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Charles H. Morgan, of Missouri; J. W. Throckmorton, of Texas; Thomas M. Gunter, of Arkansas; George M. Beebe, of New York; Horace F. Page, of California; Nelson H. Van Vorhes, of Ohio; Martiu I. Townsend, of New York; J. H. Stewart, of Minnesota; S. S. Fenn, of Idaho.

Committee on Military Affairs.-Henry B. Banning, of Ohio; Levi Maish, of Pennsylvania; James Williams, of Delaware; George G. Dibrell, of Tennessee; A. A. Clark, of New Jersey; John H. Evins, of South Carolina; Edward S. Bragg, of Wisconsin; Horace B. Strait, of Minnesota; Harry White, of Pennsylvania; Anson G. McCook, of New York; Benjamin F. Marsh, of Illinois.

Committee on the Militia.-Miles Ross, of New Jersey; Beverly B. Douglas, of Virginia; Alfred M. Scales, of North Carolina; Eli J. Henkle, of Maryland; Frank Jones, of New Hampshire; David B. Culber son, of Texas; Thomas Turner, of Kentucky; William H. Calkins, of Indiana; Solomon Bundy, of New York; I. Newton Evans, of Pennsyl vania; Robert Smalls, of South Carolina.

Committee on Naval Affairs.-Washington C. Whitthorne, of Tennes see; Roger Q. Mills, of Texas; John Goode, of Virginia; Benjamin A. Willis, of New York; Frank Jones, of New Hampshire; Leopold Morse, of Massachusetts; William Kimmell, of Maryland; Benjamin W. Harris, of Massachusetts; Lorenzo Danford, of Ohio; Alfred C. Harmer, of Pennsylvania; John Hanna, of Indiana.

Committee on Foreign Affairs.-Thomas Swann, of Maryland; Samuel S. Cox, of New York; Andrew H. Hamilton, of Indiana; William H. Forney, of Alabama; Gustave Schleicher, of Texas; Samuel A. Bridges, of Pennsylvania; Benjamin Wilson, of West Virginia; James Monroe, of Ohio; Charles G. Williams, of Wisconsin; William W. Crapo, of Massachusetts; John W. Killinger, of Pennsylvania.

Committee on the Territories.-Benjamin J. Franklin, of Missouri; Haywood Y. Riddle, of Tennessee; R. Q. Mills, of Texas; Jacob Turney, of Pennsylvania; James Taylor Jones, of Alabama; H. L. Muldrow, of Mississippi; Leopold Morse, of Massachusetts; George A. Bagley, of New York; William Aldrich, of Illinois; Thomas B. Reed, of Maine; Henry S. Neal, of Ohio; M. Maginnis, of Montana.

Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.-L. A. Mackey, of Pennsylvania; Richard P. Bland, of Missouri; E. John Ellis, of Louisiana; Charles B. Benedict, of New York; Walter L. Steele, of North Carolina: B. F. Martin, of West Virginia; William Kimmell, of Maryland; George W. Patterson, of New York; Mills Gardner, of Ohio; I. Newton Evans, of Pennsylvania; Amasa Norcross, of Massachusetts.

Committee on Invalid Pensions.-Americus V. Rice, of Ohio; Goldsmith W. Hewitt, of Alabama; Haywood Y. Riddle, of Tennessee; William Walsh, of Maryland; Levi A. Mackey, of Pennsylvania; Thomas T. Crittenden, of Missouri; James W. Covert, of New York; Ciement H. Sinnickson, of New Jersey; Joseph H. Rainey, of South Carolina; Charles H. Joyce, of Vermout; Llewellyn Powers, of Maine. Committee on Railways and Canals.-Gustave Schleicher, of Texas; George C. Cabell, of Virginia; Thomas T. Crittenden, of Missouri; Charles M. Shelley, of Alabama; James A. McKenzie, of Kentucky; Nicholas Muller, of New York; A. A. Clark, of New Jersey; James L. Evans, of Indiana; John I. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania; John H. Camp, of New York; George C. Hazelton, of Wisconsin.

Committee on Mines and Mining.-George M. Beebe, of New York; Joseph J. Davis, of North Carolina; William H. Felton, of Georgia; Francis D. Collins, of Pennsylvania; Audrew R. Boone, of Kentucky;

David Rea, of Missouri; James Taylor Jones, of Alabama; Thomas Wren, of Nevada; James H. Randolph, of Tennessee; W. S. Shallenberger, of Pennsylvania; John W. Stone, of Michigan; Hiram S. Stevens, of Arizona.

Committee on Education and Labor.-John Goode, of Virginia; Benoni S. Fuller, of Indiana; Milton I. Southard, of Ohio; A. S. Willis, of Kentucky; John M. Bright, of Tennessee; Hiram P. Bell, of Georgia; Van H. Manning, of Mississippi; George B. Loring, of Massachusetts; Jacob M. Campbell, of Pennsylvania; John N. Hungerford, of New York; Dudley C. Haskell, of Kansas.

Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States.-William Walsh, of Maryland; Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia; Richard P. Blaud, of Missouri; George A. Bicknell, of Indiana; Hilary A. Herbert, of Alabama; Á. S. Willis, of Kentucky; Jordan E. Cravens, of Arkansas; Walbridge A. Field, of Massachusetts; Rush Clark, of Iowa; J. E. Leonard, of Louisiana; William McKinley, jr., of Ohio.

Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures.-Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia; Levi Maish, of Pennsylvania; Robert B. Vance, of North Carolina; John B. Clark, jr., of Missouri; R. M. Knapp, of Illinois; H. L. Muldrow, of Mississippi; John B. Clark, of Kentucky; Chester B. Darrall, of Louisiana; Mark S. Brewer, of Michigan; Thomas Ryan, of Kansas; J. W. Dwight, of New York.

Committee on Patents.-Robert B. Vance, of North Carolina; Beverly B. Douglas, of Virginia; John B. Clark, of Kentucky; William E. Smith, of Georgia; D. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina; R. W. Townshend, of Illinois; Augustus W. Cutler, of New Jersey; William Ward, of Penusylvania; H. M. Pollard, of Missouri; James F. Briggs, of New Hamp shire; Edwin Willets of Michigan.

Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.-Philip Cook, of Georgia; Casey Young, of Tennessee; Benjamin J. Franklin, of Missouri; Archibald M. Bliss, of New York; Francis D. Collins, of Pennsylvania; R. F. Ligon, of Alabama; James A. McKenzie, of Kentucky; Joseph C. Stone, of Iowa; H. L. Humphrey, of Wisconsin; John S. Jones, of Ohio; William Lathrop, of Illinois.

Committee of Accounts.-Charles B. Roberts, of Maryland; John A. McMahon, of Ohio; J. R. Chalmers, of Mississippi; Henry W. Blair, of New Hampshire; Thomas A. Boyd, of Illinois.

Committee on Mileage.-Thomas R. Cobb, of Indiana; Anthony Eickhoff, of New York; Samuel A. Bridges, of Pennsylvania; Lorenzo Danford, of Ohio; Milton S. Robinson, of Indiana.

Committee on Expenditures in the State Department.-William M. Springer, of Illinois; Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia; Stephen L. Mayham, of New York; Mark II. Dunnell, of Minnesota; Thomas M. Bayne, of Pennsylvania.

Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department.-John M. Glover, of Missouri; Henry R. Harris, of Georgia; William H. Forney, of Alabama; Lucien C. Gause, of Arkansas; William D. Veeder, of New York; H. L. Dickey, of Ohio; George A. Bagley, of New York; Michael D. White, of Indiana; Joseph Jorgensen, of Virginia.

Committee on Expenditures in the War Department.-Joseph C. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky; Milton A. Candler, of Georgia; Americus V. Rice, of Ohio; Chester B. Darrall, of Louisiana; Benjamin T. Eames, of Rhode Island.

Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department.-Benjamin A. Willis, of New York; W. C. Whitthorne, of Tennessee; John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky; Horace F. Page, of California; Jay A. Hubbell, of Mich

Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office Department.-Jere N. Williams, of Alabama; Alpheus S. Williams, of Michigan; John W. Caldwell, of Kentucky; Lewis F. Watson, of Pennsylvania; Curtis H. Brogden, of North Carolina.

Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department.-William A. J. Sparks, of Illinois; William M. Robbins, of North Carolina; Daniel N. Lockwood, of New York; Addison Oliver, of Iowa; Edwin Willets, of Michigan.

Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings.-William P. Lynde, of Wisconsin; Jesse J. Yeates, of North Carolina; Terence J. Quinn, of New York; William F. Slemons, of Arkansas; William S. Stenger, of Pennsylvania; Amasa Norcross, of Massachusetts; Richard Williams, of Oregon.

Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice.-Edward S. Bragg, of Wisconsin; Milton J. Durham, of Kentucky; John R. Eden, of Illinois; Augustus A. Hardenbergh, of New Jersey; Julian Hartridge, of Georgia; John H. Evins, of South Carolina; Nicholas Muller, of New York; Omar D. Conger, of Michigan; John T. Wait, of Connecticut; Mills Gardner, of Ohio; George D. Robinson, of Massachu

setts.

Committee on the Mississippi Levees.-E. W. Robertson, of Louisiana; Robert A. Hatcher, of Missouri; Hernando D. Money, of Mississippi; Casey Young, of Tennessee; R. M. Knapp, of Illinois; George M. Landers, of Connecticut; Benjamin F. Martin, of West Virginia; Russell Errett, of Pennsylvania; Thaddeus C. Pound, of Wisconsin; George D. Robinson, of Massachusetts; Horatio Bisbee, jr., of Florida.

Joint Committee on Printing.-Otho R. Singleton, of Mississippi; Anthony Eickhoff, of New York; Latimer W. Ballon, of Rhode Island. Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills.-Andrew H. Hamilton, of Indiana; J. B. Elam, of Louisiana; John E. Kenna, of West Virginia; Nelsou H. Van Vorhes, of Ohio; Joseph H. Rainey, of South Carolina.

Joint Committee on the Library.-Samuel S. Cox, of New York; Charles E. Hooker, of Mississippi; Eugene Hale, of Maine.

The Speaker also announced that he had appointed the following select committees, authorized by resolutions of the House, viz:

SELECT COMMITTEES.

Committee on the Rules.-The Speaker; Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia; Milton Sayler, of Ohio; Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts; James A. Garfield, of Ohio.

Committee on Reform in the Civil Service.-Carter H. Harrison, of Illinois; Abram S. Hewitt, of New York; Philip Cook, of Georgia; William W. Garth, of Alabama; Jordan E. Cravens, of Arkansas; Daniel M. Henry, of Maryland; Charles H. Morgan, of Missouri; Hiram Price, of Iowa; Amaziah B. James, of New York; Joha Howard Pugh, of New Jersey; Leonidas Sexton, of Indiana.

Committee on the State of the Law respecting Ascertainment and Declaration of Result of Election of President and Vice President.-Milton I. Southard, of Ohio; Eppa Hunton, of Virginia; Clarkson N. Potter, of New York; J. F. House, of Tennessee; George A. Bicknell, of Indiana; Hilary A. Herbert, of Alabama; John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky; Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts; Thomas M. Browne, of Indiana; Curtis H. Brogden, of North Carolina; Ezekiel S. Sampson, of Iowa. By unanimous consent, leave was granted to withdraw papers from the files of the House as follows, viz:

To Mr. Phillips, in the cases of W. H. Powell and F. A. McDowell.

Mr. Samuel S. Cox asked leave to withdraw from the files of the House the papers in the case of John T. Neale.

There having been an adverse report on this case, the request was referred, under Rule 164.

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows, viz:
To Mr. Bragg, for fifteen days;
To Mr. Bright, indefinitely;
To Mr. Camp, for ten days;
To Mr. Lapham, for ten days;
To Mr. Reilly, for one week;
To Mr. Tucker, for one week.

On motion of Mr. Atkins,

Ordered, That when the House adjourns it be to meet on Wednesday

next.

Mr. Atkins 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.

Mr. Blaud moved that the rules be suspended, so as to enable him to introduce, and the House to pass, a bill to authorize the coinage of a dollar of 412 grains silver standard, and for other purposes.

Pending which,

Mr. Sampson made the point of order that, under the resolution submitted by Mr. Durham and adopted by the House, the call of States for resolutions was now in order.

The Speaker overruled the point of order.

And then,

On motion of Mr. Atkins, at 5 o'clock and 40 minutes p. m., the House adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1877.

The following memorials, petitions, and other papers were laid on the Clerk's desk, under the rule, and referred as follows, viz:

By Mr. Ballou: The petition of Fred. A. Holden, for compensation for property destroyed by fire while occupied by United States forces; to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Blackburu: The petition of the letter-carriers of Louisville, Kentucky, for an increase of their salaries;

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

By Mr. Bland: The petition of Mrs. E. D. W. Hatch, widow of the late Colonel Reuben Hatch, to be paid the amount due her late husband; to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Boyd: The petition of Joseph F. Wilson, of Peoria, Illinois, for indemnity for the dispossession of certain lands by United States authorities in Indiana;

to the Committee on Private Land-Claims.

By Mr. John W. Caldwell: The petition of J. H. Vivion, and other citizens of the third district of Kentucky, for the repeal of the bankrupt law;

Also, the petition of citizens of Southern Kentucky, that the State o Kentucky be divided into two judicial districts;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Also, the petition of William Watkins, to be paid $1,000, with interest from June 12, 1780, the date of the issuance of a loan-office certificate issued to John Galbraith under a resolution of Congress of June, 1779, and held by said Watkins;

to the Committee of Claims.

Also, the petition of John A. Pointer, late a private in Company H, Twenty-first Regiment Kentucky Volunteers, for bounty;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, the petition of R. D. Salmons, and other citizens of Simpson County, Kentucky, for the repeal of the bankrupt law;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Carlisle : The petition of John A. Kranz, of the firm of J. B. Smith & Compay, for compensation for property used and taken by the United States Army;

By Mr. Chalmers: Papers relating to the claim of Armestead Burwell, for property taken by the United States Army;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

Also, a paper relating to the establishment of a post route between Belen and Sardis, Mississippi;

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

By Mr. Conger: Papers relating to the claim of Ellen J. Brosman, for property taken by United States authorities;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Cook: The petition of James Johnson, late collector at Savannah, Georgia, to be relieved from the payment of a certain sum claimed to be due to the United States;

By Mr. Crapo: The petition of John W. Mayhew, administrator, &c., for compensation from the Geneva award fund;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Eames: The petition of Thomas A. Doyce and 1,052 other citizens of Providence, Rhode Island, for an increase of the salaries of letter-carriers;

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

By Mr. Eickhoff: The petition of W. M. Force, and others, of New York and New Jersey, to be incorporated a body-politic, with power to operate and maintain lines of steamers between the States of New York and New Jersey and the empire of Brazil;

to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. Ellis: The petitions of George W. Bancker, for compensation for property taken by the United States Army, and for rent of property in New Orleans, Louisiana;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Errett: Resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in favor of extending the time for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad;

to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad.

Also, the petition of 2,501 citizens of Pittsburgh, for aid to enable them to occupy the public lands as homestead settlers;

to the Committee on the Public Lands.

By Mr. Felton: A paper relating to the establishment of a post-route from Cave Spring, Georgia, to Centre, Alabama;

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

By Mr. Fenn: The petition of 52 citizens of Idaho Territory, for the annexation of the counties of Idaho, Nez Percé, and Shoshone, in Idaho Territory, to the Territory of Washington;

to the Committee on the Territories.

By Mr. Freeman: The petition of William L. Room and 190 others, for the carrying out of the eight-hour 1 tw, the restoration of the wages of mechanics employed on the public buildings and in the navy-yards throughout the country, and in the Government Printing Office and other Departments in Washington;

to the Committee on Education and Labor.

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