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Serial set 2401	Contingent fund, Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, asking authority to apply a certain unexpended balance of appropriation "for fuel, &c.," to supply deficiency in appropriation for "contingent expenses, Treasury Department, gas, &c.," current fiscal year. May 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Repairs, New Orleans mint building and custom house, Buffalo, N.Y. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosure from the Supervising Architect relative to cost of repairs of the mint building, New Orleans, La., and of the old portion of custom house, Buffalo, N.Y. May 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. French spoliation claims. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, accompanied by a report of Mr. Somerville P. Tuck, relating to the ascertainment of claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to July 31, 1801. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Range-lights, Grosse Isle, Michigan. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting a recommendation from the Lighthouse Board for an appropriation to establish range-lights at Grosse Isle, Detroit River, Michigan. June 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Transportation of minor coin. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, recommending an appropriation of $5,000 for "transportation of minor coin." May 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Minor nickel and copper coin. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, recommending that Section 3529, Revised Statutes, be so amended as to authorize the reissue from the mint at Philadelphia of redeemed minor nickel and copper coin. April 13, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Items covered by estimates for the Signal service. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement from the Chief Signal Officer showing the items covered by the estimates for the Signal service for the next fiscal year. April 13, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claim of Thomas Simons, counsel fees. April 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Assistant Paymaster Francis J. Painter. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting copies of proceedings in that department relative to the retirement from active service of Passed Assistant Paymaster Francis J. Painter. April 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Weather map of the Signal Bureau. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with inclosures, a letter from the Chief Signal Officer concerning the claim of the American Graphic Company for publishing the weather map of the Signal Bureau, and recommending its payment. April 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Transfer of appropriation, pay of Army, &c. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from the Secretary of War, with inclosure, asking that the sum of $200,000 of the appropriation for "pay, &c., of the Army" for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885, be transferred to the same appropriation for the current fiscal year. April 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Seamen at Liverpool. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of State of an appropriation for expense of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool for the current fiscal year. April 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Building repairs, Department of Justice. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Solicitor General of an appropriation for fitting up a portion of the building occupied by the Department of Justice. April 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Commissions of Internal Revenue collectors. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, urging the immediate passage of a bill to amend Section 3314, Revised Statutes, repealing commissions to collectors of Internal Revenue. April 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Santo Tomas de Yturbide Colony claim. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of the late Surveyor General of New Mexico upon the private land claim of Santo Tomas de Yturbide, No. 139, New Mexico; also report of the present Surveyor General upon the same. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from the Secretary of the Navy, with inclosure, asking an appropriation to supply deficiency in appropriation for contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, for the current fiscal year. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Paul Bonaveris. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting an estimate of an appropriation to pay judgment in the case of Paul Bonaveris against the District of Columbia. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Assistant custodians and janitors. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an amended estimate of appropriation for pay of assistant custodians and janitors to supply deficiency in the appropriation for the current fiscal year. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Cable at Block Island Bay. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting communication from the Chief Signal Officer in regard to submarine cable at Block Island Bay. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Leavenworth Military Prison appropriations. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting letter from the Adjutant General, and recommending that authority be given to use the surplus appropriation for Leavenworth Military Prison for the current fiscal year to make up deficiencies in other items. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claims allowed by accounting officers of the Treasury. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the House, a list of claims allowed by the accounting officers on [i.e., of] the Treasury for which appropriations have not been made, with reports on War and Navy and Post Office Department claims, by the Second Comptroller and Sixth Auditor, respectively. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Light-station, Two Harbors, Minn. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate from the Lighthouse Board for a light-station at Two Harbors, Minn. April 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Provisions, Marine Corps. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an additional estimate from the Secretary of the Navy of an appropriation for provisions, Marine Corps, for the next fiscal year. April 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Imported bituminous coal. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives requesting a report of the effect and operation of the provision of law under which a drawback is allowed on imported bituminous coal used for fuel on steam vessels. April 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. United States commissioners. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from the Attorney General inclosing an additional estimate by the First Comptroller for fees of commissioners [of] United States courts for the current fiscal year. April 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public building, Wichita, Kans. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from the Supervising Architect of the Treasury relative to the proposed increase of limit of cost of the public building at Wichita, Kans. May 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Land Grants, New Mexico. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, inclosing communication from the Surveyor General of New Mexico, relative to legislation for the adjustment of private land claims in that territory. May 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Commercial and industrial congress, Bordeaux, France. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a dispatch from the American minister at Paris, inclosing letter from the President of the Philomathical Society of Bordeaux, relative to the congress for the discussion of technical, commercial, and industrial education to be held at Bordeaux; also transmitting a letter from the Commissioner of Labor, recommending that the United States be represented in said congress. April 30, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting copies of correspondence relating to the claim of the French Compagnie General Transatlantique growing out of alleged illegal collection of tonnage tax. April 30, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Repairs of public and marine hospital buildings. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Supervising Architect urging the immediate appropriation of $10,000 for repairs and preservation of marine hospital, also referring to estimate heretofore submitted for repairs and preservation of public buildings for the current fiscal year. May 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Legation, Tokio, Japan. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of State asking an appropriation to pay annual rental of the legation premises at Tokio, Japan, for the year ending March 15, 1887. May 4, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Claims and suits against the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from the Assistant Attorney General asking an increase in the appropriation for "defending suits in claims against the United States" for the next fiscal year. May 4, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of War for the purchase of additional ground at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor. May 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Improvement of the sanitary condition of the United States Treasury Building. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with accompanying reports, a letter from the chief of that Department and submitting an estimate of an appropriation to place the building of the Department in proper sanitary condition. May 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Improvement of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate from the Secretary of the Interior of an appropriation for the protection and improvement of Hot Springs, Arkansas, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887. May 4, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public grounds and signal service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate from the Secretary of War for "Contingent Expenses War Department," "Improvement and Care of Public Grounds," and for the "Signal Service." May 4, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Armament of the new steel cruisers. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosure, an estimate from the Secretary of the Navy of an appropriation to supply deficiency for the armament of the new steel cruisers. May 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Barge office building, New York City. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Supervising Architect, recommending a special appropriation for repairs and alterations of barge office, New York City. May 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mescalero Indian Reservation. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting draft of a bill providing for the payment of improvements made by settlers on the lands of the Mescalero Indian Reservation, in the Territory of New Mexico. May 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Portraits of ex-attorney general. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosures, a letter from the Attorney General, asking that authority be given for the allowance by the accounting officers of the Treasury of certain vouchers for portraits of ex-attorneys general. May 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental list of claims allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, supplemental lists of claims allowed under appropriations which are exhausted or the balances carried to the surplus fund. May 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Department of Justice. Letter from the Attorney General, asking that in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill provision be made to determine definitely whether discretion rests with the Attorney General, in the expenditure of the contingent fund of the Department of Justice, to decide what articles are necessary for the use of that Department. May 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. French spoliation claims. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting from the Secretary of State an estimate for an additional appropriation for procuring evidence relating to French spoliation claims. June 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Eleanor C. Bangham. Message from the President of the United States, returning, without his approval, House Bill No. 1582, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Eleanor C. Bangham." May 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Furniture, governor's office, Utah. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of Utah for the purchase of furniture for the office of the governor. June 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional floor, new Pension Building. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosures, an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior for construction of an additional floor in the new Pension Building. June 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rebecca Eldridge. Message from the President of the United States, returning, without his approval, House Bill No. 2145, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Rebecca Eldridge. May 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Claim of George K. Shearman. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from the Third Auditor, in relation to the claim of George K. Shearman, of Harrison County, Indiana, and recommending an amendatory act to the act approved May 17, 1886, providing for the payment of said claim. June 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War and ordered to be printed. United States Mint, Carson City, Nev. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Director of the Mint in relation to an appropriation for the United States Mint at Carson City, Nev. June 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Navajo Indian reservation. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior for sinking artesian wells and constructing irrigating dams and reservoirs on the Navajo Indian reservation in Arizona and New Mexico. June 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Army transportation. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of War of appropriation to pay claims of Central Pacific Railroad for the fiscal years 1887 and 1886 and prior years. June 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. United States Mint, Philadelphia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosures, an estimate from the Director of the Mint for an appropriation for changing the boiler plant for the United States Mint at Philadelphia, Pa. June 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Signal service appropriation. Letter from the Secretary of War, with accompanying papers, relative to the omission from the Army appropriation bill of the appropriation for the Signal Service for the next fiscal year. May 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Weil and La Abra Silver Mining Company. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report from the Secretary of State concerning the claims of Benjamin Weil and La Abra Silver Mining Company against Mexico, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of May 13, 1886. June 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Construction of steel cruisers. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in response to the resolution of the House calling for information concerning progress made in the construction of steel cruisers. April 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Fees of witnesses, United States courts. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Attorney General, and submitting an estimate of an appropriation for fees of witnesses, United States courts, for the current fiscal year. Fees of jurors, United States courts. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an additional estimate from the Department of Justice for "fees of jurors, United States courts," for the current fiscal year. April 13, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Foreign petroleum tax and leaf-tobacco exports. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, relating to the taxation of petroleum by foreign countries and the exportation of leaf tobacco to the United States, accompanied by correspondence relating thereto. April 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Force and salaries, sub-Treasury, New York. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury transmitting estimates of force and salaries of Office of Assistant Treasurer at New York, in lieu of estimates heretofore submitted for the next fiscal year. April 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimates for the purchase of land and erection of buildings at Fort Leavenworth and other points. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate from the Secretary of War of appropriations for buildings at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, purchase of land opposite, and building quarters near, Jeffersonville Depot, Indiana, and purchase of land at Neptune Island, New York. April 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Restrictions on American pork. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report from the Secretary of State in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of April 8, 1886, relating to the restrictions on the importation of American pork. March 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Additional Surgeon General, Marine Hospital Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, recommending that provision be made for an additional Surgeon General of Marine Hospital Service. April 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Manufacture of milk sugar. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of the Secretary of State, together with a series of reports from consular officers of the United States in Switzerland, relative to the manufacture of milk sugar in that country. April 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Denver and New Orleans Railroad. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the House, a letter from the Commissioner of Railroads inclosing copies of correspondence and documents relating to discriminations against the Denver and New Orleans Railroad by other land-grant railroads. April 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. Census division, Department of the Interior. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Acting Secretary of the Interior of an appropriation for the force in the Census division of that Department for the current fiscal year. April 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Improvements of Fox and Wisconsin rivers. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting report of judgments against the United States for flowage damages caused by improvements on the Fox and Wisconsin rivers in Wisconsin. April 30, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. East wing Interior Department building. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Acting Secretary of the Interior for the reconstruction of the east wing of the Interior Department building, with diagrams of the proposed plan of improvement. May 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. District of Columbia public school buildings. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an additional estimate by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for buildings for public schools for the current fiscal year. May 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Olcott Harbor, New York. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Acting Chief of Engineers, submitting an additional estimate for repairs of works at Olcott Harbor, New York, rendered necessary by damage caused by recent storms. May 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Abigail Smith. Message from the President of the United States, returning, without his approval, House Bill No. 3019, entitled "An Act To Increase the Pension of Abigail Smith." May 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Public printing and binding. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Public Printer, submitting an estimate and requesting an appropriation to supply deficiency for public printing and binding for the current fiscal year. May 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Andrew [i.e., Alfred] J. Hill. Message from the President of the United States, returning, without his approval, House Bill No. 1471, entitled "An Act Increasing the Pension of Andrew [i.e., Alfred] J. Hill." May 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Indian agent, Mackinac. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior of additional compensation to the Indian agent at the Mackinac Agency, Michigan, for the next fiscal year. May 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. Message from the President of the United States, relating to the acceptance and inauguration of the colossal statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. May 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Title to old post office property, New York City. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement of claim of Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York for expenses in perfecting the title to the old post office property in New York and on account of certain liens thereon, and recommending payment. May 13, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Judgments against the United States in the Court of Claims. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of claims rendered against the United States in the Court of Claims, and recommending an appropriation for their payment. May 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public building, Rochester, N.Y. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from the Supervising Architect asking an appropriation of $100,000 to continue work on the public building at Rochester, N.Y. May 13, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Customs districts and ports of entry. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in response to a resolution calling for information in regard to Customhouses or ports of entry at which the expense to the government exceeds the revenue collected, and submitting a draft of a bill to fix salaries of collectors and officers of Customs, and to consolidate Customs districts. May 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Assistant collector, port of New York. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an estimate of appropriation for one assistant collector, District of New York. May 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Fouling of the dredge boat Sampson, by the U.S.S. Despatch. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury submitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Navy of an appropriation to pay W.H. Beard for damages to dredge boat Sampson caused by fouling of the U.S.S. Despatch. May 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Carpenter for Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Navy for salary of carpenter at the Navy Department. May 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Stationery accounts of postmasters. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a statement of amounts disallowed postmasters for stationery for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883, on account of inadequate appropriation, and recommending legislation authorizing their allowance. May 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Discontinuance of Customs districts. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, referring to his letter of the 12th instant in reply to resolution in regard to Customs districts, and recommending the discontinuance of additional districts. May 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Fees of witnesses and jurors. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the First Comptroller of the Treasury relative to the resolution for an appropriation to pay fees of witnesses and jurors for 1883 and prior years, reported on May 20 adversely by the Committee on Appropriations. May 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Draughtsmen, Bureau of Steam Engineering. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an additional estimate from the Secretary of the Navy for three draughtsmen in the Bureau of Steam Engineering for the next fiscal year. May 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railway. Message from the President of the United States, returning, at the request of the House of Representatives, House Bill No. 6391, entitled "An Act To Authorize the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railway Company to Construct and Operate a Railway through the Indian Territory, and for Other Purposes." June 2, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosures, an estimate from the Secretary of State of expense of inaugurating the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. May 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Armament of fortifications. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, recommending that $50,000 of the amount appropriated by act of March 3, 1883, for armament of fortifications, 1884, be reappropriated and made available for construction of guns. June 4, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Steam oyster-boat J.P. Thomas. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting correspondence, and recommending an item in the deficiency bill refunding to Thomas Thomas, master of the steam oyster-boat J.P. Thomas, the remitted portion of a fine. June 4, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional clerk in the disbursing office of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the disbursing clerk of that Department, recommending that provision be made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill for an additional clerk in his office for the next fiscal year. June 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Taxation of petroleum and export of leaf tobacco. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting further report of the Secretary of State, with correspondence and dispatches between the Secretary of State and the minister of the United States at The Hague, relating to taxation on petroleum in Holland and in the Dutch colonies, and the export there from of leaf tobacco. June 2, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Simmons W. Harden. Message from the President of the United States returning, without his approval, House Bill No. 1406, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Simmons W. Harden." May 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Salaries charges d'affaires and interim. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from the Secretary of State, recommending an urgent appropriation of $8,100 to supply deficiency in appropriation for salaries of charges d'affaires ad interim for the current fiscal year. June 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Trust funds, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a communication from the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury in response to a resolution of the House calling for information concerning trust funds and unexpended balances in the custody of the several heads of departments. June 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Fish-ways, Great Falls. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting letter from the Acting Chief of Engineers, inclosing report from Major Lydecker, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information relative to the erection of fish-ways at the Great Falls of the Potomac. June 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Unpaid judgments against the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of unpaid judgments against the United States by the Court of Claims, and recommending an appropriation for their payment. June 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Secretary of Arizona Territory. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the late Secretary of Arizona Territory, and recommending an appropriation to pay him certain items disallowed in his accounts. June 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Transportation of mails over non-subsidized railroads. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates from the Postmaster General of appropriations for transportation of mails over non subsidized railroads controlled by the Central Pacific Railroad for part of the current fiscal year and prior years. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Navy of appropriations for officers' cottages and repair of barracks, &c., at Navy yard, Mare Island, California. June 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. American shipping interests. Message from the President of the United States, relating to supplemental legislation in connection with the approval of House Bill No. 4838, entitled "An Act to Abolish Certain Fees for Official Services to American Vessels, and to Amend the Laws Relating to Shipping Commissioners, Seamen, and Owners of Vessels, and for Other Purposes," and requesting that it receive the immediate attention of Congress. June 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on American Ship-building and Ship-owning Interests and ordered to be printed. Repairs of lighthouses. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Lighthouse Board submitting an amendment to the annual appropriation for repairs of lighthouses. June 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. War Department library. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting correspondence and recommending legislation in the sundry civil appropriation bill excepting the War Department library from the restrictions now imposed. June 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Unexpended balances, Department of Justice. Letter from the Attorney General, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information as to trust funds and unexpended balances in the custody of the several heads of departments. June 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Trust funds, etc. Letter from the Secretary of War, in reply to resolution of the House of Representatives calling for a schedule of trust funds, &c., in his hands. June 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Alien consular officers' salaries. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an estimate from the Secretary of State for salaries of consular officers not citizens of the United States for the current fiscal year. May 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Cree Indians, Montana. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Acting Secretary of the Interior of an appropriation for the relief of certain renegade British Cree Indians in Montana, and to prevent their starvation. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed	106
Serial set 2402	Commercial relations of the United States with foreign countries during the years 1884 and 1885.	1
Serial set 2403	The American schooner Ounalaska. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying copies of papers relative to the case of the American schooner Ounalaska, which was condemned by the government of Salvador for having been employed in aid of an insurrection against that republic. June 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. James Carroll. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 4642, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Abner Morehead. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 3304, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Lewis W. Scanland. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 3043, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. James T. Irwin. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 3640, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Oleomargarine. Message from the President of the United States, approving House Bill No. 8328, entitled "An Act Defining Butter, also Imposing a Tax upon and Regulating the Manufacture, Sale, Importation, and Exportation of Oleomargarine." August 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Imprisonment of A.K. Cutting in Mexico. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting certain correspondence and documents relating to the arrest and imprisonment at Paso del Norte, by Mexican authorities, of A.K. Cutting, a citizen of the United States. August 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Public building at Clarksburg, W. Va. Message from the President of the United States, approving House Bill No. 4335, calling attention to the existence of an excess of appropriation over the limit, and suggesting that it be returned to the Treasury. August 2, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Duncan Forbes. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 8336, with his objections thereto. August 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Balances due to and from the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of balances due to and from the government of the United States, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives, passed on the 27th instant. July 30, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Trust funds, State Department. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of the Secretary of State in relation to trust funds. July 30, 1886. -- Committed to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Julio Santos. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to the House resolution, a report from the Secretary of State, and papers relating to the imprisonment and subsequent release of Julio Santos in Ecuador. July 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. July 30, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Jennette Dow. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 3363, with his objections thereto. August 2, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Public building at Springfield, Mo. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 1391, with his objections thereto. July 31, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Rachel Barnes. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 9106, with his objections thereto. August 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. George W. Cutler. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 3551, with his objections thereto. August 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Susan Hawes. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7234, with his objections thereto. August 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Abraham Points. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 8556, with his objections thereto. August 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883. Elizabeth Luce. Message from the President of the United States, returning without his approval House Bill No. 5997, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Elizabeth Luce." June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. National Museum. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Director of the National Museum for the "preservation of collections," current fiscal year. June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. John Taylor. Message from the President of the United States, returning without his approval House Bill No. 3826, entitled "An Act for the Relief of John Taylor." June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. John W. Farris. Message from the President of the United States, returning without his approval House Bill No. 6136, entitled "An Act Granting an Increase of Pension to John W. Farris." June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Joel D. Monroe. Message from the President of the United States, returning without his approval, House Bill No. 4058, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Joel D. Monroe." June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Carter W. Tiller. Message from the President of the United States, returning without his approval House Bill No. 4002, entitled "An Act To Grant a Pension to Carter W. Tiller." June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Henry Hipple, Jr. Message from the President of the United States, returning without his approval House Bill No. 6897, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Henry Hipple, Jr." June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Fred. J. Leese. Message from the President of the United States, returning without his approval House Bill No. 3624, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Fred. J. Leese." June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Fort Niagara, New York. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of an appropriation for the protection of the site of Fort Niagara, New York. June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Elijah P. Hensley. Message from the President of the United States, returning without his approval House Bill No. 1707, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Elijah P. Hensley." June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Supplemental list of claims allowed by accounting officers of the Treasury. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a supplemental list of claims allowed by the several accounting officers of the Treasury under appropriations the balances of which are exhausted or carried to the surplus fund. June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Trust funds and unexpended balances. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, with accompanying schedules, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information concerning trust funds and unexpended balances in the custody of the several departments. June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Philip Arner. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6266, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Anna A. Probert. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7703, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mary A. Van Etten. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6170, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Enlisted men, Signal Corps. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a memorial from enlisted men in the Signal Corps, and recommending that the provisions of the sundry civil appropriation bill for commutation for rations, quarters, and fuel to enlisted men in the Signal Corps be amended. June 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Round Valley Indian Agency, California. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior of deficiency in the appropriation for incidental expenses of Indian service in California, current fiscal year. June 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Andrew J. Wilson. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7108 with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Maria Hunter. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7167, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Hezekiah Tillman. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7614, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Samuel Miller. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7401, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Charles Schuler. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7298, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mary S. Woodson. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7073, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. David T. Elderkin. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 5995, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Jackson Steward. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7979, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Clark Boon. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7931, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Louisa C. Beezeley. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 576, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. James D. Cotton. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6117, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Improvement of grounds, Agricultural Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate by the Commissioner of Agriculture of a deficiency appropriation to pay Joseph Paul for paving grounds of the Department of Agriculture. June 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Robert H. Stapleton. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 4797, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. H.L. Kyler. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 1818, with his objections thereto. July 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. William H. Nevil. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 3623, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Francis Deming. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 2971, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mary Karstetter. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 2043, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Public building at Duluth, Minn. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 5550, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Edward M. Harrington. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6648, with his objections thereto. July 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Margaret A. Jacoby. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 5021, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Fannie E. Evans. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 4426, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Sallie Ann Bradley. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 5394, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Aretus F. Loomis. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7018, with his objections thereto. July 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Roxana V. Rowley. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 5306, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth McKay. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 4782, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Maria Cunningham. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 5414, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Catherine McCarty. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 5603, with his objections thereto. July 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. William Dermody. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 1505, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Heating apparatus, etc., for public buildings. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from the Supervising Architect recommending appropriations for approaches to and heating apparatus in certain public buildings. July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Daniel H. Ross. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 524, with his objections thereto. July 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Surrender of Sitting Bull. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a communication from Sir Lionel West relative to the Bill (H.R. 4553) to compensate Jean Louis Legare for services and expenses in procuring the surrender of Sitting Bull. July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Joseph Romiser. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 1059, with his objections thereto. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Inspection of steam vessels. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing letters from local inspectors of steam vessels, New York City, and recommending the early passage of Senate Bill 2719, "To Amend the Laws Relating to Inspection of Steam Vessels." July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on American Shipbuilding and Ship-owning Interests and ordered to be printed. Public building at Asheville, N.C. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 5546, with his objections thereto. July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. International copyright. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of the Secretary of State, inclosing correspondence between the Department of State and the government of Switzerland and Italy relating to the subject of international copyright. July 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. John Hunter. Message from the President of the United States, returning without his approval House Bill No. 1990, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to John Hunter." June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. River and harbor works. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending provision be made for the wants of the service for the river and harbor works now in progress in the event of the failure of the river and harbor appropriation bill; also transmitting a statement from the Chief of Engineers and a recommendation of $500,000 for said purposes. August 4, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Hanson v. United States -- land survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the House, a report from the Commissioner of the General Land Office concerning a decree of survey in the case of John M. Hanson v. The United States in the United States circuit court, Northern District Florida, with an estimate of the cost of the survey. June 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Giles C. Hawley. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 424, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mary Anderson. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7436, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. George W. Guyse. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 3205, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. James H. Darling. Message from the President of the United States, rerurning [i.e., returning] House Bill No. 7257, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Charles A. Chase. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6372, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Callie West. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7222, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Joseph Tuttle. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7109, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. William H. Starr. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6718, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Alice E. Travers. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6753, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Trust funds, etc., Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information concerning trust funds and unexpended balances in the custody of the several departments. June 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Mary Norman. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6192, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Martha McIlwain. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 7162, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. William Bishop. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6688, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Julia Connelly. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6257, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Army and Navy hospital, Hot Springs, Ark. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Surgeon General of the Army, and recommending an amendment to sundry civil appropriation bill providing for the maintenance of the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. June 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bruno Schultz. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6774, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Sarah Harbaugh. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 6895, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. William Boone. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 473, with his objections thereto. July 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Trust funds, Interior Department. Communication from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to a resolution of the House, furnishing a full and complete schedule of all trust funds held by the chiefs of bureaus in the Department of the Interior. July 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. R.D. Lancaster. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in response to a resolution of the House, giving the reasons why a clerk was not detailed to investigate a settlement made by R.D. Lancaster, and transmitting papers connected therewith. July 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Ann Kinney. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 5389, with his objections thereto. August 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Aurelia C. Richardson. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 1584, with his objections thereto. August 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mary Ann Miller. Message from the President of the United States, returning House Bill No. 1816, with his objections thereto. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed.	97
Serial set 2404	Report of the Director of the Mint upon the production of the precious metals in the United States during the calendar year 1885. June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 2405	Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, 1886.	1
Serial set 2406	Henry Blair Smith. December 21, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Inventory of property belonging to the United States in the possession of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. December 9, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the order and findings of that court in the case of James H. Ayres against the United States. December 12, 1885. -- To lie on the table and ordered to be printed. communication from L.F. Warder, Acting Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, transmitting a report and an inventory of the property of the House under the charge of the Doorkeeper, December 9, 1885. December 12, 1885. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Alphabetical list of members and delegates of the House of Representatives, and the standing and select committees of which they are members. Forty-ninth Congress, first session, commencing Monday, December 7, 1885. List of members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and their places of residence, during the Forty-ninth Congress, first session. Commencing December 7, 1885. Standing and select committees of the House of Representatives of the United States, Forty-ninth Congress, first session, commencing Monday, December 7, 1885. Rules of the House of Representatives. December 9, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Report of expenditures by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting report of expenditures from June 30, 1884, to June 30, 1885. December 9, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Reception of correspondents. December 16, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. report from L.F. Warder, Acting Doorkeeper of the House, submitting an inventory of all the books and public documents in the folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives, December 7, 1885. December 12, 1885. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Proposed new rule. December 16, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Rules House of Representatives. December 9, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Commissioner of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company to the first session of the Forty-ninth Congress for the year ending November 30, 1885. December 12, 1885. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Congressional Record. December 21, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Widow of Leander A. Robb. December 21, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Bulletins of the United States Geological Survey. Vol. III. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Vol. V, for 1885	25
Serial set 2407	Monographs of the United States Geological Survey. Volume X. [Dinocerata: A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals, by Othniel Charles Marsh.] Revision of rules of the House of Representatives in the Thirty-sixth and Forty-sixth Congresses. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey. Volume XI. [Geological History of Lake Lahontan: A Quaternary Lake of Northwestern Nevada, by Israel Cook Russell].	3
Serial set 2408	The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Trans-Mississippi Theater: Operations north of Boston Mountains/Operations to suppress the Sioux uprising/Operations near Cache River/Operations on the White River; April-November 1862; Series 1, Vol. 13, Chapter 25]	1
Serial set 2409	The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach: Expedition to Saint John's Bluff/Naval Attacks on Fort McAllister/Secessionville/Operations against the Defenses of Charleston/Operations against Tampa; April 1862-June 1863; Series 1, Vol. 14, Chapter 26]	1
Serial set 2410	Official Register of the United States, containing a list of officers and employes in the civil, military, and naval service on the first of July, 1885; together with a list of ships and vessels belonging to the United States. Volume I. Legislative, executive, judicial.	1
Serial set 2411	Official Register of the United States, containing a list of officers and employes in the civil, military, and naval service on the first of July, 1885. Volume II. The Post Office Department and the postal service.	1
Serial set 2412	United States consular reports. Reports from the consuls of the United States on the commerce, manufactures, etc., of their consular districts. For the months of January, February, March, and April, 1885, and special report on cholera in Europe.	1
Serial set 2413	United States consular reports. Reports from the consuls of the United States on the commerce, manufactures, etc., of their consular districts, for the months of June, July, August, and September, 1885, and special reports on trade guilds of Europe, the licorice plant, and pounding and polishing rice in England and Germany.	1
Serial set 2414	Mineral Resources of the United States. Calendar years 1883 and 1884. Albert Williams Jr., Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology.	1
Serial set 2415	Report of receipts, etc., of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company. Letter from the President of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company transmitting the annual report of receipts and disbursements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885. January 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Adulterated food products. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Printing for Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Coinage of silver dollars. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Messenger for Committee on Rivers and Harbors. January 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Land grants to railroads to Kansas. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Printing of testimony and papers. March 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Cruise of the Corwin, 1885. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Indian outrages in New Mexico and Arizona. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Substitutes in the department. March 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed. Organization of the offices of the House of Representatives. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed. Public printing. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Messenger for Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. February 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Plan to register votes, etc. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Railroad land grant forfeitures. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Winship B. Pettie. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Select Committee on the Internal Revenue. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Printing on tariff bill. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Ascertainment, etc., of electoral vote. Letter from the Governor of Connecticut, transmitting a resolution of the general assembly of that state relative to the ascertainment and counting of the electoral vote. December 12, 1885. -- Ordered to lie on [the] table. War debt of Missouri. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Annual clerk for the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Decisions of the First Comptroller in the Department of the Treasury of the United States. By William Lawrence, First Comptroller. Vol. VI. Coinage of silver. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measure and ordered to be printed. Delay in adjudication of invalid pensions. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Limiting speeches. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Adjudication of private claims. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Arbitration and peace. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Pensions to surviving soldiers of Mexican War. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. The Trezevant claim. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. President's message. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Funeral expenses of James Reilly. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Receivers of railroads. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Decline of American cooperage interests. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Silver coinage. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. James D. Ryan. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Letter from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting a statement of contingent expenses for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for Indians. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Additional copies of the digest. January 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Revision of the tariff. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Report of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Legislation for American Fishing Marine. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ship Building and Ship Owning Interests and ordered to be printed. Contested election cases. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting a list of contested election cases. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Elections and ordered to be printed. Calling names of absent members. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Seth Wilmarth. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Committee on Public Health. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy, made to the Secretary of War, for the year 1885. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Patrick v. Dolan. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Claims for land in the Territory of New Mexico. January 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Reference of the President's annual message. January 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Messenger for Committee on Elections. January 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Printing of documents. January 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Clerk for Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice. January 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Clerk to the Select Committee on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Additional employes [sic] in the House document room. January 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Printing for Committee on Labor. January 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Printing documents. January 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Clerk to Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Clerk for Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River. January 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Select committee on Mississippi River improvements. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. The standard dollar. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures and ordered to be printed. Amending rules of House of Representatives. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Claims of postmasters. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Printing documents for use of Committee on Ways and Means. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Additional force in the House of Representatives. January 13, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Revised Statutes and supplement thereto. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Assistant Clerk to Committee on Claims. January 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Theodore D. Kanause. January 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Printing for Committee on Rivers and Harbors. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Willie S. Howard. January 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Information respecting certain telegraph companies. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Suits to annual patents. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. John F. Twomey. February 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Willie S. Howard. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Recoinage of silver dollars. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Clerk to committee. February 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Claim of L.R. Byrne, deceased. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a report of the case of Charles E. Creecy, administrator of the estate of L.R. Byrne, deceased, vs. The United States. February 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Patents and ordered to be printed. School facilities for the Sioux Indians. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Retired list of Navy. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Pay of postal clerks. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Civil service examinations for consular officers. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Telephone companies. February 15, 1886. -- Committed to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Employes [sic] in civil departments of the government. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed. Telephone suits. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Printing for Committee on the District of Columbia. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Public buildings. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings and ordered to be printed. Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mr. King submitted the following resolution: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, requested, if not incompatible with the public interests, to report, at the earliest date practicable, the names of all persons whose property was taken possession of in Louisiana by the federal authorities during the late war... Printing for Judiciary Committee. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Case of Elizabeth P. Dyer vs. the United States. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting copies of the order and findings of fact by that court in the case of Elizabeth P. Dyer vs. The United States. February 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Case of John B. Reid vs. United States. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of Court of Claims, transmitting copies of the order and findings of fact by that court in the case of John B. Reid vs. The United States. February 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Printing Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion. Letter from the Public Printer, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information as to cost, &c., of printing the Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion. February 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Investigation of the Pension Bureau. March 3, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. The Hayes nitro-glycerine shell. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Ordnance shop, Washington Navy Yard. March 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific Railroad investigation. March 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. Rule XXXIV. -- Amendment. March 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Accounts between the United States and states and territories. March 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Maurice Ruddlesden. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Business of the District of Columbia. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Labor legislation. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Harry Barton. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Memorial in regard to Texas fever or cattle plague. By O.M. Wozencraft, M.D. January 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture. February 25, 1886. -- Recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Permanent and indefinite appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, concerning Bill H.R. 3271, to repeal certain laws relating to permanent and indefinite appropriations. February 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Eulogies on deceased members. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Land grant forfeiture. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Yellowstone Park. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Chicago River bridges. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Improvement of Alleghany and Monongahela rivers. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Education bills. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Amendment of rules. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Additional laborers, House folding-room. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Mediation between France and China. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. A.B. Norton. March 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Digest of international decisions of the United States. March 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Foreign mails. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Public buildings, District of Columbia. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics and ordered to be printed. Sorghum and beet sugar. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. River navigation in Oregon. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Printing memorial Bi-Metallic Coinage Association. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. The "Blair Bill." March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. History of the rules of the House. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. War ships in process of construction. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Rule XXXIV, amendment. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Provision for the payment of increased pensions. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Department correspondence with foreign countries. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Retired list, Army officers. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Amending rule relating to funerals. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Department of Agriculture expenditures. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting a statement of expenditure for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885. March 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Indian and Yellowstone Park expenditures. March 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Expenses of Agricultural Department. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Unsettled accounts, Post Office Department. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Diplomatic service. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee of Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Peter Marck et al. vs. United States. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting copies of order and findings of fact by that court in the case of Peter Marck et al. against the United States. February 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. International polar expedition to Lady Franklin Bay. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. March 2, 1886. -- Reported with amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Taxation of petroleum in Holland and the Dutch colonies. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Statue of James A. Garfield. January 6, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Investigation of expenditures and management of Pension Bureau. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Committees entitled to clerks. January 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.	140
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Serial set 2417	United States consular reports. Reports from the consuls of the United States on the commerce, manufactures, etc., of their consular districts. For the months of October, November, and December, 1885. United States consular reports. Reports from the consuls of the United States on the commerce, manufactures, etc., of their consular districts. For the months of January, February, and March, 1886, and special report on scouring of wool in Belgium, Great Britain, and Germany.	2
Serial set 2418	Pacific railroads. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Substitute employes [sic], Treasury Department. April 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific Railroads. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. Educational bill. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Labor and ordered to be printed. Amendment of rules. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Improvements in the Allegheny River. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Home rule in Ireland. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Frank B. Gorman. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Pension department. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. George Winters and L.B. Cook. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Free-ship bill. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on American Ship-building and Ship-owning Interests and ordered to be printed. Fees of United States officials in Utah. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice and ordered to be printed. Digest of International Law. April 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed Denver and New Orleans Railroad. April 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Labor troubles. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Labor and ordered to be printed. Northern Pacific Railroad. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. Amendment of rules. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Business of Committee on Military Affairs. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Canadian fishing regulations. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Alleged homicides, Carrollton, Miss. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Ordnance and war ships. March 31, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Protests or appeals of importers, etc. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Maxwell land grant, New Mexico. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Anniversary celebration in 1889 and 1892. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Increase of naval establishment. March 31, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary and High School, Virginia. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the order and findings of fact by that court in the case of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary and High School in Virginia against the United States. April 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Increase of the naval establishment. (Report 1470.) April 6, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Charles H. Nye. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Clerkship of Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Hours of meeting, House of Representatives. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Readjustment postmasters' salaries. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Navigation and fishery interests. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Business of the Post Office Committee. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Consideration of House Bill No. 5788. April 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed. Mississippi River. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Business of Pacific Railroads Committee. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. Tariff on unmanufactured wool. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Post Office Department contracts. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Wool tariff. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Atlantic and Pacific Ship-Railway Company. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Expenses of telephone investigation. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Washington Gas Light Company. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Violation of immigration laws, etc. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Expenditures chemical division, laboratory, Agricultural Department. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the House, a statement showing the amount expended for the chemical division in laboratory from the appropriation for the present fiscal year and the balance unexpended. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Disbursements of public moneys of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Army. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Proposed forfeiture of land grants. April 28, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Frank H. Isham and William E. Mallory. April 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Illinois and Michigan Canal. (Report 2031.) April 28, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Non-paying Custom districts. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Charles Holbrook. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Noah W. Halley. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Increase of naval establishment. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Educational bill. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Funeral obsequies. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. William McGarrahan. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Seizure of the David J. Adams. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Study of physiology, etc. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and ordered to be printed. Foreign mails. Letter from the Superintendent of Foreign Mails to Hon. R.Q. Mills, of the House of Representatives, transmitting a statement relating to the transportation of foreign mails and postal matters connected therewith. May 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. California Indian war claims. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Proposed fine for absence without leave. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Veto power in Utah. Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Utah, setting forth the evils arising from the sweeping exercise of the absolute veto power of the governor, by which much needed legislation, including the general appropriation bill, has been defeated, and asking that this prerogative of the executive of the territory be withdrawn and measures adopted for immediate relief. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Territories and ordered to be printed. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. (Report 1839.) April 21, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Business of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. April 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Increase of naval establishment. (Report 2648.) May 27, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Transportation of live stock. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Distribution of public offices. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed. Employment of substitutes by public officials. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed. Minnie Lyles. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Home rule in Ireland. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Progress of the Panama Canal. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Amendment to Rule XXI. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Anniversary of foundation of the government. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Maj. Justus McKinstry. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Hanson v. United States. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Edwin M. Stanton. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Special pensions. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Alleged violation of immigration laws. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Lands held by aliens. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Order of business. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Commercial agents. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Salaries of clerks. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Amendment to rules. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Amendment of rules. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Division of Rivers and Harbors Committee. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. The Maxwell Grant. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Business of Committee on Naval Affairs. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report on European dock-yards, by naval constructor Philip Hichborn, U.S.N. Re-examination of the accounts of Hon. B.F. Butler, Acting Treasurer of the National Soldiers' Home. Communication from Hon. B.F. Butler, late Acting Treasurer of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, asking for a re-examination of his accounts as such acting treasurer. April 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Retired Army officers. Report of the Secretary of War, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of March 16, 1886, requesting a full and complete list of the officers now on the retired list of the Army, with their respective rank or relative rank, annual pay and allowance, &c. April 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Heirs of Jerome S. Ridley. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Inquiry respecting officers and employes [sic] of the House of Representatives. Testimony taken by the Committee on Accounts in the inquiry into the number, character of employment, compensation, &c., of the officers and employes [sic] of the House of Representatives. April 10, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Alaska reconnaissance. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Henry Brock. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Wheat and corn in the United States. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Claims against Nicaragua. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Consolidation of naval bureaus. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Increase of the naval establishment. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Claims allowed by accounting officers, Treasury Department. April 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increase of naval establishment. April 15, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Consolidation of naval bureaus. April 15, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Business presented by the Committee on Agriculture. April 15, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Pacific railroads. April 15, 1886. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific Railroad investigation. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Nathaniel L. Ard. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Substitutes in Treasury Department. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed. Improvement of Columbia River. April 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Animal Industry. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Panama ship canal. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Amendment of rules. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Report on animal industry. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Business of Friday night sessions. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Labor Committee. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Labor and ordered to be printed. Louisville and Portland Canal. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Silver Profit Fund. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures and ordered to be printed. Business from Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Payment of awards, Court of Claims. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Fees of witnesses and jurors. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice and ordered to be printed. Sorghum and beet sugar. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting certain papers, in response to a resolution of the House calling for a copy of department circnlar [i.e., circular] of June 6, 1882; a copy of the award of the committee appointed to carry the provisions of the circular into effect; copies of all correspondence with the Delaware Beet Sugar Company on the subject, and a statement of the awards paid and to whom. May 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Fish-ways at Great Falls. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Trust funds, etc. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Accounts Pennsylvania Railroad Company. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Bills introduced by request. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. William Blair Lord. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Fixing day for considering business reported by the Committee on Invalid Pensions. May 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. May 18, 1886. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Addie S. Reed. May 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Naval establishment. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Robert Dougherty. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Range and cattle business of the United States. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Judiciary Committee business. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Funeral expenses of Charles S. Treutlen. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Wheat and corn. Letter from the Acting Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the House, a report by the statistician of that department respecting the supply and domestic requirement of wheat and corn, and the acreage of wheat, for the present year, as compared with the past five years, also the probable requirements of importing countries and the acreage of crop and probable surplus or shortage in exporting countries for the ensuing year. June 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Land grants in Kansas. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Jacob Pindle. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Appointments in the Treasury Department. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed. Furloughs in the Interior Department. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed. Question of privilege. June 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Improvement of New River, etc. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Electrical recording of yeas and nays. June 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Admission to the floor. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. H.H. Alexander. June 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Bridge over the Ohio River at or Near Cairo, Ill. June 19, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional rule, House of Representatives. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. New Orleans exposition loans. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Cherokee Indians. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Assistant Treasurer, Philadelphia. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Northern Pacific Railroad land grant. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Amendment to rules. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mexican claims. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Transportation and labor. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Duty on bituminous coal. March 29, 1886. -- Committed to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Retention of silver dollars, Sub-Treasury, Boston. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and ordered to be printed. Indian tribes. March 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Fort Brown, Texas. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Labor Committee business. May 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Labor and ordered to be printed.	156
Serial set 2419	The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Western Theater: Confederate Heartland Offensive; June-October 1862; Series 1, Vol. 16, Chapter 28, Part 1].	1
Serial set 2420	Memorial addresses on the life and character of Michael Hahn, (a Representative from Louisiana,) delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Forty-ninth Congress, first session. Memorial addresses on the life and character of Reuben Ellwood, (a Representative from Illinois), delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Forty-ninth Congress, first session. Memorial addresses on the life and character of Joseph Rankin, (a Representative from Wisconsin,) delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Forty-ninth Congress, first session.	3

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