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Meetings of the House. May 6, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Nonconcurrence in Senate amendments to House Bill 379. July 8, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Open and unrestricted markets in foreign countries for American tobacco. July 19, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Suspension of discriminating duties imposed on foreign vessels. July 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Monetary Commission. July 22, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. New England Distilling Company and Mullins & Crigler. July 1, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of American citizens in Cuba. May 20, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Consideration of House Bill No. 379. March 19, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Consideration of House Bill No. 16. March 19, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Proposed revision of tariff -- revenue and protection. March 19, 1897. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Repair of dry dock at New York Navy-Yard. June 21, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, Nebr. June 21, 1897. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. In the House of Representatives. May 10, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dalzell, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following report. (To accompany H.Res. No. 44.)... Relief of the famishing poor in India. May 31, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Deficiency for public printing and binding. May 31, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Prevention of collisions upon inland waters of United States. May 31, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 3589 | Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the second session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, begun and held at the City of Washington December 6, 1897, in the one hundred and twenty-second year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
| Serial set 3590 |
The situation in Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting letter from the mail carrier between Juneau and Circle City relative to the situation in Alaska. December 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Robert C. Rogers. December 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Report on introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska, with illustrations, by Sheldon Jackson, D.D., general agent of education in Alaska. 1897. December 17, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Annual report of William R. Cox, Secretary of the Senate, submitting a full and complete statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Senate from July 1, 1896, to June 30, 1897. December 6, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Government Printing Office. Annual report of the Public Printer for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897. December 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Property in possession of Secretary of Senate. Letter from the Secretary of the United States Senate, transmitting a full and complete account of all property belonging to the United States in his possession on the 6th day of December, 1897. December 7, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Property in possession of Sergeant-at-Arms. Letter from the Sergeant-at-Arms, United States Senate, transmitting a full and complete report of all property in his possession belonging to the United States. December 7, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of the report of the government directors of the Union Pacific Railway Company for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897. December 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. The Overton Hotel Company. Letter from the Assistant Clerk Court of Claims, transmitting a certified copy of the findings filed by the court June 14, 1897, in the Congressional case 9495, the Overton Hotel Company v. The United States. December 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Schooner Orange, Samuel Wheaton, Master. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting findings of fact and conclusions of law in the matter of the schooner Orange, Samuel Wheaton, Master. claimants James Burdick, administrator of Thomas Lloyd Halsey; the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company, trustee for the Providence Washington Insurance Company French spoliation claims, ... December 7, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims ... Proceedings of the Legislature of Oklahoma, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copies of the journals of the councils and house proceedings of the fourth legislative assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma, together with copies of the session laws of 1897. December 8, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Agreements with certain Indians, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the requirements of the Indian appropriation bill approved June 7, 1897, directing the Secretary of the Interior to report to Congress copies of all treaties or agreements made with the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians prior to and since 1863. December 8, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. December 8, 1897. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Construction of the Nicaragua Canal and ordered to be printed. Expenditures at the Springfield Armory. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statement exhibiting the expenditures at the National Armory, Springfield, Mass. December 8, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered by the Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting statement of all judgments rendered by the Court of Claims for the year ended December 4, 1897. December 9, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Librarian of Congress. December 9, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. Alaska gold fields. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 9, 1897, report of Capt. P.H. Ray, Eighth United States Infantry, and Lieut. W.P. Richardson relative to the condition of affairs in the Alaska gold fields. December 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Protest against legalization of pooling by railroads. December 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed. Post-office, etc., building at St. Paul, Minn. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury acknowledging the receipt of Senate Resolution of December 9, 1897, relative to changes required in the construction of the post-office, court-house, and custom-house building, St. Paul, Minn. December 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Improper occupation of the public street, etc., in Washington, D.C. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, reporting action in certain cases to prevent the improper appropriation or occupation of the public streets, squares, or reservations in the City of Washington, belonging to the United States, as required by law. December 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Improvement of Severn River, Maryland. December 14, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, to accompany S. 2778, and ordered to be printed. Number of persons examined, passed, and appointed under civil service, etc. Letter from the Civil Service Commission, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 13, 1897, a statement, by fiscal years since 1890, showing the total number of persons examined, the total number passed,... December 15, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Speech of Hon. S.S. Cox, of New York. December 15, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Portion of a speech of Monsieur Meline. December 16, 1897. -- Ordered to be printed. Seventh report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification. October 31, 1896, to October 31, 1897. December 16, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Condition of graves of American soldiers killed at the battle of Buena Vista. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution 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, on February 27, 1847. December 17, 1897. -- Read; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Arrest by United States consuls in China of American citizens charged with certain offenses. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, submitting for the required revision of Congress a decree proposed to be issued by the minister of the United States at Peking... December 17, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Choctaw-Chickasaw Union Party. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of a paper which purports to be the objections by the Choctaw-Chickasaw Union Party to the agreement between the Commissioners of the United States to Negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes and the commissioners on the part of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians heretofore submitted. December 17, 1897. Remonstrance against the annexation of Hawaii. December 17, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Direct legislation by the people. December 17, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Agreement with the Five Civilized Tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting... an agreement between the commissioners of the United States to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes and the commission on the part of the Muscogee or Creek Nation, concluded on the 27th day of September, 1897. December 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supernumerary employees in the Treasury Department, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in response to resolution of the Senate of December 16, 1897, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish certain information as to supernumerary employees in the Treasury Department, etc. December 18, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Extra copies of hydrographic charts Nos. 1262 and 1682. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 13, 1897, one hundred copies each of charts numbered 1262 and 1682 of the Hydrographic Office. December 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Names of streets in the District of Columbia. December 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the report of the special commissioner to the Paris Exposition of 1900, with illustrations and maps, and accompanying official letters, interviews, and miscellaneous documents. Measures adopted to thwart violations of the neutrality laws, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 16, 1897, calling for information relative to measures adopted to thwart violations of the neutrality laws off the coast of Florida or in contiguous waters. December 18, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Totally deaf soldiers, sailors, and marines. December 13, 1897. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed |
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| Serial set 3591 | Fifty-fifth Congress. (Second session -- beginning December 6, 1897.) Official Congressional Directory, for the use of the United States Congress, prepared under the direction of the clerk of printing records. By L.A. Coolidge. First edition. | 1 |
| Serial set 3592 |
Amendments to interstate-commerce law. January 5, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed. Treaties between Japan and Hawaii. January 17, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Agreement between the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. January 17, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed, with subheads and marginal notes. Deficiency appropriation for Civil Service Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an urgent deficiency estimate of appropriation for printing and binding, including lithographing, for the Civil Service Commission. January 17, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Santee Sioux of Nebraska and Flandreau Sioux of South Dakota. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report concerning the Santee Sioux of Nebraska and Flandreau Sioux of South Dakota, formerly known as a confederacy of the Medawakanton and Wahpakoota bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians. January 17, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Bering Sea awards. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State in regard to the award of the commissioners appointed pursuant to the stipulations of the convention of February 8, 1896, between the United States and Great Britain, providing for the settlement of the claims...January 14, 1898. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Criminal and penal laws relating to Alaska, etc. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting a special report made by the Commission to Revise and Codify the Criminal and Penal Laws of the United States concerning the criminal and penal laws relating to the District of Alaska, etc. January 14, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Production of gold and silver in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 13, 1898, report of the Director of the Geological Survey as to the desirability of more definite statistics in regard to the production of gold and silver in the United States. January 17, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. January 17, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Sugar importation, etc. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, in response to the Senate resolution of January 14, 1898, relative to sugar importation, production, and consumption in the United States. January 17, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Employees in Library of Congress. Letter from the Librarian of Congress, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 17, 1897, a statement showing the names of all employees appointed by him to places in the Library. January 5, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. Railway and steamship mail contracts. Letter from the Postmaster General, in compliance with Senate resolution of December 18, 1897, relative to railway and steamship mail contracts. January 5, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Central Pacific Railroad. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 16, 1897, calling for itemized statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Central Pacific Railroad for each year from 1871 to 1897, report thereon by the Commissioner of Railroads. January 5, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. Cost of the Eleventh Census. January 5, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Survey of forest reserves. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 15, 1897, relative to survey of the public lands that have been designated as forest reserves by executive proclamation, a report of the Director of the Geological Survey. January 5, 1898. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Reservation of certain lands in California. January 5, 1898. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Kansas Pacific Railroad. Letter from the Attorney-General, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 9, 1897, relative to the proposed sale of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. January 6, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. Sale of Kansas Pacific Railroad. Message from the President of the United States, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 9, 1897, relative to the postponement of the sale of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. January 7, 1898. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads, and ordered to be printed. Liabilities of registers and receivers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, for the consideration of the Senate, a communication from the Auditor for the Interior Department upon the subject of "liabilities of registers and receivers on their bonds for the proceeds arising from the sales of Indian lands." January 10, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Fourth of July claims. January 10, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Protection of fur seals in Bering Sea. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of May 25, 1897, a report of the Secretary of State, accompanied by copies of correspondence of record in the Department of State touching the protection of fur seals in Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean. December 18, 1897. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letters from cabinet officers relative to the civil-service rules. Letters from the secretaries of the Treasury, of the Department of Agriculture, and of the Department of State, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 18, 1897, relative to changes or amendments to the present civil-service rules. January 5, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Revenue cutter Daniel Manning. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 5, 1898, relative to the cost of the hull, machinery, and appurtenances of the revenue cutter Daniel Manning, contracted for by the department. January 10, 1898. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mission Indians of California. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting draft of a bill to amend an act entitled "An Act for the Relief of the Mission Indians in the State of California," together with copy of Indian office report relating to the same. January 11, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Buildings of United States Naval Academy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Hon. Eugene Hale, Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, United States Senate, relating to certain buildings of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., and transmitting certain other letters and reports. January 11, 1898. -- Presented by Mr. Hale, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Agreement with the Five Civilized Tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of agreement between the United States Commissioners to Negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes and the Commissioners on the Part of the Seminole Nation. January 13, 1898. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians and ordered to be printed. Report of the National Academy of Sciences for the year 1897. Official deputies of internal revenue. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury... in regard to the legal right and authority of collectors of internal revenue to appoint their official deputies either from or outside of the so-called "eligible list." January 13, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Postal telegraph and telephone lines, postal savings banks, government life annuities, and provisions for old age, in foreign countries. Information furnished through the State Department by diplomatic and consular officers of the United States in response to Senate resolution of July 12, 1897, offered by Senator Butler, of North Carolina. |
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Filtration of the water supply of the District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 10, 1898, a report from the Surgeon General of the Army and Capt. D.D. Gaillard, Corps of Engineers, relative to the filtration of the water supply of the District of Columbia. January 26, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Fort Meade, S. Dak. January 20, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Our free-silver law. January 22, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Personnel of the Navy. January 26, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, with S. 3404, and ordered to be printed. Investigation of the pollution of water supplies. January 25, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine and ordered to be printed. Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report concerning the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians, in conformity with the requirements of the Indian Appropriation Act of June 7, 1897. January 17, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Correspondence respecting proposals on currency. January 17, 1898. -- Ordered that 5,000 copies be printed. Active officers in the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 12, 1898, a statement showing the number of active officers in the Navy January 1, 1898. January 18, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Arrest of Harry K. Spring and Charles W. Nelson. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting... report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, showing the action taken by the Department relative to the arrest of Harry K. Spring and Charles W. Nelson in Colombia. January 18, 1898. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions, etc., in opposition to "Antiscalpers' Bill." January 19, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed. Bernard Campbell. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 18, 1897, a report of the Secretary of State, and accompanying papers, relative to the claim of Bernard Campbell against the government of Haiti. January 19, 1898. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, for the consideration of Congress, copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting an urgent deficiency estimate for printing and binding for the Navy Department for the current fiscal year. January 19, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Distribution of wealth in the United States. January 19, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Agreement with the Creek and Seminole Nations. January 21, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Postal free-delivery system. Letter from the Postmaster General, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 20, 1898, as to sum of money, immediately available, necessary to preserve the efficiency and usefulness of the postal free-delivery system. January 21, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Agreement with Uintah and White River Ute Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an agreement, dated the 8th instant, made by the commission with the Uintahs and White River Ute Indians, by which they consent to sell, cede, and relinquish... necessary lands for the use of such of the Uncompahgre Indians as may conclude to remove to the Uintah Indian Reservation. January 22, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Against the annexation of Hawaii. January 24, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Communications in regard to the old Congressional Library. January 24, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 18, 1897, copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs containing a full statement in regard to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen. January 24, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the disbursements to the states and territories of the appropriation in aid of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts under the Act of Congress approved August 30, 1890. January 24, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Silver and wheat. January 25, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Value of gold bullion in England. January 25, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Pacific Railway companies. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 18, 1898, relative to item in the statement of the bond account of the several Pacific Railway companies under the head of "balance of accrued interest due the United States on interest account." January 25, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads and ordered to be printed. Drainage basin of the Potomac. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 14, 1898, a copy of a letter from the Director of the Geological Survey inclosing a report regarding the hydrography of the drainage basin of the Potomac. January 25, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine and ordered to be printed. Postal savings banks. Letter from the Postmaster General, relative to Senate Bill No. 2369, providing for postal savings banks. January 26, 1898. -- Presented by Mr. Wolcott, referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. Capt. B. Tellefsen. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, and accompanying papers presenting the claim of Capt. B. Tellefsen, of the Norwegian steamer Albert, against the United States. January 26, 1898. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Viaduct across Rock Creek, District of Columbia. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in pursuance of the clause in the District appropriation act of March 3, 1897, a report, together with the submitted plans...for a bridge or viaduct across Rock Creek on the line of the extension of Connecticut Avenue. January 26, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Killing of a woman in Oklahoma by Seminole Indians, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 20, 1898, copy of telegram and correspondence relative to the killing of a woman in Oklahoma Territory by Seminole Indians and the burning to death of two Seminole Indians by a mob in said territory. January 27, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Henry M. Cooper. Letter from the Acting Attorney-General in response to Senate Resolution of January 22, 1898, inquiring when Henry M. Cooper, United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Arkansas, qualified and entered upon the discharge of his duties, and also asking for certain information relative to the appointment of his office deputies. January 28, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Distribution of official records of the War of the Rebellion. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from Maj. Geo. W. Davis, Chairman Board of Publication of Records of the Rebellion, containing recommendations for...surplus copies of the official records of the War of the Rebellion...January 28, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. The historic policy of the United States as to annexation. January 31, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Purchase of land at Port Royal, S.C. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, relative to the purchase of land adjoining the naval station at Port Royal, S.C. January 31, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, to accompany amendment to Naval appropriation bill, and ordered to be printed. Protest against the passage of Senate Bill 1063. January 31, 1898. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Remonstrance against ratification of agreement with Seminole Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a remonstrance against the ratification of an agreement between the commissioners of the United States to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes and the commissioners of the Seminole Nation, ...January 31, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the Five Civilized Tribes and ordered to be printed. Argument for free homes. January 31, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report of the board appointed to consider the subject of dry docks. January 31, 1898. -- Presented by Mr. Hale and ordered to be printed. Report of Metropolitan Railroad Company. February 1, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Constitutions of Hawaii. February 1, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Killing of Mrs. Laird by Seminole Indians. Letter from the Acting Attorney-General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 20, 1898, copies of all papers and correspondence in Department of Justice relating to the killing of Mrs. Laird in the Seminole Nation, and the subsequent burning to death of M'Geisy and Sampson by a mob. January 28, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Frank Epps. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 18, 1898, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, respecting the killing, at Nagasaki, Japan, of Frank Epps, a sailor of the U.S.S. Olympia. January 26, 1898. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. |
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Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. [Second Memoir, A Contribution to the Study of the Effect of the Venom of Crotalus Adamanteus Upon the Blood of Man and Animals, by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., and Alonzo H. Stewart, M.D.] Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume VIII. Third Memoir. [General perturbations of Minerva (93), by Jupiter, including terms only of the first order with respect to the mass, together with a correction of elements, by W.S. Eichelberger, Ph.D.] Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume VIII. Fourth memoir. [Ophiura brevispina, by W.K. Brooks and Caswell Grave.] |
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| Serial set 3595 | Report of the special commission appointed by the President January 4, 1896, to examine and report upon the true divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana, transmitted by the President of the Senate on January 21, 1898, with reports from the Secretary of State and the Acting Secretary of the Treasury. | 1 |
| Serial set 3596 | Report of the special commission appointed by the President January 4, 1896, to examine and report upon the true divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana, transmitted by the President of the Senate on January 21, 1898, with reports from the Secretary of State and the Acting Secretary of the Treasury. | 1 |
| Serial set 3597 | Report of the special commission appointed by the President January 4, 1896, to examine and report upon the true divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana, transmitted by the President of the Senate on January 21, 1898, with reports from the Secretary of State and the Acting Secretary of the Treasury. | 1 |
| Serial set 3598 | Venezuelan Boundary Commission. Report and accompanying papers of the commission appointed by the President of the United States "to investigate and report upon the true divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana." Volume 4. Atlas. | 1 |
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Fish-hatching station on Puget Sound. February 2, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Fisheries, to accompany amendment to sundry civil appropriation bill, and ordered to be printed. Line and Engineer Corps of the Navy. February 4, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Arsenization method of treating cholera. February 2, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine and ordered to be printed. Support of Indian contract schools. February 2, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Government armor factory. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report of the Armor Factory Board, appointed in pursuance of the authority contained in the General Deficiency Act approved July 19, 1897. February 3, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appointment of deputy marshals, Eastern District of Arkansas. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 2, 1898, copies of the correspondence between the department and United States Marshal Cooper, Eastern District of Arkansas, relative to the appointment of deputies. February 4, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. Maryland and Washington Railway Company. February 4, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Eckington and Soldiers' Home Railway Company. February 4, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Belt Railway Company. February 4, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Company. February 7, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Electric-lighting cable. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in response to resolution of the Senate of January 27, 1898, as to the use of telegraph conduits for electric-lighting cable purposes in the District of Columbia. February 7, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Lieutenants, United States Army, on the active list. February 7, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, to accompany S. 3493, and ordered to be printed. Irrigation of certain parts of the Montezuma Valley. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the irrigation of that part of the Montezuma Valley lying within the boundaries of the Southern Ute Indian Reservation. February 7, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Capital Railway Company. February 8, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Price of armor plate. February 8, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Monetary changes in Japan. February 8, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. United States Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs. Armor plate. Hearings before the Committee on January 19 and February 2, 1898, and bids for constructing a government armor factory. February 8, 1898. -- Presented by Mr. Hale, and ordered to be printed. Ticket brokerage. Hearings had on December 16, 1897, January 6 and 7, 1898, and January 15, 1898, before the Committee on Interstate Commerce of the United States Senate on the Bill (S. 1575) to amend an act entitled "An Act To Regulate Commerce." February 8, 1898. -- Presented by Mr. Cullom and ordered to be printed. Education in Alaska. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 19, 1898, copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Education relative to moneys heretofore appropriated by Congress for educational purposes in the Territory of Alaska and the manner in which such appropriations have been expended. February 15, 1898. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Protest of citizens of Louisiana, etc. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 26, 1898, copy of a protest of citizens of Louisiana against violations of the Constitution... by the exclusion from service on juries in the United States courts of duly qualified citizens on account of color. February 4, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Constitution of the Republic of Cuba. February 9, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Protest against the passage of a general bankruptcy bill. February 9, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Fruit of the United States in Germany. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 3, 1898, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, respecting the alleged prohibition of the importation of the fruit of the United States into the Empire of Germany. February 10, 1898. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Confederated Otoe and Missouria Indians. February 11, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Joint Traffic Association. Letter from the Interstate Commerce Commission, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 7, 1898, so much of the testimony taken by the Commission in the proceedings known as the New York Produce Exchange case and the grain investigation cases of 1897 .... February 11, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed. Militia force of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with the provisions of Section 232, Revised Statutes, an abstract of the militia force of the United States. February 11, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Care, etc., of seacoast ordnance. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, for the consideration of Congress in connection with the fortifications appropriation bill, copy of a communication from the acting Secretary of War, submitting an estimate of appropriation for "care, repair, and maintenance of seacoast ordnance." February 14. 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Education of Indian Children in certain schools. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 2, 1898, a report prepared in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs communicating certain information relating to the education of Indian children in the schools named in said resolution. February 14, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. |
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Amendment to Chinese Exclusion Act. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting draft of a proposed amendment to the act approved November 3, 1893, relative to the exclusion of Chinese. March 9, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed John N. Smith. March 8, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. department of commerce and industries. March 24, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Statement of United States Brewers' Association. February 23, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Sale of Kansas Pacific Railroad. Letter from the Attorney-General, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 15, 1898, relative to his action in the matter of the sale of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. February 15, 1898. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Postal telegraphs, telephones, etc., in foreign countries. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting... in regard to the nature and practical workings of the postal telegraphs, telephones, and savings banks of foreign countries. February 15, 1898. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. The gold standard in Japan. February 16, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Safety appliances on cars and engines. Letter from the Interstate Commerce Commission, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 7, 1897, relative to the use of safety appliances on cars and engines by the railroad companies of the United States, as required by the act of Congress approved March 2, 1893. February 16, 1898. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Changes in plans, etc., of public building, St. Paul, Minn. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 9, 1897, relative to the changes required in the plans and specifications of the post office, courthouse, and custom-house building now in course of construction at St. Paul, Minn. February 18, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Cost per pound for carrying United States mails. Letter from the Postmaster General, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 8, 1898, as to cost per pound for all mail matter carried by the United States mail. February 18, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Mary E. Hamilton. February 18, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions, to accompany S. 3807, and ordered to be printed. United States military reservation at or near San Pedro, Los Angeles County, Cal. Letter from the Secretary of War, in response to resolution of the Senate of July 21, 1897, as to whether the Southern Pacific Railroad Company has taken possession of the United States military reservation at or near San Pedro, in Los Angeles County, Cal. February 18, 1898. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Seneca Nation of New York Indians. February 18, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mexican Veteran Volunteer Association of Missouri. February 18, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Pensions and ordered to be printed. The crime of 1873. February 21, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Enrolled Missouri militia regiments. February 22, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Artillery force for new seacoast defenses. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting copy of a communication, addressed to the President by the Boston Associated Board of Trade, urging an increased artillery force to care for and properly man the new seacoast defenses. February 23, 1898. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa Indians. February 23, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Retail Grocers' and Merchants' Association of Illinois. February 23, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Proceedings of National Association of Credit Men. February 24, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. National bankruptcy legislation. February 24, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Foreign railway ownership and operation. February 24, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Warrant officers, United States Navy. February 25, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, to accompany S. 3674, and ordered to be printed. List of books relating to Cuba (including references to collected works and periodicals), by A.P.C. Griffin, Assistant Librarian of Congress, with bibliography of maps, by P. Lee Phillips, Superintendent Maps and Charts Department, Library of Congress. February 25, 1898. -- Presented by Mr. Wetmore, referred to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz. February 23, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims. February 26, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Excise board of the District of Columbia. March 4, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Commerce of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, California. March 7, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Ellis Island Immigrant Station, New York Harbor. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Supervising Architect of the Treasury relative to the reconstruction of the Ellis Island Immigrant Station, New York Harbor. March 7, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Immigration and ordered to be printed. Telegraph poles on Fourteenth Street NW., Washington, D.C. March 7, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Columbian Kindergarten Association, Washington, D.C. March 7, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Thomas M. Steep. March 1, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Dennison and Leighton's subdivision. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in accordance with law, copy of a communication from the Treasurer of the United States, inclosing a certified copy of a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia... March 8, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Fees and compensation to landscape gardeners, District of Columbia. March 8, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Water supply and sewage disposal in the District of Columbia. March 10, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Pay of contractors for carrying mail, etc. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 25, 1998, a statement from the auditor of the Post Office Department, relative to the pay of contractors and subcontractors for carrying the mail over what are known as star routes. March 14, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Hugo O. Loewi. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 16, 1898, a report from the Secretary of State, and accompanying papers, relative to the claim of Hugo O. Loewi against the government of Haiti. March 14, 1898. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Civil service. March 14, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. A.V. Reed. March 14, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, to accompany S. 4122, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Commissioners of the United States to the International Exposition held at Brussels in 1897. Views of Commodore George W. Melville, Chief Engineer of the Navy, as to the strategic and commercial value of the Nicaraguan Canal, the future control of the Pacific Ocean, the strategic value of Hawaii, and its annexation to the United States. Map of Alaska showing known gold-bearing rocks with descriptive text containing sketches of the geography, geology, and gold deposits and routes to the gold fields. George E. Morrison, administrator. February 21, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. United States Circuit Court of Appeals. February 21, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, to accompany Mr. Stewart's amendment to H.R. 8428 (sundry civil appropriation bill), and ordered to be printed. Monetary question in Russia. March 2, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Free homesteads. March 2, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Agreement with Crow, Flathead, and other Indians, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of an agreement concluded February 5, 1898, by the commission appointed under the act of June 10, 1896, to negotiate with the Crow, Flathead, and other Indians for the surrender of any portion of their respective reservations, etc., and the Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho. March 3, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Shipment of machinery to Mare Island Navy-yard. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 26, 1898, as to shipment of machinery from the Niles Tool Works, of Hamilton, Ohio, to Mare Island Navy-yard, San Francisco, Cal., report of the Paymaster-general of the Navy relative thereto. March 3, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Free rural delivery. March 3, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Telegraphs, telephones, etc., in France. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in further response to resolution of the Senate of July 12, 1897, a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relating to postal telegraphs, telephones, and postal savings banks in France. March 3, 1898. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed. Amount, cost, etc., in standard silver dollars, of silver bullion purchased under act of July 14, 1890, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 16, 1898, relative to amount, cost, and coining value, in standard silver dollars, of silver bullion purchased under the act of July 14, 1890, etc. February 28, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Seizure of British ships in Bering Sea. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to the resolution of the Senate of February 1, 1898, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relating to the work of the commission appointed pursuant to the convention of February 8, 1896... February 28, 1898. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Studio for artists in National Zoological Park. March 1, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, to accompany an amendment to H.R. 8428, and ordered to be printed. Coast-defense monitors. March 17, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, to accompany amendment to naval appropriation bill, and ordered to be printed. Pollution of rivers, etc. March 17, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine and ordered to be printed. Owen N. Denny and others. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with provision of the deficiency act of July 19, 1897, report of the Auditor for State and other Departments relating to the accounts of Owen N. Denny and others. March 21, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Monitors v. battle ships. March 21, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, submitting an amendment to the appropriation contained in the sundry civil bill for "Punishment for violations of the internal-revenue laws." March 21, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Writs of injunction, etc., issued by United States courts in connection with labor strikes during 1897 and 1898. Letter from the Attorney General... all writs of injunction... against labor organizations, leaders, officers, and members thereof. March 21, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Postal telegraph, etc., in foreign countries. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in further response to resolution of the Senate of July 12, 1897, communication from the Secretary of State,...relating to the nature and practical workings of the postal telegraphs, telephones, and postal savings banks of foreign countries. March 22, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. The public credit. March 22, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance, to accompany S. 4193, and ordered to be printed. Surveys of forest reserves. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 28, 1898, letter from the Director of the Geological Survey transmitting report of surveys made under his direction, and accompanying papers in relation to the forest reserves, since June 4, 1897. March 15, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Seneca Nation of New York Indians. March 15, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Apartment houses in the District of Columbia. March 24, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Monument to celebrate the battle of New Orleans. March 24, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. Progress of Nebraska under populist government. March 23, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. Conference report on agricultural appropriation bill. March 16, 1898. -- Ordered to be printed. J.A. Ware. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting letter from Mr. J.A. Ware, making claim in the sum of $3,946.34, alleged to be dum him upon his contract made with the Quartermaster's Department of the Army for the construction of the Mound City Roadway. March 16, 1898. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 3601 | Annual report of the Director of the Bureau of the American Republics for the year 1897. | 1 |
| Serial set 3602 | Bureau of American Republics, Washington, U.S.A. Commercial nomenclature. | 1 |
| Serial set 3603 | Oficina de las Republicas Americanas, Washington, E.U. de A. Nomenclatura Comercial. Publicada por especial recomendacion de law conferencia internacional. Abril de 1897. | 1 |
| Serial set 3604 | Escriptorio das Republicas Americans, Washington, Estados Unidos da America. Nomenclatura commerical. Publicada em conformidade com a recommendacao da conferencia internacional Americana. Abril De 1897. | 1 |
| Serial set 3605 | Commercial Directory of the American Republics comprising the manufacturers, merchants, shippers, and banks and bankers engaged in foreign trade; together with the names of officials, maps, commercial statistics, industrial data, and other information concerning the countries of the International Union of American Republics, the American colonies, and Hawaii. In two volumes compiled by the Bureau of American Republics, International Union of American Republics... Vol. I. | 1 |
| Serial set 3606 | Commercial Directory of the American Republics comprising the manufacturers, merchants, shippers, and banks and bankers engaged in foreign trade; together with the names of officials, maps, commercial statistics, industrial data, and other information concerning the countries of the International Union of American Republics, the American colonies, and Hawaii. In Two Volumes... Vol. II. | 1 |
| Serial set 3607 | Monthly Bulletin of the Bureau of American Republics. 1897. Vol. V. July to December. | 1 |
