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Serial set 1881 Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the second session of the Forty-sixth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 1, 1879, in the one hundred and fourth year of the independence of the United States. 1
Serial set 1882 Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of Maj. G.L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, of surveys of Cowlitz River, Washington Territory, and Umpqua River and Alsea harbor and bar, Oregon; also survey of bar at mouth of Columbia River. January 12, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed, with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting an estimate for collection and payment of bounty, prize money, and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881. January 7, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting letters from officers of Quartermaster's Department, remonstrating against passage of Senate Bill 192. December 4, 1879. -- Referred to Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting letter of Colonel John Gibbon, U.S.A., relating to compensation of citizen volunteers who participated in the battle of Big Hole, Montana. December 4, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statement of the names of consular officers not citizens of the United States. December 8, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed, with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statement of fees collected, accounted for, and reported by diplomatic and consular officers of the United States during the year ending December 31, 1878, &c. December 8, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information in regard to arrest and removal of J.M. Bell and other Cherokee Indians from the Cherokee Nation, &c. December 8, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of extract from official records of post of Fort Stevens, Oregon, in relation to claim of F.G. Schwatka, Sr., &c. December 8, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting petition of Capt. H.W. Brotherton and Capt. A.C. Girard, U.S.A., for relief, &c. (Note. -- The initials of Captain Brotherton are "D.H.," as signed by him, instead of "H.W.," as written in the within letter of the Secretary of War.) December 8, 1879. -- Referred to Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Board of Engineers in relation to bridge over Detroit River, &c. December 8, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Lieut. Gen. P.H. Sheridan, in regard to operations to control squatters in the Indian Territory. December 9, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point. December 9, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Chief Clerk and Superintendent of War Department building in relation to expense of heating the same, &c. December 9, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed with accompanying document.
Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting letter from Second Assistant Postmaster General, in relation to insufficiency of appropriation for inland mail service, &c. December 9, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed, with accompanying document.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting special report from Lieutenant Colonel Casey, U.S.A., touching progress made in building north wing of edifice for use of the departments of State, War, and the Navy, &c. December 10, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, a report embodying a statement of the property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by the Department of the Interior. December 15, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting report from Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, touching deficiency appropriation for the "star" mail service. December 15, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, calling attention to a report from the Adjutant General, U.S.A., relating to the business of the archive office, and recommending an increase of the appropriation for the same. January 13, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Postmaster General, calling attention to reports of First Assistant Postmaster General and other officers of the Post Office Department, recommending certain deficiency appropriations. January 13, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of letter from Maj. William P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers; inclosing draft of proposed act for the operation, maintenance, and repair of locks and dams on Great Kanawha River. January 21, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of appropriation required, with tracings of plans, for the construction of officers' quarters at Omaha, Nebr. January 12, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed, with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement from Bureau of Statistics, touching the effect upon the revenues of the United States of an act repealing the duty on tea and coffee, &c. December 18, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, and accompanying report of Col. J.H. Simpson, Corps of Engineers, of survey to estimate the damage done to the town of Venice, Ill., by reason of the government improvements on the Mississippi River. January 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed, with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting final report of the Hot Springs Commissioners, with accompanying schedules. January 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed, with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting memorial, and other papers in connection therewith, of Capt. Joseph Conrad, U.S.A., petitioning Congress to pass a bill authorizing his retirement as of the grade of colonel, &c. January 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed, with accompanying documents.
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a draft of a bill submitted by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the reclamation of the marshes in the harbor of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and for other purposes. January 7, 1880. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending such legislation as will provide for the acquisition by the United States of the title of the land upon which Fort Stockton, Texas, is situated. January 7, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending the passage of a law regulating the sales of subsistence supplies to companies, detachments, and hospitals. January 7, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 3, 1879, information in relation to payments made to the Ute Indians in accordance with the fourth article of an agreement with said Indians made September 3, 1873. January 7, 1880. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting correspondence relative to the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at Beaver, Pa., by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. January 7, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 8, 1879, information in relation to the number of mining camps located on the Ute Indian reservation in Colorado. January 7, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 8, 1879, correspondence concerning the Ute Indians in Colorado. January 7, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending appropriate legislation to enable the War Department to make the labor of military prisoners available for the support of the prison at Leavenworth. January 8, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of Maj. H.M. Robert, Corps of Engineers, relating to harbor of refuge at entrance to Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal, and Bayfield and Ashland harbors, Wisconsin, and Manistique River, Michigan. January 12, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed, with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of surveys by Col. George Thom, Corps Engineers, of Moose-a-bec Bar, Cathance River, Jonesport, Maine, and of the outlet of Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire. January 12, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed, with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. H.H. [i.e., W.H.H.] Benyaurd, Corps of Engineers, of survey of falls on Red River, La., and of Black River, Ark., and of Tchula Lake and Yallabusha River, Miss. January 12, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed, with the accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Captain A. Mackenzie, Corps of Engineers, of survey of Cuivre River, Missouri. January 12, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed, with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Capt. C.J. Allen, Corps of Engineers, giving an account of the construction of a sluiceway at the Falls of Saint Anthony, Minn., and urging the importance of immediate repairs to the apron built by the government of the United States for the preservation of the falls. January 12, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from Maj. W.P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers, of a survey with a view to the construction of a ship canal to connect the waters of Delaware and Chesapeake bays. January 12, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed, with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting plans and estimates for permanent buildings, &c., to complete the principal depot of the general recruiting service at David's Island, New York Harbor, and asking an appropriation for that purpose. January 20, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, relative to the joint resolution of Congress for the relief of Bushrod B. Taylor and others, showing the appointment of the board of three officers, as required by the resolution, and their conclusions relative to the cases brought to their notice. January 14, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of Capt. William Mills and Lieut. William J. Turner concerning work performed on the Mullan wagon road, Montana Territory. December 4, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed with accompanying documents.
Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an appropriation to meet a deficiency in the appropriation for "contingent expenses, Office of Adjutant General, old Navy Department building," for the remainder of the present fiscal year. January 15, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, a report of the names of the clerks and other persons employed in the War Department and offices thereof from December 1, 1878, to November 30, 1879. January 15, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. Godfrey Weitzel, Corps of Engineers, in regard to the superintendence, &c., of the Louisville and Portland Canal. January 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, inviting attention to letter of his predecessor recommending appropriation to complete purchase of Ringgold Barracks, Texas. January 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, recommending deficiency appropriation for expenses of office of Auditor of Railroad Accounts. January 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting papers relative to the payment of first installment of compensation to Mr. James B. Eads for maintenance of channel at South Pass, Mississippi River, for quarter ending October 30, 1879. January 19, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an amendment to the act relating to the binding of books for the departments of the government. December 18, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. 		49
Serial set 1883 Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey showing the progress of the work during the fiscal year ending with June, 1879. 1
Serial set 1884 Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. C.R. Suter, Corps of Engineer, of an examination and survey of Gasconade River, from its mouth to Vienna, in Maries County, Missouri. March 1, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting proceedings of board of survey on loss or damage of clothing suffered by certain men of Company K, Sixth Infantry, U.S.A., in their efforts to extinguish a fire at Fort Stevenson, Dak. February 27, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Lieut. Thomas H. Bradley, examiner of state claims, on the claims of states against the United States, in response to an inquiry from the Committee on Claims, United States Senate. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Colonel John Newton, Corps of Engineers, relative to the improvements in Harlem River, New York, and making certain recommendations. January 29, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 19, 1880, a report from the Secretary of State in relation to claims before the American-Spanish Claims Commission and the proceedings of that body. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in compliance with resolution of the Senate of January 19, the report of Prof. James R. Soley on the foreign systems of educating naval officers. January 21, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Report on the training systems for the Navy and Mercantile Marine of England, and on the naval training system of France, made to the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, U.S. Navy Department, September, 1879, by Lieutenant Commander F.E. Chadwick, U.S. Navy.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter from Hon. Powell Clayton, in relation to an affidavit of J.J. Sumpter, filed with the report of the Hot Springs Commission. February 27, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report from the Secretary of State in regard to the claim of Max Bromberger against the Government of Mexico, in reply to Senate resolution of January 27, 1880. February 27, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Col. J.H. Simpson, Corps of Engineers, upon the improvement of Alton harbor, together with a map of the Mississippi River in that vicinity. March 1, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Mr. S.T. Abert, United States Civil Engineer, of survey of Dan River from Clarksville to Danville, Va. March 1, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 22, 1880, certain information relative to contracts for Indian supplies, &c. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of January 22, 1880, information concerning land grant railroad companies that have not performed the conditions of their grants. February 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting petitions of Capt. R.H. Jackson and Capt. R.T. Frank against passage of Senate Bill 1008; also Senate Bill 390. February 16, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of report of Maj. William E. Merrill, Corps of Engineers, of survey of mouth of Little Kanawha River, with view to construction of an ice harbor at that point. February 16, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of February 12, 1880, all reports relating to the improvement of Exeter River, New Hampshire. February 17, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting telegram from General O.O. Howard recommending certain modifications of the laws relating to traveling allowances for officers and men, &c. February 17, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. W.P. Craighill of examinations and surveys, made in compliance with river and harbor act, of Nanticoke River, Delaware and Maryland; Broad Creek, Northeast River, Tuckahoe Creek, Slaughter Creek, and Cabin Creek, Maryland; and Chincoteague Inlet, Virginia. February 25, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Patents relative to a deficiency of $3,299.22 in the appropriation for illustrations for the Patent Office Gazette for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880. February 25, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 16, information relative to the improvement of the harbor at Grand Haven, Mich. February 25, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of February 19th, a list of persons appointed under the Department of Justice during the year 1879, together with the amount of their compensation. February 25, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. C.R. Suter, Corps of Engineers, relating to improvement of Missouri River near Brownville, Nebr. February 16, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. William E. Merrill, Corps of Engineers, of the survey of Allegheny River from French Creek to Olean, N.Y. February 24, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Lieut. Col. C.H. Tompkins, recommending appropriation of $100,000 for construction of buildings on the Fort Snelling military reservation. January 26, 1880. -- Referred to Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in response to Senate resolution, January 20, relative to the repair, &c., of the Pensacola Navy-yard. January 26, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, for the information of Congress, statements showing the contracts made by the bureaus of the War Department on behalf of the United States during the year 1879. January 26, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the completion of Fort Assinaboine, Montana Territory, and the construction of a new post near Wood Mountain in that territory. January 27, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a request from the commissioners of the Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C., for an amendment to Section 4820 of the Revised Statutes. January 29, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed
Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting, in compliance with law, a statement of the contingent expenses of the military establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, in response to Senate resolution, December 3, 1879, relating to improvement of Taunton River, Massachusetts, with estimates of cost of same. February 2, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, asking an appropriation of $6,500 to complete the printing and binding of the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General's Office. February 2, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. F. Harwood, Corps of Engineers, relative to Saint Joseph River, Michigan, including survey of same to Elkhart, Ind.; also report on breakwater at Mackinac, Mich. February 2, 1880. -- Referred to Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, calling attention to a deficiency of $1,400 in the salary of the Auditor of Railroad Accounts for the current fiscal year. February 2, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to resolution of the Senate of March 1, 1879, in regard to importation of foreign wines, liquors, &c. February 5, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate resolution of February 4 regarding Department Order No. 175. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. W.P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers, of surveys of Shenandoah River, also of Tread Haven Creek, Choptank River, and Secretary Creek, Maryland. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. C.R. Suter, Corps of Engineers, in relation to the survey of the Arkansas River, near Pine Bluff, with estimates of cost of improving the same. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report from Lieut. Col. G.H. Mendell, Corps of Engineers, of survey of Petaluma Creek, California. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Col. John Newton in regard to ship canal across Bergen Neck, New Jersey; also of surveys of Cheesequakes Creek and South River, New Jersey, and Newton Creek, New York. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, replying to Senate resolution of January 21, 1880, in regard to condemned cannon donated for monumental purposes. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Capt. G.J. Lydecker, Corps of Engineers, of a resurvey of the outlet to Wolf Lake, Indiana. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Col. J.N. Macomb of survey of Susquehanna River from southern boundary of New York to Nanticoke Dam, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Capt. C.B. Phillips, Corps of Engineers, in relation to inland water routes from Norfolk, Va., to the Atlantic Ocean, south of Cape Hatteras, &c. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of expenditures of National Board of Health from January 1, 1880, to June 30, 1881. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to Committee on Epidemic Diseases and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, in response to Senate resolution of January 7, 1880, regarding the condition of the Missouri River, between Omaha and Plattsmouth, Nebr., and inclosing a report on same from the Chief of Engineers, U.S.A. February 11, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting communications from quartermaster of Department of Missouri, reporting necessity of construction of permanent brick buildings for quarters for six companies at Fort Leavenworth. February 11, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting copy of letter to the speaker of the House of Representatives in relation to a deficiency in the appropriation for post office envelopes for the current fiscal year. February 11, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Col. J.N. Macomb of survey of Delaware River at Chester and Marcus Hook, Pa., with accompanying recommendations touching the construction of an ice harbor at that point. February 12, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Quartermaster General relating to cemetery of prison camp of Johnson's Island, near Sandusky, Ohio. January 26, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. 		49
Serial set 1885 Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to resolution of April 9, 1880, the action of that Department in adopting Sawyer's improved canister, &c. April 13, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. J.M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers in regard to the improvement of Sandusky River, below Fremont, Ohio, giving an estimate of cost of same. March 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Postmaster General, recommending that the salary of the Assistant Attorney General for the Post Office Department be made equal to that of other assistant attorneys general. April 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. J.A. Smith, Corps of Engineers, of survey of Kankakee River, in Indiana and Illinois. March 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from W.W. Godding, M.D., superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, relative to a probable deficiency in the appropriation for current expenses of the Hospital for present fiscal year, and recommending the same to the favorable consideration of the Senate. April 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office submitting an estimate in detail to cover deficiencies in the appropriation for "salaries and commissions" of registers and receivers of land offices for fiscal year ending June 30, 1880. May 13, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, dated 10th instant, covering copy of report of Lieut. Col. C.S. Stewart, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of Trinidad Harbor, California, made in compliance with law. May 13, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter of the Chief of Engineers, dated 13th instant, covering copy of report from Maj. F. Harwood, Corps of Engineers, upon a resurvey of the bar at the mouth of Bell River, Mich., made in compliance with law. May 17, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a petition of officers of the Army for the enactment of such legislation as will entitle all lieutenants of the Army who have served fourteen years in grade of lieutenant to rank and pay of captain. May 17, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, information as to whether the bill for the proposed repeal of certain laws pertaining to permanent and indefinite appropriations would affect the appropriation for the sinking fund for the 3.65 bonds of the District of Columbia provided by act of Congress March 3, 1879. May 17, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, adopted on the 5th instant, copies of reports of Capt. John W. White, of the United States Revenue Service, concerning matters connected with Alaska Territory, and also copies of all material papers relating to the transfer of the jurisdiction over the territory from the War Department to the Treasury, &c. May 17, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 28th ultimo, correspondence with the government of Great Britain in regard to the alleged outrage upon American fishermen at Fortune Bay, in the province of Newfoundland. May 17, 1880. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting list of civil employes [sic] in the Navy Department, with statement of their compensation, in compliance with law. March 1, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, inviting attention to the unsettled claims of the Spanish inhabitants of East Florida during the years 1812 and 1813. March 1, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate, February 16, a list of the names of all officers of the Army retired from service since the passage of the act of June 18, 1878, with certain other information asked in the resolution. March 3, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting papers concerning the payment of the second installment of the annual compensation to James B. Eads for maintenance of the channel at South Pass for the quarter ending February 9, 1880, &c. March 4, 1880. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. W.E. Merrill, Corps of Engineers, of survey of Green River and its tributaries, Muddy and Barren rivers, Kentucky. March 11, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from the Commissioner of Pensions, submitting a revised estimate of deficiencies for Army and Navy pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880. March 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. W.H.H. Benyaurd, Corps of Engineers, of survey of Mississippi River near Lake Concordia, Louisiana, and Cowpen Bend, Mississippi, looking to the protection of the harbors of Natchez and Vidalia. March 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 18, 1880, information in regard to amount of unsold public lands in counties of Chippewa and Schoolcraft, Michigan, &c. March 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 2, 1879, information concerning located but unconfirmed private land claims in the State of Louisiana. March 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, copies of reports of Capt. C.B. Phillips, Corps of Engineers, of examinations and surveys made under his direction of Pamunkey and Archer's Hope rivers, Virginia; of Lockwood's Folly and Waccamaw rivers, North Carolina; and of Pee Dee River, South Carolina. March 15, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a petition of Col. W. Merritt and other officers of the Fifth Cavalry, relative to the restoration to the Army of first lieutenants Harlow L. Street and John W. Chickering, and Capt. Edward Byrne, late of the First, Sixth, and Tenth Cavalry. March 15, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, of February 3, 1880, information concerning the general lines of location of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the changes in said location, the lands withdrawn under the several locations, and the extent to which the rights of settlers have been affected. March 15, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting communication from Chief of Engineers, United States Army, relative to Bill H.R. 4928, entitled "A Bill To Confirm the Survey of the Pueblo of San Francisco." March 17, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of February 19, 1880, lists comprising the names of the clerks and other persons employed in the several bureaus in the Treasury Department, with the exception of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for the year ending December 31, 1879. April 8, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an appropriation of $5,000 for the completion of the road from Fort Bridger to Uintah agency. April 8, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to resolution of the United States Senate of the 18th ultimo, reports respecting the entrance of Yaquina Bay, Oregon. April 13, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 27th of February last, information concerning certain awards made by the late United States and Mexican Commission. April 16, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, dated 19th instant, covering copy of report of Lieut. Col. Q.A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of the entrance to Cumberland Sound, Florida, made in accordance with river and harbor act March 3, 1879. April 21, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of reports from Capt. Charles J. Allen, Corps of Engineers, upon survey made of Superior Bay for the improvement of harbor at head of Lake Superior. April 22, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the results of an examination made of the peninsula of Florida, with a view to the construction of a ship canal from Saint Mary's River to the Gulf of Mexico. April 22, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting information in response to Senate resolution of the 27th of February, 1880, relative to a suit against the postmaster at New York for damages arising from the use of a patented instrument for canceling postage stamps. April 23, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a petition of commissioned officers of the Army, for the enactment of such legislation as will entitle all lieutenants of the Army of fourteen years' service in the grade of lieutenant to rank and pay of captain. April 26, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, and copy of report from Capt. C.J. Allen, Corps of Engineers, upon survey of Mississippi River from Saint Paul to Falls of Saint Anthony, Minnesota, made in compliance with law. April 26, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the Improvement of the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report relative to the public lands, forts, arsenals, &c., in the custody of that Department, and recommending the creating in his office a division designated as "Land Title Division," and provision made therefor. April 26, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate dated 5th April, 1880, copy of the record of proceedings of a general court-martial in the case of Capt. Somerville Nicholson, U.S.N., with copies of letters, &c. April 27, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a package containing the first seven volumes of the speeches of Thiers, which Madam Thiers, widow of that distinguished French statesman, wishes the Department of State to present to the Senate library. April 27, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting communication from Chief of Engineers, dated 23d instant, covering copies of reports from Capt. Charles B. Phillips, Corps of Engineers, of examinations, made in accordance with law, of Catawba River, in North Carolina and South Carolina, and of Wateree and Santee rivers, South Carolina. April 27, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of March 9, 1880, the report of Captain Bailey upon the number, occupation, and condition of the people of Alaska; the report of the Supervising Surgeon General Marine Hospital Service on the same subject; also report of Special Agent Otis upon the illicit traffic in rum and firearms. March 31, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 24th ultimo, and its inclosure, recommending that House Bill 5545, "For the Relief of the Heirs of Juan Read," be so amended as to provide that the patent to be issued under the provisions of the bill shall not include any land heretofore reserved. May 3, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 24th instant, covering copy of report of Maj. F. Harwood, Corps of Engineers, upon a resurvey of Sebewaing Harbor, Michigan, made in compliance with law. May 3, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting an approximate estimate from the Quartermaster General of funds required to reimburse the appropriation for clothing, camp and garrison equipage, recommending that a specific appropriation be made, &c. May 3, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, dated 24th instant, and copy of report of Lieut. Col. Q.A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers, upon examination of Broad River, South Carolina, made in compliance with law. May 3, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending appropriate legislation to continue in service the force of seventy clerks, now employed under the act of March 16, 1880, in preparing and making reports to expedite the settlement of pension applications. May 11, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in connection with his letter of the 18th ultimo, a communication from the Chief of Engineers, submitting copy of report of the board of engineers for fortifications and for river and harbor improvements; the suggestion of the Chief of Engineers that the unexpended balances of the appropriations of June 18, 1878, and March 3, 1879, be applied to the improvement of the mouth of Red River, and dredging, &c. May 4, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting information, in response to Senate resolution of April 1, 1880, relative to affidavits filed in that Department by or on behalf of the settlers on the Uncompahgre Park in Colorado; also letter from Hon. C.H. McIntyre on the subject, &c. May 4, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an appropriation of $100,000 be made available immediately for the building of a military post near junction of Gunnison and Grand rivers. April 8, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of report of Capt. C.B. Phillips, Corps of Engineers, of surveys of York River, and of Lynn Haven, Link Horn, and Broad bays, Virginia. March 4, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, in response to Senate resolution of February 11, 1880, covering report of Secretary of State, with accompanying documents, in relation to the proposed inter-oceanic canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. March 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 25, 1880, information relative to the number of paymasters in the Navy, and under what circumstances the name of Edward Bellows was dropped from the roll of paymasters. March 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Commissary General of Subsistence, setting forth necessity for purchase of supplies for remote posts, &c. March 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting petition of Capt. Joseph Lawson, Third Cavalry, and other officers, in behalf of repeal of law regarding payment for fuel, &c. March 16, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 11, exemplifications of land patents issued to Indian tribes in Indian Territory, and copies of applications of railway corporations and action thereon. March 19, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Commissary General of Subsistence asking for six additional clerks in his office. March 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. W.H.H. Benyaurd, Corps of Engineers, of survey of mouth of Red River, Louisiana, with maps. March 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 16th instant, a statement of appropriations on account of improvement of the Tennessee River, from July 1, 1868, to March 16, 1880. March 22, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication presenting the importance of geographical and topographical surveys of the territory of the United States west of the Mississippi River, together with an estimate of an appropriation therefor. March 25, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of the Interior containing an agreement signed by the chiefs and headmen of the Ute Indians. March 10, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of January 29, 1880, information in relation to the awards of the mixed commission organized under the treaty of April 25, 1866, between the United States and Venezuela. March 29, 1880. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to law, a report made upon an examination of Charlotte Harbor and Peas Creek, Florida. March 29, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from Col. George P. Buell, Fifteenth Infantry, protesting against the reinstatement in the Army of John W. Eckles, late captain in Fifteenth Infantry. March 29, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from the Quartermaster General in favor of the repeal of the law in regard to payment by officers of the Army for fuel, and for the restoration of the allowance of fuel. March 29, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 19, 1880, a report of the names of the clerks and other persons who have been employed in that Department during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879. March 29, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, dated April 5, 1880, and accompanying copy of report of Col. J.H. Simpson, Corps of Engineers, upon survey made in compliance with requirements of river and harbor act of March 3, 1879, of the Mississippi River opposite the mouth of the Missouri. April 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the Improvement of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of letter from the Adjutant General of the Army, forwarding plans and estimates for construction of a permanent building at Columbus Barracks, Ohio, for use as a chapel and school. April 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 26, 1880, information in regard to the present condition of affairs in Alaska. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of letter from mayor of Jeffersonville, Ind., recommending the improvement of Canal Street, from New Market Street to the government depot, in that city. April 2, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting correspondence relative to an appropriation for the establishment of a military post for the protection of the settlements of Judith Basin and the Muscleshell, Montana Territory. April 2, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting letter of the Chief of Engineers, dated 30th March, 1880, covering copy of report from Maj. S.M. Mansfield, Corps of Engineers, of the result of a resurvey of Trinity River, Texas, from its mouth to the bridge of the Great Northern Railroad, made in accordance with the provisions of the river and harbor act of March 3, 1879. April 2, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a petition of First Lieut. Charles W. Hobbs, Third Artillery, in relation to promotion in the United States Army. April 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 12, 1880, information in relation to the claim of Calvin Bronson. April 6, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to such portion of the Army appropriation bill as relates to commutation of rations to enlisted men. April 7, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, inviting attention to communication of Chief Clerk and Superintendent War Department building, reporting deficiency of $2,000 in appropriation for "contingent expenses War Department building, 1880," and recommending an early appropriation of the same. April 7, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with Section 194 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, a statement of the clerks and others employed in the several bureaus of the department during the year 1879, &c. April 28, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Pensions, dated May 6, 1880, submitting a revised estimate of deficiencies for arrears, and for Army and Navy pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880. May 10, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a petition of Col. W. Merritt and other officers of the Fifth United States Cavalry, protesting against the restoration to the Army of Robert P. Wilson, late a captain of the Fifth Cavalry, &c. May 3, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of letters from the Quartermaster General, dated, respectively, January 28, 1879, and April 29, 1880, on the subject of printing the revised roll of honor. May 5, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, dated 3d instant, and accompanying copy of report of Maj. G. Weitzel, Corps of Engineers, upon surveys of Saint Mary's River, Michigan, made in compliance with law. May 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of communications from the Paymaster General and Second Auditor, showing the necessity of an appropriation for the payment of certificates for arrears of bounty due white and colored soldiers issued since January 1, 1880, to be issued up to June 30, 1881, and recommending that the appropriation be made as requested. April 5, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, dated April 15, 1880, relative to erroneous surveys in the former Sioux Indian reservation west of Big Stone Lake, in Dakota, submitting estimate for re-survey, and recommending favorable consideration of the Senate. April 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. 		81
Serial set 1886 Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, covering copy of report of Lieut. Col. Q.A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers, and accompanying map, upon an examination of Port Royal River, Beaufort, S.C. May 28, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 24th of March last, correspondence in relation to the fulfillment of the ninth article of the treaty of 1819 between the United States and Spain. May 13, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of the 22d instant, a copy of the report of Henry C. De Ahna, formerly collector of Customs at Sitka, Alaska, in regard to the resources, condition, and affairs of the Territory of Alaska. May 27, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of the 22d instant, the number, location, and annual rent of all buildings in the District of Columbia used by the United States. May 27, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting reports relative to the necessity and propriety of completing certain double-turreted monitors. May 27, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a telegram from Lieut. Col. Q.A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers, president of the Mississippi River Commission, recommending that the estimate heretofore submitted for surveys and expenses of the commission be increased. June 1, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting information relative to the legal tender and national bank notes, the stamps, bonds, and other securities of the government. June 1, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the engineer secretary of the Lighthouse Board relative to increase of the service on the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers. June 2, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers and accompanying report of Maj. F. Harwood, Corps of Engineers, upon the resurvey of Clinton River, Michigan. June 2, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Quartermaster General, recommending an appropriation to continue payments to land grant railroads, under act of March 3, 1879. June 2, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, information relative to rooms rented for the Court of Claims, and requesting an appropriation for the payment of rents. June 3, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of 23d March, the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office upon the subjects embraced therein. May 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of 13th instant, a copy of report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office relative to land grants to aid in construction of railroads. May 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a petition of Capt. Guy V. Henry, Third Cavalry, against the passage of the bill to promote Capt. J. Scott Payne, Fifth Cavalry, to the first vacancy of major. June 5, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 31st ultimo, information in relation to the removal of census supervisors. June 5, 1880. -- Read, referred to the Select Committee To Make Provision for Taking the Tenth Census, and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting petitions of officers of the Army stationed at Jackson barracks, Louisiana, for the passage of an act making the retirement of officers of the Army compulsory at the age of sixty-two. June 7, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the report and opinion of the Surveyor General of Arizona Territory, together with a duly authenticated copy of the title papers and testimony in the matter of the private land claim, No. 7, &c. May 25, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. June 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 8, 1880, a statement showing the expenditures of the government on account of the war of the rebellion from July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1879, inclusive, &c. June 10, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the Senate relative to the rejection of certain bids for wagons for the Indian service, a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and accompanying correspondence. June 1, 1880. -- Laid on the table. June 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in response to the resolution of the Senate of June 4, 1880, copies of contracts entered into between the United States and amounts paid on each contract through the Postmaster General and Benjamin Holladay, &c. June 12, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting petition of Col. E.A. Carr and other officers of the Sixth Cavalry against the restoration of Edwin Mauck and John W. Chickering, also H.L. Street, Robert P. Wilson, and Edwin Byrne. June 14, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Message from the President of the United States, returning the Bill (S. 1726) entitled "An Act Regulating the Pay and Appointment of Deputy Marshals," with his objections. June 15, 1880. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to the resolution of the Senate of date June 3, 1880, a copy of a report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue relative to matters in controversy between the United States and the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, together with true copies of all the papers on file in his department connected therewith. June 16, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting in response to resolution of the Senate, dated the 17th instant, information as to the method used by the Revenue Service in subtracting the tare on foreign sugars imported in boxes, &c. May 22, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting papers showing maintenance of the channel at the South Pass, Mississippi River, for quarter ending May 9, 1880. May 24, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting in response to resolution of the Senate of the 18th instant, information relative to what action has been taken in the matter of the claim of the State of Kansas for five per centum of the net proceeds of sales of public lands in that state. May 25, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending such legislation by Congress as will authorize the sale of the Oglethorpe Barracks, Savannah, Ga., &c. May 25, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 30th ultimo calling for information concerning entries of town sites on mineral lands, the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office on the subject. May 25, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of date May 5, 1880, copies of the majority and minority reports of the board of engineers on the proposed harbor of refuge for the Pacific Coast, with letter of Chief of Engineers. May 10, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. May 25, 1880. -- Reported back and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from the Chief of Engineers, urging the necessity for completion of the office work connected with the surveys west of the 100th meridian, under charge of Capt. G.M. Wheeler, and recommending an appropriation therefor. May 26, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Adjutant General and accompanying papers relating to the case of Peter Moog, Company B, Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteers, who, under a misapprehension of facts, was convicted of the crime of desertion by a general court-martial and sentenced, &c. May 26, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, dated the 17th instant, submitting copy of one from Col. John Newton, Corps of Engineers, referring to the provisions of Senate Bill 823, "In Relation to the Port and Harbor of New York and the Waters Near the Same." May 26, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate dated the 11th instant, report of the Chief of Engineers relative to increasing the depth of water to the City of Baltimore. June 15, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting report of the commander of the relief-ship Constellation. June 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. 		34
SERIAL SET 1887 United States congressional serial set [vol.1-2999] 1
Serial set 1888 Art and industry. Instruction in drawing applied to the industrial and fine arts, as given in the colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and in the public schools and other public educational institutions in the United States, by Isaac Edwards Clarke, A.M. Part I. -- Drawing in public schools. 1
Serial set 1889-1 Art and industry. Instruction in drawing applied to the industrial and fine arts, as given in the colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and in the public schools and other public educational institutions in the United States by Isaac Edwards Clarke, A.M. Part II. -- Industrial and manual training in public schools. 1
Serial set 1889-2 Art and industry. Instruction in drawing applied to the industrial and fine arts, as given in the colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and in the public schools and other public educational institutions in the United States. by Isaac Edwards Clarke, A.M. Part III - Industrial and technical training in voluntary associations and endowed institutions. 1
Serial set 1889-3 Art and industry. Instruction in drawing applied to the industrial and fine arts, as given in the colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and in the public schools and other public educational institutions in the United States, by Isaac Edwards Clarke, A.M. Part IV--Industrial and technical training in schools of technology in U.S. land grant colleges. 1
Serial set 1890 Resolution of the American Social Science Association, relative to international coinage, and the metric system. January 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in reply to letter of Hon. John B. Gordon, certain papers showing by what authority the War Department settled and paid certain claims of the legal representatives of George Williams, a contractor. February 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed.
Petition of the United States Veterinary Medical Association, praying for an appropriation by Congress of a sufficient sum of money to enable the Veterinary Sanitary Organization to deal at once and effectually with contagious animal diseases. January 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Director of the United States Geological Survey transmitting, in response to a letter of the Hon. Henry G. Davis, answers to certain inquiries propounded in the said letter. March 5, 1880. -- 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, 1879. December 3, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Memorial of the trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund, with a report of their committee on the subject of the education of the colored population of the southern states. March 8, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Senate, transmitting, in obedience to law, a list of employes, &c., and a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Senate from March 25, 1879, to June 30, 1879. December 1, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, transmitting, in obedience to law, a full and complete account of all the property belonging to the United States in his possession on the 1st day of December, 1879. December 1, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting, in obedience to law, a statement of all judgments rendered by said court for the year ending November 29, 1879. December 1, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. December 2, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury furnish the Senate, at an early day, a tabulated statement showing the receipts and expenditures for each fiscal year from 1865 to 1879 inclusive...
In the Senate of the United States. December 3, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that in the opinion of the Senate the present volume of United States notes should not be reduced, and that said notes ought to continue to be a legal tender in the payment of debts.
In the Senate of the United States. December 8, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Whereas the restoration of silver money to the lawful currency of the country, by act of Congress of February, 28 1878, was demanded with singular unanimity by the American people, and is now sustained by the public interests and by the full force of an intelligent public opinion...
In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury furnish to the Senate a tabulated statement showing by states the total amounts of claims, growing out of the late war...
In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Whereas large numbers of negroes from the southern states, and especially from the State of North Carolina, are emigrating to the northern states, and especially to the State of Indiana...
Address and resolutions of the Mississippi Valley States Commission to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, on the subject of the navigation of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. December 15, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Petition of the State National Bank of Boston, praying that an act be passed waiving the statute of limitations, and that certain records and findings may be used by said bank in prosecuting a claim against the government. January 12, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
Annual report of the Librarian of Congress, exhibiting the progress and condition of the library during the year 1879. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 500 extra copies be printed for distribution by the librarian.
In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carpenter submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire as to whether or not, under existing treaties, Congress has a right to make the Indian Territory a separate judicial district, and to organize a court or courts therein...
Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 19, 1880, information in regard to the circumstances attending the appointment of members of the present police force of the district, and other information asked for by the said resolution. March 4, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that rule thirteen be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows...
Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia transmitting, in response to Senate resolution, information relative to additional water supply on Capitol Hill. March 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Garland submitted the following resolution: Whereas the bill for the relief of Fitz-John Porter involves many intricate questions as to the jurisdiction and power of courts under the Constitution and laws of the United States, which are purely judicial or legal questions...
Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 9, information in relation to general and special taxes assessed against street-railroad corporations. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Memorial of Indian delegates remonstrating against the passage of an act providing for the organization of a United States territorial government over the Indian country. February 16, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Saulsbury submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that telegraphic message and the copies or records of the same in the possession of telegraph companies, their officers or servants, are not privileged by law from production and examination on proper process before a committee authorized to send for persons and papers...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Blair submitted the following resolution: Whereas, by Section 354 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the District of Columbia, it is provided that no person shall be appointed as policeman or watchman in said district who has not served in the Army or Navy of the United States and received an honorable discharge...
Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate, information relative to the waste of water in the district. March 8, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Eaton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to transmit to the Senate copies of all correspondence between this government and any foreign government since February, 1869, respecting a ship canal across the isthmus between North America and South America...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Carpenter submitted the following resolution: Whereas the resumption of specie payments, the circulation of gold, silver, and greenbacks as lawful money of the United States...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury furnish the Senate a tabulated statement showing by states the total amounts paid for each fiscal year from 1866 to 1879, inclusive, for claims growing out of the late war.
Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia transmitting a civil code of law for the District of Columbia, prepared in accordance with a provision in the act of March 3, 1879, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government. December 4, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Assistant Register of the Treasury to the Chairman of the Select Committee on Treasury Accounts, United States Senate, communicating a statement respecting the amount of public money on deposit with certain of the states. December 16, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. (To accompany S. Bill 877.)
Testimony as to the claim of Ben Holladay for losses and damages sustained by him on the overland stage line during the years 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, and 1866, with memorial, affidavits, letters, &c., taken under the resolution of the Senate of March 12, 1878. December 17, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed.
Letter from W.W. Corcoran, Esq., Chairman, Joint Commission for Completion of Washington Monument, transmitting, in obedience to law, the annual report of Lieut. Col. Thomas L. Casey, U.S.A., engineer in charge of the monument, detailing the work done toward the completion of the same during the year ending November 30, 1879, together with statement of moneys expended upon same, and two sheets of tracings, &c. December 17, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing, with accompanying documents, ordered to be printed, and referred to Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.
Annual report and petition of the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children. December 18, 1879. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of citizens of Philadelphia remonstrating against any legislation curtailing the quantity, lessening the legal-tender quality, or displacing by bank notes the legal-tender United States Treasury notes.
Petition of the Saint Regis Indians, of Franklin County, New York, praying to be allowed to remain upon their reservation. January 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Windom submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Appropriations be instructed to inquire as to the expediency of establishing an additional executive department of the government, to be called the Department of Agriculture and Commerce...
List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the second session of the Forty-sixth Congress. January 19, 1880.
In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Morrill, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire as to the practicability of refunding any part of the outstanding national debt at a less rate than four per centum interest...
In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1880. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following as the views of the minority. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 49.) The undersigned, believing the industrial, commercial and financial prosperity of a country, in order to be enduring and secure, must be based upon a money of actual and intrinsic value...
Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, remonstrating against the passage of the act providing for the construction of a bridge across the Detroit River. January 26, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Resolution of the Legislature of New York against the proposed construction of a swing bridge across the Detroit River, as an impediment to the navigation of the lakes and prejudicial to the commerce of the country. January 26, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of John Merryman, President of the "American Agricultural Association," praying for a charter for that association. January 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture. January 29, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed with accompanying bill.
Information and evidence submitted to the Senate by the Committee To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, under the following resolution, adopted April 17, 1879: Resolved, that the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate be, and the same is hereby, directed to take into consideration, with the view to economy, and the equalization of salaries upon the principles of justice, the question of the duties, number, and compensation of the employees of the Senate, and to report thereon by bill or otherwise; said committee to have leave to sit during the recess. January 29, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting report of health officer, and requesting passage of joint resolution to legalize the health ordinances, &c. January 29, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that at the conclusion of the morning business for each day, after ____, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of the calendar, and continue such consideration until half past one o'clock...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. (To accompany Joint Resolution H. Res. 189.) Ordinances as revised, amended, and adopted by the Board of Health, November 19, 1875.
Joint resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, requesting their senators and representatives in Congress to urge the completion of certain improvements along the lakes. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions by the Legislature of Louisiana protesting against the recognition of William Pitt Kellogg as a United States Senator from that state, and requesting that Henry M. Spofford be admitted to a seat in the Senate. February 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed.
Joint resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts concerning the extirpation of pleura-pneumonia. February 11, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of Daniel Ruggles, asking an appropriation, to be expended in developing his system of producing rainfall. February 12, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Senate, transmitting, in obedience to law, an account of all property belonging to the United States, in his possession December 1, 1879. December 1, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. 		53
Serial set 1891 Memorial of Lewis. S. Wells, representing the owner, asking an appropriation to pay a claim for the vessel Peerless, chartered by the government and lost off Hatteras. May 31, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Select Committee To Take into Consideration the State of the Law Respecting the Ascertaining and Declaration of the Result of the Elections of President and Vice-President of the United States, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the following joint rule be, and the same is hereby, adopted...
Letters from the Secretary of the Treasury to Hon. H.G. Davis, Chairman of Committee on Appropriations, in relation to the amounts carried upon the books of the Treasury Department as unavailable funds by reason of deposit of surplus revenue with the several states under the act of June 23, 1836, and from failure of public officers and depositaries to pay over to the United States moneys intrusted to them for safe-keeping and disbursement. March 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed.
Resolution reported by Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, recommending an appropriation of $200,000 for the improvement of the Pensacola Navy-yard. May 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of State, to Hon. D.W. Voorhees, Chairman of the Committee on the Library, transmitting letter of the Attorney General in relation to the obstacles in the way of erecting a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson. May 13, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of the American Ordnance Company, relating to the armament of the fortifications, suggesting to Congress an improved system of ordnance, and proposing an economical, practical, and decisive series of experiments to test its value by firing guns of other most approved kinds in competition with them, to show the increase of power, endurance, range, precision, and general utility of the new kind over all others; showing, also, how a better armament for the fortifications may be procured, twice as powerful, and so much cheaper...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Select Committee to Take into Consideration the State of the Law Respecting the Ascertaining and Declaration of the Result of the Election of President and Vice-President of the United States, reported the following resolution...
In the Senate of the United States. Resolution by Mr. Pendleton, requesting the President to communicate to the Senate whether any supervisor of the census has been removed by him or with his consent, and whether any successor has been appointed to fill any vacancy so caused. May 27, 1880. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Resolution by Mr. Butler, directing the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to the claim of the United States against the New York Central and Hudson River Railroads. May 28, 1880. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. (To accompany Mr. Harris's amendment to H.R. 6266.) Office of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, Washington, May 11, 1880. Sir: The commissioners respectfully invite your attention to the importance of obtaining the consent of Congress to the transfer of the jurisdiction of the magazine grounds, which adjoin the Washington Asylum, to the District of Columbia...
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, (To the Hon. Richard Coke, Chairman Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate,) transmitting report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to depredations on timber on Indian reservations, with amendments suggested to Bill H.R. 6321. June 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill S. 1812.)
Letter from the Secretary of the Senate, in response to a resolution of June 4, 1880, relative to the employes [sic] in the Senate library. June 4, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letters, reports, etc., on the subject of the establishment of a school of forestry. May 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Letter of the Public Printer, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 28th ultimo, information in relation to the condition of the stereotype plates and back numbers of the Congressional Globe, purchased of the representatives of Rives & Bailey, their place of custody, &c. May 19, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.
Resolution, by Mr. Garland, proposed as an amendment to the resolution reported by Mr. Hill, of Georgia, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, in the Kellogg-Spofford contested election case. May 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the President of the Senate is not invested by the Constitution of the United States with the right to count the votes of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States...
In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to furnish a statement of the amount of money which has been annually expended for the preservation and safe-keeping of the records and files of the government by each department from 1860 to the present time...
Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, relating to pilot laws and the removal of obstructions to navigation in East River, New York. March 11, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany the Bill (S. 10) to reimburse the several states for interest paid on war loans, and for other purposes. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following as the views of the minority...
In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Pensions be, and is hereby, instructed to report, without unnecessary delay, a bill authorizing the Commissioner of Pensions to place on the pension rolls of this government the names of the surviving soldiers and sailors of the war between the United States and Mexico...
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, on the condition and resources of the Chippewa Indians of the State of Minnesota and the Territory of Dakota. April 14, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed (to accompany Bill S. 1630).
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, relative to the sale of certain bonds held in trust for the Shawnee Indians. April 14, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed (to accompany Bill S. 1631).
Letter from the Postmaster General, to the Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, United States Senate, in relation to compensation to the Illinois and Saint Louis Bridge Company and the Tunnel Railroad Company of Saint Louis, Mo., for the transportation of mails. April 15, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, to the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, United States Senate, transmitting a report of Dr. Charles P. Lyman on the subject of contagious pleuro-pneumonia or lung plague of cattle. April 21, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of State, to the Chairman of the Committee on the Library, United States Senate, transmitting correspondence in relation to the International Literary Association, which meets at Lisbon in June next. April 21, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing opinion of Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to proposed amendment to Indian appropriation bill advancing $500,000 to Cherokee Nation on account of lands of theirs sold by the United States. April 23, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from Cherokee delegation, (April 8, 1880), inclosing amendment desired to be offered to the Indian appropriation bill advancing $500,000 to Cherokee Nation, on account of lands belonging to them west of the Arkansas River, sold by the United States, with inclosures. April 23, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Proceedings of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, United States Senate, on the contested cases of William P. Kellogg and Henry M. Spofford, claiming seats as senators from the State of Louisiana. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed, to accompany the Bill (S. 1421) to make the crime of rape in the District of Columbia punishable with death.
Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relating to the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States over municipal corporations. March 22, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed.
Joint resolution of the Legislature of Maryland, in relation to the construction of a lighthouse at Fort Bar, in Patapsco River, Maryland. March 22, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Joint resolution of the Legislature of Maryland, urging the necessity of an appropriation for deepening the channel between Kirby's Landing and Spry's Landing, in Chester River, Maryland. March 22, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Memorial and resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, relative to securing to the State of Iowa the patents for certain lands granted to aid in the construction of a certain railroad. March 23, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Memorial and resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, relative to locating lands by the several counties of that state. March 23, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Petition of Thomas McBridge, praying that the title to certain lands embraced in a patent granted to him on the 22d of September, 1877, be confirmed. March 23, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to Hon. I.G. Harris, Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia, in relation to the sinking fund of said district. March 30, 1880. -- Reported from the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
Memorial of the Legislature of New York, in favor of congressional legislation in aid of an international exhibition to be held in 1883. March 31, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting a communication from Dr. Emil Bessels, chief of the scientific department of the Arctic expedition under the late Capt. C.F. Hall, asking that an appropriation be made for completing the scientific results of said expedition. May 24, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of April 19, 1880, information relative to the filling of the old canal and amount of ground reclaimed thereby; also probable cost of placing James Creek Canal in sanitary condition, &c. April 26, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee the on District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jonas, from the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following views of the minority. (To accompany Bill S. 82.) There can be no doubt but that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company has utterly failed to comply with the terms of its charter, and that the land grant conditionally given to it by the act of July 2, 1864, has lapsed...
Letter from the Secretary of the Senate, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, passed April 30, a statement of appropriations, balances, and disbursements of the contingent fund of the Senate. May 3, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
List of promotions from first lieutenants to captains in the Army, from 1870 to 1879, inclusive. May 4, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, to accompany Bill S. 1614.
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be, and it is hereby, instructed to inquire into the expediency, propriety, and public policy of declaring all lands heretofore granted in aid of the construction of railroads, and which have not been earned by a compliance with the terms of the grants, open to public entry and settlement the same as other government lands...
Compilation of the questions of order and the decisions thereon under the rules of the Senate, since their adoption, January 17, 1877. May 4, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that, in the judgment of the Senate, the matters reported by the Committee on Privileges and Elections at the present session respecting the right to the seat in this body now held by William Pitt Kellogg, and claimed by Henry M. Spofford, are not sufficient to justify the reopening of the decision of the Senate...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, reported the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, acting jointly, be instructed to examine whether or not further legislation is required, and what additional appropriations will be necessary, in relation to the foundation and completion of the Washington Monument...
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures and condition of the institution for the year 1879.
Resolution of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, urging upon Congress the propriety of making an appropriation to continue the work on Fort Carroll, at the entrance of the harbor of Baltimore. March 15, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, in favor of the early completion of certain public works affecting the commerce of the states bordering on the Great Lakes. March 16, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in response to joint resolution of February 4, 1880, the full report of Lieut. F.V. Greene, United States engineers, assistant to the Engineer Commissioner, concerning improvement of grounds south of Capitol. June 8, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. 		50
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Serial set 1893 In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 89.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 89) for the relief of John Adams, William B. Cliff, David Dunseath, William Killinger, J.F. Scott, administrator of the estate of Obediah Scott, deceased, Davis Peak, Charles Linderman, James Linnane, Patrick Carey, John McMahon, and James Gorman, administrator of the estate of Patrick Gorman, deceased, have considered the same, and report thereon as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Garland, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 967.) The judiciary committee, having had under consideration the Bill (S. 967) to extend the jurisdiction of the Northern District of Texas, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 522.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 522) relative to the distribution of prize money, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1031.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1031) for the relief of Edward T. Benton, respectfully submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1384.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Reese Lammey, praying for a pension, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 335.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 335) granting a pension to Simeon Crain, of Bath County, Kentucky, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1046.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1046) granting a pension to the widow of Maj. Thomas T. Thornburgh, late of the United States Army, have examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the resolution of the House of Representatives for the appointment of a joint committee to investigate the present system of salaries, fees, and emoluments allowed officers of the United States courts...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1360.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Hon. G.B. Thomas and numerous other citizens of Howell County, Missouri, praying that a pension may be granted Aaron Hatcher...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a petition of citizens of Anderson County, Kansas, praying that a pension be granted to Thomas J. Rumbly, late of Company D, Ninth Regiment, Kansas Volunteers, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 562.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Capt. Thornton Smith, praying for an increase of pension, respectfully report as follows, viz...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1051.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1051) granting an increase of pension to Stephen D. Smith, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1097.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1097) granting a pension to Susan Fox, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 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 Phebe A. Grivet, praying for an increase of her pension, have examined the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Armstead Goodlow, late of Company E, Twenty-third Regiment United States Colored Troops, praying for arrears of pensions, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report: The petition of Thomas Hastie, of Chicago, Ill., referred to the Committee on Finance June 17, 1879, praying for a reissue of $20,000...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 235.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 235) granting an increase of pension to Egbert Olcott, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Walker, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4244.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom were referred the Bill (H.R. 4244) for the establishment of titles in Hot Springs and for other purposes, and also the letter of the Secretary of the Interior transmitting the report of the Hot Springs Commissioners, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1331.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate hereinafter described, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 533.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 533) for the relief of Charles W. Abbot, a pay director, and W.W. Barry, a passed assistant paymaster in the United States Navy, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rollins, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1125.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1125) to provide for building a market-house on square 446, in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3783.) The Committee on Military Affairs have had under consideration the Bill (H.R. 3783) to remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Jerry Foley, and adopt the report of the House committee, recommending its passage...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions having examined the petition, and papers accompanying, of Samuel M. Thatcher...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 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 Zenas Herrick, asking for arrears of pension, have examined the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 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 Squire Moon, praying for increase of pension, have examined the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 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 David H. Myers, late a private in Company A, Second Regiment New Jersey Cavalry, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Amelia B. [i.e., S.] Parsons, having had the same under consideration, report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Williams, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Margaret Cahill, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the papers and petition in the case of Jacob S. Hunt, report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James Rose, late private of Ninth Light Battery, Wisconsin Volunteers, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 362.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 362, report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 260.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 260, report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Grover, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 15.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Joint Resolution (S.R. 15) requiring the assembling of a court of inquiry in the case of Thomas Worthington, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 8, 1879. Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report: In obedience to a resolution of the Senate, adopted June 6, 1879, which provides...
In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 53.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred Senate Bill 53, making appropriation for the erection of suitable posts for the protection of the Rio Grande frontier, respectfully submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 54.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred Senate Bill 54, respectfully report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 744.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 744) to amend the one hundred and third Article of War, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 105.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 105) 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. December 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 128.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 128) for the relief of Edward Shields and others, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 468.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 468) for the relief of John W. Cheeks, have had the same under consideration, and beg to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 252.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 252) for the relief of Frank A. Page, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 480.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 480) for the relief of William P. Patrick, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 368.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 368) for the relief of Emanuel Klauser, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 618.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 618) for the relief of Herman Holman and Crawford Fairbanks, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 324.) The Committee on Finance, to whom the Bill (S. 324) for the relief of Somerville & Davis was referred, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 315.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 315) granting a pension to Henry Stanley Wetmore, have examined the same and the evidence therewith connected, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 35.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 35) granting a pension to Herman Nettlefield, have examined the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 815.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Bill (S. 815) to increase the pensions to certain pensioned soldiers and sailors who are entirely helpless from injuries received or disease contracted while in the United States service, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 747.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 747) for the relief of Harlow L. Street, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 517.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the Bill (S. 517) for the relief of Francis S. Davidson, respectfully submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 731.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 731) for the relief of Maj. Junius T. Turner, have carefully examined the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 198.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 198) for the relief of Capt. Bird L. Fletcher, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Thomas Hendrickson, widow of Thomas Hendrickson, late major in the United States Army, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1088.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Claude H. Masten, surviving partner of the firm of Le Vert & Masten, of Mobile, Ala., for himself and in behalf of the children of Octaria Le Vert, widow of his deceased partner, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1100.) That the bill for the relief of Solomon Morris, late sergeant Company A, Thirty-eighth Illinois Volunteers, for pay and allowances as second lieutenant of said company and regiment, is based upon the facts as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 426.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 426) for the relief of Patrick Sullivan, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 707.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 707) for the relief of William W. Ross, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 131.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 131) 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 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 286.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 286) for the relief 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. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 214.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 214) 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. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 223.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 223, "To Authorize the Restoration of Calvin T. Speer to the Rank of Second Lieutenant..."
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 536.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 533) providing for the retirement of First Lieut. Walter F. Halleck with the rank and pay of lieutenant-colonel, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 313.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 313) for relief of Maj. Jacob E. Burbank, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Vest, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, submitted the following report: Upon January 15, ultimo, the Senate referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds the following resolution: Whereas a difference of opinion exists between the officers of the Senate and the House of Representatives in regard to the allotment of rooms in the Capitol lately occupied by the Court of Claims...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 489.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 489) for the relief of James P. Worrell, having considered the same, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 637.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 637) entitled "A Bill Granting an Increase of Pension to Lucien Kilbourne," beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 280.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 280) for the relief of Ann Gregory, widow of Charles N. Gregory, deceased, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 899.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the pension claim of William O. Morgan, sergeant Company K, Thirty-seventh Illinois Volunteers, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2518.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred at act for the relief of Nelson Lyon and Jeremiah S. James (the same being the Bill H.R. 2518), having had the same under consideration, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 981.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Herman Miller, praying for the extension of his patents for metal can and for process and apparatus for soldering cans, have considered the same, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 848.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 848) granting a pension to Frederick R. Bruner, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 985.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 985) granting a pension to Mrs. Mary Leggett, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George Nichols and others, asking that arrears of pensions be granted to Mrs. Fanny Newcomb, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of sundry citizens of Iowa, praying that a pension be granted Walter S. Handley, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Davison, praying for an increase of pension, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 251.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 251) granting increase of pension to Margaret Mills, widow of Madison Mills, deceased, late a surgeon in United States Army, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 183.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 183) granting a pension to Hugh Gallagher, late a wagoner of Company H, Sixth Regiment United States Cavalry, beg leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Houlihan, praying for arrears of pension, beg leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 319.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 129) authorizing the restoration of the name of Thomas H. Carpenter, late Seventeenth United States Infantry, to the rolls of the Army, and providing that he be placed on the list of retired officers, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 93.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 93) to authorize the restoration of Charles N. Warner to his former relative rank and position in the Army, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 553.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 553) entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Elisha Bass," have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 397.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 397) for the relief of certain naval officers, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3347.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3347) to authorize the Secretary of War to furnish four pieces of condemned ordnance for the soldiers' monument at Marietta, Ohio, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1036.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. No. 1036) for the relief of Edmund T. Ryan, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1880. -- 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 Anson Dart, praying payment of a balance claimed to be due him for services rendered the United States government, as Indian superintendent on the Pacific coast, have considered the same, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1130.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 1130, for the relief of David Wingate, report the bill back...
In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 16.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 16) for the relief of Albert Towle, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 259.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 259) entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Reuben H. Plass," have considered the same, and submit the following report thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1346.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom were referred the two Bill S. 285 and S. 689, each entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Charles Collins," have had the same under consideration, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1424.) The Committee on Appropriations, having considered the propriety of placing under the direct supervision and control of Congress the appropriations known as permanent and indefinite...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1071.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1071) granting a pension to George Wilie, report the same back with a recommendation that it do not pass...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Martin J. Deponai, late private in Company E, Eightieth New York Volunteers, asking for an increase of pension, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 464.) The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was referred for consideration Senate Bill 464 for the erection of a public building at Montgomery, Ala., beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 111.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 111) for the relief of the City of Macon, Ga., have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 613.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 613) for the relief of Jacob D. Jones, late captain Fifth United States Infantry, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Walker, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2326.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2326) for the relief of settlers upon the Osage trust and diminished reserve lands in Kansas, and the other purposes, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 944.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 944) for the relief of John Grierson, has duty considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1180.) Elizabeth Wolf was granted a pension by special act..
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 664.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 664) for the relief of Lieut. Col. Schuyler Hamilton, late of the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 821.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 821) fixing the compensation of enlisted men in the Signal Service, United States Army, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1395.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Perry E. Brocchus, administrator of the estate of Augustin Maurin...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 742.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the Bill (S. 742) for the relief of Mary A. Lord, finds that, as the widow of Capt. Henry E. Lord, of Company G, Thirty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers, she has been receiving a pension at the rate of $20 per month...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 710.) The Committee on Finance report the claim of Jackson Grubb back to the Senate with the recommendation that the bill do pass...
In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2359.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2359) for the relief of William D. Oyler, having considered the same, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 87.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 87) for the relief of John J. Key and W.G.M. Davis, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 281.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 281) for the relief of Emma G. Nelson, executrix, and Aaron H. Nelson, executor of the estate of W.F. Nelson, deceased, have carefully considered the subject matter, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 374.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the Bill (S. 374) for the relief of James A. Heard, and the petition of the said James A. Heard, having considered the same, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1059.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1059) for the relief of George D.C. Hibbs, having considered the same, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 850.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 850) to provide a commission for the adjudication of damages to the Norwegian bark Atlantic by collision with the United States steam sloop of war Vandalia...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 476.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the (Bill S. 476) for the relief of Thomas M. Simmons, with the accompanying papers, having carefully examined the same, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Arthur Connell, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2006.) The Bill (H.R. 2006) referred to the Committee on Commerce re-enacts substantially the existing provisions of law, but contains a proviso that neat cattle may be imported from any portion of Great Britain into the United States for breeding purposes...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1209.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred Bill S. 1209, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report thereon: The committee in investigating the subject-matter of this bill have made a thorough examination of the present classification, duty and pay of railway postal employes [sic]...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1235.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1235) granting a pension to Susan Smallwood, widow of William Smallwood, having considered the same, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 358.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 358) granting a pension to Nelson Roosevelt, father of Nelson J. Roosevelt, beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 270.) The Committee on Claims to whom was referred the Bill (S. 270) for the relief of Jeremiah C. Conklin, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 500.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the case of William L. Adams, late collector of Customs at the port of Astoria, Oreg., submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 894.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 894, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1072.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1072) granting a pension to Arthur W. Irving, respectfully report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 748.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 748) granting a pension to Thomas E. Brawner, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1087.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1087) for the relief of John F. Clancey, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 710.) Your committee having under consideration the Bill (S. 710) for the relief of Henry P. Seymour, W.A. Frazer, Alvan N. Sabin, and the heirs of Percy S. Leggett, late supernumerary second lieutenants of Fifth Michigan Cavalry...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 853.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 853) to pay members of certain military organizations therein named, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2649.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2649) to authorize the comptroller of the currency to issue $500 in new notes to the National Bank at Pontiac, Ill., to replace a like amount which have never been signed, having duly considered the same, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 933.) Your committee, having had under consideration the Bill (S. 933) for the relief of Lieut. Edward S. Farrow...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1305.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1305) abolishing the military reservation of Fort Abercrombie, Fort Seward, and Fort Ransom, all in the Territory of Dakota, and authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to have the lands embraced therein surveyed and made subject to homestead and pre-emption entry and sale the same as other public lands, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 916.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 916) to authorize the United States to secure a title to certain military and timber reservations embraced within the limits of Fort Union military and timber reservation, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 170.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 170) for the relief of Tolley & Eaton, of Lynchburg, Moore County, Tenn., having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1008.) Your committee having under consideration the Bill (S. 1008) for the relief of W.A. Winder, late a captain in the Third Artillery, United States Army, providing for his reinstatement to his former rank in the Army...
In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The committee, having under consideration the case of First Lieut. M.W. Saxton, for his reinstatement in the Army, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1879. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Saulsbury, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom were referred the credentials of the Hon. Charles H. Bell, claiming a seat in the Senate as a senator from the State of New Hampshire, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 17, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, submitted the following report. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. 19.) The Committee on the Revision of the Laws, to whom was referred Senate Joint Resolution (No. 19) to provide for the publication and distribution of a supplement to the Revised Statutes...
In the Senate of the United States. May 1, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 516.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred S. 516, present session, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Whyte, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 125.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 125) to appoint Spruille Braden an ensign in the United States Navy, report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 184.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 184, report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 535.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred S. Bill 535, report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 499.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 499) granting a pension to Lee R. Seaton, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 154.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 154) granting a pension to John Smith, have examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 277.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 277) granting a pension to A.L. Anderson, have examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 412.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 411) granting a pension to John H. Ferrell, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 477.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 477) for the relief of General Ward B. Burnett, have examined the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 427.) The Committee on Pensions having examined the Bill (S. 427) granting a pension to Frank Donohue...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 552.) The Committee on Pensions, having duly examined the Bill (S. 552) granting a pension to Marshall D. Ellis, late second lieutenant Company E, Sixth United States Colored Troops...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 336.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 336) granting a pension to Philip Braunstetter...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 342.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 342) granting a pension to Charles Reed, have examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 341.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 341, report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 475.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 475, report: Henry J. Churchman...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 367.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 367) granting an increase of pension to Isabel L. Evans and Isabel M. Evans, widow and infant child of John J. Evans, deceased, late draughtsman on board the United States vessel Huron, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 752.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Crafts J. Wright for increase of pension, report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 751.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of W.B. Whiting, report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 376.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 376, report: Hiram Johnson...
In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 446.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 446) granting a pension to Jefferson Kinder, report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 12, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 625.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 625) for the relief of the Farmers and Merchants' Bank, Paris, Texas, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 106.) 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. December 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 17.) The Committee on Finance, to which was referred the Bill (S. 17) for the relief of Albert Towle, postmaster at Beatrice, Nebr., respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2803.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2803) for the relief of Doddridge & Davis, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 296.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 296) for the relief of Edward P. Vollum, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 401.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the Bill (S. 401) for the relief of Peter Meagher, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 137.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 137) to aid the completion of the soldiers' and sailors' monument at Chalmette National Cemetery, Louisiana, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Montana Territory for the establishment of a cavalry post at or near Henry's Lake, in that territory, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 103.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 103) entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Rosa Vertner Jeffrey," has considered the same and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 22.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 22) for the relief of Theophilus P. Chandler, with the accompanying petition and papers, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 903.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom were referred the following Bills: S. 44; S. 246: and S. 262; and also the memorial of Harvey Spalding, 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...
In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 307.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill S. 307, for the relief of L.C. Cantwell, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 417.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 548) for the relief of John C. Comfort, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 212.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 212, entitled "A Bill for the Relief of John M. Dorsey and William F. Shepard," have considered the same, and submit the following report thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 24.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 24) for the relief of John S. Logan, and accompanying petition and papers of John S. Logan and W.L. Shadwick, having carefully examined the same...
In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 762.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 762) for the relief of Josiah H. Pillsbury, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions having examined the petition of Hannah L. Stearns, widow of Benjamin F. Stearns, who was employed as a teamster in the War of 1812...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- 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 certain citizens of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, asking for the passage of a special act granting a pension to Aaron Snyder, late private in Company A, Two Hundred and Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred the petition of Isaac Vansant...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- 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 James Preston...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana, in relation to military telegraph, and praying the construction of a telegraph line from Fort Ellis to Fort Buford therein, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the joint memorial of the Nebraska Legislature, approved February 24, 1879, praying for the establishment of a military post, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the memorial of Alexander S. Brownlow...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 139.) The Committee on Pensions having duly examined Senate Bill 139, granting a pension to Henry A. Armstrong...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S.R. 8.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the resolution (S.R. 8) "correcting the military record of Wickliffe Cooper, deceased, late major of Seventh Cavalry..."
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 332.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 332) "Authorizing the Appointment of William English 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 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 188.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 188) correcting the military muster-in of James G. Howard, late Captain Company E, Forty-ninth Kentucky Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 46.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 46) for the relief of Frank Rinquet, and the accompanying papers, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom the petition of Mrs. Virginia Grove was referred, find, on examination of the petition and accompanying papers...
In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1880. -- 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 John Flynn, praying to be allowed in increase of pension, find, on examination of the papers in the case...
In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 39.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 39) granting an increase of pension to James H. Reeve...
In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William B. Guthrey, late Company I, First Regiment Alabama Volunteers, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Abram M. McCullom, praying for an increase of pension and for the passage of a general act providing separate pensions for separate disabilities, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George A.R. Baum, late first lieutenant Company B, Second Louisiana Volunteers, praying for a pension, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 680.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 680) granting an increase of pension to H. Binnamon, have carefully considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 870.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 870) granting a pension to Louis Christopher Tiedemann, have carefully examined the same, and find...
In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 19.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Bill S. 19, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 377.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 377) for the relief of Robert Ewing, have considered the same, and make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 159.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 159) to provide for the sale of certain portions of the Fort Leavenworth military reservation, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 317.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 317) for the relief of Capt. J.B. Campbell, having carefully considered the same, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1004.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Lamsford B. Youndell and others, sureties on the bond of Henry S. Norvell, late collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District of Tennessee, praying to be relieved from liabilities as such sureties, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 619.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 619.) "For the Relief of Certain Actual Settlers on the Kansas Trust and Diminished-reserve Lands in the State of Kansas," respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 52.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 52) for the relief of John N. Reed, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 578.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the Bill (S. 578) granting an increase of pension to Samuel B. Davis, Company C, Eighteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteers...
In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 298.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 298) for the relief of Van B. Bowers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 455.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 455) for the relief of Reuben S. Jones, of Memphis, Tenn...
In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 76.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 76) for the relief of M.F. Clark, have considered the same, and respectfully report that the bill ought to pass...
In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 185.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 185) for the relief of Gibbes & Co., having carefully examined the facts, and finding the report adopted by the committee at the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress and second session of the Forty-fifth Congress fully sustained, adopt the same, as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and papers of William Longnecker, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the memorial of Abby A. Ham and Elizabeth H. Brown, of Providence, R.I., sole devisees of James S. Ham and Abby S. Vose, John W. Vose, Caroline M. Vose, James P. Vose, Laura W. Stewart, wife of Anthony Stewart, Jr., Ella Denham, wife of Henry J. Denham, and Clarence Vose, only children and sole beneficiaries of the last will of John W. Vose, deceased, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and papers of George W.J. Crawford, of Benton County, Mississippi, praying compensation for property taken and appropriated by the United States military forces during the late Civil War, have considered said petition, and report thereon as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 843.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 843) providing for the delivery of dutiable articles in the mails, and for indemnity for lost registered articles, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 609.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 609) granting a pension to James E. Hargrove, late private Company H, Third Missouri Cavalry, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 663.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 663) granting a pension to John J. Fritschy, late captain of Company D, Seventh Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, from the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 55.) The Committee on Railroads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 55) granting a right of way across Water Shops Pond, in Springfield, Mass., to the Springfield and New London Railroad Company, have examined the same, and submit the following as their report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report: The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of C.J.E. Thompson, praying for the extension of his patent for a new and improved connecting link for chain cables, have considered the same, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph F. Thomasson, of Wayne County, Illinois, for a pension, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 187.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 187) for the relief of Samuel Castleman, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 219.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 219) relating to certain brevet appointments, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 47.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 47) for the relief of James Hunt, of Pendleton, Oreg., have considered the same, and present the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 773.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 773) making appropriations for a military wagon-road from Niobrara, in Nebraska, to Fort Robinson in said state, beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 754.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was submitted the Bill (S. 754) "To Authorize the Relocation and Improvement of the Military Wagon-road from Sidney, Nebr., via Forts Robinson and Sheridan, to the Sioux Indian Reservation," beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 695.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 695) for the relief of Michael Granery, Nicholas Wax, and Molieve Lange, with the accompanying papers, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 194.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 194) for the disposal of Fort Harker military reservation, have considered the same, and make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 193.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 193) to provide for the disposition of the Fort Larned military reservation, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 2) for the relief of Mark Walker, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 556.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 556) to authorize the President to appoint Sergeant John Dolan, of the Fifth Cavalry, a second lieutenant, and place him on the retired list, have considered the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 80.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 80) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to ascertain and report to Congress the amount of money expended and indebtedness assumed by the State of Kansas in repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 50.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 50) for the relief of James A. Barr, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 180.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 180) entitled "A Bill for the Relief of George V. Hebb," have considered the same, and report thereon as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 687.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 687) entitled "A Bill for the Relief of C. Bohn," have examined the same, and submit thereon the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Beverly [i.e., Beverley] Kennon...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Walbridge, Holland & Brown, of Saint Louis, State of Missouri, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 389.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 389) for the relief of Peter Phillips, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 390.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 390, authorizing the President to restore Capt. Dunbar R. Ransom to his former rank in the Army...
In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 388.) The bill for the relief of Jacob B. King, late first lieutenant Company C, Eighty-first Regiment Illinois Volunteers, granting him pay and allowances of that rank from June 30, 1864...
In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 996.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 996) for the relief of Monroe Donoho and certain papers relating thereto, have consid[ered] the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 715.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 715) for the relief of N. Boyden...
In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1045.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the petition and accompanying papers of Susan Jeffords, who asks a pension as dependent mother of Edmund Jeffords, private Company F, First Maine Heavy Artillery...
In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 617.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 617) granting an increase of pension to William H. Hale, report the same adversely, for the following reasons...
In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 582.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 582) granting a pension to John M. Snyder, report the same adversely, for the following reasons...
In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 991.) The Pension Committee having examined the Bill (S. 991) and the papers accompanying, relative to the claim of David H. Myers for pension, find that the applicant alleges disability from disease contracted while in service...
In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred petition of Wallace [i.e., Wallis] Pattee, report the same adversely, for the following reasons...
In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the following petitions: The petition of Mrs. Virginia Taylor, executrix of Joseph Taylor, deceased, praying that her claim against the government for captured property be referred to the Court of Claims...
In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Sallie Yerger, Maggie J. Miller, et al., praying that their claim for payment for property taken by the government be referred to the Court of Claims, report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1139.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the letter of the President of June 5, 1879, transmitting the proceedings of the board convened by his orders on the case of General Porter, with all the documents in the case, after full and careful consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 411.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 411) for the relief of Charles W. Rogers, having carefully considered the same, report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2188.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2188) for the relief of Thomas Kearney, late collector of Customs for the District of Corpus Christi, in the State of Texas, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Garland, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 527.) The Committee on the Judiciary having had under consideration the Bill (S. 527) providing "that all persons sentenced to imprisonment by the United States courts shall be confined in the prisons of the states wherein they were tried and convicted," report the same back with the recommendation that it do not pass...
In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 299.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill S. 299, with the petition and other papers accompanying the same, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1880. -- 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 Wolff & Brown, have carefully examined the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1880. -- 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 Isaac F. Moore, late private in Company H, Twenty-fourth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, praying compensation for a horse belonging to him lost in the military service of the United States during the late Civil War, have examined the case, and report thereon as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 56.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 56) for the relief of Edward Braden and J.W. Angus, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 66.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 66) for the relief of Hortensia H. Cook, administratrix of Henry Cook, deceased, having had under consideration the same, and accompanying documents, report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 831.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 831) for the relief of certain employes [sic] of the United States government in the District of Columbia, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 855.) The Senate Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 855) for the relief of Narcissa Gibson, widow of the late Alexander Gibson, a captain in the United States Navy, by placing her on the pension rolls of the United States, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 702.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 702) granting a pension to Mary A. Tindall, having examined the same, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 956.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 956) granting a pension to John Hubbell, report the same back adversely, for the following reasons...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 970.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of Thomas Hugh [i.e., W.] Rothrock, report the same adversely, for the following reasons...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1193.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Milton L. Sparr, report back the accompanying bill for his relief...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 797.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 797) granting a pension to Henry C. Smith, have examined the same and the papers connected therewith, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 551.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 551) granting a pension to James O'Connor, having considered the same, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 132.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 132) granting a pension to Fannie Lull, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 337.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 337) granting a pension to James H. Poland, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the petition of S.W. Venable, of Petersburg, Va., praying that his claim for captured tobacco be referred to the Court of Claims, with right of appeal, and the petition of Dunlap & Crawford...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph B. Shollenburger, late private Company F, Fifth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, praying to be granted a pension, having considered the same, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Emma M. Moore, praying for arrears of pension, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Margaret Miller, praying for the passage of an act granting her arrears of pension, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Solomon S. Robinson, praying to be allowed a pension, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred memorial of Harriet Flagg, report the same adversely, for the following reasons...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1195.) The necessity for the passage of this bill is to be found in the fact that some of the five per cent. bonds of the United States, which were held by the Secretary of the Interior in trust for the Indian tribes, have been called in and paid by the Secretary of the Treasury...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 208.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 208) granting a pension to Archibald Nelson and John Nelson, minor children of John Nelson, after careful examination, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 382.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 382) granting a pension to Ellen W.P. Carter, have carefully considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 338.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 338) granting a pension to Dederick Blanck, having duly examined the same, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1197.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Theodore L. Sayre and others, praying the passage of an act granting a pension to Col. Peter Claesgens, of Utica, N.Y., have carefully investigated the subject-matter, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- 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 John Snider, of Randolph County, West Virginia, for pension, have examined the same and the papers therewith submitted, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1880. -- 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 Jesse F. Phares for a pension have examined the same and the papers therewith submitted, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 965.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 965) for the relief of D.T. Kirby, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 592.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 592) for the relief of Redmond Tully, have had the same under consideration and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 175.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 175) for the relief of Maj. P.P.G. Hall, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1153.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1153) entitled "An Act To Restore to the Public Domain a Part of the Military Reservation Known as Fort Ripley Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, and for Other Purposes," have carefully considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 952.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was submitted the Bill (S. 952) for the relief of James Burke, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 290.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was submitted the Bill (S. 290) authorizing the Secretary of War to issue wall-tents to the superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, have carefully considered the same, and respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 287.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 287) for the relief of the heirs of Charles B. Smith, deceased, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Flora A. Darling, praying the passage of a law referring her claim for bonds and money alleged to have been taken from her one flag-of-truce boat during the late war to the Secretary of War, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 876.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 876) for the relief of Edward Corselius and seven other persons, late members of the First Michigan Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, has duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2902.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2902) to place William Gaines, late ordnance sergeant, United States Army, on the retired list, beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany S. Res. 3.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the resolution (S. Res. 3) to authorize the Secretary of War to sell or lease to the Port Huron and Northwestern Railway Company a portion of the Fort Gratiot military reserve, and to authorize the City of Port Huron...
In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1205.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of War, dated January 5, instant, being Executive Document No. 25, Forty-sixth Congress, second session, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee of Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 532.) The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 532, accompanied by the petition and papers of Eliza Howard Powers, asking compensation for certain services alleged to have been rendered during the war, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1206.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Thornley, medical director, United States Navy, praying for restoration to his former position in the Navy, beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1208.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition and papers in the case of William H. Davis, of California, have considered the same and bring in the following as their report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1880. -- 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 Hannah Roche, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 48.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 48) for promoting the efficiency of the corps of chaplains of the United States Navy, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 950.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 950) granting arrears of pension to Nancy Eubank, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 497.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 497) granting a pension to J. Clinton De Witt, having considered the same, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2771.) The committee, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2771) entitled "An Act To Construe 'An Act Granting Condemned Bronze Cannon to the Soldiers' Union of West Virginia,'" beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of P.A. Wellford...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 231.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin Holladay, praying compensation for spoliations by Indians on his property while engaged in carrying the mails of the United States...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 526.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 526) granting a pension to Esther E. Lieurance, having considered the same, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1231.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of A.A. Sims and others, praying that a pension be granted to Charlotte T. Alderman, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1188.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1188) granting arrears of pension to Mrs. Emma M. Moore, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 534.) This is a claim for pension by Carolina [i.e., Caroline] Trekell, widow of Greenbury Trekell...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 370.) James W. Doxsie enlisted in 1862, and was mustered out as lieutenant in 1865...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1232.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Sutherland, widow of Hosie Sutherland, deceased, formerly of Captain Baiton's Company, Colonel Francisco's regiment, beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1233.) On the petition of Frederick Weller, of Leavenworth City, Kans., a soldier of the War of 1812...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 691.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 691) for the relief of Jared Gardner, having examined the papers accompanying the bill and petition, find that the claimant alleges disability from injury of his leg, received while guarding prisoners at Johnson's Island, in 1864...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 955.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the Bill (S. 955) granting a pension to William S. Fultz, find that he was enlisted in 1861, and discharged July 1865...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1185.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1185) granting a pension to Jesse F. Phares, have examined the same and the papers therewith submitted, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1186.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1186) granting a pension to John Snider, of Randolph County, West Virginia, have examined the same and the papers therewith submitted, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 982.) Spencer W. Tryon...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 801.) Martha E. Brown, whose maiden name was Frankham, married Joseph L. Flenner June 17, 1855, who was accidentally drowned in the Ohio River, near Cincinnati, about September 21, 1861...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 810.) This claim was rejected at the Pension Office for the reason that the cause of the soldier's death did not originate in the service and line of duty...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 639.) John G. McDonald was an acting assistant surgeon under orders at Petersburg, Va., to report to a detachment of the Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1017.) Jerry Robinson was commissary sergeant First Regiment United States Colored Troops, and is now receiving pension for inguinal hernia...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 591.) Kelley was corporal Company B, Sixth Regiment, Maryland Volunteers...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Dr. Mary E. Walker, for increase of pension, beg leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1880. -- 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 Hugh Wilson, praying to be allowed a pension for service in the War of 1812, find that his application was rejected by the Pension Bureau for want of evidence of service...
In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 98.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 98) to provide for the settlement of accounts with certain railway companies therein named, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 474.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 474) for the relief of William McGovern, have carefully considered the same and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 316.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 316) for the relief of homestead settlers on the public lands, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 957.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S.957) granting a pension to Charles Reed, of Muscatine, Iowa, having carefully examined the same, report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 181.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 181) restoring to the pension-rolls the name of Mary Burr, have carefully considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 363.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the Bill (S. 363) granting an increase of pension to James C. McCarty, and the accompanying papers, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 490.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 490) in relation to certain fees allowed registers and receivers, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2269.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2269) for the relief of Calvin Bronson, of Toledo, Ohio, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, of Colorado, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 768.) Eight hundred millions of acres of land are embraced in the arid region of the United States...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 557.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 557) to authorize the payment of prize money to the captors of the steamboat New Era No. 5, having considered the same, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 1268.) The committee to whom was referred the petition of James Vance and William Vance, asking for payment for use of certain buildings at San Antonio, Tex., report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 323.) 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 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of John Beeson, praying compensation for services rendered citizens of the United States in protecting them from Indian hostilities, &c., have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1880. -- 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 W.W. Busby and Eva V. Busby, having had the same under consideration, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 459.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 459) for the relief of Elizabeth B. Custer, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1267.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of P.L. Ward, widow and executrix of William Ward, deceased...
In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, of Colorado, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 769.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 769) to enable the State of Colorado to take lands in lieu of sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections found to be mineral lands, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 549.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 549) for the relief of Samuel I. Gustin, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1044.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of James King, private Company F, First Regiment United States Infantry, having examined the same...
In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 620.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 620) granting a pension to Jacob Nix, report the same adversely, for the following reasons...
In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William C. Shimoneck, late a musician in the Third Regiment of United States Infantry, asking for an increase of pension, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 62.) The Senate Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 62) 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. June 17, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 243.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 243) to authorize the Secretary of War to release certain lands of the United States to the people of the State of New York, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2003.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2003) "For the Relief of J.P. Zimmerman and H.P. Snow, of Clinton County, Kentucky," having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1075.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1075) to authorize Dr. Daniel M. Appel, of the United States Army, to receive pay for discharging the duties of physician to the Mescalero Apache Indian Agency...
In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 33.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 33) for the relief of Joseph R. Shannon, having considered the same, make the following report... 		337
Serial set 1894 In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1366.) The Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, to whom was referred the resolutions of the Senate of the 29th of May and of the 18th of June, 1879, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saulsbury, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred memorials relating to the election of Hon. John J. Ingalls, a senator from the State of Kansas, by the legislature of that state, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... 		2
Serial set 1895 In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Moses Coffey, asking for an increase of pension, having examined the case, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 390.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 390) authorizing the President to restore Capt. Dunbar R. Ransom to his former rank in the Army, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1239.) The Committee on Pensions having examined the Bill (S. 1239) granting a pension to Mrs. Kate E. Whiting, widow of Leonard J. Whiting, late second lieutenant Sixth Rhode Island Volunteers...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1403.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1403) granting increase of pension to Samuel H. Johnston, have carefully examined the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1361.) The Committee on Pensions having examined the provisions of Senate Bill 1361 and the accompanying papers find that it provides for an increase of the pension of Elisha F. Rogers, late quartermaster sergeant Company F, Second Battalion Missouri Militia, from $18 per month to $37.50...
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 775, 776, 777, 778, 779, 780, 781, 782, 783, 784, 785, 786, and 927.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, having had under consideration the bill for the relief of John Hensley...
In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1058.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1058) for the relief of Walker A. Newton, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1880. -- 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 Sarah S. Flagg, widow and executrix of the late W.C. Flagg, deceased, late collector of Internal Revenue of the Twelfth Illinois District, with the accompanying papers, have carefully considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1154.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1154) for the relief of the legal representatives of William O. Redden, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 896.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 896) for the relief of Cyprian T. Jenkins, report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 530.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 530.) for the relief of James P.W. Neill, have considered the same, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 846.) The Committee on Patents, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying papers of Ira Gill, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 965.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 965) for the relief of D.T. Kirby, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 229.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 229) for the relief of Thomas S. Bridges, have carefully considered the same, and beg leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 74.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 74) for the relief of Lieut. Frank P. Gross, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 6, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jonas, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 310.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 310) for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Israel Dodge, deceased, beg leave to report the same favorably, with amendments, with a recommendation that it pass...
In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1333.) The Committee on Pensions having examined the provisions of the Bill (S. 1333) granting arrears of pension to Mrs. Maria A. Rousseau, with the accompanying papers, find that the applicant is the widow of General Lovell H. Rousseau, brevet major general United States Army...
In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1143.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1143) submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jonas, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 890.) This is a bill proposing to grant compensation to the several persons (or their legal representatives), who when the military authorities of the United States took possession and entered into the occupancy of the lands above high-water mark, within the present limits of the military reservation at Point San Jose, in the City of San Francisco, in the State of California, were in the possession of portions thereof...
In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Education and Labor, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 792 and S. 865.) The Committee on Education and Labor, to whom were referred the Bills (S. 792 and 865) which propose to distribute certain unclaimed pay and bounty moneys belonging to colored soldiers, and now in the Treasury of the United States, have had the subject referred to them under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 898.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 898) granting a pension to Mary A. Davis, respectfully report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1070.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1070) granting a pension to Jacob H. Eppler, respectfully report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1597.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1597) providing for the granting of a pension to Patsey [i.e., Patsy] Davenport, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas McGeehan, late a corporal in the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth (veteran) United States Volunteers, praying for an increase of pension, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4439.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4439.) to remove the disabilities of Sergeant P.P. Powell, Sixth Regiment United States Cavalry, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3966.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3966) to carry into effect the resolution of Congress, adopted on the 29th day of October, 1781, in regard to a monumental column at Yorktown, Va., and for other purposes, have had the same under consideration and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 666.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 666) "Relating to the Public Lands of the United States," having carefully examined the provisions thereof, respectfully report the same back with an amendment in the nature of a substitute therefor...
In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 816.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 816) for the relief of Theodore F. Hartridge and William G. Christopher, sureties on the official bond of Felix Livingston, collector of Customs at Fernandina, Fla., report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany S. Res. 79.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Joint Resolution (S. Res. 79) directing the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust and settle the accounts between the United States and the State of Florida, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 918.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 918) for the relief of certain volunteer officers of the Navy, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Select Committee to Inquire into Alleged Frauds in the Late Elections, submitted the following report: Your special committee to inquire into alleged frauds in the recent elections was directed, by the authority given it, "to inquire whether in the year 1878 money was raised by assessment or otherwise upon federal office-holders or employes [sic] for election purposes, and under what circumstances and by what means..."
In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1090.) The finance committee, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1090) for the relief of John D. Defrees, public printer, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 192 and 577.) The act of July 28, 1866, entitled "An Act To Increase and Fix the Military Peace Establishment of the United States, to be called the Army of the United States," created new offices or original vacancies in the line and staff of the Army...
In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report: The Committee on Commerce, to which was referred the memorial of Merrick, Fowler & Esseltyne and other business men and firms of Michigan, praying for the appointment of a marine statistician, has considered the same and respectfully submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2270.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2270) to pay for extra services, relating to the metric system, rendered to the Forty-fifth Congress, have considered the same, and respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Evans, asking for the allowance of a certain claim, embracing a frame hotel at Devall's Bluff, in the State of Arkansas, and alleged to have been used and converted by the United States government, in the year 1864, have had the same under consideration, and now report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1606.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George W. Saulpaw, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1124.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1124) for the relief of the heirs of Maj. D.C. Smith, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2859.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2859) granting a pension to Paul Walker, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1336.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1336) for the relief of John Reed, have carefully examined the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 253.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 253) increasing the pension of Capt. Samuel C. Schoyer, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Jabez Matthews, a soldier of the War of 1812, and other citizens of New York, praying for an appropriation to pay certificates issued by the State of New York to soldiers of the War of 1812, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- 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 Maxwell Carroll, praying that he be placed on the pension rolls as a captain and with the pension allowed by law to officers of the rank, have examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of George W. Graham, praying for the passage of a law granting him pay as second lieutenant from May 12, 1863, to November 1, 1863, and as captain from November 1, 1863, to September 1, 1864, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1039.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1039) to authorize the restoration of William McGee to the rank of second lieutenant in the Army, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 147.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 147) to authorize the President to restore Bernard Reilly, Jr., to his former rank in the Army, have duly considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 904.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 904) for the relief Maj. G.W. Candee, paymaster, United States Army, have duly considered the same and accompanying papers, and recommend that it pass...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- 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 Lucy E. Mayhugh, asking a pension, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Nehemiah Ford for a pension, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2797.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2797) for the relief of certain citizens of Lynchburgh, Va., and refunding to them taxes improperly collected from them on manufactured tobacco, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel D. Lecompte, claiming additional compensation for services as attorney for the United States in the district court of the United States for the District of Kansas, having considered the same, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2262.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Juliet Leef, and also the Bill (H.R. 2262) providing for the relief prayed for in said memorial, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 626.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 626) for the relief of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company, report the same for the favorable consideration of the Senate. The Committee have adopted the report made by the Committee on Naval Affairs, February 6, 1878, as expressive of its views. The same is hereby submitted...
In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1257.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1257) entitled "A Bill for the Relief of J.H. Alexander," have duly considered the same, and submit the following report thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1305.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1305) granting a pension to Mrs. Emma Schell, widow of Christian Schell, Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteers, and afterwards of Third Indiana Cavalry, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1291.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1291) for the relief of Charles W. Denton, have carefully considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1376.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1376) for the relief of Ella Long, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1610.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1610) asking for the erection of a lighthouse at the entrance of Little Traverse Harbor, on Lake Michigan, beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2857.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2857) granting a pension to Joseph Showman, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1465.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1465) granting a pension to William H.H. Anderson, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1460.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1460) granting a pension to James P. Sayer, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 740.) The Committee on Pensions having examined the Bill (H.R. 740) granting a pension to Martha J. Robinson, widow of James H. Robinson, private Company E, Fifth Regiment Indiana Cavalry Volunteers, together with the accompanying papers...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2860.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2860) granting a pension to Thomas A. [i.e., H.] Vaughn, private Company C, Seventy-sixth, Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1411.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1411) granting a pension to James Morgan, Company K, Third United States Infantry, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1363.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1363) granting a pension to Eli Coopridee, of Company G, Fifty-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1593.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1593) authorizing the Richmond and Southwestern Railway Company to build bridges across the Pamunky and Mattaponi rivers, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 938.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 938) authorizing the Astoria and Winnemucca Railroad Company to construct bridges across Young's Bay or River, and Lewis and Clark's River, in the State of Oregon, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1248.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1248) granting a pension to Rebecca T. Scott, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the petition of Dr. P.F. Reuss, late surgeon Seventh Regiment New York Volunteers, for an increase of pension, beg leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1441.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the memorial of Sam. C. Reid, on behalf of the captain, owners, officers, and crew of the late United States private-armed brig General Armstrong, their heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4606.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4606) authorizing the President to appoint Drs. Thomas Owens and William Martin assistant surgeons in the United States Navy, not in the line of promotion, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report, viz...
In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 963.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 963) granting a pension to Theodore Rauthe, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 200.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 200) for the relief of Nathaniel P. Harben, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1880. -- 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 Ann Barnes, of Fort Stockton, Texas, praying to have refunded to her certain moneys alleged to have belonged to her late husband, Ammon Barnes, and also alleged to have been taken from him by order of the United States military authorities in 1862, and covered into the United States Treasury, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 892 and H.R. 3064.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the Bill (H.R. 3064) to remove the political disabilities of W.S. Maxwell, of Tennessee, and also S. 892, for the same purpose, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 873.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 873) for the relief of George W. Wickwire, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 339.) Your committee, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 339) granting a pension to A.W. Richards, Company G, Third Regiment Iowa Infantry, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 975.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill S. 975, have examined the case, and respectfully report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1484.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Ernst Hein, of Utica, N.Y., praying for an honorable discharge from the United States Army, and that the charge of desertion be removed from his military record, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 393.) The Committee on Finance, having considered the Bill (H.R. No. 393) for the relief of W.B. Farrar, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 436.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 436) for the relief of Charles Clinton, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2802.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2802) for the relief of the owner of the bark Grapeshot, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1490.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to Senate resolution of March 4, 1878, communicating information concerning the data from which the positions of troops were added to the government maps of the Battle of Gettysburg...
In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1381.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, having examined the provisions of Senate Bill 926 and House Bill 1381, report back the latter to the Senate with amendments...
In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 915.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 915) for the relief of Edgar Huson, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 826.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 826) for the relief of several persons impressed into the United States naval service, have carefully considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1501.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Britannia W. Kennon, widow of Commodore Beverly [i.e., Beverley] Kennon, praying for a restoration of her pension to the rate at which it was originally granted...
In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1179.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1179) for the relief of Mattie S. Whitney, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 856.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 856) extending the provisions of Section 2997 of the Revised Statutes of the United States to the port of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, have considered the same, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 828.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 828) extending the privileges of sections 2990 to 2997, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to the port of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri, have considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 303.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 303) for the relief of George Hollingsworth, deputy postmaster at Greenton, Mo., ask leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 829.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 829) extending the provisions of Section 2997 of the Revised Statutes of the United States to the ports of Kansas City and Saint Joseph, in the State of Missouri, have considered the same, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1192.) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1192) to authorize the City of Winona to construct, operate, and maintain a wagon-bridge across the Mississippi River at Winona, have considered the same and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1520.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Robert P. Wilson, late captain in the Fifth United States Cavalry, praying to be restored to his former rank and position in the Army, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany S. Res. 96.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Stephen A. McCarty, late lieutenant commander, United States Navy, praying the passage of a law authorizing the President to restore him to his former position in the Navy, have duly examined and considered the same, and beg leave to make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 199 and H.R. 2377.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred House Bill No. 2377, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Catherine [i.e., Catharine] I. Gillis," respectfully report that it has carefully considered the same...
In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 814.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 814) for the relief of Henry M. Shreve, having carefully examined the same, submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1493.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1493) entitled "An Act Defining the Duties of the Reporter of the Supreme Court of the United States, Fixing his Compensation, and Providing for the Publishing and Distributing of Said Reports," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1322.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1322) for the relief of Thomas J. League, have considered the same, and submit the following report thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 201.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 201) for the relief of Somerville Nicholson, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1109.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1109) for the relief of Anthony Lawson, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 627.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 627) for the relief of workmen employed in the construction of Poverty Island lighthouse, Lake Michigan, have considered the same, and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1202.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1202) for the relief of Hiram S. Town, postmaster of the City of Ripon, in the County of Fond du Lac, in the State of Wisconsin, having had the same under consideration, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 92.) The Senate Committee on Public Lands in the Forty-fifth Congress made the following report upon a bill similar to the present...
In the Senate of the United States. March 29, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1419.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1419), having considered the same, make the following report accompanied by a bill as substitute for said Senate Bill 1419...
In the Senate of the United States. March 29, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1340.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 1340 for the relief of Charles E. Gunn, postmaster at Calhoun, Henry County, State of Missouri, having had the same under consideration, make the following favorable report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1550.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of War transmitting a communication from the commissioners of the Soldiers' Home, in Washington, D.C...
In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany S. Res. 71.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the resolution (S. Res. 71) directing the restoration of the official letter books of the executive department of the State of North Carolina, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 545.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 545) granting a pension to Elizabeth H. Pierce, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1135.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1135) "Authorizing the Secretary of War to Adjust and Settle Accounts for Arms with the State of South Carolina," beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1353.) The Finance Committee of the Senate submit the following report upon the Bill (S. 1353) for the relief of N. & G. Taylor Co...
In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1564.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was submitted the petition of Mrs. Cornelia F. White, widow of Frank I. White, respectfully report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 496.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill S. 496, having given the matter much consideration, report the same with an amendment which is in the nature of a substitute...
In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 131.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 131) for the relief of John W. Chickering, having duly considered the same, ask leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 692.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 692) entitled "A Bill for the relief of Robert A. McMurray," have considered the same, and submit the following report thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1063.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1063) for the relief of William J. Gamble, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1278.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1278) for the relief of Lewis D. Allen, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 677.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill S. 677, for the relief of E. Troisgros, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Garland, from the Committee on Territories, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5048.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 5048, having had the same under consideration, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 1103.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1103) for the relief of Manly B. McNilt, have considered the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1166.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1166) granting a pension to James H. Stevens, late captain Company C, Eighty-third New York Volunteers...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 602.) The Committee on Pensions having examined the Bill (S. 602) and the papers accompanying, find that the said bill purposes to restore to the pension roll Thomas W. McCaffrey...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1113.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1113) granting a pension to Peter K. Morgan, private in the War of 1812, report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Anne [i.e., Ann] R. Voorhees, widow of Philip R. [i.e., F.] Voorhees, late a captain in the United States Navy, praying for the passage of an act granting her a pension, having considered the same, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1234.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1234) amending an act entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to William R. Browne," approved February 7, 1879, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1216.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1216) granting a pension to Elisha M. Luckett, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1077.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1077) granting a pension to William J. Elgie, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 340.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 340) granting a pension to Thomas J. Anthony, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1276.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1276) for the relief of Charles B. Phillips, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 813.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 813) to amend Section 1402 of the Revised Statutes relative to the appointment of assistant naval constructors, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 254.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 254) authorizing the President to place the name of Herman Biggs on the list of retired officers of the Army, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1465.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1465) granting a pension to Levi Leedom, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 225.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 225) granting a pension to Melissa Wagner, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 672.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 672) granting a pension to Abram F. Farrar, first lieutenant Company F, Thirty-fifth Indiana Volunteers, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 254.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 254) granting an increase of pension to James M. Boreland, having examined the papers and evidence in the case, find as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1295.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1295) granting a pension to Lewis J. Blair, having considered the same, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1576.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Benedict J.O. Driscoll, praying that a pension may be granted him as captain, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 148.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 148) granting an increase of pension to J. Jackson Purman, having considered the same, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1880. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bruce, from the Select Committee on the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 711 and S. 1581.)...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1579.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1579) entitled "A Bill for the Relief of B.B. Connor," have considered the same, and report thereon as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 809.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 809) for the relief of Duncan M.V. Stuart, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 160.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 160) for the relief of H.A. Myers, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 230.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 230) for the relief of Capt. C.H. Briggs, have duly considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 504.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 504) to correct the military record of William H. Terry, late a private in Company H, Thirty-fourth Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, of Georgia, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 270.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 270) for the relief of Charles Dougherty, beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 326.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 326) for the relief of Henry F. Lines, have carefully examined the same and submit the following report... 		146
Serial set 1896 In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, of Georgia, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report: The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry M. Spofford, claiming to be entitled to the seat in the Senate from the State of Louisiana now occupied by William P. Kellogg, ask leave to submit the following report... 1
Serial set 1897 In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, which was instructed by a resolution of the Senate passed on the 10th of June, 1879, to "inquire, ascertain, and report which of the Pacific Railroads are discriminating against the United States in favor of private shippers..."
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 758.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 758) for the relief of James M. Bacon, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1638.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Horace S. Spear, have examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hamlin, from the Select Committee on Nicaragua Claims, &c., submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1650.) The select committee of the Senate to inquire into the claims of citizens of the United States against the government of Nicaragua, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Henrietta Wilson, widow of the late Henry Wilson (who served in the War of 1812, Black Hawk, Florida, and Mexican campaigns, and performed forty-eight years of continuous service), asking for a an increase of pension...
In the Senate of the United States. May 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill 1720.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of George E. Payne, of Saint Charles Parish, in the State of Louisiana, asking compensation for the seizure, use, and occupation of his sugar plantation by the officers of the government, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1307.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1307) granting a pension to L.C. French, late surgeon Fourth Regiment Michigan Volunteers, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1201.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1201) granting a pension to Henry Williams, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2041.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2041) granting a pension to James Aaron, private Company F, Ninety-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2855.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2855) entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Rachael J. Reber," have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- 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 and bill granting arrears of pension to Thomas Burroughs, Company G, First Vermont Volunteers, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- 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 Samuel B. Brightman asking for arrears of pension from June 24, 1864, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1880. -- 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 Elizabeth Vernor Henry for a pension, have examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Select Committee to Inquire into Alleged Frauds in the Late Elections, submitted the following report: Your select committee to inquire into alleged frauds in the recent elections was directed by the authority given it "to inquire whether any citizen of any state has been dismissed or threatened with dismissal from employment or deprivation of any right or privilege by reason of his vote or intention to vote at the recent elections, or has been otherwise interfered with..."
In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3261.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom the Bill (H.R. 3261) granting a pension to Elizabeth Dougherty was referred, find on examination that the applicant is the widow of Charles Dougherty, late sergeant Company C, Sixty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers...
In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 11 and S. 1452.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred Bills (S. 1452 and H.R. 11) granting a pension to Agnes Fairly, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1806.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1806) granting a pension to Michael Lingenfelter, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3264.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3264) granting a pension to Abner Hoopes, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of P.P. Lytle and others, praying for the passage of a special act granting an increase of pension to William Young, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4759.) The Committee on Pensions having examined the Bill (H.R. 4759) granting increase of pension to Richardson K. Baird...
In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1203.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1203) based upon the memorial of Margaret B. Franks, praying for compensation for property taken for the use of American troops at Green Bay, Wisconsin, in the years 1816 and 1817, having considered the same, report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 757.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 757) for the relief of Gallus Kerchner, have considered the same, and respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1249.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1249) to amend an act entitled "An Act Granting a Pension to Sophia Brooke Taylor, Widow of the Late Major Francis Taylor," respectfully report, that the said Sophia Brooke Taylor is the daughter of an ex-chief justice of the United States...
In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 867.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 867) for the relief of Joseph G. Ayres, a surgeon in the United States Navy, report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Pattee, asking for compensation as lieutenant colonel of cavalry from May 17, 1866, to June 22, 1866, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1476.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1476) for the relief of the heirs of William Selden, deceased, late United States marshal for the District of Columbia, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3534.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3534) to authorize and equip an expedition to the Arctic Seas, report the same back, and ask the favorable consideration of the Senate thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. April 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1478.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1478) entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Lizzie D. Clarke, Administratrix of the Estate of Thomas L. Clarke, Deceased," have considered said bill, and report thereon as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1662.) The Committee on Pensions, having considered the petition (and papers accompanying) of Levi Anderson, late private Company A, Seventh Kansas Volunteers, asking an increase of pension, find that said soldier was wounded on the 11th day of November...
In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 851) The Committee on Pensions having examined the Bill (S. 851) granting a pension to Martha A. Lachman, together with the accompanying petition, find that the claimant applies for pension on account of the services of her late husband, Herman [i.e., Henry] Lachman, as a detective in the employment of the government during the late war...
In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1006.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1006) for the relief of Andrew T. McReynolds, have considered the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom the petition of Ann Dennis, mother of James Dennis...
In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom the petition of Henry Slaughter, asking increase of pension, was referred, having examined the papers in the case, find that the applicant has been receiving a pension since 1864...
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 542.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 542) for the relief of Benjamin C. Bampton, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5894.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the Bill (H.R. 5894) to authorize the sale of Fort Logan, Montana Territory, and to establish a new post on the frontier, respectfully submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1515.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1515) granting a pension to Hiram C. Shouse, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3351.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3351) for the relief of Rev. Paul E. Gillen, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the memorial of the legislature of the State of Minnesota and the petition of David W. Seeley, asking for a pension for said David W. Seeley, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 149.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 149) for the relief of John Gotshall, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 84.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 84) to furnish a bronze statue of General Daniel Morgan to the Cowpens Centennial Committee of Spartanburg, S.C., having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 529.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 529) to provide for the better care and protection of quartermasters' supplies, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 258.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 258) authorizing the Secretary of War to detail an officer of the Army to take command of the expedition fitted out by Messrs. Morison and Brown, citizens of New York, to search for the records of Sir John Franklin's expedition...
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 96.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 96) to authorize the Secretary of War to deliver to A.B. Rhett, T. Pinckney Lowndes, and others, four Napoleon guns, with caissons and harness, now at Greensborough, N.C., for use of the Marion Artillery, Charleston, S.C., have duly considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 960.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 960) for the relief of Marietta Mattison, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1538.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 1538, authorizing the closing of the accounts of the late Rear Admiral A.H. Foote, U.S.N., having considered the same, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ann Fletcher, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles W. Tibbetts, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1557.) The Committee on Pensions submit the following report: The claim of Dennis Smith was rejected...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah A. Alexander, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 1323.) The Committee on Pensions submit the following report: Gano was pensioned...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1464.) The Committee on Pensions submit the following report: George W. Staplin...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2407.) The Committee on Pensions, submit the following report: Belinda Curtis...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1254.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1254) for the relief of Henry Warren, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 21.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 21) granting a pension to Louisa Bainbridge Hoff, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 858.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 989) entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Settlers on the Public Lands and to Provide for the Repayment of Certain Fees and Commissions Paid on Void Entries of Public Lands," have considered the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Peter Yarnell, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Wm. A. Rogers praying for a pension, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3077.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3077) granting a pension to John L. Williams, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1432.) The Committee on Pensions submit the following report: Angus McAuley...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1697.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Matthew O'Reagan [i.e., Mathew O. Regan] for pension, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1698.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George J. Webb, praying for an increase of pension, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1710.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of William H. Gill, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1488.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1488) to provide for promotions in the Army of the United States, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1288.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1288) to authorize the President to restore D.M. Page to his former rank in the Army ...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1455.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1455) authorizing the President to appoint John W. Hoffman a second lieutenant in the United States Army, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1128.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1128) for the relief of James N. [i.e., M.] Ruby, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1169.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1169) granting a pension to John Harner, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 543.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 543) for the relief of Jabez Burchard, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1545.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1545) for the relief of J.W. Burbridge & Co. and Robert H. Montgomery, have carefully considered the same, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. Res. 59.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Joint Resolution (S. Res. 59) repealing part of the Section 4693 Revised Statutes, have examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1272.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the provisions of Senate Bill 1272, find that it proposes to increase the pensions of those who have lost an arm below the elbow, or a leg below the knee, to $24 per month, where the amputation was so near the joint as to prevent the use of the joint...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1586.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the provisions of Senate Bill 1586 to regulate the fees of attorneys in pension cases...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5628.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 5628) relating to machinists in the Navy, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1535.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1535) granting an increase of pension to Rebecca E. Haskin, widow of Joseph A. Haskin, late lieutenant colonel First Regiment Artillery, United States Army...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Territories, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5203.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 5203, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, from the Select Committee to Investigate the Finance Reports, Books, and Accounts of the Treasury Department, submitted the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2853.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2853) granting a pension to Elizabeth Aults, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2861.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3861) [i.e., 2861] granting an increase of pension to Herman Baldwin, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2450.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2450) granting a pension to Mary Wade, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1711.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Hannah Mackey, guardian of the minor child of John M. Yourison, alias John Sloan, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- 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 Helen Frances Manville, praying the extension of reissued patent No. 6535, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 913.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 913) granting a pension to Thomas P. Johnson, have examined the papers in the case, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1870. -- 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 Martin Price for a pension, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1082.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1082) for the relief of Smith E.G. Rawson, have had the same under consideration, and made sundry amendments thereto, and report the same, as amended, favorably, and submit the following report... 		84
Serial set 1898 In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2467.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2467) granting a pension to Daniel D. Long, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2643.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2643) granting a pension to Mary Meighan, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 733.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate Bill 733, entitled "A Bill Granting an Increase of Pension to William Shelley," beg leave to report that the pensioner is now receiving one-half pension...
In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2474.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2474) granting an increase of pension to Thomas Riley, late private Company L, Seventh Regiment United States Cavalry, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1311.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1311) for the relief of Edward Byrne, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- 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 Lindsay M. Shumaker, a soldier of the Mexican War, asking a pension, have fully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 451.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill to reimburse the Creek Orphan Fund, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 293.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill S. 293, having had the same under consideration, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 576.) The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred the Bill (S. 576), having considered the same, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1584.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill S. 1584, having considered the same, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1754.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1754) granting a pension to W.J. Morris, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3021.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3021) granting a pension to Eliza M. Frick, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Stephen Durkee for an increase of pension, respectfully report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth S.M. Finley, widow of Clement A. Finley, late surgeon general and brevet brigadier general, United States Army, praying for a pension, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1654.) The Committe [sic] on Pensions, having examined Senate Bill 1654 and the papers accompanying, find that Thomas S. Cogley, late first lieutenant Company F, Seventh Regiment Indiana Cavalry, is now receiving a pension of $6 per month, for injuries and diseases originating in the service and line of duty while first sergeant of said company and regiment...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1706.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1706) granting a pension to Samuel Pollock, have carefully examined the same and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4264.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4264) granting a pension to Judith Brown, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 635.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 635) granting a pension to Emery Bowen, respectfully report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3557.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3557) granting a pension to Peter Julius, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1531.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1531) granting a pension to Mary and Annie Plunkett, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the memorial of the heirs of Daniel Hayward, deceased, praying the passage of a law for the extension of a patent granted to said Hayward August 29, 1854, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1020.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill S. 1020, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 983.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 983) for the relief of N.A.W. Tabor, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5502.) The Committee on Public Lands, to which was referred H.R. 5502, being "An Act Granting to the Territory of Dakota Section 36, in Township No. 56 North of Range No. 94 West, in the County of Yankton, in Said Territory, for the Purposes of an Asylum for the Insane, and Granting to Said Territory One Section of Land in Lieu of Said Thirty-sixth Section, for School Purposes," having duly considered the same, submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1681.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1681) to provide for funding the 8 per cent. improvement certificates of the District of Columbia, has had the same under consideration, and submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1761.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of Martha J. Coston, praying for the passage of a bill permitting her to make application to the Commissioner of Patents for a further extension of a patent for the Coston Night Signals, have considered the same and respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1768.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of William S. Hansell & Sons, of Philadelphia, Pa., praying to be reimbursed for moneys paid for royalty on knapsacks manufactured for the United States Army, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1645.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1645) for the relief of Lieut. John A. Payne, Nineteenth Infantry, United States Army, have duly considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 26, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 1621.) The Committee on Claims to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1621) providing for the payment to O.B. and O.S. Latham the sum of $43,631.26, the alleged difference between coin and greenbacks, under certain contracts between the said Lathams and the United States, due them, the said Lathams, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2019.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2019) to authorize the extension of the patent of Daniel M. Cook, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2290.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2290) granting a pension to William Bowman, have carefully examined the same, and report that they concur in the following House report, and recommend the passage of the bill, with an amendment that it take effect from and after its passage...
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 182.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 182) granting a pension to Mary A. Shemelia, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1114.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1114) granting a pension to Luman Case, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 440.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 440) granting a pension to David L. Payne, have carefully examined the same, and report adversely to it, as the petitioner never applied for a pension under the general law relating to pensions.
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5627.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 5627) to amend Section fourteen hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes, in order to preserve the meaning of the original law from which it was taken, with reference to the rank of engineer officers, graduates of the Naval Academy, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 753.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 753) granting a pension to Thomas J. Jackson, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3544.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3544) granting a pension to John Fisher, guardian of the infant heirs of William Dakin, have examined the same and reports...
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1084.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1084) granting arrears of pension to the heirs of Capt. J.H. Dent, have carefully examined the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, from the Select Committee to Examine into the Circumstances Connected with the Removal of the Northern Cheyennes from the Sioux Reservation to the Indian Territory, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1298.) The Select Committee on the removal of the Northern Cheyennes, instructed to ascertain and report the circumstances of the removal of the Ponca Indians from their reservation...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 366.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 366) for the relief of David W. Stockstill, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1660.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1660) for the relief of William P. Chambliss, late major Fourth Regiment United States Cavalry, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1300.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1300) for the relief of Lowell A. Chamberlin, first lieutenant First Artillery, United States Army, having considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5542.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 5542) for increase of pension to Samuel Baker, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1150.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1150) for the relief of Carlile Boyd, has duly considered the same, and submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2854.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2854) granting a pension to Noah Caton, Company H, Eight-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1306.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1306) for the relief of Henry Starr, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1517.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1517) granting an increase of pension to Stephen Fairchild, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2862.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2862) granting an increase of pension to John H. Black, have examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1463.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1463) granting an increase of pension to Edward H. Lieb, late brevet lieutenant-colonel of the Fifty Regiment of Cavalry, United States Army, have considered the same, and respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1546.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1546) granting a pension to P.B. Perry, Sr., a soldier in the Mexican War, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2481.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill H.R. 2481, having had the same under consideration, make the following report thereon...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill Res. 84.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was recommitted "Joint Resolution To Furnish a Bronze Statue of General Daniel Morgan to the Cowpens Centennial Committee of Spartanburg, S.C.," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition granting a pension to John Cox, late sergeant Company H, Twentieth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition granting a pension to Julia M. Hudson, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2793.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 2793, have had the same under consideration, and recommend the passage of the bill without amendment...
In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 364.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 364) for the relief of Samuel A. Lowe, has carefully considered the same, and submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1312.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 1325, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1365.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1365) for the relief of Thomas P. Wollaston, with the accompanying petition, has carefully considered the same, and submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1880. -- 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 Mrs. Mary Hopperton, praying for a grant of a sum of money in lieu of pension, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1779.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the memorial and accompanying papers of Mrs. Ellen Call Long, of the State of Florida, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 72.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 72) for the relief of John B. Davis, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 60.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 60) for the relief of B.S. James, report that they find the facts to be as stated in House report 373, second session Forty-fifth Congress, which is as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1210.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1210) for the relief of certain officers of the Navy, having duly considered the same, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1614.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the Bill S. 1614, has carefully examined the same, and submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3983.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3983), "To Provide a Construction Fund for the Navy, and for Other Purposes," report the same back to the Senate with recommendation that it pass...
In the Senate of the United States. May 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 662.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 662) for the relief of William C. Spencer, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Select Committee to Inquire into Alleged Frauds in the Late Elections, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1721.) Your special committee to inquire into alleged frauds in the recent elections was directed to inquire and report to the Senate concerning the denial of abridgment of the right of suffrage to citizens of the United States...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1652.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1652) granting a pension to the minor children of Lawrence Burgess, a private in Company H, One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois Volunteers, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1620.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1620) granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Sallie A. Palmer, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, 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 Lelia E. McCauley for an increase of pension, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1729.) The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred the petition of William Stockwell, of Manchester, Iowa, praying a pension as a survivor of the War of 1812, has carefully examined the same and reports...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 229.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 229) granting a pension to Thomas Lowry, report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1716.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1716) granting a pension to Thomas J. Mackey, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of H.P. Robinson, praying for a pension, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill S. 1743.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary J. West, asking for an increase of pension, have carefully examined the same and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4842.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4842) entitled "An Act To Reinstate R.W. Barkley as Cadet-midshipman in the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis," report the same back to the Senate, with the recommendation that it pass...
In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Eliza West, praying for an increase of pension, report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1880. -- 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 Jeanette S. Johnson, of New Haven, Conn., has duly considered the same, and submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pryor, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Carl Epping and wife and C.B. Phillips, praying compensation for property destroyed by the federal Army during the war between the states, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 730.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 730) for the relief of Mrs. S.A. Wright, widow of the late George Wright, which asks for remuneration for the use of his patent linch-pin, adopted and used by the United States government, make the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 28, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1742.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1742) in relation to the Fort Sedgwick Military Reservation, has duly considered the same, and submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report: (To accompany Bill H.R. 3708.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 3708, being a bill to grant to the State of Nevada lands in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in said state, having duly considered the same, respectfully submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1064.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1064, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3656.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the Bill (H.R. 3656) for the relief of John Hohstadt, has duly considered the same, and submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 763.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 763) "To Make an Additional Article of War," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1471.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1471) granting a pension to Mrs. Rose M. Wood, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2864.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2864) granting an increase of pension to Isaiah W. Bunker, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2468.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2468) granting a pension to Henry H. Fisher, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1133.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1133) granting a pension to Michael Hayne, beg leave to report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3262.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined House Bill 3262, granting a pension to Harry E. Williams...
In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2039.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2039) granting a pension to Jacob J. Smith, have carefully examined the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1178.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1178) for the relief of Jason C. Bradeen, have considered the same, and report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 445.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 445) for the relief of Joseph B. Campbell, has considered the same, and respectfully submits the following report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 5, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 83.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 83) entitled "A Bill for the relief of Nicholas White," has considered the same, and report thereon as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 6, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1152.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of Basil Moreland, report as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 3.) The Committee on Pensions, having examined the provisions of Senate Bill No. 3, and the petition and papers accompanying the same, recommend the passage of the bill which provides for the payment of a pension, at the rate of $50 per month, to Elizabeth Wirt Goldsborough, the widow of Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsbourgh, late United States Navy...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3260.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3260) granting a pension to Eliza McConnell, respectfully report...
In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1723 [i.e., S. 1723.]) The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred House [i.e., Senate]Bill No. 1723, having considered the same, submit the following report of the facts as they find them...
In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Lizzie Wright Owen, praying for a pensions, have carefully examined the same, and report... 		99