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| Serial set 2337 |
Report of the U.S. Nicaragua Surveying Party, 1885, by Civil Engineer A.G. Menocal, U.S.N. Statement showing the awards of the commissioners appointed under the conventions between the United States and France, concluded April 30, 1803, and July 4, 1831, and between the United States and Spain, concluded February 22, 1819; also, abstract containing the names of the persons and the vessels concerned in those cases allowed as valid by the respective commissions, with other important data relative to amounts awarded and payments of the same. |
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| Serial set 2338 | Maps to accompany the report of the U.S. Nicaragua surveying party, 1885, by Civil Engineer A.G. Menocal, U.S.N. | 1 |
| Serial set 2339 |
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 3, 1886, report of the Adjutant General relative to transfers of abandoned reservations to the Interior Department. March 16, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to legislation in behalf of certain Cherokee Indians. March 3, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the sale of certain land of the Sac and Fox Indians in Nebraska. March 3, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the payment of certain money to the Eastern Cherokee Indians. March 3, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate resolution of March 3, 1886, relative to the reduction of the public debt and to the sinking-fund. March 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to Senate resolution of December 16, 1885, statement of certain disallowed accounts, and the reasons for such disallowance. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting papers showing the status of the military reservation of Fort Missoula, Montana Territory. March 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States relative to papers on file and other information touching suspensions from and appointments to office. March 1, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to Senate resolution of February 27, relative to the utility of a breakwater at Gordon's Landing, Lake Champlain. March 2, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 13, 1886, information relative to the so-called "fast mail" west of Chicago. March 9, 1886. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill No. 193, for the relief of John Hollins McBlair, without approval. March 10, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to proposed legislation for the relief of the Omaha Indians. March 10, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the National Board of Health for the year 1885. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting petition of Richard Murray to be relieved of political disabilities. March 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning the Bill (S. 150) entitled "An Act To Quiet Title of Settlers on the Des Moines River Lands, in the State of Iowa, and for Other Purposes," with his objections thereto. March 11, 1886. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution, March 8, list of claims filed by the United Labor League in favor of the workingmen in the District of Columbia. March 11, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 5, information relative to certain money expended in Utah. March 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditure of Public Moneys and ordered to be printed. Report on education in Alaska, with maps and illustrations, by Sheldon Jackson, general agent of education in Alaska, 1886. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to binding census schedules. March 4, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate resolution of March 3, 1886, relative to bonds called for payment, held by national banks. March 4, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with law, list of employes [sic] in the Treasury Department for 1885. March 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Accompanying papers to Committee on Printing. April 1, 1886. -- Accompanying papers ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 2340 |
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State relative to the frontier line between Alaska and British Columbia. May 17, 1886. -- Read and ordered to be printed. The accompaying [i.e., accompanying] documents referred to the Committee on Printing. July 26, 1886. -- Resolved, that the documents and maps accompanying the message of the President of the United States on the location of the boundary line between Alaska and British Columbia be printed, and that 100 additional copies be printed for the Department of State. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 9, reports of Special Agent Spaulding relative to the charge of fraudulent importation of Chinese. March 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 5, 1886, information relative to the Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and Dolphin. May 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Accompanying reports and papers to Committee on Printing. June 15, 1886. -- Papers ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution February 23, 1886, a report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, relative to the lands granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. April 20, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 29, 1886, information relative to the condition of the government works near Battery Island Light. April 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States relative to the disputes between laboring men and employers. April 22, 1886. -- Read and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in pursuance of law, report of the Surveyor General of New Mexico on the land claim called Salvador Gonzales, No. 82. April 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in pursuance of law, a report of the Surveyor General of New Mexico on the land claim called Canada de Cochiti, No. 135. April 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting papers showing the maintenance of the channel of the Mississippi River. April 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State relative to legislation touching the treaty of 1880 with China. May 21, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1630, with his objections thereto. May 24, 1886. -- Read, laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 2186, with his objections thereto. May 24, 1886. -- Read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 363, with his objections thereto. May 24, 1886. -- Read, laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States returning Senate Bill 857, with his objections thereto. May 24, 1886. -- Read, laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 3, 1886, papers in claims of soldiers for loss of property in the service. March 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 17, 1886, copy of report made by the United States Consul General at Berlin on the shipping interests of Germany. March 17, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, relative to claims against France for spoliations prior to July 31, 1801. March 17, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Supervising Architect relative to appropriations for repairs to certain public buildings. March 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting letter of the trustees of the reform school relative to amending law as to the age of admission thereto. March 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the purchase of a tract of land in Oregon for an Indian training school. March 18, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report from the Secretary of State, in response to Senate resolution of February 9, 1886, relative to the commerce between the United States and certain foreign countries during 1884 and 1885. March 18, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the use of certain funds for the benefit of the Indians on whose account they were covered into the Treasury. March 18, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Supervising Architect relative to increasing the limit of cost of public building at Hannibal, Mo. March 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Supervising Architect recommending appropriations for certain public buildings. March 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a supplemental report of the Surveyor General of New Mexico on the alleged private land grant called Canon de Pedernales. March 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution, March 23, 1886, statement of amount of government bonds called May 1, 1886, owned by national banks. March 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in reply to Senate resolution of March 4, 1886, a statement of fourth-class postmasters removed since March 4, 1885. March 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 19, 1886, report of Maj. W.A. Jones on river improvements in Oregon and Washington Territory. February 2, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. April 1, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing the report of the Governor of Alaska. April 1, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Attorney General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 26, the accounts of commissioners to examine and report damage by the erection of dams on rivers in Wisconsin. April 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior relative to an appropriation for payment of damages to Chippewa Indians. April 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to Senate resolution of April 6, relative to the report of the Commissioner of Labor. April 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 12, 1886, a report relative to the government pier on Delaware Bay. April 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, with estimates of appropriations for investigating Indian depredations. April 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting in response to Senate resolution, March 30, 1886, report upon the claims of certain Indians for compensation for lands. April 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 27, 1886, report of the Adjutant General relative to the bands of the Army. April 19, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 349, with his objections thereto. April 26, 1886. -- Read, laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to certain Pottawatomie Indians. April 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, an inventory of property in the Department. April 30, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill No. 141, with his objections thereto. April 30, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in answer to Senate resolution of February 15, 1886, report relative to survey of lands of land grant railroads in Nebraska. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter of the Surveyor General of New Mexico asking Congressional action for the adjustment of private land claims. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting supplemental report of the Surveyor General of New Mexico relative to private land claim No. 98. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 16, 1886, report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office as to the employment of special agents for the detection of fraud in the entries of public lands. May 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, recommending the immediate enactment of such legislation as will authorize the assembling of the Legislature of Utah Territory in special session to make the necessary appropriations for the expenses of that territory. May 11, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States transmitting a report from the Secretary of State touching the claims of Benjamin Weil and La Abra Silver Mining Company against the Government of Mexico. May 11, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 25, 1886, letter of the Chief of Engineers relative to the condition of the Aqueduct Bridge. May 13, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, in further response to Senate resolution of March 26, 1886, relative to the accounts of certain commissioners. May 13, 1883 [i.e., 1886]. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill No. 1397, entitle "An Act To Establish a Port of Delivery at Springfield, in the State of Massachusetts," with his objections thereto. May 17, 1886. -- Read and laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter of the Secretary of State, in response to a resolution of the Senate of May 5, relative to charges for passports to American citizens. May 17, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 9, 1886, list of allowed claims not appropriated for. May 18, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed and, with the accompanying papers, laid upon the table. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 10, 1886, report relative to readjustment of postmasters' salaries. May 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 8, 1886, a report relative to the construction of a harbor of refuge at Sandy Bay, Massachusetts. May 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State with certain correspondence touching the treaty rights of Chinese subjects. April 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 2341 |
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State relative to affairs of the Independent State of the Congo. June 30, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolutions of May 10 and July 10, 1886, a report of the Secretary of State relative to seizures and detentions of United States vessels in Canadian waters. July 24, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1383, with his objections thereto. June 23, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution, June 18, 1886, information relative to additional compensation for certain postmasters. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 5, 1886, information relative to the means and cost of distributing public documents. June 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting in reference to Senate resolution of June 14, 1886, relative the carrying of United States mails on water routes. June 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 327, with his objections thereto. June 3, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill No. 789 with his objections thereto. June 3, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1726 with his objections thereto. June 3, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 9, 1886, papers relating to the claim of William J. Martin. June 24, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 24, 1886, plans for the construction of a bridge across the Potomac River. June 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed, excepting the maps and drawings. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolutions of June 17 and June 18, 1886, information relative to claims of volunteer soldiers, and for postmasters' salaries. June 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, relative to an award of the late Mexican Claims Commission. June 28, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter of Secretary of the Interior relative to improvement of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pa. June 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter of the Supervising Architect relative to improving the ventilation of the Treasury Building. June 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1192, with his objections thereto. June 23, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1288 with his objections thereto. June 23, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 342 with his objections thereto. June 23, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill No. 2025, with his objections thereto. June 23, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1400, with his objections thereto. June 23, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter of the Chief Signal Officer relative to Senate Bill 2620. June 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 2223, with his objections thereto. June 21, 1886. -- Read and laid upon the table. June 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1584, with his objections thereto. June 21, 1886. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. June 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 183 with his objections thereto. June 21, 1886. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. June 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 226 with his objections thereto. June 21, 1886. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. June 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolutions of May 10 and June 21, 1886, a letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to certain Indian traders. June 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Traders and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill No. 2005, with his objections thereto. June 23, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter of the Secretary of State relative to the fund for the owners and crew of the brig General Armstrong. June 10, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a request of the Director of the Mint of 3,000 reports on the precious metals for his bureau. July 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of the 23d instant, claims of volunteer soldiers allowed by the Treasury Department. July 26, 1886. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. Law of the United States relating to loans and the currency, coinage and banking. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 18, 1886, information regarding appointments in the several executive departments. July 29, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill No. 63, with his objections thereto. July 30, 1886. -- Read, laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in further response to Senate resolution of May 10 and July 10, 1886, letter from the Secretary of State relative to the detention of United States vessels in Canadian waters. July 30, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill No. 2160 with his objections thereto. August 2, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1421, with his objections thereto. August 2, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of July 26, 1886, report of the Secretary of State relative to the A.K. Cutting case. August 2, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in response to Senate resolution of June 21, 1886, relative to entries of public land canceled for fraud. August 4, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to Senate resolution of June 5, 1886, relative to a certain circular issued from the General Land Office. June 22, 1886. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. Accompanying maps and papers referred to the Committee on Printing. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1797, without his approval. June 30, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1077, without his approval. June 30, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter of the Secretary of the Navy, asking for an appropriation for the steel cruisers. June 30, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 23, 1886, a statement relative to the Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company. July 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of cost of fitting out the Albatross for the United States Fish Commission. July 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Attorney General, asking an increase of force in his Office. July 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 365, with his objections thereto. July 6, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter of Lighthouse Board, asking an appropriation for Dutch Gap Canal light-station. July 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation by Secretary of the Interior for certain employes [sic] at the Navajo Agency. July 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of July 2, 1886, a letter to the Attorney General relative to certain products entitled to the bonded warehouse system. July 6, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 2281, granting to railroads right of way through the Indian reservation in northern Montana, with his objections thereto. July 7, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting account for heating the New York post office building. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of July 1, 1886, information as to the cost of surveying public lands during the fiscal year 1886. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 856, for the erection of a public building at Dayton, Ohio. July 10, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of a board of Army officers relative to the gift of a site on Lake Michigan for military purposes. July 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 18, 1885, information as to claims for moieties of penalties under the internal revenue laws. July 10, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the United States Treasurer, asking for an increase of the appropriation for recoining gold and silver coins. July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, recommending an appropriation for certain public buildings. July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the use of funds for the subsistence of certain Northern Cheyenne Indians. July 12, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental list of claims for property lost in the military service. July 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in further response to Senate resolution of March 26, 1886, account of George H. Read. July 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, requesting appropriations for a steamer and lightships for the Lighthouse Service. July 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1290, with his objections thereto. May 26, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1998, with his objections thereto. May 26, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1850, with his objections thereto. May 28, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1253, with his objections thereto. May 28, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 8, 1886, reports relative to filters for the water supply for the capital. May 26, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Question of printing maps and reports to the Committee on Printing. June 18, 1886. -- Accompanying papers ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 26, 1886, information relative to the buildings rented for the public business in Washington. June 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill No. 206 with his objections thereto. June 21, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 763 with his objections thereto. June 21, 1886. -- Read and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting petition of lieutenants of the Signal Corps relative to promotion. June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate resolution of June 8, 1886, in respect to whiskies in bond. June 22, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate Bill 1441, with his objections thereto. June 1, 1886. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Supervising Architect relative to appropriation for the courthouse at Philadelphia. June 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. |
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In the Senate of the United States. December 7, 1885. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Senate has received with profound sorrow the intelligence of the death of Thomas A. Hendricks, late vice-president of the United States, and for a number of years a distinguished member of this body... Statement of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, showing the judgments rendered by said court for the year ending November 30, 1885. December 8, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Eustis submitted the following resolution: Whereas the act of February 28, 1878, required the coinage of silver dollars, which were declared to be a legal tender for all debts and dues, public and private... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Whereas the union of church and state in the conduct of a joint administration of the temporal or spiritual affairs of any church or religious sect or society is dangerous to the freedom of religious worship and opinion, and violates the principles of the Constitution of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harrison submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, that there be printed five thousand, extra copies of the report of the Committee on Territories accompanying the Senate bill to provide for the admission of the State of Dakota into the Union, and for the organization of the Territory of Lincoln. In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Evarts presented the following petition of the American artists in Rome for the abolition of the duty on works of art... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1886. -- Submitted. January 7, 1886. -- Considered, modified, postponed until tomorrow, and ordered to be printed as modified. Mr. Van Wyck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the District of Columbia be directed to obtain from the proper officers of the Metropolitan Railway and all other street railways in the District of Columbia a sworn statement of the amount of their capital stock... In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar presented the following communication from the Governor and Chief Justice of Washington Territory, the Mayor of Seattle, and the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Seattle, Wash.; also a letter from General Nelson A. Miles, U.S.A., calling attention to the undefended condition of Washington Territory... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck submitted the following resolution: (Intended to be proposed as a substitute for the resolution of Mr. Eustis of January 8, 1886.)... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that, in the opinion of the Senate, the compulsory coinage of silver dollars, directed by the law of February 28, 1878, should not be suspended till the aggregate reaches the sum of five hundred million dollars. In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to furnish information to the Senate as to whether or not any collectors of internal revenue, not confirmed by the Senate, have received any portion of the salary... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bowen submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Indian Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of removing all the Indians in the United States to the Indian Territory west of the State of Arkansas, and to report by bill or otherwise. In the Senate of the United States. December 8, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that inasmuch as the business industries of the country at present seem to be reviving, it is inexpedient during this Congress to pass upon any measure looking to a reduction of tariff duties... In the Senate of the United States. December 8, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the following be the joint rules of the two Houses... In the Senate of the United States. Annual report of Hon. Anson G. M'Cook, Secretary United States Senate, communicating a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Senate from July 1, 1884, to June 30, 1885. December 8, 1885. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Annual report of Hon. Anson G. McCook, Secretary of the United States Senate, communicating a statement of all property in his possession belonging to the United States on the seventh day of December, 1885, and of the amounts received from sales of waste paper. December 8, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate and ordered to be printed. Annual report of Hon. W.P. Canaday, Sergeant-at-Arms, United States Senate, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of all property in his possession belonging to the United States on the 8th day of December, 1885, and of amounts deposited to the credit of the United States on account of the sale by him of condemned property and waste paper. December 9, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1885. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, directed to communicate to the Senate a copy of each report made by the Government Directors of the Union Pacific Company, from date of first appointment of such directors to the present time. In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gibson presented the following memorial: (To accompany Bill S. 396.) Memorial of Mrs. Mary Shannon, widow, and administratrix of the estate of Joseph R. Shannon, deceased... In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gibson presented the following petition: (To accompany Bill S. 395.)... Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, in favor of the enactment of a law regulating the ascertainment and counting of the votes of Presidential electors. December 14, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. December 15, 1885. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, requested to cause inquiry to be made, and to inform the Senate, whether or not any consular officer or commercial agent of the United States is now, or has been, since 1868, personally interested in, or benefited by, the fees paid to the notarial, consular, or commercial officials of any other nation... In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1885. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Territories be, and they are hereby, instructed to inquire and report to the Senate under and by what authority a so-called state legislature has been organized in the Territory of Dakota... In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson presented the following petition of certain Santee Sioux Indians, of Knox County, Nebraska, praying the passage of a law securing to them patents to their lands, and for rights of citizenship... Forty-ninth Congress. (First session.) Congressional Directory, compiled for the use of Congress by Ben: Perley Poore, clerk of printing records. First edition. Corrected to December 17, 1885. In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1885. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck submitted the following resolution: Whereas the laws of the United States require that all duties on imported goods shall be paid in coin... In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1885. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vest submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the memorial from certain persons calling themselves "the State Executive Committee of the State of Dakota," and referred to the Committee on Territories, shall be considered in no other light than as a memorial coming from individual citizens of the Territory of Dakota. In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey presented the following petition of J.W. Denver, President, and A.M. Kenaday, Secretary of the National Association of Veterans of the Mexican War, praying that a pension be granted to the surviving soldiers, and the widows of deceased soldiers, of the United States, in the War with Mexico... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1885. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harrison submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is stated in substance in the last annual report of the Commissioner of Pensions that under the administration of his predecessors, or some of them in that office, other tests than those of the law were applied to applications for pensions and that applicants were required to show... In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1885. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell submitted the following resolution: Whereas by act of Congress approved June 3, 1856, there were granted to the State of Michigan certain lands to aid in the construction of railroads mentioned therein, among others for a line from Marquette to Ontonagon and from the two last named places to the Wisconsin State line... In the Senate of the United States. January 5, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, that the President of the United States be, and is hereby, requested to submit the demands of the Spanish government for carrying into effect the treaty of 1819 for the cession of Florida, and the payment of claims arising under said treaty... In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution (as a substitute for resolution of Mr. Harrison relating to the report of the Commissioner of Pensions, to which is appended the amendment intended to the proposed by Mr. Logan thereto): Whereas the Commissioner of Pensions, in his annual report dated November 18, 1885, has stated and alleged as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sewell presented the following letter from George Ticknor Curtis, on the proposed building for the Congressional library... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inform the Senate what proportion of the $10,000,000 United States bonds... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye submitted the following resolution: Whereas the President in his late message recommends "that the Congress provide for the appointment of a commission in which the governments of the United States and Great Britain shall be respectively represented, charged with the consideration and settlement, upon a just, equitable, and honorable basis, of the entire question of the fishing rights of the two governments..." In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell presented the following statement of facts: (To accompany the Bill (S. 1135) to provide for the reorganization of the Steamboat Inspection Service and the consolidation of the office of Supervising Inspector General of Steamboats with the Bureau of Navigation in the Treasury Department.)... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees presented the following: Constitution of the State of Montana, as adopted by the constitutional convention of the Territory of Montana at the session thereof, begun Monday, January 14, A.D. 1884, and concluded Saturday, February 9, A.D. 1884... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, directed to furnish to the Senate copies of all maps, papers, and documents on file in the Interior Department showing the location of wagon-roads in the State of Oregon under the provisions of grants made to said state to aid in the construction of military wagon-roads... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harrison submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Hon. G.C. Moody, of Dakota, be admitted to the floor of the Senate during the present session. In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1886. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary shall have the custody of the great seal, and shall use the same for the authentication of process, transcripts, copies, and certificates, whenever directed by the Senate. In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is alleged by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon in Senate Joint Memorial No. 6, recently adopted by that body... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate of the United States (the House of Representatives concurring), that the report on Alaska, by L.M. Turner, be printed... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate of the United States (the House of Representatives concurring), that the report on Alaska, by E.W. Nelson, be printed... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1886. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Berry submitted the following resolution: Whereas the leases heretofore made of the bath house and hot water privileges upon the reservation of government lands at Hot Springs, Ark., have expired by limitation of law... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that upon a motion that when the Senate adjourn it adjourn to a day other than the next legislative day, the question shall always be taken in open session and by yeas and nays. |
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In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. General act of the Conference of Berlin In the Senate of the United States. March 18, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Van Wyck to the resolution reported from the Judiciary Committee relative to the refusal of the Attorney General to furnish copies of papers called for by Senate resolution of January 25, 1886... In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gorman submitted the following concurrent resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that a joint select committee of three on the part of the Senate and five on the part of the House of Representatives be appointed to consider the subject of a celebration in 1889, at Washington, of the centennial anniversary of the formation of the government under the Constitution of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls presented the following: The public schools of the District of Columbia. Memorial of the citizens' committee against the abolition of the school board and in favor of Senate Bill No. 1238... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that executive nominations shall hereafter be considered in open session, except when otherwise ordered by vote of the Senate. In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs are hereby instructed to report a bill modifying the civil service law so that Union soldiers and sailors who served with distinction in the late war shall not be required to submit to a civil service examination before appointment to any of the offices embraced in that law... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb submitted the following resolution: Whereas in reply to a resolution passed by the Senate February 29, 1884, inquiring as to the amount of wheat, corn, rye, and cotton produced and consumed in, imported into, and exported from the different countries with which this country holds commercial intercourse, &c., under date of April 21, 1884, the Secretary of State said... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees, from the Committee on the Library, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that marble busts of those who have been vice-presidents of the United States shall be placed in the vacant niches of the Senate Chamber... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Eustis submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be, and are hereby, instructed to inquire... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan presented the following letter of the Secretary of War, to accompany his proposed amendment to Bill S. 1302, authorizing the appointment of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and fixing the salary of the same, and for other purposes... In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Riddleberger submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be requested to report to the Senate the aggregate amount of money proposed to be appropriated by the bills reported from that Committee up to, and including this day... In the Senate of the United States. February 23, 1886. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Whereas a majority of the Committee on the Judiciary have originated and reported to the Senate and recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, that the Senate hereby expresses its condemnation of the refusal of the Attorney General... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that in the opinion of the Senate, the appointment of a commission in which the governments of the United States and Great Britain shall be represented, charged with the consideration and settlement of the fishing rights of the two governments... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be directed to communicate to the Senate copies of all papers which have been filed in the Interior Department, and of all papers which have been presented to any officer of that Department, touching the official and personal conduct of Henry Ward, Indian inspector, during his continuance in said office... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following motion: Standing order. Ordered, that the Senate will take a recess on each day at 2 o'clock, and be in session again at 2.30 p.m... In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, presented the following: (To accompany S. Res. 48.)... In the Senate of the United States. March 8, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Civil Service Reform, to whom was referred Senate Bill 839, to repeal an act approved January 16, 1883, entitled "An Act To Regulate and Improve the Civil Service of the United States," be directed to report the same to the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the letter of James B. Eads be referred to the Committee on Rules, and that they be instructed to thoroughly investigate the charge contained therein. In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the following letter from Elias Dewitt Huntley, chaplain of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the following communication from the Sergeant-at-Arms... In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Riddleberger submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that all matters other than those relating to treaties shall be considered and acted upon by the Senate in open session. In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1886. -- Considered, agreed to, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Maxey submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be, and is hereby, instructed to inquire into what legislation may be necessary in order to subject property removed from any state or territory into the Indian Territory... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, by the Senate of the United States, that the session of the Senate commonly known as executive session, so far as they apply to nominations, confirmations, or rejections, shall hereafter be held with open doors... In the Senate of the United States. March 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The Washington Gas Light Company. The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the following letter from John C. Poor, treasurer of the Washington Gas Light Company, transmitting certain information called for by Senate resolution of March 3, 1886... In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar presented the following petition of John Arthur Lynch, for the survey of a line for a railway from the northwestern boundary of the United States through British Columbia to Alaska... In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Postmaster General be directed to inform the Senate whether he received the resolution of March 4, calling for information as to the number of fourth-class postmasters removed in each of the states and territories since March 4, 1885... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia inform the Senate whether either of the said commissioners is now stockholder or director or attorney of either of the street horse railways or national banks of the District of Columbia, or of the Washington Gas Light Company... In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter from Hon. D.K. Cartter, transmitting resolutions adopted at a meeting of citizens relative to the management of the public schools in the District of Columbia... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Amendment proposed by Mr. Harris to the resolution (order of business No. 359) to refer the claim of C.B. Bryan & Co. to the Court of Claims... In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gorman submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be directed to furnish to the Senate the name of each person employed in receiving, folding, and distributing public documents, together with their compensation... In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1886. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be directed to inquire and report upon the following questions... In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following concurrent resolution: Whereas the following resolution was passed in the Senate on March 10, 1882, and in the House of Representatives on the 16th March, 1882... Compilation of Senate election cases from 1789 to 1885, by George S. Taft, clerk to Committee on Privileges and Elections, U.S. Senate. Annual report of the Librarian of Congress, exhibiting the progress of the library during the calendar year 1885. Resolved, that the annual report of the Librarian of Congress be printed, and that 500 additional copies, with covers, be printed for distribution by the librarian. Annual report of the Public Printer, showing the condition of the public printing, binding, etc., for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885. In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1886. -- Submitted, considered, and, with the substitute proposed by Mr. Pugh, ordered to be printed and postponed until to-morrow. Mr. Riddleberger submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that it is the sense of the Senate that the Executive of the United States is not restricted by Constitution or law in removing or suspending appointees... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanford submitted the following concurrent resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on public buildings and grounds be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, and acting concurrently (jointly), to investigate and report upon certain charges made before a committee of the Senate in the year 1853... In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan presented the following statement: (In support of the Bill (S. 1567) to regulate gas works in the District of Columbia.)... In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1886. -- Placed on the Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following (See Report No. 135.) Resolutions: Resolved, that the foregoing report of the Committee on the Judiciary be agreed to and adopted... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be directed to confer with the Architect of the Capitol and report whether suitable buildings can be erected at the street railway stations on the public grounds east of the Capitol, without detriment to the said grounds, to be used for the employes [sic]of said railways... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is alleged that the national banks in the District of Columbia have at no time since the enactment of the banking law paid local taxes in said district... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1886. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, reported the following concurrent resolution: Resolved by the Senate of the United States (the House of Representatives concurring), that the circle at the western entrance to the Capitol grounds from Pennsylvania Avenue shall be, and hereby is forever set apart as a site for a statue of Christopher Columbus... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1886. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to report a bill for the retirement or removal of judges of the district and circuit courts when from any cause they shall become subject to any permanent disability and unable to perform the duties of their office... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1886. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that all railroad land grants heretofore made when the land was not earned by the completion of the line of railroad, and the performance of the conditions required by the granting act, within the time required therein... In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the following letter from Charles White, president of the Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Street Railway Company, transmitting a statement of the operations of said road for the fiscal years ending April 30, 1877, to 1885, inclusive... Letter from the Secretary of War, to Hon. S.B. Maxey, in relation to the claim of the State of Texas, presented under the act of June 27, 1882. January 29, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be directed to inform the Senate as to the names and number of special agents employed by his department for the purpose of the detection of fraud in the entries of public lands... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mahone submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Attorney General of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed to inform the Senate of the number of cases in which the United States were a party, or interested, pending in the circuit and district courts of the Eastern District of Virginia at the terms of such courts held in the year 1884, and also in the year 1885... In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following views. (To accompany Bill S. 371.) This bill, by its provisions, will largely nullify the legislation contained in the act of August 5, 1882, which, after discussion, was adopted as the first step in a wise policy intended to remedy a definite and admitted evil... In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be directed to report a bill providing that the price of gas furnished by the Washington Gas Light Company shall not exceed one dollar per thousand cubic feet. |
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In the Senate of the United States. July 31, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Education and Labor be directed to continue, with a view to its completion during the ensuing vacation, the investigation of the relations between labor and capital authorized and directed by Senate resolutions of August 7, 1882, and February 26, 1883... In the Senate of the United States. July 23, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Foreign Relations be, and it hereby is, instructed to inquire into the rights of American fishing vessels and merchant vessels within the North American possessions of the Queen of Great Britain, and whether any rights of such vessels have been violated, and if so, to what extent... In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gibson presented the following letter of General Q.A. Gillmore, President of the Mississippi River Commission, in relation to the appropriations contained in the river and harbor bill for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River... In the Senate of the United States. July 29, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Frye, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Rules be, and is hereby, continued and authorized to sit during the recess of Congress, and that the necessary expenses thereof be paid out of the miscellaneous items of the contingent fund of the Senate. In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the District of Columbia be directed to report by bill prohibiting the Washington Gas Light Company and the Georgetown Gas Light Company from consolidating with any other corporation within said district... In the Senate of the United States. June 17, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that the President be requested, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interest, to furnish to the Senate the following information... In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1886. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Woman suffrage in Utah. Mr. Edmunds presented the following petition of Mrs. Angie F. Newman... In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that in the opinion of the Senate it is not out of order when a private bill is under consideration to read or refer to a report upon the same made to the House of Representatives during the present Congress. In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sewell presented the following letter of Hon. John C. Black, Commissioner of Pensions, in relation to Bill (S. 1948) increasing the rate of pension to minor children, and extending the pensionable period therefore... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1886. -- Reported, considered, and, with the amendment proposed, ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson, from the Committee on Printing, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Printing is hereby authorized and directed to inquire into the public printing and binding, and the distribution and sale of public documents... In the Senate of the United States. June 28, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Improvement of the Mississippi River and ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan presented the following letter from Capt. John Cowden in relation to the Lake Borgne outlet... In the Senate of the United States. July 23, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the third clause of the Sixteenth Rule of the Senate be and the same hereby is amended... In the Senate of the United States. July 24, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vest submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire whether the chartered rights and powers of the corporations owning and operating street railroads in the City of Washington, District of Columbia... In the Senate of the United States. July 24, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Coke submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be discharged from the further consideration of House Joint Resolution No. 126, "Directing Payment of the Surplus in the Treasury on the Public Debt." In the Senate of the United States. July 24, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gibson submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate of the United States, that the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to inform the Senate, on or before its next regular session, what progress has been made annually by the Surveyor General of Louisiana in satisfying and adjusting the confirmed and unsatisfied private land claims in said state... In the Senate of the United States. July 24, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed to accompany Bill H.R. 8738. Letter of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in relation to the Bill (H.R. 8738) to so further amend Section 3362 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, and Section 3363, as makes a distinction in the mode of packing and selling cut tobacco... In the Senate of the United States. July 9, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President be requested, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interests, to direct the representatives of the United States to the government of Mexico to investigate the truth of statements made in newspapers that citizens of the United States are confined in Mexican dungeons without trial... In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Testimony taken before the two Houses of Congress on the Haskell multicharge gun. Petition of J.R. Haskell. In the Senate of the United States. July 29, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Commissioner of Agriculture be directed to report to the Senate, at the commencement of the next session of Congress, the amount, in bushels, of wheat harvested in each wheat-producing country during the present year and the amount harvested in each during the preceding five years... In the Senate of the United States. July 29, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cullom, from the Committee on Expenditures of Public Money, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Expenditures of Public Money, or a subcommittee thereof, be, and is hereby, authorized to sit during the recess of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. July 29, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on the Library, reported the following resolution: Whereas the approaching centennial anniversary, in 1889, of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, and that of the 400th anniversary, in 1892, of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, are two important historical events, fraught with great patriotic interest... In the Senate of the United States. July 30, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar submitted the following resolution: Whereas the approaching centennial anniversary, in 1889, of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, and that of the 400th anniversary, in 1892, of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus... In the Senate of the United States. July 30, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the reports of the majority and views of the minority of the Committee on Pensions on Senate Bill 2005, Mary J. Nottage, Senate Bill 226, Margaret D. Marchand, House Bill 1059, Joseph Romiser, Senate Bill 1077... In the Senate of the United States. July 31, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that at the next meeting of the Senate, after the routine morning business is disposed of, the Senate will proceed, under the provisions of Rule VIII... In the Senate of the United States. July 31, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evarts submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President be requested, if he shall deem it compatible with the public interests, to open a correspondence with the principal commercial powers of Europe... In the Senate of the United States. July 31, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Ordered, that on Monday, August 2, subject to conference reports and action thereon, the Senate will, immediately after the strict morning business, proceed to matters on the Calendar at number 1565... In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sewell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to furnish the Senate at the next session of Congress an estimate of the amount due the Soldier's Home on the books of the Treasury Department... In the Senate of the United States. August 3, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that one month's salary, from 15th April to the 15th May, be paid by the Secretary of the Senate, out of the contingent fund, to R.A. Fennell, a messenger of the Senate, removed from office. In the Senate of the United States. May 5, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the following motion: Ordered, that Senate Bill 1991, entitled "A Bill Supplementary to and Amendatory of 'An Act To Execute Certain Treaty Stipulations Relating to Chinese,'" approved May 6, 1882... In the Senate of the United States. May 5, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. The President Pro Tempore laid before the Senate the following letter from Hon. S.P. Rounds, Public Printer, in response to Senate resolution of May 4, 1886... In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that it is the duty of Congress to extend all necessary mail facilities across the seas to the principal ports of all foreign countries with which the people of the United States have any considerable trade, or where trade can be profitably developed... In the Senate of the United States. July 1, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hawley, from the Committee on Printing, reported the following concurrent resolution: Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, that the report of the Joint Select Committee of Congress on the Newburgh (N.Y.) Monument and Centennial Celebration of 1883... Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, in response to Senate resolution of June 29, 1886, relative to the delivery of the annual report. July 2, 1886. -- Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. July 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Riddleberger submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is generally understood that tomorrow, July 9, shall be devoted to the consideration of "objected" executive nominations; therefore, Resolved, that the doors of the Senate shall not be closed during the time that executive nominations are pending, discussed, or voted upon. In the Senate of the United States. July 9, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested, so far as in his opinion it may not be inconsistent with the public interest, to inform the Senate of all facts in his possession or that of the Department of State in regard to the seizure or detention in any foreign ports of any American vessels... In the Senate of the United States. July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following remonstrance of the American Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Company against the incorporation by Congress of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua... In the Senate of the United States. July 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Coast Defenses and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the following concurrent resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana relative to the national defenses... In the Senate of the United States. July 13, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the proceedings and resolutions of a convention of Republican editors of Ohio, held in the City of Columbus... In the Senate of the United States. July 15, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, for himself and on behalf of Mr. Frye, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Privileges and Elections, or any subcommittee thereof, be authorized to investigate the charges affecting the title to the seat of the Hon. Henry B. Payne... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Norman Wiard, to accompany the amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Evarts to the Bill (H.R. 9798) making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, and for other purposes. (Indicating a method by which two-hundred and ninety-two powerful and effective rifle cannon can be cheaply and quickly procured.) ... In the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the preamble and resolutions of the constitutional convention of South Dakota... In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be, and are hereby, instructed to inquire whether any legislation is needed, and, if so, what, to require the courts of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that R.A. Fennel [i.e., Fennell], a Democrat, heretofore employed as a skilled laborer on the Senate roll of employes [sic], who was discharged by the Sergeant-at-Arms without cause, except to make place for a Republican, be reinstated on the roll of Senate employes [sic]... In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the testimony taken before the select committee of the House of Representatives of Ohio, and the report of said committee, as to charges against the official integrity and character of certain members of said House of Representatives, in connection with the election of Hon. Henry B. Payne as United States senator. In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Governor of Ohio, transmitting a copy of the resolution of the House of Representatives of that state, in respect to the election of Hon. Henry B. Payne as a senator from that state... In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls presented the following papers. (To accompany Senate Bill 335.) War Department, Washington City, April 21, 1886. Sir: In response to your request, presented to Maj. Peter C. Hains, Corps of Engineers, through Mr. A.B. Brown, of the law firm of Britton & Gray, for a statement of work done on the Potomac Flats improvement... In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the following resolution adopted by the national convention of wool growers, held at Saint Louis, Mo., protesting against the repeal of the duty on wool... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Mr. Beck presented the following petition of J.O. Harrison for compensation for use and occupation of his property near New Orleans, La., by the United States forces... In the Senate of the United States. May 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. The President Pro Tempore laid before the Senate the following letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture relative to the delay in printing the first annual report of the Bureau of Animal Industry... Testimony taken before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, in regard to the manufacture and sale of imitation dairy products. Report of the National Academy of Sciences for the year 1885. In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, submitted the following resolutions: Whereas it is stated that in the matter of the administration of the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in respect of the appointment of Indian traders, acts have been done, or permitted to be done, in disregard of law and the rights and proper interests of citizens... In the Senate of the United States. June 18, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Epidemic Diseases and ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler presented the following memorial of committee of the American Medical Association in relation to prevention of yellow fever... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb submitted the following resolution: Whereas there is now pending before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate Bill S. No. 1609 authorizing the use of public moneys in building branch lines of railroad for the benefit of the Union Pacific Railroad Company... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt presented the following petition of Mrs. Georgiana M. Amidon, praying for the speedy settlement of the Ward estate claim... In the Senate of the United States. June 1, 1886. -- Submitted and ordered to be printed. June 2, 1886. -- Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. George submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that Senate Bill No. 714 be recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary with instructions to report it so amended as to provide for voluntary proceedings in bankruptcy only. In the Senate of the United States. June 16, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes presented the following resolutions adopted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts... In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, submitted the following concurrent resolution: Whereas the experience of the past has fully demonstrated the fact, viewed from whatever standpoint, that further Chinese immigration to the United States is undesirable... In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial to Congress adopted by the Anti-Chinese State Convention, held at Sacramento, Cal., March 11, 1886. To the President and the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States... In the Senate of the United States. May 14, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar presented the following letter from William L. Elseffer, civil engineer, in relation to the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River... In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Potomac River bridge. The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the following communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in response to Senate resolution of May 3, 1886... In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be and is hereby, directed to inform the Senate whether the Commissioner of the General Land Office has, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, issued a circular in the following words... In the Senate of the United States. June 22, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. (To accompany Mr. McMillan's amendment to H.R. 9478, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government.) Mr. McMillan presented the following paper relating to necessary expenses of a national exhibit at the Minneapolis exposition... In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes presented the annual report of E.M. Gallaudet, President of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, situated at Kendall Green, near Washington, D.C... |
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In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Miller, of New York, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 163.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 163) releasing the estate of the late Frank Soule, late collector of internal revenue for the First District of California, and his sureties from liability to the government of the United States, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 94.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 94) for the relief of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Holroyd, widow and administratrix of the estate of the late John Holroyd, deceased, have duly considered the same and accompanying papers, and recommend that it pass... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spooner, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 296.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 296) for the relief of Alfred G. Hatfield, have examined the same, and submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 301.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 301) for the relief of William C. Dodge, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (On the letter of General O.O. Howard, U.S. Army, requesting permission to accept from France the decoration of the Legion of Honor.)... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 707.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Bill S. 707, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jackson, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 7.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 7) making appropriation for the relief of the First National Bank of Newton, Mass., having examined the same, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 260.) The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred a Bill (S. 260) to prohibit the mailing of newspapers and other publications containing lottery advertisements, and prescribing a penalty for the violation of the same, reports the same to the Senate with an amendment, recommending the passage of the bill as amended... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 767.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 767) for the relief of John Leathers, having considered the same and accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 16.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 16) for the relief of Sallie Jarratt, executrix of Gregory Jarratt, deceased, having considered the same, herewith present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 178.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 178) for the relief of Tobias G. Richardson and Albert Baldwin, testamentary executors of the succession of Cora A. Slocumb, Ida A. Richardson, and Caroline A. Urquhart, beg leave to report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jackson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 56.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 56) entitled "A Bill Granting a Pension to Chauncey Read," having examined the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jackson, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 377.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 377) entitled "A Bill Granting a Pension to Matthias Leckner," having examined the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Coast Defenses, submitted the following report. (To accompany letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 10, 1885, report of Capt. W.H. Bixby on the seacoast fortifications in Europe.) The Committee on Coast Defenses, to which was referred the letter from the Secretary of War... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harrison, from the Committee on Territories, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 967.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 578) providing for the admission of the State of Dakota into the Union, and for the organization of the Territory of North Dakota, respectfully report an original bill upon that subject... In the Senate of the United States. January 11, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 85.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 85) for the relief of B. Jennings, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany S. Bill 193.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 193) for the relief of John Hollins McBlair, have considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 98.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 98) for the relief of Maj. William M. Maynadier, paymaster in the United States Army, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 209.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 209) for the relief of the legal representatives of John M. Robeson, deceased, having considered the same, present herewith the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 18.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 18) for the relief of Pearson C. Montgomery, of Memphis, Tenn., having considered the same, present herewith the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Education and Labor, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 194.) The Committee on Education and Labor, to whom was referred Senate Bill 194, entitled "A Bill To Aid in the Establishment and Temporary Support of Common Schools," have considered the same, and report the same favorably to the Senate, and recommend its passage with the following amendment... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 208.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was recommitted the Bill (S. 208) for the relief of Alexander Swift & Co., partners, and Alexander Swift & Co. and the Niles Works, have reconsidered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jackson, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 506.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 506) for the relief of Emerson Etheridge and William B. Stokes, having examined the same, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 22.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 22) for the relief of Martin and P.B. Murphy, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 221.) The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 221) for the relief of Alexander Smiley, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 768.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Bill S. 768, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. Res. 19.) The Committee on Military Affairs submit the following report upon Joint Resolution 19... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 216.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred Bill S. 216, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 241.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 241) for the relief of Joseph W. Parish, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 311.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 311) for the relief of James Trabue, Thornton Thatcher, Michael Callahan, and the widow of John Waters, have considered the same and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 113.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 113) for the relief of Samuel Browning, of Missouri, have considered the same and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sewell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 225.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 225) to authorize Col. George W. Getty, United States Army (retired), to be placed upon the retired list of the Army with the rank and pay of a brigadier general, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 349.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred Bill S. 349, having considered the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 4, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spooner, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1394.) The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 484) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to sell and convey certain premises in the City of Chicago, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1263.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1263) for the relief of Richard T Bryan, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1069.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1069) for the relief of George E.W. Sharretts, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1885. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 68.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of S.B. Cranston, of Oregon, having examined the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1885. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 59.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 59) to reimburse the several states for interest paid on war loans, and for other purposes, have considered the same and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Education and Labor, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 182.) The Committee on Education and Labor, to whom was referred Senate Bill 182, to provide for a commission on the subject of the alcoholic liquor traffic, have considered the same, and recommend its passage... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mahone, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds reported the following statement of appropriations and expenditures for public buildings from March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1885. In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 929.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 929) for the relief of Albert H. Emery, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jackson, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany the petition of Margaret Kennedy, executrix of John Kennedy, deceased.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Margaret Kennedy, executrix of John Kennedy, deceased, having examined the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 718.) The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the Bill (S. 718) for the relief of Francis Gilbeau, report thereon as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 257.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 257) for the relief of Frances E. Stewart, administratrix of Michael S. Stewart, deceased, having examined the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 23.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 23) giving a military record to Thomas Miller, have considered the same, and beg leave to report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sewell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany S. Res. 28.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the following communication from the then President, with the accompanying letter from the Secretary of State of that date, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 922.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 922) for the relief of Joseph F. Wilson, having considered the same, submit the following report thereon... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 214.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Bill S. 214, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 12, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 424.) During the last Congress a similar bill was favorably reported by this Committee and passed by the Senate, but failed in the House... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 989.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 989) entitled "An Act for the Allowance of Certain Claims Reported by the Accounting Officers of the United States Treasury Department," report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1119.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1119) to provide for the appointment of hospital stewards in the United States Army, and to fix their pay and allowance, have duly considered the same, and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Education and Labor, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1405.) The Committee on Education and Labor, to whom was referred Senate Bill 797, entitled "A Bill To Provide for the Study of Physiology and Hygeine [i.e., Hygiene], and the Effect of Intoxicating, Narcotic, and Poisonous Substances upon Life, Health, and Welfare, by the Pupils in the Public Schools of the Territories and of the District of Columbia, and in the Military and Naval Academies," have considered the same, and report a new bill in the nature of a substitute for the original bill, and recommend its passage and that the original bill be indefinitely postponed... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 500.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 500) for the relief of Elon A. Marsh and Minard Lafever, having had the same under consideration, respectfully make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Patents, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 708.) The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 708) for the relief of Stephen N. Smith, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report... Report of the Select Committee on Ordnance and War Ships, with an appendix. February 8, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Payne, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1053.) The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the letter of the Secretary of State of December 17, 1885 (Senate Ex. Doc. No. 11), recommending the passage of an act to permit Joseph Rawiez [i.e., Rawicz], United States consul at Warsaw, Russia, to accept decorations from Russia, have the honor to submit herewith a bill for the purpose mentioned, with recommendation that it do pass... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jackson, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 32.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 32) for the relief of Mrs. Lizzie D. Clarke, of New Orleans, having examined the same, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jackson, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 289.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 289) for the relief of J.A. Henry and others, having examined the same, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 24.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of Samuel B. Seat, administrator of Christian Kropp, deceased, having examined the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gray, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 100.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 100) for the relief of William H. Crook, having considered the same and accompanying papers, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 519.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1300) to authorize the President to restore Tenodor Ten Eyck to his former rank in the Army and to place him upon the retired list of Army officers, have considered the same, and they beg leave to adopt the report made by the Committee at the last session, as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sewell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 222.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 222) "To Amend Section 1661 of the Revised Statutes, Making an Annual Appropriation To Provide Arms for the Militia," respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spooner, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 269.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred Bill S. 269, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 14, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany petition of A.W. Shaffer for reimbursement for the care of Joseph Ivery Baker.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of A.W. Shaffer, asking for relief in the reimbursement claim of Joseph Ivery Baker, late captain Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, have considered the same, and, in accordance with the resolution of the Senate of February 7, 1884, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 574.) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 574) for the relief of Robert Strachan, having considered the same, present the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 149.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 149) forfeiting a part of certain lands granted to the State of Iowa to aid in the construction of railroads in that state, and for other purposes, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 18, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sewell, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 806.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 806) granting a pension to Mary B. Holmes, having examined the same, report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hawley, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 390.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 390) for the relief of H.A. Myers, having had the same under consideration, adopt the report of the Committee on Military Affairs of the Senate of the Forty-sixth Congress, which is as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following report. (In obedience to a resolution of the Senate of March 31, 1885, directing the preparation of an official seal for the use of the Senate.) The Committee on Rules, by resolution submitted March 21, and adopted March 31, 1885, was directed to procure a seal for the use of the Senate... In the Senate of the United States. January 19, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sewell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 223.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 223) to regulate the promotion of graduates of the United States Military Academy, having considered the same, respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 570.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 570) for the relief of Jabez Burchard, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dawes, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 367.) The Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was referred the Bill (S. 367) "Authorizing the President of the United States To Appoint Lieut William P. Randall a Lieutenant-Commander on the Retired List of the Navy," beg leave to report the same to the Senate, with the recommendation that the bill do pass... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 738.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 733) for the relief of James Clifford, have had the same under consideration, and report as follows... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1052.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1052) for the relief of Capt. C.H. Warrens, have duly considered the same and submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 510.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 510) for the relief of Sophia B. Moore, having considered the same, submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 605.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 605) for the relief of the estate of J.J. Pulliam, deceased, have considered the same, and respectfully report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 601.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 601) for the relief of the Sone and Fleming Manufacturing Company, Limited, of the City of New York, having duly considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jackson, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 177.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 177) for the relief of the heirs of Maurice Grivot, have examined the same and report... In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 702.) This bill provides an appropriation simply sufficient to enable the officers to refurnish themselves with an outfit... In the Senate of the United States. January 25, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt, from the Committee on Territories, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 67.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 67) to provide for the formation and admission into the Union of the State of Washington, and for other purposes, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 353.) The Committee on Finance, to which was referred Senate Bill 353, being a bill for the relief of J.D. Morrison, surviving partner of the firm of C.M. & J.D. Morrison, reports... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 936.) The Committee on Finance, to which was referred Senate Bill 936 "For the Relief of John M. McClintock," has had the same under consideration, and submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Walthall, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 725.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 725) for the relief of Maj. G.W. Candee, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 528.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate Bill 528, for the relief of William H. Morgan, have considered the same, and find that the said soldier served but sixteen months after his last enlistment, receiving as bounty $185... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 266.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 266) for the relief of L. Madison Day, having considered the same, make the following report... In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 753.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was submitted the Bill (S. 753) to provide for the sale of the old site of Fort Brady, Michigan, and for a new site, and the construction of suitable buildings thereon, respectfully submits the following report... In the Senate of the United States. February 1, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. February 16, 1886. -- Ordered to be reprinted. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1296.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 65), entitled "A Bill To Repeal All Laws Providing for the Pre-Emption of Public Lands, the Laws Relating to Entries for Timber Culture, the Laws Authorizing the Sale of Desert Lands in Certain States and Territories, and for Other Purposes," have had the same under consideration and report the accompanying bill as a substitute therefore... In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage, submitted the following report. (To accompany S. Res. 5.) The Committee on Woman Suffrage, to whom was referred Senate Resolution No. 5, being "Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Extending the Right of Suffrage to Women," have considered the same, and report thereon favorably... In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sewell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 498.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 498) for the relief of George T. Dudley, having considered the same, respectfully report... |
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| Serial set 2356 | Report of the Senate Select Committee on Interstate Commerce. (With appendix.) Forty-ninth Congress, first session. -- Submitted to the Senate January 18, 1886. | 1 |
| Serial set 2357 | Report of the Senate Select Committee on Interstate Commerce. (Testimony.) Forty-ninth Congress, first session. -- Submitted to the Senate January 18, 1886. | 1 |
