Call Number (LC) Title Results
Serial set 2654 Distribution of documents. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Bridge across Kansas River. January 28, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
International copyright law. December 5, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
William A. Smith. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact in the case of William A. Smith against the United States. March 2, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Amendment of Rule XXI. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
The Madison Female Institute. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the order of court in the case of the Madison Female Institute against the United States. January 12, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Third annual report of Commissioner of Labor. December 18, 1888. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 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 July 1, 1887, to June 30, 1888. December 4, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Funeral expenses of J.K. Edwards, deceased. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
James Harvey Dennis. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact and opinion of the court in the case of James Harvey Dennis against the United States. January 12, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
Thomas A. Coakley. February 5, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
The tariff. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Printing President's message. December 3, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
War claims dismissed by the Court of Claims. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a list of cases of claims for stores and supplies furnished the United States during the late civil war under the provisions of the Bowman Act which have been dismissed by the court for want of jurisdiction. December 6, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Sales of waste paper. December 4, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Property in possession of the Doorkeeper. December 4, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Investigation of the charges against the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. December 4, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Public schools of the District of Columbia. Letter from the President of the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia, transmitting an exhibit showing the compensation paid to each teacher of the public schools of the district for the current fiscal year. December 4, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Additional messenger. December 4, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Fish and fisheries. Letter from the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, transmitting a statement of expenditures for propagation of food-fishes for the fiscal year 1888. December 4, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Library of Congress. Letter from the Chief of Engineers of the Army, transmitting a report relative to the construction of the building for the Library of Congress under provisions of the sundry civil appropriation act approved October 2, 1888. December 4, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Property in possession of the clerk. December 4, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Relief of American whaling vessels. December 5, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and ordered to be printed.
Lease of building for folding-room. December 10, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Printing report of the Smithsonian Institution. December 7, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Printing digest of contested-election cases. December 10, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
James Q. Shirley. Letter from the Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of fact by the court in the case of James Q. Shirley, administrator, etc., against the United States. December 11, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
To preserve the purity of the ballot. December 10, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Payment of fees and expenses of United States marshals. December 10, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Consideration of House Bill 9908. December 10, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Consideration of Bill H.R. 8189, etc. December 10, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Irrigation in Egypt. December 10, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Consideration of House Bill 8184. December 10, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
R.C. Oglesby. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of fact by the court in the case of R.C. Oglesby against the United States. December 12, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Letter from the President of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, transmitting his report for the fiscal year 1888. December 13, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Elizabeth Smith, administratrix. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact by the court in the case of Elizabeth Smith, administratrix of John Putnam, deceased, against the United States. December 13, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Post-office buildings. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Consideration of Senate Bill No. 405. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Affairs in Madagascar. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Equalizing the salaries of messengers. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Payment of clerk of Committee on Eleventh Census. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Islands of Morant Cays. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Cases dismissed by the Court of Claims. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, reporting the dismissal by the court of the cases of Sarepta C. Little against the United States, and William A. Thornton against the United States. December 18, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Elias Snively's administrators. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the order of court in the case of Elias Snively's administrators against the United States. December 18, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Expenditures for international exchange, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, concerning expenditures for "International exchange," "The National Museum," and "North American ethnology" for the fiscal year 1888. December 18, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. December 19, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
John C. Powers. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the order of court dismissing the case of John C. Powers against the United States. December 18, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be printed.
Samuel H. Dunscomb et al. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the order of court dismissing the case of Samuel H. Dunscomb and others against the United States. December 18, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Purchase of real estate for the District of Columbia. December 10, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. December 19, 1888. -- Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed.
Claims dismissed by the Court of Claims. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a list of cases dismissed by the court in accordance with the provisions of the act known as the Bowman Act. December 18, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Irrigation in Egypt. January 4, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
School sites in the District of Columbia. January 5, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
Bureau of Animal Industry. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting report for 1888 of the Bureau of Animal Industry. January 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Dismissed cases for want of jurisdiction. January 12, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
The Overton Hotel Company. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of findings of fact and opinion of the court in the case of the Overton Hotel Company against the United States. January 12, 1889. -- Referred the Committee of War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Hour of adjournment. January 12, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
S. Sprigg Belt, administrator. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of fact and opinion of the court in the case of S. Sprigg Belt, administrator, against the United States. January 12, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee of War Claims.
Court of Claims cases. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact in the following cases. January 12, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Employes in the Interior Department. January 14, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Reserved files in clerk's office. January 14, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Appraiser's warehouse at Chicago. January 14, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed.
Hour of meeting. January 14, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States. January 14, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Machine for counting and recording votes. January 14, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Business from Committee on Mines and Mining. December 20, 1888. -- 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 second session of the fiftieth Congress for the year ended December 3, 1888.
List of members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and their places of residence, during the Fiftieth Congress, second session, commencing December 3, 1888.
Digest of the House. December 21, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Interstate commerce. December 5, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Henry Piper. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact in the case of Henry Piper against the United States. January 19, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee of War Claims and ordered to be printed
Court of Claims cases. Letter from the Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact in the cases of Mary E. Wageley, administratrix of David A. Wageley, deceased, vs. United States. Congressional 1543. William Lloyd vs. United States. Congressional 1474. Mary E. West, executrix of Richard T. West, deceased, vs. United States. Congressional 1243. Elizabeth Ann Best, executrix of David Best vs. United States. Congressional 1487. January 17, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Legal representatives of G.W. Perry. January 22, 1889. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Pensioning of prisoners of war. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Cession of Lower California to the United States. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Pacific railroads. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Meeting of railroad presidents, etc. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Sale of liquor at the inaugural ball. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed.
Special pension examiners. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Protection of seal fisheries. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and ordered to be printed.
Expenditures in the Treasury Department. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Consideration of quarantine business. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Tax on prune wine extract. January 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Government postal telegraph. December 5, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Repeal of tobacco tax. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Alphabetical list of members and delegates of the House of Representatives, and the standing and select committees of which they are members. Fiftieth Congress, second session. Commencing Monday, December 3, 1888.
Expenditures in Treasury Department. January 28, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Varina B. Gaither. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of fact by the court in the case of Varina B. Gaither against the United States. January 25, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Brightwood Railway Company. January 25, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
Court of Claims cases. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of fact in the cases of Joseph M. Pilkington vs. The United States... George Koonce vs. The United States... David M. Lindsay, administrator of James Lindsay, deceased...January 25, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
One hundredth anniversary of constitutional government. January 28, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Brig Fortune. January 25, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. February 28, 1889. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Public printing deficiencies. February 5, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
H.B. Rohrback et al. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of fact in the case of H.B. Rohrback and others against the United States. February 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Clayton vs. Breckinridge. February 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Elections and ordered to be printed.
John Rhodes. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact in the case of John Rhodes and wife against the United States. February 12, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
George H. Beckwith. February 14, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Hat trimmings. February 15, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
John A. Heard. February 15, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company. February 20, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
Meeting of railroad presidents, etc. February 19, 1889. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Deering Donnell et al. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact in case of Deering Donnell et al. against the United States. February 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
Order of business. February 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Amendment of internal-revenue law. February 21, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
General John C. Fremont. February 22, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Philip C. Rowe. February 22, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Patents and ordered to be printed.
Sloop Cicero. February 18, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. February 28, 1889. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Brig Minerva. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting conclusions of fact and of law in the matter of the brig Minerva. January 17, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. February 28, 1889. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Metropolitan Railroad. March 2, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
Court of Claims cases. Findings of the Court of Claims in certain claims referred by the Committee on War Claims to that court under the provision of an act approved March 3, 1883. March 2, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Alfred B. Carter. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of fact and opinion of the court in the case of Alfred B. Carter against the United States. June 12, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Silk culture. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting the report of the Women's Silk Culture Association of the United States for the fiscal year 1888. March 2, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Repeal of the tobacco tax, etc. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Foreign Affairs Committee. January 14, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Committee on Expenditures in Treasury Department. January 14, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
J.W. Hiatt. January 14, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Consideration of private pension bills. January 14, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Standing and Select Committees. House of Representatives, fiftieth Congress, second session.
Spoliation claims. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting conclusions of fact and law in certain spoliation cases. December 21, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Contested elections. January 28, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Elections and ordered to be printed.
Report of Gen'l William W. Averell, U.S.A., Assistant Inspector-General National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers... of an inspection of the state homes for disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States, made in December, 1888, and January, 1889, with opinion of Hon. Sigourney Butler, Second Comptroller of the Treasury. January 28, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Court of Claims cases. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact in the cases of: William H. Halliburton, administrator of James Furlong, deceased, vs. the United States. Congressional No. 1177; John W. McKnight vs. the United States. Congressional No. 355; William N. Potts vs. the United States. Congressional No. 431. January 31, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Affairs in Samoa. January 28, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company. February 18, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
Business from the Committee on the Judiciary. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Dalles Military Wagon Road Company. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed
Ralph T. Moses. December 5, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Consideration of Senate Bill No. 405. December 13, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed.
Senate bills on private calendar. December 17, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. 		127
Serial set 2655 Mineral Resources of the United States, calendar year 1887, [by] David T. Day, chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology. 1
Serial set 2656 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Trans-Mississippi Theater: Advance on Little Rock/Prairie Grove Campaign/Quantrill's Raid/Marmaduke's Expeditions into Missouri; January-December 1863; Series 1, Vol. 22, Chapter 34, Part 2] 1
Serial set 2657 Digest of contested-election cases arising in the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congress. Compiled, under resolution of the House by William H. Mobley, clerk to the Committee on Elections. 1888-'89. 1
Serial set 2658 Annual report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1888. 1
Serial set 2659 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Western Theater: Middle Tennessee Operations/Morgan's Raids/Streight's Raid/Tullahoma Campaign; January-August 1863; Series 1, Vol. 23, Chapter 35, Part 1] 1
Serial set 2660 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Western Theater: Middle Tennessee Operations/Morgan's Raids/Tullahoma Campaign; January-August 1863; Series 1, Vol. 23, Chapter 35, Part 2] 1
Serial set 2661 United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XV. Report of the Commissioner for 1887. 1
Serial set 2662 Ministry of Agriculture. Irrigation in Egypt by J. Barois, Engineer-in-Chief des Ponts et Chaussees, Principal Secretary to the Ministry of Public Works in Egypt. Paris, 1887. 1
Serial set 2663 Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Vol. VII, for 1887. 1
Serial set 2664-1 Bulletins of the United States Geological Survey. Vol. VII. 1
Serial set 2664-2 Bulletins of the United States Geological Survey. Vol. VIII. 1
Serial set 2665 U.S. Department of Agriculture. Fourth and fifth annual reports of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the years 1887 and 1888. 1
Serial set 2666 Reports from the consuls of the United States. Vol. XXVIII. October -- December, 1888. 1
Serial set 2667 Reports from the consuls of the United States. Vol. XXIX. Nos. 101, 102, 103, and 104. Months: January, February, March, and April, 1889. 1
Serial set 2668 Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution of July, 1888 1
Serial set 2669 Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year ending June 30, 1888. Report of the National Museum 1
Serial set 2670 Memorial addresses on the life and character of Edward W. Robertson (a Representative from the State of Louisiana), delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fiftieth Congress, first session.
Proceedings in Congress upon the acceptance of the Statue of Lewis Cass, presented by the State of Michigan.
Memorial addresses on the life and character of James N. Burnes (a Representative from Missouri), delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fiftieth Congress, second session. 		3
Serial set 2671 Monographs of the United States Geological Survey. Volume XV -- Text. [The Potomac or younger Mesozoic flora, by William Morris Fontaine]. 1
Serial set 2672 Observations made during the year 1884 at the United States Naval Observatory. Commodore S.R. Franklin, U.S.N., Superintendent. 1