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I thank you again, gentlemen, for your courtesy, your kindness, 

the patience with which you have borne the errors which were neces- s:1I"ily the result of my inexperience as a presiding officer; and hoping 

that you will in safety reach your homes and there meet an approving 

constituency, that we shall meet here again in December in health and 

prosperity, and returning to the corps of clerks before me my thanks 

for their co-operation in performing the duties of the Chair, I now proceed to execute the order of the two Houses of Congress, and 

declare that the Senate of the United States is adjourned sine die. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

TUESDAY, June 23, 1874. 

The House met at eleven o'clock a. m. Prayer by the Chn.plain, 

Rev G.BuTLE~D.D. . Mr. MAYNARD. I move to dispense with the rea<ling of the Journal of yesterday. 

Mr. SPEER. I object. The SPEAKER. Never since the beginning of Congress has the 

Journal been demanded to be read under like circumstances. 

Mr. MAYNARD. I move to suspend the rules to dispense with the 

reading of the Journal. 

The rules were suspended, (two-thirds voting in favor thereof,) and 

the reading of the Journal was dispensed with. 

ENROLLED BILL. 

Mr. D.ARRALL, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported 

that they had examined and found tr~y enrolled a bill (H. R. No. 

3415) to provide for the care and custody of persons convicted in the 

courts of the United States who have or may become insane while 

imprisoned ; when the Speaker signed the same. 

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 

.A message from the Senate, by :Mr. SYl\1PSON, one of their clerks, 

announced that the Senate had agreed to the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 

bill (H. R. No. 3600) making appropriations for sundry civil expenses 

of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. 

HYACINTHE DE ST. CYR. 

On motion of Mr. GIDDINGS, by unanimous consent, leave was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the Committee on War 

Claims of the papers in the case o.f Hyacinthe de St. Cyr; no ad verse report having been made thereon. 

J. B. CIIAPMA.."\. 

On motionofMr. RAINEY, byunanimouscons ent, leave was granted 

for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the case of J . B. Chapman, which had been favorably reported on from 

the Committee on Indian Affairs. 

ED. T. PRESTOX. 

On motio:Q. of Mr. HUNTON, by unanimous consent, leave was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers 

in the case of Ed. T. Preston. 

BRACKEN &; HINES. 1 

On motion of Mr. H.A. VENS, by unanimous con ent, leave was granted fo:r the withdrawal from the files of the Hause of the papers in 

the case of Bracken & Hines. 

BREVET BRIGADIER-GE:NERAL J. M. ROllERTSON. 

On motion of Mr. NESMITH, by unanimous consent, leave was granted for the withdrawal :fl:om the files of the House of the private 

papers in the case of Brevet Brigadier-General J. M. Robertson, no adverse report having been made thereon. 

ROBERT TILLSON &; CO. 

Mr. KNAPP. I move, by unanimous consent, that leave be granted 

for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the case of Robert Tillson & Co. 

Mr. LAWRENCE. I' object to the withdrawal of those papers. 

PETER J. KNAPP. 

On motion of Mr. McCRARY, by unanimous consent, leave was ~ranted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers ill relation to the bill for the relief of Peter J. Knapp, no adverse 

report having been made thereon. 

CLARA MORRIS. 

On motion ofMr.ARTIIUR, by lmanimous consent, leave was granted 

for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the 

case of Cln.ra Morris; no adverse report having been made thereon. 

IIIRS. WOLF. 

OnmotionofMr. SWANN, byunanimousconsent, loave wasgranted 

for the withdrawalfrom the files of the House of the papers in the case of Mrs. Wolf, which were referred to the Committee on War Claims, no adverse repo~ having been made thereon. 

MISS ~A ELLA CARROLL. • 

• On motion of 1lfi l\f.A.YNARD, by unanimous consent, leave was 

~anted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers ill the case of l\fiss Anna Ella Carroll, now before the Committee on War Claims, no adverse report having been made thereon. 

CHARLES COSBY. 

On motion of Mr. READ, byunanimous consent, leavewas granted 

for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the case of Charles Cosby, no adverse report having been made thereon. 

MARTIN KALBFLEISCH & SONS. 

On motion of Mr. ·wiLLARD, of Vermont, by unanimous consent, 

leave was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of 

the papers in the case of Martin Kalbfleisch & Sons, a bill in their 

behalf having passed both Houses of Congress. 

CAPT Ali~ JOHN DAVIS. 

On motion of Mr. TOWNSEND, by unanimous consent, leave was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers 

pertaining to the claim of administration of the affairs of Captain 

John Davis, a soldier of the Revolution. 

LAWSON & BRE~~S. 

On motion of Mr. HERNDON, by unanimous consent, leave was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers 

in the case of Lawson & Bren:is, now before the Committee on War 

Claims, no adverse report having been made thereon. 

LEAVE TO PRINT. 

Mr. COOK, by unanimous consent, was granted leave to print in tho 

RECORD, as part of the debates, some remarks he ha.Q. prepared on the subject of war claims. (See Appendix.) 

SAGG FORT, TENNESSEE. 

Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I move, by unanimous consent, 

that leave be ~ranted for the withdrawal from the files of the House 

of the papers m the case of Sagg Fort. 

Mr. LAWRENCE. I object to that, as there has been an adverse 

report in that case. 

The SPEAKER. The Clerks are instructed not to allow the withdrawal of papers from the files where there has been an adverse re- port, but where any gentleman of the House knows the fact it is 

better to state it. 

Mr. RANDALL. It is the understanding, I suppose, that copios in 

in all these cases are left on file. 

Mr. HAWLEY, of Illinois. I should like to ask a question. When 

these papers are withdrawn is the correspondence with the Departments, and other public papers in reference to the claim, also withdrawn at the same time f 

The SPEAKER. Nothing is withdrawn by the parties but what 

they ·themselves have filed. 

Mr. HAWLEY, of Illinois. Then I am to understand they do not 

withdraw all the papers. 

The SPEAKER. No; only those which they themselves have filed. 

ROBERT TA...~SILL AND MARCELLUS CHRISTIAN, 

Mr. BUTLER, of 1\Ia.ssachusetts, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 3780) to relieve the political disabilities of Robert 

Tansill, of Prince William County, Virginia; which was read a first 

and second time. 

Mr. MORRISON. 'I move to include in that bill also the name of 

Marcellus Christian. 

The amendment was adopted. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time ; and 

being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time, and passed, 

two-thirds voting in favor thereof. 

The ·title was amended so as to include the name of Marcellus 

Christian. 

Mr. BUTLER, of Massa<:husetts, moved to reconsider the vote by 

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

The latter motion was agreed to. 

SUJ\'DRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. 

Mr. GARFIELD. I n view of the faet that we have just received 

notification from the Senate of the adoption by that body of thereport of the committee of conference on the sundry civil appropriation 

bill, I hope the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. TYNER] will consent 

to postpone the post-office appropriation bill for the present so that we may take up the sundry civil appropriation bill, as it will require more time for its engrossment. 

1\fr. TThTER. I do not object to that. 

DIRECT TAXES. 

Mr. DAWES. I ask both of these O"entlemen to give way to me for a moment. There is a bill on the Speaker's t·able from the Sellate, an act (S: No. 806) to extend the tinle allowed for the redemption of certain lands by the first section of an act entitled "An act to 

provide for the redemption and sale of lands held by the United 

8tates under the several acts levying direct taxes, and for other pur- poses," approved June 8, 1872, and to suspend the operation of the 

fourth section of said act. The same bill was attached to the tariff 

bill; it has pa sed both Houses of Congress. Now, in consequence of 
1874. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. .5431 ,. the postponement of the tariff bill until December next, I ask that 

this bill be taken up and passed. 

There was no objection. 

The bill, which was read, provides that the time allowed by the 

first section of the act approved Juno 8, 1872, be extended for the 

term of two years from the 1st of June, 187 4. The second section provides that the operation ofthefourtn section of said act be suspended 

until the expiration of the said term of two years from the said 1st 

(1ay of June, 1874. 

The bill was ordered to a third reading; and it was accordingly 

read the third time, and passed. 

Mr. D.A. WES moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the 

table. 

The latter motion Wal3 agreed to. 

PERSONAL EXPLA....~A.TION . 

Mr. YOUNG, of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I notice in the RECORD of 

June 2, during my absence from the House, that my colleague [Mr. 

CooK] stated that if I were present I should vote in favor of the bill 

then under consideration, which provides that every female citizen of 

the United States otherwise qualified shall be admitted to practice as attorney and counselor at law in the several courts. of the United 

States. I have ever been opposed to that measure, and my colleague 

ought to have known it. If pre ent I should have opposed it. 

MARCUS OTTERBOURG. 

Mr. COX, I a-sk unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table 

and put upon its passage the bill (S. No. 994) for the relief of l\farcus 

Otterbourg, late consul of the United States at the city of Mexico and -minister to the republic of Mexico. 

This'is a bill to pay our ex-minister to Mexico who never received a cent simply because he could not find a proper officer to swear before, and the bill has been informally considered by the Committee on Forei!J'n Affairs of the House, and has their approval. 

The bill was read. It directs the Secretary of the Treasury, out of 

any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to 

Marcus Otterbourg, late consul of the United States at the city of 

Mexico, and having been designated minister plenipotentiary to the 

republic of Mexico, in full compensation for his services as minister 

to Mexico from June 21 until September, 1867, both inclusive. 

There being no objection, the bill was taken from the Speaker's 

table, read three times, and passed. 

1\Ir. COX. I ask that by unanimous consent the report on this case made to the Senate by 1\Ir. Sumner be printed in the CONGRESSIONAL 

RECORD. . There· was no objection, and it wa-s so ordered. 

[The report of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate is a follows: 

:Mr. Marcus Otterbourg was appointed consul of the United States at the city of 

Mexico in August, 1861. In July, 1865, he tendered his resignation, assigning as a reason that his salary, by law fixed at $1,000 per annum, was inadequate to permit 

him to represent the country creditably. His resignation was accel?ted by Mr. 

Hunter, acting Secretary of State, with the request that he would continue to hold 

the office until the arrival of a successor at his post of duty. Of subsequent facts of importance in this case Mr. Seward, then Secretary of 

State, made the following official statement, dn.ted February 23, 18G9: 

Mr. Otterbourg r eturned to the United States. In March, 11366, he went back. to Mexico, as consul, and to take charge of the archives of the legation, Mr. William H. Corwin, acting charge d'affaires, having been recalled. He r eported himself as havi?_g !"ITived at Mexico on the 8th day of April, 1866, and as being occu- pied in verifyirlg the inventory of archives and other property of the le~ation, 

which was fillally completed, and he put in charge thereof by Mr. Corwiu, m pur- suance of the instructions of the State Department, on the 20th day of the sam') 

month. He was thenceforward recognized as a consular officer, performing,· and 

authorized to perform, diplomatic functions, so far as such were necesea..ry and 

practicable in the exceptional condition of Mexico and of the relations of this gov- ernment to the usurping government of Prince Maximilian, in actual possession of 

the capital, and to the rightful government of President Juarez, which wa-s gener- ally remote therefrom and migratory with the vicissitudes of war. :Mr. Otter bourg kept the Department informed of the political situation in Mexico. 

His dispatches, not concerning his commercial functions as consul, but those of a political agent, were classified and preserved amon~ _the diplomatic archives. In 

October, 1866, Mr. Otter bourg again returned to Wa-snington, with the approval of 

the Department, and was directed to make a confidential r eport on the situation in 

Mexico at that time. He was furnished with a copy of the instructions to Lewis D, 

Campbell, who had been appointed minister to Mexico, with whom. on his return, 

he was directecl to ,communicate. 

He proceeded to Mexico and made a report, which he delivered to our minister on his arrival at Vera Cruz. During the whole period, from April, 1866, to Jtme 21, 

1867, during which Mr. Otterbourg was consul, and in charge of the legation a.s aforesaid, there was not in that country any other officer of the United States authorized to perform diplomatic functions therein, except, or otherwise, than that Lewis D. 

Campbell, a duly commis ioned minister, was for a day or two upon its coast, or in 

the harbor of Vera Cruz, whence.he returned wit·hout· proceeding to the interior, or putting himself in communication with the government of Mexico, except when, in 

April, 1867, be addressed, from New Orleans, a letter to the Mexican secretary for 

foreign affairs, requesting humane treatment for Maximilian in case of his capture. In response t.o interrogatories for the United States : The United States had at no time a representative accredited to the government of Prince Ma.:xim.ilian. We 

had no other minister appointed to the government of Mexico dwing the time for 

which Mr. Otter bourg clalms compensation, and who a-ccepted, or made any attempt to proceed upon his mission, except Lewis D. Campbell, of whom I have before 

spoken, and no one who, during that period, presented his letters of credence. The 

office for which Mr. Otter bourg claims salary was not occupied by an{r~~!' ler­ son. During the whole period of the occupation of Mexico by Prince · · an, Congress made the usual annual appr pru1.tion for a minister to Mexico, with no other variation than that, in the act making appropriations for the consular and 

diplomatic service for the year ending J nne 30, 1866, the words "Republic of Mex- ico" were substituted for Mexico, the. same language being repeated in subsequent acts. This Government never recognized tJ:l6 goverlUILent of Ma.:xim.ilian, in the 

sense of acknowledging or trea.ting with i.1;. We knew it only a-s an awkward political fact, or rather political pretension, supported by force and foreign intervention. 

WILLIAM H. SEW .ARD. 

On June 21, 1867r Mr. Otter bourg was nominated by the President minister plen- ipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the United States to the republic of Mex- ico. The 'Senate adjourned on July 21, 1867, without having confirmed the nomination of Mr. Otter bourg; but he continued to discha.r<Te the duties of minister plenipotentiary until August 28, 1867, when he received the notification of the lapse of 

his commission in consequence of the adJournment of the Senate as above. Mr. 

Otterbourg thereupon returned to the Umted States and reported at the State Department November 1, 1867, leaving the consulate in the charge of a competent 

person. • · Having presented his accq,unt for his services, it was certified by the Fifth Auditor, as for consul in charge of legation, from AprilS, 1866. to June 20, 1E67, at the rate of e2,800 per annum; and for minister from June 21 to September 30, 1867, at the rate of $12,000 per annum. The First Comptroller, however, deducted all allow- ance to him as consul in charge of legation and as minister, but admitted and cer- tified the salary of consul. 

The case was taken to the Court of Claims, where judgment was rendered for 

$85.80 for exercising diplomatic functions from the lOth of August to the 9th of 

September, 1867, in addition to a further sum due for his services as consul. The court refused to allow salary as minister on the techni(}al objection that Mr. Otterbourg took his oath of office before the consul general of Switzerland, whose author- ity for that purpose does not appear. There wa-s, however, no one else before whom 

he could have taken the oath unless he had returned to Wa{lhington for that purpose; and furthermore the Department of State regarded him as minister, and promiseu 

hin1 compensation as such. 

In accordance with the above statements the committee repert a. bill giving com- pensation to :Mr. Otterbourg as consul performing diplomatic functionsfromApril 

8, 1866, until June 20, 1867, both inclusive; and as minister frOm J nne 21 to Septem- ber 30, 1867, deductingwhathe has received as consul, and the sum of 85.80 awarded him by the Court of Claims for exercising diplomatic functions from the 19th of 

August to the 9th of September, 1867.] 

COMMITTEE ON B.Al\JDNG 1U D CURRENCY, 

Mr. M.A.YN .A.RD. I ask on behalf of the Committee on Banking and 

Currency that they be aJJowed to have printed for their own use the 

testimony in two investigations they are making in reference to the 

Ocean National Bank of New York and in reference to the Bureau of 

Printing and Engraving. · Mr. R.A.ND.ALL. For the use of the committee f 

Mr. MAYNARD. Certainly. 

There was no objecrtion, and leave was granted. 

PUBLIC BUILDING A.T JEFFERSO~ CITY, 1\IIBSOURI. 

1\Ir. CRITTENDEN. I ask unanimous consent to introduce a bill 

directing_ inquiry to be made into the necessity of erecting a public 

building at Jefferson City, Missouri. 

Mr. BURCHARD. I object, and call for the regular order. 

SUNDRY CIVIL A.PPROPRIA.TION BILL. 

1\.fr. GARFIELD. I present the report of the committee of confer- ence on the sundry civil appropriation bill. 

The Clerk read aa follows : 

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 

amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. No. 3600) making approptiations for 

sundry civil expenses oi the Government for the fiscal year ending .June 30, 1 75, 

and for other purposes, havin~ met, after full and free conference have 'l.greed to recommend, and do r ecommenu, to their respective Houses as follows : That the Senate recede from their amendments numbered 7, 14, 15, 20, 32, 39, 44, 

46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 59, 70, 80, 84, 6, 89, 96, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 114, and 121. 

That the House I ecede from their disagreement to the amendments of the Senate 

numbered 3, 26, 27, J4, 38, 40, 43, 47, 48, 53, 55, 60, 64, 66, 73, 78, 83, 85, 88, 90, 91, 92, 

93, 98, 100, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 115, 117, and 118, and agree to the same. That the House recede from their disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 5, and a,.,<Tee to the same with an amendment as follows: Strike out after the word "clerks " in line 3 of said amendment all down to the end of line 4, 

and strike out " sixteen thousand one " and insert in lieu thereof " thirteen thoua~;;::~~~ ~:~c;~ ~!l!fi~m ~!fr ~!~=:ts to the amennments of the Senate nembered 9, 10, and 81, and agree to the same. That the Senate r ecede from their disagreement to the amendments of the House to the amendment numbered 1:-1, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: .After the word "necessary" in line 4 of saitl House amendment add the followin~: "for the folding.room of the House;" and the Honse a.gree to the same. That tne House r ecede from their disagreement to the amendment numbered 

16, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: Add at the end of said 

a)Uendment the words: 

"PrO'IJided, That the same shall be erected unuer a contract, the amount to be pp,id under which shall not exceed $40,000." 

And the Senate agree to the same. That the House recede from their disagreement to the amendment numbered 17, 

and agree to the same with an amendment striking out the word "fifteen" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "ten; " an<l the Senate agree to the same. That the Senate recede from their disagreement to the amendment of the House to the amendment nnmbered 22, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: After the word 11 five" in line 9 of said amendment add the words 11 and for 

temporary clerks in the Treasury Department, $40,000; 2illd strike out the w01·d 11 this," at the end of the line, and insert the word 11 these," and add to the word 

"amount," at the beginning of line 10, the letter 11 s," and at the end of said amend- ment add the following: 11 and so much as may be necessary to enable the Secretary or t.be Tre..'lsury to carry into effect the joint resolution for the relief of certain 

clerks and employes of the United States, approved June 2"2, 1874, is h ereby appro- priJ.ted; " and the House agree to the same. That the Senate recede from their disagreement to the amendment of the House to the amendmenta numbered 28 and 76, and agree to the same. That the House receue from their disagreement to the amendment numbered 35, 

and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: Strikeout the word "eighty" and insert in lieu thereof the word "sixty;" and the Senate a"'ree to the same. That the Senate recede from their disagreement to the amen~ent of the House to the amendment numbered 45, and agree to the same. That the Honse recede from their disagreement to the amendment numbered 62, 

and a.gree to the same with an amendment substituting the word " Neversink" for 

the word proposed to be inserted; and the Sen ate agree t.o the same. Th>tt the Senate r ecede from their amendment numbered. 63, with an amendment 

substituting for the word 11 Navesink" in line 8, page 27 of the bill, the word "Neversink;" and the House agree to the same. 
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That the House recede from their amendment to the amendment numbered 77, 

a.n4:ft"~it:O :J~:S~a:~de from their amendment to the amendment numbered 79, 

an~b~f:hetn-~':!!~c~de from their disagreement to the amendment numbered 87, 

and a"ree to the same with an amendment as follows: Strike out all of said amend- ment after the word "available" in line 5of said amendment; and the Senate agree 

t.o 4~:t~:e:irouse recede from their disagreement to the amendment numbered 94, 

and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: Strike out the words "one 

hillldied" and insert in lieu thereof the word "fifty;" and the Senate agree to the 

saT~t the House recede from their disagreement to the aJ?endment nm~1bered 95, 

and a!ITee to the same with an amendment as follows: Strike out of sru.d amend- ment~ after the word ''for" in line 21 down to and including the word "enlarge" in line 3 and substitut.ethe word" of" in lieu of "for" in same line, and strike out the words" and perfecttbecentral building" in line 4, and strikeofftheletter "s" 

from the word "accommodations 11 in line 3; and the Senate agree to the same. That the House recede from their disagreement to the amendment numbered 99, 

and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: 

Insert in lieu of the pro:(losed words the following as a substitute: · "Provided, That the srud building may be built of stone, and its cost, exclusive 

of the cost of site, shall not exceed ~200,000." 

And the Senate agree to the same. That the House recede from their disagreement to the amenclment numbered 111, 

and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: Add at the end of the amend- ment the words "which shall be the entire cost of said building; 11 and the Senate · agree to the same. That the House recede from their disagreement to the amendment numbered 

97, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: Strike out in line 6 of the 

amendment the word "the 11 and insert in lieu thereof the word "such," and strike out lines 7, 8, 9, and 10, of the amendment, and insert in lieu thereof the following: "As the Secretary of theNavy may deem necessary for the public service." 

Thn,t the House recede from th01r disagreement to the amendment nnmb~r~d 113, 

and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: After the word "restrictions," 

in line 6 of said amendment, insert the words "as to materials ;

11 and the Senate 

agree to the same. That the House recede from their disagreement to the amendment numbered 116, 

an<l agree to the same with an amendment as follows: Strike out the word "five, 11 

in line 3 of said amendment; and the Senate agree to the same. That the Honse recede from t-heir disagreement to the amendment numbered, 

119, and the Senate rece<le from that portion of their amendment which proposes to i'nsert new matter; ana the House and Senate agree to the same. That the House recede from their disagreement to the amendment numbered 120, 

and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: Strike out the word "five," 

in line 10 of said amendment, and insert in lieu thereof the word " four ;" and 

the Senate agree to the same. .TAMES A. GARFIELD, 

EUGENE .HALE, 

WILLIAM E. NIBLACK, 

Ma;nagers on the part of the House. 

LOT M. MORRILL, 

A. A. SARGENT, .T. W. STEVENSON, 

Managers on tlte part of the Senate. 

MESSAGE F.ROM THE SENATE. 

A messa.O'e from the Senate, by 1\fr. SYMPSON, one of their clerks, 

informed the House that the Senate had passed a concurrent resolution, in which the concurrence of the House was requested, authorizing the Joint Committee on Public Printing to sit during the coming 

recess of Congress. · The message further announced tha,t the Senate had adopted a reso- · 

lution, in which the concurrence of the House was requested, author- izing the Committees on Appropriations of the two Houses of Congress to meet at the Capitol during the recess of Congress to make 

inquiry into and report any method by which reforms may be made 

in the expenditures in the several branches of the civil service a.nd 

the estimates of appropriations therefor and the appropriation bills. 

The mes age fru·ther announced that the Senate had concurred in 

the resolution of the House for the printing of the report of R. W. 

Raymond on mining statistics, with an amendment; in which the concurrence of the House was requested. 

The message further announced that the Senate had passed with- out amendment bills of the Honse of the following titles : The bill (H. R. No. 1305) granting a pension to E. Caroline Webster, widow of Lnciu H. \Vebster; 

The bill (H. R. No. 3432) to protect lines of telegraph constructed or used by the United States from malicious injury and obstruction; 

The bill (H. R. No. 2349) for the relief of Burke and Kunkel; 

The bill (H. R. No. 2088) for the relief of James Lillie, postma-ster 

at Lisbon ville, Ray County, Missouri; 

The bill (H. R. No. 3411) to amend au act entitled ".An act to incorporate the trustee of the Female Orphan Asylum in Georgetown, 

and the Washington City Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia," 

approved May 24, 182 ; 

The bill (H. R. No. 1939) for the relief of the trustees of James L. 

Collins, deceased ; · The bill (H. R. No. 2187) authorizing and requiring the issuance of a patent of certain lands to the county of Scott, in the State of Missouri; · The bill (H. R. No. 2990) for the relief of Jes e F.l\foore and Charles 

W. Lewis; 

The bill (H. R. No. 1410) to fix the salaries of the clerks at the 

United States Armory, in Springfield, Ma-ssachusetts; 

The bill (H. R. No. 294) for the relief of Joah Bagley; and 

The bill (H. R. No. 2891) for the relief of 1\frs. Louisa Eldis, of 

Sandusky, Ohio. 

The message further announced that the Senate had passed with 

amendments, in which the concurrence of the House was requested, 

bills of the Honse of the following titles : 

The bill (H. R. No. 104) for the relief of James Coats, of Ja.ckson, 

l\Iis issippi; and 

The bill (H. R. No. 3088) to extend the time for completing the 

entries of the Osage Indian lands in Kansas. 

The message further announced that the Senate had passed a bill 

(S. No. 862) grantin~a pension to Margaret S. Hastings; in which the concurrence of the liouse was r quested. . 

Mr. GARFIELD. Unless some gentleman desires to ask some question, I will call the previous question on the report. 

1\Ir. KE.NDALL. I desire to ask the gentleman what has been done 

with the Senate amendment No. 116, in regard to the Carson mint in 

Nevada. 

1\fr. HALE, of Maine. That is in. 

1\fr. BUTLER, of l\Iassachusett.s. I de iJ:e to a-sk the gentleman 

from Ohio a single question in regard to this civil-service matt r. Will the gentleman state what is the condition of the amendment in 

relation to that f 

1\lr. GARFIELD. The exact condition of the civil-servjce question 

is this: the Senate appropriated the usual sum of 15,000, together 

with the unexpended balance; the House repealed the law authorizing the civil- ervioe commission altogether. There being a differ- ence between the two Houses, the committee of conference agreed 

to drop the subj~ct out of the bill, and it is not included in it in any 

way. 

Mr. BUTLER. How about tho unexpended balance 'I 

1\Ir. GARFIELD. On the 1st day of July all the unexpended bal- ances for all purposes, except in some cases in which exceptions were made, will be covered into the Treasury. 

1\Ir. BUTLER, of l\fa sachnsett . Well, that is all right; civilservice reform has died instead of being killed. 

The.report of the committee of conference was agreed to. Mr. GARFIELD moved to reconsider the vote by which the report 

of the committee of conference was agreed to; and also moved that 

the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

Mr. GARFIELD. I desire to say in reference to the bill that the 

committee cut down the total amount appropriated by the bill about 

$950,000. At some period during the session I propose to make a statement of what has been done with the appropriation bills. 

POST-OFFICE APPROPRIATIO~ BILL. 

The Honse then resumed the consideration of the report of the com- mittee of conference on the post-office appropriation bill . ?!fr. TYNER. I desire to yield to my colleague on the conference 

committee from illinois, [1\Ir. 1\fARsHALL.] 

1\fr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I wish to offer a resolution in re- lation to the employment of soldiers in the Executive Departments, to 

which I think there will be no objection. 

Mr. MARSHALL. I prefer to go on with my remarks now. The SPEAKER. The Chair will recognize the gentleman from 

l\fa s:whusetts later on in the da.y. 

Mr. :MARSHALL. Mr. Speaker, there is no such thing as perfect 

legislation upon earth. All legislation is the result of compromi ·e. Mankind is fallible, and all the work of men partakes of their fallibility. The House and the Senate here at the end of the session 

have found themselves radically differin~ on some matters of le~islation on ·the post-office appropriation bill. Conference committees 

have been appointed. Conference committees are only appointed for 

the purpo e, if possible, of bringing the two Houses together on matte~ on which they differ. If either House insists upon its po ition, standing on its own position and will not move, the adjustment 

of differences by this means is impossible. 

If any gentleman asks me if I think the bill now reported by the 

conference committee is a perfect· bill, I must answer most emphatically no. I think we ought to have better legislation than this furnishes for the protection of the Government against rings organized 

to plunder the Government in the contracts let for carrying tho 

mails. But the Senate, governed doubtless by an honest pnrpo e to correct these evjls, differs with us as to ·the means to secure the 

end,. But even if it were po ible for ConEe s to pa s a perfect law, 

unfortunately no law can execute itself. we are still compelled to 

1·ely to a great extent upon the efficiency and integrity of the Executive Dep:>.rtments of the Government. It is not to be assumed at 

least there ought to be no cause even for suspicion, that the head of a great Department of the Government would at any time enter into 

collusion 'vith organized plunderers to rob the Treasury. Be this a.s it may we all know that there is no possible means of protecting 

the Treasury against raids made under the direction or connivance 

of corrupt or incapable pnblic officials. We must perform our duty, 

and if the President and his appointees fail in theirs we cannot be 

justly blamed therefor. 

In reference to thls mail service it is known that in regard to large 

contracts none but capitalists, or tho e who are able to command 

capital, can approach ·the Government for the purpose of obtaining 

contracts; and it is known that for year men have organized themselves for the purpose of obtaining, and have obtained from the Gov- ernm nt, for the mail service double, treble, and even fourfold the value 

of the service they rendered. By these combinations, and it is ... en- orally believed by the connivance if not active co-operation of Government officials, the Treasury has year after year been robbed of 
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millions of the people's money. The object of this proposed legisla- tion is to protect the Government as far as possible from these 

organized plunderers. But, as I said before, a great deal must neces- sarily be left, in the execution of all laws of this kind, and their 

practical efficiency must depend upon the executive officers. I feel 

confident that this report, if adoptedasthe law of the land, furnishes 

additional guarantees. to the people, and is on the whole better than 

the law we have had heretofore or have now. 1\fy colleagues on the 

conference committee, the gentleman from Indiana, [Mr. Tfl\'"ER,] the 

gentleman from Pennsylvania, [.Mr. PACKARD;] and the ~entleman 

from Illinois, [Mr. C.Ali.'NON,] have from their official position here 

necessa1ily given more attention to and have much more knowledge 

in regard to the practical operations of the postal l11ws than I have. 

1\fy colleague [1\fr. CANNo~] especially has devoted much time, labor, 

and practical ability to this subject, and did more I think than any 

other member toward perfecting the bill of the House thereon, and 

I have had the benefit of the judgment and superior information of 

these gentlemen as to the practical operation of existing laws and the 

effect of thi proposed legislation. And I think it proper to add that 

every one of my colleagues on the conference committee acted loyally a the representatives of the views of the House, anu for the purpose 

of effecting if possible a compromise which would retain all the con- servative principles of the bill as it pas ed the House. And it was only after various meetings of the committee that the House con- ferees found it necessary, for the purpose of getting this legislation 

which we must pass in some form before we can go home, to yield or modify some of their own views in regard to some of the points in 

controver y. It was the opinion of every member who had given any attention 

to the subject that the bill now before the House, although far from 

perfect, although not precisely what we want, is a great improvement 

upon existing law. We rarely if ever in legislation get precisely 

what we would prefer. If this is an improvement on existing la.w, 

why not pa s itY If it is not, if it furnishes additional means to ·the 

robbers and plunderers who are seeking to get the money of the Government without giving an adequate return for it, then vote it down. 

But it is conceded I believe on all hands that the proposed legislation is an improvement upon existing law. If it is executed by the 

head of the Post-Office Department loyally in the interest of the 

Government and with a determination not to permit the Government to be plundered by these organized bands, it will to a very great 

extent effect the object we all have in view. And, as I have heretofore said, we are compelled to rely to a great extent upon the ability 

and integrity of our executive officers. There is no possible escape 

from this dilemma. 

Now as to other points; and I desire to detain the Honse but a minute or two longer. In regard to postage, the House with great labor 

and care framed a bill which went to the Senate. I believe, as I have 

already sta,ted, that my colleague across the way, [Mr. CANNON,] one of the conferees on the part of the House, devoted as much time and 

labor and ability to the preparation of the bill and securing its passage by the House probably more than any other member of the 

House. He was on the committee of conference and used aU his skill and 

intelligence in endeavoring to get the Senate conferees to agree to the 

views of the House. But in this we failed in part. The present bill 

proposes a reduction of at least 50 per cent. upon the present rate of 

postage on newspaper , providing, however, that in all cases the postage shall be prepaid, and while the postage on newspapers is thus re- duced 50 per cent., it has been demonstrated by .figures that there 

will be brought into the Trea ury more than double what we now get for carrying and delivering newspapers, resulting from the fact 

that only about one-third of this postage is now collected. Therefore, 

although we held out as long as there wa-s any hope of getting the 

precise measure passed by the House fixing the postage on newspapers 

at 1t cents per pound, for the purpose of getting through what we believed would be beneficent legislation, we consented to the 2 cents 

per pound presented in this report. The Senate yielded four times as much as we did; thn.t is, 2 cents per pound, while we advanced but 

half a cent. Therefore there ha-s been no degradation of the House or derogation from the dignity thereof by the action of its conferees. I 

do not think it has been satisfactorily made to appear tha.t. this provision in regard to postage would operate injuriously to any news- paper establishment in the country. Under the provisions of this 

bill all the weekly newspapers will circulate without any charge for 

postage in the counties where they are published. This will furnish a relief which, has been demanded by the small weekly newspapers 

of the country, and I believe is approved by nearly the whole public, 

and this provision releases to them a large part of what would otherwise be a considerable burden to them. 

Mr. HAWLEY, of Connecticut. How much will t cent per polmd 

make on the whole revenue! 

Mr. 1\IARSHALL. My colleague [Mr. CA....""lliO~] will be better n.ble 

to tell you. I have not the precise figures with me. 

Mr. HAWLEY, of Connecticut. What will2 cents a pound make~ 

Mr. :MARSHALL. My colleague has all the details and will state 

them. But I must ask to be allowed to proceed with what little I 

have to say now. The Senate conferees were very strongly of the 

opinion that the action of the Senate was proper, and that 4 cents 

per pound and nothing le s ought to be fixed as the postage to be 

prepaid by the publishers of newspapers. They considered themselves 

instructed not to yield to the demancls of the House. But they have come down 50 per cent., that is to one· half of their own proposition as it pa sed the Senate, and to within t cent per pound of our own proposition as passed by the House. I do not think myself if we adopt 

the principle of prepayment at all, about the policy of which I have some doubt, that the amount here proposed would be oppressive to any 

newspaper publisher in the whole country, although I would much pre- fer retaining, if it could be done, the postage a-s fixed by the House bill. Now in regard to the sending of documents. The Honse had pro- vided that the Agricultural Report should go free through the mails. The Senate struck out that provision and put in a clause providing 

that all documents should go through the mails at a uniform postage of 25 cents per volume, and providing that the CONGRESIONAL 

RECORD should go through the mn.il free. That is changed in 

this report in this way: All bound documents if sent by a member of 

Congress, the President, or the head of a Department, that is, public 

documents issued by order of Congress, will go through the mails at a uniform postage of 10 cents per volume. This was adopted to 

obviate and avoid the present clumsy and troublesome law which 

requires that every document must be wei~hed before you can know 

what postage to pay thereon. A number ot documents were weighed 

in the Senate post-office, and we were informed t hat it was thus ascer- tained that the public documents issued by order of Congress would 

average about two pounds a volume. That is, on the bound volumes 

of public documents sent through the mails by members of Congress we must prepay the postage, and at a rate 150 per cent. greater 

t,han we require of newspaper publishers for can-ying their merchandise. By the provisions of this conference report, if it becomes a law, 

nothing goes through the mails free. The postage is reduced, but 

the revenues will be very considerably increa-sed, as everything car- ried will pay the Government for the service rendered. 

Yet this arrangement will be a great convenience to members of 

Congress and beneficial to the people. The documents which we publish ought to be sent to the people. I believe all members can afford-a,nd will do so-to send the documents, Agricultural Reports 

and aU, to the people, and prepay the postage thereon. Now they are not sent through the mails. Members who have not large incomes 

cannot afford_to send them. I think this is a very great improvement on existing legislation. The Co~GRESSIO~AL RECORD, instead of 

goin~ free, as provided by the Senate bill, will, under this bill, go at a uniform postage of 1 cent per number of the daily issue. 'fhat 

provision was adopted to obviate the necessity of sending each daily 

issue to be weighed in order to ascertain what was the amomit of 

postage upon it. The average through the session of the daily REcoRD 

will not, I suppose, be above two ounces. But it is always trouble- some to be compelled to weigh them before you can know what postage you ought to pay. If you make a mistake as to postage t hey do 

not go through the mails, but are thrown aside as waste matter. By 

fixing the postage at a uniform rate this trouble and inconvenience 

is obviated. These are all the controverted points I believe, and I do 

not desire to go into the matter any further. 

Mr. TOWNSEND. All these documents are to be prepaid T 

:Mr. MARSHALL. All prepaid here; none are to go through the 

mails without prepayment. All documents and all mailable matter 

whatever of every kind must be prepaid. 1\fr. SPEER. Who puts the designation on the documents f Is it 

to be stamped on by the Door-keeper or by whom 'I 

1\fr. 1\>IARSHALL. It must be done by the officer sending them, 

the President, the head of a Department, or by a member of Congress. 

He must put upon the cover of the document his signature, certifying 

it to be a public document. It will be sent out under his name, and 

he must take the responsibility to see that none but public documents are thus sent. 

1\fr. BROMBERG. If a document be mailed by a member from his 

place of residence is the postage still 10 cents 'I · 1\fr. MARSHALL. I believe we did not retain the clause providing 

that these public documents must be sent from .Washington City only. 

Mr. TYNER. No, sir. 

Mr. MARSHALL. They may be sent from any pla~e, but must be 

certified as public documents by a member of Congress, the President, or the head of a Department. llfr. TOWNSEND. Will the bound volumes of the CoNGRESSIO~AL 

RECORD go free through the mails T 

1\fr. MARSHALL. They will go as other public documents, at ten 

cents on each bound volume. That will be the unifo-rm rate on any 

volume of public documents. 

1\fr. liERRIAM. The postage will not be ten cents on a Congressional Directory 'I 

llfr. MARSHALL. All bound volumes of public documents, large or small, sent in this way will be subject to the uniform rate of ten 

cents per volume. Public documents unbound will be charged at 

the same rate w~ :fix for newspapers sent by the publishers thereof. Mr. HAWLEY, of Connecticut. If a bound volume now goes at 

the rate of six cents, will this bill increase the rate to ten cents T 

:Mr. MARSHALL. It may and I think will have that operation ; 

but this would not be a very serious burden, and it is not in many cases that the postage will not in fact be less than the present rates. While this bill is of course not perfect; while it is not precisely what 

any of us wonlcl prefer, it is unquestionably, I think, a grea,t improve- ment upon the existing law. 
5434 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. JUNE 23~ 

One ·word only in regarcl to newspaper postage and prepayment. 

The provisions of this bill on that subject will not take effect- until 

the 1st of January next. I believe I am right on that point. 

Mr. TThTER. The gentleman is correct. 

Mr. MARSHALL. Hence, if it should be found upon consideration 

that any marked injustice or oppression is likely to result to anybody 

from the e pro.visions, Congress, which will be in session one month 

before the law will go into operation, can correct np,xt winter anything of that kind. 

Mr. SPEER. Does this bill provide that books ordered to be published by Congress may not be sent through the mails under the bill 

until next January¥ 

Mr. 1\I.ARSHALL. They may be sent immediately. I am referring 

to the change of the rate of postage upon newspapers :md the matter of 

prepayment. Those provisions do not go into effect until J anuarynext. Mr. SOUTHARD. Under this bill will n ewspapers circulate free 

in the county of their publication¥ 

1\fr. MARSHALL. They will. _ Mr. TYNER. I think that the House now understands the provisions of this conference report, and I call the previous question. 

The previous question was seconded and the main question ordered ; 

and under the operation thereof the report of the committee of con- ference was agreed to. 

Mr. TYNER moved to reconsider the vote by which the report was adopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the 

table. The latter motion wa-s agreed to. 

CLAIMS FOR INDIAN DEPREDATIONS. 

Mr. SHANKS, by unanimous consent, submitted the following res- olution; which was read, considered, and agreed to : 

Resolved, That the Secretary, of the Interior be, and he is h ereby instructed to r eport to the House early at 1ts next session a. detailed statement of the a.niounts of money paid ont of the various fnnds belonging to India u.s on claims for depredations 

committed by Indians, with the names of the claimants, the amount of the claims, 

and the a.n1ounts allowed and paid, with the da.tes. 

PREFERENCE OF SOLDIERS IN CIVIL E:.'.IPLOYME.r T. 

Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I a k unanimous consent to introduce for action now a joint resolution giving preference to soldiers 

in civil employments. 

The resolution wa-s read. It provides that in all Bureaus and Departments of the Government, whenever there shall be a number of 

applicants for place or employment therein, a soldier or sailor who 

fought in the line of duty in the war, a soldier's or sailor's widow, 

wife, dau.~hter, mother, son, or father, respectively, being such applicant, shall have preference in the places and employments suited to 

each, respectively; and the same rule shall be observed whenever discharges shall take place in the several Departments and Bureaus, by mason of diminution of force therein, respectively. But two persons 

of the relationship above stated either by blood or marriage shall not 

have employment in any Department or Bureau at the same time, un- less both are so entitled because of service. It is made the duty of 

the appointing officer to make such appointments a..s equitably as possible from qualified candidates presenting themselves from the several 

congre sional districts and Territories and the District of Columbia, 

with reference to their population; and upon the removal of any ap- pointee the reason for such removal is to be stated on the records of 

the Bureau or office from which the removal has been made. 

Mr. KELLOGG. That matter is now before our committee; I must 

object to this resolution. 

Mr. HAZELTON, of Wisconsin. I ask the gentleman from 1\ia sa- chu etts [Mr. BUTLER] to modify the resolution by inserting " sister" 

at the appropriate place. 

Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. Certainly; I will make that modification. 

Mr. ARCHER. I object to the resolution. 

Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I move then to suspend the rules 

and put the re olution on its passage. 

The SPEAKER. No motion to suspend the rules is in order except 

for bills on the Speake1Js table. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

Mr. BRADLEY. I ask unanimous consent to make a report from 

the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr~ BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I object. 

Mr. RANDALL. Mr. Speaker, I believe that all the appropriation 

bills have now passed both Houses; but there must of course be some delay in enrolling them. The one that will take the longe t time in 

enrollment is the sundry civil a.ppropriaton bill, which I understand 

will not be ready till three o'clock. It is iclie to undertake further 

legislation now ; for if we pass more bills they cannot be enrolled. 

I t h refore move that we take a recess until half pa-st two o'clock. 

Mr. HERNDON. Before that is done I ask that the following re o- lotion be read, and I will move to so pend the rules for the purpo e of pa,ssing it. 

Mr. BRADLEY. Has not the gentleman from Pennsylvania gotten 

through all the bills for his own district, he is so anxious to do no more business Y 

1\fr. MAYNARD. The clerks cannot enroll any more bills if ,;e do 

p:1:ss them. 

.Mr. RANDALL. It is utterly impossible. 

PIEDMO~ RAILROAD. 

Mr. CESSNA. I ask unanimous consent to report a bill from the 

Judiciary Committee in order that it may be printed and recommitted. 

Mr. RANDALL. I do not object. 

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

Judiciary, reported a joint resolution (H. R. No. 117) relative to the 

Piedmont Railroad Company; which was read a first and second time, 

ordered to be printed, and recommitted, not to be brought back by a motion to reconsider. ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

Mr. HERNDON. I hope my resolution will be read by the Clerk. 

Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I object. 

Mr. MAYNARD. I have are olution to introduce to which I think 

there will be no objection. 

Mr. HERNDON. Is there objection to having my resolution reau. Mr. BUTLER, of 1\bssachusetts. I object. 

Mr. MAYNARD. Let my resolution be read. 

The Clerk proceded to read as follows: 

Resolved, The Clerk of the House of Representatives1\fr. HERNDON. I-c:>bject to that. 

Mr. MAYNARD. I think he would not object if he understood what 

it is. 

Mr. RANDALL. I modify my motion and move to take a recess until two o'clock. 

1\fr. CONGER. I wish to take up a Senate bill. 

Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I object, until every one of our soldiers and sailors can get a hearing. 

Mr. MAYNARD. There is a cla-ss of committee clerk, generally 

soldiers, who came here at the salary as we recollect of nearly six 

dollars a clay. We cut that down to less than five dollars a day. 

Mr. BUTLER, of 1\Ia achu etts. I object to debate. 

Mr. MAYNARD. While the Senate clerks are getting over seven dollars our clerk have been cut down to less than five. I propose by resolution to give a small additional compensation to that class of 

committee clerks. 

Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I object. 

Mr. RANDALL. I ask a vote on my motion to take a rece s until 

two o'clock. 

The House divided; and there were-n.yes 69. noes 62. 

Mr. RANDALL demanded tellers. 

Tellers were ordered; and Mr. RA..."'DALL, and Mr. SMITH of Louisiana, were appointed. 

The House again divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 101, noes 5 . Mr. TYNER demanded the yeas and nays. 

::Mr. GARFIELD. I should like to make a detailed statement in 

reference to the appropriation bills. 

Mr. SPEER. That had better be postponed until we have decided 

whether we will take a recess or not. 

The yeas and nays were ordered. 

The question was taken, and it wa.s deoided in the negative-yea 

80, nays 131, not voting 78; as follows : 

YEAS-Messrs. Archer, Arthur, Ashe, Atkins, Banning, Barnum Barrera Barry, 

Bass, Beck, Berry, Blount, Bowen, Bromberg, Brown, Burchard, Caldwell, John B. 

Clark, jr., Clymer, Coburn, Comingo, Cook, Cox:, Crittemlen. Crossland, Darrall, Davis, Duell Durham, Frye, Glover, Gunckel, Gunter, Hamilton, Hancock, John T. Harri , Havens Hooper, Howe, Hunton, Knapp, Lawson, Leach, ::hfagee, Mc- Junkin, McKee, ifil.iiken, Mills, Moore, Morey, Morrison, O'Brien, P lham, P erry, Ja.n1es H. Platt, jr., Randall, Rice, Robbins, James C. Robinson, Milt-on ayler, 

John G. Schumaker, Scofield, Sener, A. H err Smith, George L. mith, Snyder, Southard, Speer, Sta.ncliford, Christopher Y. Thomas, Todd, Vance, Waldron, Well. , White, Whitehead, Whitehouse, Whitthorne, Charles W. Willard, and Wolfe-SO. 

NAYS-Messrs . .Albert, .Albright, Barber, Bell, Biery, Bland, Bradley, Bright, 

Buffi.nton, Bundy, Burleigh, Burrows, Benjamin F . Butler, Roderick R. Butler, Cain, Cannon, Cason, Amos Clark, Jr., Clements, Stephen A. Cobb, Con_ger, Corwin, Crooke, Crounse, Crutchfield, Curtis, Dunnell, Eames, Field, Fort, ..l!l:eeman, 

Garfield, Giddings, Gooch, Ha~:ms, Eugene Hale, Benjamin W. Harris, Henry R 

Harris, Harrison, H atcher, Har.norn, John B. Hawley, Joseph R. lla.wley, Geny 

W. Haz lton, John W. Hazelton, H er eford, Herndon, Hodges, Hoskins, Houg'hton, Hubbell, HunteE> Hurlbut, H yde, Hynes.J Ka on, K elley, Kellogg, Kendall, La- mar, Lawrence, Loughridge, Lowe, Lownaes, Luttrell, Lynch, Mar ha~ Ma~n, 

.Alexander S. McDill, MacDougall, Merriam, Monroe, Negley, Niblack, 0 eill, 

Orth, Packard, Page, Isa:w C. Parker, Parsons, Penclleton ........ Phelps, Pierce, Piko, Poland, Pratt, Pu.rman, Rainey Ransier, Rapier Ray, Ellis .t:L Roberts, Ja.n1es W . Robinson, Ro s, Rusk, a'IVYer, Henry B. Sayler, Isaac W. Scudder, hanks, heat.s, 

herwood, Sloan, Sloss, H. Boardman Smith, J. Ambler Smith, John Q. Smith, 

prague, Stanard, Starkweather, St. John~ Stone, Stowell, Strait, Str:nvbrid~, 

Chanes R. Thomas, Thornburgh, Town ena, Tremain, Tyner, Wallace, Ja p r lJ. 

Ward, George Willard, Charle G. Williams, John M. S. Williams, William Willia.nis, William B. Williams, ·willie, Ja.n1es Wilson, Jeremiah M. Wilson, Woodford, and Woodworth-131. 

OT VOTING-Me r. Adams, Averill, Begole, Buckner, Ce na, Freeman Clarke, Clayton, Clinton L. Cobb Cotton, Creamer, Crocker, Danford, Dawe , De Witt, Dobbins, Donnan, Eden, Eldredge, Elliott, Farwell, Foster, Robert . Hale, 

Harmer, Hays, Hendee, Hersey, E. Rockwood Hoar, George F. Hoar, Holman, J ewett, Killinger, Lamison, Lamport, LansinS', Lewis, Lo:f:l.ancl, Martin, McCrary, James W. McDill, McLean, McNnlta, Mitcnell, Myer, Neal, Ne mith, Niles, 

Nunn, OIT, Packer, Ho. ea. W. Parker, Phillips, Thomas C. Platt, Potter, Read, 

Richmond, William R. Roberts, Henry J. Scmlder, es ion , Sheldon, Lazarus D. 

Shoemaker, Small, mart, William A. mith, tephen , Storm, wann, Sypher, Taylor, Waddell, Walls, Marcus L . Ward, Wheeler, Whiteley, Wilber, Ephraim K. Wilson, Wood, John D. Young, and Pierce M. B. Young-78. 

So the motion that the House take a recess wa-s not agreed to. 

1\fr. RANDALL. I call for the regular order. 

OSAGE Th-rniAN LANDS IN KANSAS. 

The SPEAKER. The regular order being called, the House resumes the consideration of business on the Speake1Js table. 
. 1874. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD . 5435 

The next business on the Speaker's table is the bill (H. R. No. 3088) 

to extend the time for completing the entries of Osage Indian lands 

in Kansa-s, with an amendment by the Senate which the Clerk will 

read. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Insert at the end of the bill these words: 

And provided further, That no further extension of time shall be granted than 

that provided for in this a~t; and that all occupants now npon said Osage lands shall 

file their application to pnrchase the lands so occupied by them within three months 

after the passage of that act, or forfeit all right and claim to the same. 

:rtlr. LOWE. I move that the amendment of the Senate be concurred in. 

The amendment of the Senate was concurred in. 

:Mr. LOWE moved to reconsider the vote by which the amendment was concurred in ; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be 

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

ROBBERY OF SAFE IN DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. 

Mr. WILSON, of Indiana. I rise to make a privileged report. I 

])resent the following report from the Joint Committee of Investigation into the Affairs of the District of Columbia. 

The Clerk read as fopows: 

The Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the .A.ffai:rs of the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the following resolu'ion, passed by the Honse of Repre- sentatives :May: 5, 1874, namely: "Resolved, That the Joint Committee on the 

Affairs of the District be, and they are hereby, directed to inquire whether the 

officers or employes of the Uniteu States, or any officer or employes of the District 

government, h&ve been engaged in any conspiracy to defeat or hinder the investigation ordered by Congress into the affairs of the District, and particularly in this connection to inquire into all the circumstances connected with the late robberr, 

of the safe in the office of the U uited States attorney for the District of Columbia, ' 

report: . That they have diligently endeavored to make the investigation required by the r esolution, but in doing so have examined a number of witnesses, and they have 

learned the names of other witnesses who ought to be examined, bnt whose at- t endance they have not been able up to this time to procure. The testimony taken 

is in many material respects conflicting and irreconcilable; and in some very im- portant particulars the contradictions cannot be accounted for upon any theory of 

mistake or want of memory in the conflicting witnesses. The testimony satisfies 

your committee that one of the objects _of. the burgl~y was to falsely implica~e 

Columbus .Alexander, one of the memonalists. But m the absence of the testimouy of the witnesses hereinbefore referred to, whose att.endance has not been 

procured, it would in the opinion of your committee be improper for them to express 

any opinion upon the question, '' W'ho were the conspirators~" Indeed, considering that the burglary must be the subject of investigation in the criminal court of 

the District, your committee beg leave to suggest that an expression of OP.inion by 

them that any pru:ticular person or p ersons are guilty might be unwise, if not im- proper, for reasons that will readily be discovereu upon reading the testimony. Your committee think that it should be brought to the notice of the Secretary of 

the Treasury and the .Attorney-General, and in this connection the committee beg to call especial attention to the telegrams which were sent from Michael Hays to H. C. Whitley and to I. C. Nettle hip, and also to the other telegrams and letters 

produced in evidence. They therefore report t.he testimony and the following reso- lution, and ask to be discharo-ed from the further consideration of this subject: 

Resol·ved, That the Clerk o~ the House of Representatives be, and he is hereby, 

instructed to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the .Attorney-Gen - eral, each, a copy of the evidence taken by the Joint Select Committee in Relation to the Affairs of the District of Columbia, so far as the same r elates to the "late 

robbery of the safe in the office of the United States attorney for the District of 

Columbia," for their information and guidance. · WILLIAM B. .ALLISON . .A . G. THURMAN. 

WILLIAM M. STEW .ART 

.T. M. WILSON. J .A Y .A. HUBBELL. 

LYMAN K. BA.SS. 

HUGH J. JEWE-rT. 

ROBERT H.A.MILTO:N. 

~Ir. WILSON, of Indiana. I ask to have the report ~nd the testimony printed, and I also move the adoption of the resolution reported 

by the committee, and on that I call for the previous question. 

Mr. BECK. I wish to a-sk the gentleman from Indiana whether 

the testimony does not absolutely demand that the committee shonld 

recommend that criminal prosecutions be instituted against Whitley 

and Nettleship, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 

Mr. WILSON, of Indiana. I think the committee have ronde significant sug~estions in the resolution which they have reported. 

:Mr. BEvK. I think not. The suggestions are so mild that the 

Secretary can hardly tell what the committee desire. What I wish 

to ask the chairman of the committee is, whether there has not been 

proof before the committee which compels that committee to conclude 

that those two men have been guilty of high crimes and misdemeanorsf 

Mr. WILSON, of Indiana. I have no hesitancy at all in saying 

that there is that in thetestimonythatindicates that the law-officers 

of the Government should take a{}tive mea ures in the courts for the 

purpose of having this matter thorongly investigated and the parties 

who have been connected with the conspiracy brought to justice. But 

I ilid not think, and the committee did not think that it was proper 

for them, inasmuch as this was a case for an investigation in a court, 

to indicate who they believed ought to be prosecuted. 

Mr. BECK. I wish to say I have no doubt, according to the testimony I have seen and beard of, that those men, Whitley and Nettleship, ought t6-day to be in the penitentiary for that crime. 

Mr. WILSON, of Indiana. The committee preferred that every man should read this testimony and form his own judgment for himself. 

:Mr. SPEER. Who are these men Y 

Mr. BECK. They are the chiefs of the detective service, and their 

character was well known when they were appointed as being absolutely infamous. 

The previous question was seconcled and the main question ordered; 

and under the operation thereof the resolution reported by the com- mittee was agreed to. 

The report and the accompanying testimony were ordered to be 

printed, and to lie upon the table. 

TARIFF. 

:rtlr. COBB, of Kansas. I rise to make a privileged motion. I move to reconsider the vote by which the report of the committee of con- ference on the tariff bill was rejected. 

:Mr. BUTLER, of Ma-ssachusetts. Is that motion of higher privilege 

than the business of the House which is proceeding under a suspension of the rules T 

The SPEAKER. Report-s of conference committees are of higher 

privilege than suspensions of the rules; and a motion to reconsider • the rejection of a conference report has the same privilege. 

Mr. R.Al\TDALL. I move to lay the motion to reconsider on the 

table. 

Mr. COBB, of Kansas. I do not yield to thegentleman·fromPennsylvania to make that motion. I yield to the gentleman from Ohio, 

[ Ir. GARFIELD.] . 

Mr. SPEER. ·was the ouject of the motion of the gentleman from 

Kansas to allow the gentleman from Ohio, at this late hour of the ses- sion to make his speech, to which there could be noreply;forthepurposes of the coming campaign. · bi.r. GARFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I was entitled to an hour this morn- ing, if I had chosen to use it, on the conference report on the sundry 

civil appropriation bill. But it was so important that the bill should 

go at once to the engrossing clerks that I occupied no time in general 

debate, bnt said I should a-sk the indulgence of the House later in 

the day, for no political speech, a-s my friends across the way seem to 

apprehend, but simplY, for the purpose of making, a-s far a-s I can and as accurately as possible, a summary of what ha.s been done this ses- sjon in regard to public expenditures. I therefore avail my elf of 

the courtesy of the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. COBB] to state what 

has been done jn the way of appropriations. 

Gentlemen will remember that when the legislative appropriation 

bill was callecl np for action ori. the 5th of March I spoke somewhat 

at length npon the general snbject of revenues and expenditures, ancl 

indicated the leading fea,tures of the bills which the Committee on Appropriations would recommend to the House, and what we believed 

would be possible in the way of reduction of the expenditures for the 

next fiscal year. . The reductions then suggested were of two kinds: first, the actnaJ. 

mustering out of expenditures by the repeal or scaling down of laws 

authorizing and requiring payments from the Treasury; and second, 

the postponement of such items of expenditure which, though ul timately necessary, could be postponed for a year or more without 

serious detriment to the public service until the pressure on the 

Treasury had passed. It was of. great importance that we should be 

able to tide over the present and the next fiscal years without additional taxation, and for the time being the postponement of an ex- pense was almost as valuable as a permanent reduction. In that 

speech I expressed the belief that by postponin~ some expenses and· abolishing others we could reduce the appropnations for the next 

:fiscal yea,r about $:~4,000,000 below the estimates of the several Departments, and that we could scale down the expenditures for the 

next fiscal year to an aggregate of $270,000,000, exclusive of the sinking fund. We have now reached the end of the session, and it is 

worth while to see how far the expectations of four months ago have 

been realized. I presume that not all gentlemen have thought sufficiently upon this subject to appreciate the difficulty of scaling 

down without injuring the efficiency of so vast and complicated a machine a-s is the Government of the United States. It is a va.st 

Colossus, whose every motion depends upon the expenditure of 

money; the motive-power of the vast ·machine is money; and the 

appropriations made by Congress determine and limit the activity of 

every function, from the highest to the lowest. I say that few people 

have considered how difficult it is to take such an organization and 

scale it down about 10 per cent. and still preserve its necessary working force unimpaired. We might by an unwise reduction cripple some one function and thus block the operations of a whole Department, but I believe that this Congress has made its reductions so carefully that no serious injury will follow. 

Before stating the amounts appropriated by the several bills I will 

point out some of the measures of legislation which have been incorporated into these bills for the purpose of reforming the laws which 

regulate the expenditures of public money. 

In the first place, we have endeavored to take a further step in the 

direction in which Congress has been trying to move for several years 

past; I mean the effort to bring all expenditures, as far as possible, 

directly under the eyes of Con~ress. 

We have transferred several unportant items of expenditure from 

the list of permanent appropriations, over which Congress had no immediate supervision, and have pla{}ed them in the· annual appropriation bills. This has necessarily swollen the annual bills, but it has ·brought all that class of expenditures, where they ought to have been 
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brought long ago, under the immediate eye of the people through their 

representatives in Congress. .And here I will remark that there is no more curious illustration of the growth of om: legislative history than 

this, that we have been steadily for the last forty years bringing all 

the Executive Departments more closely under the eye of Congress. 

For the first fifteen years of the Constitution the ap.Propriations for 

the public service were placed in one short bill, which appropriated so many millions to enable the Secretary of State to carry on his Department, and so many millions to enable the Secretary of War to 

carry on his Department, and so with all the Departments. The details of expenditure were left wholly to the discretion of the heads of 

the various Executive Departments. They determined the number and 

salaries of the clerks, me angers, and other subordinate employes, and 

their expenditures were limited only by the amount of money granted 

by Congress. It wa~ not until after about twenty years in. the history of our Government that Co~~ess began to divide the appropriations into separate bills for the Clitterent Departments ; but even then 

most of the appropriations were made in lump. 

There is no hope of insuring a careful economy in expenditures 

without specific provision, declaring the object of an appropriation 

and limiting the amount to be expended. During the present ses&ion 

the Committee on Appropriations have proposed several improvements which have been cordially indorsed by the House, and which 

I think will prove to be of very considerable service to the Government. As an instance of this I refer to the expenses of the national 

1

oan, which amounted to 3,806,000 last year. That amount was ex- pended in maintaining the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and in 

the employment of several hundred clerks and other employes, and 

both their number and pay were left wholly to the discretion of the 

Secretary of the Treasury. It was too great a discretion to put in the 

hands of any one man in the ordinary work of the Government. It 

enabled him to employ, and he had in ·his employment when this 

ession commenced, not le s than eighteen hundred people, paying 

them from .5,000 a year down toseventy-:fivecents a day at his discretion. I think that upon the whole the work was reasonablywell done. 

I do not think there was cormption or misu e of Government funds; 

but it was an extravagant method of con<lucting the public business. 

All that has been swept away by an amendment to the legislative 

bill. All the money now appropria.ted for this service is in specific 

sums, and in every case, except as to the number of employes in the 

Printing- Bureau of the Treasury, a definite number of persons are to 

be employed and their salaries are :fixed. In doing this we have · made a reduction of $500,000 in that one item alone ; but of course the effect of this change is to swell the amount of tho annual appropriation bills about 3,250,000 above what they would have been but 

for the adoption of this reform, though it correa.pondingly reduced 

the amount to be expende<l under the head of permanent appropriations. 

A similar reform bas beon made by the aid of the Committee on 1\filitary Affairs and the Committee on Civil Service Reform in regard 

to the employment of soldiers as clerks in the War Department. By the provision of laws pas ed dming the war and soon after its 

close many hundreds of enlisted men were detailed for duty as clerks 

and messengers in that Department, receiving extra compensation 

for rations and quarters, which raised their pay to about $1,000 a year, while they were in fact soldiers of the Army at the rate of · thirteen dollars per month. All that has been swept away. We have 

made appropriations for the employment of these persons at a :fixed 

salary, and have limited the number to be employed. The effect of 

this was to swell the amount appropriated by that bill nearly half a million dollars; butitreducestheperma.nent appropriation by considerably more than that amount, and it has mustered out a large number 

of persons who were thus employed, and has made the force of civil 

employes a :fixed and definite number. _ In this connection also I will mention another feature of the appropriation bills of this ession, which I think will everywhere be recognized as an improvement on the old method. 

Hitherto it has been the custom to appropriate contingent funds in 

the lump for the several Departments. But this year the Committee on Appropriations have brought all the contingent funds down to 

items. For example, instead of appropriating 350,000 for contingencies in the Treasury Department, we have separated it into all 

the various items, and they cover several closely printed pages of the 

law as it now stands, and state definitely so much for rent, so much 

for fuel, so much for lights, so much for the other items, leaving an actual contingent fund of only some 25,000 to meet expenses that 

could not be enumerated. That plan has been carried through all 

the appropriation bills: and I believe in so doing we have done a good service in limiting the expenses of the Government. 

When I addressed the House in March last I presented a detailed 

statement of expenditures of the la t :fiscal year, so grouped and 

exhibited as to show what portion of the expenditures were directly 

in consequence of the war and what were employed in carrying on the ordinary functions of the Government. With the lea.ve of the 

House I will here republish that analysis, because it forms the ba is 

of all the reduction we have attempted to make for the next :fiscal 

year. A.~ALYSIS OF EXPE~-niTURES FOR LAST FISCAL YEAR. 

For the information of the Honse, I have made a careful analysis of the actual 

expenditures of the :f:Lscnl year which ended on the 30th of June, 1873. I have grouped . 

these expenditures into three classes : First, those payments which were made di- rectJyonaccountof the war; second, the expenses of the Army and Navy; third, all 

other expenditures, including the civil establishment and public works. 

L .Amounts paid during the fiscal year 1873 on account of expenses growing directly out of the late war: 

Joint Select Committee on Alleged Outrages in Southern States . .• Investigations in relation to elections in .Louisiana and Arkansas .• Payment of judgments, Court of Claims. _____ ._.··--- __ .....•.....• Southern claims commis ion . .... ···--·· .......................... . Tribunal of arbitration at Geneva ...... _ .. ___ .---...... . ......... . 

iEilig~!~~1~:1fi¥ ~~·~: ~ ~ ~: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ·~ ~~ ~ ~: ~:: ~ ~: ~ ~::::::::::: Cost of assessing and collectin~internalrevenne, including payments of drawbacks and amount illegally collected ................... . Defending claims for cot.ton ~ed. _ .......•. ___ ..... ·' .......... . Salaries of direct-t.ax commissioners ........ ···-··· .. -----. ___ .. --· Expenses of collecting direct tax in Delaware. __ .--···. ___ ........ . Repayment. for lands sold for direct taxes .... _. __ . _ ... __ .. _. _ .....• R-eturn of proceeds of captured and abandoned property._ ........• Collection of captured and abandoned property, r ecords and evidence r especting same. __ ... _ .. ..... ·-- __ ....... ____ .... _ ............ __ Renmding mternal taxes illegally collected . ... _ .................. . Refunding proceeds of cotton sei~ ed ......... __ ................... . Premium on bonds purcha ed in currency ............. ·----------- Payment of interest on the public debt. ___ .. ---- ........ ______ . __ . Bounties ............. _ ................... ···--· ........ ·---... ___ .. Keeying, transporting, and supplying prisoners of war. __ ....... _. 

~!~ ~~~~Jii~~::::::::: ~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Maintenance of steam.ram.s. --- .. ___ . . _ . ... ................. _ ..... . Gun-boats on western rivers.·--·-· ... . . __ ···---- ................. . Providing for comfort of sick and discharged soldiers .... __ ._ . . ... . Payment of stoppages or fines due :rational Asylum for Disabled 

Volunteer Soldiers ... _ . .. _____ ...... . .... _ ............. ____ .... . Traveling expenses of CalifoTDia and Nevada. volunteers ...•. _ ....• Traveling expenses of First Michigan Cavalry_ .. __ .... _ ... _ ...... . Commutation of mtions to prisoners of war in r ebel St.<ttes .•••. __ •. Dmf'; and substitute fund . ·----- ... -·-- -.... _ .... ___ --·-· . ... .. _ .. Appli:mces of disauled soldiers ....... __ . __ ·---· ...... _. _____ .. . __ . Transportation of insane volunteer oldiers _ .. _ ...... . _ ... _ ... __ ..• Support of Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum, Washin~n~ D. C . . Support of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abanuoneu Lands, (regular).--- ....... _ ....... ___ ...... _. ·--.... _. _ ...... __ . _ .. _ .. . Support of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, (transfer) ... _ .. ... _ ...... __ ........ _ . ____ . _ ..... _ . _ ... __ ...... _ .. Horses and other properly lost in the military service._._ ....... _. Reimbursing State of Kansas for military expenses ........ __ .... . Reimbursing Sta,te of Kentucky for military expenses ... _ ... ____ . Refunding to States expenses incurred in raising >oluntoors _____ . Defraying expen11es of minute. men and volunteers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Inc1iaua1 and Kentucky._. ___ . ___ ... _ ... __ _ .... 

Supplying arms and munitions of war to loyal citizens in revolted St'1tes. -- _ ........... . ... _. ___ . ___ .. _ ... __________ .•....... ____ .. 

Capture of Jefferson Davis .. _ ... . ................ _._ .. . __ ..... . .. . Claims of loJ.al citizens for supplies furnished during the rebellion 

Bounty for estro.ction of enemy's vessels ... . _._ ... _ ............. _ Payment to captors of the rebel rom .Albemarle .... _ ........... __ . Pa~ent :0 officers and crew of the United States steamer Kearsarge Pensions ... __ ..... _ ....... _ ·--. _ ......... ___ ...... ---- ......•.... Relief acts, (valious) ..... _ ... __ ......•.......... -·--· ............ . 

Total. ................................ ·-----........ _ .. __ .•.•.• 

n. Military and naval establishments: For the .Army, after dednctin~ payments for the 

late war, already mentioned m group 1, and for 

~~Eu~v!~:ks~- ~~- ~~~~~~. ~~. ~-~~~~·. ~-~ -~~~~ $32, 524, 548 64 For the Navy .................. ·-·····-----·...... 21,474,433 61 

1, 087 2:1 20,000 00 489, 034 70 52,800 04 62,210 22 

Hll,654 84 

2, 806, 863 94 

54,726 83 

6, 687, 039 49 52 95 540 55 2'2 46 9, 075 00 1, 960, 679 26 

84,459 50 1, 507 44 3, 282 00 5, 105, 919 99 104, 750, 6 44 4fi5, 049 14 258,0 0 11 17,220 36 431,219 22 14,548 93 33,408 28 1,305 79 

193, 750 59 28, 000 00 500 00 2, 000 00 42,792 84 8, 000 00 1, 000 00 72,000 00 

93,924 79 

12,871 95 99,975 85 33fi, 817 37 525,258 72 758,110 31 

28, 7(i2 32 

945 38 ~~. 051 00 927, 910 19 133,802 28 202,912 90 141,377 00 29, 359, 426 86 

797,748 78 

157, 262, 416 81 

----- 53, 998,982 25 m. Civil service proper; being all the expenditures not named 

in the first and second groups : 1. Civil establishment: 

The civil list, including expenses of legislative, judi- cial, and executive offices 'of the Government not including InternaJ. Revenue and Customs Depart. menta ............................................. 16,026,321 32 Increase of salaries by act of llirch 3, 1873 _ ••. _. . • . • 1, 948, 210 04 .Foreign intercourse .•.............•.•. ·----......... 1, 292,008 49 

Indians·····················-····-·-················ 7,946,'8u9 53 Expenses of mints, Coast Survey, light-house service, revenue-cutter service, and marine hospital .. . __ . 4, 812, 183 58 Cost of collecting customs duties. exclusive of reve- nue-cutter semce and building and repairing cus- tom-house , including the refundin"' of excess of 

deposits and amounts illegally collec~d ... . .... _ .• 12, 5 6, 045 93 Deficiencies in the revenues of the Post-Office Depart- ment ...•............ . ...............•............. Mail.steamship service ..... __ ---- __ ... ___ ....... --· .. Expenses of e1~hth and mnth censuses_ ....... . .... . Survey of public lands; and land funds to States ... . Government of Territories .•.. --·--- ... __ .. ___ ... __ _ 

Steamboat-insp ecaon service·--·--------------· ... . 2. Extraordinary expenses : Investigation of senatorial election in Kansas .. . ... . S~ey of b01;mdary between United States and BritISh po sessions. _ .........•. __ .................. _ .. 

4, 765, 475 00 725,000 00 105, 7fi2 44 1, 401, 971 Z1 271,985 36 221,917 50 

20,000 00 

2,304 63 Commissioners to international penitentiary congress at London ..........•. -----·....................... 5, 000 00 Copies of proceedings of same. ____ ................• 1, 362 65 International expo 1tion at Vienna .......... _._ .. __ . 111, 146 26 

prw:~ ~~-~ ~~~: -~-~~~~·. ~~·~ .~ ~~~~~~~- ~-: -~~ _ ~~ 370, R13 24 Miscellaneous ...... --- ............. __ . ·-- ______ ..... 1, 662,634 86 

3. Public works: 

Custom-houses and post-offices, and repairs and pres- ervation of same . ... ·----··--._ .... _ .. ___ ... ----.. 3, 270,329 90 Marine hospitals ....... _-·----_ .. --·------ .•..... _.. 61,928 73 Light-houses and repairs ... --- .. . .. .. _ ... _ .. __ ._____ 1, 408,851 4!) 

$54, 277, 052 10 

*A portion of this amount is for pensions to soldiers of the war of 181~ 
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Court-houses, post-offices, and building for State, 

War, and Navy Departments .................. .... $5, 352, 452 34 .ArsenaJ.a and armories, and Military Academy buildF/:fs8a;;d -:f~-rlili~~tl~~~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Rivers and harbors ..........•.•.•.............. . ... 

Navy-yards .....•.•••....... ------- .. --·-----------· Interior Department building. ____ ................. . Buildings, Government Hospital for Insane, Colum916,476 33 1, 801, 766 92 6, 371, 687 32 1, 370, 587 06 10,000 00 

bia Hospital, and Columbia Institution for Deaf 

and Dumb ..•••........................ .. --- -----· 179, BOO 00 Improvements of public grounds, streets, and ave- nues in the city of Washington, includinu Washington Aqueduct and bridges across the ~otomac River, extension of Capitol grounds and Capitol 

building--------------- .. --····----·--·--·---····· 4, 062,915 08 ---- $24, 806, 785 17 

Grand total .•.............•...••.......... .. ..•...... --------- 290,345,245 33 

It will be seen by an examination of this analysis that every expenditure enu- merated in the first group is a direct nharge of t.he late war. Now, that poup amounts in the total to 157,262,416.81; that is, 54 per cent. of all the expenditures 

of the Government, elrcluding the sinkin~ fund, for the last fiscal ye.'U'. In exam- ining those items one by one I find but a smgle place where it seems t.o me there lills 

been any extravagance whatever; and that is the expenses of the national loan, to which I will refer before I :J.m done. I adk gentlemen to go over those items, and 

say wlmt :r.ortion of the 157,000,000 expended in paying the chMges of the war could posSibly have been left out with justice 1 In the second group I have placed the Army and the Navy-not counting in the 

public works for rivers and harbors, navy-yard!l, arsenals, and the like, that have 

been built in connection with the Navy and the Army, but the net charges of the 

Armv and Navy themselves. These mako the second group, and they amount to $53,998,982.25; that is just 18 per cent. of the whole expense for the year. The third group embraces all other expenditures, and I have sub·:vouped them 

for convenience into three heads: First, the civil service proper, the Civil establish- ment represented by this bill and other kindred appropriations ; secondly, extraor- dinary expenses that came in during the year, but of a civll kind; t.hirilly, public "NOI"ks of all kinds grouped together. Now this third group and its sub-groups amount in the total to ~79,803,'347.27, or 2H per cent. of the entire expenses of the 

Government. 

Now, lli. Chairman, t.'l.ke the results: $290,000,000-54 per cent. directly for the war; 18 per cent. for our military and naval est.-tblishments; and 28 per cent. for 

all other expenses put together. Going through the items carefully one by ona, when gentlemen attack the economy of this Government they ought to specif.V' the 

item that is extravagant; they should specify the item that is wrongfully there. 

It will not do to declaim against extravagance in general and not specify where it 

is. I have endeavored, in this st.'l.tement, to spread out as on an open scroll the 

expenditures of the Government; and I a~:~k the help of every man in this Hons~ 

to point out the pla~es in this li.it where real, effective, wise retrenchment can be 

mstde. 

It will be observed that in the first !ITOup I have placed only those items of ex- penditure which ~ew directly out of ~he war; yet it will not be denied that a very considerable portion of the expenses in the other two groups were made nece SJ.ry 

in consequence of the war. But as they all belong to the annual expenditures of our civil and military establli!hment.s, it is difficult to say just what portion is fairly cbnrge:tble to that cause. , It will not be denied that the vast ma.sses of accounts for bounty, for back pay, for materials furnished, for war cl.:lims, in all their innumerable forms, that came to the Treasury for settlement, have required a very great increa.se of clerical force 

in all the auditing and accounting departments of the Government; and the numerous payments which have been made on account of the war fund up to the current year show that a. brge portion of the force in all these ·departments is still. 

emplo:yed on this business. 

Agru.n, the destruction of our light-houses along the southern coast, the neglect of our rivers and harbors, and public buildin~s, in all the States lately in the rebellion, has brought upon the countrythenecessttyforre tora.tion, repau:, and rebuild- in~, which h'ls greatly increa ed that cla s of our expenditures. We are still maintaining an increased civil establi hment because of the war. And it is in this part 

of our civil administration where we will find most opportunity for retrenchment, 

where we will• find it possible to muster out employes and abolish expenditures, which, though they have been needed, can be dispensed with in the future without 

crippling the ordiriary service of the Government. In the pending bill the Committee on .Appropriations have indicated, by lecislativ-e provisions, such measures of retrenchment as they believe the service ~beat· without injury. And they invite the House to examine with the closest scrutiny the items of expenditure exhibited in the t.'lble I have given, and to aid the commit- tee in pointin~ out places where further reduction caJJ. pos ibly be marl e. Let our critici ms be a~companied by legislative provh!ions th:1t will rootify the errors we complain of. 

Now, Mr. Chairman, I have drawn a few conclusions from my own study of these 

groups, as to what can be done. I speak for tihe Committee on Appropriations when 

I say that we have agreed upon this principle, that we will not undertake to cut the 

appropriations down at all hazards to t.be level of revenues, however low that level 

may be. We do not believe in t.hat. We believe that if a cutting down, such as ought to be made for its own sake, does not carry the Treasury through, then it is 

the busines, of Congress to provide ways and me:Jns; it ia the business of Congres& to tax whenever taxation is needed to prevent a deficit. 

But the Committee on Appropriations propose two things: first, that where er an expenditure has grown out of the war, or grown up in any other way, or an abuse 

has crept in, that expenditure and thn.t abuse should be lopped otr-in other words, 

if an_y expense can be mustered out, we propose to muster it out for all future time. 

Havmg done th:tt, there is just one other thing we think can be done. Going over the proper and fitting expenditures of t.he Government, if we come to any that can be 

postponed for a year without seriously impairing any great national interest, we say, postpone it. When we have done those two thin.e:s, we do not propose.to cut clown another dollar anywhere. Anu if in this bill gentlemen can show us that we have anywhere cut into the life of t.be Government or its necessa-ry function , we desire to restore what has been taken away. If in any place we ought to have 

incre."tSed expenditures or appropriations, and have not done so, point it out and we • will move an increase. · Guided by these two principles, the Committee on Appropriations desire to suggest in what ways xetrenchment can..be made. 

I then suggested the different items on which reduction conld 

safely be made, and expres ed the belief that the appropriations for 

the next fiscal year could be reduced by the snm. of $34,000,000 below 

the estimates made by the several Departments, and that this reduction could be made from twenty to twenty-five millions below the 

a.ctual appropriations of last yev.r. An examination of the situation as it then existed, March 5, led to the following conclusion: 

1\.nd now, lli. Chairman, from a review of the facts in the case, I a1a warranted in 

the assertion tbatifthe House will pursue the· course which I have indicated, we shall 

pass through the present and the coming fiscal year without crippling any of the neces- sary expenditures of t.he Government, without abanuoning any great and importar>!i 

public work already begun an<l neither encounter a deficit nor bring the Treasury to protest, nor the public credit to shame. I believe tha.t with the revival of business 

and with the restoration of public confidence we ahall be ena.oled to get through this 

year and the next without additional taxation. 

In this connection I call the attention of the House to one element that all will admit ent-ers largely into the problem of public 

expenditures. Gentlemen sometime8 say that the aggregate expendi- tures o! the Government during its first fifty yeara were no more than 

they are now for one yea.r. That is a striking and to some a startling 

statement. But I call the attention of the House to th,~ $.rowth of 

the country, to the area of square miles at four or five d.i1ferent pe- riods of our history. When the Constitution was adopted we had, 

under the treaty of peace of 1783 with Great Britain, an area of 

780,722 square miles. In 1803, by the J-cquisition of Louisian.a, we more than doubled the amount of our territory by enlarging it to the 

amount of 1,941,000 aquare miles·. Forty-five years later, in 1848, by our acquisitions from Mexico and the :neighboring territory, we had 

2,928,000 square miles. To-day we have 3,682,000 quare miles of territory, being nearly five times the area of the territory we had when the 

Constitution went into operation. Now, the e increments of growth 

have not been mere additions of territory; they have been accompanied by the creation of new States and Territories, at a rate even more rapid than the growth of onr area in square miles. Of course every new State and Territory has added to the expenditure of the Government. 

l will detain the Honse no longer except to call attention to the 

appropriations made at the present session. Making a comparison 

between law and law, not between estimates and appropriations, I 

present a. t:tble which exhibits the 3.ppropriations of last year and 

the corresponding appropriations made during this se sion: 

Tu:elve 1·egular appropriation bills for the years 1874 and 1875. 

For fiscal year For fiscal year enclin~ June ending .June Increase. 

30, 1874. 30, 1875. Title of bill. Decrease. 

Navy ............... $22. 276, 257 65 16, 818. 946 20 ......... ........ .......... $5,457,311 45 Army .. ............. 31, 796, 008 81 27, 788, 500 00 ~ ........ -.. -.... .. ......... 4, 007, 508 81 Fortification ..... ... 1, 899, 000 00 904,000 00 ............................. 995,000 00 Legislative, execu- tive, and judicial .. 23, 753, 633 86 20, 613, 880 80 ....... .... ................ 3, 139, 753 06 

Indian.-- .. --·----·- 5, 541, 418 90 5, 656. 171 00 114,752 10 ............... Military Academy .. 344,317 56 339,835 00 ........... . ............ 4 482 56 Deficiencies ......... 12, 978, 418 60 4, 083, 914 26 .......................... 8, 894: 504 34 Post-Office.---- ..... 5, 396, 602 00 5, 497, 842 00 101,240 00 ............... Consular and diplo- Diatic ............. 1, 311, 359 00 3, 405, 404 00 2, 114,045 00 Pension ............ . 30, 480, 000 00 29, 980, 000 00 · · · · soo; ooo-oo ............ ..... ...... Sundry civil ........ 32, 186, 129 09 26, 895, 545 25 ........ ........... ..... 5, 290, 583 84 River and harbor .... 6, 102, 900 00 5, 218, 000 00 .......... ·----.. 884,900 00 

Total decrease . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . . . . • • . • . . • . . . . • • • • . • • . • • • • 26, 863, 006 96 

By glancing over this table gentlemen will see in what bills the re- ductions of appropriations have been made. 

In the naval bill the reduction amounts to nearly $5,500,000; and.part 

of this reduction arises from the fact that we have reduced the rank 

and file of the Navy and also reduced the enlisted force of the Marine 

Corps 20 per cent., and part of it arises from the fact that last year we made a large appropriation, a little more than $3,000,000, for bnilding new sloops of war, which does not appearin the bill for this year. 

The appropriations for the .Army are reduced a little more than 

$4,000,000. This was made possible mainly by the fact that we provided for the reduction of the enlisted men of the .Army by the nnm.- ber of :five thousand. 

The fortification bill shows a reduction of very nearly 1,000,000, 

and is an example of a public expenditure that can be postponed without detriment to the public service. The legislative appropriation bill shows a reduction of a little more than ·3,000,000 below the corresponding appropriations of last 

year. The reduction wonld have been 6,000,000 bnt for the fact 

that there has been placed in this bill more than 3,000,000 which 

formerly were expended under the head of permanent appropriations 

for the nation alloan. The reduction haa been effected mainly by the 

repeal of the salary bill, which alone made a reduction of 1,000,000, 

by reducing the force in the various departments of the civil service, 

and by reducing contingent expenses. 

The Indian appropriation bill shows a small increase over that of 

last year; bnt it should be remarked that a large portion of our deficiencies have been for the Indian service of the current year. 

The appropriations for the Military Academy are nearly the same as those of the current year, although the nnm.ber of cadets has 

been increased forty-nine. 

The deficiency bill of this year appropriates nearly 9,000,000 less 

than the deficiency bills of last year. 

The appropriations from the Treasury for postal service are about 

$100,000 greater than the amount for last year. It will be noticed 

that I have set down only the amount appropriated out of the Treasury. The revenues of that Department are not covered lnto the Treasury, but are expended directly for the service by the Department itself. 
5438 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. JUNE 23, 

The total expenditures of that Department will be over 2 000,000 

greater for the next fiscal year than for the current year. But the 

illcrease of the rates of postage provided for in the bill will it is estimated produce about $2,000,000 of additional revenue. The consular and diplomatic bill appropriates about the ordinary a,mount for the service of that Department; but there has been added 

this year nearly '2,000,000 to that bill a.s the amount required to pay 

the award of the mixed British and American commission under the 

tr aty of Washington. 

The pension bill this year is half a million dollars less than the 

pension bill of last year. But the legislation of the session in regard 

to pension laws leads me to believe that we shall have to appropriate a deficiency in the pension bill of next year enough to bring up the 

appropriation to what it wa.s last year. Had I known when the 

pension bHl was under consideration what I know now about the 

expenses of that Bureau, I should have insisted upon keeping the 

nmount the same as last year. You may therefore expect half a million for deficiencies in the pension bill of next yeaT. :Mr. ELDREDGE . . Does the gentleman think there will not be some deficiency in the Post-Office Department T 

Mr. GARFIELD. I hope not; I ca.nnot tell. 

Mr. ELDREDGE. There never has been a time when there was not a deficiency there. Mr. GARFIELD. All our appropriations for the Post-Office Department R>re deficiencies, except the po tal revenue. The amount of deficiency to be paid from the Treasury is what we speak of when we refer to deficiencies for the Post-Office. 

The sundry civil bHl shows a reduction of 5,250,000 below that of 

the corresponding bill of last year. This arises in the main from a reduction in the amounts appropriated for public buildings; but the 

bill of this year ha been increased by an appropriation of $400,000 to 

aid the sufferers by the overflow of southern rivers. 

The river and harbor bill of this year shows a decrease af 885,000 

below that of la t year, and--

Mr. CONGER. I wish the gentleman would state that in the river 

and harbor bill of this year about $200,000 are added for general sm- veys in connection with schemes of cheap transportation all over the 

country between the East and the West-an appropriation which is no part of the river and h:trbor appropriation bill proper. 

Mr. GARFIELD. The gentleman has stated that fact so well that 

I do not need to repeat it. Summin~ up the results of the table here presented, the aggregate 

appropriatiOns made in the twelve regular appropriation bills are 26,863,006.96 less than the amounts appropriated in corresponding 

bills of last year. . I have not taken into account in this statement the 4,000,000 appropriated in what was known as "the naval emergency bill;" but on the other hand I have more than balanced this $4,000,000 by including in these bills the appropriations for expenses of the national loan 

and other simila.r appropriations, which have been transferred from 

the list of permanent appropriations to the regular bills. Nor have 

I included in this statement the amount appropriated by Congress in 

the form of claim ·bills and relief bills. Though the number of private bills which have pa-ssed at this session i probably greater than 

those of the preceding year, yet I am sati fied that the amount appropriated in such bills is con iderably le than the appropriations 

of last year. The appropriations of this cla s amounted last year 

to $3,354,842.17. I do not believe that this year they will reach 

$1,500,000. The summing up of the amounts appropriated in the bills that have 

pa sed within the last day or two has been done somewhat huTriedly, 

and I will not voiich for the ab olnte correctne s of the :figures here 

given; but I am satisfied they are not far out of the way. I may 

safely affirm that t.he appropriations made at the pre ent session of 

Congress are in the aggregate 25,000,000 le than those of hat year. I ought also to add that in this statement no account has been taken 

of the unexpended bala.nces in either year. 

I desire to say in conclusion, for myself and for my associates on the 

Committee on Appropriations, that we feel under great obligations to 

the House for the confidence with which it has accepted our work. 

At t.im.es I have no doubt that we have appeared to many members 

unreasonable in our opposition to measures of expenditure, but the 

House has generaJ.ly shown n,n unwavering purpo e to follow the line 

of genuine economy in its management of public affairs. In this con- nect.ion I may state (and! do so in no disparaging or invidious spirit) 

tha.t almost every bill sent from this Hou~e to the other has come back to us larger in the amount of the appropriation than when it 

left us; and in almost every instance the bills that have come from a conference committee into the Honse have come in with a smaller 

amount of appropriation than when they were sent to the conference. 

No conference committee on any of the appropriation bills has enla.rged the bill in its charge; but on the contrary nearly all of such 

committees have decreased the appropriations. 

I shall watch with deep interest the financial history of the next :fiscal 

year, with some apprehension that in some places we have cut too 

deep. But I shall confidently expect to see the expenditmes kept 

within the ~~l?regate of the permanent and annu.aJ. appropriation bills. 

Mr.PAR.lS....t!.<R,ofMissouri. Is my friend from Ohio [Mr. GARFIELD] 

prepared to state to the Hone the difference lJetween thee timates 

for this year and the actual appropriations. 

Mr. GARFIELD. I cannot do that, because I do not know preci!:;cly 

the amount of the miscellaneous appropriations. 1\lr. PARKER, of Missouri. I hope the gentleman will be preparcll 

to incorporate such a statement in his published speech. 

1\lr. GARFIELD. It will take some time to work up all the items. 

But the Clerk of the Honse is required by law to publish a full urnmary of the amounts appropriated for all purposes, and we may expect 

to see his statement soon. Mr. COX. I object to gentlemen making speeches of this kind 

here in the last homs of the session without any opportunity for a reply. 

Mr. COBB, of Kansas. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts, [Mr. DAWES.] 

Mr. RANDALL. I would like t6 know how much time the gentle- man from Kansas has remaining. 

The SPEAKER p1·o ternpo1'e. Thirty-five minutes. 

Mr. COBB, of Kansas. I yield ten minutes to the gentleman from 

Massachusetts. 

Mr. COX. Is any reply to be permitted to those speeches, or are they to be publi hed after we adjourn without any opportunity for an answer! 

1\lr. DAWES. 1\lr. Speaker, I do not desire to occupy any great 

length of time; but I wish to bear testimony to the fidelity of the 

Committee on Appropriations, and to say that they may well con- gratulate themselve upon the re ult of their labors. They will go 

home to their constituents pre enting a re ult which cannot but com- mend it elf to the public judgment as well as to their own private 

convictions. I know a little something of the difficulties of their 

work, although not as much as they do themselves. My experienco 

only went just far enough to learn that fac~ but the gentleman has 

not only had an opportunity to learn how ditlicult it is, but an opportunity to learn better than I did how to discharge his duties so as to overcome those difficulties. 

I desire, however, Mr. Speaker, as he has presented one side of the 

public ledger in a manner so flattering and so de irable to the coun- try, to say but a single word as to the other side of that ledger. 

Nobody can ask more at the hands of this committee and this Congress in reference to the expenditmes for the next fiscal year than 

has been rendered by this Committee on Appropriations. But how is 

it on the other side of the ledger f Is there any fair prospect before 

the people that this condition of expenditmes will be met by sufficient receipts from om sources of revenue t The Committee on Ways 

and Means took instrnotion from the House in the early part of the · session, and have adhered to it until this day. The Honse by an overwhelming vote instructed that committee not to impose any in- crease of taxes, having ·faith in the work on the other side of the 

ledger and faith in that recuperative power of the American people 

to cure themselves, if-left without doctors and varying treatments, of 

all the ills under which they have suffered in the diminution of re- ceipts and increase of expenditures. But what are the indications now t Although falling back in the receipts in the early months of 

this ses ion, causing anxiety in the Treasury Department and anxiety 

upon this floor lest we should be compelled to impose new burdens, we find all these have been wiped out by the increased receipts of 

the Treasury. Within the last few months six or seven millions moro than the current expenditures have been brought into the Treasury. 

The internal-revenue taxes have yielded for the year more than was estimated by that department at the beginning of the year when 

everything was prosperous and without taking into account the sad 

experience of distress during the autumn. Every one of the internal 

receipts is more in the total than wa.s promised by that department. 

As yet the customs duties have not quite come up to the estimate ; 

but taking them all together with the other receipts I have the utmost confidence, and authority I believe on the part of the committee 

and tho e who have studied the subject, to say that this side of the 

ledger which shows the receipts to meet these expenditmes will be 

equally gratifying to the Amerioan people ; that not only the current 

expenditmes will be found met by the receipts of the Government but 

there will be over and above more than enough to meet the sinking 

fund, so that the policy in operation at the commencement of this 

Adtninistration and adhered to through all these adversities will still 

be continued. That policy is to reduce the taxes on the one side and 

the expenditures on the other, keeping in view two thinge, the safety 

of the sinking fund and a moderate reduction of the public debt from 

twenty-five to fifty million dollars. I believe the sinking fund will 

be safe with the present receipts and with the reduction of expenditures for the next fiscal year. If, therefore, our receipts met the ex- penditmes for la t year and ran ovor 5,000,000, with the expenditur 

next year 26,000,000 le sand the receipts equal to what they were last year, gentlemen will see we will certainly be in a condition to 

meet our expenditures and the sinking fund, and more too. 

So, without taking any credit to the Committee on Ways and Mean 

for their policy, for their policy has been a negative policy, holding 

back in obedience to a vote of the Hou e instructing them not to impose new taxes until it was found ab olutely nece ary, and with such a reduction of expenditmes as we have seen, a failure to recover from 

the past deficiency in the receipts so as to meet every demand upon us need not be looked for. The r ceipts will be equal to all the demands upon them to carry on tho service of tho Government for the 

next fiscal year. 
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I have not risen to commend the work of the Committee on Ways 

n.nd :Means. As I said, their policy has been mostly a negative policy. 

They have introduced some reforms in the revenue service and the 

administration of it, in r eference to which much has been said in the 

House. The result they hope will meet with the just expectation of 

the committee. Others differ in this regard, but I do not wish to provoke any discus ion on the subject. I only mean to say, Mr. Speaker, 

that the other side of the ledger will be quite a-s commendable as to 

the receipts of the revenue as that side of the ledger in reference to 

the expenditures which ha-s been so flatteringly presented by the gentleman from Ohio. 

ENROLLED BILLS SIG~"'ED. 

Mr. DA.RRALL, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that 

the committee had examined and found duly enrolled bills of the 

follomng titles ; when the Speaker signed the same: An act (H. R. No. 3168) making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes ; and 

An act (H. R. No. 3415) to provide forth~ care and custody of per- sons convicted in the courts of the United States who have or may 

become insane while imprisoned. 

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. SYMPSON, one of their clerks, 

informed the House that that body had passed, without amendment, 

bills of the House of the following titles: 

An act (H. R. No. 3016) granting a pension to Ira Douthart; 

An act (H. R. No. 3175) for the relief of J. E. Ingalls, postmaster at . Denmark, Lee County, Iowa ; 

An act (H. R. No. 309 ) to amend the act entitled "An act to re- organize the courts in the District of Columbia, and for other purpo es," approved March 3, 1863 ; 

An act (H. R. No. 2770) to amend the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a court for 'the investigation of 

claims-against the United States,"' approved August 6, 1856; 

An act (H. R. No. 3408) to relieve the political disabilities of L. L. · Lomax:, of Virginia; 

An act (H. R. No. 3798) for the relief of J. J. H ayden; 

An act (H. R. No. 3266) for the relief of the Pekin Alcohol Manufacturing Company; 

An act (H. R. No. 554) for the relief of William I. Blackistone, of 

Saint Mary's County, Maryland; . An act (H. R. No. 2'291) granting a pension to Franklin Stoner; 

An act (H. R. No. 700) granting a pension to the minor chilch-en of 

Michael Weisse, deceased; 

An act (H. R. No. 921) to prevent the useJess sl~ughter of buffaloes 

within the territories of the United States; and 

An act (H. R. No. 763) for the relief of Oliver P. Mason. 

It further announced that the Senate h ad passed, with amendments, 

bills of the following titles; in which the concurrence of the House was requested : An act (H. R. No. 3413) to provide for the stamping of unstamped 

instruments, documents, or papers; . An act (H. R. No. 3172) to relieve Sardine G. Stone, of Alabama, of 

political disabilities; 

An act (H. R. No. 3354) to relieve the persons therein named· of their 

legal and political disabilities; . An act (H. R. No. 3353) to remove the political disabilities of Richard 'I'. Allison, of Maryland; 

An act (H. R. No. 3027) to remove the political disabilities of Van 

Ranselear Morgan, Thoma-s l\1. Jones, and Charles M. Fauntleroy, of 

Virginia, and of A. S. Taylor, of Maryland; 

An act (H. R. No. 3406) to relieve Joseph Wheeler, of Lawrence County, in the State of Alabama, from all legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution; 

An act (H. R. No. 3086) to remove the political disabilities of George 

E. Pickett, of Virginia ; . 

An act (H. R. No. 3091) to release J. W. Bennett from political disabilities; and · 

An act (H. R. No. 3252) to remove the political disabilities of George 

N. Hollins, of Maryland. 

Mr. COBB, of Kansas. I yield now for five minutes to the gentle- man from New York, [l\Ir. Cox.] 

l\Ir.COX. I donotintendtooccupythetimeoftheHouseto any great 

extent. I think a vote of thanks ought to be passed for the gentlemen on the other side because of the wonderful amount of their goodness 

and sanctity during this session. I have no doubt, ~Ir. Speaker, the 

two gentlemen. who have given us these mournful eulogies intended 

to clo something in the interest of economy. I thin I may quote in 

this case a phrase from Whittier : 

Saving as shrewd economists their souls 

And winter pork, with the least possible outlay Of salt and sanctity. 

I never knew gentlemen at the end of the session make this sort of 

eulogy of themselves; but I am glad, however, to see the gentleman 

from l\Ia.ssachu etts [Mr. DAWES] agree with my friend from Ohio, 

[1\Ir. GARFIELD.] I am glad to see those two gentlemen, who started 

out so divergent in their paths at the beginnin~ of the se sion, so harmonious just before the elections this fall. 1. do not believe these 

beautiful, fine speeches would have been made if it were not for these 

fall elections. I know it is a good thing to feel your re ponsibility · to the people, bot I do protest, Mr. Speaker, against the gentleman 

from Ohio, [Mr. GARFIELD,] who is familiar with the uetails of the 

appropriation, and the gentlemanfromMassachusetts, [l\Ir. DAWES,] 

who raises the Ways and feans, coming in at the last end of these - sion, when no response can be made, with a view of finishing their 

speeches after the adjournment and having them printed and sent out as campaign documents without any opporttmity for reply on thi 

side. I say it is not fair; it is not a fair, square dealing with this 

side of the House. 

I know gentlemen say they have been so good they do not need any 

defense from this side of the House. All you have done good over there you have done grudgingly. What has my friend done from 

the Committee on Ways and l\feans Y Proposed a moiety bill after a. • great effort, after being driven to it by public opinion and the public 

press. What has he done Y His little, petty tariff bill, that infant 

which left this House in such a bad condition, has been postponed 

until December ne:x:t! Will we have it up again 'I Are we to have 

any real reform in that insidious, unjust, and invidious sort of legislation 'I 

The gentleman says there have been increased receipts in the Treasury to make up for deficiencies. If so, it is not to be credited to the e gentlemen. If they have practiced economy and shown a little better condition of expenditure than last year perhaps they t.hel'eby con- fess to the Rouse and to the country that for ten or twelve years they 

have been in every regard derelict so far as economy in expenditure 

is concerned. They now come in just before the election and make 

these specious statements at the tail end of the session when there is no chance to reply . What ha-s the majority of the House done in the way of relieving 

the burdens of the people inreferencetota:x:ation 'I Point us to some specific thing. 'l'he gentleman from Ohio referred to one committee 

the business of which I am familiar with, the Committee on Foreign 

Affairs-the only thing with which I am familiar, perhaps, in regard 

to these appropriations, and I say here they have appropriated 150,000 more in that regard than for the last year. 

These gentlemen, after bragging all the session about reduction, come in at the very last moment and add to their bills-both tho 

Senate and the House-in many respects. But I think there is one thing we should have done-and I say it with a view to the future and ourresponsibilityto that future wherein there is peril and wherein 

there may be panic-and that is that yon have kept up these false 

balances which are abomination to the Lord. .After all your talk 

about resumption of specie payments, after all the brave talk of your 

President, his veto and his memorandum, he comes ::md signs your 

bill at the last moment when you all believe he would have vetoed 

it if he had acted in conformity with his own just judgment heretofore expressed. 

[Here the hammer fell.] 

l\Ir. COX. Just a word more. And now you go home to your people and expect them to stand that. No, sir; they will burn down the 

Administration barn to get rid of the rats, or they will sink the ship 

to get rid of the cockroaches. 

Mr. COBB, of Kansas. I yield to the gentleman from Iowa, [Mr. 

KASSON.] 

l\Ir. HARRIS, of Virginia. Will the gentleman from Iowa yield to me for a moment to ask a question Y 

Mr. KASSON. I yield for a question. 

Mr. HARRIS, of Virginia. On the 23d of March last, the gentleman 

from Georgia [Mr. YoUNG] offered a bill to authorize the payment of 

mail agents and mail contractors for services rendered previous to 

April4, 1861. The chairman of the Committee on Appropriations 

entreated the House not to pass the bill in the crude form in which 

he said it was presented, for the rea-son that his committee was then 

inquiring into the amount necessary to pay those claims. 

l\1r. KASSON. The question, if you plea e. l\Ir. HARRIS, of Virginia. The result ha-s been that no provision 

has been made for the payment of the claim, the action of the Honse 

having been influenced by the statement of the chairman of the Committee on Appropria.tions. 

l\Ir. YOUNG, of Georgia. The majority of the House voted for the 

bill, but it <lid not receive the necessary two-thirds. 

Mr. GARFIELD. The Committee on Appropriations carefully con- sidered that matter. They found that in 1867 Congress passed a law 

forbidding the payment of any of that class of claims until Congre s should by its express legislation provide for it. It would require the 

suspension of the rules to put it into any bill; and we found in many/ 

instances that old mail contracts in the South had been adopted by.; 

the confederate government, and that the contractors had got then·'. 

back pay for carrying the mails before secession, on the condition that _. they would go on and serve under the new confederate government:' 

Now, I do not want to give back pay to anybody who has been paid once already by the rebel government. 

Mr. KASSON. We have had, Mr. Speaker, from our friend on the 

other side, the gentleman from New York, [Mr. Cox,] one of those delightful attacks to which we are so accustomed from him. He com- plains that he did not know before of the speeches to be delivered by 

the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and the chair- man of the Committee on Ways and Means, and therefore he apolQ4 
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5440 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 

' gizes for not making an adequate aud sufficient reply to them. Let 

my friend from New York tell us how we could have accommodated 

him any better, inasmuch as several of the bills have been passed 

within forty-eight hours and we could only hav~ footed them up this 

morningf Why did not the gentleman himself, in the interest wlp.ch 

he undoubtedly has to serve his country and enlighten his constituency? make up the figures without waiting for the chairmen of these 

committees to do sot Why did he not examine into the subject earlier 

in the session instead of attempting to derogate from the honor which 

l believe belongs clearly and honestly to the Committee on Appropriations for the great reforms they have carried out. Mr. COX. I think my friend from Iowa [Mr. KASSON] who served 

with the democratic side of the House for several weeks in the beginning of this session has got on the other side in this speech. • l\lr. KASSON. The gentleman seeks again to claim my efforts at 

reform as belonging to the democracy-another of his errors in 

endeavoring to steal the credit to the democracy ·for all the reforms, 

eve1·y one of which has been carried by the republican side of the 

House and originated with the republican side of _the House. 

Mr. ELDREDGE. What reforms do you speak of "I Be a little 

specific. Mr. KASSON. The r epeal of the Sanborn contracts is one, and the r epeal of the moieties another; the reduction of expenditures and of 

the force in the T1·easury is another; the -reduction of every appro- priation bill below those of last year is another. 

Mr. ELDREDGE. The gent.Ieman from Kent ucky [1\Ir. BECK] has 

t.he.credit of the repeal of the Sanborn contracts and the moieties. 

It is he who bas got the scalps· at his belt in those cases. l\lr. KASSON. I would refer to the salary reduction for another. 

l\1r. COX. In the Senate such democrats as Mr. BAYARD and Mr. Casserly began that reform for which the gentleman seeks credit. Mr. KASSON. There is one thing, the only thing which I am awaxe of, of which the gentleman from New York [Mr. Cox] can complain. 

The Committee on Ways and Means put the tax at two or three cents 

per pound on macaroni, and I am glad that I can sympathize with 

my friend from New York over the defe8.t of the tariff bill, in view 

of the fact that macaroni is saved. Mr. Speaker, let me ask the 

attention of my friends on both sides of the House to the question 

whether the exhibit made here this morning showing that there has 

been a saving in ,the appropriations of over $25,000,000 is not one of 

which the whole House, bot h sides of it, republicans and democrats, 

may well be proud- for all our friends on the other side of the House 

take their part of the credit so far as they have assisted to bring 

about this result f I say this although t,his side of the House, the 

majority, are entitled to the credit 1f they are bound to take the 

responsibility which belongs to the action of the House. 1\Ir. ELDREDGE. Wait till the deficiency bill comes in, and then rsee how much credit either side is entitled to. 

?tir. KASSON. Ah, 1\Ir. Speaker, that is a prediction. that we have 

heard before. 

E:to.TROLLED BILLS SIG~D. 

Mr. PENDLETON, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported 

that they had examined and found truly enrolled bills of the follow- ing titles; when the Speaker signed the same : A bill (S. No. 169) for the relief of Marcus Otterbourg, late consul 

of the United States at the city of Mexico, and minister to the re- public of Mexico ; 

A bill (S. No. 733) regulating gas-works; 

A bill (S. No. 806) to extend the time allowed for the redemption of 

certain lands by the first section of the act entitled "An act. to provide 

for the redemption and sale of lands held by the United States under 

the several acts levyinrr dll·ect taxes, and for other purposes," ap- rroved June 8, 1872, and' to suspend the operation of the fourth sec- tion of said act; and 

A bill (S. No. 854) extendinO' the right of way heretofore granted to 

the Alleghany VaHey Railroa3. Company tlll'ough the arsenal grounds 

a.t Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

POST-OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL. 

The House resumed the consideration of the motion to reconsider 

the vote by which the second committee of. conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses upon the amendments of the Senate 

to the tariff bill was ordered. 

Mr. KASSON. I only wish to say one thing more. I do not think 

there has been a se sion to which any gentleman of the House can re- fer for many years past, which has been so clear of the passage of 

bills containing private speculations, or "jobs." I think, sir, that 

both sides of the House are entitled to such credit as belongs to them 

respectively in tha.t regard. A very small amount of money has been 

appropriated for the payment of claims, and the only apprehension 

is that in our desire to be conscientious we may have been unjust to 

claimants. I now move that the motion to reconsider be laid upon 

the table. 

The motion was agreed to . 

LEAVE TO PRINT. 

Mr. STARKWEATHER. I ask unanimous consent to print some r emarks upon the taxiff bill. 

Mr. SPEER. I must objectif the gentleman is going to inject into 

t he REcORD a speech such aB he made some time ago. 

Mr. STARKWEATHER. The gentleman never interjected any 8'· This is not a political speech at all ; it relates only to the 

tari.tt question. · Mr. SPEER. Then I have no objection. 

No objection being made, leave waB granted. (See Appendix.) 

STAMPS ON LEGAL DOCUMENTS. 

The House resumed the consideration of business on the Spea.ker's 

table. . The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (H. R. No. 

2413) to provide for the stamping of unst8mped instruments, documents, or papers, returned from the Senate with amendments. 

The amendments of the Senate were read a.nd concurred in, as follows: 

In line 6 strike out "78" and insert "76." 

in ~~~i. strike out all after the word "faith" toandinclndingtheword "thereof" 

At the end of line 11 insert the following : · Provided, That to r ender such stamping valid the person desiring to stamp the same shall appear with t.he instrument, document, or paper, or copy thereof, b efore some judge or clerk of a court of record, and before him affix the proper stamp ; and 

saidjndge or clerk sha.ll indorse on such writing or copy a certificate under his hand when made by said judge, and under his hand and seal when made by said 

clerk; setting forth the date at which, and the place where, the stamp was so affixed, the name of the person presenting said writing or copy , the fa-ct that it was thus affixed, and that the stamp was dnly canceled in his presence. 

PAY OF COM....'\ITTTEE CLERKS. 

Mr. MAYNARD. I ask unanimous consent to submit the following re.solut~on, in regard to which the gentleman from Massachusetts 

[Mr. BUTLER] objected a short time since. · ltlr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I now withdraw my objection 

to the resolution. · The resolution was read, as follows : 

Resolved, That the Clerk of the Honse of Representatives be authorized, and he 

is hereby directed. to pay to all of the clerks of committees of the House of Rep- resentatives who do not receive annua.l salaries their salaries tor the months of 

.Jnly and August, 1874. 

ltlr. WIL.LARD, of Vermont. Has that been considered by the 

Committee on Accounts f 

The SPEAKER. The Chair does not know. Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I do not think it should be passed 

unless it has been oonsidered by that committee. 

Mr. MAYNARD. I move to suspend the rules and pa-ss the resolution. 

The SPEAKER. That is not in oriler. The House is acting under a suspension of the rules upon bus~ss on the Speaker's table. 

Some time subsequently, 

ltlr. MAYNARD said: The gentleman from Vermont [ltlr. WILLARD] 

agrees to withdraw his objection to the resolution in regard to com- mittee clerks if I will modify it so as to limit it to July. 

ltlr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I said that I would not object to it 

if it was limited to one month from the close of the session. 1tir. MAYNARD. Very well; I will modify it in that way. 

Mr. GARFIELD. I believe there-is not money enough appropriated 

for tha.t purpose, and I do not know how the clerks can be paid. 

:Mr. SENER. Let it go. Mr. RANDALL. It will be a deficiency. 

No objection was made; and the resolution wag adopted. 

1tlr. MAYNARD moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution was adopt.ed ; and also moved that t.he motion to reconsider be 

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

CO)L'\ITTTEES ON APPROPRIATIORS DURING THE RECESS. 

The House resumed the consideration of business on the Speaker's 

table; and the next business was the following concurrent resolution 

of the Senate: 

Resolved by tM Senate, (the H ouse of Representatives concur1'ing,) That the Com. 

mittees on Appropriations of the two Houses of Congress are authorized to meet at the Capitol unnng the recess of Congress to make mqniry into and r eport any metJ10d by which r eforms may be made m the expenditures of the several branches of the civ'il. service, and the estimate of appropriations therefor, and the appropritlr· tion bills. 

:Mr. GARFIELD. I move that the rules be suspended and the reso- lution concurred in. The motion was agreed to, two-thirds voting in favor thereof. 

ORDER OF BUSTh"'ESS. 

1t1r. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I ask unanimous consent to introduce for action at this time a joint resolution giving preference to 

soldiers in civil employment. Mr. CREAMER. I object ; I think the gentleman has indulged in 

enough humbug this session. 

~1r. HERNDON. I ask unanimous consent to--

Mr. BUTLER, of ltfassachusetts. I call for the regular order. Nobody on that side of the House shall get in anything by unanimous 

consent until Congress adjourns. 

REMOVAL OF POLITICAL DISABILITIES. 

The Hom:;e resumed the con ideration of business on the Speaker's 

table; and the amendments of the Senate to the following House bills were concurred in by a suspension of the rules, two-thirds voting in 

favor thereof: · · 
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A bill (H. R. No. 3027) to remove the ilisabilities of Van Rensaeller Morgan, Thomas f. Jones, and Charles M. Fauntleroy of Virginia, 

and A. S. Taylor of Maryland; 

A bill (H. R. No. 30 6) to remove the political disabilities of George 

E. Pickett, of Virginia ; . A bill (H. R. No. 3091) to release J. W. Bennett from political disabilit.ies; 

A bill (H. R. No. 3172) to relieve Sardine J. Stone, of Alabama, of 

political disabilities; . . . ... A hill (H. R. No. 3252) to remove the pohtical disabilities of George 

N. Hollins, of Maryland; · A hill (H. R. No. 3253) to remove the political disabilities of Richard 

T. Allison, of Maryland; 

.A. bill (H. R. No. 3254) to relieve the persons therein named of their 

political disabilities; and 

.A. bill (H. R. No. 3406) to relieve Joseph Wheeler, .o~ La~en~e 

County, in the State of Alabama, from the legal and polttiCal disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

Mr. RANDALL. I move that the House now take a recess until 

three o'clock. 

Mr. MERRIA.M. I nnderstand the post-route bill will be here in a few minutes. 

The question was taken on the motion for a recess; and upon a division there were-ayes 53, noes 78. 

Mr. RANDALL. Is that a quorum f 

Mr. ELDREDGE. I call for the yeas and nays .. The yeas and nays were not ordered, there bemg but 14 in the 

affi.rmati ve. So the motion for a recess was not agreed to. 

JAMES P. COATES. 

Mr. MAYNARD. I call for the regular order. 

The House resumed the consideration of business on the Speaker's 

table; and the next business was the amendment of the Senate to the 

bill (H. R. No. 104) for the relief of James :J;>. Coates, of Jackson, Mississippi. 

The amendment of the Senate was to strike out $986.70 and to insert 

$800. 

Mr. HOWE. I move that the rules be suspended and the n.mendment concurred in. 

The motion was agreed to, two-thirds voting in favor thereof. 

COMMITTEE ON PRINTING. 

The next businesss on the Speaker's table was the following concur- rent resolution of the Senate: 

Resolved by the Senate, (the Home of Representatives conc-urring.) That the Joint 

Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to sit during the coming recess of Congress. 

Mr. HAZELTON, of Wisconsin. WJta,t is the object of that resolution f 

Mr. SENER. Let it remain on the table. 

Mr. KASSON. My collea.gue, [Mr. DONNAN,] the chairman of the 

HoU:Se Committee on Printing, desired that this resolution should be 

concurred in. It has been agreed upon by some arrangement between 

the two committees. If I recolleet aright, it w'ls stated in the Senate 

that it would be without expense. I move that the rules be suspended and the reso1ution concurred in. 

Mr. RANDALL. I think it is right; the gentleman from Iowa 

[Mr. DONNAN] explained it to me before he left. 

The rules were suspended, (two-thirds voting in favor thereof,) and 

the resolution wn~ concurred in. 

RAYMOND'S REPORT ON MINING STATISTICS. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the amendment of the 

Senate to the following concurrent resolution of the House: 

Resolved by the House of Jle.pTesentatives, (the Senate conc-urring,) That of the re- port of R. W. Raymond on mining statistics, with the :wcompanying engravings, there be printed t'hree thousand copies for the House, two thoUBand for the Senate, one thousand for the Treasury Department, and one thousand for the Commis. 

sioner. 

The amendment of the Senate was to strike out all after the word 

"printed" and to insert the following : 

Twenty-two hundred and fifty copies, of which one thousand shall be for the use of 

the Treasury Department, two hundred and fifty copies for the use of the Commissioner, and one thousand copies shall be for sale at the cost of paper and press- work, with an addition of 10 per cent, by the Congressional Printer. 

The SPEAKER. The question is on concurring in the amendment 

of the Senate. 

Mr. McCORMICK. I hope it will not be concurred in. 

The SPEAKER. In the absence of a motion to suspend the rules 

and concur in the amendment, the resolution will be returned to the 

Speaker's table. . 

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR 1873. 

Mr. GARFIELD. I ask to have read for the information of the 

House a letter from the Congressional Printer. I think we may desire to take some action upon it. 

341 

The Clerkrea.tl as follows: OFFICE OF THE OO!WRESSIONAL PRINTER. 

Washington, ·June 23, 1874. 

DEAR Sm: Are yon a. ware of the fact. that the Commissioner of Agriculture has not madohis report for 1873 to Congres!J, and that hence the usual number has not been printed ~ It is not in type here. The report of 1872 is in type and ready for 

press. 

Very respectfully, &c., 

Hon. J. A. GARFIELD. 

A.M. CLAPP, 

Cong1·essionaZ Printer. 

:Mr. GARFIELD. It was stated the other day that both these re- ports were in the hands of the Congressional Printer and in type, and an appropriation was made to print them. Ad Congress is the only 

authority to order the printing of the Agricultural Reports, I thought 

that probably we might desire to takesome aotion on this subject. Mr. FORT. I do not know who stated that the Agricultural Reports for 1873 was in print. That for 1872 is in print. It is by law 

made the duty of the Commissioner to make his report to the President, and of course that report can be. printed when it is made. 

Mr. GARFIELD. It is sent to the Printer through Congress. 

Mr. MAYNARD. All the heads of the Departments make their 

annual reports to the President directly. 

Mr.l<"'ORT. I desire to offer a resolution that the report of the Com· 

missioner of Agriculture for 1873, when made, shall be printed. 

:Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. Is that in order! 

The SPEAKER. It is not. 

Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. Then I object. 

Mr. MAYNARD. I wish to inquire whether the Commissioner of 

Agriculture made his annual report to the President last December f 

:Mr. DUNNELL. He did. 

REUBEN M. PRA'IT. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No. 794) 

to legalize the muster of Reuben :M. Pratt as second lieutenant. 

The bill was read. It directs the Secretary of War to place the name of Re-qben :M. Pratt on the rolls of Company H, Sixth Regiment 

Pennsylvania Reserve Corps Infantry as a second lieutenant, and his 

muster into service 'aS such heretofore made to dn.te from the 1st day 

of August, 1862, is recognized; but the provisions of the act are not 

to be construed as granting any claim a~ainst the United States 

except the right of pension to tho minor heus of Pratt. 

Mr. ALBRIGHT. I move that the rules be suspended and this bill 

passed. 

The motion was agreed to, two-thirds voting in favor thereof. 

CAPT~N JAMES B. THOMPSQN. 

The next business on the Speaker's table waa the bill (S. No. 600) 

for the relief of Captain James B. Thompson. 

The bill was read. It states in the preamble that James B. Thompson, late of Company G, First Pennsylvania Rifles, was captured 

while in the line of his duty, May 30, 1864, at the battle of Bethesda 

Church, Virginia; on the 6th of June, 1864, was commissioned first 

lieutenant in Company F, One hundred and ninetieth Pennsylvania 

Volunteers, and on the 19th of September, 1864, another commission was issued to him us captain in same company and regiment, hE: being 

at the issuing of both commissions absent as a prisoner of waJ in the 

hands of the enemy: that he endured the horrors and privations of 

Andersonville for a period of nearly seven months, escaping twice 

and being once run down and recaptured by hounds, but .at the third 

attempt eluding his pursuers and rea-ching t-he Union lines at Atlanta, 

Georgia, after traveling for one whole month entirely by night; that 

his failure to be mustered was through no fault or neglect of his own but solely by reason of his unavoidable detention as a prisoner of war. The bill therefore directs the proper accounting officers of the -Treasury to pay to Thompson the pay and emoluments of a first lieutenant of infantry in active service from June 6, 1864, to September 

19, 1864; and to pay him the pay and emolnmenlis of a captain of 

infantry in active service from September 19, 1864, to :M:arch 1, 1865, 

from which date his muster as an officer commences. Mr. MAYNARD. It seems to me that bill ought to pass. I move to suspend the rules and pass it. 

The motion was agreed to, two-thirds voting in favor thereof. 

WILLIAM: L. AD.U.IS. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No. 382) 

for the relief of William L. Adams, late collector of customs at Astoria, 

Oreo-on. · Tt.e bill was read. 

Mr. MAYNARD. Unless some explanation be given of this bill I 

think it should be referred. 

Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. It should go to the Committee on Claims. I move that reference. · The motion wa~ agreed to, two-thirds voting in favor thereof. 

WILLIAM J, PA'ITON. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No. 459) 

for the relief of William J. Patton. 

The bill was read. 

Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. This bill ought to be referred to the 

Committee on Claims, 
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l\Ir. HYNES. The bill is all right. I move to suspend tho rules 

antl pass it. . Tho motion was not agreetl to. 

:Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I move that the bill be referred to the 

Committee on Claims. · The motion was agreed to, two-third.~ voting in favor thereof: 

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. 

The next business on the Speaker's bble was the bill(S. No. 797) to 

aruend an act in relation to the survey of certain lands granted to the 

Northern Pa-cific Railroa.d Company. 

Mr. LUTTRELL. That ought to be referred to t~e Committee on 

the Public Lauds. . Mr. DUNNELL. I move that the rules be suspended and the blll 

passed. l\Ir. RANDALL. It ou<'~'ht not to be passed, but ought to be referred 

to the Committee on the Public L:mds for cx:tmination. 

:Ur. DUNNELL. It ha,s been examinecl by the Committee on the 

Public Lands. 

Mr. RAl'l"DALL. It is a land grant, and ought not to pass. 

The SPEAKER. The bill will be read. 

The bill was read. It provide,:; that so much of tho act entitled ''An 

act makin a appropriations for sundry civil expenses of tho Government for the year ending June 30, 1871, and for other purposes," ~·x>­ proved July 15 1870 u.s requires the payment by the Northern PaCltic 

Railroad Comp'any df the cost of surveJi:ng and conveying the lands 

gran'ted saicl company be, and the same IS t~ereby, repealed, and no cost for surveying shall be collected from sa1d company. 

l\Ir. SPEER. That bill shoultl not pass. 

l\fr. KENDALL. The bill ought not to pass. It ought by all mea,ns 

to be referred to 1he Committee on the Public Lanus. I make that 

motion. 

Mr. DUNNELL. I have a motion pending to suspencl the ru1es and 

pass the bilL 

The motion to suspend the rules was seconded. . . . The House refused to suspend the rules (two-thirds not voting m 

favor thereof,) and the bill w< not pa ed. . On motion of Mr. KENDALL, the role were suspended and the bill was I'eferred to the Committee on the Pu.blio Lands. 

ROSA VERT~ER JEFFREYS. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No. ~8) for 

the relief of Ro a Vertner Jeffreys. 

The bill which was read, authorizes and directs the Secretary of 

tho Treas~ to pay to Rosa Ver~ner Jeffreys, out of any u;toney in the 

Treasury not otherwi~ appropnated, the sum of 5,000, II?- full o.om- pensation for the use of and damages done to her property m L~~mgton, Kentucky, by reason of occ~pation of the arne by the nnlitary 

authorities of the United States ill the years 1 62, 1863, 1864, and 1865. 

:Mr. BECK. I hopd the House will suspend the rules and pass that 

hill. . Mr. LAWRENCE. It should go to the Committee on War Clarms. 

1\Ir. BECK. I move the rules be suspended and the bill passed. 

The motion to suspend the rules was econded. 

The House refused to suspenu the rules, (two-thirds not voting in 

favor thereof,) and the bill was not pa sed. . . 1\Ir. LAWRENCE. I move the bill be referred to the Comm1ttee 

on ·war CJ aims. . Mr. BECK. I object to its going there. 

Mr. LAWRENCE. I move to suspend the rules and refer it to the 

Committee on War Claims. · The motion to suspend the rules wa.s not seconded. 

The SPEAKER. The bill remains on the Speaker's table. 

WRITS OF ERROR IN CRIMINAL CAUSES. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No. 935) to 

provide for writs of error in certain cr~inal causes. . Mr. WARD, of lllinois. I move ~hat 1t be referrecl to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ortlered to be printed. 

Thfl motion :was agreed to. 

THE NAMES OF YES ELS. 

Tb n~xt business on the Speaker's table was the bill (S. No. 683) to 

authorize the use of gilt letters for the names. of ves::~els. . The bill, which wa-s read, provides that sec~wn 3 of. an act entitle~ 

"An act concerninathere(J'istering and r cording of ships and vessels, 

upproved Decemb~r 21, ~792, is thereby so !l'mendecl a,s t? allow the na.mes of vessels to be pamted on the stern ill yellow or g1lt. 

The bill was ordered to a third reacting; and it was accordingly read 

the third t.ime, and passed. 

THE REORGANIZATION OF STAFF CORPS. 

The next business on the. Speaker's table was the bill (S. No. 321) 

reorganizing the staff corps of the Army. 

Mr. NIBLACK. Is it expected to adjourn at four o'clock to-day 

when we are passing aJl the e bills¥ 

Mr. RANDALL. We are riot passing many of them, but are merely • ta,king them up and referring them. 

Mr. CONGER. I move to refer that to the Committee on Military 

Affairs. . 

Mr. YOUNG, of Georgia. I hope not. It ought t? pass. 

The bill, wbicb. wa r ead, iu it first sect~o~ pro~des t.hat t.he Inspector-General's Department shall consist of one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, and two majors, with the rank, pay, and emoluments 

of officers of sa.iu grades; and the Secretary of War may, in addition, 

detail officers of the line, not to exceeu four, to act as as~istant inspectors-general; provided that officers of the line detailed as acting 

inspectors-general shall have all the allowances of cavalry officers of 

their respective grade ; n.nd no new appointment shall be made in 

the Inspector-General's Department until the number of inspectorsgeneral is reduced to five. 

The second section provides ·that the Bureau of Military Justice 

shall hereafter consist of one Judge Advocate-General, with tho rank, 

pay, and emoluments of a brign.dier-general; and the said Jutlge 

Advocate-General shall receive, revise, and have recorded the proceedings of all courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions, and shall perform such other duties as have been heretofore 

performed by the Judge.A.dvocate-Generalof the Army. In the corp~ 

of judge-advocates no appointment shall be made as vacancies occur until the number shall be reduced to four, which shall thereafter be 

the permanent number of the officers of that corps. 

The third section provides that hereafter there shall be three as istant commissaries-general of subsistence, with tho rank, pay, allll emoluments of lieut.enant-colonel, instead of the two now allowed by law 

of said grade in the Subsistence Department; that the number of 

commissaries of subsistence, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a capt..'lin of cavalry, ie hereby reduced to twelve, and no appointment 

to fill a. vacancy in said grade shall be inade until the number thereof 

shall bo reduced to twelve; and the number therea.fter sha.ll remain 

fixed at twelve. 

The fourth section provides that the Medical Department of tho · Army shall hereafter consist of one Surgeon-General, with the rank, 

pay, and emoluments of a brigadier-general; one a sistant surgeongeneral, and one chief medical purveyor, each with the rank, pay, 

and emoluments of a colonel; a.nd two a sistant medical purveyor', 

with the rank, pay, a.nd emolument-s of lieutenant-colonels, wht> shall 

give the. same bonds which are or may be required of assistant paymasters-general of like grade, and shall, when not acting as purveyors, be assignable to duty as surgeons by the President; fifty sur- geons, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of majors; one hundred 

and :fifty assistant smgeons, with the rank, pay, a~d emolnm_ents of 

lieutenants of cavalry for the first five years' serviCe, and w1th tho 

rank, pay, and emoluments of captains of cavalry after five year' ' 

service; and four medical store-keepers, with the same compen ation a.s is now provided by law; and all the origin~l vacancies i~ !he 

grade ·of assistant surgeon shall be :filled by selectiou by com rettti ve 

examination; and the Secretary of War is thereby authonz~u to 

appoint from the enlisted men of the Army, or cause to be enlisted, as many hospital stewards as the service ma,y require, to be p erma- nen4;ly attached to the Medical Department, under such regu1ations as the Secretary of War may prescribe. And the number of contract 

surgeons shall be limited to seventy-five on or before the 1st day of 

J auuary, in the year 1875 ; and thereafter no more than that number 

s}lull be employed. 

The fifth section provides that the Ordnance Department shall con- sist of one Chief of Ordnance, with the rank, pay, and emoluments 

of a brigadier-geuera;l; t~ee colonels,. four lieutenant-colonels, -t_en 

maJors, twenty captarns! s1~een first heutenaut~; and all.vaca:ncies 

which may hereafter eXlSt m the ~rade of first heutenant m said department shall be :filled by transfer trom the line of the Army; provifled 

that no appointment or p·romotion in said department shall hereafter 

be made until the officer or per8on so appointed or promoted shall 

have pa-ssed a. satisfactory examination before a board of ordnance 

officers senior to himself. 

The ixth section provides that no officer now in service shall be 

reduced in rank or mustered out by rea.son of any provision of law 

therein made reducing the number of officers in any department or corps of the staff. 

The seventh section provides that aa vacancies shall occur in any of 

the grades of the Ordnance and l\Iedical Departments, no appointments shall be made to fill the same until the numbers in such grade 

shall be reduced to the numbers which are fixed for permanent appointments by the provi ions of the act; and thereafter the number ?f 

permanent ofticers iu said grades shall continue to conform to. saul 

reduced numbers; and all other grade in said Ordnance and Medical 

Departments than those authorized by the provisions of the act sh~ll 

cease to exist as soon as the same shall become vacant by death, resignation or otherwise, and no" appointment or promotion shall thereafter be 'made to fill any vacancy which may occur ~erein. The eighth section provides that so much of section 6 of an a.ct en- titlefl "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army 

for the year ending J nne ~0, 1870, and for other .PllrPO es," approyecl 

l\farch 3, 1 69, as applied to the Ordnance, SubsiStence, and Medical 

Departments of tho Army be, and the same are,herebyrepealed; p~·ovided that this section repealing said section shall not apply. to any 

of the !!l'ades of the Medical or Ordnance Departments which are omittel' or abolished by the provisions of the act. 

l\f.r. ALBRIGHT. I move the ru1es be suspended and the bill be 

passed. · · Mr. FORT. It seems to me to be in the line of economy and ought ~o be pa ed. 

Mr. COBURN. I wish to say a word on the bill. I think it ought not 
1874. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 5443 . 

to pass. It is not in the line of economy. It create· new offices, opens 

promotions, and adds to the expense~ of the Government largely. 

Two new brigadiers, one for the subsistence and one for the orili1ance, are created, besides several other officers. The increased a.zmual ex- pense will be at least 75,000. We have sent a. proper bill to tho 

Senate, and should await their action on tho snbjeot as an entirety, ns a system. When we open promotions it should be doue regu lurly 

nnd equitably, not in piecemeal as is hero proposed. I am in favor 

of a regular system. · .Mr. ALBRIGHT. It is similar to the bill the House has already 

pa ·ed. 

:t.fr. COBURN. It ought not to he pas ed. 

Mr. ALBRIGHT. I insist on my motion. 

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Sn:t:PSON, one of their clerks, in· 

formed the House that the Senate had passed, with amendments in 

which the concurrence of the House wns requested, bills of the House 

of the following titles : 

The bilL (H. R. No. 3023) for the relief of Andrew Mason; and 

The bill (H. R. No. 3097) in relation to courts and judicial officers 

in the Territory of Utah. · 

The message further announce(l that the Senate bad passed without amendment, tho bill (H. R. No. 2D09) to declare the bridge across tho Niagara River nuthorized by the act of Congress approved Juno 

30, 1870, a post-road. 

REORGA. IIZATIO~ OF STAFF CORPS. 

The House resumed the consideration of the bill reorganizing the 

several staff corps of the Army. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana, [l\Ir. COBURN,] the 

clmirman of the Committee on Military Affairs, de ires that the bill 

shall be referred to that committee. The gentleman from Pennsy l va- nia, [Mr. ALBRIGHT,] of the same committee, moves that the rules be 

suspended and that the bill be passed. The Chair will order tellers on seconding the motion to suspend the rules and passing the bill; 

antl n.ppoi::lts the gentleman from Indiana, Mr. COBURN, and the 

gentleman from Pennsylvania, 1\Ir . .ALnmGHT. 

The HouMe divided; and the tellers reported- ayes 89, noes 58. 

So the motion to su pend the rules was seconded. 

The SPEAKER. The question recurs on suspending the rules and 

passi11o- t.he bill. 

Jl.ir. §ENER. On that question I call for the yeas and nays. This 

i:s an important bill. 

The question being taken on ordering the yeas and nays, there were ayes 30. 

So (the affirmative being more than one-fifth of the la.st vote) tho 

yeas anrl nays were ordered. 

}rlr. FORT. I a k that the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. ALBIUGUT).be heard for five lninutes. Objection wa-s made. 

T_he question was taken, and there wru·e-ayes 135, nays 58, not 

votmg V6 ; as follows : 

YEAS-Mos. rs . .Albert., Albright, .Arthur, Averill, Ban-ere, Barry, Bass, Biery, Bl:tJ.d, lloweu, Bright, lluainton, Bundy, Burrows, er~iamin F . llnUcr, Rotlerick It. B11tler, Cain, Cessna, John B. Clark, j.r., Clements, Clymer, Steplwn A. Cobb, Co~~o, Conger, Cook, Corwin, Creamer, Crooke, Oro Rl:m!l, Croun.;c, Crutchfield, 

Darralt. Dawes, Dobbins, Dunnell, Durham, Eames, Eltiredge, Field, Fort, .Foster, 

Frye, Hagan, Benjamin W. Harris, Harrison, Hathorn, John B. Hawley, Josopl1 R . Hawley, John \V. Hazelton, Horeforcl, Herndon, llotlj!cs, llOO)JOr, I:l:oughton, 

llowe, Huuboll, Hy'Iles, Kasson, Kelley, K ellog-.1:!', Komlall, Lamar, Lamport, Law- r ence, Lewis, Lowe, Lo"Wndos, Luttrell, Lvneh, Magee, Martin, Mayruml, Alexander S. McDill. Merriam, Monroe, Morey, Nefin-1ey, Niblack, Niles, O'Brien, O'Neill, Page, Isaac C. Pm·kor, Parsons, Pelham, Pent eton, Pen·y, Pierce, Poland, Hail1oy, I!.an. da.ll, Ransier, Rapier, P..ice, Richmoncl, James C. Robinson. Rors, Rusk, ilenry J. Scudder, Isaac tV. Scudcler, Sener, ScRsions, Shanks, Sheats, Shelrlon, SllCrv;-ootl, ~Lo s, G-eorge L. 'mith, J . .A.muler Smith, Snyder, Speer, Stanard, Stona, St-owell, Stra"brill~o, S.vPher, Charles R Thoma~, Christopher Y. Thomas, Thornlmrgh, Todcl, Townseucl, Troma.in., \Valdron, Wallace, \Vnll.'!, Jasper D. \Va:rd, Marcus L. Wa.rd., Wells, Whitehouse, Wlliteloy, George Willard, John M. S. ·williams, Wil- liam \Vill;am , James Wilson, ru1d Pierce M. B. Young-135. N.A YS-Mes. rs. Archer, AshP, Atkins, Bannin.,., Barber, Beck, B 11, Bra-dley, 

Bromberg, Buckner, Burchard, l:ln.rleizh, Caldwell, Cannon, Caoon, Coburn, Crit- t?nclen, Danford, Duell, Gar!lcld, Gidilillgs, Glo\·or. Gooch, Gnnckcl, H enry R. Har- n~. lla.tcher, IItmtor, HUllton, llydo, Lawson, Leach, Loughritlgo, Ja:nos \V. M c- Dill. Ma.cDou.:;nll, Milliken~l\Ioore, Morrison, unn, Orth, Packard, Pr:~tt., Robbins, Ellis H. P..oberts, Sawyer, Henry B. ayler, .A.. Herr Smith. IT. Boal'l.l.man Smith, 

Jolw Q. Smith, r:>outllard. Spra.:,rue, Strait, Tyner, Vance, Whitehead, Whltthoru , Ch:trl~ W. Willard, Willie, anrl Woodwor•..h-58. · NOT VOTING-Messrs . .Adams, Barnum, Begole, BeiTy, Blount, Brown, Amos Cla.rk, jr., Freeman Clarke, Clayto~ Clinton L. Cobb, Cotton, Cox, Crocker, Curtis, Davis, DeWitt, Donnan, Eden, Elliott, Farwell, Freeman, Gunter, Eu:;:ene Hale, RobertS. Hal~.Hamilton, Hancock, Harmer, John T. Harris, Havens, H~1ys, GeiTy W. Hazelton, ..1::1 emlee, Hersey, E. llocl..-wood Hoar, George l<'. Hoar, Holm.:m, Hos. kins, Hw-Ibut., Jowett, Killinp:er, Knapp, Lami on, Lansin~. Lofland, Marshall McCrary, Mc.T unkin, .McKee, McLean, MeN ulta, Mills, Mitc hell, M_yors. Neal, NOS· 

mlth, Orr, Packer, llo ·ea. W. Parker, Phelp11, l'hillipl!, Pike, Jumes II. Platt, jr., 'l'homas C. Platt, !'otter, Purman, P..:ty, Read, William R. P..oborts, James \V. Robin- son, Milton 'ayler, John G. chmnaker, Scofield, Lazarus D. Shoemaker Sloan, 

Small, Smart, \Villiam .A.. Smith, Standiford, Starkweather, Stephens, St. J:>hn, 

Storm, Swann, Taylor, Waddell, ·wheeler, \Vh.iro. Wilber, Charles G. Williams, William B. Williams, Ephraim K. Wilson, J eremlah M. Wilson, Wolfe, Wood, 

Woodford, anll John D. Yolmg-96. 

So (two-thirds having Yoted in favor thereof) tho rules were sus- pended and the bill was passed. 

111ESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 

A message from the Senate, by JI.Ir. GoRHA.1.11 its S cret..try, informed 

the House that tll~ Senate had passed without amendment bills of 

the followin_g i.itles: 

TJze hili (H. R No. 2198) for the r~licf of the heirs at la.w of William S. Brnshe:ns an officer of the Texas navy; 

The_ hil:l (H. R. To. 3534) ~o change tho imes of holding the circuit 

and di met courts at the Ctty of Evansville; und 

Tho bill (H. R. No. 3327) to provide for the improvement of Oostenaula HiYer, in tho State of Georgia. 

Tho me~sage fmther announced that the Se-nate had passed the bill 

(S.No.G23) to.c~able the Secret?-I'yof State to pay salaries to certain 

of the commisswners of the VIenna exposition appointed under au- thority of the joint r esolution approvecl February 14, 1873; in which 

the concurrence of tho House was requested. 

ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. 

Mr. PENDLE_TON, from the ~ommittee on Enrolled Bills, reported 

that the committee had exammed ancl found truly enrolled bills of 

tho following titles; when the Speaker signed the same: An act (H. R. No. 294) for tho rel~ef of Joab Bagley; 

An act (H. R. No. 763) for the rehef of Oliver P . Mason· 

An act (H. R. No. 1305) granting n. pension to E . Ca.ro~e Webster 

widow of Lucius H. Wob ter; ' 

An act (H. R. No. 1410) to fix the salaries of the clerks n.t the Unite<l 

States armory in Springtiold, l\fassachusetts; 

An act (H. R. No. 1939) for the relief of the sureties of James L. Collins, deceased ; 

An act (H. n:No. 2088) fortherclief of James Lillie postmaster at 

Lishinvillo, Ray County, Mi souri; ' 

An act (H. R. No. 2187) authorizing and reqnirinrr the issuance of 

n. pa!ent for certain lands to the county of Scott, in° the State of Mis- souri; 

An a.ct (H. R. No. 2.'349) for the relief of Bmke and Kunkle· 

An act (H. R. No. 2791) granting a. pension to Franklin Sto~or; 

An act (H. R. No. 2891) for the relief of Mrs. Louisa Eldis, of Sandnsky, Ohio ; 

Au act (H. R. No. 2990) for the relief of Jesse F. Moore and Charles \V. Lewis; 

An ac~ (H. R. No. 3406) to relieve Joseph Wheeler, of Lawrence C01mty~ m the State of Alabama, from all political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth n,mendment to the Constitution; 

a.ct (H. R. No. 30 t!) to extend ~he time for completing entries 

of Osage Indian lands in Kansas; 

An act (H. R. No. 3411) to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporat-e th~ trustee~ of the Female Orphan Asylum in Georgetown an<l 

the Washmgton C1ty Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia." 

approved May 24, 1b'28; 

An act (H. R._No. 3432) to protect linesoftelegraph constructecl or used by the Urnted States from malicious injury and obstruction; and 

An act (H. R. No. 3581) to protect persons of foreign birth against forcible constraint or invo]unta,ry servitude. 

ANDREW fASOX. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (H. R. No. 8023) for the relief of Andrew .Uason, returned from the Senate with 

amendments. · 

The amendments of t.he Senate were read, n.s follows: 

to ILe~~;:te 3, after the word "processes," insert the words "heretofore and hereafter 

In lines 4 and 5, after the words" 'ow York, 'insert the words" or elsewhere." 

Mr. HOOPER. I movo that the rules be suspended and the amen<lml1Uts of the Seua.te he concruTetl in. 

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

tho rules were suspended and the amemhuents of the Senate were concurred in. 

RECESS. 

Mr. ELDREDGE. I movo that the House now tako a recess for one hour. 

The question was taken, and the motion was not agr etl to. 

couu:rs IN UTA.II. 

The. next b~iness on the Speaker's table was the bill (H. R. No. 

3097) m relatwn to courts and judicial officers in the Territory of 

Utah, rot11rned from the Senate with amendments. 

Mr. POLAND. I move that the rnles be suspended and the amend- ment~:; of the Senate be concurred in. 

Mr. CROUNSE. Is it in ortler to call for the reading of the bill 'i 

The SPEA..KER. Strictly speaking it is not in order to call for the rea~g of the original bi~l _for the House is supposed to unclerstan1l 

what It has passed. But It IS pro_per to call for the reading of so much 

of the bill as will render intelligible the effect of the amendments 

made to the bill by the Senate. 

Mr. POLAND. The Senate have struck out so much of it that I 

think my friend from Nebraska. [ fr. CROUNSE] will be satisfied. The amendments of tho Senate were read, as follows: 

Strike out after "divorce" in line 15, page 3, down to and including "fact" in line 

G, page 4. 

On p.a.go 4, line 15, after "court" insert: 

Nothlllg in t-his a;ct shall be construed to impair the authority of the probato court~ enter J.an~ lll trust, for· th~ use and benefit of ho occupants of the town::~ in the varwns counties of the Terntory of Utah. according to 1he pro·.-isions of a~ •act for tho relief of tho inbabit~nt a of cit-ies · aucl nn1 s npou public b.wls. :rp- proved March 2, 1867, and an act to amen tl an act entitled ' An act. for tho lid 
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of the inhabitants of cities and towns upon the public lands,'" approved June 8. 18GB; or to discharae the duties assigned to the probate Judges by an act of the 

Legislative Assemilly of the Territory of Utah entitled" An act prescribing rules 

anti regulations for the execution of the trust arising under the :wt of Con~ess 

entitle3 1 An act for the relief of inhabitants of cities ancl towns upon the public lnads.' n 

Pag-e 5, line 10, after " appeals " insert; . A writ of error from the Supreme Court of the United States to the supreme court of the Territory shall lie in criminal cases where the accusetl shnll have been sen- tencecl to capit..U punishment, or convicted of bigamy or polygamy. 

Page 8, line 4, after " challenges " insert; 

Except in capital cases where the prosecution and the defense shall be allowed 

fifteen challenges. Pago 8, line 4, strike out all after "challenges" in line 4 down to and including 11 same" in line 8.. Strike out section 7. 

Mr. POLAND. I move that the rules be suspended and the amentiments of the Senate concurreti in. A grea,t deal that was gooti in the 

bill bas been struck out by the Seno,te, and a great deal that is good 

is still left in it. 

.M:r. CROUNSE. I do not thlnk there are half a dozen members in 

the House who understand tho effect of the e amendments. I call for 

the reading of the bill as amended. 

Mr. POLAND. I move to suspend the rules ·so as to dispense with 

the reading of the bill and to concur in the amendments of the Senate. 

:Mr. CROUNSE. I moYe that the House ta.ke a recess for three 

quarters of an.hour, during which timo membersma.yhave n.n opportunity to examine the amendments of the enate. 

The SPEAKER. That motion is not in order pending a motion 

to suspend the rules. · 

Tellers were ordered; and ~fr. POLAND and :Mr. CROUNSE were appoint.ed. 

The House divided; and the tellers reported that there were-ayes 

112, noes 36. 

So the motion to suspend the rules was seconded. 

The que tion was upon seconding the rules and c;oncurring in the 

Senate amendments. 

Ir. ELDREDGE. On tha.t motion I call for the yeas and nays. 

The question was taken upon ordering the yeas and nays; and upon a division there were-ayes 21, noes 96; not one-fifth in the affirmative. · Before the result of this vote•was announced, 

1.\-Ir. ELDREDGE called for tellers on ordering the yeas ::md nays. 

Tellers were not ordered, there being 22 in the affirmative, not one- fifth of a quorum. 

So the yeas and nays were not ordered. 

The rules were then suspended, (two-thirds voting in favor thereof,) 

and the amendments of the Senate were concurred in. 

REPORTS FROM THE COMMITI'EE ON AGRICULTURE. 

Mr. CAIN, from the Committee on Agriculture, presented reports 

upon a memorial in beharlf of the agricultural labors of the South 

and West, anti a petition of Professor Edward Powers for producing 

rain by firing artillery; which reports were ordered to be printed, and 

recommitted to the Com.mittee on ..t\-gricultme. 

NATIONAL HOl\IE FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS. 

Mr. BUTLER, of Ma sachusetts, presented the annual report of the 

board of managers of the Nn.t.ional Home for Disabled Volunteer 

Soldiers for 1873; which was ordered to be printed, andrefeiTed ro the 

Committee on Military Affairs. 

E 'ROLLED BILLS SIGNED. 

Mr. PENDLETON, from the Committee on Enrolled BiUs, reported 

that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled bills of 

the following titles; when the Speaker signed the same : An act (H. R. No. 104) for the relief of James .Coats, of Jackson, 

Mississippi; 

An act (H. R. No. 2798) for the relief of John J. Hayden; 

An aet (H. R. No. 2909) to declare the bridge a.cross the Niagara 

Hiver, authorizeu by the act of Congress a.pproved June 30, 18i0, a. post-ronte; 

Au act (H. R. No. 30 6) to remove the political disabilities of George 

E. Pickett, of Virginia; 

An act (H. R. No. :3091) to release J. W. Bennett from political disabilities; 

An aot (H. R No. 3094) making appropriations for the service of 

the Post-Office Department for the ytmr ending June 30,1875, and for 

other purposes; 

An act (H.R. No. 3252) to remove the political disu.bilities of George 

N. HollinR, of Maryland; 

An act (H. R. No. 3253) to remove the political clisabi lities of Richard J. Allison, of Maryland; and 

An act (H. R. No. :3266) for the relief of the Pekin Alcohol Manufacturing Company. Mr. DARRALL, from the arne committee, reporteti that they had 

examinecl and fonntl truly enrolled bills of the following titles; when 

the Speaker signed the n.me : Au act (S. No.6 3) to authorize the use of gilt letters for the names of vessels; and 

An act (S. No. 794) to legalize the muster of Reuben M. Pratt as secomllieutenant. 

ORDER OF BU !NESS. 

:Ur. BECK. I move that the House now ta.ke a recess until three 

o'clock. 

Mr. WOODFORD. I trust not; there are one cr t-wo bills on the 

Speaker's table which absolute justice requires should be pa ed. They have already been examined by committees of this House anti 

lie next upon the table. RECESS. 

The SPEAKER. The pending motion is that of the gentleman from 

Kentucky [.i\ir. BECK] for a recess until three o'clock. 

Mr. MAYNARD. Before a I'ecess is taken-- • ir. SENER. I object to any debate. 

The motion was not agreeu to. 

TARIFF BILL. 

~fr. CONGER. I move that the Senate be requested to return to 

the House the bill (H. R. No. 3572) tu amenti existing customs and 

internal-revenue laws, and for other purposes . Several members objected. 

BRIDGE OVER WILLAMETTE IUVER. 

The next business on the peaker' table was th bill (S. No. 775) to 

authorize the construction of a bridge over the \Villa.mette River at 

Portlandhin the State of Oregon. 

The bi was read, as follows: 

Be it cmarted, &:c., That it shall be lawful for the Oregon and California Railroad 

Company of Portland, Multnomah County, in the State of Oregon, or for the saitl company jointly with the Oregon Central Railroad Company of Portland, iu saitl 

tate, on such terms as to division of expense as ma.y be agreed upon between saiu 

companies, to build a railroad bridge across the Willa.mett.o P.iver at the city of 

Port-land, in said cotmty of Multnomt-.h, at a. point to be selected and uetenuinelii.Jy the said rnilroad company o-r companies constructin17 such bridge: Provided, That 

there shall be phced ju said· bridge-a. draw of not kss than three hundred foot in 

wiuth, with a. center abutment not to exceed tifty feet wide, and ten feot above the water line, leaving a. pa.ssage on each sidoof t.h.e abutment of not less than one hundred feetin width, and so constructecl as nott.o impede tho n:~.vigationof said river, and allow the easy pa.ssageof vessels tbrou.a:h saitl bridge. ' noli bridrre sha.ll b so constructed as to ha.ve a wagon and foot-way below the -railroad-track: l"rovide:L .further, That t.he said bridge shall be so constructed and l>uilt as not to obstruct, 

impair, or injmiously affect the navigation of the river; and in order to securr a compliance with these conditions, the corporation, association, or company propos- ing to erect the same, previous to commencing the construction of the bridge, shall 

submit to tho Secretary of War a. plan of tbe bridge, witb a detailed map of the 

river at the proposed site of the bntlge, and for the eli ta.nce of a. mile above and 

below the site, exhibiting the depths and currents at all points of the same, together with all other information touching suid bridge and river a may bo deemed r qui- site by the Secretary of War t<l determine whether the saitl briclge, wllen built., will 

conform to the presc1ibed conditions of the act not to obstruct, impair, or injuriously affect the na.vigation of the rh·er: Provided further, That the ecretary of War 

may detail a.u officer to superintend the survey and examination of said river with a view to said loca.tion. 

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized ancl directed, uron ra- ceivin)!; said plan and map t-.nd other information, a.nd upon being sat.i.sftOl. that a bridge built on such a plan and at said locality will confmm t<l the pre cribed 

conditions of this act, not to obstruct, impair. or injnriou ly affect the navigation of 

s:rid river, to notify the said corporation, a somation, or company proposing to erect the same that he approves of the same; and upon receiving such notification t.he saitl corporation, n.ssocia.tion, or company ma.y proceed to the erection of said 

bridge, conforming strictly to the approved plan and location. But nntil the Secretary of War approve the plan and location of said bridge, and notify the said cor- poration, n.ssooia.tion, or company of the same, the bridge shall not be built or com- menced. 

SEc. 3. That the right to alter or amend this a{lt so as to prevent o:r;- remove a.L 

m::tterial ob tructions to the navigation of said river by the construction of sa.iu bridge is her., by expressly resen·ed; and t-ho expense ol all improvements or re- pairs at any time ma.de shall be borne by the company or companies constructing said bridge. 

Mr. DUNNELL. I wish to inquire if this bill has been before the 

Committee on Commerce f 

~.h. CONGER. A bill similar to this was reported by the Committee on Commerce and was passed by the House. The Senate in this bill 

has added in detail, so far as applicable, the restrictions which we impose upon bridges oveJ; the Ohio and Mis issippi, which bvd 

been done in shorter langua~e in our bill. There is no objection to 

passing this bill. I move tnat the rules be suspencled and the bill 

passed. 

The motion was agreed to, two-thirds votillg in favor thereof. 

A. H. VO~ LUETIWITZ! 

The next business on the Speaker's table wa the bill (S. No. 633) 

for tho rcli~f of A. H. von Luettwitz. 

The bill was read. The preamble states that A. H. von Luettwitz, 

late a first lieute:J:!ant in the Thlrd Uniteti States Ca.valry, who wa.s cashiered from the Unit.ed States service by sentence of a general 

court-martial on the 8th day of July, 1 70, bas established his inno- cence of the charges npon which he wa~ so cashiered the United States service. The bill therefore directs the Secretary of War to amend t.be 

record of the saiti A. H. von Luettwitz so that he hall appear ou 

the rolls and records of the Army for rank as if he had been continu- ously in service. But nothing is to be paid to him for the interval 

of time from the · th da.y of July, 1870, until the pas~age of the act. 

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

this bill be passed. 

1\fr. SPEER. I hope that the gentleman will give us some explanation of it. 

Mr. WOODFORD. The bill has been examined by the House ComIillttee on Military Affairs, and is identical with a bill reported in this 

House. 
1874. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 5445 

The motion to suspend the rules ana pass the bill was agreed to, 

two-tbiTds voting in favor thereof. 

COMMI'ITEE ON WAR CLAil\:IS. 

Mr. LAWRENCE. I am instructed by the Committee on Wnr 

Claims to report a resolution and to ask that it be pas ed. The reso- lution was prepared by the gentleman from North Carolina, [Mr. 

COBB,] and the committee diTected it to be reported to the Honse. 

If adopted, it does not necessarily follow that a sub-committee will 

be appointed. The committee will consider the propriety of it. I do 

not intend now to say such sub-committee should or should not be 

appointed; but it is safe to give the committee power to do so if 

deemed best. There are some claims about which it may be desiraule to take testimony in order to protect the Government. And I am ready to give to the people of the South eve:J;"y fair means of 

havingtheiTclaims considered and justice done them. I would build 

up the waste places made desolate by the war; I would be just. and 

generous to the people of the South. We belong to one common nationality, and it is alike duty and interest to cultivate fraternity 

and good will. Besides this, the mn,terial interests of the South 

should be cared for. This is essential to the prosperity of our people 

North and ··outh. The North want to trade with the South. And 

especially now do 1 desire that every just claim should be paid. 1 

want no delay. "'Whatever is due should be paid, and speedily paid. It is a crying shame that some tribunal is not provided that can without delay consi<ler all claims an<l pass on them. It is better t.o do it now before evidence perishes. 

I offer the following: 

~olved, That the Committee on War Clailll8 be, and it is herAby, authorized to investigate during tbe recess of the present Congress the praetical workings of tho act creating the commit~sioners of claims and the acts amendatory thereof, aml for 

this purpose to appoint a sub·committee, which shall be authonzed to sit during the recess, which may proceed to such points in the States lately declared in insur· 

rection as may be deemed advisable, and in the prosecution of this inquiry to sub· 

pcena. witnesses, send for persons and papers, administer oaths, and take testimony, the expense of which shall be paid from the contin.,.ent fund of tho House on the 

order of the chairman; and the said committee shali report at the commencement of the next st>.;sion of the present Con!ITess the reRult of their investigation and 

recommend what legislation, if any, in their judgment is necessary to secure to tho 

loyal people in said States lately declared in insurrection the substantial justico 

contemplated in theactsnamed. . 

Objection was made. 

RECESS. 

1\fr. HEREFORD. I move that the House take a recess until a quarter after three o'clock this afternoon. 

The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at ten minutes before 

three o'clock) the House took a recess. The recess having expired, the House resumed its session. 

NOTIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT. 

Mr. MAYNARD submitte<l the following resolution; which was reo.d, considere<l, aud agreed to: 

Resolved, That a eommittee of three members of tho House be appointed to join a sirollar committee on the part of the Senate, to wait upon the l:'residcnt of tho 

Unitoo States and inform him that the two Houses of Congress are ready to ad. 

joinn if he has no fw.ther communication to make to them. 

The SPEAKER subsequently announced the appointment of Mr. 

MAYNARD, ~fr. ·wrLSON of Indiana, and Mr. Cox, as the committee ou tho part of the House. · 

ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. 

1\fr. DARRALL, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported tlu~>t that committee ha<l examined and found truly enrolled bills of 

the following tit.les; when the Speaker sigue<l the t:~ame: 

An act (H. R. No. 554) for the relief of William J. Blackistone, of 

Smnt Ma,ry's County, Maryland; 

An act (H. R. No. 700) granting a pension to the minor children of 

Michael Weisse, ueceased; 

An n.ct (H. R. No. 3023) for the relief of AndJ:ew Mason; 

An aut (H. R. No. 3027) to remove the political d.hlabilities of A. S. 

Taylor, of Maryland; 

An act (H. R. No. 3172) to relieve Sardine G. Stone, of Alabama, 

of political ilisabilities; 

An act (H. R. No. 32.)4) to relieve E. L. Winder of his political disabilities; 

An act (H. R. No. 3327) to provide for the improvement of the 

Oostenaula River, in the Stn,te of Georgia; . An act (H. ll. No. 3408) to relieve the political disabilities of L. L. 

Lomax, of Virginia; and 

An act (H. k. No. 3413) to provide for the stamping of unstampecl 

instruments, document-s, or papers. 

1\1ESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 

A message from the Senate, by 1\fr. SYMPSON, one of theiT clerks, 

announced tha.t tho Senate ha.d passed bills of the following titles, 

without amenclmeut 

An act (H. R. No. 352· ) providing for the sale of the Kansas Indian 

lands in Kansas to actual settlers, an<l for the disposition of the procee<ls of the sale ; 

An act (ll. R. No. 3352) to further provide for the sale of certain 

Indian lands in Kansas; and 

An act (l:L H. No. 30~) supplementu,ry to th~ act entitled "An act 

to authorize the Washington City and Point. Lookout Railroa<l Company to extend a railroad into and 'vithin the District of Columbia," 

approved January 22, 1873. It further announce<! that the Senate had passed a bill of the following title, with an amendment in which the concurrence of the 

House was requested: 

An act (S. No. 898) to authorize the settlement of the accounts of 

Passed Assistant Payma-ster E. Mellach, United States Navy. 

WASHINGTO~ CITY Al'H> POINT LOOKOUT RAILROAD COl\IPANY. 

The next business on the Speaker's table was the bill (H. R. No. 3025) supplementary to t.he a.ct entitled "An act to authorize the 

Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad Company to extend a railroad into and within the District of Columbia," approved January 

22, 1873, returned from the Senate with the following amendment: 

Sbikeoutthefollo~g: 

Allll that all tho rights conferred by this act are to be exercised and enjoyed by said company only npon the condition that aaid company shall first remove all the 

work it has done t{)ward locating its track between the Insane As:y lum and the 

Potomac River, and on the further condition that it shall never locate or opera.te 

said road, or any part thereof, between said asylum and the Potomac River. 

And in lieu thereof insert the-following: 

And provided further, That said Washington City aml Point Lookout Railroad 

Company shall construct ita railroad in the county of Washington herein authorized, so that whenever it shall cross any public road it shaU cross the same by an ovcrgrade or undergrade orossinif"' by IJridge or tunnel, so a.<! not to impede public travel upon said roadR, and sha construct that part of said railroad along Rock 

Creek in tho valley of said <:reek, passing west of the P·street bridge by a tunnel 

through the hiU west of the P-street biidge; and said road crossings and said tun- nel shan be located and constructed in accordance with plans and specifications to bo first approved in writing by the engineer in charge of public buildings and 

grounds. 

Mr. RICE. I move that amendment of the Senate be concurred in. 

The motion was agreed to; and the amendment of the Senate was concurred in. 

DEFENSE OF SPEAKER AGAINST SUITS. 

Mr. WILSON, of Indiana, by unanimous consent, submitted a resolution; whic-h was read, as follows: 

RR.solved, That the House assume the defense of the S{leaker and the Sergeant- at-Arms in the suits against them IJy Joseph B. Stewart for alleged false imprison- ment while in custody, under the order of the House, as a reeusant witness, in FolJ .. ruary, 18731 recently decided against Stewart by the supreme court of tho District 

of Columbia, and"tne exponses of said defense be paid by the Clerk from tho con- tingent fund of the Honse, upon the approval of the Committee on Accounts. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair desiTes to make a brief statement. 

After the acljoumment of the session last March a writ was serve<! 

upon tho Speaker, ancl afterward on the Sergeant-at-Arms, by Joseph 

B. Stewart, claiming $100,000 d.ama.ges for falo5e imprisonment: The 

Speaker of the Honse of the Forty-second Congress-the present 

occupant of the chair-immediately transmitted the papers to the 

Attorney-General's office. Of course he had no authority as Speaker 

to say so, but he ventured to say that if any expenses attended tho 

defense of the House in this respect, these it might be expected 

would be provided for by order of the House. It is in pursuance of 

that that the gentleman from Indiana offers the resolution. 

Mr. MAYNARD. I am very glad that the snit has been brought. It will enable the judiciary department of the Government to pass 

upon the authority of the officers of the House. It will be a case analogous in this country to one brought ag-ainst the speaker of the 

House of Commons in England which settled the authority of the 

officers of the House of Commons. This will pass into the reports as a valuable precedent. 

The case I refer to is Bru·dette vs. Abbott, 14 East., 1, decided in 1811. 

The imprisonment in that case was of one of the members of the ~ouse ?f Commons, sentenced for breach of privilege, and is very 

mst.ruct1ve. The defen<lant was speaker of the house, and signed 

the warrant for the plaintiff's arrest. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair is informed that the expenses connected 

with the suit have not been at all considerable. 

There being no objection, the resolution was adopted. 

BENJAl\11~ E. SHEPP A.l~D. 

Mr. LEWIS, by unanimous consent~ introduced a bill (H. R. No. 

3782) for the payment of 134.07 to Benjamin E. Sheppar<l, Jate rout.e agent, &c.; which was road a fir t and second time, referred to the 

Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. 

TD:IE FOR FL."iAL AD.TOUfu'{111ENT. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair desires to make a. communication t.o 

the House. lie is this moment informea by the principal enrollinrr 

clerk of tho Honse that it will not be mechanically possible to hav~ the sundry civil appropriation bill enrolled in time for a final adjournment at four o'clock. The enrollment has been a very prolonge<l and laborious work, the amendments being so numerous and 

colllplicatccl. 

Mr. SE ffiR. If it be in order to move to extend the session to six 

o'clock, I make that motion. . 

The SPEAKER. The Chair will ascertain in a moment what time 

the enrolling department consider necessary for the completion of 

their work. 

CHA.I..'\GE OF ~A.AIE OF SCHOONER. 

Ir. CONGER. While the House is "'a.iting for that I ask unani-
5446 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D. JUNE 23, 

mous consent to take from the Speaker's table and pass the bill (S. 

No. 406) to allow tho schooner Ocean W:.tve to take the name of 

Edith E. Wright, and to be registered under that name. There being no objection, the bill wa.s taken from the Speaker's 

table, rea.d· three times, and passed. 

Mr. RANDALL. I hope no more bills will be paased. It only increases tho work in the enrolling department. 

Tll\IE OF FINAL ADJOURIDIEXT. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair, ·from what he is informed by tl1o enrolling clerk, thinks the extension of the session ought to be to at least 

half past five o'clock. Mr. STOWELL. I doubt if that will be sufficient. The post-route 

bill has not yet come down from the Senate. The SPEAKER. The Chair, from what has been stat.ed in regard 

to the post-route bill, as well as tho sundry civil bill, thinks that sh 

o'clock would be a better hour to fix for the final adjournment, and 

if it is not desired to transact further business, the Cha.ir would sugge t that the hour of final adjournment be extended to six, and that 

a recess he taken. 

Mr. RilTDALL. I ofi"er the following concurrent resolution: 

R~.solvcd b!f the Hmue of" Representatives, (the Senate concurring,) Tbat tho President of tho Senato and tho Spe.'\ker of tho Honse of Representatives bo authorizeti 

to closa tho present session of Congress by adjourning their respccth·e Houses on tho 23d of June, 1874, at six o'clock p.m. 

The SPEAKER. If the House shall agree to that resolution, and if 

it is understood that tho post-ron~e bill when it comes over from the 

Senate may be sent to the Speaker for his signat,ure, the Chair thinks 

it will be safe to take a recess. Mr. JIBLACK. I move to amend the concurrent resolution so as 

to make it eight instead of six. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks there will be ample time allowed by extending the session until six. 

The concurrent resolution was adopted. 

MESSAGE FRO~I THE SENATE. 

A message was subsequently received from the Senate, by 1\lr. SYMPsox, ono of their cle-~:ks, informing the House that the Senate had 

agrec1l to the concurrent resolntion of the House of Representatives 

extending the time of the final adjournment to six o'clock p . m . TIJ.e mcs age also announced that the Senate hatl passed, with 

amendments, in which tho concurrence of the Honse was r equested, 

the bill (H. R. No. 3604) to establish certain post-routes. 

RECESS. 

J\Ir. CLYMER. I nowmove that the House take a re-cess until five 

o'clock. The motion was agreed to. Ami accordingly (at three o'clock and thirty minutes p. m.) the 

House toqk a recess until five p . m. Tho recess bnving expired the House resumed its session at five 

o'clock p. m. 1\IE.:3 AGE FROl\I THE SENATE. 

A message from the Senate, by :M.r. Snn> ON, one of their clerks, informed the House that the Senate insisted upon its amendment to the 

resolution of the House for printing the report of the Commis ·ioner 

of Education, disagreed to by the House of Representatives, agreed 

to the conference asked bytheHouse, andhad appointed Mr. ANTHO~, 

.Mr. HmVE, and Mr. SAULSBURY the committee on the part of the 

Senate. PRDTTING REPOP.T OF COMlofiSSIONER OF EDUCATION. 

1.1r. MONROE. I present the report of tho committ.co of conference 

on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the concurrent resolu- tion for printing t-he report of the Commis ioner of Education. With the })ermission of the House I will state in a word the situation in which the matter is left. The House ordere(l the printing of 

twenty thousand copies. The Senate amended the resolution by mak- ing the number five thousand,. which was a considerable difference. 

The House disagreed to that amendment, and asked for a committee 

of conference. In the committee of conference it was found impos- sible to get any increase of this number in the Senate, although the 

Committee on Printing in the Senate would be very g1ad to have a larger number ; and while I am almost ash am ell to sn bmit to the num- ber being cut down from twenty thousand to five thousand yet it is 

much better to have that number than to have none, aud as it willenaoie the CommissiOner to supply teachers of schools during the summer with copies, as he has been in the habit of doing, we have thought it 

be t to get what we could. 

The Clerk read the report of the conference, as follows : 

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of tho tw;o Houses on the 

llouscconcUl'rontr03olution for printing tho report of the Commis ioncr of Education 

ha.nng met, after full and free conference agroerl t.o recommend, a.nd do rccommcncl, to their reS])CCti\e Houses as follows : 'l'hat the llouso recetlo from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate to the said resolution aml agree to the same. .TAMES M0$0E, F. PP A HUNT OX, 

]£an age,·s on the part of theHott.Se. 

llENRY B. .ANTHONY, ELI SAID,SDURY, 

TIMOTIIY 0 . llOWE, Mana:~e on the part of ~J e Senate. 

PEN JOXS Ar.~ PAY OF NURSI~S . 

Mr. HAWLEY, of Connecticut, by unanimoti consent, 'presented 

memorials in relation to pensions and the pa,ym nt of nurses, and 

asked unanimous consent that they be printed in the RECORD. 

No objection was made. · The memorials are a-s follows : :BOSTON, June 1, 1874. 

To the horwrable Senate and HattSe of Rc]JTIJ8entatives in Congress a-ssembled: 

Tho undersigned, commander-in-chief of tho Grand .Army of the Republic re- Spectfully repre ents that tho organization of -which ho is tho chief exccutiYe 

oillcoris composed ~f many thou ::tml citizens, ea~h of wh~m served iu tho Army or Navy of tho Urute(l Stat-es clur-mg ~h e wa.r of the rebclliou; that tho objects of 

the order are fraternal aJlll benevolent; anti that ret tho annual session of tho Na- tional Encampment., May 13, 1974, the following preamble and resolutions wore unanimously adopted : 

" Whereas it appears that great injustice and hardships are inflicted upon om· comrades in arms by the insutliciency of pensions paid to wounded and disabled 

soliliers: Now therefore be it " R esolved, That it is tho solemn conviction of the representatives of tho Gran1l 

Army of the pnblic that pensions should be i_n~ll ea ed in every bl'llde, t·hat all 

of tho totally disabled shoultl rocCivo a sum sutliment for their maintenance anti 

that all other gratlcs of <Usability should bo so increas d in dno proportion' that 

these bra\O mon may not become objects of charity so Jong us they may survi•o. "RP-&~l eq,, That tho com~and.er:in-chief bo rcqncsteti to forward a copy of this 

resolution, m su.ch terms as m Jus Judgment he may seo flt, to tho President of tho "cnate and the Speaker of the Honse of Representatives of tho United States ami ask that Congr68s t&ko immediate and fa.vora.blo action thcr on." ' 

In accorlla~ ce th?rowith .. I do reb~ respectfully petition your honorable body to make proVIsion for tho disabled soldiers of the b to war, as t.hcrein requested. 

CHA.RL:ES DEVENS Jr. Oomrnander-in-Ohief Gr(md Army of the R;p~blic. 

B OSTOX, J w 1e 10, 1874. 

To the honora1Jlc the Senate and H ousr. of .Representatit•es in Congress assembled: 

'J.'ho followinf' preamhle ami resolution wore adoptcti by the eighth National Encampment of the Grancl.Army of the Republic: w~~as a bill ( ~0. 1555) has .be ' ll inh·olluced in the House of R presentatiYCS prov1ili.J?.g for ccrtam compensation to tho female nurses of tho Union soldiers dm·- in"' the late war: Therefore, · 'he it 1""-&olred, That tho :rational Encampment, recognizino- their self-saori.ficin ... devotion anrl f::.ithfullaborl!, mo. t earnestly urge upon the Conrr.1.·ess of tho Uniteii' 

States tho passage of tho said bill. e 

I respectfully request their consideration by your honorable bodies. CHAU.LES DEVENS, Jr., . Commande-r-in-Chief. 

ENROLLED BILL SIGl\TED. 

Mr. DARRALL, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, report d 

that the committee had examinctl ancl fonml truly enrolled bills of 

the following tit1es; when t he Speaker signed the same : 

An act (S. No. 321) r eorganizing the several staff-corps of t he Army; 

.An act (8. No. 40G) to allow the schooner Ocean Wave to take the name of Edith E. Wright, and be regllitered under that nallle ; 

An act (S. No. 600) for the relief of Captain James B. Thompson; and 

An act (S. No. 775) to authorize the construction of a bri.drre over tl10 Willamette River, at Portlanll, in the State of Oregon. o 

Mr. PENDLETON, from the same commit tee, reported that, the comJJ?ittee ha.d examined and f?und truly enrolled bills of the following 

t.tt.les; when the Speaker s1g1.1ed the arne : · 

Au net (H. R. No. 554) for the relief of William I . Blackistone, of 

Saint .Mary's County, Maryland; 

An act (H. R. No. 700) granting a pension to tho minor children of 

Minhael Weis ·e, deceased; 

An act (H. R. No. 921) to prevent the usele slaughter of buffalo s wit hin tho Territories of the Unitell States; 

Au a ct (H. R.No. 2198) for the r elief of the heirs-at-law of William 

C. llrashear, an otlicer of the Texa navy ; 

An ::tet (H. R. r o. 2770) to amend the act entitled "An act to amend 

an act entitled 'An act to establish a court for t he investigation of 

claims against the United St.ates,"' approved August 6, 1856; 

An act (H. R. No. 3016) granting a pension to Ira. Donthart; 

An act (H. R. No. 3023) for the relief of Andrew Mason; 

An act (H. R. No. 3027) to remove the political disabilitie, of A: S. Taylor, of Maryl and; 

An act (H. R. No. 309 ) to .amend the act entitled "An act to reor- ganize the courts in the District of Columbia, and for ot-her purpo. es," approved _Jarch 3, 1 G3; 

An act (H. R. No. 31 7:.2) to relieve Sardine G. Stone, of Alabama, of 

po1itical disabilities; 

.Au act (H. R. No. 3175) for the relief of J . E . Ingalls, postma tor a t 

D nma.rk, Lee Connty, Iowa; · 

.An act (H. R. No. 32.'14) to relieve E . L. 'Vin<ler of his l)Olitical dis- abilities; · · 

An act (H. R. No. 3327) to provide for the improvement of the Oos- t euaula River, in the State of Georgia; 

An a.ct (H. R No. 3:152) to further provide for tho sale of certain 

Indian lands in Kansas; 

An act (H. R. No. 340d) to remove the political disabilities of L . L. 

Lomax, of. Virginia; · 

A n a.ct (H. R. No. 3413) to provide for the stampiug of nnstampetl 

insrrument.s, dO"l.UDents, or papers; 

An act (H. R . No. :3G34) to change the times of holding tho circuit 

anc1 uistrict courts a.t the city of Evansville ; a.nd . Aa act (H. R. To. 3GOO) n. kin~ appropriations for snmh·y c·h ·il c ... -

pen!';eS of t b e Gf)vornmcnt for t11e fiscal y e3.r encling Juno 30, 18/G. nml for oilier purpm;es. 
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RECESS. 

Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. I move that the House take a recess until five minut.es to six o'clock. · The SPEAKER. The Chair would suggest that perhaps that would 

leave too short a time for the closing business of the session. 

Mr. WILLARD, of Vermont. Then I will move that the House 

take a recess until half past five o'clock. 

Mr. CONGER. I understaml that a resolution is coming from the 

Senate asking for a further extension of the session until nine o'clock. 

If we take this 1-ecess as proposed, it is doubtful if the post-route bill can be brought in and signed. 

The SPEAKER. The proposition now is to take a recess until halfpast ti ve o'clock, and that will leave half au hour for the closing busi- ness which the Chair thinks will be sufficient. It is doubtful if 

there is a quorum present, and the Chair cannot allow a.uy business to 

be done untler auy ciTcumstani}es without the presence of a quorum. 

It requires unanimous consent to take a recess without a quorum. 

By unanimous consentthemotionof Mr. \VILLARD, of Vermont, was agreed to, and thereupon, (atten minutes pa. t five o'clock p.m.,) the .House took a recess until half past five o'clockp. m. 

Al<'TER THE RECESS. 

The recess havillg expireu, the House reassembled at five o'clock 

and thirty minutes p. m. 

APPOINTMENTS BY THE BPEA.KER. 

The SPEAKER. It is the duty of the Chair to nominate for the 

biennial term two directors of the Columbia Hospital. For the en- suing two years the Chair nominates JAMEs A. GARFIELD, of Ohio, 

and SAJ.\1UEL J. RA.J.~DALL, of Pennsylvania. · ·The Senate has sent a message to the House that under the law 

lately passed. providing for a joint committee to frame a form of 

government for the District of Columbia., the President pro tempore 

had appointed LOT M. MORRILL, of Maine, and WILLIAM T. li.Ab!ILTON7 

of Ma.ryland, as members of the committ-ee on the p:ut of the Senate. 

The Chair nominates as the members on the part of the House, EBENEZER RocKWOOD HoAR, of fassachusetts, and ALEXANDER MITCHELL, 

of Wisconsin. . The sundry civil appropriation bill contains a provision for an equestrian statue of General Nathaniel Greene, and directs the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Hou e each to name a mem- ber of their respective bodies to serve as a commission to execute 

that provision of the act. The Chair names as the member of the com- mission on the part of the House BENJA.t\IIN T. EAMEs, of Rhode 

Island. 

MESSAGE FRO?.:I THE SENATE. 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Sn:IP O:Y, one of theiT clerks, 

informed the House that the Senate had agreed to the r<u_lort of the 

committee of conference mi the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the concunent resolution of the House to print extra copies of the 

report of the Commissioner of Education. · The message further announced that Mr. EDMUNDS, Mr. ANTHONY, 

and :Mr. BAYARD had been appointetl a committee on the pa.rt of 

the Senate to join the committee appointed on the part of · the 

House of Representatives to wait upon the President of the United 

States and inform him that the two Houses of Congress are ready 

to adjourn. . The roes age also announced that the Senate had passed, without 

amendment, bills of the House of the following titles: 

A bill (H. R. No. 2702) to relieve John Forsyth, of Alabama, of 

political disabilities; and 

A bill (H. R. No. 2771) for the relief of J. Scott Payne, second lieutenant Sixth United States Cavalry, late first lieutenant Fifth United 

States CavalTy. 

E ffiOLLED BILLS SIGNED. 

Mr. DARRALL, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported 

that they had examined and found truly eurollC<:l bills of the following titles; when the Speaker signed the same: An act (H. R. No. 2702) to relieve John Forsyth, of Alabama, of 

political disabilities; and 

A bill (H. R. No. 3604) to establish certain post-rout.es. 

REPORT OF THE COM...'\IITTEE TO WAIT 0~ PRESIDENT. 

Mr. ?liA.YNARD. The committee appointed on the part of the 

Honse to join a similar committee on the part of the Senate to wait 

upon the President of the United States and inform him that the two 

Houses are ready to adjourn have performed that duty, and con veyed to him the expression of the li'.vo Houses of a desire to know 

if he had any further communication to make to them during the 

present session. He i11formed us that he had no further commllliication to make, tendered us his congratulations, and gave us a parting salutation. 

ENROLLED BILLS SIG~D. 

Mr. PE~TDLETON, from the Committee on Enrollccl Bills, reported 

that they had examined and found truly enrolled a bill of the following title; when the Speaker signed the same: An act (H. R. No. 2771) for the relief of J. Scott Payne, secoudlieu- ~nant Sixth U uited States Cavalry, late fust lieutenant Fifth United 

States Cavalry. 

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. SYMP ON, one of their clerks, 

informecl the House that the Senate had passed, without amendment, a bill of the House of the following title: 

A bill (H. R. No. 2104) to confirm an agreement made with the 

Shoshone Indians (eastern band) for the purchase of the south part of 

their reservation in Wyoming Territory. 

The message further announced that the Senate had passed and 

requested the concurrence of the House in, bills of the following 

titles: 

A bill (S. No. 781) to relieve James L. Pugh, of Alabama, of his 

political disabilities; and 

A bill (S. N~. 912) to annex certain land to reservation No.2, occu- pied by the DepartJ:nent of Agriculture. 

JAMES L. PUGH. 

Mr. CALDWELL. I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and pass at this time Senate bill No. 781, to 1·elieve James 

L. Pugh, of .Alabama, of his political disabilities. 

Mr. RAllH~Y. I think I must object at this late hour of the session. 

Mr. HAYS. I hope no one will object. 

Mr. RAINEY. I withdraw my objection. 

The bill wa.s taken from the Speaker's table by unanimous consent, 

read thl·ee times, and passed, two-thirds voting in favor thereof. 

FINAL ADJOURNMENT. 

The SPEAKER. By concurrent resolution of the two Houses, the 

final adjournment of this session is ordered for Tuesday, June 23, at 

six o'clock p.m. That hour has a,rrived. Wishing you all, gentlemen, a safe and happy return to your homes and families, I now declare the fust session of the Forty-third Congross adjourned without 

4ay.