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Serial set 1830	Narrative of the second Arctic expedition made by Charles F. Hall: His voyage to Repulse Bay, sledge journeys to the straits of Fury and Hecla and to King William land, and residence among the Eskimos during the years 1864-'69. Edited under the orders of the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, by Prof. J.E. Nourse, U.S.N. U.S. Naval Observatory, 1879.	1
Serial set 1831	Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, the report of the board of officers appointed to examine the works in progress of construction by James B. Eads, at the mouth of the Mississippi River. January 27, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of February 6, 1879, information touching the application of a statute of limitations to state war claims. February 7, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, a report of Maj. G.L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, of a survey of the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon. January 27, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of communications from W.J. Murtagh, offering to sell to the government the property in the City of Washington, at the southwest corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Thirteenth street, known as the "Republican Building." January 27, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a copy of a report of the surveys made of the Mississippi River at and near Alexandria, Mo., and of the harbor of Quincy, Ill. January 28, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a copy of a report in relation to the improvement of the Harlem River, New York. January 30, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Commissary General of Subsistence relative to the organization of the Subsistence department as proposed by the Bill (S. 1491) for the reduction and reorganization of the Army. February 1, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report from the Customs district, public service, and resources of Alaska Territory. By William Gouverneur Morris, special agent of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in obedience to law, an abstract of the militia force of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a copy of a preliminary report of Maj. C.R. Suter, Corps of Engineers, upon the survey of the Missouri River from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa. February 5, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter from the Auditor of Railroad Accounts, submitting reasons why the appropriation for his office for the next fiscal year should be increased rather than decreased. February 7, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, in relation to the selection of a site for a city post office in the City of Washington, D.C. February 12, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the commanding general, Department of the Missouri, inclosing a report of C.A.H. McCauley, Third Cavalry, of his explorations in and about Pagosa Springs, Colorado. February 12, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, inclosing a letter from the Chief Clerk of the War Department in relation to the clerical force in the office of the Secretary of War, as provided for in the pending legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill. February 14, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of February 12, 1879, information in relation to the progress and present status of the work on the canal and locks at the cascades of the Columbia River. February 17, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 31, 1879, information in relation to what additional clerical force will be necessary in the Pension Office and the office of the Surgeon General of the Army to secure to applicants for pensions the prompt adjustment of their claims. February 11, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Paymaster General forwarding estimates of amounts required to pay certain professors at the Military Academy for the years 1878, 1879, and 1880, and recommending that provision be made for this purpose. February 20, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to Senate resolution of February 19, 1879, a letter of the Acting Chief of Engineers in relation to the condition and estimates for the improvement of the harbor and River of Au Sable, on the western shore of Lake Huron. February 22, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the exportation of live animals to foreign countries, and recommending legislation providing for an inspection of the same before shipment. February 22, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of a letter from Maj. B.C. Card, Chief Quartermaster Department of Texas, in relation to the bill for the reduction and reorganization of the Army, &c. February 22, 1879. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating the report of the commission appointed under the provisions of the act approved May 3, 1878, entitled "An Act Authorizing the President of the United States To Make Certain Negotiations with the Ute Indians in the State of Colorado." February 8, 1879. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from Col. T.T.S. Laidley, President of the Board for Testing Iron, Steel, &c., in relation to the acceptance of the machine erected at the Watertown Arsenal by Mr. A.H. Emery, and recommending an appropriation for the payment of the increased cost of the same. February 20, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of February 20, 1879, information in relation to the construction of railroads in Mexico. March 1, 1879. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting an exhibit of the result of the United States centennial exhibition and celebration of 1876. March 3, 1879. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a copy of resolutions adopted by the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh, Pa., in favor of an appropriation for the completion of the Davis Island Dam. January 27, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.	25
Serial set 1832	International monetary conference held, in compliance with the invitation extended to certain governments of Europe by the government of the United States, in pursuance of the second section of the act of Congress of February 28, 1878, in Paris, in August, 1878, under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of France.	1
Serial set 1833	Letter from O.C. Marsh, Vice-President and Acting President of the National Academy of Sciences, transmitting in obedience to law the report on the scientific surveys of the territories, made by the National Academy of Sciences. December 2, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, to the resolution of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, to admit Hon. David T. Corbin to a seat in the Senate as a Senator from South Carolina... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, being Executive Document No. 8, of the present session, in answer to the resolution of the Senate passed December 3, 1878, relative to the amount of silver coin received in payment of Customs dues during the current fiscal year, and the disposition which has been made of it, be referred to the Committee on Finance... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, as the judgment of the Senate, that the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been legally ratified, and are as valid and of the same paramount authority as any other part of the Constitution... In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that no bill that shall have passed one House shall be sent to the other for concurrence after twelve o'clock midnight of the first day of March in the present session... Annual report of the Librarian of Congress, for the year 1878. January 9, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. January 10, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, addressed to the chairman of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, submitting a draught of a bill to facilitate and encourage the payment of delinquent taxes in the District of Columbia. January 15, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, addressed to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, communicating information in regard to certain defects in the law regulating the rates and methods of assessment of water rents in the District of Columbia. January 15, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of property in his possession belonging to the United States, December 2, 1878. December 2, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Plan for the improvement of the sewerage and the sanitary condition of the District of Columbia. Submitted to the Senate Committee of the District of Columbia under the authority of a resolution adopted by the Senate of the United States June 13,1878 (Forty-fifth Congress, 2d session). In the Senate of the United States. December 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be, and is hereby, instructed to inquire into the expediency of making the trade dollar, authorized by Section 15 of the act of Congress approved February 12, 1873, a legal tender for all debts, public and private, and of providing for its recoinage into the standard dollar of 412 1/2 grains... In the Senate of the United States. December 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris submitted the following resolution: Whereas the epidemic which has recently prevailed in large districts of several of the states of the Union has been so destructive to human life and the interests and prosperity of the whole country as to make it a subject of gravest public concern... In the Senate of the United States. December 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Eustis submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that a joint committee, to be composed of five members of the Senate and five members of the House of Representatives, be appointed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives... In the Senate of the United States. December 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamar submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that a commission is hereby authorized and constituted, to consist of three Senators to be appointed by the Senate; three members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker; and experts, not exceeding seven in number... Resolution of the Legislature of Vermont relating to the remonetization of silver. December 2, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 3, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Paddock submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be, and is hereby, instructed to inquire into the expediency of making the trade dollar, authorized by section 15 of the act of Congress approved February 12, 1873, a legal tender for all debts, public and private... Resolutions of the Society of the Army of the Potomac in favor of an appropriation for continuing and completing the history of the battle of Gettysburg, by John B. Bachelder. December 4, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following resolution: Whereas agriculture is the foundation of nearly all our wealth, and it is mainly through the exportation of its products that we are paying off our large indebtedness, foreign and domestic, and have the present large balance of trade in our favor... In the Senate of the United States. December 2, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blaine submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Judiciary Committee be instructed to inquire and report to the Senate whether at the recent elections the constitutional rights of American citizens were violated in any of the states of the Union... Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to the Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitting plans and estimates for relieving defects in the main system of sewerage of Washington City. December 13, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the President of the Metropolitan Railroad Company, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 31, 1878, a statement of the amount of the capital stock, the amount of the indebtedness, gross and net earnings, operating expenses, &c., of said company. December 16, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Plans for the improvement of the sewerage and the sanitary condition of the District of Columbia. Submitted to the Senate Committee of the District of Columbia under the authority of a resolution adopted by the Senate of the United States June 13, 1878 (Forty-fifty Congress, 2d session). December 17, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Legislature of Georgia, in favor of the passage of a law providing for the distribution of a portion of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the southern states for educational purposes. December 17, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Interview of the select committees of the Senate of the United States and of the House of Representatives to make provision for taking the tenth census, with Prof. Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of the Census... Memorial of John J. Key and W.G.M. Davis, praying the passage of a law referring their claim for compensation for services rendered the United States as attorneys at law to the Court of Claims for adjudication. December 18, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Public Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, etc., for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878. December 19, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from John I. Davenport, clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, transmitting a copy of a presentment made by the grand jurors of said court suggesting certain amendments to the naturalization laws. December 19, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Plan for the improvement of the sewerage and the sanitary condition of the District of Columbia, submitted to the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, under the authority of a resolution adopted by the Senate of the United States June 13, 1878 (Forty-fifth Congress, second session). December 20, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that, with a view to the peaceful adjustment of all questions relating to suffrage, to the effective enforcement of Constitutional and natural rights, and to the promotion of the best interests of the whole country... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate of the amount of commissions or other compensation paid to bankers, brokers, firms, companies, syndicates, and individuals for services in negotiating the sale of bonds and other obligations of the United States, from the year 1862 until the present time... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolutions: Resolutions intended to be offered as a substitute for the resolutions of the senator from Vermont, Mr. Edmunds... Memorial of citizens of East Washington, praying for an equal distribution of appropriations made for public improvements in the City of Washington, and for the amendment of the laws regulating the assessment of water-rates and the collection of water-rents in the District of Columbia. January 20, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Petition of Professor Townend Glover, proposing to transfer to the government certain entomological works, with the engraved plates prepared to illustrate the various species of insects of the North American continent. January 21, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of the Territory of Dakota, asking for the passage of the bill providing for an additional associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Dakota. January 21, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of Dr. H.A. Hagan, Professor of Harvard University; Professor Smith, of Yale College; P.R. Uhler, President, Maryland Academy of Sciences; J.L. Le Conte, Charles A. Blake, and other entomologists in the United States, in favor of the purchase by the government of the engraved plates prepared by Professor Townend Glover, illustrating the insects of the North American continent. January 21, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Sam C. Reid, in behalf of the heirs of the claimants of the late United States private-armed brig General Armstrong, praying compensation for the destruction of said brig by the British fleet, at Fayal, during the War of 1812. December 3, 1878. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. December 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 17, 1879, information concerning the water supply to residents of Capitol Hill, and other elevated portions of the City of Washington. January 22, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Statement in relation to the present and proposed organization of the Army. January 22, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from Thomas Lincoln Casey, lieutenant-colonel of engineers, in charge of the Washington Aqueduct, to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, submitting his views in relation to the water-supply to residents of Capitol Hill and other elevated portions of Washington City. January 23, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Petition of the Merchants' National Bank of Savannah, Ga., praying the passage of the Bill (H.R. 5125) to amend the act entitled "An Act for the Relief of Robert Erwin." January 24, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Elizabeth Cady Station, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Susan B. Anthony, officers of the National Woman Suffrage Association, asking for the passage of Senate Resolution No. 12 (second session Forty-fifth Congress), providing for an amendment to the Constitution protecting the rights of women citizens, and also asking that the House Judiciary Committee be relieved from the further consideration of a similar resolution. January 24, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Petition of B.F. Overton, delegate from the Chickasaw Nation of Indians, praying that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to issue a United States Indian trust fund registered bond, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum, and to fund the present Indian trust fund stocks and bonds at their face value; and that the Secretary of the Interior be authorized to invest all money now held, or that may come into his possession on account of redemption of bonds or stocks belonging to the trust funds of Indian nations, in like bonds of the United States. January 27, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Astoria, Oregon, Chamber of Commerce, praying an appropriation for the improvement of the mouth of the Columbia River. January 27, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Quartermaster-General, U.S.A., to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, in relation to the defects in the water-supply to residents of East Washington, and other elevated portions of the City of Washington. January 27, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Capitol Hill and East Washington Improvement Association, in relation to the site for the Congressional Library. January 28, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Testimony of James E. Anderson, before a committee of the House of Representatives, communicated by the House to the Senate, in response to its resolution of December 10, 1878. January 28, 1879. -- Referred to the select committee to inquire into certain matters touching the late presidential election in Louisiana, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the "Old Settler," or "Western" Cherokee Indians, praying for a settlement and payment of the balance claimed to be due them from the United States under the treaties of 1835-'36 and 1846. January 29, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Memorial of I.L. Garvin, principal chief of Choctaw Nation, remonstrating against the establishment of territorial governments in the Indian nations, Indian Territory. January 29, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the board of directors of the Merchants Exchange of Saint Louis, Missouri, of January 28, 1879, in favor of granting aid in the construction of a railroad from San Antonio, Tex., to the Rio Grande, at or near Laredo, Mexico. February 3, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Railroads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, inclosing a draft of a bill for the improvement of the general water supply and the increase of the revenues of the Water Department of the District of Columbia. February 4, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, submitting his views in regard to Senate Bill No. 1684, to regulate promotions in the Navy, and for other purposes. February 5, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, recommending the appropriation of an amount to be paid to the widow of Bayard Taylor, late United States minister to Berlin, equal to one year's salary at the rate allowed by law to the mission her husband held. February 5, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from M.C. Meigs, Quartermaster General U.S. Army, to Hon. E.H. Rollins, United States Senate, in relation to appropriations to secure the proper water supply to residents on Capitol Hill and other elevated portions of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia. February 6, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from J.T. Gause, Vice-President of the Harlan and Hollingsworth Company, Wilmington, Del., to Hon. T.F. Bayard, United States Senate, in relation to the unfinished double-turreted monitor Amphitrite and others, and suggesting that action be taken looking to their completion or other disposition. February 10, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to transmit to the Senate, as early as is practicable, such information as may be in the possession of the Treasury Department, or that may be obtained from collectors of Customs and through any other agencies of the Department, showing the relative quantities and natures of the various kinds of fermented and alcoholic liquors imported into the United States from foreign countries... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of State be directed to transmit to the Senate, as early as is practicable, any information in the possession of the State Department, or that may be obtained through the consular service, relating to the methods of production and preparation, and the nature of the various kinds of fermented and alcoholic liquors imported into the United States from foreign ports at which are stationed officers of the consular service of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conkling submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Bill (S. 1591) to provide additional accommodations for the Library of Congress be recommitted to the Committee on the Library on the part of the Senate, with instructions to report a bill providing for a commission of skilled persons to examine and report to Congress at the next session touching the different sites and provisions proposed for the Congressional Library... Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, communicating information in relation to the escape of the Cheyenne Indians from Fort Robinson. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that a select committee of five Senators be appointed to examine into the circumstances connected with the removal of the Northern Cheyennes from the Sioux reservation to the Indian Territory, their treatment whilst in the territory, their escape therefrom, and all the circumstances connected therewith... Petition of the Boston Board of Trade, praying for the establishment of a signal station on Block Island. February 12, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the American Colonization Society, praying an appropriation for the purpose of making explorations and surveys on the western coast of Africa, and from Liberia into the interior of that continent, with a view to building up American trade and commerce therewith. February 12, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, (to Hon. W.H. Calkins, House of Representatives), transmitting a copy of a report of Maj. J.A. Smith, Corps of Engineers, in relation to the amount of appropriation necessary to complete the breakwater and piers at the harbor of Michigan City, Ind. February 12, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of Aransas Bar. February 13, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the State Grange of Texas, praying that all treaty stipulations between the United States and the Indians in the Indian Territory may be strictly adhered to and observed in every particular. February 13, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture to the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, communicating information on the subject of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle. February 15, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Board of Trade of Baltimore, and merchants, ship owners, and others, remonstrating against the passage of a law granting a subsidy in aid of certain steamship lines plying or to ply between the ports of New York and New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table. February 17, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of the delegates of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nation of Indians, remonstrating against the passage of Senate Bill No. 1802 to establish a United States court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes. February 19, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, communicating a supplemental statement concerning the disposition to be made of the four unfinished double-turreted monitors Puritan, Amphitrite, Terror, and Monadnock. February 19, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to the Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia, transmitting plans and estimates for an additional supply of water for Washington and Georgetown. February 26, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, communicating information in relation to the number of buildings in the District of Columbia rented by the various departments of the government and the amount of rent paid therefor. February 26, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the select committee appointed under the resolutions adopted on the 17th of December, 1878, to inquire into certain alleged violations of the constitutional rights of American citizens in recent elections in any of the states of the Union, be continued, with power to report at the next session of the Senate... Resolution in the nature of a memorial of the Legislature of Nebraska, praying for legislation for the removal of a certain portion of the Sioux tribe of Indians from certain lands in Knox County, in that state, and that the title to said lands may be restored to that county. February 28, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor of the termination of Articles XVIII and XXI of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain of May 8, 1871, relating to fisheries. February 28, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the third session of the Forty-fifth Congress. March 3, 1879. Annual report of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Senate from July 1, 1877, to June 30, 1878; and also a statement of property in his possession belonging to the United States, December 2, 1878. December 2, 1878. -- 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 judgments rendered by said Court for the year ending December 2, 1878. December 2, 1878. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.	76
Serial set 1834	United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part VI. Report of the Commissioner for 1878. A. -- Inquiry into the decrease of food fishes. B. -- The propagation of food fishes in the waters of the United States.	1
Serial set 1835	Testimony taken by the joint committee appointed to take into consideration the expediency of transferring the Indian bureau to the War Department. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1878.	2
Serial set 1836-1	Reports of the Committees on Private Land Claims of the Senate and House of Representatives from the second session of the Nineteenth Congress to the close of the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress. Part I -- Senate. Parts II and III -- House.	1
Serial set 1836-2	Reports of the Committees on Private Land Claims of the Senate and House of Representatives from the second session of the Nineteenth Congress to the close of the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress. Part I -- Senate. Parts II and III -- House.	1
Serial set 1837	In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 522.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill S. 522, and the petition of Ira Gill accompanying the same, have had the matter under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1901.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1901) for the relief of Philip W. Stanhope, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Christiancy, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 838.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 838) for the relief of settlers on certain lands in the State of California, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3558.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred H.R. 3558, "An Act for the Relief of Second Lieut. Thomas T. Knox, Regimental Quartermaster, First Cavalry," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3150.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3150) granting a pension to Joseph Ward, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 309.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 309) for the relief of Andrew F. Higgins, late private in the Fourth Independent Company, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1430.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1430) for the relief of Daniel M. Cook, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3734.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3734) for the relief of Thomas Strider, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Education and Labor, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4228.) The Committee on Education and Labor, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4228) entitled "An Act To Promote the Education of the Blind," have taken the same under consideration, and have to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Eaton, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1629.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Helen Frances Manville, praying the extension of patent numbered 6535, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1739.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Matthew O'Reagan [i.e., Mathew O. Regan], a private in Company E, Third United States Artillery, asking an increase of pension, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1304.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1304) granting a pension to Anna M. Clippinger, mother of John R. Clippinger, late private Company D, One hundred and Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 521.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 521) for the relief of James D. Sarven, so far as to authorize the Commissioner of Patents to hear and determine an application for an extension of a patent for a valuable improvement in carriage wheels, have had the bill, the petition, and the accompanying papers under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 556.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 556) for the relief of James A. Hile, of Lewis County, Missouri, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1540.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1540) for the relief of Emanuel Klauser, late corporal of Company H, Fifty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 591.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 591) for the relief of James Smith, late first lieutenant of Company F, Forty-sixth Missouri Infantry Regiment, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 521.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 521) for the relief of Thomas F. Alexander, of Illinois, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4190.) The Committee on Military Affairs have had under consideration the Bill (H.R. 4190) for the relief of W.H.H. Baldwin, and report thereon as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1611.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the letter from the Secretary of War, recommending such legislation as will authorize the President to appoint William English, late a cadet at the Military Academy, a second lieutenant in the Army, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3186.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3186) for the relief of the Commercial Bank of Knoxville, Tenn., report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of William McGarrahan, having at the last session of the present Congress reported adversely to the prayer of the memorialist, and having asked and obtained leave... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 833.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred a Bill (S. 833) for the relief of James E. Macklin, lieutenant Eleventh Infantry, U.S.A., have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 457.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred S. 457, "A Bill for the Settlement of Accounts with Certain Railway Companies," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 409.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 409) for the relief of James Clift, late captain Fifth Tennessee Cavalry, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2161.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2161) for the relief of M.G. Harmon, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. December 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 960.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill (S. 960) for the relief of James C. Fox, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. December 11, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of T.G. [i.e., E.J.] Senseney, for the relief of the estate of Jacob Senseney, deceased, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 656.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 656) for the relief of A.L. Shotwell, have considered the same, and report thereon as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Patents,, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 550.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 550) to authorize the Commissioner of Patents to hear and determine the application of Frederick Cook for extension of patent, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Joint Committee on the Reorganization of the Army, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1491.) The Joint Committee of the two Houses, appointed under the following sections of an act of Congress approved on the 18th day of June, 1878, viz... In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1441.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1441) for the relief of homestead settlers on the public lands, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1009.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1009) for the relief of Peter Philips, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas P. Blair, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Louisa Kearney, widow of the late James Kearney, of the United States Army, praying compensation for property alleged to have been taken and appropriated by the United States military forces during the late Civil War, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of Sarah T. Jefferies, widow and administratrix of Evan S. Jefferies, deceased, praying compensation for property taken and appropriated by United States troops during the late war, have had the same under consideration, and beg to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2139.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2139) making an appropriation for the payment to Richard Heater, executor of John Heater, deceased, late of Loudoun County, Virginia, for quartermaster's stores taken and used by the United States Army, having considered the same, beg to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1878. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of Mary J. Padgett and husband, with accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1531.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Theophilus P. Chandler, late assistant treasurer at Boston, Mass., report... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1287.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1287) for the relief of Burr S. Craft, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1543.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John S. Cunningham, a pay director in the Navy, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1878. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3855.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 3855, "An Act for the Relief of William A. Mann"... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1627.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1627) making an appropriation for the purchase of Fort Clark, Texas, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3572.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3572) granting a pension to Andrew I. [i.e., J.] Morrison, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4364.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 4364, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4975.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4975) granting an increase of pension to Eliza H. Frailey, widow of James Madison Frailey, late a commodore in the United States Navy, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 124.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 124) granting a pension to James B. Treadwell, have examined the same, and finding the conclusions and recommendations of the House report sustained by the evidence, concur therein, and adopt that report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4986.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4986) granting an increase of pension to Mrs. H. Louise Gates, widow of the late General William Gates, U.S.A., report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2296.) The Committee on Pensions, having had under consideration the Bill (H.R. 2296) granting a pension to John Ward, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 5219) granting a pension to Belinda Macdonald, widow of Christopher R. Macdonald, late colonel Forty-seventh Regiment New York Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1182.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1182) for the relief of Lewis I. [i.e., J.] Blair, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1414.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1414) granting a pension to James H. Woodard, having examined the evidence on file in the Pension Office, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1644.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of Dr. Samuel H. Chew, of Kentucky, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1571.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1571) for the relief of William W. Ross, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1214.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1214) granting a pension to Amos Angle, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1210.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a Bill (S. 1210) granting a pension to Henry Armstrong, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 837.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 837, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4682.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4682) granting a pension to Adaline P. Loy, widow of Joseph F. Loy, deceased, find, on investigation... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4971.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4971) granting a pension to Mary Frazee, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3070.) The Committee on Pensions having carefully considered House Bill 3070, granting a pension to Mrs. Eliza Bayard Anderson, widow of General Robert Anderson, United States Army, together with the papers accompanying the same, find that... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3583.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3583) granting a pension to William Denene, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Caroline Croxton, widow of General John T. Croxton, praying to be allowed a pension, having examined the papers submitted, find that no application has been made to the pension bureau under the general law... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Moritz Samuelson... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of H.W. Read, praying compensation for alleged services in 1863, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of W.F. Hovis, late assistant assessor for the eighteenth division of the first collection District of Georgia, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1662.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Ex. Doc. No. 31, being the letter of Secretary of War, addressed to the President of the Senate, under date 15th instant, communicating information in relation to the establishment of a military post in the vicinity of El Paso, Tex., and recommending an appropriation for the purpose... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2472.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2472) for the relief of Elias B. Bell, late private Company E, Third West Virginia Cavalry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 174.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 174) for the relief of Thomas B. Hunt, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1271.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1271) for the relief of Jenkins A. Fitzgerald, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 635.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill for relief of Moses F. Carleton... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 541.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 541) for the relief of William H. Carmen, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4407.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the case of Andrew H. Ivory, Company G, Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves, have to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3853.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3853) for the relief of William F. Wheeler, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5800.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 5800, being "An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Julia Elliott, Widow and Administratrix of Newell D. Elliott, Deceased," having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1672.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 32) for the relief of N.C. Blonton and others, have duly considered the same so far as the rights of Mr. Blonton are affected, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 716.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 716) for the relief of Huff Jones, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1673.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was recommitted the Bill (S. 956) for the relief of W.P. Grace, as the administrator of W.B. Gosa, have again had the same under consideration... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1674.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition and papers of Henry F. Lines, having considered the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee, to whom was referred the claim of Campbell County, Tennessee, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1054.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1054) to authorize the United States to secure a title to certain military and timber reservations, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1263.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill to provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain internal revenue taxes erroneously assessed and collected from the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, who were instructed to inquire "into the expediency of enacting that the selection of the chiefs of the Bureaus of Steam Engineering, Provisions and Clothing, and Medicine and Surgery, shall be made from officers whose relative rank is not below that of captain," report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1446.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 146, to promote the efficiency of the corps of chaplains of the United States Navy, after consideration thereof... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1705.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the petition of James C. Daggett, and accompanying papers, find that the petitioner is now in receipt of a pension of $50 per month for total disability... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 529.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 529, granting a pension to Daniel Middough... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4793.) The Committee on Pensions having carefully considered House Bill 4793 granting a pension to James Mahew, late private Twenty-third Battery, Indiana Artillery, together with the accompanying papers... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4697.) The Committee on Pensions having examined House Bill 4697, granting a pension to Philip Thorn [i.e., Thoen], together with accompanying papers, find that the claim was rejected by the Commissioner of Pensions under the provisions of section 4717... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 754.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined House Bill 754 and the papers accompanying, find that the applicant, James W. Crowley, was enlisted and served as surgeon in the Thirteenth Missouri Cavalry, and was mustered out July 20, 1866... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 830.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 830) granting a pension to Elizabeth Teagarden, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions having examined the petition of Elisha M. Luckett, late second lieutenant Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Mexican War, find that the claimant asks for arrears of pension... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1719.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas S. Ford... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1210.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1210) for the relief of Charles Valier, late of Company M, Seventh Regiment of Illinois Cavalry, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1220.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill S. 1220, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4794.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4794) granting a pension to Peter Yarnell, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2294.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2294) for the relief of William S. Massie, having had the same under consideration, do make the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1650.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1650) for the relief of the State of Kansas, having had the same under consideration, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1286.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the case of John T. Neale, late an employe [sic] of the provost marshal's department, beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1475.) The facts in this plain and simple case are so thoroughly given in the report of the Committee on Military Affairs of the House of Representatives (Forty-fourth Cong., second session, Report 219) that it is adopted as the report of the Senate Committee as their own, and is hereto attached... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1692.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1692) to authorize the President to nominate Herman Biggs to a second lieutenancy in the Army, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1260.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred a Bill (S. 1260) for the relief of John W. Chickering, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2443.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2443) for the relief of Citizens of Montana who served with the United the States troops in the war with the Nez Perces, and for the relief of heirs of such as were killed in said service, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1144.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred H.R. 1144, "Act for the Relief of Ann Annis, Widow of Harvey Annis, Late Second Lieutenant Company G, Fifty-first Regiment United States Colored Infantry," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2394.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred H.R. 2394, "Act for the Relief of Leonard L. Lancaster, Late Sergeant Second Regiment Wisconsin Cavalry," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1301.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred H.R. 1301, "An Act for the Relief of Henry E. Wilkinson, Late First Lieutenant Company I, Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1162.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1162) for the relief of Alfred Muller, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4289.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4289) for the relief of Thomas W. Segar, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2852.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred H.R. 2852, "An Act for the Relief of James M. Ruby," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1163.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1163) "An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Charles B. Smith," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Lucia M. Peck, in relation to her husband's alleged wrongful imprisonment in the Old Capitol Prison during the late war, and praying remuneration for damages alleged to have accrued to him personally and to his business by reason of said imprisonment, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Laura E. Campbell, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1720.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred a communication from the Secretary of War of date January 27, 1879, concerning the purchase of land to enlarge and protect the San Antonio arsenal, Texas, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2927.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2927) restoring the name of Michael S. Carl, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1055.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1055) granting a pension to Samuel B. Robertson, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1728.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Smith, late an enlisted soldier in Company D, First Maine Cavalry, have had the same under consideration, and ask to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 247.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 247) granting a pension to George D. Phillips, a soldier of the War of 1812, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1197.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1197) granting a pension to Fielding Bradford, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 511.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 511) granting a pension to George W. Wright, a soldier of the War of 1812, having had the same under consideration, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2520.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2520) granting a pension to George Andrews, late a private in the Sixth Maine Battery of Artillery, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2623.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2623) granting a pension to Nelson M. Farrar, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2826.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2826) granting a pension to John H. Ferrell, late a pilot on the United States steamer Moose, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3266.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3266) granting a pension to Dallon [i.e., Dalton] Hinchman, claiming to have been late a private in Company G, Second Michigan Cavalry, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4681.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4681) granting a pension to Joseph Odell, have had the same under consideration and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4792.) The Bill (H.R. 4792) under consideration directs the name of Calvin Halstead... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4970.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4970) granting a pension to John H. McBrayer, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4978.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4978) granting a pension to James Johnson, having had the same under consideration, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 982.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 982) for the relief of the late George Plunkett, paymaster United States Navy, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1610.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1610) for the relief of Commander Robert Boyd, United States Navy, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3737.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3737) for the relief of V.H. McCormick, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 683.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to which was referred the Bill (S. 683) for the relief of the American Grocer Association, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3854.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3854) for the relief of John Tweedy, postmaster in Danbury, Conn., have to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3863.) In the case of N.G. Smith, postmaster at Flemington, N.J., the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads have to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4689.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4689) granting a pension to Thomas R. Cross, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1740.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Rebecca Williams, mother of Lloyd A. Williams, first assistant engineer in the United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1514.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1514) granting a pension to Simeon Ingalls, having had the same under consideration, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 550.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 550, granting a pension to Mary A. Allen, widow of George B. Allen, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2519.) The Committee on Pensions, having carefully considered the Bill (H.R. 3415) and accompanying papers, respectfully report that General James Totten... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1509.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1509) granting a pension to John Willans, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4983.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4983) granting a pension to Sarah H. Bradford, mother of William H. Bradford, deceased, late acting master's mate, United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 480.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 480) granting a pension to William W. Stephenson, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3408.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3408) granting a pension to Samuel V. Adams, late a private in Company B, First Regiment New Jersey Cavalry, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 1741, 1742.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth McNeil Benham and Frances McNeil Potter, daughters of General John McNeil, U.S.A., praying to be granted a pension, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1789.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1789) granting a pension to Miles L. Reed, having examined the evidence, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1035.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Bill S. 1035, report as follows: The government of the United States, in receiving the western and southern states into the Union, stipulated in their several acts of admission to pay them 5 per cent. upon the sales of the public lands situated therein... Report of the Joint Committee Appointed To Consider the Expediency of Transferring the Indian Bureau to the War Department. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of surgeon George F. Winslow, United States Navy, having had the same under consideration, report it back... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3866.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3866) for the relief of Mrs. F.A. Perrin, of Clyde, Ohio, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3860.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3860) for the relief of Charles C. Reynolds, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1630.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom were referred the following bills: S. 583, for the relief of J.K. McLean; S. 645, S. 650, S. 653, S. 657, S. 666, S. 667, S. 668, S. 669, S. 673, S. 674, S. 676, S. 677, S. 678, S. 679, S. 841, and S. 865, for the relief of certain postmasters and late postmasters in the states therein named, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report...	147
Serial set 1838	In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1810.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition for the relief of Joseph R. Shannon, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1326.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred Bill S. 1326, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 25.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 25) for the relief of Robert W. Dunbar, of Curry County, Oregon, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4371.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4371) granting a pension to Ludwig Ueber, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5633.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 5633, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1499.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1499) for the relief of Dr. Charles A. White, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1801.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Page, late disbursing agent of the Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands in the State of Arkansas, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 819.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred House Bill No. 819, for the relief of Joab Spencer and James R. Mead for supplies to the Kansas tribe of Indians, beg leave, after full consideration of the facts and testimony in the case... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2217.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2217) for the relief of J. Fraser, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1769.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Executive Document No. 54, "letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a petition of certain officers of the Fifth Infantry, U.S.A., praying to be reimbursed for losses sustained by the sinking of the government steamer Don Cameron," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1434.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1434) to compensate George W. Morse for his labor and expenses in adapting his system of breech-loading fire-arms and ammunition to the arms of the United States, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2769.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2769) granting a pension to Catharine H. Gallagher, widow of Capt. John Gallagher, late United States Navy, have examined the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H. Res. 106.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Joint Resolution (H. Res. 106) referring to the Court of Claims the claim of James E. Kelsey and others against the United States for damages done to the schooner C. & C. Brooks, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Harris, late private in Company B, Sixth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the special committee appointed to investigate and report how or in what manner a section in the Bill (H.R. 5130) known as the sundry civil bill, relating to the Hot Springs of Arkansas, passed at the last session of Congress, was omitted in the bill as enrolled, &c., submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1744.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the resolutions of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, in favor of an appropriation for continuing and completing the history of the Battle of Gettysburg, by John B. Batchelder, and the letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in answer to the Senate resolution of March 4, 1874, information concerning the data from which the positions of the troops were added to the engineer's maps of the Gettysburg battlefield, recently published, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1746.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition, &c., in the claim of Emma G. Nelson, executrix of the estate of Rev. W.F. Nelson, deceased, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1553.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the claim of Leonard Scarbrough for arrears of pension, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2172.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2172) granting a pension to DeForest Doty, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, who were instructed by the Senate "to inquire into the report upon the validity of the so-called permit law, which was enacted by the Legislature of the Chickasaw Nation on the 17th day of October, 1876," beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the credentials of David T. Corbin and M.C. Butler, each claiming to be senator-elect from the State of South Carolina, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4287.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4287) for the relief of John Gault, Jr., late major of the Twenty-eighth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3874.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3874) authorizing the Secretary of War to transfer to certain settlers whose lands were included within Fort Hartsuff military reservation, such portions as are not needed for military purposes, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1761.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of War, recommending the passage of a law providing for filling vacancy in the office of the Chief of Engineers, respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Matthews, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that a select committee of five senators be appointed by the President of the Senate, who shall sit during the recess of Congress, to inquire into all claims of citizens of the United States against the government of Nicaragua for indemnity for lives of relatives taken, wounds and other personal injuries inflicted, and property taken, injured, or destroyed, which have heretofore been filed in the Department of State and now remain pending... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1616.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1616) for the relief of Faran & McLean, having had the same under consideration, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 581.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 581) "For the Improvement of the Military Wagon Road from Scottsburgh, Oregon, to Camp Stewart, Oregon," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1827.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1827) "An Act for the Relief of D.W. McClung, of Woodsdale, Butler County, Ohio," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 589.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 589) to reimburse the State of Oregon for moneys paid by said state in the suppression of Indian hostilities during the Modoc War, in the years 1872 and 1873, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3434.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 3434, "An Act Releasing Title to a Certain Cemetery Lot in the City of Montgomery, Ala.," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4290.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4290) for the relief of William S. Hansell & Sons, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4007.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4007) for the relief of Private William Hines, Company F, Eighteenth United States Infantry, who lost his trousers and blanket by fire at Aiken, S.C., have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Garland, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1557.) The Committee on Public Lands having duly considered Senate Bill No. 1557 referred to it, report the same back with a recommendation that it be amended by striking out the eighth section, and that so amended the bill be passed... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2918.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2918) for the relief of Merritt Barber, first lieutenant United States Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Garland, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate of April 24, 1878, instructing "the Committee on Public Lands to inquire into and report the result of the late survey of the western boundary of the State of Arkansas"... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 799.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred House Bill 799 and accompanying petition and papers for the relief of Paul McCormick, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1738.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1738) to restore Assistant Paymaster Nicholas H. Stavey to the active from the retired list of the Navy, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, having examined the petition and accompanying papers of Henry S. King, Company B, Second Regiment Missouri Mounted Riflemen (Mexican War)... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nancy M. Richmond, of the State of Michigan, praying to be allowed a pension, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1443.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1443) granting a pension to William Gibson, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1456.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1456) granting a pension to Abram F. Farrar, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3857.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3857) entitled "An Act for the Relief of Robert Warner," submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4683.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 4683, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1771.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred "letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an appropriation to reimburse James Burke, superintendent of the national cemetery at Salisbury, N.C., for the amount of costs and attorney's fees in the suit brought against him by W.H. Logan, for alleged trespass," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1714.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1714) for the relief of the State University of California, and for other purposes, have examined the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1774.) The Committee on Post Offices, and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Alfred E. Jaques, postmaster at Wilton, N.H., have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Manufacturers, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1700.) The Committee on Manufactures, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1700) to incorporate the Spanish American Commercial Company, having considered the same, recommend certain amendments and makes the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3863.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to which was recommitted the Bill (H.R. 3863) for the relief of Nathaniel G. Smith, have reconsidered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grover, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1486.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1486) to adjust the claims of the owners of lands within the limits of the Klamath Indian Reservation in the State of Oregon, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany an amendment to Bill S. 721.) The testimony submitted before the Committee in this case shows that Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad, formerly known as the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad Company... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1235.) The Senate Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1235) for the delivery to Samuel Lord, Jr., receiver, of certain bonds now in the Treasury of the United States, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the select committee to investigate and report the best means of preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1784.) The select committee appointed to investigate the best means of preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases into the United States have had the matter under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 84.) The Committee on Commerce, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 84, submits the following report: The object sought to be obtained by the bill is to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 6270.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Bill H.R. No. 6270, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Matthews, from the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 59.) The Committee on the Revision of the Laws, who were instructed, by order of the Senate of the 27th of January last past, to inquire into the expediency of making provision for publishing a revision of the statutes of the United States adopted since the date of the existing revision, have considered the subject, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1037.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1037) for the relief of John B. Davis, having had the same under consideration, ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1721.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1721) for the relief of Edward Shields and others, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1750.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1750) making appropriations for military roads in the Territory of Idaho, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1415.) From a careful examination the following facts appear: Capt. Richard Stevenson was appointed assistant quartermaster about the 1st of April, 1862... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5136.) The Committee on Public Lands to whom was referred House Bill 5136, for the relief of John B. Nix, report the same back and recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1811.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the memorial and other papers in reference to the claim of the Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's Catholic Church, at Chattanooga, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Anson Dart, formerly superintendent of Indian affairs in Oregon, praying for such enactment as Congress may deem just and proper to enable him to receive what is justly due him as per agreement when he entered the government service in 1850, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. Flora A. Darling, praying compensation for certain injuries suffered by her, and certain property taken from her, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report: The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of John Winslow Jones... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland, in the nature of a memorial, urging upon Congress the passage of a law restoring ex-Lieut. Samuel Chase Barney to the retired list of the Navy, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1648.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1648) to provide for the survey and sale of certain public lands, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5803.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 5803) for the relief of William Johnson and John R. Francis, of Edgar County, Illinois report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sargent, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1638.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1638) to appoint Spruille Braden an ensign in the United States Navy, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1124.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, having had under consideration Senate Bill No. 224, Senate Joint Resolution No. 4, and Senate Bill No. 1124, all for the relief of the Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1778.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1778) for the relief of certain persons locating homesteads upon the public lands, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1607.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1607) to extend the patent issued to Chas. H. Morgan, assignee of Edward L. Wilson, for a picture holder, have examined the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1581.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1581) for the relief of John M. McClintock, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Select Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River, submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 63.) The Select Committee on the Levees of the Mississippi River, to whom was referred the memorial of Prof. Edward Fontaine, of the State of Louisiana, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 3.) The land and premises known as Point San Jose, in the City of San Francisco, now in possession of the United States, and held for military purposes, is part of a larger tract and parcel of the public domain... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1754.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1754) for the relief of D.C. Casey, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 371.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the memorial of E.N. Horsford, ask leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William King Lear, of Wrangel Island, Alaska Territory, praying to be permitted to purchase a tract of land in said island, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Agriculture, submitted the following report: The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the petition of Jearum Atkins, asking compensation on certain grounds therein stated, and offering to relinquish certain patent rights, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Whyte, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2160.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2160) for the relief of the heirs of Samuel P. Todd, deceased, late a purser in the United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5822.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 5822) for the relief of Henry T. Fuller and others, sureties upon the official bond of William H. Waterman, having had the same under consideration, ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3539.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3539) for the relief of M.D. Titsworth, postmaster at Adams Centre, N.Y., have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1829.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Executive Document No. 36, "Letter from the Secretary of War, Communicating Information in Relation to the Necessity for the Construction of Buildings for the Military Headquarters at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Recommending an Appropriation for That Purpose," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 461.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 461) for the relief of Peter Scouden, late corporal Company K, Twelfth Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, &c., have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3465.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3465) for the relief of the heirs of William M. Landreth, deceased, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Mis. Doc. No. 5, "Memorial of Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland, Praying Compensation for Services Rendered the United States During the Late Civil War," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Joseph R. Cobb, praying compensation for services as quartermaster and for services and expenses in recruiting men for the United States Army during the late war, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1736.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1736) for the relief of E.W. Blackinton, have to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1737.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1737) for the relief of Julia E. Seeley, postmistress at Great Barrington, have to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 791.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 791) for the relief of Edward P. Vollum, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1422.) The Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, to whom was referred the Bill S. 1422, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1570.) The Committee on Railroads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1570) entitled "A Bill To Aid in Opening the Columbia River to Free Navigation," having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1827.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1827) for the relief of L.C. Cantwell, with accompanying papers, have duly considered the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1704.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1704) for the relief of Daniel M. Frost and the heirs and executors of William M. McPherson, of the State of Missouri, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 620.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 620) to amend section three of an act entitled "An Act Authorizing Construction of a Bridge Across the Missouri River upon the Military Reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas," approved July 20, 1868, respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1603.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1603) regulating the rank and pay of fleet marine officers in the United States Navy, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1837.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph L. Stevens, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1167.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1167) for the relief of Peter G. Mills, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Whyte, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4565.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4565) for the relief of Lieut. George M. Welles [i.e., Wells], of the Marine Corps, have the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 698.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 698) granting a pension to Nathan Udell, having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1511.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1511) granting a pension to Dederick Blank [i.e., Blanck], having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4702.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4702) granting a pension to Catharine Gemmill and children, having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1513.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1513) granting a pension to Charles Reed, having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 697.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 697) restoring the name of Benjamin Hollingsworth to the pension rolls, having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1512.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1512) granting a pension to Peter Gettert [i.e., Getert], having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 138.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 138) for the relief of Henry M. Meade, late paymaster in the United States Navy, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Hopperton, for relief, having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 737.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 737) to reimburse Henry K. Belding, of Minnesota, for carrying the mails, having had the same under consideration, ask leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4494.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 4494, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1515.) the Committee on Pensions, having duly examined Senate Bill 1515 granting a pension to James H. Poland, late a private in Company L, Seventh Regiment Iowa Cavalry, find, from the papers filed therewith, that the claim was rejected by the Pension Bureau because of insufficient evidence... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1396.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the Bill (H.R. 1396) granting a pension to Elizabeth R. Hull... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2289.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2289) giving a pension to Mrs. Maria L. Maxwell, widow of William C. Maxwell, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4691.) The Committee on Pensions, having duly examined House Bill No. 4691 granting a pension to Hannah Hallam... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1956.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1956) for the relief of Thomas Murphy, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S.R. 65.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Resolution No. 65, "Correcting the Military Record of Wickliffe Cooper, Deceased, Late Major of Seventh Cavalry, Brevet Colonel United States Army," report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2457.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2457) for the relief of A.F. Rockwell, aid-de-camp on the staff of General Buell, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1848.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles E. Smith... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3108.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the Bill (H.R. 3108) giving a pension to Hugh B. Makin, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1400.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1400) granting a pension to Mrs. Lucy Bassett, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4696.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4696) granting a pension to Cynthia Spradlin, widow of Jacob M. Spradlin, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2961.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2961) for the relief of Jarvis Jackson, of Laurel County, Kentucky, a soldier of the War of 1812, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the resolution (Mis. Doc. No. 62) directing the Secretary of State to transmit to the Senate certain information relating to fermented and alcoholic liquors, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4558.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill (H.R. 4558) for the relief of John N. Reed, having examined the same, adopt the following report of the Committee on Claims of the House... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1759.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1759) granting a pension to Sarah E. Webb and minor children, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4694.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 4694) granting a pension to James Riley, late a private in Company D, Fourth United States Infantry, having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4368.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill No. 4368 granting a pension to Johanna Kuhlman, having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4386.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4386) granting arrears of pension to Emilie R. Hooe, widow of the late Bvt. Maj. Alexander S. Hooe, Fifth United States Infantry, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1245.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1245) for the relief of W.H. Davis, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2848.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2848) for the relief of M.F. Clark, having had the same under consideration, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1589.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1589) for the relief of the legal representatives of William S. Robinson, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 795.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 795) for the relief of George W. Maher, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the Houston, Trinity and Tyler Railroad Company, of Galveston, Tex., praying compensation for railroad iron taken by the military authorities for use of the United States in 1865, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Henry B. Helm, of Hardin County, Kentucky, praying compensation for property taken and used by the United States Army during the late war, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James H. Glenn, of Woodville, Ga., praying payment for property alleged to have been taken for the use of the Army after the close of the rebellion, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of J.S. Anawalt... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Lydia T. Hadlock, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Bernard Wagner, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the petition of J.C. Sayers, Sr., of Kenton County, Kentucky, have considered the same, and submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah R. Robinson... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James Dix, of Nicholas County, West Virginia, praying compensation for his services, with his two-horse team, for twenty-two days, in removing the family of Washington Summers from the town of Buckhannon, Upshur County, W. Va., beyond the Federal lines to a point near Staunton, Va., by order of T.M. Harris, colonel of the Tenth Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 548.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 548) for the relief of John C. Comfort, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 795.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 920) for the relief of Robert Langston, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3196.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3196) granting a pension to William H. Garrett, late private of Company B, Fifty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4695.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4695) granting a pension to James Buchanan, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 491.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 491) granting a pension to Henry Brown, late a private in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1126.) The Committee on Claims to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1126) for the relief of Moses Myers, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3816.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 3816) granting a pension to Mary G. Harris, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Mrs. C.M. Pritchard... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of A. Burwell for compensation for the use and occupancy of his property at Vicksburg, Mississippi, by the forces of the United States during the war, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4701.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4701) granting a pension to George W. Staplin, late private in Company C, Fifteenth Illinois Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2975.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2975) granting a pension to William Reynolds, late private Company G, Thirteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 771.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 711) granting a pension to John S. Corlett, having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1668.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1668) for the relief of John M. Dorsey and William F. Shepard, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1669.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1669) for the relief of Austin G. Day, with the accompanying papers, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1862.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1233) for the relief of David Huestis, have examined the same, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5897.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 5897) entitled "An Act To Amend Section 4400, Title 52, Revised Statutes of the United States, Concerning the Regulation of Steam Vessels," report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2885.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2885) for the relief of Mary C. Webber, have considered the same, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1879. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Armisted [i.e., Armistead] Burwell, late of Vicksburg, Miss., now a resident of the District of Columbia, praying that the amount paid by him for cotton taxes in the years 1865, 1866, 1867, and 1868, be refunded, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4967.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4967) granting a pension to Calvin E. Pratt... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution H. Res. 63.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Joint Resolution (H. Res. 63) requiring the assembly of a court of inquiry in the case of Major Granville O. Haller, late of the Seventh United States Infantry, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4326.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred House Bill 4326, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1756.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 1756, granting an increase of pension to James H. Reeves [i.e., Reeve], late a captain of Company H, Third Regiment of New York Infantry, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 848.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 848) granting a pension to Francis B. McNamara, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1863.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Eugene O'Sullivan, late sergeant Company K, Eighteenth Missouri Volunteers, praying for a pension, have had the same under consideration and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4143.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 4143, "An Act for the Relief of John Adams, William B. Clift, David Dunseath, William Killinger, J.F. Scott, Administrator of the Estate of Obediah Scott, Deceased, Davis C. Peak, Charles Linderman, James Linnane, Patrick Carey, John McMahon, and James Gorman, Administrator of the Estate of Patrick Gorman, Deceased," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. March 1, 1879. -- Ordered to be reprinted, together with the minutes of a hearing before the Committee on Railroads to parties representing various interests, under a Senate resolution of January 28, 1879. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report. (To accompany amendment to H.R. 6471 (sundry civil bill).) The Committee on Railroads, to whom was referred the following resolution... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison, from the Select Committee To Inquire into Certain Matters Touching the Late Presidential Election in Louisiana, submitted the following report: The Committee appointed in pursuance of the following resolution, adopted by the Senate on the 5th June, 1878... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on Judiciary, which was directed by the resolution of the Senate of January 10, 1878... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1751.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred S. 1751, "A Bill Providing for a Military Post in Lemhi Valley, Idaho Territory," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 460.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Leggett, widow of Robert Leggett, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the resolution to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to transmit to the Senate certain information relating to fermented and alcoholic liquors, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1831.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Executive Document No. 44, Forty-fifth Congress, third session, having considered the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1761.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1761) for the relief of Samuel W. Abbott, postmaster at Menomonee, Mich., have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4560.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4560) for the relief of Aaron Miley, have had the same under consideration, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4559.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to which was referred the Bill (H.R. 4559) for the relief of Sabin Trowbridge, have considered the same, and report...	174
Serial set 1839	In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Patterson, from the Committee on Territories, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1802.) The Committee on Territories, to whom were referred the following resolutions, namely -- 1. That the Committee on Territories be, and the same is hereby, instructed to ascertain, at its earliest convenience, whether or not the railroad companies referred to by the acts of the Thirty-ninth Congress approved respectively July 25, 26, and 27, 1866...	1
Serial set 1840	Louisiana in 1878. Report of the United States Senate Committee To Inquire into Alleged Frauds and Violence in the Elections of 1878, with the testimony and documentary evidence.	1
Serial set 1841	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the third session of the Forty-fifth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 2, 1878, in the one hundred and third year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1842	Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, December 2, 1878.	1
Serial set 1843	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-fifth Congress. In four volumes. Volume I.	1
Serial set 1844	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Volume II, Part I.	1
Serial set 1845	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Volume II, Part II.	1
Serial set 1846	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Volume II, Part III.	1
Serial set 1847	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Volume III.	1
Serial set 1848	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Volume IV.	1