Also, the petition of Hon. F. Rainey and other citizens of Texas; Also, the petition of the Northwestern Texas conference Methodist Episcopal Church South;

Also, the petition of the West Texas conference Methodist Episcopal Church South;

By Mr. O'Brien: The petition of Rev. Samuel Rogers and 20 other clergymen of Baltimore;

By Mr. Purman: The petition of citizens of Florida;

By Mr. Rainey: The petition of the South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South;

By Mr. William M. Robbins: Two petitions of citizens of North Car

olina :

By Mr. Stowell: Three petitions of citizens of Virginia;

By Mr. Swann: The petition of Bishop Ames and 34 other ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Baltimore, and of the Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South;

By Mr. Robert B. Vance: The petition of B. F. Logan and 15 other citizens of Shelby, North Carolina, and of J. S. Kennedy, Thomas B. Long, and other citizens of North Carolina;

By Mr. Waddell: The petition of R. Bryan and 17 other citizens of North Carolina, and of Senator Troy and 75 other members of the legis lature, and other officials and citizens of Cumberland County, North Carolina;

By Mr. Alexander S. Wallace: The petition of the president and faculty of Wofford College, South Carolina;

By Mr. Erastus Wells: The petition of the Saint Louis Methodist conference and of the quarterly conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, at Canterbury, Missouri;

By Mr. Whitthorne: The petition of L. D. Myers, W. P. Ingraham, and others of Columbia, Tennessee, and of Hon. Ed. Cooper and others of Shelbyville, Tennessee;

By Mr. House: The following petitions filed by members of the Fortythird and previous Congresses, asking that the Southern Methodist Publishing House be paid for the use of its property by the United States in the years 1864 and 1865: The petition of citizens of Wilcox County, Alabama; of citizens of Mobile, Alabama; of W. W. Wood and others, of South Carolina; of Rev. John Lanahan and 8 other ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Washington, D. C.; of citizens of California and of the Pacific conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, of California; of the general conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and Hon. D. C. Smythe and others, of North Carolina; of citizens of Missouri; of the mayor of Columbus, Kentucky, and 30 other citizens of Hickman County, Kentucky; of John P. Hall and 7 other United States officers, and of Rev. R. H. Mahan and other citizens of Paducah, Kentucky; of citizens of Chattanooga, Tennessee; of T. M. Bowyer and others, of Virginia; of the governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney-general, superintendent of education, and adjutant and inspector generals, of South Carolina; of S. R. Morratt, G. M. Mattison, and other citizens of South Carolina; of A. T. MacIntyre and other citizens of Georgia; of Robert Hester and other citizens of Georgia; of Rev. J. B. Walker and 13 other citizens of Galveston, Texas; of the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of Edgefield, Tennessee; of citizens of Nashville, Tennessee; of the mayor and city council of Nashville, Tennessee; of citizens of Williamson County, Tennessee; of the ministers and lay representatives of the West Saint Louis conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; of the

Trinity Texas annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; of the mayor of Aberdeen, Mississippi, and 80 other citizens of Munroe County, Mississippi; of the United States district attorney and 29 other citizens of Holly Springs, Mississippi; of W. H. Perry and 15 other citizens of Yellville, Arkansas; of the judges and 28 attorneys of the supreme court of Tennessee; of Rev. David Bush and 23 other citizens of Frederick County, Maryland; of the Tennessee conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; of R. W. Downey and others, citizens of Pennsylvania; of the Mississippi conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; of B. A. Clark, Hor. Christian, Thomas Green, Rev. H. H. Montgomery, and other citizens of Mississippi; of P. B. Cook and 30 other citizens of Mississippi; of the Virginia conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; of the governor and other citizens of Alabama; of citizens of Shelby and Marion Counties, Kentucky; of the Centenary Methodist church, Richmond, Virginia; of the ministers and lay members of the North Alabama conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; of Fred. Sloss, Hon. George S. Houston, and other citizens of Athens, Alabama; of C. C. Ellis, J. R. Powell, and other citizens of Birmingham, Alabama; of the president of the North Carolina University and others of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; of citizens of Arkansas; of R. S. Ellis and 18 other citizens of Louisa County, Virginia; of Rev. A. C. Bledsoe and 12 other citizens of Richmond, Virginia; of the chiefs of the Indian nation west of Arkansas, and of citizens of Arkansas; of Bishop Miles and 29 other colored citizens of Louisville, Kentucky; of W. A. Allen, F. D. Koonce, and other citizens of North Carolina; of citizens of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; of the Alabama conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; of citizens of Craig County, Virginia; of the Methodist conference of Illinois; of 32 citizens of Maryland; of citizens of Lawrence and Johnson Counties, Kentucky; of citizens of Christian County, Illinois; of the governor of Oregon, Hon. J. W. Nesmith, Hon. W. C. Baird, and other citizens of Oregon; of Rev. T. L. Boswell and 23 other citizens of Fayette County, Tennessee; of 31 officials and citizens of Mississippi; of citizens of Hickman, Tennessee; of citizens of Somerville, Tennessee; and of Governor Young, John E. Ryland, and other citizens of Missouri;

Also, resolutions of the States of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, heretofore presented, favoring the paying of the Southern Methodist Publishing House for the use of its property by the United States; to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. MacDougall: Memorial of the Sinclair Rectifying Machine Company of New York, remonstrating against granting the petition of Joseph W. Reford, praying that his letters patent for improvement in rectifying and oxygenating apparatus may be antedated, to the Committee on Patents.

By Mr. McDill: The petition of D. W. Moffat, auditor of Woodbury County, Iowa, for the division of the State of Iowa into northern and southern districts and the holding of federal courts at Sioux City, Iowa, to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. McFarland: The petition of Thomas Dalton, father of Henry Dalton, deceased, late a private in Company E, Ninth Tennessee Cavalry, for a correction of his war-record, to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Also, the petition of Daniel K. Justice, late a private in Company D, Eighth Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, for a pension;

By Mr. Monroe: The petition of Charlotte Buck, mother of James

Buck, deceased, late a private in Company A, Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for a pension;

By Mr. Plaisted: The petition of Henry H. Haskell, late of the Second Regiment Maine Volunteers, for a pension;

By Mr. William A. Phillips: The petition of W. A. Tannahill, late a private in Company D, Sixty-fourth Regiment Ohio Infantry, for a pension;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Robert B. Vance: A paper relating to the establishment of a post-route from Hayesville, North Carolina, to Edey's Store, Georgia, to the Committee on the Post Office and Post-Roads.

By Mr. Gilbert C. Walker: The petition of Lloyd J. Beall, for the removal of his political disabilities, to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. Willis: The petition of Richard H. Birmingham, for additional bounty, to the Committee on Military Affairs.

The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with the seventh section of the act of May 29, 1872, the claims of John P. Colomb, J. P. Colomb, Sarah Chandler, Samuel H. Chandler, Brittan Felps, John J. Fisher, Charles Hordison, James Leonia, A. H. Reagan, Malcom McNeil, R. C. Patterson, H. A. Whalley, D. B. Warren, W. H. Wooldridge, Catherine Wilkins, and Decatur Bortan for compensation for losses incurred by Indian depredations; which were referred to the Committee of Claims.

By unanimous consent, leave was granted to Mr. O'Brien for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the case of J. and R. H. Porter.

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted to Mr. Robinson, for fifteen days.

The Speaker announced that he had appointed Mr. Clymer to be a member of the Committee on Appropriations, to fill the vacancy occasioned by his election to be Speaker.

The Speaker having proceeded, as the regular order of business, to call the States and Territories for bills on leave for reference only,

Bills were then introduced, read a first and second time, ordered to be printed, and severally referred as follows, viz:

By Mr. Frye: A bill (H. R. 4140) to provide judicial remedies for overcharge of duties on tonnage and imports, to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Seelye: A bill (H. R. 4141) for the relief of Charles J. Leahy, to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Eames: A bill (H. R. 4142) to reduce postage on letters, to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

By Mr. Willis: A bill (H. R. 4143) for the relief of Richard H. Birmingham, late sergeant Company A, Sixty-ninth Regiment New York State Volunteers, to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. John H. Bagley, jr.: A bill (H. R. 4144) for the relief of Henry S. Vandecur and Eliza M. Reynolds, administrators, &c., to the Committee on Patents.

By Mr. Cox: A bill (H. R. 4145) to regulate the compensation of letter-carriers, to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

By Mr. Davy: A bill (H. R. 4146) to amend section 1015 of the Revised Statutes so as to permit commissioners of the circuit court of the United States to take bail for the appearance of the accused before them from

time to time till the final disposition thereof, to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Cutter: A bill (H. R. 4147) for the relief of Eliza H. Powers; By Mr. Walsh: A bill (H. R. 4148) to authorize a change of record to be made in the case of George Hobbs, late private Company L, First Maryland Cavalry Volunteers;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Gilbert C. Walker: A bill (H. R. 4149) to remove the legal and political disabilities of Lloyd J. Beall, of Virginia, to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Singleton: A bill (H. R. 4150) for the relief of the estate of the late William L. Sharkey, late of Hinds County, Mississippi, to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Darrall: A bill (4151) to authorize the State of Louisiana to close the mouth of the bayou La Fourche, in the said State, to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a bill (H. R. 4152) to apply the proceeds of sales of public lands to the education of the people, to the Committee on Education and Labor. By Mr. Savage: A bill (II. R. 4153) to authorize the payment of the claim of the heirs of Joseph Parrott, to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

By Mr. Foster: A bill (H. R. 4154) to amend sections 733 and 2737 of the Revised Statutes of the United States;

Also, a bill (H. R. 4155) amending the act of July 28, 1876, entitled "An act for the relief of Kendrick and Avis et al.”

to the Committee of Ways and Means.

By Mr. Neal: A bill (H. R. 4156) granting a pension to Mary K. Patton, widow of John Van O. Patton, deceased, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Hunter: A bill (H. R. 4157) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase silver bullion and cause the same to be coined into silver dollars, each dollar to be of the same value and fineness of the silver dollar as required by the laws of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1869, and making said silver dollar when coined a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, within the United States, including duties on imports, and interest on the public debt, excepting obligations heretofore entered into and made payable in gold, such obligations last named to be paid in gold, and repealing all acts inconsistent therewith, to the Committee on Banking and Currency.

By Mr. Joseph Cannon: A bill (H. R. 4158) to promote commerce among the States and to cheapen transportation of persons and property between the Atlantic seaboard and the Western States and Territories, to the committee on Railways and Canals.

By Mr. Glover: A bill (H. R. 4159) for the protection of States against domestic violence, to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Stone: A bill (H. R. 4160) for the relief of Elizabeth Mememeyer, of Saint Louis, Missouri, administratrix of Anton Mememeyer, deceased, to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Morgan: A bill (H. R. 4161) for the relief of Robert L. Hottell, late sergeant Company C, Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry, to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Hatcher: A bill (H. R. 4162) granting a pension to Blasius Reidinger, of Madison County, Missouri, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Gunter: A bill (H. R. 4163) for the relief of G. W. Jobe, late

second lieutenant of Company F, Forty-sixth Missouri Infantry Volunteers, to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Gause: A bill (H. R. 4164) for the relief of Philip R. Jones, of Lee County, Arkansas, to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Schleicher: A bill (H. R. 4165) for the relief of H. E. Woodhouse & Co., to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Hancock: A bill (H. R. 4166) for the relief of William Redus, to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

By Mr. Kasson: A bill (H. R. 4167) to establish a discriminating duty upon all products of the sugar-cane imported into the United States and being the growth or product of slave-labor, to the Committee of Ways and Means.

By Mr. Oliver: A bill (H. R. 4168) to amend section 1 of the act of May 12, 1864, for a grant of lands to the State of Iowa, to aid in the construction of a railroad in said State, to the Committee on the Public Lands.

By Mr. McCrary: A bill (H. R. 4169) for the relief of certain employés on the work for the improvement of the Des Moines Rapids of the Mississippi River, to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. Charles G. Williams: A bill (H. R. 4170) for the relief of Mathew Hulzer, late a private of Company H, Twenty-eighth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers;

Also, a bill (H. R. 4171) for the relief of Alonzo W. Baker, late a private of Company A, Twenty-fourth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Kimball: A bill (H. R. 4172) granting a pension to Catherine Brennan, widow of John Brennan, private of Company B, Fifty-eighth Illinois Volunteers, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Luttrell: A bill (H. R. 4173) to appropriate money for the improvement of the navigation of Feather River, California;

Also, a bill (H. R. 4174) to appropriate money to improve the navigation of the Sacramento River;

to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a bill (H. R. 4175) for the relief of the widow of Captain Christopher M. Haile, United States Army, to the Committee of Claims.

Also, a bill (H. R. 4176) granting the right of way for a wagon-road across the Sierra Nevada Mountains, below the snow-line, and for other purposes;

By Mr. Strait: A bill (H. R. 4177) for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands;

to the Committee on the Public Lands.

By Mr. Goodin: A bill (H. R. 4178) to appropriate out of the Indian civilization fund the expenses incurred in conducting the recent suits against certain railway companies to test the validity of titles to the Osage ceded lands in Kansas, to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

By Mr. Stevens: A bill (H. R. 4179) authorizing the Secretary of War to sell to the village of Yuma, Arizona Territory, certain land known as the "Quincy reserve;"

By Mr. Hardenbergh: A bill (H. R. 4180) to declare the true intent and meaning of an act entitled "An act to relinquish the interest of the United States in certain lands to the city and county of San Francisco, California;"

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. George Q. Cannon: A bill (H. R. 4181) allowing a pension to Mary Bradley Cross, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Hartzell: A bill (H. R. 4182) to authorize a further appropria