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Serial set 1580	Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 5, 1874, information in relation to officers or employes [sic] furnished with official postage-stamps. January 13, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to Senate resolution of March 26, 1873, information relative to the pneumatic tube. December 2, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an appropriation for the payment of the expenses of two commissioners appointed from civil life on the military prison board. February 16, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the War Department, in relation to the application of Henry S. Welles for compensation for removing obstructions from the harbor of Savannah, Georgia. December 11, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 11, 1873, information in relation to the expediency of dedicating to the public use part of the island of Mackinac, in the State of Michigan. December 18, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of February 27, 1874, information in relation to the receiving and disposing of United States revenue stamps and public moneys. April 9, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, an abstract of the militia force of the United States. April 10, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and one from Enoch Hogg, superintendent of the Central Superintendency, protesting against the passage of House Bill 1725, providing for the sale of the Black Bob lands in Kansas. April 8, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 19, 1874, information relative to the Indian agencies in Nevada. April 20, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the War Department, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of December 4, 1873, information in relation to the sale of government property at Harper's Ferry. December 15, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, communicating, in obedience to the resolution of the Senate, the number of officers and employes [sic] in or connected with the Post Office Department, and who have been furnished with official postage-stamps. January 7, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to a contract entered into for the treatment of patients in the Providence Hospital. December 19, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, communicating, in obedience to the resolution of the Senate, the number of officers and employes [sic] in or connected with the Department of State who have been furnished with official postage-stamps. January 7, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating information in response to Senate resolution of the 5th of January, 1874, in relation to the number of officers furnished with official postage-stamps. January 8, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 5, 1874, information in relation to officers or employes [sic] furnished with official postage-stamps. January 13, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of expenditures at the Springfield armory during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1873. January 12, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending legislation authorizing the sale of the military reservation at Camp Crittenden and old Camp Grant, Arizona Territory. January 7, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Attorney General, submitted in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 5, 1874, communicating information in relation to officers and employees furnished with postage-stamps for official correspondence. January 12, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating information called for by resolution of the Senate of December 2, 1873, as to amount expended in aid of the construction of public works in the states and territories. January 8, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of February 24, 1873, information in relation to the expenses of proceedings in bankruptcy in United States courts. January 15, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of March 11, 1873, information in relation to the space allotted to each steerage-immigrant on board ship. January 23, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. January 29, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with Senate resolution of February 10, 1874, information as to the length of time which will be required for the mints to manufacture the amount of subsidiary silver coin requisite to replace the fractional currency. February 11, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating information in relation to the cultivation of timber and the preservation of forests. February 20, 1874. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the report of the Centennial Commissioners. February 25, 1874. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 27, 1874, information in relation to a treaty with the Chippewa Indians. February 24, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. February 27, 1874. -- Motion to print reported and agreed to Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in response to a resolution of the Senate, information as to the number of illicit distilleries suppressed within the last six months. March 3, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating additional testimony in relation to the New Mexico private land claim No. 72, known as "Ojo del Apache." March 3, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, accompanying reports of the surveyor general of New Mexico on the private land claims of Bartoleme Marquez and Francisco Padilla, and of Juan Luis Ortiz. December 4, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, an inventory of all the property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by that Department and under its charge. December 2, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to the sale of Indian lands in the State of Kansas. December 8, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, in compliance with Senate resolution of December 15, 1873, communicating information relative to the expense saved to the government by the abolition of the franking privilege. January 20, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, accompanying a report from the Secretary of the Interior relative to information called for by a Senate resolution of January 8, 1874, regarding encroachment upon Indian Territory. January 20, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 5, 1874, information in relation to officers and employes [sic] furnished with official postage stamps. January 14, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 26, 1874, transmitting a copy of the annual reports of a portion of the government directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company for the years 1872 and 1873. February 5, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in reply to Senate resolution of January 20, 1874, information as to compensation and additional compensation of clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury. February 26, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of February 5, 1874, a report of the Chief of Engineers as to the condition of the breakwater at Du Luth, and the amount necessary to put the same in repair. February 24, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, inviting attention to an act approved July 15, 1870, relating to certain supernumerary officers mustered out of service with one year's pay and allowance. February 26, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Acting Chief of Ordnance, relative to the adoption of the Gatling gun. March 17, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Postal service. Letter from the Postmaster General, in answer to resolution of the Senate of January 30, 1874, calling for information relative to the postal service between New York and Washington, New York and Boston, and New York, Albany, Buffalo, and Suspension Bridge. March 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed, and motion to print two hundred additional copies referred to the Committee on Printing. March 23, 1874. -- Motion to print two hundred additional copies reported and agreed to. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating reports of the surveyor general of New Mexico on the private land claims under grants to Felipe Gutierres and Juan Jose Gallegos, No. 83 and No. 84. March 25, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating copy of a letter from the Adjutant General of the Army, relative to unexpended balance of appropriation for collection and payment of bounties to colored soldiers and sailors, and recommending certain legislation relative thereto. January 19, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating a copy of the report of John M. Thacher, a delegate to the Vienna Exposition, held in August, 1873, on the subject of the protection of patents. February 18, 1874. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.	42
Serial set 1581	Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, of May 15, 1874, in relation to the sale of pine timber, belonging to the Chippewa Indians, to A.H. Wilder, of Minnesota. May 22, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, reports of the Surveyor-General of New Mexico on Mesilla Colony Grant, reported as No. 86, for land in Dona Ana County; on private land claim, reported as No. 89, known as the Talaya Tract; and on Refugio Colony Grant, reported as No. 90. June 9, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 21, 1874, information relative to the sale of government property at Harper's Ferry. May 7, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of May 18, 1874, a report of the Civil Service Commission of the answers received to their circular. May 25, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. May 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of May 15, 1874, correspondence in relation to the troubles in Arkansas. May 25, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. May 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating an estimate of the amount required to complete the medical and surgical history of the war, should the balance remaining to the credit of that appropriation be covered into the Treasury. May 4, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of a tour of inspection of European light house establishments, made in 1873, by Major George H. Elliot, Corps of Engineers U.S.A., member and Engineer-Secretary of the Light House Board, under the authority of Hon. William A. Richardson, Secretary of the Treasury. April 24, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. June 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed, together with one thousand additional copies for the use of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the War Department, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of May 19, 1874, information in relation to the Presidio Reservation at San Francisco. June 2, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, a copy of the report of the Surveyor General of New Mexico on the private land claim No. 85, for the tract known as "The Dona Ana Bend," in New Mexico. April 20, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of May 15, 1874, in relation to a flag placed at the disposal of the American Commissioners to the Vienna International Exhibition. May 22, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating the report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers on file or of record in the Department of State, respecting the claim on Brazil concerning the Caroline. May 26, 1874. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning the Bill (S. 617) to fix the amount of United States notes and the circulation of national banks, and for other purposes, with his objections. April 22, 1874. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, upon the petition of the Legislature of Montana Territory, transmitted to him by order of the Senate, asking protection of citizens of Deer Lodge and Missoula counties against the depredations of roving bands of Indians. April 29, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, and the report by which it is accompanied upon Samoa or the Navigator's Islands. April 22, 1874. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.	14
Serial set 1582	Reports of explorations and surveys for the location of a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, through Nicaragua. 1872-'73.	1
Serial set 1583	Annual report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1873. February 2, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.	1
Serial set 1584	Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, relative to Senate Bill No. 680, for the relief of certain persons of African descent resident in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. June 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey in favor of an appropriation in aid of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of American independence. January 21, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of the International Steamship Company, praying the acceptance, in a modified form, of its former proposals for the construction of iron steamships. December 16, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to persons of African descent resident in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations on the 28th day of April, 1866. April 8, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 680 Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Iowa, in favor of the opening of the railroad bridge across the Mississippi River at Clinton, Iowa, to the use of all railroad companies desirous of crossing the same. February 9, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Petition of M.C. Mordecai & Company, praying compensation for mail service between Charleston, S.C., and Havana, Cuba. December 2, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Correspondence between Hon. J.H. Mitchell and the Director of the Mint, in relation to the establishment of an assay-office at Portland, Oregon. January 12, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, to accompany Bill S. 289 and ordered to be printed. Annual statement of the National Savings Bank of the District of Columbia for the year ending December 31, 1873. February 19, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Petition of George W. Clark, of South Carolina, praying satisfaction of judgment in the case of McLeod vs. Callicot, &c. December 3, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following resolution. Whereas there is a condition of affairs in the State of Arkansas that may invoke federal interference; and whereas Joseph Brooks and Elisha Baxter are each assuming to exercise the office of governor of the state, each having called on the President of the United States for aid to suppress domestic violence, and have called the legislature of the state to meet in extra session, and have each surrounded himself with large armed forces... Memorial of bankers, merchants, and others, citizens of San Francisco, remonstrating against the withdrawal of the increased subsidy granted to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for ships plying between China, Japan, and San Francisco. May 11, 1874. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1874. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following resolution. Whereas cheap and ample means for the interchange of commodities between the different sections of our country constitute essential conditions of the national advancement and prosperity... Letter from the Third Assistant Postmaster General to the Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, in relation to a letter-wrapper device invented by A. Watson. May 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Protest of the President, councilors, and people of the Seneca Nation of Indians, made in their National Council, against the passage of the Bill (H.R. No. 3080) to authorize the Seneca Nation to lease their lands within the Cattaraugus and Allegany reservations, and to confirm existing leases. June 8, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson, from the Committee on Territories, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Territories be authorized to sit during the recess, and to investigate as to the manner of the execution of the law of the United States in the Indian Territory... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton, from the Select Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Select Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River be authorized to sit during the recess, and to investigate and report upon the condition of the levees of the Mississippi River... Letter from George S. Bangs, General Superintendent of Railway Mail Service, to Hon. J.R. West, United States Senate, in relation to prices paid to railroad companies for transporting the mails. June 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1874. -- Submitted, amended, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that during the present session it shall be in order at any time to move a recess, and, pending an appropriation bill, to move to confine debate on amendments thereto to five minutes by any senator on the pending motion... Memorial of a convention of citizens of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and of the District of Columbia, praying that the Chief of Engineers of the United States be directed to cause further surveys and estimates to be made of the cost of connecting the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Ohio River, and for an appropriation for those purposes. May 15, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1874. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Revision of the Rules. May 15, 1874. -- Reported with an amendment, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the eleventh rule of the Senate be amended by adding thereto the following words... Petition of citizens of California, praying for an appropriation for the improvement of the waterfront of the City of Oakland, in that state. May 22, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the first session of the Forty-third Congress. June 1, 1874. Letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to the expenditure of $100,000 for the support of the Great and Little Osage Indians. May 25, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 847. In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. April 8, 1874. -- Considered and referred to the Committee on Finance, with an amendment proposed by Mr. West. June 4, 1874. -- Reported by Mr. Scott, with a recommendation that the resolution be disagreed to, and with accompanying papers ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby requested to furnish the Senate a statement, in detail, showing the amounts due and yet unpaid to the government... Memorial of P.P. Pitchlynn, delegate of Choctaw Nation of Indians, upon the right of that nation to be paid the money awarded to it by the United States Senate on the 9th day of March, A.D. 1859. June 8, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Roderick Rutland, a citizen of Monroe County, Georgia, asking the cancellation of land warrant No. 97189, and the re-issue to him of the same or a duplicate thereof, the original alleged to have been stolen from him. June 9, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Librarian of Congress to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, accompanying a memorandum of an index to documents and debates of Congress. June 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from Brig. Gen. A.A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, to Hon. J.H. Mitchell, United States Senator, transmitting a report of Major Michler, Corps of Engineers, on the survey at the mouth of the Coquille River, Oregon. June 5, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed, to accompany amendment proposed by Mr. Mitchell to the Bill H.R. 3168. Annual report of the Congressional Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, &c. December 1, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 11, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gordon submitted the following resolution: Whereas the abolition of the franking privilege was intended to economize the expenditures of the government... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gordon submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be requested to report, for the information of the Senate -- 1st. The number of bales of cotton seized under orders from the Department after the close of the war... Annual report of the Librarian of Congress, exhibiting the progress of the library during the year ending December 1, 1873. December 16, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining, in relation to the effect of an amendment to Senate Bill No. 16 upon the Sutro Tunnel and the Comstock Lode. April 20, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the United States Centennial Commission, asking the immediate passage of the pending bill to enable them to conduct an international exhibition. May 22, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Director of the Mint to Hon. A.A. Sargent, in relation to the proposed repeal of the gold coinage charge. May 18, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Statement showing the compensation of collectors and surveyors of the Customs and naval officers in the several collection districts of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1873. May 29, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill H.R. 3171. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing draught of a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to make transfer of certain funds belonging to the Kaskaskia, Peoria, Wea, and Piankeshaw Indians to the United States. May 25, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 848. In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, reported the following resolution. Resolved, that the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Francis W. Sykes, late contestant from the State of Alabama, out of the appropriations for compensation and mileage for senators... Memorial of Indian delegates from the Indian Territory protesting against the adoption of the amendment proposed by the Senate to the Bill (H.R. 2343) providing for the appointment of a superintendent of schools in that territory. June 1, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Alcorn submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby requested to furnish the Senate with copies of all cotton permits issued by Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, also with the names of agents appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase cotton in the southern states... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague submitted the following as the views of the minority of the Committee on Public Lands, to accompany Bill (S. 904) to provide revenue from the sale of public lands... Memorial of John Beeson, asking the appointment of a delegation, composed in part of women, to visit the Indian tribes and devise means to improve their condition. April 1, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed Memorial of G.W. Custis Lee, of Virginia, setting forth his claim to "Arlington," and proposing to convey that estate to the United States upon the payment of a just compensation, and asking Congress to pass a law to provide for the adjudication of his title, and to ascertain the fair value of the property. April 6, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of Morris County, Kansas, in favor of an amendment to the bill for the sale and disposal of the Kansas Indian lands in Morris County, Kansas, so as to make said lands taxable as soon as sold. April 20, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the City Council of Chelsea, Massachusetts, in respect to the memory of honorable Charles Sumner. March 30, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting correspondence in relation to a bill for the relief of Joseph Dunlap. March 30, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 638. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting a draught of "A Bill Conferring Exclusive Jurisdiction Over Indian Reservations upon the United States Courts, and for the Punishment of Crimes Committed by and against Indians." April 2, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 652. Letter from the Third Assistant Postmaster General to the Chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads of the House of Representatives, communicating further information in regard to the transmission of the mails and the revenues derived therefrom. April 16, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey, in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of Barnegat Bay and its tributaries. April 22, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Tenure of office of the President of the Senate Pro Tempore. April 30, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Comptroller of the Currency in relation to the organization of national banks without circulation. December 8, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 71. Judgments of the Court of Claims to December 1, 1873, the names of the parties in whose favor rendered, and the amount and nature of the claims. December 2, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of Alexander McLeod, of South Carolina, praying to be paid for cotton seized by authority of the United States. December 3, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 1, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of the appointment by the United States of a commission to act with a similar commission to be appointed by the State of California, to examine and report upon the condition of the harbor of San Francisco... In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the credentials of P.B.S. Pinchback for a seat in the Senate of the United States, for six years, commencing on the 4th of March, 1873, being in regular form, he is entitled under the law, and in conformity with the usages of the Senate, to be sworn in as a member... Report of the Secretary of the Senate, submitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 17, 1873, information relating to the fixing of salaries of senators and representatives in Congress from the formation of the government. January 5, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that in order to prevent inflation of the currency, and to meet the necessities of the government, the Committee on Finance be requested to consider the expediency of reporting a bill to the Senate, which shall empower the Secretary of the Treasury to make temporary loans, and which shall authorize national banking associations to use certificates of indebtedness issued for such loans as a part of their reserve... Memorial of the National Convention of Colored Persons, praying to be protected in their civil rights. December 19, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gordon submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment be and is hereby instructed to report a bill to reduce, as far as the same may be reduced with due regard to economy, and with reference to the salaries of civil officers, and as far as may be consistent with the efficiency of the service, the salaries of all officers of the Army and Navy whose salaries and allowances exceed $5,000 per annum. In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that a committee of four members, two of whom shall be members of the House and two of the Senate, shall be appointed, who shall inquire into the condition of the Navy of the United States... Memorial of the Legislature of Arkansas, in favor of the enactment of a civil rights law. January 12, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of Susan B. Anthony, praying for the remission of a fine imposed upon her by the United States Court for the Northern District of New York, for illegal voting. January 22, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, transmitting correspondence relative to a claim made by the authorities of Charlestown, Mass., to be re-imbursed for expenses incurred in the improvement of that portion of Chelsea Street bordering on the United States Navy-yard. January 21, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to a bill to create a reservation in the Territory of Washington for the Coeur d'Alene and other Indian tribes. January 20, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, with Bill S. 349, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the credentials of the Hon. P.B.S. Pinchback be referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections... Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey, in favor of the passage of "A Bill Making Provision for Arming and Equipping the Whole Body of the Militia of the United States, and for Other Purposes." January 28, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of H.H. Emmons to the Attorney General in relation to clerical assistance to circuit judges in certain cases. January 28, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 393. Letter of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to Hon. W.M. Stewart, Committee on Public Lands, in relation to the Bill (H.R. 1168) to amend the act entitled "An Act To Provide for the Removal of the Flathead and Other Indians from the Bitter-Root Valley, in the Territory of Montana," approved June 5, 1872. February 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1168.) Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Chairman of the Committee on Territories, accompanying information in relation to the charge upon the Treasury for each of the territories. January 30, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of an appropriation for turning the San Diego River. February 11, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Georgia, in favor of granting pensions to surviving soldiers and the heirs of soldiers of the Mexican War. February 12, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Shawnee chiefs and council in relation to the lands in the Black Bob reservation in Kansas, and asking the repeal of the 14th section of the act of July 15, 1870, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1871. February 16, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 490. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the repeal of the law requiring prepayment of postage on newspapers sent to subscribers in the counties in which said papers are published. February 16, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that Senators may be elected by a direct vote of the people. February 18, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, accompanying a copy of a report of Inspector E.C. Kemble in relation to the condition of the Indians of the Siletz agency in Oregon. February 17, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of the restoration, for the benefit of settlers thereon, of the lands granted in aid of the construction of a railroad from Stockton to Copperopolis in that state. February 18, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, approving the repeal of the clause of the bill giving increased pay to members of Congress and others. February 16, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of an amendment to the Constitution, providing for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people. February 19, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed. Memorial of A.G. Neugent, agent of the State of Missouri, praying the passage of a bill to re-imburse that state for expenses incurred in placing soldiers in the field during the war of the rebellion. February 19, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the governors of the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, asking payment to said states of the two per cent. land fund. February 27, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, accompanying a copy of a memorial of the Indians of Cattaraugus and Allegany reservations, in the State of New York, protesting against the passage of the House Bill 1053, entitled "An Act To Authorize the Cattaraugus and Allegany Indians in the State of New York to Lease Lands, Confirm Leases, and Quiet Titles to Their Lands." February 24, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the immediate payment of certain adjusted claims of citizens of Kansas for Indian depredations. March 2, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the transfer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the War Department. March 2, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, accompanying information in relation to the condition of the Kansas Indians recently removed to the Indian Territory. March 2, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, in relation to the refunding of certain custom duties. March 2, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2073.) Letter of A.M. Clapp, Congressional Printer, addressed to Hon. Mr. Anthony, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, inclosing an affidavit of a clerk in his office. March 6, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General to the Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, communicating information in relation to the money order system. March 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, in relation to the north branch of the Union Pacific Railroad. March 6, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Railroads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of a modification of the homestead laws. March 10, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 1, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be instructed to consider the expediency of providing for a national system of banking and currency, in lieu of the present one, which shall embody the substantial features following, to wit... Statement of the Sergeant-at-Arms, communicating a list of property in his possession belonging to the United States. December 1, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating a statement of receipts and expenditures from July 1, 1872, to June 30, 1873. December 1, 1873. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of W.H. Enochs, commissioner to represent the State of Ohio in the matter of claims growing out of the Morgan raid, in relation to their payment. December 8, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 1, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolutions: Whereas by international law and existing custom war is recognized as a form of trial for the determination of differences between nations... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Revision of the Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the thirtieth rule of the Senate be amended by adding thereto the following... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard be instructed to consider and report a bill creating a commission of five eminent and skilled persons, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall examine and make report to Congress what legislation is necessary and practicable, in regard to inter-state railroads, to promote the following objects... Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, accompanying a statement showing the indebtedness on account of the Indian service prior to July 1, 1873. January 20, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, transmitting correspondence relative to the reduction made by the House of Representatives in the appropriation for the preparation and publication of the Nautical Almanac. January 21, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, recommending the passage of a bill for the relief of the Chickasaw Indians. January 19, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 335. Letter of J. Beale, Surgeon General of the United States Navy, suggesting larger appropriations in support of the medical department of the Navy. January 19, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of North Carolina, praying for an appropriation for continuing the work of improvement on the bars at the mouth of Cape Fear River. February 6, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, accompanying a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and a report of the commission to establish the northern boundary by the Round Valley Indian reservation in California in relation to said boundary. February 4, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 435. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of indemnifying the holders of pre-emption and homestead certificates, and certificates of entry and patents upon public lands in that state, within the Des Moines River Grant. February 9, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Petition of masters of vessels trading at the Port of Wilmington, N.C., praying an appropriation to complete the government improvement at the mouth of Cape Fear River. February 9, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of the passage of an act granting pensions to soldiers of the Mexican War. February 11, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Ramsey County Medical Society, in favor of the passage of a bill to increase the efficiency of the medical department of the United States Army. February 10, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the establishment of an Indian reservation in Siskiyou County. February 11, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President be requested to communicate to the Senate the information called for by the following resolution, which passed the Senate the 1st day of March, 1873... Memorial of the Vice-President of the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company with accompanying statements in relation to alleged unfair and illegal charges made by the Union Pacific Railroad Company. February 10, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Commissioner of Agriculture, in answer to a Senate resolution of February 6, 1874, transmitting a paper prepared by Hon. George P. Marsh, on the subject of irrigation. February 10, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, remonstrating against the passage of a bill known as "An Act Supplemental to and Amendatory of the Act Entitled 'An Act To Develop the Mining Resources of the United States.'" February 11, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Georgia, in favor of the construction of the Atlantic and Great Western Canal. February 24, 1874. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of confirming title to land in homestead settlers in good faith, in case of conflict of title with railroad or other corporations. February 24, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Reports of J.E. James and Richard H. Stretch, civil engineers, &c., on the practicability of turning the waters of the Gulf of California into the Colorado Deserts and the Death Valley. March 19, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in relation to a proposed canal from Rock Island, Ill., to the Illinois River, at Hennepin. March 17, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of chiefs and head-men of the Oneida Nation of Indians, asking the payment of certain sums of money claimed to be due the "Six Nations" of Indians under the treaties of 1838 and 1842. March 6, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. March 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the repeal of existing laws prohibiting the free exchange of newspapers and other periodicals, and the free circulation of weekly papers in the county where published. March 23, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, on the occasion of the death of Hon. Charles Sumner. March 24, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, requested to furnish the Senate a statement, in detail, showing the amounts due and yet unpaid to the government from January, 1865, to the present time, from paymasters, quartermasters, commissaries, collectors of internal revenue, collectors of Customs, officers of the Freedmen's Bureau, or any other officer, or set of officers, whose accounts are under his supervision... Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of laws to regulate freights and fares on railroads. March 25, 1874. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Missouri, in respect to the memory of Hon. Charles Sumner and Hon. Millard Fillmore. March 24, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin, on the death of Charles Sumner. March 24, 1874. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, in relation to moieties given to Customs officers and informers. January 22, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 8, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following resolution: Whereas under the provisions of the Constitution of the United States the power is vested in Congress "to regulate commerce among the several states," and "to establish post offices and post roads;"... Statement prepared at the Navy Department, of reductions which may be made in the estimates for the fiscal year 1874, 1875, with least injury to the public service, to accompany letter of the Secretary of the Navy to the President, dated January 5, 1874. January 26, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, asking an appropriation for the removal of the ship Patrician, and the rock known as the "Noonday Rock," near the entrance to the harbor of San Francisco. January 27, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 11, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby, directed to furnish the Senate all information in his office relating to the fixing of the salaries of senators and representatives in Congress from the formation of the government...	128
Serial set 1585	Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1873	1
Serial set 1586	In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2090.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2090, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 595.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin Cooley and James W. Boswell, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 44.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 44) to establish the Territory of Pembina and to provide a temporary government therefor, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1585.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 1585, having had the same under consideration, would report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 68.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Hiram Prather, of North Vernon, Indiana, late lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 816.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 816) granting a pension to Jane La Font, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 682.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the memorial and papers of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Arlington Heights, commonly known as Hunter's Chapel, praying compensation for the use and occupation of their church building, and the use of the materials composing the same, by the troops of the United States, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 459.) The Committee on Finance, having before them the Bill (S. 459) for the relief of William J. Patton, and the accompanying papers, after due consideration make this report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Susan Vincent, praying the repayment of a balance of money advanced, &c., beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Edward Healy, praying for an increase of his pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 552.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 552) to refund to E. and J. Koch certain Custom-duties, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 253.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 253) for the relief of Thomas Hillhouse, Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New York City, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nancy Flesher, praying for a pension on account of the death of her son James Flesher, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 690.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Smith, late a private of Company E, First Michigan Light Artillery Volunteers, have considered the same, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 171.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 171) "For the Benefit of the Legatees of Asbury Dickins, Deceased," have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1222.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1222, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 381.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate Bill 381, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1225.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1225) granting a pension to William E. Price, of the State of Iowa, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Alexander Kennedy, of Blount County, Tennessee, praying compensation for ten bales of cotton, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 452.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition, and Bill (S. 452) and accompanying papers, for the relief of John McHarg, after due consideration make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boutwell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of M.C. Mordecai & Co., praying that compensation be made to them for carrying the mails of the United States from Charleston S.C., to Havana, Cuba, in the year 1859, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 249) authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to give to George A. Armes, late captain Tenth United States Cavalry, an honorable discharge, to date June 7th, 1870, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 477.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition and papers of Jemima Maxwell, widow of John Maxwell, for a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of William Mason, of Taunton, Massachusetts, praying an appropriation for the amount of damages sustained by him by reason of breach of contract made with him by the United States in January, 1862, for the manufacture of arms, have had the same under consideration and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Abraham Lansing, of Massachusetts, praying for an increased pension, beg leave most respectfully to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John P. Thomas, administrator of the estate of Rev. Robert S. Thomas, of Kansas City, Mo., praying for compensation for property destroyed by United States soldiers, have considered the same, and submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Goldthwaite submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 113.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred "A Bill for the Relief of the Trustees of Wildey Lodge, Independent Order of Odd-Fellows," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Goldthwaite submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 60.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of P. O'Donnel, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 561.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Charles H. Moseley, asking that he may be allowed the pay and allowances of a second lieutenant, less the amount already received as pay of a private soldier, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Sarah Brooks, of Cloud County, Kansas, report... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1873. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Richard J. Murray, of the State of Mississippi, praying to be restored to the pension allowed him... In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Antoinette Darling, praying compensation for damages sustained in consequence of Indian depredations in Minnesota, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 11, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: The Committee on Finance, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of William Thwing, of Boston, praying that the duties paid by him, August 26, 1862, upon an invoice of nitrate of soda, imported from South America, which was on shipboard on and after the 1st day of August, 1862, (the vessel not arriving in Boston until August 24, 1862,) be refunded, having considered the same, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of A.S. Rosenbaum & Co., that they be re-imbursed the cost of tax stamps on certain tobacco, burned at sea, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: Resolved, that it is the duty of Congress during its present session to adopt definite measures to redeem the pledge made in the act approved March 18, 1869, entitled "An Act To Strengthen the Public Credit," as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 647.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of James Cameron and Emma S. Cameron, his wife, praying compensation for the use and destruction of property by the Army, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, to Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 658.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Martin V. Jackson, late first lieutenant in Captain N.J. Roscoe's Company, Second Regiment of Kansas State Militia, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conover submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 134.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 134) for the relief of Daniel S. Mershon, Jr., have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 228.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 228) for the relief of Bigler, Young & Co., having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1439.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1439) granting a pension to John Folger, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 345.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 345) for the relief of Alvis Smith, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George Richards for pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Harriet J. [i.e., I.] Peabody, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Carter, praying for an increase of pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Cook for a pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 581.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, with other communications, on the subject of the Yellowstone Park; have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 637.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of the governors of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, relating to the two-per-cent. fund arising from sales of public lands in said states, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1934.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1934) for the relief of Pat. O. Hawes, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Blanton, praying to be allowed a pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 486.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 486) entitled "A Bill To Revive and Continue Certain Grants of Lands Heretofore Made to the Territory and State of Minnesota to Aid in the Construction of the Several Lines of the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company," having had the same under consideration, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Charles W. Adams, by which he demands $157,665.25 for property sold and seized, loss of profits, and injury to vessel, &c., have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of certain surgeons of the United States Navy, asking for the re-arrangement of the dates of their commissions, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2791.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2791) granting a pension to Franklin Stoner, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1719.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1719) granting a pension to Ezra H. Foster, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2455.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2455) granting an allowance to soldiers who have lost an eye, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, having had the resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota in regard to an investigation of the affairs of the Pension Office under consideration... In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1122.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was recommitted the Bill (H.R. 1122) granting a pension to Mrs. Martha E. Northrup [i.e., Northup], having again considered the evidence before them submitted with the first report, with additional evidence submitted, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1874. -- Considered, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Isaac A. Morris, praying compensation for machinery sold by United States officers at Van Buren, Ark., have considered the same, and submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1874. -- Considered, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William B. Matchett, praying for relief on account of injustice alleged to have been done him by improperly striking his name from the rolls as a clerk in the Treasury Department on the 26th day of January, 1866, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Goldthwaite submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 657.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Anderson & White, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1874. -- Considered, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of G.A. Henderson, praying payment of his salary as a clerk in the Treasury Department while suspended by order of the Secretary from January 28, 1864, to May 18, 1865, have considered the same, and submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 599.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 599) for the relief of Ade [i.e., Ada] H. McDonald, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 689.) The Committee on Public Printing, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph L. Pearson and others, employing printers of Washington, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 350.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 350) providing for the payment of the bonds of the Louisville and Portland Canal Company, with the substitute adopted by the House of Representatives, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1948.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1948) granting a pension to Mary J. Blood, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Esther M. Shubrick, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Susan McGoulrick, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2094 1/2.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2094 1/2) granting an increase of pension of Mary C. Bell, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 174.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 174) for the relief of certain settlers upon homestead and pre-emption lands, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 651.) In 1845 Congress made an appropriation for the construction of the first telegraph line ever built... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs report back the bill to restore Captain Albert G. Clary, United States Navy, to his original position on the naval list, and ask to be discharged from further consideration thereof... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ira W. Douthard, late of Company D, Thirteenth Regiment of Iowa Volunteers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to which were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Robert M. Douglas and Stephen A. Douglas, claiming to be paid for cotton and other property, have had the same under consideration, and now ask to make a partial report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 753.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred House Bill No. 750, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the claim and papers in the case of E.M. Dennison, of Washington, D.C., have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George W. Truehart, praying to be allowed an increase of pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Flanagan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 434.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 434) referring to the Court of Claims for adjudication and determination the claims of the parties therein named for the past and future use of Norton's postmarking and postage-canceling hand-stamp and the Robertson improved hand-stamp, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Goldthwaite submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George W. Stuart, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Mary W. Jones, widow of the late Commodore Thomas Ap C. Jones, praying for increase of pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 701.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Jesse Warren and Joseph A. Moore, of Nashville, Tenn., praying compensation for a building destroyed by the Army, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 709.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a memorial praying for the relief of the trustees of the German Evangelical Church at Martinsburgh, W. Va., and an appropriation of $3,500 to re-imburse them for the destruction of their church edifice, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Frederick A. Holden, asking remuneration for property destroyed in West Virginia, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial and accompanying papers of Mrs. Ellen Call Long, of the State of Florida, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1874. -- Considered, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and papers of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company of New York, claiming the re-issue to them of legal tender notes to the amount of $8,000, in place of notes to that amount insured by them alleged to have been lost at sea, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Frank C. Darling, praying compensation for property destroyed in Minnesota by Indians in 1862, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1873. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the petition of Calvin Chipman, for pension for services during the War of 1812, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 193.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 103) for the benefit of Uriah Porter, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April --, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Davis, mother of W.L. Davis, praying to be restored to the pension-roll, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 56.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 56) for the relief of George Wright, and the accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the Walnut Grove Gold Mining Company, praying compensation for property destroyed by Apache Indians in Arizona during the years from 1864 to 1869, have had the same under consideration, and submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 82.) The petitioners, Margaret E. West, widow of Bvt. Brig. Gen. Robert M. West, late captain Seventh United States Cavalry, and sundry other respectable citizens of the State of Pennsylvania, represent that the late Captain West entered the United States service as a volunteer, under Andrew J. Porter, in 1856, for five years... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 128.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 128) for the relief of T.C. Callicot, &c., have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Wilson praying to be allowed a pension, together with a petition from a large number of citizens of the State of Ohio on the same subject, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Edward Marshall, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report: The Committee on Printing, to which was recommitted the letter of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, transmitting copies of all accounts received at his office from persons charged with the disbursements of moneys, goods, or effects for the benefit of the Indians, in obedience to the act of June 30, 1834, having examined the same, beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 264.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 264) for the relief of the officers of the Fourth and Fifth Indian Regiments, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions have had under consideration the petition of Mary D. Lond, mother of Joseph R. Newman, late private... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1226.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1226) granting a pension to Francis Bernard, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 131.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the Bill (S. 131) for the relief of John P. Kelsey, and the accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Matthew Wright, asking relief for destruction of property by the Sioux Indians in 1862 and by soldiers in 1865-'66, after due consideration submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Anna Hancock, praying for a pension, have considered the same, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Annie Dorsey Reeves, praying compensation for the use and occupation of her property in Charleston, S.C., and for damages resulting from such use, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying papers of Mrs. Almira H. Thompson, praying for a pension for the services of her son, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition and papers, with a bill for a pension to William Daily, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 185.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. No. 185) for the relief of M.S. Hellman, of Canyon City, Oreg., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the joint petition of Fleming Crump and William Williamson, praying, for themselves and their widows after them, a pension of $15 a month, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the claim of Elizabeth Reidenbach, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Phebe Riker, praying for arrears of pensions, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Clement Wetle, of Saint Cloud, Minn., praying compensation for losses sustained at the hands of the Sioux Indians, in June, 1861, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of R.S. McKay, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 215.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred "An Act To Exempt George M. Richard, of Pittston, in the State of Pennsylvania, from the Payment of $881.29, for Postage Stamps Stolen from his Office While Postmaster," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 470.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of James R. Young, late postmaster at Lisbon, New Hampshire, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John O'Connor and others, have had the same under consideration, and beg to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions have had under consideration the petition of the Susan Ten Eyck Williamson for increase of pension, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 53.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 53) for the relief of Mary E. Purnell, have considered the same, together with the papers submitted therewith, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 496.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of T.T. Garrard and others, proprietors and lessees of salt-works near Manchester, in the State of Kentucky, praying compensation for the destruction of their salt and injuries committed upon their works by the troops of the United States, in the year 1862, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 48.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 48) for the relief of loyal citizens of Loudoun County, Virginia, therein named, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1224.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of W.H. Denniston, late acting second lieutenant of Company D, Seventieth Regiment New York Volunteers, together with Bill H.R. 1224, have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of a committee from the American Institute of Homeopathy, asking extension of the signal-service so as to obtain information for the benefit of the public health, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 63.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 63) for the relief of Perez Dickinson, the surviving partner of James Cowan, deceased, heretofore trading and doing business under the firm name and style of Cowan & Dickinson, of Knoxville, East Tennessee, and likewise a memorial of that firm drawn before the death of Mr. Cowan, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying affidavits of Silas Hurd, Seth Hurd, Ezra C. Blackman, and James Blackman, of Huntington, Fairfield County, Connecticut, praying damages, &c., have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 108.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 108) to relinquish the interest of the United States in certain lands to the City and County of San Francisco, in the State of California, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George Reisinger, of Oregon, for a pension, report adversely, and ask to be discharged from its further consideration. In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 508.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition, accompanying affidavits, certificates, and other papers of Andrew Johnson, of Logansport, in the State of Indiana, have had the same under consideration and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of P.W. Whitcomb, praying compensation for services rendered as a clerk of the first class, while employed as a laborer in the Office of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, from October 1, 1866, to April 1, 1872, have had the same under consideration, and present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of A.M. Wilson, praying compensation for property taken, used, and enjoyed by the military forces of the United States, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Jesse Connell and Barrett S. Johnson, praying compensation for corn delivered under a contract with the United States, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 507.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas B. Wallace, praying compensation for his dwelling-house and its contents, destroyed by order of Col. James A. Mulligan, in command of the United States forces at the City of Lexington, Mo., on the 13th of September, 1861, has had the same under consideration, and submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Henry A. Peeler, having considered the same, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 429.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 429) creating an additional land district in the Territory of New Mexico, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Celia, widow of Thomas Tweed, with accompanying papers and proofs, praying a pension, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a petition, numerously signed, asking Congress to grant, by special act, a pension to William C. Parker, of Marshall County, West Virginia, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 517.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 517, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Barnet Simonson, for a special act to correct the muster-roll of his company in the War of 1812 by removing the charge against him to desertion, for a bounty land warrant and for pension, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John P. McElroy, praying to be allowed a pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred petition and papers in the case of Abram Hoevener, late of the Second Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, of African descent, claiming pay of second lieutenant from May 9, 1863, to December 22, 1863, less amount received by him as pay of sergeant of 127th Regiment Illinois Volunteers, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 384.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 384) for the benefit of the Louisville and Bardstown Turnpike Road Company, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions having had under consideration the petition of George Goerth, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 154.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom the Bill H.R. 154 was referred, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Virginia A. Hindle for a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 518.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin C. Skinner for a pension, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 141.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 141) for the relief of certain contractors for the construction of vessels of war and steam machinery, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1402.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1402) granting a pension to John A. Fisher, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Richard H. Conner, of Company I, Sixth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, for arrears of pension, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 542.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 273) for the relief of Butler, Miller & Co. and Hawkes, Miller & Co., of Ohio, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 540.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of sundry citizens of Washington County, Vermont, for a pension to Fanny Newcomb, mother of Iremus P. Newcomb, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 415.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 415) granting a pension to Bartholomew Diggins, late ordinary seaman United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Adrian S. Lee, late of the United States Marine Corps, praying to be placed on the Navy pension roll, have considered the same, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth Biggers, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 512.) The Committee on Public Lands, having had under consideration the Bill (S. 512) to extend the time for constructing the Wisconsin Central Railroad, in Wisconsin, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, touching the petition of Mary C. Holmes, asking compensation for fifty bales of cotton, &c., make this report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 548.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Christiana Bailey, of Mason County, West Virginia, praying for a pension, have considered the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 65 and S. 31.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom were referred the Bill (S. 65) to authorize the President to restore Captain George Henry Preble, now a captain in the Navy, to his original position on the Navy Register, and promote him to the rank of commodore on the active list; the Bill (S. 31) for the relief of Captain L.C. Sartori of the Navy, and the memorial of Commander R.F.R. Lewis, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 563.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Messrs. Jordan and McPike, having considered the same, herewith submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 281.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 281) ceding to the several states within whose limits they respectively lie, the beds of unsurveyed lakes and other bodies of water, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 560.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the petition and papers in the case of William N. Denny, late major of Fifty-first Regiment Indiana Volunteers, praying that he may be allowed the pay and emoluments of a major from June 30, 1863, to March 25, 1865, less amount already received as pay of captain, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 566.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Lucinda Schrum, widow of Jacob R. Schrum, for pension, have had the same under consideration and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 567.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary E. Naylor, widow of Osborne [i.e., Osborn] Naylor, deceased, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, submitted the following report: The proposition submitted by the resolution of the Senate is whether an obligation rests upon the government of the United States to re-imburse states and territories, and the citizens thereof, for expenses and damages sustained by reason of incursions of hostile Indians... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 375.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Lexington, Ky., report... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1575.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1575) for the relief of Richard H. Swift, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1935.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1935) for the relief of William J. Scott, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Howard, praying to be allowed a pension, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 826.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred House bill for the relief of Elias C. Boudinot, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 498.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 498) for the relief of Captain A.B. Dyer, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 587.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate of the 12th of March last, have made the inquiry therein directed and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 363.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 363) for relief of Lucius A. Rountree, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following report: The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of Dr. William Trevitt, former United States Consul at Valparaiso, Chili, asking payment of salary and clerk hire, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1779.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1779) for the relief of William E. Childs, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 609.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Margaret A. Hoffner for a pension, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of William H. Babcock, asking an increase of pension, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the communication of the Secretary of the Interior, with accompanying papers, in regard to the Mission Indians of California, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah F. Stapler, made on behalf of the heirs of John Ross, deceased, late chief of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, praying compensation for property destroyed by the rebels during the late war, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. 216.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 216) granting a pension to Timothy Paige, father of Wilkinson W. Paige, late captain of Company M, Tenth Regiment New York Cavalry Volunteers, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 414.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 414) granting a pension to Alice Mullally, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Chloe Ann Ketcham, widow of Arche M. Ketcham, late of the State of Wisconsin, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel Jamison, of New Orleans, La., praying compensation for the use of his property by the United States, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2096.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2096) granting a pension of James Roach, have considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1122.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1122) granting a pension to Mrs. Martha E. Northup, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1956.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1956) for the relief of Willard Davis, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the Rock River Canal Company, praying Congress to construe the resolution for the relief of the State of Wisconsin, passed July 1, 1864, having had the same, with the accompanying papers, under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report: Your committee have had under consideration the application of Henry Woodson, late private Company H, Fifth Regiment Missouri State Militia, praying for a pension, and find that under the statements made in the petition to petitioner would be entitled to a pension under existing laws... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 455.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 455) for the relief of W.M. Kimball, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jules L. Williams, for a pension, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bogy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 205.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, having had under consideration Senate Bill 205, beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 644.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Caroline M. Purviance and Francis Wyeth, praying compensation for the use and occupation, as well as for the destruction of their property at Saint Joseph, Mo., by the military authorities of the United States, having considered the same, beg to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2356.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2356) granting a pension to Edward Jardine, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1945.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1945) granting a pension to Juliet E. Hall, daughter of Col. William Hall, late colonel of the Eleventh Iowa Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying papers in the case of Dr. Samuel Davis, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles S. and Jane A. Movers, for a pension, beg leave most respectfully to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Norwood submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 298.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 298) to increase the pension of Harriet De Witt Mitchell [i.e., Mitchel], daughter of the late General O.M. Mitchell [i.e., Mitchel], report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Norwood submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin H. Shepard, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Norwood submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles J. Hansen, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 157.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 157) for the relief of Joseph Nock, and the memorial of the latter, dated May 9, 1872, addressed to the Committee on Claims of the two Houses of Congress, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 341.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Anderson J. Smith, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 257.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Eliza Shelton, Nancy Shelton, Cerena Metcalf, Nancy King, Patsey I. Shelton, Sarah Metcalf, Cloa Shelton, and Mary Franklin, citizens of Shelton Laurell, Madison County, in the State of North Carolina, praying that pensions may be granted to them, respectively, as the surviving widows of soldiers who were killed in the service of the United States, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 361.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Scrotha [i.e., Sciotha] Brashears, of Kentucky, praying for a pension, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Ann Daniel, of Yorkshire, England, praying for increase of pension to Major John Townsend Daniel, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Parker, praying for a mother's pension, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 83.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Josiah Brivard, praying for a pension, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Calvin Hess, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James A. Hyde, asking for arrears of pension from June 14, 1865, to May 22, 1871, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 149.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 149) for the relief of certain settlers on the Fort Randall military reservation, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boutwell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of William C. Williams, of Brooklyn, N.Y., asking re-imbursement of the amount paid by him in the year 1864 for a substitute to supply his own place as a drafted man in the Army, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Julius Frank, to be compensated for sutler supplies seized by order of General Thomas, in 1864, have considered the same, and make the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions have had under consideration the memorial of Lizzie M. Mitchell, widow of Capt. John Mitchell, praying for a pension... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Amelia Ferguson, widow of Prof. James Ferguson, of the Naval Observatory at Washington, D.C., praying for a pension on account of the services of her husband to the government, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 317.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Henry C. Smith, praying that he may be allowed the pay of a second lieutenant from June 10, 1865, to June 18, 1865, and the pay of first lieutenant from June 18 to November 25, 1865, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 69.) The Committee on Claims to whom was referred the memorial of William H. Vesey, praying to be relieved of a certain loss sustained while consul at Havre, France, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions have had under consideration the application of Samuel Spalding for arrears of pension for services in the War of 1812, from 1814 to 1835, amounting to $2,016, which the petitioner prays may be allowed, with interest... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boutwell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George Herring, of Alleghany County, Md., for remuneration for a quantity of whiskey and other spirituous liquors destroyed, as is alleged, by Captain George H. Braganier by the exercise of usurped authority, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 316.) The Committee on Pensions have had under consideration the petition of Elizabeth F. Thompson, praying to be allowed a pension, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 302.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Doctor Edward Jarvis, asking pay for services in compiling statistics for census, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Hannah W. Vreeland, praying for a pension, submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ruth Ellen Greeland, widow of John H. Greenland, late a captain in the Fourth Artillery, United States Army, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 395.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers for the relief of Dr. Edward H. Calvert, of the District of Columbia, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 387.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill (S. 387) granting a pension to Captain Benjamin Farley, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1874. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 217.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 217) granting a pension to Julia A. Smith, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30. 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 42.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 42) granting a pension to Caleb A. Lamb, late a private in Company E of the Forty-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 307.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 307) granting a pension to Henry Oglesby, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Canady O'Brien, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William McCarrick, praying for arrears of bounty, &c., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report: Your committee have had under consideration the application of Elizabeth O'Neil, the mother of John O'Neil, who died in the United States Army, on the 6th of November, 1858... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report: Your committee have had under consideration the petition of William Martin, asking to be placed on the pension-rolls... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 439.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of D.B. Allen & Co., representing the Atlantic Steamship and the Pacific Mail Steamship Companies, for compensation, for carrying the United States mails during the suspension of the overland mail service in 1864 and 1865, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 418.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Susan Dayton Anderson, administratrix de bonis non of Lieut. Joseph Wheaton, deceased, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph R. Curtis, praying compensation for extra work in the erection of the branch mint at San Francisco, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bogy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 419.) The Committee on Private Land-Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Sebastian Reichert, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary C. Haile, praying to be allowed a pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 322.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill "Granting a Pension to Mrs. Alme D. Brooks," with the petition and accompanying papers, after having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Coonan, late second lieutenant Company A, Eighteenth Regiment New York Cavalry, praying an increase of pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 272.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 272) for the relief of Bishop & Co., bankers, of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, having had the same under consideration, report.. In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 172.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Michael McGrayel, late captain of Company E, Ninety-third Indiana Volunteers, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 465.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph Council, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report: The Senate Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of C.B. Dean, praying for arrears of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 510.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 510) granting a pension to Thomas R. Hardwick, late a sergeant in Company E, Eighth Regiment Heavy Artillery, New York Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Julia A. Nutt, administratrix and widow of Haller Nutt, deceased, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 539.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Eugene Smith, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joanna W. Turner, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 527.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Hanson Harmon, asking an allowance for office rent, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1401.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1401) granting a pension to Penelope T. Heald, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 6.) The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was referred, on the 13th of February, 1874, the following resolution... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 243.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 243) for the relief of Charles W. Denton, of Oregon, and the accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1230.) Your committee have had under consideration the Bill (H.R. 1230) granting pension to Elizabeth W. Prindle, guardian of the minors of Joseph W. [i.e., F.] Doak, deceased, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1227.) Your committee have had under consideration House Bill No. 1227, directing that the name of Eliza H. Maxham [i.e., Eliza A. Maxham], mother of Samuel W. Maxham, late a private in Company E, Second Regiment United States Sharpshooters, be placed upon the pension-rolls, and that she be paid a pension at the rate of $8 a month from the death of said Samuel W. Maxham, on the 6th day of May, 1864... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Patsey Inlow for a pension, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 259.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 259, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 597.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of William A. Griffin, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 91.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 91) for the relief of Louisa H. Hasell, with accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 344.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 344) for relief of William Bowlin, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 578.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 578) for a pension to Elizabeth Locbrick, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 436.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 436) for the relief of Lieut. John Shelton, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 496.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was recommitted the memorial of T.T. Garrard and others, proprietors and lessees of the salt-works near Manchester, in the State of Kentucky, praying compensation for the destruction of their salt and injuries committed upon their works by the troops of the United States in the year 1862, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 492.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 492) "Authorizing the City and County of San Francisco to Use the Presidio Reservation as a Park and Highway," having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1776.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Bill (H.R. 1776) for the relief of George Yount, late a second lieutenant Third Regiment Missouri Volunteers, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 345.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 345) to relieve certain persons therein names, late members of Company K, Fifty-eighth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from the charge of mutiny, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 625.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of L.D. Evans, late internal-revenue collector for the Fourth District of Texas, praying to be relieved from liability for certain losses of money collected by him, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 555.) The Committee on Patents would respectfully report that House Bill No. 555 has been favorably acted upon by your committee, and that its passage is recommended... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 629.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the "memorial of Osceola C. Green, administrator de bonis non, and one of the heirs of Uriah Forest, deceased, asking such legislation as will authorize payment to the estate of said decedent to the amount of half-pay allowed by law, for services rendered by him in the war of the revolution," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2094.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Bill (H.R. 2094) for the relief of William A. Snodgrass, late first lieutenant Company H, Thirty-ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was referred the following resolution: "Resolved, that the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be directed to inquire into the expediency of suspending the expenditure of all appropriations for public buildings not yet commenced, and to cover such appropriations into the Treasury," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and papers of Benjamin D. Lakin, praying repayment of $1,000 paid by him for a substitute, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Hannegan, praying compensation for work done, &c., submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 558.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 558) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to use funds from the sale of lands for the benefit of the Osage Indians, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1404.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1404) for the relief of William F. Kerr, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 725.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 725) for the relief of James C. Livingston, late a private in Company E, Third Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of C.K. Curtis and als., certain graduates of the Naval Academy, praying for a re-arrangement of their names on the official list of the Navy, so that they may take rank and precedence as determined by the date of their graduation, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 90.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 90) for the relief of John W. Hickey, of the State of Louisiana, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of A.J. Tynes, of Nashville, Tenn., praying compensation for buildings, &c., destroyed by military order during the war, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 613.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jefferson A. French for an invalid naval pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boutwell submitted the folowing [i.e., following] report: The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of Rufus Mead, United States Consul at San Juan del Sur, praying compensation for services rendered in the absence of C.N. Riotte, minister resident near the government of Nicaragua, do respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 596.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying papers of H.W. Read, praying compensation for superintending the transportation of money belonging to the United States from Saint Louis to Santa Fe, have had the same under consideration and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 398.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Hiram W. Love, praying reparation for damages sustained by him in the destruction of his cotton crop by the United States Army during the war for the suppression of the rebellion, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Boutwell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Caroline L. Hoey, of the parish of Jefferson, in the State of Louisiana, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 366.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Oliver Powers, to remove charges of desertion and receive back-pay, bounty, &c., report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1229.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth R. McCracken, praying for the passage of a special act granting her a pension, have considered the same and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 519.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Doctor J. Milton Best, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Jane McMurray, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Norwood submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Barbara A. Nock, mother of William H. Nock, deceased, late a private in Company D, Seventy-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, praying for arrears of pension, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 433.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Susan A. Shelby, praying compensation for cotton seized at Port Gibson, Mississippi, in 1864, have had the petition, proofs taken, &c., accompanying the same, under consideration, and beg leave to submit this report...	280
Serial set 1587	In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3175.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 3175, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John D. Leflore and James C. Harris, executors of the last will and testament of Greenwood Leflore, deceased, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McCreery submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 255.) The Committee on Foreign Relations have had under consideration the bill, memorial, and papers in the case of Antonio Pelletier, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sprague submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 654.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 654) to extend the time for the completion of a railroad from the Saint Croix River or lake, between townships 25 and 31, to the west end of Lake Superior, and to Bayfield, in the State of Wisconsin, have considered the same, and ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2181.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2181) granting a pension to Jennet H. Nisbet, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 271.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Frances A. Robinson, administratrix of John M. Robinson, late of Independence, State of Missouri, deceased, together with Senate Bill No. 271, having had the same under consideration, beg to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 804.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 804) equalizing pensions, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2207.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2207) for the relief of James M. True, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 733.) The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was referred the following resolution: "Resolved, that the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be instructed to inquire as to the amount of gas consumed and paid for by the government, at Washington, whether its illuminating power is constantly tested, and whether its cost cannot properly be diminished," have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 416.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred S. 416, a bill for the relief of Belle E. Hammond, &c., have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 23, 1874. -- Recommitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, subcommittee of the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, submitted the following report. The subcommittee appointed by the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, having had under consideration a resolution adopted by the Senate March 24, 1873, directing such select committee to inquire and report to the Senate as to the nature and extent of the obligations subsisting between the railroad companies and the postal service... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 448.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred (S. 448) a bill for the relief of John T. Smith, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 843.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Mercy Ann Hall, and of the survivors of the Polaris, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 814.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ebenezer W. Brady, praying for a pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 671.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 671) for the relief of Alexander Minor, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 94.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 94) for the relief of Isaac H. Allen, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 807.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Washington Crossland, of the State of Missouri, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary P. Jarvis, widow of the late Commodore Joseph B. Jarvis, praying for a pension, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Colahan, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2348.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the papers of Rev. George Morrison, late of the State of Kentucky, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 735.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were referred the Bill (S. 735) for the relief of D.G. and D.A. Sanford, and the memorial and other papers accompanying the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 778.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom the subject was referred, submit the following report. The section proposed to be amended provides that any absentee Shawnee of pure or mixed blood, being the head of a family... In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William H. Dempsey, surviving partner of the firm of Dempsey & O'Toole, praying compensation for the violation of a contract between the Commissioner of Patents and the said Dempsey & O'Toole, in 1868, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Dr. Berthold Hahn, praying compensation for services performed and property destroyed at the battle of Milliken's Bend, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 659.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 659) for the relief of Niel Nielsson, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of Alexander Henderson, late consul at Londonderry, for remuneration for expenses incurred and for special services rendered during his term of service, would make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 650.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 650) explanatory of the resolution entitled "a resolution for the relief of settlers upon the absentee Shawnee lands in Kansas," having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 792.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 792) for the relief of John Fletcher, surviving partner of Fletcher & Powell, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Jeremiah Beatty, of West Virginia, have had the same under consideration, and make this report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Norwood submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1403.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1403) granting a pension to John Baker, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3177.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 3177, submit the following report thereon: De Witt C. Chipman, late collector of internal revenue for the eleventh district of Indiana... In the Senate of the United States. June 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 952.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and accompanying papers of J. Kinney, administrator, &c., of the State of Missouri, have had the same under consideration, and make this report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3424.) The Senate Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 3424, adopt the following report by the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report. The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 570) "To Organize the Territory of Oklahoma, and for the Better Protection of the Indian Tribes Therein, and for Other Purposes," having had the same under consideration, and failing, for want of fuller information... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 958.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of John E.D. Couzins, of Saint Louis, Mo., praying compensation for services rendered the government in arresting parties engaged in counterfeiting United States Treasury notes, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Goldthwaite submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of John W. McClure, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 657.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was recommitted the Bill (S. 657) for the relief of John J. Anderson, surviving copartner, &c., having further considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, having considered the petition and papers of William S. Mitchell, for balance claimed to be due for goods furnished, &c., submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 927.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Sprinkle, Jr., of Oil Creek, Ind., report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1275.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1275) granting a pension to William D. Boyd, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1874. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Simon Celaya, praying compensation for rent of buildings and injuries thereto occupied by the military authorities of the United States, at Brownsville, Tex., during the years 1864, 1865, and 1866, after due consideration, submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims of the Senate, to whom were referred the petition, papers, &c., of John J.Q. Jones, of Montgomery County, Maryland, for relief, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3266.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 3266, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 862.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 862) granting a pension to Margaret S. Hastings, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was referred the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be instructed to inquire, first, whether the Washington Market Company have fulfilled the conditions of the act of incorporation of May 20, 1870... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Mrs. Sarah Ann Holland, of the City of Washington, D.C., have had the same under consideration, and make this report... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 653.) In the case of E. Boyd Pendleton, the Committee on Finance submit the following further report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1234.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1234) granting a pension to Mary S. Prince, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom Senate resolution was referred instructing them "to inquire whether or not the steamships employed in the ocean mail-steamship service between the United States and China, under the act of February 17, 1865, and of June 1, 1872, have been subjected to inspection and surveyed by a United States naval constructor, and so constructed as to be readily adapted to the armed naval service of the United States in case of war... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 506.) The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred a bill to further protect the polls in the election of President, Vice-President, and members of Congress, authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to contract with the patentee of the safety ballot-box for the use of polls throughout the United States in the election of President, Vice-President, and members of Congress, provided that said power to use and cost thereof shall not exceed the sum of fifteen dollars a box, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter submitted the following report. The Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate to whom was referred the resolution offered by Senator West, as follows: "Resolved, that the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby directed to pay John Ray and William L. McMillen each full compensation as senator for the unexpired term for which they were elected, as shown by their respective credentials, until the 4th of March, 1873," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following report. The Committee on Public Printing, to whom was referred the letter of F. & J. Rives & George A. Bailey, proprietors of the Globe, charging the Congressional Printer with being a defaulter to the government in his paper accounts, and with other malfeasance in office, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 23, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. The Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Affairs of the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the following resolution, passed by the House of Representatives May 5, 1874, viz: "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 United States, or any officers or employes of the district government, have been engaged in any conspiracy to defeat or hinder the investigation ordered by Congress into the affairs of the district... In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Goldthwaite submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 142.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 142) for the relief of Nathaniel McKay, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 653.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 653) for the relief of E. Boyd Pendleton, late collector of internal revenue of the Fifth District of Virginia, and accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of citizens of New Jersey, praying that a pension be granted Rhoda Hart, on account of services rendered by her son, Lewis Hart... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2412.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2412) for relief of Sheridan O. Bremmer, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 828.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of Alexander Henderson, late consul at Londonderry, for remuneration for extra services incurred and for special services rendered during his term of service, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 546.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 546) for the relief of William B. Morgan, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 819.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying affidavits of George W. Dawson, late collector, &c., have had the same under consideration, and make this report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 841.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom the petition of Delilah Kelly was referred, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1297.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred House bill and papers for the relief of T.T. Crittenden, of Missouri, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 412.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 412) granting a pension to George H. Mellan, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Abraham Van Assune [i.e., Assum], late a private of Company B, Fifty-first Regiment New York Volunteers, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 652.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 652) conferring exclusive jurisdiction over Indian reservations upon the United States courts, and for the punishment of crimes committed by and against Indians, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 637.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was recommitted the Bill (S. 637) to settle certain accounts between the United States and the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, together with the report (No. 228) thereon, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry submitted the following report. The Committee on Finance, in obedience to the following Senate resolution, to wit: "Resolved, that the Committee on Finance is hereby instructed to inquire and report whether the provisions of law forbidding a sale of tobacco by the producer thereof to any person not a licensed dealer, ought not to be repealed," report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 844.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of G.B. Tyler and E.H. Luckett, assignees of W.T. Cheatham, praying to be re-imbursed for certain moneys wrongfully paid to the government as a distiller of whisky [sic], in Kentucky, have had the same under consideration, and beg to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 535.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 535) for the relief of Robert Murray, Jr., have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 875.) The Committee on Claims, to whom, was referred the petition and papers of Thomas Hughes, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ellen O'Connell for a pension, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2704.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2704) for the relief of Selden Connor, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2355.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2355) granting a pension to Mrs. Ann R. Vorhees, widow of the late Commodore P.F. Vorhees, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Jearum Atkins, asking to be allowed a reasonable sum for his patent, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jules L. Williams for a pension, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Washburn submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 786.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of S.S. Potter, asking pay for the use of a building at New Albany, in the State of Indiana, in the year 1862, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2794.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Wolf, widow of John F. Wolf, late a private of Company E, Veteran Reserve Corps, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 785.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William Wheeler Hubbell, praying for settlement of royalty for his explosive-shell-fuse patents in the naval service, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2118.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2118) for the relief of Elizabeth Clark, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2788.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2788) for the relief of Henry P. Ingram and John K. Askins, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2789.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2789) for the relief of John S. Dickson, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1673.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1673) granting a pension to Isaac Stevens, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 502.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 502) for the relief of Mrs. Martha Vaughn and Mrs. Louisa Jackman, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Peter Reitz and W.S. Babcock, praying to be paid for services rendered in saving two boats in the Cumberland River, in the year 1864, have had the same under consideration, and make this report... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of William B. Barry, asking the adoption of his patented combined letter-sheet and envelope for the postal service of the United States, have had the same under consideration, and upon reference of the same, along with the sample furnished the committee, to the Postmaster General, received the following communication from William M. Ireland, Acting Third Assistant Postmaster General... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Goldthwaite submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 889.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Angeline Logan, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2349.) I am directed by the Committee on Claims to submit to the Senate the following facts and argument upon Bill H.R. 2349, "An Act for the Relief of Burke & Gunkle," and to say that the committee are divided upon the question whether the bill should pass, and so report the same back to the Senate without any recommendation... In the Senate of the United States. June 2, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2696.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2696) for the relief of John F. Wheeler, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Washburn submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 104.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 104) for the relief of James Coats, of Jackson, Miss., with accompanying papers, have examined the same, and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2891.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2891) for the relief of Mrs. Louisa Eldis, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 897.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Robert Spaugh, of Indiana, have had the same under consideration, and make this report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 891.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial and accompanying papers of Mrs. Rebecca Frances Bailey, only child and heir at law of Lieutenant Edward Lloyd, deceased, of the continental line, for the half-pay for life due said Lloyd, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 591.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 591) granting the right of way to the Seattle and Walla-Walla Railroad and Transportation Company, and for other purposes, having considered the same, beg leave to recommend that the same, with an amendment by way of a substitute, do pass; and the committee submit the following statement presented by the friends of the measure in support thereof... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 890.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Robert Lowry, asking compensation for the value of a dwelling house, furniture, wearing apparel, &c., burned under military authority, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3010.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3010) for the relief of John Downey, of Dayton, Ohio, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 892.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims have had under consideration the memorial of Samuel L. Gouverneur, grandson and administrator de bonis non of James Monroe, late President of the United States, praying compensation for services rendered by him during the war of the revolution, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 878.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Rosa Vertner Jeffrey, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 41.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 41) granting a pension to Margaret E. Alexander, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 18, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2456.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was recommitted the Bill (H.R. 2456) entitled "An Act To Amend an Act Entitled 'An Act To Revise, Consolidate, and Amend the Laws Relating to Pensions, approved March 3, 1873,'" having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James S. Herron and others, asking that a pension be granted to Fannie M. Herron, widow of James Herron, late civil and constructing engineer at the Pensacola Navy-yard, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3689.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3689) granting a pension to Bernard Sailer, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 926.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the papers and petition of Joseph Wilson, of Kentucky, asking to have his contract for delivery of mules in 1864 referred to the Court of Claims, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hitchcock submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3025.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3025) to authorize the Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad Company to extend their railroad to the City of Georgetown, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen submit the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Jonas P. Levy, with the accompanying papers, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Norwood submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 592.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John R. Gaines, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Norwood submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the petition of John Caleb for a pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3606.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill (H.R. 3438) granting a pension to Mary E. Grosvenor, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Andrew Clark, of the State of Indiana, have had the same under consideration, and make this report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Eliza Wells, administratrix of Henry A. Wells, deceased, for the extension of letters-patent for an improvement in machinery for making hat bodies, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter submitted the following report. The Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to whom was referred the motion of Mr. Hamlin, that hereafter no order or requisition for stationery for the use of the reporters' gallery of the Senate shall be issued by the presiding officer of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following report. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, having considered the resolution of the Senate adopted June 12, 1874, as follows. "Resolved, that the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads be instructed to inquire whether any further legislation is necessary to secure the transportation of the additional semi-monthly mail between San Francisco, Japan, and China," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2800.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2800) for the relief of Benjamin Crawford, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. No. 893) granting a pension to William C. Grun, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1835.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1835) granting a pension to Mary A. Lowe, widow of Charles Lowe, late a sergeant of Company B, Third Infantry, United States Army, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 715.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the resolution of the Legislature of California, remonstrating against granting additional subsidy to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1616.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1616) granting a pension to John G. Parr, of Kittanning, Penn., report... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 343.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 343) for the relief of purchasers of lands sold for direct taxes in the insurrectionary states, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2100.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House bill and papers for the relief of Martin Hoff, Casper Doerr, and George Gebhart, of Saint Louis, Mo., report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 153.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 153) for the relief of Silas I. [i.e., F.]Field and the heirs of the late Samuel F. Dalley, of the City of Little Rock and State of Arkansas, together with a memorial of the same subject, and sundry papers and affidavits, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition, &c., of Mrs. Louisa Fitch, widow of Capt. E.P. Fitch, of Morgantown, W. Va., asking pay by the government for two horses said to have been used in the Army of the Potomac, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims to whom was referred the petition of Casper Gruber praying Congress to indemnify him for the destruction by military authority of two houses and their contents, belonging to him situate in Lexington, Mo., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of sundry citizens of New Ulm, praying that Jacob Nix be placed on the pension roll, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 324.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 324) for the relief of M. Von Entress Fuersteneck, late second lieutenant, Sixty-eighth New York Volunteers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 763.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 763, a bill explaining the intent and meaning of the fourth section of the act entitled "An Act in Addition to Certain Acts Granting Bounty Land to Certain Officers and Soldiers Who Have Been Engaged in the Military Service of the United States,"... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the case of David F. Taylor, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1193.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1193) for the relief of the estate of Cornelius S. Underwood, deceased, late major and additional paymaster, United States Army, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1791.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1791) granting a pension to Augustus L. Yeager [i.e., Yaeger], having had the same under consideration, concur in the House report, and recommend its passage. In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report: The Committee on Printing, instructed by the Senate "to inquire into the numbers and the distribution of the public documents, bills, or reports printed by the Congressional Printer, and to report what changes, if any, are necessary," and also "to report suitable measures for the distribution of public documents," report... In the Senate of the United States. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 769.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 769) for the relief of Maj. J.W. Nicholls, paymaster of the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 277.) The Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 277) for the relief of Mrs. Nancy Day, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 536.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Livanna Ingraham, mother of Douglass Ingraham, late a private of Company F, Third Regiment Michigan Volunteers, and widow of Warren Ingraham, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2893.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2839 [i.e., 2893]) for relief of F.O. Wise [i.e., Wyse], late lieutenant-colonel United States Army, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George Bagnall, of Atchison, Kans., late a fireman in the United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. West submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 577.) The Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, having had under consideration Senate Bill No. 178, to provide for the construction of the Fort Saint Philip Canal and its maintenance as a national public highway, and also Senate Bill No. 577, for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conover submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 314.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Madame A. Don Bernard, nee de Rochefermois, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 62.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 62) for the relief of Margaret E. West, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Sallie A.E. Baley, administratrix, and S.P. Baley, acting administrator of Richard Griffith, deceased, late marshal for the southern district of Mississippi, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Robertson submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 304.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the case of the metropolitan police force, of the City of Washington, District of Columbia, for the 20 per centum increase of the salaries allowed by the joint resolution of February 28, 1867, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dorsey submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 106.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 106) for the relief of Chauncy [i.e., Chauncey] M. Lockwood, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1955.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1955) for the relief of John Henderson, of New Orleans, submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. May 26, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1051.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1051) for the relief of Capt. J. Horace McGuire and others, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. June 1, 1874. -- Ordered that 5,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Mr. Morton submitted the following report. On the 10th day of March, 1873, the Senate of the United States adopted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Privileges and Elections be instructed to examine and report, at the next session of Congress, upon the best and most practicable mode of electing the President and Vice-President... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1706.) The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds have had under consideration "House Bill 1706, To Authorize the Opening of Wight Street Through the Grounds of the United States Marine Hospital at Detroit, Michigan," and upon consultation with the Treasury Department have received the following letter... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnston submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 598.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 598) to refund to the State of Georgia certain moneys expended by said state for the common defense in 1777, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Commodore Edward Middleton, praying compensation for property taken by United States troops in South Carolina during the war of the rebellion, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 767.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Andrew J. Lasley, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1322.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1322) for the relief of George S. Gustin, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 331.) The United States are now paying $224,000 per annum for carrying a daily United States mail, in four-horse coaches, each way, between Kelton, in Salt Lake Valley, and The Dalles, in Oregon... In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 870.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary E. Murphey, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 5, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conover submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 878.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred a petition of E. Mellach, passed assistant paymaster, United States Navy, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3015.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3015) granting a pension to Margaret A. Chantry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bogy submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 748.) The Creek orphan fund was originated by the Treaty with the Creeks of March 24, 1832... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 877.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of sundry citizens of Fort Wayne, Ind., praying a pension be granted to John W. Trewitt, late of Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred Senate resolution instructing the committee to report whether, under existing laws, a promotion to the rank of rear-admiral can be lawfully made without a previous examination of the officer promoted, according to the provisions of the act of Congress on the subject of promotions, approved July 16, 1862, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 600.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 600) for the relief of Capt. J.B. Thompson, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2420.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2420) allowing Army officers to wear certain emblems indicative of honors conferred upon them, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 16.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the Bill (S. 16) entitled "A Bill Supplemental to the Act Entitled 'An Act To Promote the Development of the Mining Resources of the United States,' approved May 10, 1872," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 951.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred petition and accompanying papers of John Montgomery, of Pennsylvania, asking pay for property taken, used, or damaged, near Virginia end of Long Bridge, at Washington, D.C., report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 17, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3668.) The Committee on Finance, to whom were referred the Bill H.R. 3668 and accompanying papers, submit this report... In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 623.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 623) to enable the Secretary of State to pay salaries to certain of the [sic]Commissioners to the Vienna Exposition, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1947.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1947) granting a pension to George Holmes, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Rosa Vertner Jeffrey, praying compensation for cotton taken, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Norwood submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2218.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill (H.R. 2218) granting a pension to Sarah Summerville, widow of Alex S. Summerville, late of Illinois, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 295.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 295) for the relief of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Creek, West Virginia, with the accompanying petition and proofs, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 391.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 391) to enable Susan B. Anthony to pay a fine imposed upon her by the District Court for the Northern District of New York, and a petition praying for the remission of said fine, report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison, from the Committee to Inquire into the Affairs of the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. The Joint Committee on the Affairs of the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the message of the President relative to "one feature of the bill entitled 'An Act for the Government of the District of Columbia, and for Other Purposes,'" report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Allan [i.e., Allen] B. Wilson, for the extension of letters-patent for improvements in sewing machines, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2679.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2679) granting a pension to George Dayspring, have considered the same, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2223.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2223) for the relief of Robert F. Winslow, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2217.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2217) granting a pension to Henry Bruckner... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conover submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 710.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of E. Laws, chief engineer United States Navy, praying compensation as such, of which he was deprived by the act of July 25, 1866, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2668.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2668) granting a pension to William J. Uhler, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 718.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the memorial of the legislature of the State of Wisconsin and accompanying papers, asking the removal of the charge of desertion from George Schwartz, late a private in Company F, Fifth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1840.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1840) for the relief of Lieut. Sidney Tinker, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 323.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of Charles W. Biese, late second lieutenant Eighty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter submitted the following report. The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the memorial of Francis W. Sykes, claiming to be senator-elect from the State of Alabama, together with accompanying documents, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1843.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1843) granting a pension to Lucinda Jones, widow of Thompson M. Jones, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of E.A. Coleman, praying compensation for services rendered by his late son, Charles J. Coleman, first lieutenant Company H, First Kansas Colored Volunteers, &c., have had the same under consideration and make this report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2215.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2215) granting a pension to Elizabeth Brady, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly submitted the following report. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Moses Googins, father of Andrew A. Googins, late a private in Company D, Thirty-first Maine Infantry Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Benjamin Fish, setting up a claim against the United States for the loss of a livery team and hack, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James P. Gillespie, praying payment to him of $26,545.33, alleged to be due him as informer in a case of violation of the internal-revenue laws, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2332.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2332) for relief of S.D. Hicks, administrator of R.M. Harvey, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 491.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 491) for the relief of Kerry Sullivan, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 574.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 574) for the relief of Willis N. Arnold, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 602.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 602) for the relief of John Barry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Jane Loonie, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 382.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 382) for the relief of William L. Adams, late collector of customs at Astoria, Oreg., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh submitted the following report: The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the memorial of A.G. Batchelder and Alsie F. Thompson, praying for a further extension of the patent granted July 6, 1873, to Henry Tanner, as assignee of said Batchelder and Lafayette F. Thompson, for an improvement in car brakes, ask leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 768.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John S. Long, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report: The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of J.B. Chandler, of New Orleans, praying that he be paid for carrying mail by express, &c., have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 686.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 686) for the aid of geological and other surveys in the several states, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 533.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 533) granting a pension to Uriah W. Briggs, having had the same under consideration, present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 476.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 476) for the relief of John R. Polk, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Merrimon submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 522.) The Committee on Claims, to which were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Nathaniel P. Harben, praying that he be paid for certain tobacco, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following report. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom were referred various petitions praying Congress to provide for the settlement of international difficulties by arbitration, and without a resort to war; and also a "resolution concerning international law for the determination of differences between nations,"...	196
Serial set 1588	Report of the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, with appendix and evidence. April 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 1589	Report of the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, with appendix and evidence. April 24, 1874. -- Ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 1590	Report of the Joint Select Committee of Congress appointed to inquire into the affairs of the government of the District of Columbia; together with the journal of the committee, answer of the governor, charges, arguments and testimony.	1
Serial set 1591	Report of the Joint Select Committee of Congress appointed to inquire into the affairs of the government of the District of Columbia; together with the journal of the committee, answer of the governor, charges, arguments, and testimony.	1
Serial set 1592	Report of the Joint Select Committee of Congress appointed to inquire into the affairs of the government of the District of Columbia; together with the journal of the committee, answer of the governor, charges, argument, and testimony.	1
Serial set 1593	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the first session of the Forty-third Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 1, 1873, in the ninety-eighth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1594	Message of the President of the United States, with the accompanying documents, transmitted to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Forty-third Congress	1
Serial set 1595	Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, December 1, 1873. Preceded by a list of papers, and a list of persons whose correspondence is contained in this volume, and followed by an index of persons and subjects. Part I. -- General correspondence; and papers relating to naturalization and expatriation. Volume II	1
Serial set 1596	Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the president, December 1, 1873. Preceded by a list of papers, and a list of persons whose correspondence is contained in this volume, and followed by an index of persons and subjects. Part II. Papers relating to the American and British joint claims commission. Volume III.	1
Serial set 1597	Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Forty-third Congress. Volume I.	1
Serial set 1598	Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Forty-third Congress. Volume II.	1
Serial set 1599	Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Forty-third Congress.	1

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