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Serial set 1939	General index of the journals of Congress, from the first to tenth Congress inclusive, being a synoptical subject-index of the proceedings of Congress on all public business from 1789 to 1809, with references to the debates, documents, and statutes connected therewith, by Albert Ordway.	1
Serial set 1940	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 6, 1880, in the one hundred and fifth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1941	Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 21, 1879, reports from the Secretaries of the Interior and War, relative to expenses in certain Indian wars. January 5, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copies of papers pertaining to the estimates of the District of Columbia and matters connected therewith, and recommending such modifications of the laws as will insure greater safety and economy, &c. December 13, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of appropriations required to meet the current expenses of operating and care of the Louisville and Portland Canal until June 30, 1882. January 7, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Preliminary report of the Department of Agriculture for the year 1880. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting, in compliance with the requirements of Section 208 of the Revised Statutes, a statement of fees collected, accounted for, and reported by diplomatic and consular officers of the United States, &c. December 13, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, in response to the Senate resolution of June 15, 1880, directing the Secretaries of State, War, Navy, and Interior Departments, Postmaster General and Attorney General to report what changes, if any, of the laws regulating the management of their several departments, or of the divisions and bureaus thereof, are necessary or would be beneficial in promoting the efficiency or economy of their administration or management. January 13, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to Senate resolution of the 12th of March last calling for information concerning the alleged killing by soldiers, in the office of the agent of the Poncas in the Indian Territory, of Big Snake, a chief man of the Poncas, and what action, if any, in reference to the matter, the Department had taken, &c. January 5, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of June 15, 1880, information in relation to the laws regulating the management of the Department of Justice. December 6, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting in compliance with Section 1136 of the Revised Statutes, plans and estimates for a building at Fort Monroe, Va., for library and collections of the Artillery School, and also for offices for the headquarters at the fort. December 7, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to the resolution of the Senate of February 28, 1879, a tabulated statement showing the annual amount paid under what is known as permanent annual appropriations from 1865 to 1879, inclusive, &c. December 8, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Treasurer of the United States upon the subject of a deficiency in the appropriation of the current fiscal year of interest and sinking fund on the funded debt of the District of Columbia. December 8, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with law, certain information relative to the negotiation with the legal representatives of the late Confederate Generals Bragg and Polk for the purchase of certain papers relating to the late war. December 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting documents received from the Commissioner of Agriculture, in reply to resolution of the 7th instant, relative to contagious diseases of cattle. December 13, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statement, in compliance with law, giving the names of consular officers, not citizens of the United States, to whom salaries have been paid during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880. December 13, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of letter of the Commissioner of Pensions setting forth necessity for additional appropriation, for the current fiscal year, for the Army and Navy Pension Fund. December 21, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, in response to Senate resolution of June 15, 1880, in regard to changes of laws affecting the Post Office Department. January 6, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, a full and complete inventory of all property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by the Department and under its charge. January 11, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 21st ultimo, copies of all papers in his office relative to the settlement of the accounts of Dexter E. Clapp, late agent of the Crow Indians, Montana Territory. January 12, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 11th instant, certified copy of contract with Overland Mail Company, statement of route as originally contracted for, the acceptance by the company to change of service, statement of route after change, and of all orders of record changing the service thereafter, or the pay of contractors, &c. January 14, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 8th ultimo, a copy of report of the Superintendent of Census, giving complete returns of the population of each state and territory. January 18, 1881. -- Referred to the Select Committee To Make Provision for Taking the Tenth Census and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with the requirements of Senate resolution of the 14th instant, statements prepared by the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury, showing amounts paid for overland mail service from September 16, 1858, to September 30, 1868. January 19, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a communication from Benjamin F. Stevens, dispatch agent of the United States at London, stating that he is authorized to sell to the Department of State "Henry Stevens's Franklin Collection of Manuscripts and Books." January 20, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in relation to the recent effort of the government of the United States to bring about peace between Chili and Peru and Bolivia. January 20, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of 5th instant requesting information in relation to the alleged frauds in the enumeration of the inhabitants of South Carolina, a copy of report and letter of the Superintendent of the Census. January 18, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of the 20th instant, respecting the execution of the law for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses, a communication from the Superintendent of Census, with accompanying schedules. January 29, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of the 16th instant, and accompanying copies of reports from Colonel George Thom, Corps of Engineers, upon surveys of Malden River, Massachusetts; Richmond Harbor, Maine; and mouth of Narraguagus River, Maine, in compliance with River and Harbor Act of June 14, 1880. December 20, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. January 31, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. United States Marine Hospital Service. Report on trichinae and trichinosis. Prepared, under direction of the supervising Surgeon General, by W.C.W. Glazier, M.D. assistant surgeon, Marine Hospital Service. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, copy of the "correspondence between General J.M. Schofield and Maj. A.B. Gardner [i.e., Gardiner], in regard to the board of officers inquiring into the case of Fitz-John Porter." December 20, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the commission appointed December 18, 1880, to ascertain the fact in regard to the removal of the Ponca Indians. February 2, 1881. -- Referred to the Select Committee to Examine into the Circumstances Connected with the Removal of the Northern Cheyennes from the Sioux Reservation to the Indian Territory and ordered to be printed.	29
Serial set 1942	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, 1880.	1
Serial set 1943	Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to the resolution of the Senate of the 18th ultimo, a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in relation to the capitulations of the Ottoman Empire. April 7, 1881. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Ordnance, inclosing report of September 11, 1880, in compliance with Senate resolution of April 1, 1881, calling for same, relative to officer in charge of the United States testing machine, &c. April 18, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table. April 19, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army; also, copies of reports from Capt. A.N. Damrell, Corps of Engineers, of the results of the examinations and surveys made under act of March 3, 1879. December 14, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of February 25, and accompanying copy of report from Lieut. Col. Q.A. Gillmore, Corps of Engineers, upon survey for the reopening of the Santee Canal, South Carolina, &c. February 28, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of papers showing the maintenance of the channel at the South Pass, Mississippi River, for the quarter ending November 9, 1880. January 5, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to the resolution of the Senate of December 8, 1880, all reports relating to improvement of the Lamprey River, below New Market [i.e., Newmarket], N.H. December 15, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting in response to Senate resolution of December 13, 1880, an estimate of the cost of deepening the entrance to Saint Jerome's River, in Maryland, so as to make it an available harbor. January 5, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with law, estimates for certain initial works for improvement of the Mississippi River. December 8, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, dated 18th instant, and accompanying copies of reports from Maj. G.L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, upon examination, in compliance with River and Harbor Act [of] June 14, 1880, of Stillaquamish, Nooksack, and Snohomish Rivers, Washington Territory, and Siuslaw Bay, Oregon. December 21, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting letter of Chief of Engineers, of December 14, 1880, and its accompanying copies of reports from Maj. W.P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers, of result of examinations and surveys made, under River and Harbor Act of June 14, 1880, of the bars at the entrance of Annapolis Harbor, Maryland, of Chester River, between Kirby's and Spry's Landings, &c. December 17, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers of December 14, and its accompanying copies of reports from Maj. John M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers, relative to the results of surveys and examinations made under the River and Harbor Act of June 14, 1880, of certain rivers in Ohio. December 17, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from Chief of Engineers, submitting a project of Capt. O.H. Ernst, Corps of Engineers, relative to the erection of an ice harbor at Saint Louis, Mo., and report from the Board of Engineers for fortifications and for river and harbor improvements. December 14, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, dated 18th instant; also, copies of reports from Capt. O.H. Ernst, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of the Mississippi River at Sainte Genevieve, Mo., and of examination of Meramec River, Missouri, in compliance with River and Harbor Act of June 14, 1880. December 21, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of Capt. Charles B. Phillips, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination of Cape Fear River, North Carolina, between Wilmington and Fayetteville, in compliance with River and Harbor Act of June 14, 1880. February 11, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copies of letters of the 8th and 10th instant from Commissioner of Pensions, relative to the condition of the working force of his Office, and of his appropriation for "contingent expenses." February 12, 1881. -- Referred to Committee on Appropriations. February 14, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with the provisions of the River and Harbor Act of June 14, 1880, a communication from Chief of Engineers of February 17, 1881, and accompanying copy of report from Capt. C.J. Allen, Corps of Engineers, upon the results obtained from the surveys and examinations of the season of 1880, for the establishment of reservoirs at the headwaters of the Mississippi River and the sources of certain streams in Wisconsin and Minnesota, including Rock River, Wisconsin and Illinois. February 21, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 17, 1881, copies of reports of Colonel Gillespie and Board of Engineers submitting plans for the improvement of the mouth of Columbia River. February 22, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers of 19th instant, and accompanying copy of report from Maj. F. Harwood, Corps of Engineers, upon an examination and survey of Grand River below Grand Rapids, Mich., River and Harbor Act [of] June 14, 1880. February 22, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Engineers, of 19th instant, and accompanying copy of report from Capt. C.J. Allen, Corps of Engineers, upon a survey of the Mississippi River at Sauk Rapids, in compliance with the River and Harbor Act of June 14, 1880. February 22, 1881. -- 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 of 21st instant, and a copy of a report from Maj. W.R. King, Corps of Engineers, of the results of an examination of Powell River, under River and Harbor Act of June 14, 1880. February 22, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolutions of January 27, 1881, copy of report of Ute Commission, and copies of all correspondence between this Department and the Ute Commission, and also the governor of Colorado, concerning the same since June 15, 1880. February 2, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief Signal Officer, of 31st ultimo, recommending an appropriation for the purchase of the Cheyenne and Black Hills Telegraph Company's line, and for the operation and extension of the same, &c. February 4, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of papers relative to the abandonment of Camp Sheridan, Nebr., ordered to take effect May 1, 1881, together with special report as to the number and condition of buildings, &c., at that post. February 4, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting duplicate copies of two letters received by the Indian Office from Agents Miles and Hunt, of the Indian Territory, relating to the deficiency estimate transmitted on the 21st ultimo. February 4, 1881. -- 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, and accompanying copy of report from Maj. John M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations and surveys made to ascertain the cost, &c., of the construction of ship canals from Lake Erie to the Wabash and Ohio Rivers. February 25, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Chief of Ordnance, inclosing one from Maj. F.H. Parker, commanding the Piccatinny Powder Depot at Dover, N.J., setting forth the necessity for close railroad connection with that depot, and recommending an appropriation for same. February 25, 1881. -- 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, and accompanying copy of report from Maj. C.W. Howell, Corps of Engineers, upon examinations of Bayou Black and Bayou Andre, Louisiana. February 25, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of a letter from the Superintendent of the Military Academy, calling attention to the omission in the Military Academy appropriation bill of the item for construction of barracks for the cavalry detachment at West Point. February 26, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 19th instant, "a copy of the report of the Board of Engineers lately engaged in examining the several points on the Pacific coast, for the purpose of locating a harbor of refuge, and especially that relating to Port Orford, Oreg." February 26, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 8, 1881, calling for certain information in relation to nominations and appointments in the New York Customhouse, and also in response to Senate resolution of February 14, 1881, calling for the rules of admission to the Customs service at New York, the report of the collector of Customs. February 28, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 20th of January, 1881, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relative to the sending to the United States by any foreign state, canton, or municipality of criminals, paupers, or insane persons. February 28, 1881. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with the requirement of Section 8 of the act of 22d July, 1854 (10 stat., 308), the plats and papers in the following private land claims in the Territory of New Mexico, viz: No. 112, Mesilla and Arroyo Seco: No. 114, Santa Barbara; No. 118, Ojo de Borrega; No. 119, San Miguel del Bado. March 2, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 11, 1881, a copy of the report of C.C. Lancaster, Jr., special agent the Treasury Department, in relation to the conduct and operations of the United States marshal and his deputies, the district attorney, and the commissioners in the Western District of Virginia. March 22, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a copy of the response of the Russian government to the communication made to it by the United States minister at St. Petersburg of the Senate resolution of the 15th ultimo, on the death of the late Emperor Alexander II. April 5, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of the Secretary of State, in response to Senate resolution of June 15, 1880, asking what changes, if any, of the laws regulating the management of that Department, &c. are necessary, &c. February 22, 1881. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with Section 194 of the Revised Statutes, the accompanying report of the names of the clerks and other persons employed in that Department from December 1, 1879, to November 30, 1880, &c. January 24, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. February 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State in reference to Senate resolution of the 12th ultimo touching the case of Michael P. Boyton. May 20, 1881. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the final report of the commissioners appointed under the act approved July 19, 1876, authorizing the repavement of that part of Pennsylvania Avenue lying between the Treasury Department and the Capitol grounds. February 14, 1881. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed.	38
Serial set 1944	In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the people ought to contribute to the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities... Letter from the Architect of the United States Capitol, transmitting a report of the commission appointed by the Joint Select Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, June 17, 1880. December 6, 1880. -- Referred to the Joint Select Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress. Memorial of J.F. McCurtain, principal chief of the Choctaw Nation, calling attention to the violation of treaties with that nation, and asking payment of an award made under the treaty of 1830. February 8, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1881. -- Submitted. February 8, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Eaton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President be, and he is hereby, requested to inform the Senate, if not incompatible with the public interests, whether any objection has been made by this government to suits being brought in the courts of the United States by the government of Mexico against American citizens... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that a committee of three senators be appointed by the Chair, to sit during the recess of the Senate, with power to employ a clerk and stenographer, for the purpose of inquiring into the state of the law relative to the adjustment of pensions... Memorial of citizens of Richmond, Va., in favor of a survey of the James River, with a view of securing a channel to Richmond twenty-five feet in depth at full tide. February 9, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that on a motion to take up a bill or resolution for consideration, at the present or at a future time, debate shall be limited to fifteen minutes... Resolution of the Legislature of Indiana in favor of an appropriation for the improvement of the Kankakee River. February 10, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1881. -- Submitted and referred to the Committee on Rules. February 11, 1881. -- Reported adversely and ordered to be placed on the Calendar and printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the forty-third standing rule of the Senate be amended... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to consider and report whether the assembling at the seat of government of large bodies of organized and armed troops, not under the command of the officers of the United States or under national authority... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that on and after Tuesday, the 15th instant, the Senate will take a recess at __ and meet again at half past seven p.m., of the same day, to consider the cases on the Calendar, and bills that are not objected to shall be taken up in their order... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Eaton, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the interests of the people of the United States of America, and the welfare and security of their government, are so involved in the subject of the construction of ship canals and other ways for the transportation of seagoing vessels across the isthmus connecting North and South America... Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in response to Senate resolution of February 14, 1881, making inquiries as to the damage done by the recent flood to the Long Bridge, and as to repairing the same. February 16, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the Bill (H.R. 1381) to authorize the construction of a free bridge across the Potomac River at or near Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, having met, after a full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saunders submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Commerce be directed to amend the River and Harbor Bill so as to increase the amount to be appropriated for the improvement of the navigation of the Missouri River, between its mouth and Yankton... Resolution of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of a grant of the right of way through the Indian Territory to the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Company. February 21, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Railroads and ordered to be printed. Resolution of the Legislature of Illinois, in favor of placing Ulysses S. Grant on the retired list, with rank of general. February 21, 1881. -- 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 [sic], &c., and a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Senate from July 1, 1879, to June 30, 1880. December 6, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Report of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, containing a statement of all judgments rendered by said court during the year ending December 4, 1880. December 6, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Secretary of the Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of all property belonging to the United States in his possession December 6, 1880. December 6, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Sergeant-at-Arms, United States Senate, transmitting, in compliance with law, a full and complete account of property in his possession. December 7, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Annual report of the Public Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, etc., for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880. December 7, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 8, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Anthony submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that at the conclusion of the morning business for each day, unless upon motion the Senate shall at any time otherwise order, 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. December 9, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from W.W. Corcoran, Chairman of the Joint Commission for the Completion of the Washington Monument, transmitting the annual report of the engineer in charge. In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate of the United States, that it be referred to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate to inquire into and report to the Senate as to the cases of alleged unlawful arrest and imprisonment of any of the people of the United States under the process of the courts of the United States... Letter from the Public Printer, in response to Senate resolution of December 13, 1880, calling for information relative to the preparation for distribution of the agricultural report for 1879. December 16, 1880. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Petition of James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, praying the passage of a bill enabling him to dispose of certain church property in the City of Washington, District of Columbia. January 10, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 1991. In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be requested to inquire whether the interests of the public service would not be promoted by such a change or modification of the organization of the Treasury Department... List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress. January 13, 1881. In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. January 14, 1881. -- Reported with an amendment and ordered to be printed (insert the part printed in italics.) Mr. Brown submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, directed to furnish to the Senate at the earliest practicable moment copies of the surveys furnished by the Chief of Engineers of the Altamaha, the Ocmulgee, the Oconee, the Canoochee... Report of the congressional Board of Visitors to the West Point Academy for 1880. January 17, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Conkling submitted the following resolution: That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to inform the Senate respecting the execution of the law for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses, in the following particulars... Petition of A.J. Carrier, late Indian agent for the Ponca Indians, praying to be allowed the amount expended for employes at said agency in excess of the amount prescribed by law for employes at Indian agencies, and payment of moneys advanced by him for the use of said agency. January 19, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 2057. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1880. In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that at the conclusion of the morning business for each day, unless upon motion the Senate shall otherwise order, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of House bills which have been favorably reported, and continue such consideration until half past one o'clock... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that all provisions of law which prohibit our citizens from purchasing ships to engage in the foreign carrying trade, or which prevent the registration of them as American ships, when owned, commanded, and officered by citizens of the United States, ought to be repealed... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. January 25, 1881. -- Reported adversely and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication addressed to Hon. H.G. Davis, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, from the Commissioner of Pensions, in relation to estimates for pensions for the current fiscal year, &c. January 25, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, recommending an appropriation for the purpose of constructing a timber shed at the Washington Navy Yard. January 26, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Senate will be ready to receive the House of Representatives in the Senate Chamber on Wednesday, February 9, at 12 o'clock meridian, for the purpose of being present at the opening and counting of the votes for President and Vice-President of the United States... Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, recommending an appropriation for dredging the channel of the Anacostia River, or Eastern Branch, from a point in front of the Washington Navy Yard to Greenleaf Point, at the confluence of the Potomac River. January 26, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the Senate of January 28, 1881, a copy of the report of A.F. Rodgers, of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, on the proposed harbor of refuge for the Pacific coast. February 2, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in response to a resolution of the Senate of January 27, 1881, transmitting a copy of the contract or terms of settlement with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. February 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Testimony before the Select Committee on Removal of Northern Cheyennes as to the removal and situation of the Ponca Indians. February 28, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Librarian of Congress, exhibiting the condition and progress of the Library during the year 1880. March 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blaine submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that a special committee of five senators be appointed by the Chair to take into consideration the mode of voting for President and Vice-President of the United States, and the mode of counting and certifying the same... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the following be the standing committees of the Senate during the present session... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the following select committees be appointed for the present session, and that each committee thus created be vested with all the powers and authorities heretofore given to each of the select committees on the respective subjects to which they relate... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Senate of the United States of America, now convened in special session, has been informed of the death, by unlawful and inhuman violence, of His Majesty the Emperor Alexander II of Russia... In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Attorney General of the United States be directed to communicate to the Senate the names of the deputy United States marshals appointed in the State of Indiana to attend the polls at the October election for the year 1880 in said state... In the Senate of the United States. March 15, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ransom submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Commerce be, and it is hereby, instructed to inquire into the condition of the Potomac River front of the City of Washington and of the navigability of said river... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds take into consideration the subject of public buildings in the City of Washington, looking to the present and future needs of the general government... List of committees of the Senate of the United States for the special session United States Senate. March 18, 1881. In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the hostile attitude assumed by the national banks towards the refunding of the national debt... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Senate do now proceed to the election of its Secretary, Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper, Chief Clerk, Principal Executive Clerk, and Chaplain. In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that George C. Gorham, of California, be, and hereby is, elected Secretary of the Senate. In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that Harrison H. Riddleberger, of Virginia, be, and hereby is, elected Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate. In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that James R. Young, of Pennsylvania, be, and hereby is, elected Principal Executive Clerk of the Senate. In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that Charles W. Johnson, of Minnesota, be, and hereby is, elected Chief Clerk of the Senate. In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that Rev. Byron Sunderland, D.D., of the City of Washington, be, and hereby is, elected Chaplain of the Senate. In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of War be directed to report to the Senate at this session: First, a list of all appointments, other than those in the Army of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that in the judgment of the Senate the public interests require that Congress be convened in special session immediately. In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the interests of the people of the United States of America, and the welfare and security of their government, are so involved in the subject of the construction of ship canals and other ways for the transportation of seagoing vessels across the isthmus connecting North and South America... In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Interior, War, Navy, and the Postmaster General be directed to transmit to the Senate the names of all clerks ... In the Senate of the United States. May 11, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDill submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Official Register of the United States shall hereafter include, in addition to the statistics required by Sec. 510 of the Revised Statutes, information as to the congressional district from which each officer, clerk, employe [sic], &c., in the service of the United States is appointed... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands is instructed to take into consideration the condition of the General Land Office with respect to the classification of the officers and employes [sic] thereof, the convenient arrangement and security of the files and records of said Office, and the provision of additional room for the transaction of the business thereof... In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saunders submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Auditor of Railroad Accounts, in a letter date February 14, 1881, and transmitted by the Secretary of the Interior to Congress February 15, 1881, sets forth, "That while the amount of the 5 per cent. earnings of the Union Pacific Railroad has steadily increased since 1874, that of the Central Pacific has nearly as steadily decreased"... In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kellogg submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Interior, War, Navy, and the Postmaster General be directed to transmit to the Senate the names of all officers, clerks, and other employes [sic] borne upon their rolls, respectively... Memorial of George M. Jackson and others (on their way to the public lands in the Indian Territory), asking such relief as will enable them to pursue their journey and settle on said public lands. December 20, 1880. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1880. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the report of the Court of Claims No. 474, first session Thirty-sixth Congress, for the relief of Danford Mott... Memorial of Capt. John Cowdon, replying to the report of the Mississippi River Improvement Commission. February 23, 1881. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.	71
Serial set 1945	List of private claims brought before the Senate of the United States from the commencement of the Fourteenth Congress to the close of the Forty-sixth Congress. Prepared, under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate, pursuant to the orders of the Senate of April 9, 1840; February 27, 1841; February 8, 1849; March 3, 1855; and March 16, 1866; the act of July 20, 1868, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1869; and the resolution of the Senate of June 16, 1880. December 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. In two volumes. Volume I.	1
Serial set 1946	List of private claims brought before the Senate of the United States from the commencement of the Fourteenth Congress to the close of the Forty-sixth Congress. Prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate, pursuant to the orders of the Senate of April 9, 1840; February 27, 1841; February 8, 1849; March 3, 1855; and March 16, 1866; the act of July 20, 1868, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1869; and the resolution of the Senate of June 16, 1880. December 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. In two volumes. Volume II.	1
Serial set 1947	United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part VIII. Report of the Commissioner for 1880. A. -- Inquiry into the decrease of food fishes. B. -- The propagation of food fishes in the waters of the United States. January 14, 1881. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.	1
Serial set 1948	In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1966.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1966) to increase the pension of John H. Jessup, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3451.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (R.R. 3451) for the relief of George W. Brower, has considered the same, and submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1649.) The Committee on Pensions, to which was referred the Bill (H.R. 1649) granting a pension to William W. Church, have carefully examined the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1741.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1741) for the relief of the United States Regulation Fire Arms Company, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1880.) On November 30, 1852, W.B. Boggs enlisted in the United States Navy, and so remained until March 1, 1873, when he was retired to await orders... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blaire, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 799.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 799) granting a pension to Richard P. Taylor, have carefully examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1957.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the letter or memorial of Dr. Charles Allen and other physicians of the district touching the "sanitary condition of the James Creek Canal," have considered the same, and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report: The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the petition of John L. Mason, of New York, asking an extension of his patents for a screw-top glass jar known as the "Mason fruit jar," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2547.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2547) granting a pension to Mary A. Steece, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 853.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 853) granting a pension to Caroline Stief, have examined the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2773.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2773) granting a pension to James P. Hunter, have examined the same, and report that the facts in the case appear to be substantially as stated in the House report on the bill, a portion of which is herein incorporated, as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 634.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 634) granting a pension to Thomas H. Saunders, have examined into the subject matter, and report that the said Saunders's claim for a pension is pending before the Commissioner of Pensions... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1579.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1579) granting a pension to Mrs. Sallie T. Ward, have examined the same and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rollins, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany S.R. 42.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the joint resolution to provide for the speedy payment of the workingmen of the District of Columbia, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United Stated. December 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 1214 and S. 1958.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was committed a bill for the relief of Charles P. Chouteau, have considered the same and report a substitute therefor, and that the same ought to pass... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 129.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was recommitted the Bill (S. No. 129) authorizing the restoration of the name of Thomas H. Carpenter, late captain Seventeenth United States Infantry, to the rolls of the Army, and providing that he be placed on the list of retired officers, have duly considered the same, and beg leave to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1158.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1158) for the relief of V.S.M. Chapman, has considered said bill, and report thereon as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 22. 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Booth, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 6256.) The Committee on Public Lands, having considered Bill H.R. 4869, beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. December 22, 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 Paul Gregory... In the Senate of the United States. December 22, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1783.) The object of the proposed legislation is to furnish proper provision of law by which isolated tracts of land belonging to the United States, but not embraced in any surveying district, nor included in any district created for the disposal of public lands, may be brought under the control of the land department and made subject to the operations of the laws regulating the disposal of the public domain... In the Senate of the United States. January 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1722.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1722) for the relief of the heirs of Edward M. [i.e., B.] Clark, submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3788.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3788) granting a pension to William Hamill, have examined the same, and report that the evidence satisfies the Committee that the applicant received a gunshot in his elbow... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1628.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1628) granting a pension to Dalton Hinchman, have examined the same, and report that Dalton Hinchman enlisted in Company C, Eleventh Ohio Infantry Volunteers, in July, 1861, and served until February 22, 1863... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1881. -- 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 Mrs. Lucretia P. Brewer, widow of Lyman A. Brewer, late surgeon Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to be granted arrears of pension, have examined the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1953.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1953) for the relief of Henry C. Groomes, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1657.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1657) for the relief of Marcus A. Reno, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Walker, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 273.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 273) to extend the provisions of an act approved March 2, 1855, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Purchasers and Locators of Swamp and Overflowed Lands," and for other purposes, also the Bill (S. 793) for the adjustment of the claim of the State of Arkansas against the United States, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5389.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 5389) for the relief of Samuel Harper, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 346.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 346) for the relief of William H. Thompson, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2164.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of the "old settlers or Western Cherokee Indians," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Education and Labor, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1468.) The purpose of this bill is to secure to the State of Colorado the benefit of the act of July 2, 1862, entitled "An Act Donating Public Lands to the Several States and Territories Which may Provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts"... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2130.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill S. 2130, respectfully report: The Mint of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 155.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 155) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain the amounts due to citizens of the United States for supplies furnished to the Sioux or Dakota Indians of Minnesota... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2503.) The Committee on Claims make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 375.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill H.R. 375, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1834.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1834) to pay the creditors of the late Henry O. Wagoner, late consular clerk at Lyons, France, have examined the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 660.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 660) granting a pension to Mrs. Mary A. Seaborn, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2012.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 2012) granting a pension to Gottleb Schaubel, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2173.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of S. Annie Easterbrook [i.e., Esterbrook], praying for a pension, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2174.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Jones, of Casey County, Kentucky, for a pension as dependent father of Lee H. Jones, deceased, late of Company K, Nineteenth Kentucky Volunteers, have examined the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 434.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 434) granting an increase of pension to Eugene O'Sullivan, late sergeant Company K, Eighteenth Missouri Volunteers, find, on examination of the papers submitted, that the soldier was enlisted on the 6th day of January, 1862... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1881. -- 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 Annie E. Gardner, widow... In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1881. -- 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 William Heine, late captain of Company I, First Maryland Volunteers, asking an increase of his pension, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4413.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4413) for the relief of J. Scott Payne, having had the same under consideration, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1378.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1378) for the relief of John W. Eckles, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1364.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1364) for the relief of Edwin Mauck, of Crisfield, Md., have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Capt. Augustus Boyd, late assistant quartermaster United States Army, praying for the passage of a bill placing him on the retired list of the Army, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Michael Pfoertner... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Capt. Stevens T. Norvel, of the Tenth Cavalry, praying pay as acting second lieutenant from January 28, 1862, to February 18, 1863, have duly considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. The regulation and improvement of the civil service. The merit system substituted for the partisan spoils system. In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4434.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4434) for the relief of Mrs. Martha Bridges, of Bartow County, Georgia, having had the same under consideration make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1856.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1856) for the relief of Mrs. J.P. Williams, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2059.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 2059) for the relief of Frank D. Yates and others, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1996.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1996) for the relief of W.A. Reid, of Eatonton, Ga., have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 16, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2705.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2705) entitled "An Act for the Relief of Joseph Clymer, of Texas," have examined the same, and submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Slater, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1729.) The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred House Bill No. 1729, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 936.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred House Bill No. 936, report the same back and recommend its passage, and in support of said bill adopt the report of the Committee on Private Land Claims of the House, which is as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2192.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary A. Mitchell, praying for a pension, have examined the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 802.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 802) granting a pension to Wyatt Botts, have examined into the subject matter, and report that in their opinion the bill ought to pass... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1939.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1939) granting a pension to Jonathan G. Bigelow, have examined the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1452.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1452) granting a pension to James B. Furman, have examined the same and report favorably thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2844.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2844) for the relief of James E. Montell, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2017.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 2017) granting a pension to Catherine Lose, have examined the same and report that it is clearly shown from the testimony that the applicant was dependent on her son for support... In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Garland, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1067.) On the 8th of August, 1846, Congress granted certain lands to the Territory of Iowa to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines River... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2210.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from the Quartermaster General, recommending the repeal of the law in regard to the payment for fuel by officers of the Army and the restoration of the allowance of fuel, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 932.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 932) for the relief of sufferers by the wreck of the government transport bark Torrent, have duly considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, of Colorado, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 925.) The Committee on Public Lands, to which was referred the Bill (S. 925) "To Provide for the Reappraisement and Sale of the Abandoned Military Reservation at Fort Smith, Arkansas,"... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2062.) The Finance Committee, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 756) for the relief of William T. Pate & Co., have considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2211.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Capt. and Brevet Col. Joseph Conrad, U.S.A., praying the passage of an act authorizing his retirement in the grade of colonel, the actual rank held by him when wounded, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1668.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1688) for the relief of the heirs at law of William R. Downing, deceased, have duly considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck, from the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 248.) The Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, to whom were referred the Bill S. 248, and the memorial of the Legislature of Maryland, relative to a ship canal between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 470.) Your Committee, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 470, entitled "A Bill To Provide for the Investigation and Examination of the Accounts of Certain Land Grant Railroads in Accordance with the Decision of the Supreme Court, and for a Full Report of the Result Thereof to Congress," after due investigation submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 14, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 460.) This act passed the House of Representatives at the last session of Congress... In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1096.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1096) for the relief of V.B. Horton, Jr., have considered the same, and report thereon as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 10, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 400 and 1199.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom were referred S. Bill No. 400 and S. Bill No. 1199, both being bills to confirm certain land claims in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1922.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1922) for the relief of Brig. Gen. and Bvt. Maj. Gen. E.O.C. Ord, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 735.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 735) for the relief of Dr. John Blankenship, have duly considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1486.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1486) to reorganize and discipline the militia of the United States, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1050.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. No. 1050) for the relief of Thomas G. Corbin, have duly considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1350.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 1350, entitled "A Bill for the Relief of C.N. Felton, Late Assistant Treasurer of the United States at San Francisco, Cal.," have considered said bill, and report thereon as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 908.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. No. 908) for the relief of Granville T. Pierce, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of certain citizens of Portsmouth, N.H., and vicinity, expressing their approval of the Bill (H.R. 3743) for the relief of Navy yard employes [sic] who shall become disabled while employed in the line of their duty, have had the same under consideration and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1881. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Sarah K.T. Baker, asking compensation for the use and occupation of and damage to her real estate, situate[d] in the City of Paris, in Bourbon County, Kentucky, by the United States military authorities, in 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865, have duly considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1881. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Sylvester W. Trucks, a loyal citizen of the City of Bradford, McKean County, Pennsylvania, praying to be reimbursed for losses sustained by him during the war... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1881. -- 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. January 13, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pugh, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4002.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4002) for the relief of the estate of J.M. Micou [i.e., Micow], deceased, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Eaton, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 2021 and 2022.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to which was referred the Bill (S. 2021) in relation to the Japanese Indemnity Fund, submit to the Senate the following report, and recommend the passage of the accompanying bill as a substitute for the original bill... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Select Committee on Accommodations for the Library of Congress, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1988.) The Select Committee of both Houses of Congress, appointed under "An Act To Provide Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress," approved June 8, 1880, having fully considered the subject referred to them, submit the following as their report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2030.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Hazelit, Company A, Twelfth Kansas Volunteers, for a pension, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1569.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill granting a pension to William H. Walker, have examined the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1107.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1107) granting a pension to Mrs. Elizabeth Upright, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1813.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1813) for the relief of Mrs. Jane H. Kennedy, have examined the evidence in support of the claim, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1892.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1892) granting a pension to John Patterson, late corporal Company B, Third Ohio Volunteers, War with Mexico, have examined the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee to Make Provision for Taking the Tenth Census, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2038.) The Committee To Make Provision for Taking the Tenth Census, to which were referred the letter of the Secretary of the Interior and accompanying papers, reports herewith a bill making an additional appropriation of $500,000... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3132.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred House Bill No. 3132, entitled "An Act To Confirm the Title to Certain Lands in the State of Ohio," having carefully considered the same, respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1933.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. No. 1933) to establish and equalize the grades, and regulate appointments and promotions in the Marine Corps, having examined the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1637.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1637) granting a pension to Ellen M. Godfrey, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1817.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1817) for the relief of William G. Ford, administrator of John G. Robinson, deceased, has had the same under consideration, and submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1871.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1871) for the relief of J.A. Henry and others, have examined into the subject matter, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, of Colorado, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4596.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4596) authorizing the survey of parts of certain townships in Crawford County, Wisconsin, and making appropriation therefor, have considered the same, and report thereon as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1795.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1795) for the relief of G.M. Woodruff, have examined the same, and submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1571.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1571) for the relief of the heirs of Juan Read, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1325.) 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. January 21, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3098.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3098) granting a pension to Jacob Ginder, have carefully examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2548.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2548) granting a pension to Martha Niel [i.e., Neil], have examined the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1826.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1826) granting a pension to Mohammed Khan, otherwise John Ammahoe, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 599.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 599) for the judicial investigation and adjustment of private land claims in the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, and the States of Alabama and Mississippi... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 7 and H.R. 3292.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred the Bills (H.R. 3292 and S. 7) granting a pension to Sally M. Buchanan, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1916.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1916) granting a pension to Elmira E. Poole, widow of William W. Poole, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 192.) The deceased was pensioned at $20 a month, then reduced to $10 a month, and finally raised to $15 a month... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saunders, from the Committee on Territories, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3785.) The Committee on Territories, to which was referred the bill appropriating $30,000 for the erection of a penitentiary in the Territory of Dakota, having duly considered the same, reports the same back to the Senate with the following statement... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pension, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4887.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4887) granting a pension to Rosalie Louis, widow of Peter Louis, Company B, First United States Sharpshooters, having examined the same, report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1850.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1850) granting a pension to Elizabeth Moffitt, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2049.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 2049) amending an act granting a pension to Elizabeth D. Stone, approved May 14, 1878, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3487.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill granting a pension to James Forsyth Harrison, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1885.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1885) granting a pension to Thomas H. Canfield, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 624.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 624) granting a pension to Robert S. Goodall, have carefully examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 24, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2123.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2123) granting a pension to Albert L. Jack, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report: The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Franklin K. Sherwood, asking an increase of pension, have examined the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1891.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1891) granting arrears of pension to Mrs. Annie Farley, widow of Peter W. Farley, late of Company M, Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry, have examined the same, and report that said Annie Farley has been granted a pension as widow of Peter W. Farley... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1057.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1057) granting a pension to John B. Butler, First Lieutenant Company G, Forty-first Illinois Volunteers, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 393.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 393) granting a pension to John G. Eckles, have examined the same, and report that since the introduction of the bill a pension has been granted the applicant by the Pension Office. The Committee recommend that the bill do not pass. In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 706.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 706) for the relief of A.B. Rowden, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 709.) The Finance Committee of the Senate, to whom this bill was referred, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4261.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 4261) for the relief of Henry B. Eastman, late Second Lieutenant of Company B, Third Wisconsin Cavalry, having carefully considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2094) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 2094) for the relief of George W. Flood, has examined said bill and the evidence in support thereof, and submits the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1562.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1562) for the relief of Samuel N. Chipley, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John C. Weddle, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 26, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Benoni Mills, a citizen of Wayne, Kentucky, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1935.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1935) entitled "A Bill To Confirm to the City of Chicago the Title to Certain Public Grounds," have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1599.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of Dr. A. Sidney Tebbs, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1881. -- 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 Virginia Gardner, widow of the late Commodore William H. Gardner, United States Navy, asking for a pension, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2331.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2331) granting pensions to the widow and minor children of Michael Meenan, deceased, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Walker, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1997.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S.1997) to quiet the title to certain lands in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and also the Bill (S. 2026) to affirm to the State of Michigan certain lands heretofore granted to said state to aid in the construction of a railroad, and for other purposes, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1470.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1470) granting a pension to Francis H. Bird, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Brown, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 859.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 859) granting a pension to William H. Scribner, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jonas, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1220.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1220) for the relief of Henry M. Rector and John H. Russell, respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1881. -- 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 Johnson, late a private in detachment of United States Cavalry at West Point, N.Y., praying for a pension, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Rollins, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2078.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom were referred the memorial of the Catholic clergy of the District of Columbia, asking that certain taxes assessed upon parsonages in the district be remitted... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1881. -- 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 W.M. Beebe, Jr., late captain Thirty-eighth Infantry, praying to be restored to his former rank and grade in the Army, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 398.) The Committee on Private land Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 398, entitled "A Bill To Restore to William G. Langford the Possession of a Tract of Land in Idaho Territory," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1694.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1604) to repeal Section 1131 of the Revised Statutes, and to reduce and fix the rank and number of officers in the Inspector General's department of the Army, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, of Colorado, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 6527.) The Committee on the Public Lands, to which was referred the Bill (H.R. 6527) "To Grant to the Corporate Authorities of the City of Council Bluffs, in the State of Iowa, for the Public Uses, a Certain Lake Known as Carr Lake, Situated Near Said City..." In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1065.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1065) for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Robert J. Baugness, deceased, have duly considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1294.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1294) to enable the President to promote J.S. Payne, a captain in the United States Army, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2136.) In the case of Royal W. Riddell, late first lieutenant Company C, One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, your Committee have the honor to report that, it appearing from the records of the War Department that there was a vacancy in his company September 21, 1864, and that the petitioner was a prisoner of war... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 838.) This is a bill authorizing and directing the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to place to the credit of George P. Webster... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1542.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1542) for the relief of Charles Clinton, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1967.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1967) for the relief of certain officers in the Medical Department of the United States Army, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1320.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. No. 1320) for the relief of citizens of Montana who served with the United States troops in the war with the Nez Perces, and for the relief of the heirs of such as were killed in such service, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hereford, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1134.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill to repay to the State of Georgia $27,175.50 for money advanced by said state for the defense of her frontiers against the Indians, from 1795 to 1818, and not heretofore repaid, have had the same under consideration, and make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 718.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 718) to repeal Section 3 of Chapter 225, Statutes at Large, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 304.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Senate Bill 304, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1833.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1833) to remove the charge of desertion from the military record of William Hull, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2146.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Frances E. Stewart... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1782.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1782) for the relief of William G. Budlong, have considered the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2414.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2414) for the relief of Mrs. S.A. Wright, widow of the late George Wright, which asks for remuneration for the use of his patented linchpin for field artillery carriages, adopted and used by the United States government, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2044.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2044) granting a pension to Martha J. Porter, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 859.) The Committee on Private Lands Claims, having had under consideration the Bill S. 859, beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pendleton, from the select committee on the Bill (S. 227) to provide that the principal officer of each of the executive departments may occupy a seat on the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives, submitted the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 8.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 8) granting arrears of pension to Elizabeth T. Winder, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2052.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 2052) for the relief of Alfred E. Jaques, and also a petition of the said Jaques and accompanying papers, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3772.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3772) granting a pension to Samuel Burwell, have examined the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1673.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1673) granting a pension to Leonhard [i.e., Leonard] Weber, late private in the Thirtieth New York Independent Battery, have examined the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 778.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 788) granting a pension to James J. Ferris, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 881.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 881) for the relief of Paymaster Judson S. Post, of the United States Navy, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2216.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of S.A. Childers, praying for a pension, beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 994.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 994) for the relief of George J. Wardwell, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3309.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3309) granting a pension to John T. Neale, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1429.) The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1429), entitled "A Bill for the Relief of Sarah McDonald," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2058.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2058) for the relief of Redmond Tully, late first lieutenant Twelfth Infantry, brevet captain United States Army, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1469.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1469) granting a pension to Mary Ann McCarrol, have examined into the subject matter, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bills S. 2172 and H.R. 7030.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred two Bills (S. 2172 and H.R. 7030) regulating the pension of William Blaisdell, have examined the said bills, which are identical in language, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- 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 Frank N. Gray, praying to be allowed a pension, respectfully report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1668.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1668) supplementary to an act for the relief of Nelson Lyon and Jeremiah S. James, approved April 1, 1880, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3477.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3477) for the relief of Carlile Boyd, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2219.) The Committee on Patents, to whom were referred the petition and accompanying documents of Timothy Earle, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kernan, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2036.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 2036) for the relief of C. Theodor Burchardt, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 28, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McDonald, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 6479.) The Committee report back the bill with the recommendation that it do pass, and adopt the report of the Committee of the House of Representatives made on the 12th day of June, 1880, and which is as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report: The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the message of the President relating to the claims of Spain against the United States, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1622.) The Committee on Patents, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1622) for the relief of Isaac E. Palmer, has considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 1, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2183.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 2183) for the relief of George W. Wicks & Co., of Louisville, Ky., submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 6478.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a Bill (H.R. 6478) entitled "An Act for the Relief of Levi Price," have considered the same, and report that the bill ought to pass... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1625.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a Bill (S. 1625) for the relief of Charles G. Berry, of Indiana, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1522.) The Committee on Claims, to whom were referred the petition of W.P. Burwell, and Senate Bill 1522, for the relief of W.P. Burwell, have considered the same, and respectfully submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Wiley H. Brown, son and only heir at law of John Morgan Brown, deceased, of Mobile, Ala., have examined the same, and report that the petitioner... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3782.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3782) for the relief of John H. Shugart and Robert F. Shugart, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 2, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1129.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a Bill (H.R. 1129) entitled "An Act for the Relief of Certain Laborers Employed upon Government Works," have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1830.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1830) granting a pension to Peter Grattan, have examined the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5483.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 5483) granting a pension to Andrew J. Pennel, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Groome, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5677.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 5677) granting a pension to Stephen P. Benton, have examined the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Burnside, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompanying Senate Resolution on the construction of ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the resolution on the construction of ship canals across the Isthmus of Darien, having had the same under consideration, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 22, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3751.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3751) to amend Chapter 198, Volume 16, of the Statutes at Large, having duly considered the same, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 17, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lamar, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom the petition of W.W. Handlin was referred, report by adopting the report heretofore made by this Committee on January 17, 1878, as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2637.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2637) granting a pension and arrears of pension to Johanna Meehan and minor children, report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hill, of Colorado, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1836.) The Committee on Public Lands, to which was referred the Bill (S. 1836) for the relief of Arthur W. Eastman, has had the same under consideration, and reports... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the 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, having had the same under consideration, ask leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3789.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 3789) for the relief of Homer Fellows, have considered the same, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 6248.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 6248) entitled "An Act Directing the Payment of Certain Awards in Favor of Parties Therein Named," have considered the same, and submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Kirkwood, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 1102.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 1102) granting a pension to John S. Corlett, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1184.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1184) entitled "A Bill To Restore Certain Causes to the Docket of the Court of Claims, and To Provide for the Hearing Thereof," have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2549.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 2549) granting a pension to Edward H. Mitchell, have examined the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 4646.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to which was referred the Bill (H.R. 4646) for the relief of the heirs of Cornelius Boyle, has considered the same, and submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1763.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1763) granting a pension to Frank Kitzmiller, have examined the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. February 14, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Saunders, from the Committee on Territories, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1516.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1516) "Establishing the Territory of Pembina, and Providing a Temporary Government Therefore"... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany petition of H. Shidy.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to which was referred the petition of Hamilton Shidy, of Milwaukee, Wis., praying compensation for what he claims as his invention of the registry postal card receipt, as now adopted and in use by the government, has had the same under consideration, and submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 5832.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 5832) for the relief of David W. Bell, have considered the same, and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1736.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1736) for the relief of Perry P. Wilson, postmaster at Putnam, Conn., having had the same under consideration, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2043.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 2043) for the relief of Sabin Trowbridge, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1971.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1971) for the relief of C. Haynes, respectfully report...	210
Serial set 1949	In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1881. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wallace, from the Select Committee To Inquire into Frauds in the Late Elections, submitted the following report: Under the instruction given to it, your Committee has taken up the laws of the United States affecting and regulating the elective franchise, and considered their operation in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston...	1
Serial set 1950	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 6, 1880, in the one hundred and fifth year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 1951	Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, December 6, 1880. Preceded by a list of papers and followed by an index of persons and subjects.	1
Serial set 1952	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress. In four volumes. Volume I.	1
Serial set 1953	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress. In four volumes. Volume II. Part I.	1
Serial set 1954	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress. In four volumes. Volume II. Part II.	1
Serial set 1955	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress. In four volumes. Volume II. Part III.	1
Serial set 1956	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress. In four volumes. Volume III.	1
Serial set 1957	Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress. In four volumes. Volume IV.	1
Serial set 1958	Report of the Secretary of the Navy; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress.	1

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