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| Serial set 1468 |
In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report. The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom were referred the credentials of George Goldthwaite, claiming a seat in this body as a senator from the State of Alabama, and the credentials of Foster Blodgett, claiming a seat in this body as a senator from the State of Georgia, report... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott from the Select Committee of the Senate to Investigate Alleged Outrages in the Southern States, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate requesting the Committee to "examine and report whether the members of the Senate are entitled to mileage at the present special session," submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter, from the Select Committee To Investigate How and by Whom the Treaty Known as the Treaty of Washington Was Made Public, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report. The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the credentials of the Hon. Morgan C. Hamilton, Senator-elect from the State of Texas, submit the following report... |
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| Serial set 1469 | Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the first session of the Forty-second Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, March 4, 1871, in the ninety-fifth year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
| Serial set 1470 |
Postal service between Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky. Letter from the Postmaster General, in relation to the discontinuance of postal service on the route between Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Black Bob band of Shawnee Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the Black Bob band of Shawnee Indians in Kansas. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indians Affairs and ordered to be printed. Encroachment of river at Vicksburg. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relative to the encroachment of the Mississippi River at Vicksburg. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Claim of Lieutenant R.H. Pratt. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the claim of Lieutenant R.H. Pratt, United States Army. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for claims of colored sailors and soldiers. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the omission of the last Congress to appropriate money for the payment of claims of colored soldiers and sailors during the fiscal year of 1871-'72. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mining statistics west of the Rocky Mountains. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the report of the special commissioner for the collection of mining statistics in the states and territories west of the Rocky Mountains. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Special report on immigration, accompanying information for immigrants relative to the prices and rentals of land, the staple products, facilities of access to market, cost of farm stock, kind of labor in demand in the western and southern states, etc., etc., to which are appended tables showing the average weekly wages paid in the several states and sections for factory, mechanical, and farm labor; the cost of provisions, groceries, dry goods, and house rent in the various manufacturing districts of the country, in the year 1869-'70. By Edward Young, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the Territory of Alaska. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Army engineer contracts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the contracts of the Engineer Department of the Army for the year 1870. March 15, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for horses lost. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to an appropriation for payment for horses, &c., lost while in the military service. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed |
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| Serial set 1471 |
Balances due from collectors of internal revenue. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to balances due from collectors of internal revenue. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Montana. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of March 14, 1871, in relation to charges made by the late agent for the Blackfeet Indians, in the Territory of Montana, against the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for said territory. March 28, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1870 Supplies for Arapahoe and other Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an appropriation for the purpose of purchasing supplies for the Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Northwestern Boundary Commission. Letter from the Secretary of State, in relation to the expenses of a joint commission to mark the boundary line between the United States and the British possessions, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. March 21, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Condition of affairs in the South. Message from the President of the United States, relative to the condition of affairs in the South. March 23, 1871. -- Referred to a select committee of nine members to be appointed by the Speaker, and ordered to be printed. Final report of the United States Geological Survey of Nebraska and portions of the adjacent territories made under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, by F.V. Hayden, United States Geologist. March 23, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Robert C. Schenck. Letter from the Secretary of State, in relation to the compensation of Robert C. Schenck, United States minister to Great Britain. April 5, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Japanese pupils to West Point. Letter from the Secretary of State, submitting the draught of a bill for admitting six Japanese pupils to West Point Military Academy, and recommending the passage of the same. April 11, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Occupation of Rome by the King of Italy. Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 31st ultimo, relative to the occupation of Rome by the King of Italy. April 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 1472 |
Virgil Hillyer vs. A.T. McIntyre. Memorial of Virgil Hillyer, in contested election in First District in Georgia. March 9, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Elections and ordered to be printed. List of the members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and their places of residence during the Forty-second Congress, first session, commencing Saturday, March 4, 1871. Income tax. Resolution of the Legislature of New York, relative to the repeal of the income tax. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Louis Goldstone. Memorial of Louis Goldstone, relative to the Alaska seal fishery. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Public buildings, Jefferson, Missouri. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Missouri, memorializing Congress to make an appropriation for the building of a post office and United States court-room at the City of Jefferson, the capital of the State of Missouri. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Harbor at Superior City. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, for an appropriation to complete the harbor at Superior City, Wisconsin. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Improvement of Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in relation to the improvement of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Equalization of bounties. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to the equalization of bounties to soldiers and sailors of the United States. March 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Homesteads to soldiers. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to homesteads to soldiers. March 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Ship-builders of the United States. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of the ship-builders of the United States. March 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Lands to railroad companies. Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to donations of land for railroad purposes. March 27, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Archie C. Fisk. Memorial of Archie C. Fisk, claiming that he was duly elected a member of the Forty-second Congress from the Fourth District of Mississippi, and protesting against the right of all the sitting members from said state. March 28, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Elections and ordered to be printed. Land grants to railroads. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, to receive land grants to railroads. April 5, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Homestead laws. Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, relative to amendment of the homestead laws. April 5, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Kansas City and Memphis Railroad. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 364.) Papers relative to Kansas City and Memphis Railroad. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Freedmen of the Chickasaw Nation. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 379.) Copy of an act passed by the Legislature of the Chickasaw Nation, relative to the freedmen of the Chickasaw Nation. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Woman suffrage. Memorial of the St. Louis County Woman Suffrage Association. April 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Toledo a port of entry. Resolution of the Board of Trade of Toledo, asking that Toledo be made a port of entry. April 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Rooms for the Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Justice of the Court of Claims, in relation to setting apart additional rooms in the Capitol for the use of said court. April 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing: I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-second Congress; II. Offices created and the salaries thereof; III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period. April 20, 1871. Election contest, Third District of Arkansas. Response of Hon. John Edwards to the memorial of Hon. Thomas Boles, contestant, for a seat in the Forty-second Congress from the Third Congressional District of Arkansas. March 3, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Elections and ordered to be printed. Land subsidies. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, relative to land subsidies by the general government. March 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Railroad -- Keweenaw Bay. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, to procure a grant of lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from the head of Keweenaw Bay to Montreal River, in said state. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Breakwater at Mackinaw. Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan relative to a breakwater at Mackinaw City. March 13, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Taxation and tariff. March 14, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Heirs of Benjamin W. Ladd. Petition, papers, and statement of facts, in the case of the heirs of Benjamin W. Ladd. March 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Claims for bounty. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, praying for an extension of time and payment of bounty claims. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Protection from hostile Indians. Memorial of the Legislature of Arizona, asking protection from hostile Indians. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mail route from Carver to Henderson. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, for a mail route from Carver to Henderson. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Modification of excise laws. Memorial of the Legislature of Arizona, asking for a modification of the excise laws. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Protection to emigrants. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, relative to protecting emigrants in this country. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Cape Fear River. Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, asking for appropriations to remove obstructions from Cape Fear Bar and Pamlico River. March 20, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Public lands. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, relative to public lands granted by Congress to the State of Nevada. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Swamp and overflowed lands. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, relative to swamp and overflowed lands. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Annexation of a portion of Idaho Territory to Nevada. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, relative to the annexation of a portion of Idaho Territory to the State of Nevada. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Reduction works. Resolution of the Legislature of Nevada, relative to the establishment of reduction works by the United States. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Immigrant wagon roads. Memorial of the Legislature Assembly of Dakota, asking for the construction of immigrant wagon roads through the public domain of Dakota Territory. April 10, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. McKenzie vs. Branton. Papers in the case of Lewis McKenzie vs. Elliott M. Braxton, in the Seventh Congressional District of Virginia. April 10, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. David S. Gooding vs. Jeremiah M. Wilson. Papers in the case of David S. Gooding vs. Jeremiah M. Wilson, in the Fourth Congressional District of Indiana. April 11, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Captain Samuel Adams. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 260.) Communication from Captain Samuel Adams, relative to the exploration of the Colorado River and its tributaries. April 15, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. School lands. Memorial of the Legislature of Nebraska, relative to confirmation of title to school lands. April 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Mobile and Northwestern Railroad. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Mississippi, on the subject of aid by grant of lands to the Mobile and Northwestern Railroad Company. April 17, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. John Cessna vs. Benjamin F. Meyers. Papers in the case of Cessna vs. Meyers, introduced by Mr. Schofield. March 4, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee of Elections and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 1473 | Ninth census -- Volume I. The statistics of the population of the United States, embracing the tables of race, nationality, sex, selected ages, and occupations, to which are added the statistics of school attendance and illiteracy, of schools, libraries, newspapers and periodicals, churches, pauperism and crime, and of areas, families, and dwellings, compiled from the original returns of the ninth census (June 1, 1870) under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census. | 1 |
| Serial set 1474 | Ninth census -- Volume II. The vital statistics of the United States, embracing the tables of deaths, births, sex, and age, to which are added the statistics of the blind, the deaf and dumb, the insane, and the idiotic, compiled from the original returns of the ninth census (June 1, 1870) under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census. | 1 |
| Serial set 1475 | Ninth census -- Volume III. The statistics of the wealth and industry of the United States, embracing the tables of wealth, taxation, and public indebtedness; of agriculture; manufactures; mining; and the fisheries, with which are reproduced, from the volume of population, the major tables of occupations, compiled from the original returns of the ninth census (June 1, 1870) under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census. | 1 |
| Serial set 1476 | compendium of the ninth census (June 1, 1870) compiled pursuant to a concurrent resolution of Congress, and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census. | 1 |
| Serial set 1477 | Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the second session of the Forty-second Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 4, 1871, in the ninety-sixth year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
| Serial set 1478 |
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Governor of Utah in relation to the establishment of a military post in the southern part of that territory, and recommending an appropriation for that purpose. January 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting reports from the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Navy relative to the cases of the ship Hudson and the schooner Washington. January 17, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1871, information in relation to the present condition of the life saving stations on the coasts of New Jersey and Long Island. January 24, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 16th ultimo, information concerning the seizure and retention of the American steamers Hero, Dudley Buck, Nutrias, and San Fernando, the property of the Venezuelan Steam Transportation Company, an American corporation. February 7, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1871, information in relation to the Touro Hospital, New Orleans. February 13, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, information in relation to the detention of the California mails on the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads. February 15, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 19th of January, 1869, information in relation to the resources and extent of the fishing-grounds of the North Pacific Ocean, opened to the United States by the treaty of Alaska. February 18, 1869. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. February 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 27, 1871, information relative to claims incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities in Oregon and Washington Territories, and which were acted and reported upon by the commission authorized by act of August 18, 1856. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate February 15, 1871, information relative to claims incurred in the suppression of Indian hostilities in Oregon and Washington Territories, and which were not acted or reported upon by the commission authorized by act of August 18, 1856. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, an inventory of all the property of the United States now in his department. December 5, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 20, 1871, a letter of the Superintendent of the Census, accompanied with a report of the number of persons employed in obtaining the ninth census, time employed, amount paid to each, &c. December 7, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, correspondence in relation to the retirement of Constantin Catacazy, minister from Russia to the United States. December 6, 1871. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. December 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 5, 1871, the reports of the Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, in relation to the branch Mint at New Orleans, its operations, &c. December 14, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, calling the attention of Congress to a discrepancy in the act of February 24, 1871, which locates the Fort Walla-Walla military reservation in Oregon instead of Washington Territory, and recommending the passage by Congress of an amendatory act correcting said error. December 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Attorney General, communicating, in obedience to law, a list of all the attorneys employed as assistants to the United States district attorneys since the commencement of the session in 1870, with the compensation paid to each. December 18, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message of the President of the United States transmitting the report of the commissioner appointed to devise rules and regulations for the purpose of reforming the civil service. December 19, 1871. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Motion to print 10,000 additional copies referred to the Committee on Printing. Message from the President of the United States, communicating information, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1871, relative to questions with Spain growing out of affairs in Cuba. February 13, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, engineer reports of the survey of Aquia Creek, Virginia; Accotink, Neabsco, Quantico, and Choppawamasic bays; East Chester Creek, New York; Rondout Harbor, New York; and Passaic River, New Jersey. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, inventories of public property in the possession of the War Department and its bureaus. January 8, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1871, information in relation to the improvement of the Columbia River near and below the mouth of the Willamette River, and the removal of obstructions in the Columbia River above Celilo, Oregon. January 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting, papers relative to and recommending the construction of a government line of telegraph from San Diego, California, via Yuma and Maricopa Wells, to Prescott and Tucson, Arizona. January 9, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the report of the commission to examine and report upon the Sutro Tunnel, in Nevada. January 9, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 19th of December last, correspondence relating to the subject of international coinage. January 11, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Secretaries of War, Treasury, and State, communicating in obedience to law the award made by them to the trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, for the use of the building and adjoining grounds by the United States. January 11, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 10th instant, a report of the Commissioner of the General Land-Office concerning the line of railway from the mouth of the Ohio River to the City of Mobile. January 16, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, communicating information, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 21, in relation to the persons liable as sureties on the official bond of Norton, the late defaulting money-order clerk in the New York City Post-office. January 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in obedience to law, the report of the board of officers organized to examine into the cases of such officers as may deem themselves unjustly passed over by promotions made in conformity with the act of Congress approved July 25, 1872. January 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, copies of the examination and survey of different harbors. January 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office relative to the drainage of Beaver Lake, Indiana. February 1, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, an additional statement of contracts made by the subsistence department during the calendar year 1871. February 1, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an appropriation of $100,000 for ordnance and ordnance stores, in addition to what has been asked for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873. February 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of an engineer survey to determine the practicability of re-opening to navigation the Cabaret Slough, in the Mississippi River. February 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying the transmission of information respecting the nature and extent of the raft in the Red River, above Shreveport, Louisiana, and also with regard to surveys, estimates, and appropriations made with a view to the removal of the raft. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, the case of the United States presented to the board of arbitration at Geneva. February 13, 1872. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. |
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| Serial set 1479 |
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 19, 1872, information in relation to what amount is due to any of the states lately in insurrection, under provisions of the 12th section of the act of Congress approved June 7, 1862, entitled "An Act for the Collection of Direct Taxes in Insurrectionary Districts, and for Other Purposes;" also "whether any, and, if so, what amount has been paid to any of said states under and in accordance with the provisions of said act or other acts amendatory thereof." March 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of May 11, 1872, a statement in regard to certain railroad companies. May 21, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, lists of the clerks, messengers, and laborers employed in the various bureaus of the War Department during the year 1871. April 18, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of March 26, 1872, information in relation to the lands in Louisiana granted to said state in aid of the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad. April 4, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, concerning the necessity for a connecting line of telegraph between important military posts in the military division of the south. March 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of the report of Major W.E. Merrill, Corps of Engineers, upon the survey of the harbor at Evansville, Indiana. March 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, an engineer report of an examination or survey of the harbor of Norfolk, Virginia, and of the Elizabeth River. March 4, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, an engineer report of the survey of Otter Creek, Vermont, from Vergennes to its outlet on Lake Champlain. March 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 4, 1872, information relating to the sale of lands by the State of Texas to the United States, known as the Pan Handle. March 6, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant, information in relation to the wharf or river frontage at the Port of New Orleans now claimed or occupied by the government. March 8, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, an engineer report of the survey of Cumberland River between Nashville and the head of steamboat navigation. March 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying engineer reports upon the survey of the mouth of Saint Mark's River and of Choctawhatchee River, Florida. April 18, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying an engineer report of a reconnaissance of the Yellowstone River in 1871. April 18, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 1st instant, a report of the Board of Engineers, relative to the improvement of Mobile Harbor. April 19, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 7, 1872, a preliminary report of Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, of the progress of the engineer exploration of the public domain in Nevada and Arizona. April 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, accompanying a copy of the counter case of the United States, presented to the tribunal of arbitration, at Geneva, under the provisions of the Treaty of Washington. April 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, accompanying information called for by a Senate resolution of January 18, 1872, in relation to the correspondence which has passed between the governments of the United States and Great Britain relating to the dues now collected in the latter country from merchant-shipping for the support of light-houses and beacons. April 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of April 19, 1872, the report of a board of engineers upon the present condition of the Mississippi River between Saint Louis and Alton. April 25, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 1, 1872, statements from the commandants of the armories at Springfield, Massachusetts, and Rock Island, Illinois, showing the operation of the eight-hour law. May 13, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Report of the Solicitor General and Acting Attorney General, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 23, 1872, information in relation to proceedings which have been taken in the judicial courts to restrain the digging of a canal across Minnesota Point, near Du Luth, in the State of Minnesota. May 14, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, recommending legislation in relation to the transportation of immigrants to and within the United States. May 14, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning the Bill (S. 955) granting a pension to Mary Ann Montgomery, widow of William W. Montgomery, late captain in Texas Volunteers, with his objections. May 14, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 28, 1872, correspondence in regard to the persecution and oppression of the Israelites in Roumania. May 14, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 19, 1872, estimates of appropriations necessary for the next fiscal year to carry out the recommendations of the report of Captain Faunce, and render operative and effective the life-saving stations on the coasts of New Jersey and Long Island. May 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Acting Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of May 9, 1872, information in regard to certain railroad companies. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, the report of the inspector of the national cemeteries for the years 1870 and 1871. May 2, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. May 17, 1872. -- Reported and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 22, 1872, information in regard to assistance rendered by the Navy Department in pursuance of the provisions of "An Act To Encourage and Facilitate Telegraphic Communication Between the Eastern and Western Continents." May 23, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 12, 1872, information respecting the amount of money expended by the government during the last three years for telegraphing by ocean cables. May 24, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of May 18, 1872, a statement of the amount of coin on deposit in or to the credit of the Treasury on the first day of each of the preceding four months. May 25, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, in relation to the ambiguity of an act to aid in the erection of an equestrian statue of the late General John A. Rawlins. May 31, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning, without his approval, "An Act for the Relief of J. Milton Best." June 1, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning, without his approval, "An Act for the Relief of Thomas B. Wallace, of Lexington, in the State of Missouri." June 7, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying a report of the Solicitor of the Treasury relative to the claim of the Choctaw Indians, known as the "net proceeds claim." June 7, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of December 20, 1871, a statement in relation to the expenses of vessels on the coast of San Domingo. March 25, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of March 8, 1872, information in relation to the wharf or river-frontage used by the United States at New Orleans. March 25, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of February 9, 1872, information relative to the estimated cost of improving the navigation of Red River at or near Tone's Bayou. March 25, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, accompanying the transmission of the annual report of the Board of Public Works of the District of Columbia. April 30, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of February 28, 1872, information concerning the Presidio Military Reservation, near San Francisco. April 11, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report and estimates of the Chief of Engineers in relation to the Falls of Saint Anthony. April 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of April 9, 1872, information relating to the canal and dike at Du Luth, Minnesota. April 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Bill S. 805, entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Abigail Ryan, Widow of Thomas A. Ryan," with his objections. April 15, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 23, 1872, information relative to the recent affray at the court-house in Going Snake, Indian Territory, and recommending the erection of a judicial district in the Indian Territory. May 7, 1872. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a report of the examination and survey of Red River from its mouth to a point above Shreveport, Louisiana. May 7, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. International Congress on the Prevention and Repression of Crime, including penal and reformatory treatment: preliminary report of the commissioner appointed by the President to represent the United States in the Congress, in compliance with a joint resolution of March 7, 1871. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 12, a list of the military reservations in and near the City of San Francisco, California, giving the name and approximate extent in acres of each. February 26, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of January 30, 1872, information relating to mail service rendered in Louisiana. February 26, 1872 -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, statements of the expenditures at the Springfield armory, and of the munitions of war manufactured, altered, and repaired thereat during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871. March 11, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 13, 1871, further information in relation to proposals for establishing iron ship building yards and docks. March 12, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of March 8, information in regard to the occupancy of the Indian Territory by unauthorized persons. March 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Patents in relation to a reorganization of the Patent-Office. March 15, 1872. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Patents, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant, the report of the supervising surgeon of the United States Marine Hospital Service for the six months ending December 31, 1871. February 21, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. |
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In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be, and is hereby, requested to inform the Senate under what provisions of the law of April 20, 1871, if any, and if not under that law, by what authority he has caused the Constitution and laws of the United States and the constitution and laws of the State of South Carolina to be set aside and martial law declared... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1871. -- Submitted, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be authorized in their discretion to hold sessions in the City of New York, or elsewhere, during their proposed investigation... United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part I. Report on the condition of the sea fisheries of the south coast of New England in 1871 and 1872, by Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner, with supplementary papers. In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Tabular statement to accompany Bill H.R. 243. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, urging that the tract of land known as the Cherokee strip be opened to entry by actual settlers, and that the Indian title thereto be extinguished. January 24, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of Committee of Indian Affairs, transmitting a report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in regard to placing at the disposal of the Department the balance of an unexpended appropriation for promoting education among Indian tribes. January 25, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 535. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in relation to the removal of settlers from the Indian Territory bordering upon Kansas, and also in favor of a change of boundary of said state. January 30, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the passage of such laws as will secure to bona-fide settlers upon the Cherokee Neutral Lands the full benefit of the homestead and pre-emption laws, and also to secure to the state the 16th and 36th sections of land in each township, for school purposes. January 30, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, asking aid from the general government for the construction of a ship-canal around the falls of Niagara, on the American side. January 31, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, asking the passage of an act granting the right to build a bridge over the Mississippi River at Clinton. January 31, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Congressional Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, &c. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the commissioners appointed to revise and consolidate the statutes of the United States under acts of June 27, 1866, and May 4, 1870. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of all the property of the United States in his possession December 4, 1871. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of all judgments rendered by said court for the year ending December 4, 1871. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating a statement of receipts and expenditures for year ending December 4, 1871, and also an account of the government property in his possession on the same date. December 4, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 14, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be instructed to inquire into the expenditures in all branches of the services of the United States, and to report whether any and what offices ought to be abolished... List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Forty-second Congress. December 7, 1871. In the Senate of the United States. December 7, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull submitted the following resolution. Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that a Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment, consisting of four members of the Senate and seven members of the House, be appointed by the presiding officers of the two Houses... Letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, upon the action of the Department of the Interior relating to the Kansas Indian lands in the State of Kansas. December 11, 1871. -- Referred with Bill (S. 346) to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Louis Baker, praying that the necessary steps be taken by Congress to introduce into the southern states certain palms for the production of sugar and fruits. December 14, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Industrial League, setting forth the benefits of the system of tariff protection which has existed since 1861, and praying the repeal of the entire system of internal revenue except excise taxes, the repeal of the import duties upon tea and coffee, and remonstrating against any general reduction in the tariff rates upon manufactured goods. December 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Benjamin Severson, engineer, in behalf of property holders of the City of Washington, for an investigation of the work on the Washington Canal. December 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Memorial of A.C. Cleveland, Commissioner for the State of Nevada, asking remuneration for moneys paid by the Territory of Nevada for the use and benefit of the United States, and also for moneys paid since the territory became a state. December 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1871. -- Amended, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be composed of the following senators... Annual report of the Librarian of Congress. December 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. December 21, 1871. -- Resolution to print additional copies for the use of the Library of Congress reported, considered, and agreed to. In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1871. -- Submitted. December 19, 1871. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Whereas, it has been declared in the Senate that at the port of New York there exists, and is maintained by officers of the United States, under the name of the general order business, "a monstrous abuse," fraudulent in character; and whereas the following statement has been made by a senator... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1871. -- Agreed to. December 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be, and they are hereby, instructed to inquire whether any minister of the United States at any foreign court is, or has been, interested in and a director of any mining company... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1871. -- Submitted and agreed to. December 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Corbett submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be, and hereby are, instructed to inquire into the recent defalcations in the Treasury Department, and to report what, if any, guards and checks are necessary to protect the public Treasury, and for that purpose to examine persons and papers. In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1871. -- Submitted. December 19, 1871. -- Agreed to. December 20, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. December 11, 1871. -- Taken up for consideration. Mr. Trumbull moved to strike out all after resolved, and insert his resolution for a Joint Committee on Retrenchment. Mr. Conkling submitted the following resolution. Resolved, (That the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be instructed to inquire...) In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1871. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the sum of five thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary for the expenses of the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment, is hereby directed to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1871. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be instructed to inquire if any moneys have been paid on account of any asserted lease of the Bay of Samana to the United States... List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Forty-second Congress. December 21, 1871. In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1872. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be authorized to sit during the sessions of the Senate. Letter of W.A. Shannon to Hon. S.C. Pomeroy, Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands, inclosing a statement of the sales of lands at the land office at Augusta, Kansas, embracing the months of October, 1870, to November, 1871, and recommending that all fees to the register and the receiver be abolished, and that an adequate compensation be fixed by law. January 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions adopted at a public meeting held in Washington City January 5, 1872, in favor of the passage of the Bill (S. 99) supplementary to an act entitled, "An Act To Protect All Citizens of the United States in Their Civil Rights, and To Furnish the Means for Their Vindication," passed April 9, 1866. January 8, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1872. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter introduced the following resolution: Whereas the Constitution of the United States requires the President to nominate, and, by and with the consent of the Senate, to appoint all officers of the United States whose appointments are not in said Constitution... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to Hon. D.S. Bennett, in regard to the propriety of issuing an American register to the brig A.S. Palmer [i.e., A.L. Palmer.] January 15, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. To accompany Bill H.R. No. 330. Resolution of the General Assembly of Virginia, asking the removal of disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment. January 15, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of the heirs and legal representatives of the late Joseph Wheaton, praying for the pay stipulated by the government for those officers who served to the end of the Revolutionary War. January 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. January 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, in regard to foreign commerce of the United States. January 18, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Petition of W.A. Adams, praying to be indemnified for spoliations committed by the French prior to the year 1801. January 18, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Brevet Brigadier General Benj. S. Roberts, praying a royalty for the use by the government of his patents for improvements in fire-arms and cartridges. January 18, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, addressed to the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, in regard to inaugurating a system of military prisons and of prison discipline for the Army. January 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 506. Petition of Mary Ann Randolph Lee, widow of Robert E. Lee, praying an appropriation of three hundred thousand dollars for the purchase of the property known as "Arlington," in the County of Alexandria, State of Virginia. January 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Petition of I. & L.M. Hellman and others, on behalf of the Liquor Dealers' Association of St. Louis, praying the enactment of a law requiring that all the tax on spirits distilled within the United States may be collected at the distillery or distillery warehouse. January 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of Committee on Indian Affairs, inclosing papers relating to the removal and subsistence of scattered bands of Chippewa Indians. January 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 506. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and copies of accompanying papers from the Committee of Friends, in relation to the disposition of portions of Indian reservations in the Northern Superintendency. January 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. No. 308. Petition of E.S. Ingalls and seventy-seven others, residents of Menomonee County, in the State of Michigan, for a circuit and district court for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. January 25, 1872. -- Referred, with Bill S. 529, to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, in favor of the passage of the supplemental civil-rights bill. January 25, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting copy of a report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to certain selections of land made for members of the Shawnee tribe of Indians. January 25, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 536. Resolution of the Legislature of Georgia, in favor of the removal of political disabilities under which a portion of the people of that state are laboring. January 26, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment inquire, ascertain, and report whether Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, now has, or heretofore has had, any interest, certain or contingent, in any contract to do work for the United States, or to furnish any material to be used in any public building; and if he has or has had any such interest, whether it came to him by purchase or by gift... Memorial of the Choctaw Nation of Indians, remonstrating against the establishment of a territorial government over their country. January 31, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Florida, relative to the improvement of the harbor of the St. John's River of Fernandina, Florida, and asking an appropriation for the same. February 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Nebraska, asking the completion of improvements already commenced to open a water-route from the Mississippi Valley, by way of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers, to Lake Michigan, and another by way of Lake Superior. February 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of New Mexico, in favor of an appropriation for the benefit of schools in that territory. February 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Petition of Ellen Call Long, daughter of the late General Richard K. Call, praying that the government pay her a judgment obtained by her father against the United States. February 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, asking the passage of an act equalizing bounties to soldiers. February 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey, recommending the purchase of Independence Hall. February 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the American Temperance Commission, asking that the President be authorized to appoint a commission to investigate and report the results of prohibitory legislation in Maine and other states for the suppression of intemperance, and to recommend any necessary legislation to prohibit the manufacture, importation, and sale of intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage. February 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Memorial of Denis Sullivan, praying compensation for cotton destroyed by order of Major General Banks on or about the 27th day of April, 1864. December 6, 1871. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. |
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Resolution of the Legislature of Kentucky, in relation to a uniform tax on tobacco by the federal government. April 11, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolution: Whereas it appears from a recent cable telegram that the Committee of the French National Assembly on war contracts has adopted a resolution asking the United States government to furnish the result of inquiry into the conduct of American officials suspected of participating in the purchase of arms for the French government during the War with Germany... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the expenses of the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment, is hereby directed to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate... Resolution of the Legislature of Maine in favor of a faithful observance of treaties made with the Indian tribes. March 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of West Virginia, in favor of the construction of a causeway across the west branch of the Ohio River at Wheeling. April 16, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Virginia, against the reduction of the duty on sumac. March, 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Rhode Island, in reference to the opening of the Indian Territory for settlement. February 23, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, asking that the amount of tax collected on cotton during the years 1865, 1866, and 1867 be refunded. February 23, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, asking for the renewal of land-grants to aid in the construction of the Elyton, Corinth and Tennessee River Railroad. February 23, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of sustaining the President of the United States in his present policy for the management of the various Indian tribes, and against the opening of the Indian country for settlement, corporate, or speculative purposes. February 29, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the National Board of Trade, in favor of legislation to facilitate the restoration of American tonnage. March 7, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of W.H. Gleason, asking that a light-house be constructed at the harbor of Punta Rassa, on Sanibel Island, Florida. March 7, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, remonstrating against the passage of the bill granting a part of Goat Island, in the harbor of San Francisco, to the Central Pacific Railroad Company. March 8, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in favor of the passage of the bill granting bounty-land warrants to certain persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States from and after the 4th of March, A.D. 1861, introduced into the House of Representatives by Hon. D.L. Shoemaker, of Pennsylvania. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Joint resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, asking an increase of pension for Mrs. Charlotte D. Crocker, widow of General M.M. Crocker, of Iowa. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds modified his resolution to read as follows: Resolution: Resolved, that the President be requested, if not in his opinion incompatible with the public interest, to communicate to the Senate any information in his possession respecting the complaint made by the English government against the case submitted by the government of the United States to the arbitrators at Geneva... Petition of citizens of Chicago, praying the passage of the bill to allow a drawback of the duties paid on materials used in the construction and repair of buildings in the burned district of that city. February 19, 1872. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, in relation to the Japanese admitted into that institution as cadet midshipmen. February 19, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the formation of a new judicial district composed of Southern Kansas and the Indian Territory. February 21, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Western Union Telegraph Company, remonstrating against the passage of the Bill (S. 341) to connect the telegraph with the postal service, and to reduce the rates of correspondence by telegraph. February 21, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of members of the Senate and House of Representatives of Mississippi, praying that a law be enacted similar to the bill known as the "Sumner Amendment to the General Amnesty Bill." April 17, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the passage of an act to place lumber on the free list. April 17, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Communication from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, addressed to Hon. John Sherman, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, in regard to direct taxes apportioned to the several states by act of Congress of August 5, 1861. April 17, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill S. 781.) In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1872. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Corbett submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the Committee on Finance be and hereby are instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending section 29 of "An Act To Provide a National Currency Secured by a Pledge of United States Bonds, and to Provide for the Circulation and Redemption Thereof," so as to read as follows... Proposals of the Western Iron-Ship and Boat-Building Company to construct vessels of war and their machinery. April 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from Admiral David D. Porter, on the subject of Senate Bill No. 848, entitled "A Bill for the Reduction of the Number and Grades of Officers of the Navy, and Other Purposes." April 3, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial and resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in relation to the Niagara Falls ship-canal. April 4, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the House of Representatives, expressive of the regret with which Congress has heard of the demise of Professor S.F.B. Morse. April 5, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relating to the transfer of the public lands of the United States to corporations. April 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Abstract of returns of an election held in Utah Territory, on March 18, 1872, for the purpose of voting for or against the constitution of the proposed State of Deseret. April 5, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, in favor of reserving public lands in that state for actual settlers only, under the homestead and pre-emption laws, and for a more rapid extension of the surveys of public lands in said state. April 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that during the present session it shall be in order, pending an appropriation bill, to move to confine debate on the pending bill and amendments thereto to five minutes... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Revision of the Rules, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the 28th rule be amended by adding thereto the following words... Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts on the subject of French spoliations. April 10, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, relative to the building of a bridge across the Big Sioux River. May 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa in relation to settlers on swamp-lands or land claimed as such. May 1, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of an increase of the ocean mail steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China. April 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. S.C. Pomeroy, Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands, inclosing copy of a letter from the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, asking for such constructive legislation as will enable him to administer with certainty the law commonly known as the soldiers' homestead law. May 13, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi, asking grants of land for university and normal school purposes. April 23, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed and committee discharged. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of an increase of ocean mail steamship service between San Francisco and Japan and China. May 17, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of maintaining the present duty on chiccory flour. May 17, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the erection of fortifications for the defense of the city and harbor of San Diego. May 17, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of California, in favor of reimbursing the settlers on Suscol Rancho for moneys expended for the survey of United States lands and for the erection of buildings thereon. May 17, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Annual statement of the National Savings-Bank of Washington, D.C. for the year ending December 31, 1871. May 22, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of William P. Ross, W.P. Adair, and C.N. Vann, in favor of the establishment of a separate court for the Indian Territory. June 3, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Anna Ella Carroll, asking compensation for service rendered the United States in the war of the rebellion. June 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, in favor of raising the diplomatic representation at the court of Yedo to a first-class mission. March 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Virginia, in favor of an amendment to the bankrupt act. March 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, addressed to Hon. A.H. Cragin, Chairman Committee on Naval Affairs, United States Senate, inclosing copy of a communication from the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, in relation to the distribution of prize-money. March 21, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 849. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of March 18, the memorial of the citizens and property-holders along N Street against the passage of the bill incorporating the National Junction Railroad Company. March 21, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harlan submitted the following resolution: Whereas the fourteenth section of an act approved July 1, 1862, incorporating the Union Pacific Railroad Company, provides... Petition of residents of Utah Territory, praying that the protection of the general government may not be withdrawn from them by the admission of that territory as a state. March 22, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed, with the names of the petitioners, and an accompanying letter. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Forty-second Congress. March 22, 1872. Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, addressed to Honorable P.W. Hitchcock, in relation to the encouragement of the growth of timber on western prairies. April 2, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 680. Resolution of the House of Representatives in relation to the form of an amendment for the Bill of the House (H.R. 1537) entitled "An Act To Repeal Existing Duties on Tea and Coffee." April 2, 1872. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 3, 1872, a statement of the statistics of wools and woolens, showing the importation and domestic production thereof. April 24, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the chiefs and principal men of the Oneida Indians of Wisconsin, praying to have secured to them the quiet possession of their reservation. April 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Company asking increased mail steamship service between the United States and Brazil. April 9, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Revision of the Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the thirtieth rule be amended by inserting after the word "Senate," in the second line of the second paragraph, the words "or proposed in pursuance of an estimate from the head of some of the departments." In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Revision of the Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the twelfth rule be amended by adding thereto the words... Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in favor of the passage of the bill to extend the jurisdiction of the Light-house Board so as to include the Mississippi River from Saint Paul to its mouth, the Missouri River from Sioux City to its mouth, and the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to its mouth. April 27, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Columbia Typographical Union, remonstrating against the repeal of the eight-hour law. April 29, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1872. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Revision of the Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vickers submitted the following resolution. Resolved, that the Committee on the Revision of the Rules be instructed to inquire into the propriety of so amending the thirtieth rule of the Senate as to confine amendments to appropriations bills to matters germane or pertinent to such bills. In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1872. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Resolved, that during the present session it shall be in order at any time to move a recess, and pending an appropriation bill, to move to confine debate on amendments thereto to five minutes by any senator on the pending motion... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Casserly submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is, directed to transmit to the Senate a statement of the following particulars in regard to certain railroad companies respectively, namely, the Central Pacific and Western Pacific Railroads, the Union Pacific Railroad, the Kansas Pacific, the Central Branch Union Pacific, Sioux City and Pacific... Resolutions of tobacco manufacturers and dealers of Kentucky, in favor of a uniform tax of twenty cents per pound on all kinds and grades of manufactured tobacco. April 11, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, to the Chairman of the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, accompanying a comparative statement of operations of the Post-Office Department from 1868 to 1871, inclusive. April 12, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Thomas E. Tutt & Co., assignees of Smith and Vernon, praying compensation for goods furnished the Osage Regiment of Missouri Volunteers in 1861. December 12, 1870. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. May 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, transmitting a copy of the report of the board of officers appointed under the resolution approved July 1, 1870, to examine the cases of such officers as may deem themselves unjustly passed over by promotion made in conformity with the act of Congress approved July 25, 1866. February 13, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, on the decline of American commerce. February 13, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, asking the passage of an act to extend the time in which to make further selections of swamp and overflowed lands, and to refund to that state moneys arising from the sale of said lands. February 20, 1872. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory asking the passage of an act granting titles to lodes or veins whenever sufficient improvement has been made to establish the fact of discovery in good faith. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of South Carolina, asking the passage of the bill providing for the sale of the interests of the federal government in Beaufort County. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of an appropriation for the erection, at the capital of that state, of public buildings for the accommodation of the United States courts, post office, pension-office, land-offices, internal revenue, and other federal offices; also, for suitable buildings for post-office, custom-house, and revenue offices of the United States at Leavenworth, in said state. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, asking the passage of an act for the relief of innocent purchasers of land under the act of August 14, 1854, relating to the entry of public lands. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1871. Proceedings of the National Agricultural Convention, held at Washington, D.C., February 15, 16, and 17, 1872. Resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans, in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of the navigation of Red River. February 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of additional compensation to Richard G. Murphy, for the time he served as Indian agent for the Sioux of Minnesota. February 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of Savannah, Georgia, praying the establishment of the Exchequer of the United States of America. February 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands, submitting the draught of an act to expedite the transaction of business in the General Land-Office, and bring up the arrears of work, and also a draught of a bill to reorganize the clerical force of the General Land-Office. February 27, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a committee appointed by a convention held in Washington City, February 15, 16, and 17, 1872, under a call issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture, praying a grant of lands or a part of the proceeds of the sales of the public domain for the benefit of agricultural colleges. February 26, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture. February 27, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Petition of the President, directors, and officers of the First National Gold Bank of San Francisco, California, praying the passage of an act giving the right to use the issue of national gold banks for the payment of duties on imports and other coin payments to be made to the government. February 27, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of the passage of a law granting one hundred and sixty acres of land to honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the war of the rebellion. March 2, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the National Board of Trade, held in the City of Saint Louis in December 1871, in relation to the resolution of specie payments; limit of taxation and the liquidation of the national debt; the shipping interest; local quarantine regulations; the light-dues paid by vessels in Great Britain; the Treaty of Washington and the fisheries; direct importations to interior cities; freedom of trade with the dominion of Canada; revision of the tariff; protection of the telegraph; the abrogation of state inspection laws; and the improvement of the Mississippi levees. March 2, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, asking an appropriation for the construction of a canal around the Falls of Niagara, on the American side. March 4, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the recognition of belligerent rights of the people of Cuba by the government of the United States. March 4, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1872. -- Submitted by Mr. Sherman and referred to the Select Committee on the Revision of the Rules. March 4, 1872. -- Reported by Mr. Pomeroy with amendments and ordered to be printed. Note. -- The amendments are indicated by striking out the words included within (brackets) and inserting the words printed in italics. Resolution: resolved, that rule 24 is hereby amended by adding thereto the following... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy, from the Select Committee on the Revision of the Rules, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the standing rules of the Senate be amended as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1872. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Conkling submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the Committee of Investigation and Retrenchment, now sitting in New York, be instructed to inquire into abuses alleged to exist and extortions said to be practiced at the port of New York upon importers, in connection with quarantine and health regulations, and that said committee be further instructed to inquire into the treatment of immigrants arriving at said port. In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1872. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: resolved, that the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment be instructed to inquire whether any United States senator has received money, under color of counsel-fees or otherwise, from the Treasury of the United States... Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in relation to a public building at Trenton, in that state. February 7, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey, in regard to the navigation of the Delaware River. February 7, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conkling submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President be requested, if in his judgment not incompatible with the public interest, to inform the Senate of the number of recommendations for appointments to or removals from office, so far as the same can be ascertained... Memorial of D.H. London, praying the establishment of the Exchequer of the United States of America. December 18, 1871. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance. March 11, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the repeal of the bankrupt law. March 11, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, in relation to water communication between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, by way of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in relation to the terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the renewal of the grant to aid in the construction of a railroad from St. Croix River, or lake, to the west end of Lake Superior, and to Bayfield. February 8, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of an appropriation to aid in the improvement of the harbor of Du Luth. February 8, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, asking an appropriation for the construction of a ship-canal around the Falls of Niagara, on the American side. March 12, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin, instructing senators and requesting representatives from that state to oppose the passage of the bill for the remission of import duties on materials used in rebuilding the burnt district of Chicago. February 14, 1872. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, asking a grant of public lands to aid in the construction of the Columbus, Fayette and Decatur Railroad. February 20, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Annual statement of the Washington City Savings Bank, for the year ending April 1, 1872. April 15, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sumner submitted the following resolutions: Resolutions concerning arbitration as a substitute for war in determining differences between nations... Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to confirming to the Great and Little Osage Indians a reservation in the Indian Territory. April 15, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 976. |
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In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 1090.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of William L. Utley, praying to be relieved from the payment of a judgment, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1197.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 1197, granting a pension to Captain Henry M. Scott, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Edward Hedley... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 97.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of William Henry Otis, of Indiana, ask leave to report that the said bill was referred to the same committee during the Fortieth Congress, and that, having again examined the case, the Committee do, upon reconsideration thereof, adopt the report then made, which is as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1288.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill 1288, with accompanying papers, have considered the same, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Winter, praying compensation for the destruction of property in Columbus, Georgia, during the late war, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 490.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of the East Tennessee University, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Caleb H. Blood, asking compensation for expenses incurred as consul at Monterey, Mexico, and for money and goods furnished to refugees, upon orders of the United States consul and military officers at Matamoras, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 162.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 162) to refund certain moneys now standing to the credit of the Navy Pension Fund, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1026.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of Commander D.L. Braine... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 96.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 96) for the relief of Cowan and Dickinson... In the Senate of the United States. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 507.) February 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 507, to authorize the establishment of ocean mail steam-ship service between the United States and Mexico, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 291.) The Committee on Naval Affairs have had under consideration the Bill (S. 291) for the relief of the officers and crew of the United States ship Wyoming, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 989.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of sundry citizens of Juniata County, Pennsylvania, praying Congress to allow a pension to John Carbaugh, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of John Thompson Mason... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 879.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Armstrong for a pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1073.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1073) granting a pension to Sarah Whiting, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 199.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 199) for the relief of L. Merchant & Company, have had the same under consideration, and now submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of John W. Smith, for expenses incurred and losses sustained in the United States service as a scout, spy, and partisan in the years 1861, 1862, and 1863, have examined the same, and made the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 476.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 476, for the extension of letters-patent to Alexander Smith and Haleyon Skinner, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 991.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 991, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 241.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred Senate Bill 241, for the relief of Chauncy [i.e., Chauncey] M. Lockwood, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 161.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of T.T. Garrard and others, proprietors and lessees of salt-works near Manchester, in the State of Kentucky, praying compensation for the destruction of their salt and injuries committed upon their works by the troops of the United States, in the year 1862, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 692.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Thomas M. Redd, late of Paducah, Kentucky, praying compensation for the loss of his house and contents, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred the petition of John D. Hester, praying to be placed on the pension-roll, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred the memorial of Ann E. Boyle, widow of the late Commodore James J. Boyle, praying to be placed on the naval pension-roll, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S. 159.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of J.W. Parish & Co., praying compensation for losses sustained on account of the refusal on the part of the government to receive from them twenty thousand tons of ice, parcel of thirty thousand tons contracted to be delivered at various points on the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, during the year 1863... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 200.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of William H. Colledge, praying compensation for clerical labor performed in the office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department, and also Senate Bill No. 200 for his relief, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 197.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of D. Jay Brown, dated March 9, 1864, praying compensation for losses by reason of his discharge from official position while in foreign countries, and the Bill (S. 197) for his relief, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report. The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph C. Abbott, claiming to be entitled to a seat in this body as a senator from North Carolina, for the term commencing on the 4th day of March, A.D. 1871, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 29, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 710.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred Senate Bill 710, entitled "A Bill to Refund Certain Duties Paid by the Winona and Saint Peter's Railroad Company," report... In the Senate of the United States. March 4, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jacob B. Power for a pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 514.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred Bill S. 514 for the relief of Albert Wieland, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 112.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 112) for the relief of G.S. Baker, of Maysville, Missouri, for the re-issue of a certain bond, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 59.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 59) authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to settle and pay the accounts of Colonel James F. Jaquess, have had the matter under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John B. Wolf and Jacob H. Brown, praying compensation for horses taken for the use of the Army in Colorado, in the year 1865, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 895.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 895) granting a pension to Hannah Gray, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 7, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 760.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Beverly M. Botts, Rosalie S. Lewis, Isabella McLean Lewis, and Mary Minor Hoxsey, heirs-at-law of John Minor Botts, deceased, praying compensation for losses occasioned by the Union forces upon the land of the deceased, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1209.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1209) granting a pension to George J. St. Louis, and also the Bill (S. 474) granting a pension to the same person, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 603.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the United States Express Company, praying that the Secretary of the Treasury may be authorized to issue to it bonds and notes to replace those alleged to have been destroyed in a car burned upon the Erie Railroad on the 30th January, 1866, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 156.) The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred the petition of Frederick P. Dimpfel, of the City of Philadelphia, praying an extension of his patent for an improvement in steam-boilers, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nye made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 107.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of George C. Bestor, of Peoria, Illinois, praying additional compensation for expenses incurred in constructing the iron-clad steam-battery Shiloh, have considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Nye made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 134.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 134) for the relief of certain contractors for the construction of vessels of war and steam-machinery, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Corbett made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 636.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Elbridge Gerry, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 204.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Lewis Johnson, Lewis J. Davis, and David Walker, bankers, of the City of Washington, composing the firm of Lewis Johnson and Company, praying to be reimbursed for certain moneys paid by them on a check drawn by paymaster Benj. F. Gallaher, United States Navy, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 579.) The Committee on Naval Affairs have had under consideration Senate Bill No. 579, for the relief of the officers and crew of the United States steamer Kearsarge, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 983.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Margaret B. Franks... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1942.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill 1942, entitled "An Act for the Relief of D.C. Farrell, of Peoria, Illinois," respectfully submit to the Senate the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 990.) The committee to whom was referred the petition of Reuben Goodrich, late receiver of public moneys at Traverse City, Michigan, praying to be reimbursed certain moneys paid on settlement of his accounts, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Morris, praying a pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 882.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 882, to authorize the settlement of the claim of the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad Company, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Osborn made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 670.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 670) for the relief of Benjamin W. Reynolds, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 908.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of John Potts, submit the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pool made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 909.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the administrator of the estate of the late Lieutenant Joseph Wheaton, and the letter of the Secretary of the Interior of the 27th of March, 1872, relative to the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Simon Van Etten, formerly of Corning, New York, and now a citizen of Wisconsin, praying compensation for certain services and expenditures therein set forth, have, according to the order of the Senate, had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 3, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 911.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin Cooley and James W. Boswell, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 892.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 892, granting a pension to Margaret Lee, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth S. Lathrop, praying for an increase of pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a petition, numerously signed, embracing certain resolutions adopted at a public meeting in Milwaukee, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stevenson submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 788.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 788, entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Red Bear, a Chief of the Pembina Band of Chippewa Indians," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 929.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Robert Lowry, asking compensation for the value of a dwelling-house, furniture, wearing-apparel, &c., burned under military authority, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1700.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill 1700, praying for certain relief, have considered said bill, with the accompanying papers, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2046.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Joint Resolution No. 2076, for the relief of Theodore Adams, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James M. Ellison, asking compensation for property taken and destroyed by United States troops in Virginia, in 1861, after due consideration submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 944.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of the Pottawatomie Indians remaining in Michigan and Indiana for the payment of annuities due them, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 761.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 761) granting a pension to Albert A. Morey, have had the same under consideration, and now submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Manuel Roberts praying that he be allowed a pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 835.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 835, for the relief of Cecilia Barr, widow of William Barr, have examined the same and accompanying papers, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2032.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Dr. John H. McQuown, of Illinois, for allowance for his services as surgeon of volunteers, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 198.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 198), for the relief of Warren & Moore, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pool submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1060.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Saran S. Stafford, for payment of the services of her father, James Bayard Stafford, an officer in the Navy of the Revolution, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 952.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 952) to advance Homer C. Blake one grade in the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1551.) May 2, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1551) for the relief of S.B. Mitchell, George W. Mitchell, and John W. Mitchell, have examined the same, and beg leave to bring in the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. On the 13th of April, 1867, a contract was entered into by A. Grant and Darius C. Jackson, under the firm name of A. Grant & Co., with the United States, through Major General George H. Crosman, acting for the government, by the terms of which the contractors agree to erect, in the City of Philadelphia, and complete, according to specifications, on or before the 13th of March, 1868... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1074.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of A. Gordon Millin... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Naval Affairs, who were "directed to inquire into the facts connected with the placing of Doctor James C. Palmer's name above that of Doctor Ninian Pinkney, as surgeon in the Navy," have attended to the duty assigned them, and submit the following statement of facts... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2397.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2397, granting a pension to Margaret C. Gibson, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 858.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 858) granting a pension to John B. Rose, of Indiana, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Osborn submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1106.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. F. Selina Buchanan, widow of McKean Buchanan, late paymaster in the Navy, praying relief for losses occasioned by the arbitrary order of his commanding officer, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Osborn submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1108.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1076) for the relief of George R. Wilson, have considered the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 924.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah S. Trapp, widow and executix of William Trapp, late of Elmira, New York, deceased, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gilbert submitted the following report. The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom, at the first session of the Forty-second Congress, was referred S. 213, a bill authorizing the Postmaster General to continue in use in the postal service of the United States a machine for postmarking and for the cancellation of postage-stamps, and to make settlement with the inventor, patentee, and assignees thereof for the past and future use of the same by the Post-Office Department... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1945.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1945, "for the Relief of E.W. Whitaker, of Hartford, Connecticut," together with the accompanying petition and papers, have, according to order, had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth B. McCormick, of Washington, District of Columbia, praying compensation for loss sustained in her business of keeping boarders, and extraordinary rents paid, by reason of being suddenly dispossessed of the houses she was occupying by the military authorities, who took and held possession thereof for military purposes, have, according to order, had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 217.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 217) to amend an act entitled "An Act for the Relief of Rebecca S. Harrison," approved February 25, 1865... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2417.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2417, granting a pension to Abraham Cooper, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 744.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 744, for the relief of William G. Langford, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2623.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2623, to provide for the removal of the Flathead and other Indians from the Bitter Root Valley, in the Territory of Montana, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 599.) The committee, to whom was referred Senate Bill 599, granting a pension to Julia Belle Dunlap, have had the same under consideration, and now submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2416.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2416) granting a pension to Andrew Reinfort, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2418.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2418) granting a pension to Nancy E. Pugh, as the alleged widow of David H. Pugh, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stockton submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 291.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was recommitted the Bill (S. 291) for the relief of the officers and crew of the United States ship Wyoming, have examined the same, and report the bill with an amendment... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the Governor of the State of Tennessee, praying an appropriation to the state for materials belonging to the Winchester and Alabama Railroad, used by the government during the late war, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1261.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill 1261, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Thomas D. West, of Sandusky, in the State of Ohio," having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1274.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1274) for the relief of Thomas F. Spencer, of Indiana, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 663.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 663) for the relief of David L. Wright, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1142.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of War dated June 28, 1870, to the Committee on Claims, submitting the claim of S.E. Ward, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Alcorn, from the Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River, submitted the following report. Private enterprise in Louisiana had brought into market swamp-lands held by the federal government to the extent of two millions of acres. In consideration of this gain to the Treasury, the act of March 2, 1849, granted the remaining swamp-lands in Louisiana to that state for the uses of her levees... In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Leonard J. Rose, for compensation for losses sustained by Indian spoliation, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1151.) The Committee on Patents respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson submitted the following report. (To accompany S. 1161.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Harriett W. Pond, of Maine, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1162.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the papers for the relief of Dr. Edward N. Calvert, of the District of Columbia, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 887.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 887, entitled, "A Bill for the Relief of Samuel Black and Albert R. Cooper," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. 2429.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill of the House (H.R. 2429) granting a pension to Sarah P. Wing, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 114.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 114, for the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant Colonel Humphrey M. Woodyard, late of the Twenty-first Missouri Infantry, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John A. Hipkins, asking compensation for losses sustained in consequence of his alleged illegal discharge from the naval service of the United States, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Messrs. Woodhouse, Southmayd & Rudd, praying compensation for losses sustained by the seizure of certain hides, wool, &c., on board the schooners Carrie and Arthur, at New York City, after due examination, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 414.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 414, for the relief of William S. Mitchell for money claimed to be due him for goods furnished the commissioner of public buildings, have duly considered the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1017.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1017) for the relief of Alex. McLeod, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1172.) The Committee on Claims have had under consideration the petition of Levi J. Powell, praying compensation for printing done by order of the military authorities during the war, at Clarksburgh, West Virginia, and, after due consideration, instructed me to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2419.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1816) granting an increase of pension to William Freshour, late a captain in the Eighth Regiment of Cavalry, Ohio Volunteers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pool submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1177 [i.e., 337].) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Fanny A. Thompson, legal heir and representative of Brigadier General Thompson, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 30, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Osborn submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. 2050.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of J.S. Underhill, have examined the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred that portion of the President's message that relates to the telegraph system of the United States, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 3, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report. The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred a certified copy of the report of the Joint Committee of Investigation, appointed by the Kansas Legislature of 1872, to investigate all charges of bribery and corruption connected with the senatorial elections of 1867 and 1871... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pool submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1188.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of the legal representatives of Colonel Francis Taylor and Dr. Charles Taylor, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report. The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the following resolution, offered by the Senator from Delaware, Mr. Bayard, to wit... In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pool submitted the following report. The committee find that, on the 31st day of March, 1861, there was in the possession of J.T. Miller, then collector at the port of Wilmington, North Carolina, the sum of about $9,000 belonging to the government of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 2900, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. June 10, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, on behalf of the chairman, Mr. Wright, of Iowa, from the committee to inquire into certain allegations against Hon. Powell Clayton, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 841.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James A. Waymire, praying to be paid arrears of pay while in the Army, have examined the same and beg leave to bring in the following report upon said claim... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 13.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Fanny Kelly, praying for compensation for losses sustained by the destruction of property by the Sioux Indians, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman made the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 260 and 850.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 260, together with the petition of loyal citizens of Loudoun County, Virginia, praying compensation for property destroyed by fire, and for livestock... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Corbett made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 868.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of J. and C.M. Dailey for goods and provisions furnished the Sioux Indians in Minnesota, in the year 1862, would report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 485.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Harlow J. Phelps, of New Orleans, Louisiana, praying the return of a tax on cotton alleged to have been illegally collected of him in 1865, have examined the same, and beg leave to present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of William Broaddus, praying compensation for a horse taken from him by the United States troops in 1862, have examined the same, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Caleb White and Bettie A. Thomas, to be reimbursed for overcharges in the shipment and sale of certain cotton seized and sold by an agent of the government, have examined the same, and beg leave to bring in the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 160.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 160) relative to claims of certain northern creditors, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Finance, made the following report. The case before the Committee on Finance arises on the application of William Ropes & Co., and other importers, of Boston and New York, as stated by them... In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 873.) Under an act of Congress appropriating $100,000 for the construction of a building for use of the Department of Agriculture proposals were invited by the Commissioner... In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 554.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of James F. Joy, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 889.) The Committee on Claims, having considered the claims of Joseph Segar, of Virginia, for compensation for use and occupation of his farm by the United States during the late war of rebellion, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 895.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Milo Pratt, praying remuneration for losses sustained by the alleged failure of the Quartermaster's Department to comply with a contract made with him, in 1864, for furnishing coal, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 79.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 79, "for the Relief of Dudly [i.e., Dudley] D. Smith, in His Own Right and as Administrator of Whitcomb Smith, Deceased," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Julius Frank... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, having before them the memorial of Brevet Brigadier General B.S. Roberts, U.S. Army, (retired,) asking Congress to provide for the payment to him of a royalty for the use by the government of devices in breech-loading arms, and for a machine for tapering metallic cartridges invented by him, beg leave, after due examination, to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George W. Jones, praying compensation in consequence of the failure of the government to comply with a contract with him for supplying cloth for the use of the Army, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committe [i.e., Committee] on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mary J. McMullin, praying the refunding to her of certain money taken by the military authorities during the war of the rebellion, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of L. Merchant & Co., praying Congress to refund to them the amount realized from the sale of the steam-lighter Ingomar, report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 196.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 196) for the relief of the owners of bark A 1, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 95.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill S. 95, for the relief of Minerva Lewis, administratrix of the estate of Ezekiel Lewis, her late husband, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Norwood made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 905.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah L. Spring and Harriet Spring, of Waterville, Maine, heirs of Captain Williams Barker, deceased, of the continental establishment of the Revolutionary Army, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1545.) The Committee on Claims to which was referred House Bill No. 1565 [i.e., 1545], for relief of Naomi Stevens, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 667.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 667) for the relief of Elijah J. Woolum, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1020.) The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Frederick Vincent, administrator of James Le Caze, surviving partner of Le Caze & Mallet, having had the same under consideration... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Annie Dorsey Reeves, praying compensation for the use and occupation of her property by the Freedmen's Bureau, in Charleston, South Carolina, having examined the same with accompanying evidence, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 166.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of David Braden, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1021.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of A.W. Moss, praying compensation for services as a member of a military Custom-house board, at Nashville, in 1863, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. West made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 755.) The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred a bill entitled "A Bill for the Relief of the Former Occupants of the Present Military Reservation at Point San Jose, in the City and County of San Francisco," beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2042.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2042) providing for the relief of Fannie M. Jackson, of Tennessee, have examined the same, and beg leave to bring in the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Bernard Hess... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of L.C.P. Cowper... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1944.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1944) for the relief of Edward T. Gates, postmaster at Thomaston, Connecticut, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 355.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 355) "Referring the Claim of Ingersoll & Graham for Damages Under a Contract for Building a Marine Hospital at Detroit, Michigan, to the Court of Claims," beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, having before them the petition of William Alcorn, praying compensation for damages to property at Jefferson City, Missouri, during the late war, after due examination, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1198.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1198) granting a pension to Ann Hunter, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 25, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 752.) The committee to whom was referred the Bill (S. 752) granting a pension to Peter Campbell, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stockton, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 104.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Rear-Admiral Joseph Lanman... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1032.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom were referred the memorial and supplementary memorial of the United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Company, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of David Kleinman, praying compensation for property taken by United States troops at Washington, D.C., in 1865, have considered the same and make the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 569.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 569, accompanied with the petition of Thomas B. Wallace, praying compensation for his dwelling-house and its contents destroyed by order of Colonel James A. Mulligan, in command of the United States forces at the City of Lexington, Missouri, on the 13th of September, 1861, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James A. Harrold... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 526.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 526), for the relief of Ambrose Morrison, adopt the report upon the memorial of said Morrison, made by Mr. Window, in the House of Representatives, 1st session 38th Congress, in the following words... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 377.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Senate Bill 377 for the relief of the legal representatives of George T. Wiggins, of Keokuk, in the State of Iowa, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 953.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of James Cameron and Emma S. Cameron, his wife, praying compensation for the use and destruction of property by the Army, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 954.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Cicero Sims, guardian of William Hutchison... In the Senate of the United States. May 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 639.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred House Bill 639, for the relief of Jane A. Green, together with the accompanying petition and papers, have, according to order, had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2400.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2400) granting a pension to William B. Taylor, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2339 [i.e., 2399].) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 2399, granting a pension to Ada H. McDonald, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Buckingham submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1088.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were referred the claims of Messrs. Durfee & Peck... In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1089.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred petition and accompanying papers of the State of Nevada, asking an appropriation for payment of claims of the state against the United States, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cragin submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1098.) The committee to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of the Navy, recommending the proposals of the International Steamship Company for creating dock and building yards... In the Senate of the United States. December 6, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Joint Select Committee To Inquire into the Condition of the Late Insurrectionary States, submitted the following report. The Joint Select Committee To Inquire into the Condition of the Late Insurrectionary States, appointed under and in pursuance of a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress of April 7, 1871, ask leave to report in part as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 6, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Joint Select Committee To Inquire into the Condition of the Late Insurrectionary States, submitted the following report. The Joint Select Committee To Inquire into the Condition of the Late Insurrectionary States, appointed under and in pursuance of a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress of April 7, 1871, ask leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 13, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 163.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Dr. Leonidas Russell and his wife, Martha L. House [i.e., Howse] Russell, praying compensation for property of hers taken and used by the troops of the United States at the Battle of Stone River, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 14, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Howe made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 105.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Doctor J. Milton Best, submits this their report... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report. The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom were referred the credentials of Foster Blodgett and Thomas M. Norwood, each claiming a seat as senator from the State of Georgia for the term which commenced March 4, 1871, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 362.) The Committee on Finance have had under consideration Senate Bill No. 362, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1871. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 349.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of D.B. Allen & Co., representing the Atlantic Steamship and the Pacific Mail Steamship Companies, for compensation for carrying the United States mails during the suspension of the overland mail service in 1864 and 1865, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Sarvant, praying for arrears of pension, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 674.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of William Blanchard for relief, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John G. Wicks, praying to be placed on the pension roll, submit the following report... Index to the reports of the committees of the Senate of the United States, for the second session of the Forty-second Congress. 1871-'72. In four volumes. Volume I. In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Joint Select Committee To Inquire into the Condition of the Late Insurrectionary States so far as regards the execution of the laws, and the safety of the lives and property of the citizens of the United States, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Trumbull made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 352.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of Benjamin H. Campbell, marshal of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Tipton made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 494.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Theodore S. Comparet, late first lieutenant and quartermaster One Hundred and Forty-second Indiana Volunteers, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cole made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 49.) Your committee, to whom Senate Bill No. 49 was referred, have fully considered its provisions, which authorize the establishment of ocean steamship service between the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, touching at various islands in the Pacific Ocean; the service to consist of thirteen round voyages per annum... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 341.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred "A Bill To Reduce the Rates of Correspondence by Telegraph and To Connect the Telegraph with the Postal Service," report... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Elizabeth S. Bladen, Olympia Brown, Susan B. Anthony, and Josephine J. Griffing, citizens of the United States, praying for the enactment of a law, during the present session of Congress, to assist and protect them in the exercise of their right, and the right of all women, to participate in the elective franchise, which the memorialists claim they are entitled to under the Constitution of the United States, together with various other petitions and memorials to the same effect, and various protests in opposition thereto, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 451.) It appears to the Committee, from the evidence in this case, that the petitioner was a first sergeant in the Sixty-fourth New York Volunteers, and that on the 12th day of May, 1864, the commanding officer of his regiment recommended him for promotion to a first lieutenancy in said regiment... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 420.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the City of Carondelet, now merged in the City of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, praying that jurisdiction may be conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine a claim now pending in said court against the United States, have considered said petition and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 749.) The Committee on Private Land Claims report upon the memorial of John M. Scott and others, praying relief and the issue of land-scrip to them, in lieu of lands confirmed to their ancestors by Governor St. Clair and Governor Harrison... In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 750.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred petition for the relief of C.E. Rogers, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 91.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 94, for the relief of Miss Keturah Cole, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 230.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mary M. Clark, widow of Leonard Clark, deceased, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ames, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Harper, of Houston, Texas, praying to be relieved from the payment of certain money for internal revenue stamps stolen from him on or about the 20th of March, 1867, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ramsey made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 518.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 518, entitled "An Act for the Relief of William Nixon, of West Virginia," have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cole made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 470.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred a bill authorizing an increase of United States mail steamship service between San Francisco and China, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Boreman made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 360.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred Senate Bill 360, entitled "A Bill To Establish the Territory of Ojibway and Provide a Temporary Government Therefor," have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 646.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph W. Fowle, respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ames, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. E.J. Brossman, requesting the refunding of certain taxes paid to Captain F.J.P. Chilty, provost marshal at Camp Stoneman in 1865, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. The Committee on Finance, to whom were recommitted the petition and papers of John Thompson Mason, have again had the subject under consideration, and submit the following additional report... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kelly made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 806.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the resolution of the State of Nevada asking for an appropriation of six thousand dollars to compensate J.A. Thompson for carrying the United States mail from Placerville, California, to Carson Valley, in Utah Territory, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 807.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred memorial and papers for the payment of vouchers at Lawrence, Kansas, for the erection of works of defense, under the command of Major General Curtis, report a bill, and submit the following extracts from the report of Brevet Major General Hardie... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 904.) The Committee on Patents, to whom were referred the bill for the relief of Charles P.S. Wardwell and the accompanying papers, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 138.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the memorial of John B. Emerson, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 686.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Horace Tyler, praying compensation for deepening the channel across the bar at the southwest pass of the mouth of the Mississippi River, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 687.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles and Henry W. Spencer for compensation on account of the illegal seizure of their trading-boat O.K., and the stock of goods on board, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pratt made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 201.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Phoebe Hemburn, praying to be relieved from losses sustained in the accidental destruction of certain land-warrants, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Casserly, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 426.) The Committee on Printing, to whom was referred Senate bill entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Thomas Allen," report... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred a communication of Hon. George Vickers, a senator from Maryland, to the President of the Senate, to wit... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1071.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred a petition that certain United States bonds burned in Spitzendorf, Germany, may be re-issued in duplicate to the executors of the owner, have had the same under consideration, and report thereon as follows... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany H.R. 2777.) In regard to House Bill No. 2777, entitled "An Act for the Relief of the Sureties of S.F. Marks, Former Postmaster at New Orleans," the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 884.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 884, for the relief of the sureties of Frederick Bochmler, of the State of Iowa, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2255.) The Committee on Post-Office and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2255) "for the Relief of W.H. Kirk," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 956.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the petition and papers for the relief of Timothy Baker, of Saint John's, Michigan, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 103.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 103) "for the Relief of Henry N. Galpin, Postmaster at Berlin, Connecticut," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 409.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 409) for the relief of Rear-Admiral Thomas Turner, made the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 435.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 435) to authorize the restoration of George Plunkett to his original rank as paymaster in the United States Navy, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1042.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1042) for the relief of Thomas Hollis, of Morgan County, Georgia, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1564.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1564), "for the Relief of William F. Barker, Postmaster at Northville, Fulton County, New York," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. No. 610.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of Lizzie Gilmer, postmaster at Pittsfield, Illinois, praying for relief for the loss, by burglary, of postage-stamps, report... In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 706.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 706, to authorize the continuance of mail steamship service between the United States and Cuba, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 720.) The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred Senate Bill (No. 720) entitled "A Bill for the Relief of John Milone..." |
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| Serial set 1484 | In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Scott, from the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, submitted the following report... | 1 |
| Serial set 1485 | Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee To Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. North Carolina. | 1 |
| Serial set 1486 | Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee To Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. South Carolina. Volume I. | 1 |
| Serial set 1487 | Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee To Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. South Carolina. Volume II. | 1 |
