.. 1888. CONGRESSIONAL JlECORD-HOUSE. 571 

Samuel Betty, to be postl:nas.ter at Winchester, in the county. of Scott HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.- and State of illinois. ' Charles 0. Holcomb, to be postmaster atNewHartford, in the county 

of Litchfield and State of Connecticut. 

THURSDAY, January 19, 1888. 

George Flammer, to be postmaster of Covington, in the county of The House met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. :M:i~mi and State of Ohio. . ~ H . MILBURN, D. D. 

William Rowe, to be postmaster at Westerville, in the county of T~~J ournal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and approved. 

Franklin and State of Ohio. . FOURTH OF JULY CLAlliS. 

Patrick Gaynor, 0 be postmaster at Franklin, in the county ofWar- The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the Honse a lett-er from the 

ren ~n~ State of Ohw. . f Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with the papers in each case, a "'ilham T. Broyles, to be postmaster at Dayton, m the county 0 -list of claims arising under the act of the 4th of July, 1864, examined 

Rhea and State of Tennessee. • . . and allowed since January 7 1887 · which was referred to the CommitGeorge Warre_n. to be postmaster at Hickm..an, m the county of Ful- tee on W~r Claims. ' ' · ton and State of Kentucky. 

Walter G. Peckham, to be postmaster at Rockport, in the county of 

Essax and State of Massachusetts. 

Ernest 1\I. Johnson, to be postmaster at Maynard, in the county of 

Middlesex and State of Massachusetts. 

Charles B. Carpenter, to be postmaster at Brookfield, in the collllty of 

Worcester and State ofMassn.chusetts. 

Henry A. Pope, to be postmaster at Milton, in the county of Norfolk 

and State of Uassachnsetts. 

Thomas F. Lyons; to be postmaster at Canton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts. • 

Joseph M. Hollywood, to be postmaster at Brockton, in the county 

of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts. 

John U. Winslow, to be postmaster at Nantucket, in the county of 

Nantucket and State of Jilassachnsetts. 

Ira Goddard, to be postmaster at Ludlow, in the county of Windsor 

and State of Vermont. 

Herbert W. Martin, to be postmaster at Bennington, in the county of 

Bennington and State of Vermont. 

John J. Love, to be postmast-er at Webster, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts. 

WilJiam J. Johnson, to be postmaster at Manchester, in the county 

of Essex and State of 1\iassachusetts. 

Thomas H . .J ackmau, to be postmaster at Peabody, in the county of 

Essex and State of Massachusetts. 

James M. Freeman, to be postmaster at Franklin, in the county of 

Norfolk and State of Massachusetts. 

Henry S. Farnum, to be postmaster at Uxbridge, in the county of 

Worcester and State of Mass.<tchusetts. 

Lawrence W. Dower, to be postmaster at Easthampton, in the county 

of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts. 

Sylvester A. Donoghue, to be postmaster at Georgetown, in the county 

of Essex and State of Massachusett-s~ · 

George L. W. Dike, to be postmaster at Stoneham, in the county of 

Middlesex and State of Ji1a.,<;sachusetts. · 

Albert H. W. Carpenter, to be postmaster at New Bedford, in the 

county of Bristol and State of Uassachusetts. 

William W. Fish, to be postmaster at Athol, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusett-s. 

John M. Woodburn, to be postmaster at Newville, in the county of 

Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania. 

James P. Smith, to be postmaster at Le:Qighton, in the county of Carbon and State of Pennsylvania. 

.Jeremiah Mohler, to be postmaster at Ephrata, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania. 

David Maxwell, to be postmaster at Wilkinsburgh, in the county of 

Alle?heny and State of Pennsylvania. 

Sidney Hayden, to be postmaster at Sayre, in the county of Bradford 

and State of Pennsylvania. 

H. Wel1s Buser, to be postmaster at Hummelstown, in the co~tyo.f 

Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania. 

Patrick Bracken, to be postmaster at Parker's Landing, in the county 

of Armstrong and State of Pennsylvania. 

John G. Herzog, to b~ postmaster at Loudonville, in the county of 

.Ashland and State of Ohio. 

Hamer D. Hunt, to be postmaster at W arr~n, in the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio. 

Henry A . .Jordan, to be postmaster at Manchester, in the county of 

Chesterfield and State of Virginia. 

Laura W. Yarrington, to be postmaster at Eagle Pass, in the county 

of 1\Ia verick and State of Texas. 

William H. Allen, to be postmaster at Ennis, in the county of Ellis 

and State of Texas. 

Isaac D. P1·ice, to be postmaster at Newport, in the county of Jack- son and State of Arkansas. 

Elizabeth J. Cook, to be postmaster at Arkadelphia, in the county 

of Clark and State of Arkansas. 

Vofuey E. H. Reed, to be postmaster at Cameron, in the county of 

Milam and State of Texas. · 

.J obn H. Stapp1 to be postmaster at Burnet, in the. county of Burnet 

and State of Texas. 

George ,V. Martin, to be postmaster at Charleston, in the county of 

Mississippi and State of Missouri. 

PAY OF El\fPLOtiS ON LEA V}l:, ETC. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore also laid before the House a letter from 

the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Public 

Printer of appropriations for tl:ie pay of employes during the annual 

leave of absence, and for the removal and storage of Government property; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and 

ordered to be printed. 

OFFICIAL EMOLUl\IENTS1 CUSTOMS OFFICERS. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore also laid before the House a letter from 

the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an abstract of official emoluments received by certain customs officers for the fiscal year ended 

June 30, 1887; which was referred to the Committee on Expenditures 

in the Treasury Department, and ordered to be printed. 

SURvEY OF ANACOSTIA RIVER, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

The SPEAK~ pro tempore also laid before the House a letter from 

the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of War of appropriati~ns for a survey of Ana.costia River, District 

of Columbia; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 

and ordered to be printed. · 

LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 

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

To 1\Ir. WEBER, for ten days, on account of a death in his family. 

To JI.Ir. GRUSVENOR, indefinitely, on account of professional business. 

To Mr. PENINGToN; for :five days, on account of importa.nt business 

and sickness in his family. 

THOMAS A. COAKLEY. 

1\Ir. O'DONNELL, from the Committee on Accounts, submitted the 

following report: 

The Committee on Accounts. to whom was referred House resolution num- bered S,as follows: ''Resolved, Tbat Thomas A. Coakley, of New York, be, and 

he is hereby, appoint-ed a messenger during the present Congress, at the same rate of compensation received by him during the Forty-ninth Congress, said 

compensation to be paid out of the conlingent fund of the House," have con- sidered the same and recommend it-s passage. · 

1\-Ir. O'DONNELL. I demand the previous question on the adoption of the resolution. 

The previous question was ordered; and under its operation the resolution was adopted. 

Mr. O'DONNELL moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution was adopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid 

on the table.. 

The latter motion w_as agreed to. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

Mr. WILKINS. I tlemand the regular order. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore: The regular order is the call of co~­

mittees for reports. 

J. E. PILCHER. 

Mr. CULBERSON, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported 

back the bill (H. R. 339) for the relief of J. E. Pilcher; which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the Private Calendar, 

and, with the accompl\llying report, ordered to be printed. 

ADVERSE REPORT. 

Mr. EZR.A B. TAYLOR, from the Committee on the .Judiciary, re- ported back with an adverse recommendation the bill ('H. R. 1251) to 

amend section 714 of the Revised Statutes of the United States; which 

was ordered to be laid on the table and the accompanying report 

printed. 

REMOVAL OF ·cAUSES FROM STATE COURTS. 

Ur. SENEY, from the Comniittee on the Judiciary, reported back 

with favorable recommendation the bill (H. R. 1709) to regnlate the 

practice in causes removed from State courts; which was referred to 

the House Calendar, and, with the accompanying report, ordered to be 

printed. 

BUSINESS FROM CO!\lliiTTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROm"DS. 

Mr. DIBBLE, from the Committ-ee on Public Buildings and Grounds, 

submitted a report concerning the consideration of business reported by 

that committee; which was referred to the House Calendar, and, with 

the accompanying report, ordered to be printed. 
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ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The call of committees· for reports is 

completed. The Chair will now call committees for the consideration 

of bills for one hour, which begins at twenty minutes pa.st 12 o'clock. 

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AT :1\IELBOURNE. 

Mr. BELMONT. I move that the House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the consideration of the joint resolution which wa.s under consideration yesterday. 

The motion was agreed to. 

The House accordingly resolved itself into Committee of the Whole 

House on the state of the Union, Mr. SPRINGER in the chair. 

The CHAIRMAN. The House is now in Committee of the Whole 

for the further consideration of the joint resolution the title of which 

the Clerk will report. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

A joint resolution (H. Res. 72) relating to the invitation of the British Govern- ment to the Government of the United States to participate in the international exhibition at Melbourne to celebrate the founding of New South Wales. 

'The CHAIRMAN. Anamendmentispending, which the Clerk will 

report. 

'l'he Clerk read as follows: 

Amend, in line 5, section 1, by striking out the word " fifty " and inserting the 

word "five; " so that if amended as proposed it will read "five thousand dollars." 

The CHAIRMAN. When the hour for consideration of bills expired 

yesterday the committee was dividing on this amendment. 

Mr. McADOO. If I may be permitted, I will say to the -chairman of 

the Committee on Foreign Affairs that I withdraw my demand of yesterday for tellers, and I ask him if he will allow me three minutes to 

explain further the amendment I have offered. 

Mr. BELMONT. Certainly. 

The CHAIRMAN. If there be no objection, the O.emand for tellers 

is withdrawn. 

There was no objection. 

Mr. McADOO. I am aware that this measure is not of sufficient importance to take up the time of the House by mere dilato:y .motions, 

and I have therefore withdrawn my call for a quorum. I desire, however, in support of the amendment which I have offered, to say one or 

two words somewhat by way of criticism on the Committee on Foreign 

Affairs. I understand, Mr. Chairman, that there is now before that com- mittee an invitation from the Republic of France that the United State3 

join them in celebrating one of the most important events in the annals 

of history-in the record of the struggles of mankind toward universal 

democracy-ihe fall of the Bastile, and I am surprised, after reading an interview in the newspapers purporting to have been held with the chair- man of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, which, if true, does him infinite credit, that a resolution preceding this one relating to the invitation of the British Government should not have been offered to this House 

that this nation join heartily with our former allies and friends of the 

French Republic in that, I trust, magnificent celebration of so great an event in the history of the human race in its struggles for liberty against 

class, caste, and feudalism. 

Mr. BELMONT. Will the gentleman from New Jersey permit me to interrupt him for a moment? 

Mr. McADOO. Certainly. 

Mr. BELMONT. I desire to say that the inyitation of the French 

Government did not precede the invit.1.tion now under consideration. 

I will also say to my friend from New Jersey that I did hold such an interview as he bas referred to, and my perso~al sympathy and feeling 

in regard to accepting the invitation of the French Government is very 

great, and I trust that at an early day the House will have a report 

from the Committee on Foreign Affairs recommending the acceptance 

of that invitation. I have on my desk at present a bill to present to 

the House, asking the House to accept it. 

Mr. lVfc.A.DOO. I am very glad to know that-and for this reason: It is a fact known to the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and to all intelligent newspaper readers in this country that there 

lias been and there is a premeditated effort on the part of the jealous 

monarchical governments of Europe w nose thrones are menaced by her 

teachmgs and example to bring about a sort of international boycott of 

this French celebration; and if the greatest Republic in Europe, which 

has successfully maintained itself against internal conspiracies, dissensions, and· intrigues, as well as external force and malice, our ancient 

friend and gallant ally, who suppo~d us in our memorable struggle 

for liberty with an unselfishness and g~nerosity I think unequaled in 

history-if she is to be left to struggle because of her republican convictions against this interdict, this attempt to suppress her celebration 

without the generous support of this great Republic, it w.ould be highly 

discreditable to us as a free and liberty-loving people. I am therefore 

very glad to hear this morning the statement of the chairman of the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs. 

My only criticism was, Mr. Chairman, that I thought, without regard 

to the time at which these invitations had been received by our Government, that the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives of the American Republic should have cheerfully given precedence in this Honse to a resolution to join in the celebration of that 

glorious event in the history of France, in preference to the acceptance 

of an invitation from the British Government and spending $50,000 to 

assist in adding to the attractiveness and pleasure of a British colonial 

exhibition. 

Mr. BELMONT. Will the gentleman permit me to say that the 

French exhibition is to be held in 1889, arid the exhibition which is 

contemplated in this resolution is to be held this year, in the month Of 

August, and therefore it was necessary we should take up the matter 

without delay? 

Mr. McADOO. Preparations will have to }?e made in advance for 

the French centennial exhibition; but I accept the statement of the 

gentleman from New York, and withdraw the demand for a. quorum. 

The CHAIRMAN. The question is upon the amendment submitted 

by the gentleman from ~ew Jersey. 

Mr. PHELPS. Mr. Chairman, this joint resolution is a proposition 

that t.he United States Government shall participate in an internation..1.l 

exposition to be held in Australia in honor of the centenary of the settlement of one of the Australasian provinces. It proposes that for the 

expenses of this participation the United States shall appropriate $50,000. 

The United States may or may not participate in this exposition. It 

may not participate, and may refuse to do so withQQ.t prejudice, in my 

opinion, to the relations which now subsist between the two countries; 

but if it does pnrticipate, then I think we are bound bv every principle 

of prudence and of self-respect to participate in a creditable manner. It is the unanimous opinion of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, it is 

the opinion of the State Department, that $50,000 is the smallest appropriation which would enable the United States to act in a. manner which 

would not reflect discredit upon our parLicipation in the enterprise. 

When a man or a nation steps outside of the line of business and un- dertakes to do something in the domain of friendship or of display, if 

it is done at all, it should be done well. Of such a nature is this en- terprise; and I urge it upon the committee that, if it decides that we take part in this exposition at all, it shall vote at least $50,000. If we 

are not willing to expend $50,000, then let us make no appropriation, 

and let the whole ma_tter die an ea.sy and natural death. 

In favor of participation is the fact that these expositions have generally been thought and generally been found to encourage and develop 

social and business relations. Business relations are what we want to 

promote and strengthen with the colonies of Australasia. Thefriemlly 

teeling already existing is marked. The business relations which we wish to strengthen are already begun. The friendship is manifested 

by the net which was cited yesterday-an act of extraordinary generosity on the part of that government; I wish we could imitate itthe fact that the Australian provinces a.re now paying $150,000 a year 

to American steamships for carrying the mail between their country 

and ours; and as for the birth and growth of business, we have only to 

note that when in 1880 there was an exhibition at Melbourne in which 

we participated, the trade between this country and Australa.sia was less 

than $5,000,000. Five years afterwards the amount was $12,000,000. 

This, certainly, is good ground to cultivat~, and these are the circum- stances under which the.House is to determine whether they wish to 

continue to cultivate or to withhold their hands. Participation in an exposition is not the oest or the most efficient method of cultivating 

these relations, but it is one of them, and better than none. A method 

which many of us think is better and more direct is to follow tbe·example of the Australasian provinces, and to send American steamship3, fa.irly paid, to seize the markets which offer an opening over th~re for our surplus products. 

But if we can not use that method, let us do this. In any case I 

repeat my appeal to the gentlemen of the committee, if you undertake 

to participate in this exposition at all, vote $50,000. Vote either that or nothing. With $50,000 we can make a creditable appearance. I 

do not claim we can do more, and my friend from New Jersey [Mr. 

McADoo] was correct when he said yesterday that $250,000 could 

be well and profitably expended in this way. If we expended that sum we could avail ourselves fully of this fine opening for the cultivation of business and social relations; but it was the opinion of the com- mittee, it was the opinion of the Department of State, that this House 

would not be willing to do more in the premises, if it did anything, 

than to vote just the sum which would save our appearance from being 

discreditable. We can do that with $50,000. Remember, it ought to 

be $50,000 or nothi.qg. · Mr. McADOO. My colleague did not state quite correctly what I 

said yesterday. What I did say was that $50,000 was too much for 

nothing and too litt.le for anything, and that in my opinion it would 

take $250,000 to represent us properly at thatexposition; but I did not 

say that I thought the $250,000 could be expended with great profit 

there. 

Mr. PHELPS. I did not mean to represent my colleague as stating more than what he bas again stated .for himself. The only difference, 

then, in judgment between my colleague and myself seems to be this: 

He does not think $50,000 would be sufficient to enable this Government to make a creditable appearance in this exposition. That opinion 

is not shared by the Department of State or by the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and as they have given investigation and consideration to 
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the subject, it s~ems to me that this Committee of the Whole -House 

had better rely upon them. 

l\Ir. CUTCHEON. Mr. Chairman, I wish to ask a question for information. Can the gentleman in charge of this bill tell us what use 

is proposed to be made of this $50,000; whether it is to be used to ma.ke a Government-exhibit, or to assist citizellil in making an .American 

eXhibit? 

Mr. BELMONT. To assist citizens in making their exhibits and to 

pay the salaries of the commissioners. It is, of course, impossible to 

say in advance just how the expenditure will be made in detail, but 

I have here a statement from the Department, which shows how the 

appropriation for. the previous exposition at Melbourne was expended, 

and gives a general idea of the manner in which this one will be used. 

This statement comes from Mr. Rives, and is as follows: 

f Previous appropriation for exhibition at Melbourne, $28,000; expended for 

salaries of commi~ioners, $5,749.99; for traveling expenses, $4.036.97; for clerkhire and salary of secretary, $3,336.55; for contingent expenses, $13,746.85; un- expended balance of $1,129.64 covered into the Treasury. 

Mr. RAYNER was recognized. 

l\Ir. McADOO. Will my colleague [Mr. PHELPS] inform the committee--

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 

The com~ittee rose informally, when a message from the Senate, by 

Mr. McCooK, its Secretary, informed the House that the Senate had 

passed bills of the following titles; in which the concurrence of the 

House was requested: _ 

A bill (S. 81) for the relief of H. B. Wilson, administrator of the estate of Wllliam Tinder, deceased; . . 

A bill (S. 1027) to fix the charge for passports at $1; and 

A bill (S. 139) to credit and pay to the several States and Territories 

and the District of Columbia all moneys collected under the direct tax 

levied by the act of Congress approved August 5, 1861. 

The message also requested that the House return to the Senate the 

bill (S. 928) in relation to marriage between white men and Indian women. · 

other similar exhibi~on has done; that it will bring us in closer ties of 

amity, and upon a firmer footing of friendly trade and commercial relationship with one of the growing continents of this earth. I trust 

that for this reason the House will ratify the recommendations of the 

State Depar~ment and the well-considered action of this committee. 

Mr. McADOO. Mr. Chairman, in view of the remarks of my colleague from New Jersey [Mr. PHELPS], I think it would be only justice to the House if either he or the chaiJ:man of the Committee on 

Foreign Affairs would state how, in what manner, and for what purpose this $50,000 is to be expended. I stated to the House yesterday that the distance between the seaboard States and the city of Melbourne wa,s very great, and that if the Government of the United States 

intends to pay the freightage on_ the goods of its citizens, $5lf, 000 will 

be totally inadequate for the purpose. Therefore, I think it proper 

that before the members of this House vot-e $50,000 out of the public 

Treasury to carry out the purposes of this measure there should be a 

st.atementfromtheCommittee on Foreign Affairs as to the manner and 

purpose of this expenditure, with at least a skeleton of particulars. · 

There is another point. If I am correctly informed, New Sonth 

Wales, a1though a colonial dependency of Great Britain, happily enjoys the inestimable boon of "home rule." · This is not the universal 

rule, strange as it may seem, under the British constitution. Now, I 

find from the long preamble of this resolution that we are to. accept 

this invitation from the British Government. I wish to know, Mr. 

Chairman, before voting on this question, if New South Wales has a 

parliam~t of her own, as I trust she has, why the representatives of 

New South Wales, not officials located in Downing street, London, but 

the free representatives of the free people .of New South Wales have 

not, through the constituted and elected home authorities, asked the 

United States to participate in this exhibition. For my own part I 

should be loath to have the United States of America accept a secondhand and may be unauthorized invitation from the officials of the British Goverpment in Downing street, London, instead of from the government erected! maintained, and perpetuated by th'3 free electors of 

New South Wales itself. If no· invitation has been extended to the 

INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION AT MELBOURNE. people of the _ United States from the people of New South Wales, then 

The Committee of the Whole resumed its session, Mr. SPRINGER in it ma.y be that those people themselves do not wish us to participate in 

the chair. the exhibition. A guest of the British Government is not always si:tre 

Mr. RAYNER. 1\Ir. Chairman-- of a hea,rty welcome from the people of a country under British rule. 

Mr. McADOO. I thought I had been recognized, Mr. Chairman. This is sometimes embarrassing to the guest. What evidence h:we we 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Maryland had addressed at this distance that the Bdtish Government may not misrepresent the 

the Chair. Debate upon thependingamendmentisexhausted, but the people of New Sonth Wales? I know from history and observation 

gentleman from Maryland may move a formal amefldment. · that no government is so generous as the British in representing other 

Mr. RAYNER. ltir. Chairman, Imoveprojormatoamend bystrik- people without their consent and often agains~ their will . . What auing out the last word. I desire ·to occupy only two or three minuteS thority has the Committee on Foreign Affairs of this House to attach 

in calling the attention of the House to some points coruiected with this a preamble to this resolution telling us, the representatives of the free 

bil1. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. CRAIN], who spoke yesterday, American people, that the British Government knows what the people 

seemed to regard this bill as contemplating a "junketing expedition" of New South Wales, located nearly 10,000 miles or more, as I suppose, 

to som~ unexplored and uninhabited colonial dependency of Great Brit- distant, want in the way of our participaMon in the exhibition at Melain, in the Pacific Ocean. IfthiJ were a fact I, as a member of the Com- bourne? Who told the British Government that the people of New 

mi ttee on Foreign Affairs, would have opposed this measure. But I want South Wales, a good people, no doubt, would welcome our exhibit? 

to impress upon the attention of the Committee of the Whole this fact, I have no objection to this resolution so far as it looks to extending 

that to-day the five provinces of New South Wales, Queensland, North American commerce; and I have no objection to legitimate participaand West Australia, New Zealand, and Victoria, form parts and par- tion by the United States in exhibitions of this kind. I am desirous 

eels of a great continent, containing three millions of human beings, to that whatever of surplus products we may have· from our imperial and 

whomthiscountryisannuallyremit~ing$10,000,000worthofitsmanu- magnificent home market may find theirway to the i.J¥Iabitants of 

factored products. New South Wales, if those people think it to their advantage to buy 

I wish to call attention further to the fact that Australia is sending to them, and in the mean time I wish the good, honest, enterprising peothiscouutry$5,000,000 worth ofits own agricultural products, leaving a ple of New South Wales freedom and prosperity and the right to atcle.:u balance of trade in our favor to the amount of $5,000,000. I wish tend to their own business. 

to add, if the committee will permit me, that in 1880 we appropriated [Here the hamm~r fell.] 

$20,000 for a purpose similar to this, and since that time om· commerce Mr. RAYNER. I withdraw the pro forma amendment. 

with Australia has increased as a result of that exhibition from $5,000,- Mr. CU'rCHEON. Mr. Chairman, I renew it for the purpose of say000 to $10,000,000. I will state also that one of the few American ing just a few words in regard to the scope of this resolution. The presteam-ship lines leaving any port of this Republic sails to-day between amble of course forms no part of the resolution, and yet all the inforthe harbor of San Francisco and the harbors of New Zealand; and the mationwegetofthescopeoftheresolutioniscontained in the preamble. 

government of New Zealand pays a registered American steam-ship line The preamble recites: • $150,000 per annum. "\Vhereas the British Government has extended to the Government of the 

I will only add, because it is pe~tinent in this connection, that a few ~~~t~~~~~e!tM:~Ib"~~;~~~ ~c~a.rticipate in the international exhibition which 

years ago w_e controlled the carr~ng trade of the world. . The colors of Resolved, etc., That said invitation is accepted, and that there be, and there our Republlc could be seen fioatrng from the mastheads 1n every port h e reby is, appropriated. out of any money in the Treasury of the United States 

of entry in every civilized country of the globe· and the American not otherwise ?-ppropriated, the su~ of $50,~, or so much therE!'of as m?-Y be '1 h · d h f h 1 • necessary to effect the purpose of thlS resolution, to be expended tn the d1 cre-. SUI or was t e recogmze monarc o t e sea. To-day ~ur flag has VIr- tion of the Secretary of State for the purpose of such representation at said extnally disappeared from the ocean. Great Britairi owns 63 per _cent. of hibition. 

the s~am ~arine of ~e world, while Fra?ce. and Germany, and even Now, the purpose of this resolution, asgathered from the preambleAustna, w1th but a srngle seaport, are b1ddrng for the commerce of and we can gather it nowhere else-is to enable the Government of the 

mankind. I do not believe that ships create commerce; but I do be- United States to participate in this exhibition. I asked the chairman 

lie'e that commerce createsships, and I do believe that the exhibition of the committee [Mr. BELMONT] a moment ago, or the gentleman 

and pu~lic disp1~y of our goods in the_markets of the world by means of from New Jersey [.M:r. McADoo], whether the purpose of the resoluenterpriSes of this sort create commerce. tion was to enable the Government of the United States to make a 

If I looked upon this exhibition as a sort of ''junketing expedition,'' Government exhibit or wbether it was to enable · t.he Government of 

or as a circus or menagerie, as the' gentleman from Texas seems tore- the United States to assist citizens of the United States to make an 

~ard i~, or as afford_ing the citizens of. the California coast an opportunity exhibit from this country. The chairman assured me it was the latter; m which the constituents of the honorable gentleman can not indulge that is to enable citizens to make an exhibit. The purpose of the restogo up~:m a~ immense "drunk:' in tJ:at unexplored region, I should olulio~, as defined by the pre~mble itself, is to enabletheGovernment 

-vote agamst 1t. But I do not so regard 1t. I think it will do what every itself to make , an exhibit, that is, to participate in this. exhibition, 

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and if that be the true purpose of the preamble and resolution, as it 

seems to me it is, I desire to know from the chairman how the Government of the United States is going to use the $50,000. 

Mr. BELMONT. In order to carry out the object of the resolution 

it will be neces&'l>ry, of course, to appoint commissioners who will superintend the exhibit by citizens of the United States of American products at this international exhibition to be held in Melbourne. 

Mr. CUTCHEON. Is it intended to use this $50,000, or any part of 

it, to enable citizens to collect exhibits, say in San Francisco, and 

transport them~ New South Wales for this exhibition at Melbourne? 

Mr. :BELMONT. It is true that, whatever is to be done with this 

sum, as the gentleman will observe, the second section of the bill provides it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to report to Congress 

a detailed statement of the expenses mcurred. It is almost impossible 

to state at present what the expenses will be, and therefore it becomes 

necessary to provide as has been done in this joint resolution. 

Mr. CUTCHEON. That would be a sort of post-facto explanation; 

but what I ask the gentleman to state now is what use will be made of 

this $50,000 if we vote it. 

:hir. BELMONT. Past experience in regard to these matters would 

answer that question for the gentleman from Michigan. 

Mr. CUTCfiEON. I do not wish to yield my time any further. I 

wish to say in the remainder of my five minutes that I believe in the 

utility of these ·exhibitions. I thought yesterday that the gent.leman 

from Texas [l'Yir. CRAIN] endeavored to pull the wool over the eyes of 

this House on this subject. 

A MEMBER. Australian wool. [Laughter.] " 

Mr. CUTCHEON. Yes, Australian wool; a cheap kind of wool. But 

I believe, ?tir. Chairman; gieat good bas come out of these international 

exhibitions. Last year I voted for a measure which, in my opinion, 

tended to extend our commerce with the isles of the sea and with South 

American countries by what was called a subsidy for ocean mail service. 

I believed that promised good. It maybe this$50,000 may also result 

in some good, but before I vote for it-and I would be glad to vote for 

it if its purpose can be well defined-! would like to know from some 

one competent to speak what use will be made of it. 

[Here the hammer fell.] 

:Mr. CRAIN. I have an amendmentto offer. 

The CHAIR?t1AN. There is one already pending. 

Mr. CUTCHEON. I withdraw the formal amendment. 

Mr. CRAIN. I move to strike out all after the ena{!ting clause. I 

would like to have the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

explain to the House in what portion of the organic law ofthe land he 

finds authority given to Congress to make an appropriation of this character. It is certainly not embraced in that provision which authorizes 

Congress to regulate foreign commerce, because this proposition is simply to make an exhibit of manufactures at Melbourne, in the province 

of Victoria. No such power is granted by the Constitution, either directly. or by implication, to the Congress of the United States. 

It will not do for gentlemen to say precedents have been established 

for the passage of this resolution. Gentlemen ought not in support of 

this resolution to point to the appropriations made by Congress for the 

expositions at Vienna and Paris, because in doing this they simply act 

as a man charged with larceny would act we:re he to justify himself 

UJ)on the ground that other men had gone unwhipped of justice who 

had been guilty of the same crime. 

I ask the friends of the Constitution and the strict constructionists of 

that instrument on this side who are supporting this measure to point 

out to us when~ the grant of power can be found in the Constitution, 

which they profess to revere and venerate, by which this resolution can 

be justified. 

This whole question was most ably discussed in the House of Representatives on a simila.r occasion by the distinguished chairman of 

the C-ommittee on the Judiciary of the last Congress, Hon: Randolph 

Tucker, and also by my brilliant and accomplished friend from New 

York [Mr. Cox], who is now temporarily occupying the place of our distinguished Speaker, whose early restoration to health is earnestly 

hopeQ. for by every member of this House without regard to political 

affiliations or sentiments. 

The latter gentleman opposed a proposition to grant money in aid of ~he centennial celebration at Philadelphia in 1876, and upon what 

ground? Because, ::l'!fr. Chairman, he said there was no authority for 

such a grant in the Constitution of the United States. 

The chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House in the 

Forty-ninth Congress spoke in opposition to a grant of money t{) the 

Paris exposition upon the same ground; and I ask, therefore, the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs to show, as a member of the 

Democratic party, as a strict constructionist of the Constitution, where 

he finds the' authority for recommending such a grant as this. 

The gentleman from Maryland [lli. RAYNER] tells us that this appropriation will result in building up the merchant marine of this coun- try. I ask him, in response t{) that statement, to show how this result 

will be accomplished. There is no connection between the exhibition 

of our manufactures in a town thousands of miles away and the building up of our merchant marine. 

The gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. PHELPS], for whose opinion 

upon this and kindred subjects I entertain the most profound respect, 

has told us that during the year 1880, when the Mclbotune exposition 

was held, the exports and imports between Australia and the United 

States amounted to but$5, 000, OOO,and that severalyearsafterwards they 

had increased to $12,000,000, which result was brought about by the exposition. The facts are, however, that the year following the exposition at Melbourne these exports and imports had decreased; and that 

to-day, according to the report I find embodied in a speech of the gentleman from California [Mr. MORROW], the exports and imports between 

the United States and Australia are less than they were two years ago. 

This shows a decrease and not an extension of the commerce between 

the two countries, as has been claimed; and if it be true that Australia 

is paying $150,000 annually to an American steam-ship company for 

carrying the mails to this country, why is it necessary to make an exhibition of our manufactured goods for the benefit of a few favored 

manufacturers, merely to show the people of Australia that this is a. great and growing country? 

The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. 

:hir. CRAIN. I ask unanimous consent to be allowed just one minute more. 

The CHAIRUAN. Is there objection? 

There was no objection. 

M:r. CRAIN. I admit, Mr. Chairman, that the passage of this resolution will be attended with some beneficin.l results, and I do not propose to obstruct its passage if the majority of the House are in favor of 

it. I know that the gentlemen who go there to represent this country 

will, after the fashion of travelers, ordinary travelers, I mean, and not 

such distinguished travelers as my friend from New York [Mr. Cox], 

come back and describe to admiring constituents the kind of plumage the birds wear in that far-oft' country. They will be able to inform us, from personal examination and inspection, of the truth or 

falsity of that story which we have all heard from our earliest childhood, that the monkeys of that region, with their prehensile tails, make 

bridges by which they cross rivers. But, sir, I fear that they may bring 

back the microbes of cholera, which might inoculate the Republican 

party and kill it, many of whose members I respect and esteem and 

am proud to regard as my friends. 

[Here the hammer fell. J 

Mr. HOOKER.. Mr. Chairman, I desire to say a word in response to 

the inquiry which comes from several gentlemen here as to what was 

the origin of the resolution reported from the Committee ou Foreign 

Affairs. That resolution had its origin in a message sent by the President to the Congress of the United States, and to which message a decent regard wasp 'd by this House in referring its subject-matter, pertaining exclusively as it did to a representation of America in this Australian centennial, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. - When that 

message, accompanied as it was bya letter from the Secretary of State, 

was referred to the committee, we deemed it our duty to give the subject that consideration which we thought a message from the President 

of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of State, 

was entitled to receive. Hence the resolution was reported by the com- mittee. 

This, Mr. Chairman, is not the first time in the history of this country t~at we have been asked to make an appropriation to celebrate centennials. It was said by my distinguished friend from New Jersey that 

he would consent tha~ a commission should be sent to participate in 

the Paris Exposition because of the response which came when we extended our invitation to the whole world in 1876 to participate with 

us in the celebration of the centennial of our national existence and of 

the declaration of our national independence from Great Britain. But 

it should be remembered that no nation responded more cordially to 

that invitation than did Great Britain herself. 

Mr. KELLEY. Will the gentleman permit me for a moment? I 

desire to say right there that this Government refused to contribute a 

cent towards the expenses of that exposition, t-o which it had invited 

the people of the civilized world, and Philadelphia and Pennsylvania 

bore them. -

?tir. HOOKER. Allow me to say I think the honorable gentleman 

from Pennsylvania is slightly mistaken. The Government of the United · 

States did make an appropriation for the purpose of constructing a 

building there for its exhibits. 

Mr. KELLEY. They made a loan, and recovered every dollar of it. 

Mr. HOOKER. I am familiar with the whole subject. It is here. 

recorded in the American Almanac for 1878, showing precisely what 

the Government did. 

They did loan a million and a half of dollars, but in adaition to that 

we appropriated over half a million dollars for the construction of the 

building to which I referred; and every gentleman who was here in 

Congress when those appropriations were made is fully cognizant of 

the fact. 

But I was about to say to my distinguished friend from New Jersey 

that no nation of the earth responded to our invitation to participate 

in that celebration more cordially than England-England, whose colonies had been wrested from her by the Revolution; England, who bad 

suffered all the losses of the war of the Revolution which established this 

grandgalaxyofStatesand Territories. Not only did England come with 

her public exhibits, but her private citizens sent to the gallery of art in 

Philadelphia numerous exhibits as evidence of the good-will of the 
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British nation, from whom, by the Revolution whose centenary we w~re celebrating, was wrested this vast continent. I say, then, the declaration that England should not be treated with courtesy and respect 

when· an invitation comes from her minister, indorsed by our Secretary 

of State and recommended to us by the President of the United States-

! say that declaration is not worthy of us. England, with whose people we desire friendly relations, of all countries, deserves from us as 

friendly respect as any people we know. 

I beg to embody, as part of the remarks I am ·now making, the re- port, in which the letter of the Secretary of State, addressed to the 

President of the United States, is published, as well as the recommendation made by the Secretary himself on that subject. It is as follows: 

The importance of the proposed exhibition and the claim it has for our aid in 

the liberal display of American· industries are indicated in the following note of 

the Secretary of State, referred to in the message of the President: 

"To the PRESIDENT: 

"I submit herewith a copy of a note to this Department from Sir Lionel West, Her Britannic l\Iajesty's minister at this capital, extending an invitation to this 

Government to participate in the international exhibition which is to be held at 1\Ielbourne, 1888, to celebrate the centenary of the founding of New South Wales, 

the first Australian colony. "As our social and commercL'\l relations are daily becoming more intimate 

with the kindred people inhabiting Australia, it would seem to be -very appro- priate that thifl country should officially take part in an exhibition which is 

intended to commemorate such an important event as the founding of the 

first of those Australian commonwealths which are now so great and prosper- ous. 1\Ioreover, as A.ustralia was extensively represented in our Centennial Ex- hibition held at Philadelphia in 1876, it is very proper that we should reciprocate 

by accepting the invitation to take part in the similar exhibition to be held at Melbourne. I therefore respectfully recommend that the accompanying papers be communicated to Congress, with the suggestion that the invitation be ac- cepted and that the sum of $50,000 be appropriated to defray the expenses of a. commission to represent the United States at the exhibition. · "This Department is ad·dsed that many American manufacturers have already made application for space in the l\felbourne exhibition in expectation of 

the appointment of a commission to rep resent this country there. As it appears frqm Si.r I .. ionel West's note of the 21st ultimo that the time for making applications for space for exhibitors will expire on the last day of the present month, 

it will be necessary for Congress to take very prompt action in order to prevent 

serious injury to American interests in the premises. 

"Respectfully submitted. 

"DEPARTMFNT OF STATE, 

"Washinpton, December 19, 1887." 

''T. F . BAYARD. 

Concurring in the viP-ws expressed by the Secretary of State, and believing 

that it is highly important that the growing commercial and social relations 

between this country and Australia should be encouraged in every proper way, the committee recommend the acceptance of the invitation so kindly tendered; 

and for the purpose of participating in the exhibit.ion in an appropriate and effecti-v-e manner, the committee recommend an appropriation of $50,000 to defray " the expenses attending a proper official representation. • For this purpose the joint resolution herewith report.ed is recommended for passage. 

Let me say one word further in response to the observation which 

fell from the gentleman from Texas [Mr. CRAIN]. We did make appropriations for the celebration in Philadelphia, and we have made 

appropriations to exhibitions in America and in other countries. We 

made an appropriation, .l\:Ir. Chairman, for the purpose of having this 

country represented at the ViennaExpositionof$200,000. We made an appropriation for the purpose of having our exhibits at the Paris Exposition of $951000; and so we have done at various other times. And 

when I am asked for the authority to do so, and when I am referred 

by the gentleman from Texas to the action of former Congresses in de- nunciatory terms of the men who constituted those Congresses, having 

been part and parcel of one of them that -made appropriations for the 

Philadelphia Centennial, I desire to say that we had the sanction of 

the whole legislative department, the House as well as the Senate, in 

making these appropriations for the purpose of representing our coun- try at the&>e various exhibitions. 

This invitation comes in respectful terms from Great Britain. It is 

transmitted to us by the President of the United States, and the amount 

appropriated is a bagatelle in proportion to the benefits which will ac- crue from the acceptance of the invitation. I appeal to gentlemen on both sides of" the Hollie, for there is nothing of party politics in this-

! appeal to the· good sense and fair judgment of the committee whether or not, in respunding to this invitation, we shall not intrust the Secretary of State with the expenditure of such an amount as maybe neces- sary to make our exhibition in that foreign country creditable to the commerce and the manufactures of our country. I will say just one word more. This resolution, reported by the Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs, proposes an expenditure of $50,000,· or so much thereof as may be necessary; and, in addition to that, couples 

the appropriation with the restriction on the Secretary of State that he 

shall account and report to Congress the mode and manner of the ex- penditure of every dollar that is used for this purpose. 

[Here the hammer fell.] 

Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Chairman, when I interrupted the gentleman 

from Mississippi [Mr. HooKER] it was not with the purpose of opposing this appropriation. I wanted only to vindicate the truth of history by correcting an error into which he had fallen. The Congress 

of the United States refused to appropriate one dollar in aid of the 

.American International Centennial Exhibition otherwise than as a loan the payment of which should be abundantly secured. The loan 

was abundantly secured, as the repayment of every dollar o( the principal proves. · 

Mr. HOOKER. With the permission of the honorable gentleman 

from Pennsylvania I will read two lines from the American,Almanac 

for 1878. 

Mr. KELLEY. Proceed for two lines. 

J\fr. HOOKER (reading): 

Besides the advance of 81,500,000 the United States Congress appropriated $505,000 for the erection of the United States Government building and for or· ganizing and defraying the expenses of the highly ereditable display by the va- rious departments and bureaus of the Government and by the Smithsonian I n- stitution. The amounts invested by Pennsylvania and Philadelphia were per- _ manent. That invested by the United States was a. loan to be repaid out of the profits of the exhibition, if any. At the winding up of the entire business of the 

exhibition there was found to be a. surplus on hand after paying all expenses of 

administration. The centennial board of finance took the ground that this 

belonged to the stockholders, who were entitled to share it pro rata. .A.s n o actual profits had been derived from the exhibition they viewed the subscriptions-of the stockholders as a. lien upon the surplus funds, The United 

Sta.tes authorities, on the other hand, maintained that it was the clear intent of 

Congress in the act of February 16,1876, advancing the$1,500,000, that the United 

State's should be fully repaid before any dividends were made. T o decide the 

question an amicable suit was brought in the United States court and decided 

in the spring ofl877 in favor of the Government. The $1,500,000 was accordingly returned to the United States, the stockholders receiving ~;~.bout 25 per cent. on their investments. The financial result of the exhibition was more favorable 

than that of any other international exhibition except one. 

Mr. KELLEY. If the gentleman had not interrupted me I should 

have stated these fa-cts, for I am vindicating the truth of history. I 

say that Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, New Jersey contributing, gave 

$100,000, the State of Delaware, I think, $10,000, and Massachusetts 

making a contribution the amount of which I forget, but would be 

glad to have stated,· and out of the fund thus created Congress required 

the commissioneclof the United States from the several States and Territories to be fed. Many of these United States commissioners brought 

their families with them, and took quarters at the best and most ex- pensive hotels in Philadelphia., and incurred bills to be paid out of 

these and individual contributions. 

But in spite of the absence of a Go"\Oernment contribution the thing became so grand a fact in prospective that the Government of the United 

States felt it would be disgraced if it did not make an exhibition in the 

Centennial grounds to the assembled people of the world, and it pro- posed to exhibit. the methods of the United Stat~. Government, so far 

as they were or might be embodied in-physical fa-cts that could be exhibited, and at its instance Congress made an appropriation of $550,000 -for use by the Government. The amount did not go into the fund of the 

Centennial commissioners, butthe Government expended it, and when 

it had made its independent national exhibition it gathered up its ex- hibits and its buildings and hustled them all off. 

Mr. Chairman, the people of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, of New 

Jersey, and Massachusetts, and Delaware, and the individual subscrib- ers to the stock, were not a little surprised when they found that there 

was a member of the Congress that appropriated the :;i1,500, 000-w ho, by 

the way, is a member of this Cong1·ess also-who claimed a fee of $10, 000 

afterhavingastutelyinserted the clause in the billmakingthat loan on 

which he could go into court and enforce its repayment. When the 

United States Government brought its suit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and their coadjutms submitted the question quietly to the circuit court, which rejected the Government's claim, from which decision, 

however, an appeal was taken, and on an intimation from the Supreme 

Court that the language of the law justified the Government in demand- ing repayment, judgment was entered and the money was immediately 

paid. 

And yet: sir, the representatives of Philadelphia voted $100,000 more 

than the whole of that loan, $1,600,000, towards rejuvenating the 

South, by establishing and maintaining an exhibition at New Orleans, 

and they have stood by all these movements. I remember the alacrity 

with which I hastened to the other side of this House to induce a 

Pennsylvania member, who is now a,n officer of this Government, re- siding in Washington, to withdraw his objection, which at that stage 

of the session would have defeated the appropriation of $20,000 to en- able us to exhibit our fishery apparatus at the German exposition. He was a strict-construction Democrat, but I implored him to withdraw 

his objection, and not to disgrace his native State, which was also mine. 1\Ir. BELMONT. Mr. Chairman, I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. 

Has the gentleman from Pennsylvania had hjs five minutes? · 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman's time has expired. 

:M:r. KELLEY. I am glad to have had the floor so long, and to have 

been able to say what I have said. 

Mr. BELMONT. I ask a vot~ on the pending amendment. 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. 1\IcA.noo] 

proposes to amend by striking out a portion of the joint resolution and 

inserting the words which have been read. Pending that motion, the 

gentleman from Texas [Mr. CRAIN] moves· to strike out all of the bill 

after the enacting clause. The Chair will treat that as an amendment 

to the amendment. Th'e question, therefore, is on the amendment of 

the gentleman from Texas to strike out all of the bill after the enacting clause. 
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The question was takemon the amendment offered by Mr. CRAIN·, and 

it was rejected. · 1 • • : • • • J 

The CHAIRMAN. • The ·question' now recurs 'upon the amendment 

of the gentleman from New Jersey· [Mr. McADoo] to stri.ke out and 

insert-- · Several MEl\ffiERS. Let it be read · t •• 

The amendment of Mr. McADoo was again read. 

The question was taken on the amendment of Mr. McADoo, and it was rejected. · ' · 

Mr. BELMONT. I now move that the committee rise and report 

the joint resolution to the House. 

The motion was agreed to. . The committee accordiDgly rose; and Mr. Cox having resumed the 

chair as Spen.ker pro tempore, Mr. SPRINGER, from the Committee of t.be 

Whole, reported that they had bad under consideration the joint resolution relating to the invitation of the British Government to the Government of the United States to participate in the international exposition 

at Melbourne to celebrate the founding of New South Wales, and had 

instructed him to report the S<O ~e to the House and recommend its passage. ~ 

Mr. BELMONT. Now, Mr. Speaker, I move the previous question on the joint resolution as reported from the Committee of the Whole. 

The-previous question was ordered. 

The SPEAKER p1·o tempore. The question now is on the engrossment and third reading of the joint resolution. 

Mr. McADOO. On that I call for a division. 

The House divided; and there were-ayes 183, noes 27; so the joint 

resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question now is on the passage of 

the resolution. • • Mr. OATES. Mr. Speaker, I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. Hn.s 

the hour expired? . The SPEAKER pro tempore. The hour has not yet expired. 

Mr. BELMONT. I ask for a vote. 

Mr. OATES. I demand theyeasandnaysontbepassageofthejoint 

resolution. 

The yeas and nays were ordered. 

Mr. DUNHAM. Ur. Speaker, I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. 

Is a motion to recommit in order now? 

· Several M:E~IBERS. • " Regular order ! " . 

Mr. DUNHAM. Is a motion to recommit in order at this time? 

Mr. HOOKER. Mr. Speaker, the yeas and nays have been ordered, 

and I submit that nothing is .in order n·ow except to proeeed with the 

roll-call. ' - The SPEAKER pro tempo1·e. The gentleman from illinois [Mr. 

DUNHAM] rises to make amotion to recommit. 

Mr. DUNHAM. I ask the Chair whether that is in order now? 

Mr. BELMONT. The yeas and nays have been ordered. 

The SPEAKER pro ternpm·e. The Chair is inclined to hold that, the 

ye..'l.s and nays having been ordered, the only: question now is on the 

passage of the resolution. 

Mr. DUNHAM. I make the point of order that the hour is up, and 

this business can not be proceeded with further to-day. 

Mr. BELMONT. The hour is not up yet. 

Several MEMB1'4RS. Call. the roll. 

The SPEAKER pro tempm·e. The question will now be taken by 

yeas and nn.ys on the passage of the joint resolution reported from the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Clerk will C..'lll the roll. 

Mr. BURROWS. Mr. Speaker, atwhattimeisthe morning hour up? 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Half a minute of the hour yet remains. 

[Laughter.] 

The q nestion was taken; and it was decided in the affir.p1ative-yeas 

1571 nays 89, not voting 77· as follows: 

AdaJDS, Clardy, Allen, C. H. Clark, 

Anderson, G. A. Cogswell, 

Arnold, Collins, 

Atkinson, Cothran, 

Baker, C. S. Crouse, 

Bayne, Dalzell, 

Belden, Dargan, 

Belmont, . Darlington, 

YEAS-157. 

Hall, 

Harmer, 

Hatch, 

Hayden, 

Hayes, 

Heard, 

Hemphill, 

Herma.nn, 

Biggs, Davidson,R.H.M. 

Blanchard, Davis, 

Hires, 

Hitt, 

Hogg, 

Boothman, De Lano, 

Bound, Dingley, 

Boutelle, Dougherty, 

Breckinridge, C. R.. Elliott, 

Breckinridge, WOP Ermentrout, 

Browne, T. H. B. Farquhar, 

Brown, C. E. Finley, 

Brum.m, Fisher, 

Bryce, Foran, 

Buchanan, French, 

Campbell, Felix Gallinger, Campbell, T. J. Gay, 

Cannon, Gest, 

Cm:utb, Granger, 

Caswell, Greenman, 

Cheadle, Grimes, Chipm~, Grout, 

Hooker, 

Hopkins, S. T. 

Howard, 

Hudd, 

Hunter, 

Hutton, 

Jackson, 

Johnston,J. T. Kean, , Kelley, 

Kennedy, 

Laffoon, ~ Laidlaw, 

Laird, 

I .. ee, 

Lehlbach, 

Lind, 

Long, 

Lynch, 

Mahoney, 

Maish, 

Mansur. 

:McCreary, 

McKenna, 

McKinley, 

McKinney, 

Milliken 

Moffitt, 

Morrill, 

Morrow, 

Morse, 

Newton, 

Nichols, 

Norwood, 

O'Neall,J.H. 

O'Neill, Charles O'Neill, J. :J. 

Osborne, 

Owen, 

Patton, 

Perkins, 

Perry, 

Phelan, 

Phelps, 

Plumb, 

Post·, 1 

Rayner, 

Robertson, 

Rockwell, 

Rowell, 

Russell, C. A. Russell, :J. E. Ryan, 

• r Simmons, 

Smith, 

Snyder, 

· Thom~s, G.l\I. : Whiting, J. R. · · ,_ Thom·as, 0. B. Whiting, WilliR.m Thompson, 3.\ L. • W.bitthorne, 

'l'illman, "' • Wickham, , Tracey, • ' J.. Wilkins,• • .. ~ Sowden, • · • Spooner, 

Springer, ' Turner,·E. J. ' Wilkinson, · " ,'Vance, Wilson, ThoilUlS 

Scott., . Scull, 

~eney, •. i · Shaw, ' 

Abbott, 

Allen,E.P. 

Anderson, C. L. Anderson, :r. A. Baker, Jehu Bankhead, 

Ba1·nes, Barry, 

Brewer, 

Brower, 

Browne, T. M. 

Buckalew, 

Bunnell, 

Burnes, 

Burrows, 

Butler, 

Campbell, J. E. Candler, 

Catchings, 

Cobb, 

Conger, 

Cooper, · Cowles, 

Allen,J.M. 

Anderson, A. R. 

Bacon, 

Bingham, 

Bland, 

Bliss, 

Blount, 

Bowden, 

Bowen, 

Brown,J.R. 

Burnett, 

Butterworth, 

Bynum, 

Carleton, 

Clement-s, 

Cockran, 

Compton, 

Cox, 

Crisp, 

Cutcheon, 

Stahlnecket•, 

Steele, 

Stephenson, 

¥anllever, Wilson, W. D. 

'\Yalker, , Yoder. Stewart,_J. W. Struble, 

Symes, 

Weavei~, 

West, 

White,S. V. 

NAYS-89. 

:Johnston, T.D. :Jones, Crrun, 

Culberson, 

Cummings, 

Davidson, A. C. Dockery, 

Dorsey, 

Dunham, 

Enloe, 

Forney, 

Fuller, 

Funston, 

Gear, 

Glass, 

Hare, 

Haugen, 

Henderson, D. B. Henderson, :r. S. Henderson, •r. J. Hiestand, 

Holman, 

Holmes, 

Hopkins, S. I. 

Hovey, 

Kerr, 

Kilgore, Landes, 

Lane, 

Lanham, 

Latham, 

Lyman, 

Martin, 

~lason, 

Matson, 

McAdoo, 

:l't'IcClammy, 

:McCullogh, 

McMillin, 

McRae, 

Montgomery, 

Moore, 

:Neal, 

Nutting, 

Oates, 

O'Donnell, 

NOT VOTING-77. 

Davenport, 

Dibble, 

Dunn, 

Felton, 

Fitch, 

Flood, 

Ford, 

Gaines, 

Gibson, 

Glover, 

Goff, 

Grosvenor, 

Guenther, 

Herbert, . Hopkinll, A. J. . Houk, 

Ketchl\m, 

La l<'ollette, 

Lagan, 

Lawler, 

Lodge, 

Macdonald, 

Matrett, 

lHcComas, 

McCormick. 

.McShane, 

~lerriman, 

Mills, 

.Jirlorgan, 

Nelson, Outhwaite, 

Parker 

Penington, 

Peters, 

Randall, 

Reed, 

Rice, 

Rogers, 

Romeis, 

Rusk, 

1.. 

O'Ferrall, .. .. > Payson, 

Peel, 

Pidcock, 

Pugsley, 

Richardson, 

Rowland, 

Sayers. 

Sherman, 

Shively, 

Stewart, Chnl'les Stone of Ky. Stone of 'Mo. 

'l'arsney, 

Taulbee, 

Turner. H. G. Warner, 

'Vashington, 

Yardley, 

Yost. 

Sawyer, 

Spinola, 

Stewart, :J.D. 

Stockdale, 

'.I'aylor,E.B. 

Taylor, :J.D. 

Thomas, J. R. Thompson, A. C. Townshend, 

Wade; 

Weber, 

'\Vheeler, 

Wbite,:J.B • . Wilbe1·, 

'Villiams, 

Wise. 

.I 

Woodburn. ; , 

So the joint resolution was passed. 

?t-Ir. MANSUR. I am authorized by the gentleman from Mississippi 

[Afr. STOCKDALE] to say that he ha~ been unexpectedly called from·the 

House, and is paired with the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. THOMPSON]. 

The SPEAKER pro tcmp01·e. The pairs will now be read. 

The following-named gentlemen were announced as paired until 

further notice: 

Mr. BY1-t"'TI11I with Mr. WEllER. 

Mr. BURNETT with Mr. GROSVENOR. 

Mr. CLE~1ENTS with Mr. KETCHAM. 

Mr. MCCORMICK with Mr. PENINGTON. 

Mr. GLOVER with Mr. GAINES. 

Mr. ROGERS with Mr .. EZRA B. TAYLOR. 

Mr. HERBERT with M:r. GOFF. 

Mr. COCKRAN with Mr. WHITE, of New York. 

Mr. SPINOLA with Mr. THOliiAS, of Illinois. 

Mr. BACON with Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR. 

Mr. CATCHINGS with Mr. HOUK. 

Mr. ALLEN, of Mississippi, with Mr. BOWDEN. 

Mr. BLAND with Mr. Ro::UEIS. 

The following-namedmemberswereannouncedas paired for this day: 

:Mr. RANDALL with Mr. FELTON. 

Mr. DIBBLE with Mr. GUENTHER. 

Mr. OUTHWAITE with Mr. BINGHAM'. Mr. LAWLER with Mr. BUTTERWORTII. 

Mr. RusK with Mr. FITCH. 

Mr. ·STOCKDALE with Mr. THOMPSON, of Ohio. 

Mr. LYNCII with Mr. WILLIAMS. 

Mr. MILLS with Mr. McCoMAS. 

The result of the vote was announced as above stated. 

Mr. BELMONT moved to reconsider the vote by which the jojnt resolution was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid 

on the table. . The latter motion was agreed to. 

ClVIL JURISDICTION, INDIAN TERRITORY. 

Mr. ROGERS, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on the 

Judidn.ry, reported back favorably the bill (H. R. 1204) conferring civil 

j nrisdiction in certain cases arising in the Indian Territory on the United 

States courts which now or may hereafter exercise criminal jurisdiction 

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over said Territory; which was referred to the House Calendar, and 

the accompanying report ordered tQ be printed. 

PARIS EXPOSITION. 

Mr. BELMONT, by unanimous consent, introduced·a joint resolution 

(H. Res. 83) accepting the invitation of the French Republic to t ake 

part in the international exposition tQ be held in Paris in 1889; which 

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

Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

PENSION .APPROPRIATION BILL. 

Mr. FORAN, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported a bill (H. R. 5445) making appropriations for the 

'payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the 

fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, and for othP.r purposes; which was 

read a first and seeond time, referred to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the state of the Union, and, with the accompanying report, 

ordered to be printed. 

CASES FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. 

Mr. TAULBEE, by unanimous consent, submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules: 

Resolved, That the Speaker of the House be authorized to refer to the proper committees of the House the bills now on the House Private Calendar, reported 

by the Cour~ of Claims in the Forty-ninth Congress and brought forward. 

NATIONAL-BANK CIRCULATION. 

Mr. WILKINS. I demand the regular order of business. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The regular order of business is the unfinished business of yesterday, and the Clerk will read the title of the 

pending bill. • 

The Clerk read as follows: 

A bill (H. R. 1733) to provi~ for the issue of circulating notes to national-bank 

associa tions. 

_ The SPEAKER pro tempore. The existillg condition of the question 

is this: The yeas and nays have been ordered on the engrossment 

and third reading of the bill. The pending question is on the demand 

for the previous question on the engrossment ·and third reading of the 

bill. 

Mr. WILKINS. I desire to make a proposition to the House, and 

will send it to the Clerk's desk to be read. 

Mr. WEAVER. There is no objection to its being read. 

Mr. ANDERSON, ofKansas. No; wedonotobjectifitdoesnotdeprive us of any of our rights. 

Mr. WEAVER. Of course we give up none of our rights. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The understanding is, of course, that 

the proposition is read for the information of the House. 

Mr. WILKINS. I ask the Clerk to read it. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore . . The proposition of the gentleman from 

Ohio [Mr. WILKINS] will now be read. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

I ask unanimous consent that the vote ordering the yeas and nays on orde:.:- ing the previous question on the engrossment and third reading of the pending bill be vacated and the motion withdrawn, and that debate be allowed and amendments in order be offered, and t he previous question on the bill and such then pending amendments be considered as ordered at 5 o'clock on the --

[the date being left blank]. . . 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. I ask for the reading of the proposition again. . The proposition was again read. . Mr. WILKINS. I wish to submit to the gentlemen who oppose this 

measure that they supply the blank. 

Mr. ANDERSON! of Kansas. How long does the gentleman propose 

to give? 

Mr. WILKINS. I propose that the debate shall close within a rea-· 

sonable time. 

Mr. WEAVER. There is no use taking up the time of the House. 

We will exercise our rights, and want no intimation from the gentleman 

from Ohio as to what we ought to do. -I object. 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. I ask to present this proposition. I 

ask uilanimous consent that the vote ordering the yeas and nays on or- dering the previous question on the engrossment and third reading of 

the pending bill be vacated and the ·motion withdrawn. 

Mr. RANDALL and Mr. WEAVER asked that the proposition be 

again read. 

ThepropositionofMr.A.NDERSON,ofKansas,wasreadfromtbeClerk's 

desk. ' 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the consideration 

of this proposition? 

Mr. WILKINS. I can not consent, unless some time in the future 

is fixed when this debate shall end. · 

· Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. How long does the gentleman propose 

to give? 

Mr. WILKINS. Within a week or ten days. I will say ten days. 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. I accept that proposition. 

Mr. WEAVER. I do not a~ee to that. I will not agree if the gentleman says thirty dayr.: 

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Mr. BROWNE, of Indiana. Let us declare, by unanimous consent, 

that the minority can always delay the legislation of this House. · 

Mr. WEAVER. 'l'hosewho are in favoroftbis bill~ and are pressing 

it here, are the obstructionists. Here is a bill in favor of the national 

banks that you .are trying to rush in· to the exclusion of everything else 

which the people require. If gentlemen choose to place themselves in 

that position, they (an do it. 

Mr. BROWNE, of Indiana. Let us have the regular order. 

Mr. TOWNSHEND. What is the question before the House? 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. A question of consideration is pending. 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. Let that proposition be read again. 

Several members demanded the regular order. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. O~jection is ma~e. 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. I hope gentlemen will withdraw 

~bat demand, as we can probably arrange this matter. 

Mr. WEAVER. I understood the gentleman from Ohio to propose 

this: that he would consent to ten days' extension for debate and 

amendment, provided at th~ expiration of that time there should be a vote on the passage of the bill. · · 

Mr. WILKINS. The gentleman is eorrect in that. 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. That is not my request. 

Mr. WILKINS. I am perfectly willing to accord that time. 

Mr. ANDERSON, of .Kansas. That is not included in my motion. 

Mr. WILKINS. I accept that. 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. It wns not my proposition. I proposed that the debate _should continue for ten days- - [Cries of 

''Regular order!"] -

The SPEAKER pro tempo're. Debate is out of order except by \lnanimous consent. 

The first question is, Will the House now proceed to consider this 

bill? 

- The qu~tion was taken; and on a division there were-ayes 107, 

noes 57. 

Mr. ANDERSON, of Kansas. Let us have tellers. 

Tellers were ordered. . . 1\Ir. WILKINS. It will save time to have the yeas and nays at once. 

I demand the yeas and nays. 

The yeas and nays were ordered. 

The question was taken; and there were- yeas_ 125, nays 99, not · . . 

voting 99"; as follows: YEAS-125. 

Adams, Cothran, 

Allen, C. H. Crain, 

Allen, E. P. Cummings, 

Arnold, Dalzell, 

Atkinson, Dargan, 

Baker, C. S. Darlingt-on, 

Bayne, Davenport, 

Belden, Davis, 

Belmont, DeLano, 

Bliss, Dingley, 

Boothman, Dorsey, Bound, Dougherty, 

Bowen, Dunham, Breckinridge, WCP Elliott , Brewer, Ermentrout, 

Brower, Farquhar, 

Browne, T. H. B. Finley, 

Browne, T. M. Gallinger, 

Brown, C. E. Gea r, Bryce, Greenman, 

Buchanan, Grout, 

Bunnell,. Hall, 

Btu·rows, Harmer, 

Butler, Haugen, 

Campbell, Felix Hayden. 

Cas\Yell, H emphill, 

Catchings, Henderson, D. B. Cla rk, Hiestand, · Cogswell, Hires, 

Collins, Hitt, 

Conger, Hopkins, S. T. Cooper, Hovey, 

Howard, 

·Hunter, 

Hutt-on, 

.Jackson, 

Jones, 

Kean, 

Kennedy, 

Laidlaw, · Laird, 

Lehlbach, 

Long, 

Lyman, 

Mahoney, 

Maish, 

Mason , :McCreary, 

:McKenna, 

McKinley, 

Merriman, 

Milliken, 

Moffitt, 

Montgomery, 

Morrill, 

Morrow, 

Morse, 

Nichols, 

0 a tes, O'Donnell, 0' Xeill, Charles Osborne, 

Parker, 

Patton, 

NAYS-99. 

Abbott, 

.Anderson, A. R. Anderson, C. L. Anderson, G. A. Anderson, J . A. Baker, Jehu Bankhead, 

Ba1·nes, 

Blanchard, 

Blount, 

Brumm, 

Buckalew, 

Cannon, 

Caruth, 

Cheadle, 

Chipman, 

Clardy, , Cobb, 

Compton, 

Cow lei!, 

Crisp, 

Culberson, 

Davidson, A. C. Davidson, R. H. M. Dockery, 

Enloe, 

Fisher, 

Forno, 

Forney, 

Fuller, 

Gest, 

Gla ss, Grimes, 

Hare, 

Hatch, 

Henderson, J. S. Hogg, Holman, 

Hopkins, S. I. Hudd, 

Johnston,J. T. 

Kerr, 

Kilgore, 

Laffoon, 

La Follette, 

Lane, 

Lanham, 

Latham, 

IJynch, 

Macdonald, 

:Mansur, 

Martin, 

Matson, 

McAdoo, 

l\1cCiarnmy, McCullogh, · McMillin, 

McRae, 

McShane, 

1\ioore, 

Neal, 

Newwn, 

Nutting, 

O'Ferrall, 

O'Neill, J . .J. Out hwaite, 

Owen, 

Payson, 

Peel, Phelan, 

Pidcock, 

Richardson, 

nobertson. 

Rowland, · Sayers, 

Perry, • Plumb, 

Pugsley, 

Rice, 

Rockwell, 

Rowell, 

Russell, <J. A. 

Russell, J. E. Sawyer, 

Scott; 

Scull, 

Sherman, 

Spooner, 

Steele, 

Stewart, J. W. Struble, 

Thomas, G.l\!. 

Thomas, 0. B. Tracey, 

West, 

White, J.B. White,S.V. 

Wickham, 

Wilkins, 

'Wilkinson, 

Williams, Wilson, Thomas Yardley, 

Yost. 

Seney, 

Shively, 

Simmons, 

,.Smith, 

Snyder, 

Stewart, Charles Swne of Ky. 

Tarsney, 

Taulbee, 

Thompson, T.L. Tillman, 

Townshend, 

Turner, E. J. Turner, H. G. Wade, 

Walker, 

Washington; Weaver, 

Wheeler, 

Whiting, J. R. 

Whitthorne, - Wilson, W.L. Wise, 

Yoder. 

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NOT VOTING-99. 

All~m, :J.l\1. Felton, Ketcham, 

Bacon, Fitch, Lagan, 

Bar.ry, Flood, Landes, 

Biggs, Ford, Lawler, 

Bingham, French, Lee, 

Bland, · Funston, Lind Boutelle, Gaines, Lodg~, Bowden, Gay, l>Iafl"att, 

Breckinridge, C. R. Gibson, McComas, 

Brown, J. R. Glover, McCormick, 

Burnes, Goff, :McKinney, 

Burt:Jeit, Granger, :1\Iills, Butterworth, Grosvenor, J.\.!organ, 

Bynum, Guenther, Nelson, Carupbell, J. E. Hayes, Norwood, 

Campbell, T. J. Heard, O'Neall,J. H Candler. Render on, T. :J. Penington, 

Oarleton, Herbert, Perkins, 

Clements, Hermann, Peters, Cockran, Holmes, Phelps, 

Cox, Hooker, Post, 

Crouse, Hopkins, A. :J. Randall, 

CntcheQn, Houk, Rayner, 

Dibble, ;Johgston, T. D. Reed, 

Dunn, Kelley, _ RogerS', 

So the House de-termined to consider the bill. 

Rome is, 

Rusk, 

Ryan, 

Shaw. 

Sowden, 

Spinola, 

Springer, 

Stahlnecker, 

Stephenson, 

Stewart, J.D. Stockdale, 

Stone of Mo. Symes, 

Taylor,E. B. Taylor, :J.D. Thomas, ;r. R. Thompson; A. C. Vu.nce, 

Vandever, 

Wa.rner, Weber, 

Whiting, William Wilbur, 

Woodburn. 

Mr. OATES. I r.sk unanimous consent to dispense. with the reading 

of the names. 

1\Ir. WE A. VER. I obje-ct. 

The Clerk then recapitulated the names of those voting. 

The following additional pairs were announced: 

liir. GRANGER with Mr. BUTTERWORTH, for tlie rest of the day. 

~ir. BARRY with ~Ir. KELLEY. 

l'lfr. SPRINGER with Mr. llENDEnSO.~:-, of Illinois. 

J\Ir. BURNES with Mr. STONE~ of Missouri. on this bill. 

Mr. L.A. WLER with Mr. ST.A.HLNECKER, on the bank bill. 

Mr. FORD with Mr. CUTCHEON, on t.his bill for to-day. 

llfr. PERKIN'S with Mr. WILDER, on the bank bill. If present, Mr. 

WILBER would vote for the bill, 'Mr. PERKINS against it. 

Mr. RANDALL. I desire to say thnt if I was not paired I would 

vote ''no.'' 

The result of the vote was then announced, as above recorded. 

The SPEAKER p1·o tempo1·e. · The question recurs--

1\:fr. WEAVER. I move that the House take a recess until3 o'clock, 

when the special assignment comes up. 

The question was taken; and on a diviBion there were-ayes 17, 

noes 36. 

Mr. WEAVER. No quorum bas voted. 

The SPEAKER pro tempo1·e. The point of order being made that no 

quorum has voted, the Chair will order tellern. 

Mr. WEAVE:& and Mr. WILKIN'S were appointed tellers. 

The Honse again proceeded to divide. 

Mr. WILKINS (one of the tellers). I ask unanimous consent that 

this matter go over until to-morrow, and that the hour for the special 

order may be considered as having now arrived. 

Mr. WEAVER. I have no objection to that. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the gentleman ask unanimous 

consent that a recess be taken until 3 o'clock? 

Mr. RANDALL. Can not the special order fixed for 3 o'clock be 

proceeded with now hy consent? 

Mr. WILKINS. That was my: proposition. 

Mr. DUNHAM. I understan(f the .Massachusetts delegation do not 

desire to commence the proceedings until 3 o'clock. 

::M:r. WEAVER. Then let us take the recess until3 o'clock by unanimous consent. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will submit that request to 

the Honse. . Is there objection? 

There being no objection, the Honse (at 2 o'clock and twenty-fi.\"e 

minutes p. m.) took a recess until 3 o'clock. 

PORTRAITS OF EX-SPEAKERS. 

The recess having expired, the House reassembled at 3 o'clock. 

The SPEAKER p1·o tempore. The hour of 3 having arrived, the 

special order will be r ead by the Clerk. 

'.rhe Clerk read .as follows: 

Ecsol'Ved, That Thursday, :January 19, at 3 o'clock p. m., be set apart for the presentation to the House of Representatives of purtrai.ts of ex-Speake,rs Sedg- wick, Varnum, and Banks by the Commonwealt h of Massachusetts, and that upon that occasion the committee of the executive council of that State be ad- mitted to the :tl.oor. 

Mr. LONG. Mr. Speaker, several yearn ago, when I was in official 

position in Massachusetts, Hon. Ge-orge B. Loring, then a member of 

t his body from that State, wrote me urging the propriety of its furnishing suitable oil paintings of the Speakern it bud given to this House. 

No action was taken in the matter at that time. But the consumrn.a- tion was not far off. When my colleague, Mr. RoCKWELL'; enteied 

the Forty-eighth Congress he sought, at first in vain, among the pictures of the ex -Speakers of the Honse for one bearing the name of Theodore Sedgwick, who was Speaker in tb.e Sixth Congress, and whose 

home was in that part of Massacha.setts which Mr. RocKWELL now :represents. After persistent inquiry he ascertained that one of the then 

unnamed pictures hanging in the adjoining lobby was the object of hiB 

search. He was aided in his investigation by Mr. Clark, the An:hitect 

of the Capitol, who two years later, as a result of a conversation between them, addressed to him the following letter: 

.A.RcHITEcr's OFFICE, U.S. CAriTOL, 

Washington, D. C., l!'elYnW.1"Y 16, 1886. 

DEAR Sm: As relates to the portraits of' the Massachusetts Speakers of the United States Hoose of Representatiyes, I ha"e the honor to state that the por- trait of Spea.l~er Winthrop, recently presented by cel'tain citiz ens of Mas u.chu- setts, is a work of art worthy of the place it holds and the person it represents. That_o_f Speaker Banks, thol!gh an oil painting", is on paper, anll: in a decaying conditlO!l: _Those of Sedgwick and Varnum are crayon drawmgs, quite be- neath critiCism. I cnn not but entertain t.he hope tha.t your great Sl:\te,vill follow the example of the State of Connecticut., and have painted by artists of repute portraits of its Speakers, Sedgwick, Varnum, and Banks, to grace this natior.al collection. Very respectfully, yours, 

Hon. F. W. ROCKWELL, 

EDW A.RD CLARK, 

Architect. rJnited Stales. Capitol. 

H!mse ff} Representah'ves. 

The following memorial to the authorities of·Uassachusetts was the 

next step: WASHINGTON, D. 0., Fcbnuzry 16, 1886. 

The undersigned, Representatives from the Stote of Massachusetts in the Forty-ninth Congress, respectfully represent that in the collection of ttb.e por- traits of t.he Speakers of the House of Representatives of the United Stutes, those of Speakers Sedgwick, Varnum, and Banks m·e unworthy of the place they 

hold, one being in a perishing condition, and the others crayon drawings in- differently executed. They therefore earnestly pray that measures will be taken by the authorities of t.he State which t.hey have the honor to represent in Congres!! to have furnished for this national collection at the Capitol portraits of Speakers Sedgwick, Varnum, a11d Banks, to 'be painted by artist~ o.f repute, as in the case ofl::ipeskc.r 'Vi.utluop. R. T. DAVIS. JOHN D. LO~G. 

A.A. RANNEY. PATRICK A. COLLINS. E. D. HAYDEN. H. ll. LOVER1 TG. 

E.~ F . STONE. CHAS. H . .A.LL:&~. 

FREDERICK D. ELY. W. W. RICE. "Wl\I. WHITING. FRANCIS W. ROCKWELL. 

We have had no recent opportunity of examining the portraits of the distin- guished gentlemen referred to. Fully confiding, however. in the judgment of the delegation in theHou:se of Representative'3 as to tltepic~ures refen:ed to, we concur in their desh·e, H. L. D.A WES. GEO. F~ HOAR. 

This Jette~ and memorial were presented to the governor of Massachusetts, who transmitted both to the senate and house of representatives of that Commonwealth, recommending the subject to their fav.orableconsiderntionandaction. Thel\lassachusettsLegislatnrepromptly 

responded by passing the following resolve, which was approYed April 

1, 1886: • 

Resolved, That the governor and ct>uncil be, and they are hereby, authorized and requested to have furnished fo~: tlte national Capitol at \Vashington,D. C., 

worthy portraits of Speakers Sedgwick:, Varnum, and Banks, the same to be painted by some nrti:st or artists of skill and repute, and to correspond in merit with that of Speaker Winthrop, already in tho colleetion. 

Under the authority of this resolve the governor and coandl employed Edgar Parker, of Boston, to paint a portmit of Theodore Sedgwick, from an original by .Stuart, in the possession of the Sedgwick 

family, in St.ockbridge, Mass. 

They purchased of a great grandson of the Speaker of the Tenth and 

Eleventh Congresses a portrait of Joseph BmdleyVarnum. It iB a copy 

painted by Charles Loring Eliot more than 1hirty years ago. The 

original was done l>Y an artist whose name is not ascertained. The copy 

was intended, when made, for the n ational Capitol, but the original intention seems to have been abandoned. 

They employed R. W. Vonnoh, of Bost.on, to paint a"Portrait of the 

Speaker of the Thirty-fourth Congress, Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, from 

life, representing him, however) as of the age at which he was Speaker. 

The artists have finished their work. The portraits a:re here, having 

been brought to Washingten under the charge of'l\lessrs. Bourne, .Jollnson, and Locke, a committee of the executive council of .1\Iassachusetts, 

appointed by Governor Ames to present them to the National Government, and now, by the courtesy of the House, present on its floor. 

Speaking for them. and for the ancient Commonwealth whose gift they 

bring_, I present tothenational House of Representative the e "worthy 

portraits ''of Speakers Seugwick, Varnum, and Ba.nks. With the painting of Winthrop, already here, they are speakers still for the State and 

for t.he Union: to -which the men '\\"hose faces they picture renderecl 

high and honorable service. I trust that other States, following the 

example of this day, will array beside these portraits worthy portraits 

of their own distinguish ed sons who ha>e held the same Elffice, and who 

deserve, as 11-fasSRchusetts thought hern deserved, more permanent and 

artistic memorials th...m those which nave hithert.o hung upon the adjoining walls. 

It is fitting, 1\Ir. Speal;:er, that Ilea veto my colleagues who represent 

the several districts in which lived the Speakers whom :Massacbu..«ettg 

has given to the chair you occupy the appreciative words which this 

occasion demands in their behalf; but I can not forbe..'-\r to add in a single 
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sentence tlut their fame and service are limited to no distriet in that joined in the debate upon the question of allowing the hea!i of the prolristm:ieCommonwealth, bn..tarehus,.associatedwithhercommonglOJ·y; posed department of foreign affairs to be removable by the President, 

hers, not as she st:m:ds alone, but as she stands and has stood and will urging his position by illustration, logic, and marked ability. This postand, as a pa:r:t of that Union whichr unde:rher construction of its Con- sition of a sound reasoner, an eloquentdebater1 besteadilymainta.ined. 

atitntio~ ha.s been tried and not :fuund wanting in po-wer to preserve its His speeches disclose a familiarity with subjects then beibre Congress 

own integrity, to establish j us-tiee,. insure domestic tranqnillity, provide · that mark him as a ma.n o.f intellect, of great research, comprehension, 

for th-e- common defense, promote the generru welfare, and secu:l'e the and able to meet, grapple with, and conquer difficulties in-a practical 

blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity; her~ too, proud way. 

mother as she has been ()J so many other &tates:men, soldiers, scholars, With constitutional ardor he became a leader of his party. His re- ora.tors,. poots, and patriots who hn.ve !oved,. hmmr~ and served their lations with the leading men of his day were intimate and confidential. 

country~ fu the .works- &f .Alez,ander Hamilton appear a few of his letters and 

Could you, sir, like Virgil's man, cross the stream and walk the the rep-lies received to them. Indeed, the last political letter-written 

Elysian fields, as at some time you will-may it be late alike with by Hamilton, the day before his death, was directed to Judge Sedgwick. 

you. and with him whose place by reason. of his illness you occup-y this His was the Federalism of the Hamiltonian era-' 'an honest faith, a parlay-you would see them there-Sam Ad~ms and John;- Otis and rri:otic, true-hearted, and high-minded one." · 

Quincy and Hancock; Warren, his patriot blood spouting hot from his His_leaming, integrity, impartiality, and courtly bearing made him 

gaping w~>Und; the swart1 mighty brow of Webster, beut over the open as a judge honored and res-pected, worthy the mgh position 1\Ia.s...~chu

pages of the Constitution; the nervous :figure of Choote; the graceful setts had conferred upon himr 

pose of Everetti Longfellow, wea.ming of the banks of the ChaFles;: Judge Sedgwick's private life was passed amid the picturesque bills " 

Emerson and.S1llill1£ll.';: and Phillips ~ calm in his me:rciless srom of ih- of Berkshil'e. Here he lived in republican sin:Lplicity, yet dis~ing a 

justice, walking arm anQ. arm with the :fiery Andrew, no Greek or generous hospitality. The tribntes of his children while he lived and 

Trojan helmets on their heads, but in_ their hands the broken shackles after his death disclose the loving relations that mark the true home. 

of a. slave and the olive branches oftherestmedpeace and un}c:moft.heir His care and guidance impressed his clmracter andattainments on his 

country. Only shadows. Only pictures, such as these we bring to- children's children. 

day-mute,. but fo:reve:r eloquent.. [Applause.) The town of Stockbridge,. the county of Berkshire, the Cornmon-

:Ur. ROCKWELL. :Mr. SpeakeJ:, in the Fiftieth Congress we remll wealth of Massachusetts, will ever cherish the memory o:f his life and 

the emi.neH:t public serviee of a gentleman who was in ilie First Con- eminent public servi~e. Stamling here to-day, representing the district 

gress.~ . in which he lived~ the bar at which he practiced, a family of the neigh:-

Theodo.re Sedgwick won. a high position in the Comm<Tnwealth of borbood tlmt has wit~ed and known his ca:reer, I admit a peculiar 

Massachusetts~ in the: eouncils of the Federal party. and in Congress. A per.:onal delight :in the occasion of the p:l'esenta.ti.on of this portrait. 

manofintegrityt fidelity, andcapacityt he leads :i line of well-equipped · His was a masterful personality. IDs life was one of high and sucWestem.Massa£husetts men.wi10 have beenhonored .. not alone by mer- cessful endeavor; it p!!esents a charm aJ.td an inspiration. With "the 

ited. promotion at home, but who- have been intrusted in the Congress old 1\<Iftssae.hnsetts, paper," ''we leave it to the skill of the exquisite 

of the United States with the high duty of framing~ shaping, defend- artist to complete a picture w hicb, if a faithful resemblance of the 

i:ng, miDn.taining the dignity. power, and humanity of a. belo.ved coun- o.ri.ginal, can :not fail to engage the attention and produce the delight ot 

try. When he entered the First Congress he brought talent and ex- posterityLn [Applause.) 

per.i:ence. Edaca.ted at Yale, entering the 1Jlassachusetts bar (April, GENERAL JOSEPH BRADLEY VARNU~I. 1766) when searee twenty, we find him at thirty an aide to Gene1.-al 

Thomas in the expedition to C:mada {1776}, and aftenvard procuring J.lt:b. ALLEN, of Massaclmsetts. Ur. Speaker, almost a century in 

supplies for the Continental Anny. He represented the old town ot the busy gmwth. and active life of tllis nation has passed since General 

Sheffield in the 1fussaehnsetts genernl oomt, both before and after the Joseph Bradley Varnum~ of 1\fa.ssachu.setts, presided as Speaker over 

Revoln:ti.on.. . His votes are recorded as a delegate in the Congress of the the deliberatioru; of this body, and on this day the old Commonwealth 

Co:nfedGr::ttion in 1786 {June 1 to August 22} and in 1788 (April4 to once more ealls attention to the early days of our national life-, as she 

September 3). In the winter of 1787 at home he aided in sup-pressing ba.ngs upon the walls o.f the natio-n's Capitol this truthful repl'esentathe Shays insurrection.. In. 1788 be was also a representative from tion. of one who eh&aeterized a typet in our early struggles, that the 

Stockbridge to the Massachusetts State ronvention that ado}}ted the thousands of American eitize:ns coming to this :place,. as to a shrine, 

Federal Constitution, a coo;rse he strongly ad-vocated in the convention. shall here find, in honored pla:cesJ the likenesses· of those men whose 

Th~ same year he was s:pcake.r of the Massachusetts house of repre- he1:-oie traits of character added so mu:eh to 01o1r :national greatness, as if 

sentn.tives. :woven into the web of our national life in its fust wea.ving, forming 

He served in the Fi:rst,. Seeond,. Third,. and Fourth Congre...."Ses in the beautiful tap€Stry. to educate and delight. 

House until he was appointed from the Fourth Congress as an United. So far removed in time-~ from the subject of these remarks, an epitome. 

States Senator to succeed Caleb St:rongr presenting his credentials on o-f his life will se1-ve the purp()se of the occasion, if from it we may 

Decem beT 21, 17~6. On June. 27,. 1798t he was elected President JJ.ro draw a lesson, applicable to modem times. 

tempore of the Sena.te, serving until .July 19'. Retu:.rned to the Hou~e On January 29, 175{}, General Vamum was born in the town of 

in the Sixth Congress (1799), he was elected Speaker, serving till March Draent, 1tfuss., where his ancestors had settled in 1664, and where his 

3, 1801. · deseerrilimts still dwell. 

In 1802, 1tiassaehuse.tts; who appreciates faithful pn.blicse:rvice, placed A delightful village on the banks of the channing 1tierrimac, whieh, 

him in her supreme C011rl7 where be remained until his deathr in his · having its somoo am&ng the White,l\Iountains oi' New· Hampshire, 

sixty--sixth year. Thus a life beginning in 1746 and ending in 1813 flows between beautifully wooded banks~ with varying interest, down 

was filled with usefulness: and crowned with honor. Thus it appears tQ the sea; pausing in its busy way to turn millions of cotton-spindles, 

that he served in two Congresses _under the Confederation and in the :firs.t and blending the music of its own easy-flowing rhythm with the hum 

six: Congresses after the adoption of the Constitution, under our present of the looms on which are being woven, day by day, the ga:rments of 

represen~1.tiv~ Re-public. He served during the two administrations of the Oriental. Amid pastoral scenes the most delightful, this rugged 

Washington and under that of John Adams. m.:'loll. had his early life, and among such ass~:>ciations were formed those 

He took his seat in the First Congres~ held in the city of New York, habits of thought, that simplicity of character, that ardent patriotism, 

on June 15t 1789. He served in the Congresses held at Philadelphia, thatintense zeal, which characterized the youthofthathistorie section ,~ 

and was there Speaker in th.e first session of the Sixth. When the sec- and made possible that sudden arming and gathering, which found 

ond session of the Sixth Congress opened its sitting in the new Federal the men of l\1iddlesex County., on that historic April morning, at the 

city of Washington he was the presiding officer (November 17, 1800). bridge at Concor!l, to inaugurate the great struggle of the Revolution, 

He lived and was deeply interested in the stirring times preceding out of which this nation was to arise. He was the younger of two 

and dnrmg the-Revolution and throughout the formative period of the brothers, both of whom became COilSJ.licuons in the history of their 

Republic. He was in the midst of affairs when the Articles of Confed- country. 

eration were agreed upon. (1777); when the ninth State adopted the At the age of eighteen he was commissioned captain by the commit;. 

Constitution (1788). . : tee of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, and in 1787 colonel by the 

Mr. Sedgwick belie\ed in a firm government. His speeches indicate Commonwealth of l'.Iassaehusetta. In 1802 he was made brigadier, and 

it. He believed in the Republic. His distrust of the capacity of the in 1805 lllf\ior general of the State militia, holding the latter office at 

people for self-government as intimated by his distinguished daughter, his death in 1821. His love {}f military affairs commenced early, and 

Miss Catherine, I believe, on careful comJlarison with his public utter- co.ntinued through a long and useful life. . 

ances, to be overdrawn. Logical and lucid, elegant in expression, and From 1780 to 1795 he was a member of the house of reprewith the dignity of a gentleman of the old school, he proved by his . sentatives and senate &f Massachus-etts, and in 1787 and 1795 served 

speeches that Congress is a house of work for intellectual men. The as a member of the governor's council. From·l795 to 1811·he was a 

speeches ofthatdayindeed disclose a grandgraspofideas, a philosoph- member of the national House of Representatives, during which time 

ical reasoning second only to the good judgment, discreti.on, and fore- he was chosen Speaker two terJIUr-from 1807-ro 1811-having bee}} 

thought of the framers of the Constitution itself. In those discussions the immediate predecessor of Henry Clay. From 1811 to 1817 he waa 

Mr. Sedgwick bor~ a conspicuous part. He was a well-grounded and United States Senator from Massachusetts, having been elected in opready debater. The day after taking his seat in the First Congr~s he position toTimothyPickering, and he was President pro tempore of the 
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Senate, and.A.ctingVice-Preside.nt of the United States, fromDecember 

6, 1813, to .A.pril17, 1814. He was a member ofthe State convention 

to ratify the Federal Constitution in 1787, and that of 1820 to revise 

the constitution of Massachusetts, and was the presiding officer in the 

absence of Presidents John.A.dams and Chief-Justice Parker. He was an authority in that convention on parliamentary rnles and military 

affairs. In 1813 he ran as candidate for Governor of Massachusetts 

against Caleb Strong, the incumbent of that office, but was defeatedthe only political defeat of his life. 

General Varnum was among the earliest patriots of the Revolution, 

having raised and commanded, as captain, a company of minute-men 

from his native town, which participated in' engagement.s in Rhode 

Island and New Y Ol'k. He was with General Sullivan in Rhode Island, 

and was present with his company at the surrender of Burgoyne at 

Saratoga, in October, 1777, and ~onvoyed the German prisoners of war to Boston. For his assistance inputting down Shays' s rebellion, in 1787, 

he received a personal letter of thanks from General Benjamin Lincoln, 

commanding the State forces. In politics (unlike his brother, General 

James M. Varnum, of Rhode Island, who was a Federalist) he was a 

Democrat, and a strong and consistent supporter of the administration 

of Jefferson, and was the latter's personal adviser and friend. After 

his retirement, in1817, from the National Congress, he was again chosen 

to represent his district in the State Legislature; and when he died, 

September 21, 1821, he was the senior member of the senate of Massachusetts-thus having for over thirty years been in continuous public 

service, twenty-two of which were spent at the national capital. 

He left a valuable correspondence with Jefferson, Madison, the elder . Adams, Elbridge Gerry, and the eminent men of his day. The simplicity of his life and character nowhere appear to greater advantage 

than in his direction for his funeral-that there should be no military 

or civic display, but that he should be buried from his farm-house and 

att nded by his friends and neighbors. I am indebted for many of the 

above data respecting his life to the courtesy of his grandson, Mr. John, 

M. Varnum, now residing in Cambridge, Mass. 

But any mere picture, however famous the artist or excellent the 

production, falls short of its purpose in this connection, unless from it, as Americans, we can draw some lessons useful to us in our national 

life. · In these burly-burly days of great activity in political matters, we 

are apt to lose sight of the paramount interest of the state in the pressing demands of personal politics, and it does us good to turn aside from 

the beaten path, and climb the elevation at han , where we can over- look the small matters of immediate detail, and take a broad and com- prehensive view of our great affairs. 'fhe days of General Varnum 

were, in their wa.y, the crucial period in the history of our country. 

They marked the separation from the mother country, the setting up 

of the new nation, the daily meeting of new propositions to be decided 

with sound sem:e, prudence, and caution, and they exacted from those 

who had to deal with them wide experience and information, simplicity of purpose, a profound love of country, and an entire faith in its 

great future. And it seemed as if Providence, in the rearing of our 

early patriots, prepared a people for the new life and new conditions. 

In other lands the theory of government had been based upon the 

divine right; and liberty-yearning people everywhere, were casting 

about for some spot, where the experiment of a government based upon 

human rights and human equality, could be attempted. Toward our shores the tide of emigration had settled. Sturdy, resolute men and 

women had come hither. The. bleak and dreary snow-covered hills 

and plains, the fog-enveloped, rock-bound coasts of New England 

seemed in their almost forbidding harshness to invite men who had the 

fire of liberty burning in their hearts, and among surroundings the 

most disheartening, upon these shores, determined men mapped out 

the future of this country. 

In the hill towns of New England the very air was freighted with the 

purposes of the people, and the greater the obstacles to be surmounted, 

the more enduring and useful the lesson taught. 

Behind these people was the great story of the English-speaking 

race, with its excellences to imitate, its vices to shun; and the greater 

the difficnlties, the grander the character developed. 

Just as on some bleak and barren waste, where the blasts of winter 

sweep and rage with relentless fury, now and then one sees standing 

fair and stately, some massive tree, stronger of trunk, broader of limb 

than iq wont to be, developed the more by the very elements with 

which it contends, so in New England were developed those strong 

characteristics of a freedom-loving people, broad enough 0 embrace all 

who loved their country, and strong and elastic enough, though they 

bend and swing beneath tremendous pressure, to rise again to the same 

stately·and commanding .dignity of spirit. . 

Inviting the fullest and widest discussion, the broadest liberty, yet 

with a quiet dignity, and a superb conservatism, placing the limitthe dead~line of discussion-where personal liberty is thre.'l.tened, or the sacredness of person or property menaeed. That was the spirit of 

New England, always aggressive, and that, in my judgment, is the active underlying .principle of our-Government, which must ever move 

~nd control. No limit to theories or "isms" until they approach, in 

their tendencies, the overthrow of Government, therights of property, 

or the lives of persons. Of such a people was Genemt Varnum, and his 

life is but the working out, in one man, the essence of this principle. 

From him down, the same spirit animates our citizens, whether they 

make their path through Northern climes, or whether the warm sun of 

the Southern latitudes finds them toiling still. It is the love of country. The nation first, then the individual, but the aggregate of the in· 

dividual weal, the highest honor of the nation. This is the spirit which 

has controlled our countrymen, whether in Faneuil Hall, or Independence Hall, or wherever patriots have gathered; it has been this banner 

ofhuman right and perfectequalityofall beforethelaw which has been 

lifted up in the sight of all men-that golden !)ymbol-that whosoever 

looketh upon, liveth. 

And here is the lesson, and here I leave it. As this painting shall 

hang upon yonder wall in the years to come, so may its presence recall the 

heroic struggles through which we have passed as a nation, the difficulties and dangers still menacing us, and may the contemplation of these 

earlier patriots, in their earnestness of purpose and simplicity of character be a lesson and an inspiration to all, drawing men continually together as members of the same country, and teaching us all to take a liigher and more ennobling view of our duties as citizens of this great Republic. [Applause.] 

Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, it has been deemed by the repre· 

sentatives from Massachusetts in this House not only fitting, but, indeed, essential to the completeness of this day's ceremony, that at least a reference shonld be made to the eminent citizen of that Commonwealth who graced the Speaker's chair some forty years ago. 

During the session of the Forty-seventh Congress his portrait was presented and received here in words so true and appropriate, so clearly 

estimating his character and weighing his work, that, though the 

gracious task is allotted to me, I refrain from an extended analysis of 

either. Yet I can not, as a citizen of that great State, a State proud 

of the achievements of all her sons and sensitive as a mother of praise 

ancl blame, let the hour pass without asking you again to recognize 

and appreciate the space that Robert C. Winthrop so superbly :filled. 

If Virginia i~ the mother of Presidents, Massachusetts is the cradle 

of Speakers. Of the thirty-six who have presided over the House of 

Representatives four have come from that Commonwealth. My colleagues have portrayed the characters of the other three distinguished 

gentlemen, and the qualities of head and heart that won and justified 

the favor of their associates. They served their State and the Uepublic 

with ability, honor, and patriotism. To whatever parties we are attached and whatever traditions guide, bind, or affect us, we men of 

Massachusetts are as one in our respect for our stainless fellow-citizens 

who have filled that chair. 

Worthy among the best, or best among the worthy, was Speaker Win· 

throp. He came equipped for service as few men come. to the House. 

He was carefully and thoroughly educated; free from the cares that . oppress the struggling beginner, with six years' experience as a legislator and parliamentarian, he arrived in time to match his mind in de: bate with the ablest men the Republic has honored with its suffrages. 

In a recent publication due credit is given to his great capacity as an orator, but his power as a debater is more than questioned. Men yet 

live who served with him, not only here, but in other deliberative bodies, 

and -their testimony is that he not only excelled all others in grace and 

force of diction in what may be termed" set speeches,'' but he stood level 

with the great debaters of the time. We need not seek, however, evidence from outside. The printed record which from day to day expresses the hot extemporaneous thought of our legislators does full 

justice to him. He was a great debater as well as an accomplished 

rhetorician. Called to the Speaker's chair in a stormy epoch, he served 

with rare grace, felicity, and firmness. It is worth remarking that he 

had the privilege of placing Abraham Lincoln, in the only Congress in 

which he ever served, upon a committee which helped. to extend the 

postal system into the then far West. In the chair he guided the House, 

as a Speaker can, with prudence, firmness,_ and great wisdom. He left our active legislative life at an age when most men aspire to enter it, 

only to contribute in other ways to the common weal and to the enrichment of our literature. In serene and graceful old age he still remains 

to remind us of all that is just and honorable, true and intellectual,. of 

that group of statesmen that clearly saw the forming of the great cloud 

and knew its fearful portent. The cloud has come and gone~ and in 

another way the air is free; but we owe our acknowledgments to men 

like him who sought to dissipate it in peace. 

His masterly oration at Yorktown and his more recent utterances in 

this Hall will live as models of eloquence and fortunate analysis of charMter as long as our institutions that he did so much to conserve shall 

endure. [Applause.] 

I ask to supplement n:l.Y remarks by having read a letter written to 

me by Hon. Julius Rockwell, the father of a member on this floor. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

LENOX, MASS., January 16, 1888. 

MY DEAR. Sxn.: I learn from the newspapers that you are expected to make some remarks at an early day in the House of Representatives in relation to l\Ir. 

Winthrop, a former Speaker of the House. In the first volume of Mr. Blaine's "Twenty Years of Congress," at the sev- eQty-third page, in what purports to be a summary of the character of Mr. Win· throp as a. public man, this sentence occurs: "As an orator he was always grace- ful and effect-ive, but never took high rank in. the House as a debater.!' 
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I think this sentence, unintentionally of course, fails essentially in justice to Mr. Winthrop. I served with Mr. Winthrop in the Twenty-eighth, Twentyninth, and Thirtieth Congresses, in the House of Representatives. I had been with him previously in the house of representatives of Maasac~usetts, in the years of 1835,1836, and 1837, and have heard his speeches on many public occa- sions. The value of such books as that of 1\fr. Blaine, and of ,the opinions therein expressed upon such a subject, must depend greatly upon the oppor- tunity which the author has had to observe the continual conduct and character of debates. I think Mr. Blaine has never been associated with Mr. Winthrop in any deliberative assembly. I feel justified, therefore, and deem it a duty, on any proper occasion, to express a different opinion. 1.\<Ir. Winthrop, while a. member of the House, spoke upon many, I think most, of the important ques- tions then discussed. He not only made what may be called set speeches, in ·which he was always graceful and effective, as Mr. Bla ine says, but I think his utterances, as well in the se as in general debate, placed him in a very high r ank as a parliamentary debater, and that such was the general opinion of his asso- ciates. During the Congress in which he was Speaker of the House ]lis duties were performed to the universal satisfaction of all parties. So far as I can I wish to give my testimony especially to his high rank as a debater, and to assure you that the passage! have quoted from Mr. Blaine is notjusttoMr. Winthrop. I a.m sure you will pardon me for these suggestions, as I am one of the few living who had these opportunities of observation. 

·With great respect, your obedient servant, .JULIUS ROCKWELL. 

Hon. P. A. COLLINS. 

[Applause.] 

Mr. HAYDEN. The Thirty-fourth Congress metonthe 3dofDecember, 1855. The House consisted of 234 members and 7 Territorial delegates, two new Territories having lately been formed, namely, Kansas 

and Nebraska. The Clerk of the House announced that a quorum bad 

answered to their names, and a motion was made to proceed to the election 

of a Speaker. Then began one of t}le most memorable contests to elect a presiding officer of the House of ~epresentatives known since the formation of the Government.. The balloting con tin ned day after day without an election, no candidate receiving a majority of the ballots. The 

debates which sprang up "t>etween the times of voting plainly expressed 

the temper of the public mind on the great question which agitated the 

country. It was a time of transition. The old parties were disintegrating; new ones were being tormed; the questipn of slavery and freedom was uppermost in all minds, and this burning subject was forced to the front 

by the repeal of the compromises and the acta relating to slavery in the 

Territories. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill had divided the 

party in power and had driven from it many sincere and earnest men opposed at heart to the institution of slavery; but love for the Constitution and reverence for the memory and acts of the fathers who framed 

that instrument had restrained them from the honest expression of hostility to that institution. Now,. the barriers having been removed by 

the pas&'tge of these acts, the old struggle was renewed which from the 

earliest days had produced the fiercest and harshest debates and which 

shook the very foundation of this Government. Theretofore men with 

this veneration for the Constitution had spoken of slavery reluctantly, 

with bated bre.1.th and with euphemistic p4fase; but now men spoke 

boldly and with no uncertain sound on this dominant subject, and it was apparent that the country was dividing as never before. The issue was being made and parties were forming which would bring this 

question to a final settlement, though then and later earnest efforts 

for conciliation and compromise were being made. The people of the 

country watched this contest of two months for Speaker with intense 

interest. 

On the 2d of February, 1856, and on the one hundred and thirtythird ballot, the House elected, by the plurality rule, Nathaniel Prentiss Danks, of Massachusetts, Speaker. Mr. Banks was born in Waltham, in that State, Janmuy 30, 1816. The cotton-mills of this town were about the first in the country to take raw matetial and make it 

into a fabric under one roof. His parents were in humble circumstances and connected with the factory population. He attended the 

village school, and in early life entered the mills as an operative. Eager 

to learn, he was a great reader of the books in the library of the corpomtion, and be studied hard and continuously, being his own teacher. 

A bright lad, he was apt~ and ready in discussion, and evinced much 

skill and information in the village debating society. The training 

got here made him later a prominent figure in the town meetings, 

where his dignity and grace of manner, oratorical power, quickness 

and facility in debate, won him many a victory on questions of local 

government. These steps in training advanced him to the public platform, and he took part in the Presidential campaign of 1840, advocating 

the election of Martin Van Buren. He was a candidate for the general 

court, but was defeated seven times before he gained a seat in the Massachusetts house of representatives. He was twice elected its speaker. 

He was president of the convention to revise the constitution, and was elected to the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat. Elected to the 

Thirty-fourth Congress, "clothed," in his own words, "with a majority of 7,000, the largest majority, with a single exception any man ever received in the political contests of Massachusetts. I ~ay say, 

perhaps, that I .representthestrongestanti-slaverydistrict in the United 

States." 

This was the ele~ted Speaker of the Thirty-fourth Congress. During 

the contest, replymg to a member, he said, "In my brief period of 

public life, not altogether a quiet one, I have relied upon myselfalone. 

I have done that, under all circumstances, which myoconviction taught me to be right~ '' One member spoke of him ''as the very bone and 

sinew of Free-soilism. " 

On January 9, 1856, Mr. Dunn, of Indiana, _appealed to Ma-ssachusetts in these terms: 

I put it to you, men of Massachusetts, if the lesson of the past does.no~ sa_Y, concede a liLtle? What is the teaching of your own great and gl~rwus hlS- tory when ever it has been manifest that your personal wishes stood m the way of the attainment of a great end which we were all struggling for? .Lo~k at the burning page that is before you, and read its teachings. Let me ask m km?n.ess, I b eg of you, what is written in the history of your own eventful and brilhant past? Eight years, almost one-eighth of the existence of our Government-your children have sat in the chair of the Speakership of this House. There was y~mr 

Sedgwick, your Varnum, your Winthrop. And in the other ena of the Capitol twelve years of Presidency have been yours. Your great Adams and your Gerry have been there. The seat of highest honor-the Chief Magistracy-the 

great father and the great son, the elder and the younger Adams, have occu- pied. In the national Cabinet, from the first, your voice has al~ost ah':ays been heard. In our diplomatic relations, your name has been registered m nearly every court upon earth. You have earned these honors, and have worn them well. They were yours by the highest title-me-rit. 

Mr. Knowlton, replying to this appeal: 

The place has seemed to seek the man, and not the man the place. It is not Massachusetts that comes here and asks the election of the honorable gentleman from Massachusetts as Speaker. She, as a. State, does not press it, although she may well be proud of the honorable gentleman for whom we are all proud to cast our votes. She does not press it. The great spirit of fr~edom aroused throughout the length and breadth of the free States of the Union bas laid her band upon that honorablegeittleman, and is asking that he may go ~P to occ~P;Y 

that chair. And, so far as the West is concerned, so far as the piOneer spu1t that dwells in the West is concerned-that spirit of energy which has led these men out into that land-where in all the Union can that spirit of inherent energy find a more fit representative than in the honorable gentleman fr?m M~­

chusette, for whom we vote? Sir, if I may be pardoned the expresswn, he IS a man whose native.energy has broken through all the barriers that surrounded him, and he has raised himself to a position in the estimation of the free men of this nation of which any man on earth might well be proud. 

As the presiding officer of the greatest legislative body, the experi- ence acquired as moderator of the town meeting and as speaker of the 

Massachusetts house of representatives, fitted . him admirablYJ and. he 

gained a deserved reputation amongst all parties in the land. Of an erect figure, much dignit;y of manner; with a sonorous and attractive 

voice, untiring courtesy, fairness to all sides, he won the respect of the 

members, and ranks among the most successful of Speakers. 

Elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, he resigned, and was three times 

elected governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. During his 

administration the great institutions of learning and :philanthropy, 

which that Commonwealth so zealously fosters and encourages, received 

his earnest attention . . 

Her militia, under his direction, became efficient, and had no superior 

in any State. All classes of citizens joined in doing him honor. He 

won the applause of scholars, when he represented the State_ at the an- nual 'commencementof its oldest university, by his eloquent words and 

elegant diction, and he retained to the end of his term the confidence · and afft>Ction of his people. 

During the civil war he commanded armies and great departments. 

The training of the soldier had not been his, but he was placed in high 

position, served faithfully and courageously, and was a prominent figure. 

After the close of the war he wa.s elected to the Thirty-ninth, },ortieth, 

Forty-second, . Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses. Since then 

he has served the country in . other places, and always honestly and 

with ability. , 

This man of sin:iple origin and scap.t education fitted himself by his 

own inherent strength and untiring industry to fill with credit any 

place within the gift of the people, and Massachusetts honors herself 

when she honors him whose steadfast integrity has always been conspicuous and whose public services command the praise of all her 

people. 

It would not be becoming in me to indulge too much in eulogistic 

speech. . He would so counsel me. I have pointed out in a brief way 

to the Representatives of the Fiftieth Congress the public 'services of 

Maooacbusetts' fourth contribution to the Speaker's chair. My honorable colleague has in eloquent words borne witness to the distinguished 

merits of Mr. Winthrop. These two men area striking illustration of our free institutions; the one the descendant of the first governor of 

Massachusetts Bay, the recipient of all she could give in education 

and culture; the other of limited education, of simple surroundings, 

self-taught, have both occupied with equal ability the Speaker's chair 

and shared in that great prize of a great people. 

Massachusetts to-day presents to the House of Representatives the 

portrait of Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, one of her honored sons, sprung 

from the plain people, from whose loins come the strength and prosperity of the land. [Applause.] 

Mr. LODGE. It would be idle for me to attempt to add towhathas 

been so eloquently said as to the Massachusetts Representatives who 

have filled the high place of Speaker in this House. Yet I can not forbear to say a few words as to one of the distinguished men whose portraits Massachusetts to-day presents to the nation. I am led to do 

this by a strong feeling of personal regard and by an equally strong 

sense of many kindnesses. I have, however, still another motive. In 

that famous declaration of literary independence which Dr. Johnson addressed to Lord Chesterfield he said, ''The notice which you have been 

pleased to take of my labors, had it been early had been kind; but it 

has been delayed till I am indifferent, and can not enjoy it; till I am solitary and can not impart it; till I am known and do not want it." 
\To 

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The sentiment, with slight vn,riation of phrase, is susceptible of wide 

application. We are too apt to give only criticism to the living man and reserve all our praise until be is dead. ·I do not mean by this the 

common praise that ''crooks the pregnant hinges of the knee, that thrift 

may follow £'1wning," nor that which is poured outattheshrinewhere 

the fancy or the folly' of the hour makes it fashionable to worship. I 

mean the praise of those who have nothing to expect and which is offered to those who have nothing to give. It is this which we are too 

ready to keep for the frigid lines of the epitaph or the obituary, when 

the hea.rt which in life it might have stirred with pleasure is still and 

cold in death. We can certainly afford to praise a friend, when, as in 

the case of Mr. Winthrop, to whom I refer, his career as a public man 

has passed into history. It would seem, perhaps, too soon to say this, 

but it is not the lapse of time that has made historical the events of 

forty years ago. There is the gulf of a civil war between that time 

and this, and the mighty conflictwhichdividedStatesandaltered constitut,ions, which obliterated parties and swept social systems into ruin, 

has pushed into the domain of history men and events which by a 

mere counting of years would still belong to the present. 

Turn to the pages of the Congressional Globe, which record the doings 

of the Thirtieth Congress, and run your eye down the list of committees 

appointed by :M:r. Winthrop. It is a somewhat sobering exercise, for 

the names are for the most part mere names and nothing ·more. Some 

few are famous; some are Temembered, and most forgotten. There are 

"some with lives that came to nothing, some with deeds as well undone." But if you scan the list closely you will find, as one of the 

gentlemen who preceded me said, last but one, on the Committee on 

the Post-Office and Post-Roads, thenameof Abraham Lincoln. Try to 

realize what that name meant then, and think what it means to this 

oountry and to m::m.kind to-day, and then comes a very sharp perception of how f.'\r the Thirtieth Congress has passed into history. 

l\fr. Winthrop filled the office of Speaker with ability and impartiality, as well as with the grace and comt-esy for which he has ever been 

conspicuous. It is not my purpose, nor is it necessary, after whathas 

been sai.d to-day and on a previous occasion, to trace his public career 

ei theT before or after that period. I desire simply to speak of him since his 

ret:U:ement from public life. Whatever his feelings may have been at 

the ending of a political career of unusual promise and success, he never 

swerved from that honorable service of the public which for two hundred and fifty years has been the habit and tradition of his race. As 

president of the Massachusetts Historical Society for more than a quarter of a century he has done a grea,t work for the preservation and publication of our early historical records. By his writings he has largely 

contributed to American history. As :president of the Provident :Association, of Boston, :md of the Peabody Trustees he bas L1rbored long 

· and earnestly for the relief of poverty and suffering at his door, and for 

the spread of education throughout the country. His eloquence has 

graced many of ouT most memorable celebrations, and his orations at 

Yorktown and at the completion of the Washington 1lfonument are 

still fresh in eveTy one's memory. 

With these simple allusions I must be content. I only desire to 

place upon the record this slight personal tribute, not so much to the 

Speaker of the Thirtieth Congress as to the scholar and historial!, to the 

orator and the philanthropist; above all, to the good citizen and the 

kindly gentleman. Massachusetts is proud to be represented in these 

latter days on the honorable roll of the Speakers of this House by one 

who has added fresh luster to the name wbich she reve.res as that of the 

founder of the Commonwealth, and also by the gray-haired SQldier who 

has served both State and nation in the field and in civil life with so 

much patriotism and distinction. [Applause. J 

Mr. RANDALL. 1llr. Speaker, I speak under the impulse which the 

occasion immediat-ely prompts. The State of Massachusetts presents 

the portraits of ex-Speakers Theodore Sedgwick, who presided over the 

Sixth Congress; Joseph Bradley Varnum, who presided over the Tenth 

and Eleventh Congresses, and Nathaniel P. Banks, who presided over 

the Thirty-fourth Congress, to be placed alongside the portrait of Robert 

C. Winthrop, who presided over the Thirtieth Congress. I rise to offer 

aresolutionaccepting these portraits with the assurance, not only of this 

House but of others yet to sit here, they will be safely kept and treasured. 

Massachusetts is affi.uent in her list of illustrious men who have. added 

to her renown and that of our country. Theodore Sedgwick presided, 

as I have said, during the Sixth Congress. It was the Congress that 

sat during the last two years of 111r; John Adams's administration. He 

was a Federalist. Joseph Bradley Varnum presided during the Tenth 

and Eleventh Congresses, and was, as has been said here to-day, a disciple ofThomasJefferson. His occupancy of thatchairwasduringthe 

stormy period preceding the second war of independence with Great 

Britain, from 1812 to 1815. Nathaniel P. Banks presided during the 

Thirty-fourth Congress, and it was the privilege of some of us to be here 

with him, not, perhaps, during his term as Speaker, but subsequently. 

and therefore we know better of him and are able to speak with more certainty. 

1\Ir. Banks, to my mind, was a typical American. He came from the 

mill to preside over the deliberations of a body of men representing a 

country that to-day is without a superior. 11Ir. Banks in the discharge 

of that duty,"and in his whole career, has given to us an ex::unple which 

teaches us the strength of our institutions, and their justice and impartiality, and demonstrates to American youth the truth that by industry, by perseverance, by energy and will power, the field is open 

for them to occupy almost any station to which those qualities of character can advance. them. And it is because we have such a Government, affording such opportunities, we have been blessed with results 

commanding the admiration of the leading intellectual statesmen of 

civilization. 

Soon after I entered this House, now more than a quarter of a century ago, I came to consider that that office which you, sir, now temporarily bold was the highest office within the reach of an American 

citizen; .that it was a grand official station, great in the honors which 

it conferred and still greater in the ability it gave to impress upon our 

history and legislation the stamp of truth, fairness, justice, and right. 

And, sir, there is a peculiar reason why these early Spe.:tkers who 

have occupied that chair are entitled to have what they did ever .to be 

remembered, and their history never to be forgotten. They gave to 

the nation in its early years, after its organization, and when it came 

to be practically tested, a dil'ection, force, strength, and success rarely 

equaled, and certainly not surpassed, by any government of the past or present time. · 

When it fell to my foTtune to occupy the Speaker's chair, I realized 

how true was my idea of the position and its possibilities; and I do not 

believe there is any one worthyofbeing mentioned in connection with 

it, who, the very instant he takes it, will not become so broad and generous in the scope of his political vision as to act regardless of individual and personal consequences, and only for the best interests of the 

American people as his judgment shaU dictate. 

Public men in the United States, I am sorry to say, have few rewards 

or emoluments in return for the strain, the exacting labor, and the 

worry of public service; andyetthefactshould be always kept in sight 

that the people do not always forget the good which their Representatives take part in doing; and I am sure I express the sentiment of all 

of us here when I say that it is a great incentive to exertion in the discharge of our duties to know our labors and services are not ignored or 

cast into oblivion. In the case·of these eminent public servants they 

have been held in veneration for whattheydid in the past; and for the 

future, by the gift of the State of Uassachusetts, their portraits will 

adorn our walls to carry down to posterity their well-earned and welldeserved fame. [Great applause.] 

I now send up a. resolution of acceptance, which I ask the Clerk to 

read. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That this House has recei~ed with great satisfaction the portraits of Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, Speaker of the Sixth Congress, Hon. Joseph B. Var- num, Speaker of the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses, and Hon. 1\athaniel P. Banks, Speaker of the Thirty-fourth Congress, presented by the Commonwealth 

of 1\Iassach usetts, and will cause them to be placed and preserved among those 

of the other distinguished men who in times past have presided over the House of Representatives. 

[Applause. J 

Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky. I rise, M:r. Speaker, to second the motion just submitted by the gentleman from Pennsylvania; 

and it is perhaps not altogether improper that the person ~~lected to 

second this resolution should be a Representative from the · State of 

Kentucky. Without any purpose to say one word in honor of that beloved State, who~e people know that I love her with a passionate idolatry, it is not unbecoming to say that in her history there is no more 

glorious page than that on which are written the names and the deeds 

of her sons who have filled the SpeakeT's chair, and I to-da.y take advantage of the absence of one of those sons to say that in impartiality 

and intellectuality the son who fills it to-day never had a superior. 

[Applause.] 

It is rather a peculiar fuct, sir, that one of the gentlemen whose portrait we a-ccept on this occasion was succeeded as Speaker by Henry 

Clay, of Kentucky, and another gentleman whose portrait we accept, 

Mr. Banks, himself succeeded Ron. Linn Boyd, of Kentucky; and 

if I may refer to so small a. matter as a personal fact, my eldest son 

bears the name of a Kentucky delegate who voted twice to elect Gf;!n· 

eral Varnum Speaker of this House. 

:Mr. Speaker, as I meditated about what it might be proper to say 

this afternoon, the one great thought that continually arose in my mind 

was the contrast ·between to-day, when this rep_rcsentative body legislates for sixty millions of free men and for a country stretching from 

ocean to ocean, this day whose past is but the precursor of an ampler 

and nobler and more beloved future, and that day on which Theodore 

Sedgwick was born, a-hundred and forty-two years ago. If' any one 

standing by the side of his humble cradle on that May day in New England could have looked down the corridors of time and beheld the radiant 

effulgence of this glorious period, and, with prophetic ken and poetic 

power, have given utterance to it, he would have. been held an insane 

dreamer of wild and impossible dreams. 

The reality that has come to our ancestors and to ourselves outstrips 

all possible prop~etic inspiration. And if we could widen the contrast 

and take in the whole English-speaking people, if we could measure the "feebleness of that race of which we are a part, on that spring day 
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those years ago, and see how to-day the uplifted' cross, which has been 

carried in the hands of those who speak this marvelous tongue, has 

been permanently platJted in every part of the globe, how the hot justice 

that marks our people and ourcivilizationic:; melting away the barbarism 

in every part of the heathen earth, and how, under the benign rays of our Christianity, the fruits of nobler enterprises and higher hopes are daily 

growing into magnificence-if we could do this, we would realize some- what of the duties which are committed by the very fact of inheritance 

to our hands, and the glory of the triumphs which await our children 

in the future. · 

This contrast continuaJJ.y pressed itself upon me as I medita.ted upon 

the scene th:1t was to be presented here this afternoon. In a narrower 

sense each one of the periods marked by the terms of these three gentlemen is a historic period in our development. When John Adams 

gave way to Thomas J efterson it was not merely the sequence of names in the dull chronology of office; it was something more than that. 

Without undertaking to defend or to attack the principles or the policies of either of the two parties that had contended for mastery, I 

ma,y be permitted to suggest that underneath the transient and com- paratively trivial contests and difficulties between those p!lrties there 

were deeper C<'\uses of difference. The Jeffersonian party represented 

the spirit of annexation. It had turned its face town.rds the West. 

It had fixed its yes upon the setting sun. It felt the throbbing 

pulsations of a new counb·y,· and, conscious of the pervasive power of 

free institutions, it felt that the arena upon which the future was to 

be worked out was the entire continent. Modes of government, con- structions of constitutions, the mere crystalliza-tions of legislation, were 

not the true causes of difference. That policy which had at its head :Mr. 

Jefferson looked to the accomplishment of a world-wide republic. It 

aimed to found n. form of government so flexible that two States could 

be harmonious under it, or a hundred States could be united and happy 

in its progressive power. Realizing that that growth could only be at- tained by setting aside the trammels that were sought to be p'ut upon 

the majestic limbs of this new mistress of the West, the followers of 

Jefferson changed not only the p ersonnel of the Government, but the 

policies of the Government also, and when Theodore Sedgwick went out 

of the Speaker's chair a Jeffersonian Democrat went into the Speaker's 

chair. 

Fifty years passed away. The annexation had been accomplished. 

The Uississi ppi no longer divided us. Our fathers had gone across the 

continent. The muniments of our title were blood-stained by·the victories of Buena Vista, and from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico. Grave 

questions arose as to what should be the futureoftllis ocean-bound Republic, and in the mids~ of the throes of the dying Whig party, in the 

midst of the changes that this very annexation produced, in the beginning of the consolidations that were to follow that disintegration, Ma.ssachusetts, who had lost le~dership in 1801, stepped ready armed with all 

the culture that Harvard had given her, with all the heroic blood that 

poured through the veins coming from the Adamscs and Qnincys, with a generation equal to the generation of the Revolntion-ay, superior in all 

the elements of true mallhood and of lofty culture to that Revolutionary generation-l'!Iassachusetts stepped to the front; and as the beginning of the leadership in that tremendous struggle, Nathaniel Prentiss 

Bank~ecame Speaker of the House of Representatives; and though 

Orr fo"Tiowed him, and though a Democrat was elected once more, .yet 

practic.1.lly from 1855 until 1875 the House of Representatives _registered the decrees of Massachusetts and the Republic of America followed the lead of the old B:1y Commonwealth. I do not exaggerate, 

Mr. Speaker, I think, when I say that from 1855 to 1875-whether it 

was for weal or for woe, whether it was wisely or unwisely done, men may differ and historians may dispute-but as a matter of fact Massachusetts led America and led her with an audacity and an aggressiveness, with a skill and an eloquence, with a power and force that have never been surpassed in all the tide of time in the leadership of a 

great people. [Applause.] , 

Jrlr. Speaker, is this all of it? Is this the end of the chapter? Is 

this ceremonial about the past all that is to be said and all that is to 

enter our hearts on this early da.y of a new year? In some other ball, 

when the assembled representatives of many more millions are met together to accept the picture of some other Speaker, some Speaker as earnest, as dutiful, as resolute as these, some Speaker such as the em- inent gentleman who has just preceded me [l\Ir. RANDALL], whose 

nallle honors the list of Speakers [general applause]-when some one, 

standing as I stand to-day, seconds the motion then to be made as I do 

the motion submitted to-day, may he not with more eloquent tongue 

felicita.te himself and his country upon the added triumphs that he 

and his enjoy, that will have come down from this evening to that day? 

As we go away to-day from this scene the thought which in my 

heart is uppermost has a tinge of envy in it. I envy the little boy 

who, careless to-clay of this transaction, may live to see the aevelopment of the next seventy years. I feel toward him a certain degree of 

jealousy that he will see so much more than we have seen. I am glad, 

Mr. Speaker, I did not live wheJ). Washington lived; I am glad I lived 

not when Warren fell at Bunker Hill; I am glad that I have lived in a later day, amid other generations, that thereby I became the inheritor of all the accumulated glory, all the aggrega.t~d heroism, all the 

nameless and indescribable sacrifices that man has put forth from that 

day to this; and as I project myself into the future I do not accept the 

olive branch that my friend from Massachusetts has held out to me, 

but, lovingly waving it aside, I take with outstretched hand his outstretched hand, and I challenge Massachusetts to a nobler rivalry for 

higher purposes in that glorious future which I pray God to give those 

we love. . [Loud and long-continued applause.] 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is now on the adoption 

of the resolution proposed by the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. 

RANDALL]. 

The resolution was adopted unanimously. 

Mr. RANDALL. I move that the House now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at4 o'clock and 35 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned. 

PRIVATE BILLS .AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED AND REFERRED. 

Under the rule private bills and joint resolutions of the following 

titles were introduced and referred as indicated below: _ · By Mr. BUTLER: A Joint resolution (H. Res. 84} authorizing the 

erection of an inn at Fortress Monroe, Va.-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. G. A. ANDERSON: A bill (H. R. 5446) granting a pension 

to William H. Dowdall-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By l\Ir. GEAR: A bill (H. R. 5447) granting additional pension to 

William Reddick-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. • Also, a bill (H. E. 5448) grauting.a pension to IIenry J. Alvis-to 

. the Committee on Pensions. 

By Mr. STONE, of Kentucky: A bill (H. R. 544.9) for the relief of 

S. F. Harris-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. BLANCHARD: A bill (H. R. 5450) for the relief of C. Augusta Urquhart-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By l\fr. COMPTON: A bill (H. R. 5451) for the relief of Stephen 

Casey-to the Committee on Claims. 

By l\fr. SHAW: A bill (H. R. 5452) for the relief of Emily J. Fardyto the Committee on Claims. 

By Mr. RUSK: A bill (H. R. 5453) for the relief of Henry East-to 

the Committee on Military Affairs. . Also, a bill {H. R. 5454) granting a pension to Julia A. Tuckey-to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5455) granting a pension to Mary A.. Mills-to the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5456) to increase pension of William U. Stewart 

-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5457) to increase. the pension of Frederick Engelhardt-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions_ · Also, a bill (H. R. 5"4.58) granting a pension to Julie Stirzel-tQ the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. D.A VIS: A bill (H. R. 5459) granting a pension to Michael 

Clarke-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 546 ~) granting a pension to Amelia J. Leavittto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By l\Ir. J. E. RUSSELL: A bill (H. R. 5461) granting a pension to 

Stephen Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. HAYDEN: A bill (H. R. 5462) granting a pension to Edwin 

Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 5463) granting a pension to Susan C. Nelson-to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5464) granting a pension to 1\fehitabel.A. Smithto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. , By Mr. COGSWELL: A bill (H: R. 5465) granting a pension to Joseph Goosey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By 1\Ir. BREWER: A bill (H. R. 5466) granting o. pension to John 

F. Confer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By l\Ir. FISHER: A bill (H. R. 5467) granting a pension to Daniel 

Foreman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. CUTCHEON: A bill lH. R. 5468) granting a pension to 

Charles W. King-to the Cori:rm.ittee on Invalid ·Pensions. 

By Mr. LIND: A. bill (H. R. 5469) granting a pension to John 

Crapsey, father of Agelo M. Cmpsey-to the Committee on Invalid 

Pensions. 

By Mr. WALKER: A. bill (H. R. 5470) for the 1·elief of Henry 

Rongey, of Van Buren, Mo.-to the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5471) for the relief of Henry Schoen-to the 

Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5472) granting a pension to 1\Iichael Zapp, of Cape 

Girardeau, Mo.-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

ALso, a bill (H. ~ 5473) granting an increase of pension to Samuel 

C. Barber, of Sedgewicksvillc, Mo.-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5474) :for the relief of 1\fartin Justice, of Laflin, 

Mo. -to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5475) for the relief of R. W. Barber-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5476) granting a pension to Christian Pope-to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 
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By Mr. FARQUIIAR: A bill (H. R. 5477) for the relief of James A. 

Murray-to the Committee on Claims. 

By Mr. MOFFITT: A bill (H. R. 5478) to remove the charge of de- - ·sertion against Ephraim Bova-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. SAWYER: A bill (H. R. 5479) granting a pension to A. H. 

Jenks-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . . 

By :M:r. ROWLAND: A bill (H. R. 5480) for the relief of James Iredell Meares-to the Committee on Claims. 

By Mr. KENNEDY: A bill (H. R. 5481) granting a. pension to Sarah 

A. Vananda-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5482) ~ranting a pension to Rachel Beck-to the 

Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, a bill (H. n. 5483) granting a pension to Samuel H. Edwardsto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. E. B. TAYLOR: A bill (H. R. 5484) granting a pension to 

Rufus N. Daniels-to the Committee on Invalid Pen..<;ions. 

By Mr. BOOTHMAN: A bill (H. R. 5485) granting a pension to William Bowman-to the Committeeon Invalid Pensions. 

By ?!!r. E. B. TAYLOR: A bill (H. R. 5486) for the relief of Ruth~ 

Frances, mother of James D. Prosser-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. SCULL: A bill (H. R. 5487) granting a pension to William 

R. Weimer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. KELLEY: A bill (H. R. 5488) -to' increase the pension of Ma.rth Keown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. HALL: A bill (H. R. 5489) for the relief of J a.cob Kagoriseto the Committee on Militarv Affairs. 

By Mr. SPOONER: A bil( (H. R. 5490) granting a pension to Mrs. 

Catharine Sinnott--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. PHELAN: A bill (H. R. 5491) forthereliefofR. B. Owento the Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a bill (H., R. 5492) for the relief of Mrs. E. G. Carter-to the 

Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5493) granting a pension to Mrs. E. G. Carter-to 

the. Committee on Pensions. · 

By Mr._ ENLOE: A bill (H. R. 5494) for the relief of John T. Robersou-to the Committee on Claims. 

By Mr. BUTLEH: A bill (H. R. 5495) for the relief oflsaac Hodgeto the Committee on Military Affairs. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5496) for ;the relief:of Lincoln S. Jones, late a private Company H, Eighth Tennessee Volunteers-to the Committee 

on Military .Affairs. 

Also, a bill {H. R. 5497) for the relief of Josiah Mahoney-to the 

Committee on Pensions. 

By Mr. SNYDER: A bill (H. R. 5498) for the relief of the estate of 

Thomas H. Willis, deceased-to the Committee on Wa:r Claims. 

By Mr. CLARK: A bill (H. R. 5499) granting an increase of pension 

to~rederick Augustin--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By :Mr. 'U. A. SMITH: A bill (H. R. 5500) for the relief of John P. 

Clum-to the Committee on Claims. . 

By Mr. GIFFORD: A bill (H. R. 55'01) granting a pension to War- ren Page-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. FISHER: A bill (H. R. 5502) granting a pension to James 

E. Horton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. LAWLER: A bill (H. R.. 5503) granting a pension to Charles 

Walster-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By 11-:lr. NUTTING: A bill (H. R. 5504) authorizing and directing 

the Treasrrrer of the United States to pay all members of the One hundred and eighty-fourth Regiment New York Volunteers, war of the 

rebellion, the balance of bounty due them, and fer other purposes-to 

the Committee on Military Affairs. . _ 

By Mr. BUTLER: A bill (H. ·R. 5505) granting a pension to Ruth 

Collier-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. HA.. YES: A bill (H. R. 550G) extending the period of limitation for claims for back pay to J. T. Foster-to the Committee on Military Affairs. . . By Mr. DUNHAM: A bill (H. R. 5507) granting a pension to Julia 

E. Morse-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. MERRIMAN: A bill (H. R. 5508) for the relief of George 

K. Otis-to the Committee on Claims. 

By Mr. WHEELER: A bill (H. R. 5509) to grant to the Gulf and 

Chicago Air-Line Railway Company the right to construct bridges over 

navigable water-courses-to the Committee on Commerce. 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5510) for the relief of Claude H. Mastin-to the 

Committee on War Claims. 

Also, a bill (H. R.. 5511) for the relief of L. H. Walker-to the Committee on War Claims. • 

Also, a bill (H. R. 5512) to grant the right of way over the public lands 

in"AJaba.ma and Mississippi to the Cincinnati, Nashville and New 

Orleans Railroad-to the Committee on the Public Lands. - By Mr. ATKINSON: A bill (H. R. 5513) for the relief of HenryS. 

Wishart-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

PETITIONS, ETC. 

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

under the rule, and referred as follows: 

By Mr. BLANCHARD: Petition of Narcisse Prudhomme, of Lonisiana, for reference of his claim to the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. BOOTHMAN: Petition of William lfow:man, for special-act 

pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. BREWER: Petition of Johri F. Coutee, for special-act pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. BUTLER: Petition of Elijah Killday, praying to be placed 

on the pension-rolls-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, petition and papers in the case of William Bean, for a pensionto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. FELIX CAMPBELL: Petition of citizens of Brooklyn, N.Y., 

with outline specification, for the erection of a monument in that city 

in memory of prison-ship martyrs of the American Revolution-.-to the 

Committee on the Library. . By Mr. CASWELL: Petition ofGeorgeJ. Kellogg and 17 others, citizens of Janesville, Wis., for reissue of fractional currency-to the Committee on Banking and Currency. 

By Mr. COGSWELL: Petition of Joseph Gooiey, for .a special-act 

pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. COMPTON: Petition of J nlia Barnett, for payment of her war 

claim-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. CONGER: Paper to accompany Hous~ bill 157, for relief of 

Robert McNutt-to the Ccmmittee on Military Affairs. 

Also, papers to accompany House billl55, for relief of Dulcena Noelto the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. FISHER: Petition of Hon. D. P. Markey and 10 others, for 

relief of James E. Horton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. FORNEY: Petition of Mariah Dockery, of Etowah County, 

Alabama, for reference of her claim to the Court of Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. · 

By Mr. GEAR: Statement of G. M. Ochiltree, to accompany House 

bill4659-to the Committee on ·War Claims. 

By Mr. GIFFORD: Petition of Warren Page, for special-act pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. GROUT: Petition of George E. Crowell and 101 others, citi- zens of Brattleborongh, Vt., asking for fractional currency-to the Committee on Banking and Currency. 

Also, memorial of Harvey W. Brown, John Miller, and John W. 

Mooney, for increased compensation to letter-carriers-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. 

By Mr. HEARD: Petition of citizens of the District of Columbia, in 

favor ofEckington and Soldiers' Home Railway-to theCommitteeon 

the District of Columbia. 

By Mr. HOVEY: Petition from the city of-Evansville, Ind., for the 

erection of a mm·ine hospital in said city-to the Committee on Naval 

Affairs. 

Also (by request), petition of Susan Jerome, for additional pension 

legislation-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. JACKSON: Petition of John T. Reeves and 61 others, citizens 

of the Tweaty-fourth district of Pennsylvania, against the admission of 

Utah as a State-to the Committee on the Territories. 

By Mr. KELLEY: Petition and affidavit of Martha McKeown, for 

relief-to the Committ-ee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. KENNEDY: Petition of Sarah A. Vananda, for a idow's 

pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. McCOMAS: Petition of the executor of Joseph H. Maddox, 

of Maryland, for relief-to the Committee on War Claims. _ By Mr. O'FERRALL: Resolution of the General Assembly of Virginia, favoring an appropriation for adequate quarantine at or near Cape 

Charles, to prevent introduction of contagious disea-ses-to the Committee on Commerce. 

By Mr. PERKINS: Petition of E. E. Hillis, J. R. Linbury, and 346 

others, citizens of Pittsburgh, Kans., for a governmental system of telegraphy, to be operated in connection with the Post-Office Departmentto the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. 

By Mr. PLUMB: Petition of Mrs. M. L. Stratton and 114 others, 

citizens of Wheaton, Til., for the prohibition of the manufacture and 

sale of alcoholic beverages in the District of Columbia.--to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 

By l'Ir. RANDALL: Petition of Frederick Waly, for a pension-to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. RUSK: Petition of P. H. Philbin, with papers to accompany 

House bill-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. · • Also, petition of citizens of Baltimore, Md., for the abolition of the 

duty on salt-to the Committee on wa-,s and Means. 

By Mr. RUSSELL: Petition toaccompanyabillforthereliefofMary 

O'Neill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, papers to accompany bill for the relief of Ella E. Gibson-to 

the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

Also, petition of Stephen Smith for special-act pension to accompany 

bill for his relief-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. SCULL: Papers in the case of William Baley and James 

Fisher, for relief-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. SHAW: Petition of Emily J. Fardy, for relief-to the Committee on Claims. · By Mr. SPOONER: Petition of Catharine Sinnott, widow of Patrick 

Sinnott, for special-act pensi~m-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 
1888. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 585 

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Also (by request), petition of Elizabeth Howell, for investigation of 

Insane Asylum in District of Columbia-to the Committee on the, District of Columbia. 

By. Mr. E. B. TAYLOR: Petition of Ruth Francis, mother of James 

D. Prosser, late private Company D, Sixty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, for mother's pension-to the Committee on Inv:;11id Pensions. 

By Mr. G. M. THOMAS: Petition and papers in the case of Christian Leder, for a pension-to the Committee on In·mlid Pensions. 

By Mr. VANDEVER: Petitionofcitizens ofSan Luis Obispo, Cal., 

for an adequate appropriation for the improvement of their harborto the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. · By Mr. J. R. WHITING: Petition of John W. Shine and others, for 

the improvement of the· Pinepog River, Michigan-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. 

By Mr. WILKINSON: Papersin thecaseofestateofLucien Goyaux; 

of the Citizens' Bank of Louisiana, and of Mary Shannon, administratrix-to the Committee on War Claims. 

The following petitions for an increase of compensation of fourth-class 

postmasters were severally referred to the Committee on the Post-Office 

and Post-Roads: 

By Mr. BARRY: Of J. A.. Wilkinson and other.;;, of Sparta, Miss. 

By Mr. BLANCHARD: Petition of A. P. Edwards and 54 others, 

and of James A. Calhoun and 53 others, of Louisiana. 

By Mr. BOWEN: Of Charles Thompson and others, of R. C. Robertson and others, and of J. R. Lumkin and others, of Grantville, 

Ab. 

By M.r. T. H. B. BROWNE (by request): Of citizens of Floyd, Dak., 

of Bel verde, Tex., of Blocker, Ark., of Central Lake, Mich., of Mexia., 

Tex., and of W. S. Cash and others, of S. C. Sheppard and others, 

of Henry Swift and others, of Virginia; and qfS. F. Carolanandothers, 

of Long Ridge, Ark. 

By .Mr. DOCKERY: Of citizens of Fox, Mo. 

By Mr. ROWLAND.: Of citizens of Ghio, Richmond County, North 

Carolina. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

FRIDAY, Janua'ry 20,1888. 

The House met at 12 o'clock m: Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. 

H. JI.!ILTIURN, D. D. 

The J onrnal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and appr_oved. 

CHIPPEWA INDIANS IN MINNESOTA. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House a letter from the 

Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates from the Secretary of 

the Interior of appropriations to fulfill agreements with Chippewa Indians in Minnesota; which was referred to the Committee on Indian 

Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 

SURVEY OF MOUTH OF BRAZOS RIVER, TEXAS: . 

The SPEAKER p1·o tempore also laid before the House a letter from 

the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, a report of the survey at the month of the Bmzos River, in 

Texas; which was referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, 

and ordered to be printed. 

Il\fPROVEMENT OF MUSKINGUM RIVER, OHIO. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore also laid before the House a letter from 

the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Chief of. Engineers in 

regard to the improvement of Muskingum River, Ohio; which was !e· 

ferred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, and ordered to be 

printed. 

SEN ATE BILLS REFERRED. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore also laid before the House the following 

bUis of the Senate; which were severally read twice, and referred as indicated: , 

The bill (S. 81) for the relief of H. B. Wilson, administrator of the 

estate of William Tinder, deceased-to the Committee on Claims. 

The bill (S. 1027) to fix the charge for passports at $1-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. . · 

The bill (S. 139) to credit and pay to the several States and Territories 

and the District of Colombia all moneys collected under the direct tax 

levied by the act of Congress approved August 5, 1861-to the Com- · mittee on the Judiciary. · 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. In regard to the referen~e of the last 

bill, the Chair has investigated the precedents and finds that at the 

first session of the Forty-ninth Congress a bill of similar purport wa8 

referred to the committ~e which the Chair bas just indicated, the C.om- mittee on the Judiciary. · 

RETURN OF BILL TO SEN ATE. 

The SPEAKER PrrJ tempore. The Chair lays before the House the 

foUowing request from the Senate. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

IN SENATE UNITED STATES, January 18, 1888. 

Ordered, That the Secretary be clirected to request the House of Representstives to return to the Senate Senate bill !)?-8, in relation to the marriage between 

white men and Indian women. 

There was no objection; and the request of the Senn.te was granted, 

and the bill ordered to be returned. 

PACIFIC RAILROAD COMMISSION REPORTS. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Hou§e a· letter received by the Clerk of the House from the Public Printer. 

The Clerk read as follows: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 

Washington, D. C., Janu~ry 19, 1888. 

SIR: The resolution to print 10,000 copies of the President's message and ac- companying reports of the Pacific Railroad Commission is herewith returned, 

for the reason that our estimates place the cost of the same at $805, being in excess of the amount of printing permissible on resolution of the House. Very respectfully, · 

JoHN B. CLARK, Esq., Clerk of the House of Represenlativcs. 

TH. E. BENEDIC'.r, 

Public Printer. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. If there be no objection, the Jetter will 

be referred to the Committee on Printing. 

Mr. RICHARDSON. I have a resolution to submit which I believe 

is privileged in its character. 

The SPEA.KERpl'O tempore. The gentlemau~ill send it up. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved by the Bouse of Representatives (the Senate concun·ing), That there be 

printed for the use of the House 10,000 copies of the President's message and 

accompanying reports of the majority and minority of the Pacific Railroad Com- mission. 

Mr. RICHARDSON. The letter of the Public Print~r shows it"rill 

take $805 to print these documents, and under the law that printing can not be done under a simple House resolution. I therefore submit 

the concurrent resolution which has just been read, and ask for its present consideration and adoption. 

There was no objection, and the resolution was adopted . . Mr. RICHARDSON moved to reconsider the vote by which the res- olution was adopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider .be 

laid on the table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted in the follow.ing cases: To Mr. DE LANO, for ten days, on account of important busin~. 

- To ?vir. HAYDEN, indefinitely, on account of important business. 

To Mr. LAWLER, for to-day. . To :Mr. WILBER, for ten days from to-day. 

TERrti OF CIRCUIT COURT, KANSAS CITY. 

:Mr. WARNER. I ask, by unanimous consent, to discharge the House 

Calendar from further consideration of a bill (H. R. 1604) to change the 

time of the sessions of the Circuit court of the western division of the 

western district of Missouri, and to take it up for consideration ·at this 

time. 

There was no objection, and it was ordered accordingly. 

The bill was read, as follows: 

Be it enacted, etc., That the sessions of the circuit court of the United States for 

the western division of the western district of Missouri, at the city of Kansas, 

shall begin and be held on the first l\1onday of March and the fourth .Monday of 

September of each year. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 

SEc. 2. All process issued from the clerk's office of said court shall be taken 

and considered as returnable to the term or terms hereby established in lieu of 

the term or terms existing at the time such process was issued. 

1\Ir. WARNER._• I will state, Mr. Speaker, this bill simply changes 

the time of holding the terms of the United States circuit court of the 

western division of the western district of Missouri, held at Kansas 

City. It bas received the approval of the United States circuit judge 

and the bar of that State, and was introduced at their request. T~re 

can be, of course, no objection to its passage. . 

Mr. CULBERSON. The effect of that bill is merely to cha1;1ge tho 

time of hol ~ing the terms of the circuit court in Kansas City. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a thh·d time; and being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time, and passed. 

SIGNING OF PATENTS. 

Mr. P A. YSON, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 5514) 

to amend section 4883 of the Revised Statutes; which was read a first 

and second time. 

Mr. PAYSON. I ask for the reading of the bill, and I ask, by unan- imous com,ent, it may be. taken up and put on its passage at this time. , The Clerk read as follows: ;t 

And be it enact.ed, efc., That section 4883of the Revised Sbatutes be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the words "Secretary of the Interior" 

where that name occurs, the following words," or under his direction by one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Interior;" so that the said section, as amended, 

will read as follows : · "SEC. 4883, All patents shaH be issued in the name of the United States of America under the seal of the Patent Office, and shall be signed by the Secretary of 

the Interior, or under his direction by one of the Assistant Secretaries of the In- · terior, and countersigned by the Commissioner of Patents; and they shall be 

recorded, together with these specifications, in the Patent Office in books to be 

kept for that purpose." 

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