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"ing enrolled bills; and they were thereupon signed by the President 

pro tempore: 

A bill (H. R. 1528) to reward the Esquimaux natives of the Asiatic 

coast of the Arctic Ocean for acts of humanity to shipwrecked seamen; 

A bill (H. R. 1589) to provideior holdingtermsofthe UnitedStates 

courts at Mississippi City; 

A bill (H. R. 5373) to change the location of a certain alley in the 

city ofWashington; and • A bill (H. R. 5723) to amend section 461 of the Revised Statutes, reguln.ting fees for exemplifications of land patents, and for other purposes. 

EXECUTIVE SESSION. 

· Mr. HARRIS. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration 

of executive business. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair first lays before the Senate the unfinished business, being the bill (H. H. 5034) to provide for 

the pnrcbuse of United States bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

The Senator from Tennessee moves that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executi...-e business. 

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the consideration of execul.ive business. After seven minutes spent in executive 

session the doors were reopened, and (at4o'clockand 53 minutes p. m.) 

the Senate· adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, March 27, 1888, at 12 

o'clock m. 

NO~HNATIONS. 

Executive nominations receivecl by the Senate the 26tlt day of JJfarcl~, 1888. 

RECEIVERS OF PUBLIC 1\IONEYS. 

E. Nelson Fitch, of-Ludington, Mich., to be receiver of public moneys 

at Grayling (formerly Reed City), Mich., vice William H. C. Mitchell, 

term expired. 

1\Ir. Fitch was nominated to the Senate January 4, 1888, to be receiver of public moneys at Reed City, and so confirmed. Said office bas 

been removed to Grayling. 

Francis T. Anderson, of Del Norte, Colo., to be receiver of public 

t;loneys at Del Norte, Colo., vice Charles A. Coryell, resigned. 

REGISTER OF LAND OFFICE. 

J. H. Woodworth, ofWaupaea, Wis., to be register of the land office 

at :Menasha, Wis., vice Henry Cornelius, deceased. 

INDIAN AGENT. 

Thomas McCunni:ff, of Alamosa, Colo., to be agent for the Indians of 

the Southern Ute agency in Colorado, vice Christian F. Stollsteimer, 

removed. 

CHIEF OF BUREAU OF MEDICINE .AND SURGERY. 

John M:. Browne, medical director, to be Surgeon-General and Chief 

of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the Department ofthe Navy, 

with the relative rank of commodore, to fill a vacancy arising from-the 

expiration of the term of office of the present incumbent, which occurs 

March 27, 1888. 

POSTMASTERS. 

Stephen W. Coffman, to be postmaster at Watsonville, in the county 

of Santa Cruz and State of California, in the place ·of George B. Card, 

whose commi3sion expired March 24, 1888. 

Deuton E. Bingham, to be postmaster at Sout.hington, in the oounty 

of Hartford and State of Connecticut, in the place of John Hemingway, whose commission expires April 2, 1888. 

Nicholas Morper, to be postmaster at South Evanston, in the county 

of Cook and State of Illinois, in the place of Nicholas Morper, whose 

commission e1..-pires AprilS, 1888. 

John H. Andrick, to be postmaster at McGregor, in the county of 

Clayton and State of Iowa, in the place of RudolphusHubbard, whose 

commission expires .April23, 1888. . William E. Hottman, to be postmaster at Ellinwood, in the county 

of Barton and St..1.te of Kansas, the appointment of a postmaster for 

the said office having, by law, become vested in the President from and 

after Oetober 1, 1887. . C. W. Richardson, to be postmaster at Somerset, in the county of 

Pulaski and State of Kentucky, in the place of John Inman, whose commission expires April 30, 1 88. 

Henry C. Norton, to be postmaster at Cottage City, in the county of 

Dukes and State of Massachusetts, in the place of Francis P. Vincent, 

whose commission expires April 9, 1888. 

Josiah D. Richards, to be postmaster at North Attleborough, in the 

county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, in the place of Burrill 

Porter, jr., whose commission expires April 8, 1888. 

Paul W. Grier,pon, to be postmaster at Calumet, in the county of Hou~hton and State of Michigan, in the place of Albert T. Streeter, 

who e commission expires April 15, 1888. Amos Cogswell, to be postmaster at Owatonna, in the county of Steele 

and State of Minnesota, in the place of Lewis L. Wheelock, whose commission expired March 12, 188 . · James C. Frost, to be postmaster at Anoka, in the county of .Anoka 

and State of Minnesota, in the place of James A. Foote, whose commission expires April 8, 1888. 

M.D. L. Martin, to be postmaster at Water Valley, in the county of 

Yalabusha and State of Mississippi, in the place of William H. Brister, 

resigned. 

Barton ,uiorrow, to be postmaster at Neosho, in the county of Newton and Si!!e of Missouri, in the place of Hugh C. Armstrong, deceased. 

James D. Hubble, to be postmaster at Fairbury, in the county of JefferSon and State of Nebraska, in the place of Robert B. Wallace, whose 

commission expires April 9, 1888. 

Warren Clark, to be postmaster at Concord, in the county of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, in the place of George W. Crockett, 

deceased. 

William F. Jones, to be postmaster at Eaton, in tlle county of Preble 

and. State of Ohio, in the place of Benjamin Neal, removed. 

Allen G. Sprankle, to be postmaster at Millersburgh, in the county 

of Holmes and State of Ohio, in the place of Ni va Huston, whose commission expired March 12, 1888. 

William A. Sterling, to be postmaster at Shamokin, in the county 

Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, in the place of Darius S. 

Gilger, whose commission expired January 24, 1888. 

J ohu T. Williamson, to be postmaster at Columbia, in the county of 

Maury and State of Tennessee, in the place of Hugh F . Fariss; whose 

commission expires Apl"il15, 1888. 

Thomas Francis Meagher, t-o be postmaster at Sprague, iu the county 

of Lincoln and· Territory of Washington, in the place of John J. Burns, 

whose commissi<>n expires April14, 1888. . James Tiernan, to be postmaster at Fort Howard, in the county of 

Brown and State of Wisconsin, in the place of Peter V. Cottrell, deceased. 

CONFIRMATIONS. 

Executive no:ninati011s confir·med by tl~e Senate Ma1·ch 20, 1888. 

UNITED STATES CONSUL. 

Frederick W. L. Butterfield, of New York City, to be consul of the 

United States at Ghent. 

POST11IASTERS. 

J. Henry Browne, to be postmaster at Tompkinsville, in the county 

of Richmond and State of New York. 

John J. Stitt, to be postmaster at Sharon, in the county of Mercer 

and State of Pennsylvania. 

Eben H. Clark, to be postmaster at Honesdale, in the county of 

Wayne and State of Pennsylvania. 

John F. Cashen, to be postmaster at New Rochelle, in the county of 

Westchester and State of New York. 

John McLaury, to be postmaster at Belleville, in the county of Re· 

public and State of Kansas. • 

Executive 1wminations confirmed by the Senate llfarch 26, 1888. 

COMMISSIONER OF LAND OFFICE. 

Strother M •. Sto<:!kslager, to be Commissioner of the General Land. 

Office. · ASSISTANT COl\Il\IISSIONER OF LAND OFFICE. 

Thomas J. AndeTson, of Iowa, to be assistant :commissioner of the 

General Land Office. 

REFINER OF THE 1\IINT. 

John H. Dennis, of Nevada, to be melter and refiner of the United 

States mint at Carson, Nev. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTA'l'IVES. 

1\foNDAY, Ma1·oh 2G, 1888. 

The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by. Rev. J. H. CUTIIBERT, D. 

D., of Washington. 

The Journal of the proceedings of Saturday was read and approved. 

LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows: 

To Mt·. ANDERSON, of Mississippi, for two days, on account of sickness in his family. 

To M:r. WILKINS, for ten days, on account of bu iness. 

To Mr. SIMMONS, for six:· days, on account of important business. 

FUNERAL CERE:\fONIJj:S OF CHIEF-JUSTICE WAITE. 

Mr. GROSVENOR, by unanimous consent, offered the following res· 

olutions: 

Resolved, That the funeral.ceremonies o~ the lnte Chief-Justice ·waite be held in the Ha.ll of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, .March 28, at 12 o'clock noon, under the arrangement of the Supreme Court, a.nd tbnt when the House adjourns on the 27th instant it shall be until 11.30 a.. m. March 28. Resolt;ed, That the Clerk of this House notify the Senate and the Supreme Court of the passage of these resolutions. 

T!le resolutions were adopted. 

BUSINESS FROJII THE COIDHTTEE ON COM~IERCE . 

. l\1r. CLA.RDY. Mr. Speaker, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week 

hn.>e been set apart for the consideration of bills reported by the Com-
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mit tee on Commerce. In view of the unlooked-for and very sad event 

which deprives us of the use of Wednesday. I ask unanimous consent 

that the corresponding days of next week be allotted for the consideration of that business. 

:M:r. O'FERRALL. Mr. Speaker, I do not object, but I wn.nt to give 

notice that to-morrow morning, immediately after the morning hour, I 

shall can up the con tested -election case of Worthington against Post. 

Mr. DINGLEY. Mr. Speaker, is the order which the chairmn.n of 

the Committee on Commerce asks to hn.ve made to be on tho same condition as the one for which it is to be substituted? 

The SPEAKER. The Chair so understands. 

Mr. CLARDY. Yes; after the morning hour. 

The SPEAKER. After the hour for the consideration of bills. 

Mr. O'FERRALL. I wish to add, Mr. Speaker, that I suppose the 

case of Worthington against Post will consume only a. few mo!fients of 

the time of the House. The report in the case is a unanimous one from 

the Committee on Elections, and I suppose there will be no discussion 

whatever. · The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman 

from Missouri [Mr. CLARDY]? 

Mr. WEAVER. I shall have to object for the present. 

Mr. CLARDY. I trust the gentleman will not object. Unless we 

can ba.ve this order we shall lose both days. 

Mr. WEAVER. I am willing to let the matter lie over until I can have a consultation with some other gentlemen. The proposed order 

would interfere with business in which I am greatly interested, and 

which I think equally as important as that of the Committee on Commerce. I do not wish to object unless I am compelled t~--

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman objects for 'the present. This being 

Monday, the regular order is the call of States and Territories for the 

introduction of bills and joint resolutions. 

MINERAL LANDS, MONTANA. 

Mr. 'l'OOLE. Mr. Speaker, I baveapetitionfromcitizens of Montana 

with respect to the mineral lands of that Territory, and I ask unn.nimous consent that the body of the petition be printed in the RECORD, 

the petition itself being referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. 

There was no objection, and it was so ordered. 

'£be petition is as follows: 

To His ExcellenC'IJ the President of the Un·ited Slates and to the 

Senators and Representatives 'jn Oong1·ess assembled: 

Your petitioners most respectfully submit that they are all citizens of the United States, or ha;e declared t-heir intention to become such, and are all resi- dents of the Territory of Montana. That they are all interested in the protection anddevelopmentof the mineral resources of said Territory. 'l'hat the Northern Pacific Railroad Company claim nearly all the odd-num- bered sections of the surveyed portion of the mineral lands of said Territory, 

being gold, silver, lead, or copper, and bas already caused the same to be certified f.Q itself for patent by the Hnited States land officers in said Territory. ·· That said certification has been based upon certain plA.ts made by the deputy United States surveyors, and now on file in the respective United States land offices in said Territory, showing these lands so certified f.Q be non-mineral in theil- character; which said plats are erroneous, in that they designate large 

quantities of mineral land as agricultural, mountainous timber lands. That under the present acts of Congress, and the various decisions of the Sn- preme Court of the United States construing such acts, there is little, if any, hope of correcting the existing errors and of preventing said railroad company from acquiring titles f.Q these lands. 'l'hat only within a few years has quartz mining proved to be a paying indus- try in Montana, and therefore the lands bearing the precious metals are to a large extent undeveloped. That millions of dollars are now invested and are being inYested in the de- velopment of such resources, the benefit of which will inure f.Q the said railroad company if it is permitted to acquire title to the lands already ce1·tified to and to which it is not entitled_ That unless relief is granted said railroad company will soon acquire the ab- solute title to nearly one-half of the mineral land of this Territory. That the acquirement of title f.Q these lands by the said railroad company would not only work ineparable injury to the industries of the Territory of Montana and materially retard its t>rogress, but would deprive all citizens of the United States of the right given them by the statutes to locate and appro- priate our mineral lands, and would create one of the most colossal monopolies that ever existed. - Now, therefore, we most respectfully and earnestly pray that such legislation be had as will preserve the mineral lands of the Territory of Montana bearing the precious metala to the citizens of the United States and prevent the North- ern Pacific Railroad Company from acquiring any lands to which it is not clearly entitled under its grant. 

.ARSENAL ON OR NEAR THE TENNESSEE RIVER. 

Mr. WHEELER introduced a bill (H. R. 8832) to construct and es- tablish an arsenal on ·or near the bank of the Tennessee River; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

REFUND OF COTION TAX. 

Mr. OATES introduced a bill (H. R. 8833) to refund the cotton tax 

collected under the act approved July 1, 1862, and acts supplemental 

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

SITE FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS, SAN DIEGO, CAL. 

111r. VANDEVER introduced d bill (H. R. 8834) to transfer certain 

\)roperty now held for military purpOSC!S in the ci_!;y of San Diego, Cal., 

to the Treasury Department, to be held for the erection of public buildings thereon; which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

POST-OFFICE BUILDING, NORW ALK1 CONN. 

Mr. GRANGER introduced a bill (H. R. 8835) for the erection of a 

public building at Norwalk, Conn.; which was read a first and second 

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

ordered to be printed. 

LIGHT OR LIGHTS, ST. ANDREW'S BAY, FLORIDA. 

Mr. DAVIDSON, of Florida, introduced a bill (H. R. 8836) for a light or lights at St. Andrew's Bay, Florida; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be 

printed. 

PUBLIC BUILDING AT 1\-IOUNT VERNO:N, ILJ-. 

Mr. TOWNSHEND introduced a bill (H. R. 8837) for the erection 

of a public building at Mount Vernon, Ill.; which was read a first and 

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

and ordered to be printed. 

DEFINITION OF ''BREVET.'' 

Mr. TOWNSHEND also (by request) introduced a joint resolution (H. 

Res. 137) in explanation of and to define the term "brevet" as used in 

the military ln.ws of the United States; which was read a first n.nd second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered 

to be printed. 

CHICAGO, BURLINGTON AND . QUINCY RAILROAD. 

Mr. LA. WLER sent to the desk a. paper; which was read, as follows: 

Resowed, That the locomotive engineers and firemen of the Chicago, Burling- ton and Quincy road wish to call the attention of Congress and the public f.Q 

the facts of the trouble now existing on the lines of the aforesaid railroad, and present tbe accompanying statement, to be referred to the Committee on Com- merce, and that the same be printed in the RECORD. 

The SPEAKER. This is not in order during the call of the States 

and Territories for the introduction of bills and resolutions. 

Mr. LAWLER. I offer this as a resolution, the object being to get 

it be1ore the committee and have it published. 

The SPEAKER. It will go to the committee, if sent there as petitions usually are. • Mr. LAWLER. But, Mr. Speaker, is there any objection to the 

publication of this statement in the RECORD? 

The SPEAKER. This is not the time lo ask unanimous consent for 

that purpose. The Chair is now calling the States and Territories for 

the introduction of bills and re..c;;olutions for reference to the appropriate committees. 

PAY OF NAVAL OFFICERS. 

Mr. JACKSON. At the request of the gentleman from Illinois, 

[Ur. THOl\:t:As], who is unable to be present, I introduce the bill which 

I send to the desk. 

The bill (H. R. 8838) to equalize the pay of certain officers of the 

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

Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

INTERSTATE COMMERCE. 

Mr. KERR int1·odnced a bill (H. R. 8839) to amend the interstatecommerce law; which was read a first and seconcl time: referred to the 

Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. 

Mr. KERR :llso introduced a bill (H. R. 8840) for the establishment 

of a permanent court of arbitration between the United States and 

Great Britn.in and France; which was read a first and second time, re- ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

RAILROAD BRIDGE ACROSS 1\IISSOURI RIVER. 

Mr. STRUBLE (by Mr. LYMAN) introduced a bill (H. R. 8841) to 

authorize the construction of a railroad bridge across the 1\fissonri 

River at or near Decatur, Nebr.; which was read a first and second time, 

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

BRIDGE ACTIOSS OHIO RIYER. 

Mr. CARUTH introduced a bill (H. R. 884:.!) to authorize the Louis· 

ville and Jeffersonville Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Ohio River connecting the cities of Louisville, in the State of Kentuc-ky, and Jeffersonville, in the State of Indiana; which was read a 

first and second time, referrred to the Committee on Commerce, and 

ordered to be printed. 

INAUGURATION DAY A PUBLIC HOLIDAY. 

Mr. CARUTH also introduced a. bill (H. R. 8843) to amend section 

9!)3 of the Hevised Statutes of the United States for the District of Columbia, so as to make "Inauguration Day 11 a holiday within said Dis· 

trict; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. 

REFU~D OF COTION TAX. 

Mr. NEWTON introduced a bill (H. R. 8844) to refund certain taxes 

collected by the United States Goverument on raw cotton during the 
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years 1863 to 1868, inclusive; which was read a first and second time, 

:referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 

ARCTIG CRUISE OF S'rEAMER CORWIN, 1884 AND 18S5. 

Mr. REED introduced a resolution to print 5,000 copies of the report 

of Capt. M. A. Healey upon the cruise of the revenue-steamer Corwin 

in the Arctic Ocean in 1884; which was referred to the Committee on Printing. 

Mr. REED also introduced a resolution to print 5,000 copies of the 

report of Capt. M. A. Healey upon the cruise of the revenue-steamer 

Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in 1S85; which was referred to the Committee on Printing. 

PNEUMATIC GUN CARRIAGES. 

1\ir. COMPTON introduced a bill (H. R. 8845) to provide pneumatic 

gun-carriages for the War Department; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered 

to be printed. DANIEL W; PERKINS. 

1\Ir. TARSNEr in trod need a bill (H. R. 8846) for the relief of Daniel 

W. Perkins; which was reacl a first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 

JAMES E • .ANDREWS. 

Mr. NELSON introduced a bill (H. R. 8847) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue certain duplicate bonds to James E. Andi·ews in place of certain bonds destroyed by fire; which·was read a 

first and second time, referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, and ordered to be printed. 

STREET DIPROVEMENTS, DISTRICT OF COLU1tiBIA. 

1\Ir. RICE (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 8848) relating to 

street improvements in the District of Columbia; which wa.s read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. 

CONSTITUTIONAL CENTENNIAL. 

1\ir. HOOKER introduced a bill (H. R. 8E4 9) to provide for a joint 

celebration at the national capital in 1889 by t.he sixteen American 

Republics, in honor of the centennial of the Constitution of the parent 

Repub1ic, the United States; -which was read a first and second time, 

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

ALLOTl\IENT PJ LANDS IN SEVERALTY. 

1\fr. HOOKER (by request) also introduced a bill (H. R. 8850) to 

amend an act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and t{) extend the protection of the 

laws of the United States in the Territories over the Indians, and for 

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

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

BUSINESS FROM COM..l\fiTTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 

Mr. HATCH submitted the following resolution; which was read, and 

referred to the Committee on Rules: 

Resolved, That Thursday, the loth day of May, 1888, after the second call of 

committees, be set apart for the consideration of such business as may be pre- sented by the Committee on Agriculture, this order not to interfere with gen- eral appropriation or revenue bills; and whether so interfered with on that day o.r not shall be a continuing order until the bills presented by said committee 

shall be disposed of. 

NEW DESIGNS, UNITED STATES COINS. 

1\Ir. BLA.ND introduced a bill (H. R. 8851) to amend section 3510 of 

the Hevised Statutes of the United States, and to provide for new designs of authorized devices of United States coins; which was read a fu·st and second time, referred t{) the Committee on Cojnage, Weights, 

and Measures, and ordered to be printed. 

THANKS TO OFFICERS OF ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 

Mr. LAIRD introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 138) tendering the 

thanks of Congress to Lieut. A. W. Greely, Lieut. James B. Lockwood, 

and others, for their courage, energy, and fidelity in the conduct-of the 

late scientific expedition to the Arctic seas; which was read a first and 

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

to be printed. 

CLAIMS OF 1tiiSSISSIPPI, ETC. 

Mr. WOODBURN introduced a bill (H. R. 8852) to extend the provisions of an act entitled "An act to settle certain accounts between 

the United States and the State of Mississippi and other States, and for 

other purposes;" which was read a first and second time, referred to 

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

CLAIMS OF NEVADA. 

Mr. WOODBURN also introduced a bill (H. R. 8853) for the relief of 

the State of Nevada; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to. tl'le Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

LIFE-SAVING SERVT<"E. 

Mr. BUCHANAN introduced a bill (H. R. 8854) in relation to the 

Life-Saving Service; which was read a first and second time, referred to 

the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

UGHT-SHIP, SANDY HOOK. 

1\Ir. BRYCE introduced a bill (H. R. 8855) for the establishment of 

a light-ship,.with steam fog-signals, at Sandy Hook, New York Harbor; 

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

OVERLOADING OF VESSELS. 

Mr. NUTTING introduced a bill (H .. R. 8856) to prevent steam and 

sailing vessels being overloaded, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Merchant Marine 

and Fisheries, and ordered to be printed. · 

MILITARY MUSTER-GUTt ROLLS. 

Mr. WEBER introduced a bill (H. R. 8857) directing the Secretary 

of War to furnish States with copies of muster-out rolls; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee oil Military 

Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE MATTER. 

Mr. CUMMINGS (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. 8858) torepeal section 3893 of the Revised Statutes and amendments, relating to 

circulating obscene matter, etc. ; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and' or- dered to be printed. 

P A Y.MENT OF CERTAIN GOVERNl\IENT El\IPLOYES. 

Mr. CUMMINGS also introduced a joint resolution (H. Res.139) providing for the payment c;>f the employes of the Federal Government for 

certain holidays; which was read a first and S.econd time, referred to 

the Committ~e on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. 

RECALL OF A B.ILL FROM: THE SEN ATE. 

· Mr. CUMMINGS also introduced a resolution providing for t.he re- call from the Senate of the bill (H. R. 4910) entit1ed "A bill to amend 

section 14 of the act approved March 3, 1879, entitled 'An act making 

appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the 

fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for ot.her purposes,' and relating 

to second-class mail matter;" which was referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. 

USE OF MAILS FOR FR.AUDULENT PURPOSES. 

Mr. WHITE, of NewYork, introduced a bill (H. R.8 59) to amend 

section 5480 of the Revised Statutes; which was read a first and second 

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

and ordered to be printed. 

FIRE-ESCAPES, DISTRICT OF COLUl\IBIA. 

:Mr. ROMEIS introduced a bill (H. R. 8860) providing for the erec- tion of fire-escapes in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes; 

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

VOLUNTARY RETIRE~!ENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS. 

Mr. MAISH (by request) introduced a. bill (H. R. 8861) to provide for 

the voluntary retirement of certain officers of the United States Army; 

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

PUBLIC BUILDING SITE, SCRANTON, PA. 

1\Ir. LYNCH introduced a bill (H. R. 8862) authorizing the Secretary 

of the Treasury t{) exchange or sell and convey the property purchased 

at Scranton, Pa., as a site for a public building for more suitable 

property, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second 

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

ordered tQ be printed. · 

CLAil\IS FOR REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE. 

Mr. YARDLEY introduced a bill (H. R 8863) t{) provide for the settlement of claims of officers of the Revolutionary Army and the heirs 

of those who died in the service; which was read a first and second 

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

printed. 

SECTION 3887, REVISED S'f4TUTES. 

Mr. ·M:cl'lULLIN introduced a bill (H. R. 8864) to amend section 

3887 of the ReVised Statutes of the United States; which was read a 

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

and ordered to be printed. 

BUSINESS OF JUDICIARY COliBIITTEE. 

Mr. CULBERSON submitted the following resolutionj which was 

referred to the Committee on Rules: 

Resoz.t:ed, That Tuesday, the lOth day of April, be set apart, immediately after 

the hour for the consideration of bills by committees, for the consideration of 

bills nnd resolutions reported from the Committee on the .Judiciary in such 

orde r as the committee may designate, this order not to interfere with revenue or general appropriation bills. 

SECTION 725 REVISED STATUTES. 

Mr. UARTIN introduced a bill {H. R. 8865) to amend section 725 

of the ,Revised Statutes of the United States; which was read a first 

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

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PATENTS. ture should be recommended or not. In the event of a. favorable re-

:Mr. MARTIN also introduced a bill (H. R. 88B6) to amend section port it can afterwards be referred to the Committee on Accounts. 

d 1 Mr. SOWDEN. I object. 4881 of the Revised ~tatu.tes u~on the subject of J?atents, an repea - The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman from Illinois move that the 

ing all laws in confhct With sald ame~dment; which was read a :first resolution be referred to the Committee on the Territories? 

and second time, referred to the Comnnttee on Patents, and ordered to Mr. SPRINGER. I care nothing about it. Let it go to the Combe printed. , j..mittee on Accounts. 

F GHT-SHIP AT BUSH s BLUFF. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Accounts. 

Mr. BOWDEN introduced a bill (H. R. 8867) to establish a light-ship 

at Bush's Bluff: in the Elizabeth River; which was read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be 

printed. 

WORLD'S EXPOSITIO:N IN 1892. 

Mr. GEA.R introduced a bill (H. R. 8868) to proTide for a world's exposition at the national capital in 1892, and thereafter a permane~t 

exposition of the three Americas in honor of the four hundredth anmversaryof the discovery of America; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affhirs, and ordered to be 

p1inted. 

WATER SUPPLY IN DISTRICT. 

Mr. BREWER introduced a. bill (H. R. 8869) relating . to the matter 

of supplying water in certain cases in the District of C?lumbia; whi~h 

was read a first and second time, referred to the Comnuttee on the DIStrict of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. 

IrACKLED F·LAX. 

Mr. LODGE. I a.Ek unanimous consent to present at this time and 

have read, and printed in the RECORD, a memorial of certain hacklers 

of flax against the admission of hackled flax free of duty. 

'Ihe memorial was read. • 

1\lr. LODGE. I ask unanimous consent that the memorial be printed 

in the RECORD. 

1,1r. BRECKINRIDGE, of Arkansas. Let it be referred in the usua.l 

way. 

rrhe SPEAKER. The gentleman from Arkan. ••as .. objects. 

BE.l\"'NINGTON BATTLE MO:NUME....~T. 

1\Ir. STEW ART, of Vermont, introduced a bill (H. R. 8870) in aid 

of the Bennington Battle Monument Association; which was read a 

firet and second time, referred to the Committee on the Library, and 

ordered to be printed. 

PRINTING FOR NAVAL ACADEMY. 

Mr. HERBERT introduced a ·bill (H. R. 8871) relating to printing 

for the Naval Academy; which was read ar first and second time, referred to the Co~mittee on Printing, and ordered to be printed. 

PRESIDENTIAL POSTl\IASTERS. 

Mr. CUTCHEON introduced a bill (H. R. 8872) to equalize the salaries of postmasters at Presidential post-offices; which was read a first 

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

BONDS OF DISBUMlliG OFFICEBS. 

Mr. CUTCHEON also in.h·oduced a. bill (H. R. 8873) in relation to 

bonds of disbursing officers and to monthly payments of the Army; 

which was read a first and second time, referred' t{) the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordel'ed to be printed. 

AMENDMENT OF RULES. 

Mr. COX submitted the following resolution; which was read and 

referred to the Committee on Rules: 

Resolved, That Rule XXXIV of the House of Representatives be amended by 

inserting after" foreign ministers," in line 14, "the Secretary of the Smithson- ian Institution." 

CUSTO:\IS INSPECTOBS AT NEW ORLEANS. 

Mr.WILKINSONintroducedabill(H. R. 8874) toincreasethe pay of 

day and night inspectors of cnstoms at the port of New Orleans to an 

equality with the wages paid the same class of officials in the cities of 

Boston, New York, ·Baltimore, and San Francisco; which was read a 

first and second time, referred to the Committee on Expenditures in 

the Treasury Department, and ordered to be printed. 

ADMISSION OF STATES. 

Mr-. SPRINGER submitted the following resolution; which wusread: 

Resolved, That there be compiled, under the direction of the Committee on the Territories, a. history of the s eYeral acts relating to the admission oi States into the Union and the organization of the several Territories by acts of Congress, 

particularly with reference to the debates thereon, as shown by the Annals of Congress, Congressional Debates, or Congressional Globe, or RECORD; and the necessary expense attending the execution of this order shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House on the approval of the Committee on Accounts' .. 

The SPEAKER. The resolution will be referred to the Committee on Accounts. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I ask to have it referred to the Committee on the 

Territories. 

The SPEAKER. All matters I'e1ating to expenditures out of the 

contingent fund go to the Committee on Accounts. 

Mr. SPRINGER. I desire to have it referred to the Committee on the 

Territories, that that committee may determine whether this expendiWITHDRAWN LAND-GRANT LANDS. 

Ur. SYMES introduced a bill (H. R. 8875) to protect purchasers of 

lands withdrawn by the executive department of the Government as 

lying within the limits of laud grants in aid of the construction of railroads and afterwards held to lie without the limit'3 of such grants; 

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

the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. 

CLAIMS OF WORKMEN Ul\TDER THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW. 

Mr. ROCKWELL. .Mr. Speaker, I have a petition of citizens of 

seventy localities throughout the Union which I desire to present. It 

is a petition for the settlement of the claims of workmen arising under 

the eight-hour Jaw. I ask that the body of the petition, wbic¥ is short, 

may be printed in the RECORD. 

Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Arkansas. Let the petition bereferredin 

the manner required by the rules. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from .Arkansas objects. 

FOREIGN IlllMIGRA.TION. 

Mr. SMITH, of Wisconsin. I haV"e here a memorial of citizens of 

JHilwaukee in regard to foreign immigration, which I would like to 

have printed in the RECORD. 

Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Arkansas. Let the memorial be referred 

in the usual way. 

ORDER OF BUSL.~ESS. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. Regular order, Mr. Speaker. 

lli. BOWDEN. I ask unanimous consent to present a report. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. HEMPHILL] demands the regular order, which cuts off all requests for unanimous consent. The regular order is the consideration of business reported from the Committee on the District of Columbia. 

SECTION 4693, REVISED STATUTES. 

Mr. STONE, of Kentucky, introduced a bill (H. R. 8876) to amend 

subsection 4 of section 4693 of the Revised Statutes of the United 

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

ORDER OF B"CSIKESS. 

Mr. STONE, of Missouri. M:r. Speaker, is it in order"to present a report at this time? 

The SPEAKER. It is not. 

Mr. STONE, of Missouri. Is there no call for that business to-day? 

The SPEAKER. There is not. This day, after the call of States 

and Territories for the introduction of bills and joint resolutions, is 

assigned for the consideration of business reported from the Committee on the District of Columbia. 

CII.A.PTER 20, REVISED STATUTES. 

Mr. BURNETT, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 

8877) to amend chapter 20 of the Revised Statutes; which wus read a 

first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 

ordered to be printed. 

ORDER OF llUSINESS. 

:Mr. LAWLER. Mr. Speaker, I aHk consent--

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. HEMPHILL] bas demanded the regular order. Unless that demand is wi~­

drawn the Chair can not recognize any request. 

:Mr. HEl\IPIDLL. I withdraw the demand for a moment, as the gentleman [ Ur. LAWLER] was on the floor at the time I demanded the reg- ular order. 

The SPEAKER. What is the request of the gentleman from illinois? 

111r. LAWLER. I ha.>e a statement of the locomotive engineers and 

firemen of the Chica~o, Burlington and Quincy lines of road which ' 

they desire presented for the information and consideration of Congress. 

I ask that the statement be read and be printed in the RECORD. 

There was no objection, and it wus so ordered. 

The statement is as follows: 

Resolved., That the locomotive engineers and firemen of the Chicago, Burling- ton and Quincy lines of road present for thA consideration of Congress and the public a statement of the causes which led to the strike now in existence on the aforesaid rnilroa<l, and that said statement be referred to the Committee on Commerce, and for the information of the members of Congress the same be printed in the RECORD. 

THE FACTS AS THEY EXIST. 

To the public: CHICAGO, Marc]~ 17, 1888. 

. The officers of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy R.'lilroad Company have circulated Unoughout the country what we shall show to be a. very misleading 

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statement of the matters in issue be tween the engineers and firemen formerly 

employed on that road and themselves. For the purpose of more effectively 

misleading the public the circular is addressed to the engineers and firemen. Of course it is intended for the public. We shall not resort to the trick of addressing the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road, but address the public, for whom this is intended, directly. In the road's circular t•eferred to, which is under date of February 22, appears the following: "The important changes which your committee suggest are as follows: 'First.:- Pay to be governed solely by the miles run, without regard to other conditions or circumstances. 

. "'Secondly. A large average increase in existing rates of pay. "'Third. '!'he abolition of any classification based upon length of service, age, or experience.' " In relation to the first statement we reply tha t we have requested our com- pensation to b e fixed by the mile, because that is the method upon which com- pensa tion is based on nine-tenths of the railroads in operation in the United States. It is misleading to say that this compensation is sought to be fixed "without regard to other conditions or circumstances." True the re are some runs on branches of the "Q" road where the engine er's responsibility appea rs to be less that;~ that on the m ain lines, because he has to haul a smaller number of cars. But the road carefully conceals the fact that on all of these branches where the engineer has a smaller number of cars to care for he is compelled, at the end of his trip, to take care of his engine by performing the work known to engineers as that of a "hostler." The imposition of this labor upon him saves the company the expense of employing a man at this work. On the main lines the engineer's work is ended when his train is taken in to its point of destination, and the work of the hostler is done in the round-houses by an extra man employed for that purpose. It will, therefore, be seen by the pub- lic that the men who are supposed to have easy runs under the present system are compelled to do extra work in addition to those easy runs, and are so worked as to save the company the wages of a hostler. ·while it is correctly stated that we ask our pay to be based upon the number of miles run, it must also be understood that we care very little about the terms u sed by the road. They can continue to· pay by the trip in place of paying by tlle mile if they prefer that system, providing, however, that they pay us as much as other roads pay for trips of the same length. The fact is that it is as broad as it is long how the wages are computed, whether by mile or by trip. If the desire is to pay men honestly and fairly, without throwing any dustin their eyes, or in the eyes of the public, at the same rates as other roads, it will be seen that it isiDlmaterial whether the compensation is termed by the trip or by the mile. To illustrate: If a man runs 100 miles on a passenger train we say he should be paid 53.50. This rate is paid by th Rock Island road, the Santa Fe 

road, the 'Vabash system, and other roads too numerous to mention. The "Q" road, not desiring to pay upon the basis which would enable a fair com:: parison of its wages to be made with those of other companies, abandons the mile scheme and simply says: "We will pay you 53 for the trip,.'' which means, in other words, 3 cen t.s per mile for what other roads pay 3·} cents for. "\Ve think this pretense is too transparent to need very much discussion. Second. It is true that we demand a large average increase in existing rates of pay. But the public must not be misled into the supposition t.hat we are de- manding a large increase from the "Q" over what is paid by its rivals. If the "Q" gives to us the large increase which we demand, it will oiJly then place us on a footing with the employes of other roads, and it will only then be called upon to pay precisely what its neighbors and rivals pay and have paid for years. If it is a fact that it will require a large average increase of our wages to be made before we are pla~d on an equality with the employes of other roads-and we concede that it is a fact-this only proves that for many years the ·• Q," has had the advantage of shaving from its employes a large portion of the wages which it should have paid them. Although in justice we ought to ask it to make 1·estitution for the past, we do not do so. We only ask it to deal fairly with us in the future. In answerto the third point made by the road, namely: That we ask.the ab- olition of any classification based upon length of service, age, or experience, we have to say that that statement is also misleading. Our position is this: If an engineer be competent to take charge of the best train on the "Q" road, then he ought to get the best pay, and it is immaterial whether he is thirty or ninety years old. When the "Q" road places a man in charge of one of its great ex- press trains, and intrusts to him the precious lives of its patrons, by that act it certifies that he is a first-class engineer, and he ought to receive pay on the 1·oad's own certificate. Our position is: That a man' who does the wor~ of a first-class engineer ought to receive the pay of a firs~class engineer. The "Q,'s" position is this: It places a man in a position which requires at his hands the skill and ability of a first-class engineer. The first year he is in that position it pays him much less than a firs~class engineer's wages. The second year it slightly advances his wages, but still keeps them less than the first-class engineers. The third year he is paid their highest wages for an en- gineer. The result is that it is constantly gaining from the men who are only 

serving in their first and second year a large discount of wages. It also gains all the percentages in this transaction, because a number of men who work the first or second year do not stay in the company's employ long enough to be en- titled to the first-class wages that are given to the man who has served his third year. These first and second year men who happen to leave to engage in other occupations are replaced by other first and second year men, and so the road manalfes to keep a large percentage of employes at under rates. We have no objectiOn to its paying those who have been a long time on the road any extra gratuity it wishes. Nor will we e"'er complain if in its generosity it desires to pension men who have served it faithfully for a great many years. But we do msist that one of two things must be true: Either, first, that the engineers are firs~class men and entitled to first-class pay; or, second, that the public is de- cei>ed when it is asked to travel on trains run by men who are entitled only to second or t-hird-class con~pensation. 

What is said in relation to the engineer applies also to the case of the fireman, because on all the roads the fireman's wages are based upon those of the en- gineer, and the fireman r eceives from 55 to 60 per cent. of what the engineer's wages are. Therefore, a shaving down of the engineer's wages means a shav- ing down of the fireman's wages, so that on all sides the peculiar system adopted 

by the "Q" road manages to punish its workingmen and enlarge its treasury. But have we just cn.use of complaint? Are the engineers and firemen of the "Q" road seeking to take any advantage of that corporation? Have they just cause of complaint? Are they paid now as well as employes performing like services on rival roads? We invite the attention of the public to the following comparisons: On the "Q," road there is a round trip between Rockford and Aurora which is made twenty-six times a month by the engineer. On the NorthwesteTn road there is a round trip between Rockford and Chi- cago which is also made twenty-six times per month. 'l'he Northwestern round trip is 22 miles greater than the "Q" round trip. The. Northwest rn engineer travels 572 miles per month more than the "Q's" engineer. 

At the rate of compensation asked by the engineers namely, 3l cents per mile, the Northwestern road should only pay $20.02 per month to the engineer on the Rockford-to-Chicago trip greater than that paid to the "Q" engineer who runs on the Rockford-to-Aurora trip. But the fact is that the "Q" road pays its engineer only ~104 per month, while the Northwestern pays its engi-

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neer 5175. The "Q" engineer holds just as responsible a position as the engineer on the Northwestern. He has to cross·three intersecting roads in the making of his trip, and in addition to his work as:au:engineer the labor of hostlering, or caring for the engine, is imposed upon h im, while the engineer for the North- western is not obliged to care for his engine. The latter's work begins when he jumps on the engine at one end of the trip and ceases when he delivers it at the other end. On the Pan Handle road the freight engineer who t•uns from Indianapolis to Bradford, a distance of 105 miles, receives$4.25 for the trip; his fil·eman receives ~.15. 

On the "Q" road the round trip run from Galesburgh to Peoria is 105 miles, for which the engineer receives $3.60 and the fireman $2.10 . From Quincy to Colchester the round trip is 107 miles. The "Q" road pays its engineer for that trip 53.75, and its fireman $2.15. For runs of 100 miles on the Union Pacific road the engineer on passenger trains receives $3.85. The" Q" road is a competitor of the Union Pacific, and for a long distance travels over parallel lines through country of precisely the same character. Yet we have only asked $3.50 per 100 miles for a passenger en- gineer on the "Q" road. The engineer on the Sterling B ranch run draws $34.10 for 90 miles. He stops in Rock Falls six hours, and takes care of his own engine. The engineer that runs the Batavia and Geneva accommodation receives $87.10. And the Chicago and Northwestern pays for like runs $96.20, the distance being 2 miles greater on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. The reason we a.sk more pay for the branch runs is to compensate the men for the extra work done on account of the engine ers having to do the work or a machinist. 

The engineer .on the Rockford way freight runs nightly (twenty-six nights 

constituting one month), for which he receives $56. Fireman, $l5 per month. The engineers on the fast m a il, Chicag-o, Burlington and Quincy, 125 miles per day, receive 97.50fortwenty-six days' time. Theengineerson the Chicago and Northwestern, for the same services, receive $120. .. The runs on the main line of the Chicago, Burlington a.nd Quincy, 125 miles per day thirty-five days per month, amount:' received, $131. On the trunk lines out of Chicago for the same service the engineers receive $161. '.rhe engineers on the Buda. and Vermont Branch of the "Q" line, 188.3 miles per day, twenty-six days constituting one month, receive for same $125.50. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad pays for like service $181. "\¥"e desire fUl'ther to state th~ no firs~class engineer on the Chicago and Northwestern receives less than~96 20 for twenty-six days' work, if ready for dufv 

The Rock Island road pays its engineers on all of its passenger trains $3.60 and its firemen $2.15 for the 100-mile run fwm Galesburgh to Quincy. The Quincy road only pays $3.50 for this same run to the engineers on a few of its heaviest trains-like the Kansas <Jity one-and on all other trains it pays only 53.37t. It only pays its fireman S2 when with the engineer who is paid $3.50, and $1.90 when with the engineer who receives 53.37-}. The Rock Island road pays $4.15 for a run of 100miles to itsfrei~thtengineers, 

and does not require them to act as hostlers for their engines. The Quincy road pays its freight engineer on the 101-mile run from Galva to Tew Boston 53.75. This run is on a branch roa.d, and the engineer is compelled to do hostler's duty for his engine at both ends of his run. Let us compare two short runs: The first is on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St·. Paul road. The round trip between Chicago and Elgin is 74 miles, for which the engineer is paid $3.70. The engineer has fu 11 control of his time every second day and has not to act as hosller for his engine. The Eec:md is on the "Q" road . .., The round trip between Chicago and Aurora is 71 miles. The engineer is paiu l!3.35. He has to "hostler" his engine, and his entire time belongs to the road. Some days he has to be under orders for eighteen hours per day. 

Complaint is made in the road's circular because we asked that; "GaJesburgh Division engineers and firemen be not required to run east of Aurora." The idea sought to be conveyed by the company is that this request is unreasonable and calculated to impose g,:eater expense on the road. The fact is that com- pliance with this request will not impose one cent of extra expense on the road. No objection has been offered to running the engines through from Galesburgh to Chicago. The change of crews-engineers and firemen-at Aurora will not increase the company's outlay. There are about three hundred of the engineers and firemen. who live in Aurora. Many of these men own their homes; some of these homes, however, are not entirely paid for. If they are compelled to run from Galesburgh to Chicago and return, they would have to sacrifice theh· property and remove either to Galesburgh or •to Chicago. They·ask that the crews be made to run on the one end of the route only, trom Chicago and Au- rora and return, and on the other end only from Gales burgh to Aurora and re- turn. If we were paid on the mile system, the change of crews would riot cost the road one cent. It is also complained that we asked that some arrangement be made in re:ation to passing Brotherhood men on the "Q" trains. We make no demand in this re- gard. Our purpose in making this request was to get some uniform rule put in 

force on this road the same as pre-.ails on other roads. We have no r ight to de- mand this. We did not demand it. Our desire was, while we were m gotiating to get this question, now unsettled, so determined that the conduct~rs would hereafter know precil!ely wha.t to do, and thus be able to avoid 9Gnfiit ts. The company can decide this as it pleases. It does not stand in the road of a. settle- ment. 

:llESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 

S. E. HOGE, Chairman Committee. 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. PLATT, one of its secretaries, an- nounced that the Senate had passed the bill (S. 2494) to provide for the 

payment of the funeral expenses of the late Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court. 

Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that that bill be now considere_d. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair was about to lay it before the House. 

The Chair lays before the House the bill justreceivedfrom the Senate, 

which will be read. 

The bill was read, as follows: 

. A bill (S. 2494) to provide for the payment of the funeral expenses of the late Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court . Be it enacted, etc., That the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be neces- sary, be, and the same is hereby, appropl'iated, out of any money in lhe Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to def1·ay the expenses necessarily incurred in the funeral of Morrison R. Waite, late Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of tho United States; to be disbursed by the marshal of the Supreme Court upon vouchers to be approved by the senior associate justice of said court. 

:Mr. COX. :Mr. Sp~aker, I ask unanimous consent to dispense with 

consideration of this bill in the Committee of the Whole, and that it be now considered in the House. 

There was no objection, and it was so ordered. 
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The SPEAKER. The question is upon ordering the bill to be read 

a third time. 

Mr. TAULBEE. I believe the House has heretofore adopted a resolution providing for the payment of certain of these expenses out of 

the contingent fund of the House. I presume this bill will operate in 

lieu of that resolution. 

The bill was ordered to a third reading, was accordingly read the 

third time, and passed. 

Mr. COX moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed; 

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

The latter motion was agreed to. 

GOVERNMENT FOR ALASKA. 

Mr. SPRINGER, by unanimous consent, reported from the Committee on the Territories, as a substitute for Honse bill 6555, a bill 

(H. R. 8878) to provide for the organization of the Territory of Alaska; 

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

the Wh6le House on the state of the Union, and, with the accompanying report, ordered to be printed. 

House bill 6555 was, by unanimous consent, laid on the table. 

NATURALIZATION. . 

Mr. STEW ART, of Georgia, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill 

(H. R. 8879) to amend the naturalization laws of the United States; 

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

the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 

ANATOMICAL SCIENCE IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

1\Ir. HEMPHILL. I demand the regular order, and call up the bill 

which was undisposed of when the Honse adjourned on the last District day-House bill No. 5040-for the promotion of anatomical science 

and to prevent the desecration of graves in the District of Columbia. 

Mr. GROUT. The pending question is on the motion to lay this bill 

upon the table, which is not debatable. · I ask unanimous consent to 

make a brief statement. 

The SPEAKER. Is there objection? 

Mr. TA.ULBEE. Not if the same length of time be allowed to the 

other side of the question. 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. That is fair. 

Mr. TA.ULBEE. If the gentleman from Vermont desires to discuss 

only the question of laying the bill on the table, I have no objection. 

The SPEAKER. That is the only question before the House, but 

of course it involves the merits of the bill. 

Mr: GROUT. I trust the gentleman from Kentucky will not object 

to a brief statement on my part. He occupied an hour the other day, 

and at the close of his speech moved to lay the bill on the table. The:re 

has been no chance for any one to be heard in reply to him. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Vermont asks unanimous consent to make a brief statement. Is there objection? 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. In connection with that request! ask 

that the same time be allowed to the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. 

TAULBEE] to make a statement. 

Mr. TAULBEE. I hope the gentleman from Kansas will withdraw 

that request. I do not know that I shall want any further time. 

Mr. ANDERSON, ofKansas. Verywell, !withdraw it. 

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman 

from Vermont? The Chair hears none. The gentleman will proceed. 

1\Ir. GROUT. Mr. Speaker, on the last District day, when this bill 

was under consideration, and after all the funny men of the House had 

had their little joke concerning it, as a member of the committee reporting it I tried to get recognition for the purpose of showing how 

little all that had been said in opposition to it really touched the question whether or not it was wholesome legislation for this District. 

A..nd here let me say, in passing, that I expect the "fathers" foresaw 

the necessity t.hat gentlemen who should occupy these seats should be 

kept somewhat familiar with small things, and accordingly they wmte 

in the Constitution that Congress should have exclusive legislation 

over such District, noh exceeding ten miles square, as should be ceded, 

etc., and as the result the 250,000 people of this District bring all their 

public matters, small though some of them be, to the attention of 

Congress; and in the organization of the House the humble duty is assigned to the Committee on the District of Columbia. of recommending 

such legislation as in their opinion the wants of this people require. 

Now, aU·that this committee ask, all they can ask, is that when these 

measures are brought in gentlemen will for a time come down from 

the lofty heights where they are accustomed to consider questions involving national and international topics and give to these local matters a respectful consideration. 

When I requested the other day to be heard, I was asked whether 

twenty minutes would satisfy me. Now, I did not wish to occupy half 

that time, and do not now; but I was unwilling to capitulate to these 

frolicsome gentlemen in the mood in which they then were, which it 

seemed to me had become, for a subject so grave, exceedingly gay-so 

gay as to deny what common courtesy would accord to the .committee 

reporting a bill, namely, the privilege of being heard in their own time 

under the rules of the House in reply to an ahtack as remarkable as that made upon this bill. 

But enough. Now, this is what I then wanted to say: First, that \ 

when the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. TAULBEE] admitted, as he 

did, and as the House will remember, that the purpose oi his amendment was to defeat the object of the bill, he put himself in the attitude 

of attacking the bill indirectly, covertly, if you please, instead of stating 

in a frank, straight forward manner his objections to the bill. 

I wanted also to say to hin1 that if he had read the bill carefully, as 

I trust members have done since it was last under consideration, he 

would not have turned the brilliant period that he did about the bodies 

of the poor being turned over to college professors for display in some 

medical museum; for the bill in express terms provides that after a 

body has been used for purposes of anatomical dissection the remains 

shall be decently buried. 

For another thing, I wanted to say j:o gentlemen, if they had been 

disposed to consider this bill fairly ancf" upon its merits they would not 

have become so sentimental, nor would they have shed big tears over 

the misfortunes of the poor, especially after they are dead. We all 

know that all first-class statesmen he-awake nights thinking of the poor 

while they are alive; but this devotion to the dead, such as was shown 

by gentlemen the other day, is a pitch of enthusiasm to which few can 

rise. 

Let me not, however, be understood as saying anything disrespectful 

of the poor, living or dead. Their misfortunes and sufferings should 

command thesympathyandassistanceofall men. Thepoor, itissaid, 

we have with us always. But I think the best time to help them is 

while they are alive, and not wait till after-they are dead. 

I wish also to remind the gentleman from Kentucky that this bill in 

terms provides for the bodies of those who die in hospital, prison, almshouse, jail, or asylum, and that sometimes rich men have been found 

in jails and prisons; and according to the philosophy of the · gentleman 

more still snould be found there. What, then, becomes of the argument that the provisions of this bill apply to the poor alone? 

M:r. TAULBEE. Will the gentleman permit me to ask him a. question? 

Mr. GROUT. Certainly. 

Mr. TAULBEE. In that connection what explanation do you put · 

on that provision that only those who are buried at the public expense 

shall be included? 

Mr. GROUT. It does not say only those buried at the public ex· 

pense. The word only is not used--

1\Ir. TAULBEE. Read that part of the bill in this connection. 

Mr. GROUT. It says: 

The bodies of such deceased persons as are required to be buried at the public expense. 

Mi. TAULBEE. Does the bill cover any whose remains are not 

buried at the public expense? 

Mr. GROUT. Perhaps not; it does not exclude those not buried at 

the public expense. 

There is one other point to which I wish to call attention, and that 

is in reference to the veto message of the President of a similar bill in 

the last Congress, which the gentleman has caused to be read as a part 

of his remarks. The President said in that message: 

The purpose of this bill is to permit the delivery of certain dead bodies to the 

medical colleges located in the District of Columbia for dissection. 

Such disposition of the bodies of unknown and pauper dead is only excused 

by the necessity of acquiring by this means proper and useful anatomical knowledge, and the laws by which it is permitted should, in deference to a decent 

and universal sentiment, carefully guard against abuse and needless offense. 

From the above it appears that the President is not opposed to the 

principle of the bill, but is really in favor of it. And I am obliged to 

the gentleman for having brought in the veto. -

And I say so far the opinion of the President is an argument in 

favor of this bill, inasmuch as all his objections to the fbrmer bill have 

been carefully obviated in this draught. But without further following gentlemen in their groping about to discover what some one else 

may think of the bil1, let us, like men, say what we think of it ourselves. Now, one moment as to the merits of the bill. Everybody 

knows that without a complete and thorough know ledge of anatomy the 

physician or surgeon is not fit to practice his profession. Everybody 

knows also that the only way in which the surgeon can acquire a practical know ledge of anatomy is by the dissection of the cadaver. The 

medical colleges of the country are constantly turning out an army of 

young practitioners to take the places of those who are passing off the 

stage. A medical college in this city only the other day-in fact since 

the last District day-graduated twenty-four of them. 

Now, tell me wbat sort ofministers to the physical ills that flesh is 

heir to would these young men be without an intimate and thorough 

knowledge of the anatomy of the human body, which knowledge can 

only be acquired by a minute and careful dissection of e>ery part of 

it, and how are these young men to make this dissection without subjects for that purpose? They must have them-they will have them. 

The experience ot the world shows that it is absolutely necessary. 

Now, how shall this demand be supplied? That is the question. 

Shall it be by the present ghoulish practice of body-snatching, and under which it is said from one to two hundred bodies have been resurrected in this city 'vithin the last year? 

Does any one ask why not supply the demand in t.hat way? Then I 

answer, because in the :first place it is a scandalous and demoralizing 
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business to those engaged in it. In the second place, it is a standing 

terror to mourning friends who have just buried their dead. Now, the 

provisions ofthis bill are intended for the living and not for the dead, 

as the gentleman seemed to understand, or rather misunderstood, the 

other day. It is intended for the benefit of the living friends of the 

dead, and if adopted it will quiet all apprehension on the part of the 

friends of those dying outside the institutions named in the bill, us 

again t the work of the Washington resuuectionist. 

Mr. MILLIKEN. Will the gentleman answer a question? 

Mr. GROUT. Certainly. 

Mr. MILLIKEN. What effect will this bill have upon the feelings 

of a man who knows he bas got to die in the poor-house, and can not 

get out of it? 

Mr. GROUT. He may request that his body shall be interred in the 

usltal way, and in that event, under the provi ions of this bill, tbaheqnc3t must be regarded. 

1\fr. TAULBEE. Suppose he dies of apoplexy? 

Mr. GROUT. Ifhe had not in advance of such a misfortune made · 

such a request, I should say it would be too ln.te after he was dead of 

apoplexy. 

.Ur. TAULBEE. In that case hewouldnothavebn.d an opportunity 

during his last illness to have acted as directed by thi'3 bill to sa.ve his 

body from that fate. 

Mr. GROUT. .Af3 a gentleman on my right suggests, he would not 

then have had occasion tCJ'worry about it. 

Ur. TAULBEE. But his friends might, perhaps. 

Mr. GROUT. I repeat, Jtfr. Speaker, this bill is for tho benefit of 

the living; and if it be adopted it will quiet the apprehensions of those 

who are outside of these institutions; and at the same time- the bill 

carefully respects the wishes of the friends of those dying within the 

institutions named in the bill. It allows any relation by birth or marriage or any friend to request the burial of any person of this last class, 

and such request must be respected. 

Mr. IDLLIKEN. Let me interrupt the gentleman again to ask: Do 

· I understand he is going to make a. distinction against people who do 

not happen to have friends? 

Mr. GROUT. The bill only does what the gentleman's own State 

bas clone. But to answer the gentleman more to his satisfaction perhaps, I will say that the bill goes upon the idea that a person dying 

in any of these institutions without friends to cl!:\im his body had better 

be turned over to the medical schools than that the dead in the churchyards, whose friends are still living in the vicinity, should be disturbed. 

Mr. MILLIKEN. I am not discussing what my State bas done or 

may do, but what the gentleman's bill is intending to do. 

Mr. GROU'r. Again I repeat, this bill is for the benefit of the living, 

and the living friends of those who may die both in these institutions 

and outside of them. 

But, :Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Kentucky admitted the other 

day, on an inquiry addressed to him by the gentleman from Indian~ 

[Mr. BROWNE]-and I take it th..'lt he is a recognized authority upon 

theological questions-whether it would make any difference in the 

great Resurrection whether a body had been dissected or not, that it 

would not. M~. MILLIKEN. Why, then,. do you make any distinction between 

the poor and the rich? 

Mr. GROUT. There is no distinction whatever; it applies equally 

to all. It is for the benefit of all alike. :Mr. SOWDEN. Do I understsnd the gentleman to say that there 

are enough people dying in these institutions to supply the demand of 

which he speaks in this city? Jt!r. GROUT. I understand so. I understand thattbesupply would 

be ample for the requirements of the local medical institutions. 

So we see, Mr. Speaker, that this bill provides for this supply in the 

way I have shown, giving no offense, no needless offense, in the. guarded 

language of the President, to any one. It supplies a demand that is 

absolutely necessary and will be met from some source. It will also 

tend to break up this nefarious, this ghastly and criminal business of 

robbing grave-yards in the District of Columbia., by meansofwhicb that 

supply is now made. 

Mr. SOWDEN. What assurance can the gentleman give the House 

upon that subject? 

Mr. GROUT. Only the assmance which arises from the very nature 

of things. 

JHr. SOWDEN. Suppose all of these people who die in these institutions file a protest that they want to be bllried. 

Mr. GROUT. That is a mere supposition. 

l\I.r. SOWDEN. It is at least a decent supposition. Mr. GROUT. To be sure, but it is hardly a. reasonable supposition. 

Such a result would at least be quite improbable. I said a moment ago that this business of grave-robbing was a c.riminn.l one. Have you ever thought how unfair it is to t.he medical pro- fession, and bow inconsistent also, for thela.w to hold them to astrictaccountabilityt as it does, for any carelessness or error in their surgical 

work, oftentimes bringing them into court and a':sessing them in damages for not doing that work correct.Jy. and yet not only not providing 

them with the means of information which would enable them to do 

well their work-I say not only does the law do this, but it does more; 

it forbids the obtaining tha.t necessary information under heavy penalties, such as exist for the disturbance of the dead after they are buried. 

Mr. MILLIKEN. Will the gentleman permit a further question? 

:Mr. GROUT. To be sure. 

.Mr.l\IILLIKEN. Then, if I understand this bill, it provides that if 

a man is poor and dies in an asylum or in a poor-bouse, in order to Sc'tve 

his body from going to the dissecting-table he bas got to make a request 

tbali after he is deceased be :i:s to be buried; while if he was placed in 

better circumstances and dies in his own home his body will·not go, 

no matter whether he makes the request or not. Why, therefore, do 

yon make this distinction against the poor fellow? He has got to go 

to the doctors for dissection unless be makes this special request, while 

e\erybody else will go to the church-yard for interment. 

1\Ir. GROUT. I apprehend that the gentlema.n from Maine bas not 

made a careful study of this bill, as he seems to have imbibed some 

of the strange sentiments in refe1·euce to it that animate others. 

Mr. :MILLIKEN. I am waiting an explanation from the gentleman 

himself . 

Ir. GROUT. I am afraid I shall be unable to make the gcntlema.n 

unclentand this bill as I woulrllike to have him. 

Mr. Speaker, when interrupted I was addressing myself to the inconsistency of the law, where a medical practitioner is held to a strict 

nccou_ntability in the practice of his proies~wn, an accountability which 

be can not a...-oid, while on...tbeother hand youmakecriminal the means 

whereby he alone can acquire that thorough knowledge of his profession wllich the law supposes him to ha.ve. .J~tthink of this proposition for a moment. Can it be that a civilized people will long tolerate 

such contradiction in their legal ysteD)? And yet that is the law in 

the District of Columbia to-day-hero where stands the Capitol of this 

great American people. 

.:\Ir. JHILLIKE~. Will the gentleman from Vermont allow me to 

interrupt him again? 

Ur. GROUT. Yes, sil'. Ir. MILLIKEN. This is the objection I make: that to save doctors 

from the necessity of body-sna.tching you provide for that difficulty by 

taking the bodies of the poor. Why do you make any distinction? 

Why should not the man who is worth a hundred million dt>llars and 

who bas not filed his pro e 1t aga.inst his body being used in that way, 

why should ·not his body be assigned to the doctors as well as that of 

the poor devil who dies in a poor-house? 

Mr. GROUT. Ileave the gentleman from :Maine to study out an answer to that question for him elf. And now, to resume my statementt 

this bill, as we have shown, will cu re this glaring inconsistency in the 

law, aud -n-ill at the same time supply this reasonable and necessary demaud of the medical profession. Nor iR it a new thing in legislation. 

Most if not all the older aml more advanced States of the Union h..'We 

adopted this principle, including the State of the gentleman from 

Maine [.Mr. MILLIKEN] and the State of the gentleman from Pennsylvania [l\Ir. SoyvnEN]. England also, from whence came the fabric 

of onr jurisprudence, long since enacted such a law, the pioneer act in 

the history of this kind of legislation. 

Mr. CANNON. Will the gentleman yield to me for a moment? 

Mr. GROUT. Yes, sir. 

:Mr. CANNON. .Af3 I understand the position of the gentleman from 

Vermont it is this, that when any man dies, whether he is poor orricb, 

it makes no difference to the dead man whether he goes on the dissecting-table or not. But it does make n difference as regards the feelings 

of the living. Now, in the class of cases provided for in this bill where 

the man himself does not object to it, where he does not make his objection known, and where there is no living relative or friend who 

ruakes the objection, I understand the body of such a. man goes on tho 

dissecting-table upon the theory that the feelings of the living are not 

outraged. 

Mr. GROUT. Precisely so. Thegcntlemanhas the correct conception of the bill. It must be remembered also that the use of subjects 

for dissection is of absolute necessity, and that they must either be provided by law or they must be obtained in contravention of law, and no 

legal system is in keeping with high civilization that does not provide 

in a. legitimate and lega~ man~er 1orlfurnishing means. of inforn;t-ation 

in this way to doctors With a v1ew to a successful practice of.theu profE:'ssion. Mr. MASON. Will the gentleman yield to me for a moment? 

'[e. GROUT. Ye~, sir. ).Jr. UASON. .Af3 a matter of fact in those States which have adopted 

thi law is it not true that the habit of grave-robbing has been substantially broken up? :,ir. GROUT. That is true, as I understand it. 

!IIr. MILLIKEN. Bnt who can tell whether in those States they 

have stopped snatching bodies or not. That is not a thing that is done 

in the light. 1 -

Mr. GROUT. But in those Sta.tes we do not bear of ca.ses of graverobbing. 

JIJ:lr. MILLIKEN. Youdonothearmuchoftheminanycommunity. 
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Mr. GROUT. Oh, yes; Washington papers are full of such cases. 

If the gentleman reads those newspapers, every now and then he will 

find a sickening and disgusting account of dragging fmm ita last resting place some corpse for dissection. 

IYir. Speaker, I have said all that I wanted and much more than I 

intended, but have been led on by interruptions. I will only add that 

the Committee on the District of Columbia are unanimously of the 

opinion that this bill ought to become a law; and should the Honse 

refuse to agree to the motion of the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. 

TAULBEE] that the bill be ordered to lie on the table, and it should seem 

necessary, other members of the committee will have something to say 

upon it. I thank the House for the courtesy extended in listening to 

this statement. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. If the House shall vote down the motion to lay 

the b1ll on the table, I should like to be beard in discussion of it. I 

think I can give some information which may 'aSsist t_he House in understanding the necessity for this bill. 

Mr. TAULBEE. If I am permitted todoso, Iwill withdraw forthe 

time being the motion to lay the bill on the table, so that the chairman 

of the committee may have such time as he desires in support of. the 

bill and that the matter may be open to discussion on either side. I 

.made an effort two weeks ago to obtain unanimous consent to let the 

committee lL.we the time allowed under the 1·ules for debat-e, but I was 

not recognized for that purpose in consequence of an objection being 

made. That was my purpose then and is my purpose now. 

The SPE.A.KER. The motion to lay on the table having been withdrawn,. the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. HEMPHILL] is recognized. 

1\I.r. IIEl\IPHILL. When this bill was up for discussion the other 

day the committee had not an opportunity to present its 'iews. I desire now to make a few suggestions in addition to what has been said 

by the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. ATKINSOX] and this morning by the gentleman from Vermont [.l\Ir. GROUT]. 

There can be no question there is a necessity, with a view to the investigations of science, that there should be some human bodies furnished to the medical students of this country; and it is only the q ne -

tion as to how that shall be do11e which is proposed to be settled by 

this bill. 

It is not worth while to argue the question of the necessity of that 

kind of knowledge. It is required by the medical board of the Army, 

it is required by· the medical board of the Navy, it is required by tbe 

Marine Corps, that every man, before he can enter the medical service 

of the Army or Navy or Marine Corps, shall demonstrate on the human 

body what be knows of its anatomy. 

Now, gentlemen, the only question is whether this shall be done in 

a legiti.mate, regular way, or whether it shill be done in violation of law 

and in defiance of decency. A good deal has been said here about this 

bill being aimed at the poor people and intended for the protection of 

the rich. ~Ir. Speaker, I do not pose here as a special friend of any particular class of people. I think that every man in these Unit-ed States 

who is an honest, upright, patriotic citizen is entitled to as much consideration as anybody else, whether he be rich or whether he be poQr. 

But is this bill aimed at the poor people? Is it not rather framed for 

their benefit? We all know, sir, that the rich people of this country 

and of all other countries are perfectly able by the use of money to 

take care of themselves while living and to take care of their dead when 

they are laid in their last resting place. 

The rich are able to build tombs of marble, and to surround them 

with walls of iron and stone which the "resurrectionists" can not 

break through, and therefore it is of no particular importance to them 

whether this bill or any other for a similar purpose passes here or not. 

But there are a great many people in this District, worthy, upright, 

and respectable citizens, men who fight the battles of the country, who 

pay its taxes; people who are entitled to protection at the hands of the 

law when living, and it is our duty to give their dead protection when 

it can be done in a proper and legitimate way. It is a well-known 

fact that since the 1st of January last there have been severnl cases reported in the newspapers of this District where bodies of people entirely respectable, but in moderate circumstances, have been ''snatched'' 

from their graves and carried to the dissecting-tables of the medical 

colleges. Now, how is that to be regulated? It is impossible to prevent 

the medical students from getting bodies for dissection. 

They always have got them and they always will get them. But 

how are you going to prevent it? What does this bill provide? It provides, in the first place, that where people die in the almshouses, hospitals, jails, or asylums, etc., of this District who do not make any request to be buried, whose bodies havelainthereunclaimedbyanyperson, 

eitherwhiteorblack, relativeorfriend, fortheperiodofforty-eighthours, 

cases in which no relative either by blood or by marriage comes to claim 

that the body shall be buried, where no person claiming to stand in even 

the very indefinite relation of a friend comes and asks that the body shall 

beburied-wbentheseconditionsexist, and when, inaddition, itmeets 

with the approval of the health officer of the District, a sworn responsible official, whose duty it is under this bill to look after these matters-when all these contingencies concur, then the body may be delivered for the use of the medical colleges, and not until then. 

Mr. LYNCH. Will the gentleman permit a question? 

Mr. HEMPHILL. Yes, sir. 

~ir. LYNCH. Is there any provision made for giving public notice 

of these deaths? 

Mr. HEMPHILL. There is no provision made in this bill, but if 

the House sees fit to adopt an amendment requiring an advertisement 

to be published, I have no objection. 

There is no purpose on the part of the committee to do anything but 

what is entirely fair and proper in the matter. 

Mr. TAULBEE. Will the gentleman yield to me for a question? 

Mr. HEMPHILL. Y cs, sir. 

M:r. TAULBEE. In enumerating the conditions provided for in the 

bill as antecedent to the delivery of a body to the medical colleges the 

gentleman mentioned the death of the person in the jail, the hospital, 

or the asylum, and the fact that the body must have remained fortyeight hours unclaimed by ii'iend or relative, but I believe he omitted 

one very important condition which the bill sets forth and to which I 

would like to have him direct his attention, namely, the provision that 

the person must be buried at the public expense. I would like to hear 

the gentleman on that point. 

Mr. HEl\IPHILL. I will come to that presently, Mr. Speaker. The 

gentleman is exceedingly apprehensive upon that subject. As I have 

already said, the 1·ich are able to take care of themselves while they 

are living and their friends are able to take care of them when they 

are dead . There is another very large class of people who, though not 

rich, hase as many friends and as many rela,tions as the rich, and whose 

bodies are just as well protected by this bill as those of rich people or 

of anybody else. The law of this Disbict now is that if a body is not 

claimed by a friend or relative, it is the duty of the District authorities to bury it, whether it be the body of a rich person or the body of 

a poor person, and I think it will hardly be maintained by the gentleman from Kentucky [1\Ir. TAULBEE] that the poor people of this District are so inhuman, or that their relatives are so forgetful of the ties 

that bind them to their own blood kin, that they will not go and ask 

to be allowed to bury them. This bill does not say a poor man, it does 

not say a rich man, it says a man who is buried at the public expense; 

th~t is, a mau who has no friends who take enough interest in him to 

ask that be shall be buried. No man whose friends or relations will 

take the trouble to ask that he be buried, no matter whether he berich 

or poor, will be so forgotten as to be buried at the public expense. 

Now, .Mr. Speaker, in addition to that, there are, unfortunately, in 

any community embracing so large a population as this city, a C<msiderable number of women who by lives of shame have cut themselves 

off from all ties which might bind them to their blood relations, and 

there are men whose conduct bas been such that their relatives and 

those who may once have been their friends would not recognize them 

when living or mourn for them when dead. It is this class of people 

whose bodies this bill proposes to operate upon, with the view of saving the lhing, whether poor or rich, from the harassing experience of 

hewing their loved ones snatched from their last resting place. 

This bill is not aimed at the poor any more than at the rich. It is 

intended to protect those people who, when burying their dead, are now 

obliged to leave them to the mercy of the grave-digger and the bodysnatcher. 

I know that in the view of some persons it looks like a rather severe 

measure to provide by law that cert-ain bodies shall be taken to the dissecting-table. But, Mr. Speaker, we can do the dead no good and we 

can do them no hann. This bill, like all other bills, shonld be framed 

for the protection of the living; and it is with the view of saving living • 

persons from having their minds harassed with uncertainty as to what 

has been done with the bodies of their beloved dead that the House is 

asked to pass this bill. 

1\fr. WEAVER. But we impose upon certain classes named by the 

gentleman a certainty that their bodies ·are to be dealt with in this 

way--

Mr. HEMPHILL. No, sir. 

1\Ir. WEAVER. And that would be harassing to them. 

Mr: HEMPHILL. I will state very distinctly my position on this 

question. I think that when persons have so conducted themselves 

while living as to forfeit the respect of eociety, have led such lives of 

shame that after their death no friend or relative can be found to take 

interest enough in them to ask that their bodies shall be buried even at 

public expense, it would be no great hardship if we allow the bodies 

of such persons to be taken for dissection,•provided they do not before 

death request otherwise, and provided that the health officer of the District of Columbia says that they are proper subjects for anatomical 

study. 

Mr. WEAVER. I do not subscribe to any such doctrine as that. It 

would be far better for the Government to institute houses of correction and to adopt other reformatory measures for the creatures referred 

to by the gentleman than to notify them before they die that as a penalty for the character of their lives they shaH after death be laid upon 

the qissecting-table and cut to pieces. Mr. HEMPHILL. Well, Mr. Speaker, I do.notindulge in anysuch 

sickly sentimentalism as that. 

Mr. WEAVER. Ob, yes; it is "sickly." Anythinginfavorofhu-
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manity is "sickly" in the estimation of men who will bring in a bill 

of this kind. 

1\Ir. HEMPHILL. It is ''sickly " to be indulging in appeals of that 

kind. 

1\Ir. WEAVER. The gentleman bas no right to impugn my motives. 

I have as much right to express my views here without having my mo- tives impugned as be bas; and I say my -.iews are just as much in ac- cord withhumanityandgoodgovernment--yes, moreso-than the views 

he has expressed here, which ought to send a thrill of horror throughout this House and the whole country. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. I will come to that. I am not going to report 

here any bill which I am not willing to stand by. I have as much re- spect for any class of people who are honest, patriotic, Jaw-abiding, as any man in this House, and I do not care whether they be rich or poor. 

But I do say that it is the duty of the Government to legislate for the 

benefit of those citizens who are honest, upright, straightforward; who 

support the institutions of the country; who are patriotic in their desires; who :fight its battles andmaketbe country worth living in. And 

when the question is presented whether in our legislation we shall look 

to those who have forfeited all respect, who have led disgraceful lives, 

who have cut themselves off from aU the tenderest ties of humanity 

by their own willful misconduct, or whether we shall rega,rd the sen- timent of the upright, honest, law-abiding peop1e of the country, I will 

not hesitate to make my decision in favor of the more worthy class; 

and I am not afraid to announce it on this floor. 

Mr. WE.A. VER. Let me ask the gentleman this question: Under 

this bill can not the body of a. soldier who fought in the Union Army 

be sent to the dissecting-table as well as that of a man who bas led a "life of shame?" As I understand, there is no exception in favor 

of the Union soldier. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. A gentleman on the other side proposed the other 

day an amendment to protect that class of citizens by directing that 

notice should be given in any such case to the Grand .Army post of the 

District; and, so far as I am concerned, I will vote for that amendmen~ . 1'1Ir. MILLIKEN. I ask the gentleman bow his description about 

leading a ''life of shame '' applies to persons w bo happen to die jn the 

hospital or the poor-house or whose bodies are taken to the morgue? 

May not such persons have lived as honest lives as the gentleman from 

South Carolina. or myself or anybody else, and may they not have died 

under these circumstances on ·account of mere misfortune? 

Mr. HEMPHILL. Exactly; and the body of any man dying nuder 

such circumstances of misfortune can not be taken for dissection unless 

with the approval of the health officer of the District, and unless he 

bas no friends or relatives to ask that his body be buried. 

Mr. MILLIKEN. Why do you not apply the same provision to 

everybody else? 

Mr. HEli1PHILL. It is applied t.o everybody. 

Mr. MILLIKEN. Oh, no; it is not. 

Mr. WEAVER. Why not apply the provisions of the bill to rich 

men who have led " lives of shame? " 

.M:r. HEMPHILL. I say, Mr. Speaker, that the bill makes no discrimination between the rich and the poor. The gentleman ii·om Kentucky .the other day, when he slipped the bridle and galloped all over 

this House without restraint, undertook to say that this measure is an insult, a.u indignity offered to the poor people of this country. Let us see whether members of this Honse who are going to vote for this bill, 

as I trust many of them will, will violate in so doing the best sentiment of the country. I have taken some pai.ns to look into this matter a little, and find that according to the law of the State of Connecticut bodies to be used for dissection are defined as those ' which shall 

not have been buried within twenty-four hours after death, nor claimed 

to.r burial by any relative or friend; but the body of no person known 

to !Jave relatives or friends shall be so delivered without their consent." 

This is almost the exact language of the present bill. 

The great State of Iowa, from which, I think, my friend has the 

honor to come, and which, judging from its representative, is a tenderhearted country, provides that a coroner or undertaker in any county 

of the State of Iowa, or of any city where the inhabitants exceed 1, 000, 

may deliver to any co11ege or any physician in the State of Iowa the 

body or remains of any deceased person, except where such body has 

been interred or dressed for interment, or bodies of those known to have 

relati Yes or friends. That is in the State of Iowa, where we have the right 

to presume there is civilizat-ion. That State prov-ides that any coroner or undertaker, any man who sets himself up to bury others, may give 

the body of any deceased person to any medical college or physician, 

except where such body bas been interred or dressed for interment or of those known to have relatives or friends. It is not provided this 

shall be done under the. supervision of the health officer, as I recall the 

statute; but whenever the coroner or undertaker shall deem it fit to do 

so, he can tm·n over tbe bodies of any such persons to any college or to any one having a sheep-skin for the purpose of cutting them up. 

When my friend from Kentucky [Mr. '£AULBEE] was talking the 

other day about the Scriptures and about the potter's :field, and charging this committee with having offered an indignity to the poorpeople 

of this country, the good people of his own State of' Kentucky, assembled by their representatives at the capital of that State, were consid~ 

ering a bill to deliver unclaimed bodies of people over to the medicn.l men of any institution of that State. .And that bill has passed the 

house since then, and is now being considered in the senate, and ac· cording to the best information I have been able to procure, the law 

will pass that body. So that Kentucky is coming into line amongst 

the civilized States of the Union, and is opposed to body-snatching and 

in favor of the regulation of this business by some legitic:late means. l'tlr. TAULBEE. Will the gentleman allow me to ask him a question? 

Mr. HEMPHILL. Certainly. 

Mr. TAULBEE. I wish to ask whether the State from which he comes has a law similar to the one which he presents to this House? 

If it has not I would like to know from him why it has not; I would 

like to know why his State has not come up to the line of civiliz:ttion, as he terms it? • Mr. HEMPHILL. Anybody who ]mows anything of the civilization 

of this country never doubted South Carolina in that regard. I do not 

think it is necessary she should pass a law of this kind in order to prove 

her civilization. 

Now, in ad4ition to what I have already said, I desire to state that I 

have gone over the statutes of the States of this Union to some extent, 

and I find there are thirty-one of the States and Territories, including 

the District of Columbia, where there are medical colleges. In eighteen, 

including the StateofTeunessee, which issomewhatpeculiar, there are laws like unto the one here proposed, some of which are much broader, 

and very few of which areas well guarded as this. In Connecticut, Missouri, Arkansns, Indiana, Illinois, Oregon, Iowa., Colorado, Mary land, 

New Hampshire, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, 

and Nebraska statutes of this character are in existence, and one with 

similar provisions is being enacted in the State of Kentucky. 

:l!Ir. Speaker, in all tbo3e StateR there is a provision that unclaimed 

bodies shall be given over to medical colleges, and in some that they 

shall be given over to any physician desiring them for dissection. It 

is especially provided in a number of the States that the unclaimed 

bodies shall be those which are buried at the public expense, and that 

is the phraseology which is used in this bilL 

The State of Maryland, which lies in juxtaposition to this District, 

has a law almost identical in phraseology to this bill, some changes 

having been made in the pendin-5 bill for the purpose of meeting the 

objection urged by the President in his veto message. 

Now, Mr. Speaker, it looks like a pretty bard thing to be legislating 

about matters of this kind. We have to legislate about a good many 

things which are not very pleasant. It is a hard thing to say that a man tor doing a certain thing shall be incarcerated in prison, or shall 

be hung between heaven and earth, but these things experience has 

proved are necessary for the protection of society and for the preservation of decency and goQ(l order. 

This District has a number of medical colleges, which require from 

seventy to eighty bodies every year for the pmpose of instructing their 

students in anatomy, in order that they may go out into the world and 

pcactice for the cuTe of the living. Now, for a number of years the 

practice of body-snatching bas been going on in this District as it has 

been going on in other places throughout the Union where they have not 

enacted a Jaw Rimi1ar to the one now pending. The question at last comes down to this: Whetbm· or not we will do something toward giving to the people of this District the same protection which the ma- jority of the States of the Union have already given to their people by 

providing, as is done in this bill, that unclaimed b_odies buried at the 

public expense, whether rich or poor, shall be turned over to the medical colleges which may require them for dissection by their students. 

And I say if there is a man in this House who believes that the violation and contempt of the laws of this Distl'ict should be permitted to 

go on unchecked, and thinks that the business of the resurrectionist, "the business of the man who robs the graves of our people at midnight, 

should be unmolested, then let him vote against the bill. But if there are people who believe that this business, which is a necessity, which 

is known and recognized and winked at by the police and other authorities of the District, ought to be regulated in some fair way, then 

they ought to Yote for the bm, for that is what the bill seeks to do. 

That is the question submitted to them. 

It is not a question whether or not weare going to stop the resurrec- tionist, but whether we will regulate this business in some way, and save the people of the District from the uncertainty and distress of 

-wondering whether or not the body of the friend or relative they have 

interred in one of the grave-yards of the city is lying there, or whether 

it has been dragged up at midnight with a rope around its neck and 

sold in secret to somebody for fifteen or twenty dollars to hack over. Mr. J .A.CKSON. Let me ask th~ gentleman from South Carolina if 

it is not a fact that there is no provif>ion whatever in this bill making 

itanoffenseandprovidingapunishment for openly violating in anyway 

any one of the provisions referred to here-tbat is to say, that any one having charge of the bodies of persons dying under such circumstances, 

the bodies of strangers dying here, might give tile bodies away without 

reference to the l'equest of the deceased, or dispose of them in less than 

forty·eigbt hours, and do this without the incurrence of aey penalty 
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whatever? I ask the gentleman 1rom South Carolina if it is not an ments which we all recognize as noble and worthy of encouragement 

omission from the bill which provides no penalties whatever. that we have undertaken to make some provision which will give the 

Mr. HEMPHILL. The existing law is only changed in a few par- medical students of this District something which is necessary for their 

iiculars in this bill; and if there be other offenses committed the law education, and which they now get in violation of law,'and to the utter as it now stands attaches to them, and the party who violates the law abhorrence of the sentiment of the people who are not able to put their 

must suffer the consequences. dead behind steel bars, but are compelled to leave them, as most of them 

:Mr. JACKSON. Yes, but that does not meet the question. This do, buried under the earth, wheretbesepeople go and snatch them out 

bill makes provision for the burial of the remains that have been dis- at night. 

sected, and provides penalties for such and such things, among the 1\ir. WARNER. Will the gentleman yield to me for a question? 

rest for removing bodies from their graves. It specifies what shall be 1\ir. HEMPHILL. Yes, sir. 

done with the bodies of these deceased persons. Mr. WARNER. As medical students may not be able properly to 

But if the party whose duty it is to comply with the law in this re- distinguish between a man who dies and has to be buried at the pubspect violates it, what I say is that this bill makes no provision for a lie expense and one who has lived a life of luxury and can pay for his 

penalty. Here, for instance, you recognize a class of persons whose funeral, I suggest to the gentleman from South Carolina why not strike 

bodies ar~ to be disposed of in a certain manner-what is to prevent out the words "as are required to be buried at the public expense;" so the custodian from giving those bodies away, from speculating upon it would include the rich and poor? 

them, or doing anything else with them in violation of the law? Mr. HEUPHILL. I have no objection to that. I have no desire to 

Mr. HEMPHILL. The object of this bill is to meet what we be- legislate for one set of people more than another. 

lieve to be an exigency; and if the gentleman has any modifications Mr. LYNCH. I desire to offer the amendment which I send to the 

which he will suggest I am satisfied the committee would cheerfully desk. 

accord him a patient hearing. The Clerk read as follows: 

Mr. JACKSON. But I want the gentleman himself to saY. i:f this Amend the first section by adding the following: 

bill is not ve1·y objectionable and incomplete? "Providedfurthe,·, That public notice of the death and a brief description of the 

1.Ir. HEMPHILL. No, sir. · deceased be given in two newspapers published daily in the city of WashingMr. JACKSON. Then how does the gentleman explain this omis- ton for two consecutive days before the body is delivered as aforesaid." 

sion? Mr. HEMPHILL. I have no objection to that. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. By the simple reason that if there is a law upon Mr. WARNER. As the gentleman from South Carolina says he has 

the subject already to regulate this business, whi"ch law makes no ex- no objection to the suggestion I have made, I will move to strike out 

ception, a person who violates that law knowingly must suffer the the words I have indicated in the tenth line. 

consequences of it. · Mr. HEMPHILL. I suggest to the gentleman to wait till amendMr. JACKSON. But certainly the gentleman does not pretend that ments are i:u order. . 

there is any law in existence upon these subjects to which I ha>e re- The SPEAKER pro tempo1·e (Mr. HATCH). When this bill was la-st 

ferred in the District of Columbia? · under consideration a large number of amendments were presented at 

Mr. HEMPHILL. So far as I know there is no law regulating body- the time the gentleman fr6m Kentucky [.M:r. TAULBEE] was on the 

snatching at all. floor, flnd can not under the rule be considered as pending amendments 

Mr. JACKSON. Yes, but I am calling the attention of the gentle- anymore than the amendment just proposed by the gentleman from man to the traffic that may go on under the features of this bill in this Pennsylvania [Mr. LYNCH] which bas just been read, the Chair supDistrict without the incurrence of any penalty on the part of the per- poses, for information. ~t the proper time these amendments which son who violates the law. There is no provision attaching the slightest have accrunulated ia such number will have to be taken up under the 

penalty. It gives a license to any individual who may have charge of rule. 

the unfortunates who may happen to come here-and as we all know Mr. HEMPHILL. A number of those amendments were offered 

many come who are disabled and infirm, and die here friendless and when the House was in a specially good humor. I think it important 

unknown-to speculate and traffic in their bodies. to go on with the business. I belie>e the House now underst.'lnds the 

Mr. HEMPHILL. Is that a question? bill, and unless gentlemen desire that it shall be further discussed I 

Mr. JACKSON. It is a question, if you can explain how it makes would like the House to go to the consideration oftbe bill by sections. 

provision for the .C..'\re of the bodies of people dying under such circum- Mr. COX. Those amendments which were offered when the bill was 

stances, and provides no punishment for an infraction of the law. under discussion were offered in the hour of the gent.leman from Kenl\1r. ATKINSON. It is already provided for by law. tucky. They were readforinformation, as the RECORD will show, and 

Mr. HEMPHILL. If the gentleman from Pennsylvania will sub- are not pending. 

mit a question I will take pleasure in responding, but I can not under- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will state that the gentletake to answer a long speech. Or if the gentleman will submit an man from Kentucky bad offered an amendment which was pending. 

amendment to the bill providing penalties for a violatioD of any of its One amendment to the bill had been offered by the gentleman from New 

provisions, I shall be very glad to consider it. · Jersey [Mr. BucHANAN] and bad been adopted by the House. TbereMr. JACKSON. The only amendment that I should offer would upon the gentleman from Kentucky offered an amendment; and after 

be one to strike out all after the enacting clause. the time occupied by the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. ATKINMr. HEMPHILL. And that of course we would not consider. soN] in debate the gentleman from Kentucky took the floor in support 

Mr. O'NEILL, of Missouri. Will t~e gentleman permit me to ask of his amendment; and during the time he was on the floor these other 

him a question? · . amendments were offered by the yielding from time to time of the genMr. HEMPHILL. .Certainly. tleman from Kentucky. 

Mr. O'NEILL, of Missouri. In the fourteenth line of the bill the 1\Ir. COX. The gentleman from Kentucky concluded by moving to 

proviso reads: lay the bill on the table, the amendments having been read for in- That if the deceased person during llis last illness, of his own accord, requested formation. 

to be buried, etc. The SPEAKER pro tempore. That is a correct statement of what 

What is the object of inserting these words," of his own accord?" took place. But the gentleman from Kentucky this morning withMr. HEMPHILL. For the simple reason, I suppose, that he might drew the motion to lay on the table. 

not be persuaded into it. If he desires to give llis_ body or does not Mr. GROSVENOR. I desire to ask the gentleman from South Cardesire it he can express that wish. But if the gentleman desires it the olina a question. As I understand, he has no objection to the amendwords might be inserted ''of his own free will.'' ment as to members of the Grand Army of the Republic? 

Mr. O'NEILL, of Missouri. Would it not be better to strike that Mr. HEMPHILL. No, sir . .. out as surplusage? Mr. COX. But it has to be voted upon. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. I have no objection. The use of the language I Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas.. I would like to make a suggestion to 

"of his own free will" would amount to the same thing. the gentleman in charge of the measure. When the bill was last under 

Of course there are people who have given their bodies to be buried, consideration a motion to lay on the table had been made. That roo- and some who have given their bodies to be cremated, and others who tion this morning bn..c; been withdrawn. The committee haYe been 

have given their bodies for scientific purposes. And after all, 1\Ir. heard now in ea:1enso; and under the circumstances I would suggest to 

Speaker, there is not so much difference in being cut up after death the gentleman l1a.ving charge of the bill the propriety of allowing furand buried afterwards, and being buried and cut up afterwards. For ther debate. 

under this bill all bodies that are dissected are to be buried decently 1\Jr. HEMPHILL. I do not desire to cut off debate unnecessarily. 

thereafter, and in order, bythe people who have the use of the body for We have other busjness, and we would like to go on with it as rapidly 

scientific purposes. ns we can consistently with a fair consideration of the measure now 

We all know that our bodies are not preserved after death, but by na- pending. I reserve the balance of my time. 

tnre decay; and when we remember these things and know that it does The SPEAKER pro temp01·e. The gentleman has twenty-three min· 

not make much difference-really makes no difference to the dead what- u tes remaining. 

ever-whenwerememberthesethings it cannot beamatter of so much [Mr. TAULBEE withholds his remarks for revision. [See Appen 

concern, except as a mere sentiment in the living; and it is for the pur- dix:.] 

poseof protecting the people of this District and saving those senti- Mr. "WEAVER •. Mr. Speaker, Iwishtosayafewwords!nopposition 

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to thlB bill. In my judgment it ought not to pass. I do not think the 

country is suffering for want of this sort of legislation, and I think the 

time of the House could be spent in a better way. Neither am I opposed to it from any sentimentality; not at all. I do not believe t.he 

opposition to the bill is inspired by anything of that kind. It does 

make the sending of bodies to the dissecting-table depend upon the poverty of the person. It is in the nature of a penalty upon poverty. So 

far as it applies to criminals it is in the nature of a penalty or punishment after death: 

One other thing. I had hoped the gentleman wonld have spared the 

House and the country the recital of the secrets of the chaxnel-house. 

It was unnecessary to the discussion of the bill, and I hope he wills trike 

out the horrible picture which he drew in that respect. I hope he will 

strike it from the RECORD; if it must be published, let it be published 

in the Police Gazette. 

I look upon the bodies of all hum:m beings as sacxcd, and that they 

ought not to be mutilated after death, except in case of necessity and 

with the consentofthedyingperson. And inasmuch as the-committet! 

have incorporated into this bill a feature looking to the consent of the 

dying person, and to the effect that his body shall not be given up to 

the dissecting-table if he requests otherwise, why not put into this bill 

a provision that his body shall not be so d~sposed of unless he had re·-

que~ ted it? .Just re\"erse the conditions of the bill. Give him the 

right to t·equest or to decide the matter before death; and if he docs 

not, touch not his remains. 

I have nothing further to say upon the subject. 

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

New Jersey [Mr. McADoo]. 

1\Ir. McADOO. Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that this bill might 

very well be entitled "A measureto send the JerryCrunchers from the 

gravc-Y.ards into the hospitals." 

Now, Mr. Speaker, there are a great many things about our daHy 

lives, a great many e\"ilS that afflict society, which are entire1y outs:ide 

of the pale of the law; and it has been argued by many social reformers that it is better to license such evils rather than to know that they 

exist as against the law, which is unable in some instances to control 

or regulate them. 

I, tor one, am opposed to such a theory. To give legislative sanctity 

to seemingly irrepressible, and even apparently :pecessary, evils will, 

I am afmid, dignity make respectable, and encourage wrong. The 

ghonl of the grave-yard is by tbiB act dignified into the legalized'' bodysnatther" of the hospital. Science, in a. .n tilitarian age, selects its vic · 

tims by reason of their poverty. 

I agree with all that has been said about the honors of this business of the resurrectionist, so far as it lacerates the feelings of the survivors :mel friends of the dead; but I (10 not wish, either by my vote 

or voice here, to add to the terrors which already surround the deathbed~ of the poor in onr puhlic hospitals and almshouses. 

l\Iany persons who :find themselves dying ~n hospita1s::md almshouses 

are not the victims of their own evil ways. They are often good, hon-

.. est, upright people, brought there b.v misfortunes, and the only crime 

of which they have been guilty is that unpardonable one in modern 

society, the crime of poverty. 

K ow, why add to the terrors of death by increasing the suffering of 

the poor fellow in the hospita.l or the almshouse by the knowledge 

that mter death his body is to be appropriated to the dissecting-table, 

to be ruthlessly and brutally used for scientific purposes? This bill, 

with n. sort of refinement of cruelty, prescribes that pernons dying in 

the almshouses or asylums, unless of their own accord they request the 

privileges of Christian burial, shall be banded over to the savage, 

soulless science of the meclicn.l schools. Imagine for a moment a poor, 

homeless, friendless, suffering man in the very throes of dissolution, 

his faculties deserting him, eternity with its awful possibilities before 

him, the earth and its ties receding, and just as he iB about to penetrate the Yeil of the tremendous future, he is obliged, in order to preserve his body, the temple of his soul, from a dissecting-table, to collect his thoughts and cite to the attendants, if any there be, an act of 

Congress passed for the district of Columbia, dated the· 26th of 1\Iarch, 

1888-probably sending for the statutes-asking that his body may not 

be handed over to the surgeons to be mutilated after his death. 

Every poox waifofhnmanitywhowants the benefit ofthls act must 

spend his last moments arguing law to the hospital or conventionally 

cold-hearted almshouse attendant-s. Money, which can not happily buy 

he..1.ven, yet to the \"ery last secures special privileges on this faithless 

earth. Even in the gra>e there is a one nice distinctbn. 

I think, sir, the proper way would be to provide that where a 

man is willing that his body should be handed over to the dissectingtn.ble for scientific dissection that he shall subscribe his wish to that 

effect in the presence of two or three witnesses, and thus dispose of his 

body after death. Never enact a law such as that proposed here, and 

put the burden upon him of saving his body byinsisting upon its preservation from the dissecting-table. Let the contrary be the practice in 

such cases. If the friends of this measure want to aid surgical knowledge, let them enjoin that their bodies shall be devoted to scientific 

research. Let us not be generous to science solely at the expense of 

the poor and needy. 

.Ur. GROU'l'. Let me ask the gentleman if he recognizes the neces- sity for subjects by medical colleges for dissecting purposes. 

1\Ir. 1\IcA.DOO. Well, I do not know. They have dissected so many 

and for so long a time, and there have been made such perfect charts 

and casts showing the whole science of anatomy, that it would seem 

scarcely necessary that this process of dissecting bodies should continue. It seems to me, not being a medical man, that where bodies 

have been dissected and charts and casts have been prepared, and animals are to be had showing the organization, arteries, veins, and tissues 

of the body, there is no necessity for ftrrther advancing the mediC!l.l science by exhuming and dissecting human cadavers. I pretend 

in this field, however, no special knowledge. ·We have certainly no 

right to give them the bodies of poor unfortunates. 

Mr. GROUT. I mean for medical students alone to dissect. You 

do not admit that position, do yon? 

Mr. 1\Ic.A.DOO. I can only repeat that so many years this pmctice 

has gone on and so many bodies have been dissected that from an unprofessional view I do not see the necessity for continuing it further. 

.Mr. GROUT. Are you aw::ue of the fact that the medical men all over the world differ with you very materially on tha~, point? 

Mr. 1\fcADOO. I am not aware of the fact, and do not profess to 

have 3JJY scientific information upon the subject. Science will :find means to dissemjnatc itself. 

But., Mr. Speaker, apropos of this subject of resurrectionists and the 

preYalence of this business in all countries and at all times, I ask the 

Clerk to read an extract from the" Tale of Two Cities," a con~ersation 

between Mr. Jerry Cruncher and his precocious boy. By this bill 

yon send Cruneher, ·as I said in the beginning, from the grave-yard 

to the pauper's bedside. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

"Father," said ycmng .Jerry, as they·walked along, taking care to keep ali arm's-length anu to have the stool well between them," what's a resurrection- man?" 

Mr. Crunchc r cumc to a stop on the pa.yement before he answered, "How should l know?" "I thought you knowed everything, father," snid the artless boy. "Hem! \Veil,'' returned Mr. Cruncher, going on again, and liftingo!fhisllat to give his spikt.>S free play, "he's a tradesman." "Wlmt's hh! goods. father?" asked the brisk young Jerry. ''His goods,'' said 1\Ir. Cruncher, after turning it over in his mind, ''is a branch of scientific goods." "Persons' bodies, ain't it, father?" asked the li'l"ely boy. "I belie'l"e it is something of that sort," observed ~It·. Oruncher. "Ob. father, l should so like to be a. resurrection-man when l'm quite growe<.l up." 

1\Ir. Cruncber was soothe{], but shook his bead in a. dubious and moral way. "It depend!> upon how you develop your talents. Be careful to develop your talents and n e ver to say no more than you can help to nobody; and there's no telling at the present time what you may come to be fit for." As young .Jerry, thos encouraged. we nt on a few yards in rulvance, to pl. ut the stool in the shadow of the bar, J\Ir. Crunchcr added to himself: "JeiTY., you bon~ tro.de3- man, there's hopes wot that boy will yet be a blessing to you, and a. recompense to you for llis mothe.r!" 

Mr. TAULBEE. I yield ten minutes to the gentlemanfrol)l.Kansas 

(Mr. ANDERSON]. 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. When this bill was under consideration the other day I offered the following amendment, which I shall 

endeavor to Otrer again as n. substitute for the bill, unless it shall be 

held that the amendment is already pending. It is ~his: 

Strike out all after the enacting clause of the bill and amend it so that iii will read: 

"Be it enacted, etc., That whoever shall sell o1·1Juy the body or bodies ora de- ceased person or persons, or in any way traffic in the same, or who sllall disturb or remove bodies from graves in which they have been buried, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for a term of not less than two n"or more than three yeal'S at h.n.rd labor in the jail of said Dis- trict.." 

That proposition I am ready to support, because it looks to the COl'-

rection ofa.u unquestionable and horrible Cl·ime, that of robbing graves. 

A.nd I would diBlike to see the bill laid on the, table for the reason that 

to do so would prevent the enactment of such a law as this; for, as I 

undet-stand it, there is no such L.1>w to-day in this District--

1\Ir. GROUT. Oh, yes; there is. 

1t1r. ANDERSON, of Kans..'lS. Not a law certa.inly which provides a 

penalty such as is called for by the nature of the crime. This city to 

a large extent isana.ggregationofstrangers, and therefore in it more than 

in other cities there is need for a stringent and effective law which shall 

prevent ghouls from desecrating graves. 

There bas been interjected into this debate the idea that the Committee on the District of Columbia was not treated with proper courtesy 

the other day. I am srue we are all willing to extend to the committee the fullest courtesy, a.nd have done so by again opening the debate. 

It is alleged also that the committee having examined this subject, and 

having concluded to recommend favorably the bill before us, that this 

fact in itself is a reason why the House should pass this bill. 

Mr. GROUT. Nobody claims that~ W c claim that that fact should 

entitle it to respectful consideration. 

l\Ir. ANDERSON, of Kansas. Now I, in common with every gentleman on the floor of the Honse, have the highest opinion of the sagacity, the wisdom, the integrity, and the ability of every gentleman on that committee, and if a proposition were pending here that we should 

enact this opinion into a law I personally would \"ote for it. But that 

is not the proposition at all. The merits of that committee, like " the 
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flowers that bloom in the spring,'' have nothing to do with the merits 

ofthe case. What is the exact proposition that we are asked to enact into a law? 

·n is that when any persons die in any of the charitable or criminal institutions of this District the bodies of such deceased persons as are required to be buried at thepublic expensemaybedelivered to the medical colleges; provided, however, that if the deceased person during his 

last illness, of his own accord, requested to be buried, etc., then his body 

shall not be so disposed of. 

My first objection to the bill is that it throws the burden of securing 

his body from dissection upon the person about to die. Who, ordinarily, is that person? Some one who is in the poor-house or in an insane asylum or hospital in this city, belonging to the class not ordinarily 

in the habit of reading the newspapers, usually not knowing what the 

laws of the District of Columbia may be; not knowing that there is 

such a law as this,eif it becomes law, which he must obey if he would 

have his bodv buried. 

Then consider the circumstances in which that person is at the time: 

weak, in pain, the mind beginning to grasp the idea of an approach to 

the mysterious confines of eternity and to all the vast possibilities and 

realities beyondi a man ignorant, poor, emaciated, in a hospital or in 

a jail about to meet his God. And by this bill it is made his dnty to 

remember, at such a time and under those circnmE<t3.nces, that the Fiftieth Congress enacted that his body should be caned by a lot of deputy 

sawbones unless he, "of his own accord," without thesuggestionfrom 

a surgeon, nurse, or anybodyelse-unless he ''of his ownaccord" said 

he desired to have buried the body given to him by the Great Creator 

who made this world and made human bodies, and who vested in each 

man the right and title to his own body. Was it the pauper or the 

patrician whom that same God most loved when He walked the fields 

of Palestine so many centuries ago, Hi.c; eye sympathizing with and 

kindling at the sight of whom? Of the Scribe? Of the Pharisee? Of the 

ruler? Of the senator or congressman of that government? Oh, uo. 

Of the poor, the lame, the blind, the sick. Unlike this bill, He preferred Lazarus, whose sores the street dogs licked, to the rich man. 

My objection is that by this measnre tlk'l.t very spirit of pity and care 

for the '\leak is sought to be invaded and OYerthrown by singling out a 

pauper, dying, agonized, perhaps a veteran soldier, and calling upon 

him to be aware of the fact that this august body, the Fiftieth Congr:es , had seen fit to enact a law that he, to save his body from going_ 

to the dissecting-table, " of his own accord," must say that he did not 

want to be en~ up for the benefit of a lot of sawboues. It is simply, 

in my judgment-and I say it with the highest respect for the committee and every member of it-a gross violation of that great spirit 

and heart of the God whoislove, and who most loves the poor and the 

weak, the helpless and forsaken. 

Now, if you want to pass a law to carve the body of a railroad president for the benefitofmedical science, I will Yote for it. [Laughter.] 

These men will know what the law is and act accordingly. If you 

wish to pass a bill under similar conditions as here proposed to dissect 

Jay Gould's remains, I will vote for it in a minute. [Laughter.] He 

would be able to take care of himself. But, gentlemen-and I am in 

earnest about this-! do not propose by my vote to put upon the sta.tute-book a law which, as I see it, violates the vested rights of humanity and Christianity. 

It is assumed by, gentleman that we must provide "stiff.:~" for the 

medic.:'\1 students; that we are somehow under obliga.~on to do it. That 

is the basis of their whole argument.. Why must we do so? For one, 

I deny the obHgation in toto. Why should this American Congress 

suspend the consideration of more important measures and come to a 

dead stop in order to enact a law of this cha.racter, violating, as I hold 

it does, the organic rights of men, the inalienable right of every man 

to his own body, be he poor or rich, sane or insane, merely for the purpose of providing subjects for medical students. What right lhwe we 

to another man's corpse? Think of it, gentlemen! And yet we are 

called upon to turn aside from important ancl needed legislation to 

grapplewith this great and cryingdemand that the American Congress 

shall provide "subjects, for the students of the medical colleges in 

the District of Columbia at the sole expense of the poor and friendless. 

Now, I insist upon it that this Congress does not have to do any 

such thing. For one I am perfectly ready to pass a bill to punish 

seYerely any ghoul who desecrates a grave. I am ready to vote for the 

amendment of the gentleman from Kentucky, which strikes out the 

existing provision from the bill and puts upon the dying man the burden of directing affirmatively that his body may be used for dissection. 

I will vote for that amendment, but I prefer to strike out the whole 

bill and substitute my amendment. 

Mr. TAULBEE. I yield five minutes to the gentleman from Indiana 

[Mr. WHITE]. 

Mr. WHITE, of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I wish to say a few words 

in opposition to this bill, because in my judgment it is a measure that 

ought not to pass. It is legislation in favor of the rich and agains.t the 

poor. Should this bill pass there is not a member of this House, 

there is not the head of a family in this great nation, who may not suffer from its provisions. Suppose that any member of this body or any 

head of a family has a wayward child, either a son or a daughter, who 

leaves home, perhaps through some distaste for its sun·oundings, but 

without any unkind feeling towards the parents. In such a case the 

child will be likely to try to conceal his or her locality from those at 

home. Now suppose that the wanderer should straggle down to this 

city of 'Yashington and lJere, through misfortune, should become poor 

and sick and be compelled to go to a hospital. Suppose that there the 

poor patient gets worse insteadofbetter, what will behisfeelingswhen 

he sees death staring :him in the face to know that his body will be 

unrecognized and will be handed over to be cut up under the provisions 

of this bill ? 

Mr. HE;\1PHILL. In the gentleman's own State, In diann,, they have 

a similar law with reference to bodies that are li:l.ble to be buried at. the 

public expense. Will the gentleman reconcile the view he is expressing with that law of his own State? 

Mr. WHITE, of Indiana. If they hn,ve such a law it is just as outrageous and infamous as the one we are considering here, and I would 

condemn it jush as severely. Ur. Speaker, in the case I was supposing, 

the poor stray sheep dies with the sen.l of secrecy on his lips and comes 

under the operation of the provisions of this bill. But in the mean time 

some casual acquaintance, who knew that he is in the hospital but had 

not kept track of him in the mean time, discovers that he is dead, and 

knowing the residence of his parents :md knowing that they would gi \"C 

half their fortune, or perhaps the whole <lf it, to discover even the body 

of their child, he writes or telegraphs to them, and they come here as 

fast as steam will carry them to reclaim the body of the unfortuna~ 

one. But do they find it? Not if this bill becomes a law. If you pass 

this bill you will make a law which will strike terror into families in 

e\"ery part of the country; no family in ::my part of this great nation 

will be safe against its provisions. Gentlemen know the feelings of 

parents in such cases. I know people in my own district who, even at 

this late day, if it were possible for them to visit the Southern battlefields and identify the places where their soldier-boy lies buried, would 

give t):leir last dollar to go down there and reclaim that body aucl carry 

it home and bury it in the littlA village grave-yard. I~hope that this 

bill will not pass. 

[Here the hammer fell.] 

Mr. TAULBEE. With the consent of the gentleman from South 

Carolina [Mr. HEMPHILL], I will yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania. [l\fr. SOWDEN], who desires to offer au amendment. 

The amendment was read, as follows: 

In line 13 of section l,aftel." the wol."d "students," insert: "That none of tho said officers in clk'l.rge of Uie institutions hereinbefore enumerated, nor the insti- tutions they represent., shall be at any expense by reason of the delivery or dis- tribution of the said bodies to any of the medical colleges in the District of Colnmbia.; hut all the expenses attending the dcli'"ery and distribution shall be paid by the college receiving them, in such manner as may be specified by the party making the delivery, and in no event shall the officer or otticers, whether directors, tru tees, superintendents, wardens, or managers, having lawful cus- -tody of Eaid bodies, make any charge or receive any pay on account of, or by reason of, the delivery and distribution thereof except t.he actual expenses at- tending the delivery and distribution of the same. And any violation hereof shall be punished as provided for any Yiolation of this enactment in section 2." Also, strike out. 'the words "Prot;ided, howeve1·," in line 13 of section 1, and insert after the preceding runendment the words "Providecl fU1iher." 

Mr. MASON. 1\Ir. Speaker, we have bad Mr. Gould dragged in here 

several times upon this floor, '\lith other railroad presidents, but this is 

the first time that gentlemen have had a chance to have him • 'dissected'' 

at the desk. [Laughter. J I desire, sir, to address myself to the merits 

of this bill, allowing that sort of "rot" to take its place where, in my 

judgment, it belongs. 

The United States Government requins, in regard to those who enter 

its service as physicians, certain thinf,rs, one of which is that they shall 

haYe had practical experience by the dissection of a dead body; yet that 

law, in the absence of some such legislation as the bill now under disCtlssion, places the physician in such a. position that in order to comply 

with the requirements of the Government he must rob the gran'" of 

people who are buried in this Dish'ict. In other words, the refu~:tl to 

pass a bill like this invites-nay, it absolutely forces-the medical 

fraternity to violate other laws of the community. 

M:r. TAULBEE. Will the gentleman allow me to ask him a question? 

Mr. MASON. I can not if it is to come out of my time. 

Mr. TAULBEE. I will consent that it come out of my time. I 

would like the gentleman to cite the law to which he refers. I want 

to introduce a bill to repeal it; and I wish to know where I can find it. 

1\.lr. MASON. I understand that there is a law in force in this District making it a misdemeanor to rob a grave. I am so informed. And 

I say that to refuse to pass a law giving the unclaimed pauper dead to 

the proper medical authorities as subjects for dissection invites, and in 

fact compels, the medical fraternity to steal dead bodies in order that 

physicians may comply with that law which requires that before they 

can be accepted by tht\ Government as surgeons in the Army or Na.vy 

they shall have dissected a body. 

Now, all this tn.lk about drawing distinctions between the rich and 

the pom; by a bill of this kind is the merest nonsense. This bill will 

operate upon one person in the same way as upon another. 

:Mr. TAULBEE. The law to which I asked the gentleman to direct 

my attention was the law requiring a physician to have such practical 

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knowledgeinsurgeryas isgainedfrom thedissectionofa body. Where 

is the law requiring a physician to have dissected a body? I want to 

know where to :find that law. 

1\Ir. MASON. Why, sir, every State of t.he Union, as well as the 

District of Columbia, according to my information, requires that a man, 

before being admittecl to practice medicine, must have graduated at a 

medical college and recei>ed a regular diploma, which must show a 

certain course of study, including practice in the diSsecting-room. 

Mr. TAULBEE. There is no such law in Kentucky, nor do !think 

there is such a law in the District of Columbia. If so, I would like 

to know where it is. 

· 1t1r. MASON. I will find the law for the gentleman; but I wish now 

to :finish my remarks on this branch of the subject. 

Ur. Speaker, there is one view of this quest ion which I have not 

heard anyone refer to except the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. CANNON], who alluded to it in a question which I thought the House did 

not hear. The only shock or damage from the desecration of a grave 

comes to the living, not to the dead. If you or I die leaving no friends 

who care enough for us to bury us, there can be no injury from allowing our bodies to go to the dissecting-table, for it is certainly no injury 

to the dead. Throwing aside all the mock sentiment that bas been 

indulged in here about the rich and the poor, I say that when a man 

who has been supported by the Government as a pauper dies he dies 

in debt to society. The man who .requires money to be taken out ot 

the public Treasury for his burial, who has never done enongh in the 

way of kind words or deeds to inspire any person to take an interest 

in his burial, dies in debt to society to that extentMr. TAULBEE. And the gentleman proposes to provide in this bill 

for a foreclosure of the mortgage. 

Mr. MASON. I most emphatically do. 

Mr. TAULBEE. I am glad that the gent.leman is candid enough to 

make the avowal. 

Mr. MASON. It is a square issue on this point. I say the man who, 

with all the opportunities that this country with its free institutions 

affords, dies without having made one friend who takes any interest in 

his burial does not dese~ve one; and when he dies in debt to the Government, when the Government has to provide for his burial, when be 

leave'3 'no friends whose feelings can be shocked by the dissection of his 

body, it should go to the dissecting-table for the benefit of science. 

When the State which I represent in part on th~ floor had no such 

law as is now proposed here for the District of ColJimbia., graves were 

robbed day after day and night after night, although there was a statute 

against grave-robbing. But the moment a law of this sort came into 

effect so thattne physicians could get subjects in a legitimate way without wounding the feelings of any living human being, grave-robbing in 

the State of Illinois was effectua1ly stopped. I would like to know 

whether the gentleman from Kentucky is familiar with State legislation on this subject. · 

[Here the hammer fell.] 

Mr . .MASON. I remind the Chair that the gentleman from Kentucky 

occupied one minute of my time. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. HATCH). The Chair has made 

allowance for that. 

M:r. TAULBEE. I do not require the foreclosure of any mortgage in 

order to recover the time which the gentleman occupied. I yield for 

the question which I understand he was about to ask. 

Mr. MASON. I wish simply to ask whether the gentleman is familiar 

with the legislation--

1\Ir. TAULBEE. Of your State? 

Mr. MASON. Not only of illinois, but of Indiana and several other 

States where laws similar to this bill have been passed. I can inform 

the gentleman that such legislat.ion has operated for the good of science, 

without injurytothefeelings of any human being, because an unclaimed 

pauper.who bas to be buried at the public expense leaves no friends to 

be concerned over the fact that his body is dissected. If the gentle- man will study this question he will find that legislation of this kind 

has operated not only to furnish legitimate dissecting m~terial for the 

medical colleges; but bas directly operated to protect the cemeteries or 

grave-yards from desecration. 

Mr. TAULBEE. i am not familiar with the legislation to which the 

gentleman refers, ·but I must confess I am surprised that it should have 

had any such effect. 

Mr. HEMPIJILL. I will yield for eight minutes to the gentleman 

from :Michigan (Mr. CoTCHEON). · 

l\Ir. CUTCHEON. l\'lr. Speaker, this is an unpleasant subject in any 

aspect we can look at it, and yet we are not permitted to turn aside 

from duty because it is unpleasant. It has been my fortune to confront 

this question before in my life, when, for a number of years, as regent 

of the University of Michigan, having included with it the largest medical college in the United States, we bad to meet and solve, so far as we could, this question. We found that in that part of the State of 

Michigan near to o\.u medical college something analogous to a reign 

of terror prevaiJed amongst people who were called upon to bury their 

dead; that there was a feeling that no grave was sacred, and there was 

no assurance the dead would rest where they bad been laid. We found 

frequently the friends and relatives of the deceased discovering the 

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removal of the remains and following them to the dissecting-room and 

reclaiming them. And to meet this state of things the State of l\1ichigan enacted a law very similar to, almost identical with, the bill now 

before the House. I ean speak, I think, without question as to the 

effect of the law, that grave desecration in the State of Michigan since 

the enactment of that law has almost entirely ceased, and that complaint of the law has ceased on every hand. People now lay the bodies 

of their relatives and friends in the grave with the most absolute assurance they will repose where they are laid. 

Now, Mr. Speaker, we are in this situation: In the first place, we 

must have medical men. We are all in the bands of the doctors. 

Sooner or later we go to them for help, and no conscientious physician 

can or 1Vill or dare stand by the bedside of suffering human.ity until 

he has qualified him elf for the discharge of the duties of pbyskian or 

surgeon by the amplest dissection of the cada>er. ~o physician as a 

mn.tter of tact does, and it is a f.'\Ct that is known t<Jevery man of common sense that anatomical material must be had and will be bad, 

either legitimately and lawfully, or will be bad clandestinely, illegitimately, and unlawfully. 

Now, there is the grave situation we confront, either the graves of 

e>ery one of your States will be ground for plunder of the grave-robber or you must provide your medical colleges with legitimate anatomical material. Here is a choice of evils. It is not pleasant to say that 

certain bodies shaH be dedica.ted to the dissecting-tabl~, but we must 

either say tbat certain medical material shall be placed at the disposition of the medical colleges or we must say to the people of the country every one of your homes shall be liable to the invasion of the ~raverobber. We must take our choice between these two. 

Now, if anatomical material is to be pmvided for medical colleges 

where are we to look for it? Mr. Speaker, I have no difficulty what- ever about this talk about the rich and the poor. Ninety-nine per 

cent. of the poor in the District of Columbia die at home in their beds 

and their remains are as sacred as the remains of the millionaire; but 

more than that, it is not one case in ten thousand that a man dies not 

only so poor in purse, but so poor in reputation, and so poor in affect ion tbat there is not some one to claim his body for burial in the grave. 

There is no aristocracy in the grave. There is no rich or poor: no bond 

cr free. In the grave there is neither purity norimpurity. The grave 

is the great leveler of humanity. . 

This, Mr. Spe.:'tker, is not a question of rich or poor; it is a. question 

of the preservation of the homes of the District of Columbia from the 

desecrating touch of the gra>e-robber, and we are now to choose here today whether every home shall be in,vaded by terror and the shadow of 

the resurrectionist, or we will provide the medical colleges necessary to 

civilization with the proper supply of legitimate anatomical material. 

And when it comes to that I will be ready to give my vote. I say we 

should go to the prisons and jails and almshouses, to the unknown and 

friendless man, w.ho has not upon the face of the broad earth one friend 

w bo cares enough for him to ask his body shall be buried, rather than 

allow bodies to be taken from thegrave-yards and terror to possess the 

firesides and homes of this District. 

Mr. Speaker, this is a common-sense question. It is a question 

which comes home to every one of us. It is a question of coinmon sense that if anatomical material must be provided it should be provided legitimately; and we can provide it legitimately by going to the 

prisons, jails, and almshouses, where men are dying unknown, without any friend whose feelings can be injured by their dedication to the 

dissecting-table. 

[Here the hammer fell. J 

The SP.EAKER pro tempo1·e. The gentleman from South Carolina 

has ten minutes of his time remaining. 

fr. HEMPHILL. The gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. TAULBEE] 

has given me five minutes of his time; and I desire to yield ten minutes to the gentleman from New York [Mr. Cox]. 

Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, I do not think, sir, that I have any inordinate sensibility as to the human body and its disposition after neath. 

I believe in something beyond and better than the mere corporate entity. It is impossible for us long to. preserve our frail bodies in life 

unless we study them in death. The best use which can be made of some of our bodies doubtless is to consign them after death to the high 

and ennobling purposes of science and humanity. 

This bill properly selects for this District that portion of the dead 

whose friends or friendlessness, whose crimes or condition, make them 

fit subjects for this object. 

During the progress of time onr bodies molder and decay in the 

ground. They return unto dust, unless they are strangely preserved 

and immortalized like those of the ancient Egyptians. On our earth 

they mix with the soil, and if in another element, they 

Suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. 

Through the processes of chemical action they are so changed that 

they enter into other forms and even develop into food for animals and 

>egetation. 

Why, it is said, sir, that where the largest battalions fell at \'{aterlo() 

there were found the richest wheat :fields; and it is within my ob ervation that the tallest, finest cypresses that grow in the city whero I re-
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• cently resided are those that spring out of the old Ottoman grave-yards 

from the bone and sinew of the tough Saljukian Turk. It is even said 

that from the skull of Roger Will.ia.mB, discovered in Providence some 

years ago, a splendid apple-tree root had become embedded-rare fruitage from the brain that conceived religious liberty. 

To understand why these mutations take place in our anatomy requires scientific research and study; and they teach us that we should 

not too highly prize the transient in decay. 

Let ns not, however, fail to defer to scientists in another more important direction. 'May I not say, sir, that it is impossible to study 

the science of anatomy, with a view to the practice of surgery and 

medicine, without having the human body, with its wonderfnl ma,-

chinery, as the object lesson? It is in itself a microcosm. It has every 

force of mechanism, from the pulley to the wheel, and every form of 

matter known to nature. \Ve are fearfully and wonderfully made, 

and the study of its parts with a view to health and longevity is insurmountable without the lessons taught in the dissecting-room. It. 

may be cruel to the sentimentalist, but the forceps and the scalpel have 

their humane utilities. All the refinements that belong to that gre~"tt 

and elder school of medicine must be taught under such conditions. 

This bill is in the interest of humanity and science in many senses; 

and for one who has labored here in our legislation with care and zeal 

for the saJety of human life, and who has advocated every project on this floor for its safeguard and preservation on land and sea, now, for 

the same relSon, sir, I would advocate the passage of this bill. It not 

only will preserve human life in the larger sense by adding to the. stock 

of human intelligence as to our bodies, but it will save the sensibilities 

of our friends from being racked through the wqrk of these human 

hyenas, who for filthy lucre despoil the grave where affection has 

planted her sweetest flowers. 

I remember a few years ago that the body of a son of a President of the 

United States was found in a >at in a dissecting-room in Cincinnati. I 

remember, too, that in a cemetery in Ohio, to which my body may go, 

the graves were torn open ruthlessly and bodies taken to the dissectin~­

room. Ex necessitate the professors and students had to have their sn bjects. It was in the interest of science. But public opinion was aroused 

and outraged in that State. A law not unlike this was enacted. It 

gave them the bodies taken from the hospitals, penitentiaries, jails: and 

asylums! under proper regulatio~s and restrictions, and the outrages 

ceased. Thus science, through the medium of death, ~ave its ai<l to 

human life. 

I favor the passage of this bill earnestly. I favor it in the interest 

of the living more than in the interest of the dead. I favor it because, 

sir, amid the changes that take place in our mortal sphere, the body, 

which is the mere shell of the life, is of little consequence compared 

with that life. 

I am not insensible to the preservation of the form itself. Who that 

ishumancould beotherwise? If, then, we~ouldpreserretbem~moryof 

our dear and dead friends, with their features in a deathless picture, and 

since we can not have them in marble and only in dust, let their health 

and safety in life be oar chief anxiety in legislation even as ih our homes. 

Let us care for them in such a mode by law that they mn.y be long 

with us here, assured that they have a "life beyond life-an immortality rather than a life." [Applause. J 

Mr. TAULBEE. Will the gentleman from NewYork permit me to 

ask if he is willing that his own body shall be so disposed of? 

Mr. COX. I would have to ask my wife about that. [Great laughter and applause. J 

Mr. HEMPHILL. I had intended, Mr. Speaker, to close this debate 

by adding a few words to what I have already said; but it has been 

so protracted and the discussion has brought out all perhaps that can be 

said, that I will not further occupy the time of the House, but ask an 

immediate vote upon the question. If there are amendments that gentlemen desire to offer, I hope we can have a vote upon them wHhont 

delay. I yield now, according to promise, to the gentleman from Kentucky to present the motion again which was pending when this subject came up to-day. 

Mr. TAULBEE. When the gentleman from South Carolina is 

through I desire to move to lay the bill and amendments on the table. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. I shall not occupy the attention of the House 

further. 

1\fr. TAULBEE. Then I make that motion. 

The question was taken on the motion of Mr. TAULBEE; and there 

were-ayes 38, noes 84. 

Mr. TAULBEE. There is no quorum voting. I desire now to ca,ll 

for the yeas and nays, so as not to consume time unnecessarily in a further division. 

The yeas and nays were refused, there being 29 voting in favor thereof and 135 in opposition. 

M:r. TAULBEE. I renew the point that no quorum has voted. 

1\Ir. FARQUHAR. The vote just taken discloses the fact that a quo- rum is present. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. But th.e point of order the gentleman 

makes js that no quorum voted upon the motion to lay on the table 

tlle amendments and the bill. 

Seyeral MEMBERS. Too late. 

The SPEAKER pTo tempore. The Chair will state that before he declared the result of the vote the gentleman f1·om Kentucky [ Ir. TAULBEE] demanded the yeas and nays, and the yeas and nays have been 

refused. The gentleman now makes the point that no quorum has 

YQted. The Chair thinks the point is made in time, and will appoint 

as tellers the gentleman from South Camlina: [l'lfr. HEMPHIU .. ] and the 

gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. TAULBEE]-

The House again divided; and there were-ayes 48, noes 116. 

So the motion to lay the bill on the table was not agreed to. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from South Carolina 

[Ur. HE)IPHrLr..] is entitled to the floor. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. I move the previous question on the bill and 

amendments. 

Mr. GH.OSVENOR. What amendments does that motion include? 

Mr. TAULBEE. I ask whether it is considered that all the amendments which have been read are pending? 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. TAULBEE] is the fir~t amendment pending. 

The Chair is not prepared now to say whether the others are pending 

or not. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. I have no desire to cut off rea~onable amendments 

which may be offered. There were a number of amendments offered 

the other day that I suppose gentlemen do not propose to have voted on. 

Mr. SOWDEN. I desire to have mine >oted on. 

Mr. TAULBEE. If the last remark of the gentleman from South 

Carolina was intended to refer to my amendment, I beg to say the gentleman is mistaken. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. '£hat amendment is pending. 

Mr. WEAVER. I rise to a point of order. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it. 

Mr. WEAVER. This bill consists of more than one section nml has 

ne>er been considered by sections. 

The SPEAKER J;ro tempore. We are proceeding with the consjderatioJLOf this bill iu the House; and the gentleman in charge of the bill 

has the right at any time to move the previous question. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. As I understand, all the amendments have been 

offered which ~entlemen deeire to offer. 

Mr. MILLIKEN. No, sir; there are other amendments to be offered 

if the opportunitv is presented. 

Mr. ANDERSO:N, of Kansas. Is the amendment I proposed considered as pending? 

The SPEAKER p1·o tempore. The Chair will state the situation to 

the Honse, and when the Chair has done so the gentleman from South 

C:uolina can so frame his motion as to cover what be intends. If the 

Honse shall vote the previous questionon the bill and pending amendments that have been offered, then all the amendments offered will be 

put before the House in their proper order. '.rhe gentleman from South 

Carolina is entitled to the floor. 

Mr. WARNER. I asked the gentleman from South Carolina a question while he was on the floor, and I indicated the purpose to offer an 

amendment striking out certain words in the tenth and eleventh lines, 

to which amendment the gentleman said he had no objection. lf there 

is an amendment alreacly pending which covers th'tt purpose, I do not 

ask to offer it. If there is not, I desire to offer it. 

Mr. HE :1PHILL. I agree that that amendment shall be offered. 

I snbmit this proposition, that the Clerk read the amendments otfered 

to this bill, that it may be seen which amendments gentlemen desire to 

be regarded as pending. 

M:r. MILLIKEN. Will the gentleman allow me to offer an amendment? 

:lr. HE IPHILL. As soon as we get through with making this arrangement. I think gentlemen who offered amendments shonld indicate whether they desire to have them voted on or not. 

The SPEAKER p1·o tempo1·e . The gentleman from Kentucky [Ur. 

TAULBEE] was on the floor and entitled to the floor, and the amendment which he offered was pending. While he was on the floor nurperous gentlemen offered amendments and he yielded to them, saying. he 

accepted those amendments. Of course, the gentleman could only accept an amendment as a modification of his own, and only such a:; were 

germarie. The Chair did not unde1-stand the gentleman as accepling 

all these as modifications of his own amendment. 

1\Ir. TAULBEE. No, sir; I intended that my amendment should be 

acted on as a separate amendment, and that the others should be ac- cepted and considered as pending. 

Mr. HEMPHILL . . The gentleman from Kansas [M:r. ANDERSON] 

has submitted an amendment which I think was submitted iu good 

faith, and I should like it to be voted upon. 

:M:r. ANDERSON: of Kansas. I shall send my amendment to the 

desk. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair desires to get the attention 

of the gentleman from South Carolina. He will state it is impossible 

for the Chair to determine what number of these amendments which 

have been offered by gentlemen on the floor were offered in good faith. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. I will agree that the amendment offerecl by the 

gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. TAULBEE], the amendment of the genw 

tleman from Kansas [Mr. ANDERSON], the amendment offered by the 

gentleman from Pennsylvania [1\fr. SOWDEN], the amendment of the 
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gentleman from Missouri [Mr. WARNER], and t~ amendment of the 

gentleman from Ohio [Mr. GROSVE.YOR] shall be voted upon. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from South Carolina. 

demands the previous question on the bill and amendments which 

he has indicated. 

Mr. TAULBEE. I object to that. I think it was understood all 

the amendments should be read, and if any of t.llem appear to nave been 

offered otherwise than in good faith they could be designated. 

The SPEAKER pf·o tempore. The Chair will now cause the amendments to be read in their order, beginning with the amendment of the 

gentleman from Kentucky. If when any of the amendments are read 

the gentlemen who offered them desire t-o withdraw those amendments, 

that will relieve the situation to that extent. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. I desire now1 before the reading begins, to state 

that the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. W AR...'iER] wished to offer an 

amendment, namely, to strike out the words ''of his own accord," in 

line 14 of the first section, which I think ought to be adopted. 

The SPEAKER p1·o tempore. The Chair will recognize the gentleman from Mis ouri [1\Ix. W AR:NER] l:tter for that purpose. The Clerk 

will report the fii·st amendment. 

The first amendment, offered by Mr. TAULBEE, was read~ as follows: 

Amend by striking out all of section 1 after the word "lwweu1·," iu line 13, and iusert, ''That such deceased persons shall h:tve consented to such disposi- tion of his or her remains." 

1\fr. BREWER. lr. Speaker, I think we shall not accomplish anythin~ by proceeding in this way. 

Th e SPEAKER pro tempore. These amendments arc being read now 

for the information of the House and. to enable the gentlemen who 

have offered them to withdraw t,hem or to insi<>t upon them n.s they 

mn.y elect.. 

Mr. BREWER. Then let us di!'tpose of t.hls amendment DO\V. 

Mr. TAULBEE. Let us go on with the regular order, Mr. Speaker. 

I of course will insist on that amendment at the proper time, but I 

now demand the regular order. 

Tbe SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the ne.·t amendment. 

The nextmncndmeut, offered by Mr. STO.""E, of Missouri, was read, 

as follows: 

::itr:l;o out all after the enacting cl:mse down to and including the word "cx- pcm~P ," in the cleyenth line of the fh·st section, and insert: "That the l>octies of all doctors and medical students dying in the D istrict. of Columbia shall be d elivered to the duly-authorized agent of any medical col- lege orcoll.eges in the said DLtrict of Columbia and." 

The neA-t amendment, offered by Mr. GROSVENOR, was read, as follows: 

.An·l pl"Ol;idetl further, 'rhat if such deceased person was n.n honorably dis- charged soldier or member of the 1\Ia.rine Corps of the United States, and such fact is known b~·. or is brought to the knowled,o-e of. the officer or person hav- ing charge of the institution in w h ich such person died, then such fu>dy shall not uo deliverecl to any medical college until due notice of the death of s uch person has b een given to some Grauel A.rroy post. in the District of Columbia, and reasonable time bo giYen sm·h vost to claim such remains for buri:tl by such post. · 

Tl1e next amendment, offered by l\lr. CUTCHEON, was read, as follows: 

After the word'' lwweve1·," in the thirteenth line f section 1, insert the follow- ing: 

''That such body shall not be so delivered in less than sixty hours from the 

time of death." 

Mr. CUTCHEON. I wish to modify that amendment so as to make 

the time forty-eight hours instead of sixty. 

The SPEAKER. The modification will be made. 

:Mr. TAULBEE. Mr. Speaker, I wish to reserve the point of order 

against that amendment. 

Tho next amendment, offered by Mr. McADoo, was read, as follows: 

Strike out all in the first section :.Ulet· the word "that" down to the words '' dereased persans," i u line 10, so that it will read that " the bodies of deceased persons shall be distributed among the seyeral medical colleges equitably," etc. 

The next amenc:.\men.t, offered by l\1r. ANDERSOY, of Kan...~, was 

read, as follows: 

Strike out all after the enacting clause of the bill and runend it so that it will 

read: 

"Be it enacted, elc., That whoever shall sell or bu~ the body or bodies of a de- cea ed person or persons, or in any way tra ffic in the same, or who shall dis- turb or remove bodies fco= graves in which they have been buried, shall be deemed guilty of a. misdemeanor, ::tnd s~on conviction, be imprisoned for a term of not less than two nor more than three years at hard labor in the jail of 

said District." 

Tile next amendment, offered by lli. SOWDEN, was read, as foilows: 

After the word "students," in line 13, section 1, insert: " Provided, TliaL no one of the said officers in charge of tho institutions herein be- fore cnumel"ated, nor the institutioll3 they represent, shall be at any expense by r eason of the delive1-y or di tribution of the said bodies to any of the medical col- leges in the District of Columbia, but all the expenses attending the delivery and distribution shall be paid by the college receiving them, in such manner as may be speci cd by the party making tbe delivery; and in no event shall the officer or offic<:-rs, whellicrdirectorl', trustees. superintendents, wardens, keepers, or man:t- gers. having ln.wful custody of said bodies make any charge or receive any pay on nccoun t of or by reason oft he delive1·y and distribution thereof, except the act· ua.l expenses attending the distribution of the satne. And any violation hereof shill be pUDished as is provided for any violation of this enactment in section 2. 11 

Also, strike out the words "Provided, howeverz" in line 13 of section 1, and in- sert after the preceding amendment th~ words 'And provided further." 

The next amendment (offered by Mr. LYNCH) was read, as follows: 

Amend the 1hst section by adding the follo-wing: "Pro~:id.ed further, That public notice of the death and n. brief description of ~he deceased be given in two newspapers published daily in the city of Wash· mgton for two consecnti\e days before the body is delivered ns aforesaid." 

The next amendment (offered by Ur. WAnl\~) was read, as follows: 

In section 1, lines 10 and 11, strike out the following words: "As aro requirett to be buried at the public expense." 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair now recognizes the gentlemt\n from l\Iissouri [Ur. O'~EILL] to offer his amendment. 

Mr. O'NEILL, of Uissouri. I move to amend by striking out, in 

line 14 ofser.tion 1, the words "of his own accord." 

Ur. HEUPHILL. The gentleman from ])1aine [Mr. Mr.LLI.KEN] 

desires to submit an amendment. 

1\Ir. MILLIKEN. I offer the amendment which I send to the desk. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Amend by stl"iking out all after the word "that.," in line 3,and before the word" the," in line 7 of the first section, and insert after tho word "expense" and before the word "said," in line 11, tlte words "anti the bodies of ull other deceased persons;" -so as to read: "That tbo health officer of said D" !rid deliver to the duly authorized age9t or any medical college or colleges in the said District of Columbia the bodies of sue~ deceased persons as are required to be buried at the public expense, and the bod1es of all other deceased persons, said bodies to be diatributed," etc. 

Mr. HEMPHILL. I now move the previous question upon the bill 

and amendments. 

Mr. TAULBEE. Areali these ::un(mdments considered as pending? 

The SPEAKER pro te-mp01·e. ATI of them are regarded as pending, 

to be -voted on in their order. The genil man from South Carolina 

moves the previous question on tile bill and umendments. 

Mr. '.rAULBEE. I move to lay that motion on the table. 

l\h. HEl'IIPHILL. Tilat motion is not in order. 

The SPEAKER 111·o tempore. 'J'lle ' Irair holds that tile motion of the 

gentleman from Kentucky is not in order. A motion to lay on the 

table the bill antl amendments bas just been Yoted on by the House. 

The ~entlem:m fl"om Sooth Carolina now moves the previous question 

upon the bill and :1.mendments. 

l\Ir. TAULBEE. And I move to lay that motion for the previous 

question on the table. 

The SPEAKER pm tempore. And tho Chair holds thn.t the motion 

of the gentleman from Kentucky is not in order. 

Mr. TAULBEE. I defer to the opinion of the Chair. 

T11e pre·dous question was ordered, theTe being-ayes 133, noes lG. 

The SPEAKER p1·o tempore. The question is first on the amendment submitted b.f tbe gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. TAULBEE], 

which the Clerk will read. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Strike out all of section 1 after the word "howe...-er," in line 13, and insert " that such deceased person shall havo con ented to such disposition of his or her remains." 

Ur, TAULBEE. I ask that the Clerk read the context, so as to show the effect of the amendment. 

The SPEAKEl~ pro tempore. The Clerk will report the first clause 

of the bill, with the amendment of the gentleman from Kentucky. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

That ::tUY public officers or officers, whether directors, tlmstees, Wll.l"dens, 

keepers, or m nagers, ha\ing lawful charge of, or control over, any hospital, 

prison, almshouse. ja.il, morgue, or asylum within the District of Columbia., may, with the approval of the health officer of said Distl·ict, deliver to the duly authorized agent of any medical college or colleges in the said District of Co- lumbia the bodies of such deceased per ons as arc required to be buried at the public expense, said bodies to be distributed among the several colleges equita· bly, the number assigned to each being proportioned to U1.at of its students: Provided, howeve1·, That such deceased person shall have consented to such disposition of his or her remains. 

The question being taken on agreeing to the amendment of Mr. TAULBEE, there were- ayes 44, nays 100. 1\ir. TAULBEE. I m::t.ke the point that no quorum bas voted;. and 

pending that point I ask the yeas and nays on the anumdment, as I 

think this is a Yery proper question on which to test the sense of the 

Honse. 

The question being taken on ordering the yens and nays, there wereayes 28, noes 151. 

Mr. TAULBEE. Let us have tellers on ordering the yeas and nays. 

Tellers were not ordered. 

So the yeas and nays were refused. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question now l"ecurs upon the 

amendment of the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. TAULBEE], on which 

no quorum voted. The Chair appoints n.s tellers the gentleman from 

Kentucky [Ur. TAULBEE] and the gentleman from SouthCamlina [Mr. 

HEIIIPHILL]. 

lVIr. HEMPHILL. Can thepointof ''no quorum'' be reserved while 

all these other questions are being put? 

The SPEAKER 11ro te?npm·e. Tbe gentleman from Kentucky made 

the point of "no quorum," and pending that demanded a vote by yeas 

and nays, which was refused. The tellers will bke their places. 

The Honse divided; and the"re were-ayes 46, noes 120. 

So the amendment was disagreed to. 

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The question next recurred on the amendment of 1tir. STONE, of .1\Iis- Lands ought also to be excepted, and I think I shall have to insist on 

souri, which wa~ read, as follows: that exception. 

Strike out all after the enacting clause down to and including the word "ex- Mr. HATCH. The Committee on Commerce has· ttlready been ac- pense," in the eleveJ?.th line of the fi!st ~ection, ~d .insert: "Tha~ the bodies of cord eel two days, to-morrow and the next day, fur the consideration of 

9:ll doctors and medical st';ldentsdymg m the D1s~nctof Columbm shall ~e de- its bills; and the gentleman from Indiana knows why that order can hvered to the duly authonzed ngent of any medical college or colleges m the t b f: . , d f ll t d. I h h fi h '11 t b' t srud District of Columbia; and." no e rur1y an u y execn e ope t ere ore e Wl no o ~ec . 

The House divided; and there were-ayes 11, noes 95, Ur. HOLMAN., The question is as to o~e day. . Mr. TAULBEE. No quorum has voted. :Mr. HA!CH. The gentleman fr?~ Indi~a propo~e~ to rmpose on 

The SPEAKER appointed as tellers Mr. TAULDEE and Ur. HEMP- the Comm1ttee on Commerce a c~nd_1h~n not ~ the ongmal order. 

HILL. I Mr. HOLMAN. I would not ms1st if the t1me had been postponed 

The Honse again divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 35, noes 129. to a later day. . . So the amendment was rejected. Mr. CANNON_. The~e arc so many spee1al orders _undisposed of I 

The question next recurred on the following amendment, submitted shall have to obJect. Gentlemen say, why do you obJect; and ~thers 

by Mr. GROSVENOR: say,_ oh, _don't! . Now, there ar_e other memh~rs a.nd other ~ommlttees 

Add to the first section: havmg JUSt as Important busmess, and unhl th1s matter IS settled I 

''And p1·o'L"ided jurthe1·, TlJat if such deceased person was an honorably dis- say no. charged soldier or sailor or member of the Marine Corps of the United States, Mr. WEAVER. I insist on mv motion to adjourn. and. such fact is know~ or _is b_rou~ht to .the knowledge of .tho officer or pe;-son The House divided . and there were-ayes 72 noes 56. haVJng charg-e of the mst1tutwn 1u wh1ch such person d1ed, then such body . ' . ' ( 1 shall not be delivered to any medirol college until due notice of the death of So the motion was ngr.eed to; and accordmgly at 4 o clock and 40 

such person has been giyen to some Grand Army post in the District of Co- minutes p. · m.) the House adjourned. lumbia, and reasonable time giYen to such post to claim such rcmo.ins for burial 

by such post." 

The amendment was agreed to. 

MESSAGE FROM TilE SENATE. 

A message from the Senate, by hlr. PLATT, one of its clerks, announced that the S'enate insisted on its amendments disagreed to by the 

Honse to the bill (H. R. 3300) to amend au ad to enable the city of 

Denver to purchase certain ]and for cemetery purposes, and asked for 

a conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses, and had appointed as conferees on its parthlr. PLUliiB, Mr. TELLER, ::md 1\lr. CocK- RELL. 

Al\IEXD:\IEST OF REVISED STATUTES. 

M:r. THOMPSON, of California: by unanimous consent: introduced a 

bill (H. R. 8944) to extend the repeal of section 4716 of tho Revised 

Statutes in cei·tn.in ca es; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 

FIRST BATTAUON OF CALIFORXIA MOUNTAINEERS. 

Mr. THOMPSON, of California, also, by unanimous consent., introduced a bill (H. R 8945) for the relief of the First Battalion of Californ ia Monntaineei'Sj which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Military .A:ffuirs, and ordered to be printed .. 

WAR CLAIMS. 

The SPEAKER. The chairman of the Committee on War Claims 

[Mr. STONE J asks that the Committee of the Whole be discharged from 

the considcra tion of the bill (H. R. 8188) for the relief of Anthony L. 

Woodson, and that. the bill (H. R. 4665) for the relief of Anthony .L. 

Woodson be taken from the table, and that the said bills be recommitted to the Committee on War Claims. 

Mr. SPRINGER. Not to be brought baek by a motion to reconsider. 

The SPEAKER. They can not be brought back by a motion to reconsider. If ther~ be no objection, it will be ordered accordingly. There was no objection, and it was so ordered. 

ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. 

1\fr. KILGORE, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that 

the committee had examined and found truly enrolled bills of the following titles; when the Speaker signed the same: 

.A bill (H. R. 6437) to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the 

fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, and for other purposes; 

A bill (H. R. 5723) to amend section 461 of the Revised Statutes, 

regulating fees for exemplifications of land patents, and for other purposes; 

A bill (H. R. 1528) to reward the Esquimaux natives of the Asiatic 

coast of the .Arctic Ocean for acts of humanity to shipwrecked seamen; 

A bill (H. R. 1589) to provide Jor holding terms of the United States 

courts at M.ississippi City; and 

A bill (H. R. 5373) to change the location of a certain alley in the 

city of Washington. 

:P.Ir. ENLOE, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that 

the committee bad examined and found truly enrolled a bill (H. R. 

2494) to provide for payment of ilie funeral expenses of the late ChiefJustice of the Supreme Court; when the Speaker signed the same. 

· ORDER OF DUSINESS. 

Mr. WEAVER. I move that the House do now adjourn. 

Mr. CLARDY. I ask, by unanimous consent, that Thursday, the 

5th of April, and Saturday, the 7th of April, be set apart for the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Commerce in lieu 

of the days provided by a preceding order. 

Mr. WEAVER. I hope that request will be agreed to. 

The SPEAKER. The request· of the gentleman from Missouri is 

that Thursday, the 5th, and Saturday, the 7th, day of April be set 

apart for the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Commerce, not to interfere with revenue or appropriation bills. Mr. HOLl'tiAN. Bills coming from the Committee on the Public 

PRIVATE BILLS AXD JOIST RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED AND REFERl~ED. 

Under the ru1e private bills and joint resolutions of the following 

titles were introduced and relerred as indicated below: 

By 1-Ir. C. H . ALLE~ (by request): A bill (H. R. 8830) for the relief 

of L. A. Noyes-to the Committee on Claims. 

By JHr. E. P. ALLEN: A bill (H. R. 8881) granting a pension to Margaret Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. J. A. ANDERSO~ : A hill (H. R 8882) for the relief of William Walker- to the Committee on Claims. 

Also, a bill (H. R 8883) for the relief of W. H. L. Peppcrill-to the 

Committee on Claims. 

By l\Ir. C. S. B4t\..KER: A bill (H. R. 8.S84) granting a pension to 

Emily 1\fcClure-to the Committee on Inv~lid Pensions. 

By Mr. BUTLER: A bill (H. R. 8835) granting a pension to Eliza 

A. Woods-to the Committee on Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 81386) p:ranting a pension to Sarah Borners-t.o the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. COWLE : A bill (H. R. 8887) to place the name of Jonas 

Price on the pension-roll-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. CUl\HIINGS: A bill (H. R. 8888) granting a pension to the 

widow of G. K . Warren-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. DARLINGTON: A bill (H. R. 8889) granting a pension to 

Charles Uolseecl-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also,_ a bill (H. R. 8 90) granting a pension to William Hammondto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. ENLOE (by request): A bill (H. R. 8891) for the relief of 

Silas A. Richmau- to the Committee on Pensions. 

By Mr. FAR_QUHAR: A bill ({f. R. 889'2) granting a pension to 

Eudelia. S. Harmon-to the Committee on Pensions. 

By :M:r. FUNSTON: A bill {H. R. 8893) to place the name of Sarah 

E. Zaring on the pension-roll-to the Committee on Iu-va1id Pensions. 

By Mr. HOUK: A bill (H. R. 889i) for the relief of Benjamine Pra- ter-to the Commjttee on Wa-.:- Claims. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8895) for ~he relief of Robert H. Alexander-to 

the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8896) for the relief of Thomas Lowe-to the Com- mittee on War Claims. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8897) for the relief of Elizabeth B. Baker-to the 

Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a. bill (H. R. 8898) for the relief of E. Dawson-t-o the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8899) for the relief of 1\Irs. Sarah Bailey-to the 

Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. HUDD: A bill (H. R. 8900) for the relief of Eva. Bruid-to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. LAFFOON: A bill (H. R. 8901) for the relief of Andrew 

Hildebrand-to the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8902) to remove the charge of desertion against 

Alexander Malone-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. :MARTIN: A bill (H. R. 8903) for the relief of Henry W. 

Sw~-to the Committee ou Claims. 

By Mr. McCORMICK: A bill (H. R. 8904) extending the benefits ofthe act approved June 16, 1880, to Edson Hyde-to the Committee on 

Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. Ucl\IILLIN: A bill (H. R. 8905) for the relief of Joseph C. 

Anthonv-to the Committee on War Ciaims. 

Also, va bill (H. R. 8906) for the relief of G. W. Catron-to the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8907) for the relief of J. E. Copeland-to the Committee on War Claims. . 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8908) for the reliefofS. R. Doxey, administrator 

of J. L. Doxey, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a. bill (H. R. 8909) for the relief of Nancy Bowman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 
2424 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 26, 

By Mr. McSHANE: A bill {H. R. 8910) for the removal of the charge 

of desertion from Patrick Cline-to the Committee on :Military Affairs. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8911) granting a pension to LemuelA. Wheelerto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By lli. PERKINS: A bill (H~ R. 8912) granting an increase of ptnsion to Almeron J. Patchin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8913) granting a pension to Jame~ H. Jeffriesto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By .Mr. PETERS: A bill (H. R. 8914) for the relief of Daniel Jacobsto the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. ROBERTSON: A bill (H. R. 8915) to confirm to the heirs of 

Mrs. Courtney A. Claiborne the title to a·certain tractoflandin the State 

of Louisianar-to the Committee on Private Land Claims. 

By :M:r. STOCKDALE: A bill {H. R. 8916) for the relief of J. D. 

Ryan & Co.-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. TOWNSHEND: A bill (H. R. 8917) for the relief of William 

Weaver.-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8918) for the relief of Joseph C. Williams-to the 

Committee on Military Affairs. 

Al o, a bill (H. R. 8919) for the relief of Daniel Ward-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8920) for the relief of W. H. McCabe-to the Committee on Milita1·y Affairs. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8921) for the relief of Joseph N. Pierce-to the 

Committee on Military Affairs. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8922)•for tlle relief of Michael John McClain-to 

the Committee on Military Affairs. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8923) for the relief of Benjamin Henderson-to the 

Committee on Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8924) for the Telief of Hebecca Franklin-to the 

Committee on Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8925) for the relief of Mary Maulding-to the 

Committee on Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8926) for the relief of Catharine N. Harvey-to the 

Committee on Pensions. · 

Also, a bill {H. R. 8927) for the relief of Allen Morris-to the Committee on Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8928) for the relief of America A. McMahon-to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8929) for the relief of Samuel E. Wilson-to the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8930) for the relief of J. H. Corn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8931) for the relief of Samuel E. Wilson-to the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8932) for the relief of Hannah Coale-to the Com· 

mittee on Invalid PeQ.Sions. 

.Also, a bill (H. R. 8933) for the relief of Sarah Allen-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8934) for the relief of Malissey E. Smothers-to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8935) for the relief of James C. Finn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8936) for the relief of Catharine Arnold-to the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8937) for the relief of Mary A. Harper-to the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8938) grantintz a pension to Nancy Hartley-to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8939) granting a pension to John A. Bull-to the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8940) granting a pension to William A. Plumbto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 8941) granting a pension to John Gant-to the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. PERRY: A bill (H. R. 8942) for the relief of John L. Youngto the Committee on Claims. 

By Mr. WHEELER: A bill (H. R. 8943) for the relief of the heirs 

of the late Dr. Nathan Fletcher:-to the Committee on War Claims. 

Change in the reference of a bill iniproperly referred wa.s . made in 

the following case, namely: 

A bill (H. R. 6931) granting a pension to Jonathan Hayes-from the 

Committee on Invnlid Pensions to the Committee on Pensions. 

PETITIONS, ETC. 

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

under the rule, and referred as follows: 

By l\Ir. ADAMS: Petitionfortherepealofthe duty on German mir- ror plates-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. C. H. ALLEN: Protest of William Reid and 18 others, dresseTs of flax, against the admission of hackled flax free of duty-to the 

Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. G. A.. ANDERSON: Petition of George W. Long and 94 

others, citizens of Calhoun County, Iilinois, for removal ot bar nea.r Clarksville, Mo.-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. 

Ry Mr. J. A. ANDERSON: Petition of E. J. Sankey-, of Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, with affidavits, asking for a pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. JEHU BAKER: Petition of green-glass bottle blowers, of 

Alton, Ill., against Teduction of duty on green and colored glass bottles 

as proposed in the Mills bill-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Ur. BANKHEAD: Petition of:JIIiilla Bart-on, heir of Henry Ferguson, of Walker County, Alabama, for reference of her claim to the 

Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. BAYNE: Petition of James B. Murray and 888 others, disabled veterans of the National Soldiers Home at Leavenworth Kans., 

in favor of the Furlough bill (H. R. 7765)-to the Committee on Invalid 

Pensions. 

Also, papers relating to the claim of John Ru...c;sell-to the Committee on Claims. 

Also, petition of Wash Deen Granger, of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, for reduction of postage on seeds, bulbs, etc.-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. 

By Mr. BOWDEN: Petition of Robert G. Griffin and others, heirs 

of Robert Anderson, of York County, Virginia, for reference of their 

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

Also, protest of J. E. Butler and others against the repeal of the internal-revenue tax on cigars-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By M:r. C. R. BRECKINRIDGE: Petition of citizens of Rondo, Ark .. for the passage of House bill 7389-to the Committee on the Post-Office 

and Post-Roads. 

By Mr. BREWER:· Remonstrance of D. S. Waldron and 10-! others, 

citizens of Iona, Mich., against any reduction of the duty upon imported wool-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. COLLINS: Petition of the Boston Forge Company and others, 

for an appropriation for the improvement of Boston Harbor by extending· a channel from the main ship-channel at the southeast line of the 

Grand Junction wharves extended, to the southeast line of Lamson 

street extended-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. 

Also, petition of employes of the Boston post-office, in favor of the 

passage of House bill No. 5664-to the Committee on tho Post-Office 

and Post-Roads. 

By 1\Ir. CO l\IPTON: Petition of masters of' vessels, captains, and 

citizens of l\Iaryland, for the esta.blishment of a light at White Rock, 

on the south side of the Potapsco River-to the Committee on Com- merce. 

Also, petition of estate of Thomas Talbert, and of estate of Mary 

H. Tolson, for reference of their claims to the Court of Claims-to the 

Committee on War Claims. 

.Also, petition from bottle-blowers of the United States, against re- duction of tariff on green or colored glass bottles-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Ur. COOPER: Petition of C. J. Uann and 82 others, members 

of the Waterford Grange in Knox County, Ohio, for increase of the 

wool tariff-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By 1\Ir. COWLES: Petition of Isaac Price, for an invalid pensionto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By 1Ir. CRISP: Affidavits, etc., in support of bill for tho relief ot 

J. \V. Belvin, of Georgia-to the Committee on Claims. 

By Mr. CUMMINGS: Petition in behalf of the bill to prevent the 

seining of menhaden within three miles from shore-to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. 

By Mr. DARLINGTON: Memorial of citizens of Pennsylmnia <'ngaged in agriculture, against the adulteration of food, etc.-to the 

Committee on ..Agriculture. 

Also, memorial of citizens of Pennsylvania enga~ed in agriculture, 

for the eradication of pleuro-pneumonia-to the Committee on Agriculture. 

By Mr. R. H. M. DAVIDSON: Petition of citizens of Florida, for an 

appropriation for the improvement of the Chi pola River, including t be 

cut-off-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. 

Also, petition of Farmer's Alliance, Pioneer Lodge, of Citm, 11:1 rion 

County Florida, for reduction of postage on certain matter-to the Com- mittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. 

By Mr. ENLOE: Petition of Thomas Dinwiddie, of Carroll County, 

Tennessee, for reference of his claim to the Court of Claims-to the Com- mittee on War Claims. 

By Mr. FULLER: Petition of Hnntting & Co. and 50 others, citizens of McGregor, Iowa, that no change be made in the tariff on flaxseed and linseed oil-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. FUNSTON: Petition of citizens of Moran, Kans., to place the name of Sarah E. Zaring on the pension-rolls-to the Committee on Invalid Pensiens. 

By Mr. GALLINGER: Petition of John Mason, of Plymouth, of 

Foote, Brown & Co., of Penacook, and of L. J. Uppenheimer. of Con· 

cord, N.H., for quick mail transit between New York and the Wet 

and the New England States-to the Committee on the Post-Office and 

Post-Roads. · By Mr. GIFFORD: Petition of John C. Hall and 44 others of 
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Brown County, Dakota, for retention of duty on certain farm products, 

wool, and tobacco-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. GLASS: Petition of B. A. Smith, administrator of H. $. 

Simmons, of Gibson County, Tennessee, for payment of his war claimto the Committee on War C1aims. 

By Mr. GROUT: Memorial of Edwards & Lillis, of Brattleborough, 

Vt., in behalf of better mail facilities between New England and the 

West-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. 

By Mr. HAYES: Petition of citizens of La Motte, Jackson County, 

Iowa, to place tin-plate on free-list-to the Committee on Ways and 

Means. 

By Mr. HOUK: Petition of Ellis J. Riggs, late private Company A, 

Tenth Tennessee Cavalry, of Jefferson County, Tennessee, for restoration to the pension-rolls-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, petition of John A. Sellers, and of William L. Mann, administrator of William Mann, of Jefferson County, Tennessee, for reference 

of their claims to the Cou:vt of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, resolution of Assembly No. 4885, Knights of Labor, of Knoxville, Tenn., in favor of t.he pas5age of tonnage bill-to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. 

By l\1r. J A.CKSON: Petition of E. Sankey and 14 others, male citizens 

of Lawrence, Pa., for the better legal protection for women and girls-to 

the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. JOSEPH: Protest of A. Mandell and 55 others, citizens of the 

Public Land Strip, against annexation to Kansas for judicial and townsite purposes only, and asking for immediate local government-to the 

Committee on the Public Lands. 

By 1\Ir. KELLEY: Petition of64 green-glass blowers, protesting against 

reduction of import duties on green and othe·r colored glass-to the 

Committee on ·ways and Means. 

By Mr. KERR: Remonstrance of 100 citizens of Marshall County, 

Iowa, ~ainst any change of the present tariff on :flax-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By l\lT. LAFFOON: Petition of Isam Johnson, to accompany House 

bill 5581-to the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, petition to remove the charge of desertion against Alexander 

MnJone-to the Ca.nmittee on Military Affairs. 

Also, petition for the relief of Andrew Hildebrand-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. LANE: Petition of Local ·.Assembly No. 2504, Knights of 

Labor, of Girard, Ill., in favor of the tonnage bill-to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. · 

By Ur. LODGE: Petition of William Reid and others, a~ainst a reduction of duties on hackled flax-to the Committee on Ways and 

1\Ieans. 

By Mr. LONG: Petition of William Stewart and 19 others, dTessers 

of :flax in Jamaica Plain, Mass., for maintenance of duty on hackled 

flax-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. McMILLIN: Petition of committee of Howard Lodge of Odd 

Fellows, of Gallatin, Tenn., for payment of their war claim-to the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, petition of James Austin, and of the county of Sumner, Tennessee, for reference of their claims to the Court of Claims~ to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. McRAE: Petition of W. S. Finch and others, cit-izens of Warren, ATk., in favor of House bill 7389-to the Committee on the PostOffice and Post -lloads. . By Mr. McSHANE: Petition of L. M. Davis, late postmaster at Tecumseh, Nebr., for relief-to the Committee on the Post-Office and PostRoads. 

By Mr. MORGAN: Petition of W. S~ Bunch, of La Fayette County, 

Mississippi, for reference of his claim to the Court of Claims-to the 

Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. MORROW: Petition of Point of Timber Grange, No. 14, Patrons of Husbandry, of Brentwood, Cal., relating to certain tariff duties-to the Committee 01;1 Ways and Means. · By Mr. NEAL: Petition of L..~c Rust, by J. C. Rust, adlpinistrator, 

of Grundy County, Tennessee, for reference of his claim to the Court 

of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. NEWTON: Petition of Luke Madden, heir of Patrick Madden, of Madison Parish, Louisiana~ for reference of his claim to the 

Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. NORWOOD: Papers in the cla.im of Daniel Verdere, and of 

Mary Loyd, of Chatham County, Georgia-to the Committee on War 

Claims. By lli. PATTON: Petition of Grange No." 788, of Clearfield, Pa., 

for the eradica,tiou of pleuro-pneumonia-to the Committee on Agriculture. 

Also, petition of the same against adulteration cf ln.rd and other food 

products-to the Committee on Agriculture. 

By ~1r. PEEL: Petition of Samuel J. Smith, for a pension-to the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By U~:. PETERS: Resolutions of Local Assembly No. 2733, Kni~hts 

of Labor, of Latned, Kans., favoring the passage of the tonnage billto the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. 

By Mr. RAYNER: Petition of Samuel H. Travers, for the payment 

of his claim-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. RICHARDSON: Petition of heirs of Charles Anderson, of 

Rutherford County, and of Jordan Rucker, colored, of Rutherford 

County, Tennessee, for reference of their claims to the Court of Claimsto the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. ROCKWELL: Petition of J. S. Murphy and numerous other 

citizens of Indianapolis, Ind., in favor of Mr. RoCKWELL's bill to adjust 

the accounts of laborers, workmen, and mechanics under the eighthour law-to the Committee on Labor. ..By Mr. RYAN: Petition of H. A. Thompson, of H. A. Thompson & 

Co., praying that this declaration of claim may be referred to the Court 

of Claims under the Bowman act-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. SAWYER: PetitionofcitizensofGeneseeCounty, New York, 

against the repeal of the duty on wool-to the Committee on Ways and 

Means. 

Also, petition of 31 citizens of Bethany, Genesee County, New York, 

for protection against pleuro-pneumonia-to the Committee on Agriculture. 

Ry Mr. SCULL: Memorial of the Osten burg (Pa.) Grange, Patrons 

of Husbandry, for the reduction of postage on seeds, bulbs, etc.-to the 

Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. · Also, memorial of the same in favor of the reissue of fractional cur- rency-to the Committee on Banking and Currency. 

By Mr. SEYMOUR: Petition of R. Stepan and 25 others, miners and 

laborers, of Hurley, Wis., against reduction of duty on iron ore-to the 

Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Ur. HENRY SMITH: Memorial of the Tnrnve1·ein of Milwaukee, Wis., relating to foreign emigration-to the Committee on Foreign 

Affairs. _ 

By Mr. STEELE: Petition of James V. Sweetser and 400 others, ot 

Marion, Ind., against any change in the tariff on flaxseed and linseed 

oil-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. TOOLE: Petition of citizens of Montana, relative to mineral 

lands in that Territory-to the Committe on the Public Lands. 

By Mr. TOWNSHEND: Petition of numerous citizens of Franklin 

County, Illinois, to have the charge of desertion removed from the rec- ord of M. J. McClain-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

Also, petition of William A. Plumb, for a special-act pension-to the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, papers in the claim of Daniel Ward, and in.the claim for relief 

of W. H. McCabe-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

Also, evidence in the claim of Nancy Hartley for a pension and in 

the claim of Rebecca Franklin-to the Committee on Pensions. 

Also, papers in the pension claim of Malissey E. Smathers and also 

papers to accompany bill for the relief of Samuel E. Wilson-to the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, petition of Hannah Coole for relief--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. WEBER: Petition of farmers of Erie County, New York, for 

protection on farm products-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

Also, petition of citizens of Niagara County, New York, for retention 

of duties on wood-pulp-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By Mr. WHEELER: Petition of \Y. H. Boothe, guardian of heir ot v..r. W. ~fitchell, of Colbert County, Alabama, for reference of his claim 

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

Also, petition of Minerva T. Harris, widow of James D. Harris, of 

Jackson County, Alabama, for reference of her claim to the Court of 

Claims-to th~ Committee on War Claims. 

Also, petition of Mary Arnold, formerly Gance; of James J. Holsen- _ 

back, of William P. James, of Amanda M. Wade, of A. J. Hannah, of 

Margaret Milligan, widowofMartinMilligan; of Joseph H. Livingston, 

and of Robert W. \Voody, of Alabama, for reference of their claims to 

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

By Mr. W. L. WILSON: Petition of George F. Anderson, of Jefferson 

County, West Virginia, for reference of his claim totheCourtofClaimsto the Committee on War Claims. . By Mr. WOODBURN: Memodnl praying; that the State of Nevada 

be reimbursed in the sum of $11,840, expended and incurred for en- rolling 1,184 men for the military service of the United States-to the 

Committeeon War Claims. 

The following petitions for an increase of compensation of fourth-class 

postmasters were severally referred to the Committee on the Post-Office 

and Post-Roads: . By Mr.·J. S. HENDERSON: OfElia.s Hunley and 56 others, of\V. 

M. Smith and 57 others, of Angus Mcinnis and 29 others, of C. E. 

Hearper and 50 others, of R. E. Reynolds and 53 others, of G. W. 

Montgomery and 13 others, of A. J. Cocillau and 28 others, of Rev. J. 

M. Bennett and 55 others, of G. M. Lammonds and 28 others, and of 

S. C. Sanders ancl44 others, of Montgomery County, North Carolina. 

The follo\'{ing petitions, indorsing the per diem rated service-pension 

bill, based on the principle of paying all soldiers, sa.ilors, and marines of 

the late war a monthly pension of 1 cent a day for each day they were in the service, were severally referred to the Committee ou Invalid 

Pensions: . By ~'[r. J. A. ANDERSON: Of 35 ex-soldiers of Hope, Dickinson 

County, Kansas. 
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Also, of James Bridges and 116 ot.hers, of Decatur County, Iowa. By Mr. C. S. BAKEl{: Of David B. Grey and others, citizens and veterans of Scottsville, Monroe County, New York. . By 1\fr. BELDEN: Of Edward H. Brooks and 33 others, citizens, soldiers, and sailors of Geddes, N. Y". . · 

By ?tlr. BREWER: Of J. J. Bowen, E. Walker, and 50 others! citi- zens and soldiers of Michigan. 

By Mr. GIFFORD: Of C. E. Smith and 65 others, ex-Union soldiers, of Miller, Dak. 

By Mr. GOFF: Of G. A. Jones and others, of Marshall County, West 

Virginia. 

By Mr. HOVEY: Of William Jenkins and others, soldiers, of Indiana. 

By Mr. KETCHAM: Of R. D. Lathrop Post, No.138,· Grand Army 

of the Republic, of New York. 

By Mr. McCORMICK: Of E. P. Murdock and others, and of Adelbert Rice and others, citizens and ex-soldiers, of Tioga County, Pennsylvania. 

Dy .Mr. NUTTING: Of Dr. Frank S. Low and 125 others, citizens 

and soldiers, of Oswego County; 2.nd of Henry H. Walker and 34 othe~, 

ex-soldiers, of Oswego County, New York. 

By Ur. OSBORNE: Of John Kelley and 20 other citizens, ex-soldiers 

and sailors, of Carbondale, Pa. 

By Mr. PUGSLEY: Of 57 citizens, of 16 citizens, and ·of 9 citizens of 

Pike County, Ohio. 

By 1\fr. SAWYER: Of 20 soldiers of Elba, Genesee County, New 

York. 

By Mr. E. B. TAYLOR: Of ex-soldiers of West Mecca, of Claridon, 

and of Russell, Ohio. 

By Mr. J. R. WHITING: Of Wallace W. Huntley and 152 others, 

citizens of Lapeer County; of Samuel T. ·cantelon and 420 others, citi- zens of Huron County, and of Ed ward .McKenzie and 15 others, citizens 

of Sanilac County, Michigan. 

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

illiteracy, were severally referred to the Committee on Education: 

By Mr. CAINE: Of 181 citizens of Salt Lake City, and of 117 citizens of Tooele County, Utah. 

By Mr. CASWELL: Of 75 citizens of Rock County, Wisconsin. 

By Mr. CO~GE.R: Of 89 citizens of Dallas County, Iowa. By l\Ir. JACKSON: Of 174citize.ns of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. 

By Mr. PETERS: Of ~1atilda Compton and 6 others of .Alden, Kans. 

By 1\!r. SHAW: Of 44 citizens of Cecil County, Maryland. 

By Mr. STONE, of Missouri: Of 146 citizens of Dade County, Missouri. 

Dy Mr. WILLIAM WHITING: Of 133 citizens of Hampden County, 

Massachusetts. 

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: 

By .Mr. HOGG: Of 88 citizens of the Fourth district of Virginia,, 

By Mr. TOOLE: Of 13 citizens of Anaconda, Mont. 

SENATE. 

TUESDAY, Ma1·ch 27, 1888. 

Prayer by the Chn.plain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. The Journ~l of yesterday's proceeding.3 was read and approved. 

FUNERAL OF CHIEF-JUSTICE WAITE. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempo1'e laid before the Senate the following 

communication from the Supreme Court of the United States; which 

was read: SUPREliE COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, 

Wa.shington, March 26, 1888. 

S.m: I am directed by the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States to invite the Senate to attend the funeral ceremonies of the late Chief-Justice 

Waite, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, on Wednesday, March 28, at 12m. - Very respectfully, J. 1\l. WRIGHT, Marshal. 

The PRESIDEST of the Senate. 

Mr. HOAR. I ask unanimous consent for the adoption of the following resolution: 

Ircsolved, That the Senate accept the invit~tion of. the Justic~ of the Supreme Court to attend the funeral of the late Ch1ef-Just1ce, and will proceed to the 

Hall of the House of Representatives for that purpose at the time fixed for the 

ceremonial. · 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to th~ present con- sideration of the resolution? The Chair hears none. The question is 

on its adoption. 

The resolution was agreed to. 

Mr. HOAR. I move thatwhen theSenatea.djournsto-dayit adjourn 

to meet at a. quarter before twelve to-morrow. 

I 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Massachusetts moves that when the Senate adjourns to-day it be·to meet at a quarter 

before twelve to-morrow. The motion was agreed to. 

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION. 

The PRESIDENT pro tmnJJOre laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the 14th instant, a report from the Qommissioner of the 

General Land Office, stating the number of acres embraced in the appraisement and sale of the remainder of the reservation of the confederated Otoe and .Missouria tribe of Indians in the States of Nebraska 

and Kansas; which, on motion of 1\Ir. PADDOCK, was, with the ac- companying papers, ordered to lie on the table, am~ be printed. 

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. 

Mr. CAMERON presented a petition of ex-Union oldiers and sailors, citizens of Shamokin, Pa., praying for the passage of the per diem rated 

service-pension bill; which was referr.ed to the Committee on Pensions. He also presented ·a memorial of citizens of Chester County, Permsylvania, remonstrating against the· admission of the Territory of Utah 

as a State with polygamy; which was referred to the Committee on Territories. 

Mr. HALE. I present the petition of M . L. Morse and other citi- zens of Athens, Somerset County, Maine, praying that the work for the 

eradication of pleuro-pneumonia sh~ll be continued under the Bureau 

of Animal Industry as at present organiZed, and that the law establishing that bureau be strengthened without changing the plan of work now in operation. As the bill covering this subject has been reported, 

I move that the petition lie on the t::\.ble. 

The motion was agreed to. 

1\fr. REAGAN. I present the petition of D. G. Gregory and other 

citizens and >oters in the town of Alleyton, Colorado County, Texas, 

praying that the work for the eradication of pleuro-pneumonia may 

be continued under the Bureau of Animal Industry as at present 

organized; that the law establi bing that bureau be strengthened 

without changing the plan of work now in operation; that the Bureau 

of Animal Industry shall be allowed to remain iu ~o Department of 

Agriculture, with a chief who shall be a competent veterinary surgeon, 

aud who shall report to the Commissioner of Agriculture, ancl that no board or commission shall be given any authority or control over that 

bureau or the work which it is now performing. I move that the petition lie on the t..11ble. 

The motion was agreed to. !!Ir. VEST. I present a petition similar to that just presented by 

the Senator from Texas, from citizens of Columbia., Boone County, 

l\!is ouri. I move that it lie on the table. 

The motion was agreed to. 

Mr. GORMAN presented the petition of Julio Stirzel, widow of Albion Stirzel, late private in Company G, One hundred and third New 

ork Volunteers, praying that sho be allowed a pension; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions. 

l\!r: BATE presented the petition of George W. Morton and citizens 

and voters in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, praying that the 

work for the eradication of pleuro-pneumonia may be continued under 

the Bureau of Animal Industry as at present organized, etc. ; which was 

ordered to lie on the table. 

Mr. PAYNE presented seven petitions of 144 citizens of Ohio, praying thatthe work of the eradiention of pleuro-pneumonia be continued 

under the Bureau of Animal Industry as at present organized ; which were ordered to lie on the table. 

Mr. 1t1cPHERSON. I present several memorials in re pect to the 

pleuro-pneumonia bill, remonstrating against any further legislation on that subject and praying that the work shall be continued under the 

Bureau of Animal Industry as at present organized. One memorial is 

from the county of Hudson, New Jersey, one from the county of Middlesex, and one from the county of Monmouth, and various other localities in the ~tate of New Jersey. I move that the memorials lie on the 

table. 

The motion was agreed to. 

Mr. C ULLO U presented a petition of the Peoria (Ill.) Board of Trade, 

praying that Congress provide for an international marine conference; 

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign !\'elations. 

He also presented a petition·of Albert Rude and other citizens of illinois, praying for the passage of the per diem rated service-pension bill; 

which was referrfd ~ tp.e Committee on Pensions. 

:Mr. P ALMEWpr~ented. the petition of R. D. Cnddeback and 80 other 

citizens of Wexford County, Michigan, praying that the work of extirpating pleuro-pneumonia. be continued under the Bureau of Animal 

Industry aspt present organized; which was ordered to lie on the table. 

He alsotpresented the petition of Typographical Union No. 3D, in 

fn.vor of tlie passage of ani ternn.tional copyright law; which was or- dered to lie on the ta.b1e. 

He also presented the etition of Edward McKenzie and 15 other 

Union soldiers, citizens of Michigan; the petition of George ,V, Saxton 

and 422 other Union soldiers, citizens of .Michigan; the petition of August Ludwig and 16 other Union soldiers. citizens of .Michigan; and the 

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