By Mr. Wait: A bill (H. R. 821) for the relief of William Caruthers; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 822) for the relief of the Norwich and New York Transportation Co:pany; By Mr. Pollard: A bill (H. R. 823) for the relief of Jackson Lavenburg, late postmaster at Unionville, Missouri; Also, a bill (H. R. 824) for the relief of Van B. Bowers, postmaster at Bucklin, Missouri; to the Committee of Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 825) increasing the pension of John F. Ellis; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 826) to repeal the bankrupt law; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, a bill (H. R. 827) increasing the pension of Miles Barber; By Mr. O'Neill: A bill (H. R. 828) granting a pension to Samuel Mercer and Mary F. Mercer; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Ballou: A bill (H. R. 829) to exempt from taxation savings banks and institutions having no capital stock; to the Committee of Ways and Meaus. By Mr. Shallenberger: A bill (H. R. 830) granting a pension to Elizabeth Teagarden; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Denison: A bill (H. R. 831) relating to the equitable and legal rights of parties in possession of certain lands and improvements thereon in California, and to provide jurisdiction to determine those rights; to the Committee on Private Land-Claims. By Mr. Welch: A bill (H. R. 832) for the relief of Albert Towle, postmaster at Beatrice, Nebraska; Also, a bill (H. R. 833) for the relief of Albert Towle, postmaster at Beatrice, Nebraska; to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, a bill (II. R. 834) for the relief of C. H. Frederick, late a lieutenant-colonel in the Ninth Missouri Infantry; By Mr. Caswell: A bill (H. R. 835) grauting a pension to Patrick McGinniss; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Lapham: A bill (H. R. 836) re-establishing the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims and for the distribution of the unappropriated moneys of the Geneva award; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, a bill (H. R. 837) granting a pension to William R. Brown; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. John H. Baker: A bill (H. R. 838) for the relief of Dr. John H. Long; By Mr. Eames: A bill (H. R. 839) for the relief of Washington L. Parvin and Henry O. Greene, late captains of California volunteers; to the Committee on War-Claims. By Mr. Joyce: A bill (H. R. 840) granting a pension to Hannah A. Richardson, late widow of Alanson Kitteridge, late a private in the Fourth Vermont Volunteers; Also, a bill (H. R. 841) for the relief of John D. Cummings, of the town of Barre, in the county of Washington, and State of Vermont; Also, a bill (H. R. 842) granting a pension to Ovid H. Clark, late a private in Company F, Fifth Vermont Volunteer Infantry; Also, a bill (H. R. 843) for the relief of William Lamb, late a private of Company C, Eleventh Vermont Volunteers; Also, a bill (H. R. 844) granting a pension to Mary Martin, mother by adoption of James R. Martin, late a private in the Regiment Vermont Volunteers; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 845) making an appropriation for the improvement of Vergennes Basin and Otter Creek, in the State of Vermout; to the Committee on Commerce. By Mr. Cummings: A bill (H. R. 846) for the relief of Thomas C. Young, late private of Company F, Thirty-ninth Iowa Infantry; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Mitchell: A bill (H. R. 847) for the relief of Susan Robb; to the Committee of Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 848) for the relief of Francis B. McNamara, of Cowdersport, Potter County, Pennsylvania; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. A. Herr Smith: A bill (H. R. 849) for the relief of Abraham Alstead, late a second lieutenant of Company A of the Fifty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. Ellsworth: A bill (H. R. 850) for the relief of Daniel W. Perkins, of East Saginaw, Michigan; to the Committee of Claims. By Mr. Forney: A bill (H. R. 851) for the relief of the Mobile Marine Dock Company; to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. Hardenbergh: A bill (H. R. 852) repealing the use of stamps on bank-checks; to the Committee of Ways and Means. By Mr. Alvah A. Clark: A bill (H. R. 853) for the relief of Nathaniel G. Smith, late postmaster at Flemington, New Jersey; to the Committee of Claims. By Mr. J. T. Jones: A bill (H. R. 854) making appropriation for inlandmail transportation on star-routes; to the Committee on Appropriations. By Mr. Throckmorton: A bill (H. R. 855) for the relief of J. M. Waide, of Denton County, Texas; Also, a bill (H. R. 856) for the relief of Susanna Marble and others, heirs of Abel S. Lee; Also, a bill (H. R. 857) for the relief of Thomas J. Rhodes; By Mr. Cabell: A bill (H. R. 865) to provide for the erection of a public building in the town of Danville, Virginia; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 866) to repeal so much of section 3251 of the Revised Statutes and subsequent or existing laws as imposes a revenue-tax upon spirits distilled from apples, peaches, and other fruits; Also, a bill (H. R. 87) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the owners thereof the value of all cotton and tobacco seized under direction of the Treasury, or any other Department of the Government, since April 10, 1865; to the Committee of Ways and Means. Also, a bill (H. R. 868) for the survey of Staunton River from Roanoke Station, in the county of Charlotte, to Brook Neal, in the county of Campbell, State of Virginia; Also, a bill (H. R. 869) for the survey of New River, from the leadmines in Wythe, to the mouth of Wilson, in Grayson County, Virginia; to the Committee on Commerce. By Mr. Muldrow: A bill (H. R. 870) to amend the several acts in relation to the northern judicial district of the State of Mississippi, and to provide for the times and places of holding the district courts of the United States therein in future; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, a bill (H. R. 871) for the relief of the estate of George H. Lee, late of Lowndes County, Mississippi, deceased; to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. Knapp: A bill (H. R. 872) appropriating $75,000 for repairs upon the "Suy Carty Levee," along the Mississippi River, in the State of Illinois; to the Committee on the Mississippi Levees. By Mr. House, (by request :) A bill (H. R. 873) for the relief of B. B. Taylor, of Murfreesborough, Tennessee; Also, a bill (H. R. 874) for the relief of Cummings, Doyle & Company and Doyle & Company, of Nashv lle, Tennessee; Also, a bill (H. R. 875) for the relief of A. H. Buchanan, of Nashville, Tennessee; Also, a bill (H. R. 876) for the relief of Martha A. Stevens, of Davidson County, Tennessee; Also, a bill (H. R. 877) for the relief of D. W. and Munia H. Glassie, aud Joseph C. Nash, of Nashville, Tennessee; Also, a bill (H. R. 878) for the relief of James Scott and others, loyal citizens of Tennessee; to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. Luttrell: A bill (H. R. 879) repealing the duty on grain-sacks and bagging used for grain, cotton, and wool, and all burlaps and gunnycloth; to the Committee of Ways and Means. Aiso, a bill (H. R. 880) to appropriate money to improve the navigation of the Sacramento River; Also, a bill (H. R. 881) to appropriate money for the improvement of the navigation of Feather River, California; to the Committee on Commerce. Also, a bill (H. R. 882) for the pardon of certain deserters from the United States Army in 1818; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. Eden: A bill (H. R. 883; granting a pension to George Huston; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Franklin: A bill (H. R. 884) to provide for the establishment of a branch mint of the United States at the city of Kansas, in the State of Missouri; to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. By Mr. Fenn: A bill (H. R. SS5) making appropriation for a military road from Fort Boise to Fort Lapwai, Idaho Territory; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. SS6) making appropriations for the improvement of Clearwater River, in Idaho Territory; to the Committee on Commerce. Also, a bill (H. R. 887) for the relief of L. F. Carter; to the Committee on the Public Lands. Also, a bill (H. R. 888) for the relief of James McGregor; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. By Mr. Bland: A bill (H. R. 889) for the relief of Mrs. E. D. W. Hatch, of Phelps County, Missouri; to the Committee on War-Claims. By Mr. Van Vorhes: A bill (H. R. 890) allowing a pension to Amos Whitehair and to Eliza J. Whitehair, children of Emery D. Whitehair, late a private of Company F, Third Regiment of West Virginia Volun teer Infantry; Also, a bill (H. R. 891) granting a pension to Catharine Sheets, widow of Daniel Sheets, late captain of Company C, Seventeenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and to her minor son, Willie Sheets; Also, a bill (H. R. 892) granting a pension to Oscar B. Nott, late a private of Company K, One hundred and sixty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 893) to arrange the members of the class of 1870, graduates of the United States Naval Academy, now serving the Navy as masters, on the masters' list; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 894) for the relief of Henry M. Davis, legal representative of the late Milton I. Davis, sergeant of Ninth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; to the Committee on War-Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 895) for the relief of Peter M. Ward, late of Company E, Fourth West Virginia Volunteers; Also, a bill (H. R. 896) for the removal of the charge of desertion from private William D. L. Stanley, Company I, Ninety-second Ohio Volunteers; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. Ward: A bill (H. R. 897) to provide lawful note and coin currency for the United States; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. By Mr. Schleicher: A bill (H. R. 898) to aid the Washington, Cincinnati and Saint Louis Railroad Company to construct a narrow-gauge railway from tide water to the cities of Saint Louis and Chicago; to the Committee on Railways and Canals. By Mr. Killinger: A bill (H. R. 899) for the relief of W. K. Verbeke, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; to the Committee on War-Claims. By Mr. Patterson: A bill (H. R. 900) granting a pension to the widow of E. J. Russell, sergeant Company A, First Indiana Volunteer Infantry: to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Wren: A bill (H. R. 901) for the relief of John S. Luff; to the Committee of Claims. Mr. Dudley C. Haskell, a Representative from the State of Kansas, app ared, and having taken the oath of office prescribed by section 1756 of the Revised Statutes, took his seat in the House. By unanimous consent, resolutions were submitted and severally referred as follows, viz: By Mr. Pound: Resolved, That the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be instructed to ascertain whether it is practicable to provide suitable electrical annunciators for this Hall to enable members at their respective seats, without noise, to call pages, and to report as early as prac ticable by bill, or otherwise; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. Durham : Resolved, That one messenger be added to the list of messengers under the Doorkeeper of the House, to be assigned to duty to the room of the official reporters of debates; to the Committee of Accounts. By Mr. Henderson : Resolved, That 10,000 copies of the report and accompanying documents of the United States monetary commission organized under the joint resolution of August 15, 1876, be printed for the use of this House; to the Committee on Printing. By unanimous consent, resolutions were submitted, read, considered, and agreed to, as follows, viz: By Mr. Samuel S. Cox: Resolved, That Thomas G. Bryan be appointed a page in addition to the pages authorized by law. By Mr. Schleicher: Resolved, That the President be requested to communicate to the House of Representatives, so far as in his judgment may be compatible with the public interest, all information in his possession referring to the condition of the Mexican border in Texas, and to any recent viola tion of the territory of the United States by incursions from Mexico. Mr. Schleicher moved to reconsider the vote last taken, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to. The regular order being demanded, the Speaker announced the regular order of business to be the morning hour, and the pending question to be the motion of Mr. Ewing to reconsider the vote by which the bill of the House (H. R. 805) was recommitted to the Committee on Banking and Currency, as the unfinished business of yesterday's session. Mr. Ewing demanded the previous question; which was seconded. The question then being, Shall the main question be now put? And being put, Yeas It was decided in the affirmative, Nays Not voting. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifthof the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. D. Wyatt Aiken J. D. C. Atkins John H. Baker Mr. George C. Cabell Richard H. Cain Mr. D. B. Culberson Robt. H. M. Davidson Mr Mills Gardner William W. Garth Thomas M. Gunter Henry R. Harris |