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Serial set 3143 Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the first session of the Fifty-third Congress, begun and held at the City of Washington, August 7, 1893, in the one hundred and eighteenth year of the independence of the United States. 1
Serial set 3144 In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of September 16, a statement of United States land offices abolished or consolidated. October 3, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of August 17, 1893, a statement of moneys disbursed for the benefit of the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, etc. September 8, 1893. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of September 1, 1893, a statement of the amount of silver bullion purchased by the Treasury Department under the Act of July 14, 1890, etc. September 11, 1893. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of [U.S. Army Corps of] Engineers in regard to Aqueduct Bridge over the Potomac River, in response to Senate Resolution of January 21, 1893. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate resolution of September 5, 1893, requesting information concerning the redemption in silver of notes issued under the Sherman Act; and other information concerning the subject of silver coinage. September 12, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury... stating why information... relative to the values of exports and imports carried under flags engaged in our foreign-carrying trade can not be furnished unless special appropriation is made for the purpose. September 5, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 8th of September, 1893, a statement of production of sugar of all kinds and bounty paid thereon. September 16, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to a resolution of the Senate August 21, 1893, relative to the purchase of silver bullion in the month of July, 1893. August 23, 1893. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate Resolution of August 16, 1893, relative to the redemption of Treasury notes issued under the Act of July 14, 1890, and also relative to the exchange of gold coin for silver dollars. August 18, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing necessity for immediate appropriation of $300,000 for continuing recoinage of fractional silver coins. August 18, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the cost of recoining silver currency under the proposed ratio of one to twenty. August 21, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate Resolution of September 19, 1893, a statement of the amount of government bonds purchased since 1879, etc. September 27, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, conveying information regarding personnel and compensation of special commission to investigate the New York Custom-house in response to Senate Resolution, September 30, 1893. October 9, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting communication from Commissioner of Pensions concerning the payment of pensions to pensioners whose post-office addresses are now or lately have been temporarily in foreign countries. October 10, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of September 28, 1893, statement of the annual interest on government bonds on which interest has been anticipated by the Treasury Department. October 11, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant, and transmitting a statement of the amounts appropriated and expended in the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion acts. September 12, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copies of treaties between the United States and certain Indians in Oregon, in response to Senate resolution of September 2, 1893. October 10, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. October 11, 1893. -- Ordered that the map be printed with the report.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to Senate resolution of October 17, 1893, transmitting list of persons employed in public buildings as assistant custodians. November 1, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the Acting Director of the Mint in relation to an appropriation of $15,000 for freight on bullion and coin between mints and assay offices for the current fiscal year. October 31, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting to the Senate, in response to its resolution of the 10th instant, agreed to in executive session, report of Secretary of State concerning attitude of Government of China with regard to extension of time for registration of Chinese laborers. October 20, 1893. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed..
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of September 18, 1893, statement of Comptroller of the Currency as to national banks that have diminished and enlarged circulation, etc. September 27, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate resolution of February 27, 1893, transmitting a report of the commission to select samples of wool for use in the Custom-Houses. March 27, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. August 15, 1893. -- Ordered, that Ex. Doc. No. 3, Fifty-third Congress, special session, being a letter of the Acting Secretary of the Treasury...
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, stating, in reply to Senate resolution of September 26, 1893, the amount of silver bullion exported during the months of July and August, 1893. October 3, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report of special commission of experts as to means of improving vault facilities of the Treasury Department. September 30, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate resolution of September 22, 1893, as to number of standard silver dollars coined under the act of February 28, 1878, and July 14, 1890, exported and imported, etc. October 19, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to a resolution of the Senate of October 2, 1893, calling for a statement giving the aggregate amount of silver bullion purchased during September, 1893, together with the cost thereof, the amount, the date, and price of each purchase, etc. October 14, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate inquiry of the 9th instant relative to the redemption of silver certificates in gold, etc. October 19, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, requesting certain appropriations for use of light-ship service. September 13, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Attorney General, in answer to Senate resolution of August 28, 1893, calling for the aggregate of judgments against the United States for the payment of which no appropriations have been made by Congress. September 15, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Board of Engineers regarding obstructions in the Columbia River. September 7, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to Senate resolution of October 10, inquiring if the government has borrowed any money since March 5, 1885. October 13, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting papers concerning claim of Casuse Costello as settler on certain Indian reservation, with favorable recommendation for. September 12, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate resolution of the 19th instant requesting information as to whether any part of the volume of national-bank notes has been withdrawn from circulation by national banks since August 15, 1893. September 22, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Serial set 3145 In the Senate of the United States. November 1, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar presented the following memorial from Rev. Gilbert Reid, formerly a missionary in China, protesting against the legislation of May 5, 1892, known as the "Geary Law."...
In the Senate of the United States. August 14, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands (to accompany S. 417), and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell presented the following memorial of Chas. Mousso [i.e., Musso], praying the passage of a law to perfect the title of the United States to the tract of land lying on the west side of Lake Pepin and the Mississippi River in the State of Minnesota...
Annual report of the Librarian of Congress for the calendar year 1892.
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees presented the following amendment intended to be proposed to the rules of the Senate, namely: Add to rule 9 the following section...
In the Senate of the United States. September 16, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate when and in what amounts government bonds have been purchased since the year 1879...
In the Senate of the United States. September 15, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller presented the following statement from the Acting Director of the Mint showing the production of gold and silver of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico.
In the Senate of the United States. September 5, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that on Thursday, the 7th day of September, and until further order of the Senate, the daily hour of meeting be 11 o'clock antemeridian.
In the Senate of the United States. September 8, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate -- First, Whether at any time...within three months last past, the national banks, or any of them, in the cities of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia failed to keep and maintain their bank reserves as required by law...
In the Senate of the United States. September 23, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the independence of the coordinate departments of the government -- the legislative, the executive, and the judicial -- must be maintained...
In the Senate of the United States. September 25, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate when, in what amounts, and under what circumstances the Treasury Department has anticipated the payment of interest on government bonds outstanding.
In the Senate of the United States. August 8, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lodge submitted the following resolution: Whereas Congress has been called in extraordinary session on account of the unfortunate condition of business...
In the Senate of the United States. August 7, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter of the Sergeant-at-Arms, U.S. Senate, with complete list of all property belonging to the United States in his possession on the 7th day of August, 1893.
In the Senate of the United States. August 7, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The Vice President presented the following letter of Anson G. McCook, Secretary United States Senate, submitting a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Senate, the items of expenses under proper appropriations and the aggregate thereof, and exhibiting the exact condition of all public moneys received, paid out, and remaining in his possession from July 1, 1893, to August 7, 1893.
In the Senate of the United States. August 31, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gorman submitted the following letters from C.S. Hamlin, Acting Secretary, and T.A. [i.e., F.A.] Mahan, Captain of Engineers, U.S. Army, Engineer Secretary, in relation to appropriation for completion of light-house at Solomons Lump...
In the Senate of the United States. August 25, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vest presented the following letter of the Director of the Mint submitting a statement relative to the cost and coining value of silver purchased under the Acts of February 28, 1878, and July 14, 1890.
In the Senate of the United States. August 25, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. August 31, 1893. -- Ordered printed. Mr. Higgins submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the Secretary of War be requested to cause to be furnished to Congress...
In the Senate of the United States. Monetary systems and approximate stocks of money in the aggregate and per capita in the principal countries of the world. Presented by Mr. Cockrell. August 28, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. August 28, 1893. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Stewart submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to inform the Senate whether there is danger of a deficiency in the revenues of the government during the current year...
In the Senate of the United States. August 28, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell presented the following statement of the production of gold and silver in the world, 1792-1892.
In the Senate of the United States. August 21, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer presented the following petition of the Anaheim Cooperative Beet Sugar Company, of Anaheim, Orange County, Cal., protesting against the repeal of the sugar-bounty law...
In the Senate of the United States. August 17, 1893. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Gallinger submitted the following resolution: Directing the Committee on Pensions to inquire and report to Senate whether Secretary of Interior and Commissioner of Pensions have conformed to existing laws in suspending and dropping names from pension rolls...
In the Senate of the United States. August 15, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims (to accompany S. 454) and ordered to be printed. Mr. Daniel submitted the following memorial of the Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) for compensation for injury to property during the late war.
In the Senate of the United States. August 28, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice President presented the following letter from the Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the findings of facts in the case of Randolph & Stark vs. the United States, No. 8704.
In the Senate of the United States. September 4, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees presented the following letter from the Secretary of the Navy relative to the remission of duties on naval ordnance, ordnance supplies, and materials, purchased abroad...
In the Senate of the United States. August 14, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance to accompany S. 294, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees presented the following: Letter of Secretary of the Treasury recommending the passage of the Bill (S. 294), to provide for issue of circulating notes to national banks...
In the Senate of the United States. August 14, 1893. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Hill submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that it is the sense of the Senate that no legislation, other than legislation pertaining to the finances, should be considered at the present extraordinary session of Congress.
In the Senate of the United States. August 22, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inform the Senate... in what respect the national banks... are being now conducted in violation of law...
In the Senate of the United States. Annual report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy, made to Congress and the Secretary of War for the year 1893. Presented by Mr. Cullom. August 15, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. August 30, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter from the Clerk of the United States Court of Claims transmitting the findings of fact in the case of Lovell et al. vs. the United States. No. 9244.
In the Senate of the United States. August 17, 1893. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Kyle submitted the following resolution: Calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the custom of national banks in retiring or increasing their currency...
In the Senate of the United States. September 27, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate when, in what amounts, and under what circumstances the Treasury Department has anticipated the payment of the annual interest on government bonds since the 1st of July, 1880.
In the Senate of the United States. September 29, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inform the Senate whether a national commission, composed of private citizens, is investigating the New York Customhouse and making reports and recommendations concerning the same...
In the Senate of the United States. October 7, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that a select committee of five Senators be appointed by the chair to investigate the Ford Theater disaster and report to the Senate whether in equity and justice the government should compensate the sufferers of that disaster for the injuries sustained by them...
In the Senate of the United States. October 6, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate whether the government at any time, since the 5th day of March, 1885, to the present time, has borrowed any money...
In the Senate of the United States. October 7, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wolcott submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Senate Committee on Finance be directed to report a bill for the coinage of gold and silver, in accordance with the policy set forth in the bill reported by the Committee August 28, 1893, being House Bill No. 1.
In the Senate of the United States. October 9, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of State be directed to inform the Senate whether the Government of China has requested of the United States an extension of time for the registration of Chinese laborers in this country...
In the Senate of the United States. October 5, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill presented the following notice of an amendment intended to be proposed to the rules of the Senate, viz: Amend rule 5...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson presented the following amendment intended to be proposed to the rules of the Senate, viz: Amend Rule XII by inserting an additional clause, as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kyle presented the following: Statements of the gross earnings, operating expenses, net earnings, interest, and dividends of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads from 1864 to 1892.
In the Senate of the United States. October 16, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph presented the following order: Whereas on the call of the Senate just had Senators Allen and Kyle were present in the Senate Chamber and did not answer when their names were called...
The future of silver by Eduard Suess, Professor of Geology at the University of Vienna, Austria, Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Science, member of the Austrian Parliament, etc. Translated by Robert Stein, U.S. Geological Survey. Published by permission of the author and by direction of the Committee on Finance, Senate of the United States. November 2, 1893. -- Presented by Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. August 8, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that on and after Thursday, August 10, 1893, until otherwise ordered, the hour of meeting of the Senate shall be at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.
In the Senate of the United States. August 7, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The Vice President presented the following letter from Anson G. McCook, Secretary of the United States Senate, submitting a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Senate, exhibiting the exact conditions of all public moneys received, paid out and remaining in his possession from July 1, 1892, to June 30, 1893.
Fifty-third Congress. (First session.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. By Francis M. Cox, editor and compiler. Special edition. Corrected to August 7, 1893.
In the Senate of the United States. August 7, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter of Anson G. McCook, Secretary of the United States Senate, submitting the letter of E.T. Cressey, assistant librarian, transmitting catalogue of books in the library, including those stored in the basement.
In the Senate of the United States. August 7, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter of Anson G. McCook, Secretary of the Senate, submitting an index of private claims from the Forty-seventh to the Fifty-first Congress, inclusive, prepared under resolution of the Senate of September 30, 1890.
List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the Fifty-third Congress. March 15, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. August 15, 1894. -- Reprinted.
In the Senate of the United States. August 7, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The Vice President presented the following letter of the Sergeant-at-Arms, with a statement of all money received by him from sale of condemned property belonging to the United States, and disposition made of same.
In the Senate of the United States. August 7, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The Vice President presented the following letter of Anson G. McCook, Secretary of the Senate, submitting a full and complete account of all property belonging to the United States in his possession on the 7th day of August, 1893.
In the Senate of the United States. August 22, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter from the Architect of the Capitol, in answer to Senate resolution of August 16, concerning the safety and condition of the Maltby building...
In the Senate of the United States. August 22, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following report of the Committee on Proposed Legislation by Congress, of the Northeast Washington Association, submitted July 24, 1893: (To accompany S. 656.)...
In the Senate of the United States. September 4, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to furnish to the Senate, without unnecessary delay, full information on the following subjects...
In the Senate of the United States. August 14, 1893. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Stewart presented the following editorial, printed in the New York Recorder, of August 13, 1893...
In the Senate of the United States. August 14, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice President presented the following letter from the United States Court of Claims, transmitting certified copy of the findings of Court of Claims in the case of Isaac Davenport, Jr., and other claimants versus the United States.
In the Senate of the United States. September 29, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron presented the following memorial from the business men of Philadelphia in relation to tariff and financial legislation.
In the Senate of the United States. September 30, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to furnish the Senate with a statement giving the aggregate amount of silver bullion purchased under the act of July 14, 1890...
In the Senate of the United States. November 1, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill presented the following amendment intended to be proposed to the rules of the Senate: Resolved, that rule 5 of the standing rules of the Senate be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding at the end thereof the following...
In the Senate of the United States. September 4, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mills submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that rule 22 of the Senate be so amended as to read as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. Statement of the production of gold and silver in the world since the discovery of America. Presented by Mr. Vest. August 14, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. August 14, 1893. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Gordon submitted the following resolution: Whereas in this government of the people the popular will is sovereign in its character, and when clearly expressed should be authoritative with Congress...
In the Senate of the United States. August 17, 1893. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the condition of the various appropriations for the erection of public buildings...
In the Senate of the United States. August 28, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell presented the following letter from R.E. Preston, acting director of the Mint, transmitting statements of the production and coinages of the principal countries of the world for the years 1873-1892.
In the Senate of the United States. October 4, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that it be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire and report what provisions, if any, of the act approved January 18, 1837...
In the Senate of the United States. October 4, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that a Select Committee of three senators be appointed by the Vice President, whose duty it shall be to consider and report whether any and what legislation is necessary to improve the banking system of the country...
In the Senate of the United States. September 29, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be directed to inform the Senate what regulation have been made and what action has been taken, if any...
In the Senate of the United States. October 14, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart presented the following amendment intended to be proposed to the rules: Resolved, that the following rule be added to and be a standing rule of the Senate: Rule 41. No senator who is directly or indirectly interested in any national bank...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee of Foreign Relations and to be printed. Mr. George submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, directed to communicate to the Senate the present status of the claim of W.L. Hardy, John L. Carter, and William T. Holland against the Government of Spain for damages...
In the Senate of the United States. October 13, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be, and they are hereby, directed to inquire and report to the Senate, at as early a day as practicable...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893 (Calendar day, October 30, 1893) -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following: Correspondence with the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the disposition on the seigniorage arising from the coinage of silver purchased under the Act of July 14, 1890.
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution: Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that beginning with the first day of the regular session of the Fifty-third Congress, to wit...
In the Senate of the United States. October 14, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lodge presented the following amendments intended to be proposed to the rules: Amend Rule XIX, clause 1, by adding "and it shall not be in order at any time for any Senator to read a speech either written or printed."
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller presented the following paper from the Journal of the Society of Arts. Proceedings of the Society.
In the Senate of the United States. October 14, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger presented the following amendment intended to be proposed to the rules: Rule. -- When any bill or resolution reported from a standing or select committee is under consideration if a majority of the entire membership of the Senate submit a request in writing, through the chair, that debate close...
In the Senate of the United States. October 16, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kyle submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate of the United States, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to furnish to the Senate...the expenses incurred by John W. Jacobus, U.S. Marshal...
In the Senate of the United States. November 1, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill presented the following amendment intended to be proposed to the rules of the Senate: Resolved, that subdivision 2 of rule 5 of the standing rules of the Senate be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. September 16, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell presented the following statement showing the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year 1893.
In the Senate of the United States. September 6, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen presented the following memorial of A. Wolcott, of Wolcott, Ind. No international bimetallism including Great Britain is possible.
In the Senate of the United States. September 11, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that a Committee of five be appointed by the President of the Senate to inquire if any Senator is or has been a stockholder of or directly or indirectly interested in any national bank or the stock of such bank...
In the Senate of the United States. September 5, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate of the United States, that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to immediately report to the Senate why they have permitted a factory for boiling and manufacturing into fertilizers all garbage and dead animals...
In the Senate of the United States. September 15, 1893. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Voorhees presented the following resolutions adopted at a convention of representatives of business organizations praying for the immediate and unconditional repeal of the purchasing clause of the act of July 14, 1890.
In the Senate of the United States. August 22, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. September 6, 1893. -- Ordered to be reprinted. Mr. Hoar presented the following letter from Ernest Seyd to Samuel Hooper on the subject of coinage.
In the Senate of the United States. September 16, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Interstate Commerce be instructed to inquire whether and what legislation is necessary to prevent interruption of interstate railway traffic by lawless and unauthorized persons...
In the Senate of the United States. August 21, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller presented the following letter from Frederick C. Waite, relative to cause of financial and industrial depression...
In the Senate of the United States. September 22, 1893. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inform the Senate whether an investigating commission composed of private citizens is employed in the New York Customhouse in inquiring into the methods of doing business therein...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dubois submitted the following resolution: Whereas several sovereign states are without full representation in the Senate which they are entitled to: therefore...
In the Senate of the United States. September 20, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger, from the Select Committee on the Employment of Armed Bodies of Men for Private Purposes, submitted the following supplement to Report No. 1280...
In the Senate of the United States. September 21, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill presented the following notice of an amendment intended to be proposed to the rules of the Senate, viz: Add to rule 9 the following section...
In the Senate of the United States. September 21, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell presented the following letter from the Acting Director of the Mint, giving the amount and cost and coining value in silver dollars, and amount coined, of silver purchased under the act of July 14, 1890, to September 1, 1893.
In the Senate of the United States. September 21, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that Rule 9 of the Senate be amended by adding the following section...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. The President Pro Tempore presented the following letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in reply to Senate Resolution of September 5, 1893, in regard to garbage, etc., destroyed within the city limits...
In the Senate of the United States. September 19, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt submitted the following notice of an amendment intended to be proposed to the rules of the Senate, viz: Add to rule 9 the following section...
In the Senate of the United States. September 21, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar presented the following notice of an amendment intended to be proposed to the rules of the Senate...
In the Senate of the United States. September 15, 1893. Mr. Manderson submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be instructed to inform the Senate whether any of the United States land offices in the States of Nebraska and Oregon have been abolished or consolidated...
In the Senate of the United States. September 5, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following concurrent resolution to raise a joint committee of the two Houses to consider questions of finance...
In the Senate of the United States. August 23, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees presented the following petition from Mr. John Overmyer, of North Vernon, Ind., relative to tax on average deposits of national banks and to repeal tax on circulation.
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Serial set 3146 Report of the commission appointed to inquire into the Indian currency commonly known as the Herschell Report on the Coinage of Silver in India, with the accompanying correspondence and testimony. 1
Serial set 3147 In the Senate of the United States. September 8, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 724.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 724) for the relief of the owners of the Schillinger patents, having considered the same...
In the Senate of the United States. November 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Walthall, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 172.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 172) to establish a military post at or near the City of Grand Forks, in Grand Forks County, in the State of North Dakota...
In the Senate of the United States. September 6, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 109.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 109) for the relief of the legal representatives of Chauncy M. Lockwood, having had the same under consideration...
In the Senate of the United States. September 6, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: (To accompany Senate resolution providing compensation for John B. Allen for his time and expense in prosecuting his claim to a seat in the United States Senate...
In the Senate of the United States. September 4, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 71.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill S. 71, have examined the same and recommend the passage of the bill...
In the Senate of the United States. September 6, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Power, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 335.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 335) to provide for the disposal of the abandoned Fort Maginnis military reservation in Montana, under the homestead and mining laws...
In the Senate of the United States. September 6, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: (To accompany Senate resolution providing compensation for Lee Mantle for his time and expense in prosecuting his claim to a seat in the United States Senate from Montana.)
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 16.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 16) granting a pension to Nettie N. Seaver, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wolcott, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 344.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 344) for the relief of William M. Keightley, have had the same under consideration and make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 307.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 307) granting a pension to Earnest C. Emerson, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 553.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 553) granting a pension to Martha R. Hitchcock, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. November 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gorman, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report: (To accompany House concurrent resolution directing the Public Printer to furnish 22 additional copies of the Congressional Record to each representative and delegate... during the extraordinary session of the Fifty-third Congress...
In the Senate of the United States. November 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Walthall, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 810.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 810) authorizing the Secretary of War to donate a certain cannon to the Naval Veteran Association of Baltimore, Md., have considered the same and recommend its passage...
In the Senate of the United States. November 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Walthall, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 132.) The Committee on Military Affairs to whom was referred the Bill (S. 132) making an appropriation to enlarge the military post of Fort Meade, near the City of Sturgiss, in the State of South Dakota...
In the Senate of the United States. November 3, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gorman, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report: (To accompany Senate resolution to print the annual report of the Librarian of Congress for the calendar year 1892...
In the Senate of the United States. November 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: (To accompany H. Res. 22.) The Committee on Finance, to which was referred the Joint Resolution (H. Res. 22) to amend the act approved April 25, 1890...
In the Senate of the United States. November 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Walthall, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 1045.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1045) authorizing the Secretary of War to donate four obsolete gun carriages to the City of Marshaltown, Iowa...
In the Senate of the United States. August 28, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 721.) ...the following letter of Dr. Hammett to the Commissioners and the indorsement of the Commissioners thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. August 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gorman, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report: (To accompany Senate resolution authorizing the printing of 2,000 copies of the Herschell Report on the Coinage of Silver in India for the use of the Senate.)...
In the Senate of the United States. September 4, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettigrew, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 171.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate Bill 171, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 1, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kyle, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 45.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred Senate Bill 45, for the relief of William H. Ward, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report the same with recommendation that it do pass...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 577.) This bill was carefully examined by this Committee during the first session of the Fifty-second Congress and a full consideration given to all the evidence submitted and favorably reported and subsequently passed the Senate...
In the Senate of the United States. October 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Martin, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 355.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 355) "To Prevent Fraudulent Divorces in the District of Columbia," have examined the same and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wolcott, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 345.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 345) for the relief of H.A.W. Tabor, have had the same under consideration and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. October 11, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 882.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 882) granting a pension to Frances Corse, widow of Gen. John M. Corse, have given the matter careful consideration and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. October 9, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 1058.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1058) for the relief of Chester B. Sweet, of California, having had the same under consideration, report the same without amendment and recommend its passage...
In the Senate of the United States. October 5, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: To accompany S. 463, to reimburse the State of Nebraska the expenses incurred by that state in repelling a threatened invasion and raid by the Sioux in 1890-'91...
In the Senate of the United States. October 5, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 464.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 464) entitled "A Bill for the Issue of Ordnance Stores and Supplies to the State of Nebraska to Replace Similar Stores Destroyed by Fire," have considered the same...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 920.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 920) to pension Mary Brown, of Berlin, Vt., have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. November 1, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 945.) The Committee on Public Lands, having had under consideration Senate Bill 945...
In the Senate of the United States. November 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany Joint Resolution (H.R. 83) donating an abandoned cannon to the committee in charge of the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1894)...
In the Senate of the United States. November 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Walthall, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 146.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 146) to establish a military post at or near the City of Pierre, Hughes County, in the State of South Dakota...
In the Senate of the United States. November 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany H.R. 3571.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3571) to increase the number of officers of the Army to be detailed to colleges, have had the same under consideration...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 578.) This bill was favorably reported by this Committee during the first session of the Fifty-second Congress after a careful examination of all the evidence and a full consideration of the same...
In the Senate of the United States. August 30, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 341.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 341) "To Submit to the Court of Private Land Claims Established under an Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1891, the Title of William McGarrahan to the Rancho Panoche Grande, in the State of California, and for Other Purposes," submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 4, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 73.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate Bill S. 73, have examined the same and recommend that the bill be passed...
In the Senate of the United States. October 3, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 684.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 684) for the relief of Mrs. Evalyn N. Van Vliet, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Palmer, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 876.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 876) granting a pension to Rebecca H. Chambers, have examined the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPhersons, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report upon Mis. Doc. 33, resolution by Mr. Stewart, as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gorman, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report: (To accompany House concurrent resolution to print 2,000 copies of the hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means for the use of the House.)...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the following resolution submitted by Mr. Peffer August 22, 1893...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 475.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 475) for the relief of John Little and Hobart Williams, of Omaha, Nebr., having had the same under consideration, report it back and recommend its passage...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. White, of Louisiana, from the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, submitted the following report: The Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, having had under consideration the resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of five Senators to investigate the Ford Theater disaster...
In the Senate of the United States. October 16, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 874.) The Committee on Finance, to which was referred the Bill (S. 874) for the relief of W.W. Rollins...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 476.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 476) for the relief of John Palmier, of Pine Ridge Agency, Shannon County, S. Dak., having had the same under consideration...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893 (Calendar day, October 30, 1893). -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Berry, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: (To accompany H.R. 3627.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3627) granting to the Territory of Arizona certain lands for the use of territorial prison...
In the Senate of the United States. September 7, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pasco, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 411.) This case was before the Senate in the Fifty-second Congress. The amount then claimed was $500...
In the Senate of the United States. September 6, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 110.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 110) for the relief of L.A. Davis, having had the same under consideration, beg to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 6, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Berry, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 333.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 333) for the relief of Margaret Kennedy, report the same back to the Senate with a recommendation that the bill pass...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 477.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, having had under consideration the Bill S. 477, "A Bill Extending Relief of Indian Citizens, and for Other Purposes," report it back, recommending its passage with certain amendments...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 17.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 17) granting a pension to Julia A. Hill, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wolcott, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 343.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 343) for the relief of Royal M. Hubbard, have had the same under consideration and make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 305.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 305) granting a pension to Annie M. Greene, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 308.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 308) granting a pension to Mary A. Wise, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 309.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 309) granting an increase of pension to Harrison De F. Young, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. September 4, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 79.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate Bill 79, having considered the same, report the bill favorably and recommend its passage...
In the Senate of the United States. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pasco, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 653.) The Committee on Public Lands have had under consideration the Bill (S. 653) "To Open Certain Parts of the Fort Jupiter Military Reservation, in the State of Florida, to Entry under the Homestead Laws," and submit the following report thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. August 28, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 418.) ..."referring to the Court of Claims the claim of William E. Woodbridge for compensation for the use of the United States of his invention relating to projectiles, for which letters patent were ordered to issue to him March 25, 1852," respectfully report...
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Serial set 3148 In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress to Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany -- ) The Joint Commission of Congress to Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 8939) to abolish the Office of Solicitor of Internal Revenue...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: The Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Department[s] submit for the information of Congress, and without recommendation, the accompanying report of the experts concerning the duties of registers and receivers of land offices...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany H.R. 8504.) The Joint Commission... to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 8504) to improve the public surveys...
In the Senate of the United States. Organization of the executive departments and other government establishments at the national capital, and information concerning the persons employed therein. October 9, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Proposed change in form of Treasury warrants. May 26, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: ...a report of the experts of the Commission recommending a change in the form of the warrant for the payment of money out of the Treasury...
In the Senate of the United States. Dispensing with the present form of engrossing and enrolling bills and joint resolutions and directing the use of printed copies of the same. October 17, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
References to laws organizing executive departments and other government establishments at the national capital. September 30, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission To Inquire into the Status of the Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, etc., submitted the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. Contracts for fuel and other supplies for the departments. October 31, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 2762.) The Joint Commission... to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 7057) to repeal Section 229 of the Revised Statutes of the United States...
In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: The Joint Commission... with reference to the method of collecting the Customs and rendering the accounts thereof to the Auditor of the Treasury...
In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: The Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments submit herewith, for the information of Congress, the report and recommendations of the experts of the commission with reference to preserving the copies of letters written in the various departments of the government...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress to Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: The Joint Commission..., addressed a communication to the head of each of the executive departments and other establishments of the government situated in the District of Columbia...
In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: The Joint Commission... with reference to checking paid money orders against the reports of issue...
In the Senate of the United States. December 13, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress to inquire into the status of laws organizing the executive departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 1260 (same as H.R. 4610).) The Joint Commission... to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4610) to improve the methods of accounting in the Post Office Department...
Making of property returns. In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress to Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 1553, same as H.R. 5530) The Joint Commission of Congress to Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments...
Methods of accounting in the Treasury. In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 1738.) The Joint Commission of Congress...
Methods of accounting in the Treasury. April 2, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Corckrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 1831.) ...to improve the methods of accounting in the Treasury Department, and for other purposes...
In the Senate of the United States. International money order statistics. May 26, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report:...
In the Senate of the United States. Disposition of old money orders. May 26, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report:...
In the Senate of the United States. December 14, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Corckrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany H.R. 4340.) ...to amend Section 407 of the Revised Statutes...
Accounts of the Treasurer. In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress to inquire into the status of laws organizing the executive departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 1552, same as H.R. 5529.) The Joint Commission of Congress to Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments...
In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany H.R. 8491 -- same as 2574.) The Joint Commission... to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 8491) to repeal section 2 of the act of May 12, 1880...
In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 2636 -- same as H.R. 8490.) The Joint Commission of Congress To inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 8490) to regulate the engrossing and recording of patents for public lands and for other purposes...
In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress To Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 2691, same as H.R. 8716.) The Joint Commission... to amend Section 3711 of the Revised Statutes concerning purchases of coal and wood...
In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress to Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: (To accompany S. 2713. Same as H.R. 8754.) The Joint Commission of Congress to Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments...
In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Joint Commission of Congress to Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, submitted the following report: The Joint Commission of Congress to Inquire into the Status of Laws Organizing the Executive Departments, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 8704)...
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Serial set 3149 Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the first session of the Fifty-third Congress, begun and held at the City of Washington August 7, 1893, in the one hundred and eighteenth year of the independence of the United States. 1
Serial set 3150 Chinese Exclusion Act. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting... information relating to instructions issued to United States attorneys, marshals, and other officers of the Department of Justice as to the enforcement of the act of May 5, 1892, together with the number arrested and ordered deported under such act. September 25, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed
Purchase of silver bullion. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to House resolution dated September 27, 1893, information as to why silver bullion was not purchased in the months of July and August. October 5, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures and ordered to be printed.
Detained pay to discharged enlisted men. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Paymaster-General of the Army with inclosures relating to the payment of detained pay to discharged enlisted men. October 25, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Comptroller of the Currency, relating to a deficiency in the amount of distinctive paper provided for national bank currency during the current fiscal year. August 24, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Additional appropriation for registers and receivers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting estimates of deficiencies in the appropriation for salaries and commissions of registers and receivers. October 27, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Enforcement of the Geary law. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to House resolution of the 22d, information relative to instructions issued to collectors of internal revenue and other officers of the Treasury Department relating to the enforcement of the Geary law. September 29, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Useless papers in the executive departments. Letter from the Postmaster General, referring to the act of Congress approved February 16, 1889, relating to useless papers in the executive departments. September 12, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed.
Appropriation for the Armory building. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required for placing in a safe condition the Armory building, occupied by the U.S. Fish Commission. September 12, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Light-houses at Wolf Trap, Va., and Solomons Lump, Md. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, relating to the appropriation for replacing the light-houses at Wolf Trap, Va., and Solomons Lump. Md. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Opening of the Cherokee Strip. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, pursuant to House resolution dated September 28, 1893, information relative to the opening of the Cherokee Strip. November 2, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Deficiency appropriation for the Civil Service Commission. Letter from the Acting President of the Civil Service Commission, transmitting an estimate of deficiency appropriation for salaries required for the period from September 15 next to the end of the fiscal year 1894. August 29, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Sundry citizens at Fort Logan, Colo. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with its inclosures, a copy of a letter from the commanding officer at Fort Logan, Colo., the result of the prosecution of sundry citizens for an offense committed on that reservation July 8, 1890, and recommending the reenactment of Section 5391, Revised Statutes. October 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Invalid pensions. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to House resolution dated October 4, information relating to the number of invalid pensions granted during the year ending September 1, 1893. October 10, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed.
Investigation of pension cases. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, at the request of the Secretary of the Interior, an additional estimate of appropriation for investigation of pension cases for the current fiscal year. October 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Appropriation for public lands service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, at the request of the Secretary of the Interior, additional estimates of appropriations required for the public lands service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894. October 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Site for public building at San Francisco, Cal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to House resolution of the 4th instant, all papers relating to the selection and purchase of a site for a building at San Francisco, Cal. October 11, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed.
Deficiency in appropriation for pay of assistant custodians and janitors. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for pay of assistant custodians and janitors for the fiscal year 1894. October 14, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Additional appropriation for Department of Justice. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Attorney-General submitting an additional estimate of appropriation for the use of the Department of Justice. October 27, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Pay of certain employes, Court of Appeals, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia requesting an appropriation to pay certain employes of the court. October 27, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Purchase and coinage of silver. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to House resolution of the 16th instant, information relating to the purchase and coinage of silver under the act of July 14, 1890. August 22, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Obstructions to navigation in the Columbia River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers submitting a copy of the report of the Board of Engineers appointed by the President, under authority contained in the river and harbor Act of July 13, 1892, as to obstructions to navigation in the Columbia River. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Message of the President of the United States, communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Fifty-third Congress. August 8, 1893. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.
Thorwald Olsen. Letter from the Secretary of War, with inclosures, relative to the passage of a bill for the relief of Commissary-Sergeant Olsen, U.S. Army. October 14, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Pensions to soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated for manual labor. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to House resolution of the 11th instant, information relating to the "Act Granting Pensions to Soldiers and Sailors Who Are Incapacitated for Manual Labor." October 16, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed.
Payment to contractors for construction of vessels for the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, pursuant to House resolution of the 11th instant, information relating to payments made to contractors for construction of vessels for the Navy on account of speed, etc. October 19, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Inspectors, General Land Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of inspectors of the Land Office for the current fiscal year. November 1, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, pursuant to House resolution, information relating to the Union Pacific Railroad. October 20, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed.
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Serial set 3151 Consular appointments. September 26, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
T.B. Munford and M.A.E. Smith, deceased. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the cases of the following named persons against the United States: T.B. Munford, deceased, M.A.E. Smith, deceased. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
G.A. Carlisle, deceased. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of G.A. Carlisle, deceased, against the United States. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
P.E. Hogue, deceased. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of P.E. Hogue, deceased, against the United States. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
N.P. Harbin, deceased. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of N.P. Harbin, deceased, against the United States. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Distribution of books and documents. September 11, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
William Garrett, deceased. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William Garrett, deceased, against the United States. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
M.A. Staples, deceased. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of M.A. Staples, deceased, against the United States. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
A.T. Terrill and others. Communication from the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the cases of the following named persons against the United States: A.T. Terrill, W. Robinson, deceased, J. Doolin, W.R. Welborn, J.N. Tucker, O. White, deceased, E. Cooper, W.L. Otey, deceased, G.W. Roberts, Wm. Harris, deceased, N. Doyle, deceased, T.J. Waller, deceased...
Communication from the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Samuel Chase against the United States. November 2, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Report of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893.
List of members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and their places of residence, during the Fifty-third Congress. (First session.) Commencing August 7, 1893.
Sale of waste paper. Letter from the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, transmitting a report of the sales of waste paper during the term of the Fifty-second Congress. August 8, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Rules of the House of Representatives. August 25, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed and laid on the table.
James Reynolds, deceased. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of James Reynolds, deceased, against the United States. October 5, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
B.R. White. Communication from the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of B.R. White against the United States. October 5, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
R.P. Chambers, deceased. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case R.P. Chambers, deceased, against the United States. October 18, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Personnel of the Navy. October 19, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
J.O. Buford and others. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting copies of the findings of the court in the cases of the following named persons against the United States: J.O. Buford, S.W. George, James Bridgman, deceased, A. Morrison, deceased. November 3, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Contested election cases. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting a list of the contests for seats in the House of Representatives of the Fifty-third Congress of the United States.
Standing committees of the House of Representatives of the United States, Fifty-third Congress, first session, commencing Monday, August 7, 1893.
List of books, pamphlets, and maps in the folding room, House of Representatives. August 8, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the House of Representatives of the United States. Annual report of James Kerr, Clerk of the House of Representatives, showing the receipts and disbursements of the House of Representatives from July 1, 1892, to June 30, 1893. August 8, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
Property in charge of the Doorkeeper. Letter from the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, transmitting an inventory of all the property under his control August 7, 1893. August 15, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
List of reports to be made to Congress. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives transmitting a list of reports to be made to Congress by public officers. August 15, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Ann M. Montgomery. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ann M. Montgomery against the United States. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Peyton Burdette, deceased. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of P. Burdette, deceased, against the United States. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
B.F. Raiff. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of B.F. Raiff against the United States. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims 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. Fifty-third Congress, first session. Commencing Monday, August 7, 1893.
Heirs of Robert J. Smith and others. October 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Deficiency in appropriation for clerk hire for members. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, calling attention to a deficiency in the appropriation for clerk hire for members. October 13, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Cases dismissed for want of further jurisdiction. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a list of cases under Act of March 3, 1883, dismissed for want of further jurisdiction on the preliminary inquiry of loyalty. October 18, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee of War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Clerk to Committee on Education. October 18, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Daniel R. McNeill, deceased. Copy of the findings of the Court of Claims in the case of D.R. McNeill, deceased, against the United States. October 24, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
J.H. and J.B. Abington. Copy of the findings of the Court of Claims in the cases of the following-named persons against the United States: J.H. and J.B. Abington, administrators. October 23, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
P. Allan, deceased, et al. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of the following-named persons against the United States: P. Allan, deceased, T. Corbett, I. Curry, T.M Grayson, S.P. Grove, deceased, J.A. Harmon, F. Hildebrand, J. Hill, T. Hilleary, A. Hutzell, deceased, W.H. Mathias, administrator, J. Poffinberger, deceased, T.B. Stewart T.W. Stonestreet, J.A. Tennant, C.P. Thompson, J. Viers, deceased. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
A.E. Harper, deceased. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of A.E. Harper, deceased, against the United States. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Petition of Joshua Bishop, a commander in the U.S. Navy, forwarded by the Secretary of the Navy, praying for the passage of a bill to pay him certain due and unpaid salary. September 9, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
John Unseld. Letter from the clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John Unseld against the United States. September 21, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Elisha Mannaker. Letter from the clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Elisha Mannakee against the United States. September 21, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
G.W. Smith. Letter from the clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of G.W. Smith against the United States. September 21, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
Jefferson Brownfield. Letter from the clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Jefferson Brownfield against the United States. September 21, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.
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Serial set 3152 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Eastern Theater: Richmond-Petersburg Campaign/Expedition against Fort Fisher; August-December 1864; Series 1, Vol. 42, Chapter 54, Part 1] 1
Serial set 3153 The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Eastern Theater: Richmond-Petersburg Campaign; August-September 1864; Series 1, Vol. 42, Chapter 54, Part 2] 1
Serial set 3154 The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Main Eastern Theater: Richmond-Petersburg Campaign/Expedition against Fort Fisher; October-December 1864; Series 1, Vol, 42, Chapter 54, Part 3] 1
Serial set 3155 Reports from the consuls of the United States. Vol. XLII. Nos. 152, 153, 154, and 155. May, June, July, and August, 1893. 1
Serial set 3156 Tariff hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means. First session, Fifty-third Congress. 1893 1
Serial set 3157 Steam revenue cutter for service on the Great Lakes. October 20, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Sally H. Tompkins. October 23, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
William H. Quinn. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Henry Judge. October 17, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Disqualification of judges, etc., in certain cases. September 23, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Mille Lac Indian Reservation. October 30, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Charges to juries. September 23, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Public printing and binding, and the distribution of public documents. September 12, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the committee.
Claim of the State of Florida. September 11, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Edward Hurley. September 25, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Mrs. V. Thunot. September 19, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Disqualification of registers and receivers of the United States. September 20, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Safety of national banks. September 23, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee.
Vacancies in the office of President and Vice President. September 25, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Raleigh, N.C. September 20, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Additional clerk to the Committee on Naval Affairs. September 25, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Approval postmasters' bonds. September 25, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Repeal of Sections 2002 to 2031 Revised Statutes. September 20, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Remission of the duties on ammunition for naval ordnance imported by the Secretary of the Navy. September 23, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Amending Section 4430, Revised Statutes. September 23, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Eastern Judicial District of Florida. November 3, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Securities of John S. Bradford. November 1, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
United States courts in Mississippi. November 2, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Appointment of and number on Committees of the House. August 18, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Catchings, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following report: The Committee on Rules, to whom were referred the rules of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-second Congress...
Consular appointments. September 26, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
William McGarrahan. October 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Horses and other property lost in military service. September 26, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
William Johnson. October 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
uniform system of bankruptcy. October 4, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
James J. Haynes. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Thomas B. Reed. September 26, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Additional clerks, Health Department, District of Columbia. September 29, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Amendment to act to regulate commerce. October 4, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Louis [i.e., Lewis] Pelham. October 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Potomac Steamboat Company. October 9, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Amending the act to regulate commerce. October 4, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Concord and Bennington. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed
Mrs. Fannie M. Norman. October 11, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Amendment to the timber-culture laws. October 10, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Information from Department of the Interior. October 11, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Joseph Haxthausen. October 11, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
William P. Keady. October 5, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
George H. Plant. October 9, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Transfer of life-saving station from Morris to Sullivans Islands, near Charleston, S.C. October 11, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
C.P. Gooch. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Purchasers of certain timber lands. October 5, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Cairo, Ill. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Albert Wood. October 6, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Anna Hunt. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
United States courts in Idaho and Wyoming. October 10, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
W.J. Tapp & Co. October 11, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Public forest reservations. October 4, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Edward John Gallagher. October 6, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Speed trials and premiums paid on naval vessels. October 11, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Protection of persons furnishing material and labor for the construction of public works. October 11, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Amendment to act relating to admission of articles intended for the World's Columbian Exposition. October 13, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Addison M. Copen. October 17, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Amendment to Sections 828, 833, 847, and 1014, Revised Statutes. October 13, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Arden Thompson. October 23, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Free admission to American registry of ships built in foreign countries. October 30, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
State banks. October 27, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Henry Amick. October 23, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Bridges over the Calcasieu and Sabine Rivers. October 20, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Engineers on steam vessels of the United States. October 19, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Fees of the clerk of the United States court for Indian Territory. October 24, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Urgent deficiency appropriation bill. October 20, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Heirs of George W. Barnes. November 1, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Bridge over the Sulphur River, in Arkansas or in Texas. October 20, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Admission of New Mexico. October 31, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Reporting, marking, and removal of derelicts. October 20, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Railroad over the Hot Springs Reservation, Hot Springs, Ark. October 25, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Additional associate justices, Supreme Court of Oklahoma. October 30, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Admission of Utah. November 2, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Birmingham, Sheffield and Tennessee Railroad Company. November 2, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Equalization of salaries of inspectors of steam vessels. November 2, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Sale of land in Fort Cummings military reservation. November 2, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Dam across the Kansas River. November 2, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia. November 3, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Bridges over the Neches and Sabine Rivers in the States of Texas and Louisiana. November 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Choctaw Coal and Railway Company. November 2, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Cash entries of offered lands. November 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Admission of Arizona into the Union. November 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Distribution of books and documents. September 11, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. October 3, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
J.E. Merriam. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
W.W. Rollins. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Hiram Johnson and others. September 26, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
George McAlpin. October 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Pennsylvania war claims. September 26, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Bridge across Caddo Lake at or near Mooringsport, La. October 20, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Heirs of Martha A. Dealy. October 25, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Certain mortgage debtors. October 30, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Amendment to section 4131, Revised Statutes. October 19, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
World's Fair Prize Winners' Exposition. October 31, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Ambrose Giseburt. October 20, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Naturalization laws. October 24, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Revenue cutter for service in harbor of San Francisco. October 20, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Rules of the House of Representatives. August 25, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company of New York. September 12, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Cumberland Female College, McMinnville, Tenn. October 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Robert Travila. October 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Light and fog-signal station near Butler Flat, New Bedford, Mass. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Lincoln, Nebr. September 27, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
W.B. Morrow. October 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
William E. Woodbridge. September 26, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Massachusetts Avenue. September 27, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Allowance of pensions. October 4, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Lennes A. Jackson. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Catherine Caine. October 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Francis M. Tomlin. September 27, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Action of troops in the Cherokee Strip. September 28, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Heirs of Dr. Nathan Fletcher. September 26, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Cases pending in the United States courts. October 4, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Officers of the Army detailed to educational institutions. October 7, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Heirs of Mrs. Catherine P. Culver. October 5, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Grant of certain swamp lands to Arizona. October 10, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Henry W. Curtis. October 6, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Qualification of voters in the Cherokee Outlet. October 10, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Stations and depots on certain railroads in the territories. October 4, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Rights to settlers on certain lands in Oklahoma. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Amendment to section 2324, Revised Statutes. October 13, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Amendment to Section 3477, Revised Statutes. October 13, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Eastern District of Michigan. October 18, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Extension of North Capitol Street. October 18, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Steam revenue cutter for the New England coast. October 13, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Special judge in the federal court of Indian Territory. October 13, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Cherokee claimants to purchase tracts of land. October 17, 1893. -- Indefinitely postponed and ordered to be printed.
William P. White. October 17, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Time for holding federal courts in Nebraska. October 13, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Time for holding terms of United States courts in South Dakota. October 13, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
John A. Lynch. October 17, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Clerk to Committee on Education. October 18, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Hearings before the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, Fifty-third Congress. October 12, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Elizabeth A. Moore et al. October 12, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Amending section 5391, Revised Statutes. October 24, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Charles Walker. October 23, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Charles A. Hall. October 25, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Bridge over Little River in Arkansas. October 31, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
H.A. Yeager. October 23, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Amending Section 1058 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. October 24, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Additional copies of the Congressional Record. October 27, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Personnel of the Navy. October 19, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Russell G. Trump. October 23, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Hiram Walker. October 23, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Forfeiture of certain lands. October 31, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Additional clerks, District of Columbia. September 13, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
F.Y. Ramsey. September 12, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Louis L. Williams. October 4, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
John McCourt. October 6, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Sections 3480 and 4716, Revised Statutes. September 23, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Heirs of Robert J. Smith and others. October 3, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Contest, Fifth Congressional District of Michigan. September 9, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Christian Kiener. September 25, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
J.M. Billings. September 20, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Sections 1790 and 2693 of the Revised Statutes. September 25, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Sale of old public building at Louisville, Ky. September 20, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Assistant clerk to the Committee on Claims. September 23, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Benjamin Alford. September 20, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Bridge across the Hudson River. September 20, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Digest and Manual of Rules of House of Representatives. September 23, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Clerks to Committees. September 21, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Repeal of federal election laws. September 20, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Mary Matilda Flanigan. September 25, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Refund of duties on goods remaining in bonded warehouses October 6, 1890. September 23, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Concord and Bennington. September 23, 1893. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Amendment to Chinese Exclusion Act. October 4, 1893. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
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Serial set 3158 To improve the public surveys. February 28, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
Making of property returns by officers of the government. February 8, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed.
Bonds of officers of the United States. February 22, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
Engrossing and recording of land patents. January 23, 1895. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Organization of the executive departments and other government establishments at the national capital, and information concerning the persons employed therein. October 9, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Contracts for fuel and other supplies for the departments. October 30, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
References to laws organizing executive departments and other government establishments at the national capital. September 30, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Dispensing with the present form of engrossing and enrolling bills and joint resolutions and directing the use of printed copies of the same. October 26, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Section 229 of the Revised Statutes. February 15, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
Condition of business in the departments of the government at Washington. February 18, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
Collecting customs and rendering accounts therefor. March 2, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed
Checking money orders. March 2, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
Preserving copies of letters written in the departments. March 2, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
Accounts of the Treasurer. February 3, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed.
Methods of accounting in the Treasury. May 1, 1894. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Disposition of old money orders. May 26, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed.
To abolish Office of Solicitor of Internal Revenue. February 22, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
Registers and receivers of land offices. February 22, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
review of the work done by the joint commission -- reorganization of the accounting system and business methods in the executive departments. March 2, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
Reorganization of Supervising Architect's Office. March 2, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
Deposits of postmasters. December 12, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Methods of accounting in the Post Office Department, etc. December 13, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
Methods of accounting in the Treasury. March 6, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed.
Methods of accounting in the Treasury. March 29, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the committee.
Proposed change in the form of Treasury warrants. May 26, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed.
International money order statistics. May 26, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed.
Contested land cases. January 15, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
Purchases of coal and wood. January 31, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
Repeal of Section 194, Revised Statutes of the United States. February 4, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Serial set 3159 Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the second session of the Fifty-third Congress, begun and held at the City of Washington December 4, 1893, in the one hundred and eighteenth year of the independence of the United States. 1
Serial set 3160 In the Senate of the United States. Report on introduction of domesticated reindeer into Alaska. with maps and illustrations, by Sheldon Jackson, general agent of education in Alaska. 1894. March 28, 1894. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury in answer to the Senate resolution of February 16, 1894, giving a list of commissioners of immigration, with the dates of appointment and amount of salary paid them. February 19, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Immigration and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to the Senate resolution of February 2, 1894, stating the amount paid to the Chickasaw tribe of Indians as interest on their trust funds. February 20, 1894. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to the Senate resolution of February 16, 1894, and transmitting copies of additional dispatches, and exhibits thereto, relating to Hawaii. February 20, 1894. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in response to the Senate resolution of February 2, 1894, giving a statement of the paper money redeemed and reissued or destroyed since January 14, 1875; also giving statements relative to the establishment and maintenance of the gold reserve. February 21, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to the Senate resolution of January 4, 1894, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with papers bearing upon the Sioux mixed-blood question, together with correspondence had with the Attorney-General in relation thereto. March 12, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, forwarding report of Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. December 11, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of the Navy in answer to the Senate resolution of January 31, 1894, asking why the gunboat Castine was to be removed from Portsmouth (N.H.) to Norfolk Navy yard, etc., and informing the Senate that certain repairs on said gunboat are to be made at the New York Navy yard... February 2, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Postmaster General, relative to the claim of Irwin Tucker, the postmaster at Newport News, Va., for credit on account of losses from burglary of post office. April 5, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of amounts paid Special Deputy Marshal J.W. Jacobus, United States marshal for the Southern District of New York, for services rendered at and previous to the election held at the City of New York, November 8, 1892. December 4, 1893. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to the Senate resolution of March 7, 1894, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State concerning the landing of British troops at Bluefields, Nicaragua. March 19, 1894. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, forwarding letter from the Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing recommending amendment of act relating to the purchase of supplies for that Bureau. January 4, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting papers and correspondence relative to claim of Portland, Oreg., for special assessment against lots 1, 2, 7, and 8, block 172. January 3, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting statements of number of indictments found for violations of election laws since 1870, etc. January 8, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Attorney General, calling attention to the large sums due the United States from Utah for support of United States convicts in the territory. January 4, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of February 2, 1894, calling for information as to the number of offers for the purchase of bonds proposed to be issued and sold in the notice of January 17, 1894... February 8, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement of amounts paid United States attorneys in New York for examining titles to lands, etc. January 8, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting annual report of Commissioner of Schools for Utah. January 10, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Attorney-General, in response to the Senate resolution of February 21, 1894, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury with respect to silver certificates and the reply of the Attorney-General thereto. February 26, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of January 29, 1894, calling for advice relative to pensions issued on account of services in David West's Company B, in the battalion regiment of Arkansas Volunteers, commanded by Lieut. Col. William Gray, called into the service of the United States under Act of Congress approved May 13, 1846...
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1893, with respect to the value of textile fabrics purchased for the Army, the Navy, the Indian Bureau, and the Marine Hospital Service for the fiscal year 1893, transmitting reports... relative thereto. February 12, 1894. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, in response to the Senate resolution of February 27, 1894, transmitting a letter from the Commissioner of Labor, setting forth the reasons why the Census report on manufactures has not been published. March 5, 1894. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting form of a bill relative to Customs officers and Assistant Treasurers. February 28, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, in response to the Senate resolution of February 19, 1894, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, and copies of letters and reports received since November 7, 1892, relative to the Everett Harbor. March 5, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, in response to the Senate resolution of January 23, 1894, transmitting a report submitted by the Secretary of State inclosing correspondence between the governments of the United States and Colombia, Venezuela, and Haiti in reference to the President's proclamation of March 15, 1892, levying import duties on certain products under the McKinley law. March 7, 1894. --Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to the Senate resolution of February 2, 1894, submitted a statement of receipts and disbursements on account of the immigration fund for each year after 1889, and during six months ending December 31, 1893; also an estimate of expenses of the fiscal year 1895. March 5, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Immigration and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of additional dispatches from the minister at Hawaii, and inclosures accompanying the same. March 7, 1894. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to the Senate resolution of February 19, 1894, transmitting the report of the investigation in regard to the appraiser's office at Boston, together with the accompanying documents. March 28, 1894. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, in response to the Senate resolution of February 12, 1894, relative to the wheat crop of the United States. April 4, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in response to the Senate resolution of March 5, 1894, stating the interest account of nonpaying bonds in the Chickasaw trust funds. March 12, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a dispatch and inclosures recently received from the minister at Hawaii. March 20, 1894. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing a communication relative to the payment of Customs officers for the services rendered after the expiration of their commissions; also a form of resolution providing for payment in such cases. March 19, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting statement of all final judgments in claims arising from Indian depredations under act approved March 3, 1891. December 12, 1893. -- Referred to Committee on Indian Depredations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, forwarding report of government directors of Union Pacific Railway Company. December 7, 1893. Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of cost for dredging a channel from the Indian River of Florida to a certain point in that vicinity. December 6, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statement of amount expended at United States armory, Springfield, Mass., during year ending June 30, 1893. December 5, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the aggregate amount of silver bullion purchased in October, 1893. December 12, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting annual report from Superintendent Coast and Geodetic Survey stating progress made in work by said survey during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. December 12, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to Senate Resolution of January 12, 1894. January 16, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from Indian Commissioner concerning treaties with Yankton and Dakota or Sioux Indians, and other papers. January 18, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, requesting that $600 be included in the urgency deficiency appropriation bill for traveling expenses for inspector of furniture for public buildings. December 18, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting list of judgments of Court of Claims since March 4, 1893. December 20, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement of the amount of revenue derived from the income tax from 1863 to 1873. December 19, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting letter from the Superintendent of the Naval Observatory relating to declaring Massachusetts Avenue a public street through the grounds of the Naval Observatory. December 18, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from Postmaster General requesting an estimate of $2,000 for rental of part of basement of Union Building, on G Street. December 20, 1893. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting a report from Capt. Charles T. Witherell, of the Nineteenth Infantry, Superintendent of the Mackinac National Park, covering the year 1893. January 24, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating extracts from the report of the Light-House Board, and from the Book of Estimates of Appropriations, 1894-'95, with respect to providing additional safeguards to the approach of vessels to Boston Harbor, in response to Senate Resolution of January 22, 1894. January 26, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to the Senate resolution of January 16, 1894, calling for information as to the amount due the United States from Utah on account of costs and expenses for prosecutions required to be paid by said territory under the act of June 23, 1874. January 23, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with a schedule of names of settlers on the Crow Creek and Winnebago Reservation, in South Dakota, and the amount of damages sustained by them between February 27, 1885, and April 17, 1885, with recommendation for appropriations to reimburse certain settlers. January 29, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an agreement with the Nez Perce tribe of Indians in Idaho, together with the report of the commissioner appointed to negotiate with said Indians, and a draft of a bill to confirm and ratify said agreement. January 29, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report from Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to claim of John T. Heard for service rendered the Western Cherokee Indians. January 8, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of January 29, 1894, asking for the number of railway cars, and that weight of the contents thereof, whether dutiable or domestic, that passed between United States ports or points through the Dominion of Canada, from 1885 to the present time. February 1, 1894. -- Ordered to be printed and lie on the table.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior recommending a specific appropriation for surveying and allotting Indian reservations for the fiscal year 1894. February 15, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with draft of a bill for the construction of a wagon road on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. February 15, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Postmaster General relative to claim of postmaster at Mackinac Island, Mich., for losses incurred through burglary of post office. January 8, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting form of a bill for issuing and recording commissions in the Department of the Treasury, together with a letter from Mr. Windom, former Secretary, dated April 9, 1890. February 28, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of the persons employed in the several bureaus of the Treasury Department during the year ended December 31, 1893. -- March 5, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, in response to the Senate Resolution of March 1, 1894, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State relative to the condition of the Virginius Indemnity Fund. March 8, 1894. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Ordnance relative to the claim of Frank Goodwin, contractor for the construction of certain buildings at the Columbia Arsenal, Tenn. March 29, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to the Senate resolution of March 1, 1894, transmitting a list of producers of sugars and the amount of bounty paid to each from July 1, 1891, to March 1, 1894, and the gross amount of bounty paid to producers of maple sugar. March 12, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of January 24, 1894, directing him "to inform the Senate if any officer of the Navy has been retired from active service and placed on the retired list for any cause judicially ascertained by the courts..." February 5, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. March 14, 1894. -- Ordered to be reprinted with additional papers.
In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, in response to the Senate resolution of March 9, 1894, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State with respect to the coined silver money, and the products of India, Russia, and the Argentine Republic. March 14, 1894. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, in response to the Senate Resolution of March 29, 1894, transmitting a report on the Nicaragua Canal in its military aspects, made by Capt. George P. Scriven, of the Signal Corps. April 6, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of an agreement with the Yakima Nation of Indians, and a draft of a bill to ratify the same. March 21, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of an agreement with the Yuma Indians, with a report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and accompanying papers. March 21, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, forwarding statement of Third Auditor of the Treasury of allowances made to New York under Act of July 27, 1861, etc. January 15, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting correspondence and information concerning permission to land cable on United States coast since March 1, 1893. December 21, 1893. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, on the Hawaiian question. December 20, 1893. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
Annual report of the Director of the Bureau of American Republics for the year 1893.
In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of Secretary of State, in compliance with Senate resolution October 17, 1893, in matter of claim of certain persons against Spain for illegal arrest off the Coast of Yucatan in 1850, and subsequent imprisonment. January 4, 1894. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of February 2, 1894, directing him to transmit to the Senate copies of all reports made by A.P. Swineford, a special agent of the department, relating to the reservation of lands for county seats or town sites along the line of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in the Cherokee Outlet ... February 7, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, in response to the Senate resolution of March 14, 1894, with respect to the transfer of the military records of the Revolution and War of 1812 from the Treasury and Interior Departments to the War Department. March 21, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting a letter from the U.S. Attorney for Washington, and asking an appropriation of the original urgent deficiency estimate of $400,000 for witnesses for 1894, and giving reasons therefor. March 5, 1894. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
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Serial set 3161-1 Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey showing the progress of the work during the fiscal year ending with June, 1893. In two parts. Part I. 1
Serial set 3161-2 Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, in two parts. Part II. Appendices relating to the methods, discussions, and results of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. 1