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meet and to make believe be the Legislature of a State, in that con- dition of affairs Judge Durell seems to have thought in some lumi- nous moment that he could outflank Warmoth, and he sat down and 

wrote an order commanding that all these sham statesmen who propo ed to muster there under the license of the De Feriet board should 

keep out of the Legislature, and they were kept out of the Legisla.-

ture. That order of Durell, I understand, was absolutely enforced 

by two soldiers. I am told that they had uniforms on, both of themthe uniform prescribed by your service-and they eros ed bayonets .over the door, and not one of those fellows, not one of those felons-

! speak in the eye of Louisiana law when I call them so, because if 

they held the certificate of the Lynch board the bayonets did not 

prevent them from entering, and if they did not hold the certificate 

.of the Lynch board the law of Louisiana Mid them not to enter- was admitted to the legislative hall. That: order of Judge Durell 

usurped I admit, void unquestionably, mere paper, did prevent the 

usmpation of Warmoth, backed by Jack Wharton, backed by the 

DeFeriet board; did prevent the assembling of a Legislature which 

had no semblance of authority or legality. . From that day to this the country has rung with denunciation of 

Judge Durell. I hope somebody feels more virtuous on account of it. 

I hope our democratic friends have been improved morally by the pile 

of anathemas they have heaped upon him. If they could find a leisure 

moment at some time to pronounce one feeble anathema upon that 

infamous band of conspirators who tracked the election of 1 72 all the 

way through from the commencement of registration to the assembling of the Legislature; the men who cheated voters out of the right 

of registration by the thousand; the men who drove them from the 

ballot-boxes by the thousa.nd; the men who forged returns; the men who cushioned returns; the men like Warmoth wh6 disregarded all 

the law there was in the State over which be claimed to be executiveif they could find a leisure moment to breathe one single word of 

criticism upon this mountain of infamy, I believe it would do them 

good all the rest of their lives. Yes, :when it is known that a band of 

burglars are about to break open a house at midnight, I admit if the 

Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court should issue an order commanding them not to do it, it would be a usurpation; he would have no business to do it; but, nevertheless, if the only effect of the order was to keep the burglars out of your house, would you find fault f Undoubtedly so strict a constructionist as the Senator from Ohio would 

say, "This is a gross prostitution of the judicial ermine." We could 

not deny that; it would be a prostitution of the judicial ermine; but 

after all, I should hope to find in the Senate of tlie United States, and even on the democratic side of the Chamber, some man who would not 

only agree that the judge had no business to issue the order, but who, on reflection, would admit that it was not a great crime to keep burglars out of the house. 

That is all I have to say of Durell. He usurped authority ·which 

the law did not confer upon him, and the end of it is that not a man was kept out of the Legislature of Louisiana who had any right in 

that Legislature; and is there a lawyer on the other side of the Chamber who will dispute that statement of mine f If a man was kept out 

of that Legislature by that order of Durell, or by the soliliers who 

acted in pursuance of it, or by Packard, or any body else, is there a lawyer on that side of the Chamber who does not know that the wrong 

would have been judicially I'edressed in the courts of the land long 

before this time Y .Sir, I hold a right to enter this Chamber as a Senator from. Wisconsin. Do you think there is any judge in the District 

of Columbia' who can organize a force, military or otherwise, which can deprive me of my seat here f Do you not know that the moment 

any man,. no matter what judge tells him, no matter what uniform he 

wears, raises his hand, or authorizes another to raise his hand, to stay 

my entrance to this Chamber, that moment he must go before the judicial tribunals of the country to answer for this wrong. That would 

have been done with Durell; that would have been done with Packru:d; that would have been done with the soldiers who acted under 

their command and upon their license, only for this simple fact, that 

every lawyer in Louisiana knew that every man kept o\1 t of that Legislature was kept out not in violation of law, but in pursuance of law. 

Mr. STEVENSON. Was not Durell arraigned Y 

Mr. HOWE. Arraigned where Y 

.Mr. STEVENSON. By the only impeaching power under this Government-the House of Representatives of the United States. 

Mr. HOWE. But why waB he not arragned by the gentlemen w bose rights be trampled upon Y Impeaching a judge is one thing. I 

do not wait for the House of Representatives to redress my wrongs 

when a judge shall illegally keep me from entering that door. I see a lawyer in my eye whom I would take into my employ at once. I 

would go to the judicial tribunal before which that judge would have 

to come. I would not wait for the House of Representatives to pre- sent him here for your judgment on impeachment; he should answer to n:ie in damages. 

1\lr. President, I have lingered longer upon this case than I meant 

to do when I took the floor. I may be, after all, mistaken in some of 

these views of mine; but let no man assume for a moment that I do 

not believe I am right. I believe the most monstrous violation of the 

right of franchise ever perpetrated or ever attempted anywhere in the 

history of popular government was that perpetrated upon the people 

of Louisiana in 1!:!72, when every avenue to the ballot-box was guarded 

by the democratic party of the State of Louisiana. 

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EXECUTIVE SESSIO~. 

Mr. EDMUNDS. Mr. President, I move that the Senate proceed to 

the consideration of executive business. 

The motion was agreed to, and the Senate proceeded. to the consideration of executive business. .After one hour and twenty-six minutes 

spent in executive session the doors were re-opened, and (at five 

o'clock and twenty-three minutes p.m.) the Senate adjourned. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTA'UIVES. 

MONDAY, February 7, 1876. 

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

I. L. TOWNSEND, D. D. 

The Journal of Friday last was read and approved. 

JAMES M. DOWNEY. 

On motion of Mr. HUNTON, by unanimous consent, the Committee on War Claims were discharged from the further consideration of the 

bill (H. R. No. 743) for the relief of James l\1. Downey, of Loudoun 

County, Virginia. 

ENROLLED JOTh'T RESOLUTION SIGNED. 

1\Ir. HARRIS, of Georgia, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, 

.reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled 

the joint resolution·(H. R. No.ll) authorizing G. Harris Heap, United 

States consul at Tunis, to accept the trnst of commissioner of the Bey 

of Tunis. CUSTOMS COLLECTIONS. 

The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of 

the Treasury, transmitting, in response to House re olutions of December 15, 1875, and January 6, 1876, a statement showing collections 

and expenses of collections and the amount of goods examined in he 

ports of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair is not sure whether this communication 

should be sent to the Committee of Ways and Means or to the Committee on Appropriations. 

Mr. RANDALL. Let it be printed, and then we can see where it 

properly belongs. . The communication was referred to the Committee of Ways and 

Means, and ordered to be printed. 

SURVEY OF RIVERS IN ?tllClliGAN. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secreretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with the requirement of 

tbe river and harl>or act of March 3,1875, a report of Major G. Weitzel 

of the cost of surveys of the Saginaw River, Michigan, Thunder Bay, 

Clinton River, ancl Au Sable River, Michigan; which was referred to 

the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

J. C. IRWIN AND WILLIAM PHILLIPS. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to a request of the Committee on Military Affairs, a report of the Acting Quarterma ter-General on the bill (II. R. No.161) for the relief of J. C. Irwin and William Phillips; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

I:J!-.'TERNAL Il\IPROVEMENTS. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, for the information of the Committee on Commerce, a statement of the amounts appropriated for each river 

and harbor improvement from 18'24 to and including March 3, 1875; 

which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to 

be printed. · SA~ThTE PASS, TEXAS. 

The SPEAKER also laid before tho House a letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, for the information of the Committee on Commerce, an estim~te for continuing the improvements at Sabine 

Pass, Texas; which wat~ referred to the Committee on Commerce. 

SALE OF. CADET ARMS. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the Secre- . tary of War, on the bill (H. R. No. 683) authorizing the sale of cadet 

arms; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and 

ordered to be printed. 

UPPER MISSISSIPPI lUVER. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the House a memorial and joint 

resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in reference to the improvement 

of the navigation of the Upper Mississippi River; which was referred 

to the Committee on Commerce. 

ORDER OF BUSTh"'ESS. 

The SPEAKER. The morning hour now begins at twelve o'clock 

and thirty minutes. This being Monday, the first business in order 

during the morning hour is the calling of the States and Territories, 

beginning with the State of Maine, for the introduction of bills and 

joint resolutions for reference to their appropriate committees, not to ~e brought. back into the House by motions to reconsider. Under this 

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call memorials and resolutions of State and territorial Legislatures first and second time, refeiTed to the Committee on Military Affairs 

may be .presented for printing and re:t'erence. and ordered to be printed. ' 

PENAL TO~"NAGE TAX. 

Mr. HALE introduced a bU (H. R. No. 1817) limiting the penal tonnage tax on certain United S ates vessels at the old grade of thirty 

cents per ton instead of $1.30; which was read a first and second time, 

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

Al\1E~"'DMENT OF REVISED STATUTES. 

Mr. HALE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 181~) to amend section 

2931 of the Revised Statutes of the United States so as to allow repayment by the Secretary of the Treasury of the tonnage tax where it 

bas been unduly exacted; which was read a first and second time, re- ferred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

LIGHT-HOUSE, YORK, MAL.'(E. 

Mr. BURLEIGH introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1819) to erect a lighthouse on the Nubble Cape Medilick in York, York County, Maine; 

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

INJURY TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 

Mr. FRYE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1820) to provide a penalty 

for wanton injury to the public libraries of the District of Columbia 

and in the Territories of the United States; which was read a first and 

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

to be printed. · CAPITOL AND NORTH 0 STRF..ET RAILWAY. 

Mr. HENDEE introduced a uill (H. R. No.1821) amendatory of the 

act to incorporate the Capitol, North 0 street, and South ·washington Railway Company; which was read a first and second time, re- ferred to the Committee for the District of Columuia, and ordered to 

be printed. LATE FIRE L'( BOSTO:X. 

Mr. WARREN introduced a bill (H. R. No.1822) to remit the duties 

upon certain goods destroyed by :fire at the late conflagration in the 

city of Boston; which was read a first and second time, referred to 

the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. 

PLEASURE YACHT ELLA. 

Mr. PIERCE introduced a bill (H. R. No.1823) to change the name of the pleasure yacht Ella to that of Myra; which was read a first 

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

PLEASURE YACHT HIRAM B. 

Mr. CRAPO introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1824) to change the name of the pleasure ya"0ht Hiram B., to lola; which wa-s read a first and 

second time, l'eferred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to 

be printed. . · SAFETY MATCHES. 

Mr. BALLOU introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1825) to exempt f1·om sta~p ta.x: safety ?1:;ttches made, in th~ United States, which can only 

be lighted by stnking upon a chennca1ly-prepared surface; which was read a :first ancl second time, referred to the Committee of Ways 

and 1\Ieans, and ordered to be printed. 

GEORGE COWLES. 

Mr. PHELPS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 182G) for the relief of 

George Cowles, of New Haven, Connecticut; which 'vas read a fu·st 

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

BREAKWATER IN CONNECTICUT. 

Mr. BARNUM introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1827) making an appropriation for building a breakwater from FaYI·weather Island to Short 

Beach, in Fairfield County, Connecticut; which was read a first and 

second time, 1·eferred to t}le Committee on Commerce, and ordered to 

be printed. · NEW YORK CHAl\fBER OF COMMERCE. 

1\Ir. WOOD, of New York, .. introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1828) to con- vey to the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York certain 

lands in the city of New York for the consideration of $200,000; which was read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee of Ways 

and Means, and ordered to be printed. 

A. H. ·wALLIS, AND OTHERS. 

Mr. WOOD~ of New York, also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1829) for 

the relief of Alexander H. Wallis, George Russe11, and Henry Russell· 

which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee o~ Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

JOHN LAIDLAW. 

Mr. !VALKER, of ~ew York, intro~uced a bill (H. R. No. 1830) for 

the relief of John La1dlaw, late first lieutenant United States Volunteers; which was read a first and secon<l time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, a.nd ordered to be printe<l. 

SOLDIERS' MONUMENT ~ ORA.r GE COUNTY, NEW YORK. 

:Mr. BEEBE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1831) to autt.orize tho Secretary of War to appropriate condemned ordnance for the erection of a monument to the memory of the soluiQrs and sailors of OranO'e 

County, New York, who fell clming the l::l.te war; which .Wai!l'eal'a 

GORDON B. BARNES. 

Mr. BEEBE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1832) O'rantinO' arrear- ages of pension to Gordon B. Barnes; which was read a first ~d sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered 

to be printed. . ' JOHN T, NEALE. 

Mr. COX introduced.. a bill (H. R. No. 1833) for the relief of Joh~ T. 

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

BUREAU OF ARCffiTECTURE. 

Mi·. HEWI'rT, of New York, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1834) to 

establish a bmeau of architecture; which was read a :first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds · and onlered to be printed. ' 

NAVY-YARD, BROOKLYN. 

Mr. l\IETCALFE introduced a bill (H. R. No.1835)toprovideforreclairning and improving the swamp and overflowed lands connected 

with the United States navy-yard, Brooklyn, Long Island · which was read a :first and second time, refened to the Committee o~ Naval 

Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

VALUATION 01!' AD VALOREl\1 IMPORTS. 

Mr. !VILL~S introduced a ~ill (H. R. No. 1~36) to provide for the 

valnatwn of rmports upon which customs dut1es are imposed payinrr 

in whole or iu part acl valonrrn,rates; which was read a first and second. 

time, referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to 

be printed. ' 

AMEND:\1ENT OF REVISED STATUTES. 

Mr. \VILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1837) to abolish cer- tain officers and to correct sections 2626 and 2630 of the Revised Statutes ; which was read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. 

POST-ROAD. 

Mr. WILLIS also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1838) to make a bridO'e over the Hudson River between Verplank's Point and Butter~ Palls a post-road; which was read a first and second time referred 

to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ord~red to be 

printed. 

PROTECTIOY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY AT SEA. 

Mr. WILLIS also (at the request of Mr. ELY) introduced a bill (H. 

R. ~o. 1839) for the better protec~ion of life and property at sea; 

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

POST-OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS. 

~~- COX (by request) intro.duced a bill (H. R. No. 1840) for the es- tauhshment of post;. office savmgs-banks for small sums with Government security; which wa-S read a :first and second time referred to ' the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and o;dered to be 

printed. REFORM OF CIVIL SERVICE. 

Mr. COX also (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1841) toreform the civil service oi the United States; which was read a first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil 

Service, and ordered to be printed. 

1\IARCELLUS RILEY. 

Mr. DAVY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1842) for the relief of Marcellus Riley, of Rochester, New York; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to t:b.e Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered 

to be printed. LEWIS E. WINANS. 

Mr. LAPHAM introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1B43) for the relief .of 

Le,vis E. Winans, late a private in Company C, Fom'th New York 

Heavy Artillery; which was read a first and second time, r{\ferred to 

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

AMENDMENT OF BANKRUET LAW. 

Mr. MAcDOUGALL introduced a bill (H.R. No. 1844) to amend sec- tion 22 of the bankrupt act, approved March 2, 1867; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

and ordered to be printed. ' 

PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. 

Mr. 1\lAcDOUGA.LL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1845) to amend 

the act entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes 

relating to patents and copyrights;" which was read a :first and second 

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

COLOYEL W. II. EMORY • . 

.. Mr. MACD9UGALL also intro<luced a bill (H .. R. No. 184G) authorlZmg t?e r~tuement of C~lonel W. H. Emory w1th the ·rank and pay 

of a bngadier-genentl; which was read a :first and second time referred 

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

LA WREYCE A. WILLIAl\fS. 

Mr. MAcDOU:G~L also int~·odu?eu a bill (H. R. No. 1R47) to place 

Lawrence A. \Villlams, late lllaJor SLXth Cavalry, United States Army, 
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upon the retired list of the Army with the rank of. colonel; _w:hich was read a first and second time, refened to the Comrrnttee on Milttary 

Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

CIIARLES E. BOGGS. 

l'tlr. ROSS, of New Jersey, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1848) authorizing the restoration of Charles E. Boggs to the active list of the Navy; 

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

ABIGAIL T. DAWNEY. 

Mr. TOWNSEND, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

1849) granting a pension t{) Abigail T. Dawney; which was read a :fi.Tst and second time, refened to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, 

and ordered to be printed. 

RELIEF OF NAVAL OFFICERS. 

Mr. O'NEILL introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 60) for the 

relief of certain officers of the Navy; which was read a first and sec- ond time, refened to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to 

be printed. HARVEY B. KILBORN. 

Mr. POWELL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1850) granting a pension 

to Harvey B. Kilborn, private in Company C, Thirtieth Regiment 

Pennsylvania Militia; which was read a first and second time, re- ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

THOMAS G. RAWLINS AlH) IDS NORTHERN CREDITORS. 

Mr. CLYMER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1851) for the relief of 

Thomas G. Rawlins and his northern creditors; which was read a first 

and second time, referred to the Committ-ee on War Claims, and or- dered to be printed. DEPOSITS OF PUBLIC MON'EY. 

Mr. MUTCHLER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1852) to amend sec- tions 5490 and 5497 of the Revised Statutes regulating the deposits of 

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

PRIZE MONEY. 

Mr. HOPKINS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1853) to provide for adjusting and paying claims for prize money due to certain citizens of 

Alleghany County, Pennsylvania; which was read a first and second 

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

printed. CAPTAIN JOHNS. M7

MILLEN. 

Mr. HOPKINS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1854) to compensate 

Captain John S. McMillen; which was read a first and second time, 

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

MICHAEL QUANY. 

Mr. STENGER introduc.ed a bill (H. R. No. 1855) granting a pension 

to Michael Quany; which was read a first and second time, referred 

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

JAMES. W. BOWEN. 

Mr. JAMES B. REILLY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1856) for the 

relief of James W. Bowen, provost marshal of the late tenth con- gressional district of Pennsylvania; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred tC? the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be 

printed. WILLIAMS. MORRIS AND OTHERS, 

Mr. RANDALL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1857) for the relief of 

William S. Morris, W. S. Mann, Charles A.. Oakman, George \V. Hillman, Union Transfer Company, and John R. Graham; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of Claims, and 

ordered to be printed. CHARLES DOUGHERTY. 

Mr. KETCHUM introduced a bill (H. R. No.\ 1858) to re-imburse 

Charles Dougherty for his expenses to the consula.te at Londonderry; 

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

REMOVAL OF CAU!ES FROM STATE COURTS. 

Mr. ROSS, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1859) to 

amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act for the removal of causes in certain cases from the Sta.te courts, approved July 27, Ul6G," 

approved 1\Iarch 6, 1867 ; which was read a first and second time, re- fened to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 

WASHINGTON CITY AND ATLANTIC COAST RAILROAD C0l\1PANY. 

Mr. HENKLE introduced a bill (H. R. No.1860) to incorporate the 

Washington City and Atlantic Coast Railroad Company; which was reao a first and second time, referr~d to the Committee for the DiRttict of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. 

THO IAS JOHNS. 

Mr. WALSH introduced a bill (II. R. No. 1 61) granting a pension to 

Thomas Johns; which was read a fifst and second time, referrel to 

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

AMANDA M. SMYTH. 

Mr. O'BRIEN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1 62) for the relief of 

Amanda M. Smyth, wirlow of the late Brevet Major-General Thomas 

A. Smyth; which W::tS read a fir t. anfl seconfl time, referred to the 

Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

IMPROVEMENT OF LITTLE WICOMICO RIVER AND URBANA CREEK, 

VIRGINIA. 

Mr. DOUGLAS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1863) providing for tlle 

improvement of the Little Wicomico River and Urbana Creek, Virginia; which was read a first and second time, ordered to be'printe<l, 

and, with the accompanying engineer's report, referred to the Committee on Commerce. 

JAIL, ESSEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 

Mr. DOUGLAS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1864) to re-imburse 

the county of Essex, in Virginia, for the loss of its jail, destroyed 

while occupied by United States troops in 1865; which was read a first and second time, ordered to ue printed, and, with the accompanying memorial, referred to the Committee on War Claims. 

PIEDJ\IONT RAILROAD COMPANY. 

Mr. DOUGLAS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1865) to enable t.he 

Piedmont Railroad Company to present their claims to the Court of 

Claims; which was I;ead a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

LOUISA SUMMERS. 

Mr. HUNTON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1866) for the relief of 

Louisa Summers; which was read a first and second time, referred to 

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

WASHINGTON A..'{l) OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY. 

Jrlr. HUNTON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1867) to aid the 

Washington and Ohio Railroad Company in the construction of their 

road to the Ohio River; which was read a first and second time, re- ferred to the Committee on Ra,ilways and Canals, and ordered to Le 

printed. BLACK WATER RIVER, VIRGINIA. 

Mr. GOODE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1868) for the improvement 

of Black Water River, Virginia; which was read a first and second 

time, 1·eferred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be 

printed. PUBLIC PROPERTY AT NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. 

Mr. GOODE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1S69) for the repair 

and preservation of the public property at Norfolk, Virginia; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Naval 

Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

JOfu~ G. COOPER. 

Mr. V A.NCE, of North Carolina, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1870) 

granting a pension to John G. Cooper; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered 

to be printed. MERIT YOUNG. 

Mr. V A.NCE, of North Carolina, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

1871) granting a pension to l\lerit Young, of Company C, Thirteenth 

Tennessee Cavalry; which was read a first and second time, referred 

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

JOHN L. :MARSH. 

Mr. VANCE, of North Carolina, also introduced a bill (Ii. R. No. 

1872) granting a pension to John L. Marsh; which was read a first 

and second time, referred to the Committee on In valid Pensions, and 

ordered to be printed. W. C. HOPSON. 

Mr. VANCE, or" North Carolina, also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

1873) to grant a pension toW. C. Hopson, Company D, Third North 

Carolina Mounted Volunteers; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. SCHOONER UNDINE. 

!lr. WADDELL introd"Mced a bill (H. R. No. 1874) granting a new register to the schooner Undine; which was read a first and second 

time, 1·eferred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be 

printed. ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND. 

Ur. ASHE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1875) for the relief of Alexander Sutherland; which was read a first and second time, refened 

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

JOSEPH BOST. 

Mr. ASHE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1876) for the relief of 

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

Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

WALLEY MEGGETT. 

l\fr. MACKEY, of South Carolina, introduced a bill (H. R. No.1877) 

for the relief of the heirs of Walley Meggett, deceased; which _ was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of Claims, 

and ordered to be printed. 

ATLANTA A PORT OF DELIVERY. 

' 1\lr. CAl"\fDLER introduced a bill (H: R. No. 1878) to establish Athwta, iu the State of Georgia, a port o1! delivery; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and 

ordered to be printed. - JAMES TRASS. 

Mr. HOOKER introduced :1 bill (H. R. No.1879) to grant a pension 
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to Jn.mes Trass, of Company C, First Louisiana Volunteers; which pension to Melville H. Hudson; which was read a f;irst and second was rea-d a first and second time, referred to t he Committee on Invalid timj:}, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

Pensions, and ordered to be printed. printed. 

_ FRANK A. BENTER. 

Mr. MOREY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1880) for the relief of 

Frank A. Benter.; which was rend a first and second time, referred to 

tho Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

LEVEES OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 

Mr. MOREY also presented a joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, asking for an appropriation by Congress 

to construct the levees of the Mississippi River; which was referred 

to the Select Committee .on the Mississippi Levees, and ordered to be 

printed. 

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

mn.y also be printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 

There was no objection, and it was so ordered. 

The joint resolution is as follows: 

Joint resolution asking for an appropriation by the Congress of the United States for the purpose of constructing levees on the Uisaissippi River, in Louisiana, and 

for the General Government to assume control of all the levees in Louh;iana.. 

SECTION 1. Be it resolved by tlte senate and house of representatives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That the Senators and Representatives in Con!!Tess from Louisiana be, and are hereby, requ sted to urge upon the Congress o'f the United States the passage of a bill making an appropriation for therebuililing of all the levees on the Mississippi River in Louisiana which are in need 

of reconstruction, and which our State, for want of means, is utterly unable to rebuild; and also to secure, if possible, the passa~e of a law providing for the 

assumption by the General Government of the on tire and exclusive control of the 

levee systems of the Mississippi River and its tributaries in Lower .Mis onri, ..AJ:-

kansa-8, Mississippi, and Louisiana.. 

SEc. 2. Be it further resolved, cf:c., That tho governor of the State be instructed to transmit a certified copy of these resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress at the earliest pessilJle moment, and to transmit therewith 

all needed statistical data and information required for or which will facilitate a full and proper presentation of the subject-matter to Congress. E. D. ESTILETTE, 

Speaker of tlte House of RepresentaUves. C. C . .ANTOINE, I.tiet~tenant-Governor and P.resident of the Senate. 

Approved February 3, 1876. 

WM. P. KELLOGG, 

GoveNW1' of tlw State of Louisiana. A true copy: P. G. DESLO:NDE, 

Secretary of State. 

STATE OF LOillSIANA, OFFICE OF SECUETA.RY OF STATE, 

New Orleans, Febru,ary 3, 1876. 

I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy of joint resolution No. 

2, approved February 3, 1876. 

Given under my hand and the seal of the State this 3d day of February, A. D. 

1876 and of the Independence of the United States the one hundredth. . . [sm.] P. G;. DESLONDE, 

Secretar-y of State. 

HOMESTEADS TO ACTUAL SETTLERS. 

Mr. SAYLER introducedabill(H.R. No.1!:l81) to secure homesteads 

to actual settlers on the public lands; which was read a first anu sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to 

be printed. 

FIRST LIEUTENANT DAVID J. EZEKIEL. 

Mr. BANNING introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1882) to authorize the 

President of the United States to promote First Lieutenant David J. 

Ezekiel, of the Fourth Regiment of Infantry, United States Army; 

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

CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED Sl'ATES. 

Mr. HURD introduced a bill (H. R. No.1 3) for the relief of parties having just claims not timely preferred to funds in the Treasury 

derived from sales of captured and abandoned property, and for other 

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

Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered it) be printed. 

MARY LANCASTER. 

Mr. HURD also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1884) granting a pension to Mary Lancaster, widow of Joseph B. Lancaster, captain in the war of 1812; which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 01? SURETIES. 

Mr. HURD also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1885) to define theresponsibilities of sureties; which was read a first and second time, re- ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and or~ered to be printed. 

ROBERT CLARKE. 

Mr. VANCE, of Ohio, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1~G) granting a pension to Robert Clarke, late first lieutenant Second Uuited States 

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

CITIZENS' BUILDING COMPANY. 

Mr. NEAL (by request,) introduced a bill (H. R.No.l887)to incorporate the Citizens' Building Company of Washington, District of 

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

Committee for the District of Columb:a, and ordered to be printed. 

l\fEL VILLE H. HUDSON. 

Mr. WOOD~ORTH introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1888) granting a 

HENRY M. DAVIS. 

Mr. VAN VORHES introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1889) for the relief 

of Heury M. Davis, l egal representative of the late Milton I. Davis, 

sergeant of the Ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; which was read a :first and second time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, 

and ordered to be printed. 

PETER M. WARD. 

Mr. VAN VORHES also inu:oduced a bill(H. R. No.1890)fortherelief of ~eter M. Ward, late of Company E, Fourth West Virginia Volunt.eers ; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

JOHN 111. ELDER. 

Mr. MILLIKEN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1891) for the relief of 

John l\L Elder; which was read a first and second time, referred to 

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

NOAH W. JOHNSON. 

1\fr. MILLIKEN also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1892) grarntil1g a pension to Noah W. John on, of Butler County, Kentucky; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid 

Pension , an_d or<lered to be printed. 

LIEUTF~~AJ\"T JOHN SCOTT. 

Mr. DURHAM introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1893) for the relief of 

Lieutenant John Scott, of the Fourth United States Infantry; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Claims, 

and ordered to be printed. 

ROBERT HARRIS, SR. 

Mr. DURHAM also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1894) grantin~ a pension to Robert Harris, sr., of Madison County, Kentucky; whiCh was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee ~n Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

LESLIE COOMBS. 

1\Ir. BLACKBURN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1895) granting ar- rearage of pension to Leslie Coombs; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, and or- dered to be printed. BENJAMIN HICKEY. 

Mr.McFARLAl.~D introduced a bill (H. R. No.1896) granting a penion to Benjamin Hickey, private of Company C, First Regiment of 

Tenne ee Volunteer Cavalry; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, a.n.d ordered to be 

printed. 

CHARLOTTE M. GAYLOR. 

:1\-fr. YOUNG introduced a bill(H. R. No.1897) for the relief of Charlotte M. Gaylor, of Memphis, Tennessee; which was read a first and 

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

to be printeu. 

W A.GON-ROA.D IN COLORADO TERRITORY. 

ltfr. YOUNG also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1898) authorizillg the 

construction 0f a wagon-road from Trinidau to Silvatone, in the Territory of Coloraclo; which was read a first and second time, referred 

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

EZEKIEL T. KEEL. 

Mr. YOUNG also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1899) for the relief of 

Ezekiel T. Keel, of Memphis, Tennessee; which was read a first and 

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

to be printeu. · 

WlLLIA.M B. ILU1LIN. 

Mr. YOUNG al o introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1900) for the relief of 

William B. Hamlin, of Memphis, Tennessee; which was rea-d a first 

and econd time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and or- dered to be printed. - MARTHA l\f. PARKER. 

Mr. YOUNG also introduced a bill (H. R. No.l901) for the relief of 

Martha M. Parker, of Memphis, Tennessee; which was read a :first and 

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

to be printed. · 

EMMARILLA T. CARR. 

Mr. YOUNG also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1902) for· the relief of 

Emmarilla T. Carr, of Memphis, Tennessee; which was rea-d a firSt and 

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

to be printed. 

WIDOW OF P. M. ARMSTRONG. 

:Mr. RIDDLE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1903) for the relief of the 

widow of P. M. Armstrong, of Overton County, Tennessee·; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of Claims, and 

ordered ·to be printed. · 

W. K. CARR AND ROBERT WIX. 

Mr. RIDDLE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1904) for the roliof 

of ,V. K. Carr and Robert Wix,-of Macon County, Tenne ee; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of Claim , and ordered to be printed. 
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EXPENSES OF COLLECTING CUSTOl\18. 

-.Mr. DIBRELL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1905) to reduce the 

expenses of collecting customs; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Public Expenditures, and ordered 

to be printed. JO:fu~ FLETCHER. 

Mr. EVANS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1906) for the relief of John 

Fletcher; which was read a first and econd time, referred to the 

Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

HE~TRY BROWN. 

Mr. EDEN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1907) granting a pension to 

Henry Brown, late a. p!ivat.ein Company C, One hundred and twentythird Regiment lllinois Volunteers ; which was read a fir t and second 

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

be _printed. TRUSSES FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS. 

Mr. HARRISON introduced a. bill (H. R. No. 190 ) to amend an act 

entitled ".An act to provide forffirnishing trus e to <lisa. bled oldiers;" 

which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Afta.ir , and ordered tohe printed. 

JOHN W. CHICKERING. 

Mr. HARRISON also introduced a. bill (H. R. No.1909) for the relief 

of J ohn W. Chickering; which was read a fir t and second time, re- ferred to the Committee on :Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

LANDS TO CITY OF CIDCAGO. 

Mr. HARRISON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1910) to confirm 

to the city of Chicago the title to certain lands in Cook County, Illinois; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 

MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

Mr. FORT introduced a joint resolution (H.R.No. 61) declaring the 

12th day of February, the birthday of Abraham I.incoln, to be a na- tional holiday, and that on the 14th day of April, the day on which 

Abraham Lincoln was killed, the national flag sha.ll float at half-rna t; 

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

PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. 

Mr. HURLBUT introduced a bill (H. R. No.1911) to amend sections 

4919 and 4921 of the Revised Statutes, chapter 70, e:ntitled "Patents 

and copyrights;" which was read a first and seconu time, referred to 

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

MEDICAL CORPS OF THE ARMY. 

Mr. HURLBUT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1912) to reduce the 

number and increase the efficiency of the Medical Corps of the Army; 

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

LORENZO T. POTIER. 

Mr. FARWELL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1913) for the relief of 

the widow and heirs of Lorenzo T. Potter, deceased, late of Charleston, South Carolina; which was read a. first and second time, referred 

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

CAPTAIN GEORGE E. PINGREE. 

Mr. HENDERSON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1914) granting a pen- sion to Captain George E. Pingree, from January 1, 1869, to April2, 

1872; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Commit- tee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

STEAMBOAT ROBERT BASS. 

Mr. HENDERSON also introduced a bill (H. R.N o.1915 )to change the name of the steamboat Robert Bass; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be 

printed. PENSIONS TO SOLDIERS OF WAR OF 1812. 

Mr. HARTZELL introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1916) to amend sec- tion 4736 and section 4738 of the Revised Statutes, granting pensions -to the surviving officers and soldiers of the war of 1812, and to the sur- viving widows-Of deceMed officers and soldiers of s~id war; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Revolutiony Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

ESTATE OF LIEUTENANT JOSEPH WHEATON, DECEASED. 

Mr. CAULFIELD introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1917) for the relief 

of the administratrix of the estate of Lieutenant Joseph Wheaton, 

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

Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

FREDERICK P. SHERRY. 

Mr. HATCHER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1918) granting a pension 

to Frederick P. Sherry; which was read a first nnd second time, referred to the Committee on InvalidPensions, and ordered to be printed. 

LEGAL-TENDER CURRENCY. 

Mr. BLAND introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1919) to substitute legaltender notes for national-bank notes, and to make duties on imports 

receivable one-half in legal-tender notes, and to repeal the resump- tion act of January 14, 1875, and for other purposes; which was read 

·a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Banking and · 

Currency, and ordered to be printed. 

MARTHA A. WILLIAMSON. 

Mr. MORGAN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 19'20) for the relief of 

Martha. A. Williamson; which was read a first and second time, re- ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

WASHL~GTON CHANNEL OF POTOMAC RIVER. • 

1\fr. BUCKNER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1921) for the improve- ment of the Washington channel of the Potomac River; which was read a. first and second time, referred to the Committee on Commerce, 

and ordered to be printed. 

. REAL-ESTATE RECORDS, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

Mr. BUCKNER also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1922) proviiling 

for the recording of deeds: mortgages, and other conveyances affect- ing real estate in the District of Columbia; which was read a firs~ and 

second time, referred to the Committee for the District .of Columbia, 

and ordered to be printed. 

GOVERNMENT FOR INDIAN TERRITORY. 

Mr. GAUSE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1923) to provide a govern- ment for the Indian Territory; which WM read a fust and second 

time, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be 

printed. BAPTIST CHURCH, HELENA, ARKANSAS. 

Mr. GAUSE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1924) to compensate 

the Baptist church at Helena, Arkansas, for destruction of its bnil<ling during the war by the Federal Army ; which was read a first and 

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

to be printed. VINCE..~ TAPP. 

Mr. GAUSE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1925) for the relief of 

Vincent Tapp, of Helena, Arkansas ; which wa rerui a first and sec- ond time,_referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to 

be print.ed. 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PRAIRIE COUNTY, ARKAN AS. 

Mr. GAUSE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1926) to indemnify 

PrairiE! County, Arkansa-s, for the destruction of public buildings 

during the war by the Federal Army; which was read a first and sec- ond time, referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to 

be printed. 1\IARY E. WIDTEHEAD. 

Mr. GAUSE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1927) for the relief of 

Mary E. Whitehead, of Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on War 

Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

ELIAS B. :MOORE. 

Mr. GUNTER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1928) for the relief of 

Elias B. :Moore; which was read a first and second time, referred to 

the Commi~e of Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

ALMIRA COOLEY. 

Mr. DURAND introduced a bill (H. R,. No. 192!:>) for the relief of 

Almira Cooley, of Flint, Michigan; which was read a first and econd 

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

be printed. LEVINA CARR, l\IICHIGAN. 

Mr. DURAND also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1930) for the relief 

of Levina Carr, of Farmington, Michigan; which wa read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and or- dered to be printed. · 

JOlli~ J . PARTILLO. 

Mr. BRADLEY introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1931) granting a pension to John J . Partillo, of Gratiot County, Michigan; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid 

Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

IMPROVEMENT OF MANISTEE HARBOR, MICIDGAN. 

Mr. HUBBELL introduced a bill (H. R. N o. 1932)to appropriate money 

for continuing the improvement of the harbor at Manistee, Michigan; 

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

IMPROVEMENT OF LUDINGTON HARBOR, MICIDGAN. 

Mr. HUBBELL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1933) to appropiiate money for continuing the improvement of the harbor at Lnuinging, Michi~an ; which was read a first and second time, referred to 

the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

IMPROVEMENT OF PENTWATER HARBOR, MICIDGAN. 

1\Ir. HUBBELL ~so introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1934) to appropriate money for continuing the improvement of the harbor at Pentwater, Michigan; which was rea-d a first and second time, referred to 

the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

LIGHT-STATION, BELLE ISLE, DETROIT -RIVER, !\IICIDGAN. 

Mr. A. S. WILLIAMS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1935) to authorize 

the construction of a light-station on the northern point of Belle Isle, 

Detroit River, Michigan; which was read a first and second time, re- ferred to the ComiJ,littee on Co~erce, and ~rdered to be printed. 
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JOII~ HALEY. 

:Mr. A. S. WILLIAMS also iutrodncell a bill (H. R. No. 1936) granting a pension to John Haley; which was read a first and second time, 

referred t-o the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. 

RANK Ali."D PAY OF RETIRED AR:\IY OFFICERS. 

~A. S. WILLIAMS also introduced a hill (H. R. No. 1937) torepeal section 2 of an act for the relief of General Samuel W. Crawford, and to fix the rank and pay of retired officers of the Army, approved March 3, 1875 ; which wa read a first and second time, re- ferred to the Committee on Military. Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

THOMAS J. SPENCER. 

Mr. A. S. WILLIAMS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1938) to restore 

the name of Thoma-s J. Spencer, late first lieutenant Tenth United 

States Cavalry, to his former rank in the Army; which was rea~ a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, 

and ordered to be printed. 

SARAH EMMONS. 

Mr. W. B. WILLIAMS introduced a bill(H. R. No.1939)grantinga 

pension to Sarah Emmons; which was rea~ a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, all(l ordered to be 

printed. RE~IOVAL OF CAUSES FROM STATE COURTS. 

Mr. W. B. WILLIAMS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1940) to 

Qmeml au act entitled'.' An act to determine the jurisdiction of circuit 

'-::mrt of the United State and to regulate the removal of causes ::' "Om State court , and for other purposes," approved .March 3, 1875; 

whi ch was read a first and second timo, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to.be' printed. 

DAVID A. MARTIN. 

Mr. WALLS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1941) to allow David A. 

Martin to appear before the Court of Claims as therein provided; 

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

Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

Il\IPROVEME.."'T OF THE NA VIGATIO~ OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI. 

Mr. PRATT presented a memorial and joint resolution of the General Assembly of Iowa, i.n reference to the improvement of the navigation of the Upper Mississippi; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

SETTLEl\IENT OF OFFICERS' ACCOUNTS. 

Mr. OLIVER introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1942) to re-ena{lt and con- tinue in force the act of January 23, 1870, entitled "An act to authorize 

the settlement of the accounts of officers of the Army and Navy;" 

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

DURATION OF PATENTS. 

Mr. OLIVER also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1943) limiting the 

duration of patents; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee Qn Patents, and ordered to be printed. 

1\'IRA.N W. PRATT. 

Mr. OLIVER also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1944) grantin~ a pension to Niran W. Pratt; which was read a first and second ttme, re- ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTIO~. 

Mr. OLIVER also introduced a joint resolution (H. R. No. 62) prollosing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the J u- diciary, and ordered to be printed.-

FILING OF JUDGME~S, UNITED STATES COURTS. 

Mr. TUFTS introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1945) providing for the 

filing of judgments obtained in United States courts; which was read a first and second time, refe!Ted to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. . 

EXPIRATION OF THE MORNING HOUR. 

Mr. KASSON. I rise to inquire whether the morning hour ha-s not 

expired f 

The SPEAKER pro tempore, (Mr. BLACKBURN in the chair.) The 

morning hour has just expired. 

Mr. RANDALL. Was there not an understanding that this call for 

bills and resolutions should go entirely through the States, regardless of the morning hour f 

The SPEAKER pro tempm·e. The Chair will state to the gentleman 

from Pennsylvania that not being here at the time he is not able to 

answer the question as to whether an agreement was entered into by 

which this call should continue until the list of States and Territories was completed. 

Mr. KASSON. I believe there was no agreement to-day. 

Mr. HOLMAN. I trust there will be unanimous consent to make 

the order now that the call of States and Territories be "continued 

until it is completed. 

Mr. KASSON. I must ask tlie consideration of my resolution. 

The SPEAKER p1·o tempore. Does the gentleman from Iowa object 

to the call of States and Territories eing coruplett~d by un~nimous 

consentf 

Mr. KASSON. I object, unless I have unanimous consent after it is 

completed to offer my resolution. 

Mr. GARFIELD. That will be granted, I presume. 

Mr. KASSON. Then I withdraw my objection, on the understanding that I shall be at liberty to offer this re olution on the completion 

of the call of States and Tenitories. 

AlrniE MORRIS. . 

1\Ir. KIMBALL introducecl a bill(H. R. No. 1946) granting a pension 

to Annie Morris; which was read a first and second time, referred to 

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

GRANT OF LAND TO STEVENS POTh7, WISCONSIN. 

Mr. CATE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1947)_ granting to the city of 

Stevens Point, Wisconsin, a certain piece of land; which was read a. first and second time, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and 

ordered to be printed. 

CORRESPOl\"DE....'lCE BY TELEGRAPH. 

~Ir. LUTTRELL (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1948) to"' 

provide for the transmission of correspondence by telegraph; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the 

Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. 

NICHOLAS MARQUEZ. 

Mr. LUTTRELL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1949) for the 

relief of Nichola.s Marquez; which wa read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

FORT READING MILITARY RESERVATION. 

Mr. LUTTRELL also introduced a bill (H. R. ~o. 1950) declaring 

the lands constituting the Fort Readin~ military reservation in Sha.sta 

County, California, subject to pre-emption and homestead entry; which wa-s read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

THOMAS J. SHERWOOD. . 

Mr. LUTTRELL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1951) for the relief 

of Thomas J. Sherwood, late postmaster at Marysville, California; 

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

Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

N. J. COFFIN. 

Mr. LUTTRELL also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1952) granting a pension to Nathaniel Johnson Coffin; which was read a fir t and 

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

PORTS OF SAL."'T PAUL AND DU LUTH. 

Mr. STRAIT presentea a joint resolution of the Legislature of the 

State of 1\Iinnesota, requesting t ho same moclifications of the law of 

tho United States for Saint Paul and DuLuth as are now extended to 

other ports in various States; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 

:M:AIL-ROUTE IN 1\II~SOTA. 

Mr. STRAIT also presented a joint resolution of the State of Minnesota, asking that a mail-route be established from Hastings, in the con nty of Dakota, to Cannon Falls, in the county of Goodhue; which was referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and 

ordered to be printed. 

ALFRED MULLER. 

Mr. STRAIT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1953) for the relief of 

AlfredMiiller, late a{lting assistant surgeon in the United States Army; 

which was rea~ a first and second time, referred to the Committee of 

Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

CHARLE THil\IONS. 

Mr. STRAIT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1954) for the relief of 

Charles Thimons, late mate of the steamer New Iago; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of Claims; and or- dered to be printed. · 

IMPROVEl\IENT OF ML'l"NESOTA RIVER. 

Mr. STRAIT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1955) to .provide for 

the improvement of the Minnesota River by the construction of a lock 

and dam at the Little Rapids on said river; which was read a :fir t 

and second time, referred to the Committee. on Commerce, and order d 

to be printed. 

HENRY D. O'BRIEN. 

Mr. KING introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1956) for the relief of Henry 

D. O'Brien, late postmaster at Saint Anthony's Falls, Minnesota; 

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

Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

RIGHTS OF SETTLERS. 

Mr. GOODIN introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1957) defining th rights of settlers on the public lands; which was read a first and second 

time, referred to the Commit.tee on Public Lands, and ordered to be 

printed. 

WILLIAM 0. REDDEN. 

Mr. BROWN, of Kansas, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1958) for the 

relief of William 0. Redden, late colonel of the Third Regiment of :Qel~ware lnfantry Volunteers; which wa-s read a first and second 
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tjme, referred to the eommittee on War Claims, and o;dered to be second time, referred to the Committee on the Territories, ancl ordered 

printed. to be printed. 

SETTLERS ON THE KA....~SAS INDIAN RESERVATIONS. 

Mr. BROWN, of Kansas, also introduced a bill (H. R. No.1959) for the 

relief of certain settlers on the Kansas Indian re ervations in Kansas ; 

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

Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. 

IMPROVEMENT OF THE l\ITNT AT CARSON CITY. 

Mr. WOODBURN introduced a uill (II. R. No. 1960) to provide for 

the improvement of the mint at Carson City, Nevada; which was 

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

Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. 

Mr. CROUNSE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1961) to construe and 

declare the meaning of a part of section 20 of an act entitled ''An act 

to amend an act entitled 'An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraphic line from the Missorn:i River to the Pacific Ocean, 

and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal and 

military and other purpo es,' approved July 1, 1862, and approved July 

2, 1864 ;" which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 

PUBLIC LANDS IN NEBRASKA. 

Mr. CROUNSE also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1962) to confirm cer- tain school-indemnity selections of public lands in the State of Nebraska;. which was read a first and second time, referred to the Commit lee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. 

QUALIFICATIONS OF SURVEYORS-GENERAL. 

Mr. PA.TTERSON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1963) defining the 

qualifications of surveyors-general to ue hereafter appointed; which was read a first and second time, referred to he Committee on Reform . in the Civil Service, and ordered to be printed. 

PATENTS FOR l\IThTERAL LAl\'DS. 

1\Ir. PATTERSON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1964) to enaule one or more joint owners of mineral lands to obtain patents therefor; 

which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on 1\lines and Mining, nnd ordered to be printed. 

ROCKY !fOUNTAIN LOCUSTS. 

Mr. PATTERSON also introduced a bill(R. R. No. 1965) to pr vide 

for an investigation as to the habits of the Rocky Mountain locusts, or so-called grasshoppers, and as to the best methods for preventing 

the incursions and ravages of the same; which was read a first and 

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

be printed. 

ACT OF LEGISLATIVE ASSEllffiLY OF COLORADO TERRITORY. 

Mr. PATTERSON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. H>~6) approving an act of the Legislative Assembly of Colorado Territory; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. 

ROBERT B. ·SMOCK. 

Mr. PATTERSON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1967) for therelief of Robert B. Smock, of Central Colorado, for the boarding of re- cruits for the United States military service; which was read a first 

and second time, referred to tho Committee of Claims, and ordered to 

be printed. 

1\'EW TERRITORY. 

Mr. KIDDER presented a memorial of the Legislature of Dakota, 

a.sking the organization of a new Territory out of the northern portion of Dakota.; which was referred to the Committee on the Tenitories, and ordered to be printed. · 

CAPITOL BUILDINGS IN ARIZONA. 

Mr. STEVENS introduced a bill (ll. R. No. 196 ) appropriating 

money to erect capitol buildings in the Territory of Arizona; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Public 

Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. 

PENITENTIARY IN ARIZONA.. 

Mr. STEVENS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1969) to appropriate 

money for the building of a penitentiary in the Terirtory of Arizona; 

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

APPROVAL OF BILLS I:N ARIZONA. 

Mr. STEVENS also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1970) relating to 

the approval of bills in the Territory of Arizona; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

and ordered to be printed. . ' 

A rn~'Dl\IENT OF REVISED STATUTES. 

Mr. BENNETT introducetl a bill (H. R. No. 1971) to amend section 

4736 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, regulating pensions 

of soldiers of the war of 1812; which was read a :first and second time 

referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, and ordered 

to be printed. PENITENTIARY AT BOISE CITY, IDAHO. 

Mr. BENNETT also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1972) to authorize 

the COllBtruction of an inclosure around the United States penitentiary 

at Boise City, in the Territory of Idaho i wbich W(lS read. a. first anq ~ . 

PE~'ITENTIARY L.~ THE TERRITORY OF WYOl\fiNG. 

Mr. STEELE introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1973) making appropriation for continuing the erection of a penitentiary builcling in the Territory of Wyoming; which was read a first and second time, referred 

to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be 

printed. Il\IPROVEJ\:IE ~ T OF MOUTH OF liiTSSISSIPPI. 

Mr. BANKS (by request) introduced a bill (H. R. No.1974) for deepening the bar at the Pass a l'Outre of the mouth of the Mississippi 

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

OATH OF OFFIC:Ji!. 

Mr. LAWRENCE introduce(} a uill (H. R. No. 1975) prescribing an oath of office; which was read a first and second time, referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 

INJURIES RESULTING FROM SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS. 

Mr. LAWRENCE also -introduced a bill (II. R. No. 1976) to give a right of action for injuries resulting from the sale of intoxim~ting 

liquors; which was read a first ancl second time, referred to the C:mmittee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. 

JAMES CLIFFORD. 

Mr. COCHRANE. I am directed by the Committee on Expen.dit ures in the Department of Justice to report back House uill No. 551 

for the relief of Jam,es Clifford, of Arkansas, and move that the com- mittee be discharged from Hs further consideration, and that it be 

referred to the Committee of Claims. 

The motion wa.s agn~ed to . 

ORDER OF BUSD.'ESS. 

Mr. KASSON. I rise to offer some resolutions, and to move a suspension of the rule.s t,hereon. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Before that is done, I wish to introduce bills for 

reference at this time. 

The SPEAKER. Several gentlemen who were not in their seats 

when their States were called desire to intmdnce bills for reference. 

Mr. KASSON. I will yield for that purpose. 

FRANCIS ARMSTRONG. 

Mr. HOLMAN (by request) introduced a ·bill (H. R. No.1977) for the 

relief of Francis Armstrong; which was read a first andsecond time, 

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

WILLIAM COOK. 

1\Ir. CASON introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1978) granting a. pension to 

William Cook, of Boone Connty, Indiana; which was read a first and 

second time, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. WILLIAM DAVENPORT. 

Mr. CASON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1979) for the relief of 

William Davenport, of Zionsville, Indiana.; which was read a first 

and second time, referred to the Committee of Claims, and ordered 

to be printed. CATHERINE CARNEY. 

1\Ir. CASON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 19 0) granting a pension to Catherine Carney ; which was read a first and second time, re- ferred to the Committee on Invand Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. GEORGE W. GIBSON. 

Mr. CASON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1981) granting an increase of pension to George W . Gibson; which was read a first and 

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

Mr. CASON also introduced a bill (H. R. No: 19 2) granting a pension to John Dalton ; which was read a first and second time, referred 

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

ENNOLDS LLOYD. 

Mr. CASON also introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1983) granting a pension to Ennolds Lloyd, of Crawfordsville, Indiana; which was.read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. 

SALE OF LANDS IN KANSAS. 

Mr. BROWN, of Kansas, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1984) to provide for the sale of certain lands in Kansas; which was read a first 

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

ordered to be printed. REPRINTL~G TARIFF BILL. 

Mr. MORRISON. I move that House bill No. 1711, to reduce and 

simplify existing laws imposing duties on imports and to reduce taxation be reprinted for the use of the House, the number already 

printed having been exhausted. There wa.s no objection, and it was so ordered. 

MARY E . CAMPBELL. 

~~ lJ~~GllT tntroqu~ed ~bill (I{, R. No. 1985) granting a. pension 
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to :Mary E. Campbell; which was read a first and second time, re- ferred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, and ordered to be 

printed. JAPANESE INDEMNITY FtThTJ>. 

Mr. COX presented resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of the 

city of New York and the report of the committee on the Japanese 

indemnity fund; which was referred to the Committe on Foreign Affairs. . 

ASA 0. GALLUP. 

1\Ir. BAKER, of Indiana, introdnce<.l a bill (H. R. No. 19 6) for the 

relief of the heirs of Asa 0. Gallup ; which wa..s read a first and second 

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

printed. CURRENCY A~"l> SPECIE PAYMENTS. 

l\lr. KASSON. I move that the rules be so suspended that the House 

may be brought to a separate vote upon the resolutions which I send 

to the Clerk's desk. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the constitutional authority of Congress to "coin money, r egulate the value thereof and of foreign coin " does not include the authority to issue the 

paper of the Government as money; and in the judgment of this House the Constitution nowhere confers upon Congress the power to issue in time of peace the 

promises or obligations of the Government as a legal tender in payment of debts. 

Resolved That any legislation touching the le~al-tend r currency of the Govern- ment shouid keep steadily in view the resumption of specie payments and should 

tend to enhance the 17alue of that currency, for the redemption of which the faith 

of the United States has been pledged to its citizens. 

1\Ir. KASSON. My motion is that the House suspend the rules so aa to proceed to vote separately upon the two resolutions. 

l\lr. HOLMAN. I was about tQ suggest that the proposition ought 

to be divided. 

Mr. COX. This very important subject is now being considered by 

the Committee on Banking and Currency. I hope these resolutions 

will be referred to that committee. 

The SPEAKER. The motion, aa the Chair understands, is that the 

mles be ~uspended and that these two resolutions be agreed to by 

separate votes. 

Mr. KASSON. It is that the rules be so suspended that the House 

proceed to vote separately upon the two resolutions. 

Mr. COX. I hope the House will refuse to suspend the rules. Let 

the resolutions go to the appropriat-e committee. 

Mr. PAGE. I object to debate. . 1\Ir. FORT. We ought to have the opinion of the Judiciary Committ-ee on this question. 

Mr. KASSON. I must object to debate, and call for the regular 

order. 

1\Ir. SOUTHARD. In view of the recent decision of the Supreme 

Court, I would like to ask the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. KASsoN] 

whether his resolution js not an implied censure upon that court Y 

The SPEAKER. Debate is not in ·order. 

1\Ir. HOLMAN. I call for the yeas and nays on the motion to sus- pend the rules. 

Mr. KASSON. I second the call for the yeas and nays. 

The SPEAKER. The first question is, Will the House so- suspend 

the ru1es as that thereafter separate vot.es shall be taken on the pending resolutions Y 

Mr. RANDALL. Then the only question now is on suspending the 

rules to have afterward a separate vote on the two resolutions Y 

The SPEAKER. The first question is on the motion to suspend tbe 

rules so as to bring these two resolutions before the House, that separate votes may be taken thereon. The suspension is not exhausted 

upon the first vote. Are the yeas and nays demanded Y 

1\ir. HOLMAN. With the proposition in that shape, I do not ask for 

the yeas and nays. 

Mr. HUBBELL and Mr. KELLEY called for the yeas and nays. 

The yeas and nays were ordered. - Mr. COX. I rise to a point of order. I understand that the present vote does not go to the merits of the question. 

Mr. KASSON. If this vote be in the negative, it will be a. rejection 

of the resolutions. 

1\lr. COX. Not a bit of it. 

Mr. RANDALL. The subject will be left to the consideration of 

the appropriate committee. 

The question was taken; and there were yeas-97, nays 146, not 

voting-46 ; as follows : 

YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Bagby, George A. Bagley, John H. Baker, William H- Baker, Ballou, Bell, Blaine, Blair, Bradley, Horatio C. Burchard, Bm-leigh, Cannon, 

lihittenden, Conger, "Crapo, Darrall, Davy, Denison, Dunnell, Durand, Eames, Far- wail, Fort, Foster, Frost, Frye, Garfield, Hale, Robert Hamilton, Haralson, Harden- bergh, Benjamin W. Harris, Hathorn, H endee, Henderson, Hoar, Hoge, Hoskins, 

Hubbell, Hurlbut, .To:vce, Kasson, Kehr, Ketchum, Kimball, Lapham, Lawrence Leavenworth, Luttrell, Lynch, M~goon, MacDougall, McCrary, McDill, Miller Monroe, Nash, Norton, Oliver, O'Neill, Packer, Page, Pierce, Plaisted, Platt, Potter, 

Pow ll, Pratt, Rainey, Sobieski Ross, Rusk, Sampson, Seelye, Sinnickson, A. llerr Smith, Strait, Stowell, Teese, Thornbm-gh, Martin I. Townsend, Washington Townsend, Tuft.s, VanVorhes, Walclron,.AleXl1Ilder S. Wallace, John W.Wa.llaco, Wa.lls, 

~e{~r~ ~~~~'X~~~·b:~~~~: Charles G. WiJ.liams, Willis, James Wilson, 

NAYS-ifessrs. Ainsworth, Anderson, Ashe1 Atkins, Banning Barnum, Beebe 

Blackburn, Bland, Blount, Boone, Bradford, Bnght, John Younp: Brown, Bucknor' 

Samuel D. Burchard John H. Caldwell, William P. Caldwell, Campb 11, Candler' 

Cason, Ca.to, Caulfield, ~ohn B. Clarke of K entuch--y. John .B. Clark, jr., of Mis ouri; 

Clymer, Cochrane, Collins. Cowan, Cox, CronllSe, Culben;on, Cutl r, D Bolt, Dibrell 

DOuglas, Durham, Eden, Evans, Faulkner, F elton, Forney, Franklin, Fuller, Gause; 

• 

Glover, Goode, Goodin, Gunter, Andrew H. Hamilton, Hancock, Henry R. Harris, Harrison, Hartzell, Hatcher, Haymond,Hereford, AbramS. Hewi~ Goldsmith WHewitt, Hill, Holman, Hooker, Hopkins, House, Hunter; Hunton, .11.yman, Thomas L . .Tonbs, Kelley, Knott, Franklin Landers, Levy, Lewis, Lord, Lynde, Levi A. 

Mackey, Maish, McFarland, McMahon, Metcalfe, Milliken, Mills, Money, Morgan, 

Morrison, Mutchler, Neal, New, O'Brien, Parsons, Payne, Phelps, John F. Philips. William A. Phillips~. Piper, Poppleton, Randall, Rea, Reagan, John Reilly, .Tames 

B. Reilly, Rice, Riclrue, John Robbins, William M. Robbin , Robinson, Miles Ro s, Savage, ayler, Scales, Sheakley, Singleton, Slemons, William E. Smith, Southard, Sparks, Springer, Stenger, Stevenson, Swann, Tarbox, Terry, Thomp on, Thoma • Throckmorton, Tucker, Turney, John L. Vance, Robert B. Vance, Waddell, Char It> 

C. B. Walker, Walling, Warren, Erastus Wells, Whitehouse, Wike, Andrew Will- iams, .Alpheus S. Williams, James D. Williams, .Temmiah N. Williams, Wilshire, Benjamin Wilson, Fernando Wood, Woodworth, Yeates, and Youn~-146. 

NOT VOTI:NG-Messrs. John H. Bagley, jr., Banks, Bas, Blis, William IL 

Brown, Cabell, Caswell, Chapin, Cook, Danford, Davis, Dobbins, Eg_b rt, Ellis, Ely. 

Freeman, Gibson, John T. Harris, Hartridge, Hays, Henkle, Huru, Jenks, Frank 

.Tones, Ring, Lamar, George M. Landers, Lane, Edmund W. M. Mackey, Meade. Morey, Odell, Purman, R.oberts, Schleicher, Schnmaker, Smalls, Stone, Gilbert C. Walkei, Walsh, Ward, G. Wiley Wells, Whitthorne, Wigginton, .Tames Williams, 

and William B. Williams-46. 

So (two-thirds not having voted in favor thereof) the rules were not suspended. 

During the vote, 

Mr. HUNTON said that his colleague [1\Ir. CABELL] had been called 

homo by sickness in his family. 

1\Ir. SCALES stated that his colleague, [Mr. DAVIS,] who was absent 

by leave of the House, woulrl, if present, have voted in the negaJ;ive. 

The vote waa then announced as above recorded. 

Mr. COX. If the gentleman from Iowa will agree to the reference 

of his resolution, I will move that it be referred either to the Committee of Ways and Means or to his own committee. 

1\Ir. KASSON. I will be gla-d to have it referred to the gentleman's 

committee. 

Objection was made. 

MESSAGE FROJ\1 THE SENATE. 

A message was received from the Senate, by 1\Ir. SYMPSON, one of 

its clerks, notifying the House that that body had passed a bill (H. 

R. No. 1053) providing for the payment of judgments rendered under 

section 11 of chapter 459 of the laws of the Forty-third Congre , with amendments, in which the concurrence of the House was re- quested. E~"ROLLED BILLS. 

Mr. HARRIS, of Georgia, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, 

reported that they had examined and found truly enrolled an act (S. 

No. 62) to authorize George P. 1\Iarsh to accept a certain present from 

the government of Swit.zerland and a certain present from the government of Italy; when the Speaker signed the same. 

3.65 BO~TJ>S. 

1\Ir. BUCKNER. 1\Ir. Speaker, I am instructed by the Committee 

for the District of Columbia to report back joint resolution (H. R. 

No. 52). directing the commissioners of the District of Columbia to 

pay the interest on the bonds issued in pursuance of the act of Congress approved June 20, 1874, out of any funds in the United States 

Treasury subject to the requisition of said commissioners, a.n'i for 

other purposes, with the recommendation that the amendments of the 

Senate be non-concurred in and the House ask for a committee of con- ference on the disagreeing votes of tho two Houses. 

1\Ir. BRIGHT. Let the amendments of the Senate be read. 

The SPEAKER. There being no objection, the report will be re- ceived and the joint resolution as well as the Senate amendments will 

be read . 

The joint resolution was read, as follows: . 

That the commissioners of t~e rnstrict of Columbia are hereby directed to trans- fer to the Treaamer of the Umted States, for the payment of the interest due the 

1st of February, 1876, on the bonds of said District~ issued under the provisions of 

the act of Congress approved June 20, 1874, entitlea "An act for the governm nt of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," the sum neces ary to pay the same from any unexpended appropriations h er etofore made b.Y Congre s, or from· any revenues derived by taxatiol) on the property of said Distr10t of Colnm bia, subject to the requisition of s~ id commissioners, excluding funds raised for the support 

of public schools : Provided, That any further is ue of 3.65 bonds is hereby pro- hibited: And provided further, That nothing in this resolution contained shall in- volve the Government of the United States in any obligation to pay principal or in- terest of any such bonds which have been issued contrary to or not in pursuance of 

law. 

The amendments of the Senate were read, as follows : 

Strike out after the word "school," in line 15 to the end of the resolution, the e words: 

Provided, That any further issue of 3.65 bonds is hereby prohibited: And p1·ovidedjurther, That nothing in this resolution contained shall involve th e Gov~,rnment of e United Sta.~s many obligation to pay principal or interest of any uch 

bonds which have been ISsued contrary to or not in pursuance of law. 

And in lieu thereof insert: 

That any further issue of 3.65 bonds under or by virtue of said act of CongrQS 

approved .Tune 20, 1874, is h ereby prohibited: And provided, That the certificates 

heretofore is ned by the board of audit, includin<T tho e converted into 3.65 per cent. bonds and tho e which have not been so converted, and tho certifica,tes here- after to be issued by the board of audit or their suooessm·s in office, shall not x- ceed in the a~gre~ate, 5,000,000. 

Add the foiTowmg sectjon to the r esolution: SEc. 2. That there shall be no increa e of the pre ent amount of the total in- debtedness of the District of Columbia., and any officer or person who hall knowingly increase or aid or abet in increasing such total indelJteunPss shall be deemotl ~ty of a high misden;teanor, and on conviction thereof sh.all be punished by im- Prnsonment not exceedmg ten years and by fine not exceeding 10,000 : Provided 

:rhat the board of audit created by the act for the government of the District of Columbia. approved June 29,1874, is hereby abolisli d, and shall innnediatcly 

upon the approval of this ~esolution transmit all the books and prope1·ty in their 
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possession belonging to the District to the commissioners of the District of Columbia, and make a report of their proceedings not hitherto made. 

.And provided further, That this resolution shall not in anyway or manner recog- nize the liability of the United States to pay either the principal or interest of any of such bonds as may have been issued on or since the 27th day of January, 1876. 

Mr. BUCKNER. In accordance with the recommendation of the 

Committee for the District of Columbia, I move the amendments of 

the Senate be disagreed to and the House ask for a committee of con- ference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on said joint res- olution. 

The motion was agreed to. · The SPEAKER. The Chair announces as the committee of con- ference on the part of the House Mr. BucJU~R, Mr. CATE, and Mr. 

WILLARD. GOVER..~NT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, ETC. 

Mr. STEVENSON, by unanimous consent, submitted the following 

resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to : 

Resol1ted, That the Committee for the District of Columbia be, and is hereby, instructed to examine into the expenditures and management. since the year 1862, of 

the Government Hospital for the Insane, the Deaf an<l Dumb Institute, and also 

the expenditures and management, since the respective dates of their creation, of 

the Columbia. llospital for Women, the board of health of the District of Columbia, the Reform School, and the Freedmen's Hospital, for all of which institutions 

annual appropriations have been made by Congress, and report to this body the 

total amount of expenditures for each institution up to the present time and the 

actual annual cost to the Government of each inmate or patient in said institution<:!, 

together with the number of all persons (other than laborers) employed therein 

ana the salary received by each employll; and the committee be empowered to send for such persons and papers as they may deem necessary. 

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair desires to say to the House that the. -gentleman from Iowa [Mr. McCRARY] asks to be excused from further service ou the Committee for the District of Columbia, because 

his labors on the other committee of which he is a member are so great as to leave him insufficient time to attend to those of the latter com- mittee. Is there any objection to his being excused T 

There was no objection, and he was excused accordingly. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair appoints the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. HoAR] to the vacancy in the Committee on the Judiciary, caused by the death of the late l\ir. Starkweather, of Connecticut. 

The gentleman from Massa-chusetts [Mr. HOAR] asks to be excused 

from further service on the Committee of Elections, of which he is now a membel'. 

There was .QO objection, and he was excused accordingly. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair appoints to the place thus made vacant on theCommitteeof ElectionsMr.TOWNSEND, ofNewYork. Heappoints to the place just made vacant in the Committee for the District 

of Columbia Mr. CRAPo, of Maseachusetts ' 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

Mr. RANDALL. I now move that the rules be suspended and the 

House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole on the state 

of the Union, to proceed with the consideration of the consular and 

diplomatic appropriation bill. 

1\Ir. PIERCE. I ask the gentleman -to yield to me to offer a reso- lution. 

Mr. BRIGHT, I demand the regular order of business. 

l\ir. PIERCE. I hope not; the gentleman from Pennsylvania has 

already yielded to me. Mr. RANDALL. I am willing to yield to the gentleman, but the 

demand for the regular order of business is an objection. 

1\Ir. BRIGHT. I withdraw it. 

EMMA MINE AND MACHADO CLAil\I. 

1\lr. PIERCE, by unanimous consent, submitted the following reso- lution; which wa read, considered, and agreed to: 

Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign .Affairs be instructed to ascertain and 

report what a{ltion, if any, bas been taken by the executive department of tbe 

Gov rnment in relation to the connection of the United States mimster at the~urt 

of St. James with the directory of the Emma mine, so called, and also with the 

prosecution of the Machado claun against the British governmlmt,; and that said 

committee be authorized to request the Secretary of State to furnish this House 

such information and correspondence upon the subject as may not be incompatible 

with the public interest. 

LATE J. W. HEAD AND S. M. FITE. 

Mr. RIDDLE. I ask unanimous consent to offer the resolution 

which I send to the desk. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the Committee on Appropriations be directed to insert the following item in the bill making appropriation.~ for the sundry civil exponses of the Gov- ernment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877: 

To enable the Clerk of the Honse of Representatives to pay to tbe widows of 

Jobn W . Head and Samuel M. Fite, late members-elect of this House from the 

fourth district of Tennessee, a sum each equal to tho salary of a. member of Con- gress for three months, being $1,250 to each of said widows. 

1\ir. RIDDLE. The gentlemen whose names app ar in the resolution were elected to represent the fourth congressional district of 

Tennessee in the present Congress. John W. Head died a few days 

after ills election. Samuel M. Fite was elected the 31st December, 

1874, and died the 23d October, 1875. Neither lived to take his seat. 

It is an event unparalleled in the histor of thiB Government. I believe it is usual to agree to resolutions of this character, and I think 

the extraordinary circumstances of this case justify the adoption of 

this resolution without objection by any member of this House . There wa.s no objection, and the resolution was adopted. 

THE LATE HON. JAMES BUFFINTON. 

Mr. FORT, by unanimous consent, submitted the following preamble and resolution; which were read, considered, and agreed to : Whereas Hon. James Bnffinton, a member-elect to this Congress from the first 

district of the State of Massachusetts, died on the 7th day of March, 1875, after a service of many years in this Honse, leaving a widow and children surviving; 

and whereas Hon. WILLIAM W. CRAPO, who was elected to fill the vacancy in sru.d 

district, has voluntarily covered into the Treasury his pay from the 8th day of 

March to the 2d day of November last, amounting to $3,136.98: Therefore1 Resolved, That the Committee on Appropriations be instructed to proVIde in the 

miscellaneous appropriation bill to pay to Mrs. Sarah Buffinton, widow of the said 

James Buffin ton, deceased, 1,876.71, which, with the three month's pay allowed the 

said widow by existing law, amounts to the sum which was covered into the Treasury by said sitting member. 

PRINTING OF Ul-I"'ITED STATES BONDS, ETC. 

1\ir. BRIGHT, by unanimous consent, submitted the following reso- lution ; which was read, considered, and agreed to: · 

Resolved, That the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department be, 

and they are hereby, instructed tQ make a careful and minute examination of the 

method adopted by the Treasury Department to print th• bonds, notes, and secu- rities of the United States; what guards have been adopted to prevent frauds or mistakes; whether there has been any fraudulent issue of notes, bonds, or coupons, and, if so, by whose fault or negligence, and the proper remedy and l>revention 

thereof; and especially to examine the official conduct of those charged with the 

printing, registering, and issue of any notes, bonds, or securities of the United 

States; and that said committee have power to send for persons and papers, to ex- amine .the same, to t.ake testimony, to employ an expert, whose compensation shall 

be fixed by the Committee on Accounts, and leave to sit during the sessions of the 

House. 

:MAIL CO~TRACTORS L.~ SOUTHERN STATES. 

Mr. THROCKMORTON. I move that the rules be suspended and 

the following resolution adopted : 

Resolved, That the Postmaster-General be respectfully requested to furnish the 

Honse of Representatives with a statement showing the amount due contra{ltors 

for carrying the United States mails in Southern States at the beginning of the civil war, and wliich has not been paid in consequence of such contractors being unable to take the oath required by law. 

Mr. GARFIELD. Will the gentleman from Texa-s allow me to say 

that that very information was obtained near the close of the last 

Congress, and' was in the Committee on Appropriations when we adjourned. It was all there, accompanied by a letter from the Post-Office 

Department. 

Mr. THROCKMORTON. If the information is already there, I will 

avail myself of it. Meanwhile I withdraw the resolution. 

1\"'EW YORK POST-OFFICE. 

Mr. METCALFE, by unanimous con~ent, submitted the following 

reso1ution; which was referred to the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings : 

Resolved, That the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings be authorized to inquire into the amounts of money expended for the erection and completion of the New York post-office, and fo:c this purpose they are authorized to employ a. clerk, at a. salary of not more than five dollars per day, and to send for persons ap.d 

papers, administer oaths, and do all other needful and necessary acts. 

DIPLOMATIC AND CO~SULAR APPROPRIATION BILL. 

Mr. RANDALL. I move that the rules be suspended, and that the 

House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole on the diplo- matic and consular appropriation bUI. And in this connection I wish 

to say that the committee desire that to-day shall be occupied with 

general debate on this bill, and that to-morrow we shall make an effort 

to consider the bill under the five-minute rule for amendment. 

The motion was agreed to. The Honse accordingly resolved itself into the Committee of the 

Whole on the state of the Union (Mr. HosKINs in the chair) and 

resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 1594) making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government 

for the year ending June 30, 1877, and for other purposes. Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Chairman, I shall confine myself to the con- sideration of bnt a few que~tions in connection with this bill, and 

those of a very general character. . It is impossible at this tima to approach any bill appropriating 

money without con idering in some degree at least the present con- dition of public affairs and the extent to which efforts should be made 

to reduce the expenditures of the Government. .A. very great statesman, who had spent a long life-time in the public ~;~ervice, Thomas H . Benton, in speaking near the close of his career of the growth of our Federal expenditures at the time when the expenditures of the Government had reached about $60,000,000, uses the following language, 

which I quote from the great work of his later years : 

At the same time it is the opinion of this writer that a.\>ractica.lman, acquainted 

with the objects for which the Federal Government was created and familiar with 

its financial working from the time:our fathers put it into operation, could take his pen and cro s out nearly the one-half of theso sixty-odd millions, and leave the 

Government in full vi~or for all its proper objects, and more pure by reducing the 

number of those who uve upon the substance of the people. 

Since that was written the ordinary expenditures of this Government have expanded beyond $60,000,000 per annum and reached the 

present more enormous sum of $179,166,209.90 for the ordinary administration of our pn blic affairs, independent of the public debt. 

This capital, sir, i& not the best point perhaps for deliberation upon 

the subjects that closely concern the industries of our people and the 
922 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. FEBRUARY 7, 

weight that rests upon them. We are here in the midst of a city retrenchment bad been already severely gleaned, for in fact no diswhere vast expenditures of money are made by the Government in cretion is left us. \Ve mm;t reduce the burdens that rest upon the 

counties forms, and the depre sion and stagnation of business in every country. We must reduce the expenditures heavily, and we can with1lelll of industry, the want and destitution of mu]tjtudes of laboring- out impairing the efficiency of any function of goverilment. I speak men unable to keep the wolf from the door becau e labor cannot find in moderation when I sa.y that our form of government is in peril. 

employment, the actual sufferin~ among our people for want of food Without reference to the public debt or those expenditures which inand raiment, are less prominent m this capital than perhaps anywhere evitably resulted from the war, excepting the pension list, the cost of 

else. And for tha.t reason it is well to consider the expression of opin- government is alarming. In the years 11:;60 and 1861, the first years 

ion which comes up to us daily through the public press as indi•ating of :Mr. Lincoln's administration, the appropriations reached little bethe judgment of tlte country upon the absolute necessity of severe yond 62,000,000. In 1869 and 1870, with the Army and Navy larger 

and positive retrenchment in expenditures of Government. \Ve are than they now are, the expenditures of the Government had been re- as ured, sir, that the people are absolutely unable to meet the pres- reduced to. 164,65 ,273. 4, and in 1871-'72 they were reduced to 

eut burden of taxation. The gentleman from Maine, [Mr. HALE,] $153,037,346.15; and yet, instead of a continued reduction, as the 

in discus ·ing the :Military Academy bill, spoke very well and clearly country justly expected, for the present .fiscal year the appropriations 

of the retrenchment which have been made during the last two years. reach 179,166,209.90. The highest point reached since 1 69 was in 

And he remarked cautiously-and his experience is such as justifies 1873-'74, when the enormous sum of '194,217,210.27 wa-s expended. I 

con.fident;e in his opinion-that still further 1·etrenchment might be append the table of the expenditures, including 1860-'61 and omitting 

made. And yet I think the honorable gentleman was rather too can- 'the years of the war and the years immediately succeeding, that the 

tions and inclined to place too much stress upon the assumption that I expenditures in times of peace may be compared with those expendifurther retrenchment would be found more difficult as the field for turos, including pensions but excluding the public debt: 

Expendittwes for the year 1 60-'61 and frorn 1869-'70 to 1875-'76. 

Years. Civil list. Forei~ inter- Miscellaneous. Mill~ serv- Pensions. Indians. Naval estab· Net ordinary course. 1ce. lishment. expenditures. 

-

lbi0-'61 ............................. 6, 074, 041 83 $1,147,786 91 $16, 026, 524 79 23, 001, 530 67 t, 034,599 73 2, 865, 481 17 12, 387, 156 52 $62,537,221 62 1809-'70 ................. ......... ... 15, 867, 336 32 1, 491,214 53 36, 0 4, 808 87 57,615,801 87 28, 402, 241 20 3, 410, 279 41 21, 786, 591 64 164, 658, 27J 84 187()-.'71. ............................ B, 750, 014 43 1, 59J, 046 01 40, 652, 640 21 35, 830, 119 43 34, 444, 753 04 7, 425,060 73 19, 447, 767 23 158, 14.1, 301 08 1871-'72 . ............................ 16, 085, 682 35 1, 838, 383 45 42, 935, 460 08 35, 347, 494 53 28, 533, 402 76 7, 057,8 7 05 21, 239, 030 93 153, 037, 346 15 1872-'73 ............................. 19, 286, 741 06 1, 571, 685 53 5~. 3::10, 043 84 4G, 128, 0 4 68 29, 359, 4:>0 68 7, 9:i7, 429 65 23, 536, 535 90 180, 229, 971 32 1873-'74 ............................. 17,646, 25:l 38 1, 52'2, 570 23 66, 024, 307 23 42, 459, 9 .. 5 79 29,038,4L1 56 6, 692, 562 06 30, 933, 120 02 194,217,210 27 1874-'75 ............................. 17, 346, 929 53 3, 195, 237 23 50, 528, 536 22 41, 120, 645 98 29, 456, 216 22 8, 384, 656 8~ 21, 497, 626 27 171, 529, 848 27 

Appropnations for 1875-'76, 179,166,209.90. 

· In 1 71-'72 the expenditures were, as I have said, reduced to 153,-l ingtheconntry, with whatourAmericanfriendsregardasourexpenSivelnxuriesof 

037 346 15 but unhappily the appropriation for the present fiscal a. monarchy, is £103,452,700. nut the revenue of the F ederal Government of the 1 • b' d '1,..9 16c' "On g' 0 d th t• f . th . . United Sta.tea is £57,895,850, and the amount raised by taxation for local purposes ye_arreac e ', o,:- "· ,an ees.1m3.:tes or • enextyearare isabout£71,000,000; sothatthowholocostofthe'self·government'oftheAmer- $1 0,516,972.76, so that It must be borne rn mmd that, after the reduc- icans is £12?,000.000. We havo an efficient army and navy-the Americans have 

tion made under the influence of the public vigilance and pressure neither; we have our colonic:' and our great .Eastern Empire, while the United 

demanding economy, yet the appropriations for the present fiscal year, States hav~ no colony; and still e g~along WI~h ~lerablecomfort by the expendimade by the la-st Congress, reached the sum I have named; and yet, tnre of £25,000,000 a year less than t e Republic. 

:Mr. Chairman, no gentleman can assert that the Government was "Thus" says that journal "it unhappily appears that our federal more efficiently administered in 1873-'7 4, with over one hundred and and local expenditures exceed the corresponding expenditures of Great 

ninety-four millions, than in 1871-'72,. with little over one hundred and Britain S125,000,000 a year." I am glad that the Scotsman. some- fifty-three millions. Mr. Benton was certainly right in his theory. what, overestimates our expenditures, but still it is in fact so great, 

In the mean time tbe capacity of the country to bear heavy taxation and the tendency and motives to increa e the volume are so fearfully 

has been greatly diminished, for year by year oppressive taxation is pressing and growing year after year, that the friends of free governexhausting the productive energies of the country. ment may ''ell take the alarm: . Sir, we must resist this tendency to increase expenditures, go back This Boston journal commenting upon. that very striking and very 

along the track we have traveled. It is not now, as it has lleen at 1mpleasant. picture further says: · 

some periods, a matter which might or might not MTest the attention Great Britain carries on he r powerful and complicated government at $1.25,000,000 

of members of the House. It comes in a. form that ConGO'ress cannot less O~'Jlense annually than it costs to support the local and national a.dm.i.niBtration 

evade Througrh the unfortunate exampl of the Ge e 1 t of o-overnment in tho nitcrl tates, and the worst phaae of our condition is the · e n ra overnmen ·, stofiu and persistent determinations with which the office "rings" of all parties throughout the country the local expenditures and indebtedness have oppo e every movement for any practical retrenchment. 

reached an alarming magnitude. States, counties, townships, cities, 

towns, and villages have followed the perilous example until every industry staggers under the load of Federal and local taxation, and it is 

positively asserted that the aggregate taxation exceeds the products of 

the industries ofthe country. No nation can stand that. I do not assert 

that Con~ess is responsible for the general tendency to extravagance 

and profligate expenditure throughout the country in local government, 

but it must be admitted that the example set by the National Legislature ha contributed largely to that unfortunate result, and a great 

example set by the Federal Government of severe frugality cannot 

fail to check the present fatal tendency, and it must be checked or universal bankruptcy and dishonor must follow. It was our boast· through the first three-quarters of the first century of our Government that a republic was the most frugal, economical, and purest 

of governments, simplicity, frugality, and virtue its sure foundations. 

We are in peril that it shall be charged that a government of tho 

people is liable to be more profligate of expenditure and the people more oppressed by taxation than in governments where the people are not the masters. Will any representative of the people consent 

that that shall be possible f 

I hold in my hand a copy of the Boston Journal of Commerce, a careful gatherer of the current opinions of our times, and I find in it 

the following startling statement, startling and suggestive, and at 

the same time not .flattering to the American people. Yet we can 

well afford to learn from any source how extravagant we are if it 

shall aid us to reform. This paper remarks that we and our fathers 

hacl boasted of the economy and purity of republican government 

rPsting on the intelligence and virtue of the people, and adds: 

There waa certainly some foundation for some such boasting comparisons in the early days of the Republic, but there is none now, and it is very unfortunate for .Americans when any of them are instituted. Some one having drawn a picture of the government in •· free .America" and of that of "monarchical En "'land " the Ed· in burgh Scotsman. with its natural ken and shrewdness, catches up "'the ~ziteraud pours out upon him some solid as well as disagy:eeable facts, in this wise; •· The imperial revenue of Great Britain is about £75,27G,OOO, and tbel),motmt rniseq P;Y tax:}~io~ for lqpa~ purpos~ i& ~tbo~~ ~~ 1Bti QQO; so that the whole co t of govern, 

I trust that such a statement cannot much longer be made with 

any approach to truth, and I indulge in the hope and belief that both 

the great political parties of the country, as represented in this House, 

in con idering the appropriation bills which will come up during the 

pre ent session of Congress, will manifest a determination that these 

heavy expenditures shall be heavily reduced. 

I find upon our de ks. a leading journal stating the further startling 

fact that our taxation, including local taxation in all its forms and 

Federal tax., amounts annually to the sum of 730,000,000, exceeding, 

indeed, the estimate of the Scotsman. What does this mean f 

'.Phe net earnings of the United States in 1869, when the last effort was made by the Government tbron~h the Bureau of Statistics to as- certain tho annual value of our earmngs as a people, were found to be 

546,000,000, w bile the taxation of the Federal Government since 1870 

has been materially reduced, the taxation of State and of local governments hall very ma,terialiy increased, so that the whole amount of 

taxation was then and is still about 730,000,000, actually exceeding 

in amouut the whole earnings of the people of this country. This is 

certainly overstated but still is it not time that a severe effort should 

lie m{:Lue for a retrenchment of the expenditures of the Government 

if these figures make any approach to truth f Nothing is more cer- tain than that taxation is at the bottom of the universal prostration 

of all the i dustries of this countr.v. It is not panic, but exhaustion, 

that produces this prostration. There is no road to solid prosperity 

for our people, there is none to 'the resumption of specie payments, which gentlemen so long for, except by positive .and remorseless 

reduction of taxation, Federal amllocal. l!"ree government itself is 

involved in the demand for retrenchment and reform. 

The pending bill reduce the expenditure for our foreign diplomacy 

from 1,352,485 to $922,847 a reduction of $429,639 . The gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. MONROE,] to whom I always listen 

with great pleasure on account of his fairue sand the consideratiou 

whicll he brings to every question of public concern, has made objection to the retrenchment proposed by thl& b\ll on the g:r~~q t~at 't 
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t,ends to cripple the commerce of the United States, that it tends to 

impair the facilities for reviVing our commerce with foreign coun- trie . He dwells upon the fa-ct that :this bill abolishes our ministerresident at Greece. That gentleman, usually so cautions, indulged in a remark ""hich struck me with a-stonishment. The Committee on Appropriations were not unaware that this propo ition to retrench in 

such a·.:field mi~ht excite, at :first blush at least, some opposition. My 

friend from Ohio is not peculiar in his feeling of reverence and venera- tion for all that pertains to ancient Greece. The gentleman in speaking of a resolution for a minister to Greece says: 

.And another name which bas been heard in this country, H enry Clay, of Ken- tucky followed Mr. Webster and made one of the grandest speeches of his life in 

snpporl of that resolution. Why, sir, hardly anybody at that time, outside of a. certain circle of liberty-loving men, believed Greece could maintain her freedom. 

It was only subsequent events, and very honorable events they were to the powers which took part in them, which demonstrated this fact. .And yet these great states- men were in favor of incurring the expense of sending to her a. diplomatic r epresentative. 

For what! Because, as my friend ha.s suggested, they indulged in 

the hope that the independence and liberty of Greece would be in fact 

established. The people of this country will sympathize with the 

struggles of every people to throw off the yoke of oppression and toestablish a free government. But does my friend overlook the fact that 

the anticipations of the men of that day were never realized Y Greece was struggling for independence 1mder the leadership of men of that 

day, some natives of Greece and many more of other nations who were inspired by the illustrious example of the early days of that famous 

people. But the gentleman from Ohio is certainly aware that it is not 

to the Greece that the statesmen of the last generation hoped for, we send a minister invested with diplomatic powers. The gentleman who 

is a-ccredited from the United States to the modern Athens is certainly 

not a representative from the United States to anything of the Greece 

that excites our admiration or kindled the enthusiasm of Clay and 

Webster. Greece a republic would excite the admiration and even reverence of all .Americans and the lovers of freedom throughout the 

world. 

Greece of to-day, so far as territory is concerned, is in some degree 

the Greece of the olden time, but the Greece we venerate is no more. A small body of people, less than one and a half millions, dwelling 

amid the venerable ruins and upon the tomb of the ancient republics, submitting to a monarchical government under the tutelage and 

protection of three great European powers. Is this the Greece that 

gave learning to the nations Y My friend knows that England keeps 

her vessels at Pirreus not only t-o prot.ect but to overawe that little 

monarchy. 

We are asked to send a minister to a little monarchy with a scion 

of the house of Denmark at its head; a petty prince kept in power by 

England, Russia, and France. Is this respect to the. memory of 

Greece f All that was valuable and venerable in Greece except her 

ruins is gone to more favored climes. It is but a petty monarchy 

kept in power over a people, incapable perhaps of government, by 

stronger governments-Russia, France and England. Is it for tbe 

representatives of the people of the United States to impose ta~es upon their people for ~he mere empty representation at a court such as this 7 

There is no sentiment or poetry in such diplomacy. It is not Greece, 

but a feeble monarch we would honor-a monarch who reigns by 

the right of Russia, England, and France, not by the voice of a people. 

We propose to establish a consulate at Athens. We have one at 

Pirreus, as my friend well knows. We have done all that is neces- sary to promote our commerce with Greece, if such commerce was po sible. Have we anything to do with that country except commer- cially! Have.we any possible political relations, present or remote, 

with George of Denmark, who is kept upon the throne of Greece Y Why, 

my friend must see that he proposes simply to end, at an expense of 

7,500 a year, an American citizen to give character to this little petty 

monarchy; nothing more. What valuable information does my friend 

think we hall get from that source Y What fruit does he expect from 

this diplomacy that costs us 7,500 a year for the salary of minister 

and the usual incidental expenses f 

Mr. MONROE ro e. Mr. HOLMAN. I hope my friend will excuse me a moment f 

Mr. MONROE. Will it disturb the gentleman if I .make a single 

remark at this point 7 

Mr. HOLMAN. •I trust the gentleman will allow me to :finish this 

sentence. 

Wbat kind of service, Mr. Chairman, is rendered to this Government by this representative to the little monarchy of Greece T I have 

before me one of these state-papers, dispatches of Government-one 

of these mysterious documents that seem to overawe our sense of 

economy. Let us read what valuable facts come to us from this little 

monarchy at a cost of 7,500 a year and contingent expenses. See 

what a voice comes from that land of scholars and nurse of arms-: 

Mr. Read to Mr. Fish. 

LEGA.TION OF THE U~"'TED STATES, 

.Athens, April ~!5, 1875. (Received May 27.) 

This dispatch is so important that the tim of its being received is 

mentioned! 

Rrn : Tho king and the queen attended the impo ing ceremonie at the cathedral 

last evening, tho Greek Easter eve. They arrived in a. ta !l carnage, preceded by ~~rid rR anq foPQW!}q by~ ~trong escort of cavalry. · 

Tho scene was a most impressive one as they ascended the steps of the broad 

:platform before the cathedral, a{)companied by the various memb rs of· their court m brilliant dress, and wor e received with appropriate solemnitie by the Metro- politan and his clergy. The kingHowimportantto be minute and careful in speaking of kings, when a gentleman is employed at a salary of ·7,500 a year, to note tbe move- ments of a king and report t hem to our Department of StateThe king wa-s in the uniform of a general officerThat is valuable informat ion. The State Department must have 

been greatly edified by this valuable intelligence I 

The king wa-s in the uuiform of a general officer, with the ribbon of his royal or- der on his breast. The white satin robes of the queen seemed to steal the color 

from her cheek. 

[Laughter.] 

My friend from New York [l\fr. Cox] suggests that thls was very 

gay. He must not indulge in such levity. This is a solemnstate paper-a costly and valuable one. This is a specimen of the special dispatches sent by our high-salaried ministers at the expense of the 

industrious people of this country. 

The white satin robes of the queen seemed to steal the color from her cheeks. 

You can see that this famous diplomat was inspired by the old poets 

of that country. Anacreon could scarcely have expre ed a hand- somer simile. We can see the effect ot Grecian literature in this am- bitious diplomat. · 

The dignitaries of the church were clad in magnificent embroidered garments. 

[Laughter.] 

Gentlemen must not smile. This is a state paper and about as dignified and important as others I have been able to :find in this 

ponderous volume. [Laughter.] 

The archbishop wore, moreover-

" Moreover " is a good word in that connectionThe archbishop wore, moreover, his miter, and carried the staff of office in his 

hand. Golden banners and richly decorated r eligious emblems glistened on all 

sides, r eflecting countless torches in the hands of the assembled multitude. From the latticed balconies of an ancient Venetian building, on the opposite side of the square, streamed fitfully the many-hued glare of chemical fires. But far above the splendors of the present shone the majestic outlines of the Acropolis and its 

immortal ruins, illumined by the cairn, silvery rays of the same fair moon which 

looked down upon the labors, ceremonies, and sacrifices of Phidias ancl Pericles two thousand years ago. 

Here we touch upon the real Greece a little. 

In the vicinipy of the cathedral, from an early hour, every available space was pMked with a living massNow, I call the attention of my friend from Ohio, and want him 

to observe how far this is republican Greece that we all revere and 

lovey et not a murmur arose. 

Either the people of that little monarchy were so completely subjugated that "not a murmur arose," or else they were beholding with 

contempt this pageant.ry to which we contributed by sending a representative there at $7,500 a year. 

Yet not a. murmur arose from the vast crowd, and no disturbance, not even the most trivial, took place. 

What an imp·1rtant fact. that was to convey to the State Department. 

At the close of the rites, their majesties returned to the palaces. 

Everything must be detailed. 

At the clo e of the rites their maj esties r eturned to the palace, while their subj ects retired to their homes to celebrate with feasting and joyous songs the arrival 

of Easter, after many weeks of rigid fasting. I have, &c., 

JOHN MEREDITH READ. 

There are five or six other equally valuable state-papers in that 

volume from the ~:>arne source. Does my friend from Ohio think that 

the overtaxed people of tills country can afford to pay a gentleman 7,500 a year to get up these puerile descriptions of the fetes of a petty 

monarchy Y I sympathize with him when he talks about old Greec ; 

but I am not willing to. tax the people of the country for the purpo e of adding to t.he petty pomp of this little prince. 

.Mr. MONROE. Will my friend"allow me a word f 

Mr. HOLJ\.I.AK. Certainly; b"t~t only a word, I hope. 

Mr. MONROE. In reply to my friend from Indiana [lli. HoLl\:rA..~. ~] 

I wish to utter just two sentences. First, Henry Clay, who h.f.l.S been 

alluded to, avowed it on repeated occasions as a principal motive for 

extending the diplomatic representation of the United State , that 

in his judgment it would prepare the way for the increase of our commerce; that motive must be superadded to the interest in Grecian 

libertv. 

One sentence more. I do not infer, nor I presume would it be my 

friend's method of reasoning to infer, that, because there has been an official in some department of service that lacked good sense or did 

not discharge his duty, therefore that department of the seryice 

should be abolished. If that were a sound method of reasoning, then, 

if we were to believe half of what the newspapers say, this House 

and the whole Congress of the United States would have to b.e abolished . . .Mr. HOLMAN. What else would this gentleman (Mr. Read) dof 

Why, sir, we have a consul at Pirmus; we always hav~ had, I believe. We propose a. consul at Athens at $2.000 a year m hope that some time wo ma.y have some commerce there. "Too much," my 

fri nd from New York (Mr, Cox] says, and I think it is myself. We 
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know there is no commerce between this country and Greece. The 

fees of all our consuls there do not reach $180 a year. My friend 

must remember that of that million and a half of people a large portion are of the Slavic ra-ce, wandering shepherds of t.he mountains, 

scarcely more enlightened than our western Inclian tribes. · My friend must remember that between the Slavic race who settled 

in that country and the furious crusaders who overran and partitioned 

Greece among their chiefs and the cruel Turks all that was beautiful and grand in Greece has perished; no, gone to more favored climes. 

It is here in this blessed land of om:s, it· is everywhere where intelligence prevails and love of learning exists. You do not find it by going 

back to that ancient tomb of greatness. It has left the Egean Sea 

to return no more. "Westward the course of empire takes it way." 

But, sir, upon this general question I take issue fairly with my friend 

from Ohio. I will go further than he will, or as far as he will, in behalf of any agency that will encourage and promote our commerce. The poeition of the United States in its relations to the other nations 

of the globe is such as naturally to make it not only a great producing 

but a great commercial power; but I deny that these ministers sent 

abroad do anything to aid our commerce. I deny it; I take issue 

with the gentleman. I am willing to multiply our consuls, commercial 

agents and vice-consuls, or whatever other agency will connect us with the commerce of the world. But do you suppose that 1\lr. Read 

has anything to do with our commerce? Do you suppose that the 

thirty-one ministers you send abroad, with salaries from $7,500 to 

17,500 a year, influence the commerce of the world Y It is your com- mercial agent, your consul-general, ypur consul, who connect us with 

the commerce of the nations, and not your expensive and showy minit;ters. Why, Mr. Cbairman, you may abolish all these ministers, 

whether envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary or merely ministers resident, without affectin~ the commercial interest 

of the country a particle. If occasion anses for diplomacy, which 

seldom does, you can send a minister. The nations are closer together than in the Middle Ages. It should be remembered that the salaries 

of our foreign ministers are paid in gold. 

Take Japan as an instance; our minister out there gets $12,000 a year. My friend -from Ohio likes to talk about J apan. The present 

representative of this country to the court of Japan is our old friend 

Hon. John A. Bingham, the most amiable and genial gentleman living. He is the minister plenipotentiary who now so eminently and 

plea-santly represents us at the court of Japan at 12,000 a year. Let us see whether in this correspondence he gives utterance to any of 

those sublime thoughts which he used to pour out in debate upon the 

floor of this House in eulogy of our republican institutions. Let us see what has been the effect of a slight residence abroad near an imperial court in his case. I will read from this book of state papers: 

UNITED STATES L{!:GATIO~, 

Tokei, January 2, 1875. (Received February 8.) 

Sm: I have the honor to report that, in pursuance of an invitation extend~ to me by His Majesty the Em:\leror through the minister for foreign affairs. I joined 

my colleagues at the impenal palace on the 1st instant to tender my congratulations to the Emperor. My colleagues and myself being duly presented to His Majesty, Sir Harry Parkes, as dean of the diplomatic corpsA very dignified body unquestionably; all in elegant uniforms ex- cept Mr. Bin(J'bam, who of course was a plain, simple, djgni.fied re- publican, suet. as should represent a republic before an emperor, and 

I am sure Mr. Bingham has not forgot that he represents a republic. 

Sir Harry Parkes, as dean of the diplomatic coll?s, r ead to His Majesty, on be- half of himself and .collea~es, an address, a copy of which i herewith inc1oscd; to which His MaJesty, as will be seen from a copy of his reply herewith, was pleased to express his thanks and congratulations. 

You will observe that Mr. Bingham calls especial attention to an- other great and valuable fact- _ 

You will observe that the Emperor, in the address of last year as also .in the au. dress of this year, expressly named presidoots as well as sovereigns as the chief 

exeoutives of friendly 'states represented at his court. 

Now my friend from Ohio sees the point of -that. It shows the impression Mr. Bingham is making upon even His Imperial Highuess. ~1r. Bingham has only been there two years, and bad only once before, I presume, the honer of being in the presence of His August 

Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Yet Mr. Bingham's presenco there 

has already secured this important result, a fact which must have 

greatly edified and delighted the State Department, that tho Empe- ror of Japan had actually included presiden~ as persons to be named 

in connection with sovereigns of friendly powers repre ented at his 

court! Cannot we afford to pay 12,000 a year to have such an impression made on the Emperor of Japan with a flattering result 

If there is anything ridiculouR it is these so-called state papers, 

and this is one of the most solemn of them all. [Laughter.] However, there is a passage which I omitted. "It gives me plea ure," 

a.ys Mr. Bingham. and how must the heart of the State Department Lave throbbed at this gushing intelligenceIt gives me pleasure to note that on this occasion Her Ml\Jesty the Empress was present. 

And yet this is the book of the intercourse of nations in diplomacy; 

th se are the national dispatches for which we are to pay a. million 

dollars a year. 

My friend next comes to South America. Does he imagine these 

ministers-this little vestige of the Middle Ages-have anything to 

do with taking care of our commerce in South America T 

Mr. MONROE. They ought to hav.e. 

Mr. HOLMAN. The cannot have. They are employed in South 

America as elsewhere in att~nding to affairs of state just as they are engaged in Japan and Greece. They are mere secretaries, to note and 

transmit to our State Department the movements of imperial person , or in republics the petty intrigues of men in power. Strange, then, 

that the people of this country should be taxed for any such pnrpo e. There was a time in the history of the nations-even now among 

monarchies and the contending powers of Europe-when the efforts of 

diplomacy were well enough and when ministers and embassadors were valuable in the complications and bloody ambition of prince , and the more perfidious and unscrupulous the more valuable. This was among crowned beads, unmindful of the people. We have left 

all that behind ; that time bas gone by with us, and ·here in our own capital and in the other capitals of the world these gentlemen of elegant leisure, who through the false pretense of repre enting nations 

tax the labor of mankind, have no more to do with the great move- ments of the world, its grand industries and its grand commerce aml 

its grander hopes, than the gentle breezes have to do with the revo- lutions of the globe. When political questions actually aris , a man of affairs is in fact sent to attend to the business or the foreign offices 

attend to it direct. 

Take the Central American states as an illustration of this idea. 

We had a few years ago ministers to all the little, pet.ty governments 

of Central America, five in number. I do not think that my friend 

objected to the a-ct abolishing all of them, or rather sending one minister to all. We sent a minister who was properly required tore ide 

at Guatemala, if any where, and he settled down at the seat of government of that country, accredited to four other republics. Now let us see what is the nature of his services. Mr. Williamson, a very 

clever gentleman as I understand, in one of his" state-papers" addre sed to Mr. Fish, says: 

I have the honor to inform you that I took the liberty to accept the invitation of 

the British-charge d'affaires to be present at the firing of the salute to the British 

flag at San Jos6 de Guatemala. in a-ccordance with the terms of settlement of the 

Mageo question. As the officials here are very sensitive, I took the precaution to ascertain from 

the minister of foreign affairs and prime minister whether my presence on tho oc- casion would be altog ther agr~ea.ble to the government of Guatemala. They as- sured me they wouhl be pleased at my being present. The salute was fired in the most formal manner, in the presence of the commanding general of tl1e forces of Guatemala, General Solaria, and his staff, the British rear-admiral, Cochrane, and the ol.iicers of the part of his squadron-four ships-at 

San J os6, the llritish charge d'affaires, ancl other distinguished persons, and myself. There were also presen~ under arms, about two hundred troops of Guatemala, 

and a like number of marmeR and sailors from the British ships. 

By the invitation of .Admiral Cochrane, I had the honor of enjoying his hospi· tality on board of his flag·ship, t-he Repulse, while I was at the port . .At the official dinner given by the admiral on the Repulse, after the salute was fired, ''The President of the United States" waa one of the regular toasts, to which 

I respomled. 

I submit, there is one important omission in this dispatch. Mr. 

Williamson does not give us the substance even of that response. The 

speech is not given. There is a clear neglect of duty. Why, sir, one of your consuls, with two thousand dolh1.rs a year, is worth for the 

purposes of commerce all these fancy gentlemen put together whom we keep up in imitation of the feudal age at enormous cost to our Treasury. . Take any other. We have had a minister always at Chili, and this 

bill proposes to retain one there also accredited to Bolivia still. What are the valuable facts he communicates? I am taking up these despatches at ranuom. Here is one dated February 12, 1875, addressed 

by Mr. Logan to 1\1r. Fish. He says: 

Referrin,. to the reception of the President's message, I have the pleasure to in· 

form you t~at it ,givos uniyersal satisfaction among the American residents of Chili. so fat> as I have been enabled to learn their sentiments. The finaJJcial policy therein recommended, which inmyownjudgmentis the only correct one, is particularly commended. 

This is signed by C. A. Lo~an, and is elated from the "legation of 

the United States, Santiago do Chile." 

Does my friend think that the people of this country can afford to 

pay 10,000 a year-the salary we pay this O'entlemau-to a gentle- man to write four or five such "state-papers~ as ·that in the progre s of twelve month f I think not. These gent.lemen arefarabovegiving any attention to commercial matters. They are connected with 

courts and governments. They write dispatches. • Your consuls are tile men who aro connected with our industries, not these diplomatic 

gentlemen. Consuls are for use; these diplomats for ornament. 

Mr. MONROE. If the gentleman will allow me, I beg to say that 

I think the sentiments of the President's message in regard to finance 

and currency are so sound that it pays well to have them promulgated 

and accepted in any part of the world. I wiRh they were as well ac- cepted in the district of the gentleman from Indiana, [Mr. HoLMAN.] 

Mr. HOLMA...~. Does not my friend know that he ooght not to interpolate his finances into my romarks in that way Y I am speaking of diplomacy. I am not objecting to Mr. Logan e-xpressing his opinion, bnt what I do object to is our paying him $10,000 a year that he 

may have tho leisure to do it. I ouject to paying $12,000 a year for a roi ion to Austria and Hungary if the only important message re- ceived is like one recei-ved recently from the predecessor of Mr. Orth, 

that His August Majesty of Austria bad determined to Yistt Italy. 
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Our State Department could have learned that, if of any value, from 

any newspapel'. 

This whole thing of diplomacy is a sham now, and just as much 

obsolete and out of hannony-with the age, and especially with our republican institutions, as any other obsolete institution which is still 

kept alive to enable some men to live off of the labor of others. It 

bears no relation to those ~rand missions in the early years of this 

Republic, of Franklin and his compeers, when a republic was demanding recognition of the nations. We are now far Leyond that period 

in the worl<l's history. 

This bill proposes to consolidate for diplomatic purposes some of 

the governments of South America, if we must have some diplomacy. 

We have consolidated already without the slightest inconvenience or detriment to the public service the five little governments of Centml America, as I have said, represented now by one diplomat, and 

ho has apparently nothing to do. It is now proposed to unite Parar 

guay and Uruguay on the Atlantic side with the Argentine Uonfederation. We propose also to keep a sufficient number of consuls there. 

I wish my friend from Ohio [.Mr. MONROE] to remember that we have a consul at every point on the Atlantic and Pacific and on the 

Caribbean Sea, in South America, where we have any commerce at all. 

We have a minister resident at Venezuela, for manifest rea~ons, anu also at Brazil. ·It'is Venezuela, Brazil, Ch·Ji, Peru, and the United 

tates of Colombia which furnish the most commerce to us, and that 

is now inconsiderable, and the largest portion of the commerce of 

South America with the world. 

Mr. MONROE. Does not this bill remove forty or fifty consuls f 

Mr. HOLMAN. It does not fail to leave a consul at every port of 

South America and elsewhere which American vessels visit. We do 

abolish consulates where there is no business. · We cannot afford to 

pay two or thl'ee thousand dollars a year at remote points where the 

fees arelimited to two or three hundred dollars a year . . \Ve have not 

suppressed a single consulate where our people have any commercial 

business. Will my friend sa.y that a consulate where the fees amount 

to two or t-hree hundred dollars should be kept up at an expense of 

two or thl'ee thousand dollars f It is the consulates of that class 

which we propose to abolish. The President can still appoint the 

consuls and let them receive all the fees. There is no objection to 

that, and our law contemplates that policy. 

We propose to unite Ecuador and the United States of Colombia 

and Peru together. Now does not my friend· know, taking into ac- count the extent of our diplomatic relations with these countries, that 

only one minister is really required for these three srpall republics¥ 

We have no political relations with them, only commercial. Sir, I am in favor of keeping up relations with these governments, but they 

must necessarily be commercial relations, and we provide a consul for 

every port on the Pacific in South America. . We unite Bolivia and Chili. · Bolivia, as everybody knows, is substantially in the interior and Chili on the coast. We anticipate a minist~r at Peru, because there is no doubt that the President will 

designate the capital of Peru as the residence of the minister. In 

Chili and Bolivia we have consular representatives at every important 

point. Myfriendfrom Ohio [Mr. MONROE] willob ervethatwe send more ministers to South America and other countries than they send us. Let us see how liberal we are about foreign appointm'ents. 

Bolivia sends us no minister ; Ecuador does not; Greece does notthat land whieh so much excites my friend's sympathies; China docs 

not· Liberia does not. 

My friend from Ohio [Mr. MoNROE] asks, Why keep up a ministerresident at Liberia and have none at Hayti¥ My answer is thi , that 

the colony of Liberia upon the African coast was planted by us; that it 

is one of the offsprings of the humanity of our people; that it was established under the auspices of some of the best and purest men of 

the past age; that it ha encountered serious obstacles; its inhabitants were natives of·our country; and, if by any means a re'presentative of the United States can render assistance to these remote people struggling to establish a republic in Africa, I say we should ex- tend -them all the aid in our power. We leave that mission un- touched. 

The gentleman says, Why withdraw the minister resident from 

Hayti Y Why, for the simple fact that we nieda commercial agent 

there and instead of the minister at 7,500 a year we provide a com- mercial agent at a salary of ·2,000. My friend cannot deny that, looking at the question as a commercial one, that is the wiser and better 

policy. We have no political relations with Hayti. 

I think, Mr. Chairman, that I have said all I desire to say on this 

subject. Instead of crippling we have sought to increa e every facility 

for our commerce. It is commerce, not diplomacy, our Republic needs. 

Our diplomacy has not been the most creditable even in its way. Within a very few years, so recently that the blush is hardly yet ofi' our cheeks, the minister to one of the second-class powers of Europe was permitted to come to the United States to engage in a controversy 

then going 6n between citizens of the United States and subjects of 

England. He came here still drawing tho pay of a minister, as is 

allegM at 1,000 a month, and he was allowed time under the law to 

travel f-rom the court to which he was accredited to the capital of 

the United States and return and remain in this country for sixty 

days, with full salary. I have been told that this gentleman received 

large sums of money from persons who engaged him in England, 

taking advantage of his ministerial relations to interfere in private 

enterprises in which citizens of tho United States were ongaged. 

Sir, I do not believe that is right; but he had nothing to do at the 

court to which he was accredited, aml could be allowed t.hr e months' 

leave of ab 'ence, including travel, without los of public service. It 

only illustrates what a useless bauble this diplomacy i . 

Mr. HEWITT, of New York. ·wm t.ho gentleman allow me to say 

that it is within my personal knowledge that the minister to whom 

he has referred received $100,000, and claims one hundred and twentyfive thousand more f I merely wish to confil'm what the ~entlema.n 

from Indiana said. 

Mr. HOLMAN. 'Ve have a minister to South America who has not 

blushed to set up over our :tlag the emblems of a pawnbroker and 

made merchandise out of his ministerial office; but ho had nothing 

else to do. 

I a<lmit with pleasure that there is one exception in the view I am compelled to take of our foreig'u representatives. There is a gentle- man who left this Hall a.ccredited oar minister to France. He has 

rendered, if not to his own country, great ervices to humanity. In 

that fearful reign of terror in Paris, when France and Germany were in the death-struggle, he alone of all foreign representatives remained 

at the post of duty and threw tho shield of diplomacy over the oppressed and miserable. Standing between conflicting armies, h11 ren- dered servioes to the cause of humanity. Bot this was but a fortunate incident, having no relation to the office of the diplomat. 

We, a Government that has no entangling alliances, no political re- lations with the other nations of the globe-, except treaties of amity 

and commerce, actually send abroad more ministers than come to our capital. We send abroad thirty-one ministers plenipotentiary and 

resident, and there are twenty-two foreign ministers who at times are here at this capital. 

I believe that Switzerland, that model little republic, has never had a minister here. Why should she have Y Why should we have one there Y \Ve have a consul at every important point in Switzerland. 

Switzerland is the most perfect of all models of republican institutions. With her government frugally administered, she cannot afford 

for mere show or pretense to tax her people by increasi.n.g offices. 

Switzerland has a president with a salary of $3,000-not one-hal£ the sum we pay to the least salaried of these ministers-and every other 

officia.l is paid n pon the same frugal basis. We pay even our minister 

to Switzerland 7,500. Corruption in public affairs of course is there 

unknown. She sends no minister here, a mere empty pretext fol' ex- penditure; she does not tax her frugal, industrious people for the mere pretense of representation at foreign governments with which she has no political relations whatever. Thus we, in our anxiety to find pretenses for offices, send her a minister whom we never hear from, at a salary of 7,500 a year and contingencies . I tru t that this bill, this entering wedge of economy, this second 

attempt in earnest at retrenchment, will receive the cordial support 

of gentlemen on both sides of the Honse. 

1\lr. GARFIELD, I will yield five minutes to my colleague, [Mr. 

MoNROE,] who desires to say a word or two in reference to some re- marks made by the gentleman from Indiana, [Mr. HOLMAN.] 

Mr. MONROE. I wish to begin by saying that I have listened 

with great respect and in~erest, as I always do, to my friend from 

Indiana. [Mr. HOLMAN] in his remarks on this occasion. I should be 

very sorry in differing from him to say a word that could lead any one to suppose I did not fully appreciate the services which he has 

rendered to the country upon this floor. I recognize those services 

cheerfully. . I must say, however, that upon this question of the diplomatic 

service I think he docs not reason with his usual soundness. I must 

be permitted to say that I think his method of arguing in favor of 

abolishing a large portion of our diplomatic and consular service 

abroad is precisely like what this method would be upon a proposition to abolish the Congress of the United State or greatly to diminish 

its numbers. If a gentleman advocating that proposition were to come into this House and take up the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD for 

several years past, go over it and mark carefully all the passages which 

in his opinion did not exhibit very good sense or very souncl logia 

in the debates which have taken place here, and then were to amuse this Honse, as he most certainly could do, by reading that for a great 

part of an hour to us-these selected pa-s ages, these choice morsels 

of English literature-in order to prove that we needed no House of 

Representatives, and it ought to be abolished-if a man were to pur- sue that course with the records of Congress, and then ask us to vote 

for a proposed amendment to the Constitution which would destroy 

the House of Representatives, abolish it entirely, he would give us a style of reasoning which would be an exact parallel to that of my 

friend from Indiana. 

Why did not my friend read from the dispatches of Mr. Partridge, our minister to Brazil, who gave this nation a great deal of timely information in regard to the coffee trade of that country 't Why did Le 

not rea-d from the dispatches of Mr. Andrews, our minister to Swell en, 

who has sent a great deal of valuable information to these United 

States T And I might name many others. \Vhy was he ~-;o unfortunate in looking over the foreign correspondence as to come upon only 

those passa~es which I admit are very amusing and very entertaiuing, and which gave a. sharp point to his speech,- but which are less 
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creditable to the service 'I Why could he not have found something 

of a difl'erent character¥ I think I should have no difficulty in selecting from the dispatches enough valuable matter to occupy the attention of this House for a long time. 

But that is not the question ; the question is not at all whether we have happened during the past few years to be represented abroad by a class of men of great attainments or ability for research, of great 

power to collect information or to anticipate coming political events or any events which might shift the currents of trade or affect prices, 

bec::ni e all these things belong to the proper sphere of diplomatic 

I'epresentation abroad. The question is not whether we have had men of this high character, which undouLtedly is what we ought to 

ha,ve had. The question is whether there is such a thing as a proper 

place for diplomatic service abroad t Is there in the nature of things a call for such service~ If there is, then, instead of attempting to 

destroy our diplomatic representation Lecause the men who are in it 

do not come up to our ideal, let us struggle together to fill up by degrees as we can those places with men who shall reach our illeal. If 

we have not now the proper men in the Congress of the United States or in any Department of the Government, it is for the peop1e as fast l1.8 they can to get the right men into the right places, and not to destroy great Departments of the Government and gTeat and valuable 

branches of the public service, which have been established in the 

very nature of our national wants. It is for the people to improve 

ancl reform these branches of our service instead of trying to break 

them down and to destroy them. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Will the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. GARFIELD J 

yield to mejustamoment'! 

Mr. GARFIELD. Yes, sir. 

Mr. HOLMAN. Myfriend [Mr.MOl'I.TROE] mustrememberthat thes~ 

volumes are fulr of asterisks, i udicating that what was deemed puerile 

hau already been stricken out by the Department. What I ha;vei'eau is the real diplomacy! 

My fi:i.end has said nothing about reduction of salaries. I presume 

he does not propose to say that our ministers t.o Great Britain, Russia, and the other powers shall continue to have $17,500 a yeru'. I 

think he will consider the :14,000 proposed as far above what is a reasonable salary. But we must gradually get rid of this expensive 

bauble. 

I wish to call the attention of the gentleman-! know my other 

friend from Ohio [l\Ir. GARFIELD] will not object-to an extrautfrom a leading paper of his own State, from an article written by a gentleman of extensive foreign travel, who, as my friend is well aware, 

has had unusual opportunities of knowing what he writes about, a gentleman, too, of great fairness in hiA puulic utterances. It is as follows: 

More and more are the people becoming convinced that this costly bauble of 

diplomacy is of little value to our Republic. Let the present House of Representatives ::tbolish the more useless missions, beginning with these South American ones, and a saving to the Treasury wiH be begun whiclt may encl in substitutiu~ 

conAuls and business aqents for these high-sounding "envoys oxtraoruinary anu ministers plenipotentiary, " to the great benefit alike of the Treasury and of our public business abroad. 

My friend will see that I have siruply taken the idea put forwarll 

by this gentleman of large experience, rather than advanced any cruue views of my own. l\h. GARFIELD. Mr. Chairman, I do not uesire to detain the 

Hquse long, nor to make anything like an elaborate argument on this 

bill; but I wish, if possible, to appeal to the judgment of the House as I ' ould to a board of trade in an important lmsine s transaction. 

There is, I think, no bill on the whole list of appropriation uills more commercial in its character, more largely based upon business princ~­

ples, than the bill which makes appropriations for our uiplornatic and 

consular expenditures. There ought to be no party politics in such a bill. We ought to go to work upon it as though we were a board of 

railway directors making provision for the management of our road. 

And in 'Jhat I shall say I hope there will not be found a tinge of partisanship. 

I will say, in the outset, that I sympathize with the Committee on Appropriations in aU their laudable efforts to cut down e1...--penuitures. 

I know how hru·d that task is. I know how much of local pressure 

is brought to bear upon them from all sides :fJ:om interested parties 

who desire to swell appropriations, and I h'"Dow, moreover, that every 

Executive Department tends to enlarge the ficlcl of expenditure 

within its jurisdiction, so that it is the busine s of that committee to 

resist pressure from all sides-pressure from the Administration, pres- sure from this House, and pressure from their friends outside who are n.l ways asking for more. - Now, I sympathize with the committee in their efforts at reform. 

I think there are several places where they can cut down very decidedly. Without stopping to indicate particulars, I will say generally 

that I think, for instance on the fortification Lill, (though it is 

smaller the last year than ever before,) they can run,ke a good deal 

of reduction, and ought to. In all that relates to public works, public 

Luildings, rivers and harbors, whole establishments in the way of 

const1·uction can be considerably reduced, and ought to be. I have no doubt, also, that many of our civil establishments here in Washington-which grew larO"ely out of the war-greatly overgrown in 

consequence of the work which the war threw upon them, c~tu be 

and ought to be still further reduced. I think there ought to be a ·eduction of ten or fifteeu millions below the appropriations of last 

session. But I am not a little surprised, I must confess, to find the 

bill now uefore us in the shape reported by the Committee on Appropriations. . I believe every gentleman of intelligence on this floor will admit 

that the foreign service of the United States, the State Department, 

both as it is exhibited at home in its ci vii functions and abroad in it 

diplomatic and consular functions, has been for years --the most eco- nomic~tlly conducted, the most honestly managed, the most carefully 

kept up of perha.ps any of our Dep:trtments. All men of all partie!? have given their testimony in years past to that as the general 

truth. Now, when we remember that our diplomatic expenses, a..s reported in recent years, have been about a million and a thiru of 

dollru'S for all our complicated relations, consular and diplomatic, for a government of the size of ours, related in so many ways to the world, 

it seems to me on the whole a surprising thing that we have been aule 

to keep it down to a-S low a figure as the annual bills of recent years 

show. 

The bill proposes a reduction, I believe, of $435,000 on an aggregate 

of about $1,350,000. A little more than $174,000 of this reduction, as I understand, is proposed to be made in the diplomatic service by 

cutting off six ministers, by reducing salaries of the others, by r - clueing the contingent and other expenses relating to the diplomatic 

service. In the consular service the proposed reduction is about 

$260,000. The committee propose to abolish forty-four consulates anll 

consular agencies and to make a reduction in contingent and other 

expenses connected with the consular service. 

I will say but little in regard to the salaries of ministers abroad or to the general. treatment in this bill of our fol·eign ministers. If gentlemen will examine th~ statutes as they stood prior to the act of 1 5G, 

they will find that our laws regulating the salaries of foreign ministers had stood unchanged from 1803 to 1855. Yet our ministers abroad 

of the highest grade were receiving in that period in some instances as high as 23,250 a year in salary and allowances, on account of the 

method then adopted of giving an outfit and an infit, and in conse- quence of their often remaining in service fo1 a very short time. 

Under that system great evils grew up. A man would get his outfit, 

which was equivalent to one year's salary; he would stay at home 

six or eight months before starting for his post of duty, drawing pay 

from the date of accepting his commission; he would then go abroad 

and stay a few months, get hls yea1Js salary, together with an infit of 

$2,500, and come horne. To show that I do not speak at random, I 

quote the following paragraph from a sp<'ech made by l\Ir. l\la on, 

of Virginia, in the United States Senate, when the bill of 1 55 wns under discussion. The Senator says : 

Under the present system-! cannotcallitthepresentlaw, there beingverylitUe legislation applicable to the su bjeot-the actual allowance t{) a minister plenipotentiary to any of t-he courts ·for tbe fin~t year of his mission is $23,250. Tile amounts, very bnefly, which make up that sum are: Outfit $9,000, salary 9,COO, infit $2,250, 

aucl tbe average of the overlapping salary $3,000, making $23,250 as the actual ex- penses to the Government in theca e of a forei~n ,1;ninister who r emains aoroaa on yea.r. If he remains abroad two years upon a full mission, under tbe present s:vs· tern, the actual expense to tbo Government i $32,250 and the receipts of the minister $16,250. If be remains abroad four years, or one presidential term, th actual 

<'xpense to the Govemment is $50,250:md tbe receipts of the minister are $12,562. 

It was found that orne of our representatives abroad were 1)aid fa.r 

too high, while the majority of those who served any great length of 

time were p·aid so small a salary that none but wealthy men could 

enter the service. And so, aft.er a most elaborate debate, which gentlemen will find in the Globe for 1855, with full tables and exhibit 

showing thA working of onr consular and diplomatic system-information very instructive intTeed-a discu sion in which the giants of 

debate in both Honses took a part, it was found that the majority of our ministers who staid abroad any great length of time were wret.<Jhedly underpaid. Considering the cost of livillg abroad at that time, 

the salary. of $17,500, without allowances, without outfit or infi.t, was given and fixed upon as a fair, reasonable compensation for first-class 

ministers. The bill pa..ssed in 1 55, whi~s and democrats alike joining 

in fav-or of it and agreeing to it as a WlSe measure. Now, every man knows the cost of living throughout the world 

(and I have a table, which I will submit as a part of my remarks, 

sho·wing from official statistics the increase in the cost of living in 

fifteen or twenty colintries) has almost doubled in' the last ten yea1·s, 

and more than doubled in many countries in the last twenty years. 

Yet, with the cost of living so vastly increase«, with all the elements 

going to make up that cost so greatly increased, the Committee on Appropriations think they ought to cut uown these salaries ·about 20 

per cent. below the rates fixed twenty-one years UO'O. It occurs to 

me, ~h. Chairman, that they have departed from all just principles 

of business management iv. their juugment on that subject. I nhmit this suggestion witbont going into details. 

Of course the I'estllt will be that these places can only be helll Ly 

rich men. By tho law of natural selection it brings wealthy men into our offices, and shuts out those who are unable out of their private fortune tQ live abroad and do duty for the Government. If 

that is so, if gentlemen de irtl to establish a plutocracy in this coun- try, let us have it, but let us have it with our eyes open to its result . I do not care much about some of the missions which it is propos d 

to abolish, and perhaps some of them can be abolished witbont mnch 

damage. But there is one class of missions whose abolition I shonM 

regret to see as a great calamity to this country. I speak of onr mis· sions to the South American States and Japan and China. There Lc.a 
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no part of the world where the United States has so much right and so great duty to be chief in the councils of international powers as in 

South America on the one site, and Japan and China on the other. 

And yet our friends seem by a sort of fatuity to have seized upon 

those very countries as the places in which to limit and restrict our diplomatic relations. I do not believe they intended to do it. I must 

believe it was an accident, an oversight. Here are South American 

countries to which we are to send ministers to represent us at three or four republics apiece at a salary of $6,500 a year. , As an example of the effect of this bill, I submit a table showing 

the British diplomatic service in South America as contrasted with 

that of the United States by the present bill, from the British Blue 

Book of January 1,. 1875 : 

BRITISH. UNITED STATES. 

Chili: Chili and Bolivia .••..•. ------ .•• $6,500 

Minister resident and consulgeneral. .... ___ ..... --- ...... £2,000 

Clerk . ...... ---................ 250 

2,250 Peru: P eru, Ecuador, and Colombia ..... 6, 500 Minister resident and consulgeneral. ....•....... ......... Clerk .................... -----. Ecuador: 

Minister resident and consulCl:k~~~:::: :::::::::::::::::: 

Colombia: 

Minister resident and consulgeneral ...... ·----· ....•..... Clerk . . .. ~---- ..••............ 

2, 000 

300 

1, 400 

150 

2,000 100 

5, 950 Argentine Republic· Argentine Republic, Paraguay, 

Envoy ..........• ." .....•.....•. 3,000 and Ur~<TUay ••...•.•.•.•...•... 6,500 

Secretary of legation.......... 500 

Clerk .••••• ·-----------.------. 200 

3, 700 

It is proposed that we shall spend but $19,500 a year to keep up 

diplomatic relations with these countries of South America in which 

Great Britain is spending $59,500 for the same class of relations. We 

allow Great Britain, if this bill shall pass, to spend. more than three 

tirries as much for the same kind of service to the same governments. 

Will we wonder, if this thing be done, that Great Britain gets the 

control of these countries away from us T Can any man be surprised 

hereafter, if we shall cut the cords which bind us to the South Ameri- can republics and allow Great Britain to have three times as strong a hold on them, that the trade, the business, and interests of that great 

continent shall gravitate, not toward us, as·they ought to, but toward 

Great Britain, as they will? . Mr. SPRINGER. Will the gentleman from. Ohio tell us what effect 

the residence of a minister will have upon our commerce with those ·countries Y 

Mr. GARFIELD. I will speak of their commerce when I come to 

speak of the consular service. Of course the object of ministers to 

these countries is to keep up political relations; but the political 

headship of those, countries is the power controlling all their commer- cial relations. We need at the headquarters of those South Ameri- can States intelligent, cultivated American gentlemen to keep us informed of their political condition and necessities. We need our men there not only to inform us, but for the encouragement of these young 

republics. On every account let us keep up our relations with them. 

I would rather blot out five or six European. missions than these to 

South America. Th"y are our neighbors and republican friends. It 

is far more important to us to keep them up. I beseech gentlemen, . therefore, to strike at some other than these South American Republics. 

Let me now call your attention to our consular relations. This bill 

proposes to strike out forty consulates and to dispense with four com- mercial agencies, making in all forty-fom. And the chief ground for 

this is that we do not get enough money back from these consular 

posts to make up the expense, and therefore we must cut them down so the pay shall equal the expense. 

Now I hold in my hand, if gentlemen care to see it, and I will have 

t printed in my remarks, a statement as to sowe of t,he consulates 

cut off by this bill; and in order to show how Great Britain treats 

interests of this class, I have embraced in the table also a statement 

of how much Great Britain pays for consula-r service at theveryconsulates we propose to abolish. 

List of certain consulates abolished by the bill, with memoranda as to B1•itish 

wnsulates at the sante places, and fees 1·eceived. 

Abolished by bill. Salary. British service at these 

places. 

~ci 

Pay. ~ ~ Fees. 

--------------- -----l-------------------- ---------

~~?od:uli:: :: ~::::::: ~: ~gg Odessa.------...... .. 2, 000 

:Beirut- .. ·--·-··---.. 2, 000 

Tama.tave... .•..•.... 2, 000 

Nantes ...... --···--· 1,500 La. Rochelle .••...•. :. 1, 500 

Algiers .••••• ·------· 1, 500 Barcelona............. 1, 500 

ConsuL ........•.. . . ...... Consul ......•. . . .. ........ Consul-general. ........ ~ .. Consul-general . .......... . Vice-consul.: ...........•. Consul ................... . Consul ..................•. Vice-consul ............ .. . Consul-general .....•.•.•.• Consul .••.•• ------ ..••.••. 

£!)00 £100 None. 

None. 

£174 

106 

800 100 

900 4.50 1, 000 300 350 

800 

350 

250 

800 

600 

--i50 · · :N~ £668: 100 Nofees. 150 £84 150 41 250 99 

List of certain consulates abolished by the bill, 9'·c.-Continued. 

Abolished by bill. Salary. 

Oporto . . .. ~ ........ . Santa Cruz .......... . 

~~~:8~3~~-::::::::: Tampico ...•......... Stettin . ..... .. ...... .. MaJ"anham .......... . Rio Grande .. .... .. . Cyprus ... . ......... . Bucharest .......... . 

Talcahuauo ......... . Venice .. ............ . 

1,500 

1,500 

1, 500 1, 500 1, 500 

1, 000 1, 000 1, 000 1, 000 1, 000 

1,000 

1, 000 

British service at these 

places. Pay. ~ ~ I Fees. ..q <il • 

Vice-consul....

Consul.................... ... . .... ... 600 

250 .... .1 

~ None. Consul.. .................. 500 200 £135 Vice-consul. . .. . .. . . . . . . . . 400 220 None. Consul........... .... ..... 700 200 None. Consul ...... . . :. .......... 500 200 None. Vice-consul . ...... , ....... 150 50 Nono. Consul............ ....... 800 150 £254 Consul . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . .. 100 4 

Agent and consul-general. 1, 600 200 ....... . . Vice-consul....... ... . . ... 300 100 . .. .... . . Vice-consul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 ...... 

Consul ......... . ... •............ . 150 None. 

£140 

At twenty-one of these consular stations, which by this bill are abolished, and for which we have hitherto been paying 32,700, and by 

cutting off which we save 32,700, at those same ports Great Britain 

is paying $81,250 a year for consular officers to keep np her commercial 

relations; and at the same twenty-one consular ports Great Britain 

receives a total of only $6,210, while she pays $81,250 a year, not for 

the sake of the money she gets ba-ck now, but for the trade.in the future, for keeping up commercial relations in pursuance of her farreaching policy as a great commercial nation. And yet we to save 32,700 propose to abolish at a blow all those consulates and abandon 

the field to Great Britain. 

.Mr. RANDALL. Does the gentleman not understand what is the 

law about that-that wherever a consulate such as we have disposed 

of becomes in the least necessary, the law gives the consul-general 

the right to appoint what is known as a consular agent, who takes 

the fees? In no instance-and I defy the gentleman to show any such 

instance-where we have cut off these consulateshavewe in the least 

degree interfered with the commerce of the country. 

1\fr. GARFIELD. I think my friend would agree with me that it 

would be far wiser for us to Jreep that interest in om own control 

and not let it be delegated to a step-mother, under no special central 

directing control, like our present consular system. 

But, }rfr. Chairman, the general statement which I have just made 

is not sufficient. I want to apply it more closely to our consular re- lations with South America. Here is a table showing what -it costs us in South America for all our consular service at these veral conn tries. 

It costs -us in South America $34,500. We get back from the same countries $36,942.83. I have given it here by countries and by aggregates. Iu other words, we receive from the whole of South America 

about $2,000 a year more than the service costs us. And yet in these 

very South American countries our friends have cut down almost a.s much as in any other part. Some of these consuls pay as much as they cost; some less, some more. But the balance-sheet for South 

America is in our favor. ShaH we pick out some of the places that 

do not now pay in our present depressed condition, and blot out the 

consulates¥ If so, we abandon all hope of making them pay i~ the 

years to come. I insert the following : 

M ernomndwrn of the relatit:e cost of the consula1· sen~ice of the United States 

and G1·eat B1•itain, and of the amo1tnt 1·eceived by each fm· fees in sev- eral South American Stat;es. 

[The amounts are taken from the United States State Department Register of 

October, 1874, and fi:om the Foreign Office List of_ Great Britain of July, Uf74. The 

fees of the United States consulates are those received for the year endino- Decem- ber 31, 1873. Those of Great Britain are stated to be those received in 1s'12-'73.] 

Argentine Republic ...•.... BraziL ..•.•.••............. 

Chili. ---·-···--··--·--·-··· Colombia. ....•...•..•...... Ecuador ....••...........•. Peru .........•.. ........ . .. ¥:rz:rb: :::: :~: :::: ·:::: 

Total ...•.•...•...... 

United States. 

Consular, in 

salaries. 

$3,000 00 12,500 00 4, 000 00 7, 000 00 1, 000 00 

3, 500 00 2, 000 00 I, 500 00 

34,500 00 

Fees. 

$6,361 72 13,370 95 414 10 8,095 e;-J 

440 40 

2, 900 07 1, 666 36 3, 693 40 

36,942 83 

SUMMARY. 

Great Eri tain. 

Consular, in 

salaries. 

£2,100 

6, 850 

2,100 

3,300 

2DO 

2,400 

1,200 700 

18, ~50 

91,733 

Fees. 

£619 

1, 773 

1,1 '38 

63 

460 

577 

24 ----- 4,657 

22,663 

The United States collected in fees from its own commerce ..••.• . _. __ . 36, 942 83 

And paid.·--···-----·--· .. ·--· .. ·--·-····-····----·······-·.·-···--·-· 34,500 00 

Excess of fees •••••• --·-- ....•....••. ------ .•••.• ..•.. --· ...•... . . .. 2, 442 83 

Great Britain paid for trade and commerce ..•....•.. . ..•.....•.•.•.• _. £18, 850 00 

Collected in fees and commerce .•......•.• --- .••.. .... ·-----.......... 4, 657 00 

Thus paying for the benefit of its trade, &c ....•. ........... _ .... _. _ 14, 193 00 

Equivalent to ...... ......... ... ..... .. . .... . ......................... 69,070 23 

From this table we see that Great Britain pays $91,733 at the same consular ports in South America where we pay $34,500; and she gets back only $~2,663. She expends $60,070 a year· more than she 1·ecei ves at these ports, while we spend less than we receive from them. And 
928 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. FEBRUARY 7, 

yet our friends propose to cut still deeper into our consular relations 

with South America, and leave the field to Great Britain. I cannot 

believe that when gentlemen reflect upon this from a business point 

of.view they will persist in this course. Why, sir, the great business 

houses of New York will spend more money in proportion to their 

wealth in keeping up their commercial relation with South Amm·ica 

and with the ports where they trade than the United States does. Intelligent selfishness would do more than is here propo ·ed. Let us be aa intelligent at least us the ordinary commercial traders of our cities. 

Turn now to our relations with Japan and China. By the addition 

of Alaska to pur domain we have established rela ons most important for our commercial futme with ~ho e two great countries of .A.l:;ia. 

I once said on this floor on another subject that it seemed to me just 

to say that at all eras of the world civilization has been grouped arounn some one sea as the focal center of its liieand activity. Once 

the Mediterranean Sea was the center of the civilization of the world. 

The great empires that then governed mankind had their home and 

seat on its shores. After the lapse of cent-uries the human race turned 

away, leaving ruined empires in its track, and sought a broader theater than the Mediterranean, and the At.lantic became the great historical sea. And it is the great historical sea of to-day. nut if t.here 

be anythin~ in the les ons of history, the historical sea of the future 

is to be still grander; for the timo may yet come when tho center 

of civilization sha,ll be shifted to the theater of the Pacific Ocean, and our Republic, holdin~ the uorthern half of its eastern shore and reaching ont an arm of islands a thousand miles to the northwest, ought 

to be the arbiter of that sea, the controller of its commerco, and the 

chief nation that inhabits its shores. For that rea..son we have ex- tended commercial rel::Ltions, have opened up close and intimate relations of commerce and amity with China and Japan. The old East 

has approached the new West; and we, the youngest born of time, 

have grasped hands with tlie most ancient nations of the world. We 

have sent ministers to China and J:opan, we have sent out commer- cial agent and consuls to carry on the business with those countries, 

and to-day we end them half a million a week of coin dollars from our mint to be the trade-dollars of Asia. Now, what have our friends on the Appropriations Committee done in regard to om relations 

with the Japanese and Chinese governmentsY They have shorn us down to the smallest and narrowest proportions, such as will in effect 

drive us out of those countries as a power. 

Let me state a few facts: 

In Japan the United States pn.ys consular, &c., salaries _________ - -- -- __ -- -- - - -. ___ . ___ _ Received consular fees, (1873) -___ -. _____ _ 14,500 00 

8,001 27 

6,498 73 

foreign intercourse proper and of all missions abroad (namely 100,000) is the lowest amount which can safely be counteu upon as sufficient for the service. The exp nd- itures under this head b ing "conting nt" canl'l.ot be determinell in advance with actual precision. Strict economy and caro have been neces ary to ke p the amount within the appropriation of 100,000. Expenses and the cost of everything have largely increased within the pru~t twenty or thirty years. The appropriations made by Congress for continuant expenses of foreign inter- course anu of missions abroad for several fiscal years eniling 30th of June in each year were as follows : 

O'J.P • co..P.•' 1-<. 

gg~~ § ~~~ ortJ <+-dl :13 b.l,... 0 :j::!~+> 0 ·2:§ ~-~ .<ll:§ O'J ~ Yea.r eniling June 30. g.~ ~·a §.g ?b ""' cP ~~ ~ug~~ t.cP. ... Q;l 

~~ ~-~D p.;..Ptl:illp to.S ~K·...oo to 0 ~<+-<Q;)Q> ~ OQ;>Q <l~ 

1853 . -- - -.. - -- . - . ----- .. - -- -. - . . $40, 000 00 $40, 000 00 $80, 000 00 

PIERCE. 

1854 ···-· · ------ ·-··-· ···--· ·--· Deficiency . ----- . ·--· __ ·-·- __ 

1855 · --· ·----· ---·-· ·----- · · --··· 1856. ·-··----- ·----- ·----- ·----- 1857.-- . . ---- ...... ·- .. ·-. ··-· -· 

40,000 00 42,720 03 40,000 00 96,543 75 75,000 00 

. 

40• 000 00 ~ 137, 720 03 15,000 oos 

40, 000 00 0, 000 00 40, 000 00 136, 54:J 75 60, 000 00 135, 000 00 

Tot.:'l-1 ........ ................ · ..................................... -.............. ........ 489,263 78 

BUCHANAN. 

1858. --·---·· ·-···-··--··--··-·· 1859 ·--· ·- -· ··---··--·---··----- 1860 ·--··--· ·----- ···-·-·-- ·-- .. 1 61 ·--· -·.- -·. -. ···--- ·- -·- ·-. 

75,000 00 50,000 00 50,000 00 20,000 00 

60, 000 00 135, 000 00 60, ooo oo uo, ooo oa 60, 000 00 110, 000 00 40, CO!) 00 60, 000 00 

TotaL -----•. ---- . ------ . -- .. ---.-- .. -... __ .. ______ . 415, 000 00 F==o - LINCOLN. 

1R62 ·----· ·--··--··-----·--·. -- · 1 63 ·---------. --···-· ·-----·--· 1864 ·----- ·----· ------ ·--· ·----· 1865 ·---·--··----· ·-·-·- ·--· ·--· 

40, 000 00 40, 000 00 80, 000 00 50, 000 00 100, 000 00 150, oou 00 60,000 00 80, 000 O!l 140,000 00 60, 000 00 80, 000 00 140, 000 00 

---- Total. -- -.. --. ---.. - -. --- -- . - - . - --•. --. . ___ . __ .. __ . 510, 000 00 

JOHNSO • 

1066 . ---. - . -- --- . ----- . -- .. --- . . 60, 000 00 1867 ----- --- --.. - -.. -- . - -.. --. 50, 000 00 Deficiency . ___ . __ . __ . __ . __ . _. ___ . ___ .. . _. 

1868 . - . --- . --. -- - ~ -- . -- --- . - -- - . 50, 000 00 1869 . --. . - -.. --. --- - -. . --.. -- - - . 30, 000 00 

80, 000 00~ 140, 000 00 

65, OvO 00 5 365, 000 00 250,000 00 65, 000 00 115, 000 00 30, 000 00 60, 000 00 

TotaL ------ --•.. - -.. --. - - -. . --. ----. - -. . --. -.. --- - . 680, 000 00 

I 

Reference 

to tb 6 

Statutes. 

Vol. Page. 

10 88 

10 203 

291 10 564 

10 659 11 28 

11 159 11 311 11 403 12 20 

12 170 12 335 12 638 13 137 

13 422 

14 2::!4 

374 

14 413 15 56 

Pays diplomatic salaries ______ --·-------- 17,000 00 GRANT. 

1870 . - -- . - - . -- -- . --.. --.. - -.. - -. 50, 000 00 50, 000 00 100, 000 00 15 319 

Total payments---·----------·---·--- 23, 49 73 1871.--. · --- -· ·--- -- -- ·-- -· . --. ---- .------- ·----- ---- -· 100,000 00 1872 . -- .. -- .. --. ------ ------ . -- .. -- .. --.- -- .. ----- . ----. 100, 000 00 1tf73 . ----- . -- .. --- . --.. ----- . -- .. -- .. ----- -- . ----- . --- -- 100, 000 00 

16 219 16 417 Great Britain pays consular salaries------ __ _ 

Received no fees, (1873).-- --- ------ ·----·- Pays diplomatic salaries. ________ ---·---·. 

£13,457 

5,550 

17 143 

Total. . __ --. -.---- . ----- . -- .. _-. ___ .. __ .. ___ -·- _____ . 400, 000 00 

Equivalent to ____________ ------------ £19,006 1874 ---··--··--··-·-----· · ·----· ·----------- ·----------- 100,000 00 92, 497 50 1875 . --.. --.. -- . ---.. -- . - --- - - -. . ---- - --- --- . -- - -- . -- --. 100, 000 00 1876 . - -. ---. . --.. --.. - -. -• -- - --. . --- -- . -- --. . --- . - . -- - - - 100, 000 00 

17 472 18 67 

In China the United States pays consular 18 322 salaries·- ___ . ____ . ______ . ____ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 43, 200 00 

Receivedfees,(1873)-----· ·----· ------ ·--- 20,848 12 On the 30th of June, 1853, there were unexpended balances carrie(l 

22, 351 88 to the appropriations for the year ending 1854, aa follows : Pays diplomatic salaries. ___ . ____ .. ___ --. __ 17., 000 00 Contingent expenses of missions . . _. ____ ·-·--- ·--- __ ·--_ __ 47,540 44 ---- Contingent expenses of foreign intercourse. ____ .. __ .. __ .. 9, 757 48 

Total payment ____ -------·---··-----_ Great Britain pays consular salaries.---.- __ - £51,107 39, 351 88 Amount of appropriations for four years, (1853 to 1857) . . -.. -.- ... ----- ~~: ~~~ ~~ 

Received no fees, (1873)---- ---- ·----· ---- . Pays diplomatic salaries-----··--------·_ 

Equivalent to . _____ ·-·---·------··---

7,600 

£58,707 

$285,697 61 

From this it will be seen that England pays nearly half a million a year beyond all the receipts that come to her, and yet our friends on the Appropriation Committee think that we are far too extravagant. They can make a little fun at the expense of our minister , then, by 

talking about their conversation in broken Chinese with the Celestials and seem to think that is enough to laugh out of Congress all our efforts to keep np our relations with that great nation of more than 500,000,000 people. 

Gentlemen, I beg of you do not cripple and utterly ruin this young 

and growing commerce that shall bind Asia to the United States. Om 

friends on the Appropriation Committee seem to have adopted the rule 

that when they have any doubt about a,n appropriation to divide it 

by two, in the absence of any definite knowledge how the appropriations ought to be cut down. For example : the contingent expenses 

of our foreign and diplomatic service they have divicled by two, makingthe amount$50,000 instead of 100,000 as heretofore voted. I hold 

in my hand a table compiled from the official records which shows 

the total contingent expenses of our foreign missions and foreign-intercourse service since 18{)3. This memorandum was prepared at the 

Department of State: 

Prior to the year 1871 the appropriations for contingent expenses of foreign intercourse and for contingent expenses of mi sions abroad were distinct, a separate 

apnropriation bein~ made for ea{)h object. The nne~nded balances of former ap:propriations also remained to the credit of the appropriations and were not covered mto the Treasury as now requireu by law. The estimate submitted for the combined appropriation for conting nt expenses of 

Unexpended balances on June 30, 1857: 546,561 70 

Contingent expenses of missions. _____ ----_.·--- __ -- ---- $82, 319 00 Contingent expenses of foreign intercourse . _._ . - . __ - _- . 25, 000 00 ---- 107, 319 00 

Expended during four years, (1853 to 1857) . ____ ... _________ .. __ . _ ___ __ 439,242 70 

Average per year during Pierce's administration, (1853 to 1857) . __ .. __ . 109, 810 67 

Unexpended balance on June 30, 1857, (as above). __ .. ____ .. _____ .. ___ . $107, 319 00 Amount of appropriations for four ye~s, ( 1857 to 1861) . __ .. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 415, 000 00 

522,319 00 Unexpended balances June 30, 1861: Contingent expenses of mission . ----- ·-- __ ------ ------ _ $228 79 Contin~ent expenses of foreign intercourse .. ___ .: ____ .. __ 40_, _74_2_4_0 

40,971 19 

Expended during years 1857to 161 ······--····--·-·-·····--···-· ·--· 481,347 81 Average per year during Buchanan· s administration, (1 57 to 1861). __ . 120, 336 95 

Une},.rpended balance on June 30; 1861, (as above). _____ . __ .. __ ... ___ . 40, 971 19 Amount of appropriation for four years, (1861 to 1865) . . _____ . ___ • _ .. _. 510, 000 00 

~.097 14 15,739 04 

550,971 19 

!:11, 836 18 

Expended during the years 1861 to 1865. __ .. ___ . ____ ... _. ·-. _ .. .. _ .. __ . 529, 135 01 Average per year during Lincoln's ailininistration, (1 61 to 1865) . _ _ _ _ _ 132, 283 75 

Une.:\.~ended balance on Jtme 30, 18435 (as above) ... ...... ... ........ ~.... . 2~ 836 18 Amount appropriated for fom· years, (l 5 to 1869). ____ • . __ ... _____ . __ . 680, 000 00 

701.836 18 
1876. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 929 

Unexpended balance June 30, 1869: 

Contingent expenses of missions ........................ $8, 186 78 

(.;on tin gent expenses of foreign intercourse.............. 130, 722 61 ----- $1:.!8, 909 39 _...... __ Expended during the years 1865 to 1869 ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . 562, 9:26 79 .A. verage per year during Johnson's administration, (1865 to 1869)...... 14&, 731 69 

U neXlJended balance on June 30, 1869, (as above) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . 138, 926 39 

Amount of appropriations for four years, (1869 to 1873) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400, 000 00 

. 538,926 39 

Unexpended balance remaining in ~:easury June 30, 1873...... .••.•• 101, 6 75 

437,039 64 

Average per year during Grant's administration, (1869 to 1873) .••..••. 109,759 91 

From this it will be seen that during the last twenty-four years the 

average expenditure for the contingent expenses of foreign missions 

and forei~n intercourse ha.~ been considerably more than 100,000. 

In no administration, except the fu-st term of General Grant, have the 

appropriations been brought down to the average of 100,000 a year. 

Now, the avemge for the last forty years ha not been as low as 100,000; yet the Commitwe on Appropriations, following their principle of clivi ding by two, have cut down t hie contingent item to $50,000. 

Sir, it exceeded that amount fifty years ago, and ha-s never been 

lowert.han that since the time of Thomas Jeft'tm;on. Now upon what 

principle have the committee acted 7 Is it simple division, to save labor, or what is it Y You m:ty ask the Secretary of State to furnish 

you the exact details of contingent expenses for any year for the last 

half century, and you will find that he will not be able to get it down so low a!:! yon have put it in this bill. • Mr. SPRINGER. :May I interrupt the gentleman for a momentY 

Mr. GARFIELD. Certainly. 

Ut'. SPRINGER. Does the gentlem::m say that the whole sum appropriated by this bill for contingent expenses is but $50,000 Y 

:Mr. GARFIELD. I do. 

:Mr. SPRINGER. For what purposes f 

Mr. GARFIELD. For "contingent expenses of foreign intercourse 

and foreigil missions." . Mr. SJ:>RINGER. In another part of the bill there is appropriated 

the sum of $100,000 for "continp-ent expenses of the United States 

consulates." 

Mr .. GARFIELD. Certainly; I am referring to our diplomatic service. 

Mr. SPRINGER. Does not the gentleman know that these contingent expenses are continually being reduced from the fact that formerly a greater number of things were included under the head of 

"contingent expenses" than is the case at the present time f 

Mr. GARFIELD. I am aware that of late yea.rs we have specified more than formerly. But this bill does not specify more than the blil of 

la-st year did, and the gentleman can derive no advantage in that regard. 

I next call the attention of the Committee of the Whole to the 

clause found in lines 271 and 272 of the bill, "for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign conntries, $80,000." Now, sec- tion 4577 of the Revised Statutes provides thatIt shall be the duty of the consuls, vice-consul , commercial agents and vice. commercial agents. from time to time to provide for seamen of t.ho Uni'tetl States 

who may be found destitute witbjn their uistrict.<J, respectively, sufficient subsist- ence all(l passages to some port in the United States, in the most rea.->onable manner at the expense of the United States, subject to such instructions as the Secretary of State shall ~ive. The seamen shall, if able., _be bound to do duty on \.10ard the 

vessels in which they may be transported accoraing to their several abilities. 

The consul cannot neglect this duty without violating the law. He 

must send ~he American. sailor home ; and he draws a draft, in 

the collltry where he retndes, upon the Government of the United 

States for the expenses of senc:ling that sailor home. Now, the experi- ence of years shows that. from $75,000 to $150,000 a year is employed 

in this way, and that we cannot get along with less. I remember that 

two years ago, I think it was, we had to make an extra appropriation 

of a large amount becau e of the wrecking of our whaling fleet by 

the ice in the Pa~ific. It went then far beyond anything we had 

expected. 

Mr. SINGLETON. Will the gentleman allow me to have read a letter from the Comptroller on that very subject, which perhaps will 

give him some lirrhtY 

Mr. GARFIELD. Let it be read after I get through. I do not 

want my line of argument broken in upon now. Mr. SINGLETON. It is right in the line of the gentleman's argument, and will come in very appropriately at this point. 

Mr. GARFIELD. I lillderstand that very well; but let it be read 

at the close of my remarks. It will do just as much good then as now. I have here a table, furnished me by the State Department, showinrr 

how much has actually been expended for the relief of American se: men, with the amounts paid for transportation to the United States 

and loss by exchange, in each year since 1861, by which it will be seen that in no year has the amount been so small as that proposed by this 

bill for this pmpose. 

1861. ..•.••••.•• ·•··•• ..••.. 1192, 961 42 1868. ·······-···· ...•.•...... $107, 536 36 

1~. -~::~i::]·H:::··::): :~~m:! iiL~jjmm:;;j:~:m:·· ~~~ ~ IV--59 

· The amount expended for relief of seamen in 1872 at Honolulu, in 

consequen~e of the ilisasters to shipping in the Pacific in that year, was $1:l1,855.42. Average for fourteen years since 1~61, $125,000. 

Mr. RANDALL. Year before last it was only 39,000 . :l'llr. GARFIELD. The gentleman is mistaken. 

Mr. RANDALL. I refer to the year 187 4. 

Mr. GARFIELD. For that very year it was over 63,000. 

Mr. SINGLETON. I hope the gentleman will allow this letter to 

be read. 

Mr GARFIELD. Not now. 1\Ir. RANDALL. If you want to get at the truth you will let it be 

read. 

Mr. GARFIELD. Let it be read at the close of my remarks. Now, 

if yon appropriate for this purpose only $60,000, this will be the re- sult: When the 60,000 shall have been exhausted, drafts will be sent 

in from all parts of the world from which American seamen are sent 

home, and Of course they.will be dishonored, for there will be no money 

to pay them. There may be a. hundred little drafts amounting in all 

to t.hirty or forty thousand dollars, from twenty different countries, 

sent by our consuls, and they will be dishonored simply becau e of 

this unneces ary effort to show a cutti,ng down of expenses. There 

will be no more of this fund used than is called for under the strict letter of the law. Let us appropriate enough t.o co:ver what we understand to be the fair expectation of expenditures for this purpose. If 

it is not all used there will be no harm done. It is true the party 

will not have the credit of cutt.ing down our expenditures by a few 

thousand dollars ; but you will have saved American seamen from 

c:listressand also our Government from shame and protest. Let us do 

that. 

I have only one other matter to refer to, I believe, and that is a very small one. It has been our custom for many years to appropriate a small fund with which to pay foreigners who by acts of gallantry save any of our citizens from shipwreck. '\Vhenever some rrallant English or :French sailor has leaped into the sea and rescued an American seaman from death, our State Department has made him a small present, it may be a chronometer, a; watch, a compa-ss, or a medal or $50 in money, with a letter of recognition of his gallantry. It ha~ been found that dnring the last forty years about $5,000 a year has 

been used for these little testimonials. I believe it has averaged $4,766 fo~' eig_ht years and nev:er has gone' above $7,500. Now.,~ if there is anythmg ill the world whwh we ought to keep untonche<l, it is that little 

appropriation of $5,000 for that worthy purpose, to let men all over the world know that, if they take care of an American citizen or save his life, they will havA this memorial of the thanks of the United 

States to carry with them. Now the committee comes to that es- · timate and, following their new rule, clivide it by two, makinrr it ~,500. Why should they higgle abopt a matter like this, whJch 

though small in amount, is in its relations to the world and to ou; 

honor and our pride a great and important matter 'I I presume the 

provision of the bill on this point is an oversight; l do not think anybody would make such a reduction except as the result of oversight. 

Let it be corrected. 

I have here atablecarefullyprepared in the OfficeoftheFifthAnditor, showing how much the great countries of the world, France Russia 

Great ;Britain, Spain, and the United States expend at the va.riou~ consular ports where all these nations have consular offices. This table 

is very interesting, for it shows at a glance how valuable the consular 

service is supposed to be by these great powers of the world and how 

much we regard it as worth. It is a little mortifying to find that in every case the Uruted S~ates is a'Yaydo~u at the foot of the list, even right at our very doors : ill Cu ha, m the Islands of the Atlantic and on the coa~ts of_ South .America. So far as we can take the credit of economy 

while doi'ng our work as well as they, let us glory in it; bot I trust 

that this bill will not finally be put in such a shape that we shall be ash~med before the natio~s of the world for the way we treat our formgn and consular se vtce. I close my remarks by appending the 

table; and when the bill is read by paragraphs, I will suggest some further amendments. · 

Tabular statement taken front the official reports made to Parlia·ment in 

Grea.t Britain, in 1872. ' 

Consu.Vlte. 

TRffiSTE, AUSTRIA. 

Great BriWn. · .••.•..•••.•••.•••.... France ...•.•.•••••.••.•...•.••••••. . 

§~rn· ~::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::: 

ij~ite1 s~~~ ~::::: :::::::::::::::: COP~CHAGEN DENMARK. 

Russia ..•..•••.•........••.••••..••. Brn.zil .•...••..••.••..••...•.•••..•.. United States ...................... . 

Salaries. 

.£700 

1, 280 

1,490 

738 

570 

400 

825 

480 

300 

Remlll'ks. 

.£100 

146 ............ . -.. -... ~ .... 156 ........... 

167 

·-········ 

·-··-····· 
l 

930 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. FEBRUARY 7, 

Statement taken jrfYm the official reports made to Parlianwnt, in Great 

Britain, goc.-Continued. 

Statement taken from. the official repm·ts inade to Parliarnent, in ~t 

Britain, 9-c.-Continued. 

Consulate. Salaries. 

ALGIERS, (FRANCE.) 

Great Brit.'lin........ •• • • • . • • . • • . . . . £1, 050 

~~~e~ ~:::::::~:::: :::::::.::::::::: Wo 

Unit-ed States....................... 300 

HAVRE. 

Great Britain ..••.•..•••••.•••.••••. Pern ........•.••.....•••.•••••.••••• United States .•••••...••••.••••••••• 

PARIS. 

. Great Britain .•.•...........•..•.•... Russia . . . .•.....••..........•.•.•.. United States . ..........•••..•.. .... 

ILUIBURG. 

Brazil ••••.....•...........•••...... France .................... : ........ . 

~~!~~ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 

Sweden . ......................... .. Grea.t Britain .... .................. . United States ...... .............. .. As dispatch agent .... . 

LFJPSIC. 

Austria. . · ... ..... ~ ......... -. · • · • .. France .- . . . ........................ .. United States .................... . . . 

GE.~OA. . 

France ........................... .. Rus ia. . ........................... .. 

~~~fui~· ~~ ::::::::::::::::: ~: : .· United States ........... .......... .. 

LEGHORN. 

France ............................. . Rus. ia. . ........................... . 

~~;:~~i~:::: ::::::::::::::::::: 

United States . ..................... . 

NAPLES. 

France ............................. . Russia. ............................. . Great Britain ...................... . United States ...................... . 

PALERMO. 

France . ............................ . Great Britain .....•. ...••..••. .••... United States ...................... . 

VENICE. 

France ............................. . Austria ............................ . 

%:~~t:~~::::::::::::::::::::::l ! MARSEILLES. 

Austria ........................... .. Groat Britain ...................... . Italy ....................... _ ........ . Russia .. ........................... . 

~Pn1¥!d. ·st:;,~:: ::::::::::::::::::::: 

ROTTERDAM. 

France ............................. . 

Great Britain ...................... . United States ..................... .. 

BATA.VIA. 

700 

600 

600 

1,140 769 

1, 200 

450 1, 4.0 

1,040 

1,000 

600 

800 

400 

150 

850 

920 

400 

880 

600 

800 1, 000 300 

1,100 3:20 

373 

589 

300 

1, 788 

640 

600 

300 

920 

450 

300 

1, 200 

840 

600 1,000 200 

650 

900 

300 

760 

800 

500 

600 

400 

400 

Fl-ance .. .. ............ :.. ....... .... $2.500 

United States....................... £200 

LISBON. 

Gre.'\t Britain. ..................... . United States ...................... . 

ODESSA, RUSSIA.. 

Austria ........................... .. 

France.· ........................... .. Great Britain .. .... .. .............. . 

~~~i ~~:: ~: :::~~: ::::~::: :::::: ST. PETERSBURG. 

France ............................. . Great Britain ........ : ............. . As Russian agent .................. . United Statos ..................... .. 

1,100 300 

981 

1, 240 

878 1,4 0 2, 096 

400 

4, 000 

750} 1,000 

400 

Remarks. Consulate. Salaries. Remarks. 

CADIZ. 

Great Britain . ...................... £700 £200 £150 Germany . . ..... ............... ...... 600 220 

And fees. Russia.. ······--···-···--·····-····· 820 180 And clerks' salaries. United States ....................... 300 And fees. BARCELONA, SPAIN. 

Austria. ............................. 910 100 France ............................. 1, 370 310 And clerk hire ~~~t- iiri~------::: ::::::::::::::::: 720 And part of the fees. 600 100 

Sweden .. . .................. ..... .............. 450 120 

United States ....................... 300 

200 And fees. CUBA. 

And two-thirds of feed. France ............. ---·--····-··--· 2,500 

One consular clerk. Great Britain ..... .............. .... 1,200 600 Unitecr States ....................... 1,200 Two consular clerks. 

60 And fees. SMYRNA. 

160 And two clerks. France .............................. 2, 432 1,300 And expenses of office. 320 And part fees. ~~t: :B~i~::::::: ::::::::::~:::: : 668 1,080 300 And tees. 2, 533 900 And vice-consul paid. Germany ....... · ..................... 1,120 60 House, office, and mis· 3DO cellanoous expenses. United States ....................... 400 

CARACAS. 

France . . . .. . . .. .. . .. • • • • • .. .. .. • . . . 1, 520 240 110 Great Britain....................... 2, 300 ......... . 

120 And fees. United States ....................... .................... Fees. 

600 

600 

1,200 

300 

500_ 

300 

600 

300 

500 

333 

144 

300 

33 

And all expenses. 

And all expenses. 

And fees. 

And fees. 

And fees. 

And fees. 

And office expl.'nses. 

And office expenses. 

And office expenses. 

Expenses paid by Gov- ernment. 

GUAYAQUIL. 

United States of Colombia ......•... . P ern ... ............................ . Venezuela ......................... .. Great Britain ....................... . Uniteu 8ta.tes ..................... .. 

MO:!\'TIVEDIO. 

Brazil, &o .......................... . Denmark . .......................... . France . ..... . ...................... . Great Britain.···--··~·--· .......... . Italy ....................... · ........ . 

~~~ s~~~~·.::::·.:: :::::::::::::: BAHIA.. 

France ............................. . 

~~~\~i~. · i~OO:c~M~i>·::::::::: United States ..................... . 

PERNAMBUCO. 

France ............................. . 

~~~~g~~ iw~: :::::::::::::::::::::: 

Unitetl St.1.tes ...................... . 

RIO DE JANEIRO. 

France ............................. . Italy . .............. ..... : ..• ...... 

~~~~~~~::::: :::::::::::: ~:::: ~ United S~tes .......... , ........... . 

PANAMA. 

Italy ............................... . P eru ............................... . Great Britain ... ........... . ...... .. 

2,000 

2, 000 1, 200 

200 155 And fees. 200 

250 1,600 

1,360 360 !J44 

800 250 1, 300 812 1, 560 

400 

$5,800 830 1,075 175 430 580 £300 

880 420 700 500 

800 400 400 

2,141 318 1, 416 4 0 And office expenses. 2, 160 2,475 

1, 800 1,006 

1, 200 

900 80 1, 600 120 800 

France .............................. , 

Two clerks and office United States ...................... . 1, 800 200 600 expenses. And fees. CRETE. 

House, fuel, stationery, &c. And nooess'ry exp'nses. 

Do. 

Do. 

Office rent, &c. 

Russia . • • .. .. .. . . . . .. • .. . . . . . .. . . .. . 1, 075 France ·- . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . • . . . . . . . .. . . 1, 040 Great Britain . . .. .. .. .. . .. . .. .. . . • .. 700 ........ .. United States....................... . .. . . .• .. . . ... •• .. .. Abolished. 

CONSTA....'ITINOPLE. 

Great Britain ...................... . 

Gre.1.t Britain, judiciaL ..•....•.•.... Austria ........................... .. Italy .............................. .. 

tu~~~-: :::::::::::::::::::::::::: 

United States ...................... . 

BUCHAREST. 

Austria ........ ............ ......... . France ........... .... . ............ . 

err~~::::~~~:~~~~:~~~:~~~: J 

4,800 

5, 032 

2, 5.'38 1,550 

2,086 

9!J4 

600 

2, 419 2, 100 

2, 355 

890 

1,924 

200 

230 House, lodgings, &e. 

750 

.......... And expenses to $3,000. 

761 

280 .And all office expenaes. 2'l5 

J 70 House, &e. 

600 House. 
1876. CONGRESSIONAL , RECORD. 931 

Statcnumt taken f1'Q11t the official 1·epm·ts made to Pa1·limnent, in Great of Pennsylvania, for four days; to Mr. CABELL for one week. on B1'itain, cfc.-Continued. account of illness in his family ; and to Mr. LORD for ono week, on account of important business. 

Consulate. 

BEIRUT. 

Great Britain . ....... . .••••••....... :France . ......................... . United States ...................... . 

TRIPOLI. 

France ............................. . 

~~!~t ":Bri~::: ::::::::: ~:: :::::::: ·united States ..•.....•....•..••.••.• 

CAIRO. 

Austria ...•.••.. .' .................. . France ............................ .. 

~~~a.n~it.~h;.- :::::: :::::· :::::::::: 

~~~yi~ : .·: :::::::::::::::::::::::::: United States ...................... . 

l'lr'EW YORK, UNITED STATES .AMERICA.. 

Salaries. 

1, 600 2,470 

400 

1,560 

8'25 

1,300 

600 

3,500 

5, 420 

2,100 

2,900 

1, 200 

1, 100 

800 

Germany........................... . 6, 000 

Great Britain....................... 3 560 

France.............................. 4: 1:24 

Itruy . ............................... 2,640 

Russia.............................. 1,214 

Spain........ . . .. .. .. • . .. .... .. .. . .. 2. 431 

300 

400 

500 

1,200 

120 

1,100 

Remarks. 

.And all office expenses. 

.And fees. 

.And all office expenses. 

For rent and expenses. .And fees to $2.000. 

.And all expenses. 

NoTE.-The United States salaries are computed at $5 to tbe £ sterling, and all 

the amounts are in £'s. The United StatP-ssalaried consuls are entitled, in addition to the salaries spec· i~ , to oftice r ent actually paid not to exceed 20 per cent. of tlrls salary, anrl for sta· tioner.Y, posta~r , &c., actually used at their consulat-es, but no allowance is made 

for office furniture except a chair and book-case. 

GEORGE COWIE. 

FlFrH AUDITOR'S OFFICE, February 2, 1876 . . 

Rcnw1·ks of B1'itish consuls upon difference in cost of litti?tg as CQ11tpa1·ed 

with former periods. 

Tricste.-:_-Increase about one-third in all except r ent. Denmark.-From 1848 to 186!l increase in wages 25 per cent., meats 64 per cent. pork 52 per cent., butter 87 per cent.; house rent in greater proportion. ' 

Nice.--;-I:oca-1 and general taxation since annexa;tion to FranCE) has augment-ed thA 

~:ho;/i~~~a~~-an unprecedented extent, and smce th'; war with Germany still 

. Hamburg.-Rent 30 per cent., clerk hire 25 per cent., provisions 25 to 30 per cent. hlgher. · L e:ip8ic.-Rents 75· to 100 per cent. higher; provisions 25 to 30 per cent. cona.-Rents raised from £120 to £260; ofiicefrom £22to £44; provisions raise 

still greater. · Rome.-House rent 100 per cent. hi~her; living 3Jt per cent. higher. Havre.-Price of living increa ed; now higher than Paris. 

Marseilles.- Increase from 20 to 25 per cent. Palermo.-Price of living doubled and rents extremely high. 

Oporto.-Rents 100 per cent. hlgber; meats from 100 to 150 per cent. hi.,..her. 

Oadiz.-Rents and living 70 per cent. higher. " 

Smyn1a.-Reut 30 per cent., prices of living since Crimean war at least 100 per eent. hlgher. Jerusalem.-Rent 60 per cent. hlgher; vegetables, &c., 100 per cent. hi.,.her. Cadiz -R.ents doubled; pro·d sions hlgher. . ., Oallao.-:-Everrthlng from 40 to 50 per cent. higher . .Montev1deo.-.llouse rents from £12-2 to £3 6; wages 50 per cent. bi<Ther. 

Va,paraiso.-Rents and living much increased. " 

:Mr. DUNNELL obtained the floor. 

Mr. DURHAM. If the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. DUNNELL] 

yields, 1 move that the committee rise. 

Mr. DUNNELL. I yield for that purpose. 

Mr. RANDALL. . The effect of that will he to cut off some of the 

general debate. I think t-hat the discussion might be continued a little longer this aft.ernoon. 

Mr. HALE. It is almost five o'clock. 

Many MEMBERS. Let us adjourn. . . . . 

Mr. DURHAM. I think it is time to adjourn. 

1\Jr. RANDALL. It is the desire of the Committee on Appropriations to pass this bill to-morrow. Gentlemen who do not want to sta.y 

and listen 1:? the gentleman from Minnesota are not compelled to do so. I promise to stay; for I want to answer the· objections the gentleman mny make to the bill. 

The CHAIRMAN. The motion of the gentleman from Kentucky 

[Mr. DURHAM:] is of course in order, a.nd will be put unless the gentleman withdraws it. 

Mr. DURHAM. I insist on the motion. 

The motion was· agreed to. 

The c?mmittee accordingly rose ; and the Speaker having resumed 

the chair, .Mr. HosKI:8S reported that the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, having had under consideration the consular 

and diplomatic appropriation bill, had come to no resolution thereon. 

Ll< A VES OF ABSENCE. 

By ~nanim_ous consent, leave of ~bs nce was granted to Mr. CocHRANE mdefimtely, on account of sickness in his family; to Mr. Ross, 

WITHDRAWAL OF PAPERS. 

Mr. SAYLER, by unanimous consent, obtained leave to withdraw 

from t.he files of the House papers in the case of Thomas Worthing- ~n;and . . 1\lr. O'NEILL, papers relative to the Santillan land grant in California. PAYMENT OF JUDGMENTS. 

Mr. LORD. I ask unanimous consent that the House take from the 

Speaker's table~ for the pmpose of concmring in the Senate amendments, the bill (H. R. No.1053) providing for the payment of judgments 

rendered under section 11, chapter 459, of the laws of the Forty-third 

Congress. · There being no objection, the bill was taken from the Speaker'e 

table, and the amendments of the Senate were read, as follows : 

In line 4 of the bill, strike out '' be" and insert " have been." 

w!~ ~~:fi!~l: ~~i:s~f~~g before the words "the Forty-third Congress" the 

The amendments were concurred in. 

Mr. STEYENSON. I move that the House adjourn. 

The motiOn was agreed to; and accordingly (at four o'clock and 

forty-five minutes p. )the House a.djourned. • 

PETITIONS, ETC • . 

The following memorials, petitions, and other papers were presented at the Clerk's desk under the rule, and referred as stated; 

By Mr. CALDWELL, of Tennes ee: Foul' petitions of citizens of 

Tennessee, for Wilkins W. Waggoner to be paid for property taken 

by the United State Army, to the Committee on War Claims. By 1\!r. CASON:· The petition of William A. ,V. Daly, for back pay as a Unit~d States officer, to the Committee on 1\.filitary .Affairs. 

By 1\!r. CA TE: The petition of citizens of Wisconsin, for a postroute from Clam Falls to Laramie, 'Visconsin, to the Committee ou the Post-Office and Post-Roads. 

l:iy 1\lr. CAULFIELD: Papers relating to the petition of Susan D. 

Anderson, for arrears of pay due her father as n. lieutenant iu the 

revolutionary army, to the Committee on \Var Claims. 

By 1\lr. CHITTENDEN: The petition of Lafayette A venue church, 

Brooklyn, New York, signed by the pastor, Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler 

fm: a comn;lission of inquiry ~oncerning the alcoholic liquor traffic, ~ the Comrruttee on the Judiciary. 

By 1\Ir. BANKS: The petition of Brevet Major-General Robert C. ~ucha~an, United S~ates AJ.·my, for compensation for the use of his 

mventwn by the Umted St.ates and for other relief, to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

Dy Mr. BOONE: Papers relating to the petition of John Milton 

Best, for pay for property taken and used by the United StatesAI:·my 

to the Committee on War Claims. . ' 

By Mr. BROWN, of Kentucky: The petition of James C. Baeon and 

Robert R. Davis, for relief, to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By 1\.Ir, BURLEIGH: The petition of Polly Leighton, for a pension 

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ' 

By Mr. DAVY: The petition of citizens of New York, for the erection 

of public buildings at Rochester, New York, to the Committee on Pu"blic Buildings and Grounds. . . By Mr. DE l:iOLT: The petition of R. D. Morrison and 400 others 

for a mail-route from Milan to Trenton, .:\lissouri, to the Committe~ on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. . By Mr. DURAND: Four pAtitions of citizens of Michio-an for au- thority for a Lridge to be Arected across Detroit River 0

at Detl'oit 

Michigan, to the Committee on Commerce. ' 

Also, the petition of citizens of .Michigan, for the repeal of the stamp 

ta.x on safety matches, to the Committee of \Vays and Means. 

By Mr. DURHAl\1: The petition of 170 citizens of Boyle County 

for the repeal of the check-stamp tax, to the same committee. ' • By 1\ir. FRYE : The petition of 789 citizens of Steuben County ~ew York, for ~he. appointment of a commission of inquiry concern~ mg the alcoholic liquor traffic, to the Committee on the Judiciary. ~y ~1r. GOODE : The petition of citizens of Virginia and North 

Carolina, for a post-route from Newsom's Depot, Virginia to 1\lurfreesborough, North Carolina, to the Committee on the Post-Office and 

Post-Roads. 

By 1\lr. HANCOCK: Memorial of the Old Settlers, or Western Cherokees, for a balance of funds due them from the United States under 

treaty stipulations between the United Sta.t~s and the Cherokees to 

the Committee on Indian Affairs. ' 

By Mr. HARDENBERGH: Papers relating to the petition of Harvey Lull, for an extension of letters-patent for self-locking shutterhinge, to the Committee on Patents. · · 

By Mr. HATCHER: The petition of Frederick P. Sherry for a pension, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ' - ... By l\1~. HEN~E: .Memorial of the president and directors of the .~~.;?: Columbia Turnpike Road Company of the District of Columbia that · the commissioners of the District of Columbia be directed t~ pay 

them $3,769 with interest, it being the amount awarded them by a 

-·I. • 

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l. 

932 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. FEBRUARY 7, 

jury for property condemned by the board of public works, to the 

Committ.ee for the District of Columbia. Also, the memorial of Joseph L. Smith, in behalf of the county 

schools in the District of Columbia, to the same committee. 

By Mr. HEWITT, of Alabama: The petition of Mrs. James Gamble, 

for a pension, to t.he Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. HOAR: The petition of G. A. Bourne, S. S. Cornish, and 

other citizens of New Bedford, Massachusetts, for a commission of 

inquiry conoorning the alcoholic liquor traffic, to the Committee on 

the Judiciary. 

Also, the petition of H. F. Stone and 54 others of Concord, Massachusetts, for the repeal of the check-stamp tax, t.o the Committee of w ·ays and Means. "By Mr. HOGE: Memorial of the Fayetteville Light Infantry, of 

North Carolina; of the Washington Light Infnntry, of South Carolina, and the Clinch Rifles, of Georgia, that the Secretary of War be 

authorized to issue to them three hundred and twenty improved breechloading rifles, to the Committee on Military .Affairs. 

By Mr. HOPKINS: Resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of 

Pittsburgh, f::tvoring the erection of one dam on the Ohio River, to 

the Committee on Commerce. 

Al o, the petition of several hundred citizens of Pittsburgh and . Allegheny City, for aid to he extended the Southern Pacific Railroad, 

to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. 

By Mr. HURD: The petition of citizens of Ohio, for an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of Port Clinton, Ohio, to the 

Committ.ee on Commerce. 

Also, the petition of citizens of Ohio, for an amendment to the Constitution taxing church propert.y, to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. HUNTON: The petition of Robert Lewis, for pay .for property destroyed by the United States Army, to the Committee on War 

Claims. 

By .M:r. JENKS : The petition of Charles Andrews, for a pension, to 

tho Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By 1\lr. JONES, of Kentucky: The petition of Josiah Shinkle, for 

pay for services rendered the United States, to the Committee on War 

Claims. 

Hy l\Ir. KELLEY : The petition of Brevet Briga{}ier-General C. A. 

Finley, htte Surgeon-General United States Army, for Congress to 

allow him the rank and pay of a colonel of twenty years' service to 

date from the 1st of July, 1870, to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. KETCHUM: Memorial of the heirs of Lieutenant John 

Jenkins, of the revolutionary army, for Congress to grant them the 

benefits of ::t resolution of Congress, ::tpproved March, 22, ld73, or of 

any other act or resolution of Congress granting pay or commutation 

to officers of the army of the Revolution who served to the end of the 

war, to the same committee. 

By ~11-. KIDDER: The petition of Ed. C. Howard and Dan. Harnett, for relief, to the Committee on Indian Affairs. 

By 1\fr. LAWRENCE : The petition of L. Boyd and 80 ot.hers, for 

the ubolition of official o::tths, to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

.By l\fr. MAGINNIS: Papers relating to theclaimof W.A. Wheeler, 

United States marsha.! of Montana Territory, to the Committee of 

Claims. 

By. Mr. McFARLAND: The petition of Nancy Lacey, for apension, 

to the Committee on Re\'olutionary Pensions. 

Al o, the petition of Nelson Shelton, for pay as commutation of 

rations while a. prisoner of war, to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. O'BRIEN: The petition of Rebecca C. Rhodes, for a pension, 

to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. 

By 1\Ir. PARSONS: The petition of 1\Irs. Louisa Pruther, for pay for 

Jlroperty taken and used by the United States Army, to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. PATTERSON: The petitiop. of Joseph Schustler and other 

citizens of Central Colorado, proposing a plan to avoid the expense 

of lighting the earth from the sun, by substituting ::t system of lights 

invented by the secret people of the earth, to the Committee on the 

Centennial Celebration. 

By Mr. PAYNE: The petition of Andrews, Hicthcock & Co. and 70 

other firms and corporations of Cleveland, Ohio, engaged in the iron 

and coal business, for ::tid to be extended the Southern Pacific Railroad, to t he Committee on the Pacific Railroad. 

By Mr. PHELPS: 'l'he petition of Ed ward Ward and others, of New 

Haven, Connecticut, for t.he repeal of the resumption act, to the Committee on Bunking and Currency. 

Also, the petitions of Gustavus Twiss and others ::tnd of John W. 

Bishop and others, for the issue of 3.65 convertible gold bonds, to the same committee. 

By l\Ir. PIERCE: The petition of W. M. J enks, for prize-money on 

account of the capture of the Rosetta Havana, a confederate blockade nmner, by the Western Metropolis, a United States transport, 

to the Committee on 'Var Claims. By Mr. POPPLETON: The petition of Albert Mills, Henry Allen, 

and 228 other citizens of Portage County, Ohio, first, for the appointment of a commission to investigate and report the effects of the 

liquor traffic in the United States on the health, intelligence, industry, prosperity, crime, and pauperism of the individuals, also upon 

the taxation, revenue, and general welfare of the country; second, 

for a law prohibiting the importation of alcoholic liquors .from foreign countries ; third, for the prohibition of the manufa-cture and sale 

of alcoholic liquors as a beverage in the District of Columbia, in the 

Territories, and all other places where Congress exercises exclusive 

jurisdic .. ion; fourth, for a law regulating total abstinence from a lcoholic liquors as a. beverage on the part of all officiuls aml subordinates in the civil. milit.ary, and naval service of the United States, to 

the Committee of Ways and Means. AI o, the petition of George L. Beach, C. C. Fuller, W. J. Lawrence, 

William H. Coe, George S. Fullerton, and 570 other citizens of Ohio, 

of similar import, to the same committee. . Also, the petition of L. B. Gurley and 700 other citizens of Ohio, 

of similar import, to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of A. S. White, E. L. Hanson, B. H. Jacobs, a:c.d 

360 other citizens of Grove City, Syracuse, and Port Clinton, Ohio, of 

similar import, to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of Joseph Wykes, A. Dow, Thomas N. Shepherd, 

and 300 other citizens of Cory, Ohio, of similar import, to the same committee. 

Al o, the petition of Dr. E. W. Downs, C. M. Thrall, Rev. B. W. 

Slagle, and 570 other citizens of Ohio, of simil..'1r import, to the same committee. 

Al o, the petition of W. L. Camp, Julia A. Harman, Mary 0. Dudley, M. ·wall, T. M. Withgott, G. W. Holderman, and 406 other citi- zens of Ohio, of similar import, to the same committee. Also, the petition of William George, David Wallooe, and 112 other 

male citizens, over the age of twenty-one years, of New·Concord, Ohio, 

of similar import, to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of Fmnk H. Mills, R. H. Clarke, Charles N. Gallimore, and 390 other citizens of Ohio, of similar import, to the same committ.ee. · Also, the petition of G. F. Mead and 600 other citizens of New Lisbon, Ohio, of similar import, t,o tho same committee. 

Also, the petition of Ron. Jo. iah Scott, W. C. Lemert, A. N. Jones, 

and 250 other citizens of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, of similar 

import, to the same committee. Also, the petition of I. H. Headley, W. P .. Wolf, A. H. J enkins, and 

365 other persons, male and female citizens of Ohio, of similar import, 

to the same comm1ttee. 

Also, the petition of David Thomas, G. W. Brown, W. C. Milligan, 

and ~35 other citizens of Ohio, of similar import, to .the same com- mittee. Also, the petition of Miss S. E. Starr, Mrs. C. N. Teachout, and 95 

other citizens of North Royalton, Cny::tboga County, Ohio, of similar 

import, t.o the same committee. 

Also, the petition of E. Warner, R. S. Giles, and 312 other men and women of Ohio, of similar import, to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of S. A. Bittenour, M. J. Jones, and470other citi- zens of Washington Co1mty, qhio, of similar import, to the same com- mittee. 

Also, t.he petition of Joseph M. Turner, William Bonsher, and 175 

other citizens of Reynoldsbnrgh, Ohio, of similar import, to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of Harry C. Brooks, T. W. Carpenter, Alice L. Carroll, and 660 othBr citizens of Payneville, Ohio, of similar import, to 

the same committee. 

Also, tho petition of John H. Campbell, Joseph B. Jerome, S. Cole, 

and '240 othor citizens of Randolph, Portage County, Ohio, of simila:r: 

import, to the same commit.tee. · Also, the petition of D. C. Stockwell, M. Raymond, A. A. Waters, 

James Norton, und 365 other citizens of Garrettsville, Ohio, of similar 

import, to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of J. Patterson, Mrs. Sue Grabill, Jane Haines, 

George Carpenter, Sa.rah Kelly, and 401 other cit-izens of Windham, 

Rushsylvania, and other towns in the State of Ohio, of similar import, to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of E. F. C. Alridge, Frank M. Call, E. Hill, and 00 

other citizens of Mentor, Lake County, Ohio, of similar import, to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of Homer Meachum, J. Richards, M.G. Hill, Franklin _Emerson, and 140 ot.her citizens of Paulding County, Ohio, of 

similar import, to the same committee. Also, the petition of William Hoff, M. Dustan, and 320 other citizens, of lliamisburgh, Ohio, of similarimport, to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of H. G. Shugart, J. \V. Alloways, Elijah Thorne, 

Jo eph Fitzwater, and 325 other citizens of Ohio, of similar import, 

to the arne committee. • Also, the petition of G. D. Byron, D. A. Stinger, Francis J. Carrothers, R. H. Kimison, G. H. Cowder, and 590 other citizens of Ohio, of 

similar import, to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of Ettie .Jamison, Rebecca Daniels, Sarah Forsyth, 

and213 other ladies, of New Concord and vicinity,Muskinb"'llm County, 

Ohio, of similar import, to the same committee. · ·Also, the petition of George W. Geddes, J. H. Reed, and 465 other 

citizens, of Mansfield and vicinity, O.hio, of similar import, to t.he same committee. . Also, the petition of J. A. Moose, H . .M. Meads, E. F. Webster, Will 

A. Stevens, and 545 other citizens of Ohio, of similar import, to the same committee. 

Also, the petition of Rev. B. H. Wallace and 1,090 other citizens of 
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Ohio, men and women over the age of twenty-one and eighteen re- spectively, of similar import, to the same comin.ittee. ' 

Also, the petition o~ ~· l\1. Powe:r:s, M. Roberts, L. Curtis, Ella Haydock, and 418 other mtizens of Ohio, men and women, of similar import, to the same committee. By Mr. POTTER: The petition of 18 persons of Saint J osepb, Michigan, and also of 67 cit.izens of the same place, for the repeal of 

the stamp tax on safety matches, to the Committee of Ways and 

Means. 

. Also, the petition of W. W. Sweet, for an extension of the .time in 

which he can apply for bounty under act of July 28, 1866, to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

Also, papers relating to the petition of D. K. Sargent, for relief, to 

the same committee. 

By Mr. RAINEY: Two petitions of citizens of C~nnecticut, for the 

repeal of the stamp tax on safety matches, to the Committee of Wn,ys 

and Me3Jls. 

By Mr. ROBBINS, of ~ennsylvania: . .A. peti~on, signed by a large 

number of names, favonng the extensiOn of md to the Texas Pacific 

Railroad, to the Committee on the Pacific Railrond. 

By Mr. RUSK: The petition of Mrs. Sarah McCooey, for a pension 

to the Commit.tee on Invalid Pensions. ' 

By Mr. S~~ITH1 of Pennsylvania·: Papers relating t.o the petition of 

the Colum b.a Bndge Company, for pay for·dama(Tes done in the burn- in~ of the same IJy order of the United States authorities to the Committee on War Claims. ' 

By Mr. STEVENS: .A. paper relating to a post-route in the Territor,v of .Arizona, to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. 

By Mr. STRAI'r: The petitions of R. R. Turritin and ~0 others, of 

Le Sueur .County; of Thomas Welsh and 66 others, of Sibley County· 

of Martin Quinn and 40 others, of Scott County; of H. R. Denny and 

63 others, of Carver qol!-nty; of. Mort Tousloy and 1G9 others, of Le 

Sueue: County; of Vf t~am H. Sigle: and U9 others, of Sibley County ; 

and of a number of CitiZens of the Minnesota Valley, for the improvement of the Minnesota River by :1 system of locks and dams to the 

Committee on Commerce. ' 

By .Mr. SW.A.~: T.he petition. of John B. Braun, to be allowed to 

prosecl!-te a claima~amst the Umted~tatesformoneypaid the United 

State.s m excess of law, to tho Committee of Claims. ~so, the me~orial of S. H. Kettlewell, for pay for services and snffermgs on t~e I thmus of Darien ship-canal expedition No. 1, to the same committee. 

Also,,the petition of John D. Stewart, for pay for property taken by .the Umted States Army, to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. TARBOX: The petition of Nancy J. Leader for bounty 

allowance, to the same committee. ' 

By Mr. TERRY: A paper relating to a post-route 'in Virainia to 

tho Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. 0 ' 

By M.r. TUC~ER: . .A. J?aper relating to a post-route from Gold Hill 

to Eldndge's ~tills, Vugm1a, to t he same committee. ~y l\1r. V .A.NCE, of ~ orth Carolina: The petition of citizens of Wilmmgton, North Carolma, for the repeal of the check-stamp tax to the . Committee of Ways and Means. ' 

By Mr. V .A.N VORHES: The petition of Henry M. D3.vis for relief 

to tbe Committee on War Clnims. ' ' 

Also, papers I"elating to the case of Peter 1\I. Ward to the Committee on l\lilitary Affairs. ' 

By Mr. W .A.RREN: The petition of Jerome Jones and other citizens 

of Boston) Mas achusetts, for a reduction of duties on cruckery ware to the Committee of W avs and Means. ' 

By Mr . .A.. S.WILLIAMS: Resolutions of the workinamen of Detroit 

Michigan, favoring tbe immediate repeal of the re~umption act t~ the Committee on Banking and Currency. ' 

By M.r .. WOODBURN: The petition of Robert McBeth aml 112 

other citiZens of Nevada, for the exten ion of mail-route No. 45116 

from Battle Mountain to Galena, in thn,t State to the Committee o~ the Post-Office and Post-Roads. ' . By Mr. YOUNG: The petitions of John Farley, Matthias App, In· 

d1a~a E. ~ughes, and Ed ward Tucker~ for the reconsideration of their 

chums disallowed by the southern claims commission to the Committee on War Claims. ' 

.A.l ·o, papers relating to a post-route from Woodstock to Bettvville 

in Shelby County, Tenne see, to the Committee on tho Post-Offiee and 

Post-Roads. 

Also, the petition of citizens of Memphis, Tennessee for the repeal 

of the stan~p tax on safety matches, to the Committe~ of Ways and 

Means. 

By Mr.--: The papers relating to the ~laim of 1\I. ,V. Venning 

for supplies taken for the use of the United States Army to the Com: 

mittee on War Claims. ' 

By~· --.-: The pe~ition of Rachael F. Pettit, for a rehearing of 

her clarm agarnst the Umted States disallowed by the claims commission, to the same committee. 

. By ~1r. --.-: The p~tition of l\I~,son Shipman, for a rehearing of 

h1s cla1m agamst the U mted States reJected by the claims commission 

to the Committee on War Claims. · ' . By ~r. -.--: List <;>f a_Pplications for renewal of trusses for hernia, 

diSab1l1ty mcurred while m the United States Army to the Committee on Military Affairs. ' 

IN SENATE. 

TUESDAY, Febt·uary 8, 1876. 

Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. BYRO~ SUJI.TDERLA...'ID, D. D. 

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

HOUSE BILLS REFERRED. 

The following })ills from t he House of Representatives were sever- ally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on Pensions: 

A bill (H. R. No. 31) granting a pension to Patrick Glackin; 

A bHl (H. R. No. 43) granting a pension to Elizabeth A. Neibling; 

A b!ll (H .. R. No. 104) grant~g a pensi?n to Edward C. Wheelock; 

A b1ll (H. R. No. 215) grantmg a pensiOn to John G. Parr, of Kit- tannin~, Pennsylvania; 

.A. b!ll (H. R. No. 31 ) grant~ng a pension to Annie Failey; 

A lull (H. R. No. 556) grantmg a pension to Alexander St. Bernard, 

of Saint Clair County, Michigan; · A b~l (H. R. No. 93~) grant~~g a pens_' on to William D. Cobaugh; .A. bill (H. R. No. 99t> ) grantmg a penswn to G. W. La Pointe· 

.A. b~ll (H. R. ~o. 1044) grant~ng a pens~on to 1\farg:aret E. W~st, · A bill (H. R. No. 1347) gmnting a pensiOn to RattLe D. McKain· 

A bill (H. R. No. 1596) grant.ing a pension t.o Ruth Ellen Greeht~d • .A. b~ll (H. R. :ro. 1598) grant~g a pens~on to William R. Duncan; 

.A. btll (H. R. No. 1599) grammg a pensiOn to Frances C. Elliott· 

.A. b~H (H. R. N(). 1600) granting a pension t.o Jane .A.. Harris; ' 

A b~ll (H. R. No. 1601) granting a pension to Otis B. Anderson; and 

.A. bil~ (H.~· No: 1602) granting a pension to MargaretE. Cogburn. 

The followmg bills from the Honse of Representatives were sever- ally read twice by their titles, and referred as indicated below: 

A bill (H. R. No. 83) for the relief of James A. Rile, of Lewis County 

Missouri-to the Committee on Military Affairs. ' 

.A. bill (H. R. No. 193) for the relief of Ezra B. Bamett postmaster 

at Norwich, New ork-to the Committee on Post-O:ffic~ and PostRoads . .A. bill (H. R. No. 2.'31) for the relief of Robert Erwin-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

.A. bill (H. R. No. 247) for the relief of James M. Coffinberry of 

Cleveland, Ohio-to the Committee on Claims. · ' 

.A. bill (H. R. No. 934) regulating the pradice of United States circuit aml ~istrict courts as to the time ~nd manner of instructing juries 

and argmng the cause-to the Commit-tee on the Judiciary. 

.A. bill (H. R. No. 1595) for the relief of John T. Burchell of Knoxville, Tennessee, for services rendered the Government in a' small-pox 

hospital-to the Committee on Claims. • .A. bill (H. R. No. 1803) to provide for the appointment of commissioners to take affidavits &c., for the courts of the United Statesto the Committee ou the .Judiciary. 

The bill (H. R. No. 1802) making an appropriation to pay fourt.e.en crippled and disabled Unio:a soldiers from the 6th day of December 

1875, to the 30th d::t y of June, 187G, was read twice by its title. ' 

Mr. SARGENT. I a.sk that that bill be referred to the Committee on Appropriations. 

l\1r. ED~IUNDS. What have those soldiers done f 

1\fr. SARGENT. I understand that they are extra to the ordinary 

roll of House employes, and have been paid in this manner from year 

to year. There is some peculiarity, some exceptional circumstance 

about this matter, and therefore I ask that the bill may be refeiTed 

to the Committee on Appropriat ions. 

1\Ir. EDMlTh"DS. I did not know but that they were those whose 

services had been clispense<l with. 

Mr. SARGENT. I understand that some of t.bem have been dispensed with, and others of different politics have been put in instead. 

I d? n?t know. that that makes a~y difference in the justice of the 

claun m the mmd of t)le Senator; 1t does not in mine. .A.t the same time I would like to look into that and other circumstances. 

The PRESIDENT p1·o t-empore. The bill will be referred to the Committee on Appropriations. 

COURTS IN CALIFORNIA, OREGON, AND NEVADA. 

The PRESIDENT JYI'O tem]J01'e laid before the Senate the amendment 

of the ~ouse of R: pr ntatives to the ?ill (S. No. 5:3) fixing the time 

of holdrng the cucnlt court of the Uruted States in the districts of 

California, Oregon, and Nevad..'t. 

The amendment of the House of Representatives wa-s to strike out ~ear the beginning of the second section the word "February" and msert " l\larch;" so as to read, "that this act shall take effect on the 

1st day of 1\farch, 1S76." 

The amendment was concurred in. 

PETITIONS AND l\IEMORIALS. 

Mr. WITHERS presented the petition of Mary Hackley prayino 

that, as the l~gal repre ~ntati>e of Robert J. Hackley, sh~ may b~ allowed the preference nght of purchase of one hundred and sixty 

r~s of land, formerly located under the pre-emption laws of t l.lo Umted States by her husband in the State of 'Florida· which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands. ' 

He al o presented the petition of Frank G. Seilseney·and other heirs 

of Jacob Senseney, deceased, praying compebBation for the use aud