United States congressional serial set, serial set no. 2907

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127 Items in the Series United States congressional serial set, serial set no. 2907

Annual report of the American Historical Association for the year 1891., (electronic resource)

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Annual report of the Librarian of Congress, exhibiting the progress of the Library during the calendar year 1891. May 5, 1892. -- Presented from the Committee on the Library and referred to the Committee on Printing., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that there be allowed and paid to Fred T. Dubois, Senator from the State of Idaho...expenses incurred in connection with the contest inaugurated by William H. Clagett..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that the President is requested, if it is not, in his opinion, incompatible with the public interests, to communicate to the Senate the items of taxation upon imports from the United States imposed by the laws of the Republic of Haiti..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate what is the aggregate cost of the silver bullion and standard dollars coined therefrom purchased under the act of July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the President of the Civil Service Commission, in response to a resolution of the 24th ultimo, stating that there were no persons employed by the Commission on the 1st of March who were not specially appropriated for by law..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that for reasons set forth in the report of the Committee on Indian Affairs upon the President's message of February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two...for payment to Choctaw and Chickasaw Nation..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following letter from James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, asking an appropriation to pay the expenses of the commissioners to the Madrid Exposition..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following letter from James G. Blaine, transmitting copy of a dispatch from the United States minister at Copenhagen, in relation to abandoning the Danish mission. (To accompany reported amendment to H.R. 7624.)., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. May 26, 1892. -- Resolved, that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the said resolution, together with the accompanying report; and that the usual number be printed for the use of the Senate., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of State be requested to obtain, through our consuls or otherwise, such information as he can concerning the use of electricity as a power in the propulsion of farm machinery and implements and in the propagation and growth of plants in foreign countries..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from M. McDonald, Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, in response to Senate Resolution of March 24, 1892, including a list of subordinates., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following: a letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a draft of a bill to empower Admiral George Brown, Capt. George C. Remey, Lieut. George S. Dyer, Medical Inspector George W. Wood, Ensign George T. Blow, and Mr. Frank Laviere, United States Navy, to accept certain decorations from the Government of Hawaii., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting supplemental conclusions of fact and of law in the French spoliation claim relating to the ship "Speculator."., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Power submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, directed to furnish the Senate with information in relation to the following matters, and at as early a date as practicable..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sanders submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire whether the publication in the Congressional Record, without the consent of the proprietor, of a copyright book is an infringement of the right granted to such proprietor of the sole liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Chief Justice of the Court of Claims, transmitting, in reply to a resolution of April 12, information in regard to fees charged by the officers of that court., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 3,000 additional copies be printed, 1,000 of which shall be for the use of the Senate and 2,000 for distribution by the Postmaster-General. An additional argument by the Postmaster-General in favor of the establishment of postal savings depositories, with appendices., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law filed under the Act of January 20, 1885, in the French spoliation claims relating to the brig Betsey, Wm. Withmarsh, master..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1892. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following memorial of the Universal Peace Union remonstrating against the Chinese Exclusion Bill..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that a special committee of the Senate shall be, and is hereby, created, to consist of nine members, chosen by resolution of the Senate, who shall be charged with the duty of inquiring into and reporting to the Senate the present value per mile of the railways..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following communication from the Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting in response to a resolution of the 24th ultimo, a list of the employes of that commission., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Power submitted the following resolution: Whereas at a meeting of Representatives citizens of Montana, known as the State Irrigation Convention..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law and the opinion of the Court in the French spoliation claims relating to the schooner Dolphin., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law in French spoliation claims relating to the brig Catherine, the schooner Hannah, and the schooner Three Friends..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on the Judiciary, presented the following letter from the Attorney General embracing a statement of facts concerning the present status of the business pending in the Court of Claims., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution recommending an increase of the appropriation for the maintenance of the Zoological Park., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry is hereby directed to examine and report to the Senate whether the reports of the Department of Agriculture on the distribution and consumption of farm products..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution inclosing his response to Senate resolution of March 24, a list of subordinates employed on March 1., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inform the Senate what applications have been, or may be, presented to the accounting officers of the Treasury to reopen accounts or claims settled by said officers..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The Vice President presented the following communication from the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the 24th ultimo, a list of persons employed on the building for the Library of Congress not specifically appropriated for., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Public Printer transmitting, in response to a resolution of March 24, a list of the employes of that office..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Commissioner of Labor, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the 24th Ultimo, information in regard to employes in that office not specifically appropriated for..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate whether the agreement entered into between the United States and Great Britain in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, covering the question of the naval force to be maintained by the two governments on the Great Lakes..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is alleged that the iron and steel shipbuilding plants along the Great Lakes of the Northwest exceed in combined facilities, in magnitude, and in capital the interests of all other shipbuilding plants of the country combined..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carlisle submitted the following resolution: Resolution directing the Postmaster General to report certain deficiencies in the salaries of third, fourth, and fifth class postmasters in certain states..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting ...a statement concerning expenditures on street and other improvements in the Cities of Washington and Georgetown., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1892. -- Submitted by Mr. Pettigrew and referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. Autust [i.e., August] 3, 1892. -- Reported by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, and ordered to be printed. Resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Quadro-Centennial..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, presented the following testimony taken before the subcommittee ...having under consideration the Bills (S. 2873) for the relief of the Stockbridge and Munsee tribe of Indians in the State of Wisconsin and (S. 2977) for the relief of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians in the State of Wisconsin., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Butler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the various appropriation bills shall be referred to committees as follows..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perkins submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Cherokee Nation of Indians claims that from seven to ten thousand intruders and trespassers have invaded and settled in their territory..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. August 5, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hansbrough submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to report to the Senate at the opening of the second session of the Fifty-second Congress the total mileage of streets, roads, avenues, and alleys of the District of Columbia along or over which lines of overhead wires are maintained for electrical purposes..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1891. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. June 30, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen presented the following memorial of the legislature of the State of Washington for the appointment of a commission to review and report upon the construction of a ship canal connecting Lake Union, Washington, and Samamish (near port of Seattle) with Puget Sound..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 12, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolution: Resolved, that in all disagreements and controversies between employed laborers and the owners of capital who employ them..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 14, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, from the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, submitted the following resolution: Be it resolved, that a select committee of seven senators be appointed by the President of the Senate..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 14, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Whereas, under the existing laws, gold coin of the United States is the only full legal tender money which can not be dispensed with by contract..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 14, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, by request of Woman's Industrial League, presented the following memorial of Mrs. Charlotte Smith, President of the Woman's National Industrial League, praying Congress to protect by legislation the working women of the country., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 15, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby requested to report to the Senate..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 18, 1892. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following communication from the Director of the Geological Survey, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the 15th instant, information in regard to the officers and employes connected with said survey..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 19, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart presented the following papers relating to the paper currency of East India., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 19, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. February 11, 1893. -- Ordered to be reprinted. Referred to Committee on Indian Affairs (to accompany an amendment to H.R. 10415). Mr. Stewart presented the following letter of the Secretary of the Interior transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1892. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carey presented the following resolution adopted by the Federation of Labor, Washington, D.C., July 19, 1892, praying the enforcement of the Eight-hour Law..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be, and it is hereby, instructed to inquire and report..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. July 27, 1892. -- Reported by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, without amendment and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Territories, or any subcommittee thereof appointed for the purpose..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 22, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Foreign Relations be directed to continue the investigation... in respect to the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 23, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. Mr. Felton presented the following memorial of District Assembly No 66, knights of labor, and the federation of labor unions, praying for the passage of House Bill No. 8537 limiting the hours of labor on public work to eight per day., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 25, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Vest submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, that for the purpose of securing and maintaining the uniform value of silver as a money metal throughout the world..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 26, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Grand Trunk Railway Company, a Canadian corporation having its executive offices in the City of Montreal and its head offices in the City of London..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 27, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Proctor submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, directed to send to the Senate a statement as to the operations of the Department at Ellis Island in receiving immigrants..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 27, 1892. -- Submitted and referred to the Committee on Printing. July 29, 1892. -- Report considered and agreed to. Mr. Manderson submitted the following concurrent resolution: To print one thousand copies of the report of the results of the survey made pursuant to the act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, relative to a telegraph cable between San Francisco, California, and Honolulu., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 29, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell presented the following memorial of the National Convention of the Representatives of the Commercial Bodies of the United States to Congress... in relation to the Torrey Bill and a reply by Mr. J.K. Burnham to arguments against Bankruptcy legislation., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 30, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. Higgins submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, a Canadian corporation having its general offices in the City of Montreal..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 5, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hunton submitted the following resolution: For relief of Continental Insurance Company and others. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to examine the refunding claims of the Continental Fire Insurance Company..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 6, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger submitted the following resolution: Whereas the newspaper press brings intelligence of a deadly conflict between workmen and the Pinkerton detectives, at Homestead, Pa..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 6, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Whereas at many times and places within the United States in recent years the public peace has been disturbed and life and property endangered by the private employment of armed men, commonly known as "Pinkerton men" and "Pinkerton detectives"..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler presented the following (to accompany S. 3390): Papers relating to the application of Eliza R. Crawford to have paid her the amount of a United States loan certificate issued in 1779., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1892. -- Submitted and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. July 19, 1892. -- Committee on the Judiciary discharged, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Defining the crime of treason and providing for the arrest, indictment, and trial of all persons armed and in the service of the Pinkertons, engaged in the recent attack on the people of the United States at the battle of Homestead..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. July 9, 1892. -- Submitted by Mr. Wolcott and referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. July 27, 1892. -- Reported by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, with an amendment, and ordered to be printed., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson presented the following memorial of the board of trade of Jersey City, N.J., in regard to the anchoring of powder boats in New York Harbor., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Immigration and ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen presented the following: A memorial of Abe Spring suggesting certain legislation to restrict the immigration of criminals and paupers from foreign countries., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hansbrough presented the following resolution of the Legislature of North Dakota in relation to the speedy passage of the so-called Dolph land bill for the relief of certain settlers in the Red River Valley, State of North Dakota., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law in the French spoliation claims relating to the ship Juliana and schooner Union., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris presented the following memorial of John Cowdon on matters pertaining to the improvement of the Mississippi River..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The President Pro Tempore presented the following communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia response to a resolution of May 31 in regard to the approval of certain subdivisions of suburban property..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wolcott presented the following: A petition of Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade in favor of the Torrey bankruptcy bill., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 23, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following communication from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the opinion of said court in the case of Frederick Bernard [i.e., Barnard] vs. the United States., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 23, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perkins presented the following: Action concerning the Torrey bankruptcy bill by the Mobile Cotton Exchange; the Mobile Chamber of Commerce..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale presented the following order: Ordered, That the Committee on Appropriations be discharged from further consideration of the following French spoliation claims favorably reported by the Court of Claims, and that they be referred to the Committee on Claims..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale submitted the following resolution: Whereas at no time has so large a proportion of the American people been employed at so high wages and purchasing the necessities and comforts of life at so low prices as in the year eighteen hundred and Ninety-two..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, to accompany amendment by Mr. Sherman to H.R. 7520, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following letter of the Secretary of the Interior transmitting papers relating to the claim of Sam Kendrick as owner of the records of the Virginia military land grants in Ohio and Kentucky., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following: Proceedings of the travelers' protective association of America at its annual convention at Old Point Comfort, Va., June 15 to 18, 1892, favoring the Torrey Bankrupt bill including a speech of Mr. John A. Lee., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1892. -- Submitted, and referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. July 12, 1892. -- Reported by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, without amendment and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart submitted the following resolution: Instructing the Committee on Mines and Mining to report the average cost of the production of gold and silver bullion in the United States..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 30, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, That in view of the great amount of money required to be appropriated, under existing law..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a list of all abandoned military reservations on the public domain., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph presented the following report of a special Committee, an address to Congress and action by the National Board of Trade concerning the Torrey bankrupt bill..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Rules be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to select two expert architects, at a compensation to be agreed upon by said Committee and said experts..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law in certain French spoliation claims relating to the vessel and cargo of the snow "Lydia."., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan presented the following memorial of Henry Woodruff, trustee, etc. -- Claim against Venezuela in respect to first-mortgage bonds of Ferro-Carril del Este..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wolcott submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the heads of the several departments and of the other branches of the public service in the City of Washington be directed to transmit to the Senate lists of all their subordinates..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hiscock presented the following memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, in behalf of the maintenance of the standard of value as now established by law., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in response to a resolution of the 26th Ultimo, in regard to the condition of the various public bridges in said district., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell presented the following memorial of George F. Curtis, law librarian of Congress, praying for the preparation, printing, and distribution of a subject and authors' catalogue of the books in the law library of Congress., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to furnish the Senate a detailed statement of the saving or increase in the annual expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice President presented the following communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law in the French spoliation claim of Charles E. Alexander, administrator of Jonathan Merry, deceased, schooner "Polly."., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gibson of Louisiana presented the following memorial to the Fifty-second Congress of the United States in favor of the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wolcott submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring) that the President be requested to refrain from allotting in severalty the lands of the present reservation of the Southern Ute Indians..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law in the French spoliation claims relating to the vessels the ship Argo, Benjamin Randall, Master, and the Schooner Ranger, Joseph Bacon, Master., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance is directed to make examination and report to the Senate as soon as practicable-- First. What has been the effect on the price of silver bullion of the provisions of the act of July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety..., (electronic resource)

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In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1892. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Quadro-Centennial and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Select Committee on the Quadro-Centennial be and it is hereby, instructed to inquire into the propriety of Congress making a suitable provision to cover the cost of transportation and subsistence of the national guard..., (electronic resource)

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Report of the National Academy of Sciences for the year 1891.
Annual report of the American Historical Association for the year 1891.
Annual report of the Librarian of Congress, exhibiting the progress of the Library during the calendar year 1891. May 5, 1892. -- Presented from the Committee on the Library and referred to the Committee on Printing.
In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that there be allowed and paid to Fred T. Dubois, Senator from the State of Idaho...expenses incurred in connection with the contest inaugurated by William H. Clagett...
In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that there be allowed and paid to William H. Clagett...
In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that the President is requested, if it is not, in his opinion, incompatible with the public interests, to communicate to the Senate the items of taxation upon imports from the United States imposed by the laws of the Republic of Haiti...
In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate what is the aggregate cost of the silver bullion and standard dollars coined therefrom purchased under the act of July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety...
In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the President of the Civil Service Commission, in response to a resolution of the 24th ultimo, stating that there were no persons employed by the Commission on the 1st of March who were not specially appropriated for by law...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that for reasons set forth in the report of the Committee on Indian Affairs upon the President's message of February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two...for payment to Choctaw and Chickasaw Nation...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following letter from James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, asking an appropriation to pay the expenses of the commissioners to the Madrid Exposition...
In the Senate of the United States. April 13, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following letter from James G. Blaine, transmitting copy of a dispatch from the United States minister at Copenhagen, in relation to abandoning the Danish mission. (To accompany reported amendment to H.R. 7624.).
In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. May 26, 1892. -- Resolved, that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the said resolution, together with the accompanying report; and that the usual number be printed for the use of the Senate.
In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of State be requested to obtain, through our consuls or otherwise, such information as he can concerning the use of electricity as a power in the propulsion of farm machinery and implements and in the propagation and growth of plants in foreign countries...
In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from M. McDonald, Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, in response to Senate Resolution of March 24, 1892, including a list of subordinates.
In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following: a letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a draft of a bill to empower Admiral George Brown, Capt. George C. Remey, Lieut. George S. Dyer, Medical Inspector George W. Wood, Ensign George T. Blow, and Mr. Frank Laviere, United States Navy, to accept certain decorations from the Government of Hawaii.
In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting supplemental conclusions of fact and of law in the French spoliation claim relating to the ship "Speculator.".
In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Power submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, directed to furnish the Senate with information in relation to the following matters, and at as early a date as practicable...
In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sanders submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire whether the publication in the Congressional Record, without the consent of the proprietor, of a copyright book is an infringement of the right granted to such proprietor of the sole liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing...
In the Senate of the United States. April 19, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Chief Justice of the Court of Claims, transmitting, in reply to a resolution of April 12, information in regard to fees charged by the officers of that court.
In the Senate of the United States. April 20, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 3,000 additional copies be printed, 1,000 of which shall be for the use of the Senate and 2,000 for distribution by the Postmaster-General. An additional argument by the Postmaster-General in favor of the establishment of postal savings depositories, with appendices.
In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law filed under the Act of January 20, 1885, in the French spoliation claims relating to the brig Betsey, Wm. Withmarsh, master...
In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1892. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following memorial of the Universal Peace Union remonstrating against the Chinese Exclusion Bill...
In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that a special committee of the Senate shall be, and is hereby, created, to consist of nine members, chosen by resolution of the Senate, who shall be charged with the duty of inquiring into and reporting to the Senate the present value per mile of the railways...
In the Senate of the United States. April 26, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following communication from the Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting in response to a resolution of the 24th ultimo, a list of the employes of that commission.
In the Senate of the United States. April 27, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Power submitted the following resolution: Whereas at a meeting of Representatives citizens of Montana, known as the State Irrigation Convention...
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law and the opinion of the Court in the French spoliation claims relating to the schooner Dolphin.
In the Senate of the United States. April 28, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law in French spoliation claims relating to the brig Catherine, the schooner Hannah, and the schooner Three Friends...
In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on the Judiciary, presented the following letter from the Attorney General embracing a statement of facts concerning the present status of the business pending in the Court of Claims.
In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following letter of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution recommending an increase of the appropriation for the maintenance of the Zoological Park.
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry is hereby directed to examine and report to the Senate whether the reports of the Department of Agriculture on the distribution and consumption of farm products...
In the Senate of the United States. April 5, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution inclosing his response to Senate resolution of March 24, a list of subordinates employed on March 1.
In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inform the Senate what applications have been, or may be, presented to the accounting officers of the Treasury to reopen accounts or claims settled by said officers...
In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The Vice President presented the following communication from the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the 24th ultimo, a list of persons employed on the building for the Library of Congress not specifically appropriated for.
In the Senate of the United States. April 6, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Public Printer transmitting, in response to a resolution of March 24, a list of the employes of that office...
In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Commissioner of Labor, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the 24th Ultimo, information in regard to employes in that office not specifically appropriated for...
In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate whether the agreement entered into between the United States and Great Britain in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, covering the question of the naval force to be maintained by the two governments on the Great Lakes...
In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. McMillan submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is alleged that the iron and steel shipbuilding plants along the Great Lakes of the Northwest exceed in combined facilities, in magnitude, and in capital the interests of all other shipbuilding plants of the country combined...
In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Carlisle submitted the following resolution: Resolution directing the Postmaster General to report certain deficiencies in the salaries of third, fourth, and fifth class postmasters in certain states...
In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting ...a statement concerning expenditures on street and other improvements in the Cities of Washington and Georgetown.
In the Senate of the United States. August 1, 1892. -- Submitted by Mr. Pettigrew and referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. Autust [i.e., August] 3, 1892. -- Reported by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, and ordered to be printed. Resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Quadro-Centennial...
In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, presented the following testimony taken before the subcommittee ...having under consideration the Bills (S. 2873) for the relief of the Stockbridge and Munsee tribe of Indians in the State of Wisconsin and (S. 2977) for the relief of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians in the State of Wisconsin.
In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Butler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the various appropriation bills shall be referred to committees as follows...
In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perkins submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Cherokee Nation of Indians claims that from seven to ten thousand intruders and trespassers have invaded and settled in their territory...
In the Senate of the United States. August 5, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hansbrough submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to report to the Senate at the opening of the second session of the Fifty-second Congress the total mileage of streets, roads, avenues, and alleys of the District of Columbia along or over which lines of overhead wires are maintained for electrical purposes...
In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1891. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce. June 30, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen presented the following memorial of the legislature of the State of Washington for the appointment of a commission to review and report upon the construction of a ship canal connecting Lake Union, Washington, and Samamish (near port of Seattle) with Puget Sound...
In the Senate of the United States. July 12, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Resolution: Resolved, that in all disagreements and controversies between employed laborers and the owners of capital who employ them...
In the Senate of the United States. July 14, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, from the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, submitted the following resolution: Be it resolved, that a select committee of seven senators be appointed by the President of the Senate...
In the Senate of the United States. July 14, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Whereas, under the existing laws, gold coin of the United States is the only full legal tender money which can not be dispensed with by contract...
In the Senate of the United States. July 14, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Call, by request of Woman's Industrial League, presented the following memorial of Mrs. Charlotte Smith, President of the Woman's National Industrial League, praying Congress to protect by legislation the working women of the country.
In the Senate of the United States. July 15, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby requested to report to the Senate...
In the Senate of the United States. July 18, 1892. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following communication from the Director of the Geological Survey, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the 15th instant, information in regard to the officers and employes connected with said survey...
In the Senate of the United States. July 19, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart presented the following papers relating to the paper currency of East India.
In the Senate of the United States. July 19, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. February 11, 1893. -- Ordered to be reprinted. Referred to Committee on Indian Affairs (to accompany an amendment to H.R. 10415). Mr. Stewart presented the following letter of the Secretary of the Interior transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs...
In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1892. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Carey presented the following resolution adopted by the Federation of Labor, Washington, D.C., July 19, 1892, praying the enforcement of the Eight-hour Law...
In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be, and it is hereby, instructed to inquire and report...
In the Senate of the United States. July 21, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. July 27, 1892. -- Reported by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, without amendment and ordered to be printed. Mr. Platt submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Territories, or any subcommittee thereof appointed for the purpose...
In the Senate of the United States. July 22, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Foreign Relations be directed to continue the investigation... in respect to the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua...
In the Senate of the United States. July 23, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. Mr. Felton presented the following memorial of District Assembly No 66, knights of labor, and the federation of labor unions, praying for the passage of House Bill No. 8537 limiting the hours of labor on public work to eight per day.
In the Senate of the United States. July 25, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Vest submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, that for the purpose of securing and maintaining the uniform value of silver as a money metal throughout the world...
In the Senate of the United States. July 26, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Grand Trunk Railway Company, a Canadian corporation having its executive offices in the City of Montreal and its head offices in the City of London...
In the Senate of the United States. July 27, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Proctor submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, directed to send to the Senate a statement as to the operations of the Department at Ellis Island in receiving immigrants...
In the Senate of the United States. July 27, 1892. -- Submitted and referred to the Committee on Printing. July 29, 1892. -- Report considered and agreed to. Mr. Manderson submitted the following concurrent resolution: To print one thousand copies of the report of the results of the survey made pursuant to the act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, relative to a telegraph cable between San Francisco, California, and Honolulu.
In the Senate of the United States. July 29, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell presented the following memorial of the National Convention of the Representatives of the Commercial Bodies of the United States to Congress... in relation to the Torrey Bill and a reply by Mr. J.K. Burnham to arguments against Bankruptcy legislation.
In the Senate of the United States. July 30, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. Higgins submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, a Canadian corporation having its general offices in the City of Montreal...
In the Senate of the United States. July 5, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hunton submitted the following resolution: For relief of Continental Insurance Company and others. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to examine the refunding claims of the Continental Fire Insurance Company...
In the Senate of the United States. July 6, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gallinger submitted the following resolution: Whereas the newspaper press brings intelligence of a deadly conflict between workmen and the Pinkerton detectives, at Homestead, Pa...
In the Senate of the United States. July 6, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Whereas at many times and places within the United States in recent years the public peace has been disturbed and life and property endangered by the private employment of armed men, commonly known as "Pinkerton men" and "Pinkerton detectives"...
In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler presented the following (to accompany S. 3390): Papers relating to the application of Eliza R. Crawford to have paid her the amount of a United States loan certificate issued in 1779.
In the Senate of the United States. July 7, 1892. -- Submitted and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. July 19, 1892. -- Committee on the Judiciary discharged, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Defining the crime of treason and providing for the arrest, indictment, and trial of all persons armed and in the service of the Pinkertons, engaged in the recent attack on the people of the United States at the battle of Homestead...
In the Senate of the United States. July 9, 1892. -- Submitted by Mr. Wolcott and referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. July 27, 1892. -- Reported by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, with an amendment, and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. June 13, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. McPherson presented the following memorial of the board of trade of Jersey City, N.J., in regard to the anchoring of powder boats in New York Harbor.
In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Immigration and ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen presented the following: A memorial of Abe Spring suggesting certain legislation to restrict the immigration of criminals and paupers from foreign countries.
In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hansbrough presented the following resolution of the Legislature of North Dakota in relation to the speedy passage of the so-called Dolph land bill for the relief of certain settlers in the Red River Valley, State of North Dakota.
In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law in the French spoliation claims relating to the ship Juliana and schooner Union.
In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris presented the following memorial of John Cowdon on matters pertaining to the improvement of the Mississippi River...
In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The President Pro Tempore presented the following communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia response to a resolution of May 31 in regard to the approval of certain subdivisions of suburban property...
In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Wolcott presented the following: A petition of Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade in favor of the Torrey bankruptcy bill.
In the Senate of the United States. June 23, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following communication from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the opinion of said court in the case of Frederick Bernard [i.e., Barnard] vs. the United States.
In the Senate of the United States. June 23, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Perkins presented the following: Action concerning the Torrey bankruptcy bill by the Mobile Cotton Exchange; the Mobile Chamber of Commerce...
In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale presented the following order: Ordered, That the Committee on Appropriations be discharged from further consideration of the following French spoliation claims favorably reported by the Court of Claims, and that they be referred to the Committee on Claims...
In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale submitted the following resolution: Whereas at no time has so large a proportion of the American people been employed at so high wages and purchasing the necessities and comforts of life at so low prices as in the year eighteen hundred and Ninety-two...
In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, to accompany amendment by Mr. Sherman to H.R. 7520, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman presented the following letter of the Secretary of the Interior transmitting papers relating to the claim of Sam Kendrick as owner of the records of the Virginia military land grants in Ohio and Kentucky.
In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following: Proceedings of the travelers' protective association of America at its annual convention at Old Point Comfort, Va., June 15 to 18, 1892, favoring the Torrey Bankrupt bill including a speech of Mr. John A. Lee.
In the Senate of the United States. June 27, 1892. -- Submitted, and referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. July 12, 1892. -- Reported by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, without amendment and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart submitted the following resolution: Instructing the Committee on Mines and Mining to report the average cost of the production of gold and silver bullion in the United States...
In the Senate of the United States. June 30, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, That in view of the great amount of money required to be appropriated, under existing law...
In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a list of all abandoned military reservations on the public domain.
In the Senate of the United States. June 8, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph presented the following report of a special Committee, an address to Congress and action by the National Board of Trade concerning the Torrey bankrupt bill...
In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Rules be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to select two expert architects, at a compensation to be agreed upon by said Committee and said experts...
In the Senate of the United States. March 21, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The President pro tempore presented the following communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law in certain French spoliation claims relating to the vessel and cargo of the snow "Lydia.".
In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan presented the following memorial of Henry Woodruff, trustee, etc. -- Claim against Venezuela in respect to first-mortgage bonds of Ferro-Carril del Este...
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wolcott submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the heads of the several departments and of the other branches of the public service in the City of Washington be directed to transmit to the Senate lists of all their subordinates...
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hiscock presented the following memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, in behalf of the maintenance of the standard of value as now established by law.
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in response to a resolution of the 26th Ultimo, in regard to the condition of the various public bridges in said district.
In the Senate of the United States. March 23, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell presented the following memorial of George F. Curtis, law librarian of Congress, praying for the preparation, printing, and distribution of a subject and authors' catalogue of the books in the law library of Congress.
In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to furnish the Senate a detailed statement of the saving or increase in the annual expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service...
In the Senate of the United States. March 24, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice President presented the following communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law in the French spoliation claim of Charles E. Alexander, administrator of Jonathan Merry, deceased, schooner "Polly.".
In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gibson of Louisiana presented the following memorial to the Fifty-second Congress of the United States in favor of the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River.
In the Senate of the United States. March 28, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wolcott submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring) that the President be requested to refrain from allotting in severalty the lands of the present reservation of the Southern Ute Indians...
In the Senate of the United States. March 30, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law in the French spoliation claims relating to the vessels the ship Argo, Benjamin Randall, Master, and the Schooner Ranger, Joseph Bacon, Master.
In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance is directed to make examination and report to the Senate as soon as practicable-- First. What has been the effect on the price of silver bullion of the provisions of the act of July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety...
In the Senate of the United States. May 10, 1892. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Quadro-Centennial and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Select Committee on the Quadro-Centennial be and it is hereby, instructed to inquire into the propriety of Congress making a suitable provision to cover the cost of transportation and subsistence of the national guard...
In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution for appointment of joint committee of Senate and House for examination and report on the commercial and political conditions of Cuba and the West India islands and their relations to the United States...
In the Senate of the United States. May 13, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettigrew, from the Committee of Conference on the Bill (H.R. 38) relative to the sale of the Klamath River Indian Reservation, submitted the following report: (To accompany H.R. 38.)...
In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia transmitting a report in regard to the occupancy of the river front of the city, in response to a resolution of the 21st of March last.
In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President submitted the following communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in response to a resolution of February 18, making inquiries with respect to the Washington Market Company in the District of Columbia.
In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stockbridge presented the following letter from M. McDonald, Commissioner United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, upon the natural history of the menhaden and mackerel, with notes on the fisheries.
In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following papers relating to the application of commodore William P. McCann, United States Navy, to be placed on the retired list with the rank of rear-admiral...
In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate of the United States of America, that a special committee of nine senators shall be appointed who are hereby instructed to consider and report to the Senate some legislation that will relieve the scarcity of money amongst the farmers in all parts of the country...
In the Senate of the United States. May 20, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cockrell presented the following proceedings of the Board of Trade of St. Joseph, Mo., and the American Boiler Manufacturers' Association of the United States and Canada, praying for the passage of the Torrey bankrupt bill.
In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1892. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Vest submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be discharged from the further considered of House bill numbered six thousand and seven, being "An Act To Place Wool on the Free List and to Reduce the Duties on Woolen Goods," ...
In the Senate of the United States. May 23, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Warren presented the following memorial of the Wyoming Stock Growers' Association and the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, indorsing the Torrey bankrupt bill.
In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vest, from the Committee on the Judiciary, presented the following letter of the Attorney General, relative to the compensation of United States marshals and deputies.
In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vest, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following communication from the Attorney-General showing the earnings of the clerk's offices in the several districts of the United States during the six years from 1885 to 1890, inclusive...
In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. May 27, 1892. -- Ordered reprinted. Mr. Cockrell presented the following table prepared by the Director of the Mint, exhibiting approximately the stock of money in the aggregate and per capita in the principal countries of the world.
In the Senate of the United States. May 25, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, ...relative to a peace conference of the governments of the world, to sit in Chicago during and in connection with the Columbian Exposition, for the purpose of considering the question of the settlement of all international differences by arbitration.
In the Senate of the United States. May 26, 1882 [i.e., 1892]. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Peffer submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inform the Senate how much paper currency was issued during each of the years from eighteen hundred and sixty-one to eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, both inclusive...
In the Senate of the United States. May 26, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer presented the following letter from the Postmaster General, submitting the record of the proceedings of the convention of post masters of certain offices, held in Washington, D.C., March 9, 1892, to study plans to advance the efficiency and increase the revenue of the Department.
In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1892. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Vest presented the following letter of the Acting Secretary of War relative to the bill to authorize the Missouri River Power Company, of Montana, to construct a dam across the Missouri River.
In the Senate of the United States. May 3, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Kenna, from the Committee on Appropriations, presented the following letters from the Secretary of State relative to the appointment of a second interpreter for the legation at Constantinople...
In the Senate of the United States. May 3, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the commissioners of the District of Columbia in response to a resolution of the 28th ultimo, in regard to building regulations in the district with reference to places of public amusement.
In the Senate of the United States. May 31, 1892. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Turpie submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of State, if not incompatible with the public interests, be requested to transmit to the Senate copies of the dispatches and correspondence between the government of the United States and the governments of Haiti, Colombia, and Venezuela...
In the Senate of the United States. May 5, 1892. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. McPherson submitted the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate of the United States, the House of Representatives concurring therein, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to remove at once all powder boats used for the storage of powder now lying in the harbor of New York...
In the Senate of the United States. May 5, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in response to a resolution of the 19th ultimo, in regard to the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway Company.
In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. The Vice-President presented the following communication from the commissioners of the District of Columbia in response to a resolution of the 8th ultimo, in regard to change of motive power, etc., of railroads operated in the district.
In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1892. -- Submitted by Mr. Chandler and referred to the Committee on Finance. June 1, 1892. -- Reported by Mr. Morrill with an amendment, and referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. June 2, 1892. -- Reported by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, with an amendment, considered, amended, and agreed to. August 3, 1892. -- Ordered that five hundred copies be printed for the use of the Senate.
In the Senate of the United States. Memorial in regard to a national university by John W. Hoyt. August 3, 1892. -- Referred to the Select Committee to establish the University of the United States and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate of the United States. Memorial of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, and several memorials of wool manufacturers of the United States, remonstrating against the passage of the Bill (H.R. 6007) to put wool on the free list and reduce the duties on woolen goods. Presented by Mr. Aldrich. July 6, 1892. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed.

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