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- Report of the National Academy of Sciences for the year 1888.
- Annual report of the Public Printer for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889. December 16, 1889. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 1, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that on and after Monday, April 7, 1890, the daily sessions of the Senate shall commence at twelve o'clock meridian, until otherwise ordered.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 10, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Morrill, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany S. 3479.) Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a draught of a bill to provide for the issuing and recording of commissions in the Treasury Department.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 11, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a certified copy of the findings of said court in the cause of John A. Lynch vs. The United States.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Gibson, referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Resolution adopted at a meeting of a board of directors of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange protesting against the passage of the Butterworth bill, prohibiting the sale of articles for future delivery.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 14, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Walthall, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of citizens of Vicksburg, Miss., praying for liberal appropriations for the Mississippi River Commission.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 16, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Voorhees, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of George Rhey, of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, praying for the repeal of the law providing for the coinage of gold and silver money, and suggesting other financial legislation.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 18, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Sherman, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the representatives meeting of westerly yearly meeting of the Society of Friends of southern and western Indiana, and the State of Illinois...
- In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Sherman, referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. (To accompany S. 3359.) Petition of Mary A. Henry and other papers relating to Bill (S. 3359) to compensate the heirs of Prof. Joseph Henry for services rendered by said Henry as a member of the Lighthouse Board from October 9, 1852, to May 3, 1878.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 2, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Voorhees, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and, with accompanying papers, ordered to be printed. Memorial of Charles Forster, late United States Consul, in relation to the discontinuance of the United States consulate at Elberfeld, Germany.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 21, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb submitted the following concurrent resolution: Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to increase the Treasury purchases and coinage of silver bullion...
- In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Sherman, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany amendment to H.R. 9603.) Letter of the Secretary of State recommending that the American representative at Athens, Greece, be raised to the plenipotentiary mission at the rate of $7,500, and that he shall be assigned to the countries of Greece, Roumania, and Servia.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Sherman, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany amendment to H.R. 9603.) Letter of the Secretary of State transmitting copies of dispatches from the United States legation at Copenhagen relative to the raising of the grade of the mission to that place.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Sherman, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany amendment to H.R. No. 9603.) Letter of the Secretary of State recommending the advancement of the American legation in the Empire of Turkey to the grade of a second-class mission.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the following be adopted as a standing rule of the Senate...
- In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. Mr. Gray submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish the library of the Senate with fifty copies of Volume 20 of the Statutes of Large of the United States.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 24, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Morrill, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Communications received by the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds relative to a site for the city post office of Washington, D.C.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 29, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Gibson, referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, and ordered to be printed. Protest of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange against the passage of the Butterworth bill defining "options" and "futures," and imposing special taxes on dealers therein.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Squire, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington, praying for an appropriation for the removal of obstructions between the bay of Port Townsend and Oak Bay, in that state.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 30, 1890. -- Reported and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the following concurrent resolution: (Requesting the President to negotiate with the governments of Great Britain and Mexico with a view to securing treaty stipulations for the prevention of entry into the United States of Chinese laborers from the Dominion of Canada and Mexico.)...
- In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Platt, referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of William C. Hazeldine in behalf of the committee appointed by the Constitutional Convention of New Mexico, to present the constitution framed by said convention to Congress, asking the passage of an enabling act for the admission of New Mexico under such constitution when ratified by the people.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 7, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Squire, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of Fairhaven, Washington, praying for legislation making that city a subport of entry.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 8, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Whereas the newspapers have published statements that Charles E. Swayne, judge of the district court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida, and Joseph Stripling, district attorney of the United States for said court, have prostituted the judicial powers of that court...
- In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Evarts, and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Remonstrance of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, and of the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, composed of 300 ministers and representing over 50,000 members, against the proposed enumeration of the Chinese.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Sherman, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany Mr. Sherman's amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill.) Letter of the Secretary of State in relation to the necessity of an immediate outlay of the United States legation premises at Siam.
- In the Senate of the United States. April 9, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Sherman, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of State transmitting dispatch No. 50, of August 17, 1889, from the United States minister at Paris in relation to the peace congress.
- In the Senate of the United States. December 10, 1889. -- Presented, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia transmitting in response to Senate resolution of the 5th instant, a list of names, date of employment, and rate of compensation of all persons now in the employ of said district who are not paid out of funds appropriated solely for the purpose of such employment.
- In the Senate of the United States. December 11, 1889. -- Presented by Mr. Chandler, referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill S. 1085.) Petition of Albert D. Spalter, heir of Lieut. Moses Child, deceased, praying compensation for services rendered by said Moses Child in the Revolutionary War.
- In the Senate of the United States. December 11, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting additional report, in reply to Senate resolution of February 5, 1889, in regard to exclusion of persons from charitable institutions in said district on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1889. -- Ordered to be printed. Letter of Commander Bradford,, U.S. Navy, and other papers, relative to the system of electric lighting now in use in the Senate wing of the Capitol.
- In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1889. -- Presented by Mr. Platt. Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the state constitutional convention of the Territory of Wyoming praying the admission of that territory as a state into the Union.
- In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1889. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Communication from the Court of Claims transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law filed by said court in sundry spoliation claims, under the act approved January 20, 1885.
- In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1889. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Fisheries, and ordered to be printed. Communication from the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, transmitting a statement of expenditures for propagation of food fishes during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889.
- In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the President be, and he is hereby, respectfully requested, if not incompatible with the public interests, to transmit to the Senate copies of all diplomatic correspondence between the United States and the Empire of China...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1889. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Navy be directed to inform the Senate whether formal organizations, not expressly authorized by the Navy Department, exist among naval officers for purposes not merely literary or scientific...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1889. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Manderson submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, instructed to inform the Senate what military reservations, or parts thereof, have been relinquished by the War Department...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 17, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, directed to transmit to the Senate an estimate of the increased cost required to extend the free delivery system...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1889. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Coke submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Attorney General be, and is hereby, directed to transmit to the Senate copies of all orders, instructions, directions, or advices given by letter, telegram, or otherwise to the marshal and the district attorney, or either of them, of the Northern District of California, touching or relating to the protection of the person of Justice Field...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1889. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law filed by said court in sundry spoliation cases...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1889. -- Reported, referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hiscock, from the Select Committee on the Quadro-Centennial, reported the following resolution: Resolved, that the Select Committee on the Quadro-Centennial, or a sub-committee thereof, be...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1889. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Communication from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of law and of fact filed by said court in sundry spoliation cases.
- In the Senate of the United States. December 19, 1889. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Utah Commission as to the management of the Industrial Christian Home of Utah Territory.
- In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1889. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Plumb submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Interior be directed to report the cause of withholding patents for lands within the limits of the grant to the Union Pacific Railway Company...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 20, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Mr. Harris submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that hereafter when bills for the payment of private claims or granting private pensions are introduced in the Senate only one hundred copies shall be printed...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 21, 1889. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Attorney General of the United States is hereby directed to report to the Senate the expenditures made by the circuit court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 5, 1889. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Whereas the only power conferred on Congress to impose taxes on the American people is to be found in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution, wherein...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 5, 1889. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Communication from the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law filed in the matter of the brig Juno, John Walker, master...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 5, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanford submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to examine all vouchers, accounts, papers, and evidence... submitted to him in support of the war claims of the State of California against the United States...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1889. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Turpie submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the proposed penal enactments against trusts...
- In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1889. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Sherman submitted the following concurrent resolution: To invite international arbitration as to differences between nations...
- In the Senate of the United States. February 10, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Chandler, referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of William Patrick Henry, of Elbert County, Ga., praying an investigation into an alleged outrage perpetrated upon him at the late national election held in that state November 6, 1888.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 11, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and ordered to be printed. Headquarters, Executive Committee of the Citizens' Equal Rights Association of America...
- In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Manderson, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions adopted at a meeting of the Real Estate Exchange and citizens of Lincoln, Nebr., held January 25, 1890, in relation to a new public building in that city.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 12, 1890. -- Reported by Mr. Sherman and ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Letter from the Acting Secretary of State, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Navy Department communicating late advices of the political situation in Samoa.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Squire, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of Port Townsend, Wash., praying for the appointment of a commission to select a suitable position for a dry-dock on Port Townsend harbor.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, That the Attorney-General be directed to transmit to the Senate any information in his possession with reference to the recent assassination, at Quincy, Fla., of W.B. Saunders, United States deputy marshal for the District of Florida.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Cockrell and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Director of the Mint in relation to silver coinage.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1890. -- Mr. Coke, from the Committee on Commerce, presented the following papers, which were ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 2716. December 20, 1890. -- Mr. Coke introduced the following bill, which was read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. A Bill for the Improvement of the Bar and Harbor at Galveston, Texas...
- In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Cullom, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill S. 2792.) Memorial of John Cowdon, praying the passage of a law to make the Lake Borgne outlet, and to improve the low-water channel of the lower Mississippi River...
- In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Manderson, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Petition of George S. Fisher for re-imbursement for losses sustained by him while consul in Japan.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Whereas, during the debate in the Senate on Thursday, February 20, 1890, upon the resolution directing the Attorney General to transmit to the Senate any information in his possession with reference to the recent assassination at Quincy, Fla., of W.B. Saunders, United States deputy marshal for the District of Florida, Wilkinson Call...
- In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be instructed whenever a tariff bill shall be reported to the Senate, to incorporate in it a provision that in case any foreign country shall impose an export duty on pine, spruce, or hemlock saw-logs...
- In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Cullom, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial indorsed by numerous mercantile exchanges praying the establishment of a first-class bonded mail service for the term of five years, between Tampa, Fla., and Aspinwall, Central America.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 24, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Mitchell, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany Bill S. 2828.) Letter of the Secretary of the Interior transmitting correspondence in relation to the ratification and confirmation of certain agreements between the United States and the Coeur D'Alene Indians in Idaho Territory.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 25, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Call, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Correspondence in relation to swamp or overflowed lands in the State of Florida.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 26, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Chandler, referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of Union Country, Ark., praying for legislation for the protection of voters in the southern states.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1890. -- Reported by Mr. Morrill, and ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting reports in relation to Bill (S. 426), "To Determine and Settle Final Balances of Accounts Due to and from the United States Government, and for Other Purposes."...
- In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Chandler and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. February 24, 1890. -- Reported and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 2504. Memoranda relative to Bill (S. 2504) making an appropriation for the construction of Hall Automobile Torpedoes.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 5, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Dolph, and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Board of Trade of Portland, Oregon, praying for an appropriation for the erection of a customhouse in that city.
- In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Board of Managers of the National Soldiers' Home, in response to Senate resolution of January 6, 1890, relative to the establishment of a hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., for disabled soldiers.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Cockrell, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed, to accompany Bill S. 1927. Letter of Hon. W.S. Rosecrans in relation to Bill (S. 1927) to determine and settle final balances of accounts due to and from the United States government.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 13, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law of said court in certain spoliation claims.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the President of the Brightwood Railway Company, of the District of Columbia, reporting the operations of said company to January 1, 1890.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Report of the President of the Georgetown Barge, Dock, Elevator and Railway Company, in compliance with section 5 of the act incorporating said company.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. McPherson, referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Petition of the Board of Trade of Jersey City, N.J., indorsed by the Mayor and leading business men of said city, praying for the removal of the powder magazine from Ellis Island.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting the conclusions of fact and of law filed by said court in sundry spoliation claims.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 20, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Fisheries, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries in relation to the erection of a fish hatchery in the State of Colorado.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Wolcott, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Albert Borcherdt, of Denver, Colo., in relation to the destruction of forests in the United States.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 21, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Letter of the President of the Eckington and Soldiers' Home Railway Company of the District of Columbia, transmitting a report of the names of stockholders...
- In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following concurrent resolution: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the Senate Committee on Immigration and the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization be, and hereby are, authorized jointly to investigate the workings of the various laws of the United States...
- In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Chandler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Attorney General directed to transmit to the Senate the report recently made by United States Marshal John S. Burton, of the Northern District of Mississippi, concerning the maltreatment of Henry J. Fanz at Aberdeen, in said state.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Squire, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington, praying for an appropriation of $100,000 for dredging Swinomish Channel.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Squire, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of the Washington relative to the improvement of Nooksachk [sic] River.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Squire, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington praying for the relief of William Packwood.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 22, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Squire, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington relative to selection of lands granted to that state.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 23, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, acting under the direction of the Committee on Rules, is hereby authorized to lease for the use of the Senate, for the term ending October 1, 1890, the building on New Jersey Avenue and B Street, known as the Maltby House...
- In the Senate of the United States. January 27, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Hoar, referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions adopted at a mass-meeting held in Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass., January 9, 1890, praying for legislation to protect colored citizens in their rights.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spooner, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be, and it is hereby, instructed to consider the subject of affording at the Executive Mansion, by alteration...
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Allen, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington, in relation to the navigation of Gray's River and other tributaries of the Columbia River.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Allen, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington, praying for an appropriation of $50,000 for the improvement of the Nasel, Willapa, and North rivers, in the State of Washington.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Allen, referred to the Committee on Fisheries, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington asking that Congress donate to that state, for the purpose of establishing a fish hatchery, sections 11, 14, and 15, in township 36, range 37 east of the Willamette meridian, lying west of Columbia River.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Allen, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington, praying for the appointment of a commission to investigate certain losses sustained by settlers of Washington Territory during the years 1855 and 1856 by reason of Indian hostilities...
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Allen, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington, praying that Maj. Gen. R.H. Milroy, in recognition of his gallantry as a volunteer officer, be placed on the retired list of the U.S. Army.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Allen, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington in relation to certain lands withheld from entry and settlement by reason of withdrawal by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Allen, referred to the Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington asking an appropriation of $50,000 for the purpose of testing the practicability of sinking artesian wells...
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Platt, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the heirs of D.B. Bonfoey praying payment to them of an amount found to be due the said D.B. Bonfoey in the settlement of his accounts as collector of internal revenue for the Fourth District of Texas. (To accompany S. 2375.).
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Squire, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington praying for an appropriation for clearing Palouse River.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Squire, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington praying for the removal of a bar in the Columbia River.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Squire, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington relative to the construction of a railway through the Puyallup Indian Reservation.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 28, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Squire, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Washington in relation to military wagon-road along the Straits of San Juan De Fuca.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Turpie, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of a convention held at Oklahoma City, November 29, 1889, praying for the passage of a law for the adjustment of contests growing out of settlements upon town sites in the Territory of Oklahoma.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1890. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Plumb submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Secretary of the Treasury has by public advertisement invited bids for leasing the islands of St. Paul and St. George, in the Territory of Alaska, for a period of twenty years...
- In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Platt, referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. Constitution adopted by a constitutional convention held at Boise City, in the Territory of Idaho, August 6, 1889.
- In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolutions: Whereas there is reason to believe that the debt of the island of Cuba, such as consolidated by the decree of Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, dated May 10, 1886, amounting to $124,000,000...
- In the Senate of the United States. January 7, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Whereas it is alleged in the public press without contradiction that on or about the 10th day of December, 1889, at Indianapolis, Ind., Smiley N. Chambers...
- In the Senate of the United States. January 8, 1890. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Commissioner of Public Lands states in his annual report to Congress as follows: In the report for 1888 (p.45) special mention was made of the frauds that had been perpetrated in regard to the claims of Florida under the swamp grant...
- In the Senate of the United States. June 2, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Fisheries be, and it is hereby, instructed to make early inquiry into the administration of the affairs of the United States Fish Commissioners' Office, and especially in respect of the changes in the force, compensation paid to employes, and any alleged favoritism or other undue administration...
- In the Senate of the United States. June 2, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Platt, referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. Petition of citizens of Utah Territory praying that the elective franchise in that territory may be restricted to those who give unqualified allegiance to the government of the United States.
- In the Senate of the United States. June 4, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Gibson, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Committee of the Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis, Mo., praying necessary appropriations for continuing the work of improving the Mississippi River between St. Louis and New Orleans.
- In the Senate of the United States. June 6, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Letter of Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of fact filed by the Court of Claims in the case of George H. Plant v. the United States.
- In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Interstate Commerce Commission, submitting report on the subject of transportation rates on food products, in response to Senate resolution of February 19, 1890.
- In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1890. -- Presented and ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Letter of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in response to Senate resolution of the 29th ultimo, calling for information in relation to a permit granted to the United States Electric Lighting Company to dig up Fourteenth Street from New York Avenue to R Street.
- In the Senate of the United States. June 9, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Teller and ordered to be printed. Monetary contraction and the present crisis. By Emile De Laveleye.
- In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of buildings rented by the various departments in the City of Washington, with the location of each, for what purpose used, and the annual rental paid. February 5, 1890. -- Reported by Mr. Morrill from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed.
- In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of State, relative to the acquisition of sufficient territory from Mexico on the Gulf of California for a deep-water harbor. March 26, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.
- In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the leasing of the rights to engage in taking fur seals from the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George. February 13, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed to accompany Bill S. 1969.
- In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1890. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Stanford submitted the following resolution: Whereas, there is a stringency in money, and much consequent distress, the energies of the country being depressed, large portions of the farming communities heavily burdened and struggling for relief...
- In the Senate of the United States. March 10, 1890. -- Reported and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, reported the following order: Ordered, That in all future editions of the Congressional Record the following words be stricken from the report of the remarks of Mr. Call, a senator from the State of Florida...
- In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following: I give notice that I shall move on tomorrow to amend and modify clause 2 of Rule XXXVIII as follows...
- In the Senate of the United States. March 17, 1890. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Whereas the deep and wide-spread depression and decay of the agricultural interests of the American people...
- In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Berry, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the Chickasaws relating to lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations west of the ninety-eighth meridian of west longitude, with accompanying statement.
- In the Senate of the United States. March 19, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Sherman, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Petition of Samuel Shy, of Wichita, Kans., praying the passage of a bill for the establishment of a bank and fiscal agent of the United States.
- In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the chief and delegates of the Cherokee Nation, remonstrating against the amendments of the House of Representatives to Bill (S. 895) proposing to organize a territorial government for Oklahoma which includes within the boundaries of said territory a portion of the Cherokee strip.
- In the Senate of the United States. March 25, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Gorman, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany Joint Resolution S.R. No. 66.) Papers relative to the conferring upon Commander Dennis W. Mullan, U.S. Navy, by the Government of Chili, a gold medal.
- In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmunds submitted the following order: Ordered, That on and after Monday next, March 31, the daily sessions of the Senate shall commence at 11 o'clock a.m., until otherwise ordered.
- In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1889. -- Special Session. -- Submitted and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. February 10, 1890. -- Reported by Mr. Evarts without amendment. Resolution: resolved, that it is competent for the Senate to elect a President pro-tempore, who shall hold the office during the pleasure of the Senate and until another is elected, and shall execute the duties thereof when the Vice-President is absent.
- In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Gorman and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting papers relating to S. Res. No. 62. "Authorizing the President of the United States to appoint a commission to examine and report on a national harbor of refuge near the mouth of Delaware Bay suitable for deep-draught vessels.".
- In the Senate of the United States. March 27, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Platt, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the officers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the District of Columbia, urging legislation for the prohibition of the liquor traffic in the District of Columbia.
- In the Senate of the United States. March 29, 1890. -- Presented, referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Letter of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 25th instant, a report of the inspector of buildings as to the steps taken to render fire-proof, as nearly as possible, the new eight-room school building in the District of Columbia.
- In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1890. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance, in the consideration of any House revenue bill relating to duties on imports, be, and they are hereby, directed to consider the advisability of increasing the duties on the product of foreign hops...
- In the Senate of the United States. March 3, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Mr. Voorhees submitted the following resolution: Whereas Section 1963 of the Revised Statutes of the United States provides that when the lease heretofore made by the Secretary of the Treasury to the "Alaska Commercial Company" is surrendered...
- In the Senate of the United States. March 31, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, presented the following: Letter of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in relation to a building for the accommodation of the National Museum.
- In the Senate of the United States. March 5, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Whereas the Florida Central and Peninsula Railroad Company claims the right to sell the alternate section of land on the line of the railroad from Waldo to Tampa, Fla...
- In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Postmaster General be directed to send to the Senate papers and information as follows: First, copy of opinion of A.A. Freeman...
- In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pettigrew submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and are hereby, directed to immediately furnish the Senate with a statement of the assessed value of the land per acre and the number of acres in each tract, that composes the proposed Rock Creek Park in the District of Columbia...
- In the Senate of the United States. May 16, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stewart submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands be continued until otherwise ordered by the Senate.
- In the Senate of the United States. May 17, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Teller, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Memorial of the Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade, the Denver Real Estate Exchange, and the Denver Produce Exchange, to the Congress of the United States, suggesting a means for equalizing gold and silver by legislation.
- In the Senate of the United States. May 2, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to report to the Senate at his earliest convenience -- First, the total amount in value of gold coin and gold bullion, respectively, and the total amount in value of silver coin...
- In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Call submitted the following resolution: Be it resolved by the Senate, that the President be, and he is hereby, requested to communicate to the Senate such information as may be in the possession of the Executive Department relating to the landing of an armed force from the United States revenue cutter McLane at Cedar Keys, Florida...
- In the Senate of the United States. May 22, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Sherman, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of Committee of the National Convention of Wool Growers, held in the City of Washington, D.C., December 2 to 9, 1889, praying for full and adequate protection for the wool industry.
- In the Senate of the United States. May 24, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Plumb submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Finance Committee be directed to report to the Senate, in connection with House Bill No. 9416, commonly known as the tariff bill...
- In the Senate of the United States. May 26, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Plumb, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. A communication of William L. Elseffer, C.E., on the anomalous high-water condition of the lower Mississippi River in February and March, 1890, caused by the jetty system of government works.
- In the Senate of the United States. May 27, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cullom submitted the following resolution: That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate under what authority merchandise in bond, appraised or unapprised, and goods of domestic origin are permitted to be forwarded between Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States over the Canadian Pacific Railway...
- In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Spooner submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Attorney-General be directed to give to the Senate any information in his possession with reference to the practice of the United States courts at Fort Smith, Ark., and at Paris, Tex., in the appointment of commissioners for the investigation of offenses committed in the Indian Territory...
- In the Senate of the United States. May 29, 1890. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. Teller submitted the following concurrent resolution: Be it resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that it is the determined policy of the United States government to use both gold and silver as full legal tender money under the ratio now existing in the United States...
- In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Gibson, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Resolutions of the Mississippi River Improvement and Levee Convention, held at Vicksburg, Miss., April 30 and May 1, 1890, and resolution adopted by the Southern Press Association.
- In the Senate of the United States. May 7, 1890. -- Presented by Mr. Walthall, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Letter of Col. M.B. Hewson in relation to the levee system on the Mississippi River.
- Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a general act, or conventional agreement, concluded and signed at Berlin on the 14th day of June, 1889, by the plenipotentiaries of the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, in regard to the neutrality and autonomous government of the Samoan Islands. January 7, 1890. -- Read; convention read the first time and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and, together with the message and accompanying papers, ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate. February 10, 1890. -- Ordered to be reprinted.
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