By Mr. Peddie: Resolutions of the Board of Trade of Newark, New Jersey, opposing the repeal of the resumption act and favoring the taking of immediate steps to carry out the purpose of the law, either by the funding of legal-tender notes in bonds running for a long term, or by some other means that will insure resumption at the time named by the said act;

to the Committee on Banking and Currency.

By Mr. Quinn: The petition of H. L. Emery, for permission to apply to the Commissioner of Patents for an extension of his letters patent on cotton-gins;

to the Committee on Patents.

By Mr. Joseph C. Stone: Papers relating to the claim of S. T. Marshall for supplies furnished the United States Army;

to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

By Mr. Thornburgh: The petition of Margaret Allcock, Sarah Armstrong, George H. Browning, Margaret A. Cox, Thomas L. Duncan, W. H. Edwards, Caroline Erwin, J. J. Gibbs, John Maloy, Margaret May, Wesley McNew, Gilbert Reed, Elizabeth Rose, Cynthia Spradlin, Millie Staples, Eliza Webb, George W. Wells, E. M. Williams, and Kitsey Williams, for pensions;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, papers relating to the claims of John Henry, trustees of Holston College and Mossy Creek Baptist Church and College, for supplies furnished; of H. L. Bradley, Robert D. Jouralman, and Strawberry Plains High School, for property destroyed; and of Benjamin Fabnstock and Mary E. Seay, for the use and damage of property by the United States Army;

to the Committee on War Claims.

Also, the petitions of Cynthia Spradlin, Mrs. Altimirah Brown, and Mrs. Rehma Brown, to be paid the bounty and back-pay due their several husbands;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Also, the petition of John Turner, sr., for compensation for services rendered the United States Army as a guide;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

Also, the petition of Thomas F. Carter, for compensation for services rendered the United States Army;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Also, the petition of Crawford M. Hall, late district attorney for the eastern district of Tennessee, that he be allowed to retain certain fees of his office;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Also, the petition of Wright French, for commutation of rations while a prisoner of war;

to the Committee on War Claims.

Also, the petition of William M. Burnett, for pay as chaplain of the Third Tennessee Cavalry;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Tucker: The petition of Emilie N. Hooe, for arrears of pension;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Turner: A paper relating to the establishment of a post

route from Robinson to Collins, Kentucky;

to the Committee on the Post Office and Post-Roads.

By Mr. Vance: Papers relating to the claim of J. C. Camp;

to the Committee of Ways and Means.

By Mr. Alpheus S. Williams: The petitions of James T. Fisher and Samuel H. Smithers, to have refunded $21,000, wrongfully collected from them by United States officials;

to the Committee on War Claims.

On motion of Mr. Stephens, by unanimous consent,

Ordered, That the letter from the Secretary of the Navy and the letter from the Postmaster-General of the 19th instant, in reference to the metrical system of weights and measures, referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures November 20, 1877; also, a communication from William Wheeler Hubbell, in reference to goloid coin, be printed. By unanimous consent, bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read a first and second time, ordered to be printed, and severally referred as follows, viz:

By Mr. Townshend: A bill (H. R. 1513) granting a pension to Ratcliff M. Harrelson;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1544) to grant a pension to William P. Armes, late of Company B, Eighty-ninth Illinois Volunteers;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Boyd: A bill (H. R. 1545) for the relief of Ann Gregory, widow of Charles N. Gregory, deceased;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Money: A bill (H. R. 1546) providing for the classification of mail matter and rates of postage thereon;

to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

By Mr. Eames: A bill (H. R. 1547) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a lot of land for the use of the government in Providence, Rhode Island;

to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.

By Mr. Hunton: A bill (H. R. 1548) for the relief of owners and purchasers of lands sold for direct taxes in insurrectionary States;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Ittner: A bill (H. R. 1549) granting arrears of pension to Louise Moss;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1550) for the relief of John Kiernan;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Crittenden: A bill (H. R. 1551) for the relief of Mrs. Emma A. Porch, of Centretown, Missouri;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1552) for the relief of Mrs. Julia H. Totten, widow of James Totten, late lieutenant-colonel and assistant inspector-general United States Army;

By Mr. Humphrey: A bill (H. R. 1553) granting a pension to Josephine D. Thomas;

By Mr. Pridemore: A bill (H. R. 1554) providing for the placing of the name of Cynthia Cloud upon the pension-rolls and paying to her certain sums of money;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Brentano: A bill (H. R. 1555) for the relief of John B. Slack, late an acting third assistant engineer of the United States Navy; to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Muldrow: A bill (H. R. 1556) making an appropriation for the improvement of the Tombigbee River in Mississippi;

to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1557) for relief of Mary J. Dunn, of Lee County, Mississippi;

to the Committee on War Claims.

By Mr. Neal: A bill (H. R. 1558) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to place upon the pension-rolls the name of Mary Frazee; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1559) making an appropriation for the improvement of the Ohio River;

to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. Powers: A bill (H. R. 1560) for the relief of John Keating, late private Company B, First Regiment Heavy Artillery, Maine Vol

unteers;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1561) granting a pension to Sarah C. Palmer; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Joseph J. Davis: A bill (H. R. 1562) for the relief of Amelia A. Whitaker;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1563) for the relief of Philemon B. Hawkins; to the Committee on Claims.

By Mr. Crapo: A bill (H. R. 1564) granting a pension to Elizabeth Totten, widow of Commodore Benjamin J. Totten;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Watson: A bill (H. R. 1565) making appropriation for the purchase of a site and the erection thereon, in the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, a building for the United States courts and government offices; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.

By Mr. Joyce: A bill (H. R. 1566) for the relief of Frank A. Page; By Mr. Stenger: A bill (H. R. 1567) for the relief of Captain William L. Foulk;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Lockwood: A bill (H. R. 1568) in relation to docketing judg ments recovered in the courts of the United States to make them a lien ou real estate;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1569) for the relief of Phoebe Meech;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Aldrich: Memorial of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, for appropriation for the improvement of Detroit River;

to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1570) for the relief of Alexander Anderson, late first lieutenant Fourteenth New York Volunteer Cavalry;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Roberts: A bill (H. R. 1571) to promote efficiency in the ma rine hospital service;

to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1572) for the relief of the captors of the ram Albemarle ;

to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1573) for the relief of Franklin D. Pearson;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1574) for the relief of Horace Jarboe;

to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1575) granting a pension to Margaret Kenah;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1576) for the relief of William L. W. Seabrook, late

commissioner of the land-office of the State of Maryland;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1577) for the relief of Barbara Chenowith;

to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Also, a bill (II. R. 1578) for the relief of Francis O. Wise, late lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Regiment of United States Artillery ;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1579) for the relief of Francis I. Wheeler;

to the Committee of Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1580) for the relief of Thomas Poultuey;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Chalmers: A bill (H. R. 1581) to improve the harbor of Vicksburg;

to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. Mills: A bill (H. R. 1582) to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places of holding courts in said districts;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1583) to authorize and provide for the payment of all debts contracted by the government in certain States therein named since the close of the war;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1584) authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the owners the value of all cotton seized by officers of the Treasury since May 30, 1865;

to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1585) for the relief of E. S. C. Robertson, of Bell County, Texas;

to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Jacobs: A bill (H. R. 1586) for the relief of Henry Atkins and William H. Shondy;

to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1587) for the relief of John G. Parker, for carrying United States mails in Washington Territory;

to the Committee of Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1588) enabling the Baptist Association of Puget Sound and British Columbia, and any other like association of any denomination in the same locality, to navigate a vessel for missionary purposes;

to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1589) to restore to the public domain certain lands withdrawn in favor of the Northern Pacific Railroad in Washington Territory;

to the Committee on the Public Lands.

By Mr. Morgan: A bill (H. R. 1590) for the relief of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1591) for the relief of William J. Allcock;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. John W. Caldwell: A bill (H. R. 1592) for the relief of R. D. Salmons and others;

By Mr. Metcalfe: A bill (H. R. 1593) for the relief of Elizabeth Mememeyer, of Saint Louis, Missouri, administratrix of Anton Mememeyer, deceased;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1594) for the relief of John Mooney, of Saint Louis, Missouri:

Also, a bill (H. R. 1595) for the relief of James Lindsay, of Missouri; to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Franklin: A bill (H. R. 1596) to provide for the organization of the Territory of Oklahoma;

to the Committee on the Territories.

By Mr. Banks: A bill (H. R. 1597) for the relief of Martin Binney, captain of Company B, Twenty-eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Burdick: A bill (H. R. 1598) to grant a pension to Sally Allen Downing, widow of Samuel P. Downing, a soldier of the war of 1812; to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

By Mr. Kenna: A bill (H. R. 1599) for the relief of the Baptist church at Raleigh Court House, in Raleigh County, West Virginia; Also, a bill (II. R. 1600) for the relief of Kiah Smoot, of Boone County, West Virginia;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1601) for the relief of Mrs. Jane T. Hawkins, of Fayette County, West Virginia;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Horace Davis: A bill (H. R. 1602) to exempt steam-plow machinery from payment of duty;

to the Committee of Ways and Means.

By Mr. Sayler: A bill (H. R. 1603) to correct an Army officer's record; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Vance: A bill (H. R. 1604) to increase and regulate fast-mail service between Washington City, District of Columbia, and the following named cities: Richmond, Virginia; Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; Mobile, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee; Little Rock, Arkansas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Galveston, Texas, and other points South; to the Committee on Appropriations.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1605) to provide for the re-establishment of a branch mint of the United States at the city of Charlotte, North Carolina; to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1606) granting a pension to John D. Street, Third North Carolina Mounted Infantry;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1607) placing F. B. Carland, Third North Carolina Mounted Infantry, on the pension-rolls;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1608) for the relief of M. L. Brittain and others; to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1609) for the relief J. C. Camp, of North Carolina; to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1610) placing Joseph Ward, Third North Carolina Mounted Infantry, on pension-rolls;

Also, a bill (H. R. 1611) to pay Robert C. W. Hughey, of North Carolina, arrears of pension;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1612) to amend the statutes in relation to patents and for other purposes;

to the Committee on Patents.

By Mr. Joseph C. Stone: A bill (H. R. 1613) to create postal savingsbanks and for investing the surplus deposits in the same in securities of the United States;

to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1614) for the relief of S. T. Marshall, of Lee County, Iowa;

to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1615) for the relief of Thaddeus S. Stewart;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.