Subject.

COMMITTEE ON PENSIONS-Continued.

No. Vol.

On the bill (S. 1177) granting an increase of pension to Georgetta Harp

On the bill (S. 1865) granting a pension to Mrs. Minna Haeberle...
On the bill (S. 1134) for the relief of Herman D. Stratton..
On the bill (S. 978) to rerate the pension of John A. Ford..
On the bill (H. R. 1197) granting a pension to Anna M. Wehe..
On the bill (S. 753) granting a pension to Anna R. Voorhies..

On the bills (S. 2165 and H. R. 875) granting a pension to P. W. Brad-
bury....

On the bill (S. 2244) granting a pension to James Brown...

On the bill (H. R. 432) to increase the pension of Joseph B. Sellers..
On the bill (H. R. 3331) for the relief of Ann McCarney-

On the bill (S. 1603) to increase the pension of James J. Chase..

728

729

730

731

On the bill (S. 912) granting a pension to Henry A. Armstrong-

On the bill (S. 284) granting a pension to Henry J. Seward..

On the bill (S. 1864 to allow John Winchell arrears of pension

On the bill (S. 1840) granting a pension to S. A. Riggs..
On the bill (S. 1208) for the relief of Wilson G. Gray.

On the bill (S. 1726) granting a pension to John M. Broome..

On the bill (S. 1159) for the relief of Mrs. Eunice S. Nicholls-

On the bill (S. 1834) granting a pension to Eliza C. Woodall..

733

736

737

738

739

740

741

742

743

7

On the bills (S. 1325 and H. R. 2136) granting an increase of pension to
Martin C. Harris....

On the bills (S. 1777 and 1942) for the relief of Harvey Smith.
On the bill (S. 2011) granting a pension to Mary M. Lyon..

On the bill (H. R. 5595) granting a pension to Eugene L. Townsend.

On the bill (H. R. 554) granting a pension to Joseph T. Caldwell.

On the bill (H. R. 1411) granting a pension to Martha M. B. McCullach –
On the bill (S. 1181) granting a pension to Ann Lally.

On the bill (H. R. 229) granting a pension to Elizabeth H. Lawler-
On the bills (H. R. 4440 and S. 1421) granting a pension to John Bostater
On the bill (S. 1656) granting an increase of pension to Thomas S. Brooks
On the petition of James Martin for relief.

On the petition of Charlotte Brewster praying for arrears of pension.
On the bill (H. R. 3307) granting a pension to Harriet P. Dame

On the bill (H. R. 6542) granting a pension to Harriett S. Brisbine..
On the bill (H. R. 1751) increasing the pension of William R. Browne--
On the bill (S. 1627) granting a pension to Flavia A. Haskell...
On the bill (S. 1220) for the relief of the heirs of Michael O'Brien
On the bill (H. R. 2543) granting a pension to James Roden
On the bill (H. R. 1164) granting a pension to Mary E. Seymour.
On the bill (H. R. 137) granting an increase of pension to Betsey A. Mower-
On the bill (H. R. 1631) granting an increase of pension to Matthew

O'Regan

On the bill (H. R. 3623) granting a pension to Sarah E. Price.
On the bill (H. R. 3294) granting a pension to Emma A. Porch
On the bill (H. R. 4141) granting a pension to Mrs. Rebecca J. Pierce-

On the bill (S. 1398) granting an increase of pension to Andrew J. Bolar-

On the bill (S. 1430) granting a pension to Sarah C. Hall

On the bill (H. R. 2419) granting a pension to Robert Nutt..
On the bill (H. R. 3613) granting a pension to Ira McNair
On the bill (H. R. 1998) for the relief of William J. Sawyer--
On the bill (H. R. 6767) granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Virginia

Zeilin...

On the bill (H. R. 439) granting a pension to Bridget Sherlock, mother

of Stephen Sherlock

On the bill (S. 1971) granting a pension to Mrs. Catharine H. Glick,

769

772

773

774

775

776

777

778

779

780

Subject.

COMMITTEE ON PENSIONS-Continued.

On the bill (H. R. 1569) granting a pension to Mrs. Mary M. Ord.......
On the bill (H. R. 1237) granting a pension to Solomon K. Ruggles-
On the petition of certain citizens of Iowa in favor of granting a pension
to David Galbraith....

On the petition of certain citizens of Iowa in favor of granting a pension to
N. D. Bates

791

On the bill (H. R. 1977) for the relief of Maria L. Hammer..
On the bill (H. R. 2017) granting a pension to Walter Dickson..
On the bill (H. R. 6529) for the relief of John Kane..

792

793

794

7777

On the bill (H. R. 2378) restoring to the pension-rolls the name of John
Allee

795

On the bill (H. R. 2447) for the relief of Catherine Terry..

On the bill (H. R. 2660) granting a pension to William Printz..
On the bill (H. R. 2425) granting a pension to Catharine Henry
On the bill (H. R. 1897) granting a pension to Catherine Hunter-
On the bill (S. 2049) granting a pension to James King...
On the bill (H. R. 2536) granting a pension to Michael Mack.......

On the petition of James A. Quinlan praying for an increase of pension.-
On the bill (S. 2350) granting a pension to Anna Ginn...

On the bill (H. R. 6085) granting a pension to John A. Hassell.
On the bill (H. R. 3171) granting a pension to Ella Stolz

On the bill (H. R. 5821) granting a pension to Mrs. Susannah Barr..
On the bill (H. R. 5723) granting a pension to Isabella Bertha Weaver
On the bill (H. R. 6184) granting a pension to Julia M. Reynolds....
On the bill (H. R. 2358) granting a pension to James Hawkins
On the bill (H. R. 3737) granting a pension to Ann McLoughlin.
On the bill (H. R. 5485) granting a pension to Mrs. Samantha Harriman.
On the bill (H. R. 819) granting an increase of pension to Merritt Lewis-
On the bill (H. R. 1246) granting a pension to the widow of Maj. Gen.
James B. Steedman

On the bill (H. R. 1073) granting a pension to William J. Lee-

On the bill (H. R. 5795) increasing the pension of Charles A. Fuller.
On the bill (H. R. 2623) granting a pension to Arthur I. McConnell..
On the bill (H. R. 1410) granting a pension to Henry Schnetberg--
On the bill (H. R. 3909) granting a pension to George W. Wickwire
On the bill (H. R. 5976) for the relief of Catharine Meis..
On the bill (H. R. 4970) for the relief of Nancy Biser...
On the bill (H. R. 4439) granting a pension to John R. Wallace..
On the bill (H. R. 1436) granting a pension to William T. McCoy.

On the bill (H. R. 5675) granting a pension to Mrs. Susan J. McKenney..
On the bill (S. 1823) granting a pension to Ebenezer K. Marden.
On the bill (H. R. 1056) granting a pension to Honora Kelley.
On the bill (H. R. 3606) granting a pension to Irene Baker.
On the bill (H. R. 4526) granting a pension to Ann Corbin..
On the bill (H. R. 5781) granting a pension to Solon L. Simonds.
On the bill (H. R. 5335) granting a pension to Mrs. Sarah E. E. Seelye,
alias Franklin Thompson..

830

831

832

833

834

835

7

7

7

836

7

On the bills (H. R. 4368 and S. 1226) granting an increase of pension to
Dr. Samuel Davis.

On the bill (S. 1111) granting an increase of pension to Sally Rodman,
widow of General Isaac P. Rodman..

838

On the bill (S. 1112) granting a pension to John Sweeney

839

On the bill (H. R. 5636) granting an increase of pension to Otto Leissring..
On the bill (H. R. 837) granting a pension to Reuben J. Chewning..
On the bill (H. R. 2312) granting a pension to Almira B. Kaler..
On the bill (H. R. 6168) granting an increase of pension to Harry D. F.
Young-

840

848

849

850

On the bill (H. R. 3625) granting an increase of pension to Levi Anderson-
On the bill (H. R. 4767) granting a pension to Mary A. Henry, widow of
William Henry-

On the bill (S. 1446) granting a pension to Lou Gobright McFalls.

77777

7-7

77

Subject.

COMMITTEE ON PENSIONS-Continued.

No.

Vol.

On the bill (H. R. 943) granting a pension to Samuel Barnard
On the bill (H. R. 1965) granting a pension to John A. Crozier.
On the bill (H. R. 4700) granting a pension to Simon E. Lewis.

On the bill (H. R. 254) granting a pension to John Robbins
On the bill (H. R. 1894) granting a pension to Clark Roberts.

On the bill (H. R. 282) to reinstate Cornelius Fitzgerald on the pension-

roll.

On the bill (H. R. 4568) granting a pension to Andrew J. Konkle.
On the bill (H. R. 836) granting a pension to John C. Fenscke
On the bill (H. R. 6786) granting a pension to Rivers Banks
On the bill (H. R. 555) granting a pension to John Galloup..
On the bill (H. R. 4457) granting a pension to J. G. Crawford
On the bill (H. R. 2105) granting a pension to John A. Shuchers
On the bill (H. R. 2091) granting a pension to Rebecca Hall

On the bill (H. R. 2089) granting a pension to Margaret Wiggins
On the bill (H. R. 1077) granting a pension to Sarah Miner

On the bill (H. R. 2869) granting an increase of pension to Martha H.
Stribling

On the bill (H. R. 3591) granting a pension to Sarah A. Becktel
On the bill (H. R. 4530) granting a pension to Patrick Foley
On the bill (H. R. 284) for the relief of Mary G. Hawk
On the bill (H. R. 1970) granting a pension to Alice T. Sherwood
On the bill (H. R. 2245) granting a pension to Eliza A. Shealey.
On the bill (H. R. 503) granting a pension to Hiram C. Henderson
On the bill (H. R. 6589) for the relief of Asa Dye..
On the bill (H. R. 5889) granting a pension to Alonzo Cooper-
On the bill (H. R. 4694) granting a pension to James Clark.
On the bill (H. R. 3493) granting a pension to Ann Hunter
On the bill (H. R. 3231) granting a pension to Michael Shields
On the bill (H. R. 4492) for the relief of Mrs. Pauline E. Millikin
On the bill (H. R. 4254) granting a pension to James Aaron

On the bill (H. R. 6677) to increase the pension of William Irving-
On the bill (H. R. 5544) for the relief of Laura Goddard........

On the bill (H. R. 2070) granting a pension to Decatur Hamlin
On the bill (S. 1427) granting a pension to Abby S. Slocum

On the bill (S. 150) granting an increase of pension to Sarah Denny Rip-
ley, widow of Brig. Gen. James W. Ripley-

On the bill (H. R. 204) granting a pension to Susan Y. Attwater.
On the bill (H. R. 5553) granting a pension to Isabella Palmer-
On the bill (H. R. 1752) granting a pension to Maria L. Lee

On the bill (H. R.

On the bill (H. R.

4180) granting an increase of pension to Rowland Ward.
5088) for the relief of Magdalena Cook

On the bill (H. R. 2574) granting a pension to Rosella Pegg-
On the bill (H. R. 5888) granting a pension to Ellen O'Brien.

COMMITTEE ON POST-OFFICES AND POST-ROADS.

On the bill (S. 1481) for the relief of O. L. Cochran, late postmaster at

Houston, Tex..

On the bill (S. 566) for the relief of Z. M. Pettigrew..

Tenn.

On the bill (S. 1482) for the relief of William H. Randle, of Nashville,
On the bill (S. 1017) to prohibit the mailing of newspapers and other pub-|
lications containing lottery advertisements, and prescribing a penalty |

for the violation of the same

Views of the minority

On the bill (S. 493) for the relief of C. S. Moss

On the bill (S. 1018) to amend sections 3929 and 4041 of the Revised
Statutes authorizing the Postmaster-General to prohibit the delivery
of registered letters and the payment of money-orders, and providing

for the return thereof.-

Subject.

COMMITTEE ON POST-OFFICES AND POST-ROADS-Continued.

On the joint resolution (S. Res. 13) to reappropriate and apply the amount
appropriated by the act of Congress approved March 3, 1877, to pay
certain Southern mail contractors__

On the bill (S. 1450) for the readjustment of compensation for the trans-
portation of the mails on railroad routes.-

On the bill (S. 1455) for the relief of D. O. Adkinson

On the amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Hoar to bill (H. R.
5459) making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Depart-
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and for other purposes.
On the bill (S. 1727) to grant letter-carriers at free-delivery offices thirty
days' leave of absence in each year.

On the bill (S. 17) “ to provide for the establishment of a postal telegraph
system," (S. 227) "to establish a system of postal telegraph in the
United States," and (S. 1016) "to provide for the transmission of corre-
spondence by telegraph," and which was also instructed by the Senate
to inquire "whether the cost of telegraphic correspondence between the
several States and Territories of the United States or with foreign coun-
tries has been injuriously affected by large stock dividends made by the
Western Union Telegraph Company, by consolidation between different
telegraph companies, by working contracts with cable companies, by
leasing of connecting or competing lines, or by other means," together
with an accompanying bill (S. 2022)

COMMITTEE ON PRINTING.

On a letter from Parsons & Co., of New York, asking an investigation into
the tardy mail delivery of their bids for supplying paper for the Gov-
ernment Printing Office..

402

COMMITTEE ON PRIVILEGES AND ELECTIONS.

On the Senate resolutions of January 29 and February 4, 1884, to inquire,
among other things, into events preceding and connected with the re-
cent election at Danville, Va.

On the resolution of the Senate to inquire into certain alleged occurrences
in the State of Mississippi, and into the condition of the constitutional
rights of the people of that State

Views of the minority. (Part 2).-

On resolution of the Senate to inquire into all the circumstances of, and
connected with, the alleged massacre of colored men at Danville, Va..
Views of the minority. (Part 2)

On the bill (S. 408) concerning Federal elections.

746

On the petition of Maria G. Underwood, administratrix of John C. Under-
wood, deceased, asking payment for salary and mileage of the said John
C. Underwood from the 4th of March, 1865, to the 4th of March, 1871-

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

On the bill (S. 1473) to enlarge the United States custom-house at Rich-
mond, Va

On the bill (S. 574) appropriating money for the purchase of a site and
the erection of a suitable building for the United States courts, post-
office, and other Government offices in the city of Winona, State of
Minnesota....

On the bill (S. 1885) for the erection of a public building at Wilmington,
Del....

On the bill (S. 1978) authorizing the partition of certain land in Louis-
ville, Ky., belonging jointly to John Echols and the Government of
the United States

Subject.

No.

Vol.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS.

On the bill (S. 258) donating a part of the abandoned military reserva-
tion at Fort Smith, Ark., to the city of Fort Smith for the use and
benefit of the free public schools thereof, and for other purposes
On the bill (S. 74) to enable the State of Colorado to take lands in lieu
of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections found to be mineral lands,
and to secure to the State of Colorado the benefit of the act of July 2,
1562, entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and
Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture
and the mechanic arts".

On the bill (S. 269) for the relief of M. P. Jones

On the bill (S. 241) to repeal section 8 of an act entitled "An act to ac-
cept and ratify the agreement submitted by the confederated bands of
Ute Indians in Colorado for the sale of their reservation in said State.
and for other purposes, and to make the necessary appropriations for
carrying out the same," approved June 15, 1880.

On the bill (S. 503) to increase the endowment of the University of Ala-
bama from the public lands in said State -

On the bill (S. 356) for the relief of Millie E. Hays, widow of John Hays,
deceased

On the bill (S. 352) for the relief of Thomas H. Reeves

On the bill (S. 551) to extend the laws of the United States over certain
anorganized territory south of the State of Kansas

1

On the bill (S. 57) for the relief of settlers and purchasers of lands on the
public domain in the States of Nebraska and Kansas...
On the Senate resolution directing the investigation of the issue of scrip
to the heirs of Israel Dodge

131

1

135

1

150

2

On the bill (S. 554) to promote the efficiency of the General Land Office.
On the bill (S. 502) to increase the salary of the Commissioner of the Gen-
eral Land Office, and to create the offices of Assistant Commissioner of
the General Land Office and inspectors of surveyors-general and dis-
trict land offices.

On the bill (S. 323) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make
allowances for rent of United States land offices

On the bill (S. 1574) for the sale of the Cherokee Reservation in the State
of Arkansas

On the bill (S. 1445) to provide for the settlement of the rights of the
States and of the corporations and persons interested in any grant of
lands in aid of railroads and canals which shall be hereafter declared
forfeited by act of Congress. -

On the bill (S. 559) to quiet the title of settlers on the Des Moines River
lands, in the State of Iowa, and for other purposes

On the bill (S. 1047) for the relief of Wesley Montgomery

On the bill (S. 428) to forfeit certain public lands granted to the Oregon
Central Railroad Company in the State of Oregon and the Territory of
Washington

Views of the minority...

On the bill (S. 2124) to authorize a suit to settle the boundaries of the grant
known as Rancho Corte de Madera del Presidio, and for other purposes. *485
On the bill (H. R. 3933) to declare a forfeiture of lands granted to the
Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (Views of the
minority)

On the bill (S. 2036) to forfeit the unearned lands granted to the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company to aid in the construction of a railroad from
Lake Superior to Puget Sound, and to restore the same to settlement,
and for other purposes -

*In lieu of No. 1, which was recommitted to the Committee on Public Lands December 10, 1883.

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