessary to have some one by 

him all the ti we to attend to him. Both testicles have bad to be removed. He has a wife and three child1·en, and possesses no property, but is a subject of charity upon his relatives, friends, and neighbors. His pain causes him to become 

delirious at limes, and I have seen him in a perfectly insane and raving state; 

in fact, he is frequently insane, and when in that condition is dangerous to handle, for be tlien appears to ha.\e the power to strike wildly with hi'l arms. In ills sane moments I lla\e conversed with him regarding his service in the war, and, stt·ange to say, notwithstanding his terrible condition, he becomes en- thusiastic over the fact that he has sacrificed everything in defense of his coun- try;. and I have beard him sa.y be woulil do it all over again rather than to see his country destroyed. If there was ever a case lhat possessed true merit for a full allowance for total 

disability it is this one. ' Yours, txuly, M. C. GEORGE. Ron. W. W. DUDLEY, 

OommissioneT of Pensions. 

Mr. BUTLER. UnleSs some Senator deBires the further reading of ~e report, I do not care to bear anything more. I am quite satisfied. 

Mr. MITCHELL. I desire to state that I know this man well, and 

there is no man in the United States suffering more. Mr. BUTLER. I have no doubt, from the reading of the report 

thus far, that the man is entitled to a pension. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

MRS. JULIET G. HOWE. 

The bill (S. 300) granting a pension to Miss Juliet G. Howe was con- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It propo es to place on the pension-ro'l the name of Miss Juliet G. Howe, a volunteer nurse ~uring 

the late war, and pay her a pension at the rate of $23 per month. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I call attention to the difference between the bill 

and the report. The report says '' Mrs. Juliet G. Howe '' and the bill 

says "Mis Juliet G. Howe." 

1\Ir.· P .A.DDOCK. There should be a correction of the name as printed 

in the bill. The proper name is ~Irs. Juliet G. Howe. She was a Miss Robbins. 

'I he PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there be no objection, that amendment will be made. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I should like to hear the report read. I should 

like to know some reason why this lady is given $25 when the widows 

of soldiers are given only $12. I shall move when the report is read 

to strike out "$25" and insert "$12." 

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

The Secretary read the following report, submitted by Air. PAD DOCK 

January 10, 1888: 

That Mrs. Juliet G. Howe served during the war with great distinction as an army nurse, and is now suffering from disease contracted during such service. The records in the office of the Surgeon-General show that Juliet G. Howe (at that time Juliet G. Robbins) served as n. nurse in Hammond Genexal Hospital, 

Point Lookout, Maryland, from August 3,1862, to Oct-ober 5,1863; at Columbian 

College General Hospital, Washin&"ton, D. C., from June 6, 1864, to August 30, 18641 and at De Camp General Hospital, David's Island, New York Harbor, New YorK, from September, 1864, to September 19, 186-5. At all places she served with great acceptance to the sick and wounded soldiers and the surgeons in charge, and received flattering testimonials from them. 

April 24,18()5, a testimonial, signed by nearly one hundred soldiers, says: "She has always been kind to us, and we shall always remember her with 

pleasure. She is indeed the soldier's friend." 

At Point Lookout, Ma:ryland,Assistant-Surgeon Allen, United States Army, 

said: 

"Faithful, efficient, always cheerful, beloved by the patients universally. A better nurse could not be obtained. She has had my warmest thanks, and has my beaxtiest indorsement." 

William H. Gardner, assistant surgeon, United States Army, on October 18, 

1863, at Hammond General Hospital, says: "It gives me much pleasure to testify to the character and qualities of Mrs. Juliet G. Robbins (now Howe), who h."\.5 long been a nurse in this hospital. * * * In her wards she was kind and attentive to the sick and wounded under 

her care, ever :ready to relieve their wants, and never sparing Qj labo:r or pains 

which could conduce to their happiness or comfort." • At same hospital, April10, 1866, Th. Siebold, acting assistant surgeon, United 

States Army: "I take pleasure in oft'ering thistriflingmarkofregard for?.Irs. Juliet G. Robbins (now Howe) and Mrs. M.S. Poole, who have so faithfully attended in my ward since the 20th December L'\St." . The above indorsed by S. H. Allison, acting assistant surgeon, United States 

Army, and surgeon -of volunteers. 

At De Camp General Hospital, May 22,1865, T. E. Martindale, aJ;sistant sur- geon, United States Volunteers, says: , "My connection with this hospital being about to terminate, I find it difficult 

to leave without tendering you this expression of my high esteem for you * * * 

testify to your untiring devotion, your unceasing attention, and your success in 

ministering to the patients * "' * and the eminent abilities you have displayed in your profession of nurse." 

This and other testimonials, and the proof of disease and suffering from the 

sacrifices she then made, satisfy your committee she is entitled to the pension 

she seeks, and they report said bill favorably, with an amendment changing the 

word "Miss" wherever it occurs in said bill to "Mrs." 

Yourcommitteehavemade diligent inquiry at the offices of Adjutant--General, 

United States Army, and Surgeon-General, and can not find that the said nurse was paid for any such service. _ The committee recommend the passage of the bill. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I move to strike out "$'25" and insert" $12 ~~in 

line 7 of the bill. 

Mr. PAD DOCK. I hope the Senator will not move that amendment. ~1r. SAWYER. If there is to be a contest, let the bill be passed over. 

· The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from 1\Ii.ssouri moves to amend the bill by striking out "$25" where it occursand inserting 

"$12;" so as to read: 

And pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. 

Mr. PAD DOCK. I hope the Senator from Missouri will not insist 

upon the amendment. This is a most exceptional and meritorious case. This woman was a nurse throughout the whole period of the war. The 

testimonials as to her service are numerous and of the highest character. 

She never received a. dollar of remuneration from any source whatever. 

She is now an invalid and bedridden. If she were a.n ordinary nurse she would be entitled to $12 a month; but owing to the fact of her disability she is entitled to an additional amount, and it seems to me that 

in such a case there ought to be no question as to the sum proposed 

by the committee. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The question is on agreeing to the 

amendment. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Mr. President--

Ur. SAWYER. I think we had better pass over the bill and go on with the others, if there is to be a contest. 

1\I.r. PAD DOCK. I hope the Senator from Missouri will withdraw 

his amendment. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I shall unquestionably not withdmw the amendment. 'l'here is no question but that the amendment is right, just, 

equitable, and fail: in law and in equity. She is not entitled to a pension at all, and this is a mere gratuity. It is not based upon any dis- ease or injury received or contmcted in the senice in the line of duty. 

There is not one word in the report to show that there was ever :my 

injury or disability incurred in the service when she was performing 

the duty of a nurse. It is a mere gratuity. There is no law for granting this pension. 

Mr. SAWYER. I ask that the bill be passed over. Mr. PADDOCK. Shereceivedinjuryintbelineofduty. Herhealth 

was broken down and ruined by reason of the service she performed. 

Of course there is no provision of law to cover such cases, but the equities are very strong. 

Mr. PLATT. I wish to inquire of the chairman of the Committee 

on Pensions, or of the Senator from Wisconsin, who has these matters 

in charge, what has been the usual pension which has been allowed to a volunteer nurse, or whether there has been any usual rate ofpension 

allowed? 

Mr. PAD DOCK. Will the Senator from Wisconsin--

Mr. SAWYER. I will answer that, if you will allow me. Mr. P .A.DDOCK. Allow me to make one statement in answer to the 

question of the Senator from Connecticut. This bill exactly as it is now 

passed the Senate at the last Congress, and the reasons for ita passage now are infinitely stronger than they were then, because this woman 

is bedridden and ruined in health, and she is a very aged person. 

Mr. SAWYER. In answer to the Senator from Connecticut, I will 

say that it has been the custom of the committee to grant a pension of 

$25 a month in such cases, but in the last Congress the other Honse 

cut most of the bills down, and we acquiesced. However, on a few of 

them we got a conference committee and some were allowed $20 and 

some $18, but the other Honse has been pretty persistentM:r. COCKREL.L. In cutting them down to $12? 

l\Ir. SAWYER. In cutting them down to $12. If this bill is going 

to give rise to any discussion, I will ask to have it passed over, unless 

the Senator from :Missouri and the Senator from Nebraska ca.n agree 

upon an amendment. 

M:r. PAD DOCK. I am unwilling to accept the amendment, but I 

will consent that the bill may go over. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Missouri is entitled to a vote on his amendment, if he desires. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I have no objection to the bill going over, if it is 

the desire that we shall go on and dispose of unobjected cases. l\Ir. SAwYER. There is another bill of the same character which 

will soon be reached. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be passed over, ru;d 

when again reached the amendment offered by the Senator from ~bssouri will be pending. · . . Mr. PADDOCK. I suggest that it be allowed to go over, retaining 

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1\lr. SAWYER. Of course. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It. will be _so ordered, if there be no objection. 

MATTIE GRAZIANI. 

The bill (S. 303) granting a pension to Mattie Graziani, of Covington, 

Ky., was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to 

place on the pension-1·oll the name of Mattie Graziani, widow of Law- rence L. Graziani, late of Company A, Third Regiment United States 

Cavilry. 

The bill was ~eported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

GEORGE PARK. 

The bill (S. 1299) granting a pension to George Park was considered 

as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll 

the name of George Park, dependent father of William C. Park, Company H, Fifty-seventh 1\Iassachusetts Volunteers. 

:Mr. COCKRELL. Let the report be read in that case. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report will be read. 

The Secretary read the following report, submitted by 1\fr. DAVIS 

January 10, 1888: 

The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George P ark, praying for a pension, have examined the same, and report: 

The petitioner, George'Park, alleges that llis two sons, H. L. Park and William 

C. Park, both minors, enlisted in Company H, Fifty-seventh 1\fassachusetts Vol- unteers. H. L . Park, the eldest, was killed in the battle of North Anna River, June 24,1864, aged nineteen years. William C. Park was wounded in•the battle 

of the Wilderness; returned to his regiment from hospital; was taken prisoner at the springing of the mine at Petersburgh, and sent to the prison at Danville, N. C., where he died January 6,1865, aged eighteen years. The mother is drawing a pension on account of the death of the eldest son, and the petitioner is advised that he can not be alloweda pension under existing laws because the mother is receiving a pension on account of the death of one of their deceased sons. Petitioner is seventy-three years old; is unn.bla to support himself without 

outside help; is troubled with varicose veins in his limbs and rheumatism in his 

shoulder-joints. The Co=issioner of Pensions writes to the chairman of this 

committee in regard to this case : "The parents had two sons, who were killed or died in the service. Unless . the parents are livil1g apart or at variance, the father can not be pensioned under 

the laws as they now exist." F. 'Vessen deposes, August2~. 1866, that William C. Park worked for him for 

the last two years previous to enlistment, and that deponent pai~ his wages to the petitioner, amounting to about $40 a month. 

October 13, 186G, sa.id 'Vessen and one F . F. Hopkins made a joint affidavit; Wessen deposing that he employed William C. Pa1·k from July,1860, to Decem- ber; 1863, at which time he enlisted, and that he, Wessen, paid the father the 

son's wages, at the rate of ~25 to $30 a month, the father being in delicate health 

and nearly dependent on the earnings of llis son for support of his family of 

wife and four children. - Hopkins deposes that he has known the father and family four years, and that 

the above statement is true in all respects. 

Both deponents also state that the soldier left surviving one sister (Theresa), 

wllose age on January 3, 1860, was five years. This claim was rejected by the following indorsement : "May 13, 1877. Rejected. The mother alive." In view of all the facts in this case, your committee r eco=end the passage of 

the bill which is herewith submitted. 

1\fr. COCKRELL. I should like to ask the Senator from Wisconsin 

if the mother is still living? This claim was rejected eleven years ago. 

1\fay 13, 1877, is the date of rejection in the Pension Office. At that time 

the claim was rejected because under the general law only the mother 

could draw a pension, whilst livingt on account of dependence upon the son. Is the mother still living? 

1\fr. SAWYER. This is a bill which was reported by the chairman 

of the committee, and the details are not in my mind. As he is not 

present, I ask that the bill be passed over. I can not explain it, because 

I have not in my mind the details. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be passed over, retaining 

its place on the Calendar. 

CORDELIA R. JONES. 

The bill (S. 1300) granting a pension to Cordelia R. Jones was con- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pen. 

sion-roll the name of Cordelia R. Jones, widow of Theodore Jones, a private in Company G, Twenty-eighth illinois Volunteers. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

MRS. HETTIE K. PAINTER. 

The bill (S. 434) granting a pension to Mrs. Hettie K. Painter was announced as the next pension bill on the Calendar. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Is there a. report in that c.'1Se? 

Mr. SAWYER. I ask that this bill be passed over. It is a bill of the same kind reported by the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. PADDOCK] as the one which was passed over a few minutes ago. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempo1·e. The bill will be passed over, retain· 

ing its place on the Calendar, if there be no objection. · 

HARLOW B. HYDE. 

The bill (S. 1427) granting a pension to Harlow B. Hyde was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of Harlow B. Hyde, dependent father of George 

B. Hydet late a prfvate in Company C, Second Wisconsin Infantry. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordeted to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

• GEORGE W . PEAVEY. -...._ 

The bill (S. 1478) granting a pension to George W. Peavey was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of George W. Peavey, late :first lieutenant 

Fifty-seventh United States Colored Volunteer Infantry. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and pm:sed. 

MARY J. DAVIS. 

The bill (S. 1111) granting a pension to Mary J. Davis wascon~idered 

·as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll 

the name of M:ary .J. Davis. 

:Ur. PLATT. Ought not the bill to state the connection of Mary J. 

Davis with the ser:vice, or something of that sort? 

1\Ir. COCKRELL. I ask for the reading of the report in that case. Mr. PLATT. I ask first, if the Senator will permit me, that the bill 

be read once more. Mr. HARRIS. Let the bill be read :first. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I was just glancing at the report. There is no soldier named in it. The bill was read. 

Ur. PLATT. My point was this: I thought something should ap- pear in the bill showing some claim to a pension. It states nothing 

about it, whether she was a nurse, a dependent mother, or a widow. Mr. COCKRELL. Let part of the reptrt be read and then I will 

suggest an amendment to cover the point whi~h the Senator raises, 

which is a legitimate one, I think. 

The PRESIDENT JJro tempore. The report will be read. 

The Secretary read the report submitted by Mr. SAWYER January 

17, 1888, as follows: 

The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a bill granting a pension to Mary J. Davis, ha.ve examined the same, and report: 

The claimant is the mothe1· of the late Lorenzo Crittenden, who was ward- room steward on board the United States ship Guerriere. As to his service the 

Third Auditor says: • "He enlisted on the Ohio June 15, 1867, was transferred to the Guen-ie1·e the same day, and served on that vessel to May 15,1869, when he was discharged." He had previously enlisted and served on the United States ship Pawnee, and 

served out the term of his enlistment, when he was discharged. A claim filed by him for pension, in consequence of disabilities incurred dur- ing his service, was pending at the time of his death, which occurred at Sailors' 

Home, Quincy, 1\Iass., January 22, 1880. 

The mother's claim was rejected July 18, 18&5, "on the ground that the sailor's 

death was not the result of disease incurred in the service and line of duty, but, as indicated by the report made upon special examination, most probably the result of vicious habits." 

This is certainly the conclusion of the special ex:runiner appointed to investigate the claim, but in the opinion of the committee it is not justified by the tes- timony filed in the claim, nor does it furnish any information in addition or contrary to that already produced. The origin of the disease is shown by the 

testimony of his comrades. Joseph Fletcher and Henry Peters swear that they knew Crittenden since the year 1867, being on the same ship with him; that they well remember his sick- ness on board the Guerriere by reason of the positions, Fletcher being steerage 

cook and Peters being ward-room waiter; they knew from the conversation of 

the doctor that Crittenden was sick with rheumatism. 

Benjamin F. Page swears to his personal knowledge of the man and of his 

sickness on board the same vessel. 

George F . Long swears that he was in the service with Crittenden, and knows 

he was sick before and after discharge. / 

William E . Corthel swears that he knew Critte\}den since 1862; in 1869 and 

1870 worked for the same man, and during that time he was lame and used up with rheumatism in left side, leg, and ankle; saw him often until he went to the Quincy Home, and aftel'Tirards sa.w him frequentJy and noticed fuathe was partially paralyzed. 

'Villiam T. Prindell swears that he first knew Crittenden in 1867, and in October, 1869, sailor came to him lame and sick with rheumatism in left side, leg, 

and ankle. He offered to work without wages if witness would take him in. 'Vitness did so, and Crittenden worked about the dining-room, at times so used up that he could do little or nothing. At this time Dr. Leighton boarded with 

witness and prescribed for both of them for rheumatism. In May,1870, witness 

became embarrassed and gave up business, and Crittenden went to work for P. S. Wetherell on or about the same termsasforwitness, and Dr. Leighton also 

boarded with Wetherell and prescribed for sailor. As witness and Crittenden were afflicted in the same way, it is natural that witness remembers that Crittenden kept getting worse and worse, and his disability increased until he be· came paralyzed. Dr. Leighton is dead and 'Vetherell has lost llis mind. 

Samuel D. Harrington and John P. Fitzgerald swear that sailor was treated 

from November 1, 1869, to the latter part of 1871 by Dr. Leighton for rheuma· 

tism, and he was not able to keep employment on account of his disability. Patrick Fitzgerald and Joel Wilder knew Crittenden from 1869 to 1871, and 

boarded where Crittenden worked; know that he had rheumatism off and on all the time, sometimes being confined to bed. Philander T. 'Vetherell swears to Crittenden's being in his employ from No- vember, 1869, to fall of 1871, and was attended by Dr. Leighton, now dead. Dr. Thomas Hall swears that he was Crittenden's physician four years, and at- tended him various times for chronic articular rheumatism, from which he was never entirely free; and latterly for urremic convulsions, followed by paralysis of left side, rendering him perfectly helpless. Dr. Faxon, superintendent of Quincy Home, says Crittenden was admitted to home December 27, 1875. Disease, paralysis. No treatment aside from battery. Died January 22, 1880. Cause, paralysis, which, he says, was caused by tobacco. It may be here remarked that the paralysis ensued after "chronic articular 

rheumatism,"from which the man became partially before he was wholly par- alyzed. He was a great and almost helpless sufferer from this first cause, and it seems a little strained and far from consistent to trace paralysis to tobacco. 

These witnesses are all residents of Boston, 1\Iass. 

There were two special examinations, the first in Washington, the last in Bos- ton. In the first there were no developments. The last was an ex parte investi- gation. No one representing the interests of the claimant had anything to do 

with it. In this examination Isaiah Prindell 'appears as a. witness. He begins by saying that· he is not certain, but thinks he knew Crittenden before 1860; and 

then goes on to testify in reference to him as to his condition prior to his voyage on the Guerriere. "It was about 1865 or 1866 that he wo1·ked for affiant." He 

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knows of )lis going to the home on account of rheumatism and paralysis. He does not know how he incurred rheumatism, but he said H was in the:service. 

While he knew him his habits were fair. He smoked some; do not know that he chewed any. Did not smoke much. Mrs. Mary Snow testifies in this examination, but it is principally as to what she does not know. The doctors who treated him in hospital and at the home differ in their tes· timony, Some say he drank and smoked excessively. Some say he had delir- ium tremens, others not. Dr. Hall neversawhimdrunk. Testifies from mem- ory. Dr. Faxon, of the home, says his disability when admitted-to the home was par:tlysis; he died of general debility resulting from that.; don't know that paralysis was the result of rheumatism; he really worried himself to death- disappointed that he could not recover from his paralysis. He did not drink, but he smoked; he (Dr. Faxon) served tobacco to all who were able to use it. Some he cut off; they were not strong enough. He could not say that tobacco caused his death. Again he says his paralysis was caused by tobacco; reason for this opinion is his conversations with him ; he never examined him. George F. Going, his shipmate, sailed with him from Boston to Rio Janeiro. He used to smoke and took a glass occasionally; never saw him the worse for liquor. 

William E. Corthel, who testified in the special examination, says his habits were good; never saw him under the influence of liquor; saw him many times day and evening. "It was not a fact that he was a hard drinker or smoker; saw him every day or two for nearly two year10; he smoked cigars; he used to drink beer; have seen him and know." 

Samuel D. Harrington, in special examination, says he was not a bad drinker; never saw him intoxicated; smoked like the average of men. This special ex- amination has produced nothing new except some few contradictions. A. H. Shattuck, Second Auditor's Office, in a letter to the Commissioner of Pen- sions, written October 13, 1884, says as to the son's supporting his mother that he was in no condition to do so. "He alwaye expressed a desire to assist his poor old mother, who was once a slave, but circumstances preve•ted. The claimant, Mrs. :Mary J. Davis, and her daughter live together and support themselves by taking wnsh.ir:g. I alwnys 

thought Mr. Crittenden in every sense a gentleman; his habits were temperate, and the officer in the ho3pital in which he died spoke of him to me in the highest terms." 

1\Irs. Davis and h er children were slaves. They first belonged to John C. P. Peter, late of Montgomery County, Mary:and. They afterwards became the property of the Rev. Charles H. Nourse, of Georgetown, D. C., from whom Mr. W. 'rV. Corcoran, of Washington, D. C., purchased their freedom. Lorenzo, the deceased son, was for some years after a servant in :Mr. Corcoran's family. She has one daughter, feeble in health. The two have for years struggled to pro- cure needful food by doing such work as they could get and were competent to perform. She was, beyond any question, n dependent :mother, dependent, un- fortunately~, in the eye of the law, upon a sick and dying son. There is no ques- tion as to tue relationship or the dependence. There is no pretense that the claim should not be allowed, except that stated in the communcation of the Commissioner of Pensions, that the son's death was attributable to "vicious 

habits." This inference can only be drawn from the. contradictory testimony of some of the witnesses. Lorenzo Crittenden was some five years in the service of the Navy. His last three years were in part spent in South American ports. The records of the Navy Department show that he was ill at more or less frequent intervals during the cruise. From the time of his discharge he was disabled, and his disability 

gradually increased until he was stricken down with paralysis, and death soon after ensued. The predominance of testimony is against the theory of vicious 

habits, and in the opinion of the committee, in view of the weight of respect- able and convincing proof to the contrary, it is an unjust decision. The bill is reported favorably with a recommendation that it do pass. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I move to add to the bill, after the words "1\fary 

J. Davis," the words "dependent mother of the late Lorenzo Crittenden." I am not exactly familiar with the deffignations of those employed in the service. I suppose it would be correct to add after '' Lo- renzo Crittenden" the words "an enlisted man in the naval service." 

1\fr. SAWYER. Yes, I think so. . 

M:r. PLATT. Anything that will identify the pensioner will do. 

M:r. COCKRELL. He was a ward-room steward, and the Third Auditor says he was enlisted, and served, when he was discharged; so I suppose we could Cc'l.ll him an enlisted man in the naval service. 

Mr. SAWYER. It is ali oversight that some such clause was not put 

in the bill. 

Mi. DOLPH. Let the amendment be read. 

The CHIEF CLERK. · It is proposed to add to the bill, "dependent 

mother of the late Lorenzo Crittenden, an enJisted man in the naval 

service." 

Mr. SAWYER. There is no objection to that amendment. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment 

was concurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the 

third time, and passed. HENRY F. KAISER. 

The bill (S. 124) granting a pension to Henr-y F. Kaiser was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Henry F. Kaiser, "late a private in Company E, 

Forty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third readirig, read the third time, and passed. 

WILLIAM SA.CKMA.N, SR. 

The bill (S. 465) gran~ing a pension to William Sackman, sr., was 

considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes ·to place on the 

pension-roll the name of William Sackman, sr., late a pri-vate in Company K, Fifth Regiment Missouri State Militia Cavalry. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

ELIZA DOUGLASS. 

The bill (S. 339) granting a pension to Eliza Douglass was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pensionroll the name of Eliza Douglass, dependent mother of James Douglass, 

late of Company H, Fifth Regiment Colored Troops. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

POLLY H. S~IITH. 

The bill (S. 43) granting a pension to Polly H. Smith was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll 

the name of Polly H. Smith, widow of the late John H. Smith, brevet 

captain Company L, Second Regiment United States Artillery, at the 

rate of $50 per month, from and after July 1, 1886. 

1\ir. COCKRELL. I should like t.o bear the report read in that case. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report will be read. 

The Secretary read the report, submitted by Ur. TURPIE January 

17, 1888, as follows: 

The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 43) granting a. pension to Polly H. Smith, have examined the same, and report as follows: The claimabt is widow of John H. Smith, brevet csptain Company L, Second 

Regiment United States Artillery, now deceased. The service record of husband is as follows: He enlisted as a private in Battery L, Second Regiment Artillery, at Newport, 

Ky., January ?:7, 1854; was discharged by reason of expiring of term of service 

January ?:7, 1859; re-enlisted in same corps February 22, 1859; was discharged from second enlistment August 14, 1863, by reason of appointment as second lieutenant in same corps of art.illery. Was promoted to first lieutenant June 13, 1864. He served in Army of Potomac, in Army of Cumberland, in Maryland and District of Columbia, in New York and Florida, until 1865, afterwards in California, in Washington, Ariz<>na, and Alaska, in active service until Decem- ber, 1879, sixteen year . The history of the disability and death of the soldier is as follows: He was- detailed in 1868 to act as assi tant quartermaster and acting commissary of sub- sistence iq ·washington. His duties as such were very laborious, and he was almost constantly in the saddle. After several months' service as such, at the close of a 1 ong day's ride he discovered that he was injured; this wn.s the beginning of fistula in ano. He underwent three operations of the knife for relief. The last wound was seven months in healing, and before healing the fistula ap- peared in another pla ce, leaving him in a worse condition than at first, with health utterly broken. December 9, 1870, he applied to be relieved from active 

duty, and a retiring board of the Army, conYened for that purpose at San Fran- cisco, did retire him after fully hearing evidence, "as incapacitated for further duty by reason of disease contracted in the line of his duty." He died very sud- denly at Portland. Oregon, September 8, 1885, reported as of ''heart disease," 

while engaged in lifting n. trunk. '.rhe evidence shows him to have been at the time of his enlistment and up to 1868 n man of excellent health, robust constitu- tion; never before sick a day in his life. After 1~0 never well; always suffer- ing. The heart disease is characterized as sympathetic, the result of his other ailments and injuries. He died fifteen years after his retirement, but there is no evidence that he ever recovered his -health. His ill health and disability were incurred ·in the line of sen• ice. The marriage took place at Fort Ridgely, 

1\Iarch 5, 1860; is testified to by the adjutant-general of post and sutler, who were eye-witnesses. 

It is recommended that the bill be reported back with recommendation that it do pass. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I should like to call the attention of the com- mittee in this case to the fact that after the name of John H. Smith 

apifea.r the words- Brevet captain Company L, Second Regiment United States Artillery, and to pay her a pension at the rate of $50 per month from and after July 1,1886. 

That is granting arrears of pension. 

M:r. SAWYER. I suggest that those words be stricken out. Their 

insertion was an error. 

1\Ir. COCKRELL. Before I move to strike out those words I wish 

to include a little more. This officer was never anything but a lieutenant. - I have never known any one to bepensioned according .tothe 

brevet rank of a deceased officer or soldier. I move to strike out the 

words " brevet captain " and in lieu to insert " lieutenant," and it will 

then read, ''John H. Smith, late lieutenant Company L, Second Regiment United States Artillery," and then I move to strike out the rest 

of the bill, so that it will pension her as the widow of a lieutenant. 

1\!r. SAWYER. Very well. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The proposed amendment of the Senator from Missouri will be read. 

The CHIEF CLERK. In lines 6 and 7, it is proposed tostrikeoutthe 

words "brevet captain" and insert the words "late lieutenant." 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be agreed to, 

if there be no objection. 

Mr. HOAR. Before the amendment is agreed to I should like to 

know whether the officer actually acted as captain, performing the duties of captain. 

Mr. COCKRELL. He was simply a lieutenant in ther~CYUJar .Army. 

Any lieutenant, e-ven a junior or second lieutenant, may occasionally 

perform the duties of a captain. 

Mr. HOAR. On what account iS the pension conferred? 

M:r. COCKRELL. It is conferred because the Pension Office refused 

it. The Pension Office said the disease of which he died very suddenly 

did not originate in the service in the line of duty. The committee 

think that it is sufficiently attributable to his service to pension him. 

M:r. HOAR. When the disease originated was the officer actually 

acting as captain in the advanced rank, whatever it was, or as lieutenant? 

1t1r. COCKRELL. Probably as a private. He was a private for a long time. It was only in 1863 that he became a lieutenant. 

Mr. DOLPH. I call for the reading of that portion of the report 

which speaks of his duties at the time be discovered that he was injm~ • 

Mr. HOAR. Before that is read, allow me to state, with the leaye 

of the Senator from Oregon, a question which has been presented at the 

Pension Office and also presented to the Committee on Pensions of the 
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Senate. For instance, all the commissioned officers of a company may 

be killed in an action, the sergeant takes command, and while he is 

actually in command of the company he receives a wound which· iS the 

origin of his disability. Thereafter he is commissioned. The Pension 

Office under existing law declines to give him a pension attributable to 

the rank which he is actually exercising, pensioning him only in accordance with his actual rank. I believe justice requires that we should 

give the officer the pension in accordance with the rank he is actually 

holding, occupying, exercising at the time of his disability, and I do 

not want to insert anything in this bill which puts up the bars against 

that doctrine. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I do not want anything to go into the bill that 

would seem to sanction the position taken by the Senator from Massachnsetts. It is an old controverted question. It was before the Committee on Military Affairs for a long time, :md it has been considered 

settled for a long time. There was at one time a bill passed authorizingacertainclassofofficersto be retired upon the rank of their command. 

A lieutenant-colonel under that law could be retired with the rank of 

major-general. That law was repealed after full discussion. 

It has never been held in the whole service of the Army that bee!! use 

a lieutenant might be called upon to command a company, or a captain called upon to command a regiment, whilst he was so commanding 

he should be considered as holding the advanced rank as to pay and 

emoluments, or anything of that kind. 

:Mr. HOAR. I do not speak of that. I speak simply of his pension 

after a disability incurred when he was acting in an advanced position. 

Mr. COCKRELL. If he sl10uld be pensioned according to the rank 

of his command, why should he not be paid according to it? 

l\Ir. HOAR. I think there is a great difference when the man has 

been actually wounded. 

Mr. COCKRELL. But that question would not be affected one way 

or the other by the amendq1ent I propose, becaru;e my amendment 

simply gives him the rank he really held, about which there is no con- troversy. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. Will the Senate agree to the amendment proposed by the Senator from :Missouri? 

Mr. DOLPH. Let the portion of the report which refers to the disability which led to the death be read. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That part of the report will be again 

read. 

The Secretary 1·ead as follows: 

The history of the disability and death of the soldier is as follows: He was detailed in 1863 to act as assistant quartermaster and acting commissary of sub- sistence in Washington. His duties as such were very laborious, and -he was almost constantly in the saddle. After several months' service as such, at •.he close of a long day's ride, he discovered.. that he was injured; this was the be- ginning of fistula in ano. He underwent three operations of the knife for relief. 

Mr. DOLPH. That is enough. I simply desire to say that this is a 

very meritorious case, so far as the widow is concerned. Her necessities are great., and, in fact, she is in destitution. I of course would not 

desire to make a precedent which would be troublesome hereafter; but 

if the widows of other officers in similar cases have received the amount 

called for by the bill, there is no reason why there should be a discrimination made against this claimant. 

~ir. COCKRELL. There is no reason why a discrimination should 

be made in her favor, and I want simply to place her on an equality 

with other widows whose husbands' deaths were caused directly by injuries received in the service in the line of duty. 

This lieutenant died of heart disease, and it is only indirectly that 

you can attribute his disease to the service. Now we place her on an 

equality with all the others. If the others are getting :;;so she will get 

it; if they are getting $40 she will get it, whatever the amount may be. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to t.he 

amendment proposed by the Senator from Missouri. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The next amendment will be stated. 

The CHIEF CLERK. After the word "month," in line 8, it is proposed to strike on t the words "from and aft-er July 1, 1886." 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be agreed to, 

if there be no objection. 

Mr. COCKRELL. No; my amendment is to strike out all after the 

word "artillery," which would simply leave the case as was indicated a moment ago. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment of the Senator from 

Missouri will be so stated. 

The CHIEF CLERK. After the word "artillery," in line 7, it is proposed to strike out the words: 

And pay her a p~ion at the rate of $50 per month from and after July 1 16. . I 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The bill was re12orted to the Senate as amended, and the amendments 

were concurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the 

third time, and passed. 

. THO:llAS CHAPMAN. 

The bill (S. 74) to increase the pension of Thomas Chapman was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to increase the 

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pension of Thomas Chapman, of Campbell County, Tennessee, to $25 

per month, his disabilities being such as to require the constant attention of some person to take care of him. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I should like to .ask whether the special bill we 

pa sed recently would affect this case. 

Mr. SAWYER. What is this case? 

Mr. COCKRELL. It is the ease of Thomas Chapman, proposing to 

increase his pension to $25, his disability being such as to require constant attendance. The bill we passed recently did not affect this kind 

of a c:1se, I understand. 

Ur. SAWYER. No, it did not affect this kind of a case. This case 

is all right, and the bill ought to pass just as it was reported. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

JOHN M'GRATH. 

The bill (S. 1512) granting an increase of pension to John McGrath 

was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on 

the pension-roll the name of John McGrath, late a private in Company 

D, 'I'wenty-third New Jersey Volunteers, at the rate of $30 per month, 

in lieu of that which he is now receiving. 

1\fr. COCKRELL. Let the report be read. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report will be read. 

T_he Secretary read the report submitted by Mr. BLODGETT January 

18, 18 , as follows: The petitioner, who was a. private in Company D, Twenty-third New Jersey 

Volunteers, enlioted August 26, 1862, was mustered out September 13 of the same year, and was djscharged Februaryl4, 1863. In his application for a pen- sion, filed February 10, 1879, he claimed that in the fall and winter of 1862 he 

contracted a severe cold, which settled in his lungs, resulting in incipient con- sumption, which later became ch1·onic. This claim he substantiated, and was pensioned from February 15, 1863, at S4 per month, &ld from l\1arch 3, 1880, at ..,.8 per month. On April 11, 1880, he made application for an increase of pen- sion on the ground of increased disability. This was granted August 27, 1830, 

since which time be has received $16 per month. He now prays for further in· crea e, nlleging diseases of heart, kidneys, and liver, and claims to be totally 

incnpacitated for labor. 

The reports of the examining surgeons fully sub1ltantiate the claims of the 

pc,titioner, and after careful examination of other evidence the committee feels 

justified in recommending favorable action on his petition and accompan3rin~ 

bill. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I do not see in the Chamber the Senator from 

New Jersey [Mr. BLODGETT], who reported this bilL There is no 

mention made in the report of any action in t~e Pension Office since 

August 27, 1880. The Pension Office has always been,· as I understand, liberal in allowing an increase and in reopening and reconsidering cases. I do not see that in this case any effort has been made 

since 18 0 to have the pension increased. If no effort has been made 

at the Pension Office for an increase of pension, I submit that now, 

seven years after his pension was increased to $16, the Committee on 

Pensions ought not ask us to take this bill up and entertain jurisdiction of it until the matter has fi113t been presented to the Pension 

Office. If we follow such a practice we shall simply turn the Senate 

into a pension office, to consider claims of every kind before they have 

been passed upon by the Pension Office itself. 

Mr. SAWYER. The rule of the committee is as the Senator from 

Missouri has said it should be, but by some means a large number of 

such bills came to us. I ask that this bill may go over, as the Senator who reported it is not present, and I do not remember the case. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The bill will be passed over and retain its place on the Calendar, if there be no objection. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Oh, yes; let it retain its place on the Calendar. 

MANON VANGORDON. 

The bill (S. 330) granting a pension to Manon Vangordon was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll--the name of 1\Ianon Yangordon, brother of Jacob Vangordon, late of Company K, Eighty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 

1\Ir. COCKRELL. Let the report be read in that case. 

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

The Secretary read the following report, submitted by Mr. P .ADDOCK 

January 18, 1888: 

The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 330) granting a. pension to Manon Vaugordon, have examined the same, and report: It appears from the papers in this case that Jacobl\1. Vangordonenlisted September 28,1862, and served as a private in Company K, Eighty-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, and that while so serving he was killed by a gunshot wound 

received in tl::w line of duty at or near Atlanta, Ga.,in 1~4. Manon Vangordon, 

the sole surviving brother of Jacob, who, except for his age, would be entitled to receive a pension, who is totally blind and helpless and was dependent upon his brother during his life-time for support, and who is now a subject of charity, 

applied to the Pension Office for pension, which application was rejected be- cause he was more than sixteen years old when the soldier died. He was fortyfive years old in September,1885, when his claim was presented to the Pension 

Office. · The record shows Jacob Vangordon to have been a good, true, and brave sol· 

dier; t.hat he served about two years, and finally lost his life in the line of duty, 

and the committee are of the opinion, considering his honorable and useful 

service and the loss of his life under such circumstances, a.nd the dependent 

condition of the brother, that the Government can well afford to make an ex- ception in this case. They therefore recommend the passage of the bill. 

. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 
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JOHN KALBFLEISCH. 

The bill (S. 331) granting a pension to John Kalbfleisch was con- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of John Kalbfleisch, Company A, One hundred 

and sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at the rate allowed for loss of 

leg. 

Mr. PLATT. 

ofleg?" 

Is not that very indefinite, ''at the rate allowed for loss 

Mr. PAD DOCK. He lost his leg below the thigh. . Mr. PLATT. Ought not the bill to specify the loss of leg above the 

knee? I suggest that that amendment be made. 

The PRESIDENT pm tempore. The amendment proposed will be 

read at the desk. 

Mr. COCKRELL. It was the right leg in this case that was lost, but 

the report does not state whether it was lost above the knee or not. 

Mr. PLATT. That is the amendment I propose. 

Mr. PADDOCK. The proof discloses the iact that it was lost just 

below the thigh. 

Mr. SAWYER. 

Mr. PADDOCK. 

pression. 

Then it was above the knee. 

It was above the knee, which is the technical exMr. COCKRELL. Then let the bill state that the pension is granted 

for the loss of leg above the knee. 

.Mr. PLATT. That is what I propose. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be stated. 

The CHIEF CLERK. .After the word ''leg,'' at the end of""the bill, 

it is proposed to insert the words, "above the knee;" so as to read: 

At the rate allowed for loss of leg above the knee. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and theamendment was <:oncurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be ~ngrossed for t1. third reading, read the 

third time, and passed. 

SAMUEL LANE. 

The bill (S. 122) granting a pension to Samuel Lane was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes ·to place on the pensionroll the name of Samuel Lane, late of Company G, Fifty-fifth Regiment 

Pennsylvania Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the thir_d time, and passed. 

JOHN F. BALLIER. 

The bill (S. 1613) granting an increase of pension to John F. Ballier 

was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to increase 

the pension of John F. Ballier, late colonel of Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers in the war of the rebellion, at the rate fixed by law 

for cases of total disability. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

PHILLIPE RAY. 

The bill (S. 1614) granting a pension to Phillipe Ray was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll 

the name of Phillipe Ray, late of Company B, First New Jersey Cavalry in the war of the rebellion. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I should like to hear the report read. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report will be read. 

The Secretary read the report, submitted by Mr. QuAY January 24, 

1888, as follows: 

The Committee on Pensions1 to whom was referred the petition of Philip 

Ray, of Philadelphia, Pa., praymg to be allowed a. pension, have had the same under consideration, and report: 

Philip Ray, the claimant, was enrolled and mnstered on the 20th day of An- gust, 1861, as sergeant of Company E, First New Jersey Cavalry; was early in 

1862 reduced to the ranks a-nd transferred to Company B, where-he was made a. corporal; was captured by the enemy at Harrison burgh, Va., June 6, 1862, and 

is borne as a prisoner upon the regimental rolls for May, June, July, and August of that year. At a date not of record he was returned as a paroled prisoner to Camp Parole, Annapolis, ].!d., and thence transferred to a Washington hospital September 22,1862. He rejoined his regiment, re-enlist-ed at the expiration of his term of service, and was discharged as corporal Company B, July 24, 1865. A pension is claimed for disabilities originating in exposure while a prisoner at Belle Isle and Lynch burgh, Va. His application was filed originally in 1869, and ' relinquished by his attorney in 1871 with the avowal that the evidence required 

by the Commissioner of Pensions could not be furnished. The case was after· 

ward reopened upon the personal application of the claimant, and on June 17, 

1887, was finally disposed of adversely by the Assistant Secretary ol the Interior, 

who said in his letter dismissing it that the claimant was no doubt a good soldier 

and may have contracted the disability in the service, bnt that he had failed 

signally to prove it by the scanty evidence adduced. 

The evidence submitted to the committee consists of a certificate of ex-Sur- geon Rulett, ofthe.FirstNewJerseyCavah-y, and an affidavit ofl\-1. Hutchinson as to the sound health of the claimant at enrollment, and affidavits of Mrs. E. Beech and Mrs. C. Hornby that he was suffering in 1873 from. kidney disease, 

which he said was contracted while in the United States service. The medical 

exa.miners to whom his case was committed reported his disability from diabetes at one-fourth of total, and permanent, and that, in their belief, it originated in the service in line of his duty. Ray himself testifies that it had its origin in a severe cold contracted on account of want of shelter while a prisoner, and 

that his health improved after his return to his regiment, but that during " Burn- side's mud march," in January, 1863, he suffered a relapse, since which this dis- ease has been continuous. He accounts for the impossibility of securing favor- able testimony from his comrades by stating that he was desirous of promotion, which would have been difficult if his physical condition was known. Your comm.itctee, in consideration of ·the long service of this soldier, his disf 

abled condition, and the possibility and fair probability that his statement is 

true, report back his petition with the accompanying bill and recommend Us passage. 

· The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

HANNAH R. LANGDON. 

The bill (S. 549) granting a pension to Hannah R. Langdon was con- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Hannah R. Langdon, widow of Henry H. Langdon, late an assistant surgeon in the Seventh Regiment Vermont Volunteers in the war of the rebellion, at the rate of $20 per month. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

l'riRS. ARABELLA CODDINGTON. 

The bill (S. 293) granting a pension to Mrs . .Arabella Coddington was 

considered as in Committee of the Whole. 

The Committee on Pensions reported an amendment to add to the 

bill the w:ords ''in lieu of the pension she now receives; '' so as to make 

the bill read: 

Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, at the rate of$25 per month, the name of Mrs. Arabella Coddington, widow of E. H. Coddington, late captain of 

CompanyH, Forty-fi.fthRegimentot Iowa Infantry Volunteers, in lien of the pen• 

sion she now receives. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Let thereport be read in that case, showing why 

the change of pension is made. · The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report will be read. 

The Secretary read the following report, submitted by Mr. PAD DOCK 

Jamlary 31, 1888: ' 

The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 293)grat\tinga. 

pension· to l\1rs. Arabella Coddington, have examined the same, and report: 

The petitioner is the widow of E. lL Coddington, who was mustered into the 

Fourteenth Regiment. Company F, Iowa Volunteers, as a sergeant, and was mustered ont as captain of Company H, Forty-fifth Regiment Iowa Volunteers. 

During his lifetime he wa.s pensioned for loss of arm, in consequence of which 

it is affirmed that he was totally disabled, and from which he subsequently died. 

After his death his widow was pensioned at the rate of $8 a month, and the pur- pose of this bill is to increase her pension to t25 a month. In the opinion of the committee the increase provided for is just; bnt there is 

another reason why she should have it. Prior to her marriage she was a hospital nurse, served faithfully as such, was exposed to and contracted a contagions 

disease, that of measles, and by reason of exposure took cold, which so perma- nently and seriously impaired her health that she is a sn:1fering invalid at the 

present time. In substantiation of this, affidavits have been filed with the com-· mittee which satisfactorily prove her service and suffering. 

Independent of this, however, she is entitled to a pension corresponding with 

the grade ofa-oo.ptain's widow, and the committee report the bill favorably, with an amendment inserting after the word "voluf!teers," in the eighth line, the 

words, "in lieu of the pension she now receives," and recommend that the bill 

do pass. 

The hill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment 

was concurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the 

third time, and passed. 

MRS. ELVIRA L. JOHNSON. 

The bill (S. 752) to grant a pension to Mrs. Elvira. L. Johnson, widow 

of Commodore Philip E. Johnson, was considered as in Committ€e of 

the Whole. 

The bill was reported from the Committee on Pensions with an amendment, in line 5, to change the name "Philip E. Johnson" to 

"Philip C. Johnson;" so as to make the bill read: 

Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the lu terior is authorized and directed to place the name of Mrs. Elvira L. Johnson, widow of Commodore Philip C. 

Johnson, on the pension-roll at the rat~ of~ per month. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I should like to ask the Senator from West Virginia [Mr. FAULKNER], who reported the bill, if this is tbe regular 

amount allowed by the Committee on Pensions in all similar cases of 

the same cl::tSS and rank? · Mr. FA ULK~'"ER. It has been the rule in a number of cases; in fact 

I do not know any exception to it. There are numerous cases where 

the rank was lower than commodore where the amount was granted 

that is allowed in the bill. 

As it does not appear in the report I desire to say further, for the information of the Senate, that Commodore Johnson was in fact an admiral at the time of his death by the regulations of the Navy Department. Owing to the death, or resignation, or retirement of an officer 

of that rank two days before Commodore Johnson's, he was in fact at 

that time, though not by commission, rear-admira~ and his widow 

would have been entitled to this pension. • The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment 

was concurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the 

third time, and passed. The title was amended so as to read: "A bill to grant a pension to 

Mra. El\ira L. Johnson, widow of Commodore Philip C. Johnson." 

JACOB KINTZ. 

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ters, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to 

place on the pension-roll the name of Jacob Kintz, ai.i.as Jolm Walters, 

late of Company G, Second Battery, United States Infantry, afterward 

of the Twenty-first United S~ates Infantry, and later, under new enlistment, assigned to Company I, Twenty-first United States Infantry. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

CHRISTOPHER WIBEMILLER. 

The bill (S. 819) granting a pension to Christopher Wisemiiler was 

considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of Christopher Wisemiller, late private Company 

B, Third Regiment Wisconsin Cavalry Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

JOHN VERTESSY. 

The bill (S. 821) granting a pension to John Vertessy was considered 

as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pensionroll the name of J olm V ertessy, late a captain in Company E, of the 

One hundred and sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

DAVID A. SERVIS. 

The bill (S. 820) granting a pension to Da.vid A..Servis was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of David A. Servis~ late a private in Company B, of 

the Twenty-first Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed fo:r a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

MARY SULLIVAN. 

The bill (S. 838) granting a pension to Mary Snllivan was considered 

as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll 

the name of Mary Sullivan, widow of Michael Sullivan, late a private 

in Company K, N'mety-third Regiment Illinois Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amentiment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

MARGARET S. 1\illRRAY. 

The bill (S. 404) for the relief of Margaret L. Murray was considered 

as in Committee of the Whole. -

The bill was reported from the Committee on Pensions with amendments: In line 6tochange the name ' '"Margaret L. Murray" to "Margaret S. Murray," in line 7 to change the name" J. Edward Murray n 

to "T. Edward Murray, 11 and in line 10 to change the name" Margaret L. Murray" to" Margaret S. Murray;" so as to make the bill rca.d: 

ANGERONE P. COLE. l Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary ofthc Interior be, and he hereby is., m·uered 

The bill (S. 815) granting a pension to Angerone P. Cole, mother of to place on the pension-roll, subject to the pro-...isions and limitations of the penGeorge H. Cole, private Company B, Twenty-fourth Regiment Wis- sion laws, the name of Margaret S. Murray, of Worcester, widow of Henry 1.1ur- . V 1 t "d d · C •tt fth Wh 1 It ray, mother ofT. Edward Murray, musician in Company C, Third Bat1nlion CODSln 0 un eers, was CODSl ere as ln ommi ee 0 e 0 e. Massachusetts Rifles, who died from disease contra<; ted in the service, leaving no ~ 

proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Angerone P. Cole, widow, child, or children, and upon whom said Margaret S.11furray wns dependmother of George ·H. Cole, private Company B, Twenty-fomth Regi- ent. mcnt Wisconsin Volunteers. The amendments were agreed to. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to Mr. COCKRELL. I should liKe to have the re"])ort read in that C.'l-se. 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. The PRESID~NT pro tempore. The report will be read. 

IDA M. WELTON. The Secretary read the report submitted by Mr. DAVIS January 31, 

1888, as follows: 

The bill (S. 1784) granting a pension to Ida 1\1. Welton was consid- The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a bill (S. 404) for thereered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place upon the pen-. lief of Margaret S. Murray, granting her a pension 3.8 the mother ofT. Edward 

sion-roll the name of Ida M. Welton, only surviving child of George 11Iurray, Company C, Third Battalion 1\1assachusetts Rifles, have examined the 

C. Welton, late a soldier in the Sixth Regiment Vermont Volunteers. sa~;i's ~~i::_p~~s: rejected by the Bureau of PensiQns June 9, 1879, and a.,ouin 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to Apnlll, 1884, for the reason that the soldier's death was nQt the result of a disbe engrossed for a third 1·eading, read the third time, and passed. ability contracted in the service. 

The deceased son enlisted Aprill9,1861, for three months, and was discharged l'!URY :MARTIN. July 12. 1861, having been in the hospital since June 12, 1861, for treatment for 

) typhoid feTer. He died of consumption September 12, 1876, never having filed The bill (S. 17 4 granting a pension to ~Mary Martin was considered any claim for a pension. The claimant is his mother and a. widow. and the ns in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll proof as to her dependence on the deceased is. in the.opinion of >on~ committhe name of Mary Martin widow of Thomas Martin late a private in tee, sufficient. Th~ histo:Y of the deceased, subsequently to his discharge, ap- ' 1 pears by the followmg eTidence: 

Com pan! C, Second :Massachusetts Volu~teers. j ~r. 0. Newton stiJ:i~s. in March,1879, that he was surgeon of the battalion of 

The bill was reported to the Senate w1thont amendment, ordered to 

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whteh deceased was pnvate; that deceased was very sick with typhoid fever, 

be enarossed for a third readino- read the third time and passed. and ~as sent home. as sooll: as he was able to ~?e mo-...ed; that when tbe fe>er o o• ' Jeftb1m be was afllict.ei.l with pustules filled With blood, which. when opened .ABBIE M. HAY. could be stopped only by packing with lint saturated with Mansel's solution of . ( ) . . . . · iron. Deceased never came under affiant's treatment after leavina the Army ~he bill ~· 172 grantmg a penswn to Abbie 111. Hay was CODSld~red but a~ant frequently sa:w him, and ~nows h~ never fully recovered'; frequently as m CoiD.llllttee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pens10n- sa~ h1m~el:" consumptiOn.wasmaniiest, which he.believes was caused by rna- roll the name of Abbie M. Hay widow of Thomas H. Hay late a captain larml po1sonmg, and o~ which he has no doubt he died. . . S ' 1 Dr. P. E. H;ubon teshfies, :March., 1879, that deceased came under his care in m the Ulllted tates Army. . July,1861, in an almost moribund condition from typhoid malarial fever of low- The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to es~ grade, liver apparently enlar!,!ed, and jaundiced and sickly appearance of 

be engrossed for a third readino- read the third time and passed. s~m. For days had to open rapidly-formed abscesses on face and body, and ,..,, 1 hlS case seemed hopeless. Under treatment be slowly reco>ered suffi.ciently to H.ENRY B. VERY. do some business. Fro!?- that time _to 1873, when affiant went to Europe, he . . . . trP..at(d deceased for vanous complamts, sore throat, cough, etc. In all treat- The bill (S. 173) granting a peDS1on to Henry B. Very was considered ment had to combat tb.e ma.lu.rial poison in his sysiem. as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension- Dr. F. J. l\lcNnlty testifies,l\Iarch, 1879, that he treated deceased from Noll th f H B y 1 t · te · Co A T lith vember, 1873, to September, 1876; that when he saw him in 1873 he was suffer- ro e name 0 enry · ery, a e a pnva m mpany ......_, we ing from an acute attack of bronchitis, which soon developed into .a chronic 

Rhode Island Volunteers. form; and about llie Jat~r_Part of 1874 or beginning of IBm well•marked syrupThe bill was reported to th~ Senate without amendment ordered to toms of pulmonary phthisis presented themsel•es, which caused his death in 

b . ed fi thi ·d din d th th · d ti d ' d 1876. In February, 1881., the same physiciau testifies that he attended deceased e engross or a I rea g, r~ e IT me, an passe · ·fro!?- eari::r i~tl873 until a short t_ime before his deat?! February 12,1876; that 1\IARY A :r.IYKiNS d~ mg th1s llftle affia!lt ~reated h1m for acute bronchitis; that the condition of · · hi.S lungs<lurmgaU this trme was tuberculous, and he had frequenthe.morrha.ges 

The bill (S. 170) granting a pension to 1\fary A. Mykins was consid ~ and affiant's opinion is that h~ contracted hisdisease durinv,- the late war. ' 

d . C 'tt f th Wb le It pro oses to 1 th James J. 11IcLane, late C:l.pta.m Company E, First .Massachusetts Cavalry tes- e!e as 1n omnn ee O e o · . · . P P ~ce on e ~en- tifies, April, 1880, that he was well acquainted with deceased, who was a s~und 

s1on-roll ~he name of :Mary A. Mykins, Widow of D~mel J. !dYkins, man at his «;lnlistment; that from .:;xpo~ure, etc ... at Fort McHe~1ry, Baltimore, 

late captain. of Company E One hundred and seventieth Regiment of was taken &ck from a bad cold, which disabled him, and for which he was sent 

N Y k V 1 ' to bospital for treatment, where affiant frequently saw him suffering from ew o: 0 unteers. . hemorrhage and gr~t weakness, which eventUJl.lly en used his death. Affiant 

The bill was reported to the Senate Without amendment, ordered to was with him during his service, and after his discharge until his death. Affiant 

be engrossed for a third reading, re..1.d tbe third time, and passed. saw deceased. after his discharge. in Little Washington, N. C., where be had a 

WILJ .. IA1\I HEALEY. 

The bill (S. 806) granting a pens-ion to William Healey was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of William Healey, late a private in Company L, 

Second Regiment illinois Light Artillery. 

The _bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered tQ 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed.. 

BASILE CHAJ\IPAGNE. · 

The bill (S. 801) granting a pension to Basile Champagne was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Basile Champagne, late private in Company B, 

First Wisconsin Volunteers. 

The bill was reportea to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed_. 

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turn of bleedmg, and afterward, I.n the fall of 1863, at Fort 'Washington, where 

he was so bad that affiant had h1m placed on a bed nnd can-ied to a. hospital "w~ere I saw him se-...e~l times bleeding from the lungs." Atfumt saw hin{ 

agmn at Roanoke IsJ..and, 1n 1865, where he wa.s.empl~y~d in the quar.termaster's 

department as clerk. He was then troubled With sp1tting blood from his Jnno-s 

and after his discharge from that service until his death "throwing blood f~n{ his lungs." I • 

George P .Burt tes~ifies that h.e saw the d.e?eased the_next day after his discharge, when he appCU!ed m a very Slckly condition, su.ffermg apparently from disease 

of some of h1s v1t-al organs. and thereafter frequently saw him have hemorrhao-es 

until his death. In May, 186!?, when troops were called for, he started for the seat of war, but was unable to go beyond Boston. In February 1863 affiant 

called on deceased and found him bleeding from the lungs. In June 1863' thedec.;a:>ed was appointed emolling officer for the draft. but owing to hi~ feeble con- dition was unable to accept. He soon afterleftforihefront, where heremain'ed 

until the spring of 1866, when he came home feeble and still suffering from frequent attacks of hemorrhage. He never rallied, but gradually failed fmm frequent attacks until his death. 

Eliza 0. Regan testifies that when deceased came hQme he was very feeble 

appearing like a person with consumption. ' 

Isaac Davis testifies that prior to deceased's enlistment he was a student in 
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affiant's office, and to all appearance he was a strong, robust, healthy man, and horse, rendering him sensel~ss, and from which resulted partial paralysis _of 

free from any disease or bodily injury. both legs and of the remaining arm, deafness ,in the right ear, and: 1n:ent~~ di~· 

Twenty of deceased's neighbors and townsmen testify that he was sound at orders co_nsequent upon concussion of the bra.m. Added to these mtirm1t1es HI 

enlistment and free from disease. the loss of an eye, which occurred as o. special dispensation, and is not charge- In reference to the application for a rehearing of the case, in 1881, a report on able to his military service. 

file in the Pension Office states: · ..... It is in evidence from successive boards of medical examiners, as well as from 

''Claim was rejected June 9, 1879, on the ground that the disease-phthisis- private and unofficial physicians. that his injuries have rendered him practically which caused soldier's death was not the result of his military service. In my helpless, requiring the services of an att-endant in nearly every process and fun.copinion the additional evidence on which claim is readmitted is not sufficient tion of life-in dressing and in walking, in lying down and in rising up, ~nd m on which to base a change of action. It now appears from the testimony of Dr. the eating as well as in the final disposition of his food. This evidence IS c_on- McNulty th.:it he did not attend soldier up to time of his death, so we have no tinuous, and is strengthened in its cumulative effect by the attempt-ed tech meal 

medical testimony or record to show cause of death." impeachment by a pension agent, who, finding that the captain bad walked the 

'l'he testimony is uniform, however, that out of the fourteen or more years length of a block in a. city, and, under inspiring conditions of strength and 

which elapsed between his discharge and demise, only a. fraction of a year, and weather, had covered a larger space in the country, reported him-wi~b an ere that immediately preceding his death, is unaccounted for, and that during all and an arm gone, with tottering legs, and a reeling bra-in-as partially diSthis time he was under treatment for malarial and consumptive diseases or abled. 

ailments allied to them. Evidenc~ less pertinent and consecutive has in hun- Your committee think proper to embody in this report the following Jetter 

dreds of cases convicted men of serious crimes; and your committee think it is from Captain Allgower's commander, who was equally noted for his bravery, not straining the point of evidence or mercy in favor of the widowed and pau- his discipline, and his justice: pered mother of the dead soldier to conclude that testimony which shows n. "HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARTILLERY, 

sound condition of health at enlistment, serious and almost fatal illness during "Fcwt .Adams, Rhode Island, October 17, 1866. 

service, and a state of health from that time to death that required the regular "DEAR SIR: Yours of the 15th instant is received. I am very glad to hear 

attendance of physicians, whose concordant statements are continuous up to from you again, and that you are being well cared f?r. . within the year, and" a short time before his death," is sufficient and binding "It gives me pleasure to state that you served faithfully on ~y staff as m- upon their judgment, and that it justifies a favorable report upon the subject spector of artillery and ordnance officer from March, 1864, unhl you became 

under consideration. totally disabled from a fall with your horse tp the year 1865. I will always bear 

This is, therefore, herewith made, and the passage of an amended bill is rec- witness to your zeal and devotion to duty, and your sincere desire (and succ~ss) om mended, correcting the names of the said Margaret S. Murray and the said to always promp\ly meet the views and wishes of your com.mander in the hne 

T. Edward Murray to correspond with the facts, which amended bill is here- of your duty. Your knowlP-dge, too, of ordnance and artillery, and all subjec.ts 

with submitt-ed. connected therewith, was far above the general run of that of volunteer artilBefore the reading was concluded' le~?' ;o~c~~~~rve much credit, besides, in striving to the performance of arduous 

Mr. COCKRELL. I do not C<'lre to have the report read further. I service after you bad lost an arm in battle in the cause of your country .. wish to suggest an amendment. Before the word "mother," in line 6, "Your misfortune in a-ccidentally being thro,-vn with your horse when m the 

I move to insert the word "and." and after the word "mother" to performance of your d~ty, and thus totally disabling YOJ.l, was S6l'iously felt by . - , ' . me, ns I had no officer m my command who could properly replace you. . msert the word ' of.'' The language seems to create some confusiOn the "Hoping that you will continue to improve in your health, and that you will 

way it is now: ''the name of Margaret S . . Murray, of Worcester, widow receive the reward of your country for your important services, I am, very reof Henry M~rray, mother T. Edward Murray." There ought to be ' spect~~~'urobedientservant, some connectiOn between the words.._and I move that the words I have "T. w. SHERMAN, E. :M:. G., u. s. A., 

suggested be inserted, so as to read: · "ColoneL Third Artillery, late Com;nander Easter-n District Louisiana .• 

The name of Margaret S.l\Iurray, of Worcester, widow of Henry Murray, and "CHARLES F. ALLooWER, Esq., -r. 

mother ofT. Edward :Murray. "Late Captain &t•e'l!fy-~evenfh Colored .J..nf.a'Til1·y, · · · j "Et. IA.tkc's Hosp1.tal, New York Oity. ' 

That will explarn exactly the relatiOn. . . . In this case there is a mass of papers which sh?~ld suffice to define t-he status The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. The question IS on agreemg to the I of a regiment; covering a score of years; c?mpnsmg statements from nearly a. 

amendment proposed by the Senator from Missouri. 

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. scor~ o! doctors n?d many scores of a~quamtances _and attendants, and all es- tabhsbmg bv testimony the facts herem before detailed. 

The amendment was agreed ~o. Your committee believe that Captain Allgower has earned in service and sufThe bill was reported to the &mate as amended, and the amendments 1 fering the increase of pension for which he asks; and th~ bill for such increase were concurred in. ! is therefore reported favorably, and with a recommendatiOn that it do pass. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the Mr. COCKRELL. I move to amend the bill by adding at the end: 

third time, and passed. _ In lieu of the pension he is now receiving. 

The title was amended so as to read: "A bill for the relief of Marga- Mr. S.A. WYER. I have no objection to that amendment. 

ret S. Murray.'' The amendment was agreed to. 

c. R. THO::\iAS. The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment 

The bill (S. 335) granting a pension to C. R. Thomas, was consid- was concurred in. . . 

ered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to grant an increase The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third readrng, read the 

of pension to C. R. Thomas, whose pension certificate is numbered . third time, and passed. 

120171. I STEPHEN D. REDFIELD. 

M~i COCKRELL. I suggest afte~ t,he name "C.~· Thoma;s" to in- The bill (S. 1785) granting a pension to Stephen D. Redfield was 

sert late a corporal Company_ D, SIXty-fourth Regrment Oh10 Volun- 1 considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

teers," so as to show what he IS. I move that amendment. I pension-roll the name of Stephen D. Redfield, late a second lieutenant 

The ~~endmentwas agreed to. in Company .A., Thirty-seventh Regiment Iowa Volunteers, at $17 a 

The bill wa~ reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment month in li~u of the pension he is now receiving. 

was con~urred in. . . I The 1bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

The ~Ill was ordered to be engrossed for a thiid readmg, read the be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

third time, and passed. I REUBEN nROWNl\IILLER. . HENRY STAFFORD. . ) · · R b B ill . . . . The bill (S. 333 grantmg a pens10n to eu en rownm er was ':!-'he bill(~. 679) grantrng a pens10n to Henry Stafford was con:ndererl. considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to -place on 

as m Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pensiOn-roll the pension-roll the name of Reuben Brownmiller, father of Jeremiah 

the .name of Henry Stafford, late a member of Company K, Seventh Brownmiller late a private in Company H Forty-ei<Yhth Ohio VolunRegime~t of Iowa Veteran Volunteer I~fantry. · . . teer Infantry. ' 0 

The b1ll was repor~ed to t~e Senate Witho~t a~endment, ordered to The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a thud readrng, read the third time, and passed. be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

CHARLES F. ALLGOWER. BERRY DAY. 

The bill (S. 334) granting an increase of pension to Charles!<'. All- The bill (S. 737) granting a pension to Berry Day was considered as 

gower was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll 

place on the pension-roll the name of Charles F . .A.llgower, late cap- the name of Berry Day, father of .A.. L. Day, deceased, late of Company 

tain of Company I, Seventy-seventh United States Colored Troops, at I, Fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteers. 

the rate of $72 a month. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

Ur. COCKRELL. Let the report be read in that case. be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report will pe read. THOMAS s. HOPKINS. 

The Secretary read the report! submitted by Mr. DAVIS January 31 • The bill (S. 450) for the relief of Thomas S. Hopkins, late of Com1888, as follo-ws: pany c Sixteenth Maine Volunteers, was considered as in Committee 

The Committee on Pensions, t-o whom wa.r; referred the bill (S. 334) granting ' to t Th S H kins 1 te · an increase of pension to Charles F. Allgower, have examined the same, and of the Whole. It proposes exemp omas • op , a a pnreport: vate in Company C, Sixteenth Maine Volunteers, by reason of·mental 

It appears by the records in the case ~f Cb~rles F. Allgower that ~e entere~ incn.pacity from the limitation prescribed in section 2 of the act of 

the service of the United States as n pnvate m Company C of the Sixth Regi- ConoO'ress a'pproved March 3, 1879, entitled '_'An act making appropr:ia- ment New York Vqlunteers; that du~ing such service he l?s.t his left arm by a db t f C cannon shot, necessitating its amputat10n n~ar the shoulder J<?IDt; that_ by !eason tions for the payment of the arrears of pensions grante Y ac o on- of such injury he was mustered out of serviCe, and so remamed until his arm gr~s approved January 25, 1879, and for other purposes,'' to p1ty to 

bad time to heal; that thereupon he _re-entere~ the service and became captain him the same rate of pension, and the same arrears thereof, as if his of Company I, Seventy-~eventh Regiment Uruted States Colored Troops; that 

while on such duty he was h·ansfened to the staff of General T. W. She1·man, application for a pension had been filed with and allowed by the Comthen commanding the eastern district of Louisiana, as inspector of artillery aJ!d missioner of Pensions prior to J nne 16, 1880. 

ordnance officer. that while in the discharge of that duty be suffered a colll~- Mr. PLATT. I l'lhould like to hear the report in that case. ion with other horsemen, in which he was-thrown from and underneath hiS .a. -
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The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report will be re..'td. 

The SecrE)tary proceeded w rea-d the report subniitted by Mr. DAVIS 

January 31, 1888. 

Mr. PLATT. I withdraw the call for the reading of the report. 

The PRESIDENT pro ternp01·e. The call for the reading of thereport is withdrawn. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

ADDIE BELL. 

The bill (S. 1506) for the relief of Addie Bell was considered as in 

Committee of the Whole. It proposes to pay to Addie Bell, daughter 

of Maranda Bell, deceased, mother of John S. Bell, late private in Company C, One hundred and forty-eighth Regiment New York State Volunteers, the pension granted by certificate No. 231248 to Maranda Bell, 

computing the amount due to the day of her death only. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third re.o'l.ding, read the third time, ana passed. 

JAMES D. WHALEY. 

The bill (S. 753) granting a pension to James D. Whaley was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of James D. Whaley, of Lawrence County, Missouri," 

late of Company H, Fourth Regiment 1fissouri State Militia Cavalry. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

AUBlE S. HUTCHINSON. 

The bill (S. 733) granting a pension to Abbie S. Hutchinson wns con- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of Abbie S. Hutchinson, widow of Charles F. 

Hutchinson, late private Company I, Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, ~d passed. 

MRS. EI.IZABETH G. SCOTT. 

The bill (S. 944) increasing ·the pension of Mrs. Elizabeth G. Scott was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Elizabeth Goodale Scott, widow of Robert 

N. Scott, dece.o'lsed, late lieutenant-colonel Third United States Artillery, at the rate of $50 per month, in lieu of the amount now received 

by law. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

MARY E. JOHNSON. 

The bill (S. 337) granting a pension to Mary E. Johnson was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of Mary E. Johnson, dependent daughter of E. 

Johnson, late of Company A, Sixty-fourth Regiment Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

LOUISE PAUL. 

The bill (S. 749) granting a pension to Louise Paul was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll 

the name of Louise Paul, widow of Brig. Gen. Gabriel R. Paul, at $100 a month, in lieu of the pension she is now receiving. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third 1·eading, read the third time, and passed. 

GUARDIAN OF ENOS J. SEARLES. 

The bill (S. 738) granting a pension to guardian of Enos J. Searles, 

of Clermont County, Ohio, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. 

It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Enos J. Searles, 

late private Company L, Fifth Ohio Cavalry. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

STEPHEN R. SMITH. 

The bill (S. 286) granting an increase of pension to Stephen R. Smith was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Stephen R. Smith, late a private in Company C, Thirty-first Regiment Iowa Infantry, at the rate of $40 per 

month, in lieu of the pension he is now receiving. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and pa-ssed. 

GENERALS. W. PRICE. 

The bill (S. 433) granting an increase of pension to General S. W. 

Price, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to 

increase the pension of General S. W. Price, late of the --- Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, from $72 to $100 per month, Price 

having become totally blind, the loss of his eyesight being the direct 

result of a gunshot wound received by him while in the service of the 

Government in the United States Army, at the battleofKenesaw, during the late war of the rebellion. 

Mr. MANDERSON. I move to fill the blank in the fifth line by inserting the word "Twenty-first," General Price having been colonel 

of the Twenty-first Regiment Kentucky Volunteers. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment 

was concurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the 

third time, and passed. · ABBY J. SLOCUM. 

The bill (S. 169) granting an increase of pension to Abby J. Slocum 

was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to pla{)e the name of Abby J. Slocum, widow of JohnS. Slocum, late colonel of the 

Second Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, on the pension-roll at the rate 

of $50 per month, in lieu of the rate of pension she now receives. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

ELEANOR S. LAWSON. 

The bill (S. 175) granting a pension w Eleanor S. Lawson was {)On- ~ 

sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Eleanor S. Lawson, widow of Elias Lawson, late an acting ensign in the Navy. 

The bill was reported to the Senat-e without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

ANDREW FRANKLIN. 

The bill (S. 626) granting an increa-se of pension to Andrew Franklin, alias McKee, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It 

proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Andrew Franklin, 

alias McKee, at the rate of $30 per month, in lieu of the pension he is 

now receiving under an act of Cong.Tess approved February 28, 1885. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Let the report be read in that case. The PRESIDENT 1n·o temp01·e. The report will be read. 

The Secretary read the fqllowing report, submitted by Mr. PAD DOCK 

February 1, 1888: 

The Committ-ee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 626) granting an increase of pension to .Andrew Franklin, alias McKee, have examined the same, and report: • The claimant was a soldier in the Mexican war, and is now about ninety-five years of age. By special act, approved February 28, 1885, he was granted a pen- sion at ~ per month. He now asks for an increase of the same to S30 per month. The testimony which was produced before the committee at the time 

the bill granting him a pension was pending shows that the claimant saw hard 

service in the war with Mexico and was wounded in action. 

On account of the great age, the infirmities, and the total dependence of the 

claimant, the committee are of opinion that the increase should be allowed. 

They therefore recommend the passage of the bill. 

The bill was reported .to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and pai~sed. 

JAMES H. YOUNG. 

The Senate, as in Committee of the Wliole, proceeded to consider the 

bill (H. R. 2467) to amend chapter 191 of the private acts of the Fortyninth Congress, passed at the second session thereof, concerning James 

H. Young. It proposes to amend chapter 191 so a-s to read: 

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the 

pension laws, the name of James H. Young, formerly captain of Company L, 

Fifth Regiment Kansas Cavalry Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

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

JESSE H. STRICKLAND. 

The bill (S. 381) for the relief of Col. Jesse H. Strickland was con- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. 

The bill was reported from the Committee on Pensions with an am--lndment, in line 8, before the words ''a pension,'' to strike out ''that 

he be allowed" and insert "pay him;" so as w make the bill read: 

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and di:. 

reeled to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of 

the pension laws, the name of Jesse H. Strickland, formerly colonei of the 

Eighth Regiment of Tennessee Cavalry, United States Volunteers, and pay birr a pension at-the rate of $30 per month. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The bill wa-s reported to the Senate a-s amended, and the amendment was concurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the 

third time, and passed. 

The title was amended so as to read: "A bill for the relief of Jesse · H. Strickland.'' WILLIAM C. WAIT. 

The bill (S. 550) granting a pension to William C. Wait was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to restore to the pension-roll the nameofWilliam C. Wait, late a private in Company C, of 

the Fifth Vermont Volunteers, at the rate of $8 per month. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

1\IARY E. CRillMINS. 

The bill (S. 168) granting a pension to Mary E. Crimmins, widowof 

Patrick Crimmins, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. 

It propos~ to place on the pension-roll the name of Mary E. Crimmins, 

widow of Patrick Crimmins, 1ate a machinist's helper in the United 

States Navy, in service at the Naval Torpedo Station, Goat Island, 

Rhode Island. _ 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and ;passed. 
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LIZZIE WRIGHT OWEN. 

The bill (S. 42) granting a pension to Lizzie Wright Owen was oon- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Lizzie Wright Owen, only surviving daughter of 

George Wright, late :1 brigadier-general of United States volunteers, at 

the rate of $50 per month. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

MARY B. HOOK. 

The bill (S. 1412) granting increase of pension to Mary B. Hook was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to pay Mary B. 

Hook, widow of James H. Hook, late a lieutenant-colonel in the Army, 

the sum of $50 per month in lien of the amount she is now receiving. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

.ANN E. TEW. 

The bill (S. 167) granting a pension to Ann E. Tew was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-

-roll the name of Ann E. Tew, wiQ.ow of George W. Tew, late colonel 

of the Fifth Rhode Island Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third 1·eading, read the third time, and passed. · 

MARGARET 'E. PIERCE. 

The bill tS. 40) granting an increase of pension to Margaret E. Pierce was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It provides that the 

pension of Margaret E. Pierce, widow of Captain Henry Hubbard Pierce,-

late of the Twenty-first United States Infantry, who held the rank of 

major during the war of the rebellion, shall be increased to the amount 

allowed by law t.o the widow of a major. 

' The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time;and passed. 

JOHANNA LOEWINGER. 

The bill (S. 739) granting a pension to J ohnanna LOewinger was con- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. 

M:r. SAWYER. I move to amend the bill, in line 6, by striking out 

the name ''Johnanna," and inserting "Johanna~" 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be read as proposed to 

be amended. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

B e i t enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, au- thorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and 

limitations of the pension laws, the name of Johanna Loewinger, widow of 

Charles Loewinger, deceased, late of Company E, Twenty-eighth Regiment Ohio 

Volunteers. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment 

was concurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the 

third time, and passed. 

The title was amended so as to read: "A bill granting a pension to 

Johanna Loewinger. '' PETER STUSSE. 

The bill (S. 817) granting a pension to Peter Stusse was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It propo5es to place on the pension-roll 

the name of Peter Stusse, late a private in Company K, of the Ninth 

Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

BETSEY M.A.NNSFIELD. 

The bill (S. 809) granting a. pension to Betsey Mann.sfield was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of Betsey Mannsfield, mother of Franklin J. 

Mannsfield, late a private in Company I, of the Fifth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. • The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to _ be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

Al\IASTASIA WALTER. 

The bill (S. 816) granting a pension to Amastasia Walter was con- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of Amastasia Walter, widow of Peter Walter, 

late a privat-e of Company G, of the Twenty-six Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

DELIA U. PECK. 

The bill (S. 803) granting a pension to Delia U. Peck was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Delia U. Peck, widow of Thomas S. Peck, late 

private in Company (un..<tSSigned) of Twenty-second Regiment of Wis- consin Volunteers. _ The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

MELVINA GREENWOOD. 

The bill (S. 805) granting a. pension to Melvina Greenwood was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll t.he name of Melvina Greenwood, widow ofWilliam B. 

Greenwood, late a private in Company B, of the Sixteenth Regiment 

of Wisconsin Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

MRS. ELIZA L. MACE. 

The bill (H. R. 363) granting a pension to Mrs. Eliza L. Mace was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of ?!irs. Eliza L. Mace, widow of Richard E. 

Mace, late of Company I, Thii·d Maine Volunteers, deceased. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time; and passed. 

STEPHEN SINGLETO~ . 

The bill (~. 860) granting a. pension to Stephen Singleton was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place the name of Stephen Singleton on the pension-roll. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I move to amend, after the name "Singleton:" 

by inserting "late a private in Company G, Eighty-seventh Indiana. 

Volunteers.'' 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment was concurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third rea.ding, read the third 

time, and passed. ELIZA SU1\D1ERS. 

The bill (S. 4.72) granting a pension to Eliza Summers was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Eliza Summers, widow of Cornelius Summers, de- · 

ceased, late a private of Company I, Seventy-first Regiment :Missouri 

Enrolled Militia. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

JULIA A. RHOADS. 

The bill (S. 84.2) granting a pension to Julia A. Rhoads was considered as in Committee of t.he Whole. It proposes to place on the pensionroll the name of J nlia A. Rhoads, widow of James R. Rhoads, a soldier 

in the late war of the rebellion. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed fot a third reading, read t-he third tinie, and passed. 

OSCAR S. COLLINS. 

The bill (S. 413) granting an increase of pension to Oscar S. Collins was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Oscar S. Collins, late of Company F, First 

Regiment of Rhode Island Light Artillery Volunteers, at the rate of $36 

per month, in lien of the pension he is now receiving. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

JOHN IIU1\1ES. 

The bill (H. R. 365) granting a pension to John Humes was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of John Humes, father of George W. Humes, deceased, late a private in CompanyE, Second~.faine Cavalry Volunteers. 

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

FRANCES M'NEIL POTTER. 

The bill (S. 1317) for the relief of Frances MeN eil Potter was considered as in Committee of the Whole . . It proposes to increase the pension of Frances MeN eil Potter, daughter of the late General John 1\.fcN ~il, 

United States Army, from $30 to $50 per month. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed _for a third reading, read the third time, and passed.-

RANNAH C. DE WITT. 

The bill (S. 451) granting a pension to Hannah C. De Witt was con- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-rolls the name of Hannah C. De Witt, mother of George E. De 

Witt, late a private in the Seventh Battery Maine Artillery, who died 

in the service November 9, 1864. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and pas.'5ed. 

LOUISA PROVOST. 

The bill (S. 1884j granting a pension to Louisa Provost was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Louisa Provost, widow of Peter Provost, late a soldier in Company B, Seventeenth Vermont. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third r~'l.ding, read the third time, and passed. 

liiRS. MARY R. ARMSTRONG. 

The bill (S.1070) granting a pension to Mrs. Mary R. Armstrong was 

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considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of Mrs. Mary R. Armstrong, mother of George 

R. Armstrong, late a member of Company L, Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

WILLIAM RICH.ARDSO:N. 

The bill (S. 1638) granting a pension to William Richar<L~n was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name ofWilliam Richardson, late a private in Company 

K, First Ohio Artillery. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

SARAH ERRICKSON. 

The bill (S. 822) granting a pension to Sarah Errickson, widow of 

James S. Errickson, late seaman United Sta.tes Navy, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pensionroll the name of Sarah Errickson, widow of James..S. Errickson, late seaman United States Navv. The bill was reported to~the Sena.te~without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

W. A. LEMASTER. 

The bill (S. 647) for the relief of W. A. Lemaster was considered as 

in Committee of the Whole. It provides for paying toW. A. Lemaster, 

of !conium, Iowa, the whole sum of the pension due to George Lemaster, deceased, at the date of the death of George Lemaster, June 23, 

1873, the pen ion having been erroneously withheld.from March, 1861, 

during and up to June 23, 1873; but W. A. Lemaster shall first make 

proof satisfactory to the Secretary that he is the sole surviving heir of 

George Lemaster, deceased. 

The bill 1>as reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

MRS. BETSEY WINTERBOTTO:ll. 

The bill (S. 895) for the relief of Mrs. Betsey Winterbottom was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place upon 

the pension-roll the name of Mrs. Betsey Winterbottom, widow of 

John Winterbottom, late of Company A, Tweuty-seventh Regiment 

Wisconsin Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

CHARLOTTE C.AROLIN E HACKLEMAN. 

The bill (H. R. 120) for the relief of Charlotte Caroline Hackleman was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It praposes to place 

upon the pension-roll the name of Charlotte Caroline Hackleman, the 

invalid daughter of Pleasant A. Hackleman, late a brigadier-general of 

United States volunteers, and who was killed at Corinth, Miss., in October, 1862, at $18 per month for and during her natural life. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

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

MARY C. KNIGHT. 

The bill (H. R. 440) granting a pension to Mary C. Knight was con- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Uary C. Knight, dependent daughter of Luther 

M. Krught, of Franklin, N.H., late surgeon oftbeFifthRegimentNew 

Hampshire Volunteers and chief medical officer of the First Division 

Army Corps, at the mte of $18 per month, payable to her legally constituted guardian. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

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

JOHN. C. JOHNSTON. 

The bill (H. R. 221) increasing the pension of John C. Johnston was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It provides that the p~­

sion of John C. Johnston (certificate No. 45303) as private Company A, 

Sixty-first Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers, be increased to $36 per 

month. 

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

1\IARY EVERINGHAM BROWN. 

The bill (H. R. 880) granting a pension to Mary Everingham Brown 

was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Mary Everingham Brown, a volunteer nurse during the war of the rebellion, at $12 a month. 

JOHN GEIBEL. 

The bill (S. 8'24) granting a pension to John Qeibel was considered as in Committee of the Whole. ' 

The bill was reported from theCommitteeonPensions with an amendmen t, in line 7, to strike out " to date from the day be was discharged 

from the service of the United States;" so as to make the bill read: 

Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,au- thorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the pro>isions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of John Geibel, late a private in Com- pany K, First Michigan Light Artillery. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment was concurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the 

third time, aud passed. M. T. LINDSEY. 

The bill (S. 703) granting a pension to :rtL T. Lindsey, of Oregon, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of M. T. Lindsey, of Oregon, late a sergeant 

of Company B, First Regiment Ohio Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to tbe Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

ELISHA GRJ;SWOLD. 

The bill (S. 835) for the relief of Elisha Griswold was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll 

tbenameofElisba Griswold, formerly of Company F, Third Michigan 

Cavalry. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third tiine, and passed. 

OSCAR F. CARPENTER. 

The bill (S. 930) to grant a pension to Oscar F. Carpenter, Eleventh 

Independent Battery of Ohio Light Artillery, was considered as in 

Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Oscar F. Carpenter, late of the Eleventh Independent Battery of Ohio Light Artillery, for a wound of right leg, accidentally inflicted in camp in December, 1862, by a pistol in the hands of a comrade. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

JOHN A. TURLEY. 

The bill (S. 45) granting a pension to the widow of John A. Turley was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Cynthia E. Turley, widow of John A. 

Turley, late a private in Company E of the Twentieth Kentucky Infantry. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

HELEN M. RANDOLPH. 

The bill (S.1354) granting a pension to Helen Randolph was considerOO. as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Helen Randolph, widow of John Randolph, late 

of Company I, Thirty-fourth Regiment New York Volunteers, and of 

Company G, One hundred and eighty-ninth Regiment New York Volunteers. 

Mr. DOLPH. There should be an amendment by inserting the letter "M." in the name of Helen Randolph, making it ''Helen M. Randolph," and "S." after" John1" so as to make it" JohnS. Randolph." 

I move these amendments. 

The amendments were agreed to. 

The bill was reported as amended, and the amendments were con- curred in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the 

third time, and passed. 

The title was amended so as to read: ".A. bill granting a. pension to 

Helen :M:. Randolph:'' 

SARAH E. BRANSON. 

The bill (S. 854) granting a pension to Sarah E. Branson was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the name of Sarah E. Branson, widow of Philip W. Branson, 

deceased, late of Company F, Fortieth Regiment illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ord'ered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to JAMES COEY. 

a third reading, read the third time, and passed. The bill (S. 1413) to increase the pension of James Coey was conHUBERT 1\I. POTIER. sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to increase the 

The bill (H. R. 2457) to increase the pension of Hubert l\L Potter j pe~sion of JamesT Coey, late major of the <?ne hundred and forty-sevwas considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to increase enrh Re~lmen t, New york Volunteers, !.o $GO per month. 

the pension of Hubert M. Potter, late private Company B, Fourteenth T~e bill tyas reported to ~he ~nate" 1thout amendment, ordered to 

United States Infantry, to the amount of $45 per month . a third readrng, read the third trme, and passed. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to FRANCES ANNE PYNE RICKETI'S. 

a third reading, read the third time, and passed. The bill (S. 393) for the relief of Frances Anne Pyne Ricketts was 

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considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of Frances Anne Pyne Ricketts, widow of James 

B. Ricketts, late a major-general in the United States Army, retired, at 

the rate of $100 per month. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

SAMUEL BROOKS. 

The bill (S. 338) granting a pension to Samuel Brooks was considered as in Committee of the Whole. 

The bill was reported from the Committee on Pensions with an amendment to strike out all after the enacting clause, and in lieu thereof 

to insert: 

That. the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and di- rected to restore to the pension-rolls the name of Samuel Brooks, late of Com- panyD, One hundred andfifthRegimentOhioVolunteerinfantry; that such res- toration be made as of the date when the name of the said Brooks was dropped from &'l.id rolls, and that said Brooks be paid the pension be would have re- ceived from the date when his name was so dropped the same as if his name bad never been stricken from said rolls. 

~II:. COCKRELL. Let the report be read in that case. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report will be read. The Secretary read the following report, submitted by Mr. DAVIS 

February 14, 1888: 

The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 338) granting a. pension to Samuel Brooks, have exa.mined the same, and report: Samuel Brooks enlisted as private in Company D, One hundred and fifth Regi- ment Ohio Volunteers, "August 2,1862; was wounded at Fayetteville, N.C., on 1\'Iarch 16, 1865; was discharged May 16, 18€5; was pensioned at$! per month from November 2L, 1866, which pension, under the arrears act, related back to May 16,1865, and was t'!ropped December 1, 1870. The bill is for granting him a pension. 

The declaration of the claimant for a pension was made on November I7, 1866. It recites, generally, that his wound was received at Fayetteville, N. C., in the service and in the line of duty, on or about the 16th day of March, 1865, and, 

particularly, that "while on the skirmish-line and entering the said town of Fayetteville he was wounded by a musket-ball from the rebels, passing through his left arm above the elbow, and through the left breast super.ficiully," etc. Upon this declaration, the testimony of two comrades, one of whom saw him shot, and the other who knew of the fact from seeing him several days before and after the wound was received, and the company-roll of that date reporting him "absent, wounded," the pension was granted for the sum and of the dnte above mentioned. The claimant is an illiterate man, unskilled in expression, and the declaration for the pension was written by~ person who, as the papers show, was clerk of the probate judge before whom the attestation wa-s made. 'rhe claimant drew his pension until December 1, 1870, when he was dropped without notice and without opportunity to answer or explain the attacks upon his character embodied in the report of a special agent of the Pension Office, 

who, under date of October 15, 1870, stated that "three citizens of Painesville, 

Ohio, and late members of Company D, One hundred and fifth Ohio Volunteers, informed him that claimant bad beenondutyas guard; that he bad been called in and reported himself at camp; that claimant was intoxicated at the time, and was cautioned not to go away, as the regiment was about to move; that, not heeding the admonitions of his comrades, he went off, and while away was wounded; that the report was general that claimant was wounded in a house of ill-fame." The concLusion of the special agent is: "The weight of evidence seems entirely against the fact that his wound was received jn the line of duty. and I respectfully recommend that his name be stricken from t-he pension-roll." In aecordance with this report, ba-sed on ex parte and unsworn statements, the Commissioner struck the name of the claimant from the roll, as before stated, on Deeember 1,1870 . .After this fact bad become known to claimant, ana.the ground of dhmissal ascertained in general terms to be that his wound was not received in the line of duty, the claimant, for the first time, as shown by the rec- ords, made detailed statements of the circumstances attending its inc-qrrence in a let.ter to the Commissioner and in a sworn declaration for renewal. The gen- eral facts thus detailed are that his regiment was in the advance as the army approached Fayetteville; that when they entered the town they were detailed for guard duty and placed in charge of properties; that his wound was received when he was relieved from guard and was obeying an order to rejoin his com- pany on receiving notice that the regiment had evacuated the town, and that it occurred at meeting on the street a. party of rebels in citizens' dress, with mus- kets, and who, on his refusal to halt and surrender, stabbed him in the hip with a. bayonet and shot him in th~ arm and breast; that he escaped from them and rejoined his company at a ponton bridge outside the town, where his wounds were dressed by the regimental surgeon, and from whence he was taken on a stretcher to an ambulance. The claimant states that Thomas Bowen, of Company A, same regiment, was with him when ordered off guard, a{)Companied him on his way to rejoin his company, and saw him shot. He protests that be has not knowingly made him- self responsible for any conflicting statement to the above; that he does not write readily and is obliged to depend on others, and that any contradictory statement which may exist is due to misapprehension on the part of his attor- neys; and that especially he never ill tended to say that he was wounded in a skirmish in which his regiment was engaged, or that he was wounded as the regiment entered Fayetteville, for the regiment had no skirmish. He denies the rumors of his being intoxicated and being at a. house of ill-fame, and avers that he was not with his company or with any part of his regiment from an hour after the regiment entered the place until he got back to it, after being wounded. Thomas Bowen, of Company A, same regiment, testifies in corroboration of the claimant in all essential points. 'Vhile the claimant, as many of his letters show, was making unavailing ef- forts to ascertain the precise charges against him, that he might have opportu- nity to answer and disprove them, and t.hus secure reinstatement, the secret- service division of the Pension Office was apparently more successful in its efforts to sustain the theory upon which the suspension was based, ;to wit, that the wound was incurred while absent from his command, off duty, and drunk. Four men, Taylor, Webster, Allen, and Grover, were found, who, under the im- munity of secrecy1 indorsed the statement reported by the detective to the Com- missfoner of Pens10ns on October 15,1870. The verbal statements of these men were forwarded to the Commissioner May 1, 1872, and were made to play an im- portant part in determining an appeal taken by the claimant from the Com- missioner's decision of suspension to the Secretary of the Interior, which appeal was decided on No,·ember 30,1872. This decision, after reviewing the whole case, concludes as follows: "Applying the principle hereinbefore alluded to, I am clearly of the opinion that the sworn testimony in support of the claim outweighs t he unsworn testi- mony against it, and therefore that the pension should be restored to the claimant. I do not deem the discrepancies existing between the two declarations of the claimant to be a sufficient ground for denying him a. pension, if his right thereto is otherwise clearly established. They may have resulted from a de- fective memory-a very common fault. They do not of themselves indicate an attempt to defraud the Government, nor do I find anything of any weight in the papers that goes to justify a suspicion of fraudulent intent. "Before the case is fully disposed of, however, I would suggest that every effort be made by your office to obtain the affidavits of 'l'aylor, Grover, Allen, and Webster as to their knowledge of the circumstances as stated by them t-o the special agent of your office. If they will swear to what they have stated the weight of evidence will incline against the claimant and justify a continued suspension of Brooks's pension, or rather an entire cessation thereof." The affidavits of the parties in question were secured by thedetective,McColm, and transmitted to the safe custody of the secret-service division. The animus which moved the <fetective and his conception of duty in a case of antagonism between a. soldier and his own official superior are indicated in the following extract from his report of January 29, 1873, transmitting to the Commissioner of Pensions the last of the four affidavits of which be was sent in quest: "The affidavit of Grover completes the testimony called for by the honorable Acting Secretary of the Interior, in order that the weight of testimony made under oath, that ofTaylor,Allen,Webster, and Grover, may sustain the decisism of the honorable Commissioner of Pensions in the case." If the detective had been inspired by a higher power than that which is cred- ited with furnishing his class their acuteness, he could not more tersely or happily have interpreted the theory on which the Pension Office had proceeded in this case from the date of the order of suspension. These four affidavits of per- sons living in three different towns ot two States, sworn to at dates twenty-seven 

days apart, were, as the originals show, written by the same band, with the same ink and pen, on paper of the same water-lininlir and texture, doubtless at the same time, covering identically the same facts, using the same and peculiar forms of expression, and are, on their face, not the unbiased testimony of bon- est men, sorrowfully compelled, in justice to the Government, to do an injury to a comrade, but the coinage of a slngle brain, the work of a professional affi- davit-monger, spiked throughout like thorns with malicious adjectives, and un- mistakably intended to "sustain the decision of the honorable Commissioner of Pensions in the case," even at the cost of an act so wrongful that, without the legal penalty, it ha-s all the moral obliquity or perjury. None of these affidavits state as a mat.ter of fact that claimant was at a house of ill-fame and was shot there, though they all suggest it, but all assert that claimant, after being ordered in from duty on guard, returned to his command in a state of intoxication and went away again against advice, receiving his wound during such later absence and when not on duty. These two specific charges- intoxication and receiving wound when off duty-being brought to the atten· tion of the honorable Acting Secretary of the Interior, through these four affi· 

davits of which be had suggested the procurement, secured from him on Febru· ary 25, 1873, an affirmance of his suggestion of November 30, 1872, and a confir- mation of the Commissioner's suspension of the claimant's pension. It will be impracticable t-o follow in full detail thesubsequentsteps in the case. Frequent appeals were made by the claimant and his attorney to be informed of the alleged facts and theories relied on by the Pension Office in opposition to the restoration of the claimant's pension. One of these appeals, addressed to the late President Garfield, No,·ember 26, 1875, and by him referred to the Com· missioner,embodies the following sensible and manly language: "I reiterate my firm belief that a gross wrong is done this man by stopping his pension. Department officers act in good faith, I have no doubt, but the wrong comes from their practice of keeping from the claimant a knowledge of supposed facts and theories obtained through their secret-service division. I do not complain of the fact that the Government employs spies. I do insist that where the justice of their conclusion is strenuously questioned by a claimant he should be fu.rnished, not with names of witnesses, but with a detailed state. ment of facts and circumstances alleged against him." All appeals of this nature have been without effect. The Pension Office has rested secure in testimony with which it was satisfied, because it knew the detec- tive who manufactlli"ed it, and which it was certain could n<>t be technically 

disproved, because protected by the seal of departmental secrecy. The claim- ant's side of the case has, therefore, been conducted at manifest disadvantage, and according t.o the hints thrown out by chance and uncertain rumor. From the testimony obtained by claimant at various times since the suspension of the pension, and from that taken before different pension examiners and on file in the case, the committee extracts such portions as bear upon the issue raised by the affidavits procured by the detective of the secret-service division. The affidavit of Henry Bowen, of Company A, of the same regiment with claimant, details the circumstances under which deponent came to be in claim- ant's company at the time the wound was received. Bowen testified, March 13, 1872, as follows: "I was formerly a member of Company A., One hundred and fifth Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers, and wellremembe'rSamuelBrooks, the above-named soldier, who was a member of Company D, same regiment. Said Brooks was wounded in the left arm and breast on or about the 16th of 1\farcb, 1865, while in the performance of his duty at Fayetteville, N. C., under the following circum- stances, to wit : He was one of the detail toperformguardduty in the town, and was on duty most of the day. In the afternoon I saw said Brooks while pass- ing on the street, and stopped with him. When the troops bad left the town we did not receive information of it for som~ time-not until they had all got outside of the town. We were then notified by our sergeant to report to our companies, and we immediately started to comply. On the way we met five men dressed in citizens' clothes, and armed. They endeavored to stop us, but we would not halt. One of them charged bayonet on Brooks, and in the scuffi.e another one fired, wounding him as above stated. I did not see Brooks q,gain until we reached the regiment. Brooks was not stationed at a house ofill-fame, nor did either he or myself visit such a house during the time I was with him. Neither of us had anything to drink during the day. The shooting was in no manner the fault of said Brooks; we were at the time on the way to join the companies of which we were members. I was the only man with Brooks at the time be was shot." Marshall A. Tea.cbout, sergeant of claimant's company, testifies: "I was formerly sergeant Company D, One hundred and fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and well remember Samuel llrooks, who was a member of the same company and regiment.. When our right arrived at Fayetteville, N.C., on or about the 16th 1\Iarch, 1865, it was detailed, or at least a portion of it, to guard the place, and our major was"a.cting provost-marshal. Said Brooks was one of the detail, and was on guard a large portion of the day. I was in charge of the guard at that portion of the town. While on guard said Brooks was wounded in left arm; by whom I do not know. He did not leave Fayetteville with the company, but my recollection is that he came to it just as it was about to start, and was then wounded. He was not then intoxicated, and if any person has stated that he was wounded at a house of ill-fame it certainly was a. mere matter of conjecture with him." Orrin Snediker, member of Company F of claimant's regiment, testifies: "The regiment was there sent out on guard duty, and I distinctly remember that Samuel Brooks, of Com:pany D, went out with the regiment, and when we returned to headquarters sa1d Samuel Brooks was not there; but he returned within about thirty minutes, wounded in the arm and breast, aud I then talked with him about his wounds. I know that he did not retu.--n from guard duty until after he WBS wounded." 
1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 

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Reuben 1\1. Simmons, member of Company F, same regiment, testifies: I CalifoAi.a. He is a most important witness, and should be eeen and closely 

"We were ordered out on guard duty, and when we returned to headquar- questioned. 

ters, o.r within a f~w minutes after we got back, Samuel Brooks, of Company D, "I was unable to find but one comrade who knew anything of the case who came m wounded m the arm and breast. I know he did not return to his com- had not already testified, for the reason that since the rejection, or since the m::~.nd after he went out on guard duty until after he WI\S wounded." claimant was dropped from the rolls, he has scoured the whole country and R. G. Morgan ridge, captain of claimant's company, testifies: procured almost all the members of his company's affidavits. :• Was with the company at Fayetteville, N. C., and that the claimant was "In conclllSion, I will say that I am firmly of the opinion, from the evidence 

With the company at said Fayetteville; that when the .Army was there the before me, that this claim is meritoriollS. I believe the claimant WW! wounded 

One hundred and ~h Ohio Volunteer ~fantry was detailed f.? guard the town, a-s alleged, and had there been an open investigation in the beginning would 

and my company With the rest, aud cla.rmant went on duty w1th the rest of the never have been dropped from the rolls. I ani further satisfied that the ques- company. In order to better guard the town, it was decided to divide it into tion ofinto:rication is without foundation, claimant being a man always tern- districts, which was done, one company being assigned to each district. Guards perate; never seen or heard of being under the influence of liquor at any other were then placed at such places in the town as would preserve order and pro- time before, during, or since the war; is strictly temperate now; never touches teet property. In many instances guards were stationed at private houses. a drop of intoxicating liquors of any kind. 

Claimant went on duty with the rest of the company, and while on said. guard "Respectfully, 

duty, or before he rejoined his company~ he was wounded. I was not present "L. C. KEENEY Special. .&aminer 

when claimant received his wou~d, and aid not see him when he was shot, but :, JANUARY 31, 1885: 

do know that he went on duty w1th the rest of the company, and that when he "A d Th · t fl f th test" b d" d · tt.'- returned he was wounded. pproYe : e summary IS a rue re ex o .~ rmony em o Ie m UJ:t 

"I would further say that when the army moved out of Fayettevillet<>ward report. " . . LE~NARD MARTI~ .. Goldsborough, N. 0., the One hundred and fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry re- SuperVtS'tng Exam,ner, Cleveland Dtstnct. 

mained on duty in the town until the army trains had all moved out.; saidregi- "Ron. 0. P. G. CLARKE, ment covering the extreme rear of the army. I would further state that the "Commissioner of Pensions." . claimant was a brave soldier and did his full duty as a soldier while in my com- The record of the case, so far -as your committee have discovered, does not pany and under my command. The truth of the above statements I can per· show any attempt on the pm·t of the Pension Office to procure the testimonv of 

sonally certify to because I was personally knowing to them." the witness Allen, as advised by Special Examiner Keeney. Instead of that, 

It is proper to state with reference to Captain ~1organridge that in 1885, two Keeney is directed to take the testimony of two men who were not members yem-s aft(\r the above direct and positive testimony was given, he was subjected of claimant's company, and' who had no knowledge of claimant or his wound. to an examination before Special Examiner Loomis, in which his testimony, On this, under date of May 29,1885, Keeney reports as follows: w bile not specifically contra.dict<>ry of the abo>e, is vacillating and uncertain, and '' In the month of January I investigated this claim and then procured all the 

inclined, under the direction of leading questions by the examiner, to give color testimony that could be foupd in this section of county material to the point at to suggestions and innuendoes against the claimant. His testimony as a whole, issue. I presume from an examination of the papers that the claim was re- ifit possesses any value, is in favor of the claimant; n.ndparticularly as to the fact turned for the testimony of George L. Mason, mentioned in Loomis'e report, and 

of his being wounded before his retw·n to his company from standing on guard for that of Locy Swartout, mentioned in office list of comrades, neither of whom 

and so sustaining the theory that such wound was incurred in the line of duty: were members of claimant's company, and very naturf\llY know nothing what- In January,1885, the case having been reopened by the Pension Office for the ever of the cnse; never knew the man. review of old evidence and t.he introduction of new, an examination of wit- ''I am still of the opinion that this claim is meritorious. '.rhere must have nesses was had before Examiner Keeney. At this examination several wit- been some mistake in sending it back here. It should have been sent as per nesses testified, but at such length that the committee gladly avail themselves recommendation in my former report, where itwascertainevidencecouldhave 

of the succinct and intelligent summary made by the examiner. For the same been found. It seems to me that we should not enter into speculation until we reason the con:unlttee rely on the summaries ma~e in June, 1885, and August, have exhausted certainties in the matter of securing evidence in a. pension claim." 

1886, by Exammers Sweetzer and Parker, respectively. The committee invite On June 25, 1885, Special Examiner Sweetzer made an examination of Dr. John 

attention to the recommendations of each of these examiners, made with all Turnbull, assistant surgeon oft.he One hundred and fifth Ohio Volunteer In· the facts before them, and fresh from contact with witnesses who for the first fan try, with the following report: 

t~e in the his torr of the ~se, _instead of testifying ex parte, were' subjected to "Reputation good; unbiased; testifies that his age is forty-five; was nssistant 

rigid and exhausttve exammatwns The summary of testimony given before surgeon of t.he One hundred and fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and as the sur- Examiner Keeney, dated January 21, 1885, follows: geon was a por~ion of the tim~ acting as brigade. and divieion surgeon, he, de-

" CLEVELAND, OHIO, January 21, 1885. ponent,was assiStant surgeon In charge of the regrmentduringlasttwo years of 

"Srn.: I h11;ve the honor to return herewith all ~he papers and to submit my the war, he being at this ti~e the only medical officer on duty with the regireport m clatm No. 91319, of Samuel Brooks, of Pamesville Lake County Ohio ment; pel-sonally knew applicant. late a private in Company D, One hundred and fifth Ohio'Volunteer Infantry: "On the night of the 15th and 16th of March, 1865, we were called up before 

'l'he claimant was present and availed himself, as far as he desired of all his midnight, in line of march, at Fayetteville, N. C., and awaited and assisted the 

rights in the premises. When he was not actually present himself he ~as repre- trains in crossing the river on ponton bridges, acting as rear guard for our por- sented by Sextus Sloan, esq., of Painesville, Ohio, his attorney. tion of the army; the rebel citizens and rebel soldiers attacked our regiment, re- " The claim having been investigated by two special agents under the old e.1: peatedly firing upon us; and during this skirmish Samuel Brooks was wounded 

parte system, and some two or three appeals taken therein, I entered upon this by a gunshot wound in upper third of left arm ; also in left breast, and a flesh 

exl\minution with an honest endeavor to arrive at the true bottom facts if pos- wound in left hip, which had the appearance of being caused by a bayonet. He ·sible, and finally set the whole matter at rest. ' ' was brought across the river with a portion of our men, the last to cross and 

"Pension .is claimed for gunshot wound of left arm and left breast, received after crossing with him they laid him down by an old building, and one of the at Fayetteville, N. c., 1\Iarch 16, 1865. The only point involved in the claim is soldiers (I can not name him) came to me and told me Samuel Brooks was badly line of duty. wounded and needed my,_ assistance. I went immediately and found him 

"Samuel Brooks, claimant, alleges that the wound was received while on his wounded as above described. I dressed his wounds as best I could, and had him way to his company and regiment, after having been relieved from duty and placed upon astretcherandca.rried forward by his comrades to the ambulance 

ordered at on<:e to report; that h J '!ns .attacked by five armed citizens, one of which was the lust time I ha-ve ever seen him. '- whom ~hot h1m. It was a_bout mtdmght, March 16, 1865 ; Union forces were "It must have been 1 or 2 o'clock a.m. when he found applicant lying wounded 

evacuatmg the town. He did not report to his company and wander off and get as stated above; has no reason for believing he was not in line of duty when 

shot; was not under ~he ~nfluence of liquor; h~d not tasted a drop that day; is wounded, but believes he was; well knows the regiment had n. number of men and was n_ot then a drmkmg m_an ; never saw his company that night until they placed around the town at difl"erent houses; knows it because there were a num- came to hnn at the ponton bridge as they were moving out; was lying there her of rebels scattered around, and some of them were lying wounded in these 

shot. Manner, fair. Reputation, good. houses, and he (deponent) attended them, and thus he saw that some of our men 

"Almon ~r~ver, Unionville,. Ohio, testifies that cl~imant was, as he understood, were on duty, and he thinks Brooks was one of these. When deponent found. 

wounded 1n line of duty on hiS way to report to hls company after having been Brooks l;)oing wounded he was, to all appearances, perrecUy sober; if he was relieved from du_ty. Claimant did not, to witness's knowledge, report to his not he would certainly have known it; soldier was n?tt to his knowledge, in company, get relieved, and wander off and get wounded in a private quarrel· the habit of dri-!lking. He was a good soldier; no shiK: and no coward, and was not d.runk; ?r lmde:t; th~ influ~n~ of whisky; was a temperate, man of always prompt m performance of duty, and a surgeon very soon finds ont who 

peaceful disposition. This w1tness, 1t will be observed, is one of the parties pur- shirks and cowards are; statements given herein are given from a. record made 

porting to have testified before Special Examiner 1\IcCohn. He renotmces that on the morning sick report and prescription book of the One hundred and a~da.vit and makes a strong deposition in favor of the claim. Manner, fair, un- fifth regiment and partly ·from memory also; knew soldier sufficiently well to biased. Reputation, good. have known if he had been addicted to loose habits of any kind; believes him 

''Henry Scoville, Ashtabula_, Ohio, testifiest~athewason guard duty at apri- to have been in all respects a trusworthy, moral man; can not say whether 

vate ~ouse next~ the one claimant was guardmg; that the was relieved from soldier had any personal enemies. 

duty JUSt after claimant was and ordered to report to his company at once. that "Conclusion: From the evidence tnus submitted I am firmly of the opinion they were going to evacuate the citY>~ that he tookrighton"down the street after that the claim is meritorious, and that the applicant is clearly deserving of a claimant, though on the other side; kept in sight of him and one Bowen who restoration of pension. I myself saw and examined deponent's regimental sick was with him, and saw them attacked by armed citizens and heard the flrino-· 1·eport and prescriptipn book, such as a medical officer would naturally keep 

!hat w~en the ~fficulty arose he, witness, did not stop justthen to make a , clo~~ and therein I find laid down the important facts relating to dates, nature of 

mspectwn of thm~s,' but 'got away from there ~retty lively, himself; that the wounds treated, and final disposition of the soldier so far as within the medical next he saw of claiman~ w~s when they found him at the ponton bridge shot- officer's jurisdiction. I recommend the case for further examination as per re- wounded; that be WI\S mliue of duty when the wound was received. was not port of Special Examiner L. C. Keeney, dated January 21, 1885. 

d!unk or';lnder the influence of liquor; was notadrinking man· ~as going "Very respectfully, d1rect to his compa!ly when woun.ded. This witness is a man of bad reputation "A. H . SWEETZER, Special Examine1·." 

for .truth and verae1ty, but I was rmpressed, from the details he gave, with the The record of Dr. Turnbull's examination bears the following indorsement: 

beliefthathetold the truth as near a.shecouldrecall the facts Manner fair· ex- hibited no bias or prejudice. _ · ' • "In view of the fact that a majority of the witnesses who testifiedagainstclaim- ,, Samuel J. Potts, Painesville, Ohio, testifies: Woun1 as he understood it ant in a former ex parte investigation have repudiated their adverse testimony was received in !--lne of duty, • returning from post of 'duty., Claimant had and the positive statements as to incurrence in line of duty by good aml reliabl~ not reported to hiS company before wounded. first they saw of him was down witnesses, including that of Dr. Turnbull, I do not think, taking into considera- at the ponton bridge, wounded; this as they moved out; he was sober then tion the distance the witness Allen lives, the case should be held for his deposi- ~'!~drunk; wasatemperat.el?1an. 1\Iauneroftestifyi?g,fair. Reputation, good: tion. I think it should be admitted, and, withSpecialExaminerKeeney, think • James H. Taylor. '-';hiS 18 another one of th~ Witnesses seen by the special that i.f a fair and impartial examination had been held in the first place tho ~gent,_M<:Colm, ~nd\ while a man of good reputatiOn, has a. bearing and manner man's name would not have been dropped from the rolls. m testi_fymg whtch rmpresses one with the belief that he is either telling a lie or . "ROGERSON, S. E. D . not tellmg t~e whole truth. H~ goes' square back • on his affidavit to McColm as "SEPTEMBER 29, 1885." 

he harl:prachcally done b_efore m havingmadeana:ffidavit in support of the cl~im On A ugllSt 26, 1886, Special Examiner Parker took the testimony of Thomas nt t_he mstance of the clatm!I'J?t, and now:, before me, and in the presence of the Bowen, who was with the claimant when the wound was received. The con- • clmmant, he makes a depos1t10n supportmg the claim. Of course his conflicting elusion of the examiner's report is given herewith, but the testimont is so statements renders the testimony worthless either for or against the claim closely identical in all essential points with that given by Bowen fourteen years After he, himself, mentioned the ex parte statement made before McColm i before, and hereinbefore set forth, that its repetition is not considered necessary. 

deemed it proper .to cros.s-qu~tion him upon it, and did so. He is against ~11 It is as follows: 

pe?sions a?d penswners, and IS a chronic grumbler n.bout them as well as other "Bowen is an ignorant man, but told his story in a truthful manner, and I beth:pgs :Whic~ do not coincide with his particular views. ' lieve him. .1 am of the opinion that this is a just claim, and I would recommend 91arm~nt s final statements: F. 1\I. Webster, one of the witnesses testifying that claimant's name be restored to the pension-rolls. nga1ns~ hrm befo~e McColm, is dead t was killed by the cars some years ago· "Very respectfully, and Mmor Allen IS now, I am informea, r~dingin San Raphael, Marin Cmmty: "R. ,V. D. pAR~.'' 
1274 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:_sENATE. FEBRUARY 16, • These summaries embrace all the testimony, taken at the latest ope.g of -the case for that purpose, of sufficient pertinency to influence any fair judgment as to the merits of the claimant's case, the proceedings in which have been pre- sented with the degree of fullness herein employed that they might seJWe asa.n object lesson of the mode in which business has been conducted in a most im- portant branch of the public service, a purpose the propriety of which will fur- ther appear before the reflections on the case are finally closed. On November 30,1872, according to the decisicm of the Acting Secretary of the Interior (the point of discrepanciesin statements having been considered imma- terial), the sole question remaining open in this case was that of the incurrence of the claimant's wound in the line of duty. The procurement by the detective, 

McColm, of the affidavits of the witnesses Taylor, Allen, Webster, and Grover, 

averring that the claimant, when wounded, was drunk and off duty, decided, in the opinion of the Acting Secretary of the Interior, this question against the claimant; and such decision was formaJly rendered by this official on February 

25,1873. Of the witnesses examined during 1885 and 1886, abstracts of whose tes- timony are hereinbefore given, many contradicted all and all contradicted many of the averments of the four affidavit.s, on which alone there was found justification for withholding the claimant's pension. These latter witnesses, 

however, furnished only cumulative testimony; for, as has already been shown by the committee, the affidavits of Taylor, Allen, "\Vebster, and Grover contained inherent proofs oftheir falsity; and what the committee charge, the majority of these four affidavit--makers (oneofwhom is dead, and comprisingtwooutofthree who are still alive} themselve~admit and sustain in their examinations of Jan- uary, 1885. It remains, therefore, that the theory and action of the Pension Office in this case ar~ based on the e:eparte testimony of one man; and by inherent as well as externa1 evidence, by the affidavit itself, by the recanting oaths of his partners in wrong as well as by the unimpeached oaths of half a score of other witnesses, this one man is a thrice-proven perjurer; and yet upon this state of the case, and since these facts have thus been plainly demonst.mled and placed on the records of tile Pension Office, it has within the past year once more been sol- emnly decided that the claimant is not entitled to a restoration of his pension because his wounds were not received in the line of duty. The wrong and outrage of this secret-service system is, not that it sometimes uses qu.estionable means to secure jtlSt results, nor that by a more subtle cun- ning it frequently defeats conspiracy and fraud, but that its methods are applied to instances of technical wrong or simple discrepancy, and are thereafter per- petuated by the bureau rule of secrecy. If such secrecy were in fact total and perpetual, and so made to bear solely against the pecuniary rights or interests of the parties attacked, its evils would be comparatively lessened. But when to give force to needed evidence slander assails private character, and its poison, exhaled from ca.I·eless employes or the more vicious dupes of the detective, 

spreads broodingly over the homes of its victims, the wrong and outrage be- come intolerable. . In the case under consideration the pitiable aspect is not that of the suspended 

pensioner groping amid the entanglements of concealed evidence and making ill-afforded journeys to discover comrades who would certify to his courage and character, years after his case had been sealed and closed in the secret--service division of the Pension Office, but it is when the busy gossip brings to his wife's unwilling ears the detective's falsehood of her husband's incontinence and crime. lt is true that in this case slander did not impair the wife's confidence in her husband, and it is to their equal merit that such is the truth. Among the voluminous papers which make up this case there is a letter from the wife of the claimant to the Commissioner of Pensions, written thirteen years aller her husband had been dropped from the rolls, and bearing internal evidence that it was inspired by recent knowledge ofthesecretattacks upon her husband's character, as it also bears testimony of staunch womanliness and wifely de\-o- tion. The letter is badly spelled and inelegantly composed, but your committee venture to affirm that it was written by an honest wife and mother, to whom the pension is much for the comforts it would bring, but to whom it would be vastly more as the seal and pledge of the husband's honor and the family's good name. It is printed here without change: ''PAll\'ESVILLE, February 16,188-1. 

"Sm : I thought I would take the liberty of dropping you a few lines myself, 

seeing you did not answer my husband's letter. Now, all this talk that's about him is all fults, for I have known him from a boy up. Mr. Dudley, sir, I think that's a poor excuse to believe false stories. I think he had ought to have his pension. I think he bas sent in sufficient proof, and good responcible men. It does seem to me that Rowdeys words are taken nowadays before good respon- cible men. You know the best of men have enemies. Now, if I could find out who those boys are he would make them prove it. I wish you would le~ me know if you could. Samuel's health is very poor and he can not work as other men can. His wounds bothers him dreadful bad. Oh, how they do pain him be- fore a storm, and yet growing worse. My husband was a ·strong, healthy boy when he went into the army, and he has never had a days' good health since he came out. He has been a great distance to get his captain's affidavits and others also. They have respected him enough to drop him a card to see if he has redeemed his pension. "If he was such a. man as they sayhewasin the atmy, why would these busi- ness men be willing to help him. It has cost a great deal to go from one place to another, they live so fl\r apart. They all seem to think that he was a good 

boy in the service. But, Mr. Dudley, he did not go in for money, he went in for his country, done his duty properly, never came home on a furlough, served al- most three years until he got wounded, got an honorable discharge, like a man. His parents and relations are good Respectable and Responcible people, and mine also. N ow,l'IIr. Dudley, I have a weakly family to take care off, and a sickly man and little to do with. Now, Mr. Dudley, please let me know what further proof you want.. It would help me a. great deal. for I need it bad; for I think it due to me, for he has lost bothhishealthand wealth in the army. Now I hope I will hear a good news next time. '.£his money is due to us if farety is shown. No more at present. Write soon, if you please, and let me know what you are going to do about this business. "Very truly, "MARIA BROOKS. 

, · "M.r. W. W. DunLEY." 

Repeatedly since 1870, as the records show, on personal application and by at-- torney for copies of the charges alleged against the claimant, a declination has been returned, for the reason that it was in contravention of the rule of the Pen- sion Office-holding sacred by s uch rule not the character of the soldier, but that of his defamers, and making of itself a breastwork behind which the slanderer could safely attack the unsuspecting and the weak. Such a syst~m, so administered~Pis not merely pernicious and dangerous; it would be disgraceful in a despotism, and in a republic it is infamous. 

It appears to your committee, after a full examination of the records of this case,' tkat for the pa t seventeen years the Pension Office, in an effort to vindi- cate the feeble infallibility of a bureau, has not been careful to avoid trifling with the fame of an honest and faithful soldier, whose triple wounds should have been his protection; and, in such attempt·, has caused the expenditure of more money than would have sufficed to pay his pension from the date of his discharge to that of his probable death. It is clear that this soldier has been wronged; and the bill directing his name to be placed on the pension-roll is amended so as to make such restoration relate back to the date when it was 

dropped therefrom; and, so amended, it is hereby reported back to the Senate, with the recotnmendation that it do pass. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment was concurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be· engrossed for a third rea.ding, read the 

third time, and passed. 

MRS. F . SELINA BUCHANAN. 

The bill (S. 1985) granting an increase of pension to ?tirs. F. Selina 

Buchanan was considered"as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes 

to place on the pension-roll the name of :M:rs. F. Selina Buchanan, 

widow of the late McKean Buchanan, of the United States Navy, at 50 

per month, in lieu of the amount she is now receiving. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the thlrd time, and passed. 

JAMES JACKSO:N PURMAN. 

The bjll (S. 656) granting an increase of pension to James Jackson 

Purman was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to 

grant to James Jackson Purman, late first lieutenant in the One hundred and fortieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, a pension at the rate of $45 per month in lieu of the pension now paid him. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

MRS. VIRGINIA GRIER. 

The bill (S. 123) granting a pension to Mrs. Virginia Grier was con- sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of Mrs! Virginia Grier, widow of William N. 

Grier, late brevet b1igadier-general and colonel of the United.States 

Army, at the rate of 30 per month. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

TOBIAS :BANEY. 

The bill (S. 121) granting a pension to Tobias Baney was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pensionroll the name of Tobias Baney, late of the One hundred and ninetyfifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engroS:Sed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

JOHNS. COLEMAN. 

The bill (S. 1007) granting a pension to JohnS. Coleman was announced as next in order on the Calendar. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I think that had better go over. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill is objected to, and will re- -

tain its place on the Calendar. 

EDWARD DURA.~""r. 

The bill (S. 765) granting an increase of pension to Edward Durant 

was considered as in Committee of the Whole. 

The bill was reported from the Committee on Pensions with an amendment, in line 10, before the word "dollars," to strike out "fifty" and 

insert "twenty-seven;" so as to make the bill read: 

Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Edward Durant, late a private of Company G, Eighth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, who is now pen- sioned under certificate numbered 175166, and pay him a. pension at the rate of $27 per month, in lieu of the pension he is now receiving. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment 

was concmTed in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the 

third time, and passed. 

SOPHIA W. WRIGHT. 

The bill (S. 901) for the relief of Sophia W. Wright was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pension-roll 

the name of Sophia W. Wright, a volunteer nurse during the war of 

the rebellion, at the rate of $25 per month. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I move to strike out "25," in line 7, and insert 

"12." 

M:r. PAD DOCK. I hope the Senator from Missouri will consent to 

let the bill go over instead of pressing the amendment. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Let it pass over. Mr. SAWYER. Let it go over. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be passed over, the 

pending question being on the amendment of the Senator from Missouri. 

1\lARY 1\I. BRIGGS. 

The bill (S. 899) for the relief of Mary M. Briggs was announced as next in oi"der. It proposes to place on the pension-roll the DJ\me of 

:Mary 1\I. Briggs, a volunteer nurse during the war of the rebellion, at 

$25 per month. 

Mr. COCKHELL. Let that go over. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be passed over under 

objection, retaining its place upon the Calendar. 
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JAMES LUCAS. 

The bill (S. 1096) granting a. pension to James Lucas was considered 

as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pensionroll the name of James Lucas, late a private in Company H, One hundred anu eleventh Regiment Ohio Volunteers. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 

EMMA VON BE:RNEWITZ. 

The bill (S. 1717) granting a pension to Emma Von Berne\vitz was 

considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the 

pension-roll the name of Emma Von Bernewitz, a nurse in the Medical 

Department, United States Army. 

Mr. PLATT. There is no amount specified in that bill. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I move to insert '' $12 a month.'' 

Mr. SAWYER. I have no objection. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be stated. 

The CHIEF CLERK. The p1·oposed amendment is to add to the bill 

"and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month." 

1'he amendment was agreed to. 

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended; and the amendment 

was concurred in. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the 

third time, and passed. 

LYDIA D. HOLTZ. 

The bill (S. 811) grantinga pension toLydiaD. Holtzwasconsidered 

as in. Committee of the Whole. 

The bill was reported from the Committee on Pensions with an 

amendment, in line 8, after the word "infantry," to strike out "to 

date from January 16, A. D. 1869, the date of William F. Holtz's 

death;" so as to make the bill read: 

Nebraska to call up the bill to which he alludes, provided it does not 

lead to debate and discussion. 

Mr. PADDOCK. I think it will not lead to debate. It is Order of 

Business 39, being the bill (S. 300) granting a pension 1.o Urs. Juliet 

G. Howe. 

Mr. COCKRELL. I hope the Senator will not in"-ist on disposing of 

that question now. There are several cases involved. It will occasion some discussion, and there is a general bill now on the Calendar 

reported by the committee in regard to all nn . c8. I think it bad 

better go over until we can look "nto it a little further. There may be 

some speci:tl reason why this bill should be passed, but we have not 

time to look into it now. Mr. HARRIS. If this is going to lead to discussion, I decline to 

withdraw my motion. 

Mr. PAD DOCK. I made the request under the impression that my 

friend from Missouri, after the very full statement of the case I made 

to him, would not interpose any further objection to its passage. As I 

find now that be does interpose an objection and insista upon it, I will 

not press the matter. 

The PRESIDENT pro te•mpore. The Senator from Tennessee moves 

that the Senate do now proceed to the consideration of executive business. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the c~nsideration of executive business. After twenty-two minutes spent m executive business the doors were reopened, and (at 4 o'clock and 58 

minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until Monday, February 20, 1888, 

at 12 o'clock m. 

NOUINATIONS. 

Exec-utive nominat~ons received by the Senate the 16tl~ day of Felmw,ry, 1888. 

Be it enacted, etc., Tha t the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, au- thori zed and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and SOLICITOR-GENERAL. 

limitntions of the pension laws1 the name of Lydia D. Holtz, widow of William Charles S. Cary, of New York, to be Solicitor-General, vice Alexander F. Holtz, late a private in Company G, Fourth Regiment Minnesota Volunteer 

Infantry. McCue, resigned. 

The amendment was agreed to. REGISTERS OF LAND OFFICE. 

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment R. B. Wilson, of Russellville, Ark., tone reooister of the land office 

was concurred in. at Dardanelle, Ark., vice Adolphus G. Leming, term expired. 

?-'he ~ill was ordered to be engrossed for a third, reading, read the Henry W. Scott, of Jetmore, Kans., to be register of the land office 

thud time, and passed. 

1 

at Larned, Kans., vice William R. Brownlee, removed. 

THERESA" B. HOFFMAN. Edward G. Spilman, of Rapid City, Dak., to be register of the land 

The bill (S. 1665) granting a pension to Theresa B. Hoffman was con- . office at Devil's Lake, Dak., vice Henry W. Lord, term expired. 

sidered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pen-1 -.-

sion-roll the name of Theresa B. Hoffman, widow of E. G. Hoffman, I NOMINATION WITHDRAWN. deceased~ late a captain in the One hundred and sixty-fifth Regiment . . . . of New York Volunteers, and to pay her a pension_at the rate of $20 WilliamL. Bradford, to beconsuloftbeUrutedStatesatBarranquilla. 

per month, to commence from the date of the death of E. G. Hoffman, 

August 16, 1886. 

The Committee on Pensions reported an amendment to strike out "to 

commence from the date of the death of the said E. G. Hoffman, August 

16, 1886." 

The amendment was agreed to. 

CONFIRMATIONS. 

Exeeutive nominations confirmed by the Senate Februm·y 16, 1888. 

UNITED STATES CONSUL. 

J. Harvey Brigham, of Louisiana, to be consul at Kingston, Jamaica. Mr. COCKRELL. What is the amount allowed to a captain? . Is 1 

that the usual allowance? COLLECTOR OF CUST0!\1S. 

Mr. SAWYER. Twenty dollars is the law. This is the same as the Alonzo L. 1\files, of Maryland, to be collector of customs for the 

general amount. eastern district, in the State of Maryla~d. 

Mr. COCKRELL. All right. RECEIVERS OF PUBLIC MONEYS. 

The bill was reported. to the Senate as amended, and the amendment . . . was concurred in. Charles M. Foree, of Shelbyville, Ky., to be receiver of pubhc mon· 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third eys at Lewiston, Idaho. . . . time, and passed. I J. H. Craddock, of Marysville, Cal., to be receiVer ofpubhc moneys 

DAVID W1LLIAlUS. , at Marysville, Cal. 

The bill (S. 830) granting a pension to David Williams was consid- j REGISTERS OF LAND OFFICE. 

ered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to place on the pen- ~ Lewis C. Granger, of Oroville, Cal., to be register of the land office at 

sion-roll the name of David Williams, late a private in Company F, of J.\1arysville, Cal. 

tbeTwenty-eigbtbRegiment of Wisconsin Voluntee1·s. Willis Holmes, of Natchitoches, La., to be register of the land office 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to at Natchitoches, La. · 

be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. Edward 0. Miller, of Visalia, Cal., to be register of the land office at 

EXECUTIVE SESSTON. Visalia, Cal. 

Mr. HARRIS. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration Francis F. Patterson, of Salem, N. C., to be register of the land office 

of executive business. at Lewiston, Idaho. · 

Mr. PADDOCK. I appealtothe Senator from Tennessee to give way Henry 0. Billings, of Alton, lll., to be register of the land office at 

to me for one moment to call up a bill which was passed over informally, Hailey, Idaho. 

Mr. HARRIS. REVE~TUE SERVICE. I do not bear the Senator from Nebraska. 

:Mr. PAD DOCK. I ask the Senator to give way to me a moment to 

call up a bill which was passed over on account of an objection interposed, which is ready to be withdrawn. 

JI.Ir. HARRIS. One of the pension bills that has been passed over 

to-day? 

::l'l1r. PADDOCK. Yes, sir. ' 

Mr. HARRIS. For that purpose I will withdraw the motion, but! 

beg to say to Senators that if I were to yield to one, I should have to 

yield to every other one; but inasmuch as the Senate, by unanimous 

consent, agreed to take up pension bills, I will allow the Senator from 

Fred R. Falkenstein, of Uaryland, to be a second assistant engineer 

in the revenue service of the United States. 

Second Lieut. Walstein A. Failing, of New York, to be a first lieu· 

tenant in the revenue service of the United States. 

Second Lieut. William C. De Hart, of New Jersey, to be a fu~t lieutenant in the revenue service of the United States. 

Second Lieut. Albert Buhner, of South Carolina, to be a. first lieu· 

tenant in the revenue service of the United States. 

Third Lieut. Horace B. West, of Pennsylvania, to be second lieutenant in the revenue service of the United States. 
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Third Lieut. George .A. Starkweather, of Wisconsin, to be a second 

lieutenant in the revenue service of the United States. 

Third Lieut . .John C. Moore, of Maryland, to be a second lieutenant 

in the revenue service of the United States. 

Third Lieut. Charles D. Kennedy, of Massachusetts, to be a second 

lieutenant in the revenue service of the United States. ·John E. Rein berg, of the District ofColumbia, to be a third lieutenant in the revenue service of the United States. 

Frank H. Dimock, ofMassachuset~, to be a third lieutenant in the revenue service of the United States. 

PROMOTIOYS IN THE N .A VY. 

Passed Assist.ant:Paymast{lr William W. Barry, to be a paymaster in 

the Navy. 

.Assistant Paymaster Leeds C. Kerr, to be a passed assistant paymaster in the Navy. . Commodore DanielL. Brame, a resident of New York, to be a rearadmiral in the Navy from the 4th September, 1887._ Capt. George Brown, a resident of Indiana, to be a commodore in 

the Navy from the 4th September, 1887. · 

Commander William Whitehead, a resident of Pennsylvania, to be a captain in the Navy from the 4th September, 1887. 

Lieut. Commander Charles .A. Schetky, a resident ofNewJersey, to 

be a commander in the Navy from the 4th Sept{lmber, 1887. · 

Lieut. Benjamin F. Tilley, a resident of Rhode Island, to be a lieutenant-commander in the Navy from the 4th September, 1887. 

Lieut. John 0. Nicolson, junior grade, a resident of .Alabama, to be a lieutenant in the Navy from the 4th September, 1887. 

Ensign George W. Den:field, aresidentofMassachusetts, to be alientenant, junior grade, in the Navy from the 4th September, 1887. 

Lieut. George T. Emmons, junior grade, a resident of New Jersey, 

to be a lieutenant in the Navy from the 1st November, 1887. 

Ensign .Albert W. Grant, a resident of Wisconsin, to be a lieut{lnant, 

junior grade, in the Navy from the 1st November, 1887. 

Naml Cadets John G. Tauresey, a 1·esident of Delaware; .Albert C. 

Diffenbach, a resident of Pennsylvania; Theodore C. Fenton, a resident 

of Pennsylvania; Volney 0. Chase, a resident of Louisiana; George R. 

Slocum, a resident of Illinois; William G. Miller, a resident of Virginia; George W. Kline, a resident of New Jersey; John P. McGuinness, a resident of Idaho Territory; Joseph Strauss, a resident of Virginia; Charles S. Stan worth, a resident of Virginia; Robert L. Russell, , a resident of Georgia; Harrison .A. Bispham, a resident of Pennsylvania; .Armistead Rust, a resident of Virginia; George R. Evans, a resident of Massachusetts; Edward W. Eberle, a resident of .Arkansas; 

.James E. Shindel, a resident of Pennsylvania; DavidS. Nes, a resident 

of Pennsylvania; Charles M. McCormick, a resident of Virginia; Glennie Tarbox, a resident of South Carolina; William W. Gilmer, a resident 

of Virginia; Robert E. Coontz, a resident of :Missouri, and Benjamin ·wright, a resident of Tennessee, all graduates of the Naval .Academy, 

to be ensigns in the Navy from the 1st July, 1887. 

PROMOTIONS IN THE .ARMY. 

Paul Shillock, of Minnesota, to be assistant surgeo.n with the rank 

of :first lieutenant, January 31. 

Second Regiment of Cavalry. 

Second Lieut. Francis D. Rucker, to be first lieutepa.nt, Janna~ 31, 

1888. . Fourth Regiment of Artillery. 

Second Lieut. Clareu'ce P. Townsley, to be :first lieutenant, January 

16, 1888. 

TM1·d Regiment of Infantry. 

Second Lieut. John H. Beacom, to be first lieutenant, January 20, 

1888. 

SECOND LIEUTEN .Al-.TTS IN THE ARMY, TO RANK FROM FEBRUARY 61 

1888. 

Third Regiment of Infantry. 

2. Corp'l William C. Neary, Company E, Battalion of Engineers. 

Fifth Regiment of Infantry. 

1. Sergt. James Baylies, Company .A, Fifth Infantry. 

Si.-vth Regiment of Infantry. 

4. Quartermaster Sergt. George A. Detchmendy, Third Infantry. 

Eighth Regiment of Infantry. 

3. Scrgt. Joseph C. Beardsley, Company B, Fourth Infantry. 

Eleventh Regiment of lnfantry. 

5. First Sergt. Thomas J. Watkins, Light Battery C, Third Artillery. 

'l.ivelflh Regiment of Infantry. 

6. Corp'l Earl C. Carnahan, Company G, Sixteenth Ibfantry. 

Twentieth Regiment of Infantry. • 

7. Sergt. Archibald .A. Caba.niss, Troop B, Fourth Cavalry. 

Twenty-second Regiment of Infantry. 

8. Sergt. Maj. Thomas 1\i, Moody, Ninth Infantry. 

Twenty-foutih Regiment of· Infantry. 

9. Sergt. Charles E. Tayman, Company K, First Infantry. 

Twenty-fifth Regiment of Infantry. 

10. Sergt. Thomas H. McGuire, Company B, E.ighteenth Infantry. 

POSTMASTERS. 

Orlo S. Rockwell, to be postmaster at Kent, in the county of Portage and State of Ohio. 

Morgan H. Hoyt, to be postmaster at Brewster, in the county of Putnam and State of New York. 

John B. .Abbott, to be postmaster at Geneseo, in the county of Livingston and State of New York. 

James L. Clark, to be postmaster at Glenwood Springs, in the comity 

of Garfield ana State of Colorado . J o1m H. Rolfe, to be postmaster at Penacook, in the county of Menimack and State of New Hampshire. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

THURSDAY, February 16, 1888. 

The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by Rev. Dr. BRUSH, president of Dakota University. 

The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and approved. 

UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY. BOISE CITY, IDAIIO. 

The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter· from the Secretary of 

the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the .Attorney-General of an appropriation for the improvement of the United States penitentiarJ!" 

at Boise City, Idaho; which was referred to the Committee on .Appro 

priations, and ordered to be printed. 

GEORGE W. CH.A.Pl\f.AN VS. UNITED STATES. 

The SPEAKER laid oofore the House a letter from the assistant clerk 

of the Court of Claims, tmnsmitting a copy of findings of fact in the. case of George W. Chapman vs. The United States; which was referred 

to the Committ{le on War Claims. 

W. R. BILLINGSHED VS. UNITED STATES. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the assistant 

clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of findings of fact in 

the case of W. R. Billingshed, administrator, vs. The United States; 

which was referred to the Committee on War Claims. 

J. S. THOl\fPSON VS. UNITED STATES . 

The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the assistant 

clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of :findings of fact in 

the case of JosephS. Thompson against the United States; which was 

referred to the Committee on War Claims. 

APPROPRIATION FOR MILITARY .ACADEMY. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the House a lett-er from the Secretary 

of War, recommending an amendment to the bill J:lll1king appropriations 

for the support of the Military Academy for the next :fiscal year; which 

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

printed. URGENT DEFICIENCIES, POST-OFFICE DEPARTl\IE~T. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary 

of the Treasury, transmitting an estimare from the Postmaster-General 

of appropriation for urgent deficiencies in the Post-Office Department; 

which was referred to the Committee on .Appropriations, and ordered to 

be printed. IMPORTATION OF .ADULTERATED FOOD. 

Mr. BUTTERWORTH. Mr. S~aker, I desire to present to the House, 

and to have printed in the RECORD, a resolution of the Cincinnati 

Chamber of Commerce, asking legislation to prevent the importation of 

adulterated art.icles of food. 

The SPEAKER. The resolution will be 1·eferred to the Committoo on Ways and Means, and, in the absence of objection, will oo printed 

in the RECORD. 

The resolution is as follows: To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in CO'Jl{lress assemblecl: 

The board of directors of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and Mer- chants' Exchange has 1·ecently memorialized your bodies for the enactment of 

such laws as will prevent the mixture ot certain articles of human food, hurtful or otherwise, to be sold under names that were calcu~a~ed to pra~tice an impo· sition upon consumers, on the one hand, and to work lUJury to great industnes, on the other. This was intended in its application to reach, in general terms, 

articles of domestic production. We, however, can not fairly impose exactions upon our own people which do not attach to articles produced in other lands. We do therefore pray that such laws may be enacted as will prevent the introduction into this country of all adulterated, mixed, doctored, or compoun_ded articles entering into the consumption of the people, whether of food or drmk, 

under any other name than that which legitimat-ely pertains to the same,~ the 

end that the health of the people may be protected, a better code of bus1.ness 

morals created, and that honest industry, both at home and abroad, may find 

suitable encouragement and protedion. LEVI 0. GOODALE, President. 

WM. E. HUTTON, SecretanJ. 

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. PLATT, one of its clerks, a::1• 

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