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had his salary raised to $4,000; and now here is the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, who has for a long time acted as Secretary of the Interior, who is practically the law officer of that Department, whose business it is to review all litigated questions in reference to land titles and other questions of that description, and to finally decide them, and he is left to get on with a salary of $3,500. It seems to me to be a very singular state of affairs. I supposed that the same reason which justified increasing the salary of the Commissioner of Pensions would justify an increase of this salary, and I did not suppose any objection would be made. The propositions that have been made here, I have no doubt, though I am not advised as to all, have been simply made by certain members of the committee applying to other members of the committee for consent to propose those amendments, and they have been proposed as coming from the committee, when perhaps in point of fact they had never been considered by any committee, either by the committee proposing them or by the Committee on Appropriations, and in that way have been brought before the Senate and have been considered and adopted. If it be decided to be out of order I have nothing further to say..

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The ques tion is whether the decision of the Chair shall stand as the judgment of the Senate.

Mr. SUMNER. I do not know that I can add to the discussion; but without undertaking to express any opinion on what the old rule was, or the old practice, it does seem to me that the new rule we have established, if it is to be preserved, requires an interpretation that shall exclude such a motion as that which is now made, except according to the notice required by the rule. I do not doubt that a proposition may be made on an amendment which shall be germane to it, which shall be kindred to it, which shall be essentially associated with that special amendment. For instance, a condition may be annexed, or it may be reduced; but to add another distinct proposition relating to another distinct subjectmatter it seems to me entirely nullifies the new rule. If you can add to the first amendment a second amendment to increase the salary of another officer, why may you not go through the whole Government and add a proposition to increase the salary of the President of the United States or of the Chief Justice? By the same argument that you can add a proposition to increase the salary of one other officer you may add a proposition that shall increase the salaries of all the officers of the Government. It seems to me, therefore, that we cannot preserve the rule which we have at last established without excluding the proposed amendment.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is, "Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the Senate ?''

The question being put, the decision of the Chair was overruled.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment offered by the Senator from Oregon is out of order under the construction of the Senate. The question is on the amendment made as in Committee of the Whole as amended, to add as a new section:

And be it further enacted, That from and after the 30th day of June, 1868, the annual salaries of the Comptrollers of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Customs shall be $4,500 each; of the Solicitor, the Auditors, the Register, and the supervising architect of the Treasury, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the Commissioner of Pensions $4,000 each; and the additional amount necessary to pay the increase of salaries provided for by this section be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Mr. EDMUNDS. I have voted against these other amendments to this amendment, not because I had any special ground to distinguish against gentlemen whose salaries it was proposed to increase-I presume some of them ought to be increased-but because I am opposed to any increase at this time. That is the reason why I have voted "no" upon several amendments that have been offered adding to this list of officers, and I shall vote against this

amendment, and I hope the Senate will not adopt it.

fail for the sake of a few hundred or a few thousand dollars which is simply required by each and every subordinate.

Sir, I speak from actual knowledge-my friend from Maine, the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, will bear me outthat there is not a consul of the United States anywhere from the Mosquito Islands to London who does not demand an increase of salary, and

tain the dignity of the flag and the dignity of this great Government that his salary should be increased.

A great deal of truth has been stated by the Senator from Ohio as to the necessities of these gentlemen. That is a truth that he could assert as to the necessities of every Senator who hears me who has not a fortune, whose expenditures necessarily exceed his official income and salary, for the same reason that was told by some gentleman in debate, that even in this repub-show us that it is absolutely necessary to sus lican and democratic country there are certain expenses that belong to official station somewhat proportioned to the dignity of that station, family expenses, social expenses, official expenses, and "begging expenses," it is sug. gested. You are expected to subscribe to every good work, and a great many that are not good; and you have to do it. So, although our salaries are somewhat higher than those of these Comptrollers, it is just as true of us that we are pinched in order to make the ends meet on our salaries at the end of the year. It cannot be done. We are obliged, those of us who are lawyers, to resort to our professional occupations during the vacation, and during odd hours of the session of the Senate to run into the Supreme Court and earn $100, and do whatever we honorably and properly can in order to eke out that sum which it is necessary that persons in our position should expend for public and private objects.

All this is true undoubtedly of these Comptrollers, but the question is whether we can lift them at this time out of the position in which they are placed and leave the poor low grade of clerks-and when I speak of low grade, I of course am speaking of their official grade-who only get nine, ten, twelve, fourteen, or sixteen hundred dollars a year in the slough of despond, while we are elevating these others. They are pinched in the same way. Their expenditures are not as large, to be sure, but they have only a third of the money to pay them with. We are all in need of an increase of salary, or else we ought all to be able to make a dollar that we receive worth more in wheat and corn and wine and oil than it is now. That is the truth about it.

Can we, before we have settled our finances, before we have adjusted our taxation, before we have taken any of those great reformatory and revisory steps that always must follow after a period of disturbance and distress, such as this war has brought about, enter upon this special method of elevating particular salaries to particular oflicers? They must bear the griefs they have as the rest of us do, for the time being, until we shall be able to adjust all these salaries upon some proper substantial basis.

These are the reasons briefly why I feel obliged to vote against this amendment as I voted against the particular ones that were offered to it.

Mr. CHANDLER. There is not a consul of the United States, I believe, who is not asking for an increase of salary because he has all the dignity of the United States to sustain and nearly all the charities. A consul with $1,500 a year has to maintain his flag and the dignity of the United States and contribute to all the charities; and I believe there is not a single consul of the United States who is not to-day demanding an increase of salary because his necessary expenses in supporting the dignity of this great Government are so great that his pay is utterly incompetent to support him. Now, sir, I find that the dignity of the United States has to be sustained by every one of these officers whose salaries have been raised; but I find also that there is not a subordinate, no matter whether his salary be $600 as a watchman or he be an Assistant Secretary, who does not equally have the whole dignity of the United States upon his shoulders. If it is necessary that every employé of this Government should sustain the dignity of the United States let us increase them all, and let us enable every one of them to sustain the dignity of the United States. It will be pretty costly; but after all dignity must be sustained; we cannot allow the dignity of this great Government to

This is all right, I suppose; but if we commence the increase of salaries, let us go through and increase them all; let us have the dignity sustained; let the women in the Departments be paid enough to sustain the dignity of the United States; let the consuls of the United States who are scattered over the broad globe have money enough to sustain its dignity. Let us have dignity by all means; and let there be no lack.

But, sir, enough of this. We have commenced here and now an initiatory step. If this increase of salary is sustained in the Senate, then, sir, you must increase every salary from the highest to the lowest, and next year $10,000,000 will not pay for this initiatory step. You have inaugurated a system that, if carried out, will involve millions, and it must be car. ried out. I have here before me, and shall propose it now, a proposition coming from the Treasury Department to increase other salaries of a higher grade. You have insulted men here by raising their subordinates over them, actually insulted them. You have raised the salaries of subordinates over that of their principals. The dignity of the United States cannot be maintained if you raise the salary of a subordinate over that of his principal. You must maintain dignity. Here you have raised the salaries of your subordinates over that of an Assistant Secretary. You lose your dignity at once. It cannot be done.

Mr. NYE. I should like to know from the honorable Senator from Michigan if he did not vote for the additions. I noticed that he voted for them, and the question arises in my mind whether he has not helped to sustain the dignity by his votes.

Mr. CHANDLER.

I propose to put them all on; you want part; I want them ail on; i gave notice that I would vote for them all on the ground that if you raise one you must raise all. I voted for every one after I gave that notice. If you are going to sustain the dig. nity I want to sustain the whole dignity, and not a little part of it. I want them all raised if you raise any, and I expect the Senate to raise them all. And now, sir, I wish to move to put in at the place where my friend from Iowa put in his amendment

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question pending is on the amendment as amended. Mr. CHANDLER. It is in order, I believe, to amend the amendment.

Mr. DRAKE. It has just been decided that you cannot do it.

Mr. CHANDLER. I wish to put in “that the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury shall receive a salary of $5,000 per annum.' Ι move that as an amendment to the amendment, and after that I have twenty or thirty others which I wish to put in likewise.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I will ask the Senator whether he has given any notice of that?

Mr. CHANDLER. No, sir; it is an amendment to an amendment.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. That has been ruled out of order.

The PRESIDENT protempore. It is not in order.

Mr. CHANDLER. It ought to be if it is not; and if this is not entertained, I shall vote against the whole section.

Mr. EDMUNDS. I ask for the yeas and nays on the amendment as amended."

The yeas and nays were ordered.
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Mr. HOWE. Well, I will yield any way in a moment, whatever comes.

Mr. President, I am going to vote against this amendment; and yet I subscribe to the truth of almost every word that was urged by the Senator from Ohio some time since. I believe that we are not paying these officers an adequate salary. I believe we are not paying a single Government employé in the city of Washington, who does the duty which the law imposes upon him, anything like an honest salary. I believe that real suffering grows out of these meager salaries, and to relieve that suffering I would be willing to vote for an increase of this compensation.

But when Senators enlarge here upon the impossibility of supporting a family on a salary of $3,000 it astounds me that it does not occur to them that the difficulty of supporting a family on $1,800 or $1,200 must be very much greater. The House of Representatives, I am told, a short time since agreed to continue an appropriation or an increase of twenty per cent. to the present salaries of the clerks in these Departments, and sent to this body a bill for that purpose, but the next day they recalled it, and it is said that no such proposition as that will receive the assent of this Congress. Taking it for granted that that is so, I cannot myself see the propriety of raising $3,500 to $4,500, and $3,000 to $4,000, and leaving $1,200 and $1,400 to be just so many dollars. I do not believe that it is honest or just. There are men holding $1,200 clerkships in the city of Washington who take to the daily discharge of their daily duty as much integrity, as much character, and as much capacity as you find at the heads of many of these bureaus. Now, Mr. President, I think that Congress must afford relief in some way to these necessitous. I should be glad to see it done at this session; at the next session I believe it will be done; but when you shall offer me an opportunity to vote to relieve the necessities of all these employés I am ready for it, and will vote for it. Until you give me such an opportunity I cannot vote to relieve the necessities of any of them, or if I do it must not be the least necessitous ones that I will vote to relieve, but I will ask that it be the most necessitous, those who receive the lowest salaries.

Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I intend to vote in favor of this amendment, and for this reason: I believe the committee who have examined this subject know a great deal more about it than the rest of the Senate, and they have unanimously recommended it, and the responsibility is with them. We have been told by one of the members of that committee that most valuable talent to the Government would be lost unless this increase of salary was made. I do not see the logic of the argument which has been made here, that men who get $1,200 or $1,800 are any worse off because we do justice in this emergency to a few of the officers.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on concurring in the amendment as amended, on which the yeas and nays have been ordered.

The question being taken by yeas and nays, resulted-yeas 24, nays 13; as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Cattell, Conness, Corbett, Davis, Doolittle, Drake, Fessenden, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Hendricks, McDonald. Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Nye, Ramsey, Ross, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner, Tipton, Van Winkle, Vickers, and Willey-24.

NAYS-Messrs. Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Cragin, 40TH CONG. 2D SESS.-No. 221.

Edmunds, Howe, McCreery, Patterson of New Hampshire, Trumbull, Wade, Williams, Wilson, and Yates-13.

ABSENT-Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Buckalew, Cameron, Dixon, Ferry. Fowler, Grimes, Henderson. Howard, Johnson, Morton, Norton, Patterson of Tennessee, Pomeroy, Rice, Saulsbury, Sprague, and Thayer-19.

So the amendment, as amended, was concurred in.

Mr. RAMSEY. I desire to submit an amendment, of which I give notice now according referred to the Committee on Appropriations. to the rules, and desire to have printed and The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It will be so referred and printed.

the attention of the Senate to an amendment Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I desire to call that ought to have been made in Committee of the Whole, on page 18, which for the time was informally passed over. I ask the unanimous consent of the Senate to have that amendment concurred in.

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The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It will be reported.

The Chief Clerk read the amendment, which was on page 18, line four hundred and thirtyone, to strike out "two" and to insert "four;" in line four hundred and thirty-two, to strike out "five" and to insert "six;" and in line four hundred and thirty-seven to strike out "five" and insert "nine;" so that the clause will read:

For First Auditor of the Treasury, chief clerk, four clerks of class four, eight clerks of class three, six clerks of class two, five clerks of class one; also, two clerks of class three, four clerks of class two, and eight clerks of class one, (transferred from the offices of the Third Auditor and the Solicitor,) one messenger and one assistant messenger, and one laborer, in all $59,360.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. This clause was passed over on the suggestion of the Senator from Ohio, [Mr. SHERMAN,] that he desired to offer an amendment to it; but I believe he afterward put his amendment somewhere else, so that it becomes necessary to act on this amendment reported by the Committee on Appropri

ations.

The amendment was agreed to.

Mr. CORBETT. I desire to offer an amendment to House bill No. 818, the miscellaneous appropriation bill,, which I ask to have referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. CHANDLER. I desire to submit an amendment to this bill which I intend to offer.

now been before the Senate for four days, and ought to be disposed of.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Before putting that motion the Chair will lay before the Senate certain communications.

Mr. CHANDLER. Very well.

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution Inspector General Marcy, made in 1864, on the of the 27th ultimo, a copy of the report of condition of the department of Arkansas and the Indian territory; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia.

He also laid before the Senate a letter of the Secretary of War, recommending that so much of section thirteen of an act entitled "An act to increase and fix the military peace estabment of the United States," approved July 28, 1866, as provides that no vacancies occur ring in the quartermaster's department in the grades of major and captain shall be filled until the number of majors is reduced to twelve and the number of captains to thirty, be repealed; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia.

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE.

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. MCPHERSON, its Clerk, announced that the House had passed the following bill and joint resolution, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate:

A bill (H. R. No. 1313) granting an increase of pension to Sarah Hakleman, widow of Brigadier General Pleasant A. Hackleman; and

A joint resolution (H. R. No. 225) respecting national banks in liquidation.

The message also announced that the House had passed the following joint resolutions of the Senate:

A joint resolution (S. R. No. 129) donating certain captured ordnance for the completion of a monument to the memory of the late Major General John Sedgwick; and

A joint resolution (S. R. No. 143) for the relief of George W. Doty, a commander in the United States Navy on the retired list.

ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED.

The message further announced that the Speaker of the House had signed the follow

Mr. SPRAGUE. I desire also to give notice ing enrolled bills and joint resolutions; and

of an amendment I intend to offer to the miscellaneous appropriation bill.

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Mr. PATTERSON, of New Hampshire. I offer an amendment to the miscellaneous a priation bill, to be referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. SHERMAN. These notices are not in order until we pass the bill before us.

Mr. CATTELL. I desire to offer an amendment to the pending bill. The Clerk has the amendment, and I ask that it be read.

The Chief Clerk read the amendment, which was on page 44, line one thousand and eightyone, to strike out "six" and insert "nine;" and in the same line, after the word "thouauds" to strike out "five hundred," and at the end of the line to insert:

Provided, That from and after the 1st day of July, 1868, the annual compensation of the weighing clerk shall be $2,500, and the compensation of the calculating, accounting, and warrant clerks shall be $2,000 each.

So that the clause will read :

Mint at Philadelphia:

For salaries of the Director, treasurer, assayer, melter and refiner, chief coiner and engraver, assistant assayer, and seven clerks, $39,000: Provided, That from and after the 1st day of July, 1868, the annual compensation of the weighing clerk shall be $2,500, and the compensation of the calculating, accounting, and warrant clerks shall be $2,000 each.

Mr. CHANDLER. I move that the Senate do now adjourn.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I hope not. We can finish this bill in a few minutes. It has

they were thereupon signed by the President pro tempore of the Senate:

A bill (H. R. No. 236) granting a pension to John Q. A. Keck, late private in the third Missouri cavalry;

A bill (H. R. No. 347) for holding terms of the district court of the United States for the southern district of Illinois at the city of Cairo, in said State;

A joint resolution (S. R. No. 129) donating certain captured ordnance for the completion of a monument to the memory of the late Major General John Sedgwick; and

A joint resolution (S. R. No. 143) for the relief of George W. Doty, a commander in the United States Navy on the retired list.

HOUSE BILLS REFERRED.

The bill (H. R. No. 1313) granting an increase of pension to Sarah Hackleman, widow of Brigadier General Pleasant A. Hackleman, was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Pensions; and the joint resolution (H. R. No. 225) respecting national banks in liquidation, was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Finance.

LEGISLATIVE, ETC., APPROPRIATION BILL. The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 605) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judical expenses of the Government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1869.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It is moved and seconded that the Senate do now adjourn. Mr. CATTELL. I have the floor, and did not yield to the motion to adjourn. I offered

an amendment, and while the amendment was being read the Chair introduced these matters, I holding the floor; and I have not yielded it to allow a motion to adjourn to be made.

Mr. CHANDLER. It was after my motion to adjourn that the Chair laid those matters before the Senate. I had the floor.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Michigan had the floor, I believe.

Mr. CATTELL. It was during the reading of my amendment, I submit to the Chair.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment had been read. The question is on the adjournment.

The question being put, there were, on a division-ayes 9, noes 19.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. There is no quorum voting.

Mr. EDMUNDS. That does not make any difference on a motion to adjourn; the motion is lost.

Mr. TRUMBULL. But you cannot do any business.

Mr. WILSON. We had better have the yeas and nays on the motion.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. Nineteen and nine constitute a quorum.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It takes twenty-nine now to make a quorum.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. Then I ask for the yeas and nays on the motion.

The yeas and nays were ordered; and being taken, resulted-yeas 6, nays 25; as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Cole, McCreery, Sprague, Tipton, Trumbull, and Willey-6.

NAYS-Messrs. Cattell, Conkling, Conness, Corbett, Cragin, Davis, Doolittle, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Howe, McDonald, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Patterson of New Hampshire, Ross, Sherman, Stewart, Thayer, Van Winkle, Vickers, Wade, Williams, Wilson, and Yates-25.

ABSENT-Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Buckalew, Cameron, Chandler Dixon, Drake, Ferry, Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, Henderson, Hendricks, Howard, Johnson, Morrill of Vermont, Morton. Norton, Nye, Patterson of Tennessee, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Rice, Saulsbury, and Sumner-25.

So the Senate refused to adjourn.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question now is on the amendment of the Senator from New Jersey.

Mr. CATTELL. I desire to make a very brief statement in regard to the amendment which I have proposed, which is to increase the salaries of the principal clerks in the Mint at Philadelphia, those who are charged with the responsible duty of having charge of the bullion and passing millions of dollars through their hands. Their salary has not been changed since 1854, and when a revision was made of the salaries of the officers in the Mint these gentlemen were in some way overlooked. They are now under heavy bonds, and yet they are upon salaries of $1,500 each, less than that of a third-class clerk in the Departments in the city of Washington. This advance of their salary is recommended by the Treasurer, Mr. McKibbin, at Philadelphia, by the Director, Mr. Linderman, and also by the Secretary of the Treasury in a very warm letter on the subject. One of these clerks, the weigh clerk, for instance, informs me that he passes through his hands in the course of a year from thirty to fifty million dollars, reaching one year $69,000,000 of bullion, and that he frequently has in charge under his own key five, six. seven, or eight million dollars of treasure. All of the gentlemen connected with the Mint speak of these as being highly responsible positions, and of the incumbents, who have filled them for years, as being of the highest character both as to ability and as to integrity.

This proposition has been submitted to the Committee on Finance, and upon examination has been recommended by that committee. It has also been submitted to the Committee on Appropriations, and I believe has met with some success even with that committee; at any rate with its chairman. I believe that this advance upon these salaries is justly due to honest, faithful, competent officers, filling high positions of trust and responsibility upon salaries, as I have already observed, really below that of a third-class clerk in the city of Wash

ington. Having said this much, I submit it to the Senate.

Mr. McCREERY. I move that the Senate now proceed to the consideration of executive business.

Several SENATORS. Let us pass this bill first.

Mr. MCCREERY. Very well; I withdraw the motion for the present.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment of the Senator from New Jersey.

Mr. TRUMBULL. Is that within the rule, I should like to know?

Mr. CATTELL. Certainly it is. If the Senator had done me the honor to listen to my remarks he would have learned that it had been through all its stages.

The question being put, there were, on a division-ayes fourteen.

Mr. TRUMBULL. That is not a majority of a quorum; the amendment is lost.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Those in the negative will rise.

Six Senators rose.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. There is no quorum voting.

Mr. CRAGIN.

There is one little amendment that I wish to offer-— The PRESIDENT pro tempore. There is an amendment pending, and there is no quorum to decide it."

Mr. CATTELL. I ask for the yeas and nays on my amendment. I hope Senators will vote; and I trust they will agree to this amendment. I think it is but an act of justice.

The yeas and nays were ordered; and being taken, resulted-yeas 15, nays 11; as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Cattell, Cole, Corbett, Davis, Doolittle, Frelinghuysen, McDonald, Morrill of Maine, Ross, Sherman, Stewart, Van Winkle, Vickers, Williams, and Yates-15.

NAYS-Messrs. Conkling, Conness, Cragin, Edmunds, Harlan, McCreery, Morgan, Patterson of New Hampshire, Trumbull, Wade, and Wilson-11.

ABSENT-Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Buckalew, Cameron, Chandler, Dixon, Drake, Ferry, Fessenden, Fowler. Grimes, Henderson, Hendricks, Howard, Howe, Johnson, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Norton, Nye, Patterson of Tennessee, Pomeroy. Ramsey, Rice, Saulsbury, Sprague, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, and Willey-30.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. There is no quorum voting.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I should like to have the absentees called, and I make that motion.

The motion was agreed to.

Mr. CONKLING. I rise to a question of order, and I ask for the reading of the sixteenth rule.

The Chief Clerk read it, as follows:

16. When the yeas and nays shall be called for by one fifth of the Senators present, each Senator called upon shall, unless for special reasons he be excused by the Senate, declare openly and without debate his assent or dissent to the question. In taking the yeas and nays and upon a call of the Senate the names of the Senators shall be called alphabetically."

Mr. CONKLING. I see the Senator froin Minnesota [Mr. RAMSEY] in his seat. I beg to inquire of him whether he voted on the call? His name does not appear.

Mr. RAMSEY. I respectfully inform the Senator from New York that I was not in my seat at the time the roll was called.

Mr. CONKLING. But some time before the announcement was made the Senator was in his seat.

Mr. RAMSEY. I was in conversation with a Senator, and did not observe that my name was called.

Mr. CONKLING. Nevertheless, I submit we are entitled to have the Senator vote, as we are trying to get a quorum.

Mr. DOOLITTLE. This is all out of order. As a quorum is not present, we must adjourn or send for the absentees.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I believe my motion is in order to call the absentees.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion of the Senator from Maine is in order. Less than a quorum can compel the attendance of the absent members.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I merely ask

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The Chief Clerk proceeded to call the names of the absentees, as follows:

Mr. ANTHONY, Mr. BAYARD, Mr. BUCKALEW, Mr. CAMERON, Mr. CHANDLER, Mr. DIXON, Mr. DRAKE, Mr. FERRY, Mr. FESSENDEN, Mr. FOWLER, Mr. GRIMES, Mr. HENDERSON, Mr. HENDRICKS, Mr. HOWARD, Mr. Howe

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. Mr. Howe is present.

The CHIEF CLERK, (continuing.) Mr. MORRILL of Vermont, Mr. MORTON, Mr. NORTON, Mr. NYE, Mr. PATTERSON of Tennessee, Mr. POMEROY, Mr. RAMSEY

Mr. RAMSEY. Here.

The CHIEF CLERK, (continuing.) Mr. RICE, Mr. SAULSBURY, Mr. SUMNER, Mr. THAYER, Mr. TIPTON

Mr. TIPTON. Here.

The CHIEF CLERK, (continuing.) Mr. WIL

LEY.

Mr. VAN WINKLE. I desire to state that my colleague [Mr. WILLEY] has gone home very unwell.

Mr. HOWE. Is not my vote recorded? The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It is not. Mr. HOWE. I voted in the negative.

Mr. SHERMAN. The Senator from Minnesota and the Senator from Nebraska, with the Senator from Wisconsin, make a quorum.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I move that the names of the Senator from Minnesota and the Senator from Nebraska be called.

Mr. EDMUNDS. It does not need any motion. You have a right to insist upon it. Mr. TRUMBULL. Called for what purpose?

Mr. EDMUNDS. To vote.
Mr. TRUMBULL.

the result is declared.

They cannot vote after

There is an express

rule forbidding it. I object to it. They have no right to vote.

Mr. EDMUNDS.

All you have to do is to call the yeas and nays over again.

Mr. TRUMBULL. You have no right to call the yeas and nays over again. I object to that. The question is decided, and you cannot decide it twice except by a motion to reconsider.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. . Then I will submit another motion, and see what the Sen. ator says to that. I move that the Sergeantat-Arms be directed to notify absent members to attend the meeting of the Senate. I feel justified in making this motion because I notice that by a systematic effort certain Sentors left the Senate obviously for the purpose of breaking up a quorum when this call began.

Mr. SHERMAN. I do not think that motion is necessary. The rule is imperative and plain. If the want of a quorum is disclosed the vote fails, and then as soon as a quorum is got together the roll is again called, without an ordering of the yeas and nays, and the vote is taken again.

Mr. EDMUNDS. Certainly; there is no doubt of that.

Mr. SHERMAN. Anl I ask now that the roll be called again.

Mr. MORRILL of Maine. If that is in order I withdraw my motion for the present.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Regularly the roll should be called to ascertain whether there is a quorum.

Mr. EDMUNDS. It now appears that there is a quorum present.

Mr. TRUMBULL. It has not been made. to appear yet.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The roll may be called again on the same question. I see no impropriety in that, although I never knew it to be done before.

Mr. TRUMBULL. I suppose when it is ascertained that we have got a quorum that must be done.

Mr. CONKLING. That is ascertained now.

Mr. TRUMBULL. If the Chair is satisfied that a quorum is present, very well.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. I suppose the proper way to test that would be to call the roll and find out. The Chair is of opinion that there is a quorum present. The roll may be called again on the amendment of the Senator from New Jersey, if there is no objection to it. I see no objection.

The question being again taken by yeas and nays, resulted-yeas 16, nays 15; as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Cattell, Cole, Corbett, Davis, Doolittle, Frelinghuysen, McDonald, Morrill of Maine, Ramsey, Ross, Sherman, Stewart, Van Winkle, Vickers, Williams, and Yates-16.

NAYS-Messrs. Conkling. Conness, Cragin, Edmunds, Harlan, Howe, McCreery, Morgan, Patterson of New Hampshire. Sprague, Thayer, Tipton, Trumbull, Wade, and Wilson-15.

ABSENT-Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Buckalew, Cameron, Chandler, Dixon, Drake, Ferry, Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes. Henderson, Hendricks, Howard, Johnson, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Norton, Nye, Patterson of Tennessee, Pomeroy, Rice, Saulsbury, Sumner, and Willey-25.

So the amendment was agreed to.

Mr. ROSS. I wish to offer two amendments. Notice of them has been given, and I am instructed by the Committee on Printing to report them. The first is on page 9, at the end of line two hundred and seven, to insert:

Provided, That the foreman of binding in the Government Printing Office be paid the same salary now allowed to the foreman of printing.

Mr. CONKLING. What is the salary of the foreman of printing?

Mr. ROSS. The salary of the foreman of printing is now $1,800. The foreman of binding receives $1,500, and performs the same labor and the same responsibility, and ought to have the same pay.

Mr. CONKLING. I suggest to the Senator who moves this, if it is in order-I do not know whether notice has been given-that he change the phraseology and specify the sum. I think it is an unfortunate way of legislation to make the salary the same as some other salary.

Mr. ROSS. I will accept the modification. Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. It had better be put distinctly, so as to state the sum to be paid.

The amendment was modified to read:

Provided, That the salary of the foreman of binding in the Government Printing Office shall hereafter be $1,800 per annum.

The amendment was agreed to.

Mr. ROSS. On page 3, after line sixty-two, I move to insert:

Provided, That $20,000 of the appropriations heretofore made and unexpended "for purchase of one complete set of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each Senator and Representative who have not already received them," may be applied for the payment of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1868.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. That comes from the Committee on Printing, and I know nothing about it except what is gathered from a copy of a letter which I have received and ask the Clerk to read.

The Chief Clerk read as follows:

CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE OFFICE, WASHINGTON, June 12, 1868. DEAR SIR: In consequence of no appropriations whatever being made to meet the accounts of this office for reporting and printing the debates of the Senate for the additional session (sittings of March, July, and November, 1867.) and for the copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for Senators for the same session, a deficiency has been created-a deficiency which may, however, be in large part met and provided for without additional appropriation, and in this way, namely: by authorizing a transfer of a portion of an unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made to pay for complete sets of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for new Senators. [Not more than fifty per cent. of the appropriations made for that specific purpose have ever been required.]

The unexpended balance referred to amounts to $27,293 84; of which sum $20,400 may be transferred to meet the deficiency existing in the sum requisite to pay for the Congressional Globe and Appendix for Senators for the current session, which work has been completed to the extent of more than the three thousand pages limit, and delivered to Mr. Defrees, the Congressional Printer, and for which we hold his receipts.

We would suggest that, providing such a transfer as we have indicated be made, a very suitable point in the bill now pending (I. R. No. 605) would be immediately after line sixty-two-as lines sixty-one

and sixty-two contain a proposition to pay for that particular branch of the work for the ensuing sessions.

The deficiency which exists in the appropriations for reporting and printing in the Daily Globe we shall take measures to have provided for in the deficiency bill now framing by the appropriate committee of the House of Representatives.

Trusting that our suggestion may be favorably considered by yourself and your honorable committee, we remain, very respectfully.

F. & J. RIVES & GEORGE A. BAILEY, Reporters and Printers of the Debates of Congress. Hon. Lor M. MORRILL, Chairman of Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. The committee did not adopt that suggestion, for reasons obvious enough on the reading of the letter. The committee had no such information as justified them in adopting it; and supposing that if it was offered by the Committee on Printing in the Senate they would be able to communicate such intelligence to the Senate as would enable the Senate to act intelligently on the subject, we left it to them. Whether they have done so or not, it is for the Senate to judge. I would suggest, however, that as these persons say themselves that they have a further appropriation to put upon the deficiency bill which is now being matured in the other House, much damage will not be likely to accrue to them if this amendment be withdrawn. This, evidently, is a deficiency, if anything. Mr. EDMUNDS. They say it is in their own letter.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. A deficiency growing out of increased service occasioned by the extra sessions last year.

Mr. CRAGIN. Perhaps I can shed some light on this subject, and this may not be a deficiency except in mere form. Our former Secretary drew the money appropriated for this purpose. When the present Secretary was elected by the Senate the moneys on hand in the charge of Colonel Forney were restored to the Treasury. Among those moneys, to my certain knowledge, was a portion of the amount appropriated for this purpose.

Mr. EDMUNDS. Restored to the credit of the appropriation?

Mr. CRAGIN. Restored to the credit of the Secretary. When his accounts are settled I suppose the money will be handed over again.

Mr. EDMUNDS. The money is provided for the object, whether it be in the Secretary's hands or in the Treasury.

Mr. ROSS. Acting on the suggestion of the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, I withdraw the amendment.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment is withdrawn.

Mr. RAMSEY. In page 41, line nine hundred and eighty-four, I move to strike out "three" and insert "ten." The object of this amendment is to increase the salaries of the Assistant Postmasters General to the same amount that has been bestowed on the Comptrollers of the Treasury. It is obviously correct. The duties are equally honorable and responsible, and there is no reason why there should be a discrimination.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I must raise a question of order.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Has notice been given to the Committee on Appropriations?

Mr. RAMSEY. moments ago. Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. That will not do. It is not in order.

I did give notice a few

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amend ment is not in order.

Mr. RAMSEY. For that reason I desired the Senate to adjourn until to-morrow, so that it might be in order if it would gratify the chairman of the Committee on Appropria

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for additional laborers and messengers for the Senate

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. The same rule applies to that.

Mr. CRAGIN. The rule as I understand a that you cannot introduce new matter.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. This is an increase. I raise the question of order.

Mr. CRAGIN. I supposed you could increase or diminish an appropriation in the bill.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. You can diminish, but not increase.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment is not in order.

The amendments were ordered to be engrossed, and the bill to be read a third time. The bill was read the third time, and passed.

EXECUTIVE SESSION.

Mr. WILSON. I move to take up the bill establishing rules and articles for the government of the Army of the United States. It is a very important bill, and I want an hour or two to-morrow for the purpose of considering it.

Mr. MCCREERY. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive busi

ness.

Mr. WILSON. I hope I shall be allowed to have Senate bill No. 529 first taken up.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there be no objection the Chair will put the question on the motion of the Senator from Massachusetts. The motion was agreed to.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question now is on the motion of the Senator from Kentucky.

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business; and after some time spent in executive session the doors were reopened, and the Senate adjourned.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

FRIDAY, June 26, 1868.

The House met at twelve o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. C. B. BOYNTON. The Journal of yesterday was read and approved.

EXCUSED FROM COMMITTEE SERVICE.

Mr. PAINE. Mr. Speaker, I find it impracticable to attend, as one of the representatives of the House, the national shooting festival at New York, and ask, therefore, to be excused. It was ordered accordingly.

The SPEAKER appointed Mr. WASHBURN, of Wisconsin, to fill the vacancy.

RICHARD WILLARD.

On motion of Mr. POLAND, by unanimous consent, leave was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the case of Richard Willard, for reference to the Treasury Department.

ISSUE OF ARMS TO MILITIA.

Mr. PAINE, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. No. 1342) to provide for the issue of arms for the use of the militia; which was read the first and second time, referred to the Committee on the Militia, and ordered to be printed.

ADMISSION OF STATES.

Mr. SCOFIELD submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to:

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be directed to present to the Secretary of State the act entitled," An act to admit the States of North Carolina, South Garolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida to representation in Congress," together with the certificates of the Clerk of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate, showing that the said act was passed by the vote of two thirds of both Houses of Congress, after the objections of the President thereto had been received, and after the reconsideration of said act by both Houses in accordance with the Constitution.

Mr. SCOFIELD moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution was adopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table.

The latter motion was agreed to.

BRAZIL MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

On motion of Mr. NICHOLSON, by unanimous consent, the Committee on Appropriations were discharged from the consideration of the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the sums paid without protest on the vessels of the United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Company at the port of New York, amounting to $7,611 10. and the same was referred to the Committee on Commerce.

SARAH HACKLEMAN.

Mr. VAN AERNAM, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, authorized to report at any time the bill (H. R. No. 1313) granting a pension to Sarah Hackleman, widow of Brigadier General Pleasant A. Hackleman, reported back the same with an amendment.

The bill directs the Secretary of the Interior to place on the pension-roll the name of the widow of General Hackleman, with a pension at the rate of fifty dollars per month from the 3d day of October, 1862, when he fell mortally wounded at the battle of Corinth.

Section two directs that the pension heretofore allowed to the said widow shall be deducted from the pension hereby granted, and that this pension shall be subject to the provisions of the general pension law.

The amendment was to add to the first section the words "to continue during widowhood."

The bill, as amended, was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time; and being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time, and passed,

On motion of Mr. BENJAMIN the title of the bill was amended so as to read, "A bill granting an increase of pension.'

Mr. VAN AERNAM moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table.

The latter motion was agreed to.

LEONIDAS SMITH.

Mr. WASHBURN, of Indiana, from the Committee on Military Affairs, by unanimous consent, made a report in the matter of the memorial of Leonidas Smith, for relief; which was ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the committee.

COURT OF CLAIMS.

Mr. HINDS. I ask unanimous consent to introduce a joint resolution (H. R. No. 310) limiting the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims to the loyal citizens of the State of Arkansas, and ask its present consideration.

Mr. BOUTWELL. I object.

Mr. BROOKS. I would like to have it reported.

The joint resolution was reported. It extends the provisions of the act of July 4, 1864, entitled "An act to limit the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims" to the loyal citizens of the State of Arkansas.

The joint resolution was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

PAY OF ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN.

Mr. BLAINE, from the Committee on Appropriations, by unanimous consent, reported the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to:

Resolved. That for the present Congress, commencing therewith, the Clerk is directed to pay from the contingent fund of the House to the Assistant Librarian in charge of the Hall Library, the difference between his present pay and the pay of the file, printing, and engrossing clerk.

Mr. BLAINE moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution was adopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid

on the table.

The latter motion was agreed to.

GEORGE W. DOTY.

Mr. PIKE. I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table Senate joint resolution No. 143, for the relief of George W. Doty, a

commander in the United States Navy, on the retired list.

The resolution was accordingly taken up and read a first and second time. It places the name of Mr. Doty on the Navy Register as commander from the 16th of July, 1862, with the pay of such rank, to date from his commission. Mr. PIKE. This is merely to correct a mistake in a previous bill.

The bill was ordered to be read a third time; and it was accordingly read the third time, and passed.

Mr. PIKE moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table.

The latter motion was agreed to.

Mr. UPSON. I move to reconsider the various votes this morning, and to lay the motion to reconsider on the table. That will include the votes of reference.

The latter motion was agreed to.

SETH LEA.

Mr. HAWKINS. I ask unanimous consent to report from the Committee on Military Affairs a bill (H. R. No. 1315) for the relief of Seth Lea.

The bill was reported. It directs the Secretary of the Interior to place the name of Seth Lea, of Knox county, Tennessee, on the roll of invalid pensions at the rate of a full pension now allowed by law to a second lieutenant, said pension to commence on the 5th of April, 1865, and to continue for his natural life.

Mr. STEVENS, of New Hampshire. I call for the reading of the report.

Mr. BENJAMIN. I object, unless the bill is referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Mr. HAWKINS. It is a unanimous report from the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. MAYNARD. I am perfectly willing that the bill shall be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, provided that the committee may have leave to report it back at any time. I ask unanimous consent that it may be so disposed of.

There was no objection; and the bill was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, with leave to report it back at any time.

NATIONAL BANKS IN LIQUIDATION.

Mr. BARNES, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported back, with the recommendation that it do pass, the joint resolution (H. R. No. 225) respecting national banks in liquidation.

The joint resolution was read. It proposes to direct the Comptroller of the Currency to publish a detailed statement of the assets, liabilities, and general condition of all national be in liquidation on the first Monday of Janubanks in the hands of receivers, or which may ary, April, July, and October of each year, in one paper in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and in one paper in the place where said bank may be located, as provided for the publication of other returns in section thirty-four of an act to provide a national currency, approved June 3, 1864. It also provides that after such provision shall first have been made for refunding to the United States all deficiencies as provided for in section fifty of the same act, the Comptroller of Currency shall make ratable dividends of the assets of said banks to the creditors thereof once in each calendar month, if such dividend shall be equal to ten per cent. of its indebtedness, and once in three months, if such dividend shall be equal to five per cent. of its indebtedness.

The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time; and being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time, and passed.

Mr. BARNES moved to reconsider the vote by which the joint resolution was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table.

The latter motion was agreed to.

CHEROKEE NEUTRAL LANDS.

Mr. CLARK, of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to present to the House the following preamble and resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of the settlers on the "Cherokee neutral lands," Cherokee county, Kansas, held at Centralia, on the 11th day of June, 1868. The sentiments expressed in these resolutions are not only unanimously indorsed by the settlers on the Cherokee neutral lands, by the settlers on the Osage Indian lands, the Shawnee Absentee lands, the Pottawatomie Indian lands, the Blackfeet lands, but by a vast majority of the people of my State. This House will bear me witness that I have struggled here continually for the protection of these settlers, and that I have protested against the pernicious policy which the Senate has pursued in refusing to afford this portion of my constituents that relief to which they are justly entitled. I deeply sympathize with the views expressed in these resolutions.

The preamble and resolutions are as follows: Whereas we, the settlers on the "Cherokee neutral lands," citizens of Cherokee county, Kansas, having occupied these lands under the conviction that the Government would soon extinguish the Indian title to the same, and throw them open for legal settlement under the just and equitable laws of preemption and homestead, now existing; and whereas the settlement of said lands by the hardy pioneer has been made under circumstances of unusual hardships and privation, owing to the devastation of Missouri and Northern Kansas by the recent war, causing supplies to be transported long distances and procured at high prices; and whereas we are now in danger of having our hard-earned homes transferred to the hands of a railroad corporation, with no security that we will be remunerated. under the pretext of favoring the railroad interest: Therefore,

Resolved, That we believe we are fully entitled, so soon as the Indian title to the land is extinguished, to the benefit of the preemption and homestead laws; and we believe those laws will protect us in our rights, any treaty by the Senate to the contrary notwithstanding.

Resolved, That, as the preemption and homestead laws are the most important parts in the policy of the Government in relation to the public lands, the homestead law, in particular, having been pledged by the party now in power to the hardy pioneer, it being one of the principal planks in the platform that carried that party into power, we demand it as our right, aud call on the voters throughout the Union to sustain us at the polls.

Resolved, That we view with alarm the recent and changed policy of the Government in extinguishing Indian titles to lands only to transfer them into the hands of railroad and speculating companies, thus converting the pioneer into a serf at the mercy of a soulless corporation.

Resolved, That in the name of twenty-five thousand men, women, and children now living on the "neutral lands"-loyal citizens of the United States-we do protest against the sale of any part of this tract to any other than actual settlers.

Resolved, That we give notice to all railroad and land-monopolizing companies that, having settled these lands in the full faith that our Government would act with us as the laws already in force would warrant, we will not tamely be driven from our homes or be made to pay an exorbitant price for the

same.

Resolved, That the men in Congress who have stood up for the rights of the self-sacrificing and hardy pioneer of the West deserve our warmest thanks, and we hope their noble efforts may be crowned with success and our Government spared the shame of dealing falsely with its citizens.

Resolved, That all papers that advocate a "home for the homeless" on the public domain are solicited to give these resolutions a place in their columns. J. F. PITZER, Chairman. W. S. HUSTON, Secretary. The resolutions were referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

TREATIES WITH INDIAN TRIBES. Mr. JULIAN. I ask unanimous consent to introduce a joint resolution concerning treaties hereafter made between the United States and the Indian tribes for action at this time. I ask that it be read.

The Clerk read the joint resolution, as follows: Whereas sundry treaties between the United States and different Indian tribes have heretofore been coGcluded, by virtue of which large bodies of land have been transferred to individuals and corporations in contravention of the spirit and policy of the preemption and homestead laws of the United States; and whereas the lands now known as Indian reservations, on the extinguishment of the Indian title thereto, should become the property of the United States and a part of the public domain thereof, and cannot rightfully be disposed of otherwise: Therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in any treaty which may hereafter be con

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