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Serial set 3556	Andrew Donaldson. February 19, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. George W. Howard. March 2, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Metric system of weights and measures. February 10, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. W.D. Catlett. February 26, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. J. Seymour Taylor. February 13, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. William Washburn. February 6, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mary M. Macauley. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Cassius M. Clay, Sr. March 2, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Robert A. McKee. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Turner J. Bowling. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Albert F. Wakefield. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Interstate National Bank of Kansas City, Kans. February 19, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Sarah A. Landram. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Public building at Carlinville, Ill. February 27, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. James M. Miller. March 2, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Joseph P. Patton. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. L.A. Slade. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. John W. Craig. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Rhoda A. Van Niman. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. I. Winslow Ayers. February 9, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Extensions of time for completion of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Joseph M. Waddell. February 3, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Providing for the printing of the consular regulations of 1896. February 3, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions to certain East Tennesseeans. February 3, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Charles W. Brown. February 3, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Isaac B. Vail. February 3, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Promotion of meritorious warrant officers of the Navy. February 4, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Monument to Peter [i.e., Pierre] Charles L'Enfant. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Sarah F. Smith. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. To prohibit interments in Graceland Cemetery. February 4, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Treaty with the Navajo Indians. February 4, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Martha Frank. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Isaac Whitenberg. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Sarah A. Blazer. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Amending act providing for public building at Detroit, Mich. February 5, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Taylor Beattie v. Andrew Price. February 5, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Amending copyright law. February 5, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Extra copies of report on dedication of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. February 8, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mary E. Herd. February 8, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Anna Dorsey Weaver. February 8, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Thomas Joyce. February 8, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. N.T. Hopkins v. Joseph M. Kendall. February 5, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Reorganizing the judicial district of Arkansas. February 9, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Anna B. Lewis. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. James O. Hill. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Roswell Harris. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Samuel Akin. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. George W. Barnes. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Levi R. Long. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Jesse L. Bartoo. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Sarah R. Burrell. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Barney Smith. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Annie Fowler. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Martha Jennie Freer. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Abraham Park. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Fortifications appropriation bill. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Post Office appropriation bill. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. J.D. Golden. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Philip Pflueger. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Nathaniel Haughton. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Susan A. Paddock. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Thomas Madden. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Milton T. Bedford. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Essie E. Powell. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Francis M. Schaeffer. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Sarah Potter. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. James W. McMillan. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. William Taylor. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. To remove ledge at Pull-and-be-damned Point, New Hampshire. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Erection of stand for inaugural ceremonies. February 10, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Loan of tents for use of Grand Army of the Republic. February 10, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. John A. Ball. February 10, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. G.W. [i.e., W.H.] Grimshaw and others. February 10, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Thomas E. Watson v. James C.C. Black. February 11, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Right of way through Chippewa and White Earth Indian Reservations. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Marcus Bain. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. John S. Hall. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Joseph Brown. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Isaac Harbaugh. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Samuel Shaffer. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. James Parsloe. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Arabella V. Washburn. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mary E. Taylor. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. John W. Channing. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Henry G. Bigalow [i.e., Bigelow]. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Infringement of letters patent. February 11, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Amending act relating to pacific railroads. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Pass a Loutre Crevasse. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Daniel E. Lynn. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Alexis Benoit v. Charles J. Boatner. February 5, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. The Twelfth and subsequent censuses. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Helen L. Dent. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Diana Clark. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Maryetta Worley. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Maggie Morris. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Howard M. Parker. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Sylvester Abrams. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. William H. Webster. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Marvin Older. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. To provide for vacancy in office of Attorney of United States for District of Columbia. February 12, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Rinaldo P. Smith. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Merrill Denham. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Ames & Detrick. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. F.W. Thomas. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Chester B. Sweet. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. W.R. Austin & Co. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Peter Johnson. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. To amend Section 2858 of the Revised Statutes. February 12, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Daniel T. Tollett. February 12, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Full bench in Court of Claims for hearing of certain cases. February 13, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Louise M. Rice. February 13, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Russell D. Royal. February 13, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Sarah J. Bossert. February 13, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. James Killoran, alias James Smith. February 13, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Passport regulations of foreign countries. February 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Isaiah Mitchell. February 13, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Needlework free of duty. February 13, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Herbert H.D. Pierce. February 13, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Monument to prison-ship martyrs at Fort Greene, New York. February 13, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. February 15, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Evening sessions. February 15, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Waterway between Birmingham, Ala., and the Black Warrior River. February 15, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. John W. Porterfield. February 15, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Theo. Von Bremsen. February 15, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Additional copies of preliminary report on artesian waters. February 16, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Nancy G. Allabach. February 16, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. C.V. Neidlinger. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Estate of Lewis McKenzie. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Bequest of Peter Von Essen. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Right of way through Fort Morgan Military Reservation. February 16, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Levi Maxted. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. George Gaylord. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Margaret Wolverton. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Milton Iserman. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Hiram C. Rogers. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Miss Delphine P. Baker. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mary Cochran. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. William P. Burrough. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Heirs of Edward N. Oldmixon. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Fort Hays Military Reservation. February 16, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Amending act to repeal the timber-culture laws. February 16, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Alabama River between Lower Peachtree and Prairie Bluff, Ala. February 16, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Anna W. Osborne. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Stewart College. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Condemned cannon for the national encampment, G.A.R. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. John X. Griffith. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. George W. Farnum. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. E.S. Kelly. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Carlton W. Muzzy. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Daniel T. Lawson. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Purchase of roads in Yosemite National Park. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. John Campbell. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Thomas Antisell. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Aurelia M. Carpenter. February 17, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. General deficiency bill. February 18, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Passport regulations of foreign countries. February 18, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John H. Laney. February 18, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Magdalena Eitel. February 18, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Robert Sanders Northcott. February 18, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. George G. Vogel. February 18, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Daniel Phillips. February 18, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Disposition of certain lands in Minnesota. February 18, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. National Grand Lodge of the Order of the Sons of Hermann. February 18, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Payment of certain bonds and stocks owned by the United States. February 18, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Frederick Mehring. February 19, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Samuel T. Morris. February 19, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Potomac Park. February 19, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. To amend section 2117 of the Revised Statutes. February 19, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Reassessment of water-main taxes in the District of Columbia. February 19, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. To incorporate the East Washington Heights Traction Company. February 19, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Red Lake Reservation. February 19, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Harriet D. Newson. February 19, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Elsas, May & Co. February 19, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Walter R. Staples, Jr. February 19, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Samuel Lee. February 19, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Commodore William P. McCann. February 19, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Charles Winters. February 19, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Albert E. Redstone. February 19, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Retirement of enlisted men, etc. February 19, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Material for minor coins, etc. February 19, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Francis Hall and others. February 20, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. W.J. Tapp & Co. February 20, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Roberts. February 20, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Naval appropriation bill. February 20, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Extending the uses of the mail service. February 20, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. International monetary conference. February 22, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Patents to certain lands. February 3, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Sarah Wharton. February 3, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Rosa Karger. February 3, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Lovenia Bayles. February 3, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. John Amrein. February 3, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Regulation of fraternal beneficiary societies. February 3, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. To reduce revenue, etc. February 3, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Amendment to District of Columbia appropriation bill. February 3, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Right of way through public lands for tramroads, etc. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Adulteration of foods and drugs. February 4, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Impersonation of health inspectors. February 4, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Fee for issuing transcripts of records of Health Department. February 4, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Franklin C. Plantz. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Samuel A. Smith. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Bethiah H. Rollins. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mary Chamberlin. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Joseph Monteith. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Improving public building, etc., Detroit, Mich. February 5, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Daniel E. Lynn. February 5, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Quarantine station, Astoria, Oreg. February 5, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Extra copies report of Assistant Secretary of the Interior for 1896. February 5, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Removal of abandoned street-railway tracks. February 6, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Washington and Gettysburg Railway Company. February 6, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Chronological list of battles. February 6, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Water-main taxes. February 6, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. To regulate the sale of poisons in the District of Columbia. February 6, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Relief of farmers and truckmen. February 6, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Henry A. Thoburn. February 6, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Mary A. Dennis. February 6, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Extent and boundaries of Las Animas Grant. February 6, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Settlement of outstanding claims against the District of Columbia. February 6, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Administrators of Isaac P. Tice and others. February 6, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. J.R. Eggleston. February 6, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. George E. Welles. February 6, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Eliza A. White. February 6, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. P.S. Corbett. February 6, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. John Mellifont and Ellen Riordon. February 6, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Removing obstructions to navigation from St. Johns Rivers, Florida. February 8, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Extending channel, Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut. February 8, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Public building at Racine, Wis. February 8, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Examination of the improvements at Aransas Pass, Texas. February 8, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Charles Spear. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Josiah C. Ury. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Error in appropriation for harbor at Green Bay, Wis. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Wallabout Channel, New York. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Brig General Armstrong. February 9, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Amending act creating the circuit court of appeals. February 9, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Funding of indebtedness in the territories. February 9, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Lorenzo Thomas. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Francisco [i.e., Francesco] Perna. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. William B. Matchett. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Frank Dunn. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Susan E. [i.e., B.] Peckham. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Francis Sternberg. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. William Richardson and others. February 24, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Estate of Richard Lawson. February 24, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the St. Lawrence River. February 24, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Yazoo River, near Greenwood, Mississippi. February 26, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. International Cotton Press Company of New Orleans, La. February 26, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Transmission of votes of electors for President and Vice-President. February 26, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Writs of certiorari. February 26, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Transmission by mail or interstate commerce of picture or any description of prize fight. February 26, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Contagious and infectious diseases. February 26, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Extending the time for construction of bridge across the St. Louis River between Wisconsin and Minnesota. February 26, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Printing tariff hearings. February 26, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Streator, Ill. February 26, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Sarah E. Ingham. February 27, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Refund of direct tax. March 1, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Public building at Carrollton, Ky. March 1, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Printing additional copies of Report of the Director of the Mint for 1896, etc. March 1, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Reorganization of the consular service. March 1, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Extra pay for certain session employees. March 1, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. To regulate transportation of property owned or manufactured by unlawful combinations. March 1, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Annie Fowler. March 1, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. International American Bank. February 27, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Electoral vote of South Carolina. March 2, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Interstate gambling. March 2, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Examination and classification of certain lands in California. March 2, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Aurelius Roberts. March 2, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. James W. Bowman. March 2, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Custom-house building at New York, N.Y. March 2, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Alexander G. Willis. March 2, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Rev. Warren Cochran. March 2, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mutilated coins. March 2, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Printing and binding of foreign relations. March 2, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Conspiracies to blacklist. March 2, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Eight-hour law. March 3, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Anna G. Valk. March 3, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mississippi Choctaws. March 3, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mary I. Valentine. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Lycurgus Q. Parkhurst. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Branch Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Furnishing the Congressional Record to certain members of the press. February 9, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Fees for government meat inspection. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Member of Board of Managers for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. February 9, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Wilson Creek reunion, Springfield, Mo. February 9, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Simon Price. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Adulterated tea. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Construing S.R. 148, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session. February 23, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Attendance of officers and cadets of military and naval academies at inaugural ceremonies. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Right of way through Fort Spokane Military Reservation. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Conveying certain government land to the City of Waukegan, Ill. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Desert-land entries. February 23, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Ellis P. Phipps. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Annie J. Bassett. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Marie Damainville. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Regulating the practice of pharmacy in the District of Columbia. February 23, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. James Hicks. February 24, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Site for Memorial Continental Hall. February 24, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth M. Leach. February 24, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Sophia W. Buxton. February 24, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth Norton. February 24, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Mary A. Viel. February 25, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Imprisonment of American citizens in Cuba. February 25, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge over Monongahela River. February 26, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Commercial relations, 1895 and 1896. February 27, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Sundry civil appropriation bill. February 11, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bequest of Peter Von Essen. February 20, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed Ann King. February 4, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed Alfred Bigelow. February 23, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed	306
Serial set 3557	The investigation of the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, Kans. February 24, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 3557-A	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, begun and held at the City of Washington March 15, 1897, in the one hundred and twenty-first year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 3558	Fifty-fifth Congress. (Extraordinary session.) Official Congressional Directory, for the use of the United States Congress, prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. By Pitman Pulsifer, clerk of printing records. Special edition.	1
Serial set 3559	Boundaries of certain forest reservations. March 31, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Forest Reservation and Protection of Game and ordered to be printed. Expenses of the spring terms of United States circuit courts. Letter from the Attorney-General, relative to appropriation for expenses of the spring terms of the United States circuit courts. April 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Civil service in the Engineer Department. Letter from the Civil Service Commission, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 16, 1897, requesting "The Secretary of War and the Civil Service Commission to furnish to the Senate, ... copies of all papers bearing upon the subject-matter of the resolution. March 25, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Medical Society of the District of Columbia. March 29, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Disposal of certain forms of refuse in the District of Columbia. March 29, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Sale of poisons in the District of Columbia. March 29, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Indemnities paid by the United States to aliens. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 23, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State in regard to indemnities paid by the United States to aliens. March 31, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Independence of Cuba. April 1, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial of John M. Mott, of Chicago, Ill. April 1, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Establishment of forest reservation. April 5, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Laborers and workmen in Government Printing Office, etc. April 5, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The Hawaiian Islands. April 5, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Appeal of the delegates of the Cherokee Nation. April 6, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Sufferers by the recent floods in the Mississippi Valley. Message from the President of the United States, recommending appropriation for the relief of the sufferers by the recent floods in the Mississippi Valley. April 7, 1897. -- Read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for contingent expenses, Department of Justice. Letter from the Attorney-General, relative to deficiency estimates submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury on February 2, 1897, in reference to contingent expenses of the Department of Justice. April 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposal of the Union Pacific Railway by sale or otherwise. Letter from the Attorney General, in response to Senate resolution of March 26, 1897, making inquiry as to agreement, if any, entered into by the President or any of the executive departments relating to the future disposal of the Union Pacific Railway by sale or otherwise. April 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. Scientific investigation of fur-seal fisheries. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the necessity for the continuance during the fiscal year 1898 of an appropriation for the scientific investigation of fur-seal fisheries. April 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenses of editing and distributing certain laws. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Secretary of State, requesting an immediate appropriation for the expenses of editing and distributing the laws passed at the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress. April 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Grazing lands in Wyoming. April 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands and ordered to be printed. Uintah Indian Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 6, 1897, copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to negotiations with the Indians of the Uintah reservation. April 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. A.H. Herr. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in further response to Senate resolution of March 2, 1897, a copy of the report of the Acting Quartermaster-General of the Army, dated April 16, 1867, in the matter of the claim of A.H. Herr. April 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Letter from the Attorney General... copies of the record of proceedings in any court of the United States in a case or cases in which the United States is a party relating to the foreclosure of any mortgage against the property of the Union Pacific Railroad Company... March 23, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. Investigation of affairs at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate Resolution of April 5, 1897, letters and reports pertaining to the investigation of affairs at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation. April 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Circular of instructions to collectors of customs, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 7, 1897, copy of circular letter of instructions issued to collectors and other officers of the customs April 5, 1897, relative to the provisions of the tariff bill now pending before the Senate. April 13, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. United States vs. Trans-Missouri Freight Association. A.H. Herr. March 8, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Maryland and Washington Railway Company. March 16, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Communication from Consul-General of Greece. March 16, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Surveys of the Indian Territory. March 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Stephen W. Parker. March 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. John Edward Addicks. March 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed. Victor H. MacCord. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 2, 1897, report of the Secretary of State, with the correspondence, in relation to the case of Victor H. MacCord. March 22, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Additional appropriations for the District of Columbia. March 23, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for repairs to roof of Executive Mansion. March 23, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.	34
Serial set 3560	Deep-water harbor at Port Los Angeles or at San Pedro, Cal. April 1, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 3561	Civil service in the Engineer Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 16, 1897, copies of all circulars and circular letters issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers relative to civil service matters. April 29, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the National Woolgrowers' Association, with accompanying papers, asking protective legislation for sheep husbandry and specified textile fibers. Presented by Mr. Mantle. April 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Universal Exposition at Paris in 1900. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State relative to the invitation of the French Republic to the government of the United States to participate in the Universal Exposition to be held at Paris in 1900. April 14, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Select Committee on International Expositions, and ordered to be printed. Pan-American Medical Congress. April 14, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed, and 200 additional copies for the use of the Senate. Act to regulate commerce. April 15, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. White pine timber supplies. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 14, 1897, a statement prepared by the chief of the division of forestry regarding white pine timber supplies. April 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimates for contingent expenses, Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting estimates of deficiencies in the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the Department of the Interior. April 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Costs in suit of Scranton v. Wheeler. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers relative to costs in suit of Scranton v. Wheeler. April 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Robert P. De Graffenreid and George P.M. Turner. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney-General, with accompanying papers, submitting an estimate of appropriation to pay Robert P. De Graffenreid and George P.M. Turner, of Muscogee, Indian Territory for legal services. April 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Marine hospital reservation, Evansville, Ind. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting copy of a report made by inspector of public buildings of his examination of the marine hospital reservation at Evansville, Ind. April 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of Committee of the National Academy of Sciences of January 5, 1865. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 13th instant, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to send to the Senate copy of the report of the Committee of the National Academy of Sciences of January 5, 1865. April 19, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Freight on bullion and coin between the mints and assay offices. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Director of the Mint, submitting an increase in the estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for "freight on bullion and coin, mints and assay offices," for the fiscal year 1897. April 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Gustave Richelieu and August Bolten. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 26, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relating to the arrest and imprisonment, at Santiago de Cuba, of the American citizens Gustave Richelieu and August Bolten. April 20, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Memorial of California State Grange. April 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. April 21, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Petition against abrogation of treaty between the United States and Hawaii. April 21, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Enlarging bond vault. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the necessity for enlarging Vault No. 7, known as the bond vault, in the office of the Treasurer of the United States. April 22, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Receipts and expenditures of the government. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 6, 1897, tabulated statements showing the amount of the receipts and expenditures, and the excess of either, for each fiscal year, 1875 to 1896, both inclusive and the same for each annual period, beginning March 1, 1885, and ending March 1, 1897. April 22, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Commercial arrangements concluded with foreign countries. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 19, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State relative to the commercial arrangements concluded with foreign countries...April 22, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate dated April 15, 1897, copy of a communication dated March 25, 1897, from Capt. F.D. Baldwin, U.S.A., acting agent, Kiowa Agency, and accompanying copy of the proceedings of a council held with the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians March 23 and 24, 1897... April 29, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Library of Congress. April 29, 1897. -- Referred to the Select Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library and ordered to be printed. Boundary between United States and Mexico. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by the report of the United States Boundary Commission... touching the remarking of the boundary line between those two countries west of the Rio Grande. April 29, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed, without accompanying documents. Decreasing flax cultivation in Ireland. May 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Additional appropriation, Navy Department. May 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Steel material used in construction of naval vessels. May 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Removal of the inequalities of the present protective system. May 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Arbitration treaty. April 6, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. May 3, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Journal of legislative assembly of Oregon. May 4, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed. Hearing before the Committee on Interstate Commerce of the United States Senate in relation to the agreement of the Joint Traffic Association. May 4, 1897. -- Presented by Mr. Cullom and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. Statements of the delegation of Oglala Sioux before the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, April 29 and 30, 1897, relative to affairs at the Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak. May 4, 1897. -- Presented by Mr. Pettigrew, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed.	29
Serial set 3562	Alleged illegal entry into the United States of Chinese persons. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate, dated May 17, 1897, copies of certain designated reports, documents, etc., relating to the alleged illegal entry into the United States of Chinese persons. May 27, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed Indian depredation claims. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of May 17, 1897, a list of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of claimants in Indian depredation cases. May 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Universal Exposition of 1900. Letter from the President of the Commission of the American chamber of commerce, Paris, France, to encourage and make provision for the participation of American exhibitors in the universal exposition of 1900, transmitting memorial to the Congress of the United States relative to the universal exposition of 1900. May 17, 1897. -- Referred to the Select Committee on International Expositions and ordered to be printed. Pay of enlisted men. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, requesting that the item in the general deficiency bill making appropriation for pay of enlisted men be increased. May 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. World's Columbian Exposition. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting official report of the Board of Control and Management of the United States government exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. May 10, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed, without the accompanying papers. Public lands in Oregon. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 3, 1897, a copy of the report of the Commissioner of the General Lands Office relative to the public lands in the State of Oregon. May 13, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Reprinting certain consular reports. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State relative to appropriation for the reprinting of specified consular reports for distribution by the State Department. May 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Battle lines and sites for tablets at Antietam. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War relative to appropriation in the general deficiency bill for battle lines and sites for tablets at Antietam. May 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia relative to deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. May 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Postal savings banks systems in foreign countries. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate Resolution of April 22, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State relative to diplomatic and consular reports on postal savings banks systems in foreign countries. May 13, 1897. -- Read; referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Surveying the public lands. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for surveying the public lands for the fiscal year 1897. May 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pine lands and pine timber on Red Lake Reservation, Minn. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 11, 1897, the report of Indian Inspector J. George Wright, together with accompanying papers, relative to pine lands and pine timber on the Red Lake Reservation, in the State of Minnesota. May 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Relief of destitute American citizens in Cuba. Message from the President of the United States, recommending appropriation for the relief of destitute American citizens in the island of Cuba. May 17, 1897. -- Read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Salaries and expenses of agents, etc., for fiscal year 1896. May 4, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Creek Indians in the federal Army, etc. May 5, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. May 6, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. New forest reservations. May 6, 1897. -- Laid on the table ordered to be printed. Taxation and revenue, etc., in countries with which the United States has diplomatic relations. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 20, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State upon taxation and revenue, commercial statistics, tariff laws, etc., in the countries with which the United States has diplomatic relations. May 6, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. John Arthur Lynch. May 17, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Southern Railway Company. Letter from the Postmaster General, in response to Senate resolution of April 19, 1897, relative to amount per mile paid to the Southern Railway Company for mail service between Washington and Atlanta and between Atlanta and New Orleans each year since 1885. May 17, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Sioux Indians. May 17, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Dry dock at Portsmouth Navy-yard. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, relative to the Bill (S. 461) "Making an Appropriation toward the Construction of a Dry Dock at the Portsmouth Navy-yard." May 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Battle lines and sites for tablets at Antietam. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a revised estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for battle lines and sites for tablets at Antietam. May 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Transportation requests to officers traveling on duty. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of a letter from the Paymaster-General of the Army, recommending legislation authorizing the Quartermaster's Department to furnish transportation requests to officers traveling on duty over "fifty per cent" railroads, etc. May 12, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Steamers to carry grain to the starving poor of India. May 20, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Differential treatment of bountied sugars. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting letters from the German ambassador in regard to the protest of the German government against differential treatment of bountied sugars. May 20, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for vaults, etc., in public buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to deficiency in appropriation for vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs for the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department. May 25, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Uniform classification of freight. May 25, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed. Bids for park lighting, Washington, D.C. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate Resolution of May 19, 1897, report from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, and report of Col. Theodore A. Bingham, officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, relative to bids accepted for park lighting, Washington, D.C. May 25, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Sundry civil appropriation bill. May 25, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Protest against changes in the tobacco schedule. May 25, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger presented the following memorial from citizens of the Town of Hinsdale, Cheshire County, N.H., protesting against the changes made in the tobacco schedule of the Dingley tariff bill by the Committee on Finance of the Senate. Correspondence regarding the lynching of certain Italian subjects. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of May 6, 1897, calling for the correspondence regarding the lynching in Louisiana of certain Italian subjects, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers. May 25, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Forest policy for the forested lands of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the report of the Committee appointed by the Academy of Sciences upon the inauguration of a forest policy for the forested lands of the United States. May 25, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Forest Reservations and the protection of game, and ordered to be printed. Venezuelan Boundary Commission. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of May 4, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State regarding the work of the special commission appointed to reexamine and report upon the true line between Venezuela and British Guiana. May 25, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Claims allowed by accounting officers. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of May 17, 1897, a schedule of such claims as have been allowed by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriation the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund. May 27, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Cession of the public lands, etc. May 29, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands and ordered to be printed. Expenses incurred by the states in defense of the United States. May 29, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, to accompany S.R. 46, and ordered to be printed. Payment of amounts found due by accounting officers of the Treasury. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, recommending that provision be made in the general deficiency bill now pending for payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of certain appropriations. June 1, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Canadian tariff. White-pine lumber in the United States and Canada. Letter from the Commissioner of Labor, relative to the cost per 1,000 feet, board measure, of producing white-pine lumber in the United States and Canada. May 6, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Internal-revenue tax upon distilled spirits. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to Senate resolution of April 21, 1897, relative to the effect of the present rate of internal-revenue tax upon distilled spirits. May 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Manufacture of armor plate. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, relative to the manufacture of armor plate. May 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Oil leases of the Seneca Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 29, 1897, report relative to the oil leases of the Seneca Indians. May 11, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate Resolution of May 6, 1897, copies of all papers relating to recent opinion of the Comptroller of the Treasury as to the legality of certain orders of the Post-Office Department for the payment of additional compensation to the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway for transportation of the mails during a portion of the years 1895-96. May 11, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Letters of Gen. Maximo Gomez to the President. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 1, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State, covering the letters addressed by Gen. Maximo Gomez, the commanding general of the insurrectionary forces in Cuba, to the President in February and March, 1897. May 11, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting communication from the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, submitting Agreement between the United States Commissioners to Negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes, and the Commissioners on the Part of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. May 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Harbor for commerce and of refuge at San Pedro, Cal. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 10th of May, 1897, ... a report from the Secretary of War, with accompanying map and papers, relating to the completion of the improvement of the harbor for commerce and of refuge at Port Los Angeles or at San Pedro, Cal. May 20, 1897. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Purchasers of lands in Greer County, Okla. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, setting forth the necessity for an extension of the time allowed to bona fide purchasers of lands in Greer County, Okla., to place their claim of record in the local Office at Mangum. May 20, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Prevention of cruelty to animals in the District of Columbia. May 25, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered against the United States. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of May 17, 1897, a list of all judgments rendered against the United States by circuit and district courts of the United States under section 11 of the act of March 3, 1887. May 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Prevention of cruelty to animals in the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, in regard to Senate Bill 1063, entitled "A Bill for the Further Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in the District of Columbia." May 26, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Repairs to Lovejoy School building. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia submitting an estimate for inclusion in the general deficiency bill for repairs and improvements to the Lovejoy School building. May 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pneumatic tubes for the transmission of mail matter. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Postmaster-General, requesting that the appropriation for "fuel, lights, and water for public buildings" be so amended as to permit its use for the operation of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of mail matter. May 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Improvement of harbor at Annapolis, Md. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 17, 1897, a letter from the Chief of Engineers, together with the reports, exhibits, and papers in support of a project for the improvement of the harbor at Annapolis. May 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Appropriation to pay certain judgments rendered against the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting an estimate of appropriation for inclusion in the general deficiency bill to pay certain judgments rendered against the District of Columbia. May 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Auditor for the Navy Department, submitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations necessary to reimburse "general account of advances," created by the act of June 19, 1878. May 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Records of General Land Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an item of appropriation for inclusion in the general deficiency bill for the purpose of rearranging, indexing, and preserving the records of the recorder's office of the General Land Office. May 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for examination of subtreasuries, etc. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chief of Division of Public Moneys, in relation to the necessity of an additional appropriation for examinations of subtreasuries and depositories, for the fiscal year 1897. May 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Victor H. MacCord. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 20, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relating to the claim of Victor H. MacCord against the government of Peru. May 26, 1897. -- Read; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Protest against placing coal-tar dyes on the free list. May 27, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered by the Court of Claims. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of April 6 and May 17, 1897, a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims. May 27, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Lake Borgne Outlet. May 28, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Importations of rice, sugar, and molasses from Hawaiian Islands. Letter from the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department, inclosing table showing the quantities and values of rice, sugar, and molasses imported into the United States from the Hawaiian Islands since the reciprocity treaty went into effect. May 28, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, requesting that an item of appropriation be included in the general deficiency bill for the support of the Indian school at Carlisle. May 28, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for fees of witnesses, United States courts. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney-General submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for fees of witnesses, United States courts, for the fiscal year 1897. May 28, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Postal telegraph system and postal savings banks. Letter from the Postmaster General in response to Senate resolution of May 17, 1897, relative to reports received by the Department of State as to the practical workings of postal telegraph systems and postal savings banks. May 28, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Portland Cement Industry. May 28, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Pineapples grown in the United States entitled to a higher duty. May 29, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Librarian of Congress, exhibiting the progress of the library during the calendar year 1896. June 1, 1897. -- Presented by Mr. Wetmore and ordered to be printed. Materials imported subject to duties, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to resolution of the Senate of May 3, 1897, relative to the nature and extent of the supervision and control of the materials imported subject to duties, and stored in bonded warehouses of individuals or corporations, exercised by officers of the United States. May 25, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.	69
Serial set 3563	Certain freedmen of the Choctaw Nation. June 15, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Alleged illegal entry into the United States of Chinese persons. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of May 17, 1897, copies of certain papers relative to the alleged illegal entry into the United States of Chinese persons. June 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. July 1, 1897. -- Reported by Mr. Lodge, ordered to be printed, and referred to the Committee on Immigration International Bimetallism. June 23, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Bountied sugars. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a translation of a note containing the protest of the government of Austria-Hungary against the proposed treatment of bountied sugars in the tariff bill at present under consideration in the Senate. June 5, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Graves of American soldiers near Saltillo, Mexico. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of June 3, 1897, a communication from the Secretary of State relative to the condition of the graves, near Saltillo, Mexico, of American soldiers killed at the Battle of Buena Vista February 27, 1847. July 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Improvements in the Missouri River at Pierre and Fort Pierre, S. Dak. July 14, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Prevention of cruelty to animals in the District of Columbia. July 2, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Harbor of Cumberland Sound. June 29, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Survey of outer bar of Brunswick, Ga. July 2, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Deficiencies in appropriations for public printing. July 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Decree of Supreme Court, District of Columbia. July 5, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Expenditures of the Civil Service Commission. July 5, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Ellis Island immigrant station. July 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Japan and the gold standard. July 7, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. The Reform Club's feast of unreason. July 8, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Receipts and expenditures of the government. July 12, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, Nebr. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 28, 1897, report...showing the action of the Department of State in behalf of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition to be held at Omaha...July 13, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Select Committee on International Expositions, and ordered to be printed. Pension examiners. July 15, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Allotment of land to Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen, etc. July 17, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Sugar schedule in tariff bill. Tabulated statement relative to sugar schedule of the pending tariff bill. July 21, 1897. -- Presented by Mr. White and ordered to be printed. Alfredo H. Hugnet. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of July 16, 1897, information relating to the arrest and imprisonment of Alfredo H. Hugnet, a citizen of the United States, in Habana, Cuba, by Spanish authority. July 24, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Monetary commission. Message from the President of the United States, recommending the appointment of a monetary commission to investigate and report upon a revision of the financial system of the United States. July 24, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Payment of certain claims against the District of Columbia by drawback certificates. June 29, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered by the Court of Claims. July 1, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Reconstruction of immigration buildings at Ellis Island, New York Harbor. July 1, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Immigration and ordered to be printed. Payment of certain claims against the District of Columbia. July 2, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the General Assembly of Colorado. July 2, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for heating apparatus, etc., for all government buildings. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, relative to deficiency in appropriation for heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to same, for all government buildings...under the control of the Treasury Department. June 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. David S. Parker and Forman Matthews. June 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Payment to Cherokee freedmen. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 25, 1897, copies of all papers in relation to the payment and of the correspondence in connection therewith, showing the reason why the payment to the Cherokee freedmen was suspended. June 4, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Certain California Indian war bonds. June 4, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, to accompany Mr. Stewart's amendment to H.R. 13, and ordered to be printed. Cost of producing white pine lumber. June 4, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Appropriation for Pittsburg Harbor. June 5, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, to accompany amendment by Mr. Quay to H.R. 13, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Strother Tobacco Gloss Company. June 7, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Allotting of lands to Wichita Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, stating, in response to Senate resolution of June 1, 1897, that by direction of the President the work of allotting lands to the Wichita Indians was, on the 5th instant, suspended. June 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Armor plate bought from the Carnegie Steel Company and the Bethlehem Iron Company, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting... showing the number of tons of armor plate bought from the Carnegie Steel Company and the Bethlehem Iron Company, etc. June 9, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Prevention of cruelty to animals in the District of Columbia. June 9, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Transportation of supplies from New York to India. June 22, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific Railroad. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 17 and 25, 1897, a report of the Attorney-General relative to the foreclosure proceedings instituted against the properties of the Union Pacific Railroad. June 23, 1897. -- Read; referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. Chickasaw Freedmen. June 23, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Postal savings banks in foreign countries. June 23, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Protest against increase in the tariff rate on coal. June 25, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Sugar beet schedule. June 28, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Certain drawback allowances. June 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Certain spices on the free list. June 26, 1897. -- To accompany amendment to H.R. 379 and ordered to be printed. Union Pacific Railroad. June 26, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for contingent expenses, Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, relative to deficiency in the appropriation for contingent expenses, Treasury Department. June 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures of Mississippi River Commission. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 24, 1897, statements prepared by the Secretary of the Mississippi River Commission relative to the expenditures of the commission. June 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Separate judicial district in Alaska. June 8, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Sanitarium at Castle Pinckney, near Charleston, S.C. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 3, 1897, a report from the Quartermaster-General of the Army, relative to the cost of erecting suitable buildings at Castle Pinckney, near Charleston, S.C., to be used for a sanitarium for disabled officers... June 8, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of George H. Maddock. June 16, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Salaries of collectors, etc., of Internal Revenue. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in relation to the necessity for an emergency appropriation of $50,000 for salaries... and necessary expenses to complete the service of the current fiscal year. June 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures of the Civil Service Commission. July 22, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Postal telegraphs, etc., of foreign countries. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of July 12, 1897, a report of the Acting Secretary of State with accompanying papers, relative to the nature and practical workings of the postal telegraphs...of foreign countries. July 23, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed.	54
Serial set 3564	Ninth special report of the Commissioner of Labor. The Italians in Chicago. A social and economic study.	1
Serial set 3565	Joint Select Committee To Investigate the Charities and Reformatory Institutions in the District of Columbia. Part III. -- Historical sketches of the charities and reformatory institutions in the District of Columbia Joint Select Committee To Investigate the Charities and Reformatory Institutions in the District of Columbia. Part II -- Report Joint Select Committee To Investigate the Charities and Reformatory Institutions in the District of Columbia. July 21, 1897. -- Presented by Mr. Faulkner, from the Joint Select Committee to Investigate the Charities and Reformatory Institutions in the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Part I -- Hearings, statements; reports from cities; suggestions for a board of charities	3
Serial set 3566	Comparison of the tariff act of August 28, 1894, with the Bill (H.R. 379) as passed by the House, amended and passed by the Senate, and as it became a law (July 24, 1897), with the estimated revenue under each, based upon the importations for the fiscal year 1896. July 24, 1897. -- Presented by Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 3567	Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing I. -- Appropriations made during the second session of the Fifty-fourth Congress and first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress… II. -- New offices created and the salaries thereof… III. -- Offices the salaries of which have been omitted… IV. -- Offices the salaries of which have been increased…V. -- Offices the salaries of which have been reduced… VI. -- Amount of contracts authorized by appropriation acts...	1
Serial set 3568	Comparison of the tariffs of 1897, 1894, and 1890, with subject index. To which is appended the administrative Customs Act of June 10, 1890. Prepared by the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, under authority of Senate Resolution of July 24, 1897. June 28, 1897. -- Presented by Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Comparison of the tariffs of 1897, 1894, and 1890, with index. Part 1. Tariffs of 1894 and 1897. Prepared by the Committee on Finance United States Senate, under authority of Senate Resolution of July 24, 1897.	2
Serial set 3569	John M. Guyton. April 5, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Heirs of John Roach, deceased. April 21, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Isaac Marsh. March 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Richmond College, of Richmond, Va. April 8, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Stout, Hall & Bangs. March 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Trustee of St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Martinsburg, W. Va. March 31, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. James Sims. April 5, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. C.B. Bryan & Co. April 14, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Sioux Indians. March 23, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Albert E. Redstone. March 23, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettigrew, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany S. 361.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate Bill 361... Foreign immigration. March 25, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Judgment in favor of Southern Pacific Railroad. March 25, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles P. Chouteau. March 26, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. George McAlpin. March 26, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William S. Grant. March 26, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. George M. Anderson. March 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Settlement of account between United States and Florida. March 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Book agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. March 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Estate of William Moss, deceased. March 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Estate of Charles M. Roberts, deceased. March 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Clara A. Graves and others. March 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John Veeley. March 31, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Estate of Thomas Sherwin, deceased. March 31, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Fanny B. Randolph and Dora L. Stark. March 31, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Grant of certain lands to Valentine, Nebr. March 31, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Helen M. Fiedler. March 31, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Quarantine Station, Astoria, Oreg. April 1, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across St. Louis River between Wisconsin and Minnesota. April 1, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Heirs of certain seamen lost in light-vessel No. 37. April 1, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Light and fog-signal station, New Haven, Conn. April 1, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Light-houses, etc., in Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut. April 1, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Cumberland Female College, of McMinnville, Tenn. April 5, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Nancy E. Day, administratrix. April 5, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. To investigate the obstruction of navigable waters of southern and gulf states by water hyacinths. April 5, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Inspection of sailing vessels. April 5, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Collection of fees for furnishing certificates of title to vessels. April 5, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Efficiency of the Revenue-Cutter Service. April 5, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment to Indian appropriations bill. April 5, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Trustees of the German Evangelical Church, Martinsburg, W.Va. April 6, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Pearson C. Montgomery. April 6, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Calvin Gunn. April 6, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment to Indian Appropriation Bill. April 6, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Napoleon B. Giddings. April 7, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. George A. Orr. April 7, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Joseph W. Carmack. April 7, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John S. Neet, Jr. April 7, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John M. Davis. April 7, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Ezra S. Havens. April 7, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. A.F. Fleet. April 7, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. W.R. Austin & Co. April 7, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Railroad and telegraph line from Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. April 8, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William P. Buckmaster. April 8, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William Wolfe. April 8, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Henry J. Hewitt. April 8, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John F.W. Dette. April 8, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. James Bridger. April 8, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Anna Colman. April 8, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Residuary legatees of Mark Davis. April 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John W. Lewis. April 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Tonnage tax. April 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Olivia and Ida Walter. April 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. St. Charles College. April 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. L. Robert Coates & Co. April 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Potomac Steamboat Company. April 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Examination and classification of certain lands in Oregon. April 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Executor of C.M. Shaffer. April 14, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Anna W. Osborne. April 14, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Martha A. Bagwell. April 14, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. James and Emma S. Cameron. April 14, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Sioux City and Pacific Railway Company. April 15, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Medals of honor to Port Hudson storming party. April 15, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Officers and crew of revenue cutter Gallatin. April 20, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Christopher Schmidt. April 20, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Legal Representatives of John Roach. April 21, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Survey of fractional townships 31 and 32, in the State of Nebraska. March 19, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Approval of compromise and settlement between the United States and Arkansas. March 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Homestead settlers on the Great Sioux Reservation in Nebraska. March 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Santee Sioux of Nebraska and Flandreau Sioux of South Dakota. March 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Free homesteads of public lands for actual and bona fide settlers. March 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Indian citizens. March 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Chippewa Indians in Minnesota. March 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Repeal of timber-culture laws. March 23, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mixed-blood Indians. March 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed.	86
Serial set 3570	Enoch G. Adams. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary E. Hazlip. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Franklin C. Plantz. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Milton T. Bedford. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Caroline A. Slocum. July 12, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Emily E. Atherton. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Louise Van Atter. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William H.H. Wright. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Julia D. Richardson. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Prevention of cruelty to animals. May 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Robert P. Wild. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. James Byrne. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Abner Abercrombie. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John J. Boatwright. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary M. Macauley. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Oliver P. Silvey. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Ames & Detrick. June 2, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Avery D. Babcock and wife. June 11, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Elverton R. Chapman. May 17, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Francis Hall and others. May 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles Edson. July 23, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Sarah L. Hively. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Simon D. Kohl. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Caleb M. Wright. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Adonia Huard. July 24, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Cornelia I. Skiles. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. George E. Tuttle. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. P.F. Castleman. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Aaron B. Page. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles A. Hutchins. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Catherine Leary. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Louise M. Rice. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John G. Powers. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Oscar A. Palmer. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Joseph Porter. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Clarissa E. Hobbs. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Gen. James W. McMillan. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Capt. John H. Mullen. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Lewis D. Baker. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Harriet M. Knowlton. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Peter Daly. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Elijah N. Parkhurst. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Cassius M. Clay. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William W. Tumblin. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. James Eganson. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William J. Murray. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Selena McKay. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Invitation to International Exposition at Paris. June 17, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Jesse O. Davy. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Rebecca E. Kutz. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Fannie Kautz. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary Sprague. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Joshua Parker. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Capt. John W. Dodd. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Florence W. Buskirk. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. August Bolten and Gustave Richelieu. July 7, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Estate of George W. Lawrence. July 12, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Christiana C. Queen. July 12, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Annie Fowler. July 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Southwestern Presbyterian University. July 14, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Alfredo Laborde and others. July 14, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Legal Representatives of James W. Schaumburg. July 14, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Maria Somerlat. July 14, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Lieut. Robert Platt, U.S.N. July 15, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John F. Early. July 15, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Jacob I. Cohen and J. Randolph Mordecai. July 15, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending the act granting pension to soldiers and sailors of the Mexican War. July 16, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Nonpartisan labor commission. July 17, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Rachel Kern. July 17, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. J.K. Benjamin and others. July 17, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. C.S. Lobdell and others. July 17, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Anna E. Botsford. July 20, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William J. Ford. July 20, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Charges of bribery and corruption. July 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Levi Stoltz. July 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Hiram H. Palmer. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. George W. Walton. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Esther Brown. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Catherine A. Bradley. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. James W. Whitney. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Abraham Rhodes. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Jackson Lucas. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Jacob P. Fletcher. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William F. Gowdy. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Michael Carron. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Wesley C. Sawyer. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles A. Nazro. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Arethusa Wright. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Catherine L. Nixon. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Margaret C. McKay. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles E. Mann. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles F. Holly. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Helen L. Dent. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John Amrein. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Jennie E. Burch. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Thomas J. Haughey. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Eli D. Walker. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Luvicey J. Summers. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Capt. James B. Logan. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Isabella H. Silvey. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Caroline V. English. June 2, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Ann M. Madden. July 2, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Elijah A. Gilbert. July 2, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Franklin Insurance Company of Washington, D.C. July 2, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Use of public parks, etc., in the District of Columbia. July 2, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Harbor of Cumberland Sound. July 2, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Regulating pay of noncommissioned officers in the Army. April 21, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John Stull. April 21, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Christian M. Kirkpatrick. April 21, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Continental Fire Insurance Company and others. April 21, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Francis W. Seeley. April 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Col. Thomas P. O'Reilly. April 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Orin R. McDaniel. April 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles Fletcher, alias James H. Mitchell. April 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Patrick Larkin. April 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Road to national cemetery at Dover, Tenn. April 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John Clyde Sullivan. April 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Legal representatives of John Roach, deceased. May 3, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Estate of Richard Lawson. May 3, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mobile Marine Dock Company. May 3, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Dorence Atwater. May 3, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Berry, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report (To accompany S. 99.) The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 99) "Granting to the State of California Five Per Centum of the Net Proceeds of the Cash Sales of Public Lands in Said State," have had the same under consideration, and report as follows:... Public building at Durham, N.C. May 28, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Evanston, Wyo. May 4, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Dr. S.A. Brown. May 4, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Heirs of Sterling T. Austin. May 4, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. New Library of Congress. May 4, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William Spiegelberg. May 6, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Regulations for preventing collisions on rivers, etc., of the United States. May 6, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. American register for barkentine Sharpshooter. May 6, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Abilene, Tex. May 6, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Indianapolis, Ind. May 6, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Twyman O. Abbott. May 18, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Rinaldo P. Smith. May 19, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Lieut. Benjamin W. Loring. May 12, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Bequest of Peter Von Essen. May 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Regulation of cemeteries, etc., in the District of Columbia. May 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Regulation of the disposal of certain refuse in the District of Columbia. May 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Sale of poisons in the District of Columbia. May 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Adulteration of foods and drugs. May 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. To regulate sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia. May 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Daisey Johnson. May 13, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Estate of A.H. Herr. May 25, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Administrators of Isaac P. Tice. May 25, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Nashua, N.H. May 28, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. M.S. Hellman. May 28, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Portland Company, of Portland, Me. May 28, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Legal Representatives of George McDougall. May 28, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Nathan Mitchell. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Riley W. Pierce. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Ransom S. Angell. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Daniel Phillips. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Jerusha Sturgis. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William L. Grigsby. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Alice V. Cook. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Alfred Bigelow. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Celia A. Jeffers. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary F. Hawley. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Catherine E. O'Brien. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Susan A. Paddock. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. James M. Simeral. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Hattie E. Redfield. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Samuel A. Smith. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Sarah M. Spyker. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Second homestead entries. June 3, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. W.H. Crook. June 4, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Atlantic Works, of Boston, Mass. June 4, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Heirs of Jacob R. Davis. June 10, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Thomas Guinean. June 11, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Limiting the effect of regulations of commerce between the states, etc. June 14, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions to survivors of certain Indian wars. June 15, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary A. Coulson, executrix. June 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation bill. June 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. David O. Burleigh. June 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Julia A. Humphries. June 23, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John L. Rhea, executor. June 23, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Proof in certain pension cases. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. To supplement the act of June 27, 1890. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Nancy G. Allabach. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary W.C. Burgess. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Martha Frank. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles D. Hanscom. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Delia Gilman. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Elizabeth D. Marthon. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Hans Johnson. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Caroline B. Bradford. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Christine C. Barnard. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary Stuart Lasselle. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William A. Beckford. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Betsey B. Olin. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John H. Sanborn. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Francis H. Staples. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Benjamin F. Tuck. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Edward F. Adams. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Joseph V. Bowie. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Lucia A. Hynes. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary A. Wise. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Daniel G. George. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Rebecca P. Quint. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Carlton W. Muzzy. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Plumy E. Marden. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Thomas F. Leahy. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Samuel E. Liscom. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. W.L. Faxon. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William N. Wells. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Philip T. Greely. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Hepza Hobson Werden. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Marietta Hayes. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Moses M. Crants. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Celesthia A. Whitney. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Sophia J. Chilcott. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Arabella V. Washburn. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Jane L. Buckingham. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William H. Morgan. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Harriet Clarissa Mercur. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Frances C. De Russy. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Susan M. Sessford. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Elizabeth S. Roberts. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Russell R. King. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Capt. Isaac D. Toll. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Henry Wilson. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Frances M. Roberts. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Jane L. Fagg. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John S. Hall. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Napoleon B. Breedlove. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Eugenia Wood. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. George W. Smith. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Emeline C. Sewell. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Issue of patents to certain lands in Florida. June 21, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Helen A. De Russy. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary E. Chamberlin. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Alvah A. Eaton. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John N. Corgan. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Charles Williamson. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Allen Buckner. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Andrew M. Callaham. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Edmund Woog. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Henry Farmer. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Joseph M. Waddell. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Ambrose J. Vanarsdel. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Johnson Hays. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Clark W. Harrington. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Levi R. Long. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Ann King. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. George W. Palmer. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Henry B. Conway. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Nellie L. Groshon. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Margaret Rowsell. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Cornelia De Peyster Black. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Josephine I. Offley. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mary A. Benjamin. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John McGrath. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Martha M. McCall. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. James H. Kile. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Silas B. Hensley. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Sarah E. Cotton. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. George Hughes. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at McKeesport, Pa. May 28, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Aberdeen, S. Dak. May 10, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Employees in the Census Office. May 10, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Oakland, Cal. May 12, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Deadwood, S. Dak. May 12, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. George F. Roberts. May 20, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Marble busts of the vice-presidents. May 26, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Warren Hall. May 26, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Compensation for a bridge, etc., on public lands, etc. May 27, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Butte City, Mont. May 28, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Martha L. Bohannon. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at San Angelo, Tex. May 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Monuments to memory of Gens. Francis Nash and William Lee Davidson. June 1, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Cleveland, Ohio. June 16, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works. June 17, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Estates of Daniel Woodson and Ely Moore. June 23, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Charlotte O. Van Cleve. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Adelaide Morris. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Frederick A. Driscol. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Frances E. Wickware. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William Brown. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Neil McNeil. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Sarah E. Boyd. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions to certain soldiers, etc. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Edward Stanley. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Jackson Osborn. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Jacob Saladin. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John N. Landon. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Elender Herring. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John F. Hathaway. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Maj. John H. Gearkee. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Sarah R. Frary. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Simpson Everett Stilwell. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Margaret Custer Calhoun. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Ella D. Cross. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Jane B. Johnston. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Lucretia C. Waring. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. James G. Hartzell. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. John G.B. Masters. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Samantha Barnes. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Thomas Madden. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Richard T. Seltzer. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Kate Ezekiel. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Harriet R. Matlack. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Miss Mary Hayne. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Emily M. Tyler. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Refunding certain import duties. June 29, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. William H. Tibbits. June 21, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Abel S. Chase. June 30, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed	307
Serial set 3570-A	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, begun and held at the City of Washington, March 15, 1897, in the one hundred and twenty-second year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 3571	Repeal, etc., of certain health ordinances. Letter from the president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, with a copy of a communication from the health officer of the District, a draft of a joint resolution authorizing the commissioners to alter, amend, or repeal certain health ordinances. April 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Survey of Neponset River, Massachusetts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Neponset River, Massachusetts. May 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Bayou Teche from St. Martinville to Port Barre, La. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Bayou Teche from St. Martinville to Port Barre, La. June 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Manchester Harbor, Massachusetts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Manchester Harbor, Massachusetts. April 21, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Amending section 3242, Revised Statutes. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting a communication relating to an amendment to section 3242, Revised Statutes of the United States. April 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Surveys of Arkansas River at Little Rock, Vanburen, and Forth Smith. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of surveys of Arkansas River at Little Rock, Vanburen, and Fort Smith. April 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Preliminary examination of Chandlers River, Maine. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of Chandlers River, Maine. May 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Payment of certain consular fees. Letter from the Third Assistant Secretary of State, inclosing a copy of a letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury and a draft of a resolution for the payment of certain consular officers. June 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Jurisdiction of United States court for western district of Arkansas. Letter from the Attorney-General, calling attention to a question of jurisdiction in the United States court for the western district of Arkansas, and recommending legislation. July 12, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Survey of Salem River from its mouth to Salem City, New Jersey. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Salem River from its mouth to Salem City, New Jersey. July 12, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department, recommending an appropriation for putting Fort Lafayette in condition to be used as a naval magazine. July 12, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Survey of Bellingham Bay from deep water to mouth of Whatcom Creek, at New Whatcom, Wash. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Bellingham Bay, New Whatcom, Wash. July 12, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Sakonnet Point, Rhode Island. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Sakonnet Point, Rhode Island. July 12, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of New Haven Harbor, Connecticut. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of New Haven Harbor. July 12, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Preliminary examination of Humboldt Harbor, California. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of Humboldt Harbor, California. July 15, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. International fisheries exposition at Bergen, Norway, 1898. Letter from the third Assistant Secretary of State, transmitting a copy of a note from the minister of Sweden and Norway, with accompanying documents, and recommending an appropriation to enable the United States government to participate in the international fisheries exposition to be held at Bergen, Norway, May 16 to September 30, 1898. July 15, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Preliminary examination for a ship canal from the Great Lakes to the navigable waters of the Hudson River. Letter from the Secretary of War... a report with illustrations from Major Thomas W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, relating to a proposed ship canal from the Great Lakes to the Hudson River. July 15, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Preliminary examination of Huron River, Michigan. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of preliminary examination of Huron River, Michigan. July 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Tampa Bay, Florida. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Tampa Bay, Florida. July 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Armor for battle ships. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a copy of a proposed joint resolution relating to the purchase of armor for the battle ships Nos. 7, 8, and 9. July 22, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Reports to be made to Congress. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting a list of reports to be made to Congress by public officers. July 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial from the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and accompanying copy of a memorial from the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians. July 1, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Fourth National Bank of New York City. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of War, calling attention to certain desired changes in House Document No. 67, relating to the issuance of a certain duplicate check. July 1, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Payment of outstanding claims in North Dakota, New Mexico, and Idaho. Letter from the Attorney-General, relating to certain amounts for the payment of outstanding claims in North Dakota, New Mexico, and Idaho. July 1, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rebuilding immigrant station at Ellis Island, New York Harbor. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, and recommending an appropriation for the rebuilding of the immigrant station at Ellis Island, New York. July 1, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for fees of jurors, United States courts, 1897. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting a communication explaining the necessity of an additional appropriation for fees of jurors. March 27, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for telegraph and telephone service, District of Columbia. Letter from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, requesting that the appropriation for the renewal of portions of the patrol system in the district appropriation act be made immediately available, and inclosing the draft of a resolution for the purpose. March 27, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Survey of Weymouth (Back) River, Massachusetts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of a survey of Weymouth (Back) River, Massachusetts, from Hingham Bridge to Mann's Wharf. March 27, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Doboy Bar, Georgia. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of a survey of Doboy Bar, Georgia. March 27, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Industrial Home School of the District of Columbia. Letter from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, with a communication relating thereto, a draft of a joint resolution to make available the appropriation for a building to replace the old almshouse building at the Industrial Home School. April 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Property statement of Sergeant-at-Arms. Letter from the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives transmitting a list of property in his charge March 15, 1897. April 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Survey of Housatonic River, Connecticut. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of a survey of Housatonic River, Connecticut. April 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for fees of jurors, etc. Letter from the Attorney-General, calling attention to the necessity of immediate appropriations for certain expenses in the Department of Justice. April 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Survey of the mouth of Tennessee River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of the mouth of the Tennessee River. April 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Armor for battle ships. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting communications from the Illinois Steel Company, The Bethlehem Iron Company, and the Carnegie Steel Company, in answer to the department's advertisements for armor; also a communication from the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. April 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Salaries and expenses of district attorneys. Letter from the Attorney-General, recommending special appropriations for salaries and expenses of district attorneys and their assistants. April 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Survey of Emory River, Tennessee, from its mouth of the town of Harriman. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Emory River, Tennessee. April 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Paris Exposition of 1900. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a note from the French Ambassador relating to American Commissioners to the Paris Exposition of 1900. April 17, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for expenses of United States courts. Letter from the Acting Attorney-General, inclosing a copy of a letter referring to the necessity for immediate action on the appropriation for expenses of United States courts. April 21, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Examination of channel through Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of channel through Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana. April 21, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts. April 21, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Green River, Kentucky. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Green River, Kentucky, at or near its mouth, for new lock and dam. April 21, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth Hughes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter from the Commissioner of Pensions, with accompanying papers, relating to the alleged fraudulent pensioning of Elizabeth, mother of James T. Hughes. April 21, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed. Brig. Gen. William P. Carlin. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a copy of a letter from General Carlin, together with a copy of House Bill No. 422, Fifty-fourth Congress, the recommendation that Congress take favorable action in the said matter. April 26, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Examining and testing work of contracting surveyors in the field. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, with approval, a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, requesting the authorization of the immediate use of an unexpended balance of appropriation for examining and testing the work of contracting surveyors in the field. May 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. American shipping and its revival. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from William T. Malster relating to American shipping and its revival. May 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries and ordered to be printed. Heirs of certain citizens of Italy. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State relating to the outrages committed by citizens of the United States upon citizens of Italy, and recommending an appropriation by Congress for the relief of the heirs of the sufferers. May 3, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Clerk and deputy marshal at Juneau, Alaska. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting, with copies of certain letters, a recommendation for an appropriation in the sundry civil bill for clerk in the Marshal's office for the District of Alaska and an additional deputy marshal to be stationed at Juneau. May 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Survey for easterly breakwater to shore, Point Judith harbor of refuge, Rhode Island. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey for easterly breakwater to shore, Point Judith harbor of refuge, Rhode Island. May 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Carlos Gutierrez. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting, with the draft of a joint resolution, the recommendation that the Secretary of War be authorized to receive for instruction at West Point Carlos Gutierrez, son of the President of Salvador. May 6, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Survey of harbor at Plymouth, Mass. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of a survey of the harbor at Plymouth, Mass. May 6, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Preliminary examination of Oyster River, New Hampshire. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of Oyster River, New Hampshire. May 6, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Exeter River, New Hampshire. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of a survey of Exeter River, New Hampshire, from its mouth to the upper bridge in Exeter. May 6, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Preventing collision on inland waters of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a bill codifying the inland rules of the United States to prevent collisions of vessels, accompanied by a report approved by the delegates of the United States to the Washington International Marine Conference of 1889. May 6, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries and ordered to be printed. Leak in dry dock at Brooklyn Navy Yard. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report of the Board of Civil Engineers appointed to examine the cause of the leak in the dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and recommending an appropriation for the same. May 31, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Napoleon B. Allen. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in the case of Napoleon B. Allen against the United States. June 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Joseph M. Middlekauff. Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in the case of Joseph M. Middlekauff against the United States. June 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Survey of Lewis River, Washington, from Columbia River to Lacenter. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Lewis River, Washington, from Columbia River to Lacenter. June 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Protection of the eastern beach of United States lands at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending legislation to provide immediate funds for construction of works for protecting the eastern beach of United States lands at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. June 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pay of certain deputy marshals. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting copy of a letter to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations relating to legislation desired by the Department affecting pay of certain officials. June 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Charles C. Ely. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, a copy of a letter from Maj. C.C. Sniffen, paymaster, U.S.A., and recommending that a duplicate check be issued in favor of Charles C. Ely. June 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Admission of Chinese to attend Omaha exposition. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, making certain recommendations in regard to the admission of Chinese to attend the Omaha exposition. June 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Survey of Erie Harbor. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania. June 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Message of the President of the United States communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress. Postal Congress of the World. Letter from the Postmaster General, calling attention to the need of an immediate appropriation for the expenses of the Postal Congress of the World. March 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Preliminary examination of Tradewater River, Kentucky. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of Tradewater River, Kentucky. March 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Pamlico River, North Carolina. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Pamlico River, North Carolina. March 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Preliminary examination of Union River, Maine. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of Union River, near the City of Ellsworth, in Hancock County, Maine. March 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina. March 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts. March 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Preliminary examination for obtaining a channel through Conanicut Island, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination for obtaining a channel through Conanicut Island, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. March 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Property in charge of Doorkeeper. Letter from the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, transmitting an inventory of property under his charge. March 19, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Repair of dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy-Yard. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of the Navy urging the importance of an immediate appropriation for the repair of dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy-Yard. June 21, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Survey of Buffalo entrance to Erie Basin and Black Rock Harbor, New York. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Buffalo entrance to Erie Basin and Black Rock Harbor, New York. June 21, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Kootenai River, Montana, for removal of obstructions above Jennings. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Kootenai River, Montana, for removal of obstructions above Jennings. June 21, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Royal River, Maine. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Royal River, Maine. May 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Preliminary examination of south channel of branch of Penobscot River, Maine. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of south channel of branch of Penobscot River, Maine. May 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Preliminary examination of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers' report of examination of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. May 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Harraseeket River, Maine. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Harraseeket River, Maine. May 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Machias River, Maine. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Machias River, Maine. May 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Bangor Harbor and Penobscot River, including mouth of Kenduskeag River, Maine. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Bangor Harbor and Penobscot River, including mouth of Kenduskeag River, Maine. May 10, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for repair of the dry docks at Brooklyn Navy Yard. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, recommending an emergency appropriation for the repair of the dry docks at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. May 20, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Survey of St. Croix River, below Calais, between Maine and New Brunswick. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of St. Croix River, below Calais, between Maine and New Brunswick. May 24, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Survey of Mount Hope Bay and Fall River Harbor, Massachusetts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of survey of Mount Hope Bay and Fall River Harbor, Massachusetts. May 27, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for fees of witnesses, United States Courts. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting a copy of a letter to the chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, relating to an appropriation for fees of witnesses, etc. May 27, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Improving Merrimac River, Massachusetts. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, estimate of cost of improving the Merrimac River, Massachusetts, between Newburyport and Haverhill. May 17, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.	86
Serial set 3572	U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, John J. Brice, Commissioner. Part XXII. Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1896.	1
Serial set 3573	Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. [Operations on the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, December 1861-July 1865; Atlantic Blockading Squadron, April 1861-July 1861; Series 1, Vol. 5]	1